52nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120328216 | Interactivity for Printed Content - A method for providing interactivity for printed content is disclosed. An image of a writing surface containing the printed content is captured by an optical imaging pen device. The image includes a pattern printed on the writing surface. A plurality of available options associated with the printed content coincident with the pattern in the image is then determined and a selection from a user of one of the plurality of available options is received. An application is executed, with the execution using the selected option. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328217 | BAG WITH SECONDARY HANDLE - A bag including a containment portion having an opening to receive items, a bag seal at an end of the bag opposite the opening, a handle seal at an end of the containment portion opposite the opening, the handle seal located between the bag seal and the opening, and a handle in a handle body formed between the handle seal and the bag seal. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328218 | MULTI-PURPOSE DRAWSTRING CARRIER - A drawstring carrier for carrying an object may include a mat and a drawstring positioned at a peripheral region of the mat. The drawstring may be drawn to a first drawn state in which the mat is drawn to secure around the object from at least two sides of the mat and such that in the first drawn state a first exposed portion and a second exposed portion serve as handles for the drawstring carrier. The drawstring may include a third exposed and a fourth exposed portion positioned at a fourth side of the mat opposite from the third side. The mat may be oval or circular in shape. Food and food containers, pans, trays may be carried by or used on the carrier, as well as vases, flower pots. Carrier may also serve as a baby changing station and dirty diaper wrapper and disposer. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328219 | MEDICINE PACKAGE - A medicine package includes a container for containing a fluid medicine, a tube body for connecting an interior and an exterior of the container, a tube made of an elastic material, and a nozzle for discharging the medicine. The container is made of soft sheets each configured by laminating resin film layers and an aluminum foil layer, and provided as a bag having a gusset on either side. An inclined section is provided at an adhered section between the sheets such that an internal space of the container forms a funnel shape with the tube body as a stem. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328220 | UTILITARIAN BAG WITH OPENABLE BOTTOM AND INSULATED COMPARTMENT - The bag has a body and a bottom. A mesh sheet is attached to the wall of the body and extends over the bottom. A zipper is provided for attaching the bottom to the bag body such that the bottom of the bag can be opened to allow particulate matter to be emptied from the bag without removing the contents of the bag. A pocket-like compartment is provided within the bag. The compartment has a lining formed of thermal insulating material such that the temperature of beverages and other food items can be maintained for an extended period of time. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328221 | MOTION GUIDE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A motion guide device has a moving block mounting surface | 2012-12-27 |
20120328222 | SLIDE COVER LIFTING STRUCTURE - A slide cover lifting structure used in an electronic device consisting of a base member and a cover panel is disclosed to include a pair hinges, a pair of sliding rail holders, a pair of bearing members, a pair of plastic slide guides, a pair of sliding rails, a transmission shaft, two gear sets and a pair of gear racks. The gear sets are provided between the sliding rail holders and the bearing members for transmission of applied force. The transmission shaft is mounted in the base member (system end), allowing free utilization of the internal circuit board space of the base member. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328223 | SLIDE DEVICE - A shaft, which supports an inner ring of a bearing and is integrally attached to a linear motion type slider, has a through hole in a center portion thereof. Since correction of the shaft may be performed by grasping a separate shaft to be inserted to the through hole, the shaft is not scratched. Additionally, even after press fitting the bearing, the posture may be corrected without grasping the bearing. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328224 | SLIDING BEARING AND SLIDING BEARING ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a sliding bearing, and more particularly, a sliding bearing having an improved lubricant property by having a lubricant storage on the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface. The sliding bearing according to the present invention is advantageous to be used particularly under the conditions of the surface pressure of 100 to 1000 kg/cm | 2012-12-27 |
20120328225 | ROLLING BEARING DEVICE - Provided is a rolling bearing device comprising inner races ( | 2012-12-27 |
20120328226 | ROLLING BEARING ARRANGEMENT - A rolling bearing arrangement which has at least one rolling bearing outer ring of a rolling bearing, an intermediate element, and a housing part. The rolling bearing can be inserted into the housing part such that the intermediate element lies between the rolling bearing outer ring and the housing part. A first contact zone is formed between the rolling bearing outer ring and the intermediate element, and a second contact zone is formed between the intermediate element and the housing part. Formed on the first contact zone is a cooling system that has at least one cooling recess through which a cooling agent can flow. Formed on the second contact zone is a damping system that has at least one damping recess via which a damping cavity in the second contact zone can be filled with a damping medium. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328227 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL MODULATION APPARATUS - Provided is an optical modulator that modulates input light with a high frequency and low half-wave voltage. An optical device comprises a substrate; a dielectric film that is formed on the substrate and includes a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide that run parallel to each other; an insulating film formed on the dielectric film; a coplanar line that is formed on the insulating film and includes a signal line arranged between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide, a first ground line arranged in a first region, and a second ground line arranged in a second region; and auxiliary electrodes that are arranged in the first region and the second region, are formed in contact with the dielectric film or within the insulating film, and apply bias voltages to the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328228 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL MODULATION APPARATUS - To achieve high-speed optical modulation using a crystal having a complicated refractive index characteristic with respect to applied electric field, provided is an optical device comprising a substrate; a dielectric film that is formed on the substrate and includes a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide that run parallel to each other; a transmission line that is formed on the dielectric film and includes a signal line arranged between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide, a first bias electrode, and a second bias electrode, the first bias electrode and the second bias electrode arranged respectively in a first region that is on a side of the first optical waveguide opposite the second optical waveguide and a second region on a side of the second optical waveguide opposite the first optical waveguide; and a drive circuit section that respectively applies a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage differing from each other to the first bias electrode and the second bias electrode, and applies a control voltage that is between the first bias voltage and the second bias voltage to the signal line. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328229 | Optical Module - There is provided an optical module including photonic devices set in array, prepared by integrating a plurality of photonic devices with each other in such a state as arranged in such a array as to enable light beams to output in the common direction. The plural photonic devices each include a first electrode, and a second electrode, arranged in the same direction as the plural photonic devices are arranged, and the first and second electrodes of the photonic devices adjacent to each other are disposed such that respective electrode layouts are a mirror image of each other. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328230 | OPTICAL FIBER MULTI-WAVELENGTH FILTER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WAVELENGTH OF SPECTRUM USING THE SAME - An optical fiber multi-wavelength filter based on a polarization-diversity loop configuration within which polarization-maintaining fibers are contained with some optical elements is disclosed. The filter includes a coil heater adjacent to polarization-maintaining fibers. An ambient temperature of the polarization-maintaining fiber is controlled by adjusting a current applied to the coil heater. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328231 | FIBER SENSING SYSTEMS AND FIBER SENSING METHODS - A fiber sensing system is provided, including a plurality of ring structures, an optical coupler and a switching unit. Each of the ring structures has at least one fiber sensor to receive and reflect a light source signal. The optical coupler is directly connected to the ring structures thereby injecting the light source signal into the ring structures to form a plurality of loops. The switching unit is disposed in a central office having two output terminals coupled to the ring structure respectively by the optical coupler, thereby forming a first path and a second path in the loops, such that the light source signal is injected into the first path and the second path sequentially by the switching unit. