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20110299564 | DYNAMIC ESTIMATION OF CELL CORE TEMPERATURE BY SIMPLE EXTERNAL MEASUREMENTS - Methods and systems for dynamically estimating the core temperature of at least one cell in a battery during an operative period. The method includes receiving by at least one controller the surface temperature, the current, the voltage, the state of charge, and the period of time from the initiation of a rest period to the termination of the rest period, determining an initial value of the lumped internal resistance of the at least one cell, determining subsequent values of the lumped internal resistance recursively in real-time based on the initial value, the current, and the voltage, and determining the core temperature of the at least one cell based on the surface temperature, the current, the obtained time, and the lumped internal resistance. The system for dynamically estimating the core temperature of the cells in a battery includes a plurality of sensors configured to transmit signals related to surface temperature, current, and voltage of the battery, a timing device configured to transmit signals related to the period of time from the initiation of a rest period to the termination of the rest period, and a control system, wherein the control system comprises a memory device and a controller. | 12-08-2011 |
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20090001014 | Composite caustic silica gel manufacturing method and gels made thereby - New silica gel materials and novel methods of producing such are provided. The method itself entails a manner of mixing the reactants together in a one-pot process such that the time required for aging is reduced without compromising the ability to target pore size production. In such a way, the pH of the reaction drives pore size development, thereby permitting a more efficient process to be followed in terms of expensive drying/heating steps being reduced timewise, if not altogether. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the resultant gel materials exhibit a certain pore size minimum while simultaneously exhibiting a degree of softness heretofore unavailable. As such, not only is this novel method more efficient in silica gel manufacture, but the resultant materials are completely novel as well. The gel materials made therefrom may be utilized in a variety of different end uses, such as cooking oil filtration, soft skin cleansers, dental abrasives, and the like. Methods of production and use, as well as the novel gel materials themselves, particularly caustic and composite gels, are thus encompassed within this invention. | 01-01-2009 |
20090004089 | Silica gel manufacturing method and gels made thereby - New silica gel materials and novel methods of producing such are provided. The method itself entails a manner of mixing the reactants together in a one-pot process such that the time required for aging is reduced without compromising the ability to target pore size production. In such a way, the pH of the reaction drives pore size development, thereby permitting a more efficient process to be followed in terms of expensive drying/heating steps being reduced timewise, if not altogether. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the resultant gel materials exhibit a certain pore size minimum while simultaneously exhibiting a degree of softness heretofore unavailable. As such, not only is this novel method more efficient in silica gel manufacture, but the resultant materials are completely novel as well. The gel materials made therefrom may be utilized in a variety of different end uses, such as cooking oil filtration, soft skin cleansers, dental abrasives, and the like. Methods of production and use, as well as the novel gel materials themselves, particularly caustic and composite gels, are thus encompassed within this invention. | 01-01-2009 |
20090071895 | Caustic silica gel manufacturing method and gels made thereby - New silica gel materials and novel methods of producing such are provided. The method itself entails a manner of mixing the reactants together in a one-pot process such that the time required for aging is reduced without compromising the ability to target pore size production. In such a way, the pH of the reaction drives pore size development, thereby permitting a more efficient process to be followed in terms of expensive drying/heating steps being reduced timewise, if not altogether. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the resultant gel materials exhibit a certain pore size minimum while simultaneously exhibiting a degree of softness heretofore unavailable. As such, not only is this novel method more efficient in silica gel manufacture, but the resultant materials are completely novel as well. The gel materials made therefrom may be utilized in a variety of different end uses, such as cooking oil filtration, soft skin cleansers, dental abrasives, and the like. Methods of production and use, as well as the novel gel materials themselves, particularly caustic and composite gels, are thus encompassed within this invention. | 03-19-2009 |
20090101015 | Filtration Media for the Removal of Mercury From Flue Gas Emissions - Filtration materials comprising heat-treated metal-doped precipitated silica or silica gel materials with sulfur-containing functional silane surface treatments are provided. Such materials exhibit excellent mercury removal properties from flue gas emissions through the trapping of mercury vapors within a smokestack (or other like site). The metal dopant and the sulfur-containing functional silane components applied to the surface of the target metal-doped gels effectuate the desired mercury reactions to permit capture thereof. In combination, such components permit versatile utilization in either a fixed bed configuration or through a dynamic mercury removal procedure. Methods of using and specific filter apparatuses are also encompassed within this invention. | 04-23-2009 |
