Abstract: A system and a method for canceling an echo is disclosed. In accordance with the system and the method, a plurality of independently and variably delayed adaptive algorithm blocks are selectively applied to a delayed feedback signal to generate a plurality of echo components in parallel, thereby canceling the echo component from an input signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 10, 2012
Assignee:
Solid Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Chonghoon Kim, Yeongha Choi, Hyungchae Kim
Abstract: A dialed number of a called party is received from a calling party. Based on the dialed number, a name of the called party is retrieved from a database. An audio message which includes the name of the called party is generated and communicated to the calling party. A call is routed between the calling party and the called party after said communicating the audio message.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 11, 2008
Date of Patent:
April 10, 2012
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Raymond Walden Bennett, III, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., Gayle Roberta Ekstrom, Laura Marie Griffith, Edmond W. Israelski, Denise Violetta Kagan, Richard Peter Krupka, Donald Bernard Liebrecht, Jordan Howard Light, Karen Jeanne Pelletier, Michael Steven Pickard, Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan
Abstract: An analog signal is input to an input terminal. An analog signal is output via an output terminal. A first transistor is an N-channel MOSFET, and is provided between the input terminal and the output terminal. A first resistor is provided between the gate of the first transistor and a first fixed voltage terminal (power supply terminal), which sets the gate of the first transistor to a high-impedance state.
Abstract: A communications system for an alarm panel including: an alarm panel adaptor in operable communication with the alarm panel generating analog alarm signals; a first powerline communications device in operable communication with a the alarm panel adaptor converting the analog alarm signals to powerline alarm signals; a second powerline communications device receiving the powerline alarm signals over an electrical grid and converting the powerline alarm signals to internet protocol alarm signals; and a broadband connection in operable communication with the second powerline communications device for transmitting the internet protocol alarm signals to a remote central control station.
Abstract: A display device includes a display panel on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, and a lenticular sheet which is disposed above the display panel and includes a plurality of prism lenses disposed on the lenticular sheet. Each of the plurality of prism lenses includes a first surface, a second surface and a third surface. Each surface of the prism lens is disposed extending in a first direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the prism lenses, and arranged substantially parallel with each other.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 2009
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hae-Young Yun, Seung-Hoon Lee, Hee-Seop Kim, Sung-Woon Kim, JianGang Lu
Abstract: A pre-mixing apparatus for a turbine engine includes a main body having an inlet portion, an outlet portion and an exterior wall that collectively establish at least one fluid delivery plenum, and a plurality of fluid delivery tubes extending through at least a portion of the at least one fluid delivery plenum. Each of the plurality of fluid delivery tubes includes at least one fluid delivery opening fluidly connected to the at least one fluid delivery plenum. With this arrangement, a first fluid is selectively delivered to the at least one fluid delivery plenum, passed through the at least one fluid delivery opening and mixed with a second fluid flowing through the plurality of fluid delivery tubes prior to being combusted in a combustion chamber of a turbine engine.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2008
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
General Electric Company
Inventors:
Benjamin Paul Lacy, Balachandar Varatharajan, Willy Steve Ziminsky, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Ertan Yilmaz, Patrick Benedict Melton, Baifang Zuo, Christian Xavier Stevenson, David Kenton Felling, Jong Ho Uhm
Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) module includes an LCD panel, a light source unit, a mold frame, a bottom chassis and a driving circuit substrate. The light source unit supplies light to the LCD panel. The mold frame includes a bottom part and sidewall part, and receives the LCD panel and the light source unit. The bottom chassis covers the mold frame and includes a first opening. The driving circuit substrate is disposed between the mold frame and the bottom chassis, and includes a circuit component. The circuit component is formed corresponding to the first opening.
Abstract: Provided herein is a method of manufacturing a gas sensor. The method includes forming electrodes on a surface of a substrate, manufacturing a paste having a complex of CNTs and a metal-ligand complex comprising a metal that has gas adsorption selectivity for specific gases, coating the paste on the substrate to cover the electrodes, patterning the paste by a photolithography process, and reducing the metal-ligand complex included in the patterned paste.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Sung-ouk Jung, Myung-sup Jung, Soo-suk Lee
Abstract: A method for detecting a storage voltage, a display apparatus using the storage voltage and a method for driving the display apparatus. The method for detecting the storage voltage includes applying a test voltage to a storage line in a display panel having an active layer disposed between the storage line and a data line while varying the test voltage, the active layer being in an active state or an inactive state according to the test voltage, and detecting the storage voltage corresponding to the test voltage in an inactive state of the active layer. Thus, the display panel is driven by using the detected storage voltage, so that an aperture ratio may be increased and current consumption may be decreased.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 19, 2008
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Shin Tack Kang, Bong Jun Lee, Sang Yong No, Kwan Ho Kim, Jong Hwan Lee, Sun Hyung Kim
Abstract: A system for recognition of a target three-dimensional object is disclosed. The system may include a photon-counting detector and a three-dimensional integral imaging system. The three-dimensional integral imaging system may be positioned between the photon-counting detector and the target three-dimensional object.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignees:
University of Connecticut, Center for Science and Technology Commercialization, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, The University of Connecticut
Inventors:
Bahram Javidi, Seokwon Yeom, Edward Alan Watson
Abstract: A method and system for providing identification tags in a memory system having indeterminate data response times. An exemplary embodiment includes a memory controller in a memory system. The memory controller includes a mechanism for receiving data packets via an upstream channel, the data packets including upstream identification tags. The memory controller also includes a mechanism having instructions for facilitating determining if a received data packet is in response to a request from the memory controller. Input to the determining includes an upstream identification tag included in the received data packet. If the received data packet is determined to be in response to a request from the memory controller, then the received data packet is matched to the request, thereby allowing the memory controller to operate with indeterminate data response times.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 22, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Paul W. Coteus, Kevin C. Gower, Warren E. Maule, Robert B. Tremaine
Abstract: A pressure switch assembly is used with a furnace controller having a first input and a second input. A first pressure switch is configured to actuate at a first combustion pressure level and is connected to the first input. A second pressure switch is configured to actuate at a second combustion pressure level, and a third pressure switch is configured to actuate at a third combustion pressure level. Pressure signals provided on the second input from at least one of the second pressure switch and the third pressure switch are used by the furnace controller to derive actuation states of the second and third pressure switches.
