33rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100208613 | EFFICIENT AND LOSS TOLERANT METHOD AND MECHANISM FOR MEASURING AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH - A single burst method is used to determine the available bandwidth in a network environment. A sending node transmits test packets to a receiving node. The size of the test packets is dynamically determining based on network parameters within the network environment. The sending node then receives test receipt packets that have the same sequence numbers as the corresponding test packets. Packet clusters are formed from the test receipt packets. The available bandwidth is determined based on the packet clusters along with values set by the single burst method or inputted by a user. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208626 | Inter-Multipoint Voice Conversation Apparatus - A quality level analysis unit | 2010-08-19 |
20100208627 | WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS REPEATER - Provided is a wireless Internet access repeater which can perform signal transmission and reception between a short-range wireless communication (Wi-Fi) baseband signal and a wide area wireless communication (WiMAX) baseband signal without a Ethernet physical layer protocol (PHY). The wireless Internet access repeater includes a wide area wireless communication module; a short-range wireless communication module; a first media access control (MAC) processing unit and a second MAC processing units, wherein the first MAC processing unit processes transmitted and received data according to a protocol of a MAC layer in a wide area wireless communication module and a second MAC processing unit processes transmitted and received data according to a protocol of a MAC layer in the short-range wireless communication module; a first media independent interface (MII) unit and a second MII unit, wherein the first MII unit interfaces data in the wide area wireless communication module interfaces data transmitted and received between the first and second MAC processing units and is the second MII unit in the short-range wireless communication module interfaces the data transmitted and received between the first and second MAC processing units; and a clock provider to provide a clock to the first and second MII units. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208631 | INAUDIBLE METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR JOINTLY TRANSMITTING AND PROCESSING, ANALOG-DIGITAL INFORMATION - The disclosure relates to jointly transmitting and processing analog-digital information using Inaudible Synchronous Online User-optimized Processing (iSOUP), wherein digital and analog information can be transmitted via one connection. iSOUP may be implemented in real-time MP3 anti-piracy, customized MP3 songs, Internet customized medical devices, Internet customized consumer electronics, Internet controlled psychoacoustic and physiological tests, tinnitus treatment devices, anti-piracy MP3 players, assistive listening MP3 players, healthcare sensor networks, Bluetooth sensors, audio-visual hearing aids (HAs) and cochlear implants (CIs), audio-touch HAs and CIs, Bluetooth HAs and CIs, automated fitting of HAs and CIs. The invention has applicability in copyright protection, data hiding, hearing aid remote controls, children learning devices, musical special effects generators, multiuser multimedia devices, Internet treatment and disease surveillance, wireless medical devices, wireless telemetry, multimedia rehabilitation devices, hearing aids and other implants. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208653 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ACCESS GATEWAY HAVING PLURAL USER PLANE AGWs - In an access gateway (AGW) comprising a C-AGW for handling control messages and a plurality of U-AGWs for handling data packets, when a tunnel setup request is issued from one of base stations to hand over a mobile station, the C-AGW selects a new U-AGW being in the lowest load status out of the U-AGWs, estimates the load status of the new U-AGW in the case of changing the tunnel endpoint for the mobile station from a current U-AGW to the new U-AGW. The C-AGW designates the new U-AGW as the tunnel endpoint for the mobile station if the estimated load status satisfies a predetermined condition, but designates the current U-AGW as the tunnel endpoint if the estimated load status does not satisfy the predetermined condition. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208658 | Method, Radio System, and Base Station - There is provided a method including providing a local breakout service to an Internet protocol gateway while retaining user access control and a remote Internet protocol gateway of a packet core network of a radio network for a mobile terminal; providing information on neighboring macro cells in which the local breakout service can continue, the macro cells belonging to a network using another tracking area than that of the serving cell of the mobile terminal; executing a handover process of the mobile terminal from a source base station in the serving cell of the mobile terminal to a target base station in a neighboring macro cell; and providing session continuation of the mobile terminal local breakout service traffic in the neighboring macro cell by controlling user plane tunneling between the target base station and the local packet switched network from which an Internet protocol address for the local breakout service was assigned. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208659 | LOCAL BREAK OUT IN CASE OF WIMAX ROAMING - Architecture, in particular a home agent being placed in a visited connectivity service network in order to separate a data traffic path to a home connectivity service network and a data traffic path to the internet in order to minimise a number of hops and delay times. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208671 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USER EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION METHOD, SWITCHING DEVICE AND USER EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION SYSTEM - A communication system that integrates a multimedia service using an internet protocol, and allows for access via a circuit switched domain, including a serving call session controller, circuit switched access adaptation element, and controller selecting element. The serving call session controller controls a call session by a registered user equipment. The circuit switched access adaptation element adds relevant information related to a location of the user equipment to a registration request of the user equipment connected to the circuit switched domain. The controller selecting element determines a serving call session controller for registering the user equipment based on the relevant information added to the registration request by the circuit switched access adaptation element. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208677 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PACKETS IN A MOBILE STATION - A method of transmitting packet in a mobile station is provided. The method includes determining whether a resource reserved for a special purpose is overlapped with a resource for transmitting a packet by the mobile station, on the basis of resource allocation information on the mobile station, and delaying the transmission of the packet if the reserved resource is overlapped with the resource for transmitting the packet. Accordingly, it is possible to increase uplink packet transmission efficiency without increasing downlink overhead, by avoiding or adjusting collision of an uplink packet transmission with a time-frequency resource reserved for another purpose. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208688 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - A method for transmitting information includes: by a NodeB, receiving a message for setting up/reconfiguring a shared Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) transmission channel from a Radio Network Controller (RNC); and setting up the shared E-DCH transmission channel according to parameters in the message, and exchanging information with the RNC through an established shared E-DCH transmission bearer. A system and NodeB for transmitting information are also provided. With the present invention, the NodeB and the RNC can share the E-DCH transmission bearer, thus saving the channel resources between the NodeB and the RNC while speeding up the information transmission between the RNC and the NodeB. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208694 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, CORE NETWORK, USER EQUIPMENT, AND PROGRAM - A core network includes an external network reception section which receives data from an external network, a connection instruction processing section which transmits a paging request directed to user equipment upon receipt of the data and also transmits a connection instruction of a second radio communication type, a connection management section which registers a connection by the second radio communication type upon receipt of a connection request, and a transmission section which transmits the data. The user equipment includes a first radio communication type communication section which receives the paging request and receives the connection instruction, a second radio communication type connection section which uses the second radio communication type to transmit the connection request according to the received connection instruction and causes the communication state to transition to a reception enabled state, and a second radio communication type communication section which receives the data when the communication state of the second communication type is the reception enabled state. This makes it possible to provide the user equipment of an idle state with communication data using a radio communication type having no paging function. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208698 | DATA FLOW MOBILITY - A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may communicate using a data flow that is defined according to flow identification information (FII). The WTRU may participate in the transfer of the data flow between access networks of diverse radio access technologies. The WTRU may communicate with a mobility function to obtain access network and mobility policy information. The mobility function may be, for example, an Access Network Discovery Function (ANDSF). The mobility policy information may describe the conditions by which the transfer of data flows between access networks may be permitted. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208710 | METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTROL CHANNEL AND DECODING CONTROL CHANNEL, BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION THEREOF - A control channel generation method, a control channel decoding method, and a BS and an MS for implementing the methods are provided. The control channel generation method includes placing a frame control header (FCH) and a MAP within a TTI and generating a control channel for an enhanced communication system at a position after the MAP within the TTI. Another control channel generation method includes generating a control channel for the enhanced communication system and placing an FCH and a preamble at a position after the control channel. These methods enable implementation of an enhanced system that overcomes problems of the legacy system while minimizing influence exerted upon legacy MSs in the case where the base station generates a new control channel for a new MS or where an MS decodes a new control channel. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208716 | METHOD FOR SELECTING CONSTELLATION ROTATION ANGLES FOR QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME AND SPACE-FREQUENCY BLOCK CODING - In one embodiment, the present invention generates a single rotation angle that may be used to maximize diversity of a quasi-orthogonal space-time block code that encodes groups of four data symbols. Two rotation angles corresponding the first two data symbols in a group are set to zero, and two rotation angles corresponding to the second two data symbols in a group are set to a single initial value. A codeword distance matrix is determined for each possible combination of codewords and erroneously decoded codewords that may be generated using the initial rotation angle, and the minimum of the determinants of these matrices is selected. This process is repeated to generate a plurality of minimum determinants, and, for each iteration, a different single rotation angle corresponding to the second two data symbols is used. Then, a single rotation angle is selected that corresponds to the maximum of the minimum determinants. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208722 | NETWORK SYSTEM, PATH CALCULATION METHOD, AND PATH CALCULATION PROGRAM - A route decision system is arranged in each domain of a multi-domain network. The route decision system comprises a topology information collecting unit which collects topology information, a route calculation request responding unit which receives a route calculation request requesting route calculation of a redundant path from a start node to an end node, and a route calculating unit which performs route calculation in response to the route calculation request using the topology information in consideration of a restriction. After a domain from a starting point domain where the start node is present to an end point domain where the end node is present is set, route calculation of the redundant path is sequentially performed at each domain from the end point domain toward the starting point domain through an intermediate domain. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208735 | Apparatus and Method for Coding an Information Signal into a Data Stream, Converting the Data Stream and Decoding the Data Stream - More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of data packet types, and by defining a predetermined order of data packet types within one access unit of data packets. The consecutive access units in the data stream may, for example, correspond to different time portions of the information signal. By defining the predetermined order among the data packet types it is possible, at decoder's side, to detect the borders between successive access units even when removable data packets are removed from the data stream on the way from the data stream source to the decoder without incorporation of any hints into the reminder of the data stream. Due to this, decoders surely detect the beginnings and endings of access units and therefore are not liable to a buffer overflow despite a removal of data packets from the data stream before arrival at the decoder. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208742 | PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD USING NODE IDENTIFIER AND LOCATOR - A home node and a destination node, which are specified by node identifiers, acquire locators thereof and mapping of the node identifiers and the locators, prior to communication, and they are transmitted after the address of a packet specified by the node identifier is rewritten by the locator at the time of communication. Because roles of the node identifier and the locator are separated, the communication method is suitable for mobile communication and multi-homing. In addition, the communication method makes it possible to reduce use amount of global addresses, and thus solve an address exhaustion problem. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208753 | System and Method for Inverse Multiplexing Using Transcoding and Frame Alignment Markers - A system and method are provided for framing messages in a data streams encoded with redundant information for transmission and recovering the messages at a receiver. The transmission method accepts an energy waveform representing N words at a first bit rate, encoded with redundant information, where each word includes P number of bits. The N words are transformed, creating N transcoded words, where each transcoded word includes Q number of bits, and where Q1 and each lane receives a frame of N/M transcoded words. A frame alignment marker is generated and mapped into each frame. Each frame is represented as an energy waveform that is transmitted on a corresponding physical lane at the first bit rate divided by M. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208773 | Auto-Calibration Filtering Device - A filtering device based on an active transconductance filter includes auto-calibration means, the principle of calibration consisting in slaving the power supply current for the filter as a function of the phase shift between a second signal shifted by a first predetermined phase shift with respect to a periodic reference signal, and the output signal of the filter in response to a first signal shifted by a second predetermined phase shift with respect to the periodic reference signal, the slaving tending to minimize the phase shift between the output signal of the filter and the second signal. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208774 | Iterative Interference Cancellation Using Mixed Feedback Weights and Stabilizing Step Sizes - A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user or sub channel symbol level). | 2010-08-19 |
