US08915752B2
There is provided a cable connector (10) comprising a body (12) joined to a connector ring (14) for securing to a female connector (20), wherein a seal (26) is placed between the body (12) and the connector ring (14). The use of the seal or gasket (26) prevents electromagnetic leakage from and into the connector. The connector ring can be provided with an inner recess (28) housing a ring spring (30) so as to grip a female connector tightly and prevent electromagnetic leakage where the connector mounts to the female connector.
US08915750B2
A plug connector (100) comprises an insulative housing (1), a plurality of terminals (2) retained to the insulative housing (1), a pair of latches (3) fit to the insulative housing (1) and a housing cover (4) attached to the insulative housing (1). The insulative housing (1) has a base portion (11) and a tongue portion (12) extending forwardly from a middle of the base portion (11). The terminals (2) are arranged on the tongue portion (12) in parallel. The housing cover (4) has a cylindrical portion (41) with a pair of slits (411) extending therethrough for the latch (3) partly extending through. Each latch (3) has a locking piece (31) provided with a front straight edge (311) to abut against with a front edge of a receptacle connector (900) when the plug connector (100) is inserted upside down to the receptacle (900).
US08915749B2
A power source circuit shutoff device includes: a base housing including a first mating wall and a cam pin; a lever housing including a second mating wall; and an operation lever rotatably supported to the lever housing and having a cam groove for guiding the cam pin. The base housing and the lever housing are set to a lever mating start position in which the first mating wall and the second mating wall are partly overlapped with each other and the cam pin is entered into the cam groove of the operation lever, and a rotation of the operation lever moves the cam pin in the cam groove to thereby cause a mating force between the first mating wall and the second mating wall. The base housing and the lever housing respectively have restriction ribs.
US08915744B2
The present invention relates to a system used for competency assessment of candidates. More particularly the present invention relates to an automated system for talent acquisition in an enterprise to identify talented candidates who meet the qualification standards specified by enterprise using a secured and light weight method of providing content including questions and responses in a distributed architecture. The data center server of the system may connect to Knowledge center server to receive the secure test content. The test content is transferred to one or more exam center servers from the data center server. The exam center servers assess the competency of candidates connected to them via candidate console devices (computational devices), by generating unique and standardized test content for each candidate. The system enables less effort, time and consequently money, that multiple test administrators may spend traveling to different test locations to support the system infrastructure.
US08915741B2
A sleep quality assessment approach involves collecting data based on detected physiological or non-physiological patient conditions. At least one of detecting patient conditions and collecting data is performed using an implantable device. Sleep quality may be evaluated using the collected data by an implantable or patient-external sleep quality processor. One approach to sleep quality evaluation involves computing one or more summary metrics based on occurrences of movement disorders or breathing disorders during sleep.
US08915739B2
A coloring sheet including a sheet of paper and a design formed on the sheet of paper. The design is at least partially formed by a pair of parallel, adjacent raised lines, wherein the adjacent raised lines are spaced apart by a distance of less than about 13 mm ½ inch).
US08915735B1
In an arrangement for obtaining reliable anchoring of a threaded implant (3) in dentine, a hole (2) is made in the bone substance. In the side wall (2b) of the hole it is possible to establish an internal threading which can cooperate with an external threading (3d) on the implant. The implant threading is arranged to force the bone substance out in essentially radial directions as a function of the extent to which the implant is screwed into the hole. The threading is arranged to effect greater forcing out of the bone substance at the outer parts of the hole than at the inner parts of the hole. The degree of forcing out is adapted in relation to the softness of the bone in order to achieve the reliable anchoring. Along at least part of the longitudinal direction of the implant, the implant threading can be given a non-circular configuration for the purpose of obtaining improved rotational stability in soft/weak bone. The implant can also have two or more thread spirals/thread entries which shorten the time for screwing the implant into the hole and additionally offer tight threading which permits effective integration with the bone substance during the healing-in process.
US08915726B2
A rotary vane air motor comprises a rotor, stator and vanes. The rotor has slots for the vanes, and the vanes may move between a retracted position and a contact position in which the vanes contact the cylinder. Each vane may have a longitudinal portion whose shape conforms generally to the slot, and a transverse portion that is radially outside of the slot and extends at least in part in a direction that is transverse to the longitudinal portion and that may be tangential to the perimeter of the rotor at the slot. The shape of the perimeter may be a polygon with rounded corners. The vanes may also include a magnetic portion or a rotating portion.
US08915717B2
The impeller wheel is rotatably supported about a central axis and has a hub on which vanes are arranged. The vane has across its radial length at least similar profiled sections, viewed in cylindrical section through the vane. The radial outermost profiled section which is positioned on a cylindrical enveloping surface of the impeller wheel has a greater displacement relative to the neighboring profiled section than this neighboring profiled section to its neighboring profiled section. The impeller wheel can also be provided on the radial outer edge with at least one projecting flow element whose axial height has a maximum in the area of the leading edge and of the trailing edge of the vane. The impeller wheels, while having a simple constructive configuration, provide a great noise reduction in operation of the ventilator.
US08915716B2
A rotor for a turbomachine includes at least one moving blade row including a plurality of moving blades disposed adjacent to one another in a circumferential direction with respect to an axis of rotation. Each one of the plurality of moving blades includes a blade leaf and a blade root having an outer face, the outer face of the blade root including a blade root curved end wall contour adjacent the blade leaf in the circumferential direction. The blade root curved end wall contour has a concave curvature in an axial sectional plane of the rotor. At least one rotor shaft includes a reception slot for a respective one of the at least one moving blade row extending in the circumferential direction. Each of the plurality of moving blades is inserted into the reception slot via a respective blade root.
US08915712B2
A hot gas path component is provided and includes a body having a surface and being formed to define a cavity, the cavity employing coolant flow through a pin-fin bank with coolant discharge through film-cooling holes defined on the surface, the pin-fin bank including first and second pluralities of pin-fins, the first plurality of pin-fins and the second plurality of pin-fins each being aligned with a determined flow streamline, and any two pin-fins of the first and second pluralities of pin-fins being separated from one another by a gap as a function of a film-cooling hole dimension.
US08915710B2
A device for controlling the pitch of a helicopter's rotor blade, the device having a BLDC motor based actuator; and at least one control surface operatively connected to the BLDC motor based actuator. The actuator and the control surface are preferably fully integrated into the interior profile of the rotor blade and are capable of controlling the PFC of the helicopter and improving HHC during operation by reducing noise and vibration. The motor is preferably a high power density motor incorporating rare earth permanent magnets connected to a roller/ball screw or planetary gear set to provide the right combination of force/torque, stroke and frequency.
US08915705B2
A seal assembly disposed between a rotor and a stator especially of a turbo-machinery is provided with a close clearance gap there between. The clearance gap is bordered by a rotor surface at the side of the rotor and by a stator surface at the side of the stator. The rotor surface or the stator surface or both are provided with openings which open into at least one chamber arranged at the side of the openings turned away from the clearance gap.
US08915702B2
A gas turbine engine includes a central body support that provides an inner annular wall for a core flow path. The central body support includes a first mount feature. A geared architecture interconnects a spool and a fan rotatable about an axis. A flex support interconnects the geared architecture to the central body support. The flex support includes a second mount feature that cooperates with the first mount feature for transferring torque there between. A method of disassembling a front architecture of a gas turbine engine includes the steps of accessing forward-facing fasteners that secure a central body support to a flex support, wherein the flex support includes a geared architecture supported thereon, removing the fasteners, and decoupling first and second mount features respectively provided on the central body support and the flex support.
US08915690B2
A transport system includes a first track that passes above loading ports of the processing devices, and an overhead travelling vehicle that travels along the first track and includes a hoist. A second track is below the first track, passes above the loading ports, and is disposed in parallel or substantially in parallel with the first track. A buffer is provided below the second track at a position higher than the loading ports, and is arranged such that the articles can pass in a vertical direction over the loading ports. The buffer is disposed such that the articles can pass through the height position of the buffer in a vertical direction over the loading ports. A local vehicle travels along the second track and includes a hoist to perform delivery and receipt of the articles between the buffer and the loading ports.
US08915689B2
A releasable lock nut assembly for securing a bearing on a threaded hub may include a thrust washer including a disk portion and a peripheral skirt extending axially away from the disk portion, the peripheral skirt having a plurality of openings and a characteristic diameter measured at an axial location of the openings, and a protuberance proximate to at least one of the openings. The assembly may also include a lock ring inserted into the thrust washer, where the lock ring includes a plurality of tangs that extend beyond a lock ring major diameter such that the tangs fit within the openings of the thrust washer. The protuberance may be deformed such that all of the peripheral skirt is within the characteristic diameter, and the protuberance may define an internal envelope of the thrust washer where the internal envelope is larger than the major diameter of the lock ring.
US08915688B2
A screw comprising a drive part, a threaded part, and a retaining ring is disclosed herein. Each of the drive part and the threaded part comprises a plurality of interface surfaces that transmit torque from the drive part to the threaded part and prevent the parts from disengaging from one another during use. Each plurality of interface surfaces forms one or more geometric shapes that create additional friction between the drive and threaded parts, and may further include mating pins and holes to prevent the parts from detaching from one another. The retaining ring, which removably connects the screw to a wrench during assembly of the screw with a receptacle, is disposed within a cavity formed when the drive part is assembled with the threaded part.
US08915677B2
A jack-up rig for offshore operations comprises a hull. In addition, the rig comprises a support leg moveably coupled to the hull. The support leg has a central axis, an upper end, and a lower end opposite the upper end. Further, the support leg is adapted to be axially raised and lowered relative to the hull. The rig also comprises a ballast tank movably coupled to the support leg. The ballast tank is adapted to be axially raised and lowered relative to the support leg and the hull.
US08915676B2
A clamp connector emergency release tool designed for subsea operations, when normal release of a subsea clamp connector (14) is not possible, is shown and described. The tool is adapted to be handled and operated remotely by a work class ROV tool. The tool includes a clamp connector (14) adapter housing (7) arranged to engage with and connect to the clamp connector (14) body, a rotatable hole saw (11) mounted on the housing (7), a rotary motor (1) in driving connection with the hole saw (11) and a piston (3) and cylinder assembly (4,5). The piston (3) and cylinder assembly (4,5) enables advancing the rotatable hole saw (11) into the clamp connector (14) body around its jack screw, in order to separate the jack screw together with a threaded portion of said clam connector (14) in order to separate the jack screw from the clamp connector (14) body.
US08915674B2
A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle α with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle γ that differs substantially from angle α, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.
US08915672B2
The present invention provides a movable breakwater that can do with a small amount of compressed air supplied to raise the buoyant steel pipe. The buoyant steel pipe 6 includes a buoyancy tank 6d in which gas is filled, an air chamber 6e provided above the buoyancy tank 6d, a penetration pipe 19 that penetrates through the buoyancy tank 6d and feeds compressed air supplied from a pressure accumulator tank 13 to the air chamber 6e, and an open chamber 6f, whose top side is open, provided above the air chamber 6e and in the buoyant steel pipe 6 at the upper end portion thereof.
US08915671B2
A method of forming a roadway is provided comprising providing a reclaimer-stabilizer machine, providing in-situ soil materials, forming a base layer using the reclaimer-stabilizer machine, forming a wear layer over the base layer, and wherein the wear layer comprises a polyurethane composition in addition to the in-situ materials. In some embodiments the roadway is comprised of a single layer comprising a polyurethane material. In other embodiments a method of forming a roadway comprising cured asphalt composite is provided.
US08915656B2
A taper-locking ferrule for use with optical fibers is provided. The taper-locking ferrule has an interior channel. The interior channel is tapered from one end to the other end and has a threaded interior portion. In an embodiment, the threaded interior portion covers approximately half of the interior wall of the channel. A slit may extend along the threaded portion, from the exterior surface of the device to the interior channel, dividing the threaded portion of the interior channel into sections and allowing the interior channel to slightly expand. The threaded portion of the interior channel grasps and secures an optical fiber.
US08915649B2
A wheel bearing apparatus has a protecting cover formed from non-magnetic steel sheet with a cup-shaped configuration. The protective cover has a cylindrical fitting portion, a disk-shaped shield portion, a radially reducing portion, a stepped portion and a bottom portion. The cylindrical fitting portion is press-fit into the inner circumference of the inner-side end of the outer member. The disk-shaped shielding portion extends radially inward from the fitting portion, via the radially reducing portion. The inner-side surface of the shielding portion is arranged close to or in contact with a rotation speed detecting sensor. The bottom portion is continuous with the shielding portion, via the stepped portion to close the inner-side end of the inner member. A full deflection of the side surface of the shielding portion that is caused by a load the same as that applied to the protecting cover when it is press-fit into the outer member is limited to a predetermined value or less.
US08915645B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a sensor unit (20) that is arranged in the exhaust gas region of an internal combustion engine (10). According to the invention, a sensor temperature (31, 32) is directly or indirectly determined by the sensor unit (20), and is compared to an exhaust temperature (33) that is determined by a further sensor unit and/or to model variables and/or to defined threshold values, whereby a dismounting and/or an inappropriate mounting of the sensor unit is indicated. The invention further relates to a device for monitoring a sensor unit (20) arranged in an exhaust region of an internal combustion engine (10), the sensor unit being used to directly or indirectly determine a sensor temperature (31, 32) which can be compared to an exhaust temperature (33) that is determined by a further sensor unit and/or to model variables and/or to defined threshold values in an engine control unit (14), wherein a malfunction entry and/or a warning signal can be derived from said comparison.
US08915643B2
Apparatus (1) for admixing additives to a medium to be pumped, comprising at least one gear pump (2) for pumping a medium to be pumped, said gear pump (2) comprising at least one shaft (3) having a first driving torque; at least one injector (5) for introducing an additive into a medium to be pumped; at least one screw conveyor (6) for mixing said additive with said medium to be pumped, said screw conveyor having a second driving torque, and, characterized in that, the shaft (3) and the screw conveyor (6) are functionally connected, such that the first driving torque and the second driving torque are coupled.
US08915635B2
A backlight to emit light from a surface thereof includes a light guide to guide light, first and second collimating reflectors and a light source to produce light. The first collimating reflector is at a first edge of the light guide to collimate the light from the light source in a vertical direction and to direct the collimated light into the light guide. The second collimating reflector is at a second edge of the light guide to further collimate the collimated light in a horizontal direction and to redirect the further collimated light back into the light guide.
US08915632B2
An exemplary vehicle headlamp system includes an ultraviolet light emitting diode for emitting ultraviolet light, a first lens, and a phosphor layer. The first lens is located between the ultraviolet light emitting diode and the phosphor layer. The first lens and the phosphor layer are located at a light outputting path of the ultraviolet light emitting diode to make the ultraviolet light concentrated by the first lens and then radiates to the phosphor layer to act the phosphor layer to obtain a white light.
US08915625B2
A lighting device that comprises a light source unit, with light sources positioned upon a circuit substrate; an LCD panel illuminated by the light emitted from the light sources; a casing, and a diffusion member installed upon the casing. The circuit substrate is mounted so as to block the lower end aperture of the hollow portion. The diffusion member is mounted so as to block an upper end aperture of the hollow portion, which constitutes the opposite end of the hollow portion from the lower end aperture thereof. Radiation units are formed upon the casing to radiate heat caused by the light sources outside the casing.
US08915624B2
A system for cooling heat-generating components within a housing of a light fixture is described herein. The system can include an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture in one or more walls of the housing. The system can also include a housing separator that separates the interior of the housing into a number of regions. The system can also include a heat-generating component positioned within the housing. The system can further include an air moving device positioned within the housing. The air moving device can draw intake air from outside the explosion-proof enclosure and pass the intake air over the heat-generating component to generate exhaust air, where the intake air cools the heat-generating component. The air moving device can further remove the exhaust air from the interior of the housing.
US08915622B2
A light module includes a light emitting diode (LED) array and a double-reflective assembly coupled to the LED array. The double-reflective assembly includes a lower member having a frame. The frame has an opening corresponding to the LED array. The frame and LED array are located in the same plane. The light module further includes a left bottom reflector and a right bottom reflector. The light module further includes an upper member which includes a left top reflector; and a right top reflector, wherein the left top reflector is attached to the left bottom reflector, and right top reflector is attached to the right bottom reflector, each forming an arbitrary left and right double-reflective assembly. A shape geometry and profile of each double-reflective assembly provides a pre-calculated combined non-circular asymmetrical intensity distribution pattern. The intensity distribution pattern is a superposition of light reflected from the bottom reflectors, light reflected from the top reflectors, light doubly reflected from both the top and bottom reflectors, and light directed into the intensity distribution pattern directly from the LED array.
US08915621B2
The present invention discloses a lamp structure with stacked light transparent boards. The lamp structure includes a lamp base, a light source module, plural transparent boards, and an electrical wire module. The light source module is placed inside the lamp base and is connected to an outside power supply by the electrical wire module, the transparent boards are stacked on the lamp base, and each of the transparent boards has a central hole, the central hole can be of different size for different transparent boards. The central holes of the transparent boards together form the designed light shape of the lamp structure. Lamp designs and productions by using the lamp structure of the present invention is easier and cheaper and full of plenty diversities. The repairing cost is low, since only replacement of the damaged portion of the lamp structure is required, but not throwing away the whole lamp.
US08915614B2
A light source module includes a first triangular prism, a second triangular prism, a second laser source, and a third laser source. A first laser beam emitted from the first laser source and a second laser beam emitted from the second laser source are mixed to a first mixed laser beam by the first triangular prism. The third laser beam emitted from the third laser source and the first mixed laser beam emitted from the first triangular prism are mixed with a second mixed laser beam by the second triangular prism.
US08915606B2
A display device includes: a display of which a display surface is displayed with an image; plural light sources which output light toward the display, and configure a backlight; a diffuser plate arranged between the display and the plural light sources, and diffuses light output from the light source; and a support pin arranged on the opposite side to the display by interposing the diffuser plate therebetween, and holds the diffuser plate by being in contact with the diffuser plate. A plate shaped unit formed in a transparent plate shape is provided at a portion located on the diffuser plate side in the support pin, the plural light sources and the support pin are arranged in line in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the display and the diffuser plate are aligned, and the plate shaped unit is caused to face the light source in the shortest distance.
US08915600B2
An optical body includes a substrate having a concave-convex surface, a reflecting layer formed on the concave-convex surface, and an optical layer formed on the reflecting layer to embed the concave-convex surface, wherein the reflecting layer directionally reflects light, the concave-convex surface is made up of a plurality of triangular pillars arrayed in a one-dimensional pattern, and the triangular pillar has an apex angle α and a slope angle β, the apex angle α and the slope angle β satisfying a formula (1) or (2) given below: 30≦β≦4.5α−285(70≦α≦80) (1) 30≦β≦−1.5α+195(80≦α≦100) (2).
US08915598B2
A projector includes: an external case provided with an opening through which light passes; a projection system disposed within an inside space of the external case, wherein the projection system includes a reflection member having a reflection surface capable of reflecting light received from a light source device to guide the light toward the opening, and projects the light to the outside of the external case via the opening; and a detection unit which detects a foreign material existing on the optical path of the light in the area of light exit of the opening.
US08915597B2
A light source apparatus includes: an excitation light source; a phosphor having, as a main fluorescence wavelength region, wavelengths of green excited by excitation light emitted from the excitation light source; a red laser light source that oscillates in a red wavelength region; an optical multiplexer that multiplexes fluorescence emitted from the phosphor and red laser light emitted from the red laser light source; and color demultiplexing optics that demultiplexes the multiplexed light into two light beams. A cutoff wavelength of the color demultiplexing optics is a wavelength in the wavelength region of fluorescence, and is shorter than the red wavelength region.
US08915591B2
A contact lens, comprising a preprint of a first shade and a main print of a second shade, wherein the preprint consisting of a first band of gradient dot matrix, wherein the main print consisting of a second band of evenly spaced circular voids, wherein the second band surrounds the starburst pattern, wherein the first band and the second band have a substantially identical outer diameter and the first band has a smaller inside diameter than the second band, wherein the first shade and the second shade are different, wherein the gradient dot matrix is characterized by dot coverage increases in a radial direction from the center too the peripheral edge or a position near the peripheral edge of the substantially-circular pattern.
US08915590B2
A contact lens with a central portion, an iris portion, and a peripheral portion disposed about the iris portion; an effect band in or just outside the iris portion helps to provide the lens with a halo effect when worn on eye.
US08915585B1
A printing apparatus, including: an ink jet head for ejecting ink droplets of an ultraviolet curing type ink toward a medium; a temporary curing ultraviolet light source; an irradiation setting storage section which stores ultraviolet irradiation settings of ultraviolet rays from the temporary curing ultraviolet light source to the medium; and a curing completion ultraviolet light source being for completing curing of the dots of the ink, is provided. The ink jet head performs a printing by a multi-pass method. The ultraviolet irradiation settings are set so that, regarding temperature of the region where the ink jet head ejects ink droplets in each main scanning operation in the multi-pass method, an increasing range of temperature compared with temperature at a timing of the last main scanning operation is suppressed within a temperature rising range which dot gains of the dots of the ink are substantially the same as each other.
US08915581B2
The invention relates to an ink cartridge, an ink cartridge set and an ink cartridge determination system. The invention comprises a first signal blocking section and a second signal blocking section, wherein the second signal blocking section is a movable component and is in an initial ink cartridge installation detection position before detection, and the initial ink cartridge installation detection position determines whether or not the second signal blocking section prevents a second signal from passing through the second signal blocking section or changes the path of the second signal. That is to say, different ink cartridges can be distinguished by different initial ink cartridge installation detection positions of the movable second signal blocking section.
US08915580B2
A liquid supplying apparatus of a printer includes a liquid supplying path for supplying liquid from an upstream side which becomes a liquid accommodator side toward a downstream side which becomes a liquid ejecting head side; a pump; a buffer which is provided at a downstream side of the pump in the liquid supplying path, temporarily stores the liquid discharged from the pump, and has a movable section for supplying the temporarily stored liquid toward the liquid ejecting head side under pressure; and a chalk valve which is provided between the buffer and the liquid ejecting head in the liquid supplying path, and is closed to block the liquid supplying path when a negative pressure of the downstream side which becomes the liquid ejecting head side is greater than a pressing force of an upstream side which becomes the buffer side.
US08915575B1
A printing system including a staggered inkjet printhead including at least two inkjet nozzle arrays arranged along first and second print lines in an alternating pattern, wherein the inkjet nozzle arrays along a particular print line alternate with non-printing regions. A media guide including first and second media guide surfaces is used for guiding receiver media along a media path past the first and second print lines of the inkjet printhead. At least one of the media guide surfaces is contoured such that it is closer to the staggered inkjet printhead along portions of the associated print line that correspond to the associated inkjet nozzle arrays than it is for at least some portion of the associated print line that corresponds to the non-printing regions.
US08915574B2
A printing device includes a head that has a plurality of nozzles, a reversing section for reversing a front surface and a back surface that are facing surfaces of a printing medium facing the head, and a control section for causing the head to execute an ejection operation of forming an image forming dot for printing an image designated as a print target and a flushing dot other than the image forming dot on the facing surface by moving either one of the printing medium and the head so as to relatively change the positions of the printing medium and the head and ejecting liquid from each of the nozzles. The control section calculates a liquid amount of the liquid ejected onto each of the two facing surfaces of the printing medium so as to form the image forming dot, predicts occurrence of warpage due to a curl phenomenon in which warpage of the printing medium occurs in one direction by absorbing the ejected liquid based on the liquid amount, and controls the ejection operation of forming the flushing dot such that a difference in the liquid amounts ejected onto the two facing surfaces is equal to or less than a prescribed amount.
US08915565B2
A method obtains color consistency over at least one printing system in order to print a digital image containing pixels and color information of the primary colors per pixel. Each printing system includes at least one engine including a plurality of containers, each of the containers containing a marking material having a primary color. The method includes the steps of, for each primary color, determining a target color which is printable by each engine on the receiving medium, determining for each container how much marking material must be ejected to establish the target color, and for each pixel of the digital image to be printed by an engine, replacing each primary color of the pixel by a corresponding target color, and printing the pixel by ejecting marking material from the containers of the engine according to the determined marking material per target color per container of the engine.
US08915564B2
A method for producing small lots of printed plastic film is described, wherein in terms of the resolution and colors the print corresponds to the print generated by means of the intaglio printing method. The film (1) is printed by way of an array of print heads (2a, 2b) with an ink using the ink jet printing method, said ink containing the same dyes and/or pigments, and the property of the ink is adapted to the ink jet printing method.
US08915559B2
A household appliance including a cabinet having a frame and one or more force distributors structured to absorb forces that the cabinet receives during shipping and handling. The one or more force distributors may include a block portion having cut-out sections throughout that lead to a generally flat planar bottom portion. To reduce material costs, the cut-out sections may include a surface area of greater than fifty percent of the total surface area of the one or more force distributors. The invention also includes a method for attaching the one or more force distributors to the household appliance.
US08915551B2
An apparatus for producing round brushes, which have bristles twisted in between two portions of a folded wire. The apparatus has a bristle feeding device and a rotary gripper for twisting two portions of wire with bristles located therebetween, a deflecting device with two deflecting rollers spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the wire. The rotary gripper is linearly displaceable transversely in relation to the longitudinal direction of the wire, for gripping the folded region of the wire that is formed by force being applied by an application element that is adjustable between the deflecting rollers transversely in relation to the longitudinal direction of the wire. A bristle feeding device, for feeding bristles to the bent-around portions of wire, is provided in the region of the deflecting rollers. In the region of the unfolded portions of wire there is provided a device for slowing the advancement of the wire.
US08915549B2
A lifting apparatus for lifting a user from a sitting position to a semi-upright position. The lifting apparatus is positioned under the seat portion and along the back portion of the chair. The lifting surface extends from a first roller over a second roller and along the front surface of the chair to the base of the lifting apparatus adjacent the front of the chair. A seating area can be provided in the lifting surface to keep the user in position on the lifting surface. To use the lifting apparatus, the first roller is rotated to wrap the lifting surface onto the first roller which moves the lifting surface away from the front surface of the chair and lifts the user away from the chair.
US08915547B2
A multi-point locking system for a carseat including a base having an upper surface, a lower surface, front and rear ends, and left and right sides, the lower surface dimensioned to rest upon a vehicle seat and a seat having a seating surface and an exterior surface, the exterior surface removably engagable with the upper surface of the base. Four locking points removably engage the seat to the base comprising two spaced apart rear locking points positioned toward the rear end of the base and two spaced apart front locking points positioned toward the front end of the base. An actuator control releases the engagement between the seat and the base.
US08915543B2
Provided is a sunroof apparatus including a movable roof panel installed in an opening in a fixed outer roof panel of a vehicle, a drive slider to move in a front-rear direction along a fixed guide frame, and a panel support stay interposing between the roof panel and the drive slider to support the roof panel. The roof panel is tilted up and moves backward by a backward moving of the panel support stay while the panel support stay is in an inclined position, as the drive slider slides backward. A part of a plurality of engagement portions between the panel support stay and the drive slider is located rearward more than a rear edge of the opening when the opening is fully opened.
US08915538B2
A seal adapted to extend along an interface between a vehicle hood and cowl. A profile has a base layer seating upon a flattened lip edge of the cowl, the base layer being supported upon the cowl lip edge from a rear edge to an intermediate underside stepped protrusion. The base layer further exhibits having a forward bottom projecting portion. A first upwardly/rearwardly and substantially linear angled blade extends from a first location of the base layer, with a second upwardly/forwardly and arcuately shaped blade extending from a second forward spaced location of the base layer, such that said blades project relative to underside opposing locations of the hood in contacting fashion and in order to both prevent admittance of engine exhaust into an adjoining passenger compartment and to provide optimum resistance to sound transfer.
US08915537B2
There is provided a vehicle body structure that can improve collision performance at the time of a rear collision. The vehicle body structure includes first and second crash boxes that are provided at rear ends of rear side members. Further, the second crash boxes are disposed at positions different from the positions of the first crash boxes in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The second crash boxes, which are disposed at the positions different from the positions of the first crash boxes, can absorb a load applied from bumper reinforcement of another vehicle. Since a load at the time of a rear collision is absorbed by the second crash boxes, it is possible to suppress the deformation of a trunk that is provided at the rear portion of a vehicle body.
US08915529B1
A static and length adjustable device for aiding a user in removing dissimilar items from a bed of a truck without any modification to the device to remove the dissimilar items. The device includes a pole, a head, length-adjusting apparatus, and attaching apparatus. The pole has a length. The head extends from the pole, and together therewith, are for aiding the user in removing the dissimilar items from the bed of the truck without any modification to the device to remove the dissimilar items. The length-adjusting apparatus is operatively connected to, and selectively adjusts the length of, the pole, and is for facilitating aiding the user in removing the dissimilar items from the bed of the truck without any modification to the device to remove the dissimilar items. The attaching apparatus replaceably attaches the head to the pole.
US08915527B2
Before chuck 20 is opened, coil spring 22 is compressed, and coil spring 22 applies downward force to holding nails 24. Accordingly, when the chuck 20 is opened, resultant force that opens the chuck 20 and the restoring force of the coil spring 22 causes the holding nails 24 to automatically move in oblique downward directions. As a result, the holding nails 24 move to positions that are laterally close to the holding target workpiece 26a. At this time, when other workpieces 26b and 26c neighbor the holding target workpiece 26a, the holding nails 24 can move the neighboring workpieces 26b and 26c from the workpiece 26a so as to flick away the neighboring workpieces 26b and 26c.
US08915521B2
An adjustable steering column for a vehicle and a bushing for the adjustable steering column are provided. The adjustable steering column includes a column jacket having a lower jacket extending along a first axis and an upper jacket telescopically coupled to and extending with the lower jacket. The lower and upper shafts are configured to selectively move telescopically relative to one another for telescope adjustment of the steering column. The adjustable steering column also includes a bushing positioned between the lower jacket and the upper jacket, the bushing including a support portion extending along a length between the lower jacket and upper jacket, the support portion including a first seating area, and a roller portion positioned in the first seating area, the roller portion configured to engage at least one of an outer surface of the lower jacket and an inner surface of the upper jacket.
US08915512B2
Embodiments of the invention describe methods, apparatuses and systems related to vehicle frame and component design for efficient and compact packaging. Removable components of a scooter are formed to be able to all be placed within a void of the scooter frame so as to not affect the volume of the scooter when disassembled and packed. Thus, when disassembled, the volume of the packaged scooter is defined by the dimensions of its frame only.
