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US08520553B2	Power dissipation management for wired transceivers A system, method and apparatus for reducing a power consumed by a physical layer device (PHY). A length of a cable connecting the PHY to a link partner is determined. Based on the length, power provided to one or more components of the PHY, or any portion thereof, is reduced. The power provided is reduced while maintaining a level of reliability specified by a protocol governing operation of the PHY. The length can be determined using time-domain reflectometry (TDR) techniques. Any portion of an echo cancellation filter, a crosstalk filter, an equalizer, a precoder, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a forward error correction (FEC) decoder and/or an FEC coder can be powered-down or power-optimized to reduce the overall power consumed by the PHY. The protocol governing operation of the PHY can be IEEE 802.3.
US08520551B2	Device and method for clustering a plurality of users in a mobile network A method clusters a plurality of users in a mobile network, according to a specific profile. Data regarding the user is allocated to each user. Data is immediately exchanged between at least two users as soon as said users are located in a predefined communication range in order to spot users with profiles having a given content.
US08520546B2	Apparatus and method for setting up radio bearer in wireless communication system An apparatus and method of setting up a radio bearer (RB) in a wireless communication system are provided. A relay node transmits information on a supported quality of service (QoS) to a core network (CN) or a user equipment. The relay node relays a service request of the user equipment to the CN and sets up a UuRB for a service requested by the service request over a Uu interface between the relay node and the user equipment under the instruction of the CN. The relay node sets up a UnRB over a Un interface between the relay node and a base station (BS) according to a required QoS for the service requested by the service request.
US08520543B2	Data transmission system for transmitting control information to base station Provided is a data transmission system for transmitting control information from a terminal to a base station. The terminal may multiplex the control information, and may transmit the multiplexed control information to the base station using a plurality of transmit antennas. The base station may receive the multiplexed control information and combine the control information. The base station may transmit data to the terminal using the control information.
US08520542B2	Uplink power control message design in wireless OFDMA systems A method of uplink power control in a wireless OFDMA system is provided. A serving base station first configures a fast feedback channel by transmitting a feedback allocation message to a mobile station. The mobile station then reports downlink channel information via the allocated fast feedback channel. Based on the reported downlink channel information, the serving base station estimates uplink channel quality and thereby detects a channel variation and generates an uplink power adjustment message that delivers a power offset to adjust the transmitting power level of the mobile station. In one novel aspect, the uplink power adjustment message also comprises feedback allocation information that re-configures the fast feedback channel without extra signaling overhead. In addition, the novel power adjustment message eliminates redundant information such that it is transmitted via a minimum resource unit without requiring extra resource.
US08520538B2	Method and system for managing traffic in a wireless communication system An inspection node receives an event to begin monitoring a traffic flow where the event comprises a flow identifier associated with the traffic flow. The inspection node receives the traffic flow where the traffic flow comprises a plurality of packets and begins inspecting the plurality of the packets to obtain an application identifier. Based upon the flow identifier and the application identifier, the inspection node performs a sampling process on the traffic flow. After determining the end of the traffic flow, the inspection node terminates the sampling process.
US08520534B2	In-service throughput testing in distributed router/switch architectures Various embodiments relate to a system and related method of measuring at least one transport link's performance in a communications network. An originating device controlled by a customer may generate testing frames that are transported to a receiving device also controlled by the customer through the at least one transport link that connects the two devices. In some embodiments, the transport links may transfer the testing frames while the transport links are transporting other data traffic. The receiving device may parse incoming frames and, upon identifying the testing frames, may generate echoing response frames. In some embodiments, the echoing response frames may be placed in one of a series of priority-based service queues. The originating device may then receive the response frames through the transport links and may measure the stream of incoming frames to measure and analyze the transport links' performance.
US08520530B2	Method and apparatus for providing availability metrics for measurement and managment of ethernet services Maintenance entities may be defined between customer and provider flow points to allow performance management to take place on an Ethernet network. The maintenance entities may be defined for access link, intra-domain, and inter-domain, and may be defined on a link or service basis. Performance parameters, including availability metrics, may be collected for the maintenance entities. The provision of such availability metrics in an Ethernet based solution to facilitate consistency of service management and operations for carriers transitioning to the Ethernet solution.
US08520529B2	Reordering network traffic Impairment units and methods for impairing network traffic. An impairment unit may receive packets from a network and determine an impairment class of each packet from a plurality of impairment classes. Input logic may determine whether or not each received packet will be reordered. A received packet not to be reordered may be stored in a normal traffic FIFO queue uniquely associated with the impairment class of the received packet. A received packet to be reordered may be stored in a reorder traffic FIFO queue uniquely associated with the impairment class of the received packet. Output logic may select a sequence of packets from head ends of the plurality of normal traffic FIFO queues and the plurality of reorder traffic FIFO queues to provide outgoing traffic. A transmitter may transmit the outgoing traffic to the network.
US08520523B2	Devices and methods for managing quality of service for bearers depending on utilization Methods and devices used for a dynamic QoS management taking into consideration a global throughput and individual bearer throughputs are provided. The global throughput and individual bearer throughputs may be predicted upon receiving each packet from a public domain network. Individually, for each bearer is determined if a current QoS service is adequate by comparing the global throughput with threshold values associated to the bearer and on evaluating whether the bearer is overloaded. If the current QoS level associated with the bearer is not adequate, the QoS level associated with the bearer is set to another QoS level.
US08520522B1	Transmit-buffer management for priority-based flow control A network device operating in operating in a Priority Flow Control (PFC) mode receives a stream of packets for outputting on a particular port, assigns each packet in the stream of packets to one of multiple buffer queues associated with the port, and generates, based on the assigning, packet counts for the multiple buffer queues. The network device aggregates the packet counts for a group of particular buffer queues, of the multiple buffer queues, that are not subject to a PFC restriction, to create an unrestricted aggregated count. The network device determines whether the unrestricted aggregated count exceeds a flow-control threshold for the group of particular buffer queues and sends, to an upstream queue scheduler, a flow control signal when the unrestricted aggregated count exceeds a flow-control threshold.
US08520521B2	Method and apparatus for initiating a storage window in a wireless communications system A method for initiating a storage window of a receiving end in a wireless communications system, which periodically retransmits previously transmitted data packets in an unacknowledged mode, includes receiving a first PDU after a receiving entity of the receiving end is established, re-established, or after a timer expires, and initiating a state variable, which is defined to be a sequence number of the highest numbered packet that has been received, according to a sequence number of the first received packet. An example of the wireless communications system is the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) with a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) application.
US08520512B2	Network appliance for customizable quarantining of a node on a network A system, method, and apparatus are directed to managing access to a network. An agent may intercept a network packet transmitted by an enforcement point in response to a request from a device to join the network. The agent identifies, based on the network packet, a port number on the enforcement point at which the request is received. The agent may transmit the port number to a NACA to enable security enforcement operations to be performed on the device. Another device may reside outside the quarantined network and be enabled by the NACA to direct a remediation measure to be performed on the device using at least the port number. The NACA may spoof an ARP response with an address of the NACA to restrict access to resources. The NACA may also place the device into one of a plurality of quarantined networks.
US08520510B2	Method and apparatus for transporting uplink channel data in a communication system A method of transporting data in a dedicated channel of a mobile communication system includes selectively including data in the payload of a frame, and further including in the frame an indication of at least one of the selectively included data and excluded data. The dedicated channel is an enhanced dedicated channel and the data includes data sets or transport blocks.
US08520508B2	Spanning tree ring protocol A plurality of network devices such as routers are included in an instance of a spanning tree. The network device creates a ring context on a port that it identifies as both a blocking port and configured to run a spanning tree protocol. The ring context can be comprised of a region name, an STP domain name or a spanning tree instance. The network device transmits a ring discover message for the ring context over a forwarding port and determines that a ring exists when it receives the message at a blocking port. The network device subsequently transmits a reverse ring discover message from its blocking port which includes the status of the discovered ring to the members of the ring topology.
US08520501B2	Sequence-generating method, and apparatus for same The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for enabling a transmitter to transmit a sequence in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the same. A sequence-transmitting method comprises the steps of: performing at least one of a complex conjugate operation and a reverse operation on a first sequence to generate a second sequence; mapping the second sequence to a plurality of subcarriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) symbol; and transmitting the OFDMA symbol to a receiver. The invention also relates to an apparatus for the sequence-generating method.
US08520495B2	Device and method for transmitting and receiving broadcasting signal A broadcasting signal transmitting device transmits a broadcasting signal including a base layer signal and an enhancement layer signal as well as an additional layer signal relating to the broadcasting signal to a broadcasting signal receiving device. The broadcasting signal receiving device selectively provides the enhancement layer signal and the additional layer signal to the user according to the user's service level. Accordingly, various services are differently provided to the user according to the user level.
US08520493B2	Device for exchanging data between components of an integrated circuit A method for transmitting messages from first units of an integrated circuit to at least one second unit of the integrated circuit. The first units generate first digital messages and transform them into second digital messages obtained by application of an orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal transformation to the first messages. The second messages of the first units are added up and transmitted to the second unit.
US08520492B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting SRS in LTE TDD system The method for transmitting an uplink SRS by an LTE UE comprising steps of: the UE receiving information N indicating SRS transmission; generating an SRS sequence by the UE; and the UE transmitting the SRS in two OFDM symbol in a half-frame or frame if the information N indicates that a period of SRS transmission is 2 ms. With present invention, a format of SRS in LTE FDD and LTE TDD will be the same. Meanwhile, a problem of supporting 2 ms period in the LTE TDD system is solved.
US08520490B2	Optical information recording medium, and substrate and manufacturing method for the optical information recording medium In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3.
US08520485B2	Recording apparatus and servo control method A recording apparatus includes the following elements. A recording light source emits pulse laser light for recording. A first light source emits first CW laser light. An irradiation optical system irradiates an optical recording medium with the pulse laser light and the first CW laser light via an objective lens in the state in which the optical axis of the first CW laser light is tilted with respect to the optical axis of the pulse laser light. A reception optical system outputs, to a first light receiver, a returned light portion of the first CW laser light which has been reflected by a reflection surface formed on the optical recording medium and which has been input through the objective lens. A focus servo controller performs focus servo control for the objective lens on the basis of a first reception signal obtained by the first light receiver.
US08520481B2	Optical recording medium, and series of optical recording media In a multilayer optical recording medium, it is an object to suppress generation of crosstalk while reducing an interlayer distance of recording and reading layers. In an optical recording medium including three or more recording and reading layers, a first distance, and a second distance greater than the first distance by 3 μm or more are alternately defined as interlayer distances of recording and reading layers.
US08520480B2	Optical disc apparatus, method of controlling the same, and information storage medium An optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup for outputting an output signal according to reflected light from an optical disc medium, measures a level of a reflected signal corresponding to reflected light from a medium surface prior to reading of information recorded on the medium, predicts, based on the measured level of the reflected signal, whether or not the reflected signal from the medium surface will satisfy a predetermined detection condition when a focus state is to be detected, and uses a result of the predicting to detect a state where the output signal satisfies the predetermined detection condition as a state where a focus of an objective lens included in the optical pickup is on a signal surface of the medium while relatively moving the objective lens with respect to the medium surface when the information recorded on the medium is to be read therefrom.
US08520479B2	Objective lens driving unit and optical pickup device using the same An objective lens driving unit is provided and includes a moving structure having an objective lens and a plurality of driving coils, a permanent magnet and a yoke structure to correspond to the driving coils, a wire holder coupled to the yoke structure and having a plurality of wiring layers buried in a portion of the wire holder, and a plurality of suspension wires to connect the plurality of driving coils to the plurality of wiring layers.
US08520477B2	Disc drive system A disc drive may provide data communications to a host using a universal serial bus (“USB”) interface. Activation of the USB interface may be triggered upon insertion of a disc into the disc drive. A connection unit may activate the USB interface by providing power to the USB interface when a disc switch detects that the disc has been inserted into the disc drive. The connection unit may deactivate the USB interface by no longer providing power to the USB interface when the disc switch detects that the disc has been ejected or no longer is in the disc drive.
US08520476B2	Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/producing system A recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical source and a near-field light generating unit. The near-field light generating unit includes two conductors facing to each other at a predetermined distance and generating near-field light between the two conductors by irradiation of light from the optical source. These two conductors are arranged so that a direction along which the two conductors face to each other is substantially in parallel with the longitudinal direction of a recording mark region. Here, the recording mark region is prepared from a predetermined recording material and having shape anisotropy when information is recorded on a recording medium on which the recording mark is independently formed.
US08520473B2	Electronic device and satellite signal reception method for an electronic device An electronic device has a reception unit that captures positioning information satellites and receives satellite signals transmitted from the captured positioning information satellites, a solar panel, and a reception control unit that controls the reception unit. The reception control unit includes an evaluation unit that evaluates the reception environment based on power generation by the solar panel, and a mode selection unit that, based on the result from the evaluation unit, selects a time information reception mode for receiving the satellite signals and acquiring time information, or a position and time information reception mode for receiving the satellite signals and acquiring positioning information and time information, and controls operation of the reception unit in the reception mode selected by the mode selection unit.
US08520470B2	Laser shock peening measurement system and method A method of monitoring laser shock peening of a material includes forming an ablative layer on the material, directing the laser beam at the ablative layer to produce an acoustic wave in the material, converting the acoustic wave in the material to thermal energy external to the material and measuring the thermal energy.
US08520465B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a transistor, a first node, a first capacitor, a first switch, and a second switch. One end of the transistor is connected to a first voltage source supplying a first voltage. The first node is charged to the first voltage by the transistor. One of electrodes of the first capacitor is connected to the first node, and the other of the electrodes of the first capacitor is supplied with a first clock signal having a second voltage. One end of the first switch is connected to the first node. The first switch outputs a potential of the first node at a first time at which the first switch is turned on. One end of the second switch is connected to the first node. The second switch outputs the potential of the first node at a second time.
US08520463B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit A memory macro includes: a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix; a plurality of word lines corresponding to rows of the plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of word line drivers configured to drive the plurality of word lines. The voltage of the word lines in their activated state is set to vary with threshold voltage characteristics of a p-channel transistor and an n-channel transistor.
US08520452B2	Data bus power-reduced semiconductor storage apparatus In one or more of the disclosed embodiments, the number of times toggle operations of a data bus are performed at the time of a data transmission in a semiconductor storage apparatus is reduced, thereby reducing the power consumption. For example, a semiconductor storage apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a DRF bus, a DR11F bus, a GDRF bus and a GDR11F bus. The DRF bus and DR11F bus, and the GDRF bus and GDR11F bus, are placed in parallel for the purpose of reducing the number of times toggle operations of a data bus are performed at the time of a data transmission. The DR11F bus is added to make the DRF11F bus perform a toggle operation only when the DRF buses on both sides are made to perform a toggle operation if the data transmission were performed in a conventional system.
US08520451B2	Internal voltage generating circuit and semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes an internal voltage generating circuit and a memory cell. The internal voltage generating circuit is configured to compare a temperature voltage, which has a level varying with a predetermined slope according to a level change of an internal voltage, with a variable reference voltage, which has a level varying according to a temperature change, and pump the internal voltage. The memory cell includes a cell transistor having a threshold voltage controlled according to the internal voltage.
US08520448B1	Sequential programming of sets of non-volatile elements to improve boost voltage clamping A non-volatile storage system reduces program disturb in a set of non-volatile storage elements by programming using selected bit line patterns which increase the clamped boosting potential of an inhibited channel to avoid program disturb. First, second and third sets of non-volatile storage elements are programmed in separate sequences, one after another, so that all program-verify operations occur for the first set, then for the second set, and then for the third set. Each non-volatile storage element in a set is separated from the next closest non-volatile storage element in the set at least two other non-volatile storage elements in the set.
US08520445B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same A memory device includes a block switch for transferring operating voltages, supplied to global lines, to local lines coupled to a memory cell array in response to the voltage level of a block selection signal and a negative voltage transfer circuit for transferring a negative voltage as the block selection signal in order to couple the global lines and the local lines when the operating voltage has a negative level and to disconnect the global lines and the local lines from each other when the block selection signal is disabled.
US08520441B2	Word line kicking when sensing non-volatile storage Methods and devices for sensing non-volatile storage are disclosed. Technology disclosed herein reduces the time for sensing operations of non-volatile storage such as read and program verify. In one embodiment, a kicking voltage is applied to a selected word line during a sensing operation. The kicking voltage may be applied to one end of a selected word line during a transition from a first reference voltage to a second reference voltage. The kicking voltage may help the other end of the word line reach the second reference voltage quickly. Since the bit lines can be sensed after the selected word line has reached the target reference voltage, the time delay prior to sensing of the bit lines may be reduced.
US08520440B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes a memory array having memory cell strings including a first and a second memory cell groups having memory cells, a first and a second dummy elements, a drain select transistor and a source select transistor, wherein the first memory cell group and the second memory cell group are arranged between the drain select transistor and the source select transistor; connecting electrically the first memory cell group to the second memory cell group during a program operation or a read operation of the first memory cell group or the second memory cell group; and performing separately an erase operation of the first memory cell group and an erase operation of the second memory cell group, selecting simultaneously one of the first dummy element and the second dummy element during the erase operation of the selected memory cell group.
US08520436B2	Programming memory devices A target memory cell of a memory device is programmed by applying a programming voltage to a word line that includes the target memory cell, determining whether the target memory cell is programmed, and increasing the programming voltage by a step voltage if it is determined that the target memory cell is not programmed. An initial programming voltage and the step voltage are each selectable after fabrication of the memory device.
US08520422B2	Semiconductor modules and signal line layout methods thereof A memory module and a layout method of the memory module. The memory module includes memory devices connected to corresponding tabs through corresponding damping resistors formed on a printed circuit board and includes a first signal line group in a first region between the memory devices and the damping resistors and a second signal line group in a second region between the corresponding damping resistors and the connecting terminals.
US08520417B2	DC voltage regulator The disclosure details implementations of apparatuses, methods, and systems for regulating DC bus voltages. In an implementation, the system is configured to regulate the DC bus voltage directly by operating at the DC bus rather than indirectly on the AC side of the DC bus. In one implementation, the DC voltage regulator is configured with components including a DC voltage regulator power control board, a switching device, a resistor, and a flyback diode. In one non-limiting implementation example, the DC voltage regulator may be used to control the DC bus voltage of a doubly fed induction generator of a wind turbine. In this implementation, the DC voltage regulator effectively protects the converter of the induction generator and also reduces the transient torques on the generator shaft during voltage irregularities. This, in turn, reduces excessive wear on the wind turbine gearbox by limiting fatigue loads on the gear teeth that may result from transient torques.
US08520414B2	Controller for a power converter A controller for a power converter having a transformer T1 with a primary winding coupled to a power switch SW and a secondary winding coupled to a synchronous rectifier switch SR. In one embodiment, the controller includes a first controller configured to control a conductivity of the power switch SW, and a first delay circuit configured to delay an initiation of the conductivity of the power switch SW. The controller also includes a second controller configured to control a conductivity of the synchronous rectifier switch SR as a function of a voltage difference between two terminals thereof, and a second delay circuit configured to delay an initiation of the conductivity of the synchronous rectifier switch SR. The controller still further includes a shutdown circuit configured to substantially disable conductivity of the synchronous rectifier switch SR before the initiation of conductivity of the power switch SW.
US08520413B2	Adjustable resonant buck converter A power converter includes first and second circuit modules, a first capacitor, a second diode and a control module. The first circuit module includes a switching element in parallel with a first diode. The second circuit module includes a first inductor and the first circuit module. The inductor is in series with the first circuit module. The first capacitor is in parallel with the second circuit module. The second diode includes a first terminal and a second terminal, where the first terminal is in series with the second circuit module and the first capacitor, and the second terminal is coupled to a second power terminal. The control module varies one or more of the first capacitor and the first inductor based on at least one of a current of a load circuit or an input voltage. A resonating waveform is generated by a resonant circuit of the second circuit and is used by the control module to turn off the switching element under zero-current and zero-voltage conditions.
US08520412B2	Synchronous operating system for discharge tube lighting apparatuses, discharge tube lighting apparatus, and semiconductor integrated circuit A synchronous operating system for operating a plurality of discharge tube lighting apparatuses at the same frequency and same phase includes (1) an oscillator of a triangular wave signal whose inclination for charging a capacitor C2 and inclination for discharging the same are the same, (2) a signal generation part to generate, in a period shorter than a half period of the triangular wave signal, a first drive signal having a pulse width corresponding to a load current, and (3) a signal generation part of a second drive signal having a pulse width substantially equal to that of the first drive signal and a phase difference of about 180 degrees with respect to the same.
US08520409B2	Cyclo-converter and methods of operation A three phase full resonant cyclo-converter suitable for converting a three phase AC supply to a DC output. In one embodiment the cycloconverter controls switching frequency to control converter output and adjusts phase on times for power factor correction. A switching sequence is employed which provides resonant switching to reduce losses and component ratings. The converter provides high conversion efficiency with a simple power component design.
US08520407B2	Cable management mechanism A cable management apparatus for managing a switch cable includes a mounting bracket, a resilient member fixed to the mounting bracket, and a number of positioning members mounted to the mounting bracket. The switch cable is positioned between the resilient member and the positioning members, and stretched by the resilient member, thereby extending sinuously along a lengthwise direction of the mounting bracket. A rear end of the switch cable is retained to the mounting bracket.
US08520403B2	Multi-layer semiconductor element package structure with surge protection function A multi-layer semiconductor element package structure with surge protection function includes a substrate unit, an insulated unit, a one-way conduction unit and a protection unit. The substrate unit has at least one top substrate, at least one middle substrate and at least one bottom substrate. The insulated unit has at least one first insulated layer filled between the top substrate and the middle substrate and at least one second insulated layer filled between the middle substrate and the bottom substrate. The one-way conduction unit has a plurality of one-way conduction elements electrically disposed between the top substrate and the middle substrate and enclosed by the first insulated layer. The protection unit has at least one protection element with anti surge current or anti surge voltage function electrically disposed between the middle substrate and the bottom substrate and enclosed by the second insulated layer.
US08520402B1	Decoupling capacitor circuit assembly Decoupling capacitor circuit assembly is described. In one example, a circuit assembly includes a passive substrate, a plurality of terminals, and at least one capacitor. The passive substrate includes a top surface and a bottom surface. The plurality of terminals is formed on the top surface and is configured for electrical communication with a respective plurality of lands on a printed circuit board (PCB). The at least one capacitor is mounted to the bottom surface of the passive substrate and is configured to provide decoupling capacitance for an integrated circuit (IC) on the PCB. Each capacitor is coupled to a pair of the plurality of terminals. In another example, a circuit assembly includes a PCB, and IC mounted to the PCB, a passive substrate mounted to the PCB, and at least one capacitor mounted to the passive substrate for providing decoupling capacitance for the IC.
US08520395B2	Sliding module with electrical connection paths A sliding module for an electronic device, the module comprising first and second parts slideably connected together, the first and second parts comprising respective circuit connectors for connection with corresponding respective circuit boards, and wherein the module comprises one or more conductors arranged to provide electrical connection between the respective circuit connectors to thereby provide electrical connection paths between respective circuit boards connected at the circuit connectors.
US08520393B2	Apparatuses and methods for dissipating heat from a computer component Heat dissipation apparatus for dissipating heat generated by a heat-generating component mounted to a circuit board. In one embodiment, the heat dissipation apparatus includes a thermally-conductive heat sink adapted to be placed in contact with the heat-generating component, a bracket adapted to hold the heat sink in place relative to the heat-generating component, and a single coil spring mounted to the bracket adapted to urge the heat sink into contact with the heat-generating component.
US08520390B2	Mechanical isolation and thermal conductivity for an electro-magnetic device An electro-magnetic device assembly constituted of an electro-magnetic device; a chassis arranged to sink heat; at least one thermally conductive material in thermal communication with the electro-magnetic device and with the chassis; and at least one mechanically isolating material in contact with the thermally conductive material and with the chassis, the at least one mechanically isolating material arranged to dampen the transmission of vibrations experienced by the chassis, in the direction of the magnetic field of the electro-magnetic device, to the electro-magnetic device.
US08520389B2	Power semiconductor module for wide temperature applications A power semiconductor module includes an insulating substrate with a conductive circuit layer attached to one side and a baseplate attached to the other side. A power semiconductor device is attached to the conductive circuit layer. The conductive circuit layer and the baseplate are formed of a material with a coefficient of thermal expansion less than about 8.0×10−6/° C. and a density less than about 4 g/cm3.
US08520387B2	Server cabinet A server cabinet includes a rack, at least one assembling frame, a radiator and at least one fan. The rack has a first frame and a second frame opposite to each other. The assembling frame and the radiator are mounted on the first frame in sequence. The radiator transfers a coolant to flow inside a plurality of heatsink fins thereof in a circulating manner. The fan is mounted in the assembling frame, and the fan guides an airflow to flow into the first frame from the radiator, and blows the airflow in the rack to the second frame, thus lowering the temperature inside the rack.
US08520383B2	Heat dissipating device The present invention relates to a heat dissipating device. More particularly, the present invention relates to a heat dissipating device in which an air flow is directed to a heat dissipating member by flapping a blade for making a driving unit and a device therefor small, improving heat dissipating efficiency and reducing noise therefrom.
US08520377B2	Electronic device adjustable display member An electronic device, comprising a hinge arm having a display member rotatably coupled to one end thereof, the hinge arm rotatably coupled at an opposite end thereof to a base member, and a locking system configured to prevent rotation of the hinge arm relative to the base member based on an angular location of the display member relative to the hinge arm.
US08520376B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, by which misalignment between a tape carrier package and a panel can be prevented in a manner of forming an align mark between output pads provided to a central part of the tape carrier package. The present invention includes a panel having a display unit configured to display an image and a non-display unit configured to enclose the display unit, at least one drive integrated circuit generating various kinds of signals required for displaying the image on the display unit of the panel, a tape carrier package having the drive integrated circuit loaded thereon, the tape carrier package having a plurality of input patterns for connecting input pins of the drive integrated circuit to an external circuit and a plurality of output patterns for connecting output pins of the drive integrated circuit to the panel, and at least one first center align mark provided to the tape carrier package to be located between the input patterns adjacent to each other or between the output patterns adjacent to each other, the at least one first center align mark used to align the panel and the tape carrier package with each other.
US08520373B2	Display assembly for a portable module A display assembly for a portable module is disclosed. The display assembly has a housing that includes a base portion and a continuous side portion extending from the base portion to define an interior compartment. The assembly further includes a resilient body positioned in the interior compartment of the housing, the resilient body having a base portion and a continuous side portion extending from the base portion to define an interior channel. A display is positioned in the interior channel of the resilient body and the display and the resilient body are then positioned in the interior compartment of the housing. A sealing gasket is positioned between the top surface of the display and the cover plate, the sealing gasket overlapping a portion of the surface of the display. When the cover plate is coupled to the housing, the sealing gasket creates a tight seal between the display and the sealing gasket to inhibit the penetration of foreign matter into the interior compartment of the housing and the expansion gap in the cover plate accommodates the expansion of the sealing gasket.
US08520371B2	Digital photo frame A digital photo frame includes a body, a back shell defining a hole and a rotary support. The rotary support is rotatably connected to the back shell, includes a rotary base rotatably received in the hole, a connection member pivotedly connected to the rotary base, and an elongated support body slidably coupled to the connection member. The connection member includes a spring tab, a support body defining a plurality of channels. The channels are arranged along a lengthwise direction of the connection portion. the spring tab is selectively snappingly engaged in one of the channels. One of the rotary base and the back shell includes a plurality of protrusions, and the other one of the rotary base and the back shell defines a plurality of notches corresponding to the protrusions, the protrusions are snappingly engaging in the respective notches.
US08520361B2	Laminated electronic component A laminated electronic component includes a first plating film that defines a base for external terminal electrodes and that includes a plurality of layers including a first layer made of, for example, copper and a second layer provided on the first layer. The total thickness of the first plating film is about 3 μm to about 15 μm, and the thickness of the second layer is about 2 to 10 times as thick as the thickness of the first layer. The first layer is formed by electroless plating, and the second layer is formed by electrolytic plating. This formation results in a grain size of about 0.5 μm or more of a metal grain included in the second layer, and thus makes the film less susceptible to oxidation.
US08520359B1	Stun gun with knuckle guard A stun gun with a knuckle guard is disclosed. The stun gun is configured to fit and be held firmly within a palm of a user's hand. A knuckle guard is disposed on the stun gun and is configured to cover the user's knuckle when the stun gun is being gripped by the user's hand. In addition, the stun gun includes a trigger that is disposed on a front portion of the housing and is used to activate the stun gun by pushing down on the trigger with the user's finger. Electrodes are mounted above the knuckle guard and are adapted to discharge an electric shock when the trigger is activated. A rear portion of the stun gun also includes a pair of pointed projections that are adapted to be used to strike the assailant to cause injury.
US08520357B2	Electrostatic shield for an HVDC transmission component An electrostatic shield for an HVDC transmission component, the terminals of which lie at high potential relative to earth during operation, in particular for an HVDC transmission air-core coil, is distinguished by a sheathing, which is provided on at least one end with a collector electrode running substantially over its periphery for connection to one of the terminals of the HVDC transmission component, wherein the sheathing is made from a film composed of electrostatically dissipative material with a surface resistivity in the range of 109 to 1014 ohm/square.
US08520353B2	Electronic device with surge suppression circuit An electronic device includes a power input pin receiving a voltage from an external power supply, a load, and a surge suppression circuit connected between the power input pin and the load. The surge suppression circuit includes a first transistor, a voltage divider circuit and a capacitor. The first transistor includes a control end, a first conductive end connected to the power input pin, and a second conductive end connected to the load. The voltage divider circuit includes a common node connected to the control end, one end of the voltage divider circuit connected between the first conductive end and the power input pin, and the other end of the voltage divider circuit connected to ground. One end of the capacitor is connected between the second conductive end and the load, and the other end of the capacitor is connected to the control end.
US08520352B2	Multiple-channel active sensing and switching device The present invention provides a multichannel active sensing and switching device featuring a multiple sensing and switching module configured to respond to operational conditions of different load types and provide load type sensor signals containing information about the operational conditions of the different load types, and also configured to respond to controller signals for controlling the operation of the different load types in two or more different protection configurations; and a controller module configured to respond to the load type sensor signals and provide the controller signals in order to control the operation of the different load types in the two or more different protection configurations. The controller module may be programmable and configured to provide a default circuit breaker configuration and a device specific configuration using active intelligence (AI).
US08520351B2	Electrostatic discharge protective circuit having rise time detector and discharge sustaining circuitry Methods of the invention include an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection method capable of detecting a slew rate of an input signal and capable of determining whether the slew rate of the input signal is greater than a threshold value. For an ESD event having a slew rate in excess of the threshold value said method generates a trigger signal which generates an activation signal that activates the ESD dissipation circuitry and that controls the length of time the dissipation circuit remains active. The method further comprises shunting the ESD energy away from a protected internal circuit. The method maintaining the shunting of the energy for a period of time sufficient to discharge of the ESD energy without damaging the protected circuitry.
US08520350B2	Protection circuit for digital integrated chip A protection circuit includes first and second electronic switches. When a CPU socket does not contain a CPU, a signal pin of the CPU socket outputs a high level signal. The first and second electronic switches are turned on. A data transmitting line of a SMBus is connected to a digital integrated chip. The parameters of the digital integrated chip can thus be regulated. When the CPU socket contains the CPU, the signal pin of the CPU socket outputs a low level signal. The first and second electronic switches are turned off. The data transmitting line of the SMBus is disconnected from the digital integrated chip, to prevent damage to the digital integrated chip.
US08520348B2	High-swing differential driver using low-voltage transistors A differential line driver with N-paralleled slices for driving an impedance-matched transmission line. Each driver slice is a modified H-bridge driver using low-voltage, high-speed transistors. By using a voltage-dropping first resistor in each slice, a high-voltage power supply that would normally damage the transistors can be used to power the driver and produce a differential output signal with peak-to-peak amplitudes that otherwise might not be possible. Each transistor in each driver slice has a resistor disposed between the transistor and the respective output node of the driver to enhance ESD protection of the transistors and, in combination with the first resistor, to impedance match the driver to the transmission line.
US08520347B2	Circuit for ESD protection including dynamically terminated diode strings comprised of bipolar devices An integrated circuit includes a plurality of terminals, an unterminated diode string formed from a plurality of P-N junction devices arranged in series and coupled to the plurality of terminals, and a plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of switches includes a first terminal coupled to an anode of one of the plurality of P-N junction devices and a second terminal coupled to a power supply terminal, and is controllable to selectively couple the anode to the power supply terminal in response to an ESD event. The plurality of switches configured to dissipate an ESD current associated with the ESD event and dynamically terminate the unterminated diode string at a node where the ESD current falls below a turn-on threshold of a next P-N junction device in the unterminated diode string.
