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US09071432B2	Method of handling transmission and reception involving an ABS subframe in a wireless communication system and related communication device A method of handling transmission and reception involving an almost blank subframes (ABS) subframe for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the mobile device being configured the ABS subframe by a network of the wireless communication system; and the mobile device stopping receiving a first packet transmitted by the network in a subframe, when the subframe is the ABS subframe.
US09071427B2	Method and apparatus for establishing a key agreement protocol A system and method for generating a secret key to facilitate secure communications between users. A first and second and a function between the two monoids are selected, the function being a monoid homomorphism. A group and a group action of the group on the first monoid is selected. Each user is assigned a submonoid of the first monoid so that these submonoids satisfy a special symmetry property determined by the function, a structure of the first and second monoids, and the action of the group. A multiplication of an element in the second monoid and an element in the first monoid is obtained by combining the group action and the monoid homomorphism. First and second users choose private keys which are sequences of elements in their respective submonoids. A first result is obtained by multiplying an identity element by the first element of the sequence in a respective submonoid. Starting with the first result, each element of the user's private key may be iteratively multiplied by the previous result to produce a public key. Public keys are exchanged between first and second users. Each user's private key may be iteratively multiplied by the other user's public key to produce a secret key. Secure communication may then occur between the first and second user using the secret key.
US09071426B2	Generating a symmetric key to secure a communication link A symmetric key to be used to secure a communication link between a first device and a second device is generated as follows: a first symmetric key is generated; a second symmetric key is generated; packets communicated between the first device and the second device over communication link are hashed to create a hash result; the first symmetric key, the second symmetric key and the hash result are hashed to generate a third symmetric key to be used to secure the communication link.
US09071425B2	Quantum communication system A quantum communication system including a sending unit and a receiving unit, said sending unit comprising a photon source assembly configured to output a stream of pulses of light having at least two different intensities and a memory configured to store information for determining which pulses should be reference pulses and which pulses should be data pulses, the average intensity of reference pulses being different to the average intensity of data pulses, the receiving unit comprising a memory for storing information for identifying the position of reference pulses within the stream of pulses and a processor for determining the calibration of the quantum communication system from the reference pulses.
US09071422B2	Access authentication method for multiple devices and platforms An access authentication method for multiple devices and platforms. Upon receipt of a multiple access request, a source device that has initially registered a user account to a subscribed site requests an authentication key for a target device to a server of the subscribed site, the target device receives an access authentication request together with an authentication key from the source device, when the source device receives the authentication key from an account authentication system, the authentication key being generated in response to an authentication key request from the subscribed site server by the account authentication system, the subscribed site server determines whether there is the registered user account and performs access authentication with the account authentication system, upon receipt of the authentication key from the target device, and the target device receives an access authentication completion notification from the subscribed site server, when the access authentication is completed.
US09071419B2	Semi-persistent resource allocation method for uplink transmission in wireless packet data systems A wireless telecommunications network supplies a semi-persistent resource that a wireless station can use for special purposes (such as a retransmission of packets for ARQ purposes or a control signal. The semi-persistent resource can be allocated by the system to other terminals if, e.g., a retransmission is not required. Since a retransmission is generally performed in response to a NACK received from a base station, the NACK may itself serve as a token that permits the wireless station to use the semi-persistent allocation. Thus, the technology includes, e.g., a method for resource allocation on a semi-persistent basis and efficient signaling for the usage of such allocation.
US09071413B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, particularly, a method in which a terminal transmits control information in a CA-based wireless communication system and an apparatus for the method, the method comprising: configuring a first cell and a second cell having different subframe configurations, wherein the second cell has any one of UL-DL configuration #0 to #6; receiving a DC) format including a DAI field, for the second cell; and transmitting HARQ-ACK information relating to the downlink DCI format. For HARQ-ACK timing, in cases where a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is any one of UL-DL configurations #1 to #6, the DAI field is used in a process of transmitting the HARQ-ACK information. For HARQ-ACK timing, in cases where a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is #0, the DAI field is not used in a process of transmitting the HARQ-ACK information.
US09071402B2	Selection of retransmission settings for HARQ in WCDMA and LTE networks Improvements in the performance of HARQ operation are achieved by considering two channel coding parameters, the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND, in the selection of the retransmission settings for HARQ operation. In one exemplary embodiment, an optimal RV setting for the retransmission is selected based on the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND. In another exemplary embodiment, an address offset to the RV starting point for a selected RV setting is selected based on the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND.
US09071394B2	Remote timing communications A system, method, and optical switch for communicating timing. A determination is made whether one of a number of data streams are available. Packets are received at a remote node in response to determining one of the number of data streams is available. A timing characteristic of the at least one of the packets is associated with a tick of a reference clock. The tick of the reference clock is extracted utilizing the timing characteristic of the at least one of the packets. A secondary clock is disciplined with the reference clock by adjusting the secondary clock based on a difference between times measured by the reference clock and the secondary clock to generate a clock signal. The clock signal is communicated to one or more interfaces for distributing.
US09071383B2	Modified orthogonal polynomials based hybrid coded-modulation for multi-Tb/second optical transport A system and method for transmitting data, including one or more Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoders configured to encode one or more streams of input data; a signal constellation generation module configured to generate one or more signal constellations; one or more modulators configured to generate one or more signals using hybrid multidimensional coded modulation; a modified orthogonal polynomial generation module configured to generate modified orthogonal polynomials for use as electrical basis functions; and one or more mode-multiplexers and transmitters configured to mode-multiplex and transmit one or more LDPC-coded data streams over a transmission medium.
US09071381B2	Use of polarization for differentiation of information The present invention discloses a system for signalling within optical or combined optical/electronic networks wherein a first transmission node executes polarization multiplexing on transmitted traffic, and at one or more intermediate nodes one or more of the following processes are carried out on the sent traffic: demultiplexing by polarization and/or polarization and/or SOP-alignment. Further a method for packet handling within optical packet switched networks where, at a first transmission node carries out polarization demultiplexing of transmitted traffic, and at one or a number of intermediate nodes carries out one or more of the following processes on the transmitted traffic; demultiplexing by polarization, and/or polarization and/or SOP-alignment. Said separation into states of polarization is used in separation of QoS-classes.
US09071379B2	Optical branching and insertion device, network management device, and wavelength selective switch An optical branching and insertion device includes an optical splitter that branches an input optical signal, and outputs the branched optical signal from a first output port and a second output port; a wavelength selective switch that allows passage of an optical signal of a predetermined wavelength from among optical signals input to a first input port from the first output port, and outputs the optical signal of the predetermined wavelength and an optical signal inputted from a second input port; and a processor that executes a process to expand a band through which the optical signal of the predetermined wavelength is allowed to pass, the process being executed when a channel allocated to a wavelength of the optical signal inputted from the second input port and a channel allocated to the predetermined wavelength are not adjacent.
US09071375B2	Signal transmitting apparatus, signal transmitting method, signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method, and signal transmission system In a signal transmitting apparatus, an upper m bits (m≧8) are defined to have the same value in a forbidden code in video data areas channels included in serial digital interfaces of one or plural channels of N bits (N≧10). A mapping unit makes at least a lower 2 bits among the upper m bits different from each other, multiplexing video data of an upper m−2 bits included in compressed data compressed to the amount of data of the one or plural channels of the serial digital interfaces, in which the number of pixels in one frame is equal to or more than that of pixels defined by an HD format into upper m−2 bits in the video data areas of the first and second channels, and multiplexing video data of lower 2 bits in the compressed data into lower N−m bits in the video data areas of the first and second channels.
US09071374B2	System and method of real time synchronization through a communication system A communication system, network, interface, and port architecture are provided for transferring data via a network. The network can be configured by connecting ports in a daisy chain arrangement to achieve a ring architecture or topology. The network transmits data according to a specific protocol. A first port transmits frames containing frame count information which is divided into several pieces, with each piece being transmitted in a single frame. A second port receives the frames, stores them in a frame buffer, and reassembles the frame count information from a plurality of frames.
US09071372B2	Methods and devices for presenting an interactive media guidance application Methods and devices for presenting an interactive media guidance application are provided. In some embodiments, methods for presenting an interactive media guidance application in a user equipment device are provided, the methods comprising: determining a location of the user equipment device; determining a destination of the user equipment device; determining an arrival time for the user equipment device to be located at the destination; selecting, as guide listings, listings corresponding to media available at the destination at/after the arrival time; and presenting the guide listings on the user equipment device.
US09071366B2	Information transmission system An information transmission system includes a message generation unit for creating a first message which contains specific information having information on a location and is to be transmitted to mobile phones and a database which is used for creating the first message and contains location information per mobile phone and safety information per user of the mobile phone. The first message has two or more hyperlinks to be used for sending a reply regarding safety of a user of a transmission-destination mobile phone. URL information associated with the hyperlink contains different parameters depending on a type of the reply regarding safety of the user of the mobile phone. The safety information in the database is updated based on the reply regarding safety using any one of the two or more hyperlinks.
US09071360B2	Optical transceiver having improved functions to load control program Methods to load control programs into an optical transceiver whose specifications follow the standards are disclosed. The standard transceiver, such as SFP transceiver and/or XFP transceiver, provides control terminals in addition to the serial interface to communicate with the host device. The control terminals are inactive when the transceiver is output of the host device. The loader to load the program utilizes those control terminals and the optical transceiver of the invention provides mechanisms to use those control terminals for downloading the program.
US09071358B2	Repeater fiber-coax units An optical-coax unit (OCU) includes an optical PHY to receive and transmit optical signals and a coax PHY to receive and transmit coax signals. The OCU also includes a media-independent interface to provide a first continuous bitstream from the optical PHY to the coax PHY and a second continuous bitstream from the coax PHY to the optical PHY. The first continuous bitstream corresponds to received optical signals and transmitted coax signals, and the second continuous bitstream corresponds to received coax signals and transmitted optical signals.
US09071356B2	Method for the compensation of nonlinear impairments in dispersion-managed optical fiber links using phase conjugation and equivalent optical link A method for nonlinearity compensation for an optical transmission link includes determining a dispersion effect of a transmission link; applying a phase conjugation to the transmission link, the phase conjugation responsive to an input wave over the transmission link and providing a conjugated version of the input wave; and configuring an optimum equivalent link responsive to the phase conjugation after the transmission link to compensate for a non-linear dispersion effect from said transmission link.
US09071352B2	Free space optics alignment method and apparatus A novel free space optics transceiver is disclosed comprising at least one light source, at least one photodetector, corresponding positioning means that can independently adjust the position of the light source and the photodetector, and a controller that can send and receive alignment frames conforming to a communications protocol to and from a remote optical transceiver and can use information in the incoming alignment frames from the remote optical transceiver to appropriately adjust the position of the light source and the photodetector thereby maximizing the received power of light signals sent by the remote optical transceiver. Also, an alignment method is disclosed wherein the controller continuously adjusts the positions of the light source and the photodetector until a light signal is acquired from a remote optical transceiver. Then, the incoming alignment information is used to adjust the light source position to achieve bi-directional communication with the remote optical transceiver.
US09071351B2	Optical switch An optical switch include a switch unit including a light reflection unit of which the reflection direction is changeable, the switch unit configured to optically connect an input port to an output port via the light reflection unit by changing the reflection direction of the light reflection unit; a determining light input unit configured to input into a first predetermined port a determining light for determining malfunctions in the light reflection unit; a light detection unit configured to detect the determining light from the output from a second predetermined port; and a malfunction determining unit configured to determine that abnormalities have occurred when the determining light is detected by the light detection unit.
US09071342B1	Method and apparatus for correlating global positioning system (GPS) pseudorandom noise (PRN) codes In accordance with the teachings described herein, system and methods are provided for a GPS acquisition correlation scheme with a reduced memory requirement. An example system may include a memory, a local PRN code generator, correlators, adder trees, an accumulator, and an output memory. The memory may be used to store an input PRN code. The local PRN code generator generates a replica PRN code and outputs a replica PRN code. The local PRN code generator may also shift the replica PRN code for each output epoch. One or more correlators receive the input PRN code and the replica PRN code and compare a bit of the input PRN code to a bit of the replica PRN code and generates a comparison. The adder trees add the comparisons and generate a comparison output. An accumulator accumulates the comparison output and outputs an accumulated output to an output memory.
US09071341B2	Random non-cyclical binary code generator Presented is a random non-cyclical binary code generator for communications systems. A random non-cyclical sequence of integers from a random number generator is extended in length to form an extended integer sequence. This integer set is immediately loaded into a 10-minute epoch memory consistent with 10 minutes of chips. These integers are then synchronously retrieved from memory under GPS time-of-day control. Retrieved integers are immediately converted into pulse pairs of all ones followed by all zeros with each pulse width equal to the integer value in chips. The chips are immediately concatenated to a chipping clock shifting memory wherein each memory location is a unique phase source of the binary code. The memory length in chips is twice the range uncertainty for a 10 MHz chip rate, with the center chip of the shifting memory maintained as the source of universal time synchronized local binary code.
US09071340B2	Method and apparatus for generating orthogonal codes with wide range of spreading factor Provided is a method of generating an orthogonal set in a quasi-synchronous spread spectrum system, the method including selecting a two-level autocorrelation sequence at a sequence selector, selecting a first indices set and a second indices set from the two-level autocorrelation sequence, and generating two quasi-orthogonal sets using the first indices set and the second indices set, at an orthogonal code generator.
US09071339B2	Closed-circuit power line communication A system for closed-circuit power line communication includes at least a first and second power line connected to at least one electrical device configured to receive a data signal. An auxiliary line is connected to the electrical devices to provide a ground connection, and at least one transmitter generates a first data signal for transmission over the first and second power lines, respectively, to the electrical device. A low-pass common-mode filter is connected to the first and second power lines to provide closed-circuit data communication between the transmitter and the electrical device, the filter comprising at least one coupling capacitor between said first and second power lines such that at least the polarities with respect to ground of said first data signals transmitted over the first and second power lines, respectively, are substantially similar.
US09071338B2	Reliable data transfer for locomotive consist communications A method for controlling data communication within a locomotive consist is disclosed. The method may include receiving, at a first access point, a first set of data packets that represent a communication sent from a second access point via a first set of wires. The method may also include receiving, at the first access point, a second set of data packets that represent the same communication sent from the second access point via a second set of wires. Further, the method may include processing the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets to create a resultant set of data packets and generating, at the first access point, a communication related to operating the locomotive based on the resultant data packets.
US09071335B2	Radio-frequency modules having tuned shielding-wirebonds Disclosed are devices and methods related to radio-frequency (RF) shielding of RF modules. In some embodiments, tuned shielding can be achieved by utilizing different structures and/or arrangements of shielding-wirebonds to increase shielding in areas where needed, and to decrease shielding where not needed. Such tuning of shielding requirements can be obtained by measuring RF power levels at different locations of a module having a given design. Such tuned RF shielding configurations can improve the overall effectiveness of shielding, and can also be more cost effective to implement.
US09071333B2	Device for canceling crosstalk, signal processing system and method for canceling crosstalk A method for canceling crosstalk, the method includes the steps of: filtering the signal corresponding to a far end crosstalk source in the frequency domain according to adaptive filter parameter; combining the received signal corresponding to a far end sending signal and the filtered signal in frequency domain corresponding to the far end crosstalk source. A device for canceling crosstalk and a signal processing system.
US09071324B2	Method and system for communicating up to extreme high frequencies using a mesh network of repeaters A plurality of repeater devices, each of which may enable forwarding extreme high frequency (EHF) communication between EHF-enabled wireless devices, may form a repeater mesh network. One or more routes may be formed within the repeater mesh network to enable forwarding EHF RF signals via the repeater mesh network. Different technique may be utilized, while forming routes within the repeater mesh network, to reduce and/or prevent interference that might be caused by EHF RF signals received and/or transmitted by repeater devices in the routes to other repeater devices in the repeater mesh network. These techniques may comprise frequency shifting, spatial isolation, and/or polarization isolation. Multiple routes may be utilized simultaneously to forward EHF RF communication. The simultaneous use of multiple routes may enable increasing the bandwidth and/or improving reliability of forwarding EHF RF communication within the repeater mesh network.
US09071323B2	System and method of cooperative and opportunistic relaying of transmissions requiring relay coordination The present invention relates to a cooperative relaying system (1) and method (100) in which many different units in the network can be used in a common channel and time interval by way of repetition without requiring additional relay coordination in cases where the connection between the source and the destination is insufficient in wireless communication networks. The inventive system (1) and method (100) increases the probability of the transmission of the source data with the maximum diversity gain requiring no coordination thanks to determining the relays (3) without pre-selection and keeping the amount of band spent to a minimum.
US09071322B2	Enabling downlink transparent relay in a wireless communications network Methods and apparatus are described for enabling downlink transparent relay in a wireless communication network. In a wireless communications network, a base station and a mobile station may communicate with each other via a relay station, as needed. Transparent relay may allow for relay communication between a base station and a mobile station although the mobile station is unaware of the relay station. However, non-contiguous transmission of a relay station may lead to channel quality measurement and channel estimation degradation during downlink transparent relay. According to some aspects, a base station may schedule a mobile station to a transmission mode that utilizes dedicated pilot signals for downlink transparent relay, and a relay station may transmit data and dedicated pilot signals over the same channel resources as the base station. According to some aspects, the relay station may null common pilot signals transmitted by the base station.
US09071320B1	Gain calibration for a timing error detector Apparatus and methods calibrate and control detector gain in a Mueller-Muller timing detector. A Mueller-Muller circuit obtains timing information for a received signal in which the receiving device samples the signal once per baud period.
US09071319B2	Circuit and method for filtering adjacent channel interferers A circuit and method for filtering adjacent channel interferers. One embodiment of an adjacent channel filtering circuit for reducing adjacent channel interference with an in-band signal, includes: (1) a radio frequency (RF) circuit configured to receive and down-convert an RF signal to a baseband signal containing an in-band signal and adjacent channel components, (2) a controlled single pole filter electrically coupled to the RF circuit and configured to reject the adjacent channel components and cause a predetermined attenuation in the in-band signal, (3) a baseband circuit coupled to the controlled single pole filter and configured to condition the baseband signal for conversion to a digital signal, and (4) a digital circuit coupled to the baseband circuit and configured to receive the digital signal and compensate for the predetermined attenuation.
US09071316B2	Method for detection of symbols in communication signals The present invention relates to method for detection of symbols, comprising: receiving at least one communication signal y transmitted over a radio channel H, and receiving a priori LLRs of said channel inputs x; computing soft symbol estimates μ and variance D of said channel inputs x based on LLRs of said channel inputs x; filtering and interference cancelling said received signal y by using a first filter and filtered soft symbol estimates μ so as to obtain a filtered and interference cancelled received signal; estimating MSE matrix B of said filtered and interference cancelled received signal; computing an optimal matrix Gopt for a BCJR algorithm based on said MSE estimate B; further filtering said filtered and interference cancelled received signal by using a second filter so as to obtain an input signal r to the BCJR algorithm; and feeding said input signal r into the BCJR algorithm.
US09071314B2	Method and apparatus for cross polarization and cross satellite interference cancellation A method and apparatus in which a Tap-Weight Computer (TWC) calculates a Tap-Weight Vector (TWV). The TWV is coupled to a register in each of a plurality of adaptive filter modules. Each such adaptive filter module includes several adaptive filters that each include a tapped delay line. The input to the tapped delay line of each such adaptive filter is one of a plurality of potential interfering signals. The TWV controls the weighting of the outputs from the taps off the delay line. The weighted outputs from each tapped delay line are then subtracted from a received signal which potentially includes interference from the potential interfering signals. The TWC is multiplexed to each of the plurality of adaptive filters so that each adaptive filter is loaded with a TWV calculated by the TWC to reduce the amount of interference contributed by a particular potential interfering signal coupled to an input to that particular adaptive filter. In one embodiment, a plurality of such adaptive filter modules share the same TWC.
US09071311B2	Method and antenna system for setting working antenna units A method is adapted for controlling an antenna system that includes multiple antenna groups, each including multiple antenna units. The method includes: controlling each of the antenna units of each of the antenna groups to receive one and the same test signal; generating, for each antenna unit, a quality indicator, which is associated with a signal quality of the test signal, with reference to the test signal received thereat; and selecting, for each antenna group, one of the antenna units, the quality indicator corresponding to which indicates an optimum signal quality from among the antenna units of the respective antenna group, to be a working antenna unit of the respective antenna group for performing subsequent data transmission.
US09071310B2	Method and apparatus for enabling multiple transmission modes in a wireless communication system Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for enabling multiple transmission modes based on control information of different formats.
US09071309B2	Method and system for use of quadrature hybrids for closed and open loop beam forming transmit diversity The present implementation is directed to a system and method of mobile transmit diversity and, more particularly, to a device which can operate in any of several modes, including a transmit diversity mode whereby two or more antennae transmit signals to at least one base station with relative phase difference, or in a non-diversity mode whereby one antenna is turned off and the other transmits at full or requisite power.
US09071308B2	Method and device for determining codebook generation mode A method for determining codebook generation mode is disclosed by the present disclosure, comprising: A: grouping M kinds of ranks among N kinds of ranks supported by a user equipment (UE) into Z sets of rank, and for each set, respectively selecting a codebook generation mode from at least two preset codebook generation modes, where N, M and Z are integers greater than or equal to 1, M is less than or equal to N, and Z is less than or equal to M; B: informing the UE or a serving cell thereof of the selection. The present disclosure also discloses a UE and a base station. The system performance can be improved by adopting the method and devices of the present disclosure.
US09071305B2	Timing synchronization for reception of highly-spectrally-efficient communications Methods and systems are provided for timing synchronization for reception of highly-spectrally efficient communications. An example method may include, filtering, in a receiver, a received inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal to generate a filtered ISC signal. The method may further include locking to a timing pilot signal of the filtered ISC signal. The timing pilot signal may include a sub-harmonic frequency of a clock signal associated with the received ISC signal. A timing pilot estimate signal of the timing pilot signal may be generated. The timing pilot estimate signal may be cancelled from the filtered partial response signal to generate an output ISC signal. The timing pilot signal includes a signal at ±(1/n*Fbaud), where n is an integer greater than 2, and Fbaud is a symbol rate of the clock signal. The clock signal may be recovered from the filtered ISC signal.
US09071298B2	Method and apparatus for conveying precoding information in a MIMO system Method and apparatus for conveying precoding information in a control message (M) from a first node (400) to a second node (402), with information on properties of an associated wireless data transmission (D) between the first and second nodes employing spatial multiplexing, and precoding for the data transmission. The first node determines precoding parameters (P) for signal transmission to the receiving node, optionally based on feedback reports (F) from the receiving node. The first node encodes control information bits in precoding information fields of the control message by means of values in TBS fields of the control message, such that the TBS field values determine the interpretation of the bits in the precoding information field(s). The control message (M) is then sent to the second node.
US09071293B1	Transmitter data path single-ended duty cycle correction for EMI reduction The present disclosure provides a means to adjust the relative location of output rising and falling transitions to reduce single-ended duty cycle distortion (DCD) effects in the output data stream originating from the transmitter data path. This serves to improve high-speed single-ended signal characteristics and reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI). Another feature enabled by embodiments of the present disclosure is polarity skew (also referred to as differential skew) reduction between transmitter outputs. In an embodiment, the disclosed method and apparatus for transmitter data path single-ended DCD correction describes a closed-loop calibration system including the actuation apparatus within the transmitter, a sensing block at the output of the transmitter to measure the amount of single-ended DCD, and a calibration block operating on the sensor output to devise correction control inputs to the actuator in the transmitter to correct the data path single-ended DCD present.
US09071292B2	Method of transmitting a digital signal in a distributed system, and a corresponding program product and relay device A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting frames of N>2 symbols for use in a distributed system having at least two transmitter nodes. The method includes circularly permutating a frame of N symbols; multiplying m first permutated symbols by a phase coefficient φ≠1, for 0
US09071289B2	Transceiver supporting multiple modulation schemes The present application relates to a transceiver for use in a communications system that uses magnetic field induction to transmit data, the transceiver having an amplifier for driving an antenna, the amplifier forming, with a capacitance and a resistance connected in parallel with the antenna, a parallel resonant circuit. The resistance value of the resistance is adjustable, to permit adjustment of the loaded quality factor of the parallel resonant circuit. The transceiver includes a processing unit configured to determine the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a signal received by the transceiver, and based on this SNR select a modulation scheme to apply to a data signal to be transmitted by the transceiver. The value of the resistance is adjusted to a level at which the loaded quality factor of the parallel resonant circuit is able to support the bandwidth and data rate required by the selected modulation scheme.
US09071286B2	Modulation and equalization in an orthonormal time-frequency shifting communications system A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.
US09071285B2	Modulation and equalization in an orthonormal time-frequency shifting communications system A system and method of providing a modulated signal useable in a signal transmission system. The method includes transforming, perhaps with respect to both time and frequency, a data frame including a plurality of data elements into a transformed data matrix. The transformed data matrix includes a plurality of transformed data elements where each of the plurality of transformed data elements is based upon each of the plurality of data elements. The method further includes generating the modulated signal in accordance with the transformed data elements of the transformed data matrix.
US09071283B2	Method for controlling a modulation index of a near field communication device with aid of dynamic calibration, and associated apparatus A method for controlling a modulation index of a near field communication (NFC) device includes: in a calibration mode of the NFC device, temporarily coupling a receiver of the NFC device to a transmitter of the NFC device to form a probing path between the receiver and the transmitter; and in the calibration mode of the NFC device, dynamically adjusting at least one portion of a plurality of modulation parameters corresponding to the modulation index according to probed results of outputs of the transmitter, in order to calibrate the modulation index, for use of transmitting through the transmitter in a normal mode of the NFC device. An associated apparatus is also provided.
US09071279B2	Turbo decoder input reordering A receiver is disclosed, wherein a re-ordering means comprises a multiplexer, a finite-state machine, and a plurality of buffers. the finite-state machine is arranged to control the multiplexer to load the buffers from a bus such that the output of the buffers is directly decodable by the decoder. A receiving method is also disclosed, comprising the steps of: determining a transmission mode and a bus configuration; entering an initializing state of branching of a finite-state machine according to said determined transmission mode and bus configuration; performing transitions between state of the said finite-state machine for each received set of soft data provided on a bus; multiplexing said soft data to a plurality of buffers in dependence on the state of said finite-state machine; and writing said multiplexed data into said plurality of buffers.
US09071277B1	Correction of structured burst errors in data Correction of structured burst errors in data is provided by a system that includes an encoder and is configured for performing a method. The method includes receiving data that includes a plurality of subsets of data. The data is encoded by an encoder using a combination of a first error correcting code and a second error correcting code. The first error correcting code is configured to provide error recovery from a structured burst error in one of the subsets of data, the structured burst error having a length less than a specified maximum length. The second error correcting code is configured to extend the first error correcting code to provide error recovery from the structured burst error in any of the subsets of data. The encoded data is output.
US09071276B2	Data-processing device and data-processing method The present technology relates to a data-processing device and a data-processing method, which are capable of improving tolerance for an error of data.When an LDPC code having a code length of 16200 bits is mapped to 16 signal points, a demultiplexer performs exchanging such that when a (#i+1)-th bit from a most significant bit of code bits of 4×2 bits and a (#i+1)-th bit from a most significant bit of symbol bits of 4×2 bits of 2 consecutive symbols are represented by a bit b#i and a bit y#i, respectively, for LDPC codes having coding rates of 1/5, 4/15, and 1/3, b0 is allocated to y4, b1 is allocated to y3, b2 is allocated to y2, b3 is allocated to y1, b4 is allocated to y6, b5 is allocated to y5, b6 is allocated to y7, and b7 is allocated to y0. For example, the present invention can be applied to a transmission system that transmits an LDPC code or the like.
US09071273B2	Extended single-bit error correction and multiple-bit error detection Some embodiments include apparatus and methods to prevent at least one of misidentifying and ignoring multiple-bit errors if the multiple-bit errors include a plurality of erroneous data bits that belong to only one specific group of a plurality of groups of data bits and if none of the other groups of the plurality of groups have errors.
US09071272B2	System and method for configuration of a controlling device to enable selection of media streams A controlling device has a configurable key. An overlay, such as a sticker, is provided to the configurable key and includes an indicia representative of media content and machine readable data indicative of an identity of the media content represented by the indicia. A memory of the controlling device stores a correspondence between the configurable key and data indicative of a source of the media content. Upon activation of configured, configurable key, the controlling device uses select command codes from a library of command codes and the correspondence between the configurable key and the data indicative of the source of the media content to transmit one or more commands for causing one or more appliances to access the source of the media content.
US09071268B1	Multi-path analog front end and analog-to-digital converter for a signal processing system A processing system may include multiple selectable processing paths for processing an analog signal in order to reduce noise and increase dynamic range. Techniques are employed to transition between processing paths and calibrate operational parameters of the two paths in order to reduce or eliminate artifacts caused by switching between processing paths.
US09071263B2	Multi-rate pipelined ADC structure Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide analog to digital conversion of analog inputs. A plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be arranged such that one or more of the ADCs is operating at a sampling rate that is less than others of the plurality of ADCs. For example, a sampling rate interpolator may be used to increase a sampling rate of signals output at the one or more ADCs operating at the lower sampling rate, allowing pipelining of the plurality of ADCs.
US09071262B1	Calibration of high-speed interleaved arrays Techniques for calibration of high-speed interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) arrays are presented. A transceiver comprises an ADC component that comprises an array of sub-ADCs that can be interleaved to facilitate high-speed data communications. The ADC component processes signals received from a remote transmitter to facilitate recovering the received data. The transceiver can comprise a calibration component that determines transfer characteristics of the communication channel or medium between the transceiver and the remote transmitter, and the transfer characteristics of the remote transmitter to each of the sub-ADCs of the array, based on the recovered data. The calibration component calibrates sub-ADCs of the array to facilitate correcting sub-ADC path differences, based on the respective transfer characteristics, to facilitate mitigating distortions that would be caused by the path differences, wherein the calibration component can use channel estimation to determine the transfer functions of the sub-ADCs of the array.
US09071261B2	Accuracy enhancement techniques for ADCs Embodiments of the present invention may provide accuracy enhancement techniques to improve ADC SNRs. For example, regular bit trials from a most significant bit (MSB) to predetermined less significant bit of a digital word and extra bit trials may be performed. The results of the regular and extra bit trials may be combined to generate a digital output signal. A residue error may be measured, and the digital output signal may be adjusted based on the measured residue error.
US09071257B2	Systems and methods for derivative level-crossing sampling The derivative of an input signal is level-crossing-sampled and the resulting samples are transmitted. At the receiver, the resulting samples are fed to a zero-order hold followed by an integrator, which results in piecewise-linear reconstruction. The systems and methods are further refined to reduce the number of samples generated per unit of time, compared to methods based on zero-order-hold reconstruction, for a given signal-to-error ratio, without significant hardware overhead.
US09071255B2	Phase locked loop and associated phase alignment method A phase locked loop and an associated alignment method are provided. A disclosed phase locked loop receives a reference signal to provide a feedback signal. The phase locked loop is first opened. When the phase locked loop is open, a frequency range of an oscillating signal from a voltage-controlled oscillator is substantially selected. The feedback signal is provided according to the oscillation signal. After the frequency range is selected, the phase locked loop is kept open and the phases of the reference signal and the feedback signal are substantially aligned. The phase locked loop is then closed after the reference signal and the feedback signal are aligned.
US09071253B2	Compensation for digitally controlled oscillator apparatus and method Automatic digital sensing and compensation of frequency drift caused by temperature, aging, and/or other effects may be provided by including a compensation capacitor array and a sensing logic. The sensing logic may be configured to detect a drift in a first control signal and to provide the compensation capacitor array with a second control signal. The second control signal is configured to cause an adjustment of capacitance in the compensation capacitor array based on the detected drift in the first control signal.
US09071252B2	Radio communication apparatus According to one embodiment, an analog unit performs frequency conversion of a reception signal. A digital unit performs demodulation processing of the reception signal subjected to the frequency conversion by the analog unit. A PLL circuit generates a clock of the digital unit. A PLL-setting changing unit performs, based on the reception signal, a setting change of parameters of the PLL circuit to thereby control the jitter of the clock.
US09071251B2	Phase-locked loop outputs with reduced reference spurs and noise In some examples, a circuit is described. The circuit may include a voltage-controlled oscillator that may be configured to generate an output signal. The circuit may also include a control signal generation unit that may be configured to generate a control signal based on the output signal. The control signal generation unit may also be configured to provide the control signal to the voltage-controlled oscillator. The voltage-controlled oscillator and the control signal generation unit may be part of a phase-locked loop (PLL) included in the circuit. The circuit may also include a feed-forward network. The feed-forward network may be configured to provide a portion of the control signal to the voltage-controlled oscillator. The voltage-controlled oscillator may generate the output signal based on the control signal from the control signal generation unit and the portion of the control signal from the feed-forward network.
US09071249B2	Corrosion resistant touch sensor In one embodiment, a touch sensor includes a substrate. A plurality of conductive elements are formed on the substrate. A plurality of sacrificial conductive members overlay portions of the plurality of conductive elements. The sacrificial conductive members function as sacrificial anodes for the conductive elements.
