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| 20080230861 | CMOS front end process compatible low stress light shield - An improved imaging device having a pixel arrangement featuring a multilayer light shield. The multilayer light shield includes stacked layers of light-shielding and light-transparent material. The light-transparent material, such as a dielectric, is selected to have a stress, such as a tensile stress, that offsets the stress, such as a compressive stress, of the light shielding material. Without the stress offset, the high compressive stress of the refractory metal could damage the integrity of the nearby silicon. The refractory metal is capable of withstanding the high temperatures associated with front end CMOS processing. The laminate structure allows the light shield to be placed close to the pixel surface. The light-transparent material has a thickness equal to about one-quarter wavelength of the light to be blocked, to act as an anti-reflective coating. An aperture in the light shield exposes the active region of the pixel's photoconversion device. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080237443 | Microelectronic imagers with curved image sensors and methods for manufacturing microelectronic imagers - Microelectronic imagers with curved image sensors and methods for manufacturing curved image sensors. In one embodiment, a microelectronic imager device comprises an imager die having a substrate, a curved microelectronic image sensor having a face with a convex and/or concave portion at one side of the substrate, and integrated circuitry in the substrate operatively coupled to the image sensor. The imager die can further include external contacts electrically coupled to the integrated circuitry and a cover over the curved image sensor. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080278820 | TETRAFORM MICROLENSES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A lens is formed to support and tilt at least one microlens formed on the lens. The degree and direction of slope of the microlens can be controlled based on desired focal characteristics to direct light to or from a pixel of a pixel array. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090109541 | PROCESS FOR CREATING TITLED MICROLENS - A microlens structure that includes a wedge formed to support and tilt the microlens is disclosed. The wedge results from heating a layer of patterned flowable material. The degree and direction of incline given to the wedge can be controlled in part by the type of patterning that is performed. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090256228 | MICRO-LENSES FOR CMOS IMAGERS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MICRO-LENSES - A micro-lens and a method for forming the micro-lens is provided. A micro-lens includes a substrate and lens material located within the substrate, the substrate having a recessed area serving as a mold for the lens material. The recessed can be shaped such that the lens material corrects for optical aberrations. The micro-lens can be part of a micro-lens array. The recessed area can serve as a mold for lens material for the micro-lens array and can be shaped such that the micro-lens array includes arcuate, non-spherical, or non-symmetrical micro-lenses. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090315201 | METHOD OF FORMING MICRO-LENSES - A method of fabricating micro-lenses is provided. A first layer is formed on a substrate. The first layer is comprised of a first material and the substrate is comprised of a second material. An opening is formed in the first layer and an etchant is provided in the opening to etch both the substrate and the first layer to form a first mold for a first micro-lens. The etchant etches the first layer at a different rate than the substrate. A lens material is added to the etched molds to form micro-lenses. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100255190 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING REFRACTIVE INDEX STRUCTURE FOR A DEVICE CAPTURING OR DISPLAYING IMAGES - A transient index stack having an intermediate transient index layer, for use in an imaging device or a display device, that reduces reflection between layers having different refractive indexes by making a gradual transition from one refractive index to another. Other embodiments include a pixel array in an imaging or display device, an imager system having improved optical characteristics for reception of light by photosensors and a display system having improved optical characteristics for transmission of light by photoemitters. Enhanced reception of light is achieved by reducing reflection between a photolayer, for example, a photosensor or photoemitter, and surrounding media by introducing an intermediate layer with a transient refractive index between the photolayer and surrounding media such that more photons reach the photolayer. The surrounding media can include a protective layer of optically transparent media. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110180695 | LAYERED LENS STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION - A microlens structure includes lower lens layers on a substrate. A sputtered layer of glass, such as silicon oxide, is applied over the lower lens layers at an angle away from normal to form upper lens layers that increase the effective focal length of the microlens structure. The upper lens layers can be deposited in an aspherical shape with radii of curvature longer than the lower lens layers. As a result, small microlenses can be provided with longer focal length. The microlenses are arranged in arrays for use in imaging devices. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110234883 | TETRAFORM MICROLENSES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A lens is formed to support and tilt at least one microlens formed on the lens. The degree and direction of slope of the microlens can be controlled based on desired focal characteristics to direct light to or from a pixel of a pixel array. | 09-29-2011 |
