52nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140376847 | BEARING ASSEMBLY FOR ROCK DRILL - A bearing assembly for a rock drill includes a housing and a bearing. The housing includes a cylindrical tail portion and a head portion having a multi-sided outer surface configured to inhibit a rotation of the bearing assembly relative to the rock drill. The bearing is positioned within the housing and configured to receive a rotatable component of the rock drill. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376848 | Arrangement of a wheel hub connected to a constant velocity joint provided with a flexible seal device - An arrangement including a portion of a radially outer lateral surface of an inner ring of wheel hub on which an annular step is formed on the side of a constant velocity joint. The step is an L-shaped fold of a sleeve portion of a first shield that is protrudingly mounted, a flange portion of which shield radially extends so as to protrude towards an outer ring of a wheel hub, in front of a flange portion of a second shield; the L-shaped fold defines, with a wing thereof, a tubular element arranged straddling wheel hub and an outer ring of the constant velocity joint, which has a free end supporting an annular seal; an annular signal generating insert completely covers a face of the flange portion where it is provided with a shallow recess defining, together with the L-shaped fold, a thrust shoulder for mounting the first shield. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376849 | THERMO-ELECTRIC POWER HARVESTING BEARING CONFIGURATION - A power generating bearing assembly ( | 2014-12-25 |
20140376850 | CAGE FOR ROLLING BEARING - A cage for a rolling bearing is coupled to a rolling bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements rolling between the inner ring and the outer ring to keep intervals of the plurality of rolling elements, wherein the plurality of rolling elements include bodies coupled along a circumference thereof at predetermined intervals, wherein each of the bodies includes a first piece and a second piece which are attachable to each other and detachable from each other. A first coupler and a second coupler configured to be capable of being coupled to each other are respectively formed at the first piece and the second piece, and the first piece and the second piece are primarily coupled by means of a coupling force of the first coupler and the second coupler. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376851 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An optical semiconductor device includes a ring waveguide, and a serpentine waveguide configured to be optically connected to the ring waveguide and surround at least a part of the ring waveguide in a serpentine form. In the optical semiconductor device, the serpentine waveguide heats the ring waveguide by absorbing input light propagated from the ring waveguide to the serpentine waveguide. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376852 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTER HAVING A LOW ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT - A semiconductor electro-optical phase shifter may include a central zone configured to be placed in an optical waveguide and doped at a first conductivity type, a first lateral zone adjacent a first face of the central region and doped at a second conductivity type, and a second lateral zone adjacent a second face of the central zone and doped at the second conductivity type. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376853 | MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER TYPE OPTICAL MODULATOR - A Mach-Zehnder interferometer type optical modulator includes a first end facet and a reflecting portion opposing the first end facet; a single optical coupler including input and output ports, the optical coupler being disposed between the first end facet and the reflecting portion; first and second optical waveguides that are connected to the input ports of the optical coupler; third and fourth optical waveguides that are connected to the output ports of the optical coupler; and a phase shifting section disposed between the optical coupler and the reflecting portion. The phase shifting section includes a first optical waveguide structure constituting part of the third optical waveguide; a first upper electrode on the first optical waveguide structure; a second optical waveguide structure constituting part of the fourth optical waveguide; and a second upper electrode on the second optical waveguide structure. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376854 | DEVICE FOR NON-LINEAR SIGNAL CONVERSION BY FOUR-WAVE MIXING - A device for non-linear conversion of first infrared signal into a second infrared signal with a wavelength that is less than that of the first infrared signal by means of four-wave mixing, which includes at least one portion of SiGe arranged on at least one first layer of material with a refractive index which is less than that of silicon, a germanium concentration in the portion of SiGe which varies continuously between a first value and a second value which is greater than the first value, in a direction which is approximately perpendicular to a face of the first layer on which the portion of SiGe is arranged, and in which a summital part of the portion of SiGe where the germanium concentration is equal to the second value is in contact with a gas and/or a material with a refractive index which is less than that of the silicon. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376855 | APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE FIBER OPTICAL CHANNEL MONITORING AND CHANNEL REPLICATION OF WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED (WDM) SIGNALS - An apparatus for selective fiber optical channel monitoring and channel replication of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals is constructed by combining a dispersive element, such as an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), with a multiplicity of simple 1×1 optical switches and either an optical splitter/combiner or a second AWG. In operation, each optical channel in a WDM group may be sequentially monitored or replicated. When this apparatus is preceded by an N×1 optical switch, any optical channel on any one of N input optical fibers to the switch may be selected for monitoring or replication. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376856 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION FOR STACKED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An optical interconnection for a stacked integrated circuit, is provided. The optical interconnection includes: an optical transmission unit disposed in a first layer and an optical receiving unit disposed in a second layer, different from the first layer, and spaced apart from the optical transmission unit by a predetermined gap. The optical transmission unit includes a first optical antenna that outputs light; the optical receiving unit includes a second optical antenna which receives light transmitted from the optical transmission unit. At least one of the first and second optical antennas includes a plurality of nanostructures configured to transmit or receive an optical signal. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376857 | PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND FABRICATION PROCESS - A photonic integrated circuit may include a silicon layer including a waveguide and at least one other photonic component. The photonic integrated circuit may also include a first insulating region arranged above a first side of the silicon layer and encapsulating at least one metallization level, a second insulating region arranged above a second side of the silicon layer and encapsulating at least one gain medium of a laser source optically coupled to the waveguide. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376858 | Self-Alignment Due to Wettability Difference of an Interface - Some embodiments relate to a method of processing a workpiece. The workpiece includes a first surface region having a first wettability coefficient, and a second surface region having a second wettability coefficient that differs from the first wettability coefficient. A liquid, which corresponds to an optical structure, is dispensed on the first and second surface regions of the workpiece, wherein the liquid self-aligns to the second surface region due to the difference between the first and second wettability coefficients. The self-aligned liquid is hardened to form the optical structure. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376859 | MULTI-LAYER PHOTOELECTRIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE WITH OVERLAPPING DEVICES - An integrated circuit device includes a plurality of device layers disposed on a substrate. A first one of the device layers includes at least one photo device and/or at least one electronic device and a second one of the device layers includes at least one photo device overlying the at least one photo device and/or the at least one electronic device of the first one of the device layers. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376860 | OPTICAL COUPLING MEMBER AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR - In order to position lenses and an optical fiber highly accurately while relaxing the assembly accuracy requirements, the present invention provides an optical coupling member having an optical fiber, a holding member that has an insertion hole formed at an end thereof for holding the optical fiber inserted via the insertion hole, and a plurality of ball lenses housed along an optical axis in a housing part formed at an opposite end of the holding member. The ball lenses are arranged in contact with each other and the optical fiber is arranged in contact with the ball lens that faces the optical fiber. