Patents Issued in July 14, 2011
  • Publication number: 20110169680
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter includes an operational amplifying circuit, a switched capacitor circuit, an R-string sub-circuit, and a direct-charge transfer circuit. The operational amplifying circuit has a pair of differential input ends and a pair of differential output ends. The switched capacitor circuit is coupled to the pair of differential input ends of the operational amplifying circuit. The R-string sub-circuit is coupled to the switched capacitor circuit and the pair of differential input ends of the operational amplifying circuit. The direct-charge transfer circuit is coupled to the pair of differential input ends and the pair of differential output ends of the operational amplifying circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Chih-Hong Lou, Kuan-Hung Chen
  • Publication number: 20110169681
    Abstract: Increase of power consumption is reduced, and the operational speed is improved. A comparator includes a comparing section which outputs a result of comparison between a first voltage and a second voltage which constitute an input differential signal, a first positive feedback section which operates in synchronism with a first clock signal, amplifies the result from the comparing section, and outputs the amplified result to an output node pair, and a second positive feedback section which operates in synchronism with a second clock signal, and provides positive feedback to the output node pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi NAKA, Masakazu Shigemori
  • Publication number: 20110169682
    Abstract: A forward-looking radar system adapted to detect and identify buried or near surface objects from a moving ground vehicle has been developed. The system incorporates a radar detection system and in one embodiment is mounted on a ground vehicle. The system is adapted to differentiate common roadway clutter from objects of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Chi-Chih Chen
  • Publication number: 20110169683
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving sensor data generated by one or more sensors in response to sensing a structure. The sensor data is filtered to identify edge data and reverberation data each describing the same structural feature of the structure. Image data for a filtered image of the structure is generated from the edge data, but not from the reverberation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Daniel W. Otts
  • Publication number: 20110169684
    Abstract: A system for sensing aircraft and other objects uses bistatic radar with spread-spectrum signals transmitted from remotely located sources such as aircraft flying at very high altitudes or from a satellite constellation. A bistatic spread spectrum radar system using a satellite constellation can be integrated with a communications system and/or with a system using long baseline radar interferometry to validate the digital terrain elevation database. The reliability and safety of TCAS and ADS-B are improved by using the signals transmitted from a TCAS or ADS-B unit as a radar transmitter with a receiver used to receive reflections. Aircraft and other objects using spread spectrum radar are detected by using two separate receiving systems. Cross-Correlation between the outputs of the two receiving systems reveals whether a noise signal is produced by the receiving systems themselves or is coming from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Jed Margolin
  • Publication number: 20110169685
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a fake image reduction device, which includes a target object detection module for being inputted with an echo signal from an antenna that transmits an electromagnetic wave and receives the echo signal, measuring a level of the echo signal to detect a target object, a reflecting body identifying module for identifying the detected target object as a reflecting body, and a fake image area setting module for setting a fake image area according to a distance and an azimuth direction from a transmitting position of the electromagnetic wave to the identified reflecting body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110169686
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of detecting a target in a sea area based on a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image thereof. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image is made up of pixels, each having a respective magnitude. The method comprises computing a first reference quantity which characterizes a Poisson distribution assumed for the magnitudes that the pixels in the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image would have if the sea area were free of targets. The method further comprises selecting pixels in the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image, computing a real quantity which characterizes a real statistical distribution of the magnitudes of the selected pixels, and detecting a target in the sea area based on the computed first reference and real quantities. The selected pixels are in a one and the same sub-image of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image, and detecting comprises detecting a target in a sea subarea of the sea area, the sea subarea being represented by the sub-image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Gian Luca Eusebi Borzelli, Alissa Ioannone, Mario Constantini
  • Publication number: 20110169687
    Abstract: A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Oral Buyukozturk, Tzu-Yang Yu, Dennis Blejer
  • Publication number: 20110169688
