Author: claimsbot

1. A communication device comprising:
a full-duplex communication portion that communicates bidirectionally with an opposing device;
a receive buffer that retains data received from the opposing device at the full-duplex communication portion; and
a pause portion that carries out flow control in full-duplex communication according to a pause level determined based on the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer and a processing load at the communication device itself.
2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the pause portion temporarily stops the transmission of frames from frames having a lower priority when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is increased, and temporarily stops the transmission of all frames when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is increased to a predetermined maximum threshold.
3. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein the pause portion restarts the transmission of frames from frames having a higher priority when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is decreased during the temporary stop of the frame transmission, and restarts the transmission of all frames when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is decreased to a predetermined minimum threshold.
4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein whether or not the opposing device supports the pause portion is confirmed, and the flow control is carried out according to the pause level when the opposing device supports the pause portion.
5. A communication device comprising:
full-duplex communication means that communicates bidirectionally with an opposing device;
a receive buffer that retains data received from the opposing device at the full-duplex communication means; and
pause means that carries out flow control in full-duplex communication according to a pause level determined based on the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer and a processing load at the communication device itself.
6. A flow control method for use in a communication device, comprising:
communicating bidirectionally with an opposing device;
retaining data received from the opposing device at a receive buffer; and
carrying out flow control in full-duplex communication according to a pause level determined based on the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer and a processing load at the communication device itself.
7. The flow control method according to claim 6, wherein the transmission of frames from frames having a lower priority is temporarily stopped when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is increased, and the transmission of all frames is temporarily stopped when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is increased to a predetermined maximum threshold.
8. The flow control method according to claim 7, wherein the transmission of frames from frames having a higher priority is restarted when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is decreased during the temporary stop of the frame transmission, and the transmission of all frames is restarted when the processing load and the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer is decreased to a predetermined minimum threshold.
9. The flow control method according to claim 6, wherein whether or not the opposing device supports the flow control is confirmed, and the flow control is carried out according to the pause level when the opposing device supports the flow control.
10. A program product that causes a communication device to execute:
a process to communicate bidirectionally with an opposing device;
a process to retain data received from the opposing device at a receive buffer; and
a process to carry out flow control in full-duplex communication according to a pause level determined based on the degree of accumulation at the receive buffer and a processing load at the communication device itself.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An image data processing device for scaling up or down input image data and outputting output image data, the device comprising:
a first image processing section for converting the input image data with a first resolution into intermediate image data with a second resolution, and
a second image processing section for converting the intermediate image data into the output image data with a third resolution.
2. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein the second and third resolutions are fixed resolutions each set in advance.
3. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second image processing sections performs at least either pixel decimation processing or vertical-horizontal filtering processing, thereby performing the resolution conversion.
4. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein when a scale-down ratio of the output image data to the input image data is smaller than a predetermined scale-down ratio, the first image processing section performs the resolution conversion at the predetermined scale-down ratio.
5. The image data processing device of claim 4, wherein the predetermined scale-down ratio is 18 both in an image horizontal direction and in an image vertical direction.
6. The image data processing device of claim 5, wherein for each of 8\xd78 pixel rectangular areas in the input image data, the first image processing section calculates an average of values of pixels in the rectangular area as a value of a pixel in the intermediate image data.
7. The image data processing device of claim 6, wherein when the input image data is image data in a form of DCT coefficients, the first image processing section obtains a direct-current component of the DCT coefficients as a value of a pixel in the intermediate image data.
8. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein the intermediate image data has a size that is set variably and a maximum value of the size is 1280 pixels in an image horizontal direction and 960 pixels in an image vertical direction.
9. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein at least either the first or second image processing section is designed so as to further perform at least either processing for clipping a certain area or rotation processing.
10. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein the input image data is data obtained by decoding information-encoded image data that contains at least either image resizing information or image rotation information, and
the first image processing section is designed so as to perform scale-up or scale-down processing, or rotation processing based on the image resizing information or the image rotation information.
11. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein the second image processing section is designed so as to perform clipping processing, scale-up or scale-down processing, or rotation processing based on at least one of image clipping area information, image resizing information and image rotation information designated by a user.
12. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein whether or not the first image processing section performs the resolution conversion can be controlled from outside the image data processing device.
