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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110241 | SYSTEM FOR NAND FLASH PARAMETER AUTO-DETECTION A system comprising a NAND flash memory device having a multiplicity of parameters; a flash controller configured to perform a NAND flash memory parameter automatic detection process including reading a device identifier of the NAND flash memory device and proceeding if... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120038423 | VARIABLE GAIN BICMOS AMPLIFIER An amplifier circuit comprising: a MOSFET amplifier circuit; a BJT amplifier circuit; a MOSFET switch circuit arranged for switching between the MOSFET amplifier circuit and the BJT amplifier circuit to implement different gain modes of the amplifier circuit.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120030367 | System And Method For Evaluating Network Transport Effects On Delivery Of Media Content A system and a method for evaluating transport of data segments of media content bitstream over a peer-to-peer network by streaming data chunks of a media content through a peer-to-peer network, generating network transport distortion on the data chunks using live exper... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110261676 | CM/PAPR REDUCTION FOR LTE-A DOWNLINK WITH CARRIER AGGREGATION The present invention relates to the reduction of the CM and PAPR of an LTE-A downlink signal after carrier aggregation. The CM and PAPR of the aggregated signal are reduced by introducing cyclic time shifts to the OFDM symbols in each of the component carriers (CC). Ou... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120002726 | Method and apparatus for scalable video coding The present invention relates to method and apparatus for scalable video coding. In particular, the present invention describes a scalable video coding method and a layered video representation that achieves better video quality with more efficient bitstream representat... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120000974 | Self-powered Electronic Label An electronic label system is provided which includes a data source having information to be displayed by an electronic label. An optical source such as an LED array broadcasts optical signals modulated with the data source data to plural electronic labels. Each electro... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110284906 | VERTICAL LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME A method of fabricating a compound semiconductor vertical LED is provided. A first growth substrate capable of supporting compound semiconductor epitaxial growth thereon is provided. One or more epitaxial layers of compound semiconductor material such as GaN or InGaN is... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110243228 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING BY ABT-BASED JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE MODEL The present invention relates to method and apparatus for video coding by ABT-based just noticeable difference (JND). For building the just noticeable difference model, spatial content information (SCI) is used to represent the spatial appearance similarity between one ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110204752 | SELF-POWERED IMPULSE DETECTION SYSTEM A self-powered impulse detecting system comprising a signal transmitter; an energy storage component; and an energy harvester comprising a top plate configured to receive a stress impulse by an external object on its top surface; a bottom plate positioned opposite to th... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110090963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZOOM MOTION ESTIMATION In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, the present invention provides method and apparatus for motion compensated prediction. Apart from translational motion, zoom motion is taken into account by sampling an interpolated frame with one or mor... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION IN DIGITAL VIDEO CODING The invention relates to adjusting the quantization parameter in digital video coding. A shift value (QP Shift) is used to adjust the quantization parameter. The shift value is determined in a determining step 101. The video nature is determined and compared with... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110037051 | OPTIMIZATION OF POLISHING STOP DESIGN The present invention provides a method of fabricating vertical LED structures in which the substrate used for epitaxial layer growth is removed through polishing. The polishing technique used in an exemplary embodiment is chemical mechanical polishing using polish stop... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100228972 | System and Method for Content Distribution with Broadcast Encryption The claimed invention relates to system and method for providing encrypted content via a distribution network 630 with efficient key distribution and distribution network assignment. The claimed invention assigns users to content-specific distribution network in ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20090140808 | GAIN CONTROL CIRCUIT A gain control circuit including a resistor with a first terminal and a second terminal; an operational amplifier with an inverting terminal thereof electrically coupled to said first terminal of said resistor; a non-inverting terminal thereof; and an output terminal th... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090092328 | METHOD FOR MOTION COMPENSATION A method for use in video compression is disclosed. In particular, the claimed invention relates to a method of more efficient fractional-pixel interpolation in two steps by a fixed filter (240) and an adaptive filter (250) for fractional-pixel motion comp... | 04/09/2009 |