    Abstract: A communications system and method are disclosed that may include a constellation of satellites operating in a substantially equatorial, non-geostationary orbit; a plurality of ground stations configured to communicate with the satellites, at least one given ground station of the ground stations lacking a wired connection to any global communications network; and at least one gateway station coupled to a global communications network and to at least one said satellite, wherein each satellite includes at least one antenna having a steerable beam, the antenna being controllable to continuously direct a concentrated spot beam toward the given ground station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Gregory Thane Wyler
  • Publication number: 20110169689
    Abstract: An Ultra-Tightly Coupled GPS-inertial navigation system for use in a moving agile platform includes a range residual extractor that uses best curve fitting of a third order polynomial for estimating range residual. The curve-fitted residual is used to update an error Kalman filter. The error Kalman filter includes correction for navigation solution, and IMU and GPS parameters. The navigation solution together with GPS parameter corrections are used in a Tracking Predictor to generate high-sampling-rate carrier and code replicas. The curve-fitting error covariance indicates signal to noise ratio for the tracked GPS signal and may be used for early indication of interference or jamming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Hanching Grant Wang, Bruce Cordell Detterich
  • Publication number: 20110169690
    Abstract: A method of estimating the position of a first event of interest using a satellite positioning system. The method comprises: performing in response to the first event a satellite reception function; determining at some later time whether it is possible to calculate a position estimate from signals resulting from the satellite reception function; and, if not, estimating the position of the first event based on a position estimate of a second event, wherein the second event is that closest in time to the first for which a position estimate is available. Thus, the method can provide a position estimate for the first event even if the satellite reception function fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew T. Yule, Ian Simmons
  • Publication number: 20110169691
    Abstract: A method implemented by an assisted Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) server determines a position of a GNSS receiver. The method includes sending a request for measurement information to the GNSS receiver at a first time and receiving the measurement information from the GNSS receiver in response to the request at a second time, where the measurement information includes position measurement data and a corresponding measured time based on satellite signals received by the GNSS receiver. The measured time is determined to be erroneous when it is outside an accurate time range determined based on at least one of the first time and the second time. A substitute time is identified and the position of the GNSS receiver is determined based on the substitute time when the measured time is erroneous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: ANDREW LLC
    Inventors: Martin Wyville Thomson, Neil Lindsay Harper
  • Publication number: 20110169692
    Abstract: A method applied to a mobile device having a GPS receiver having access to a network interface is disclosed. When transmitting via the network interface a first command to edit a user location information on the network interface based on a first geo-information from the GPS receiver to update location information displayed on a website, a destination list stored in the mobile device is updated with transmission destination network address and current GPS receiver location information. Stored location information is periodically compared to current GPS receiver locations and when determined that the GPS receiver has moved at least a predetermined distance from the location stored in the destination list, the method transmits via the network interface a second command to edit a user location information on the network interface based on a second geo-information from the GPS receiver to the website to update or invalidate displayed location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Rodney Macfarlane, Paul Ranford, Mukesh Bhika
  • Publication number: 20110169693
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for integrity communication in a satellite navigation system having a space segment with several satellites transmitting navigation signals for reception and evaluation by use systems for position determination, and a ground segment with several observation stations that, in their totality, monitor the satellites and their signals, and including at least one transmitting station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRIUM GMBH
    Inventor: Hans L. TRAUTENBERG
  • Publication number: 20110169694
    Abstract: A slice set for a specific period of time is acquired from a storage area of a memory which is a ring buffer while changing the read position, and the signal strength total value of each slice set is calculated. The signal strengths of the slices included in the maximum strength slice set and the signal strengths of the slices preceding or subsequent to the maximum strength slice set are calculated, and the final signal read position is determined based on a read offset of the maximum strength slice. A GPS satellite signal is acquired and tracked based on the slice read from the determined signal read position, and a specific positioning process is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20110169695