20100208778 | Transmitter device and HDMI sender/receiver device including the same - A transmitter includes a resistor, a protection unit, and a transmission unit. The resistor control unit controls a connection of a termination resistor between first and second transmission lines. The protection unit reduces first and second voltages, respectively, from the first and second transmission lines during a power-down mode. The transmission unit receives the dropped first and second voltages during the power-down mode and transmits first and second signals through the protection unit during a power-on mode. The resistor control unit connects the termination resistor to the first and second transmission lines when a transmission rate of the first and second signals is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. The resistor control unit is disconnected from at least one of the first and second transmission lines when the transmission rate is less than the predetermined value. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208791 | Apparatus and Method for Coding an Information Signal into a Data Stream, Converting the Data Stream and Decoding the Data Stream - More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of data packet types, and by defining a predetermined order of data packet types within one access unit of data packets. The consecutive access units in the data stream may, for example, correspond to different time portions of the information signal. By defining the predetermined order among the data packet types it is possible, at decoder's side, to detect the borders between successive access units even when removable data packets are removed from the data stream on the way from the data stream source to the decoder without incorporation of any hints into the reminder of the data stream. Due to this, decoders surely detect the beginnings and endings of access units and therefore are not liable to a buffer overflow despite a removal of data packets from the data stream before arrival at the decoder. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208800 | METHOD AND DECODER FOR DECODING AN IMAGE FRAME OF AN IMAGE FRAME SEQUENCE - The invention is related to a method for decoding an image frame of an image frame sequence and to a corresponding decoder. The method comprises the steps of reconstructing a representation of the image frame, classifying at least one block boundary as to be either high-freq or low-freq and filtering pixels of the at least one block boundary in dependency on the classification and outputting the filtered representation. Film grain noise and/or random texture are more likely to produce high-freq boundaries. Therefore, filtering boundary pixels in dependency on frequency classification helps preserving film grain noise and random texture which are of relevance for video quality at high bit rates. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208802 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A prediction set determining section ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208813 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS WITH SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION-TYPE MOTION PREDICTION CIRCUIT - A segmenting section divides an input image into a plurality of segments. A hierarchizing section determines classes of the respective segments according to a predetermined criterion, and produces a class identification signal indicating the classes of the respective segments. A coding section encodes the segmented image signal into code data while changing the value of a coding control parameter for each of the segments in accordance with the class identification signal. Examples of the coding control parameter are a coding time interval and precision of quantization. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208816 | MOTION PICTURE ENCODING DEVICE AND MOTION PICTURE DECODING DEVICE - When a prediction is made between fields with different parity, the predicative efficiency of a chrominance vector is improved by adaptively switching the generation of a chrominance motion vector depending on a encoding/decoding field parity (top/bottom) and a reference field parity (top/bottom), and the coding efficiency is improved accordingly. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208825 | REDUCED BANDWIDTH OFF-LOADING OF ENTROPY CODING/DECODING - Techniques are provided herein to produce encoded video bitstreams and to similarly decode encoded video bitstreams according to a coding standard not supported by an on-chip encoder/decoder. For purposes of encoding, a video sequence is received at a first device. A first bitstream is generated at the first device by encoding the video sequence according to a first coding standard and information associated with the video sequence is generated at the first device according to a second coding standard. The first bitstream and the information are then transmitted to a second device. At the second device the first bitstream is decoded to produce a second bitstream. The second bitstream and the information are combined by removing syntax elements associated with the first coding standard from the second bitstream and adding the information to produce a third bitstream according to the second coding standard. Similar techniques are provided for decoding an encoded bitstream to recover a video sequence. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208828 | PICTURE DECODER, REFERENCE PICTURE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION INTERFACE, AND REFERENCE PICTURE CONTROL METHOD - A reference picture information communication interface implemented in a hardware/software integrated H.264 encoder/decoder is provided. The reference picture information communication interface includes a reference state register (RSR) and a reconstruct address register (RAR). The RSR has N bits, wherein N represents the maximum number of reference pictures supported by the H.264 encoder/decoder. The RSR is used by the hardware for notifying a software decoded picture buffer (DPB) controller about a current reference picture existence information. The RAR is used by the software for notifying the H.264 encoder/decoder about an address of a reconstruction information of a currently decoded picture in a memory space. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208849 | RECEIVING CIRCUIT, USE, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AN ENCODED AND MODULATED RADIO SIGNAL - A receiving circuit, use, and method for receiving an encoded and modulated radio signal is provided. The circuit comprise a demodulator and a digital filter connected downstream of the demodulator for moving averaging. The filter has at least two FIFO registers and subtractors. Whereby for subtracting an output value of the FIFO register from an input value of the FIFO register a subtractor is connected to each FIFO register. Wherein the filter has a weighting unit, which is connected downstream of each FIFO register, and wherein the filter has an integrator, which is connected downstream of the subtractors for integration. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208856 | Stream Data Recording Device, Stream Data Editing Device, Stream Data Reproducing Device, Stream Data Recording Method, and Stream Data Reproducing Method - When recording stream data, index information and time correction information are recorded in correspondence with the stream data. The index information specifies a position of an invalid section in the stream data. The time correction information specifies a time which, supposing that a PCR included in the invalid section was able to be got, a time clock would have shown in synchronization with the PCR. When reproducing the stream data recorded together with the time correction information and the index information, at a position where the invalid section ends, the time clock can be set to a time intended by a broadcasting system, by referencing the index information and the time correction information. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208863 | PROSPECTIVE CARDIAC GATING IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY - A computed tomography scanner ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208866 | RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE WITH IRREGULAR RECTANGULAR SHAPE AND EXTRAORAL DENTAL IMAGING SYSTEM THEREFROM - A radiation imaging device includes plural individual detectors defining an irregular rectangular active area responsive to x-rays and with different widths along a length of the active area. The individual detectors may be of different rectangular shapes and mounted on a motherboard. The motherboard may be formed of a first module mounting a first of two individual detectors and a second module detachable connected to the first module and mounting a second of two individual detectors. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208871 | Bed for capturing radiation image and radiation image capturing system - A radiation detecting cassette is disposed in a desired position between a bed and a patient in an operating room. After a detector-side connector and a bed-side connector are connected to each other by a cable, an image capturing apparatus captures and records radiation image information of the patient in a radiation detector. The recorded radiation image information is transmitted from a transceiver of the bed to a console by way of wireless communications in a communication range selected by a selector of the bed, then processed by the console, and transmitted to a display device, which displays a radiation image based on the supplied radiation image information. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208882 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ECHO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - An echo signal processing apparatus is disclosed. The echo signal processing apparatus is utilized for generating a cancellation signal by using group phenomenon of a frequency response of an echo signal to remove the echo signal. The echo signal processing apparatus has lower cost and is able to remove the echo efficiently. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208885 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING AND PROCESSORS - A method of performing a cryptographic process on data, the cryptographic process treating a quantity of the data as an element of a Galois field GF(λ | 2010-08-19 |
20100208891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE SECURE DISTRIBUTION OF AUDIOVISUAL DATA BY TRANSACTIONAL MARKING - A process for distributing a marked audiovisual sequence from a nominal audiovisual sequence towards a receiver, said nominal audiovisual sequence having a nominal content, comprising: generating a marked audiovisual sequence according to a first mark applied to initial content at marking positions; generating a modified stream having a modified content different from the nominal content at least at marking positions; generating a complementary stream so that it is possible to reconstitute the marked audiovisual sequence from the modified stream; and transmitting the modified stream and the complementary stream towards the receiver wherein, on the receiver, a reconstitution of the audiovisual sequence, comprises calculating new complementary data according to the marking positions and the complementary stream so that it is possible to create an audiovisual sequence marked with a second mark from the modified stream, wherein the second mark, being different from the first mark, is applied to the initial content at the marking position. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208898 | MANAGING GROUP KEYS - In an example, one or more cryptographic keys may be associated with a group. Any member of the group may use the key to encrypt and decrypt information, thereby allowing members of the group to share encrypted information. Domain controllers (DCs) maintain copies of the group's keys. The DCs may synchronize with each other, so that each DC may have a copy of the group's keys. Keys may have expiration dates, and any client connected to a DC may generate a new key when a key is nearing expiration. The various clients may create new keys at differing amounts of time before expiration on various DCs. DCs that store keys early thus may have time to propagate the newly-created keys through synchronization before other DCs are requested to store keys created by other clients. In this way, the creation of an excessive number of new keys may be avoided. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208914 | MICROPHONE DEVICE - The present invention provides a microphone device in which the directivity of the microphone is automatically adjustable depending on the position of the head of the speaker. The microphone device | 2010-08-19 |
20100208916 | Volume-Adjustment Circuit for Equilibrating Pickup Settings - The disclosed volume-adjustment circuit sets the volume of each pickup setting in a topology-setting switch independent of other pickup topology settings in the switch. The volume-adjustment circuit has three parts: (1) a pickup topology selection switch that selects separate pickup-topologies, (2) separate and independent signal paths for chosen pickup-topologies, and (3) separate volume adjustment circuits in electrically separate and independent signal paths. Thus, the disclosure provides separate volume adjustment for selected pickup topologies of the pickup topology selection switch. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208940 | PRE TENSION MONITORING SOLUTION - The present invention relates to a tension monitoring system comprising: —at least one camera for acquiring at least one image of at least one pattern located on an object of interest, wherein the pattern comprises a plurality of points and where each point is arranged on the object in such as way as to follow the movement of the object; —a computational device; wherein the computational device is arranged to analyze the acquired image for detecting the position of each pattern point using an image analysis algorithm arranged to determine the geometrical centre of a point using a contrast detection method, determining the distance between at least two pattern portions, and calculating the tension induced in the object using a reference value of distance between the two pattern portions when the object is mechanically relaxed. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208951 | IRIS RECOGNITION USING HYPER-SPECTRAL SIGNATURES - The spectral diversity of the iris can be used as a unique biometric identifier. By careful selection of a number of spectral bands, four or more, the hyper-spectral signature derived from data contained in those bands can distinguish color signatures that are not visually distinguishable in RGB color space to uniquely identify a person. Classification of hyper-spectral signatures requires less spatial resolution than the classification of texture signatures, maybe an order of magnitude or more. This reduces the size of the sensor aperture required at a given range. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208957 | Respiratory Motion Compensated Cardiac Wall Motion Determination System - A cardiac wall motion compensation system quantitatively compares images acquired at different phases of cardiac and respiratory movement and excludes motion contributed by respiratory movement. A system compensates for respiratory motion induced tissue displacement in cardiac wall motion determination. The system includes an imaging device for acquiring multiple sequential cardiac images of a patient and a data processor. The data processor processes data representing first and second images selected from the multiple sequential cardiac images, to determine heart wall respiratory motion representative displacement from a ventricle wall positional difference indicated between the first and second images, in response to a respiratory motion representative signal and a heart electrophysiological signal. The data processor subtracts heart wall respiratory motion representative displacement from a heart wall displacement measurement to provide a respiration compensated heart wall displacement value. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208958 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an acquiring unit, an identification unit, a generating unit, an accepting unit, a preparing unit, and a control unit. The acquiring unit acquires image information that expresses plural radiation images. The identification unit identifies lesions. The generating unit generates three-dimensional information expressing positions of the lesions in a three-dimensional space. The accepting unit accepts a designation of an observation direction. The preparing unit prepares a first image for a right eye and a second image for a left eye. The first and second images are at a predetermined parallax angle when observing the lesions from the observation direction. The control unit controls an image display unit that displays the first image for the right eye and the second image for the left eye. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208967 | MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE CHANGE HIGHLIGHTER - Systems and methods are disclosed which enable more accurate examination of medical diagnostic images, for example x-ray, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The systems and methods highlight anomalies that have changed between the collection times of two or more diagnostic images, and can also provide objective scoring of the degree of change. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208980 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN WAFER MANUFACTURING - Apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor wafer ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208981 | Method for visualization of point cloud data based on scene content - Systems and methods for associating color with spatial data are provided. In the system and method, a scene tag is selected for a portion | 2010-08-19 |
