US07661697B2
An inflator attaching structure is capable of firmly attaching an inflator to a seat member or the like. An inflator attaching structure includes an attaching clamp that is composed of a main plate connected to a seat frame, and a sub-plate attached to the main plate, and an inflator is sandwiched between the main plate and the sub-plate. When attaching the inflator to the attaching clamp, a hook portion of the sub-plate is hooked on a hook-portion hooking opening of the main plate, and thereafter the fastening portion and the base piece portion are fastened by a bolt upon situating the fastening portion of the sub-plate in parallel with the base piece portion of the main plate in a manner so as to sandwich the inflator between the main plate and the sub-plate.
US07661691B2
An apparatus for detachably connecting a selected one of various accessories to a bicycle includes a receptacle, an insert and a fastening device. The receptacle is connected to the bicycle. The insert is connected to the selected accessory so that the selected accessory is detachably connected to the bicycle when the insert is inserted in the receptacle. The fastening device is used to keep the insert in the receptacle.
US07661689B2
An all terrain vehicle includes a vehicle frame having lower arms and upper arms for suspending front wheels, the upper arms positioned above the lower arms, drive shafts arranged between the lower arms and the upper arms for conveying drive power from a front wheel differential unit to the front wheels, and shock absorbers including lower ends connected to the lower arms and upper ends connected to the vehicle frame. The shock absorbers are arranged further to the front than the upper arms so as to shorten the front portion of the vehicle frame.
US07661688B2
A double-joint suspension system for a steerable wheel of a vehicle includes suspension arms connecting a vehicle body and a knuckle arm, consisting of a first suspension arm located approximately in a lateral direction and a second suspension arm in which an angle between a longitudinal axis and the second arm is smaller than an angle between the first arm and the axis, a first elastic member between the body and the first arm, a second elastic member between the body and the second arm a first connecting member rotatably connecting the knuckle and the first arm and a second connecting member rotatably connecting the knuckle and the second arm.
US07661676B2
A gaming system simulates events in a casino table card wagering game where there has traditionally been a dealer, whether or not the dealer is an active player in the game. Two distinct video areas are preferably provided, one providing video images of a virtual dealer, and the second video display providing a simulation of a table top for player cards, and optionally also dealer cards. The players have individual play areas with player input, and these play areas have individual processing intelligence that communicates directly with at least one processor. Delivery order of cards is determined by actual shuffling or randomization of a physical deck of cards, reading the cards, then creating an electronic file of the order of the shuffled or randomized cards, then using an order of cards contained in the electronic file to deliver virtual cards to players, dealer and flop as needed.
US07661667B2
A sheet feeding device includes a conveyor belt having a first row of a plurality of convex portions intermittently arranged on an inner circumferential surface of the conveyor belt in a sheet conveying direction. The sheet feeding device further includes a plurality of rollers around which the conveyor belt is spanned such that a direction substantially perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction is parallel to an axial direction of each of the rollers. The rollers include concave portions on outer circumferential surfaces thereof, in which the convex portions of the first row of the conveyor belt are engaged. The concave portion of at least one roller of the plurality of rollers has a width different from a width of each of the plurality of rollers other than the at least one roller.
US07661664B2
A method for forming a document set is described. The document set is formed from rectangular sheets of the same size and includes an envelope sheet and at least one insert sheet. The method includes the steps of printing the envelope sheet with envelope information, this envelope information including a unique code identifier, printing each of the insert sheets with insert information, this insert information including a unique code identifier, and further more collating the envelope sheet and the insert sheets to form the document set.
US07661650B2
A valve actuator comprises a housing, a lever, a collet, and a biasing device. The lever is disposed within the housing and is adapted to be operatively coupled to rotate the valve shaft. The collet is carried by the lever and adapted to couple the lever to the valve shaft. The biasing device comprising a spring operatively coupled to the collet to bias the lever into a predetermined position.
US07661649B2
A concrete mold device for vertically forming a concrete panel comprises a plurality of concrete forms for collectively defining a mold cavity for receiving an uncured concrete mixture therein. The concrete forms include: a pair of opposing side wall forms configured to define side wall surfaces of the mold cavity; and a pair of opposing end wall forms, configured to define end wall surfaces of the mold cavity. An elongate lower support gasket has an upper surface configured to define a bottom surface of the mold cavity, the lower support gasket having gasket side walls configured to abut against at least a portion of each of the side wall forms to provide a seal between the lower support gasket and the side wall forms to retain the concrete mixture within the mold cavity. Reinforcing structure is associated with the lower support gasket to increase a load-bearing capacity of the lower support gasket.
US07661648B2
A sucker device includes a body, a sucking disk, and an operating mechanism; the body has a base, and a sleeve part joined on the base; the sleeve part has a hollow portion communicating with a bottom room of the base, and two slots, and is joined to a fixing support; the sucking disk is positioned in the bottom room of the base; an axial rod is joined on a middle of the disk, and held in the hollow portion of the sleeve part; the operating mechanism includes a knob, and a pressing rod, which is passed through the axial rod, and sticks out through the slots; the knob is positioned around and threadedly engaged with the sleeve part; thus, the middle of the disk can be moved farther away from a surface of an object for the disk to stick to the object by means of turning the knob.
US07661647B2
A vehicle seat slide device includes a lower rail formed so as to include a first opening portion opening upward and fixed at a vehicle floor, an upper rail supported by the lower rail through the first opening portion so as to be slidable and supporting a vehicle seat, a screw member provided between the upper rail and the lower rail so as to extend in a sliding direction thereof, a nut member fixed at the lower rail and threadedly engaged with the screw member, a covering member formed so as to include an upper wall covering the first opening portion and fixed at the lower rail, a driving mechanism generating a driving force by which the screw member is rotated relative to the nut member so that the upper rail slides relative to the lower rail and the screw member positioned below the upper wall of the covering member.
US07661646B2
A seat track assembly is provided for adjusting a seat assembly of an automotive vehicle having a lower track (12) having a plurality of locking windows (74), an upper track (14) slidably mounted to the lower track and having a plurality of first (70) and second (72) support apertures. A locking mechanism (80) is operatively coupled between the lower and upper tracks. The locking mechanism includes a plurality of pins (88) movable in and out of a locked position, wherein the pins project through the locking windows and are supported by the first and second support aperture in a double shearing condition to prevent sliding adjustment of the upper track relative in the lower track.
US07661642B2
A motorized mount system includes first and second mount brackets, where one or both of the mount brackets is motorized to pivot a monitor. The motorized bracket includes a motorized actuator system that releaseably engages with the monitor. The actuator system includes a moving block that releaseably pushes the monitor to tilt up, and uses the weight of the monitor to tilt down the monitor. The monitor can be separated with the moving block so that if a foreign object gets between the bottom end of the monitor and the wall, the foreign object needs to counteract the weight of the monitor but not the force due to the motor.
US07661639B2
An apparatus for displaying an object on a structure is provided. Generally, the apparatus contains a holding portion that is fabricated so as to allow the apparatus to hold to the structure. The apparatus also contains a hook that is capable of allowing the object to be set thereon, and a central loop that is capable of allowing a second object to be situated therein.
US07661632B2
A mounting device securable to a structure comprising a channel comprises a plate, a cable management member and an engagement member for securing the device to the structure. The mounting device may be secured to the structure by inserting an installation tool into the geometric opening and rotating the mounting device. The engagement member may comprise opposing retaining tabs extending from a bottom surface of the plate or opposing depressions formed in a top surface of the plate. The cable management member may comprise a pair of bridge arms that form a geometric opening.
US07661629B2
Apparatuses and methods for the controlled trailing wake flows. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment is directed to an aircraft system that includes an airfoil having first and second oppositely facing flow surfaces and a tip. The system can further include a vortex dissipation device carried by the airfoil, with the vortex dissipation device including a fluid flow nozzle, a valve device, and a controller. The fluid flow nozzle can be coupleable to a source of pressurized fluid and can include an orifice positioned to direct a flow of fluid outwardly from the tip. The valve device can be coupled in fluid communication with the fluid flow nozzle to selectively control the flow passing through the orifice. The controller can be coupled to the valve device to direct the operation of the valve device. Accordingly, the vortex dissipation device can be activated to accelerate the rate at which vortices (e.g., wing tip vortices) dissipate after they are generated.
US07661621B2
The invention relates to a thread tensioner comprising tensioning elements that define a thread tensioning zone. In said tensioner, the first tensioning element rests on a stop and the second tensioning element can be pressed against the first tensioning element by means of an adjustable magnet contact force produced by a magnet armature and a repelling magnet actuator. The stop is located on the opposite side of the thread tensioning zone from the first tensioning element. The first tensioning element is stressed by a spring force in the direction of the second tensioning element against the stop. Said spring force is greater in the thread tensioning zone than the respectively adjusted maximum magnetic contact force. The mass of the first tensioning element is smaller than the mass of the magnet armature.
US07661613B1
A paper shredder includes a shredder body, a bin, a sensing module and a dust cleaner. The dust cleaner has a cleaning element for cleaning the sensing module. The cleaning element is attached on a swing rod. The swing rod has a first end adjacent to the sensing module and a second end inserted into the bin. During the bin is withdrawn from the paper shredder, the swing rod is swung by the inner wall of the bin and thus the cleaning element is contacted with the sensing module to clear off the dust on the sensing module.
US07661610B2
An atomizer including an air motor and a rotary atomizing head, mounted in a front side of a housing member, while a high voltage generator applying a high voltage to paint through the air motor is mounted in a rear side of the housing member. A cover member is fitted on the housing member to cover an outer surface of the housing member. Opposite axial ends of the cover member are fitted on and attached to opposite axial ends of the housing member so as to leave an annular gap space between the cover member and the housing member. The annular gap space keeps almost entire radially confront areas of the cover member and the housing member, preventing high voltage electrostatic charges on the outer surfaces of the cover member from leaking through the housing member.
US07661603B2
A central control system and method for controlling air conditioners. The central control system performs central control operations for the air conditioners according to an operation schedule or control command inputted from a central controller coupled to the air conditioners through an internal network or a remote controller accessible to an external Internet network. When the air conditioners are simultaneously operated, control signals based on the control command are adjusted to prevent electric power consumption from abruptly increasing and hence the stability and reliability of control can be improved. The central controller includes a touch screen-based monitor. A control program included in the central controller provides a timetable corresponding to a specified period. An operator can conveniently input/edit the operation schedule through a dragging operation performed on the monitor, and confirm the inputted/edited operation schedule.
US07661598B2
In a mechanism for attaching to a cart an RFID tag used for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID reader/writer, a holding pocket retains the RFID tag. The orientation of the pocket is kept constant in such a manner that a surface of the RFID tag from which data can be read highly accurately faces an antenna for the RFID reader/writer while keeping the distance between the RFID tag and the antenna within a certain range regardless of the transfer direction of the cart.
US07661594B2
The present invention relates to a discrete optical correlation system. One embodiment of the present invention includes a portable electrical illumination system and an optically opaque hollow module, configured to releasably couple to the portable electrical illumination system in a manner such that when the portable electrical illumination system is activated, the system produces a discrete correlated or focused illumination output. The portable electrical illumination system further includes a light emitting diode, a power source, a switch, and a coupling mechanism. The optically opaque hollow module further includes at least two openings, a hollow internal region, an optically opaque outer surface, and a coupling mechanism disposed on at least one of the at least two openings. A fourth embodiment relates creating an adjustable aperture between two optically opaque sleeves sliding over an optically transparent module coupled to the portable electrical illumination system.
US07661593B2
A moving coil actuator contains a magnet assembly that is movable to shift the range of motion of the coil. The magnet assembly moves between two or more positions along a path of travel that is parallel to the path of travel of the reciprocating motion of the coil. With this feature, the width of an area scanned by a scanning head affixed to the coil can be increased by multiples allowing a simple moving coil actuator to be used for any scanning width.
US07661577B2
A water-based composition for treating copper or copper alloy surface for lead-free soldering, the composition comprising a compound represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl, and either R2 and R3 represent chlorine and R4 and R5 represent hydrogen, or R2 and R3 represent hydrogen and R4 and R5 represent chlorine.
US07661569B2
A flat-type stapler is provided which can fasten a large number of sheets of paper with a small force and in a smooth fashion. The stapler includes a base portion, a magazine portion, a push-down member, handle supporting members, and a handle portion. The handle portion causes the push-down portion to descend by virtue of the principle of the lever with the handle shaft made to act as a movable fulcrum. A portion of the handle may be used to apply force, and the connecting shaft may be used as a point of action.
US07661565B2
A multi layered frangible seal is bonded over the pour spout opening of flexible plastic bottles containing pourable products such as motor oil. The seal provides a leak proof closure that is strong enough to remain intact when the filled uncapped container is held in an inverted position, and at the same weak enough to break open and dispense the contents into a fill opening when a consumer squeezes the inverted container. The seal is constructed from a first layer of leak proof frangible sheet material that is bonded to a second layer of strengthening sheet material. The strengthening layer contains a cut out void configuration that forms a breaking pattern which forces the seal to break open only in the weaker single frangible layered configuration of the cut out void forming the breaking pattern when the container is squeezed.
US07661564B2
A keg is formed from (A) a shaped jacket or liner forming a container, obtained from at least two nonsymmetrical parts (1a, 1b) welded together, one of the parts containing an opening provided with a neck, and (B) a filling/tapping device (3) positioned in the neck of the opening. The part of the container with the filling/tapping opening contains a riser or peripheral skirt (13) having a height at least equal to that of the outer part of the filling/tapping device and, optionally, sufficient to contain at least one cut-out forming a handle, and while the neck of the opening contains a part (9) extending inside the lumen of the jacket and having a limited diameter at its end (10), so as to permit passage and maintenance of the tapping device (3), and containing at least one other opening (11), advantageously on the periphery of the opening for passage and maintenance of the tapping device.
US07661550B2
The filler neck of a fuel tank with an arrangement for preventing incorrect fueling has a rotatable ring and closing elements which are actuated by said ring, with a transmission device having the following features being arranged between the movable part and the rotatable ring: there are two slides which are situated opposite one another and which have run-on faces which face toward one another in the support body, the two slides are connected to one another by means of a rigid bar, which rigid bar is movably articulatedly connected with its first end to the first slide and with its second end to the second slide, the second end of the bar is a bolt which engages into a first slot of the second slide and into a second slot of the rotatable ring.
US07661548B2
A plastic container comprising a base that is attached to a body section which is connected to a dome section by a circumferential ring is provided. The dome section comprises a plurality of circumferentially spaced hydrostatic pressure absorption panels each located between vertically extending, circumferentially spaced ribs that absorbs at least a substantial portion of the external downwardly directed vertical forces exerted on the container and restores the container to its original shape. In addition, a method of absorbing a downward, vertical top-load is provided.
US07661541B2
A non-woven polymeric matrix for separating leukocytes from a blood sample includes a non-woven three dimensional matrix formed from polymeric fibers having a predetermined pore volume fraction including a defined channel configuration, a predetermined pore size in the range of from about 10 μm to about 250 μm, and a plurality of connections between the plurality of fibers. The matrix is configured so as to remove at least about 98% of leukocytes from at least one unit of packed red blood cells. Methods of making and using the matrix are also provided.
US07661533B2
A bottle includes a container and a label. The container includes a front portion, a back portion, an opening and a spine portion. The back portion is spaced from the front portion and generally faces away and in an opposite direction from the front portion. The opening is positioned between the front portion and the back portion of the container to at least partially define a first end of the container. The spine portion extends between the front portion and the back portion of the container to define a second end of the container opposite the first end. The label extends over and is in contact with each of the front portion, the back portion and the spine portion of the container. Other bottle and container embodiments are also disclosed herein and provide additional advantages.
US07661531B2
A bend and peel child resistant and senior friendly tamper evident package comprising a blister sheet having blister pockets projecting from a front side thereof, a rupturable foil layer being adhered to the blister layer and reinforcing the paperboard material adhered to the foil layer, the paperboard layer having a tear strip formed therein, the tear strip being defined by a cut into the paperboard layer from the side thereof adhered to the foil layer, the cut extending only a certain percentage of the total thickness of the paperboard such that a controlled delamination of the paperboard layer occurs when the tear strip is removed. This provides a precise reinforcement of the foil layer.
US07661528B2
Food containers formed of sheet plastic are latchably stackable on one another. Each container has base (14) and lid (16) elements, with one of them having an outer rim part with a pair of long handle sections (80, 82) that can be pivoted up to form a handle assembly for carrying the container. The sections that form handles are formed in the lid element (16) rather than in the base element (14), so a person does not have to contend with long bouncing sections if the person eats a meal out of the base. One of the elements has vertically undercut grooves (50) and the other element has horizontal projections (52) that slide into and along the grooves. The grooved element has vertical passages (120) along which the projections can move vertically until they can slide into and along the grooves.
US07661521B2
A coin selector prevents illegal actuation of a coin sensor for real coin detection and is reduced in size and has a high coin processing rate, and which can cancel a coin to be cancelled reliably. The coin selector detects the passage of a coin based upon a signal from a coin sensor disposed downstream of a real/fake discriminating unit formed along a coin passage through which the coin moves. A moving direction changing unit for a coin is provided on the coin passage downstream of the real/fake discriminating unit and the coin passage downstream of the moving direction changing unit is disposed on a plane different from a plane on which the moving direction changing unit is present.
US07661515B2
A solid box-shape structure is constituted by fitting a torque transmitting ring 23 to a guide hole 17 on a guide plate 11 to pivotably hold a lining member 13 and fixing the guide plate 11 to a torque receive plate 3. A braking torque is directly transmitted to the guide plate 11 by the torque transmitting ring 23 by pressing the lining member 13 to a disc rotor by a first link plate 7 and a second link plate 5 arranged on an inner side of the box-shape structure. A solid structure and alleviation of processing accuracy are made to be compatible with each other by constituting transmission of a press force and transmission of a torque by independent members in this way.
US07661511B2
Perforations of a board for building material are formed by a number of recesses (13), or a number of recesses (13) and through-holes (12). A bottom face (16) of the recess forms a face for screwing or driving the fixing element (70) thereto. A color of the bottom face is set to have a brightness of color decreased in comparison with a color of a surface (18) of the board. A substrate of the board is a gypsum board and the bottom face of the recess is formed by a liner paper for gypsum board. According to such a board, a region for screwing or driving the fixing element thereto can be ensured without impairing regularity, uniformity or architectural design of the perforations, and putty finishing or the like for an exposed part of the fixing element can be omitted.
US07661505B2
A console system (10) configured to support a control module (44) (e.g., a user interface, etc.) operatively coupled to a vehicle system (e.g., a vehicle transmission, etc.), and which can be selectively and conveniently repositioned and/or reconfigured within a vehicle in a variety of positions is disclosed. The control module (44) is operatively coupled to the vehicle system without the use of conventional mechanical linkage. By providing flexibility in the positioning of the control module (44), the console system can be configured and/or reconfigured to meet the desires and/or needs of a variety of users.
US07661495B2
A drive unit for motor vehicles with hybrid drive and a drive train in a longitudinal arrangement, between the internal combustion engine and the first axle, comprising a housing piece, a through driveshaft, an electric motor, surrounding the through driveshaft with a first clutch before the electric motor and a second clutch thereafter, whereby a second axle is also to be driven with minimal space requirement. A first electric motor is thus physically combined with the first clutch, surrounding a second electric motor and the through driveshaft and is connected to the second axle by means of a third clutch, an offset gear and a shaft.
US07661494B2
This power supply system of a fuel cell vehicle is provided with a load, a fuel cell, a power storage device, a first DC-DC converter, a second DC-DC converter, a current-measuring device, a voltage-measuring device, and a controller. The controller performs a feedback control of the first DC-DC converter such that input current or output current measured by the current-measuring device becomes a target current, and also performs a feedback control of the second DC-DC converter such that input voltage or output voltage measured by the voltage-measuring device becomes a target voltage.
US07661489B2
This invention describes a reaming tool (10) for attachment to a drill string having a body (12) that has connection means (14a, 14b) at either end for attachment to a drill string, at least one roller reamer (16) rotatably mounted to the body (12), and at least one channel (18) extending on the body positioned to intersect with the roller reamer (16). This ensures that flushing fluid flow is directed to each roller reamer (16).
US07661486B2
A power tool has a mechanism for ejecting a battery pack which includes a receiving frame which defines a cavity to receive a battery pack. A receiving member is adjacent the cavity. The receiving member meshes with a member on the battery pack to hold the battery pack in the cavity. A biasing member is in the cavity adjacent the receiving member. The biasing member ejects the battery pack from the ejecting mechanism. A member retains the biasing member in the cavity. The member guides a portion of the battery pack meshing with the receiving member into contact with the biasing member such that when the battery pack is locked onto the frame, the biasing member is in a compressed condition and when the battery pack is an unlocked position, the biasing member ejects the battery pack from the frame.
US07661481B2
An apparatus is provided for use as a downhole tool or a component thereof for insertion into a wellbore. According to one aspect, the apparatus has a body having a chamber, wherein at least a portion of the body is radially expandable; and a water-swellable material in the chamber, wherein the water-swellable material is dissolvable in water. According to another aspect, the apparatus has a body having a chamber, wherein at least a portion of the body is radially expandable, and wherein at least a portion of the body is made with a material that is deteriorable by hydrolysis; and a water-swellable material in the chamber. According to a further aspect, the water-swellable material is dissolvable in water. A process of temporarily blocking or sealing a wellbore is also provided, including moving an apparatus according to the invention through a wellbore to a selected position in the wellbore; exposing the water-swellable material to water or an aqueous fluid to expand the apparatus into engagement with the wellbore; performing a well completion, servicing, or workover operation in which the apparatus is contacted with fluids; and thereafter, allowing the deteriorable material to deteriorate and/or allowing the water-swellable material to dissolve.
US07661480B2
A method for rupturing a glass disc in a well completion tool located downhole in a section of production tubing includes providing a wellhead isolation tool, or tree saver, to isolate the wellhead Christmas tree, adding a pressurized fluid to the tubing/casing annulus and pumping a disc rupturing fluid into the production tubing via the tree saver until the disc is ruptured. Following rupture, the pump can be rapidly stopped, or slowed, and started to create a water hammer effect that removes any glass shards remaining in the disc holder.
US07661479B2
Apparatus and methods for insulating a connector that connects a first tubular member having a first flange with a second tubular member having a second flange. The apparatus comprises a generally tubular body forming a generally tubular cavity therein adapted to enclose the connector. The body has a longitudinal opening adapted to receive the first tubular member and a closure member for closing said opening. The body and the closure member are lined with insulation and include first and second seals for sealing with the first and second flanges so as to seal around the connector.
US07661477B2
An unsticking assembly for releasing a tool that is stuck in a wellbore including a first anchor actuatable between an engaging position wherein the first anchor engages a wall of the wellbore and a retracted position wherein the first anchor does not engage the wall; a second anchor actuatable between an engaging position wherein the second anchor engages a wall of the wellbore and a retracted position wherein the second anchor does not engage the wall; and a control module in connection with the first and second anchor to selectively actuate each anchor between the engaged and retracted positions. The assembly is adapted for positioning in the wellbore and in connection with the tool when the tool is stuck in the wellbore. The assembly may be a stand-alone assembly that is connectable to the tool after the tool is stuck in the wellbore. The assembly may include the wellbore tool as an interconnected element.
US07661469B1
A method of cooling a plurality of devices operated in parallel and heated by relatively long duration pulses using a single coolant flow channel to the devices in series that transports the heat from the several devices in a contiguous series of heat pulses to the heat exchanger.
US07661468B2
The present invention relates to cooling systems, and in particular to cooling systems providing forced convective gaseous flow. According to one aspect, a cooling system employs a heat sink in combination with an EHD pumping mechanism such as corona wind or micro-scale corona wind or by a temporally controlled ion-generation technique. A channel-array structure can be employed to embody the heat sink. The EHD pumps are located at the inlet or outlet of the heat sink channels. Many advantages are achieved by the cooling system of the invention, including that the entire system can have similar or better performance than a conventional heat sink and fan system but with one-tenth the volume and weight and can operate silently. The present invention also relates to a method of fabricating a micro-channel heat sink employing EHD gas flow.
US07661466B2
A heat sink assembly (100) for cooling a heat-generating electronic component, includes a base plate (32), a plurality of fins (50) mounted on the base plate and a heat pipe (20) thermally connecting the base plate and the fins. The fins are parallel to the base plate and include a bottom fin (40) supporting the fins on the base plate. The bottom fin includes a plurality of supporting tabs (422) engaging with the base plate and separating a body (42) of the bottom fin from the base plate. The bottom fin can be used not only for dissipating heat into a surrounding environment but also for reinforcing the whole strength of the heat sink assembly.
US07661465B2
A cooling system for removing heat from a heat generating component, includes a base (100) and a heat sink (200) mounted on the base. The base includes a lower portion and a higher portion surrounding the lower portion. The lower portion and the higher portion cooperatively define a space (18) receiving working fluid therein. The heat sink defines an evaporating passage (252) and two condensing passages (254) located at two opposite sides of the evaporating passage. These passages are in fluid communication with the space. Cooperatively the space and the passages define a loop for circulating the working fluid therein. The working fluid has a phase change for dissipating heat generated by a heat-generating electronic component. A wick structure (400) is received in the space.
US07661461B2
A cooling device includes a base connected on a CPU and a pipe unit 2 includes a plurality of absorbing pipes which are engaged with the base. A plurality of cooling pipes are connected to two ends of the absorbing pipes and extend upward in V-shape. Two cooling units are connected to the cooling pipes and each cooling unit includes fins and a cooling fan which generates air flows toward the fins and cooling the parts around the CPU.
US07661460B1
A compact heat exchanger for interchanging thermal energy between at least two fluids, one of which fluids may be a refrigerant in hot or cold form or in a liquid/vapor phase, and another of which fluids is a thermal transfer fluid. The heat exchanger may incorporate an internal heating element. The thermal transfer fluid is transported between two concentric metal tubes, while the refrigerant moves along a tubing helically wrapped about or between the tubes and is in thermal contact therewith.
US07661459B2
A mobile cart for serving food and/or beverages is described. According to various implementations, the cart is equipped with a removable mission module. The mission module includes equipment that is used by the cart to perform its designated mission, such as an oven (for a hot food service mission module), a cooling unit (for a cold food service mission module), a beverage dispenser (for a beverage service mission module), a point of sale terminal (for duty-free service mission module), appropriate branding (for a franchising mission), or a custom equipment (for a customized mission). The mission module also includes a processor and a memory. The mission module is removable, and may be one of several mission modules available to the cart. Thus, for each type of mission, there may be a different mission module. This enables the cart to be quickly and easily “customized” for each mission by replacing an unneeded module with a required one.
US07661458B2
A magnesium metal thin plate manufacturing method includes at least a casting process of supplying a molten metal obtained by melting a magnesium metal to a molten metal bath, drawing out the molten metal, supplying the molten metal into the gap between a pair of casting rolls composed of at least a pair of casting upper roll and casting lower roll, applying pressure to the molten metal, and casting a plate solidified at a predetermined temperature and having a predetermined thickness, and a rolling process of rolling the cast plate by means of at least a pair of rolling rolls by applying pressure thereto to manufacture a magnesium metal thin plate. With the above arrangement, there can be provided a magnesium metal thin plate manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus that can effectively manufacture a magnesium metal thin plate by plastic working without requiring a heat energy generation step again in rolling.
US07661456B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for eliminating axial porosity accompanied by impurity segregation arising at bulk crystallization of the axial zone of the liquid core of a continuous ingot.
US07661455B2
A window shade for motor vehicles is provided that includes a base unit in which the windup shaft is rotatably supported. The base unit is also provided with coupling devices, wherein guide tubes for thrust elements originate at these coupling devices and lead to a driving motor. The coupling device contains a channel into which a plug-type pin of a corresponding guide rail that is rigidly connected to a side trim section of the motor vehicle can be inserted. The guide groove extends through the plug-type pin such that the pull bar can be arbitrarily moved back and forth between the guide rail and the coupling device after the installation when the roller blind web is respectively retracted and pulled out.
US07661443B1
A repair sleeve carrier for transporting a repair liner into a conduit to the location of damage or leakage for repairing the conduit from the inside, the sleeve carrier having a segmented flex tubing and a bladder with ends attached to the flex tubing and an unattached middle portion forming a cavity between the middle portion of the bladder and the flex tubing with an air passage to the cavity, the sleeve carrier having an air supply connect or that connects to an air supply to provide pressurized air to the cavity through the passage to inflate the bladder.
US07661433B2
The present invention provides a non-tobacco moist snuff composition having an herbal component consisting essentially of corn silk. The most preferred herbal component has 75-80% by weight of corn silk and 20-25% by weight of red clover blossoms. The present invention also provides a method of producing a non-tobacco moist snuff composition having the herbal component. When the herbal component is combined with a suitable casing component, the resulting leaf-free non-tobacco moist snuff composition has a light, elastic, and moist texture, a soft and smooth mouth feel, a uniform color and particle size, and a long lasting and tobacco-like smell and taste with a characteristic tobacco-like “bite.”
US07661432B2
A cigarette filter is characterized in that sesame lignan (which is at least one selected from the group consisting of sesamin, sesamol, sesaminol, sesamolinol, sesamolin and pinoredinol) is added to the filter.
US07661430B2
The present invention provides for a dental appliance, mouthguard and/or divers mouthpiece using an anti-microbial composition that combines the use of an elastomeric polymer composition with micronized or submicron sized particles of metal or organo/inorgano metal complexes. In addition, the use of an anti-microbial composition for use with a diver's air delivery hose to prevent breathing of contaminated air is also described.
US07661422B2
A solar air conditioning device (100) comprises a solar collector assembly (30), an inlet assembly (10) at an entrance of the solar collector assembly, and an outlet assembly (50) at an exit of the solar collector assembly. The solar collector assembly includes a heat-absorbing set (31) and a transparent panel (38) being assembled to a top of the heat-absorbing set. The heat-absorbing set comprises a plurality of heat-absorbing units (32) engaged with each other. A distance between the inlet assembly and the outlet assembly is equal to a longitudinal length of single heat-absorbing unit. The heat-absorbing set defines an air channel with the transparent panel and a heat-absorbing channel below the air channel. The inlet and outlet assemblies are in fluidic communication with the heat-absorbing channel.
US07661418B2
A crossbow having a crossbow grip guard that has a member that extends outwardly in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the crossbow barrel or stock, and wherein the member extends for a length in a direction that is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the crossbow barrel or stock.
US07661417B2
Disclosed is an electronic module designed to use the locomotive engine's speed sensors to detect such changes in engine speed (rpm), as required by the locomotive operator moving the throttle notch handle. Once a speed change is detected, the module commands an air valve on each of the locomotive's main air reservoir tanks, (designed to handle the normal operating main reservoir air pressure), to open and allow them to discharge into the engine's intake manifolds located on both sides of the diesel engine.
US07661415B2
A bypass duct portion is provided in a casing of an EGR cooler so that heat distortion is absorbed, and the EGR cooler body and a valve case are brazed/fixed together so as to improve strength of the valve case, whereby, the bypass duct portion is formed between an inner surface of the casing and the core, a switch is provided for switching and guiding the exhaust gas to either of the core or the bypass duct portion, and a number of outer ribs formed in the circumferential direction respectively are arranged side by side while being separated from each other in the longitudinal direction in the bypass duct portion of the casing to form a heat stress absorbing portion. Also provided is a cylindrical valve case that is integrally formed by deep drawing of a thin metal plate by a press machine, a pair of slits are provided at the rear end of the valve case, both edges of an intra-valve partition plate are inserted into the slits, support projection portions are provided on both faces of the both edge portions of the intra-valve partition plate, and the edge of the slit is supported by the support projection portion. An opening of the valve case is integrally brazed/fixed to an opening of a header portion of the casing.
US07661406B2
To prevent an increase in torque when the fixed state of a throttle valve is released. When diagnostics reads fixed diagnostics flag 1 indicating that the throttle valve is in a fixed state, control value ATVO that can maintain throttle aperture RTVO is set (S11, S12) based on detected value RTVO for the throttle aperture in the current fixed state, fuel injection volume TiO that is calculated according to new air volume Q is secured at fuel injection volume TiL or greater in order to achieve the engine torque for when fail-safe control is executed, and when air-fuel ratioλis less than the lower limit valueλL, causing an increase in the amount of smoke, control is executed to suppress the occurrence of said smoke.