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for managing a network element in a satellite navigation data distribution system is described. In one example, a network element includes a processor for processing satellite navigation data. For example, a network element may be a reference station, a hub, or a server in the satellite navigation data distribution system. The network element includes a memory for maintaining status variables associated with the processing of the satellite navigation data. The status variables may relate to the integrity of the satellite navigation data. The network element further includes a management agent for monitoring states of the status variables and communicating with a network management system to exchange information related to the states of the status variables. In one example, the management agent is configured to communicate using a simple network management protocol (SNMP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Charles Abraham, Steven Malkos, Sergei Podshivalov
  • Publication number: 20110169696
    Abstract: A low power, lightweight, collapsible and rugged antenna positioner for use in communicating with geostationary, geosynchronous and low earth orbit satellite. By collapsing, invention may be easily carried or shipped in a compact container. May be used in remote locations with simple or automated setup and orientation. Azimuth is adjusted by rotating an antenna in relation to a positioner base and elevation is adjusted by rotating an elevation motor coupled with the antenna. Manual orientation of antenna for linear polarized satellites yields lower weight and power usage. Updates ephemeris or TLE data via satellite. Algorithms used for search including Clarke Belt fallback, transponder/beacon searching switch, azimuth priority searching and tracking including uneven re-peak scheduling yield lower power usage. Orientation aid via user interface allows for smaller azimuth motor, simplifies wiring and lowers weight. Tilt compensation, bump detection and failure contingency provide robustness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Spencer WEBB, David Martin
  • Publication number: 20110169697
    Abstract: A mobile communication device includes, in part, a first wireless receiver adapted to determine, as it travels along a path, a multitude of positions of the mobile communication device using signals received from a primary positioning source, a second wireless receiver adapted to receive signals from one or more ambient wireless sources as the mobile communication device travels along the path, and a positioning module. An internal or external memory stores estimated positions and corresponding time references of the signals of the one or more ambient sources. The positioning module uses the data stored in the database to estimate the position of the mobile communication device when no primary positioning source signal is available. The positioning module optionally uses the data stored in the database to improve estimates of the position of the mobile communication device when primary positioning signal is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Stuart Strickland
  • Publication number: 20110169698
    Abstract: A first printed wiring board PWB includes a core and a power layer and a ground layer. A second PWB includes a flexible portion that is partially embedded within an end section of the first printed wiring board and abutting the core. The flexible portion includes a first layer having an antenna feed coupled to the power layer of the core, and a second layer. In a particular embodiment, the second PWB also includes a rigid section in which an opposed end of the flexible portion is also partially embedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Ian Sakari Niemi
  • Publication number: 20110169699
    Abstract: A housing of an antenna device is made of a flexible material and contains the FPC-type antenna therein. The antenna device may be mounted to a PCB assembly of an electronic device, either detachably or fixedly. The housing and the antenna may both be all made of a flexible material, or the housing may further use a base made of a rigid material to mount to the PCB assembly, while the antenna may also be hybrid circuit board. As the antenna device is moved out of the shielding area of a metal housing of the electronic device for use, the flexibility of the antenna device keeps the antenna device from cracking due to external force and increases the durability of the antenna device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Hung-Ming Huang
  • Publication number: 20110169700
    Abstract: A removable antenna and a resilient antenna are provided for an electronic device such as a laptop computer. An antenna resonating element is mounted within the antenna. Flexible coupling structures are used to physically and removably attach the antenna to the electronic device. The flexible coupling structures couple the antenna resonating element to circuitry in the electronic device. The coupling structures may allow the antenna to break away from the electronic device without causing damage. A user may extend the antenna by rotating the removable antenna to its extended position. The electronic device may have an antenna receptacle that holds the resilient antenna in a stowed position and that allows the resilient antenna to flex to an extended position. A user may extend the resilient antenna by removing the resilient antenna from the antenna receptacle and flexing the antenna into its extended position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Brett William Degner, Matthew Ian McDonald
  • Publication number: 20110169701
    Abstract: The invention relates to a manipulation-proof RFID antenna structure having a carrier substrate, an RFID antenna, optionally a chip, and an adhesive coating, wherein the structure comprises the following layers in varying sequence: a) a carrier substrate (1), b) a thin UV-curable varnish layer into which a hologram is imprinted (3), c) a partial metallization as a mirror layer (4), k) optionally a smoothing varnish layer (5), l) optionally a partial copper layer forming the antenna (6), m) optionally a strap or a microchip (7), n) an adhesive layer (8), o) optionally a removable cover film (release liner), p) optionally a printed layer (9), q) optionally a non-imprinted UV varnish layer (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: HUECK FOLIEN GES.M.B.H.
