Patents Examined by A. Chang
  • Patent number: 8607653
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a die-cast quality judging method that can easily judge whether or not a prescribed quality is satisfied; a die-casting machine selecting method of judging whether or not plural prescribed qualities are satisfied; and a die-casting condition determining method of determining die-casting conditions. It is judged that inequalities to be restricted by judging standard values QfLB2 and QaUB2 are not true from the positional relation between a process point 13 that is an intersection of a machine characteristic line 11 and a die characteristic line 12 and straight lines 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 and thus it is judged that the inequalities to restrict an upper limit of a filling time and a lower limit of an air vent exhaust velocity are not true. That is, it is judged that prescribed qualities are not satisfied with regard to misrun and gas inclusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Machinery & Metal Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 8611006
    Abstract: Systems for three-dimensional viewing and projection aimed at full-color flat-screen binocular stereoscopic viewing without the use of eyeglasses for the viewer. According to the invention, light emanating from a display or projected thereat presenting a left image and a right image is directed only to the appropriate left or right eyes of at least one viewer using various combinations of light polarizing layers and layers of light rotating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: EHN Spire Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Paul Kleinberger, Ilan D. Kleinberger
  • Patent number: 8606049
    Abstract: An image management apparatus includes a storage unit configured to compare a difference between stored original image data and image data to which correction is applied, and store differential information resulting from the comparison as new image data, a display unit configured to display a candidate of image data to be output to receive from a user a specification of image data to be output from among a plurality of image data stored in the storage unit, wherein the display unit detects and outputs image data stored in a terminal among image data including the differential information satisfying a condition specified by the user and image data derived by correcting the image data, from among the plurality of image data stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sato
  • Patent number: 8601881
    Abstract: Described is a material sample for testing material properties under biaxial load as well as a method therefor. The material sample has a circular disk shape and, for rotation about the center line thereof, is provided with an integrally formed hub. The edge of the material sample and the hub are thicker than the ring section of the material sample located in between. In one embodiment, the ring section is designed with an annular concave fillet concentric to the hub and the concave fillet may extend from the edge to the hub and have a continuous curvature over its width. In the method, it is rotated about its center line at least at 100,000 rpm, preferably at 150,000 rpm±10,000 rpm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Pirker
  • Patent number: 8604190
    Abstract: This invention is directed to vanilloid receptor VR1 ligands. More particularly, this invention relates to hetero isonipecotic amides that are potent modulators of VR1 which are useful for the treatment and prevention of disease conditions in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Micheal D. Gaul, Bao-Ping Zhao, Daniel A. Hutta
  • Patent number: 8601811
    Abstract: A method for adjusting an exhaust heat recovery valve is presented. In one embodiment, the method may control an amount of boost provided by a turbocharger to an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Norman Ulrey
  • Patent number: 8606035
    Abstract: An exposure condition when obtaining a sensed image is input. Shake information when obtaining the sensed image is input. A filter to be used to correct a blur of the sensed image is generated based on the exposure condition and a weight value including a non-integer obtained from the shake information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8601867
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a phase separation float assembly, a phase separation detection system, and a method for detecting phase separation. One embodiment comprises a first float subassembly comprising a first float adapted for vertical travel along a fuel level probe shaft and a magnet. This embodiment also comprises a second float subassembly comprising a second float adapted for vertical travel along the shaft. The first float has a first density and the second float has a second density greater than the first density. The second float subassembly further comprises at least one stop feature which engages the first float subassembly when the first float subassembly travels vertically a predetermined distance along the fuel level probe shaft. The first float density is selected such that the first float subassembly travels vertically along the shaft to engage the at least one stop feature in the presence of phase separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Veeder-Root Company
    Inventors: Ambroise Prinstil, Joseph Tessitore
  • Patent number: 8605147
    Abstract: A device for recording images of an object scene has a lighting unit for illuminating the object scene with several lighting elements and an optical system for directing radiation of the lighting elements reflected from the object scene onto a detector. In order to achieve a simple and compact camera, the device includes a marking device for marking the radiation from each of the lighting elements and an evaluation device for differentiating the reflected radiation of the individual lighting elements by way of the marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans Dieter Tholl, Eugen Romasew, Joachim Barenz
  • Patent number: 8606894
    Abstract: A method for server consolidation is provided. The method includes collecting performance data of a plurality of source servers in a desired environment, selecting a group of one or more source servers from the plurality of source servers for consolidation, marking each source server in the with one of multiple usability statuses with one of such statuses indicates the marked source server is to be replaced or reused as necessary in the server consolidation, selecting a target platform for a new server, and performing a first server consolidation analysis of the first group based at least on the collected performance data, the initial usability status of each source server in the first group, and the first selected target platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Marie-Jo L. Fremont, Alex X. Zhang, Fereydoon Safai, Jerome Rolia, Keith I. Farkas, Dirk M. Beyer, Martin F. Arlitt
  • Patent number: 8606852
    Abstract: A method includes receiving input at a computer. The input is associated with an application frame of a client-side web browser. The method includes encoding control characteristics of the input as at least a portion of a request to a server-side web application. The method includes sending the request to the server-side web application and receiving an executable response from the server-side web application at a mediator frame of the client-side web browser. The method also includes executing the executable response via the mediator frame to update at least a portion of the application frame of the client-side browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Yannick Saillet
