Patents Issued in July 12, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070160053
    Abstract: A method and system for providing indeterminate read data latency in a memory system. The method includes determining if a local data packet has been received. If a local data packet has been received, then the local data packet is stored into a buffer device. The method also includes determining if the buffer device contains a data packet and determining if an upstream driver for transmitting data packets to a memory controller via an upstream channel is idle. If the buffer contains a data packet and the upstream driver is idle, then the data packet is transmitted to the upstream driver. The method further includes determining if an upstream data packet has been received. The upstream data packet is in a frame format that includes a frame start indicator and an identification tag for use by the memory controller in associating the upstream data packet with its corresponding read instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Coteus, Kevin Gower, Warren Maule, Robert Tremaine
  • Publication number: 20070160054
    Abstract: A method for receiving feedback at a call center includes receiving a call from a caller for connection with one of a plurality of agents and distributing the call to a first agent of the plurality of agents. The method includes initiating a first communication session with the caller and the first agent to handle the call. The method also includes initiating a second communication session with the caller. The second communication session comprises a feedback session parallel to the first communication session. The method also includes receiving from the caller feedback relating to the first communication session between the caller and the first agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Shmuel Shaffer, Labhesh Patel, Denise Caballero-McCann, Joseph Khouri
  • Publication number: 20070160055
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a communication apparatus functioning as a mobile station, comprises: a message receiver which receives, from an first control station, a message indicating a second control station; a communication range determination unit which determines whether the communication apparatus is in a region within a communication range of said second control station; an existence determination unit which, if the communication apparatus is in a region within the communication range of said second control station, determines whether there is another mobile station which belongs to the first control station and exists in a region outside the communication range of said second control station; and a management signal output unit which, if the other mobile station exists, outputs, as a third control station, a management signal for constructing a communication group including the other mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Naoto TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20070160056
    Abstract: When congestion occurs in a RAN in a cell phone VoIP service, calls using the congested device are detected to permit generation of a restriction in call by call units. The congested device notifies call connection data passing through it to a PDSN, the PDSN finds the IP address of the terminal using the target connection, and notifies a CSCF as a restriction target terminal. The CSCF, in call connection processing, determines whether the calling/called sending/receiving user is the restriction target, and if so, determines whether or not the call should be connected with priority from subscriber data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Norihisa MATSUMOTO, Koji Watanabe, Naruhito Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20070160057
    Abstract: In a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) video communication method and apparatus, first and second VoIP-based terminals store video event indexes and images mapped thereto with respect to state information of a user and terminal, and establish a session using session establishment information defining the video event. The first terminal then transmits a data packet including the video event index, and the second terminal receives the data packet and outputs an image mapped to the video event index of the images stored in advance. Thus, by transmitting and receiving a predefined index alone without transmitting user and terminal states as a real time data-type image, the VoIP video communication method and apparatus prevent unnecessary waste of bandwidth in video communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Soung-Kwan Kimn, Hyun-Min Yoon, Hui-Jae Lee, Ji-Youn Jung, Myeon-Kee Youn, Seong-Joon Jeon
  • Publication number: 20070160058
    Abstract: A method and a system for implementing backup based on session border controllers, including: a terminal device registers to a first soft switch via a first session border controller; the terminal device detects whether a failure concerning the first session border controller occurs. If a failure occurs, the terminal device registers to the first soft switch via a second session border controller; the first or the second session border controller detects whether a failure concerning the first soft switch occurs. If a failure occurs, the terminal device registers to the second soft switch. In addition, the invention further provides a corresponding system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Weiqiang Zhou, Jing Wang
  • Publication number: 20070160059
    Abstract: A method and system for manipulating packet header compression parameters, by substituting at least one instruction set associated with a PPP negotiation packet at the PPP layer of a protocol stack, the at least one instruction set for use in establishing a communication protocol and channel between a pair of correspondents. The method includes the steps of a software module coupled to a first correspondent examining all PPP negotiation packets from a second correspondent; the software module determining whether a first instruction set is present in the PPP negotiation packet; the software module discarding said first instruction set and replacing the first instruction set with a second instruction set; and at the second correspondent receiving the second instruction set associated with a communication protocol information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Yuri Poeluev, Ronald Mercer
  • Publication number: 20070160060
    Abstract: A method of distributed medium access control wherein a device that intends to send data first monitors the medium, then pre-occupies a slot and only in case a collision has not occurred starts sending the data. A method for re-organizing the device's sequence for the medium access by using a busy priority signal wherein the device with the highest priority occupies the unused slot and updates it's slot number accordingly. A method for avoiding collision wherein a guard slot is generated just before the beginning of the MFS. A method for synchronizing a device by sensing the medium for a MFS or an EFS. A frame structure with a MFS, an EFS and a transmission portion with both a part for real-time and a part for non real-time transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONIC, N.V.
