Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • AV EQUIPMENT AND INITIALIZATION METHOD OF THE EQUIPMENT
    Publication number: 20130169883
    Abstract: AV equipment enables individual initial setting for each user utilizing near field communication without requiring any cumbersome operation. A determiner determines whether or not identification information of a portable device obtained by a near field communicator is identical to registered identification information to detect the registered portable device, which is located close to the AV equipment. A setter reads initial setting detail corresponding to the portable device detected by the determiner from the memory, and sets the read initial setting detail to the AV equipment. In searching the portable device, an output power controller initially sets the output power to an initial value, and gradually increases the output power while the registered portable device is not detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro SEO
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BATTERY SHELL APPLICABLE TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130171509
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing a battery shell applicable to an electronic device. The method includes providing a metal substrate, a metal implanting component including a connecting part disposed thereon; bonding the metal implanting component to the metal substrate; and forming a plastic component on the metal substrate by an insert molding process. The plastic component covers the metal implanting component. By bonding the plastic component to the bonding part of the metal implanting component, the bonding strength is enforced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
  • OPPORTUNISTIC FRAME BUFFER COPY FOR EFFICIENT MEMORY PARTIAL POWER DOWN
    Publication number: 20130169656
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may be directed to a graphics system of a computer system. The system may include a frame buffer having a number of partitions respectively mapped to a number of discrete memory devices and a dedicated copy buffer operable to store new image frames, mapped to a first memory device. The first memory device corresponds to a first partition of the number of partitions. The system may also include a loader circuit coupled between the frame buffer and the dedicated copy buffer, operable to copy new image frames from the frame buffer to the dedicated copy buffer. The system may also include a clocked output coupled to receive an image frame from the dedicated copy buffer and operable to drive a display device therewith. The system may enter a low power state wherein a number of the discrete memory devices are powered off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas Cheng, Sau Yan Keith Li, Thomas Edward Dewey, Franciscus W. Sijstermans
  • Visual Inspection Device, Visual Inspection Method, And Computer Program
    Publication number: 20130170734
    Abstract: Inputs of a plurality of images constituting a group of images of items regarded as non-defective items are previously accepted and stored, and a defect threshold for detecting a defective portion of an inspection object is set based on the plurality of stored images. A defect amount to be compared with a determination threshold for making a non-defective/defective determination on the inspection object is calculated with respect to each of the plurality of stored images based on the set defective threshold, and whether or not each of the calculated defect amounts is an outlier is tested by use of at least one of a parametric technique and a non-parametric technique. Outlier information for specifying an image whose defect amount has been tested to be the outlier is displayed and outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Keyence Corporation
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTENT RETRIEVAL AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20130170753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of content retrieval and a program which facilitate recognizing content details of a moving image by displaying a retrieval result for each of a plurality of images. A metadata extracting unit 22 extracts metadata such as information of a representative image from content which is supplied from a content input unit 21 and stores the metadata in a metadata database 24. An image feature quantity extracting unit 23 extracts image feature quantity from content and stores the image feature quantity in an image feature quantity database 25 while extracting image feature quantity from a retrieval image as well. A retrieving unit 27 compares the image feature quantity of the retrieval image with the image feature quantity stored in the image feature quantity database 25 and specifies a still image which is similar to the retrieval image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Microwave Excited Ultraviolet Lamp System With Data Logging and Retrieval Circuit and Method
    Publication number: 20130169151
    Abstract: A microwave excited ultraviolet lamp system with a data logging and retrieval circuit and method for operating the same. The data logging and retrieval circuit stores operational data in a cache memory using a FIFO data storage protocol. The contents of the cache memory are periodically copied to a larger removable memory so that the removable memory contains a relatively long historical record of the system operational parameters. The data logging and retrieval circuit includes a data port configured to load the contents of the cache memory into an external device when the device is coupled to the data port. A second data port allows the external device to supply power to the data logging and retrieval circuit so that data may be retrieved when the internal power supply is malfunctioning. Data stored in the removable memory may be protected so that it may only be accessed by authorized personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Borsuk, James Khoury, Ed McGhee, James Smith
  • IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20130169640