    Inventors: Martin Bergsmann, Gottfried Brandsetter, Helmut Kaferbock
  • Publication number: 20110169702
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna module (45) for producing a transponder, wherein the antenna module comprises an antenna conductor arrangement disposed on a substrate surface (46) of a substrate (47) and having an antenna conductor (50) for contacting with a chip (40), wherein the antenna conductor (50) forms a first antenna part (51) having a first terminal end on a first partial area (48) of the substrate surface, and with a second terminal end extends to a second partial area (49) of the substrate surface to form a second antenna part (52), wherein antenna connection contacts (57, 61) are disposed on the respective partial areas, such that the antenna connection contacts can be brought into an overlapping position for producing an electrically conductive connection by swiveling the partial areas with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Jan Wendisch, Egon Konopitzky
  • Publication number: 20110169703
    Abstract: Portable electronic devices are provided with wireless circuitry that includes antennas and antenna isolation elements. The antennas may include antennas that have multiple arms and that are configured to handle communications in multiple frequency bands. The antennas may also include one or more antennas that are configured to handle communications in a single frequency band. The antennas may be coupled to different radio-frequency transceivers. For example, there may be first, second, and third antennas and first and second transceivers. The first and third antennas may be coupled to the first transceiver and the second antenna may be coupled to the second transceiver. The antenna isolation elements may be interposed between the antennas and may serve to reduce radio-frequency interference between the antennas. There may be a first antenna isolation element between the first and second antennas and a second antenna isolation element between the second and third antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Robert W. Schlub, Robert J. Hill
  • Publication number: 20110169704
    Abstract: A method of producing polymer/nanotube composites where the density and position of the nanotubes within the composite can be controlled. Carbon nanotubes are grown from organometallic micropatterns. These periodic nanotube arrays are then incorporated into a polymer matrix by depositing a curable polymer film on the as-grown tubes. This controlled method of producing free-standing nanotube/polymer composite films may be used to form nanosensors which provide information regarding a physical condition of a material, such as an airplane chassis or wing, in contact with the nanosensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Pulickel AJAYAN, Emer Lahiff, Paul Stryjek, Chang Y. Ryu, Seamus Curran
  • Publication number: 20110169705
    Abstract: A method of embedding rigid elements in a windshield, including, cutting two sheets of glass in a desired shape to serve as an upper layer and lower layer of the windshield, inserting a layer of interlayer material for each of the two layers of glass, facing each other, between the two layers of glass, placing the rigid elements between the two layers of interlayer material, pushing the two layers of glass together to form a glass sandwich with the rigid elements and two layers of interlayer material between the upper and lower glass layers, heating the glass sandwich while applying pressure to form a unified sheet of glass; and wherein the combined thickness of the layers of interlayer material is at least as thick as the rigid elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Origin GPS
    Inventor: Haim GOLDBERGER
  • Publication number: 20110169706
    Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna element for exchanging electromagnetic radiation, in particular radio frequency radiation, with a surrounding area. The antenna element herein includes a first conductor element (11) on a first substrate (10) and a second conductor element (21) on a second substrate (20). The first and second substrate form part of a stack of layers, wherein at least one connecting electrode of the at least one antenna element is coupled for electrical conduction to an electric port of an electro-optical converter. The electro-optical converter is arranged at least partially on a layer of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: CYNER SUBSTRATES B.V.