    Inventors: Francesc Dalmases, Joachim Kahlert, Thomas Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20070160061
    Abstract: A technique dynamically splits Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a head-end node may determine that a TE-LSP to a destination needs to be sized to a larger bandwidth (a “larger” TE-LSP) than currently available over a single path to the destination (e.g., a path that may also be required to meet other constraints, such as cost, delay, etc.). In response, the head-end node may dynamically “split” the larger TE-LSP, and create a first split TE-LSP over a best (e.g., shortest) available path (e.g., that meets other constraints). The first split TE-LSP may reserve a maximum available bandwidth for that best available path. The head-end node may then continue recursively creating subsequent split TE-LSPs for any remaining bandwidth of the larger TE-LSP over available paths until the larger TE-LSP may no longer be split (e.g., all bandwidth has been placed, configurable maximum number of splits reached, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Jeff Apcar
  • Publication number: 20070160062
    Abstract: The invention relates to network based content inspection (NBCI). More specifically, the invention provides systems and methods for improved NBCI in complex networks that are typical for enterprises and service providers. These networks are shared by large numbers of concurrent users who send and retrieve application content of various sizes via a variety of communication protocols. This invention improves the efficiency of the NBCI of an individual communication session by learning from the processing results of other communication sessions which may be carried via different network protocols. In addition, the invention provides methods that do not weaken the overall security for the network and that improve the stability of NBCI systems by minimizing the risk of system resource exhaustion if subjected to a burst of large payloads. The invention also improves perceived network stability by preventing the system resources from being “live-locked” by a few large content inspection tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Isao Morishita, Hongwen Zhang, Husam Kinawi
  • Publication number: 20070160063
    Abstract: Approaches are disclosed for switching transport protocol connection keys. A first node sends a keychange request message to a second node, causing the second node to accept subsequent messages digitally signed with a first or second key. The second node sends an acknowledgment message to the first node, causing the first node to accept subsequent messages digitally signed with the first or second key. The first node receives a new message digitally signed with the second key from the second node and determines that there are no remaining messages to be received digitally signed with the first key. In response thereto, the first node only accepts messages digitally signed with the second key and sends a message signed with the second key to the second node, causing the second node to only accept messages digitally signed with the second key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Satish Mynam, Anantha Ramaiah, Chandrashekhar Appanna
  • Publication number: 20070160064
    Abstract: A device supporting Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) includes: a mobile reception processor outputting home addresses of a mobile node and a correspondent node or mobility relevant header information according to whether a received packet is a Binding packet or a data packet; a binding cache storing Binding information that the mobile node has received; a binding update list storing Binding information that the mobile node has transmitted; a binding receiver receiving a Binding message that the correspondent node has created, receiving information on the home addresses of the mobile node and the correspondent node from the mobile reception processor, and providing information related to the Binding message to the binding cache and the binding update list; a binding transmitter receiving a request for creation of the Binding message, combining data using a calculated checksum, and creating and outputting a requested Binding message; and a mobile transmission processor determining a type of a header fo
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Dae-Hyung Kwon, Kang-Young Moon, Hye-Sook Lim, Hye-Ran Kim, Sun-Gi Kim, Ju-Hyoung Mun, Won-Jung Kim, Suh-Young Jhee, Ha-Neul Chu
  • Publication number: 20070160065
    Abstract: A method for route optimization with a dual mobile IPv4 node in an IPv6-only network is provided. The method includes the operations of: receiving a visited IPv6 address from a router when the dual mobile node is connected to the IPv6-only network; updating a home agent with the IPv6 address; deregistering a binding update with a correspondent node via the home agent; updating the correspondent node with an IPv6 address; checking the reachability of packets directly to the correspondent node using its IPv6 address; the mobile node starting sending, to the CN, data packets tunneled in an IPv6 packet once the reachability is verified; and the correspondent node sending tunneled data packets directly to an IPv6 address of the mobile node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishore Mundra, Lakshmi Gurusamy, Sameer Kumar, Wable Udaysinh
  • Publication number: 20070160066
    Abstract: In a write period, a write current is caused to flow through a video signal line in a first state where a first control terminal and an output terminal of a drive control element, a second control terminal of a drive control element, and a video signal line are connected one another and a potential of a scan signal line is set at a first potential, and the potential of the scan signal line is shifted from the first potential to a second potential in a second state where the first and second control terminals, the output terminal, and the video signal line are disconnected from one another are sequentially executed. In a effective display period, a drive current is caused to flow through a display element while keeping the potential of the scan signal line at the second potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Yoshiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20070160067
