Patents Assigned to A & A Corporation
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING GRAPH MATCHING
    Publication number: 20130297632
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing graph aggregation. In use, a graph with a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges is identified. Additionally, graph matching is performed on the vertices and edges of the graph by computing a graph matching, wherein the performance of the graph matching is optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael Cohen, Patrice Castonguay
  • DIVOT-FREE PLANARIZATION DIELECTRIC LAYER FOR REPLACEMENT GATE
    Publication number: 20130292746
    Abstract: After formation of a silicon nitride gate spacer and a silicon nitride liner overlying a disposable gate structure, a dielectric material layer is deposited, which includes a dielectric material that is not prone to material loss during subsequent exposure to wet or dry etch chemicals employed to remove disposable gate materials in the disposable gate structure. The dielectric material can be a spin-on dielectric material or can be a dielectric metal oxide material. The dielectric material layer and the silicon nitride liner are planarized to provide a planarized dielectric surface in which the disposable gate materials are physically exposed. Surfaces of the planarized dielectric layer is not recessed relative to surfaces of the silicon nitride layer during removal of the disposable gate materials and prior to formation of replacement gate structures, thereby preventing formation of metallic stringers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hemanth Jagannathan, Sanjay Mehta
  • PRECURSOR OF POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND
    Publication number: 20130296606
    Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I): wherein, in formula (I), R represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atom(s); Ra represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; X represents a halogen atom, or an alkyl- or aryl-sulfonyloxy group; L represents a divalent linking group; Z represents a (n+1)-valent organic group; and n represents an integer of 1 to 6, a plurality of Rs and Ras and Xs may be the same or different from each other, respectively, and when n represents 2 to 6, a plurality of Ls may be the same or different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
  • IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20130293721
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of determining a parameter relating to image processing without setting the parameter required for the image processing for each camera unit. An imaging camera information storage unit stores imaging camera information including arrangement information and functional information of a camera unit. An installation information acquiring unit acquires installation information of an imaging unit. An environmental information acquiring unit acquires environmental information surrounding the imaging unit. A parameter determination unit determines a parameter of image processing based on the imaging camera information, the installation information, and the environmental information. An image processing unit performs image processing based on the determined parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Takahashi
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130297916
    Abstract: A related art semiconductor device suffers from a problem that a processing capacity is decayed by switching an occupied state for each partition. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes an execution unit that executes an arithmetic instruction, and a scheduler including multiple first setting registers each defining a correspondence relationship between hardware threads and partitions, and generates a thread select signal on the basis of a partition schedule and a thread schedule. The scheduler outputs a thread select signal designating a specific hardware thread without depending on the thread schedule as the partition indicated by a first occupation control signal according to a first occupation control signal output when the execution unit executes a first occupation start instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Koji Adachi
  • Motion Detection System and Associated Methods
    Publication number: 20130292550
    Abstract: A lighting system which includes a light source to emit illuminating light and sense reflected light from an environment. The light source may be included in an array to be selectively enabled and disabled by the controller. The array may include a plurality of light sources, each of which may be sensitive to a wavelength respective to each light source, thus providing the array sensitivity to one or more wavelength. Each of the plurality of light sources in the array may be selectively operable between a sensing operation and an emitting operation. The sensing operation may be defined by the light source sensing the environmental light, and the emitting operation being defined by the light source emitting the illuminating light. The controller may selectively operate the light source between the passive operation and the active operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fredric S. Maxik, Eric Bretschneider, Pedro Medelius, David E. Bartine, Robert R. Soler, Gregory Flickinger
  • IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20130293902
    Abstract: A see-through image is generated in which a second content image group, which is placed on a second surface as one of respective opposite surfaces, is superposed on a first content image group, which is placed on a first surface as another of the respective opposite surfaces, so as to be visible therethrough. Movement of one of the first content image group and the second content image group is commanded, by designating a position or a mark on the see-through image displayed on a display unit through a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi SETO