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376861 | ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING, OPTICAL MODULE PROVIDED WITH SAID ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An arrayed waveguide grating provided with a first slab waveguide formed on a substrate; a second slab waveguide formed on the substrate; a first input/output waveguide connected to the first slab waveguide; a second input/output waveguide connected to the second slab waveguide; two or more channel waveguide groups connecting the first and second slab waveguides, each of the channel waveguide groups formed of an aggregate of a plurality of channel waveguides having path lengths sequentially becoming longer by a predetermined path length difference; and an optical filter arranged in at least one of the first and second slab waveguides. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376862 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO A SIDE-FIRE MEMBER HAVING A DOPED SILICA COMPONENT - In one embodiment, an apparatus may include an optical fiber that may have a surface non-normal to a longitudinal axis of a distal end portion of the optical fiber. The surface may define a portion of an interface configured to redirect electromagnetic radiation propagated from within the optical fiber and incident on the interface to a direction offset from the longitudinal axis. The apparatus may also include a doped silica cap that may be fused to the optical fiber such that the surface of the optical fiber may be disposed within a cavity defined by the doped silica cap. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376863 | QUICK RELEASE CONNECTION - Systems and methods are disclosed that include a fiber optic connection with an alignment chamber. In the alignment chamber is a first fiber optic terminal and a second fiber optic terminal coupled to the first fiber optic terminal. In addition, a securing mechanism is placed within the alignment chamber and forces the first fiber optic terminal and second fiber optic terminal together. Also in this embodiment an ejection mechanism is disclosed that ejects the first fiber optic terminal upon the removal of the securing mechanism. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376864 | PLUG-IN DEVICE FOR CONNECTING OPTICAL AND/OR ELECTRONIC CONNECTORS AND THE METHOD FOR THIS CONNECTING - The locking insertion mechanism ( | 2014-12-25 |
20140376865 | FIBER OPTIC CONNECTORS HAVING A TRANSLATING TRAY ALONG WITH CABLE ASSEMBLIES USING THE CONNECTORS - Embodiments disclosed herein include fiber optic connectors that include a tray that translates from a retracted position to an extended position along with cable assemblies using the connector and methods for making the same. In one embodiment, the connector includes a housing, a fiber optic body having an optical interface with at least one optical channel, at least one optical fiber in optical communication with the at least one optical channel of the optical interface, a tray that is movable between a first position that retracts the tray into the housing and a second position where the tray extends from the housing, wherein the fiber optic body is essentially stationary with respect to the tray, and an actuator for moving the tray between the first position and the second position. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376866 | OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL CABLE - An optical fiber includes a core, a clad and a coating layer. The core is made of glass, has a higher refractive index than that of the clad, and can guide propagating light. The clad surrounding the core is made of glass or plastic. The coating layer surrounding the clad is made of plastic. The core has a diameter d1 of from 70 to 105 μm. The clad has a diameter d2 of from 80 to 130 μm. The glass has a diameter of from 70 to 130 μm. The coating layer has a thickness t3 of from 12.5 to 85 μm. The optical fiber has an effective numerical aperture NA of from 0.28 to 0.35. The optical fiber of this embodiment has a transmission loss of 20 dB/km or smaller and a transmission bandwidth of 40 MHz·km or larger at an 850-nm wavelength. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376867 | OPTICAL FIBER COATING FOR SHORT DATA NETWORK - A hybrid cladding for optical fibers used in short data networks. The hybrid cladding surrounds a glass waveguide fiber and is surrounded by a primary coating. The hybrid cladding has low adhesion to the primary coating. The low adhesion permits stripping of the primary coating from the hybrid cladding without damaging the hybrid cladding and without leaving residue of the primary coating on the surface of the hybrid cladding. The hybrid cladding may be formed by curing a composition that includes a monomer with a radiation-curable functional group, a slip component, and a photoinitiator. The radiation-curable functional group may be a (meth)acrylate group. The slip component may contain silicon or silicone and may further contain a radiation-curable functional group. Silicone di(meth)acrylate is an illustrative slip component. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376868 | HIGHLY TRANSMISSIVE GLASSES WITH HIGH SOLARISATION RESISTANCE, USE THEREOF AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - Glasses are provided that are highly transparent and have very good resistance to solarisation. The resistance to solarisation is favoured to a special extent by the production method. The concentrations of reduced polyvalent ion species are reduced by targeted use of bubbling with an oxidising gas. Methods for producing glasses and to the uses thereof, particularly as core glasses in optical waveguides, are also provided. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376869 | OPTICAL FIBER INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF SUB-CORE AREAS - An optical fiber is provided. The optical fiber includes a core located at the center of the optical fiber and having a maximum refractive index in the optical fiber, and a cladding located at a circumference of the core and having a refractive index lower than that of the core. The core has a structure in which sub-core areas having the refractive index higher than those of adjacent sub-core areas and sub-core areas having the refractive index lower than those of adjacent sub-core areas are alternately repeated. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376870 | PATCH PANEL PIVOTING TRAY CABLE RETENTION MECHANISMS - A system may facilitate access to communication connectors that are supported within a housing. The system may include one or more of the devices, which each include a connection means supporting the connectors. The system may also include a device that manages, e.g., guides and supports cables that are operatively coupled to the connectors. The patch panel device may have at least one tray engageable with the housing and having a first position within the housing and a second position pulled out of the housing. A proximal arm may have a proximal segment pivotably coupled to a distal segment. The proximal and distal segments may be pivotably coupled to the tray and the housing, respectively. The system may include a cable retainer configured to guide the cables. As the tray transitions from the first position to the second position, the tray is capable of rotating with respect to the housing. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376871 | FIBER OPTIC ENCLOSURE WITH TEAR-AWAY SPOOL - A fiber optic enclosure includes a housing and a cable spool assembly disposed on an exterior surface of the housing. The cable spool assembly has a first tear-away end and a second tear-away end. The first and second tear-away ends include at least one area of weakness extending from an inner diameter of the cable spool assembly to an outer diameter of the cable spool assembly. A mounting plate is rotationally engaged with the cable spool assembly such that the cable spool assembly and the housing selectively and unitarily rotate about an axis of the mounting plate. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376872 | VIDEO AND TEXT INTEGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFICIAL RECORDINGS - A system for providing an official recording of a legal proceedings includes one or more computer systems, a stenographic machine, a video recording device, and an audio recording device. Text file input from the stenographic machine is synchronized with video and audio data and delivered to appropriate parties. Starting and stopping of recording may be controlled based on outputs of the stenographic machine. A separate start/stop device may be coupled to a computer system recording video and audio and storing it locally. The start/stop device may provide visible and/or audible signals indicating when recording is occurring. Real-time concurrent display of textual data from the stenographic machine with video and/or audio data being received may also be provided. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376873 | VIDEO-AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO-AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD - A video-audio processing device including a video output unit, an audio output unit, an audio transmitting unit, a controlling unit which switches an operation mode between (a) a first mode in which the audio signal is outputted from the audio output unit and the audio signal is transmitted from the audio transmitting unit and (b) a second mode in which the video signal is outputted from the video output unit and the audio signal is transmitted from the audio transmitting unit, a receiving unit which receives an input of delay information indicating an audio delay amount during the first mode, an audio delaying unit which delays the audio signal according to the audio delay amount, and a video delaying unit which delays the video signal by a video delay amount that is in accordance with the audio delay amount during the second mode. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376874 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR LIVE EVENT, REAL-TIME, 3D OBJECT TRACKING - A system for automatically providing event non-video information usable for indexing event video information, where the event takes place at an event location for a duration of event time. The system includes a non-video information system for receiving or determining event non-video information and storing the non-video information in a non-video dataset, a video information system for receiving event video information captured by one or more filming cameras and storing the video information in a video dataset, and a video information retrieval system for randomly accessing the video dataset, where the random access includes: (a) using event non-video information to first determine an event time or duration of event time, and (b) using the determined event time or duration of event time to selectively access, retrieve, or provide event video information including one or more video images of the event. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376875 | IMAGING APPARATUS - There has been a problem that continuous recording of monitoring data may be impeded by inconsistency in setting values, occurring due to changes in settings of an imaging unit or compression encoding unit performed while recording. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376876 | MOTION EVENT RECOGNITION AND VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Enables recognition of events within motion data obtained from portable wireless motion capture elements and video synchronization of the events with video as the events occur or at a later time, based on location and/or time of the event or both. May use integrated camera or external cameras with respect to mobile device to automatically generate generally smaller event videos of the event on the mobile device or server. Also enables analysis or comparison of movement associated with the same user, other user, historical user or group of users. Provides low memory and power utilization and greatly reduces storage for video data that corresponds to events such as a shot, move or swing of a player, a concussion of a player, or other medical related events or events, such as the first steps of a child, or falling events. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376877 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a recording control unit that changes time intervals of frame images in a process target image, the frame images being to be recorded, on the basis of detection results of events corresponding to the frame images, which are images corresponding to respective frames of the process target image, which is a moving image generated by imaging. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376878 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A display device includes a display unit that reproduces motion image data, and provides mode information indicating a mode of reproduction of the motion image data; a storage unit that stores a criterion for aborting a reproduction of motion image data reproduced by the display unit according to a mode of reproduction of motion image data; and a determination unit that, in response to a request for aborting a reproduction of motion image data reproduced by the display unit, determines whether to abort the reproduction of the motion image data based on a criterion for aborting a reproduction of motion image data stored in the storage unit according to the mode of reproduction indicated by the mode information. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376879 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importance level of each chapter is set in accordance with a result of the face recognizing process for a very important person (VIP) set by a user, and each chapter having a relevant importance level among importance levels of respective chapters is selectively reproduced. A user can therefore find an object chapter and scene quickly and easily. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376880 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - An image display system and a display method thereof are provided. The image display system includes an optical disc having image information thereon, an image display device having extended display identification data (EDID), and a reproduction device to analyze the EDID to determine an interface to connect with the image display device, if the image information is three-dimensional (3D) image information, and instruct the image display device to output an alarm text, if the interface is an analog. When the interface is an analog interface, the reproduction device may output an analog two-dimensional (2D) image or 3D image through the image display device. Even when the image display device and the reproduction device are interconnected via an analog interfaces, a 2D or 3D image may be output based on the 3D image information. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376881 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD OF VIDEO SIGNAL - Provided is a display apparatus including a first signal receiving unit that receives a non-compressed video signal from an external device via a first transmission path through a plurality of channels by means of a differential signal, an image display unit that displays images by processing the video signal received by the first signal receiving unit, a second signal receiving unit that receives a compressed video signal of a same video source as the non-compressed video signal by using a bi-directional communication path configured by predetermined lines of the first transmission path, and a signal transmitting unit that transmits a compressed video signal corresponding to the compressed video signal received by the second signal receiving unit to another external device different from the external device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376882 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH VIDEO ANALYZING FUNCTION AND VIDEO ANALYZING METHOD - A computer-implemented video analyzing method includes dividing a video into a plurality of sections. The similarity value of the first frame and the last frame of each section is greater than zero. A representative frame is selected from each section, and the similarity value of each two representative frames is computed. Two sections the similarity of whose representative frames is the greatest are combined into one section. The recording time of the first frame and the recording time of the last frame of each section is determined if the similarity value of representative frames of each two adjacent sections is zero. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376883 | Online Video Distribution - Online video can now be supplied with hyperlinks that are associated with and move with objects in the video. However, online video players tend not to report an accurate frame number, and this results in poor synchronisation of the movement of the hyperlink and the object. We propose that a subset of the pixels in the frame be used to encode a numeric frame identifier. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376884 | Storing Same Channel Overlapping Recordings - First media segments for a first media program are recorded. The first media program is scheduled to start at a first start time and end at a first end time, whereas a second media program is scheduled to start at a second start time and end at a second end time, the first end time being after the second start time. It is determined whether the first media program and the second media program are on a same channel. If so, one or more shared media segments, one of which is before all other shared media segments in the shared media segments and begins no later than the first time, are recorded. A first media program object is generated to represent a first recording of the first media program, and includes references to the first media segments and the shared media segments. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376885 | METHOD FOR PLAYING VIDEO FILE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for playing audio out of a video file includes the following steps. Open a video file stored in a storage unit. Decode the opened video file. Separate the video file into video data and audio data wherein the audio data comprises a plurality of pieces of music data. A starting position and an ending position of each piece of music data is established and recorded by reference to the spectral characteristics. All indexed passages of music data are then playable according to the recorded starting and ending positions. An electronic device using the same is also provided. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376886 | SCENE CHANGE DETECTION FOR PERCEPTUAL QUALITY EVALUATION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES - There are provided a plurality of methods for detecting a scene change in a streamed video, the streamed video comprising a series of pictures. An example method comprises calculating, for a plurality of positions, a difference between the costs of coding macro-blocks at the same position in successive pictures. The method further comprises identifying a new scene when the sum of the differences for a plurality of positions meets a threshold criterion. There is further provided a method of determining the perceptual impact of a packet loss on a streamed video the method comprising: identifying a packet loss; and determining if the lost packet contained information relating to a picture at the start of a new scene, wherein a new scene is detected using one of the methods disclosed herein. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376887 | MOBILE DEVICE VIDEO SELECTION AND EDIT - In embodiments of mobile device video selection and edit, a mobile device includes an integrated digital camera that records video clips, and implements a video service that interfaces with the digital camera. A video capture user interface can be displayed that includes a selectable control to mark a video segment of a video clip while the video clip is being recorded or played back for viewing. A video select user interface can display portions of the video clips in a grid format with marked video segments identified by video segment selectors, which can be selected to increase or decrease the length of a marked video segment. A video arrange user interface can then display a list view of the marked video segments, as well as a shareable video compilation of the marked video segments. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376888 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIDEO STORAGE - Some embodiments of the present invention refer to an apparatus and method for managing video storages. The method may include periodically receiving parameters indicative of a level of performance of video storage units and detecting up-down states of the video storage units upon receipt of an instruction to record video data. The method may further include detecting writing rates and reading rates of video data associated with the storage units and selecting one of the video storage units to record the video data, based on the parameters received, the detected up-down states, the detected writing rates and the detected reading rates. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376890 | METHOD FOR BACKING UP DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHIC CONTENT - The present invention relates to a method for backing up digital cinematographic content, comprising the steps of: generating, from said content, a digital stream encoded in a compressed format, or having said digital stream already encoded in a compressed format; and recording said digital stream encoded in a compressed format onto a photographic film. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376891 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH PERFORMERS GENERATE CORRESPONDING PERFORMANCES - A system for providing an environment in which one or more performers are able to generate one or more corresponding performances which are mutually synchronized is provided. The system includes a server arrangement coupled via one or more communication networks to one or more computing devices of the performers. A given computing device is operable to receive one or more pre-recorded sessions from the server arrangement. The given computing device is then operable to replay the pre-recorded sessions whilst substantially temporally simultaneously recording an accompanying performance by at least one performer associated with the given computing device. Further, the system is operable to render at least one pre-recorded session and the accompanying performance mutually synchronized therewith. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376892 | DISPLAY DATA PROCESSOR AND DISPLAY DATA PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a display data processor includes a first acquisition module, at least one image quality change module, a second acquisition module, a controller, and an output module. The first acquisition module acquires display data for displaying video on a display screen. The at least one image quality change module performs processing to change image quality on the display data. The second acquisition module acquires data corresponding to the video and instructing pause of the video. The controller changes an operation of the at least one image quality change module based on the data acquired by the second acquisition module. The output module outputs one of the display data on which the processing is performed by the at least one of the image quality change modules and the display data that is acquired by the first acquisition module. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376893 | MOUNTING SYSTEMS FOR DIGITAL MEDIA PLAYERS - Mounting systems can allow users to couple a digital media player to a display screen. Some mount embodiments position the digital media player over the display screen. In several embodiments, the digital media player is positioned approximately horizontally such that the digital media player is oriented approximately parallel to the floor of the room while an arm supports the digital media player over the display screen. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376894 | Breastmilk Handling Apparatus Particularly Useful for Warming of Breastmilk Containers Such as Bottles and Syringes - The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376895 | DUAL-TUBE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE ATOMIZER - An atomizer of an electronic cigarette may have a double-layered shell body, a nozzle cap, an electronic wick, and a contact piece, wherein the double-layered shell body includes an outer tube, an inner tube, and an inner layer. The outer tube also has outer threads and the inner tube has inner threads, a recessed slot, an upper protruding portion and a lower protruding portion. The nozzle cap has an air hole, a nozzle and a threaded structure corresponding to the outer threads of the outer tube of the double-layered shell body. The electronic wick has a wick, a heating wire, leads and a filtering rod with a center through hole; while a contact piece has a wing-shaped elastic piece, an insulating spacer and a rivet, wherein the insulating spacer is used to separate the wing-shaped elastic piece and the rivet. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376896 | INTERNAL CHAMBER ROTATION MOTOR, ALTERNATIVE ROTATION - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a rotation device in an RTP chamber. The rotation device includes a cylindrical inner race, a plurality of thrust bearings and a plurality of radial bearings. During operation, the bearings create a gas cushion preventing the rotating parts from contacting the stationary parts. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376897 | LIGHT PIPE WINDOW STRUCTURE FOR THERMAL CHAMBER APPLICATIONS AND PROCESSES - A processing chamber is described. The processing chamber includes a chamber having an interior volume, a light pipe window structure coupled to the chamber, the light pipe window structure having a first transparent plate disposed within the interior volume of the chamber, and a radiant heat source coupled to a second transparent plate of the light pipe window structure in a position outside of the interior volume of the chamber, wherein the light pipe window structure includes a plurality of light pipe structures disposed between the first transparent plate and the second transparent plate. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376898 | ABSORBING REFLECTOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING CHAMBER - Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to a reflector for use in a thermal processing chamber. In one embodiment, the thermal processing chamber generally includes an upper dome, a lower dome opposing the upper dome, the upper dome and the lower dome defining an internal volume of the processing chamber, a substrate support disposed within the internal volume, and a reflector positioned above and proximate to the upper dome, wherein the reflector has a heat absorptive coating layer deposited on a side of the reflector facing the substrate support. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376899 | Cathodic Corrosion and Dry Fire Protection Apparatus and Methods for Electric Water Heaters - The metal tank portion of an electric water heater is protected against corrosion utilizing a corrosion protection system that detects a voltage potential between the sheath portion of a tank water-immersed electric heating element and the tank. In one embodiment of the corrosion protection system the sensed sheath/tank potential is utilized to enable a user of the water heater to accurately gauge the necessity of replacing a sacrificial anode extending into the tank. In another corrosion protection system, the sensed sheath/tank potential is utilized to provide impressed current cathodic protection of the tank and also to prevent dry firing of the electric water heater. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376900 | LONG STEP OUT DIRECT ELECTRIC HEATING ASSEMBLY - A subsea direct electrical heating assembly adapted to heat a hydrocarbon conducting steel pipeline ( | 2014-12-25 |