20100208986 | ADAPTIVE UPDATE OF BACKGROUND PIXEL THRESHOLDS USING SUDDEN ILLUMINATION CHANGE DETECTION - Techniques are disclosed for a computer vision engine to update both a background model and thresholds used to classify pixels as depicting scene foreground or background in response to detecting that a sudden illumination changes has occurred in a sequence of video frames. The threshold values may be used to specify how much pixel a given pixel may differ from corresponding values in the background model before being classified as depicting foreground. When a sudden illumination change is detected, the values for pixels affected by sudden illumination change may be used to update the value in the background image to reflect the value for that pixel following the sudden illumination change as well as update the threshold for classifying that pixel as depicting foreground/background in subsequent frames of video. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208996 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RESTORING LOW-RESOLUTION TEXT IMAGES - A system that extracts text from an image includes a capture device that captures the image having a low resolution. An image segmentation subsystem partitions the image into image segments. An image restoration subsystem generates a resolution-expanded image from the image segments and negates degradation effects of the low-resolution image by transforming the image segments from a first domain to a second domain and deconvolving the transformed image segments in the second domain to determine parameters of the low-resolution image. A text recognition subsystem transforms the restored image data into computer readable text data based on the determined parameters. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208999 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR DISTORTION IN TEXT RECOGNITION - A method of compensating for distortion in text recognition is provided, which includes extracting a text region from an image; estimating the form of an upper end of the extracted text region; estimating the form of a lower end of the extracted text region; estimating the form of left and right sides of the extracted text region; estimating a diagram constituted in the form of the estimated upper end, lower end, left and right sides, and including a minimum area of the text region; and transforming the text region constituting the estimated diagram into a rectangular diagram using an affine transform. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209016 | IMAGE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WHICH STORES THE PROGRAM - An image generation method for generating image information of an image C by using an image A and an image B having a resolution higher than that of image A. Image C having the same resolution as image B is generated by enlarging image A; presence or absence of a point in image B corresponding to each pixel position of image C and the position of the relevant corresponding point are estimated; and to each pixel position in image C for which it is estimated that there is a corresponding point, image information of the corresponding position in image B is assigned. It is possible to generate image information at each pixel position in image C for which it is estimated in the corresponding point estimation that there is no corresponding point, by using the image information assigned according to an estimation result that there is a corresponding point. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209017 | METHOD FOR ROTATING IMAGE, PROGRAM FOR ROTATION, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ROTATION DEVICE - A method for rotating an image with which the image can be rotated with a small memory area, a program for rotation, a recording medium and a rotation device are provided. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209031 | HUB UNIT BEARING - A hub unit bearing H | 2010-08-19 |
20100209042 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MANUFACTURED BY THE METHOD - The present invention relates to a production process for an optical waveguide comprising a step for forming a photosensitive resin layer comprising a photosensitive resin composition on a substrate, a step for exposing a desired pattern and a step for carrying out development in an alkaline developer containing a divalent or higher-valent metal ion and a production process for an optical waveguide comprising a step for forming a photosensitive resin layer comprising a photosensitive resin composition on a substrate, a step for exposing a desired pattern, a step for carrying out development in an alkaline developer and a step for carrying out washing with a cleaning liquid containing a divalent or higher-valent metal ion or an acid aqueous solution. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209049 | IMAGE PROFILE ANALYSIS (IPA) METHOD FOR PM FIBER ALIGNMENT - A method of aligning a polarization-maintaining optical fiber by image profile analysis is provided. The method of aligning a polarization-maintaining optical fiber may include analyzing the polarization-maintaining optical fiber by illuminating a side of the optical fiber; rotating the optical fiber at incremental rotation angles; obtaining an image profile of the optical fiber at each rotation angle such that a focal plane of the image profile is positioned within the optical fiber; measuring an image parameter at each rotation angle based on the respective image profile; and constructing a measured image parameter profile of the optical fiber as a function of rotation angle based on the measured image parameters. The method may also include constructing an approximated image parameter profile of the optical fiber as a function of rotation angle by curve-fitting a mathematical function to the measured image parameter profile. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209050 | POSITIONING OF ADAPTORS FOR OPTICAL CONNECTORS - An assembly of a mounting support and an optical fibre connector adaptor (20) mounted on the support, wherein the adaptor has a connector-receiving axis and at least one lateral (to the said axis) mounting projection (25) on at least a first one of its sides, and the mounting support comprises wall members (not necessarily flat or continuous) upstanding from the support on both sides of the said adaptor, which wall members on at least one side of the adaptor define mounting slots adapted to receive the said mounting projections of the adaptor, and wherein the slots are formed to permit movement of the adaptor between at least a first position in which the adaptor is supported with its said axis at an acute angle to the support, and a working position in which the adaptor is supported with its said axis lying substantially parallel to the support, and wherein the wall members define, in at least one of the said slots, at least one shoulder (30) on which one of the mounting projections (25) of the adaptor can be supported, and at least one resilient portion (35) of the wall member is arranged to retain that mounting projection removably on the said shoulder. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209052 | FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR VENTING GAS INSIDE A FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR SUB-ASSEMBLY - A fiber optic connector assembly and method for venting gas inside in a fiber optic connector sub-assembly. The fiber optic connector assembly includes a connector sub-assembly including a ferrule and a ferrule holder having a passage extending therethrough. A stiffener tube having a tube body disposed about a portion of at least one optical fiber supports insertion of the optical fiber into the ferrule holder passage. The stiffener tube contains at least one opening in its tube body configured to vent gas trapped inside the stiffener tube during assembly. In this manner, the trapped gas does not form a gas pocket in the bonding agent, which could compromise bonding among the optical fiber, stiffener tube, and connector sub-assembly. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209068 | STACKABLE OPTICAL FIBER RETAINER - An optical fiber retainer includes a first split band of material having a bottom, a top, a front and a back surrounding an interior passage, the front including a first portion depending from the top and having a bottom edge and a second portion extending from the bottom and including a top edge, the top edge and bottom edges comprising a first split of the first split band. The bottom includes an inner surface comprising a wall of the interior passage and an outer surface facing away from the interior passage, and the top includes an inner surface comprising a wall of the interior passage and an outer surface facing away from the interior passage. The bottom outer surface includes a first connector element, and the top outer surface includes a second connector element configured to releasably mate with another connector element of another split band. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209075 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING - An apparatus for displaying includes a memory configured to store an image of a recorded material and an information of the recorded material, a displaying unit configured to display the recorded material stored in the memory, a recording managing unit configured to divide the recorded material into one or more recorded materials, and extract one or more start images of the respective divided recorded materials, and a controlling unit configured to control for a user to select a replay time point of the recorded material using the start image extracted by the recording managing unit. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209086 | TOWEL DRIER RADIATOR WITH HEAT CARRIER FLUID INCLUDING AN ADDITIONAL HEATING DEVICE - The object of the invention is a towel drying radiator comprising two vertical uprights between which heating bars are fitted. Said radiator is equipped with an additional device for heating an air flow. Said device comprises a telescopic rail supporting a heating apparatus heating the air flow, said telescopic rail being provided with fixing means to the two vertical uprights of said radiator, said fixing means forming means for blanking off two apertures arranged through a respective wall of said vertical uprights. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209090 | SURVEYING APPARATUS FOR TRACKING AND SURVEYING AN OBJECT - A surveying apparatus and method for surveying and tracking a moving object is disclosed to improve the tracking so that a moving object may be tracked reliably and automatically. The surveying apparatus comprises an optical arrangement to sight an object, and a tracking unit to track the sighted object. The tracking unit obtains an object parameter of the object, wherein the object parameter is associated with a movement of the object. Further, the tracking unit issues an instruction to the optical arrangement to change between a close range setting and a long range setting according to the obtained object parameter, the close range setting corresponding to a wide field of view and the long range setting to a narrow field of view. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209106 | OPTICAL RING NETWORK SYSTEM - An optical transmission apparatus connected to an optical ring network stores identification information of an optical transmission apparatus as a communication partner predetermined on a communication path. Each optical transmission apparatus includes self identification information in header information of an optical signal having a working wavelength used in normal operation, and transmits the optical signal to one of the two optical ring networks transferring optical signals in mutually opposite directions. The optical transmission apparatus determines whether the identification information included in the header information of the received optical signal having the working wavelength matches pre-stored identification information. The optical transmission apparatus thus detects a fault that occurs by the communication path. The optical transmission apparatus having detected the fault requests the communication partner to transmit the optical signal on a backup wavelength in the optical ring network opposite in direction to the optical ring network in the normal operation. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209111 | POINTER OFFSET MECHANISM ENABLING COST EFFECTIVE SONET/SDH MAPPING/DEMAPPING OVER ETHERNET - In one embodiment, a SONET/SDH over Ethernet demapping point utilizes a pointer offset mechanism for clock recovery and timing. The pointer offset is determined by the difference between a client clock and a reference clock. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209117 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION USING SHARED OPTICAL PUMPS - Cross-distribution of the output pump power from optical pump units amongst multiple amplifier gain stages even in a single direction of an optical link in an optical communications system. For example, an optical pump unit may output optical pump power that is shared amongst a discrete optical amplification unit and a distributed optical amplification unit (such as a forward and/or backward Raman amplifier). Such sharing has the potential to increase reliability and/or efficiency of the optical communications system. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209118 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL IN A VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a visible light communication system, in which the visible light emitted from the light-emitting element is superposed with a signal in order to accomplish communication. The system has a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter has a modulation circuit whose the demodulating mode can be changed during the communication in accordance with the state of the visible light. The receiver receives the visible light emitted from the transmitter and has a demodulation circuit that demodulates the modulated signal received from the transmitter. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209131 | FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR REALIZING FIXING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device is provided. A fixing device includes a heating section that has a heat source comprised of a ceramic heat generating element that generates heat by electric power supply and has a positive temperature coefficient property. Then, in the heating section, an applied voltage value by a voltage variable power source to the ceramic heat generating element is variably controlled by a control unit such that an input power value in the ceramic heat generating element is approximately constant. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209140 | Image-Forming Device with Holding Unit Having Multiple Positions - An image-forming device includes a main body; at least one photosensitive member; a plurality of developing units; and a transferring unit. Each developing unit has a developer-accommodating section that accommodates developer. Each developing unit further has a developer-carrying member. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209147 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A duty ratio Du (%), denoted by (T | 2010-08-19 |
20100209148 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD EMPLOYING CLEAR TONER - A method of image forming comprising the steps of: providing a clear toner all over a transfer material on which an image is formed; heating and pressing the transfer material having thereon the image while the transfer material is in contact with a belt; cooling the transfer material; and peeling the transfer material from the belt, whereby a clear toner layer formed on the transfer material is obtained, wherein a storage modulus G′ at 60° C. of the clear toner is 1×10 | 2010-08-19 |