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328232 | BEARING MONITORING USING A FIBER BRAGG GRATING - A bearing comprises a Bragg grated optical fiber to measure one or more parameters of the bearing. The optical fiber is coupled to the bearing in such a way that at least a part of the optical fiber that comprises Bragg grating is curved. The grating which is curved is adapted to the curvature in such a way that the frequency response is well defined and not spread out. This is achieved by arranging the gratings such that even though the fiber is curved the gratings appear to be substantially parallel instead of being influenced by the curvature. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328233 | Fabrication Tolerant Design for the Chip-Integrated Spectroscopic Identification of Solids, Liquids, and Gases - Methods and systems for a label-free on-chip optical absorption spectrometer consisting of a photonic crystal slot waveguide are disclosed. The invention comprises an on-chip integrated optical absorption spectroscopy device that combines the slow light effect in photonic crystal waveguide and optical field enhancement in a slot waveguide and enables detection and identification of multiple analytes to be performed simultaneously using optical absorption techniques leading to a device for chemical and biological sensing, trace detection, and identification via unique analyte absorption spectral signatures. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328234 | Low-loss Optical Coupling Apparatus - A low-loss optical coupling apparatus includes a silicon-on-insulator wafer, a silicon dioxide layer, a taper waveguide, a channel waveguide and a thick-film silicon dioxide layer. The silicon-on-insulator wafer is formed with a silicon substrate. The silicon dioxide layer is provided on the silicon substrate. The taper waveguide comprises a slab region formed on the silicon dioxide layer and a waveguide region formed on the slab region. An end of a chip is connected to an end of the waveguide region. The channel waveguide is formed on the slab region and connected to another end of the waveguide region. The thick-film silicon dioxide layer extends on the taper waveguide and covers the entire waveguide region. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328235 | MODULAR CHIP LAYOUT FOR ACTIVE OPTICAL LINKS - The present invention relates to a flexible method of provide chips for optical interconnect with different number of channels. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328236 | PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT - In an integrated optical receiver or transmitter, both the displacement of an optical axis caused by thermal changes and the property degradation of an optical functional circuit are inhibited. A planar lightwave circuit having a substrate and a waveguide-type optical functional circuit formed thereon composed of a material different from that of the substrate, and includes a waveguide region formed only of an optical wavelength that is in contact with a side forming an emission-end face of the optical waveguide for propagating the light emitted from the optical functional circuit or an incident-end face of an optical waveguide for propagating the light incident on the optical functional circuit. The planar lightwave circuit is fixed to a fixing mount only at the bottom of the substrate where the waveguide region is formed. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328237 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide an optical device and an optical device manufacturing method wherein provisions are made to be able to substantially prevent misalignment from occurring in an optical element and prevent shifting from occurring in the optical waveguide characteristics of the optical element. The optical device includes a first optical element, a second optical element optically coupled to the first optical element, and a first silicon substrate on which the first optical element and the second optical element are mounted, wherein the second optical element includes a second silicon substrate and a waveguide substrate laminated to the second silicon substrate, and the second optical element is mounted on the first silicon substrate in such a manner that the waveguide substrate faces the first silicon substrate. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328238 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device which reduces coupling loss while improving practicality is provided. A multi-core fiber coupling device is an optical device which couples a multi-core fiber to single core fibers, and includes a first optical system which is located on optical axes of a plurality of beams emitted from the multi-core fiber, and which makes the optical axes of the respective beams non-parallel to each other, thereby making the beams in a state of being separated from each other, and a second optical system S | 2012-12-27 |
20120328239 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF AN OPTICAL NETWORK ELEMENT - A method for automatic confirmation of an optical network element optical modules each having multiple fibres; a fibre shuffle interconnector having ports to which said optical modules are connected; and a configuration unit which performs an automatic configuration of said optical network element by controlling all optical modules connected to said fibre shuffle interconnector to transmit a fibre identifier associated with a fibre of the respective optical module to the respective port of said fibre shuffle interconnector to which said optical module is connected, wherein said fibre shuffle interconnector forwards the received fibre identifier via another port of said fibre shuffle interconnector to another optical module of said optical network element which detects said forwarded fibre identifier being monitored by said configuration unit to generate a connectivity matrix indicating the connection of said optical modules to said fibre shuffle interconnector on the basis of the detected fibre identifiers. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328240 | METAMATERIAL-BASED OPTICAL LENSES - Devices based on metamaterial structures to guide and manipulate light, other electromagnetic radiation and acoustic waves. For example, a lens can include a metamaterial structure comprising nano structures of metallic and dielectric materials; and a plasmonic waveguide coupler formed over the metamaterial structure for coupling electromagnetic radiation to or from metamaterial structure. The metamaterial structure has an anisotropic structure and the plasmonic waveguide coupler is structured to include metal and non-metal parts to support surface plasmon polaritons and to cause different phase delays at different locations of an interface with the metamaterial structure in a way that the metamaterial structure and the plasmonic waveguide coupler effect a lens for performing a Fourier transform of the electromagnetic radiation coupled between the metamaterial structure and the plasmonic waveguide coupler. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328241 | Apparatus for Obtaining Information For A Structure Using Spectrally-Encoded Endoscopy Techniques and Methods for Producing One or More Optical Arrangements - Exemplary apparatus for obtaining information for a structure can be provided. For example, the exemplary apparatus can include at least one first optical fiber arrangement which is configured to transceive at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, and can include at least one fiber. The exemplary apparatus can also include at least one second focusing arrangement in optical communication with the optical fiber arrangement. The second arrangement can include a ball lens, and be configured to focus and provide there through the first electro-magnetic radiation to generate focused electro-magnetic radiation. Further, the exemplary apparatus can include at least at least one dispersive third arrangement which can receive a particular radiation (e.g., the first and/or focused electro-magnetic radiation(s), and forward a dispersed radiation thereof to at least one section of the structure. An end of the fiber(s) can be directly connected to the second focusing arrangement and/or the third arrangement(s). | 2012-12-27 |
20120328242 | Optical system for coupling light from point light sources into a flat light guide - The invention relates to an optical system for coupling light from at least one approximately point-shaped light source such as a LED into a flat light guide made of a transparent material such as glass or plastic. The inventive system is characterized in that the point light source is arranged above a surface of the light guide and is associated with an optical element, which couples the light from the point light source into the flat light guide at the surface thereof, wherein the in-coupled light satisfies the condition of the critical angle for total reflection and remains inside the flat light guide until controlled out-coupling. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328243 | Optical Converter and Method of Manufacturing the Same - An optical converter and a method of manufacturing the optical converter are provided. The optical converter may include a signal receiving portion configured to receive an optical signal from an optical fiber which can be coupled to the optical converter, a signal output portion configured to output the optical signal received by the signal receiving portion, and a signal coupling portion being disposed between the signal receiving portion and the signal output portion and being configured to couple the optical signal received by the signal receiving portion into the signal output portion. The signal output portion may include a waveguide element having at least one tapered end section, and being partially or wholly surrounded by the signal coupling portion. The at least one tapered end section may be configured to couple the optical signal from the signal coupling portion into the waveguide element and the waveguide element may be configured to output the optical signal. