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20100094138 | Imaging catheter using laser profile for plaque depth measurement - A device, system, and method for measuring the depth of a material layer such as a blood vessel plaque layer is disclosed. A fiber optic bundle housed in a balloon catheter projects a laser dot toward a conical mirror, which reflects the dot perpendicularly onto the surface of the plaque. The laser dot is reflected back from the plaque layer with a substantially Gaussian intensity profile. The conical mirror directs the reflected image back to the fiber optic bundle, which delivers the image to a sensor. The depth of the plaque layer can be determined by comparing the diameter of the image intensity profile to a pre-obtained normalized data set. | 04-15-2010 |
20110037832 | Defocusing Feature Matching System to Measure Camera Pose with Interchangeable Lens Cameras - A lens and aperture device for determining 3D information. An SLR camera has a lens and aperture that allows the SLR camera to determine defocused information. | 02-17-2011 |
20110301418 | Catheter Based 3-D Defocusing Imaging - A catheter based defocusing imaging system for 3-D tomography reconstruction of endovascular features of interest is disclosed. Without limitation, target sites for imaging include heart valves, calcified heart valves, calcium plastered valve on the heart valve or plaque on the inner wall of the blood vessel of a patient. | 12-08-2011 |
20140184748 | SINGLE-SENSOR SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING DEPTH INFORMATION FROM IMAGE BLUR - Hardware and software methodology are described for three-dimensional imaging in connection with a single sensor. A plurality of images is captured at different degrees of focus without focus change of an objective lens between such images. Depth information is extracted by comparing image blur between the images captured on the single sensor. | 07-03-2014 |
20140368617 | DEFOCUSING FEATURE MATCHING SYSTEM TO MEASURE CAMERA POSE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERAS - A lens and aperture device for determining 3D information. An SLR camera has a lens and aperture that allows the SLR camera to determine defocused information. | 12-18-2014 |
20150009149 | IMAGING SURROUND SYSTEM FOR TOUCH-FREE DISPLAY CONTROL - The subject system hardware and methodology combine disparate cameras into a cohesive gesture recognition environment. To render an intended computer, gaming, display, etc. control function, two or more cameras with non-coaxial axes are trained on a space to detect and lock onto an object image regardless of its depth coordinate. Each camera captures one 2D view of the gesture and the plurality of 2D gestures are combined to infer the 3D input. | 01-08-2015 |
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20080214326 | Golf balls incorporating nanofillers - A golf ball incorporates nanofiller material in its core, cover, or intermediate layers. Also, a method includes a step of blending into a composition for a golf ball nanocomposite material, nanofiller material or both. The nanocomposite and/or nanofiller materials impart favorable properties to materials used for golf balls, and they provide for greater versatility in usage than materials previously used. Particular compositions incorporating nanocomposite material also are described as suited for use in golf ball compositions. | 09-04-2008 |
20110021291 | GOLF BALL HAVING CROSS-CORE HARDNESS DIFFERENTIAL AND METHOD FOR MAKING IT - A golf ball core that includes a center point having a first hardness value and/or first specific gravity value, and a surface having a second hardness value and/or second specific gravity value. The first hardness value, or first specific gravity value, is different from the second hardness value, or second specific gravity value, respectively. | 01-27-2011 |
20110136588 | GOLF BALL INCORPORATING PEPTIZERS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A golf ball including a composition having an unsaturated polymer, a cross-linking agent, a peptizer, and an accelerator. The composition can be incorporated into the golf ball's core, intermediate layers, and cover layers, and can provide optimal performance and durability properties. The golf balls incorporating the composition are easy to manufacture. | 06-09-2011 |
20120071273 | GOLF BALL HAVING CROSS-CORE HARDNESS DIFFERENTIAL AND METHOD FOR MAKING IT - A golf ball core that includes a center point having a first hardness value and/or first specific gravity value, and a surface having a second hardness value and/or second specific gravity value. The first hardness value, or first specific gravity value, is different from the second hardness value, or second specific gravity value, respectively. | 03-22-2012 |
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20150215100 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SELECTIVE INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN A CELLULAR PROTOCOL - A user equipment (UE) can reserve shared spectrum between two wireless protocols upon the request from a tower. For example, an enhanced node B (eNB or eNodeB) transmits a message to associated UEs including a set of candidate UEs, a length of time to reserve, and a frequency band to use. UEs perform medium sensing on the specified spectrum if a UE finds its identifier in the set of candidate UEs. Candidate UEs transmit a clear to send (CTS) message with channel reservation information if the medium is idle. A result of the success or failure of the CTS transmission attempt is sent back to the eNB. Upon receiving the feedback information from the UEs, the eNB starts sending data to those UEs that sent the positive feedback on the channel reservation. | 07-30-2015 |
