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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D581058 | UV sanitizer | 11/18/2008 |
| 7400436 | System for shifting at least one light spot The invention relates to a system for shifting at least one light spot (903), said system comprising: —a phase-modulator (906) for generating, from an input light beam, a light beam which is phase-modulated according to a controllable phase profile, ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392014 | Measurement of channel characteristics in a communication system A communication system comprises a downlink data channel for the transmission of data packets from a primary station to a secondary station and uplink and downlink control channels. The secondary station measures one or more characteristics of the data channel and i... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379228 | Electrophoretic display An electrophoretic display comprises a pixel which has a pixel volume comprising a reservoir volume and an image volume. Particles which have different colors and different electrophoretic mobilities are present in the pixel volume. An amount of the particles presen... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369680 | Method and apparatus for detecting an event based on patterns of behavior A system and apparatus are disclosed for modeling patterns of behavior of humans or other animate objects and detecting a violation of a repetitive pattern of behavior. The behavior of one or more persons is observed over time and features of the behavior are record... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7351951 | Optoelectronic semiconductor device and method of manufacturing such a device The invention relates to a semiconductor device (10) comprising a semiconductor element (1), particularly a solid-state image sensor (1), comprising a semiconductor body (11) of which one surface comprises an optically active part (1 | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345676 | Text entry for electronic device An electronic device has a touch sensitive surface (14) for entering text. The text is stored in memory (20) in a vector graphics format, preferably without carrying out character recognition. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346146 | X-ray detector with photo-gates and dose control The invention relates to a radiation detector apparatus (10) with an array (12) of detector pixels. Each pixel (20) of the detector comprises a photogate electrode (21) under which electrical charges produced by incident radiation (v, X) ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340853 | Iron with fabric contact detector An electric iron having a housing (1) and a soleplate (2) in which at least one outlet opening (10;15;34;45) is provided, means (8;19;28;39;43) for generating a fine liquid spray or foam or steam, and means (5) for delivering said ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340663 | Method and apparatus for embedding an additional layer of error correction into an error correcting code A method of embedding an additional layer of error correction into an error correcting code, wherein information is encoded into code words of said code over a first Galois field and wherein a number of code words are arranged in the columns of a code block comprisi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7308133 | System and method of face recognition using proportions of learned model A system and method for classifying facial image data, the method comprising the steps of: training a classifier device for recognizing one or more facial images and obtaining corresponding learned models the facial images used for training; inputting a vector inclu... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292717 | Computer tomography method using redundant measured values The invention relates to a computer tomography method in which a radiation source moves relative to an examination region along, in particular, a helical or circular trajectory. Measured values are acquired by a detector unit and a CT image of the examination region... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7272094 | Methods and devices for recording marks in an information layer of an optical record carrier, and record carriers for use therein Methods and devices are described for writing an optical record carrier, in which a mark representing recorded data is written in a phase-change layer of a record carrier by a sequence of radiation pulses. A rear heating pulse 24 is introduced after a last wr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7245663 | Method and apparatus for improved efficiency in transmission of fine granular scalable selective enhanced images Improved efficiency in transmission of FGS encoded video data is achieved by reducing the transmission of overhead information items necessary to decode the received video data. After establishing an initial or first set of criteria for selectively enhancing areas w... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7224352 | Active matrix electroluminescent display An active matrix display includes a display element for producing a visual output when the display element is driven with a constant current, and drive circuitry for controllably driving a substantially constant current through the display element. The drive circuit... | 05/29/2007 |
| D542782 | Headphone | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218254 | Balanced disparity channel code for DC control A coder is fed with precoded data such that the absolute value of the running digital sum (RDS) of the code words as produced by the coder is limited. This is achieved by ensuring that in a group of 2 code words, the RDS of the first code word is compensated by the ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215313 | Two sided display device Driving of a two-sided viewable display (a display that provides information on both sides) is performed by means of mirroring switching circuits Techniques for simultaneous (total or partial) view are also proposed. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209647 | Encoding device for encoding a program and recording device When a program of a certain duration is converted into compressed data (encoded), it is desirable for the total number of data to fit in an available data space, for example, when recorded on an information carrier. More particularly in variable bit rate compression... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206840 | Dynamic frequency selection scheme for IEEE 802.11 WLANs Disclosed is a method and system for dynamically selecting a communication channel between an access point (AP) and a plurality of stations (STAs) in an IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN). The method includes the steps of: determining whether a new chann... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203942 | Method for operating a real-time multimedia terminal in a QoS manner One embodiment includes a method for operating a terminal having at least one resource. The terminal is configured to execute at least one application in real-time. The execution of the application requires execution of at least two tasks. The method comprises selec... | 04/10/2007 |
| D539940 | Led bulb | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196478 | Circuit arrangement A driver for driving a gas discharge lamp includes an inductive ballast implemented as auto-transformer having a central tap, connected between one output terminal and a first input terminal, and a triac connected between a second output terminal and a second input ... | 03/27/2007 |
| D508324 | Toothbrush | 08/16/2005 |
| 6590571 | Method of reducing errors in displays using double-line sub-field addressing Method of calculating new luminance value data based on original luminance value data to be displayed on a matrix display device, where luminance value data are coded in sub-fields, and double-line addressing for the least significant sub-fields is used f... | 07/08/2003 |