US08520345B2	Protection circuit applied to wind power generation system employing double-fed induction generator There is provided a protection circuit that protects a power converter connected to a secondary winding of a double-fed induction generator, the protection circuit including a rectifying unit connected to the secondary winding and configured to rectify an electric power coming through the secondary winding, a power consumption unit configured to consume the electric power rectified by the rectifying unit, and a switching unit connected to the power consumption unit in series and configured to switch to adjust the electric power flowing into the power consumption unit.
US08520331B2	Color conversion filter manufacturing method A method for manufacturing a color filter includes obtaining a color filter, treating the color filter with oxygen plasma, treating the color filter with fluorine plasma and forming one or more color conversion layers. The color filter is obtained by forming on a transparent substrate, multiple color filter layers having respective colors, and banks. The color filter layers are composed of polysiloxane and pigments. The banks are composed of resin and formed at boundaries between color filter layers of different colors. The color conversion layers have respective colors and are formed on the color filter layers by an inkjet method.
US08520326B1	Golf scorecard magnifier A golf card magnifier includes a mounting pin that is receivable in the pencil-receiving slot of a standard golf cart scorecard holder. A pivot arm is attached to the mounting pin and angularly pivotable relative to the card holder. A magnifying lens is pivotally interconnected to an upper end of the pivot arm and adjustably supported above a scorecard on the card holder for viewing the scorecard through the magnifying lens.
US08520325B2	Photographic lens optical system A photographic lens optical system including: a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens sequentially arranged from a side of an object toward an image sensor, wherein the first lens has a positive (+) refractive power and an incident surface that is convex toward the object, the second lens has a negative (−) refractive power and is convex toward the image sensor, the third lens has a negative (−) refractive power, and at least one of an incident surface and an exit surface thereof is aspherical, and wherein an angle of view (θ) of the lens optical system, and a focal length (f) of the lens optical system satisfy the following inequality: 1.0<\|tan θ\|/f<2.0.
US08520313B2	Zoom lens and image pickup device including the same A zoom lens includes, a plurality of lens units arranged along an optical axis and configured to move from a wide angle end to a telephoto end during a zooming operation of the zoom lens; a first refractive power variable element whose refractive power is changed in a positive direction by changing shapes of boundary surfaces of different media when zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end; and a second refractive power variable element whose refractive power is changed in a negative direction by changing shapes of boundary surfaces of different media when zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end. When zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, imaging magnifications of the first refractive power variable element and the second refractive power variable element are increased.
US08520312B2	Finder apparatus and imaging apparatus A finder apparatus superimposes, on an image formed by an observation optical system of a reverse-Galilean finder including an objective lens group and an eyepiece lens group, display on a display member arranged outside an optical path of the observation optical system by using an optical path combination member arranged between the objective lens group and the eyepiece lens group, thereby making a user observe the image on which the display is superimposed. The finder apparatus includes a target lens group that guides light from the display member, and which is provided in an optical path from the display member to the eyepiece lens group. Further, the focal length of the eyepiece lens group, and a combined focal length from the target lens group through the eyepiece lens group satisfy predetermined formulas.
US08520303B2	Surgical microscope having an illuminating system and control unit therefor A surgical microscope (100) has a viewing optic (101, 104, 115) which allows a viewing person to view the enlarged display of an object region (116) in a viewing area (117). The viewing optic (101, 104, 115) has a continuously adjustable magnification system (104) with which a viewing optic adjusting unit (119) is associated. The surgical microscope (100) has an adjustable illuminating system (150), which provides illuminating light (151) for the object region (116), to illuminate the object region in an illuminated area (152) using illuminating light (151) of adjustable radiation intensity. An illumination system control unit (175) is provided in the surgical microscope (100), the control unit being connected to the viewing optic adjusting unit (119) for receiving information as to the adjusted magnification of the viewing optic (101, 104, 115).
US08520299B2	Selectively pumping a gain-doped region of an optical fiber The present disclosure provides an approach to more efficiently amplify signals by matching either the gain materials or the pump profile with the signal profile for a higher-order mode (HOM) signal. By doing so, more efficient energy extraction is achieved.
US08520296B2	Sub-pixel structure and pixel structure of color electrophoretic display A sub-pixel structure of color electrophoretic display includes a driving unit, a display unit and a transparent electrode, wherein the display unit is disposed on the driving unit and the transparent electrode is disposed on the display unit. The display unit includes a plurality of first charged particles and a plurality of second charged particles. A color of the first charged particles is different from a color of the second charged particles. Diameters of the first charged particles are greater than diameters of the second charged particles. The first charged particles and the second charged particles have the same electrical property. The sub-pixel structure of color electrophoretic display has high light utility efficiency.
US08520291B2	Illumination optical system, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method An illumination optical system which illuminates an irradiated plane with illumination light provided from a light source includes a spatial light modulator which is arranged in an optical path of the illumination optical system and cooperates with part of the illumination optical system to form a desired light intensity distribution at a pupil position of the illumination optical system or a position optically conjugated with the pupil position. A detection unit detects the light intensity distribution of the illumination light at a position in an optical path extending from the light source to the spatial light modulator. The detection unit includes a light receiving surface which receives some of the illumination light. A control unit controls the spatial light modulator based on the light intensity distribution detected by the detection unit.
US08520290B2	Display system for higher grayscale with a varying light source The present invention provides a projection apparatus that includes: at least one spatial light modulator (SLM) and at least one variable light source and at least one control unit controlling said SLM and/or said light source and said SLM has a minimum controllable time period and said control unit controls said SLM providing said minimum controllable time periods of the modulation of said SLM at least twice in a frame period and said control unit controls said light source during said minimum controllable time periods.
US08520288B2	Method and apparatus for resonant gas phase acousto-optic modulation A method and apparatus for resonant gas phase optical phase modulation is disclosed. The method may include passing a laser beam longitudinally through a tube open to air at both ends and setting air inside the tube into resonant acoustic oscillation, thereby temporally modulating the refractive index of the air, which temporally modulates the optical phase of the laser beam.
US08520287B2	Parallax barrier device and fabricating method thereof A parallax barrier device includes: a first substrate; a first patterned transparent electrode layer disposed on the first substrate; a first patterned electrochromic material layer disposed on the first patterned transparent electrode layer and including a plurality of electrochromic structures, in which lengths, widths or diameters of the electrochromic structures are 50 nm to 500 nm, and included angles of the electrochromic structures and a surface of the first substrate to be deposited are 30° to 89°; a second substrate; a second patterned transparent electrode layer disposed on the second substrate; a second patterned electrochromic material layer disposed on the second patterned transparent electrode layer; and an electrolyte disposed between the first patterned electrochromic material layer and the second patterned electrochromic material layer.
US08520286B2	Colored fluids for electrowetting, electrofluidic, and electrophoretic technologies Colored fluids for electrowetting, electrofluidic, and electrophoretic chromatophore devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, the colored fluid includes at least one solvent and at least one oligomeric and/or polymeric dye in the solvent. The oligomeric dye has at least one chromophore attached to one or more oligomeric chains, and the polymeric dye has at least one chromophore attached to one or more oligomeric and/or polymeric chains. The dye also has a molecular weight from 400 to 100,000, solubility in the solvent of at least 5% wt at 25° C., and a dynamic viscosity from 0.5 cPs to 2,000 cPs at 25° C. The solvent may be polar or non-polar each having specific properties defined.
US08520282B2	Optical scanning apparatus configured to deflect and scan laser beam by using MEMS mirror During one cycle of reciprocating operation of a MEMS mirror, a light receiving sensor detects a falling time at which a laser beam reflected by an upstream-of-sensor mirror and scanned in one direction passes an edge of a regulation portion, and a rising time at which the laser beam scanned in the other opposed direction passes the edge of the regulation portion. A controller executes an arithmetic operation on the basis of the two times detected by the light receiving sensor and controls the operation of the MEMS mirror, which is performed by the driver, such that the detected two times are held at respective setting times.
US08520279B2	Micro movable device and interferometer A micro movable device includes a movable member, a stationary portion, and connecting portions each connected to the movable member and the stationary portion. The movable member includes a pair of electrodes. The stationary portion includes a pair of electrodes cooperating with the electrodes of the movable member to generate a driving force for translating the movable member in its thickness direction. The connection points at which the respective connecting portions are connected to the movable member are spaced from each other. The electrodes of the movable member are positioned between two mutually spaced connection points, as viewed along the spacing direction of the two connection points.
US08520277B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus may include a first screen processing unit, a moiré component calculation unit, a first correction unit, and a second screen processing unit. The first screen processing unit performs screen processing on image data to form screen processed image data. The moiré component calculation unit calculates an original moiré component that corresponds to a low-frequency component of the screen processed image data and a low-frequency component of the image data. The first correction unit corrects the image data based on a calculated moiré component. The second screen processing unit performs the screen processing on the corrected image data.
US08520274B2	Image scanning apparatus An image scanning apparatus includes: a feeding unit; an upstream scanning unit that scans an image of one surface of the document; a downstream scanning unit, which is arranged at a downstream side, and which scans an image of the other surface of the document; a memory unit, which stores both data of the upstream scanning unit and data of the downstream scanning unit; and a control unit that controls the document feeding by performing one of a first feeding process and a second feeding process, wherein the first feeding process is a feeding process in which the upstream scanning unit starts to scan a following document while the downstream scanning unit scans a preceding document, and wherein the second feeding process is a feeding process in which the upstream scanning unit starts to scan the following document after the downstream scanning unit scans the preceding document.
US08520271B2	Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with same In one embodiment, in a state in which a first scanning unit is positioned at a reading position below an original reading glass and a second scanning unit is positioned such that an original is not caused to travel between the original reading glass and a reading guide plate of a first reading portion, control is performed to selectively turn on or turn off each LED of an illumination portion of the first scanning unit to produce a shadow of paper dust, and detection is performed on variation in an output of a CCD corresponding to the shadow of the paper dust.
US08520268B2	Apparatus for scanning a surface with electromagnetic radiation Disclosed is an apparatus for scanning a surface with electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus comprises a base plate for supporting a medium said medium having a scanning surface to be scanned, an optical head unit adapted to scan the scanning surface with electromagnetic radiation propagating along an optical axis, a fluid film generation unit connected to the optical head unit and adapted to generate a fluid film between the scanning surface and a gliding surface of the fluid film generation unit for maintaining a predetermined distance between the gliding surface and the scanning surface during scanning operation of the optical head unit across the scanning surface, and control means for controlling the position of the fluid film relative to the optical axis.
US08520257B2	Color value acquiring method, color value acquiring apparatus, image processing method, image processing apparatus, and recording medium Color reproduction data of a print obtained by forming an image on a print medium corresponding to an input type thereof, and spectral data of a laminate film corresponding to an input type thereof are acquired. A reference color is determined based on color information of a designated color to be reproduced on a protective-film-covered print. Based on the acquired color reproduction data and the acquired spectral data, the determined reference color is converted into another reference color depending on the print without the laminate film thereon. A color value depending on a color patch that is selected as a color closest to the designated color, under a condition where the laminate film is not laminated, from a designated color adjusting color chart printed based on color values depending on the converted other reference color or colors close to the other reference color, is acquired.
US08520256B2	Printing apparatus with image measurement processing A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit which prints an image on a recording medium; a controller which causes the printing unit to execute print processing on the basis of a print request; a measurement unit which executes an image measurement processing using the image printed by the printing unit; a correction unit which corrects the image to be printed by the printing unit on the basis of the result of the image measurement processing; and a detector which detects occurrence of a measurement executable error which stops print processing performed on the recording medium by the printing unit and which can causes the measurement unit to execute the image measurement processing, wherein when the detector detects the measurement executable error during the print processing, the controller controls the printing unit to stop processing the print processing and controls the measurement unit to execute the image measurement processing.
US08520253B2	Method and system for scaling with dot gain control A method (and system) for changing spatial resolution of an image includes systematically creating an image scaling look-up table including at least one pixel replacement pattern and applying a scaling algorithm to modify the image using the image scaling look-up table, thereby allowing a user to scale binary images with easy control of dot gain, output bit depth and other printer parameters.
US08520250B2	Image reading apparatus and method, and computer-readable recording medium An image reading apparatus includes a reading image unit that reads an image data of a document; a memory that writes the image data obtained by the reading image unit in a space region of the memory; a memory managing unit that determines whether the space region larger than a predetermined memory size of the memory exists; and a reading operation control unit that manages reading image operation and interruption of the reading image unit for a reading section of the document having a unit data size corresponding to an amount of the image data being writable in the predetermined memory size; wherein the memory management determines whether or not the space region larger than the predetermined memory size exists in the memory.
US08520245B2	Data communication device, computer readable medium and method for transmitting and managing data A data communication device capable of facilitating file management compared to conventional methods is provided. The data communication device includes an image file storage portion for memorizing an image file to be sent to a user at the other end, a transmission information setting portion for setting transmission information necessary for sending the image file to the user at the other end, a file combining portion for generating a composite file by adding the transmission information to the image file and an e-mail message transmission portion for sending the generated composite file to the user at the other end.
US08520243B2	Image forming apparatus, computer-readable recording medium on which print data processing program code is recorded, and print data processing method An image forming apparatus includes a data reception unit, a data analysis unit, and a print image generation unit. The data reception unit is configured to receive print data. The data analysis unit is configured to analyze the print data for each of a plurality of blocks, delete a block of a page that is not specified as a print target on the basis of print setting information included in the print data, and rearrange the blocks in a page order to be printed, in order to generate reconstructed print data. The print image generation unit is configured to generate print image data on the basis of the reconstructed print data.
US08520240B2	Work flow execution system and work flow execution method A work flow execution system in which a plurality of processing apparatuses executes a work flow in cooperation with each other includes a starting processing apparatus which reads a flow file and determines whether a processing apparatus including a sleep function exists in a subsequent work flow. When the processing apparatus including the sleep function exists, a command to return the sleep function when a command executed by the starting processing apparatus is received is registered to the processing apparatus including the sleep function. When the starting processing apparatus receives a command which coincides with the registered return command, the sleep mode is returned to a normal operating mode.
US08520239B2	Printing control method and apparatus of a printing process with different working stages A printing control method includes the following steps: dividing the printing process of the printer into different working processes, obtaining the state information of the printer of different working processes in real time, and controlling the corresponding printing process on the basis of the obtained state information of the printer of different working processes. In addition, a printing control apparatus includes the following units: a unit for dividing the process, a unit for obtaining the state of the printer and a unit is for controlling printing process. The invention can make sure that every par data needed to be printed could be fully printed on the surface in order to realize the printing of the effective par data.
US08520238B2	Printing apparatus and printing system having fault recovery A printing apparatus includes: a printed range store unit configured to store a printed range, which is a part of a first print data that is completely printed; a print completion determination unit configured to determine whether or not the printing of the first print data has been completed; a print job determination unit configured to determine whether or not a second print data correspond with the first print data; an unprinted page determination unit configured to determine unprinted pages of the second print data based on the print range stored by the printed range store unit, when the print job determination unit determines that the second print data correspond with the first print data; and a print control unit configured to instruct a print unit to print based on the second print data and the result of the unprinted page determination unit.
US08520231B2	Record/replay apparatus and method that display moving images and still images generated from moving images This invention includes a file management unit having a moving image directory and a still image directory, a print file producing unit which produces a still image file under the still image directory as a print list, and a still image extraction unit which extracts a still image of a designated scene from a moving image file under the moving image directory. When a print list of designated scenes of the moving image is to be produced, the still image extracted by the still image extraction unit is recorded under the still image directory, and the still image is registered in a print list by the print file producing unit.
US08520229B2	Method for acquiring user identification information of destination apparatus under WSD protocol before sending read image data In a push scan of a web services on devices (WSD) scan service, an information terminal apparatus performs a registration request to receive a service from a reading apparatus. A name of the information terminal apparatus is included in the registration request command, and a user can select the name of the information terminal apparatus as a destination of scan data when executing the push scan from the reading apparatus. However, at this point of time, a user name which is logging on the information terminal apparatus cannot be recognized. For this reason, a requisition command of an operation start request is issued to the information terminal apparatus on a network before the information terminal apparatus as a destination of image data is selected through a display unit of the reading apparatus. Therefore, a log-on user name extracted from a command including the log-on user name transmitted from the information terminal apparatus can be displayed on the display unit.
US08520227B2	Printing system A printing system according to this invention includes a display, a storage section, a determination section, and a control section. The display is capable of displaying an ECO mode recommending screen which recommends a plurality of ECO modes for selection. The storage section is configured to store therein a characteristic of a printing data item unsuited for ECO mode printing. The determination section is configured to determine whether or not a printing data item is suited for the ECO mode printing. The control section causes the display section to display the ECO mode recommending screen in response to a determination made by the determination section that the printing data item is suited for the ECO mode printing and then start a printing process in response to a printing instruction given by a user.
US08520225B2	Print driver localization support from printing device to support multiple user profiles According to an approach for printing, a print driver is configured to retrieve printing device capabilities data from a Web service-enabled printing device. The printing device capabilities data specifies for a particular feature and a particular option supported by the Web service-enabled printing device, a plurality of languages in which the particular feature and the particular option may be displayed. The print driver generates, based at least upon the capabilities data, printer description data that specifies display data that indicates how the particular feature and the particular option are to be displayed, on a GUI, in the plurality of languages. In response to user input, the print driver generates, based at least upon the display data and language data that specifies a particular language, GUI data which, when processed, causes the particular feature and the particular option to be displayed on a GUI in the particular language.
US08520222B2	System and method for in situ monitoring of top wafer thickness in a stack of wafers A system for holding non-contact wafer probes over the surface of a wafer which includes a system for flushing the surface of the probe during grinding.
US08520219B2	Non-contact sensor having improved laser spot A non-contact sensing system acquiring three-dimensional information includes a laser light source and fiber generating a Gaussian optical beam. A movable mirror is angularly adjusted to scan the beam to an area of illumination. A lens package between the light source and the movable mirror focuses the optical beam to under-fill a movable mirror optical surface and control an optical beam scanned volume. The optical beam reflected by the movable mirror is redirected using a fold mirror orthogonal to an optical beam orientation. The optical beam is maintained Gaussian by the mirrors and lenses. An imaging device having a field of view intersecting the area of illumination receives optical beam image data reflected from the area of illumination. A control module communicating with the imaging device receives an object location in the imaging device field of view from the image data and reports object location data to a coordinate system.
US08520218B2	Measuring method of refractive index and measuring apparatus of refractive index A measuring method includes measuring a sum of an optical path length of a test object and a first medium in a first container, introducing light into an area that includes the first medium but does not include the test object and measuring the optical path length of the first medium, measuring a sum of the optical path length of the test object and a second medium in a second container, the second medium having a refractive index different from that of the first medium, introducing the light into an area that includes the second medium but does not include the test object and of measuring the optical path length of the second medium, and calculating a refractive index of the test object based on the measured optical path lengths and an actual distance of an optical path for which each optical path length is measured.
US08520216B2	Shape measuring apparatus A shape measuring apparatus includes: an optical system configured to guide a light from a light source having a wideband spectrum to an object to be measured and a reference face; an imaging unit configured to image the interfering light intensity distribution image output from the optical system; an optical path length difference changing unit configured to change the optical path length difference; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to obtain the peak value of an interfering light intensity sequence indicating the change in the interfering light intensity due to the change in the optical path length difference at each measurement position of the interfering light intensity distribution images stored in the image storing unit, and configured to obtain the peak value as the position in the direction of the optical axis at each measurement position of the object to be measured.
US08520214B2	Fiber optical gyroscope An optical gyroscope is provided for measuring a small angular difference. The gyroscope includes a laser, a pre-selection polarizer, a first beam splitter, a coil of optical fiber, a second beam splitter, a post-selection polarizer, a spectrometer and an analyzer. The laser emits a pulse beam of coherent photons. The beam has pulse duration σ. The pre-selection polarizer pre-selects the photons, and the first beam splitter separates the photons by their horizontal \|+ and vertical \|− polarization eigenstates. These beams are launched into a fiber optical coil of radius r, which preserves polarization. The coil rotates by a difference rotation angle Δθ. The second beam splitter recombines the polarized photon beams as they exit the coil. The post-selection polarizer post-selects the photons. The spectrometer captures the post-selected photons and measures the associated frequency translation δω. The analyzer determines the difference rotation angle as Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ = ± ( c ⁢ ⁢ σ 2 ⁢ tan ⁢ ⁢ χ 2 ⁢ r ) ⁢ δω , such that c is speed of light, and χ is post-selection polarization phase angle.
US08520212B2	Scatterometry method and measurement system for lithography Scatterometry method and apparatus are useful in a lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing. A back focal plane diffraction intensity image of a measurement projection system configured to project a radiation beam onto a target portion of a substrate is measured. A beam of radiation having a first wavelength is directed to the substrate. A diffraction image of a zeroth diffraction order and higher order diffraction from a diffraction structure in the substrate is provided. A first layer (4) of the diffractionstructure provides a diffraction image having only a zeroth diffraction order. A second layer (5) has a periodic structure (6a, 6b) configured such that a lowest spatial frequency of the periodic structure is lower than spatial frequencies of interest of the first structure. From the diffraction image originating from diffraction of the radiation beam in both the first and second layer a critical dimension metrology parameter is determined.
US08520210B2	Separation of cenospheres from fly ash Methods for increasing the amount of cenospheres in a fly ash sample are disclosed. The cenospheres are obtained in a dry state by using air as the “fluid” media for separation. In one version, the invention is a two step process, that is, screen by size followed by density separation such as in a fluidizing vertical column by density. In another version of the invention, the separation by density is followed by screening by size. Additional cycles can improve purity as defined by concentration of cenospheres.
US08520209B2	Article, system, and method for color measurement In one example, the article includes instructions for illuminating a color patch with a first illumination intensity, capturing a first color measurement of the color patch, adjusting the first illumination intensity to a second illumination intensity based on the first color measurement, illuminating the color patch with the second illumination intensity, and capturing a second color measurement. In one example, the system discloses a light source illuminates a color patch with a first illumination intensity, a color measurement module captures a first color measurement of the color patch, wherein the color measurement module causes the light source to adjust the first illumination intensity to a second illumination intensity based on the first color measurement, and wherein the color measurement module captures a second color measurement of the color patch. In one example, the method discloses blocks for effecting the article and system.
US08520208B1	Segmented polarizer for optimizing performance of a surface inspection system A polarizing device may be used with sample inspection system having one or more collection systems that receive scattered radiation from a region on a sample surface and direct it to a detector. The polarizing device disposed between the collection system(s) and the detector. The polarizing device may include a plurality of polarizing sections. The sections may be characterized by different polarization characteristics. The polarizing device is configured to transmit scattered radiation from defects to the detector and to block noise from background sources that do not share characteristics with scattered radiation from the defects from reaching the detector while maximizing a capture rate for the defects the detector at a less than optimal signal-to-noise ratio.
US08520205B2	Method and system for detecting, classifying and identifying particles A method and apparatus is disclosed for detecting, classifying and identifying airborne and non-airborne particles on an individual basis in substantially real time by directing a particle stream to react with optical reporters and markers and then exposing the stream to an excitation source such that individual particles have their multiple identifying characteristics detected.
US08520202B2	Asymmetrical-nanofinger device for surface-enhanced luminescense An asymmetrical-nanofinger device for surface-enhanced luminescence. The device includes a substrate, and a plurality of nanofingers coupled with the substrate. The plurality of nanofingers includes a primary nanofinger having a primary active-material cap, and a secondary nanofinger having a secondary active-material cap. An average diameter of the primary active-material cap is substantially greater than an average diameter of the secondary active-material cap. The primary nanofinger and secondary nanofinger of the plurality of nanofingers are to self-arrange into a close-packed configuration with an analyte molecule disposed between the primary active-material cap and the secondary active-material cap. A method for fabricating the asymmetrical-nanofinger device, and an optical apparatus including an optical component that includes the asymmetrical-nanofinger device are also provided.
US08520200B2	Advanced inspection method utilizing short pulses LED illumination An illumination module that may include a LED driver; a strip cable comprising multiple conductors that have a high ratio form factor and a low impedance and a low inductance factor; the forms factor is a ratio between a width of the strip cable and a thickness of the strip cable; a group of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that comprises at least one LED; the group of LED is coupled to the LED driver via the strip cable; wherein the LED driver is arranged to activate the group of LEDs by driving a high current short duration driving signal via the strip cable; and wherein the group of LEDs is arranged to emit at least one light pulse in response to the high current short duration driving signal.
US08520198B2	Goniophotometer for measuring 3D light intensity distribution of light source A goniophotometer includes an arc reflector; a holder for positioning a light source at the center of the arc reflector; a stationary detector substantially disposed at the center of the arc reflector and aimed at an arc reflective surface of the reflector; a driving device for rotating the holder with respect to the reflector and the detector about an axis of the light source; and a computing unit configured to convert a detection result of the detector into a measurement value.
US08520197B2	Distributed optical fibre sensing There is disclosed a distributed optical fiber sensing system in which the sensor fiber comprises at least first and second waveguides used for separate sensing operations. The sensor fiber may be, for example, a double clad fiber having a monomode core and a multimode inner cladding.
US08520192B2	Distance-measuring system A distance-measuring system includes a light source, a light detector, and measuring optics for projecting light emitted by the light source to a target and for guiding light reflected from said target towards the light detector. The distance-measuring system also includes reference optics for guiding light emitted by the light source within the system towards the light detector as internal reference light and a variable attenuator for adjusting intensity of light incident on the light detector. The variable attenuator includes an attenuating filter arranged in a beam path between the measuring optics and the light detector and an actuator coupled to the attenuating filter for moving the attenuating filter. The distance-measuring system further includes an optical selector coupled to at least one of the actuator or the attenuating filter and moved by the actuator together with the attenuating filter.
US08520187B2	Apparatus and method for providing fluid for immersion lithography A lithographic projection apparatus projects a pattern from a patterning device onto a substrate using a projection system. The apparatus has a liquid supply system to supply a liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate. The apparatus also has a fluid removal system including a chamber to hold liquid and having an open end adjacent to a volume in which fluid will be present. The open end removes, through a pressure differential across-the open end when liquid is present in the chamber, substantially only liquid from the volume when liquid in the volume is adjacent to the open end but not gas from the volume when gas in the volume is adjacent to the open end.
US08520184B2	Immersion exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method with measuring device There is provided an exposure apparatus capable of accurately performing an exposure process and a measurement process based on a liquid immersion method. The exposure apparatus (EX), which forms a liquid immersion area (AR2) of a liquid (LQ) on an image surface side of a projection optical system (PL), and exposes a substrate (P) via the projection optical system (PL) and the liquid (LQ) of the immersion area (AR2), is provided with a measuring device (60) which measures at least one of a property and composition of the liquid (LQ) for forming the liquid immersion area (AR2).
US08520182B2	Flat panel display and manufacturing method thereof A flat panel display is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display includes i) a first substrate including a display area, wherein at least one display element is formed in the display area, ii) a second substrate covering the display area and connected to the first substrate, iii) a sealant formed between the first and second substrates. In one embodiment, the first substrate and the second substrate comprise a first cut surface and a second cut surface, respectively. Further, each of the first cut surface and the second cut surface has a plurality of corners each of which is concave from the perspective of the display area.
US08520176B2	Stereoscopic display module, method for manufacturing the same and manufacturing system thereof A method for manufacturing a stereoscopic display module including following steps is provided. A display module is provided. A first retardation film is attached on the display module with a heat-resisting adhesive layer. After attaching the first retardation film on the display module with the heat-resisting adhesive layer, a partial region of the first retardation film is heated to vanish a phase retardation property. The partial region includes a plurality of sub-regions spaced at intervals. A stereoscopic display module and a manufacturing system thereof are also provided.
US08520173B2	Display device A display device is provided, decreasing the influence of reflected incident/ambient light caused by patterned bus lines therein, wherein a backlight is disposed at a back side of a substrate comprising common electrodes and color filters, and images are viewed at a side of another substrate comprising pixel electrodes and thin film transistors. A layer (low-reflection layer) with an optical reflectivity lower than that of bus lines, is disposed in a buffer film formed between a viewing side of a glass substrate and an insulating film where the bus lines 4a are disposed. The low-reflection layer is patterned with the same shape as those of the bus lines and covers the bus lines. The incident/ambient light via the glass substrate is shielded by the low-reflection layer and does not arrive at the bus lines.
US08520171B2	Optical display device having polarizing film Provided is an optical display device using a polarizing film which has a thickness of 10 μm or less and exhibits high optical characteristics. The optical display device comprises a continuous web of polarizing film which is made of a polyvinyl alcohol type resin having a molecularly oriented dichroic material, and formed through stretching to have a thickness of 10 μm or less and satisfy conditions expressed by the following formulas: P>−(100.929T-42.4−1)×100 (where T<42.3); and P≧99.9 (where T≧42.3), wherein T is a single layer transmittance, and P is a polarization rate. The polarizing film may be prepared by subjecting a laminate comprising a non-crystallizable ester type thermoplastic resin substrate and a polyvinyl alcohol type resin layer formed on the substrate to by 2-stage stretching consisting of preliminary in-air stretching and in-boric-acid-solution stretching.
US08520170B2	Low-twist chiral optical layers and related fabrication methods An optical element includes a first and second stacked birefringent layers. The first birefringent layer includes local anisotropy patterns having respective relative orientations that vary over a first thickness between opposing faces of the first birefringent layer to define a first twist angle. The second birefringent layer includes local anisotropy patterns having respective relative orientations that vary over a second thickness between opposing faces of the second birefringent layer to define a second twist angle different than the first twist angle. Related devices and fabrication methods are also discussed.
US08520169B2	Optical display device having polarizing film Provided is an optical display device using a polarizing film which has a thickness of 10 μm or less and exhibits high optical characteristics. The optical display device comprises a continuous web of polarizing film which is made of a polyvinyl alcohol type resin having a molecularly oriented dichroic material, and formed through stretching to have a thickness of 10 μm or less and satisfy conditions expressed by the following formulas: P>−(100.929T−42.4−1)×100 (where T<42.3); and P≧99.9 (where T≧42.3), wherein T is a single layer transmittance, and P is a polarization rate. The polarizing film may be prepared by subjecting a laminate comprising a non-crystallizable ester type thermoplastic resin substrate and a polyvinyl alcohol type resin layer formed on the substrate to by 2-stage stretching consisting of preliminary in-air stretching and in-boric-acid-solution stretching.
US08520165B2	Optical film laminates Optical film laminates of birefringent polyester films and adhesive are disclosed. The laminates have a thickness of at least 10 mils (0.25 mm). The laminates of the invention are useful in displays having a diagonal of 37 in (94 cm) or greater.
US08520164B2	Illumination device, display device, and light guide plate An illumination device (30) includes a plurality of light source units (BLU) each having a light guide plate (1) and a plurality of light sources (21). The light guide plate (1) has an illumination region (4) through which incident beams of light from the light sources (21) are emitted outward and a light guide region (3) through which the incident beams of light from the light sources (21) are guided toward the illumination region (4), with the light guide region (3) and the illumination region (4) laid side-by-side. The illumination region (4) is divided into a plurality of light-emitting sections by slit sections (8), provided in such a way as to extend along directions of optical axes of the light sources (21), which restrict transmission of light. At least one of the light sources (21) is provided to each of the light-emitting sections in such a way as to be placed side-by-side along the light guide region (3). Light source units (20) adjacent to each other along the directions of the optical axes of the light sources (21) are disposed so that the illumination region (4) of one of the light source units (BLU) covers at least a part of the light guide region (3) of the other light source unit (BLU). This makes it possible to retain the strength of the illumination device as a combination of light guide blocks while reducing leakage of light into an adjacent area.
US08520162B2	Back light module and liquid crystal display thereof This invention relates to a back light module and a liquid crystal display thereof. The back light module includes a rear panel, an LGP, a PCB, a plurality of LEDs and at least an elastic clamping fastener. The rear panel includes a base plate and at least a sidewall. The LGP is positioned on the base plate. The PCB opposite to the LGP is positioned on the sidewall of the rear panel. The LEDs are positioned on the PCB. At least an elastic clamping fastener successively passes through the rear panel and the PCB to fasten the rear panel and the PCB. In addition, the top of the elastic clamping fastener is higher than the surface of the LEDs. The back light module and the liquid crystal display thereof in this invention are simple in structure, convenient in assembly, and low in cost.
US08520160B2	Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same A LCD and a method of driving the LCD are provided. The LCD includes first and second gate lines extending in a first direction, a data line insulated from the first gate line and crossing the first gate line, a pixel electrode including first and second sub-pixel electrodes, the pixel electrode being disposed in a pixel having a long side in the first direction, a first thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the first sub-pixel electrode, a second TFT connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the second sub-pixel electrode, and a third TFT connected to the second gate line, the second sub-pixel electrode, and a charge-sharing capacitor, the charge-sharing capacitor sharing a data voltage applied to the second sub-pixel electrode.