    Abstract: A projection image is generated from a three-dimensional image by projecting an observation target in a predetermined projection direction. The generated projection image is displayed at a center of a display screen of a display device. A region extending in the predetermined projection direction from a central part of the display screen is set as set region, and at least a part of an overlapped region between the set region, which has been set, and the observation target is determined, as rotation center candidate region. Center of rotation is determined in the determined rotation center candidate region or in the vicinity thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: FUJIFILM Corporation
  • Apparatus
    Publication number: 20130170120
    Abstract: An apparatus including a main section including a display configured to be located on a first face of the main section; at least one movable section coupled to the main section, the at least one movable section including at least one acoustic transducer port located on a first face of the movable section, wherein in a first mode of operation the first face of the at least one movable section is configured to form an extension of the first face of the apparatus and locate the acoustic transducer port on the same face as the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Nigel Richardson
  • MULTI-DIAMETER SPEAKER VENT PORTS
    Publication number: 20130170691
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to controlling frequency response in speaker assemblies. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a speaker assembly including a speaker, a body supporting the speaker in such a manner as to define a back chamber between the speaker and the body, and a vent port formed in the body and extending through the body, the vent port comprising a first stage having a first diameter, a second stage having a second diameter different than the first diameter, and a step between the first stage and the second stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Louis Barinaga, Carlos Manzanedo
  • CHANGING THE LOCATION OF A BUFFER BAY IN A NETLIST
    Publication number: 20130174114
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a buffer bay is represented with a moveable object that has a location within a unit in a netlist. The location of the moveable object that represents the buffer bay is changed to a new location in the netlist if changing the location improves placement within the unit. In an embodiment, a net weight of a net that connects the moveable object to an artificial pin is considered in determining whether to change the location to the new location. In an embodiment a bounding area that encompasses the location is considered in determining whether to change the location to the new location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
  • POLICY-BASED SCALING OF COMPUTING RESOURCES IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20130174168
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for policy-driven (e.g., price-sensitive) scaling of computing resources in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). In a typical embodiment, a workload request for a customer will be received and a set of computing resources available to process the workload request will be identified. It will then be determined whether the set of computing resources are sufficient to process the workload request. If the set of computing resources are under-allocated (or are over-allocated), a resource scaling policy may be accessed. The set of computing resources may then be scaled based on the resource scaling policy, so that the workload request can be efficiently processed while maintaining compliance with the resource scaling policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kelly Abuelsaad, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Soobaek Jang
  • Measuring instrument
    Patent number: 8478562
    Abstract: A measuring instrument includes a main body, a stylus configured to be movable in relation to the main body, an encoder for detecting the amount of displacement of the stylus relative to the main body, a calculating section for calculating a measurement value from the amount of displacement detected by the encoder, a display section for displaying the measurement value calculated by the calculating section, an operation section for issuing a command to the calculating section, and a storage section that stores an effective measurement range larger than a lower limit and smaller than an upper limit of the movement stroke of the stylus. The calculating section makes a determination as to whether or not the amount of displacement detected by the encoder falls within the effective measurement range stored in the storage section and displays the result of such a determination on the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Sasaki
  • Detecting locking discipline violations on shared resources
    Patent number: 8479166
    Abstract: Detecting locking discipline violations on shared resources. For example, a method of detecting locking discipline violations of shared resources of a computing platform, by a testing process to be executed concurrently with one or more other processes on said computing platform, the testing process comprising: locking a shared resource of said computing platform; reading a value of the shared resource; locally storing the value of the shared resource; rereading the value of the shared resource after a predefined time period; and generating a locking discipline violation report if the value of said shared resource as reread by said rereading is different from the value of said resource as locally stored by said locally storing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yarden Nir-Buchbinder, Orna Raz-Pelleg, Rachel Tzoref, Shmuel Ur, Aviad Zlotnick
  • Method and apparatus for the production of crystalline silicon substrates
    Patent number: 8475590
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a crystalline ribbon continuously from a melt pool of liquid feed material, e.g. silicon. The silicon is melted and flowed into a growth tray to provide a melt pool of liquid silicon. Heat is passively extracted by allowing heat to flow from the melt pool up through a chimney. Heat is simultaneously applied to the growth tray to keep the silicon in its liquid phase while heat loss is occurring through the chimney. A template is placed in contact with the melt pool as heat is lost through the chimney so that the silicon starts to “freeze” (i.e. solidify) and adheres to the template. The template is then pulled from the melt pool thereby producing a continuous ribbon of crystalline silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: AMG Idealcast Solar Corporation