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for decentralized data conversion. The present invention includes providing a server configured to be accessible over the Internet and receiving a payment from a user through a payment gateway module, the gateway module operated by the server. Additionally, the invention includes receiving a data source over the Internet into the server, transforming data in the data source to create converted data adapted to a target, the transformation directed by one or more integration objects configured to perform conversion steps, the integration objects in a hierarchical structure defining an order of execution, the transformation controlled by the server, and returning the transformed data over the Internet from the server. The present invention allows customers who would otherwise be unable to access powerful data conversion tools to convert data at a reasonable cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Jerry Hayward
  • Publication number: 20070160068
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for managing matrices of connections within digital switching fabrics. The methods and systems include means for defining one or more of sources and sinks in a matrix of connections as one or more of unidirectional connection termination points and novel unidirectional virtual connection points, where each of the unidirectional virtual connection points is a logical object that is maintained in software that defines connections between one or more of network resources and logical objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Matthew Connolly, Jon Carroll, Satish Gopalakrishna, Richard Conklin
  • Publication number: 20070160069
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for assisting a peer-to-peer connection between a first node and a second node includes receiving, at a third node, a request for connection assistance from one of the first and second nodes. The third node then connects to both the first node and the second node, receives the data from the first node and delivers the data to the second node. In this manner, data may be transferred between the first and second nodes even if the first and second nodes are unable to directly connect to each other (e.g., due to permanent or temporary limitations).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: David George, Raymond Jennings, Jason LaVoie
  • Publication number: 20070160070
    Abstract: A system pushes documents to one or more wireless data devices. The system receives a push request from a user to push a specified document to one or more identified wireless data devices. The system then constructs a wireless gateway server request for each identified wireless data device, and the document is subsequently pushed to the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Buchhop, Glenn Rodbarry, Krsto Sitar
  • Publication number: 20070160071
    Abstract: A method is provided for managing the operation of a wireless communication device. The method comprises receiving from a source a data stream incorporating at least some data in a generic format to be communicated via a wireless communications connection, determining a selected protocol interface module from a plurality of protocol interface modules, each of the plurality of protocol interface modules being adapted for formatting the data stream in at least one of a plurality of air-interface protocols, and establishing a data path between the source of the data stream and the selected protocol interface module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Overtoom, Robin Adams
  • Publication number: 20070160072
    Abstract: The described embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing access by a user device of a network service including: sending an initiation signal from the user device to a session initialization proxy server, initiating an application on the user device that requires the network service, sending quality of service parameters for the user device and the application from the session initialization proxy server to a policy function server, sending a resource allocation request from the policy function server to a first access gateway, in response to the resource allocation request, providing the network service to the user device in accordance with the quality of service parameters via the first access gateway, monitoring the first access gateway to determine if the first access gateway can continue to provide the network service in accordance with the quality of service parameters, if the first access gateway can no longer provide the network service in accordance with the quality of servic
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Sebastian Thalanany, Michael Irizarry, Narothum Saxena
  • Publication number: 20070160073
    Abstract: To analyze traffic at an application level, a stream according to TCP or SCTP is required to be reconstructed and to be analyzed. When a packet is transferred to analyzing equipment using a port mirroring function with which a router and a switch are provided, transferred traffic volume increases and exceeds the throughput of the analyzing equipment. As only a part of packets configuring a stream is transferred to the analyzing equipment in transfer to the analyzing equipment using a packet sampling function, analysis at the application level is impossible. To solve the problem, when a packet communication unit recognizes a stream start packet, samples a stream initiated by the packet on a condition and at a rate respectively determined beforehand and generates a condition for copying the packet based upon information of both ends of the stream included in the packet, packets sampled in units of stream can be transferred to the analyzing equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Kunihiko Toumura, Tomoyuki Iijima