US08520158B2	Substrate for a display device and method of manufacturing the same A mother substrate for a display device includes a display cell, a test pad, an electrostatic preventing pattern and a connecting line. The display cell includes a pad and a signal line. The signal line is extended from the pad and is electrically connected to a pixel. The test pad is disposed out of the display cell and is electrically connected to the signal line of the display cell and receives a test signal. The electrostatic preventing pattern electrically connected to the test pad is disposed adjacent to the test pad and includes a plurality of edges. The electrostatic preventing pattern is formed from a metal pattern. The connecting line is extended from the electrostatic preventing pattern and is electrically connected to the pad of the display cell.
US08520154B2	Liquid crystal display panel and related device A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, an isolating layer, and a conductor. The first electrode is disposed between the first substrate and the isolating layer, on which the conductor is disposed. Each of the second and third electrodes is disposed on the second substrate and includes a contact surface. The second and third electrodes are not in contact with each other and are separated by a gap. The conductor is disposed in accordance with the location of the gap.
US08520152B2	Entertainment system mountable in a vehicle and methods for mounting and displaying same A media system for a vehicle comprises a housing mounted to an overhead portion of the vehicle, and a media unit that is capable of being coupled to the housing, wherein the housing includes a receiving portion that pivots with respect to the housing and receives the media unit in the receiving portion.
US08520145B2	Method and apparatus for displaying video image A method for displaying a video image includes acquiring foreground information about a video image to be output, where the foreground information includes information that defines a size of a foreground picture. The method further includes determining an adjustment coefficient for the foreground picture according to the size of the foreground picture, a size and a resolution of a display device, and a preset adjustment rule. The preset adjustment rule indicates that the product of the adjustment coefficient for the foreground picture and a zooming multiple for display on the display device is equal to a fixed constant. The method also includes adjusting the video image to be output according to the adjustment coefficient for the foreground picture, and outputting, to the display device for display, the video image after adjustment.
US08520140B2	Mode based film mode detection In general, in one aspect, the frames of a received video are analyzed using traditional film mode detection (continually capturing data and comparing the data to known parameters for various film modes) until a film mode is detected. Once the film mode is detected, the frames of the received video are analyzed using mode based tracking where measurements are continually predicted based on the mode detected and averaged with actual measurements. The use of the averaged measurements limit the effect of noise captured in the actual measurements. The averaged measurements are continually compared to known parameters for the detected mode to determine if the detected mode is still valid. If the detected mode is valid, the mode based tacking is continued. If the detected mode is no longer valid (e.g., averaged measurements not correlated with known parameters), the process returns to the traditional film mode detection.
US08520138B1	Digital panoramic camera with features for enhanced image quality and improved user interface A digital panoramic camera generally comprises a lens dependently secured to a body. The body comprises a power side, control side and rear compartment wherein the internal components of the digital panoramic camera are distributed such that their weight is uniformly placed about the axis of rotation for the camera. Because the axis of rotation for the camera passes through the nodal point of the lens, a slotted aperture is provided in the body in order that the camera may nonetheless have a nearly 180° vertical field of view. A novel lens cover, having a slotted aperture therein, is provided for reduction or elimination of flare, thereby improving image quality. Provisions are also made for elimination of fringe effects and blooming as well as for improved user interface with the camera. A novel interface permits operation of the camera as either a stand-alone or peripheral device.
US08520136B2	Small industrial electronic imaging camera A lens mount, a board mount frame, a tri-face cover, and a connector metal bracket attached with an external interface connector which are constitutive elements forming a box-type camera housing are respectively a housing constitutive element common to a back-cable-lead assembly structure and a side-cable-lead assembly structure. The box-type camera housing having a four-piece structure in which a capable of providing an external interface connector in an arbitrary face among five faces as targets excepting a front face is achieved by the lens mount, the board mount frame, the tri-face cover, and the connector metal bracket attached with the external interface connector.
US08520135B2	Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same A zoom optical system having a lens group I including two single lenses or one lens component, an aperture stop, and a lens group A disposed between the lens group I and the aperture stop, including a lens component made up of a positive lens LA and a negative lens LB that are cemented together, and having a negative refracting power as a whole. The distance between the lens group I and the lens group A on the optical axis changes for zooming, and the lens component has an aspheric cemented surface. When the shape of the aspheric surface is expressed by a certain equation, the shape of the air-contact surface of the positive lens LA and its aspheric components etc. satisfy conditional expressions (3a) and (3b).
US08520130B2	Image capturing apparatus and auto-focus control method thereof An image capturing apparatus senses a subject by an image sensor to acquire image data, detects a face from the image data, estimates a distance from the image sensor to the detected face in a real space, obtains first and second depths of field based on a focal length, an f-number, and the estimated distance/a distance in the real space to an in-focus point when acquiring the image data used to detect the face, calculates a first and second scan ranges based on the first/second depths of field and the estimated distance/the distance to the in-focus point, detects the in-focus point based on a contrast signal acquired while driving the focus lens in the first or second scan range selected by a selection unit, which selects the first scan range if at least part of the first and second scan ranges overlaps, otherwise does not select the first scan range.
US08520127B2	Image pickup lens comprising aperture stop and single lens, image pickup module comprising image pickup lens including aperture stop and single lens, method for manufacturing image pickup lens comprising aperture stop and single lens, and method for manufacturing image pickup module comprising image pickup lens including aperture stop and single lens In order that an image pickup lens, an image pickup module, a method for manufacturing an image pickup lens, and a method for manufacturing an image pickup module may be realized each of which makes it possible to realize a higher resolution of a periphery of a formed image, an image pickup lens of the present invention satisfies the following formulas (1) and (2): 0.080
US08520123B2	Imaging apparatus The image sensor and the imaging substrate are arranged in a space formed between the connection portion and the plane formed by the holding portion.
US08520116B2	Photographing apparatus and method A photographing apparatus includes an imaging device that converts light of an image into an electrical signal, an image conversion unit that converts the electrical signal into image data, a scene recognition unit that recognizes the type of a scene to be photographed by analyzing the image data, a display unit that displays scene information regarding the recognized scene, a user input unit that receives user input, and a condition setting unit that locks a shooting condition as a shooting mode corresponding to the recognized type of the scene for photographing, according to the user input received via the user input unit.
US08520115B2	Image processing apparatus and method for displaying an image to an observer An apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a blind spot area based on a blind spot position of an observer within a display area for displaying an image to the observer, and a notification unit configured to notify, when displaying within the blind spot area is changed due to a change of an observation environment observed by the observer, the observer of the change within the blind spot area.
US08520113B2	Digital photographing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and recording medium storing program to execute the method Provided are a digital photographing apparatus capable of taking a self-shot, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium storing a program to execute the method. A digital photographing apparatus includes a shooting unit, configured to generate a live image of a subject; a main display unit, configured to display the generated image; an auxiliary display unit mounted on a front of the digital photographing apparatus and configured to display the generated image; a determination unit configured to determine whether the auxiliary display unit is switched on or off; and a self-shot setting unit configured to set a self-shot mode when the auxiliary display unit is switched from an ‘off’ state to an ‘on’ state.
US08520112B2	Imaging device, display control method, and program An image capturing apparatus including: a user input, which when operated causes a menu to be displayed; and display control means for displaying the menu upon press of the user input, the menu listing images representing all selectable set values in the order of being able to be selected by each press of the user input, and changing a highlighted one of the images by changing display positions of all the images listed in the menu every time the user input is pressed, wherein the display control means further displays an arrow between each of the images listed in the menu, each arrow indicating an order of being highlighted by each press of the user input between the images listed in the menu.
US08520108B2	Method for driving a photoelectric conversion device with isolation switches arranged between signal lines and amplifiers A photoelectric conversion device prevents a pseudo signal caused by the parasitic capacitance of a transfer switch from being input to an amplifier. A photoelectric conversion device (50) includes a pixel (10) which outputs a signal to a signal line (107), an amplifier which amplifies the signal supplied via the signal line (107), and an isolation switch (121) inserted between a signal line (108) and the input node of the amplifier. The pixel (10) includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion (FD), a transfer switch which transfers the charge of the photodiode to the FD, and an amplification transistor which outputs a signal to a signal line (109) in accordance with the potential of the FD. The isolation switch (121) is turned off at least in a period when a transfer pulse for controlling the transfer switch of the pixel (10) transits.
US08520107B2	Analog-digital converter, image sensor system and camera device An analog-digital converter includes n comparators arranged in a first direction with a predetermined cell pitch and corresponding respectively to n input voltages, each comparator comparing a voltage value of a reference signal whose voltage value increases or decreases over time with an input voltage corresponding to the comparator. Each of the n comparators includes differential transistors to which the reference signal and the input voltage are given respectively. A differential transistor is formed by p unit transistors connected in series whose gates are given the reference signal, and another differential transistor is formed by p unit transistors connected in series whose gates are given the input voltage.
US08520106B2	Solid-state imaging device with improved dynamic range According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion section, first circuit, second circuit, and third circuit. The photoelectric conversion section generates signal charge corresponding to the intensity of the irradiation light. The first circuit reads the signal charge generated by the photoelectric conversion section. The second circuit detects that the signal charge in the photoelectric conversion section has overflowed. The third circuit produces a signal corresponding to the time elapsed from the start of generation of the signal charge in the photoelectric conversion section, and holds and reads the signal at a timing at which the overflow has been detected by the second circuit.
US08520101B2	Image sensor and black level calibration method thereof An image sensor including a pixel array, a sampling circuit and a black level calibration circuit is provided. The pixel array includes a first optical black area, a second optical black area and an active pixel area. The sampling circuit respectively reads first optical black information, second optical black information and active pixel information from the first optical black area, the second optical black area and the active pixel area. The black level calibration circuit determines a black level offset according to the first optical black information, and determines a black level calibration value for calibrating the active pixel information.
US08520100B2	CMOS image sensor pixel without internal sample/hold circuit A very small area CMOS image sensor, e.g., for an endoscopic system, includes only four pads (power, ground, digital in, analog out), and includes an array of 4T pixels and associated control circuitry for performing correlated double sampling (CDS) to generate analog reset level and analog signal level values associated with light detected by photodiodes in each pixel. Instead of processing the analog values on-chip, the analog reset values and analog signal values are transmitted in separate sets one row at a time along with interleaved synchronization signals by way of a single analog contact pad, e.g., to a host device of an endoscopic system, which uses the synchronization signals to reconstruct the sensor's internal clock in order to process the analog values. An endoscope housing incorporating the CMOS image sensor thus requires only four wires.
US08520098B2	Image pickup apparatus and reproducing apparatus When a shooting mode is changed from a non-super-resolution mode to a super-resolution mode, an image pickup apparatus lowers a compression ratio in a compression unit. On the other hand, when the shooting mode is changed from the super-resolution mode to the non-super-resolution mode, the image pickup apparatus raises a compression ratio in the compression unit.
US08520096B2	Apparatus and method for learning photographing profiles of digital imaging device for recording personal life history Provided are a photographing profile learning apparatus and method of a digital imaging device for recording a personal life history. The photographing profile learning method learns a user's photographing patterns by recommending at least one previous picture consistent with a user's photographing tendencies, using a recommendation function and a user profile based on a user feedback value and a compensation value, receiving user feedback regarding the recommended previous picture, and updating the user profile and the recommendation function according to the user feedback. Therefore, since photographing settings are performed according to a user's tendency and conditions, it is possible to maintain consistency between a currently photographed picture and previously photographed pictures and systematically produce a visual diary.
US08520094B2	Flicker detecting circuit and method in image sensor A circuit includes a luminance average value output unit for extracting luminance values from pixel data of the first and the second frames to generate first luminance average values for pixel lines of the first frame and second luminance average values for pixel lines of the second frame, a flicker curve generating unit for subtracting the second luminance average values from the first luminance average values, thereby generating a flicker curve, and a flicker detecting unit for extracting a plurality of local minimum points from the flicker curve, calculating a distance between each two neighboring local minimum points of the extracted local minimum points, and determining whether the flicker is present based on the distances and the frequency numbers of the distances.
US08520092B2	Image pickup apparatus including automatic white balance control capability An image pickup apparatus such as a video camera has the capability of automatic white balance control whereby the white balance is quickly adjusted for any object even just after an operator has turned on a power supply. An image pickup element converts an optical image of an object into an electrical image signal. The image signal is applied to a signal processing circuit and separated into a luminance signal and color signals. The separated color signals or the R and B signals are amplified by gain control circuits under the control of the correction signals supplied by a correction signal computing part, and then applied to a color-difference signal forming circuit which in turn produces color-difference signals (R-Y) and (B-Y). An encoder circuit generates a television signal in the standard form from the above color-difference signals and the luminance signal. In this processing, the white balance is adjusted according to a white balance control signal generated on the basis of information about a state of illuminance onto an object picked up last time and stored in a data storing part.
US08520091B2	Auto white balance correction value calculation device, method, program, and image pickup device A normal AWB (auto white balance) correction value is calculated based on inputted image data. Further, a face area is identified from the inputted image data and a face AWB correction value is calculated based on image data in the face area. Then, first feature data and second feature data are extracted from the inputted image data and image data in the face area, respectively. A total AWB correction value is calculated in accordance with at least one of the face AWB correction value and the normal AWB correction value based on a comparison result of the first feature data and the second feature data. Thus, an erroneous correction can be prevented in an AWB correction using a face detection function.
US08520087B2	Image capturing device An image capturing device includes a first image processing unit that processes a plurality of frame images to form a moving image file, on the basis of an image capturing signal from an image capturing element that captures an image of light from a subject, an instructing unit that instructs to capture a still image of the subject, a second image processing unit that processes the still image on the basis of the image capturing signal from the image capturing element, when the instructing unit instructs to capture the still image during capturing of the moving image, and generates an interpolation frame image that is the frame image until the capturing of the moving image restarts after the instructing unit instructs to capture the still image, when the capturing of the moving image restarts after the still image is captured, and a moving image file generating unit that generates the moving image file, on the basis of the plurality of frame images processed by the first image processing unit and the interpolation frame image generated by the second image processing unit.
US08520084B2	Video stabilization system and method A video stabilization method includes detecting a plurality of feature points of an inputted image frame. Next, a block motion estimation is performed onto the inputted image frame according to the feature points, thereby generating a plurality of block motion vectors corresponding to the feature points. Then, the block motion vectors are converted to a histogram to perform a statistical process. Thereafter, an initial static background motion vector is determined according to a statistic value of the histogram. Thereafter, a Gaussian distribution model and a Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) estimation are adopted to correct the initial static background motion vector to generate a global motion vector. Then, a smoothing process is performed onto the global motion vector to generate a smoothed global motion vector. A video stabilization system is also provided here.
US08520083B2	Method of removing an artefact from an image A method of removing an artefact from an image captured with a motion invariant camera is disclosed. The captured image is de-blurred using a spatially invariant blur kernel. An edge filter with a fixed offset is applied to the de-blurred image to identify the location of at least one artefact. A parameter is estimated based on a region either side of the identified location. The at least one artefact is removed from the de-blurred image using the parameter.
US08520082B2	Image acquisition method and apparatus An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring the image exceeds a threshold. A controller selectively transfers acquired images for storage. A motion extractor determines motion parameters of a selected, stored image. An image re-constructor corrects the selected image with associated motion parameters. A selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene are merged and corrected by the image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of the scene.
US08520081B2	Imaging device and method, and image processing method for imaging device An image capture device of the present invention includes: a first image capture element 10A and a second image capture element 10B; and an optical system which is capable of forming a first image which is in focus on an image capture plane of the first image capture element 10A and forming a second image which is out of focus on an image capture plane of the second image capture element 10B. An image processing section 220 processes a signal obtained from the first image capture element 10A and a signal obtained from the second image capture element 10B and produces a restored image from an image obtained by the second image capture element 10B, the restored image having reduced camera shake blur and reduced out-of-focus blur.
US08520080B2	Apparatus, system, and method of use of imaging assembly on mobile terminal A system for collecting data comprising a mobile terminal for capturing a plurality of frames of image data, the mobile terminal having a first imaging assembly and a second imaging assembly, the first imaging assembly for capturing a first frame of image data representing a first object and the second imaging assembly for capturing a second frame of image data representing a second object, wherein the system for use in collecting data is operative for associating first frame information and second frame information, the first frame information including one or more of image data of the first frame of image data and information derived utilizing the image data of the first frame of image data, the second frame information including one or more of image data of the second frame of image data and information derived utilizing the image data of the second frame of image data.
US08520072B1	Video monitoring and alarm verification technology Video monitoring and alarm verification technology, in which a first connection is established between a first device and a camera located in a monitored property associated with a user of the first device and image data captured by the camera is received over the first connection and at the first device. A determination is made to establish a second connection with a second device that enables sharing of the received image data with the second device and, in response to the determination, the second connection is established between the first device and the second device. The received image data is shared with the second device over the second connection and the second device is restricted from directly accessing image data captured by the camera located in the monitored property.
US08520071B2	Boundary line detection system with improved detection-performance In a boundary line detection system installed in a vehicle, an edge-point extracting unit extracts a plurality of edge points from an image of a road. A noise determining unit determines whether a number of edge points in the plurality of edge points are aligned in a direction corresponding to a vertical direction of the road. The number of edge points have an interval therebetween equal to or smaller than a preset interval. When it is determined that the number of edge points are aligned in the direction corresponding to the vertical direction of the road with the interval of the number of edge points being equal to or smaller than the preset interval, the noise determining unit determines that the number of edge points as noises.
US08520070B1	Method and system with multiple camera units installed in protective enclosure A system and method for simultaneously and continuously capturing video from the interior and exterior of a vehicle. The system includes, for example, a first housing including a first connection mechanism, first and second cameras and a memory disposed in the first housing. The system also includes a second housing including a second connection mechanism adapted to be removably connected to the first connection mechanism of the first housing and encasing said first housing within the second housing. A mounting mechanism is adjustably connected to said second housing and configured to maintain at least one of the first camera and the second camera in a predetermined position by adjusting the second housing. Additional embodiments are also described including a method for capturing data.
US08520068B2	Video security system A video security system for the remote verification and monitoring of conditions surrounding an alarm signal. A security gateway at the monitored premises detects alarm conditions and transmits information and video relating to the alarm condition to personnel at a central monitoring station in substantially real time for verification. Various embodiments of the system transmit alarm information to the central monitoring station through hybrid-fiber coaxial, DSL, fiber-optic, high-speed fixed wireless and mobile communications networks. The security system may include secondary alarm notification from the security gateway to the central monitoring station via a second network, such as IP, Ethernet, Internet, frame relay, public switched telephone, wireless, and mobile communications networks.
US08520066B2	Automated optical inspection system for the runout tolerance of circular saw blades An automated optical inspection system for the runout tolerance of circular saw blades comprises a rotating device, a first and a second optical inspection module, and a computing device. The rotating device is used to rotate a circular saw blade. The circular saw blade includes multiple teeth, and each tooth has a side and a back. The first/second optical inspection module is used to capture a side/back image of the tooth. The computing device activates the rotating device to rotate the circular saw blade, and activates the first and the second optical inspection module to capture the side image and the back image of each tooth upon rotation of the circular saw blade. The computing device performs a radial-position-calculating procedure according to the side images, to obtain an amount of radial runout, and performs an axial-position-calculating procedure according to the back images, to obtain an amount of axial runout.
US08520062B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display panel and an optical member. The display panel includes a plurality of a pixel and displays a 2D image. The optical member includes a plurality of a lens, each having a plurality of a focal point and configured such that at least two pixels of the display panel correspond to one 3D pixel. The optical member divides the 2D image into left and right-eye images by using the lenses of the optical member.
US08520059B2	Stereoscopic image taking apparatus A stereoscopic image taking apparatus (10) according to an aspect of the present invention includes a single photographing optical system (12, 14); an imaging device (16) on which pupil-split object images which have passed through a first region and a second region f the photographing optical system, are formed, respectively, the first region and the second region being positioned differently in a predetermined direction, the imaging device which performs photoelectric conversions of an object image which has passed through the first region and an object image which has passed through the second region to output a first image and a second image; and an image processing unit (24) which performs a first image processing to the first image and a second image processing different from the first image processing to the second image and performs the first image processing and the second image processing so as to reduce a difference in image quality between the first image and the second image which have been processed.
US08520058B2	Device and method for obtaining three-dimensional object surface data The concept includes projecting at the object surface, along a first optical axis, two or more two-dimensional (2D) images containing together one or more distinct wavelength bands. The wavelength bands vary in intensity along a first image axis, forming a pattern, within at least one of the projected images. Each projected image generates a reflected image along a second optical axis. The 3D surface data is obtained by comparing the object data with calibration data, which calibration data was obtained by projecting the same images at a calibration reference surface, for instance a planar surface, for a plurality of known positions along the z-axis. Provided that the z-axis is not orthogonal to the second optical axis, the z-axis coordinate at each location on the object surface can be found if the light intensity combinations of all predefined light intensity patterns are linearly independent along the corresponding z-axis.
US08520057B2	Method and system for transmitting/receiving 3-dimensional broadcasting service Provided is a method and system for transmitting/receiving broadcasting service. The method for transmitting a 3-dimensional broadcasting service includes: encoding a reference image and an additional image of the 3-dimensional broadcasting service to generate a reference image stream and an additional image stream; receiving a service map table defining the 3-dimensional broadcasting service; and transmitting the reference image stream, the additional image stream and the service map table in real time.
US08520054B2	System and method to quickly acquire images An image capturing system includes: a plurality of image capturing devices, wherein each image capturing device is adapted to capture an image of an object and transmit the captured image; and a processor in communication with each of the image capturing devices, the processor adapted to transmit a, control signal to each of the image capturing devices, receive each of the captured images, process the captured images, and transmit the processed captured images, wherein the processing of the captured images includes combining the images to appear as a seamless single rotational image.
US08520044B2	LED print-head driver with integrated process direction compensation A light emitting diode (LED) print head arranged to receive a set of raw print data. The print head includes a plurality of LED array chips each having a plurality of LEDs, wherein each LED of the plurality of LEDs includes a process direction position. The print head further includes at least one matrix drive circuit arranged to control activation of the plurality of LEDs in response to the set of raw print data and at least one real-time print data compensation circuit, wherein the at least one real-time print data compensation circuit receives the set of raw print data and delays transmitting the set of raw print data to the at least one matrix drive circuit based on a relative relationship between the process direction position of each LED.
US08520036B2	Display device, liquid crystal monitor, liquid crystal television receiver, and display method A control section divides a single frame so that a ratio of a period corresponding to a latter sub-frame and a period corresponding to a former sub-frame ranges from 1:3 to 1:7. A divisional point of the frame is a point which allows each of the latter sub-frame and the former sub-frame to minimize a difference between an actual brightness and an expected brightness. The frame may thus be divided at the point where the difference is largest in the normal hold display, so that it is possible to minimize the difference at this point. On this account, it is possible to reduce the difference in a single frame substantially by half as compared with an arrangement for carrying out the normal hold display, and thereby suppress the excess brightness caused by the difference.
US08520034B2	Apparatus and method for generating chopper-stabilized signals A method for generating chopper-stabilized signals includes the following steps. First, a voltage polarity control signal is received. Next, the voltage polarity control signal is sampled to obtain a sampling signal, and a voltage transformation manner of the voltage polarity inversion of the voltage polarity control signal is judged according to the sampling signal. Then, a frame transformation signal template is obtained according to the voltage transformation manner of the voltage polarity inversion of the voltage polarity control signal and the sampling signal. Next, the frame transformation signal template is compared with the sampling signal and a frame transformation signal is generated. Then, a first chopper-stabilized signal is outputted according to the frame transformation signal and the voltage polarity control signal.
US08520033B2	Source driver of image display systems and methods for driving pixel array An image display system and a pixel array driving method thereof are disclosed. The image display system has a source driver having a first and a second digital-to-analog converter and a first and a second switching circuit. The first digital-to-analog converter converts an N-bit digital code to a first analog signal, where N is a positive integer. The second digital-to-analog converter converts a K-bit digital code to a second analog signal, where K is a positive integer and is smaller than N. The first switching circuit controls coupling between a first display data, a second display data and the first and second digital-to-analog converters, and, the second switching circuit controls connections between the first and second analog signals and a first and a second operational amplifier. The first and second operational amplifiers are coupled to a first and a second data line of a pixel array, respectively.
US08520028B1	Drag handle for applying image filters in picture editor The present disclosure provides for dynamic application of image filters in picture editor applications. A selected filter is dynamically applied to a portion of an image displayed on a screen as a drag handle is moved across the image, the portion of the image to which the selected filter is applied being changeable in size with motion of handle across the image and determined by a position of the handle on the screen. Changes to the portion of the image caused by application of the selected filter are dynamically displayed as the handle is moved across the image displayed on the screen.
US08520026B1	Cycling through an ordered sequence of content by rotating digital objects In one embodiment, one of a set of M content items is displayed within a display graphic element of a graphical user interface. A sequential ordering exists among the set of M content items. A rotation of a digital object along a directional axis is detected. The digital object has N sides along the directional axis. A quantity of M is different from a quantity of N. In response to the detected rotation, different ones of the M content items are displayed within the display graphic element in accordance with the sequential ordering. Each sequential increment of the N sides per the rotation results in a corresponding sequential increment through the set of M content items.
US08520025B2	Systems and methods for manipulating user annotations in electronic books An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.
US08520021B2	System and method for processing graphics operations with graphics processing unit Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for accumulating changes to the data structures. A separate buffer is then created from at least a portion of the data structures of the accumulation buffer. The disclosed techniques read the data structures from the separate buffer with the graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit operates on the data structures read from the separate buffer with the operation. Then, the disclosed techniques write the results of the operation onto the portion of the accumulation buffer corresponding to the separate buffer.
US08520020B2	Stereoscopic color management Stereoscopic color management of images with plural views. Image data for each view is defined in a component input device color space. Image data in the component input device color spaces is converted to a nominal source color space using plural input transforms each corresponding to one of the plural views. A rendering transform is used to convert image data for each view in the nominal source color space to a nominal destination color space. The nominal source color space, nominal destination color space and rendering transform are the same for all views. The image data for each view in the nominal destination color space is ultimately converted to a component output device color space associated with a stereoscopic output device respective of the view using a respective output transform.
US08520019B1	Drag handle for applying image filters in picture editor The present disclosure provides for dynamic application of image filters in picture editor applications. A selected filter is dynamically applied to a portion of an image displayed on a screen as a drag handle is moved across the image, the portion of the image to which the selected filter is applied being changeable in size with motion of handle across the image and determined by a position of the handle on the screen. Changes to the portion of the image caused by application of the selected filter are dynamically displayed as the handle is moved across the image displayed on the screen.
US08520016B2	Instruction folding mechanism, method for performing the same and pixel processing system employing the same An instruction folding mechanism, a method for performing the instruction folding mechanism and a pixel processing system employing the instruction folding mechanism are described. The pixel processing system comprises an instruction folding mechanism and a pixel shader. The instruction folding mechanism folds a plurality of first instructions in a first program to generate a second program having at least one second instruction which is a combination of the first instructions. The pixel shader connected to the instruction folding mechanism fetches the second program to decode at least the second instruction having the combination of the first instructions to execute the second program. The instruction folding mechanism comprises an instruction scheduler, a folding rule checker, and an instruction combiner. The instruction scheduler connected to the folding rule checker is used to scan the first instructions according to static positions in order to schedule the first instructions in the first program. The folding rule checker checks the first instructions according to a folding rule whether the first instructions has data independency. The instruction combiner connected to the folding rule checker can combine the first instructions having the data independency to generate at least the second instruction.
US08520015B2	Method for intermixing graphics applications using display intermix server for cockpit displays Methods and apparatus are provided for intermixing graphics layers and graphics applications using a display intermix server. A method is provided for intermixing a first graphics application having a first graphics layer and a second graphics application having a second graphics layer. The method comprises streaming a first graphics command from the first graphics application to a first memory location, where the first graphics command corresponds to the first graphics layer. The method also comprises streaming a second graphics command from the second graphics application to a second memory location, where the second graphics command corresponds to the second graphics layer. The method further comprises ordering the first graphics command and the second graphics command based on a priority scheme for the first graphics layer and the second graphics layer. The method further comprises providing ordered graphics commands to a rendering interface.
US08520012B2	Image processing method and apparatus for synchronized input and output of data and commands An image processing apparatus comprises a plurality of processing blocks connected in series, and each respective processing block comprises a processor. In each respective processing block, the processor employs data input into that processing block to perform an image process upon the data. Also, each processing block performs a process upon the processor in response to a command input into the processing block. Each processing block causes an output corresponding to the command that is input after the data to wait until an output of the processor that employed the data input into the processing block prior to the command to perform the process is finished, such that the output of the processor that employed the data to perform the image processing and the output that corresponds to the command is outputted from the processing block in an order whereby the data and the command are input.
US08520010B2	Latency solutions In processing a game scene for display, in one embodiment input controller position information from a host memory is provided directly to a graphics processor rather than first being processed by a 3D application in a host processor. This results in more direct and timely processing of position information and reduces the number of 3D processing pipeline steps the controller position information must pass through thus reducing the user's perceived latency between moving the input controller and seeing the displayed results. In another embodiment, the input controller position information is provided directly from an input controller to a graphics card or subsystem rather than first going through a host processor or memory. This results in even more direct and timely processing of position information by further reducing the number of 3D processing pipeline steps the controller position information must pass through thus further reducing the user's perceived latency.
US08520009B1	Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor Video filtering using a programmable graphics processor is described. The programmable graphics processor may be programmed to complete a plurality of video filtering operations in a single pass through a fragment-processing pipeline within the programmable graphics processor. Video filtering functions such as deinterlacing, chroma up-sampling, scaling, and deblocking may be performed by the fragment-processing pipeline. The fragment-processing pipeline may be programmed to perform motion adaptive deinterlacing, wherein a spatially variant filter determines, on a pixel basis, whether a “bob”, a “blend”, or a “weave” operation should be used to process an interlaced image.
US08520007B2	Graphic drawing device and graphic drawing method A distance information generating unit 4 for rasterizing minute line segments divided by a curved line dividing unit 2 through a combination of straight line cells and corner cells to generate distance information corresponding to a pixel 12 of a display and an edge rasterizing unit 7 for rasterizing edge information about the minute line segments divided by the curved line dividing unit 2 are disposed, and a mapping unit 10 determines whether the pixel 12 is located inside or outside by using the edge information rasterized by the edge rasterizing unit 7, and maps the distance information generated by the distance information generating unit 4 onto the antialiasing intensity 11 of a component 13 included in the pixel 12 according to the results of the inside or outside determination.
US08520006B2	Image processing apparatus and method, and program It is determined whether the size of an outline vector to be output is equal to or smaller than a predetermined size. If it is determined that the size of the outline vector to be output is equal to or smaller than the predetermined size, image data is generated by using outline font data corresponding to the outline vector. If it is determined that the size of the outline vector to be output is larger than the predetermined size, image data is generated by using the outline vector.
US08520004B2	Interactive labyrinth curve generation and applications thereof Complex labyrinth curves are interactively generated by an iterative process that spatially modulates curve evolution by an image or other function defined on the evolution space. After curves and evolution parameters are initialized [100], the iterative process resamples the curves [104], and spatially modulates the curves according to the evolution parameters [106]. The spatial modulation includes computing sample point displacements by calculating distances between each of the sample points and neighboring points using a surface distance metric that estimates a geodesic distance metric in a two-dimensional non-Euclidean evolution space. The evolved labyrinth curves are may be processed [110] for use in various applications. The evolved curves can also be triangulated and projected to a plane to create patterns for manufacturing developable surfaces.
US08520003B2	Method and apparatus for interactive curve generation A system of curve generation takes a sequence of control points and constraint codes for each control point, and outputs a curve in which each of the constraints is satisfied. The set of constraints is chosen from the tangent angle, curvature, first derivative of curvature, and second derivative of curvature. The interactive curve design uses as its primitive, a curve whose curvature is a polynomial function of arclength (whose intrinsic equation is a polynomial). At each control point, a choice of G2 curvature continuity (tangent angle and curvature) or G4 curvature continuity (tangent angle and curvature plus first and second derivatives of curvature are continuous) is input. The desired curve is expressed as the solution to the chosen set of constraints.
US08519999B2	Method of producing and displaying an image of a 3 dimensional volume An image of a multi-dimensional volume from a multi-dimensional object data set is displayed on a monitor, a target point and a surface are identified, a target centric projection is then created by projecting information from the target point onto the identified surface. Critical volumes are identified within the multi-dimensional volume and information from these is projected onto the identified surface. Points are selected on the surface and a rectilinear pathway calculated between the selected points and the target point. Distance information between the target point and the identified surface is calculated for selected points. Distance information is projected onto the identified surface. The critical volumes are enlarged prior to projection. The projection may be produced around a selected point on the surface and displayed together with the multi-dimensional volume.
US08519996B2	Method and system for conversion of graphical representations of automation environments A method for the conversion of graphical representations of automation environments is provided. The method includes receiving first graphics data in a first format comprising a first graphical representation of a first portion of an automation environment, processing the first graphics data to convert the first graphics data to second graphics data in a second format, where the second graphics data comprises a second graphical representation of the first portion of the automation environment, and transferring the second graphics data for delivery to and display on a client device.
