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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184891 | Imaging system, imaging method and computer program for imaging a region of interest The present invention relates to an imaging system for imaging a region of interest comprising an illumination unit and a detection unit. The imaging system further comprises a grouping unit for grouping the detection values, wherein each group comprises at least on... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179528 | Assembly comprising a portable device having fluid-fillable container and a holder An assembly including a holder and a fluid-fillable container. The holder is adapted for holding at least the container and includes a system for filling the container with a fluid from a fluid source. The holder further includes a detector for detecting the fluid l... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8155168 | Inductive communication system with increased noise immunity using low-complexity transmitter A modulator for a communications system includes a spread spectrum coder and a pulse code modulator having a signal input port connectable to a signal output port of the spread spectrum coder. The modulator performs a robust and error free modulation and coding sche... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135177 | Motion detection device The invention refers to a device, a method and a computer program product for extracting motion information from a sequence of video frames. Existing solutions for extracting motion information from sequence of video frames need a massive computing power which make ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134929 | Communication system In a communication system subject to variations in channel quality, transmit power control is used to reduce the variations in received signal quality. If the channel quality degrades to such an extent that a high transmit power would be required to ensure good rece... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132105 | Control codes for programmable remote supplied in XML format An Internet service makes available control codes for use on a programmable universal remote. The remote controls CE equipment through IR or RF commands. A server supplies the control codes as XML data that gets processed at the receiver's set top box or PC, or the ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116471 | Audio signal dereverberation A method of estimating the reverberations in an acoustic signal (y) comprises determining the frequency spectrum (Y) of the signal (y), providing a first parameter (α) indicative of the decay of the reverberations part (r) of the signal over time, and providing a s... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098771 | Receiver apparatus and method for receiving data units over a channel When transmitting medium access control protocol data units for the high speed downlink shared channel over a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request processes, one of the processes can be in a retransmission procedure. In this case, stalling of the transmissio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8073685 | Audio signal encoding or decoding Encoding an audio signal is provided wherein the audio signal includes a first audio channel and a second audio channel, the encoding comprising subband filtering each of the first audio channel and the second audio channel in a complex modulated filterbank to provi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8019350 | Audio coding using de-correlated signals A multi-channel signal having at least three channels can be reconstructed such, that the reconstructed channels are at least partly de-correlated from each other using a downmixed signal derived from an original multi-channel signal and a set of de-correlated signa... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014761 | Mobile device that uses removable medium for playback of content A service that provides playback of media content, that may include advertising content, to a user. The system comprises device, that may be a portable wireless device, where the wireless device has a media drive and an application that reads content from a medium i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7998334 | Method, an apparatus, a control system and a computer program to perform an automatic removal of cathode depositions during a bipolar electrochemical machining The invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a computer program for electrochemical machining where a removal of cathode depositions is performed in a fully automated way by means of an application of optimal pulses of a suitable polarity. The method comprise... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7997494 | Portable device for storing media content A portable device has a storage medium for storing media content such as audio and video files. The portable device can communicate with an external media player or network when it is connected to the player or situated near the player. The external media player all... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982963 | Liquid-based optical device and electronic device The present invention discloses an optical device comprising a container enclosing an insulating liquid (A) and a liquid responsive to an electric field (B), the insulating liquid (A) and the liquid responsive to an electric field (B) being immiscible and being in c... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982399 | High-pressure gas discharge lamp having electrode rods with crack-initiating means A high-pressure gas discharge lamp has a bulb of quartz glass and two electrode rods. One end of each electrode rod is connected to a molybdenum foil member embedded in the quartz glass material, while the other end of each electrode rod projects into the gas discha... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978693 | Integrated circuit and method for packet switching control An integrated circuit having a plurality of processing modules (M, S) and an interconnect means (N) for coupling said plurality of processing modules (M, S) and for enabling a packet based communication based on transactions between said plurality of processing modu... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7976937 | Coating for a steam-generating device A dual-layer coating for application in a steam-generating device is disclosed. A impermeable first layer thermally insulates the heated surface, while a second, porous layer enlarges the contact area, leading to an efficient conversion of liquid into vapor. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975206 | Information recording device and method, information reproducing device and method, recording medium, program, and disc recording medium An ECC block is constituted by RS(248,216,33). Of a data length of 216 bytes (symbols), only 16 bytes are allocated to BCA data and the remaining 200 bytes are used for fixed data having a predetermined value. Using the fixed data of 200 bytes and the BCA data of 16... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961604 | Processing system and method for transmitting data A method for exchanging data between first and second functional units includes the following steps. In a first handshake procedure, data is exchanged corresponding to a communication thread selected by the first functional unit, while independently in a second hand... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7892817 | Magnetic rotation to improve signal-over-background in biosensing A method and a device are provided for distinguishing a specific binding from a less specific binding between at least one magnetic nanoparticle and a surface of another entity by applying a magnetic field and detecting a physical parameter relating to magnetic nano... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7847786 | Multi-view display A display system has a display device arranged to generate a first view in a first direction relative to the display device and to generate a second view in a second direction relative to the display device, the second direction being different from the first direct... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847302 | Blue LED with phosphor layer for producing white light and different phosphor in outer lens for reducing color temperature A technique for forming a white light LED is disclosed. In one embodiment, the LED emits blue light. A first phosphor for producing red, yellow, yellow-green, or green light is formed to conformably coat the LED die. One suitable deposition technique is electrophore... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840062 | False positive reduction in computer-assisted detection (CAD) with new 3D features A method for computer aided detection (CAD) and classification of regions of interest detected within HRCT medical image data includes post-CAD machine learning techniques applied to maximize specificity and sensitivity of identification of a region/volume as being ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839068 | Fluorescent lamp capable of slow release of organic evaporating materials at low temperature The present invention relates to a fluorescent lamp including a visible radiation and/or UV-radiation transmissive discharge vessel, at least one luminescent layer coated onto the inner wall of the discharge vessel for converting UV-radiation to other wavelengths of... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7827456 | Error correction scheme for a disc-playing system The present invention provides an error correcting method and apparatus for correcting errors in content. In accordance with a method embodiment, a method is provided for correcting errors in content, comprising, determining the types of the errors; sending a downlo... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7808591 | Image quality in an image display device A display device for displaying a three dimensional image such that different views are displayed according to the viewing angle. The display device includes a display panel having separately addressable pixels for displaying the image, where the pixels are grouped ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808170 | Device for generating UVC radiation A device for generating ultraviolet radiation by an excimer discharge includes at least partly UV-transparent discharge vessel whose discharge space is filled with a gas filling. The device further includes electrodes for triggering and maintaining an excimer discha... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7779433 | 3D actuator for optical disc system An optical pick-up actuator includes a lens holder having tracking and focusing coils which substantially extend in two parallel planes at a side of the lens holder. A magnet system cooperates with the tracking and focusing coils and is arranged separately from the ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7758508 | Ultrasound-imaging systems and methods for a user-guided three-dimensional volume-scan sequence An ultrasound-imaging system and method is provided that permits an operator to acquire an image of a volume-of-interest in a time critical fashion, that is capable of referencing the volume rendering to a standard two-dimensional imaging mode, and permits the opera... | 07/20/2010 |
| RE41445 | Arrangement for suppressing an interfering component of an input signal In an acoustic echocanceller (6), an estimate of an echo signal is determined by an adaptive filter (10) and is subtracted from the input signal by a subtracter (14). The spectrum estimator (12) determines the frequency spectrum of the es... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7753850 | Method for ultrasound perfusion imaging An ultrasound imaging system transmits a broad beam of ultrasound into tissues that are perfused with blood containing microbubbles. The ultrasound has an intensity that is sufficient to destroy the microbubbles in the tissues. A plurality of ultrasound imaging beam... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7750571 | Increasing the discharge arc diffuseness in mercury-free discharge lamps A mercury-free gas discharge lamp suitable in particular for motor vehicles has an enhanced discharge arc diffuseness. The lamp according includes an inner vessel and/or outer bulb with a structured arrangement or pattern such that the discharge arc diffuseness of t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7731370 | Projection system and method for operating a discharge lamp A projection system and a method for operating a discharge lamp are described. The protection system comprises a discharge lamp 12 and driving electronics 14. The color wheel 18 serves as color filter for filtering light 16 emitted from l... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7715913 | External defibrillator with training mode and method of use A method and apparatus for training a user to operate an external defibrillator, usable in a therapy or training mode, which includes an energy source; an electrode interface responsive to an electrode arrangeable on a release liner and configured for placement on a... | 05/11/2010 |
| D615695 | Luminaire face plate | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706876 | Internal defibrillator operable with one hand A single-handle cordless internal defibrillator includes a pair of paddles, and a pair of electrodes that are respectively connected to a first-end portion of the pair of paddles. The pair of paddles has a second-end portion in communication with a single-handle, wi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7692376 | Electrical device with crossover of electrode connecting lines The invention relates to an electrical device comprising a substrate carrying at least one component comprising at least one electrode, a first connecting line electrically connected to said electrode, wherein the first connecting line bridges a second connecting li... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689278 | Identification system for defibrillator electrode package An automatic external defibrillator electrode package includes a coded conductive label that uniquely identifies the type of automatic electrode contained therein. Pins on the defibrillator body make electrical contact with the conductive label when the package is a... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688704 | Multilayer optical disc having disc information A multi-layer record carrier is for recording information by writing marks in a track. The record carrier has a first recording layer (40) and a second recording layer (41), and each recording layer has a pregroove (14) indicating the position o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7667409 | Method for driving a lamp in a lighting system based on a goal energizing level of the lamp and a control apparatus therefor A method and a control apparatus for driving a lamp (14) in a lighting system, in particular a lamp laving a fast response to a change of an amount of energy supplied through the lamp, in which a device controller 8 is connected with the lamp (14 | 02/23/2010 |