20090196929 | Silica Wetcake Treatment Method - New methods of treating silica wetcake during precipitated silica materials manufacturing are provided. Such methods permit a significant increase in high solids content processing while simultaneously reducing high viscosity of the resultant particles for transport facilitation. The resultant precipitated silica wetcake is treated with a borate-containing dispersant to impart the necessary low viscosity characteristics thereto. Such a dispersant accords not only such a viscosity result, but will not char or otherwise discolor the silica particles during evaporation of the liquids within the wetcake itself. Furthermore, such a dispersant, if left on the surfaces of such particles, will not deleteriously affect the abrasivity, fluoride compatibility, or other dentifrice properties of the precipitated silica materials themselves. Also encompassed within this invention are the resultant precipitated silica particles exhibiting borate residues and dentifrices including such materials. | 08-06-2009 |
20090297459 | TRANSPARENT SILICA GEL/PRECIPITATED SILICA COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR DENTIFRICES - A gel/precipitate silica composite for use in a dentifrice composition has a maximum light transmission of at least 25% within a refractive index range of from about 1.432 to about 1.455; a relative flavor availability as compared to silica sand of at least 50%; a CTAB of less than about 40; and, when incorporated into a dentifrice composition in an amount of 20% by weight, said dentifrice has a RDA (Relative Dentin Abrasion) value of at most 130; a PCR (Pellicle Cleaning Ratio):RDA ratio of from 0.7 to 1.3; and a haze value after 24 hours of less than about 50%. | 12-03-2009 |
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20140243341 | BROAD-SPECTRUM ANTIVIRALS AGAINST 3C OR 3C-LIKE PROTEASES OF PICORNAVIRUS-LIKE SUPERCLUSTER: PICORNAVIRUSES, CALICIVIRUSES AND CORONAVIRUSES - Antiviral protease inhibitors, including peptidyl aldehydes, peptidyl α-ketoamides, peptidyl bisulfite salts, and peptidyl heterocycles, are disclosed, along with related antiviral compounds, and methods of using the same to treat or prevent viral infection and disease. The compounds possess broad-spectrum activity against viruses that belong to the picornavirus-like supercluster, which include important human and animal pathogens including noroviruses, enteroviruses, poliovirus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, hepatitis A virus, human rhinovirus (cause of common cold), human coronavirus (another cause of common cold), transmissible gastroenteritis virus, murine hepatitis virus, feline infectious peritonitis virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. | 08-28-2014 |
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20090143425 | COMPOUNDS AFFECTING GAP JUNCTION ACTIVITY - This invention relates to novel quinoline compounds which affect gap junction activity. Also provided are methods of using such compounds and compositions containing the compounds to treat gap junction disorders. | 06-04-2009 |
20100222432 | Synthetic Carbon Nanotubes - Methods to prepare synthetic carbon nanotubes having controllable properties and synthetic carbon nanotubes having controllable properties are provided. The properties which are controllable using the methods provided here include independently and in combination: diameter, length, identity and number of functional groups present and identity and number of heteroatoms present. | 09-02-2010 |
20110008304 | USE OF CELLS TO FACILITATE TARGETED DELIVERY OF NANOPARTICLE THERAPIES - The present invention is related to the use of cells, such as stem cells or immune system cells, to deliver nanogels comprising an active agent to a desired site in the body. The present invention utilizes cells as a delivery system for active agents that are difficult to deliver, such as active agents with poor solubility, that degrade easily, or that are toxic to the body. The nanogels are preferably non-toxic and can optionally include a lytic agent to program apoptosis of the cell to deliver the nanogel and active agent to a desired sire within the body. | 01-13-2011 |
20140135404 | SESQUITERPENES FOR ANTIFUNGAL APPLICATIONS - Bicyclic sesquiterpene compounds exhibiting antifungal characteristics are formulated into antifungal compositions for use in the treatment of fungal infections in humans, animals, and plants. Particularly, sesquiterpene alcohols derived from drimane have been discovered to possess broad-spectrum antifungal characteristics. Exemplary antifungal sesquiterpene compounds include albicanol and drimenol, which have been shown effective against a number of pathogenic fungi. | 05-15-2014 |
20150119406 | TRICYCLIC PYRONE COMPOUNDS REDUCE AMYLOID BETA AGGREGATES - Tricyclic pyrone compounds having high oral bioavailability, excellent blood-brain barrier permeability, and low toxicity are presented. Administration of the compounds to Alzheimer's Disease transgenic models resulted in substantially reduced soluble and insoluble Aβ species in the brain without affecting general behavior and motor coordination. Furthermore, in addition to blocking the toxicity and formation of both intraneuronal and extracellular Aβ aggregates, the compounds also increase cellular cholesterol efflux, restore axonal trafficking, and enhance hippocampal synaptic plasticity. | 04-30-2015 |
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20080291962 | BANDWIDTH-LIMITED AND LONG PULSE MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER OSCILLATOR LASER SYSTEMS - Laser systems have a line-narrowed master oscillator and a power oscillator for amplifying the output of the master oscillator. The power oscillator includes optical arrangements for limiting the bandwidth of radiation that can be amplified. The limited amplification bandwidth of the power oscillator is relatively broad compared to that of the output of the master oscillator, but narrower than would be the case without the bandwidth limiting arrangements. The bandwidth narrowing arrangements of the power oscillator function primarily to restrict the bandwidth of amplified spontaneous emission generated by the power oscillator. | 11-27-2008 |