13. The image data processing device of claim 1, further comprising a memory for retaining the intermediate image data.
14. The image data processing device of claim 13, wherein the memory has a capacity that is set variably in accordance with an instruction given from outside the image data processing device.
15. The image data processing device of claim 13, wherein the second image processing section is designed so as to be capable of performing clipping processing, scale-up or scale-down processing, or rotation processing on the intermediate image data retained by the memory, in a plurality of ways.
16. The image data processing device of claim 1, wherein each of the input image data, the intermediate image data, and the output image data is image data that contains a predetermined sampling factor in which luminance data and color difference data are contained, and
at least either the first or second image processing section is designed so as to further perform rotation processing and correct a phase shift in the color difference data occurring due to the rotation processing.
17. The image data processing device of claim 16, wherein the first and second image processing sections are designed so as to perform scale-up or scale-down processing on the luminance data and the color difference data at different scale-up or scale-down ratios, thereby converting the sampling factor.
18. The image data processing device of claim 16, wherein each of the input image data, the intermediate image data, and the output image data is image data that is expressed by a YCbCr color system; and
where a horizontal sampling factor for luminance Y is H0,
a vertical sampling factor for the luminance Y is V0,
a horizontal sampling factor for color difference Cb is H1,
a vertical sampling factor for the color difference Cb is V1,
a horizontal sampling factor for color difference Cr is H2, and
a vertical sampling factor for the color difference Cr is V2,
the first image processing section converts the input image data into the intermediate image data having a sampling factor in which H0=2, V0=1, H1=1, V1=1, H2=1, and V2=1.
19. The image data processing device of claim 16, wherein each of the input image data, the intermediate image data, and the output image data is image data that is expressed by a YCbCr color system; and
where a horizontal sampling factor for luminance Y is H0,
a vertical sampling factor for the luminance Y is V0,
a horizontal sampling factor for color difference Cb is H1,
a vertical sampling factor for the color difference Cb is V1,
a horizontal sampling factor for color difference Cr is H2, and
a vertical sampling factor for the color difference Cr is V2,
the second image processing section converts the intermediate image data into the output image data having a sampling factor in which H0=2, V0=1, H1=1, V1=1, H2=1, and V2=1, or H0=4, V0=1, H1=1, V1=1, H2=1, and V2=1.

1. A method comprising managing one or more operational features of a first mobile wireless device using a parameter for the first mobile wireless device set in a second mobile wireless device such that the management of the one or more operational features is correlated with a wireless server in which the first and second mobile wireless device are registered to a common identity.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes managing a set of operational features of the first mobile wireless device based on activity in a third mobile wireless device such that the management of the set of operational features is correlated with a second wireless server in which the first and third mobile wireless device are registered to a common identity in the second wireless server such that registrations of the first wireless device is unique to the respective wireless servers.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes managing a set of operational features of a mobile wireless device in a plurality of mobile wireless devices that includes the second mobile wireless device based on activity in a designated administrator mobile wireless device of the plurality of mobile wireless devices such that the management of the set of operational features is correlated with a second wireless server in which the plurality of mobile wireless device are registered to a common identity in the second wireless server such that registrations of the second wireless device is unique to the respective wireless servers.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes:
activating a graphic user display in the second mobile wireless device to manage the one or more operational features of the first mobile wireless device, the second mobile wireless device designated as an administrator with respect to the first and second mobile wireless devices;
modifying a selected parameter for an operational feature of the first mobile wireless device, the selected parameter derived from the graphic user display; and
transmitting the selected parameter such that the first mobile wireless device is identified as the recipient of the selected parameter.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the method includes the second mobile wireless device automatically establishing a secure communication channel with the wireless server prior to transmitting the selected parameter.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes:
receiving, in the wireless server, the parameter from the second wireless device to manage the one or more operational features of the first mobile wireless device, the second wireless device designated as an administrator of the first mobile wireless device;
transmitting, from the wireless server to the first mobile wireless device, the parameter or a parameter derived from the received parameter; and
updating a database, managed the wireless server, to reflect a status of the first mobile wireless device based on the parameter or the derived parameter.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein transmitting the parameter or derived parameter includes transmitting the parameter from the wireless server to first the mobile wireless device when the mobile wireless device becomes available to enter into a communications session with the wireless server.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes
receiving, in the first mobile wireless device, a message that includes the parameter, or a derived parameter, to modify the one or more operational features of the first mobile wireless device; and
modifying the one or more operational features of the first mobile wireless device in response to receiving the parameter.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein managing the one or more operational features of a mobile wireless device includes generating settings to block performance of functions in the first mobile wireless device.