Abstract: A method of encrypting a set of data is disclosed. The method may include encoding a set of data with a first encryption key, and transforming the set of data encoded with the first encryption key. The method may also include using a second encryption key to encode the transformation of the set of data encoded with the first encryption key. The method may also include transforming the encoded transformation of the set of data encoded with the first encryption key generating thereby and encrypted set of data.
Abstract: A symbol information reading apparatus may include an imaging element; an image memory structured to store image data; a position detecting processor structured to fetch the image data and structured to detect a position of symbol information. The position detecting processor may include a temporary area judgment unit that structured to calculate a variation of brightness, and structured to judge a temporary area having a possibility of corresponding to the symbol information; a correlation map creating unit that structured to calculate correlation between areas neighboring in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction, and structured to create a map showing an area provided with large correlation values; a labeling unit that structured to check presence of a basic barcode on the correlation map, and structured to label an area judged as having the basic barcode; and a position determining unit that structured to detect a position of the symbol information recorded.
Abstract: A flexible thermoplastic composition comprises a poly(arylene ether), a first block copolymer, a second block copolymer and a flame retardant wherein the second block copolymer comprises a controlled distribution copolymer block. The flexible thermoplastic composition is useful in the manufacture of coated wires.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
Inventors:
Kazunari Kosaka, Xiucuo Li, Weiguang Yao
Abstract: A PC generating image data divides data to be embedded into a predetermined size and arranges it in a predetermined area of a watermarking image. In the predetermined area are defined positions a-h assumed by an information dot configuring an information pattern based on the data to be embedded, and, of positions a-h, a position defined for the information pattern is assumed by a point dot. Of positions a-h, a position that is not defined for the information pattern is assumed by a linear dot. Furthermore in the predetermined area there is a position assumed by a positioning dot defining the predetermined area, and this position is assumed by a point dot. The linear dot has a geometry extending in one of the main scanning direction and vertical scanning direction of an image formation apparatus that allows higher performance in reproducibility for a line.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 15, 2008
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: A toner supplier apparatus 1 is provided for stabilizing the concentration of toner reserved in a main tank. A concentration sensor for measuring the concentration of the toner is provided in a toner-feeding pipeway for supplying liquid toner from a main tank for adjusting the concentration to the developer apparatus. High concentration toner and diluent supplied to the main tank are controlled based on the concentration measured by the concentration sensor. Accordingly, accuracy of the toner supplier apparatus used for an electronic photograph printer in measuring the concentration of the toner can be improved, thereby permitting accurate control for the concentration in a printed image.
Abstract: Methods, devices, and products are provided for targeting media. Descriptive information is received that describes media. The descriptive information is compared to a stored set of user-defined criteria. If the descriptive information contains any criterion, the media is stored in memory, and the stored media is targeted to a user's communications device.
Abstract: Controlling a PLL includes providing a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and coupling an output of the VCO to a shifter circuit. The shifter circuit has a shifter circuit output, the shifter circuit also including an activation input for receiving an activation signal, the shifter circuit causing at least one pulse of the output signal to be suppressed at the shifter output upon receipt of the activation signal. Controlling also includes coupling the shifter circuit output to a first frequency divider.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
James Eckhardt, Shiu Chung Ho, Paul D. Muench, Scot H. Rider
Abstract: An auto management system for an air filter used in a battery pack comprises at least one cell and a case accommodating each of the cells so that there is secured an air flow passage between the neighboring cells. The battery pack is provided with an air inlet at one side and an air outlet on the other side and comprises an air filter detachably mounted at an outside end of the air inlet of the case; a blowing fan provided to one of the air inlet and the air outlet; a flux sensor; a control unit connected to the cells of the battery pack, the blowing fan and the flux sensor, respectively, measuring currents, voltages and temperatures of the respective cells and electrically controlling the blowing fan and the flux sensor.