US08915506B2
“INLINE SKATEBOARD WITH DIFFERENTIATED WHEELS’ that has wheels with different predetermined sizes being affixed by means of two trucks to the shape. Besides the wheels, the two trucks have a shock absorber device, a metallic base structure and a torsion system for the execution of curves with the automatic alignment of the wheel sets with the shape after turning movement completion. Thus, the movement is limited by three features combined: the size of the internal wheels, the sliding of the internal screw through the aperture of the wheels axles' fixation support and the sliding of the intermediary parts of the recesses of the torsion device mortise aperture with the wheels axles' fixation support relative to the sleeve apertures.
US08915504B1
A wheeled tool caddy apparatus that includes a caddy frame having a first and a second vertical member disposed in parallel, a toolbox distally disposed endwise upon each of the first and second vertical members, and a cubical open-topped receptacle removably disposed upon the tool box, wherein an extant collection of tools is sortable, storable, and portable within the tool box, the open-topped receptacle, and each of a plurality of fabric tool pockets disposed upon at least three sides of the open-topped receptacle, whereby said wheeled tool caddy apparatus is maneuverable in an upright position upon a quadruplicity of castor wheels disposed upon a base of the toolbox, and in an inclined orientation upon a pair of castor wheels disposed upon a first vertical surface of the toolbox, and directable thereby by means of a U-shaped handle section adjustably extensible from within each of the first and second vertical sections.
US08915492B2
According to one embodiment, a sheet finishing apparatus includes a finishing section configured to apply finishing to a sheet placed on a processing tray, a sheet discharging section configured to discharge the sheet subjected to the finishing to a stack tray via a discharge port, a roller attached to a shaft provided in parallel to the discharge port and which rotate in a first direction for guiding the sheet in the direction of the finishing section and a second direction for discharging the sheet, and an arm attached to the shaft to extend in the centrifuging direction from the shaft, rotate with the torque of the shaft, and idly rotate when force for regulating the torque acts. The arm flaps down the trailing end of the sheet on the stack tray onto the stack tray.
US08915490B2
A post-processing apparatus includes a transport path, a loading part, a first folding member, a second folding member, a drive mechanism, a position detecting unit, a time information output part, a time monitoring part, and a rotational driving control part. The time monitoring part measures a moving time of the blade member from a first position between an initial position and a protrusion position to a second position, and determines whether the moving time has elapsed by a predetermined time. When the time monitoring part determines that the moving time has elapsed by the predetermined time, the rotational driving control part controls a rotary drive part so as to switch a rotational driving direction into a backward rotational direction.
US08915484B2
A fluid delivery valve and system including a neck portion adapted to connect to a fluid delivery tube; a head portion comprising a dispensing face with a perimeter and a slit; and a compression member disposed in the head portion which is adapted to apply a force to the slit.
US08915466B2
An aircraft (1) having an airframe (2) extending along an anteroposterior plane of symmetry (P1) in elevation transversely separating a first side (11) of said aircraft (1) from a second side (12) thereof, said aircraft (1) being provided with hoist means (20) including a winch (21) provided with a drum for winding a hoist cable (22), said hoist means (20) including a beam (30) for guiding said cable, said beam (30) extending from a first end (31) constituting an inlet end for said cable (22) to a second end (32) constituting an outlet end for said cable (22). The hoist means (20) have a counterweight (23), said counterweight including said winch (21) that is fastened to said first end (31), said second end (32) being located on said second side (12) while said winch (21) and said first end (31) are located on said first side (11).
US08915462B2
A mandrel cupping assembly for releaseably engaging the unsupported ends of a plurality of mandrels supported on a web winding turret assembly is disclosed. Each of the mandrels is driven in a closed mandrel path about a web winding turret assembly axis. The mandrel cupping assembly has a cupping arm turret with a cupping arm turret central axis, a cupping arm cooperatively associated with each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels, and a first actuator for disposing the cupping arm from a hold-open position to a hold-closed position. Each of the cupping arms is disposed radially about the cupping arm turret and is carried in a radial orbital path about the cupping arm turret central axis while disposed in either of the hold-open position or the hold-closed position.
US08915459B2
A fishing reel comprises a spool 14 which is provided in a rotatable manner with respect to a reel body 12, and around which a fishing line 24 is wound, and a winding mechanism 18 which is provided coaxially with the spool 14. Between the spool 14 and winding mechanism 18, a drag part 16, which transmits rotation of the winding mechanism 18 to the spool 14 at or below a predetermined torque, is provided. The winding mechanism 18 is provided with a power transmission member 44 provided coaxially with a main rotation shaft 30 which rotates with the spool 14 via a one-way clutch 40. A winding ring 45 provided coaxially with the power transmission member 44, a winding cord 47 whose one end is fixed to the winding ring 45, and which is wound around the winding ring 45, and a spiral spring 46 which rotates the power transmission member 44 in a rewinding direction are provided. By pulling out the winding cord 47, the winding ring 45 is rotated and the spool 14 is rotated as one unit, and the fishing line 24 is wound. The winding ring 45 is rotated with the spiral spring 46 in a rewinding direction, and the winding cord 47 is rewound around the winding ring 45 with the one-way clutch 40 without torque being transmitted to the spool 14.
US08915456B2
A torch assembly having features enabling single handed operation. The torch assembly includes a flame control device that can be operated with a user's fingers while the user is holding the torch with the same hand. A controller apparatus of the torch assembly includes a trigger for actuating an on/off valve adapted to permit or stop flow through a fuel line, a regulator adapted to at least partially restrict flow in the fuel line and including a regulator valve, and a controller operatively connected to the regulator to adjust the position of the valve to vary the flow of fuel through the fuel line. The controller is interposed between the trigger and the regulator, and can include a rotatably mounted knob.
US08915449B2
A Non-transferable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) assembly for attachment to an article comprises a RFID module; and a antenna module coupled with the RFID module, the antenna module comprising a conductive layer, a substrate, and an adhesive modification layer between the conductive layer and the substrate, the adhesive modification layer configured such that when the assembly is attached to the article and attempt to remove the assembly will cause the substrate to release and leave the conductive layer intact.
US08915443B2
A barcode decoding method includes obtaining a plurality of scanning lines defining a second set of scanning lines which also comprises a predetermined scanning line. Each scanning line has a first set of pixels, each identified by a first and by a second index. The pixels that are part of the second set of scanning lines define a third set of pixels and, from the pixels of the third set of pixels, it is possible to select a fourth set of pixels to construct an oversampled profile of the barcode, ordering intensity values calculated from the intensity values of the pixels of the fourth set. The pixels of the fourth set include pixels of the predetermined scanning line and further pixels of the third set that do not belong to the predetermined scanning line, to obtain a subpixel resolution that is able to decode the barcode.
US08915441B2
Methods and tangible computer-readable media for synchronizing a mobile device to a display via a communication network are disclosed. For example, a method receives an identification code from a display and sends a request to the communication network to establish a communication session between a mobile device and the display. The request comprises the identification code. Thereafter, the communication session is established via the communication network. Another method receives a request to establish a communication session between the mobile device and the display. The request comprises an identification code of the display that was received by the mobile device from the display. The method then establishes the communication session.
US08915437B2
A technique detects counterfeit products having appearances similar to authentic products with high accuracy. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer in which hologram is processed and circularly polarized light of primary rotating direction having specific central wavelength can be selectively reflected and a code forming layer in which code printed pattern that is an objective of reading is formed, are arranged in this order seen from a side from which reading is performed. The hologram image that inhibits reading of information of the code while an optical reading device reads it together with the code, and it is formed by the hologram processing.
US08915433B2
In various disclosed examples, an identifier is selected from a first set of identifiers, the selected identifier having a representation of at least two different characters. An indication of a difference between the representation of the selected identifier and representations of one or more identifiers from a second set of identifiers is calculated, and the selected identifier is determined to be an eligible identifier if the indication of the difference satisfies a threshold criteria.
US08915431B2
A system, apparatus, and method for enabling effective use of a contactless payment device in a transit system. The invention may be implemented in a manner that separates the authentication process from the pre-authorization process, thereby permitting a transit system patron to access and begin use of the transit system prior to authorization of the transaction by the issuer of the device.
US08915429B2
A method is provided of operating a produce weighing scale having a weighing platform. The method comprises prompting a customer to scan a barcode containing barcode data which identifies the produce weighing scale, receiving the barcode data which identifies the produce weighing scale, and after the barcode data has been received, prompting the customer to place produce items one-by-one onto the weighing platform of the produce weighing scale. Another method is provided of operating a mobile device of a customer shopping for produce items in aisles of a produce section of a retail grocery store. Still another method is provided of operating a self-checkout station to enable a customer in a retail grocery store to check out grocery items including produce items.
US08915427B2
A method for controlling a cycle of notes of value, wherein by a security transport company a cash box is removed from and/or inserted into a device for handling notes of value. The removal and/or the supplying of the cash box are detected by means of a sensor. After removal of a cash box from the device the total value of all notes of value received in the cash box is read out from the memory region of a memory element and is subtracted from a value stored in an account memory element assigned to the security transport company. After insertion of a cash box the total value is added to the value of the account memory element.
US08915423B1
The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method, for verifying an individual's authorization to enter into a country's borders using an electronic data card with at least one biometric identifier stored thereon for identifying the card holder. The system and method includes biometric verification means for validating at least one biometric sample that is compared with the at least one biometric identifier stored on the electronic data card when the electronic data card is within a predetermined spatial proximity to the card reader. Upon validation of the biometric sample, the electronic data card releases the card holder's information to the card reader, which receives and transmits the information to a computer processor for determining the card holder's travel authorization.
US08915413B2
A device for opening an ampoule (3) comprises a hollow cylindrical housing (11) having an interior for accommodating the ampoule (3) and a rotary element (12) having a proximal section (121), to which a break-off section (124) extending in a distal direction is connected to. The break-off section (124) is flexible in a radial direction and is pivotably connected to the proximal section (121) in the radial direction. The rotary element (12) is rotatable relative to the housing (11) about the longitudinal axis. The housing (11) has a first guiding structure (119) for pressing the break-off section (124) inward during a rotation of the rotary element so that the break-off section (124) exerts a radial shear force on an ampoule head (33) of an ampoule (3) to break the ampoule head (33) off of the ampoule body (31).
US08915402B2
The invention is a depositing device (5) for depositing flowable food containing gas comprising a pressurized feed line conveying flowable food containing gas under pressure into the food; piston (60) means operatively connected to the feed line comprising a piston and a chamber (61); an outlet to deliver food at the atmospheric pressure into molds (85). The device comprises a pressure retaining means (9) arranged to retain the product in the chamber at the same pressure as the line pressure and to deliver the product through the outlet as pressure in the chamber increases from the line pressure upon descent of the piston in the chamber.
US08915401B2
A dosage-dispensing unit with an interior space, delimited by a lateral wall and a bottom portion. The bottom portion further includes an outlet orifice. The dosage-dispensing unit can be connected to a holder device of a dosage-dispensing device. The holder device is supported by constraints that allow movement in a prescribed direction. The outlet orifice has a central longitudinal axis that is oriented at a predetermined angle relative to this prescribed direction of movement. The internal surface of the bottom portion facing towards the interior space includes a surface region having at least a line segment that starts at the outlet orifice and extends in the prescribed direction of movement.
US08915389B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a large vacuum chamber body that has been welded together. The chamber body may have a high emissivity coating on at least one surface therein. Due to the large size of the chamber body, the chamber body may be formed by welding several pieces together rather than forging the body from a single piece of metal. The pieces may be welded together at a location spaced from the corner of the body, which may be under the greatest stress during evacuation, to ensure that the weld, which may be the weakest point in the body, does not fail. At least one surface of the chamber body may be coated with a high emissivity coating to aid in heat transfer from incoming, heated substrates. The high emissivity coating may increase substrate throughput by lowering the time that may be needed to reduce the substrate temperature.
US08915387B2
In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a nursing bottle is provided. The bottle includes a body having a hollow interior and defining an upper opening. The bottle further includes a nipple joined to the body and disposed over the upper opening. The bottle also includes a means for generating negative pressure within a portion of the interior of the body.
US08915385B2
A coupler head for a coupling arrangement is shown, which coupler head includes a coupler head housing (6) extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end (6a), attachable to a drawbar, to a second end (6b), which is arranged to carry a coupling interface between coupled rail vehicles, which coupler head housing houses mechanical coupling components (8,9) effective for automatic coupling to the corresponding components of a connecting coupling arrangement. The coupler head is characterized in that the coupler head housing has at least one notch (11, 11′) for a predetermined and primarily axial compression thereof with absorption of energy from a deforming compressive force that is applied to the coupler head in the longitudinal direction thereof. The coupler head has preferably at least one notch (11, 11′) for a predetermined folding of the coupler head housing.
US08915383B2
A plant stand includes a first support having a first tier, a second tier and a third tier and a second support having a first tier that corresponds with the first tier of the first support, a second tier that corresponds with the second tier of the first support and a third tier that corresponds with the third tier of the first support. The third tier of the second support has a height that is substantially equal to a height of the third tier of the first support. The plant stand also includes a plurality of shelves. The height of the third tiers substantially corresponds to a length of each shelf. In addition, the first support, the second support and the plurality of shelves are configured into one of a flat pack state having a flat pack height and an assembled state having an assembled height.
US08915376B2
A mobile collapsible screen and cone crusher combination where the screen is pivoted forward and downward for transport and a rubber hopper is coupled to the fines conveyor so as to permit a hinged connection and a sliding connection between the flexible hopper and the fines conveyor. A plurality of flexible matter edge plates are used at the rear of the flexible hopper to facilitate proper compression and expansion of the flexible hopper. A selectable maintenance catch is used to allow the screen to be elevated to an intermediate height for maintenance.
US08915370B2
A blister-type packaging unit having a front wall (2) and a rear wall (1) defining an article-receiving space (6) between them. The front wall (2) and the rear wall (1) have a circumferential joint (4). Inwardly of said circumferential joint (4) a weakened region (7) is present in at least one of the front and rear walls (1,2), which weakened region (7) is tearable by a user to separate the front and rear walls (1,2). Said weakened region (7) has two end portions which are located inwardly of said peripheral region, so that the weakened region (7) can be torn after the user has made a cut in the walls (1,2).
US08915366B2
A package is configured to hold an information carrying card. The package includes a first panel connected to a second panel via a first fold line. The first panel includes a first opening. A third panel is connected to the second panel via a second fold line, the third panel includes a second opening. In a state where the first panel has been folded to overlap the second panel via the first fold line and the second panel has been folded to overlap the third panel via the second fold line, the first opening at least partially overlaps the second opening. The package may include a card on which data is stored. The data is exposed through the first and second opening to an environment outside the package.
US08915365B2
A sleeve operable to at least partially contain a cylindrical article, the sleeve including opposing planar side panels; bowed dust flaps extending upwardly from said side panels; front and back panels, each having rounded, upper corner portions; and overlapping top panels in superposing relation to upper portions of said bowed dust flaps, said overlapping top panels being mutually secured, whereby said bowed dust flaps are retained in a bowed condition that conforms with said rounded upper panel portions of said front and back panels.
US08915363B2
An apparatus and method for retaining medical instruments is disclosed. The apparatus includes a medical instrument tray having a substantially planar, rigid interior section, wherein the interior section has a plurality of holes formed therein. A flexible grommet sheet is positioned abutting a first side of the medical instrument tray, the flexible grommet sheet having a plurality of openings therein, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of openings are substantially axially aligned with the plurality of holes formed within the interior section. A substantially rigid back plate is removably attached to the medical instrument tray, wherein the flexible grommet sheet is positioned between the first side of the interior section and the back plate, and wherein the back plate has a plurality of holes positioned therein, wherein the plurality of holes are substantially axially aligned with the plurality of holes formed within the interior section.
US08915360B2
A case for holding a portable digital device is disclosed. The case includes a body comprising a first panel and a second panel which are fastened together. The first panel comprises a first pocket to hold the portable digital device, wherein the top cover of the first pocket is made using a transparent material, wherein the first panel flips open to enable a user to operate the portable digital device though the transparent or semi-transparent top cover. The second panel includes a flexible elongated segment to secure the case to an object on which the case is mounted.
US08915348B2
A breakage prevention mechanism includes a pair of arms which is synchronized and moves approximately parallel, and a crossbar bridged between the top end of the arms. Both end of the crossbar and the arm are connected pivotably around two axis. Both end of the crossbar are configured to be slidable against the arm in X axis direction. A plunger is placed between both end of the crossbar and arm, which protects the crossbar by restraining the pivoting and the sliding of both in the normal condition and releasing the restraint when the unintended force is given.
US08915346B2
The invention relates to a device (10) for handling notes of value, comprising a sensor unit (300) for detection of at least one feature of each note of value, and a control unit (28) which classifies the notes of value into accepted notes of value and sheet-shaped media to be returned, dependent on the feature to be detected by the sensor unit (300). A sorting gate (400) is arranged downstream the sensor unit (300), wherein the control unit (28) controls the sorting gate (400) to supply notes of value classified as accepted notes of value to a first intermediate storage (32), and notes of value classified as sheet-shaped media to be returned to a second intermediate storage (500).
US08915339B2
An interdigitated cellular cushioning system includes an array of void cells protruding from each of two binding layers interdigitated between the two binding layers. Peaks of each of the void cells are attached to the opposite binding layer forming the interdigitated cellular cushioning system. The interdigitated cellular cushioning system may be used to absorb and distribute a source of kinetic energy incident on the interdigitated cellular cushioning system (e.g., an impact or explosion) so that the amount of force transmitted through the interdigitated cellular cushioning system is low enough that it does not cause injury to personnel or damage to personnel and/or equipment adjacent the interdigitated cellular cushioning system.
US08915334B2
A method of controlling a elevator installation with several elevator cages per elevator shaft, wherein a destination call to a desired destination story is actuated on a call input story by at least one passenger and at least one most favorable call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined for the destination call by at least one destination call control. If at least one disadvantage parameter is set, at least one disadvantage-free call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined by the destination call control, in which it is possible the start story and call input story or the destination story and desired destination correspond.
US08915333B2
An elevator comprising a cabin (1), vertical guide elements (2, 3) for guiding said cabin, at least one suspension or support belt (4, 5), groups of pulleys associated to the guide elements and the cabin; each of said groups of pulleys is composed of at least two coplanar pulleys arranged on parallel axles and vertically one above the other; each of the groups of pulleys comprises pulleys having a diameter decreasing from a pulley of a maximum diameter to a pulley of a minimum diameter. Preferred embodiments of the belts having one or two concave or convex surfaces and internal reinforcing wires are disclosed.
US08915331B2
A battery-powered, handheld grease gun for dispensing lubricant. A pump mechanism driven by a motor is in communication with the lubricant and has a supply port for dispensing the lubricant at a lubrication point. A sensor monitors the pump mechanism of the motor. A display displays information indicative of the monitored condition of the device, such as volume of lubricant dispensed. A processor responsive to operator input selectively energizes the motor to drive the pump mechanism to dispense lubricant.
US08915330B2
A method and system for lubricating a positive displacement machine operating as an expander of a compressed gas, comprising introducing into an expansion chamber of the machine a lubricant whose pour point temperature is greater than the operating temperature of the machine in the expansion chamber as determined by the expanding gas, which thus causes the lubricant to freeze-adhere to the internal surfaces of the expansion chamber, to become fluid under increased pressure at a point of contact of the working surfaces of the expander and then to refreeze when the surfaces separate. Considerable reduction in the quantity of lubricant is realized with the attendant advantage that dis-entrainment of lubricant from the gas exhausted from the machine is largely avoided.
US08915326B2
An axle beam arrangement on a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, has two longitudinal beams and at least one cross beam connecting the two longitudinal beams. At least one of the beams has in an installation state of the vehicle a clearance between the beam stop region and a vehicle-side stop structure, in particular a body structure. The beam has in the beam stop region at least one stop and reinforcing element which reinforces the beam stop region and which is constructed and arranged so that it comes into supporting contact with the stop structure when the beam moves toward the stop structure.
US08915323B2
A two-rear-wheel electric vehicle configured to lean its vehicle body frame when turning includes a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left rear arms, a battery, and a shock absorber. The vehicle body frame includes a head pipe, a front inclined portion, a bottom portion, and a rear inclined portion. The front inclined portion extends obliquely downward and rearward from the head pipe. The bottom portion includes a front support portion that supports a front end portion of the shock absorber. The bottom portion extends rearward in a front-back direction of the vehicle from a rear end portion of the front inclined portion. The rear inclined portion includes a battery support portion, and extends obliquely upward and rearward from a rear end portion of the bottom portion. A swing shaft is positioned rearward of the front support portion and below the battery support portion.
US08915321B2
A device for the removable attachment of a battery of a motor vehicle includes a top portion including an attachment to a motor vehicle, a bottom portion including a connection with the battery, and a latch and a screw including a threaded portion so as to allow locking and unlocking, then the mutual tightening and loosening of the top portion and the bottom portion.
US08915305B2
A packer tool has safety devices to prevent premature and reverse setting and release operations. The safety devices are independent of shear-pin safety systems. Confined annular segments prevent a setting actuator piston from moving absent tool-setting hydraulic pressure. The setting pressure first moves a cylinder in an opposite direction to unroof the segments allowing them to exit confinement and free the piston to set the packing and the anchor slips. Release safety pins extend radially inward from a packing-holder collar into short slots formed on a mandrel surface, preventing the mandrel from being turned. Previous set motion causes the pins to leave the slots thereby freeing the mandrel to turn only after the tool has been set. A third safety device comprises an expanded ring which is dragged by the release cone during release motion until it lodges in a circumferential groove in the mandrel, locking against reverse movement.
US08915302B2
A method and apparatus are provided for installing control lines and pipe into a well. The pipe-holding spider that is normally mounted on the rig floor is adapted for easy disassembly and reassembly when the pipe slips within the spider are not engaged with the outer surface of the pipe string so that upon disassembly, a control line guide becomes vertically movable. The control line guide is adapted for being controllably elevated to a distance above the rig floor, thereby providing personnel access to a portion of the length of the pipe string below the elevated control line guide and above the rig floor for securing control line to the pipe string using a fastener.
US08915301B1
This invention presents innovative methods to treat saline streams such as produced water, seawater, and the like. The invention can be used to: (1) de-NORM produced water; or (2) de-NORM and partially de-salt produced water; or (3) de-NORM and partially de-salt and de-ionize produced water; or (4) de-oil, de-NORM, de-salt and de-ionize produced water. The invention can also be used to de-sulfate seawater and the like in conjunction with desalting plants.
US08915299B2
Apparatus (100) for use in top filling of tubulars comprising an inlet (200) for fluid communication with a top drive for providing top filling fluid, and an outlet (300) for fluid communication with a tubular. The apparatus (100) comprises a filter configuration (120), in fluid communication with the inlet (200) and the outlet (300) and configured to remove debris from a top filling fluid flow flowing from the inlet (200) to the outlet (300) during top filling of a tubular.
US08915294B2
A heat exchanger assembly, such as a condenser, may employ a portion of a heat exchanger end tank to define a slot with a second portion of the end tank. The first and second portions define an interior volume of the end tank. A flared end of a side plate may reside within the slot and may have a straight portion having a first width, a first step portion having a second width that is wider than the first width, and a second step portion that has a third width that is wider than the second width. The flared end may have a tab that protrudes from the second step portion and that is symmetrical about a longitudinal axis of the side plate. The end tank may define a second slot where the tab resides when the flared end resides over an entire cross-sectional portion of a volume defined by end tank.
US08915293B2
An exemplary heat exchanger includes evaporator channels and condenser channels, connecting parts for providing fluid paths between evaporator channels and the condenser channels, a first heat transfer element for transferring a heat load to a fluid in said evaporator channels, and a second heat transfer element for transferring a heat load from a fluid in the condenser channels. In order to achieve a heat exchanger that can be used in any position, the evaporator channels and said condenser channels can have capillary dimensions. The connecting part arranged at a first end of heat exchanger can include a first fluid distribution element for conducting fluid from a predetermined condenser channel into a corresponding predetermined evaporator channel, and the connecting part arranged at a second end of the heat exchanger can include a second fluid distribution element for conducting fluid from a predetermined evaporator channel into a corresponding predetermined condenser channel.
US08915292B2
An exhaust gas heat exchanger that includes a stack at least partially surrounded by a housing. The stack includes a first tube, a second tube, and a coolant duct between the first tube and the second tube. A fin is located within the coolant duct. The fin includes a first portion and a second portion and the first tube includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the fin is fixed to the first portion of the first tube such that the first portion of the fin is coupled to the first portion of the first tube for movement with respect to the housing, and the second portion of the fin is supported in the housing for movement relative to the second portion of the first tube to permit movement of the second portion of the first tube with respect to the second portion of the fin.
US08915291B2
Plant for forming grids for electric battery plates, which comprises a grid forming machine with continuous casting provided with a rotary drum, and a sliding block mounted fixed and slideably sealingly coupled with the external surface of the rotary drum and provided with means for distributing molten lead, in order to insert the molten lead within grooves provided on the external peripheral surface of the rotary drum during the rotation of the latter. The plant is also provided with an ultrasound generator placed to intercept a feed duct for the molten lead, connected to the distribution means and provided with at least one tip immersed in the pressurized flow of molten lead that moves through the aforesaid feed duct in order to transmit the waves produced by the ultrasound generator to the molten lead flow.
US08915287B2
A stationary base plate, a chain drum locking mechanism and a reducer mechanism are provided for a manual rolling door operator, in which the reducer mechanism has an output shaft and the chain drum locking mechanism has a chain drum, a wedge wheel, a drive shaft, a plurality of moving rollers, and fixed rods. If the chain drum is rotated in any direction by a force pulling a chain run around the chain drum, the fixed rods push against the moving rollers to release a wedging action from the wedge wheel which simultaneously renders the drive shaft to be rotated. However, if the force stop to pull the chain, the wedge wheel locks the moving roller by the wedging action due to the weight of a curtain of slats so as to stop the rotation of the drive shaft.
US08915286B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for closing off an opening above, below, or between electronic equipment in a rack. The rack includes a pair of equipment rails. The electronic equipment is mounted to the equipment rails. The apparatus includes a base, a roller shade, and a handle. The roller shade is rotatably connected to the base and includes a free end extending from the base when the roller shade is rotated. The handle is connected to the free end of the roller shade. The base is removably connected to the equipment rails at a first position. The handle is removably connected to the equipment rails at a second position spaced apart from the first position such that the free end of the roller shade is extended to close off the opening in the rack.
US08915281B2
Provided is a system for manufacturing an optical display unit and a feed mechanism, which can well prevent an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer from being peeled from a release film. A pressure-sensitive adhesive type sheet material, wherein the optical film and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (film main body (F)) are cut without cutting a release film (F12, F22) which is laminated to the optical film with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in between, is fed along a feed path (12A, 22A). A press member (200) is arranged at a position opposed to a bent portion or a curved portion in the feed path (12A, 22A). Since the film main body (F) which is peeled from the release film (F12, F22) can be pressed to the release film (F12, F22) by the press member (200), the film main body (F) can be well prevented from being peeled from the release film (F12, F22).
US08915280B1
A system and method for automated application of adhesive, buffer, and/or liner to I-joists, whereby a controlled amount of adhesive, glue, buffer material, and/or a protective liner, are successively applied to the exposed flange of an I-joist. An air-activated side pressure wheel first pushes one flange of an I-joist against an opposing friction-reduced straight edge, then at least one adhesive/glue head extrudes adhesive and/or buffer material onto the opposing exposed flange of the I-joist. An overhead liner applicator may then place a protective liner upon the applied adhesive and/or buffer material. An applicator roller bearing and a pressure roller bearing press the adhesive/buffer/liner to the desired mil thickness, after which the liner applicator cuts the protective liner according to the cut pattern instructions received from a controller. A cooler can be used to cool the adhesive/buffer before release liner application. The system may comprise coordinated mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic components.
US08915274B2
A spindle includes an inner bearing shoulder to seat an inner bearing and an outer bearing shoulder to seat an outer bearing. The inner and outer bearing shoulders are spaced apart by a controlled distance such that the outboard bearing is accurately positioned relative to the inboard bearing to control endplay and preload without requiring bearing adjustment.
US08915261B2
A pressure control apparatus for a supercritical fluid according to the present invention includes: a valve comprising; a valve chamber provided in a midway of a channel through which a supercritical fluid passes; and an electrically-operated valve element located in the valve chamber; a pressure detection member for detecting the pressure of the supercritical fluid in the channel on an upstream or downstream side of the valve chamber; an open/close control member for controlling the pressure detected by the pressure detection member to be a target pressure; and a valve-opening rate adjustment member for adjusting the valve-opening rate when the valve is opened based on the state of the supercritical fluid.
US08915235B2
An air exhaust mixer assembly includes an upstream intake section with an upstream elbow and a downstream elbow. A mixing tube is configured to introduce exhaust gas into the upstream intake section at a location upstream of the downstream elbow. An internal combustion engine utilizing the air exhaust mixer assembly is also provided.
US08915230B2
A split bearing arrangement for reciprocating engines comprises a bedplate section and a block section made of materials differing in hardness. The bedplate section includes at least a bedplate section clamping surface made of an iron material, and has at least one positioning protrusion located on the bedplate section clamping surface. The block section, made of a material having a hardness which is less than the hardness of the iron material, is adapted to be clampable and forcibly pressed against the bedplate section. When the bedplate section is first pressed into the block section, at least one positioning groove located in a block section clamping surface is formed. The at least one positioning protrusion has two longitudinal concave surfaces, two transverse concave surfaces and a substantially flat upper surface.
US08915226B2
An electrode material to be used for producing an earth electrode of a spark plug has a chemical composition of 0.3 to 3.0 mass % of Si, 0.01 to 0.3 mass % of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Y and rare earth elements, not more than 0.5 mass % of Ti, not more than 1.2 mass % of Fe, and one or both of not more than 0.20 mass % of Ca and not more than 0.08 mass % of Mg. The electrode material further contains C, Mn, Cr, Al, N, S, a remainder Ni, and incidental impurities. In a total content of C, Mn, Cr, Al, N and S, C is not more than 0.1 mass %, Mn is less than 0.5 mass %, Cr is less than 0.5 mass %, Al is not more than 0.3 mass %, N is not more than 0.05 mass %, and S is not more than 0.03 mass %.
US08915224B2
The present disclosure relates to shims 10, 24 adapted for placement between a rocker shaft 42 and rocker shaft mounts 62, 64. The rocker shaft mounts 62, 64 project from the cylinder head 60 of an internal combustion engine. The shims 10, 24 are composed of a copper alloy, preferably bronze.