20090004918 | RF SHIELDED, SERIES INDUCTOR, HIGH RF POWER IMPEDANCE MATCHING INTERCONNECTOR FOR CO2 SLAB LASER - A RF shielded, series inductor, high power impedance matching network interconnector is provided for connecting an RF power supply to electrodes contained in the shielded, hermetically sealed laser tube housing of a slab laser system. The impedance matching interconnector comprises a short length of co-axial conductor and an impedance matching network that includes two L shaped networks. The inner conductor of the co-axial conductor is connected between the power supply output and the impedance matching network. The outer conductor of the co-axial conductor is grounded. The co-axial conductor has an impedance characteristic to match the power supply output impedance. The first L-shaped network includes a first inductor having a first end connected to the inner conductor of the co-axial conductor and a first capacitor connected to the second end of the first inductor and a second plate connected to ground. The second L shaped network includes a second inductor having a first end connected to the common connection between the second end of the first inductor and the first plate of the first capacitor and a second capacitor having a first plate connected to the second end of the second inductor and a second plate connected to ground. The common connection between the second end of the second inductor and the first plate of the second capacitor is connected through the shielded, hermetically sealed laser tube housing to the electrodes of the slab laser system. The two L-shaped networks may be implemented in a “single capacitor” configuration for lower power applications or in a “multi-capacitor” configuration for higher power applications. | 01-01-2009 |
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20100309945 | BANDWIDTH-LIMITED AND LONG PULSE MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER OSCILLATOR LASER SYSTEMS - Laser systems have a line-narrowed master oscillator and a power oscillator for amplifying the output of the master oscillator. The power oscillator includes optical arrangements for limiting the bandwidth of radiation that can be amplified. The limited amplification bandwidth of the power oscillator is relatively broad compared to that of the output of the master oscillator, but narrower than would be the case without the bandwidth limiting arrangements. The bandwidth narrowing arrangements of the power oscillator function primarily to restrict the bandwidth of amplified spontaneous emission generated by the power oscillator. | 12-09-2010 |
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20150083698 | VIA-HOLE DRILLING IN A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD USING A CARBON MONOXIDE LASER - Apparatus for drilling a via-hole in a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a carbon monoxide laser deliver laser radiation pulses. The pulses have a relatively broad wavelength-range, and slow rising and falling edges. The rising and falling edges of the pulses are clipped using and acousto-optic modulator. A dispersion-compensator compensates for dispersion in the clipped pulses introduced by the AOM. Achromatic focusing optics focus the dispersion-compensated, clipped pulses on the PCB for the via-hole drilling. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100002154 | POLARIZED HEAD-MOUNTED PROJECTION DISPLAY - An image display system and associated method for image displaying The system includes an image source configured to generate image light, projection optics configured to project the image light, and a polarizing beam splitter optically coupled to the projection optics and configured to propagate into a first optical path first polarized light having a first polarization and to propagate into a second optical path second polarized light having a second polarization The system includes a quarter wave converter disposed in the first optical path and configured to rotate the first polarization by a quarter phase as the first polarized light first passes through the quarter wave converter, and includes a reflective screen disposed in the first optical path and configured to reflect rotated first polarized light from the quarter wave converter back through the quarter wave converter for further quarter phase rotation. | 01-07-2010 |
20110037951 | HEAD-MOUNTED PROJECTION DISPLAY USING REFLECTIVE MICRODISPLAYS - The present invention relates generally to a head-mounted projection display, and more particularly, but not exclusively to a polarized head-mounted projection display including a light engine and a compact, high-performance projection lens for use with reflective microdisplays. | 02-17-2011 |
20110075257 | 3-Dimensional electro-optical see-through displays - An exemplary display is placed in an optical pathway extending from an entrance pupil of a person's eye to a real-world scene beyond the eye. The display includes at least one 2-D added-image source that is addressable to produce a light pattern corresponding to a virtual object. The source is situated to direct the light pattern toward the person's eye to superimpose the virtual object on an image of the real-world scene as perceived by the eye via the optical pathway. An active-optical element is situated between the eye and the added-image source at a location that is optically conjugate to the entrance pupil and at which the active-optical element forms an intermediate image of the light pattern from the added-image source. The active-optical element has variable optical power and is addressable to change its optical power to produce a corresponding change in perceived distance at which the intermediate image is formed, as an added image to the real-world scene, relative to the eye. | 03-31-2011 |
