Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9323857
    Abstract: In a method for providing content-related information based on a digital watermark and fingerprint, the method includes: receiving a request for content-related information from a client terminal; using a watermark and a fingerprint of content to retrieve the requested content-related information from a database; and transmitting the retrieved content-related information to the client terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dong-Hyuck Im, Won Ryu, Il-Gu Jung, Seng-Kyoun Jo
  • Patent number: 9324538
    Abstract: A coaxial drive apparatus for multidirectional control, including: a housing; a stage pivotally installed in the housing, with the object laid on the stage; a rotary shaft connected to the stage and rotated to cause the stage to pivot; a rotation transmitting unit transmitting a rotating force of the rotary shaft to the stage; a sliding pipe coaxially fitted over the rotary shaft so as to be moved along a lengthwise direction of the rotary shaft or to be rotated on a central axis of the rotary shaft; a moving unit moving the object laid on the stage in the lengthwise direction of the rotary shaft according to a movement of the sliding pipe, and moving the object in a transverse direction of the rotary shaft according to a rotation of the sliding pipe; and a controller providing a driving force to the rotary shaft and to the sliding pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yeon Suk Choi, Myung Su Kim, Min-Gab Bog, Jong-Su Jeon, Jong-Gu Kim
  • Patent number: 9325406
    Abstract: A data relay mobile apparatus and a data relay method for a wireless network and a computer program product thereof are provided. The wireless network comprises a first mobile node and a second mobile node. The data relay mobile apparatus receives first status information and second status information from the first mobile node and the second mobile node, respectively. The data relay apparatus relays data according to the first status information and the second status information. With the aforesaid method, the present invention can effectively reduce the problems caused from shadow fading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
    Inventors: Chung-Ming Huang, Lai Tu, Chih-Hsun Chou
  • Patent number: 9321895
    Abstract: Magnesium hydroxide having a high aspect ratio, a production method thereof and a resin composition comprising the same. The method of producing the magnesium hydroxide having a long diameter (width) of not less than 0.5 ?m and aspect ratio of not less than 10, comprising the steps of: (A) adding an alkali to and coprecipitating it with a mixed aqueous solution of a water-soluble magnesium salt and a monovalent organic acid or a salt thereof, or (B) adding an alkali aqueous solution to and coprecipitating it with an aqueous solution of a water-soluble magnesium salt and adding a monovalent organic acid or a salt thereof to the resulting product; and (C) hydrothermally treating the obtained slurry at 100° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: KYOWA CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD., SEA WATER CHEMICAL INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeo Miyata, Hitoshi Manabe, Daisuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 9325066
    Abstract: A communication device including a ground plane and an antenna element is provided. An edge of the ground plane is embedded with a notch, which has at least a first edge and a second edge. The antenna element, disposed at the notch, has at least a first operating frequency band and a second operating frequency band. The antenna element includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion has a starting terminal, electrically coupled to the first edge of the notch through a signal source, as a feeding terminal of the antenna element. A capacitive coupling portion is formed between an end terminal of the first conductive portion and the ground plane. The second conductive portion has a shorting terminal electrically coupled or connected to the second edge of the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Hsuan-Jui Chang, Wei-Yu Li, Chun-Yih Wu
  • Patent number: 9322040
    Abstract: The invention discloses a Pseudonocardia sp. and a method for preparing Deoxynyboquinone by utilizing the same. Pseudonocardia sp. SCSIO 01299 was collected in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) (Address: Wuhan University, Wuhan City, China) with the collection number of CCTCC NO: M 2011255 on Jul. 18, 2011. The Pseudonocardia sp. SCSIO 01299 can produce antibiotic Deoxynyboquinone, so that the Pseudonocardia sp. SCSIO 01299 can be utilized for preparing Deoxynyboquinone and a new way is provided for producing antibiotic Deoxynyboquinone with anti-tumor activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Si Zhang, Changsheng Zhang, Xinpeng Tian, Sumei Li, Wenjun Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Guangtao Zhang, Hao Yin, Jianhua Ju
  • Patent number: 9325140
    Abstract: Examples of the present invention include integrated erbium-doped waveguide lasers designed for silicon photonic systems. In some examples, these lasers include laser cavities defined by distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) formed in silicon nitride-based waveguides. These DBRs may include grating features defined by wafer-scale immersion lithography, with an upper layer of erbium-doped aluminum oxide deposited as the final step in the fabrication process. The resulting inverted ridge-waveguide yields high optical intensity overlap with the active medium for both the 980 nm pump (89%) and 1.5 ?m laser (87%) wavelengths with a pump-laser intensity overlap of over 93%. The output powers can be 5 mW or higher and show lasing at widely-spaced wavelengths within both the C- and L-bands of the erbium gain spectrum (1536, 1561 and 1596 nm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Purnawirman Purnawirman, Michael R. Watts, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, Jonathan D. B. Bradley, Jie Sun, Matteo Cherchi