US07661398B2
An ECU executes a program including steps of estimating an oil temperature based on a water temperature sensed by a water temperature sensor, setting NE(1) to a lower limit value of an engine revolution speed NE when the oil temperature is equal to or higher than a threshold THO(0), setting NE(2) (NE(2)
US07661386B2
A film-forming apparatus of the invention is a film-forming apparatus that includes: a processing container that defines a chamber, a pedestal arranged in the chamber, on which a substrate to be processed can be placed, a showerhead provided opposite to the pedestal, which has a large number of gas-discharging holes, a gas-supplying mechanism that supplies a process gas into the chamber through the showerhead, and a showerhead-temperature controlling unit that controls a temperature of the showerhead.
US07661382B2
A reversible seat for a boat or other vehicle includes a base, a seat bottom, and a seat back. The seat bottom, which has a first surface and a second, opposite surface, is pivotally connected to the base such that the seat bottom is capable of rotating at least approximately 180 degrees about the base. The seat back is pivotally connected to the seat bottom on a side of the seat bottom opposite from where the seat bottom is pivotally connected to the base. In a first seat position, the first surface of the seat bottom faces substantially upward and the second surface of the seat bottom faces substantially downward. In a second seat position, the second surface of the seat bottom faces substantially upward and the first surface of the seat bottom faces substantially downward. In each of the first and second seat positions, the seat back extends upward at a predetermined angle relative to the seat bottom.
US07661377B2
A seed meter for use in an agricultural seeding machine includes a housing having an inner chamber and one or more deflectors within the inner chamber, and a seed disc rotatably carried by the housing. The seed disc includes at least a portion thereof formed from a flexible material which is deflectable by the one or more deflectors during rotation within the housing.
US07661342B2
An exemplary method for making a metallic workpiece includes: (a) providing a metallic sheet and a punching machine, wherein the metallic sheet comprises a curved portion and a plurality of predetermined punching areas; the punching machine comprises a die set, a lifter, at least one punch blade; (b) placing the metallic sheet on the die set; (c) adjusting a position of the metallic sheet for making a longitudinal center axis of the punch blade perpendicular to a plane tangential to a center of the predetermined punching areas; (d) applying the lifter to press down, and the punch blade punching one of the predetermined punching areas out of the metallic sheet; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) appropriately in turn to form a plurality of punched holes in the curved portion of the metallic sheet. The metallic workpiece made by the present method is also provided.
US07661340B2
A screw fastening device allows efficient mounting and advancing of screws carried on a screw strip along a guide chute to prevent the screws from impacting a target object and damaging the target object and to precisely move the screw strip forward to precisely set the screws at a desired positioning point in a completely fixed condition and also allows for correcting the orientation of the sharp tip of the screw with a guiding and holding device and stably holding a body of the screw to prevent improper orientation of the screw and incorrect screwing thereby effectively and precisely screw the screw to a target object.
US07661331B2
A shifting device for a dual clutch transmission, the dual clutch transmission including a first input shaft, a second input shaft, a counter shaft, a dual clutch, a first gear change mechanism including at least a first gear train and a first switching clutch, and a second gear change mechanism including at least a second gear train and a second switching clutch, the shifting device including a shift mechanism constituted by a first shifter that includes a first follower pin and a first shift fork, a second shifter that includes a second follower pin and a second shift fork, and a cam member at which a single cam groove is formed, and the first and second follower pins engaging with different positions on the cam groove from each other and operating the first and second switching clutches to be associated with each other.
US07661326B2
Apparatus for aspirating and dispensing liquid samples in an analytical instrument, e.g., a hematology instrument, includes a liquid-sampling valve that, while operating to segment and position for dispensing one or more precise volumes of a liquid sample that has been aspirated into the valve by a pump, simultaneously enables the apparatus to be operated in an aspirate/dispense (suck-and-spit) mode in which a liquid sample can be selectively driven through the valve in opposite directions by a pump, e.g., a syringe pump.
US07661325B2
A test piece attachment apparatus includes a test piece magazine having an inner space storing a plurality of specimen component test pieces aligned in a predetermined direction and a feed outlet via which the specimen component test pieces can be successively extruded, a magazine holder exchangeably holding the test piece magazine, a torsion spring generating a bias force to press the specimen component test pieces aligned in the test piece magazine toward the feed outlet, and a cylindrical casing. The cylindrical casing includes a recessed groove that allows the magazine holder to move in its axial direction and an extrusion projection disposed at a position where the extrusion projection can push one specimen component test piece positioned at the feed outlet and can extrude the specimen component test piece out of the test piece magazine in accordance with a movement of the magazine holder.
US07661322B2
A piezoelectric sensor device, especially for use with a microbalance, with a sensor housing and a holder for holding a piezoelectric sensor element. In order to permit quick exchange of crystals and to minimize the size of the assembly, the holder is configured as a clamping element which has at least one elastic first arm for clamped holding of the contact region of the essentially strip-shaped piezoelectric resonator element, whose measuring region is subjected to a fluid stream to be measured.
US07661321B2
A sensor includes a clevis insert for reception within a first bore of a clevis. The clevis insert is configured to accommodate a latch pin. A strain sensing element is operatively associated with the clevis insert for detecting mechanical strain imparted to the clevis insert when a force acts on the clevis insert through the pin. The invention also provides a method of retrofitting a cowl latch assembly.
US07661315B2
A method and apparatus for ultrasonic scanning of a wafer assembly is disclosed. The wafer assembly is held in a wafer chuck and rotated. A transducer generates ultrasound in the wafer assembly and the ultrasound emitted from the wafer assembly is sensed. A controller adjusts the relative positions of the wafer and the transducer and controls the transducer to generate ultrasound at a number of scan points.
US07661313B2
An accelerometer is provided including a strain sensor with a substantially linear configuration. The strain sensor is mounted on a transducer such that the strain sensor extends laterally across the transducer. The transducer has a base and a plurality of flaps joined at a first end to the base and supporting the strain sensor at a second end. The flaps translate acceleration in a predefined direction to strain in the strain sensor. Further embodiments have flaps defining an interrupted surface with greater height at the center and flaps that have features for enhancing the strain caused by acceleration.
US07661308B2
An apparatus and related method for detecting oil and mineralized water, if it exists, in a well. The apparatus comprises a sensor assembly for placing down the well, the sensor assembly having a float therein that rises when fluid is detected and adapted to close an electrical contact of a circuit having a power source. The apparatus also has a base assembly used for raising and lowering the sensor assembly into and out of the well. An alarm is electrically coupled to the circuit that includes the sensor assembly and power source, the alarm operable to indicate when the electrical contact is closed.
US07661298B2
A method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine including at least one cylinder are described, the at least one cylinder including at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve and a diagnosis of at least one erroneous intake valve or at least one erroneous exhaust valve is made possible without using a position acknowledgment. A gas exchange of the at least one cylinder is diagnosed thereby. For detection of at least one intake valve or exhaust valve for the existence of an erroneous valve position, at least one intake valve or exhaust valve of the at least one cylinder different from at least one intake valve or exhaust valve to be detected is brought into a predefined position, which is selected in such a way that the gas exchange of the at least one cylinder in the case of an erroneous valve position of the at least one intake valve or exhaust valve to be detected differs significantly from the gas exchange of the at least one cylinder for the case of an error-free valve position of the at least one intake valve or exhaust valve to be detected, a value characteristic for the gas exchange of the at least one cylinder being ascertained, this value being expected at the moment for an error-free state of the set valve positions of the at least one intake valve and the at least one exhaust valve of the at least one cylinder, the actual value characteristic for the gas exchange of the at least one cylinder being ascertained and an error in the position of the at least one intake valve or exhaust valve to be detected is recognized as a function of the deviation in the actual value from the expected value.
US07661297B2
A method and system for making available an improved phase signal of a phase sensor on a camshaft of an internal combustion engine immediately after switching on the phase sensor and/or the internal combustion engine are provided. In this context, the phase sensor scans the angle marks of a signal-generating wheel that is connected to the camshaft in a torsionally fixed manner. In addition, a crankshaft sensor scans the angle marks of a signal-generating wheel that is connected to the crankshaft in a torsionally fixed manner.
US07661292B2
This invention relates to a device and a method for recognizing collision of automatically moveable parts of furniture with obstacles by detecting a change in bend or a change in acceleration. This is carried out by a device for recognizing collisions of automatically moveable parts of furniture with obstacles, comprising a piece of furniture with at least one moveable part (1, 2, 31), wherein this part is a adapted to be moved relatively to the rest of the furniture in a non-manual manner, an automatic driving mechanism adapted to move the moveable part, a controller adapted to control the automatic driving mechanism, and a sensor (4) adapted to detect a collision with an obstacle during the movement of the moveable part and to transmit the collision to the controller, wherein the sensor is adapted to detect a change in bend or a change in acceleration of the moveable part.
US07661287B1
An auto body decrimping tool assembly for decrimping a panel from a vehicle frame. The decrimping tool assembly includes a hollow housing body member with a first aperture at one end and a second aperture. A decrimping head member is pivotally mounted near an end thereof on a drive shaft member rotatably secured in the body member's second aperture. The decrimping head member includes a base portion having a protruding contact section and an opposed, protruding blade section having a concave, helical surface facing the contact section. The blade section includes a tapered edge at a side of the concave, helical surface opposite the base portion. The decrimping head member is mounted to the drive shaft member at the contact section.The decrimping head member is positioned at an edge of a panel crimped to the frame with the contact section on an edge of the crimped panel and the tapered edge of the blade section between the crimped panel and the frame. A power source, positioned at the body member's first aperture and operably connected to the drive shaft member, imparts reciprocal rotary motion to the drive shaft. The drive shaft causes the blade section and tapered edge of the decrimping head member to reciprocally pivot relative to the contact section, thereby incrementally decrimping the panel from the frame as the crimped panel and frame move between the blade section and the contact section of the decrimping head member.
US07661265B2
An exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine, comprising an oxidation catalytic converter disposed in a first exhaust gas manifold section with which the exhaust gas outlets of a first portion of the cylinders communicate, and a hydrolysis catalytic converter disposed in a second exhaust gas manifold section with which the exhaust gas outlets of the remaining portion of the cylinders communicate. The hydrolysis catalytic converter, together with the oxidation catalytic converter that annularly surrounds it, are installed in a common housing. A tubular portion of the second exhaust gas manifold section extends into the housing and accommodates the hydrolysis catalytic converter in its end portion. A tubular portion of a first exhaust gas manifold section surrounds the tubular portion of the second exhaust gas manifold section, resulting in an annular in-flow chamber for the oxidation catalytic converter that simultaneously serves as a heating chamber. A reduction agent, from which ammonia can be produced by the hydrolysis catalytic converter, can be introduced by a nozzle into the tubular portion of the second exhaust gas manifold section upstream of the hydrolysis converter.
US07661264B2
An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including fuel cut state detection means for detecting the state of fuel cut in which the feed of fuel into the internal combustion engine is stopped, and catalyst deterioration decision means for deciding the deterioration of a catalyst on the basis of a period which is expended since the detection of the release of the state of the fuel cut by the fuel cut state detection means, until the output value of a second air-fuel ratio sensor agrees with a predetermined reset decision value near a target value, and the manipulation quantity of an average air-fuel ratio on the upstream side of the catalyst as is based on second air-fuel ratio feedback control means. Thus, the deterioration of the catalyst can be decided at a high precision.
US07661257B2
Apparatus for treating grass comprising a grass treatment unit 200 configured to be affixed to a grass treatment machine; a cassette 206, the cassette 206 comprising a grass treatment device 207 configured to rotate in response to a rotation of a drive shaft, the drive shaft being connected to a motor located at the grass treatment machine, the grass treatment unit 200 comprising means 211 to releasably mount the cassette 206 on the grass treatment unit 200, wherein the grass treatment device 207 is selected from a set of grass treatment devices, the set including a vibration drum.
US07661256B2
A draper cutting platform for use in an agricultural harvester includes a platform section having an elongate belt. The belt includes opposite ends, a pair of side edges defining a width of the belt therebetween, and a plurality of longitudinally spaced cleats extending crosswise between the side edges. Each cleat has a length which is less than the width of the belt. A seam joins the opposite ends of the belt. The seam includes a splice bar and a pair of lacings. The splice bar has a length which is approximately the same as the cleat length. Each lacing is disposed in an area between a corresponding end of the splice bar and a respective side edge of the belt.
US07661249B2
A device for picking up articles from a supply station and depositing the articles in corresponding blisters of a blister strip, comprising: at least a group of depression-activated gripping units, each of which units is shaped to a specific format for receiving and retaining a corresponding article having predetermined lie and orientation; connecting organs of the gripping units to an operating head whereby the gripping units are positioned in relation to a positioning of the corresponding blisters afforded in the blister strip; organs for moving the operating head in outward and return runs, respectively between the supply station of the articles and a release station of the articles in the corresponding blisters of the blister strip; enabling organs being activated in phase-relation with the movement organs, for activating the gripping units in the supply station, which gripping units collect a number of articles equal to a number of the gripping units, and for deactivating the gripping units in the release station with a disengagement of the articles from the gripping units and a falling of the articles into the corresponding blisters of the blister strip.
US07661237B2
A snap-on attachment structure for attaching a side skin to an upright frame of a wall system. The attachment structure includes resilient attachment strips secured to the rear of the skin and extending along upright edges thereof. Each strip cooperates with a projection formed on an upright frame member and extending vertically therealong. The snap-on strip has a pair of cantilevered spring legs which protrude outwardly in angled relationship. The spring legs adjacent outer ends are provided with coil-shaped head parts which protrude inwardly toward one another. The head parts have hollow arcuate configurations and move into gripping engagement with shallow arcuate recesses formed on opposite sides of the projection.
US07661236B2
A V-shaped indent is formed in a stab-in connector for a suspended ceiling grid. The indent forms a vertical bend line.In a fire, the connector bends along the vertical bend line to permit a cross beam in the grid to expand while keeping the grid intact, and thus capable of continuing to support the panels.
US07661230B2
An improved structure, whereby the log structure is comprised of at least two adjacent walls mated to form a corner, with each wall constructed of logs laid horizontally upon each other, the logs alternating between protruding and nonprotruding logs, such that the ends of the protruding logs of the walls are interleaved, with the ends of the protruding logs of the first wall having notches cut from them to facilitate the mating of the first and second walls, and further comprising plugs to be inserted into the notches upon completion of assembly of the log structure, and a method for constructing same.
US07661224B1
A system and apparatus for supporting newly planted trees in which a plurality of stakes are positioned adjacent and around a supported tree. In one aspect of the invention, the individual stakes are rigidly secured together by elements which are vertically movable along the stakes and releasably secured to the stakes at desired vertical positions. In another aspect of the invention, flexible tie members interconnect the tree trunk with the stake. The connection between the tie member and its associated stake is such that the connection may be releasably locked to the stake at different vertical positions along the stake.
US07661221B2
A device mount for a weapon is provided. The device mount includes a support portion and a side portion. The support portion is adapted to support a device. The support portion includes a plurality of mounting apertures. The side portion is coupled to the support portion. The side portion has a first side positioned generally at a right angle to the support portion. The side portion further has a second side. Moreover, the second side has a mounting connection portion adapted to connect the device mount to a weapon.
US07661216B1
An illuminated picture frame or similar display device wherein direct illumination of a painting or other object is provided by light emitting diodes (LED's) mounted within the picture frame assembly, the LED's having defined light projection zones with an angle of less than 180 degrees, the frame further having a support assembly to receive the painting. The LED's are mounted in electrical communication in strips or strands facing to the rear of the frame member, with the mounting being at an angle determined by the LED defined light projection zone such that all emitted light is directed rearward or at most parallel to the plane of the painting, such that no direct light emitted by the LED's passes out of the framed area.
US07661206B2
A platform shoe with detachable upper including a lower shoe member and an upper shoe member is disclosed. The shoe contains snaps or other connector components that provide a detachable attachment between the upper shoe member and the lower shoe member. Embodiments of the present invention include a lower shoe member having features that prevent damage to covering materials that may be caused by sharp edges of the connector components. In addition, the upper shoe member may be stretchable to allow attachment to a variety of lower shoe members of different shapes.
US07661193B2
In a method for manufacturing a float valve apparatus including a valve case, an upper lid incorporated into this valve case to form a valve chamber, and a float valve liftably arranged inside the valve chamber, the upper lid being provided with a lead-out pipe connected to piping of the outside, an exhaust hole which communicates with this lead-out pipe and is opened in an inner surface of the upper lid, and a seal cap which is mounted so as to enclose this exhaust hole and forms a valve seat on which the float valve abuts, the seal cap is welded to an inner surface of the upper lid by spin welding.
US07661190B2
A process for producing a multilayer printed wiring board, comprising providing an uncured or partly-cured resin layer from a curable composition comprising an insulation polymer and a curable agent, the resin layer superimposed on an internal layer substrate having a first conductive layer as an outermost layer; bringing the surface of the resin layer into contact with a compound having a structure capable of coordination with a metal; curable the resin layer to thereby form an electrical insulation layer; oxidizing the surface of the obtained electrical insulation layer until the surface average roughness (Ra) of the electrical insulation layer falls within the range of 0.05 to less than 0.2 μm and the surface ten-point average roughness (Rzjis) thereof within the range of 0.3 to less than 4 μm; and forming a second conductive layer on the electrical insulation layer by plating operation. There is further provided a multilayer printed wiring board produced by the process. This multilayer printed wiring board excels in pattern adhesion to substrates, even those of large size.
US07661183B2
A blade changing tool for use in a cutting device including a chuck table for holding a workpiece and a cutting device including a blade mount for rotatably supporting a cutting blade for cutting the workpiece held by the chuck table. The blade changing tool includes a C-shaped elastic cylindrical body including a cutout formed by cutting out a part of a circular cylinder, a holding groove formed on the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical body at one end portion thereof and adapted to surround a circular hub of the cutting blade, and a grip portion adapted to be gripped by an operator for making a change from an inoperative condition where the circular hub of the cutting blade is surrounded by the inner circumference of the cylindrical body to an operative condition where the circular hub is held by the inner circumference of the cylindrical body.
US07661182B2
A pulley removal tool. The tool includes circular base having a working side and a wrench engaging side. U-shaped flanges extend outwardly from the reverse side of the base. The flanges having fingers and groves therein sized and shaped for close mating engagement drive groove outer surface features of a selected serpentine belt pulley. A threaded drive bolt is provided for working engagement with a shaft end, so that by mechanical leverage between the pulley removal tool and the threaded drive bolt, force is exerted on the shaft end to drive the pulley removal tool away from the shaft end while the pulley removal tool securely grasps the pulley.
US07661181B1
A method and apparatus for fabricating upholstered furniture articles and components is disclosed. The method employs an assembly line with work stations. A selected beginning part such as a wooden frame or skeleton is transported along the assembly line using a specially configured fixture or jig to hold the frame or skeleton. At selected work stations, the fixture can be rotated or tilted depending upon the work to be performed. A locking arrangement secures the fixture to the track at each work station.
US07661180B2
The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator includes the steps of: carrying out a first heat treatment of a diaphragm of stainless steel containing iron, chromium and aluminum, in a gas containing oxygen, so as to form an aluminum oxide film on a first surface of the diaphragm and form a chromium oxide film between the aluminum oxide film and the first surface of the diaphragm; forming a lower electrode on the aluminum oxide film; forming a piezoelectric body on a surface of the lower electrode reverse to a surface of the lower electrode on which the chromium oxide film and the aluminum oxide film are formed; forming an upper electrode on a surface of the piezoelectric body reverse to a surface of the piezoelectric body on which the lower electrode is formed; and calcining the piezoelectric body by carrying out a second heat treatment of the diaphragm with which the piezoelectric body is provided.
US07661172B2
An electric toothbrush with a removable brush section having a transponder communicating with a handle portion of the toothbrush via a non-contacting inductive coupling.
US07661171B2
The present invention relates to a ramp. The ramp includes at least two stiles. Each stile has a top, a bottom and four sides. A plurality of shoulders are equally spaced apart and mounted on one side of each stile. A plurality of rungs are aligned with the shoulders. Each rung has a right end, a left end and four sides. A plurality of notches are located on the right end and left end of each rung. The number of shoulders equals the number of the notches and the shoulders and notches are tightly fitted together to form the ramp.
US07661168B2
A washing machine control method reduces washing time and component stress from a repetitious re-supplying of water, due to absorption and evaporation after an initial supplying of water according to a selected wash course, by determining an optimum water re-supply amount according to a water level reduction rate. The method includes steps of proceeding a user-selected wash course for a predetermined time after supplying water to a washing machine according to a first water level set based on an amount of laundry in the washing machine; sensing a second water level corresponding to the predetermined time of the wash course; calculating a water level reduction rate based on the set first water level and the sensed second water level; determining an optimum water re-supply amount by comparing the calculated water level reduction rate to a predetermined value; re-supplying the water according to the first water level, if the calculated water level reduction rate is less than the predetermined value; re-supplying the water according to a third water level, greater than the first water level, if the calculated water level reduction rate is not less than the predetermined value; and completing the user-selected wash course after re-supplying water to the washing machine according to the optimum water re-supply amount. The sensing and calculating steps may each be repeated, say, three to four times, to obtain an average rate of water level reduction, so that the user-selected wash course may be reset based on the average rate of water level reduction.
US07661162B2
A surgical head clamp is provided including an essentially U-shaped retaining clip (1) with two holder arms (3, 4), running towards the same side in the plane thereof at the ends of a connecting bar (2). The arm ends (5, 6) of the holder arms have mandrel holders (11) mounted adjustably in bearings that are coaxial to one another. The mandrel holders may be provided with one or more said holding mandrels (12), whereby a first mandrel holder is pivotably fastened at a bearing part (15) of the one arm end (6), which bearing part is adjustable around a common bearing shaft (9), and a second mandrel holder (11) can be adjusted by means of a threaded spindle (10) in a bearing bore (7) of the other said arm end (5). The second mandrel holder (11) includes a guide shank (50) that is provided with a socket bore (54) on the front side, which is mounted coaxially to the bearing shaft (9) in a spring-mounted manner in a axial bore (61) of the threaded spindle (10). The threaded spindle (10) is provided with an external thread and is adjustably mounted in a smooth cylindrical bearing bore (7) of the other arm end (3). The external thread is embodied as a ball thread (23), which has an arcuate-segment profile, with which two balls (24, 25) mesh as contact elements. The balls are arranged in a diametrically opposed, axially fixed manner in the wall (28) of the bearing bore (7) and are held in contact with the ball thread (23) by an adjustable locking lever (35) in the locked position thereof, and which can be brought out of contact with the threaded spindle (10) in another position in order to make the threaded spindle (10) freely displaceable in its said bearing bore (7).
US07661159B1
A stronger foldable bed having a frame and a foldably soft cover attached thereto. The frame has two pairs of side bars each pivotally connected to a central link, a tilt leg pivotally connected to a free end of each side bar, three pairs of scissoring end or middle bars linking the two pairs of side bars, a pair of middle leg each containing a telescoping leg, a reinforcing bar each pivotally connected to one side bar and a sleeve covering on each tilt leg, and a journey limit formed on each tilt leg. The foldable bed is longitudinal stable, simple and strong, without sacrificing the easiness of operation of folding and expanding.
US07661149B2
A cape for protecting a user and a utility such as a sink or a tub from damage by chemical or biological waste generated during personal care procedures by seamlessly covering both while being attached to both the user and the utility. The cape including a neck portion adapted to be secured to the user at a neck. The cape further including an outer edge spaced from the neck portion to cover the user and extend over the sink, a plurality of holes formed in the cape to adapt to the sink and a connector to hold the cape on the sink. The connector may be a magnet fastener, a drain ring to secure the cape to the drain hole, adhesive backed tape or hook and loop material.
US07661148B2
A protective pad includes a pre-tensioned resilient padded membrane resiliently suspended to a semi-rigid shell. A cavity is defined between the pre-tensioned padded membrane and the shell. In use, the pad is attached to the limb or joint to be protected with the tensioned membrane engaging the limb or joint to be protected. The pre-tensioned membrane and air cushion in the cavity absorb the energy of an impact transferred by the shell during a sporting event or other activity.
US07665143B2
A secure process may be created which does not allow code to be injected into it, does not allow modification of its memory or inspection of its memory. The resources protected in a secure process include all the internal state and threads running in the secure process. Once a secure process is created, the secure process is protected from access by non-secure processes. Process creation occurs atomically in kernel mode. Creating the infrastructure of a process in kernel mode enables security features to be applied that are difficult or impossible to apply in user mode. By moving setup actions previously occurring in user mode such as creating the initial thread, allocating the stack, initialization of the parameter block, environment block and context record into kernel mode, the need of the caller for full access fights to the created process is removed.
US07665140B2
A technique for classifying a message is disclosed. In some embodiments, the technique comprises extracting a plurality of reference points, classifying the plurality of reference points, and detecting that the message is a phish message based on the classified reference points. In some embodiments, the technique comprises identifying a plurality of fraud indicators in the message, applying a statistical analysis on the plurality of fraud indicators; and determining whether the message is a fraudulent message based on the analysis.
US07665139B1
Accesses to critical tokens are monitored and malicious changes to the security privileges of those critical tokens are detected and prevented.
US07665136B1
Methods and apparatuses for detecting hidden network channels of rootkit tools are described. In one embodiment, critical endpoint events detected at an endpoint computer system are selectively logged to an endpoint database. Also, critical network events associated with the endpoint computer system and detected on a network are selectively logged to a gateway database. Periodically some or all of the entries in the endpoint database are compared to entries in the gateway database. Entries detected at the network but not detected at the endpoint computer system are presumed indicative of hidden network channels of rootkit tools.
US07665135B1
A method and system are provided for preventing network service shutdowns resulting from denial of service (DOS) attacks. First, parameters are monitored corresponding to network elements carrying communication signal traffic in a communications network, and, based on the parameters, if a DOS attack is indicated, performing the following for each instance of communication signal traffic: accessing data structures for data relating to protected communication signal traffic, and, based on the data, determining if the communication signal traffic is designated as protected. Finally; based on the determination, cleaning and forwarding each protected communication signal to its respective destination.
US07665130B2
A system and method of providing network access comprising a processor, a first network interface coupled to the processor, a second network interface coupled to the processor, a storage media accessible by the processor and a set of computer instructions stored on the storage media, executable by the processor, where the computer instructions can be executable to receive a network communication over the first network interface from a user using a user device and determine if the network communication is associated with an authenticated user. If the network communication is not associated with an authenticated user, is not destined for a server in a walled garden, and a pre-authentication interface is specified, the computer instructions can be executable to direct the user to the pre-authentication interface. The computer instructions can be further executable to direct the user to an authentication interface when the network communication is not associated with an authenticated user, is not destined for a server in the walled garden, and a pre-authentication interface is not specified.
US07665114B2
A system and method for scalably monitoring and/or recording video data, preferably through a distributed network such as a computer network for example. The system and method of the present invention are characterized by the separation of functions, preferably into separate modules, for accessing the monitored and/or recorded data, and/or for accessing different hardware and/or software components of the system. This separation optionally and preferably is performed by restricting access to each of a plurality of layers or hierarchical levels in succession, such that access to the next layer or level is more preferably not permitted until access to a previous layer or level is approved. The system and method of the present invention also preferably provides security through this separation of functions. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a system and method for optionally adding the capability for monitoring and/or recording at least one type of media to an existing monitoring/recording system, as an “upgrade”. This preferred embodiment of the present invention may optionally and preferably be combined with the previously described system and method for scalably monitoring and/or recording video data.
US07665112B2
The present invention provides for transferring slideshow presentation information from a host computing device to an electronic device that typically has limited resources. A request to display a slideshow presentation on an electronic device is received, the slideshow presentation including image data corresponding to one or more bitmaps. In response to the request, a session of an application is open on the host computer that provides the slideshow presentation data. A video codec is utilized for dynamically converting the slideshow presentation data into a video data stream that represents the slideshow presentation. The video data stream is then transmitted to the electronic device for rendering the slideshow presentation on a display of the electronic device.
US07665098B2
Monitoring interactions between application programs and data stores for analyzing stability of application programs. A method of the invention intercepts interactions from a plurality of application programs to a data store. The method also identifies pre-execution data relating to each of the intercepted interactions and the intercepted interaction is executed. The method identifies post-execution data relating to each of the executed interactions. The identified pre-execution data and the identified post-execution data from each of the interactions are normalized to create normalized interaction data for each of the interactions. The method combines the normalized interaction data for each of the interactions as a function of the application programs associated with each of the interactions. The method further stores the combined interaction data for analysis of the interactions between the application programs and the data store which is indicative of the stability of the application programs.
US07665095B2
A method to dynamically reconfigure multimedia streaming processing modules using interfaces that allow applications and modules to seamlessly change the configuration of streaming modules. Reconfigurations are initiated by a processing module in a stream or by an application by sending a notification packet through the processing modules in the portion of the stream being changed that informs that modules that a change is being made and the modules to complete processing of its data. Modules affected by the change are stopped once the notification packet is received by all processing modules in the stream being changed and modules are then added, removed, or replaced and the portion of the stream being changed resumes processing the data stream. The modules at the beginning of the portion being changed can resume operation as soon as they are reconnected to other modules.
US07665089B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs thread migration within an array of computing nodes, wherein computing nodes in the array contain central processing units (CPUs) and/or memories. During operation, the system identifies CPUs within the array of computing nodes that are available to accept a given thread. For each available CPU, the system computes an average communication distance between the CPU and memories which are accessed by the given thread. Next, the system determines whether to move the given thread to an available CPU based on the average communication distance for the available CPU.
US07665088B1
The invention virtualizes a computer that includes a host computer system, which comprises a processor, memory, and physical system devices. A conventional operating system (referred to below as the “host operating system” or “HOS”) is installed on the hardware. A computer program product that is executable within the host computer system comprises computer-executable code for implementing an interface software layer, preferably a virtual machine monitor, between the host system and a virtual machine; for reading in and storing state information of the processor associated with the HOS; and for logically decoupling the HOS from the processor with respect to pre-determined functions of the interface software layer and the virtual machine by setting the processor state information to settings associated with the interface software layer.
US07665086B2
A tool is provided for addressing a number of issues related to assembling software stacks including multiple uncoordinated components such as open source projects. The tool identifies individual projects for stacking, manages dependency relationships and provides an intuitive graphical interface to assist a user. A project filter is also provided for controlling access to or installation of projects in accordance with filter criteria. In this manner, compliance with internal policies regarding the use of open source or other software is facilitated.
US07665077B2
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed at sharing objects between applications executing in a virtual runtime environment. The techniques include compiling a cpu-independent file to create executable instructions that are associated with an application that is executable in a virtual runtime environment. A constructor associated with a shareable class defined within the cpu-independent file is executed to create an instance of a shareable object. The shareable object is then persisted in a manner such that other applications executing in the virtual runtime environment may access the shareable object. The technique may be performed during pre-JIT compilation or just-in-time compilation of the cpu-independent file. The execution of the constructor is performed at a restricted security level that prevents access to changeable information when generating static data for the static members of the shareable object.
US07665067B2
A system and method for generalized scenarios, for automatically generating tests. The tests are generated from some underlying structure, such as one or more scenarios. The scenarios preferably include a plurality of constraints for generating a test program for generating input values to the test generation process. The scenarios provide a more generalized method for generating tests.
US07665066B2
A universal test or monitoring of distributed, parallel component based software systems can be achieved, which minimally affects the system for monitoring, automatically provides the correct system components with inspection instruments, a semantic connection of communication reports between each transmitter and receiver and a logical event sequence without synchronized clock time for the individual components of the distributed system in the form of an evaluation model and can find application on any form of evaluation tool.
US07665058B2
The present invention is directed to a customizable development and demonstration platform for structured ASICs. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, the present platform may include a structured ASIC which is built on a slice and which may be flexible enough for a number of possible application developments. This flexibility may be achieved by incorporating a programmable processor in the structured ASIC and by defining interfaces and the use of an external FPGA in the present platform. The structured ASIC may include a complete ARM processor subsystem and a plurality of high speed SERDES ports. The processor subsystem may include a bus interface to the external FPGA, allowing custom gate development and test in the FPGA, prior to incorporating it into the customer product. Through the SERDES ports, the test block may be used to show the electrical characteristics of the SERDES IP. In addition, some SERDES ports may be driven from a link layer realized in the FPGA. This may allow the same chip and board to implement SATA (serial advanced technology attachment), GigE, XAUI, XGXS, Fiber Channel, and the like by changing the programming of the FPGA on the board.
