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US08605821B2	Apparatus and method for scrambling in a wireless communication system An apparatus and method for scrambling in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a selector, a plurality of scramblers, and a plurality of modulators. The selector selects a scrambling scheme to be applied to a transmission bit stream according to a modulation scheme to be applied to the transmission bit stream. The plurality of scramblers scramble the transmission bit stream according to a scrambling scheme corresponding to each of a plurality of modulation schemes. The plurality of modulators modulate the scrambled transmission bit stream according to the plurality of modulation schemes.
US08605819B2	Memory effect canceller, transmitter, and memory effect cancelling method A memory effect canceller includes a sample obtaining section that obtains a plurality of discrete-time samples of a transmission signal supplied to a power amplifier that amplifies a transmission signal, a signal generation section that generates a correction signal that is a weighted linear combination, using given weighting coefficients, of partial derivatives of a transfer function of the power amplifier, wherein the transfer function has been defined in advance with a plurality of discrete-time samples as input variables, and wherein the partial derivatives are based on the discrete-time samples obtained by the sample obtaining section at respective times, and a signal correction section that corrects an output signal of the power amplifier based on the correction signal.
US08605817B2	Modulation and layer mapping in physical channels Described embodiments provide a wireless communication system that employs modulation and precoding. An input bit stream is divided into one or more batches. Each batch has a consecutive number of bits. A modulation scheme is determined for batches. A precoding scheme for layer mapping is determined for the batches. Based on the modulation scheme and precoding scheme, a look-up table (LUT) is selected. The selected LUT maps the batches into one or more modulated and precoded layers. The modulated and precoded batches are provided to a transmission module.
US08605816B2	Non-contact wireless communication apparatus, method of waveform-shaping envelope curve, and mobile electronic device A non-contact wireless communication apparatus that includes: an antenna section configured to receive a carrier wave; an envelope-curve shaping section configured to shape a falling waveform of an envelope curve of the carrier wave into a gradual falling waveform; and a demodulation section configured to extract the envelope curve shaped by the envelope-curve shaping section and perform envelope-curve detection by binarizing the envelope curve with a predetermined threshold value.
US08605814B2	Distortion-compensated RF transmitter and method therefor An RF transmitter (10) includes an RF amplifier (28) that generates an amplified RF signal (36) including a linear RF signal (92) and a spurious baseband signal (94). The spurious baseband signal (94) interacts with bias feed networks (56, 66) to cause the RF amplifier (28) to generate an unwanted RF distortion at or near the allocated RF bandwidth. A baseband compensation signal (98) is generated and equalized in an adaptive equalizer (102) then fed to the RF amplifier (28). A feedback signal (46) is obtained from the RF amplifier (28) and used to drive the adaptive equalizer (102). A feedback loop causes the adaptive equalizer to adjust a baseband signal (24, 32) supplied to the RF amplifier (28) so that the RF distortion is minimized.
US08605813B2	Transmitter In a transmitter, communication is efficiently performed by a DSTBC scheme.In a transmitter which transmits a signal using the DSTBC scheme, the content of a transmission process is set so that a state where a symbol is not present is realized at the origin of signal arrangement in a DSTBC encoder. As an example, the setting is performed so that an input to the DSTBC encoder is calculated using a predetermined operation in which a state where a symbol is not present is realized at the origin of signal arrangement in the DSTBC encoder. As another example, the setting is performed so that initial values in which a state where a symbol is not present is realized at the origin of signal arrangement in the DSTBC encoder are used in differential encoding of the DSTBC encoder.
US08605812B2	Wireless feedback system and method A codebook C is provided in a MIMO transmitter as well as a MIMO receiver. The codebook C will include M codewords ci, where i is a unique codeword index for each codeword ci. Each codeword defines weighting factors to apply to the MIMO signals, and may correspond to channel matrices or vectors to apply to the MIMO signals prior to transmission from the respective antennas of the MIMO transmitter. The present invention creates codeword subsets Sl for each codeword cl of the codebook C. Each codeword subset Sl defines L codewords cj, which are selected from all the codewords ci in the codebook C. The codewords cj in a codeword subset Sl are the L codewords in the entire codebook that best correlate with the corresponding codeword ci.
US08605810B2	Multiplexing control and data information from a user equipment in MIMO transmission mode A method and apparatus for multiplexing Uplink Control Information (UCI) with data information in a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) transmitted over multiple spatial layers where aspects of the UCI multiplexing include the determination of the number of coded UCI symbols in each spatial layer when the data information is conveyed using multiple Transport Blocks (TBs), the determination of the number of coded UCI symbols in each spatial layer when the PUSCH conveys a single TB retransmission for a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process while the initial TB transmission for the same HARQ process was in a PUSCH conveying multiple TBs, and the determination of the modulation scheme for the coded UCI symbols.
US08605808B2	Method to detect data transmitted by multiple antennas Disclosed is a method and system to detect data transmitted by multiple transmit antennas. The method comprises selecting a starting data block that is either a random data block or an output data block from known detectors. Also, the method comprises changing each symbol of the starting data block one symbol at a time to identify a data block which has minimum euclidean distance from the starting data block as detected data block. Next, changing two symbols of the detected data block at a time to identify a data block which has minimum euclidean distance from the starting data block as second data block and assigning the second data block as the starting data block. Repeating the above steps, if the minimum euclidean distance of second data block is better than that of the detected data block, and determining the detected data block as the data transmitted.
US08605806B2	Schemes for detecting guard intervals in OFDM system A receiver and method of detecting a guard interval estimate accurately by performing an Nth order polynomial based non-linear quantization on a pre-estimated guard interval in a received Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal in a receiver is provided. The pre-estimated guard interval is obtained by performing normalized auto-correlation on the received OFDM signal. The method includes (i) performing a rounding operation on (a) one or more mth coefficient of the polynomial and (b) the pre-estimated guard interval to obtain an indexing parameter ‘k’, and detecting the guard interval estimate based on (i) a value of k, and (ii) a guard interval from one or more guard intervals that are stored in a look up table. The guard interval estimate is detected in accordance with an equation: {tilde over (L)}=L[k−4], where ‘L’ is the guard interval stored in the look up table that corresponds to the value of k.
US08605805B2	Receiver, channel state information compressing method, and computer program A receiver receives a signal from a transmitter via communication channels, informs the transmitter of channel state information, and includes a channel correlation value computation unit that computes a correlation value assigned to each channel state information combination; a conversion input data generation unit that determines a channel state information combination having a relatively large correlation based on the correlation value, to be conversion input data; a time-to-frequency region conversion unit that converts the region of the conversion input data from a time region to a frequency region; an information compressing unit that compresses information of a frequency component included in the conversion input data obtained by the time-to-frequency region conversion unit; and a transmitting unit that sends the transmitter, information-compressed data obtained by the information compressing unit and information used for isolating the channel state information items included in the conversion input data.
US08605802B2	Frame structure for fast wireless communication system and apparatus for fast wireless communication using the frame A method of configuring a frame for fast wireless communication and an apparatus for fast wireless communication are provided. The apparatus for fast wireless communication includes: a frame configuration unit configuring a frame including transmission data; a demultiplexing unit demultiplexing the transmission data included in the frame into N number of parallel streams (N: positive number greater than 2); N number of coding and modulation units connected in parallel to perform error correction coding and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with respect to each of the N number of parallel streams; and a multiplexing unit multiplexing outputs of the N number of coding and modulation units into serial streams.
US08605801B2	Pilot signal set management in a multi-carrier communication system In a wireless communication system where different frequency bands are deployed to generate various communication zones, pilot signal set management for a plurality of pilot signals generated from an additional coverage zone is based on identifying a preselected signal set from the plurality of pilot signals and determining whether a predetermined criterion is met.
US08605800B2	Apparatus and method for performance enhancement in open loop multi cell MIMO system An apparatus and a method for operating a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a threshold for a gap of an average Receive (Rx) power between a neighboring Base Station (BS) and a serving BS, transmitting to the serving BS, identification information of a BS having the average power greater than a first value, receiving information of a BS involving joint processing generated using information of the BS having the average power greater than the first value, feeding Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) information of the BS involving the joint processing, back to the serving BS, receiving information indicating a PMI operation mode of the MS, from the serving BS, and determining a PMI operation mode according to the information indicating the PMI operation mode of the MS.
US08605799B2	Estimation of frequency offset between a base station and mobile terminal A method and apparatus for frequency offset estimation exploits the differences in reference symbol timing for different channels to resolve ambiguities in the frequency offset estimation. Based on the initial frequency offset estimates, a hypothesis table is constructed providing hypothesized frequency offsets for each channel for a plurality of possible offset regions. An error metric for each offset region is calculated based on the difference of the hypothesized frequency offsets. The set of hypothesized frequency offsets that minimize the error metric is selected as the final frequency offset estimates.
US08605797B2	Method and system for partitioning and encoding of uncompressed video for transmission over wireless medium A method and system for transmitting uncompressed video over a wireless channel by inputting a frame of pixel information, partitioning spatially correlated pixels into different packets, and transmitting the packets separately over a wireless channel. For robust transmission, error detection data can be generated for each packet and appended to each packet before transmission. A receiver receives the transmitted packets and checks if a received packet is corrupt based on the appended error detection data. For a corrupt packet, the receiver corrects the corrupt pixels using pixel information in other received packets containing neighboring pixels to recover each corrupt pixel in the corrupt packet.
US08605796B2	Chroma-key video blending with improved compression A computer readable medium for compressing video data with an edit track is provided. Generally, computer readable code for compressing video data is provided. The computer readable code for compressing comprises computer readable code for accessing the edit track to use data in the edit track during the compressing. A method of compressing video data with an edit track is provided. Generally, video data is compressed. The compressing comprises accessing the edit track to use data in the edit track during the compressing. A system for compressing video data is also provided. An edit track reader for accesses data within the edit track and generates instructions based on the data within the data track. A video compressor receives instruction from the edit track reader and receives the edited video track and audio track, and compresses the edited video according to the instructions from the edit track reader.
US08605795B2	Video editing methods and systems Video editing methods and systems, including methods and systems to identify video clips having similar visual characteristics. Video clips may correspond to first and second videos, which may include a professional music video and a personal video, respectively. Identified video clips of the personal video may be combined into a new video clip, and music corresponding to visually similar video clips of the music video may be associated with the corresponding video clips of the new video. Video frames of the video clips may be characterized with respect to one or more visual features, which may include one or more of facial and/or body features, salient objects, camera motion, and image quality. Characterizations may be compared between video clips on an incremental basis. Characterization of a music video may implicitly model an underlying correlation between music rhythm and changes in visual appearance.
US08605794B2	Method for synchronizing content-dependent data segments of files The synchronization of data segments is particularly necessary for the use of small screens. A method and a device are disclosed for synchronizing content-dependent first data segments of a first data file and content-dependent second data segments of a second data file, the first and second data segments being respectively output in sequence according to their chronological order in such a way that based on a predeterminable assignment rule for the first and second data segments, each second data segment is output together with a corresponding first data segment.
US08605793B2	Information processing device and method, and program An information processing device configured to process moving image data includes a plurality of calculating units configured to transform a frame rate by subjecting two pieces of frame data to addition and subtraction; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of calculating units to subject each frame data of the moving image data to at least one of the addition and the subtraction by the number of times necessary for transforming the frame rate of the moving image data into a desired rate.
US08605789B2	Motion vector calculation method When a block (MB22) of which motion vector is referred to in the direct mode contains a plurality of motion vectors, 2 motion vectors MV23 and MV24, which are used for inter picture prediction of a current picture (P23) to be coded, are determined by scaling a value obtained from averaging the plurality of motion vectors or selecting one of the plurality of the motion vectors.
US08605788B2	System for compressing and de-compressing data used in video processing Disclosed are systems and methods used in motion estimation and particularly for data compression. Embodiments of the invention may store and operate on an n-bit value in less than n bits. In one embodiment, if the multi-bit value is less than a threshold, then the multi-bit value is stored in the reduced-bit storage directly, with no loss of precision. If the multi-bit value is greater than the threshold, then the Most Significant Bits (MSBs) of the multi-bit value are shifted onto the reduced-bit storage, and a compression flag set. To decompress, if the compression flag was not set, the bits stored in the reduced-bit storage are merely copied back into the multi-bit value directly. If the compression flag was set, then the bits stored in the reduced-bit storage are shifted (left) by the same amount they were shifted (right) during compression, and an error-minimizing value is added.
US08605786B2	Hierarchical motion vector processing method, software and devices A preferred method for hierarchical motion vector processing determines reliability levels of blocks in image data according to residual energy levels. Macroblocks of an image frame are merged according to reliability levels of the motion vectors of blocks. Single motion vectors are selected for merged macroblocks. Motion vectors of blocks merged in the step of merging are iteratively assigned by minimizing the bi-directional prediction difference on successively smaller merged blocks. The reliability levels are preferably determined by measure residual energy of both chrominance and luminance components. In preferred embodiments, motion vector correlation is used to assist the MV reliability classification and the merging and iterative assignment. Refinement and smoothing can be conducted on successively finer block sizes. Additionally, preferred methods account for occlusions by choosing only one of forward or backward prediction for occlusion regions depending upon the class of the occlusion. Results of motion vector classification of the invention can be used in motion compensated frame interpolation and other techniques.
US08605785B2	Method and device for video data transmission For transmitting a sequence of video images on a network between a server and a client, that sequence being coded according to a hybrid predictive coding mode and comprising a plurality of images, each image being broken down into a plurality of macroblocks of pixels: the plurality of macroblocks is classified (E212) into at least two groups of macroblocks according to a predetermined criterion; these groups of macroblocks are completed (E216, E226) by additional macroblocks; at least two scalable coding levels are created (E214, E224) from these groups of macroblocks; unequal protection against transmission errors is applied (E218) to the groups of macroblocks based on the predetermined criterion; and the scalable coding levels are transmitted (E220) on the network.
US08605780B2	Coding device and editing device A coding device includes a coding unit (740) for encoding an input digital signal using code words contained in one of a plurality of variable length code word groups, and a multiplexer (701) for generating a stream by generating a parameter (such as idr_pic_id) describing specific information about the stream, encoding the parameters, and adding it to the output data from the coding unit. The length of the code words contained in any single variable length code word group is the same. The multiplexer selects one variable length code word group containing three or more code words out of the plural groups, and codes the parameter using one code word selected from the code words contained in the selected group.
US08605778B2	Adaptive radio controlled clock employing different modes of operation for different applications and scenarios A configurable system and method for a radio controlled clock (RCC) receiver adapted to apply different strategies for extracting timing and time information from a phase modulated signal depending on the type of application the RCC is used in and on the reception conditions. The official time signal is broadcast from a central location using a modulation scheme which includes phase modulation that alternates between different information rates, allowing for multiple alternative reception modes that are suited for different ranges of signal-to-interference-and-noise-ratio (SINR). The operation of the RCC is configured by the application that hosts it, such that the reception performance and the energy consumption best suit that application. The reception mode used by the RCC at a given time may be selected automatically, i.e. without user intervention, based on the device's profile of operation and the reception conditions.
US08605775B2	Measuring Hum in a digital TV signal The invention relates to a method for measuring Hum on a digital QAM carrier using a testing device for testing digital TV signals including a QAM demodulator therein, and to a testing device implementing the method. A controller is used to sample a register associated with a final AGC stage in a QAM demodulator, and to process the collected register values to obtain one or more Hum characteristics. In one embodiment, a circular buffer is used to collect aligned sequences of AGC samples that have a pre-determined feature of time-domain Hum at a specified position therein. The aligned AGC sequences are then correlated to assess causes of Hum.
US08605761B2	Multi-beam laser control system and method A multi-beam laser beam control system includes a laser transmitter configured to emit light in a plurality of beamlets. A sensor is configured to receive light from the beamlets. A processor is communicably coupled to the sensor and configured to compute a relative phase of a wavefront of at least one beamlet based on output from the sensor. A controller is communicably coupled to the processor and to the laser transmitter. The controller is configured to adjust a phase of at least one of the beamlets.
US08605754B2	Systems and methods for interoperability positive train control A method of messaging in a communications system includes generating a message at an application layer. The message and associated message handling codes are passed to a transport layer and the message fragmented. The fragmented message and the message handling codes are passed to a network layer and the fragmented message selectively segmented as indicated by the message handling code. The selectively segmented message and the message handling code are passed to a link layer and formed into a packet including packet type information and data parts. The packet is passed to a physical layer and a preamble is added. The preamble and packet are transmitted with a radio.
US08605753B2	Enhanced access channel masks for xHRPD Disclosed is a method of performing Pseudo-random-Noise (PN) quadrature covering for transmitting data via an access channel. Such method is achieved by receiving a 42-bit access long code mask MIACMAC and a 42-bit access long code mask MQACMAC from an upper layer; generating an MI mask and an MQ mask for PN quadrature covering by using certain bits of an assigned channel number for the access channel and by performing exclusive OR operations on certain bits of the received access long code mask MIACMAC and performing exclusive OR operations on certain bits of the received access long code mask MQACMAC; and transmitting signals via the access channel based on the generated 12-bit MI mask and the generated 12-bit MQ mask.
US08605748B2	Communication method Disclosed are a base station and a mobile station which communicate with each other using a frame comprising one or more downlink subframes and one or more uplink subframes. The base station transmits a data burst in a subframe corresponding to a downlink subframe index of a frame corresponding to a first frame index. The mobile station transmits a feedback for the data burst in a subframe corresponding to an uplink subframe index of a frame corresponding to a second frame index. The second frame index and the uplink subframe index are determined by a parameter value. The parameter value is determined by a difference between radio signal processing time and the number of the one or more uplink subframes.
US08605746B2	Data definition apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to send a selected data type without self-definition information to a receiver if a state capable of interpreting the selected data type has been maintained by the receiver, and to send the selected data type with the self-definition information to the receiver if the state capable of interpreting the selected data type has not been maintained by the receiver.
US08605745B2	Communication apparatus and communication system for enhancing speed of communications between terminals In communication using TCP, since the transmission bandwidth is significantly influenced by RTT and discard rate, there was a problem that only the transmission bandwidth significantly lower than the contracted bandwidth could be obtained under the environment such as WAN causing large RTT, large hop number and many discarded segments. There is provided an apparatus connected to a receiving side terminal having a means for feeding back to notify all discarded segments to an apparatus connected to a transmitting side terminal; a means for retransmitting the discarded segments fed back to be notified to the apparatus connected to the transmitting side terminal; and a means for controlling transmission bandwidth, based on retransmission bandwidth and discard bandwidth by the apparatus connected to the transmitting side terminal.
US08605742B2	Wireless connection utilization An exemplary system includes a service provider configured to provide a network service to a local device via a network, and a plurality of mobile devices, where each mobile device is configured to establish a wireless connection with the network. Such an exemplary system also includes a router in selective communication with the local device and the plurality of mobile devices. The router may be configured to establish a local connection with each of the plurality of mobile devices, and receive a request for a network service from the local device. In addition, the router may be configured to provide the requested network service to the local device via the wireless connection.
US08605740B2	High availability network system A communication system adapted for a vehicle includes a network for communication between at least two communication interfaces respectively connected to a first controller which manages/runs a control application and a second controller which also manages/runs the control application. The communication interfaces have, per controller, at least one communication port from which a communication link is possible. The communication link is a PLC (Power Line Communication) link having at least two electrically conductive links connected to each of the respective communication ports through at least one coupling transformer, for a control application transmission between the two communication interfaces.
US08605738B2	Method and system for redirecting networked traffic A method of redirecting network traffic from a first, uncontrolled network to a second, controlled network by rewriting the Type of Service field in the header information of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet so as to include a service code indicating that the IP packet cannot access the uncontrolled network, thereby redirecting the network traffic to a second network element.
US08605737B2	Method for using voice messages in telecommunications connections The invention relates to a method for using voice messages in telecommunications connections. The method comprises the following steps: —routing a connection establishment or the data of a through-connected telecommunications connection from a calling end system (11, 12) over at least one first communication network (31, 32) to a gateway (40), which represents an interface between the first communication network (31, 32) and a second communication network (51, 52), —routing the connection establishment or the data of the through-connected telecommunications connection from the gateway (40) over at least the second communication network (51, 52) to a called end system (21-24), —recording a standardized voice message concerning the telecommunications connection, which is provided to be transmitted to the calling end system (1, 11, 12), in the gateway (4, 40), —evaluating the standardized voice message, and —taking an action concerning the telecommunications connection or the gateway (40) through the gateway (40) depending on the result of the evaluation performed. The invention further relates to a gateway for performing such a method.
US08605735B2	Method of supporting an open provider backbone network An apparatus comprising a first interface configured to transmit or receive backbone traffic, a second interface configured to transmit or receive non-backbone traffic, and a third interface in communication with the first interface and second interface, the third interface configured to multiplex or demultiplex the backbone traffic and the non-backbone traffic is disclosed, wherein the backbone traffic is traffic that will be, is, or has been B-tagged. Also disclosed is a node comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a first data stream comprising backbone traffic, receiving a second data stream comprising non-backbone traffic, and multiplexing the first data stream with the second data stream.
US08605734B2	OpenFlow communication system and OpenFlow communication method An OpenFlow switch controls transmission and reception of a packet according to a flow entry. Each of the flow entries contains a matching condition showing a communication flow of the packet and an action showing processing on the packet. An OpenFlow controller generates a registration flow entry which is stored in a flow table of a specific OpenFlow switch arranged on a route of the communication flow. An encapsulated packet is generated by relating the registration flow entry and an ordinary packet. The specific OpenFlow switch extracts the registration flow entry from the encapsulated packet in response to the reception of the encapsulated packet to produce a new flow entry and executes the action shown in the new flow entry.
US08605730B2	System and method for multimedia communication across disparate networks A method of communication between endpoint devices that includes converting data packets from a multiport protocol to a proprietary port protocol so that the data packets can traverse firewalls protecting the endpoint devices. A system that includes networks protected by firewall wherein the communication between the networks is in a proprietary protocol and the system further including a device for managing the communication between the protected networks.
US08605727B1	Efficient IP multicast bridging in ethernet switches A system including a memory configured to store a bridge table, in which the bridge table includes an entry associating each of an Internet Protocol multicast destination address and an Internet Protocol source address with a port indicator, and the port indicator identifies one or more ports of a switch. The system further includes a controller configured to, in response to the switch receiving an Ethernet packet comprising an Internet Protocol multicast packet, i) generate a key based on each of an Internet Protocol multicast destination address and an Internet Protocol source address associated with the Ethernet packet, ii) lookup the bridge table using the key, and iii) flood the Ethernet packet to the one or more ports identified by the port indicator in response to confirming, based on the key, that the entry in the bridge table is an Internet Protocol multicast entry.
US08605725B2	Channel hopping scheme for update of data for multiple services across multiple digital broadcast channels Data broadcast over different channels may be updated in a digital broadcast receiving device. The device may include a receiver unit, a processor, memory instructions embodied in the memory for execution on the processor. The instructions may be configured to implement the method for updating data broadcast over different channels. A first digital broadcast signal may be received over a first channel. The receiving device may be tuned to a second channel at a predetermined time to receive a second digital broadcast signal. Selected data may be extracted from the second digital broadcast signal and stored or utilized with the receiving device. An update schedule may be generated for data transmitted with a digital broadcast signal. A broadcast time for an update packet may be determined from a packet header. A schedule packet may be generated containing the broadcast time and broadcast before the update packet.
US08605724B2	Systems and methods for minimizing the number of forwarding identifiers in a network element with distributed architecture A method may include, by a first network interface: receiving a packet having a flow via a first port of the first network interface; examining the packet to determine an ingress local forwarding identifier (LFID) associated with the flow of the packet; converting the ingress LFID to a global forwarding identifier (GFID) of the network element; and forwarding the packet to a switching element. The method may also include, by the switching element: determining a second network interface for egress of the packet based on the GFID; and forwarding the packet to the second network interface. The method may further include, by the second network interface: converting the GFID to an egress LFID associated with the flow of the packet; and forwarding the packet to a second port of the second network interface and a flow of the second network interface based on the egress LFID.
US08605722B1	Deadlock-resistant fabric tree replication in a network device In general, the invention is directed to techniques for reducing deadlocks that may arise when performing fabric replication. For example, as described herein, a network device includes packet replicators that each comprises a plurality of resource partitions. A replication data structure for a packet received by the network device includes packet replicator nodes that are arranged hierarchically to occupy one or more levels of the replication data structure. Each of the resource partitions in each of the plurality of packet replicators is associated with a different level of the replication data structure. The packet replicators replicate the packet according to the replication data structure, and each of the packet replicators handles the packet using the one of the resource partitions of the packet replicator that is associated with the level of the replication data structure occupied by the node that corresponds to that particular packet replicator.
US08605718B2	Immediate communication system A communication service network, comprising: (a) a communication network including a plurality of terminals configured to support at least a first personal communication service for a plurality of users over the communication network, in which service, each user has a unique handle; and (b) a plurality of clients supporting a second personal communication service, wherein each of said clients is configured to attempt a communication under said second service with any of said users using their unique handles.
US08605716B2	Large-scale packet switch A packet switch that scales gracefully from a capacity of a fraction of a terabit per second to thousands of terabits per second is disclosed. The packet switch comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in a matrix having multiple rows and multiple columns and may comprise instantaneous or latent space switches. Each edge node has a channel to a switch unit in each column and a channel from each switch unit in a selected column. A simple path traversing only one of the switch units may be established from each edge node to each other edge node. Where needed, a compound path comprising at most two simple paths may be established for any edge-node pair. In a preferred configuration, the switch units connect at input to orthogonal sets of edge nodes. A distributed control system expedites connection-request processing.
US08605714B2	Method and network element for establishing a IP communications session between mobile communication devices Embodiments of a network element and method of establishing an internet-protocol communications session between a first device and a second device and generally described herein. In some embodiments, the network element is configured to receive a request from the first device to invite the second device to participate in an IP communications session. The second device may be identified in the request by a network identifier. The network element may relate the network identifier to a mobile IP (MIP) address of the second device and a second IP address. The network element may send an invitation to the MIP address of the second device. The invitation may include a MIP address of the first device and a first IP address. The first device establishes an IP connection for an IP communications session with the second device using the MIP address of the second device and the second IP address.
US08605713B2	Enhanced media gateway negotiation A method and system of negotiating Media Gateways (MGs) between a plurality of call control nodes (CCNs). The system includes an originating CCN which builds an original list of configured Media Gateways capable of being used in a call by the originating CCN. The first CCN associates an identifier and a priority with each Media Gateway in the list prior to sending the list to a subsequent CCN. The subsequent CCN removes from the original list any identifiers associated with any MG in the original list of identifiers which is not capable of being used in the call by the subsequent CCN. The subsequent CCN then forms a modified list of identifiers associated with at least one MG capable of being used in a call by the originating CCN and the subsequent CCN. The subsequent CCN also selects a specified MG from the modified list and sends a first backward message from the second CCN to the originating CCN identifying the specified MG. The originating CCN may then validate that the specified MG is on the original list of identifiers and selects the specified MG for the call.
US08605708B2	System, device and method for TDMA-based networking using space division multiplexed transmissions A wireless communication system includes wireless terminals. Each of the wireless terminals includes an SDM transmitting unit that includes antennas and generates directional radio signals to be transmitted to other terminals, each of which is obtained by superimposing radio signals at the antennas, each of which is composed of modulated data for each of the other terminals; a single-system receiving unit; and a TDMA control unit that controls a transmission of the SDM transmitting unit and a reception of the receiving unit in a time division manner. Using a TDMA scheme, the wireless terminals are controlled such that one of the wireless terminals acquires a transmission right for a predetermined time period to simultaneously transmit the generated directional radio signals from the SDM transmitting unit, while during the predetermined time period, the receiving units of the other wireless terminals having no transmission right simultaneously receive their corresponding directional radio signals.
US08605706B2	Method and equipment for notifying purpose of subframe, method and equipment for processing subframe A method and an equipment for notifying a purpose of a subframe, and a method and an equipment for processing a subframe are disclosed. The method includes: sending a broadcast message to a user equipment (UE), where the broadcast message carries indication information indicating a purpose of a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe; and sending a radio frame to the UE, wherein the radio frame carries the MBSFN subframe which serves the purpose indicated by the indication information. The technical solutions of the present invention enable the UE to be notified of the true purpose of the MBSFN subframe, and improve communication reliability.
US08605705B2	Multiplexing and transmission of multiple data streams in a wireless multi-carrier communication system Techniques for multiplexing and transmitting multiple data streams are described. Transmission of the multiple data streams occurs in “super-frames”. Each super-frame has a predetermined time duration and is further divided into multiple (e.g., four) frames. Each data block for each data stream is outer encoded to generate a corresponding code block. Each code block is partitioned into multiple subblocks, and each data packet in each code block is inner encoded and modulated to generate modulation symbols for the packet. The multiple subblocks for each code block are transmitted in the multiple frames of the same super-frame, one subblock per frame. Each data stream is allocated a number of transmission units in each super-frame and is assigned specific transmission units to achieve efficient packing. A wireless device can select and receive individual data streams.
US08605704B2	Method and device for paging and media services on a single carrier frequency Methods enable a paging service and a media service to be carried on a single carrier frequency. The methods includes: determining to send a paging record to a communication device for a first media service, wherein the first media service is provided on a first carrier frequency; inserting the paging record into a first message generated using a protocol that is also used to provide a second different media service to the communication device on a second different carrier frequency; providing a paging indication using the protocol; and sending the paging indication and the first message with the paging record over the second carrier frequency. The protocol can be a multimedia broadcast service (MBMS) protocol. The paging indication alerts the communication device to monitor the second carrier frequency for the paging record.
US08605703B2	Methods for polarization-based interference mitigation A method for mitigating interference for a received wireless signal comprises at least three steps. The method comprises receiving a wireless signal with a receiver device. The wireless signal includes at least an interference signal and a desired signal. The method further comprises breaking the received wireless signal into sub-bands; and filtering the received wireless signal with a polarization filter, in order to separate the interference signal from the desired signal.
US08605701B2	Wireless communication device and computer program A wireless communication device communicable with a first type and a second type of networks based on a first type and a second type wireless setting data respectively, includes: an obtaining section obtaining an identifier of an access point when a detection section detects the disconnection with the second type network through a certain access point; and a trial section trying to connect with the second type network through the certain access point if at least one second type wireless setting data stored in the second storage includes the obtained identifier, and the trial section trying to connect with the first type network through the certain access point any of the second type wireless setting data stored in the second storage does not includes the obtained identifier but the first type wireless setting data stored in the first storage includes the obtained identifier.
US08605700B2	Dynamic communication and method of use A communication system and method for enhancing the effectiveness of wireless and wired systems. The communication system comprising a communication management system performing dynamic switching of communication transceivers and dynamic addressing of communication devices within the network of communication devices with an extended caller identification system to become a true unified communications system.
US08605699B2	System and method for identifying an access point An apparatus and method are disclosed to communicate, from a first device to a wireless device, information by which the wireless device may identify an access point as a potential network device. The information is encoded in a packet stream by the first device, and wirelessly communicated from the access point to the wireless device. The information may be encoded by varying a packet characteristic, such as packet length, that is preserved even if the packets are encoded by the access point. The information may include a beacon, a SSID and/or a key.
US08605696B2	Wireless networks for vehicles Vehicles having corresponding methods comprise a media source to provide digital data; a first wireless network station comprising a first transmitter to wirelessly transmit first packets of the digital data; a second wireless network station comprising a first receiver to wirelessly receive the first packets of the digital data; and a media player to reproduce media based on the first packets of the digital data wirelessly received by the second wireless network station.
US08605692B2	Method for setting transmission opportunity and for transmitting and receiving data in wireless LAN system using multiple channel A transmission opportunity setting method in a wireless LAN system using multiple channels includes: receiving a request-to-send (RTS) frame from a wireless station, the RTS frame including information on a wireless LAN mode of the wireless station; and transmitting a clear-to-send (CTS) frame to the wireless station according to at least one of the number of remaining available channels among the multiple channels and the wireless LAN mode of the wireless station.
US08605689B2	Adapting TXOP requests for multi-radio platforms A first radio in a wireless network may request a transmit opportunity (TXOP) of a certain duration, with the duration being based a likelihood that a TXOP of that duration would cause interference with a co-located second radio. The duration may be dynamically adjusted based on the likelihood of such interference.
US08605688B2	Method, apparatus, analyser and computer program of searching for propagation paths A radio channel is formed for estimation, the radio channel including dominant paths from a digital impulse response estimate of a channel relating to a radio system. A divider divides the impulse response estimate temporally into at least two subsignals. An analyzer determines whether a distribution of the amplitude values of at least one subsignal is gaussian or non-gaussian. A searcher searches for a highest amplitude value in each subsignal, which is determined to be non-gaussian. A generator may form a radio channel for a radio channel simulation, the radio channel including each propagation path corresponding to the highest amplitude value in each subsignal determined to be non-gaussian.
US08605686B2	Method and apparatus for power control in a wireless communication system Method and Apparatus for performing power control on the power control commands transmitted on a forward link in a wireless communication system. The power level of the power control bits on the forward link are adjusted in response to power commands received on the reverse link. The mobile station measures the power level of the adjusted power control bits to measure the quality of the forward link.
