Patents Assigned to Solutions
  • Patent number: 9426352
    Abstract: A focus control apparatus reduces the degree of out-of-focus of an image of an intense point light source during zooming in contrast-based autofocus control. A zooming lens moves in an optical axis direction to perform magnification change and a focusing lens moves in the optical axis direction to perform focus adjustment and is driven in accordance with a trace curve corresponding to the distance to a subject. A controller evaluates, during the magnification change operation, based on the rate of change in the number of high-luminance pixels at which the number of high-luminance pixels in an output image from the imaging apparatus changes with the zoom magnification, whether or not the focusing lens is driven in accordance with a trace curve corresponding to the distance to the subject before the magnification change operation is performed or a trace curve corresponding to a distance to the subject of infinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nishiguchi, Hideharu Ono, Iori Umezawa, Toshiyuki Yokoyama, Yukitoshi Shirota, Toshifumi Inokuchi
  • Patent number: 9424324
    Abstract: In a method for storing and providing medical image data in a distributed, computer-based system of a clinical facility comprising multiple satellites, wherein a satellite has at least one modality, an image administration server and at least one local database, and wherein the clinical facility also has a central database for the administration of the stored image data and a central long-term storage for long-term storage, the image data are acquired at the modality, the image data include metadata and pixel data, partial metadata in the metadata of the acquired image data are marked, at least the metadata of the image data acquired are locally stored at the respective satellites, the image data of the image data acquired at the respective satellites are centrally stored in the central long-term storage, all metadata stored in the local database in the central database are completely, centrally replicated, and the marked partial metadata of the image data from the central database are partially, automaticall
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Friese, Thomas Haug, Stephan Merk, Wolfgang Rueger, Achim Scheidl, Matthias Senn, Veerendra Shetty
  • Patent number: 9426701
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The solution includes obtaining information of handovers to be performed regarding more than one user equipment connected to the apparatus; requesting the user equipment to form one or more device-to-device clusters; and controlling handovers to be performed utilizing information on the formed device-to-device clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Ling Yu, Vinh Van Phan, Kari Veikko Horneman
  • Publication number: 20160242162
    Abstract: A method includes monitoring, in a user terminal, a PDCCH channel during an active period of a DRX cycle. For defining a TDD configuration for the terminal when an inactive period of the DRX cycle changes into an active period, the method further includes monitoring downlink sub-frames and DwPTS sub-frames according to a downlink HARQ reference configuration until an update of the TDD configuration is received; monitoring the PDCCH channel for any sub-frames except for sub-frames scheduled or configured for uplink transmission by the downlink HARQ reference configuration until the update of the TDD configuration is received; and/or monitoring the PDCCH channel for sub-frames when the terminal monitors the PDCCH channel for paging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Chunhai YAO, Chunli WU, Benoist Pierre SEBIRE
  • Publication number: 20160236885
    Abstract: A document conveyance device according to the present disclosure includes a document conveyance path, a first actuator, a second actuator, and an optical sensor. The first actuator is disposed in the document conveyance path. The second actuator is disposed on a more downstream side than the first actuator in the document conveyance path in the document conveyance direction. An output state of the optical sensor is switched based on pivoting of the first actuator and second actuator. A tip end of the document passes the first actuator, whereby the optical sensor outputs a first output indicating a first state, the tip end of the document passes the second actuator, whereby the optical sensor outputs a second output indicating a second state, and a rear end of the document passes the first actuator, whereby the optical sensor outputs the first output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Satoru YONEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160236490
    Abstract: An adjustment mechanism (130) adjusts a position of a target object (110) attached to an attachment base (120). The adjustment mechanism (130) includes a first cam (131) and a second cam (132). The first cam (131) is attached to a shaft portion (123) on the attachment base (120). The second cam (132) houses the first cam (131) and supports the target object (110). The first cam (131) displaces the target object (110) via the second cam (132) by rotating about the shaft section (123) as a rotational axis. The second cam (132) displaces the target object (110) by rotating about the first cam (131) as a rotational axis. An amount of displacement of the target object (110) resulting from rotation of the first cam (131) differs from an amount of displacement of the target object (110) resulting from rotation of the second cam (132).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu MAESHIMA, Kikunosuke TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20160241535
