Patents Represented by Law Firm Finnegan, Henderson
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Patent number: 8340875Abstract: A hydraulic system for lifting a work tool of a mobile machine is disclosed. The hydraulic system may have a pump, a lift actuator, a lift valve arrangement, and a lift sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of an actual lift velocity. The hydraulic system may also have a tilt actuator, a tilt valve arrangement, and at least one operator interface device movable to generate a second signal indicative of a desired lift velocity and a third signal indicative of desired tilt velocity. The hydraulic system may further have a controller configured to command the lift valve arrangement to meter pressurized based on the second signal, command the tilt valve arrangement to meter pressurized fluid based on the third signal, and command the tilt valve arrangement to meter pressurized fluid and maintain a desired tilt angle of the work tool during lifting based selectively on the first and second signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Aaron R. Shatters, Steven C. Budde, John T. Reedy, Robert E. Stone
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Patent number: 8340182Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video decoding apparatus decoding a video stream selectively generates one of an intra prediction image and an inter prediction image based on an encoding mode of a decoding object from the video stream and decoded images thereof, generates a residual decoded image based on a quantization parameter of a decoding object from the video stream, generates a decoded image by adding an intra prediction image and an inter prediction image selectively generated, and the residual decoded image, applies deblocking filter process for reducing a block distortion onto the decoded image, extracting at least one of information on a quantization parameter and information on an encoding mode of a decoding object from the video stream, and determining whether or not the filter process is skipped based on extracted information thereof, and selectively skipping the filter process based on a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuro Fujisawa, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Yuji Kawashima
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Patent number: 8339641Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with embodiments presented facilitate packaged print data processing. In some embodiments, an initial fragment of print data is parsed to determine if the print data occurs in the form of an OPC print package. If the print data is an OPC package, a language processor for a PDL is invoked using a language entry point function for the PDL, which can be determined using a text string that is present in the print job filename and in a Content Types list in a Content Types file associated with the OPC package. If the PDL language processor cannot be determined using the Content Types list then a language entry point may be determined using a file extension associated with the print job.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Jason Grams
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Patent number: 8340174Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing device for coding image data, which is divided by a given pixel count into macroblocks, on a macroblock-by-macroblock basis, the image processing device including: a quantization section configured to quantize image data on a macroblock-by-macroblock basis; a detection section configured to detect a macroblock containing a given color pixel from the image data; and a control section configured to control the quantization section, the control section including a distance calculation section configured to calculate the distance between a given image position in a picture of the image data and an image position in the macroblock detected by the detection section, and a bitrate control section configured to control the quantization section so that a higher bitrate is assigned with decreasing distance calculated by the distance calculation section.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuji Wada, Takao Nozawa
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Patent number: 8340318Abstract: A method for measuring performance of a noise cancellation system that is operable to cancel noise is provided. The method includes generating a first model of a target noise. The first model represents the target noise in a form that is received at a location remote from a noise source of the target noise and within a defined environment. The method also includes generating a second model of a cancellation noise. The cancellation noise is configured to at least partially cancel the target noise when combined with the target noise. The second model represents the cancellation noise in a form that is received at the location. The method also includes determining, using the first model and the second model, a cancellation error value indicative of only a portion of the target noise that remains when the target noise and the cancellation noise are combined.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., Bringham Young UniversityInventors: David C. Copley, Benjamin Mahonri Faber, Scott D. Sommerfeldt
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Patent number: 8340668Abstract: A method for paging a terminal device across heterogeneous networks, where networks using different wireless standards send paging messages and location management information, and thus the load terminal devices can be alleviated and wireless resources occupied can be reduced. The method includes: selecting, by a current network, another network to execute a paging procedure, when receiving user data and determining a corresponding communication interface of the terminal device in the current network to be in a Dormant Mode, where the another network uses wireless standards different from the current network; sending, by the another network, a paging message to the terminal device to enable the terminal device to reconnect to the current network. A terminal device and network system is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hongguang Guan