    Inventor: Roger F. Clark
  • Location determination in wireless communication systems
    Patent number: 8477690
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a mobile station receives a location beacon transmitted from multiple base stations based on a transmission plan for a predefined downlink location based services zone in the superframes of a signal frame structure. The transmission plan includes spreading transmissions of the location beacon that are unique to respective base stations. The mobile station identifies the base stations based on the respective location beacons and the transmission plan. The mobile station identifies a present location based on the location beacons and the identities of the base stations that from which the location beacons were received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Alexander Maltsev, Kamran Etemad, Roman O. Maslennikov, Mikhail A. Shilov, Yang-Seok Choi, Andrey Chervyakov
  • Method and apparatus for bonded substrates
    Patent number: 8474506
    Abstract: An apparatus for bonding substrates includes a base member having a top surface and a recessed region which is configured for receiving at least a first substrate. The apparatus also has a plurality of support members disposed over the top surface for supporting a second substrate peripherally over the first substrate. Each support member is configured to vary a separation between the first substrate and the second substrate. Moreover, a pressure bar is configured to cause a center portion of the second substrate to contact the first substrate while the support members maintain peripheral separation between the first substrate and the second substrate. In operation, a bonded region between the first and the second substrates is expanded radially from the center portion when the support members are positioned to reduce the separation between the first and the second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri V. Sokolov, Donald Roy, Tyler Hook
  • Techniques to reduce false detection of control channel messages in a wireless network
    Patent number: 8478258
    Abstract: A method and system of reducing false detection of control channel messages in a wireless communication system. This facilitates blind detection of control channel messages in the wireless communication network. In one embodiment of the invention, the control messages in the wireless communication system are randomized or scrambled to minimize or lower the probability of false detection of the control channel messages. The control channel message includes, but is not limited to, an Assignment Advanced Media Access Protocol (A-A-MAP) Information Element (IE) and the like. In one embodiment of the invention, the contents of the A-A-MAP IE are randomized or scrambled before encoding into A-A-MAP symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yi Hsuan, Hujun Yin
  • Camera device, exposure control method, and program
    Patent number: 8477212
    Abstract: A camera device is provided with an imager that outputs a long exposure signal and a short exposure signal within one field period; a knee processor that compresses a long exposure signal having the luminance level of a knee point or higher at a compression rate (i.e., decreases an inclination of an incident light amount-luminance level line, representing a variation in a luminance level with an amount of incident light); and a knee controller that adjusts the knee point and the compression rate according to a luminance level of a synthesized signal obtained by synthesizing the long exposure signal and the short exposure signal. In this knee control, the knee point decreases with an increase in the luminance level of the synthesized signal, and the inclination is adjusted to approach an original inclination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Oyabu, Yasuji Nakamura, Satoshi Kawakami
  • Chromatographic measurement apparatus
    Patent number: 8474303
    Abstract: A chromatographic measurement apparatus for measuring a color development state of an insoluble carrier with a sample solution and a label solution developed thereon to test a test article, the insoluble carrier including a test detection area where a material that binds specifically to a test article is immobilized and a control detection area used for determining an end of measurement. The chromatographic measurement apparatus includes: a determining unit for carrying out determination of validity and determination of necessity of amplification of a test result of the test article; and an amplifying unit for amplifying the color development state according to the result of the determination of necessity of amplification by the determining unit. The amplification is carried out only when it is determined that amplification is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Inana, Tomonori Nishio, Junichi Katada
  • Power measuring system, measuring apparatus, load terminal, and device control system
    Patent number: 8476895
    Abstract: A power measuring system, a measuring apparatus, a load terminal, and a device control system are provided. A voltage sensor detects a voltage waveform, and a current sensor acquires a current waveform, of a power line in a noncontact manner. A load terminal operates to connect the power line and a voltage measuring terminal to measure a current flowing from the power line to a load and to calculate a voltage value from the measured current value and the load. The load terminal transmits, in response to a request from a measuring apparatus, the measured current value and the calculated voltage value to the measuring apparatus via a communication means. A control portion of the measuring apparatus receives the current value and the voltage value from the load terminal. The control portion calculates a power value based on the received current value, voltage value voltage waveform and current waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Higuma, Noriyuki Kushiro, Masaaki Yabe