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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176309 | Boot system has BIOS that reads rescue operating system from memory device via input/output chip based on detecting a temperature of a hard disk Boot systems and methods are provided. The boot system includes an IO (Input/Output) chip, a memory device, and a BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). The memory device is coupled to the IO chip, and includes at least a rescue OS (Operating System). The BIOS reads the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8139086 | Image processing method and system The invention provides an image processing method. An image is provided, and the image is divided into a first subimage, a second subimage, a third subimage, and a fourth subimage according to a decomposing method. Next, the first, second, third, and fourth subimage... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130232 | Drawing control method, drawing control apparatus, and drawing control system for embedded system A drawing control method, a drawing control apparatus, and a drawing control system for embedded system are provided. The present invention adopts an independent drawing control apparatus to control a drawing unit to draw a frame, and move the drawn frame to an exte... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8055811 | Computer having function for displaying status of operation and floppy module A floppy module includes a floppy disk controller (FDC), a control circuit, and a display. The FDC has a first control terminal, a second control terminal, and a plurality of third control terminals. Wherein, the first control terminal and the second control termina... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7932708 | Power converter A power converter is provided. The power converter comprises an output pin having an address setting function, for flexibly setting a system management bus (SMBus) slave address. As such, the present invention is adapted for saving the amount of the strapping pins e... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7836242 | Method for page random write and read in blocks of flash memory A method for page random write and read in blocks of flash memory is disclosed. The data could be random written in the pages of block. The pages would be arranged when the block was filled with data, so as to prevent from data copied and erased repeatedly. Present ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826656 | Method for compensating pixel interference of image A method for compensating a pixel of an image is provided The method includes using four median value extraction matrices to obtain the edge information of the image, where the edge information obtained by two of the matrices is Gb value, and the edge information ob... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7797115 | Time interval measurement for capacitive detection Capacitive detection systems, modules, and methods. In one embodiment, time interval measurement(s) are generated that are monotonic functions of the capacitance(s) of capacitive sensor(s) in a capacitive sensing area. In one embodiment, the generated time interval ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791854 | Current limit protection apparatus and method for current limit protection A current limit protection apparatus and a method for current limit protection are provided. The current limit protection apparatus includes a MOS transistor, a current detecting unit, and a current limit circuit. Two source/drain of the MOS transistor are used for ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791301 | Apparatus and method for fan auto-detection An apparatus for detecting a type of fan and controlling the fan, the fan providing during operation a tachometer signal indicating a speed of the fan, the apparatus includes: a direct current (DC) generator for coupling to the fan and configured to provide a first ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7634276 | Method of intelligent channel allocation in communication network system An intelligent channel allocation method is used for detecting and avoiding a second wireless communication system taking advantage of the characteristic of a first wireless communication system in two different wireless communication system. The first wireless comm... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7561585 | Manufacture and method for accelerating network address translation The speed of the network address translation translated with software is generally slower than the speed of transmitting packet in the network, so that the data stored in memory is affected. In this invention, the network address translation is translated by hardwar... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7516260 | Method of communicating with embedded controller A method of communicating with an embedded controller is disclosed. The method is adapted for an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface specification (ACPI). According to the method, a busy flag is set in the status register of the embedded controller. While the... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7485914 | Interdigitized capacitor An interdigitized capacitor comprising first and second electrodes. The first electrode comprises two combs symmetrical to a first mirror plane. The fingers of the combs extend toward the first mirror plane. The second electrode comprises two combs and a linear plat... | 02/03/2009 |