US08605683B2	Pre-emptive access network switching An access network connection controller is disclosed for ordering a mobile terminal to switch from a connection to a first access network to a connection to a second access network in order to ensure that a good connection to the mobile terminal is maintained when the mobile terminal enters an area in which connection to the first access network may be restricted and the second access network may be beneficial. The access network connection controller is operable to receive movement information representative of the movement of the mobile terminal connected to a first access network; to determine from the movement information whether the mobile terminal is approaching a restricted area wherein connection to a second access network may be beneficial and to generate a command ordering the switching of the connection mobile terminal from the first access network to the second access network before the mobile terminal enters the restricted area. By ordering a mobile terminal to switch its connection to another access network in advance of the mobile terminal entering an area in which connection to the mobile terminal from its current access network may be restricted, good connection to the mobile terminal is ensured at all times and the user of the mobile terminal does not experience any degradation in performance.
US08605680B2	Method and apparatus for temporarily suspending a network connection Method for temporarily suspending a network connection is provided, which connection uses a Media Independent Handover Function (300). The method comprises receiving a suspend command in the Media Independent Handover Function (300), detecting the suspend command in the Media Independent Handover Function (300) and suspending the network connection. Furthermore the method comprises receiving a resume command in the Media Independent Handover Function (300), detecting the resume command in the Media Independent Handover Function (300) and resuming the network connection.
US08605677B2	Routing packet flows along an optimized path Routing a packet flow in a communication session includes facilitating a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. A packet flow from the first endpoint is received at a transient anchor of a visited network. The transient anchor establishes whether the packet flow is to be routed along an optimized path according to one or more routing rules. The packet flow is sent to the second endpoint if the packet flow is to be routed along the optimized path. The packet flow is forwarded to a permanent anchor of a home network if the packet flow is not to be routed along the optimized path.
US08605676B2	Method and device for configuring inter-cell time division duplex modes based on a TDD system The present invention disclose a method and a device for configuring inter-cell time division duplex modes based on a time division duplex system, wherein the method comprises: one or more physical frame pairs which are overlapped in the time domain and have different transmitting modes existing in physical frames of two adjacent cells; for each physical frame pair, setting one or two physical frames of the physical frame pair respectively not to transmit signals. With the technical schemes of the present invention, by means of making part or all of the physical frames overlapped in the time domain not to transmit signals, the uplink/downlink signal interference occurred when the ratios of the numbers of uplink/downlink physical frames between adjacent cells in the same frequency band is different may be avoided.
US08605675B2	Resource allocation for enhanced uplink using an acquisition indicator channel Techniques for supporting UE operation with enhanced uplink are described. A UE may select a first signature from a first set of signatures available for random access for enhanced uplink, generate an access preamble based on the first signature, and send the access preamble for random access while operating in an inactive state. The UE may receive an acquisition indicator (AI) for the first signature on an acquisition indicator channel (AICH) from a Node B. The UE may use a default enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resource configuration for the first signature if the AI has a first predetermined value. The UE may determine an E-DCH resource configuration allocated to the UE based on an extended acquisition indicator (EAI) and a second signature if the AI has a second predetermined value. In any case, the UE may send data to the Node B using the allocated E-DCH resource configuration.
US08605673B2	Method, apparatus and system for allocating downlink power Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for allocating downlink power, which can solve the problem of downlink power allocation under a Coordinated Multi-Point transmitting (CoMP) environment and in a carrier aggregation (CA) technology. The method includes: calculating a power allocation according to measurement parameters which are of a reference signal and are reported by a terminal, and according to the number of physical resources within a measured bandwidth corresponding to each aggregate waveband, and an energy allocated to each resource block on the reference signal corresponding to the each aggregate waveband, where the number of physical resources and the energy are sent by a secondary evolved NodeB (eNB), sending the calculated power allocation to the secondary eNB, and sending to a user equipment (UE) energy information that corresponds to the reference signal corresponding to the each aggregate waveband of the secondary eNB. The present invention is applicable to downlink power allocation.
US08605671B2	Wireless communication system and method A method for processing wireless data in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network including a plurality of intermediary nodes and a plurality of destination devices. The method includes determining at least one transmission path to each of the plurality of intermediary nodes. The at least one transmission path includes data associated with every intermediary node along the at least one transmission path. The method also includes determining a transmission path identifier for each of the at least one transmission paths and sending transmission data to at least one destination device of the plurality of destination devices. The transmission data is sent based on at least one of the transmission path identifiers.
US08605670B2	Method for selecting a relay station A method for selecting a relay station includes enabling a cognitive radio system to receive status information regarding a plurality of candidate relay stations, licensed target stations, and non-licensed target stations, determining an available power threshold value in consideration of the amount of interference affecting the licensed target station and a maximum power value when data is transmitted to the non-licensed target station, and selecting a relay station to be used in transmitting the data in the available power threshold value, in consideration of the status information and the amount of interference.
US08605667B2	Systems and methods for exposing different service facades of an underlying network A plurality of service facades are used to expose the capabilities of an underlying telecommunications network in different ways. Each service façade provides a different interface to access a set of functions of the telecom network. The service facades can be accessed by client applications residing externally with respect to the telecom network. The client applications can invoke a particular service façade to send a message to the network and the invocations can be translated to the native protocols used by the resources in the telecom network to carry out the request. The service facades can be deployed on a service access gateway to the telecom network and can include a simple object access protocol (SOAP) façade, a representational state transfer (REST) façade, a service oriented architecture (SOA) façade and a native façade.
US08605666B2	Method, apparatus, and system for triggering resource configuration A method, apparatus, and system for triggering resource configuration are disclosed. The method includes: if user equipment (UE) in Cell_Paging Channel (Cell_PCH) state figures out that the total amount of buffer occupancy at the radio link control (RLC) layer or the Transport Channel Traffic Volume is larger than configured threshold, the UE carries an indication in a MEASUREMENT REPORT message and transmit the message to the network side, wherein the indication is used to trigger the network side to configure resources for the UE. With the present invention, the resource configuration is quickly triggered, and the delay of the UE in the data transmission is minimized.
US08605663B2	Base station, mobile station, and communication method A base station for transmitting a radio frame where an L1/L2 control channel is multiplexed into a portion of a subframe to transmit data on a shared data channel includes a broadcast channel generating unit configured to generate a broadcast channel; an L1/L2 control channel generating unit configured to generate the L1/L2 control channel corresponding to the broadcast channel, which includes at least one broadcast channel control information from the group consisting of: an update flag indicating whether information on the broadcast channel is modified, broadcast channel allocation information, and L3 control information for the broadcast channel; and a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the broadcast channel, the shared data channel, and the L1/L2 control channel into the subframe.
US08605660B2	Maintaining information facilitating deterministic network routing In a wireless network that includes a plurality of nodes, a method of maintaining, by a first node, information regarding communications links between nodes in the wireless network includes: for each communications link that is established with another node, recording an identification of the other node; and for each message received by the first node from the other node through the communications link with the other node, recording a network pathway by which the message has been sent in the wireless network, the network pathway identifying the nodes and the communications links therebetween by which the message has been sent. Another method includes recording, by a server, for each message that is received by the server from the wireless network, a network pathway by which the message has been sent, the network pathway identifying the nodes and the communications links therebetween by which the message has been sent.
US08605657B2	Mesh routing method and mesh routing apparatus in beacon enabled wireless AD-HOC networks There is provided a mesh routing method in beacon-enabled wireless AD-HOC networks that includes: broadcasting, by nodes constituting a wireless AD-HOC network, a beacon message loading neighbor node information on a beacon payload; managing, by a node receiving the broadcasted beacon message, its own neighbor node table by extracting the neighbor node information loaded on the beacon payload; and performing, by a source node attempting to transmit data or commands, mesh routing on the basis of its own neighbor node table.
US08605653B2	Utilizing emergency procedures to determine location information of a voice over internet protocol device Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products for utilizing emergency procedures to determine location information for a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) device. A wireless access gateway (WAG) determines location information of the VOIP device and stores the location information. A request for a location of the VOIP device from a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) is received by the WAG. The WAG translates the stored location information into a format used by the MSC to receive location information from a Radio Access Network (RAN). The WAG provides the translated location information to the MSC.
US08605652B1	Wireless tune away based upon congestion What is disclosed is a method of operating a wireless communication device. The method includes entering a first wireless communication mode with a wireless access node that requires tuning to a first frequency spectrum, and receiving congestion information of the wireless access node for overhead communications of the first wireless communication mode. In response to entering the first wireless communication mode, the method includes setting a timer for monitoring a second wireless communication mode based on the congestion information. When the timer expires, the method includes tuning away from the first frequency spectrum to a second frequency spectrum for the second wireless communication mode and monitoring information for the second wireless communication mode.
US08605650B2	System and method for interrupting a transmitting device in a communication system A system and method for interrupting a transmitting device during a call. In the system, calls are transmitted from a first device on a communication channel as a series of channel frames. At predetermined times during the transmission, the transmitting device is configured to drop channel frames, resulting in open channel frame periods where the transmitting device is not transmitting on the communication channel. During these open channel frame periods, the transmitting device is also configured to switch to a receiving mode. Other devices in the system are capable of switching into a transmitting mode during the open channel frame periods and, when applicable, sending an interrupt request on the communication channel to the transmitting device in order to request access to the channel.
US08605649B2	Method for providing reliable communication session establishment in a communication infrastructure The method provides for establishing a communication session in a hierarchical communication system between a source party and at least one destination party. Hierarchical communication systems generally have communication nodes at different levels of hierarchy. In one embodiment, connection information for the communication session is stored if establishing the communication session is blocked at a node as a result of a blocking condition at the blocking node. Establishment of the communication session is initiated based on the stored connection information if the blocking condition no longer exists at the blocking node.
US08605645B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving control information in multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting control information to a Relay Station (RS) in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a generator, a controller, and a communication unit. The generator generates control information to be transmitted to a lower RS. The controller controls and transmits the control information during a first relay link transmission interval among at least one relay link transmission interval distributed within a frame. The communication unit transmits the control information to the lower RS.
US08605643B2	Apparatus and method for retransmitting of data in a wireless communication system using relay An apparatus and method for retransmitting data in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting data to at least one lower node, temporarily storing the data transmitted to the lower node, if ACKnowledgement (ACK) information of a relay link is not received for a predetermined time after data transmission or if the ACK information of the relay link is received from a lower Relay Station (RS), identifying if error occurrence information of an access link is received from the lower RS, and, if the ACK information of the access link is received from the lower RS, recognizing that data transmission to a Mobile Station (MS) succeeds.
US08605642B2	Method and arrangement for coding and scheduling in packet data communication systems The method and arrangement according to the present invention relates to of scheduling and coding in communication systems utilizing automatic repeat request (ARQ) and/or multihop scheduling and forwarding. According to the inventive method the receiving nodes selectively stores received information, also overheard information, as a priori information and feed back information about their respective stored a priori information to a sending node. The sending node forms composite data packets by jointly encoding and scheduling multiple data packets, which composite data packets are transmitted to receiving nodes. Upon receiving a composite data packet the receiving nodes uses their stored a priori information in the process of extracting data for themselves from the composite data packets.
US08605639B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus and data processing method To facilitate selection of broadcast data which was multiplexed on broadcast programs and was broadcast. A mobile terminal device has a digital broadcast receiving means for receiving broadcast data which was multiplexed on broadcast programs and was broadcast further has a controlling means for setting the mobile terminal device to a state so as to utilize the usable data when selecting, then instructing execution of viewing history data linked with usable data by an operating means.
US08605636B2	Method for acquiring handover network in multi-mode terminal and multi-mode terminal therefor Disclosed is a method capable of minimizing a period of time required for a handover network acquisition procedure when a handover occurs between communication networks which provide communication services using different mobile communication technologies. When a modem for a handover communication network performs network acquisition due to the occurrence of a handover, the modem previously extracts information about a handover channel from a Universal Handover Direction Message (UHDM), and uses the extracted channel information in a network acquisition procedure. Accordingly, the modem for a handover communication network can easily acquire a handover network even without using a preferred roaming list, and can omit an radio frequency (RF) tuning procedure by extracting a corresponding code division multiple access (CDMA) channel from the received UHDM, thereby reducing the total handover processing time period and increasing the success rate of the handover.
US08605632B2	Method for transmitting sub-frame designation information to a downlink in a radio communication system A method of transmitting subframe designating information in downlink in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes generating the subframe designating information for designating a subframe of a specific type in a radio frame and transmitting the generated subframe designating information to a user equipment, wherein the subframe designating information includes initial location information indicating an initial location of the subframe of the specific type on the radio frame and period information indicating a period for the subframe of the specific type to be repeated.
US08605631B2	Communication method Provided is a communication method for improving the communication quality of multicast transmission. A grouping table storage section stores a grouping table in which Ack return order positions indicating priority orders of the reception terminals which each return an Ack, and addresses of the reception terminals are set. An Ack return order position notification frame creation section notifies each reception terminal of a corresponding Ack return order position based on the grouping table. An Ack return permission information determination section refers to the grouping table, determines the number of reception terminal that are to be permitted to return an Ack, and creates Ack return permission information in which information about the reception terminals that are to be permitted to return an Ack is set, based on the determined number of reception terminals. A multicast creation section creates a multicast containing the Ack return permission information and transmission data.
US08605630B2	Low duty cycle network controller Operating at least one low duty cycle (LDC) controller to maintain synchronization between the LDC controller and a plurality of LDC terminals operating over a communication network using only overhead channels of the network and conforming to the protocol and timing of said network, wherein synchronization between the LDC controller and the plurality of LDC terminals is maintained separately from the protocol and timing of the communication network, and enables the LDC controller to schedule power down and wake up of the plurality of LDC terminals for durations longer than allowable under the protocol and timing of the communication network.
US08605629B1	Lawful interception of subscriber received multicast traffic A network device may include a lawful interception module, a routing module, and a multicast distribution table. The lawful interception module may receive a lawful interception request for a subscriber, may inform the routing module about the subscriber, and may provide, to the routing module, a tap interface corresponding to the subscriber. The routing module may receive a multicast join request from the subscriber, and may insert, when the multicast join request is received, the tap interface in the multicast distribution table, as a forwarding interface.
US08605614B2	Power head room reporting method and mobile station device Disclosed are a control signal transmitting method and mobile terminal device capable of switching between a plurality of terminal communication modes having different maximum transmissible power values with a high degree of precision, while suppressing increases in signaling overhead. In a mobile station (100), a PHR transmission evaluating unit (115) sends, to a base station (200), power head room (PHR) information for the SC-FDMA mode or the OFDMA mode during a reporting period, and a maximum transmission power information setting unit (101) provides notification to the base station (200) of difference information between the transmission modes prior to the beginning of the reporting period. An increase in signaling overhead can be prevented because only a single set of PHR information among the information for the plurality of terminal transmission modes is reported in this way. Providing notification of difference information between the transmission modes enables the base station (200) to calculate the PHR of each of the terminal transmission modes without receiving PHR information for all of the terminal transmission modes. This therefore enables highly accurate switching among the terminal transmission modes with appropriate timing.
US08605609B2	Simulation of multiple nodes in an internetwork A method is provided for simulation of multiple network nodes in an internetwork. A range of a plurality of network addresses are assigned to a simulation node. The simulation node monitors network communications to listen for packets. Upon receipt of a packet having a destination address within the assigned range, a command is forwarded to an end-use application, such as firmware. The end-use application processes the command and returns a result. A response packet having the result is transmitted to the back office server with the destination address of the received packet as the source of the response packet.
US08605602B2	Field communication system A field communication system receives data from a field device through a communication network and maps the data onto a register to update the data. The field communication system includes a detection module configured to detect a state of communication with the field device through the communication network, and a writing module configured to write the communication state detected by the detection module in the register as information added to the data.
US08605601B2	Alarm and event coordination between telecom nodes A telecom node (210, 310) such as a base station is configured to detect events. A low priority event may not be serious enough on its own to raise an alarm to a network management system (220, 420) managing the telecom node (210, 310). However, the low priority event can collectively have a serious impact on the network performance if the event occurs over multiple nodes (210, 310) of the network (200). When a low priority event occurs over multiple nodes (210, 310), the telecom node (210, 310) notifies the network management system (220, 420) of the event by raising an alarm so that the situation can be addressed. In a partitioned network installation, not all neighboring nodes (210, 310) are managed by a same network management system (220, 420). When the alarm is raised to the network management system (220, 420), other network management systems (220, 420) managing the neighboring nodes (210, 310) are notified of the alarm by the network management system (220, 420).
US08605599B2	Method and apparatus for processing asynchronous audio stream A method and an apparatus for processing an asynchronous audio stream are provided. A corrupted PES packet is detected from an asynchronous audio PES stream, and the ADTS frames of the corrupted PES packet are detected and replaced with predetermined substitute ADTS frames. Thus, an AAC stream is restored from the PES stream.
US08605598B2	Frame loss measurement method, system, and apparatus The number of data frames transmitted between two apparatuses is counted by a transmission counter, while the number of received frames is counted by a reception counter. When an OAM frame for frame loss measurement is transmitted, the value of the transmission counter is cached in a cache memory. At the time of generation of an OAM frame at an OAM frame generation unit, the value of the cache memory is used so as to generate an OAM frame carrying the value of the transmission counter at the time of transmission of the OAM frame transmitted previously. The frame loss is calculated from the difference of the value of the transmission counter carried in the OAM frame from the previous value and the difference of the value of the reception counter at the time of reception of the previous previous OAM frame from the previous value.
US08605596B2	Medium access for de-centralized wireless network A method of wireless medium access for establishing a decentralized wireless network, the method comprising broadcasting of beacon frames by each of a plurality of devices; listening, at each device, for beacon frames of other devices; identifying, at each device, other devices who's beacon frames have been heard; and forming the decentralised wireless network as at least two dynamic networks, each dynamic network being centered around one of the devices and having said other devices who's beacon frames have been heard by said one device as network members.
US08605594B2	Method and arrangements for dynamic resource reservation Embodiments of the present invention relate to network nodes and methods that allow for improved QoS control in a telecommunications network by providing combined reservation of transport resources and processing resources for a traffic flow. The amount of transport resources and the amount of processing resources required in connection with a traffic flow can be signaled in a signaling message from a sender node to a receiver node to enable reservation of appropriate amounts of processing resources as well as transport resources.
US08605590B2	Systems and methods of improving performance of transport protocols Systems and methods of improving transport protocol performance are disclosed. One exemplary method includes: in a first state, non-linearly increasing a congestion window; in response to the congestion window exceeding a threshold value while in the first state, transitioning to a second state; and in the second state, linearly increasing the congestion window.
US08605587B2	Flexible, cost-effective solution for peer-to-peer, gaming, and application traffic detection and treatment A method and apparatus for detecting peer traffic based on a heuristic model and deep packet inspection is described. A suspect set of peer packets is detected using a heuristic model. From the suspect set of peer packet, a set of verified peer packets is detected using deep packet inspection. The set of verified peer packets is processed according to the peer processing policy, while the non-verified peer packets is processed according a non-peer policy. Furthermore, the statistics are generated from the set of suspect peer packet. These statistics are used to update the heuristic model.
US08605585B2	Method for establishing diameter session for packet flow based charging A method and system for establishing a Diameter session between a TPF and a CRF is disclosed. The Diameter session between the TPF and CRF can be established for each bearer of each subscriber. The Diameter session can also be established for the bearers with a same APN of each subscriber. The Diameter session can also be established with respect for all the bearers of a subscriber. The method and system improves the mechanism for establishing Diameter sessions and makes the implementation of the charging flow more integrated. Moreover, the multiple ways for establishing Diameter sessions between the TPF and the CRF provided in the present invention can be flexibly selected according to the practical charging applications.
US08605584B2	Transmission of control information across multiple packets Techniques for sending control information in the header of multiple packets are described. The techniques may allow more control information to be sent using a small number of overhead bits per packet. In one design, a first node (e.g., a network entity) may determine control information to send to a second node (e.g., a UE or another network entity). The first node may send the control information in the header of multiple packets toward the second node. In one design, the control information may include congestion information indicative of traffic congestion at the first node. The congestion information may be sent using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) bits in the header of IP packets. The first node may send the control information with or without coding and for all packets or a specific data flow. The first node may also send a synchronization sequence prior to the control information.
US08605583B2	PCC/QOS rule creation Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: receiving, at the PCRN, the application request message; determining at least one requested service flow from the application request message; for each requested service flow of the at least one requested service flow, generating a new PCC rule based on the application request message; and providing each new PCC rule to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Node (PCEN). Various exemplary embodiments further include an application request message including at least one media component and at least one media subcomponent and the step of for each media subcomponent, determining a requested service flow from the media subcomponent.
US08605581B2	Method and apparatus for assigning transcoding resources in a session boarder controller A session boarder controller (4, 5; 20) is use between peering networks (1, 2, 3) supporting packetized voice transport. In order to save expensive DSP resources, a dynamic transcoder resource management is proposed.The session boarder controller contains: I/O means (21, 22) having an I/O capacity that corresponds to at least a predefined number of trunks; digital signal processing means (23a, 23b, 23c) adapted to convert between different type of voice codecs used for packetized voice transport in incoming or outgoing connections, said digital signal processing means (23a, 23b, 23c) having limited processing capacity; and control means (24) adapted to determine idle processing capacity of said digital signal processing means (23a, 23b, 23c) and to reject resource-consuming connections that require codec conversion, if the total amount of idle processing capacity would fall below a threshold that depends on the number of idle trunks.
US08605579B2	Method and apparatus for flow control of data in a mesh network Flows admitted to a mesh node may be controlled through contention access parameters. The admitting node may determine a desired transmission opportunity duration, and a transmission opportunity frequency. Furthermore, the node may achieve the flow rate and delay bound requirements of the admitted flow based at least in part upon the desired transmission opportunity duration, and the transmission opportunity frequency. The data rate and the access frequency of the admitted node may be monitored at the physical access level. The flow rate requirement may be accomplished based at least in part upon an adjustment to the transmission opportunity duration. The delay bound requirement may be accomplished at least in part upon manipulation of the contention access parameters. The transmission opportunity duration and the access parameters may be determined by the upstream admitting nodes, which may reduce congestion near mesh portals, and accomplish increased data transfer.
US08605578B1	System and method for handling of destination host side congestion Systems and methods are provided for managing congestion at a destination host in a network. A transport layer system manages receive buffer for application processes running on the destination host. Upon receiving the first packet of a new message from a source host, the system determines if there is enough free space in the receive buffer at the destination host to be reserved for the entire message. The system allocates receive buffer for the entire message if there is enough free receive buffer space. If there is not enough free buffer space, the system drops the message and sends a negative acknowledgment to the source host. The source host pauses transmission to the destination host upon receiving the negative acknowledgment. The system sends a resume message to the source host when there is enough free buffer. The source host retransmits the dropped message upon receiving the resume message.
US08605577B2	User equipment in a congestion controlled CDMA system A user equipment (UE) configured for use in a wireless code division multiple access (CDMA) system with multi-user detection capabilities that implements congestion control includes a receiver having multi-user detection capabilities, an intra-cell interference measuring device, and an intra-cell interference signaling device. The intra-cell interference signaling device is configured to transmit signals indicative of intra-cell interference from which congestion control is based.
US08605575B2	Failover and failback of communication between a router and a network switch A router is provided. The router includes a primary interface, a backup interface, a processor, and a memory. The primary interface and backup interface may be used to communicate with a network switch. The router may be configured to determine whether the primary interface is stable. The primary interface is stable when the primary interface may be used to exchange information with a network switch over a primary network segment. The router may be configured to activate the primary interface when the primary interface is determined to be stable. The router may also be configured to activate the backup interface when the primary interface is determined to be not stable. The backup interface may be activated for the exchange of information with the network switch.
US08605572B1	Packet data network specific addressing solutions with network-based mobility A media access gateway includes a wireless network interface, a profile determination module, a proxy mobility agent module, and an address assignment module. The wireless network interface is configured to establish a wireless link with a wireless terminal. The profile determination module is configured to retrieve a profile corresponding to the wireless terminal. The profile includes packet data network identifiers. The proxy mobility agent module is configured to identify a packet data networks in response to the packet data network identifiers. The address assignment module is configured to transmit an address assignment message to the wireless terminal. The address assignment message (i) includes address components and (ii) associates the address components with the packet data networks. The wireless terminal uses the address components to communicate with the packet data networks.
US08605571B2	Radio communication device and signal division method Provided is a radio communication device which can reduce ISI caused by destruction of an orthogonal DFT matrix even when an SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the clusters are respectively mapped to discontinuous frequency bands. The radio communication device includes a DFT unit (110), a division unit (111), and a mapping unit (112). The DFT unit (110) uses the DFT matrix to execute a DFT process on a symbol sequence in a time region to generate a signal (SC-FDMA signal) of the frequency region. The division unit (111) generates a plurality of clusters by dividing the SC-FDMA signal with a partially orthogonal bandwidth corresponding to the vector length of some of the column vectors constituting the DFT matrix used in the DFT unit (110) and orthogonally intersecting at least partially. The mapping unit (112) maps the clusters to discontinuous frequency bands.
US08605570B2	Method and system for generating a superframe preamble in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing network A method for generating a superframe preamble for a superframe in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing network is provided. The superframe preamble comprises a plurality of symbols. For a first one of the symbols, a first set of subcarriers of a carrier is allocated to a first broadcast channel, with the first set of subcarriers distributed over substantially the entire carrier. For the first one of the symbols, a second set of subcarriers of the carrier is allocated to a second broadcast channel.
US08605567B2	Apparatuses and methods for enabling crosstalk vectoring in expandable communication systems A communication system utilizes at least one digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) at an intermediate point between a network facility and one or more customer premises. Initially, as few as one DSLAM, may be implemented at the intermediate point, but the system can be expanded to include any number of DSLAMs at the intermediate point. Any of the DSLAMs at the intermediate point can be selectively upgraded at any time to a vectoring solution as may be desired. The use of such DSLAMs provides the network service provider with flexibility in implementing and maintaining the network.
US08605566B2	Method and system for signal emulation A circuit can process a sample of a signal to emulate, simulate, or model an effect on the signal. Thus, an emulation circuit can produce a representation of a real-world signal transformation by processing the signal according to one or more signal processing parameters that are characteristic of the real-world signal transformation. The emulation circuit can apply analog signal processing and/or mixed signal processing to the signal. The signal processing can comprise feeding the signal through two signal paths, each having a different delay, and creating a weighted sum of the outputs of the two signal paths. The signal processing can also (or alternatively) comprise routing the signal through a network of delay elements, wherein a bank of switching or routing elements determines the route and thus the resulting delay.
US08605564B2	Audio mixing method and audio mixing apparatus capable of processing and/or mixing audio inputs individually An audio mixing method includes: performing an audio processing operation upon a first audio input derived from at least one decoded audio input to generate a processed audio output, and generating a mixed audio signal by mixing at least a second audio input and the processed audio output. An audio mixing apparatus includes an audio processing circuit and an audio mixing circuit. The audio processing circuit is utilized for performing an audio processing operation upon a first audio input derived from at least one decoded audio input and accordingly generating a processed audio output. The audio mixing circuit is coupled to the audio processing circuit, and utilized for generating a mixed audio signal by mixing at least a second audio input and the processed audio output.
US08605563B2	Optical disc device and control method of optical disc An optical disc device comprising: a controller for reading data from an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers, wherein: the controller, in shifting a focus of the laser light from a first layer to a second layer, performs a first change that changes a setting on the high frequency signal to a predetermined value at which the high frequency signal is superimposed to suppress peak power of the drive signal if a light density of the second layer is higher than a light density of the first layer; the controller shifts the focus from the first layer to the second layer; and the controller, after the focus has been shifted, performs a second change that changes the setting on the high frequency signal to a predetermined value at which the high frequency signal is superimposed to increase the peak power of the drive signal.
US08605561B2	Method and system for re-writing with a holographic storage medium A method and device for re-writing data on a holographic storage device is disclosed. First and second electro-optic modulators may phase shift the reference and data beams used to store data on the photorefractive crystal. When the reference beam is shifted 180° out of phase with respect to the data beam, the photorefractive crystal is erased.
US08605559B2	Optical pickup device and optical disc apparatus In a small-sized optical pickup device for enabling to obtain a stable servo-signal, as well as, a focus error signal and a tracking error signal, without receiving ill influences of stray lights from other layers, when recording/reproducing a multi-layer optical disc, a reflection light from the multi-layer optical disc is divided into plural numbers of regions by a diffraction grating. And, it is divided into at least four (4) regions, by a division line in the tangential direction of the optical disc and a division line in the radial direction thereof. Light receiving parts, for detecting either one of grating diffraction lights, i.e., a +1st dimensional grating diffraction light or a −1st dimensional grating diffraction light of a light beam entering into the at least four (4) regions, are aligned, nearly, on a straight line in the radial direction of the optical disc, and light receiving parts for detecting the other dimensional grating diffraction light are aligned, shifting, with respect to a direction nearly coincident with a tangential direction of the optical disc.
US08605551B2	Position determination of a seismic source array A method of obtaining information about the positions of sources in a marine seismic source array, comprises: determining respective notional signatures for m selected seismic sources, where m
US08605545B2	Wireless exploration seismic system Systems and methods are provided for acquiring seismic data using a wireless network and a number of individual data acquisition modules that are configured to collect seismic data and forward data to a central recording and control system. In one implementation, a number of remote modules (301) are arranged in lines. Base station modules (302) receive information from the lines and relay the information to a central control and recording system (303). Radio links operating on multiple frequencies (F1-F12) are used by the modules (301). For improved data transfer rate, radio links from a remote module (301) leap past the nearest remote module to the next module closer to the base station.
US08605542B2	Detection of seismic signals using fiber optic distributed sensors A fiber optic distributed vibration system for detecting seismic signals in an earth formation is provided. The system includes a fiber optic cable deployed in a borehole that extends into the earth formation and which is configured to react along its length to a seismic wave incident on the fiber optic cable from outside the borehole. An optical source launches an optical signal into the fiber optic cable while the seismic wave is incident thereon. A receiver detects coherent Rayleigh noise (CRN) produced in response to the optical signal. A processing circuit processes the detected CRN signal to determine characteristics of the earth formation.
US08605540B2	Method and devices for underwater deployment of a structure Described herein are methods and devices for underwater deployment of a structure. For example, the embodiments described herein are particularly focused on sonobuoys that are configured for autonomous deployment in an underwater environment. One embodiment provides a sonobuoy having a plurality of arms, which are in some embodiments telescopic. The sonobuoy is configured such that, upon deployment in an underwater environment, the arms extend and rotate from a collapsed storage configuration to an operative configuration. The rotation is brought about by way of tension in petal lines, which extend between an innermost telescopic segment of each arm and a central tether line intermediate the arms and a buoyancy device.
US08605538B2	Multiple device apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to generate a clock signal in a die in a stack and to receive the clock signal in another die in the stack. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08605537B2	Column address circuit of semiconductor memory device and method of generating column addresses The column address circuit of a semiconductor memory device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a column address generation circuit configured to generate an internal dummy clock in response to a data output enable signal, generate an internal clock in response to a read enable signal, generate first count addresses in response to the internal dummy clock, and generate normal count addresses in response to the internal clock after the generation of the first count addresses, where the read enable signal is activated later than the data output enable signal, and a column address output circuit configured to store the first count addresses and the normal addresses and to generate column addresses by synchronizing the first count addresses and the normal addresses with output clocks, respectively.
US08605535B2	Integrated circuits, systems, and methods for reducing leakage currents in a retention mode A memory array including at least one cross-latched pair of transistors for storing data. The memory array further includes a first power line for supplying a first reference voltage and a second power line for supplying a second reference voltage. The memory array further includes a first switch having a first output coupled with the at least one cross-latched pair of transistors for selectively connecting the at least one cross-latched pair of transistors to the first power line. The memory array further includes a second switch having a second output coupled with the at least one cross-latched pair of transistors for selectively connecting the at least one cross-latched pair of transistors to the second power line. The first output is coupled to the second output.
US08605533B2	Apparatus and method for protecting data in flash memory An apparatus for securely protecting data in a flash memory upon power off is disclosed. In the apparatus, a power detector monitors a voltage output from a power supply unit, and outputs a power fail signal when the voltage drops by a predetermined reference voltage or more. A Programmable Logic Device (PLD) outputs a Write Protect (WP) signal for performing write protection on the flash memory upon receiving the power fail signal from the power detector. A WP controller outputs the WP signal output from the PLD to the flash memory, according to a Ready/Busy (R/B) state of the flash memory.
US08605532B2	Semiconductor device having hierarchical bit line structure Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device comprising a memory cell, a local bit line coupled to the memory cell, a global bit line provided correspondingly to the local bit line, and a bit line control circuit coupled between the local bit line and the global bit line. The bit line control circuit includes a restoring circuit that is activated in a refresh mode to refresh data of the memory cell while being in electrical isolation from the global bit line.
US08605531B2	Fast verify for phase change memory with switch A phase change memory with switch (PCMS) compensates for threshold voltage drift by utilizing a lower demarcation voltage for a verify operation after programming than for a read operation occurring at least a predetermined period of time after the programming operation.
US08605530B2	Sense amplifier using reference signal through standard MOS and DRAM capacitor A memory circuit includes a first memory cell node capacitor, a first memory cell node transistor, a second memory cell node having a second memory cell node capacitor and a second memory cell node transistor, and a pre-charging circuit for pre-charging the first and second memory cell nodes to first and second voltage levels, respectively. The circuit includes a reference memory cell having first and second reference cell transistors with an equalizing transistor between, and a sense amplifier that detects a potential difference between reference bit lines from the reference memory cell and the first or second memory cell node, respectively. The reference cell transistors and equalizing transistor perform a first voltage equalization of the memory cell nodes at a predetermined voltage and a second voltage equalization of the memory cell nodes based on first or second reference signals respectively input to the first or second reference cell transistor.