  • Publication number: 20070160074
    Abstract: A terminal of the present invention comprises a control frame detection portion of detecting a control frame issued from a control station, a control frame memory portion of storing control information contained in the control frame, a substitute frame issuance determination portion of determining to issue a substitute frame when the control frame is not detected until a predetermined first time period is elapsed, and a substitute frame issuance portion of creating a frame which is the same as or equivalent to the control frame, as the substitute frame, based on the control information stored in the control frame memory portion when the substitute frame issuance determination portion determine to issue the substitute frame, and issuing the created substitute frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shinichiro Ohmi, Go Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20070160075
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of communicating between a bus controller and one or more remote terminals. Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention may include, for example, identifying as a first remote terminal to a bus controller controlling a first bus according to a first control protocol; receiving over the first bus a first message intended for the first remote terminal; transmitting a second message corresponding to the first message over the first bus; and based on the first message, selectively transmitting over a second bus, which is controlled according to a second control protocol, a third message to a second remote terminal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Yehoshua Carpassi, Vladimir Netzer
  • Publication number: 20070160076
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to people who wish to make connections for real time communication, such as live telephone conversation, chat, video conferencing, etc. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving in a system a call back time window for a request from a first entity to establish a media connection for real time communication with a second entity, the call back time window being specified by the first entity to indicate a period of time including a current time during which the first entity is available for real time communication with the second entity; and attempting to establish the media connection between the first entity and the second entity according to the call back time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Scott Faber, Ebbe Altberg, Ron Hirson, Sean Linden
  • Publication number: 20070160077
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to people who wish to make connections for real time communication, such as live telephone conversation, chat, video conferencing, etc. In one embodiment, a method includes: presenting to a communicatee a plurality of requests for real time communication connections to the communicatee, the requests being received from a plurality of communicators; prioritizing the requests according to an input from the communicatee; and establishing a real time communication connection to the communicatee according to the prioritizing of the requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: UTBK, INC.
    Inventors: Ebbe ALTBERG, Scott FABER, Ron HIRSON, Sean VAN DER LINDEN
  • Publication number: 20070160078
    Abstract: An ethernet component includes a case, a data processing unit and a circuit device. The case has a plurality of first pins and a plurality of second pins. The data processing unit is disposed in the case and is electrically connected with the first pins. The circuit device is connected with the data processing unit through the second pins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Chih-Tse Chen, Ching-Man Kao, Han-Cheng Hsu
  • Publication number: 20070160079
    Abstract: A computer system that implements a quality of service policy. Information defining the quality of service policy is stored in a central location, such as a server within an enterprise. Policy management software on clients in the network download quality of service policy information from the central location to the clients. Within a client, a portion of the policy information is selected based on its applicability to a particular connection. The selected information is cached with an association to the connection so that, as datagrams are generated for transmission over the network, relevant policy information is quickly accessed for use in controlling transmission characteristics of datagrams sent using that connection. The policy information is applied on a datagram-by-datagram basis, allowing policy information to be selectively applied based on network type. Policy information may be selectively applied to those datagrams transmitted over a managed network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Han, Shuangtong Feng, Yinghua Yao
  • Publication number: 20070160080
    Abstract: To effectively allocate a computer resource in an environment where the number of computer resources is smaller than the number of users. It is provided with a section for monitoring the utilization state of the computer resources and a section for registering the condition of the possibility of release depending on the user attributes and the computer resource attributes, where when a new allocation request comes up in the state where all the computer resources are allocated, the unused computer resource is identified, released and allocated depending on the utilization state and the condition of the possibility of release.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Kiminori Sugauchi, Emiko Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070160081
