Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • Patent number: 8971965
    Abstract: A method for operating a color display of a mobile device is provided. According to the method, a usage condition of the mobile device is detected and based on the detected usage condition a color scheme of information displayed on the color display is automatically adapted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Jonas Gustavsson
  • Patent number: 8973012
    Abstract: An approach for composing an analytic solution is provided. After associating descriptive schemas with web services and web-based applets, a set of input data sources is enumerated for selection. A desired output type is received. Based on the descriptive schemas that specify required inputs and outputs of the web services and web-based applets, combinations of web services and web-based applets are generated. The generated combinations achieve a result of the desired output type from one of the enumerated input data sources. Each combination is derived from available web services and web-based applets. The combinations include one or more workflows that provide an analytic solution. A workflow whose result satisfies the business objective may be saved. Steps in a workflow may be iteratively refined to generate a workflow whose result satisfies the business objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Thilina Gunarathne, Eugene M. Maximilien, William S. Spangler
  • Patent number: 8970127
    Abstract: A lighting circuit according to embodiments includes: a self-hold element connected in series to an AC power source that generates power for lighting an illumination load, together with the illumination load, the self-hold element being configured to control supply of the power provided by the AC power source to the illumination load by the self-hold element being turned on/off; a noise prevention circuit connected in parallel to the self-hold element; and a damping circuit configured to connect a damping resistance to the noise prevention circuit parallely only for a predetermined period from turning-on of the self-hold element, thereby preventing the self-hold element from being repeatedly turned on/off during a period in which the self-hold element is on under normal conditions, due to a transient during power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Naoko Iwai, Hajime Osaki, Hiroshi Kubota, Takuro Hiramatsu, Katsusuke Uchino, Masatoshi Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8972407
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus determines a weight of each physical feature for hierarchical clustering by acquiring training data of multiple pieces of content in triplets with label information indicating a pair specified by a user as having a highest degree of similarity among three contents of the triplet and executing hierarchical clustering using a feature vector of each piece of content of the training data and the weight of each feature to determine the hierarchical structure of the training data. The information processing apparatus updates the weight of each feature so that the degree of agreement between a pair combined first as being the same clusters among three contents of the triplet in a determined hierarchical structure and a pair indicated by label information corresponding to the triplet increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Nagano, Masafumi Nishimura, Takashima Ryoichi, Ryuki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 8971066
    Abstract: A current control unit takes a deviation between a current command value and a current flowing through an inverter of a power conversion device, and controls the inverter based on the deviation. A harmonic sensing part receives input of an output current of an AC filter, and outputs a predetermined order harmonic of the input current in a direct current value form. A disturbance observer estimates the disturbance of the harmonic based on the output current and a coefficient defined as an inverse function of a transfer function from harmonic suppression current command value to filter output current detection value. A harmonic suppression control unit takes the deviation between the estimated harmonic disturbance and a disturbance command value that suppresses the disturbance, and calculates a harmonic suppression current command value. The harmonic suppression current command value is superimposed on the current command value of the current control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Meidensha Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunobu Oi, Yugo Tadano
  • Patent number: 8971148
    Abstract: A first exemplary aspect of the present invention is a word line selection circuit where address decode signals composed of a power supply voltage and a first voltage lower than a ground voltage are input, and that a word line selection signal composed of the first voltage and a second voltage higher than the power supply voltage is output not via a level shift circuit according to the address decode signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Masahiro Yoshida, Noriaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 8966745
    Abstract: A lead assembly includes a lead with a distal end and a proximal end. The lead includes a plurality of electrodes disposed at the distal end and a plurality of terminals disposed at the proximal end. The lead also defines at least one central lumen and a plurality of outer lumens. The central and outer lumens extend from the proximal end to the distal end such that the plurality of outer lumens extend laterally from the at least one central lumen. The lead further includes a plurality of conductive wires. Each conductive wire couples at least one of the plurality of electrodes electrically to at least one of the plurality of terminals. At least two conductive wires are disposed in each of the plurality of outer lumens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventor: John Michael Barker
  • Patent number: 8970157
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a feedback filter that has filter characteristics that a frequency response gain is substantially one at frequencies equal to or lower than a filter cutoff frequency, a frequency response gain decreases with increase in frequency in a range from the filter cutoff frequency ?fL to a filter upper limit frequency ?fH higher than the filter cutoff frequency ?fL, and a frequency response gain is substantially constant at frequencies equal to or higher than the filter upper limit frequency ?fH, and performs computing to apply the filter characteristics to a feedback transfer function, wherein a control-constant set unit sets a speed gain Kv and at least one of the filter cutoff frequency ?fL and the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to reduce a ratio of the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to the filter cutoff frequency ?fL with increase in the speed gain Kv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Yuji Igarashi, Shuya Sano, Takashi Isoda
  • Patent number: 8970478