    Inventor: Marcus Maria Petrus Gerardus Wintels
  • Publication number: 20110169707
    Abstract: Antenna with a ground plane and an antenna plane, whereby the antenna plane is arranged on the ground plane by at least one bar, whereby a feed line is guided sideways between the ground plane and the antenna plane to a feed contact of the antenna plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Nederland BV
    Inventor: Wijnand van Gils
  • Publication number: 20110169708
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a configurable antenna in an integrated circuit package are provided. In a hybrid circuit comprising an integrated circuit bonded to a multi-layer package, one or more antenna parameters may be adjusted by configuring a plurality of antenna elements via one or more switching elements. In this regard, the antenna elements and/or the switching elements may be within and/or on the multi-layer package and/or within the integrated circuit. The switching elements may be MEMS switches on and/or within the IC and/or the multi-layer package. The IC may be bonded or mounted to the underside of the package and signals may be communicated between the IC and the package via one or more solder balls. The IC may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and/or code for configuring the antenna elements. The antenna elements may be configured based on desired polarization, antenna gain, and/or frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20110169709
    Abstract: A combination antenna mount and shield for radially deployed elevated antennas on poles. The device features a central cavity surrounded by a wall of material which is substantially impervious to Radio Frequency (RF) broadcasts. A plurality of fins radially projecting from front face of the wall for a projection distance provides a series of gaps therebetween around said wall. Antennas positioned in the gaps are shielded from interference from adjoining antennas in adjoining gaps by the projecting walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Henry Cooper
  • Publication number: 20110169710
    Abstract: A cross-polarized antenna includes a substrate, a first impedance converter, a second impedance converter, a first cross-polarized antenna, and a second cross-polarized antenna. The first cross-polarized antenna has a first opening corresponding to a second opening in the second cross-polarized antenna, in which the two openings cross each other in space without contacting. The antenna is capable of receiving electromagnetic waves from different polarization directions effectively, thereby reducing the polarization loss. Besides, as the antenna is integrally formed, the manufacturing and assembling process thereof are simplified, thus lowering the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SMARTANT TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tso-Hua LIN
  • Publication number: 20110169711
    Abstract: This invention addresses a flip antenna design for mobile devices operating in ISM 900 MHz band. More specifically the present invention addresses the need to change the gain of a transceiver antenna (for mobile devices) with the flip of the antenna without changing any other characteristics of the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: xG Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Bobier, Nadeem Khan, Jorge Gil, Ilya Lisak
  • Publication number: 20110169712
    Abstract: When three or more antennas and a plurality of wireless circuits using wireless frequency bands near to each other are installed on a cabinet whose size is limited, degradation of characteristic caused by electromagnetic coupling between antennas is suppressed. When a first antenna 21 and a second antenna 22 are connected to a first wireless circuit 31, a third antenna 23 is connected to a second wireless circuit 32, and an operation frequency band of the second wireless circuit 32 is near in a higher band than an operation frequency band of the first wireless circuit 31, a feeding point 23a of the third antenna is placed at a position nearer to a feeding point 21a of the first antenna than the feeding point 22a of the second antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Sumi, Kenya Nagano, Haruhiko Kakitsu, Yukari Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Uejima, Hideki Hayama
  • Publication number: 20110169713
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a node in a wireless communication system, the node having a central point and comprising at least two antenna functions. Each antenna function is arranged to cover a corresponding sector area, the sector areas being positioned around the central point successively such that each sector area is adjacent to at least one other sector area separated by corresponding borders. The polarization of at least one of said antenna functions is variable between the borders of the corresponding sector area such that for each border, the polarizations of the antenna functions at each side of the border are essentially orthogonal at the border. The present invention also relates to a corresponding wireless communication system and corresponding antenna functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Bo Hagerman, Arne Simonsson
  • Publication number: 20110169714
    Abstract: A configurable antenna assembly includes an antenna structure and a configurable antenna interface. The antenna structure is operable, in a first mode, to provide a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure, wherein the first antenna structure receives an inbound radio frequency (RF) signal and the second antenna structure transmits an outbound RF signal. The configurable antenna interface is operable in the first mode to provide a first antenna interface and a second antenna interface, wherein the first antenna interface is configured in accordance with a receive adjust signal to adjust at least one of phase and amplitude of the inbound RF signal, and wherein the second antenna interface is configured in accordance with a transmit adjust signal to adjust at least one of phase and amplitude of the outbound RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20110169715