    Abstract: An integrated power line communications (“PLC”) interface is coupled to a power line communications network and can simultaneously process a plurality of classes of communications data for automatically and dynamically establishing class-specific communications interfaces with communications network appliances or communications device coupled to the PLC network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Oleg Logvinov, Michael Macaluso
  • Publication number: 20070160082
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for implementing the Media-access control layer of a network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Mehmet Un, Kartik Raju
  • Publication number: 20070160083
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for implementing the Media-access control layer of a network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Mehmet Un, Kartik Raju
  • Publication number: 20070160084
    Abstract: An audio unit or audio system usable by a processor to: receive audio phone data over a data network; store at least one portion of the audio phone data in a non-encrypted form; and transmit at least one portion of the stored audio phone data to another data storage device which is coupled to the data network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Bruno Haas
  • Publication number: 20070160085
    Abstract: Method for transmitting supplementary data whose content relates to a communication session which has been set up or terminated to a communication terminal, in which a message is generated which contains the supplementary data and which has an identification for the communication session, and the message is transmitted to the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Norbert Schwagmann, Martin Hans
  • Publication number: 20070160086
    Abstract: A Voice over Internet Protocol phone (VoIP phone) includes a VoIP module coupled to an external network, a receiving module for receiving data stored in a portable memory device, and a control means coupled to the VoIP module and the receiving module for controlling the VoIP module according to the data stored in the portable memory device received by the receiving module. The VoIP phone can be utilized in public places without risk of compromising the security of personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Yung-Lang Huang, Yu-Cheng Tu, Tsung-Yu Ma
  • Publication number: 20070160087
    Abstract: A 10/100Base-T MAC to PHY interface requiring only two wires (pins) per port, with two additional global wires: a clock wire (pin), and a synchronization wire (pin) represents a reduction in the number of pins associated with each port and is achieved by time-division multiplexing wherein each time-division multiplexed wire combines a plurality of definitions from the conventional 100Base-T interface specified by IEEE 802.3u (clause 22). As a result, each port has its own pair of associated time-division multiplexed wires (pins) and the addition of each port simply requires two additional wires. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, information normally transferred on sixteen wires in a conventional 100Base-T interface at 25 MHz is time-division multiplexed onto two wires (corresponding to two pins) that transfer data at 125 MHz, five times the speed of conventional interfaces. Importantly, this multiplexing is done on a port by port basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Stewart Findlater, Andreas Bechtolsheim
  • Publication number: 20070160088
    Abstract: A synchronization determination method includes: a synchronization determining step of determining whether or not synchronization has been successfully performed by detecting a synchronous pattern from the demodulated data input as a data stream; a synchronization probability determining step of determining whether or not there is a probability that synchronization is successfully performed using the progress of detecting a synchronous pattern in the synchronization determining step; and a synchronization determination discard step of discarding a determination in the synchronization determining step when it is determined in the synchronization probability determining step that there is no probability that synchronization is successfully performed, and passing control to the process performed when it is determined in the synchronization determining step that synchronization has not been successfully performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Kanazashi
  • Publication number: 20070160089
    Abstract: A synchronization system using at least one external office line signal, and a synchronization control method thereof. The synchronization system includes a plurality of framers receiving digital office line signals having a square wave form from a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) through respective line interfaces, converting the digital office line signals into reference clock signals, and a synchronization frequency selector controlling a framer that first generates an interrupt, among the plurality of framers, to provide the corresponding reference clock signal. The synchronization system using at least one external office line facilitates line extension of a digital trunk of a keyphone switching apparatus, stably performs system synchronization by using the reference clock signal as an external synchronization clock to enhances system quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Young-Bum Suh
  • Publication number: 20070160090
    Abstract: A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signal, a reference clock information signal relating to synchronization between the compressively-encoding-resultant video signal and the first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal, and an indication timing information signal designating an indication timing of the video signal are multiplexed to get an AV multiplexing-resultant signal. A second audio signal is compressively encoded to get a second compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal. A sound-production-timing information signal is added to the second compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal to get a substitution playback audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
