Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 8745399
    Abstract: A method for sharing and updating a key using a watermark is disclosed. The method includes receiving an image to be encoded from an image input device encoding the image, and inserting a master key value as a watermark into the encoded image, for use as an input of a key derivation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jin Hee Han, Young Sae Kim, Geon Woo Kim, Hong Il Ju, Su Gil Choi
  • Patent number: 8745007
    Abstract: A method is provided for handling synchrophasor measurements relating to an electrical power system. The method includes: (a) acquiring a plurality of synchrophasor measurements containing data representing at least one power system event; (b) inserting and storing the event related synchrophasor measurements in a database as a partitioned binary large object (BLOB); (c) reading and transferring the synchrophasor measurements related to a user selected current or historical event from the database to a client computer partition by partition; and (d) processing the event data at the client computer on a partition-by-partition basis such that the client computer will be able to start a replay of the event replay as soon as processing of the first partition of the event BLOB data is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Guorui Zhang, Hongtao Chen
  • Patent number: 8745604
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a plurality of tiles. Each tile includes a processor, a switch including switching circuitry to forward data over data paths from other tiles to the processor and to switches of other tiles, and a switch memory that stores instruction streams that are able to operate independently for respective output ports of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Anant Agarwal
  • Patent number: 8741254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a porous silicon nanorod structure composed of columnar bundles having a diameter of 50-100 nm and a length of 2-5 ?m, and a lithium secondary cell using the porous silicon nanorod structure as an anode active material. The present invention provides a high-capacity and high-efficiency anode active material for lithium secondary cells, which can overcome the low conductivity of silicon and improve the electrode deterioration attributable to volume expansion because it is prepared by electrodepositing the surface of silicon powder with metal and simultaneously etching the silicon powder partially using hydrofluoric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Joong Kee Lee, Byung Won Cho, Joo Man Woo, Hyung Sun Kim, Kyung Yoon Chung, Won Young Chang, Sang Ok Kim, Sang Eun Park
  • Patent number: 8742167
    Abstract: A highly pure asiaticoside and a pharmaceutical grade asiatic acid can be prepared, along with salts of asiatic acid, for use in formulating therapeutic compositions that are suitable for treating arthritis, psoriasis and other inflammatory diseases, as well as pulmonary fibrosis, diabetic nephropathy, and other fibrotic diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry
    Inventors: Ying Liu, Quanhai Liu, Yan Qin, Tong Wu, Zhiru Xu, Min-yu Liu, Fei Li, Yan Li, Michael J. Newman
  • Patent number: 8744128
    Abstract: An image processing method is provided. The image processing method includes the following steps. A plurality of raw signal is received by a signal transceiving module of the ultrasound imaging system. It is determined whether each of the raw signals satisfies any condition in a condition group, and the raw signal satisfying any condition in the condition group is mapped to one of a plurality of preset constants to generate a plurality of first data. The raw signals not satisfying any condition in the condition group are processed according to a calculation formula to generate a plurality of second data. A beamforming procedure is simultaneously performed on the first and second data to obtain a beamformed image. The beamformed image is transformed to obtain an image of a region to be detected. Furthermore, an imaging system using the foregoing image processing method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Arvin Huang-Te Li, Yio-Wha Shau, Yu-Ching Chang, Bai-Kuang Hwang
  • Patent number: 8741434
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transparent conductive polycarbonate film coated with carbon nanotubes, including a transparent conductive layer formed by applying a mixed solution of carbon nanotubes and a binder on one side or both sides of a transparent polycarbonate film, and a touch panel using the transparent conductive polycarbonate film as a lower transparent electrode. The present invention provides a transparent conductive polycarbonate film coated with a mixed solution of carbon nanotubes and a binder, by which a touch panel having high transmissivity can be manufactured by directly forming a transparent conductive layer on a polycarbonate film used as a protective film of a liquid crystal display using carbon nanotubes, without using a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate used for a transparent electrode of a conventional touch panel, by which the production cost of the touch panel can be decreased, and by which a thin touch panel can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
    Inventors: Joong Tark Han, Geon Woong Lee, Hee Jin Jeong, Jong Seok Woo
  • Patent number: 8743038