US08915209B2
A paint roller with an end-surface blocking structure is provided with a mounting stem coupled to a handle, a roller sleeved on the mounting stem, a connecting sleeve sleeved on the mounting stem, and an end-surface blocking piece pivoted to the connecting sleeve. The pivot connection of the connecting sleeve with the second pivot allows the connecting sleeve to pivot around the first direction and allows the end-surface blocking piece which is pivoted to the connecting sleeve to pivot around the second direction, so that the end-surface blocking piece is capable of rotating in two different directions, which improves flexibility when operating the paint roller.
US08915187B2
A method receives a multi-page print job comprising content to be printed on sheets to produce a stack of printed sheets. Each of the sheets comprises sheet sides and sheet edges between the sheet sides, wherein the content is printed on at least one of the sheet sides. The method identifies a side mark to appear on at least one stack side of the stack of printed sheets (the stack side comprises the sheet edges). The method determines locations within the print job of side markings to be printed simultaneously with the content on the sheet sides (a combination of the side markings create the side mark). The method prints the multi-page print job to produce the stack of printed sheets with the side mark on the stack side.
US08915186B2
It is an object is to improve the cleaning effect, to reduce the cleaning time, and to reduce the consumption of cleaning water during cleaning of an inside of an ink chamber of a flexographic printing machine. For cleaning an ink chamber 20, purge air “a” is supplied from pipes 46a-b to the ink chamber 20, and an ink “f” is collected from an ink supply pipe 26 and an ink recovery pipe 36 to an ink can 30. Subsequently, cleaning water “w” is supplied from the pipes 46a-b to the ink chamber 20, as well as defining a cleaning water circulatory passage 44 constructed from a three-way valve 24, an ink supply port 22, the ink chamber 20, excessive ink recovery ports 32, the ink recovery pipe 36, and a connecting pipe 40 for circulating cleaning water “w” through the circulatory passage 44 to clean inside the ink chamber 20. At the same time, compressed air “a” is supplied from a compressed air supply pipe 424 of an air gun 42 to generate bubbles in the cleaning water “w”, thereby improving the cleaning effect on the ink chamber 20 by the agitating action and the turbulent flow generating action of the bubbles.
US08915173B2
A cartridge retention tool may be used for restraining a spent cartridge during primer pocket cleaning. The tool may have jaws that may be sized to approximately fit the cartridge and secure it from moving during the cleaning process. The tool may employ mechanical leverage to reduce the amount of force required to restrain the cartridge within the jaws.
US08915168B2
A socket for driving a threaded fastener into a material has teeth spaced around a fastener opening. The teeth cut out a counterbore hole that receives the head of the fastener as the fastener threads into the material.
US08915165B2
Balance adjustment device of rotating body and power delivery system using balance adjustment device
Disclosed is a balance adjustment device of a rotating body including a body configured and structured to rotate based on a rotating axis; a fixation protrusion groove formed on the exterior circumference thereof; a balance ring, wherein a fixation protrusion is formed on an interior circumference of the balance ring that corresponds to the exterior circumference of the rotating body to be inserted into the fixation protrusion groove; and a balance weight formed on the balance ring to adjust the rotating balance.
US08915160B2
In a group transmission arrangement, in particular a commercial vehicle group transmission arrangement, comprising a main group with a central synchronizing unit for synchronizing at least two main group shifting units for changing a main group transmission ratio, includes at least one auxiliary group with at least one auxiliary group shifting unit for changing an auxiliary group ratio, wherein a control unit is provided to actuate in a shifting operation the auxiliary group shifting unit and a central synchronizing unit in order to change an overall gear ratio, the control unit is adapted to actuate the auxiliary group shifting unit and the central synchronizing unit in parallel at least intermittently.
US08915153B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a device, such as a sensor device. The device includes a sensor die and a circuit die. The sensor die includes a sensor and a feedback component. The circuit die includes circuitry. The circuit die is varied from the sensor die, such as comprising a varied substrate material. The circuitry is coupled to the sensor and the feedback component. The circuitry and the feedback component can communicate correlation information.
US08915149B1
A dual force plate system having two independent measurement surfaces is disclosed herein. The dual force plate system includes a first plate component having a first measurement surface for receiving a first portion of a body of a subject, a second plate component having a second measurement surface for receiving a second portion of the body of the subject, a first force transducer element operatively coupled to the first plate component, a second force transducer element operatively coupled to the second plate component, and a third force transducer element operatively coupled to both the first plate component and the second plate component. A force plate system for computing a center of gravity of a subject is also disclosed herein. In addition, a method for determining the center of gravity for a subject disposed on a force measurement assembly is described herein.
US08915142B2
A ceramic component having at least one electrical feedthrough, comprising: a ceramic body, through which a bore extends; and a metal conductor, which is arranged at least sectionally in the bore and which is secured in the bore by means of an active hard solder, or braze, whereby the bore is sealed. The active hard solder fills an annular gap between the metal conductor and the ceramic body, characterized in that the active hard solder has a radially variable, chemical composition.
US08915139B1
A cantilever beam accelerometer design is disclosed that obviates the need of attaching electrical leads directly to the piezoelectric plates. According to one aspect of the invention, two identical proof-masses are positioned on top of each piezoelectric plate in a symmetrical fashion. In advance of attaching the masses to the plates, electrical leads are attached to the masses by some suitable technique such as soldering. Each proof-mass is positioned on its respective piezoelectric plate as close to the free-end of the beam as practical, to keep the size of the mass reasonably small. The disclosed concept is useful for both series and parallel configurations of the piezoelectric plates, wherein the polarization vectors are in opposite directions for two plates connected in series and the polarization vectors are in the same direction for two plates connected in parallel.
US08915135B2
A barometer which is rotatable and a method of using a barometer which is rotatable is presented comprising a barometer tube retaining barometric fluid that is shorter than that required by non-rotatable barometers. The provision of a rotatable barometer allows the use of a barometric fluid of a density lower than that of mercury to be used, thereby enabling the use of mercury to be avoided.
US08915131B2
A method of determining the surface level of an area subject to flood, furrow or surface irrigation. The method includes the steps of providing at least one measuring cup positioned below the surface level but within the area and providing a water level sensor within or integrated with the at least one measuring cup. The levels provided by the water level sensor are used to calculate the surface level by determining the inflection point between the rapid increase of the monitored levels when the front of irrigation water passes the water level sensor. A further aspect of the disclosure is the provision of a soil moisture sensor, said sensor comprising an auger adapted to be inserted into the ground with minimum soil disturbance, said auger having means for measuring soil moisture.
US08915101B2
The invention addresses the problem of providing a warp knitted fabric manufacturing method capable of stably producing a warp knitted fabric wherein the longitudinal stretchability is 200%. To solve the problem, the invention is a warp knitted fabric manufacturing method that forms bands of a warp knitted structure with increased longitudinal stretchability by forming stitches with an elastic warp (2) while knitting in an elastic inserted yarn (3) in the warp direction and knitting in the weft (4) in the course direction, wherein: active feed means (30), which are obtained by placing a single follower roller (323) above two drive rollers (321, 322), are disposed on the respective paths of the warp (2) and the inserted yarn (3) to feed the warp (2) and the inserted yarn (3) to the warp knitting machine while increasing the respective elongation percentage. The active feed means (30) keep the respective feed rates of the warp (2) and the inserted yarn (3) constant while feeding same to the crochet warp knitting machine (40).
US08915094B2
A bypass device of a refrigerator connected to an inrush current preventing device bypasses an input power when the input power is applied to the refrigerator, and a controller controls the input power input through the inrush current preventing device in response to a voltage measured by a voltage measuring device, recovers a function of the inrush current preventing device, and drives a compressor. Therefore, a standby time to re-drive the refrigerator is decreased and convenience is enhanced.
US08915090B2
A gas turbine engine includes first and second stages having a rotational axis. A circumferential array of airfoils is arranged axially between the first stage and the second stage. At least one of the airfoils have a curvature provided equidistantly between pressure and suction sides. The airfoils extend from a leading edge to a trailing edge at a midspan plane along the airfoil. An angle is defined between first and second lines respectively tangent to the intersection of the midspan plane and the curvature at airfoil leading and trailing edges. The angle is equal to or greater than about 10°.
US08915084B2
A system and method to extract heat energy from underground heat sources, then transport that heat to the surface in the form of a high temperature liquid or gas, and deliver the contaminant-free heat energy to a surface user of heat. The heat captured in the working fluid of the system is gained by heat transfers and can be extracted from the in situ combustion of any oil sands, heavy oil, conventional or unconventional oil, bitumen, coal, conventional or unconventional natural gas, methane or oil shales, or from various other sources. The invention creates a closed circulation system, in which the working fluid and steam circulating in the system are protected from any direct contact with the hydrocarbon reservoir, and gases produced by the in situ combustion are sequestered in the reservoir by the overlying overburden.
US08915081B2
An internal combustion engine comprises a compressor disposed in an intake system configured to compress combustion air and deliver it to cylinders of the engine. A compressor inlet assembly has a combustion air inlet, in fluid communication with, and configured to receive combustion air from the intake system. A combustion air passage extends through the assembly to an outlet located downstream of the inlet and is configured for fluid communication with the compressor. An EGR mixing conduit is disposed within the compressor inlet assembly and has an EGR inlet configured for fluid communication with, and receipt of EGR from, an EGR supply conduit. An EGR passage extends from the EGR inlet to an EGR supply annulus disposed about the combustion air inlet opening and a plurality of EGR ports extend between the EGR supply annulus and the combustion air passage for delivery of EGR thereto.
US08915064B2
A flow device for an exhaust treatment system includes a base and at least one flow deflector tube secured to the base. The flow deflector tube includes a flow inlet, a flow outlet, and a passage that extends through the flow deflector tube from the flow inlet to the flow outlet. The flow outlet is at an angled orientation to the flow inlet. A method of mixing reactants and exhaust in an exhaust treatment system includes the steps of injecting reactants into exhaust gases flowing through an exhaust conduit used to convey the exhaust gases from an engine. Bent tubes are disposed in the exhaust conduit and used to mix the exhaust gases and the reactants.
US08915058B2
A heat transfer arrangement for a fluid-washed body having first and second ends and a fluid-washed surface extending there-between. The arrangement includes a heat transfer member extending from the first end at least part way along the body towards the second end. A heat source is arranged in use to heat the heat transfer member in the vicinity of the first end of the body. A plurality of thermal control layers are provided on the heat transfer member, each of the layers having a different thermal conductivity and being juxtaposed so as to create a thermal conductivity profile which varies along the length of the member. The arrangement may be used for prevention of icing of an aerofoil body such as a blade, vane or the like.
US08915056B2
A device for supporting and guiding supplying lines used with a digging tool on a drilling machine is described. The device comprises a support branch, formed by a plurality of spacers, adjacent to one another in which a rope or tie-rod is inserted in a housing comprised in the spacers, a supplying pipe for the supplying line and a crosspiece comprising a seat adapted to support the supplying pipe. Each pair of adjacent spacers comprises retaining means. Each retaining means comprises a retaining element, associated to a first spacer of a pair of adjacent spacers, and a slot having a shape substantially matching the shape of the retaining element, associated to a second spacer of the pair of adjacent spacers. A retaining element, during use, engages with a slot allowing relative axial movement, in the longitudinal direction of the rope, of a predetermined amount.
US08915054B2
A rotor comprising a rotary housing and at least one oscillating arm, the oscillating arm comprising at least an internal part connected to the housing and an external part carrying tools, one of the parts comprising an engaging portion able to engage partially in an engaged portion of the other part, the portions each comprising at least one hole and being able to be assembled by a connecting device comprising at least one threaded element with a shoulder, the threaded element passing through each hole of the portions. The connecting device comprises an insert with at least one tapping able to be inserted inside the engaging portion, the threaded element is screwed in the tapping and the shoulder rests on the engaged portion to tighten the engaged portion against the engaging portion.
US08915053B2
A head harness for a horse includes a browband linked, at the ends thereof, to two headpieces, each of which has, symmetrically on either side of the harness, two attachments arranged side by side, and in that, on the front headpiece, the cheek strap of the bit and one end of the throat latch are attached to the first attachment and to the second attachment, respectively, and in that, on the rear headpiece, the noseband cheep strap and one end of an auxiliary cheek strap and one end of an auxiliary cheep strap are attached to the first attachment and to the second attachment, respectively, the other end of said auxiliary cheek strap being attached onto the noseband cheek strap located on the other side of the harness, and in that the second attachment of the front headpiece that receives the throat latch and the second attachment of the rear headpiece that receives the auxiliary cheek strap are rigidly connected by a link.
US08915048B1
A pharmaceutical storing and dispensing device including a child resistant mode and a non-child resistant mode between the container and the closure. The closure comprises a non-child resistant cap shaped to removeably engage the container and a child-resistant cap shaped to be permanently fixed to the non-resistant cap. The non-child resistant cap and child resistant cap are provided in intentionally varying quantities such that the quantity of child resistant caps is less than the quantity of non-child resistant caps.
US08915041B2
A truss hinge that allows hinging between truss parts, and also allows configuration into a different size, and spreads the angle of the truss open ends. One embodiment uses a first plate, having a connection part to a first truss, where the connection part is adapted for connection to a first truss. A second plate is movable relative to the first plate. The second plate also has a second connection part adapted for connection to a second truss. An angle setting part forms a connection between the first plate and the second plate, that holds the first plate relative to the second plate at any of a number of different relative locations between the first plate and the second plate. The plates include angle markings to set the connections.
US08915036B2
An interlocking panel system for top-down or bottom-up installation on an underlying structure including a plurality of panels, with an uphill course and a downhill course where each panel is generally rectangular, having an uphill edge and opposing downhill edge. An interlocking member is disposed along the uphill edge, and a receiving member adapted to receive the interlocking member and a joining flange are disposed along the downhill edge. A first panel is positioned on an underlying structure. In top-down installation, a clip is disposed along the downhill edge of the first panel and affixed to the underlying structure, and a second panel is engaged with the receiving member of the first panel. In bottom-up installation, the first panel is affixed to the underlying structure, and a second panel is engaged with the interlocking member of the first panel, and then affixed to the underlying structure.
US08915034B2
A block wall system comprising a framework having a perimeter, an intermediate vertical mullion, and an intermediate horizontal mullion with the blocks retained therein using flexible flanges. The intermediate vertical mullion and the intermediate horizontal mullion define one or more cavities within the framework. A block has a top, a bottom, a front face, a back face, and a pair of narrow faces. One or more detents are defined within each narrow face. Next, a flange is anchored within the intermediate vertical mullion, wherein the flange flexes and thereafter retracts to embed itself into the detent of the block when the block is inserted into the cavity such that the block is retained within the framework, thereby eliminating the need to use a fastener directly into or against the block to secure the block within the framework.
US08915029B2
Example flexible face panels for dock shelters and dock seals at a loading dock include a tip seal and/or an air-filled blister or elongate “bubble” that sealingly conforms to a rear portion of a vehicle (e.g., truck, trailer, etc.) at the dock. In some examples, an air chamber within the blister is open at one or both ends. This prevents otherwise trapped pressurized air from adversely affecting the blister's compliance or its ability to sealingly conform to irregular surfaces of the vehicle. In some examples, as the vehicle backs into and deflects the face panel, the blister distorts and wraps itself around the vehicle's surface irregularities, such as door hardware and protruding lights. In some examples, the face panel's tip seal includes an overlapping seal flap, wherein a series of slits in the tip seal allow the seal to fit over the vehicle's various surface irregularities.
US08914998B2
An article of footwear includes a sole assembly with a rib that is resiliently flexible, and the rib has a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis. The transverse axis extends at an acute angle relative to the ground surface, and the rib includes a first longitudinal end, a second longitudinal end, and a middle portion disposed between the first and second longitudinal ends. A height of the first and/or second longitudinal end is greater than that of the middle portion. The rib is operable to axially support a first force applied substantially along the acute angle relative to the ground surface, and the rib transverse axis remains substantially straight in response to the first force. The rib resiliently bends about the rib longitudinal axis in response to a second force applied substantially normal to the ground surface to make the rib transverse axis non-linear.
US08914995B2
A foot orthotic for use as an insole in footwear is made solely from a copper-containing material.
US08914986B1
Inclinometer devices and methods of manufacturing the same are provided herein. The inclinometer device includes an inclinometer for measuring attitude data of an object, a wireless communication interface for communicating the object attitude data, and a casing. The casing is configured to house the inclinometer and the wireless communication device, and is further configured for use in hazardous environments.
US08914983B2
The invention relates to a measuring and/or testing device (1) comprising a segmented thread (2) having thread segments (3 to 6). A first thread segment (3) and a second thread segment (4) of the segmented thread (2) are adjustable with respect to each other.
US08914969B1
A method fabricates a magnetic transducer. A sacrificial leading shield is provided on an etch stop layer. A nonmagnetic layer is provided on the sacrificial leading shield. A pole trench is formed in the nonmagnetic layer and on the sacrificial leading shield. A pole is formed. The pole has a bottom and a top wider than the bottom in a pole tip region. Part of the pole in the pole tip region is in the pole trench and at the ABS location. The sacrificial leading shield and part of the nonmagnetic layer adjacent to the pole are removed. An air bridge thus resides in place of the sacrificial leading shield between the portion of the pole and the etch stop layer. As least one shield layer is provided. The at least one shield layer substantially fills the air bridge and form a monolithic shield including a leading and side shields.
US08914962B1
A buoy split key (“BSD”) removal apparatus, system, and method are disclosed. The BSD utilizes a power screw to apply a steady and controllable compressive load onto the split key. The BSD applies a compressive force or load to the bitter ends of the split key in order to maximize the use of the moment on the split key. The spread and/or twisted split key is compressed by a compression assembly and compression power screw as supported by a compression frame. The compression assembly provides steady and controllable compression on a buoy split key. A compression power screw and extrusion power screw should be threaded in the opposite direction for maximum torque to remove the buoy split key. Once the split key is fully compressed by the compression assembly, the compressive load from the power screw and split key are then removed.
US08914959B2
A method and apparatus for installing a piston over a lip seal on a shaft includes a cylinder or primary force and a weight member or secondary force. The primary force and secondary force are coupled by a resilient member, which will permit the secondary force to retract from the assembly process when the force needed to complete the assembly is above a predetermined value.
US08914958B2
Upper and lower support members, supporting a valve, are lowered toward a valve guide with at least the lower support member vibrated by a vibrating device. When a lower-end chamfered surface of the valve has failed to be brought into contact with the opening edge of the guide through the lowering, not only the upper support member is caused to gradually move away from an umbrella section of the valve but also the position of supporting, by the lower support member, of a shaft section of the valve is displaced downward after the lower end of the shaft section of the valve contacts the upper end surface of the guide, so that vibrating movement of the lower end of the shaft section is reduced to allow the chamfered surface to contact the opening edge. Then, the valve is inserted into the guide by a pressing member.
US08914955B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element includes a process for forming a first conductive layer, a process for forming a piezoelectric layer having a region serving as an active region, a process for forming a second conductive layer, which overlaps with the region, a process for forming a third conductive layer, which overlaps with the region, on the second conductive layer, a process for forming an opening portion that divides the third conductive layer into a first portion and a second portion, a process for forming a resist layer that covers the opening portion and a peripheral portion at the side of the opening portion of the first portion and the second portion; a process for etching the third conductive layer to form a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion, and a process for etching the second conductive layer to form a third conductive portion.
US08914949B2
Money holding devices (e.g., clips) configured to move from a closed configuration to an open configuration by applying a force to a portion of one arm of the clip that is wider than a corresponding portion of another arm of the clip.
US08914948B2
A scarf zipper with a scarf securing member, a medallion member and a medallion connector member. The scarf securing member is attached to the medallion member by the medallion connector member. The scarf securing member is a wire-form component. The scarf securing member having two halves, each terminating at one end in a locking mechanism and at the opposite end in an integral spring and loop. The spring causes the halves to be biased outward from each other until locked together by the locking mechanism. The locked halves retain two panels of a standard scarf. The scarf securing member is capable of being zipped up or down by pulling on the medallion member. The scarf securing member remains in place after being zipped and the medallion member ends up at the front portion of the scarf and acts as a decorative element.
US08914946B2
A dual-shaft pivot device includes a resilient guide assembly composed of a plurality of resilient guide members and first and second pivotal shafts. Each resilient guide member has two accommodation portions at two ends thereof and a connecting groove communicating with the two accommodation portions. One end of the inner wall of each accommodation portion, far away from the connecting groove, has an end protrusion. The first and second pivotal shafts have middle portions which are inserted in the accommodation portions of the resilient guide member. Each middle portion has at least one middle flat surface to get contact with the end protrusion for the middle portion to push the end protrusion during turning to bring resilient deformation of each accommodation portion.
US08914943B2
A caster wheel device for a domestic appliance is in the form of a wheel mounting carriage, a dial having an underside forming a cam, a cam follower that contacts the cam, a wheel bracket and a wheel. The wheel bracket retains the wheel within it so that the wheel and bracket pivot about the follower independently of the carriage. The cam follower is attached to the wheel bracket and the wheel is able to trail behind the cam follower to form a trailing wheel caster when lowered.
US08914942B2
An attachment for a vacuum cleaning appliance, the attachment including a head divided into a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member, each rotatable member comprising means for sweeping dirt from a surface, a conduit connectable to a vacuum cleaning appliance for conveying an air flow from the head towards the appliance, a drive mechanism for rotating the head about a first axis while simultaneously rotating the first rotatable member about a second axis and the second rotatable member about a third axis, each of the second axis and the third axis being angled to the first axis, and means for dislodging dirt from the sweeping means with rotation of the head about the first axis so that dislodged dirt may become entrained within the air flow.
US08914941B2
A cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner includes a first chamber; an entering passage disposed above the first chamber, the entering passage guiding outer air to form a downwardly whirling air current in the first chamber; a second chamber formed at a position higher than that of an outlet of the entering passage above the first chamber, the second chamber in which the outer air entering from the first chamber whirls; a contaminants-blocking member disposed to be spaced apart from a bottom surface of the first chamber at a center of the first chamber, the contaminants-blocking member preventing contaminants and water separated in the first chamber from moving into the second chamber; and a grill disposed inside the second chamber to be in fluid communication with an air discharging port through which clean air is discharged.
US08914937B2
This invention relates to a hinge assembly for a steam cleaner capable of pivoting in front/rear (X) and left/right (Y) directions, and more particularly, to a hinge assembly for a steam cleaner capable of being adjusted automatically in a straight direction after a swerving force is removed, when a base assembly was swerved while locking automatically a left/right directional pivoting action.
US08914935B2
A multilayered premoistened cleaning wipe having: a liquid permeable first layer joined to a liquid permeable second layer and a core disposed between the first layer and the second layer. A cleaning composition is releasably absorbed in the core. The cleaning composition has between about 0.001% to about 10% by weight of surfactant.
US08914931B2
A laundry machine capable of washing or drying laundry and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method includes a first rotation including rotating a stationary drum in a first rotating direction by a predetermined angle within ˜180 degrees, and a second rotation including rotating the drum, in a direction opposite to the first rotating direction, at least one revolution.
US08914928B2
An alternating pressure pad (1) comprises inflatable cells (9,10) supplied with air by supply lines (7, 8) from a compressor (2) via supply line (3). A pressure controller controls the output of the compressor. Also connected to supply line (3) is an angle detection valve (40) restricting flow of air to atmosphere with increase in its angular position and a pressure transducer (17). Any increase in pressure due to an increase in angle of the detection valve (19) results in back pressure in the detection line. The pressure controller (2) uses the pressure transducer (17) to detect this change in pressure and then acts to adjust compressor output to the cells (9, 10) accordingly. The angle detection valve (40) is positioned under the head section of the pad to move with the head rest section.
US08914924B2
A patient support includes a patient support surface, a fluid movement system provided at the patient support, a port mounted at the patient support in selective fluid communication with the fluid movement system, and a device selected from the group consisting of an inflatable device, a conduit, an air operated device, an actuator, a ventilator, and a chamber, with the port adapted for coupling to the device for delivering fluid to the device from the fluid movement system when the device is coupled to the port.
US08914921B2
An attachment interface is configured to mount a bed leg. The attachment interface includes a base having a support platform and a guiding surface; an abutment; and a helical screw defining an axis oriented at a right angle to the abutment. The helical includes an actuation wheel, and threads positioned under the support platform. A mobile member is configured to move relative to the abutment, the mobile member defining a sliding surface configured to contact the guiding surface of the base.
US08914920B2
A patient lift including a boom a spreader bar, and a friction coupling for securing the boom and the spreader bar. The friction coupling may include two friction washers disposed against respective inner faces of the boom. Two compression springs are disposed abutting the friction washers with a spreader bar support member in between. The compression springs urge the friction washers against the inner faces of the boom end. The spreader bar does not swing when the lift is moved without load. Also, the friction coupling reduces the swing of the patient, when transferred in the lift. This makes the lift easier to maneuver for the caregiver.
US08914916B2
Provided is a helmet suspension system which is configured to mitigate rapid movements, i.e., acceleration and deceleration, of a user's head. The helmet suspension system connects to a base and a helmet worn by a wearer and allows for slow, safe movements of the helmet relative to the base, but restricts rapid and generally unsafe movements of the helmet relative to the base.
US08914913B2
A vest is disclosed that the user can remove without removing an outer garment such as a coat. The vest utilizes hook and loop fasteners at the shoulder to allow the back and front to be separated. In order to facilitate separation, a pull cord is attached at the rear shoulder and crosses the back of the vest and passes through a guide near the opposing hip. When the pull cord is pulled the opposing shoulder that has been separated is peeled back and down across the back allowing the user to remove the vest without removing an overcoat.
US08918904B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support user identity verification based on social and personal information of the user. Under the approach, customers/users are required to grant identity verifying party a degree of access to their social network information, including but not limited to, account data and social graph information on social networks. The identity verifying party then acquires information of a current or potential user's online presence in addition to other information of the user and utilizes such information to verify the user's identity in the real world and/or to assess the fraud risk of a specific financial transaction requested by the user.
US08918903B1
A method may include identifying a computer-usage trend of a first user that reflects a history of computer-related activities engaged in by the first user. The computer usage trend may indicate at least one software program and/or website accessed by the user. The method may also include determining that a current user is logged into a computing system under a user account of the first user. The method may further include tracking activities of the current user while the current user is logged into the computing system as the first user, comparing the tracked activities of the current user with the computer-usage trend of the first user, and determining that the tracked activities of the current user do not correspond to the computer-usage trend of the first user. The method may additionally include, performing at least one remedial action. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US08918892B2
A play limit is set for a media file. The play limit can be, for example a date, or a number of times that the file has been played. When the file exceeds the play limit, the quality of the file playing is degraded.
US08918889B2
An information processing apparatus for determining whether or not to transmit a predetermined content to a reception apparatus connected to a network, in accordance with a response time taken to respond to a predetermined command, including: reception means receiving a response to a command; measuring means measuring the response time to the command; authentication means authenticating the reception apparatus; generation means generating authentication data to be inserted into the command; transmission means transmitting the command including predetermined one of the authentication data; storage means storing the authentication data contained in the command and the response data contained in the response; request means requesting the reception apparatus for transmission of the authentication data and the response data; and determination means determining whether the authentication data and the response data transmitted from the reception apparatus, and determining transmission permission/inhibition of a content to the reception apparatus.
US08918886B2
Classifier training modules and systems are shown that include a memory configured to store a known vulnerability distribution and an initial feature set; and a processor configured to run an initial security analysis on a training codebase to generate a set of vulnerabilities associated with the training codebase, to analyze the program with the feature set to limit a number of detected vulnerabilities to generate a limited set of vulnerabilities associated with the feature set, to compare the limited set of vulnerabilities to the known vulnerability distribution to generate an accuracy score, and to iteratively refine the analysis by updating the feature set to find a feature set having a highest accuracy score.
US08918885B2
A technique is provided for detecting vulnerabilities in system code on a computer. Supervisor call routines and program call routines of the system code are analyzed to determine which are available to a caller program that is an unauthorized program and has a PSW key 8-15. Predefined input parameters are provided to test cases for use by the supervisor call routines and the program call routines in order to generate an output for analysis. The output is analyzed to determine when supervisor call routines and/or program call routines performed a potential vulnerability action. The potential vulnerability action include reading from fetch protected storage, writing to system key (key 0-7) storage, and attempting to access unallocated storage while running with a PSW key 0-7.
US08918882B2
Quantifying the risks of applications (“apps”) for mobile devices is disclosed. In some embodiments, quantifying the risks of apps for mobile devices includes receiving an application for a mobile device; performing an automated analysis of the application based on a risk profile; and generating a risk score based on the automated analysis of the application based on the risk profile.
US08918881B2
Techniques for off-device anti-malware protection for mobile devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, off-device anti-malware protection for mobile devices includes receiving a software inventory for a mobile device, in which the software inventory identifies a plurality of applications installed on the mobile device; and determining whether one or more of the plurality of applications identified in the software inventory are associated with malware based on a policy. In some embodiments, the off-device anti-malware protection for mobile devices further includes enforcing the policy on the mobile device. In some embodiments, the off-device anti-malware protection for mobile devices is provided as a cloud service.
US08918876B2
The invention relates to a method, device (24) in a network node of a communication network (N) and computer program products for determining deviating behavior of a user terminal (10). According to the invention the device (24) obtains a first group of event data sets (EDS1) and a second group of event data sets (EDS2, EDS4), where each group includes at least one event data set. Each event data set in the first group includes user terminal generated event data related to events in a specific user terminal (10) and each event data set in the second group includes network generated event data related to the specific user terminal. The device then performs a comparison involving the first group of event data sets and the second group of event data sets and determines the existence of deviating behavior of the user terminal based on the comparison.
US08918874B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of scanning a computer system for malware. The method includes determining when an application being executed on the computer system is attempting to open a file, adding data written to the open file by the application into a malware scanner queue, and ensuring that the application has been notified that the file has been closed before scanning the queued file data to determine if it relates to potential malware.
US08918870B2
Systems and methods for identifying content in electronic messages are provided. An electronic message may include certain content. The content is detected and analyzed to identify any metadata. The metadata may include a numerical signature characterizing the content. A thumbprint is generated based on the numerical signature. The thumbprint may then be compared to thumbprints of previously received messages. The comparison allows for classification of the electronic message as spam or not spam.
