Abstract: A tool for gripping ophthalmic lenses including a vacuum gripper, a shaft associated with said vacuum gripper, the shaft having two ends and being slidably attached at one end thereof to a support structure, a resilient member which biases the vacuum gripper in a direction away from said support structure and a locking member which locks the shaft in a desired position during a lens gripping operation. Another embodiment of the present invention includes a lens hold down mechanism for holding lenses in a lens tray. Another embodiment of the present invention includes an electronic communications scheme for a robotic manufacturing operation. Another embodiment of the present invention includes an ophthalmic lens manufacturing cell layout wherein ophthalmic edging machines have an opening that faces away from a robotic arm. Another embodiment of the present invention includes an arrangement for holding an ophthalmic edging machine within an ophthalmic manufacturing cell.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
AIT Industries Co.
Inventors:
Matthew Vulich, Bhaven Patel, Santiago Albert
Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method of sharing intrusion detection information detected at different networks and tracking the intrusion, to thereby defense against the intrusion on a network to which an intruder belongs, and a computer-readable medium storing a program for implementing the above method therein. The system detects an intrusion through the analysis of an input packet, adds information associated with the intrusion into the packet, creates an active packet and transmits the active packet to an address of an intruder, which transmitted the packet. Thereafter, the system tracks the intrusion, for all routes through which the intruder passed based on the active packet, and filters the packet associated with the intruder for the isolation thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 16, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Min-Ho Han, Jung-Chan Na, Sung Won Sohn
Abstract: An apparatus for assembling EJB components is provided. The apparatus includes a composite palette for browsing and managing the EJB components, and an architecture diagram editor module for dragging and dropping the EJB components shown in the composite palette or new component and connector icons to visually generate the architecture based on the C2 style. The apparatus further includes a component property editor module for describing properties and specifications of the EJB components in an architecture, and a glue code and composite EJB generator module for generating composite EJB component code and related glue code.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 29, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Abstract: A receiving system for estimating symbol timing in a feed-forward manner comprises: a matched filter for receiving baseband signals and dividing them into real and imaginary numbers; a symbol timing estimator for receiving signals from the matched filter and estimating symbol timing using variables; a storage unit for storing the variables and outputting them according to requests of the symbol timing estimator; an interpolator for receiving a symbol timing estimate from the symbol timing estimator, and interpolating symbol-reading timing of the baseband signal; a delayer for delaying the baseband signal input to the interpolator; an RF/IF signal processor for receiving RF signals and performing RF/IF signal processing; and a baseband converter for converting the signal output from the RF/IF signal processor into baseband signals, and outputting them to the matched filter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 28, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Seung-Joon Lee, Yong-Hoon Cho, Ho-Jin Lee
Abstract: In an apparatus for embedding digital watermarks into an image, a watermark embedding region extraction unit extracts an image region to contain watermarks from a wavelet transformed entire image. A watermark generation unit generates a watermark data row to be embedded according to a user's private key. A normalization operation unit normalizes the quantized data value by using a quantization unit into a normalized data value. An inverse quantization inversely quantizes and outputs the normalized data value. A watermark embedment unit embeds a watermark-embedded data value as a corresponding pixel data value into the watermark embedding region, wherein the watermark-embedded data value is obtained by subtracting, from the inversely quantized data value, the watermark data value added prior to the quantization.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 27, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Yong-Seok Seo, Sanghyun Joo, Weon Geun Oh
Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus for suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering and the method thereof that a threshold fiber input power is raised in order to prevent loss of an inputted light by stimulated Brillouin scattering being generated in a case that a signal having a strong intensity is inputted to the optical fiber and so a light signal having more strong intensity can be inputted to the optical fiber. The apparatus for suppressing the SBS includes a plurality of first transmission unit, each of which has a wavelength separation, for transmitting information signals through a signal channel; and a second transmission unit for generating and transmitting a supervisory signal of which a modulation frequency and an intensity generates a phase modulation to the plurality of information signals, through a supervisory channel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2000
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignees:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Telecom
Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of hydroxylammonium, said process comprising the steps of: a) feeding gaseous hydrogen to a reaction mixture, said reaction mixture comprising an aqueous reaction medium and a gaseous phase; b) catalytically reducing, in said reaction mixture, nitrate or nitrogen oxide with hydrogen to form the hydroxylammonium; c) withdrawing a gas mixture from the reaction mixture, said gas mixture comprising gaseous hydrogen and gaseous non-hydrogen compounds; d) separating at least part of the gaseous non-hydrogen compounds from the gas mixture to obtain a hydrogen-enriched gas; and e) passing the hydrogen-enriched gas to a hydrogenation zone.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
DSM IP Assets B.V.