  • Publication number: 20070160091
    Abstract: Disclosed are a continuous wave supercontinuum laser source resonator using low-priced multimode semiconductor lasers as pumping light and applying a rare-earth doped optical fiber and a Highly Nonlinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF) to a ring resonator structure to embody a continuous wave supercontinuum light source, and a medical diagnostic apparatus using the same. The resonator consists of a pump combiner for inputting pumping light into the resonator; a rare-earth doped optical fiber for receiving and converting the pumping light into seed light of a predetermined wavelength band; a Highly Nonlinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF) for converting the light converted by the rare-earth doped optical fiber and oscillating in the resonator into a continuous wave supercontinuum laser source; and a coupler for outputting the supercontinuum laser source generated from the Highly Nonlinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Han Lee, Young Geun Han, Sang Bae Lee, Chang Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20070160092
    Abstract: So far the spectrum of the SC light has been limited to a certain wavelength band. To solve this problem, the invention offers a broad-band light source that can produce broad-band light having a desired wavelength width in a desired wavelength band. The broad-band light source comprises a pulse light source, a first optical fiber, and a second optical fiber. The first optical fiber (a) receives pump pulse light outputted from the pulse light source, (b) generates first generated pulse light having a center wavelength different from that of the pump pulse light, and (c) outputs remaining pulse light of the pump pulse light and the first generated pulse light. The second optical fiber (a) receives at least the first generated pulse light of the pulse light outputted from the output end of the first optical fiber and (b) produces and outputs broad-band light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiaki Okuno
  • Publication number: 20070160093
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave generator encompasses a first pump beam emitter (2) configured to emit a first pump beam (hv1) having a wavelength larger than one micrometer; a second pump beam emitter (25) configured to emit a wavelength-tunable second pump beam (hv2) having a wavelength larger than one micrometer, the wavelength of which is different from the wavelength of the first pump beam (hv1); a nonlinear optical crystal (19) configured to generate an electromagnetic wave (hv3) of a difference frequency between the first pump beam (hv1) and second pump beam (hv2); and an optical system (M1, M2, 18) configured to irradiate the first pump beam (hv1) and second pump beam (hv2) to the nonlinear optical crystal (19), by adjusting an external intersection angle between the first pump beam (hv1) and second pump beam (hv2) within 0.5° at the difference frequency of 1 THz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Zaidan Hojin Handotai Kenkyu Shinkokai
    Inventors: Jun-ichi Nishizawa, Ken Suto, Tetsuo Sasaki, Tadao Tanabe, Tomoyuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20070160094
    Abstract: A thermal nonlinear cell and method. The cell includes a substantially planar nonlinear medium and a mechanism for removing thermal energy from the medium in a direction substantially orthogonal to said medium. In one embodiment, the mechanism for removing thermal energy is a thermally conductive window mounted adjacent to the medium. Preferably, the mechanism includes plural thermally conductive windows between which the nonlinear medium is disposed. In the best mode, the windows are sapphire and the nonlinear medium is a fluid. The windows and the medium are transmissive with respect to first and second beams that interfere with each other and create an interference pattern in the cell. The interference pattern is sampled by a sampling hologram created within the multiple layers of the medium. The interference pattern is used via a sampling hologram to create a phase conjugate of a signal beam. The windows move thermal energy from the medium in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Alexander Betin, N. Davis, Joseph Ichkhan
  • Publication number: 20070160095
    Abstract: This invention provides an automatic power control (APC) circuit for keeping an extinction ratio constant even when the efficiency of a laser diode (LD) deteriorates. The APC circuit according to this invention stores first control data for deciding the relationship between a bias current Ib and a modulation current Im so that the extinction ratio under a certain target power is a predetermined value. A central processing unit (CPU) decides the bias current Ib and modulation current Im on the basis of a current optical output power and the first control data and supplies them to an LD driver. The APC circuit also stores second control data for deciding the correction value for the optical output power corresponding to the temperature of the LD. The CPU acquires the current temperature before deciding the bias current Ib, decides a correction value corresponding to the current temperature according to the second control data, and corrects the target power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Kentaro Kitagawa, Hiroto Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20070160096