US07665056B1
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, system, and computer program product for dynamic placement of various bond fingers on an integrated circuit (IC) package. This is achieved by determining the placement of selected bond fingers. Subsequently, bond fingers and bond wires are identified, which have been affected due to the placement of the selected bond fingers. Further, the placement of the selected and the affected bond fingers is determined based on clearance rules and the affected bond fingers and bond wires. This facilitates the dynamic placement of the various bond fingers in interaction with the user. Further, the user is provided with full interactive access and control over the method and system.
US07665054B1
A computer-readable medium stores a specification for a circuit layout. The specification includes: a configuration of rooms for placing devices, one or more room constraints for the configuration of rooms, one or more groups of devices for the rooms, and one or more device constraints for devices in a same room. The configuration of rooms may include a tree-structure for the rooms. The room constraints may include a common symmetry line for a first room and a second room. The device constraints may include a self-symmetry constraint for a first device about a symmetry line in a first room. The device constraints may include a symmetry constraint for a first device and a second device about a symmetry line in a first room. The devices may include analog or RF (radio frequency) devices.
US07665043B2
A handheld computer is provided having a housing, a display and a processor. The processor is configured to detect an input corresponding to a menu request, to active a first menu on the display in response to the menu request, process navigation input that causes a menu bar of the active menu to become selectable, and to process selection input for selecting the menu bar when it is selectable. The processor is configured to cancel activation of the menu in response to the menu bar being selected.
US07665037B2
An improved method of learning character segments from received text enables facilitated text input on an improved handheld electronic device. In receiving text on the handheld electronic device, the characters of the text are converted into the inputs with which the characters correspond. Then, segments and other objects are analyzed to generate a proposed character interpretation of the series of inputs. Responsive to detecting that at least a portion of the character interpretation differs from a corresponding portion of the received text, a character learning string comprising the differing characters of the received text are stored as a candidate.
US07665031B2
The present invention provides a system or method for displaying rich presentation taskbar buttons for a corresponding application. In one example, the rich presentation taskbar button may receive content from an application through a programming interface. The present invention further relates to a system and method for displaying a rich presentation taskbar button and for displaying and/or dismissing a thumbnail of an application window associated with the rich presentation taskbar button. The present invention may further include a system and method of pinning the thumbnail on a display or dismissing a thumbnail. The present invention also relates to a system and method for displaying multiple taskbar buttons in a taskbar including controlling the size of individual taskbar buttons, consolidating taskbar buttons and placing taskbar buttons into an overflow based on the type of taskbar button in the taskbar.
US07665017B2
A system for viewing and manipulating information of various data types within a single document in an integrated computer system environment is disclosed. Each data type is maintained within a dataset. Datasets comprise logical information of a common data type along with the functions or processing logic to view and manipulate that data type. The logical types of information managed by datasets in the preferred embodiment include graphical objects, blocks of text, spreadsheet cells, and database records. Datasets also manage frames. Frames provide a means by which datasets are viewed and manipulated. Each dataset is responsible for managing the display of information inside one of its frames. Significantly, the present invention provides a logical independence between the information contained in a dataset and the manner in which the information is viewed and manipulated (i.e. frames). This independence provides a significant improvement in the ability to manipulate various types of information. Any type and number of datasets can be combined together into a single document and saved in a file system as a document file.
US07665015B2
A hardware unit for parsing an XML document includes embedded logic or circuitry for accessing the document, decoding it to change a character set, validating individual characters of the document, extracting tokens, maintaining a symbol table and generating binary token headers to describe the document's structure and convey the document's data to an application. Tokenization, the process of identifying tokens and generating token headers, may be controlled by a finite state machine that recognizes XML delimiters in the document's markup and activates state transitions based on the current state and the recognized delimiter. The parser unit may be implemented within a hardware XML accelerator that includes a processor, a DMA engine, a cryptographic engine, memory (e.g., for storing a document, maintaining a symbol table) and various interfaces (e.g., network, memory, bus).
US07665011B2
A method and circuit for reducing SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) transmission data errors by adjusting the period of sending two consecutive ALIGN Primitives. The method reads a counting value of an 8b/10b coding error counter at a predetermined period and adjusts the period of sending two consecutive ALIGN Primitives according to the counting value. Because the system dynamically adjusts the period of sending two consecutive ALIGN Primitives according to the channel condition, the SATA transmission data errors can be reduced.
US07665008B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) code is used within a wireless apparatus to perform forward error correction (FEC) coding. In at least embodiment of the invention, a (2000, 1600) bit-length LDPC code is used.
US07665004B2
A timing generator that needs no analog circuit for adding jitters and allows the circuit scale and power consumption to be reduced. There are included a counter for performing a counting operation synchronized with a reference clock signal: a timing memory for outputting respective data corresponding to the quotient and remainder resulting from dividing the time from the front of a basic period until a generation of a timing edge by the period of the reference clock signal: a coincidence detecting circuit for outputting a signal that exhibits a high level when the count value of the counter coincides with the quotient: a jitter generating circuit for outputting as a jitter amplitude value: adders for adding a time corresponding to the remainder and a time represented by the jitter amplitude value outputted from the jitter generating circuit: and a variable delay circuit for delaying the output signal from the coincidence detecting circuit by the time represented by the addition result of the adders and outputting the delayed output signal.
US07665003B2
A method of testing a memory is provided that includes initiating a test on a computer readable memory. The computer readable memory provides output data associated with the test. Further, the method includes selecting to receive the output data from a first register or a second register. In a particular embodiment, the method may include selecting to receive the output data from the first register or the second register by use of a control line. In another particular embodiment, the method may include selecting to receive the RAM input data from the first register or the second register by use of a control line. The control line is configured dynamically by hardware or software on cycle by cycle basis. In a particular embodiment, the test is a built-in-self-test (BIST).
US07665002B1
A single test access port, such as a JTAG-based debug port may be utilized to perform debug operations on logic cores of a multi-core integrated circuit, such as a multi-core processor. The shared debug port may respond to a particular command to enter a debugging mode and may be configured to forward all commands and data to a debugging controller of the integrated circuit during debugging. A mask register may be used to indicate which logic cores of the multi-core integrated circuit should be debugged. Additionally, custom debugging commands may include mask or core select fields to indicate which logic cores should be affected by the particular command. Debugging mode may be initialized for one or more logic cores either externally, such as be asserted a DBREQ signal, or internally, such as by configuring one or more breakpoints.
US07664999B2
A system and method to operate an electronic device, such as a memory chip, in a test mode using the device's built-in ODT (on die termination) circuit is disclosed. One or more test mode related signals, which include on-die signals and other relevant information, may be transferred from the integrated circuit of the electronic device to an external processor using the device's ODT circuit instead of the output data signal driver circuit. Therefore, no capacitive loading of output drivers occurs during test mode operations. Thus the speed of the output data path (i.e., the circuit path propagating non-test mode related signals from the electronic device to other external units in the system) is not affected by test mode operations, allowing a system designer to increase the speed of the data output path as much as desired. Further, deterioration in the quality of signals output from the output drivers is also avoided. Also, the use of a minimal number of logic gates along with the existing ODT circuits to perform transmission of test mode related signals substantially maximizes chip real estate utilization without waste. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US07664997B2
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve failure handling and debugging in message driven environments. A diagramming tool allows a user to graphically nest one or more functional components of the data flow diagram to create a fault handler. The fault handler is associated with a failure component to be called when a failure occurs within any one or more of the nested functional components. One or more application executables are synthesized from the data flow diagram. When the nested component is created at runtime, a causality is created for the nested component. The causality has an exception port for receiving fault messages that are unhandled within the nested data flow associated with the nested component. The causality also has a coordination port to allow any messages in the causality context and/or other applications to access the error history and the message coordination history.
US07664994B2
One embodiment disclosed relates to a high-availability cluster apparatus having a plurality of computing nodes and a hardware interface configured to connect to each of said nodes. The internode connections are coupled to the hardware interface to communicate node status signals between said nodes. A node is removable from being connected to the hardware interface without interrupting a topological continuity of the internode connections. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US07664990B2
A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a web application testing program causing a computer to execute receiving a request including an input value to be given to web application software installed in a web server; executing the web application software by giving the input value to the web application software; obtaining test information to be used in a test of an output item that is obtained by executing the web application software; generating a response to the request, the response in which the test information is embedded in association with the output item; and transmitting the response to a computer that executes the test of the output item.
US07664987B2
A method of sending data from a memory to a host, and a data storage device that uses the method. The controller of the data storage device sends the data directly from the memory to a buffer in an interface to the host while simultaneously checking the data for errors. If sufficiently few errors are found, the data are sent from the buffer to the host. Otherwise, the data are corrected, the data in the buffer are replaced with the corrected data, and the corrected data are written to the memory. If the data are stored by segments, the simultaneous sending and checking is effected segmentwise. When a bad segment is found, an error flag is set. When all the data have been sent and checked, or when the buffer is full, if the error flag has not been set, the data in the buffer are sent to the host.
US07664980B2
A method for automatically attempting to recover equipment from a transient fault includes detecting a fault associated with the equipment in a node in a communications network, determining whether the fault associated with the equipment is transient, if the fault is transient automatically attempting to recover the equipment from the transient fault without user intervention, if the recovery attempt is successful monitoring the equipment for a pre-determined period of time to determine if the fault recurs, and if the fault recurs automatically re-attempting to recover the equipment from the fault until the fault does not recur in the pre-determined period of time or until a pre-determined number of attempts to recover the equipment have been performed.
US07664978B2
Integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits with memory interface circuitry are provided. The memory interface circuitry measures the timing characteristics of an associated memory during a series of dummy read operations. A multiplexer and phase detector are used to measure phase shifts of memory group clock signals compared to a system clock signal. The memory interface circuitry uses these measurements to adjust a delay-locked-loop circuit. The delay-locked-loop circuit produces a capture clock that is used to read data from the memory.
US07664969B2
A semiconductor device includes first, second and third power supply terminals respectively supplied with first, second and third power supply voltages. The semiconductor device also includes a first terminal connectable to a host device and a second terminal connectable to a peripheral device. The semiconductor device also includes a first circuit block connected to the first terminal and the first power supply terminal and receiving data output from the host device based on the first power supply voltage, a second circuit block connected to the second terminal and the third power supply terminal and receiving data output from the peripheral device based on the third power supply voltage, and a third circuit block connected to the second power supply terminal and controlling operation of the first circuit block and the second circuit block based on the second power supply voltage.
US07664963B2
A system for detecting network intrusions and other conditions in a network is described. The system includes a plurality of collector devices that are disposed to collect data and statistical information on packets that are sent between nodes on a network. An aggregator device is disposed to receive data and statistical information from the plurality of collector devices. The aggregator device produces a connection table that maps each node on the network to a record that stores information about traffic to or from the node. The aggregator runs processes that determine network events from aggregating of anomalies into network events.
US07664962B2
Automatic recognition apparatus (100, 700) includes multiple automatic recognition subsystems (102, 104, 106) that are cable of producing estimates of the probability that a subject matches a particular identity, a probability estimate combiner (108) that receives estimates from the multiple automatic recognition subsystems (102, 104, 106) and produces a combined estimate, and a decayer that (111) that decreases the certainty of the combined estimate over time while avoiding changing estimates to values that would suggest strong information contrary to the initial values of the combined estimates.
US07664960B1
A device strengthens a user password while the password occupies the keyboard input buffer of an authenticating system. The device masquerades to the system as a second keyboard. The device strengthens the user password by sending keyboard scan codes, altering the user password by inserting and deleting characters. The device is small, portable, and self-contained. The device is Operating System neutral, and can be constructed to be used with any system that supports compounding plug-and-play keyboards, such as USB keyboards and Bluetooth keyboards. The device can be embedded into common input devices such as mice to impersonate a second keyboard. Use of the device improves overall system security by enforcing strong system passwords without encouraging users to write down passwords that are difficult to remember.
US07664959B2
A tamper-resistant certification device receives a certified digital time stamp from a trusted third party, resets a time function and produces a time stamp receipt in an on-line mode; The tamper-resistant certification device receives a digital file from a mobile computing device, and produces a certified digitally signed digital file including a copy of the digital file, time stamp receipt and temporal offset in an off-line mode to evidence the content of the digital file within a defined tolerance of a day and/or time. A processor may be portioned into tamper and non-tamper resistant portions.
US07664956B2
A method for secure printing is presented. A document management system (DMS) is provided within a server computer for storing, displaying and printing a plurality of documents. At least a portion of the documents require authentication information for displaying and printing. A web-based capture protection system is provided that prevents proprietary content displayed on a display device from being screen-captured. The web-based capture protection system is combined with the DMS to augment the DMS with capture protection of displayed documents, including intercepting retrieval requests from a client computer to display documents from the DMS.
US07664955B2
A method for establishing shared information is described. The method includes estimating characteristics of a communication channel between two nodes based on signals transmitted between the nodes. The method also includes transmitting a signal from the first node to the second node, the signal being modulated with a first data sequence according to a first estimated characteristic, and transmitting a signal from the second node to the first node, the signal being modulated with a second data sequence according to a second estimated characteristic. Shared information is formed at each of the first and second nodes based on at least a portion of the first data sequence and at least a portion of the second data sequence.
US07664949B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for certifying distributable objects. The technique involves creating a certification for each distributable object to indicate properties of the object. Using certifications such as this, it is possible to accept objects having certain properties only from specified entities.
US07664942B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that executes program code in a processor. The system starts by executing the program code in a normal mode using a primary strand while concurrently executing the program code ahead of the primary strand using a subordinate strand in a scout mode. Upon resolving a branch using the subordinate strand, the system records a resolution for the branch in a speculative branch resolution table. Upon subsequently encountering the branch using the primary strand, the system uses the recorded resolution from the speculative branch resolution table to predict a resolution for the branch for the primary strand. Upon determining that the resolution of the branch was mispredicted for the primary strand, the system determines that the subordinate strand mispredicted the branch. The system then recovers the subordinate strand to the branch and restarts the subordinate strand executing the program code.
US07664937B2
Apparatus and methods for implementing software protection using code overlapping are disclosed. In one implementation, a combination block comprising a first sub-block of instructions with one or more interspersed obfuscation instructions is received. The obfuscation instructions interspersed among sequentially executable instructions of the first sub-block of instructions can include instructions from other sub-blocks as well as control instructions configured to guide a processor to execute all of the instructions in first sub-block of instructions in sequence. The obfuscation instructions are replaced with one or more replacement instructions. The replacement instructions can be of a same bit-length as the replaced obfuscation instructions. Moreover, the replacement instructions can include integrity checks configured to check for tampering with instructions and/or runtime program state in the first sub-block and/or the combination block.
US07664934B2
A data processor according to the present invention executes instructions described in first and second instruction formats. The first instruction format defines a register-addressing field of a predetermined size, while the second instruction format defines a register-addressing field of a size larger than that of the register-addressing field defined by the first instruction format. The data processor includes: instruction-type identifier, responsive to an instruction, for identifying the received instruction as being described in the first or second instruction format by the instruction itself; a first register file including a plurality of registers; and a second register file also including a plurality of registers, the number of the registers included in the second register file being larger than that of the registers included in the first register file. If the instruction-type identifier has identified the received instruction as being described in the first instruction format, the data processor executes the instruction using data held in the first register file. On the other hand, if the instruction-type identifier has identified the received instruction as being described in the second instruction format, the data processor executes the instruction using data held in the second register file.
US07664933B2
A microcomputer that can process plural tasks time-divisionally and in parallel, wherein one of a plural programs described by one of the tasks is described as a looped specific task in which the increment of program addresses is fixed, a program counter is usable as a timer counter, a peripheral function instruction is described in the specific task, the peripheral function instruction is set so as to indicate one or more general-purpose registers as an operand. The CPU executes the peripheral function instruction as one instruction and achieves information needed to execute the instruction by a general-purpose register and stores the execution result into the general-purpose registers. An instruction code encoding system includes an operation code and plural operands for indicating operation targets of an instruction in an instruction code and executing an instruction indicated by the operation code on the operation targets. When the operation targets indicated by the plural operands are set to a combination in which an execution result does not vary, the processing corresponding to an instruction different is executed.
US07664932B2
Optimizing pipeline handler execution. A method may be practiced in a computing environment including an execution pipeline. The method includes acts to optimize execution of handlers in the pipeline. The method includes receiving a payload object. Policy information about the payload object is referenced. The policy information includes at least one property value. Based on the policy information about the payload object, handlers are selected from among the pipeline to execute on the payload object. The policy information may be referenced by strategies. Handlers may be registered with the strategies to facilitate the strategies being used to select handlers.
US07664923B2
A method and a system for updating software stored in a flash memory, which enables a user to resume a suspended updating process even when log data stored in a journaling area is lost. According to the present invention, log data indicating the results of implementation of each step of the updating process is stored in a journaling area allocated in a flash memory to update the software. The data stored in the journaling area is copied into a first backup journaling area allocated in the flash memory whenever each step is completed. Concurrently, log data indicating the copying results is stored in a second backup journaling area.
US07664910B2
A data management method is adapted to a hierarchical virtual storage system which virtually uses a library apparatus having a plurality of recording media as a portion of a hard disk apparatus. The data management method manages loading of the recording media to the library apparatus and unloading of the recording media from the library apparatus in a database in units of a set that is formed by a plurality of recording media, and forms a logical volume, which is a recording unit of a data file with respect to the library apparatus, by one or a plurality of recording media, and manages the logical volume in the database in correspondence with the set.
US07664906B2
A flash memory access apparatus and method improves the overall performance of a flash memory system by minimizing the deterioration of performance of a flash memory due to repeated write operations through a minimized process of a write operation and the process of a recovery operation in consideration thereof and by allowing a stable recovery even though an error occurs. The flash memory access apparatus comprises a flash memory with regions divided on the basis of a unit that consists of predetermined blocks; and a flash memory controller. When a write operation is requested for a specific logical block number of the flash memory, the flash memory controller writes data and meta-information in a physical block corresponding to a logical block with the logical block number in the absence of a previous write operation for the logical block, but performs a write operation for writing the data and the meta-information allocated to the logical block in a new physical block without changing flash memory state information written in a previous physical block corresponding to the logical block in case of the presence of the previous write operation.
US07664904B2
A high-speed serial switch fabric is configured to perform a mapping of a traffic class that is capable of differentiating traffics onto a virtual channel. The high-speed serial switch fabric connects a plurality of devices. A traffic-class setting unit sets, when a conflict occurs between devices connected to the high-speed serial switch fabric, the traffic class for each of traffics in the devices having the conflict. A channel setting unit assigns each of set traffic classes to different virtual channels, and gives a priority of data communication to each of the set traffic classes.
US07664902B1
An extended Secure-Digital (SD) card has a second interface that uses some of the SD-interface lines. A card-detection routine on a host can initially use the SD interface to detect extended capabilities and command the card to switch to using the second interface. The extended SD card can communicate with legacy SD hosts using just the SD interface, or extended SD cards using the second interface. Also an extended Universal-Serial Bus (EUSB) host enters a suspend mode rather than polling an EUSB device that is busy performing a memory or other operations. Power is saved since polling is avoided. The busy EUSB device sends a not-yet signal back to the EUSB host to instruct the host to enter the suspend mode. When the EUSB device is ready to continue transfer with the host, the EUSB device wakes up the host by sending a ready signal back to the host.
US07664901B2
A data processing apparatus and method are providing for arbitrating access to a shared resource. The data processing apparatus has a plurality of logic elements sharing access to the shared resource, and arbitration circuitry which is responsive to requests by one or more of the logic elements for access to the shared resource to perform a priority determination operation to select one of the requests as a winning request. The arbitration circuitry applies an arbitration policy to associate priorities with each logic element, the arbitration policy comprising multiple priority groups, each priority group having a different priority and containing at least one of the logic elements. Within each priority group, the arbitration circuitry applies a priority ordering operation to attribute relative priorities to the logic elements within that priority group. Responsive to a predetermined event, the arbitration circuitry re-applies the priority ordering operation within at least one priority group prior to a subsequent performance of the priority determination operation. Such an approach has been found to provide a particularly flexible mechanism for performing arbitration, allowing a wide variety of different arbitration schemes to be implemented using the same arbitration hardware.
US07664900B2
When receiving a write message associated with data, an input/output controller issues a write-request message to a home processor node which holds the data in a memory. When receiving the write-request message, a memory controller in the processor node executes a consistency process on the basis of information, regarding the state of the data, stored in a directory, and sends a write-permission message to the input/output controller which has issued the write-request message. In response to the received write-permission message, the input/output controller in an input/output node issues an update message, serving as a write message, to the home processor node. In response to the received update message, the memory controller in the process node updates the data in the main memory. In the above process, when receiving a plurality of write messages from input/output devices, the input/output controller issues write-request messages irrespective of the progress of a preceding write message. After the preceding write message is issued, the input/output controller issues the write messages.
US07664899B2
In a communication system, one of a plurality of communication apparatuses that acts as a host controls data transmission and the other communication apparatuses that act as devices perform data transmission under control of the host over a predetermined communication interface. The communication apparatuses have both host and device roles, and are configured to exchange the host and device roles by using a predetermined communication protocol are connected to the predetermined communication interface. A first apparatus acts as a host and a second apparatus as a device. The second apparatus transmits information concerning the second apparatus to the first apparatus. The first apparatus compares the transmitted information with information concerning the first apparatus to determine whether or not to switch the host and device roles according to a predetermined criterion. In response to an affirmative determination, the host and device roles are switched by using the predetermined communication protocol.
US07664896B2
A method to provide more opportunities to close a connection in an orderly fashion and avoid abrupt break of the connection. A device and a system operable to practice such as method.
US07664889B2
A storage device is disclosed. The storage device includes a storage controller. The storage controller includes a direct memory access (DMA) Descriptor Manager (DM) to generate DMA descriptors by monitoring user data and a data integrity field (DIF) transferred between a host memory and a local memory based upon a function being performed.
US07664887B2
A method and apparatus for adding support, to a device, for a new protocol which the device did not previously support is provided. Protocol information, which identifies how to add support for the protocol to the device, is stored. A protocol manager may read the protocol information and perform actions necessary for the new protocol to be supported by the device. For example, the protocol manager may create a listener, a message queue, and a protocol handler for the protocol based on the protocol information. The listener may receive a message, associated with the new protocol, that was sent to the device and store the message in a message queue. The message queue stores the message until the message is retrieved from the message queue by the protocol handler. The protocol handler, after retrieving a message from the message queue, may process the message.
US07664858B2
The present invention relates to a method of assigning objects to processing units of a cluster of processing units, each one of the objects having an object size and an object load, each one of the processing units having a storage capacity and a load capacity, the method comprising the steps of: a) calculating an index based on object size and object load for each one of the objects, b) sorting of the objects by index to provide a sequence of objects; c) for each processing unit of the cluster: assigning of one or more of the objects to the processing unit in sequential order until a remaining storage capacity and/or a remaining load capacity of the processing unit is too small for consecutive objects of the sequence; deleting of the objects that are assigned to the processing unit from the sequence.
US07664840B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a system for distributing data (e.g., content data) over a computer network and a method of arranging receiver nodes in a computer network such that the capacity of a server is effectively increased (e.g., the capacity of a server may be effectively multiplied many times over; the capacity of the server may be effectively increased exponentially). In one embodiment the present invention may take advantage of the excess capacity many receiver nodes possess, and may use such receiver nodes as repeaters. The distribution system may include node(s) having database(s) which indicate ancestor(s) and/or descendant(s) of the node so that reconfiguration of the distribution network may be accomplished without burdening the system's primary server. An embodiment of the present invention may include a process for configuring a computer information distribution network having a primary server node and user nodes docked in a cascaded relationship, and reconfiguring the network in the event that a user node departs from the network. In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), the process may include the steps of providing a new user node (or connection requesting user node) with a connection address list of nodes within the network, having the new user node (or connection requesting user node) go to (or attempt to go to) the node at the top of the connection address list, determine whether that node is still part of the distribution network, and connect thereto if it is, and if it is not, to go to (or attempt to go to) the next node on the connection address list. In another example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), when a user node departs from the distribution network, a propagation signal may be transmitted to the nodes below it in the network, causing them to move up in the network in a predetermined order. In another example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), the present invention may provide a decentralized approach which provides, to each new user node (or connection requesting user node) a path back to the root server.
US07664838B2
Application program network service requests are translated into specific actions that are then performed through the management plane and/or control plane. The translations and resulting actions are responsive to previously defined policies for the communication network, and may further reflect processing of previous service requests by the same or another application program. The amount of resources available for use by a given application program may be predefined based on a globally defined network policy. Each service request obtained from an application program may be translated into multiple actions performed using various specific protocols and/or interfaces provided by either the management plane, the control plane, or both the management and control planes. Reports of network activity, status and/or faults for a requesting application program may be tailored to the requesting program's view of the network, and passed directly and exclusively to the requesting program.
US07664833B2
A method for managing connections between at least one client and at least one data server, said method comprises: (a) providing an intermediary connection apparatus comprising connections to a plurality of clients over a WAN or a LAN environment, said apparatus comprising memory buffers and at least one connection to each of said at least one data server(s) being continuously open; (b) establishing a client network connection between said apparatus and one of said clients via a network; (c) receiving a client request to receive a response from a data server over said client network connection; (d) forwarding to the data server either a request or a partial request; (e) limiting the size of the response or partial response that the server is allowed to provide at a given time to said apparatus in response to said client request; and (f) buffering data encoding requests and responses in said apparatus according to data traffic load over the connection to said server and to said client, respectively.
US07664832B1
A method of optimizing data transmissions to a wireless device is provided. In particular, a client application may discover the data rate of the wireless connection, and provide that information to a media server. The media server may then provide content to the application over the wireless connection, where the level of media detail provided is best suited for transmission at the available data rate.
US07664831B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described that determines alternatives to a specified textual identifier, such as a domain name, by identifying and using words and phrases that are related to the identifier. A variety of types of related words can be used, such as synonyms and translations, and the related words can be determined in a variety of ways. One situation in which alternatives can be generated is after a user has requested to use or acquire an unavailable textual identifier, such as a request to register an already registered domain name, and the determined alternatives can then be presented to the user as possibilities for use or acquisition. When multiple alternatives are presented to the user, they can also be ranked as to relevance and ordered in a variety of ways.
US07664830B2
An apparatus for selecting digital material objects containing MPEG-7 content descriptions in response to MPEG-7 content description queries. The apparatus comprises an MPEG-7 content description query generation tool coupled with a search engine configured for searching and comparing embedded MPEG-7 META tag information within file headers, or database information thereof, to the MPEG-7 content description query. The query tool and search engine may be implemented separately or in combination. By way of example, the MPEG-7 query generation tool is implemented within an application program such as a browser, or web site, to allow the user to readily and accurately define the content being sought. The content query being sent to a search engine configured for performing MPEG-7 content searches that return hits based on content related matches.
US07664826B2
A system and method for caching type information for parts (e.g., parameters) of an operation passed in a web service request. When an untyped request (i.e., a request in which the data types of operation parts are omitted) is received at a web service server from a client, a cache is examined to determine if type information for the requested operation's parts exists. If not, a cache entry specific to that operation is created and populate with the necessary type information (e.g., from a WSDL document corresponding to the web service). The type information for the operation, and any global type information (i.e., for data types global to the web service), is merged for use in unmarshalling the untyped request. The operation is invoked, and any results are returned to the client.
US07664813B2
Dynamic data presentation is described. In an embodiment, drawing instructions are captured as a template at a content provider, and the drawing instructions template is communicated to the computing-based client device that processes the drawing instructions to render a presentation layout in which the dynamic data can be displayed. In another embodiment, content is received at a computing-based client device where the content includes dynamic data and templates that each defines the presentation for a different dynamic data type. The client device determines the type of the dynamic data and selects a template to bind and present the dynamic data for display where the template is selected based on the determined type of the dynamic data. The dynamic data is then rendered for display based on the selected template at the computing-based client device. Subsequent updates to the dynamic data do not require re-downloading the presentation layout of the template.
US07664811B2
A switched capacitor type filter apparatus includes sampling capacitors and has a steep characteristic with a small number of taps. The filter apparatus includes positive polarity selecting switches, negative polarity selecting switches, positive read-out switches, negative polarity read-out switches, and a timing control unit. Thus, it is possible to read out a negative charge by controlling the polarity upon write-in and the polarity upon read-out to be identical or different. Accordingly, it is possible to set a negative coefficient as a filter weighting coefficient. This configuration causes a finite impulse filter (FIR) to have a steep characteristic.
US07664804B2
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for exposing and utilizing workbook ranges as server data sources. The system includes a client computer capable of executing a spreadsheet application program for creating a workbook including a range that includes data objects. The workbook may be published to a server computer where the specified data objects are exposed as server data sources. The server computer allows client applications to discover and connect to the data objects contained within the workbook as server data sources.
US07664799B2
A framework for in-memory space management for content management database systems is provided. A per-instance in-memory dispenser is partitioned. An incoming transaction takes a latch on a partition and obtains sufficient block usage to perform and complete the transaction. Generating redo information is decoupled from transaction level processing and, instead, is performed when block requests are loaded into the in-memory dispenser or synced therefrom to a per-instance on-disk structure.
US07664786B2
An apparatus and method for managing application context is provided. A first one of a plurality of terminals, each including at least one application, collects and transmits context information of the application to a migration server so that it is stored and managed in the migration server. The migration server transmits the stored and managed context information to a second terminal corresponding to the first terminal in response to a request of the second terminal. The second terminal restores context based on the context information received from the migration server. This can reproduce the same application and desktop environments as those previously set to be suitable for each work situation, thereby increasing user convenience.
US07664782B2
A device overloading a web service identification name so that multiple services with a common name can be stored in a Web service directory is disclosed. Each of the services identified by the common name can have a different and unique (for the set of commonly named services) structure for input data. The data structure of the input data can be used to discern which of the set of commonly name Web services a requestor desires.
US07664780B1
A process data development and analysis system and method is disclosed. In an example embodiment, the system and method are implemented as a web-based tool that supports varied activities for defining and managing all aspects of production line processes used in a manufacturing environment. Software modules provide features and functionality for process and unit management as well as administration and report generation. Manufacturing processes comprise a plurality of units of operation, and a unit of operation comprises one or more working point details (i.e., tasks). Times are associated with each unit of operation so that the manufacturer may understand and analyze the amount of time required to complete the processes and manufacture the product. The process and unit data may be used to create operation standards for use by associates working on the production line. Report generation features allow a user to produce a variety of reports associated with the processes and units of operation.
US07664778B2
A method and system for storing one or more database query language statements and performance information for each query language statement as a persistent database object. In one or more embodiments, the method and system stores the resource intensive statements and the performance information for each resource intensive statement as a second persistent database object.
US07664773B2
a structured data storage apparatus inputs a given number of structured data items each including respective hierarchical structures of element data items, stores structured data items in first memory, extracts common hierarchical structure of first group of element data items, which is included in and common to structured data items, from the structured data items, based on frequencies of occurrence of first group in structured data items, inputs structured data item to be stored, which includes common hierarchical structure of first group, assigns element IDs corresponding to respective element data items of first group to storage areas allocated to respective element data items of first group in memory location of first memory, the memory location being allocated to structured data item to be stored, stores first group included in structured data item to be stored in respective storage areas in memory location.
US07664772B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to forming a network of associations among records of a computer database. The records may relate to logistical operations, and the associations may reflect a status of the logistical operations. According to embodiments, values representing quantities of goods bought, sold and transferred pursuant to the logistical operations may be assigned to the associations to indicate initial conditions and changes in the status of the logistical operations as they go forward.
US07664771B2
A differential snapshot is established and maintained for a set of files stored on a volume. Copy-on-write operations are avoided for logically insignificant moves of blocks, such as the block rearrangements characteristic of defragmentation utilities. A file system passes a block copy command to lower-level drivers that are to inform the snapshotter that a block move operation is not logically meaningful. When the logically insignificant move is of a block whose data forms part of the data captured in the snapshot virtual volume, and when the move is to a block location that is functioning as logical free space, the snapshotter can simply modify its block bitmap and update translation table entries without needing to perform a copy-on-write.