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Patent number: 8340282Abstract: A high-security cryptanalysis-resistant cryptographic processing apparatus and a cryptographic processing method are provided. A Feistel common key block cipher is produced by repeatedly performing an SPN-type F-function including a nonlinear transformation part and a linear transformation part over a plurality of rounds. In each round, a linear transformation process is performed according to an F-function using a matrix determined so as to satisfy a relatively loose constraint whereby high resistance to differential attacks and/or linear attacks is achieved. The relatively loose constraint allows an increase in the number of candidates for usable matrices, and it is possible to maintain the number of active S-boxes to a sufficiently large level.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Taizo Shirai
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Patent number: 8339946Abstract: The provision of services to the users of a multi-resource communication network is controlled by modelling the system made up of these resources as a Markov chain, wherein each state of the Markov chain is identified by a respective set of values of the numbers of the users served by each of the resources, and the transitions between states are represented by the allocation and de-allocation to the users of the services provided by the resources. A cost function is defined wherein each of the states gives a respective contribution weighted by the probability that the Markov chain is in that state, such probability being a function of the possible transitions between the states. A plurality of transitions between the states is thus identified that optimizes the cost function, and the resources are allocated to the users according to such plurality of transitions that optimizes the cost function.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Andrea Barbaresi, Marco Tosalli, Javier Leonardo Quijano Araque
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Patent number: 8340497Abstract: Disclosed is a recording apparatus to record data in a recording medium. The apparatus includes: an input portion to input moving picture data; an encode portion to encode the moving picture data input by the input portion; a storage portion which uses a first storage area to store frame image data, i.e., data for any frame image contained in the moving picture data encoded by the encode portion and uses a second storage area to store the moving picture data except the frame image data; a recording portion to record the moving picture data stored by the storage portion in the recording medium; a decode portion to decode the moving pictured at a encoded by the encode portion; and a thumbnail image generation portion to generate a thumbnail image based on the frame image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masayuki Kuwata
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Patent number: 8340907Abstract: A slippage condition response system for a first machine of a plurality of machines is disclosed. The response system may have a sensing system configured to sense a parameter indicative of a slippage condition of the first machine. Additionally, the response system may have a locator configured to sense a parameter indicative of a location of the first machine. The response system may also have a transmitter. In addition, the response system may have a controller, which may be in communication with the sensing system, the locator, and the transmitter. The controller may be configured to monitor the location of the first machine. The controller may also be configured to monitor the parameter indicative of a slippage condition of the first machine. Additionally, the controller may be configured to transmit to an offboard system at least one location where the first machine experienced a slippage condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2012Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Lee Stratton, Brian Mintah, Gary Edward Hull, James Decker Humphrey, Bryan J. Everett
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Patent number: 8341007Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for forecasting demand for objects, such as products, parts, etc. in a managed supply chain. In one embodiment, a method for forecasting demand is provided that comprises the step of determining a forecast profile including a forecast model and a forecast parameter to be assigned to a set of data forming the basis of the forecast. The determining step may include the steps of performing at least one forecast test on the set of data to identify the significance of a forecast model in the set of data, and determining iteratively the value of a forecast parameter, wherein the forecast parameter is determined based on the outcome of performing the at least one forecasting test. Further, the method may include the step of automatically assigning the determined forecast profile to the set of data.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventor: Ralph Moessner
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Patent number: 8333090Abstract: A process for manufacturing an optical fiber, includes the steps of: a) producing a soot core preform by depositing a core material on a substrate; b) removing the substrate from the soot preform leaving an axial cavity along the longitudinal axis of the soot core preform; (c) drying and consolidating the soot core preform so as to obtain a glass core preform having an axial hole corresponding to the axial cavity; d) reducing a diameter of the axial hole; and e) stretching the glass core preform so as to substantially close the axial hole, wherein the process further includes the step of measuring at least one geometric characteristic of the axial hole of the glass core preform.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Ruzzier, Cristiano Ruocchio, Franco Cocchini, Antonio Adigrat