US08605529B2	Sense amplifiers and exemplary applications Embodiments of the invention are related to sense amplifiers. In an embodiment involving a sense amplifier used with a memory cell, signals BL, ZBL, SN and SP are pre-charged and equalized to a voltage reference, e.g., Vref, using an equalizing signal. A compensation signal, e.g., SAC, is applied to compensate for the mismatch between transistors in the sense amplifier. The word line WL is activated to connect the memory cell to a bit line, e.g., bit line ZBL. Because the memory cell shares the charge with the connected bit line ZBL, it causes a differential signal to be developed between bit lines BL and ZBL. When enough split between bit lines BL and ZBL is developed, signals SP and SAE are raised to VDD (while signal SN has been lowered to VSS) to turn on the sense amplifier and allow it to function as desire. Other embodiments and exemplary applications are also disclosed.
US08605526B2	Memory reliability verification techniques Rather than merely carrying out a BIST test by verifying whether a memory cell accurately stores a “1” or “0” under normal read/write conditions, aspects of the present discloser relate to BIST tests that test the read and/or write margins of a cell. During this BIST testing, the read and/or write margins can be incrementally stressed until a failure point is determined for the cell. In this way, “weak” memory cells in an array can be identified and appropriate action can be taken, if necessary, to deal with these weak cells.
US08605524B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device A semiconductor device includes a memory cell, a first bit line coupled to the memory cell, a second bit line, a first sense amplifier circuit including first and second transistors, the first transistor including a gate coupled to the first bit line, and the first and second transistors are coupled in series between the second bit line and a first voltage line, a temperature detection circuit configured to detect a temperature of the semiconductor device, and a control circuit configured to receive an output of the temperature detection circuit and supply a control signal to a gate of the second transistor.
US08605522B2	Semiconductor memory apparatus, and successive program control circuit and program method therefor A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a program pulse generation block configured to generate write control signals and a program completion signal in response to a programming enable signal; a successive program control circuit configured to generate a successive programming enable signal in response to received program addresses and data count signals as a buffered program command or a buffered overwrite command; and a controller configured to generate the programming enable signal in response to the successive programming enable signal.
US08605520B2	Replaceable, precise-tracking reference lines for memory products Systems and methods to improve reliability of sensing operations of semiconductor memory arrays requiring reading references such as MRAM or any type of phase change memory (PCM), and to improve yield of the memory arrays have been achieved. The memory array is divided into multiple parts, such as sections or segments. Reference word lines or reference bit lines or both are deployed in each of the multiple parts. Thus, the distance between an accessed line and the correspondent reference line is reduced, and hence the parasitic parameter tracking capability is enhanced significantly. Additionally spare reference word lines or spare reference bit lines can be deployed in each of the multiple parts.
US08605518B2	Semiconductor memory device, information processing system including the same, and controller A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate. First and second mode registers are provided on the semiconductor substrate and store information, respectively. First and second circuits are provided on the semiconductor substrate. The first and second circuits have substantially the same configuration. The first and second circuits perform an operation in response to the information of the first and second mode registers, respectively.
US08605517B2	Variable resistance memory devices using read mirror currents A nonvolatile memory device includes a variable resistance memory element and a read circuit coupled to the variable resistance memory element at a first signal node and configured to provide a read current to the variable resistance memory element via the first signal node, to a provide a mirror current at a second signal node responsive to the cell current and to generate an output signal indicative of a state of the variable resistance memory element responsive to a voltage at the second signal node.
US08605513B2	Detecting the completion of programming for non-volatile storage A set of non-volatile storage elements are subjected to a programming process in order to store data. During the programming process, one or more verification operations are performed to determine whether the non-volatile storage elements have reached their target condition to store the appropriate data. Programming can be stopped when all non-volatile storage elements have reached their target level or when the number of non-volatile storage elements that have not reached their target level is less than a number or memory cells that can be corrected using an error correction process during a read operation (or other operation). The number of non-volatile storage elements that have not reached their target level can be estimated by counting the number of non-volatile storage elements that have not reached a condition that is different (e.g., lower) than the target level.
US08605511B2	Non-volatile semiconductor memory device adapted to store a multi-valued data in a single memory cell A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes an electrically data rewritable non-volatile semiconductor memory cell and a write circuit for writing data in the memory cell, the write circuit writing a data in the memory cells by supplying a write voltage Vpgm and a write control voltage VBL to the memory cell, continuing the writing of the data in the memory cell by changing the value of the write control voltage VBL in response to an advent of a first write state of the memory cell and inhibiting any operation of writing a data to the memory cell by further changing the value of the write control voltage VBL to Vdd in response to an advent of a second write state of the memory cell.
US08605506B2	Three dimensional stacked nonvolatile semiconductor memory A three dimensional stacked nonvolatile semiconductor memory according to an example of the present invention includes a memory cell array comprised of first and second blocks disposed side by side in a first direction, and a driver disposed on one end of the memory cell array in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. First select gate lines in the first block and first select gate lines in the second block are connected to the driver after they are commonly connected in one end in the second direction of the memory cell array in a relation of one to one.
US08605501B2	System and method for determining data dependent noise calculation for a flash channel Disclosed is an system and method for determining a probability that a memory cell was programmed to a certain input level. An output level is received from a memory cell and a probability is determined that the output level corresponds to each of a plurality of programming levels. Each probability is determined as a function of the output level, a mean value of a distribution corresponding to the programming level, and a variance from the mean value with the variance being determined by a relative position of the output level with respect to the mean value. A probability value is generated as a function of the plurality of determined probabilities and then provided for use at a demodulator.
US08605500B2	Multilevel nonvolatile semiconductor memory system According to one embodiment, a system includes a memory, a controller which controls an operation of the memory in a data program, and data bus which connects the memory to the controller. The memory comprises a memory cell array with memory cells which have a bit assignment to 2x (x is an integer number of 3 or more) threshold distributions, each memory cell storing x bits, and a control circuit which controls the data program of x bits to the memory cells. The controller comprises a first step generating y bit (y is an integer number and y
US08605496B2	Semiconductor memory device for writing data to multiple cells simultaneously and refresh method thereof A semiconductor memory device includes a read/write bit line configured to supply a cell driving voltage. A selecting unit is connected to the read/write bit line and is controlled by a word line. A plurality of cells are connected between the selecting unit and a source line, and the cells are configured to read and write data according to a cell driving voltage. Each switching element of a plurality of switching elements are connected in parallel with a single cell of the plurality of cells, and the plurality of switching elements are controlled selectively by a plurality of bit lines.
US08605495B2	Isolation device free memory An integrated circuit memory is based on isolation device free memory cells. The memory cells are passively coupled to bit lines and word lines. The memory cells include an anti-fuse element and an element of phase change material in series. A rupture filament through the anti-fuse layer acts as an electrode for the phase change element. Control circuitry is configured to apply bias arrangements for operation of the memory cells, including a first write bias arrangement to induce a volume of the higher resistivity phase in the phase change material establishing a first threshold for the selected memory cell below a read threshold, a second write bias arrangement to induce a larger volume of the higher resistivity phase in phase change material establishing a second threshold for the selected memory cell above the read threshold, and a read bias arrangement to apply the read threshold to the selected memory cell.
US08605494B2	Memory device and writing method thereof A write amplifier for driving a bit line connected to a selected phase change memory cell drives the bit line with a first current driving capability and then drives the bit line with a second current driving capability lower than the first current driving capability.
US08605488B2	Capacitive crossbar arrays A capacitive crossbar array includes a first set of conductors and a second set of conductors which intersect to form crosspoints. A nonlinear capacitive device is interposed between a first conductor within the first set and a second conductor within the second set at a crosspoint. The nonlinear capacitive device is configured to store information which is accessible through said first conductor and said second conductor. A method for utilizing a capacitive crossbar array is also provided.
US08605487B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device includes: a memory cell array having memory cells positioned at respective intersections between a plurality of first wirings and a plurality of second wirings, each of the memory cells having a rectifier element and a variable resistance element connected in series; and a control circuit selectively driving the first and second wirings. The plurality of first wirings that are specified and selectively driven at the same time by one of a plurality of address signals are separately arranged with other first wirings interposed therebetween within the memory cell array when a certain potential difference is applied to a selected memory cell positioned at an intersection between the first and second wirings by the control circuit.
US08605486B2	Cross point non-volatile memory cell A memory system includes an X line, a first Y line, a second Y line, a semiconductor region of a first type running along the X line, first switching material and a first semiconductor region of a second type between the first Y line and the semiconductor region of the first type, second switching material and a second semiconductor region of the second type between the second Y line and the semiconductor region of the first type, and control circuitry. The control circuitry changes the programming state of the first switching material to a first state by causing a first current to flow from the second Y line to the first Y line through the first switching material, the second switching material, the semiconductor region of the first type, the first semiconductor region of the second type and the second semiconductor region of the second type.
US08605483B2	Memristive device and methods of making and using the same A memristive device is disclosed herein. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an active region disposed between the first and second electrodes. At least two mobile species are present in the active region. Each of the at least two mobile species is configured to define a separate state variable of the memristive device.
US08605482B2	Resistance change memory including a resistive element According to one embodiment, a resistance change memory includes a memory cell array area and a resistive element area on a substrate. A first memory cell array in the memory cell array area includes a first control line, a second control line above first control line, and a first cell unit between the first and second control lines. A second memory cell array on the first memory cell array includes the second control line, a third control line above the second control line, and a second cell unit between the second and the third control lines. And a resistive element in the resistive element area includes resistance lines, and a resistor connected to the resistance lines. The resistor includes the same member as one of a member of the cell unit and a member of a contact plug.
US08605480B2	Read only memory device with complemenary bit line pair A read only memory cell circuit is provided. The memory cell circuit includes at least one memory cell. A pair of bit lines associated with each memory cell is provided which form a complementary output. The at least one memory cell is configured to be coupled to first or second of the bit line pair.
US08605471B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device includes: an inverter that converts a DC current supplied from a DC power source to an AC current by engaging a plurality of switching elements, which constitute an upper arm, and a plurality of switching elements, which constitute a lower arm, in switching operation; a control unit that includes a signal generation unit that generates a switching signal carrying a command for execution of the switching operation in correspondence to each of the plurality of switching elements constituting the upper arm and the plurality of switching elements constituting the lower arm, and outputs the switching signal thus generated as a control signal; and a drive unit that individually drives each of the switching elements based upon the corresponding control signals. The control unit includes a plurality of protection circuits disposed in series on a control signal line extending between the signal generation unit and the drive unit, with each of the protection circuits outputting a control signal having been input thereto when a protective operation is not executed but outputting a control signal for setting the corresponding switching element either in a cut-off state or in an electrically continuous state in place of the control signal input thereto when the protective operation is executed.
US08605469B2	AC side soft charge circuit for variable frequency drives A voltage source inverter comprises a rectifier having an input for connection to a multi-phase AC power source and converting the AC power to DC power at an output. An inverter receives DC power and converts the DC power to AC power. A DC bus is connected between the rectifier circuit and the inverter circuit to provide a relatively fixed DC voltage for the inverter. A bus capacitor is across the DC bus. A soft charge circuit limits inrush current to the bus capacitor. The soft charge circuit comprises an input inductor for each phase connected between the rectifier input and the AC power source and a clamping circuit across each input inductor to limit DC bus voltage.
US08605466B2	Radiation hardened motor drive stage A radiation hardened motor drive stage utilizes a non-radiation hardened P-channel FET switch. The radiation hardened motor drive stage includes a non-radiation hardened P-channel FET switch that is connected three (3) pairs of upper and lower switch blocks or legs wherein the output of each pair is connected to a motor winding switch terminal. The upper switch blocks or legs are connected the P-channel switch a. The lower switch block or legs are connected to a negative power bus. The negative power bus permits the N-channel FETS or IGTS within the switch blocks or legs exposed to ionized radiation to be controlled, even when their gate threshold voltage has dropped below zero volts.
US08605464B2	Power converter, control method of power converter, and hard disk drive A power converter includes a first inductor, a rectifier arm, a first switch arm including a first and second switch circuits, a second switch arm including a third switch circuit and a first capacitor, a LC serial circuit, a Transformer, a rectification and smoothing circuit connected to secondary winding of the transformer, and a control circuit to perform on-off control of the three switch circuits. The rectifier arm, the first and second switch arms and the LC serial circuit are connected in parallel with each other. The LC serial circuit and primary winding of the transformer are connected. AC power supply is connected to the rectifier arm via the first inductor. The control circuit includes an output voltage control circuit to control output voltage at specific setting value, an intermediate voltage control circuit to control intermediate voltage at specific setting value, and a power factor correction control circuit.
US08605458B2	Floating electrical connection device and protective case having the same A floating electrical connection device includes a base, a support plate, a circuit board, an electric connector, and at least one spring. The base includes a bottom wall and two sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls is formed with a guide slot. The support plate is disposed between the sidewalls, and is spaced apart from the bottom wall. The support plate includes two sliding members disposed respectively on left and right sides thereof, and extending respectively and movably into the guide slots. The circuit board is disposed on the support plate. The electric connector is disposed on the circuit board, and is electrically connected to the circuit board. The spring is disposed for biasing the support plate away from the bottom wall. As such, the electric connector can be electrically connected to an additional electric connector at a selected one of at least two predetermined positions.
US08605456B2	Electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a case, a main circuit board in the case, a connector on the main circuit board, an auxiliary circuit board includes one end portion connected to the connector and an extending portion extending outside the main circuit board, and a spring supporting mechanism between the case and the extending portion of the auxiliary circuit board. The spring supporting mechanism includes a spring portion configured to support the extending portion elastically deformable in a direction across a surface of the auxiliary circuit board, and is fixed to the extending portion to prevent the auxiliary circuit board from moving along the surface thereof.
US08605453B2	Electronic device with detachable printed circuit board An electronic device includes an enclosure, a printed circuit board, and a drive bracket. The enclosure includes a bottom wall. The printed circuit board is mounted on the bottom wall with a first fastener. The drive bracket is mounted on the bottom wall. The drive bracket shields a portion of the printed circuit board, the first fastener is located in the shielded portion of the printed circuit board. A through hole is defined in the drive bracket. The through hole is in alignment with the first fastener. The first fastener is accessible via the through hole.
US08605451B2	Chip card holding mechanism and portable electronic device using same A portable electronic device includes a housing and a chip card holding mechanism assembled within the housing. The housing defines a mounting slot and an unlocking hole adjacent to the mounting slot. The chip card holding mechanism includes a bracket and a receiving tray detachably assembled within the bracket via an unlocking assembly. The receiving tray includes a tray body, an operating portion formed at one end of the tray body, and a resisting block that is trapezoidal shaped and formed on the operating portion. The unlocking assembly includes an ejecting member and a pushing member assembled on one side of the bracket. The ejecting member includes a base body, an ejecting end and an ejecting portion. The ejecting portion resists against the resisting block, thereby locking the receiving tray within the bracket. The pushing member assembled to bracket and slidably resists against the ejecting end of the ejecting member.
US08605445B2	Structure comprising a getter layer and an adjusting sublayer and fabrication process The structure comprises at least a device, for example a microelectronic chip, and at least a getter arranged in a cavity under a controlled atmosphere delineated by a substrate and a sealing cover. The getter comprises at least one preferably metallic getter layer, and an adjustment sub-layer made from pure metal, situated between the getter layer and the substrate, on which it is formed. The adjustment sub-layer is designed to modulate the activation temperature of the getter layer. The getter layer comprises two elementary getter layers.
US08605443B2	Vibration absorbing device and server with the same A vibration absorbing device includes a main board having a pole, a first retaining board fixed to the main board, a second retaining board fixed to the first retaining board opposite to the main board, a loading board including a main body and a flange protruding from the main body, an elastic element located between the pole and the main body. A sliding groove and a compartment are both defined between the first retaining board and the second retaining board, the flange is located but slidable in the sliding groove, the main body is located in the compartment. The loading board can slide in the sliding groove in compliance with shocks or vibration, while the elastic element deforms and releases to absorb the motion of the loading board.
US08605442B2	Server cabinet and server structure using the same A server structure is disclosed including a server cabinet, spaced fixing units, and server groups. Each server unit includes a first server unit and a second server unit fixed to supporting frames of the server cabinet by first fixing plates and the second fixing plates of the fixing units, respectively. The first server unit alternately abuts the second server unit, and the stacked height of each first server unit and the abutting second server unit is equivalent to the height along the supporting frame occupied by the corresponding fixing unit.
US08605440B2	Server rack assembly A server rack assembly includes a rack, a chassis, and a locking device. The rack has two side plates each defining a receiving slot. The chassis receives an electronic component, and is received between the side walls. The locking device includes a bracket, a locker, and two elastic members. The bracket is positioned at an end of the chassis and adjacent to the receiving slot. The locker is fixed to the center of the bracket. The two elastic members are fixed to two opposite ends of the bracket. Each elastic member includes a protrusion and a locking piece at two opposite ends thereof. The elastic member is capable of rotating between a first position where the locker locks the locking piece and the protrusion is received in the receiving slot, and a second position where the locker unlocks the locking piece and the protrusion is released from the receiving slot.
US08605439B2	Electronic device with mechanism for securing connector thereof An electronic device includes a circuit board, a connector fixed on the circuit board, and a heat sink mounted on the circuit board. The heat sink includes a securing portion. The securing portion defines a first cutout, a second cutout, and an arm located between the first and second cutouts. The arm resiliently urges the connector against the circuit board so as to firmly hold the connector between the heat sink and the circuit board.
US08605437B2	Cooling apparatus and electronic equipment A cooling apparatus that cools first and second high density heat dissipation components provided in a housing including a fan that provide an air convection from one opening toward the other opening, the cooling apparatus having: a conduit that contacts the first heat dissipation component and that allows a coolant to pass there through; and a fin structure that contacts the conduit and that is provided on an upwind side of the second heat dissipation component.
US08605432B2	Portable electronic device A portable electronic device includes a front frame, a rear panel attached to a rear side of the front frame, and a side cover. The front frame includes a main body and a first mating flange extending from the main body. The rear panel includes a main plate and a first flange extending from the main plate. The first flange and the first mating flange clamp each other. A gap is defined in the first flange or the first mating flange. The side cover is attached to exteriors of the first flange and the first mating flange. A clamping portion protrudes from the side cover. The clamping portion is movable in the gap between a detachable position where the clamping portion is disengageable from the gap and a lock position where the clamping portion clamps an inside portion of the first flange or the first mating flange.
US08605429B2	All in one computer An all in one computer includes an enclosure and a support module attached to the enclosure. The support module includes a leg stand rotatably attached to a rear panel of the enclosure about an axis perpendicular to the rear panel. The leg stand includes a shorter base and a longer base. An operation opening is defined in the leg stand and located adjacent to the longer base. The leg stand is rotatable between a first position where the longer base faces downward to support the enclosure, and a second position where the longer base faces upwards for facilitating using the operation opening to carry the all in one computer.
US08605425B2	Docking station for electronic device A docking station for a portable electronic device includes a housing, an interface, and a disengagement mechanism. The housing defines a receiving portion for accommodating the electronic device. The interface is disposed in the receiving portion so as to be engageable with the electronic device. The disengagement mechanism is disposed in the housing and configured for applying spring pressure to disengage the electronic device from the interface.
US08605418B2	Two-axis hinge and mobile device A two-axis hinge unit is provided with a first rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the vertical direction from a folded state with a first casing and a second casing overlapping and a second rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the horizontal direction from a folded state with the first casing and the second casing overlapping, and is provided with a restriction member positioned between the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft that, when one of the rotating shafts is in a predetermined rotational position, is pressed by this one rotating shaft and engages with the other rotating shaft, thereby restricting rotation of that other rotating shaft.
US08605411B2	Abrasive blasted conductive polymer cathode for use in a wet electrolytic capacitor A wet electrolytic capacitor that includes a porous anode body containing a dielectric layer, an electrolyte, and a cathode containing a metal substrate that is abrasive blasted is provided. Abrasive blasting may accomplish a variety of different purposes. For example, it may result in a surface that is substantially uniform and macroscopically smooth, thereby increasing the consistency of conductive coatings formed thereon. While possessing a certain degree of smoothness, the abrasive blasted surface is nevertheless micro-roughened so that it contains a plurality of pits. The pits provide an increased surface area, thereby allowing for increased cathode capacitance for a given size and/or capacitors with a reduced size for a given capacitance. A conductive coating that contains a substituted polythiophene is disposed on the micro-roughened surface. The presence of the pits on the substrate enhances the degree of contact between the conductive coating and metal substrate, thereby resulting in improved mechanical robustness and electrical performance (e.g., reduced equivalent series resistance and leakage current).
US08605409B2	Electrical multi-layered component and circuit arrangement comprising the same An electrical multi-layered component includes a monolithic base member that has a plurality of ceramic layers and electrode layers disposed one on top of the other in alternating fashion. The base member includes two end surfaces opposite to one another and two side surfaces opposite to one another. The multi-layered component includes a plurality of external electrodes and a plurality of internal electrodes designed into the electrode layers. The internal electrodes at least partially overlap and form overlap areas. Each internal electrode is associated with a respective external electrode. At least one first internal electrode extending from an end surface overlaps with at least one second internal electrode (8) extending from an opposite end surface. At least a third internal electrode extends from an end surface. The third internal electrode overlapping with the first and the second internal electrode
US08605406B2	Apparatus and methods for altering charge on a dielectric material Methods of altering charge on a dielectric material involve application of an at least weakly conductive liquid to at least a portion of the dielectric material. The liquid is then at least partially removed from the dielectric material leaving a substantially uniform electrostatic charge on at least the portion of the dielectric material. Some methods provide a dielectric material that is both net neutral and completely neutral. Other methods generate a charge pattern that is used for subsequent processing.
US08605397B2	Configurable, power supply voltage referenced single-ended signaling with ESD protection A single-ended data transmission system transmits a signal having a signal voltage that is referenced to a power supply voltage and that swings above and below the power supply voltage. The power supply voltage is coupled to a power supply rail that also serves as a signal return path. The signal voltage is derived from two signal supply voltages generated by a pair of charge pumps that draw substantially same amount of current from a power supply.
US08605396B2	ESD protection devices and methods for forming ESD protection devices The present disclosure provides a circuit that has a Radio Frequency (RF) input, an inductor between the RF input and with RF front end circuitry, a first diode coupled to the RF input and the inductor and with a power line, and a second diode coupled to the RF input and the inductor and with a complimentary power line.
US08605394B2	Apparatus, method, and system for monitoring leakage current and detecting fault conditions in electrical systems Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods, and systems for monitoring and detection of conditions indicative of an electrical fault for an electrical circuit or system. In one aspect, a central control can simultaneously monitor a plurality of geographically distributed electrical circuits or systems for conditions that have been predetermined to be indicative of an electrical fault or concern, and provide either some communication (e.g., a warning) or instruction (e.g., to terminate power) back to the monitored circuit/system, the owner/operator/user of the circuit/system, or both. The central control can collect, store, mine, and analyze data from the diverse monitoring of plural systems. A knowledge base can be built up over time and used to establish monitoring of the same, other circuits and systems, develop more accurate monitoring and communication of faults or concerns, and account for factors related to normal operation of a circuit or system.
US08605392B2	Safety switching arrangement for outputting a switching signal A safety switching arrangement that outputs a switching signal a switch or safety-oriented interruption of a circuit to control disconnection of a power supply for a load. The safety switching arrangement includes at least one evaluation circuit which emits an unsafe drive signal for the switch at an output. The safety switching arrangement also includes a programmable logic unit supplied with the drive signal(s) at an input and connected to the switch to drive the switch with a safe drive signal. The programmable logic unit can test and monitor the correct function of the switch during operation. A safe non-floating first terminal of the switch is connected to a respective feedback input of the programmable logic unit to monitor the potential state of said terminal. The relevant potential state during error-free operation corresponds to the safe drive signal for the at least one switch.
US08605389B1	Head gimbal assembly including a conductive trace disposed upon a continuous dielectric layer segment without overlying a gimbal arm There is provided a head gimbal assembly (HGA) for a disk drive. The HGA includes a slider and a flexure. The flexure includes a flexure body portion, a tongue portion with the slider affixed to the tongue portion, first and second gimbal arms extending between the flexure body portion and the tongue portion, and a dielectric layer including a first dielectric layer segment extending continuously along the first gimbal arm between the flexure body portion and the tongue portion. The flexure further includes a first patterned conductive trace electrically connected to the slider. The first patterned conductive trace is supported by the first dielectric layer segment. The first dielectric layer segment crosses and re-crosses the first patterned conductive trace along the first gimbal arm without overlying the first gimbal arm.
US08605386B1	Magnetic recording head, head gimbal assembly with the same, and disk drive According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head in a magnetic disk drive with a recording medium includes a magnetic core including a plurality of magnetic poles which form a closed magnetic path, and a recording coil wound around a part of the magnetic core and produces a magnetic field to the magnetic core. The magnetic core includes a write gap formed of a nonmagnetic material in a disk-facing surface of the recording head, a magnetic gap portion located at a position off from the disk-facing surface and magnetically isolated, and a nonmagnetic material in the at least one magnetic gap portion. The recording coil is wound around the nonmagnetic material in the magnetic gap portion.
US08605380B1	Technique for fixing tap coefficients in a programmable finite-impulse-response equalizer A method for selecting which tap coefficients of a programmable finite-impulse-response (FIR) equalizer to fix includes performing an initial calibration to determine an initial value for each tap coefficient of a FIR equalizer. Using these initial values, a “total” FIR equalizer is determined which sets the tap coefficients to their initial values. The method further determines multiple sets of tap coefficients that may potentially be fixed in the FIR equalizer. For each set of tap coefficients that may potentially be fixed, the method determines a “fixed” FIR equalizer that sets the tap coefficients in the set to their initial values and other tap coefficients to zero. The method then determines a phase-difference energy between the “total” FIR equalizer and the “fixed” FIR equalizer for each set of tap coefficients that may potentially be fixed. The set of tap coefficients associated with the lowest phase-difference energy are then fixed.
US08605379B1	Disk drive averaging phase-offset due to reader/writer gap in order to recover extended servo data A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk comprising a plurality of servo tracks, wherein each servo track comprises a plurality of servo sectors, and a head actuated radially over the disk, wherein the head comprises a read element separated from a write element by a reader/writer gap. The head is positioned over a first servo track, and a clock is synchronized to servo data in first and second servo sectors of the first servo track. A first phase-offset of the clock is measured for the first servo sector, and a second phase-offset of the clock is measured for the second servo sector, wherein the first and second phase-offset correspond to an end of the reader/writer gap at the first servo track. The first and second phase-offset are averaged to generate an average phase-offset for the first servo track.
US08605377B2	Color conversion filter A low-cost, high-definition color conversion layer is made using the ink jet method, with the layer having a consistent thickness and not bleeding into adjacent subpixels. A color conversion filter (1000) is characterized by being formed with a bank layer (60) that has a plurality of gently-curved protrusions (63), each of which has a first portion (61) and a second portion (62).
US08605373B2	Lens barrel An FPC (3) includes a first bending portion (31) having an outer periphery thereof directed from an attachment portion (36) toward an upstream end (3F), and bent in such a direction as to face the attachment portion (36); a second bending portion (32) which is bent from the attachment portion (36) toward a center axis (Z1) at a specified position closer to a downstream end (3B) than the first bending portion (31), and guided to a positioning portion (11); and a third bending portion (33) which is bent toward the camera body at a specified position closer to the downstream end (3B) than the positioning portion (11).
US08605369B2	Projection lens system with high resolution and compact size A projection lens system includes, in order from the magnified side to the reduced side thereof, a first lens group with negative refractive power, and a second lens group with a positive refracting power. The first lens group includes a first lens having a negative refracting power. The projection lens system satisfies the following condition: 4.5<\|F1\|/F<6; wherein F1 is the effective focal length of the first lens; F is the effective focal length of the projection lens system.
US08605355B2	Off axis walk off multi-pass amplifiers Presented herein is a multipass optical amplifier including a thin-disk gain medium, a first reflective element optically coupled to the gain medium, a first parabolic reflector in optical communication with the gain medium and the first reflective element, a second parabolic reflector in optical communication with the first parabolic reflector, and a second reflective element in optical communication with the second parabolic reflector. The amplifier also includes a pump source, a signal beam source, and a chamber having first and second regions configured about the multipass optical amplifier with a port that extracts gas from the chamber. The first region includes the first parabolic reflector, the gain medium, and the first reflective element. The second region of the chamber includes the second reflective element and the second parabolic reflector. An input optic propagates the signal beam through the amplifier to impinge the gain medium multiple times for gain.
US08605351B1	Transparent interferometric visible spectrum modulator The visible spectrum modulator makes use of thin film conductive oxides and air gaps to reflect colors of certain wavelengths, achieving transparency due to the transparent nature of conductive oxides and via electrostatic pull-in to reduce the air gaps.
US08605344B2	Optical reflecting mirror, and optical scanner and image forming apparatus including same A rectangular plate optical reflecting mirror is provided in an optical scanner. The optical reflecting mirror reflects an optical beam onto a surface to be scanned. The optical reflecting mirror includes a center portion and end portions in a longitudinal direction. The center portion has a greater thickness than that of the end portions. Accordingly, rigidity of the optical reflecting mirror can be increased, and its characteristic frequency can be set at a high value. Thus, resonance of the optical reflecting mirror can be prevented from occurring as a result of vibration of a housing which vibrates with a plurality of vibration modes.
US08605341B2	Control device controlling scan operation In a control device, the scan control unit controls a scanning operation in which data is to be generated by reading a document. The data format selecting unit selects one of a first format or a second format different from the first format as a data format in which the data is to be generated. The resolution setting unit sets a reading resolution based on the data format. The resolution setting unit sets a first resolution as the reading resolution when the data format selecting unit selects the first format whereas the resolution setting unit sets a second resolution different from the first resolution as the reading resolution when the data format selecting unit selects the second format. The scan control unit controls the scanning operation to read the document in the reading resolution set by the resolution setting unit.
US08605334B2	Recording system, recording apparatus, and control method therefor A physical layer which depends on hardware of a general-purpose interface determines whether an image supply device supports a predetermined communication protocol. A transport layer which controls communication as an upper layer of the physical layer determines whether the image supply device supports the predetermined communication protocol. When either of the physical and transport layers determines that the image supply device supports the predetermined communication protocol, the image supply device is decided to support the predetermined communication protocol. When both of the physical and transport layers do not determine that the image supply device supports the predetermined communication protocol, an application layer serving as an upper layer of the transport layer determines whether the image supply device supports the predetermined communication protocol.
US08605331B2	Image processing system, image processing apparatus and judgment apparatus A judgment apparatus 2 for judging the possibility of image processing in an image processing apparatus 1 transmits setting item information indicating setting items to be used for judging the possibility of image processing to the image processing apparatus 1. The image processing apparatus 1 transmits setting information indicating settings corresponding to the setting items indicated by the setting item information to the judgment apparatus 2 at the time of image processing, and the judgment apparatus 2 judges the possibility of image processing on the basis of the setting information. The setting information transmitted by the image processing apparatus 1 does not indicate all the settings required for image processing but indicates settings corresponding to the setting items specified by the setting item information, whereby the amount of the data of the setting information is reduced.
US08605328B2	Image processing system and image processing method An image processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus that are connected via a network. The information processing apparatus receives inputs designating scan setting and a layout method, and transmits the scan setting and the layout method to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus reads an original document according to the scan setting, outputs image data, extracts a content from the image data according to the layout method, and transmits the content to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus determines, according to the layout method, a layout of the content on a page, arranges the content on the page according to the layout, and generates the drawing data. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet of paper corresponding to the page according to drawing data.
US08605326B2	Print control apparatus, printing apparatus, print control method and computer readable medium storing program for controlling parallel print processing A print control apparatus includes: plural drawing processing units capable of drawing processing on print information having plural print basic colors; an analysis unit that analyzes information contents of the print information; and a selection unit that selects whether the drawing processing on the print information is performed by the drawing processing units in parallel by a predetermined unit of information amount or in parallel by each of the plural print basic colors, based on a result of analysis by the analysis unit.
US08605324B2	Image processing system, image processing method, and computer readable recording medium storing program thereof There is provided an image forming device capable of performing overlay printing in which a desired image overlaps with a desired page. An image processing system includes a display control unit that displays a setting screen which enables at least one overlay image overlapping with a page to be selected from a plurality of predetermined overlay images and which enables at least one target page with which a selected overlay image overlaps to be selected from a plurality of pages on which images are formed based on one of a plurality of selection methods, an operation input unit that receives an operation which a user inputs to the setting screen made to be displayed by the display control unit, an information obtaining unit that obtains selected image information indicating a selected overlay image in the setting screen based on the operation input received by the operation input unit, target page information indicating a target page selected as a target with which the selected overlay image overlaps, and selection method information indicating a selection method used to select the target page, and an image setting unit that sets an overlay image which is set to overlap by the selection method with the highest priority order of the selection methods used to select a page, to an overlay image overlapping with the page when there is a page which is selected in an overlapping manner by a plurality of selection methods based on the information obtained by the information obtaining unit.
US08605322B2	Printing using color changeable material In one embodiment, provided is a system for printing data on a flexible substrate that has a color-changeable materials associated therewith. The system comprises a data source that may be configured to provide data to be printed on the flexible substrate, a processing circuit, and an energy source. The processing circuit may be configured to retrieve the data from the data source and to control the energy source to change a color of the color-changeable material based on the retrieved data.