US08918868B2
A device has physical network interface port through which a user can monitor and configure the device. A backend process and a virtual machine (VM) execute on a host operating system (OS). A front end user interface process executes on the VM, and is therefore compartmentalized in the VM. There is no front end user interface executing on the host OS outside the VM. The only management access channel into the device is via a first communication path through the physical network interface port, to the VM, up the VM's stack, and to the front end process. If the backend process is to be instructed to take an action, then the front end process forwards an application layer instruction to the backend process via a second communication path. The instruction passes down the VM stack, across a virtual secure network link, up the host stack, and to the backend process.
US08918865B2
Systems (100) and methods (400) for protecting data accessed through a network connection. The methods involve transferring security software (150) from an external memory device of a client computer (102) to an internal memory device of the client computer. The security software is operative to protect data communicated to and from the client computer via communication links. The security software is also operative to provide a web browser (1101, 1102, . . . , 110p) which executes in user mode on a trusted secured desktop (904) configured to run simultaneously with an unsecured desktop (902) of the client computer. The security software is further operative to provide a security service to the web browser. The security service includes at least one service selected from the group consisting of a keylogger prevention service, a code injection prevention service, and a screen scraper protection service.
US08918863B1
Method and apparatus for monitoring source data that is a target of a backup service is described. In one example, backup data produced by the backup service is analyzed to identify changes in the source data. At least one trend related to the changes is identified. At least one deviation in the changes from the at least one trend is identified. At least one notification may then be generated that includes information indicative of the at least one deviation. The notification(s) may be sent to a network management system as an indication of user error or malicious attacks.
US08918849B2
In some embodiments, a user has use a single universal text—or image-based secret for generating a service-provider specific identity credential, for example username plus password, for authentication is derived. A human (i.e., the user) must interpret an image to enter this universal text (or image) based secret. For example, an image based challenge is presented to the user, and a credential is obtained based on the user's response to the challenge.
US08918846B2
A system and method for securely storing, retrieving and sharing data using PCs and mobile devices and for controlling and tracking the movement of data to and from a variety of computing and storage devices.
US08918845B2
A method and arrangement in a media server (300a) in a first local network (300), of providing remote access to media content stored in a second local network (302). The media server sends a subscription request (3:2) to a presence server (304) for information on media content in the second local network, substantially based on the existing presence service framework. In response thereto, a presence service notification is received (3:3) from the presence server with information referring to remote media content in the second local network that has been published at the presence server. The media server then retrieves (3:4) a content list with available remote media content according to the received presence service notification, and presents (3:5) information from said content list on what media content is available in the second local network, to a device (300c) in the first local network. Thereby, a user of a local device in the first local network can browse and select content from the content list for transfer from the second local network to the first local network.
US08918844B1
An improved technique involves authenticating a user based on ability of devices in the user's possession to corroborate environmental information between each other. As part of an authentication process, at least a primary device and a secondary device belonging to a user take readings of a particular set of environmental conditions, such as wireless networks that are active in a room in which they are contained. An authentication server can then verify that the primary and secondary devices are in the same room by corroborating the readings of the environmental conditions read from the primary and secondary devices, and base an authentication result on the corroboration.
US08918839B2
A system and method for providing access management to secured items through use of a plurality of server machines associated with different locations are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a local server can be dynamically reconfigured depending on a user's current location. Upon detecting that a user has moved to a new location, the local server for the new location can be reconfigured to add support for the user, while simultaneously, the local server for the previous location is reconfigured to remove support for the user. As a result, security is enhanced while the access management can be efficiently carried out to ensure that only one access from the user is permitted at any time across an entire organization, regardless of how many locations the organization has or what access privileges the user may be granted.
US08918829B2
Disclosed is a communication system that includes a source device outputting video contents, a sink device inputting the video contents, and a control transmission line and a video transmission line both connecting with the source device and the sink device to transmit data therebetween via the control transmission line and the video transmission line. The source device includes a control data I/O unit, a video data output unit, a control feature corresponding memory unit, a control unit. The sink device includes a control data I/O unit, a video data input device inputting video data via the video transmission line, a control feature corresponding memory unit, a control unit.
US08918828B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The UDI is recognized. The private user data is extracted from the data sequence according to the pre-defined data structure corresponding to the recognized UDI.
US08918827B2
Methods and systems are described for providing complete Internet anywhere with partial server processing in which a request is sent from a set-top-box (STB) to a server communicatively coupled with the STB to process a portion of a web page that is unsupported by a web browser running on the STB. In one such method, the STB sends to the server an unsupported content request associated with a portion of a web page that is unsupported by a web browser executing on the STB. The STB receives a data stream from the server in response to the unsupported content request. The data stream was generated at the server by processing the unsupported portion of the web page. The STB composites the received data stream with another portion of the web page, that is supported by the web browser, to produce the web page.
US08918826B2
A method of searching the Internet and a video receiving apparatus, such as an Internet TV, to use the same to enable currently-displayed video to be transmitted to an external apparatus, such as a remote controller, and the video received from the external apparatus to be controlled, thereby increasing user convenience. Specifically, the video captured from the video receiving apparatus is transmitted to the external apparatus which receives coordinate data and performs an operation indicated by a menu of the currently-displayed video corresponding to the coordinate data received from the external apparatus so that websites having menus requiring user control can be used without requiring redesign even if the websites are not designed for use with the video receiving apparatus.
US08918822B2
A method and system are described for displaying a synchronized instance of content on a portable electronic device. In the described embodiments, a selection of streaming content that is being displayed on a fixed display system is received by the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device then determines if the portable electronic device is compatible with the streaming content being received by the fixed display system. If the portable electronic device is compatible with the streaming content being received by the fixed display system, then the portable electronic device requests the synchronized instance of the streaming content and displays it.
US08918818B2
A television chat system that allows television viewers to engage in real-time communications in chat groups with other television viewers while watching television. Users of the television chat system may engage in real-time communications with other uses who are currently watching the same television program or channel. The system allows real-time communications in a chat group to be transmitted between users at user television equipment devices via a television distribution facility. The television chat system permits users to join chat groups related to television programs, channels, or categories of programs that the user may be interested in. Real-time communications may be textual messages, audio communications, or video communications. The television chat system may also allow users to send chat requests to ask other users to enter a chat group, and permits users to establish chat groups that television viewers are permitted to join.
US08918816B2
A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal in a DTV receiver, receiving a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common PID values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the section header further contains a section number field indicating a section number and a section syntax indicator field; demodulating the digital television signal; and identifying at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances.
US08918812B2
In a method of displaying video data using an embedded media player page, frame dimensional data for a first video file is received from a database. The database includes frame dimensional data indexed therein for a plurality of video files. The plurality of video files includes the first video file, and the plurality of video files is retrievable from at least one video server through a communications network. A media player is launched within the embedded media player page. A video display area of the media player is sized based upon the received frame dimensional data. The video data from the first video file is displayed within the video display area.
US08918800B2
When the user of a receiving apparatus presses a notice button provided for a remote controller to indicate the preference concerning the person or thing appearing on the screen of the program being viewed, the corresponding signal is transmitted to the receiving section of a set-top box. A view-log storage section stores an input operation command (including the signal indicating that the notice button has been pressed) together with the receiving time thereof as a view log. A view-information generating section reads the view log, generates a view-information packet, and outputs it to a bidirectional communication section. The bidirectional communication section transmits the view-information packet input from the view-information generating section to a broadcasting apparatus through a bidirectional communication network.
US08918793B2
A computer-implemented method for managing access to a shared resource of a process may include identifying a plurality of process steps, each process step of the plurality of process steps, when executed, accessing the shared resource at a same time. The method may also include rearranging at least one of the process steps of the plurality of process steps to access the shared resource at a different time.
US08918787B2
A management entity for managing the execution priority of processes in a computing system, the management entity being configured to, in response to activation of a pre-stored profile defining execution priorities for each of a plurality of processes, cause those processes to be executed by the computing system in accordance with the respective priorities defined in the active profile.
US08918760B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for automated test script generation for application image validation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of automated test script generation for application image validation is provided. The method can include parsing different modules of an existing image of a customized form of a base application to identify graphical user interface (GUI) elements in different screens of each of the different modules and cataloguing in a GUI element catalog, different GUI elements identified during parsing. The method also can include generating test scripts from the GUI element catalog. Finally, the method can include applying the generated test scripts to a new image of the customized form of the base application.
US08918754B2
A system and method for the mass customization of software includes a software production line infrastructure, development environment, and actuator. The infrastructure organizes the software production line using a feature declarations component, a product definitions component, an automatons component, and a partition composition component. The development environment browses, displays, organizes, edits, and maintains the infrastructure. The actuator actuates the software production line to produce custom software products.
US08918753B2
Various embodiments related to correlating a location of a defect on a substrate for a semiconductor device to an electrical significance of a device structure at that location are disclosed. For example, one embodiment includes receiving a defect location for the location on the substrate where the defect was detected; receiving a physical representation of the semiconductor device for the defect location; generating a significance determination indicating whether the defect is located in an electrically significant region by correlating the defect location to logical and physical layout information included in the physical representation; and displaying the significance determination.
US08918748B1
A method for performing latency optimization on a system design to be implemented on a target device includes inserting a variable latency indicator in the system design at a place where latency can be varied. The system design includes pipeline registers at the place where the variable latency indicator is inserted. Latency optimization is then automatically performed on the system design, during a computer aided design flow performed by an electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool, by varying the number of the pipeline registers at the variable latency indicator to obtain optimized latency without affecting system performance of the system design.
US08918744B2
Described herein is a method for simulating an image formed within a resist layer on a substrate resulting from an incident radiation, the substrate having a first feature and a second feature underlying the resist layer, the method comprising: simulating a first partial image using interaction of the incident radiation and the first feature without using interaction of the incident radiation and the second feature; simulating a second partial image using the interaction of the incident radiation and of the second feature without using the interaction of the incident radiation and the first feature; computing the image formed within the resist layer from the first partial image, and the second partial image; wherein the interaction of the incident radiation and the first feature is different from the interaction of the incident radiation and the second feature.
US08918741B2
A method for unlocking a touch screen device includes providing a touch screen device in an idle mode. An area or region displayed on a screen of the device in the idle mode is contacted or activated to reveal at least one application icon associated with an active/unlocked state of the device. The region is moved, expanded or dragged to an edge of the device to change a state of the device to an active/unlocked mode and activate the revealed application.
US08918738B2
Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application.
US08918735B2
A virtual address bar user interface control is presented. The virtual address bar comprises an interactive address segment and a conventional address segment. The interactive address segment corresponds to a predefined filter comprising selection criteria applied to content stored on a storage device. Selection of the interactive address segment causes content satisfying the predefined filter to be displayed. The conventional address segment references content at the content's particular location within a hierarchical file system structure on the storage device. Selection of the conventional address segment causes the content stored at the particular location to be displayed.
US08918731B2
A content search method and a display device using the same are provided. The content search method displays a plurality of objects which includes a first object enabling input of search words, on a screen, and performs search with search words inputted to the first object, within a search range which is determined to correspond to a display location of the first object.
US08918719B2
A smart device is provided with a main remote control application that may be configured using information obtained from a QR code. The main remote control application may present images of original remote controls corresponding to devices which are controllable by the configured main remote control application. In connection with a presented image of an original remote control, the display may present icons that are representative of a subset of the buttons of the original remote control. The user interface also allows a user to select amongst the images of the original remote controls to change which appliances are to be controlled via the user interface. A pop-up remote control widget may also be provided which may be invoked without switching to the main remote control application provisioned on the smart device.
US08918716B2
A context-based action determiner is configured to facilitate the application of context-based smart tags. The context-based action determiner includes a type determining module configured to determine a type of a context object based on a context in which the context object is being used. The context-based action determiner also includes an action determining module configured to determine one or more context-specific actions that may be performed for the context object based on the type of the context object and to provide the context-specific actions to a user. The context-based action determiner further includes a selection receiving module configured to receive a selection from the user of a context-specific action to be performed and an action performing module configured to perform the selected context-specific action. The type of the context object and the action to be performed are determined based on a smart tag configuration.
US08918708B2
Techniques are provided for converting live presentations into electronic media and managing captured media assets for distribution. An exemplary system includes capture devices that capture media assets of live presentations comprising a session, including image data of sequentially presented visual aids accompanying the live presentations and audio data. Each capture device has an interface for real-time image data marking of the image data for identification of individual images and session marking of the image data for demarcation of individual presentations of the session. A centralized device processes the captured media assets and automatically divides the captured media assets into discrete files associated with the individual presentations based on the session markings. An administrative tool manages the processed media assets to produce modified presentations and enables modification of the visual aid images identified by the image data markings. A production device formats the modified presentations for distribution on distribution media.
US08918704B2
Building and using sub-sets of configurations sets are provided to compute the check-nodes update by using a particular representation of the input messages, called here-after trellis-EMS (T-EMS). In a main aspect, the system provides a decoding method to compute dc output vectors of a non-binary parity-check (NBPC) equation decoding unit used for LDPC check codes defined in a NB space.
US08918700B2
An apparatus includes encoding circuitry to generate code words for storage in a memory device. Decoding circuitry is responsive to a read transaction to decode one or more code words read from the memory device in order to generate read data for outputting in response to the read transaction. The decoding circuitry comprises error correction circuitry configured, for each read code word, to perform an error correction process to detect and correct errors in up to P symbols of the code word, where P is dependent on the number of ECC symbols in the code word. Error tracking circuitry determines error quantity indication data indicative of the errors detected by the error correction circuitry, and in response to the error quantity indication data indicating that an error threshold condition has been reached, the apparatus transitions from a normal mode of operation to a safety mode of operation.
US08918698B2
A method of writing data includes receiving data pages to be stored in a data storage device and generating codewords corresponding to the received data pages. The codewords are stored to physical pages of a first memory portion of the data storage device. A first portion of a particular codeword that corresponds to a particular data page is stored at a first physical page of the first memory portion. A second portion of the particular codeword is stored at a second physical page of the first memory portion. The codewords are copied from the physical pages of the first memory portion to a physical page of a second memory portion of the data storage device.
US08918687B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for providing a shadow access port within a device. The shadow access port is accessed to perform operations in the device by reusing the TDI, TMS, TCK and TDO signals that are used to operate a test access port within the device. The presence and operation of the shadow access port is transparent to the presence and operation of the test access port. According to the disclosure, the shadow access port operates on the falling edge of the TCK signal while the test access port conventionally operates on the rising edge of the TCK signal.
US08918682B2
A method of operating a test equipment system that is coupled to network circuitry is described. The method displays only selected information. Furthermore, the method may display the selected information in a manner as to allow a user of the test equipment to easily identify errors in the network circuitry. The method may select the information to be displayed by processing received signals according to a stacked protocol hierarchical structure.
US08918680B2
In an embodiment, a peripheral component may include multiple sources of commands, such as command queues and/or macro memories. The commands may be performed in the peripheral component and may result in an error. The peripheral component may include a trace queue into which the commands may be written, independent of the source of the commands. Thus, the trace queue may provide a record of recently performed commands.
US08918671B2
A technique protects, in a communications network, a point-to-multipoint primary tree between a root node and primary leaf nodes of the network if a failure occurs affecting one of the primary leaf nodes. One network node receives from another upstream network node a request to protect the primary tree via a backup branch leading to a backup leaf node situated downstream from said node, if a failure affecting one of the primary leaf nodes to be protected occurs, the backup leaf node being associated with the primary leaf node to be protected. If the node is connected directly to the downstream primary leaf node to be protected, it configures a backup routing rule for routing packets from an upstream primary branch to the downstream backup branch and, possibly, to the downstream primary branch(es) and is activated in the event of a failure affecting the primary leaf node to be protected.
US08918669B2
In a low-power signaling system, an integrated circuit device includes an open loop-clock distribution circuit and a transmit circuit that cooperate to enable high-speed transmission of information-bearing symbols unaccompanied by source-synchronous timing references. The open-loop clock distribution circuit generates a transmit clock signal in response to an externally-supplied clock signal, and the transmit circuit outputs a sequence of symbols onto an external signal line in response to transitions of the transmit clock signal. Each of the symbols is valid at the output of the transmit circuit for a symbol time and a phase offset between the transmit clock signal and the externally-supplied clock signal is permitted to drift by at least the symbol time.
US08918656B2
An information handling system includes a plurality of power supply units (PSUs) to supply power to one or more system components. For each PSU of the plurality of PSUs, a power conversion efficiency profile for the PSU is determined using a power management control module of the information handling system. The power conversion efficiency profile represents a power conversion efficiency of the PSU for each of one or more power outputs capable of being supplied by the PSU. The power management control module determines a total amount of power to be supplied to a load of the information handling system, and engages a select number of PSUs to provide the total amount of power based on the total amount of power and the power conversion efficiency profiles of the PSUs.
US08918654B2
A first storage unit stores a plurality of security functions each defining a first protection attribute requiring a storage of a value of an argument for input/output of data. A second storage unit stores a program list describing a second protection attribute of a variable indicating a storage area of the data and an executing procedure of a predetermined process. An identifying unit identifies a third protection attribute of an actual argument for input/output of a security function based on the second protection attribute. When a judging unit judges not all of third protection attributes match with first protection attributes, an output unit outputs error information indicating a mismatch of the protection attributes.
US08918653B2
Protection of interpreted programming language code filesystem files from access and alteration may be provided by encrypting a file to be protected in a boot sequence. Run-time examination of a virtual appliance may be deterred by hiding the boot sequence in a restricted virtual appliance platform. No shell or filesystem access may be provided. Thus, permissions on a read-only filesystem (for example) may be kept from being altered. The permissions may be set along with filesystem access control lists to prevent unauthorized examination of the source files.
US08918651B2
Exemplary method, system, and computer program product embodiments for cryptographic erasure of selected encrypted data are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, data files are configured with a derived key. The derived keys adapted to be individually shredded in a subsequent erasure operation. The derived key allows for cryptographic erasure of the selected encrypted data in the data files without necessitating at least one of removal and rewrite of retained data. Additional system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages.
US08918647B1
A device authentication system including one or more devices, child servers capable of communicating therewith, and a root server configured to enroll devices by: collecting device-specific tokens and creating a complete verification set (“CVS”) therefrom; creating a working verification set (“WVS”) by selecting a subset of the CVS; creating a limited verification set (“LVS”) by performing a derivation function on at least part of the WVS; and distributing part or all of the LVS to child servers. A device authentication system configured such that a PUF-containing device and a server communicating with the device can perform an extended BPV generation. A device authentication system that includes a device containing a PUF and is configured to perform error decoding on subsets of an authentication-related value multiple times.
US08918639B2
A secure communications and location authorization system using a power line or a portion thereof as a side-channel that mitigates man-in-the-middle attacks on communications networks and devices connected to those networks. The system includes a power grid server associated with a substation, or curb-side distribution structure such as a transformer, an electric meter associated with a structure having electric service and able to communicate with the power grid server, a human authorization detector input device connected to the electric meter and the power grid server. The human authorization detector is able to receive an input from a user physically located at the structure and capable of communicating with the power grid server via the electric meter. The user's physical input into the device causing a request to be sent to the power grid server that then generates a location certificate for the user. Without the location certificate, access to the communications network and devices connected to those networks can be denied.
US08918636B2
Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming using alternative streams of protected content in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment includes a processor, and non-volatile storage containing an encoding application. In addition, the encoding application configures the processor to: receive source content; obtain common cryptographic information; encode the source content as a plurality of streams including a plurality of alternative streams of content; and protect the plurality of alternative streams of content using the common cryptographic information.
US08918634B2
A network node for communicating data packets secured with a security protocol over a communications network includes a host information handling system (IHS) and one or more external security offload devices coupled by a secure data link. The host IHS communicates state information about data packets, and the external offload security device provides stateless secure data encapsulation and decapsulation of packets using a security protocol. An external network interface controller or internal network interface controller communicates encapsulated data packets over the communications network to a final destination. Encapsulation and decapsulation of packets by the external security offload device reduces network latency and reduces the computational load on the processor in the host IHS. Maintaining state information in the host IHS allows hot-swapping of external security offload devices without information loss. The external security offload device may be included in a firewall, or intrusion detection device, and may implement IPsec protocol.
US08918629B2
A method of controlling an operation of booting an image reproducing apparatus is provided. The method includes: receiving an input signal for powering off the image reproducing apparatus; receiving from a main processor a memory address where an operation status of the image reproducing apparatus is stored, according to the received input signal; storing the received memory address; and converting a system of the image reproducing apparatus into a sleep by the sub-processor.
US08918626B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that executes program instructions on a processor. During a normal-execution mode, the system issues instructions for execution in program order. Upon encountering an unresolved data dependency during execution of an instruction, the system speculatively executes subsequent instructions in a lookahead mode to prefetch future loads. When an instruction retires during the lookahead mode, a working register which serves as a destination register for the instruction is not copied to a corresponding architectural register. Instead the architectural register is marked as invalid. Note that by not updating architectural registers during lookahead mode, the system eliminates the need to checkpoint the architectural registers prior to entering lookahead mode.
US08918625B1
A processor that executes instructions out of program order is described. In some implementations, a processor detects whether a second memory operation is dependent on a first memory operation prior to memory address calculation. If the processor detects that the second memory operation is not dependent on the first memory operation, the processor is configured to allow the second memory operation to be scheduled. If the processor detects that the second memory operation is dependent on the first memory operation, the processor is configured to prevent the second memory operation from being scheduled until the first memory operation has been scheduled to reduce the likelihood of having to reexecute the second memory operation.
US08918608B2
In a computing system where a plurality of processing units may execute a shared code independently, it is necessary to address data issues related to execution of the shared code and separate data. According to various embodiments disclosed herein, the per-processing unit data can be efficiently addressed in a program counter relative mode where data is accessed using a data offset value for each processing unit when the data blocks are positioned at spaces of a predetermined offset value. Further, the per-processing unit of common code in different virtual addresses is mapped to a common physical address. As a result, while each of the processing units access the exact same instruction code in physical memory it accesses a different area in memory for manipulation of data.
US08918605B2
A deduplication storage capacity is estimated as a function of an expected deduplication ratio, the expected deduplication ratio being a combined average of a current deduplication ratio and a configured deduplication ratio, the current deduplication ratio depending on the data currently stored in the deduplication storage, and the configured deduplication ratio being an estimate made at a configuration stage of the deduplication computing storage environment.
US08918603B1
Computer file archiving systems and techniques are described. Various aspects include wide area high-availability file archiving, volume-level management capabilities of archiving systems, and methods and systems for storing file archiving metadata. The methods and systems described can be used individually or in combination.
US08918594B2
Apparatus and methods disclose techniques to control access to a memory array. The memory array can be accessed by either a first interface or a second interface. A switch register grants privilege levels, which control access. For example, a high privilege level can grant access and a low privilege level can deny access. A status register indicates when an interface with a high privilege level is busy accessing the memory array.
US08918593B2
A single-ported memory for storing information and only accessible to a plurality of clients, and a dual-ported memory for storing links and accessible to the plurality of clients and to a list manager that maintains a data structure for allocating memory blocks from the first memory and the second memory to the plurality of clients. The dual-ported memory is accessible to both the plurality of clients and the list manager. A method includes receiving a request from a client for access to memory storage at the single-ported memory and the dual-ported memory, and allocating a block of the single-ported memory to the client and a block of the dual-ported memory to the client. After the client has used the memory storage, the allocated block of the single-ported memory and the dual-ported memory are released to a free list data structure used by the list manager to assign storage.
US08918559B2
Partitioning of a variable length scatter gather list including a processor for performing a method that includes requesting data from an I/O device comprising an I/O buffer. The requesting includes initiating a subchannel. The method further includes determining whether the subchannel supports data divisions by requesting SSQD data from the I/O device and inspecting at least one bit in the SSQD data. A determination is made whether the requested data includes a metadata block in response to determining that the subchannel support data divisions. Also, the subchannel is notified that the requested data includes the metadata block in response to determining that the requested data includes the metadata block. A location of storage is identified in an SBAL in response to notifying the subchannel.
US08918554B2
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to effectively increasing a command queue length for accessing storage, such as by increasing the Queuing Depth (Q-Depth) of Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Commands. In some implementations, a method can comprise receiving a first command to access a first memory location of a storage device; receiving a second command to access a second memory location of a storage device; constructing a consolidated command including a memory address and a data transfer count associated with each of the first command and the second command; constructing an information command having consolidation information about the consolidated command; and communicating the information command and the consolidated command to the storage device for processing by the storage device.
US08918552B2
A system and method operable to manage misaligned direct memory access (DMA) data transfers is provided. This method involves determining a delta between N bytes of data to be copied from within a local side buffer (source location) to a remote buffer (destination location). After the delta is determined a tail of the same length is copied to temporary storage. Then the N bytes of data on the local side buffer minus the tail will be shifted to align the N bytes of data to be copied from within the local side buffer to the starting address of the destination location in the remote buffer. The pre-shifted N bytes of data within the local side buffer may be DMA transferred to the remote buffer. The tail transferred to temporary storage may then be copied from temporary storage to the remote buffer.
US08918543B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code are provided for changing functionality for an electronic device. A set of signals is received from a set of sensors in the electronic device. Each signal in the set of signals includes a type of sensor from which the signal originated in the set of sensors and information detected by the set of sensors. An action is identified to be issued for the electronic device. The action is identified using the type of sensor and the information. The action is automatically initiated in the electronic device. The automatically initiated action changes the functionality for the electronic device.
US08918539B2
A tool that allows a CDN customer, partner, or other authorized entity to create a DNS canonical name (CNAME) on the content delivery network without having to contact the content delivery network service provider directly.
US08918538B2
Ethernet OAM MEPs are automatically configured in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. A node operating in the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network receives a Link State PDU (LSP) containing a TLV having a MEP associated with the Ethernet MAC node ID of a second node in the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network, where the path between the first and second node includes a plurality of links. The node updates a forwarding table to indicate an association between the MEP ID and a Ethernet MAC node ID of the second node. An Ethernet OAM maintenance endpoint is produced in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network by hashing a Sys-ID to produce a MEP; storing the MEP in a TLV; and forwarding the TLV over the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network in an LSP.
US08918532B2
The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for affecting a result associated with an event. The method may include receiving one or more of a first data transmission associated with a first communication protocol and combining the first data transmissions to create a first data transmission stream. The method may also include receiving one or more of a second data transmission associated with a second communication protocol and combining the second data transmissions to create a second data transmission stream. The first data transmission stream and the second data transmission stream may be combined to create a first combined data transmission stream that may be used to affect a result associated with an event.
US08918517B2
Described herein is a mashing technology that facilitates mashup creation over a plurality of publish/subscribe social network data stream. These mashing techniques that are tailored to managing content from disparate social networks. As described herein, these techniques include creating and using a set of operations that facilitate the creation of “mashups” over multiple publish/subscribe social network data streams.
US08918508B2
Transmitting a resource and providing information in a resource in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) interoperable system includes: transmitting the resource in a transport session by using at least two handlers; and receiving from the handlers an event message including identification information of the transport session and information which indicates a transfer status of the resource. In addition, the information which indicates the transfer status of the resource may include: a resource index capable of identifying the resource; and information on a transfer status of a resource corresponding to the resource index. Accordingly, information related to transmission of resources can be easily provided in an event form.
US08918507B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for dynamic grouping of enterprise assets. A management engine can receive a query to interrogate a set of enterprise resources, such as servers deployed on a network. A user can transmit a query to the management engine, including a specification of attributes by which to group targeted machines to include in the query. The query can include at least a simple group query and a pivoted group query. A simple group query can include an identifier as a simple group expression, and the target can include attributes to match with resources. A pivoted group query can include compound terms or attributes to be used to group resources in the query, such as resources having a parent/child relationship or other hierarchical relationship. The processes of construction of queries and aggregation of resources identified by those queries can all be integrated by the management engine.
US08918500B2
When a communication apparatus instructed to perform an automatic setting process detects an existing network, the communication apparatus monitors whether a communication apparatus that is in the existing network and that has a communication-parameter providing function starts an automatic setting process. When the communication apparatus in the existing network starts an automatic setting process, the communication apparatus receives communication parameters provided from the communication apparatus in the existing network.
US08918492B2
The systems, methods and devices disclosed herein provide for a field panel that includes a webserver. The field panel and webserver are arranged in communication with one or more automation components and/or field panels deployed for operation in connection with the building automation system. An information request may be directed to a master field panel for authorization. The master field panel may in turn query a node table containing address and/or communication information with the other field panels and/or automation components operable on the wired or wireless communication network. The information within the node table allows for direct communication to the other field panels and/or automation components operable on the network. In this way, authorized access to each of the field panels and/or automation components is achieved while any communications bottleneck at the master field panel may be significantly reduced or eliminated.
US08918484B2
A method includes the steps of electronically storing a plurality of songs on a server; allowing a first user to select one of the plurality of songs; allowing the first user to play the one of the plurality of songs and record a user-generated track while the one of the plurality of songs is playing; and saving the user-generated track on the server separate from the one of the plurality of songs. An electronic system that allows the first user to perform the method is also disclosed.
US08918483B2
The present invention will enable the user to follow a presentation while waiting for presentation files to download to the user's local machine. This invention provides a dynamic cloud based approach to local hand-off. A user will be able to view a cloud or other remotely-based (found via a URL) or screen-shared version of the presentation until source material has downloaded.
US08918471B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for an integrated local/remote server computer architecture for electronic data transfer are disclosed. In some implementations, a local server computer in a local area network (LAN) is integrated with a network-based server computer outside the LAN, such that the local server computer acts as a cache server computer to the remote server computer. For data transfer between client devices within the LAN, a Domain Name System (DNS) server redirects requests for data transfer destined for the remote server computer to the local server computer to improve data transfer performance within the LAN. In some implementations, the data is also transferred or “mirrored” to the remote server computer (e.g., encrypted backup data) at a data transfer rate that is different from the data transfer rate in the LAN.
US08918467B2
An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. The information management system may receive an email message from a worker that indicates a request for a report. The information management system may determine whether to transmit the report to the worker based on whether the worker is appropriately registered with the information management system, and/or whether the worker has administrative privileges. The information management system, in response to a positive determination, may transmit the report to the email address from which the requesting email message was sent.
US08918462B2
Computerized methods and systems for using user-attribute ontologies to calculate anonymity levels are provided. A semi-automated mechanism permits selective and optionally progressive exposure of demographic and clinical information to other members of a medical social network group that a member has joined. When a user decides to join a medical social network group (which may be based upon system suggestion or initiated of the user's own accord), he or she selects or creates a profile that has a statistically validated degree of anonymity, ranging from fully anonymous to fully transparent. Based upon a user's elected level of exposure, only certain data is exposed to the rest of the group's membership. Thus, the user is permitted to personally balance the tension between exposing a level of information that may render him or her personally identifiable and exposing enough information to obtain meaningful advice and/or camaraderie.