20140376901 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, CAMERA SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An illumination apparatus includes a main body, a movable unit, a first driving unit, a second driving unit, and a control unit. The movable unit is rotatable with respect to the main body and includes a light emitting unit and an optical member disposed in front of the light emitting unit to refract incident light. The first driving unit rotates the movable unit with respect to the main body. The second driving unit moves at least one of the light emitting unit and the optical member to change relative positions. Power is supplied to the second driving unit from a power source that supplies power to the first driving unit. The control unit controls a rotation operation performed using the first driving unit and a moving operation performed using the second driving unit so that the rotation operation is performed after the moving operation is performed. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376902 | SHIELD MODULE TRAVEL ENLARGING STRUCTURE - A shield module travel enlarging structure includes a front cover and a rear cover formed with opposite windows. The front and rear covers are assembled to form a module main body having an internal operation space. A shield is mounted in the operation space and movable between a position in alignment with the opposite windows and a position misaligned from the opposite windows. A transmission gear is mounted in the internal operation space of the module main body to cooperate with the shield. The transmission gear at least has a large-gear-ratio gear and a small-gear-ratio gear. The large-gear-ratio gear is drivingly engaged with the shield. A push member is drivingly engaged with the small-gear-ratio gear. When the push member is moved, via the transmission gear, the shield is slid by an enlarged travel. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376903 | Lens Cap with Integrated Storage Mechanism - Described is a lens cap with an integrated threaded screw that allows the cap to be stored on the camera securely without the use of any additional hardware. In one embodiment, a standard camera lens cap has a screw as found on standard male tripod mounts protruding from the front of the lens cap. When the camera is in use, the screw protruding from the lens cap may be used to secure the lens cap to the threaded female tripod mount found on the underside of most cameras. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376904 | FOCAL PLANE SHUTTER AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - A focal plane shutter includes: a board including an opening; a shutter opening and closing the opening; a drive source driving the shutter; a drive lever driven by the drive source; a drive arm connected to the drive lever and driving the shutter; a restriction portion defining a stop position of the drive lever; and a buffering member elastically deformable, wherein, when the drive lever drives, abuts the restriction portion, and stops, at least one of the drive arm and the shutter temporarily abuts the buffering member, is spaced from the buffering member, and stops. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376905 | FIBER LENGTH MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A system for measuring a length of one or more spans between a first optical transceiver and a second optical transceiver in a fiber-optic network, which can determine, at a processor associated with the first optical transceiver, a round-trip time of an optical signal communicated from the first optical transceiver to the second optical transceiver and back to the first optical transceiver. The system can also determine, at the processor, a half-round-trip time by dividing the round-trip time by two. The system can also determine, at the processor, a distance between the first and the second optical transceivers by multiplying the speed of light by the half-round-trip time. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376906 | DIRECT REFERENCE SUBTRACTION SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OF OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS - An optical measurement system configured to determine whether an optical transmitter signal requires calibration is disclosed. In an implementation, the system includes an optical transmitter configured to emit electromagnetic radiation in limited spectrums of wavelengths at amplitudes based upon one or more transmission signals, and an optical sensor configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation in the limited spectrums of wavelengths and to generate a signal in response thereto. The system includes reference current sources configured to generate a respective reference current and a switch configured to transition between a first configuration and a second configuration based upon the transmission signals. The reference currents are configured to subtract from the signal generated by the optical sensor such that a difference remains. A comparison device is configured to compare the difference portion to a reference signal and output a signal indicative of the direction in which an optical transmitter driver signal should be adjusted. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376907 | MITIGATION OF OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO DEGRADATION ARISING FROM POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS - Methods and systems for mitigating degradation of an optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) induced by polarization dependent loss (PDL) in an optical network include determining an increase in power (ΔP) corresponding to a PDL-induced decrease in OSNR for a given channel being transmitted over an optical signal transmission path. The increase in power (ΔP) may be adjusted for at least some of the network nodes in the optical signal transmission path. At certain network nodes, the increase in power (ΔP) may be realized with a combination of attenuation and gain. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A DUAL-POLARIZATION SIGNAL USING AN IN-BAND SUPERVISORY SIGNAL - Systems and method for monitoring an optical power of a dual-polarization signal are disclosed. The systems and methods may include measuring a first parameter set associated with a supervisory signal, the supervisory signal being communicated in-band with the dual-polarization signal; calculating a second parameter set from the first parameter set; calculating an intensity value from the second parameter set, the intensity value associated with one of the polarization states of the dual-polarization signal; and estimating a signal power associated with the supervisory signal from the intensity value. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376909 | Optical Channel Monitor With High Resolution Capability - Described herein is an optical channel monitor ( | 2014-12-25 |
20140376910 | APPARATUS FOR FIBER OPTIC PERTURBATION SENSING AND METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for fiber optic perturbation sensing, in which it is possible to easily confirm whether an intrusion is occurred, an intrusion position, and an intrusion object by dividing an optical signal output from the optical signal generation unit, progressing the divided optical signals to optical paths having different lengths, coupling the divided optical signals to generate an sensing optical signal, outputting the generated sensing optical signal to the sensing optical fiber, dividing the sensing optical signal returning from the sensing optical fiber, progressing the divided sensing optical signals to the optical paths having different lengths, and coupling the divided sensing optical signals to generate an interference sensing optical signal. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376911 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AND COMPENSATION OF BACK REFLECTIONS IN OPTICAL ACCES PON SYSTEMS - In a network terminal (ONU) of an optical network near end crosstalk (NEC) is compensated by a digital generated cancellation signal. To establish a connection with another terminal (OLT) signals avoiding NEC are transmitted and the compensation is performed while the power of the transmitted signal is increased in steps. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376912 | OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK - An optical access network comprises an optical line terminal and an optical network unit having a transmitter. An optical path connects an output of the transmitter of the optical network unit to the optical line terminal. The transmitter of the optical network unit is arranged to transmit an upstream signal with an amplitude modulation format having at least one level transition per data bit period for at least one of the logical bits and a frequency modulation occurring with the level transition. An optical filter is positioned in the optical path. A central wavelength of a response of the optical filter has an offset with respect to a wavelength of the upstream signal. The wavelength of the upstream signal is located on a slope of the response of the optical filter. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376913 | OPTICAL BRANCHING/SYNTHESIZING DEVICE - An optical branching/synthesizing device | 2014-12-25 |