US09071248B2	MOS transistor drain-to-gate leakage protection circuit and method therefor A circuit having an active mode and a sleep mode includes a power transistor, an amplifier, and a protection circuit. The power transistor has a first current electrode coupled to a first power supply terminal, a second current electrode as an output of the circuit for coupling to a load, and a control electrode, wherein the power transistor is characterized by having a threshold voltage and a leakage current, wherein the leakage current occurs between the control electrode and the first current electrode during the sleep mode. The amplifier has an output coupled to the control electrode of the power transistor that provides an active output during the active mode. The protection circuit detects the leakage current and prevents the leakage current from developing a voltage on the control electrode of the power transistor that exceeds the threshold voltage of the power transistor.
US09071242B2	Level shifters, methods for making the level shifters and methods of using integrated circuits A method of making a level shifter includes coupling a driver stage between an input end and an output end, the driver stage comprising a first transistor and a second transistor. An inverter having an input is coupled with the input end. A third transistor having a gate end is coupled with an output of the inverter, the third transistor having a terminal coupled to a pumped voltage (VPP). Additionally, the method includes coupling a fourth transistor with the output end, the fourth transistor having a terminal coupled to the pumped voltage. A fifth transistor is coupled with the input end, the fifth transistor having a terminal coupled to the third and fourth transistors. A sixth transistor is coupled with the input end, the sixth transistor having a terminal.
US09071239B2	Method and semiconductor apparatus for reducing power when transmitting data between devices in the semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor apparatus is provided herein for reducing power when transmitting data between a first device and a second device in the semiconductor apparatus. Additional circuitry is added to the semiconductor apparatus to create a communication system that decreases a number of state changes for each signal line of a data bus between the first device and the second device for all communications. The additional circuitry includes a decoder coupled to receive and convert a value from the first device for transmission over the data bus to an encoder that provides a recovered (i.e., re-encoded) version of the value to the second device. One or more multiplexers may also be included in the additional circuitry to support any number of devices.
US09071238B2	Contention-free level converting flip-flops for low-swing clocking The present invention includes a family of level converting flip-flops that accepts data and clock inputs at a lower voltage level while producing data outputs at a higher voltage level. These flip-flops enable fine-grained dual supply voltage techniques such as low-swing clocking (distributing the clock signal at a lower voltage level) and clustered voltage scaling (CVS). The level conversion is accomplished in a very efficient manner by sharing the positive feedbacks inside a flip-flop for both storage and level conversion. Additionally, the presented flip-flops are contention-free and non-ratioed, thus having reduced timing and power overheads due to the level conversion function.
US09071237B2	Digital duty cycle correction circuit A digital duty cycle correction circuit includes a duty cycle controller and a digital duty control code generator. The duty cycle controller generates first and second output clock signals by compensating duty cycles of first and second input clock signals based on a digital duty control code. The digital duty control code generator generates the digital duty control code based on a frequency value obtained by converting duty cycle information of the first output clock signal and the second output clock signal.
US09071236B1	Method and system for controlling a charge pump Embodiments of a method for controlling a charge pump and a control device for a charge pump are described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling a charge pump involves monitoring a power-on status of the charge pump, calculating a duty cycle of the charge pump within a time period based on the power-on status of the charge pump, and adjusting at least one of a clock frequency setting and a capacitance setting of the charge pump in based on the duty cycle of the charge pump. Other embodiments are also described.
US09071235B2	Apparatuses and methods for changing signal path delay of a signal path responsive to changes in power Apparatuses and methods for changing a signal path delay of a signal path responsive to changes in power provided to the signal path are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a signal path and signal path delay compensation circuit. The signal path includes a plurality of signal driver circuits coupled in series. The signal path delay compensation circuit includes an adjustable path delay circuit and a bias circuit. The adjustable path delay circuit is coupled to an output of a signal driver circuit of the plurality of signal driver circuits and includes a latch circuit. The bias circuit is configured to change a resistance to switching a latched signal level of the latch circuit responsive to changes in power provided to the signal path. Additional example apparatuses and methods are also disclosed.
US09071233B2	Low power master-slave flip-flop A flip-flop circuit may include a master latch and a slave latch. Each latch may have a transparent mode and a storage mode. The slave latch may be in storage mode when the master latch is in transparent mode; and vice-versa. A clock signal may control the mode of each latch through a pair of clock-gated pull-up transistors and a pair clock-gated of pull-down transistors, for a total of four clock-gated transistors. The clock-gated transistors may be shared by the master latch and the slave latch. Fewer clock-gated transistors may be required when they are shared, as opposed to not being shared. Clock-gated transistors may have parasitic capacitance and consume power when subjected to a varying clock signal, due to the charging and discharging of the parasitic capacitance. Having fewer clock-gated transistors thus may reduce the power consumed by the flip-flop circuit.
US09071229B1	Miniature multi-decade GHz balun A miniature wideband balun is realized wherein a miniature rectangular high permeability ferrite binocular core is wound with a single wire on the first of three legs and a twisted pair of wires on the third of three legs. Each winding is configured from 36 gauge wire to include two turns with precise positioning and spacing on the legs, and precise control over the length and position of the non-wound wire portions. The non-wound wire portions have their ends welded to the conductive terminals of a flat insulating substrate which the core is bonded to. Such an approach results in a wideband response of from 10 MHz to at least 6000 MHz with a substantially flat insertion loss and a low return loss. Additionally, a lid is bonded to the top of the core in order to form a package conducive to handling by standard pick and place robotic assembly machinery.
US09071228B2	Balun Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of RF circuits, and in particular, to a balun. In an embodiment of the present invention, a balun is provided which comprises at least two coaxial cables, each of which is wound into at least one loop, and the inner and outer conductors of one end of all coaxial cables are connected respectively to each other and the inner and outer conductors of the other end are also connected to each other. The novel balun according to the embodiments of the present invention has a small size but a large power capacity and low cost, and can be used in a magnetic field environment.
US09071227B2	High-frequency module A high-frequency module has a structure including balanced terminals, with high design flexibility and good transmission characteristics. Wiring patterns to be connected to balanced terminals of SAW filters of SAW duplexers are located on a second layer to a sixth layer of a layered body. The characteristic impedances of first wiring patterns defining a pair of parallel or substantially parallel lines match, the characteristic impedances of second wiring patterns defining a pair of parallel or substantially parallel lines match, the characteristic impedances of third wiring patterns defining a pair of parallel or substantially parallel lines match, and the characteristic impedances of fourth wiring patterns defining a pair of parallel or substantially parallel lines match.
US09071219B2	Shaper design in CMOS for high dynamic range An analog filter is presented that comprises a chain of filter stages, a feedback resistor for providing a negative feedback, and a feedback capacitor for providing a positive feedback. Each filter stage has an input node and an output node. The output node of a filter stage is connected to the input node of an immediately succeeding filter stage through a resistor. The feedback resistor has a first end connected to the output node of the last filter stage along the chain of filter stages, and a second end connected to the input node of a first preceding filter stage. The feedback capacitor has a first end connected to the output node of one of the chain of filter stages, and a second end connected to the input node of a second preceding filter stage.
US09071217B1	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device includes a digital modulation signal generator that generates digital modulation signals, a DAC that converts digital output of the digital modulation signal generator into analog signals, a modulator that generates amplified quadrature modulation signals by exerting quadrature modulation and amplification on the analog signals, an antenna that radiates the amplified quadrature modulation signals, a power detector that outputs power detected signals obtained from power detection of the amplified quadrature modulation signals, a controller that adjusts gain of the modulator by using the power detected signals and a desired power value, a thermometer that measures ambient temperatures at a plurality of burst transmission periods, and a high-power prevention circuit that readjusts the gain of the modulator for a present burst transmission period.
US09071200B2	Power module for envelope tracking A power module at least includes an ET (Envelope Tracking) module. The ET module includes a buck converter, an inductor, and a capacitor. The buck converter is coupled to a work voltage. The buck converter has a first input terminal for receiving a first control signal, a second input terminal coupled to a supply node, and a buck output terminal The inductor is coupled between the buck output terminal of the buck converter and the supply node. The capacitor is coupled between the supply node and a ground voltage. The ET module is configured to supply a first adaptive supply voltage at the supply node. The first adaptive supply voltage is determined according to the first control signal.
US09071198B2	Amplifier circuit An integrated Doherty amplifier circuit comprising a main input terminal, a peak input terminal and an output terminal, a main input conductor and a peak input conductor that are offset from one another in a first direction, the main and peak input conductors extend in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein an input end of the main input conductor is coupled to the main input terminal and an input end of the peak input conductor is coupled to the peak input terminal, an output conductor that extends in the second direction, an output end of the output conductor is coupled to the output terminal, a main amplifier stage extends in the second direction and has a main stage input and a main stage output, a peak amplifier stage extends in the second direction and has a peak stage input and a peak stage output.
US09071195B2	Method and system for signal synthesis The invention describes methods and systems for digital synthesis of electric signals. According to the invention, one or more bit-patterns are provided, each indicative of a rectangular waveform having a characteristic frequency. Further to determining a selected signal frequency to be synthesized, a selected bit-pattern associated therewith is obtained. Bits of the selected bit-pattern are cyclically serialized to generate a substantially rectangular waveform signal comprising the characteristic frequency. Then, the signal is filtered to suppress spurious frequencies outside a certain unfiltered frequency band which corresponds to the selected bit-pattern to thereby obtain a filtered signal with prominent frequency component corresponding to the selected signal frequency.
US09071194B1	Electro-mechanical oscillator and method for generating a signal An oscillator and method for generating a signal are provided. The oscillator comprises an electro-mechanical resonator and a reconfigurable oscillator driver. The reconfigurable oscillator driver starts the oscillator in single-ended mode to avoid latching and transitions the oscillator to differential mode in such a manner as to sustain oscillations therein. The reconfigurable oscillator driver comprises two back-to-back banks of inverters and an adjustable feedback resistor. In single-ended mode, one bank is disabled and the other bank is enabled. To transition to differential mode and improve the quality of the signal, the number of enabled inverters is equalized in both banks.
US09071189B2	Motor drive configuration system and method A motor drive comprises a power sub-assembly and a control sub-assembly removably secured to the power sub-assembly. The power sub-assembly contains all power electronic circuitry and driver circuitry for the power electronics. The control sub-assembly comprises control circuitry for implementing a motor control routine that generates control signals for the power sub-assembly. The control sub-assembly is configured to conform to a USB mass storage device class such that it will appear as an icon on a configuration station when coupled to the configuration station via a USB cable. Thereafter, the drive may be accessed by selecting the icon, and parameter file and data transfer may be performed, such as by drag-and-drop transfer steps.
US09071183B2	Methods and systems for providing combined blower motor and draft inducer motor control A control system is described that includes a first rotating machine, a second rotating machine, and a motor controller physically mounted to and communicatively coupled with the first rotating machine and communicatively coupled with the second rotating machine. The motor controller includes a first PWM generator operable to generate a first set of pulse width modulated signals for application to the first rotating machine, and a second PWM generator operable to generate a second set of pulse modulated signals for application to the second rotating machine.
US09071179B2	Single-phase brushless motor A single-phase brushless motor includes a plurality of coils configured to be driven with a single phase, a sensor which detects a magnetic pole change according to the rotation of a rotor, and an energization mechanism which drives the rotor at a predetermined rotational speed. The energization mechanism is arranged to switch between a rectangular wave energization in which a voltage applied to the coil represents a rectangular waveform and a pseudo-sine wave energization in which the applied voltage represents a waveform of a pseudo-sine wave. The switching between the rectangular wave energization and the pseudo-sine wave energization is performed by gradually changing the waveform.
US09071174B2	Motor control device controlling a plurality of motors that drive one driven body A state switching unit switches the state of a motor that has caused an alarm, from an excited state to an un-excited state at an alarm generation timing. A state switch timing setting unit sets a state switch timing of switching the state of a motor other than the motor that has caused the alarm, from an excited state to an un-excited state. This setting is made on the basis of a physical quantity concerning at least one of the motor and a driven body. At the set state switch timing, a state switching unit switches the state of the motor other than the motor that has caused the alarm, from an excited state to an un-excited state.
US09071172B2	Sine modified trapezoidal drive for brushless DC motors A pulse width modulated (PWM) trapezoidal commutation drive to a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor is sine modified so that the applied drive voltage substantially matches the induced voltage generated in the BLDC motor. The values of the cosine of the angles between −30 degrees and +30 degrees are used to modify the duty cycle of the PWM drive signal dependent upon the rotor angular positions determined from the times between the zero crossing BEMF voltages measured at the unconnected motor terminals.
US09071169B2	Programmable gate controller system and method Controlling power switches with a programmable gate controller system proximate associated power switches and remote from the central controller including sensing at least one predetermined condition local to the associated power switches; reporting the sensed conditions to the remote programmable gate controller system; developing, in response to the sensed condition at least one control signal in the remote programmable gate controller system; and applying the control signal to the associated power switches.
US09071166B2	Power converter with surge voltage suppression A motor drive system wherein an LC circuit exists between an inverter and a motor is such that switching of semiconductor switching elements Su to Sw and Sx to Sz configuring the inverter is controlled by an on-signal formed of a first on-signal, a second on-signal, and an off-state period of a time the same as the first on-signal provided between the first on-signal and second on-signal, and by an off-signal formed of a first off-signal, a second off-signal, and an on-state period of a time the same as the first off-signal provided between the first off-signal and second off-signal, and surge voltage applied to an input terminal of the motor is suppressed by the time of the first on-signal and the time of the second off-signal being set to one-sixth of a resonance cycle specific to the LC circuit.
US09071165B2	2N+1 level voltage inverter This system for converting a direct input voltage into an alternating output voltage comprises two input terminals, two voltage generators connected in series between the input terminals and connected to one another by a middle point, as well as, for each phase of the alternating voltage, an output terminal, two switching branches each connected between the output terminal and a respective input terminal, each switching branch comprising N first switching cells connected in series and N−1 intermediate points, the first switching cells successively being connected to one another by a corresponding intermediate point, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and control means for controlling the first switching cells. The system includes, for each phase of the alternating voltage, N−1 pair(s) of capacitors, each pair of capacitors being connected between intermediate points of one of the two switching branches and the other of the two switching branches.
US09071164B2	Multi-phase converter system and method A multi-phase converter includes a plurality of phase paths. Each phase path includes at least one dc-link that is independent from every other phase path dc-link such that each output phase voltage is generated from a corresponding dc-link voltage source that can be different from every other phase voltage dc-link voltage source. A total dc-link voltage level is determined for each output phase voltage. A common-mode injection voltage is calculated based on all dc-link voltage levels and all phase reference voltages. Each phase path reference voltage is then adjusted based on the calculated common-mode injection voltage, such that each generated output phase voltage level is adjusted in response to its corresponding adjusted reference voltage.
US09071162B2	AC-AC converter with reduced inductive loss and switching loss An AC-AC converter includes a first semiconductor switch series circuit, a second semiconductor switch series circuit, and a capacitor series circuit are connected in parallel. A first inductor is connected between one end of an alternating current input and a series connection point of the first semiconductor switch series circuit. A bidirectional switch is connected between the one end of the alternating current input and a series connection point of the second semiconductor switch series circuit. A second inductor is connected between the series connection point of the second semiconductor switch series circuit and one end of an alternating current output. A series connection point of the capacitor series circuit is connected to the other end of the alternating current input and the other end of the alternating current output.
US09071159B2	Power converter A power converter includes a power converter section (4) (e.g., an inverter circuit) having a plurality of switching elements (Sp, Sn) in which a current can flow in a reverse direction, and a control section (10) which determines on-state time of each of the switching elements (Sp, Sn) according to an output voltage of the power converter section (4), thereby switching on/off states of the switching elements (Sp, Sn). The control section (10) instructs the power converter section (4) to perform synchronous rectification, and corrects the on-state time according to a drop of an on-state voltage of each of the switching elements (Sp, Sn).
US09071154B2	DC-DC converter, solar charging system, and movable body This DC/DC converter includes a first DC/DC converter, and a second DC/DC converter for carrying out a DC/DC conversion of voltage supplied from the first DC/DC converter. One of either the first DC/DC converter or the second DC/DC converter is a fixed-factor DC/DC converter, and the other of either the first DC/DC converter or the second DC/DC converter is a variable-factor DC/DC converter.
US09071152B2	Power converter with demand pulse isolation The present invention provides a switched-mode power converter with regulation demand pulses sent across a galvanic isolation barrier.
US09071150B2	Variable frequency iteration MPPT for resonant power converters A method of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) uses an MPPT algorithm to determine a switching frequency for a resonant power converter, including initializing by setting an initial boundary frequency range that is divided into initial frequency sub-ranges bounded by initial frequencies including an initial center frequency and first and second initial bounding frequencies. A first iteration includes measuring initial powers at the initial frequencies to determine a maximum power initial frequency that is used to set a first reduced frequency search range centered or bounded by the maximum power initial frequency including at least a first additional bounding frequency. A second iteration includes calculating first and second center frequencies by averaging adjacent frequent values in the first reduced frequency search range and measuring second power values at the first and second center frequencies. The switching frequency is determined from measured power values including the second power values.
US09071148B2	Switching control circuit and switching power supply apparatus including standby mode setting mechanism An external circuit is connected to a polarity detection terminal of a switching control IC. An increased value of the voltage of a pulse signal input to the polarity detection terminal at the time of the activation of a power supply changes in response to this external circuit. Accordingly, owing to the external circuit connected to the polarity detection terminal, the validity/invalidity of a standby mode is set. When the standby mode is validated, a blanking frequency changes in response to the voltage of a feedback terminal, and a switching loss in a light load is reduced. Accordingly, a switching control circuit and a switching power supply apparatus are configured that are able to set the validity/invalidity of the standby mode or select the method of the standby mode without using a dedicated terminal.
US09071146B2	AC voltage sensor with low power consumption A power converter controller includes an input sense circuit to receive an input sense signal representative of an input of a power converter. A zero-crossing detector is coupled to the input sense circuit to be responsive to the input sense signal falling below a first zero-crossing threshold and rising above a second zero-crossing threshold to determine zero-crossing intervals. A timer circuit is coupled to the zero-crossing detector to determine peak intervals and to synchronize an enable signal generated to enable the input sense circuit to sense the input of the power converter during the peak intervals of the input of the power converter. A comparator circuit is coupled to the input sense circuit and the timer circuit to detect if the input of the power converter is greater or less than one or more thresholds during the peak intervals of the input of the power converter.
US09071144B2	Adaptive current control timing and responsive current control for interfacing with a dimmer In at least one embodiment, an electronic system adapts current control timing for half line cycle of a phase-cut input voltage and responsively controls a dimmer current in a power converter system. The adaptive current control time and responsive current control provides, for example, interfacing with a dimmer. The electronic system and method include a dimmer, a switching power converter, and a controller to control the switching power converter and controls a dimmer current. In at least one embodiment, the controller determines a predicted time period from a zero crossing until a leading edge of a phase-cut input voltage and then responsively controls the dimmer current to, for example, reduce current and voltage perturbations (referred to as “ringing”), improve efficiency, and reduce an average amount of power handled by various circuit components.
US09071143B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip which includes a first power supply terminal and into which a circuit block which is operated by a power supply voltage supplied to the first power supply terminal is integrated, a power circuit that includes switching transistors and supplies the power supply voltage to the first power supply terminal, and a DCDC control unit that is formed on the first semiconductor chip and generates a control signal for controlling the turning on and off of the switching transistors in response to an information signal from the circuit block and a voltage information signal corresponding to an output voltage from the power circuit.
US09071142B2	Multi-phase SMPS with load transient control and associated control method The present invention discloses a multi-phase switch-mode power supply (SMPS). The multi-phase SMPS may comprise a plurality of comparing circuits and a controller. Wherein each comparing circuit comprises a first input coupled to a threshold voltage, a second input coupled to a feedback signal of the output voltage, and an output configured to provide a load indication signal. The controller may have a plurality of inputs coupled to the outputs of the comparing circuit, and a plurality of outputs configured to provide control signals for driving a plurality of switches of the multi-phase SMPS. And the controller is configured to selectively turn on a plurality of the switches according to the load indication signals.
US09071135B2	Converting controller for overcurrent protection The present invention employs a pin of a controller to set an over current protection value and a time period respectively by means of time-division and/or voltage and current. Therefore, the cost of the controller is reduced due to reducing the amount of pins thereof. Furthermore, the time period is not only used to setting a constant on time, but also used to setting a constant off time and an operating frequency for different controlling mode.
US09071134B2	Power supply controller having selectable PWM and RPM modes and method therefor At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of switching between synchronous and nonsynchronous ramp control. An embodiment may include a power supply controller that has a trigger circuit configured to generate an RPM trigger, a timer circuit configured to generate a clock signal, and a switching circuit configured to switch a modulation mode responsively to the clock signal and the RPM signal.
US09071133B2	Switched-mode power supply device and use of such a switched mode power supply device Switched-mode power supply device having an input for receiving an AC voltage input signal, an output for providing a DC voltage signal and/or a direct-current signal to a downstream consumer, a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, and resonant converter means assigned to the primary side of the transformer, which resonant converter means form an LLC topology with inclusion of the primary winding and can be actuated with a variable-frequency control signal on the primary side by means of a control unit, wherein the control unit, which is realized by means of an integrated and/or programmable circuit component, generates the control signal in reaction to and as a function of a zero-crossing detection signal generated from the AC voltage input signal, a current flowing in the transformer windings, in particular on the secondary side, and a constant and/or predeterminable preset signal for an output current flowing at the output, in such a way that regulating means associated with the control unit regulate the output current to the preset signal, and a phase of an input current flowing in the input is synchronized to the phase of the AC voltage input signal, wherein means for generating a sinusoidal signal profile are associated with the regulating means, which signal profile-generating means are independent of the AC voltage input signal and act independently thereof.
US09071128B2	DC-DC converter DC-DC converter, wherein in a case of positive voltage generation, the controlling circuit controls the first to fourth switch circuits with the first to fourth controlling signals, thereby permitting conduction between the first node and the first reference node and conduction between the eighth node and the fourth reference node, then permitting conduction between the fourth node and the second reference node and conduction between the sixth node and the third reference node, and then permitting conduction between the second node and the first reference node.
US09071126B2	Wireless power transmission device A wireless power transmission device includes a power transmitter, a first transmission unit, a power receiver, a feedback regulator, a receive controller, and a second transmission unit. The power transmitter is for generating power, and the first transmission unit is for wirelessly transmitting power generated by the power transmitter. The power receiver is for receiving and rectifying the power from the first transmission unit. The feedback regulator is for receiving a feedback signal from the power receiver to generate an AC control signal. The receive controller is for receiving the control signal to generate a driving signal. The second transmission unit is for wirelessly transmitting the control signal to the receive controller.
US09071124B2	Mover and linear motor A mover, in which at each outer surface of a cornered tubular inner yoke, a flat plate magnet magnetized from inside to outside in a direction perpendicular to the outer surface, a flat plate magnet magnetized in an axial direction of the inner yoke, a flat plate magnet magnetized from outside to inside in the direction perpendicular to the outer surface, and a flat plate magnet magnetized in the axial direction of the inner yoke are alternately provided in this order, is passed through an armature in which a first single pole unit and a second single pole unit rotated by 90° with respect to the first single pole unit are alternately stacked, thus forming a linear motor. Windings are collectively wound around core portions of the first single pole unit. Positions of the magnets provided at the outer surfaces of the inner yoke are deviated from each other.
US09071121B2	Linear vibrator A linear vibrator including: a fixing unit having a magnet in an inner space, the magnet generating magnetic force; a vibration unit including a coil disposed to face the magnet and generating electromagnetic force by interaction with the magnet, and a holder coupled with a surface of the coil and fixedly supporting a mass body which vibrates; and an elastic member coupled with the holder and the fixing unit and providing elastic force to the vibration unit.
US09071120B2	Linear actuator and boring device A linear actuator having a linearly extending slider disposed in a body casing, a plurality of magnets fixed to the slider along the axial direction of the slider, and a plurality of coils supported by the body casing so as to surround the slider to which the magnets are fixed, the linear actuator being structured so that a slider shifts in the axial direction relative to the body casing due to interaction between energized coils and magnets, the linear actuator further comprising a plurality of flat springs each supporting one end or the other end of the slider in the axial direction, each flat spring being elastically deformed relative to the axial direction of the slider.
US09071118B2	Axial motor An axial motor includes a rotor arranged between a pair of stators with coils. In the rotor, a plurality of permanent magnets sandwiched between pairs of first magnetic materials and a plurality of second magnetic materials are alternately arranged in a rotation direction while gaps are provided therebetween. Since the permanent magnets are sandwiched by the first magnetic materials in the thus constructed axial motor, a field-weakening control can be performed. Since the second magnetic materials are provided, a reluctance torque can be generated. Further, since the gaps are provided, more magnetic fluxes generated from the permanent magnets can be caused to flow toward the coils. Therefore, the thus constructed axial motor can achieve a higher output, higher torque, higher efficiency, and miniaturization.
US09071114B2	Coil correction method In a method for correcting a coil wound in two layers, the coil is corrected as follows: a conductor is wound from an outside layer toward an inside layer to form a first row; the conductor is wound from the inside layer toward the outside layer to form a second row; the conductor is wound from the outside layer toward the inside layer to form a third row; a crossover portion is formed by connecting adjacent rows of the conductor; and a load is applied to the crossover portion from a coil correcting die through a crossover-portion correcting die so as to push first and second ends of the crossover portion along adjacent rows and move an intermediate portion of the crossover portion to an adjacent row.
US09071108B2	Movable iron core linear actuator There is provided a movable iron core linear actuator, which includes a magnetic circuit which causes a moving element to reciprocate. The magnetic circuit includes an iron core constituting the moving element, a stator core including a facing portion which faces the iron core, a pair of permanent magnets disposed in the facing portion along a reciprocating direction and having inverted magnetic poles at their surfaces which face the iron core, and a coil wound around the stator core. Energization to coil causes the moving element to reciprocate. When the coil is energized, the spring force of magnetic spring which changed in accordance with a relative position of the moving element with respect to the stator core is superimposed on the electromagnetic driving force produced by the energization of the coil and is applied to the moving element by the magnetic flux produced by the permanent magnets.
US09071106B2	Armature windings The present invention relates to armature windings for DC electrical machines, and in particular to those that use electronic commutation and have relatively few slots per pole-pair. The armature windings are particularly well suited for use with rotating DC electrical machines that have a large diameter and a large number of poles such as those that might be directly coupled to the turbine blade assembly of a wind turbine. The armature winding is arranged in relation to the magnetic field generated by a field winding or by permanent magnets such that a number of commutation events during the time taken for the relative movement between the armature and the field system of one pole-pair is much larger than the number of coils per pole-pair.
US09071104B2	Method of attaching a magnet to a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine A method of attaching a magnet to a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine is provided. The method includes arranging a magnet along a surface of the rotor or stator; arranging a pair of retainers, one on each side of the magnet; enclosing the rotor or stator, magnet and retainers in a vacuum bag; and performing vacuum evacuation to consolidate the magnet to the retainers by means of adhesive. A magnet mounting arrangement for a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine and a wind turbine with a generator including a rotor and a stator and such a magnet mounting arrangement are also provided.
US09071096B2	Clamping structure for a stator core A generator is provided comprising: a frame; a stator core comprising laminations; and clamping structure to axially clamp the laminations together. The clamping structure may comprise: a plurality of first finger plates engaging a first end of the stator core; a first spacer plate associated with the first finger plates and including a plurality of spaced apart first recesses; a plurality of first engagement structures, each comprising a bolt and a corresponding slidable bushing; a first spring ring in engagement with the first engagement structures; and first load-applying structure coupled to the frame to imparts a load to the first spring ring.
US09071093B2	Base structure for cooling fan A base structure for cooling fan includes a seat, a circuit board and a motor assembly. The seat has an inner side served as a supporting surface. The circuit board has a first side attached to a top of the supporting surface and an opposite second side having a plurality of electronic elements provided thereon. The motor assembly includes a plurality of stacked silicon steel plates located on the circuit board and above the electronic elements. With the first side of the circuit board being attached to the supporting surface of the seat and the electronic elements on the second side of the circuit board being located in spaces between the motor assembly and the circuit board, more silicon steel plates can be stacked in the motor assembly to enable upgraded motor working efficiency and reduced electric current needed by the cooling fan to operate.
US09071092B2	Current diverter ring The current diverter rings (CDRs), captured CDRs, bearing isolators, and explosion-proof CDRs serve to dissipate an electrical charge from a rotating piece of equipment to ground, such as from a motor shaft to a motor housing. One embodiment of the explosion-proof CDR includes a stator that may be mounted to the equipment housing and a rotor that may be mounted to a shaft. The rotor may rotate with the shaft may be encompassed by stator and a cap, which cap may be secured directly to the stator or the housing. A conductive assembly may be positioned in a radial channel formed in the stator such that the conductive assembly contacts the shaft to conduct electricity from the shaft to the housing. Another embodiment of an explosion-proof CDR does not require a rotor. The explosion-proof CDR may be configured to define a flame path to achieve various explosion-proof certifications.
US09071090B2	Motor and electric device including the same A motor includes a stator having a stator iron core wound with stator windings, a rotor rotatably mounted on a shaft, a bearing for supporting the shaft, and a conductive bracket for fixing the bearing. The rotor is formed of a rotary body that holds a permanent magnet and the shaft that extends through the rotary body at center and joined to the rotary body. An electrostatic capacity between the shaft and an outermost wall of the rotary body is set smaller than an electrostatic capacity between an inner ring and an outer ring of the bearing during rotation of the bearing.
US09071088B2	Axial gap type generator There is provided an axial gap type generator exhibiting improved precision in positioning stator cores. An axial gap type generator comprises a generator case fixed to a crank case of an engine, a rotor yoke housed inside the generator case, and fixed to a crankshaft of the engine, and a first stator core and a second stator core fixed to generator case inner faces, and disposed flanking the rotor yoke in a rotation axis direction. The generator case is configured through direct connection of a first member to which the first stator core is fixed and a second member to which the second stator core is fixed.
US09071087B2	Electric drive device for motor vehicle The invention relates to an electric drive device (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) comprising an electric motor (20) with a stator (24) and a rotor (22) arranged to rotate a drive shaft (26), a housing (30; 130; 230; 330; 430) in which the electric motor (20) is housed, which housing has an essentially ring shaped cross section with an imaginary center axle (X), wherein the electric motor (20) is eccentrically arranged in the housing (30; 130; 230; 330; 430) in such a way that the rotational center of the drive shaft (26) of the electric motor (20) runs essentially parallel to and at a distance from the center axle of the housing (30; 130; 230; 330; 430) so as to form a desired space (36) between the electric motor and said housing. The invention also relates to motor vehicle with an electric drive device.
US09071086B2	Inverter, inverter communication system, communication method thereof An inverter communication system is provided. The system includes a plurality of inverters connected to each other through a communication line, and assigned with different original identifiers for mutual distinction, wherein each of the plurality of inverters: receives a data frame transmitted through a previous inverter; selectively transmits the received data frame to a subsequent inverter; generates a data frame to be transmitted when data to be transmitted to a specific inverter occur; and transmits the generated data frame to a subsequent inverter.
US09071081B2	Power source device for vehicle A vehicle power source device which can improve the accuracy of battery deterioration detection. The vehicle power source device (100) is provided with: generator (110) which is in-built in a vehicle; high-voltage first battery (120) which stores the electricity generated by the generator (110); DC/DC converter (140) which is provided between the generator (110) and the first battery (120), and electrical component (180); second battery (130) which is connected to the first battery (120) via the DC/DC converter (140), and which has a lower voltage than the first battery (120); and power source ECU (150) which controls the DC/DC converter (140). If the current drawn from the first battery (120) satisfies predicted conditions, the power source ECU (150) increases the output voltage of the DC/DC converter, measures the parameters required to detect the deterioration of the first battery (120), and determines the deterioration of the first battery (120).
US09071077B2	Limitation of vampiric energy loss within an inductive battery charger or external power supply using magnetic target detection circuitry Vampire energy loss occurs when an electronic or mechanical machine consumes energy while not being utilized for any useful purpose. Vampire energy losses in consumer electronic devices are under intense scrutiny for needlessly wasting an estimated 20% of the electric power production in the United States. It is also estimated by the US Department of Energy that by 2015 vampire electronics could be responsible for nearly 30 percent of the total household power consumption in the United States. Smarter vampire proof technologies are needed to address this growing problem.
US09071076B2	Limitation of vampiric energy loss within a wireless inductive battery charger Vampire energy loss occurs when an electronic or mechanical machine consumes energy while not being utilized for any useful purpose. Vampire energy losses in consumer electronic devices are under intense scrutiny for needlessly wasting an estimated 20% of the electric power production in the United States. It is also estimated by the US Department of Energy that by 2015 vampire electronics could be responsible for nearly 30 percent of the total household power consumption in the United States. Smarter vampire proof technologies are needed to address this growing problem.
US09071075B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system A power charging system is provided. The power charging system may have an information processing apparatus having a first communication unit and a power receiving unit, and an external apparatus having a second communication unit and a power transmission unit. The second communication unit may be configured to wirelessly communicate with the first communication unit using a first carrier wave having a first frequency and the power transmission unit may be configured to wirelessly transmit power to the power receiving unit using a second carrier wave having a second frequency, the second frequency being different from the first frequency.
US09071074B2	Multi-standard, alternating current or direct current compatible electric vehicle supply equipment A multi-standard compatible electric vehicle supply equipment includes a plurality of different electric vehicle connectors each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of different electric vehicle standards. A power converter inputs alternating current power and includes an output to output direct current power. A circuit is structured to selectively electrically connect a source of alternating current power to a number of the electric vehicle connectors, selectively electrically connect the output of the power converter to a selected one of the different electric vehicle connectors, employ a plurality of different communication protocols for the different electric vehicle connectors, detect connectivity of one of the different electric vehicle connectors with an electric vehicle and responsively select one of a plurality of different charging modes, and communicate with the electric vehicle through the selected one of the different electric vehicle connectors.