  • Patent number: 8605121
    Abstract: A dynamic Gamma correction circuit, method thereof and a panel display apparatus are provided. The panel, display apparatus has a timing controller, a dynamic Gamma correction circuit, a display panel and a display driving circuit. The timing controller receives a first image data and then outputs a second image data and a timing control signal. The dynamic Gamma correction circuit receives and analyzes a distribution of gray levels of the first image data so as to dynamically correct and output a plurality of Gamma voltages. The display driving circuit electrically connects to the display panel, the timing controller and the dynamic Gamma correction circuit for receiving the second image data and the Gamma voltage so as to drive the display panel according to the timing control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Nan Chu, Kuan-Hung Liu
  • Patent number: 8605061
    Abstract: A touch panel input stylus comprises a casing, a lens, a shading member, and a light emitting element. The lens, the shading member, and the light emitting element are received in the casing. The shading member defines a stepped through aperture. The stepped through aperture includes a light through hole and a receiving hole having a greater diameter than the light through hole. A longitudinal positioning structure is provided in the receiving hole. The light emitting element is received and fixed in the receiving hole firmly by the longitudinal positioning structure. The longitudinal positioning structure is deformable. The light emitted from the light emitting element passes through the light through hole and then travels through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Lung Ho, Ho-Chiang Liu
  • Patent number: 8605687
    Abstract: A method of using pilot signals in a wireless communication network including encoding pilot signals, and transmitting the encoded pilot signals over an in-band backhaul link between two nodes in the network. Preferably, the pilot signals are encoded with a CDMA codeword associated with a link. The pilot signals can be decoded to permit estimation of a channel and interference attributable to each link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Oz Barak, Assaf Touboul, Guy Wolf
  • Patent number: 8604058
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula I: where a, R1, and R3-6 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds of formula I are serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Theravance, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Jean Patterson, Eric L. Stangeland, Sheila Zipfel, Daniel D. Long
  • Patent number: 8605054
    Abstract: A touch screen system includes a capacitive touch screen (1) including a plurality of row conductors (7-1,2 . . . n) and a column conductor (5-1). A plurality of cotemporaneous orthogonal excitation signals (S1(t), S2(t) . . . Sn(t)) are simultaneously driven onto the row conductors, respectively. The capacitively coupled signals on the column conductor may be influenced by a touch (10) on the capacitive touch screen. Receiver circuitry (50) includes a sense amplifier (21-1) coupled to generate an amplifier output signal (r1(t)) in response to signals capacitively coupled onto the column conductor. WHT-based circuitry (35) determines amounts of signal contribution capacitively coupled by each of the excitation signals, respectively, to the amplifier output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: William R. Krenik, Anand Dabak
  • Patent number: 8605358
    Abstract: A diffractive optical element includes a first diffractive grating including a first grating surface and a first grating wall surface, a light shielding member disposed on the first grating wall surface, and a second diffractive grating including a second grating surface and a second grating wall surface, disposed so that the second grating surface contacts the first grating surface and the second grating wall surface contacts the light shielding member. An extinction coefficient k of a material that constitutes the light shielding member meets the expression of 0.001<k<0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Reona Ushigome
  • Patent number: 8606277
    Abstract: A method for setting up an activation time of a cell change of user equipment includes receiving a timing offset from a network controller through an active set update procedure and calculating a high speed downlink shared channel cell change activation time based on the timing offset. The activation time indicates when the user equipment can move to the target cell. The method also includes transmitting the calculated activation time to the network controller and receiving an approval of the downlink shared channel high speed cell change from the network controller. Additionally, the method includes moving from the serving cell to the target cell at the activation time if the approval has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 8605656
    Abstract: A local gateway assignment capability is depicted and described herein. In a wireless service provider network, the local gateway assignment capability enables a local gateway, rather than a core gateway, to be selected to serve a user request for an APN. The local gateway and core gateway may be a Local-GGSN (L-GGSN) and a GGSN, respectively, where the L-GGSN is associated with an SGSN and provides local traffic offloading for the GGSN and where the GGSN provides a gateway for the core network portion of the wireless service provider network. A DNS element or other device is configured to determine an SGSN-specific APN in response to receiving a DNS Request from an SGSN. A DNS element is configured to identify, using an SGSN-specific APN associated with an SGSN, an L-GGSN associated with the SGSN, and to provide an indication of the L-GGSN to the SGSN from which the DNS Request is received, thereby enabling the user associated with the DNS Request to use the L-GGSN rather than the GGSN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Colin Kahn, Alistair Urie
  • Patent number: 8606539
    Abstract: A radar (peripheral object observation device) repeatedly observes a relative position of an object relative to the moving object, which is located in the vicinity of a moving object. A stationary object identification unit (stationary object determination unit) determines whether or not the object the relative positions of which have been observed by the radar is still. A road approximate curve temporary computation unit (object correlation unit) determines a plurality of the relative positions of an identical object observed by the radar from among the relative positions observed by the radar. A road approximate curve main computation unit (approximate curve computation unit) computes an approximate curve that approximates the configuration of a road on which the moving object is located, based on a result of the determination by the stationary object identification unit and a result of the determination by the road approximate curve computation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Takabayashi, Takashi Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Kameda, Yasushi Obata