US08605321B2	Managing device, print processing system, managing device control method, managing device control computer program and storage medium containing managing device control computer program A printer control processing device manages a result of the image capturing of the symbol pattern indicating information based on which a print process is controlled. The printer control processing device includes: a recording/retrieving section for obtaining reference pattern data and pattern printing data from an information storage section; a matching level determining section for determining a matching level between reference pattern data and the result of the image capturing by an image capturing device of a symbol pattern printed based on the pattern printing data; and a pattern modifying section modifying the pattern printing data corresponding to a captured symbol pattern if the matching level determining section determines that the matching level is less than a predetermined threshold. Therefore, pattern printing data can be provided which results in a reliably identifiable symbol pattern in the result the image capturing by the image capturing device.
US08605316B2	Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium In a document processing method for performing print setting in cooperation with a job management server, if it is determined that a starting mode of a setting program is a cooperation mode for processing a print job in cooperation with a server apparatus, a setting screen is displayed based on the identification information of the print job to be processed and the initial setting information of the print job, and if it is determined that the starting mode is not the cooperation mode, the setting screen is displayed based on setting information for starting a setting program.
US08605315B2	Print data conversion processing An image processing device includes plural conversion units that convert a print document into raster data, a determination unit that determines the number of conversion units to be operated on the basis of the number of pages of an obtained print document, and a control unit that performs control so that only conversion units corresponding to the number determined by the determination unit among the plural conversion units are operated.
US08605312B2	Performing a print job by having a host change a port of an image forming apparatus if the IP address of the image forming apparatus has changed A print control method of a host apparatus which is connected to at least one image forming apparatus in a network, the method including receiving changed IP information from the at least one image forming apparatus; determining whether the host apparatus performs a print job with respect to the image forming apparatus which has the changed IP information; holding the print job if there is the print job; changing a print option for the print job; and transmitting print data corresponding to the print job according to the changed print option. With this, the apparatus and the method may normally perform a print job by changing a port of an image forming apparatus and prevent data loss due to a failure to change the port normally even if there is a print job for an image forming apparatus whose IP address is changed.
US08605307B2	Method and device for communications which use a plurality of hosts A communication device that communicates as a device with a plurality of hosts by using a communication interface that is designed to be used for a point-to-multipoint network on which a single host is connected to a plurality of devices, includes a control unit that controls to cause a disconnecting unit to disconnect the communication device from a destination host that is among the hosts capable of establishing a communication path with the communication device and is connected to the communication device using host identification information and device control information stored in a storage unit, and cause a connecting unit to connect the communication device to a next destination host from among the hosts to switch the hosts sequentially.
US08605305B2	Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and user interface generating method An information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus includes a device information obtaining part that obtains device information from the image forming apparatus; a device information storage part that stores the obtained device information; and a UI control part that generates a user interface for selecting functions of the image forming apparatus. The device information obtaining part transmits a device information obtaining request, to which identification information is attached, to the image forming apparatus, obtains the device information including function use authority information associated with the identification information, and stores the obtained device information in the device information storage part. The UI control part carries out control of displaying selectable icons of the functions on the user interface based on the function use authority information included in the device information stored in the device information storage part.
US08605302B2	System and method for determining images areas within scanned document An image forming apparatus obtains area information indicating target areas to be subjected to image processing from a plurality of image processing servers and judges whether or not their target areas are overlapping each other. The image forming apparatus examines the priority levels set in advance for the image processing servers if their target areas are overlapping each other, then repeats to instruct an image processing server with a lower priority level than another image processing server to adjust the position of its target area until it is judged that the target areas are not overlapping each other. And the image forming apparatus transmits information of the target areas confirmed to be not overlapping each other to the image processing servers, so that the image processing servers can successfully perform image processing on their own target areas according to the information.
US08605299B2	Terminal and computer program A terminal on which a device driver for a device is installed, comprising an obtaining section obtaining, from the device, setting method information for a first IP address that is currently set to the device; and a port generating section generating a port corresponding to the device when the device driver is being installed to the terminal. The port generating section generates the port by using the first IP address currently set to the device in a case where the setting method information indicates a first type of setting method where an IP address is set to the device as a result of an user input of the IP address to the device, and generates the port by using a device name currently set to the device in a case where the setting method information indicates a second type of setting method different from the first type of setting method.
US08605297B2	Method of scanning to a field that covers a delimited area of a document repeatedly A computer-implemented method of scanning a document (e.g. a newspaper or a book) is provided where the text may be legally protected from unauthorized copying, comprising the steps of: acquiring to a memory at least one recording confined to a field that covers a delimited area of a document; processing the at least one recording to perform character recognition; when a character is recognized, registering it in a memory, and performing the above steps repeatedly while recording at shifted positions so as to progressively obtain a string of characters; and evaluating the string against a predefined condition. If the condition is not satisfied, at least a portion of the string and at least a portion of the at least one recording are cleared from the memory. If the condition is satisfied, it is determined whether to provide an output.
US08605289B2	Method and apparatus for interferometry A method and an arrangement are provided for scalable confocal interferometry for distance measurement, for 3-D detection of an object, for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) tomography with an object imaging interferometer and at least one light source. The interferometer has an optical path difference not equal to zero at each optically detected object element. Thus, the maxima of a sinusoidal frequency wavelet, associated with each detected object element, each have a frequency difference Δf_Object. At least one spectrally integrally detecting, rastered detector is arranged to record the object. The light source preferably has a frequency comb, and the frequency comb differences Δf_Source are changed in a predefined manner over time in a scan during measuring. In the process, the frequency differences Δf_Source are made equal to the frequency difference Δf_Object or equal to an integer multiple of the frequency differences Δf_Object at least once for each object element.
US08605285B2	Apparatus and method for sample analysis Prior art coherent optical wave mixing has permitted two-dimensional maps from which coupled quantum transitions have been identified in molecular samples. However, extended signal accumulation times and computer processing are required for a detailed molecular analysis, which can lead to sample toxicity and difficulties in interpretation. These and other requirements are reduced by an apparatus arranged for the projection of an image that directly encodes quantum couplings from a sample. Such an apparatus includes a source component 36, a diffractive optical component 25 for generating at least three light fields 1, 2, 3 from one light field 23, one or more optical telescopes 26 and 27 wherein the transverse separation between optical paths is modified from that possible to define with a single telescope between common object and image points, a sample 11 containing said image point, and a means for resolving and detecting the angular variation of light emission from a sample. The occurrence of coupled quantum transitions or energy transfers are identified providing a means for sample analysis thereby.
US08605284B2	Measurement device and measurement method A measurement device includes a light sensing element on which light from a measurement target region placing a measurement target thereon forms an image, and a plurality of light emitting elements that are disposed around the light sensing element and radiate light to the measurement target region, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed to be tilted with respect to the normal line of the measurement target region such that the central line of radiated emission from each of the light emitting elements passes through a substantial center of the measurement target region.
US08605277B2	Method of inspecting semiconductor device Reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. In a flatness inspection of BGA (semiconductor device), there is formed a flatness standard where a permissible range in the direction of (+) of flatness at normal temperature is smaller than a permissible range in the direction of (−). With use of the above flatness standard, a flatness inspection of the semiconductor device at normal temperature is performed to determine whether the mounted item is non-defective or defective. With the above process, defective mounting caused by a package warp when heated during reflow soldering etc. is reduced and reliability of BGA is improved. At the same time, flatness management of a substrate-type semiconductor device with better consideration of a mounting state can be performed.
US08605273B2	Solar light tracking sensor direction setting/measuring/re-adjusting method and solar light collecting device The direction of a solar light tracking sensor is set easily with high accuracy. A solar light tracking guide (35) is installed on the optical axis (11) of the reflected light collected by a heliostat (2). An optical telescope (47) is so attached to the rear end part of the guide (35) as to be aligned with the guide axis (C) of the guide (35). The posture of the solar light tracking guide (35) is so adjusted that a cross provided in the field of view of the telescope (47) agrees with the center (10a) of the light collection target position and fixed to the base (38). Then, a solar light tracking sensor (12) is fastened to the rear end part of the guide (35) in place of the optical telescope (47).
US08605270B2	Computing device and precision testing method of optical lens using the computing device In a precision testing method of an optical lens using a computing device, the computing device is connected to an imaging system. The computing device controls the imaging system to generate an image of an object according to light rays reflected from the object and collected by the optical lens. A dimension of the object is measured from the image. A maximum value and a minimum value of the dimension of the object are determined. A difference between the maximum value and the minimum value is calculated. According to the difference, it is determined whether the optical lens agrees with a precision requirement.
US08605268B2	Multi-channel sensor for measuring colorants of prints A sensor used for determining area coverages of each colorant in a printed image is provided. The sensor includes a plurality of sensing elements for determining area coverages of each colorant in a printed image that includes a plurality of colorants including a black colorant. One of the sensing elements is an infrared sensing element configured to measure infrared reflection, and the others of the sensing elements are each configured to detect a visible color.
US08605264B2	Apparatus and method for quantifying residual stress of a birefringent material An apparatus for quantifying residual stress of a birefringent material comprises a light source generating light; a vertical polarizer converting a beam of light into a beam with vertical polarization; a standard material being mounted in front of the vertical polarizer; a horizontal polarizer converting a beam of light into a beam with horizontal polarization; an applied force unit applying different forces to the standard material; a spectrometer being mounted in front of the horizontal polarizer and recording intensity of light passing through the horizontal polarizer and transmittance of the standard material and a processing module being connected to the spectrometer, deriving a stress formula from the applied forces and transmittances of the standard material and obtaining a stress distribution of the birefringent material. A method for quantifying residual stress of a birefringent material is also disclosed.
US08605259B2	Range finder A laser range finder 100 includes: a light source 10 emitting light from a linear light-emitting portion 10a with making a divergent angle of the light larger in a transversal direction of the light-emitting portion 10a than in a longitudinal direction thereof; an objective lens 30 projecting the light onto a target object and converging reflection light; a partial reflection member 20 disposed between the light source and the objective lens and having a partial reflection surface 21 composed of a transmitting area 21a transmitting light emitted from the light source and receiving areas 21b reflecting reflection light; and a photodetector 40 detecting the reflection light reflected by the receiving areas; wherein the light source and the partial reflection member are disposed with making the longitudinal direction of the light-emitting portion 10a disposed substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the transmitting area 21a as seen along an optical axis.
US08605258B2	Distance measuring device and method for measuring distance A distance measuring device having a measuring range and configured for measuring a distance of at least an object located in the measuring range is provided. The distance measuring device includes a light emitting component, a diffusing component, an adjusting component and an image sensing component. The light emitting component is configured for emitting a light beam. The diffusing component is disposed on a transmission path of the light beam and is configured for transforming the light beam into a measuring light beam with a specific pattern to irradiate the object. The adjusting component is configured for adjusting an incidence angle and an incidence location of the light beam striking at the diffusing component. The image sensing component has a field of view covering the measuring range. The distance measuring device has a far measurable distance. A method for measuring distance and another distance measuring device are also provided.
US08605251B2	Linear motor, and stage apparatus, exposure apparatus, and method for manufacturing device using the same A linear motor is provided with a first member including a magnet and a second member including a coil facing the magnet, which are moved relative to each other. The second member includes a thermal conduction member, a thermal insulation member, the coil, and a first cooling unit, which are disposed in this order from the magnet side, and a second cooling unit configured to cool the thermal conduction member being disposed outside an area in which the magnet and the coil face each other.
US08605240B2	Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof In the liquid crystal display device in which a guest-host liquid crystal layer is provided between a first substrate having a reflective film which is a pixel electrode layer (also referred to as a first electrode layer) and a second substrate having a common electrode layer (also referred to as a second electrode layer), the reflective film which is a pixel electrode layer is projected into the liquid crystal layer, and a micron-sized first unevenness and a nano-sized second unevenness on the first unevenness are provided.
US08605238B2	Image display apparatus An image display apparatus including an image display panel includes: a first color filter for passing light of a first primary and first auxiliary pixels for displaying the first primary; a second color filter for passing light of a second primary and second auxiliary pixels for displaying the second primary; a third color filter for passing light of a third primary and third auxiliary pixels for displaying the third primary; and fourth auxiliary pixels for displaying a fourth color; the first auxiliary pixels, the second auxiliary pixels, the third auxiliary pixels, and the fourth auxiliary pixels being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, and a light shielding region disposed at least partly around the peripheral edge of each of the fourth auxiliary pixels.
US08605237B2	Color filter and liquid crystal display device, and exposure mask A color filter which is able to form a liquid crystal display device that has few variation in display caused due to difference in exposure illuminance among exposure heads and/or misalignment in pattern position, and that is excellent in display quality, and an exposure mask used for producing the color filter are provided. A color filter 1 includes: a substrate 2; black matrixes 3 provided on the substrate 2; and a plurality of colored layers 4 which partially overlap the black matrixes 3 in at least a first direction. The widths of overlap portions 5 in which the black matrixes 3 and the colored layers 4 overlap each other in the first direction are varied over the entirety of a display area, and the degree of the variation is uniformly distributed over the entirety of the display area. As a result, even if the sizes of the overlap portions 5 are partially varied due to misalignment in position of the exposure heads and/or change of exposure condition, the partial variation is blended into the variation of the widths distributed over the entirety of the display area, so that a varied state can be prevented from becoming conspicuous as a whole.
US08605235B2	Display device and method of measuring surface structure thereof A display device and a method of measuring a surface structure of the same are provided. The display device includes first and second substrates, first and second patterned light-shielding layers, and first and second pixel units. The first patterned light-shielding layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate includes first openings. The second patterned light-shielding layer disposed on the surface of the first substrate in the first patterned light-shielding layer includes second openings. The first pixel unit includes first and second protrusions. The first protrusion correspondingly covers the first openings and a portion of the first patterned light-shielding layer. The second protrusion is disposed in the first and second patterned light-shielding layers. The second pixel unit includes a third protrusion correspondingly covering the second openings and a portion of the second patterned light-shielding layer, wherein sizes of the second openings are smaller than sizes of the first openings.
US08605231B2	Digital photo frame with natural light A digital photo frame includes a frame, a light gathering lens, a reflector, and a transmissive LCD module. The frame includes a front side, a rear side, and a receiving hole through the front side and rear side. The light gathering lens array is pivotedly mounted on the rear side of the frame, the light gathering lens array being rotatable about two upper pivot pins. The reflector is pivotedly mounted on the rear side of the frame corresponding to the light gathering lens array, the reflector being rotatable about two lower pivot pins parallel to the upper pivot pins. The transmissive LCD module is received in the receiving hole adjacent to the front side.
US08605230B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of first brackets adhered to the rear panel. A first bracket has a recess on a first surface where an adhesive is applied, and a first protrusion extending from a second surface and a second protrusion extending from the first protrusion. A connection bracket has a side wall and a plurality of first tab portions. The tab portion is provided into an opening of the first protrusion. A second bracket is provided adjacent to the plurality of the first brackets and attached to the connection bracket. A frame is mounted to the at least one second bracket. A light source is provided between the frame and the second bracket.
US08605228B2	Display device and display panel A display panel is provided and includes gate lines, source lines, and pixel units. Each gate line extends in a first direction, while each source line extends in a second direction interlacing with the first direction. The pixel units are arranged to form a display array. Each pixel unit is coupled to three sequentially disposed gate lines and three sequentially disposed source lines. Each pixel unit includes pixels. For each pixel unit, the pixels between any set of the two adjacent gate lines are coupled to different gate lines and different source lines. For each pixel unit, the pixels between one set of the two adjacent source lines are coupled to the same gate line and different source lines, and the pixels between the other set of the two adjacent source lines are coupled to different gate lines and different source lines.
US08605227B2	Image display device using diffractive device An image display device includes a display panel displaying an image and a diffractive device. The diffractive device operates in a 2D mode to enable perception of a 2D image from the image of the display panel and in a 3D mode to enable perception of the image of the display panel as a 3D image. The diffractive device includes a plurality of unit devices. When the diffractive device operates in 3D mode, at least one of the plurality of unit devices operates in a lens mode and a barrier mode during different periods.
US08605223B2	Single license multi-directional digital broadcast television system Digital data distribution using a single license multi-directional digital television broadcasting method and device is provided. The method can include transmitting a first directional ATSC standards conforming data and digital television signal using a first transmitter and antenna combination and transmitting a second directional ATSC standards conforming data and digital television signal using a second transmitter and antenna combination. The transmission of the first and second directional signals uses a single broadcast television license. The device can include a plurality of antennas mounted to a broadcast tower and a plurality of transmitters coupled individually to a different one of the antennas, each antenna and transmitter adapted to broadcast a directional signal using a single digital broadcast license.
US08605217B1	Jitter cancellation for audio/video synchronization in a non-real time operating system Displaying a stream of video data on a display device may be performed by decoding a portion of the video data to form a video frame. A queue time is determined when the video frame should be displayed. The queue time is adjusted by a margin time relative to a next display time to compensate for interrupt jitter, wherein the margin time is less than a period of time between periodic display time events and is larger than a specified interrupt jitter time. A software interrupt event is set to occur corresponding to the adjusted queue time. The video frame is queued in response to occurrence of the software interrupt. The queued video frame is transferred to a display buffer for the display device upon the occurrence of a next display time event after the occurrence of the software interrupt.
US08605214B2	Electronic apparatus with stand mechanism for magnification function An exemplary electronic apparatus includes a portable electronic device and a stand mechanism for supporting the portable device. The portable electronic device includes a display panel and a digital camera. The display panel and the digital camera are respectively disposed at a viewing surface and a bottom surface at opposite sides thereof. When the stand mechanism is in use, the digital camera has a predetermined height above a bottom of the stand mechanism.
US08605203B2	Auto-focusing camera module and imaging method using same An auto-focusing camera module includes a lens module, an image sensor, a color separation unit, a main processor unit, an image processing unit and an OIS unit. The lens module captures an image of object. The image sensor senses the image captured by the lens module. The color separation unit separates the image into red, green and blue colors. The main processor unit calculates MTF values of the image and determines a shooting mode of the auto-focusing camera. The image processing unit processes the image according to the MTF values to compensate for blurring of the image caused by being out of focus. The driving unit drives the lens module to focus the image on the image sensor according to MTF values. The OIS unit detects shaking before shooting and drives the lens module to compensate for the detected shaking.
US08605202B2	Motion of image sensor, lens and/or focal length to reduce motion blur A camera and system comprising a camera in which, during exposure, the ratio of the distance between the lens and the sensor and the focal length is changed. The rate of change is set such that motion invariant imaging is achievable for practical speed ranges, i.e. speed of up to at least 5 km/hour at 2 meter distance of the lens, by deconvoluting the compound image. Preferably the achievable speed range is at least twice as high. A linear motion of the sensor is preferred.
US08605200B2	Optical apparatus and image-pickup system An optical apparatus includes a calculator that calculates a position of a focus lens for focusing on a subject, a setter that sets a permissible movable range of the focus lens, and a controller that sets, when the position of the focus lens calculated by the calculator is within the permissible movable range, the position to a target position to which the focus lens is moved. The setter redefines the permissible movable range based on position information showing one of the target position and a position of the focus lens after a movement of the focus lens toward the target position. The optical apparatus suppresses a focusing operation for a subject for which an operator does not intend to perform focusing.
US08605197B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus, including: an image formation lens having focal lengths different in every region; a light receiving section having light receiving elements; optical elements corresponding to a plurality of the light receiving elements to make the corresponding light receiving elements receive an object light beam that passed through predetermined pupil regions in an exit pupil of the image formation lens; and an image generation section, wherein in the case of selecting, for generation of the image of the object, any one of the pupil regions in the exit pupil through which an object light beam passes, the image generation section selects, based on an object distance and focal lengths each corresponding to a plurality of the pupil regions of the exit pupil, at least one of the pupil regions through which an object light beam that forms an image at a position of the light receiving section passes.
US08605196B2	Lens module, imaging apparatus, electronic system, and method for driving lens module A compact and thin lens module that uses a flat-plate-shaped displacement device to drive a lens, and a compact, thin imaging apparatus and electronic system using the lens module.
US08605192B2	Imaging apparatus and electronic device including an imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes an aberration control optical system having an aberration control function to intentionally generate an aberration and an imaging device; and an image processing device which forms a first image into a highly accurate final image. An aberration control optical system makes the PSF to cover two or more pixels by using the aberration control optical system containing an aberration control element having an aberration control function to intentionally generate an aberration or an aberration control plane having the aberration control function. The aberration control optical system is formed as a depth extension optical system having two or more peaks of the MTF characteristic for defocus in a main image plane shift region not causing a false resolution in a predetermined frequency.
US08605190B2	Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof An image sensing apparatus that is capable of communicating with an external apparatus, comprising: an image sensing unit configured to sense an object and generate image data; an identification data generation unit configured to generate, from the image data, identification data for identifying a feature of the object; a storage unit configured to store the identification data; a display unit configured to display the image data; a communication unit configured to receive identification data for identifying a feature of an object captured by another image sensing apparatus during communication with the other image sensing apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine the image capture status of each object based on the identification data received by the communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the display unit to identifiably display the image capture status of each object determined by the determination unit.
US08605180B2	Power gate circuit, solid-state imaging device, and camera system A power gate circuit includes: a power gate switch connected at least between a reference potential terminal of a circuit to be power-gated and a reference potential or between a power supply terminal of the circuit to be power-gated and a power supply; a capacity connected to a gate of the power gate switch; a pulse generating section supplying a pulse signal to the gate of the power gate switch according to a control signal; and a power gate control section outputting the control signal to the pulse generating section to supply the pulse signal to the gate of the power gate switch when the power gate switch is turned on and accumulating electrical charges in the capacity to control a gate potential of the power gate switch such that the potential gradually approaches a potential at which the power gate switch is turned on.
US08605177B2	Image sensor with wide dynamic range An image sensor, system and method that alternates sub-sets of pixels with long exposure times and pixels with short exposure times on the same sensor to provide a sensor having improved Wide Dynamic Range (WDR). The sub-sets of pixels are reset at different time intervals after being read, which causes the respective integration times to vary. By combining information contained in the both the short and long integration pixels, the dynamic range of the sensor is improved.
US08605176B2	Analog-to-digital converter for controlling gain by changing a system parameter, image sensor including the analog-to-digital converter and method of operating the analog-to-digital converter Example embodiments are directed to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that controls a gain by changing a system parameter, an image sensor including the ADC and a method of operating the ADC. The ADC includes a sigma-delta modulator which receives an input signal and a clock signal and sigma-delta modulates the input signal into a digital output signal based on the clock signal and an accumulation unit which accumulates the digital output signal at each cycle of the clock signal according to an analog-to-digital conversion time and outputs an accumulation result. A system parameter is varied during the analog-to-digital conversion time to control a gain of the ADC. The method of operating the analog-to-digital converter includes sigma-delta modulating an input signal into a digital output signal in response to a clock signal input to the ADC; and accumulating the digital output signal at each cycle of the input clock signal according to an analog-to-digital conversion time and outputting an accumulation result.
US08605175B2	Solid-state image capturing device including a photochromic film having a variable light transmittance, and electronic device including the solid-state image capturing device A solid-state image capturing device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a photosensitive surface including a matrix of pixels as respective photoelectric converters; and a photochromic film disposed in a light path through which light is applied to each of the photoelectric converters, the photochromic film being made of a photochromic material having a light transmittance variable depending on the intensity of applied light in a predetermined wavelength range; wherein the light transmittance has a half-value period shorter than one frame during which pixel signals generated by the pixels are read from all the pixels.
US08605174B2	Apparatus, method, and system of image processing, and recording medium storing image processing control program An image processing apparatus includes a camera, a support body, and an arm section including an arm that is rotatably attached to the support body and to a camera housing incorporating therein the camera. The image processing apparatus calculates a height of the camera measured from a set surface, using dimensional information of the image processing apparatus and inclination information indicating an inclination of the camera and an inclination of the arm. The image processing apparatus specifies a type of an object subjected for capturing by the camera using at least the height of the camera, and applies image processing specific to the specified type of the object to a captured image captured by the camera.
US08605173B2	Differential column ADC architectures for CMOS image sensor applications Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide differential-input, single-slope, column-parallel analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architectures for use in high-resolution CMOS image sensors (CIS) are described. A column ADC is coupled with a column of a pixel array and configured to convert a pixel signal level to a corresponding digital output value according to a ramp generator output. Each pixel is configured to output a pixel reset level and a pixel signal level at different operating stages, and the ramp generator output includes a ramp reset level and a ramp signal level at the same or different at different operating stages. The pixel and ramp outputs are used to differentially drive a comparator stage of the column ADC, for example, to reduce power supply noise.
US08605165B2	Apparatus and method for assisting monitoring of medication adherence A system and method for positioning a pill to be ingested by a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera. The method includes the steps of determining a desired location of the mouth of a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera, determining a current position of a pill to be ingested by the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus, and indicating on a display a movement to be made by the user to move the pill towards mouth of the user.
US08605164B2	Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium An image processing apparatus that enables a demosaicing process to be accurately carried out on a color image signal. With respect to a color mosaic image signal related to each pixel generated by photoelectrical conversion of an optical image reflecting a subject image, an interpolation process is carried out in which signals of missing colors in the each pixel are interpolated using image signals related to pixels in predetermined directions around the each pixel. The interpolation process is carried out in each of a plurality of predetermined directions. Color image signals in the predetermined directions subjected to the interpolation process are evaluated, and based on an evaluation result, a color image signal to be outputted as an interpolation process result is generated. The color image signals in the respective predetermined directions subjected to the interpolation process are evaluated with respect to homogeneity and signal intensity.
US08605162B2	Digital camera having video file creating function A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an image capturing control unit, and an image processing unit. The image capturing control unit controls the image capturing unit so as to obtain a still image. The image processing unit creates freeze video data used for reproducing the still image for a predetermined period of time.
US08605159B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method with blur correction based on exposure information and angle of rotation Image data captured by a capturing unit is inputted. Exposure information of the captured image data is inputted. Rotary-vibration information, which indicates rotary vibration of the capturing unit at the time of image capture, is inputted. A blur, which is caused by the rotary vibration, of the captured image data is corrected based on the exposure information and an angle of rotation of the capturing unit, which is indicated by the rotary-vibration information.
US08605156B2	Calibration target detection apparatus, calibration target detecting method for detecting calibration target, and program for calibration target detection apparatus There is disclosed a calibration target detection apparatus that can be obtained at a low cost and without increasing storage capacity, is the apparatus being provided with: a light measurement region setting unit for setting a long light measurement region; a light-measuring unit for detecting light measurement information of the light measurement region; a profile generation unit for generating a first profile, wherein the long light measurement region taking a predetermined one direction as a long direction is scanned along the other direction orthogonal to the one direction, and the change in the light measurement information in the other direction is shown; and a second profile, wherein the long light measurement region taking the other direction as the long direction is scanned along the one direction, and the change in the light measurement information in the one direction is shown; and a position calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of a characteristic point of the first and second profiles, a position of a calibration target or a position of a predetermined location of the calibration target, the calibration target being used for calibrating an onboard camera, and the calibration target being included in a captured image acquired by the onboard camera.
US08605153B2	Image adjusting device, image adjusting method, and on-vehicle camera An image adjusting device for an on-vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle includes an operations unit configured to input mounting position information regarding a mounting position of the on-vehicle camera on the vehicle; a storing unit configured to store image processing parameters in association with various mounting positions of the on-vehicle camera; a control unit configured to read the corresponding image processing parameters from the storing unit based on the mounting position information input from the operations unit; and an image processing unit configured to process image data obtained by an imaging unit of the on-vehicle camera according to the image processing parameters read by the control unit.
US08605150B1	Single image DC-removal method for increasing the precision of two-dimensional fourier transform profilometry An image processing system includes an object illuminated by a pre-determined first spectrum of light and an array of fringe lines, an imaging device configured to capture an image of the object including the first spectrum of light and the fringe lines reflecting from a surface of the object, and a processor in signal communication with the imaging device to receive an input data representing the image of the object, wherein the processor: generates a first data model based on the input data; removes a DC-component from the first data model to create a second data model; and performs a two dimensional Fourier transform profilometry based on the second data model.
US08605147B2	Device for recording images of an object scene A device for recording images of an object scene has a lighting unit for illuminating the object scene with several lighting elements and an optical system for directing radiation of the lighting elements reflected from the object scene onto a detector. In order to achieve a simple and compact camera, the device includes a marking device for marking the radiation from each of the lighting elements and an evaluation device for differentiating the reflected radiation of the individual lighting elements by way of the marking.
US08605135B1	Optical enhancement using fiber optic faceplates A display apparatus may include, but is not limited to: an image display device; and a fiber optic plate disposed over a display surface of the image display device. A method for displaying images may include, but is not limited to: generating an image on a display device; receiving light corresponding to the image at a fiber optic plate; and reducing at least one of luminance asymmetry, luminance non-uniformity, and color shift across a viewing angle of the image display device according to a configuration of the fiber optic plate. A method for displaying images may include, but is not limited to: generating a stereoscopic image on a display device; receiving light corresponding to the stereoscopic image at a fiber optic plate; and reducing at least one of luminance asymmetry, luminance non-uniformity, and color shift across a viewing angle and may also reduce/eliminate reverse-stereoscopic effects in the stereoscopic image according to a configuration of the fiber optic plate.
US08605133B2	Display-based interactive simulation with dynamic panorama The subject invention provides a panoramic, interactive, seamless, intuitive, high-resolution and yet extensive simulation tool capable of simulating dynamic events that alter the panoramic view in response to the user's actions or inaction. The dynamic panorama simulation can generate and display novel scenes that are not limited to static “canned” content that has been previously photographed, rendered, recorded, captured or filmed thus providing great flexibility, contextual authenticity and liveliness and, in some instances, unanticipated and surprising but accurate developments in the simulation.
US08605128B2	Thermal printer and method for controlling the same A printer includes a thermal head configured to print information on thermal paper, a platen roller configured to press the thermal paper against the thermal head and a paper feed unit configured to convey the thermal paper. The printer further includes a control unit configured to control the paper feed unit to convey a leading edge of the thermal paper to a print waiting position between the thermal head and the platen roller, and also configured to control the paper feed unit to move the leading edge of the thermal paper from the print waiting position to a retracted position upstream the print waiting position.
US08605127B2	Method for driving active matrix organic light emitting diode display panel A method for driving an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display panel is provided. In the present method, how to drive a single pixel having a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a first blue (light blue) sub-pixel, and a second blue (dark blue) sub-pixel is effectively determined based on the characteristics of the (1931) CIE color space. Besides, at the same time point, only one of the two sub-pixels corresponding to the two blues (i.e. dark blue and light blue) in the single pixel is enabled to be mixed with the red sub-pixel and the green sub-pixel. Accordingly, the luminous efficiency of the AMOLED is improved and the power consumption of the entire AMOLED display is reduced.
US08605121B2	Dynamic Gamma correction circuit and panel display device A dynamic Gamma correction circuit, method thereof and a panel display apparatus are provided. The panel, display apparatus has a timing controller, a dynamic Gamma correction circuit, a display panel and a display driving circuit. The timing controller receives a first image data and then outputs a second image data and a timing control signal. The dynamic Gamma correction circuit receives and analyzes a distribution of gray levels of the first image data so as to dynamically correct and output a plurality of Gamma voltages. The display driving circuit electrically connects to the display panel, the timing controller and the dynamic Gamma correction circuit for receiving the second image data and the Gamma voltage so as to drive the display panel according to the timing control signal.
US08605120B2	Information interaction method and interface control system An information interaction method for improving user experience includes: receiving a control adjustment instruction, where the control adjustment instruction includes identification information of a control; according to the control adjustment instruction, performing an adjustment on each control, so that the control corresponding to the identification information is adjusted to a center position of an interactive interface.
US08605118B2	Matrix generation apparatus, method, and program, and information processing apparatus When NN pairs of sample data are inputted, pre-processing and area division processing are performed by a pre-processing means and area division means respectively. Thereafter, when number of classes NP is inputted to projection matrix generation means based on the NN pairs of sample data, clustering in which NN pairs of sample data are classified into NP classes. Then, representative sample data representing each of classes (NP classes) are selected from NN pairs of sample data as the learning data. Then, based on the nature of Formula (2), calculation means generates an inverse first projection matrix (ML)−1 using a plurality of low resolution sample images (pre-transformation sample data) of a plurality of pairs of representative sample data and a second projection matrix MH using a plurality of high resolution sample images (post-transformation sample data). Thereafter, a transformation matrix {MH·(ML)−1} is generated by transformation matrix generation means.
US08605117B2	Method and apparatus for providing content A method and apparatus for providing content to user that is moving. The method includes obtaining movement information or bio-information about a user, processing content based on the movement information or the bio-information, and outputting the processed content.
US08605116B2	Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a touchscreen configured to display a plurality of display objects; a sensing unit configured to detect a motion of the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to move and modify a shape of the plurality of display objects to reflect a characteristic of the detected motion of the mobile terminal.