20100209157 | Image-Forming Device - An image-forming device includes a plurality of developing units, an endless belt, and a cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning member and a conveying unit. The cleaning member contacts the endless belt to clean a remaining toner on the endless belt. The conveying unit includes a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit, and a first relaying unit. The first relaying member relays the remaining toner conveyed by the first conveying unit to the second conveying unit, and has a relay-axis. The cleaning member pivots about the relay axis to move between a contacting position for contacting the endless belt and a separating position for separating from the endless belt. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209166 | Recording device, recording method, and program - A recording device that duplicates contents recorded in a first recording medium on a detachable second recording medium includes: selection means for selecting duplication subject contents to be duplicated on the second recording medium among the contents recorded in the first recording medium; duplicating means for duplicating the selected duplication subject contents on the second recording medium; generation means for generating label surface information that indicates contents recorded in the second recording medium after the duplication subject contents are duplicated thereon and is to be printed on a label surface of the second recording medium; and print control means for causing the generated label surface information to be printed on the label surface of the second recording medium. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209170 | CYLINDRICAL SHAFT, TRANSPORT ROLLER, TRANSPORT UNIT AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A cylindrical shaft which is formed in a cylindrical shape by pressing process in a state in which a pair of ends are opposite to each other is disclosed. A joint is formed between the pair of ends, and includes a plurality of intersection portions extending in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the cylindrical shaft, a first straight portion connecting the ends of one side each of the pair of adjacent intersection portions, and a second straight portion connecting the ends of the other sides of the pair of adjacent intersection portions and being shorter than the first straight portion. A distance between the pair of ends at the first straight portion is shorter than a distance between the pair of ends at the second straight portion. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209174 | COSMETIC UNIT - In the case of a cosmetic unit, comprising a container for holding a cosmetic, a closure cap for the container, and an applicator, which is arranged on the closure cap and is intended for applying the cosmetic, wherein two such cosmetic units can be connected to each other via a coupling device, it is provided that the cosmetic unit ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100209189 | Stabilizer Or Recycler - The invention relates to a stabilizer or recycler which has a rotor housing | 2010-08-19 |
20100209201 | ROTARY CUTTING TOOL WITH WAVE PATTERN - A rotary cutting tool with a longitudinal axis includes a shank portion, a cutting portion defining a length of cut. The cutting portion includes a plurality of blades separated by flutes. The blades and flutes extend substantially along the length of cut. The flutes have a tapered depth along the longitudinal axis. Each blade includes a leading face, a trailing face, a land surface that extends between the leading face and the trailing face, and a cutting edge at the intersection between the leading face and the land surface. Each blade includes a wave pattern that begins at a first distance from the cutting tip for a first blade, and at a second distance from the cutting tip for an immediately adjacent blade. The wave pattern then repeats in an alternating fashion for each additional blade. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209207 | ROUTER - A bit retaining system for a rotary tool or device such as a router is disclosed. The bit retaining system may include a collet assembly and a control assembly. The collet assembly may include a spindle, a collet adapted to receive the bit, and a collet nut. The collet assembly may further include a collet gear mounted on the collet nut and/or a spindle gear mounted on the spindle. The control assembly selectively engages the collet assembly to drive the collet nut and/or secure the spindle in a fixed position, preventing its rotation. In operation, a hand tool is utilized to engage the control assembly. This configuration enables a user to capture and release the rotary tool bit using one hand. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209214 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF WASHERS FOR LOCKING AND WASHER FOR LOCKING - A method for the manufacturing of circular washers for locking from blanks, a washer having a central hole, a first side comprising a pattern of radially extending teeth and a second side comprising a pattern of radially extending cams. The method is especially comprised in the steps of producing a washer blank having an annular shape; introducing the washer blank into a die assembly for forming a closed shaping space by a lower die portion, an opposing upper die portion, a central die portion and a support piece, the central die portion extending through a washer blank central hole; forming the blank to a washer by mutual movement of said lower and upper die portions; and opening the closed shaping space to extract the formed washer. The invention also relates to a device and a washer. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209226 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT PROCESS TOOL MODULES IN A CLEANSPACE FABRICATOR - The present invention provides various aspects of support for a processing tool in a fabrication facility capable of routine placement and replacement of processing tools and component assemblies of the tools. Support aspects include a support structure for component assemblies and a quick disconnect flange which facilitates connecting and disconnect of electrical, liquid and gas utilities to a tool component placed in the processing tool. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209227 | Device for Producing an Image by Means of a Sensor, as Well as a Component Placement Unit Comprising Such Device - A device suitable for producing an image of an object disposed in an object space by means of a sensor comprises at least the sensor, a first lens assembly disposed in front of the sensor, a stop plate comprising a light passage disposed in front of the first lens assembly, a second lens assembly disposed in front of the stop plate and the object space disposed in front of the second lens assembly. The device further comprises a light source, as well as a diffuser which is disposed on a side of the object space that is averted from the light source. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209228 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING EARS OF CORN FOR AUTOMATED HANDLING, POSITIONING AND ORIENTING - An apparatus and system for automated handling, positioning and orienting of an ear of corn includes apparatuses and systems for altering a portion of an ear of corn. Optionally included are one or more stations for automatically processing, testing, sampling and preparing the ear of corn for processing, testing or sampling and an automated transport means automatically moving ears of corn from station to station using alterations made to the ear of corn. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209249 | Counter-rotating fluid-propelling apparatus - A counter-rotating fluid-propelling apparatus ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100209256 | Element which Generates a Magnetic Field - An element which generates a magnetic field for securing a compressor wheel to a turboshaft of an exhaust-gas turbocharger, includes a base body that receives an annular-shaped magnet that rotates with the turboshaft. In order to provide an element which generates a magnetic field for securing a compressor wheel to a turboshaft of an exhaust-gas turbocharger, where the magnet is securely fixed and no change in the distribution of mass in the magnetic field occurs even when the magnet breaks, the magnet is connected in a force-fitting manner to the base body. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209264 | AXIAL FAN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A fan includes sloping surfaces arranged at an inner peripheral surface of an air channel portion that are shaped such that an air passage is enlarged in a cross sectional area in a direction normal or substantially normal to a central axis. The inner peripheral surface of the air channel portion also includes a straight surface at which area the distance between the central axis and the inner peripheral surface of the air channel portion his substantially constant. Also, the straight surface of the air channel portion includes a plurality of slits each penetrating the air channel portion. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209275 | HYDRAULIC CYLINDER HAVING PISTON-MOUNTED BYPASS VALVE - A hydraulic cylinder is disclosed. The hydraulic cylinder may have a tube, and a piston disposed within the tube and having a bore passing through the piston. The hydraulic cylinder may also have a valve element disposed within the bore and having a length shorter than a length of the bore. The valve element may be mechanically movable to allow fluid flow through the bore, and hydraulically movable to inhibit fluid flow through the bore. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209281 | Toy Fluid Pumping Gun - A fluid pumping device is disclosed. The fluid pumping device includes a housing having a front end and a rear end, a fluid discharge opening in the front end of the housing, a pump assembly, a crank assembly rotatably connected to the pump assembly wherein the crank assembly operates the pump assembly, and a fluid storage reservoir connected to the gear housing from which fluid is drawn into the gear housing to be pumped through the fluid discharge opening. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209286 | WELDABLE, CRACK-RESISTANT CO-BASED ALLOY, OVERLAY METHOD, AND COMPONENTS - A wear- and corrosion-resistant alloy, and related application method, where the alloy has by approximate weight %, C 0.12-0.7, Cr 20-30, Mo 7-15, Ni 1-4, and Co balance, wherein the alloy further contains one or more carbide-former elements from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, and Ta in a cumulative concentration to stoichiometrically offset between about 30% and about 90% of the C in the alloy. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209292 | PLASMA STERILIZING DEVICE AND METHOD - Provided are a plasma sterilizing device and a method for generating a plasma in an elongated thin tube constituting a sterilizing object, and performing the sterilizing treatment of the interior of the elongated thin tube. The plasma sterilizing device and a method can sterilize even an elongated thin tube of an internal diameter of 5 mm or less efficiently, can prevent the inner wall of the elongated thin tube from being damaged, can suppress the danger of a secondary infection, and can suppress the contamination of the elongated thin tube by the sputtering of an electrode. The plasma sterilizing device comprises a container ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100209299 | METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF A MIXTURE OF BIOLOGICAL AND/OR CHEMICAL COMPONENTS WITH THE USE MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND APPARATUS FOR ITS EMBODIMENT - Disclosed is an apparatus for analysis of a mixture of biological and/or chemical components that exposes a spatially arranged chosen component attached to magnetic particles to a magnetic field and records a magnetic induction signal from which the content of the biological and/or chemical components is determined. The magnetic field is alternating and has a pre-set spectrum at least at two frequencies. The apparatus records the signal at a frequency which is a linear combination of the at least two frequencies while the magnetic particles are exposed to the magnetic field. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209311 | PLASMA REACTOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING LOWER-ENERGY HYDROGEN SPECIES - The present disclosure provides for a plasma reactor to generate power and novel hydrogen species and compositions of matter comprising new forms of hydrogen via the catalysis of atomic hydrogen and to generate a plasma and a source of light, the reactor comprising: a plasma forming energy cell for the catalysis of atomic hydrogen to form novel lower-energy hydrogen species and compositions of matter comprising new forms of lower-energy hydrogen, a source of catalyst for catalyzing the reaction of atomic hydrogen to form the lower-energy hydrogen and release energy, a source of atomic hydrogen, and a source of intermittent or pulsed power to at least partially maintain the plasma. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209321 | Catalyst System for the Reduction of NOx and NH3 Emissions - This catalyst system simultaneously removes ammonia and enhances net NOx conversion by placing an NH | 2010-08-19 |
20100209323 | MOBILE DeNOx CATALYST - DeNOx catalysts for the reduction of NOx compounds and porous catalyst support materials are provided. The inventive catalysts comprise an active metal catalyst component and mixed TiO | 2010-08-19 |
20100209333 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ALKALI METAL TITANATE - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an alkali metal titanate, the method including at least a first step of mixing a titanium compound and an alkali metal compound to prepare a first mixture and sintering the first mixture, and a second step of adding the alkali metal compound to the sintered body, which is formed at the first step, to prepare a second mixture and sintering the second mixture. The present invention provides the alkali metal titanate having a desired composition and a single-phase. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209341 | TREATMENT OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS - A method for the treatment of a chronic inflammatory condition in a patient which comprises administration to the patient of an agent which blocks or inhibits IL-3 signalling events in the patient. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209353 | TUMOR TARGETING PROTEIN CONJUGATE AND A METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a protein conjugate having excellent tumor targeting capacity and a method for preparing the same, more precisely albumin-bile acid conjugate forming 30-500 nm nano-particles and forming self-aggregates in water system and a method for preparing the same. The albumin-bile acid conjugate of the present invention has excellent tumor targeting capacity and facilitates inclusion of a hydrophobic anticancer agent and can be combined with fore infrared ray fluorescent material. Therefore, this conjugate can be effectively used for the production of a novel nano-particle contrast agent or a nano-particle drug delivery system for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209356 | CONTRAST AGENTS - The present invention relates to a class of compounds and to diagnostic compositions containing such compounds where the compounds are iodine containing compounds. More specifically the iodine containing compounds are chemical compounds containing two linked iodinated phenyl groups of the general formula (I) and salts or optical active isomers thereof, wherein each of R | 2010-08-19 |
20100209360 | Method for Making a Gas from an Aqueous Fluid, Product of the Method, and Apparatus Therefor - A method for producing a purified, stable, compressible gas from an aqueous fluid. The gas is suitable for a variety of uses and may also be infused into water which itself is useful for a variety of purposes. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209380 | ADHESIVE FORMULATIONS - The disclosure relates to biocompatible components useful for forming compositions for use as medical/surgical synthetic adhesives and sealants. Biocompatible components of the present disclosure may include a polymeric polyol core, which may be treated with a nitroaryl compound to form a nitro ester. The resulting nitro ester groups may be reduced to form amino groups which, in turn, may be treated to form isocyanate groups. The resulting isocyanate may then be reacted with a second component to form adhesive and/or sealant compositions. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209382 | Polyphenol Conjugates as RGD-Binding Compounds and Methods of Use - Provided herein are compositions and methods for preventing and treating diseases and risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome by targeting the RGD-binding site of selected intra- and extracellular proteins. Exemplary compositions include RGD-polyphenol conjugates via an ester linkage; polyphenol polymer conjugated to RGD analogs or mimetics; and RGD polymer conjugates linked to polyphenol. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209401 | Use of SDF-1 to Improve Ischemic Myocardial Function - A method is provided for increasing trafficking of endothelial progenitor cells to an ischemic myocardium in a subject's heart comprising administering to the subject's heart an amount of Stromal-Derived Factor-1 (SDF-1). | 2010-08-19 |
20100209404 | ENHANCED METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEM-LIKE CELLS FROM SOMATIC CELLS - The instant invention provides methods and compositions for the production and use of pluripotent stem-like cells from low passage somatic cells, e.g., fibroblasts. | 2010-08-19 |
20100209411 | USE OF HYDROLYTIC AND OXIDATIVE ENZYMES TO DISSOLVE BIOFILM IN EARS - A composition for removal of biofilm in the ears is useful for the treatment of ear infections such as otitis media, particularly those infections caused by | 2010-08-19 |