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328244 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR, OPTICAL CONNECTING STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connecting member realizes an optical connecting between a multi-core fiber and a plurality of single-core fibers by a waveguide part which connects a first end face and a second end face. With the optical connecting member, a connected end which is connected to the first end face is a straight-line portion that is orthogonal to the first end face in each of the plurality of waveguide parts. In addition, a diverged end which is diverged to the second end face is a straight-line portion that is orthogonal to the second end face. Consequently, light that has passed through the waveguide parts is emitted from the first end face and the second end face substantially perpendicularly to the faces, thereby enabling optical connecting loss to be favorably inhibited. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328245 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR - An optical fiber connector includes optical fibers, a connector body, two first glue layers, and two second glue layers. The optical fibers are received in grooves and aligned with optical lenses formed on the connector body. The first and second glue layers fill in the recesses to hold the main portion and the front portion of the optical fibers securely in place. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328246 | Re-Terminable LC Connector Assembly and Cam Termination Tool - An improved, reversibly terminable fiber stub connector assembly is provided that can be readily and positively terminated in the field using simple termination tools. This allows repositioning or replacement of fiber optic cable field fibers if termination is not acceptable in performance. The tool may be a hand-held tool, or used in conjunction with a connector support structure to provide simplified and expeditious field termination of fiber optic cables. The cam tool can include a throughbore that enables connection of a patchcord to the stub fiber of the connector during or shortly after termination without removal of the termination tool. Accordingly, field testing of the connection can be made at the site of termination. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328247 | FIELD TERMINATABLE FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A fiber optic connector assembly includes a connector and a carrier. The connector, defining a longitudinal bore extending through the connector and having a first end region and a second end region, includes a ferrule assembly, having an optical fiber extending through the connector, at least partially disposed in the longitudinal bore at the first end region, a tube, defining a passage and having a first end portion disposed in the longitudinal bore at the second end region and a second end region, and a spring disposed in the bore between the ferrule assembly and the tube. The carrier includes a cable end and a connector end engaged with the connector, a termination region disposed between the connector end and the cable end, a fiber support region disposed between the connector end and the termination region, and a take-up region disposed between the connector end and the fiber support region. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328248 | FIELD TERMINABLE OPTICAL CONNECTOR WITH SPLICE ELEMENT FOR JACKETED CABLE - An LC format optical connector for terminating an optical fiber includes a housing configured to mate with an LC receptacle. A backbone is configured to engage an outer surface of the outer shell of the housing and includes a mounting structure that is configured to engage a boot. A collar body is retained between the outer shell and the backbone and includes a fiber stub disposed in a first portion of the collar body, the fiber stub being mounted in a ferrule. A mechanical splice is disposed in a second portion of the collar body, the mechanical splice configured to splice the fiber stub to the optical fiber. The backbone also includes a fiber jacket clamping portion to clamp a jacket portion that surrounds a portion of the optical fiber upon actuation. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328249 | FIBER OPTIC CABLE ASSEMBLIES HAVING A CRIMP BAND DISPOSED ABOUT A CUSHIONING MEMBER ALONG WITH METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME - The disclosure is directed to cable assemblies having at least one fiber optic connector and methods for making the same. In particular, fiber optic cable assemblies having a crimp band disposed about a cushioning member on a fiber optic cable along with methods for making the same are disclosed. The cable assemblies including the cushioning member are advantageous since they provide a load distribution of the crimp band about the fiber optic cable which may preserve optical performance and/or enable the use of fiber optic cables having smaller diameters. Additionally, the fiber optic cables of the cable assemblies may be sub-units of a larger cable. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328250 | DIRECT-INCIDENCE OPTICAL-ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE - A direct-incidence optical-electrical connection device for coupling to optical fibers and thereby converting an optical signal in the optical fibers into an electrical signal includes a substrate, an optical connection unit, a communication unit, and an electrical connection unit. The optical connection unit, the communication unit, and the electrical connection unit are disposed on the substrate. The optical connection unit connects the optical fibers. The communication unit is vertically disposed at an end of an edge of the optical connection unit. The ends of the optical fibers correspond directly to the communication unit for admitting the optical signal. Then, by optical-electrical conversion (OEC), the optical signal is converted into an electrical signal to be sent to the electrical connection unit. Then, the electrical signal from the electrical connection unit is converted into an optical signal to be sent to the optical connection unit via the communication unit. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328251 | Mechanical Splicer Apparatus for Fiber Optic Cables - The invention provides and apparatus for mechanically splicing fiber optic cables and method for performing the process. The apparatus comprises an inventive segmented track with a middle track segment containing a splicer mount, and first and second rotating track segments on opposed sides of a middle segment, the rotating segments moving from a cleaving orientation wherein the rotating track segments align with a respective flat edge angled cleaver and a rounded edge angled cleaver, to a splicing orientation wherein the rotating track segments align with the middle track segment. First and second fiber key holders securely holding partially stripped fiber optic cables move along the respective first and second track segment for cleaving by the cleavers and then toward the middle track segment where their cleaved tips come into controlled aligned contact within a splicer joint contained in the splicer joint mount. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328252 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF A BIREFRINGENCE AXIS OF A POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING OPTICAL FIBER - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code includes code to cause a processor to receive an image signal associated with an image of an end face of a polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PM fiber), determine a center position of the PM fiber, perform a local image equalization on the end face, and define an edge map of the end face. The code can perform a Hough space analysis on the edge map to determine the center position of a first structure and/or a second structure on the end face. The first structure and the second structure can each define at least in part a birefringence of the PM fiber. A birefringence axis of the PM fiber can be calculated based on at least two of the center position of the PM fiber, the center position of the first structure and the center position of the second structure. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328253 | MULTI-FIBER, FIBER OPTIC CABLE ASSEMBLIES PROVIDING CONSTRAINED OPTICAL FIBERS WITHIN AN OPTICAL FIBER SUB-UNIT, AND RELATED FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS, CABLES, AND METHODS - Multi-fiber, fiber optic cable assemblies and related fiber optic components, cables, and methods providing constrained optical fibers within an optical fiber sub-unit are disclosed. The optical fiber sub-unit(s) comprises optical fibers disposed adjacent a sub-unit strength member(s) within a sub-unit jacket. Movement of optical fibers within a sub-unit jacket can be constrained. In this manner, the optical fibers in an optical fiber sub-unit can be held together within the optical fiber sub-unit as a unit. As a non-limiting example, the optical fiber sub-unit(s) may be exposed and constrained in a furcation assembly as opposed to the optical fibers, thereby reducing complexity in fiber optic cable assembly preparations. Constraining the optical fibers may also allow optical skew, reduction of entanglement between the optical fibers and the cable strength members to reduce or avoid optical attenuation, and/or allow the optical fibers to act as anti-buckling components within the fiber optic cable. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328254 | OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber including an optical fiber wire is provided. The optical fiber wire has a bare optical fiber portion, to which first elastic torsion is applied, and a coating layer, which coats the bare optical fiber portion and which is formed of curable resin and generates elastic repulsion against resilience occurring in the bare optical fiber portion so that the first elastic torsion applied to the bare optical fiber portion is held. Second elastic torsion is applied to the entire optical fiber configured to include the bare optical fiber portion and the coating layer. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328255 | Few-Moded Optical Fibers - Few moded optical fibers with small delay differences between the propagating modes are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical fiber includes a glass core and a glass cladding surrounding and in direct contact with the glass core. The glass core may include a radius R | 2012-12-27 |