US08605112B2	Graphics drawing apparatus, method, and program and recording medium on which the program is recorded A graphics drawing apparatus drawing a graphic, including: a generation unit, where a sequence of two-dimensional coordinates of vertices is input, generating the coordinates of each of the vertices and virtual vertex coordinates for the coordinates of each of the vertices on a memory, the virtual vertex coordinates being generated by converting the X-coordinate value of the coordinates of each of the vertices to the X-coordinate value of the coordinates of the leading vertex of the sequence; and a setting unit that sets the coordinates of two vertices of a partial graphic that is to be created as the coordinates of two adjacent vertices, in sequence starting from the leading vertex, and, after setting the coordinates of the trailing vertex of the sequence, setting the coordinates of two vertices of the partial graphic that is to be created as the coordinates of the leading and trailing vertices.
US08605110B2	Terminal device having correction function for natural color and method thereof A terminal device having a correction function for natural color and a method thereof are provided for creating an image closest in color to the natural color. A priority storing unit stores at a reference color data area a range of natural colors which are colors of objects existing in the natural world. A color editing unit corrects natural color image data corresponding to the natural color area, based on a command for correcting the natural area existing in a predetermined image from the user. A controlling unit decides whether the natural color image data corrected by the color editing unit is included in the reference color data area.
US08605109B1	Trend density plot In an embodiment, a first data series and a second data series may be acquired. A first boundary may be established based on the first data series. The second boundary may be established on the second data series. A first region with respect to the first boundary may be identified. A second region with respect to the second boundary may be identified. A first scale may be associated with the first region and a second scale may be associated with the second region. A depiction of the first data series and the second data series may be rendered the depiction may include an indication of one or more of the first boundary, the second boundary, the first region, the second region, the first scale, or the second scale.
US08605107B2	Image processing method and device for improving visibility of an image An image processing device, an image processing method, and a flat panel display are disclosed. According to some aspects, the image processing device may include: an image determining unit for determining a kind of an input image as one of a moving picture, a photograph image, and a user interface image. A legibility improving unit may be configured to generate a legibility improved image by extracting specific pixels from input image according to the kind of the input image and by modifying gray scale values of the extracted specific pixels. According to some aspects, an illuminance sensor for sensing external illuminance, and a brightness improving unit for correcting a gamma curve according to the illuminance sensor is provided. Brightness may be controlled to increase outdoor visibility of an image according to the external illuminance.
US08605106B2	Projector and color improvement method of the projector A method improves color of projected images using a projector. The method calculates a first improvement factor, a second improvement factor and a third improvement factor, divides an original image into a red picture, a green picture and a blue picture. The method multiplies a pixel value of each pixel point of the red picture by the first improvement factor to obtain an improved red picture, multiplies a pixel value of each pixel point of the green picture by the second improvement factor to obtain an improved green picture, and multiplies a pixel value of each pixel point of the red picture by the third improvement factor to obtain an improved blue picture. The method combines the improved red, green and blue pictures to generate a combined image, and projects the combined image on a projection area to obtain the projected image having similar color to the original image.
US08605104B1	Threshold-based lossy reduction color compression One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for compressing color data. Color data for a tile including multiple samples is compressed based on an equality comparison and a threshold comparison based on a programmable threshold value. The equality comparison is performed on a first portion of the color data that includes at least exponent and sign fields of floating point format values or high order bits of integer format values. The threshold comparison is performed on a second portion of the color data that includes mantissa fields of floating point format values or low order bits of integer format values. The equality comparison and threshold comparison are used to select either computed averages of the pixel components or the original color data as the output color data for the tile. When the threshold is set to zero, only tiles that can be compressed without loss are compressed.
US08605101B2	Apparatus and method of reading texture data for texture mapping An apparatus and method of reading texture data for texture mapping. Each of a plurality of blocks included in a cache memory may have any one of an even numbered index or odd numbered index. In this instance, the cache memory may be embodied with an odd numbered index cache memory including odd numbered index blocks and an even numbered index cache memory including even numbered index blocks. Also, address indexes of requested texture data may be analyzed to appropriately access to at least one of the odd numbered index cache memory and even numbered index cache memory, thereby improving an accessing speed.
US08605097B1	Method and system for determining the compliance encrypted and non-encrypted display outputs A method and system are implemented for verifying connection status information associated with a specific display attachment location. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of receiving a first signature representative of a first set of connection states tracked by a graphics subsystem associated with the display attachment location, authenticating whether the integrity of a content path including the display attachment location is maintained based on the first signature, and deciding whether to continue sending the content to the display attachment location so that requirements associated with protecting the content are satisfied.
US08605093B2	Pipe reconstruction from unorganized point cloud data A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to reconstruct a pipe from point cloud data. Point cloud data is obtained. Primitive geometric shapes are detected in the point cloud data. A pipeline is determined by determining predecessor and successor primitive geometric shapes for each of the shapes. Diameters, coplanarity, and angles between the shapes are corrected. The shapes are connected and output.
US08605088B2	Method for reconstructing geometry mapping A method for reconstructing geometry mapping of a rasterized area is provided. The method includes: finding a testing pixel within the rasterized area; finding an occluding point corresponding to the testing pixel in a geometry shadow map of the rasterized area; determining weight values of the occluding point according to the (x, y) coordinate values of the testing pixel and vertices of a triangle occluding the testing pixel in the rasterized area; determining depth value of the occluding point according to the weight value and z coordinate of the vertices of the occluding triangle; and comparing the depth value of the occluding point with the depth value of the testing pixel so as to determine whether the testing pixel is drawn in light or in shadow.
US08605087B2	Hybrid multisample/supersample antialiasing A system and method for dynamically adjusting the pixel sampling rate during primitive shading can improve image quality or increase shading performance. Hybrid antialiasing is performed by selecting a number of shaded samples per pixel fragment. A combination of supersample and multisample antialiasing is used where a cluster of sub-pixel samples (multisamples) is processed for each pass through a fragment shader pipeline. The number of shader passes and multisamples in each cluster can be determined dynamically for each primitive based on rendering state.
US08605086B2	Hybrid multisample/supersample antialiasing A system and method for dynamically adjusting the pixel sampling rate during primitive shading can improve image quality or increase shading performance. Hybrid antialiasing is performed by selecting a number of shaded samples per pixel fragment. A combination of supersample and multisample antialiasing is used where a cluster of sub-pixel samples (multisamples) is processed for each pass through a fragment shader pipeline. The number of shader passes and multisamples in each cluster can be determined dynamically for each primitive based on rendering state.
US08605085B1	System and method for perspective corrected tessellation using parameter space warping One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for warping uniformly generated barycentric parameters to compensate for perspective foreshortening during tessellation of a geometric object. Near and far step sizes are computed for each edge of the geometric object. A warp equation is associated with each edge. Coefficients for each warp equation are computed from near and far step size for a corresponding edge. Uniformly generated barycentric parameters for each edge comprise an input variable for each corresponding warp equation. Warp equation outputs for edges of the geometric object are blended together using a linear blend function to generate vertices comprising geometric tessellation samples from the geometric object.
US08605083B2	Method for converting input image data into output image data, image conversion unit for converting input image data into output image data, image processing apparatus, display device In a method, unit and display device the input image signal is split into a regional contrast signal (VRC) and a detail signal (VD), followed by stretching separately the dynamic ranges for both signals, wherein the dynamic range for the regional contrast signal is stretched with a higher stretch ratio than the dynamic range for the detail signal. Preferably the stretch ratio for the detail signal is near 1 or preferably 1. In preferred embodiment highlights are identified and for the highlights the dynamic range is stretched to an even higher degree than for the regional contrast signal.
US08605082B2	Rendering adjustments to autocompensate for users with ocular abnormalities A digital screen rendering resolution adjustment can allow users who are conventionally dependent upon corrective lenses to view the digital screen to, after the resolution adjustment, view the contents of this screen with 20×20 vision (considered normal vision), without the use of these corrective lenses. A linear algebraic transform (performing essentially the inverse of the Lensmaker's Equation) can be applied and enact matrix manipulation that when rendering the graphical display to autocompensate for a viewer's visual abnormalities, can result in a distorted screen that is equivalent to the inverse of a corrective lens prescription. A screen rendering customization to autocompensate for a user's visual impairment can be applied for each eye in 3D capable devices due to the inherent nature of 3D to display separate images per eye. A unique algebraic transform matrix manipulation can be performed for each of the two images and can provide a more exact corrective lens prescription rendering simulation than for single image rendering for a display.
US08605079B2	Integrated circuit device, electro optical device and electronic apparatus An integrated circuit device having a data line driving circuit and a position offset addition circuit that connects position offsets based on position offset setting values, wherein, among first pixel to p-th pixel of a plurality of pixels, a position offset register stores a first position offset setting value corresponding to the first pixel and a p-th position offset setting value corresponding to the p-th pixel among the first pixel to the p-th pixel; among first image data to p-th image data respectively corresponding to the first pixel to the p-th pixel, the position offset addition circuit processes a position offset correction value based on the first position offset setting value to the first image data, and processes a position offset correction value based on the p-th position offset setting value to the p-th image data among the first image data to p-th image data, to correct the position offsets.
US08605076B2	Light emitting device Power consumption required for charging and discharging a source signal line is reduced in an active matrix EL display device. A bipolar transistor (Bi1) has a base terminal B connected to an output terminal c1 of an operational amplifier (OP1), a collector terminal C connected to a low power potential (GND), and an emitter terminal E connected to a resistor R2. A high power potential (VBH) is a potential in synchronization with a high power potential of a light emitting element. A potential of the output terminal c1 of the operational amplifier (OP1) is outputted as a buffer low power potential (VBL). The low power potential (VBL) corresponds to a potential difference between the high power potential (VBH) and a high power potential (V1). Accordingly, the low power potential (VBL) can follow the high power potential (VBH), that is a high power potential of the light emitting element.
US08605074B2	Method and apparatus for supplying power to a display apparatus An apparatus for supplying a power voltage to a pixel unit of a display apparatus includes a first power supplying unit for applying the power voltage to the pixel unit during a normal mode, a second power supplying unit for applying the power voltage to the pixel unit during a low power display mode, and a leakage current blocking unit for blocking a leakage current path from the second power supplying unit to the first power supplying unit during the low power display mode.
US08605073B2	Pulse signal output circuit and shift register A transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor is used as a pull down transistor. The band gap of the oxide semiconductor is 2.0 eV or more, preferably 2.5 eV or more, more preferably 3.0 eV or more. Thus, hot carrier degradation in the transistor can be suppressed. Accordingly, the circuit size of the semiconductor device including the pull down transistor can be made small. Further, a gate of a pull up transistor is made to be in a floating state by switching of on/off of the transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor. Note that when the oxide semiconductor is highly purified, the off-state current of the transistor can be 1 aA/μm (1×10−18 A/μm) or less. Therefore, the drive capability of the semiconductor device can be improved.
US08605063B2	Device lighting apparatus and method In accordance with embodiments of the invention, an apparatus and method for device lighting is disclosed. The apparatus and method comprises a key operable for communicating with a computing device. The apparatus further comprises a light emitting device for lighting the key and a selector operable for selecting between a plurality of lighting schemes. More specifically, each of the plurality of lighting schemes defines at least one of color, intensity and duration of the lighting of the key.
US08605061B2	Touch panel input stylus A touch panel input stylus comprises a casing, a lens, a shading member, and a light emitting element. The lens, the shading member, and the light emitting element are received in the casing. The shading member defines a stepped through aperture. The stepped through aperture includes a light through hole and a receiving hole having a greater diameter than the light through hole. A longitudinal positioning structure is provided in the receiving hole. The light emitting element is received and fixed in the receiving hole firmly by the longitudinal positioning structure. The longitudinal positioning structure is deformable. The light emitted from the light emitting element passes through the light through hole and then travels through the lens.
US08605056B2	Touch-controlled device, identifying method and computer program product thereof A touch-controlled device, an identifying method and a computer program product thereof are provided. The touch-controlled device comprises a touch panel and a processor. The processor is electrically connected to the touch panel, and is configured to detect a first touched region and a second touched region of the touch panel. The processor is further configured to identify one of the first touched region and the second touched region as being touched by a major input object and the other one as being touched by a non-major input object according to a ratio of a moving velocity to a touch area of each of the first and second touched regions.
US08605050B2	Conductor pattern structure of capacitive touch panel Disclosed is a conductor pattern structure of a capacitive touch panel. First-axis conductor assemblies and second-axis conductor assemblies are formed on a surface of a substrate. Each first-axis conductor assembly includes a plurality of first-axis conductor cells that are interconnected by first-axis conduction lines. Each second-axis conductor assembly includes a plurality of second-axis conductor cells that are interconnected by second-axis conduction lines. At least part of each first-axis conduction lines is conductive in horizontal direction and insulating in vertical direction and each of the second-axis conduction lines respectively intersects with the at least part of corresponding first-axis conduction lines.
US08605039B2	Text input An apparatus comprising a controller, wherein said controller is arranged to receive input referring to a key and identifying a touch point; display a first set of candidates comprising a plurality of candidates arranged around the touch point; receive input referring to a first candidate being comprised in said first set; receive a select command of said first candidate; and input said selected candidate as text.
US08605038B2	Touch screen panel type liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The upper substrate includes a first insulating substrate, a transparent conductive layer on the first insulating substrate, and a first polarizer on the transparent conductive layer. The lower substrate includes a second insulating substrate, a second polarizer on the second insulating substrate, and a thin film transistor layer. The second insulating substrate is between the thin film transistor layer and the second polarizer. The transparent conductive layer allows an electric field to be formed on the first polarizer, so that a position signal input unit, which contacts the first polarizer, is capacitively coupled with the transparent conductive layer.
US08605034B1	Motion-based page skipping for a mobile device The invention relates to a system for skipping a plurality of pages displayed on a mobile device. The system includes a computer processor, an accelerometer module, a calculating module, and a page-skipping engine, which are all operatively connected. The accelerometer module executes on the computer processor and is configured to detect, using an accelerometer, a movement of the mobile device, wherein the movement comprises a magnitude; determine that the mobile device is oriented for skipping the plurality of pages; and determine that the movement triggers skipping the plurality of pages. The calculating module executes on the computer processor and is configured to calculate, based on the magnitude of the movement and a plurality of settings, the plurality of pages to skip. The page-skipping engine executes on the computer processor and is configured to display a target page on the mobile device.
US08605029B2	Shift register, display device provided with same, and method of driving shift register A display device is implemented that can suppress degradation in display quality caused by crosstalk, without causing an increase in frame size or an increase in power consumption. In an embodiment, each bistable circuit includes an output terminal that outputs a state signal; a thin film transistor having a drain terminal to which a high-level potential is provided, and a source terminal to which the output terminal is connected; a thin film transistor having a source terminal connected to a region netA connected to a gate terminal of the thin film transistor, and a gate terminal to which a clock is provided; a thin film transistor for increasing the potential of a region netZ connected to a drain terminal of the thin film transistor; and thin film transistors for decreasing the potentials of the netA, the netZ, and the output terminal, respectively.
US08605028B2	Scanning signal line drive circuit, shift register and display device There is provided a display device capable of preventing a malfunction and a display defect due to an off-leak from occurring even when a circuit in a shift register is configured utilizing thin film transistors of relatively large off-leaks. In at least one embodiment, each of bistable circuits that constitute the shift register includes: a thin film transistor for increasing a potential of an output terminal based on a first clock; a thin film transistor for decreasing the potential of the output terminal; a thin film transistor for increasing a potential of a range netA connected to a gate terminal of the thin film transistor based on a start signal; thin film transistors for decreasing the potential of the range netA; a capacitor for increasing the potential of a range netB connected to a gate terminal of the thin film transistor; and a thin film transistor for decreasing the potential of the range netB.
US08605024B2	Liquid crystal display device To keep down deterioration in picture quality caused by an AC driving method to enable image display with high quality to be achieved. In the invention, each of the pixels in a first frame just after the phase inversion for a predetermined starting time period is driven so that each of the pixels would be in a driving state of the polarity opposite to the polarity in the driving state in a last frame before the phase inversion, and then, each of the pixels is driven so that each of the pixels would be in a driving state of the polarity same as the polarity in the driving state in a last frame before the phase inversion when the driving circuit changes a driving state of each of the pixels from a positive polarity to a negative polarity or from the negative polarity to the positive polarity in every m (m≧1) frame and inverses a phase of the driving state of each of the pixels in every N (N≧m) frame wherein it is assumed that an image voltage having a potential higher than an opposite voltage applied to the opposite electrode is applied to the pixel electrode in a driving state of the positive polarity and that an image voltage having a potential lower than the opposite voltage applied to the opposite electrode is applied to the pixel electrode in a driving state of the negative polarity.
US08605021B2	Display device with charge sharing The invention relates to a display device and to a method of controlling a display device. A display device with a plurality of pixels arranged in rows n and columns m is presented so as to render possible an energy saving through charge sharing in the display device, in particular an active matrix display, in which the pixels can be activated via control lines (6), and with a row driver circuit (4) for driving the n rows with a row voltage (Vrow), wherein the rows of the display device can be consecutively selected from 1 to n, and with a column driver circuit (3) for driving the m columns with a column voltage (Vcol) corresponding to the picture data of the pixels (8) of the selected line to be displayed, and wherein it is provided for a transition from a selected row n to another row n+1 that the row voltage (Vrow) is connected to an intermediate voltage level (VZ), and the row n+1 is first connected to the intermediate voltage level (VZ) and subsequently is charged up to the required row voltage (Vrow).
US08605016B2	Display device substrate and liquid crystal display device having the same The display device substrate according to the present invention is arranged so that: a source line is provided on an area on which a pixel electrode is not provided, and a gap is provided between the source line and the pixel electrode, and a black matrix (light shielding film) which covers a surface of the source line overlaps with the pixel electrode. Thus, it is possible to prevent parasitic capacitance (Csd) between the pixel electrode and the source line from becoming uneven in a display area, so that it is possible to reduce display unevenness of a liquid crystal display device using the present display device substrate.
US08605011B2	Virtual viewfinder on full windshield head-up display A method to dynamically register a view finder graphic on a driving scene of a vehicle utilizing a graphic projection display includes monitoring a user input indicated to a portion of the graphic projection display, generating a trace based on the monitored user input indicated to the portion of the graphic projection display, determining a view finder graphic representing a user-defined view finder, the user-defined view finder defined by the generated trace, dynamically registering a location of the view finder graphic upon the graphic projection display corresponding to the driving scene of the vehicle, and displaying the view finder graphic upon the graphic projection display.
US08605010B2	Information processing device There is provided an information processing apparatus which occupies a small space and which is capable of supplying image information having high definition and high resolution. An information processing apparatus of the invention employs a head mount display (HMD) utilizing compact flat panel displays as a display device for displaying information. The use of a head mount display as the display device of the information processing apparatus prevents any reduction in a work space. It also makes it possible to change the size of a virtual display screen freely. In addition, the information processing apparatus of the invention is capable of displaying a plurality of pieces of information on the virtual display screen at a time.
US08604990B1	Ridged waveguide slot array A ridged waveguide slot array includes a waveguide slot body and a ridged waveguide section attached to the waveguide slot body. The waveguide slot body includes one or more walls having a plurality of slots disposed thereon. The ridged waveguide section includes two spaced apart opposing ridges disposed on the one or more walls of the waveguide slot body, and extends along the longitudinal axis of the waveguide slot body.
US08604987B1	Stackable antenna concept for multiband operation The present invention is directed to an antenna assembly. The antenna assembly may include multiple sets of radiators (ex.—antenna elements) with each set of radiators being fed by its own RF feed network. The multiple sets of radiators may be arranged in a stackable configuration for providing a low profile antenna assembly which concurrently supports multiple frequency bands (exs.—L band, C band, Ku band).
US08604983B2	CRLH antenna structures A variety of configurations for a CRLH structured antenna in a wireless device are presented. An antenna having portions of the CRLH structure positioned on different layers provides an elevated structure. An antenna is presented having a double folded antenna structure, wherein a cell patch includes extensions on multiple layers of a substrate.
US08604979B2	Broad band antenna Provided is a wide band antenna having ultra-wide band and high performance at a low cost. An antenna element constituting a part of an opening cross section structure of a double cylinder ridge waveguide is spread on a plane. The antenna element has a ridge element portion (21) for adjusting antenna characteristic corresponding to a ridge portion and a radiation element portion (22) for electromagnetic wave radiation. Substantially at a leading end portion of the ridge element portion (21), a feeder terminal (24) is formed. Ground portions (23a and 23b) are maintained at a ground potential and the feeder terminal (24) is guided to an outside as a coplanar waveguide.
US08604978B2	Method and system for hybrid positioning using partial distance information The present invention provides a method and system for positioning one or more anchor nodes or one or more non-anchor nodes in one or more communication networks. A non-anchor node may be in communication with two or more anchor nodes. The method comprises determining two or more distance measurements, corresponding to raw distances of the non-anchor node from the two or more anchor nodes, at predetermined intervals of time. An estimated distance is then calculated between the two or more anchor nodes based on the two or more distance measurements. Estimated distances between a plurality of anchor nodes in the one or more communication networks is calculated in a similar manner. A partial distance matrix is then populated using the estimated distance between the plurality of anchor nodes. A plurality of geographic coordinates of the plurality of anchor nodes is reconstructed based on the partial distance matrix. The plurality of geographic coordinates is reconstructed based on one or more of a geometric build-up algorithm, a shortest-path algorithm and a multidimensional scaling algorithm.
US08604976B1	Broad beam antenna design for a tilted phased array with platform motion Embodiments of the present invention are directed to techniques and systems for modifying the transmit beam of a phased array antenna in order to effect a shape change in the beam that pre-compensates for platform motion and clutter considerations in the local environment. The techniques and systems herein disclosed take advantage of the phase controlling capability of phased array antennas to adjust the performance of each element in a way that de-focuses or spoils the transmit beam. This spoiling, in turn, enables the transmission of a broader, tailored beam that provides illumination over an area that would otherwise require multiple scans from narrow transmit beams. The techniques described provide a closed-form solution that sacrifices some antenna pattern efficiency in exchange for greatly reduced computational complexity over prior art, optimal search techniques.
US08604975B2	Calibration apparatus and method There is provided an apparatus for calibrating a multi-beam satellite system comprising a beam forming network providing a plurality of signal paths, the apparatus comprising a calibration processor for determining the phase and amplitude shift of a test path relative to a reference path, the calibration processor being configured to determine the phase and amplitude shifts of the test path relative to the reference path for at least two calibration tones of at least two different frequencies to allow a phase and amplitude offset of the test path for a signal of any frequency within an operational frequency range of the multi-beam satellite system to be calculated.
US08604972B2	Position measuring device and position measuring method by means of GPS In a position measuring method, GPS ranging data obtained at a reference station 1 and an observation station 2 is inputted to four solution calculating sections 12, RTK solutions such as a fix solution at the observation station 2 are calculated in the solution calculating sections 12 according to the RTK system, and the RTK solutions are inputted to a solution obtaining unit 13. Further, it is decided whether or not the RTK solutions include multiple fix solutions. When it is decided that the RTK solutions include multiple fix solutions, deviations between the fix solutions are determined and it is decided whether or not the deviations exceed an allowable value. When it is decided that none of the deviations exceed the allowable value, predetermined arithmetic processing is performed on the fix solutions to obtain a normal fix solution. Moreover, the solution calculating sections are sequentially restarted at predetermined time intervals.
US08604971B2	Scanning near field electromagnetic probe A method and apparatus is devised for detecting objects of interest in which frequency-scanned RF in the HF region of the electromagnetic spectrum is projected out across a given area and returns are detected and converted into image data in which phase, amplitude, range and frequency associated with the incoming data is correlated with frequency-dependent range templates to determine the existence of, the range of and the direction of the objects of interest.
US08604967B2	System and method for providing driving safety A safe driving providing system for supporting a safe driving of a vehicle includes: a radar for transmitting a signal of a predetermined frequency bandwidth to a plurality of vehicles, analyzing signals provided by the vehicles, calculating location information and distance information of the vehicles, and finding inter-vehicle distance information of the vehicles based on the location information and the distance information; and a controller for receiving operation speed information from a vehicle information terminal device installed in each vehicle, determining driving safety of the plurality of vehicles based on the received operation speed information and inter-vehicle distance information provided by the radar, and transmitting a warning message for safe driving to the vehicle information terminal device.
US08604961B1	Ratiometric ADC circuit arrangement In various embodiments an analog-to-digital converter arrangement is provided, which may include an input terminal configured to receive a signal to be converted; a reference terminal configured to receive a reference signal; a voltage domain specific reference terminal configured to receive a voltage domain specific reference signal; an analog-to-digital converter circuit coupled to the input terminal, the reference terminal, and to the voltage domain specific reference terminal configured to compare the signal to be converted with the voltage domain specific reference signal, thereby generating a first digital comparison signal, and to compare the reference signal with the voltage domain specific reference signal, thereby generating a second digital comparison signal; and a ratiometric circuit configured to determine a digitally converted signal of the signal to be converted using the first digital comparison signal and the second digital comparison signal.
US08604956B2	Resonator and oversampling A/D converter Two resistive elements and a capacitive element are coupled between a first node and each of an inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier, an output terminal of the operational amplifier, and a common node. A resistive element and a capacitive element are coupled between the first node and a signal input terminal. Two capacitive elements and a resistive element are coupled between a second node and each of the inverting input terminal, the output terminal, and the common node. Two capacitive elements are coupled between the second node and each of the signal input terminal, and the common node.
US08604954B2	Timing calibration circuit for time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter and associated method A timing calibration circuit for a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided. The timing calibration circuit includes a correlation unit, an adaptive filter and a delay cell. The correlation unit generates a first correlation coefficient according to a first zero-crossing possibility distribution between a first digital data and a second digital data, and generates a second correlation coefficient according to a second zero-crossing possibility distribution between the second digital data and a third digital data. The adaptive filter generates a predicted time skew according to a difference between the first correlation coefficient and the second correlation coefficient. The delay cell calibrates a clock signal of the ADC according to the predicted time skew.
US08604949B2	Serial-to-parallel converter, and display device incorporating the same A serial-to-parallel converter which includes n input latching elements; k intermediate latching elements, and n output latching elements configured to sample outputs of the k intermediate latching elements and a remaining (n−k) input latching elements of the n input latching elements, respectively, after the nth data of the n successive data has been sampled by the nth input latching element and before the kth data of a next n successive data in the serial input data stream has been sampled by the kth input latching element, wherein the n input latching elements and the k intermediate latching elements are transparent for one state of their clock input, and n and k are positive integers, where n>k.
US08604946B2	Data processing device and data processing method A decoder reads an instruction for information specifying a bit sequence storage area, information indicating a first bit range, and information indicating a second bit range that is contiguous with the first bit range, then outputs a decoded signal in response to the information so read, and a bit manipulation circuit generates and outputs an output sequence based on a bit sequence stored in the bit sequence storage area by inserting uniform predetermined values between a first bit range and a second bit range in accordance with the decoded signal output from the decoder.
US08604945B2	Apparatus and method for channel encoding in a communication/broadcasting system An encoding apparatus and method in a communication/broadcasting system are provided. When an encoding symbol is generated using at least one source symbol from among total source symbols to be encoded, encoding symbols are generated by using each of the total source symbols with a uniform probability before repeatedly using any of the total source symbols.
US08604943B2	Systems and methods for monitoring location of freight carried by a vehicle A system for providing location information of a vehicle includes a communications interface and a correlation logic that correlates location information of a communications device to location of the vehicle. The communications interface communicates electronic signals including: a first signal including data representing a request for the location of the vehicle, a second signal transmitted to a location information provider corresponding to a party or device other than the communications device including data representing a request for location information of the communications device, a third signal received from the location information provider corresponding to the party or device other than the communications device including data representing the location information of the communications device, and a fourth signal including data representing the location of the vehicle.
US08604938B2	User interface cable clamp-on device In an illustrative embodiment, a system comprises an A/V switcher that is configured to monitor a presence of an A/V signal in a cable and transmit data regarding said A/V signal presence. A cable clamp-on device is coupled to the cable and includes at least one indicator for displaying said A/V signal presence, and a transceiver configured to receive the data regarding said A/V signal presence.
US08604937B2	Telematics unit and method for controlling telematics unit for a vehicle A telematics unit is provided for a vehicle having a power unit, along with a method for controlling a telematics unit for a vehicle. The telematics unit includes a voltage sensor, a global positioning system unit, and a processor. The voltage sensor senses a measure of a voltage of the power unit. The global positioning system unit obtains position data as to a position of the vehicle. The processor is coupled to the voltage sensor and the global positioning system unit. The processor is configured to determine whether the voltage for the power unit has decreased using the sensed measure of the voltage, determine whether the vehicle is moving using the position data, and command the telematics unit to an off mode if the voltage has decreased and the vehicle is not moving.
US08604934B2	System and method for optically detecting low liquid level condition A system and method for remotely determining a liquid level condition within a tank includes a liquid level gauge connectable to the tank, a dial assembly associated with the liquid level gauge and an optical transceiver for determining a reflectivity of the dial assembly. The dial assembly includes a reflective layer, a blocking layer positioned over the reflective layer for blocking at least a portion of the reflective layer, and a disk that is magnetically coupled to the liquid level gauge. One of the reflective and blocking layers is associated with the disk for rotation therewith. The optical transceiver is positioned for projecting radiant energy toward the reflective layer and detecting the presence or absence of reflected radiant energy and for generating a signal indicative of a low liquid level condition within the tank when at least a substantial portion of the reflective layer is covered by the blocking layer or when a failure occurs in the system to thereby provide a fail-safe mode of operation.
US08604930B2	Sensor device There is provided a mobile communication device. An exemplary mobile communication device comprises an input unit, a display and a processing unit being connected with a subscriber identity module and with an adapter module, wherein the adapter module is in communication with at least one sensor capturing biological and/or medical data of the user of the mobile communication device.
US08604929B1	Personal alert system and method A personal alert system and method are provided. The personal alert system may generate, for example, residence alerts, school alerts, finance alerts and/or public persona alerts.
US08604926B2	Automatic verification of network cable connections A system and method for guiding server chassis enumeration in a computer system are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method of connecting a plurality of computer server chassis configured as a plurality of nodes. For each cable connection between any two server chassis, a port on the first of the two server chassis to which a first end of a cable is connected is identified, and a port on the second server chassis to which a second end of the cable is connected is identified. The node containing second server chassis is uniquely designated by the port designator on the first server chassis, and the node containing the first server chassis is uniquely designated by the port designator on the second server chassis. An electronic alert is generated in response to any conflicting node designator.
US08604925B2	Simplex personal and asset tracker An asset locator device including (a) a wireless receiver capable of receiving an identifier signal transmitted from a short range wireless transmitter device; (b) a wireless transmitter capable of transmitting a message to a space based network; (c) a positioning system capable of determining the location of the locator device; (d) a vibration sensor; and (e) a controller. The controller instructs the asset locator to: (i) attempt to detect the identifier signal from the transmitter device if the vibration sensor senses vibration; and (ii) transmit a signal, including an asset location, to the space based network if: (1) the identifier signal is not detected; and (2) location fixes from the positioning system indicate a location change of the asset.
US08604922B2	Programmable taillight illumination system A motor vehicle taillight comprising a frame configured to be removably mounted to a vehicle, a housing coupled to the frame, a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) positioned along the frame, and a programmable electronic system configured to received an input signal and to selectively provide power to the at least one sets of LED arrays based on a program selected by a user and received input signal. The programmable electronic system is also configured to be selectively placed into a program mode upon activation of a switch, and when in the program mode, to select one of the plurality of programs based on at least one of a turn signal or brake signal of the motor vehicle.
US08604921B2	Method for displaying information In a method for displaying information relating to the assignments of functions to a group of freely assignable operating keys in a motor vehicle, a first display step outputs for each operating key of the group a brief description of the respective function assignment, and a second display step outputs for a single selected operating key of the group a more detailed description. In the first display step, the brief descriptions of all operating keys of the group are output side-by-side into screen areas, which essentially are adjacent to each other, in an edge region of a display unit of the motor vehicle. In the second display step, the more detailed description is output into the same edge region of the same display unit such that the more detailed description covers the entire screen area of the brief description of the selected operating key, and the more detailed description at least partially covers the screen area of the brief description of at least one additional operating key.
US08604918B2	System and method for detecting a vehicle in the vicinity by using wireless communication The present invention provides a system and a method for detecting whether one more vehicles are in the vicinity of a first vehicle using wireless communication. More specifically, a plurality of transmitters generate a wireless signal and plurality of receivers receive the wireless signal generated in a nearby vehicle. A first unit calculates a distance to the nearby vehicle according to a strength of the received wireless signal. A second estimation unit estimates a location of the nearby vehicle by using a distance between the plurality of the wireless signal receiving units and the calculated distance to the nearby vehicle. A third unit estimates a driving speed of the nearby vehicle based on a travel distance per a unit time of the nearby vehicle by using the location of the nearby vehicle. Subsequently, a fourth unit estimates a driving direction of the nearby vehicle by using the location of the nearby vehicle.
US08604917B2	Hospital bed having user input to enable and suspend remote monitoring of alert conditions A hospital bed has a bed frame and communication circuitry operable to transmit bed status data to a network of a healthcare facility and to receive messages from the network. The messages include information indicating whether bed status conditions are being monitored by a remote computer of the network for generation of alert messages to at least one caregiver in response to alert conditions being indicated by the bed status data. The bed has at least one user input that is used locally at the bed to enable and suspend monitoring of the bed status conditions by the remote computer.
US08604915B2	Smart power sockets, boards, and plugs An approach is provided where a smart socket receives a request over a power line and generates a request based on the received request. The second request is transmitted over a power cord connecting the smart power socket to a device. A response is received from the device and a power setting is identified therefrom. The smart socket regulates electrical current flowing from the smart power socket to the device using the identified setting. In a related approach, the device receives a power down request over a power cord from a smart power socket. The device determines whether power is still needed at the device in order to perform one or more device operations. The device then returns a response to the smart power socket, with the response indicating whether power is still needed at the device.