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Patent number: 8336004Abstract: According to a mask verifying method of the embodiment, a difference between an actual dimension of a mask pattern and a simulation dimension is calculated as a computational estimated value. Moreover, a difference between an actual dimension of the mask pattern that is actually measured and a dimension on pattern data is calculated as an actually-measured difference. Then, it is verified whether a mask pattern dimension passes or fails based on the calculated value. When calculating the computational estimated value, a model function, which is set based on each correspondence relationship between an actual dimension and a mask simulation dimension of a test pattern, which includes a plurality of types of pattern ambient environments, to the mask pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shigeki Nojima, Tetsuaki Matsunawa, Shigeru Hasebe, Masahiro Miyairi
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Patent number: 8333154Abstract: An inflator (1) comprised of an inner case (19) and an outer case (28). The inflator (1) includes a combustion chamber located inside the inner case (19), a plurality of gas discharge ports (16) formed on the outer case (28), a gas outlet port (11) formed on an outer surface of the inner case (19) and a gas guide section that guides the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) toward the gas discharge ports (16). The gas guide section includes between the outer case (28) and inner case (19) a guide wall (13a) provided with a guide plane that contacts with and redirects the inflation gas. The guide plane is formed into an arc face so as to swivel the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) in a swirl or helical fashion, guide the inflation gas toward the gas discharge ports (16) and capture residuals.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takaki Fukuyama, Toru Ozaki, Hiroki Murase, Osamu Fukawatase, Yasushi Itou, Naoki Matsuda, Yusuke Komine, Tomoharu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8334801Abstract: A locating system, includes at least one initiator configured to operate at a first clock frequency, and to transmit a measurement signal including a first preamble; and at least one transponder configured to operate at a second clock frequency, to receive the measurement signal, and to transmit a response signal to the initiator, the response signal including a second preamble. The initiator is further configured to calculate, based on the response signal, a distance between the initiator and the transponder for determining a location of the transponder.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Ensco, Inc.Inventors: Russell Alan Fretenburg, Steven Scott Kazemir, Henry Hon-You Leung, Derek John Pyner, Charles Elmer McNeill, IV, David W. A. Taylor, Jr.
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Patent number: 8335646Abstract: Techniques are provided for presenting a route using a route presentation that provides both a context map and one or more detail route maps. Narrative instructions for the route also may be presented. The presentation of the context map and the one or more detail route maps may be interactive. The route presentation also may be user controllable such that a user may control the portions of a route that are printed. The route presentation also may include a re-routing feature that allows a user to request that a new route be identified that avoids a particular maneuver or maneuvers in a route.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: AOL Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 8333571Abstract: A pump is disclosed. The pump may have a housing, and a body disposed within the housing and at least partially defining a plurality of barrels. The pump may also have a plurality of plungers associated with the plurality of barrels, and a plunger engagement surface. The plunger engagement surface may have geometry configured to reciprocate the plurality of plungers within the plurality of barrels as the plurality of plungers rotate relative to the plunger engagement surface, and a plurality of undulations configured to reduce a flow pulsation of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Viral S. Mehta, Bryan E. Nelson
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Patent number: 8334214Abstract: A susceptor treatment method including placing a first substrate on a susceptor and forming a Si film on the first substrate by epitaxial growth, placing a second substrate on the susceptor in place of the first substrate and forming a SiC film on the second substrate by epitaxial growth, and allowing HCl gas to flow downward from above the susceptor while the susceptor, from which the second substrate has been removed, is heated to a temperature and rotated to remove the remaining crystalline grains derived from the epitaxial growth of Si film and the SiC film on the susceptor.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignees: NuFlare Technology, Inc., Denso CorporationInventors: Kunihiko Suzuki, Shinichi Mitani
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Patent number: 8333803Abstract: The present disclosure provides an implantable medical device comprising a composite graft material including a first biologic component, such as an acellular tissue matrix, and a second non-biologic component.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Lifecell CorporationInventors: Jason Park, Aaron Barere, Christopher T. Wagner, Robert Kiefer, E. Skott Greenhalgh
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Patent number: 8333923Abstract: A gray cast iron alloy is disclosed. The gray cast iron alloy includes carbon from about 3.05 to about 3.40 weight percent, niobium from about 0.05 to about 0.3 weight percent, and silicon from about 1.75 to about 2.3 weight percent. The gray cast iron alloy also includes nickel less than or equal to about 0.06 weight percent.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: James K. Jaszarowski, Ronald Wayne Conklin, Leonard Wade Matheny, John Warren Edenburn, Kelly Brockhouse, legal representative, Michael Joseph Motyl