Patents Assigned to Solution Inc.
  • Publication number: 20150180516
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems for and methods of using a mirrored wideband baseband current for automatic gain control of an RF receiver. In an embodiment, a system includes an RF receiver having an adjustable gain and being configured to direct convert a received wideband RF signal to a wideband baseband current signal. The system further includes a current replicator coupled to the receiver and configured to generate a mirrored current of the wideband baseband current signal. The system further includes a wideband signal-level detector configured to receive the mirrored current from the current replicator, and to measure and output a signal-level value of the mirrored current. The system further includes an automatic gain-control circuit configured to receive the signal-level value from the wideband signal-level detector, and to adjust the gain of the receiver based at least in part on the received signal-level value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Raul Salvi, Joseph P. Heck, Geetha B. Nagaraj, Shafiullah Syed
  • Publication number: 20150178873
    Abstract: A method for generating a clinical trial budget includes determining a plurality of procedures to be performed during a clinical trial, calculating the likelihood of reimbursement by a third party for each of the procedures, calculating for each of the procedures the expected reimbursement amount, calculating an expected net cost for each of the procedures based on the cost of each procedure and the expected reimbursement amount for each procedure, and summing up the expected net costs of the procedures to determine the clinical trial budget. An apparatus for generating a clinical trial budget is also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Medidata Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Shields, Joshua Hartman, Theresa Brophy, Sondra Pepe
  • Publication number: 20150178447
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging service method and system by which medical images stored in the DICOM standard in a central medical imaging repository may be seamlessly and securely accessed, and operated on, by electronic data capture (EDC) or eClinical data systems. The interoperability between web-based Medical Imaging Repositories and eClinical systems provided by the present invention may increase data quality and visibility to clinical workflow involving medical imaging, decrease delays in accessing images and their clinical measurements, and improve the functionality of DICOM-based MIR systems by providing measurement-based versions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Medidata Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Cohen, Joseph Dustin
  • Publication number: 20150177658
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a pressing member, a guiding member, a cap member, an elastic member and a detecting mechanism. The pressing member includes a pressing face pressing the fixing belt to a side of the pressuring member. The fixing belt includes a bulging part arranged at the downstream side from a fixing nip in a conveying direction. The cap member includes a facing part facing to the bulging part. Before the pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt, a gap is arranged between the bulging part and facing part. When the pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt, the bulging part bulges toward an external diameter side of the fixing belt to fill up the gap and the cap member is held by an end part of the fixing belt via the elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20150175339
    Abstract: A feeding mechanism and method for feeding objects singulated from a bulk mass of objects includes receiving the bulk mass into a hopper system having a hopper screw set including first and second hopper screws and a plurality of feeding pockets defined by the thread forms of the hopper screws. Rotation of the hopper screws tumbles the bulk mass to cascade and singulate individual objects into respective feed pockets. An object set including at least one singulated object is discharged from the hopper screw set by rotation of the hopper screws. A discharge assembly including a ramp and star wheel receives the discharged object set, and transfers the object set to a discharge outlet. The object set output from the discharge outlet is received by a target defined by a receiving article. In one example, the object is rounded, the target is an opening of a container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Morrison Timing Screw Co., dba Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick Wilson, Ryan Finke, Dustin Lee
  • Patent number: 9065566
    Abstract: Systems and methods of this disclosure can operate to provide digitization and optical transport of legacy and extended return path signals in hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) based broadband networks. A common radio frequency (RF) front-end can be used for the digitization of return path signals comprising analog to digital converters (A/Ds) with a precision and sampling rate to meet the SNR requirements of the communication system. Additionally the same digital signal processing logic can also be used through the implementation of digital filter(s) in FPGA technology where different FPGA images can be used to support different digital filtering configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurence Richards, Zhijian Sun, Zoran Maricevic, Dean Painchaud
  • Patent number: 9063459
    Abstract: A toner case includes a main body, a cover, a rotating member, an agitating member, a protrusion arrangement part and a depression arrangement part. The main body has a first wall, a second wall, a third wall, a fourth wall, a bottom board, an opening at an upper side and a toner discharge port discharging a toner stored inside to an outside. The protrusion arrangement part is formed on one of an upper face facing upward formed in the first or second wall and a lower face facing to the upper face formed in the cover. The protrusion arrangement part has a plurality of protrusions arranged in the direction from the third wall to the fourth wall. The depression arrangement part is formed on another of the upper and lower faces. The depression arrangement part has a plurality of depressions, into which the protrusions insert, arranged in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9063642
    Abstract: The present invention is a device for processing text strings by displaying at least two bands of characters of an alphabet, each band having one character designated as the focus character, with the focus character of a first band being highlighted initially, and having a band switching means for switching the highlighted character to the focus character of another band, a character choosing means for switching the highlighted character in a band to a different character in the band, and a character selecting means for selecting the currently highlighted character. The character choosing means and band switching means are typically arrow buttons on a control device and the character selecting means is typically an “enter” button. The invention also includes the corresponding method of entering text strings into a text processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Electronic Systems Software Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Joseph Edwards
  • Patent number: 9066138
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses can replace content within a manifest driven streaming video program. A generic manifest file can be retrieved, original content within the streaming program can be identified for replacement, and a user specific manifest file can be generated that includes references to replacement content instead of the original content identified for replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Kraiman, Guy W. Cherry
  • Patent number: 9066038
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a local maximum point identifying unit, a distribution deriving unit, and a binding position identifying unit. The local maximum point identifying unit is configured to identify positions of local maximum points of densities along a first scanning direction in an input image of a book. The distribution deriving unit is configured to derive a distribution in the first scanning direction of the number of the local maximum point obtained along a second scanning direction perpendicular to the first scanning direction. The binding position identifying unit is configured to identify a binding position in the input image of the book on the basis of a position of a peak in the distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Okumura