    Abstract: The present invention performs authentication and registration of a user and a terminal in a remote desktop system. A user authentication unit of a remote PC determines whether to permit a user to log in the PC. A terminal information transmission unit of a terminal reads terminal information and transmits the terminal information to the remote PC. A connection permission determination unit determines whether to permit a remote desktop connection between the terminal and the PC, by referring to a white list. When the RD connection is not permitted, a request information generation unit generates request information for requesting to register combination of user information, the terminal information, and computer information. A request information transmission unit transmits the generated request information to a terminal registration device. A registration unit determines, whether to register the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuki KADOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20160238976
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member and an induction heating section. The fixing member fixes an image onto a sheet. The induction heating section inductively heats the fixing member. The induction heating section includes an annular coil and a cover. The annular coil is elongated in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the sheet. The cover has first, second, and third opening rows. The annular coil includes first and second linear sections. Both the first and second opening rows are located at a side closer to the first linear section than a center line of the annular coil in the longitudinal direction. The second opening row is located closer to the second linear section than the first opening row. The third opening row is located at a side closer to the second linear section than the center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Shoko GON
  • Publication number: 20160241741
    Abstract: A display input device includes a display portion, a touch panel portion and a control portion, and when in a login state, a predetermined processing start time is reached, reduction processing is performed in which in a screen being presently displaced, a display size of a logout key is maintained and in which a display size of a reduction target element that is a screen element other than the logout key is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto OCHI
  • Publication number: 20160239447
    Abstract: A data acquisition system includes an electronic device and a data acquisition terminal. The electronic device includes a data storage section and a first interface. The data acquisition terminal includes a terminal communication control section and a second interface to be connected to the first interface. The terminal communication control section instructs the electronic device to transmit data stored in the data storage section of the electronic device through the first interface. In response to an instruction from the terminal communication control section, the electronic device transmits the data stored in the data storage section to the data acquisition terminal by a predetermined communication scheme. The predetermined communication scheme is a communication scheme that uses a communication standard prescribed in a layer lower than an application layer in an open systems interconnection reference model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Izumi KADOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160238961
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image carrier on the surface of which a toner image is formed, a cleaning member arranged in contact with, for cleaning, the surface of the image carrier, a charging member for electrostatically charging the image carrier, a bias applying device, and a control portion. The bias applying device applies a charging bias having DC and AC biases superimposed on each other to the charging member. The control portion controls the charging bias applied to the charging member by the bias applying device. As the AC bias applied to the charging member, the control portion uses, in a first period from the start of use of the image carrier to a predetermined time thereafter, a first AC bias and, in a second period subsequent to the first period, a second AC bias higher than the first AC bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ai TAKAGAMI, Hisashi MUKATAKA, Masaki KADOTA, Takahiko MURATA, Maki IKE
  • Publication number: 20160241723
    Abstract: An image reading device includes: a document conveyance section configured to convey an original document placed on a document loading chute; an original glass plate allowing the document conveyed from the document conveyance section to pass thereover; a reading unit that includes a light-emitting part including first, second, and third light sources and configured to emit light toward the document at a predetermined document reading position and a light-receiving part configured to receive light reflected on the document; a housing including a hollow letting part of light from the light-emitting part out of the image reading device; a foreign matter detecting section configured to detect a foreign matter on the original glass plate; and an operation control section configured to control the operation of the light-emitting part and, upon detection of the foreign matter, allow the light-emitting part to emit light in a different color from when reading the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiko OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9419667