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| 20100016352 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-RELATED DISEASES - Provided herein in certain embodiments are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for modulating the functions of estrogen receptor alpha 36, for preventing and/or treating diseases mediated by estrogen receptor alpha 36, for preventing and/or treating osteoporosis, for inducing cell death and/or inhibiting cell proliferation and for preventing and/or treating diseases involving abnormal cell proliferation such as cancers. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100247471 | PHENOXY-PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE AND ITS USE AND COMPOSITIONS - The present invention is directed to the compound 2-(4-(hydroxymethyl)phenoxy)-1-(3-(2-(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy)pyrrolidin-1-yl)ethanone, its use as an inhibitor of stearoyl CoA desaturase and to pharmaceutical compositions containing this compound. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110311517 | Antibodies and methods for treating estrogen receptor-associated diseases - Provided herein in certain embodiments are antibodies, antibody fragments, pharmaceutical compositions, methods for modulating the functions of estrogen receptor alpha 36, and methods for preventing and/or treating diseases mediated by estrogen receptor alpha 36. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20090034083 | Method of forming a microlens array and imaging device and system containing such a microlens array - Method of forming a microlens array and an imaging device and system containing such a microlens array. The microlens array is formed with a plurality of substantially gapless microlenses. A plurality of overlying portions are formed on the microlenses and have substantially the same curvature and/or height. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090109542 | Lens, a lens array and imaging device and system having a lens, and method of forming the same - A lens, a lens array and imaging device and system containing a lens, and a method of forming a lens array and an imaging device and system containing a lens. Each lens has varying reflection indices in a radial direction. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090147379 | Microlenses with patterned holes to produce a desired focus location - A method, apparatus and system providing a microlens having a substantially flat upper surface and having a plurality of holes arranged in a pattern in a microlens material which produces a focal point at a desired location. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090278977 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING PRE-DISTORTED SOLID STATE IMAGE SENSORS FOR LENS DISTORTION COMPENSATION - Pixels in an imaging array are configured and arranged to compensate for various geometric distortions caused by a lens with which the array is used. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100230794 | Method For Fabricating Semiconductor Components Using Maskless Back Side Alignment To Conductive Vias - A method for fabricating semiconductor components includes the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate having a circuit side, a back side and conductive vias; removing portions of the substrate from the back side to expose terminal portions of the conductive vias; depositing a polymer layer on the back side encapsulating the terminal portions; and then planarizing the polymer layer and ends of the terminal portions to form self aligned conductors embedded in the polymer layer. Additional back side elements, such as terminal contacts and back side redistribution conductors, can also be formed in electrical contact with the conductive vias. A semiconductor component includes the semiconductor substrate, the conductive vias, and the back side conductors embedded in the polymer layer. A stacked semiconductor component includes a plurality of components having aligned conductive vias in electrical communication with one another. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110235306 | MULTI-LENS SOLID STATE LIGHTING DEVICES - Solid state lighting (SSL) devices including a plurality of SSL emitters and methods for manufacturing SSL devices are disclosed. Several embodiments of SSL devices in accordance with the technology include a support having a first lead and a second lead, a plurality of individual SSL emitters attached to the support, and a plurality of lenses. Each SSL emitter has a first contact electrically coupled to the first lead of the support and a second contact electrically coupled to the second lead of the support such that the SSL emitters are commonly connected. Each lens has a curved surface and is aligned with a single corresponding SSL emitter. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110272822 | Semiconductor Components Having Conductive Vias With Aligned Back Side Conductors - A semiconductor component includes a semiconductor substrate, conductive vias in the substrate having terminal portions, a polymer layer on the substrate and back side conductors formed by the terminal portions of the conductive vias embedded in the polymer layer. A stacked semiconductor component includes a plurality of components having aligned conductive vias in electrical communication with one another. | 11-10-2011 |
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| 20080231995 | Assembled Magnetic Energy Generator as Well as Its Magnetic Light - A wrapper type combined magnetic energy generator and a magnetic energy lamp of the present invention belong to the field of illumination. Especially, it is a magnetic energy generator used in the magnetic energy lamp that can produce the electromagnetic energy to excite the illuminative devices. The magnets of the magnetic energy generator are two split type combined magnets. More than one flute is provided on one side of one magnet and the flutes of the two magnets correspond to each other. The fixed spaces are produced between the two flutes of the two magnets. The spaces are communicated with the two flutes to be located exactly. The lamp body of the magnetic energy lamp is provided and fixed on the magnetic energy generator. These two split type combined magnets of the magnetic energy generator wrap the hollow lamp body of the magnetic energy lamp, respectively. The structure of the present invention is simple. It can be made easily and its cost is low. So it provides a reliable technique implementation project for the large-scale industrialization. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080303403 | Magnetic Light - The present invention discloses a magnetic light, including an air-filled light body having an inner cavity, at least a through slot defined on the light body, and a fluorescent layer coated onto said inner cavity. A magnetic body is penetrating through the through slot for providing high frequency resonance purposes for replacing conventional filament so as to improve the efficiency and life span of the light. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100187971 | Assembled Magnetic Energy Generator as Well as Its Magnetic Light - The present invention discloses a magnetic light, having a magnetic energy generator for supporting a light body penetrated through therein, the magnetic energy generator includes a pair of detachable magnetic members jointed together with a face to face manner, wherein each of the magnetic members has at least an indented groove define onto a facing side at an aligned position for supporting the light body, such that when such two magnetic members approach with each other, the correspondingly mated indented grooves will combine to clamp the light body therebetween and to form a magnetic air gap between two magnetic members for communicating separated the indented grooves, accordingly, an insulated bakelite frame provided onto the magnetic air gap for winding up an electromagnetic wire. | 07-29-2010 |