US09071068B2	Charge/discharge control apparatus An estimation unit estimates the amount of power consumption for each unit period of time. A rechargeable battery control unit controls the rechargeable battery such that an exceeding amount of power worth the amount of power exceeding a target amount of power during a unit period of time is charged into the battery, and power is discharged from the battery during a time zone wherein the target amount of power is exceeded, on the basis of the result of the estimation. When the battery needs to be charged in excess of the upper-limit value, the control unit charges the battery up to the upper-limit value during a time zone wherein the amount of power consumption estimated is light, and the amount of power that exceeds the upper-limit value is charged during a time zone that is close to the time zone wherein the target amount of power is exceeded.
US09071064B2	Wireless energy transfer system and method for feeding an electric load A wireless energy transfer system and an associated method for feeding an electric load are provided. The system includes a transmitter which includes a generator adapted to generate a radiofrequency signal at a first frequency and a first resonant circuit adapted to transmit the radiofrequency signal; and a receiver adapted to receive the radiofrequency signal and comprising a second resonant circuit. The second resonant circuit is adapted to be located in the non-radiative near field generated by the first resonant circuit, and the transmitter includes frequency sweeping functionality, which imposes on the radiofrequency signal generator a cyclic excursion of the first frequency in the neighborhood of a nominal frequency of the generator so that, when the first frequency matches the resonant frequency of the second resonant circuit, a non-radiative energy transfer occurs.
US09071063B2	Wireless power receiving apparatus In a wireless power supply system, a first capacitor is arranged in series with an antenna. A second capacitor and a switch are arranged in series on a path arranged in parallel with the first capacitor. A control unit adjusts the duty ratio of the switch according to the frequency of an electric power signal.
US09071062B2	Systems and methods for dipole enhanced inductive power transfer An inductive power transfer apparatus is disclosed. A transmitter generates a first time varying magnetic field. A receiver is separated from the transmitter by a gap, but is located with the first time varying magnetic field. The receiver comprises: a conductor; and a receiver magnet located in the first time varying magnetic field and supported for movement in response to the first time varying magnetic field. The conductor and receiver are positioned relative to one another such that movement of the receiver magnet creates a second time-varying magnetic field in a vicinity of the conductor to thereby induce current in the conductor.
US09071061B2	Inductive power transfer apparatus A magnetic flux pad for receiving or generating magnetic flux. The pad includes two pole areas (11, 12) associated with a magnetically permeable core 14. Coils 17 define the pole areas. The pad allows useable flux to be generated at a significant height above a surface of the pad.
US09071059B2	Protective device against corrosion for an onboard electrical system and method for the control thereof A protective device against corrosion for an onboard electrical system, in particular thermal corrosion. The protective device includes at least one sensor for detecting a shunt and a switching device which is controllable by the sensor and outputs a switching pulse for the activation of a control unit upon control by the sensor. Also described is a method for the control of the onboard electrical system.
US09071058B2	Charger and electronic apparatus system A charger capable of charging an electronic apparatus includes a charger main body having a power output unit which output charging power, a connection unit which is attached to the charger main body, which is configured to be connected to the electronic apparatus, and which is configured to supply the charging power from the power output unit to the electronic apparatus in a state that the connection unit is connected to the electronic apparatus, and a temperature sensor which is provided in the connection unit, and which is configured to detect a temperature in the vicinity of the connection unit.
US09071054B2	Device and method for controlling power according to a load of a hybrid excavator A power control apparatus and method according to a load of a hybrid excavator including an H-ECU is disclosed. If a difference between an actual power value actually used in a load (SW PEC and ISAM PEC) or in an ESS and a power value required for an actual use in the load is equal to or larger than a set error value, a power that is supplied from the ESS to the PECs and a power that is supplied between the PECs are controlled to be cut off, and thus high voltage is prevented from being continuously supplied to circuits to thereby prevent secondary problems (e.g., fire, trouble of equipment, and the like) from occurring due to the high voltage.
US09071052B2	Unit rack for power storage and power storage apparatus comprising the same Disclosed is a unit rack for power storage having a plurality of cell modules which are series- or parallel-connected with each other; a housing for accommodating the cell modules; a receiving part of a circuit breaker, formed or installed in the housing, and having a ground clearance higher than the highest ground clearance of the cell modules; a circuit breaker received in the receiving part and connected between the connection lines; and a receiving part cover for closing the receiving part of the circuit breaker.
US09071050B2	Current generating device Even when a large-current, high-voltage load is applied, damage is prevented. A current generating device (1) supplies a current simulating a current flowing when lightning occurs to a test piece (9) subjected to a lightning resistance test using power supplied from a power supply device (2). The current generating device (1) includes electric double-layer capacitors that store and discharge power supplied from the power supply device (2), a semiconductor switch (3) that switches between supplying and not supplying the power stored in the electric double-layer capacitors to the test piece (9), and a protection unit (4) that is connected between the semiconductor switch (3) and the test piece (9) and that cuts the connection between the semiconductor switch (3) and the test piece (9) when a current larger than a predetermined value flows through the semiconductor switch (3).
US09071047B2	Voltage regulator Provided is a voltage regulator including an overcurrent protection circuit using a simple circuit. The voltage regulator includes the overcurrent protection circuit including: a first sense transistor having a gate connected to an output terminal of an error amplifier circuit and a drain connected to a sense resistor; a second sense transistor having a gate connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier circuit; and a control transistor having a gate connected to an output terminal of a control circuit, a source connected to a drain of the second sense transistor, and a drain connected to the sense resistor, in which the control transistor is turned on in response to a detection signal output by the control circuit until a reference voltage exceeds a predetermined voltage.
US09071045B2	Terminal processing structure and terminal processing method of coaxial cable A terminal processing structure of a coaxial cable includes a core wire, an insulator with which an outer periphery of the core wire is covered, a braid with which an outer periphery of the insulator is covered, and an outer sheath with which an outer periphery of the braid is covered. The outer sheath is divided into a distal piece and a proximal piece by being notched along a circumferential direction in a cable distal end and the distal piece is held in a position separate from the proximal piece and thereby an exposed part of the braid to which a braid crimp part of a shield terminal is crimped is formed between the distal piece and the proximal piece and also a distal end of the braid is covered with the distal piece.
US09071043B2	Trapped-key-based locking system for docking station Embodiments of the present invention provide a docking station that prevents electrical cables (e.g., from a portable power generator or other temporary power source) from even being connected to connectors in the interior of the docking station while the building's electrical system (or other electrical load) is in electrical communication with the utility. The docking station can include a cabinet with two doors that swing in different directions and a locking mechanism that regulates the opening and closing of those doors. In preferred embodiments, the locking mechanism includes a trapped-key lock. Embodiments of the present invention can be used in applications other than docking stations.
US09071042B2	Wiring harness and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a wiring harness having a flexible tube body being an exterior component of a conducting path, and a manufacturing method thereof. The wiring harness has a conducting path assembly including a conducting path and a flexible tube body being an exterior component of the conducting path assembly. The tube body has a water or light hardening fixing member. When the water or light hardening fixing member is hardened, a shape holding portion is formed. The wiring harness is held by the shape holding portion of the tube body with a desired shape.
US09071041B2	Twist-in latching arrangement for cable management structure A cable management system includes a panel with a plurality of openings, each opening defining a similar configuration, each opening defining a first dimension and a second dimension, the first dimension being longer, than the second dimension. A cable management structure is removably coupled to the panel, the cable management structure including a plurality of latching elements, each latching element defining a retaining portion received through each opening of the panel, each retaining portion having a first dimension that is smaller than or equal to the second dimension of the opening and a second dimension that is greater than the second dimension of the opening, wherein the cable management structure is coupled to the panel by inserting the retaining portion of each latching element through each opening and rotating the cable management structure in a first direction with respect to the panel.
US09071040B2	Ion generator A partition is formed between an ion generating unit at the windward side and an ion generating unit at the leeward side, so that the amount of airflow to pass through the ion generating unit at the windward side will become more in comparison to the amount of airflow to pass through the ion generating unit at the leeward side.
US09071037B2	High power short pulse fiber laser A pulsed laser comprises an oscillator and amplifier. An attenuator and/or pre-compressor may be disposed between the oscillator and amplifier to improve performance and possibly the quality of pulses output from the laser. Such pre-compression may be implemented with spectral filters and/or dispersive elements between the oscillator and amplifier. The pulsed laser may have a modular design comprising modular devices that may have Telcordia-graded quality and reliability. Fiber pigtails extending from the device modules can be spliced together to form laser system. In one embodiment, a laser system operating at approximately 1050 nm comprises an oscillator having a spectral bandwidth of approximately 19 nm. This oscillator signal can be manipulated to generate a pulse having a width below approximately 90 fs. A modelocked linear fiber laser cavity with enhanced pulse-width control includes concatenated sections of both polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining fibers. Apodized fiber Bragg gratings and integrated fiber polarizers are included in the cavity to assist in linearly polarizing the output of the cavity. Very short pulses with a large optical bandwidth are obtained by matching the dispersion value of the fiber Bragg grating to the inverse of the dispersion of the intra-cavity fiber.
US09071036B2	Laser apparatus A laser apparatus may include an optical resonator, a laser chamber, an optical loss adjustment mechanism, and a spectral line width adjustment mechanism. The optical resonator includes a mirror configured to reflect a part of light and a grating. The laser chamber is provided in the optical resonator and contains a laser gain medium, configured to emit a laser beam. The optical loss adjustment mechanism is provided in the optical resonator and configured to adjust an optical loss of the laser beam. The spectral line width adjustment mechanism is provided in the optical resonator and configured to adjust a spectral line width of the laser beam.
US09071030B2	Highly integrable semiconductor device Described herein is a novel technique used to make novel thin III-V semiconductor cleaved facet edge emitting active optical devices, such as lasers and optical amplifiers. These fully processed laser platelets with both top side and bottom side electrical contacts can be thought of as freestanding optoelectronic building blocks that can be integrated as desired on diverse substrates for a number of applications, many of which are in the field of communications. The thinness of these platelets and the precision with which their dimensions are defined using the process described herein makes it conducive to assemble them in dielectric recesses on a substrate, such as silicon, as part of an end-fire coupled, coaxial alignment optoelectronic integration strategy. This technology has been used to integrate edge emitting lasers onto silicon substrates, a significant challenge in the field of silicon optoelectronics.
US09071029B2	Socket A socket includes a tubular frame body into which a base part of an electric lamp bulb is to be inserted, the frame body in which a terminal metal fitting to be electrically connected with the base part is to be provided, the frame body having a side wall formed with two slits and formed with an arm piece between the slits, the arm piece which has a first face to be opposed to the terminal metal fitting and a second face opposite to the first face, the side wall formed with a butting face, when the arm piece is deformed outward of the frame body, a part of the second face of the arm piece is in contact with the butting face.
US09071016B2	Electrical connector with a sliding flexible cantilever beam terminal retainer An electrical connector configured to retain an electrical terminal including a terminal lock nib that projects inward into a terminal cavity from a first cavity wall for retaining the electrical terminal in the connector body and a flexible cantilever beam that projects axially into the terminal cavity from a fixed end of the cantilever beam. The cantilever beam is located opposite the terminal lock nib and is configured to push the terminal against a second cavity wall and into retaining engagement with the terminal lock nib. The connector also includes a support ridge that projects into the terminal cavity and is configured to contact and restrict movement of a free end of the cantilever beam during insertion of the terminal into the terminal cavity. The terminal has a laterally spaced lock surface engageable with the lock nib and is configured to prevent withdrawal of the terminal from the cavity.
US09071011B2	Electrical connector and squib connection device An electrical connector of the present invention includes a housing, an electrical terminal, and a moving member that has a moving member body and a detection portion. The housing is provided with a first step portion, and the detection portion is provided with a second step portion. When the moving member is at a first position, the second step portion comes into contact with the first step portion so as to prevent the moving member from moving forward. When the mating portion is completely fitted into a retainer, the detection portion becomes displaced toward the counter mating side due to being pressed by the retainer or the inflator housing, and the second step portion becomes separated from the first step portion so as to permit the moving member to move forward. Also, a squib connection device of the present invention includes this electrical connector.
US09071004B2	Self-supported jacket seal for high voltage cable accessories A self-supported jacket seal designed for a cable connector so that after a cable is inserted into the cable connector, the integrated jacket seal protects any exposed portion of the cable without requiring any additional installation steps. The self-supported feature is provided by a plurality of rigid ridges positioned on the outer surface of the jacket seal. The ridges strengthen the construction of the component so that the jacket seal substantially maintains its shape when a cable is slidably inserted therewithin. Because the seal does not buckle when installed, it does not require any additional installation steps as found in other similar inventions known in the art.
US09071002B2	Power supply unit Multi-outlet socket boxes for providing power and, optionally, data connection. The sockets are mounted in oppositely directed inclined flanks of a socket support structure. The socket includes a casing containing the support structure, with an opening in the casing and a cover which, in its closed position conceals the structure and in its open position permits access to the sockets. The cover may be in two parts which move towards and away from one another during closing and opening movements. The cover could include several slats hinged together, guides for guiding the slats, and a locking mechanism.
US09070994B2	Plug, electronic apparatus, and plug receptacle There is provided a plug which includes electrodes that transmit direct-current power and an electrode cover that covers the electrodes. The electrode cover includes a lock detection unit that electrically detects that the electrode cover is locked.
US09070992B2	Termination of carbon nanotube macrostructures An electrical connector has a carbon nanotube (CNT) conductor, a terminal terminated to the CNT conductor, and a conductive intermediary electrically coupled to the CNT conductor and the terminal to enhance an electrical connection between the CNT conductor and the terminal. Optionally, the terminal may have a crimp barrel that receives the CNT conductor. The electrical connector may include a second CNT conductor where the terminal splices the CNT conductor and the second CNT conductor together.
US09070990B2	Power connector having opposing contact springs Power connector including a pair of discrete contact springs configured to electrically engage a conductive component. Each of the contact springs includes a contact body having opposite inner and outer side surfaces and a contact edge that extends between the inner and outer side surfaces. The contact body is shaped to form a spring base and a mating portion. The spring bases of the contact springs are joined by a locking feature. The locking feature includes a localized portion of at least one of the spring bases. The localized portion frictionally engages the other spring base to interlock the spring bases. Each of the mating portions extends from the corresponding spring base. The mating portions are separated by a receiving space and are configured to engage the conductive component when the conductive component is inserted into the receiving space.
US09070988B2	Structure and method for connection of connector terminal In a structure of connection of a connector terminal 10 connected to an electric wire whose core wire is covered with a outer cover, the connector terminal has a barrel portion for crimping the end of the electric wire and an electric connection portion electrically connected to a mating terminal. The outer cover of the electric wire is cut and separated in the vicinity of the end portion of the electric wire and displaced to expose the core wire. The separated portion of the outer cover displaced toward the end portion of the electric wire, an exposed portion of the core wire, and a portion of the electric wire covered with the outer cover are crimped to the barrel portion of the connector terminal.
US09070982B2	Integrated millimeter wave transceiver A millimeter wave transceiver including a plate forming an interposer having its upper surface supporting an interconnection network and having its lower surface intended to be assembled on an electronic device; at least one integrated circuit chip assembled on the upper surface of the interposer; at least one antenna including at least one track formed on the upper surface of the interposer; and at least one block attached under the plate and including in front of each antenna a cavity having a metalized bottom, the distance between each antenna and the bottom being on the order of one quarter of the wavelength, taking into account the dielectric constants of the interposed materials.
US09070981B2	Multi-layered electromagnetic wave absorber and manufacturing method thereof A multi layer electromagnetic wave absorber is provided. The absorber includes a surface layer comprising at least one of a dielectric lossy mixture and a magnetic lossy mixture, an absorption layer, laminated on a rear side of the surface layer, comprising: a dielectric lossy mixture having a higher loss than the dielectric lossy mixture for the surface layer, and a magnetic lossy mixture having a higher loss than the magnetic lossy mixture for the surface layer, and a boundary layer, laminated on a rear side of the absorption layer, comprising a conductive material.
US09070980B2	Small antenna apparatus operable in multiple bands including low-band frequency and high-band frequency and increasing bandwidth including high-band frequency A radiator is provided with a looped radiation conductor, a capacitor, an inductor, a feed point on the radiation conductor, and a dielectric block provided in a portion where the radiation conductor and the ground conductor are close to each other. At a low-band resonance frequency, a current flows through a path extending along an inner perimeter of the loop of the radiation conductor and including the inductor and the capacitor. At a high-band resonance frequency, a current flows through a path including a section extending along an outer perimeter of the loop of the radiation conductor, including the capacitor but not including the inductor, and extending between the feed point and the inductor, and a parallel resonant circuit is formed from: a capacitance between the radiation conductor and the ground conductor between which the dielectric block is provided; and an inductance of the radiation conductor.
US09070975B2	Antennas with multiple feed circuits There is disclosed an antenna arrangement comprising an electrically conductive radiating element having first and second ends, an electrically conductive ground plane or ground member, and an input terminal. The radiating element has a plurality of separate feed points at different locations between its first and second ends, and the input terminal is provided with a switch. Each feed point is electrically connected to the switch by way of a separate electrical pathway, the switch being configured to allow the separate feed points to be connected individually or in predetermined combinations to the input terminal by selecting between a plurality of selectable contacts. At least one of the electrical pathways includes a capacitive circuit component connected in series, and at least one other of the electrical pathways includes an inductive circuit component connected in series. The antenna arrangement allows for a high degree of customization and improved matching, and enables good multi-band performance.
US09070972B2	Wideband beam forming device; wideband beam steering device and corresponding methods A beam forming device and method as well as to a beam steering device and method are described. The imaging beam forming device comprises a wideband transmit unit comprising at least one transmit antenna, a receiver unit comprising at least two receive antennas and at least one receive element that receive radiation from said scene and that generate receive signals from said received radiation, and a beam forming unit that performs beam forming to form a receive beam and obtain beam formed output signals from said receive signals by use of beam forming weights. For different samples or groups of subsequent samples of a receive signal, a sample representing said receive signal at a different frequency, a frequency-dependent weight is used for beam forming, which frequency-dependent weights are adapted to result in a predetermined shape of said receive beam.
US09070969B2	Tunable antenna systems An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry including an adjustable antenna system coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver. The adjustable antenna system may include one or more adjustable electrical components that are controlled by storage and processing circuitry in the electronic device. The adjustable electrical components may include switches and components that can be adjusted between numerous different states. The adjustable electrical components may be coupled between antenna system components such as transmission line elements, matching network elements, antenna elements and antenna feeds. By adjusting the adjustable electrical components, the storage and processing circuitry can tune the adjustable antenna system to ensure that the adjustable antenna system covers communications bands of interest.
US09070966B2	Multi-band, wide-band antennas Disclosed herein are various exemplary embodiments of multi-band, wide-band antennas. In exemplary embodiments, the antenna generally includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion includes two or more upper radiating elements and one or more slots disposed between the two or more upper radiating elements. The lower portion includes three or more lower radiating elements and one or more slots disposed between the three or more lower radiating elements. A gap is between the upper and lower portions such that the upper radiating elements are separated and spaced apart from the lower radiating elements. The antenna may be configured such that coupling of the gap and the upper and lower radiating elements enable multi-band, wide-band operation of the antenna within at least a first frequency range and a second frequency range, with the upper radiating elements operable as a radiating portion of the antenna, the lower radiating elements operable as a ground portion, and the gap operable for impedance matching.
US09070962B2	Surface communication device A surface communication device of the present invention includes: an electromagnetic wave propagation unit which propagates electromagnetic waves and has a sheet shape; and at least one of a power feeding device unit which is disposed on the electromagnetic wave propagation unit in a non-conductive state with the electromagnetic wave propagation unit and feeds the electromagnetic waves to the electromagnetic wave propagation unit, and a reception device unit which is disposed on the electromagnetic wave propagation unit in a non-conductive state with the electromagnetic wave propagation unit and receives the electromagnetic waves propagated via the electromagnetic wave propagation unit. The at least one of the power feeding device unit and the reception device unit includes: an electromagnetic wave coupling unit which transmits the electromagnetic waves to the electromagnetic wave propagation unit or receives the electromagnetic waves from the electromagnetic wave propagation unit; and an electromagnetic wave suppression unit which includes a plurality of conductor unit structures arranged along a surface of the electromagnetic wave propagation unit so as to surround the electromagnetic wave coupling unit, and suppresses leakage of the electromagnetic waves from a space between the electromagnetic wave coupling unit and the electromagnetic wave propagation unit.
US09070958B2	Battery system having an external thermal management system Battery systems and modules having external thermal management systems are provided. In one embodiment, a battery module includes a housing and at least one electrochemical cell disposed within the housing. The battery module also includes a thermal interface having a first side in contact with the at least one electrochemical cell. The battery module also includes a heat sink in contact with a second side of the thermal interface. The thermal interface is adapted to enable heat transfer from the at least one electrochemical cell to the heat sink.
US09070957B2	Power supply device for linear actuator apparatus and battery module thereof A power supply device for a linear actuator apparatus, which includes a control module and a battery module. The power supply device further provides a battery module including a box, a primary power supply unit and a standby power supply unit. The box has a first chamber, a second chamber and a separating plate formed between the first chamber and the second chamber. The primary power supply unit is provided in the first chamber. The standby power supply unit is provided in the second chamber.
US09070955B2	Structure for electrochemical device to improve safety and electrochemical device comprising the same Disclosed is a sealed structure for an electrochemical device having a hollow space therein, further comprising a material generating gases via thermal decomposition in the hollow space. Also, disclosed is an electrochemical device comprising a cathode, an anode, a separator, an electrolyte, a casing for the device, and the structure for the electrochemical device.
US09070941B2	Negative electrode material for lithium secondary battery and its manufacturing method, and negative electrode for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery [Object] The object is to provide a negative electrode material for a lithium secondary battery, wherein a sulfide-based negative electrode with water-resistant properties can exert excellent cycle characteristics and high output performance while maintaining a high discharge capacity and there is no precipitation of lithium dendrites during charge at low temperature.[Means for Solving Problems] A negative electrode material for a lithium secondary battery comprising sulfur and sulfide glass including the following components (i) and (ii):(i) at least one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Sb, As, Bi, Ge, Si, Cu, Zn, Pd, In and Zr; and(ii) at least one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Se, Te, Ga, Sn, Pb, Cd, Al, Fe, Mg, Ca, Co, Ag, Sr, P and Ba, wherein the ratio of the above components is sulfur: 40-80 mol %, (i): 1-50 mol % and (ii): 1-50 mol %, respectively.
US09070939B2	Battery module A battery module including: a plurality of rechargeable batteries including a first terminal and a second terminal; and a connecting member electrically connecting rechargeable batteries of the plurality of rechargeable batteries through the first and second terminals, the connecting member including an access protrusion protruded toward the first terminal, and the first terminal includes a pressurizer configured to press the access protrusion toward a part of the first terminal.
US09070934B2	Biological fuel cell and methods A fuel cell has an anode and a cathode with anode enzyme disposed on the anode and cathode enzyme is disposed on the cathode. The anode is configured and arranged to electrooxidize an anode reductant in the presence of the anode enzyme. Likewise, the cathode is configured and arranged to electroreduce a cathode oxidant in the presence of the cathode enzyme. In addition, anode redox hydrogel may be disposed on the anode to transduce a current between the anode and the anode enzyme and cathode redox hydrogel may be disposed on the cathode to transduce a current between the cathode and the cathode enzyme.
US09070933B2	Negative electrode active material of lithium secondary battery, secondary battery using the same, method for manufacturing the same A negative electrode active material of lithium secondary battery includes: at least one of a petroleum-derived green coke and a coal-derived green coke, and at least one of a petroleum-derived calcined coke and a coal-derived calcined coke within a mass ratio range of 90:10 to 10:90, and a phosphorous compound within a range of 0.1 to 6.0 parts by mass in amount equivalent to phosphor relative to 100 parts by mass of the at least one of the green cokes and the at least one of the calcined cokes.
US09070931B2	Cathode, method of preparing the same, and lithium battery including the cathode A cathode, a method of forming the cathode and a lithium battery including the cathode. The cathode includes a current collector and a cathode active material layer disposed on the current collector; the cathode active material layer includes a lithium transition metal oxide having a spinel structure, a conductive agent, and a binder; and at least a portion of a surface of the cathode active material layer is fluorinated.
US09070926B2	Battery module with fixing members Disclosed herein is a battery module including a plurality of battery cells, the battery module including the battery cells being stacked in a state in which electrode terminals are electrically connected to each other, a pair of cell covers coupled to each other to surround the entirety of an outside of a battery cell stack including two or more battery cells excluding the electrode terminals of the battery cells, and fixing members mounted at the cell covers in contact with the outside of the battery cell stack to properly fix the battery cells in the cell covers.
US09070923B2	Attach and detach device of battery for electric vehicle Disclosed is an electric vehicle battery attaching/detaching device including a battery having incision recesses formed on lateral portions, respectively, each incision recess having a lower engaging ledge; a battery mounting unit adapted to detachably mount the battery, the battery mounting unit having grasping holders formed on a bottom portion and adapted to engage with or disengage from the lower engaging ledges of the battery incision recesses; and a controller adapted to rotate the grasping holders in response to an electric signal so that the grasping holders engage with or disengage from the lower engaging ledges of the battery incision recesses.
US09070922B2	Electronic device There is provided an electronic device includes a lock member disposed at a part of a peripheral wall of a battery pack loading section so as to be freely shift between a lock position for locking a loaded battery pack and an unlock position for releasing the lock; an unlock restricting member provided so as to be freely shift between a restriction position for restricting the lock member from being shifted to the unlock position and a non-restriction position for releasing the restriction; and a restricting member abutting portion provided at the outer surface of the battery pack, for abutting against the unlock restricting member to shift the unlock restricting member to the non-restriction position, when the unlock restricting member is located at the restriction position even though no battery pack is loaded in the battery pack loading section.
US09070917B2	Method of controlling fuel cell system In a fuel cell system, regeneration-time voltage fixed control is implemented where during regeneration or when regeneration is expected to occur, output voltage of a fuel cell is set to a voltage value outside an oxidation reduction progress voltage range, and the amount of reactant gas supplied to the fuel cell is changed based on the amount of electric power remaining in an energy storage device. In the regeneration-time voltage fixed control, it is determined whether or not regeneration occurs while a moving body equipped with the fuel cell system is moving down a slope, and in the case where it is determined that regeneration occurs while the moving body is moving down a slope, the amount of the reactant gas supplied to the fuel cell is decreased in comparison with the case where it is determined that regeneration occurs while the moving body is not moving down a slope.
US09070915B2	Hydrogen generator, operating method of hydrogen generator, and fuel cell system A hydrogen generator associated with the invention comprises a hydro-desulfurizer (1) configured to remove sulfur compounds from a raw material; a reformer (2) configured to generate hydrogen-containing gas with use of the raw material that has passed through the hydro-desulfurizer (1); a raw material supply device (3) configured to supply the raw material to the reformer (2); a recycle flow passage (4) configured to supply a portion of the hydrogen-containing gas, discharged from the reformer (2), to the raw material before the raw material flows into the hydro-desulfurizer (1); an on-off valve (5) provided in the recycle flow passage (4); a pressure detector (6) located at a position upstream of the on-off valve (5) in the recycle flow passage (4); and an abnormality detector (7) configured to detect an abnormal clogging in the recycle flow passage (4) based on a pressure detected by the pressure detector (6), in a state in which the raw material supply device (3) is supplying the raw material to the reformer (2) with the on-off valve (5) closed.
US09070913B2	Humidifier for fuel cell Disclosed is a humidifier for fuel cell, which facilitates to maximize humidifying performance and reducing the maintenance cost through the uniform humidification among all the hollow fiber membranes by preventing high-humidity unreacted gas introduced to the inside of membrane housing from flowing concentratedly toward a specific region in the membrane housing, wherein the humidifier comprises a membrane housing; a partition plate for dividing an inner space of the membrane housing into plural unit spaces; plural hollow fiber membranes in each of the unit spaces; and a cover mounted on an end of the membrane housing, the cover including an inlet for introducing unreacted gas of high-humidity discharged from a stack into the membrane housing, wherein plural distribution holes are provided in the membrane housing, the distribution holes corresponding to the unit spaces respectively.
US09070911B2	Top cap assembly having terminal block Disclosed herein is a top cap assembly mounted to a battery cell having an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure disposed in a battery case together with an electrolyte in a sealed state, the battery case being provided at an upper end thereof with a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal, the top cap assembly including a protection circuit module (PCM) and an electrically insulative top cap housing mounted to the upper end of the battery cell while surrounding an outside of the PCM, wherein the PCM includes a protection circuit board (PCB) having a protection circuit formed thereon, the PCB being coupled to a mechanical coupling part of a terminal block, connecting parts connected to the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal, a safety element, and the terminal block mounted to the PCM, the terminal block including connectors.
US09070910B2	Porous material for fuel cell electrolyte membrane, method for producing the same, electrolyte membrane for solid polymer fuel cell, membrane electrode assembly (MEA), and fuel cell According to the present invention, a porous material for a fuel cell electrolyte membrane, wherein at least one strength auxiliary layer is provided inside and/or on the surface of a high porosity layer, the high porosity layer and the strength auxiliary layer constitute a multilayer structure, and the average diameter of pores of the high porosity layer is different from the average diameter of pores of the strength auxiliary layer, is provided. Also, a porous material having high porosity and high strength, which is suitable as a base material for an electrolyte membrane of a solid polymer fuel cell, is provided and a high-performance fuel cell using such material is realized.
US09070907B2	Stainless separator for fuel cell and method of manufacturing the same A stainless steel separator for fuel cells and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method includes preparing a stainless steel sheet as a matrix, performing surface modification on a surface of the stainless steel sheet to form a Cr-rich passive film having a comparatively increased amount of Cr in a superficial layer of the stainless steel sheet by decreasing an amount of Fe in the superficial layer of the stainless steel sheet, and forming a coating layer on the surface of the surface-modified stainless steel sheet. The coating layer is one selected from a metal nitride layer (MNx), a metal/metal nitride layer (M/MNx), a metal carbide layer (MCy), and a metal boride layer (MBz) (where 0.5≦x≦1, 0.42≦y≦1, 0.5≦z≦2).
US09070906B2	Battery assembling apparatus and battery assembly manufacturing method A battery assembling apparatus is disclosed. The battery assembling apparatus comprises: first and second rotary tables arranged to face each other at points on respective outer circumferences and rotate in forward directions relative to each other; a battery holding part provided on the outer circumference of the first rotary table to hold a battery; a frame holding part provided on the outer circumference of the second rotary table to hold a frame; a battery supplying part for supplying batteries to the battery holding part at a position different from a facing position between the first and second rotary tables; a frame supplying part for supplying frames to the frame holding part at a position different from the facing position; and a discharging part for taking out an assembly of a battery and a frame assembled together from the facing position.
US09070900B2	Method of manufacturing display, and display A method of manufacturing a display not needing a complicated post-process for forming a reflecting mirror film and allowing degradation in an organic light-emitting device to be prevented, and a display. The method of manufacturing a display includes the steps of: forming a plurality of organic light-emitting devices in a display region on a substrate to form a light-emitting panel; forming projection-shaped reflection elements corresponding to the plurality of organic light-emitting devices, respectively, on a base to form a reflector; forming an adhesive layer along an outer edge of the light-emitting panel; and bonding the light-emitting panel and the reflector together with the adhesive layer in a vacuum atmosphere, thereby to form a vacuum layer in a space between the light-emitting panel and the reflector.
US09070898B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is disclosed which includes: an element substrate provided with a thin film transistor; an organic light emitting element electrically connected to the thin film transistor and formed on the element substrate; a protective layer formed on the organic light emitting element; an adhesive film configured to include a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer which are sequentially stacked on the protective layer, the first adhesive layer including a resin layer and the second adhesive layer including another resin layer and a filler; and a sealing substrate disposed on the second adhesive layer and combined with the element substrate, which is provided with the organic light emitting element, by the adhesive film. One of the resin layers of the first and second adhesive layers within the adhesive film is formed from a non-hardening resin layer.
US09070888B2	Photoelectronic device and image sensor A photoelectronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an auxiliary layer between the first electrode and the active layer, the auxiliary layer including a first auxiliary layer including a metal oxide and a metal and a second auxiliary layer including a first organic material having a HOMO energy level of greater than or equal to about 6.0 eV.
US09070887B2	Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion device material, photosensor and imaging device A photoelectric conversion device comprising an electrically conductive film, an organic photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent electrically conductive film, wherein the organic photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by the following formula (1) and an n-type organic semiconductor: wherein each of R1 and R2 independently represents a substituted aryl group, an unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted heteroaryl group or an unsubstituted heteroaryl group, each of R3 to R11 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent provided that an acidic group is excluded, m represents 0 or 1, n represents an integer of 0 or more, R1 and R2, R3 and R4, R3 and R5, R5 and R6, R6 and R8, R7 and R8, R7 and R9, or R10 and R11 may be combined each other to form a ring, and when n is an integer of 2 or more, out of a plurality of R7's and R8's, a pair of R7's, a pair of R8's, or a pair of R7 and R8 may be combined each other to form a ring.