  • ELECTRIC MOTOR AND REDUCTION MOTOR
    Publication number: 20130293054
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electric motor including a yoke formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape; permanent magnets arranged on an inner peripheral surface of the yoke; an armature including a rotary shaft journalled on the yoke, an armature core formed with a plurality of teeth and fixed onto the rotary shaft, an armature coil wound around the teeth of the armature core, a commutator having a plurality of segments and being fixed onto the rotary shaft, and a connecting wire connecting two segments arranged to face each other back to back around the rotary shaft, the armature being surrounded by the permanent magnets and accommodated within the yoke; and a first brush, a second brush, and a third brush coming into sliding contact with the segments of the commutator of the armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki SAITO, Ryuichi TAKAKUSAGI, Toshiyuki KIMURA, Yoshichika KAWASHIMA, Kenji SAKATA
  • CONTINUOUS BATCH TUNNEL WASHER AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20130291314
    Abstract: A method of washing fabric articles in a tunnel washer includes moving the fabric articles from the intake of the washer to the discharge of the washer through first and second sectors that are a pre-wash zone. Liquid can be counter flowed in the wash interior along a flow path that is generally opposite the direction of travel of the fabric articles. The main wash zone can be heated as an option. In the wash zone, there is a pre-rinse and/or a rinse. The fabric articles are transferred to a water extraction device that enables removal of excess water. A sour solution can be added to the fabric articles while extracting excess water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: PELLERIN MILNOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Russell H. Poy, Samuel Garofalo
  • FILTER AND CLASSIFICATION AGREEMENT FOR MAC HEADER BASED TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH
    Publication number: 20130294429
    Abstract: A transceiver of an apparatus supports communication with at least one additional apparatus. A baseband processing module indicates that first frame classification information includes at least a portion of MAC header content of a MAC frame via a filter and classification agreement included in the communication between the apparatus and the at least one additional apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Matthew James Fischer
  • VOICE ENTRY OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20130297316
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for voice entry of information are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A conversion rule is applied to a voice input. An entry field input is generated, wherein the conversion rule allows the voice input to be distinct from the entry field input, and wherein the voice input obfuscates the entry field input. The entry field input is provided to an application, wherein the entry field is usable to populate a data entry field in the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Marc Kevin Johlic
  • 3D video decoding apparatus and 3D video decoding method
    Patent number: 8577208
    Abstract: A 3D decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes left-eye and right-eye code signals to generate left-eye and right-eye decode signals; an error determining unit which determines an error of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals; an output determining unit which determines, when there is an error in one of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals, whether the one of the code signals that is determined as including an error has an error data mount equal to or greater than a first threshold; and an output unit which outputs neither the left-eye nor the right-eye code signal when the error data amount is smaller than the first threshold, and outputs only the decode signal obtained by decoding the other of the code signals when the error data amount is equal to or greater than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Ikeuchi, Kengo Nishimura, Shoji Kawamura
  • Outer loop power control for wireless communications
    Patent number: 8577407
    Abstract: A base station configured for outer loop power control receives an uplink dedicated channel transmission from a wireless transmit/receive unit. The base station transmits transmit power control commands in response to the received uplink channel transmission and determines if the wireless transmit/receive unit is in a discontinuous transmission mode. The base station adjusts a target SIR based on which transmission mode for the wireless transmit/receive unit is detected. The value for the transmit power control command is derived from the adjusted target SIR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Chang-Soo Koo, Sudheer A. Grandhi, Stephen E. Terry
  • Reduction of misting in high speed offset printing
    Patent number: 8573737
    Abstract: An ink or coating composition is rheologically tested at three or more temperatures which substantially cover the anticipated range of printing operation temperatures expected to be encountered during printing to determine the value of the rheological parameters viscous modulus, phase angle and phase-angle slope, and to identify values of these parameters encountered during printing around which the structural behavior of the ink or coating changes. An ink composition that has a phase angle of at least 55°, a viscous modulus of at least 150 Pa, and a phase-angle slope of at least ?0.5°/° C. exhibits low misting when employed in high speed printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Saeid Savarmand, Richard R. Durand, Jr.
