Abstract: In an electric motor vehicle management system according to the present invention, a portable terminal that is owned by a user and is located in an electric motor vehicle transmits vehicle condition information of the electric motor vehicle including position information of the portable terminal that has been detected by a position detector of the portable terminal to a vehicle condition receiver of an energy management system (EMS) installed in a customer. A battery charging-and-discharging plan creating unit of the EMS creates a charging and discharging plan for a battery through the use of the vehicle condition information of the electric motor vehicle. A charging and discharging device performs at least one of charging and discharging of the battery of the electric motor vehicle in accordance with the battery charging-and-discharging plan for the battery.

Abstract: The power conversion device includes an AC power source, a power conversion unit, and an LC filter unit arranged between the AC power source and the power conversion unit, and the LC filter unit has a temperature detection element provided in one part or in a plurality of parts configuring the LC filter unit, and the power conversion unit has a temperature detection unit configured to receive temperature data detected by the temperature detection element and a determination unit configured to calculate temperature rise values of one or plurality of parts, or temperature differences between the plurality of parts based on the temperature data received by the temperature detection unit and to determine whether or not there is an abnormality in the LC filter unit in accordance with the calculation result.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device and an image display system employing the same are provided. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first substrate; an organic light-emitting pixel structure disposed on a top surface of the first substrate; a second substrate having a bottom surface opposite to the top surface of the first substrate; and an optical functional layer disposed over the organic light-emitting pixel structure.

Abstract: An acoustic generator according to an embodiment at least includes an exciter, a vibrating plate, a frame body, and a resin material. The exciter is mounted on the vibrating plate, and the vibrating plate is caused to vibrate together with the exciter by the vibration of the exciter. The frame body is provided on an outer peripheral portion of the vibrating body. The resin material is disposed in a space formed with the surface of the vibrating plate on which the exciter is disposed and an inner peripheral surface of the frame body to integrate the vibrating body and the exciter. The resin material is provided also on at least part of a surface other than the inner peripheral surface of the frame body.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an AC motor that drives and controls the AC motor includes a damping control unit that calculates a damping manipulated variable that suppresses a fluctuation in the capacitor voltage, wherein the damping control unit calculates a fluctuation rate of the capacitor voltage, calculates the damping manipulated variable based on the fluctuation rate and a predetermined value that is set as a value in a predetermined range around a maximum torque of the AC motor, generates a torque command or a current command of the AC motor based on the damping manipulated variable, and controls an inverter so as to change a current flowing in the inverter in a fluctuation suppressing direction with respect to a fluctuation in the capacitor voltage based on the torque command or the current command.

Abstract: An electrical system includes a transformer structured to be selectively coupled to an AC source that provides a main AC voltage, the transformer having a number of sets of primary windings and a number of sets of secondary windings, and a charging module structured to generate a magnetizing AC voltage. The charging module is structured to selectively provide the magnetizing AC voltage to: (i) one of the number of sets primary windings, or (ii) one of the number of sets secondary windings. The magnetizing AC voltage is such that responsive to the magnetizing AC voltage being provided to one of the number of sets of primary windings or one of the number of sets of secondary windings, one or more of the number of sets of primary windings will be magnetized in a manner wherein a flux of the one or more of the number of primary windings is in phase with the main AC voltage provided from the AC source.

Abstract: An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source for illumination with adjustable color and adjustable brightness; a memory unit in which illumination conditions corresponding to a plurality of scenes are stored; a detection unit for detecting the color and brightness of ambient light at an installation position of the makeup mirror set; a selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of scenes according to an input operation; an acquisition unit for acquiring, from the memory unit, illumination conditions corresponding to the scene selected through the selection unit; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the color and brightness of the surface light source according to the color and brightness of the ambient light detected by the detection unit and the illumination conditions acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to techniques for fault diagnosis based on dynamic circuit design partitioning. According to various implementations of the invention, a sub-circuit is extracted from a circuit design based on failure information of one or more integrated circuit devices. The extraction process may comprise combining fan-in cones of failing observation points included in the failure information. The extraction process may further comprise adding fan-in cones of one or more passing observation points to the combined fan-in cones of the failing observation points. Clock information of test patterns and/or layout information of the circuit design may be extracted and used in the sub-circuit extraction process. The extracted sub-circuit may then be used for diagnosing the one or more integrated circuit devices.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a candidate point extracting unit configured to extract a plurality of candidate points belonging to a predetermined structure from image data, a shape model storing unit configured to store a shape model representing a known shape of the predetermined structure, the shape model being formed by a plurality of model labels having a predetermined connection relationship, and a corresponding point selecting unit configured to select a mapping relationship between the candidate points and the model labels from a set of candidate mapping relationships.