US09070884B2	Hybrid OLED having phosphorescent and fluorescent emitters The present invention provides organic light emitting devices having a combined emission from at least two emissive materials, a fluorescent blue emissive material and a phosphorescent emissive material. The device may further comprise additional fluorescent or phosphorescent emissive materials. In preferred embodiments, the invention provides OLEDs having three different emissive materials—a red emissive material, a green emissive material and a blue emissive material. The invention provides a device architecture which is optimized for efficiency and lifetime by using a combination of fluorescent and phosphorescent emitters. Further, in preferred embodiments the device architecture provides a high color-stability of the light emission over a wide range of currents or luminances.
US09070882B2	Boron ester fused thiophene monomers A compound of formula (I), formula (II), or a combination thereof, and salts thereof is described. Each A may be independently an optionally substituted conjugated species or an optionally substituted aromatic species. Each R may be independently an optionally substituted C1-C40 linear alkyl chain, an optionally substituted branched alkyl chain, an optionally substituted alkyl chain containing heteroatoms, substituted alkyl chains, or H. Each R2 may be independently an optionally substituted C1-C40 linear alkyl chain, an optionally substituted branched alkyl chain, an optionally substituted alkyl chain containing heteroatoms, substituted alkyl chains, H, or part of a cyclic boronate ester with an other R2. Each n may be independently less than or equal to 3 and greater than or equal to 1. Each x may be independently less than or equal to 3.
US09070881B2	Method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor thin film A method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor thin film includes coating an organic semiconductor solution on a substrate, and shearing the organic semiconductor solution in a direction that results in a shearing stress being applied to the organic semiconductor solution to form the organic semiconductor thin film, wherein a speed of the shearing is controlled such that an intermolecular distance of the organic semiconductor solution is adjusted.
US09070879B2	Method for monitoring flexural vibrations of a piezoactuator In the method for monitoring flexural vibrations of a piezoactuator, a small-signal spectrum of a piezoactuator, which is provided and mounted for the purpose of exciting longitudinal vibrations, is measured and an excitation of a transverse vibration in the piezoactuator is detected from resonances occurring in the small-signal spectrum.
US09070875B2	Low temperature GST process A deposition process to form a conformal phase change material film on the surface of a substrate to produce a memory device wafer comprises providing a substrate to a chamber of a deposition system; providing an activation region; introducing one or more precursors into the chamber upstream of the substrate; optionally introducing one or more co-reactants upstream of the substrate; activating the one or more precursors; heating the substrate; and depositing the phase change material film on the substrate from the one or more precursors by chemical vapor deposition. The deposited phase change material film comprises GexSbyTezAm in which A is a dopant selected from the group of N, C, In, Sn, and Se. In one implementation, the process is carried out to form GST films doped with carbon and nitrogen, to impart beneficial film growth and performance properties to the film.
US09070865B1	Transverse mode multi-resonant single crystal transducer A transducer is disclosed that includes a multiply resonant composite, the composite having a resonator bar of a piezoelectric single crystal configured in a d32 transverse length-extensional resonance mode having a crystallographic orientation set such that the thickness axis is in the <110> family and resonance direction is the <001> family.
US09070864B2	Piezoelectric vibration device and portable terminal using the same A piezoelectric vibration device capable of being made thin and generating strong vibration, and a portable terminal using the same. Disclosed are a piezoelectric vibration device including at least: a support body; a vibration member that is mounted to the support body to be able to vibrate; a vibration element capable of being independently subjected to bending vibration by application of an electric signal; and a deformable first connecting member that is at least partly formed of a viscoelastic body, the deformable first connecting member being disposed between a first surface of the vibration element that is a bending surface and one main surface of the vibration member, and connecting the first surface of the vibration element and the one main surface of the vibration member, and a portable terminal using the piezoelectric vibration device.
US09070855B2	Magnetic random access memory having perpendicular enhancement layer The present invention is directed to a spin transfer torque (STT) MRAM device having a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) memory element. The memory element includes a perpendicular MTJ structure in between a non-magnetic seed layer and a non-magnetic cap layer. The MTJ structure comprises a magnetic free layer structure and a magnetic reference layer structure with an insulating tunnel junction layer interposed therebetween, an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer formed adjacent to the magnetic reference layer structure, and a magnetic fixed layer formed adjacent to the anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer. At least one of the magnetic free and reference layer structures includes a non-magnetic perpendicular enhancement layer, which improves the perpendicular anisotropy of magnetic layers adjacent thereto.
US09070853B2	Package for an optoelectronic semiconductor component and semiconductor component A package for an optoelectronic semiconductor component is disclosed. The package includes a package body, a first connecting lead and a second connecting lead. The first connecting lead and the second connecting lead each extend in a vertical direction through the package body. A semiconductor component with such a package and a semiconductor chip are also disclosed.
US09070852B2	Light emitting device package and manufacturing method thereof A light emitting device (LED) package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The LED package includes an LED including a first electrode pad and a second electrode pad disposed on one surface thereof; a bonding insulating pattern layer configured to expose the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad; a substrate including a via hole bored from a first surface to a second surface and a wiring metal layer formed on an inner surface of the via hole to extend to a part of the second surface; and a bonding metal pattern layer bonded to the wiring metal layer exposed through the via hole at the first surface of the substrate and also bonded to the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad.
US09070851B2	Wafer-level light emitting diode package and method of fabricating the same Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a wafer-level light emitting diode (LED) package and a method of fabricating the same. The LED package includes a semiconductor stack including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer; a plurality of contact holes arranged in the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the active layer, the contact holes exposing the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a first bump arranged on a first side of the semiconductor stack, the first bump being electrically connected to the first conductive type semiconductor layer via the plurality of contact holes; a second bump arranged on the first side of the semiconductor stack, the second bump being electrically connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer; and a protective insulation layer covering a sidewall of the semiconductor stack.
US09070846B2	Primer composition and optical semiconductor apparatus using same The invention provides a primer composition which adheres a substrate mounting an optical semiconductor device and a cured material of an addition reaction curing silicone composition that encapsulates the optical semiconductor device includes (A) an acrylic resin containing either one or both of an acrylate ester and a methacrylate ester that contains one or more SiCH═CH2 groups in the molecule, and (B) solvent. There can be provided a primer composition in which the adhesion between a substrate mounting an optical semiconductor device and a cured material of an addition reaction curing silicone composition that encapsulates the optical semiconductor device can be improved, the corrosion of a metal electrode formed on the substrate can be prevented, and the heat resistance of a primer itself can be improved.
US09070843B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device, exhibit-irradiating illumination device, meat-irradiating illumination device, vegetable-irradiating illumination device, fresh fish-irradiating illumination device, general-purpose illumination device, and semiconductor light-emitting system The present invention provides a semiconductor light-emitting device which emits light with high chroma, and an exhibit-irradiating illumination device, a meat-irradiating illumination device, a vegetable-irradiating illumination device, a fresh fish-irradiating illumination device, a general-purpose illumination device, and a semiconductor light-emitting system which include the semiconductor light-emitting device. A semiconductor light-emitting device 1 comprises an LED chip 10 as a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor 20 which uses the LED chip 10 as an excitation source to emit light. The phosphor contains at least a green phosphor and a red phosphor, and a value of intensity of light with a wavelength of 660 nm in a spectrum of beam-normalized light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device 1 is 170% or more and 300% or less of a value of intensity of light with a wavelength of 660 nm in a spectrum of beam-normalized reference light for color rendering evaluation.
US09070839B2	Method of manufacturing a light emitting diode A method (100) of making a semiconductor device, for example a light emitting diode. The method (100) includes providing (105) a semiconductor wafer, and providing (110) a protective layer over the semiconductor wafer. Preferably the protective layer comprises indium-tin oxide. Processing steps are performed on the wafer and the protective layer is arranged to protect the wafer during the processing steps. The processing steps may include forming a mask layer (115) over the protective layer, which is used for etching through the protective layer and into the semiconductor wafer, removing the mask layer, or etching filling materials (150) provided over the selectively etched semiconductor wafer.
US09070838B2	Optoelectronic device and stacking structure Disclosed is an optoelectronic device that includes a light source, an emission layer disposed on the light source including a light emitting particle dispersed in a matrix polymer, and a polymer film disposed on the emission layer, the polymer film including a polymerized polymer of a first monomer including at least two thiol (—SH) groups and a second monomer including at least two carbon-carbon unsaturated bond-containing groups at a terminal end.
US09070834B2	Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting structure, a first electrode unit, and a second electrode unit. The light emitting structure includes a first and second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer. The first electrode unit includes a first electrode pad and a first electrode finger extending from the first electrode pad, and having an annular shape with an open portion. The second electrode unit includes a second electrode pad and a second electrode finger extending from the second electrode pad, and has an annular shape with an open portion. One of the first and second electrode units substantially surrounds the other, and the center of the annular shape of at least one of the first and second electrode units is spaced apart from the center of the upper surface of the light emitting structure.
US09070827B2	Optoelectronic device and method for manufacturing the same An optoelectronic device comprising: a substrate; and an epitaxial stack including a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity-type impurity, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer having a second conductivity-type impurity formed in sequence on the substrate; a hollow component formed inside the active layer or the second semiconductor layer, wherein the layer with the hollow component is doped with an additional impurity.
US09070826B2	Accumulated type thermoelectric generator for vehicle In one embodiment, a thermoelectric generator for a vehicle is provided. In particular, a thermoelectric generator is provided that includes a thermoelectric generating unit which is mounted between an exhaust gas inlet pipe through which an exhaust gas flows within and an exhaust gas outlet pipe through which the exhaust gas is discharged. The thermoelectric generating unit also includes a coolant inlet formed on one side thereof and a coolant outlet formed on the other side. More specifically, the thermoelectric generator is formed by assembling a plurality of unit modules which each have thermoelectric elements.
US09070822B2	Method for producing photoelectric conversion element The method disclosed herein includes a first step of forming an i-type amorphous silicon layer 16 and an n-type amorphous silicon layer 14 on a light-receiving surface of an n-type monocrystalline silicon substrate 18; a second step of forming an i-type amorphous silicon layer 22a and an n-type amorphous silicon layer 23a on a backside surface of the n-type monocrystalline silicon substrate 18; and a third step of forming, after completion of the first step and the second step, an antireflection layer 12 on the n-type amorphous silicon layer 14, and subsequently forming an insulating layer 24a on the n-type amorphous silicon layer 23a.
US09070816B2	Thermoelectric conversion structure and method of manufacturing same A thermoelectric conversion material in which the electron spatial distribution assumes a wire structure or a quasi-one-dimensional structure is fabricated. A mode of the present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion structure 100 of a single crystal 10 of SrTiO3 having a (210) plane surface or interface, and having, in the surface or interface, a concave-convex structure including terrace portions 12, 14 in (100) planes and step portions 16 extending along the surface in-plane [001] axis.
US09070815B2	Photonic device A photonic device is provided. The photonic device includes: a semiconductor layer including first and second regions; an insulating layer covering the semiconductor layer; and first and second plugs extending to pass through the insulating layer and electrically connected to the corresponding first and second regions. The first plug is in a rectifying contact with the first region, and the second plug is in an ohmic contact with the second region.
US09070809B2	Inter-facing solar panels A method for effectively collecting solar energy, including disposing solar panels substantially inter-facing each other, and reflecting sun light between inter-facing solar panels. A solar panel, including a first portion adapted to convert sun light into usable energy at a first optimal wavelength; and a second portion adapted to convert sun light into usable energy at a second optimal wavelength. A method for effectively collecting solar energy, including using a first portion of a first solar panel to partially convert a beam of sun light into usable energy, and partially reflect the beam of sun light into a second solar panel; and using the second solar panel to partially convert the reflected beam into collectable energy.
US09070806B2	Self-powered solar tracker Provided is a self-powered solar tracker, which is a solar tracker for adjusting the altitude of and horizontally rotating a solar collector panel such that the solar collector panel on which a plurality of solar cells are provided can face the sun, wherein the self-powered solar tracker comprises: an altitude adjustment optical sensor unit which has one or more first optical sensors formed by being uniformly spaced on the upper side of convex support surfaces to face the sun and one or more second optical sensors formed by being uniformly spaced on the lower side of the convex support surfaces, and which senses the sunlight so as to adjust the altitude of the solar collector panel; a horizontal rotation optical sensor unit which has one or more third optical sensors formed by being uniformly spaced on the left side of the convex support surfaces to face the sun and one or more fourth optical sensors formed by being uniformly spaced on the right side of the convex support surfaces, and which senses sunlight so as to horizontally rotate the solar collector panel; a passive element circuit which has one or more first comparison circuits for comparing the difference in the quantity of output light between the first optical sensors and the second optical sensors and one or more second comparison circuits for comparing the difference in the quantity of output light between the third optical sensors and the fourth optical sensors, and which outputs a driving value for adjusting the altitude of and horizontally rotating the solar collector panel in the direction having a larger light value; an altitude adjustment driving unit for receiving a driving power source from the solar cells of the solar collector panel and for adjusting the altitude of the solar collector panel according to the driving value of the passive element circuit; and a horizontal rotation driving unit for performing the horizontal rotation.
US09070799B2	Solid state imaging device with microlens shifted from the center of the photo diode A CCD image sensor, being a solid state imaging device, has four types of pixels, first to fourth pixels. The first to fourth pixels are arranged in a predetermined pattern. Each of the pixels has a PD and a microlens. Each of the microlens is arranged with its optical axis center eccentric or shifted in a predetermined direction from a center of a light receiving surface of the PD. A part of the microlens overlaps one or more adjacent pixels.
US09070790B2	Vertical semiconductor device and method of manufacturing thereof A vertical semiconductor device has a semiconductor body with a first surface and a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface. A first metallization is arranged on the first surface. A second metallization is arranged on the second surface. In a sectional plane perpendicular to the first surface, the semiconductor body includes an n-doped first semiconductor region in ohmic contact with the second metallization, a plurality of p-doped second semiconductor regions in ohmic contact with the first metallization, and a plurality of p-doped embedded semiconductor regions. The p-doped second semiconductor regions substantially extend to the first surface, are spaced apart from one another and form respective first pn-junctions with the first semiconductor region. The p-doped embedded semiconductor regions are spaced apart from one another, from the p-doped second semiconductor regions, from the first surface and from the second surface, and form respective second pn-junctions with the first semiconductor region.
US09070783B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same It is to enhance a current increasing effect by increasing a stress applied on a channel of a transistor. The invention is characterized by comprising: side wall insulating films 33 and 53 formed on a semiconductor substrate 11 with trenches 39 and 59 which are formed by removing dummy gates; gate electrodes 43 and 63 formed within the trenches 39 and 59 through a gate insulating film 41; first and second stress applying films 21 and 22 respectively formed along the side wall insulating films 33 and 53 over the semiconductor substrate 11; and source/drain regions 35, 36, 55, and 56 which are formed in the semiconductor substrate 11 on the both sides of the gate electrodes 43 and 63, in that the stress applying films 21 and 22 are formed before the first trench 39 and the second trench 59 are formed.
US09070777B2	Semiconductor device and method for forming the same A semiconductor device includes: a substrate, a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor disposed on the substrate, a barrier layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and an insulating layer disposed on the barrier layer. The semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor, and the barrier layer includes a material having a lower standard electrode potential than a semiconductor material of the oxide semiconductor, a lower electron affinity than the semiconductor material of the oxide semiconductor, or a larger band gap than the semiconductor material of the oxide semiconductor. The insulating layer includes at least one of a silicon-based oxide or a silicon-based nitride, and the insulating layer includes a portion which contacts with an upper surface of the barrier layer.
US09070774B2	Process for fabricating silicon-on-nothing MOSFETs A semiconductor device includes a gate stack; an air-gap under the gate stack; a semiconductor layer vertically between the gate stack and the air-gap; and a first dielectric layer underlying and adjoining the semiconductor layer. The first dielectric layer is exposed to the air-gap.
US09070772B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises forming a patterned active layer on a gate insulating layer, the active layer covering a part of the gate insulating layer; forming a source/drain electrode material layer on the active layer and the gate insulating layer; forming a patterned insulating layer on the source/drain electrode material layer; conducting an etching process by using the insulating layer as a mask, so as to etch the source/drain electrode material layer to form a source electrode and a drain electrode, etch a part of the insulating layer to form a via hole in the insulating layer over the drain electrode, and etch a part of the active layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode to form a channel.
US09070770B2	Low interfacial defect field effect transistor A disposable gate structure straddling a semiconductor fin is formed. A source region and a drain region are formed employing the disposable gate structure as an implantation mask. A planarization dielectric layer is formed such that a top surface of the planarization dielectric layer is coplanar with the disposable gate structure. A gate cavity is formed by removing the disposable gate structure. An epitaxial cap layer is deposited on physically exposed semiconductor surfaces of the semiconductor fin by selective epitaxy. A gate dielectric layer is formed on the epitaxial cap layer, and a gate electrode can be formed by filling the gate cavity. The epitaxial cap layer can include a material that reduces the density of interfacial defects at an interface with the gate dielectric layer.
US09070768B2	DMOS transistor having an increased breakdown voltage and method for production A depletion type DMOS transistor comprises a gap in electrode material allowing incorporation of a well dopant species into the underlying semiconductor material. During subsequent dopant diffusion a continuous well region is obtained having an extended lateral extension without having an increased depth. The source dopant species is implanted after masking the gap. Additional channel implantation is performed prior to forming the gate dielectric material.
US09070763B1	Semiconductor device layout structure A semiconductor device layout structure is provided. The semiconductor device layout structure includes an active region having a first conductivity type over a semiconductor substrate. The active region is provided with semiconductor devices formed thereon. A first super junction layout unit in the active region includes a first trench. A first doped region having a first conductivity type is formed surrounding the first trench. A second trench is formed surrounding the first doped region. A second doped region having a second conductivity type is formed surrounding the second trench. The first trench is laterally separated from the second trench through the first doped region and the second doped region in a plan view.
US09070762B2	Lead frame support plate and window clamp for wire bonding machines A lead frame support plate 200 and a window clamp 400 for wire bonding machines are disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the lead frame support plate 200 includes a network of suction grooves 218 provided on a support surface 212, each suction groove 218 being arranged to be in fluid communication with at least a vacuum hole 216 to enable a suction force to be created, in response to a vacuum force, along the network of suction grooves for holding a lead frame against the support surface. A window clamp 400 having slots for compensating deformation of the window clamp and a method of fabricating the lead frame support plate are also disclosed.
US09070761B2	Field effect transistor (FET) having fingers with rippled edges A field effect transistor (FET) having fingers with rippled edges is disclosed. The FET includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side with a finger axis. A drain finger is disposed on the front side of the semiconductor substrate such that a greatest dimension of the drain finger lies parallel to the finger axis. A gate finger is disposed on the front side of the semiconductor substrate. The gate finger is spaced from the drain finger such that a greatest dimension of the gate finger lies parallel to the finger axis. A source finger is disposed on the front side of the semiconductor substrate. The source finger is spaced from the gate finger such that a greatest dimension of the source finger lies parallel to the finger axis. The drain finger, the gate finger, and the source finger each have rippled edges with an axis parallel with the finger axis.
US09070758B2	CMOS compatible method for manufacturing a HEMT device and the HEMT device thereof A method for manufacturing a III-nitride HEMT having a gate electrode and source and drain ohmic contacts is provided, comprising providing a substrate; forming a stack of III-nitride layers on the substrate; forming a first passivation layer comprising silicon nitride overlying and in contact with an upper layer of the stack of III-nitride layers, wherein the first passivation layer is deposited in-situ with the stack of III-nitride layers; forming a dielectric layer overlying and in contact with the first passivation layer; forming a second passivation layer comprising silicon nitride overlying and in contact with the dielectric layer wherein the second passivation layer is deposited at a temperature higher than 450° C. by LPCVD or MOCVD or any equivalent technique; and thereafter forming the source and drain ohmic contacts and the gate electrode.
US09070754B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and wafer The present invention prevents bumps on semiconductor chips from sticking to probe needles and coming off from the semiconductor chips. A wafer has effective areas where a plurality of bumps (first bumps) are formed. The bumps are formed on the side of an active surface of the semiconductor chips. The wafer further has non-effective areas where a plurality of dummy bumps are formed. Among the dummy bumps, some positioned at the outermost circumference are dummy bumps (second bumps) that are smaller than the other bumps. The dummy bumps (second bumps) intersect the inner peripheral edge of a shielding member as viewed in a plan view. The dummy bumps (second bumps) are formed over third pad electrodes. A bump-formation insulating film is removed from over the entire third pad electrodes.
US09070752B2	Electroplating methods for fabricating integrated circuit devices and devices fabricated thereby Provided are methods of fabricating a semiconductor device and semiconductor devices fabricated thereby. In the methods, dummy recess regions may be formed between cell recess regions and a peripheral circuit region. Due to the presence of the dummy recess regions, it may be possible to reduce a concentration gradient of a suppressor contained in a plating solution near the dummy pattern region, to make the concentration of the suppressor more uniform in the cell pattern region, and to supply an electric current more effectively to the cell pattern region. As a result, a plating layer can be more uniformly formed in the cell pattern region, without void formation therein.
US09070749B2	Semiconductor device including fluorine-free tungsten barrier layer and method for fabricating the same A method of forming a fluorine-free tungsten diffusion barrier layer having a reduced resistivity, and a semiconductor device, and method for forming such semiconductor device, using the fluorine-free tungsten diffusion barrier layer.
US09070748B2	Semiconductor devices having through-vias and methods for fabricating the same A conductive via of a semiconductor device is provided extending in a vertical direction through a substrate, a first end of the conductive via extending through a first surface of the substrate, so that the first end protrudes in the vertical direction relative to the first surface of the substrate. An insulating layer is provided on the first end of the conductive via and on the first surface of the substrate. An upper portion of a mask layer pattern is removed so that a capping portion of the insulating layer that is on the first end of the conductive via is exposed. A portion of the insulating layer at a side of, and spaced apart from, the conductive via, is removed, to form a recess in the insulating layer. The capping portion of the insulating layer on the first end of the conductive via is simultaneously removed.
US09070746B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing same According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of first semiconductor regions arranged each via a space in a direction crossing a first direction; a plurality of control gate electrodes; and a select gate electrode extending in a second direction, and the select gate electrode aligned with a control gate electrode located on an outermost side out of the plurality of control gate electrodes via the space; a first insulating layer covering the plurality of control gate electrodes and the select gate electrode, the first insulating layer provided on a side wall of the select gate electrode via the space, and a portion of the first insulating layer bridged between adjacent ones of the plurality of control gate electrodes protruding toward the space between adjacent ones of the plurality of control gate electrodes.
US09070743B2	Semiconductor memory and manufacturing method of the same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory includes a memory cell in a memory cell array which is provided in a semiconductor substrate and which includes a first active region surrounded by a first isolation insulator, a transistor in a transistor region which is provided in the semiconductor substrate and which includes second active regions surrounded by a second isolation insulator. The second isolation insulator includes a first film, and a second film between the first film and the second active region, and the upper surface of the first film is located closer to the bottom of the semiconductor substrate than the upper surface of the second film.
US09070742B2	FinFet integrated circuits with uniform fin height and methods for fabricating the same Methods for fabricating FinFET integrated circuits with uniform fin height and ICs fabricated from such methods are provided. A method includes etching a substrate using an etch mask to form fins. A first oxide is formed between the fins. A first etch stop is deposited on the first oxide. A second oxide is formed on the first etch stop. A second etch stop is deposited on the second oxide. A third oxide is deposited overlying the second etch stop. An STI extends from at least a surface of the substrate to at least a surface of the second etch stop overlying the fins to form a first active region and a second active region. The first etch stop overlying the fins is removed. The third oxide is removed to expose the second etch stop. A gate stack is formed overlying a portion of each of the fins.
US09070740B2	Memory unit, memory unit array and method of manufacturing the same A memory unit includes a substrate, at least one charge storage element, at least one first recessed access element, and an isolation portion. The substrate has a surface and the first recessed access element is disposed in an active area of the substrate and extending from the surface into the substrate. The first recessed access element is electrically connected to the charge storage element and induces in the substrate a first depletion region. The isolation portion is adjacent to the active area and extending from the surface into the substrate. The isolation portion includes a trenched isolating barrier and a second recessed access element. The second recessed access element is disposed in the trenched isolating barrier and induces in the substrate a second depletion region merging with the first depletion region.
US09070737B2	Semiconductor device with low-lifetime region A semiconductor device having a p+ collector region in the surface of an n− drift region. The p+ collector region forms a p-n junction with the n− drift region. A collector electrode is in contact with the p+ collector region. A low-lifetime region having a carrier lifetime shorter than in other regions is provided, extending from the n− drift region to the p+ collector region, at the interface between the n− drift region and p+ collector region. The low-lifetime region, being partially activated in accordance with the concentration distribution of a p-type impurity implanted in order to form the p+ collector region, is in a barely activated state. The low-lifetime region has an activation rate lower than that of the p+ collector region. The p+ collector region is completely electrically activated as far as a depth of, for example, 0.5 μm-0.8 μm, from the surface on the collector electrode side.
US09070736B2	Semiconductor device A p-type thin-layer along a side wall surface of a V-shaped groove reaching the bottom portion of a p-type isolation layer from the back surface of an n− semiconductor substrate, couples a p-type collector layer with the p-type isolation layer. A collector electrode contacts the surfaces of the p-type collector layer and the p-type thin-layer. The collector electrode is formed by laminating an Al—Si film, a barrier layer, a nickel-based metal film, and a gold-based metal film in sequence from the n− semiconductor substrate side. The Al—Si film contacting the surface of the p-type collector layer is in a range of 1.1 to 3.0 μm in thickness. The Al—Si film contacting the surface of the p-type thin-layer is in a range of 0.55 to 1.5 μm in thickness. A rise in leak current caused by aluminum spiking is eliminated or suppressed, and solder joining including tin is made easier.
US09070733B2	Nanopillar field-effect and junction transistors with functionalized gate and base electrodes Systems and methods for molecular sensing are described. Molecular sensors are described which are based on field-effect or bipolar junction transistors. These transistors have a nanopillar with a functionalized layer contacted to either the base or the gate electrode. The functional layer can bind molecules, which causes an electrical signal in the sensor.
US09070731B2	Coating film forming apparatus, coating film forming method, and storage medium A coating film forming apparatus includes a substrate holding unit, a ring-shaped member annularly installed along a circumferential direction of the substrate so as to cover an upper side of a peripheral edge portion of the substrate, and a control unit that outputs a control signal so as to perform: positioning the ring-shaped member at a processing position where an air flow flowing above the peripheral edge portion of the substrate is straightened; rotating the substrate at a first revolution number such that a coating liquid supplied to a central portion of the substrate is diffused toward the peripheral edge portion by a centrifugal force; bringing the ring-shaped member to a retreated position where an air flow flowing near a front surface of the substrate is prevented from becoming turbulent; and reducing the revolution number of the substrate to a second revolution number lower than the first revolution number.
US09070723B2	Methods and apparatus for cleaning semiconductor wafers An apparatus for cleaning a surface of wafer or substrate includes a plate being positioned with a gap to surface of the wafer or substrate, and the plate being rotated around an axis vertical to surface of wafer or substrate. The rotating plate surface facing surface of the wafer or substrate has grooves, regular patterns, and irregular patterns to enhance the cleaning efficiency. Another embodiment further includes an ultra sonic or mega sonic transducer vibrating the rotating plate during cleaning process.
US09070721B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of making the same In one embodiment, methods for making semiconductor devices are disclosed.
US09070719B2	Semiconductor device structure, method for manufacturing the same, and method for manufacturing Fin A semiconductor device structure, a method for manufacturing the same, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor fin are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for manufacturing the semiconductor device structure comprises: forming a fin in a first direction on a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate line in a second direction, the second direction crossing the first direction on the semiconductor substrate, and the gate line intersecting the fin with a gate dielectric layer sandwiched between the gate line and the fin; forming a dielectric spacer surrounding the gate line; and performing inter-device electrical isolation at a predetermined position, wherein isolated portions of the gate line form independent gate electrodes of respective devices.
US09070715B2	Method for fabricating array substrate and fabrication apparatus used therefor Provided is a method for fabricating an array substrate. The method for fabricating the array substrate includes forming a semiconductor layer on a substrate, forming a gate electrode which is insulated from the semiconductor layer, forming source and drain electrodes which are insulated from the gate electrode and connected to the semiconductor layer, and forming a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode. Here, at least one of the forming of the gate electrode, the forming of the source and drain electrodes, and the forming of the pixel electrode includes forming a conductive layer on the substrate, cooling the substrate on which the conductive layer is formed to a temperature of no greater than about 0° C., heating the cooled substrate, and patterning the conductive layer.
US09070713B2	Power semiconductor device and methods for fabricating the same A power semiconductor device includes: a drain region of a first conductive type; a drift region of a first conductive type formed on the drain region; a first body region of a second conductive type formed below an upper surface of the drift region; a second body region of a second conductive type formed below the upper surface of the drift region and in the first body region; a third body region of a second conductive type formed by protruding downwards from a lower end of the first body region; a source region of a first conductive type formed below the upper surface of the drift region and in the first body region; and a gate insulating layer formed on channel regions of the first body region and on the drift region between the first body regions.
US09070709B2	Method for producing a field effect transistor with implantation through the spacers The substrate successively includes a support substrate, an electrically insulating layer, a semiconductor material layer, and a gate pattern. The semiconductor material layer and gate pattern are covered by a covering layer. A first doping impurity is implanted in the semiconductor material layer through the covering layer so as to place the thickness of maximum concentration of the first doping impurity in the first layer. The covering layer is partly eliminated so as to form lateral spacers leaving source/drain electrodes free.
US09070705B2	HEMT semiconductor device and a process of forming the same A HEMT semiconductor device can include a dielectric layer that includes a silicon nitride film and an AlN film. In an embodiment, the HEMT semiconductor device can include a GaN film and an AlGaN film. In a process of forming the HEMT device, the AlN can provide an etch stop when forming an opening for a gate electrode.
US09070704B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device with recess, epitaxial growth and diffusion A semiconductor device including a gate electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and source/drain regions disposed at both sides of the gate electrode, the source/drain regions being formed by implanting impurities. The source/drain regions include an epitaxial layer formed by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material having a different lattice constant from that of the semiconductor substrate in a recessed position at a side of the gate electrode, and a diffusion layer disposed in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate.
US09070701B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second storage electrodes formed to be spaced apart from each other on a substrate, an insulating continuous support pattern connected to top surfaces of the first and second storage electrodes, a storage dielectric layer formed to cover the first and second storage electrodes and the continuous support pattern, and a plate electrode formed on the storage dielectric layer. The continuous support pattern includes a first contact part connected to the top surface of the first storage electrode, a second contact part connected to the top surface of the second storage electrode, and a connection part connecting the first and second contact parts with each other.
US09070692B2	Shields for magnetic memory chip packages Chip packages are described with soft-magnetic shields that are included inside or attached externally to the package containing a MRAM chip. In one group of embodiments a single shield with vias for bonding wires is affixed to the surface of the MRAM chip having the contact pads. The limitation of shield to chip distance due to bonding wire is eliminated by VIA holes according to the invention which achieves minimal spacing between the shield and chip. A second shield without vias can be positioned on the opposite side of the chip from the first shield. In one group of embodiments a hardened ferro-fluid shield can be the only shield or the structure can include a shield with or without vias. One group of embodiments includes an external shield with vias for solder access to the package contact pads affixed to the outer surface of the package.
US09070691B2	Semiconductor package and stacked semiconductor package having the same A semiconductor package includes a substrate having a substrate body possessing a first region, a second region which is defined around the first region and a third region which is defined around the second region. Wiring lines are placed on the substrate body, and the wiring lines have first ends that extend to the third region. Connection patterns are placed in the third region and are electrically connected to the first ends of the wiring lines. A to semiconductor chip is disposed in the first region and is electrically connected to the respective wiring lines, and a molding member is disposed in the first and second regions and covers the semiconductor chip.
US09070689B2	Structure for interconnecting copper with low dielectric constant medium and the integration method thereof The present invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices, and discloses a structure for interconnecting a medium of low dielectric constant with copper and the integration method thereof. It includes: using a combination of copper interconnections and air gaps to reduce capacity, and a special structure to support copper conductors so as to maintain the shape of copper conductors after removing the medium. The advantage of the present invention is that it can realize the complete air gap structure without short circuit or disconnection of copper conductors as well as the complete air gap structure with long conductors, thus reducing RC delay.
US09070682B2	Semiconductor device packaging having plurality of wires bonding to a leadframe A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead, and a wire including a first bonding portion bonded to the semiconductor element and a second bonding portion bonded to the lead. The semiconductor element includes a first bonding surface which faces to a first side in a first direction and to which the first bonding portion is bonded. The lead includes a second bonding surface and a third bonding surface both facing to the first side in the first direction and forming an angle larger than 180° on the first side in the first direction. The semiconductor device further includes a ball bump extending onto both the second bonding surface and the third bonding surface. The second bonding portion is bonded to the lead via the ball bump.