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and methods related to conformal coating of radio-frequency (RF) modules. In some embodiments, a module can include an overmold formed over an RF component mounted on a packaging substrate. The overmold can also cover a surface-mount device (SMD) such as an RF filter implemented as a chip size surface acoustic wave (SAW) device (CSSD). The module can further include a conductive layer formed over the overmold and configured to provide RF shielding functionality for the module. The conductive layer can be electrically connected to a ground plane of the packaging substrate through the SMD. An opening can be formed in the overmold over the SMD; and the conductive layer can conform to the opening to electrically connect the conductive layer with an upper surface of the SMD and thereby facilitate the grounding connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony James Lobianco, Howard E. Chen, Robert Francis Darveaux, Hoang Mong Nguyen, Matthew Sean Read, Lori Ann Deorio
  • Patent number: 9420544
    Abstract: A technique, including in a communication system involving a plurality of access nodes cooperatively detecting a transmission from a communication device, determining at said communication device a transmission power parameter relating to said communication device at least partly on the basis of a plurality of pathloss values including a first pathloss value for a first set of access nodes of said plurality of access nodes transmitting a first reference signal at substantially the same transmission power and a second pathloss value for one or more second access nodes of said plurality of access nodes transmitting a second reference signal at substantially the same transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Juhani Hooli, Pasi Eino Tapio Kinnunen
  • Patent number: 9414798
    Abstract: A method for bolus tracking includes acquiring one or more baseline images. One or more trigger regions are automatically established within the baseline images. A bolus is administered. The automatically established trigger regions are monitored for bolus arrival at the one or more trigger regions. Bolus arrival at a volume of interest is forecasted based on the bolus arrival at the one or more trigger regions. A diagnostic scan of the volume of interest is acquired at the forecasted time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ute Feuerlein, Arun Krishnan, Xiang Sean Zhou
  • Patent number: 9420264
    Abstract: A lightweight, low volume, inexpensive LADAR sensor incorporating 3-D focal plane arrays is adapted specifically for modular manufacture and rapid field configurability and provisioning. The present invention generates, at high speed, 3-D image maps and object data at short to medium ranges. The techniques and structures described may be used to extend the range of long range systems as well, though the focus is on compact, short to medium range ladar sensors suitable for use in multi-sensor television production systems and 3-D graphics capture and moviemaking. 3-D focal plane arrays are used in a variety of physical configurations to provide useful new capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Gilliland, Laurent Heughebaert, Joseph Spagnolia, Brad Short, Roger Stettner
  • Patent number: 9418225
    Abstract: A transmitting device that transmits data signals into a primary electricity grid, wherein the transmitting device connects to a power input of a computer system and overlays signals returned by the computer system into the primary electricity grid by modulating random data signals onto a line connected to the power input of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Thorsten Höhnke
  • Patent number: 9416583
    Abstract: This invention describes a process flow and method to assemble triple IG units without contaminating the center glass lite. A non-contact vacuum pad is used to lift a glass lite off from a horizontal or vertical support that conveys it from a glass washer to an assembly station. Each of multiple pads has a capacity to lift approximately seven to ten pounds. Use of multiple pads per glass sheet or lite allows lites having dimensions up to 70 by 100 inches (assuming glass thickness of one quarter inch) to be assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: GED Integrated Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: William Briese, John Grismer, Timothy B. McGlinchy
  • Patent number: 9414832
    Abstract: A patient's stomach may be secured to the patient's diaphragm. A method to accomplish this includes visualizing a wall of a patient's stomach adjacent the patient's diaphragm from within the patient's stomach, inserting a fastener deployment apparatus down the patient's esophagus and into the mammalian's stomach, and fastening the patient's stomach to the patient's diaphragm with the fastener deployment apparatus and from within the stomach. The procedure may be employed to advantage to treat a hiatal hernia, for example, either alone or in conjunction with the restoration of the patient's gastroesophageal flap valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: EndoGastric Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Stefan J. M. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9420329
    Abstract: Embodiments of a device for receiving a digital terrestrial, cable, or satellite television signal are described herein. For example, a silicon tuner module may be configured to receive a digital terrestrial, cable, or satellite television signal and output a digital bitstream, the digital bitstream may include audio visual content in an encoded transport stream. In a further example, a digital audio video connector may be configured to couple with a display device, the digital audio video connector may be configured to provide the digital bitstream to the display device according to a specification. In another example, a processing module may be configured to control the silicon tuner module in response to a Consumer Electronics Control command received from the display device via the digital audio video connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: BBY Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Mahmood Majid