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| 20100087080 | SURFACE CONTACT CARD HOLDER AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A holder for a surface contact card includes a main body, a cover and an impeller. The main body provides a receiving bay receiving the surface contact card therein. The cover is disposed on the main body. The cover defines an opening. The impeller is slidably received in the opening for pushing the surface contact card to remove it from the receiving bay. A portable electronic device with the holder mounted on it is also disclosed. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100143794 | BATTERY COVER ASSEMBLY FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A battery cover assembly for a portable electronic device, the battery cover assembly includes a housing, a removeable battery cover, and a locking mechanism. The housing defines a receiving hole. The battery cover forms a latching portion. The locking mechanism latches the cover to the housing. The locking mechanism includes an operating member and an elastic member. The operating member rotatably engages in the receiving hole of the housing, and the operating member disposes a locking block releasably and elastically engaging with the latching portion of the battery cover. One end of the elastic member abuts the housing, and the other end thereof abuts the operating member. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100148722 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a main body, at least two pins folded mounted to the main body, and at least two conductive assemblies received in the main body. Each of the conductive assemblies includes a locking member and a resilient member resisting the locking member, when the pins are pushed and substantially perpendicular to main body, each locking member is capable of locking with an end of one of the pins. | 06-17-2010 |
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| 20090306961 | SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIP-BASED LOCATION DESCRIPTION PARSING - An automated arrangement for parsing location descriptions is provided in which semantic verification is integrated into a parsing process to reduce the generation of false results. The semantic verification involves checking up to three semantic relationships between keywords (i.e., syntactical components) parsed from the location description in a tokenization process to determine if a tokenization result is valid. The semantic relationships include: a) a spatial “part-of” relationship between location keywords; b) a spatial “near-by” relationship; and, c) a spatial “intersect” relationship. The semantic relationships between particular locations may be pre-calculated and stored as extended vocabulary to enable the semantic verification to occur early in the parsing process to thus increase overall parsing efficiency. The results of the parsing are sorted based on a rank score that is derived using the semantic relationships between the locations. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20110289062 | EMBEDDED SEARCH BAR - Various embodiments provide an embedded search bar displayed on a display screen of a computing device. Executable code for the embedded search bar may be loaded by a browser from a remote source. The browser may execute the executable code, thereby causing the embedded search bar to be displayed at a fixed position of a display screen. The embedded search bar may be an open and extensible container for applications. The applications may be content-driven applications or utility applications, representations of which may be displayed within the embedded search bar. The applications may interact with the embedded search bar via a set of public application program interfaces. The applications may monitor search queries and may provide information to be displayed within the embedded search bar. The embedded search bar may further include a search window for entering a search query to be performed over a third-party website. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110319423 | NOVEL DOPAMINE D3 RECEPTOR LIGANDS AND PREPARATION AND MEDICAL USES OF THE SAME - The present invention relates to a novel piperazine derivative represented by Formula I having an activity for regulating dopamine D3 receptor, stereoisomers thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, a process for preparing the same, and use thereof in the prevention or treatment of a disease associated with central nervous system dysfunction, such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, drug addiction and relapse, as well as kidney protection and immunoregulation, or as a tool for researching D3R function or diseases associated with D3R dysfunction. | 12-29-2011 |
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| 20110119370 | MEASURING NETWORK PERFORMANCE FOR CLOUD SERVICES - Described is a technology by which a content server downloads an active content measuring tool object to a client request for a page. When loaded, the measuring tool object makes network measurements, including by direct socket access, and return measurement results. As part of its operations, the measuring tool object may request measurement assignments from a central controller, and/or return those results to the central controller. Measurement assignments may be directed towards determining a round trip time/latency, measuring throughput, packet loss rate, detecting in-fight modification of content and/or detecting the presence of a middle box, including the presence of a caching proxy server middle box. The measurement results may be used to evaluate hypothetical deployment of a number of servers and/or geographic locations for those servers. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110134909 | DATA COMMUNICATION WITH COMPENSATION FOR PACKET LOSS - Described is a technology by which a relay is coupled (e.g., by a wire) to a network and (e.g., by a wireless link) to an endpoint. Incoming data packets directed towards the endpoint are processed by the relay according to an error correction scheme, such as one that replicates packets. The reprocessed packets, which in general are more robust against packet loss, are then sent to the endpoint. For outgoing data packets received from the endpoint, the relay reprocesses the outgoing packets based upon the error correction scheme, such as to remove redundant packets before transmitting them to the network over the wire. Also described are various error correction schemes, and various types of computing devices that may be used as relays. The relay may be built into the network infrastructure, and/or a directory service may be employed to automatically find a suitable relay node for an endpoint device. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110227790 | CUCKOO HASHING TO STORE BEACON REFERENCE DATA - Storing and retrieving beacon reference data in a truncated cuckoo hash table. Checksums of beacon identifiers associated with beacons are used to retrieve beacon reference data describing locations of the beacons in a hash table. The data is stored in one or more hash tables by cuckoo hashing to eliminate aliasing. The hash tables are provided to devices such as mobile devices. The devices retrieve the beacon reference data from the tables based using beacon identifiers of observed beacons. Location information for the devices is inferred using the retrieved beacon reference data. The cuckoo hash tables consume less memory storage space and obfuscate the beacon reference data. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110270964 | USING DNS REFLECTION TO MEASURE NETWORK PERFORMANCE - A top level domain name system (DNS) server receives a DNS query from a local DNS resolver, the DNS query requesting a network address corresponding to a domain name. The top level DNS server reflects the local DNS resolver to a reflector DNS server. The reflector DNS server reflects the local DNS resolver to a collector DNS server, which in turn returns the network address to the local DNS resolver. The reflector DNS server and collector DNS server are both in the same data center, and one or more network performance measurements for communications between the local DNS resolver and the data center are determined based on the communications between the local DNS resolver and both the reflector DNS server and the collector DNS server. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110276744 | FLASH MEMORY CACHE INCLUDING FOR USE WITH PERSISTENT KEY-VALUE STORE - Described is using flash memory, RAM-based data structures and mechanisms to provide a flash store for caching data items (e.g., key-value pairs) in flash pages. A RAM-based index maps data items to flash pages, and a RAM-based write buffer maintains data items to be written to the flash store, e.g., when a full page can be written. A recycle mechanism makes used pages in the flash store available by destaging a data item to a hard disk or reinserting it into the write buffer, based on its access pattern. The flash store may be used in a data deduplication system, in which the data items comprise chunk-identifier, metadata pairs, in which each chunk-identifier corresponds to a hash of a chunk of data that indicates. The RAM and flash are accessed with the chunk-identifier (e.g., as a key) to determine whether a chunk is a new chunk or a duplicate. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276780 | Fast and Low-RAM-Footprint Indexing for Data Deduplication - The subject disclosure is directed towards a data deduplication technology in which a hash index service's index maintains a hash index in a secondary storage device such as a hard drive, along with a compact index table and look-ahead cache in RAM that operate to reduce the I/O to access the secondary storage device during deduplication operations. Also described is a session cache for maintaining data during a deduplication session, and encoding of a read-only compact index table for efficiency. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276781 | Fast and Low-RAM-Footprint Indexing for Data Deduplication - The subject disclosure is directed towards a data deduplication technology in which a hash index service's index maintains a hash index in a secondary storage device such as a hard drive, along with a compact index table and look-ahead cache in RAM that operate to reduce the I/O to access the secondary storage device during deduplication operations. Also described is a session cache for maintaining data during a deduplication session, and encoding of a read-only compact index table for efficiency. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110299526 | MULTIPARTY REAL TIME CONTENT DELIVERY - Described is a distributed peer-assisted multicast content delivery system (e.g., a multiparty conferencing application) that uses an adaptive link rate control protocol to discover and adapt to an arbitrary topology quickly and converge to efficient link rate allocations allowed by an underlying network. Link rates are regularly obtained and used to determine trees for sending packets to other nodes. Network coding is used to implement data multicast so that mixtures (i.e., linear combinations) of the packets are transmitted in the network. The redundant packets may be differentiated from non-redundant (“innovative”) packets such that network conditions may be measured by link innovation and/or session innovation. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120102298 | Low RAM Space, High-Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store using Secondary Memory - Described is using flash memory (or other secondary storage), RAM-based data structures and mechanisms to access key-value pairs stored in the flash memory using only a low RAM space footprint. A mapping (e.g. hash) function maps key-value pairs to a slot in a RAM-based index. The slot includes a pointer that points to a bucket of records on flash memory that each had keys that mapped to the slot. The bucket of records is arranged as a linear-chained linked list, e.g., with pointers from the most-recently written record to the earliest written record. Also described are compacting non-contiguous records of a bucket onto a single flash page, and garbage collection. Still further described is load balancing to reduce variation in bucket sizes, using a bloom filter per slot to avoid unnecessary searching, and splitting a slot into sub-slots. | 04-26-2012 |