US09070679B2	Semiconductor package with a semiconductor die embedded within substrates Embodiments of the present disclosure provide configurations for a semiconductor package and associated methods of fabricating the semiconductor package. A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes attaching a semiconductor die to a first substrate, attaching a second substrate to the first substrate, wherein the semiconductor die is embedded in between the first substrate and the second substrate, and forming an electrically insulative structure to substantially encapsulate the semiconductor die, wherein forming the electrically insulative structure is performed subsequent to the second substrate being attached to the first substrate. Additional embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09070678B2	Packaged semiconductor chips with array A chip-sized, wafer level packaged device including a portion of a semiconductor wafer including a device, at least one packaging layer containing silicon and formed over the device, a first ball grid array formed over a surface of the at least one packaging layer and being electrically connected to the device and a second ball grid array formed over a surface of the portion of the semiconductor wafer and being electrically connected to the device.
US09070673B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device suitable for preventing malfunction is provided.The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip 1, a first electrode pad 21 laminated on the semiconductor chip 1, an intermediate layer 4 having a rectangular shape defined by first edges 49a and second edges, and a plurality of bumps 5 arranged to sandwich the intermediate layer 4 by cooperating with the semiconductor chip 1. The first edges 49a extend in the direction x, whereas the second edges extend in the direction y. The plurality of bumps 5 include a first bump 51 electrically connected to the first electrode pad 21 and a second bump 52 electrically connected to the first electrode pad 21. The first bump 51 is arranged at one end in the direction x and one end in the direction y.
US09070668B2	Pads and pin-outs in three dimensional integrated circuits A three dimensional semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate including a plurality of circuits; a plurality of pads, each pad coupled to a circuit; and a memory array positioned above or below the substrate and coupled to a circuit to program the memory array.
US09070664B2	Device with MOS device including a secondary metal and PVD tool with target for making same A device includes a substrate and a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device. The MOS device includes a gate dielectric over the substrate, a gate electrode over the gate dielectric, a source/drain region adjacent the gate dielectric, and a source/drain silicide over and contacting the source/drain region. The source/drain silicide comprises silicon, nickel, and a secondary metal. A ratio of a volume percentage of the secondary metal to a volume percentage of the silicon in the source/drain silicide is between about 0.005 and about 0.1. The secondary metal has a density between about 5,000 kg/m3 and about 15,000 kg/m3.
US09070663B2	Method and apparatus for forming a semiconductor gate The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for fabricating a semiconductor gate. The apparatus includes, a substrate having an active region and a dielectric region that forms an interface with the active region; a gate electrode located above a portion of the active region and a portion of the dielectric region; and a dielectric material disposed within the gate electrode, the dielectric material being disposed near the interface between the active region and the dielectric region. The method includes, providing a substrate having an active region and a dielectric region that forms an interface with the active region; forming a gate electrode over the substrate, the gate electrode having an opening near a region of the gate electrode that is above the interface; and filling the opening with a dielectric material.
US09070661B2	Semiconductor device including a strain relaxation film The reliability of a power MISFET made of a nitride semiconductor material is improved. A strain relaxation film is disposed between a polyimide film and a gate electrode, to suppress a stress exerted on an electron supply layer and a channel layer from the polyimide film, and suppress a stress strain generated in the electron supply layer and the channel layer. As a result, a change in channel electron concentration in the channel layer is suppressed to prevent a threshold voltage or an on-resistance of the power MISFET from fluctuating.
US09070660B2	Polymer thermal interface material having enhanced thermal conductivity A polymer thermal interface material is described that has enhanced thermal conductivity. In one example, a vinyl-terminated silicone oil is combined with a silicone chain extender, and a thermally conductive filler comprising at least 85% by weight of the material, and comprising surface wetted particles with a range of shapes and sizes. The material may be used for bonding components inside a microelectronic package, for example.
US09070659B2	Semiconductor device [Object] A semiconductor device is configured to release heat from semiconductor chips more efficiently. [Means for Solution] A semiconductor device includes: a die pad 11 which has a die pad main surface 111 and a die pad rear surface 112; a semiconductor chip 41 mounted on the die pad main surface 111; a sealing resin portion 7 formed with a recess 75 for exposure of the die pad rear surface 11 and covering the die pad 11 and the semiconductor chip 41; and a heat releasing layer 6 disposed in the recess 75. The recess 75 has a recess groove 753 outside the die pad 11 in a direction in which the die pad rear surface 112 extends, and the recess groove 753 is closer to the die pad main surface 111 than to the die pad rear surface 112. The heat releasing layer 6 has a junction layer which is in contact with the die pad rear surface 112 and having part thereof filling the recess groove 753.
US09070656B2	Underfill-accommodating heat spreaders and related semiconductor device assemblies and methods Heat spreaders for dissipating heat from semiconductor devices comprise a contact surface located within a recess on an underside of the heat spreader, the contact surface being configured to physically and thermally attach to a semiconductor device, and a trench extending into the heat spreader adjacent to the contact surface sized and configured to receive underfill material extending from the semiconductor device into the trench. Related semiconductor device assemblies may include these heat spreaders and methods may include physically and thermally attaching these heat spreaders to semiconductor devices such that underfill material extends from a semiconductor device into the trench.
US09070653B2	Microelectronic assembly having a heat spreader for a plurality of die A microelectronic assembly (100) and a microelectronic device (4100) include a stacked structure (101). The stacked structure includes a heat spreader (104), at least one die (106) thermally coupled to at least a portion of one side of the heat spreader, at least one other die (108) thermal coupled to at least a portion of an opposite side of the heat spreader, at least one opening (401) in the heat spreader located in a region of between the two die, an insulator (603) disposed in the at least one opening, and electrically conductive material (1308, 1406) in an insulated hole (705) in the insulator. The heat spreader allows electrical communication between the two die through the opening while the insulator isolates the electrically conductive material and the heat spreader from each other.
US09070652B2	Test structure for semiconductor process and method for monitoring semiconductor process A monitoring method of a semiconductor process includes the following steps. A semiconductor substrate is provided, and a test structure is formed thereon. The method of forming the test structure includes the following steps. A first doped region and a second doped region are formed in the semiconductor substrate, and an insulating layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate. Subsequently, a conductive layer is directly formed on the insulating layer to complete the formation of the test structure, in which the conductive layer in a floating state partially overlaps the first doped region and partially overlaps the second doped region. Then, a voltage signal is applied to the test structure and the breakdown voltage (Vbd) between the first doped region and the second doped region is measured.
US09070650B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus and method of inspecting patterns of the organic light emitting display apparatus An organic light emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate on which a display area and a non-display area are defined; a first electrode disposed over the display area; an intermediate layer that is disposed over the first electrode and includes an organic emissive layer; a second electrode disposed over the intermediate layer; and a plurality of detection patterns displaced over the non-display area, each of which includes a first electrically conductive pattern layer formed of the same material as the first electrode and a second electrically conductive pattern layer that is formed over the first electrically conductive pattern layer.
US09070649B2	Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device includes a drive transistor for controlling the quantity of current supplied to a light-emitting element, a capacitor element electrically connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and an electrical continuity portion for electrically connecting the drive transistor and the light-emitting element, these elements being disposed on a substrate. The electrical continuity portion is disposed on the side opposite to the capacitor element with the drive transistor disposed therebetween.
US09070646B2	Organic light emitting display device Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display device defined into a non-display area and a display area which is provided with pixels. Each of the pixels includes: first through fourth nodes; an organic light emission element connected to the fourth node; a drive transistor disposed between the second, third, and fourth nodes and configured to generate a drive current which drives the organic light emission element to emit light; a storage capacitor disposed between the first and third nodes; first through fifth transistors; wherein the fifth transistor is disposed between the second node with the non-display area and a reference voltage line and configured to control an initialization of the second node.
US09070645B2	Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a substrate main body; a thin film transistor on the substrate main body; and an organic light emitting diode including a transparent electrode connected with the thin film transistor and being capable of injecting electrons, an organic emission layer on the transparent electrode, and a reflective electrode on the organic emission layer and being capable of injecting holes, wherein the organic emission layer includes an electron injection unit on the transparent electrode, the electron injection unit including an electron injection metal layer, an electron injection layer, and an electron injection dipole layer, and a light emitting unit on the electron injection unit.
US09070644B2	Packaging mechanisms for dies with different sizes of connectors Embodiments of mechanisms for testing a die package with multiple packaged dies on a package substrate use an interconnect substrate to provide electrical connections between dies and the package substrate and to provide probing structures (or pads). Testing structures, including daisy-chain structures, with metal lines to connect bonding structures connected to signals, power source, and/or grounding structures are connected to probing structures on the interconnect substrate. The testing structures enable determining the quality of bonding and/or functionalities of packaged dies bonded. After electrical testing is completed, the metal lines connecting the probing structures and the bonding structures are severed to allow proper function of devices in the die package. The mechanisms for forming test structures with probing pads on interconnect substrate and severing connecting metal lines after testing could reduce manufacturing cost.
US09070639B2	Shrinkage of critical dimensions in a semiconductor device by selective growth of a mask material In sophisticated semiconductor devices, manufacturing techniques and etch masks may be formed on the basis of a mask layer stack which comprises an additional mask layer, which may receive an opening on the basis of lithography techniques. Thereafter, the width of the mask opening may be reduced by applying a selective deposition or growth process, which thus results in a highly uniform and well-controllable adjustment of the target width of the etch mask prior to performing the actual patterning process, for instance for forming sophisticated contact openings, via openings and the like.
US09070637B2	Device-mounted substrate, infrared light sensor and through electrode forming method A via hole is formed on a base substrate before a device circuit is formed, and thermal oxidation is performed to form a thermal oxidation layer on a surface of the base substrate on which the device circuit is formed and a surface in the via hole. The device circuit having a conductive section is formed on the base substrate after the thermal oxidation, and then, a conductive body is embedded in the via hole.
US09070636B2	Cleaning agent for semiconductor substrate, cleaning method using the cleaning agent, and method for producing semiconductor element A cleaning agent for a semiconductor substrate, which is capable of exerting cleaning power equivalent to that of an SPM cleaning agent, greatly improving damage of a semiconductor substrate by the SPM cleaning agent, and efficiently stripping and removing impurities adhered to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, particularly attached substances such as an ion-implanted resist, a cleaning method using the cleaning agent, and a method for producing a semiconductor element are provided. The cleaning agent for a semiconductor substrate comprises sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an alkylene carbonate. The method for cleaning a semiconductor substrate comprises cleaning the semiconductor substrate with sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an alkylene carbonate in combination.
US09070629B2	Through silicon via repair Methods and systems for altering the electrical resistance of a wiring path. The electrical resistance of the wiring path is compared with a target electrical resistance value. If the electrical resistance of the wiring path exceeds the target electrical resistance value, an electrical current is selectively applied to the wiring path to physically alter a portion of the wiring path. The current may be selected to alter the wiring path such that the electrical resistance drops to a value less than or equal to the target electrical resistance value.
US09070624B2	Semiconductor device including polysilicon resistor and metal gate resistor and methods of fabricating thereof A described method includes providing a semiconductor substrate. A first gate structure is formed on the semiconductor substrate and a sacrificial gate structure formed adjacent the first gate structure. The sacrificial gate structure may be used to form a metal gate structure using a replacement gate methodology. A dielectric layer is formed overlying the first gate structure and the sacrificial gate structure. The dielectric layer has a first thickness above a top surface of the first gate structure and a second thickness, less than the first thickness, above a top surface of the sacrificial gate structure. (See, e.g., FIGS. 5, 15, 26). Thus, a subsequent planarization process of the dielectric layer may not contact the first gate structure.
US09070622B2	Systems and methods for similarity-based semiconductor process control The present disclosure provides methods and systems for providing a similarity index in semiconductor process control. One of the methods disclosed herein is a method for semiconductor fabrication process control. The method includes steps of receiving a first semiconductor device wafer and receiving a second semiconductor device wafer. The method also includes a step of collecting metrology data from the first and second semiconductor device wafers. The metrology data includes a first set of vectors associated with the first semiconductor device wafer and a second set of vectors associated with the second semiconductor device wafer. The method includes determining a similarity index based in part on a similarity index value between a first vector from the first set of vectors and a second vector from the second set of vectors and continuing to process additional wafers under current parameters when the similarity index is above a threshold value.
US09070621B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, there is provided a technique which promotes microfabrication by reducing a thickness of the device as suppressing an OFF current of a polysilicon diode which is a selective element. A polysilicon layer to which an impurity is doped at low concentration and which becomes an electric-field relaxation layer of the polysilicon diode which is a selective element of a resistance variable memory is formed so as to be divided into two or more layers such as polysilicon layers. In this manner, it is suppressed to form the crystal grain boundaries thoroughly penetrating between an n-type polysilicon layer and a p-type polysilicon layer in the electric-field relaxation layer, and therefore, it is prevented to generate a leakage current flowing through the crystal grain boundaries in application of a reverse-bias voltage without increasing a height of the polysilicon diode.
US09070618B2	Resistance structure, integrated circuit, and method of fabricating resistance structure A resistance structure including: a conductive layer provided at a surface layer portion of a semiconductor substrate; a first resistance element having long sides and short sides provided over the conductive layer with an insulating film interposed; a second resistance element having long sides and short sides provided over the conductive layer with the insulating film interposed and disposed such that one long side thereof opposes one long side of the first resistance element; first wiring that is connected to one end of the first resistance element; second wiring that is connected to one end of the second resistance element; third wiring that connects the other end of the first resistance element with the other end of the second resistance element; and a connection portion that connects any of the first wiring, the second wiring and the third wiring with the conductive layer.
US09070614B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device simplifies the manufacturing process. The device includes a protective chip which has a surface Zener diode to protect a light emitting chip with an LED formed therein from surge voltage. The protective chip is mounted over a wiring electrically coupled through a metal wire to an anode electrode coupled to a p-type semiconductor region whose conductivity type is the same as that of the semiconductor substrate of the chip. The anode electrode of the protective chip is electrically coupled to the back surface of the chip without PN junction, so even if the back surface is in contact with the wiring, no problem occurs with the electrical characteristics of the Zener diode. This eliminates the need to form an insulating film on the back surface of the chip to prevent contact between the back surface and the wiring, thus simplifying the manufacturing process.
US09070612B2	Method for fabricating optical micro structure and applications thereof A method for fabricating an image sensor, wherein the method comprises steps as follows: Firstly, a transparent substrate is formed on a working substrate. Pluralities of micro lens are formed in the transparent substrate, wherein the lenses have a refraction ratio differing from that of the transparent substrate. Subsequently, a color filter is formed on the lenses. Afterward, the color filter is engaged with an image sensing device by flipping around the working substrate.
US09070611B2	Image sensor with controllable vertically integrated photodetectors An image sensor includes front-side and backside photodetectors of a first conductivity type disposed in a substrate layer of the first conductivity type. A front-side pinning layer of a second conductivity type is connected to a first contact. The first contact receives a predetermined potential. A backside pinning layer of the second conductivity type is connected to a second contact. The second contact receives an adjustable and programmable potential.
US09070608B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes, inter alia: a first and second capacitors arranged serially between an input terminal and a first node, a first comparing unit connecting to a first reference signal and a connecting node of the first and second capacitors, and an output terminal connecting to the first node wherein the first comparing unit provides first or second preliminary ramp signals on the first node, first and second switches arranged between the first comparing unit and the first capacitor to selectively connect the first capacitor to a ground voltage or the input terminal, a third capacitor connecting to the second capacitor in parallel, a third switch selectively connecting the first node to the third capacitor, a first ramp signal output unit generating a first ramp signal with the first preliminary ramp signal provided, and a second ramp signal output unit generating a second ramp signal using the second preliminary ramp signal.
US09070607B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using an electron beam lithography apparatus configured to emit an electron beam to perform lithography of a pattern, processing including pattern formation with the electron beam lithography apparatus is performed on a wafer, and an electric characteristic of the thus manufactured semiconductor devices is measured by a semiconductor testing apparatus. Then, electron beam lithography data to be used by the electron beam lithography apparatus is adjusted based on a result of measurement of the electric characteristic so as to reduce a variation in the electric characteristic of the semiconductor device within a surface of the wafer.
US09070605B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the display apparatus A display apparatus includes a base substrate and a buffer layer disposed on the base substrate. The display apparatus further includes an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer and including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a channel portion. The display apparatus further includes a gate insulating layer disposed on the channel portion, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, and a protective layer disposed on the gate electrode and the buffer layer and having a contact hole. The display apparatus further includes a transparent electrode overlapping a portion of the protective layer and electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode through the contact hole. The transparent electrode includes a transparent metal layer and a transparent conductive oxide layer overlapping the transparent metal layer.
US09070602B2	Method for fabricating liquid crystal display Method for manufacturing a thin film transistor liquid crystal display is provided. A substrate is provided. A gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a passivation film are formed on the substrate in sequence. The passivation film has a contact hole to expose a part of the drain electrode. A conductive layer is formed by coating nano metal material on the passivation film and in the contract hole from which the drain electrode is exposed. A pixel electrode is formed by patterning the conductive layer.
US09070600B2	Active matrix substrate, display panel, and display device A drain electrode (17) includes (i) a lower drain electrode (17a) stacked on a semiconductor layer (14) so as to partially cover an upper surface of the semiconductor layer (14) and (ii) an upper drain electrode (17b). The semiconductor layer (14), the lower drain electrode (17a), and the upper drain electrode (17b) form steps. In a step part where the steps are formed, a distance between a periphery of the lower drain electrode (17a) and a periphery of the upper drain electrode (17b) is more than 0.4 μm but less than 1.5 μm.
US09070595B2	Display device and electronic device including the same A display device includes a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels each including a first transistor, a second transistor, and a light-emitting element, in which a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a scan line, one of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a signal line, and the other of them is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor; one of a source and a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to a power supply line and the other of them is electrically connected to the light-emitting element, and the first transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer. A period when the display device displays a still image includes a period in which output of a signal to all the scan lines in the pixel portion is stopped.
US09070592B2	Method for fabricating a connection region in a semiconductor device Disclosed herein is a fabrication method of a semiconductor device to order to increase an operation liability of the semiconductor device. A method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a buried-type wordline in an active region defined on a SOI substrate, forming a silicon connection region for connecting an upper silicon layer to a lower silicon layer between neighboring buried type wordlines, and recovering the upper silicon layer on the silicon connection region.
US09070591B2	Adjusting intensity of laser beam during laser operation on a semiconductor device Among other things, a system and method for adjusting the intensity of a laser beam applied to a semiconductor device are provided for herein. A sensor is configured to measure the intensity of a laser beam reflected from the semiconductor device. Based upon the reflection intensity, an intensity of the laser beam that is applied to the semiconductor device is adjusted, such as to alter an annealing operation performed on the semiconductor device, for example.
US09070584B2	Buried digitline (BDL) access device and memory array A memory array includes a plurality of digitline (DL) trenches extending along a first direction; a buried digitline between the DL trenches; a trench fill material layer sealing an air gap in each of the DL trenches; a plurality of wordline (WL) trenches extending along a second direction; an active chop (AC) trench disposed at one end of the buried digitline; a shield layer in the air gap; and a sidewall conductor around the sidewall of the AC trench.
US09070583B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor memory device. A contact plug is formed by wet etching. An aspect ratio of SAC is decreased and SAC fail is reduced so that a process margin is secured. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising an active region and a device isolation layer defining the active region, a conductive pattern formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a nitride layer formed on the semiconductor substrate perpendicularly to the conductive pattern.
US09070581B2	Vertical-type semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same In a vertical-type memory device and a method of manufacturing the vertical-type memory device, the vertical memory device includes an insulation layer pattern of a linear shape provided on a substrate, pillar-shaped single-crystalline semiconductor patterns provided on both sidewalls of the insulation layer pattern and transistors provided on a sidewall of each of the single-crystalline semiconductor patterns. The transistors are arranged in a vertical direction of the single-crystalline semiconductor pattern, and thus the memory device may be highly integrated.
US09070580B2	Semiconductor device with a super junction structure based on a compensation structure with compensation layers and having a compensation rate gradient A super junction structure is formed in a semiconductor portion of a super junction semiconductor device. The super junction structure includes a compensation structure with a first compensation layer of a first conductivity type and a second compensation layer of a complementary second conductivity type. The compensation structure lines at least sidewall portions of compensation trenches that extend between semiconductor mesas along a vertical direction perpendicular to a first surface of the semiconductor portion. Within the super junction structure and a pedestal layer that may adjoin the super junction structure, a sign of a lateral compensation rate changes along the vertical direction resulting in a local peak of a vertical electric field gradient and to improved avalanche ruggedness.
US09070578B2	Electromechanical switching device with 2D layered material surfaces The present invention is notably directed to an electromechanical switching device having: two electrodes, including: a first electrode, having layers of a first 2D layered material, which layers exhibit a first surface; and a second electrode, having layers of a second 2D layered material, which layers exhibit a second surface vis-à-vis said first surface; and an actuation mechanism, where: each of the first and second 2D layered materials is electrically conducting; and at least one of said two electrodes is actuatable by the actuation mechanism to modify a distance between the first surface and the second surface, such as to modify an electrical conductivity transverse to each of the first surface and the second surface and thereby enable current modulation between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09070577B2	Semiconductor device having fin structure in peripheral region and method for forming the same In order to fabricate a semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate in a peripheral region is etched to form a plurality of holes. A gap-filling material is buried in the holes of the semiconductor substrate in the peripheral region, and first and second device isolation films are formed in the semiconductor device. A fin structure is formed by recessing the gap-filling material, and a gate is formed over a surface including the fin structure. As a result, operation characteristics of transistors formed in the peripheral region are improved and the short channel effects are also reduced.
US09070576B2	Semiconductor device and related fabrication methods Semiconductor device structures and related fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary method of fabricating a semiconductor device on a doped region of semiconductor material having a first conductivity type involves forming a first region having a second conductivity type within the doped region, forming a body region having the first conductivity type overlying the first region, and forming a drift region having the second conductivity type within the doped region, wherein at least a portion of the drift region abuts at least a portion of the first region. In one embodiment, the dopant concentration of the first region is less than the dopant concentration of the body region and different from the dopant concentration of the drift region.
US09070575B2	Integrated circuit with integrated decoupling capacitors Ferroelectric capacitor structures for integrated decoupling capacitors and the like. The ferroelectric capacitor structure includes two or more ferroelectric capacitors connected in series with one another between voltage nodes. The series connection of the ferroelectric capacitors reduces the applied voltage across each, enabling the use of rough ferroelectric dielectric material, such as PZT deposited by MOCVD. Matched construction of the series-connected capacitors, as well as uniform polarity of the applied voltage across each, is beneficial in reducing the maximum voltage across any one of the capacitors, reducing the vulnerability to dielectric breakdown.
US09070573B2	Light-emitting systems A light-emitting system comprises: a first power input terminal and a second power input terminal; an insulating substrate; a first light-emitting-diode string formed on the insulating substrate comprising at least three light-emitting diodes placed sequentially in a first direction to allow a current flow through the at least three light-emitting diodes of the first light-emitting-diode string generally in the first direction; a second light-emitting-diode string formed on the insulating substrate comprising at least three light-emitting diodes placed sequentially in a second direction to allow a current flow through the at least three light-emitting diodes of the second light-emitting-diode string generally in the second direction; a third light-emitting-diode string comprising at least three light-emitting diodes placed sequentially in a third direction to allow a current flow through the at least three light-emitting diodes of the third light-emitting-diode string generally in the third direction.
US09070572B2	Memory module and memory system A memory module is provided which includes a printed circuit board; first semiconductor packages provided on one surface of the printed circuit board; and second semiconductor packages provided on the other surface of the printed circuit board, the first semiconductor packages and the second semiconductor packages having semiconductor dies that form ranks. A number of the ranks formed by the first semiconductor packages being different from a number of the ranks formed by the second semiconductor packages. Semiconductor packages forming a same one of the ranks receive a chip selection signal in common and semiconductor packages forming other ranks receive a different chip selection signal.
US09070571B2	Power switching module with reduced oscillation A power switching module includes a three-terminal power semiconductor device designed for a rated current and a freewheeling unit. The freewheeling unit includes a pn-diode integrated in a first semiconductor material having a first band-gap, and a Schottky-diode integrated in a second semiconductor material having a second band-gap that is larger than the first band-gap. The Schottky-diode is electrically connected in parallel to the pn-diode.
US09070564B2	Semiconductor device having mixedly mounted components with common film layers and method of manufacturing the same A metal gate electrode and a poly-silicon resistance element are mixedly mounted in the same semiconductor substrate. The metal gate electrode is formed on a first gate insulating film and includes a first gate metal film and a first gate silicon film. The poly-silicon resistance element includes a silicon film pattern formed on a laminated pattern which includes a first laminate insulating film, a first laminate metal film, and a second laminate insulating film. The first laminate insulating film and the first gate insulating film are formed from a common insulating film; the first laminate metal film and the first gate metal film are formed from a common metal film, and the silicon firm pattern and the first gate silicon film are formed from a common silicon film. In a planar view, a footprint of the silicon film pattern is included within the second laminate insulating film.
US09070563B2	Power storage device A semiconductor device comprises a thin film transistor provided over a substrate having an insulating surface, and an electrode penetrating the substrate. The thin film transistor is provided between a first structural body and a second structural body, which has a higher rigidity than the first structural body, which serve as protectors because the structural bodies have resistance to a pressing force such as a tip of a pen or bending stress applied from outside so malfunction due to the pressing force and the bending stress can be prevented.
US09070558B2	Bundled memory and manufacture method for a bundled memory with an external input/output bus A bundled memory includes a substrate, a first memory die, a second memory die, a scribe line, and an electrical connection. The first memory die has a first input/output bus, and the second memory die has a second input/output bus, where the first memory die and the second memory die are formed over the substrate. The scribe line is formed between the first memory die and the second memory die. The electrical connection is formed over the scribe line for electrically connecting to the first input/output bus and the second input/output bus, where the electrical connection is electrically connected to an external input/output bus, where a size of the external input/output bus of the bundled memory is larger than or equal to a size of the first input/output bus and a size of the second input/output bus.
US09070555B2	Method for depositing a chlorine-free conformal sin film Described are methods of making silicon nitride (SiN) materials on substrates. Improved SiN films made by the methods are also included. One aspect relates to depositing chlorine (Cl)-free conformal SiN films. In some embodiments, the SiN films are Cl-free and carbon (C)-free. Another aspect relates to methods of tuning the stress and/or wet etch rate of conformal SiN films. Another aspect relates to low-temperature methods of depositing high quality conformal SiN films. In some embodiments, the methods involve using trisilylamine (TSA) as a silicon-containing precursor.
US09070554B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes supplying a precursor gas to a substrate; supplying a reaction gas to a plasma generation region; supplying high frequency power to the plasma generation region; and generating plasma of the reaction gas by adjusting a pressure of the plasma generation region to a first pressure before the reaction gas is supplied and adjusting the pressure of the plasma generation region to a second pressure lower than the first pressure while the reaction gas and the high frequency power are supplied.
US09070551B2	Method and apparatus for a diffusion bridged cell library A library of cells for designing an integrated circuit, the library comprises continuous diffusion compatible (CDC) cells. A CDC cell includes a p-doped diffusion region electrically connected to a supply rail and continuous from the left edge to the right edge of the CDC cell; a first polysilicon gate disposed above the p-doped diffusion region and electrically connected to the p-doped diffusion region; an n-doped diffusion region electrically connected to a ground rail and continuous from the left edge to the right edge; a second polysilicon gate disposed above the n-doped diffusion region and electrically connected to the n-doped diffusion region; a left floating polysilicon gate disposed over the p-doped and n-doped diffusion regions and proximal to the left edge; and a right floating polysilicon gate disposed over the p-doped and n-doped diffusion regions and proximal to the right edge.
US09070550B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a transistor formed by dividing into a first and a second areas, a source electrode pad connected with a first source region formed in the first area and a second source region formed in the second area, a drain electrode pad connected with a first drain region formed in the first area and a second drain region formed in the second area and a connection line to connect a first gate line and a second gate line, where the connection line being provided in a same layer as the first gate line formed in the first area and the second gate line formed in the second area. A wiring for connecting between nodes of another circuit can be provided over the layer having the connection line provided therein and thus the size of a circuit chip can be reduced.
US09070547B2	Composite substrate and method for manufacturing composite substrate A metal film is formed on at least a surface of a second substrate composed of ceramic (step c), and a first substrate composed of a group nitride is bonded to the second substrate through the metal film (step d). Since the metal film generally has higher thermal conductivity than oxide films, a composite substrate having high heat dissipation can be produced as compared with a case where the first substrate is bonded to the second substrate through an oxide film. In addition, a step of out diffusion is not required because of nonuse of an oxide film, thereby simplifying the process.
US09070540B2	Mass spectrometer An ion-ion reaction cell is provided comprising a plurality of electrodes forming an ion guide. A transient DC voltage wave is applied to the electrodes in order to load reagent anions into the ion guide. Analyte cations are then subsequently transmitted through the ion-ion reaction cell by a subsequent transient DC voltage wave. Ion are arranged to undergo ion-ion reactions within the reaction cell and the resulting fragment ions which are formed within the reaction cell are then subsequently translated out of the reaction cell by means of a transient DC voltage wave.
US09070538B2	Pinched plasma bridge flood gun for substrate charge neutralization A plasma flood gun for an ion implantation system includes an insulating block portion and first and second conductive block portions disposed on opposite sides of the insulating block portion. Conductive straps can be coupled between the first and second conductive block portions. The conductive block portions and the central body portion include recesses which form a closed loop plasma chamber. A power source is coupled to the conductive block portions for inductively coupling radio frequency electrical power into the closed loop plasma chamber to excite the gaseous substance to generate a plasma. The respective recess in the second conductive block portion includes a pinch region having a cross-sectional dimension that is smaller than a cross-sectional area of portion of the closed loop plasma chamber directly adjacent the pinch region. The pinch region can be positioned immediately adjacent an outlet portion formed in the second conductive block portion.
US09070537B2	High-frequency power supply device and reflected wave power control method In an RF power supply for supplying RF power to a plasma load, reflected wave power control is performed in which the reflected wave power of an RF generator is detected and the RF generator is controlled. For a short-time variation in reflected wave power, control is performed based on a peak value variation in the detection value of reflected wave power. For a long-time variation in reflected wave power, control is performed based on a variation in a smoothed value obtained by smoothing detection values of reflected wave power. A reflected wave power control loop system includes a reflected wave power peak value dropping loop system and an arc blocking system that perform control based on a peak variation in reflected wave power and a reflected wave power amount dropping loop system that performs control based on a smoothed power amount of reflected wave power.
US09070528B2	X-ray generator and X-ray photographing apparatus An X-ray generator and an X-ray photographing apparatus including the X-ray generator generate characteristic X-rays. The X-ray generator includes an electron beam emission unit that emits electron beams; an electron beam guide unit, in which the electron beam emission unit is disposed, for condensing the electron beams and causing the electron beams to travel in a predetermined direction; and a target unit disposed to face the electron beam guide unit, and discharging X-rays when the electron beams collide with the target unit.
US09070527B2	Electron gun and electron beam device An electron gun cathode (104) is column shaped, and emits electrons by being heated. A holder (103), which covers the bottom and sides of the electron gun cathode, has electrical conductivity and holds the electron gun cathode, and is composed of a material that does not easily react with the electron gun cathode when in a heated state, is provided. The tip of the electron gun cathode (104) protrudes from the holder (103) so as to be exposed, and electrons are emitted from the tip toward the front by applying an electric field to the tip.
US09070522B2	Smart wall plate and modular jacks for secure network access and/or VLAN configuration One embodiment is directed to an apparatus comprising one or more front connectors, wherein each front connector comprises a respective interface configured to read a storage device associated with a connector that is adapted to be connected to the front connector. The apparatus further comprises one or more rear connection points and one or more switches. The apparatus is configured to automatically configure the apparatus at least in part based on information read from the storage device.
US09070518B2	Starter system Some embodiments of the invention provide a starter system including a starter, capable of being in communication with an electronic control unit. The starter can include a motor coupled to a circuit and a pinion including a plunger, and a plurality of solenoid assemblies including a plurality of biasing members. The plurality of solenoid assemblies can include at least one solenoid winding capable of moving the plunger, and at least one solenoid assembly capable of holding the plunger, and at least one solenoid assembly capable of controlling current flow to the motor. Some embodiments include a first switch coupled to the circuit that is capable of being activated by the plunger to control current flowing to at least a portion of the circuit. Some embodiments include at least two power isolation switches capable of controlling a current flow within the circuit.
US09070516B2	Electric double-layer capacitor An electric double-layer capacitor, which provides enhanced heat release-ability with a simple configuration ensuring vibration resistance and impact resistance and to improve durability in a severe marginal environment, is provided. The electric double-layer capacitor includes capacitor cells; a pair of end plates, respectively disposed on both sides of a plurality of parallelly arranged capacitor cells; a metallic case for housing the end plates, a plurality of capacitor cells; and an insulating resin, filling the interior of the metallic case to cover the end plates, a plurality of capacitor cells and lead terminals, wherein the electric double-layer capacitor further includes an external connecting terminal having two end sections, one of the end sections being disposed in the end plate within the insulating resin, and wherein the lead terminal of the capacitor cell disposed adjacent to the end plate is configured to be connected to the one of the end sections of the external connecting terminal.
US09070510B2	Frequency tuning and step control of a digitally controlled oscillator A variable leaf capacitor is disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a variable leaf capacitor may comprise a first alternating current coupling capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a first differential node and a second terminal coupled to a first common-mode node, a second alternating current coupling capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a second differential node and a second terminal coupled to a second common-mode node, and a varactor having a bias terminal, a first common-mode terminal coupled to the first common-mode node, and a second common-mode terminal coupled to the second common-mode node, wherein the capacitance of the varactor is based on the voltage from the first common-mode terminal of the varactor to the bias terminal of the varactor and on the voltage from the second common-mode terminal of the varactor to the bias terminal of the varactor.
