Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131407 | LAYER-AWARE FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, ENCODING APPARATUS, DECODING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM THEREOF A layer-aware Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding and decoding method for encoding and decoding an information content, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, and a system thereof are provided, wherein the information content has a plurality of layer source sy... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131225 | DATA CENTER NETWORK SYSTEM AND PACKET FORWARDING METHOD THEREOF A data center network system and a packet forwarding method are provided. The data center network includes a management server and a plurality of machines containing physical machines and virtual machines. The management server configures a logical media access control ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129459 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DYNAMIC WIRELESS TRANSMITTING POWER CONTROL The present disclosure relates to a method and system of dynamic wireless transmitting power control for a vehicle. The system of wireless transmitting power control comprises: a receiving unit, a state unit, a storing unit, a caution unit, a transmitting power decision... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129251 | METHOD FOR DEPARAFFINIZING FORMALIN-FIXED PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED TISSUE The invention provides a method for deparaffinizing a formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue, including: providing a formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sample; mixing the formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sample with an organic solvent and water or with an o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129051 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE AND LITHIUM BATTERY UTILIZING THE SAME Disclosed is a positive electrode applied in lithium battery and method for manufacturing the same. First, a lithium alloy oxide layer is formed on a substrate. Subsequently, an additional high density and low energy plasma treatment is processed, such that the lithium ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127730 | LENS-HOLDING-AND-ALIGNING SEAT AND LED LIGHT PANEL THEREOF A lens-holding-and-aligning seat and an LED light panel thereof are presented. The light panel includes a substrate, an LED, a lens and a holding-and-aligning seat. The LED is disposed on the substrate in corresponding to a soldering pad of the substrate, and the holdin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127625 | TRENCH CAPACITOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A trench capacitor structure is provided. The trench capacitor structure includes a substrate, a trench formed in the substrate, a plurality of scallops formed in the sidewalls of the trench, and at least one capacitor formed within at least one of the scallops. The dis... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127113 | FLEXIBLE RESISTIVE TOUCH SENSOR STRUCTURE A flexible resistive touch sensor structure includes a roll of first and a roll of second flexible transparent substrates, first connection wires, second connection wires, spacer dots and insulation frames. The rolls of first and the second flexible transparent substrat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127112 | FLEXIBLE PROJECTIVE CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSOR STRUCTURE A flexible projective capacitive touch sensor structure includes following elements. A roll of first flexible transparent substrate has sensing unit regions thereon, and each of the sensing unit regions includes at least two first transparent patterned electrodes and at... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127011 | Method, System and Devices for Remote Control and Be-Controlled A remote control method applied to a remote control system, including a remote control device and at least one be-controlled device, includes the following steps. The remote control device discovers the at least one be-controlled device dynamically via a network and ret... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126848 | MULTI-CHIP STACKED SYSTEM AND CHIP SELECT APPARATUS THEREOF A multi-chip stacked system and a chip select apparatus are provided. The chip select apparatus includes n ID code generators and n activation logic units. The first ID code generator generates a first ID code and a second seed code according to a first seed code, and a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126545 | ENGINE DEVICE An engine device includes an engine, a power generating portion, a motor portion, and a transmission mechanism. The engine includes a piston and a cylinder, and the piston is arranged in the cylinder and moves back and forth between a top dead center and a bottom dead c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125895 | WIRE TRANSMITTING MODULE A wire transmitting module, disposed inside a Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) apparatus having a roller set for providing a wire electrode, is disclosed, which comprises: a negative pressure generating device and a cylinder, being arranged for enabling the wi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125669 | PACKAGE CARRIER A package carrier including a substrate, at least an under bump metallurgic (UBM) layer and at least a conductive bump is provided. The substrate has a conductive structure and at least a pad connected with the conductive structure. A region of the pad connected with th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125577 | HEAT SINKING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF TREATING A HEAT SINKING ELEMENT A heat sinking element and a method of treating a heat sinking element are provided. The heat sinking element includes a metal substrate. The metal substrate is mainly composed of aluminium. A surface of the metal substrate has a plurality of micro-nano holes and a diam... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109361 | PROGRAM CONVERTING MODULE FOR MULTI-AXIS COORDINATED MACHINES AND PROGRAM-CONVERTING METHOD A program-converting module for a multi-axis cooperated machine and a program-converting method. Machining programs and mechanism data of a plurality of first machines are input to a first input module. Mechanism data of a plurality of second machines are input to a sec... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108697 | Composition and Polymer A composition and a polymer are provided. The composition includes the polymer and a melamine derivative. The polymer has a formula of R is hydrogen, halide, alkyl group, alkoxyl group, haloalkyl group or nit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107977 | POLARIZED LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME The present invention relates to a polarized light emitting diode (LED) device and the method for manufacturing the same, in which the LED device comprises: a base, a light emitting diode (LED) chip, a polarizing waveguide and a packaging material. In an exemplary embod... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107631 | BONDING MATERIAL, METHOD, AND STRUCTURE Disclosed is a bonding structure, including a heat dissipation substrate, a eutectic layer on the heat dissipation substrate, and a copper layer on the eutectic layer. The thermal dissipation substrate includes aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, or zirconium oxide. The e... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106761 | DRIVING INTERFACE DEVICE ADAPTIVE TO A FLAT SPEAKER A driving interface device adaptive to a flat speaker is introduced herein. The driving interface device is coupled with an external sound source for receiving sound signals, and boosts voltage levels of the sound signals to drive the thin flat speaker without using an ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106073 | DATA CENTER MODULE A module for data center is presented, which is used for heat sinking of a heat source. The module for data center includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a heat pipe. The heat source is positioned in the first chamber. The second chamber is adjacent to the firs... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105934 | ELECTRO-WETTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND NON-POLAR COLOR SOLUTION THEREOF An electro-wetting display device and a non-polar color solution thereof are provided. The electro-wetting device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a polar solution layer and a non-polar color solution layer. The first substrate is opposite to the second s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105599 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND IMAGE-SHOOTING METHOD WITH GUIDE FOR TAKING STEREO IMAGES AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING STEREO IMAGES An image-shooting method with guide for taking stereo images is used in a camera system. The camera system utilizes a same lens to take images. The method includes the following steps. A shooting mode is selected. A guiding information is provided by a display unit. A s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105435 | Apparatus and Method for Inpainting Three-Dimensional Stereoscopic Image An apparatus and a method for rendering three-dimensional stereoscopic images are provided. The apparatus is for use in a three-dimensional image processing system which generates viewpoint images according to an input image and an input depth. The apparatus comprises a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105433 | Image Depth Information Refreshing Method and Device An image depth information refreshing method applied to an image depth information refreshing device is disclosed. The image depth information refreshing device includes a storage unit and an arithmetic logic unit. The storage unit stores a previous depth diagram corres... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105295 | STRUCTURE FOR ADJUSTING AN EM WAVE PENETRATION RESPONSE AND ANTENNA STRUCTURE FOR ADJUSTING AN EM WAVE RADIATION CHARACTERISTIC A structure for adjusting electromagnetic wave (EM wave) penetration response includes a plurality of structure units and a dielectric substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface. The structure units are disposed on the upper surface and/or the lower surface. Th... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120104566 | PASSIVATION LAYER STRUCTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME According to an embodiment of the invention, a passivation layer structure of a semiconductor device for disposed on a semiconductor substrate is provided, which includes a passivation layer structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the passivation laye... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120103571 | HEAT DISSIPATION STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE A structure of heat dissipation of an electronic device includes at least one heat pipe and a cooler. The heat pipe has a condensation end and an evaporation end opposite to each other, and the evaporation end is disposed on a heat generating element of the electronic d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082103 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, PARAMETER ASSIGNMENT METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND BASE STATION USING THE SAME A random access method, a parameter assignment method, a wireless communication device, and a base station using the same are provided. The random access method is adapted for the wireless communication device to perform a random access process with the base station, an... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120080716 | INITIAL-ON SCR DEVICE FOR ON-CHIP ESD PROTECTION A semiconductor device for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection comprises a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) including a semiconductor substrate, a first well formed in the substrate, a second well formed in the substrate, a first p-type region formed in the first... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120080387 | METHOD FOR TRACKING POLLUTION SOURCE IN PROCESS WATER A method for tracking a pollution source in process water is presented. Firstly, variation curves of drain water drained from different rinsing tanks are respectively obtained, and a water quality concentration of the drain water drained to a buffer tank is detected, so... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120079904 | JOINT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A joint device includes a rotary shaft, two fixing members, two driving members, two transmission gears, and a link gear. The two driving members are respectively fixed to the two fixing members, and the two fixing members are pivoted to each other through the rotary sh... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072151 | ENERGY DETECTION METHOD AND AN ENERGY DETECTION CIRCUIT USING THE SAME An energy detection method is provided. The method obtains an initial time point of an input signal with reference to a digital signal corresponding to the input signal. An ith sample value is obtained by sampling the digital signal. The (i−M−N+1)th ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070590 | PLASMA ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION APPARATUS AND THE CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF This prevent disclosure provides a plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition apparatus and the controlling method thereof. The plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition apparatus includes: a plurality of reaction chambers, each of the reaction chambers having a first reacti... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068698 | STRUCTURE OF TMR AND FABRICATION METHOD OF INTEGRATED 3-AXIS MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR AND SENSING CIRCUIT A structure of TMR includes two magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) devices with the same pattern and same magnetic film stack on a same conducting bottom electrode and a parallel connection of conducting top electrode. Each MTJ device includes a pinned layer on the botto... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068571 | CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) is described, including a substrate, a conductive film disposed over the substrate, a conductive membrane suspended over the conductive film with a vacuum space underneath, and at least one anchoring post disposed ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068177 | MEASURING APPARATUS A measuring apparatus including a first chip, a first circuit layer, a first heater, a first stress sensor and a second circuit layer is provided. The first chip has a first through silicon via, a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The fir... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054282 | ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR HYBRID PEER TO PEER/CLIENT-SERVER DATA TRANSMISSION Architecture and method of hybrid P2P/client-server for data transmission involve using a P2P grouping method to determine the data transmission mode being a P2P mode or a client-server mode by an original source, for a plurality of peers connected to the original sourc... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053929 | METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR AWARENESS OF LANGUAGE ABILITY A method and mobile device for awareness of language ability are provided. “Repeated pattern index”-related properties, such as, a vocabulary usage amount, a vocabulary type, or a ratio, a time point, a time length or repeated contents of a repeated voice segment, a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053022 | BABY WALKER A baby walker is introduced herein. The baby walker includes a base and a pair of shoulder straps. The base is made by flexible materials such as plastics, or the similar materials. In one exemplary embodiment, the base of the baby walker may be packaged in a deflated f... | 03/01/2012 |