20120328256 | FLEXIBLE COVER FOR CABLE TROUGH SYSTEM - Systems and methods for covering a trough member. A cover system can include a flexible cover coupled to a side wall of the trough member. The flexible cover is selectively removable from the side wall to allow access to an interior of the trough member. The flexible cover mounts with a snap arrangement. Support ribs are mounted to side walls of the trough member. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328257 | FIBER OPTIC ENCLOSURE WITH INTERNAL CABLE SPOOL - A fiber optic enclosure assembly includes a housing having an interior region and a bearing mount disposed in the interior region of the housing. A cable spool is connectedly engaged with the bearing mount such that the cable spool selectively rotates within the housing. A termination module disposed on the cable spool so that the termination module rotates in unison with the cable spool. A method of paying out a fiber optic cable from a fiber optic enclosure includes rotating a cable spool, which has a subscriber cable coiled around a spooling portion of the cable spool, about an axis of a housing of the fiber optic enclosure until a desired length of subscriber cable is paid out. A termination module is disposed on the cable spool. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328258 | FIBER OPTIC CASSETTE - A fiber optic cassette having a housing having an interior, a component section and a front section is disclosed. A single splice holder, a mass splice holder and a pigtail cable assembly are positioned in the fiber optic component section. The pigtail cable assembly comprises a plurality of optical fibers, and is adapted to provide for at least one of the plurality of optical fibers to connect to one of the fiber optic adapters at a one end of the optical fibers. The pigtail cable assembly is modifiable to provide for the plurality of optical fibers to connect to one of a mass splice held by the mass splice holder and single fiber splices held by the single fiber splice holder at another end. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328259 | MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PREVIEW RENDERING IN A CLOUD CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing content previews of files, including video files, stored in an online content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. Permission to view a preview of a file is determined based upon access permissions associated with the file and/or workspace in which the file is stored and the access level of the requesting user. The system can also provide a progress indicator indicating the approximate time remaining to process the file for previewing based upon averages of times for processing previous files having similar attributes. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for downsampling a video file to decrease the processing time for providing a preview. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328260 | SYSTEM FOR VIDEOTAPING AND RECORDING A MUSICAL GROUP - A system comprising: a plurality of lead computers; a plurality of player workstations; a plurality of audio receivers and transmitters for capturing audio signals and converting said audio signals to a transmittable form, wherein at least one audio receiver and transmitter is associated with each player; a plurality of video receivers and transmitters for capturing images and converting said images to a transmittable form, wherein at least one video receiver and transmitter is associated with each player; a storage device and a processor for receiving and processing signals from said audio and video receivers and transmitters and; an output device for outputting each audio and video receiver. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328261 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video display apparatus is configured such that when a user returns a video signal input source device to a video reproduction device after switching an input source device from the video reproduction device to another device, viewing of the video from the video reproduction device can be started again right away from a previous viewing position. When the user switches the video signal input source device from a BD player to another device, a play command to start the reproduction of video is sent to the BD player, after which, without waiting for receipt of a response from the BD player to this command, a stop command is sent to the BD player. Consequently, even a BD player which continues to reproduce video signals even after receiving the command can be placed in a resume stop state. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328262 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - The reproduction device is for displaying video information comprising a plurality of chapters. The reproduction device comprises a control unit which is configured to initiate a display of a chapter menu having selectable menu items. Further, the control unit is configured to initiate a reproduction of a chapter of the video information upon selection of the dedicated menu item. The reproduction device is configured to generate attributes of the chapters which are indicative to a respective one of the chapters and to generate a display diagram of the attributes. This diagram may be displayed in the chapter menu. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328263 | Method And Apparatus For Advertisement Placement In A User Dialog On A Set-Top Box - Methods and apparatuses for presenting targeted advertisements to DVR users are described. After a DVR has finished playing a recorded television program, or in response to other specified events, the DVR presents a screen which comprises a “save or delete” menu. In addition to the “save” and “delete” options, the menu additionally comprises one or more other options. Each of these other options may correspond to a separate promotional item. For example, a user's selection of such an option may cause the DVR to display or play an advertisement on the user's television set. Additionally or alternatively, these other options, when selected by a user, may cause the DVR to display a user interface through which the user can actually purchase a product or service. The product or service advertised or offered may be one that was featured or referenced in the television program that the user was just watching. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328264 | CONTENT DATA RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTENTS LIST GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a content data recording/reproducing device, comprising a communication unit that engages in communication with an external device, a storage unit that stores content data and additional data related to the content data, a content data extraction unit that selectively extracts the content data from the storage unit based upon condition data received at the communication unit from the external device and the additional data stored in the storage unit and a contents list generation unit that generates a contents list based upon the condition data and additional data corresponding to the content data extracted by the content data extraction unit. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328265 | EDITING DEVICE, EDITING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an editing device including an input material timeline area display control unit that executes control such that an input material timeline in which an event is arranged is displayed, using a material which is an element of selected content as the event, and an output material timeline area display control unit that executes control such that an output material timeline in which an event which is being edited or has been edited is arranged is displayed. The input material timeline and the output material timeline have a same time axis, and the input material timeline area display control unit controls a display of the input material timeline such that the event arranged in the input material timeline is expressed by the same time axis as the event arranged in the output material timeline. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328266 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ASSISTING THE PRODUCTION OF MEDIA WORKS AND THE LIKE - Systems and methods for assisting one or more users in the production of a media work from a plurality of recordings are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, digital versions of the recordings are stored on a file-storage server accessible over a communications network. A media-library server provides an organized way for users to access and view the digital versions, and to associate various data files with the digital versions, such as transcription files, logging files, and storyboard documents. The exemplary media library generates web pages that enable users to search and access the digital versions from an internet browser running on a conventional personal computer. The browser also enables users to view the digital versions with a browser-compatible media viewer. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328267 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING STORAGE OF RECORDED VIDEO PROGRAMS - A method of managing video programs and associated program components on a storage unit of an electronic device is provided. A total number of playbacks of each video program stored in the storage unit and a total number of playbacks of each program component stored in the storage unit for each of the video programs are tracked. A percentage of playbacks of each program component stored on the storage unit relative to the total number of playbacks of its corresponding video program is determined. From this, candidates of program components for deletion from the storage unit are identified based on the values of the determined percentages. The tracking, determining and identifying steps of the method are performed by electronic components of the electronic device. A device is also disclosed. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328268 | System and Method For Providing a Variable Frame Rate and Adaptive Frame Skipping on a Mobile Device - A processor and method are provided for decoding a multimedia file having video and audio data streams that are configured to be played in synchronization. Frames of the video stream are decoded and played with the audio and, to compensate for saturation of the processor usage, two procedures are performed. The first procedure operates at a first periodic interval and slows down the frame rate to reduce processor usage if needed. The second procedure first attempts to speed up the video to catch up to the audio if they are out of sync and if this cannot be done in the next time interval, the decoding of a select number of frames is skipped such that the video and audio data streams are resynchronized. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328269 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE THERMAL TREATMENT OF CORROSIVE GASES - A device for thermal treatment of corrosive gases includes a chamber for heating gases in which there are at least four heating elements or four groups of heating elements including an electrically conductive material, wherein each heating element or group is connected to a separately regulatable and/or controllable subsystem of an electrical energy network and can thereby be heated by direct current flow, wherein each heating element or group can be controlled or regulated with respect to at least one either identical or different value of a parameter selected from the group consisting of temperature, heating power, current, voltage and resistance, or with respect to another heating element process variable, which can be influenced by the device, and wherein at least four regulatable and/or controllable subsystems are DC-isolated from ground potential. The invention also relates to a corresponding method for the thermal treatment of corrosive gases. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328270 | Explosion Proof Forced Air Electric Heater - An explosion proof forced air electric heater is designed to supply heat to hazardous areas where the atmosphere contains readily combustible gases, vapors or dust particles. The heater employs an air mover which forces air through a metal heat sink with strategically placed electric heating elements. The terminal ends of the heating elements extend into a sealed and encapsulated explosion proof containment chamber which is connected to a centralized explosion proof enclosure. The explosion proof enclosure contains the control features and the electrical connections of the heater along with external accessories. The heating cycle is controlled via an electronic control circuit. The electronic circuit controls the process heating temperature, air mover operation, heating element operation, temperature measuring device operation, and monitors the total operation time of the heating elements while providing process failure feed back to the operator. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328271 | STEAM GENERATOR - This is a unique design for a steam generator. The heating zone is not only equipped with two sections, vaporizing and steaming, to upgrade the efficiency, but also can be used as a bumper to minimize the back pressure from compressing chamber. The compressing zone is used to compress the vaporizing steam with the pressure for designated service in a restricted room. The inlet is placed at the bottom whereas the outlet at the top. This keeps the water feeding continuous and no water overflowing when the steam generator is not in use. The temperature controller set beside the inlet is used for temperature control as well as the safety protection. The fuse set behind the temperature controller is used to provide the user a more reliable consideration. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328272 | COATED FILM DRYING FURNACE - A coated film drying furnace for drying a coated film inside a furnace body by conveying the coated film therein, the coated film having an absorption spectrum for electromagnetic waves of 3.5 μm or less and having hydrogen bonds, such as an electrode coated film for lithium ion battery. Infrared heaters provided inside a furnace body have outer circumferences of filaments concentrically covered by tubes that function as a low pass filter, and have a structure in which a fluid flow passage is formed at 16 between the plurality of tubes. Due to this, a temperature rise in the furnace is controlled so as to prevent explosion of an organic solvent vapor, and the coated film is efficiently heated and dried by intensively radiating near infrared rays of 3.5 μm or less that have superior ability to cut off the intermolecular hydrogen bonds onto a work. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328273 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND HEAT TREATMENT METHOD - Disclosed is a thermal processing apparatus and method that can acquire a high throughput and reduce the occupation area of the thermal processing apparatus. A wafer is heated by an LED module that irradiates infrared light corresponding to the absorption wavelength of the wafer, and therefore, the wafer can be rapidly heated. Since an LED is used as a heat source and a temperature rise of LED is small, a cooling process after the heating process can be performed in the same process area as the heating process area. As a result, an installation area of the thermal processing apparatus can be reduced. Since the time for moving between a heating process area and a cooling process area can be saved, a time required for a series of processes including the heating process and the subsequent cooling process can be shortened, thereby improving a throughput. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328274 | Heating Unit For Warming Fluid Conduits - A heating unit for use in heating a fluid conduit is disclosed. The heating unit includes first and second pliable cover layers. A pliable electrical heating element is disposed between the first and second cover layers. The pliable electrical heating element includes a heat generating element for converting electrical energy to heat energy and a heat spreading element that is attached to the heat generating element. The heat spreading element comprises carbon that is thermally coupled to the heat generating element for distributing the heat energy. A thermal insulation layer is attached to a second side of the pliable electrical heating element and is positioned adjacent the first cover layer. Additionally, a receiving power connector is electrically connected to the heat generating element and is configured to couple to an electrical power source. The heating unit is sized to substantially cover the fluid conduit. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328275 | IMAGE STABILIZING APPARATUS - An image stabilizing apparatus comprises: a base; a first frame that is movably coupled to the base in a first direction; a first vibration axis that is disposed on the base and extended along the first direction to movably support the first frame in the first direction; a first vibration unit that vibrates the first vibration axis; a first sensing unit that senses a position variation of the first frame; a second frame that is movably coupled to the first frame in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction; a lens coupled to the second frame; a second vibration axis that is disposed on the first frame and extended along the second direction to movably support the second frame along the second direction; a second vibration unit that vibrates the second vibration axis; and a second sensing unit for sensing a position variation of the second frame. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328276 | LENS BARREL AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A lens barrel includes an operation member adapted to be movable to a first position and a second position and turnable at each of the positions, a turning member adapted to turnably engage with the operation member at the second position, and disengage from the operation member at the first position, a first detection unit adapted to detect a turning position of the turning member configured to turn in engagement with the operation member, a second detection unit adapted to detect a turning amount and a rotational direction of the operation member when the operation member is disengaged from the turning member, and a moving unit adapted to move the focusing lens along the optical axis based on an output from the first detection unit or the second detection unit. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328277 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - An optical instrument comprising a focusing lens provided inside a lens barrel, a ring member that is arranged to rotate with respect to a lens barrel, and to slide to a first position and a second position, a focusing mode setting section, provided on a camera body, for setting focusing mode, and a control section for, when the ring member has been slid to the first position, carrying out focusing in a focusing mode that was set in the focusing mode setting section, and when the ring member has been slid to the second position, stopping focusing the focusing mode that was set in the focusing mode setting section, and performing focusing of the focusing lens to a distance corresponding to an absolute position of the ring member. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328278 | CONDENSER LENS, LAMP AND CAMERA - A condenser lens, lamp and camera applicable to an optical area are provided. The condenser lens is a physical glass lens and has an incident surface, an exit surface and a side surface arranged around a central axis of the condenser lens. The side surface is lattice-shaped. The condenser lens of the present invention adopts a glass material, which improves a light extraction efficiency of the lens and reduces a light energy loss. The lattice-shaped side surface of the lens reflects lights in different directions by multiple small-area lattice units instead of reflecting lights by a single curved surface. The reasonably-designed lattice structure enables each lattice unit reflecting lights in a predetermined direction, which may realize a uniform illumination at a small angle and is beneficial to spot-lighting. This condenser lens may be widely applied in all sorts of illuminating lamps or an illumination system of a camera. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328279 | Shoulder Mounted Camera Support and Stabilizer - The disclosed invention provides simultaneous hands-free support, stability and control of heavy loads comfortably upon the body over extended periods of time; while being both convenient to take on and off, without reducing operator mobility. Through the efficiency associated with cantilever design principles, the invention balances and transfers a load comfortably across the body. As a load is placed on a resting device, such as a camera resting on a camera mount, the load is balanced by an equal and opposite force firmly pressing against the user's hip, with the shoulder performing the pivoting function of a fulcrum. The shoulder mounted invention represents an ergonomic improvement over existing products by providing a totally hands-free experience coupled with a unique interface with the user's body. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328280 | FOCAL-PLANE SHUTTER AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT - A focal-plane shutter includes: a board including an opening; a leading blade and a trailing blade; a trailing blade lever; a first lever; a second lever; a self-holding type solenoid; a leading blade electromagnet and a trailing blade electromagnet; and a set lever. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328281 | LIGHT SCREENING APPARATUS AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - A light screening apparatus and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The light screening apparatus includes: a base plate including a first electrode; at least one material layer on the base plate; a rollup blade including a second electrode and configured to be disposed corresponding to a light transmitting portion of the base plate; a driving unit configured to be electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a sticking prevention structure which prevents sticking between the rollup blade and the material layer. The sticking prevention structure may refer to a surface structure of at least one of the rollup blade and the material layer or a sticking prevention layer or a sticking prevention pattern which is additionally formed on at least one of an outer circumference surface of the rollup blade and a surface of the material layer. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328282 | Network Restoration Under Link or Node Failure Using Preconfigured Virtual Cycles - The design of telecommunication networks is such that there is provision of end-to-end path protection to multiple demands under a single link or node failure in the networks. Restoration routes are provided on Preconfigured Virtual Cycles (PVC's), where each demand is assigned one restoration route and specific restoration wavelengths on a segment of one cycle. Multiple demands may share restoration wavelengths, and the number of restoration wavelengths may vary among the PVC links. First, a plurality of candidate PVC's are generated where each demand may be assigned to multiple candidates. Assignment of demands with common failure scenarios are allowed, under certain conditions, to the same PVC. Next, a set of PVC's is selected from among the candidates, while minimizing total reserved restoration capacity and ensuring that all demands are protected. Next duplicate assignments are eliminated. Finally, conflicts of wavelength assignments are resolved. The invention focuses primarily on optical networks. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328283 | Predictive End-To-End Management For Sonet Networks - A system and method is disclosed that allows for the monitoring, analyzing and reporting on performance, availability and quality of optical network paths. The correlation of PM parameter metrics to client connections, coupled with threshold-based alarm generation provides a proactive and predictive management, reporting and analyzing of the health and effectiveness of individual path connections to alert Operational Support (OS) staff and/or customers to signal degradation and impending Network Element (NE) failures. The system and method performs in real-time processing intervals required for alarm surveillance in a telecommunications network. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328284 | OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING APPARATUS - An optical packet switching apparatus includes an optical coupler for branching off a received optical packet signal, an optical switch unit for switching the route of one of the branched-off optical packet signals so as to be outputted, and an optical switch control unit for controlling the optical switch unit. The optical switch control unit includes an optical-to-electrical conversion unit for converting the other of the branched-off optical packet signals into an electrical packet signal, a serial/parallel conversion unit capacitively coupled to the optical-to-electrical conversion unit, a packet density detector for detecting the packet density of the received packet signal, and a DC offset adjustment unit for adjusting the DC offset voltage of the packet signal, inputted to the serial/parallel conversion unit, according to the packet density information detected by the packet density detector. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328285 | INTELLIGENT OPTICAL MODULE CAPABLE OF RESTARTING REMOTELY FROM HOST SYSTEM - An intelligent optical module to restart itself according to a command sent from the host system is disclosed. The optical module may distinguish the first state, where no optical signal is received, from the second state, where a substantial optical signal but unmodulated is received. The optical module is restarted when the second state appears with a preset pattern. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328286 | System and Method for Calculating Utilization Entropy - A system and method are provided for monitoring traffic in a network comprising a plurality of links, wherein each of the plurality of links comprises a plurality of neighboring pairs of slots. The system and method may include identifying a first usage status and a second usage status, calculating a utilization entropy value based at least on the difference between the first and second usage status, iteratively calculating a set of utilization entropy values for a portion of the network, and calculating an overall utilization entropy value for the portion of the network under analysis based at least on a statistical analysis of the set of utilization entropy values. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328287 | WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK APPARATUS AND METHODS OF CONFIGURATION | 2012-12-27 |
20120328288 | METHOD FOR AGGREGATING MULTIPLE CLIENT SIGNALS INTO A GENERIC FRAMING PROCEDURE (GFP) PATH - Used bandwidth counts for each of multiple client streams are maintained. A used bandwidth count for a client stream is increased when data from the client stream is put in a Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) frame onto the GFP path and is decreased once every time period by allocated bandwidth credits value. The used bandwidth count for a client stream is compared with a bandwidth limit before sending data in the client stream in a GFP frame onto the GFP path. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328289 | Devices, Systems and Methods for Run-Time Reassignment of a PHY to MAC Devices Interconnect - Devices, systems and methods for run-time reassignment of the interconnection between devices pertaining to a Physical (PHY) layer and devices pertaining to a Media Access Control (MAC) layer, with no packet loss or with at most one packet lost are provided. The strategies employed by these devices, systems and methods used REMOTE FAULT, PAUSE and IDLE PATTERN messages. The devices may be interconnected via a reconfigurable optical crossbar. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328290 | QUANTUM COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A quantum communication system comprising a receiver and a plurality of transmitters, said receiver comprising a detector sub-system, each of said transmitters being configured to emit pulses of radiation, said detector subsystem comprising at least one detector, said detector being configured to detect said light pulses, the system comprising a timing control module, said timing control module being configured to control the number of light pulses received by the detector sub-system, such that just one light pulse from one transmitter reaches the detector sub-system at any one time, the timing control module also allowing the transmitter which sent said pulse to be identified. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328291 | Optical Wavelength Selective Switch Calibration System - Described herein are systems and methods of enhancing channel bandwidth in an optical system having a number of wavelength selective switching (WSS) devices. The method includes the steps of passing the optical signals through the WSS devices by: (i) spatially dispersing the wavelength channels of the optical signals; (ii) projecting the spatially dispersed channels onto corresponding predetermined regions of an optical manipulation matrix including a plurality of individually addressable manipulating elements; (iii) determining a modification function that specifies a state for each manipulating element within the predetermined region; and (iv) driving the elements of the corresponding regions at states specified by the function to selectively modify the channel band shape such that the received channel's bandwidth is substantially enhanced, and to spatially direct the wavelength channels to predetermined output ports of the WSS devices. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328292 | ELECTRICAL SIGNAL PACKET ROUTING - A packet switch | 2012-12-27 |