    Abstract: A multiuse system for use with Wireless Display Tags (WDTs) includes, in one or more exemplary arrangements, techniques for automatically maintaining synchronicity between pricing data for a product and advertising, marketing or promotional data associated with that product, and for detecting the proximity and location of a customer within a category of goods displayed within a managed environment. A messaging format suitable for such low power operation among a large number of peers is also disclosed, as is a technique for integrating a plurality of smaller displays to yield a single large display. An access point capable of serving as a communications hub within such a network, while at the same time offering visual and audio surveillance capabilities, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: ALTIERRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anurag Goel, Mark Douglas McDonald, Sunit Saxena, Jih-lung Wang
  • Publication number: 20110169716
    Abstract: A plasma display panel and a multi plasma display panel are disclosed. The multi plasma display panel includes a plurality of plasma display panels that are positioned adjacent to one another. Each of the plurality of plasma display panels includes a front substrate, a back substrate positioned opposite the front substrate, and a plurality of barrier ribs positioned between the front substrate and the back substrate. The plurality of barrier ribs partition a plurality of discharge cells. A size of a discharge cell in a boundary portion between two plasma display panels of the plurality of plasma display panels is greater than a size of a discharge cell in other portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Kyungtae KIM, Seungmun SHIN, Youngjoon AHN
  • Publication number: 20110169717
    Abstract: A system with a main monitor for a host computer and a second, mini monitor for displaying a portion of the display normally intended for the main monitor. In one embodiment, the mini monitor is connected to the computer over a shared, peripheral bus, such as the universal serial bus (USB). The smaller size of the mini monitor and either compression or slower refresh rates allow it to be connected to the USB just like other peripheral devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Hugh J. McLarty, Guy Tiphane, David Wegmuller
  • Publication number: 20110169718
    Abstract: A compact and lightweight display device having an image pickup function and a two-way communication system which can shoot an image of a user as an object and display an image at the same time without degrading image quality by disposing a semi-transmitting mirror or the like which blocks an image on the display screen (display plane). The display device having the image pickup function includes a display panel capable of transmitting visible light at least and arranging display elements which can be controlled by voltage or current, and an image pickup device disposed around the display panel. The image pickup device is input with data of an image of a user or the like by a reflector, or equipped with a fiberscope bundling optical fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miyagawa, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20110169719
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a rear plate including electron emitting devices each including a pair of electrodes and an electron emitting unit, first wirings each interconnecting electrodes in one of the pair of electrodes of the electron emitting devices arrayed at the same row, second wirings each interconnecting electrodes in another of the pair of electrodes of the electron emitting devices arrayed at the same column and higher in resistance than the first wirings, an insulating layer covering the second wirings, and resistive films connected to the first wirings and partially overlapping with the second wirings to cover the insulating layer, and having surface resistance set to 108?/? or more. The resistive films are connected to the first wirings at portions not overlapping with the second wirings, and a length L of the resistive film between a portion of the resistive film connected to the first wiring and a portion overlapping with the second wiring satisfies a relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshikazu Onishi, Tsuyoshi Takegami
  • Publication number: 20110169720
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device that can prevent distortion of an image transmitted therethrough by preventing light scattering. The organic light emitting display device includes a substrate in which a plurality of transmitting regions and a plurality of pixel regions are defined. The plurality of pixel regions are spaced apart from each other by the transmitting regions. A passivation layer is formed in all the plurality of transmitting regions and the plurality of pixel regions. A first aperture is formed in a location on the passivation layer, which corresponds to an at least part of the plurality of transmitting regions; a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed on the passivation layer and are disposed to overlap and cover the thin film transistors. An opposite electrode formed to face the plurality of pixel electrodes and to allow light to pass therethrough. An organic emission layer is interposed between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the opposite electrode to emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu-Hwan HWANG, Seok-Gyu YOON, Jae-Heung HA, Young-Woo SONG, Jong-Hyuk LEE
  • Publication number: 20110169721
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and program logic in storage media to process media data for quality enhancement. The media data is for rendering at a wireless device. Environmental quantities are accepted from one or more sensors located remote from the wireless device but sufficiently close to be indicative of similar quantities in the device's environment. The sensors at in or connected to a network node. At the network node, the method includes processing the media data using the environmental quantities to generate processed data, and wirelessly sending the processed output to the resource constrained device for rendering, such that the processed output is usable by the resource constrained device to render or to process and render the media data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Claus Bauer, Brett G. Crockett, Charles Q. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20110169722
    Abstract: The present invention provides semi-transmission type liquid crystal display device offering high contrast ratio and aperture ratio for transmissive display and capable of supporting pixels in fine geometry. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first substrate (10), a liquid crystal layer (100), and a second substrate (60) in this order. The aforementioned first substrate (10) includes a pixel electrode (19) having a trunk portion and a plurality of branch portions branching out of the aforementioned trunk portion, and the display region, which contains the region in which the branch portions and slits are laid out alternately, includes of a reflective region (R) and a transmissive region (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuya Ogawa, Masaaki Saitoh, Kazuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20110169723