US07664769B1
An automation system includes at least one automation object, with a directory for storing object names of the at least one automation object. An object name is assigned a directory entry which includes first information data as a reference to the automation object; second information data as a description of technological functionality; and third information data as a description of interfaces of the automation object. This results in immediate and permanent access to currently created (partial) solutions, so that parallel and/or distributed working on automation objects is possible.
US07664761B2
An apparatus and method for quickly retrieving and outputting assemblies or subassemblies similar to a target assembly or subassembly for similar determination are provided. Data concerning assemblies, and the subassemblies and parts contained in the assemblies is retrieved from a product structure data storage device; hierarchical structures of the assemblies and subassemblies are detected; similarity is calculated for all the combinations of the assemblies and subassemblies based on the detected hierarchical structures; and the hierarchical structures of the assemblies and subassemblies and similarity for each combination of assemblies and subassemblies are stored in a similar data storage device. When a target assembly or subassembly for similarity determination is inputted via an input device, assemblies or subassemblies similar to the target assembly or subassembly are retrieved from the similar data storage device, and the retrieved assemblies and subassemblies are displayed on a display device.
US07664755B2
A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for transmitting a computer resource to a computing device, wherein the computer resource includes at least one audio content. A visual display is presented, on the computing device, that offers options to accept and receive the computer resource with or without the at least one audio content.
US07664748B2
A computer-readable medium includes instructions for causing at least one processor to perform a method. The method may include receiving a symbol sequence into a document, identifying another symbol sequence in the document whose probability of matching the received symbol sequence is above a threshold, and replacing the received symbol sequence with the other symbol sequence.
US07664739B2
A unique object navigation system, user interface, and method that facilitate faster and smoother navigation of objects are provided. For example, the system can generate a plurality of objects that can be rendered on a display space that spans a single page in length, thereby mitigating the need to navigate through multiple pages. The system can determine the length of the page according to the number of objects generated. To view off-screen objects, an infinite scroll component can be employed. The amount of scroll space needed to view the plurality of objects can be determined in part by the length of the page and/or by the number of objects. The objects can also be viewed in a film strip format that is infinitely scrollable. The film strip view allows a view of the objects to be maintained while also viewing a selected object in greater detail at the same time.
US07664735B2
A method and system for ranking documents of search results based on information richness and diversity of topics. A ranking system determines the information richness of each document within a search result. The ranking system groups documents of a search result based on their relatedness, meaning that they are directed to similar topics. The ranking system ranks the documents to ensure that the highest ranking documents may include at least one document covering each topic, that is, one document from each of the groups. The ranking system selects the document from each group that has the highest information richness of the documents within the group. When the documents are presented to a user in rank order, the user will likely find on the first page of the search result documents that cover a variety of topics, rather than just a single popular topic.
US07664734B2
Systems and methods for generating multiple implicit search queries are described. In one described system, a query system receives a user context attribute and generates a plurality of implicit search queries based at least in part on the user context attribute. The query system then receives result sets associated with each of the plurality of implicit search queries and combines the results for display to a user.
US07664729B2
Computerized techniques, systems, and computer program products for a structured, hierarchical model for capturing, aggregating, and/or visualizing structural data of architectures of technical equipment (e.g., IT architectures). The techniques, systems and/or computer program products may include at least one data capture engine adapted to capture and aggregate data based on a structured, hierarchical model; a display engine to generate a plurality of different displays of the captured data in dependency of the structured hierarchical model, where the data capture engine includes at least one database to store the data according to the structured, hierarchical model.
US07664721B1
A method for moving an agent that utilizes a merged set of supplied and environment resident canonical rules in a first execution environment to a second execution environment that includes a different set of environment resident rules comprising discarding the merged rule set in the first execution environment, sending the agent including a supplied rule set from the first execution environment to the second execution environment and retrieving an environment resident canonical rule set in the second execution environment.
US07664719B2
Methods of analyzing data are provided. An expert system receives input from at least a first source. Data is imported and analyzed by an expert system, wherein the expert system makes at least one first decision, which characterizes the data based on a rule base. The at least one first decision is displayable and modifiable by a first input from a first source. In response to the first input from the first source, the rule base may be re-applied to make at least one second decision, wherein the at least one second decision is different from the at least one first decision, or the at least one first decision may be accepted. The at least one first decision or the at least one second decision is then displayable and modifiable in response to a first input from a second source. In response to the first input from the second source, the rule base is either re-applied to make at least one third decision, wherein the third decision is different from the second decision, or either the first or second decisions are accepted.
US07664718B2
A computerized method of representing a dataset with a taxonomy includes augmenting a dataset containing a plurality of records with a plurality of predetermined exemplars; representing the plurality of records and predetermined exemplars within the augmented dataset as a plurality of clusters in an initial taxonomy layer; generating a truncated hierarchy of cluster sets based on clusters within the initial taxonomy layer, wherein clusters within the truncated hierarchy contain no more than a predetermined number of exemplars; and labeling clusters within the truncated hierarchy.
US07664717B2
System and method for developing cognitive skills in a student, utilizing a computing device to present stimuli and to record responses. A stimulus may be graphically presented to the student via the computing device, and the student may be required to respond to the stimulus. A determination may then be made as to the correctness of the student's response. The graphically presenting, requiring, and determining may be performed for each of a plurality of stimuli. Additionally, the graphically presenting, requiring, determining, and performing may be performed in an iterative manner to improve the cognitive skills of the student. Various exercises directed to different cognitive skills and learning approaches may utilize this basic framework, and may be performed in an iterative manner to build cognitive skills in the student.
US07664713B1
A method and apparatus based on transposition to speed up learning computations on sparse data are disclosed. For example, the method receives an support vector comprising at least one feature represented by one non-zero entry. The method then identifies at least one column within a matrix with non-zero entries, wherein the at least one column is identified in accordance with the at least one feature of the support vector. The method then performs kernel computations using successive list merging on the at least one identified column of the matrix and the support vector to derive a result vector, wherein the result vector is used in a data learning function.
US07664712B1
Systems and methods for determining the impact of an asset on an enterprise architecture using a data model are disclosed. These systems and methods may determine the impact of a particular asset on the enterprise architecture represented by the data model, where determination of the impact of any particular asset takes into account not only assets that depend directly on that particular asset, but assets that depend indirectly on that asset as well. Using the data model of the enterprise architecture, dependency chains for one or more components of the data model can be discovered and a dependency map created. Using impact ratings associated with relationships between components in the dependency chains of a particular component, the impact of that particular component both on another individual component, and aggregately on an environment, can be determined. These systems and methods may also allow the determination of the risk of a particular component.
US07664709B2
A product distribution and payment system for limited use or otherwise restricted digital software products. Digital content data comprising a software product to be rented is made available to customers through a detachable local storage medium, such as a DVD or CD-ROM disc, or over a network connection. The product digital content is capable of being accessed and played back through a computer or game console at the customer site. The software product may comprise a limited use product that is restricted in the number of plays or duration of use. The customer is allowed to download and purchase the product using his computer or playback console. The product purchase information is encoded and transmitted to the content distributor. When the preset time or number of plays has elapsed the software program is frozen and access to the program is not allowed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a two-way, public key/private key encryption system is implemented to transmit the product and usage information between the server providing the software product and the customer computer system.
US07664705B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method and system are provided for facilitating the output of an offer to an account holder of a financial account, which offer the account holder may accept via a check being presented by the account holder as payment for a transaction. For example, the account holder may alter an indicium on the check to indicate acceptance of the offer. An example of an offer is an offer to sell to the account holder transactional overdraft protection for the transaction for which a check is provided as payment. Another example of an offer to provide a benefit to the account holder in exchange for a commitment by the account holder to an obligation. Such an offer may be provided by, for example, a merchant different than the merchant at which the check is being provided as payment for a transaction. In one or more embodiments, the offer or an indication of the offer may be printed on the check or handwritten on the check.
US07664694B2
Investment vehicles and methods for determining the composition of such investment vehicles based on a valuation-tilted, capitalization-weighted technique includes identifying assets to be included in an investment vehicle, calculating a asset valuation for each of the assets, ranking the assets based on their respective asset valuations, based on the ranking, identifying groupings of the assets, determining a group weighting factor for each of the groupings, and determining the composition of the investment vehicle based on the group weighting factors attributed to each of the groupings.
US07664690B2
A technique for evaluating insurance claim management may determine a target value for average loss costs per claim in a given planning period based on a regression analysis of average loss costs per claim in a predetermined base period. In addition, a performance indicator indicative of the performance of insurance claim management may be determined based on a difference between the determined target value and actually achieved average loss costs per claim in said planning period. Related apparatuses, systems, articles of manufacture are also described.
US07664686B2
Systems, methods, and media for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices are disclosed. Embodiments include a system having one or more asset devices in communication with a network where each asset device has an electronic asset tag, where the electronic asset tag has contents including an asset number associated with the asset device having the electronic asset tag. The system may also include an asset tag manager in communication with the network to access the contents of the electronic asset tags of the one or more asset devices. In a further embodiment, the asset tag manager may be adapted to modify the contents of the electronic asset tags of the one or more asset devices. In another further embodiment, the asset tag manager may be adapted to reload to an asset device the contents of the electronic asset tag of the asset device.
US07664684B2
A multiple transaction quantity inventory management system including an inventory management component to store and manage inventory information using a base unit of measure (“UOM”) and in a valuation UOM related by at least one conversion factor for each of a plurality of goods; a material management component connected to the inventory management component, the material management component to monitor and maintain information on the plurality of goods in the base UOM and in the valuation UOM for each of the plurality of goods; a sales delivery component connected to the inventory management component, the sales delivery component to receive and process sales orders in the base UOM; a warehouse management component connected to the inventory management component, the warehouse management component to control stock information for the plurality of goods in a single UOM; and a financial component connected to the inventory management component, the material management component, the sales delivery component, and the warehouse management component, the financial component to value movement of the plurality of goods using the valuation UOM.
US07664682B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for facilitating interactive electronic commerce transactions over an electronic commerce network between a plurality of sellers and a plurality of buyers via an independent service provider. A request is received from a seller over the electronic commerce network to generate an auction program process associated with the seller. The auction program process associated with the seller is generated by an electronic commerce computer of the independent service provider. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) hyperlink associated with the auction program process is generated by the electronic commerce computer. The URL hyperlink is communicated to the seller for insertion into a web page hosted on a website other than the independent service provider's website, wherein the web page displays information about an item for sale. The auction program process generated by the electronic commerce computer of the independent service provider is activated when a buyer clicks on the inserted hyperlink on the hosting website.
US07664681B1
The present invention is method of cooperative selling by way of displays of gift cards of multiple offering entities by adjacent to said displays other items which complement or enhance the gift giving impression upon a potential buyer of one or more gift cards.
US07664680B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized live auction feeds. The method of generating contextualized live auction feeds comprises receiving context data from a user. The method further comprises utilizing the context data received from the user to search auctions. The method, in one embodiment, includes generating contextualized live auction feeds for an auction based on the context data.
US07664676B2
A method is disclosed by which a user of a roaming mobile station can procure services and goods from a content provider at a visiting site. The content provider establishes contact with a mobile e-commerce server, the visited MeC server. The visited MeC server directs the request to the users home MeC server. The home MeC server performs the authentication of the user. In this way security relevant information is not revealed to the visited MeC server.
US07664673B1
A first sales pitch appropriate for a particular telephone caller of a telephone call center may be selected by receiving a call from a caller to the telephone call center, accessing information about the caller including an indication of past misbehavior or a sales pitch preference of the caller that includes a preference not to receive one or more undesired sales pitches, and automatically selecting the first sales pitch based upon the sales pitch preference of the caller, for example, if there is no indication of past misbehavior. The call may be transferred to a human operator, and the human operator may be assisted in presenting the first sales pitch to the caller, for example, by displaying at least a portion of the first sales pitch to the human operator.
US07664667B1
A computing environment or system is disclosed for use by a homeowner for real-time, on-line scheduling of a visit by technician or repairman to diagnose and, if authorized by the user, repair a home appliance such as a refrigerator or washing machine. The system is desirably accessible over the Internet by a customer using a Web browser wherein an interactive screen prompts the user and suggests product information and a nature of the problem. The system desirably obtains and provides to the user a schedule of available appointments for a manufacturer's factory service based on the product and customer information and location of the product. Where factory service is not available in the locality of the user, the system obtains and provides one or more local manufacturer authorized service providers. After selection of a service provider by the user, available appointments are provided. The user selects and confirms one of the appointments. Thereafter, the service provider is notified, for example, automatically by e-mail or facsimile, by the system and is requested to confirm the appointment with the user.
US07664665B2
A system for distribution management includes a database server (1) interconnecting with a database (12) for storing a sales list (120) and a check list (122), an application server (2), a web server (3), and a weighbridge (8) for obtaining weights of vehicles. The application server includes a sales data maintaining module (22), a checking module (26), and a detecting module (28). A method for distribution management includes the steps of: generating a sales bill and a sales record in accordance with sales data; verifying whether a presently input weight matches a net weight of merchandise carried by a vehicle, and verifying whether the net weight matches a weight recorded in the sales record; generating a checking record; and monitoring distribution procedures.
US07664656B2
Methods for using a liner in a waste sorting and disposal system are provided. The liner includes an internal space and an opening that provides access to that internal space. In some embodiments, the liner may also include a machine-readable identification key that is configured to identify a type of waste that the liner may receive. In some embodiments, the machine-readable key is optical, color-coded, alphanumeric or graphical. The liner can include one or more closure members to allow a user to securely seal the liner when it is removed from the container. In some embodiments, the liner can include a flange, lip, hook or other protrusion to secure its position relative to a container.
US07664629B2
A writing advisor program (20) receives a proposed text in an author's second language (L2) and determines at least one candidate replacement word for a selected word based on a determined language model (p(c)) and a determined corruption model (p(r|c)). The determined language model reflects correct usage of the text in the second language, independent of the native or first language (L1) of the author, based on (L2) corpora. The determined corruption model is based on some a priori knowledge about probable corruption paths leading the author to realize some inadequate expression in the second language instead of the correct, intended expression. Different types of corruption paths may be used that include bidirectional translations, false-friends, synonyms, common semantic features, second language internal cognates, preposition alternatives, and first language inserts.
US07664623B1
Shapeable materials of interest are modeled with a rectangular mesh having N columns and M rows of substantially similar shell elements. The shapeable materials of interest are held in tension between a sink and a source. A column of fictitious elements is added to make the mesh wrapped-around continuous. The fictitious elements are marked as inactive, while other elements are marked as active. As the simulation moves on, the active elements are marched in the product producing direction of the machinery. When a pre-defined distance has traveled in the simulation the present invention performs the following: Activate inactive elements at the source; Copy all history data including stresses from the last column of active elements to newly activated elements; Deactivate the lead column of active elements at the sink; and Move the set of nodal boundary conditions to newly established boundary nodes at the sink and the source.
US07664619B2
A fault detection unit detects a fault occurred in a detecting device which detects a rotational angle of a rotor with respect to a stator from sine and cosine wave signals having amplitudes modulated in a sinusoidal wave shape in a cycle of rotation of the rotor. The unit produces a judging value from the signals, judges occurrence of a fault from the value placed out of a normal range, and judges the device to be in a tentative fault state when the judgment is continued. After this judgment, when the rotational angle is changed over its entire range while the value is placed within the normal range, the unit judges the device to have returned to a normal state. In contrast, when the judgment is still continued, the unit judges the device to be in a determinate fault state and decides the occurrence of the fault.
US07664618B2
The present invention such as active diagnostic algorithms is developed not only to realize the early detection of degraded vacuum pumps for the protection of pump failure but also to provide their predictive maintenance. According to the present invention, it is possible to find simple and effective ways to deal with technical problems arising from the large variability of the pump-by-pump operation characteristics and the multiple process conditions where pumps run under the idle operation and gas-loaded operation conditions alternately, especially in semiconductor manufacturing process.
US07664616B2
A method of analysis including an intrinsically valid class of statistical methods for dealing with multivariate ordinal data. A decision support system that can (1) provide automated decision support in a transparent fashion (2) optionally be controlled by a decision maker, (3) provide for an evidence acquisition concept, including automatically increasing the content of an underlying database, and (4) provide a computationally efficient interactive distributed environment. The method is exemplified in the context of assisted diagnostic support.
US07664615B2
A method for determining a critical reduction in shaft speed in a work machine having at least one monitored shaft driven by a crankshaft of an engine includes determining an actual rotational speed of the crankshaft; determining an actual rotational speed of a first monitored shaft; determining a filtered rotational speed of the first monitored shaft based on an algorithm that utilizes the actual rotational speed of the first monitored shaft, the actual rotational speed of the crankshaft, and a reference rotational speed of the crankshaft; comparing the filtered rotational speed to the actual rotational speed of the first monitored shaft; determining whether the actual rotational speed of the first monitored shaft deviates from the filtered rotational speed by a predetermined amount; and activating an alarm if the actual rotational speed of the first monitored shaft deviates from the filtered rotational speed by the predetermined amount.
US07664613B2
Data harvesting can be carried out relative to performance or reliability information associated with one or more groups of electrical units. Ambient condition detectors associated with a variety of industrial or commercial installations and subject to a variety of different conditions can be returned for performance and reliability testing after predetermined usage intervals. Analysis of test results can be maintained in a database. Customers can be provided multilevel access to the information in the database. Reliability and test results for a class of detectors can be provided to a number of customers that have provided samples for evaluation. Application specific information can be limited to a particular customer or customers.
US07664606B2
A biological-information monitoring apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects pulse intervals of a target person. Moreover, a first calculating unit calculates an average pulse interval that is an average of the pulse intervals within a first period. The first period is decided based on a target pulse interval. Finally, a second calculating unit calculates a parasympathetic nervous index based on a difference between the average pulse interval and the target pulse interval.
US07664605B2
A calibrator suitable for calibrating a noninvasive analyte detector, such as a Raman spectroscopy device, allows the user of the detection device to establish standard measurements of the analyte to be detected, thereby providing assurance that appropriate analyte measurements are obtained at the time of sampling. The calibrator is simple to use, making it suitable for home use by individuals regardless of medical or technical skill level. In particular, the calibrator can be used with a noninvasive glucose detection system, such as for monitoring of blood glucose levels in diabetics. For use with noninvasive detectors designed for obtaining measurements from a subject's fingertip, the calibrator can be formed into a shape that reasonably mimics a fingertip in size, texture and/or spectral properties.
US07664604B1
The present invention is a method of determining breast cancer risk including the steps of establishing a risk probably value associated with a patient, the risk probability value calculated from an array of risk factors associated with breast cancer, applying a computer algorithm adapted to find abnormalities in the patient's mammogram, and increasing the tolerance level for false positive results in the computer algorithm responsive to a higher probability value associated with the patient and decreasing the tolerance level for false positive results in the computer algorithm responsive to a lower probability value associated with the patient.
US07664603B2
A method of analyzing an electromagnetic wavefield includes the steps of measuring the electric and magnetic fields at at least one receiver, formulating a respective spatial domain filter in respect of each of mutually orthogonal components of each of the electric and magnetic fields, and applying the filters to the measured acquired data to decompose the wavefield into upgoing and downgoing components.
US07664601B2
A method for short-term prediction of storm cells in aircraft using a modified weather radar system, and a modified weather radar system embodying the method. The storm cell prediction method including the operations of accessing first and second weather radar images generated relative to the aircraft and having a similar relationships to the aircraft; mapping the first weather radar image onto the second weather radar image; comparing the first and second weather radar images; forecasting information describing a weather condition represented by the first and second weather radar images; retrieving a phase of flight of the aircraft; and generating a warning as a function of the forecast information describing a weather condition and the aircraft phase of flight.
US07664587B2
An apparatus for detecting a vehicle rollover includes a sensor suite for sensing vehicle dynamics data, the sensor suite being connected to a processor which is configured in such a way that the processor detects a vehicle rollover as a function of the vehicle dynamics data and the rollover sensor suite. The processor has means for dividing an operating state of the vehicle into chronologically successive phases. In particular, the processor has means for determining, for each phase, a float angle and a transverse vehicle velocity from the vehicle dynamics data; the float angle and the transverse vehicle velocity being used, together with the data from the rollover sensor suite, for detection of the vehicle rollover.
US07664585B2
A seat belt apparatus includes a belt reel having a belt wound thereon, a motor for driving the reel to take up the belt; a control section for adjusting an amount of electric current supply to the motor to thereby control a belt-taking-up driving force of the motor, a current detection section for detecting the current supplied to the motor, and a rotation detection section for detecting a rotational position of the reel. The control section includes a constant current control section for executing a constant current control mode so that the current supply to the motor takes a target value, and a target current supply value change section for changing the target value when a detection signal from the rotation detection section has satisfied a predetermined condition in the constant current control mode.
US07664582B2
In an automobile of the invention, a cornering drag estimator 61 estimates a cornering drag from measurements of steering angle θ and vehicle speed V. A gain multiplier 62 multiplies the estimated cornering drag by a preset gain K to reduce the estimated cornering drag. A phase adjuster 63 adjusts the phase of the rest of the estimated and reduced cornering drag. An implementation system 70 receives the sum of the output of the gain multiplier 62 and the output of the phase adjuster 63 and regulates the throttle opening of an engine according to the received sum. This adjusts the phase and the degree of reduction of the estimated cornering drag. This arrangement of the invention attains the adequate levels of pitching and rolling, which may be caused in the vehicle in the turning state.
US07664578B2
A method for minimizing the amount of propellant required to be carried onboard the satellites of an Earth orbiting satellite constellation to maintain the minimum angle of elevation between a selected geographical area of the Earth and at least one satellite of the constellation during the life of the constellation includes establishing an optimal initial inclination and RAAN of each satellite of the constellation. The method enables the satellites of the constellation to carry additional hardware and other payload mass, or alternatively, the design life of the constellation to be increased.
US07664577B2
According to the present invention, a control apparatus for an electric generator includes a power generation cost determiner determining a power generation cost of the generator, a threshold determiner determining a threshold of power generation cost as a function of a state of charge of an electric energy storage device, a comparator comparing the power generation cost of the generator with the threshold, and a controller. When the power generation cost of the generator is lower than the threshold, the controller controls the generator to generate an increased amount of electric power, so as to both charge the electric energy storage device and feed an electrical load. Otherwise, when the power generation cost of the generator is higher than the threshold, the controller controls the generator to generate a decreased amount of electric power, so as to allow the electric energy storage device to discharge to feed the electrical load.
US07664575B2
An air conditioning apparatus including a heater or furnace includes a controller for receiving control signals from a thermostat and from a user interface for initiating a contingency mode of operation when a signal from the thermostat is not available. The user interface includes a visual display and multiple keys for entering the contingency mode which includes selecting a capacity of heat output of the apparatus and a duty cycle. The user interface may be disposed in the apparatus cabinet and connected directly to a microprocessor based controller for the apparatus. The contingency mode is automatically aborted if a fault signal is received by the controller, a signal is received from a thermostat or power to the apparatus is interrupted.
US07664557B2
To facilitate an intuitive operation of an adjustable device of a medical apparatus, a system for the automatic setting of an operating configuration of the portable control module controlling the adjustable device is provided. Different operating configurations regarding the directional control of the movement of the movable device differ are based on the relative spatial position of the adjustable device with respect to the control module. The system includes at least one signal sender unit for sending a signal. The signal sender unit may be arranged on the control module. The system further includes at least two signal converter units for converting and retransmitting or for converting and reflecting the signal. The signal converter units may be arranged on different positions on the device. A signal receiver unit is used for receiving the converted signal, and the receiver unit may be arranged on the control module.
US07664550B2
Displacement or migration of a left ventricular lead located within the coronary sinus or coronary veins of the heart is detected by comparing an electrogram (EGM) waveform pattern from the lead with a stored baseline EGM waveform pattern. Based upon the extent of lead migration, if any, a lead displacement may produce an annunciating response. The patient may be alerted, an electrical stimulus applied through the lead may be adjusted to compensate for lead migration, or an alternative electrode on the lead may be used for EGM sensing and pacing.
US07664538B2
A wireless communication device is provided. The wireless communication device includes a communicate range and communicating with a destination device outside the communication range thorough at least one relay station. The wireless communication device includes power mode controlling means for performing power saving control of power supplied to the wireless communication device; forcing information holding means for holding forcing information including a forced mode flag indicating whether a forced operation instruction concerning the power saving control is enabled or disabled and a limited number of the relay stations; forcing information transmitting means for transmitting the forcing information to another wireless communication device within the communication range of the wireless communication device; and forcing-information update controlling means for updating the forcing information.
US07664536B2
A character communication device which is connected to a network and enables at least communication by using characters. The device comprises a candidate term display means (S104) for displaying a group of candidate terms prepared for message communication in a candidate term display area (52) of the screen, a term selecting means (2b) for outputting a term which is selected by the operator from the group of candidate terms, and a message generating means (S108) for generating a message by serially displaying a plurality of outputted terms in a message editing area (53) of the screen and sending the generated message to a transmitting/receiving means.
US07664529B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for discovering the presence of at least one source and target mobile device, automatically displaying a graphical interface to show the dataset from the source mobile device, and initiating the transmission of data between the mobile devices, is provided. The method further includes automatically receiving the dataset from the source mobile device, where the dataset is at least a representation of the data on the source device. In one embodiment, the representation is a subset of the data on the device and/or a description of the data on the mobile device. In another embodiment, a method for a navigation system to discover the presence of at least one mobile device, to automatically receive data from the mobile device, and to process the data with navigation operations, is provided.
US07664528B2
A method for an antenna architecture that handles European band cellular and broadcast channels may be provided. The method may comprise receiving at a first radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) integrated within a mobile terminal, RF signals in a first cellular frequency band of a first cellular network via an antenna. The antenna may be coupled to a second RFIC integrated within the mobile terminal capable of handling RF signals in one or more other cellular frequency bands of at least a second cellular network. A third RFIC integrated within the mobile terminal coupled to the antenna may be capable of handling the received RE signals in a UHF broadcast band.
US07664525B2
A communication controller for a communication system associated with a plurality of communication modes is connected to a database storing the communication mode associated state of each terminal, and the communication controller recognizes the communication mode associated states of a connection source and a connection destination by referring to the database, and if multiple communication modes are common to both terminals, notifies the multiple communication modes common to both terminals to the portable telephone terminal of connection source, before connecting to the portable telephone terminal of connection destination, upon receiving a connection request from the connection source to the connection destination. Even if the user of a connection source terminal does not recognize or register in advance the communication mode associated state of a connection destination terminal, the terminals can be connected in a desired communication mode without causing any wasteful traffic.
US07664523B2
When a judging unit judges that there is no mobile-apparatus transmission data, a first generating unit decreases a reference value for generating a transmission-power control command, by a value equivalent to an amount of an outer-loop adjustment. A second generating unit compares generated reference value and a line quality that is measured by a measuring unit, when the former is larger than the latter, generates a transmission-power control command for reducing a transmission power of the mobile apparatus, and when the former is smaller than the latter, generates a transmission-power control command for increasing the transmission power of the mobile apparatus.
US07664519B2
Techniques are provided to control the transmit power for data transmission on multiple transport channels having different signal quality (SIR) targets. A single SIR target is maintained for all transport channels, and this SIR target is adjusted based only on active transport channels. For each update interval, a data processor processes at least one data block received in the current update interval on at least one of the transport channels and provides the status of each received data block. A controller increases the SIR target based on an up step if any received data block is erased and decreases the SIR target based on a down step if all received data blocks are good. If any received data block is erased, the down step used to adjust the SIR target may be set to the smallest down step size required by all transport channels with erased data blocks.
US07664515B2
A system and method are provided for mobile stations for enhancing the ease of use of a mobile station. Through the system and method, a user may more easily view the phone number of a caller identification card. The user may be alerted when the user tries to send messages while out of GPRS coverage, or the mobile station may recognize extension numbers in address book user interface applications to assist with a dialing operation.
US07664514B2
The object is to enable suppression of an excessive number of changes in assignment of a server in charge of communication in response to movement of a terminal. A position-information acquisition unit in a computer acquires information on the position of a mobile terminal as a candidate for a destination of information provision. Then, a zone determination unit determines whether or not the mobile terminal is in a coverage zone or a margin zone on the basis of the information on the position. An information provision unit starts the information provision to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal enters the coverage zone, and ends the information provision to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal goes out of the margin zone.
US07664511B2
The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for providing an estimate of a mobile location of a wireless node, point or terminal in a wireless local area network (WLAN) or other suitable network, the estimate being based on a correlation of a radio frequency (RF) signal strength measurement and a grid point in a signal strength database or radio map. The signal strength database or radio map is built using a signal strength fingerprint algorithm. The signal strength fingerprint algorithm includes selecting and measuring a set of grid points in the wireless local area network (WLAN) or other suitable network.
US07664510B1
The invention provides a method and a system for forwarding a telephone call. The inventive method includes receiving a telephone call from a calling party line to a called party line, determining a location of the called party, determining a proximity of the location of the called party to one or more subscriber locations, and directing the telephone call to the one or more subscriber locations based on the determined proximity. The subscriber locations may be predefined by the called party. The location of the called party may be determined using a global position system and/or a radio frequency signal, for example.
US07664509B2
The invention disclosed is a location blocking service for use in a wireless network that tracks the location and identity of network users, such as networks complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides a network user with the ability to prevent the location of her wireless handheld device from being disclosed to parties other than the wireless network provider and PSAPs (Public Safety Answering Points). The network user blocks the forwarding of location information by signaling to the wireless handheld device when the location information originates from the wireless handheld device, or by signaling to the network when the location information originates from the wireless handheld device or the network. Primary components of the present invention include at least one user interface and at least one location block processor provisioned in the wireless handheld device and/or the wireless network. The user interface prompts the user of the handheld device to enter the commands that send the signals to the device or network.
US07664508B2
A communication system is provided for communication between network nodes and a communication controller. In the network, a request signal is transmitted from a node to the communication controller in one of two separate timeslots to enable transmission of a signal from the individual node. A first one of the reservation timeslots provides for random access requests that can be made by multiple ones of the nodes. A second one of the timeslots is assigned exclusively to the one node. The first random access request timeslot can be used to carry requests for assignment of an exclusive node, while the second exclusively assigned reservation request timeslot can be provided to carry requests to transmit packets containing alphanumeric data.
US07664507B2
When a network pages the temporary user mobile identifier of a mobile station, the mobile station sends a response to the network. Next, the network checks the authenticity of the user using a ciphering key, corresponding to the temporary user mobile identifier and a random number. If the temporary user mobile identifier is authenticated, a normal incoming call acceptance procedure is executed. If the mobile station is authenticated although the temporary user mobile identifier is wrong, the network reassigns a new temporary user mobile identifier to the mobile station and stops the current communication. In communication, the network and the mobile station mutually notify encipherment-onset time and negotiate about encipherment manner with each other. In addition, diversity handover is commenced upon a call attempt. Furthermore, if a branch replacement is necessary, the current branch is replaced by new branches capable of executing the diversity handover. Additionally, when a new call occurs to or from the mobile station capable of treating a plurality of calls simultaneously, the mobile station uses the same branch structure and the same communication frequency band for all of calls. Additionally, when a new call occurs to or from the mobile station capable of treating a plurality of calls simultaneously, a branch structure and a communication frequency band, which can continue all of the calls, are selected and used. Therefore, the mobile communications system is suitable for transmission of various sorts of data in accordance with the development of multimedia.
US07664504B2
In a network having multiple wireless transmitters, a mobile device operating with the network may be assigned one or more wireless transmitters as a virtual cell. Transmissions to the mobile device may be broadcast from several cells simultaneously, so that the mobile device will receive the transmissions in any of the areas covered by the cells. When the network determines that the mobile device is moving out of one cell area and into another, the virtual cell may move as well. The virtual cell may consist of one or many areas covered by a wireless network, and may have a shape that is determined by geography, trajectory, wireless coverage, or other factors.