US08519991B2	Image display apparatus and control method thereof for controlling brightness unevenness due to resistance of column wirings An image display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a display panel having a plurality of row wirings, a plurality of column wirings, and a plurality of pixels, a row wiring driving circuit which sequentially selects the row wirings and outputs a scanning signal to the selected row wiring, a column wiring driving circuit which outputs a modulation signal generated based on image data to the plurality of column wirings, in synchronization with the output of the scanning signal, and a variable resistance circuit which dynamically changes resistance values between the column wiring driving circuit and the column wirings, wherein the variable resistance circuit changes the resistance values according to a position of the selected row wiring so that the resistance value becomes higher as the selected row wiring is closer to the column wiring driving circuit.
US08519990B2	Semiconductor display device A semiconductor display device comprising a pixel portion and a signal line driver circuit comprising a first circuit, a second circuit configured to control timing of the sampled serial video signals by the first circuit, and a third circuit configured to perform signal processing on the parallel video signals, wherein the second circuit comprises a first semiconductor element formed over a first substrate, the first semiconductor element including a first semiconductor layer, wherein the third circuit comprises a second semiconductor element formed over a second substrate, the second semiconductor element including a second semiconductor layer, wherein the pixel portion comprises a third semiconductor element formed over the second substrate, the third semiconductor element including a third semiconductor layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer comprises silicon or germanium, and wherein each the second semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer has a wider bandgap than the first semiconductor layer.
US08519989B2	Plasma display device using a plurality of metal fittings for reducing impedance In a plasma display device, the scan electrode drive circuit is mounted at least on a first circuit board generating a sustain pulse and a second circuit board outputting a scan pulse to the scan electrodes. The first circuit board includes a plurality of first metal fittings, each having a screw hole, as an output terminal. The second circuit board includes a plurality of second metal fittings, each having a through-hole, as an input terminal. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are connected to each other by inserting and screwing screws into the screw holes of the first metal fittings via the through-holes of the second metal fittings.
US08519988B2	Display device and drive control device thereof, scan signal line driving method, and drive circuit In one embodiment of the present invention, an image displaying period of a 1st subframe of an Nth frame is partially overlapped with an image displaying period of a 2nd subframe of the Nth frame and an image displaying period of a 2nd subframe of an (N−1)th frame. For each of the subframes, a period of writing a pixel voltage into all horizontal lines in a display screen equals an image signal input period for inputting a single frame of the image signal. A delay period from (i) inputting of the Nth frame of the image signal for the horizontal lines to (ii) writing of the pixel voltage into the horizontal lines in the 1st subframe of the Nth frame is made as short as possible.
US08519987B2	Operating and display device for a vehicle An operating and display device is provided for a vehicle having a display unit and having a rotary knob for selecting a function and/or for selecting a menu within a hierarchical menu structure shown using the display unit. The rotary knob forming an operating unit is movable in both directions of its rotational axis, and pressing of the operating unit causing navigation between two menu levels in a first hierarchy direction and pulling of the operating unit causing navigation between two menu levels in a second, opposing hierarchy direction of the menu.
US08519979B1	Multi-point interface for a graphical modeling environment A computer-implemented graphical modeling system comprising: a graphical modeling environment to generate a graphical model; a display to display the graphical model; an interface to receive an input from a user for manipulating the displayed graphical model based on an interaction between the user and the display; wherein the interaction is one of one finger on one hand of the user interacting with the display; one finger on one hand of the user interacting with the display and one finger on another hand of the user of the user interacting with the display; a plurality of fingers on one hand of the user interacting with the display; one finger on one hand of the user interacting with the display and a plurality of fingers on another hand of the user interacting with the display; or a plurality of fingers on one hand of the user interacting with the display and a plurality of fingers on another hand of the user interacting with the display.
US08519978B2	Flat panel display screen operable for touch position determination system and methods A system and method are disclosed that determines the location of an object touching a display screen. The system and method modifies already existing display technology, including using the underlying structure of many types of existing displays as the touch detecting structure. The systems and methods are applicable to virtually all LCD and LCD-like displays, including emissive displays (OLED, PLED, quantum dot displays, etc.), electronic paper, and others.
US08519974B2	Touch sensing device, touch screen device comprising the touch sensing device, mobile device, method for sensing a touch and method for manufacturing a touch sensing device The present invention relates to a touch sensing device, touch screen device comprising a touch sensing device, mobile device, method for sensing a touch and method for manufacturing a touch sensing device allowing various kinds of input operations. The touch sensing device comprises a deformable cover layer; a plurality of capacitive touch sensitive electrode elements arranged in an electrode element layer; and a plurality of pressure sensitive elements each being spatially separated from each other and being coupled to an associated capacitive touch sensitive electrode element of said electrode element layer. One of said plurality of pressure sensitive elements and the associated capacitive touch sensitive electrode element are arranged so that when a current to or from said capacitive touch sensitive electrode element passes through said pressure sensitive element, the voltage across said pressure sensitive element changes in response to a pressure exerted upon said cover layer above said capacitive touch sensitive electrode element.
US08519968B2	Portable information terminal, hold status switch method and recording medium A portable information terminal is provided which includes detecting means for detecting an operation on a display screen, a button for an operation related to a content reproduction, a changeover switch, and a control unit which switches hold statuses of the detecting means and the button according to an operation to the changeover switch.
US08519967B2	Color filter touch sensing substrate and display panel and manufacturing methods of the same A manufacturing method of a color filter touch sensing substrate is provided. Firstly, a first film is formed on a substrate. The first film includes a plurality of first and second touch sensors and a plurality of first bridge lines for electrically connecting the first touch sensors in the same column. Then, a second film is formed on the substrate. The second film includes a plurality of second bridge lines for electrically connecting the second touch sensors in the same row. Next, a light shielding pattern layer is formed between the first and the second films. The light shielding pattern layer is used to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions on the substrate. Afterward, a plurality of color filter pattern layers is formed in the sub-pixel regions. Furthermore, a color filter touch sensing substrate, a display panel and manufacturing methods thereof are also provided.
US08519965B2	Multi-touch detection panel with disambiguation of touch coordinates An multi-touch detection system (100) separately determines each of the coordinates of multiple touches and is able to correctly pair the coordinates, the touch panel includes multiple (e.g., two or four) separate sections (104, 106, 404, 406, 504, 506, 508, 510) to detect touches in different areas. The system (100) is able to operate at high refresh rates allowing speed sensitive applications to be supported.
US08519958B2	Optical sensor and operating method thereof The present invention discloses an optical sensor. The optical sensor comprises a sensor for sensing a reflected light, an image capture device coupling with the sensor for reading the reflected light and calculating an average light intensity of the reflected light, a controller coupling with the image capture device for outputting a control signal based on the average light intensity, a driver coupling with the controller for receiving the control signal to output a drive current based on the control signal, and a light source coupling with the driver for receiving the drive current to generate a light.
US08519957B2	Method for simulating a mouse device with a keyboard and input system using the same A method for simulating a mouse with a keyboard in a computer system includes detecting whether a key event occurs in a switch matrix of the keyboard of the computer system, determining whether the key event is related to a specific control key when the key event is detected, transforming a location of a switch in which the key event occurs into a pair of coordinates when the key event is not related to the specific control key and is a key-pressed event, calculating a pair of displacements between the latest two pairs of coordinates to obtain a movement data, and transmitting the movement data to a mouse driver of the computer system so that an operating system of the computer system is capable of receiving the movement data by the mouse driver, for controlling movement of a pointer shown on a screen of the computer system.
US08519956B2	System and method for DICOM compliant display of ultrasound images in varying ambient light An ultrasound imaging system includes an ultrasound probe receiving echo signals from a subject, and a processor converting echo signals received from the probe to echo data corresponding to an ultrasound image. The system also includes a grayscale mapper transforming the echo data received from the processor to a corresponding value of perception data. The grayscale mapper makes this transformation using a DICOM compliant GSDF calibration curve. The perception data is passed to a transform processor, which also receives an ambient light signal from an ambient light sensor. The transform processor converts the perception values to respective digital driving levels based on the ambient light signal and display characteristics of a display device to which the digital driving levels are applied to maintain optimal image display under varying ambient light conditions.
US08519955B2	Character input device, character input device control method, and information storage medium Methods and apparatus provide for displaying a plurality of character key images in a first display area on the computing device, each character key image representing and being associated with at least one of the character groups, each character group including a plurality of characters; and displaying, in a case where one of the character key images is selected by a user of the computing device, a plurality of input candidate characters in a second display area on the computing device, the plurality of input candidate characters including at least some of the plurality of characters in the character group associated with the selected one of the character key images, the second display area being set in a partially overlapping manner over the first display area.
US08519952B2	Input method for surface of interactive display An interactive display system configured for detecting an object or user input provided with an object. The system includes a display surface on which graphic images are displayed, one or more scanning light sources configured for scanning the interactive display surface, and a light detector configured for detecting light reflected from an object that is adjacent to or in contact with the interactive display surface. A computing system storing machine instructions is in communication with the scanning light source and the light detector. When executed, the machine instructions cause the computing system to illuminate the interactive display surface with the scanning light source, to detect light with the light detector that is reflected from an object after illumination with the light source, and to generate an output signal based on the detected light that has been reflected from an object on or adjacent to the interactive display surface.
US08519948B2	Control schemes for haptic feedback interface devices A method is disclosed that includes outputting haptic feedback based on a movement of an object in a first direction from a first position to a second position. The haptic feedback is discontinued when the object is moved in a second direction opposite the first direction subsequent to the movement in the first direction. The haptic feedback is output again when the object moves past the second position in the first direction.
US08519947B2	Control schemes for haptic feedback interface devices A method is disclosed that includes outputting haptic feedback based on a movement of an object in a first direction from a first position to a second position. The haptic feedback is discontinued when the object is moved in a second direction opposite the first direction subsequent to the movement in the first direction. The haptic feedback is output again when the object moves past the second position in the first direction.
US08519946B2	Cushioned user interface or control device A user interface or control includes a cushion-type support member and a user input member that is interconnected with and carried by the support member. The support member defines an upwardly facing recess, and the input member may be a user interface or control device that is contained within the upwardly facing recess. The support member may be formed to surround the recess about the user interface or control device. The support member may include an air vent that vents air exhausted from the user interface or control device. The user interface or control device may be a laptop computer having a body including a keyboard contained within the recess, and a screen carried by the body. The user interface or control device may alternatively be an electronic input member having an upwardly facing screen, a convertible input member movably mounted to a mounting member, or a game controller.
US08519942B2	Display device and backlight brightness control method thereof A display device includes a display module for displaying an image, a backlight module for providing backlight to the display module, a memory, a brightness computing module, a retrieving module, and a backlight adjusting module. The memory is used for storing a relationship between an image brightness and a backlight adjusting coefficient. The brightness computing module is used for computing the brightness of a current display image. The retrieving module is used for retrieving a backlight adjusting coefficient corresponding to the current display image from the memory according to the current display image brightness. The backlight adjusting module is used for adjusting backlight brightness provided by the backlight module according to the backlight adjusting coefficient retrieved by the retrieving module.
US08519941B2	Apparatus with high-frequency driving signal generating unit for driving backlight unit An apparatus for driving a backlight unit including a lamp unit including a plurality of lamps includes an error amplifying unit configured to detect an error voltage between a feedback voltage corresponding to a current flowing to the lamp unit and a preset first reference voltage, a soft signal generation unit configured to generate a soft start signal of the lamp unit, a high-frequency signal driving signal generating unit configured to generate a high-frequency driving signal of the of the lamp unit, a high-frequency driving termination determining unit configured to generate a high-frequency driving termination signal when the error voltage is equal in voltage level to the soft start signal, and a high-frequency driving signal blocking unit configured to block the high-frequency driving signal in advance when the high-frequency driving termination signal is inputted.
US08519940B2	Display apparatus capable of changing dimming frequency of back light and control method thereof The present invention relates to a display apparatus to synchronize a synchronous signal and an inverter driving signal in response to a display mode, and a control method thereof. A back light unit of the display apparatus makes a back light to dim based on an inverter driving signal, and a dimming frequency of the back light varies in response to a synchronous signal frequency of the image. When a synchronous signal having an abnormal frequency is inputted to the back light unit for several seconds, the back light unit holds the frequency of the inverter driving signal and the frequency of the inverter driving signal varies smoothly in response to the display mode.
US08519930B2	Field sequential liquid crystal display device and method A field sequential liquid crystal display device includes: first, second, third and fourth thin film transistors, a frame buffer capacitor, a storage capacitor and a holding capacitor connected to the storage capacitor in parallel. The gate of first thin film transistor is connected to a gate line, the source thereof is connected to a data line, the drain thereof is connected to the source of second thin film transistor; the source of second thin film transistor is connected to one end of frame buffer capacitor, the drain thereof is connected to the drain of third thin film transistor; the other end of frame buffer capacitor and a source of third thin film transistor are connected to the drain of fourth thin film transistor, the source of fourth thin film transistor is grounded; and the drain of second thin film transistor is connected to one end of storage capacitor.
US08519929B2	Semiconductor device One of the objects is to improve display quality by reduction in malfunctions of a circuit. In a driver circuit formed using a plurality of pulse output circuits having first to third transistors and first to fourth signal lines, a first clock signal is supplied to the first signal line; a preceding stage signal is supplied to the second signal line; a second clock signal is supplied to the third signal line; an output signal is output from the fourth signal line. Duty ratios of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are different from each other. A period during which the second clock signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal after the first clock signal is changed from an H-level signal to an L-level signal is longer than a period during which the preceding stage signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal.
US08519927B2	Display control apparatus and method of determining driving parameter for overdrive In order to allow a user to more easily set a correction amount in overdrive (OD) driving of a liquid crystal display device, a display control apparatus which determines a driving parameter for overdrive of the liquid crystal display device includes a first display unit which repeatedly scrolls a preset reference pattern image in one direction, a second display unit which statically displays a plurality of sample images identical to the reference pattern image and having pseudo-afterimage regions whose end portions in a scroll direction are different from each other, a selection acceptance unit which accepts selection of one sample image of the plurality of sample images, and a determination unit which determines the driving parameter for overdrive based on the difference between the pixel value of the pseudo-afterimage region of a selected sample image and the pixel value of the reference pattern image.
US08519924B2	Image display device and method of driving liquid crystal panel Aspects of the invention can provide an image display device, including a liquid crystal panel used to display an image, a light source, a light transmission unit that can make a light from the light source pass through pixels only for a predetermined length of time within a frame cycle of the image, a drive signal-generating unit that can generate a drive signal to periodically vibrate a transmissivity of each pixel of the liquid crystal panel, and a phase control unit that can control in phase the drive signal based on tone data carried by an image signal.
US08519923B2	Display methods and apparatus The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators.
US08519921B2	Organic light emitting diode (OLED) display adjusting for ambient illuminance and a method of driving the same An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes an illuminance sensing unit configured to sense an external illuminance, a brightness determination unit configured to determine a brightness of the OLED display according to an illuminance sensed by the illuminance sensing unit, a driving voltage determination unit configured to determine a driving voltage corresponding with a current saturation point of the OLED display, the driving voltage being determined based at least in part on a driving current and the brightness determined by the brightness determination unit, a voltage conversion unit configured to receive an input voltage, generate a first voltage higher than the input voltage, and generate a second voltage lower than the input voltage, and a display unit configured to receive the first and second voltages from the voltage conversion unit and display an image.
US08519920B2	Organic light emitting device An organic light emitting device includes a substrate having a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a plurality of sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes an emission area that has a first electrode, a second electrode and an emitting layer, with the emitting layer of at least one sub-pixel includes a phosphorescence material. In addition to these features, the device includes a scan line to provide scan signal to a corresponding sub-pixel, a data line configured to supply data signal to a corresponding sub-pixel, and a power supply line to provide power to a corresponding sub-pixel. The data line and power supply line have a single-layer structure, and a taper angle of each of the data line and the power supply line lies in a predetermined range.
US08519919B2	Display device and method to prevent the change of threshold voltage of the writing transistor due to the variation with age A display device includes a display portion formed by disposing pixels in matrix, in which the pixel includes: a light emitting element; a signal level holding capacitor; a writing transistor for receiving a write signal from the vertical drive circuit, and being turned ON/OFF by the write signal, thereby setting a voltage across the terminals of the signal level holding capacitor at a signal level on a signal line; and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting device; and the vertical drive circuit sets a signal level of the write signal for an entire or partial time period of a time period for which the drive for the light emitting device is not influenced in a non-emission time period for which light emission of the light emitting device is stopped at a signal level of the write signal on a shorter time period side in other time periods.
US08519915B2	Pixel circuit and display device having an electrooptic element A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the signal lines have a mirror type circuit arrangement symmetric about the axis of the column direction, and there are lines different from the signal lines between signal lines of adjacent pixel circuits.
US08519914B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device includes: pixels at crossing regions of scan lines, light emission control lines, sensing lines, and data lines; a sensor configured to extract deterioration information from organic light emitting diodes included in the pixels during a first sensing period and to extract threshold voltage and mobility information of driving transistors included in the pixels during a second sensing period; a converter configured to generate corrected data by changing input data based on the deterioration information and the threshold voltage and mobility information; and a data driver configured to supply data signals, the data signals being based on the corrected data during a driving period and being reference data signals during the second sensing period, wherein the sensor is configured to extract the threshold voltage and mobility information of the driving transistors using second electric currents from the pixels in response to the reference data signals.
US08519912B2	Liquid-crystal display apparatus A liquid-crystal display apparatus is provided. The liquid-crystal display apparatus including: a light source for generating visible-domain light and invisible-domain light; a plurality of liquid-crystal devices laid out in a display face region of the liquid-crystal display apparatus for modulating visible-domain light and transmitting invisible domain light generated by the light source; a plurality of light receiving devices laid out in the display face region as devices each used for receiving invisible-domain light; a display driving section configured to drive the liquid-crystal devices so as to radiate visible-domain light from the display face as display light; a light-reception driving section configured to drive the light receiving devices to detect invisible-domain light radiated from the display face and reflected by a detection-subject object as detected light; and a detection section configured to detect the detection-subject object on the basis of a received-light signal obtained from the light receiving devices.
US08519911B2	Driving method of plasma display device A method for driving a plasma display device, wherein a plurality of sub-frames is classified into first-type and second-type sub-frames. In each reset period of the first-type sub-frames, a gradient voltage pulse having an reverse polarity to that of a final gradient voltage pulse is applied between first and second electrodes prior to the final gradient voltage pulse, while in each reset period of the second-type sub-frames, the gradient voltage having the reverse polarity to that of the final gradient voltage pulse is not applied between the first and second electrodes. There is a plurality of first-type sub-frames in one frame, and the attained voltage of a gradient voltage pulse of reverse polarity included in at least one first-type sub-frame among the plurality of first-type sub-frames differs from that of the gradient voltage pulse of reverse polarity in other first-type sub-frame.
US08519907B2	Interface adjustment support system An interface adjustment support system that adjusts a display environment of a first display device (standard device)'s user interface used by a user to adapt to a second display device (device used), via a network, inputs setting information of a customized user interface of the standard device, stores the display information thereof, and adapts setting values, optimized based on the stored setting information of the standard device, to the device used when using the device used, thereby providing interfaces that have the same operational feel to the user, regardless of the device and location.
US08519902B2	Wireless local area network antenna array A wireless local area network (“WLAN”) antenna array (“WLANAA”) is disclosed. The WLANAA may include a circular housing having a plurality of radial sectors and a plurality of primary antenna elements. Each individual primary antenna element of the plurality of primary antenna elements may be positioned within an individual radial sector of the plurality of radial sectors.
US08519897B2	Low-profile antenna assembly A low-profile antenna assembly includes at least two antennas co-located under a cover. At least one of the at least two antennas includes an antenna configured for use with AM/FM radio. And, at least one of the at least two antennas includes an antenna configured for use with at least one or more of SDARS, GPS, cell phones, Wi-Fi, DAB-VHF-III, DAB-L, etc.
US08519895B2	Keys and keylines used for antenna purposes An apparatus has a data input device arrangement and an electrical circuit. The data input device arrangement includes at least one user input key and at least two keylines configured to provide a data input to the apparatus. The electrical circuit has at least a first electrically conductive component configured to decouple the data input device arrangement at a predetermined radio frequency band to provide an antenna. In an embodiment the predetermined frequency is an operational frequency of the provided antenna. In various embodiments when the data input device is decoupled one of the keylines provides an antenna radiator component, and in another it provides an antenna parasitic short to ground. In various embodiments the first electrically conductive component exhibits a high impedance at the predetermined radio frequency band, and in another it is a notch filter which passes the predetermined radio frequency band.
US08519893B2	Connection for antennas operating above a ground plane An antenna system is provided. The antenna system includes a ground plane, an antenna, a feed cable, a cable connector, and an antenna connector. The ground plane has a first ground side and a second ground side. The antenna operates on the first ground side of the ground plane. The feed cable has a center conductor that is configured to transmit signals to and receive signals from the antenna. The cable connector couples the feed cable with the second ground side of the ground plane. The center conductor of the feed cable is electrically isolated from the ground plane and electrically coupled with the antenna connector. The antenna connector electrically couples the center conductor with the antenna. The antenna connector is connected to the center conductor and the feed cable is substantially parallel to the ground plane from the antenna connector to the cable connector.
US08519887B2	System and method to obtain signal acquisition assistance data Signal acquisition assistance data is obtained for receiving devices such as wireless position assisted location devices seeking signals from any source, such as satellite vehicles and base stations. The data may be obtained from previously acquired data, based upon evaluation of changes in parameters such as time and location that may jeopardize validity. In some cases the data may be adjusted for the changes in parameters. Refined data may be calculated by a receiver using partial measurements of signal sets, particularly if the acquisition assistance data provided by a remote entity includes more distinct parameters than have typically been provided. New data need not be obtained until the validity of previous data expires due to limitations upon temporal extrapolation using Doppler coefficients, unless mobile station movement that cannot be compensated is detected, and jeopardizes validity of the previous data.
US08519885B2	Combination hand-held phone and radar system A hand-held apparatus has a Doppler radar secured within one wall of a phone sleeve. A phone may be placed within the sleeve and in signal communication with the radar via a connector molded in the sleeve. In operation, an RF signal may be directed toward a distant moving target and a bounce signal received. The speed of the target is calculated from the Doppler frequency shift and displayed by the phone to the user.
US08519881B2	Universal remote control apparatus, system for controlling universal remote control, and method for the same A universal remote control apparatus, a system for controlling a universal remote control, and a method for the same, and more particularly, to a universal remote control apparatus, a system for controlling a universal remote control, and a method for the same, which includes batch instruction information having graphical user interface (GUI) components corresponding to status information of at least one device, and provides the GUI adapting mechanical properties of the device to a user.
US08519880B2	Ad converter and TD converter configured without operational amplifier and capacitor An AD converter includes a VT converter circuit part which inputs an analog input voltage and a sampling clock, converts the analog input voltage to a corresponding delay time, and outputs time domain data. A ring oscillator circuit part of N stages inputs the time domain data, and an error propagation circuit part takes out delay information containing a quantization error from phase information of the ring oscillator circuit part of the previous stage, and propagate the delay information to the ring oscillator circuit part of a subsequent stage. A counter circuit part measures a number of waves of an output oscillation waveform of the ring oscillator circuit part of each stage, and an output signal generator part generates an output signal from an output counted value of each counter circuit part. A reset part resets each error propagation circuit part and each counter circuit part with a sampling clock.
US08519878B2	Multi-mode analog-to-digital converter Techniques and devices provide analog-to-digital conversion at two or more signal frequencies or frequency bands and can be used to construct multi-mode analog-to-digital converters in various circuits, including receivers and transceivers for wireless communications and radio broadcast environments. Adjustable analog-to-digital converters based on the described techniques can be configured to adjust circuit parameters to adapt the technical specifications of different input signals at different signal frequencies or frequency bands, such as FM, HD-radio, and DAB radio signals in radio receiver applications.
US08519875B2	System and method for background calibration of time interleaved analog to digital converters Various embodiments allow for background calibration of channel-to-channel mismatch errors. In certain embodiments calibration is accomplished by comparing the output of I-ADCs against the output of a reference ADC and correlating the difference to a known function to obtain a correction signal that can be used to correct channel-to-channel mismatch errors.
US08519873B2	Correcting for non-linearities in a continuous-time sigma-delta modulator In higher order sigma-delta modulators (SDMs), there are oftentimes errors introduced by the digital-to-analog (DAC) switches. Namely, parasitic capacitances associated with switches can introduce second harmonic spurs. Here, however, compensation circuits and buffers are provided. The buffers bias the switches in saturation, and the compensation circuits provide a “ground boost” for the buffers. The combination of the buffer and compensation circuit reduces the second harmonic spur, while also improving the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and Signal-to-Noise-plus-Distortion Ratio (SNDR).
US08519872B2	Analog-digital converting method and analog-digital converting apparatus An analog-digital converting method comprising measuring, in advance, frequency characteristics of each of a plurality of ADCs; intra-group correction of, for each of a plurality of groups obtained by dividing a plurality of measurement signals, generating measurement signals that would be obtained when the frequency characteristics of the corresponding ADCs are ideal by multiplying the measurement signals by a correction coefficient that is based on the frequency characteristics of all the ADCs in the group; and inter-group correction of correcting and combining the frequency characteristics of the groups based on a difference in the frequency characteristics between the groups formed during the intra-group correction, to generate a frequency spectrum of the digital signal.
US08519871B2	Methods and devices for parallel encoding and decoding using a bitstream structured for reduced delay Methods and devices for encoding and decoding that involve sorting bins according to their respective estimated probabilities to form subsequences, each subsequence having an associated estimated probability. Subsequences are encoded to form codewords. Ordered sets of phrases of known length are then formed from the codewords. Each first of the phrases in a set contains at least part of one codeword. The first phrase has an associated estimated probability and the probability estimates associated with each of the other phrases in the set are determined based upon the probability estimate associated with the first phrase, which permits the phrases to be decoded in parallel.
US08519870B1	Indicia for providing a visual clue of the position of a vehicle on a race track Indicia for providing a visual clue of the position of a vehicle on a race track preferably includes at least one of a first wall indicia strip and a first shoulder indicia strip being formed around the entire race track. At least one of a second wall indicia strip and a second shoulder indicia strip are formed starting at the beginning of the second turn and ending at the start/finish line. At least one of a third wall indicia strip and a third shoulder indicia strip are formed starting at substantially the half way point of the second straight and ending at the start finish line. At least one of a fourth wall indicia strip and a fourth shoulder indicia strap are formed starting at the beginning of the fourth turn and ending at the stop/finish line.
US08519869B2	Aircraft tire pressure loop link The aircraft tire pressure loop link is formed of first and second single metal loops connected by parallel spaced apart metal shafts, and provides for coupling a magnetic field between a wheel hub coil and a tire pressure sensor coil to provide electromagnetic communication between a control unit connect to the wheel hub coil and a tire pressure sensor connected to the tire pressure sensor coil. The current induced in the first single metal loop travels the distance from the edge of the wheel axle coil to the periphery of the of the wheel rim to the second single metal loop, which generates the flux in the tire pressure sensor receiver coil necessary to power the tire pressure sensor.
US08519867B2	Method and system for reducing transmitter power consumption while avoiding delay of displayed information The system and method of the present application includes a wireless transmitter adapted to receive physiological signals from a patient and to wirelessly transmit the physiological signals to a receiver, where a display device prepares the physiological signal for display on a display monitor. In one embodiment, both the wireless transmitter and receiver further include an estimation algorithm module. The estimation algorithm module in each of the wireless transmitter and the receiver calculate a physiological signal based on a collected signal. The system displays the calculated, estimated signal unless the error of the estimated signal reaches a predetermined threshold. When the estimated signal is being displayed, no transmission from the wireless transmitter is necessary.
US08519865B2	Downhole coils In one aspect of the invention, a downhole tool string component comprises a tubular body with at least one end adapted for threaded connection to an adjacent tool string component. The end comprises at least one shoulder adapted to abut an adjacent shoulder of an adjacent end of the adjacent tool string component. An annular magnetic coupler is disposed within an annular recess formed in the at least one shoulder, and the magnetic coupler comprises a coil in electrical communication with an electrical conductor that is in electrical communication with an electronic device secured to the tubular body. The coil comprises a plurality of windings of wire strands that are electrically isolated from one another and which are disposed in an annular trough of magnetic material secured within the annular recess.
US08519863B2	Dynamic power control for a two wire process instrument A process instrument includes a transducer, a two wire interface, a microprocessor, a digital to analog converter, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit. A current passing through the two wire interface indicates a condition of the transducer. The microprocessor is interfaced with the transducer. The digital to analog converter receives a signal from the microprocessor indicating a current value. The first control circuit is coupled to the digital to analog converter and adapted to control the current passing through the two wire interface to the current value. The second control circuit is coupled to the digital to analog converter and supplies current to a secondary load.
US08519860B2	Multimedia alerting Alert information is provided to a user of a device. In response to receiving an alert notification, a current location of the device is determined and converted to a device geographical tile that encompasses the determined current location; alert data received about the alert are processed and stored in an alert database if it is determined that a device tile code of the device geographical tile matches any alert geographical tiles that define the alert; a database query of the alert database is performed to identify alerts having one or more alert geographical tile codes that match the device tile code that have not been presented to a user of the device; and the user of the device is notified via the user interface of the device of the identified alerts and the user is prompted to view the identified one or more alerts via the user interface of the device.
US08519855B2	Electric receptacle apparatus with replaceable protection module An electric receptacle apparatus with a replaceable protection module is disclosed. The electric receptacle apparatus includes a receptacle module and a protection module. The receptacle module has a body, am accommodation portion, a power input interface and a power output interface. The accommodation portion is installed inside the body and has a plurality of conductive jacks, wherein the conductive jacks are electrically connected with power input interface and the power output interface respectively. The protection module has a casing, a switch unit, a protection circuit and a plurality of conductive terminals, wherein the switch unit connects with protection circuit and the conductive terminals. Whereby, when the protection module is recessed in the accommodation portion, the conductive terminals are plugged in the conductive jacks and the switch unit controls the power input interface to be electrically connected with or electrically disconnected from the power output.
US08519843B2	Power distribution device communications platform A communications system is provided for direct communications between powered elements. A controller hub injects a first message via a modulated communication signal onto a branch circuit using a hub-side power line communication (PLC) coupler. An element-side PLC coupler associated with a powered element in a set of powered elements detects the first message and sends an interrupt to a mini-controller in the powered element. The mini-controller receives the interrupt from the element-side PLC coupler, extracts the first message using the element-side PLC coupler; reads a destination identifier in the first message; compares the destination identifier in the first message to a mini-controller identifier in the mini-controller; sends an acknowledgement message back to the controller hub in response to the destination identifier in the first message matching the mini-controller identifier, and forwards the first message to the powered element. The powered element performs a command identified in the first message.
US08519842B2	REST and RSS enabled access control panel A method and apparatus are provided for operating a security system. The method includes providing a security system having at least one sensor, coupling a detected state of the at least one sensor to a web server, the web server publishing the detected state and a remotely located user subscribing to receive the detected state of the at least one sensor via the publication by the web server.
US08519838B2	Method and system for on-board vehicle detection of harmful material An on-board terrorist threat detection and reporting system and method are provided for use on-board a transportation vehicle. The system includes a plurality of sensors for sensing a potential threat. The plurality of sensors are positioned on the transportation vehicle. The system also includes a database for storing threat related reference information, and a memory unit for storing sensor information corresponding to the potential threat sensed by one or more of the plurality of sensors. The system further includes a processor for analyzing the sensor information and corresponding threat related reference information.
US08519825B2	RFID transponder An RFID transponder (1) comprises a demodulator (3) for demodulating received phase modulated carrier signals (CSQ), converting them down to a modulated baseband signal (MS) and filtering the converted signal. Sampling means (7) sample the filtered signal (FS) and store an actual sampling value (S(t0)) and a previous sampling value (S(t1)) of the filtered signal (FS). Subtracting means (8) calculate a difference (DS) between the actual sample value (S(t0)) and the previous sample value (S(t1)). Difference evaluation means (9) evaluate the difference (DS) according to the following criteria: a. if the difference is positive and outside of a predefined zero range (ZR) a first logical value is determined; b. if the difference is negative and outside of the zero range a second logical value is determined; c. if the difference is within the zero range the logical value of the latest evaluation is kept.
US08519820B2	Systems and methods for saving and restoring scenes in a multimedia system Systems and methods for saving and restoring scenes in a multimedia system with minimal configuration are provided. The techniques of the present invention can allow the states of the components in the multimedia system to be captured in a scene. Once the scene has been saved, the scene can be restored at a later time. A remote control system for recommending scenes by comparing states of components in the current scene with states of components in saved scenes is also provided. The remote control system can also recommend scenes based on usage patterns. Moreover, the remote control system can allow users to designate one or more saved scenes as favorite scenes.