US09070505B2	Coil apparatus and non-contact power transmission apparatus A coil apparatus and a non-contact power transmission apparatus having improved power transmission efficiency are provided.A power transmission side coil apparatus comprises: an excitation coil (second winding section) which transmits AC power supplied from a power source to a transmission coil; a resonance circuit (first resonance circuit) which is formed by a capacitor (first capacitance element) and a transmission coil (first winding section) which is connected to this capacitor and which transmits AC power from the excitation coil to a power receive side coil apparatus; and a resonance circuit (second resonance circuit) which is formed by a variable capacitor (second capacitance element) and a control coil (third winding section) which is connected to this variable capacitor and which resonates with the transmission coil.
US09070501B2	Electromagnet device, method of assembling the same, and electromagnetic relay using the same The present invention provides an electromagnet device which can obtain a desirable attraction force (retention force) between an iron core and a movable iron piece, a method of assembling the electromagnet device and an electromagnetic relay using the electromagnet device, the electromagnet device including an electromagnet block having the iron core being wound by a coil and an auxiliary yoke fixed to one end portion of the iron core, a yoke connected to the one end portion of the iron core via a permanent magnet, the movable iron piece pivotably supported on a pivoting shaft center (serving as a fulcrum) located in an end face edge portion of the yoke so that the movable iron piece pivots on a basis of magnetization and demagnetization of the electromagnet block, where the permanent magnet is located on an extension line of an axial center of the iron core and is interposed between the auxiliary yoke and the yoke.
US09070494B2	Fixation structure of superconducting cable and fixation structure of superconducting cable line A fixation structure for fixing a superconducting cable including a cable core and a thermal insulation tube. The fixation structure includes a fixation box connected to the thermal insulation tube, including a hollow thermal insulation structure, and through which the cable core is passed, a fixation body for fixing the cable core on the inner wall of the fixation box, and a diameter-expanded reinforcement layer that is an electrical insulation layer that has a diameter decreasing toward both ends and is formed on the cable core. A refrigerant flows through the inside of the inner wall of the fixation box. The cable core is fixed on the inner wall with the fixation body through the diameter-expanded reinforcement layer. The structure implements a simple and low-cost fixation structure appropriate for an electric field design.
US09070493B2	Wire structure and method for designing the same A wire structure defined between a first plane and a second plane is provided. The first plane and the second plane are parallel to each other. The wire structure includes a main body and at least three convex portions. The main body has a center defined by its centroid and a periphery defined by the perimeter of the main body. The convex portions protrude from and are adjacently arranged around the periphery. At least one convex portion is tangent to the first plane, and at least two convex portions are tangent to the second plane. The number of the at least one convex portion tangent to the first plane is not equal to the number of the at least two convex portions tangent to the second plane.
US09070491B2	Polymer nanocomposites for electronic applications Disclosed herein are nanocomposite materials, devices thereof and methods thereof with a dielectric constant and corona resistance while having an increased or substantially maintained energy density, breakdown strength and/or dissipation factor relative to the polymer.
US09070490B2	Flat cable and electronic apparatus A transmission line portion of a flat cable that is bent at a position along the longitudinal direction includes a dielectric element body, a first ground conductor, and a second ground conductor. The dielectric element body includes a signal conductor at the middle position of the thickness direction. The first ground conductor includes elongated conductors and bridge conductors. The elongated conductors are spaced in the width direction of the dielectric element body, and extend in the longitudinal direction. The bridge conductors connect the elongated conductors at spacings along the longitudinal direction. The spacing of bridge conductors across the bending point in a bent portion is smaller than the spacing of adjacent bridge conductors located in a straight portion.
US09070486B2	Radiation shielding cockpit carrying an articulated robotic arm A radiation shielded cockpit comprises a radiation blocking material which creates a semi-enclosed work space and which is provided with a structure for receiving and supporting an articulated robot arm and an articulated robot arm that engages the supporting structure in a readily removable manner.
US09070483B2	Encoding and decoding redundant bits to accommodate memory cells having stuck-at faults A data storage system has a memory circuit that comprises memory cells and a control circuit that receives data bits provided for storage in the memory cells. The control circuit encodes the data bits to generate a first set of redundant bits and encoded data bits, such that the encoded data bits selected for storage in a first subset of the memory cells with first stuck-at faults have digital values of corresponding ones of the first stuck-at faults. The control circuit encodes the first set of redundant bits to generate a second set of redundant bits. The control circuit performs logic functions on the second set of redundant bits and the encoded data bits to generate a third set of redundant bits, such that redundant bits in the third set of redundant bits selected for storage in a second subset of the memory cells with second stuck-at faults have digital values of corresponding ones of the second stuck-at faults.
US09070482B2	Multi-chip package semiconductor memory device An MCP type semiconductor memory device having a defective cell remedy function, enables easy design and manufacture while minimizing chip area increase. The semiconductor memory device includes memory chips and a memory controller chip that designates an address of a memory chip according to an access request received from outside and controls access to the designated address. Each memory chip includes first and second storage regions and an information holder that holds address information representing associations between addresses in the first and second storage regions. The memory controller chip includes an address translating part that performs, upon receiving a request to access a specific address in the first storage region indicated by the address information, address designation by translating the specific address in the first storage region to an address in the second storage region corresponding to the specific address based on the associations represented by the address information.
US09070479B2	Systems and methods of updating read voltages A method includes, in a data storage device that includes a non-volatile memory, reading data from the non-volatile memory using a first read voltage. The method includes determining a first count of errors in the data having a first error type and a second count of errors in the data having a second error type. A value of the first read voltage is selectively updated based on a comparison of the first count to the second count.
US09070478B2	Variable resistive memory device and method of fabricating the same A variable resistive memory device includes an array of a plurality of memory cells. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes first and second electrodes, and an SbmSen material layer (where m and n are positive numbers, respectively) interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The SbmSen material layer includes a separation structure in which a plurality of Sb atoms are in contact with a plurality of Se atoms.
US09070475B2	Reading soft bits simultaneously Methods and devices for simultaneously verifying or reading multiple states in non-volatile storage are disclosed. Methods and devices for efficiently reducing or eliminating cross-coupling effects in non-volatile storage are disclosed. Methods and devices for efficiently performing reads at a number of voltages to search for the threshold voltage of a memory cell are disclosed. Memory cells on different NAND strings that are read at the same time may be tested for different threshold voltage levels. Memory cells may be tested for different threshold voltages by applying different gate-to-source voltages to memory cells being tested for different threshold voltages. Memory cells may be tested for different threshold voltages by applying different drain to source voltages to the memory cells. Different amounts of compensation for cross-coupling affects may be applied to memory cells on different NAND strings that are read or programmed at the same time. A binary search may be performed.
US09070469B2	Digital filters with memory A memory device that, in certain embodiments, includes a memory element coupled to a bit-line and a quantizing circuit coupled to the memory element via the bit-line. In some embodiments, the quantizing circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter having an input and output and a digital filter that includes memory. The input of the analog-to-digital converter may be coupled to the bit-line, and the output of the analog-to-digital converter may be coupled to the digital filter.
US09070466B2	Mismatch error reduction method and system for STT MRAM The invention relates to methods and systems for reading a memory cell and in particular, an STT MRAM. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method for reading a memory cell includes combining a cell current from a memory cell with a reference current from a reference source to create an average current, enabling the average current to flow through a first mirror transistor in a sense path and a second mirror transistor in a reference path, storing the current mismatch on a capacitor coupled to the gates of the first mirror transistor and the second mirror transistor, disconnecting the memory cell from the reference path and disconnecting the reference source from the sense path, enabling the cell current only to flow through the sense path, and determining the output level of the memory cell.
US09070464B2	Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) with enhanced magnetic stiffness and method of making same A spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STTMRAM) element and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed having a free sub-layer structure with enhanced internal stiffness. A first free sub-layer is deposited, the first free sub-layer being made partially of boron (B), annealing is performed of the STTMRAM element at a first temperature after depositing the first free sub-layer to reduce the B content at an interface between the first free sub-layer and the barrier layer, the annealing causing a second free sub-layer to be formed on top of the first free sub-layer and being made partially of B, the amount of B of the second free sub-layer being greater than the amount of B in the first free sub-layer. Cooling down the STTMRAM element to a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature and depositing a third free sub-layer directly on top of the second free layer, with the third free sub-layer being made partially of boron (B), wherein the amount of B in the third sub-free layer is less than the amount of B in the second free sub-layer.
US09070463B2	Flash memory module for realizing high reliability A flash memory module may include a plurality of flash memory chips. The memory chips may include one or more blocks. Each block may be a unit of erasing data. A flash controller may be coupled to the plurality of flash memory chips. The flash controller may program data to block and erase data from a block. The flash controller may manage a recent programming time for each of the plurality of blocks. The flash controller may erase data stored in a block for which an elapsed programming time is larger than a first value.
US09070461B2	NAND flash memory having multiple cell substrates A NAND flash memory bank having a plurality of bitlines of a memory array connected to a page buffer, where NAND cell strings connected to the same bitline are formed in at least two well sectors. At least one well sector can be selectively coupled to an erase voltage during an erase operation, such that unselected well sectors are inhibited from receiving the erase voltage. When the area of the well sectors decrease, a corresponding decrease in the capacitance of each well sector results. Accordingly, higher speed erasing of the NAND flash memory cells relative to a single well memory bank is obtained when the charge pump circuit drive capacity remains unchanged. Alternately, a constant erase speed corresponding to a single well memory bank is obtained by matching a well segment having a specific area to a charge pump with reduced drive capacity. A reduced drive capacity charge pump will occupy less semiconductor chip area, thereby reducing cost.
US09070449B2	Defective block management In a flash memory, erase blocks containing shorted or broken word lines may be used, at least in part, to store user data. Such blocks may use different parameters to those used by non-defective blocks, may be subject to different wear leveling, and may store data selected to reduce the number of access operations.
US09070448B2	Methods of forming fine patterns in semiconductor devices Methods of forming a semiconductor device may include providing a feature layer having a first region and a second region. The methods may also include forming a dual mask layer on the feature layer. The methods may further include forming a variable mask layer on the dual mask layer. The methods may additionally include forming a first structure on the feature layer in the first region and a second structure on the feature layer in the second region by patterning the variable mask layer and the dual mask layer. The methods may also include forming a first spacer on a sidewall of the first structure and a second spacer on a sidewall of the second structure. The methods may further include removing the first structure while maintaining at least a portion of the second structure.
US09070446B1	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes first memory strings coupled between a first common source line formed on a substrate and bit lines formed over the first common source line, and second memory strings coupled between the bit lines and a second common source line formed over the bit lines, wherein each of the bit lines includes a stacked structure of a conductive layer and a silicon layer formed on the conductive layer.
US09070439B2	Electronic device with a programmable resistive element and a method for blocking a device One or more embodiments relate to an electronic device comprising a circuitry and a programmable resistive element. The programmable resistive element comprises a first and a second state, wherein the programmable resistive element is configured to allow switching from the second state into the first state in response to a signal comprising at least a predefined level. The circuitry is configured to provide signals up the predefined level, wherein the circuitry is configured to provide a switch signal to the programmable resistive element, wherein the switch signal causes switching from the first into the second state.
US09070437B2	Circuit and system of using junction diode as program selector for one-time programmable devices with heat sink Junction diodes fabricated in standard CMOS logic processes can be used as program selectors with at least one heat sink or heater to assist programming for One-Time Programmable (OTP) devices, such as electrical fuse, contact/via fuse, contact/via anti-fuse, or gate-oxide breakdown anti-fuse, etc. The heat sink can be at least one thin oxide area, extended OTP element area, or other conductors coupled to the OTP element to assist programming. A heater can be at least one high resistance area such as an unsilicided polysilicon, unsilicided active region, contact, via, or combined in serial, or interconnect to generate heat to assist programming. The OTP device has at least one OTP element coupled to at least one diode in a memory cell. The diode can be constructed by P+ and N+ active regions in a CMOS N well, or on an isolated active region as the P and N terminals of the diode. The isolation between P+ and the N+ active regions of the diode in a cell or between cells can be provided by dummy MOS gate, SBL, or STI/LOCOS isolations. The OTP element can be polysilicon, silicided polysilicon, silicide, polymetal, metal, metal alloy, local interconnect, metal-0, thermally isolated active region, CMOS gate, or combination thereof.
US09070430B2	Data sampling devices Designs of a sampling controller working with memory chips are described. The designs enable a memory chip to work in high frequency clocks, resulting in high data throughput rate. A data sampling device includes a memory chip and a sampling controller. The sampling controller includes an asynchronous data memory. A data writing port of the asynchronous data memory receives a clock signal and employs the clock signal as a writing clock to store the sampling data into an internal memory and activate a data reading port thereof to read and output the sampling data.
US09070428B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes first and second bank groups coupled to first and second data lines which are electrically isolated from each other. The semiconductor device includes a register unit suitable for providing predetermined data to the second data line in a specific mode, a data transfer and output unit suitable for externally outputting the predetermined data loaded onto the second data line and simultaneously transferring the predetermined data to the first data line in the specific mode, and a data output unit suitable for externally outputting the predetermined data loaded onto the first data line in the specific mode.
US09070427B2	Data coding using divisions of memory cell states Data storage devices and methods to encode and decode data using divisions of memory cell states are disclosed. A method includes dividing data bits into disjoint multiple groups of data bits and storing the data bits into a plurality of memory cells. The storing is done by setting each of the plurality of memory cells to a corresponding state selected from at least three ordered states. For each of the multiple groups of data bits, when a request is received for reading a particular group of the data bits, the request is serviced by selecting a disjoint division of the at least three ordered states of the memory cells into a first set of states and a second set of states. Each of the states in the first set of states has a higher position than any of the states in the second set of states according to the order of the states. For each cell of the plurality of memory cells, a determination is made whether the cell is in the first set of states or the second set of states. Based on the determination, the particular group of the data bits is generated in response to the request for reading the particular group of the data bits without use of additional data that depends upon a state of one of the memory cells.
US09070426B2	Semiconductor memory device capable of setting an internal state of a NAND flash memory in response to a set feature command A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment is provided with a plurality of first latch circuits that latch setting-data at different timings, a plurality of hold circuits provided corresponding to the respective plurality of first latch circuits, each holding data latched by the corresponding first latch circuit, and an address decoder that decodes an address that specifies a destination to hold data. Each of the plurality of hold circuits has one or more holding parts that hold data latched by the corresponding first latch circuit based on a decode signal decoded by the address decoder.
US09070424B2	Sense amplifier circuitry for resistive type memory Example embodiments include a resistive type memory sense amplifier circuit including differential output terminals, first and second input terminals, a pre-charge section, and other components arranged so that current is re-used during at least a “set” or “amplification” stage of the sense amplifier circuit, thereby reducing overall current consumption of the circuit, and improving noise immunity. A voltage level of a high-impedance output terminal is caused to swing in response to a delta average current between a reference line current and a bit line current. During a “go” or “latch” stage of operation, a logical value “0” or “1” is latched at the differential output terminals based on positive feedback of a latch circuit. Also disclosed is a current mirror circuit, which can be used in conjunction with the disclosed sense amplifier circuit. In yet another embodiment, a sense amplifier circuit includes the capability of read/re-write operation.
US09070418B2	Cutting jig for reworking head suspension A cutting jig cuts bonding material of a terminal joint between a magnetic head's slider and a flexure's wiring terminal. A base of the jig receives the slider. A blade moves along the base and faces a front side wall of the slider in a moving direction. An upright portion of the jig is formed on the base and has a stop face that faces a rear side wall of the slider in the moving direction. The blade moves toward the slider to come into contact with the bonding material, and is pressed to the front side wall of the slider. The bonding material is interposed in the moving direction while the rear side wall of the slider is brought into contact with and is stopped by the stop face when the slider is set on the base and the bonding material is cut.
US09070417B1	Magnetic disk device and method for executing write command According to one embodiment, a controller of a magnetic disk device starts to receive first data specified in a first write command from a host, and starts to write the first data to a disk in accordance with the first write command. The controller reports a status for execution of the first write command to the host depending on whether or not a second capacity of data not yet written to the disk is less than or equal to a first capacity of a first free space in a nonvolatile cache. The first free space is available to save data during a first period when a backup power supply enables power to be supplied. The second capacity decreases as writing of the first data to the disk progresses.
US09070414B2	Playback apparatus, playback method, program, recording medium, and data structure The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a playback method, a program, a recording medium, and a data structure that enable interactive operations when playing back AV content. A controller 34 obtains an order list of audio stream numbers in advance. In response to an instruction to switch audio by a user, the controller obtains the audio stream number subsequent to the audio stream number which is being played back. It is then checked whether a stream that is found to be playable by the playback apparatus is included in a main clip or a sub clip, and the main clip referred to by the Main Path is read together with the clip in which the corresponding audio stream is multiplexed. Then, the audio stream file of the corresponding clip and the file to be played back included in the main clip are selected by the switches 57 through 59, and 77. The selected files are combined by a video data processor 96 and an audio data processor 97, and the combined data is output. The present invention is applicable to playback apparatuses.
US09070400B2	Method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes providing a substrate that is a magnetic recording medium substrate having a disc shape, having two main surfaces, and having defined therein a center hole; holding the center hole of the substrate from both main surfaces with two holding members that each have a disc shape to hold the substrate and to cover at least the periphery of the center hole adjacent to the two main surfaces of the substrate; and applying resist liquid simultaneously to both main surfaces of the substrate using spin coating to form a resist layer simultaneously on both main surfaces while maintaining the periphery of the center hole immediately adjacent to the two main surfaces of the substrate resist-free as an unapplied portion. The method enables efficient formation of uniform resist layers without defects on both faces of the substrate.
US09070399B2	Polishing liquid composition for magnetic-disk substrate There is provided a polishing composition for a magnetic disk substrate that can reduce scratches, nanoprotrusion defects, and substrate surface waviness after polishing. The polishing composition for a magnetic disk substrate that contains: a copolymer that has a constituent unit derived from a monomer having a solubility of 2 g or less in 100 g of water at 20° C. and a constituent unit having a sulfonic acid group, and has a saturated hydrocarbon chain as the main chain thereof, or a salt of the copolymer; an abrasive; and water.
US09070398B2	Magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, magnetic recording method and magnetic reproducing method Provided is a magnetic recording medium including a structure in which at least a soft magnetic underlayer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer, and a magnetic recording layer are sequentially laminated on a non-magnetic substrate, wherein the magnetic recording layer includes a first magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer in order from the non-magnetic substrate side, has a structure in which the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer are magnetically separated from each other with the non-magnetic layer interposed therebetween, and consists of a plurality of patterns which are magnetically separated from each other, and the coercive force Hc of the second magnetic layer is larger than that of the first magnetic layer, and the coercive force Hc of the second magnetic layer is smaller than that of the first magnetic layer temporarily when the second magnetic layer is heated.
US09070397B1	Write current and media heater control for heat or microwave assisted magnetic recording A data storage device and method for improved flying height control (TFC) in a HAMR or MAMR system employing three heat sources to control the head protrusion: write coil current, TFC heater current, and media exciter power. The TFC heater is used to pre-heat the write head. The media exciter may be operated at a either a zero level or a low level below that required for the HAMR or MAMR process, optionally serving as an additional source of heat to the write head. The HAMR or MAMR data writing process commences only after the head protrusion has been increased and stabilized. During data writing, the media exciter power is increased to the higher level required to heat the disk medium in an HAMR or MAMR process and the TFC heater power is slightly reduced to maintain the total heat into the head approximately constant.
US09070392B1	Piezoelectric disk drive suspension motors having plated stiffeners Various embodiments concern a gimbaled flexure having a dual stage actuation structure. The flexure comprises a gimbal on which a motor is mounted. The motor comprises a first terminal, one or more layers of piezoelectric material, and a metal stiffener disposed directly on the first terminal. The stiffener comprises a layer of metal defining a majority of a top side of the motor. The first terminal can be gold sputtered on the piezoelectric material while the stiffener can be nickel plated on the gold. The stiffener can cause the motor, and the flexure on which it is mounted, to curl upon electrical activation of the motor.
US09070390B2	Modified areal densities for degraded storage device read heads Systems, methods, and firmware for operating data storage devices and storage processors are provided herein. In one example, a data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes magnetic storage media configured to store data, read heads configured to read data from the magnetic storage media at associated areal densities, and a storage processor. The storage processor is configured to monitor read error rates of the read heads during operation of the data storage device to identify a degraded one of the read heads, and process at least the read error rates and an areal density of the degraded one of the read heads to modify the areal density of at least the degraded one of the read heads.
US09070389B2	Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus According to an embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a recording medium and a reproducing head. The recording medium includes a concentric circular plurality of tracks. The reproducing head includes a spin torque oscillator and reproduces information from the recording medium using the spin torque oscillator, the spin torque oscillator including an oscillation layer with a first cross-track direction width, a polarizer layer with a second cross-track direction width, and a spacer layer provided between the oscillation layer and the polarizer layer. The first cross-track direction width is larger than double the second cross-track direction width, and the second cross-track direction width is smaller than an inter-track distance.
US09070388B2	Plasma processing method In a plasma processing method of dry-etching of a magnetic film having a thickness of 200 nm to 500 nm, a plasma processing method of dry-etching of a sample having the magnetic film on which a multilayered film including a resist film, an non-organic film underlying the resist film, a Cr film underlying the non-organic film, and an Al2O3 film underlying the Cr film.
US09070385B2	Solid immersion mirror with fill material between inner and outer sidewalls An apparatus includes a solid immersion mirror with opposing, reflective, inner sidewalls having inner surfaces facing a focal region and outer surfaces opposite the inner surfaces. The solid immersion mirror also include opposing outer sidewalls spaced apart from and facing the outer surfaces of the inner sidewalls, and a fill material between the inner sidewalls and outer sidewalls. The apparatus also includes a near-field transducer located in the focal region proximate a media-facing surface.
US09070381B1	Magnetic recording read transducer having a laminated free layer A method and system provide a magnetic transducer including a first shield, a read sensor, and a second shield. The read sensor is between the first shield and the second shield. The read sensor has a free layer including a plurality of ferromagnetic layers interleaved with and sandwiching at least one additional layer. Each of the ferromagnetic layers includes at least one of Fe, Co and B and has a first corrosion resistance. The additional layer(s) have a second corrosion resistance greater than the first corrosion resistance.
US09070380B2	Objective lens driving apparatus, optical pickup High-performance and reliable objective lens driving apparatus and optical pickup wherein the tilt of an objective lens relative to an optical disc is suppressed are provided. The optical pickup is equipped with a semiconductor laser, an electro-optic component, and the objective lens driving apparatus. In this optical pickup, the objective lens driving apparatus is comprised of: a moving part including an objective lens, a holder that holds the objective lens, a focusing coil, and a tracking coil; a holding member for elastic support members that couples together multiple elastic support members providing elastic support on a fixed part and the moving part and is mounted on the moving part; the elastic support members that elastically support the moving part from the fixed part; and the fixed part. The holding member for elastic support members mounted on the moving part and the holder that holds the objective lens are joined together by fitting together a concavity and a convexity.
US09070377B1	Cooling periods used during the writing of bit boundaries to a magnetic recording media Polarity transitions of a write signal applied to a write coil correspond to first bit boundaries written to a magnetic recording media. A heat signal is applied to heat the magnetic recording media via a heat source while bits are being written. The heat signal includes negative pulses that de-energize the heat source during cooling periods corresponding to the writing of the first bit boundaries. The negative pulses are offset from the polarity transitions by a predetermined time.
US09070376B2	Method for evaluating information reproduction performance, information reproduction device, and information recording medium A method for evaluating a reproduction performance which reproduces a specific pattern recording signal to measure a reproduced signal noise, and calculates an evaluated value of a reproduction performance on the basis of a frequency characteristic of the measured reproduced signal noise.
US09070374B2	Communication apparatus and condition notification method for notifying a used condition of communication apparatus by using a light-emitting device attached to communication apparatus The used condition of a simplex communication apparatus is notified with a light-emitting device attached to the communication apparatus. It is determined whether a communication mode of the simplex communication apparatus is a transmission mode or a standby mode. A sound pick-up state of a sound carried by a speech signal to be transmitted is determined if the communication mode is the transmission mode. The light-emitting device is controlled so that it is turned off, turned on or repeatedly turned on and off based on determination results of the communication-mode determination and the sound pick-up state determination.
US09070373B2	Decoding device, encoding device, decoding method, and encoding method A decoding device to decode a main signal code obtained by encoding low-frequency components of an original signal and to output a lowband main signal for output of a main signal, includes: a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, decoding auxiliary information code obtained by encoding auxiliary information, the auxiliary information being for generating, from the lowband main signal, a highband main signal corresponding to high-frequency components of the original signal; decoding residual code obtained by encoding low-frequency components of a residual signal indicating error components produced by encoding of the original signal, and thereby output a lowband residual signal; generating a highband residual signal indicating high-frequency components of the residual signal, based on the lowband residual signal output by the residual decoder and the output auxiliary information; generating an output signal.
US09070370B2	Technique for suppressing particular audio component A coefficient train processing section, which sequentially generates per unit segment a processing coefficient train for suppressing a target component of an audio signal, includes a basic coefficient train generation section and coefficient train processing section. The basic coefficient train generation section generates a basic coefficient train where basic coefficient values corresponding to frequencies within a particular frequency band range are each set at a suppression value that suppresses the audio signal while coefficient values corresponding to frequencies outside the particular frequency band range are each set at a pass value that maintains the audio signal. The coefficient train processing section generates the processing coefficient train, per unit segment, by changing, to the pass value, each of the coefficient values corresponding to frequencies other than the target component among the coefficient values corresponding to the frequencies within the particular frequency band range.
US09070365B2	Training and applying prosody models Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard prosody from input text. Multiple prosody models can be used to represent different prosody styles.
US09070363B2	Speech translation with back-channeling cues A field maintainable class-based translation system and apparatus with components that ease use by linguistically untrained users is disclosed. The apparatus includes modules for recovering errors, extending and customizing language coverage and increasing the speed of effective communication.
US09070362B2	Audio quantization coding and decoding device and method thereof The present disclosure provides an audio quantization coding and decoding device and a method thereof. In the method, before a quantization coding process is performed on a digital signal, the signal is pre-processed, the digital signal is split into multiple frames based on positive and negative half periods of the signal, and all audio data between two adjacent zero-crossing points belongs to the same positive and negative half periods, so as to have the same sign-bit. A pre-processing module groups the numeric data belonging to the same positive and negative half periods into the same frame. When coding, an audio quantization coding module only needs to record a sign-bit of the frame at a head of the frame, so the sign-bit of each batch of voice data in the frame may be omitted to reduce a data amount or improve a resolution of each batch of voice data.
US09070354B2	Acoustic wave generator employing fluid injector To reproduce sound in an extremely compact size, fluid injectors are used that can generate fluid flow sufficient to create a desired acoustic pressure wave, but which fluid flow operates in a manner that is decoupled from the desired acoustic pressure wave. Fluid flow within the fluid injectors needed to generate the desired acoustic pressure wave need not be directly proportional to the frequencies of the desired acoustic pressure wave. The fluid injector has a control input capable of altering fluid flow relative to a received control signal, which is generated by a controller in response to an electrical signal. The fluid injector produces fluid flow outward and inward in response to the control signal, thereby creating an acoustic wave proportional to the electrical signal. The devices herein may employ valves or not. Synthetic jets may also be used.
US09070350B2	Polyphonic tuner A musical instrument tuner for string instruments is provided which comprises a signal classifier for determining a signal class of an input signal from a number of monophonic signal classes and a number of polyphonic signal classes, a signal analyzer for determining at least one representation of a pitch frequency of the input signal, and an indicator for displaying an output established on the basis of the signal class and the representation of a pitch frequency.
US09070349B1	Musical instrument strap An apparatus for holding a musical instrument has a strap that is secured at a first end to a base of the instrument by magnetism. An opposite second end is secured around a neck of the instrument by any of various ways. If available, an overall length of the strap is adjusted. The first end of the strap is secured to the base of the instrument by the use of one or more magnets disposed on one side of a planar rear surface of the base and by a ferric or steel member disposed on an opposite side of the rear surface. Magnetic attraction pinches and secures the magnets and steel member in position until urged apart. Fabric covering around the magnets and steel member prevent damage. The magnets or, alternately, the steel member are inserted through a sound hole into an interior of the instrument base.
US09070344B2	Integrating street view with live video data An approach is provided in which a system retrieves a street view image that depicts a geographical area viewed from a street view perspective. The system identifies a video device depicted in the street view image that provides a live video stream of a real-time viewable area corresponding to at least a portion of the depicted geographical area. In turn, the system generates a composite image that combines the street view image with a viewing area overlay corresponding to the real-time viewable area.
US09070343B2	Method of driving display panel that prevents TFT characteristic degradation and display apparatus for performing the same A method for driving a display panel includes generating a plurality of gate signals, providing the plurality of gate signals to a plurality of switching elements connected to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, providing the plurality of gate signals to a monitoring element, and restoring the plurality of switching elements based on an output signal from the monitoring element.
US09070339B2	Semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal panel, a reflective pixel electrode and a transmissive pixel electrode in a unit pixel are supplied with an image signal output from a data line drive circuit, the two mutually different scanning signals output from a scanning line drive circuit, and common signals output from a common line drive circuit. The phase of the image signal is set different from that of the common signal. Further, a period during which the two scanning signals are selected is set in one horizontal period, the ending of the selection period for one of the scanning signals is set to a point in time before an electrical potential of the common signal changes, and the ending of the selection period for the other scanning signal is set to a point in time after the electrical potential of the common signal changes.
US09070338B2	Display device, driving method of the same and electronic device A display device includes a pixel portion to which a non-inverted video signal is input in a first period and an inverted video signal is input in a second period, and a signal line driver circuit comprising a switch circuit portion for controlling output of the non-inverted video signal and the inverted video signal to the pixel portion. The switch circuit portion is controlled by a first signal serving as a first high power supply potential and a first low power supply potential in the first period and is controlled by a second signal serving as a second high power supply potential and a second low power supply potential in the second period, so that the switch circuit portion controls output of the non-inverted video signal and the inverted video signal to the pixel portion.
US09070336B2	Liquid crystal display comprising pixel with charge sharing unit and display driving method thereof A liquid crystal display includes a date line for transmitting a data signal, a first gate line for transmitting a first gate signal, a second gate line for transmitting a second gate signal, a first sub-pixel unit for being written to by a first sub-pixel voltage according to the data signal and the first gate signal, a second sub-pixel unit for being written to by a second sub-pixel voltage according to the data signal and the first gate signal, a third sub-pixel unit for being written to by a third sub-pixel voltage according to the data signal and the first gate signal, and a charge sharing control unit. The charge sharing control unit is utilized for controlling a charge sharing operation over the first and third sub-pixel units according to the second gate signal, thereby adjusting the first and third sub-pixel voltages.
US09070334B2	Display device A display device includes a plurality of gate lines, data lines, first external gate tracking lines, and second external gate tracking lines. The first external gate tracking lines are substantially disposed in a border region of a substrate, and electrically connected with corresponding gate lines. The second external gate tracking lines are substantially disposed in the border region of the substrate, and electrically connected with corresponding gate lines. One of the first external gate tracking lines and a corresponding second external gate tracking line at least partially overlap with each other.
US09070331B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same, which improve image quality by increasing data line charge speed, are provided. In the display, a preparatory charging controller receives current image data to be provided to m current pixels of an nth horizontal line and a current vertical polarity-reversal control signal for vertically controlling polarities of the current image data, compares current image data with previous data provided to m corresponding previous pixels of an n−1th horizontal line, compares the current control signal with a previous one, and determines a logic value of a preparatory charging control signal based on the comparison. A data driver performs either a first operation for connecting and separating m data lines connected respectively to m current pixels, or a second operation for maintaining the m data lines separated, according to the logic value and provides the current data to the m pixels.
US09070330B2	Display apparatus with transmissive and reflective subpixels A display apparatus includes a display section including an array of pixels in a two-dimensional matrix, wherein each of the pixels of the display section includes a pair of a subpixel displaying a first primary color, and a subpixel displaying a second primary color being different from the first primary color.
US09070329B2	Method for driving the gate lines of a display device to eliminate deterioration A method for driving a display device in which characteristics of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor can approximately be recovered to characteristics before deterioration is provided. In the method for driving the display device, by which images are displayed with the use of a plurality of frame periods, the display device is driven so that a voltage of 20 V or higher can be applied to a gate of a transistor, which is a driving element, for 1 millisecond or longer in a period, in which any one of scan lines is selected, in each frame period. For a plurality of frame periods, the rows are selected so that a voltage of 20 V or higher is applied to gates of all of the transistors which are driving elements for 1 millisecond or longer, whereby characteristics of the transistor can approximately be recovered to characteristics before deterioration.
US09070326B2	Backlight unit and method for driving the same A backlight unit according to one embodiment includes an LED array having a plurality of LEDs; a voltage generating unit for generating a driving voltage to drive the plurality of LEDs in response to a switching signal; an amplifying unit for feeding the driving voltage back and amplifying the fed driving voltage, to output an amplification signal; a stabilizer for stabilizing the amplification signal; a comparator for comparing the amplification signal with a reference waveform to apply the switching signal to the voltage generating unit; a first switching unit for switching a current of the LED array in response to a PWM dimming signal from a timing controller; and a second switching unit for switching the switching signal from the comparator in response to the PWM dimming signal.