20140376914 | FREE-SPACE OPTICAL MESH NETWORK - The disclosure provides a practical system and methods for implementing an adaptive free-space optical network with a high-connectivity, dynamic mesh topology. The network can have operational characteristics similar to those of RF mobile ad-hock networks. Each node has one or more optical terminals that may utilize space-time division multiplexing, which entails rapid spatial hopping of optical beams to provide a high dynamic node degree without incurring high cost or high size, weight, and power requirements. As a consequence the network rapidly sequences through a series of topologies, during each of which connected nodes communicate. Each optical terminal may include a plurality of dedicated acquisition and tracking apertures which can be used to increase the speed at which traffic links can be switched between nodes and change the network topology. An RF overlay network may be provided to act as a control plane and be used to provide node discovery and adaptive route planning for the optical network. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376915 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING BANDWIDTH IN AN OPTICAL NETWORK - Proposed is a method for allocating bandwidth in an optical network. A bandwidth grid containing first bandwidth slots of a lower bandwidth and higher bandwidth slots of a higher bandwidth is provided. A set of requests for respective data transmission connections with respective data rates and respective shortest path metrics is provided. Shorter distances, over which a data signal may be transmitted transparently at the respective data rate within the lower bandwidth, and longer distances, over which a data signal may be transmitted transparently at the respective data rate within the higher bandwidth, are provided. Bandwidth slots of the lower bandwidth for those of the data transmission connections, whose respective shortest path metric is smaller than their respective shorter distance, are allocated. Finally, bandwidth slots of the lower or the higher bandwidth are allocated for the further data transmission connections, using respective numbers of necessary OEO regenerations. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376916 | Method and Apparatus of Delivering Upstream Data in Ethernet Passive Optical Network Over Coaxial Network - An apparatus for interconnecting a fiber-optic network and a coax network comprising a coax line terminal (CLT) configured to couple to an optical line terminal (OLT) at the fiber-optic network and a plurality of coax network units (CNUs) at the coax network and to cache data received from the CNUs and forward the cached data to the OLT upon receiving a message from the OLT that assigns a transmission cycle for a specified CNU, wherein the CLT forwards the cached data to the OLT upon receiving the message regardless of whether the cached data corresponds to the specified CNU. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376917 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE COMPENSATION OF NONLINEAR CROSS POLARIZATION AND CROSS PHASE MODULATION IN DUAL POLARIZATION COHERENT CHANNELS - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for the compensation of signal distortion in fiber optic communication systems and the like. More specifically, the present disclosure provides an orthogonal polarization detection and broadband pilot (OPDBP) technique for the compensation of nonlinear cross polarization (i.e. nonlinear cross polarization modulation) (XPolM) induced noise and nonlinear nonlinear cross phase modulation (XPM) induced noise in a high data rate polarization multiplexed (PM) multilevel-quadrature amplitude modulated (M-QAM) channel due to neighboring channels. This approach allows for the compensation of both XPolM and XPM simultaneously, providing several dBs of optical reach extension. The approach uses a pilot tone based orthogonal polarization detection scheme with broadband (i.e. a few GHz wide) filtering of the pilot tones. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF COMPACT OPTICAL NODES USING WAVELENGTH EQUALIZING ARRAYS - Example embodiments of the present invention relate to An optical node comprising of at least two optical degrees; a plurality of directionless add/drop ports; and at least one wavelength equalizing array, wherein the at least one wavelength equalizing array is used to both select wavelengths for each degree, and to perform directionless steering for the add/drop ports. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376919 | Remote Control System and Method - A remote control system and method for controlling and interacting with a variety of devices and systems is disclosed. The system comprises at least one command server which is operable to receive control commands from a handheld communications device and to generate and transmit command signals in response to the received control commands, the transmitted command signals interacting with one or more devices controlled by the system. In one embodiment, the handheld communications device is operable to exchange data with an account server that maintains data and configuration information for the system and the devices to be controlled by it over a first communications modality. The handheld communications device transfers control commands and other data with the command server via a second communications modality and the handheld communications device can transfer data between the account server and the command server as needed. The system can support multiple devices to be controlled, multiple command servers, which can each be associated with one or more devices to be controlled, and multiple handheld communications devices. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376920 | NETWORK NODE AND A METHOD THEREIN ENABLING A FIRST UNIT TO CONNECT OR TO BE CONNECTED AD-HOC TO A SECOND UNIT - Embodiments herein relate to a method in a network node configured in an optical network for enabling a first unit to connect ad-hoc to a second unit in a system configured for remote radio units and main units. The network node receives a connection request from the first unit over the optical network. The network node establishes a connection, to the first unit, for retrieving control data. The network node stores control data regarding the first unit. The control data is retrieved from the first unit over the established connection and wherein the control data enables the first unit to connect/be connected ad-hoc to the second unit for transferring user data over a physical path through the optical network. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376921 | OPTICAL CHANNELIZER FOR W-BAND DETECTION - An optically-downconverting channelizer is disclosed for W-band detection. The channelizer includes an input waveguide configured to carry an inputted signal having a plurality of wavelengths including a desired wavelength and a plurality of ring resonators arranged in parallel and coupled at spaced apart locations along the input waveguide for receiving the inputted signal, wherein each of the plurality of ring resonators is configured to pass a selected wavelength signal to an output end. The channelizer further includes a control waveguide that carries a second signal having a wavelength that differs from the desired wavelength by a predetermined amount, and a plurality of detectors coupled to respective output ends of the ring resonators, the plurality of detectors configured to produce channelized RF output signals representative of desired RF bands. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376922 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information communication method that obtains information from a subject includes setting an exposure time of an image sensor that, in an image obtained, a bright line corresponding to each of a plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears, according to a change in luminance of the subject. A bright line image, in which the bright line is shown along with surroundings of the subject, is obtained by starting exposure of each of the exposure lines included in the image sensor at a sequentially different time. The bright line image is displayed and information is obtained when, in the bright line image, a part corresponding to the bright line is tapped, by demodulating data specified by a direction generally perpendicular to the exposure line in a pattern of the bright line corresponding to the tapped part. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376923 | Insert-Molded Transceiver Body with Heat Sink and Method Therefor - An insert-molded fiber optic transmission component has at least one insert and a main body portion. The main body portion has at least one adjoining surface, a portion of the at least one adjoining surface lying in a first plane. The insert has an engaging face disposed against the outer edge surface and a reference surface adjacent the engaging face, where the reference surface lies in a second plane, and the adjoining surface is adjacent the engaging face of the at least one insert and the first and second planes being parallel to and offset from one another. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OPTICAL OUTPUT FROM AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An optical processing system for an electronic device is provided. The optical processing system includes a digital component for generating digital signals based on received signals from the electronic device. The optical processing system further includes an optical component for generating optical signals based on the digital signals. The optical processing system further includes a transmit component for transmitting the generated optical signals to an earpiece. The earpiece includes a converter for converting the optical signals into electrical signals, and a speaker for converting the electrical signals to sound. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376925 | Method and System for Modulating Optical Signals as High-Dimensional Lattice Constellation Points to Increase Tolerance to Noise - A method modulates data for optical communication by first encoding the data using a forward error correction (FEC) encoder to produce encoded data, which are encoded using a block encoder to produce block encoded data such that Hamming distances between code words that represent the block encoded data are increased. The block encoded data are mapped to produce mapped data such that Euclidian distances between the constellation points are increased. Then, the mapped data are modulated in a transmitter to a modulated signal for an optical channel. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING FAR FIELD LIMITATIONS IN MICROWAVE PHOTONIC ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATORS - A photonic waveform generator and a method of generating an electrical waveform based on a photonic signal are disclosed. The generator includes an input port for receiving an optical signal, a pulse shaper coupled to the input port and configured to Fourier transform the optical signal and apply a pre-distort waveform onto optical spectrum of the optical signal, a dispersive pulse stretcher coupled to the pulse shaper, an optical-to-electrical converter coupled to the dispersive pulse stretcher, and an output port coupled to the optical-to-electrical converter, the pre-distortion removes distortion of the electrical signal that exists in the absence of the pre-distortion caused by violation of far field limitation between the optical signal and the electrical signal. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376927 | PLUGGABLE OPTICAL TRANSMITTER MODULE FOR NETWORK OPTICAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM WITH DISTORTION CONTROL - Linearized optical transmitter units are described for a hybrid optical fiber coaxial cable network. The linearized optical transmitter unit can comprise a directly-modulated or externally-modulated laser optically coupled to an optical conduit directed to an optical fiber communications link and electrically coupled to an electrical RF source line that provides an RF source to drive the laser or an external modulator for a light beam from the laser. A linearization information electrical component comprising memory and/or a processor, and a data output configured to transmit linearization enabling data for input into a direct digital synthesis engine that enables the direct digital synthesis engine to generate an RF signal wherein nonlinear responses of the transmitter and/or the optical fiber communications link are pre-compensated, in which the data is specific for the optical transmitter and/or the optical fiber communications link. An electronic communication channel can connected to the data output of the electrical component to communicate the linearization enabling data external to the linearized optical transmitter unit suitable for communication to the direct digital synthesis engine. The linearized optical transmitter can be assembled in a plug-in module. Corresponding HFC systems and methods are also described. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376928 | EXTERNAL LIGHT GUIDE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present invention is directed, in part, to a receiver for an infrared light source. The receiver comprises a substantially transparent body; a sensor for receiving infrared light; and a substantially planar first surface on the transparent body. The first surface is configured to direct light from the infrared light source to the sensor. The substantially planar first surface comprises the end of the substantially transparent body. The substantially planar first surface provides an internally reflective surface that directs light into the interior of the substantially transparent body so it will make contact with the sensor. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376929 | OPTICAL RECEIVER AND OPTICAL AXIS ALIGNMENT METHOD THEREOF - An optical receiver comprises a package provided with an input window; a polarization-maintaining optical fiber fixable to the input window; a polarization beam splitter, disposed on the package, for inputting light outputted from the polarization-maintaining optical fiber and outputting first output light and second output light having respective polarization directions different from each other; a beam splitter, disposed on the package, for splitting the first output light; a first light-receiving element, optically coupled to the beam splitter, having two light-receiving parts corresponding to two kinds of the output light split by the beam splitter; and a second light-receiving element, disposed on the package, for receiving the second output light. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376930 | OPTICAL RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL RECEIVEROPTICAL RECEIVER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL RECEIVER, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING LIGHT - In an optical receiver which is compatible with a plurality of signal channels, it is difficult to receive signals properly because a variation in receiving light sensitivity of a photoelectric conversion unit occurs between a plurality of signal channels, therefore, an optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes an optical processing circuit processing input signal light to have been input and outputting a plurality of output signal light beams; and a plurality of photoelectric conversion means for receiving the plurality of output signal light beams respectively and outputting electric signals, wherein the photoelectric conversion means includes an avalanche photodiode which can control a multiplication factor of an output current as the electric signal by means of an applied voltage; and the avalanche photodiode operates with a driving voltage by which the output currents in the plurality of photoelectric conversion means become almost the same. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376931 | NETWORK PRINTER SYSTEM - Electronic systems, such as printing systems, often use components that have integral memory. The integral memory can be used to store information about the component. In some printing systems this memory includes a portion that stores a value indicative of a print yield. Disclosed is a method and system for allowing the memory to have data indicative of an increased print yield. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376932 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms a patch image T on a recording material P, a fixing unit that fixes the patch image, a spectral color measurement device that irradiates light onto the patch image T that was fixed by the fixing unit, and measures reflected light from the patch image, a white reference plate disposed facing the spectral color measurement device; and a control unit that controls a density or a chromaticity of an image based on a result obtained by measuring the patch image and a result obtained by measuring the white reference plate by means of the spectral color measurement device. It is thereby possible to improve the color measurement accuracy of a color measurement device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376933 | MOVABLE BODY DRIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM, PATTERN FORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING MOVABLE BODY BASED ON MEASUREMENT VALUE OF ENCODER AND INFORMATION ON FLATNESS OF SCALE, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A drive unit drives a wafer stage in a Y-axis direction based on a measurement value of an encoder that measures position information of the wafer stage in the Y-axis direction and based on information on the flatness of a scale that is measured by the encoder. In this case, the drive unit can drive the wafer stage in a predetermined direction based on a measurement value after correction in which a measurement error caused by the flatness of the scale included in the measurement value of the encoder is corrected based on the information on the flatness of the scale. Accordingly, the wafer stage can be driven with high accuracy in a predetermined direction using the encoder, without being affected by the unevenness of the scale. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376934 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotation body, a drive source, a heat source, detected members, rotation detecting parts, a storing part and a controlling part. The storing part stores standard condition for occurrence difficulty of a slip between the fixing belt and detected members co-rotated with rotation of the fixing belt. The controlling part stops heating of the fixing belt by the heat source on a condition that both rotation detecting parts do not detect the rotation of the detected members within a first time when the drive source rotates the fixing belt in a situation unsatisfying the standard condition. The controlling part stops the heating on a condition that at least one of the rotation detecting parts does not detect the rotation of the detected members within a second time when the drive source rotates the fixing belt in a situation satisfying the standard condition. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376935 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotation body, a drive transmission member, a detected member, and a rotation detecting part. The fixing belt rotates around a rotation axis. The pressuring rotation body comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip. The drive transmission member is held by one end part of the fixing belt. The detected member is held by another end part of the fixing belt. The rotation detecting part detects the rotation of the detected member. The fixing belt is configured to co-rotate with the rotation of the drive transmission member by friction force between the one end part of the fixing belt and drive transmission member. The detected member is configured to co-rotate with the rotation of the fixing belt by friction force between the other end part of the fixing belt and detected member. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376936 | RECORDING-MATERIAL IDENTIFYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - By providing a step in a pressing member for pressing a recording material P to a reading surface of an image-pickup unit, surface images in a tight contact area and a non-tight-contact area are picked up. By identifying the type of the recording material P based on the two surface images, the accuracy of identifying the recording material is improved without using a plurality of sensors. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376937 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes image carriers that carry toner images; an intermediate transfer body that is brought into contact with the image carriers to carry the images before transferring them to a recording material; first transfer devices that include first transfer members and form first-transfer electric fields for transferring the images on the image carriers to the intermediate transfer body; a second transfer device that includes a second transfer member and forms a second-transfer electric field for transferring the images transferred to the intermediate transfer body to the recording material; and an adjusting device that adjusts an electric field to be formed in a second transfer area to a cleaning electric field, which is of the same polarity as and a lower intensity than the second-transfer electric field, when the images on the intermediate transfer body passes through the second transfer area without a recording material passing therethrough. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376938 | FIXING DEVICE FOR FIXING A TONER IMAGE ON A SHEET-SHAPED RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a rotational member configured to convey and heat a sheet-shaped recording medium, the rotational member including a first heating member and a second heating member provided in parallel to a rotational axis of the rotational member in an interior thereof, the first heating member including a first heat generation part, the second heating member including a second heat generation part and an auxiliary heat generation part adjacent to the second heat generation part, a common temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the first heating member and a temperature of the second heating member, and a control part configured to control a ratio of a rate of lighting of the first heating member and a rate of lighting of the second heating member based on the temperature of the first heating member and the temperature of the second heating member. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376939 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WHICH INCLUDES FIXING AND DECOLORIZING SECTION - An image forming apparatus includes a count section configured to count time during which no image forming is performed and a control section configured to allow heating of a heat generating section at temperature for decolorizing after the time counted by the count section reaches the a predetermined threshold time. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376940 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing member rotatably supported for heating a developer; a pressure member pressing a recording medium upon sandwiching the recording medium with the fixing member; a temperature detection unit for detecting temperature of the fixing member; a temperature control unit for controlling the temperature of the fixing member; a rotation control unit for controlling rotation of the fixing member; an environment value detection unit for detecting an atmosphere temperature; a time measure unit for measuring time necessary for finish of warming up of the fixing member; and a rotation time setting unit for setting rotation time of the fixing member, wherein the rotation time setting unit changes the rotation time from a timing that the fixing member reaches a warming up temperature, based on a lapse time result provided from the time measure unit, where the atmosphere temperature is lower than a prescribed temperature. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376941 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object and a power-supply control unit. The power-supply control unit shifts the image forming apparatus to a second power state, in response to a lapse of a predetermined time following no detection of the object, when a job has not been executed until the detection unit detects no object, after the power-supply control unit shifts the image forming apparatus to the first power state. The power-supply control unit shifts the image forming apparatus to the second power state before a lapse of the predetermined time, when a job has been executed until the detection unit detects no object, after the power-supply control unit shifts the image forming apparatus to the first power state. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376942 | Transferable Page Countdown for a Replaceable Unit Between Image Forming Devices - An electrophotographic image forming device according to one embodiment includes a controller configured to provide a page countdown for a replaceable toner cartridge of the image forming device on a display screen. The controller, upon detecting a toner cartridge that is out of usable toner, is configured to determine a number of pages remaining for a page countdown associated with the toner cartridge. The controller is configured to determine whether a toner sump of an imaging unit positioned in the image forming device to receive toner from the toner cartridge contains sufficient toner to print the number of pages remaining for the page countdown associated with the life of the toner cartridge. The controller is configured to continue the page countdown if the imaging unit contains sufficient toner and to reset the page countdown if the imaging unit does not contain sufficient toner. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376943 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus, including at least three image forming units, a substrate, a frame to support the image forming units and the substrate, and a plurality of spring electrodes, is provided. The plurality of spring electrodes comprise a first spring electrode, a second spring electrode, and a third spring electrode configured to serve for a common function and arranged to align along an aligning direction, which is orthogonal to rotation axes of photosensitive drums in the image forming units. The frame includes a pair of supporting parts arranged along the aligning direction to support the substrate. A distance between the second spring electrode and the third spring electrode is greater than a distance between the first spring electrode and the second spring electrode. A center between the pair of supporting parts is located in a position between the second spring electrode and the third spring electrode. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376944 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus, including an image forming unit containing a photosensitive drum and a developer device; a resin-made first frame formed in a shape of a plate and arranged on one end, along an axial direction of the rotation axis of the photosensitive drum, of the image forming unit; an enhancing member formed in an elongated shape, arranged along a planar face of the first frame on one side of the first frame and fixed to the first frame; and a metal-made first beam formed in an elongated shape, arranged along the planar face of the first frame to intersect with the enhancing member and fixed to the first frame, is provided. The first beam is fixed to the enhancing member at one end thereof in a position between longitudinal ends of the enhancing member. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376945 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus, including an image forming unit having a photosensitive drum and a developer device; a first frame, made of a resin, formed in an approximate shape of a rectangle plate having shorter sides and longer sides, and arranged on one end, along an axial direction of a rotation axis of the photosensitive drum, of the image forming unit; a first beam formed in an elongated shape, arranged along and fixed to a planar face of the first frame, is provided. The first beam is arranged to partly overlap the image forming unit, when viewed along a facing direction to face the planar face of the first frame orthogonally, and is fixed to end parts on the longer sides of the first frame at longitudinal ends thereof at least along the facing direction. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376946 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus, including an image forming unit having a photosensitive drum and a developer device; a first frame made of a resin, formed in a shape of a plate, and arranged on one end, along an axial direction of the rotation axis of the photosensitive drum, of the image forming unit; a first beam formed in an elongated shape, arranged along and fixed to a planar face of the first frame; and a second beam formed in an elongated shape, arranged along the planar face of the first frame to intersect with the first beam, and fixed to the first frame, is provided. The first beam and the second beam are unfixed to each other at a mutually intersecting part thereof. | 2014-12-25 |