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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7401218 | Home device authentication system and method A home device authentication system and method, wherein the home device authentication system includes one or more home devices each having device information including coding information for authentication and information on a service provider providing authenticat... | 07/15/2008 |
| D570813 | Mobile phone | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369995 | Method and apparatus for synthesizing speech from text A speech synthesis method, in which speech units are concatenated using a DB, wherein the speech units to be concatenated are determined and divided into a left speech unit and a right speech unit. The length of an interpolation region of each of the left and right ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362343 | Apparatus and method of correcting color registration in electrophotographic printer Disclosed are an apparatus for and a method of correction color registration in an electro-photographic printer. An apparatus for correcting color registration in an electro-photographic printer, in which exposure start points of each color unit for a photosensitive... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359013 | Display capable of selectively displaying two-dimensional and three-dimensional images A 2D/3D (two-dimensional/three-dimensional) display including: an image display panel; and a light source which selectively emits light for displaying two-dimensional image and light for displaying three-dimensional image on the image display panel. The image displa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7344949 | Non-volatile memory device and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating an a non-volatile memory includes forming trench isolation regions in an inactive region of a semiconductor substrate, adjacent trench isolation regions defining respective protrusions having rounded edges therebetween, wherein upper surfaces... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7318647 | Optical engine apparatus An optical engine apparatus to magnify and project an image beam formed by a display device using light on a screen includes a light source to emit the light, a reflection mirror to reflect the light emitted from the light source toward the display device, and an ad... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319835 | Image forming device having first and second light providing units An image forming device, including a charging unit to electrically charge a surface of an organic photoconductive medium; a light exposure unit to form an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the organic photoconductive medium; a developing unit to develop t... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319798 | Apparatus generating 3-dimensional image from 2-dimensional image and method thereof A 3-dimensional image is generated from an input 2-dimensional image based upon illuminative characteristics of the input image by filtering the 2-dimensional input image with filters of different orientations, outputting base shading images corresponding to the fil... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319643 | Method for detecting servo error, apparatus therefor, disk which maintains quality of servo error signal, method of controlling servo of disk recording/reproducing apparatus, method of detecting tracking error, and method of detecting tilt error An apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from the disk in which a recording area is divided into sectors, includes a reproducing signal generator for generating a reproducing signal including sum signals V1 and V2 of radial pairs, a sum ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319517 | Wafer chuck illumination device for use in semiconductor manufacturing equipment A wafer chuck illumination device for illuminating a light source to detect a position of foreign substances polluting a wafer chuck is provided. The device includes a lamp for generating a white light source, and a collimator lens for transforming the white light s... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319347 | Bidirectional high voltage switching device and energy recovery circuit having the same Provided are a bi-directional high voltage switching device that includes an N-channel double diffused metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (DMOS FET) and a P-channel DMOS FET, each conducting current bi-directionally, and an energy recovery circuit tha... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319255 | Semiconductor device including a metal gate electrode formed in a trench and method of forming thereof A semiconductor device including a transistor and a method of forming thereof are provided. The semiconductor device comprises a metal gate electrode. A lower portion of the metal gate electrode fills a channel trench formed at a predetermined region of a substrate,... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319224 | Semiconductor probe with resistive tip and method of fabricating the same Provided are a semiconductor probe with a resistive tip, and a method of fabricating the semiconductor probe. The method includes forming a stripe-shaped mask layer on a substrate doped with a first impurity, and forming first and second electrode regions by heavily... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318879 | Apparatus to manufacture semiconductor An apparatus to manufacture a semiconductor includes a plasma-limiting device to limit a plasma region in a reaction chamber. The plasma-limiting device includes a first limiting device to limit the plasma region in the reaction chamber to a first plasma region, a s... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318633 | Refrigerator home bar unit door A refrigerator having a door to open and close a refrigerator compartment, a home bar unit provided on the door and having an opening through which the refrigerator compartment communicates externally thereof, and a home bar unit door to open and close the opening o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316134 | Washing machine with wobbling unit and clutch A washing machine with a wobbling unit including a washing plate which wobbles in a vertical direction without rotating, thus washing laundry. The wobbling unit further includes a vertical rotating shaft rotating by a washing shaft and an inclined rotating shaft pro... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317920 | System and method for providing fast call set-up in a wireless communication system A system and method is provided for fast call set-up in a wireless communication system. A base station sets up a call from a mobile station by sending null frames to the mobile station on a forward traffic channel instead of sending a base station acknowledgement o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317890 | Apparatus for and method of printing a mono-color image using a single-pass color printer Apparatus and method are provided for printing a mono-color image using a single-pass color printer. According to the apparatus and method, dummy toner images are developed onto the photosensitive substances that do not perform an image forming operation so as to co... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317766 | Apparatus and method for demodulating signal An apparatus for and a method of signal demodulation which reduces a number of calculations required for demodulating an M-bit codeword which has been modulated from an N-bit codeword. Probability data for each bit of the M-bit codeword is tested to determine if the... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317709 | Method for fast handover Disclosed is a method for fast handover in a wireless security data communication environment. The fast handover method for a mobile node connected to a network via an access point to perform a data communication in a wireless communication environment according to ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317673 | Apparatus and method for setting offset of digital, video disc, and apparatus and method for adjusting offset An apparatus for setting an offset in a DVD player includes: an offset measuring unit which measures one or more offset parameters for initial reproducing operations of the DVD player; and an offset setting unit which, when the offset measuring unit measures the one... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317671 | Apparatus and method for compensating for tilt An apparatus and a method of playing an optical recording medium, including a method of compensating for a tilt by a real time tilt detection before and during a playing operation of the optical recording medium. A tilt compensating apparatus includes an optical pic... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317669 | Method and apparatus for compensating for disc eccentricity in optical disc servo system A method and apparatus compensating for disc eccentricity includes extracting eccentricity data from a tracking error signal having one period, generated by a tracking servo, detecting parameter values of an eccentricity component extracted during the extraction of ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317666 | Method of playing optical recording media A method of reproducing information, and more particularly, a method of playing an optical recording medium storing music files by which a user can load only desired directories from the optical recording medium to reproduce the music files contained therein. Direct... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317655 | Memory cell array biasing method and a semiconductor memory device A method of biasing a memory cell array during a data writing operation and a semiconductor memory device are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells in which a first terminal of a memory cell is ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317645 | Redundancy repair circuit and a redundancy repair method therefor A redundancy repair circuit and method therefor for use with a semiconductor memory device are provided. The redundancy repair circuit comprises: a memory circuit having a plurality of address lines and a plurality of redundancy address lines in a memory cell; a rep... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317624 | Power factor correction method and apparatus and power supply using the same A power factor compensation method and apparatus adapted for use in a power supply which provides direct-current (DC) power via a capacitive input type smoothing circuit, and an improved power supply using the same. The power factor compensation method can correct a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317208 | Semiconductor device with contact structure and manufacturing method thereof A plurality of gate lines are formed on a substrate. After depositing a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and a doped amorphous silicon layer are sequentially formed thereon. A lower insulating layer made of silicon nitride and an upper insulating layer m... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316023 | Disc drive tray for holding discs of various shapes and sizes A disc drive such as an optical disc drive for securely holding discs of various sizes and shapes even in the vertical position. The disc drive includes a tray for holding a disc with a spindle motor installed thereon for rotating a turntable of the spindle motor. T... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315720 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus that senses image position differences without a dedicated light source or driver circuit, the apparatus including a transfer belt and an image forming unit for deflecting a light emitted from a light source, forming a latent image on a su... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315700 | Image forming apparatus capable of optimum outputting according to the grade of consumables An image forming apparatus capable of satisfying various demands of a user by enabling the user to determine a grade of consumables in a single image forming apparatus, and the method of employing the same. The printing method of an image forming apparatus which has... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315688 | Recording medium for storing virtually deleted still picture information, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing virtual deletion information, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor are provided. The recording medium includes a first region having a plurality of still pictures, and a second region having first virtual dele... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315534 | Channel time allocation method and apparatus Provided are a channel time allocation method and apparatus adopting the same. The channel time allocation method includes: (a) receiving a request of registering in a network from a device; (b) determining whether the network supplying a service required by the dev... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315500 | Recording medium storing link information and apparatus and method for linking data An optical recording medium storing information for regarding data in the current sector as data in a linking loss area, and an apparatus and method providing linking data. The data link method includes dividing an error correction code block having a predetermined ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315469 | Control of set/reset pulse in response to peripheral temperature in PRAM device A drive circuit for a PRAM (phase-change random access memory) device includes a write driver that generates a set/reset current in response to a set/reset pulse. In addition, a temperature compensator controls a pulse width of the set/reset pulse in response to a p... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315433 | Non-repeatable run out compensating apparatus and method and disc drive using the same An apparatus and method are provided for quickly and finely compensating for non-repeatable run out (NPRO) of a disc drive. The NPRO compensation control apparatus in a run out compensation apparatus of a system includes: a frequency estimator directly estimating a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315432 | Track-seek control method of HDD and recording medium suitable for the same A seek control method of smoothly changing to a coast mode and a deceleration mode in a track-seek control device according to a multi-sinusoidal acceleration trajectory, a recording medium suitable for the same, and an HDD adopting the same. The method includes: ca... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315315 | Halftone processing method in laser printer and apparatus using the same A halftone processing method for correcting the variation in light intensity on a photoconductive drum and an apparatus using the same, wherein the method includes the steps of preparing a plurality of dithering functions, detecting the position where image data for... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315286 | Antenna apparatus for portable terminal Provided is an antenna apparatus for a portable terminal including a first antenna pattern, and a second antenna pattern formed to correspond to the first antenna pattern, so that the second antenna provides a capacitive coupling along with the first pattern, thereb... | 01/01/2008 |