US09070325B2	Reflective area blocking feature for displays This invention relates to a display device, a method, a computer program and a system including a display device, wherein said display device includes at least one light transmissive area configured to be coupled to a light source in order to be provided with backlight, at least one light reflective area, at least one light transmission control element associated with said at least one light reflective area, wherein said display device is configured to be switched into a reflective blocking state when said at least one light transmissive area is provided with backlight, and wherein in said reflective blocking state said at least one light transmission control element causes light-blocking.
US09070320B2	Display device and driving method for the same A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel for displaying an image in at least two separate fields during a frame, a panel driver configured to transmit output data for each field corresponding to the at least two fields and drive the display panel according to each field, and a controller configured to analyze an image pattern corresponding to input data, and generate the output data for each field from the input data according to an analysis result of the pattern, or extract each field data from the input data according to a predetermined data alignment method and generate the output data for each field by using the field data.
US09070318B2	Display apparatus and a method of driving the same A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, a data driver, a gate driver and a backlight unit. The gate driver sequentially outputs gate signals to gate lines. The backlight unit performs an on-operation during a high section of a backlight control signal and an off-operation during a low section of the backlight control signal. The gate signals includes first gate signals that are output during the high section of the backlight control signal and have a first pulse width and second gate signals that are output during the low section of the backlight control signal and have a second pulse width greater than the first pulse width.
US09070316B2	Optical correction for high uniformity panel lights A display has a spatial light modulator for dynamically controlling a luminance of each pixel according to an input signal, the spatial light modulator having a non-uniform spatial characteristic, the display also having an optical filter having a spatial pattern to alter the luminance to compensate at least partially for the non-uniform spatial characteristic. An electronic signal processing element applies some pre ompensation predominantly of higher spatial frequencies for the non-uniform spatial characteristic. Such dynamic and optical compensation can enable tuning for different optimizations or for compensating for variations over time. A backlight has an optical source and an optical filter, the source having a color output which has a non-uniform spatial characteristic, and the optical filter having a spatial pattern to alter the color to compensate in part at least for the non-uniform spatial characteristic.
US09070314B2	Method, system and apparatus for rendering a map according to texture masks Methods, systems and apparatus are described to render map data according to texture masks. A rendering device may obtain map data, which may include one or more shapes described by vector graphics data. Along with the one or more shapes, embodiments may include mask indicators corresponding to the one or more shapes. Embodiments may render the map data by creating a mask shape based upon mask indicators corresponding to the shapes described by the vector graphics data. For each created mask shape, a texture source may be determined according to the mask indicator for the mask shape. Embodiments may obtain a texture from the texture source and may apply the mask shape to the obtained texture to render a fill portion of the corresponding shape described by the vector graphics data. Some embodiments may display the rendered map data as a map view.
US09070312B2	Hybrid self illuminated and actively back lit signage for printed graphics Hybrid signage capable of self illumination and having an active backlight. The signage includes a turning film having a structured surface for redirecting light in order to passively illuminate a printed graphic or shaped sign when the backlight is off. In the shaped sign, the shape provides the content, such as letters, to be conveyed to the viewer instead of a graphic. The signage can be actively illuminated when the backlight is on to supplemental the passive illumination.
US09070309B2	Flagpole system providing half-mast display mode A flag mounting system provides a compact flagpole that may be mounted on a vertical surface or the like. A sliding tubular sleeve on the flagpole supports the flag and in a half-mast position exposes a distal end of the flagpole which is painted black. When the sliding tubular sleeve is extended to a full extension position, this black portion is covered.
US09070302B1	Music teaching device and method A novel piano roll notation system corresponding to the keyboard of a novel Janko-type keyboard is provided.
US09070300B1	Set of variably assemblable polygonal tiles with stencil capability This invention relates to interlocking rectangular and triangular tiles for use in tessellating a plane, teaching certain aspects of geometry and trigonometry, and creating decorative objects. The tiles comprising the invention, some with a design on them, tessellate the plane with periodic and non-periodic patterns based on the design as the basic unit of repetition. In particular; the tiles can be assembled to create any of the 17 possible plane periodic patterns. The tiles of the present invention can be used as a teaching tool for a partially structured exploration of plane periodic patterns, and for learning the mathematical notation for these patterns. They can also be used for teaching basic geometry to younger children through exploratory play. This invention can also be used as a stencil assembly, so that the patterns created can be transferred to a plane surface and used as decorations.
US09070299B2	Arrangement comprising a mock-up for reproducing and testing an aircraft passenger cabin An arrangement including a supporting structure and a reproduction of an aircraft passenger cabin, arranged inside the supporting structure. The aircraft passenger cabin is on a 1:1 scale for receiving components of cabin systems. The supporting structure is composed of standardized elements, for receiving components of the cabin system. The cabin fittings including standardized supports and connections so that the components of the cabin system can be tested under operating conditions.
US09070297B1	Addition and subtraction teaching aid A device and method of use for carrying out addition and/or subtraction problems is disclosed. The device has two circular dials rotatable with respect to one another. Each dial has at least one set of sequential numbers, and at least one selector allows for selection of a number on at least one of the dials. By rotating the circular dials in position, and selecting a number to be added or subtracted, one then is able to see correct mathematical equations around the entire circle.
US09070296B1	Visualization of traffic patterns using GPS data Maps are created that display representations of GPS data generated from a plurality of GPS devices. The GPS data received from the GPS devices is embodied as a representation having descriptive features that visually indicate the location, direction of travel, and speed of travel of the GPS device, and the representation is associated with a road segment on the map. The display of the GPS data from a plurality of GPS devices can be used for editing information about roads on maps and determining preferred routes.
US09070293B2	Device and method for traffic sign recognition A method and apparatus for determining whether to alert a driver of a vehicle to the presence of a traffic sign in the vehicle's driving environment. An optical system on-board the vehicle detects the traffic sign and determine information related to the sign. Driving maneuvers carried out by the vehicle are monitored to determine driving situation information. The driving situation information and the traffic sign information are used to determine a probability that the sign is pertinent for the vehicle under the current driving conditions. If the probability is above a threshold, the driver is alerted to the traffic sign. The probability of the pertinence of the traffic sign may be further determined on the basis of lane-specific information such as vehicle position relative to a freeway exit ramp start or end, or performance of a lane change by the vehicle.
US09070292B2	Information providing system and vehicle-mounted apparatus A portable terminal apparatus is configured to obtain provided information including character data from an information distribution server apparatus, transmit partial data, which is a portion of the character data, to a voice synthesizing server apparatus, and obtain voice data obtained by converting the partial data into voice from the voice synthesizing server apparatus, and when a predetermined notification is received from a vehicle-mounted apparatus, a command is given to cause the vehicle-mounted apparatus to display the provided information corresponding to the voice data, and the vehicle-mounted apparatus displays information given by the portable terminal apparatus, plays the voice data, and when selection operation performed by a user is received, the portable terminal apparatus is notified that the selection operation has been performed.
US09070286B2	Traffic-monitoring smart tape The present invention generally relates to techniques for traffic monitoring. The techniques utilize a relatively low cost sensing system, referred to here as “smart tape.” Smart tape is adhered directly to the roadway and provides the ability to temporarily monitor traffic. It can be applied in an appropriate length for the roadway condition. Smart tape is responsive to the pressure of a vehicle's tires passing over it. Furthermore, smart tape does not require an attached monitoring device, unlike certain known traffic monitoring techniques.
US09070284B2	Turbulence avoidance operation assist device An object of the present invention is to provide a turbulence avoidance operation assist device that automatically generates an optimal trajectory of emergency avoidance and reports this trajectory to a pilot when distant turbulence is detected during an aircraft flight. The turbulence avoidance operation assist device in accordance with the present invention includes: means for detecting the presence of a danger region such as a turbulence region ahead of aircraft in a flight direction; means for representing the danger region as an assembly of rectangular solids when the detection means recognizes the danger region, and generating a flight trajectory by a local optimum solution of an avoidance trajectory using a convex quadratic programming method in which deviation from a reference trajectory is the smallest on the basis of an initial estimation solution obtained by a semidefinite programming method; and means for reporting the flight trajectory to a pilot.
US09070283B2	Flight deck display systems and methods for generating in-trail procedure windows including aircraft flight path symbology Embodiments of a flight deck display system for deployment onboard a host aircraft are provided, as are embodiments of a method carried-out by a flight deck display system. In one embodiment, the flight deck display system includes a cockpit display, a wireless communication module, and a controller operatively coupled to the cockpit display and to the wireless communication module. The controller is configured to generate a vertical In-Trail Procedure (ITP) window on the cockpit display, which includes graphics representative of the current position of the host aircraft, the current position of an intruder aircraft when present within a predetermined distance of the host aircraft, and a plurality of flight levels. The controller is further configured to receive data from which the current flight path of the intruder aircraft can be derived; and periodically update the vertical ITP window to include flight path symbology indicative of the current flight path of the intruder aircraft.
US09070279B2	Electronic key registration system An electronic key registration system includes a controller arranged in a communication subject communicable with an electronic key. A registration tool is in wired or wireless connection with the communication subject. The registration tool registers the electronic key to the controller when receiving a registration permission signal. An information center is connected to a network. The registration tool includes an operator ID acquisition unit that acquires an operator ID from a key registration operator. A communication unit sends the operator ID to the information center through the network. The information center includes an operator ID verification unit that verifies the operator ID received from the registration tool. A permission information notification unit sends, when the operator ID is verified, a registration permission signal to the registration tool through the network to permit the registration tool to perform the registration process.
US09070277B2	Meter capable of having communication security and data transmitting/receiving system using the same Disclosed is a meter capable of having communication security and a data transmitting/receiving system using the same, the system being such that a the server generates a public key and a private key corresponding to the public key, and transmits the public key to a meter, and the meter comprises a communication unit receiving the public key from a first communication unit, a frame generating unit encoding the data frame using the public key, and a controller controlling the communication unit to allow transmitting the encoded data frame.
US09070273B2	Communications device having battery monitoring capabilities and performing pre-scheduled events Methods and devices are provided for monitoring a battery to determine whether sufficient battery power remains to perform an event at a pre-scheduled time. A communications device includes a processor that receives instructions to perform the event at the pre-scheduled time, determines a first amount of time until the event is performed, detects an idle mode of the communications device, the idle mode consuming a minimum amount of power, calculates a second amount of time until the battery is depleted, the second amount of time being calculated while the communications device operates in the idle mode, determines whether the second amount of time is less than the first amount of time, activates a first alert if the second amount of time is less than the first amount of time while remaining in the idle mode, and performs an action prior to the pre-scheduled time while remaining in the idle mode.
US09070270B2	Methods, systems, and products for tracking surgical items Methods, systems, and products track equipment used during surgical procedures. An allowable zone associated with a surgical procedure is identified. The allowable zone determines where surgical items may be used during the procedure. A location of a surgical item is determined. When the location is outside the allowable zone, an alarm is triggered to indicate the surgical item is moving outside the allowable zone towards an area in which the surgical item may not be used.
US09070268B2	Wireless sensor node for autonomous monitoring and alerts in remote environments A method, apparatus, system, and computer program products provides personal alert and tracking capabilities using one or more nodes. Each node includes radio transceiver chips operating at different frequency ranges, a power amplifier, sensors, a display, and embedded software. The chips enable the node to operate as either a mobile sensor node or a relay base station node while providing a long distance relay link between nodes. The power amplifier enables a line-of-sight communication between the one or more nodes. The sensors provide a GPS signal, temperature, and accelerometer information (used to trigger an alert condition). The embedded software captures and processes the sensor information, provides a multi-hop packet routing protocol to relay the sensor information to and receive alert information from a command center, and to display the alert information on the display.
US09070267B2	Medication management and reporting technology Medication management and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense physical activity in a building in which medication of a patient is located is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the medication based on the monitoring. A camera is used to capture an image of the medication and the captured image is analyzed to detect a state of the medication. Information regarding a schedule by which the medication should be taken by the patient is accessed and an expected state of the medication is determined. The detected state is compared with the expected state and a determination is made that the patient has departed from the schedule based on the comparison revealing that the detected state does not match the expected state. A message indicating the departure from the schedule is sent based on the determination.
US09070264B2	Detecting a security breach of an electronic device A system and method for detecting a security breach of an electronic device are provided. The system includes a sensor assembly having at least one IR LED which outputs IR light, and an IR sensor which detects the IR light output by the IR LED and outputs corresponding IR detection signals. The system further includes a processor which generates an IR profile of an interior of the enclosure with reference to the IR detection signals output by the IR sensor. The processor determines that there has been a security breach of the enclosure at least in response to detecting IR activity in the enclosure from the IR detection signals that does not correspond to the IR profile. Output signals from a various other sensors may be used to confirm whether the security breach has occurred.
US09070262B2	Tactile feedback in an electronic device An electronic device for providing tactile feedback is provided. The electronic device may provide tactile feedback using any suitable approach, including for example vibration, heat, electrical, visual, or any other type of feedback. The electronic device may provide tactile feedback in response to detecting any particular status of the electronic device, receiving any particular input, or detecting any suitable communication received by the electronic device. For example, the electronic device may provide tactile feedback in response to identifying the current network of the device, the status of a particular electronic device component, or any other electronic device status. As another example, the electronic device may provide tactile feedback in response to receiving a particular type of communication, or in response to receiving a communication from a particular contact. As still another example, the electronic device may provide tactile feedback in response to receiving a particular user input, or to detecting a user's finger on a particular portion of the electronic device.
US09070261B2	Product securement and management system A merchandising system that improves the merchandising of product by limiting the number and the frequency with which product can be removed from, for example, a merchandising shelf. The merchandising system may include a base configured to support product and a housing configured to engage the base. The housing may comprise a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a front retaining wall. The system may further include a spring-urged pusher movably mounted on the base and a dampener assembly mounted to the spring-urged pusher configured to control the rate of speed at which the spring-urged pusher is urged forward.
US09070260B2	Generating alternative gaming device outputs A method for outputting an alternative output through an electronic gaming device output device has been developed. The invention includes an electronic gaming device with game logic circuitry that commands a gaming device output device to generate an output. The electronic gaming device output is interrupted before it is output and the output device generates an alternative output.
US09070258B1	Automated bingo caller assembly An automated Bingo caller assembly includes a remote unit that may be positioned proximate a user. A remote processor is coupled to the remote unit. A remote transceiver is coupled to the remote unit. The remote transceiver selectively transmits a caller signal. An optical disk is provided to store data. A base unit is provided that may read the optical disk. A base processor is coupled to the base unit. A base transceiver is coupled to the base unit. The base transceiver receives the caller signal from the remote transceiver. A display is operationally coupled to the base processor so the display selectively displays the data. A master actuator may be positioned proximate the user. A master transceiver is coupled to the master actuator and operationally coupled to the base transceiver. A card is provided that may be positioned proximate the user. A marker is selectively positionable on the card.
US09070253B2	System and method of revealing the outcomes of real world wagers through single or multiple reveals The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may obtain an outcome of a real-world wager and update an unrevealed balance of a user. The unrevealed balance may include an indication of an outcome (e.g., an amount of a payout or a loss) of a real-world wager that has not yet been revealed to the user. The system may reveal at least a portion of the unrevealed balance or a given outcome in a single or multiple reveals.
US09070252B2	System and method of revealing sponsored and other items through mock reveals The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions. Alternatively or additionally, the system may provide mock reveals that are not driven by wagering mechanics. For example, the system may provide reveals that are tied to promotions provided by a partner promotions provider, virtual items (e.g., certain in-game items) that the system is promoting to sell, and/or other item that is not tied to a real-world wager. The system may provide such mock reveals to facilitate promotional campaigns, retain users, and/or otherwise make the gaming experience more enjoyable for the user.
US09070247B2	Automated virtual assistant A system receives standard game output consisting of electronic signals for displaying text, numbers, and machine sounds and converts these signals to animated behavior and animated speech of a virtual human bystander shown on the audio-visual display. An interface receives data communication representing standard game states and standard game output from a separate electronic game, and uses the input to drive a virtual assistant projector, which animates an automated virtual assistant on the audio-visual display. A game output converter translates standard game states and standard game output from the interface into animated behavior information and animated speech information for input to the virtual assistant projector. Computer processing of the system can be operationally and communicatively isolated from a main game engine of the electronic game table.
US09070235B2	Apparatus and method for determining short-term driving tendency An apparatus and a method determines a short-term driving tendency. The apparatus may include a driving information collecting unit configured to collect driving information for determining the short-term driving tendency, a short-term driving tendency calculating module configured to receive input variables for determining the short-term driving tendency and calculate a short-term driving tendency index using a fuzzy control theory, and a calculation prohibition control module configured to check an accelerator position sensor (APS) signal of the vehicle and prohibit calculation of the short-term driving tendency index when an APS opening degree is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value.
US09070234B2	Method and device for identifying vehicles A device for identifying a vehicle includes: an input interface receiving a first input of feature specificities of first features of a vehicle; a database device which stores a component model, an identification model, and an information unit model; a computation device ascertaining second features which make possible an unequivocal identification of the vehicle in relation to the intended diagnosis; and an output device outputting the second features ascertained by the computation device, the input interface receiving a second input of feature specificities of the second features of the vehicle through the user, and the computing device ascertaining, as a function of the second input, a relation associated with the intended diagnosis from the information unit model of the database device.
US09070233B2	Automated banking machine system and monitoring In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a lock box having an input device, circuitry, and a lock for holding a key to gain access to an area. The apparatus further comprises an alarm system for protecting the area and a proximity reader coupled with the alarm system, the proximity reader is located within the area. The circuitry is operable to determine if an input received by the input device is for an authorized user. The lock box is operable to provide access to the key in response to the circuitry determining that the input received by the input device is for an authorized user. The proximity reader is operable to receive data from a wireless token. The alarm system is operable to deactivate for at least a portion of the area responsive to the proximity reader receiving the data from the wireless token.
US09070232B2	Wireless communication system for vehicle A wireless communication system for a vehicle has a portable device that transmits a wireless signal and a vehicle-mounted device that receives the wireless signal from the portable device. Each time a switch in the portable device is turned on, the portable device updates a portable device rolling code and transmits a wireless signal including the portable device rolling code. The vehicle-mounted device receives the wireless signal through a receiver and authenticates the portable device through comparison between the portable device rolling code included in the wireless signal and the vehicle rolling code. The vehicle-mounted device locks or unlocks the vehicle door if the portable device is authenticated. When the wireless signal is received through the receiver after the most recent locking or unlocking of the vehicle door has been carried out using the mechanical key, the vehicle-mounted device locks or unlocks the vehicle door if the switch is turned on for n (n is an integral number greater than or equal to 2) times or more.
US09070226B2	Identification of marker features in multi-dimensional data Method(s) and system(s) for identifying marker features of various subsets of a multi-dimensional data are provided. Each subset includes various data points associated with various features. Each of the data points are defined by feature values corresponding to the associated features. The method includes identifying feature pairs based on a matrix of the data points and the features, and computing correlation distances between features in each of the feature pairs. The method includes generating a non-linear pattern of the plurality of features in a two-dimensional plane. Additionally, the method includes calculating a threshold feature value for the associated features of the data points of a particular subset and representing the threshold feature value as a threshold non-linear pattern in the two-dimensional plane. The method includes determining the marker features based on a relative position of the features with respect to the threshold feature value in the two-dimensional plane.
US09070221B1	Animation engine with hair animation using attenuation fields Computer-generated images based on force field effects are generated by evaluating force field data and animated data. The force field data includes force field directional vectors and the animated data includes density values for an animated model. The force field data and the animated data are splattered on separate multi-dimensional grids. An animation system determines a vector path, starting at a point in the grid containing the animated model, based on the directional vectors and the density values along the vector path are integrated to determine an attenuation factor for the point. The attenuation factor provides a value for accurately determining the movement of the animated model at the point when the force field is present.
US09070217B2	Contextual local image recognition dataset A contextual local image recognition module of a device retrieves a primary content dataset from a server and then generates and updates a contextual content dataset based on an image captured with the device. The device stores the primary content dataset and the contextual content dataset. The primary content dataset comprises a first set of images and corresponding virtual object models. The contextual content dataset comprises a second set of images and corresponding virtual object models retrieved from the server.
US09070215B2	Head mounted display, display, and control method thereof If the size of an error portion within an image of the frame of interest is equal to or larger than a threshold and it is determined that no error portion exists within an image of a frame immediately before the frame of interest, a display unit (115) is caused to display the image of the frame immediately before the frame of interest as the image of the frame of interest. If the size of an error portion within the image of the frame of interest is smaller than the threshold and it is determined that an error portion exists within the image of the frame immediately before the frame of interest, the display unit (115) is caused to display a result obtained by correcting the error portion within the image of the frame of interest using a pixel group surrounding the error portion.
US09070210B1	Computing devices and methods for navigating around a surface of three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system representations of 3D objects The present disclosure relates to navigating around geographic maps within a map viewport display. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to navigating around a surface of a 3D, geographic coordinate system representation of a body using a pan feature while North is locked. In response to a user activating a pan feature of a navigation interface, a spin angle and, or a swing angle is calculated and the globe is revolved around a spin-axis and/or a swing-axis while revolution around a rotate-axis is locked.
US09070205B2	Combined device-and-anatomy boosting Visualization of an object of interest, such as anatomy like a vessel segment or a stenosis, together with a device, such as balloon/stent markers or a wire tip, inside the object of interest may be accomplished by device detection and anatomy boosting so as to enhance both the device and surrounding anatomy within a registered anatomy referential. A displayed image is a combination of image information of the device and boosted image information of the object of interest. A processor performs the following steps: detecting and segmenting the device on the basis of image information provided by the image formation unit; either wiping out or attenuating the image information of the device; detecting the object of interest on the basis of the provided image information; boosting the image information of the object of interest; and reinserting the image information of the device.
US09070203B2	Identification and quantification of microtextured regions in materials with ordered crystal structure The identification and quantification of microtextured regions in orientation datasets is provided through the use of microstructure informatics based on n-point correlation functions, dimensionality reduction techniques, and a computer algebra system. Orientation information is extracted for materials and processing is performed on the orientation information along with other ancillary data that accompanies each piece of orientation information and a hybrid descriptor of orientation is formed. Representative descriptors are identified such that regions of microtexture are classified. This classification is mapped back onto the real space of the sample and a local clustering is done to identify continuous regions of microtexture. These labeled continuous regions of microtexture then provide a method for segmentation of the orientation data into their respective macrozones.
US09070202B2	Moving object localization in 3D using a single camera Systems and methods are disclosed for autonomous driving with only a single camera by moving object localization in 3D with a real-time framework that harnesses object detection and monocular structure from motion (SFM) through the ground plane estimation; tracking feature points on moving cars a real-time framework to and use the feature points for 3D orientation estimation; and correcting scale drift with ground plane estimation that combines cues from sparse features and dense stereo visual data.
US09070195B2	Method and system for auto-enhancing photographs with saturation adjustments Some embodiments of the image editing and organizing application described herein provide an automatic enhancement process that includes vibrancy adjustment. The vibrancy adjustment increases the saturation of multiple pixels. The saturation of each pixel is determined by subtracting the lowest component value from the highest component value. The process determines an overall saturation of the image using a histogram. The histogram is generated using doubled saturation values for pixels with blue and green as the highest component value.
US09070193B2	Apparatus and method to embed searchable information into a file, encryption, transmission, storage and retrieval A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A stamping device is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. A data processing unit places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility. The data processing unit encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm to provide encrypted augmented captured information in the transmission with the subscriber information.
US09070190B2	Ultrasound imaging system and methods of imaging using the same A method of registering the position of an object moving in a target volume in an ultrasound imaging system includes capturing a first ultrasound image of a target volume. A second ultrasound image of the target volume is then captured after the capturing of the first ultrasound image. The position of the object in the target volume is identified using differences detected between the first and second ultrasound images. In another aspect, a region of interest in the target volume is determined. A segment of an operational scan range of a transducer of the ultrasound imaging system encompassing the region of interest is determined. The transducer is focused on the segment of the operational scan range during image capture.
US09070189B2	Image blurring correction device The present image blurring correction device includes light field information generating portion, angle blurring amount detecting portion and correcting portion. The light field information generating portion generates a series of light field information corresponding to consecutive shooting images shot by a digital camera. The angle blurring amount detecting portion detects a blurring amount of the digital camera based on variation in the series of light field information. The correcting portion corrects the series of light field information in accordance with the blurring amount so as to suppress variation in the series of light field information.
US09070185B2	Noise filtering method and apparatus considering noise variance and motion detection Provided herein are an apparatus and a method of performing image noise filtering with respect to an image obtained from an image sensor, the method including: applying a noise deviation with respect to a temporal difference between a previous pixel value and a current pixel value when obtaining a temporal weight value to be used in temporal filtering. The noise deviation is obtained according to an intensity level of the current pixel value. Temporal filtering and spatial filtering may be performed, and blending filtering may be selectively performed by blending an output value of the temporal filtering and an output value of the spatial filtering.
US09070183B2	Extracting card data with linear and nonlinear transformations Embodiments herein provide computer-implemented techniques for allowing a user computing device to extract financial card information using optical character recognition (“OCR”). Extracting financial card information may be improved by applying various classifiers and other transformations to the image data. For example, applying a linear classifier to the image to determine digit locations before applying the OCR algorithm allows the user computing device to use less processing capacity to extract accurate card data. The OCR application may train a classifier to use the wear patterns of a card to improve OCR algorithm performance. The OCR application may apply a linear classifier and then a nonlinear classifier to improve the performance and the accuracy of the OCR algorithm. The OCR application uses the known digit patterns used by typical credit and debit cards to improve the accuracy of the OCR algorithm.
US09070181B2	System and method for extracting features of interest from an image A technique is provided for extracting one or more features of interest from one or more projection images. The technique includes accessing projection images comprising at least one feature of interest enhanced by a contrast agent, generating a contrast agent null image based on the projection images, generating a bone mask based on the contrast agent null image, and generating a bone extracted image based on the bone mask.
US09070177B2	Automatic medicine warehousing and releasing management system and method of automatically warehousing and releasing medicines thereof Disclosed are an automatic medicine warehousing and releasing management system and a method of automatically warehousing and releasing medicines thereof. Warehoused medicines are arranged at proper positions on a storage shelf, and released medicines are discharged from the storage shelf. The automatic medicine warehousing and releasing management system includes a medicine holding and transferring unit to arrange warehoused medicines on a storage rack by holding and accommodating the warehoused medicines according to holding priorities of the medicines based on sizes and expiration dates of the medicines, and release the medicines by holding and accommodating the medicines on the storage rack according to the holding priorities of the medicines, and a medicine warehousing and releasing control unit connected with the medicine holding and transferring unit to control the arranging of medicines requested for warehousing on the storage rack and the discharging of medicines requested for releasing from the storage rack.
US09070173B2	System, method, and apparatus for settlement for participation in an electric power grid Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments for electric power grid and network registration and management of physical and financial settlement for participation of active grid elements in supply and/or curtailment of power, wherein Internet Protocol (IP)-based messages including IP packets are generated by transforming raw data content into settlement grade content. Settlement is provided for grid elements that participate in the electric power grid following initial registration of each grid element with the system, preferably through network-based communication between the grid elements and a coordinator, either in coordination with or outside of an IP-based communications network router. Messaging related to settlement is managed through a network by a Coordinator using IP messaging for communication with the grid elements, with the energy management system (EMS), and with the utilities, market participants, and/or grid operators.
US09070168B2	Systems and methods for adjusting insurance processes using data from telematics-enabled portable devices Systems and methods are disclosed herein for transmitting telematics data from a vehicle. The systems include a smartphone holder that provides a communications link between a smartphone and a vehicle computer, through the smartphone dataport and the vehicle onboard diagnostics (OBD) port. The smartphone holder is configured to keep the smartphone in a stable, known position and orientation with respect to the vehicle, such that data from an accelerometer in the smartphone can be calibrated. The smartphone accelerometer data and telematics data from vehicle telematics sensors is then transmitted via the smartphone or stored locally.
US09070167B2	Centralized, online multi-seller interface system A sales portal system supports a plurality of buyer computers used by a corresponding plurality of buyers. The sales portal system supports a first seller's computer to support sales of a first plurality of products a second seller's computer to support sales of a second plurality of products. The sales portal accesses first product data from the first seller's computer and second product data from the second seller's computer and responds to a query received from one of the plurality of buyer computers by delivering selections from the associated first product data and the associated second product data. The sales portal manages a single sales transaction for a first product of a first seller and a second product of a second seller. The sales portal rates sellers. The sales portal apportions payment, fulfillment, delivery instructions, and other sales components to the first and second sellers.
US09070163B2	Check processing method, check processing program medium, and check processing apparatus Check processing involves detecting a check; scanning a back of the check having no printed authorization data to capture a back image; scanning a front of the check to capture a front image; reading magnetic ink characters on the front of the check; generating authorization data indicating that the check is valid based on the magnetic ink characters, the authorization data being generated electronically; generating an electronic merged image by electronically combining the back image with the authorization data in a predetermined area, the electronic merged image being generated such that at least a portion of the authorization data overlaps the back image. The operations are performed as the check is conveyed through a transportation path in one direction, one time. The check processing can be embodied in a method, apparatus, or instructions embodied on a machine-readable medium.
US09070155B1	Electronic computer engines for analytical searching and methods of use thereof In some embodiments, the instant invention provides an improved computer system programmed for searching which includes at least the following components: a specialized computer machine, at least one processor for executing a particular program code stored in a memory, where the particular program code is configured to perform the following operations upon the execution: obtaining business information regarding a plurality of businesses and a plurality of offerings offered by the plurality of businesses; generating a rating score for each business based on consumer ratings; associating each business with the rating score; and concurrently conducting a plurality of searches of the business information based on: business identifying search parameter(s) obtained from each consumer, a geographic indication, a plurality of ranked filtering criteria, a rating score filtering parameter.
US09070154B2	Method for provisioning subscribers, products, and services in a broadband network A method for provisioning subscribers, products, and services in a broadband network includes establishing a directory system for storing information about a plurality of subscribers. The directory system includes a subscriber namespace and a device namespace. A subscriber is added by instantiating a subscriber object for the subscriber in the subscriber namespace. Each available service has its own state in the directory system to provide a multi-state provisioning system that permits granular management services.
US09070153B2	Digital proof of delivery A digital proof of delivery for digital goods items purchased online includes methods and systems for authenticating online purchases for helping to prevent and mitigate fraud. A unique download identification (ID) is created and associated with the digital goods download and purchase. Additionally, third parties may readily be allowed to view the download status of a digital goods item by providing the unique download ID of the item, which may be useful for aiding third party fraud investigations. In response to an item of digital goods purchased by a customer for download from a merchant having reached a specific stage of downloading, but the download is not complete, download is suspended and a dialog box is sent over a network for presentation to a customer, and, in response to a confirmation received via the dialog box, the download is completed with a download ID unique to the completed download.
US09070152B1	Electronic computer engines for pricing analytical rating, searching, and matching consumers to businesses and methods of use thereof In some embodiments, the instant invention provides a programmed industry management computer system, having at least: a specialized computer machine, having a processor for executing program code, performing upon the execution: operating an electronic space, allowing: a plurality of consumers to submit ratings that rate on a merit a plurality of businesses in rating categories of: service, value, ethics, competence, environment, and price; generating sales opportunities for businesses by performing: personality matching between the consumers and the businesses, and allowing the consumers to search for the businesses; and providing services, products, or both, to the businesses to improve consumer service and consumer ratings; in real-time, determining a monetary amount to be paid by a particular consumer for a consumer activity; based on the consumer activity performed by the particular consumer, in real-time, determining a monetary amount to be paid by a particular business for a lead option.
US09070149B2	Media gifting devices and methods Various techniques are provided for the gifting between multiple electronic devices of media content provided by an online digital media provider. An offer and acceptance of a selected gift file is accomplished between a gifter device and a receiving giftee device using a near-field communication (NFC) connection. If a connection to the online provider is available, the gifter device may transmit a gift request by which the gifter's account is charged for the gift file. Thereafter, a gift file created using DRM keys associated with the giftee's account may be downloaded to the giftee device. If a network connection is unavailable, the giftee device may transfer a locked gift file and a corresponding gift license to the giftee device using a peer-to-peer connection. The giftee device may authenticate the license and unlock the gift file once a connection to the online provider is available.
US09070147B2	System to facilitate sharing using contingency ordering Purchase order information associated with an item from a first user may be stored initially without completing a purchase transaction. In one aspect, the first user may be enabled to select one or more second users with whom to share the purchase. In another aspect, one or more second users may be given an opportunity to purchase the same instance of an item and share it. In response to determining that a minimum subset of the selected one or more users have indicated to purchase the item, the purchase transaction may be processed and completed. Completion of the purchase may be contingent on the selected one or more second users also purchasing the same item or the same instance of the item. An event may be optionally added to the users' calendars wherein they share the use of the item(s).
US09070146B2	Method and system for authenticating online transactions The present invention generally relates to authenticating online transactions, and more specifically, to method and system for determining a potentially fraudulent online transaction request based on a risk parameter associated with a user in a networking platform such as, a social networking platform. The method comprises receiving an online transaction request from a user. Thereafter, determining the risk parameter of the user based on one or more profile parameters associated with the user or one or more peer users associated with the user in the community. Based on the risk parameter of the user the online transaction request of the user is authenticated.