Inventors:
Arno Herald Benneker, Johannes A. L. Brouwers, Godefridus M. Van Dortmont
Abstract: A radio network controller of an IMT-2000 asynchronous system that includes a Node-B matching radio access system for accessing to a Node-B; a traffic processing radio access system for performing a soft handover of radio traffic channels of the base transceiver stations; and an ATM switch accessible to the traffic processing radio access system, for providing a path for communicating traffic and control data in the radio network controller, switching ATM cells, providing a path for transmitting various traffic between radio network controllers and soft handover between the radio network controllers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Jae Deug Jang, Hyeong Jun Park, Moon Soo Jang, Jee Hwan Ahn
Abstract: A system for performing face registration and authentication using face information, and a method thereof. A set of readily distinguishable features for each user is selected at a registration step and only the set of features selected at the registration step is used at a face authentication step, whereby memory use according to unnecessary information and amount of data calculation for face authentication can be reduced. Thus, the present system has an advantage in that identity authentication through face authentication can be performed even under restricted environments of a USB token or smart card with limited resources. The present system further has advantages in that authentication performance is improved, as readily distinguishable feature information is used, and the time for face authentication is reduced, as face authentication is performed using the SVM built by using the optimal set of readily distinguishable features at a training step.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 20, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Kyunghee Lee, Yongwha Chung, Chee Hang Park, Hyeran Byun
Abstract: A continuous hydroformylation process for forming an aldehyde comprising 1) reacting an olefinically unsaturated compound containing from 2 to 30 carbon atoms with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a rhodium-bisphosphite ligand complex catalyst and 2) distilling a mixture comprising at least a part of the catalyst of 1), wherein the distilling is performed in the substantial absence of molecular hydrogen.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 8, 2006
Assignee:
DSM IP Assets B.V.
Inventors:
Otto Erik Sielcken, Hubertus Adrianus Smits, Imre Toth
Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel module for the introduction of fuel from a fuel tank 91) to an internal combustion engine, comprising a supply pump (9), through which fuel is taken up and supplied to a container (2) and a main pump (3), which takes up fuel from the container (2) and supplies the internal combustion engine at high pressure. The supply pump (9) is a low-pressure pump, the outlet of which feeds into the container (2) through a fine filter (11).
Abstract: To provide a radiation-sensitive curable liquid resin composition having excellent applicability and capable of producing a film excelling in hardness, scratch resistance, adhesion, transparency, and appearance of the surface of the film. A curable liquid resin composition comprising: (A) particles prepared by bonding at least one oxide of an element selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminum, zirconium, titanium, zinc, germanium, indium, tin, antimony, and cerium to a specific organic compound which comprises a polymerizable unsaturated group and a group shown by —X—C(?Y)—NH— (wherein X is NH, O, or S, and Y is O or S), and preferably a silanol group, (B) a compound having two or more polymerizable unsaturated groups in the molecule, (C) a specific alkylene glycol organic solvent, and preferably (D) a polymerization initiator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 26, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2006
Assignees:
DSM IP Assets B.V., JSR Corporation, Japan Fine Coatings Co., Ltd.
Abstract: An efficient snapshot technique based on a mapping for a large logical volume shared in multiple hosts. According to the present invention, problems of time delays in a conventional snapshot technique is solved by employing a FAB and an SSB, which are bits representing whether a COW operation is carried out to a mapping entry. In other words, the present invention solves the problems of delaying a write operation of corresponding volume, which is simultaneously executed when a snapshot is created, until the snapshot creation is completed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 3, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Young Ho Kim, Dong Jae Kang, Yu Hyeon Bak, Chang Soo Kim, Bum Joo Shin, Myung Joon Kim
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for synchronizing user registration information in an inter-domain. In this synchronization method, the current position information of a random user is registered through a register message when the user moves from one user agent to another. An up-sync message is transmitted upstream of a tree structure and a down-sync message is transmitted downstream of the tree structure when user registration information is created or changed. The synchronization of the user registration information is carried out in upper and lower session initiation protocol servers/registrars having received the up-sync and down-sync messages, respectively.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 14, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2006
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Abstract: Plastic surfacing material of the FOUNTAINHEAD® type having a bold and aesthetically pleasing appearance is achieved by the use TFR pigments, the latter of which are manufactured by orienting reflective flake pigments in a plastic substrate and grinding the substrate to a particulate material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 2000
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2006
Assignee:
Formica Corporation
Inventors:
Jorge Alfonso, Leonard R. Elbon, Eric A. Franzoi, Donald Wayne Finnerty
Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor devices and method of fabricating the same. Anti-etch films are formed in the top corners of the device isolation film using a material that has a different etch selectivity ratio from nitride or oxide and is not etched in an oxide gate pre-cleaning process. It is thus possible to prevent formation of a moat at the top corners of the device isolation film and the gate oxide film from being thinly formed, thereby improving reliability and electrical characteristics of the device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2003
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2006
Assignee:
Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
Inventors:
Kwan Yong Lim, Heung Jae Cho, Jung Ho Lee
Abstract: A leadless plastic chip carrier is fabricated by selectively etching a leadframe strip to reduce a thickness of the strip at a portion thereof. Selectively masking the surface of the leadframe strip using a mask, follows selectively etching, to provide exposed areas of the surface at the portion and contact pad areas on leadframe the strip. At least one layer of metal is deposited on the exposed areas to define a die attach pad on the portion of the leadframe strip with reduced thickness and to define contact pads on the surface of the strip. At least one semiconductor die is mounted to the die attach pad, followed by wire bonding the at least one semiconductor die to ones of the contact pads. The at least one semiconductor die, the wire bonds, and the contact pads are covered with an overmold material and the leadframe strip is etched to thereby remove the leadframe strip. The leadless plastic chip carrier is singulated from the leadframe strip.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 13, 2005
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2006
Assignee:
ASAT Ltd.
Inventors:
Mohan Kirloskar, Chun Ho Fan, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Kin Pui Kwan