US08604913B2	Reader control system An RFID reader control system and method is provided. A protocol for controlling an RFID reader and an RFID reader control unit of a mobile phone is defined. Messages, information, commands, responses, and notification are constructed and transmitted between the RFID reader and the RFID reader control unit.
US08604911B2	Signal power mapping for detection of buried objects and other changes to the RF environment In one embodiment, an RF disturbance detection system is provided that includes: an RF interrogator configured to transmit an RF interrogation signal; and a plurality of RF transceiver modules configured to respond to the RF interrogation signal by transmitting unique RF response signals, wherein the RF interrogator is further configured to periodically interrogate the RF transceiver modules to detect the power of the corresponding response signals so as to detect any changes in the response signal powers over time.
US08604908B1	Article storage system with closely-coupled, article-specific display Logic is included in a piece of active storage furniture such that the active storage furniture integrates articles stored thereby into a representation of information about those articles. The logic includes (i) sensors to identify individual articles stored by the furniture and respective locations of the articles and (ii) display elements capable of incorporating selected individual ones of the articles as separate and individual components of a collective representation of information about the selected articles. In response to queries about the articles, the articles themselves are integrated into a representation of information about the articles. For example, a wine rack includes RFID and LEDs in each of a number of storage cells or cubbies and illuminates each cubby according to information about the wine stored in the cubby in response to a query for such information (e.g., show me all wine color-coded by region).
US08604907B2	Multilayer flexible film body The invention concerns a multi-layer flexible film body (6), in particular a label film or packaging film as well as a goods identification system and uses of such a film body. The film body (6) has a carrier layer and a decorative layer system (11) which provides optically recognisable information. A plurality of layers of the decorative layer system form an electronically controlled display element (65), by the activation of which the optically recognisable information becomes visible.
US08604900B2	Magnetic wheel Magnetic circuit that has (a) a source of magnetic flux which includes an electromagnet or one or more permanent magnets, (b) at least two oppositely polarizable pole extension bodies associated with the magnetic flux source, the bodies being disc, wheel, roller or similarly shaped with an outer circumferential surface and held rotatable about respective axes of rotation, and (c) a ferromagnetic counter body which is arranged to cooperate with the pole extension bodies such as to provide an external flux path for the magnetic flux when in magnetic proximity or contact with the circumferential surface of the pole extension bodies, which is characterized in that the magnetic flux source is held stationary relative to the rotatable pole extension bodies.
US08604890B2	Method and circuit for increasing the resolution of a digitally controlled oscillator A method and a circuit for increasing a resolution of a digitally controlled oscillator include controlling the oscillator so that an output signal of the oscillator varies between semi-periods having a first frequency and semi-periods having a second frequency. The method and circuit further include applying the output signal of the oscillator as an input to a divider to obtain a divided signal. A frequency of at least one semi-period of the divided signal is a function of both an oscillator semi-period having the first frequency and an oscillator semi-period having the second frequency.
US08604888B2	Oscillators having arbitrary frequencies and related systems and methods Systems and methods for operating with oscillators configured to produce an oscillating signal having an arbitrary frequency are described. The frequency of the oscillating signal may be shifted to remove its arbitrary nature by application of multiple tuning signals or values to the oscillator. Alternatively, the arbitrary frequency may be accommodated by adjusting operation one or more components of a circuit receiving the oscillating signal.
US08604886B2	Spin torque oscillator having multiple fixed ferromagnetic layers or multiple free ferromagnetic layers A spin torque oscillator and a method of making same. The spin torque oscillator is configured to generate microwave electrical oscillations without the use of a magnetic field external thereto, the spin torque oscillator having one of a plurality of input nanopillars and a nanopillar having a plurality of free FM layers.
US08604884B2	VCO insensitive to power supply ripple A ring oscillator that is more insensitive to power supply ripple utilizes an amplifier circuit having a first input coupled to a reference voltage. A current is generated that represents a control voltage supplied to the oscillator control circuit. That current is mirrored and supplied as a control current to the oscillator. An amplifier is used in a feedback loop to ensure that incremental variations in source to drain voltage of a first transistor of the current mirror is present in a second transistor of the current mirror to make the control current more immune to supply ripple.
US08604881B2	Efficiency improvement of doherty power amplifier using supply switching and digitally controlled gate bias modulation of peaking amplifier An apparatus for amplifying a signal is provided. The apparatus includes a carrier transistor, a peaking transistor, a controller, and a power supply switching unit, wherein the controller controls the power supply switching unit to switch between two or more power supplies and wherein the power supply switching unit provides power from one of the two or more power supplies to the peaking transistor.
US08604880B2	Buffering apparatus and method The output impedance of an amplifier is substantially matched to an input impedance of a receiver using a buffer circuit. The buffer circuit includes a primary transistor and a secondary transistor. A first back gate terminal of the primary transistor is coupled to a second back gate terminal of the secondary transistor and the primary transistor is configured to have an output for the buffer circuit. An input signal is received from the amplifier at a gate terminal of the secondary transistor. The first back gate terminal of the primary transistor is responsively driven independently from the output of the buffer circuit to effectively adjust a transconductance of the primary transistor and substantially match an output impedance of the amplifier with an input impedance of the receiver.
US08604878B2	Folded cascode amplifier with an enhanced slew rate The present invention is directed to a folded cascode amplifier with an enhanced slew rate, which includes a folded cascode amplifying circuit, a first input circuit and a second input circuit. The second input circuit has an electricity type opposite to that of the first input circuit. The first input circuit is connected, via its driving nodes, to the folded cascode amplifying circuit, and the second input circuit is connected, via its driving nodes, to crossover nodes of the first input circuit.
US08604877B2	Differential amplifier A differential amplifier is provided in the present invention. The differential amplifier includes an amplifying module having a resistive ratio, receiving an input voltage, and amplifying the input voltage as an output voltage in accordance with the resistive ratio; and a feedback module coupled with the amplifying module and generating a feedback signal in accordance with the input voltage and the output voltage for regulating the output voltage.
US08604876B2	Current buffer A current filtering current buffer amplifier includes: a first port and a second input port configured to be coupled to and receive input current; a first output port and a second output port configured to be coupled to and provide current to a load; a buffer configured to transfer the received input current to the first and second output ports as an output current, the buffer having an input impedance and an output impedance where the output impedance is higher than the input impedance, the buffer including first and second amplifiers, the first amplifier being a common mode feedback amplifier; and a filter coupled to the first and second input ports and coupled to the first and second amplifiers, the filter having a complex impedance and being configured to notch filter the received input current.
US08604874B2	Enhanced transformer output demultiplexing method (ETODEM) An asymmetrical transformer output demultiplexing (ATODEM) circuit is disclosed. The ATODEM circuit of the present disclosure includes N input windings, wherein N is a natural number. Each of the N input windings have input terminals that couple to output terminals of N PAs. The ATODEM further includes M output ports wherein M is a natural number, each of the M output ports having N series coupled windings coupled between a load terminal and a return terminal. The physical attributes of the N input windings, and the N series coupled windings of the M output ports are asymmetrical such that in an Nth operation mode an Nth PA first-load line impedance matches an output impedance of an Nth PA coupled to the input terminals.
US08604873B2	Ground partitioned power amplifier for stable operation Achievement of robust stability of a power amplifier (PA) that allows the sharing of the ground between the driver stages and the output stage is shown. A controlled amount of negative feedback is used to neutralize the local positive feedback that results from the driver-to-output stage ground sharing in the signal path, for example, a radio frequency (RF) signal path. The solution keeps a strong drive and a good performance of the PA. Exemplary embodiments are shown for the PA positive feedback neutralization. A first embodiment uses a ground signal divider while another embodiment uses a ground signal divider weighting technique.
US08604871B2	High gain amplifier method using low-valued resistances This invention discloses circuit and methods of a NAND-based 2T-string NOR flash cell structure as a building block for a fast random-read NOR flash memory. The key concept of this new set of bias conditions in cell array improves over the critical concern of punch-through issue when cell is migrating to the more advanced technology node of next generation. The invention adopts a novel preferable symmetrical 2T-string NOR flash cell. Each NAND or NAND like cell of this 2T-string NOR cell is to store 2 bits and is preferable to be made of N-channel device. The cell is preferable to use Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling scheme for both erase and program operations- The invention is to provide a novel 2T-string NOR flash cell structure made of N-channel device offering most flexible erase sizes in unit of byte, page, sector, block and chip with the least program and erase disturbances.
US08604869B1	Charge pump with a wide input supply range Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a voltage generator, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of configuring a charge pump system by incorporating an auxiliary charge pump to generate an intermediate voltage that is used to boost up a primary charge pump according to a level of an input supply voltage. The intermediate voltage has a higher level than that of the input supply voltage, and is provided to boost up the primary charge pump when the input supply voltage is determined to be lower than a threshold voltage. Such a charge pump based voltage generator is compatible to a wide input supply range, capable of sustaining a large output load and effectively reduces the chip estate.
US08604867B2	Energy harvesting in integrated circuit packages An energy harvesting integrated circuit (IC) includes electrical connectors, each having a portion of a first material and a portion of a second material. The first and the second materials have a thermoelectric potential. The IC includes a trace of the first material coupled to the first material of each electrical connector, and a trace of the second material coupled to the second material of each electrical connector and the first trace. A portion of the second trace extends away from a portion of the first trace. The IC has charge storing elements coupled to the first and/or second traces. The first material and the second material are heated to create an electron flow from a thermal gradient between a first zone of the heated first and second materials and a second zone of the first and the second materials away from the first zone.
US08604864B2	Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals are described. Such devices and method include use of symmetrical compensation capacitances, symmetrical series capacitors, or symmetrical sizing of the elements of the stack.
US08604863B2	Switch control circuit, semiconductor device, and radio communication device A switch control circuit has a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a serial-parallel converter, a selector, a driver circuit and a tri-state buffer. The serial-parallel converter converts a serial switching control signal inputted from the third terminal into first parallel switching control signals when the first terminal is at a first power-supply potential. The selector selects either the first parallel switching control signals converted by the serial-parallel converter or second parallel switching control signals inputted into the second and third terminals, depending on the potential of the first terminal. The driver circuit converts potential levels of the first parallel switching control signals or the second parallel switching control signals selected by the selector and generates parallel switching control signals with potential levels capable of switching a switch circuit.
US08604861B1	System and method for a switched capacitor circuit In an embodiment, a circuit includes a forward path circuit having an auto-zero switch coupled between an input of an amplifier and an output of the amplifier, a first chopping circuit having an input coupled to an input of the forward path circuit and an output coupled to the input of the amplifier, and a second chopping circuit having an input coupled to the output of the amplifier and an output coupled to an output of the forward path circuit. The circuit further includes a feedback circuit that has a feedback switch, a feedback capacitor including a first end coupled to an output of the amplifier, a third chopping circuit coupled between the input of the forward path circuit and a first end of a feedback switch, and a fourth chopping circuit coupled between a second end of the feedback switch and a second end of the feedback capacitor.
US08604859B2	DC-offset correction circuit A DC-offset correction circuit for a target circuit with an output terminal and a feedback input terminal. The DC-offset correction circuit includes an obtaining module and a correction module. The obtaining module obtains a DC-offset voltage from the output terminal. The correction module includes a first charging switch, a first inductor connected to the first charging switch in order from the output terminal to the feedback input terminal, and a first charging capacitor connected between ground and the node of the feedback input terminal and the first charging switch. When the voltage of the feedback input terminal is less then the DC-offset voltage, the correction module closes the first charging switch. When the voltage of the feedback input terminal is equal to the DC-offset voltage, the correction module opens the first charging switch.
US08604855B2	Dual-trigger low-energy flip-flop circuit One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for technique for capturing and storing a level of an input signal using a dual-trigger low-energy flip-flop circuit that is fully-static and insensitive to fabrication process variations. The dual-trigger low-energy flip-flop circuit presents only three transistor gate loads to the clock signal and none of the internal nodes toggle when the input signal remains constant. One of the clock signals may be a low-frequency “keeper clock” that toggles less frequently than the other two clock signal that is input to two transistor gates. The output signal Q is set or reset at the rising clock edge using separate trigger sub-circuits. Either the set or reset may be armed while the clock signal is low, and the set or reset is triggered at the rising edge of the clock.
US08604852B1	Noise suppression using an asymmetric frequency-locked loop In an integrated circuit that provides a clock signal, an asymmetric frequency-locked loop (AFLL) includes a first digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) that outputs a first signal having a first fundamental frequency, and a second DCO that outputs a second signal having a second fundamental frequency that is less than the first fundamental frequency. Moreover, the AFLL includes control logic that selects one of the first DCO and the second DCO based on an instantaneous value of a power-supply voltage and an average power-supply voltage so that an impact of power-supply voltage variations on a time-critical path in the integrated circuit is reduced. For example, the control logic may select the first DCO if the instantaneous value of the power-supply voltage is greater than the average power-supply voltage; otherwise, the control logic may select the second DCO.
US08604849B1	Circuit and circuit methods for reduction of PFD noise contribution for ADPLL In one embodiment, a phase locked loop comprises a phase frequency detector (PFD) configured to detect a phase difference and a frequency difference between inputs of a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal, and output an up signal and a down signal. A logic gate includes an AND gate wherein one of the up signal or the down signal from the PFD is coupled to an inverted input and the other signal is coupled to a non-inverted input to produce a pulse signal. A time to digital converter (TDC) is coupled to the logic gate wherein the pulse signal output from the AND gate is input to the TDC as an enable signal for the TDC, and wherein the TDC is configured to generate a digital timing signal representing a difference between two edges of the pulse signal.
US08604848B1	MEMS-based frequency synthesizers having variable bandwidth temperature compensation A frequency synthesizer includes a frequency generator configured to generate a periodic output signal in response to a periodic input signal and a temperature-dependent code. A temperature sensor is provided, which is configured to generate a temperature measurement signal in response to detecting a temperature of at least a portion of the frequency synthesizer. A control circuit is provided, which is configured to generate the temperature-dependent code in response to the temperature measurement signal and a plurality of clocks having unequal frequencies. The control circuit can include a cascaded arrangement of an oversampled data converter and a digital filter, which are sequentially responsive to first and second ones of the plurality of clocks during generation of the periodic output signal by the frequency generator.
US08604843B2	Output driver An output driver includes, inter alia: a code generation unit disposed between a first node and a second node and configured to generate pull-up codes, according to a voltage difference between the first node and an output node, pull-down codes, according to a voltage difference between the output node and the second node, and a driving unit configured to drive the output node in response to a pull-up signal and a pull-down signal to generate output data, wherein a voltage level of the output data is controlled by a driving force which is set according to a combination of the pull-up and pull-down codes.
US08604841B2	Gate driver unit for electrical switching device An exemplary apparatus and method for using intelligent gate driver units with distributed intelligence to control antiparallel power modules or parallel-connected electrical switching devices like IGBTs is disclosed. The intelligent gate drive units use the intelligence to balance the currents of the switching devices, even in dynamic switching events. The intelligent gate driver units can use master-slave or daisy chain control structures and instantaneous or time integral differences of the currents of parallel-connected switching devices as control parameters. Instead of balancing the currents, temperature can also be balanced with the intelligent gate driver units.
US08604838B2	Comparator with improved time constant An apparatus for comparing differential input signal inputs is provided. The apparatus comprises a CMOS sense amplifier (which has having a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal), a first output circuit (which has a first load capacitance), a second output circuit (which has a second load capacitance), and an isolation circuit. The isolation circuit is coupled between the first output terminal of the CMOS sense amplifier and the first output circuit and is coupled between the second output terminal of the CMOS sense amplifier and the second output terminal of the CMOS sense amplifier. The isolation circuit isolates the first and second load capacitances from the CMOS sense amplifier.
US08604837B2	Detector circuit A detector circuit, has a first diode, to an anode of which an AC signal is input and to which a constant voltage is supplied, a second diode, to an anode of which the constant voltage is supplied, and a difference current generation circuit, which generates the difference current between a first current flowing in the first diode and a second current flowing in the second diode.
US08604823B1	Selectively disabled output Circuits, methods, and apparatus are directed to an integrated circuit having a disabling element that can disable a reading of data from the circuit. Once the disabling element is set to not allow a reading of the data, the disabling element cannot be changed to allow a reading of the data. The data may be configuration data or internal data stored within the integrated circuit. Examples of the disabling element include a memory element, a break in a circuit line, and an input pad configuration.
US08604819B2	Inspecting apparatus for photovoltaic devices Provided is an inspecting apparatus for inspecting a photovoltaic devices by applying a current to the photovoltaic devices in a forward direction to make the photovoltaic devices emit EL light which is simple in structure and capable of shortening inspection time in inspecting a defect from a photographed image with a perfect resolution. The inspecting apparatus includes a darkroom (110) provided with an upper surface (111) having an opening portion (112), a support device provided at the upper surface of the darkroom (110) to support the photovoltaic devices as an inspecting object (200) on the opening portion (112), cameras (121, 122 and 123) disposed inside the darkroom (110) for photographing the inspecting object (200), and a moving device configured to move the cameras in the darkroom (110). The moving device includes an x-axial guiding portion (140), a motor (142) and a timing belt (144).
US08604817B2	Measurement card A measurement card includes a circuit board, an edge connector on a bottom edge of the circuit board, a port arranged on the circuit board, and a single-pole double-throw switch for connecting the port to either a first or a second pin of the edge connector to tests the VDDQ and VTT outputs of a memory slot.
US08604811B2	Electrical heating catalyzer having honeycomb structure A honeycomb body of a honeycomb structure is made of ceramic, and a plurality of electrodes are provided apart from one another on a surface of the honeycomb body. In the honeycomb body, energization is performed for each of a plurality of current paths Xa to Xc formed by the plurality of electrodes, thereby heating the honeycomb body. A controlling device detects heater current Ia, Ib, and IC that flow when a predetermined voltage is applied for each of the plurality of current paths Xa, Xb, and Xc, and controls an energization timing of each current path Xa to Xc based on the detection results.
US08604809B2	Current sensor capacity measuring system A capacitance measuring circuit comprising an oscillator circuit, where a sensor capacitance forms a link of a plurality of series connected impedances and where a square wave voltage is impressed on the series connected impedances from a separate high speed, a low impedance source and the measurement of the charging current, into the series connected impedances, is performed by a separate high accuracy current sensing device, connected in series between the low impedance square wave source and the plurality of the series connected impedances.
US08604804B2	Method and structure of winding of stator for rotation detector, and electric motor comprising rotation detector The N1(s) turns of an output winding is divided by a split ratio α into N1a(s) turns of an output winding (1a) and N1b(s) turns of an output winding (1b). The output winding (1a) is continuously wound around all slots as the undermost layer. Output winding 2, which is different in phase by 90 degrees from the output winding (1a), is continuously wound around all the slots over the output winding (1a). An output winding (1b) is continuously wound around all the slots over output winding 2. This equalizes the contribution of the output winding and output winding 2 to the flux linkage, thereby achieving high angle detection accuracy.
US08604803B2	System and method for monitoring temperature inside electric machines The electric machine comprises at least one winding made of a material having a temperature dependent resistance. The temperature of the winding is monitored using the resistance therein. Temperatures or resistances indicative of a fault can be sensed, and corrective action taken, without the need for dedicated temperature sensors.
US08604802B2	Checking circuit for serial port connectors A checking circuit for a serial port connector includes a first inverter, a second inverter, a third inverter, and a first light emitting diode (LED) and a second LED with different colors. An input of the first inverter is connected to a transmitted data pin of the serial port connector. An output of the first inverter is connected to an anode of the first LED. An input of the second inverter is connected to the transmitted data pin of the serial port connector. An output of the second inverter is connected to an input of the third inverter. An output of the third inverter is connected to an anode of the second LED. Cathodes of the first and second LEDs are grounded.
US08604801B2	Connector fitting test tool A compact and easy to use female connector testing tool includes an outer housing containing a movable plunger. A male connection end is attached to one end of the movable plunger. A predetermined resistive force is provided between the outer housing and the plunger to provide adequate resistance against movement between them. As the tool is pulled away from the female connector, in which the male connection end is inserted, the plunger moves with respect to the outer housing. An indicator indicates if the female connector has passed (and is good) or has failed. The indicator may be used to provide measurements of the pullout or push-in force required to remove or insert the male connector from the female connector. The indicator may include a pass/fail indicator, a graded scale, an electronic display or audible display. A mechanical pullout mechanism may be used to provide a fast test of the holding resistance of the female connector.
US08604797B2	Method for determining cell number, cell number determination device, power supply device and program A number of cells can be determined before control for a battery without providing cell number setting and input means. The cell number determination device comprises voltage measuring units that select an “i”th cell among cells that are connected in series and that configure a battery, and that measure a voltage value between a terminal in which the “i”th cell and an (i−1)th cell, which is in one location higher than the “i”th cell, are connected and a ground potential line, voltage comparators that determine an existence, nonexistence or normality of the cells by comparing a voltage value of an (i+1)th cell that is in one location lower than the “i”th cell with the voltage value of the “i”th cell measured by the voltage measuring units and a cell number determination unit that determines a number of assembled cells and normal cells and cell assembled locations in the battery.
US08604796B2	Steerable magnetic dipole antenna for measurement-while-drilling applications A steerable or non-steerable, magnetic dipole antenna for Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) or Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) applications. The antenna elements use a hole arrangement in addition to grooves in a steel tool body, which is typically a drill collar. This antenna embodiment is extremely robust, meaning that does not significantly reduce the structural integrity of the tool body in which it is disposed. The antenna embodiment is also relatively wear resistant. The resultant magnetic dipole generated by this antenna is also electrically steerable in inclination angle from a common origin. A variable dipole moment inclination angle combined with independently measured tool rotation orientation during normal drilling allows the antenna to generate a magnetic dipole moment that may be directed at any three dimensional angle and from a common origin point at the centroid of the antenna. The antenna can also be embodied to be more sensitive to resistivity in a particular azimuthal direction.
US08604794B2	Permanent magnet arrangement with solid facing plate and scanning magnet head The present invention provides a permanent magnet arrangement, comprising: a. a mobile permanent magnet grouping; b. a facing plate constructed from ferromagnetic material; c. a an air gap defined by the spacing between said permanent magnet grouping and said facing plate; d. a yoke of predetermined shape formed from magnetically permeable material, said yoke holding said front surfaces of said magnets in a substantially parallel arrangement relative to said facing plate; e. means for individually moving said permanent magnets in said magnet grouping along an axis generally perpendicular to said facing plate; f. means for moving said permanent magnet grouping in a plane generally parallel to said facing plate; wherein a magnetic field within an active volume located in said air gap between said permanent magnet grouping and said facing plate is provided, said magnetic field sufficiently homogeneous for performance of MRI.
US08604790B2	Magnetic resonance surface coil A plug block module for a surface coil for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has a plug block body with contacts for connection lines that can be connected with a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, an adapter plug that can be inserted into an adapter plug of the surface coil, a surface coil connector device that fixes the plug block module to the surface coil, and a connection between the plug block and the adapter plug.
US08604786B2	Method and device for controlling acquisition of magnetic resonance data in a magnetic resonance apparatus In a method and a device to control the workflow of an MR measurement in a magnetic resonance system, a predetermined volume segment is subdivided into parallel slices with a predetermined slice interval and measured with a continuous table feed. Apart from a start phase and an end phase of the MR measurement, multiple slices of the examination subject are excited and read out in every repetition of the underlying basic sequence, and these multiple slices are located in an active volume inside the magnetic resonance system. The number of slices excited and read out per repetition of the underlying basic sequence is selected automatically depending in particular on the parameters determining an image contrast and an image resolution, and thus cannot be freely set by a user of the magnetic resonance system.
US08604784B2	Cushion for a patient bed in a medical imaging apparatus An MRT acquisition can be simplified by a method, an MRT apparatus and a support, for example a cushion, for a magnetic resonance tomography examination, that has at least one positioning aid for a heel of the patient and that has at least one positioning aid for the head.
US08604783B2	Method and apparatus for NMR measurements while drilling with multiple depths of investigation NMR spin echo signals are measured in a borehole during drilling. Signals measured in a plurality of regions of investigation with different depths of investigation in the borehole are processed to give a radial profile of formation properties, including a potential gas kick.
US08604778B2	Angle measuring system An angle measuring system includes a first component group and a second component group, the first component group being mounted so as to be rotatable relative to the second component group. The first component group includes a ring having a running surface and an angle scaling. The second component group has a sensor for scanning the angle scaling as well as a printed circuit board having an electronic circuit for evaluating sensor signals producible by the scanning. The second component group furthermore includes a solid ring, on which another running surface is situated and which has a first recess for accommodating the circuit board and a second recess for accommodating an electrical conductor. The conductor connects the sensor electrically to the electronic circuit situated at a distance from the sensor.
US08604771B2	Hand tool having a pivot grip for sensing a measurement behind a target surface An implementation of a system and method for a hand tool having a pivot grip is provided. The pivot grip provides an axis of rotation perpendicular and centered with a pair of concave finger holds positioned at the grip. The hand tool includes a housing forming the pivot grip, a sensor (e.g., stud sensor, capacitive sensor, electromagnetic sensor, metallic sensor, RF sensor, and/or the like) and a power switch.
US08604769B2	Switching power source device A switching power source device disclosed in this specification includes a switching power source portion of nonlinear control method to generate an output voltage from an input voltage by performing an ON/OFF control of a switch element according to a comparison result between a feedback voltage and a reference voltage, wherein a ripple component is injected to either one of the feedback voltage and the reference voltage, and an offset control portion to adjust either one of the feedback voltage and the reference voltage for cancelling a DC offset of the output voltage caused by the ripple component.
US08604766B2	DC-DC converter and control circuit thereof A control circuit of a DC-DC converter has a voltage difference signal generator configured to generate a digital voltage difference signal depending on a voltage difference between the output voltage and a reference voltage, a PID controller configured to generate a digital PID signal for determining the duty ratio of the pulse-width modulated signal, based on the digital voltage difference signal, a phase controller configured to generate a digital phase control signal for determining a phase of the pulse-width modulated signal, based on the digital voltage difference signal, and a PWM generator configured to generate the pulse-width modulated signal, based on the digital PID signal and the digital phase control signal.
US08604763B2	Power delivery system with surge handling capability A sensing circuit senses a load current to generate a sensed signal. A comparator's output is set to a first value if the sensed signal is equal to or greater than a reference signal, and to a second value if the sensed signal is smaller than the reference signal. A one-shot timer generates a logic signal that transitions from a first state to a second state in response to a first occurrence of the first value of the comparator's output, or optionally in response to each subsequent occurrence of the first value of the comparator's output if the one-shot timer is rearmed. A selector sets a first limit for the current delivered to the load in response to the first state of the logic signal, and a second limit for the current delivered to the load in response to the second state of the logic signal.
US08604762B2	Low noise, low dropout regulators Low noise, low dropout regulators are described. An example low noise, low dropout regulator includes a chopping error amplifier to receive an input signal and a feedback signal and to output a modified signal having an undesired portion of the input signal shifted to a higher frequency and a regulator to receive the modified signal and to generate an output signal by filtering the undesired portion of the input signal from the modified signal.
US08604761B2	Current source arrangement, circuit arrangement with the current source arrangement and method for operating such an arrangement In one embodiment, the current source arrangement comprises a current source (B), that has two output terminals (102, 103) and a control input (101) to be supplied with a control voltage (Vgs) and is set up to provide a current (I) as a function of a voltage (Vds) at the output terminals (102, 103) and the control voltage (Vgs), an operating point adjustment unit (E) that is supplied with an actual value (Vi) proportional to an actual value of the current (I) and is set up to provide the control voltage (Vgs) as a function of the actual value (Vi) and a predetermined target value (Iz) of the current (I), and a comparison unit (A) coupled to the control input (101) of the current source (B) for providing a monitoring signal (100), wherein the monitoring signal (100) is provided as a function of a predetermined limit voltage (VG) and the control voltage (Vgs). A method for operating a current source arrangement is also specified.
US08604758B1	Control circuit for switching power supply A control circuit includes a power controller, a comparator, and first to fifth electronic switches. When an electronic device is operating with light load, a voltage received by the inverting terminal of the comparator is less than a voltage received by the non-inverting terminal of the comparator, such that the first and fourth electronic switches are turned on, and the second, third, and fifth electronic switches are turned off. A first power supply is output to the switching power supply. When the electronic device is operating with heavy load, the voltage received by the inverting terminal of the comparator is greater than the voltage received by the non-inverting terminal of the comparator, such that the first and fourth electronic switches are turned off, and the second, third, and fifth electronic switches are turned on. A second power supply is output to the switching power supply.
US08604754B2	Universal power interface bus A circuit and communication method for charging and/or discharging electrical energy storage devices (e.g., one or more cells of ultracapacitors, one or more cells of batteries, one or more cells of ultracapacitors and batteries).
US08604744B2	Motor drive circuit for rotating a rotor by supplying the currents to two coils When a driver unit is in a high impedance state as viewed from a first coil or a second coil, an induced voltage detector detects the voltage across the first coil or that across the second coil so as to detect an induced voltage occurring in the first coil or the second coil. The induced voltage detector includes a differential amplifier circuit for differentially amplifying an electric potential across the first coil or that across the second coil, and an analog-to-digital converter circuit for converting an analog value outputted from the differential amplifier circuit into a digital value and outputting the converted digital value to a control unit. The control unit generates a drive signal based on an input signal set externally and adjusts the drive signal in accordance with the induced voltage detected by the induced voltage detector so as to set the adjusted drive signal in the driver unit.
US08604741B2	Secure monitoring and control device for aircraft piloting actuator A monitoring and control device for an aircraft actuator includes a control module, delivering control signals for the actuator and position signals for the actuator determined according to control messages received from a piloting management system of the aircraft, and at least one first position sensor supplying information concerning the position of the actuator, and a monitoring module, delivering position signals for the actuator and receiving the control signals received from the piloting management system of the aircraft, and information relating to the position of the actuator supplied by at least one second position sensor. The control and monitoring modules are capable of assessing the consistency of the signals processed therein and of controlling accordingly a power supply and disabling module of the actuator.
US08604737B2	Systems and methods for protecting three-phase motors A three-phase electric motor of a compressor receives first, second, and third phases from a three-phase power supply. A method for protecting the motor includes, using a line break protector, disconnecting the motor from only the first phase in response to a temperature being greater than a predetermined temperature threshold. The method also includes measuring a first current flowing through the line break protector, and determining a current value based on the first current independent of current in the second and third phases. The method further includes disconnecting the motor from the first, second, and third phases in response to the current value being less than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
US08604735B2	Method and apparatus for control of an AC electric motor with field weakening A method and apparatus for control of an alternating current electric motor with field weakening, including setting a required operating point for a motor field voltage component as a function of a difference between actual and required motor field current components, and setting a required operating point for a motor torque voltage component as a function of a difference between actual and required motor torque current components. The method also includes setting a field weakening constituent for the required operating point for the motor field voltage component as a function of a difference between a required operating point and an available value of the motor torque voltage component and as a function of a difference between actual and required motor torque current components.
US08604733B2	Electric actuator including two current-controlled voltage inverters powering an electrical machine, and reconfigurable in the presence of a defect The invention relates to an actuator including an electrical machine. The electrical actuator (100) comprising: a polyphase machine (101); at least one connection member (143) for powering the actuator from at least one network (146) delivering alternating current; and first and second buses (106, 107) connected in parallel between each connection member (143) and the machine (101) for applying frequency control thereto. Each inverter (111, 131) comprises a plurality of arms each having two controlled switches, each phase of the machine (101) being connected both to the two switches of an arm of the first inverter (111) and also to the two switches of an arm of the second inverter (131). The actuator further comprises controlled connection and disconnection means interposed between each bus (106, 107) and each connection member. The invention is applicable to actuators used in aviation.
US08604726B2	Electronically commutated motor The invention relates to a method for operating an electronically commutated motor (10) that comprises a rotor (12), a stator (14) having a multi-strand winding arrangement (16) for whose energization a power stage (18) is provided, a first lead (30) and a second lead (32) for connecting the power stage (18) to a voltage source (24), and a first controller. A first signal (U—34; U—38) is sensed, which signal characterizes a current (I_IN; I_IN′; I_M; I_M′) flowing through at least one of the leads (30; 32); the first controller generates at least one clocked signal (PWM) and outputs it to the power stage (18) in order to influence the first value, permitted current. The invention also relates to a corresponding motor (10).
US08604716B2	LED drive circuit An LED drive circuit that sufficiently exhibits the performance of an LED element to obtain a favorable luminance at room temperature, includes a constant-current circuit including an LED element, a constant-current output unit, and a temperature sensing element having a negative resistance-temperature coefficient. The LED element is connected to the constant-current output unit in series. The constant-current output unit is connected to the LED element in parallel. Due to changes in the resistance value of the constant-current output unit caused by changes in temperature, the value of a current passing through the LED element is increased at room temperature and the value of a current passing through the temperature sensing element is reduced at high temperature.
US08604714B2	Lighting control An apparatus and method of controlling a light are disclosed. One light apparatus includes a light and a controller. The controller is operative to detect a light adjusting trigger event, select a random delay time, and adjust the light, wherein the light adjustment occurs the random delay time after detecting the light adjusting trigger event.