US07664499B2
A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communications device registers with a less preferred service provider in a first frequency band. While remaining registered with the less preferred service provider, the device examines several frequency bands in the order specified by the frequency band search schedule. A frequency band is examined by dividing the frequency band into many sub-bands, and by locating the strongest signal above a threshold within the sub-band being examined. The examination continues until a second frequency band having a more preferred service provider is located. The communication device then registers with the more preferred service provider. The category of service provider may be identified and displayed on the communication device.
US07664493B1
Redundant mechanism in a push-to-talk (PTT) realtime architecture. Redundancy is provided in core delivery systems, which are employed for the emulation of “walkie-talkie” service with circuit switched duplex calls in the carrier network. The disclosed architecture provides for geographic and/or realtime mated redundancy. In one implementation, realtime redundancy is offered in an active-active scenario, although other scenarios are possible. Similarly, redundancy is provided in a roaming gateway implementation of the PTT network.
US07664489B2
A method for a communication between two cellular phones is provided, in which the communication between the cellular phones includes an intercom communication and a telephone communication. The method includes steps of providing a telephone number of one cellular phone and an intercom number associated with the telephone number in the other cellular phone, dialing the telephone number of the one cellular phone by the other cellular phone to activate a calling to the intercom number associated with the telephone number, determining whether the cellular phones are within an intercom communication area, and performing the intercom communication therebetween while the cellular phones are within an intercom communication area, or performing the telephone communication therebetween while the cellular phones are without an intercom communication area.
US07664485B2
A method and apparatus of managing a phone device of a personal digital assistant (PDA) is provided. In one example of the present invention, the PDA retrieves a call history list from a stored memory location, the call history list including a call history list record. The PDA then displays at least a portion of the call history list on a screen of the PDA. The call history list preferably includes phone numbers and names associated with those phone numbers. In another example, the method further includes displaying call details of a selected call history list record. The call details preferably includes a date, a timestamp, and a duration.
US07664484B2
Systems and methods for pooling a plurality of telecommunication users into groups is disclosed. One method includes ranking the telecommunication users in an order based on a usage parameter. The usage parameter, for example, may be the average service usage time per billing period. Once ranked, the telecommunication users are pooled into at least two groups, each group comprising at least one telecommunication user within a range of ranks. The method may further include calculating estimated costs for the users to use cost-effective rate plans selected from a group of available rate plans and re-pooling the users into other possible combinations to determine the most cost-effective pooling combination and respective rate plans.
US07664478B2
Disclosed is a transmitter/receiver which performs transmitting and receiving operations based on CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) system. The transmitter/receiver includes a first unit, a second unit and a DC offset control unit. The first unit obtains a DC offset value generated in the transmitter/receiver and holds the obtained DC offset value. The second unit removes the held DC offset value from received data. The DC offset control unit causses the first unit to operate upon response to at least one of transmission completion and reception completion.
US07664477B2
A communications system includes a first oscillator for producing a first clock signal; a second oscillator for producing a second clock signal; and a secondary circuit coupled to the first oscillator and the second oscillator for determining a second oscillation frequency corresponding to a frequency of the second clock signal; the second oscillation signal being determined according to the first clock signal, the second clock signal, and a first oscillation frequency corresponding to a frequency of the first clock signal.
US07664475B2
A multi-band wireless transceiver having a plurality of signal-processing paths, and further having a function of making wireless communication through a plurality of frequency bands by selecting one of the signal-processing paths, includes a band identification circuit for identifying a frequency band, the band identification circuit identifying a frequency band in dependence on a frequency-band information received from a controller which controls an operation of the multi-band wireless transceiver, and selecting one of the signal-processing paths in accordance with the identified frequency band.
US07664469B2
The invention relates to personal communications devices and housings for such devices. The casing includes a front face that needs protection and is supported by a substrate that is gripped between an overlaying any underlaying part to secure it in position.
US07664454B2
An image forming apparatus includes a medium transporting mechanism. A first transporting section transports a recording medium on which an image is formed. A second transporting section receives the recording medium from the first transporting section and then further transports the recording medium. The second transporting section has a smaller transporting force than the first transporting section. A controller controls the second transporting section in such a way that the second transporting section transports the recording medium at a higher speed than the first transporting section.
US07664449B2
A fixing apparatus includes an endless belt, a fixing roller, a pressure roller, a sheet heating element, and a support. The fixing roller and support are positioned on the inside of the endless belt. The endless belt is entrained about the fixing roller and the support. The support supports the sheet heating element. The pressure roller is positioned on the outside of the endless belt. The pressure roller cooperates with the fixing roller to hold the endless belt between the fixing roller and the pressure roller in sandwiched relation such that a nip is formed between the endless belt and the pressure roller. The sheet heating element is in contact with the inside of the endless belt and heats the endless belt. The sheet heating element is disposed in an area outside of the nip.
US07664445B2
An image forming apparatus having: an image forming section to form a toner image on an image carrier; a transfer section to transfer onto a transfer medium the toner image formed on the image carrier; and a pair of opposing transfer guide members to guide the transfer medium into the transfer section, wherein a front edge of one transfer guide member, arranged on a side of the image carrier out of the pair of the transfer guide members, is disposed separately from the other transfer guide member, and one side portion of the front edge of the transfer guide member is more protruded than the other side portion into a conveying direction of the transfer medium.
US07664441B2
A developer holding member includes a magnetic field generating device and a hollow body including the magnetic field generating device thereinside, and attracting a developer to an external surface thereof with magnetic force of the magnetic field generating device. The external surface of the hollow body is randomly provided with a large number of depressions, and a peak intensity of a spectrum within a range of wavelengths not more than 1 mm, which is figured out by performing a frequency analysis using a profile curve in a circumferential direction of the external surface, is not more than 12.
US07664439B2
An image forming apparatus including an image bearer, a magnetic field generator, a two-component developer bearer, a developing electric field generator, and an image developer. The two-component developer has at least a current speed index (25FRI) of from 0 to 2.0, which is determined by the following formula: 25FRI=(total energy at 10 mm/s/total energy at 100 mm/s). The total energy is an integral sum of a rotary torque and a vertical load when a blade of a powder fluidity analyzer spirally rotates at 10 mm/s and 100 mm/s, respectively, in the developer having a volume of 25 ml after idly agitated in the image developer for 10 minutes.
US07664435B2
There is provided a development apparatus including a plurality of replenishment developer containers which accommodates a replenishment developer containing a toner to be replenished to a plurality of development devices, a plurality of replenishment developer conveyance paths which replenishes the replenishment developer in the plurality of replenishment developer containers to the plurality of development devices, a plurality of conveyance members provided in the plurality of replenishment developer conveyance paths, wherein a length of at least one conveyance path, of the plurality of replenishment developer conveyance paths, is different from that of other conveyance paths, and cohesion degree of a replenishment developer conveyed by the longest conveyance path, of the plurality of replenishment conveyance paths, is lower than cohesion degree of the replenishment developer conveyed by other conveyance paths.
US07664432B2
Provided is an improved drive mechanism for an imaging machine. At least one external ramp is disposed along the outer perimeter of the drive dog whereby a tooth of the imaging machine drive mechanism is centered and directed into the drive dog seat. The leading edge of the drive dog seat contacts the base of the imaging machine drive mechanism thus making full contact between the drive dog seat and the imaging machine drive mechanism tooth.
US07664428B2
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus to which a process cartridge is detachably mountable, the process cartridge can be positioned with high accuracy in a simple construction in an apparatus main body. The process cartridge is put on a cartridge tray, and the process cartridge is replaced by a front access. Furthermore, the process cartridge is moved in conjunction with opening/closing operations of a door member so that a photosensitive drum and a transfer belt are brought in contact with each other.
US07664421B2
A system and method to control image gloss in an electrophotographic system or the like using hot air convective heating of the toner image on a recording medium.
US07664406B2
An OLT in a WDM-PON may include a main board and a sub board. The main board may include a master optical transmitting/receiving control/supervising section and the sub board may include a plurality of optical transceivers and a slave optical transmitting/receiving control/supervising section. The master optical transmitting/receiving control/supervising section may produce a data input signal and a data read-control signal for controlling the plurality of optical transceivers of the sub board. The slave optical transmitting/receiving control/supervising section may receive the data input signal and the data read-control signal, and read the data input signal in accordance with the read-control signal. The optical transceivers may be controlled based on the data input signal.
US07664380B2
A camera module comprises a main body, a cone disposed in the main body to accommodate a lens, a base joined to the cone, a frame movably disposed on the base, an image detection unit fixed to the frame and moving on the base via the frame, a first circuit board joined to the image detection unit and moving on the base via the image detection unit, a second circuit board disposed on the main body, and a flexible circuit board with one end connected to the first circuit board and the other end connected to the second circuit board. The flexible circuit board has a plurality of slits dividing the flexible circuit board into a plurality of strips. The slits are parallel and extend from the first circuit board to the second circuit board.
US07664374B2
The invention generally relates to a digital convergent recorder. The digital convergent recorder may generate and record into a storage device (e.g. HDD) a first digital data in a first compress format (e.g. MPEG2) out of an external input analog AV signal or a digital broadcasting signal, may generate and transmit via internet to an external computer a second digital data in a second compress format (e.g. M-JPEG) out of the external input analog AV signal or an analog AV signal obtained by decoding the first data from the storage device, and may control the MPEG2 encoding/recording mode responding to a user command received through a specific command/control protocol from the external computer.
US07664362B2
An optical fiber cable management panel includes drawer assemblies, each including a drawer slidable within a chassis. The drawer assemblies are secured together by a bracket that includes an interlock arrangement with the chassis. Such an interlock arrangement includes a non-threaded stud engaging a hole. Radius limiters may be part of the drawer assembly and include a cable entry aperture have a closed perimeter and a flared cable guide surface around most of, and preferably all of, the closed perimeter to allow for the entry of cables from all directions. A control mechanism controls movement of the radius limiter relative to the drawer assembly. The control mechanism includes a rotating member that has an axis of rotation transverse to the slidable motion of the radius limiter and normal to the radius limiter.
US07664361B2
An optical fiber cable management panel is provided with slideable drawers and structure within the drawers for cable management and/or connection to other devices. Tray inserts drop into the drawers to provide the appropriate management and connection devices. A movable take-up mechanism manages the cable entering and exiting the drawers at side openings. Stackable pivoting storage trays on the tray insert include a detent arrangement for holding each tray in a pivoted access position. The tray inserts further include a front key, and a back tab mounting arrangement for mounting the tray inserts to the drawers, and side radius limiters including notches for extending over raised portions of the drawer. The take-up mechanism includes a U-shaped trough section and cable retention tabs. A control mechanism is provided for controlling movement of the take-up mechanism relative to the drawer.
US07664359B2
Exemplary embodiments include a tracing clip for a fiber optic cable including: a clip body including an inner and an outer surface; a metal clip disposed on the outer surface; a metal tooth disposed on the inner surface, wherein the metal clip tooth connects to a metal element extending substantially axially along a length of fiber optic cable and to the metal clip.
US07664343B2
Methods and systems of mapping of an optical character recognition (OCR) text string to a code included in a coding dictionary by supplementing the Levenshtein Distance Algorithm (LDA) with additional information in the form of adjustments based on particular character substitutions, insertions and deletions together with weighting based on multiple alternatives for the OCR text string. In one embodiment, an OCR text string mapping method (100) includes receiving (110) an OCR text string, comparing (120) it with selected text strings from a coding dictionary, computing (130) modified Levenshtein distances associated with the comparisons by determining (140) substitution penalties, determining (150) insertion penalties, determining (160) deletion penalties and combining (170) the penalties, selecting (180) the best matching text string from the coding dictionary based on the modified Levenshtein distances, determining (190) whether a maximum threshold distance is met, and assigning (200) a code associated with the best matching text string to the OCR text string when met, and assigning (210) a null or no code when not met.
US07664337B2
High-frequency noise is generated that approximates the appearance of traditional “film grain” for a digital video signal. By adding a relatively small amount of film grain noise, the video can be made to look more natural and more pleasing to the human viewer. The digital film grain generation can be used to mask unnatural smooth artifacts in digital video such as “blockiness” and “contouring” in the case of compressed video and/or used to provide visual enhancements or special effects to any digital video stream. The digital film grain generator can control grain size and the amount of film grain to be added.
US07664334B2
A processor performs layout analysis, and classifies pieces of bitmap data into a character area and a picture area. The processor divides each of the character area and the picture area into a plurality of tiles having a predetermined shape, thereby creating a table including information representing either character attribute or picture attribute in association with each tile number. The processor performs scalar quantization for data of each tile using a quantization coefficient for characters or pictures, based on the created table. The processor encodes the data of each tile using an SNR progressive technique or a resolution progressive technique, and performs post quantization for the data using a quantization parameter for characters or pictures. Then, the processor stores the encoded data into a storage device.
US07664332B2
Auxiliary information (150) representing binary or multi-level (M≧2) logical values is embedded into successive segments (110) of an audio, video or other data signal in response to a user request to download the data signal via an on-line distributor (350) on a computer network such as the Internet. To avoid unnecessary delays in providing the data signal to the user, the data signal is pre-processed to provide two sets or copies of data (230, 235). One set (230) of the data contains segments with an embedded binary “0”, while the other set (235) contains corresponding segments with an embedded binary “1”. Successive segments are selected from one of the two sets to provide a time-multiplexed composite data signal (230) that has the desired content, but with an embedded binary data sequence that identifies the user.
US07664330B2
Provided are a graphic image data compressor that provides a complete image instead of an erroneous image when graphic image data fails to be compressed to satisfy its bandwidth and a method of compressing graphic image data using the same, where the graphic image data compressor includes a compression block for compressing received graphic image data using a loss compression algorithm and a lossless compression algorithm and controlling an amount of loss data in the loss and lossless compression algorithms, and a compressed data determination block for comparing a compression rate of data compressed according to the loss and lossless compression algorithms with an established compression rate, selecting optimum compressed data, and determining to output the selected compressed data or the graphic image data.
US07664313B1
The invention relates to a method of converting a set of words into a three-dimensional scene description, which may then be rendered into three-dimensional images. The invention may generate arbitrary scenes in response to a substantially unlimited range of input words. Scenes may be generated by combining objects, poses, facial expressions, environments, etc., so that they represent the input set of words. Poses may have generic elements so that referenced objects may be replaced by those mentioned in the input set of words. Likewise, a character may be dressed according to its role in the set of words. Various constraints for object positioning may be declared. The environment, including but not limited to place, time of day, and time of year, may be inferred from the input set of words.
US07664312B2
Making a dot pattern so that misalignment in a x direction and a y direction is alternately generated for every adjacent information dots on a virtual grid line, the misalignment is alternately generated in the x direction and the y direction for each dot and this results in that the alternate information dot is necessarily arranged on the same grid line. Therefore, in the case that an optical reading apparatus reads the dot pattern, a search algorithm of a virtual grid line is simplified on an image memory. As a result, the grid point on the image memory is also easy. Therefore, without using a complicated program, it is possible to speed up the reading speed of the dot pattern.
US07664310B2
A method and apparatus for inspecting patterned transmissive substrates, such as photomasks, for unwanted particles and features occurring on the transmissive as well as pattern defects. A transmissive substrate is illuminated by a laser through an optical system comprised of a laser scanning system, individual transmitted and reflected light collection optics and detectors collect and generate signals representative of the light transmitted and reflected by the substrate. The defect identification of the substrate is performed using only those transmitted and reflected light signals, and other signals derived from them, such as greyscale representations and image features. Defect identification is performed using a pattern inspection algorithm by comparing image feature representations of the present substrate with an idealized representation thereof, and using an advanced phase shift algorithm that accounts for particular types of expected anomalies.
US07664308B2
A pattern inspection apparatus includes an optical image acquiring unit that acquires optical image data of a target plate formed as a pattern. The pattern inspection apparatus also includes a design image data generating unit that generates first design image data based on a first design pattern serving as a base of pattern formation of the target plate. The pattern inspection apparatus additionally includes a comparing unit that compares the optical image data and the first design image data with each other. Further, information of a second design pattern is input in parallel with information of the first design pattern to the pattern inspection apparatus. In the comparing unit, second design image data generated based on the second design pattern is further input, and the optical image data is compared with the second design image data in place of the first design image data.
US07664298B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure and macro-anatomical parameters from x-ray images.
US07664291B2
In an encoding device that creates an image in which data is embedded, an embedding unit divides an image into a plurality of blocks, and embeds data in the image based on a difference in value of characteristics of adjacent blocks; and a restriction information recording unit records use restriction information that restricts use of embedded data.
US07664290B2
An image processor for combining a computer-readable coded image into a print image of a document including a document data main body and at least one associated data piece, has a print image generator that generates a print image of a document including an image of at least a part of the associated data, a coded image generator that generates a coded image to be combined into the print image, and a controller that determines whether or not the generated coded image can be combined into the image portion of the associated data by comparing a size of the generated coded image with a size of an image portion of the associated data, and combines the generated coded image into the image portion of the associated data on the generated print image, if it is determined that combining is possible.
US07664289B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing nonoperational data acquired from optical discs, and in particular, trackable optical discs having concurrently readable nonoperational structures are provided. Analysis can involve identifying patterns in the data that reproducibly distinguish underlying structures, or identifying patterns in the data that report physical properties of the nonoperational structures. When an optical disc has a plurality of physically nonidentical concurrently readable nonoperational structures, analysis can involve identifying patterns in the data that distinguish among the physically nonidentical nonoperational structures. Also, relative physical locations of nonoperational structures on the disc can be calculated. A system for remotely analyzing data in order to expedite complex data analysis and reporting the results thereof is also provided.
US07664288B2
A method of digital watermarking which can resist against local geometrical distortions such as random bending attack, global geometrical distortions as well as projective transforms, but does not necessary require the recovering of global affine transform or even the repetition of the same watermark pattern. Further, the watermark can resist common global affine transformations such as rotation, scaling, and changes of aspect ratio, cropping as well as other types of operations such as filtering, lossy compression, printing/scanning or detection of watermark in front of video, web or photo camera or any imaging device.
US07664286B2
A capacitor microphone in which a microphone case is made of a conductive material, has a microphone case connector connecting a cable connector at one end of a microphone cable to an internal circuit of a microphone, and is in electrical connection with the cable connector, and in which a conductive and elastic plate-like member is provided at a bottom of the microphone case connector, and is wedged by the cable connector and the microphone case connector. The cable connector and the microphone case connector being electrically connected via the conductive and elastic plate-like member.
US07664283B2
The invention concerns an acoustic device with electro-acoustic transducers and with a cavity resonator that provide extreme tri-dimensional to concentrate/diffuse infrasonic, sonic and ultrasonic waves. It also concerns many structural designs in which some models of cavity resonators and all their transducers are appropriately arranged on the basis of the different uses; so doing it is possible to achieve numerous interacting operational set-ups (basic configuration systems) that can be used in the medical sector, in industry or in the home, in entertainment and leisure. Differently to previously known techniques the acoustic device according to this patent is also a highly sophisticated cybernetic apparatus for the reproduction of various tri-dimensional sound fields that are identical to the original ones, or for generating completely new ones. This acoustic device can be compared to a Helmholtz resonator that transmits sound-waves/harmonic frequencies rather than receiving them.
US07664282B2
An embodiment provides a seal for retaining a hearing device within the ear canal comprising a curved shell having an opening at a shell apex portion. The shell defines a cavity for retention of a device component. An interior surface of a shell wall has a scalloped shape configured to distribute compressive forces applied to the shell perimeter such that when the shell is positioned in the canal, the shell wall conforms to the shape of the canal to maintain an acoustical seal between a shell exterior surface and the canal walls. The scalloped shape can be configured to produce a substantially constant amount of inward deformation of a shell wall independent of a force application point on a shell perimeter. The shell can include a coating to retain the seal in the canal and/or to promote asparagine growth into the coating to fastenly retain the seal in the canal.
US07664278B2
A flat speaker includes a casing with a display window, a vibratory sound panel mounted to the display window and having a display region and an exciter mount region, a display screen disposed internally of the display region, and an exciter mounted to the inner surface of the exciter mount region. A dust barrier is disposed to isolate a first space defined between the display region and the display screen from a second space surrounding the first space. The dust barrier has a dust barrier member disposed between the display region and the exciter mount region and extending across the vibratory sound panel to inhibit dust particles from moving from said exciter mount region to said display region within said casing. The dust barrier member is yieldingly deformable in response to vibration of said vibratory sound panel.
US07664277B2
Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may include a bracket which is adhered or affixed onto the tooth or teeth and an electronics and/or transducer assembly which may be removably coupled to the bracket. The electronic and/or transducer assembly may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a receiver to process and amplify the signals and transmit the processed sounds via a vibrating transducer element coupled to the bracket for transmission into the underlying tooth or other bone structure.
US07664275B2
A system for canceling acoustic feedback includes an input for receiving a digital audio signal and a processor configured to detect acoustic feedback signal in the digital audio signal and to determine the frequency of the feedback signal The system also includes a plurality of bandpass filters for attenuating the feedback signal. The processor is further configured to: select a bandpass filter from among the plurality of bandpass filters. The selected bandpass filter comprises a response characteristic that attenuates parts of the signal at the frequency of acoustic feedback signal.
US07664271B2
A method for processing sound signal including an L side enhanced difference signal comprising a sum of a signal being removed low frequency component from L−R signal and an L+R signal, an R side enhanced difference signal comprising a sum of a signal being removed low frequency component from R−L signal and an R+L signal, an L side output signal comprising a subtraction of signals, in which said R side enhanced difference signal being delayed to remove low and high ranges and amplified by a predetermined amplifying rate for a purpose of cross cancellation talk is subtracted from said L side enhanced difference signal and an R side output signal comprising a subtraction of signals, in which said L side enhanced difference signal being delayed to remove low and high ranges and amplified by a predetermined amplifying rate for a purpose of cross cancellation talk is subtracted from said R side enhanced difference signal.
US07664270B2
Provided are a three-dimensional audio signal processing system using a rigid sphere and a method thereof. The three-dimensional audio signal processing system of the present research simplifies the shape of a human head into a rigid sphere, acquires three-dimensional audio signals by setting up mikes on the rigid sphere, and applies the acquire three-dimensional audio signals to diverse existing reproduction systems. The system includes a three-dimensional audio signal acquiring unit for acquiring audio signals by using a predetermined number of mikes set up on the rigid sphere; and a three-dimensional audio signal post-processing unit for converting the acquired audio signals to reproduce in diverse reproduction environments such as five-channel, four-channel, headphone, stereo, and stereo dipole reproduction environments.
US07664262B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a playback apparatus which plays back content including an encrypted video object and an encrypted resource file, including a memory including a file cache area, a module configured to decrypt the video object, a playback process module configured to play back the decrypted video object and to output a resource file acquisition request, a module configured to determine whether the resource file is decrypted, to decrypt the resource file, to write the decrypted resource file over the encrypted resource file, to update the management information, and to send the decrypted resource file to the playback process module, and a module configured to determine whether the resource file is decrypted, to encrypt the decrypted resource file, to write the encrypted resource file over the decrypted resource file, to update the management information, and to send the encrypted resource file to the storage.
US07664260B2
A signature generation apparatus preventing an transcript attack on signature data. The signature generation apparatus for generating signature data for message data (i) acquires, according to a predetermined acquisition method, a private key, which is different from a private key used in a previous digital signature operation, from among a plurality of private keys generated using a key generation method of a signature scheme in which the plurality of private keys correspond to a single public key, and (ii) performs, using the acquired private key, a digital signature operation on the message data according to a signature method of the signature scheme to generate the signature data.
US07664254B2
A method and apparatus for modeling a network comprising a plurality of transmission lines is described, the method and system being adapted to measure loop parameters of first transmission line to provide measured loop parameters, determine a topology of the first transmission line by analyzing the measured loop parameters with reference to at least a one model of a plurality of models for transmission lines of different topologies, select a further model for estimating crosstalk related parameters based on the determined topology, and estimate at least one crosstalk related parameter based on the determined topolgy and the selected further model.
US07664249B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods that predict behaviors of alerting and filtering systems based on simulation from messaging logs. By logging contextual information, such as the presence, activity, and availability of users, as well as incoming messages and their properties, forecasting services can be created that serve to provide users with an interactive “what if” capability, informing them what they might expect in terms of future behaviors of an automated message alerting and/or filtering system, based on recent messaging histories. A log of the history of incoming messages and contextual data is examined by modeling and simulation tools. The tools reveal the influence of alternate settings on the system's behavior, in response to an expected stream of incoming messages, providing users with insights about how control settings affect alerting, filtering, or routing behaviors.
US07664241B1
Method and apparatus for monitoring a communication network is described. In one example, call detail record data generated by network elements in the communication network is parsed to identify occurrence of a plurality of blocked calls over a time period. A plurality of consolidated call detail records for the plurality of blocked calls are respectively generated from the call detail record data. Each of the plurality of consolidated call detail records includes an originating telephone number. The originating telephone number of each of the plurality of consolidated call detail records is then processed to identify unique originating telephone numbers for the plurality of blocked calls.
US07664225B2
Process and device for fast or on-line determination of the components of a two-component or multiple-component system in which the elements which constitute the individual components differ by their atomic number. The following steps are carried out: the surface of the substance is irradiated with polychromatic X-ray or monochromatic gamma radiation, the X-ray radiation exhibiting in the energy range from 1 to 30 keV one or more peaks in the continuum. The spectrum of the radiation backscattered and emitted by the substance is measured in an energy range from 1 to 30 keV with a resolution of at least 250 eV. The spectrum is analysed in that at least the intensities of the elastically backscattered and inelastically backscattered peaks are separately determined and at least some Ka or La fluorescence peaks in the energy range from 1 to 30 keV are used in order to compensate for the influence of a fluctuating elemental composition within a component.
US07664222B2
A portable tomosynthesis imaging system is disclosed that includes a portable X-ray source assembly and a portable detector assembly. The source assembly may be coupled to a portable power supply and controller such that multiple projection X-ray images may be obtained at a site that is not accessible by conventional tomosynthesis imaging systems. Image data may be transmitted from the detector by wired or wireless communication. Tomosynthesis image reconstruction may be performed locally at the portable system or remotely by the transmission of raw or filtered image data from the portable system. The portable system is particularly well-suited to field deployment, such as at accident scenes, scenes of natural or other disasters, or in confined clinical settings.
US07664221B2
A method and computed tomography unit are disclosed for producing computed tomograms of a patient's beating heart by voxelwise reconstruction of volume data records from prescribed cardiac cycle phases. Firstly, a multiplicity of voxelwise partial reconstructions are calculated from projection segments substantially smaller than 180° in accordance with small cardiac phase segments. The complete voxel data that cover overall at least 180° and originate from a preselected cardiac phase are subsequently summed up per cardiac phase to be considered from the pool of the incomplete reconstructed voxel data.
US07664217B2
A DPLL circuit is provided for making it possible to inhibit an initial frequency offset during holdover. The DPLL circuit includes a slave oscillator for generating a frequency signal corresponding to the size of a control signal value; a phase difference detection circuit for detecting the difference in phase between the output of said slave oscillator and the inputted reference clock, and outputting a digital signal of the prescribed number of bits corresponding to said detected phase difference; and a holdover unit for generating a correction value based on the output of said phase difference detection circuit, wherein when the holdover is detected, said holdover unit periodically adds the correction value to the output of said phase difference detection circuit to obtain a control value for said slave oscillator.
US07664207B2
A method of decoding a GPS carrier signal comprising: (A) receiving a phase modulated GPS signal by using a GPS antenna; (B) extracting a GPS data from the received phase modulated GPS signal; and (C) computing a total probability of a current GPS data bit being “one” or “zero” at a GPS time epoch by using a decoding algorithm.
US07664205B2
A frequency-shift-keying demodulator including a phase shifter for shifting the phase of an input signal by a predetermined degree and outputting a shifted signal, a combining unit for combining the input signal and the shifted signal and for outputting a corresponding signal, and a low-pass filter for filtering the signal output by the combining unit and outputting a low-pass filtered signal, the bandwidth of the low-pass filter being matched with the bandwidth of a data signal included in the input signal, such that the combining unit includes at least one adder for adding the input signal and the shifted signal, and outputting an added signal, and at least one square law detector for receiving the added signal output by the adder and outputting a squared signal which is the square of the added signal, wherein the combining unit outputs the squared signal to the low-pass filter.
US07664197B2
An AM receiving circuit is disclosed which comprises an intermediate frequency amplifying unit that generates an intermediate frequency signal from a broadcast wave signal received by an antenna to amplify and output the intermediate frequency signal; an AGC (Automatic Gain Control) unit that sets gain of the intermediate frequency amplifying unit depending on electric field intensity of the broadcast wave signal; and an AM detecting unit that detects the intermediate frequency signal output from the intermediate frequency amplifying unit, wherein the AM receiving circuit comprises a sound quality compensating unit including: a filter unit that extracts a predetermined frequency band of the audio signal; an amplifying unit that boosts or attenuates the audio signal in the predetermined frequency band extracted from the filter unit; and a controlling unit that controls filter characteristics of the filter unit and sets a boosting function or an attenuating function of the amplifying unit, depending on the electric field intensity of the broadcast wave signal.
US07664196B2
A circuit having a frequency controllable oscillator and a variable time delay circuit. The time delay circuit is fed by a signal produced by the oscillator, such time delay circuit being coupled to the oscillator to control the frequency of the signal produced by the oscillator. The circuit allows frequency agility of a phase locked loop although locked to a common reference frequency.
US07664178B2
A moving picture coding apparatus (10a) according to the present invention includes a level analyzer (100a) that decides the maximum number of intra frame pixels which can be coded (Nfpx) and the maximum number of storage pixels which can be stored in a picture memory of a decoding apparatus (Nspx) on the basis of a level identifier (Lst) indicating a coding level that is designated by the user, thereby judging whether coding of an input image is possible or not and calculating the maximum number of reference pictures (Nrpn) as the number of reference candidate pictures which can be referred to at inter picture prediction coding, on the basis of the maximum number of intra frame pixels (Nfpx) and the input image size (the number of vertical pixels (Nhpx) and the number of horizontal pixels (Nwpx)). A decoding apparatus to which a bit stream from the moving picture coding apparatus (10a) is supplied can always decode the bit stream satisfactorily, and perform inter picture prediction decoding corresponding to the inter picture prediction coding on the coding end. Consequently, memory areas of a coding apparatus and a decoding apparatus that are adapted to a coding method in which there is no restraint on the capacity of the memory area can be designed.
US07664167B2
An apparatus for managing modem sample rates within a direct access arrangement (DAA) circuit is disclosed. The DAA circuit includes a serial audio interface for providing communications between the DAA circuit and a host computer system. The serial audio interface is capable of operating under multiple serial communication interface standards, such as the AC '97 standard and the HD Audio standard. The DAA circuit also includes means for configuring the serial audio interface to transmit and receive modem samples at an audio sample rate higher than a modem sample rate of modem samples and at a predetermined bit size that is wider than a bit size of the modem samples, such that one bit of each of the modem samples is utilized to indicate the validity of each associated modem samples.
US07664166B2
A pleisiochronous repeater system and components thereof are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, a pleisiochronous repeater system component may be realized as a receiver circuit comprising a clock multiplier that multiplies a reference clock signal by an integer multiple to generate a data clock signal. The receiver circuit may also comprise a divider circuit that generates a timing reference signal having a frequency that is not an integer divisor of a frequency of the reference clock signal.
US07664162B1
Automatic establishment of a connection between a human interface device and a host transceiver unit. A marriage ID is exchanged in a synchronization step. The marriage ID being used by both the host transceiver and the human interface device to calculate a spread spectrum modulation pattern. In one embodiment the spread spectrum modulation is a frequency hopping spread spectrum modulation.
US07664151B2
A nitride semiconductor laser diode includes: a substrate made of silicon in which a plane orientation of a principal surface is a {100} plane; and a semiconductor that includes a plurality of semiconductor layers formed on the substrate and including an active layer, each of the plurality of semiconductor layers being made of group III nitride. The semiconductor has a plane parallel to a {011} plane which is a plane orientation of silicon as a cleaved facet, the cleaved facet forming a facet mirror.