20120328293 | Remote Node and Network Architecture and Data Transmission Method for a Fiber-Optic Network, Especially for Low Bit-Rate Data Transmission - The invention relates to a remote node architecture for a fiber-optic network, especially for low bit-rate data transmission, the fiber-optic network comprising a central node and a plurality of remote nodes serially connected to each other or to the central node, respectively, the central node and the remote node being capable of communicating by means of digital optical signals created by the central node or a respective remote node, each digital optical signal comprising a data frame. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328294 | HIGH SPEED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE - A system may include one or more single-mode optical fibers that connect an optical line terminal at a central office to an input cable of an optical splitter in a fiber distribution hub, and one or more dispersion compensating optical fibers that connect an output cable of the optical splitter to an optical network terminal at customer premises. The one or more single-mode optical fibers, the optical splitter, and the one or more dispersion compensating optical fibers may form a communication path, for an optical signal, from the optical line terminal at the central office to the optical network terminal at the customer premises, When the optical signal travels from the optical line terminal at the central office to the optical splitter over the one or more single-mode optical fibers, the optical signal may gain positive dispersion. When the optical signal travels from the optical splitter to the optical network terminal at the customer premises, the optical signal may gain negative dispersion that partially or fully cancels the positive dispersion that the optical signal has gained over the one or more single-mode optical fibers. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328295 | Optical Fiber Communication System and Methods for Optical Fiber Communication - An optical fiber communication system is provided, including a central office and an optical network unit. The central office generates a first downstream signal and a second downstream signal according to a radio frequency signal and a baseband signal, respectively. The optical network unit is coupled to the central office to receive the first downstream signal and the second downstream signal through a first fiber and a second fiber different from the first fiber, respectively, such that the optical network unit only modulates the second downstream signal to generate an upstream signal and then delivers the upstream signal to the central office through the first fiber, thereby decreasing signal Rayleigh backscatter noise. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328296 | Optical Spectrum Recovery - The invention is directed to systems and methods for re-arranging optical spectrum utilization so that unallocated portions of the spectrum may be made contiguous. Rearrangement of optical spectrum is accomplished by moving a channel from its initial spectral location to a targeted spectral location by reserving additional spectrum for that channel that at least includes the targeted spectral location, shifting the channel to the targeted location and then collapsing the reserved spectrum around the targeted location to cover the minimal required spectrum for the channel allocation of the channel. In some cases, a secondary channel can be used as an alternate source to carry user traffic while the first channel is shifted to the targeted location. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328297 | SUPERIMPOSED SIGNAL DETECTION CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL NODE EQUIPMENT - A superimposed signal detection circuit detects a signal superimposed on an optical signal in a WDM system. The superimposed signal detection circuit includes: an optical filter having wavelength-dependent loss to filter a plurality of optical signals on which a corresponding superimposed signal is superimposed by frequency modulation; a photo detector to convert the plurality of optical signals filtered by the optical filter into an electric signal; and a detector to obtain information indicated by the superimposed signal respectively superimposed on the plurality of optical signals from the electric signal obtained by the photo detector. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328298 | PHASE SHIFTER AND PHOTONIC CONTROLLED BEAM FORMER FOR PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS - A beam forming antenna device emitting a predetermined free space energy pattern, the device including: an optical signal source having predetermined wavelength characteristics; an optical modulator for modulating predetermined wavelengths of the optical signal source to produce a modulated signal source including frequency sideband components; a dispersion element for spreading and projecting the modulated signal source in a wavelength dependant manner onto a relative phase manipulation element; a relative phase manipulation element manipulating the relative phase of the modulated signal source in a predetermined manner, said phase manipulation element further amplitude modulating predetermined wavelengths of said modulated signal source and outputting a predetermined groupings of wavelengths on a series of output ports; optical to electrical conversion means converting the amplitude of the optical signal on said output ports to a corresponding electrical signal; and a series of irradiating antenna elements connected to each corresponding electrical signal for radiating a corresponding free space signal to substantially produce said predetermined free space energy pattern. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328299 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR OPTICAL CONTROL OF LIGHTING DEVICES - A lighting apparatus includes at least one light emitting device configured to receive an optical signal from a source external to the lighting apparatus and a control circuit coupled to the at least one light emitting device and configured to adjust a light output of the at least one light emitting device responsive to the received optical signal. The at least one light-emitting device may include at least one light-emitting diode (LED) configured to receive the optical signal, and the control circuit may include a detector circuit coupled to the at least one LED and configured to detect the received optical signal. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328300 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LEARNING REMOTE CONTROL COMMANDS - Described herein are various techniques for transferring command codes between multiple remote controls. A first controlled device receives a signal from a remote control associated with a second controlled device. The signal is associated with a command for the second controlled device. The first controlled device receives user input, assigning the command to a selected button of a second remote control. The first controlled device transmits a message to the second remote control. The message includes information utilized by the second remote control to reproduce the signal responsive to actuation of the selected button, allowing the second remote control to generate the command for the second controlled device. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328301 | DIGITAL RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transceiver architecture for wireless base stations wherein a broadband radio frequency signal is carried between at least one tower-mounted unit and a ground-based unit via optical fibers, or other non-distortive media, in either digital or analog format. Each tower-mounted unit (for both reception and transmission) has an antenna, analog amplifier and an electro-optical converter. The ground unit has ultrafast data converters and digital frequency translators, as well as signal linearizers, to compensate for nonlinear distortion in the amplifiers and optical links in both directions. In one embodiment of the invention, at least one of the digital data converters, frequency translators, and linearizers includes superconducting elements mounted on a cryocooler. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328302 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, INFORMATION SENDING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECEIVING DEVICE, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, INFORMATION SENDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information transmission system is constituted by: an information sending device including a light emitting section that emits light in a plurality of colors, a modulating section that modulates information to be transmitted into signals composed of changes in color, and a light emission control section that controls the light emitting section to emit light while changing color temporally based on the signals generated by the modulating section; and a receiving device including a camera that captures an image having color, and a control and communication section that detects a temporal color change of the light emitting section emitting light by light emission control by the information transmitting device, from images consecutively captured by the camera, decodes the detected color change into information, and outputs the generated information to a display section. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328303 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE HAVING ELECTRICAL BOND PADS THAT ARE PROTECTED BY A PROTECTIVE COATING, AND A METHOD FOR APPLYING THE PROTECTIVE COATING - A protective coating encapsulates bond pads disposed on a substrate of an optical communications module and extends in between the bond pads. The protective coating has characteristics that ( | 2012-12-27 |