US08604706B2	Lamp tube switch circuit A lamp tube switch circuit supplies power to a selected LED/fluorescent lamp tube connected between first and second connectors and comprises a ballast and a starter. A power supply has positive and negative terminals. A switch module comprises first, second and third switches each having a first end connecting with the positive terminal, fourth and fifth switches each having a first end connecting with the negative terminal and a sixth switch having a first end connecting with the first connector. A button module has six buttons one of which is correspondent to the selected lamp tube. A control unit is connected to the button module, and functions to turn on and turn off the switches with a predetermined mode according the selected lamp tube.
US08604698B2	Illumination for a test device A lighting arrangement comprises a checking device and a method for the control thereof, with a sensor device containing at least one light source, where the at least one light source radiates light with high radiant power which represents a danger to the eyes of operators or service personnel. A housing, which contains the at least one light source and prevents an emergence of light of the light source, is monitored as to whether the housing is open, where the at least one light source with high radiant power is switched off if there is detected upon the monitoring an opening of the housing, which permits an emergence of light of the light source. It is provided here that a lighting arrangement is switched on at the same time or later which has a radiant power not representing any danger to the eyes of operators or service personnel.
US08604696B2	Plasma excitation module A plasma excitation module including a chamber, a plurality of coils and a multi-duct gas intake system is provided. The chamber has a dielectric layer. The coils are disposed at an outer side of the dielectric layer, and the coils are separated from each other by an interval and in parallel connection. The multi-duct gas intake system surrounds the dielectric layer and is communicated with the chamber.
US08604689B2	Hybrid composite emissive construct and light-emitting devices using the same Emissive constructs having three emissive layers, each having the same fluorescent host are described. At least one of the layers further includes a phosphorescent dopant. Light-emitting devices including these emissive constructs are also described.
US08604688B2	Organic light-emitting display device and method of fabricating the same An organic light-emitting display device and a method of fabricating the same. The organic light-emitting display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode including a first metal layer disposed on the substrate and formed of titanium (Ti), aluminum (Al), a titanium or aluminum alloy, a second metal layer disposed on the first metal layer, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the second metal layer; an organic layer disposed on the first electrode and including at least one organic emission layer; and a second electrode disposed on the organic layer. The method includes: forming a first electrode including a first metal layer formed of Ti, Al, or a titanium or aluminum alloy, a second metal layer, and a transparent conductive layer, on a substrate; forming an organic layer including at least one organic emission layer on the first electrode; and forming a second electrode on the organic layer.
US08604685B2	Electric discharge tube, method for forming reflective film of electric discharge tube, and light emitting device A light emitting device includes a glass bulb and a reflective film formed in a region having an angle of at least 230° on an outer peripheral surface of the glass bulb. The light emitting device can obtain the reflective film having a sufficient film thickness in a wide region on an outer peripheral surface of an electric discharge tube and has a uniform light intensity distribution.
US08604673B2	Power generating device, electronic apparatus, and transportation apparatus A power generating device which includes a transformation member that is transformed by receiving a transformation force in a transformation direction, a first piezoelectric device that is disposed on the transformation member, a second piezoelectric device that is disposed on the transformation member, an inductor comprising a resonance circuit including the first piezoelectric device, a switch that is disposed in the resonance circuit, and a control unit that controls the switch to be in a conductive state for a predetermined period by detecting a voltage generated in the second piezoelectric device as the second piezoelectric device is transformed in response to the transformation force being applied to the transformation member.
US08604671B2	Ultrasound transducer, ultrasound probe, and a method for manufacturing ultrasound transducers In the ultrasound transducer of the present embodiment, front surface electrodes and rear surface electrodes are provided for a plurality of ultrasound vibrators. A circuit board is disposed on the rear surface side of the ultrasound vibrators, and connected to the rear surface electrodes. An electronic circuit is connected to the surface opposite to that of the rear surface electrodes side on the circuit board, and has signal paths to each ultrasound vibrator through the circuit board. A backing material is disposed on the rear surface side of the ultrasound vibrators, and is provided so as to sandwich between it and the ultrasound vibrators the circuit board and the electronic circuit.
US08604670B2	Piezoelectric ALN RF MEM switches monolithically integrated with ALN contour-mode resonators Piezoelectric switches and methods of forming piezoelectric switches. The piezoelectric switch includes first and second cantilever beam actuators. The second cantilever beam actuator has a projection that overlaps the first cantilever beam actuator in a contact region. The projection is mechanically separated from the first cantilever beam actuator by a nanogap such that the first and second cantilever beam actuators are electrically isolated from each other. Each of the first and second cantilever beam actuators includes a piezoelectric actuation layer.
US08604668B2	Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric sensor, electronic device, and method for manufacturing piezoelectric element A piezoelectric element includes a support body having a displacing part capable of undergoing displacement, a lower electrode layer having a lower main electrode body and a lower electrode wire part with the lower main electrode body being formed on the support body and provided within the displacing part in a plan view and the lower electrode wire part being connected to the lower main electrode body and provided across an interior and an exterior of the displacing part, a first piezoelectric layer provided on the lower main electrode body, an upper electrode layer provided across the interior and exterior of the displacing part with at least a part of the upper electrode layer being layered on the first piezoelectric layer and insulated from the lower electrode layer, and a second piezoelectric layer provided on the support body to cover at least a part of the lower electrode wire part.
US08604665B2	Piezoelectric actuator for an ultrasonic motor A piezoelectric actuator, especially for an ultrasonic motor, includes an acoustic oscillation resonator, wherein the acoustic oscillation resonator is substantially formed as a rectangular piezoelectric plate with two main surfaces, two side surfaces and two end faces and has a multilayer structure in its interior which represents a layer of excitation electrodes taking turns with the layers of the common electrodes and the layers of polarized ceramic provided therebetween, with the polarization vector extending perpendicularly with respect to the surface of the electrodes, wherein all excitation electrodes are divided into two groups not connected to each other, which are disposed symmetrically with respect to the symmetry surface of the aforementioned plate, wherein this symmetry surface extends perpendicularly with respect to the main and side surfaces of the plate, namely through the center thereof.
US08604663B2	Motion controlled actuator A device can have an outer frame and an actuator. The actuator can have a movable frame and a fixed frame. At least one torsional flexure and at least one hinge flexure can cooperate to provide comparatively high lateral stiffness between the outer frame and the movable frame and can cooperate to provide comparatively low rotational stiffness between the outer frame and the movable frame.
US08604647B2	Linear actuating device for vehicle use A linear actuating device includes a track unit having an insulating sleeve made of non-metallic material and surrounding an axis, a plurality of coils mounted spacedly and sleevingly on the insulating sleeve along the axis, and a shell containing the insulating sleeve and the coils. The linear actuating device also includes a forcer unit having an elongate member extending through the insulating sleeve, having a segment configured for connecting to a vehicle shaft, and being movable along the axis relative to the insulating sleeve. The forcer unit also includes a plurality of magnets mounted spacedly relative to the axis and sleevingly on the elongate member.
US08604641B2	Renewable energy delivery systems and methods A system, method and/or apparatus for the delivery of energy at a site, at least a portion of the energy being delivered by at least one or more of a plurality of renewable energy technologies, the system and method including calculating the load required by the site for the period; calculating the amount of renewable energy for the period, including obtaining a capacity and a percentage of the period for the renewable energy to be delivered; comparing the total load to the renewable energy available; and, implementing one or both of additional and alternative renewable energy sources for delivery of energy to the site.
US08604640B2	Methods and apparatus for providing uninterruptible power Power supply systems and methods are provided. In one aspect, a power supply system includes a frame, a power input to receive input power from a power source, a power output to provide output power to a load, at least one battery module mounted in the frame and having a battery output that provides battery power, at least one power module mounted in the frame and coupled to the power input to receive the input power, coupled to the battery output to receive the battery power, and coupled to the power output to provide the output power from at least one of the battery power and the input power, a first controller coupled to the at least one power module, and a second controller.
US08604637B2	Method for high voltage bus control in fuel cell vehicles A system and method for controlling the voltage on a high voltage bus in a fuel cell system in response to a failed high voltage battery. The method includes determining if the high voltage battery has failed, and disconnecting the battery from the high voltage bus in response to a failure. The method measures the voltage of the fuel cell stack by a DC boost circuit and converts the measured voltage to a voltage set-point value that sets the voltage on the high voltage bus, where the voltage set-point value changes as the measured voltage changes. A supervisory controller sets the media flow to the fuel cell stack and determines a minimum stack voltage limit value based on the stack maximum current draw that is used to determine a high voltage bus lower limit value.
US08604636B2	Power generator A power generator according to an embodiment includes a rotor shaft, a slip ring, a detecting shaft, and a position sensor. The rotor shaft through which wires from a propeller are inserted rotates with the propeller. The slip ring is coupled to the rotor shaft at one end. The detecting shaft is provided at the other end of the slip ring and rotates along with the rotor shaft. The position sensor detects the rotational position of the detecting shaft, thereby detecting the rotational position of the propeller.
US08604635B2	Vertical axis wind turbine for energy storage An improved wind turbine device with energy storage comprises a turbine rotor with rotatable vertical shaft, at least one bearing for said vertical shaft, and multiple rotor vanes disposed symmetrically for rotation about the vertical shaft. Each of said multiple rotor vanes is substantially box-shaped with four solid sides and a front and rear side disposed in a radial vertical plane. The front side to each vane is substantially open faced and the rear side has an opening covered by a plurality of flaps. Each of said flaps is capable of moving with the directional passage of wind through the vane.
US08604632B2	Systems and methods of harvesting energy in a wellbore A downhole assembly including a turbine to be disposed within a wellbore and a rotating array. The rotating array includes magnetic material and is coupled to the turbine. The downhole assembly also includes a magnetostrictive material coupled to the rotating array to strain the magnetostrictive material to induce an electric current in a conductor coupled to the magnetostrictive material.
US08604630B2	Power distribution system having priority load control A power distribution system is disclosed. The power distribution system may have a generator, a first load interruption device associated with the generator, and a load powered by the generator. The power distribution system may also have a second load interruption device associated with the load, and a generator controller. The generator controller may be configured to control the generator, determine existence of a fault condition associated with electric service between the generator and the load, and selectively activate the second load interruption device based on the determination. The generator controller may be further configured to determine if activation of the second load interruption device isolated the fault condition, and selectively activate the first load interruption device when activation of the second load interruption device fails to isolate the fault condition.
US08604628B2	Rotation device There is provided a rotation device comprising a rotatable output axis arranged to have its axis line extending in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction of gravity, a plurality of shafts each having one end attached to the output axis, a plurality of first heavy weights each supported on the other end of the shafts, second heavy weights supported slidably by and along the respective shafts at a position nearer the output axis in relation to the first heavy weights, and an eccentric guide member for supporting slidably the second heavy weights to make the rotational orbit of the second heavy weights associated with the rotation of the output axis eccentric to the axial center of the output axis.
US08604626B2	Reduced susceptibility to electrostatic discharge during 3D semiconductor device bonding and assembly Electrostatic discharge susceptibility is reduced when assembling a stacked IC device by coupling a ground plane of a first semiconductor device and a ground plane of a second semiconductor device to place the ground plane at substantially a same electrical potential. Active circuitry on the first semiconductor device and active circuitry on the second semiconductor device are electrically coupled after the ground planes are coupled. Electrically coupling the ground planes of the first and the second semiconductor device creates a preferred electrostatic discharge path to ground, thus reducing potential damage to sensitive circuit elements.
US08604625B1	Semiconductor device having conductive pads to prevent solder reflow A semiconductor device has a substrate having a plurality of conductive pads formed thereon. A semiconductor die is provided having a plurality of conductive pillars formed thereon. A solder is used for electrically coupling the conductive pillars to the conductive pads. Solder mask is formed on portions of the conductive pads to prevent the solder from flowing in an unwanted direction on the conductive pads.
US08604623B2	Self orienting micro plates of thermally conducting material as component in thermal paste or adhesive The present invention relates generally to thermally-conductive pastes for use with integrated circuits, and particularly, but not by way of limitation, to self-orienting microplates of graphite.
US08604619B2	Through silicon via keep out zone formation along different crystal orientations Keep out zones (KOZ) are formed for a through silicon via (TSV). A device can be placed outside a first KOZ of a TSV determined by a first performance threshold so that a stress impact caused by the TSV to the device is less than a first performance threshold while the first KOZ contains only those points at which a stress impact caused by the TSV is larger than or equal to the first performance threshold. A second KOZ for the TSV can be similarly formed by a second performance threshold. A plurality of TSVs can be placed in a direction that the KOZ of the TSV has smallest radius to a center of the TSV, which may be in a crystal orientation [010] or [100]. A plurality of TSV stress plug can be formed at the boundary of the overall KOZ of the plurality of TSVs.
US08604612B2	Chip attach adhesive to facilitate embedded chip build up and related systems and methods Present embodiments are directed to an adhesive and method for assembling a chip package. The adhesive may be used to couple a chip to a substrate, and the adhesive may include an epoxy-based dielectric material, an epoxy resin, a photoacid generator, an antioxidant, and a cold catalyst corresponding to the photoacid generator.
US08604607B2	Semiconductor module and semiconductor device A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor chip, base frame, a circuit board, and a screw. The base frame has a main surface having a concave portion in which the semiconductor chip is mounted. The base frame is thermally and electrically connected with the semiconductor chip through a die bonding material. The circuit board has a grounding pattern and is arranged above the main surface of the base frame. The screw electrically connects the main surface of the base frame and the outer peripheral portion of the concave portion to the grounding pattern of the circuit board and mechanically connects the base frame to the circuit board.
US08604604B2	Conductive interconnects A method of making a conductive interconnect structure includes the steps of: electrodepositing a metal on a conductive surface (4) of a carrier (2) to form a first elongate conductive interconnect (12); and electrodepositing a dielectric material (14) on said conductive interconnect (12) while the conductive interconnect (12) is in contact with the conductive surface (4).
US08604603B2	Apparatus having thermal-enhanced and cost-effective 3D IC integration structure with through silicon via interposers An apparatus having a three-dimensional integrated circuit structure is described herein. The apparatus include an interposer for carrying a plurality of high and low-power chips. The high-power chips are attached and connected to one side of the interposer, while the low-power chips are attached and connected to the other side of the interposer. In generally, the high-power chips produce more heat than does the low-power chip during their operations. The interposer further include through silicon vias and redistribution layers for connecting the chips on both surfaces. In addition, the interposer assembly is attached and connected to a substrate layer, which is in turn attached and connected to a printed circuit board. In order to provide improve thermal management, the interposer surface carrying the high-power chips are oriented away from the circuit board. A heat spreader is attached to the back sides of the high-power chips for dissipating the heat.
US08604601B2	Semiconductor device having wiring layers with power-supply plane and ground plane A semiconductor device of the invention includes a first wiring layer including a signal wiring line formed therein, and a second wiring layer stacked on the first wiring layer and including a power-supply plane and/or ground plane formed therein, the power-supply plane or the ground plane is not formed at least within a part of the region of the second wiring layer facing the signal wiring line of the first wiring layer.
US08604600B2	Fully molded fan-out A method for manufacturing a device package may include constructing a spacer element coupled with a surface of a semiconductor die unit, where the spacer element is configured to create a gap between the semiconductor die unit and a surface of a carrier, and encapsulating the semiconductor die unit within a mold compound, where the encapsulating includes introducing the mold compound into the gap.
US08604599B2	Semiconductor housing and method for the production of a semiconductor housing A semiconductor housing is provided that includes a metal support and a semiconductor body, a bottom side thereof being connected to the metal support. The semiconductor body has metal surfaces that are connected to pins by bond wires and a plastic compound, which completely surrounds the bond wires and partially surrounds the semiconductor body. The plastic compound has an opening on the top side of the semiconductor body, and a barrier is formed on the top side of the semiconductor body. The barrier has a top area and a base area spaced from the edges of the semiconductor body and an internal clearance of the barrier determines a size of the opening. Whereby, a portion of the plastic compound has a height greater than the barrier, and a fixing layer is formed between the base area of the barrier and the top side of the semiconductor body.
US08604598B2	Microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices Microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices are disclosed herein. One such method includes forming a plurality of apertures in a substrate with the apertures arranged in an array, and, after forming the apertures, attaching the substrate to a lead frame having a plurality of pads with the apertures in the substrate aligned with corresponding pads in the lead frame. Another method includes providing a partially cured substrate, coupling the partially cured substrate to a plurality of leads, attaching a microelectronic die to the leads, and electrically connecting the microelectronic die to the leads.
US08604597B2	Multi-die packages incorporating flip chip dies and associated packaging methods The present technology discloses a multi-die package. The package comprises a lead frame structure and three dies including a first flip chip die, a second flip chip die and a third flip chip die stacked vertically. The first flip chip die is mounted on the bottom surface of the lead frame structure through the flip chip bumps; the second flip chip is mounted on the top surface of the first flip chip die through flip chip bumps; and the third flip chip die is mounted on the top surface of the lead frame structure through flip chip bumps.
US08604592B2	Semiconductor device The present invention provides a technique for improving the reliability of a semiconductor device where spreading of cracking that occurs at the time of dicing to a seal ring can be restricted even in a semiconductor device with a low-k film used as an interlayer insulating film. Dummy vias are formed in each layer on a dicing region side. The dummy vias are formed at the same intervals in a matrix as viewed in a top view. Even in the case where cracking occurs at the time of dicing, the cracking can be prevented from spreading to a seal ring by the dummy vias. As a result, resistance to moisture absorbed in a circuit formation region can be improved, and deterioration in reliability can be prevented.
US08604589B2	Semiconductor device of polycrystalline silicon resistors Provided is a method capable of forming a polycrystalline silicon resistor with preferable ratio accuracy so as to design a resistor circuit with high accuracy. In the method, a length of a low concentration impurity region constituting the polycrystalline silicon resistor in a longitudinal direction is varied in accordance with an occupying area of a metal portion overlapping the low concentration impurity region, thereby correcting a variation in resistance without varying an external shape and the occupying area of the resistor.
US08604588B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor device fabrication A semiconductor device including: a first resistance element formed of a first polysilicon layer that contains impurities; a second resistance element provided on a same surface as the first polysilicon layer, and formed of a second polysilicon layer that contains an equal amount of impurities to the first polysilicon layer; a first interlayer insulation film provided so as to cover the first resistance element and the second resistance element; and a first metal layer provided on the first interlayer insulation film so as to cover the second resistance element with the first interlayer insulation film disposed therebetween.
US08604585B2	Fuse of semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A fuse of a semiconductor device includes a plurality of first conductive patterns, and a plurality of second conductive patterns filling spaces between the first conductive patterns and formed of a material which has a greater specific resistance than the first conductive patterns.
US08604584B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Some embodiments of the present invention relate to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of preventing the deterioration of electrical characteristics. A p-type collector region is provided on a surface layer of a backside surface of an n-type drift region. A p+-type isolation layer for obtaining reverse blocking capability is provided at the end of an element. In addition, a concave portion is provided so as to extend from the backside surface of the n-type drift region to the p+-type isolation layer. A p-type region is provided and is electrically connected to the p+-type isolation layer. The p+-type isolation layer is provided so as to include a cleavage plane having the boundary between the bottom and the side wall of the concave portion as one side.
US08604582B2	Schottky diode An embodiment is a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure comprises a p-type region in a substrate; a first n-type well in the p-type region; a first p-type well in the p-type region; and a second p-type well in the first p-type well. A concentration of a p-type impurity in the first p-type well is less than a concentration of a p-type impurity in the second p-type well. Additional embodiments further comprise further n-type and p-type wells in the substrate. A method for forming a semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US08604577B2	Hybrid silicon vertical cavity laser with in-plane coupling A silicon vertical cavity laser with in-plane coupling comprises wafer bonding an active III-V semiconductor material above a grating coupler made on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. This bonding does not require any alignment, since all silicon processing can be done before bonding, and all III-V processing can be done after bonding. The grating coupler acts to couple the vertically emitted light from the hybrid vertical cavity into a silicon waveguide formed on an SOI wafer.
US08604571B2	Thermoelectric conversion device The thermoelectric conversion efficiency of a thermoelectric conversion device is increased by increasing the figure of merit of a spin-Seebeck effect element. An inverse spin-Hall effect material is provided to at least one end of a thermal spin-wave spin current generating material made of a magnetic dielectric material so that a thermal spin-wave spin current is converted to generate a voltage in the above described inverse spin-Hall effect material when there is a temperature gradient in the above described thermal spin-wave spin current generating material and a magnetic field is applied using a magnetic field applying means.
US08604564B2	Semiconductor structures and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor structure has embedded stressor material for enhanced transistor performance. The method of forming the semiconductor structure includes etching an undercut in a substrate material under one or more gate structures while protecting an implant with a liner material. The method further includes removing the liner material on a side of the implant and depositing stressor material in the undercut under the one or more gate structures.
US08604560B2	Power MOS transistor device A transistor power switch device comprising a semiconductor body presenting opposite first and second faces, an array of vertical field-effect transistor elements for carrying current between the first and second faces is provided. The array of transistor elements comprises at the first face an array of source regions of a first semiconductor type, at least one body region of a second semiconductor type opposite to the first type interposed between the source regions and the second face, at least one control electrode for switchably controlling flow of the current through the second transistor region, and a conductive layer contacting the source regions and insulated from the control electrode by at least one insulating layer.
US08604559B2	Method of placing a semiconducting nanostructure and semiconductor device including the semiconducting nanostructure A semiconductor device includes a bonding surface, a semiconducting nanostructure including one of a nanowire and a nanocrystal, which is formed on the bonding surface, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are formed on the nanostructure such that the nanostructure is electrically connected to the source and drain electrodes.
US08604558B2	Semiconductor device having improved reliability A semiconductor includes a plurality of active regions that are separated from each other on a substrate by a device isolation layer and extend in a first direction, the active regions having two opposite ends and a center region; wordlines that are buried in and cross the active regions and extend in a second direction, which is different from the first direction, wherein a wordline that crosses an active region crosses between one of the two opposite ends and the center region of the active region; first contact plugs on the two opposite ends of the active regions, each contact plug overlapping a border between the active region and the device isolation layer; and second contact plugs formed on the first contact plugs.
US08604551B2	Semiconductor device including trenches having particular structures A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first region and a second region. Each of the first region and second region includes a trench, an epitaxial layer including a source/drain having a first part and a second part, the first part extending from a top surface of the substrate to a top surface of the source/drain and the second part extending from the top surface of the substrate to a bottom surface of the source/drain in the trench. The cross-sectional shape of the first part of the source/drain of the first region is the same as the cross-sectional shape of the first part of the source/drain of the second region. The cross-sectional shape of the second past of the source/drain of the find region is different from the cross-sectional shape of the second part of the source/drain of the second region.
US08604548B2	Semiconductor device having ESD device A semiconductor device and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a fin, a gate, source and drain regions of a second conductivity type, and a first doped region of the second conductivity type. A plurality of isolation structures is formed on the substrate. The fin is disposed on the substrate between two adjacent isolation structures. The gate is disposed on the isolation structures and covers a portion of the fin, wherein the portion of the fin covered by the gate is of the first conductivity type. The source and drain regions is configured in the fin at respective sides of the gate. The first doped region is configured in the fin underlying the source and drain regions and adjoining the substrate. The first doped region has an impurity concentration lower than that of the source and drain regions.
US08604540B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A wide band gap semiconductor device having a JFET, a MESFET, or a MOSFET mainly includes a semiconductor substrate, a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a first conductivity type channel layer. The semiconductor layer is formed on a main surface of the substrate. A recess is formed in the semiconductor layer in such a manner that the semiconductor layer is divided into a source region and a drain region. The recess has a bottom defined by the main surface of the substrate and a side wall defined by the semiconductor layer. The channel layer has an impurity concentration lower than an impurity concentration of the semiconductor layer. The channel layer is formed on the bottom and the side wall of the recess by epitaxial growth.
US08604537B2	Nonvolatile memory device and method of fabricating the same There is provided a nonvolatile memory device having a tunnel dielectric layer formed over a substrate, the charge capturing layer formed over the tunnel dielectric layer and including a combination of at least one charge storage layer and at least one charge trap layer, a charge blocking layer formed over the charge capturing layer, and a gate electrode formed over the charge blocking layer.
US08604536B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a memory cell transistor including a first lower insulating film provided on a semiconductor substrate, a first intermediate insulating film provided on the first lower insulating film, a first upper insulating film provided on the first intermediate insulating film, and a first gate electrode provided on the first upper insulating film, and a select transistor including a second lower insulating film provided on the semiconductor substrate, a second intermediate insulating film provided on the second lower insulating film, a second upper insulating film provided on the second intermediate insulating film, and a second gate electrode provided on the second upper insulating film, wherein trap density of the second intermediate insulating film is lower than that of the first intermediate insulating film.
US08604526B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In an LCD driver, in a high voltage resistant MISFET, end portions of a gate electrode run onto electric field relaxing insulation regions. Wires to become source wires or drain wires are formed on an interlayer insulation film of the first layer over the high voltage resistant MISFET. At this moment, when a distance from an interface between a semiconductor substrate and a gate insulation film to an upper portion of the gate electrode is defined as “a”, and a distance from the upper portion of the gate electrode to an upper portion of the interlayer insulation film on which the wires are formed is defined as “b”, a relation of a>b is established. In such a high voltage resistant MISFET structured in this manner, the wires are arranged so as not to be overlapped planarly with the gate electrode of the high voltage resistant MISFET.
US08604524B2	Transistor design and layout for performance improvement with strain The present invention facilitates semiconductor device fabrication and performance by providing a semiconductor device that can improve channel mobility for both N type and P type transistor devices. The semiconductor device of the present invention is fabricated on a semiconductor substrate 802 that has a first and second crystallographic orientation axes (e.g., <110>, <100>) 804 and 806. Source to drain channel regions for P type devices are formed 904 and aligned along the first crystallographic orientation axis. Source to drain channel regions for N type devices are formed 906 rotated from the channel regions of the P type devices by an offset angle so that the source to drain channel regions for the N type devices are aligned with the second crystallographic orientation axis. Subsequently, a uniaxial or biaxial tensile stress 908 is applied to the source to drain channel regions of the N type devices and a uniaxial or biaxial compressive stress 910 is applied to the source to drain channel regions of the P type devices.
US08604519B2	Self-aligned III-V field effect transistor (FET) and integrated circuit (IC) chip Field Effect Transistors (FETs), Integrated Circuit (IC) chips including the FETs, and a method of forming the FETs and IC. FET locations are defined on a layered semiconductor wafer. The layered semiconductor wafer preferably includes a III-V semiconductor surface layer, e.g., Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), and a buried layer, e.g., Aluminum Arsenide (AlAs). Portions of the buried layer are converted to dielectric material, e.g., Aluminum Oxide (AlO), at least beneath FET source/drain regions. The converted dielectric material may extend completely under the FET. Source/drain contacts are formed to FETs above the dielectric material in the buried layer.
US08604518B2	Split-channel transistor and methods for forming the same A Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) includes a fin, which includes a channel splitter having a first bandgap, and a channel including a first portion and a second portion on opposite sidewalls of the channel splitter. The channel has a second bandgap smaller than the first bandgap. A gate electrode includes a first portion and a second portion on opposite sides of the fin. A gate insulator includes a first portion between the first portion of the gate electrode and the first portion of the channel, and a second portion between the second portion of the gate electrode and the second portion of the channel.
US08604511B2	Photon source A photon source comprising a photon source body, said photon source body comprising at least one quantum dot; carrier injection means for injecting carriers into said at least one quantum dot and change of state means for changing the state of the carriers within the quantum dot after a predetermined time duration, the carrier injection means injecting carriers which are configured to allow emission of radiation by radiative recombination.
US08604503B2	Light emitting diode and manufacturing method thereof A light emitting diode includes a substrate, a transitional layer on the substrate and an epitaxial layer on the transitional layer. The transitional layer includes a planar area with a flat top surface and a patterned area with a rugged top surface. An AlN material includes a first part consisting of a plurality of spheres and a second part consisting of a plurality of slugs. The spheres are on a top surface of the transitional layer, both at the planar area and the patterned area. The slugs are in grooves defined in the patterned area. Air gaps are formed between the slugs and a bottom surface of the epitaxial layer. The spheres and slugs of the AlN material help reflection of light generated by the epitaxial layer to a light output surface of the LED.
US08604502B2	Light emitting diodes including barrier sublayers Semiconductor light emitting devices, such as light emitting diodes, include a substrate, an epitaxial region on the substrate that includes a light emitting region such as a light emitting diode region, and a multilayer conductive stack including a reflector layer, on the epitaxial region. A barrier layer is provided on the reflector layer and extending on a sidewall of the reflector layer. The multilayer conductive stack can also include an ohmic layer between the reflector and the epitaxial region. The barrier layer further extends on a sidewall of the ohmic layer. The barrier layer can also extend onto the epitaxial region outside the multilayer conductive stack. The barrier layer can be fabricated as a series of alternating first and second sublayers.
US08604500B2	Light emitting device and light emitting device package Provided are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a transparent substrate, a light emitting structure, and a first reflection layer. The light emitting structure includes a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer that are disposed on a top surface of the substrate. The first reflection layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate. The bottom surface of the substrate has a surface roughness of about 1 nm to about 15 nm in root mean square (RMS) value.
US08604496B2	Optical semiconductor device According to one embodiment, an optical semiconductor device includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, and a functional part. The functional part is provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layers. The functional part includes a plurality of active layers stacked in a direction from the n-type semiconductor layer toward the p-type semiconductor layer. At least two of the active layers include a multilayer stacked body, an n-side barrier layer, a well layer and a p-side barrier layer. The multilayer stacked body includes a plurality of thick film layers and a plurality of thin film layers alternately stacked in the direction. The n-side barrier layer is provided between the multilayer stacked body and the p-type layer. The well layer is provided between the n-side barrier layer and the p-type layer. The p-side barrier layer is provided between the well layer and the p-type layer.
US08604494B2	Organic light-emitting panel for controlling an organic light emitting layer thickness, and organic display device A non-light-emitting cell 100c is provided between pixels 100a and 100b. In formation of the pixel 100a, ink for forming an organic light-emitting layer is dripped into sub-pixels 100a1, 100a2, 100a3 in this order. This also applies to the pixel 100b. However, such ink is not dripped into the non-light-emitting cell 100c since the organic light-emitting layer is not formed in the non-light-emitting cell 100c. Regarding banks 105c and 105d defining the sub-pixel 100a3 of the pixel 100a, an inclination angle θd3 of a wall 105d3 of the bank 105d is larger than an inclination angle θc3 of a wall 105c3 of the bank 105c. Meanwhile, regarding banks 105e and 105f defining the sub-pixel 100b1, an inclination angle θe1 of a wall 105e1 of the bank 105e is equivalent to an inclination angle θf1 of a wall 105f1 of the bank 105f.
US08604490B2	Organic light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same An organic EL device includes a first substrate and a plurality of organic EL elements above a first portion of the first substrate. A first inorganic layer covers the plurality of organic EL elements. An active layer is above a second portion of the first substrate that is different than the first portion. The active layer comprises a material that is at least one of hygroscopic and oxidizable. A second inorganic layer covers the active layer. A second substrate is opposite the first substrate, with the plurality of organic EL elements being between the first and second substrates. A seal extends between the first and second substrates to define a sealed space between the first and second substrates. The second inorganic layer includes through-holes that expose the active layer to the sealed space that is defined by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the seal.
US08604487B2	Nitride semiconductor substrate and method for manufacturing the same A nitride semiconductor substrate and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The nitride semiconductor substrate includes a base material, a patterned nitride semiconductor, a protection layer, and a nitride semiconductor layer. The patterned nitride semiconductor layer is located on the base material and includes a plurality of nanorod structures and a plurality of block patterns, and an upper surface of the nanorod structures is substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the block patterns. The protection layer covers a side wall of the nanorod structure sand a side wall of the block patterns. The nitride semiconductor layer is located on the patterned nitride semiconductor layer, and a plurality of nanopores are located between the nitride semiconductor layer and the patterned nitride semiconductor layer.
US08604485B2	Intermediate structure, method and substrate for fabricating flexible display device An intermediate structure of a flexible display device includes a substrate, an etching layer, a flexible substrate, and a display module. A trench structure is formed in a surface of the substrate. The etching layer is formed on the surface and covers the substrate. The flexible substrate is disposed on the etching layer. The flexible substrate and the substrate are spaced apart from each other by the etching layer. The display module is disposed on the flexible substrate. The flexible substrate can be peeled from the substrate without applying a mechanical force and thus the yield is improved, and the process time and the fabricating cost are also reduced. In addition, the present invention also provides a substrate for fabricating a flexible display device and a method for fabricating a flexible display device.
US08604484B2	Display devices and methods of manufacturing the display devices A display device includes a switching device, a first pixel electrode, a dielectric layer and a second pixel electrode. The switching device is provided on the lower substrate. The organic layer pattern is disposed on the lower substrate. The organic layer pattern includes a plurality of stepped portions in a pixel region. The first pixel electrode is disposed on the organic layer pattern in the pixel region. The dielectric layer is disposed on the first pixel electrode. A plurality of the second pixel electrodes is disposed on the dielectric layer. The second pixel electrodes are partially superimposed over the first pixel electrode. Non-uniform vertical fields may be minimized by the morphology of the first pixel electrode, so that the display device may have excellent brightness and transmittance.
