Abstract: A method is provided for correcting a mask pattern to be formed on a photomask used in a lithographic step of a semiconductor device fabrication process. The method includes the steps of extracting an isolated pattern having an optically isolated portion from the mask pattern and providing, in an adjacent pattern extending parallel to the isolated portion of the isolated pattern and having a terminal end, an extended portion extending from the terminal end next to the isolated portion of the isolated pattern along a direction in which the isolated portion of the isolated pattern extends.

Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5123854. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5123854. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5123854 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5123854 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

Abstract: A physical quantity detection system includes a pixel array unit including pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, where each of the pixel converts an externally supplied physical quantity into an electrical signal, a readout unit configured to read out a signal from each of the pixels n times by changing the sensitivity each time, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a storage unit configured to store m signals out of the n signals read out from the pixel, where m is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and is less than n, and a write control unit configured to compare the signal read out from the pixel by the readout unit with a predetermined threshold value and configured to control a write operation of the signal into the storage unit on the basis of the comparison result.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for the automated routing and processing of telecommunication service orders. A system and method in accordance with the present invention may further prioritize the analysis and processing of telecommunication service orders, identify and classify past due telecommunication service orders for analysis and processing, and manage the order of completion of components of a telecommunication service order. A system and process in accordance with the present invention receives a service order and parses it to find messages on the service order that are included on a message table. Analysis rules provide actions to be taken with a service order based on the messages found in the service order.

Abstract: A recording liquid to be attached in a droplet state to an object for the purpose of recording on the object is disclosed, which contains a coloring matter, a solvent for dissolving or dispersing the coloring matter therein, and at least one cyclic aliphatic compound represented by the following chemical formula (1): wherein Ra and Rb each represents an alkyl group of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and are satisfied with the relation of [2?(Ra+Rb)?4].

Abstract: An organic semiconductor material represented by the following general formula (1): wherein X1 to X4 each independently represent a chalcogen atom; and at least one of R1 and R2 represents a substituent for obtaining solubility, and R1 and R2 may be connected to each other to form a ring.

Abstract: To reduce white spots by optimizing an impurity concentration of a p-type impurity doped region of a well contact, a size of a contact portion, a position of an n-type region serving as a photoelectric converter, and so on. In a solid state image pickup device in which a semiconductor substrate 11 includes a pixel region where a plurality of pixels are arranged, each pixel including a photoelectric converter 21, and a pixel well 12 shared by the respective pixels, a well contact 14 supplying a reference voltage to the pixel well 12 includes: an electrode 15 supplying a reference voltage; a p-type impurity doped region 16 placed in a surface of the pixel well 12; and a contact portion 17 placed in the p-type impurity doped region 16 so as to be connected to the electrode 15 and having a higher concentration than the p-type impurity doped region 16. The p-type impurity doped region 16 is doped with at least a p-type impurity, with an impurity concentration of 1×1019 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: An audiovisual system is provided for a facility having a facility distribution system with a plurality of channels receivable throughout the facility. A plurality of digital media storage devices store digital content files and each reproduce a respective digital content file as respective analog output signals. Each of the respective analog output signals is coupled to respective channels of the facility distribution system. A main server system is coupled to a LAN and provides a directory of subscribed content items in a content library accessible over a WAN. The main server system maintains respective listings of downloaded content items corresponding to each of the digital media storage devices, wherein the main server system is accessible to a user for initiating reproduction of a selected subscribed content item at a selected time.

Abstract: A system and method for managing subscriber usage of a packet network. The system may include at least one database configured to store network performance information of data packets including real-time content and non-real-time content communicated over a packet network. The database may further be configured to store the network performance information as related to respective subscribers of a communications carrier managing the communications network. In one embodiment, the database may include an indicia associated with each subscriber and the network performance information may be collected during communications by respective subscribers over the packet network.