20120162549 | Ergonomic Head Mounted Display Device And Optical System - This invention concerns an ergonomic optical see-through head mounted display device with an eyeglass appearance. The see-through head-mounted display device consists of a transparent, freeform waveguide prism for viewing a displayed virtual image, a see-through compensation lens for enabling proper viewing of a real-world scene when combined together with the prism, and a miniature image display unit for supplying display content. The freeform waveguide prism, containing multiple freeform refractive and reflective surfaces, guides light originated from the miniature display unit toward a user's pupil and enables a user to view a magnified image of the displayed content. A see-through compensation lens, containing multiple freeform refractive surfaces, enables proper viewing of the surrounding environment, through the combined waveguide and lens. The waveguide prism and the see-through compensation lens are properly designed to ergonomically fit human heads enabling a wraparound design of a lightweight, compact, and see-through display system. | 06-28-2012 |
20130187836 | WIDE ANGLE AND HIGH RESOLUTION TILED HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE - A tiled head-mounted display device comprises an optical component including a plurality of prisms with free-form surfaces, and a display component including a plurality of micro-displays ( | 07-25-2013 |
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20140009845 | OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH FREE-FORM HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A see-through free-form head-mounted display including a wedge-shaped prism-lens having free-form surfaces and low F-number is provided. | 01-09-2014 |
20140177023 | APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY WITH MUTUAL OCCLUSION AND OPAQUENESS CONTROL CAPABILITY - The present invention comprises a compact optical see-through head-mounted display capable of combining, a see-through image path with a virtual image path such that the opaqueness of the see-through image path can be modulated and the virtual image occludes parts of the see-through image and vice versa. | 06-26-2014 |
20140218468 | WIDE-FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) IMAGING DEVICES WITH ACTIVE FOVEATION CAPABILITY - The present invention comprises a foveated imaging system capable of capturing a wide field of view image and a foveated image, where the foveated image is a controllable region of interest of the wide field of view image. | 08-07-2014 |
20140361957 | COMPACT EYE-TRACKED HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - Eye-tracked head-mounted displays are provide which, in one aspect, may utilize the same optics for eyetracking and image viewing, with a selected portion of the optics used for an eyetracking optical path and a selected portion of the display optics used for an image viewing optical path. | 12-11-2014 |
20150277129 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS WITH ADDRESSABLE FOCUS CUES - The present invention relates generally to stereoscopic displays, and more particularly, but not exclusively, to stereoscopic displays with addressable focus cues. A stereoscopic display system with the addressable focus cues, comprises: a microdisplay for providing a virtual image for display to a user; a reflective active optical element configured to provide a variable optical power; a relay lens disposed along an optical path between the microdisplay and the active optical element, the relay lens positioned therebetween such that the microdisplay and the active optical element are disposed at conjugate planes of the relay lens; a beamsplitter disposed along the optical path between the microdisplay and the active optical element at an orientation to receive optical radiation from the active optical element; and a see-through eyepiece comprising a selected surface configured to receive optical radiation from the beamsplitter and reflect the received radiation to an exit pupil of the system to provide a virtual display path, the selected surface also configured to receive optical radiation from a source other than the microdisplay and to transmit such optical radiation to the exit pupil to provide a see-through optical path. | 10-01-2015 |
20160085074 | WIDE ANGLE AND HIGH RESOLUTION TILED HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE - A tiled head-mounted display device, comprising: an optical component including a plurality of prisms with free-form surfaces, each prism being a wedge prism comprising a first optical surface, a second optical surface and a third optical surface; and a display component including a plurality of micro-displays, wherein the number of the micro-displays and the number of the prisms with free-form surfaces is identical. The tiled head-mounted display device according to the present invention is compact and light, provides wide field of view and high resolution, especially for the optical tiling head-mounted display device, the exit pupil planes of each display channels are coincident, thus avoiding pupil aberration and keeping exit pupil diameter and eye clearance same as the single ocular. There is no resolution variance throughout the entire field of view, thus preventing extra trapezoid distortion. The tiled head-mounted display device according to the present invention can be readily applicable to augmented environments applications by simply adding an auxiliary free-form lens behind the free-form prism. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085075 | OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH FREE-FORM HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A see-through free-form head-mounted display including a wedge-shaped prism-lens having free-form surfaces and low F-number is provided. | 03-24-2016 |