20120328304 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An optical transmission system for optically transmitting information between apparatuses via an optical transmission path. The system includes: a sending unit that emits, to the optical transmission path, excitation light for detecting an inter-apparatus connection via the path; a responding unit that receives the excitation light from the path and emits detection light to the path using light energy of the excitation light; a response receiving unit that receives the detection light from the path and outputs a detection light current; a detecting unit that detects presence/absence of the inter-apparatus connection based on the detection light current; a light signal transmitting unit that emits, to the path, a light signal for optically transmitting the information based on the detection result by the detecting unit; and a light signal receiving unit that receives the light signal from the path. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328305 | FORWARD CARRIER RECOVERY USING FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION (FEC) FEEDBACK - A system receive, from an optical receiver, a signal derived from a first optical signal and a second optical signal generated by a local oscillator, that includes a first component that is an in-phase component and a second component that is a quadrature phase component; filter the signal, using a filter, set to one or more configurations, to obtain one or more recovered signals, where each of the recovered signals includes a respective quantity of noise; perform forward error correction, on the recovered signals, to obtain one or more quantities of bit errors that correspond to the recovered signals; and process the signal using the filter set to a particular configuration, of the one or more configurations, that corresponds to a lowest quantity of bit errors of the one or more quantities of bit error. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328306 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND METHOD THEREFOR - A management server stores stock information on a toner collection box in an image forming apparatus and updates, if a notification received from the image forming apparatus indicates that the toner collection box is full or close to full, the stored stock information of the toner collection box. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328307 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATION UNIT, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DEVELOPER SUPPLY CONTAINER - A developer accommodation unit includes a developer accommodation part that accommodates a developer, an opening part that communicates with the developer accommodation part, a shutter member that is movable between an opened position and a closed position with respect to the opening part, a rotation body that is provided rotatable in the developer accommodation part, and a drive force transmission mechanism that transmits a drive force to the rotation body so that the rotation body rotates. The drive force transmission mechanism includes an engagement mechanism by which the drive force is transmitted to the rotation body when the shutter member is in the opened position. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328308 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND FIXING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section configured to form a toner image on a medium, a fixing device including a heating member configured to heat the medium and a pressurizing member configured to come into contact with the heating member via the medium and heat the medium, and a control section configured to stop, if the temperatures of the heating member and the pressurizing member deviate from a predetermined temperature range, the image forming operation, separate the heating member and the pressurizing member, and control the respective temperatures within the predetermined temperature range. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328309 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes image forming portions provided along a movement direction of a recording material conveying member or an intermediary transfer member and including a first portion and a second portion provided downstream of the first portion with respect to the movement direction; a detecting portion for detecting information on a developer deterioration state at the first portion; a storing portion for storing a relationship between a detection result of the detecting portion and an amount of the developer to be back-transferred at the second portion; and an outputting device for outputting a signal relating to an amount of the developer accommodated in the accommodating portion at the second portion on the basis of the detection result of the detecting portion, the relationship stored in the storing portion, and information on the developer used for image formation at each of the first and second portions. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328310 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus comprising image forming units, an image bearing member for bearing images, a table indicative of a correspondence relationship between temperature and an amount of a color misregistration. A pattern detection unit detects color registration patterns on the image bearing member. A calculation unit calculates the amount of the color misregistration based on the detection result of the patterns. A color registration adjustment unit has a first mode in which color registration adjustment is performed based on the amount of the color misregistration, and a second mode in which the amount of the color misregistration is predicted based on temperature using the table and the color registration adjustment is performed based on the predicted amount. An updating unit makes the image forming units form the color registration patterns when the temperature reaches a predetermined temperature, and updates the table based on the amount of the color misregistration. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328311 | APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ENGAGING AND DISENGAGING A FIXING NIP FOR CUT SHEET PROCESSING - A fixing device includes a first fixing member a second fixing member that are movable to engage and disengage a fixing nip defined by the first and second fixing member. The fixing nip is disengaged to accommodate entry and exit of a cut sheet, and engaged to accommodate warm-pressure fixing a marking material image to the cut sheet. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328312 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH SPECTRAL DATA DETECTION UNIT - An apparatus includes a unit configured to judge a border between two patch images among a plurality of patch images formed on the recording material, based on change in the amount of the light beam of at least one noticed wavelength detected by a detection unit; a unit configured to calculate a color value of a patch image from the amount of the light beam of each wavelength detected by the detection unit; and a control unit configured to control an accumulation period of charge for the photoelectric conversion at the detection unit. The control unit is further configured to make the accumulation period of the detection unit shorter when judging the border between the two patch images than when calculating the color value of each of the two patch images. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328313 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - An image forming apparatus includes a magnetic roller voltage applier for a magnetic roller, a developing roller voltage applier for a developing roller and a controller for controlling the appliers. The controller controls the magnetic roller voltage applier to apply, to the magnetic roller, a first voltage for forcibly conveying a thin layer of toner held on the developing roller toward the magnetic roller for a first period required for one turn of the developing roller, and controls the developing roller voltage applier to apply, to the developing roller, a second voltage for causing toner on the developing roller to fly onto the image carrier for a second period when at least the forcible consumption electrostatic latent image faces a facing portion between the developing roller and the magnetic roller. At least parts of the first period and the second period are overlapped with each other. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328314 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including an image forming device, a transfer device, a fixing device, an inverting device, and a processor. The transfer device includes an intermediate transfer member, a nip forming member, and an electric potential difference generator to generate an electric potential difference between the intermediate transfer member and the nip forming member. The processor causes the electric potential difference generator to generate a first electric potential difference containing only a DC component when a toner image is transferred onto a first side of a recording sheet, and to generate a second electric potential difference containing a DC component and a superimposed AC component when the toner image is transferred onto a second side of the recording sheet. The second electric potential difference has an averaged absolute value per unit of time smaller than an absolute value of the first electric potential difference. | 2012-12-27 |
20120328315 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND TRANSFER METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image onto a recording medium; a power supply unit configured to output one of an alternating-current-based voltage including at least an alternating-current voltage and a direct-current voltage to the transfer unit; and a power supply control unit configured to cause the power supply unit to start switching to the alternating-current-based voltage a first time after the power supply unit stops outputting the direct-current voltage in the case that output of the power supply unit is switched to the alternating-current-based voltage, and cause the power supply unit to start switching to the direct-current voltage a second time after the power supply unit stops outputting the alternating-current-based voltage in the case that output of the power supply unit is switched to the direct-current voltage. The second time is longer than the first time. | 2012-12-27 |