US08519809B1	MEMS electrical switch A micro-electromechanical (MEMS) switch includes a substrate, stationary actuator comb teeth extending from a stationary actuator pad supported above the substrate, stationary contact comb teeth extending from a stationary contact pad supported above the substrate, and a body suspended over the substrate for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the substrate. The body includes movable actuator comb teeth interdigitated in-plane with the stationary actuator comb teeth where the shortest distance between adjacent movable and stationary actuator comb teeth has a first value. The body further includes movable contact comb teeth interdigitated in-plane with the stationary contact comb teeth where the shortest distance between adjacent movable and stationary contact comb teeth has a second value smaller than the first value.
US08519805B2	Electronic circuit An electronic circuit includes a first transmission line connected to a DC power source, a second transmission line having one end connected to the first transmission line at a connecting node, a narrow portion formed in the second transmission line and provided at a position that is away from a specific position by equal to or greater than ⅛ wavelength of a signal, the specific position being away from the connecting node at a distance equal to ¼ wavelength, and a capacitor having one end connected to the other end of the second transmission line and the other end connected to a reference potential.
US08519800B1	Third overtone crystal-based oscillators having tunable all-pass RC filters therein Integrated circuit oscillators include a cascaded arrangement of first and second all-pass networks containing a resonator therein, such as a crystal-based resonator. The second all-pass network is configured to provide negative feedback to the first all-pass network at DC (i.e., very low frequencies) and is further configured to provide positive feedback with 90 degrees of phase to the first all-pass network at the resonant frequency of the resonator, which may be the third overtone frequency of a crystal resonator. The first all-pass network includes the resonator and the second all-pass network includes a resistor having resistance matched to a motional resistance of the resonator at the resonant frequency.
US08519799B2	Voltage controlled oscillator A voltage controlled oscillator including a control signal adjuster and ring-connected delay cells is disclosed. The control signal adjuster receives a first control signal to generate a second control signal boosted from the first control signal when the first control signal is lower than a transistor threshold voltage. The ring-connected delay cells are controlled by the first and second control signals both to generate an oscillation signal. Each of the delay cells has a first set of current generation transistors and a second set of current generation transistors. Each transistor of the first set of current generation transistors has a control terminal receiving the first control signal while each transistor of the second set of current generation transistors has a control terminal receiving the second control signal. The first and second sets of current generation transistors collectively output an oscillation signal with unchanged frequency of associated input signal.
US08519794B2	Current mirror with low headroom and linear response A current mirror circuit provided in an emitter follower configuration achieves linearly output over a range of input currents by operating in response to a bias current that is a replica of the input current. The current mirror may include a pair of transistors and a pair of resistors, in which: a first resistor and a base of a first transistor are coupled to a first input terminal for a first input current, an emitter of the first transistor and a base of the second transistor are coupled to a second input terminal for a second input current, the first and second input currents being replicas of each other, an emitter of the second transistor being coupled to the second resistor, a collector of the second transistor being coupled to an output terminal of the current mirror, and a collector of the first transistor and the two resistors are coupled to a common node.
US08519793B2	Operational amplifier circuit An operational amplifier circuit may include a fully differential amplifier circuit that has a common mode feedback, the fully differential amplifier circuit performing operational amplification using a common mode base voltage as a center, a common mode detection circuit that detects a common mode output voltage of the fully differential amplifier circuit, a sample and hold circuit that performs sample and hold of an output of the common mode detection circuit, an operational circuit that detects a deviation between the output of the sample and hold circuit and a common mode reference voltage, the operational circuit outputting a voltage corresponding to the detected deviation and the common mode reference voltage, and a switching circuit that selects the common mode reference voltage or an output of the operational circuit to output the common mode reference voltage or the output as the common mode base voltage.
US08519790B2	Power amplifier linearization using cancellation-based feed forward methods and systems Linearizers can improve the linearity of power amplifiers by canceling or reducing amplitude of non-linearity components, (e.g., IM3, IM5, IM7, IM9, etc.) generated by the power amplifier. The linearizers can obtain samples of signals output by the power amplifier and process the samples to produce a canceling signal that is applied onto or into an output of the power amplifier. The canceling signal is generated such that when applied to the output of the power amplifier, the canceling signal cancels or reduces at least a portion of the non-linearity components produced by the power amplifier. A controller can improve the correction of the non-linearity components by executing one or more tuning algorithms and adjusting settings of the linearizer based on the results of the algorithm(s).
US08519787B2	High frequency amplifier, wireless device, and control method Provided is a high frequency amplifier that can suppress from increasing the circuit size while improving efficiency at the time of low output. A high frequency amplifier according to one aspect of the present invention includes a carrier amplifier 7 that amplifies an input signal, a peak amplifier 8 that amplifies the input signal with a predetermined amplitude or greater among the input signal, an envelope detector 3 that extracts envelope information of the input signal, and a bias control circuit 4 that calculates a calculation voltage to be supplied to the carrier amplifier 7 according to the envelope information, compares the calculation voltage and a threshold, and changes the calculation voltage to be supplied to the carrier amplifier 7.
US08519780B1	Charge pump voltage regulator A regulator (104) for a charge pump (102) includes a clock amplitude modulator (150) that changes voltage of a clock signal used in operation of the charge pump in response to changes in magnitude of output voltage of the change pump. The clock amplitude modulator is powered by an output of an auxiliary circuit (120). The output of the auxiliary circuit is at a higher voltage than an input voltage of the charge pump. A maximum amplitude of the voltage of the clock signal is higher than the input voltage of the charge pump.
US08519775B2	Voltage regulation of a virtual power rail A voltage regulator for regulating a voltage level of a virtual power rail supplying power to logic circuitry in a low power data retention mode is disclosed. The voltage regulator comprises: switching circuitry having a transistor for coupling said virtual power rail to a power supply having a supply voltage level; control circuitry responsive to a signal indicating the logic circuitry is to enter the low data power retention mode to control the switching circuitry to switch to a conductive state in which the transistor is operating in a saturation region of operation and supplying a saturation current from the power supply via the virtual power rail to the logic circuitry; and a leakage power controller for adjusting a voltage level of the virtual power rail to control leakage power. The leakage power controller is configured to supply a bias voltage to the well in which the switching circuitry is formed, the saturation current of the switching circuitry being dependent on a value of the well bias voltage. The leakage power controller is configured to adjust the well bias voltage of the switching circuitry thereby varying the saturation current and the voltage level of the virtual power rail.
US08519773B2	Power switch with one-shot discharge and increased switching speed A method for switching between first and second voltages is provided. Initially, a first voltage is provided from a first input terminal to an output terminal through a first MOS transistor, and the first MOS transistor is deactivated. A back-gate of a second MOS transistor is shorted to the output terminal in response to the deactivation of the first MOS transistor and after a settling interval, and the second MOS transistor is activated while its back-gate is shorted to the terminal so as to provide a second voltage from a second input terminal to the output terminal.
US08519771B1	Methods and apparatus for receiving high and low voltage signals using a low supply voltage technology Methods and apparatus for receiving high voltage signals using a receiver designed in a low supply voltage technology are disclosed. One embodiment of an integrated circuit includes a single ended driver including an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor and a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor. An input pass gate is coupled to the single ended driver, and is configured as a PMOS pass gate coupled in parallel with the NMOS transistor in the single ended driver. In a low voltage mode, the NMOS transistor and the PMOS pass gate form a first pass gate for transmitting the input signal to the receiver. In a high voltage mode, the PMOS pass gate is disabled, and the NMOS transistor and PMOS transistor form a second pass gate for transmitting the input signal to the receiver.
US08519767B2	Methods, apparatuses, and circuits for bimodal disable circuits Circuits, integrated circuits, and methods are disclosed for bimodal disable circuits. In one such example method, a counter is maintained, with the counter indicating a logic level at which an output signal will be disabled during at least a portion of one of a plurality of disable cycles. The logic level indicated by the counter is transitioned. An input signal is provided as the output signal responsive to the enable signal indicating that the output signal is to be enabled, and the output signal is disabled at the logic level indicated by the counter responsive to the enable signal indicating that the output signal is to be disabled.
US08519762B2	Adjusting circuit of duty cycle and its method An adjusting circuit of duty cycle includes an edge detecting circuit, a flip-flop connected to the edge detecting circuit, a feedback control circuit connected to the flip-flop and a charge pump circuit connected to the feedback control circuit. The edge detecting circuit detects an edge of an inputted clock signal. The flip-flop sets an outputting terminal thereof at a first level according to a clock signal outputted by the edge detecting circuit. The charge pump circuit controls a duration of the first level outputted the outputting terminal of the flip-flop by charging and discharging a capacitor. The flip-flop sets the outputting terminal thereof at a second level contrary to the first level according to a clock signal outputted by the feedback control circuit. An adjusting method of duty cycle is also disclosed. The adjusting circuit of duty cycle has a simple structure, a stable performance and a fast speed.
US08519759B2	Shift register and synchronization circuit using the same A synchronization circuit includes a measurement unit configured to measure a difference between an initial delay amount of an input clock signal and an initial delay amount of a feedback clock signal and generate a phase difference detection signal, an initial delay time setting unit configured to generate an initial delay time setting signal in response to the phase difference detection signal, a shift register configured to generate a shift signal in response to the initial delay time setting signal, and a delay chain having an initial delay time set in response to the shift signal.
US08519758B2	Digital DLL including skewed gate type duty correction circuit and duty correction method thereof Provided are a delay locked loop (DLL) that may can be included in a data processing device and may include a duty correction circuit, and a duty correction method of such a DLL. The duty correction method includes aligning a second transition of an output clock at a first transition of a clock for duty correction, sampling the clock for duty correction at the first transition of the output clock to detect an error of a duty cycle, and performing duty correction using a skewed gate chain according to the detected error of a duty cycle.
US08519756B2	PLL dual edge lock detector A lock signal indicating that a target signal is in phase with a reference signal includes detecting the reference signal at the rising and falling edges of the target signal. The target signal is detected on the rising and falling edges of the reference signal. An out of phase condition between the target and reference signals is used to place a timing means in a reset state. When the timing means is allowed to time out, a signal is asserted which indicates that the target signal is deemed to be locked to the reference signal.
US08519753B2	Frequency doubler/inverter Here, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a first supply rail, a second supply rail, a first ambipolar transistor (which is coupled to the first supply rail at its drain and which receives a reference voltage at its gate), a second ambipolar transistor (which is coupled to the first supply rail at its drain and which receives an input signal at its gate), a current source (which is coupled between the sources of the first and second ambipolar transistors and the second supply rail), and an output circuit (which is coupled to drain of the first ambipolar transistor). In operation, the output circuit provides an output signal having a frequency that is about twice the frequency of the input signal.
US08519750B2	Semiconductor switching device drive circuit Four energization switching devices and positive/negative switching devices are controlled to form a path charging a positive capacitor; a path connecting a power supply with the positive capacitor in series and energizing an inductor to charge a control terminal of a target switching device; a path charging the control terminal using electromagnetism in the inductor; a path supplying circulating current to the power supply when potential of the control terminal becomes higher than voltage of the power supply; a path charging a negative capacitor; a path connecting the power supply with the negative capacitor in series and energizing the inductor to discharge the control terminal; a path discharging the control terminal using electromagnetism in the inductor; and a path supplying circulating current to the power supply when potential of the control terminal becomes lower than potential of a negative terminal of the power supply.
US08519747B2	Driver and high voltage drive circuit including the same A high voltage drive circuit includes an edge detector for generating an edge detection signal by detecting edges of a first high side input signal and a first low side input signal, the edge detector providing a high side delay signal and a low side delay signal by delaying the first high side input signal and the first low side input signal, a dead time generator for generating a dead time signal indicating a preset dead time in response to the edge detection signal, and a driver comprising a drive signal generator for providing a high side output signal and a low side output signal by inserting the preset dead time based on the dead time signal into the high side delay signal and the low side delay signal.
US08519746B2	Voltage-to-current converter A conversion circuit includes a super source follower circuit configured to lower an impedance of a first node. A digital control circuit is configured to adjust a current at the first node based on a current through the super source follower. An output transistor has a gate configured to receive a first signal. A drain of the output transistor is coupled to a first node, and a source of the output transistor is configured to output an output current based on a voltage of the first signal.
US08519745B2	Methods and systems for detection of zero crossings in a signal Methods and systems for detection of zero crossings in a signal are described. For example, true zero crossings in an alternating voltage power source signal can be detected in the presence of noise pulses. The zero crossing detections are performed by establishing a value of a signal status counter, and at a repeating interval if the signal is a logic low value, the value of the signal status counter is decremented if the signal status counter is greater than a first value otherwise a flag is set to enable detection of a zero crossing in the signal. In addition, at the repeating interval, if the signal is a logic high value, the value of the signal status counter is incremented, and if after incrementing the signal status counter is equal to a second value and the flag is set, a zero crossing of the signal is declared.
US08519743B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a state holding circuit that inputs an output of one inverter to another inverter with each other; an input circuit that causes a state of the state holding circuit to transition based on a data signal; a first first-conductive transistor that is inserted between an input of the one inverter and an output of the another inverter and is controlled by the data signal; and a first second-conductive transistor that is connected in parallel with the first first-conductive transistor and is controlled by the data signal.
US08519738B2	Impedance calibration circuit and semiconductor apparatus using the same An impedance calibration circuit includes: a first calibration unit configured to compare a first converted voltage obtained by converting a first calibration signal with a reference voltage and vary the first calibration signal; a voltage detection unit configured to activate a voltage detection signal according to a level of a power supply voltage; a multiplexing unit configured to select and output the reference voltage or the first converted voltage in response to the detection signal; and a second calibration unit configured to compare a second converted voltage obtained by converting a second calibration signal with the level of the output signal of the multiplexing unit and vary the second calibration signal.
US08519737B2	Controller interface providing improved signal integrity In one implementation, a memory device includes non-volatile memory and a memory controller communicatively coupled to the non-volatile memory over a first bus. The memory device can also include a host device interface through which the memory controller communicates with a host device over a second bus, wherein the host device interface includes an impedance calibration circuit that is adapted to calibrate a signal transmitted over the second bus by host device interface so that a source impedance associated with the signal matches, within a threshold value, a load impedance associated with the host device over the second bus.
US08519733B2	Method of measuring characteristics of a semiconductor element and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A measurement terminal is arranged at an edge of a semiconductor wafer to be apart from a gate electrode and a source electrode formed in a surface portion on one side in a thickness direction of a semiconductor wafer so that an electrode contact portion is in contact with a drain electrode on the other side in the thickness direction of the semiconductor wafer and that a terminal contact portion is exposed to the one side in the thickness direction of the semiconductor wafer. A probe terminal is brought into contact with the terminal contact portion of the measurement terminal and the probe terminal is brought into contact with the gate electrode and the source electrode, to thereby measure electrical characteristics of a MOSFET.
US08519727B2	Contact probe and socket A contact probe include: a first plunger to be connected to an object to be inspected; a second plunger to be connected to a board for inspection; and a spring operable to urge the first and second plungers in directions of moving the first and second plungers apart from each other. A pillar part of one of the first and second plungers is slidably engaged with an inner periphery of a tubular part of the other of the first and second plungers. The pillar part includes an elastically deformable part which is in contact with a part of the inner periphery of the tubular part.
US08519723B2	Input device and method of producing input apparatus An input device includes a sensor member that detects input position information; and a protective member that protects the sensor member, wherein the protective member includes a window-shaped light-transmissive region transmitting light in the thickness direction, a transparent substrate having an input surface on a first surface, and a decorative layer disposed on a second first of the transparent substrate. The decorative layer is stacked on the transparent substrate so as to surround the light-transmissive region, and an inclined section is provided at the inner edge of the decorative layer; the transparent filler is stacked on the second surface of the transparent substrate to cover the light-transmissive region and the inclined section; and the sensor member and the protective member are bonded together with the adhesive layer disposed on the transparent filler and the decorative layer.
US08519721B2	Method for compensation of system tolerances in inductive couplers A method is disclosed for compensation of system tolerances in an inductive coupler which includes a power generator that feeds an alternating current into a series resonance circuit formed by a resonance capacitor and an inductive rotating transmission device. First, a brief sequence of at least one period of an alternating current is fed by the power generator into the series resonance circuit. Then the series resonance circuit is short-circuited. A first resonance frequency is measured. Then a longer sequence having a plurality of periods of an alternating-current voltage is generated by the power generator, so that a given small voltage is built up at the load. Now a second resonance frequency is measured while the resonance circuit is short-circuited. Then at least one correcting variable for the power generator is determined from the two resonance frequencies.
US08519718B2	Tester for testing operational reliability of a cockpit oxygen distribution circuit The present invention relates to a tester (100) for testing operational reliability of a cockpit oxygen distribution circuit (1) having a plurality of components (20, 30, 40, 50) ensuring supply of oxygen from the cockpit oxygen distribution circuit (1) to a cockpit crew of an aircraft in an emergency situation. The tester (100) comprises means (20′, 30′, 40′, 500 for electrically connecting the tester (100), in place of at least one of the components (20, 30, 40, 50), to the cockpit oxygen distribution circuit (1), an indicator (120) for indicating that the electrical connection of the tester (100) to the cockpit oxygen distribution circuit (1) has been established in a predefined manner, and switching means (RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4) for initiating an output signal of the tester (100), wherein the output signal is indicative of an operating condition of the component (20, 30, 40, 50) when being connected to the cockpit oxygen distribution circuit (1). The invention further relates to the use of such a tester (100) and a method for testing operational reliability of a cockpit oxygen distribution circuit (1).
US08519715B2	Method and system for assembling a battery module A test fixture for testing a plurality of longitudinal battery cells includes: a base plate; a plurality of holding structures for holding the battery cells, the holding structures being mounted on the base plate and configured to hold the battery cells with their longitudinal axes being perpendicular with respect to the base plate; and a plurality of contacts arranged on the base plate to electrically contact positive and negative terminals of each of the battery cells.
US08519710B2	PET/MR scanners for simultaneous PET and MR imaging In a combined system, a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner includes a magnet configured to generate a static magnetic field at least in a MR examination region from which MR data are acquired. Radiation detectors are configured to detect gamma rays generated by positron-electron annihilation events in a positron emission tomography (PET) examination region. The radiation detectors include electron multiplier elements having a direction of electron acceleration arranged substantially parallel or anti-parallel with the static magnetic field. In some embodiments, the magnet is an open magnet having first and second spaced apart magnet pole pieces disposed on opposite sides of a magnetic resonance examination region, and the radiation detectors include first and second arrays of radiation detectors disposed with the first and second spaced apart magnet pole pieces.
US08519709B2	System, method and computer accessible medium for providing hybrid adiabatic-rectangular pulse train for effectively complete saturation of magnetization within an anatomical structure System, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided to facilitate a hybrid adiabatic-rectangular pulse train for saturation of magnetization within an anatomical structure. -Using such exemplary embodiments, it is possible to determine information by combining a first information associated with a first nonselective rectangular radio frequency (RF) pulse, a second information associated with a second nonselective rectangular RF pulse, and a third information associated with a nonselective adiabatic half-passage pulse. Further, it is possible to rotate the longitudinal magnetization onto a particular plane (e.g., the transverse plane) based on the information. In addition, it is possible to minimize and/or achieve the residual longitudinal magnetization to be less than a predetermined threshold value (e.g., 2% of equilibrium magnetization) within the anatomical structure using a configuration of RF pulses.
US08519707B2	Pulse gap cycling for improved swift A magnetic resonance image is produced by shifting a gap during acquisition of spin data for a specimen. The spin data is generated by a gapped excitation sequence.
US08519700B2	Magnetic angular position sensor including an isotropic magnet An angular position sensor includes a moving element consisting of at least one essentially cylindrical permanent magnet turning about it axis, at least two magnetosensitive elements and at least one processing circuit furnishing a signal dependent on the absolute position of the moving element The magnetosensitive elements are located essentially at the same point and in that they measure the tangential component of the magnetic field and the radial and/or axial component of the magnetic field for furnishing 2 sinusoidal signals that are essentially 90° out of phase.
US08519698B2	Presettable transducer for electrical quantities A presentable voltage sensor includes an electrode faced by an electric field probe and connected to a voltage source; a screening conductive shell wrapping the probe and connected to a reference potential; a dielectric material housed within the shell and interposed between the probe and the electrode; a conditioning circuit connected to an exit of the sensor and having a resistor of resistance Rm interposed between the probe and a second reference potential; and an integrator circuit formed from an RC network and having a resistor of resistance Ri, a capacitor of capacitance Ci, and a loss factor which, at a frequency of interest, is of an order of 10−4.
US08519697B2	Apparatus and method for detecting mode change in an electronic device An apparatus and method for detecting a mode change in an electronic device are provided. The apparatus includes a rotary switch including a common port and a plurality of contact points corresponding to a plurality of modes, a comparator for comparing a voltage of the common port with a reference voltage to output a resultant signal, a measurement unit for measuring the voltage of the common port according to the resultant signal of the comparator, and a Micro Control Unit (MCU) for evaluating a changed mode based on the measured voltage.
US08519691B2	Current limiting for DC-DC converters Apparatus and method for providing current limiting in a DC-DC converter and especially to methods and apparatus suitable for a start-up mode of operation. The invention monitors the inductor (L) current when the high side supply switch is on against a peak current limit threshold. If the inductor current reaches the peak current limit threshold the high side switch is turned off. The inductor current when the low side switch is off is monitored against a valley current threshold. As long as the inductor current is above the valley current threshold turn on of the low side switch is inhibited. In this way current limiting is provided and the problems of stair-stepping are avoided. Embodiments employing lossless current sensing are described. The invention may be implemented in a start-up mode of operation wherein the converter is controlled purely by the peak current limit and valley current threshold which are increased over time.
US08519690B2	Power supply control device and power supply control method A control device includes a first terminal receiving a monitored output voltage and a second terminal transmitting a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. A converting unit generates an A/D conversion synchronous signal, and an A/D converter samples the monitored output voltage in accordance with the A/D conversion synchronous signal. A pulse oscillator controls a position of a first edge on the PWM signal in accordance with the A/D conversion synchronous signal, and controls a position of a second edge based on the monitored voltage.
US08519687B2	Semiconductor device and power source device with a current detection circuit A power source device capable of improving the power conversion efficiency at a light load independent of an input power source voltage is realized. For example, a clock signal is output from a common control unit to a PWM-mounted drive unit including a reverse-current detection circuit in addition to a peak current control method. This clock signal is selected by a mode setting signal from either of a clock signal with a constant frequency or a clock signal which is generated via a one-shot pulse generation circuit every time an output voltage at an output power source node decreases. When the latter is selected, the switching frequency at a light load decreases and the power conversion efficiency improves. Furthermore, the peak current control method can reduce the input power source voltage dependence of the switching frequency.
US08519685B2	Device for controlling a power supply with DC DC splitting of the type including N interlaced paths In a power supply with n interlaced conversion cells, a control device activates m paths out of n paths, 1≦m≦n, as a function of the power or of the current handled by the power supply. The cell may have a boost, buck, buck/boost, Cuk, or SEPIC topology.
US08519684B2	Integrated circuits for converting a high voltage level to a low voltage level An integrated circuit includes a high side driver and a low side driver. The low side driver is electrically coupled with the high side driver. A circuit is electrically coupled with the high side driver and a first node between the high side driver and the low side driver. The circuit is configured to substantially turn off the high side driver if the high side driver leaves a cutoff region of the high side driver during a tri-state mode.
US08519683B2	DC-DC converter The present invention includes: a main switch Tr1 connected to two ends of a DC power supply Vi via a first primary winding 1a and a second primary winding 1b, connected to the first primary winding in series, of a transformer T1; a series circuit connected to the two ends of the main switch, and including a reactor L1, a diode D1, a smoothing capacitor Co and a hoist winding 1c connected to the second primary winding in series; a series circuit connected to the two ends of the main switch, and including a diode D2, a diode D3 and the smoothing capacitor; a control circuit 10 to turn on and off the main switch; a soft-switching circuit Da1, Tra1, La1, Ca1 to cause the main switch to perform a soft-switching operation each time the main switch turns on; and a switching control circuit 20 to switch the soft-switching circuit between operating and non-operating modes in accordance with the state of a load.
US08519682B2	Hybrid on-load tap changer and a method of operating the same A hybrid on-load tap changer, for use in high voltage alternating current power transmission, including a selector and a diverter having two legs defining respective current paths. Each leg includes a pair of opposed first and second semiconductor switches. The hybrid on-load tap changer also includes a controller configured to switch on one of the first or second semiconductor switches of a given leg at a predetermined point within the alternating current cycle so as to commutate off a desired semiconductor switch in the other leg.
US08519679B2	Static var compensator apparatus A one-phase static var compensator apparatus includes a compensator string consisting of a first static var compensator connected serially to a thyristor valve. The compensator string is arranged to be connected on its first end to one phase of a transmission grid of a rated voltage exceeding 69 kV. Moreover, the thyristor valve includes a plurality of thyristors connected serially and the compensator string is arranged to be directly connected to the transmission grid. A corresponding three phase apparatus is also presented.
US08519671B2	Power supply circuit and method for providing output voltage to charge a battery Various embodiments are described herein for a charging device and an associated charging method for charging a rechargeable battery. The charging device generally includes a current source that is coupled to a power source and configured to provide a charging current to the rechargeable battery. The charging device further includes a controller that is configured to control the current source to provide the charging current with an amplitude that is less than the charging current required by the rechargeable battery in a given charging state to bring an output voltage of the current source towards the voltage of the rechargeable battery.
US08519668B2	Inductive battery charger system with primary transformer windings formed in a multi-layer structure There is provided a power system designed to enable electronic devices to be powered. The system includes a planar surface on which a device to be powered is placed. Within the power system and substantially parallel to the planar surface are multiple primary transformer windings formed in a multi-layer structure that couple energy inductively to a secondary winding formed in the device to be powered. A winding of a second layer is offset relative to a winding of a first layer.
US08519667B2	Mobile wireless charger system A mobile wireless charger system includes a supplying-end module and a receiving-end module. The supplying-end module adjusts the output wave energy to the receiving-end module at a handheld apparatus by means of modulated frequency and driving power. The microprocessor of the supplying-end module can receive different voltage input from different power sources, such as high voltage city power supply or low voltage solar cell for charging a rechargeable battery at the handheld apparatus in a wireless manner.
US08519664B2	Method for controlling a machine or an electrical load supplied with electric power over a long line A drive controller arranged to provide electrical power from a power supply to a machine or load over a long AC power cable of the order of kilometers. The drive controller is arranged with circuits and/or control processes to provide AC current at a constant ratio of voltage and frequency to said machine or load. The drive controller maintains voltage and frequency at the machine terminals despite fluctuations in voltage and/or frequency that would ordinarily be caused by the load. This is done by estimating the voltage and current at the machine terminals and adapting the drive controller output accordingly to actively vary the converter output dependent on the load of the machine or other load. In other aspects of the invention a method and a computer program for carrying out the method are described.
US08519659B2	Electric servo-press, and control device and control method for electric servo press Provided is a low-cost control device for an electric servo press, which is excellent in operability and operation efficiency, capable of abruptly stopping a servomotor in a safe and reliable manner within a short time period in response to an abrupt stop command while avoiding hard actuation of a mechanical brake, even in the case of runaway of the servomotor or the like. An electric servo press performs switching to rotation stop control for a servomotor according to an abrupt stop motion based on an abrupt stop command signal to perform brake actuation to cause a mechanical brake to actually start braking and to forcibly interrupt rotational drive power to the servomotor at a scheduled stop time at which the servomotor is stopped according to the abrupt stop motion.
US08519658B2	Electromechanical device An electromechanical device includes: a magnet coil; a PWM driving circuit; and a control unit, wherein the control unit performs a first control of setting an excitation interval which is an interval in which a PWM drive signal is supplied to the magnet coil and a second control of changing a duty ratio of the PWM drive signal, and wherein the control unit performs an advance angle control of putting the phase of the center of the excitation interval earlier than the phase in which a counter-electromotive force generated in the magnet coil has the maximum value in the first control, and increases the duty ratio of the PWM drive signal in the second control so that a gain is greater than 100% when the gain is 100% at the time of generating the PWM drive signal so as to have a sinusoidal shape.
US08519656B2	Synchronous machine starting device A synchronous machine starting device in which AC power is supplied to an armature of a synchronous machine, the supplied AC voltage is detected to determine a rotor position of the synchronous machine, and the supplied power is controlled based on the detected rotor position. To detect rotor position, a first position signal indicating a timing at which a level of AC voltage supplied to the armature of the synchronous machine reaches a prescribed value is output. An error of an estimated phase is calculated based on the estimated phase indicating the rotor position and the detected AC voltage, and the estimated phase is calculated based on the calculated error to produce a second position signal indicating the calculated estimated phase. A selected of first and second position signals is output to indicate the rotor position of the synchronous machine for control of AC power supplied to the armature.
US08519655B2	DC bus boost method and system for regenerative brake Embodiments of the present invention provide novel techniques for using a switched converter to provide for three-phase alternating current (AC) rectification, regenerative braking, and direct current (DC) voltage boosting. In particular, one of the three legs of the switched converter is controlled with a set of pulse width modulation (PWM) control signals so that the input AC phase having the highest voltage is rectified and one of the switches in the two other legs is turned on to allow for added voltage. This switching activity allows for voltage from multiple AC line mains to be combined, resulting in an overall boost of the DC voltage of the rectifier. The DC voltage boost can then be applied to the common DC bus in order to ameliorate voltage sags, help with motor starts, and increase the ride-through capability of the motor.
US08519652B2	Control apparatus for electric rotating machine A controller outputting a voltage instruction for drive control to a electric rotating machine includes a drive voltage instruction calculation section calculating drive voltage instructions for driving the electric rotating machine, a position estimation voltage generator generating position estimation voltage instructions for position estimation about the electric rotating machine, a noise reduction voltage generator generating noise reduction voltage instructions for reducing noise occurring from the electric rotating machine along with input of the position estimation voltage instructions to the electric rotating machine, and adders outputting, to a voltage application means, a voltage instruction obtained by adding the position estimation voltage instructions and the noise reduction voltage instructions to the drive voltage instructions.
US08519651B2	Dephasing control A system to control an asynchronous tri-phase motor may include a braking resistance coupled to receive output voltage from the voltage multiplier to dissipate energy when the system is in a braking mode. The system may further include a module to emit a pulse train (e.g., Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)) and having a frequency selectively determined by a microcontroller. The module may be operatively coupled to apply the pulse train to an H bridge circuit in the IGBT module, which is coupled to pass a conditioned line voltage to the tri-phase motor in response to the PWM pulse train applied to the H bridge circuit in the IGBT module.
US08519644B1	Accelerator having acceleration channels formed between covalently bonded chips An accelerator assembly includes a first chip and a second chip. An acceleration channel is formed into a surface of a first side of the first chip. The first side of the first chip is covalently bonded to a first side of the second chip such that the channel is a tubular void between the first and second chips. The channel has a tubular inside sidewall surface, substantially no portion of which is a metal surface. The channel has length-to-width ratio greater than five, and a channel width less than one micron. There are many substantially identical channels that extend in parallel between the first and second chips. In one specific example, the assembly is part of a Direct Write On Wafer (DWOW) printing system. The DWOW printing system is useful in semiconductor processing in that it can direct write an image onto a 300 mm diameter wafer in one minute.
US08519635B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device, electrically connected to an external variable voltage source, includes a plurality of light-emitting modules sequentially electrically connected in series and electrically connected to the external variable voltage source. Each light-emitting module has at least one light-emitting unit, a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal. At least one of the light-emitting modules has a control unit and a bypass unit electrically connected to the light-emitting unit. The second connection terminal of the light-emitting module having the bypass unit and the control unit is electrically connected to the first connection terminal of the other light-emitting module and serves as a detection terminal. The control unit detects a voltage of the detection terminal and accordingly controls the bypass unit to adjust a current flowing through the light-emitting unit.
US08519633B2	Method for producing a control device for operating a radiation-emitting semiconductor component A pulsed electric operating current that rises during a pulse duration is generated for operating at least one radiation-emitting semiconductor component. For this purpose, in a method for producing a control device for operating the at least one radiation-emitting semiconductor component, a temporal profile of a thermal impedance representative of the at least one radiation-emitting semiconductor component is determined. A profile of the electric operating current that is to be set is determined depending on the determined temporal profile of the thermal impedance. The control device is furthermore designed such that the profile of the operating current that is to be set is set in each case during the pulse duration.
US08519632B2	Drive device and method for operating at least one series circuit of light-emitting diodes A device for at least one series circuit of multiple light-emitting diodes, having a voltage regulation unit for regulating an operating voltage for the at least one series circuit of the light-emitting diodes. A current regulation unit for regulating the current through the particular series circuit of light-emitting diodes is provided for each series circuit of light-emitting diodes, and the current regulation unit is connected to the voltage regulation unit in order to transmit a current regulation signal to the voltage regulation unit.