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20090328032 | PROJECTING SOFTWARE AND DATA ONTO CLIENT - A software application written for a server environment is transformed into one which runs in a rich client environment. An entity model defines data sources as they are accessed from the server and as they are accessed from the clients. An application programming interface defines stereotyped interfaces which provide the same functionality on the server and the clients. A metadata model describes the components which make up the application and defines the differences in structure between the server and clients. The metadata model also defines mappings between components used on the server and clients. Settings and context information which tailor the activation and functionality of the components is also captured in the metadata model. Automated transformation is performed by using the mappings to identify the component set to use for the clients, selecting the client version of the application programming interfaces, and selecting the appropriate settings and context information. | 12-31-2009 |
20100042604 | Deployment of a Solution Artifact to a Client Application - Technologies are described herein for deploying a solution artifact to a client-side application. In one method, an instruction to deploy the solution artifact to the client-side application program is received. Upon receiving the instruction, a determination is made whether a package associated with the solution artifact and the client-side application program was generated. Upon determining that the package was generated, a determination is made whether the package is current. Upon determining that the package is not current or that the package was not generated, the package is generated based on the solution artifact and the client-side application program. Upon determining that the package is current or upon generating the package, the package is deployed to the client-side application program. | 02-18-2010 |
20100318967 | SUPPLEMENTARY DEPLOYMENT ACTIONS - A system and method for enabling supplementary deployment actions to be performed in conjunction with a deployment of an application version. A deployment manager may download one or more supplementary deployment action (SDA) components to a user application cache. In conjunction with performing deployment actions, SDA components may be invoked from the user application cache or from a global application cache. The SDA components may perform actions specific to the application or version of the application, including actions not preconfigured in the deployment manager. An SDA component may be invoked prior to or after the deployment manager performs deployment actions. If an SDA component fails, SDA components that succeeded may be automatically invoked to roll back their actions. SDA components may be used to perform a first install, an update, a roll back, or an uninstall. SDA components may have the privileges of the application and the user corresponding to the user application cache. | 12-16-2010 |
20130191880 | DOCUMENT COMMUNICATION RUNTIME INTERFACES - A set of protocols support a common script object model for document interaction that crosses document types and runtime environments. A cross frame browser-based protocol may provide a secure, scalable, and asynchronous mechanism for transmitting script object model requests to document hosts and managing responses to developer code in standards-compliant browsers. A hostable runtime Application Programming Interface (API) may provide a secure, scalable, and asynchronous protocol to transmit script object model requests across process boundaries to document hosts back to developer code with minimum performance impact on the document host. | 07-25-2013 |
20140123130 | DEPLOYMENT OF A SOLUTION ARTIFACT TO A CLIENT APPLICATION - Technologies are described herein for deploying a solution artifact to a client-side application. In one method, an instruction to deploy the solution artifact to the client-side application program is received. Upon receiving the instruction, a determination is made whether a package associated with the solution artifact and the client-side application program was generated. Upon determining that the package was generated, a determination is made whether the package is current. Upon determining that the package is not current or that the package was not generated, the package is generated based on the solution artifact and the client-side application program. Upon determining that the package is current or upon generating the package, the package is deployed to the client-side application program. | 05-01-2014 |
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20110292990 | MULTIPLE-INPUT, ON-CHIP OSCILLOSCOPE - An integrated circuit that includes a receive data path is described. The receive data path: equalizes a received analog signal, converts the resulting equalized analog signal to digital data values based on a clock signal, and recovers the clock signal in the digital data values. The integrated circuit also includes an on-chip oscilloscope. The oscilloscope includes: two comparators, a phase rotator that outputs an oscilloscope clock signal whose phase can be varied relative to that of the recovered clock signal, and an offset circuit that outputs a voltage offset. Based on the voltage offset and the oscilloscope clock signal, the comparators output digital values which can be used to determine eye patterns that correspond to the analog signal before and after equalization. The eye patterns can then be correlated with an error rate associated with the received data. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302452 | CIRCUITRY TO FACILITATE TESTING OF SERIAL INTERFACES - Circuitry to facilitate testing of serial interfaces is described. Specifically, some embodiments of the present invention facilitate testing the clock and data recovery functionality of a receiver. A serial interface can include a multiplying phase locked loop (MPLL) clock generator, a transmitter, and a receiver. The MPLL clock generator can generate a first clock signal and a second clock signal, and can vary a phase and/or frequency difference between the first clock signal and the second clock signal. During test, the transmitter and the receiver can be directly or capacitively coupled to each another. Specifically, during test, the serial interface can be configured so that the transmitter transmits data using the first clock signal, and the receiver receives data using the second clock signal. The clock and data recovery functionality of the receiver can be tested by comparing the transmitted data with the received data. | 12-08-2011 |