  • Battery charger with automatic voltage detection
    Patent number: 8575899
    Abstract: A battery charger is disclosed that is configured to be connected to an external battery by way of external battery cables. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the battery charger is configured with automatic voltage detection which automatically determines the nominal voltage of the battery connected to its battery charger terminals and charges the battery as a function of the detected nominal voltage irrespective of the nominal voltage selected by a user. Various safeguards are built into the battery charger to avoid overcharging a battery. For battery chargers with user selectable nominal battery voltage charging modes, battery charger is configured to over-ride a user selected battery voltage mode if it detects that the battery connected to the battery charger terminals is different than the user selected charging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Schumacher Electric Corporation
    Inventors: John Whiting, Matthew A. Heins
  • Generating still images and video by capture of images projected by light passing through a display screen
    Patent number: 8576325
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating still images and video by capture of images projected by light passing through a display screen are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes controlling light emitting components of a display screen to activate in a sequence for displaying a sequence of images. For example, in an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display screen, the method may include controlling a subset of the display screen OLEDs to activate in sequence to display a sequence of images. The displayed sequence of images may appear to a viewer of the display screen to be a still image or a video. The method may control light emitting components different subsets of the LEDs to be activated in the sequence, such that different areas of the display screen display images in each part of the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clark A. Dudek, Phillip D. Jones, David B. Roberts, Adrian X. Rodriguez, Rupal S. Soneji
  • Nucleic acid analyzer, automatic analyzer, and analysis method
    Patent number: 8574891
    Abstract: This invention relates to a nucleic acid analyzer comprising: reaction containers capable of containing nucleic-acid-containing samples and reagents; an incubation mechanism capable of controlling temperatures of reaction containers set at different levels; an analysis mechanism for analyzing the samples contained in the reaction containers; and a transport mechanism for transporting a reaction container. In accordance with the assay technique to be performed on a nucleic-acid-containing sample, the transport mechanism transports a reaction container to a given incubation mechanism in a given order. The reaction container subjected to the process of sample preparation is transported to the analysis mechanism at a given time and the sample is analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kohshi Maeda, Masato Ishizawa, Minoru Sano, Hironori Kaji
  • Multi-part electrode for a semiconductor processing plasma reactor and method of replacing a portion of a multi-part electrode
    Patent number: 8573153
    Abstract: An improved upper electrode system has a multi-part electrode in which a central portion of the electrode having high wear is replaceable independent of an outer peripheral portion of the electrode. The upper electrode can be used in plasma processing systems for processing semiconductor substrates, such as by etching or CVD. The multi-part upper electrode system is particularly useful for large size wafer processing chambers, such as 300 mm wafer processing chambers for which monolithic electrodes are unavailable or costly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Fischer, William S. Kennedy, Peter Loewenhardt, David Trussell
  • Recording medium and method for manufacturing recording medium
    Patent number: 8574699
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate having a label-side surface on one side and a recording layer for recording and reproducing information on the other side. The label-side surface of the substrate has a mirror surface portion and a rough surface portion, a step having a step height of 10 ?m or less is formed between the mirror surface portion and the rough surface portion, and an average roughness of the rough surface portion is between 10 ?m and 2 ?m, inclusive. Visible information is formed on the label-side surface by using the mirror surface portion and the rough surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Tonosaki, Takeshi Gouko
  • Retainer for suspended thermal protection elements in a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 8572986
    Abstract: A hanger system includes a pin with a head section which defines a pin axis. A clip assembly captures the head section to permit movement of the pin within a hanger in a direction transverse to the pin axis. A fastener which retains the clip assembly to the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven D. Roberts, Jocelyn Charis Damgaard