US08918461B2
A communication system includes first and second devices which are matched to each other. At least one of the matched devices includes an input device for capturing content; a memory for storing the content, and a renderer configured to render the content under the control of at least one processor which is configured to affect rendering of the content on the first device and/or the second device in response to at least one trigger. The least one trigger may be generated in response to detection of a user of the first device; passage of time the content has been rendered since a previous trigger; location of the user; behavioral pattern of the user; and/or traffic flow patterns between the first device and the second device.
US08918456B2
Systems and algorithm for providing a service to a client includes defining a virtual infrastructure in which a plurality of virtual machines are running on a virtualization layer with at least one of the virtual machine executing an image processor algorithm. The image processor algorithm is configured to access framebuffer data of a specific virtual machine that includes the service to be controlled, process the framebuffer data to generate image data packets with contextual information by scanning the framebuffer data to discern the image of the virtual machine display, obtaining connection parameters and client characteristics of a connection to the client, analyzing the framebuffer data to balance performance of the connection and performance of the specific virtual machine, and selecting a compression technique for processing the framebuffer data to generate image data packets. The image data packets are transmitted to the client for presenting on a display device.
US08918453B2
In an embodiment, an application server receives, from a given UE, data that is configured to visually represent physical user input detected at the given UE at a first level of precision. The application server determines data presentation capabilities of a target UE and/or a performance level associated with a connection between the application server and the target UE. The application server selectively transitions the received data from the first level of precision to a second level of precision based on the determination, and transmits the selectively transitioned data to the target UE for presentation. In another embodiment, the application server receives a request to adjust display settings of the target UE from the given UE responsive to detected physical user input. The application server selectively adjusts the target UE's display settings based on the received request.
US08918452B2
Embodiments allow developers to use HTTP message abstractions inline within their Web API methods to directly access and manipulate HTTP request and response messages. A hosting layer is provided for in-process, in-memory and network-based services. Message handlers and operational handlers may be combined to create a message channel for asynchronous manipulations of the HTTP requests and response. A formatter may be used on the server or client for consuming HTTP and providing desired media types.
US08918448B2
A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product deploy application components within a distributed environment. A Runtime management platform opens an application archive for an application to be deployed onto a distributed computing environment. The runtime management platform identifies a set of application components for the application. The runtime management platform identifies at least one set of rules defining application component deployment patterns for the set of application components. The runtime management platform deploys the set of application components to a set of runtime containers according to the at least one set of rules defining the application component deployment patterns.
US08918445B2
An integrated multiplier circuit that operates on a variety of data formats including integer fixed point, signed or unsigned, real or complex, 8 bit, 16 bit or 32 bit as well as floating point data that may be single precision real, single precision complex or double precision. The circuit uses a single set of multiplier arrays to perform 16×16, 32×32 and 64×64 multiplies, 32×32 and 64×64 complex multiplies, 32×32 and 64×64 complex multiplies with one operand conjugated.
US08918428B2
Systems and methods for providing audio asset information using an audio asset information storage system are provided. The storage system includes a data store containing video program information associated with a video program that embeds the known audio asset. The storage system receives a number of requests to identify the known audio asset and stores an indication of each request within the data store. The storage system provides at least a portion of audio asset information associated with the known audio asset to user equipment.
US08918425B2
Mechanisms are provided for performing a role engineering project for applying security roles to access operations targeting resources. A plurality of data objects representing one or more user identities, permissions, and resources of an organization computing system are received. One or more filter criteria for filtering the plurality of data objects to generate a subset of data objects for consideration during the role engineering project are received. The one or more filter criteria specify a scope of the role engineering project. The one or more filter criteria are applied to generate the subset of data objects. Role engineering project operations are performed on the subset of data objects to generate one or more security roles. The one or more security roles are deployed to the organization computing system to control access operations targeting resources of the organization computing system.
US08918419B2
A system and method for real-time comparison of data objects stored in a repository. A comparison of a plurality of selected objects may be implemented. A metadata comparison summary may be displayed to the user. The comparison summary may identity the most viewed, most liked, most disliked, or also viewed objects. The metadata comparison may be displayed on a user interface via the addition of an identification icon, by color highlighting a list of objects in the repository, by displaying a comparison summary in an information panel, or by other methods of object identification. In an embodiment, the user may control the type of information displayed in the comparison summary.
US08918412B1
A system for translating a query expression for a client-specified model (CSM) to a plurality of query expressions compatible with the object model(s) for a plurality of source systems. The source systems comprise a plurality of databases. The databases comprise source information and X sets of response data. The source information comprises mapping metadata and object model metadata. The X sets of response data is data response to a client query. The client comprises client-specified mapping metadata, a CSM, and a query proxy. The query proxy comprises an import module, a client interface module, and a translator module. The import module imports the source information from the plurality of source systems and determines the mapping metadata and the object model metadata. The client interface module receives the CSM, the client-specified mapping metadata, and a query from a client. The translator module parses the query expression and translates a plurality of query expressions compatible with the object model(s) for the plurality of source systems.
US08918406B2
A method of processing content files may include receiving the content file, employing processing circuitry to determine an identity score of a source of a portion of at least a portion the content file, to determine a word score based for the content file and to determine a metadata score for the content file, determining a composite priority score based on the identity score, the word score and the metadata score, and associating the composite priority score with the content file for electronic provision of the content file together with the composite priority score to a human analyst.
US08918394B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for matching an inbound identity record to existing entities. A composite generic key may be generated from multiple entity resolution (ER) candidate-building keys determined to be generic keys. A query may be generated based on the composite generic key and executed to retrieve candidate entities for an inbound identity record.
US08918385B1
Correlating electronic pharmacy data and electronic medical record (EMR) data may include receiving, at a correlation module and from a pharmacy computing network, a query, of a first format, for data corresponding to an EMR of a patient. The correlation module may convert the query into a second format different from the first format, and may send the converted query to another network that has access to the EMR. A response in the second format may be received, and the correlation module may convert the response into the first format and send the converted response to the pharmacy network. The correlation module may be communicatively connected with other computing networks, each corresponding to a different health care organization and each having access to a different set of EMRs. In an embodiment, the first protocol is based on an NCPDP standard, and the second protocol is based on an HL7 protocol.
US08918384B2
Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving, in response to the detection, a group of blog posts that link to the web page. The method further includes displaying an indication of the group of blog posts to the user while the user is visiting the web site.
US08918379B1
A method for providing an index for a searching a versioned structured document includes providing a first plurality of vNodes representing a plurality of objects of a first version of a structured document. Each vNode includes versioning information associated with the first version of the structured document and collectively, the vNodes graphically represent the first version of the structured document in a vDOM node tree. In an embodiment, a vIndex key associated with a first vNode of the first plurality of vNodes is generated. The vIndex key includes index information based on at least a portion of the versioning information of the first vNode. Once generated, the vIndex key associated with the first vNode is stored in a vIndex associated with the structured document.
US08918371B1
Various of the disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods to compensate for certain event log errors. For example, when a system fails to record the occurrence of several events (a file closing, a file modification, a network socket opening, etc.) the disclosed embodiments may identify the discrepancy and provide a synthesized event sequence suitable to fulfill the purposes of the event log. In this manner, for example, a client may still be accurately billed for their use of a licensed software or system, even if their usage was punctuated with occasional failures to record their activity.
US08918368B2
A cloud server includes a cloud storage for storing a folder uploaded to the cloud server, a database for storing administrative data; and a cloud service application. The cloud service application establishes a communication connection with an end point device to retrieve a user identification about the user, the end point device name, and folder name and location and stores this information in the database. A remote device communicates with the cloud server to access a folder stored on at least one of the endpoint device and the cloud storage. The cloud service application determines an authorized user and provides access to the folder by providing direct access to the endpoint device from the remote device utilizing the communication connection during uploading of the folder to the cloud, or directly to the cloud storage if the folder has been uploaded.
US08918365B2
A method of increasing the speed of disk reading and writing operations in a database by using nodes of memory and processors where the memory stores programs to be executed by the processors. The data in the database is separated into one or more buckets and at least two replicas of each bucket of data are stored in different storage devices of the nodes. Determining a subset of storage devices that will be dedicated to writing, while keeping at least one replica of each bucket dedicated to reading and dedicating at least a substantial portion of the remaining storage devices to reading.
US08918354B2
An intent engine that automatically detects user intent from messages of a social network (e.g., messages with questions to ask) and outputs intent data. The engine is intelligent in that it can process natural language input such as questions and terms. The user is then directed to an answer page filtered according to the intent data and which provides answers related to a question, for example. The intent engine can be designated (e.g., tagged, or “friended”) and then linked into a specialized relationship (e.g., a “friend”). Accordingly, in one example, a URL link is constructed that points to the answer page, with filters configured based on the intent data. The URL is then sent back to the user as a friendly response. When the user selects the link, the user is presented with an answer page that provides answers which match the user intent derived from the user messages.
US08918353B2
A method and system for extracting feature utilizing an AHaH module (Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian). A sparse input data stream can be presented to a synaptic matrix of a collection of AHaH nodes associated with the AHaH module. The AHaH module operates an AHaH plasticity rule via an evaluate phase and a feedback phase cycle. A bias input line can be modulated such that a bias weight do not receive a Hebbian portion of the weight update during the feedback phase in order to prevent occupation of a null state. The input space can be bifurcated when the AHaH nodes fall randomly into an attractor state. The output of the AHaH module that forms a stable bit pattern can then be provided as an input to a content-addressable memory for generating a maximally efficient binary label.
US08918349B2
A server computer and a multitude of client computers form a network computing system that is scalable and adapted to continue to evaluate the performance characteristics of a number of genes generated using a software application running on the client computers. Each client computer continues to periodically receive data associated with the genes stored in its memory. Using this data, the client computers evaluate the performance characteristic of their genes by comparing a solution provided by the gene with the periodically received data associated with that gene. Accordingly, the performance characteristic of each gene may be updated and varied with each periodically received data. The performance characteristic of a gene defines its fitness. The genes may be virtual asset traders that recommend trading options, and the data associated with the genes may be historical trading data.
US08918344B2
Generating a habituation-compensated library comprising a user's expected response to tokens representing stimuli that influence the user's affective state, the method comprising: receiving samples comprising temporal windows of token instances to which the user was exposed, wherein the token instances have overlapping instantiation periods; the samples further comprise data on previous instantiations of at least one of the token instances from the temporal windows; receiving target values corresponding to the temporal windows of token instances; the target values represent the user's response to the token instances from the temporal windows of token instances; training a machine learning-based user response model using the samples, the data on previous instantiations, and the corresponding target values; and analyzing the machine learning-based user response model to generate the habituation-compensated library, which accounts for the influence of the user's previous exposure to tokens.
US08918340B2
A shipping system for shipping packages involving the coordinated use of at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The shipping system includes physical delivery facilities for the physical delivery of packages, the physical delivery facilities including at least one transfer location at which the second carrier may take over delivery responsibilities for a package. The shipping system also includes an information system having a shipper computer system configured to record and determine whether the delivery address of a package is an efficient destination for the first carrier. If not an efficient destination, such as a delivery address having a rural zip code, the shipper computer system is configured to label the package for delivery to one of the transfer locations, allowing the first carrier to transfer the selected package to the second carrier for completion of the less efficient portion of the delivery.
US08918333B2
Method and device for: receiving a playlist identifying a media item comprising a song or an advertisement, or a combination thereof, storing the playlist in a database, associating the identified media item with a first supplemental data and a second supplemental playlist data, sending the first supplemental data to a radio station server to be broadcast substantially simultaneously with the associated media item, and displaying the second supplemental data on a website, wherein the display is configured for accessing by a computer and mobile device.
US08918328B2
A system for and method for ranking results. The system includes a server configured to receive a query and an advertisement engine configured to receive the query from the server. The advertisement engine ranks advertisements based on various features, including at least one word overlap feature and a correlation feature.
US08918320B2
An apparatus for generating a review based in part on detected sentiment may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including determining a location(s) of the apparatus and a time(s) that the location(s) was determined responsive to capturing voice data of speech content associated with spoken reviews of entities. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze textual and acoustic data corresponding to the voice data to detect whether the textual or acoustic data includes words indicating a sentiment(s) of a user speaking the speech content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to generate a review of an entity corresponding to a spoken review(s) based on assigning a predefined sentiment to a word(s) responsive to detecting that the word indicates the sentiment of the user. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US08918319B2
In a speech recognition device and a speech recognition method, a key phrase containing at least one key word is received. The speech recognition method comprises steps: receiving a sound source signal of a key word and generating a plurality of audio signals; transforming the audio signals into a plurality of frequency signals; receiving the frequency signals to obtain a space-frequency spectrum and an angular estimation value thereof; receiving the space-frequency spectrum to define and output at least one spatial eigenparameter, and using the angular estimation value and the frequency signals to perform spotting and evaluation and outputting a Bhattacharyya distance; and receiving the spatial eigenparameter and the Bhattacharyya distance and using corresponding thresholds to determine correctness of the key phrase. Thereby this invention robustly achieves high speech recognition rate under very low SNR conditions.
US08918315B2
An encoding apparatus includes a first layer encoder that encodes a signal, a first layer decoder that decodes first layer encoded data, a first layer error transform coefficient calculator that transforms a first layer error signal into a frequency domain and a second layer encoder that encodes the first layer error transform coefficient to acquire second layer encoded data. The second layer encoder includes a band determiner that determines a band to be encoded by the second layer encoder, and a first shape vector encoder that refers the first layer error transform coefficient included in the band to generate a first shape vector and first shape encoded information, a target gain calculator calculates target gain per subband, a gain vector generator generates a gain vector using a plurality of target gains, and a gain vector encoder encodes the gain vector to acquire gain encoded information.
US08918311B1
According to at least one embodiment, a system for generating a plurality of caption frames is provided. The system comprises a memory storing a plurality of elements generated from transcription information, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a caption engine component executed by the at least one processor. The caption engine component is configured to identify at least one element sequence as meeting predetermined criteria specifying a plurality of caption characteristics, the at least one element sequence including at least one element of the plurality of elements, and store the at least one element sequence within at least one caption frame. The at least one element sequence may correspond to at least one sentence. The transcription information may be time-coded.
US08918309B2
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for machine translation of a source document in an input language to a target document in an output language, comprising generating translation options corresponding to at least portions of each sentence in the input language; and selecting a translation option for the sentence based on statistics associated with the translation options.
US08918307B2
A configuration manager identifies a first device and a second device within a simulated system. Each device within the simulated system includes an inbound port and an outbound port. Next, the configuration manager injects a simulation only packet, at an “outbound time,” on the first device's outbound port and detects that the second device's inbound port receives the simulation only packet at an “inbound time.” As such, the configuration manager identifies a direct connection between the first device and the second device and computes a latency time for the connection. In turn, the configuration manager configures one or more first device configuration registers and one or more second device configuration registers based upon the computed latency time.
US08918305B2
Distributed computation of multiple body interactions in a region uses multiple processing modules, where each of the processing modules is associated with a respective corresponding portion of the region. In some examples, the approach includes establishing multiple coordinate frames of reference, each processing module corresponding to one the coordinate frames of reference. In some examples, efficient techniques are used for selecting elements for computation of interactions according at least in part to a separation-based criterion.
US08918301B2
A motor characteristic inspecting device is capable of inspecting the condition of a motor installed in an apparatus without removing the motor from the apparatus. The motor characteristic inspecting device includes: a vector variation computing section configured to compute a voltage vector variation amount when a mover of a three-phase motor is moved by an external force; a speed variation detecting section configured to detect a speed variation amount; a constant computing section configured to compute a counter electromotive force constant; and a result display section. Armature windings of the motor installed in the apparatus and the motor characteristic inspecting device are electrically connected with power supply lines disconnected from the motor. An external force is applied to the mover of the motor. The condition of the motor is determined based on the computed result displayed on the result display section of the motor characteristic inspecting device.
US08918295B2
A distributed reflectometry device for diagnosing a network is disclosed. According to one aspect, the device includes at least one transmission line and several reflectometers connected to the network. A transmission portion of the device includes a first memory configured to store at least one test signal and a second memory configured to store weighting coefficients. The transmission portion may also include a first multiplier of a test signal (s) with a coefficient βm, for producing a measurement m and a digital-to-analog converter connected to the line. A reception portion of the device includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to receive a signal from the line and provide a vector for the measurement m, a second multiplier of configured to multiply the vector with the coefficient βm, an averaging module, and a post-processing and analysis module.
US08918292B2
An angle measuring device or system can include a wrench and a digital angle meter. The wrench can include a head for engaging a fastening device, a central axis about which the wrench or bracket rotates during use, and a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the central axis. The digital angle meter can be attached to the wrench or bracket and include a housing, a processor, and at least one gyrometer. The at least one gyrometer including a first axis extending parallel to the longitudinal axis for determining the rotational orientation of the wrench or bracket relative to a reference position. A sensor of the digital angle meter allows for an automated and accurate calculation of a total angle of rotation of the nut or bolt about the central axis using a ratcheting wrench.
US08918291B2
A method and a system for monitoring an actuator equipped with a no-back device or no-back brake, particularly an adjustable horizontal trim actuator provided in aircraft, the method including the steps of: determining a value representative of mechanical work produced by the actuator and comparing the determined value with ranges of values so as to detect a dysfunctioning of the said no-back device. If the actuator is a screw/nut type with a hydraulic motor, the value representative of the mechanical work is determined from an algebraic velocity of the motor and an algebraic differential of hydraulic pressure at terminals of the motor. A negative value corresponding to negative mechanical work then identifies a failure of the no-back device.
US08918286B2
An optical fiber is provided with a first measurement portion and a second measurement portion. The first measurement portion is provided with a heater and a hygroscopic layer made of a resin in which a material having a deliquescent property is dispersed. Meanwhile, the second measurement portion is provided with the heater and a non-hygroscopic layer having a lower moisture absorption capacity than the capacity of the hygroscopic layer. The heater is brought into heat generation by being supplied with electric power, and temperatures at the second measurement portion and temperatures at the first measurement portion are measured with a temperature measurement device. Then, an analyzer calculates a humidity based on an integrated value of differences between the temperatures at the first measurement portion and the temperatures at the second measurement portion.
US08918277B2
A method for recognizing road signs in the vicinity of a vehicle and for synchronization thereof to road sign information from a digital map where, in the case of a recognition of road signs, road-sign recognition data are generated, navigation data being provided for localizing the vehicle in digital map data, and the road-sign recognition data being synchronized to the map data. To be able to provide unambiguous and the most accurate possible and thus improved road sign information to be output to the driver in the context of such a method, in the case of a discrepancy between the map data and the road-sign recognition data, the decision is made with the aid of reliability factors for the camera and map as to whether the data from the digital map or the road-sign recognition data are output in the vehicle.
US08918273B2
Method for determining an evasion trajectory for a motor vehicle, and safety device or safety system
A method for determination of an optimized evasion trajectory by a safety device or a safety system, in particular a lane change assistance system and/or evasion assistance system, of a motor vehicle, the optimized evasion trajectory being outputted to a vehicle driver, and/or a trajectory of the motor vehicle being optionally partially adapted to the optimized evasion trajectory, by way of the method, the optimized evasion trajectory being determined by optimization of a transverse-dynamic quality factor (J), for which a transverse acceleration (a) and/or a transverse jerk ({dot over (a)}) of the motor vehicle is/are utilized. Also described is a safety device or a safety system, in particular to a lane change assistance system and/or an evasion assistance system for a motor vehicle, a method being executable and/or being executed by the safety device or the safety system.
US08918271B2
An electronic flight planning system is provided, arranged to implement a preferred method for identifying conflicts between flight plans for aircraft. In the preferred method, the system receives, as data input from one or more users, a plurality of flight plans each defining a flight by an aircraft; the system determines, for each aircraft and its respective received flight plan, a three-dimensional region of potential conflict, representative both of the uncertainty in the position of the aircraft and of a region of air exclusion appropriate for the aircraft or for the respective received flight plan; and the system determines, on the basis of the determined regions of potential conflict, whether one of the received flight plans is in conflict with any of the other received flight plans.
US08918265B2
A method for operating the internal combustion engine includes determining a first integrated thermal state parameter corresponding to engine environment factors affecting a combustion parameter during engine operation in a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode. A difference in the first integrated thermal state parameter is determined corresponding to a difference between a monitored state for the combustion parameter and an estimated state for the combustion parameter. The first integrated thermal state parameter is corrected in response to the difference in the integrated thermal state parameter. Operation of the internal combustion engine is controlled in response to the corrected first integrated thermal state parameter.
US08918264B2
A method and device aids in monitoring at least one turbine engine in an aircraft. The method includes determining a value illustrating a thermomechanical state of the turbine engine, and comparing the determined value with at least one threshold. The method also includes displaying in the cockpit of the aircraft, at least one indication related to the operation of the turbine engine, according to this comparison. As a result, conditions that could result in mechanical degradation or failure of the turbine engine are identified for a crew of the aircraft.
US08918261B2
Various embodiments provide braking systems and methods for a motor vehicle. One braking system includes a primary braking system, a speed sensor, a brake pedal, a parking brake, and a processor coupled to the parking brake and the primary braking system. The processor is configured to engage the primary braking system when the parking brake is activated and the motor vehicle is traveling at a speed at least equal to a pre-determined speed.
US08918260B2
A vehicle-supported data processing system includes a plurality of processing units communicating with one another via a bus system, which are each supplied with operating power by at least one of the at least two different vehicle electrical systems. Multiple transmitter units for control information and multiple receiver units for the control information are among the processing units. The bus system is a ring bus, in which each processing unit is connected to at least two adjacent processing units by a bus segment in each case. The ring bus is divided, by potential separating devices, which are incorporated in the bus segments which connect processing units powered by different vehicle electrical systems, into a number of sections, which is smaller than the number of the processing units.
US08918259B2
A splitting of drive torque between front and rear wheelsets includes an actuator to split the torque between the wheelsets, an electronic unit controlling switching of the actuator into a coupled or uncoupled mode, a mechanism electrically powering the electronic unit, and sensors. The electronic unit can make the system adopt: an active operation in which a control signal is generated and the temperature of the actuator is estimated; and a sleep mode in which the temperature of the actuator is not estimated; the switch to sleep mode being authorized: only when the engine is stopped, and if the actuator temperature is below or equal to a threshold or a maximum time period has elapsed.
US08918251B2
The CAN based vehicle immobilizer is a vehicle immobilizer which utilizing the CAN bus of the engine (powertrain) CAN connection on the OBDII/J1962 port or the vehicle CAN system, will completely immobilize a vehicle, preventing use of said vehicle and the starting of said vehicle engine. The vehicle immobilizer system can be installed by a 3rd party on an aftermarket basis and used to immobilize a vehicle despite an immobilization system being already present on said vehicle is not accessible by said 3rd party. The vehicle immobilizer system enables a user to immobilize the vehicle engine efficiently without shorting the CAN network bus lines, and with a minimum of modifications to the vehicle. The vehicle immobilizer system enables a user to immobilize a vehicle from starting the engine and from being driven with minimal modifications to vehicle wiring and with limited to no changes to the vehicle electrical system.
US08918245B2
A method for providing open access to vehicle data is disclosed. From a vehicle under service, the method receives vehicle-diagnostic data in a manufacturer-specified format at a vehicle-service tool, and converts the vehicle data in the manufacturer-specified format into vehicle data in an open format.
US08918243B2
A computer system and method for storing and processing GPS data for a plurality of vehicles to provide speed reports and alerts for fleets of vehicles, including alerts for speed data. The system and method can provide, for a graphic user interface, an alert when an operational metric for a vehicle meets or exceeds at least one predetermined criterion established for the operational metric, wherein the operational metric includes a speed metric.
US08918234B2
According to one embodiment, a landing point indication system includes an image provider, a rotorcraft position provider, a pilot image generation system, and a display device. The image provider is operable to provide a visual representation of an area underneath a rotorcraft. The rotorcraft position provider is operable to provide information indicating a position of the rotorcraft. The pilot image generation system is operable to generate a supplemented visual representation. The supplemented visual representation includes the visual representation of the area underneath the aircraft and information indicating a position of the rotorcraft relative to the visual representation. The display device is operable to display the supplemented visual representation within the rotorcraft.
US08918230B2
Described are systems and methods, including computer program products for controlling an unmanned vehicle. A user controls one or more unmanned vehicles with a smart phone. The smart phone receives video stream from the unmanned vehicles, and the smart phone displays the controls from the unmanned vehicle over the video. The smart phone and the unmanned vehicle communicate wirelessly.
US08918227B2
In a method and a device for determining a vigilance state of a motor vehicle driver, a noise signal is generated and a supplementary torque as a function of the noise signal is applied to a steering assembly, a reaction signal of the vehicle driver is determined, and the vigilance state is determined from a time characteristic of the noise signal and a time characteristic of the reaction signal, at least one parameter of a parameterized transfer function from noise signal to reaction signal is determined, and the vigilance state is determined as a function of an absolute value of the at least one parameter and/or as a function of a relative change of the at least one parameter with regard to at least one earlier parameter, the at least one earlier parameter having been determined at an earlier instant in time.
US08918226B2
A temperature measuring method accurately measures a sheet-like object even when the sheet-like object has an uneven temperature distribution throughout. In this method, temperature measurement is conducted in a measuring area where the sheet-like object is to be measured for its physical quantity or in the vicinity of the measuring area during determination of the physical quantity by a physical quantity measuring device. One or more temperature sensors are located at a position proximal to each sheet-like object that streams in a predetermined direction relative to the temperature sensors, and air is jetted out toward the sheet-like object for creating an air curtain that surrounds each temperature sensor so that a gauge workspace substantially confining the atmosphere therein is defined over one or both of the opposite surfaces of the sheet-like object. The temperature sensors detect the temperature in the measuring area or its vicinity within the gauge workspace.
US08918223B2
An apparatus for managing an energy consuming load in a group of energy consuming loads, including a transmitter to transmit a set of load state data generated from the load and a receiver to receive sets of load state data generated from the other loads. A processor generates the set of load state data from the load, compiles the set of load state data from the load with the sets of load state data from the other loads, and processes the compiled sets of load state data in order to make an enablement state decision for the load that reflects an enablement state of a load, being either a load enabled state where the load is capable of operating even when the load is not actually operating or a load disabled state where the load is not capable of operating. The enablement state decision is implemented by a controller.
US08918222B2
A power supply controller is connected between a power source and a power-supply path, and includes a switch circuit, a power-supply path protection circuit, and a sleep mode setting circuit. The switch circuit is configured to permit and inhibit power supply from the power source to the load. The protection circuit controls switching operation of the switch circuit according to a power-supply command signal commanding start or stop of the power supply to the load, calculates a temperature of the power-supply path regardless of whether power is supplied to the load, do not calculate the temperature of the power-supply path in a sleep mode, and inhibits power supply to the switch circuit according to the calculated temperature reaching an upper limit. The sleep mode setting circuit sets the power supply controller to the sleep mode according to the power-supply path satisfying a temperature condition.
US08918221B2
A system and method for centralized statistical analysis and control of power consumption is provided. The centralized statistical analysis, performed by a centralized power utility management system, may then be compared with one or more goals of the customer. Based on the comparison of the statistical analysis with the one or more goals of the customer, one or more actions may be taken including controlling one or more appliances resident at the customer premises.
US08918215B2
Method and system for telematic control of a slave device. A stiffness of a material physically contacted by a slave device (202) is estimated based on information obtained from one or more slave device sensors (216, 217). Based on this stiffness estimation, a motion control command directed to the slave device is dynamically scaled. A data processing system (204) is in communication with a control interface (203) and the slave device. The data processing system (204) is configured to generate the motion control commands in response to sensor data obtained from the control interface. The system (200) also includes a stiffness estimator (602) configured for automatically estimating a stiffness of a material physically contacted by the slave device based on information obtained from the slave device sensors. A scaling unit (607) is responsive to the stiffness estimator and is configured for dynamically scaling the motion control command.
US08918214B2
Method and system for telematic control of a slave device. Displacement of a user interface control is sensed with respect to a control direction. A first directional translation is performed to convert data specifying the control direction to data specifying a slave direction. The slave direction will generally be different from the control direction and defines a direction that the slave device should move in response to the physical displacement of the user interface. A second directional translation is performed to convert data specifying haptic sensor data to a haptic feedback direction. The haptic feedback direction will generally be different from the sensed direction and can define a direction of force to be generated by at least one component of the user interface. The first and second directional translation are determined based on a point-of-view of an imaging sensor.
US08918213B2
A mobile human interface robot that includes a base defining a vertical center axis and a forward drive direction and a holonomic drive system supported by the base. The drive system has first, second, and third driven drive wheels, each trilaterally spaced about the vertical center axis and having a drive direction perpendicular to a radial axis with respect to the vertical center axis. The robot further includes a controller in communication with the holonomic drive system, a torso supported above the base, and a touch sensor system in communication with the controller. The touch sensor system is responsive to human contact. The controller issues drive commands to the holonomic drive system based on a touch signal received from the touch sensor system.
US08918210B2
In a 6-axis robot, as an example, an inter-axis offset can be measured and calibrated. A light emitting diode is installed on an end effector, and the end effector is located on a plurality of target positions of movement on the axis X (Xb) of a robot coordinate. Then, the position of the light emitting diode is measured by a three-dimensional gauge, and an inter-axis offset F is detected based on an error between the target positions of movement and actually moved positions. For the inter-axis offset F, DH parameters are calibrated.
US08918205B2
An adjustable speed control system includes a reader, databases, processors and a conveyor controller. The databases store data concerning conveyor stops and failed attempts by the reader to identify conveyed items. Based on the failed attempts and the conveyor stops, the processors calculate an optimal speed of the conveyor. The controller adjusts the conveyor speed towards the optimal speed to increase the conveyed items successfully identified by the reader. Also disclosed are a corresponding method and computer readable medium on which is stored instructions to, upon execution, adjustably control the conveyor speed.
US08918201B2
Method and system for arranging rod-like elements, in which an unordered portion of rod-like elements, composed each of at least one part selected from cigarette parts being filter parts and tobacco parts, is delivered to a conveyor which arranges the elements on the conveyor in a plurality of compartments, longitudinally in each compartment and transversely to the direction of movement of the conveyor. The compartments have a length which receives at least one filter part and at least one tobacco part of a cigarette. The type, number and location of parts of the element received in each compartment is defined by at least a single scanning of each successive compartment of the conveyor. The result of the scanning is transmitted to a control unit and the elements are subsequently sorted based on information received from the control unit.
