Abstract: A steel piston with an oil gallery, and process for forming a steel piston oil gallery channel, which corresponds to the complex shape of the combustion bowl in the piston crown. The oil gallery channel is first forged to the basic shape that corresponds to the shape of the walls of the combustion bowl. Machine-turning surfaces in the oil gallery channel can be machine-finished as desired. Surfaces in the oil gallery which cannot be machined with conventional turning operations, such as recesses and protrusions into the channel, are left in the original forged condition.

Abstract: A magnetic field generating device includes a triaxial Helmholtz coil 3, amounting table 4 on which a portable device 2 is mounted, a current supplying part 5 and a controlling part 6. The current supplying part 5 supplies current I to individual three monoaxial Helmholtz coils 30 which construct the triaxial Helmholtz coil 3. The controlling part 6 changes the current flowing through the individual monoaxial Helmholtz coils 30 in such a manner that a synthetic magnetic field of a magnetic field generated within the triaxial Helmholtz coil 3 by the current I and an external magnetic field which acts from the outside into the triaxial Helmholtz coil 3 acts on a triaxial magnetic sensor 20 within the portable device 2 mounted on the mounting table 4 from a plurality of predetermined directions.

Abstract: A method of monitoring, optimizing, and dynamically varying transfer size in a storage device is provided, including: receiving data transfer parameters for a Solid State Disk (SSD) device; selecting a data transfer size from the disk characterization data associated with the SSD device, based on a SSD device identifier in the received data transfer parameters matching the SSD device identifier in the disk characterization data; searching a weight-age table for a process identifier (PID) matching the PID from the received data transfer parameters; determining a heuristic representing a statistical distribution of Input/Output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) and transfer sizes over time; modifying the received data transfer parameters based on at least one of: the selected data transfer size from the disk characterization data; the weight-age table; and the heuristic; and completing one or more (I/O) operations with the SSD device using the modified data transfer parameters.

Abstract: A multistage amplifier may include a multistage amplifier circuit and a resistive voltage divider network. The multistage amplifier circuit may have multiple transconductance input stages, each of which may have differential inputs and an adjustable tail current input that controls the amount of the transconductance of the input stage. The resistive voltage divider network may control the closed loop gain of the multistage amplifier circuit and include multiple resistors that provide different voltage divider ratios at different points. Each point may be connected to one of the transconductance input stages. Adjustment of tail currents at the tail current inputs may control the degree to which each point affects the closed loop gain of the multistage amplifier.

Abstract: A terminal communicating with a network including a forwarding device for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes: a communication unit that receives a processing rule specifying a method of processing the packet, which is determined by the control device, from the control device, a storage unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating with the network, processes the packet in accordance with the processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: A lens drive apparatus includes a yoke which has a first parallel portion parallel to an optical axis and a second parallel portion which is located closer to the optical axis than the first parallel portion, the first and the second parallel portions being magnetically coupled, a magnet arranged at the first parallel portion to extend in the optical axis direction, a first lens frame which has a first coil wound around the second parallel portion and which is guided by a first guide shaft, and a second lens frame, which has a second coil wound around the second parallel portion and which is guided by a second guide shaft, and the first and the second guide shafts are arranged at positions so as not to interfere with the yoke in a cross-section perpendicular to the optical axis.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a power operation switch, a shooting operation switch, an imaging module, a memory, and a control unit. The shooting operation switch is in any one of a plurality of states including a first state and a second state. After the imaging device is activated, a shooting instruction operation is not received in the first state, and is received in the second state. The memory stores first shooting mode information and second shooting mode information. The control unit activates the imaging device in the first shooting mode when the shooting operation switch is in the first state during a power source transitions from the OFF state to the ON state. The control unit activates the imaging device in the second shooting mode when the shooting operation switch is in the second state and the power source transitions from the OFF state to the ON state.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that has image sensors for each image of red, green, and blue which have a two-line addition function respectively. The imaging unit outputs image signals of red and blue and an image signal of green of which sample phases in a space are shifted by one pixel interval in a vertical direction using the two-line addition function. A resolution conversion unit obtains image signals of red, green, and blue of which the number of lines is doubled by performing interpolation processing on the image signals of red and blue and an image signal of green output from the imaging unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods of providing a particular number of distributions of media content through a plurality of distribution nodes, which individually distribute the media content to users and/or other distribution nodes. The system may provide the media content and an allocation of the media content to a distribution node. The allocation may specify whether the distribution node may distribute the media content (e.g., a binary indication) or a number of times that the distribution node may distribute the media content during a time interval. By keeping track of allocations to and distributions by various distribution nodes, the system may adjust allocations and distributions to ensure adherence to the limit. For instance, the system may turn off distribution by some distribution nodes while allowing distribution by others. The system may also or instead reduce allocations or time intervals during which the various distribution nodes may distribute the media content.

Abstract: An approach is provided for controlling access to resources according to social connections and/or characteristics of the resources. An access control platform determines one or more resources associated with at least one user, at least one device associated with the at least one user, or a combination thereof. The access control platform further processes and/or facilitates a processing of social networking information associated with the at least one user, the at least one device, or a combination thereof to determine one or more social networking groups. The access control platform also causes, at least in part, a controlling of access to the one or more resources for one or more other users, one or more other devices associated with the one or more other users, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on membership in the one or more social networking groups.