  • Patent number: 9322007
    Abstract: The disclosure provides variant Cel6a enzymes having increased thermostability, methods of making and using such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Frances H. Arnold, Indira Wu
  • Patent number: 9323967
    Abstract: There are provided a method and a system of pallet packing that generate information on an article to be loaded and a loading place of the article on a specific pallet by recognizing a 3D position on which articles are loaded on a pallet, and a method for providing loading information of the article on the pallet by using loading information of the article generated by the method. More particularly, there are provided a method and a system of pallet packing that generate information on a 3D loading position of each article by using identification information of the pallet and each article and depth information for a whole area of the pallet acquired through a depth measurement sensor and a method for providing information on a loading shape of all articles or a state in which a specific article is loaded by using loading information of the article generated through the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jae Sung Choi, Rock Hyun Choi, Hee kuk Kang, Byung Rak Son, Dong Ha Lee
  • Patent number: 9323987
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting forgery/falsification of a homepage. The apparatus includes a homepage image shot generation module for generating homepage image shots of an entire screen of an accessed homepage. A character string extraction module extracts character strings from each homepage image shot using an OCR technique. A character string comparison module compares each of the extracted character strings with character strings required for determination of homepage forgery/falsification, thus determining whether the extracted character string is a normal character string or a falsified character string. A homepage falsification determination module determines whether the corresponding homepage has been forged/falsified, based on results of the comparison. A character string learning module learns the character string extracted from the homepage image shot, based on results of the determination, and classifies the character string as the normal character string or the falsified character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Taek kyu Lee, Geun Yong Kim, Seok won Lee, Myeong Ryeol Choi, Hyung Geun Oh, KiWook Sohn
  • Patent number: 9321466
    Abstract: Force control system. The system includes a first pair of permanent magnets for providing a normal force on the wheel of a robot adapted for n-pipe inspections. A second pair of magnets is provided with opposite polarity so that a rotor containing magnets may be rotated with a minimum of torque required and therefore with a minimum of energy expended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Changrak Choi, Dimitrios Chatzigeorgiou, Rached Ben-Mansour, Kamal Youcef-Toumi
  • Patent number: 9322898
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for estimating the direction of an RF signal is provided. The apparatus includes an antenna for receiving an RF signal. An electronic compass is configured to, as a pointing direction of the antenna is varied, generate information about pointing directions and pointing angles corresponding to variations in the pointing direction of the antenna. A control unit determines RSSI values at respective pointing angles of the antenna based on a received signal of the antenna and information of the electronic compass depending on the variations, extracts a maximum RSSI value from the RSSI values at respective pointing angles, and stores the maximum RSSI value and a pointing direction corresponding to the maximum RSSI value. A display unit displays the RSSI values at the respective pointing angles and a trajectory of the RSSI values at respective pointing angles under control of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jong-Kyu Kim, Hui-Rae Cho, Jin-Gak Jang, In-Ho Hwang, Chun-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9324944
    Abstract: A selection device, non-volatile memory cell, and method of fabricating the same. The selection device employs an oxide laminate structure including a tunneling oxide layer and a metal-cluster oxide layer between first and second electrodes, enabling a high selection ratio and sufficient on-current density to allow program data recordation in a memory cell at relatively low voltage. The non-volatile memory cell includes the selection device electrically connected to a resistive random access memory device, including a resistance change layer, enabling suppression of current leakage from a non-selected adjacent memory cell in an array structure. In the method of fabrication, a tunneling oxide layer is formed by depositing and oxidizing a metal layer to control oxygen vacancy density in the metal-cluster oxide layer, and an interface oxide layer is formed in the tunneling oxide layer by doping of metal-clusters in the metal-cluster oxide layer, improving on-current density of the selection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyunsang Hwang, WooTae Lee
  • Patent number: 9325149