US08918199B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the cooling of a moving metal belt (B) in a cooling section of a continuous processing line by spraying a liquid or a mixture consisting of a gas and a liquid onto the belt, the cooling depending on parameters including the temperature, speed, and current characteristics of a cooling liquid, wherein according to said method: one or more areas are determined in which cooling parameters are such that the local removal of a vapor film on the surface of the hot belt is carried out or capable being carried out, leading to the redampening of the belt; and at least the temperature of the cooling liquid is adjusted as a cooling parameter in the thus-determined area(s) so as to maintain, or return to, a cooling into a vapor film on the surface of the belt.
US08918196B2
A method for generating an output sequence of samples in response to a first and a second subsequence of samples, the method comprising —applying a weighted overlap-add procedure to the first and second subsequences so as to generate the output sequence of samples, —optimizing a weighting function involved in the weighted overlap-add procedure in response to a measure of matching between the output sequence of samples and one or more target sequences of samples.
US08918189B2
A shielded component or network for an active medical device (AMD) implantable lead includes (1) an implantable lead having a length extending from a proximal end to a distal end, all external of an AMD housing, (2) a passive component or network disposed somewhere along the length of the implantable lead, the passive component or network including at least one inductive component having a first inductive value, and (3) an electromagnetic shield substantially surrounding the inductive component or the passive network. The first inductive value of the inductive component is adjusted to a account for a shift in its inductance to a second inductive value when shielded.
US08918185B2
A system and method using a plurality of electrodes. An immediate electrode configuration is defined, electrical energy is conveyed to the electrodes in accordance with the immediate electrode configuration, a final electrode configuration is defined, a series of intermediate electrode configurations is defined using a heuristic set of rules based on the immediate electrode configuration and the final electrode configuration, electrical energy is conveyed to the electrodes in accordance with the series of intermediate electrode configurations, and electrical energy is conveyed to the electrodes in accordance with the subsequent electrode configuration.
US08918184B1
One or more efficacious electrode combinations for delivering electrical stimulation therapy to a patient may be selected based on the delivery of electrical stimulation to the patient via a predefined set of test electrode combinations in a predetermined order. In some examples, the electrode combinations of the set are arranged in the predetermined order such that adjacent electrode combinations in the order include at least one shared anode electrode or cathode electrode. In addition, the electrode combinations in the predetermined order may define a predetermined sequence of electrode patterns, each electrode pattern defining a relative arrangement between one or more anodes and one or more cathodes of the respective electrode pattern. In some examples, the transition between electrode combinations in the predefined set is achieved by incrementally adjusting at least one of anodic amplitudes assigned to active anode electrodes or cathodic amplitudes assigned to active cathode electrodes.
US08918183B2
A computer implemented system and method facilitates a cycle of generation, sharing, and refinement of volumes related to stimulation of anatomical tissue, such as brain or spinal cord stimulation. Such volumes can include target stimulation volumes, side effect volumes, and volumes of estimated activation. A computer system and method also facilitates analysis of groups of volumes, including analysis of differences and/or commonalities between different groups of volumes.
US08918173B2
Systems and methods are provided for graphically configuring leads for a medical device. According to one aspect, the system generally comprises a medical device and a processing device, such as a programmer or computer, adapted to be in communication with the medical device. The medical device has at least one lead with at least one electrode in a configuration that can be changed using the processing device. The processing device provides a graphical display of the configuration, including a representative image of a proposed electrical signal to be applied by the medical device between the at least one electrode of the medical device and at least one other electrode before the medical device applies the electrical signal between the at least one electrode and the at least one other electrode. In one embodiment, the graphical display graphically represents the lead(s), the electrode(s), a pulse polarity, and a vector.
US08918166B2
A method for calibrating a diagnostic measuring device for biological signals, which can be represented as vectors, such as the representation of cardiac potentials in cardiography. The method determines a zero-point vector or reference point for the calibration of the measuring device as an average vector within a resting section having minimal change of the signal. A search range for such a resting section can be limited to a time frame within the entire measuring period and biologically justified, for example, by means of empirical data that indicate physiological resting phases and/or from the knowledge of the course of the physiological process to be examined.
US08918161B2
Various methods of use for surface enhanced spectroscopy-active composite nanoparticles (SACN's) are provided. SACN's are submicron-sized particles or labels can be covalently or non-covalently affixed to entities of interest for the purpose of quantification, location, identification, tracking, and diagnosis. The various methods include administering a SACN nanoparticle imaging agent to a patient, scanning the patient using a system that can perform spectral imaging; and generating a spectrum or image of an internal region of the patient. A method, for diagnosing an abnormal pathology as well as a method for labeling an animal with a SACN are also provided.
US08918157B2
A method of manufacturing an implantable medical lead is disclosed herein. The method may include: providing a lead body including a proximal end, a distal end, and an electrode near the distal end; provide a conductor extending between the proximal and distal ends; providing a crimp including a ribbon-like member and extending the ribbon-like member around the conductor; and mechanically and electrically connecting the ribbon-like member to the electrode.
US08918156B2
A method of manufacturing an implantable medical lead is disclosed herein. The method may include: providing a lead body including a proximal end, a distal end, and an electrode near the distal end; provide a conductor extending between the proximal and distal ends; providing a crimp including a ribbon-like member and extending the ribbon-like member around the conductor; and mechanically and electrically connecting the ribbon-like member to the electrode.
US08918155B2
A method of manufacturing an implantable medical lead is disclosed herein. The method may include: providing a lead body including a proximal end, a distal end, and an electrode near the distal end; provide a conductor extending between the proximal and distal ends; providing a crimp including a ribbon-like member and extending the ribbon-like member around the conductor; and mechanically and electrically connecting the ribbon-like member to the electrode.
US08918154B2
An endoscopic capsule has a biocompatible capsule housing that contains at least one sensor device for acquiring medical data. The sensor is arranged on an outer surface of the housing, and has a first electrode produced of an acid-resistant noble metal, and a second electrode produced of silver. An electrical voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, and a change in an electrical variable is measured between the first and second electrodes when ammonia is present. The endoscopic capsule allows screening of gastric acid and the tissue of the stomach lining for Helicobacter pylori in a manner that is gentle for the patient.
US08918150B2
A circuit board in a mobile electronic device has a microphone and related amplifier and signal conditioning circuitry mounted thereon. A radio frequency (RF) shield surrounds and isolates the microphone from electromagnetic interference (EMI). The RF shield together with the circuit board forms an acoustic chamber surrounding the microphone. A hole in the RF shield permits acoustic energy to enter the acoustic chamber and reach the microphone.
US08918149B2
A mobile telephone includes a cartilage conduction unit for making contact with the ear cartilage. The cartilage conduction unit is provided to at least one of two corner parts at an upper side of the mobile telephone. The mobile telephone can include a surface of an outer wall and a cartilage conduction vibration source arranged inward from the surface of the outer wall, the vibration of the cartilage conduction vibration source being transmitted to the surface of the outer wall, wherein when the surface of the outer wall is brought into contact with at least a part of the ear cartilage around the entrance part to the external auditory meatus without making contact with the auricular helix, the sound pressure inside the external auditory meatus at about 1 cm from the entrance part of the external auditory meatus has an at least 10 dB increase compared to the non-contact state.
US08918135B2
The present description relates to a method for controlling uplink power in a distributed multi-node system, comprising the following steps: receiving reference signals from a plurality of antenna nodes containing at least one antenna; estimating average propagation loss on the basis of the receiving power of the reference signals received from the plurality of antenna nodes; receiving, via a downlink control channel, noise and interference (NI) information from a base station which contains the plurality of antenna nodes; and determining uplink transmission power using the estimated average propagation loss and the received noise and interference information.
US08918132B2
An apparatus and a method for setting a group communication session using a wireless access system are provided. The method includes transmitting, at a transmission side client, a message requesting start/end of group communication to a control Push To Talk (PTT) server, transmitting, at the control PTT server, a session set/end message including a sequence number to a participating PTT server, multicasting, at the participating PTT server, a connect/disconnect request message N times for at least one reception side client, and setting/releasing, at the at least one reception side client, a session for the group communication.
US08918130B2
A data transmitter is provided for transmitting data that makes it possible for nodes, relaying the preamble transmitted by a transmitter node, to also transmit data to a single destination node without, in turn, transmitting another preamble. In a network comprising a plurality of nodes that alternately observe sleeping and waking periods in an asynchronous manner relative to each other, a node receives a first preamble that is transmitted by at least one transmitter node. The first preamble comprises at least one first set of information related to transmission, by the transmitter node, of a first data set to a destination node. The adjacent node transmits a second data set to the destination node or to another node from the transmission of the first data set.
US08918128B2
A method and server for providing a message service. The server receives, via a packet switched WLAN, a request message including a destination address associated with a recipient device. The device of the sender is capable of sending messages via the packet switched WLAN or alternatively via an SMS bearer. The server determines whether the destination address corresponds to a subscriber of a service for receiving the outgoing message via a packet switched bearer. The server sends a response message to the device of the sender. If the destination address corresponds to a subscriber of the service for receiving the outgoing message via a packet switched bearer, the response message provides an indication to the device of the sender to send the outgoing message via the packet switched WLAN. Alternatively, the response message provides an indication to send the outgoing message via the SMS bearer.
US08918125B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for short message signaling intercommunication and a short message service center (SMSC), relating to the field of mobile number portability (MNP) service in mobile communications technology, and applying to solve the problem in the prior art that the process of the short message signaling intercommunication cannot be applied to the MNP service. The method includes: step 1, the SMSC of a sending network receives a mobile original (MO) message from a mobile switching center (MSC) of the sending network, wherein the MO message includes the mobile directory number (MDN) of a receiving terminal (21); step 2, according to the MDN of the receiving terminal, the SMSC of the sending network inquires of the number portability data base (NPDB) about the current home network of the receiving terminal, and acquires the information of the current home network of the receiving terminal (22); and step 3, according to the information of the current home network of the receiving terminal, the SMSC of the sending network transmits the mobile terminal (MT) message (23) generated according to the MO message to the MSC of the current home network of the receiving terminal. The present disclosure is applied to the short message signaling intercommunication in the mobile number portability service.
US08918123B2
A method and a portable terminal for reducing standby power of a portable terminal which performs paging according to a set paging interval are provided. The method includes determining whether a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card polling interval arrives during a sleep mode of the portable terminal and synchronizing the SIM card polling interval with the set paging interval when the SIM card polling interval arrives.
US08918113B2
A radio resource management, RRM, apparatus for at least one wireless communication network macrocell is provided. The macrocell includes at least a first coverage region and second coverage region. The RRM apparatus includes a processor that is configured to determine at least one scheduling block, SB, for use by at least one user device. The determination of the at least one SB is based at least in part on a first noise metric when the at least one user device is located within the first coverage region. The determination of the at least one SB is based at least in part on a second noise metric different from the first noise metric when the at least one user device is located within the second coverage region.
US08918112B2
Providing for management of wireless communications in a heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment is described herein. By way of example, system data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, the information can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to facilitate interference reduction on such resources. By employing aspects of wireless communication management disclosed herein, efficient and reliable communication can be affected in large heterogeneous AP networks.
US08918109B1
Disclosed herein is a method and system for parsing a coverage area identifier. An example method is operable in a wireless communication system having a base station and a wireless communication device (WCD), the base station radiating to define multiple coverage areas in which the WCD can operate. The method involves: the WCD operating within one of the multiple coverage areas; the WCD receiving from the base station a coverage area identifier of the coverage area in which the WCD operated; the WCD determining a group to which the base station belongs; the WCD using the determined group as a basis to select a parsing technique from multiple parsing techniques; and the WCD using the selected parsing technique to parse the received coverage area identifier so as to extract from the received coverage area identifier one or more attributes of the coverage area in which the WCD operated.
US08918105B2
A mobile communication method involves the steps of a mobile station transmitting indication information to a radio base station managing the cell of entry of a predetermined area corresponding to a cell of a second frequency, a step of transmitting by the radio base station a measurement confirmation instructing the mobile station to start measuring a radio quality in the cell of the second frequency, a step of transmitting by the mobile station a measurement report including cell identification information used in a scrambling process for a synchronization signal broadcasted in the cell of the second frequency, a step of transmitting by the radio base station a report request to start transmitting predetermined information broadcasted in the cell of the second frequency when the radio base station has received the measurement report, and a step of reporting by the mobile station the predetermined information in response to the report request.
US08918102B2
A particular method includes identifying, at a wireless access point, a client device in communication with the wireless access point. The client device is identified based on a signal quality indicator associated with the client device. The wireless access point is operable to communicate with the client device by transmitting a signal over a channel within at least one of a plurality of frequency bands. The method further includes selecting a set of candidate frequency bands from the plurality of frequency bands, where the set of candidate frequency bands is associated with the client device. Each candidate frequency band in the set of candidate frequency bands supports a power level of the signal that satisfies a signal quality threshold associated with the client device.
US08918101B2
Apparatus and method for controlling access to dual stack architecture using attention (AT) commands
An apparatus and method for controlling access to a dual stack architecture using attention (AT) commands including establishing a first subscription to a first network; establishing a second subscription to a second network; selecting a desired subscription from the first subscription and second subscription; and sending an attention (AT) command to direct at least one of a plurality of existing attention (AT) commands towards the desired subscription.
US08918092B2
A system for managing social group interactions comprising a server that supports creation and management of a plurality of social groups and a plurality of user devices communicatively coupled to the server that is used by a plurality of users. The server supports the registration of each of the plurality of users as members of one or more of the plurality of social groups. The server saves a list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member at the one of the plurality of user devices associated with the one of the plurality of users. For example, if a user using the user device is associated with a social group (where he is a member), then the server saves a reference and membership details and even a member list in the user device.
US08918084B2
Techniques for use by a mobile device configured to operate in a wireless network for the communication of data messages with a server are described. When the mobile device does not have an open session with the server, the mobile device receives from a service node via the wireless network a message which informs the mobile device that a data message has arrived at the server and needs to be retrieved. The message includes an identifier which identifies the data message at the server. In response to opening an application at the mobile device, the mobile device communicates directly with the server via the wireless network for retrieving the data message. This involves commencing an open session with the server, sending to the server a command for retrieving the data message, and receiving from the server the data message in response to sending the command. The mobile device may use the identifier for retrieving the data message from the server.
US08918080B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for reducing fraud, waste, and abuse of devices associated with government or business programs. Devices are authenticated based on a first set of data collected from the device, and if authenticated, may be permitted to send or receive service requests based on a second set of data that identifies the user, includes data about the user, identifies the service and/or identifies eligibility criteria. Devices may also be subject to eligibility requirements instituted before, during or after a service request is performed that determine the eligibility of the device and/or the user of the device. Devices may also be subject to filtering requirements administered before or during a service request. Devices may also be subject verification before, during or after one or more service requests.
US08918073B2
An intelligent system for choosing selection schemes to be tried in a predetermined order for determining the location of a wireless mobile client, including retrieving a last known position record from a cache, checking serving network capability, choosing an initial selection scheme according to parameters including at least the required response time and the requested location method, including a method employing navigational satellites, attempting to retrieve a current position record, trying successive untried selection schemes in turn according to a predetermined algorithm if no current position record has been retrieved, and returning the current position record and updating the last known position record, or returning an error if no current position record has been retrieved, and returning the last known position record if an error has been returned, the last known position record exists in the cache and the last known position record has not expired.
US08918053B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an interference elimination method and apparatus for a multi-antenna system. The method includes: generating an equalization coefficient according to a baseband signal received on a receiving antenna, a channel estimation matrix, and an obtained cross-correlation matrix of transmitted signals of a downlink channel on multiple transmit antennas; and performing interference elimination processing on the baseband signal according to the equalization coefficient.
US08918047B1
This disclosure relates to the use of satellite-based routing processes in connection with a balloon network. A disclosed method includes receiving a communication at a balloon in a balloon network by way of a transmission from a ground-based station. The method includes selecting a routing process for the communication based on at least one parameter associated with the communication. The routing process is selected from a plurality of routing processes including a first routing process and a second routing process. The first routing process includes a satellite network when determining how to route the communication. The satellite network includes one or more satellites. The second routing process includes the balloon network when determining how to route the communication. The method further includes using the selected routing process to determine a target path for the communication.
US08918039B2
A cleaning device includes a first cleaning roller and a second cleaning roller. The first cleaning roller contacts a member to be cleaned, rotates, separates any matter to be removed that is stuck on the member to be cleaned from the member to be cleaned, and causes the matter to be removed to adhere to the first cleaning roller. The member to be cleaned rotates or circulates. The first cleaning roller has an elastic peripheral surface. The second cleaning roller has a peripheral surface whose hardness is higher than that of the first cleaning roller. The second cleaning roller pushes the first cleaning roller and rotates while causing the first cleaning roller to be elastically recessed, to separate the matter to be removed that is stuck on the first cleaning roller therefrom and cause the matter to be removed to adhere to the second cleaning roller.
US08918024B2
A development device having: a main unit having formed therein a first space and a second space extending in a first direction perpendicular to a vertical direction, a first communicating portion and a second communicating portion that allow the first space and the second space to communicate with each other at both ends in the first direction; a first stirring member that extends in the first direction within the first space; a second stirring member that is positioned within the first space between the first stirring member and the second space and extends in the first direction; a conveyance member that extends in the first direction within the second space; and a developer support member that extends in the first direction within the second space.
US08918023B2
A transmission mechanism has an input gear, a first intermediate gear configured to engage with the input gear. A rotation shaft of the first intermediate gear is movable between a first position and a second position along an elongated hole formed on a supporting member. A first output gear is configured to engage with the first intermediate gear when the rotation shaft is located at the first position, and a second output gear configured to engage with the first intermediate gear when the rotation shaft is located at the second position. The rotation shaft can be located at a third position which is an intermediate position between the first position and the second position, the first intermediate gear engaging with both the first output gear and the second output gear when the rotation shaft is located at the third position.
US08918013B2
An image forming apparatus is provided including a housing having a first opening and a second opening which are directed in a same direction; a plurality of developing units which are disposed in parallel with each other in the housing along an oblique direction inclined with respect to a horizontal plane, the developing units which are configured to be attached to and detached from the housing along the oblique direction through the first opening; and a plurality of developer cartridges which correspond to the plurality of developing units, each of the developer cartridges being disposed in parallel with each other in the housing to be opposite to an end of a respective one of the developing units along a substantially horizontal direction in a longitudinal direction of the developing units, the developer cartridges which are configured to be attached to and detached from the housing through the second opening.
US08918010B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an outer housing, a cover openeably/closably mounted at the outer housing, an optical scanning device including a light transmissive member configured to transmit laser light, a cleaning member configured to clean the light transmissive member, and an interlocking mechanism. The interlocking mechanism moves the cleaning member in conjunction with opening/closing of the cover.
US08918009B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body of the image forming apparatus; at least one image forming unit disposed in the main body; a light scanning unit that is disposed in the main body and scans light to form an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive medium of the at least one image forming unit; a window open-closing shutter that is disposed to slidably move on a surface of the light scanning unit from which light emits, and moves between an open position where a light moving path is opened and a blocking position where the light moving path is blocked; a shutter operating lever that is disposed in the main body, and activates the window open-closing shutter to be positioned at either of the open position and the blocking position; and a pressure member that is disposed in the main body and presses the shutter operating lever.
US08918007B2
A power supply apparatus outputs a developing voltage in which a pulse wave shape at a time of positive amplitude is different from a pulse wave shape at a time of negative amplitude. Voltages are supplied from two switching regulators respectively to a bridge circuit for driving a transformer. Here, an absolute value of a difference between a drive frequency of a first switching regulator and a drive frequency of a second switching regulator is configured to be not less than an invisible frequency at which a banding cannot be recognized by humans.
US08918004B2
A fixing device includes a fixing unit that is disposed in a direction intersecting a transport direction in which a recording medium on which an image is formed using an image forming material is transported and that fixes the image forming material onto the recording medium in a noncontact manner with the recording medium, a varying unit that varies a length of the fixing unit in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction, and a controller that controls the fixing unit at an amount of power according to the length of the fixing unit.
US08918002B2
An image forming apparatus includes a count section configured to count time during which no image forming is performed and a control section configured to allow heating of a heat generating section at temperature for decolorizing after the time counted by the count section reaches the a predetermined threshold time.
US08917998B2
A method implemented in a transmission apparatus used in an optical fiber communications system for a polarization switched differential quaternary phase-shift keying (DQPSK) signal is disclosed. The method comprises splitting data into two or more data streams, inputting said two or more data streams to 1-bit DQPSK precoders to perform 1-bit DQPSK precoding, and multiplexing inphase outputs of the 1-bit DQPSK precoders to generate a first output; and multiplexing quadrature outputs of the 1-bit DQPSK precoders to generate a second output. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.
US08917994B2
A sending apparatus includes: a wavelength path multiplexing part; a sending wavelength path selection part; and an optical transmitter having optical sending parts. The wavelength path multiplexing part includes: sending wavelength path demultiplexing ports; and sending wavelength multiplexing ports connected thereto. The sending wavelength path multiplexing ports are connected to optical transmission paths respectively. The sending wavelength path selection part includes a wavelength multiplexing parts which multiplexing a set combination of optical signals among the optical signals inputted to the sending input ports and outputs it to any of the sending output ports. In the wavelength path sending or receiving by the wavelength path multiplexing/demultiplexing optical transmission apparatus, a non-selectable combination between a wavelength and a route can be avoided.
US08917986B2
A optical transmission system includes light sources generating light of at least two wavelengths, where any two adjacent wavelengths are separated by less than 10 nm. The wavelengths fall within the zero dispersion zone of an optical fiber, and may be shifted by 1 nm or less to reduce crosstalk effects.
US08917984B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first line sensor unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a first direction, a second line sensor unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a second direction, and a third line sensor unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a third direction. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion portion and a transistor. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the third direction is not perpendicular to the first and the second directions. A channel of the transistor is provided in the first direction or the second direction.
US08917972B2
Video and audio of a capture area is recorded. The capture area includes a sound-producing element that is to appear within a video. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag is attached to the sound-producing element. The RFID tag is scanned to automatically track the sound producing element relative to a position in the capture area. Configurable audio associated with the sound-producing element is embedded within the video.
US08917965B2
A laser optical fiber storage device (10,100) for temporarily storing a free end (12a) of an elongated flexible laser optical fiber (12). A storage housing (14,114) with an open end (116) has an elongated flexible tube (28,128) disposed therein to receive the elongated flexible laser optical fiber so as to prevent laser light from escaping the storage housing. A restrictor (32, 117a, 117b) within the storage housing reduces the inner diameter of the elongated flexible tube. Further, a laser optical fiber storage device (40,100) for temporarily storing a free end (12a) of an elongated flexible laser optical fiber (12) is provided with a clamp (42,123). The storage housing (41,114) has an open end (41a, 116) and an elongated flexible tube (28,128) disposed within the storage housing to receive the elongated flexible laser optical fiber so as to prevent laser light from escaping the storage housing. A laser fiber clamp (42,123) is mounted to the open end to secure the laser optical fiber.
US08917964B2
Composite communications cable are provided that include a central conductor, a dielectric spacer that substantially surrounds the central conductor, an outer conductor that substantially surrounds the dielectric spacer, a jacket that surrounds the outer conductor and a non-buffered optical fiber positioned between the central conductor and the dielectric spacer. An outer surface of the non-buffered optical fiber is within 50 microns of the outer surface of the central conductor. The positioning of the optical fiber adjacent an outer surface of the central conductor may protect the optical fiber from damage.
US08917960B2
An optical switch using a Michelson interferometer and differential onset of optical nonlinearity. Modulation of optical signals can occur at speeds that exceed that of electronic devices.
US08917954B2
A method of converting a two-dimensional video to a three-dimensional video, the method comprising: comparing an image of an nth frame with an accumulated image until an n−1th frame in the two-dimensional video to calculate a difference in a color value for each pixel; generating a difference image including information on a change in a color value for each pixel of the nth frame; storing an accumulated image until the nth frame by accumulating the information on the change in the color value for each pixel until the nth frame; performing an operation for a pixel in which a change in a color value is equal to or larger than a predetermined level by using the difference image to generate a division image and a depth map image; and converting the image of the nth frame to a three-dimensional image by using the depth map image.
US08917950B2
A simplified parametric loop filter uses a set of fixed filters to remove or reduce noise and artifacts introduced during video coding. The simplified parametric loop filter uses the parameters such as direction and bandwidth to uniquely identify a fixed filter from the set of filters. The simplified parametric loop filter implements symmetry between filters, symmetry within each filter, unity DC gain and zero-forcing to 1) reduce the storage space in memorizing the fixed filters, and 2) reduce the computational complexity for performing filtering.
US08917949B2
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a correction target image and user information indicating characteristics of a user requesting a correction; an image accumulating unit configured to accumulate images therein; an extracting unit configured to extract an image from the image accumulating unit based on the user information acquired by the acquiring unit, the image matching the characteristics of the user requesting the correction; a setting unit configured to set a correction target value based on the image extracted by the extracting unit; and a correcting unit configured to correct the correction target image based on the correction target value.
US08917941B2
A method for measuring shapes in thick multi-planar reformatted (MPR) digital images, including identifying a shape in a digital MPR image, scan-converting points corresponding to the identified shape on a starting plane of an MPR slab in an image volume from which the MPR was obtained to generate a plurality of starting points for the identified shape, calculating an end point in the MPR slab corresponding to each starting point, propagating a ray from each starting point to each corresponding end point, accumulating samples along each ray, and computing a desired measurement value from the accumulated samples after reaching the end point for all rays.
US08917940B2
A reliable method for discriminating between a plurality of edges in a region of interest of an edge feature video tool in a machine vision system comprises determining a scan direction and an intensity gradient threshold value, and defining associated gradient prominences. The gradient threshold value may be required to fall within a maximum range that is based on certain characteristics of an intensity gradient profile derived from an image of the region of interest. Gradient prominences are defined by limits at sequential intersections between the intensity gradient profile and the edge gradient threshold. A single prominence is allowed to include gradient extrema corresponding to a plurality of respective edges. A gradient prominence-counting parameter is automatically determined that is indicative of the location of the selected edge in relation to the defined gradient prominences. The gradient prominence-counting parameter may correspond to the scan direction.
US08917939B2
A client captures at least one identification indicator of an individual arriving at a threshold representing themself as a vendor of an organization. The client extracts vendor indicia and organization indicia from the captured identification. The client sends a query comprising the organization indicia to an identification service. Responsive to the client receiving a response from the identification service with a network address of a particular identity verification service associated with the at least one organization indicia, the client sends a query comprising the vendor indicia and the current location of the threshold to the particular identity verification service. Responsive to the verification client receiving a response from the particular identity verification service indicating that the user is validated, the client notifies the user that the individual is validated as the vendor of the organization.
US08917938B2
A method for estimating blur degree of image and a method for evaluating image quality are revealed. First, an input image is transmitted to an image processing device for producing a synthesized blur image including a nonlinear image sensing function according to a pixel intensity distribution parameter of the input image. Next, the image processing device matches the pixel intensity distribution according to the input image and the synthesized blur image for producing a blur degree parameter; By the way, the image processing device further estimating an estimated blur result according to the blur degree parameter. The method for estimating blur degree of image can be further applied to estimate blur distribution for a plurality of regions of interest of a plurality of input images. Thereby, the blur distribution of the input images can be estimated, and thus further evaluating the image quality of the plurality of input images.
US08917932B2
Disclosed is a processor for predicting perceptual differences between colors recalled from memory and directly viewed colors in a tested video. The processor includes a memory effects processor structured to generate compensation factors for distortions of color due to memory effects and apply the compensation factors to data from the reference video or data from the tested video. The compensation factors may include factors for changes in saturation over time, changes in hue angle, changes in uncertainty, and a categorization factor that reflects a trend in shifts and towards cardinal color centroids over time in memory.
US08917929B2
Extracting information corresponding to a three-dimensional object from an image captured by plural imaging apparatuses is implemented with simple configuration and processing. Parallax information representing a parallax amount in the X direction of a pair of images captured by a pair of imaging apparatuses disposed at different horizontal positions is stored in a storage section, and a parallax correction control section reads out a parallax amount corresponding to a Y coordinate value of image data for one line input from a pre-image processing unit from the storage section and outputs a selection signal to selectors such that the output of one image data is delayed by the differential amount. A differential image generation unit calculates an absolute value of the differential of the pair of input image data for each pixel and outputs the result as a differential image for detecting the three-dimensional object.
US08917928B2
A search processing unit of a central server searches for radiographing information matched with a designated radiographing part, among all items of the radiographing information of a medical facility having radiographing information matched with a detection device ID from a storage device. A sorting unit performs classification into medical facilities (first group), in which the radiation dose after an X-ray image detection device of the designated detection device ID is introduced has changed from that before the introduction, and medical facilities (second group) in which the radiation dose after the X-ray image detection device of the designated detection device ID is introduced has not changed. A statistical data generation unit generates a histogram, in which the range of radiation dose is set as the class on the horizontal axis and the number of medical facilities is set as the frequency on the vertical, for each of first and second groups.
US08917927B2
A portable backscatter advanced imaging technology scanner with automated threat or target recognition including: a floor assembly having a cantilever drive assembly for rotating the floor assembly, the floor assembly being able to be partitioned into multiple parts for reassembly; at least one x-ray tube oriented towards selected sides of a test subject; a detector assembly oriented on the circumference of the floor assembly, the detector assembly being able to partitioned into multiple parts for reassembly; a storage unit to store images from detected scattered photons on the detector assembly; and a processing unit to detect, identify and classify concealed objects on the test subject.
US08917924B2
An image processing apparatus includes a correlating unit configured to acquire correlation information that correlates a first three-dimensional image of a target object with a second three-dimensional image of the target object, and a corresponding cross-sectional image generation unit configured to generate a corresponding cross-sectional image of one of the first three-dimensional image and the second three-dimensional image, if a cross section is set on the other of the first three-dimensional image and the second three-dimensional image, based on the correlation information.
US08917920B2
An image processing apparatus for performing an image processing on a body cavity image captured in a living body includes: a storage unit which stores information including image information of the body cavity image; a change amount calculator which reads out the image information of the body cavity image from the storage unit and calculates, in the read body cavity image, a pixel value change amount of a pixel of interest with a plurality of surrounding pixels located around the pixel of interest; and a candidate lesion region detector which detects a candidate lesion region in the body cavity image based on a calculation result of the change amount calculator.