    Abstract: Laser light is emitted from a laser oscillator, and the laser light is made to enter a beam expander optical system including a concave lens through a correction lens. The laser oscillator, the correction lens and the concave lens are disposed so that, when an emission point of the laser oscillator is a first conjugate point, a point at which an image at the first conjugate point is formed through the correction lens is a second conjugate point, a distance between the correction lens and the second conjugate point is b, a focal length of the concave lens is f, and a distance between the correction lens and the concave lens is X, the X satisfies b?3|f|?X?b+|f|.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Koichiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070160097
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting optoelectronic component (1) which is connected to a heat sink (3) and is intended for pulsed operation with the pulse duration D, and in which temperature changes of the optoelectronic component (1) take place with a thermal time constant ? during pulsed operation. The thermal time constant ? is matched to the pulse duration D in order to reduce the amplitude of the temperature changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Behringer, Gerhard Herrmann, Stefan Morgott, Frank Mollmer
  • Publication number: 20070160098
    Abstract: Plural LDs 6 are series-connected and pump a solid-state pumping medium 7. Each of bypass circuits 15 is connected in parallel to an associated one of the LDs 6. An operation of driving each of the bypass circuits 15 is controlled by a control circuit 14. A detection circuit 13 is provided corresponding to each of the LDs 6 and detects a short circuit failure and an open failure of each of the LDs 6 according to a voltage developed thereacross or the like. The detection circuit 13 and the control circuit 14 are connected to and are controlled by an LD shortcircuit control circuit 11. In a case where a failure of the LD is detected by the detection circuit 13, the LD shortcircuit control unit 11 determines the position of the failed LD to bypass electric current having flowed through the failed LD. Then, the control circuit 11 sends a signal to a predetermined control circuit 14 to thereby operate a predetermined bypass circuit 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Takeshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20070160099
    Abstract: A quantum well intermixing (QWI) technique for modifying an energy bandgap during the formation of optical semiconductor devices differing bandgap shifts across a wafer, device or substrate surface. The method includes: pattering the surface of a semiconductor substrate with QWI-initiating material in first regions of the surface; conducting a first thermal processing cycle on the substrate to generate a first bandgap shifts in the first regions; pattering the surface of the substrate with QWI initiating material in second regions of the surface, distinct from said first regions; and conducting a second thermal processing cycle on the substrate to generate a second bandgap shift in the second regions, and to generate a cumulative bandgap shift in the first regions, the cumulative bandgap shift being the cumulative result of said first and second thermal processing cycles. Further steps can produce additonal cumulative bandgap shifts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: INTENSE LIMITED
    Inventors: John Marsh, Dan Yanson, Stewart McDougall
  • Publication number: 20070160100
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide high-quality layered semiconductor devices and methods for their fabrication. The high-quality layered semiconductor device can be formed in planar with low defect densities and with strain relieved through a plurality of arrays of misfit dislocations formed at the interface of highly lattice-mismatched layers of the device. The high-quality layered semiconductor device can be formed using various materials systems and can be incorporated into various opto-electronic and electronic devices. In an exemplary embodiment, a vertical cavity device can include two types of arrays of misfit dislocations to form high-quality semiconductor layers of the vertical cavity device. The vertical cavity device can be operated at a wavelength of about 1.6-5.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Diana Huffaker, Larry Dawson, Ganesh Balakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20070160101
    Abstract: A laser diode apparatus (2) having a plurality of active regions (4a . . . 4n) which are arranged side by side and are designed for radiation production when the laser diode apparatus is in operation. A lateral dimension (ba . . . bn) of the active regions is varied in the lateral direction, and/or the distance (Da . . . D1) between adjacent active regions is varied in the lateral direction. Furthermore, a laser arrangement (1) is specified, having a laser diode apparatus which is arranged on a mount (6) with the mount being matched to the laser diode apparatus. Furthermore, a laser which is optically pumped by means of the laser diode apparatus or the laser arrangement is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Konig, Peter Brick, Jurgen Moosburger
  • Publication number: 20070160102
    Abstract: A vertically emitting semiconductor laser comprising an external resonator (7), a semiconductor body (1), and at least one pump radiation source (9). The semiconductor body (1) has a quantum layer structure (2) as an active zone comprising quantum layers (3) and barrier layers (4) lying in between. The semiconductor body (1) furthermore has a Bragg reflector (5) on one side of the quantum layer structure (2). The Bragg reflector (5) comprises layers which are arranged aperiodically with respect to one another in such a way that an absorption of the pump radiation (10) is essentially effected within the quantum layer structure (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Orsam Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Brick, Stephan Lutgen