10. A mobile wireless device comprising:
a controller;
a display to provide a graphic user interface operable with the controller: and
a memory communicatively coupled to the controller, the memory including instructions which, when performed by the mobile wireless device, cause the mobile wireless device to perform operations including selecting a parameter to manage one or more operational features of another mobile wireless device based on an identity common to the mobile wireless device and the other mobile wireless device, the common identity correlated with a wireless server in which the mobile wireless device and the other mobile wireless device are registered.
11. The mobile wireless device of claim 10, wherein the mobile wireless device is configurable for registration on another wireless server such the registrations are unique to the respective wireless servers and status of the mobile wireless device as a administrator device or as a non-administer device is managed independently with respect to the wireless server and the other wireless server.
12. The mobile wireless device of claim 10, wherein the instructions include one or more instructions to change the mobile wireless device from operation as an administrator of the operational features of the other mobile wireless device to operation as a target mobile wireless under feature administration by the other mobile wireless device.
13. The mobile wireless device of claim 10, wherein operational features include changing a password of the other mobile wireless device.
14. The mobile wireless device of claim 10, wherein operational features include page generation in the other mobile wireless device to provide an audible sound to locate the other wireless device.
15. The mobile wireless device of claim 10, wherein operational features include regulating access of the other mobile wireless device to an internet.
16. The mobile wireless device of claim 10, wherein operational features include regulating voice and data sessions of the other mobile wireless device.
17. A wireless server comprising:
a processor;
a communications servlet operably coupled to the processor, the communications servlet including instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless server to perform operations including:
receiving a message from a first mobile wireless device, the message having a parameter to set one or more operational features in a second mobile wireless device;
determining that the first mobile wireless device and the second wireless device are correlated to a common identity relative to the wireless server such that the first mobile wireless device is an administrator device for the second mobile wireless device; and
transmitting the parameter, or a derived parameter generated from the received parameter, to the second mobile wireless device.
18. The wireless server of claim 17, wherein the parameter includes a command for execution by the second mobile wireless device.
19. The wireless server of claim 17, wherein the parameter includes a password for the second mobile wireless device.
20. The wireless server of claim 17, wherein the message includes a destination servlet of the wireless server and message data.
21. The wireless server of claim 17, wherein the instructions include instructions to update a database at the wireless server with the operational feature for setting in the second mobile wireless device.
22. The wireless server of claim 17, wherein the wireless server is configured to receive the message through internet communications.
23. The wireless server of claim 17, wherein the wireless server is configured in a personal computer.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An optically dithered atomic inertial sensor, the inertial sensor comprising:
a vacuum chamber containing an atom cloud of laser cooled alkali atoms, wherein the alkali atoms are free to fall under the influence of gravity;
a first set of laser sources configured to apply a first set of laser beams into the atom cloud along a first axis;
a second set of laser sources configured to apply a second set of laser beams into the atom cloud along a second axis;
wherein the first set of laser beams and the second set of laser beams apply a series of coherent laser pulses into the atom cloud that separate a quantum-mechanical wave function of the alkali atoms along trajectories that define a sensing plane that is sensitive to rotation about a sensing axis oriented orthogonal to the sensing plane; and
wherein the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources apply a dithering motion to the sensing axis by modulating a relative magnitude of the first set of laser beams with respect to the second set of laser beams.
2. The inertial sensor of claim 1, wherein the alkali atoms are free to fall under the combined influence of gravity and a laser induced force.
3. The inertial sensor of claim 1, wherein the dithering motion comprises an in-plane dithering of the sensing axis.
4. The inertial sensor of claim 1, further comprising:
a third set of laser sources configured to apply a third set of laser beams into the atom cloud along a third axis;
wherein the first set of laser beams, the second set of laser beams, and the third set of laser beams apply the series of coherent laser pulses into the atom cloud; and
wherein the first set of laser sources, the second set of laser sources, and the third set of laser sources apply the dithering motion to the sensing axis by modulating relative magnitudes of the first set of laser beams, the second set of laser beams, and the third set of laser beams.