US08917919B2
An ultrasonic observation apparatus includes: a frequency analysis unit that calculates a frequency spectrum for each of a plurality of locations in a predetermined region of a subject by analyzing frequency of the ultrasonic wave at the plurality of locations; a frequency spectrum approximate equation calculation unit that calculates an approximate equation of the frequency spectrum at the each location calculated by the frequency analysis unit; a deviation calculation unit that calculates deviation between the frequency spectrum at the each location calculated by the frequency analysis unit and the approximate equation of the frequency spectrum calculated correspondingly with the frequency spectrum by the frequency spectrum approximate equation calculation unit; and a deviation display image data generation unit that generates information related to the deviation.
US08917918B2
In a method processor and magnetic resonance (MR) system to generate MR slice exposures of an examination subject, measurement data for a stack of measurement slices through the examination subject are initially acquired using a series of slice measurement sequences. The series of slice measurement sequences is designed to allow a separation of a first material from a second material that has a defined chemical shift relative to said first material, and the position of a measurement slice with measurement data for the first material is spatially shifted relative to the position of a measurement slice with measurement data for the second material. Combination slice exposures are then formed by combining measurement data of the first material from at least a first slice measurement sequence with measurement data of the second material from at least one second slice measurement sequence, such that the image data of the first and second materials are spatially arranged with precise positioning relative to one another, at least within a predetermined degree of tolerance in the combination slice exposures.
US08917915B2
The present invention is to provide a head detecting method for detecting the head in an image correctly at high speed.The head detecting method of the present invention using: a preliminary head detection model acquired with images each containing at least a part of a head in a defined image region defined preliminarily as positive examples and with images each not containing a head in the defined image region as negative examples; and a definitive head detection model acquired with images each containing a head in a state where it matches preliminarily defined position and size as positive examples and with images each containing a head in a state where it does not match at least one of the preliminarily defined position and size as negative examples, the method includes: an image acquiring step of acquiring an image to be detected; a preliminary head detecting step of cutting out the defined image region as an image patch and detecting head images by referring to the preliminary head detection model; and a definitive head detecting step of detecting a definitive head image from acquired plural head images by referring to the definitive head detection model.
US08917905B1
A method for controlling an object space having an associated object environment includes the steps of, defining a target set of coordinates in the object space, recognizing the presence of a predetermined object in the object space, and determining a coordinate location of the recognized predetermined object in the object space. The method further includes determining the spatial relationship between the recognized predetermined object and the target set of coordinates, comparing the spatial relationship with predetermined spatial relationship criteria, and if the determined spatial relationship criteria falls within the predetermined spatial relationship criteria, modifying the object space environment.
US08917903B2
An image inspection apparatus for inspecting a recording medium having first and second sides is devised. The image inspection apparatus includes a penetrated-image information obtaining unit to obtain information of penetrated-image; an inspection information storage to store information of upper permissible limit of image penetration; a pre-print image penetration inspection unit to obtain an image penetration level from the first side to the second side, to compare the obtained image penetration level and the upper permissible limit, and to inspect an image penetration from the first side to the second side; a pre-print image penetration prediction unit to predict, before an image is formed on the second side, an image penetration level from the second side to the first side; and a post-print image inspection unit to inspect images on the first and second sides after forming the image on the second side.
US08917898B2
The invention relates to an acoustic loudspeaker which includes a magnetic field source. A mobile apparatus includes a diaphragm and a first winding capable of allowing passage of an electrical current representing the sound signal to be generated and of interacting with the magnetic field. The acoustic loudspeaker includes a second winding, both terminals of which are connected by a resistive component. Both terminals of the second winding are electrically isolated from the terminals of the first winding.
US08917895B2
A handheld loudspeaker device, comprising: a handheld base, a first port and a second port, a first sound guidance tube, and a second sound guidance tube. A front end of said handheld base is provided with a receiving space to place said mobile phone. Said first port and said second port are each placed on one side of said receiving space, so that said first port is connected to a loudspeaker of said mobile phone to transmit sound, and said second port is connected to a microphone to receive voice. When a user activates loudspeaker function of said mobile phone, stereo sound can be obtained at the loudspeaker slots corresponding to a first horn port and a second horn port. Through said second port, a user can speak to a receiving party at a remote end via the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet.
US08917892B2
A method for adjusting a hearing instrument to reduce feedback by placing a hearing instrument having an adjustable frequency response in a wearer's ear, providing a probe microphone for measuring the sound pressure level inside the ear and a reference microphone for measuring the sound pressure level outside the ear, exposing the ear to a stimulus and a dynamic event, determining the gain as a function of frequency from the difference in sound pressure level measured by the probe microphone and the reference microphone, identifying a feedback peak where the frequency is in the center of a range of frequencies and corresponds to the maximum gain in that range of frequencies and adjusting the hearing instrument to reduce the gain at a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the feedback peak.
US08917890B2
A system and method for relieving tinnitus, hyperacusis, and/or hearing loss is described. One method described includes manipulating an audio signal, associating an audio signal with synchronization information, and transmitting the audio signal and associated synchronization information to a first ear level device and a second ear level device. The method further includes outputting the audio signal substantially simultaneously in the first ear level device and the second ear level device, based at least in part on the synchronization information.
US08917887B2
According to one embodiment, a signal processor includes a band divider, a first correction module, a determiner, an adjuster, and a second correction module. The band divider calculates an amplitude indicating sound pressure from an acoustic signal for each frequency range. The first correction module corrects the amplitude to change the dynamic range of the amplitude to a target range. The determiner determines whether the maximum amplitude of amplitudes corrected by the first correction module is equal to or larger than a threshold. The adjuster adjusts first and second coefficients based on the first condition if the maximum amplitude is equal to or larger than the threshold. The second correction module adds a value obtained by multiplying the acoustic signal by the first coefficient to a value obtained by multiplying the correction amount of the amplitude by the second coefficient, and outputs a resulting value as an output signal.
US08917872B2
Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for encryption key storage. Encryption key storage may include associating each of a plurality of identifiers with a different one of a plurality of key fragment stores, determining a plurality of indexes, where each of the plurality of indexes is based upon a handle provided by a customer, an authorization token provided by the customer, and a different one of the plurality of identifiers, partitioning an encryption key provided by the customer into a number of encryption key fragments, and distributing the plurality of indexes and the number of encryption key fragments to the plurality of key fragment stores. The handle can be a uniform resource identifier, for instance.
US08917864B2
A full duplex audio communication terminal (100) comprises a noise attenuation module (4) arranged on a transmission path of the terminal. The noise attenuation module comprises two activation thresholds, which are respectively intended to be adjusted above a noise level and above an echo level of transmission signals (TC) produced by the terminal. The first or the second activation threshold is selected as a function of the detection of signals (R) received by said terminal. An improvement to the suppression in the transmission signals of echoes from received signals is thus obtained which is compatible with the principle of full duplex communication. Preferably, the noise attenuation module processes transmission signals which are produced by an echo compensator (2). Residual echo still present in the transmission signals already processed by the echo compensator is thus further reduced.
US08917851B2
A technique is disclosed that enables a contact center to provide enhanced services to its agents. An agent server is interconnected with the automatic call distributor (ACD) and agent telephones of the contact center. The server intercepts messages sent by the ACD, which contain caller-provided data obtained by an interactive voice response system. When it is determined that the particular agent has access to both a telephone and a personal computer, the agent server draws a distinction in the information content of the received message. In doing so, the agent server provides the call initialization information in the message to the agent's telephone, and appears as if the information were coming from the ACD; additionally, the agent server provides the caller-provided data to the agent's personal computer. The personal computer is then able to execute a predetermined application, such as a display-oriented presentation application, based on the caller-provided data.
US08917838B2
A system and method for recording and providing a written transcript of a portion of a media session (e.g., a video or audio conference) are provided. An exemplary system continuously records a media session, allowing one or more users to select segments of the session to store and have transcribed. A copy of the recording and the corresponding transcription may be provided to one or more users.
US08917836B2
A method for implementing information exchange is disclosed in the present invention, and the method comprises: a calling user terminal sending information to be sent to a called user terminal by carrying the information in a user-to-user signaling (UUS) field of a call message; the called user terminal sorting out the information carried in the UUS field from the call message after receiving the call message, and feeding back a message other than an acknowledge message to the calling user terminal; the calling user terminal terminating this call after receiving the message fed back by the called user terminal. The simplicity and the easy transformation of the software update of user terminals are fully utilized in the present invention; therefore the present invention can enable a user terminal to have the information exchange function only by properly modifying the software of the user terminal.
US08917834B2
A terminal and a method are described herein for offering termination-side services to a user. In one embodiment, the terminal (e.g., cellular terminal, enterprise or residential wireline device, mobile device) is configured to provide one or more termination-side services (e.g., color ring back tone, voice mail, call diversion, hold before answer) to the user. The terminal is further configured to enable the user to directly setup and manage the one or more termination-side services without interacting with the telecommunication network.
US08917824B2
A method for managing visual voicemail messages includes displaying a list of voicemail messages on a telecommunications handset, receiving user commands for operating on the voicemail messages including a delete message command and in response to a delete message command, marking a voicemail message for deletion with a delete timestamp and moving the voicemail message to a Deleted Messages folder. A Deleted Message Age Indicator function processes to control permanent deletion of voicemail messages in the Deleted Messages folder based on delete timestamps and a global Delete Time value in cooperation with a visual voicemail platform.
US08917820B2
Methods and systems for allowing analog TTY devices to be operated in conjunction with voice-only soft client applications are provided. Supported communication styles include a text-only TTY mode, a mode in which the user of the soft client receives text and responds by voice, a mode in which the user receives voice and responds with text, and a voice-only mode. Mode selection may be manual or automatic. Communication between the TTY device and far-end user may be via a direct connection between the TTY and the associated PBX, or via a connection between the TTY and the PC that is hosting the soft phone application.
US08917815B2
A grid employs dynamic and adjustable grid lines that communicates with a transmitting object and/or a receiving object. The grid lines may be but not limited to liner, crosshatched or pinwheel shaped. The grid may switch between opaque and translucent and the grid lines may target, calibrate to and track an object either transmitting or receiving. The grid may be employed as a filter or a privacy screen on a computer screen for instance. The grid lines are angled to match an angle of a user's position with respect to the grid.
US08917810B2
Systems passively eliminate noncondensable gasses from facilities susceptible to damage from combustion of built-up noncondensable gasses, such as H2 and O2 in nuclear power plants, without the need for external power and/or moving parts. Systems include catalyst plates installed in a lower header of the Passive Containment Cooling System (PCCS) condenser, a catalyst packing member, and/or a catalyst coating on an interior surface of a condensation tube of the PCCS condenser or an annular outlet of the PCCS condenser. Structures may have surfaces or hydrophobic elements that inhibit water formation and promote contact with the noncondensable gas. Noncondensable gasses in a nuclear power plant are eliminated by installing and using the systems individually or in combination. An operating pressure of the PCCS condenser may be increased to facilitate recombination of noncondensable gasses therein.
US08917807B1
A lightly hydrided/deuterated metallic plutonium-thorium fuel for use in a fast fission pool-type nuclear reactor cooled with liquid metal coolants, including lithium-7 lead eutectic, lead bismuth eutectic or lead. When so used, plutonium-239 is consumed, and merchantable heat is produced along with fissile uranium-233, which can be denatured with uranium-238 and used in light water reactors as fuel.
US08917806B1
A phase/frequency detector module, applicable to a digital phase-locked loop, includes: an edge detector for receiving a reference clock signal and a counting clock signal, where when a positive edge of the counting clock signal occurs, if a positive edge of the reference clock signal has occurred, the edge detector outputs an edge-detected signal, else the edge detector outputs an edge-not-detected signal; a counter coupled to the edge detector, where if receiving the edge-detected signal, the counter outputs a counting result forming a frequency error signal, resets, and loads a count value, and if receiving the edge-not-detected signal, the counter continues to count on the positive edge of the counting clock signal; and a frequency phase converter for performing integration over the counting result, where the integral forms a phase error signal.
US08917805B2
Frequency multipliers include a pair of transistors each connected to a common impedance through a respective collector impedance formed from a transmission line. Each transmission line has a length between about one quarter and about one eighth of a wavelength of an input signal frequency and is tuned to produce a large impedance at a collector of the respective transistor at the input signal frequency. The output frequency between the collector impedances and the common impedance is an even integer multiple of the input frequency.
US08917800B2
A mechanism is provided for dynamically adjusting DC offset at the time of deviation from DC balance ½ (DC level) in a data pattern including long-period consecutive bits generating DC offset in a section of data. A receiver circuit unit of an LSI having a serializer/deserializer arrangement for performing high-speed serial transmission includes an offset adjusting circuit. The offset adjusting circuit calculates DC balance in an arbitrary section of data by averaging received serial data. Based on comparison between a DC level and the DC balance obtained by averaging the received data, offset is shifted toward the H side when the DC balance exists on the H side from the DC level, and shifted toward the L side when the DC balance exists on the L side.
US08917792B2
A method (600) and apparatus (200) cancel odd-order distortion signals. Desensitization can be determined (610) in a received signal caused by odd-order harmonic distortion occurring from at least one transmit signal. A baseband replica harmonic distortion signal can be generated (620) using the transmit signal. The baseband replica harmonic distortion signal can be converted (630) to a low frequency harmonic distortion signal. The low frequency harmonic distortion signal can be subtracted (640) from the received signal to cancel the odd-order distortion from the received signal to create a corrected signal.
US08917790B2
The present description relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, discloses a method and a device for efficient feedback in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method for transmitting channel status information on a downlink transmission through an uplink, in the wireless communication system, comprises the following steps: transmitting a rank indicator (RI) in a first subframe; transmitting a first precoding matrix index (PMI) in a second subframe; and transmitting a second PMI and channel quality information (CQI) in a third subframe, wherein the precoding matrix to be applied to the transmission of the downlink can be determined by a combination of the first and second PMIS.
US08917782B2
A vehicular power line communication system includes a master and a slave. The master uses a pair of twisted wires, whose far ends are connected to each other to be loop-shaped, as a power line and a communication line. The master thereby outputs high-frequency signals via the pair of twisted wires, transmitting an electric power and data modulation signals. The slave includes an aperture antenna being loop-shaped to receive data modulation signals using an electromagnetic induction connection in an electromagnetic field generated in the pair of twisted wires in response to an energization current of the pair of twisted wires. The slave further includes an error rate monitor circuit which monitors an error rate of data which are obtained from demodulation of the data modulation signals received via the aperture antenna.
US08917779B2
The invention provides an electrocardiogram signal compression and de-compression system. The invention uses the sign characteristics of the coefficients of the discrete cosine transform type IV and the characteristics of quantization of spectrum to perform the differential pulse code modulation of the spectrum for preserving the high frequency characteristics of the spectrum of the discrete Fourier transform. The invention also uses the Huffman coding to increase the compression ratio. Different from the conventional compression technology, the invention uses the fact that the quantization values of the spectrum in the high frequency are almost the same to increase the compression ratio and preserve the characteristics of high frequency components of the spectrum.
US08917775B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-view video data. The method of encoding multi-view video data includes determining whether a current picture is an anchor picture; and encoding blocks of the current picture by selectively applying a skip block mode to the blocks if the current picture is the anchor picture. According to the present invention, image quality and coding efficiency may be improved.
US08917770B2
A motion estimation apparatus used in a video encoding system is provided. The motion estimation apparatus includes a first calculation module and a second calculation module. When a search position moves from a first candidate search position to a second candidate search position along a search path, the first calculation module estimates a first differential motion vector cost according to a search path information corresponding to the search path. The second calculation module selectively adds the first differential motion vector cost to an initial motion vector cost or subtracts the first differential motion vector cost from the initial motion vector cost according to a predetermined rule, so that a first motion vector cost corresponding to the second candidate search position is obtained.
US08917768B2
Techniques and tools for encoding and decoding motion vector information for video images are described. For example, a video encoder yields an extended motion vector code by jointly coding, for a set of pixels, a switch code, motion vector information, and a terminal symbol indicating whether subsequent data is encoded for the set of pixels. In another aspect, an encoder/decoder selects motion vector predictors for macroblocks. In another aspect, a video encoder/decoder uses hybrid motion vector prediction. In another aspect, a video encoder/decoder signals a motion vector mode for a predicted image. In another aspect, a video decoder decodes a set of pixels by receiving an extended motion vector code, which reflects joint encoding of motion information together with intra/inter-coding information and a terminal symbol. The decoder determines whether subsequent data exists for the set of pixels based on e.g., the terminal symbol.
US08917764B2
A system and method for virtualization of ambient environments in live video streaming are disclosed. In one embodiment, motion detection is performed to obtain motion information in a current frame in a live video stream. Further, a background model is computed using the motion information. Furthermore, background subtraction is performed using the background model to obtain foreground and background pixels for the current frame in the live video stream. In addition, the obtained foreground and background pixels are refined. Based on the obtained refined foreground and background pixels, a virtualized environment is generated for the current frame by substituting the background pixels. Moreover, the steps of pre-processing, performing, computing, refining, generating and encoding are repeated for a next frame in the live video stream.
US08917755B2
The present invention, pertaining to the field of mobile broadcast television technologies, discloses a method and apparatus for generating a broadcast positioning signal, and a positioning method. According to the present invention, a broadcast positioning signal is generated by inserting a spread spectrum signal and a first spread spectrum signal in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, and a receiver is positioned according to broadcast positioning signals from at least three different senders.
US08917753B2
Provided is an alignment method of a semiconductor optical amplifier with which optimization of coupling efficiency between incident laser light and light waveguide of the semiconductor optical amplifier is enabled without depending on an external monitoring device. The alignment method of a semiconductor optical amplifier is a method that optically amplifies laser light from a laser light source and outputs the optically amplified laser light, which adjusts relative position of the semiconductor optical amplifier with respect to the laser light entering into the semiconductor optical amplifier by flowing a given value of current to the semiconductor optical amplifier while entering the laser light from the laser light source to the semiconductor optical amplifier so that a voltage applied to the semiconductor optical amplifier becomes the maximum.
US08917750B2
Provided is a III-nitride semiconductor laser diode which is capable of lasing at a low threshold. A support base has a semipolar or nonpolar primary surface. The c-axis Cx of a III-nitride is inclined relative to the primary surface. An n-type cladding region and a p-type cladding region are provided above the primary surface of the support base. A core semiconductor region is provided between the n-type cladding region and the p-type cladding region. The core semiconductor region includes a first optical guide layer, an active layer, and a second optical guide layer. The active layer is provided between the first optical guide layer and the second optical guide layer. The thickness of the core semiconductor region is not less than 0.5 μm. This structure allows the confinement of light into the core semiconductor region without leakage of light into the support base, and therefore enables reduction in threshold current.
US08917744B2
A technique for efficiently processing resource allocation requests in an on-demand environment. When a user logs into a resource allocation request manager, various resource requirements entered are immediately sent to a remote resource manager to allow for dynamic, real-time feedback to the user who is entering the resource requirements as to any issues or concerns regarding the requested resource(s) or plug-in element(s), such as lack of availability. The user can thus reconfigure or otherwise modify the various resource requests based on this feedback to optimize the overall resource allocation request. This also allows an organization providing services such as computer hosting services to re-allocate resources in advance if a new resource request would exceed a service level agreement outlined in advance with a customer, thereby improving resource planning in a data center environment. In addition, the dynamic feedback on the new resource request that exceeds a service level agreement can be used to develop a new service level agreement or temporary service offer that addresses the unique resource condition.
US08917742B2
A network interface that connects a computing device to a network may be configured to process incoming packets and determine an action to take with respect to each packet, thus decreasing processing demands on a processor of the computing device. The action may be indicating the packet to an operating system of the computing device immediately, storing the packet in a queue of one or more queues or discarding the packet. When the processor is interrupted, multiple packets aggregated on the network interface may be indicated to the operating system all at once to increase the device's power efficiency. Hardware of the network interface may be programmed to process the packets using filter criteria specified by the operating system based on information gathered by the operating system, such as firewall rules.
US08917739B2
A network round trip time measurement apparatus and method employ an allocated storage in the form of a double ended queue, to store data received while awaiting a corresponding receipt of data to allow the network round trip time to be determined. When the allocated size of the storage is exceeded, storage stops until such time as data is received to allow network round trip time to be determined on at least some of the already stored data, whereupon storage can resume. This allows use in high and low volume traffic situations to automatically scale back the amount of data processed, so as to not overtax available resources.
US08917732B2
Methods and apparatus for segregating traffic are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a traffic splitter identifies a set of links coupled to the traffic splitter, where the set of links includes two or more uplinks, wherein each of the two or more uplinks are implemented in a common physical media. The two or more uplinks include a LAN uplink coupled to a LAN and a SAN uplink coupled to a SAN. The traffic splitter prevents SAN traffic from reaching the LAN via the LAN uplink. In addition, the traffic splitter prevents LAN traffic from reaching the SAN via the SAN uplink.
US08917711B2
In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is disclosed a method, apparatus, and executable computer program for receiving information including preamble scrambling codes associated with transmission types in a random access procedure, selecting an appropriate preamble scrambling code based on the received information, and placing the selected preamble scrambling code in a preamble for a random access procedure. Further in accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is disclosed a method, apparatus, and executable computer programs for decoding a preamble scrambling code of a random access channel transmission received from a user equipment, and determining a transmission type with which the scrambling code is associated.
US08917708B2
Technology for setting up a Device to Device (D2D) communication channel between mobile wireless devices is disclosed. The technology includes identifying a first user equipment and a second user equipment located within a proximity; receiving network assisted proximity discovery information at one of the first UE and the second UE from an evolved packet core (EPC) operating on a third generation partnership practice (3GPP) wireless wide area network (WWAN); and setting up a device to device (D2D) communication between the first UE and the second UE based on the network assisted proximity discovery information received from the EPC.
US08917702B2
A method and a device for data processing in a wireless network including several base stations are provided, wherein a mobility information is conveyed between at least two base stations. Furthermore, a communication system is suggested including at least one such device.
US08917701B2
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: a step in which a mobile station UE transmits “Measurement Report” including identification information “ECGI” on a cell subordinate to a radio base station eNB, to a radio base station HeNB; a step in which a radio base station HeNB transmits “(X2) HO Request” including the identification information “ECGI” of the cell subordinate to the radio base station eNB, to an IP address of a gateway device HeNB-GW; and a step in which the gateway device HeNB-GW transfers the “(X2) HO Request” to the IP address corresponding to the identification information “ECGI” on the cell subordinate to the radio base station eNB.
US08917700B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided that include mitigating interference for devices communicating with femto nodes or other low power base stations by assigning protected resources for communicating therewith. The protected resources can be negotiated with a macrocell base station using interference cancellation. The protected resources can be assigned based on an early or late handover event, which can indicate that the device may be susceptible to interference from the macrocell base station.
US08917698B2
A packet data core network node and methods supporting packet data communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a packet date core network node in a first core network comprises a first communication mechanism for control plane handling and mobility management, a second communication mechanism for user plane management and a mechanism for communication with a dual mode mobile terminal over a first radio network. The packet data core network node comprises or communicates with a mapping function for mapping between first radio bearers used in the first core and radio networks and second radio bearers of a type different from the type of the first radio bearers and used in a second core radio network at handover of a dual mode mobile terminal from the first core network to the second core network or vice versa. Another embodiment is a dual mode mobile terminal including such mapping function.
US08917688B2
A channel estimation system disclosed herein jointly estimates the channels for users transmitting signals allocated overlapping frequency resources in a received composite wideband signal. The channel estimation system may further limit the joint channel estimation process to only locally scheduled UEs and those desired users transmitting detectable desired signals using frequency resources at least partially overlapping the locally scheduled UE's frequency resources. More particularly, a local base station processes the received composite wideband signal to determine which of the potential desired user(s) have transmitted user signals allocated frequency resources that at least partially overlap the frequency resources allocated to locally scheduled users and having a sufficient signal strength and quality to be detectable as present in the received signal. The local base station processes the local and detected desired user signals in the received signal to jointly calculate channel estimates for the corresponding users based on the corresponding reference sequences.
US08917687B2
A method, an apparatus and a system for sending Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) and a method, an apparatus and a system for receiving SRS are disclosed in the present invention, which are used to reduce the requirement for Time Frequency Code (TFC) resource during the process of sending the SRS, and meanwhile to ensure the precision of channel information estimation. The method includes the steps of: determining a first frequency band required by sending the SRS, and determining a second frequency band whose width is smaller than the width of the first frequency band; according to the mode that the average interval for sending the SRS on the first frequency band is larger than the average interval for sending the SRS on the second frequency band, respectively sending the SRS on the first frequency band and the second frequency band.
US08917679B2
A network signals an allocation (PDCCH) for a downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and also signals an indication (reference signal RS) whether a resource block (PRB) comprising the allocated downlink shared channel is used for a control channel transmission (E-PDCCH). Examples include the E-PDCCH being time or frequency multiplexed with the PDSCH; and the indication being a different RS sequence (at least one element being phase shifted) than an original RS sequence used if the PRB were not used for the E-PDCCH. The UE tests for the phase shift by blind decoding. If the phase shift is present the UE a) decodes a portion of the PRB for data if the network is using TDM for its E-PDCCH/PDSCH multiplexing, orb) decodes the full PRB only for the E-PDCCH if the network is using FDM for its E-PDCCH/PDSCH multiplexing.
US08917672B2
Provided are a MIMO transmission device and a MIMO transmission method which can improve reception quality of a response signal. A terminal (100) as the MIMO transmission device maps a first and a second element of the ACK/NACK signal vector formed from ACK/NACK signals onto a first and a second stream, respectively, and transmits the elements contained in a 2SC-FDMA symbol in a single slot. In the terminal (100), a response signal vector formation unit (140) forms [a·Sack, 0] as the ACK/NACK signal vector in a first SC-FDMA symbol and [0, a·Sack] as an ACK/NACK signal vector in a second SC-FDMA symbol. A precoding unit (165) uses a unitary matrix to precode the ACK/NACK signal vector formed in the response signal vector formation unit (140).
US08917671B2
An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08917670B2
A method of signaling in a wireless communication system (300) comprising a first network element (310) serving a wireless communication unit (325) with at least one packet data network (PDN) connection. The method comprises transmitting, by the first network element (310) to the wireless communication unit (325), a signaling message relating to a wireless communication unit (325) uplink (UL) PDN transmission, where the signaling message comprises a parameter indicative of at least one aggregate maximum bit rate (AMBR) value.
US08917664B2
A method and an apparatus for deactivating secondary carriers in a mobile communication system using carrier aggregation are provided. A communication method, for a User Equipment (UE), includes activating a secondary carrier, starting a first timer upon activation of the secondary carrier, starting a second timer when the first timer expires, and deactivating the activated secondary carrier when the second timer expires.
US08917662B2
Disclosed is a method of controlling connection establishment in a server in charge of the control plane within a mobile communication network. The method of controlling connection establishment may include receiving a connection request message including a parameter indicating an identifier of a local gateway from a base station. The connection request message may include an access request message by the UE. The method of controlling connection establishment may further include determining whether a bearer for the UE is set to a path through nodes within the mobile communication network or set to a path through nodes within another wired network accessible by the local gateway by considering at least one of QoS, subscriber information for the UE, operator policy if the connection request message is received. If it is set to a path through nodes within the another wired network, the method of controlling connection establishment may further include transmitting a connection response message including a parameter indicating whether the bearer has been set or should be set to a path through nodes within the another wired network and an address of the local gateway to the base station.
US08917661B2
A wireless communication device for enhancing a data rate for a packet-switched (PS) data service is provided. The device comprises a processor configured to reference cell information corresponding to a first subscriber identity card to maintain mobility for a second subscriber identity card by using the referenced cell information when performing the PS data service with a first service network for the first subscriber identity card.
US08917652B2
The disclosure discloses a method, system and RN for processing UCI on a backhaul link. The method comprises that: the RN determines Q′ which is the number of the coded modulation symbols of the backhaul UCI according to the number of SC-FDMA symbols occupied by a GP, wherein the GP comprises RN state switch time deltaT and/or the time interval deltat which is reserved for avoiding the interference caused by RN uplink transmission, and deltaT is the switch time required by the RN to switch from an uplink reception state to an uplink transmission state and/or from the uplink transmission state to the uplink reception state; and the RN codes the backhaul UCI into a Q=Q′×Qm bits sequence, wherein Qm is the number of bits comprised in each coded modulation symbol in the modulation order of the backhaul uplink subframe. The disclosure improves the performance of the system.
US08917651B2
A wireless network client may be configured to use push button configuration (PBC) techniques to associate with wireless networks that include multiple access points. When the configuration buttons on a smart network host device, such as a wireless network host device, and an enrolling client device are pressed, one of the access points is selected to perform the push button configuration process with the client device. The selected access point then enters a PBC mode, allowing the client and selected access point to perform the authentication and configuration exchange.
US08917649B2
A method and apparatus for cooperation in wireless communications. Cooperation is considered among a number of network elements, including at least one wireless transmit-receive unit, at least one relay station, and at least one base station.
US08917648B2
A method for a transmit precoder for multicast communication over a downlink in a wireless network, including: initializing a transmit precoder, a channel estimate for each user in the wireless network; updating for each user a receive filter and a slack matrix; updating the transmit precoder by solving a second order cone routine solvable in closed form; determining if a predetermined convergence is met; and outputting the updated transmit precoder responsive to the convergence criteria.
US08917647B2
An apparatus, system and method for providing interference cancellation and communication resource reservation limits to allocate communication resources in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a processor (1320) and memory (1350) including computer program code. The memory (1350) and the computer program code are configured, with the processor (1320), to cause the apparatus to identify an interval of received signal power levels for interference cancellation of an interfering signal to a primary signal, and generate a message that provides the interval of received signal power levels for the interference cancellation of the interfering signal to the primary signal. In a related embodiment, the memory (1350) and the computer program code are configured, with the processor (1320), to cause the apparatus to determine a communication resource reservation limit, and request an increase in the communication resource reservation limit.
US08917645B2
A first network device including a control module to operate the first network device, prior to beginning discovery of a second network device, initially in a power save mode and subsequently in a normal mode after receiving an input from a user of the first network device while operating in the power save mode; and prior to beginning the discovery and subsequent to the first network device switching from operating in the power save mode to the normal mode, to alternately operate the first network device as a client station and an access point. A device detection module begins, subsequent to the first network device switching from operating in the power save mode to the normal mode, the discovery by scanning a network or by transmitting a beacon over the network when the first network device operates as a client station or an the access point, respectively.