20150271848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENTION MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY OF SERVICE ESTIMATION IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS - A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a maximum probability of accessing a wireless local area network (WLAN) for communication. The maximum probability is received via a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) communication link with an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). The UE is further configured to determine that there is a queued transmission for the UE and, in response to determining that there is a queued transmission, to determine whether the UE is authorized to access to the WLAN using a probability less than or equal to the maximum probability. The UE is further configured to delay contention for access to the WLAN for at least a pre-backoff duration in response to determining that the UE is not authorized. | 09-24-2015 |
20150312793 | CHANNEL RESERVATION FOR OPERATION IN AN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM - Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (“UE”) and an evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”) in a plurality of frequency bands. An eNB may transmit cross-carrier, cross-subframe scheduling information to a UE in a licensed frequency band. In response reception of the scheduling information, the UE may sense a wireless transmission medium to determine if the medium is idle. If the medium is idle, the UE may generate and transmit a request to reserve the medium in the unlicensed frequency band (e.g., a Clear-to-Send message). The eNB may transmit downlink data to the UE in the unlicensed frequency band. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150351115 | DEVICES AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING AND UTILIZING NEIGHBORING WLAN INFORMATION FOR LTE LAA OPERATION - A License Assisted Access (LAA) enhanced NodeB (eNB), user equipment (UE) and communication methods therebetween operating in a Long Term Evolution unlicensed band (LTE-U) are generally described. The eNB may transmit a request to the UE for information regarding a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) over which the UE may be able to communicate. The WLAN information may include an LTE-U channel and time window for reporting. The UE may obtain the WLAN information through communication with an access point (AP). Measurement information of the LTE-U channel may also be obtained by or on behalf of the UE. The UE may transmit the WLAN information to the eNB. The eNB may use the WLAN information or submit the WLAN information to a network entity to perform channel selection, UE grouping or localization, appointing delegate UEs to perform channel sensing or scheduling UEs in a same group or proximity. | 12-03-2015 |
20160065330 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING SHORT-TERM FAIRNESS AND EFFICIENCY IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A wireless communication device comprises a transceiver to communicate directly with one or more separate wireless devices in accordance with a WiFi communication protocol, and a controller. The controller is configured to initiate transmission of information using the transceiver upon expiration of a first contention window (CW) count value, detect whether the transmission is successful, change the CW count value to a second CW count value when the transmission is unsuccessful, and change the CW count value from the first CW count value to a third CW count value when the transmission is successful, wherein the third CW count value is a maximum value of one of the first CW count value divided by a specified binary number or a specified minimum CW count value. | 03-03-2016 |
20160100404 | OPPORTUNISTIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION FOR INTER-RAT CO-EXISTENCE - Various embodiments may be generally directed to techniques for transmitting and receiving one or more reference signals opportunistically within a window over an unlicensed carrier. Various embodiments provide techniques for determining a configuration of the window within an operating environment that may include one or more different radio access technologies (RATs). Various embodiments provide techniques for transmitting the one or more reference signals opportunistically within the window based on an availability of a wireless communications medium. Various embodiments provide techniques for receiving and recovering the one or more reference signals regardless of their location within the window, thereby improving communications in an unlicensed spectrum shared by a variety of different communication devices that may operate according to a variety of different communication protocols. | 04-07-2016 |
20160112851 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR EXTENDING RANGE OF WIRELESS NETWORKS - Example systems, methods, and devices for extending range of WiFi networks are discussed. More specifically, methods for extending range of a Wi-Fi network are disclosed. The method may include the operations of appending, by a network device, one or more codebits to one or more original codebits or coded symbols, sending, by the network device, the original codebits or coded symbols and the appended codebits to an interleaver or a constellation mapper for transmission. The original codebits or coded symbols and the appended codebits may be sent over a plurality of subcarriers. Methods, apparatus, and systems described herein can be applied to 802.11ax or any other wireless standard. | 04-21-2016 |
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20080299775 | GAPFILL EXTENSION OF HDP-CVD INTEGRATED PROCESS MODULATION SIO2 PROCESS - Methods are disclosed for depositing a silicon oxide film on a substrate disposed in a substrate processing chamber. The substrate has a gap formed between adjacent raised surfaces. A silicon-containing gas, an oxygen-containing gas, and a fluent gas are flowed into the substrate processing chamber. A high-density plasma is formed from the silicon-containing gas, the oxygen-containing gas, and the fluent gas. A first portion of the silicon oxide film is deposited using the high-density plasma at a deposition rate between 900 and 6000 Å/min and with a deposition/sputter ratio greater than 30. The deposition/sputter ratio is defined as a ratio of a net deposition rate and a blanket sputtering rate to the blanket sputtering rate. Thereafter, a portion of the deposited first portion of the silicon oxide film is etched. A second portion of the silicon oxide film is deposited over the etched portion of the silicon oxide film. | 12-04-2008 |