US09070143B2	System and method for tracking content through the internet Server systems and methods to provide targeted advertising use tracking of digital content. The digital content may include real estate content. Responsive to digital content being presented on a client computing platform, information related to browsing activity on the client computing platform is gathered. Digital content (and/or attributes thereof) are associated with either individual ones of the (real estate) search servers through which the digital content is presented, or individual ones of the content providers of the pertinent digital content, or both. Content providers of digital content are compensated based on revenue that is generated through processing and/or analysis of the associations between users and the digital content that has been presented to them.
US09070140B2	System and method for measuring and improving the efficiency of social media campaigns A system and method for measuring the efficiency of social media campaigns. The system collects searchable activity data of members of a social network and processes this data locally to extract interaction data happening on the profile page of the social media campaign on the social network. The interaction data is then weighed in accordance with its type. The system may also determine an effort score representing a monetary value of the profile page based on the volume of contribution by the owners of the social media campaign. The efficiency score may then be determined based on a relationship between the number of interactions, the weight associated with each interaction, and the effort score.
US09070137B2	Methods and systems for compiling marketing information for a client Methods and systems for compiling marketing information for a client are provided. Data can be obtained from a plurality of social media websites, where each of the social media websites includes a universal resource identifier that points to a client website. A plurality of insights can be extracted from the obtained data, resulting in extracted insights. Each of the extracted insights comprises text elements that denote product approval for at least one product available for sale at the client website. Measurements of traffic to the client website can be collected, the traffic being referred to the client website by the plurality of social media websites. A referred traffic dynamics summary table can then be generated based on the extracted insights and the measurements of traffic. The referred traffic dynamics summary table aggregates the extracted insights across the plurality of social media websites to rank the extracted insights.
US09070132B1	Authentication method and system The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting. Thus, the system incorporates a variety of features that make unauthorized reproduction difficult. In addition, the present invention provides an efficient means for the production of labels and verification of authenticity, whereby a recording apparatus which includes a recording medium, having anisotrophic optical domains, along with a means for transferring a portion of the recording medium to a carrier, wherein a bulk portion of the recording medium has macroscopically detectable anisotrophic optical properties and the detecting apparatus thereon.
US09070131B2	Authentication systems and methods A system includes a machine-readable storage medium, a processor in communication with the machine-readable storage medium, communication circuitry in communication with the processor; and a plurality of sensors in communication with the processor. Each of the plurality of sensors is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to receiving wave energy. The processor is configured to control data acquisition for authenticating an object using at least a subset of the plurality of sensors, calculate an authentication value based on signals received from the subset of the plurality of sensors, and cause the communication circuitry to transmit an authentication request including the authentication value to an authentication entity.
US09070127B2	Administering a plurality of accounts for a client Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers.
US09070125B1	Mode switching to provide security for cash handling device Methods and devices provide mode switching in order to secure cash handling devices. A cash handling device allows a first selection to be input in order to request an exchange transaction. Currency may be inserted into the cash handling device. A display may prompt a user to identify one or more requested denominations of currency. A user may then identify one or more of the requested denominations for the exchange transaction. Elapsed time may be counted after prompting the user to identify denominations. If the elapsed time exceeds a timeout threshold, the transaction may be switched from an exchange transaction to a deposit transaction and the inserted currency may be credited as a deposit into an account. Otherwise, the exchange transaction may proceed and the currency may be provided in the requested denomination.
US09070121B2	Approach for prioritizing network alerts A computing system receives status transmissions from nodes within a portion of an electricity distribution network. The status transmissions include information related to hardware problems experienced by nodes within the portion of that network. The computing system determines a “heat” value for each of the status transmissions, where the heat value for a given transmission represents the operating conditions of, and/or the severity of hardware/software problems experienced by, the node responsible for sending that transmission. The computing system aggregates the heat values across the entire portion of the electricity distribution network and compares the aggregated heat values to a threshold value. When the aggregated value exceeds the threshold value, the computing system identifies a crisis situation arising within the portion of the electricity distribution network. The computing system may then convey information associated with the status transmissions to operators of the electricity distribution network.
US09070118B2	Methods for capturing electronic messages based on capture rules relating to user actions regarding received electronic messages Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages.
US09070115B2	Intelligent electronic mail server manager, and system and method for coordinating operation of multiple electronic mail servers Provided are an electronic mail server manager, and a system and method for coordinating operation of multiple electronic mail servers to efficiently store, process, and forward a high volume of electronic mail. The system for managing operation of multiple email servers in accordance with one embodiment may comprise an email message queue; a plurality of receiving email servers; a plurality of sending email servers; and an email server manager having a memory and a processor configured by the memory to perform the steps of storing received email messages in an email message queue; extracting destinations from the email messages; and delivering the email messages to the destinations by way of the sending email servers in correspondence to feedback received from the sending email servers and/or the destinations.
US09070113B2	Stock keeping units for content processing A system may create a workflow that includes work units, assign values to parameters of the work units, create a specification that associates the work units and the parameter values, generate a work order associated with the stock keeping unit specification, convert the specification into the work units based on the work order, instantiate tasks that correspond to the work units, and execute the tasks by one or more processors.
US09070109B2	Dynamic presentation of a user profile Systems and methods for dynamic user profile presentation in a large-scale network are provided. Individuals may request to retrieve user profiles of other users in the network. Commonalities between the requesting individual and the owner of the user profile are identified. The commonalities may include non-public information associated with the owner of the user profile. Connection strength associated with each commonality is determined and the commonalities are prioritized according to the connection strength. The commonalities between the requesting individual and the owner of the user profile are presented to the requesting individual based on the prioritization.
US09070108B2	Dynamic personal airport advisor with incorporated service call and collaboration function Optimizing travel and time management during travel. A travel tool is provided to receive travel objectives, which may also be prioritized and set with the tool. In response to detecting a disruption of an aspect of the set travel plans, this disruption is evaluated in an effort to mitigate the effects of the disruption. The impact of the disruption is evaluated and the travel plans are re-calculated. At least one modification to the set of travel plans is provided and selected in compliance with the set objective. This selection is communicated to the travel tool. Based upon the selection, the travel plans are dynamically modified while attaining the set objectives.
US09070105B2	Systems and methods for providing change of address services over a network This disclosure describes systems and methods for collecting and processing change of address data and providing change of address services to a customer using a computer network. The address data can include a physical address, an electronic address, or both. The systems and methods may also provide additional services to the customer to assist in changing addresses.
US09070100B2	Calculating speed and travel times with travel delays Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for forecasting travel delays corresponding to streets, street segments, geographic areas, geofenced areas, and/or user-specified criteria. And from the forecasted travel delays, speed and travel times that take into account such travel delays can be determined.
US09070090B2	Scalable string matching as a component for unsupervised learning in semantic meta-model development A string analysis tool for calculating a similarity metric between a source string and a plurality of target strings. The string analysis tool may include optimizations that may reduce the number of calculations to be carried out when calculating the similarity metric for large volumes of data. In this regard, the string analysis tool may represent strings as features. As such, analysis may be performed relative to features (e.g., of either the source string or plurality of target strings) such that features from the strings may be eliminated from consideration when identifying target strings for which a similarity metric is to be calculated. The elimination of features may be based on a minimum similarity metric threshold, wherein features that are incapable of contributing to a similarity metric above the minimum similarity metric threshold are eliminated from consideration.
US09070089B1	Predictive model importation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a plurality of model representations of predictive models, each model representation associated with a respective user and expresses a respective predictive model, and selecting a model implementation for each of the model representations based on one or more system usage properties associated with the user associated with the corresponding model representation.
US09070086B2	Data driven component reputation Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for observing the real-world performance of components and using the collected data to improve other user experiences. Configuration data, usage data, and user experience data are collected for components on observed solution instances. The configuration data, usage data, and user experience data are analyzed to generate component diagnostic data that can be used to make recommendations to one or more advised solution instances as to how to correct a problem being experienced on the one or more advised solution instances. In one implementation, the component diagnostic data generated includes a reputation rating for each of the components.
US09070082B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming system using restriction information An image forming apparatus includes a job receiving part that is configured to receive a job for image formation, an image generating part that is configured to perform an image generation process based on the job received by the job receiving part, a restriction information holding part that is configured to hold restriction information to restrict the image generation process, and a restriction information judging part that is configured to execute an analyzing/judging process in which whether or not the image generation process is allowed is determined by analyzing whether or not specific information is contained in the job based on the restriction information held in the restriction information holding part.
US09070081B2	Control device, control method of a control device, and a storage medium A feature of the recording device is used to shorten the length of time that a wireless communication link with a recording device is not established for a control device that communicates wirelessly with a recording device when a wireless communication link can be established. A communication control unit 15b of a host computer 10 detects and reports to a recording control unit 15a that printer 11 power was turned off. After receiving this report that the printer 11 power is off from the communication control unit 15b, the recording control unit 15a requests the communication control unit 15b to establish a wireless communication link with the printer 11 and open a virtual COM port during the period until a new wireless communication link with the printer 11 is established.
US09070079B2	Printer and printing system A printer 3 with a paper consumption output function resets the count of a paper consumption counter 32 (ST22) when a start measuring command C1 is received from the host computer 2 side, and measures the paper consumption 32A from a specific start measurement time to a specific stop measurement time using a paper consumption counter 32 (ST23b to ST27b). When a fetch paper consumption command C2 is received (ST41), the printer 3 outputs the paper consumption 32A, which is the count of the paper consumption counter 32, to the host computer 2 (ST43).
US09070075B2	Printing using color changeable material Systems and methods for printing data on a substrate including a color-changeable material are provided. One system includes a processing circuit and a device including an energy source. At least a portion of a printed publication is printed on the substrate using a commercial printing press based on fixed data. The device including the energy source is configured to add variable data to the substrate. The processing circuit is configured to receive the variable data and to control the energy source to change a color of the color-changeable material based on the variable data to provide at least a portion of the printed publication. The processing circuit is configured to control the energy source to change the color of the color-changeable material in-line with a flow of the substrate through one of a printing line, a finishing line, or a packaging line of the commercial printing press.
US09070073B2	Image forming apparatus and method of page classification therein In a case of performing free size printing with a charging approach in which a charge classification is determined based on a color pixel utilization rate, the color pixel utilization rate calculating is performed using a total number of pixels in an image area cut out at a size for color pixel utilization rate calculation, rather than the generation image data on the whole, for a denominator. With this, the calculation result of the color pixel utilization rate is prevented from becoming inaccurate.
US09070072B2	Image forming apparatus capable of obtaining print data from external apparatus, and control method and storage medium therefor An image forming apparatus that stores print data and retries document information registration when registration of document information of received print data to an external apparatus has failed. If registration of document information to an image forming apparatus with bibliographic server function has failed, print data is stored in the image forming apparatus without setting a storage time limit of the print data and document information registration is retried. The storage time limit of the print data is set and stored, if registration of the document information to the external apparatus has succeeded before the document information registration is retried a predetermined number of times or if the document information registration is retried the predetermined number of times.
US09070071B2	Card-type information recording medium having embedded antenna for near field communication and manufacturing method thereof A card-type information recording medium including a PCB that has a loop antenna pattern and a routing pattern formed on the top surface and the bottom surface thereof through the use of an etching process, an NFC communication unit and a USIM card unit that are horizontally mounted on the top of the PCB, and a molding material that is formed on the top of the PCB so as to cover the NFC communication unit and the USIM card unit.
US09070067B2	Smart card module and method for producing a smart card module A smart card module for use in a smart card includes a microchip and a contact zone for making contact with the microchip by means of a reader. The microchip can be enclosed by an encapsulation which can enclose the microchip completely from all sides.
US09070066B1	RFID tags with inductively coupled antennas A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) assembly includes an IC, a repassivation layer disposed on the IC, and an inductor disposed on the repassivation layer. The IC includes a gapped seal ring. The inductor may couple to an RFID tag antenna, thereby allowing the IC to transmit and receive RF signals.
US09070065B2	IC card, portable electronic apparatus, and controlling method of IC card According to one embodiment, an IC card which makes a non-contact communication with an external apparatus, includes, a reception module configured to receive a first command transmitted from the external apparatus, a determination module configured to determine whether or not the first command is a switching request command which requests to switch the IC card from a passive mode to an active mode, a command generation module configured to generate a second command which controls other IC card to execute processing when the first command is the switching request command, a command transmission module configured to transmit the second command to the other IC card.
US09070064B2	System and method for transmitting information between multiple objects moving at high rates of speed Provided herein is a system for transmitting data to a motor vehicle travelling along a roadway. The motor vehicle preferably contains an antenna which produces a magnetic field having a length (L) in the direction of travel and a width (W) perpendicular to the direction of travel. A first plurality of RFID transponders may be positioned in the roadway as a row which is perpendicular to the direction of travel. A second plurality of RFID transponders may be positioned following the first row and offset from the first row. Depending on the speed of the vehicles travelling the roadway at this location, more rows of transponders may be used. A method for placing the RFID transponders within the roadway is also disclosed.
US09070055B2	Graphic alignment for printing to an article using a first display device and a second display device A flexible manufacturing system for an article of footwear includes a printing system for printing graphics onto the footwear. The flexible manufacturing system includes a first display device that is transparent and which may be used to superimpose graphics over an article to align the article with the printing system. An optical device and a second display device provide a fixed viewing angle for a user aligning the article under the first display device.
US09070053B2	Multi-metal layered card A metal transaction card is provided having a metal core layer with metal cladding layers connected thereto on opposing sides thereof. The metal core layer may have a density and/or thickness that is significantly greater than the density and/or thickness of the metal cladding layers. The density of the metal core layer may be at least 2.5 times greater than the density of the metal cladding layers. The density of the metal core layer may be at least 7.5. The outward facing lateral surface of one or both of the metal cladding layers may be anodized, or anodized and colorized. The anodized lateral surface(s) may be coated to increase the performance of a one or more hot-stamped elements attached to the coated surface(s).
US09070048B2	Method and apparatus for automatically identifying a representative image for an image group A computer implemented method and apparatus for automatically identifying a representative image for an image group. The method comprises dividing an image group into one or more clusters based on an average time gap of the image group, wherein the images in the image group are in sequential timestamp order wherein the average time gap is calculated using a time span calculated from the timestamp of a first image in the image group to the timestamp of a last image in the image group; recursively dividing a largest cluster in the one or more clusters to determine a resultant cluster, wherein the resultant cluster comprises no time gaps larger than the average time gap of the resultant cluster; and identifying a representative image from the resultant cluster as an image representative for the image group.
US09070046B2	Learning-based image webpage index selection Architecture that performs image page index selection. A learning-based framework learns a statistical model based on the hyperlink (URL-uniform resource locator) previous click information obtained from the image search users. The learned model can combine the features of a newly discovered URL to predict the possibility of the newly-discovered URL being clicked in the future image search. In addition to existing web index selection features, image clicks are added as features, and the image clicks are aggregated over different URL segments, as well as the site modeling pattern trees to reduce the sparse problem of the image click information.
US09070045B2	Crosstalk cascades for use in object detection Technologies pertaining to object detection are described herein. A cascaded classifier executes over subwindows of an image in a plurality of stages. A crosstalk cascade is employed to reject subwindows as being candidates for including an object that is desirably detected, where the crosstalk cascade is a combination of multiple cascades.
US09070044B2	Image adjustment Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically adjusting images. In one embodiment, an image may be automatically adjusted based on a regression model trained with a database of raw and adjusted images. In one embodiment, an image may be automatically adjusted based on a model trained by both a database of raw and adjusted images and a small set of images adjusted by a different user. In one embodiment, an image may be automatically adjusted based on a model trained by a database of raw and adjusted images and predicted differences between a user's adjustment to a small set of images and a predicted adjustment based on the database of raw and adjusted images.
US09070040B2	Video processing system, method of determining viewer preference, video processing apparatus, and control method A video processing apparatus includes a first storage means unit which stores, in correspondence to a viewer, frame feature values to characterize each frame of scenes constituted by a series of frames in a video content viewed by the viewer; a second storage means unit which stores, as scene groups classified by attributes of the scenes, the frame feature values of scenes constituted by the series of frames; an interest level accumulation means unit which compares the frame feature values stored in the first storage means unit with the frame feature values stored in the second storage means unit, and in case the compared frame feature values match, increases a score about the viewer which represents the interest level with respect to the scene group of which the frame feature values match; and a viewer preference determination means unit which determines that the scene groups of the which the scores are higher are the scene groups preferred by the viewer.
US09070039B2	Temporal winner takes all spiking neuron network sensory processing apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods for contrast enhancement and feature identification. In one implementation, an image processing apparatus utilizes latency coding and a spiking neuron network to encode image brightness into spike latency. The spike latency is compared to a saliency window in order to detect early responding neurons. Salient features of the image are associated with the early responding neurons. An inhibitory neuron receives salient feature indication and provides inhibitory signal to the other neurons within an area of influence of the inhibitory neuron. The inhibition signal reduces probability of responses by the other neurons to stimulus that is proximate to the feature thereby increasing contrast within the encoded data. The contrast enhancement may facilitate feature identification within the image. Feature detection may be used for example for image compression, background removal and content distribution.
US09070036B2	Systems and methods for note recognition At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature systems and methods for note recognition. The note recognition system includes a sensor, a note recognition module, and a note extraction module. The sensor is configured to capture a visual representation of a scene having one or more notes. The note recognition module is coupled to the sensor. The note recognition module is configured to receive the captured visual representation and determine a general boundary of a note from the captured visual representation. The note extraction module is configured to extract content of the note from the captured visual representation based on the determined general boundary of the note.
US09070032B2	Method of programming a symbol reading system A method of programming a symbol reading system having a field of view includes selecting a programming command from a list of programming commands for programming a symbol reading system. The list of programming commands is typically stored on a computer that includes a processor configured for, in response to the selection of a programming command from the list of programming commands, generating a page bearing a symbol corresponding to the selected programming command and no other symbol corresponding to another programming command in the list of programming commands. The method also includes placing the computer generated page bearing a symbol corresponding to the selected programming command within the system's field of view.
US09070028B2	Control of wireless identification tag activation Methods and systems for controlling wireless identification tag activation are disclosed. An example method includes controlling a first wireless identification read cell to activate a first set of wireless identification tags within a first communication range. Further, the method includes controlling a second wireless identification read cell to activate a second set of wireless identification tags within a second communication range during activation of the first set of wireless identification tags and subsequent to initially activating the first set of wireless identification tags. The first communication range overlaps with the second communication range.
US09070026B2	Coordination of transmission of data from wireless identification tags Methods and systems for coordinating transmission of data from wireless identification tags are disclosed. According to an aspect, a wireless identification tag includes a communication module configured to wirelessly transmit data in response to receipt of an instruction. The wireless identification tag also includes a timer configured to communicate the instruction to the communication module for transmission of the data within a timeslot based on a stored first identifier of the wireless identification tag. Further, the timer module is configured to receive second identifier. The timer module is also configured to change the first identifier based on the second identifier.
US09070025B2	Biometric information processing apparatus, biometric information processing method A biometric information processing apparatus includes a biometric sensor configured to acquire biometric information of a first instance, a second instance and a third instance; a processor configured to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising: extracting an authentication feature used for matching from the biometric information of each of the second instance and the third instance; normalizing the relative positions of authentication features of the second instance and the third instance by using the biometric information of the first instance; and extracting a relative feature indicating a relative positional relationship between the authentication features of the second instance and the third instance normalized in the normalizing procedure.
US09070022B2	Route change determination system and method using image recognition information Provided is a route change determination system and method using image recognition information, which is capable of extracting position information having high precision similar to that of a high-precision DGPS device, while using a low-precision GPS device, in order to determine a change of a traveling route.The route change determination system using image recognition system includes: a GPS module; an image recognition module having a line recognition function; a road map storage module configured to store road map information and route change possible section information for changing a route of a vehicle; a road map receiving module configured to receive the road map information; and an information processing module configured to determine whether the route is changed or not, based on line recognition information acquired through the image recognition module and the route change possible section information.
US09070021B2	Monitoring method and camera A method and a system is provided for monitoring an area by a monitoring camera (1). A protected zone (5) is defined within the monitored area (2) and a suspicious object (9a, 9b) is detected as an object present both inside and outside the protected zone. A key position of the suspicious object is determined, and it is determined if the key position is inside or outside the protected zone (5). If the key position is outside the protected zone a first action is triggered.
US09070020B2	Determination of train presence and motion state in railway environments Foreground feature data and motion feature data is determined for frames of video data acquired from a train track area region of interest. The frames are labeled as “train present” if the determined foreground feature data value meets a threshold value, else as “train absent”; and as “motion present” if the motion feature data meets a motion threshold, else as “static.” The labels are used to classify segments of the video data comprising groups of consecutive video frames, namely as within a “no train present” segment for groups with “train absent” and “static” labels; within a “train present and in transition” segment for groups “train present” and “motion present” labels; and within a “train present and stopped” segment for groups with “train present” and “static” labels. The presence or motion state of a train at a time of inquiry is thereby determined from the respective segment classification.
US09070019B2	Systems and methods for capturing motion in three-dimensional space Methods and systems for capturing motion and/or determining the shapes and positions of one or more objects in 3D space utilize cross-sections thereof. In various embodiments, images of the cross-sections are captured using a camera based on reflections therefrom or shadows cast thereby.
US09070015B2	System and method for iris detection in digital images A system and a method for iris detection in a face region of a digital image are disclosed. In one embodiment, iris is detected in the face region of the digital image using eye features, such as a shape of the iris and/or luminance values of a sclera region.
US09070011B2	Automated segmentation tuner A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically segmenting input document images into regions of black text, white space, and image content. A set of scanned training documents representing the range of text and images to be processed is coarsely tagged to classify regions by content type. The training images are divided into bricks, parameters describing individual brick features are evaluated, and the bricks are classified according to the parameter values. A classification map that relates parameter values to classification codes describing content type is constructed by generating linear equations separating a parameter space into parameter regions along classification boundaries. After training, input documents are scanned and divided into bricks, and brick parameters are converted into an index into the classification map, to classify document regions by content.
US09070010B2	Image check content estimation and use Apparatus, methods and media for deriving a transaction record based on handwritten check content. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve, a receiver device that is configured to receive a check image. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve, a processor device. The processor device may be configured to define a check segment within the check image; translate content from the segment from handwriting to estimated block text; and store the block text in a transaction record in machine readable memory. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve, a transmitter that is configured to transmit the block text to a financial institution product engine.
US09070005B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and image processing system for detection of target cells using image feature determination An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a setting unit, a filter setting unit, a generating unit, and a determination unit. The obtaining unit obtains a captured image of a test piece including a target cell having a nucleus. The first extraction unit extracts pixels which are candidates for the nucleus from pixels included in the captured image. The second extraction unit extracts a connected-pixel group which is a candidate for the target cell. The setting unit sets rectangular regions in the captured image. The filter setting unit sets a filter including regions. When the filter is disposed in each of the rectangular regions, the generating unit generates an image feature value. The determination unit determines, on the basis of whether the image feature value satisfies a condition, whether the target cell is included in the rectangular region.
US09070003B2	Method for handling collision in an identification system A method for handling collision in an identification system where the identification system includes a reader, a first transponder and a second transponder. The method involves the reader transmitting an initialization command to the first transponder and to the second transponder; upon receiving the initialization command, the first transponder and the second transponder enter into a muted state where the first transponder and the second transponder do not respond to commands from the reader; in a randomly determined first start time slot the first transponder enters into an un-muted state and the first transponder remains in the un-muted state until the reader sends a mute command to the first transponder; in a randomly determined second start time slot the second transponder enters into an un-muted state and the second transponder remains in the un-muted state until the reader sends a mute command to the second transponder.
US09070000B2	Secondary information for an information handling system matrix bar code function An information handling system analyzes secondary information captured with an image of a two-dimensional barcode to perform a function. For example, a mobile phone camera captures an image of a QR code at a product plus characters printed next to the QR code, uses optical code recognition to determine the characters, and applies information from the QR code and the characters to register the product. As another example, a security indicator is captured with an image of the QR code and applied to access information of the QR code, such as by using GPS position information, local network information, or telephone number information to encrypt and/or decrypt information stored in the QR code.
US09069999B1	Variable fan for portable explosive or drug detection system Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically detect the presence of a substance on a test swipe by capturing a background image of the test swipe; applying one or more test chemicals to a test swipe; adjusting the temperature of the test swipe to a predetermined temperature range; controlling a variable speed fan to avoid fogging the camera's lens; capturing an in-situ image of the test swipe after the application of chemical at the predetermined temperature range; subtracting the background image from the in-situ image; generating a difference value from the two images; and searching a known database to identify the substance.
US09069997B2	Biometric matching system using input biometric sample The present disclosure concerns a method of identifying a biometric record of an individual in a database comprising a plurality of biometric records, each record comprising at least one reference biometric sample, the method comprising: receiving, by a biometric identification unit (202), an input biometric sample with associated source information; selecting, by the biometric identification unit using a reference table (210), and based on said source information a matching process; and applying by said biometric identification unit said selected matching process to at least some of said biometric records of said database to determine whether said input biometric sample matches a reference biometric sample of one of said biometric records.
US09069996B2	Registering regions of interest of a body part to a coordinate system Described embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product. A described system includes a receiver circuit that receives at least two medical images that each includes a respective region of interest of a mammalian body part. The receiver circuit also receives at least two reference images that each includes a respective landmark subsurface feature of the mammalian body part. Each landmark subsurface feature has a respective spatial relationship to a respective region of interest. The system includes a coordinate analysis circuit configured to determine a common frame of reference at least partially based on a landmark subsurface feature included in a reference image. The system includes a registration circuit configured to register the respective regions of interest. The registration is based on the determined common frame of reference. The system includes a computer-readable media configured to maintain informational data corresponding to the respective registered regions of interest.
US09069993B2	Apparatus, system, and method for protecting electronic devices in a virtual perimeter Described herein are apparatus, system, and method for protecting electronic devices through the creation of a virtual perimeter among the electronic devices. The virtual perimeter may be generated by the electronic devices themselves. The method performed by an electronic device comprises: identifying a current context; receiving a role, according to the current context, in a hierarchy of multiple electronic devices, and operating in accordance with the role in the hierarchy within a secure perimeter in the current context around the multiple electronic devices, wherein the hierarchy includes a system of security checks based on context information.
US09069989B2	Chip authentication using scan chains Methods and systems for generating a circuit identification number include determining a propagation time delay across a scan chain of known length; comparing the propagation time delay to a threshold associated with the scan chain length; storing an identifier bit based on the result of the comparison; repeating the steps of determining, comparing, and storing until a number of stored identifier bits reaches a threshold number; and outputting the stored identifier bits.
US09069987B2	Secure data access using SQL query rewrites A mechanism is provided for secure data access in a data processing system. A database having two tables is provided. A subset of the tables' primary key attributes is considered sensitive. A first user is authorized to access the primary key's sensitive attribute in an unmasked format, while a second user is authorized to access same data in a masked format. Two security views are generated granting the second user access to the primary key's sensitive attribute values of both tables in the masked format. The masked format value is generated from an unmasked format value using a reversible function. A join operation between the two security views is performed by optimizing a query statement corresponding to the join operation.
US09069983B1	Method and apparatus for protecting sensitive information from disclosure through virtual machines files A method and apparatus for protecting sensitive information from disclosure through virtual machine files is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes processing virtual machine files using at least one processor to access data objects in memory that are associated with at least one virtual machine, examining the data objects using the at least one processor in accordance with a data loss prevention policy in the memory to identify, using the at least one processor, sensitive information within at least one data object of the data objects and securing, using the at least one processor, the sensitive information within the virtual machine files in the memory.
US09069976B2	Risk adjusted, multifactor authentication A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a device used by a user, a request to access a resource hosted by a computer system; identifying, by the computer system, a level of risk associated with the user requesting access to the resource; adjusting, by the computer system an authentication standard for access to the resource, adjusting based on the identified level of risk; determining values for authentication factors used in authenticating the user's access to the resource; applying weights to the values for the authentication factors; and determining, based on a comparison of the weighted values to the adjusted authentication standard, whether the user is authorized to access the resource.
US09069974B2	Deleting confidential information used to secure a communication link A system includes a first wireless-enabled device that transparently stores confidential information and a second wireless-enabled device that stores the same confidential information. The confidential information is to be used to secure a wireless communication link between the first device and the second device. One or both of the first device and the second device is to delete the confidential information upon fulfillment of one or more conditions related to the communication link. The conditions include general timeout, device inactivity, loss of connection over the communication link, a decline in signal strength, and a predefined number of transactions having occurred between the first device and the second device.
US09069971B2	Method for testing the security of an electronic device against an attack, and electronic device implementing countermeasures A method of testing security of an electronic device against a combination of a side-channel attack and a fault-injection attack implemented during a method of cryptographic processing that includes: delivering a message signature based on a secret parameter and implementing a recombination of at least two intermediate values according to the Chinese remainder theorem; and verifying the signature on the basis of at least one public exponent. The method of testing includes: transmitting a plurality of messages to be signed by said electronic device; disturbing each message, including modifying the message by inserting an identical error for each message, before executing a step of determining one of the intermediate values; and analyzing physical measurements, obtained during the step of verifying the signature as a function of the message to be signed, the identical error for each message, and an assumption of a value of part of the secret parameter.
US09069970B2	System and method for protection from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs in C++ Systems and methods for protection from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs in C++ are provided. A system for protecting from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs, comprises a compiler which is capable of receiving a program including a placement new instruction, and runtime which is capable of receiving binary code from the compiler and determining whether the program includes the placement new instruction and whether the placement new instruction would lead to buffer overflow, wherein the runtime is linked to a library including methods for preventing the buffer overflow, and selects a method for preventing the buffer overflow if the runtime determines that the placement new instruction would lead to the buffer overflow.
US09069969B2	Managing software patch installations A computer hardware-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product manages software patches. A computer monitoring hardware system receives a notification of a new release of a software patch. The computer monitoring hardware system scores a security posture of a monitored computer system to generate a security posture value based on a set of computer system parameters for the monitored computer system. In response to patch control logic within the computer monitoring hardware system determining that the monitored computer system is authorized to install the software patch and that the security posture value exceeds the predetermined value, the computer monitoring hardware system retrieves and installs the software patch in the monitored computer system.
US09069968B2	Method and apparatus providing privacy benchmarking for mobile application development A method operates, during development of an application program intended to be run on a mobile user device, to perform a computer assisted analysis of the application program to determine at least one user privacy-related aspect of the application program; and to present the determined at least one user privacy-related aspect. The determined at least one user privacy-related aspect may be presented to a developer of the application program An apparatus and system for performing the method are also disclosed.
US09069964B2	Identification of malicious activities through non-logged-in host usage A system and associated computer program product for identifying malware. The system includes one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable storage devices, and program instructions stored on the one or more storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more memories. The program instructions include program instructions to receive a data communication simulating manual interaction between a user of the computer and the computer. The program instructions may determine that no user was interactively logged on to the computer approximately at a time the data communication was received by the computer, and in response, classify the data communication as a potential malware communication.
US09069963B2	Statistical inspection systems and methods for components and component relationships Embodiments of an inspection system and method for a collection of information objects, for example, a collection of executable software applications may be inspected for computer viruses, or a collection of genomes may be inspected for common or unique gene sequences. Information objects may contain identified sequences of instructions, each of which may be labeled with a symbol. In the software context, programming languages may include symbols that indicate functionality. In some embodiments, an inspection of the statistical properties of the information objects and their included symbols may allow for the symbols (and thus instruction sequences) to be grouped into logical components. In some embodiments, objects that include individual logical components may be grouped together. These groupings and their dependencies may be used to determine the structure of each object by detailing its constituent components, how they relate or depend on one another, and how the information object may function.
US09069961B2	Platform based verification of contents of input-output devices A platform to support verification of the contents of an input-output device. The platform includes a platform hardware, which may verify the contents of the I/O device. The platform hardware may comprise components such as manageability engine and verification engine that are used to verify the contents of the I/O device even before the contents of the I/O device are exposed to an operating system supported by a host. The platform components may delete the infected portions of the contents of I/O device if the verification process indicates that the contents of the I/O device include the infected portions.
US09069959B2	Cryptographic circuit protection from differential power analysis According to an example embodiment, a device provides cryptographic processing functions using secret data. The device can include protection from differential power analysis (DPA). The encryption processing circuit and its memory can be decoupled from external power source(s) during encryption-related computations. A local power storage element, such as a capacitive element, can provide power while the encryption processing circuit is decoupled from the external power source(s). The local power storage element can then be reconnected and charged once the encryption-related computations are completed or paused.
US09069957B2	System and method of reporting and visualizing malware on mobile networks A network management system monitors malware within a mobile network. The system comprises a receiver component that obtains data regarding malware in the mobile network. The data is obtained from a first source and a second source, where the first source is of a different type than the second source. The monitoring system also includes an analysis component that generates a malware analysis of the mobile network as a function of the data.
US09069956B2	Method for scanning file, client and server thereof A method for scanning files includes enumerating unscanned files; obtaining attributions of the unscanned files from the enumerated files one by one, and transmitting to a server the attributions; comparing the attributions with features that are stored in the server; obtaining the features that are consistent with the attributions and types that the features belong to; and generating a mapping relationship between the unscanned files, the attributions and the types according to the features that are consistent with the attributions and the types of the features, and recording the mapping relationship in a first scanning result. The above method uploads the attributions of the files to the server; and makes the safety and risky recognition of the file through comparing with the features and the corresponding types.

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