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a backlight module, a filtering module and a display panel is provided. The backlight module includes a plurality of sets of light emitting devices. Each set of light emitting devices includes at least one first color light emitting device and at least one second color light emitting device. The filtering module is disposed on a transmission path of light emitted by the plurality of sets of light emitting devices and includes a plurality of sets of filtering units. Each set of filtering units is configured to allow light emitted by one set of light emitting devices to pass through. The display panel is disposed on the transmission path of the light emitted by the plurality of sets of light emitting devices. The backlight module turns on the plurality of sets of light emitting devices by turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chi-Lin Wu, Wei-Ting Yen
  • Patent number: 8741310
    Abstract: Isolated, antigenic polypeptides including a prehairpin intermediate conformation of gp41 and vectors encoding such polypeptides are provided. Antibodies that bind to a prehairpin intermediate conformation of gp41 and methods of making antibodies a that bind to prehairpin intermediate conformation of gp41 are also provided. Vaccines against a prehairpin intermediate conformation of gp41, as well as methods of treating subjects infected with HIV, preventing HIV infection, and inhibiting HIV-mediated activities are also provided. Methods of screening compounds that bind to an isolated, prehairpin intermediate conformation of gp41 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Children's Medical Center Corporation, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Inventors: Bing Chen, Gary H. Frey, Stephen C. Harrison
  • Patent number: 8741575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to biomarkers for neoplasias such as high grade gliomas. The inventors have discovered that the overexpression of senescence associated genes (SAG) is associated with a poor prognosis in subjects with high grade gliomas. The present invention provides SAG biomarkers for predicting response to therapy for subjects having high grade glioma based on dividing the samples into high and low risk groups; diagnosing high grade glioma; monitoring progression of high grade glioma from one biological state to another; and determining efficacy of treatment for high grade gliomas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Domenico Coppola, Dung-Tsa Chen, Steven Brem
  • Patent number: 8741833
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel class of self-assembling peptides, compositions thereof, methods for the preparation thereof and methods of use thereof. The invention also encompasses methods for tissue regeneration, increasing the production of extracellular matrix proteins, and methods of treatment comprising administering self-assembling peptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kumada, Shuguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8743377
    Abstract: The attenuation and other optical properties of a medium are exploited to measure a thickness of the medium between a sensor and a target surface. Disclosed herein are various mediums, arrangements of hardware, and processing techniques that can be used to capture these thickness measurements and obtain dynamic three-dimensional images of the target surface in a variety of imaging contexts. This includes general techniques for imaging interior/concave surfaces as well as exterior/convex surfaces, as well as specific adaptations of these techniques to imaging ear canals, human dentition, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Douglas P. Hart, Federico Frigerio, Douglas M. Johnston, Manas C. Menon, Daniel Vlasic
  • Patent number: 8744164
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically observing and counting cells without using a stain or a fluorescent material. The system includes an optical microscope having a sensor that provides an electrical signal representative of a field of view. The microscope is motorized so as to allow automatic change of focus. A sample containing cells to be analyzed is provided. No stain or fluorescent substance is used. When the microscope is operated in a deliberately out-of-focus condition, cells appear to have either a bright or a dark spot that can be used to report the number of cells in the sample. The intensity variation detected in images acquired in different focal planes is used to identify cell shapes using image analysis software such as CellProfiler. A result is reported in any convenient format, such as a false color image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Adrian Ozinsky, Jyrki Juhani Selinummi, Ilya Shmulevich, Pekka Ruusuvuori
  • Patent number: 8742243
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for recognition. The method includes inputting a melody and obtaining pitch tracking information of the melody; obtaining beat information of the melody; determining a clarity value according to the pitch tracking information; implementing a first comparison process first to filter a first set of candidate songs from a database and then implementing a second comparison process to filter a second set of candidate songs from the first set of candidate songs if the clarity value is larger than a predetermined threshold; and determining at least one final candidate song from the second set of candidate songs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Institute for Information Industry