US08917643B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for managing carriers allocated to a terminal in a broadband wireless access system that supports multi-carrier. A method for managing carriers by a terminal in a broadband wireless access system supporting multi-carrier includes transmitting, to a base station, activation requests information for requesting the activation of at least one second carrier allocated from the base station through a first carrier according to the power state of the terminal, receiving, from the base station, a first message that includes activation indication information for indicating the activation of at least one target carrier of the at least one second carrier, and transmitting to the base station a second message which notifies the base station whether the at least one target carrier is ready per activation.
US08917631B2
A system and method for sharing digital information between two or more devices in close proximity using a sound signal. The sending device obtains a globally unique share identifier from an information sharing system. The sending device then uploads the digital information to be shared to the information sharing system and transmits the sharing identifier to a receiving device via sound signals. The receiving device communicates the sharing identifier to the information sharing system and receives the digital information from the information sharing system. The information transferred from the sharing system can be password encrypted, the information transfer can be limited to a specified time period or the information transfer can be limited to receiving devices located within a specified geographic extent. In some embodiments of the invention, the sending device broadcasts a sound signal with a sharing identifier encoded in the sound stream and a plurality of receiving devices access digital information at the information sharing system using the sharing identifier as recovered from the sound stream.
US08917619B2
Method and apparatus for controlling in-device coexistence (IDC) interference in a wireless communication system are described in the present invention. The present invention includes transmitting UE capability information whether the UE has a capability to measure IDC, to a base station (BS); receiving measurement configuration information whether the UE is allowed to send IDC indication, from the BS; and transmitting the IDC indication and at least one of measurements which are a measurement in consideration of IDC and a measurement without consideration of IDC to the BS. It is possible to control reducing occurrence of in-device coexistence interference.
US08917618B2
Disclosed embodiments may include an apparatus having one or more processors coupled to one or more computer-readable storage media. The one or more processors may be configured to transmit and/or receive channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource configuration information, demodulation reference signals (DM-RS), uplink sounding reference signals (SRS), and power control parameters to support uplink coordinated multi-point (CoMP) operations. Other embodiments may be disclosed.
US08917612B2
An apparatus includes a first counter circuit that counts a value of first statistical information divided in the time-direction from a first period; a second counter circuit that counts a value of second statistical information divided in the time-direction from a second period following the first period; a control circuit that divides by a specific time period unit and acquires the value of the first statistical information and the value of the second statistical information, and causes a first memory to store the value of the first statistical information, and causes a second memory to store the value of the second statistical information; and a switching circuit that switches the value of the statistical information acquired by the control circuit from the value of the first statistical information to the value of the second statistical information upon a start of the second period.
US08917609B2
A line monitoring apparatus includes a state change detection number counter configured to count a state change detection number that is a number of a state change in a line being detected by a first type detecting process; and a state change frequency determiner configured to determine whether or not the state change detection number counted per a predetermined unit time exceeds a predetermined threshold value, wherein when the state change detection number counted per the unit time exceeds the threshold value, the detecting process of detecting a state change in the line is changed from the first type detecting process to a second type detecting process.
US08917606B2
An isochronous back channel is configured between a transmitting device and a receiving device. The isochronous back channel provides retransmission and flow control information from the receiving device to the transmitting device related to a stream of isochronous data packets transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device. An isochronous back channel packet for indicating a retransmission or flow control function to perform is configured and transmitted from the receiving device to the transmitting device over the isochronous back channel. A transmitting plug is configured on the receiving device and a receiving plug is configured on the transmitting device for implementing the isochronous back channel. The isochronous back channel packet includes a control instruction that instructs the transmitting device to either reset, stop or resume transmission of the stream of isochronous data packets being transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device.
US08917603B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In more detail, the present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier merging and operates in TDD, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving at least one or more than one PDCCH and more than one PDSCH from a plurality of downlink sub frames according to a UL-DL configuration: determining a bit number of reception response information on the at least one of more than one PDCCH and more than one PDSCH by using a value indicated by a predetermined 2-bit field in a DCI format for UL scheduling; and transmitting the reception response information through PUSCH corresponding to the DIC format.
US08917601B2
Mechanisms are provided to improve efficiency of systems operating on internet protocol (IP) over Infiniband (IB) networks. One mechanism includes multicasting a first ARP request from a source node, the first ARP request including an IP address of a source port of the source node, and performing load-balancing of host traffic across a plurality of ports of a plurality of nodes by sending a reply from a destination node corresponding to the IP address included in the first ARP request, the reply being sent over the source port to the source node.
US08917596B2
A method of automatically detecting the service level agreement settings in an Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) carrying user packets comprises generating synthetic packets different from the user packets, on a data path in the EVC at a level sufficiently high to saturate the EVC. This accelerates the detection of actual effective values for the Committed Information Rate (CIR) and the Excess Information Rate (EIR) by triggering traffic shaping devices in the data path to enforce the CIR and EIR settings configured for those devices. A plurality of traffic samples are collected from the data path during a sampling period that is long enough to allow the collection of at least two valid traffic samples, where a valid traffic sample is the amount of user packets measured between two consecutive losses of synthetic packets. The CIR and EIR values enforced by the traffic shaping devices are determined from the collected samples.
US08917585B2
A method and apparatus for estimating a transmission channel in a receiver of an OFDMA signal formed by a plurality of carriers modulated by data elements and distributed in the time-frequency domain in successive symbols, the plurality of carriers including pilot carriers, modulated by reference data elements known by receivers. The method includes: receiving a signal comprising a series of n symbols covering at least one resource block; making an initial channel estimation by identifying the pilot carriers included in the series of n symbols; determining diagonal entries of p frequency domain channel matrices G(x) for estimating the channel for at least x symbols among the n symbols, the x symbols being pilot symbols; determining, in the frequency domain, at least some non diagonal entries for each frequency domain channel matrix G of the n symbols from the determined diagonal entries of the x frequency domain channel matrices G(x).
US08917580B2
Apparatus, methods and computer program products for time and time management instruction are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a time instruction module; an indicia of time controlled by the time instruction module; and an input/output mechanism configured to provide a display related to time or time management.
US08917565B2
A solid state disk controller apparatus comprises a first port; a second port having a plurality of channels; a central processing unit connected to a CPU bus; a buffer memory configured to store data to be transferred from the second port to the first port and from the first port to the second port; a buffer controller/arbiter block connected to the CPU bus and configured to control read and write operations of the buffer memory based on a control of the central processing unit; a first data transfer block connected between the first port and the buffer controller/arbiter block and configured to transfer data to be stored/read in/from the buffer memory bypassing the CPU bus; and a second data transfer block connected between the second port and the buffer controller/arbiter block and configured to transfer data to be stored/read in/from the buffer memory bypassing the CPU bus.
US08917547B2
A memory array that includes a SOI substrate and lateral bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) fabricated on the SOI substrate. The BJTs form first and second inverters cross coupled to form a memory cell. A read circuit outputs the binary state of the memory cell. A power supply is configured to supply a Vdd voltage to the read circuit and to supply a Vcc and a Vee voltage to the first set of lateral bipolar transistors and the second set of lateral bipolar transistors, wherein the Vee voltage is at least zero volts and the Vcc voltage is greater than the Vee voltage and is equal to or less than the Vdd voltage.
US08917543B2
A multi-state spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STTMRAM) is formed on a film and includes a first magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJ) having a first fixed layer, a first sub-magnetic tunnel junction (sub-MTJ) layer and a first free layer. The first fixed layer and first free layer each have a first magnetic anisotropy. The STTMRAM further includes a non-magnetic spacing layer formed on top of the first MTJ layer and a second MTJ formed on top of the non-magnetic spacing layer. The second MTJ has a second fixed layer, a second sub-MTJ layer and a second free layer. The second fixed and second free layers each have a second magnetic anisotropy, wherein at least one of the first or second magnetic anisotropy is perpendicular to the plane of the film.
US08917537B2
A programmable crossbar array with inline fuses includes a layer of row lines and a layer of column lines with the row lines crossing over the column lines to form junctions and resistive memory elements sandwiched between row lines and a column lines at the junctions. Inline fuses are located in either the row lines, column lines or both. The inline fuses are interposed between the support circuitry and the resistive memory elements. A method for mitigating shorts in a crossbar array is also provided.
US08917535B2
A variable resistance memory device comprises a variable resistance memory cells and a read/write circuit configured to provide a program voltage to the variable resistance memory cell, and further configured to adjust a compliance current flowing through the variable resistance memory cell in successive loops of a program operation.
US08917531B2
A thermally assisted magnetoresistive random access memory cell, a corresponding array, and a method for fabricating the array. An example cell includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, an interlayer, a first magnetic stack, and a first non-magnetic via. The first metal layer includes a pad and a first metal line, with the pad not in direct contact with the first metal line. The second metal layer includes a second metal line and a metal strap. The second metal line is perpendicular to the first metal line and not in contact with the metal strap. The interlayer is located between the first and second metal layers. The first metal line is not in direct contact with the interlayer. The first magnetic stack is in direct contact with the interlayer and the metal strap. The first non-magnetic via is in direct contact with the pad and the metal strap.
US08917530B2
An energy-efficient CAM architecture provides increased speed of searching, reduced power consumption, or a tuned combination of increased speed of searching and reduced power consumption. The CAM comprises a plurality of CAM banks, a plurality of Bloom filters, each Bloom filter associated with a content addressable memory bank, each Bloom filter recording elements inserted into an associated content addressable memory bank, wherein the size of each Bloom filter is configured to reduce energy or power consumption of the content addressable memory apparatus. The size of each Bloom filter may be configured to reduce energy or power consumption of the content addressable memory apparatus.
US08917526B2
A flat cable includes a plurality of wires arranged in parallel, and a fibrous member woven into the plurality of wires in the arrangement direction of the plurality of wires. The fibrous member includes a polyurethane elastic fiber, and has an elongation of not less than 500% and not more than 900%, an elongation recovery rate of not less than 90% at a 300% elongation and an initial modulus of 5 to 30 cN/dtex for the 300% elongation.
US08917524B2
An inductor assembly comprising a first magnetic core and an electrically conductive material configured to wind around at least a portion of the first magnetic core. The electrical conductive material has one or more support structures that extend beyond an outside boundary of the first magnetic core.
US08917522B2
A semiconductor device that can suppress variation of GND potential of a control board and prevent malfunction of IC without restricting a mounting direction of the IC of the control board is provided. In a power module 10 as a semiconductor device in which an insulating board 31 having a power switching element 24 and a control board 22 having IC 50 for controlling the power switching element 24 are vertically provided in a case body 19, GND pins 61 are provided at both the sides of the IC 50, a GND pattern 51 to which the GND pins 61 of the IC 50 are connected is provided in the control board 22, and a GND loop breaking slit 70 as a breaking portion for breaking a GND loop formed by electrical connection of the IC 50, the GND pins 61 at both the sides of the IC 50 and the GND pattern 51 is provided to the GND pattern 51.
US08917521B2
A semiconductor package, a substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The substrate comprises a conductive carrier, a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer is formed on the conductive carrier and comprises an lead pad having an upper surface. The second metal layer is formed on the first metal layer and comprises a bond pad. The bond pad overlaps and is in contact with the upper surface of the first metal layer. The upper surface of the lead pad is partially exposed. A part of the bond pad overhang outward from the edge of the lead pad.
US08917512B2
The cabinet information center integrates an array of electronic sensors and controls to both standard and purpose built data center equipment cabinets to improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs and protect assets typically installed within standard equipment cabinets utilized in data centers by providing a common point of information display and cabinet interaction without the need to physically access assets and vital sensory components internal to the equipment cabinet itself. Equipment can include any standard rack mount devices such as servers, storage arrays and networking devices.
US08917511B2
A wireless power transfer system and power transmitting/receiving device according to the present invention include an antenna (resonator) 109 and a heat dissipation structure 111 with an electrically conductive thermal conductor 11, a portion of which makes thermal contact with the inductor 13 of the antenna 109 with an electrical insulator 12 interposed between them. The thermal conductor 11 is arranged to form no electrically closed loop.
US08917503B2
A heat dissipation device is mounted in a chassis of an information handling apparatus. The heat dissipation device includes a box and a cooling member, a first heat sink, a second heat sink, and a fan received in the box. A partitioning plate mounted inside the box. The box includes defines two air passage arranged at opposite sides of the partitioning plate. The cooling member is fixed to the partitioning plate. The first and second heat sinks are respectively received in the first and second air passages, and respectively abut cold and hot sides of the cooling member. The fan drives air to flow into the box through the first air passage to be cooled by the first heat sink. At the same time, the fan drives air to flow into the box through the second air passage to absorb heat from the second heat sink.
US08917496B2
A protective cover for an electronic device that has an interactive control panel and one or more electrical contacts includes a protective shell having first member and a second member. The second member is configured to join with the first case member to at least partially cover the electronic device. An aperture defined by the protective shell is aligned with the interactive control panel when the electronic device is at least partially enclosed by the protective shell. A securing mechanism secures the first member with the second member. An electrical connection attached to the protective shell is configured to connect an electrical source to at least one of the electrical contacts of the electronic device to provide an electrical connection to the electrical source when the electronic device is received by the first member.
US08917491B2
One object is to provide a porous capacitor having increased insulation reliability. In accordance with one aspect, the porous capacitor includes: a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer opposed to each other at a predetermined distance; a dielectric layer made of an oxidized valve metal and disposed between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer; a large number of holes formed through the dielectric layer and oriented substantially orthogonal to the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer; and first electrodes and second electrodes formed of a conductive material filled in the holes; and insulation parts insulating the first electrodes from the second conductor layer and insulating the second electrodes from the first conductor layer. The thicknesses of the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer are equal to or greater than half of the inner diameter of the holes.
US08917488B2
An exemplary embodiment includes a method for controlling dust in an electronic device. The method for controlling dust with respect to a computer system, including generating ions proximate to a first region of an electronic device and receiving the ions proximate to a second region of the electronic device, wherein dust particles are captured in the second region.
US08917478B2
A bearing device has two or more bearings each having an inner ring and an outer ring disposed on the same axis. A ring-shaped holder is disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring and has circumferentially spaced-apart rolling element pockets with a concave grease pocket between each two adjacent rolling element pockets. Rolling elements are disposed in a rollable manner in respective ones of the rolling element pockets and a grease is stored in the grease pockets, the grease serving as a lubricant of the rolling element. The grease consists of at least a base oil comprised of aromatic carbon and a thickener, the content of the aromatic hydrocarbon being 70 weight % or more of the grease.
US08917470B2
A method for detecting a data sequence includes generating a sample stream, which is a time-sequenced digital signal associated with samples of an analog signal. The sample stream is input to n equalization filter banks, which each have m equalization filters to generate m equalized sample streams. The m equalized sample streams from each equalization filter bank are input to a corresponding one of n noise predictive filters. Each noise predictive filter is an m-tap noise predictive filter that receives the m equalized sample streams from a corresponding one of the n equalization filter banks. Each noise predictive filter is associated with one of n data patterns. A filtered equalization stream is generated by each noise predictive filter. Noise sample streams are generated using the filtered equalization streams generated by the n noise predictive filters. A data sequence is detected using the noise sample streams.
US08917469B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of tracks defined by a plurality of servo sectors. An estimated track ID is generated and a plurality of proximate track IDs is generated having values proximate the estimated track ID. A set of Gray codes is generated each corresponding to the estimated track ID and the proximate track IDs, wherein each Gray code in the set of Gray codes comprises N bits, and M bits out of a high order of the N bits comprise the same value. A recorded Gray code is detected in a first servo sector to generate a detected Gray code, and an error in the detected Gray code is corrected by inverting at least one bit in the detected Gray code comprising a value that is different from the value of the corresponding bit in the M bits.
US08917465B1
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for implementing a power-on spin-torque oscillator (STO) oscillation checker to monitor STO resistance to identify STO oscillation with microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) hard disk drives (HDDs). A changing bias current is applied to the STO in the presence of constant write drive current. The STO bias current is changed to observe sudden changes in STO resistance monitored using a differentiator circuit to identify STO oscillation, used to ensure stable MAMR HDD write operation.
US08917462B2
An optical transmission module includes a light source element for emitting a predetermined light signal transmitted through an optical fiber, the light source element having lower characteristics in a low-temperature state than those in a high-temperature state, a driver circuit for driving the light source element, and a heat transfer member connected to each of the light source element and the driver circuit to transfer heat between the light source element and the driver circuit. The optical transmission module with such configuration can stably operate in a wide temperature range while achieving power saving and cost reduction.
US08917459B2
An ergonomic vertical redirection vision system comprises glasses or goggles with lenses modified to include a fresnel prism that vertically redirects light. The curved fresnel prism is a novel curved refractive element with unique advantages compared to a flat fresnel prism. The curved fresnel prism may be achromatized by the addition of an appropriate diffractive surface thereby creating a hybrid achromat or diffractive/refractive optical element (DROE). Looking through the modified eyewear will redirect the user's visual field up or down, depending on the configuration. Upward vision redirection improves ergonomics and aerodynamics for several sports including bicycle riding, swimming, downhill ski racing, and motorcycle racing. Downward vision redirection improves the ergonomics of reading a book, working on a laptop or pad computer, or taking notes in a class.
US08917451B2
A variable wavelength interference filter includes: a first reflective film disposed on a face of a first substrate facing a second substrate; a second reflective film disposed on a face of the second substrate facing the first substrate and the first reflective film; a first electrode disposed on the face of the first substrate; and a second electrode disposed on the face of the second substrate. The second substrate includes a movable portion on which the second reflective film is disposed and a connection maintaining portion maintaining the movable portion to be movable in a substrate thickness direction, the connection maintaining portion circumscribes the movable portion and is thinner than the movable portion, and the second electrode is disposed on a portion of the second substrate that is thicker than the connection maintaining portion.
US08917439B2
The present invention is directed to a color display comprising an electrophoretic fluid which comprises one or two types of pigment particles dispersed in a clear and colorless or clear and colored solvent, wherein said electrophoretic fluid is sandwiched between a common electrode and a plurality of driving electrodes. The driving electrodes are kept at a certain distance in order to expose a background layer.
US08917434B2
There is provided a vibrating mirror element capable of inhibiting flexural deformation of a support portion. This vibrating mirror element (100) includes a mirror portion (10), a deformable driving portion (41, 43, 45, 51, 53, 55), and a support portion (42, 44, 46, 52, 54, 56) connected with a first connecting portion (41c, 43d, 45d, 51c, 53d, 55d) of the driving portion on the side of a first end portion (42a, 44a, 46a, 52a, 54a, 56a), while the thickness of the support portion is larger than the thickness of the driving portion.
US08917431B2
A color filter with parallel, vertical color strips of the RGB base colors associated with the image separating element, the color strips repeating horizontally within the color filter in periodic fashion. The light modulator contains a sequence of two registered holograms for each base color interlaced into six pixel columns for a left observer eye and for a right observer eye, and the sequence is repeated horizontally in periodic fashion. The periods of the color filter and the hologram are arranged relative to one another with the same degree of expansion, with a color strip and at least two pixel columns with holograms of the base color of the color strip are associated with a separating element.
US08917429B2
A document illumination device includes a light-conducting member in which is formed a base surface that extends along a lengthwise direction, an irradiation surface that extends along the lengthwise direction and is tilted in the widthwise direction relative to the base surface, and a side surface that extends in the lengthwise direction and connects the base surface to the irradiation surface; a scattering member that is provided opposing the base surface and the side surface and that scatters light emitted from the base surface and the side surface; and a light source provided opposing a lengthwise direction-end surface of the light-conducting member.
US08917426B2
A technology that enables accurate position specification on an image displayed on a screen to perform processing and correction of the image data is provided. When the image is printed on a sheet on which a dot pattern is printed, a reference point of the image on the display device is set and the reference point is printed in a visible mark together with the image. This mark is imaged with an imaging means, and calibration is performed in which position coordinates of the marks on the sheet and the reference points of the image are matched, thereby preventing variation in coordinates between designation made on the sheet with the imaging means and processing on the image.
US08917418B2
An image recording apparatus includes: a conveying section that accelerates a long-length recording medium to a predetermined speed, conveys the long-length recording medium, and decelerates the long-length recording medium to a stopped state; a recording section that records an image on the recording medium, and forms a first test pattern on the recording medium after the image is recorded at a time of deceleration of the recording medium; a reading section that reads the image that the recording section has recorded and the first test pattern that the recording section has formed; an image converting section that converts inputted image data into image data that the recording section outputs; a maintenance section that performs maintenance of the recording section; and a controller that decides, on the basis of first data obtained by reading the first test pattern, whether or not the maintenance is needed and the content thereof.
US08917413B2
An image forming apparatus includes a power-state switching unit, a proxy-process executing unit, a proxy-generation-information transmission unit, and a printing-process take-over unit. The power-state switching unit switches among a plurality of power states including an ordinary state and a power-saving state. The proxy-process executing unit executes a proxy process, which is a proxy process to halfway through a printing process, to be executed by an external target unit. The proxy-generation-information transmission unit transmits proxy generation information to the target unit when the power of the target unit is in the ordinary state. The printing-process take-over unit takes over printing from halfway based on the received proxy generation information.
US08917406B2
As provided with a first reading section and a second reading section for reading both surfaces of a document, an image reading apparatus respectively calculates gamma correction values in gamma correcting sections and correction factors in color correcting sections, and corrects colors of criteria images being read by the first reading section and the second reading section in accordance with sample data stored on a storing section in order to substantially match the colors of both criteria images. In addition, the image reading apparatus utilizes an distinctive color range common for the both surfaces which defines a color about a distinguishing pattern, in order to determine whether images of both surfaces contain the distinguishing pattern or not.
US08917405B2
The graphics state of the second graphics data is determined when converting the first graphics data into the second graphics data and outputting the second graphics data to the second printer driver in accordance with a print instruction from the first application. Warning information is output in accordance with the determined graphics state of the second graphics data.
US08917401B2
A controlling device for a multi-function device may acquire specific function information for a specific service providing server from a first storage unit, and acquire specific use information for a specific user from a second storage unit. The controlling device may determine, by using the specific function information and the specific use information, whether or not a usable function exists. The controlling device may execute a process for the multi-function device to receive a service related to the usable function from the specific service providing server in a case where it is determined that the usable function exists, and execute a process for prohibiting the multi-function device to receive a service from the specific service providing server in a second case where h is determined that the usable function does not exist.
US08917382B2
An electric distance meter is downsized by using a condensing optical member having a small outer diameter (effective diameter) as a condensing optical member in a light-receiving optical system, reducing a focal length of the condensing optical member without reducing a spread angle to a light-receiving optical fiber and reducing a diameter of the light-receiving optical fiber. An optical distance meter emits outgoing light from a light source to an object, and receives reflection light R from the object by a light receiver, so as to perform distance measurement. The optical distance meter includes an emitting optical system which irradiates the object by the emission light via an objective lens and a light-receiving optical system which guides the reflection light via the objective lens to the light receiver, and a cone prism which changes a cross-section shape of a light beam without generating a transmission deflection angle is provided.
US08917377B2
An active lens includes: a first nanoelectrode unit; a second nanoelectrode unit formed to face the first nanoelectrode unit; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first nanoelectrode unit and the second nanoelectrode unit. Liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are aligned according to an electric field formed by a voltage applied to the first and second nanoelectrode units to form a refractive power.
US08917376B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a thin polarizing plate exhibiting a high contrast ratio. A polarizing plate of the present invention includes: a polarizer; a first protective layer provided on one side of the polarizer; and a second protective layer provided on the other side of the polarizer, wherein the first protective layer has a function of separating incident light into two polarized light components perpendicular to each other, transmitting one polarized light component, and reflecting the other polarized light component. Such a polarizing plate can exhibit a high contrast ratio, for example, in the case of being used in a liquid crystal display apparatus.
US08917372B2
A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
US08917365B2
A thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) array substrate comprising a gate line and a data line formed on a base substrate. The gate line and the data line intersect with each other to define a pixel region, in which a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor (TFT) are formed, and a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer are interposed between the gate line and the data line, and the pixel electrode is disposed between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A method of manufacturing a TFT-LCD is also disclosed.
US08917363B2
An anti-peeping privacy device is provided, including a polarizing element, a liquid crystal member and a diffusing element. The liquid crystal member is disposed on the polarizing element. The diffusing element is disposed on the liquid crystal member, comprising a transparent layer and a liquid crystal layer. The transparent layer having a refractive index and adjacent to the liquid crystal member includes a plurality of concave-convex stripe microstructures on the top side thereof, wherein the plurality of concave-convex stripe microstructure is arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to the polarized light. The liquid crystal layer disposed on the concave-convex stripe microstructures of the transparent resin layer.
US08917362B2
A touch-sensitive display device has an active display area and a non-active area and includes a touch-sensitive unit, a display unit and a liquid optical adhesive. The touch-sensitive unit has a touch-sensitive region substantially overlapping the active display area, and the display unit is disposed on one side of the touch-sensitive unit. The liquid optical adhesive is disposed between the touch-sensitive unit and the display unit to combine the touch-sensitive unit with the display unit, and an outer edge of the liquid optical adhesive is located in the non-active area of the touch-sensitive display device.
US08917335B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which captures image data of an object, a zoom image data generating unit which generates items of zoom image data having different zoom magnifications, a display control unit which displays through images on a display unit based on the items of the generated zoom image data, a selection unit which selects one of the zoom magnifications by selecting one of the through images displayed on the display unit, and a recording control unit which records image data corresponding to the selected zoom magnification in a storing medium.
US08917328B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a casing; a posture detection unit detecting whether a posture of the casing is a vertical posture; an imaging unit capturing an image of a subject and outputting the captured image; an image transform unit transforming the captured image into a horizontally and vertically transformed image with the same size as that of the captured image by rotating the captured image so as to reverse its horizontal and vertical sides and further reducing the captured image; a recording reproduction unit recording image data generated from the captured image; and a control unit controlling the image transform unit and the recording reproduction unit to generate the image data from the horizontally and vertically transformed image instead of the captured image, when the posture of the casing is the vertical posture.
US08917327B1
An actuator is configured to move a sensor array between first and second positions in order to provide color image data and other data with full resolution of the sensor array. In many embodiments, the output resolution of the sensor array for each type of data comprises twice the resolution of the sensor array without movement. The alternating movement of the sensor array between the first and second positions provides output images with decreased artifacts that might otherwise be present without the alternating movement of the sensor array.
US08917301B2
There is provided a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape which includes a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed by using any of different types of adhesive samples. Thereby the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is adjusted so as to satisfy conditions that, slow peel strength when a printing tape made of a PET film is peeled off from the substrate film of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape by 5 mm at peel rate of 0.5 mm/minute is 0.45 N/20 mm or higher and storage modulus of the adhesive layer is in a range from 90.7 kPa to 435 kPa. By improving adhesiveness to the printing tape under environmental temperature from a low temperature to a normal temperature, the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive layer renders the printing tape less apt to peel off.
US08917299B2
An erasing device includes a line scanner on an upstream side in a recording medium conveying direction, includes a thermal head downstream in the recording medium conveying direction of the line scanner, and includes a platen in a position opposed to the thermal head as a heating device across a recording medium conveying path. The erasing device causes the heat generating elements of the thermal head in positions corresponding to color and density sensors in positions of an image detected by the line scanner to generate heat. The erasing device controls, according to detected colors or density, a quantity of heat to be generated.
US08917298B2
An apparatus for drawing an image on a thermal medium includes a stroke group generating unit configured to group continuous strokes forming the image of a desired character to be drawn to generate one or more stroke groups of the continuous strokes, a first overlapped part removing unit configured to detect a first overlapped part between a first combination of the strokes associated with the same stroke group to remove the first overlapped part in an arranged order of the strokes within the same stroke group, and a second overlapped part removing unit configured to detect a second overlapped part between a second combination of the strokes associated with plural of the stroke groups to remove the second overlapped part from the stroke groups.
US08917292B2
A display system for a working machine displays warning information while also displaying a high-quality camera image. The display redisplays a reduced camera image at a reduction scale of 60% according to an abnormality information signal. An open area 44 outside the area displaying the camera image. The display control device displays a warning icon (large size), corresponding to abnormality information regarding a filter of a DPF device, in the open area. The operator recognizes the warning and immediately stops the operation, moves to a place where the filter regeneration is possible while checking the safety of the surroundings by viewing the camera image, and then carries out the filter regeneration. After finishing, the operator confirms that the warning icon has disappeared, moves to the site of the operation while checking the safety of the surroundings by viewing the camera image (for normal times), and then restarts the operation.
US08917289B2
A mobile device, a method in a mobile device, a server and a method in a server for augmented reality.
US08917281B2
An image rendering method is provided, comprising comparing a current image frame with a previous image frame to detect a dynamic change in an object in the image frames, with each image frame being defined by a scene graph and each object having an associated geometric bounding volume. If a dynamic change in an object is detected, the method comprises rendering the object's geometric bounding volume to a stencil buffer for each dynamically changed object, using a stencil value assigned to the current image frame. A stencil is then applied to determine areas in the frames having non-zero stencil values. The method further comprises clearing a color buffer with respect to the areas in the previous image frame that have been redrawn and with respect to areas in the current frame that need to be overdrawn, rendering the image frame to the color buffer using a stencil test, so that only the areas with non-zero stencil values are redrawn, and then removing the stencil values from a previous image frame from the stencil buffer.
US08917268B2
A method for automatically displaying an organ of interest includes accessing a series of medical images acquired from a first imaging modality, receiving an input that indicates an organ of interest, automatically detecting the organ of interest within at least one image in the series of medical images, automatically placing a visual indicator in the region of interest, and automatically propagating the visual indicator to at least one image that is acquired using a second different imaging modality. A medical imaging system and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also described herein.
US08917267B2
A display device is provided with a display section; a drive section driving the display section; and a light shutter control section controlling a light shutter. The display section is configured to display first and second images on the display section during a specific period. The drive section is configured to allow perceiving an image only from a direction in a specific viewing angle range at least during the specific period. The light shutter control section controls the light shutter so that the light shutter is placed into a transmitting state allowing transmitting light during a period during which the first image is displayed in the specific period and placed into a shielding state shielding light during a remaining period in the specific period. The first and second images are generated so that an image generated by adding brightnesses of respective pixels of the first and second images has no correlation to the first image.
US08917266B2
A timing controller that includes a noise detection circuit and a setting control unit. The noise detection circuit includes a detection unit and a reset signal generating unit. The detection unit outputs a detection signal having a first logic level based on at least one of a plurality of reference data toggling asynchronous with a clock signal. The reset signal generating unit outputs a reset signal having a second logic level based on the detection signal. The setting control unit stores setting data and initializes the setting data in response to the reset signal having the first logic level, and the setting data are used to process red, green and blue (RGB) image data.