20110309857 | CIRCUITRY FOR MATCHING THE UP AND DOWN IMPEDANCES OF A VOLTAGE-MODE TRANSMITTER - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a voltage-mode transmitter. The transmitter can include configuration circuitry, bias circuitry, and a set of driver slices. Each driver slice can include driver transistors which drive an output value. The outputs of each driver slice can be directly or capacitively coupled with the transmitter's outputs. Each driver slice can also include one or more impedance-matching transistors which are serially coupled to at least some of the driver transistors. The configuration circuitry can configure a subset of driver slices so that the down (or up) impedance of the transmitter is within a first tolerance of a desired impedance value. The bias circuitry can bias the one or more impedance-matching transistors in each driver slice in the subset of driver slices so that the up (or down) impedance is within a second tolerance of the down (or up) impedance. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ADAPTIVE EQUALIZATION - Systems and techniques for adapting and/or optimizing an equalizer of a receiver are described. The equalizer's behavior can be adjusted by modifying one or more equalization parameters. At the beginning of the adaptation and/or optimization process, the system can determine robust initial values for the one or more equalization parameters. The system can then adapt and/or optimize the equalizer by iteratively adjusting the one or more equalization parameters. Specifically, in each iteration, the system can use the receiver's clock and data recovery (CDR) circuitry to determine the number of early and late data transitions associated with one or more data patterns. Next, the system can adjust the one or more equalization parameters so that, for each data pattern in the one or more data patterns, the ratio between the number of early data transitions and the number of late data transitions is substantially equal to a desired value. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311009 | PATTERN AGNOSTIC ON-DIE SCOPE - An on-die scope is described. The on-die scope can include one or more scope slicers, phase sweeping circuitry, voltage sweeping circuitry, and eye-diagram data collection circuitry. The clock and data recovery circuitry can receive an input signal, and output a recovered clock signal and a recovered bit-stream. The phase sweeping circuitry can receive the recovered clock signal, and output the scope clock signal by adding a phase offset to the recovered clock signal. A scope slicer can receive the voltage threshold, the scope clock signal, and the input signal, and output a scope bit-stream. The eye-diagram data collection circuitry can detect one or more bit-patterns in the recovered bit-stream, and modify values of one or more scope counters based solely or partly on the scope bit-stream and the recovered bit-stream. | 12-22-2011 |
20140346634 | ON-CHIP INDUCTORS WITH REDUCED AREA AND RESISTANCE - An integrated circuit that includes an on-chip inductor wrapped around an interface pad. On-chip inductors are arranged around an interface pad to reduce the area occupied by the inductor. Furthermore, arranging the on-chip inductors in an upper level metal layer, such us the redistribution layer (RDL), the top metal interconnect layer (MTop), or the second-to-top metal interconnect layer (MTop-1) reduces the on-chip inductor parasitic resistance, reducing the loss of signal. | 11-27-2014 |
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20090151830 | TIRE WITH TREAD RUBBER COMPOSITION WHICH CONTAINS DUAL SILICA MOIETIES - The invention relates to a tire having a tread of a cured rubber composition which contains dual silica moieties in a sense of containing both hydrophilic precipitated silica and in situ hydrophobated precipitated silica. | 06-18-2009 |
20090151831 | TIRE WITH TREAD RUBBER COMPOSITION WHICH CONTAINS DUAL SILICA MOIETIES - The invention relates to a tire having a tread of a cured rubber composition which contains dual silica moieties in a sense of containing both hydrophilic precipitated silica and in situ hydrophobated precipitated silica. | 06-18-2009 |
20100190885 | TIRE WITH RUBBER COMPONENT CONTAINING SILICA AND USE OF COMBINATION OF BLOCKED AND UNBLOCKED ALKOXYORGANOMERCAPTOSILANE COUPLING AGENTS - The invention relates to a tire having at least one component of a rubber composition comprised of at least one conjugated diene-based elastomer which contains silica reinforcement together with use of a combination of coupling agents for the silica. The coupling agent combination is comprised of blocked alkoxyorganomercaptosilane and unblocked alkoxyorganomercaptosilane coupling agents. Such tire component may be, for example, a tire tread. | 07-29-2010 |
20150096654 | RUBBERY BLEND CONTAINING TRANS ISOPRENE-BUTADIENE COPOLYMER - The subject invention is directed towards tire components which are comprised of rubber compositions which are comprised of (1) about 2 phr to about 45 phr of a trans-1,4-isoprene-butadiene copolymer which has about 4 weight percent to about 16 weight percent butadiene repeat units and from about 84 weight percent to about 96 weight percent isoprene repeat units, wherein the trans-1,4-isoprene-butadiene copolymer has a Mooney ML 1+4 viscosity which is within the range of about 35 to about 80; and (2) about 55 phr to about 98 phr of at least one other elastomer, preferably a diene based elastomer. The most preferred tire components are those which contain cord reinforcements and require adequate green strength to enhance the tire building and shaping process to maintain cord integrity in the final cured tire. | 04-09-2015 |