US07664148B2
A laser apparatus 10 includes: a laser medium 11 arranged between a pair of reflecting means 12A and 12B of an optical resonator 12 and adapted to be excited to emit light; a saturable absorber 14 arranged on the optical axis L of the optical resonator 12 between the pair of reflecting means, the transmissivity thereof being adapted to increase with the absorption of emitted light 21 from the laser medium; and an excitation light source unit 13 adapted to output light 22 having a wavelength that excites the laser medium. The saturable absorber 14 is a crystalline body having first to third mutually perpendicular crystallographic axes and is arranged in the optical resonator 12 in such a manner as to have different transmissivities for emitted light in two mutually perpendicular polarization directions. In this case, a laser oscillation occurs for emitted light in the polarization direction that shows the greater transmissivity, and it is therefore possible to obtain laser beams having a stabilized polarization direction.
US07664141B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device to improve the transmission characteristics of physical layer (PHY) hybrid automated repeat request (HARD) in multi subchannel frequency division duplex (FDD) links. The present invention provides a method for decreasing a transmission delay in a multi-sub-channel data transmission of physical layer frames using hybrid automated repeat request with acknowledgement signaling, wherein said method comprises: determining, if no physical layer frame needs to be transmitted in a provided sub channel, determining, if there is a physical layer frame of another sub-channel with pending acknowledgement, selecting said physical layer frame with pending acknowledgement, if no physical layer frame needs to be transmitted in the provided sub-channel, and transmitting said selected frame in said provided sub-channel. The method can also or additionally comprise determining a threshold number, based on the number of sub-channels in said multi-sub-channel data transmission, determining the number of physical layer frames to be transmitted in all subchannels, and controlling the transmission power of the transmission of the physical layer frames, on the basis of the relationship between said threshold number and said determined number of physical layer frame.
US07664139B2
Methods and apparatus for allowing containers in an optical transport network to be shared between users are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a first network element that is a part of an optical transport network includes a frame generator and an output arrangement. The frame generator creates a frame with a fixed stuff area that includes a first set of bits that provide channel identification information, a second set of bits that provide justification information, and a third set of bits that indicate either or both payload type information and client signal fail information. The output arrangement places the frame within a container for transport through the optical transport network. The bandwidth of the container is arranged to be utilized by a plurality of network elements including the first network element.
US07664137B1
The present invention is a system and method for packetizing actual noise signals, typically background noise, received by an access gateway from a speaking party and transmitting these packetized noise signals via a network to an egress gateway. The egress gateway converts the packetized noise signal into noise signals suitable for output and transmits the output noise signals to a listening party. When the access gateway detects that no voice signal is being received and only a noise signal is being received for a predetermined period of time, the access gateway instructs the egress network to continually transmit output noise signals to the listening party and ceases to transmit packetized noise signals to the egress gateway.
US07664135B2
A network device includes a network protocol controller and a device controller. The device controller controls a plurality of service devices including a first device, and a second device of different type from the first device. The network protocol controller and the device controller are connected by a packetized logical channel for the first device. The network protocol controller, upon having received a message in the network plug-and-play protocol and destined for the second device, transfers the content of the message body of the received message to the device controller, using the logical channel for the first device.
US07664134B2
In a network having nodes that operate according to a protocol that defines a node as being in an idle mode when the node is not transmitting or receiving a packet, a method of communicating between nodes during the idle mode. A message formatted according to the protocol is generated. The message is different from messages predefined by the protocol for transmission during the idle mode. For example, the message can comprise a first portion that reports a link status condition. The message can further comprise a second portion that reports a cause of the link status condition. The message is transmitted from a first node of the network when the first node is in the idle mode. The message is received at a second node of the network when the second node is in the idle mode.
US07664126B2
A data communication method for a wireless communication terminal (101) that receives data transmitted intermittently from a transmitting side and plays the data in real time, includes: a step (502, 606 and 607) for requesting to a server (203) and acquiring therefrom, the data characteristics (401-405) of the data transmitted intermittently; a step for determining, based on the data characteristics (401-405), the data transmission rate at which data will not cause either overflow or underflow during real-time playback of the data, and the amount of buffering of data to be stored in advance in a buffer memory from the start of data transmission from the transmitting side to the beginning of playback; a step (504, 611) for transmitting the data transmission rate and the amount of buffering to a base station (121, 202).
US07664097B2
A system and method for providing telephone type services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the internetwork commonly known as the Internet. In preferred embodiments, public switched telephone networks utilizing program controlled switching systems are arranged in an architecture with the Internet to provide a methodology for facilitating telephone use of the Internet by customers on an impromptu basis. Provision is made to permit a caller to setup and carry out a telephone call over the Internet from telephone station to telephone station. Calls may be made on an inter or intra LATA, region or state, nationwide or worldwide basis. Billing may be implemented on a per call, timed, time and distance or other basis. Calls may be made front telephone station to telephone station, from telephone station to computer or computer to telephone station.
US07664093B2
A wireless station capable of increasing the probability that a path diversity effect can be obtained in a case where a plurality of wireless stations transmit packets using a modulation/demodulation scheme with an anti-multipath property. A delay amount determining section (48) randomly selects a delay amount from among a plurality of candidate values. A transmission timing control section (47) determines a transmission start timing, at which to start the packet transmission, to be a timing obtained by delaying a reference timing by the delay amount selected by the delay amount determining section. At the transmission start timing, a modulation section (49) transmits the packet via an RF section (42) and an antenna (41). The difference between the candidate values is greater than or equal to a predetermined delay resolution, and the difference between a maximum candidate value and a minimum candidate value is less than or equal to a predetermined maximum delay.
US07664091B2
A method and apparatus for control channel transmission and reception is provided herein. In particular, the use of a partitioned and structured control channel is provided that leverages the benefits of common control while maintaining favorable aspects of dedicated control. During operation, control information is distributed over a number of partitions (201). Each Pi is encoded (607) with monotonically non-increasing reliability level. Control information for a given remote unit can be distributed on one or several partitions, from Pl to Pk, where Pk is encoded with the lowest reliability level that can be decodable by the remote unit at an acceptable error rate.
US07664073B2
The present invention is a method for performing a mobile user terminal route update in a telecommunication network operated based on the Internet Protocol, the network comprising at least two network transceiver device gateways each communicating with at least one mobile user terminal, at least one routing element providing a route for a communication connection between a mobile first user terminal and a second user terminal, the second user terminal communicating via a border gateway and the at least one routing element with mobile first user terminal, and wherein each user terminal is identified by an Internet Protocol address, the method comprising the steps of detecting an occurrence of a handoff condition for the mobile first user terminal for a handoff from a first one to a second one of the at least two network transceiver device gateways, initiating a handoff procedure at the mobile first user terminal, the first and the second network transceiver device gateways and the border gateway, and the transmitting the respective Internet Protocol addresses that identify those terminals which are communicating with each other by the corresponding gateway to be associated to the respective terminal after handoff, before completion of the handoff procedure.
US07664068B1
Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method for providing multiple access to a communication channel, the method comprising: sending a reservation request of a first type into a first selected minislot of a selected frame of an uplink channel when information of a first type is to be sent, the uplink channel having a plurality of frames, each frame having a first selectable number of minislots and a second selectable number of slots, the reservation request of the first type requesting an assignment of at least one slot for transmitting information of the first type in at least one frame that is subsequent to the selected frame.
US07664067B2
A system, apparatus, and method for maintaining a socket connection over a wireless network. For example, one embodiment of the invention is a wireless data processing device for emulating a socket connection comprising: a wireless radio for establishing a wireless communication channel with a wireless service provider over a wireless network; a network protocol stack including at least one layer configured to establish a socket connection with a remote server over the wireless network, the network protocol stack further including an application layer for executing applications capable of transmitting and receiving data over the socket connection; and a resumable socket module configured to emulate an open socket connection transparently to applications within the application layer, even when the wireless communication channel is temporarily lost, the resumable socket module counting a number of bytes transmitted or to be transmitted to the remote server and maintaining a buffer containing the bytes transmitted or to be transmitted.
US07664056B2
A method which allows standard telephone users to audio conference with video conferencing participants over IP networks in a private secure environment. A dial-out is performed from one or more conference client terminals bridging audio between the Internet and the PSTN networks. The process uses a mixed mode hybrid network architecture for call set-up, initialization and teardown including the method to mix audio at the desktop terminal instead of in a general purpose server as in the prior art. The method conferences video and audio between multiple clients and include audio from a standard telephone network within the conference. A virtual private network connects all of the IP clients together including the voice over IP server used to transcode the proprietary audio into the H.323 standard for transport into the telephony network.
US07664053B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for implementing multicast using a slave block in DSL access technique. Several slave blocks are cascaded with a master block accessed to the DSL. The master block and slave block are respectively connected with DSL users via RTUs, and access an uplink via a network interface of the master block. The slave block is configured to support the IGMP proxy or the IGMP snooping so as to implement multicast function independently. This invention overcomes the shortcomings including the heavy burden on the master block, low efficiency and serious waste in bandwidth resulting from the fact that the operation of the slave block multicast member is implemented in the master block, thus increasing the efficiency of multicast and saving bandwidth of the master block.
US07664051B2
A method for implementing a virtual Network Element (NE), including: constructing type definition information of a virtual NE and a virtual board, which has all type parameters of an actual NE and board of the same type; obtaining the type definition information to construct a virtual NE entity and a virtual board entity which has property information of an actual NE; configuring service and protection information for the constructed virtual NE entity. A network management system for implementing a virtual NE is also disclosed. It is possible to construct and maintain a virtual NE which can simulate actual NE devices completely in accordance with the present invention.
US07664049B1
A communications system comprising: a first network comprising a plurality of first network subscriber units and a first network sink node unit capable of wireless communication with the first network subscriber units; and a second network geographically at least partly overlapping the first network and comprising a plurality of second network subscriber units and a second network sink node unit capable of wireless communication with the second network subscriber units; and a dedicated connection between the first network sink node unit and a second network unit capable of communication in the second network, whereby a first network subscriber unit may be provided with a communication path to another second network unit.
US07664048B1
Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating enhanced classification of network traffic that extends beyond analysis of explicitly presented packet attributes and holistically analyzes data flows, and in some implementations, related data flows against known application behavior patterns to classify the data flows. Implementations of the present invention facilitate the classification of encrypted or compressed network traffic, or where the higher layer information in the data flows are formatted according to a non-public or proprietary protocol.
US07664046B2
Mobile communications terminal for supporting extended link adaptation techniques and method thereof
A mobile communication terminal including a Central Processing Unit (CPU) configured to set at least one or more predetermined parameters according to communication channel states, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) transmission/reception processor configured to process input data based on the set at least one or more predetermined parameters.
US07664045B2
Samples from an addressed data forwarding devices, such as a router, are forwarded to a specified next hop address and/or out a specified next hop interface. However, the sampling and/or next hop forwarding is suppressed if the specified next hop address is unstable or unresolved.
US07664043B1
In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method and apparatus for verifying connectivity in a network comprising a plurality of provider edge routers and a plurality of customer edge routers facilitating communication within at least one customer virtual private network. In another embodiment, the invention comprises a method for determining respective operational statuses of edge communication links between provider edge routers and customer edge routers. In another embodiment, the invention comprises a method for verifying site-to-site reachability within the context of customer virtual private networks.
US07664029B2
In order to determine a spectral route for a given connection in an optical telecommunications network (T) between a starting node (ON1) and a destination node (ON6) of the network, the method consists in: using a conventional routing method to determine one or more candidate spatial routes (Route i, Route 2) connecting the starting node (ON1) to the destination node (ON6), each candidate spatial route comprising a sequence of route segments, each segment connecting two nodes of the network directly and being adapted to support a plurality of spectral routes.
US07664024B2
In a VoIP network system, when a host terminal detects a link with a network, a connection-time determiner determines the time required for reconnection from a disconnection time when a link with the network was disconnected before to an establishment time when a link with the network is reestablished. If the time required for connection is shorter than a predetermined period of time, the connection-time determiner determines that address information is not to be transmitted since the time required for connection is too short to transmit the address information. Otherwise, the connection-time determiner determines that the address information is to be transmitted. According to a result of the determination, self-address information is transmitted by multicast communication to other terminals.
US07664020B2
Methods for the optimal allocation of bandwidth among a plurality of video-on-demand (VOD) programs available on each link of a VOD tree network, where a server at the root node of the tree network broadcasts the multiple VOD programs. Each node in the network has demands for a subset of the programs and each link connecting nodes in the network has a limited amount of available bandwidth capacity. The available bandwidth is allocated on each link optimally among all programs that are carried on that link. The bandwidth allocated to a specific program may be different on different links of the network, as the bandwidth allocated may be decreased, but not increased, from one link to the next along the paths from the root node to the destination nodes. The methods use equitable resource allocation models with a lexicographic minimax objective function. The first method finds optimal solutions while satisfying the capacity constraints on all links, tree-like ordering constraints for the bandwidth allocated to each of the programs, and lower and upper bounds on bandwidth allocation for each program. The second method finds optimal solutions to a more restrictive scheme that imposes additional constraints which require equal bandwidth allocation for a specific program on all relevant links emanating from the same node.
US07664016B2
In a cellular telephone, a music data transfer control unit and a remote control unit control a close-range radio communications unit to establish a remote control session and a data transfer session, between the music data transfer control unit, remote control unit and an audio device, and transfer audio data to the audio device. If the data transfer session is not established during predetermined periods (W1+W2) after the establishment of the remote control session, a control unit disconnects the remote control session.
US07664014B2
A high availability VoIP system interfacing with a PSTN or other TDM network to provide higher availability and better failure recovery wherein the high availability VoIP system includes a plurality of gateways coupled to at least one hub and a proxy table and a call restoration table configured in each of the plurality gateways. Further, the present invention is a method of providing a high availability VoIP system wherein the method includes configuring a plurality of gateways between a PSTN and at least one hub of the system, implementing a proxy table and a call restoration table in each of the plurality of gateways, wherein when a call is received by a gateway in the plurality of gateways from the PSTN, the call is divided into a session initiation protocol (SIP) portion and a real time protocol (RTP) portion, and further wherein the SIP portion is sent to a proxy server and the RTP portion is sent to a media server, both being located in the at least one hub and further routed to an endpoint such as a SIP controlled softphone. A further method of the present invention includes routing SIP voice calls through the plurality of gateways using a proxy server priority table.
US07664009B2
The present invention relates to a transmitting device and a receiving device in a wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication system with space time transmit diversity (STTD). Further, the present invention relates to a channel estimation method for performing a channel estimation in such a wireless communication system, in which the transmitting device comprises a first and a second antenna for transmitting signals with space time transmit diversity. The first and the second antenna means are arranged spaced apart from each other in a space diversity arrangement, whereby first and second pilot symbols are transmitted via said first and said second antenna mean, respectively. Some of the second pilot symbols are orthogonal to corresponding ones of the first pilot symbols, so that a channel estimation to separately determine the transmission quality of signals transmitted from the first and the second antenna means, respectively, can be performed in a receiving device which receives the signals with only one single antenna.
US07664008B2
A transmitter determines a number of available bits (Navbits) in a minimum number of orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbols in which a data field of a packet may fit, by Navbits=(NCBPS*(1+USTBC))*ceil(Npld/(NCBPS*R*(1+USTBC))), where USTBC equals 1 when Space-Time Block Code (STBC) is used and 0 otherwise, where Npld=LENGTH*8+16, where NCBPS is the number of coded bits per symbol, where R is the code rate, and where LENGTH is a number of bytes in a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) PLCP Service Data Unit (PSDU); and determines an integer number of Low-Density Parity-Check Code (LDPCC) codewords to be transmitted, NCW, and the length of the codewords to be used, LLDPC, from information capable of being expressed in a table format.
US07664004B2
An optical pickup apparatus comprising: an objective lens configured to apply a laser beam for recording or reproducing information to a plurality of layers of information recording surfaces selectively, the plurality of layers of information recording surfaces being included in an optical disc mounted on a turn table; and a spherical aberration correction lens configured to be movable on a light path on the side where the laser beam is incident on the objective lens, so as to correct spherical aberration when the laser beam is applied from the objective lens to any one of the plurality of information recording surfaces in the optical disc, a distance between the spherical aberration correction lens and the objective lens on each light path when the laser beam is focused on each of the plurality of layers of information recording surfaces in the optical disc with movement of the spherical aberration correction lens, including a distance at which optical magnification of an optical system including the spherical aberration correction lens and the objective lens is maintained substantially constant.
US07664001B2
A method of holographic recording and reproduction includes recording to the holographic recording medium a wavelength variation reference pattern which is recorded as a hologram at a wavelength of the recording beam, recording to the holographic recording medium a page data pattern as a hologram at the wavelength of the recording beam, detecting the wavelength variation between the recording beam and the reproducing beam based on the size of an image for wavelength variation reference obtained by reproducing the wavelength variation reference pattern at a wavelength of the reproducing beam, and reproducing the page data pattern using the reproducing beam with a wavelength controlled based on the detected wavelength variation.
US07663998B2
An information reproduction device capable of a more appropriate frequency monitoring of a read clock, as compared to conventional devices, is realized. By providing the information reproduction device with a frequency difference detection means which detects a difference in frequencies between a read clock, obtained by applying PLL to a reproduction signal read from a recording medium, and a reference clock; an information processing means which performs signal processing on the reproduction signal and outputs a processing status information indicating whether or not the information processing is performed normally; and a frequency monitoring means which monitors whether or not the frequency of the read clock is normal based on the frequency difference and the processing status information; wherein the frequency monitoring means makes a transition to an OK status which indicates that the frequency of the read clock is normal when the processing status information is indicating a normal status; and makes a transition to a NG status which indicates that the frequency of the read clock is abnormal when the processing status information is indicating an abnormal status and the difference of the frequencies exceeds a first threshold; and returns to an OK status when the difference of the frequencies is below a second threshold during the NG status.
US07663990B2
An information recording medium includes an access control area in which access control data (ACD) is recorded, the ACD having common information set to allow a recording/reproducing apparatus that cannot recognize a predetermined function of the information recording medium to control access to the information recording medium; and an ACD state information area in which state information regarding one of defectiveness and recordability of an ACD block, at which the ACD is recorded in the access control area, is recorded.
US07663979B2
An electronic timepiece (10) includes a case (12) which is fitted with a dial (28) and which contains an electronic control circuit (22) driving a display device (24), of the type wherein the dial (28) includes a main body (48) in the form of a plate which is made of semiconductor material, and of the type wherein the control circuit (22) includes at least one control unit (36) and a time base circuit (34), characterized in that the control circuit (22) includes at least one integrated circuit element (34, 36) which is etched in the main body (48) of the dial (28).The invention also proposes a dial (28) to be fitted to the timepiece (10).
US07663973B2
A seismic survey system having remote acquisition modules (RAMs) for acquiring seismic signals and communicating with a central recording system (CRU) via a network of cables, other RAMs, and line tap units (LTUs), arranged in a matrix of receiver lines and base lines. Each RAM cyclically converts analog signal values to digital, forming data packets. Interrogation commands emanating from the CRU and relayed with strategic delays by intervening LTUs and RAMs are received by the RAM. Each command causes the RAM to transmit a data packet. Strategic delays are set such that the transmission capacity of the line is best utilized. Power and frequency of transmission are selectable by the CRU to optimize performance. Cables contain multiple communication pairs. The network path between the RAM and the CRU is established from the CRU and altered in event of malfunction. All types of network elements are interconnectable. Recorded samples are synchronous.
US07663970B2
A method for seismic event mapping includes transforming seismic signals recorded at selected positions into a domain of possible spatial positions of a source of seismic events. An origin in spatial position and time of at least one seismic event is determined from space and time distribution of at least one attribute of the transformed seismic data.
US07663968B2
There is provided a method of processing geological data during drilling of a borehole for improving accuracy of the geological data. The method includes a first step of determining from instrumentation (100) associated with a string (50) of drilling pipes a spatial trajectory of a borehole (20, 200) in a subterranean region. A second step of the method involves determining from the spatial trajectory one or more points (P1, P2, P3) with reference to the geological data whereat the trajectory changes direction in one or more layers of strata (F) of the subterranean region. A third step of the method involves subdividing an offset log generated by the instrumentation (100) in response to the one or more points (P1, P2, P3) to generate corresponding sections of offset log. A fourth step involves mutually comparing the subdivided sections of offset log to find a condition of best comparison therebetween and thereby generate one or more error terms (E). A fifth step involves, in response to the one or more error terms (E), updating the geological data to improve its accuracy. Beneficially, the method includes a sixth of repeating the second to fifth steps until the one or more error terms (E) are minimized. The method is relevant for a drilling rig (40) to enhance its drilling accuracy into the subterranean region.
US07663966B2
A signaling system includes a signaling path, a master device coupled to the signaling path, a slave device coupled to the signaling path, and a clock generator. The slave device includes timing circuitry to generate an internal clock signal having a phase offset relative to a clock signal supplied by the clock generator, the phase offset being determined at least in part by a signal propagation time on the signal path.
US07663965B2
An integrated circuit memory with clock-controlled memory access includes at least one data connection to input/output data, a memory cell array including memory cells to store data, a clock generator circuit to generate a clock signal, a memory circuit to store data, a control circuit to control storage of data in the memory circuit and to control output of data from the memory circuit. The memory circuit is connected to the memory cell array and to the at least one data connection. During read access to the memory cells, first and second data supplied to the memory circuit from the memory cell array are buffer-stored in the memory circuit upon first and second edges of the clock signal. The first and second data are output from the memory circuit and supplied to the at least one data connection upon third and fourth edges of the clock signal.
US07663943B2
A semiconductor memory device is capable of writing data in phase with external data to a memory cell regardless of which memory cell the data is written to. The semiconductor memory device includes a scrambler, a write selector and a read selector. The scrambler is configured to output a control signal activated when an address for accessing a memory cell of a complementary bit line is inputted. The write selector is configured to selectively transmit data of a write path in response to the control signal. The read selector is configured to selectively transmit data of a read path in response to the control signal.
US07663929B2
A memory cell array forms a plurality of control areas in a direction orthogonal to the direction of extension of a bit line. A sense amplifier initially charges a bit line in each control area in the memory cell array with a charging voltage controlled by a respective individual bit-line control signal. Bit-line control signal generator circuits are provided plural in accordance with the control areas in the memory cell array. Each bit-line control signal generator circuit receives the potential on a cell source line in a corresponding control area, individually generates and provides the bit-line control signal in the each control area in accordance with the received voltage on the cell source line in each control area.
US07663925B2
A method and apparatus that provides the ability to control programming pulses having different widths and/or voltages in a flash memory device. The widths and/or voltage levels of programming pulses are set to achieve programming of all memory cells of an array using a minimum number of programming pulses.
US07663919B2
A memory cell array has a structure in which a plurality of memory cells connected with word lines and bit lines and connected in series are arranged in a matrix form. A selection transistor selects the word lines. A control circuit controls potentials of the word lines and the bit lines in accordance with input data, and controls write, read and erase operations of data with respect to the memory cell. The selection transistor is formed on a well, and a first negative voltage is supplied to a well, a first voltage (the first voltage≧the first negative voltage) is supplied to a selected word line and a second voltage is supplied to a non-selected word line in the read operation.
US07663917B2
A static memory cell comprising a pair of cross-coupled inverters (10, 12) which is “shadowed” with non-volatile memory elements (14, 16) so that data written in the static memory can be stored in the non-volatile cell, but also can be recalled later. The non-volatile cells (14, 16) are programmed with opposite data to increase the robustness of the retrieval process, and they are cross-coupled to the internal nodes (A, B) of the static memory cell, one the non-volatile cells (14) having a control gate connected to B and its source to A, and the other non-volatile element (16) having a control gate connected to A and its source to B. The drain of each non-volatile element (14, 16) is connected by means of a respective pMOS transistor (18, 20) to a program supply means.
US07663914B2
A method of programming a multi bit flash memory device may perform a kth preliminary verify read operation before performing a kth program operation according to a kth page of program data, where n and k integers, n≧2, and 1≦k≦n. That is, where a (k−1)th program operation produces one or more expanded threshold voltage distribution regions due to the presence of fast cells, the kth preliminary verify read operation may detect fast cells that have already reached their target threshold states without having had to undergo the kth program operation. The kth preliminary verify read operation also may set the detected fast cells to have program-inhibit status so as to reduce or prevent undesired further programming of the detected fast cells that would otherwise occur during the kth program operation.
US07663912B2
A non-volatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate having isolation layers in an isolation region, a tunnel insulating layer formed between the isolation layers, and first electron charge layers formed between the isolation layers, wherein the isolation layers comprise projections extending higher than the semiconductor substrate; etching the first electron charge layers, thereby reducing the thickness of the first electron charge layers and exposing sidewalls of the isolation layers; performing a first etch process to reduce the width of the projections; forming second electron charge layers between the projections on the first electron charge layers; and performing a second etch process to remove the projections between the second electron charge layers.
US07663910B2
A phase change memory device includes a plurality of word lines arranged in a row direction and a plurality of bit lines arranged in a column direction. A plurality of reference bit line and a plurality of clamp bit lines are arranged in the column direction. A cell array block including a phase change resistance cell is arranged where a word line and a bit line intersect. A reference cell array block is formed where a word line and the reference bit line intersect. The reference cell array block is configured to output a reference current. A clamp cell array block is formed where a word line and a clamp bit line intersect. The clamp cell array block is configured to output a clamp current. A sense amplifier is connected to each of the bit lines and is configured to receive a clamp voltage and a reference voltage.
US07663899B2
The present invention provides an active compensation device that is connected between a power system and a non-linear load in parallel for providing an instantaneous compensation current for the non-linear load. The active compensation device comprises an electricity-storing unit, a bridge switching unit, and a controlling unit. The bridge switching unit is connected electrically with the electricity-storing unit for charging or discharging the electricity-storing unit; the controlling unit is used to produce control signals to switch the bridge switching unit. The electricity-storing performs a dual-direction current operation by means of switching the bridge switching unit to compensate the power system so as to increase instantaneously the current capacity.
US07663896B2
An energy effective switching power supply apparatus and an energy effective method thereof. The energy effective switching power supply apparatus includes a power transforming part having first and second coils to induce a voltage to the second coil using interactions between the first and the second coils with respect to the input voltage, a power outputting part to output a sensing signal when it is determined that a first DC voltage output by rectifying and smoothing the voltage induced to the second coil is greater than or equal to a reference voltage level, and a switching controlling part to adjust a switching frequency of a switching device to interrupt a current flowing in the first coil of the power transforming part when the sensing signal is received. Accordingly, a switching loss is controlled and an energy loss is reduced.
US07663892B2
Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board having an RF module power stage circuit embedded therein. Specifically, this invention relates to a printed circuit board having an RF module power stage circuit embedded therein, in which a terminal pad for a resistor, a bead, or an inductor is defined or formed on a power supply plane of a multilayered wired board to connect the resistor, the bead, or the inductor to the power supply plane, and the resistor, the bead, or the inductor is connected in parallel with a decoupling capacitor by using a via hole or by embedding the resistor, the bead or the inductor perpendicular to the power supply plane, thus decreasing the size of the RF module and improving the performance thereof.
US07663891B2
In a lead frame board, while a heat radiation wall member formed by a resin having a relatively high thermal conductivity is provided in a low heat-resistance heat generating component mounting region where a low heat-resistance heat generating component is mounted, heat block wall members formed by resins having relatively low thermal conductivities are provided in a high heat-resistance heat generating component mounting region where a high heat-resistance heat generating component is mounted and in a non-heat generating component mounting region where a non-heat generating component is mounted. Thus, heat block is performed between the low heat-resistance heat generating component mounting region and the high heat-resistance heat generating component mounting region and non-heat generating component mounting region, and a heat radiation function is enhanced in the low heat-resistance heat generating component.
US07663890B2
One example of an optical transceiver includes a housing and an optical transmitter and optical receiver disposed within the housing. A PCB is also disposed in the housing. The PCB has front and side edges, as well as circuitry in communication with the optical transmitter and the optical receiver. The PCB also includes a group of plated contact pads, each of which includes a front-most extremity that terminates short of the front edge. Finally, the PCB includes a group of traces, one of which leads from one of the side edges of the PCB to a via that is connected with the circuitry, and another of which leads from the via to one of the plated contact pads.
US07663887B2
A heat dissipation device assembly includes a heat dissipation device mounted on a printed circuit board and a retainer device mounted below the printed circuit board. The retainer device includes a back plate and a crank pivotably mounted to the back plate. The crank includes a pressing portion and a handle for receiving a rotation force. Posts are extended from the heat dissipation device through the printed circuit board to engage with the back plate, thereby to pre-assemble the heat dissipation device on the printed circuit board. The handle is pushed to rotate between a released position and a locked position. In the locked position, the pressing portion extends through the back plate to push the printed circuit board toward the heat dissipation device, whereby an electronic component on the printed circuit board has an intimate contact with the heat dissipation device.
US07663883B2
A heat transfer mechanism for dissipating heat from a heat generating body to a heat dissipating part, realizing both a high elasticity and a high thermal conductivity, comprised of a film-shaped heat conductor for transferring heat to the heat dissipating part and an elastic member for imparting elasticity to the film-shaped heat conductor, the film-shaped heat conductor being formed from metal foil-type flexible heat pipes or carbon-based thermal conductive sheets.
US07663879B2
There is provided by this invention a protective enclosure for a personal electronic device that is generally comprised of a shell that is capable of enclosing and substantially surrounding the electronic device disposed to make the shell substantially watertight, substantially rigid and substantially crush-resistant. The enclosure has a transparent flexible protective membrane that is integrally fixed on the shell so that the flexible protective membrane is positioned over the touch screen of the electronic device when the electronic device is enclosed in the shell. The flexible protective membrane having a back side that has a substantially planar smooth surface that is adjacent to the touch screen of the electronic device wherein tactile inputs on a front side of the flexible protective membrane are communicated to the touch screen through the transparent flexible protective membrane. The enclosure also has a second transparent flexible protective membrane that is integrally fixed on the shell so that the flexible protective membrane is positioned over an alphanumeric keyboard of the electronic device forming a keyboard in the flexible protective membrane such that the flexible protective membrane has total interface with the enclosed keyboard allowing the user to use the keyboard of the enclosed electronic device through the flexible protective membrane.
US07663877B2
An electronic apparatus of the present invention includes a radiation rubber. The radiation rubber is brought into firm contact with both a frame of an air-cooling fan unit and a housing of the electronic apparatus such as a notebook personal computer. The heat of a fan unit is transferred to the housing through the radiation rubber, and the housing is utilized as a radiator.
US07663873B2
An exemplary fixing mechanism for a data storage device includes a case, and a latch member. The data storage device includes two pairs of guiding pins attached to sidewalls thereof. The case includes a first panel, and a second panel. The first panel includes an opening defined therein, and a first plate perpendicularly extending from an edge of the opening. The second panel includes a bracket to hold a component other than the data storage device therein. The bracket includes a wall parallel to the first plate. A pair of first sliding channels is defined in the wall and a second sliding channel is defined in the first plate, for slidably receiving the guiding pins therein. The latch member is attached to the first plate and includes a resilient arm. A positioning space is defined in the resilient member to hold the corresponding guiding pin therein.
US07663865B2
Electrolytic capacitors are provided having an airtight housing, electrodes immersed in an electrolytic solution, electrical contacts connected to the electrodes, and a device for sorption of harmful substances. The device is made of a multilayer polymeric sheet (10), which is formed of an inner layer (12) of polymeric material, containing particles of one or more getter materials (11) for sorption of the harmful substances, and at least one protective layer (13) of a polymeric material impermeable to the electrolyte. All of the polymeric materials are permeable to the harmful substances.
US07663864B2
The electrolytic capacitor includes two chemically processed anode foils, two cathode foils, four separator sheets, four lead tab terminals, two anode leads and two cathode leads. The two chemically processed anode foils, two cathode foils and four separator sheets are arranged alternately and rolled, to form a capacitor element. Two lead tab terminals are connected to the two chemically processed anode foils, respectively, and the remaining two lead tab terminals are connected to two cathode foils, respectively. The two anode leads are connected to two lead tab terminals, respectively, and the two cathode leads are connected to two lead tab terminals, respectively. As a result, equivalent series resistance can stably be reduced.
US07663863B2
An electrode for an electric double layer capacitor including a current collector electrode and an active substance carried on the current collector electrode, wherein the active substance is composed of a carbon-based fiber and a conductive polymer fiber formed by the electrospinning method, whereby a high capacity capacitor electrode having of a larger specific surface area than a conventional capacitor electrode and an electric double layer capacitor using the same is provided.