5. The inertial sensor of claim 4, wherein the first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are mutually orthogonal.
6. The inertial sensor of claim 4, wherein the dithering motion comprises in-plane and out-of-plane dithering of the sensing axis.
7. The inertial sensor of claim 1, wherein one or both of the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources comprise at least one laser producing device.
8. The inertial sensor of claim 1, wherein one or both of the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources output laser light directed to them from a laser light generating device with which they are in optical communication.
9. The inertial sensor of claim 1, wherein the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources are configured to modulate the relative magnitude of the first set of laser beams with respect to the second set of laser beams through optical multiplexing of laser light from a laser producing device.
10. The inertial sensor of claim 1, further comprising:
a second vacuum chamber containing a second atom cloud of laser cooled alkali atoms, wherein the alkali atoms are free to fall under the influence of gravity;
wherein the first set of laser sources is further configured to apply the first set of laser beams into the second atom cloud along the first axis;
wherein the second set of laser sources is further configured to apply the second set of laser beams into the second atom cloud along a second axis;
wherein the first set of laser beams and the second set of laser beams apply a series of coherent laser pulses into the atom cloud that separate a quantum-mechanical wave function of the alkali atoms along trajectories that define a second sensing plane that is sensitive to rotation about a second sensing axis oriented orthogonal to the sensing plane; and
wherein the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources apply a dithering motion to the second sensing axis by modulating the relative magnitude of the first set of laser beams with respect to the second set of laser beams.
11. A method for optically dithering an atomic inertial sensor, the method comprising:
applying a first set of laser beams along a first axis into an atom cloud of laser cooled alkali atoms, wherein the alkali atoms are free to fall under the influence of gravity within a vacuum chamber;
applying a second set of laser beams along a second axis into the atom cloud of laser cooled alkali atoms, wherein the first set of laser beams and the second set of laser beams apply a series of coherent laser pulses into the atom cloud that separate a quantum-mechanical wave function of the alkali atoms along trajectories that define a sensing plane that is sensitive to rotation about a sensing axis oriented orthogonal to the sensing plane; and
dithering the sensing axis by modulating a relative magnitude of the first set of laser beams with respect to the second set of laser beams.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein dithering the sensing axis comprises an in-plane dithering of the sensing axis.
13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
apply a third set of laser beams into the atom cloud along a third axis, wherein the first set of laser beams, the second set of laser beams, and the third set of laser beams apply the series of coherent laser pulses into the atom cloud; and
wherein dithering the sensing axis further comprising modulating relative magnitudes of the first set of laser beams, the second set of laser beams, and the third set of laser beams.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein dithering the sensing axis comprises in-plane and out-of-plane dithering of the sensing axis.
15. The method of claim 11, wherein one or both of the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources comprise at least one laser producing device.
16. The method of claim 11, wherein one or both of the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources output laser light directed to them from a laser light generating device with which they are in optical communication.
17. The method of claim 11, wherein the first set of laser sources and the second set of laser sources are configured to modulate the relative magnitude of the first set of laser beams with respect to the second set of laser beams through optical multiplexing of laser light from a laser producing device.
18. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
applying the first set of laser beams along the first axis into a second atom cloud of laser cooled alkali atoms, wherein the alkali atoms are free to fall under the influence of gravity within a second vacuum chamber;
applying the second set of laser beams along the second axis into the second atom cloud of laser cooled alkali atoms, wherein the first set of laser beams and the second set of laser beams apply a series of coherent laser pulses into the second atom cloud that separate a quantum-mechanical wave function of the alkali atoms along trajectories that define a second sensing plane that is sensitive to rotation about a second sensing axis oriented orthogonal to the second sensing plane; and
dithering the second sensing axis by modulating the relative magnitude of the first set of laser beams with respect to the second set of laser beams.
19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
performing a self-leveling by measuring a acceleration due to gravity; and
adjusting the plane of dithering to be orthogonal to a gravity vector.
20. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
demodulating a dithered rotation output sensed along the sensing axis; and
inferring an orientation of Earth’s rotational vector with respect to the sensing axis.