Abstract: A low compression, resilient golf ball having a center including a material formed from the conversion reaction of sufficient amounts of polybutadiene, a free radical source, and a cis-to-trans catalyst to convert a portion of cis-isomer to trans-isomer in the polybutadiene, wherein said material has an amount of trans-isomer greater than the amount of trans-isomer present before the conversion reaction, and wherein the reaction product includes low levels or substantially no antioxidant.

Abstract: A decoding device comprises a cache memory for temporally storing video image data, a unit for determining a position of a reference macroblock corresponding to macroblock to be decoded based on a motion vector obtained by analyzing an encoded bitstream, and a unit for determining whether or not a reference macroblock includes a cacheline boundary when data of the reference macroblock is not stored in the memory and for specifying the position of the boundary as a front address for the data preload from a memory storing the data of the reference macroblock.

Abstract: A device is disclosed that includes an amplification part for a linear transmitter, the amplification part being configured to amplify a transmission signal in accordance with a supply voltage control signal; a generation part configured to generate a power supply signal showing the level of the transmission signal; and a control part configured to output the supply voltage control signal based on the power supply signal. The control part includes a storage part configured to store a series of values of the power supply signal belonging to a time range including a certain point of time; and an output part configured to output a maximum one of a predetermined number of values of the series of values of the power supply signal as the supply voltage control signal at the certain point of time.

Abstract: A method includes steps of calculating, for each predetermined operation included in a program, an execution time required when the operation is executed by a predetermined processor, or calculating, for each predetermined operation included in the program, a circuit size required when the operation is realized in a form of hardware according to a predetermined technology; and calculating, for the entirety of the predetermined program or operations corresponding to a part the entirety of the predetermined program, a total execution time required when the entirety of the predetermined program is executed by the predetermined processor, as a result of applying in sequence the required execution time, or calculating, for the entirety of the predetermined program or operations corresponding to a part the entirety of the predetermined program, a total circuit size required when the entirety of the predetermined program or programs corresponding to a part of the entirety of the predetermined program, as a result of

Abstract: A communication apparatus to be used between first and second communication groups, each including one or more communication terminals, that perform communications by different types of communication protocols capable of embedding address information, comprises a first storage unit storing a destination address, and tunnel identification information for the first communication group when a packet transmitted from the second communication group is registered; a destination retrieval unit which determines whether a destination address extracted from the received packet is registered in the first storage unit; a second storage unit, storing information indicating whether the route designated by the tunnel identification information is constructible by a private address or by a global address; an encapsulation processing unit which extracts the address information for the first communication group from the destination address; and a control unit controlling whether the encapsulation is to be in accordance with th

Abstract: A timing controller is disclosed that includes: an amplifier part configured to amplify a first input signal in accordance with a control voltage, the first input signal being one of a transmission signal and a signal of a fixed value; a detector part configured to detect envelope information from the output signal of the amplifier part; a controller part configured to determine a delay difference from the transmission signal and the envelope information and transmit a timing control signal based on the delay difference; and a delay corrector part configured to correct the delay of a second input signal in accordance with the timing control signal, the second input signal being one of the transmission signal and a signal of a fixed value. One of the first and second input signals employs the corresponding signal of the fixed value in the case of correcting the delay.

Abstract: A compact antenna structure having substantially no directivity independent of a tag direction in an RFID tag is proposed. The antenna structure includes a pair of dipole antennas is provided in a cross dipole antenna to be applied to an RFID system for communicating information between a reader/writer and the tag using a high-frequency radio signal. The above pair of dipole antennas further includes lines extending from a feed point and mutually intersecting crosswise, and also triangularly expanded lines from the bent ends of the above lines. Each total length of the above pair of dipole antennas is longer than 2/? of a use frequency ?.

Abstract: Provided is a distortion compensation apparatus to prevent divergence of distortion compensation coefficients caused by an abnormal distortion compensation coefficient value. The distortion compensation apparatus includes a storage for storing a distortion compensation coefficient in a specified write address, and outputting a distortion compensation coefficient stored in a specified readout address; a predistortion portion for performing distortion compensation processing onto a transmission signal, using the distortion compensation coefficient being output from the storage; and a distortion compensator for calculating a distortion compensation coefficient based on the transmission signal before the distortion compensation processing and the transmission signal after being amplified by an amplifier.