Abstract: An in-ear-canal headset assembly includes an accommodating housing, a speaker unit, a fixing unit, an in-ear unit and a microphone unit. The accommodating housing has a resonance chamber, a sound chamber in air communication with the resonance chamber, and an outer cover covering the resonance chamber. The resonance chamber receives a socket therein. The speaker unit is received in the sound chamber. The fixing unit has a ring portion disposed around the sound chamber and a hooking portion connected to the ring portion. The in-ear unit has a covering lid covering the sound chamber, a wave-guiding tube extending from the covering lid, and a flexible tip fixed on the wave-guiding tube. The microphone unit has an arm, an earphone plug, a microphone disposed on an end of the arm, and a connecting cord arranged on the arm for electrically connecting the earphone plug to the microphone.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for the discovery of semantics, relationships and mappings between data in different software applications, databases, files, reports, messages, or systems. In one aspect, semantics and relationships and mappings are identified between a first and a second data source. A binding condition is discovered between portions of data in the first and the second data source. The binding condition is used to discover correlations between portions of data in the first and the second data source. The binding condition and the correlations are used to discover a transformation function between portions of data in the first and the second data source.

Abstract: Included is a multiple resolution image generating unit which applies a plurality of noise removing filters to a semiconductor circuit pattern image and generates a multiple resolution image, a multiple resolution differential image generating unit which generates a multiple resolution differential image from a difference of images between hierarchies of the multiple resolution image, and a contour extracting unit which extracts a contour of the semiconductor circuit pattern based on an intensity signal of the semiconductor circuit pattern image. The contour extracting unit calculates an intensity signal level upon extracting a contour of the semiconductor circuit pattern from the multiple resolution image by using an image signal of the multiple resolution differential image, and extracts a contour of the semiconductor circuit pattern based on the calculated intensity signal level.

Abstract: Operating a programmable controller with a plurality of processors. The programmable controller may utilize a first subset of the plurality of processors for a scanning architecture. The first subset of the plurality of processors may be further subdivided for execution of periodic programs or asynchronous programs. The programmable controller may utilize a second subset of the plurality of processors for a data acquisition architecture. Execution of the different architectures may occur independently and may not introduce significant jitter (e.g., for the scanning architecture) or data loss/response time lag (e.g., for the data acquisition architecture). However, the programmable controller may operate according to any combination of the divisions and/or architectures described herein.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm, a wrist and a rotation support mechanism The rotation support mechanism has a shaft section provided in the wrist and an outer shape of which is a column shape; a bearing which is disposed on an outer periphery section of the shaft section and rotatably supports the shaft section around a center axis thereof; an annular-shaped ring member provided in the wrist and is concentrically disposed with the bearing by separating on the outer periphery side of the bearing; and an annular-shaped oil seal provided in the arm and slides with respect to the ring member by abutting the outer periphery section of the ring member and holding airtightness with the ring member according to the rotation of the center shaft of the shaft section.

Abstract: A ceiling support system includes a bracket mechanism that can be attached to ceiling joists. An upwardly extending flange arrangement provides support for a ceiling fixture while allowing adjustment of its position before being secured to the support system. The flange arrangement may be flexible and secured to the ceiling structure via resilient hangers.

Abstract: Integrated circuits with memory elements may be provided. Integrated circuits may include memory error detection circuitry that is capable of correcting single-bit errors, correcting adjacent double-bit errors, and detecting adjacent triple-bit errors. The memory error detection circuitry may include encoding circuitry that generates parity check bits interleaved among memory data bits. The memory error detection circuitry may include decoding circuitry that is used to generate output data and error signals to indicate whether a correctable soft error or an uncorrectable soft error has been detected. The output data may be written back to the memory elements if a correctable soft error is detected. The memory error detection circuitry may be operable in a pipelined or a non-pipelined mode depending on the desired application.

Abstract: A method and system for use of a game with charity donations. In one example, a donation agent interacting with a merchant website can offer an online user an option to allocate at least a portion of a payment for or price of a purchase, associated with a transaction made by the user via the merchant website, to be donated by a merchant (corresponding to the merchant website), on behalf of the user, to a charity of the user's choosing. The donation agent can disburse the calculated donation amount to the charity selected by the customer. The points earned can be combined with a college scholarship award mechanism. The game encourages people to participate in the charity in a fun way, e.g., as a hobby every day, with a large user base.

Abstract: In a blade-type fuse (10) according to the present invention one of an upper casing (20) and a lower casing (30) includes a fixing post (30K), the other casing includes a through-hole (20K) through which the fixing post (30K) is passed, and also the flat terminal portion (41) includes a through-hole (40K) through which the fixing post (30K) is passed. The flat terminal portion (41) is formed bilaterally symmetrically about a vertical line passing through a center of the blade-type fuse (10), and vertically symmetrically about a horizontal line passing through the center of the blade-type fuse (10).