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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7961145 | Method and apparatus for estimating relative position in a global navigation satellite system The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for estimating relative position in a global navigation satellite system. In one embodiment, a method for estimating a position of a first receiver relative to a second receiver in a global navigation satellite... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959707 | Methods for producing consolidated materials Aspects of the invention include methods for producing purified semiconductor or metallic materials. In one embodiment, the methods include admixing a particulate composition of a material, for instance, a metal, with a metal halide to produce a metal-metal halide a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957562 | Method and apparatus for ground detection and removal in vision systems A vision system that forms a map of a scene proximate a platform, e.g., a vehicle, that determines the actual ground plane form the map, and that corrects the map for differences between the actual ground plane and an assumed ground plane. The vision system may remo... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7955551 | Alkali metal dispenser and uses for same The present invention provides an improved alkali metal dispenser which is pure and free of contaminant gases, and provides for controlled releasing, delivery and recycling of the alkali metal in multiple stages in a controlled manner. The present invention also pro... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949295 | Automated trainee monitoring and performance evaluation system A method and system for performing automated training environment monitoring and evaluation. The training environment may include a mixed reality elements to enhance a training experience. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7935838 | Process for production of steroid compound The present invention relates to a process for production of a steroid compound having a partial structure represented by Formula (2) by oxidizing a steroid compound having a partial structure represented by Formula (1), without the need of any special apparatus, in... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933464 | Scene-based non-uniformity correction and enhancement method using super-resolution A scene-based non-uniformity correction method super-resolution for eliminating fixed pattern noise in a video having a plurality of input images is disclosed, comprising the steps of warping each of the plurality of images with respect to a reference image to obtai... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932575 | Method of fabricating back-illuminated imaging sensors using a bump bonding technique A method for fabricating a back-illuminated semiconductor imaging device on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, and resulting imaging device is disclosed. The method for manufacturing the imaging device includes the steps of providing a substrate comprising an i... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929728 | Method and apparatus for tracking a movable object A method and apparatus for tracking a movable object using a plurality of images, each of which is separated by an interval of time is disclosed. The plurality of images includes first and second images. The method and apparatus include elements for aligning the fir... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929017 | Method and apparatus for stereo, multi-camera tracking and RF and video track fusion A unified approach, a fusion technique, a space-time constraint, a methodology, and system architecture are provided. The unified approach is to fuse the outputs of monocular and stereo video trackers, RFID and localization systems and biometric identification syste... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925059 | Method and apparatus for iris biometric systems for use in an entryway A method and apparatus for designing an iris biometrics system that operates in minimally constrained settings. The image acquisition system has fewer constraints on subjects than traditional methods by extending standoff distance and capture volume. The method rece... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925049 | Stereo-based visual odometry method and system A method for estimating pose from a sequence of images, which includes the steps of detecting at least three feature points in both the left image and right image of a first pair of stereo images at a first point in time; matching the at least three feature points i... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923064 | Electroactive polymer manufacturing Described herein are transducers and their fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanic... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921541 | Method for forming an electroactive polymer transducer The present invention provides electroactive polymers, transducers and devices that maintain pre-strain in one or more portions of an electroactive polymer. Electroactive polymers described herein may include a pre-strained portion and a stiffened portion configured... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7914767 | Oral DTPA for radionuclide chelation A composition for oral radionuclide chelation therapy comprises a DTPA chelate selected from Zn-DTPA and Ca-DTPA and a permeation enhancer that preferentially increases jejunal uptake of the DTPA chelate. The composition has a DTPA chelate bioavailability of at leas... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911115 | Monolithic electroactive polymers The present invention relates to polymers, transducers and devices that convert between electrical and mechanical energy. When a voltage is applied to electrodes contacting an electroactive polymer, the polymer deflects. This deflection may be used to do mechanical ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906343 | Surface-enhanced lanthanide chelates A lanthanide chelate is linked to a noble metal substrate at a proximity wherein the substrate enhances a fluorescent emission of the lanthanide by at least 20-fold when the chelate is illuminated at an excitation wavelength that induces a transition in the lanthani... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902927 | System and method for modulating pressure in an alkali-vapor cell The present invention provides a system and method for achieving a calibration-free primary atomic clock standard operating at the 0-0 transition free-atom frequency, thus creating a primary frequency standard, with attributes that include scalable to chip-scale dim... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898159 | Compliant electroactive polymer transducers for sonic applications Described herein are compliant electroactive polymer transducers for use in acoustic applications. A compliant electroactive polymer transducer includes a compliant electroactive polymer at least two electrodes. For sound production, circuitry in electrical communic... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895985 | Compliant walled combustion devices Combustion devices described herein comprise a compliant combustion chamber wall or segment. The compliant segment deforms during combustion in the combustion chamber. Some devices may include a compliant wall configured to stretch responsive to pressure generated b... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7872850 | Wall crawling robots Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive dev... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865339 | Formal methods for test case generation The invention relates to the use of model checkers to generate efficient test sets for hardware and software systems. The method provides for extending existing tests to reach new coverage targets; searching *to* some or all of the uncovered targets in parallel; sea... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7844254 | Method and apparatus for collaboration and media access using mobile communications devices In one embodiment, a new method enables an individual to selectively preserve the integrity of potentially private data such as identity, current location and the like while using a mobile communications device (e.g., a cell phone) for media access. In one embodimen... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843191 | System and method for measuring rotational movement of a component from regions magnetized in a magnetically hard layer of the component A position-sensing system magnetically senses the position of a piston rod moving with respect to a cylinder. A magnetically hard layer on the piston rod provides a recording medium. A track comprised of a plurality of magnetized regions is magnetized in the magneti... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7824424 | System and method for releasably holding a surgical instrument The invention is directed to a system and method for releasably holding a surgical instrument (14), such as an endoscopic instrument configured for delivery through a small percutaneous penetration in a patient. The instrument comprises an elongate shaft (... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822798 | Dead reckoning for coordinate conversion Novel methods for converting coordinates for a position from a first coordinate system into coordinates in a second coordinate system are provided. Linear approximations of trigonometric functions are used to calculate values for the trigonometric functions when a p... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814322 | Discovery and authentication scheme for wireless mesh networks Wireless network devices discover individual mesh nodes and networks of mesh nodes. An association is formed on the basis of peer-to-peer interactions at layer-1, layer-2 and/or higher layers of the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model. In particular, the system use... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808987 | Distributed services for mesh networks Nodes in a mesh network are configured to access centralized Internet Protocol (IP) services whenever the Internet infrastructure is accessible and then dynamically switch to providing the IP services locally in the mesh network when the Internet infrastructure is n... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804227 | Tear resistant electroactive polymer transducers Described herein are several solutions that increase transducer lifetime by reducing or preventing tear propagation in a compliant electroactive polymer. One solution couples a compliant tear resistant treatment to a transducer proximate to an edge portion of the el... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7792333 | Method and apparatus for person identification A method and apparatus are provided for person identification. In one embodiment, a method for identifying an individual includes obtaining at least one image of the individual, where the image depicts at least a portion of the individual's hair, comparing the visua... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7789982 | Flexible dilute explosive device A flexible dilute explosive device is provided that includes an explosive material, such as pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), combined with a non-reactive matrix material, such as light-weight polymer beads, and the combination is held in flexible packaging. The ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787646 | Surface deformation electroactive polymer transducers The present invention provides electroactive polymer transducers that produce out-of-plane deflections. The transducers form a set of surface features based on deflection of an electroactive polymer. The set of surface features may include elevated polymer surface f... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7785656 | Electroactive polymer pre-strain The present invention provides electroactive polymers, transducers and devices that maintain pre-strain in one or more portions of an electroactive polymer. Electroactive polymers described herein may include a pre-strained portion and a stiffened portion configured... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7773363 | Electroadhesion Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive dev... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7772218 | Synthesis of anti-estrogenic and other therapeutic steroids from 21-hydroxy-19-norpregna-4-en-3-one Syntheses of steroids such as 3-hydroxy-7α-methyl-21-[2′-methoxy-4′-(diethylaminomethyl)-phenoxy]-19-norpregna-1,3,5(10)triene citrate (“SR 16234”) and analogs thereof are provided, wherein 21-hydroxy-19-norpregna-4-en-3-one serves as a starting material or... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769593 | Method and apparatus for active noise cancellation In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for active noise cancellation. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech in an audio signal received by a media system (where the audio signal includes user speech and ambient audio out... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761981 | Methods for fabricating an electroactive polymer device The invention describes rolled electroactive polymer devices. The invention also describes employment of these devices in a wide array of applications and methods for their fabrication. A rolled electroactive polymer device converts between electrical and mechanical... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7756710 | Method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech includes receiving a first utterance from the user, receiving a subsequent utterance f... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755350 | System and method of perpendicularly magnetizing position information in a magnetically hard layer of a moving component A position-sensing system magnetically senses the position of a piston rod moving with respect to a cylinder. A magnetically hard layer on the piston rod provides a recording medium. Information is perpendicularly magnetized in regions of the magnetically hard layer... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738706 | Method and apparatus for recognition of symbols in images of three-dimensional scenes An apparatus and a concomitant method for rectification and recognition of symbols (e.g., to correct for the effects of perspective distortion, rotation and/or scale) in images of three-dimensional scenes is provided. The present method locates a reference region ly... | 06/15/2010 |