Abstract: An approach for processing a query in a database system is disclosed. An original query is determined to be partially satisfied by a materialized view. The original query is transformed using a set operation (i.e., union and intersection) on the materialized view and either another materialized view or a base table.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an optical module, which stabilizes an oscillation characteristic of a laser by means of a simple configuration. To this end, a gain member, a partial reflection section connected to the gain member, and an optical device section connected to the partial reflection section are formed integrally into an apparatus of the present invention. The partial reflection section includes an optically-coupling waveguide section having a first light waveguide connected to the gain member, and a second light waveguide which has an optical axis differing from that of the first light waveguide and which is optically coupled to the first light waveguide and optically connected to the optical device section; and a first total reflection mirror formed at an end of the first light waveguide facing the optical device section.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling electronics is disclosed. The apparatus generally relates to heat sinks that are operatively connected to electronics enclosures. The heat sinks may be part of the electronics enclosure, or alternately they may be operatively connected to the electronics enclosure. An enclosure preferably prevents solar radiation from striking the surface of the heat sink. At the same time, the enclosure allows air to flow over the heat sink, allowing heat to be dissipated.

Abstract: A storing unit stores a regular telephone number of a user and a provisional telephone number corresponding to the regular telephone number. An acquiring unit acquires a provisional telephone number of a receiver and a regular telephone number of a caller who called at the provisional telephone number of the receiver. A searching unit searches a regular telephone number corresponding to the provisional number of the receiver from the storing unit. A call establishing unit establishes a call between the caller and the receiver corresponding to the regular telephone number searched.

Abstract: A distortion compensation apparatus is provided to restrain an increased calculation time caused by a large amount of calculation required for obtaining a phase variation amount for compensation from the correlation.

Abstract: The capability to handle the 100 ?s RPR interrupt and similar interrupts is provided by servicing selected interrupts outside of the operating system. This drastically reduces the latency and overhead associated with servicing the interrupt. A method of handling an interrupt in a computer system comprises receiving the interrupt at the computer system, determining whether the interrupt is a selected interrupt, and performing interrupt processing not involving an operating system of the computer system, if the interrupt is a selected interrupt.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf ball that contains an interpenetrating polymer network, or IPN, including at least two polymeric components. These IPNs may be present in any golf ball layer, although in an intermediate or cover layer in one preferred embodiment. The present invention is also directed to methods of forming a golf ball containing an IPN in one or more of the layers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method printing indicia that includes dynamically controlling viscosity within a sealed cup assembly that is used in pad printing radiation curable inks on game balls. The present invention further relates to a method of removing radiation ink from an uncured inked golf ball surface.

Abstract: Golf equipment having improved cut and shear resistance that includes a polyurea-based composition or polyurethane-based composition, preferably saturated and/or water resistant, formed of a prepolymer, a functionalized block copolymer, and optionally further cured or chain extended with a curing agent, where the prepolymer is incorporated at the terminal end of the functionalized block copolymer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating data between a device and a host apparatus through a USB interface detects and corrects USB transaction phase deviation due to erroneous recognition of handshake packets. A method comprises the steps of transmitting a first packet from the device to the host apparatus, the first packet being erroneously recognized by the host apparatus as a first type of packet, receiving a second packet from the host apparatus at the device in response to the first packet, and transmitting a third packet from the device to the host apparatus, the third packet being the first type of packet, in response to receiving the second packet from the host apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention is a carrier state judging device having a multiplexing unit multiplexing carrier signals to be inputted in parallel, output control units inputted to the multiplexing unit and performing ON/OFF control of outputs of the carrier signals inputted to the output control units themselves according to predetermined ON/OFF setting values, frequency shift units and giving predetermined frequency shift quantities to the carrier signals inputted to the frequency shift units themselves, a detection unit detecting as to whether or not there is the carrier signal flowing through on each carrier signal transmission path, and a determining unit determining a state of the carrier signals multiplexed by the multiplexing unit on the basis of the ON/OFF setting value with respect to each of the output control units, the frequency shift quantity with respect to each of the frequency shift units and a result of the detection by the detection unit.

Abstract: A golf ball having a core and two or more cover layers, wherein the multiple cover layers are formed from materials that are substantially the same composition with the same Shore hardness, but are modified in some way to alter the processing or performance characteristics of the golf ball, or the layers have the same Shore hardness and at least one cover layer is formed of a polymer blend including a polyurethane composition, and at least one cover layer is formed of a different polymer blend.