Abstract: A method of handling handover for a network of a wireless communication system, wherein a user equipment (UE) is connected to at least one first cell of a master base station and at least one second cell of a secondary base station of the network, includes when the master base station decides to hand over the UE to a target master base station of the network, transmitting, by the master base station, a first message to the secondary base station to instruct the secondary base station to release the at least one second cell.

Abstract: An apparatus relates generally to a microelectronic assembly. In such an apparatus, a contact arrangements are disposed on a first surface of a first substrate, including first contacts disposed as a first ring array; second contacts disposed interior to the first contacts as a second ring array; third contacts disposed interior to the second contacts as a third ring array; and fourth contacts disposed interior to the third contacts on the first surface as an innermost array. The first ring array, the second ring array, and the third ring array are concentric rings with the innermost array in a central region of the concentric rings. The first contacts and the fourth contacts are for interconnection with first microelectronic dies. The second contacts and the third contacts are for interconnection with second microelectronic dies.

Abstract: A method for video multicast delivery for 4g wireless networks includes collecting client feedback and obtaining supportable modulation and coding scheme MCS for each client over a base station of wireless network, prioritizing video packets for said clients and setting a utility for each of the video packets; performing a radio resource allocation for determining a utility optimization for transmitted frames of the video packets; and assigning an MCS to each transmitted frame of the video packets, responsive to step performing a radio resource allocation.

Abstract: Data chunks encrypted using an encryption key are backed up to a server. Each chunk is associated with plain and encryption signatures. The plain signature is based on an unencrypted version of a chunk. The encryption signature is based on an encrypted version of the chunk. A new data chunk is identified and a new plain signature for the new chunk is calculated. A request is made for a current key and the new chunk is encrypted using the current key to obtain a new encryption signature. The new encryption and plain signatures are sent to the server for comparison against the existing encryption and plain signatures. If the new encryption signature does not match an encryption signature of an existing chunk and the new plain signature matches a plain signature of the existing chunk, the new chunk is transmitted to the server to replace the existing chunk.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel unit which has a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, wherein each of the pixels that a photoelectrical conversion element which generates a photoelectrical conversion signal corresponding to an amount of incident light disposed on a first substrate, and which outputs a photoelectrical conversion signal generated by each of the pixels to each row as a pixel signal, and an analog-to-digital converter which is disposed on every one or more columns of the pixel unit and generates a digital signal by digitizing a phase state of a multi-phase clock including clock signals of a plurality of phases different from each other at predetermined fixed intervals according to the pixel signal. Each of first and second circuit configuration units whose circuit scales are determined according to the multi-phase clock is disposed on a different substrate of a first or second substrate.

Abstract: A splice sleeve retainer for securing a sleeve to a leg of an electrical joint body has a retention axis and includes at least one connecting strap extending along the retention axis, and first, second and third coupling members secured to the at least one connecting strap at axially spaced apart locations along the at least one connecting strap. The splice sleeve retainer is configured such that, when the sleeve is installed on the leg and the splice sleeve retainer is installed on the sleeve: the first coupling member engages the sleeve at a first axial location; the second coupling member engages the sleeve at a second axial location nearer the leg than the first axial location; and the third coupling member engages the joint body to resist axial displacement of the sleeve relative to the leg.

Abstract: A signal transmission system including: a first connector apparatus, and a second connector apparatus that is coupled with the first connector apparatus. The first connector apparatus and the second connector apparatus are coupled together to form an electromagnetic field coupling unit, and a transmission object signal is converted into a radio signal, which is then transmitted through the electromagnetic field coupling unit, between the first connector apparatus and the second connector apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data processing system which can increase resolution and which has excellent tracking with respect to the switching of a conversion range and is small in conversion error.

Abstract: In a system of a data processing apparatus coupled to a printer, the apparatus sends a status information transmission request to the printer and, in response, receives status information from the printer. The status information includes cartridge identification information written in a memory device contained in a cartridge, device identification information identifying the printer in which the cartridge is installed, and ink usage amount information for use by the printer in calculating an ink usage amount.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit.

Abstract: Described are a system and method for electronic notification. A metadata generator adds metadata including data related to a computer-related action to an electronic notification. The electronic notification configured to be received by a plurality of disparate systems. A state processing machine changes a state of the electronic notification according to the metadata. A notification modification module marks the electronic notification having the changed state, wherein the marked electronic notification is received by each of the disparate systems and is processed according to its changed state.