US08519629B2	Lighting device The present invention is directed to a lighting device. A lighting unit includes at least one lighting string, and each lighting string includes one or serial-connected lighting elements. An AC/DC power converter converts an AC voltage to a DC voltage, therefore providing a current to the lighting unit. In one embodiment, a detecting unit performs detection to generate a detect signal; in another embodiment, a brightness adjusting unit, after adjustment, generates adjust signals that represent different brightness modes respectively. Subsequently, a resistor network generates a control signal according to the detect signal or the adjust signal, and a switch unit controls the brightness of the lighting unit according to the control signal.
US08519628B2	Light-emitting device The amplitude of a potential of a signal line is decreased and a scan line driver circuit is prevented from being excessively loaded. A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element; a first power supply line having a first potential; a second power supply line having a second potential; a first transistor for controlling a connection between the first power supply line and the light-emitting element; a second transistor, which is controlled in accordance with a video signal, whether outputting the second potential applied from the second power supply line or not; a switching element for selecting either the first potential applied from the first power supply line or the output of the second transistor; and a third transistor for selecting whether the first potential or the output of the second transistor which is selected by the switch is applied to a gate of the first transistor.
US08519623B2	High-pressure discharge lamp having a cooling element A high-pressure discharge lamp comprising two electrodes (16, 18), which are arranged facing each other in a discharge vessel (6) and are each in electric contact via a current feed system (20, 24, 26, 28, 30), wherein each current feed system penetrates a piston shaft (9,10) arranged in a gastight manner on the discharge vessel (6), wherein in the region of the outer current feed (28, 30) of at least one piston shaft (9) a cooling element (12) is arranged, and wherein the outer current feed (28, 30) and the cooling element (12) are in direct thermal and electric contact.
US08519620B2	Display devices and methods of manufacturing display devices A display device includes a substrate having a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region, peripheral circuits disposed in the peripheral circuit region, an insulation layer covering the peripheral circuits, a first electrode disposed on the insulation layer in the pixel region, at least one protection structure disposed on the insulation layer in the peripheral circuit region, and a light emitting structure or a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first electrode. The protection structure can prevent damage to the peripheral circuits caused by static electricity generated in manufacturing processes, so that the display device can have improved reliability while reducing defects of pixels in the display device.
US08519618B2	Display A display having a first substrate and a second substrate parallel to each other, a cathode layer, a plurality of electroluminescences, a plurality of anodes, and a driving circuit is provided. The first substrate has a first surface. The second substrate has a second surface and a third surface opposite to each other, and the second surface faces the first surface. At least one of the first and the second substrates is transparent. The cathode layer disposed at the first surface has a plurality of tips. The plural electroluminescences are disposed at the second surface, and an interval is formed between the plural electroluminescences and the cathode layer. The positions of the plural anodes are at the third surface and correspond to the positions of plural electroluminescences on the second substrate. The driving circuit is disposed at the third surface and electrically connected to the plural anodes.
US08519615B2	Low drive voltage light emitting element An object of the present invention is to provide a material which does not substantially have a hole injection barrier from an electrode. A composite material containing an organic compound and an inorganic compound, in which measured current-voltage characteristics of a thin-film layer formed from the composite material which is sandwiched between a pair of electrodes each having a work function of 3.5 eV to 5.5 eV follow Formula (1) below, is manufactured. J = { A ⁢ ⁢ exp ⁡ ( - ϕ a 2 ⁢ ⁢ kT ) } ⁢ V + BV n ( 1 )
US08519612B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method of fabricating the same An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the OLED display device, the OLED display device includes a substrate including an emission region and a non-emission region, a black matrix disposed in a region excluding a part of the emission region, a buffer layer disposed on the entire surface of the substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer in the non-emission region, a gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer insulating the semiconductor layer from the gate electrode and formed on the entire surface of the substrate, a first electrode formed on the gate insulating layer in the emission region, source and drain electrodes electrically connected with the semiconductor layer and the first electrode, an interlayer insulating layer insulating the source and drain electrodes from the gate electrode and opening a part of the first electrode, a pixel defining layer opening a part of the first electrode and disposed on the entire surface of the substrate, an organic layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the entire surface of the substrate. Here, the first electrode includes a transparent conductive oxide layer.
US08519608B2	Electron source and electron beam apparatus Provided is an electron source which outputs a stable electron beam even when vibration is applied from the external to an apparatus which uses the electron source. The electron source is provided with an insulator (5); two conductive terminals (4) arranged at an interval on the insulator (5); a long filament (3) stretched between the conductive terminals (4); and a needle-like cathode (1) having an electron emitting section attached to the filament (3). The vertical cross-section shape of the filament (3) in the axis direction has a long direction and a short direction, and the maximum length in the long direction is 1.5 times or more but not more than 5 times the maximum length in the short direction.
US08519606B2	Spark plug for internal combustion engine and method of manufacturing spark plug A spark plug (1) includes an insulator (2) and a metal shell (3), including a middle section (41) positioned between a collar section (16) and a tool engaging section (19). The middle section (41) has a bulged section (42), a first slender section (43) and a second slender section (44) that is the most slender at a portion positioned further to the leading end side than the bulged section (42). In a cross-section including the axis CL1, when the distance between both slender sections (43) and (44) along the axis CL1 is F (mm) and the bulged amount to the inside in diametrical direction of a most bulged section (42M) with respect to an imaginary line that connects a portion that is positioned furthest to the inside in diametrical direction of both slender sections 43 and 44 is G (mm), the relationship 0.00
US08519600B2	Ultrasonic transducer An ultrasonic transducer includes: a piezoelectric transducer (1) emitting ultrasonic waves; and a backing layer (4) provided in contact with a back side of the piezoelectric transducer (1) and attenuating ultrasonic waves that are emitted toward the back side of the piezoelectric transducer (1) and have an opposite phase to the phase of ultrasonic waves emitted toward a front side of the piezoelectric transducer (1). The acoustic tubes (5) are disposed in the backing layer (4) such that a longitudinal direction of each acoustic tube (5) is in line with a traveling direction of the ultrasonic waves emitted by the piezoelectric transducer (1) toward the front and the back side. The acoustic tubes (5) have mutually different lengths on the basis of a principle of an acoustic wave synthesis, and attenuate in whole or in part the ultrasonic waves emitted by the piezoelectric transducer (1) toward the backing layer (4).
US08519596B1	Graphene triboelectric charging device and a method of generating electricity by the same A graphene triboelectric charging device and a method of generating electricity by the same are provided. The device can include an electric power generating unit including a triboelectric layer, a polyester layer disposed to face the triboelectric layer, and a graphene layer interposed between the triboelectric layer and the polyester layer, a holder accommodating the electric power generating unit and having an uneven surface configured to receive a portion of the electric power generating unit when it is deformed by external force, and a friction unit disposed to face the electric power generating unit and configured to deform the electric power generating unit, wherein the friction unit is disposed to face the uneven surface.
US08519594B2	Hall effect power generator One or more superconductive cells are connected in series to provide voltage arising from the Hall effect when cooled to superconductor temperatures and immersed in a magnetic field. The magnetic field causes the Hall-effect voltage to develop across the London penetration depth, normal to the surface of each superconductive cell. Conductors connect the back side of one cell with the front side of the adjacent cell. Each superconductive cell is at least the thickness of one London penetration depth.
US08519593B2	Brushless motor with low cogging torque A brushless DC motor provided with nine slots and eight poles includes a stator including a stator core having pole teeth on the outer circumference thereof and a coil wound around each pole tooth; a rotor disposed at an outside position of the outer circumference of the stator via a gap and having a multiply magnetized permanent magnet with plural magnetic poles; a pole tooth surface formed at a portion of the pole tooth and facing an inner circumference of the rotor; a recessed portion formed on the pole tooth surface; and a slot formed between the adjacent pole teeth and extending a first angular range around a rotational center of the rotor; in which the recessed portion extends in a second angular range around the rotational center of the rotor, the second angular range is 1.2 to 3.0 times the first angular range, the recessed portion has a radial depth which is 0.5% or more of an inner diameter of the permanent magnet, the pole tooth extends in a third angular range around a rotational center of the rotor, and the third angular range is 0.58 to 0.8 times a value which is obtained by dividing 360 degrees by the number of magnetic poles of the permanent magnet.
US08519589B2	Motor, motor unit, blower, and electric apparatus A stator core is formed of a main core including a first segment core, second segment core, and plate body, and a third segment core (I-shaped core). A rotor is disposed in a rotor insertion hole of the stator core, and an output shaft of the rotor is supported by a bearing unit. A resin molded body covers a winding of an exciting section of the motor, a circuit wiring board, and a part of a power supply connecting body. The resin molded body also covers a part of the third segment core (I-shaped core). A rotary vane or the like is mounted near the tip of the output shaft, and a blower or the like is formed.
US08519586B2	Molded motor To prevent electrolytic corrosion from occurring by reliably establishing an electrical conduction between a motor output shaft and brackets. A first bracket 51 attached to one end part and a second bracket 52 attached to the other end part are electrically connected to each other via a conductive member 8 embedded in a molding resin part 21 of a stator 2.
US08519585B2	Engine cooling system and fan module with dust screen An engine cooling system incorporates a cooling fan module having a motor and a fan driven by the motor. The motor has a motor housing and two end caps disposed at respective ends of the motor housing. Each of the end caps has at least one axial hole to allow air to flow through the motor to dissipate heat from inside the motor. The motor also has a dust screen disposed inside the motor and adjacent each of the axial holes for preventing external particles entering the motor through the axial hole. Each dust screen has a plurality of apertures to allow air to flow through the motor but prevents dust particles entering the motor.
US08519584B2	Magnetic propulsion motor The present disclosure relates to a magnetic motor including a drive magnet, a motion magnet, and an acceleration field. The drive magnet includes magnetic shielding, typically on a portion thereof, altering the magnetic field of the drive magnet. In some embodiments, the motion magnet has a cross-section that is generally in the shape of a ‘V’ or ‘A’. The acceleration field is created by the interaction between the drive magnet and the motion magnet as the motion magnet is passed through the altered magnetic field of the drive magnet. The altered magnetic field of the drive magnet may often be near a first end of the drive magnet. In further embodiments, the motion magnet can be operably coupled to an output shaft and rotate around the central axis of the output shaft. The present disclosure, also relates to a device, including the magnetic motor, for generating energy from a turbine.
US08519573B2	Reciprocating vibration generator A reciprocating vibration generator making the magnetic circuit of a permanent magnet a closed loop so as to obtain a high vibration force, specifically a vibration linear actuator having a ring-shaped weight, a reciprocating vibrator having a ring-shaped permanent magnet in a center hole of the weight, a first plate spring and a second plate spring supporting this reciprocating vibrator with respect to a recessed case and an end plate to be able to elastically displace in a thickness direction between a first end face and a second end face, a tube-shaped toroidal coil running through a center hole of the ring-shaped permanent magnet and generating a reciprocating vibration magnetic field for driving the ring-shaped permanent magnet to reciprocate in the thickness direction, and a columnar core running through the inside of this toroidal coil, wherein the ring-shaped permanent magnet is magnetized in the thickness direction, and the toroidal coil has a lower stage toroidal coil and an upper stage toroidal coil coaxial with and adjacent to the same, wound in the opposite direction, and connected in series with the same.
US08519568B2	Inrush current protection for wind turbines and wind farms A wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a transformer having a low-voltage side and a high-voltage side. The transformer is configured to step up a voltage of the low-voltage side of the transformer to a voltage of an external grid. The wind turbine further includes an electrical power generating unit which is connected to the low-voltage side of the transformer and configured to feed an ac-power to the low-voltage side of the transformer. A charging device of the wind turbine is connected to the low-voltage side of the transformer and configured to charge the low-voltage side of the transformer when the generator does not feed ac-power to the low-voltage side of the transformer.
US08519567B2	Method and apparatus for maintaining uninterruptible power supplies A system and method of isolating an uninterruptible power supply system is disclosed that comprises bypassing an inverter section of the power supply to couple primary power to a load bus; and, thereafter, isolating the power supply by simultaneously uncoupling the power supply from the load bus and coupling the primary power to the load bus.
US08519565B2	Generator set control system A control system is provided for use with a plurality of generator sets. The control system may have at least one load discrete signal cable, a ramping discrete signal cable, a switching device, and a control module associated with a first of the plurality of generator sets. The control module may be configured to detect a signal on the at least one load discrete signal cable generated by a second of the plurality of generator sets indicative of a load on the second of the plurality of generator sets, and to activate the switching device to implement an operational status change of the first of the plurality of generator sets based on the detection. The control module may also be configured to generate a signal on the ramping discrete signal cable to inhibit others of the plurality of generator sets from changing operational status during the operational status change of the first of the plurality of generator sets.
US08519558B2	Tool having integrated electricity generator with external stator and power conditioner A tool includes a nonmagnetic tool housing, a cylindrical rotor inside the tool housing and rotatable in response to a flow of pressurized fluid through the tool housing and magnets mounted in the rotor. A stator is positioned on the exterior of the tool housing, and is dimensioned to cooperate with the magnets to, upon rotation of the rotor, generate electrical current for supply to a load. The stator includes an inductor core having opposing ends connected by a middle portion, and a coil wound around the middle portion, where both the inductor core and coil are configured to be arced between the opposing ends about the axis of rotation of the rotor, and the inductor core is configured to provide a consistent gap between the face of the inductor core and the face of each magnet while each magnet is being rotated between positions proximal the opposing ends, the inductor core having a length to enable its opposing ends to each be simultaneously radially aligned with a respective magnet in the rotor to complete a magnetic circuit through the inductor core. The tool also includes a power conditioner receiving the generated electrical current and conditioning the current to be acceptable for supply to a load that comprises one or more logic processing devices.
US08519556B1	Method and apparatus for storing energy An energy storage apparatus for storing energy transmitted by a power transmission line includes an elastically deformable component and an actuator-generator. The actuator-generator is coupled to the elastically deformable component such that electrical actuation of the actuator-generator generates tension in the elastically deformable component. The actuator-generator is further coupled to the elastically deformable component such that mechanical actuation of the actuator-generator via a release of tension in the elastically deformable component causes a generation of electrical energy by the actuator-generator.
US08519553B2	Power supply systems A power supply system comprises an internal combustion engine (100) and an electric motor-generator arrangement that is coupled to the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine (100) has a piston-cylinder assembly in which the toroidal section-shaped piston (122) and cylinder (120) are each arranged to rotate, in use, about a common axis of rotation B with respect to a stator arrangement (129) of the associated motor-generator arrangement so as to generate an electric output. The piston (122) and cylinder (120) are also arranged to form a mass-elastic system that is capable of resonance and further arranged such that combustion in the combustion chamber (121) formed between the cylinder (120) and piston (122) can cause the piston (122) and cylinder (120) to oscillate relative to each other about their common rotational axis B.
US08519552B2	Chip structure A chip structure includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnecting metallization structure, a passivation layer, a circuit layer and a bump. The interconnecting metallization structure is over the semiconductor substrate. The passivation layer is over the interconnecting metallization structure. The circuit layer is over the passivation layer. The bump is on the circuit layer, and the bump is unsuited for being processed using a reflow process.
US08519548B2	Wafer level packaged GaN power device and the manufacturing method thereof Disclosed are a GaN-based compound power semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof, in which on a GaN power semiconductor element, a contact pad is formed for flip-chip bonding, and a bonding pad of a module substrate to be mounted with the GaN power semiconductor element is formed with a bump so as to modularize an individual semiconductor element. In the disclosed GaN-based compound power semiconductor device, an AlGaN HEMT element is flip-chip bonded to the substrate, so that heat generated from the element can be efficiently radiated.
US08519547B2	Chip arrangement and method for producing a chip arrangement A chip arrangement includes semiconductor chips coupled to opposing sides of an insulating layer. The arrangement includes a first semiconductor chip having a first chip surface presenting a first chip conductive region. An electrically insulating layer includes a first layer surface presenting a first layer conductive region, and a second, opposing surface presenting a second layer conductive region. The electrically insulating layer is coupled to the first semiconductor chip by applying the first layer conductive region to the first chip conductive region. The electrically insulating layer is then coupled to the second chip conductive region by applying the second layer conductive region to the second chip conductive region.
US08519544B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming WLCSP structure using protruded MLP A semiconductor device can include a carrier substrate, and a first semiconductor die disposed on a surface of the carrier substrate. An encapsulant can be disposed over the first semiconductor die and the carrier substrate. The semiconductor device can include first vias disposed through the encapsulant as well as second vias disposed through the encapsulant to expose first contact pads. The first contact pads are on upper surfaces of the first semiconductor die. The semiconductor device can include conductive pillars that fill the first vias, and first conductive metal vias (CMVs) that fill the second vias. The conductive pillar can include a first conductive material, and the first CMVs can be in contact with the first contact pads. The semiconductor device can include a conductive layer disposed over the encapsulant. The conductive layer can electrically connect one of the first CMVs with one of the conductive pillars.
US08519537B2	3D semiconductor package interposer with die cavity A 3D semiconductor package using an interposer is provided. In an embodiment, an interposer is provided having a first die electrically coupled to a first side of the interposer and a second die electrically coupled to a second side of the interposer. The interposer is electrically coupled to an underlying substrate, such as a packaging substrate, a high-density interconnect, a printed circuit board, or the like. The substrate has a cavity such that the second die is positioned within the cavity. The use of a cavity may allow smaller conductive bumps to be used, thereby allowing a higher number of conductive bumps to be used. A heat sink may be placed within the cavity to aid in the dissipation of the heat from the second die.
US08519536B2	Semiconductor device including bump formed on substrate to prevent extremely-low dielectric constant (ELK) interlayer dielectric layer (ILD) delamination during reflow process A semiconductor device that has a flipchip semiconductor die and substrate. A first insulating layer is formed over the substrate. A via is formed through the first insulating layer. Conductive material is deposited in the via to form a conductive pillar or stacked stud bumps. The conductive pillar is electrically connected to a conductive layer within the substrate. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer. Bump material is formed over the conductive pillar. The bump material is reflowed to form a bump. The first and second insulating layers are removed. The semiconductor die is mounted to the substrate by reflowing the bump to a conductive layer of the die. The semiconductor die also has a third insulating layer formed over the conductive layer and an active surface of the die and UBM formed over the first conductive layer and third insulating layer.
US08519527B2	Isostress grid array and method of fabrication thereof An electronic device package includes a substrate and wire columns arranged in groups about a neutral stress point of the substrate. The height of the wire columns is substantially uniform for the plural groups of wire columns, and a length of at least one of the wire columns is greater than the uniform height. A method of fabricating an electronic device package having a column grid array includes applying two templates on wire columns of the column grid array and bending at least one wire column to increase its length while maintaining a uniform height for the column grid array. In another aspect, an electronic device package substrate includes wire columns having at least one non-uniformity in lengths of the columns, and the length of a wire column corresponds to a distance of that wire column from the neutral stress point of the substrate. The non-uniformity of length in the wire columns reduces stress in the package leads after attachment of the package to a carrier substrate, such as a printed circuit board.
US08519525B2	Semiconductor encapsulation and method thereof A semiconductor encapsulation comprises a lead frame further comprising a chip carrier and a plurality of pins in adjacent to the chip carrier. A plurality of grooves opened from an upper surface of the chip carrier partially dividing the chip carrier into a plurality of chip mounting areas. A bottom portion of the grooves is removed for completely isolate each chip mounting area, wherein a width of the bottom portion of the grooves removed is smaller than a width of the grooves. In one embodiment, a groove is located between the chip carrier and the pins with a bottom portion of the groove removed for isolate the pins from the chip carrier, wherein a width of the bottom of the grooves removed is smaller than a width of the grooves.
US08519522B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface which faces away from the upper surface, and possessing a recess which is defined on the upper surface; and a semiconductor chip mounted to the upper surface of the substrate, having one surface which faces the upper surface and the other surface which faces away from the one surface, and warped in a smile shape such that a warped edge portion of the semiconductor chip is inserted into the recess.
US08519518B2	Integrated circuit packaging system with lead encapsulation and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: forming a package paddle; forming a lead adjacent the package paddle, the lead having a hole in a lead body top side and a lead ridge protruding from a lead non-horizontal side; mounting an integrated circuit over the package paddle; connecting an electrical connector to the lead and the integrated circuit; and forming a fill layer within the hole.
US08519517B2	Semiconductor system with fine pitch lead fingers and method of manufacturing thereof A semiconductor package system, and method of manufacturing thereof, includes: an electrical substrate having a contact pad; a support structure having a lead finger thereon; a bump on the lead finger, the bump clamped on a top and a side of the lead finger and connected with the contact pad; and an encapsulant over the lead finger and the electrical substrate.
US08519511B2	Substrate dividing method A substrate dividing method which can thin and divide a substrate while preventing chipping and cracking from occurring. This substrate dividing method comprises the steps of irradiating a semiconductor substrate 1 having a front face 3 formed with functional devices 19 with laser light while positioning a light-converging point within the substrate, so as to form a modified region including a molten processed region due to multiphoton absorption within the semiconductor substrate 1, and causing the modified region including the molten processed region to form a starting point region for cutting; and grinding a rear face 21 of the semiconductor substrate 1 after the step of forming the starting point region for cutting such that the semiconductor substrate 1 attains a predetermined thickness.
US08519509B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide an antifuse which has low writing voltage. The antifuse is used for a memory element for a read only memory device. The antifuse includes a first conductive layer, an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second conductive layer. The insulating layer included in the antifuse is a silicon oxynitride layer formed by adding ammonia to a source gas. When hydrogen is contained in the layer at greater than or equal to 1.2×1021 atoms/cm3 and less than or equal to 3.4×1021 atoms/cm3 or nitrogen is contained in the layer at greater than or equal to 3.2×1020 atoms/cm3 and less than or equal to 2.2×1021 atoms/cm3, writing can be performed at low voltage.
US08519501B2	Semiconductor light detecting element with grooved substrate A back-surface-incidence semiconductor light element includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type on the semiconductor substrate; a light absorbing layer on the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer on the light absorbing layer; and an impurity diffusion region of a second conductivity type in a portion of the second semiconductor layer. A region including a p-n junction between the first semiconductor layer and the impurity diffusion region, and extending through the light absorbing layer, is a light detecting portion that detects light incident on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate. A groove in the back surface of the semiconductor substrate surrounds the light detecting portion, as viewed in plan.
US08519498B2	Magnetic stack having reference layers with orthogonal magnetization orientation directions A magnetic cell includes a ferromagnetic free layer having a free magnetization orientation direction and a first ferromagnetic pinned reference layer having a first reference magnetization orientation direction that is parallel or anti-parallel to the free magnetization orientation direction. A first oxide barrier layer is between the ferromagnetic free layer and the first ferromagnetic pinned reference layer. The magnetic cell further includes a second ferromagnetic pinned reference layer having a second reference magnetization orientation direction that is orthogonal to the first reference magnetization orientation direction. The ferromagnetic free layer is between the first ferromagnetic pinned reference layer and the second ferromagnetic pinned reference layer.
US08519493B2	Semiconductor device having multiple substrates A semiconductor device includes a physical quantity sensor with a movable electrode disposed in a third layer of a first substrate, a fixed electrode in the third layer and a loop layer. The movable electrode and the fixed electrode are insulated by a second layer of the first substrate, and a loop bump disposed between the first substrate and a second substrate and surrounding the movable portion. The loop layer in the third layer is coupled with the second substrate via the loop bump.
US08519490B2	Backside stimulated sensor with background current manipulation A CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) pixel for sensing at least one selected from a biological, chemical, ionic, electrical, mechanical and magnetic stimulus. The CMOS pixel includes a substrate including a backside, a source coupled with the substrate to generate a background current, and a detection element electrically coupled to measure the background current. The stimulus, which is to be provided to the backside, affects a measurable change in the background current.
US08519488B2	III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor device A hafnium oxide layer, between a III-V semiconductor layer and a metal oxide layer is used to prevent interaction between the III-V semiconductor layer and the metal oxide layer.
US08519487B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a gate structure disposed on the substrate, wherein the gate structure comprises a high-k dielectric layer; and a first seal layer disposed on a sidewall of the gate structure, wherein the first seal layer is an oxygen-free seal layer.
US08519486B2	Semiconductor device having a plurality of phosphorus-doped silicon carbide layers A semiconductor device includes a MOS transistor, a source electrode and a drain electrode on the MOS transistor each include a first carbon doped silicon layer including carbon at a first carbon concentration and phosphorus at a first phosphorus concentration and a second carbon doped silicon layer over the first silicon carbide layer, which includes phosphorus at a second phosphorus concentration higher than the first phosphorus concentration, and which includes carbon at a second carbon concentration less than or equal to the first carbon concentration.
US08519485B2	Pillar structure for memory device and method A method of forming a memory device. The method provides a semiconductor substrate having a surface region. A first dielectric layer is formed overlying the surface region of the semiconductor substrate. A bottom wiring structure is formed overlying the first dielectric layer and a second dielectric material is formed overlying the top wiring structure. A bottom metal barrier material is formed to provide a metal-to-metal contact with the bottom wiring structure. The method forms a pillar structure by patterning and etching a material stack including the bottom metal barrier material, a contact material, a switching material, a conductive material, and a top barrier material. The pillar structure maintains a metal-to-metal contact with the bottom wiring structure regardless of the alignment of the pillar structure with the bottom wiring structure during etching. A top wiring structure is formed overlying the pillar structure at an angle to the bottom wiring structure.
US08519477B2	Trench MOSFET with trenched floating gates and trenched channel stop gates in termination A trench MOSFET comprising multiple trenched floating gates in termination area is disclosed. The multiple trenched floating gates have trench depth equal to or deeper than body junction of body regions in active area. The trench MOSFET further comprises at least one trenched channel stop gate around outside of the trenched floating gates and connected to at least one sawing trenched gate extended into scribe line for prevention of leakage path formation between drain and source regions.
US08519474B2	Electronic device including an insulating layer having different thicknesses and a conductive electrode and a process of forming the same An electronic device includes a transistor, wherein the electronic device can include a semiconductor layer having a primary surface, a channel region, a gate electrode, a source region, a conductive electrode, and an insulating layer lying between the primary surface of the semiconductor layer and the conductive electrode. The insulating layer has a first region and a second region, wherein the first region is thinner than the second region. The channel region, gate electrode, source region, or any combination thereof can lie closer to the first region than the second region. The thinner portion can allow for faster switch of the transistor, and the thicker portion can allow a relatively large voltage difference to be placed across the insulating layer. Alternative shapes for the transitions between the different regions of the insulating layer and exemplary methods to achieve such shapes are also described.
US08519473B2	Vertical transistor component A vertical transistor component is produced by providing a semiconductor body with a first surface and a second surface, producing at least one gate contact electrode in a trench, the trench extending from the first surface through the semiconductor body to the second surface, and producing at least one gate electrode connected to the at least one gate contact electrode in the region of the first surface.
US08519471B2	Vertical channel type nonvolatile memory device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a vertical channel type nonvolatile memory device includes forming alternately a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers and a plurality of conductive layers over a substrate, forming a trench having a plurality of recesses on a surface of the trench by etching the plurality of interlayer dielectric layers and a plurality of conductive layers, wherein the plurality of recesses are formed at a certain interval on the surface of the trench, forming a charge blocking layer over a plurality of surfaces of the plurality of recesses, forming a charge storage layer over the charge blocking layer for filling a plurality of the remaining recesses with a charge storage material, forming a tunnel dielectric layer to cover the charge storage layer, and forming a vertical channel layer by filling the remaining trench.
US08519470B2	Semiconductor chip, and semiconductor package and system each including the semiconductor chip A semiconductor chip includes a redistribution interconnect that is implemented by shorting bumps, and a semiconductor package and a system each including the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor substrate, a passivation film disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of pseudo bumps disposed on the passivation film. Each pseudo bump is directly connected to adjacent pseudo bumps to form at least one redistribution interconnect.
US08519467B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first resistance element including a first conductive material, an inter-gate insulation film formed on both ends of the first conductive material in a first direction, and a second conductive material formed above the first conductive material and configured to connect with the first conductive material via a first connection region from which the inter-gate insulation film is removed, and a second resistance element including a third conductive material, the inter-gate insulation film formed on both ends of the third conductive material in the first direction, and a fourth conductive material formed above the third conductive material and configured to connect with the third conductive material via a second connection region from which the inter-gate insulation film is removed, wherein a length of the second connection region is greater than a length of the first connection region in the first direction.
US08519464B2	Non-volatile memory device and method for fabricating the same A non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of stacked patterns where a tunnel insulation layer, a floating gate, and a dielectric layer are sequentially stacked over a substrate, trenches formed in the substrate between the stacked patterns, an isolation layer gap-filling the trenches and space between the stacked patterns, and a control gate formed over the dielectric layer.
US08519463B2	Semiconductor constructions containing tubular capacitor storage nodes, and retaining structures along portions of the tubular capacitor storage nodes The invention includes semiconductor constructions, and also includes methods of forming pluralities of capacitor devices. An exemplary method of the invention includes forming conductive storage node material within openings in an insulative material to form conductive containers. A retaining structure lattice is formed in physical contact with at least some of the containers, and subsequently the insulative material is removed to expose outer surfaces of the containers. The retaining structure can alleviate toppling or other loss of structural integrity of the container structures. The electrically conductive containers correspond to first capacitor electrodes. After the outer sidewalls of the containers are exposed, dielectric material is formed within the containers and along the exposed outer sidewalls. Subsequently, a second capacitor electrode is formed over the dielectric material. The first and second capacitor electrodes, together with the dielectric material, form a plurality of capacitor devices.
US08519461B2	Device with post-contact back end of line through-hole via integration Presented are device structures and methods of fabricating three-dimensional integrated circuits that include post-contact back end of line through-hole via integration for the three-dimensional integrated circuits. Another aspect of the present invention includes three-dimensional integrated circuits fabricated according to methods of the present invention.
US08519458B2	Light-emitting element detection and classification device A light-emitting element detection and classification device includes a rotation unit for transporting a plurality of light-emitting elements, a chip detection unit, and a chip classification unit. The rotation unit includes at least one rotary turntable, a plurality of receiving portions formed on the rotary turntable, and a plurality of suction-exhaust dual-purpose openings respectively disposed in the receiving portions, each receiving portion selectively receives at least one of the light-emitting elements. Each light-emitting element is an LED package chip having a positive electrode pad and a negative electrode pad disposed on the bottom side thereof. The chip detection unit includes at least one chip detection module adjacent to the rotation unit for detecting each light-emitting element. The chip classification unit includes at least one chip classification module adjacent to the rotation unit for classifying the LED package chips that have been detected by the at least one chip detection module.
US08519454B2	Structure and process for metal fill in replacement metal gate integration Processes for metal fill in replacement metal gate integration schemes and resultant devices are provided herein. The method includes forming a dummy gate on a semiconductor substrate. The dummy gate includes forming a metal layer between a first material and a second material. The method further includes partially removing the dummy gate to form an opening bounded by a spacer material. The method further includes forming a recess in the spacer material to widen a portion of the opening. The method further includes removing a remaining portion of the dummy gate through the opening to form a trench having the recess forming an upper portion thereof. The method further includes filling the trench and the recess with a replacement metal gate stack.
US08519448B2	Chemically-sensitive array with active and reference sensors Methods and apparatus relating to very large scale FET arrays for analyte measurements. ChemFET (e.g., ISFET) arrays may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved FET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and accuracy, and at the same time facilitate significantly small pixel sizes and dense arrays. Improved array control techniques provide for rapid data acquisition from large and dense arrays. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in a wide variety of chemical and/or biological processes. In one example, chemFET arrays facilitate DNA sequencing techniques based on monitoring changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH), changes in other analyte concentration, and/or binding events associated with chemical processes relating to DNA synthesis.
US08519445B2	Poly profile engineering to modulate spacer induced stress for device enhancement The present invention provides a method of inducing stress in a semiconductor device substrate by applying an ion implantation to a gate region before a source/drain annealing process. The source/drain region may then be annealed along with the gate which will cause the gate to expand in certain areas due to said ion implantation. As a result, stress caused by said expansion of the gate is transferred to the channel region in the semiconductor substrate.
US08519444B2	Modified design rules to improve device performance The layouts, device structures, and methods described above utilize dummy devices to extend the diffusion regions of edge structures and/or non-allowed structures to the dummy device. Such extension of diffusion regions resolves or reduces LOD and edge effect issues. In addition, treating the gate structure of a dummy device next to an edge device also allows only one dummy structure to be added next to the dummy device and saves the real estate on the semiconductor chip. The dummy devices are deactivated and their performance is not important. Therefore, utilizing dummy devices to extend the diffusion regions of edge structures and/or non-allowed structures according to design rules allows the resolution or reduction or LOD and edge effect issues without the penalty of yield reduction or increase in layout areas.
US08519443B2	Method for making a heterojunction bipolar transistor The invention concerns a heterojunction bipolar transistor comprising a support, and epitaxially grown from said support, at least: one collecting, respectively emitting, layer; at least one base layer; and at least one emitting, respectively collecting, layer. The collecting, respectively emitting, layer comprises: at least one first undercoat contacted with said base layer, substantially of similar composition as said emitting, respectively collecting, layer; and at least one second undercoat on the side opposite said base layer relative to said first undercoat.