Abstract: A morphological operation is applied to an SEM image to obtain a idealized image, and the idealized image is used to detect a defect in a subject of the SEM image. The defect is detected by subtraction of the idealized image from the original image. Morphological operations are used also to entrance the visibility of defects or to check for irregularities in patterns. Other described methods comprise: growing a flow from seed points in the image, in order to define maps in which particles can be identified; checking for separation of objects in the image by growing flows from seed points located on the objects; segmenting the image into supposed identical objects and applying statistical methods to identify the defective ones.

Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic according to one embodiment includes receiving a packet addressed to a receiver device from a sender device, identifying the packet at a network layer to determine an application and/or protocol associated with the packet, and generating traffic priority information associated with the packet based upon the identification. In at least one embodiment, the traffic priority information indicates traffic prioritization between the sender device and the receiver device. The method further includes forwarding the packet to the receiver device, receiving an acknowledgment packet from the receiving device, and inserting the traffic priority information into the acknowledgment packet at a transport layer. In at least one embodiment, the acknowledgment packet is forwarded to the sender device. In various embodiments, the packet is identified at the network layer using deep packet inspection.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for burn-in and/or functional testing of microelectronic circuits of unsingulated wafers. A large number of power, ground, and signal connections can be made to a large number of contacts on a wafer. The apparatus has a cartridge that allows for fanning-in of electric paths. A distribution board has a plurality of interfaces that are strategically positioned to provide a dense configuration. The interfaces are connected through flexible attachments to an array of first connector modules. Each one of the first connector modules can be independently connected to a respective one of a plurality of second connector modules, thereby reducing stresses on a frame of the apparatus. Further features include for example a piston that allows for tight control of forces exerted by terminals onto contacts of a wafer.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV107099. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV107099, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV107099 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV107099 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV107099.

Abstract: In a display in which pixel circuits each including a drive transistor, switching transistors and a capacitor are arranged in rows and columns, two-stage mobility correction is implemented in which mobility correction with an intermediate grayscale level (gray level) is executed before mobility correction is executed with an input signal (Vsig) level being written to the gate of the drive transistor when the switching transistor is in the conducting state. Thus, even if the mobility correction period is constant, mobility correction can be implemented for all the grayscales within the mobility correction period. This feature allows achievement of a uniform image quality free from streaks and unevenness attributed to variation in the mobility from pixel to pixel.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV016902. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV016902, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV016902 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV016902 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV016902.

Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information.

Abstract: A polishing pad conditioning apparatus includes a laser beam generating unit along with a system to transmit or focus the beam. The unit is mounted on a conditioning arm, such that the laser beam may be directed perpendicular to the plane of the polishing pad, which is next to the polishing platen. The conditioning arm is capable of moving across the polishing table to scan the pad radius, allowing the laser to traverse the pad radius.

Abstract: Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are structurally related to the pepsins, thought to be restricted to the hoofed (ungulate) mammals and characterized by being expressed specifically in the outer epithelial cell layer (chorion/trophectoderm) of the placenta. By cloning expressed genes from ovine and bovine placental cDNA libraries, the inventors estimate that cattle, sheep, and most probably all ruminant Artiodactyla, possess possibly 100 or more PAG genes, many of which are placentally expressed. The PAGs are highly diverse in sequence, with regions of hypervariability confined largely to surface-exposed loops. Selected PAG that are products of the invasive binucleate cells, expressed highly in early pregnancy at the time of trophoblast invasion and expressed weakly, if at all, in late gestation are useful in the early diagnosis of pregnancy. In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to immunoassays for detecting these PAGs.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte battery h which includes a wound electrode incorporating a positive electrode with a two-sided elongated positive-electrode collector on which positive-electrode active material layers are formed, a two sided negative electrode with an elongated negative-electrode collector on which negative-electrode active material layers are formed and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the positive and the negative electrodes where, the total film thickness of the positive-electrode active material layers satisfies a range from 60 ?m to 150 ?m, and the ratio A/B of the total film thickness A of the positive electrode active material layers with respect to the total thickness B of the negative-electrode active material layers satisfies a range from 0.5 to 1.2.