US07663862B2
A first internal electrode includes a main electrode portion whose longer-side direction agrees with a longer-side direction of first and second principal faces, and a lead portion extending from an end of the main electrode portion on the first end face side toward a first side face and connected to a first terminal electrode. A second internal electrode includes a main electrode portion whose longer-side direction agrees with the longer-side direction of the first and second principal faces, and a lead portion extending from an end of the main electrode portion on the first end face side toward a second side face and connected to a second terminal electrode. A third internal electrode includes a main electrode portion whose longer-side direction agrees with the longer-side direction of the first and second principal faces, and a lead portion extending from an end of the main electrode portion on the second end face side toward the first side face and connected to the first terminal electrode. A fourth internal electrode includes a main electrode portion whose longer-side direction agrees with the longer-side direction of the first and second principal faces, and a lead portion extending from an end of the main electrode portion on the second end face side toward the second side face and connected to the second terminal electrode.
US07663857B2
A protection circuit can be prevented from malfunctioning due to the parasitic operation attributable to the unstable base potential of a transistor. In one embodiment, the protection circuit can be constituted by a reverse transistor system where the bases of transistors are connected to the collectors so that bases and collector potentials are the same. With the above configuration, the base potential is stabilized, and even if a parasitic potential is applied to the base as noise, malfunction associated with transistors turn on due to parasitic operation can be prevented. Since the base potential is stabilized, the protection circuit transistors turn on with greater certainty when a surge current occurs such that the surge current is absorbed by the protection circuit and flows to GND.
US07663847B2
A magnetoresistive sensor having magnetically anisotropic bias layers for biasing the free layer of the sensor. The hard magnetic layer is formed over a seed layer structure that has been treated to induce the magnetic anisotropy in the hard bias layers. The treated seed layers also allow the hard bias layers to be deposited over a crystalline material such as in a partial mill design, without the need for a buffer layer such as Si to break the epitaxial growth initiated by the underlying crystalline layer.
US07663844B2
An actuator assembly usable un a hard disk drive includes an actuator arm having an arm hole to improve dynamic characteristics. The actuator arm of the actuator assembly has an arm hole having first, second, and third extended portions, and two members positioned at both sides of the arm hole. The first extended portion is formed at an edge positioned at a leading end of the arm hole so that each of leading ends of the two members has a first reduced width, the second extended portions are formed at edges positioned at a rear end of the arm hole so that each of rear ends of the two members has a second reduced width, and the third extended portions are formed at both sides of a middle portion of the arm hole so that each of middle portions of the two members has a third reduced width. The third width is smaller than the second width and larger than the first width, so that a displacement of a read/write head in a major resonance mode is minimized, a bandwidth for position control of the read/write head is widened, and a position error signal is decreased when the hard disk drive operates.
US07663843B2
A flex cable frame assembly for a head gimbal assembly includes a micro-actuator frame and a flex cable mounted to the micro-actuator frame. The flex cable includes a first set of bonding pads provided to one end of the flex cable, a second set of bonding pads provided to an opposing end of the flex cable, and a trace integrated to the flex cable that interconnects the first set of bonding pads and the second set of bonding pads.
US07663841B2
The present invention provides an interface for improving resonance control. The interface includes a first member having a first coupling portion, a mounting surface having a second coupling portion for coupling to the first coupling portion of the first member, and a raised engagement member located on at least one of the first member or the mounting surface. The raised engagement surface provides contact between the first member and the mounting surface.
US07663839B2
A pole layer has: a first portion having an end face located in a medium facing surface; and a second portion that is located farther from the medium facing surface than the first portion and has a thickness greater than that of the first portion. A surface of the first portion farther from a substrate is located closer to the substrate than a surface of the second portion farther from the substrate. The second portion has a front end face that couples the surface of the first portion farther from the substrate to the surface of the second portion farther from the substrate. A shield layer has a portion located between the front end face and the medium facing surface in a region closer to the substrate than the surface of the second portion farther from the substrate.
US07663838B2
A production method for a magnetic recording medium including forming thin films on a substrate using a sputtering method with a target, wherein the target on which an annular-shaped erosion area is formed during sputtering and a substrate holder on which a plurality of substrates are mounted are installed, opposed in parallel, in a manner such that center axes of the target and the substrate holder align with each other, and the substrates are mounted on the substrate holder in positions such that R3/R1 is 1.1 or smaller and R4 is R2 or greater to form thin films.
US07663835B1
A system and method for efficiently identifying track squeeze errors (TSEs) of a disk of a disk drive during a testing process for the disk drive is disclosed. The method includes reading servo bursts from a track of the disk, utilizing a modeled scan variable, and determining a gain comprising a ratio of a first matrix A and a second matrix B. TSEs associated with the SWEs of the servo bursts are determined for the track. The TSEs are determined as a product of the gain and a measured scan variable wherein the measured scan variable is calculated as being the difference between a measured scan value and an estimated nominal scan value.
US07663832B2
A method and apparatus for exactly compensating for a track zero position when copying a reference servo pattern in a disc drive adopting a reference servo track copying method. The method of compensating for a track zero position in a reference servo track copy system for copying a reference servo pattern in a head disc assembly into which a reference disc, on which the reference servo pattern is recorded, produced offline and at least one blank disc are assembled, includes: searching for a collision position of an actuator arm against a stopper for limiting the displacement of the actuator arm on the reference servo pattern; calculating an optimal track zero position based on the searched collision position; and copying the reference servo pattern on all disc surfaces from the calculated optimal track zero position.
US07663827B2
The present invention provides a method of initializing a perpendicular magnetic recording medium in which a magnetic field having a magnetic field strength Hex is applied to a perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer having a coercive force Hc to initialize the magnetic layer, the method comprising the steps of: controlling a magnetic field strength HexP in a direction parallel to the medium surface of the magnetic field so that HexP>1.3×Hc; and controlling a magnetic field strength HexV in a direction perpendicular to the medium surface of the magnetic field so that HexV
US07663819B2
A lens barrel assembly of a camera module and a laser apparatus for assembling the lens barrel assembly are provided. The lens barrel assembly of a camera module includes: at least one lens; a barrel provided with a lens exposing hole having a predetermined size which is formed to penetrate a central portion of a closed upper surface of the barrel, wherein the lens is inserted from an lower opening of the barrel toward the lens exposing hole; and a stopping protrusion which is formed by fuse-securing a fused material on a boundary region between an outer circumference of the lens and an opened inner surface of the barrel by illumination of a laser beam on the opened inner surface of the barrel.
US07663813B2
An imaging lens module includes a fixed diaphragm and an optical module. The optical module includes first, second, third, fourth and fifth lenses arranged from an object side to an image side in a sequence of: the first lens, having a negative refractive power, a convex surface disposed towards the object side, and a concave surface disposed towards the image side; the diaphragm; the second lens having a positive refractive power and a convex lens disposed towards the image side; and the third lens; being a meniscus negative lens; the fourth lens, being a positive lens, and adhered with the third lens to form a composite lens; the fifth lens, having a positive refractive power, such that the imaging lens module is a lens module with the features of high imaging quality and high yield rate.
US07663807B2
A microscope objective includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with positive refracting power, having two meniscus lenses, each with a concave surface facing the object side, and at least one positive lens; a second lens unit with positive refracting power; and a third lens unit having concave surfaces adjacent and opposite to each other configured as air contact surfaces. The microscope objective satisfies the following conditions: 7≦f 0.5
US07663802B2
A compact zoom lens system has a zoom ratio of about 3.5 or more, an angle of view of 29° or more in a wide-angle end, and a vibration reduction function. The system includes, in order from an object, a first group having positive power, a second group having negative power, and a third group having positive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between the first and second groups increases, and a distance between the second and third groups decreases. The third group consists of, in order from the object, a 31 group having positive power, a 32 group having negative power, and a 33 group. Only the 32 group is moved perpendicularly to an optical axis for correcting image blur due to camera shake.
US07663795B2
Image display apparatus (10) comprising projector means, a first light source, at least one primary modulator (12) for modulating light from the first light source, a second light source, optical means (14, 18) for combining light from the second light source with the modulated light from the at least one primary modulator (12), and an auxiliary modulator (16) for modulating the combined light from the second light source and the modulated light from the at least one primary modulator (12).
US07663789B2
A method of providing a security document having a security feature includes creating the security document and determining an identity associated with the security document. The identity is then used to generate a digital signature of at least part of the identity. Coded data is generated including a number of coded data portions, each of which is indicative of the identity of the security document and, at least part of the signature. The coded data is then printed on the security document.
US07663788B2
Fed image data is used, to respectively calculate two color correction values in two correction value calculating circuits. Further, a target skin color chromaticity value and significance levels indicating which of the two color correction values should be attached importance to are inputted from an input device. Respective confidence levels for the two color correction values are calculated on the basis of the two color correction values and the inputted target skin color chromaticity value. On the basis of the calculated confidence levels, the inputted significance levels, and the two color correction values, both of the confidence levels and the significance levels are reflected, to calculate a new color correction value in a color correction value calculating circuit.
US07663783B2
An image-processing device applies a predetermined process to input image data so as to output the processed image data. The image-processing device comprises a medium-density detection unit, an expansion unit, and a non-character edge judgment unit. The medium-density detection unit detects a medium-density field of an image represented by the image data. The expansion unit applies an expansion process to the medium-density field detected by the medium-density detection unit. The non-character edge judgment unit judges the medium-density field applied with the expansion process by the expansion unit as a non-character edge field of the image represented by the image data.
US07663775B2
The present invention relates to a pen for sensing coded data on a page. The coded data is printed on the page as a collection of tags using invisible ink. The pen includes an elongate housing defining an internal space. An ink marking implement is movably mounted within the space and includes an ink marking nib to mark the page with ink. A sensor is mounted within the space and is configured to sense the coded data. A transmitter is mounted within the space and is configured wirelessly to communicate data sensed by the sensor to a printer.
US07663773B2
In an information processing apparatus having a service mode for a service person to carry out maintenance of the apparatus enters for carrying out the maintenance, a registration page is provided for registering the service person as a service person in charge of the maintenance of the apparatus, and an input page is provided for inputting authentication information required for the service person that is registered in the registration page as a person in charge of the maintenance of the apparatus to enter the service mode.
US07663758B2
An apparatus for detecting surface plasmon resonance (SPR) comprises a light source, a light-coupling unit, a phase-resolving module, and a data-processing unit. The light source provides a light beam emitting into a surface of a metal film to generate surface plasmon resonance. The phase-resolving module is configured to split the reflection light of the light beam on the surface of the metal film into a first light, a second light, a third light, and a fourth light, and to detect the intensities of the lights simultaneously. The phases of the first light and second light differentiate by 90 degrees, and the phases of the third light and fourth light differentiate by 90 degrees. The data-processing unit calculates the phase variation of the surface plasmon resonance on the metal film based on the intensities of the first light, second light, third light, and fourth light.
US07663752B2
A polarization modulation imaging ellipsometer capable of measuring ellipsometric parameters of the surface of a sample for each of the measured points with high precision and at high speed, which has a light source unit that emits light whose intensity periodically changes at a predetermined frequency; an incident-light optical unit having a collimator, a polarizer, and a photoelastic phase modulator which modulates light emitted from the light source unit an emitted-light optical unit having an analyzer which analyzes a polarization state of light that has been reflected from or transmitted through the sample and a two-dimensional detector which converts light received from the analyzer to an electrical signal and outputs the electrical signal; and a control/analysis unit which operates the light source unit and the photoelastic phase modulator at the same frequency, and calculates ellipsometric parameters of each of the measured points.
US07663737B2
A sensor device including a source for electromagnetic radiation, a plurality of receivers for the electromagnetic radiation, and an electronics unit designed to transmit electromagnetic radiation by means of the source and to determine a distance which the electromagnetic radiation emitted from the source travels from the reflection surface of an object to respective receivers by evaluation of the delay time of the electromagnetic radiation and/or the phase of an oscillation modulated on to the electromagnetic radiation. The electronics unit for the detection of reflective objects, which are like floating parts and are distributed in three dimensions in a medium, is able to determine from the measured distances a first group of distances which fit a predetermined distribution, and, if there is more than one group member, to emit a signal which is associated with the detection of reflective objects which are like floating parts.
US07663735B2
A microlithographic projection exposure apparatus includes an illumination system and a projection lens which images a reticle onto a photosensitive layer. The projection exposure apparatus further includes an immersion arrangement for introducing an immersion liquid into an immersion interspace between a last optical element of the projection lens on the image side and the photosensitive layer. A transmission filter is designed and arranged in the projection lens in such a way that rays which enter the immersion interspace from the last optical element at an angle of incidence α are attenuated more strongly the smaller the angle of incidence α is. The transmission filter may be arranged e.g. in a pupil plane of the projection lens and may have a transmittance which increases with increasing distance from an optical axis of the projection lens. In this way compensation is provided for angle-dependent absorption in the immersion liquid.
US07663731B2
A method of processing substrates for a liquid crystal display panel includes providing a first loader having a first port and a second port, concurrently inputting and outputting first substrates between a cassette at the first port and a processing assembly, and, processing the first substrates in the processing assembly.
US07663726B2
A liquid crystal apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel including two substrates with liquid crystal interposed therebetween, a conductive layer provided on an outer surface of at least one of the substrates, a flexible board electrically connected to the liquid crystal display panel, and a tape-like conductive member providing an electrical connection between the conductive layer and a grounding wire of the flexible board.
US07663719B2
A liquid crystal display panel structured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between paired electrode substrates, comprises a support base member of a nearly rectangular shape provided in at least one of the paired electrode substrates, a counter electrode supported by the support base member, and an alignment film which is located within a surface of the counter electrode in contact with the liquid crystal layer. The rubbing direction of the alignment film is parallel to one side of the support base member and the counter electrode has a nonlinear edge extending in the rubbing direction of the alignment film.
US07663718B2
Disclosed herein is an very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD included in an LCD polarizer. More specifically, the very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD has a considerably reduced thickness, as compared to conventional quarter wave films in which anisotropic polymeric films are laminated.
US07663709B2
An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, storage capacitors which are provided below the plurality of pixel electrodes with an inter-layer insulating layer disposed therebetween and in which a lower electrode, a dielectric film, and an upper electrode are sequentially laminated, an extending section extending from the dielectric film, a first conductive film disposed above the extending section of the dielectric film, a second conductive film disposed below the extending section of the dielectric film, and a relay layer disposed above the first conductive film, formed of the same film as the plurality of the pixel electrodes, and electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, wherein the plurality of pixel electrodes and the storage capacitors are provided in a pixel area on a substrate, and the extending section, the first conductive film, the second conductive film, and the relay layer are disposed in a peripheral area located around the pixel area.
US07663705B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a light propagation characteristic control apparatus which extends the light-intensity dynamic range and the number of levels, and are suited for enhancing image quality and reducing the size and generation time of tables. Exemplary embodiments provide a projection display apparatus that tentatively decides a transmissivity T2 of each pixel of a color-modulation light valve depending upon HDR display data, and decides a transmissivity T1 of each pixel of an intensity-modulation light valve depending upon a tentatively decided transmissivity T2 and the HDR display data, and a control value of each pixel of the intensity-modulation light valve depending upon a decided transmissivity T1. Depending upon a decided transmissivity T1 and the HDR display data, transmissivity T2 is decided of each pixel of the color-modulation light valve. Depending upon a decided transmissivity T2, a control value is decided of each pixel of the color-modulation light valve.
US07663703B2
A video processing method and apparatus are provided. Video signals including channel information relating to one of a plurality of channels, and video identification information relating to an identity of a picture between signals are received. A receiving quality of each video signal in accordance with the video signals having the same video identification information, but different channel information is evaluated. A picture is displayed by processing a video signal including a best receiving quality among the video signals. Thus, a video signal corresponding to an identical picture is received through a high quality channel to be processed and displayed.
US07663702B2
A digital video signal processing apparatus and method for adaptive spatio-temporal Y/C separation in multiple directions. In the digital video signal processing apparatus, an adaptive three-dimensional band pass filter (3D BPF) performs Y/C separation using local comb filtering/1D band pass filtering when the edge direction is fixed vertically/horizontally according to spatio-temporal local characteristics of an image using spatio-temporal filters. When the edge direction is not fixed horizontally/vertically, the 3D BPF performs 2D band pass filtering in all directions. Thus, the 3D BPF continuously carries out comb filtering, 1D band pass filtering and 2D band pass filtering according to the spatio-temporal local characteristics of the image.
US07663701B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for noise reduction include noise estimation from blanking interval information. Such systems, methods, and apparatus may also include temporal filtering, scene change detection, inverse telecine, and/or DC preservation.
US07663699B2
Disclosed herein is a television unit including a thin platelike display unit, a stand for rotatably supporting the display unit, and a speaker. The stand has a mounting portion adapted to be mounted at a suitable position and a swiveling portion rotatably connected to the mounting portion for supporting the display unit. The speaker is provided in the swiveling portion of the stand.
US07663690B2
A digital camera configured to carry out a strobe photographing is provided. The digital camera includes an imaging optical system, which forms an optical image of an object with its background, an image capturing system configured to capture the optical image of the object and the background, a color temperature sensor configured to detect a color temperature of the object and the background illuminated with external light, a white balance adjusting system configured to adjust a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing system, and a color temperature converting filter inserted in an optical path of light which passes through the imaging optical system to form the optical image when the strobe photographing is carried out. The color temperature converting filter converts the color temperature of the external light to a predetermined value.
US07663689B2
A method for adjusting image capture settings for an image capture device is provided. The method initiates with identifying a scene. Then, an image of the scene is captured. The method includes generating a depth mask of the scene from data defining the image of the scene. Then, pixel values corresponding to objects within any one or both of a foreground region and a background region of the captured image are adjusted based upon bit values of the depth mask. An image capture device and a system are provided.
US07663688B2
With a half press of a shutter button, a focus lens is moved from a near distance end to a far distance end of a predetermined search range, and AF evaluation values are calculated. Based on the AF evaluation values, a maximum evaluation value and a first lens position corresponding to the maximum evaluation value are detected. If the maximum evaluation value is larger than a threshold value and the first lens position is not located at the near distance end or the far distance end, the first lens position becomes an in-focus position. If the first lens position is, for example, at the near distance end, the focus lens is moved within an extended search range set on the near distance side, and the maximum evaluation value is obtained. A second lens position corresponding to the maximum evaluation value becomes the in-focus position.
US07663681B2
In a driving method of a complementary metal oxide semiconductor active pixel, timing of a transmission control signal and a reset control signal generated in a read-out section is performed in advance in a reset section. A potential wall between a photodiode area and a transmission transistor having a size corresponding to one generated in the read-out section is generated in the reset section in advance and the photodiode area is filled with charges. A dead region is reduced in the read-out section. In the reset section, the transmission transistor connecting a collection node to accumulate the signal charges generated from the photodiode and the floating diffusive node is turned on at least one time, and a difference between an initial voltage of the collection node and a voltage of the reset level of the floating diffusive node is reduced.
US07663676B2
An image composing apparatus and method of a portable terminal are provided. The image composing method includes photographing an object when a key for photographing using a background image is input; extracting contours of the background image and the photographed image; and combining the background image and the photographed image such that the extracted contours are matched with each other. The photographed image can be correctly matched with the background image through only one-time photographing, even when the shaking of the user's hand occurs or the object to be photographed moves.
US07663674B2
A method for processing image data using a digital camera includes providing a digital camera having a first transformation program as a default program, the first transformation program supporting a first transformation technology. A first communication link is formed between the digital camera and a first remote image processing device. Transformation-related information is obtained from the first remote device, the transformation-related information including information about one or more transformation technologies supported by the first remote device. Whether the first transformation program is supported by the first remote device is determined. A second transformation program supported by the first remote device is searched if the first transformation program is determined not to be supported by the first remote device, the second transformation program supporting a second transformation technology.
US07663673B2
An image processing apparatus performs image processing on moving picture data by using image processing control information which defines image processing conditions and outputs the moving picture data subjected to the image processing to an image output device connected to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A moving-picture-data obtaining unit obtains the moving picture data in units of blocks, each block including a plurality of unit images. An image-processing-control-information obtaining unit obtains image processing control information associated with each block of the moving picture data. An image processor performs image processing on each block of the moving picture data by using the image processing control information. An output unit outputs the moving picture data subjected to the image processing to the image output device.
US07663671B2
In methods and systems for classifying capture records, such as images. A collection of capture records is provided. Each capture record has metadata defining a map location. This metadata can be earlier determined from a stream of data transmissions, even if there are gaps in transmission. The provided capture records are clustered into groups based on capture locations. A map, inclusive of the capture locations, is segmented into a plurality of regions based on relative positions of the capture locations associated with each group. The regions are associated with the capture records of respective groups.
US07663666B2
A mobile terminal, which is capable of communicating with a camera server via a network, has a display unit and a plurality of operating units. Operations for acquiring video and for controlling a camera are assigned to respective ones of the plurality of operating units. Depending upon the operation of the plurality of operating units, processing is executed for acquiring video from the camera server or for instructing the camera server to control the camera.
US07663664B2
The invention describes systems and methods to obtain and present imaging data in absolute units. The systems and methods convert relative image data produced by a camera to absolute light intensity data using a compensation factor. The compensation factor accommodates for hardware and specific imaging conditions in the imaging system that variably affect camera output. The present invention determines the compensation factor based on assessing the output of the camera against a known light source for a specific set of imaging conditions in the imaging system. The compensation factor is then stored in memory corresponding to the specific set of imaging conditions. Upon subsequent imaging with the set of imaging conditions, the corresponding compensation factor is called from memory and applied to the camera output. A compensation factor may be determined and stored for each hardware state and imaging condition available to the imaging system.
US07663663B2
A burn-in control method and video processor for executing the same. The video processor intelligently recognizes aspects of a video image that are likely to cause burn-in, and responsive to such recognition, modifies the video image to prevent uneven aging of the pixels. According to one aspect of the disclosure, modifications are spatially made to an entire video frame, one or more selected regions of a video frame, or one or more individual pixels of a video frame. According to another aspect of the disclosure, modifications are temporally made to all frames in a video stream, selected frames in a video stream, or a single frame in a video stream.
US07663661B2
A pipeline architecture for analyzing multiple streams of video is embodied, in part, in a layer of application program interfaces (APIs) to each stage of processing. Buffer queuing is used between some stages, which helps moderate the load on the CPU(s). Through the layer of APIs, innumerable video analysis applications can access and analyze video data flowing through the pipeline, and can annotate portions of the video data (e.g., frames and groups of frames), based on the analyses performed, with information that describes the frame or group. These annotated frames and groups flow through the pipeline to subsequent stages of processing, at which increasingly complex analyses can be performed. At each stage, portions of the video data that are of little or no interest are removed from the video data. Ultimately, “events” are constructed and stored in a database, from which cross-event and historical analyses may be performed and associations with, and among, events may be made.
US07663660B2
A read unit reads a plurality of pieces of image data from an image storing unit for output, respectively. A destination specifying unit specifies image display units to be display destinations of the image data from the read unit. A divided-period setting unit divides a unit display period of the image display units to a plurality (2) of divided periods to correspond to the image display units. In each divided period, a synthesis unit synthesizes, for sequential outputs, the image data from the read units according to the display destination specified by the destination specifying unit in order to multiplex the image data to be displayed on each of the image display units. A separating unit separates, in every divided period of the unit display period, the synthesized image data for output to the image display units corresponding to the respective divided periods.
US07663649B2
An information processing device, for aiding operations relating to position and orientation of a virtual object positioned in three-dimensional space, comprises: an image-taking unit for taking images in real space in order to display the virtual object in a superimposed manner on real space; a synthesizing unit for synthesizing a virtual object with the taken image; an operating unit for operating the position and orientation of the virtual object; an aiding unit for obtaining a three-dimensional position of real space from external instructions, and obtaining a constraining shape for aiding in operations for the position and orientation of the virtual object; wherein the position and orientation of the virtual object are operated by instructions from the operating unit, based on constraint conditions based on the constraining shape obtained by the aiding unit. Thus, constraining shapes can be dynamically created in a compounded space, and virtual objects can be readily operated using constraining shapes even where constraining shapes have not been registered beforehand.
US07663646B2
A device for realizing on screen display (OSD) in video signals includes a comparator (430) and an outputting control unit (440). The comparator (430) is used for receiving OSD signals and identification signals on a background color selected to be transparent in the OSD signals, identifying the background color in the OSD signals based on the identification signals, and generating a control signal based on the identification. The outputting control unit (440) is connected to the comparator (430), and is used for receiving UV components of the OSD signals, UV components of the video signals, and the control signal, and for selectively outputting UV data of the video signals or UV data of the OSD signals according to the control signal. The device simulates translucent OSD by preparing the Y and UV components of displayable YUV signals respectively from the video signals and the OSD signals.
US07663630B2
An apparatus processes collision information in a graphic system, and includes a first storage unit for loading geometry information of primary and secondary object graphics inputted from outside, and outputting the geometry information of the primary object graphics and geometry information of a plurality of secondary object graphics in which a collision detection operation with the primary object graphics is to be performed; a transformer for transforming coordinates of the secondary object graphics to be coincided with a coordinate system that is based on the primary object graphics; a processor for acquiring a collision point, collision presence information, and a collision depth between the primary and the secondary object graphics simultaneously based on the geometry information of the inputted primary object graphics and that of each of the coordinate-transformed secondary object graphics by using a collision detection operation technique determined by the geometry information properties of the primary and the secondary object graphics; a second storage unit for storing the collision information separately, wherein the collision depths before/after update are stored in two areas separately; and an updating unit for updating the collision point and the collision presence information whenever they are newly outputted from the processor, wherein the collision depth is updated based on the result of comparison with the previously stored collision depth.
US07663615B2
A light emission drive circuit includes an electric charge accumulating section for accumulating electric charges on the basis of a gradation sequence signal designating a luminance gradation sequence. A light emission control section flows a light emission drive current having a current value in accordance with an amount of the electric charges accumulated in the electric charge accumulating section. A writing control section controls a supplying state of the electric charges based on the gradation sequence signal to the electric charge accumulating section on the basis of a first control signal. A voltage control section controls a drive voltage for operating the light emission controlling section on the basis of a second control signal.
US07663611B2
The invention pertains to a display device comprising means of detection of proximity and to a method of using this device. The device comprises a liquid crystal layer, at least two electrodes making it possible to excite the liquid crystal, means for generating a control signal for the electrodes, means for generating a high frequency signal applied to the second electrode, means for detecting a modification, if any, of the high frequency signal. The device also comprises means of mixing (Rscb) of the high frequency signal and of the control signal. In the method, the means for generating a control signal provide a periodic signal comprising positive and negative alternations and the means for generating a high frequency signal inject a high frequency signal at substantially equal quantity during as many positive alternations as negative alternations of the control signal.
US07663607B2
A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.
US07663600B2
A mouse configured to display an icon including a top housing that is semi-opaque; and an icon indicator disposed under the top housing, the icon indicator including a light source and an icon plate. The light source is configured to light the icon plate to display an icon through the top housing. The icon indicator and icon are substantially not visible through the top housing if the light source is not lighted.
US07663592B2
Systems for driving displays are provided. In this regard, an representative system for driving a display comprises a signal driving circuit having a first shift register and a second shift register coupled in series to the first shift register. The signal driving circuit is operative to drive a display according to inputs provided by only two clock signals.
US07663591B2
A display device is made up of (i) a source driver made up of source driver ICs each driving an identical number of data signal lines, the source driver ICs being grouped into at least a first individually-driven circuit group and a second individually-driven circuit group, and (ii) a control circuit that outputs a first start pulse and a first latch pulse for controlling the first individually-driven circuit group and a second start pulse and a second latch pulse for the second individually-driven circuit group. With this, it is possible to provide the display device that can reproduce images without adopting complicated circuitry and elongating one horizontal period, when the source driver has dummy signal lines.
US07663579B2
An electroluminescence display device includes a first switching device for transferring a data current, which represents a data signal, using a first scan signal, a second switching device for transferring the data current from the first switching device using a second scan signal, a storage device for storing a charge voltage according to the data current transferred from the second switching device, a coupling unit for changing the charge voltage stored in the storage device in accordance with the first scan signal into a changed voltage, driving devices for generating a driving current in accordance with the changed voltage, and an organic light emitting diode for emitting light in accordance with the driving current.
US07663575B2
A driving circuit for an organic light emitting display apparatus includes first and second switching elements and a driving element. The first switching element is controlled by a scan signal supplied from a scan line. The second switching element is controlled by the scan signal. The driving element provides an end of an organic electroluminescent element with a first reference voltage via the second switching element. The driving element has amorphous silicon thin film transistors so that the manufacturing cost of the organic light emitting display apparatus may be reduced.
US07663572B2
The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to generate an image corresponding to each of the plurality of colored lights generated in a time sequence. The said predetermined frequency is 180 Hz or more.
US07663570B2
First pixels for the left eye and second pixels for the right eye in the semi-transmissive liquid crystal display panel are alternately disposed in the array direction of cylindrical lenses in a lenticular lens. A first transmissive region and a first reflective region are disposed in the first pixel for the left eye, and a second transmissive region and a second reflective region are disposed in the second pixel for the right eye. In this case, the first transmissive regions and the second reflective regions in the first pixels are alternately disposed and the second transmissive regions and reflective regions in the second pixels are alternately disposed in the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical lenses.
US07663566B2
An RF antenna structure (e.g., a planar array) includes at least one radiation cell (and typically many, e.g., 16 or 32 or 64, etc.) having a conductive enclosure and an upper probe and a lower probe located at different heights within the enclosure. The enclosure between the upper probe and a bottom of the cell has at least two different cross-sectional areas. The upper and lower probes are preferably oriented at substantially 90° relative to each other. An upper portion of the enclosure beneath the upper probe may have a larger dimension than a lower portion such that the upper portion allows propagation of waves generated by the upper probe in a predetermined frequency band while the lower portion (e.g., above the lower probe) does not substantially allow propagation of waves generated by the upper probe, in the predetermined frequency band.
US07663559B2
An antenna structure includes a radiation element, a grounding element, and a feeding point. The grounding element includes a first grounding sub-element and a second grounding sub-element. The second grounding sub-element is coupled to the first grounding sub-element and has a loop structure. One section of the loop structure overlaps a first end of the radiation element and is at a designated distance from the first end of the radiation element in a designated direction. The feeding point is coupled between a second end of the radiation element and the first grounding sub-element.
US07663554B2
In a liquid crystal television device that is a wireless communication device, speaker storage sections are integrally formed with a main body section containing parts such as a liquid crystal panel section. Although the main body section is electromagnetically shielded, the speaker storage sections are not electromagnetically shielded. Antennas are provided along with speakers in speaker storage sections so as to have directions of installation different from each other by 90 degrees. This realizes a wireless communication device including an antenna structure capable of improving transmitting/receiving sensitivity in all directions.
US07663545B2
A method, system and apparatus for determining at least one relative characteristic of a transmit diversity transmitter based on at least one quality indicator based on signals received on the plurality of antennas. In some embodiments of the invention, the relative characteristic may be a relative power or amplitude ratio and/or a phase difference between the signals transmitted on the different antennas.
US07663544B2
An antenna system for sharing of operation employs contiguous transmit frequencies. Transmit frequencies are separated into non-contiguous sub-groups isolated from one another by filters 158(+) and 160(−) associated with positive and negative polarization. Received frequencies are filtered and split into five signals for input to base station receive ports. Non-contiguous transmit frequency sub-groups are combined by a quadrature hybrid 110 and pass with 90 degree relative phase shift to mutually orthogonal antenna stack ports P(+) and P(−) associated with orthogonally polarized sets of antenna elements AS(+) and AS(−): the ports P(+) and P(−) are isolated from one another by the hybrid 110. The 90 degree phase shift results in one transmit subgroup being radiated with left hand circular polarization and the other transmit subgroup being radiated with right hand circular polarization. Changing the relative phase shift changes the radiated polarization to linear or elliptical, and signal amplitude weighting provides control of antenna beam polarization direction.