    Abstract: A level shift circuit includes a control logic circuit, a plurality of level shift output buffers and a plurality of charge sharing circuits. The control logic circuit receives input clock pulse signals and a charge sharing signal and acquires voltage level information of each received signal. Each output buffer amplifies a corresponding input clock pulse signal and determines whether to output a signal according to the acquired information of the charge sharing signal. Each charge sharing circuit determines whether to be turned on according to the acquired information of a corresponding input clock pulse signal. When a charge sharing circuit is turned on, the output terminal of a corresponding output buffer and a predetermined voltage level are coupled to each other by the charge sharing circuit, so as to perform the charge sharing operation. Furthermore, a corresponding liquid crystal display device and a corresponding charge sharing method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Chao-Ching HSU, Mu-Lin TUNG, Chung-Shen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20110169724
    Abstract: Interferometric modulators and methods of making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an interferometric display includes a sub-pixel having a membrane layer with a void formed therein. The void can be configured to increase the flexibility of the membrane layer. The sub-pixel can further include an optical mask configured to hide the void from a viewer. In another embodiment, an interferometric display can include at least two movable reflectors wherein each movable reflector has a different stiffness but each movable reflector has substantially the same effective coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Tao, Fan Zhong, Yeh-Jiun Tung
  • Publication number: 20110169725
    Abstract: [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To provide a newly function measurement apparatus capable of measuring a function of a person while a test subject moves a whole body thereof. [SOLUTION] A mat unit 7 includes foot switches SW1 to SW4, and detects step motion of a test subject. The test subject performs the step motion on the foot switches SW2 and SW3 while sitting. ON/OFF information of the foot switches SW1 to SW4 is transmitted to an adapter 1 by infrared communication. A cartridge 3 is inserted into the adapter 1. The ON/OFF information of the foot switches SW1 to SW4 is sent to the cartridge 3 via the adapter 1. A processor 20 incorporated in the cartridge 3 measures a time from when any one of the foot switches SW2 and SW3 detects the step motion to when the predetermined number of times of the step motion is detected. The measuring result is displayed on a television monitor 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Hiromu Ueshima, Akimasa Konishi
  • Publication number: 20110169726
    Abstract: In a gesture-based system, gestures may control aspects of a computing environment or application, where the gestures may be derived from a user's position or movement in a physical space. Gesture recognition data, used to recognize gestures from captured data representative of a user's input gestures, may be evolved based on captured data from a plurality of users. A common set or default set of gesture recognition data may be evolved by selecting a plurality of users for tracking. Captured data of the plurality of users may be processed to identify input gesture data for the plurality of users, and the gesture recognition data may be evolved based on features of the input gesture data that is common to multiple users. The evolved gesture recognition data may be implemented not only for the users tracked, but for users not tracked. An identifier may identify when the evolved gesture recognition data applies and implement the evolved gesture recognition data when the identifier is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Todd Eric Holmdahl, Ian LeGrow
  • Publication number: 20110169727
    Abstract: An interactive input system includes at least one illumination source emitting radiation into a region of interest; at least one imaging assembly capturing image frames of the region of interest, the at least one illumination source being in the field of view of the at least one imaging assembly; and a controller communicating with the at least one illumination source, the controller controlling the intensity of radiation emitted by the at least one illumination source during image frame capture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventor: Trevor Mitchell Akitt
  • Publication number: 20110169728
    Abstract: A rotatable display device and an image displaying method thereof are provided. In the present method, a plurality of display signal formats is defined in the rotatable display device, wherein each of the display signal formats corresponds to a display direction of the rotatable display device. Then, one of the display signal formats is provided to a host according to the display direction of the rotatable display device. Finally, the rotatable display device displays an image signal which is directly outputted according to the display signal format received by the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Chao-Wei Huang
  • Publication number: 20110169729
    Abstract: A method for performing an interaction between a mobile device and a screen having a plurality of NFC tags comprising data which can be read by said mobile device by using an NFC reader module of said mobile device to read a tag, wherein an image which is part of an application service is displayed on said screen such that one or more tags of the screen correspond to the indication of respective inputs or selections which the user may choose through his mobile phone when using said application service, wherein said image being displayed on said screen is controlled by a server on which said application service is running, said server being connected to said mobile phone of said user through a network link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicants: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Betten & Resch
    Inventors: Paul Holleis, Matthias Wagner