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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177529 | Reciprocating compressor In a compressor, a motor includes a stator and a moving member that reciprocates. A frame supports the stator and a conductivity member flows at least a portion of magnetic flux flowing away from the stator back to the stator. Accordingly, the reciprocating compress... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171756 | Steam generator of drum washing machine A steam generator is disclosed, which can prevent deformation of a housing in an injection molding process, so as to improve efficiency on connection of the housing, the steam generator comprising the housing which defines the exterior of the steam generator, and ho... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8156770 | Drum type washing machine A drum type washing machine is provided. The drum type washing machine includes a cabinet for forming an appearance; a tub fixed to an inner side of the cabinet and for storing washing water, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub for washing and dehydrating laundry, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155648 | Method of transmitting and receiving control information in a wireless communication system A method of transmitting and receiving control information for a specific service in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of transmitting control information for a specific service in a wireless communication system which uses multiple carriers i... | 04/10/2012 |
| D656912 | LCD television receiver | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142111 | Support platform of non-contact transfer apparatus Provided is a support platform of a non-contact transfer apparatus. The support platform is arranged horizontally and includes first and second members adding a lift force to a first force for lifting peripheral portions of a transferred object, wherein the first fo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138711 | Motor controller of air conditioner and method of the motor controller The present invention relates to a motor controller for an air conditioner and a motor control method. The motor controller including a converter converting AC utility power into DC power and an inverter having a plurality of switching elements, the inverter receivi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130694 | Method for controlling transmission power of HS-SCCH in UMTS system A method for controlling a power of a shared control channel for high speed downlink shared channel (HS-SCCH) in a system adopting a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technique is disclosed, which can control power of HS-SCCH by using the DPCH channel config... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126315 | Recording medium for carrying transport time information A recording medium according to an embodiment includes a recording layer and a transport stream recorded on the recording layer. The transport stream is composed of one or more predetermined units, each predetermined unit starting with at least one transport packet ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124016 | Articles with antimicrobial property and manufacturing method thereof The present invention discloses an article with an antimicrobial property, and a manufacturing method thereof which gives the antimicrobial property to a surface of the article in which bacteria or viruses may contact to proliferate themselves. The antimicrobial pro... | 02/28/2012 |
| D654053 | Speaker for home theater | 02/14/2012 |
| D653650 | Speaker for home theater | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102745 | Information recording medium, method of configuring version information thereof, recording and reproducing method using the same, and recording and reproducing apparatus thereof In one embodiment, the method includes reading control information including version information from a specific area of the recording medium. The version information includes a first version information and a second version information. At least one of the first ve... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089929 | Digital broadcasting system and data processing method in the digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. In an aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a data processing method including receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are mul... | 01/03/2012 |
| D651590 | Bluetooth car kit for mobile phone | 01/03/2012 |
| D651587 | Speaker for home theater | 01/03/2012 |
| D651583 | Mobile phone | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081660 | Method for requesting radio resource in mobile communications system A method for requesting radio resource using a control signal in an evolved universal telecommunications system (E-UMTS) is disclosed. A terminal requests a radio resource for data transmission from a base station by selectively using the control signal or a random ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074147 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. Herein, additional encoding is performed on mobile service data, which are then transmitted, thereby providing robustness in the processed mobile service data, so that the mobile service data ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072938 | Method for handover in mobile communication system A method and apparatus is provided to enable a network to more efficiently determine whether additional reverse links can be assigned. Various methods are presented that allow a network to determine either the transmission power or power headroom of a mobile termina... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069463 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiving system includes a baseband processor, a management processor, and a presentation processor. The baseband processor receives a broadcast signal including mobile ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069462 | Digital broadcasting system and data processing method A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data therein are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a baseband processor unit receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data, the mobile s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068509 | Digital broadcast system, and data processing method A digital broadcast system having storing resistance to errors generated during the transmission of mobile service data, and a data processing method are disclosed. The digital broadcast system additionally encodes mobile service data. As a result, the mobile servic... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068424 | Message transmission in wireless access system A method for transmitting messages to alter the operating status between a mobile station and a base station in a wireless access system comprises, at the mobile station, transmitting a first message to the base station, setting a first count to a first predetermine... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064381 | Method of controlling uplink output power in a wireless communication system A method of calculating uplink output power in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving a message which includes a command to a mobile station (MS) to perform handover from a current serving cell to a target cell... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059210 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in the digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a receiving unit, a main service data processor, a mobile service data processor, a controller, and an output controller. The r... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054906 | Digital broadcasting system and data processing method A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data therein are disclosed. The present invention includes a baseband processor unit receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data, wherein the mobile service data can configur... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054385 | Digital television transmitter and method of coding data in digital television transmitter A pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data packets by coding the enhanced data packets for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data packets. A data formatter adds first null data into first place holders within each pre-processed enhanced dat... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051451 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, an extractor for extracting transmissi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050286 | CQICH allocation request header for communicating feedback information A method of communicating feedback information between a mobile station and a base station comprises determining a need to request bandwidth allocation; providing information to a base station according to the determining, wherein the information indicates bandwidth... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050213 | Message coding in a relayed communications network A method for relaying a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving in at least one of a base station and a relay station information regarding a mobile station group (MSG) of a mobile station, scheduling within a given dura... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049678 | Image capturing and displaying method and system In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a mobile communication terminal comprises a first display and a second display and a user interface for allowing a user to select one or more images to be displayed on either of the first and second displays, wherein i... | 11/01/2011 |
| D647923 | DVD player | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045637 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data A digital broadcasting system including a transmitting system and a receiving system, and a method of processing data are disclosed. A method of processing data of a transmitting system includes sequentially grouping N number of columns (Kc) configured of A number o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041612 | On-line video and image system A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and servi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037626 | Cloth treating apparatus A cloth treating apparatus is disclosed. A cloth treating apparatus includes a cabinet comprising an accommodating space which accommodates laundry, a air supplying device which supplies hot air to the accommodating space, an opening unit which selectively opens and... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036286 | Signal generation using phase-shift based pre-coding A phase-shift based pre-coding scheme used in a transmitting side and a receiving side that has less complexity than those of a space-time coding scheme, that can support various spatial multiplexing rates while maintaining the advantages of the phase-shift diversit... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032411 | Group advertisement method in SIP based message service A group advertisement method in a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) based message service, and a PT client device are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a PT server, a request to send a group advertisement message for a specific... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023471 | Method of performing communication according to control information in a wireless communication system A method of communicating with a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes performing handover by a mobile station (MS) from a first cell to a second cell, and measuring signal strengths of neighboring cells by t... | 09/20/2011 |
| RE42716 | Method for filtering an image The present invention relates to a method for recovering a compressed image for an image processing technique and an apparatus therefor. In the present invention, a cost function is defined in consideration with a directional characteristic of the pixels which will ... | 09/20/2011 |