    Inventors: Wen-Nan Wang, Jyh-Shing Jang, Tzu-chun Yeh, Chung-Che Wang, Hsin-Wen Yu, Cheng-Yu Hsu
  • Patent number: 8741635
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method for the generation of a substantially homogenous population of undifferentiated cells. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for isolating a substantially homogenous population of stem cells, and in particular, mammary stem cells (MaSCs). The MaSCs of the present invention are isolated on the basis of differential levels of proteins present on their cell surface. The MaSCs of the present invention are particularly useful as targets for identifying agents which modulate MaSC survival, self-renewal, proliferation and/or differentiation in both normal and diseased tissue such as, but not limited to, tumor tissue, and, also as source of tissue for the regeneration, replacement and/or augmentation of tissue damaged and/or lost after disease or injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
    Inventors: Geoffrey John Lindeman, Mark Shackleton, Francois Vaillant, Jane Ellen Visvader
  • Patent number: 8740838
    Abstract: A method for injecting a substance through a biological body surface includes providing a needle-free transdermal transport device configured to inject the substance through the surface. The substance is injected into the biological body with the transport device while a parameter of the injection is sensed and a servo-controller is used to dynamically adjust at least one injection characteristic based on the sensed parameter. The substance is injected for (i) a first time period during which a first portion of a volume of the substance is injected at a first injection pressure, and (ii) a second time period during which a remainder of the volume of the substance is injected at a second injection pressure. A viscosity of the substance may be determined, and a pressure calculated for injecting the substance based on the viscosity. The substance may be injected with the transport device by using the calculated pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Brian D. Hemond, Ian W. Hunter, Andrew J. Taberner, Dawn M. Wendell, N. Catherine Hogan
  • Patent number: 8743883
    Abstract: Provided is a data flow parallel processing apparatus and method. The data flow parallel processing apparatus may include a flow discriminating unit to discriminate a flow of input first data, a processor allocating unit to allocate, to the first data, a processor that is not operating among a plurality of processors, a sequence determining unit to determine a sequence number of the first data when a second data having the same flow as the discriminated flow is being processed by any one processor composing the plurality of processors, and an alignment unit to receive the first data processed by the allocated processor and to output the received first data based on the determined sequence number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung Hee Lee, Jung Sik Kim, Young Ho Park, Bhum Cheol Lee
  • Patent number: 8743897
    Abstract: The processing of a multicast service flow for a headend cable modem by classifying an inputted multicast packet by a session composing an internal header including multicast service flow information allocated to the classified session and then outputting an internal multicast packet including the internal header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ho-Sook Lee, O Hyung Kwon, Soo In Lee
  • Patent number: 8743998
    Abstract: A device for generating a transmission codebook in a communication system including a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a frequency determiner that determines a frequency to allow the transmission codebook to have an optimal characteristic; a precoding matrix generator that generates a precoding matrix on the basis of the frequency; and a codebook generator that generates a retransmission codebook to be used for retransmission on the basis of the precoding matrix and generates the transmission codebook on the basis of the retransmission codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: DongSeung Kwon, Byung-Jae Kwak, Choongil Yeh, Young Seog Song, Ji Hyung Kim, Wooram Shin, Chung Gu Kang, Jin-Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 8743993
    Abstract: Improving the accuracy of estimation of channel responses in receiving signals from a plurality of antennas is disclosed. A transmitting device of a base station includes a preamble A generating unit 010, a preamble B generating unit 011, phase rotating units 012 and 013, multiplexing units 014 and 015, an forward error correction coding unit 016, an S/P converting unit 017, a mapping unit 018, a changeover switch 019, IDFT (or IFFT) units 020 and 026, P/S converting units 021 and 027, GI (Guard Interval) inserting units 022 and 028, D/A converting units 023 and 029, radio transmitting units 024 and 030 and antenna units 025 and 031. In the preamble A generating unit 010 and the preamble B generating unit 011, a preamble A and a preamble B (see the packet format in FIG. 1) are generated, respectively. The preamble A is outputted to the multiplexing units 014 and 015, while the preamble B is outputted to the phase rotating units 012 and 013.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Nanba, Seiichi Sampei, Hiroshi Harada, Masafumi Moriyama