20090068853 | IMPURITY CONTROL IN HDP-CVD DEP/ETCH/DEP PROCESSES - Methods are disclosed of depositing a silicon oxide film on a substrate disposed in a substrate processing chamber. The substrate has a gap formed between adjacent raised surfaces. A first portion of the silicon oxide film is deposited over the substrate and within the gap using a high-density plasma process. Thereafter, a portion of the deposited first portion of the silicon oxide film is etched back. This includes flowing a halogen precursor through a first conduit from a halogen-precursor source to the substrate processing chamber, forming a high-density plasma from the halogen precursor, and terminating flowing the halogen precursor after the portion has been etched back. Thereafter, a halogen scavenger is flowed to the substrate processing chamber to react with residual halogen in the substrate processing chamber. Thereafter, a second portion of the silicon oxide film is deposited over the first portion of the silicon oxide film and within the gap using a high-density plasma process. | 03-12-2009 |
20090075489 | REDUCTION OF ETCH-RATE DRIFT IN HDP PROCESSES - A processing chamber is seasoned by providing a flow of season precursors to the processing chamber. A high-density plasma is formed from the season precursors by applying at least 7500 W of source power distributed with greater than 70% of the source power at a top of the processing chamber. A season layer having a thickness of at least 5000 Å is deposited at one point using the high-density plasma. Each of multiple substrates is transferred sequentially into the processing chamber to perform a process that includes etching. The processing chamber is cleaned between sequential transfers of the substrates. | 03-19-2009 |
20100099236 | GAPFILL IMPROVEMENT WITH LOW ETCH RATE DIELECTRIC LINERS - A method of filling a trench is described and includes depositing a dielectric liner with a high ratio of silicon oxide to dielectric liner etch rate in fluorine-containing etch chemistries. Silicon oxide is deposited within the trench and etched to reopen or widen a gap near the top of the trench. The dielectric liner protects the underlying substrate during the etch process so the gap can be made wider. Silicon oxide is deposited within the trench again to substantially fill the trench. | 04-22-2010 |
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20110215425 | TUNNELING FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR WITH DIRECT TUNNELING FOR ENHANCED TUNNELING CURRENT - Horizontal and vertical tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) having an abrupt junction between source and drain regions increases probability of direct tunneling of carriers (e.g., electrons and holes). The increased probability allows a higher achievable on current in TFETs having the abrupt junction. The abrupt junction may be formed by placement of a dielectric layer or a dielectric layer and a semiconductor layer in a current path between the source and drain regions. The dielectric layer may be a low permittivity oxide such as silicon oxide, lanthanum oxide, zirconium oxide, or aluminum oxide. | 09-08-2011 |
20110278670 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Tunneling Mosfets Using Self-Aligned Heterostructure Source and Isolated Drain - Apparatuses, systems, and methods for tunneling MOSFETs (TFETs) using a self-aligned heterostructure source and isolated drain. TFETs that have an abrupt junction between source and drain regions have an increased probability of carrier direct tunneling (e.g., electrons and holes). The increased probability allows a higher achievable on current in TFETs having the abrupt junction. | 11-17-2011 |
20130230954 | TUNNELING FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR WITH DIRECT TUNNELING FOR ENHANCED TUNNELING CURRENT - Horizontal and vertical tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) having an abrupt junction between source and drain regions increases probability of direct tunneling of carriers (e.g., electrons and holes). The increased probability allows a higher achievable on current in TFETs having the abrupt junction. The abrupt junction may be formed by placement of a dielectric layer or a dielectric layer and a semiconductor layer in a current path between the source and drain regions. The dielectric layer may be a low permittivity oxide such as silicon oxide, lanthanum oxide, zirconium oxide, or aluminum oxide. | 09-05-2013 |
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20130111279 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GENERATING A REPLACEMENT DEFAULT READ THRESHOLD | 05-02-2013 |
20130121084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE DATA INCLUDING HARD BIT DATA AND SOFT BIT DATA TO A RANK MODULATION DECODER - A method includes providing data including hard bit data and soft bit data to a rank modulation decoder. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132798 | Bit Stream Aliasing in Memory System with Probabilistic Decoding - An aliasing module is defined and connected to receive a first bit stream to be transmitted over a data bus from a memory to an external controller of the memory. The aliasing module is defined and connected to alias the first bit stream as a second bit stream and transmit the second bit stream over the data bus in lieu of the first bit stream. A de-aliasing module is defined and connected to receive the second bit stream from the data bus at the external controller. The de-aliasing module is defined and connected to de-alias the received second bit stream back to the first bit stream and provide the first bit stream to the external controller for processing. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135927 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DECODING DATA USING SOFT BITS AT A NON-BINARY DECODER THAT USES PROBABILISTIC DECODING - A method includes reading a representation of a codeword stored in a multi-level-cell (MLC) memory by comparing cell threshold voltages in the MLC memory to hard bit thresholds to generate hard bit values and to soft bit thresholds to generate soft bit values. The hard bit values and the soft bit values are provided to a non-binary decoder that uses probabilistic decoding to obtain decoded data. | 05-30-2013 |