    Abstract: A multi-beam combining apparatus includes a phase shifting section, a superposing section, an observing section and a phase control section. The phase shifting section generates a plurality of phase-shifted laser beams by shifting the phase of each of the plurality of laser beams. The superposing section generates a plurality of superposed laser beam by superposing the reference laser beam and each of the plurality of phase-shifted laser beams. The observing section generates interference pattern data of a spatial interference pattern which appears when observing each of the superposed laser beams. The phase control section carries out a feedback control of the phase shifts in the phase shifting section based on the interference pattern data obtained for every superposed laser beam, and thereby sets the plurality of phase-shifted laser beams to desired states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka University
    Inventors: Koichi Hamamoto, Takahiro Yamada, Haik Chosrowjan, Hiroaki Furuse, Masayuki Fujita, Yasukazu Izawa, Junji Kawanaka, Noriaki Miyanaga
  • Patent number: 9324497
    Abstract: A thin film capacitor includes a substrate and a dielectric thin film element formed on the substrate. The substrate can include an Si plate, an SiO2 film on the Si plate, and a Ti film formed on the SiO2 film. The dielectric thin film element includes a lower electrode, a dielectric thin film on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric thin film. The dielectric thin film is a thin film formed of a nanosheet, and a void portion of the dielectric thin film is filled with a p-type conductive organic polymer. Ti0.87O2, Ca2Nb3O10 or the like, is used as a dielectric material to form a major component of the nanosheet. As the p-type conductive organic polymer, polypyrrole, polyaniline, polyethylene dioxythiophene or the like, is suitable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Takafumi Okamoto, Minoru Osada, Takayoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9321039
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for the decomposition of a perfluorinated compound containing a halogen acid gas, and a preparation method thereof. According to the present invention, the Ru—P—Al tri-component catalyst for the decomposition of a perfluorinated compound shows an excellent decomposition activity and durability with respect to the decomposition and removal of a perfluorinated compound containing a halogen acid gas, and thus can be used to decompose a chamber cleaning gas, an etchant, a solvent and the like of a perfluorinated compound from the semiconductor manufacturing industry to the LCD processing field. In addition, the present invention can be useful for decomposing and removing a perfluorinated compound discharged in a process using a halogen acid gas such as F2, Cl2, Br2 and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, ECOPRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Choon Choi, Yong Ki Park, Na Young Kang, Min-Whee Cho, Song-Jong Cho, Sung Ho Cho, Sung Jin Yoon, Young-Ju Son
  • Patent number: 9322039
    Abstract: The present invention relates to host cells that produce compounds that are characterized as benzylisoquinolines, as well as select precursors and intermediates thereof. The host cells comprise one, two or more heterologous coding sequences wherein each of the heterologous coding sequences encodes an enzyme involved in the metabolic pathway of a benzylisoquinoline, or its precursors or intermediates from a starting compound. The invention also relates to methods of producing the benzylisoquinoline, as well as select precursors and intermediates thereof by culturing the host cells under culture conditions that promote expression of the enzymes that produce the benzylisoquinoline or precursors or intermediates thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Christina D. Smolke, Kristy M. Hawkins
  • Patent number: 9321654
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic dispersion of inorganic platelets, which includes an organic solvent and H-form inorganic platelets dispersed therein. The H-form inorganic platelets have a particle size of between about 20 and 80 nm and the organic dispersion has a sold content of between about 1 and 20 wt %. A method for forming the organic dispersion is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chih-Jen Yang, Chyi-Ming Leu, Chun-Wei Su
  • Patent number: 9324534
    Abstract: A cold cathode field emission electron source capable of emission at levels comparable to thermal sources is described. Emission in excess of 6 A/cm2 at 7.5 V/?m is demonstrated in a macroscopic emitter array. The emitter has a monolithic and rigid porous semiconductor nanostructure with uniformly distributed emission sites, and is fabricated through a room temperature process which allows for control of emission properties. These electron sources can be used in a wide range of applications, including microwave electronics and x-ray imaging for medicine and security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Fred Sharifi, Myung-Gyu Kang, Henri Lezec
  • Patent number: 9320622
    Abstract: A nickel-free stainless steel stent using a stainless steel which does not substantially contain Ni in the stainless steel, has a metal allergy onset-preventing effect, and is excellent in terms of precision workability, strength, and ductility, is provided. The nickel-free stainless steel stent is characterized by using a stainless steel containing, as a chemical composition, from 15 to 30% by mass of Cr, from 0.97 to 2% by mass of Mo, and from 0.5 to 1% by mass of N, with the remainder being Fe, and optionally containing inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Tetsushi Taguchi, Yasuyuki Katada, Ryozo Nagai, Ichiro Manabe, Katsuhito Fujiu