US08519441B2	High speed high power nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device has: a substrate; a semiconductor lamination formed on the substrate, and including a channel layer of nitride semiconductor; source and drain electrodes formed on the semiconductor lamination in ohmic contact with the channel layer; an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor lamination, and having an opening in a gate electrode contact area, a total thickness portion having a flat surface and a total thickness in an area spaced apart from the opening, and a transient portion with monotonically changing thickness between the opening and the total thickness portion, a sidewall of the insulating layer facing the opening rising steeply to a partial thickness of the total thickness; and a T-shaped gate electrode contacting the semiconductor lamination layer in the opening and extending on the insulating film to portions with increased thickness thicker than the partial thickness.
US08519439B2	Nitride semiconductor element with N-face semiconductor crystal layer According to one embodiment, the semiconductor element includes a first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer contains AlXGa1-XN. A top layer of the first semiconductor layer is terminated by nitrogen. The semiconductor element includes a second semiconductor layer containing non-doped or first conductivity-type AlYGa1-YN formed on the first semiconductor layer. The semiconductor element includes a third semiconductor layer containing AlZGa1-ZN formed on the second semiconductor layer. The semiconductor element includes a first major electrode connected to the third semiconductor layer. The semiconductor element includes a second major electrode connected to the third semiconductor layer. The semiconductor element includes a gate electrode provided on the third semiconductor layer between the first major electrode and the second major electrode.
US08519438B2	Enhancement mode III-N HEMTs A III-N semiconductor device that includes a substrate and a nitride channel layer including a region partly beneath a gate region, and two channel access regions on opposite sides of the part beneath the gate. The channel access regions may be in a different layer from the region beneath the gate. The device includes an AlXN layer adjacent the channel layer wherein X is gallium, indium or their combination, and a preferably n-doped GaN layer adjacent the AlXN layer in the areas adjacent to the channel access regions. The concentration of Al in the AlXN layer, the AlXN layer thickness and the n-doping concentration in the n-doped GaN layer are selected to induce a 2DEG charge in channel access regions without inducing any substantial 2DEG charge beneath the gate, so that the channel is not conductive in the absence of a switching voltage applied to the gate.
US08519437B2	Polarization doping in nitride based diodes A light emitting device comprising a three-dimensional polarization-graded (3DPG) structure that improves lateral current spreading within the device without introducing additional dopant impurities in the epitaxial structures. The 3DPG structure can include a repeatable stack unit that may be repeated several times within the 3DPG. The stack unit includes a compositionally graded layer and a silicon (Si) delta-doped layer. The graded layer is compositionally graded over a distance from a first material to a second material, introducing a polarization-induced bulk charge into the structure. The Si delta-doped layer compensates for back-depletion of the electron gas at the interface of the graded layers and adjacent layers. The 3DPG facilitates lateral current spreading so that current is injected into the entire active region, increasing the number of radiative recombination events in the active region and improving the external quantum efficiency and the wall-plug efficiency of the device.
US08519428B2	Vertical stacked light emitting structure A vertical stacked light emitting structure includes a substrate unit, a stacked type light emitting module, and a flip-chip type light emitting module. The substrate unit includes a substrate body. The stacked type light emitting module includes a first light emitting unit and a light guiding unit. The first light emitting unit includes at least one first LED bare chip disposed on and electrically connected to the substrate body, and the light guiding unit includes at least one light guiding body disposed on the first LED bare chip. The flip-chip type light emitting module includes a second light emitting unit. The second light emitting unit includes at least one second LED bare chip disposed on the light guiding body and electrically connected to the substrate body. Hence, the first LED bare chip, the light guiding body, and the second LED bare chip are stacked on top of one another sequentially.
US08519424B2	User configurable mosaic light emitting apparatus Mosaic devices including an apparatus includes at least one electroluminescence (EL) device and a system substrate. The at least one EL device can be configured to be coupled mechanically and electrically to the system substrate. The system substrate can be configured to receive the at least one EL device at a non-discrete location or orientation. The system substrate can be a smart system substrate configured to automatically identify a device type. The EL device can be an area-emitting device such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device.
US08519420B2	Light emitting diode package An exemplary LED package includes first and second electrodes, an LED chip and two electrically conductive wires. The first electrode has a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. A recess is defined in the top surface of the first electrode. The second electrode has a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. A recess is defined in the top surface of the second electrode. The LED chip has a bottom surface attached to the top surface of the first electrode, and a top surface on which a first pad and a second pad are formed. One of the electrically conductive wires has an end connecting to the first pad and an opposite end joining with a bottom of the recess of the first electrode. The other has an end connecting to the second pad and an opposite end joining with a bottom of the recess of the second electrode.
US08519419B2	Semiconductor light-emitting structure having low thermal stress A semiconductor light-emitting structure includes a silicon substrate, a distributed Bragg reflector, a semiconductor structures layer and an epitaxy connecting layer. The silicon substrate has a top surface. The distributed Bragg reflector is formed on the top surface of the silicon substrate. The semiconductor structures layer is configured for emitting light. The epitaxy connecting layer is placed between the distributed Bragg reflector and the semiconductor structures layer. Grooves extend from the semiconductor structures layer through the epitaxy connecting layer and the distributed Bragg reflector to reach the semiconductor structures layer.
US08519408B2	Method of fabricating a thin film transistor substrate and a photosensitive composition used in the thin film transistor substrate Disclosed is a method of producing a thin film transistor substrate having high light sensitivity, heat-resistance, impact resistance, and a photosensitive composition used by the same, the method including forming data wires on an insulating substrate, forming an organic insulating film on the data wires by applying a photosensitive composition comprising a terpolymer, where the terpolymer is derived from monomers of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, an unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride, or a mixture thereof, an unsaturated epoxy group-containing compound, and an olefinic compound.
US08519407B2	Organic light-emitting display having light blocking layer formed over pixel defining layer An organic light-emitting display includes a substrate including a pixel region and a transistor region; a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode formed over the pixel region and the transistor region of the substrate, respectively; a gate electrode formed over the second transparent electrode; a gate insulating film formed over the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer formed over the gate insulating film; a source and drain electrode having an end connected to the semiconductor layer and the other end connected to the first transparent electrode; a pixel defining layer disposed over the source and drain electrode to cover the source and drain electrode and having an opening disposed over the first transparent electrode; a light-blocking layer formed over the pixel defining layer; and an organic light-emitting layer formed over the first transparent electrode.
US08519404B2	Light-emitting device and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a display device and a manufacturing method thereof that can simplify manufacturing steps and enhance efficiency in the use of materials, and further, a manufacturing method that can enhance adhesiveness of a pattern. One feature of the invention is that at least one or more patterns needed for manufacturing a display panel, such as a conductive layer forming a wiring or an electrode or a mask for forming a desired pattern is/are formed by a method capable of selectively forming a pattern, thereby manufacturing a display panel.
US08519402B2	Structure, structure and method of latch-up immunity for high and low voltage integrated circuits Design structures, structures and methods of manufacturing structures for providing latch-up immunity for mixed voltage integrated circuits. The structure includes a diffused N-Tub structure embedded in a P-wafer and provided below a retrograde N-well to a non-isolated CMOS logic.
US08519401B2	Active device array substrate A repair method for repairing an active device array substrate is provided. The active device array substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, active devices, pixel electrodes, and common lines. At least one of the scan line has an open defect. The scan lines and the data lines are intersected to define sub-pixel regions. The active devices are electrically connected with the scan lines and the data lines correspondingly. Each pixel electrode is disposed in one of the sub-pixel regions and electrically connected with one of the active devices. The repair method includes cutting one of the common lines neighboring to the open defect to form a cutting block that is electrically insulated from the common lines; and welding the cutting block, the scan line having the open defect and two active devices located at two opposite sides of the open defect.
US08519396B2	Array substrate for in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and fabricating method thereof An array for an in-plane switching (IPS) mode liquid crystal display device includes a gate line formed on a substrate to extend in a first direction, a common line formed on the substrate to extend in the first direction, a data line formed to extend in a second direction, a thin film transistor formed at an intersection between the gate line and the data line, wherein the thin film transistor includes a gate line, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a passivation film formed on the substrate including the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode formed on the passivation film located on a pixel region defined by the gate line and the data line, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the drain electrode, a common electrode formed on the passivation film, and a common electrode connection line connected to the common electrode and the common line, wherein the common electrode connection line overlaps with the common line and the drain electrode.
US08519394B2	Semiconductor device In an inverted staggered thin film transistor, a microcrystalline silicon film and a silicon carbide film are provided between a gate insulating film and wirings serving as a source wiring and a drain wiring. The microcrystalline silicon film is formed on the gate insulating film side and the silicon carbide film is formed on the wiring side. In such a manner, a semiconductor device having favorable electric characteristics can be manufactured with high productivity.
US08519388B2	Embedded structure for passivation integrity testing The present invention relates to a method and system for testing integrity of a passivation layer (108) covering a semiconductor device. A structured layer of electrically conducting material (104) is deposited onto at least a portion of a top surface of a substrate (102) of the semiconductor device. The structured layer (104) comprises a plurality of bands (104.1, 104.2) connected to at least two contacts (106.1, 106.2) and disposed on the at least a portion of the top surface such that one of consecutive bands (104.1, 104.2) and consecutive portions of the bands (104.1, 104.2) are connected to different contacts (106.1, 106.2). A passivation layer (108) is deposited onto the at least a portion of the top surface of the substrate (102) and the structured layer (104) such that material of the passivation layer(108) is disposed between the bands of conducting material (104.1, 104.2) and on top of the structured layer (104). Electrically conducting material is then deposited onto the passivation layer (108) and a resistance is measured between the at least two contacts (106.1, 106.2). An indication with respect to integrity of the passivation layer (108) is determined in dependence upon the measured resistance.
US08519387B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing An insulating layer which releases a large amount of oxygen is used as an insulating layer in contact with a channel region of an oxide semiconductor layer, and an insulating layer which releases a small amount of oxygen is used as an insulating layer in contact with a source region and a drain region of the oxide semiconductor layer. By releasing oxygen from the insulating layer which releases a large amount of oxygen, oxygen deficiency in the channel region and an interface state density between the insulating layer and the channel region can be reduced, so that a highly reliable semiconductor device having small variation in electrical characteristics can be manufactured. The source region and the drain region are provided in contact with the insulating layer which releases a small amount of oxygen, thereby suppressing the increase of the resistance of the source region and the drain region.
US08519384B2	Phosphorescent materials Novel organic compounds containing a twisted aryl group are provided. In particular, the compounds provided contain a 2-phenylpyridine ligand having a twisted aryl group on the pyridine portion of the ligand. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, particularly as emitting dopants. Devices comprising the compounds containing twisted aryl may demonstrate improved color, efficiency, stability and manufacturing. Additionally, methods are provided for making homoleptic Ir (III) compounds which may contain a twisted aryl.
US08519383B2	Organic electroluminescence display apparatus with reduced chromaticity difference caused by light emission from an organic layer including an emission layer having the same color which is continuously formed over two sub-pixels Provided is an organic electroluminescence display apparatus capable of reducing a chromaticity difference caused by light emission from an organic layer including an emission layer having the same color, which is continuously formed over two sub-pixels included in a pixel. The organic electroluminescence display apparatus includes: a substrate; and multiple organic electroluminescence devices which are stacked on the substrate, each of which includes electrodes and an organic layer sandwiched by the electrodes in which first organic layer and a second organic layer are arranged side by side in an emission region corresponding to a pixel formed on the substrate and a third organic layer is stacked over the first organic layer and the second organic layer through an intermediate electrode. The third organic layer has an emission spectrum peak wavelength which is longer than an emission spectrum peak wavelength of at least one of the first organic layer and the second organic layer.
US08519382B2	Semiconductor photocapacitor device A photocapacitor device is provided for responding to a photon having at least a specified energy. The photocapacitive device includes a first portion composed of a photocapacitive material; a second portion composed of a non-photocapacitive material; and a depletion region disposed between the first and second portions. The photocapacitive and non-photocapacitive materials respectively have first and second Fermi-energy differences, with the second Fermi-energy difference being higher than the first Fermi-energy difference.
US08519381B2	Organic semiconductor device, organic solar cell, and display panel An organic semiconductor device includes, between a pair of electrodes of a first metal electrode and a second electrode, at least, a light-emitting layer, a hole injection layer which removes holes from the first metal electrode, a hole transporting layer formed on the light-emitting layer on a side of the first metal electrode for transporting the holes removed by the hole injection layer to the light-emitting layer, and an electron transporting layer formed on the light-emitting layer on a side of the second electrode for removing electrons from the second electrode and transporting the electrons to the light-emitting layer, wherein the organic semiconductor device further includes a crystallinity controlling member which is a series of discontinuous clusters along the contact surface of the hole injection layer that is in contact with the first metal electrode, for controlling an orientation of crystalline molecules.
US08519379B2	Nanowire structured photodiode with a surrounding epitaxially grown P or N layer An embodiment relates to a device comprising a substrate, a nanowire and a doped epitaxial layer surrounding the nanowire, wherein the nanowire is configured to be both a channel to transmit wavelengths up to a selective wavelength and an active element to detect the wavelengths up to the selective wavelength transmitted through the nanowire. Another embodiment relates to a device comprising a substrate, a nanowire and one or more photogates surrounding the nanowire, wherein the nanowire is configured to be both a channel to transmit wavelengths up to a selective wavelength and an active element to detect the wavelengths up to the selective wavelength transmitted through the nanowire, and wherein the one or more photogates comprise an epitaxial layer.
US08519377B2	Nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory device group, and manufacturing method thereof A nonvolatile memory device group includes: (A) a first insulating layer; (B) a second insulating layer that has a first concavity and a second concavity communicating with the first concavity and having a width larger than that of the first concavity and that is disposed on the first insulating layer; (C) a plurality of electrodes that are disposed in the first insulating layer and the top surface of which is exposed from the bottom surface of the first concavity; (D) an information storage layer that is formed on the side walls and the bottom surfaces of the first concavity and the second concavity; and (E) a conductive material layer that is filled in a space surrounded with the information storage layer in the second concavity.
US08519374B2	Resistive memory device and method for fabricating the same A resistive memory device includes a lower electrode formed on a substrate, a resistive layer formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on the resistive layer, wherein a lower portion of the upper electrode is narrower than an upper portion of the upper electrode.
US08519373B2	Memory cells Some embodiments include memory cells. A memory cell may contain a switching region and an ion source region between a pair of electrodes. The switching region may be configured to reversibly retain a conductive bridge, with the memory cell being in a low resistive state when the conductive bridge is retained within the switching region and being in a high resistive state when the conductive bridge is not within the switching region. The memory cell may contain an ordered framework extending across the switching region to orient the conductive bridge within the switching region, with the framework remaining within the switching region in both the high resistive and low resistive states of the memory cell.
US08519370B2	Modifying radiation beam shapes A patient's lesion is localized for the purpose of administering radiation treatment by obtaining a beam shape representation along one or more beam directions of a radiation treatment device. An image corresponding to the lesion is obtained from each beam direction, and the beam shape and image are fixed to a common coordinate system to facilitate alignment.
US08519369B1	Handheld illumination device A handheld illumination device is disclosed. The handheld illumination device may include a housing configured to be held in a hand, an input device configured to be actuated by a user, a battery, an illumination source, and a processing circuit. In response to an actuation of the input device, the processing circuit is configured to start a timer without illuminating the illumination source and, upon expiration of the timer, to illuminate the illumination source.
US08519368B2	Method and device for generating EUV radiation or soft X-rays The present invention relates to a method and device for generating optical radiation, in particular EUV radiation or soft x-rays, by means of an electrically operated discharge. A plasma (15) is ignited in a gaseous medium between at least two electrodes (1, 2), wherein said gaseous medium is produced at least partly from a liquid material (6) which is applied to a surface moving in the discharge space and is at least partially evaporated by one or several pulsed energy beams. In the proposed method and device the pulses (9) of said pulsed energy beams are directed to at least two different lateral locations with respect to a moving direction of said surface. With this measure, the radiation emission volume is expanded, less sensitive to spatial fluctuations and can be adapted better to the requirements of optical systems of any applications. Furthermore, the optical output power can be increased by this measure.
US08519366B2	Debris protection system having a magnetic field for an EUV light source Devices are disclosed herein which may comprise a vessel; a material disposed in the vessel for creating an EUV light emitting plasma at a plasma site, the plasma generating debris; a near normal incidence EUV reflective optic disposed in the vessel; and a source of a magnetic field for deflecting debris in the vessel to protect the optic, the source positioned to interpose the optic between the source and the plasma site.
US08519361B2	System and method for germicidal sanitizing of an elevator or other enclosed structure A system for sanitizing an enclosed structure has first and second sensors, a germicidal ultraviolet light source, a motor, and a controller. The first sensor detects humans within the enclosed structure. The second sensor detects the position of at least one door to the structure. The motor selectively moves the light source from an inactive position to an active position. The controller receives inputs from the first and second sensors and transmits outputs to the light source and the motor. When the controller receives signals that no humans or animals are present in the enclosed structure and that the door is in a closed position, the controller transmits a signal to the motor to move the light source from the inactive to the active position. If humans are detected in the structure or if the door is detected open, then the controller deactivates or repositions the light source.
US08519351B2	SPECT camera Systems and methods for providing improved detectors for use in SPECT cameras. The improved detectors use pinhole apertures and surfaces calculated to provide improved sensitivity and resolution. In some embodiments, the detectors have non-planar surfaces. In some embodiments, the surfaces are spherical, conical, parabolic, or other non-planar forms.
US08519350B2	Gas-filled neutron detectors having improved detection efficiency Surfaces or surface portions incorporated into gas-filled neutron detectors are coated with and/or composed of at least partially, neutron reactive material. The surfaces may be flat or curved fins or plates, foils, porous or filamentary material, or semi-solid material or aerogel. The incorporation of the extended surfaces coated with or composed of neutron reactive material increases the neutron detection efficiency of the gas-filled detectors over conventional coated designs. These surfaces or surface portions increase the amount of neutron reactive material present in the detector over conventional coated designs and, as a result, increase the neutron detection efficiency. The surfaces can be made of conductive, semiconductive or insulative materials. The surfaces are arranged such that they do not detrimentally detract from the main function of a gas-filled detector with particular attention to gas-filled proportional detectors.
US08519348B2	Image quality monitor for digital radiography system A system for monitoring the state of calibration of a digital x-ray detector having a solid state sensor with a plurality of pixels, a scintillating screen and at least one embedded microprocessor, the system having means for capturing a digital image and a computer operable during normal diagnostic use of the detector, in cooperation with at least one embedded microprocessor, for performing pixelwise computations on the image and calculating a misregistration metric indicative of movement of the solid state sensor relative to the scintillating screen. A defect metric indicative of abnormal properties of pixels in the solid state sensor is calculated. It is then determined whether one or both of the misregistration metric and the defect metric exceeds a respective, preselected threshold value. The user of the system is alerted to conduct a calibration of the detector when either one or both of the respective threshold values have been exceeded.
US08519347B2	Methods and compositions for the detection of X-ray and gamma-ray radiation Compounds, methods and devices for detecting incident radiation, such as incident x-rays or gamma-rays, are provided. The detection of incident radiation can be accomplished by employing inorganic compounds that include elements with high atomic numbers, that have band gaps of at least about 1.5 eV, and that have an electrical resistivity of at least 106 Ωcm as photoelectric materials in a radiation detector. The compounds include inorganic compounds comprising at least one element from periods five or six of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
US08519341B2	Radiation tomography apparatus This invention has one object to provide radiation tomography apparatus that allows suppression of arithmetic load of detection data with a wider detector ring. In order to achieve this purpose, the radiation tomography apparatus according to this invention performs coincidence only when two scintillation counter crystals that detect gamma rays coincidentally (A) belong to the same ring unit, or (B) belong to each of the ring units adjacent to each other. Accordingly, a distance in the central axis direction between the radiation detecting elements is limited to be equal to or less than a thickness of the ring unit in the central axis direction. Accordingly, radiation tomography apparatus may be provided that allows generation of the sectional image suitable for diagnosis while arithmetic load is suppressed.
US08519340B2	High dynamic range light sensor When detecting photons in a computed tomography (CT) detector, a sensor (10, 38) includes a photodiode that is switchable between liner and Geiger operation modes to increase sensing range. When signal to noise ratio (SNR) is high, a large bias voltage is applied to the photodiode (12) to charge it beyond its breakdown voltage, which makes it sensitive to single photons and causes it to operate in Geiger mode. When a photon is received at the photodiode (12), a readout transistor (18) senses the voltage drop across the photodiode (12) to detect the photon. Alternatively, when SNR is low, a low bias voltage is applied to the photodiode (12) to cause it to operate in linear mode.
US08519339B2	Rare-earth halide scintillator coated with a light absorber or light reflector A scintillator material comprises a rare-earth halide coated with a layer comprising a resin and a pigment. In an embodiment, the scintillator material is used in an ionizing-radiation detector, and in particular embodiment, a gamma camera. The layer can adhere well and act as an absorbent or reflector depending on the color of the pigment.
US08519337B2	Thermal effect measurement with near-infrared spectroscopy A method of determining a physical property of a composite material includes providing a series of composite materials surfacing films, which are subjected to increasing thermal experience to create a set of thermal effect standards, collecting near-IR spectra on those standards, performing data pre-processing and then multivariate calibration on the spectra of the composite materials surfacing films, and using that calibration to predict the thermal effect for samples in question.
US08519336B2	Infrared sensor and infrared sensor module The present invention provides an infrared sensor and an infrared sensor module having reduced noise, improved detection precision, and reduced manufacture cost. The infrared sensor includes a first substrate transmitting infrared light including at least one reduced-pressure and sealed cavity, at least one infrared sensing unit provided on the side of the first substrate, and at least one infrared sensing unit generating an output change. The infrared sensor includes a second substrate stacked on the first substrate with a recess, a reflection face capable of reflecting the infrared light, and at least one arithmetic circuit for amplifying or integrating an output, arranged in such a manner that the reflection face is sandwiched between the at least one sensing unit and the least one arithmetic circuit.
US08519334B2	Scanning electron microscope and sample observation method The present invention provides a contact hole observation technology for avoiding a situation in which it is difficult to observe a contact hole as a nonuniform charge is formed in the contact hole due to a tilted electron beam during a process for forming a preliminary charge on a sample. The present invention also provides a scanning electron microscope based on such a contact hole observation technology. During a preliminary charge process, an electron beam is allowed to become incident in a plurality of directions to perform a precharge, thereby reducing a region within the contact hole that is not irradiated with the electron beam. This reduces the number of secondary electrons that become lost on the wall surface of the contact hole, thereby making it possible to acquire information about the bottom of the contact hole. Further, the precharge is processed by dividing a precharge irradiation region into a plurality of ring-shaped regions concentric with an observation region and precharging each of the ring-shaped regions in a plurality of scanning directions.
US08519333B2	Charged particle system for reticle/wafer defects inspection and review The present invention relates to a charged particle system for reticle or semiconductor wafer defects inspection and review, and more particularly, relates to an E-beam inspection tool for reticle or semiconductor wafer defects inspection and review without gravitational AMC settling. The charged particle system is an upside down electron beam inspection system with an electron beam aimed upward. The face down design may prevent AMC from gravitational settling on the inspected face of the specimen during inspection, thereafter having a cleaner result compared with conventional face-up inspection system.
US08519332B2	Semiconductor inspecting apparatus In the case of inspecting samples having different sizes by means of a semiconductor inspecting apparatus, a primary electron beam bends since distribution is disturbed on an equipotential surface at the vicinity of the sample at the time of inspecting vicinities of the sample, and what is called a positional shift is generated. A potential correcting electrode is arranged outside the sample and at a position lower than the sample lower surface, and a potential lower than that of the sample is applied. Furthermore, a voltage to be applied to the potential correcting electrode is controlled corresponding to a distance between the inspecting position and a sample outer end, sample thickness and irradiation conditions of the primary electron beam.
US08519326B2	Universal projector interface having at least one arm assembly including an elongate arm member and a shiftable coupling portion with sustainable alignment A universal projector interface including a mount interface portion with a plurality of elongate arm assemblies coupled thereto. Each arm assembly is selectively rotatable and translatable relative to the mount interface, and includes a coupling portion. The coupling portion of each arm assembly is selectively shiftable between a first position in which the coupling portion is securely engaged with a projector attachment member on the projector and a second position in which the coupling portion is freely disengageable from the projector attachment member.
US08519324B2	Laser projector for projecting and displaying an image based on the raster scanning of a laser beam A laser projector displays an image based on raster scanning of a laser beam. The laser projector is capable of reliably detecting the deflection angle of a vibratory mirror used for horizontally scanning without the need for a light source other than a laser light source for displaying images even if the deflection angle is small, and also of accurately adjusting the deflection angle of the vibratory mirror to a predetermined deflection angle at the resonant frequency of the vibratory mirror without exceeding the predetermined deflection angle.
US08519323B2	Electric field/magnetic field sensors and methods of fabricating the same A magnetic field sensor fabrication method of directly forming, with an aerosol deposition method, at a tip of an optical fiber, a magnetooptical layer having a refractive index that changes depending on a magnetic field, the method includes establishing a relationship of dc≦d≦dr among a diameter d of the magnetooptical layer, a diameter dc of a core of the optical fiber, and a diameter dr of a clad thereof.
US08519319B2	Physical information acquisition method, physical information acquisition device, and semiconductor device A physical information acquisition method in which a corresponding wavelength region of visible light with at least one visible light detection unit coupled to an image signal processing unit is detected, each said visible light detection unit comprising a color filter adapted to transmit the corresponding wavelength region of visible light; a wavelength region of infrared light with at least one infrared light detection unit coupled to the image signal processing unit is detected; and, with the signal processing unit, a first signal received from the at least one visible light detection unit by subtracting a product from said first signal is corrected, said product resulting from multiplication of a second signal received from the at least one infrared light detection unit and a predetermined coefficient factor.
US08519318B2	Solid-state image sensing device and control method of the same According to one embodiment, a solid-state image sensing device for reading out, via an output circuit, a reset signal and a pixel signal from a pixel unit which performs photoelectric conversion includes a comparator which compares a signal read out from the pixel unit with a reference signal, a counter which counts clocks input until a pulse signal indicating a comparison result from the comparator is obtained, and a counter controller which prevents the counter from performing an operation of stopping pixel signal counting, based on an output result of the reset signal from the comparator.
US08519312B1	Missile with shroud that separates in flight A missile includes a separable shroud that covers a nose portion of the fuselage of the missile. The shroud covers and protects a seeker window and a seeker at the nose of the missile. The shroud is configured to remain coupled to the missile during and immediately after launch of the missile, and to separate during flight under the action of aerodynamic forces. Toward that end parts of the shroud are initially coupled together by a retainer, which allows the parts to separate during flight. The retainer may include one or more tension bands that break at a certain tension, and/or one or more weakened parts of the shroud, which break during flight. Parts of the shroud may include inward protrusions that make contact with an ogive portion of the nose of the fuselage.
US08519308B2	Perforated lid for containers for cooking food The present invention concerns an improved perforated lid (10) for containers for cooking foods, comprising holes (15) for the passage of vapor and gas going upwards and of condensed vapor going downwards and means for cooling and condensing vapor passing through said holes, and means for supporting said means for cooling vapor, wherein said means for cooling vapor are made of a sequence, starting from the container for cooking foods and going upwards, comprised of a perforated lower plate (11), at least one perforated intermediate plate (12) and an upper plate (13) that is not perforated, and said means for supporting said means for cooling vapor are made of a lower spacing element (16), positioned between said lower plate (11) and said intermediate plate (12) and of an upper spacing element (18), positioned between said intermediate plate (12) and said upper plate (13).The invention further concerns a fryer (20) for use with said perforated lid (10).
US08519306B2	Glow plug A glow plug including a pressure sensor (830) and a heater (150). The glow plug includes a position-defining member which defines the positional relationship between the pressure sensor (830) and the heater (150) and has a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than that of the heater. The pressure sensor (830) is fixed at a predetermined sensor reference position relative to the position-defining member. The heater (150) is held by a heater-holding member (820) in such manner that an attachment position A of the heater-holding member to the heater can be displaced, with a change in external pressure, relative to a predetermined heater reference position defined by the position-defining member. A displacement transmission member (840) is arranged between the heater (150) and the pressure sensor (830) so as to transmit displacement of the heater (150) to the pressure sensor (830). The coefficient of thermal expansion of the displacement transmission member (840) is rendered greater than that of the position-defining member.
US08519302B2	Electric arc welder An electric arc welder for depositing weld metal along a groove between two edges of a metal workpiece where the welder comprises a first electrode driven by a first wire feeder toward a point in said groove, a second electrode driven by a second wire feeder toward the point and a main power source with a first output terminal connected to the first electrode and a second output terminal connected both to the second electrode and directly or indirectly to the metal workpiece to create a second electrode path and a workpiece path. The power source includes a high speed switching output stage for creating current with a selected AC waveform between the first and second output terminals where the waveform of the main power source is generated by a waveform generator controlling a pulse width modulator circuit to determine the current operation of the output stage.
US08519301B2	Book trimmer with laser scorer A trimmer for trimming a book has a support for supporting a book, at least one laser for scoring an edge of the book so as to produce a score, and a trimming station for trimming the book at the score.
US08519292B2	Arc chute and circuit breaker equipped with one such arc chute An arc chute including an arc extinguishing chamber formed by a stack of deionizing plates, an arc formation chamber defined by first and second side walls or cheeks, and a system for removing gases generated when an electric arc forms in the chute, that include a removal duct behind the second cheek and connected to an exchange space. The arc extinguishing chamber includes permanent magnets, at least a part of the magnets being behind the first cheek, and the gas removal system includes an opening formed partially in the second cheek and exiting outside the arc chute. A circuit breaker may include such an arc chute.
US08519287B2	Circuit breaker with controlled exhaust A circuit breaker assembly includes a housing, a trip mechanism, a vent channel, and a chamber. The trip mechanism is positioned within the housing can causes a movable contact to separate from a second contact in response to detection by the circuit breaker assembly of an electrical fault. The vent channel is formed in the housing and positioned to exhaust gas and debris produced as the movable contact separates from the second contact during the electrical fault to an aperture in the housing. The chamber has a chamber housing coupled to the housing adjacent the aperture such that the chamber receives the gas and debris exiting the aperture.
US08519283B2	Cover assembly with electrical switching apparatus An improved cover assembly for use with an electrical switching apparatus can be said to comprise a retention device that is structured to be disposed on the electrical switching apparatus and a cover that comprises an engagement element and that is disposed on the retention device. The cover is translatable between a first configuration and a second configuration and is configured such that a locking element will resist movement of the cover toward the second configuration. In the first configuration, the engagement element and the retention device confront one another to resist movement of the cover away from the electrical switching apparatus. However, in the second configuration, the engagement element and the retention device are clear of one another and enable the cover to be pivoted away from the electrical switching apparatus to provide access to the control elements of the switching apparatus.
US08519281B2	Input device An input device includes a thin film substrate on which a fixed electrode is formed, and a movable electrode formed of a conductive material, the fixed electrode including a capacitance detection electrode and a connection section, the movable electrode including a displacement section that is disposed to be opposite to the capacitance detection electrode and deformed by a pressing force, and a stationary section that is connected to the connection section, the input device detecting a change in capacitance that occurs when the displacement section has been pressed. The input device has a reduced thickness, and can be inexpensively produced by reducing the number of parts. Moreover, the input device can be easily incorporated in an electronic instrument.
US08519279B2	Portable electronic device with interface An electronic device includes a housing defining an opening; a sealing assembly including a main body and a sealing element mounted on the main body; the sealing element comprising a first sealing portion and a second sealing portion; the main body having a compartment, a hole and a first mounting hole; the hole and the first mounting hole respectively defined at opposite ends of the main body; and the hole aligned with the opening; and an interface mounted to the first mounting hole. The first sealing portion and the second sealing portion are both made of resilient material, the first sealing portion located between the housing and the main body to seal a first gap occurring between the housing and the main body, and the second sealing portion surrounding an inner surface of the first mounting hole to seal a second gap occurring between the interface and the main body.
US08519276B2	Secure raised access floor service box and system A raised access floor service box can have a plurality of entry points that are segregated from one another. Each of the plurality of entry points can be associated with a corresponding plurality of segregated chambers. At least one of the segregated chambers can be configured to be a secure chamber, which further can include a door to the chamber. The door to the secure chamber can include a lock that secures and prevents the door from opening when the lock is in a locked position, thus securing the cables and cable connections within the security chamber. In addition, the raised access floor service box can have connector ports that are only accessible within the security chamber. The raised access floor service box thus allows for various types of cables, with various levels of security, to be associated with a single raised access floor service box.