  • Patent number: 9064175
    Abstract: Regarding a color difference between a color of an original image on a pixel other than a connection pixel set in a rectangular area that is an inside area of a rectangle circumscribed to the connection pixel set and a color of the original image on a pixel in the connection pixel set, the binary image generating unit (a) identifies whether the connection pixel set is a character or non character by comparing a value of an index that indicates unevenness of the color differences with a color difference threshold value, (b) identifies whether a size of the rectangular area is small or large on the basis of a threshold value, and (c) sets the color difference threshold value as a value if the size of the rectangular area is small and as another different value if the size of the rectangular area is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Mutsuo, Masaki Baba
  • Patent number: 9066044
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an output prohibition control unit that performs output prohibition control that prohibits outputting a registered job in a preset time period; a system administrator account information storage unit that stores account information of a system administrator who has an authority of temporal release of the output prohibition control; a temporal release control unit that performs the temporal release according to an instruction of the authenticated system administrator; a log information storage unit that stores temporal release information that identifies the system administrator who performs the instruction of the temporal release; a device administrator account information storage unit that stores the account information of a device administrator who has an authority to access the temporal release information and; a log information outputting unit that outputs the temporal release information only if an instruction is received from the authenticat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9064595
    Abstract: A first read threshold associated with a first page in a block and a second read threshold associated with a second page in the block are received, where the first page has a first page number and the second page has a second page number. A slope and a y intercept are determined based at least in part on the first read threshold, the second read threshold, the first page number, and the second page number. The slope and the y intercept are stored with a block identifier associated with the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SK hynix memory solutions inc.
    Inventors: Arunkumar Subramanian, Xiangyu Tang, Jason Bellorado, Lingqi Zeng, Frederick K. H. Lee
  • Patent number: 9063484
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first roller rotatable about a first axis of rotation, a second roller rotatable about a second axis of rotation, a fixing belt rotatably wound between the first roller and the second roller, and auxiliary rings. At least one of the rollers of the first roller and the second roller includes a rotation maintaining part configured to hold the fixing belt rotatably and a restricting flange protruding from an outer peripheral surface of each of opposite end parts in a direction of an axis of rotation of the rotation maintaining part. The auxiliary rings are located outside the opposite end parts in the direction of the axis of rotation of the rotation maintaining part, have an outer diameter larger than the restricting flange, and are rotatable independently of the restricting flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Eiji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9063454
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a charging bias application section, a static eliminating bias application section, and a control section. In the case where the image forming unit causes an image carrier to be rotated without forming an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier, the control section performs a bias control to allow the charging bias application section to apply to a charging section a smaller charging bias than used in forming a toner image and allow the static eliminating bias application section to apply to a static eliminating section a smaller static eliminating bias than used in forming the toner image. The control section performs the bias control to increase respective values of the charging bias and the static eliminating bias every one revolution of the image carrier until the charging bias and the static eliminating bias in forming the toner image are reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroka Itani
  • Patent number: 9064746
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods related to field-effect transistor (FET) structures configured to provide reduced per-area values of resistance in the linear operating region (Rds-on). Typical FET devices such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device require larger device sizes to desirably lower the Rds-on values. However, such increases in size result in undesirably larger die sizes. Disclosed are various examples of shapes of source, drain, and corresponding gate that yield reduced Rds-on values without having to increase the device size. In some implementations, such FET devices can be utilized in high power radio-frequency (RF) switching applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Christian Crandall
  • Patent number: 9065946
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: document reading device; document holder; and first locking device. Document reading device is provided so as to be openable and closable relative to apparatus body. Document holder is provided so as to be openable and closable relative to document reading device. First locking device locks document holder so as to prevent document holder from performing opening operation in the case of the document reading device performing opening operation. Document reading device includes an opening. First locking device includes: locking member, first hook member, and lid member. Locking member is inserted into the opening in a state where document holder is closed relative to document reading device. First hook member is engaged with locking member inserted in the opening, below document placing surface. Lid member is movable between closing position at which the opening is closed, and opening position at which the opening is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Inada, Nobuhiro Fukuma
  • Patent number: 9061847
    Abstract: The sheet transport mechanism of the present disclosure is provided with drive roller, driven roller, and roller pressing mechanism. The roller pressing mechanism presses the driven roller into contact against the drive roller. The driven roller includes a central driven roller, a first rotating shaft for supporting the central driven roller, at least one pair of outside driven rollers, and second rotating shafts supporting the outside driven rollers. The roller pressing mechanism includes a central pressing mechanism, and an outside pressing mechanism. The central pressing mechanism presses the central driven roller against the drive roller. The outside pressing mechanism presses the outside driven rollers against the drive roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Shinji Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 9063508
    Abstract: A drum cleaning device includes a toner supply roller, a toner layer restricting member, and a toner receiving member. The toner layer restricting member includes an inclined portion formed in a lateral region outside of an image forming region to incline gradually away from a surface of a cleaning roller with increasing distance from an inner side of the lateral region. The toner receiving member includes a lower-level upper end portion provided in the lateral region outside of the image forming region, the lower-level upper end portion being located below a second contact region where the cleaning roller and the toner supply roller come into contact with each other. The inclined portion is disposed in a region overlapping the lower-level upper end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuya Ota, Jun Nakai
  • Patent number: D732542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Thule Organization Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Sheldon Hassett, Oved Valadez Tejeda, Robert Ray Hunter, III