20130151753 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UPDATING READ VOLTAGES IN A MEMORY - A method includes receiving hard bit data and soft bit data corresponding to a portion of a memory, where each storage element of the memory stores multiple bits per storage element. The hard bit data and the soft bit data is received in connection with reading a single bit of the multiple bits from each storage element in the portion of the memory based on one or more first read voltages. One or more second read voltages based on the hard bit data and the soft bit data are generated in response to a read voltage update operation. The memory reads data from the portion of the memory using the one or more second read voltages. | 06-13-2013 |
20140173172 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO UPDATE READ VOLTAGES IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY IN RESPONSE TO TRACKING DATA - A method includes reading a representation of tracking data from at least a portion of a non-volatile memory. The method further includes adjusting a read voltage based on a comparison between a number of bits in tracking data as compared to a count of bits in the representation of the tracking data. | 06-19-2014 |
20140281750 | DETECTING EFFECT OF CORRUPTING EVENT ON PRELOADED DATA IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - A method includes determining a read threshold voltage corresponding to a group of storage elements in a non-volatile memory of a data storage device. The method also includes determining an error metric corresponding to data read from the group of storage elements using the read threshold voltage. The method includes comparing the read threshold voltage and the error metric to one or more criteria corresponding to a corrupting event. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281772 | DETECTING EFFECT OF CORRUPTING EVENT ON PRELOADED DATA IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - A method includes determining a read threshold voltage corresponding to a group of storage elements in a non-volatile memory that includes a three-dimensional (3D) memory of a data storage device. The method also includes determining an error metric corresponding to data read from the group of storage elements using the read threshold voltage. The method includes comparing the read threshold voltage and the error metric to one or more criteria corresponding to a corrupting event. | 09-18-2014 |
20140365836 | Device and Method for Resolving an LM Flag Issue - The reliability with which data can be read from a storage medium, such as flash memory storage medium, is enhanced by updating an upper limit of a reading threshold voltage window for a respective portion of the storage medium. For each memory cell in the respective portion of the storage medium, a memory controller is configured to perform a plurality of sensing operations and obtain results from the plurality of sensing operations, where the plurality of sensing operations includes sensing operations using a predefined range of offsets from a previously established reading threshold voltage. The memory controller is further configured to determine the updated upper limit of the reading threshold voltage window based on the-results from the plurality of sensing operations, and store the updated upper limit of the reading threshold voltage window for the respective portion of the storage medium. | 12-11-2014 |
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20090170118 | Formation and Encapsulation of Molecular Bilayer and Monolayer Membranes - Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclose compositions and devices are also disclosed. | 07-02-2009 |
20120025414 | FORMATION AND ENCAPSULATION OF MOLECULAR BILAYER AND MONOLAYER MEMBRANES - Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclosed compositions and devices are also disclosed. | 02-02-2012 |
20140296548 | Membrane Precursors and Membranes Formed Therefrom - Disclosed are membrane precursors and membranes formed therefrom. Also disclosed are methods of making biomimetic membrane precursors and membranes formed therefrom. Methods of using, including methods of storing and handling biomimetic membrane precursors and membranes formed therefrom, are also disclosed. | 10-02-2014 |
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20130110617 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RECORD, INTERPRET, AND COLLECT MOBILE ADVERTISING FEEDBACK THROUGH MOBILE HANDSET SENSORY INPUT | 05-02-2013 |
20130191722 | HARDWARE ACCELERATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for enabling hardware acceleration of web applications is provided, comprising: parsing a web page using a scripting engine, wherein the web page necessitates running a web application; accessing one or more Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that provide parallelization, and distribute tasks of the web application among multiple cores of a multi-core central processing unit (CPU) or graphical processing unit (GPU), wherein the accessing uses a compute context class that, when instantiated, creates a compute context object that acts as a bridge between the scripting engine and the one or more APIs; and creating one or more kernels to operate on the multiple cores. | 07-25-2013 |
20140052682 | USING PHYSICAL SENSORY INPUT TO DETERMINE HUMAN RESPONSE TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DISPLAYED ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile handset device collects sensor data about the physiological state of the user of the handset. The mobile handset device receives multimedia content, which is consumed on the mobile handset. In a deployment phase, the sensor data is used to classify the user's emotional response to individual pieces of media content consumed on the mobile device. A classification model built in a training phase may be used to map sensor data to classification labels indicative of the user's emotional response to multimedia. | 02-20-2014 |