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor configured to detect the position and orientation of a user viewpoint with respect to an auto-stereoscopic display; a processor configured to determine a surface viewable from the user viewpoint of at least one three dimensional object; and an image generator configured to generate a left and right eye image for display on the auto-stereoscopic display dependent on the surface viewable from the user viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Panu Marten Jesper Johansson
  • Patent number: 8971708
    Abstract: A system, a method and a related device for signal transmission are provided in order to improve utilization efficiency of the fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Huang, Han Li, Lei Wang, Dechao Zhang
  • Patent number: 8967177
    Abstract: Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes a body that defines a bore that extends through the body. A ball valve assembly is engaged to the body. The ball valve assembly includes a ball valve disposed in the bore the body and an actuator that extends through the body. The ball valve defines a passage through the ball valve. The actuator is engaged to the ball valve and includes a plurality of teeth. A sleeve is disposed about the body. The sleeve is configured for at least partial rotation about the body. The sleeve includes a gear protrusion that has a plurality of teeth. The plurality of teeth engages the plurality of teeth of the actuator during rotation of the sleeve to actuate the ball valve between an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Haunhorst, Stephen Carl Taras
  • Patent number: 8967798
    Abstract: An optical system is configured using a coordinate system such that an origin 1 is placed at a middle point of centers of rotations 1L and 1R of both eyeballs 10L and 10R, and an object is specified in a viewing direction from the origin 1. A reference value of an angle of convergence ?CH0 is calculated with lines of fixations 13L0 and 13R0, a viewing direction of the lines of fixation being an object 12 which is placed at an intersection point at which the lines of fixations 13L0 and 13R0 cross after passing through design reference points 11PL and 11PR of eyeglass lenses 11L, 11R. The angle of convergence is calculated with the lines of fixations which extend to an object evaluation point in an arbitrary viewing direction and pass the eyeglass lenses, and a convergence aberration is calculated from a difference between the angle of convergence and the reference value of the angle of convergence ?CHO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuma Yamakaji
  • Patent number: 8968977
    Abstract: Continuous and semi-continuous emulsion aggregation processes for the production of toner particles are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Santiago Faucher, Kimberly D Nosella, Melanie Davis, Edward Graham Zwartz
  • Patent number: 8969315
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of producing enhanced placental stem cells by modulatory RNA molecules. Also provided herein are methods of using enhanced placental stem cells, for example, to treat individuals having a disease, disorder or condition caused by, or relating to, an unwanted or harmful immune response. Further provided herein are compositions comprising said enhanced placental stem cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Anthrogenesis Corporation
    Inventors: Stewart Abbot, Kathy E. Karasiewicz-Mendez, Vanessa Voskinarian-Berse, Xiaokui Zhang
  • Patent number: 8972852
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a structure analysis unit that analyses display control data including multiple structural units, in each of which information relating to display control is written, and extracts the structural units included in the display control data, a first structuring unit that generates first structured data for display control by linking, except for a structural unit in which information involving script processing is written, the structural units including at least a structural unit in which information relating to a layout of a display screen is written, among the extracted structural units, a second structuring unit that generates second structured data for display control by linking all of the extracted structural units, and a display control unit that displays a display screen using the first structured data, and, at a stage the second structured data is generated, redisplays the display screen using the second structured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Iwade, Kenji Hisanaga, Yoshinori Atake, Tomohiro Katsube, Yohei Hashimoto, Takuma Oiwa
  • Patent number: 8972745
    Abstract: A computer system includes a first storage area accessible by an operating system and a second storage area accessible by authorized functions only. According to some embodiments of the invention at least one protected storage area is implemented into the second storage area, wherein the operating system installs at least one secret key and/or at least one customized processing function into regions of the at least one protected storage area, wherein the operating system transfers data and/or parameters to process into regions of the at least one protected storage area, wherein the operating system selects one of the customized processing functions to execute, wherein the selected customized processing function is executed and accesses storage regions of the at least one protected storage area to process the data and/or parameters, and wherein resulting process data is read from the at least one protected storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Jordan, Angel Nunez Mencias, Joerg Schmidbauer, Klaus Werner
  • Patent number: 8970652
    Abstract: A camera having communication ability can switch a mode between a communication mode and a shooting mode. The camera combines features of a communication device and a digital camera. The camera comprises a communication device, an imaging device, and a switching device. The switching device switched the communication mode to the shooting mode responsive to completion of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Itaru Homma, Chiyuki Kuwata, Akira Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8971176
    Abstract: A process for an implicit logout of links to a fiber channel over Ethernet switch includes receiving, at a second switch, a first message from a first switch. The first message indicates an implicit link logout event on one of two or more links between the first switch and a node. Also, the process includes transmitting a second message from the second switch. The second message indicates zoning information for all of the two or more links between the first switch and the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roger G. Hathorn, Henry J. May, Christoph Raisch, Louis W. Ricci, Daniel Sentler
  • Patent number: 8972401
    Abstract: Defeating click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. Investigating cloaking includes providing script associated with a suspected spam URL, modifying the script to de-obfuscate the script and executing the modified script to reveal cloaking logic associated with the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Min Wang, Ming Ma
  • Patent number: D723660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Taiyou Hatta, Youji Niimi