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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7954056 | Television-based visualization and navigation interface Techniques for retrieving and displaying multimedia information are provided. A television (TV) interface is provided that displays multimedia information that may be stored in a multimedia document. The interface enables a user to navigate through multimedia inform... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7900817 | Techniques for introducing devices to device families with paper receipt Techniques for introducing devices to device families. Membership in a device family allows a device certain privileges such as the ability to engage in secure communications with another device in the same device family. A device is made a member of a device family... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7788080 | Paper interface for simulation environments Techniques for using a paper interface to replay time-based media information captured for a simulation and/or restart execution of a simulation program from a user-selectable time point. A static representation is generated for time-based media information captured... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7743347 | Paper-based interface for specifying ranges Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for specifying ranges using a paper document. Each range is characterized by a start time and an end time. One or more ranges may be specified by a user using the paper document. Portions of recorded informatio... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739583 | Multimedia document sharing method and apparatus A document sharing system includes producing an updatable collection of multimedia documents. A collection coversheet provides a facile medium for handling and distributing large collections of documents. The system includes techniques for subsequent access to the c... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734563 | Automatic invocation of computational resources without user intervention across a network A system is described for automatically invoking computational resources without intervention or request from a user of the system. The computational resources may operate by searching across a network, or may themselves be located across a network. In the system a ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7731435 | Techniques for printing with integrated paper sheet identification A printing method and apparatus includes fingerprinting a sheet of printable media such as paper to obtain a fingerprint. The fingerprint is encrypted using an encryption key known only to the user wanting to print the document. The encrypted fingerprint is then enc... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7705679 | Operational amplifier An operational amplifier includes a first differential stage, a second differential stage, a second cascade amplifier stage, an output unit, a first switching control unit and a second switching control unit. When an external signal for stopping operation is input, ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701188 | Synchronous rectification switching regulator, and control circuit and control method therefor A synchronous rectification switching regulator, and a control circuit and a control method for controlling the synchronous rectification switching regulator. The regulator includes an output terminal, a first switching device, an inductor, a second switching device... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701187 | DC converter with halt mode setting means A DC converter with a halt mode setting is disclosed for preventing the occurrence of over-current while alleviating the increase in the size of circuits, along with a method for setting up such a halt mode. The DC converter includes a semiconductor switch, a clock ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7669127 | Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations. According to an embodiment, the presentation recording appliance (PRA) receives multimedia presentation information comprising video information and/or audio information. The PRA may also receive ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7653925 | Techniques for receiving information during multimedia presentations and communicating the information Techniques for receiving information during multimedia presentations and for communicating the received information to one or more information access devices. A presentation recorder adapter receives information during a multimedia presentation and communicates the ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649343 | Charge control circuit, charging device, and connection checking method Electrical connection between a charging device and a secondary battery is checked during a wait time in which a charge mode of the charging device is selected. When the electrical connection is not successfully established, a charge current is not supplied from the... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646179 | Electric power supply circuit and electronic device An electric power supply circuit includes a first switching element that turns on or off according to an external signal; an inductor capacitor circuit provided between the power supply and the load that charges or discharges electric power provided by the power sup... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646175 | Device and method for controlling a current supply A device or a method for supplying a current to a load. A peripheral temperature of the load is detected. Based on the detected peripheral temperature and a predetermined time period, the unit amount of the current being supplied is switched between a first current ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644350 | Techniques for validating multimedia forms Techniques for creating and processing electronic forms that include at least one field that is configured to accept multimedia information as input. Techniques are provided for creating an electronic form comprising at least one field that is configured to accept m... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7606444 | Multimodal access of meeting recordings A meeting recorder captures multimodal information of a meeting. Subsequent analysis of the information produces scores indicative of visually and aurally significant events that can help identify significant segments of the meeting recording. Textual analysis can e... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7596755 | Multimedia visualization and integration environment Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for retrieving and displaying multimedia information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a graphical user interface (GUI) is provided that displays multimedia information that may be stored in... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7531994 | Constant voltage regulator for generating a low voltage output Constant voltage regulator includes an output terminal, an output transistor, an output voltage controller, and a switching circuit. The output terminal outputs a first voltage to an external host apparatus. The output transistor outputs a current in accordance with... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7522432 | Switching regulator and control circuit and method used therein A switching regulator that performs voltage regulation using synchronous rectification in step-up and step-down modes includes input and output terminals, an inductor, first through fourth transistors, an overcurrent detection unit, and a control unit. The input ter... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7508988 | Method, program and apparatus for image processing capable of effectively performing image transmission, and a medium storing the program An image processing apparatus includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive a request, from at least one different image processing apparatus connected via a network, for transmission of a codestream generated in a way such that image data is divided into at ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7501802 | DC-DC converting method and apparatus A DC-DC converting apparatus including a step-up and step-down circuit stepping up/down an input voltage to generate an output voltage and a PWM control circuit. The PWM control circuit generates an error signal, first to third voltages, a first triangular wave sign... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7480230 | Light source drive, optical information recording apparatus, and optical information recording method A light source drive which modulates a light source so as to cause the same to emit a light, includes: a superposition current generation part which generates a superposition current approximately corresponding to a charging/discharging current needed for a capacita... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480223 | Recording and reading method and device for dye based write-once DVD medium A recording method of recording information in a dye-based write-once digital versatile disc (DVD) containing a substrate having a wobbled guide groove and a recording layer containing an organic dye. Recording is performed by irradiating the DVD with three kinds of... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480125 | Constant voltage circuit, system power device and method of controlling system power device A constant voltage circuit including an input terminal to receive an input voltage, an output terminal configured to output a constant voltage converted from the input voltage to a load and an overcurrent protection circuit portion to perform an overcurrent protecti... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479773 | Synchronous rectification switching regulator and switching method A synchronous rectification switching regulator includes a reverse current prevention circuit unit that detects a symptom of a reverse current flowing in a direction from an output terminal to a second switching element or a generation of the reverse current based o... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479765 | Integrated circuit for controlling charging, charging device using the integrated circuit, and method for detecting connection of secondary battery An integrated circuit for charging a secondary battery including a charge current detection circuit detecting a charge current output from a charging transistor, and generating a signal including the charge current information; a voltage comparison circuit comparing... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7468804 | Techniques for printer-side network cluster printing Network cluster printing without external services, additional hardware or unique printer drivers is described. Cluster agents are installed on each printer of the cluster and configured to perform processes which, in one aspect, comprises receiving a print job at a... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7464279 | Pre-activation of network devices An approach for pre-activating network devices includes using prior usage of a network device to estimate times when the network device will be used in the future. The network device is then pre-activated, i.e., transitioned to an active operational state, prior to ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457417 | Approach for configuring wireless devices According to an approach for configuring wireless devices, a wireless device determines whether it is currently configured to use secure wireless communications when communicating with other wireless devices. If not, then the wireless device configures one or more w... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454086 | Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An area within the electronic document for positioning the image and a set of one or more colors to be used f... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7441076 | Data storage apparatus that appropriately revises FDCB information during background formatting A data storage apparatus, including a controller that formats a rewritable recording medium in the background, interrupts the background formatting when a host computer requests to store data in the rewritable recording medium, stores the data in the rewritable reco... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440137 | Apparatus, program, medium for image-area separation, image processing and image forming An image-area separation apparatus includes a SIMD processor performing a SIMD process for performing an image-area separation process and an image-area separation mechanism for performing an image-separation operation according to the SIMD process performed by the ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424974 | Techniques that facilitate tracking of physical locations of paper documents Techniques that facilitate tracking of physical locations of paper documents. Embodiments of the present invention can track physical locations of paper documents that have identification tags physically associated with them. Each identification tag that is physical... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418027 | Method and apparatus for ultra wideband communications system employing a spread spectrum technique transmitting a baseband signal over a wide frequency band A transmitter for ultra wideband communications includes a spread modulator for spreading input data to a wideband signal having a form in which a plurality of carriers are constantly transmitted and a amplifier for amplifying the spread signal obtained from the spr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408334 | DC converter with halt mode setting means A DC converter with a halt mode setting is disclosed for preventing the occurrence of over-current while alleviating the increase in the size of circuits, along with a method for setting up such a halt mode. The DC converter includes a semiconductor switch, a clock ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403453 | Optical disk apparatus compatible with different types of mediums adapted for different wavelengths A polarizing beam splitter for separating an upstream beam from a downstream beam according to the polarization of an incident beam is provided between first and second light sources emitting laser beams at respective wavelength and an objective lens. A phase plate ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394307 | Voltage regulator having reverse voltage protection and reverse current prevention A voltage regulator having a MOS transistor driver includes a p-channel MOS transistor at a voltage input terminal Vin and a p-channel MOS transistor at a voltage output terminal Vout. A drain of the input side p-channel MOS transistor is connected to the voltage in... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385378 | Constant-voltage circuit, semiconductor device using the same, and constant-voltage outputting method providing a predetermined output voltage A constant-voltage circuit includes a first transistor, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit having a second transistor and a differential amplifier. The first transistor controls an output current according to a first control signal output by the f... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7368896 | Voltage regulator with plural error amplifiers A constant voltage circuit that is capable of realizing high speed response with respect to an abrupt change in an input voltage or a load current is disclosed. The constant voltage circuit includes a first error amplifier with a high direct current gain and a secon... | 05/06/2008 |