US07663541B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of keeping track of and staying tuned to a transmitter even when a receiver is moving at a relatively high speed. Electronic equipment carried on fast moving vehicles and comprising receiving means can experience a shift in the frequencies received due to Doppler shift. Embodiments provide a way of taking such a Doppler shift into account by means of acceleration measurements of the electronic equipment. Some embodiments may be used in electronic equipment containing a GPS receiver or the like, where re-tracking of satellites can be power and time consuming.
US07663533B2
A radar system for motor vehicles, having a least one radar sensor having a range of less than 50 m for monitoring traffic in an adjacent lane, wherein the radar sensor has a phase-controlled antenna and a control device for setting a plurality of radar lobes having different geometries.
US07663532B2
By using the delay profile created by delay profile creating section 102 and the first threshold value 330 received from the first threshold value calculation 105, the first threshold value timing detection section 103 selects only the earliest receive timing exceeding the first threshold value, from all the timing that the correlation value in the delay profile becomes a maximum. By using the receive timing and the second threshold value 331 received from the second threshold value calculation section 107, reference timing calculation section 106 selects the reference timing required for calculating the receive timing for the incoming wave of the minimum propagation delay time. The timing delayed by previously set timing behind said reference timing is sent from receive timing calculation section 108 as the receive timing 113 of the incoming wave of the minimum propagation delay time.
US07663530B2
A system comprising a moving radar, a processing device, and a phase difference determination device is used to monitor a target. The moving radar has first and second phase centers that transmit and receive signals normal to a direction of movement of the radar. The processing device receives first and second ones of the received signals from the first and second phase centers, respectively, and performs a target motion compensation and target acceleration correction for each of the first and second received signals to produce first and second images. The phase difference determination device determines a phase difference image from a comparison of the first and second images.
US07663525B2
A digital to analog converter including a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an operational amplifier, and a switch is disclosed. During a first period, the first capacitor stores a first voltage and the second capacitor stores a second voltage. The operational amplifier comprises an input and an output. The switch parallels the first and the second capacitors with the operational amplifier at the input and output according to a digital signal during a second period.
US07663524B2
A multi-channel display driver circuit incorporating modified D/A converters has a plurality of digital comparators connected to a number generator. Each digital comparator has an output, a digital data input and a reference input. The reference inputs of all digital comparators are connected to the number generator and the outputs are respectively connected to corresponding data channels of a display. By the proposed technique, each digital comparator obtains a unique non-sequence reference signal, and then compares it with the input digital data signal. Since the non-sequential signals are input to the reference input of the digital comparator, the overshoot distortion, the harmonic distortion and the electromagnetic interference problems are prevented. Therefore, the precise imaging can be obtained with this signal modulation technique in small circuit size.
US07663506B2
Pilot Director Lights (PDLs) mounted on the exterior of a refueling tanker aircraft utilize visible light emitting diodes (LEDs) and infrared LEDs as light sources to provide visual information to the pilot of an approaching aircraft The PDLs are switchable between a visible mode that uses the visible LEDs and a covert mode that uses the infrared LEDs. The PDLs may include a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in arrays, rows, or other patterns, each light emitting device being configured to illuminate a particular symbol/pattern in one example. Each light emitting device may include a plurality of modular banks of LEDs which are configured to emit light through a clear lens within a particular field of view. The PDL arrays may provide visual feedback regarding the elevational and fore-aft position of the approaching aircraft relative to the boom envelope of the tanker aircraft.
US07663501B2
An apparatus and method for controlling the emitted color of visible light according to the current communication state in a visible light communication (VLC) device. The method includes storing one or more communication states and emitting colors that are correspondingly matched to the one or more communication states to indicate each of the various communication states. The VLC also checks, which can be based upon selection of a VLC mode, the current communication state and an emits a color that corresponds to the current communication state and emits the checked color of light to provide a visible light signal that indicates communication status to a user.
US07663500B2
A method and apparatus for providing a strobe alarm unit employing at least one light emitting diode.
US07663499B2
A warning signal included in a wireless signal received, and the warning signal is displayed in the form of a warning information message. The warning information displaying method includes receiving a wireless signal through one channel among channels including a warning broadcasting channel, changing the current channel to the warning broadcasting channel when the current channel is not the warning broadcasting channel at predetermined intervals, receiving the wireless signal through the warning broadcasting channel, reading warning information corresponding to a warning signal if the wireless signal includes the warning signal, and visibly or audibly outputting the warning information.
US07663498B2
The invention relates to a signaling column with levels which are assembled by a relative pivoting limited in amplitude and interconnected by axially-extending conductors. The body of a level includes a locking bar which extends axially to penetrate an opening in an adjacent level and abuts an edge of the opening on a rotation attempt. The ends of the bar may be displaced and the opening is of such a size as to accommodate the top end of a relevant bar and the bottom end of the bar above.
US07663497B2
One of the embodiment of present invention includes at least one transmitter-receiver set including a transmitter and a receiver opposed with an object to be measured therebetween; and a transmission device that estimates the amount of the object based on the attenuation of electromagnetic waves that are transferred between the transmitter and the receiver of the transmitter-receiver set, and transmits information on the estimated amount of the object to be measured.
US07663492B2
A method and means for controlling the operation of a machine by an operator having a transmitter mounted to a machine, a sensor attached to an operator or an operator's clothing, and a tracking device that receives signals from the sensor and determines the position of the sensor. Based on the determined position of the sensor, the tracking device sends signals to the operator and an actuator on the machine based on a comparison with a danger zone, warning zone, or operator zone.
US07663483B2
A security device, according to various aspects of the present invention, detects movement of a provided portal cover. The security device includes a sensor, a bias magnet, and a processor. The sensor provides indicia of a magnitude of a magnetic flux through the sensor. The bias magnet provides the magnetic flux through the sensor. The processor detects a change in the magnitude of the magnetic flux outside an upper boundary and a lower boundary of a first threshold and a second threshold respectively. The sensor does not move with respect to the magnet. Movement between the sensor and the portal cover changes the magnitude of the magnetic flux through the sensor. The processor determines an average value of a series of values of the indicia of the magnitude of the magnetic flux that fall within the upper boundary and the lower boundary of the first threshold. The upper boundary and the lower boundary of the first threshold and the second threshold respectively are set in accordance with the average value.
US07663481B2
Provided is a method for mobile sensor node roaming in an environment of first and second adjacent wireless sensor networks having a plurality of sensor nodes. The method includes the steps of: periodically performing energy detection scan and active scan operations, at the mobile sensor node forming an association with a parent node of the first wireless network, and obtaining energy values of selected channels and link quality indications (LQIs) for the channels; when the sensor node moves to the second wireless sensor network, periodically performing energy detection scan and active scan operations, at the sensor node, and obtaining energy values of selected channels and link quality indications (LQIs) for the channels after movement; comparing, at the sensor node, the energy values and link quality indications (LQIs) of the selected channels before and after movement.
US07663479B1
An automated security infrastructure is disclosed that includes security agents that are designed to analyze security issues. The security agents process events received from event-messages, and records data associated with a security issue in a ticket. Security and management personnel are kept informed based on notification subscription lists. Assigned security personnel's progress in resolving outstanding security issues is monitored until those issues are resolved.
US07663478B2
A mount system for a monitor extends and retracts the monitor. The mount system includes a first arm pivotably coupled to a second arm so that that the monitor extends and retracts in a substantially straight line. One or more motors may be incorporated into the mount system to adjust the viewing angle of the monitor through a remote control.
US07663477B2
In a turn signal control device for a vehicle having an automatic canceling function, a switch operating element is carried on a pivot shaft mounted in a fixed switch case so that the switch operating element can be returned and pushed-in between a returned position and a pushed-in position. The switch operating element is swingable at the returned position between a neutral position and a left-turn indicating position and a right-turn indicating position. The switch operating element is pushed-in to the pushed-in position by push-in operation at the returned position. The switch operating element is resiliently urged toward the neutral position and there turned position. A winker switch is operatively connected to the switch operating element so as to break the connection of a left-turn indicating means or a right-turn indicating means to a flasher unit in response to push-in of the switch operating element to the pushed-in position. Thus, a switch and an electric circuit for manual canceling are not required to improve reliability.
US07663466B1
A fuse device for fitting over and around a corner of a battery housing has a top wall and two side walls extending downward from the top wall. The side walls are joined at a corner. A battery terminal for mechanical and electrical attachment to a battery post is provided in the top wall. Electrical connectors for connection to terminals on the ends of electrical cables are mounted on the side walls of the fuse device. The electrical connectors are linked through the walls to the battery terminal by fuses. Ribs extending down the side walls from the top wall pass close by each electrical connector to strengthen the structure of the fuse device and prevent rotation of the terminals on the ends of the cables as they are secured to the fuse device. Recessed strengthening ribs in the top wall extend radially outward from the battery terminal.
US07663459B2
A short-circuit indicator is provided for arrangement on an electrical line for electrical power distribution which includes a current transformer. The current transformer has an induction coil and an iron yoke for surrounding the electrical line to be monitored for a short-circuit current. The induction coil is seated on a base web of a U-shaped first yoke part. A second yoke part is connected in the form of a joint which can move between a closed position and an open position to one of two U-limbs of the first yoke part. The second yoke part forms a magnetic return path element for the first yoke part in the closed position. The first yoke part is split into two essentially L-shaped parts in the area of the base web to which the induction coil is fitted.
US07663452B2
A ridge-waveguide filter with a signal input port at a first end and a signal output port at a second end contains a cascade assembly of metal-bounded ridge-waveguide sections with interspersed metal-bounded evanescent-mode coupling regions, and also contains low-loss ridge-waveguide port coupling networks to impedance-match the ends of the assembly to respective signal-port reference impedances. A frequency multiplexer with a composite-signal port and a plurality of channeled-signal ports is composed of a plurality of ridge-waveguide filters that are series-connected through a ridge-waveguide manifold containing a multiplicity of three-way waveguide junctions and quasi-lumped waveguide elements.
US07663450B2
A subminiature, high-performance monolithic duplexer is disclosed. The monolithic duplexer includes a substrate, a transmitting-end filter formed in a first area on an upper surface of the substrate, a receiving-end filter formed in a second area on the upper surface of the substrate, a packaging substrate, bonded on an area on the upper surface of the substrate, for packaging the transmitting-end filter and the receiving-end filter in a sealed state, and a phase shifter, formed on one surface of the packaging substrate and connected to the transmitting-end filter and the receiving-end filter, respectively, for intercepting a signal inflow between the transmitting-end filter and the receiving-end filter.
US07663449B2
A divider may include a stem or first port, and two or more branch ports connected or coupled directly or indirectly to the first port. As mentioned, a divider may include multiple sections. In some examples, a divider may include at least an inductively uncoupled section and an inductively coupled section. An uncoupled section may be characterized by a plurality of associated transmission lines that are substantially inductively uncoupled. On the other hand, a coupled section may include a plurality of associated transmission lines that are substantially inductively coupled. A divider section may include a resistor connected between ends of associated first and second transmission lines in a coupled or uncoupled section. In some examples, one or more uncoupled sections are connected in series to the first port and one or more coupled sections are connected in series between the uncoupled sections and the second and third ports.
US07663445B2
A voltage controlled oscillator includes: a first merged device having a first bipolar transistor and a first MOS transistor, the first bipolar transistor having a collector sharing a common active area with a source/drain of the first MOS transistor, and an emitter sharing the common active area with another source/drain of the first MOS transistor, a second merged device having a second bipolar transistor and a second MOS transistor, the second bipolar transistor having a collector sharing a common active area with a source/drain of the second MOS transistor, and an emitter sharing the common active area with another source/drain of the second MOS transistor, and a first inductor connected to both the collector of the first bipolar transistor and a base of the second bipolar transistor.
US07663443B2
There is provided an active balun circuit including: a load circuit unit including a first and a second load; a differential amplifying unit including a first amplifying unit connected to the first load, and a second amplifying unit connected to the second load and forming a differential amplifying unit together with the first amplifying unit, the differential amplifying unit differentially amplifying an input signal, and outputting first and second output signals out-of-phase with each other through first and second output terminals, respectively; a current source connected between a ground and a common connection node of the first and second amplifying units, and maintaining a constant amount of current flowing through the differential amplifying unit; and a compensation amplifying unit amplifying the input signal supplied through the input terminal, transmitting the amplified input signal to the second amplifying unit, and rejecting common mode noise of the differential amplifying unit.
US07663440B2
An amplifier circuit including a plurality of CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) inverter circuits connected in parallel with each other. The CMOS inverter circuits each include a first PMOS (P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistor, a first NMOS (N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistor, gates of the first PMOS and NMOS transistors, a second PMOS transistor, a first switch connected to a gate of the second PMOS transistor, a second NMOS transistor, and a second switch connected to a gate of the second NMOS transistor.
US07663439B2
The operational amplifier adapting to a source driver is provided herein. The operational amplifier includes the input module, the first and the second current mirror module, the switch control module and output stage module, wherein the input module includes the first and the second differential pairs. The first current mirror module provides the first bias current to the first differential pairs and outputs the first mirrored current. The second current mirror module receives the second bias currents and the second mirrored current from the second differential pairs. The first and the second mirrored currents are respectively generated by mirroring the first and the second bias currents. The switch control module adjusts the first and the second bias currents for controlling the operation of the output stage module. The output stage module generates an output voltage terminal to a panel load according to the first and the second mirrored currents.
US07663433B2
An audio amplifier is provided. The audio amplifier includes an amplifier, a biasing circuit, and a time-delay circuit. The amplifier circuit is for amplifying audio signals. The biasing circuit is for providing a bias voltage to the amplifier circuit to actuate the amplifier circuit. The time-delay circuit is for receiving a pulse signal and delaying the bias voltage to avoid a sudden actuation of the amplifier circuit based on the pulse signal. The time-delay circuit comprises a first input for receiving the pulse signal, a first resistor coupled to the first input, a first output coupled to the biasing circuit, a first BJT whose base, emitter, collector are respectively coupled to the first resistor, ground, and the first output.
US07663426B2
A power up biasing circuit for a split power supply based circuit includes a split power supply state sensing circuit that produces a pair of complimentary control signals indicating a presence or absence of a suitable biasing power supply voltage. A pseudo power supply voltage, based on a first power supply is selected by a selector circuit for acting as a biasing voltage for one or a plurality of components to be protected during initial power up where there is an absence of a second power supply voltage, based on the pair of complimentary control signals. Once the second power supply voltage has fully ramped up to steady state, the selector circuit selects the second power supply voltage as the biasing voltage for one or a plurality of component to be protected.
US07663423B1
A signal level shifting circuit, including an input stage circuit and an output signal latching circuit. The input stage circuit receives an input signal, wherein a voltage level of the input signal falls within a first predetermined voltage range. The output signal latching circuit is cascoded with the input stage circuit, and includes: a latching circuit for generating an output signal according to the input signal, wherein a voltage level of the output signal falls within a second predetermined voltage range, and the second predetermined voltage range is different from the first predetermined voltage range; and an activating circuit, coupled to the latching circuit, for selectively enabling or disabling the latching circuit, wherein when a level transition appears to the input signal, the activating circuit disables the latching circuit.
US07663420B2
A MOS resistance controlling device includes: a plurality of MOS transistors having a first MOS transistor to N-th (the integer N is larger than 1) MOS transistor being serially connected, the source of the first MOS transistor being set to a first reference potential, the drain the N-th MOS transistor being set to a second reference potential, and the drain of an I-th MOS transistor being connected to the source of an I+1-th MOS transistor, where I is an integer from 1 to N−1; a current source which is electrically disposed at connection node between the drain of the N-th MOS transistors and the second reference potential; and an operational amplifier having a first input terminal being supplied with a third reference potential, a second input terminal connected with the connection node and an output terminal being connected with gates of the MOS transistors.
US07663419B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved clock, delay, and skew techniques. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit includes a clock generator to provide a bias signal and a clock signal, with control logic providing a delay control signal based on the bias signal and a multi-bit control signal. A clock skew circuit provides a delay to the clock signal based on the delay control signal provided by the control signal. Memory coupled to the control logic provides the multi-bit control signal.
US07663414B2
A prescaling stage includes bistable circuit in turn including respective master and slave portions inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and feedback connected to each other. Each portion is provided with at least one differential stage supplied by the first voltage reference and connected, by a transistor stage, to the second voltage reference, as well as a differential pair of cross-coupled transistors, supplied by output terminals of the differential stage and connected, by the transistor stage, to the second voltage reference. Advantageously, each master and slave portion includes a degeneration capacitance inserted in correspondence with respective terminals of the transistors of the differential pair.
US07663406B2
An output circuit including an input terminal; an output terminal; a PMOS transistor connected with a positive side of a power voltage and the output terminal; a NMOS transistor connected with a negative side of the power supply voltage and the output terminal; a first inverter, to which a gate voltage of the PMOS transistor is input and which exhibits hysteresis in threshold voltage; and a second inverter, to which a gate voltage of the NMOS transistor is input and which exhibits hysteresis in threshold voltage, wherein an OR logic signal of the input signal and a signal obtained by inverting an output signal from the second inverter is input to a gate of the PMOS transistor, and an AND logic signal of the input signal and a signal obtained by inverting an output signal from the first inverter is input to a gate of the NMOS transistor.
US07663403B2
Provided is a high-speed asynchronous digital signal level conversion circuit converting an input signal of a first voltage level into a signal of a second voltage level. The conversion circuit is able to operate at high speed by connecting first and second nodes, at which the input signal of the first voltage level is converted to the signal of the second voltage level, to a second power source voltage of the second voltage level for fast voltage level conversion when the voltage level of the input signal is changed.
US07663399B2
An output driver for use in a semiconductor memory device includes a pull-up metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor for pulling-up a voltage loaded on an output node in response to a pull-up control signal; a pull-up linear element connected between the pull-up MOS transistor and the output node for increasing a linearity of an output current; a pull-down MOS transistor for pulling-down the voltage loaded on the output node in response to a pull-down control signal; and a pull-down linear element connected between the pull-down MOS transistor and the output node for increasing the linearity of the output current, wherein the pull-up MOS transistor and the pull-up linear element are different typed MOS transistors and the pull-down MOS transistor and the pull-down linear element are different typed MOS transistors.
US07663394B2
A variation of a threshold of diode-connected transistors is compensated for to maintain a constant rectification efficiency of a rectifier circuit, thereby enabling stable detection of a start signal. A constant voltage is applied to DC bias terminal 103 of cascaded half-wave voltage doubler rectifier circuits (including MOS transistors M1 to M4 and capacitors C1 to C4) forming a rectifier circuit, and a voltage equal to the sum of the constant voltage applied to DC bias terminal 103 and a variation ΔVt of a threshold voltage of the MOS transistors is applied to DC bias terminal 104 of cascaded half-wave voltage doubler rectifier circuits (including MOS transistors M5 to M8 and capacitors C5 to C8) forming a bias circuit.
US07663381B2
An electrical condition monitoring method utilizes measurement of electrical resistivity of a conductive composite degradation sensor to monitor environmentally induced degradation of a polymeric product such as insulated wire and cable. The degradation sensor comprises a polymeric matrix and conductive filler. The polymeric matrix may be a polymer used in the product, or it may be a polymer with degradation properties similar to that of a polymer used in the product. The method comprises a means for communicating the resistivity to a measuring instrument and a means to correlate resistivity of the degradation sensor with environmentally induced degradation of the product.
US07663374B2
An electrical apparatus includes a body for consuming power; a battery for supplying power to the body, wherein the body is capable of detecting an installation of the battery into the body, correlating the installation of the battery to a current real-time date, and displaying the date on which the battery was first installed in the body; and a display of a full charge capacity of the battery, the full charge capacity being calculated by comparing an actual present capacity of the battery to an estimated present capacity of the battery.
US07663370B2
An arrangement to control an antenna arrangement in a magnetic resonance examination representatively has a device for signal splitting. This device has an input and a first input and a second output. A radio-frequency transmission signal is supplied at the input. The device for signal splitting has phase-shaping components with which the transmission signal supplied via the input is divided into a first transmission signal for the first output and a second transmission signal for the second output. A phase difference between the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal can be adjusted by the phase-shaping components. An antenna arrangement is provided that has a first and second connections and that is fashioned to radiate a circularly-polarized transmission signal as soon as the two transmission signals with a phase difference of 90° are present at both connections. Each output of the device for signal splitting is connected with an associated connection of the antenna arrangement. The device for signal splitting has switchable components with which selected ones of the phase-shaping components can be activated or deactivated in order to alter the phase difference.
US07663365B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit which performs imaging more than once with respect to an imaging target while changing a central frequency of a fat suppression pulse, a generation unit which generates a plurality of images based on magnetic resonance signals obtained by imaging performed more than once, and a calculation unit which calculates factor information of spatial inhomogeneity of a fat suppression effect based on the plurality of images.
US07663363B2
A method for measuring nuclear magnetic properties (NMR) properties of a formation, the method including applying a magnetic field to nuclei of the formation during a polarizing interval, the magnetic field having a polarizing intensity; changing the magnetic field to a measurement intensity, the measurement intensity applied to the nuclei of the formation during a measurement interval; applying to the formation at least one radio frequency (RF) pulse train during the measurement interval; and measuring an NMR signal from the formation.
US07663349B2
The green technology is the technology for the green society having the green safety. The green technology is not only save the resource and recycle the resource but also save the energy and recycling the energy. The core technology of the Green Technology is the 7Less Microsystems. The 7Less Microsystems are the Xtaless Clock Generator, the Resistorless Current Sensor, the Capacitorless Low Drop Voltage Regulator, the Inductorless Switch Mode Power Supply, and the Avalanche Diodeless True Random Noise Generator, the Sawless Low Noise Amplifier, and the Brakeless Hybrid Electrical Vehicle. The Gain-Boost-Q LC VCO is the fundamental technology of the Xtaless Clock Generator, Spurfree/Jitterless Frequency and Phase Lock Loop, multi-phase high-speed high frequency clock and the Sawless Low Noise Amplifier. The switch inductor is the fundamental technology of the high power efficiency of the Switch Mode Power Supply. The high efficiency converter technology is the fundamental of the high efficiency power amplifier. The residue energy is recycling in the system to save the power from the wasted dissipation. The high efficiency power amplifier is the fundamental technology of the high efficiency plasma light and the 4th generation OFDM Ultra-Wide Band communication and cellular phone. The dynamic balanced battery is the fundamental technology of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle. The polarized camera with the polarized micro lens and polarized cellular phone with the polarized antenna make the signal transmission much more clearly. All the above green technologies constitute the essential characteristics technologies of the Green Society.
US07663343B2
If a voltage of each of a plurality of capacitor cells forming a capacitor is lower than a system malfunction voltage V(1), and if the voltage of any one of the capacitor cells is higher than a cell charge inhibition voltage V(2) lower than the system malfunction voltage V(1), an ECU executes a program including a step of setting a limit value WIN(C) of electric power to be stored in the capacitor to be “0”.
US07663342B2
In an electrical power supply having a plurality of switching power converter circuits and configured to supply a voltage to an electrical load, a method of controlling a duty cycle of at least one switch of one of the plurality of switching power converter circuits includes determining a storage voltage produced by the one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The method further includes determining an average storage voltage corresponding to an average of storage voltages produced by each of the plurality of energy storage devices. The method further includes determining at least one control signal as a function of the storage voltage, the average storage voltage, and a reference voltage. The method further includes controlling the duty cycle of the at least one switch of the one of the plurality of switching power converter circuits based upon the at least one control signal.
US07663340B1
A battery operated extension cord that includes a housing, a rechargeable battery pack, a pair of 125-volt alternating current receptacles, a power inverter to convert the voltage direct current from the battery to the required alternating current, a charger, and a plug connected to the charger to allow the charger to be plugged into an existing wall plug unit in order to charge the present invention. The housing is located in a hinged-carrying case, which includes a separate pocket for the battery housing and a cylinder around which the extension cord could be wound.
US07663339B2
A battery pack includes: a secondary battery; a positive electrode terminal for connecting a positive electrode of the secondary battery to an external electric device; a negative electrode terminal for connecting a negative electrode of the secondary battery to the electric device; a communicator for communicating with the electric device; a communication terminal adapted to be used in connecting the communicator to the electric device to send a signal for the communication; and an electric power receiving terminal for receiving an electric power from the electric device to operate the communicator, wherein the communicator is operated by the electric power received by the electric power receiving terminal.
US07663337B2
A frequency converter for outputting a power to drive a motor, having: an inverter unit for inverting a d.c. power to an a.c. power; a control unit for controlling the inverter unit; and a housing for supporting at least the inverter unit and control unit, wherein a rise time change unit is provided in the housing, the rise time change unit changes a rise time of a waveform of a voltage output from the inverter unit.
US07663334B2
The present invention relates to electrically magnetized synchronous machine comprising an electrically magnetized rotor, and electrically supplied sator windings, whereby it further comprises non-linear means, optionally controllable, such as rectifying means in a series with three sator phase windings, whereby a rotor field winding is arranged to be fed from said non-linear means.
US07663332B2
In a robot with two or more leg links having ankle joint respectively and pivotably linked to a torso, the robot walks naturally by making the ankle joint of a grounded leg link rotate freely by using passive movement. A controller executes controlling operation of calculating target joint angles of remaining joints other than the ankle joint of the grounded leg link based upon the measured joint angles of the ankle joint of the grounded leg link in the lateral and forward direction. The target joint angles of the remaining joints are calculated so as to satisfy the following condition that a tilting angle of the torso matches a target tilting angle determined based upon the measured joint angle of the ankle joint of the grounded leg link in the forward direction, a cycle period of the idle leg link from lifting to grounding, and a target stride of the idle leg link.
US07663330B2
An actual detected current value and a target voltage value of an electric motor are subjected to a low-pass filter process, and amounts of change per time in the filtered actual current value and the filtered target voltage value are calculated. If the amount of change in the actual current value on the increase side is greater than a criterion value and the amount of change in the target voltage value on the decrease side is greater than a criterion value, it is judged that the stroke end has been reached. Then, the upper limit value of the target current value is set at the actual current value obtained in the immediately previous cycle of the feedback control, so as to prevent generation of unnecessary torque.
US07663325B2
A programmable wallbox dimmer is disclosed. Upon entering a programming mode, the dimmer presents a main menu from which the user may select one or more features to program. The user may scroll through a list of programmable features by actuating the dimmer's raise/lower intensity actuator. The user may select a highlighted feature by actuating the dimmer's control switch. The dimmer may enter a value selection mode that is associated with the selected feature. In the value selection mode, the user may scroll through a list of features that define the selected feature by actuating the dimmer's raise/lower intensity actuator. The user may select a value for the selected feature. The selected value may be stored in the dimmer's memory.
US07663321B2
An electrical supply device configured to deliver energy to a structure that includes at least two electrodes and a space containing a gas intended to be excited. The device includes a voltage generator, an inductor connected to the generator and connected to the structure to supply the two electrodes with a periodic voltage of given frequency, and a resonance mechanism for fixing the frequency at substantially the resonant frequency of the system of the structure and the inductor.
US07663320B2
A display apparatus having a displaying part on which an image is displayed, includes: a backlight unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements that emit different color light which illuminates the displaying part, the plurality of light emitting elements being arranged in a predetermined pattern; a driving part that applies driving current to the backlight unit to control the operation of the light emitting elements and the intensity of light emitted from each of the light emitting elements; a sensing part that senses the amount of light emitted from the backlight unit; and a controller that detects a level of driving current applied to the backlight unit by the driving part, and if the detected level of driving current exceeds a predetermined reference current level, controls the driving part to adjust the backlight unit based on the amount of light sensed by the sensing part.
US07663312B2
A flexible organic light emitting light source employing a flexible substrate that comprises a thin ployimide layer sandwiched by two metallic layers of which one metallic layer whose surface not in contact with polyimide layer contains OLED device that is coated with pore-free conformal barrier coating of inorganic oxide through Atomic Layer Epitaxy process and the barrier coating being completely encapsulated by a UV cured thick hard coat. The flexible device is sealed with a flexible plastic cover and the bottom external surface of metallic layer is integrated with a lamp drive circuit.
US07663310B2
An organic electro luminescence (EL) display with low light transmittance material removed from an emission region. The organic EL display comprises a substrate having the emission region and a TFT region. A TFT is formed on the substrate in the TFT region and includes an active layer having source/drain regions, a gate electrode formed on a gate insulating layer, and source/drain electrodes electrically coupled to the source/drain regions. A passivation layer is formed in the TFT region only and it includes a via hole exposing one of the source/drain electrodes. An organic EL element is formed in the emission region and is electrically coupled to one of the source/drain electrodes exposed through the via hole.
US07663308B2
A plasma display panel may include a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate with a predetermined space therebetween, the space being partitioned into a plurality of discharge cells, a phosphor layer formed in the discharge cells, address electrodes extending in a first direction on the first substrate to correspond to the discharge cells, and a first electrode and a second electrode extending in a second direction crossing the first direction at the first substrate side, spaced apart from the address electrodes, formed opposite to each other, and projecting toward the second substrate with a discharge space formed therebetween, wherein the address electrodes include protrusions disposed adjacent to the second electrodes and protruding toward the inside of the discharge cells, and wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes protrusions protruding toward an inside of a respective one of the discharge cells.
US07663306B2
An electrooptic device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes an electrooptic element in which an electrooptic substance is interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode, the electrooptic element being disposed on a surface of the first substrate that opposes the second substrate; an electronic element for driving the electrooptic element; and a power supply wire for supplying power to at least one of the electrooptic element and the electronic element. The second substrate includes a second auxiliary wire for supplying auxiliary power to at least one of the electrooptic element and the electronic element, the second auxiliary wire being disposed on a surface of the second substrate that opposes the first substrate, the second auxiliary wire having a planar shape that corresponds with a non-opening region of the electrooptic element.
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Novel metal porphyrin compositions useful as organic phosphors are provided. The novel compositions are prepared from commercially available porphyrin-containing starting materials. In one instance a novel palladium-containing porphyrin composition having a number average molecular weight of greater than 12,000 grams per mole was prepared from 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3′,5′-di(hydroxy)phenyl)-21H-23H-porphyrin by reaction first with palladium(II) acetylacetonate, followed by reaction with 2-bromo-2-methylpropionyl bromide, and subsequent group transfer reaction of the alpha-bromo ester groups with 9,9-dioctyl-2-vinylfluorene in the presence of CuBr as a radical initiator. The product polymer exhibited a number average molecular weight of 12,884 grams per mole, a weight average molecular weight of 14,338 grams per mole, and a robust red phosphorescent emission. Porphyrin containing copoylmers comprising structural units derived from 9,9-dioctyl-2-vinylfluorene and 9-anthracenylmethyl methacrylate were prepared in a similar fashion.
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An organic light emitting device is provided. The device has a plurality of regions, each region having an organic emissive layer adapted to emit a different spectrum of light. The regions in combination emit light suitable for illumination purposes. The area of each region may be selected such that the device is more efficient that an otherwise equivalent device having regions of equal size. The regions may have an aspect ratio of at least about four. All parts of any given region may be driven at the same current.
US07663296B2
A spark plug including: a cylindrical insulator having an axial hole extending through the insulator in an axial direction; a center electrode inserted in the axial hole; a metal shell provided around an outer periphery of the insulator and having a leading end surface, from which a leading end surface of the insulator protrudes; a ground electrode having a base end bonded to the leading end surface of the metal shell; and a noble metal tip disposed on a distal end of the ground electrode, an end of the noble metal tip protruding toward the center electrode in a radial direction, wherein: the spark plug forming a spark discharge path upon application of a discharging voltage between the protruding end of the noble metal tip and an end of the center electrode, the spark discharge path including an aerial discharge gap between a part of the protruding end of the noble metal tip and a part of the end of the insulator and a surface-creeping discharge path beginning at a part of the end of the insulator and a part of the center electrode and extending along the end surface of the insulator; and the noble metal tip protruding from the leading end of the ground electrode by a protruding length of more than 0.2 mm.
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A piezoelectric bimorph cantilever is used for determining physical parameters in a gaseous or liquid environment. The sensor works as a driven and damped oscillator. Contrary to common cantilever sensor systems, the piezoelectric film of the bimorph cantilever acts as both a sensor and an actuator. Using at least two resonance mode of the bimorph cantilever, at least two physical parameters can be measured simultaneously in a gas or a liquid. An optimized piezoelectric cantilever and a method to produce the cantilever are also described.