US08519274B2	Pin that inserts into a circuit board hole A pin and a method of establishing contact between a pin and plating of a circuit board hole is provided. Embodiments include a pin comprising a pair of outwardly biased flexible beams that each extend from a body of the pin, the flexible beams connected at one end to one another at the body of the pin and separated from each other at an end opposite the end connected to the body, the separation between the pair of flexible beams forming an open slot, each flexible beam including a contact point that contacts the plating of the hole when the pin is inserted into the circuit board hole.
US08519273B2	Circuit materials with improved bond, method of manufacture thereof, and articles formed therefrom A circuit subassembly, comprising: a conductive layer, a dielectric layer formed from a thermosetting composition, wherein the thermosetting composition comprises, based on the total weight of the thermosetting composition a polybutadiene or polyisoprene resin, about 30 to about 70 percent by weight of a magnesium hydroxide having less than about 1000 ppm of ionic contaminants, and about 5 to about 15 percent by weight of a nitrogen-containing compound, wherein the nitrogen-containing compound comprises at least about 15 weight percent of nitrogen; and an adhesive layer disposed between and in intimate contact with the conductive layer and the dielectric layer, wherein the adhesive comprises a poly(arylene ether), wherein the circuit subassembly has a UL-94 rating of at least V-1.
US08519269B2	Conductor of an electric wire, and an insulated wire A conductor of an electric wire, and an insulated wire which are excellent in corrosion resistance and recyclability, of which the strength which is decreased by weight reduction and diameter reduction is improved. The conductor includes a strand which includes a first elemental wire made from pure copper and a second elemental wire made from a copper alloy. In the conductor, a cross-sectional area of the first elemental wire as a percentage of a cross-sectional area of the conductor is preferably within a range of 10 to 90%. Examples of the copper alloy include a Cu—Ni—Si alloy, and a copper alloy containing Sn, Ag, Mg, or Zn. The conductor may be compressed concentrically. The insulated wire is prepared by covering the conductor with an insulator.
US08519266B2	Remodeling luminaire fixture A remodeler luminaire fixture (10) having a fixture frame (14) including a junction box (24), the fixture frame having at least one long dimension, a driver housing mounting bracket (42) connected to one of the junction box and the fixture frame, the driver housing mounting bracket generally aligned with the fixture frame, a driver housing (50) pivotally connected to the driver housing mounting bracket wherein the driver housing is pivotal between a first position and a second position between zero and 190 degrees from the first position.
US08519262B2	Fullerene-functionalized particles, methods for making the same and their use in bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices Core shell particles and bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices using the core shell particles are described. In particular, core shell particles having a core particle and a shell of a second material and bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices using the core-shell particles are described. The core-shell particles can have a core particle with an electron donating material or a core particle with an electron donating material. Formation of a hulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic device using such an core-shell particles forming an interpenetrating network with the an electron donating or electron accepting phase is also described.
US08519261B2	Photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device is disclosed. One aspect includes a first substrate and a second substrate spaced apart from each other, an inner sealing portion formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an outer sealing portion formed between the first substrate and the second substrate and spaced apart from an outer edge of the inner sealing portion. Furthermore, a plurality of first electrodes may be formed on a surface of the first substrate that faces the second substrate and a current collecting electrode may be formed electrically connecting the first electrodes to each other. The inner sealing portion may be positioned to define a photoelectric conversion region. The current collecting electrode may be formed on the first substrate to extend from a contact with the plurality of first electrodes past an outer sealing region of the outer sealing portion.
US08519256B2	Thermoelectric material, thermoelectric element, thermoelectric module and method for manufacturing the same T provide an N type thermoelectric material having figure of the merit improved to be comparable to or higher than that of P type thermoelectric material, the N type thermoelectric material of the present invention contains at least one kind of Bi and Sb and at least one kind of Te and Se as main components, and contains bromine (Br) and iodine (I) to have carrier in such a concentration that corresponds to the contents of bromine (Br) and iodine (I).
US08519253B2	Method for converting thermal energy into electrical energy The invention relates to a device for converting thermal energy into electrical energy with at least one thermocouple, which thermocouple comprises two thermoelectric branches (A, B) electrically connected in series, and the thermocouple has a first passage surface (F1) and a second passage surface (F) for the heat flow (Q) and for the electrical current (7, 7′). In this connection, the value of the first passage surface (F1) is less than 5% of the value of the second passage surface (F).
US08519251B2	Magnetic instrument pickup An instrument pickup including a stack of thin laminated printed circuit boards. Each layer includes an etched coil conductor structure with narrow lines and spaces defining the coil structure. The layers are connected via through holes. The etched lines are smaller than the insulated copper wire (also sometimes called magnetic wire) of a conventional instrument pickup, which means that the size, volume and/or height of the pickup may be reduced relative to a conventional wire wound instrument pickup.
US08519248B2	Visual responses to a physical input in a media application A media application for providing outputs (e.g., audio outputs) in response to inputs received from an input device is provided. The media application may connect input mechanisms of an input device with parameters of channel strips (e.g., which may define output sounds) using an intermediate screen object. The media application may first assign an input mechanism to a screen object, and separately map a screen object to a channel strip parameter. The media application may map a screen object to several channel strips simultaneously such that, based on the value of the screen object, the volume of each of the several channel strips changes. The media application may provide a graphical representation of available channel strips using layers. As the media application accesses a channel strip, the appearance of the portion of the layer associated with the channel strip may change. The media application may also allow the patches, which may include several channel strips, to survive after a new patch is selected instead.
US08519246B2	Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar SJ909-371 A wheat cultivar, designated SJ909-371, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar SJ909-371, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar SJ909-371 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-371, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-371, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar SJ909-371 with another wheat cultivar.
US08519244B1	Maize variety inbred PH1DF7 A novel maize variety designated PH1DF7 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1DF7 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1DF7 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1DF7 or a locus conversion of PH1DF7 with another maize variety.
US08519240B1	Maize variety hybrid X03B465 A novel maize variety designated X03B465 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X03B465 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X03B465 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X03B465, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X03B465. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X03B465.
US08519239B1	Maize variety hybrid X13B606 A novel maize variety designated X13B606 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X13B606 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13B606 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X13B606, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13B606. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13B606.
US08519236B1	Inbred corn line NPFF6228 Basically, this invention provides for an inbred corn line designated NPFF6228, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPFF6228, with plants of another corn plant. The invention relates to the various parts of inbred NPFF6228, including culturable cells. This invention also relates to methods for introducing transgenic transgenes into inbred corn line NPFF6228, and plants produced by said methods.
US08519234B1	Soybean variety XBP35008 A novel soybean variety, designated XBP35008 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP35008, cells from soybean variety XBP35008, plants of soybean XBP35008, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP35008. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP35008 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP35008, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP35008, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP35008. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP35008 are further provided.
US08519233B1	Soybean variety XBP41004 A novel soybean variety, designated XBP41004 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP41004, cells from soybean variety XBP41004, plants of soybean XBP41004, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP41004. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP41004 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP41004, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP41004, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP41004. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP41004 are further provided.
US08519232B1	Soybean variety XBP10001 A novel soybean variety, designated XBP10001 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP10001, cells from soybean variety XBP10001, plants of soybean XBP10001, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP10001. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP10001 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP10001, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP10001, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP10001. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP10001 are further provided.
US08519226B2	Increased stress tolerance, yield, and quality via glutaredoxin overexpression Oxygenic photosynthesis is the major site of production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Under high temperature stress, increased ROS damage the photosynthetic machinery, membranes and proteins of plants. The present invention is directed to methods for increasing the stress tolerance of plants by expressing PvGrx5 in the plants.
US08519225B2	Identification and use of target genes for control of plant parasitic nematodes The invention relates to identifying and evaluating target coding sequences for control of plant parasitic nematodes by inhibiting one or more biological functions, and their use. The invention provides methods and compositions for identification of such sequences and for the control of a plant-parasitic nematode population. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the nematode, a reduction in disease may be obtained through suppression of nematode gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
US08519217B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH841046 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH841046. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH841046, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH841046 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH841046.
US08519216B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH784195 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH784195. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH784195, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH784195 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH784195.
US08519210B2	Process for producing ethylene via oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of ethane A process for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane is disclosed. The process may include: contacting an ethane feed and an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst in an oxidative dehydrogenation reaction zone under conditions to oxidatively dehydrogenate at least a portion of the ethane to produce a product stream comprising ethylene, carbon oxides, water, and unreacted oxygen and ethane, wherein an oxygen concentration in the product stream is at least 0.1 mol %; contacting the product stream with an oxygen elimination catalyst in an oxygen elimination reaction zone to combust at least a portion of the oxygen; recovering from the oxygen elimination reaction zone an effluent having a reduced oxygen content; separating water from the effluent; separating carbon oxides and any non-condensable gas(es) from the ethylene and the unreacted ethane; and separating the ethylene from the unreacted ethane.
US08519209B2	Method to adjust 2-phenyl content of an alkylation process for the production of linear alkyl benzene A process is presented for controlling the output of monoalkylated benzenes. The alkylbenzenes are linear alkylbenzenes and the process controls the 2-phenyl content of the product stream. The control of the process to generate a linear alkylbenzene with a 2-phenyl content within a desired range by recycling a portion of the effluent from the alkylation reactor to the inlet of the reactor.
US08519205B2	Low water biomass-derived pyrolysis oils and processes for producing the same Low water-containing biomass-derived pyrolysis oils and processes for producing them are provided. The process includes condensing pyrolysis gases including condensable pyrolysis gases and non-condensable gases to separate the condensable pyrolysis gases from the non-condensable gases, the non-condensable gases having a water content, drying the non-condensable pyrolysis gases to reduce the water content of the-non-condensable gases to form reduced-water non-condensable pyrolysis gases, and providing the reduced-water non-condensable pyrolysis gases to a pyrolysis reactor for forming the biomass-derived pyrolysis oil.
US08519204B2	Stabilization methods for microbial-derived olefins Processes and systems for stabilization and subsequent hydrogenation of an immiscible olefin are described. Methods of stabilizing a microbial-derived olefin composition are also described.
US08519200B1	Azeotropic compositions of 1,1,3,3-tetrachloro-1-fluoropropane and hydrogen fluoride Provided are azeotropic or azeotrope-like mixtures of 1,1,3,3-tetrachloro-1-fluoropropane (HCFC-241fa) and hydrogen fluoride. Such compositions are useful as an intermediate in the production of HFC-245fa and HCFO-1233zd.
US08519197B2	Synthesis of magnolol and its analogue compounds A method is described for producing magnolol, or a derivative or analogue thereof. The method includes obtaining MOM ether of 5,5′-diallylbiphenyl-2,2′-diol or a derivative or analogue thereof and subsequently converting the MOM ether of 5,5′-diallylbiphenyl-2,2′-diol into magnolol or a derivative or analogue thereof.
US08519192B2	Process for producing 2-(cyclohex-1′-enyl)cyclohexanone The present invention discloses a process for producing 2-(cyclohex-1′-enyl)cyclohexanone by an auto-condensation of cyclohexanone at a certain temperature in the presence of a certain solid acidic catalyst.
US08519187B2	Process for producing organic carboxylic acid amides The present invention relates to a process for producing organic carboxylic acid amides by nitrile hydrolysis of a nitrile compound at certain temperature and pressure in the presence of a catalyst to produce an organic carboxylic acid amide.
US08519186B2	Process for the preparation of indazolyl ureas that inhibit Vanilloid subtype 1 (VR1) receptors The present invention relates to a process of preparing indazolyl ureas that are useful as antagonists of the vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (VR1).
US08519184B2	Synthesis of rare earth metal extractant A rare earth metal extractant in the form of a dialkyl diglycol amic acid is synthesized by reacting diglycolic anhydride with a dialkylamine in a synthesis medium. A molar ratio (B/A) of dialkylamine (B) to diglycolic anhydride (A) is at least 1.0. A non-polar or low-polar solvent in which the dialkyl diglycol amic acid is dissolvable is used as the synthesis medium.
US08519183B2	Uses for amino acid anticonvulsants The present invention is directed to the use of compounds of the formula: for treating pain, in particular neuropathic pain, bipolar disease and migraine headaches.
US08519182B2	Acetic acid production process Disclosed is a method for controlling an acetic acid production process. The method comprises: (i) reacting methanol and carbon monoxide in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst, a catalyst stabilizer, methyl iodide, water, and methyl acetate to produce a reactor mixture which comprises the catalyst, the catalyst stabilizer, methanol, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methyl iodide, methyl acetate, water, and acetic acid; (ii) measuring the concentration of a component of the reactor mixture by Raman spectroscopic analysis; and (iii) adjusting the component concentration in the reactor mixture in response to the measured concentration. The method of the invention is particularly useful for measuring and controlling the concentration of carbon monoxide in the reactor liquid mixture.
US08519179B2	Method of measuring entry of water into phosgene-conducting plants The invention relates to a method of measuring entry of water and resulting corrosion in plants for producing isocyanates by reacting phosgene with one or more primary amines in a solvent. The invention further relates to an apparatus for producing such isocyanates, in the work-up section of which probes for monitoring corrosion are arranged in defined places.
US08519175B2	Functionalized amino acids and absorbable polymers therefrom The present invention relates to compounds of formula I and II, which are functionalized amino acids, and polymers formed from the same. Polymers formed from the functionalized amino acids are expected to have controllable degradation profiles, enabling them to release an active component over a desired time range. The polymers are also expected to be useful in a variety of medical applications.
US08519174B2	Metal carbamates formed from diaminophenylmethane The invention provides metal carbamates of the general formula (I) where R1 and R2 are each an alkyl group.
US08519173B2	Plant growth regulator Provided is a plant growth regulator having for an active ingredient thereof an α-ketol fatty acid derivative represented by the following general formula (1)
US08519169B2	Crystallization a 1alpha-hydroxy-20-methyl-2-methylene-19,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 A method of purifying 1α-hydroxy-20-methyl-2-methylene-19,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 to obtain 1α-hydroxy-20-methyl-2-methylene-19,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 in crystalline form. The method includes the steps of preparing a solvent of either ethyl formate or a mixture of ethyl formate and hexane, dissolving a product containing 1α-hydroxy-20-methyl-2-methylene-19,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 to be purified in the solvent, cooling the solvent and dissolved product below ambient temperature for a sufficient amount of time to form a precipitate of 1α-hydroxy-20-methyl-2-methylene-19,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 crystals, and recovering the 1α-hydroxy-20-methyl-2-methylene-19,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 crystals.
US08519162B2	Highly pure pentamycin Described is pentamycin in a purity exceeding 95%, certain polymorphs and solvates of pentamycin, processes for their manufacture, and a method for decreasing the rate of degradation of pentamycin.
US08519161B2	Process for preparing fluoropropylene carbonate There is provided a process for preparing a fluoropropylene carbonate safely at high yield by one step (one pot), and the process is characterized by allowing a fluorinating agent to act on a propylene carbonate derivative having a group to be released in a fluorination reaction.
US08519160B2	Process for the preparation of rotigotine A process for the preparation of Rotigotine (I) and of pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which comprises the reductive amination of an amine of formula 6 with the 2-thienylacetic acid-sodium boron hydride complex and which makes use of hydrobromide 5 as an intermediate (II). The process is advantageous from the industrial point of view in that it allows to obtain Rotigotine with high enantiomeric purity starting from optically active 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-6-(S)-N-propylamino-1-methoxynaphthalene (2), avoiding the use of dangerous reactives, the need for difficult chromatographic separation or the formation of by-products. Furthermore, two novel crystalline forms are disclosed.
US08519157B2	Method for producing of ultra-clean and high-purity N-methyl pyrrolidone The present invention provides a method for producing of ultra-clean and high-purity N-methyl pyrrolidone through using industrial grade N-methyl pyrrolidone as raw material. After the pretreatment, sorption and dehydration with 4A molecular sieve, twice membrane filtrations are carried out through using β-cyclodextrin composite membrane for the first and 18-crown-6 composite membrane for the second. The filtrate is rectified under vacuum and filtered through using complexant composite microporous membrane to obtain the product. The ultra-clean and high-purity N-methyl pyrrolidone, produced by the method provided by the present invention, is up to the SEMI C8 standard. And the purity of the product is over 99.8%, the moisture content is less than 0.03%, and the content of single metal ion is less than 1 ppb. Comparing to the prior art, the present invention has the advantage such as the stable quality of the product, simple operation, and is suitable for industrial continuous production.
US08519152B2	Process for the preparation of pyrazole carboxylic acid amides The invention relates to a process for the preparation of the compound of formula (I), which process comprises a) reacting a compound of formula (II), wherein X is chloro or bromo, with an organometallic species in an inert atmosphere to a halobenzyne of formula (X), reacting the halobenzyne of formula X so formed with cyclopentadiene to (III), b) reacting III in the presence of an inert solvent with an oxidant to (IV), c) reacting IV in the presence of a Lewis acid and a hydride source to (V), d) reacting V in the presence of an oxidizing agent, a base and an inert solvent to (VI), e) converting VI in the presence of a phosphane and CCl4 or CHCl3 to (VII), and either f1) reacting VII with NH3 in the presence of a catalyst to the compound of formula (VIII); and g) reacting VIII in the presence of a base with a compound of formula (IX), to the compound of formula (I); or f2) reacting the compound of formula (VII), in the presence of a solvent, a base, a copper catalyst and at least one ligand with the compound of formula (IXa), to the compound of formula (I).
US08519149B2	Tricyclic compounds as mPGES-1 inhibitors The present invention relates to tricyclic compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as mPGES-1 inhibitors. These compounds are inhibitors of the microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 (mPGES-1) enzyme and are therefore useful in the treatment of pain and/or inflammation from a variety of diseases or conditions, such as asthma, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, acute or chronic pain and neurodegenerative diseases.
US08519147B2	Carbene complexes of lithium and/or magnesium metal salts, and uses thereof This invention relates to a carbene complex of metal salt represented by the formula: [T−M(R)c]n wherein, R is a monoanionic group; c is 1 or 2; M is a Li or Mg; T is a cyclic carbene ligand; and n is selected from the group of integers comprising 1 to 24 wherein the complex has 50% or less decomposition when stored in 0.01 molar benzene at 23° C. for a period of 1 hour. This invention also relates to transition-metal-carbene complexes prepared from such carbene complexes of metal salts, where the transition-metal-carbene complex is represented by the formula: [M(T)(L0)q(L1−)s(L2−)t]g, where M is a transition metal from Group 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12, T is a cyclic carbene ligand, L0 is a neutral ligand, L1− is a monoanionic ligand, L2− is a dianionic ligand, q is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, s is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, t is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, g is the overall charge of the molecule. The transition-metal-carbene complexes may be used for synthesis reactions, including metathesis of olefins.
US08519144B2	Process for the preparation of aryl-piridyl compounds A method is described for the preparation of aryl-pyridine compounds of formula (I) by cross-coupling reaction, promoted by catalytic systems based on palladium or nickel between compounds of formula (II) and (III) in which: -Met represents Mg or Zn, —Y represents Cl, Br, I or acetoxy, —Z represents I, Br, Cl, triflate, sulphonate, phosphate, —R1, R2, R3, R4, which are the same as one another or different, represent hydrogen, a linear and/or branched C1-C4 alkyl, and/or an aryl, and/or a heteroaryl, or R1 and R2 and/or R3 and R4, taken together, form a C3-C8 ring, an aryl and/or a heteroaryl, -A represents —COR5 where R5 represents hydrogen, a linear and/or branched C1-C4 alkyl, and/or an aryl, and/or a heteroaryl, or -A represents —CRs5(OR6)(OR7) where R5 has the meaning described above and R6 and R7, which are the same as one another or different, represent a linear and/or branched C1-C4 alkyl, and/or an aryl, and/or a heteroaryl, or R6 and R7, joined together, represent a C1-C8 alkyl or alkenyl.
US08519138B2	Process for the preparation of a biphenyl-2-yl carbamic acid ester A novel process for the preparation of the compound of formula (II): which process comprises reacting a compound of formula (VI): with a compound of formula (IV): in a suitable solvent.
US08519135B2	Heteroaryl sulfonamides and CCR2/CCR9 Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists.
US08519134B2	Aryl-pyridine derivatives as aldosterone synthase inhibitors The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and n are defined herein. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing compounds of the invention, and their therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
US08519131B2	Modified metal complex and use thereof A modified metal complex obtained by subjecting a metal complex containing an organic compound having one nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycle and four or more structures of a phenol, thiophenol, aniline or nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic ring or an organic compound having two or more phenol rings and three or more nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycles, in its molecule as a ligand, to a heating, radiation irradiation or discharge treatment until a mass reduction rate after the treatment becomes from 1 to 90 mass %, thereby the complex shows a carbon content after the treatment of 5 mass % or more.
US08519127B2	Cyclic glycyl-2-allyl proline and its use in treatment of peripheral neuropathy Embodiments of this invention provide methods for therapeutic use of cyclic G-2-allylProline (cG-2-allylP) to treat peripheral neuropathies, including toxin-induced peripheral neuropathy and diabetic peripheral neuropathy as well as manufacture of medicaments including tablets, capsules, and other orally active compositions containing cG-2-allylP, as well as injectable solutions that are useful for treatment of such conditions.
US08519126B2	Crystalline form of tenofovir disoproxil and a process for its preparation Crystalline Form C of tenofovir disoproxil, salts thereof and a process for its preparation. The process involves adding a solution comprising tenofovir disoproxil and an organic solvent to salt-saturated water, whereby the crystalline Form C of tenofovir disoproxil precipitates. The crystalline Form C of tenofovir disoproxil may be converted to a salt thereof. There is also provided a process for purifying a crude product comprising tenofovir monoisoproxil and tenofovir disoproxil.
US08519125B2	Compositions and methods for biological sample storage Compositions and methods are disclosed for substantially dry storage at ambient or elevated temperatures of biological samples such as nucleic acids, proteins and cells in a form from which the samples can be substantially recovered, using a dissolvable or dissociable dry storage matrix comprising a borate composition and a stabilizer as disclosed, such as any of a number of zwitterionic stabilizers.
US08519120B2	Methods for producing a low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose powder Provided are a low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose powder having high compressibility, good flowability and excellent disintegration, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, provided is a method for producing a low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose powder having a molar substitution number per anhydrous glucose unit of 0.05 to 1.0, which is insoluble in water and swollenable by absorbing water, comprising the steps of: adding an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution to powdered pulp in such a manner that weight ratio of sodium hydroxide with respect to anhydrous cellulose is 0.1 to 0.3 so as to produce alkali cellulose; etherifying the obtained alkali cellulose to obtain a crude product; neutralizing the sodium hydroxide contained in the obtained crude reaction product; washing the resultant; drying; and pulverizing using by compaction-grinding.
US08519114B2	Constitutive expression cassettes for regulation of plant expression The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with constitutive expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g17920, At3g03780, At2g01100, At2g34770, At5g61560, At4g00830, At3g10220, At4g38520, At3g11110, At2g47170, Atlg64090, At5g60690, Atlg76350, At1g76580, Atlg31930, At5g18230, Atlg20970, or At4g35620. The expression cassettes according to the present invention may be employed for expression of a protein, or expression of an antisense RNA, sense or double-stranded RNA. Preferably, expression of the nucleic acid sequence confers to the plant an agronomically valuable trait. Vectors comprising such an expression cassette, and transgenic host cell or non-human organism comprising the expression cassette or the vector are also enclosed. Also enclosed is a method for identifying and/or isolating a sequence with constitutive transcription regulating activity.
US08519108B2	Method for preparing antigen effective for preventing anthrax infection The method of the present invention comprising successive column chromatography processes for the purification of an anthrax protective antigen can achieve an improved purity of the anthrax protective antigen product by effectively removing impurities (e.g., cellular residual proteins in the culture solution) without the loss of anthrax protective antigen. Therefore, the method of the present invention can be advantageously used for economically producing the anthrax protective antigen on a large scale.
US08519092B2	Polymer compound and polymer light-emitting device using the same A polymer compound comprising at least one repeating unit selected from the group of repeating units shown by formula (1) or formula (2), wherein Ar1 to Ar4 represent an arylene group etc.; E1, E2, and E3 represent an aryl group (A) having three or more substituents, or a heterocyclic group (B) having one or more substituents, and the total number of substituents and hetero atoms of the heterocyclic ring is three or more; a and b represent 0 or 1, and 0<=a+b<=1, wherein Ar5 to Ar10 and Ar11 represent an arylene group etc.; E4 to E9 represent an aryl group or a monovalent heterocyclic group; l, m and n represent 0 to 2; o and p represent 0 or 1, and l+m+n+o+p is 2 or more.
US08519091B2	Polyalkyleneamine adducts as curing agents for thick layer water-based epoxy systems The present invention provides curing agent compositions comprising the reaction product of polyalkyleneamine compounds and polyalkylene polyether polyol modified polyepoxide resins. Amine-epoxy compositions and thick layer compositions produced from these amine-epoxy compositions are also disclosed.
US08519089B2	Soluble alternating donor-acceptor conjugated polymer electrochromes Embodiments of the invention are directed to alternating donor-acceptor (DA) polymers that are soluble and display a blue or green neutral state that oxidizes to a transmissive state for use as an electrochromic polymer. The D units have 3,4-dioxythiophene, 3,6-dialkoxythieno[3,2-b]thiophene or 3,5-dialkoxy-dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thiophene groups. Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for preparation of the alternating DA polymeric sequences of the DA polymers by a cross-condensation of a nucleophilic acceptor monomer and an electrophilic donor monomer.
US08519088B2	Earth-toned photovoltaic devices The invention is directed to an assembly of photovoltaic cells having at least two different earth-toned colors, where different colors are situated in different cells, the cells color being defined by the donor-acceptor (DA) π-conjugated polymer and an acceptor moiety combination comprising the photoactive layer of the cell, and where the different colored solar cells are coupled into an assembly. The assembly can be flexible and can have colors specifically arranged in a camouflage or other pattern.
US08519084B2	Use of a C11 diol or C11 diol mixture for producing polymers A polymer obtainable by polycondensation or polyaddition of monomeric compounds, wherefor accompanying use is made as monomeric compound of 2-(2-methylbutyl)-2-propyl-1,3-propanediol of the formula I or its alkoxylated derivatives (also referred to collectively below as C11 diol).
US08519080B2	Crosslinkable prepolymer, its production process and its uses To provide a prepolymer which is excellent in heat resistance and which can form a cured product excellent in oil repellency and water repellency.A crosslinkable prepolymer having a polyaryl ether structure on its main chain, which has a crosslinkable functional group and a side chain represented by “Rf-CH2—O—” wherein Rf is a C3-50 fluorinated alkyl group (which may contain an oxygen atom forming an ether bond).
US08519074B2	Comb polymers for supramolecular nanoconfinement Polymers including pendent hydrophobic groups and pendent proton transfer groups are shown to form nanostructured films exhibiting greatly increased proton conductivity compared with films prepared from corresponding polymers lacking hydrophobic groups. The polymers can include repeating units each of which has both a hydrophobic group and a proton transfer group. Alternatively, the polymers can be the product of copolymerizing a first monomer with at least one hydrophobic group and a second monomer with at least one proton transfer group. The polymers are useful for the preparation of fuel cell proton exchange membranes.
US08519070B2	Post-metallocene complexes based on bis(naphthoxy)pyridine and bis(naphthoxy)thiophene ligands for the polymerisation of ethylene and alpha-olefins The present invention relates to the field of group 4 post-metallocene complexes based on sterically encumbered bis(naphthoxy)pyridine and bis(naphthoxy)thiophene ligands. It also relates to the use of such post-metallocene complexes in the polymerization of ethylene and alpha-olefins.
US08519067B2	Epoxy resin composition and semiconductor device An epoxy resin composition for encapsulating a semiconductor chip according to this invention comprises (A) a crystalline epoxy resin, (B) a phenol resin represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen or alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and two or more R1s or two or more R2s are the same or different; a is integer of 0 to 4; b is integer of 0 to 4; c is integer of 0 to 3; and n is average and is number of 0 to 10, (C) a (co)polymer containing butadiene-derived structural unit or its derivative, and (D) an inorganic filler in the amount of 80 wt % to 95 wt % both inclusive in the total epoxy resin composition.
US08519066B2	Poly(allyl ethers) of polycyclopentadiene polyphenol Embodiments include poly(allyl ether)s of polycyclopentadiene polyphenol that can be obtained by allylation of a polycyclopentadiene polyphenol, where the aromatic hydroxyl group(s) (—OH) are converted to HR1C═CR1—CH2—O— and/or H2R1C—CR1═HC—O—, where R1 is as described herein. Embodiments also include thermosettable compositions including the poly(allyl ether)s of polycyclopentadiene polyphenol and products obtained by curing the thermosettable compositions.
US08519056B2	Blends of co-precipitated hydrogenated ethylene-dicyclpentadiene and elastomeric polymers to provide impact modified structural polyolefins Disclosed is the preparation of compositions which are blends of certain types of hydrogenated ethylene-dicyclopentadiene (E/DCPD) copolymers in combination with elastomeric polymers. An E/DCPD copolymer and an elastomeric polymer are co-dissolved in a common liquid reaction medium which is then subjected to hydrogenation conditions. These hydrogenation conditions serve to hydrogenate in-situ at least a portion of the residual double bonds of the E/DCPD copolymer component and possibly also eliminate any residual unsaturation which might be present in the elastomeric polymers. This combination of materials which has been hydrogenated in-situ can then be co-precipitated to form a polymer composition which can be molded into polyolefin materials of improved structural, thermal and mechanical properties with desirable impact resistance.
US08519051B2	Block copolymer for drug conjugates and pharmaceutical composition The present invention provides a block copolymer for a drug conjugate which comprises a water-soluble polymer region consisting of polyethylene glycol and a polyamino acid region having a hydrazide group and a hydrophobic group in the side chain.
US08519050B2	Resin for composite structures A resin precursor composition includes an isocyanate component, a first polyol having a molecular weight of between approximately 600 and 800 and an OH index of between approximately 200 and 300 mgOH/g, and a second polyol having a molecular weight of between approximately 100 and 300 and an OH index of between approximately 800 and 1,200 mgOH/g.
US08519049B2	Curable composition Disclosed is a curable composition including an organic polymer containing a crosslinkable silyl group, an ultraviolet ray absorbing agent having a triazine skeleton and a hindered amine based light stabilizer. The composition exhibits improved weather resistance in a thin layer and thick layer portion. Further, disclosed is a curable composition including an organic polymer containing a crosslinkable silyl group, a (meth)acrylic polymer containing an epoxy group, a divalent tin organic carboxylate and an organic amine compound. The composition exhibits excellent properties. Also, disclosed is a curable composition and sealing material including a reactive organic polymer containing at least one crosslinkable silyl group in one molecule thereof, a reactive organic polymer containing less than one crosslinkable silyl group in one molecule thereof, and thermally expandable hollow spheres. The composition has good physical properties. Also, disclosed is a fire-resistant structure forming method.
US08519047B2	Aqueous adhesive dispersions Aqueous polymer dispersions based on polychloroprene, a process for their preparation and their use in adhesive formulations. The aqueous polymer dispersion is obtained by a) preparing an aqueous polychloroprene dispersion with a gel content of 0.1 wt. %-30 wt. %, based on the polymer, prepared by polymerization at 0° C.-70° C. of chloroprene and, optionally, ethylenically unsaturated monomers which can be copolymerized with chloroprene and b) subsequently storing the dispersion at temperatures of from 50° C.-110° C. until the gel content has risen by at least 10 wt. % to 1-60 wt. %, based on the polymer.
US08519044B2	Glass fiber reinforced polypropylene The present invention concerns a glass fiber reinforced polypropylene composition as well as articles formed from this composition, wherein the composition, comprises a) More than 15-wt % glass fibers, and b) a specific heterophasic polypropylene composition with an at least bimodal disperse phase.
US08519042B2	Thermal conductive resin composition A thermal-conductive resin composition which can provide an molded article excellent in thermal conductivity and/or mechanical strength is provided. The resin composition comprising a resin selected from a thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic resin; a granule having a number average particle diameter of 0.5 to 5 mm and comprising alumina fibers with a number average fiber diameter of 1 to 50 μm; and an alumina fine particle.
US08519037B2	Polyolefin composition for medium/high/extra high voltage cables with improved electrical breakdown strength The present invention relates to a polyolefin composition comprising a polyolefin and aromatic compounds, comprising a naphthyl-group or at least two linked phenyl-groups, as stabilizers for use in producing medium and high voltage cables with improved electrical breakdown strength.
US08519036B2	Methods for polishing inorganic substrates A composition for protecting a surface of an inorganic substrate, such as concrete, terrazzo, or ceramic tile, includes a silicate (i.e., an alkali metal polysilicate or a colloidal silica), a siliconate (e.g., a metal siliconate, such as an alkali metal methyl siliconate, etc.), acrylic latex, a silane coupling agent, and a solvent, such as ethylene glycol monobutyl ether. Inorganic substrates, such as concrete, stone, and ceramic materials, with such a composition on their surfaces are also disclosed, as are methods for polishing and protecting inorganic substrates.

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