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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7376397 | Key setting methods A method of user-defined key setting in a portable electronic communication device. Corresponding relationships between keys and functions is recorded in a first mapping table and the portable electronic communication device executes the functions accordingly. When ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366550 | Handheld electronic apparatus A handheld electronic apparatus. The handheld electronic apparatus includes a first connecting member, a second connecting member, an operating member, a first holding member and a second holding member. The second connecting member is rotatably connected to the fir... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366260 | Efficient MLSE equalizer implementation A path metric computation method and apparatus for estimating a maximum likelihood sequence in a wireless communication network. The proposed method applies the statistical properties of estimated channel impulse response to reduce the computational load. A threshol... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365968 | Electronic device and image configuration thereof An electronic device. An image configuration is disposed on a housing of the electronic device. The image configuration comprises a base and a patterned portion. The patterned portion has a center of gravity differing from a rotation center that pivoted on the base.... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359356 | Overflow control method for frame synchronization of base stations in wireless communication network system The present invention provides an overflow control method for frame synchronization of base stations in wireless communication network system. The wireless communication network system includes a radio network controller, a first base station, a second base station,... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359095 | Apparatus used with scanner for holding transparent objective film A film holding apparatus for use with a scanner is provided. The film holding apparatus selectively holds a positive film and a negative film that are to be scanned. The positive film is thicker than the negative film. The film holding apparatus includes a base, a p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352403 | Method for adjusting relative position of lens module by using uniform light source A method for adjusting relative position of a lens module by using a uniform light source is provided. The lens module includes a bottom board, an image sensor, an adjusting module and a lens apparatus. The image sensor is disposed on the bottom board and perpendicu... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352804 | Frequency estimation method and system A multiple linear regression frequency estimation method and system. A phase sequence of a received signal is derived and divided into several subsequences according to predetermined rules. The phase differences of the subsequences are calculated for frequency estim... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353343 | Memory management system for preventing program execution when CPU fetches execution code from unoccupied region of memory A memory management system and method. The system includes a first storage device and a processing unit. The first storage device stores an exception code excluding operation codes (op-codes) corresponding to an instruction set. The processing unit reads the excepti... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352800 | Method of partial parallel interference cancellation A method of Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation (PPIC) is provided for recursively eliminating the Multiple Access Interference from a received signal. Such method is to use a recursion way to eliminate all the Multiple Access Interference (MAI) one by one fr... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7344117 | Adjustable lift support apparatus An adjustable lift support apparatus includes a base, a sleeve attached onto the base, at least one meshing device, a shaft, and a support attached at the shaft. At least one groove is formed on an inner surface of the sleeve along a first axial direction. Each mesh... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346355 | Method for data transmission rate adaptation A method for data transmission rate adaptation for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA). The method includes A) providing a plurality of parameters, including: a maximum allowable transmission power, a minimum allowable transmission power, an increasing pa... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343531 | Method for interleaving data frame and circuit thereof A method, adapted to a 3GPP turbo coder, for interleaving a plurality of data of a data frame and a circuit thereof is provided. The present invention computes a value of Row Parameter according to the size of the data frame, computes an index for a table according ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334244 | Flexible flat cable and disk drive using the same A flexible flat cable and a disk drive using the same are provided. The flexible flat cable is configured to suppress an electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by a signal transmitted by it. The flexible flat cable includes a main body and a metal layer. The m... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333547 | Methods and devices for dynamic quantizing input of a soft decision decoder Dynamic quantization methods and dynamic quantizers for quantizing soft outputs of an equalizer according to the channel condition in order to alleviate the computational load on a soft decision decoder. The dynamic quantizer assigns only a few bits to represent the... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324579 | Flexible distribution device and method for rake receiver of communication system The present invention is related to a flexible distribution architecture and method for rake receiver of communication system, comprising: a plurality of processing units, further, each processing unit comprises: a plurality of rake receivers, wherein each rake rece... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318570 | Adjustment mechanism and electronic device utilizing the same An electronic device and an adjustment mechanism thereof. The electronic device includes a housing, an adjusting member, a lifting assembly, and a driving assembly. The adjusting member is moveably connected to the housing. The lifting assembly connects the adjustin... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319890 | Detection method and foldable electronic device thereof A foldable electronic device and a detection method. The detection method determines whether the foldable electronic device is in an open position or a closed position according to a detected sound wave received by a microphone of the foldable electronic device.... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319460 | Electronic device with retractable stylus An electronic device with retractable stylus. The electronic device comprises a main body and a stylus. The stylus comprises a resilient member disposed therein and a latching mechanism for engaging the main body. To connect the stylus and the main body, the resilie... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313410 | Mobile phone and battery-releasing device thereof A mobile phone and a battery releasing device. The mobile phone includes a body, a releasing device, and a battery. The releasing device includes a first magnetic member, and is disposed on the body in a manner such that it can move between a first position and a se... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312991 | Electronic apparatus having a vibration absorber An optical access apparatus is provided. The optical access apparatus includes a mounting plate, characterized in that the mounting plate has a bent portion acting as a balance plate of the optical access apparatus. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312815 | Method and apparatus for color calibration The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for color calibration for calibrating an input color. A target color represented by a first coordinate pair (X1, Y1). An input color, which is to be calibrated, is represented by a second coordin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310294 | Optical power calibration at the outer edge of an optical storage carrier A CD-R/RW drive (optical storage carrier player) includes an access device for writing data on a CD (optical storage carrier). The CD includes a central portion, an inner power calibration area which can provide the optical power calibration 100 times, a data storag... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305125 | Color-correcting device and method The invention is to provide a color-correcting device and method for matching colors of a first image displayed on an image forming apparatus with colors of a second image displayed on a display apparatus. Moreover, the image forming apparatus captures the first ima... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302222 | Automatic document feeder (ADF) with a releasing device An automatic document feeder (ADF) with a feeding roller used to carry a paper sheet to a reading position is provided. The ADF comprises a feeding path, a paper cartridge, an exit roller set, and a first lever. The feeding path is arranged in the ADF for guiding th... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299387 | Address generator for block interleaving A block interleaving/de-interleaving method and address generator thereof. The block interleaver segments the coded symbols into blocks according to a predetermined column value (C). The interleaver reads the coded symbols of each block by jumping according to the c... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299077 | Exchangeable decor panel for portable cellular phone A structure of exchangeable décor panel for portable cellular phone that is applied to the folding portable cellular phone having a continuing groove located on a proper position of flip cover and base portion thereof for accommodating a décor panel made of flexib... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295530 | System and method for communication connection via heterogeneous networks A method for communication connection via heterogeneous networks. A first electronic device transmits a first data packet to a first wireless bridge. The first wireless bridge attaches a first tunnel header to the first data packet to form a first wireless data pack... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295858 | Mobile station capable of outputting ring tones coming from a base station without storing them locally on the mobile station A device for ring tone output. The device comprises a phone speaker, a ringing speaker, a receiver, a switching device and a micro-controller. The receiver acquires audio data via a traffic channel. The audio data comprises a ring tone. The switching device receives... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289468 | System and method for scheduling protocol data units The present invention relates to a scheduling unit in a wireless communication system. For sequentially receiving a plurality of Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in a plurality of communication sessions, accumulate and schedule the plurality of PDUs during a predetermined... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287028 | Traversal pattern mining apparatus and method thereof A system for traversal pattern mining. A storage device stores multiple web log records individually comprising multiple ordered web objects, and multiple minimum support records individually corresponding to the web object and comprising a min_sup value correspondi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283824 | Method of location display for mobile station The present invention relates to a method for determining a nearest base station with respect to a mobile station from M base stations. First, the mobile station compares strengths of M signals received from M base stations with each other to determine a first base ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283170 | Intelligent button feature in digital image acquisition apparatus and mode switching method of the same The invention provides a mode switching method in a digital image acquisition apparatus with a first button for taking pictures and a second button for mode switching. Snapshot modes and a viewing mode are provided. A snapshot parameter is for recording whether the ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279216 | Identifiable flexible printed circuit board and method of fabricating the same The invention discloses an identifiable flexible printed circuit board (PCB) and a method of fabricating the same. The identifiable flexible PCB includes a flexible substrate, a conductive layer, and a printing ink layer. First, the conductive layer is formed over a... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270306 | Electronic apparatus with height-adjustable foot unit An electronic apparatus includes a casing and an adjustable foot unit, which is disposed on the casing. The adjustable foot unit includes multiple protrusions of different lengths. When the electronic apparatus is disposed on a supporting surface, one of the multipl... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266063 | Optical power calibration method according to a data writing location onto an optical storage carrier A method is used for calibrating a writing power of an optical storage carrier player. The player has an access device for writing data onto the optical storage carrier. The carrier includes a center, an inner power calibration area (first calibration area), a data ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264917 | Fluid injection micro device and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating a fluid injection micro device. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate with an insulating layer thereon. A heater is formed on the insulating layer. A patterned conductive layer is formed on the heater and the insulating laye... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263390 | Folding mobile phone A folding mobile phone comprises a panel housing, a motherboard housing and a blocker. The panel housing is hingedly connected with the motherboard housing by a pivot portion of the motherboard housing to have the folding mobile phone in a closed position or in an o... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258311 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display having a supporting base, a display unit and a pre-force mechanism. The supporting base has at least one pivot and at least two sections joined thereby, and the display unit is connected to the supporting base, exerts a first torque on the p... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258548 | Portable electronic device and external module thereof A portable electronic device and an external module thereof. The portable electronic device comprises a host and an external module detachably connected thereto. The external module comprises a connector assembly and a connection pin rotatable on the same axis, such... | 08/21/2007 |