US08604483B2	Thin film semiconductor device, display device using such thin film semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A thin film semiconductor device formed as integrated circuits on an insulating substrate with bottom gate type thin film transistors stacked with gate electrodes, a gate insulating film and a semiconductor thin film in the order from below upward. The gate electrodes comprise metallic materials with thickness less than 100 nm. The gate insulating film has a thickness thicker than the gate electrodes. The semiconductor thin film comprises polycrystalline silicon crystallized by a laser beam. By reducing thickness of metallic gate electrodes, thermal capacity becomes small and difference in thermal condition on the metallic gate electrodes and on the insulating substrate made of glass or the like becomes small. This invention relates to the task of uniforming and optimizing recrystallization by a laser anneal treatment provided for the semiconductor thin film which works as an active layer of the bottom gate type thin film transistors.
US08604479B2	Display substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and display apparatus having the same A display substrate includes a substrate, a gate line formed on the substrate, a data line formed on the substrate and crossing the gate line, a first pixel electrode formed on the substrate on which the gate and the data line are formed, an insulation layer formed on the substrate and the first pixel electrode, and a second pixel electrode formed on the insulation layer. The second pixel electrode includes a first sub-electrode that overlaps the first pixel electrode and the data line, and a second sub-electrode that is electrically connected to the data line through a switching element.
US08604478B2	Thin-film transistor substrate, method of manufacturing the same and display apparatus having the same In a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate, a gate insulating layer is disposed on a gate electrode electrically connected to a gate line. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the gate insulating layer. A source electrode is electrically connected to a data line that intersects the gate line. A drain electrode faces the source electrode and defines a channel area of a semiconductor layer. An organic layer is disposed on the data line and has a first opening exposing the channel area. An inorganic insulating layer is disposed on the organic layer. A pixel electrode is disposed on the inorganic insulating layer and electrically connected to the drain electrode. The inorganic insulating layer covers the first opening, and thickness of the inorganic insulating layer is substantially uniform.
US08604477B2	Pixel structure and manufacturing method thereof A pixel structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the pixel structure, an electrode of a storage capacitor is formed when an active layer is formed, and the electrode and the active layer are made of the same material. The material of the electrode and the active layer can be an oxide semiconductor with high transmittance. Therefore, a stable display frame of the pixel structure can be provided by the storage capacitor, an aperture ratio of the pixel structure can be improved, and power consumption can be further reduced.
US08604476B2	Semiconductor device including memory cell A data retention period in a semiconductor device or a semiconductor memory device is lengthened. The semiconductor device or the semiconductor memory includes a memory circuit including a first transistor including a first semiconductor layer and a first gate and a second transistor including a second semiconductor layer, a second gate, and a third gate The first semiconductor layer is formed at the same time as a layer including the second gate.
US08604475B2	IC dies with serarate connections to expected and mask data Test circuits located on semiconductor die enable a tester to test a plurality of die/ICs in parallel by inputting both stimulus and response patterns to the plurality of die/ICs. The response patterns from the tester are input to the test circuits along with the output response of the die/IC to be compared. Also disclosed is the use of a response signal encoding scheme whereby the tester transmits response test commands to the test circuits, using a single signal per test circuit, to perform: (1) a compare die/IC output against an expected logic high, (2) a compare die/IC output against an expected logic low, and (3) a mask compare operation. The use of the signal encoding scheme allows functional testing of die and ICs since all response test commands (i.e. 1-3 above) required at each die/IC output can be transmitted to each die/IC output using only a single tester signal connection per die/IC output. In addition to functional testing, scan testing of die and ICs is also possible.
US08604474B2	Semiconductor device integrated with monitoring device in center thereof One type of a semiconductor device integrating with a monitoring device is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of gate fingers, two of which arranged in a center of the device has a space wider than a space between any other fingers to suppress the heat concentration on the center of the device. The monitoring region is arranged in this wider space to monitor the temperature dependence of the device.
US08604470B2	Oxide thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same An oxide thin film transistor (TFT) and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The method for fabricating an oxide thin film transistor (TFT) comprises: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate with the gate electrode formed thereon; forming an active layer made of oxide semiconductor on the gate insulating layer; forming a contact layer on the substrate with the active layer formed thereon and forming source and drain electrodes, which are electrically connected with source and drain regions of the active layer through the contact layer, on the contact layer; forming a protective layer on the substrate with the source and drain electrodes formed thereon; forming a contact hole by removing the protective layer to expose the drain electrode; and forming a pixel electrode electrically connected with the drain electrode through the contact hole, wherein the contact layer is made of oxide including a different metal or conductivity with that of the source and drain electrodes, to adjust a threshold voltage according to the difference in a work function.
US08604469B2	Thin film transistor array panel A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, a gate line formed on the substrate and including a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer formed on the gate line, a semiconductor formed on the gate insulating layer and including a channel of a thin film transistor, a data line formed on the semiconductor and including a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor and opposite to the source electrode with respect to the channel of the thin film transistor, wherein the channel of the thin film transistor covers both side surfaces of the gate electrode.
US08604466B2	Organic electroluminescent element Provided is an organic electroluminescence device that has solved the conventional problems, and is thermally and chemically stable, has high efficiency with which an electron is injected from a cathode layer or an intermediate conductive layer to a light emitting layer, provides high luminous efficiency at a low voltage, and can maintain a long lifetime. Specifically, the organic electroluminescence device is an organic electroluminescence device, including: two electrode layers and optionally one or more intermediate conductive layers; a light emitting layer between the electrode layers, or between one of the electrode layers and the intermediate conductive layer and/or between the intermediate conductive layers; and an electron injection region formed of one or two or more layers between the light emitting layer and the cathode layer and/or between the light emitting layer and the intermediate conductive layer, in which at least one layer in the electron injection region contains at least one kind selected from the group consisting of an oxide of a transition metal belonging to any one of Groups 5 to 8 of the periodic table, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative, and a chalcogenide, and further contains a compound represented by the formula: MxAOy (in the formula, M represents Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs, A represents Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Si, or Ge, x represents 1 or 2, and y represents an integer of 1 to 4).
US08604465B2	Organic light-emitting diode display device and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, a touch unit facing the substrate, and a sealing portion surrounding the display unit. The sealing portion couples the substrate to the touch unit and includes glass frit. The touch unit includes an encapsulation substrate, a first conductive layer on the encapsulation substrate, an insulating layer on a portion of the first conductive layer and the encapsulation substrate, and a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer and the insulating layer. The insulating layer of the touch unit includes an organosilicon compound and has a thermal decomposition temperature of about 360° C. or more.
US08604457B2	Phase-change memory element A phase-change memory element with an electrically isolated conductor is provided. The phase-change memory element includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; a phase-change material layer electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; and at least two electrically isolated conductors, disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, directly contacting the phase-change material layers.
US08604455B2	Sensor arrangement The invention relates to an optical sensor array detecting a first liquid medium in a second liquid medium by means of the reflection of an emitted light beam of a given wavelength, comprising a light source and an associated receiver, further two circular glass rod lenses running parallel to each other while encapsulated in a housing. The index of refraction of the glass rod lenses is different from those of the liquid media. A reflecting surface is situated opposite the glass rod lenses and is connected to the housing. Said array also comprises a control fitted with a beam splitter, a second receiver and a third receiver, the latter two receivers being configured being mutually opposite.
US08604448B2	UVLED apparatus for curing glass-fiber coatings A UVLED apparatus and method provide efficient curing of an optical-fiber coating onto a drawn glass fiber. The apparatus and method employ one or more UVLEDs that emit electromagnetic radiation into a curing space. An incompletely cured optical-fiber coating, which is formed upon a glass fiber, absorbs emitted and reflected electromagnetic radiation to effect improved curing.
US08604444B2	Particle beam irradiation apparatus and particle beam therapy system The particle beam irradiation apparatus irradiates a charged particle beam accelerated by a accelerator onto an irradiation subject; the particle beam irradiation apparatus includes a scanning electromagnet that scans the charged particle beam, and a scanning electromagnet moving apparatus that moves the scanning electromagnet in such a way as to change the distance between the scanning electromagnet and the irradiation subject in the beam axis direction of the charged particle beam.
US08604439B2	Nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus According to one embodiment, a nuclear medicine diagnosis includes a light signal generating unit, photodetection unit, measurement unit, calculation unit, and storage unit. The light signal generating unit repeatedly generates light signals. The photodetection unit repeatedly generates first output signals corresponding to intensities of the light signals, repeatedly generates second output signals corresponding to intensities of gamma rays emitted from a subject. The measurement unit repeatedly measures light signal detection times and repeatedly measures gamma ray detection times. The calculation unit calculates a difference between a target gamma ray detection time and a target light signal detection time of the light signal detection times for each of the gamma ray detection times. The target light signal detection time is measured before the target gamma ray detection time. The storage unit stores the calculated difference in association with a target second output signal of the second output signals.
US08604438B2	Method for identifying and sorting sensing signals with respect to crystal location of scintillation detector The present invention provides a method for identifying and sorting sensing signals with respect to crystal locations of a scintillation detector, comprising steps of: (a) providing a crystal map detected by a crystal array, the crystal map having a plurality of peak points, each being represented by a coordinate location; (b) finding a basis point with respect to a specific area enclosing an amount of the peak points within the crystal map; (c) determining the peak point within the specific area having the shortest distance to the basis point, the peak point corresponding to a crystal element of the crystal array; (d) changing the location of the specific area; and (e) repeating steps (b) to (d) for a plurality of times to find all the crystal elements with respect to the peak points respectively.
US08604437B2	Method and arrangement for measuring and testing a vehicle frame A method for measuring and testing a vehicle frame (15), in particular a commercial vehicle or bus frame, wherein a radiation source and a radiation receiver are arranged in front of the frame (15) and radiation is beamed from the radiation source toward the frame (15) and onto a reflector support (1) having at least one reflector (2, 3, 4, 5). The reflector (2, 3, 4, 5) is assigned to a part of the frame (15), and the radiation is reflected by the reflector (2, 3, 4, 5) to the radiation receiver and a measuring device determines location coordinates of the reflector (2, 3, 4, 5) at different measuring points of the frame part. A substantially non-deformed section (A) of the frame part is ascertained from the resulting measuring points (P) and the variation of the measuring points (P) from the non-deformed section (A) is determined.
US08604433B2	Terahertz frequency domain spectrometer with frequency shifting of source laser beam An apparatus for analyzing, identifying or imaging an target including first and second laser beams coupled to a pair of photoconductive switches to produce CW signals in one or more bands in a range of frequencies greater than 100 GHz focused on and transmitted through or reflected from the target; and a detector for acquiring spectral information from signals received from the target and using a multi-spectral heterodyne process to generate an electrical signal representative of some characteristics of the target. The lasers are tuned to different frequencies and a frequency shifter in the path of one laser beam allows the terahertz beam to be finely adjusted in one or more selected frequency bands.
US08604432B2	Defect inspection apparatus and defect inspection method In accordance with an embodiment, a defect inspection apparatus includes a charged beam irradiation unit, a detection unit, an energy filter, and an inspection unit. The charged beam irradiation unit generates a charged beam and irradiates a sample including a pattern as an inspection target thereon with the generated charged beam. The detection unit detects secondary charged particles or reflected charged particles generated from the sample by irradiation of the charged beam and outputs a signal. The energy filter is arranged between the detection unit and the sample to selectively allow the secondary charged particles or the reflected charged particles with energy associated with an applied voltage to pass therethrough. The inspection unit applies voltages different from each other to the energy filter and outputs information concerning a defect of the pattern from an intensity difference between signals obtained under application voltage different from each other.
US08604431B2	Pattern-height measuring apparatus and pattern-height measuring method An electron beam is irradiated on an observation region of a sample surface. An image (SEM image) is acquired based on a detection signal of secondary electrons from a detector disposed obliquely above the observation region. A length of a shadow of a pattern appearing in the image is detected. Then, a height H of the pattern is calculated by a formula H=L×tan θ on the basis of the detected length L of the shadow and an apparent angle θ of the detector to the sample surface obtained in advance. An intensity distribution of the secondary electrons on a line orthogonal to an edge of the pattern is extracted, and the length L of the shadow of the pattern is obtained as a distance between two points where a recess portion of the intensity distribution intersects a predetermined threshold.
US08604426B2	Radical ions for electron transfer dissociation Radical anions for use in the fragmentation of positively charged biopolymer ions by means of electron transfer are produced from substances previously unknown for use as ETD production substances. The inventive substances produce radical anions that lead to electron transfer dissociations with a high yield of fragment ions. The substances have high volatility that allows them to be kept in unheated containers outside the vacuum system and transported into the vacuum system to an in vacuum electron attachment ion source via unheated lines and low molecular weights that allow the measurement of even very light fragment ions. In one embodiment, a suitable substance is 1-3-5-7-cyclooctatetraene.
US08604425B2	Sample pretreatment apparatus and mass spectrometer provided with the same The present invention relates to a pretreatment apparatus that performs concentration and separation of a sample, and in particular, in order to provide a sample pretreatment apparatus using a solid-phase extraction column, and a mass spectrometer using the same, which is particularly suitable for clinical analysis in which qualitative/quantitative analysis of a biological sample such as blood is performed, according to each operational step for a solid-phase extraction treatment, for example, a collection device serving as flow passages or containers for collection of waste liquid or extracted matter is installed on a bottom face of the solid-phase extraction column, and the extracted matter is separately collected without being mixed with waste liquid by switching the positions of the collection device.
US08604419B2	Dual ion trapping for ion/ion reactions in a linear RF multipole trap with an additional DC gradient A novel method and mass spectrometer apparatus is introduced to enable the simultaneous isolation of cations and anions (i.e., precursor and reagent ions) in a linear multipole ion trap via the application of an additional axial DC gradient in combination with coupled RF potential(s). Thus, the combination of the RF and DC voltages in such an arrangement forms a pseudopotential designed to provide for minima for the trapped positively and negatively charged particles that result in the overlap of the ion clouds so as to provide for beneficial ion/ion reactions.
US08604418B2	In-vacuum beam defining aperture cleaning for particle reduction A method is provided for reducing particle contamination in an ion implantation system, wherein an ion implantation system having source, mass analyzer, resolving aperture, decel suppression plate, and end station is provided. An ion beam is formed via the ion source, and a workpiece is transferred between an external environment and the end station for ion implantation thereto. A decel suppression voltage applied to the decel suppression plate is modulated concurrent with the workpiece transfer, therein causing the ion beam to expand and contract, wherein one or more surfaces of the resolving aperture and/or one or more components downstream of the resolving aperture are impacted by the ion beam, therein mitigating subsequent contamination of workpieces from previously deposited material residing on the one or more surfaces. The contamination can be mitigated by removing the previously deposited material or strongly adhering the previously deposited material to the one or more surfaces.
US08604414B2	Diagnosis of radiometric detectors Described is diagnosing radiometric detectors. The pulse amplitudes of the pulses acquired by the radiometric detector can be measured and stored temporarily. The pulse amplitude distribution determined in this manner is compared to a reference amplitude distribution, whereby error diagnosis and, if applicable, recalibration of the measuring device are made possible. In this manner temperature drifts and damage to the scintillator, EMC radiation and an increased rate of dark pulses of the photosensitive component may be detected and corrected.
US08604410B2	Phase plate having fine periodic structure smaller than visible light wavelength and projection image display apparatus A phase plate includes a transparent substrate and a periodic structure formed on a substrate surface of the transparent substrate. The phase plate is configured to provide light having a predetermined design wavelength that vertically enters the substrate surface with a phase difference from ¼ wavelength to ¾ wavelength. The periodic structure is configured to reduce a volume occupation rate with increasing distance from the transparent substrate, and the periodic structure has a height of at least 200 nm. An angle between a first direction in which a center of a width of a unit periodic structure at a position closest to the substrate surface is connected with a center of a width of a unit periodic structure at a position farthest from the substrate surface and a normal direction of the substrate surface is from 5 degrees to 30 degrees.
US08604409B2	Photosensitive detector with composite dielectric gate MOSFET structure and its signal readout method The present invention relates to a photosensitive detector with a composite dielectric gate MOSFET structure and its signal readout method. The MOSFET structure detector is formed on a p-type semiconductor substrate. N-type semiconductor regions locate on the two sides of the top part of the p-type semiconductor substrate to form a source and a drain. An underlying dielectric layer, a photo-electron storage layer, a top dielectric layer, and a control gate are stacked on the substrate in sequence. The top insulating dielectric layer can prevent the photoelectrons stored in the photo-electron storage layer from leaking into the control gate. The source and the drain are floating when photoelectrons are collected and injected into the photoelectron storing layer to be held therein. There is a transparent or semi-transparent window for detecting incident light forming on the substrate or gate surface. This invented detector has excellent scalability, basic compatibility with the flash memory fabricating technology, low leakage current, higher imaging speed than CCD, non-sensitivity to processing defects, larger dynamic range than other structures and higher accuracy of signal readout.
US08604406B2	Low power image sensor adjusting reference voltage automatically and optical pointing device comprising the same The low power image sensor includes: an image sensing unit which senses light from an object, converts the light into an electric signal, and outputs the electric signal; a comparing unit which receives an electric signal from the image sensor, compares a voltage level of the electric signal with a reference voltage, and outputs an image signal as a 1 bit signal per pixel; and an effective image adjuster which compares bit value distribution of an image signal output from the comparing unit with a preset effective range, and adjusts the reference voltage to output an effective image. Further, an optical pointing device includes: an image sensor which senses light from an object and outputs an image signal; and a motion computing unit which receives the image signal and compares before and after images to calculate a motion vector.
US08604405B2	Backside illuminated image sensor device with refractive index dependent layer thicknesses and method of forming the same Provided is an image sensor device. The image sensor device includes a device substrate having a front side and a back side. The device substrate has a radiation-sensing region that can sense radiation that has a corresponding wavelength. The image sensor also includes a first layer formed over the front side of the device substrate. The first layer has a first refractive index and a first thickness that is a function of the first refractive index. The image sensor also has a second layer formed over the first layer. The second layer is different from the first layer and has a second refractive index and a second thickness that is a function of the second refractive index.
US08604403B2	Auto-focusing apparatus and auto-focusing method using the same An auto-focusing apparatus and method, the apparatus including an emission unit, the emission unit being configured to irradiate light on the organic light-emitting display apparatus; an optical system between the organic light-emitting display apparatus and the emission unit, the optical system being configured to adjust a position of the optical system on an optical axis and focus the irradiated light on the pixel unit; a light-receiving unit, the light-receiving unit being configured to receive light reflected by the organic light-emitting display apparatus and measure an intensity and a wavelength of the reflected light; and a controller, the controller being configured to receive the intensity of light measured by the light-receiving unit, control the position of the optical system, determine that the auto-focusing apparatus is focusing light onto the pixel unit when the intensity of light received by the light-receiving unit is a maximum value, and determine the position of the optical system as an optimal focal length.
US08604399B2	Microwavable bags for use with liquid oil and related methods Microwavable bags can include one or more seals formed by a cold seal adhesive. The one or more seals can prevent egress of liquid oil from the bag.
US08604397B2	Cooking device There is provided a cooking device that prevents operation based on a control command assigned to a touch key from being executed when a user is not intending to operate the touch key. The cooking device includes an electrode unit which includes a key electrode (3a) provided on the lower surface of the top plate and a contact electrode (3b) electrically connected with the key electrode and inputs the assigned control command; a cancel electrode (5a) provided at the periphery of the contact electrode so that the distance between the contact electrode and the cancel electrode is smaller than the width of the finger of the user; and a control unit (8) for controlling conduction to a heating source based on the control command assigned to the electrode unit when detecting that the vicinity of the electrode unit is touched. The control unit (8) limits the operation based on the control command when detecting that the vicinity of the cancel electrode is touched.
US08604396B2	Ceramic heater, oxygen sensor and hair iron that use the ceramic heater To provide a ceramic heater that has high durability by increasing the bonding strength between the lead member and the brazing material, the ceramic heater comprises a ceramic base, a heating resistor embedded in the ceramic base, an external electrode that is disposed on side face of the ceramic base and is electrically connected to the heating resistor, and a lead member brazed onto the external electrodes, wherein the distance between a point in the brazed portion of the periphery of the lead member and a center of the lead member is smaller than the distance between an another point in the brazed portion and the center, in a section of the lead member perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the lead member.
US08604391B2	Heating blankets and pads An electric heating blanket includes a flexible sheet-like heating element, a first unheated flap extending from a first edge of the heating element, and a second unheated flap extending from a second edge of the heating element. A flexible water-resistant shell may cover the heating element.
US08604390B2	Weld wire electrode for gas metal arc welding A weld wire electrode for use as a consumable in a gas-metal arc welding process comprises two or more strips wrapped around one another and drawn to a desired wire diameter.
US08604387B2	Control method for arc welding apparatus and arc welding apparatus A control method for an arc welding apparatus having a function of prohibiting detection of neck based on a change amount of welding voltage and an arc welding apparatus using the method. Thus, since neck determination can be carried out accurately by preventing wrong detection of neck, it is possible to reduce the occurrence of spatter.
US08604384B2	System and methods for efficient provision of arc welding power source Methods and systems for creating and controlling an AC output for welding, plasma cutting or heating are provided. One embodiment of the present disclosure achieves a desired square wave AC output and reduces the number of circuit components needed by combining components of a buck converter and a full bridge inverter. Current flow paths through a power control circuit that are generated via switching of transistors in the circuit on and off are provided. In one embodiment, a pulse width modulation leg, which controls the level of current flow through an inductor, is provided. Certain embodiments include a bidirectional buck converter that converts an unregulated DC flow to a regulated DC flow through an inductor. In one embodiment, a steering leg is provided, which controls a direction of current flow through the inductor. Additionally, an output clamp circuit, which suppresses the parasitic load inductance during polarity reversal is provided.
US08604383B2	Laser processing method This laser processing method irradiates a substrate 4 with laser light L while locating a light-converging point P within the substrate 4, so as to form a quality modified region 71 to become a starting point region for cutting within the substrate 4 along a line to cut 5. Here, the laser light L is oscillated pulsewise along a desirable part RP in the line to cut 5, and continuously in a predetermined part RC in the line to cut 5. Consequently, the quality modified region 71 is formed within the substrate 4 along the desirable part RP in the line to cut 5, whereas no quality modified region 71 is formed within the substrate 4 along the predetermined part RC in the line to cut 5.
US08604379B2	Plasma source with integral blade and method for removing materials from substrates An atmospheric pressure plasma source includes a body including a distal end, a blade extending from the distal end and terminating at a blade edge, a plasma-generating unit, and a plasma outlet communicating with the plasma-generating unit and positioned at the distal end. The plasma outlet is oriented at a downward angle generally toward the blade edge, wherein the plasma outlet provides a plasma path directed generally toward the blade edge. The plasma may be applied to the coating at an interface between the coating and an underlying substrate. While applying the plasma, the blade is moved into contact with the coating at the interface, wherein the blade assists in separating the coating from the substrate while one or more components of the coating react with energetic species of the plasma.
US08604376B2	Electrical switch An electrical switch has a fixed contact and a moving contact moving between a first position in contact with the fixed contact and a second position not in contact with the fixed contact. An operating mechanism moves the moving contact and includes a resiliently biased presser resiliently pressing upon the moving contact while riding in opposite first and second directions past a barrier associated with the moving contact, and a spring having first and second parts acting on first and second sides of the presser to maintain the presser in a neutral position and providing extra biasing force to assist the presser in moving faster upon riding past the barrier.
US08604375B2	Device with at least one control element A device is provided with at least one control element that can be used to trigger a switching process for electrical or mechanical installations. The control element is positioned in a device housing for the device, such that the control element is designed as a snap disk, which is made of metal, and such that the snap disk has a rim which is connected to the device housing through material engagement and which forms a seal between the device housing and the control element, such that an area of the snap disk that borders the rim is designed as a reversibly deformable uncoupling area.
US08604374B2	Moveable contact closing energy transfer system for miniature circuit breakers An energy transfer system absorbs impact forces and/or energy from a moveable conductive blade directly attached to a moveable contact in a circuit breaker. The energy transfer system includes a rotatable member and a biasing member. The rotatable member has an axis of rotation about which the rotatable member is rotatable between a first position and a second position. The rotatable member further includes a protrusion. The protrusion has an initial curved engagement surface portion, a planar engagement surface portion next to the initial curved engagement surface portion, and a final curved engagement surface portion next to the planar engagement surface portion. The biasing member biases the rotatable member towards the first position. The movable conductive blade impacts the initial curved engagement surface portion to cause the rotatable member to begin to rotate about the axis of rotation such that the moveable conductive blade then contacts the planar engagement surface portion and then the final curved engagement surface portion.
US08604373B2	Electronic device with power button assembly An electronic device includes a housing and a power button assembly mounted on the housing. The housing defines an assembly hole and an assembly portion around the assembly hole, and the assembly portion includes a side wall. The power button assembly includes a pressing button received in the assembly hole, a printed circuit board, and a support plate connected to the printed circuit board. The support plate is fixed on the housing, such that the printed circuit board is positioned opposite the pressing button. The support plate includes a plurality of positioning portions bent towards the printed circuit board along an imaginary outline corresponding to the side wall, respectively, and the positioning portions are inserted in the assembly portion and abut the side wall correspondingly.
US08604372B2	Push button and electronic device having same A push button for mounting on a shell includes a button body depressibly engaged in a through hole defined in the shell, a flexible circuit board, a rigid plate attaching to the shell and a conductive spring tab. The flexible circuit board is arranged between the a button body and the rigid plate. The flexible circuit board is brought into contact with the rigid plate. The flexible circuit board is electrically connected to a connector and includes a pair of normally-open contacts. The conductive spring tab is fixed to the flexible circuit board and aligned with the button body. The conductive spring tab is deformable. The button body is configured for being manually depressed so as to urge the conductive spring tab to deform and contact the pair of normally-open contacts, thereby generating a signal transmittable through the flexible circuit board to the connector.
US08604369B2	Circuit breaker remote racking device A device is provided for remotely racking circuit breakers and contactors that are housed within a housing structure, such as a circuit breaker cell or switchgear cabinet.
US08604366B2	Modular test switch A modular test switch assembly includes a plurality of stackable features that may be arranged in a variety of configurations. Each module includes a test switch and includes features to engage adjoining modules in the assembly. The entire test switch assembly is secured together using a retaining rod that is inserted through aligned thru-holes in the assembly.
US08604365B2	Ultrasonic digitizer and host A computing system comprises a processor and internal peripheral devices, and a system bus connecting the internal peripheral devices to the processor. One of the internal peripheral devices is an ultrasonic digitizer that digitizes ultrasonic signals from at least two associated microphones into a digitized audio signal carrying a corresponding location and outputs the digitized audio as a signal on the system bus.
US08604359B2	Package substrate and fabrication method thereof A package substrate includes a core board, a first dielectric layer, a second circuit pattern, a first solder mask and an insulating layer. A first circuit pattern is disposed on a first surface of the core board. The first dielectric layer covers the first circuit pattern. The second circuit pattern is located on the first dielectric layer and the second circuit pattern includes an interconnection circuit pattern within a chip mounting area. The first solder mask covers a portion of the second circuit pattern outside the chip mounting area. The insulating layer covers the chip mounting area and the interconnection circuit pattern. A plurality of embedded bump pads are located on an upper surface of the insulating layer.
US08604358B2	Inner wire for inverter An inner wire capable of power integration and power division and adapted for use with an inverter having a casing and a circuit board includes a female connector and a male connector. The female and male connectors are each disposed in the casing and each include power lines, at least two signal lines, and a ground line. The power lines each have one end electrically connected to power connectors in pairs and the other end to power terminals respectively. The signal lines have one end electrically connected to two signal connectors respectively and the other end to signal terminals. The ground lines have one end electrically connected to ground connectors and the other end to ground terminals. The power terminals, signal terminals, and ground terminals are disposed in the male and female connectors. The signal connectors, ground connectors, and power connectors are electrically connected to the circuit board.
US08604357B2	Wiring board having via and method forming a via in a wiring board A wiring board has a plurality of wiring layers, a first land, a second land, a first via and a second via. The first land and the second land are formed on at least one wiring layer of the wiring board and are disposed to partially overlap with each other. The first via and the second via are formed in association with the first land and the second land, respectively. The first via and the second via electrically connect a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer of the plurality of wiring layers to each other. The wiring board has a separator that is formed by a hole that separates the first land and the second land from each other.
US08604356B1	Electronic assembly having increased standoff height Various embodiments of an electronic assembly with increased standoff height are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a substrate is provided. A metallic interconnection land is disposed over the substrate. A solder resist material is applied on a predefined portion of the metallic interconnection land. A metallic solder material is disposed over at least a portion of the solder resist material and contacts a surface of the metallic interconnection land. An air pocket is formed within the metallic solder material over at least a portion of solder resist material. The air pocket acts as a lifting mechanism to increase a standoff height between the substrate and a surface mount component.
US08604350B2	Multilayer wiring substrate and manufacturing method of multilayer wiring substrate A multilayer wiring board includes an insulating resin layer, wirings laid on their respective opposite surfaces of the insulating resin layer, and a via-hole conductor for electrically connecting the wirings. The via-hole conductor includes metal and resin portions. The metal portion includes first metal regions including a joined unit made of copper particles for connecting the wirings, second metal regions mainly composed of, for example, tin, a tin-copper alloy, or a tin-copper intermetallic compound, and third metal regions mainly composed of bismuth and in contact with the second metal regions. The copper particles forming the joined unit are in plane contact with one another to form plane contact portions, and the second metal regions at least partially are in contact with the first metal regions.
US08604349B2	Multilayer substrate and manufacturing method thereof A multilayer substrate includes a plurality of stacked thermoplastic resin layers each including an in-plane conductive pattern provided on one principal surface thereof and an interlayer conductive portion arranged to penetrate through the thermoplastic resin layer in a thickness direction. The plurality of thermoplastic resin layers include a first thermoplastic resin layer and a second thermoplastic resin layer, a stacking direction of which is inverted with respect to a stacking direction of the first thermoplastic resin layer. The second thermoplastic resin layer is thicker than the first thermoplastic resin layer. One end in the thickness direction of the interlayer conductive portion provided in the second thermoplastic resin layer is connected with the interlayer conductive portion of the thermoplastic resin layer adjacent to the second thermoplastic resin layer in the thickness direction such that the in-plane conductive pattern is not interposed therebetween.
US08604346B2	Flex-rigid wiring board and method for manufacturing the same Provided are a flex-rigid wiring board having an increased shielding effect and improved productivity with reduced number of manufacturing process steps, and a method for manufacturing the flex-rigid wiring board. The flex-rigid wiring board consists of a flexible cable section (32) having a shielding layer (45) on an outer surface, and a rigid mounting section (34) having a wiring layer (47) provided on the same surface as the shielding layer (45). The shielding layer (45) and the wiring layer (47) are made of a same sheet of continuous copper foil (46). The wiring layer (47) is plated and is made thicker than the shielding layer (45). A same continuous insulating layer (48) is provided on outer sides of the shielding layer (45) and the wiring layer (47) of the mounting section (34).
US08604343B2	Window compatible electrical power device A device that supplies electrical current to various outdoor locations via through-hole areas of building structures, such as window frames, door openings, etc. which includes a flatten portion with a male electrical outlet plug coupled to one end and one or more female electrical outlet(s) coupled to the other end. The male electrical outlet plug and/or the one or more female electrical outlet(s) can be coupled to the flattened portion by an electrical cord. The flattened portion includes two or more flat electrical conductors. A further embodiment is built into the structure of a window or the structure of a window frame and provides an interior accessible male electrical outlet plug (or electrical cord) and an accessible exterior female electrical outlet that are coupled together by wiring that extends through the window or window frame and optionally through a tube.
US08604341B2	Feedthrough assembly for an implantable device A feedthrough assembly includes a metallic ferrule, an insulator mounted within the ferrule, a plurality of feedthrough wires mounted within and extending through the insulator, and a ground wire directly attached to the ferrule, wherein the ground wire does not pass through or alongside the insulator.
US08604340B2	Coaxial cable A coaxial cable includes a core, an insulating layer, a shielding layer, and a sheathing layer. The core includes a carbon nanotube wire-like structure and at least one conductive material layer is disposed on the outside surface of the carbon nanotube wire-like structure. The carbon nanotube wire-like structure includes a plurality carbon nanotubes orderly arranged.
US08604335B2	Laminate for dye-sensitized solar cell, electrode for dye-sensitized solar cell and method for producing it A laminate for dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a plastic film of which the thermal shrinkage in the machine direction thereof when heat-treated at 200° C. for 10 minutes is from −1.5 to +0.5%, and a transparent conductive layer provided on the film, which comprises essentially indium oxide with zinc oxide added thereto and has a surface resistivity of at most 40 Ω/square, may give a highly-durable and flexible, dye-sensitized solar cells having high photovoltaic power generation efficiency.
US08604333B2	Method of manufacturing reflectors for a solar concentrator apparatus Glass reflectors for concentrating sunlight in a solar energy system are disclosed. A concave mold is used to shape the glass reflectors in which the surface of the mold that contacts the float glass has a grooved surface profile comprising a plurality of cusps. The surface of the mold also has a plurality of concave valleys. Glass reflectors are preferably manufactured by heating a sheet of float glass positioned over the mold until the sheet of glass sags to contact the mold. If necessary, the glass may also stretch to conform to the shape of the mold. In the case of large monolithic glass reflectors, the edges of the dish-shaped glass are rolled around the periphery of the mold. The glass reflector is then silvered to create a dish-shaped mirror that reflects solar radiation to a focus.

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