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20100266215 | VARIABLE-STRIDE STREAM SEGMENTATION AND MULTI-PATTERN MATCHING - A variable-stride multi-pattern matching apparatus segments patterns and input streams into variable-size blocks according to a modified winnowing algorithm. The variable-stride pattern segments are used to determine the block-symbol alphabet for a variable-stride discrete finite automaton (VS-DFA) that is used for detecting the patterns in the input streams. Applications include network-intrusion detection and protection systems, genome matching, and forensics. The modification of the winnowing algorithm includes using special hash values to determine the position of delimiters of the patterns and input streams. The delimiters mark the beginnings and ends of the segments. In various embodiments, the patterns are segmented into head, core, and tail blocks. The approach provides for memory, memory-bandwidth, and processor-cycle efficient, deterministic, high-speed, line-rate pattern matching. | 10-21-2010 |
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20140105488 | LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PAGE INDEX SELECTION - Architecture that performs image page index selection. A learning-based framework learns a statistical model based on the hyperlink (URL-uniform resource locator) previous click information obtained from the image search users. The learned model can combine the features of a newly discovered URL to predict the possibility of the newly-discovered URL being clicked in the future image search. In addition to existing web index selection features, image clicks are added as features, and the image clicks are aggregated over different URL segments, as well as the site modeling pattern trees to reduce the sparse problem of the image click information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140129490 | IMAGE URL-BASED JUNK DETECTION - Architecture that includes a junk (unwanted) image detection algorithm which performs junk image detection of unwanted images before the images are actually downloaded for indexing. Features are employed related to image location information and host websites, such as image path descriptor (e.g., URL-uniform resource locator) pattern features, webpage content features, click features, and image aggregated information in a machine learning based framework to predict the probability that an image is unwanted (or wanted) before the images are downloaded. The framework is then applied to build a statistical model and predict junk scores. By removing image URLs marked as “junk” from the work list of an automated indexer (e.g., crawler), the indexer bandwidth is significantly improved with a corresponding improvement in the publish rate. | 05-08-2014 |
20150317389 | Learning Multimedia Semantics from Large-Scale Unstructured Data - Systems and methods for learning topic models from unstructured data and applying the learned topic models to recognize semantics for new data items are described herein. In at least one embodiment, a corpus of multimedia data items associated with a set of labels may be processed to generate a refined corpus of multimedia data items associated with the set of labels. Such processing may include arranging the multimedia data items in clusters based on similarities of extracted multimedia features and generating intra-cluster and inter-cluster features. The intra-cluster and the inter-cluster features may be used for removing multimedia data items from the corpus to generate the refined corpus. The refined corpus may be used for training topic models for identifying labels. The resulting models may be stored and subsequently used for identifying semantics of a multimedia data item input by a user. | 11-05-2015 |
20150332124 | NEAR-DUPLICATE VIDEO RETRIEVAL - A similarity of a first video to a second video may be identified automatically. Images are received from the videos, and divided into sub-images. The sub-images are evaluated based on a feature common to each of the sub-images. Binary representations of the images may be created based on the evaluation of the sub-images. A similarity of the first video to the second video may be determined based on a number of occurrences of a binary representation in the first video and the second video. | 11-19-2015 |
20160034786 | COMPUTERIZED MACHINE LEARNING OF INTERESTING VIDEO SECTIONS - This disclosure describes techniques for training models from video data and applying the learned models to identify desirable video data. Video data may be labeled to indicate a semantic category and/or a score indicative of desirability. The video data may be processed to extract low and high level features. A classifier and a scoring model may be trained based on the extracted features. The classifier may estimate a probability that the video data belongs to at least one of the categories in a set of semantic categories. The scoring model may determine a desirability score for the video data. New video data may be processed to extract low and high level features, and feature values may be determined based on the extracted features. The learned classifier and scoring model may be applied to the feature values to determine a desirability score associated with the new video data. | 02-04-2016 |
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20120251007 | Robust Large-Scale Visual Codebook Construction - Techniques for construction of a visual codebook are described herein. Feature points may be extracted from large numbers of images. In one example, images providing N feature points may be used to construct a codebook of K words. The centers of each of K clusters of feature points may be initialized. In a looping or iterative manner, an assignment step assigns each feature point to a cluster and an update step locates a center of each cluster. The feature points may be assigned to a cluster based on a lesser of a distance to a center of a previously assigned cluster and a distance to a center derived by operation of an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm having aspects of randomization. The loop terminates when the feature points have sufficiently converged to their respective clusters. Centers of the clusters represent visual words, which may be used to construct the visual codebook. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251011 | Event Determination From Photos - Events may be determined based on an image and context data associated with the image. An event type associated with the image may be determined based on a concept of the image. A list of events may be retrieved from an event database based on the context data. The retrieved list of events may then be ranked based on the determined event type and the context data. Through this event determination, a user may obtain information of one or more events happening at a specific location simply by capturing an image of that specific location, thereby saving the user from searching and browsing the Internet or brochure to locate the information of the one or more events at the specific location. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254076 | SUPERVISED RE-RANKING FOR VISUAL SEARCH - Supervised re-ranking for visual search may include re-ordering images that are returned in response to a text-based image search by exploiting visual information included in the images. In one example, supervised re-ranking for visual search may include receiving a textual query, obtaining an initial ranking result including a plurality of images corresponding to the textual query, and representing the textual query by a visual context of the plurality of images. A query-independent re-ranking model may be trained based on visual re-ranking features of the plurality of images of the textual query in accordance with a supervised training algorithm. | 10-04-2012 |
20120263433 | Detecting Key Roles and Their Relationships from Video - Tools and techniques for acquiring key roles and their relationships from a video independent of metadata, such as cast lists and scripts, are described herein. These techniques include discovering key roles and their relationships by treating a video (e.g., a movie, television program, music video, and personal video, etc.) as a community. For instance, a video is segmented into a hierarchical structure that includes levels for scenes, shots, and key frames. In some implementations, the techniques include performing face detection and grouping on the detected key frames. In some implementations, the techniques include exploiting the key roles and their correlations in this video to discover a community. The discovered community provides for a wide variety of applications, including the automatic generation of visual summaries or video posters including acquired key roles. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271833 | HYBRID NEIGHBORHOOD GRAPH SEARCH FOR SCALABLE VISUAL INDEXING - A hybrid search method may be used to identify information responsive to a query. A search may be performed utilizing a neighborhood graph and a partitioning tree. The partitioning tree may be searched to select one or more pivots that may be used to guide a subsequent search in the neighborhood graph. Once the search in the neighborhood graph is unable to identify nearest neighbors in closer proximity to the query, the search may be switched to the partitioning tree. The partitioning tree may then be searched to select pivots that may be used to guide subsequent searches in the neighborhood graph. The searches performed in the partitioning tree and/or the neighborhood graph may be conducted utilizing an iterative algorithm. | 10-25-2012 |
20120321181 | NEAR-DUPLICATE VIDEO RETRIEVAL - A similarity of a first video to a second video may be identified automatically. Images are received from the videos, and divided into sub-images. The sub-images are evaluated based on a feature common to each of the sub-images. Binary representations of the images may be created based on the evaluation of the sub-images. A similarity of the first video to the second video may be determined based on a number of occurrences of a binary representation in the first video and the second video. | 12-20-2012 |
20130179257 | In-Text Embedded Advertising - Computer program products, devices, and methods for generating in-text embedded advertising are described. Embedded advertising is “hidden” or embedded into a message by matching an advertisement to the message and identifying a place in the message to insert the advertisement. For textual messages, statistical analysis of individual sentences is performed to determine where it would be most natural to insert an advertisement. Statistical rules of grammar derived from a language model may be used choose a natural and grammatical place in the sentence for inserting the advertisement. Insertion of the advertisement creates a modified sentence without degrading a meaning of the original sentence, yet also includes the advertisement as a part of a new sentence. | 07-11-2013 |
20140044349 | CONTEXTUAL DOMINANT COLOR NAME EXTRACTION - Dominant color names may be extracted from an image by analyzing spatial-context of pixels contained in the image. A dominant color region may be defined by taking a double-threshold approach that addresses ambiguous color regions and a degree of confidence that each pixel belongs in the dominant color region. Affiliation maps and binary maps may be used to generate the dominant color region. Images may be converted to a saliency map, from which a region of interest may be assigned a dominant color name. Image search results may be filtered by the dominant color name associated with the image. | 02-13-2014 |
20140250110 | IMAGE ATTRACTIVENESS BASED INDEXING AND SEARCHING - Attractiveness of an image may be estimated by integrating extracted visual features with contextual cues pertaining to the image. Image attractiveness may be defined by the visual features (e.g., perceptual quality, aesthetic sensitivity, and/or affective tone) of elements contained within the image. Images may be indexed based on the estimated attractiveness, search results may be presented based on image attractiveness, and/or a user may elect, after receiving image search results, to re-rank the image search results by attractiveness. | 09-04-2014 |