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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184833 | Electrostatic speaker arrangement for a mobile device A speaker is integrally formed with a multi-layered printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a flexible membrane layer with a conductive pattern thereon. Positive and negative elements are disposed on opposing sides of the flexible membrane. A drive... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184431 | Methods of producing a housing of a portable electronic device and a housing portion of a portable electronic device A method of producing a housing of a portable electronic device comprising at least two portions is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a first housing portion layer made from sheet metal, providing a second housing portion layer made from a plasti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180411 | Injection molded solid mobile phone, machine, and method A mobile phone includes a phone core with operative components thereof in a one piece phone housing that is directly molded to the phone core. Operative components that require exterior access from the housing, e.g., ear speaker, microphone, loudspeaker, SIM card re... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180090 | Headset with exchangeable speaker An earpiece speaker system including an earpiece body through which an audio signal is provided, the earpiece body having a speaker mount surface, and a plurality of speaker modules mountable to the body. Each of the speaker modules includes a mount surface for mati... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179449 | Portable electronic apparatus including a display and method for controlling display content based on movement of the display and user position A portable electronic apparatus includes a display, a user position estimating unit and a display movement estimating unit. The user position estimating unit is for estimating the user position with respect to the display. The display movement estimating unit is for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177440 | Mobile electronic device A mobile electronic device is provided which includes a housing and a button arranged in an outer surface of the housing. Adjacent to the button, a surrounding member is provided. The surrounding member is movable with respect to the housing. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175561 | Automatic optimization of RF receiver interference performance A method and apparatus for optimization of RF receiver interference performance in a mobile phone operating in a TDMA communications system is disclosed. The battery supply voltage ripple of the battery of the mobile phone is measured and it is determining when the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174561 | Device, method and program for creating and displaying composite images generated from images related by capture position A system for presenting recorded data includes an electronic device and a database connectable to the electronic device over a communications network, the electronic device including a recording unit to record data from a first direction, a positional arrangement to... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172658 | Methods, devices, and computer program products for participating in an athletic event with a remotely-located competitor using a mobile terminal A method of participating in an athletic event with a remotely-located competitor using first and second wireless competition devices includes establishing a wireless communication connection with the second wireless competition device. The second wireless competiti... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171502 | Methods, devices and computer program products for automatically installing device drivers from a peripheral device onto a host computer One or more custom device drivers for a peripheral device may be installed from the peripheral device onto a host computer. Upon connecting the peripheral device to the host computer, an operating system of the host computer is exposed to a default configuration of ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170794 | Navigation units having multiple operation modes for outputting a current position or a stored position, respectively, and methods and computer program product for operating the same A navigation unit includes a position mode module that is operable to place the navigation unit in a first mode in which the navigation unit provides for output a current position of the navigation unit or a second mode in which the navigation unit provides for outp... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170603 | Differentiated access to a data item store A portable electronic device includes an interface unit for connection to a removable storage medium; at least one data item store; a group of application handling units, at least one application handling unit in the group of application handling units providing an ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170219 | Size adjustable device and method One or more embodiments may provide for a size adjustable earphone that may include a foldable sleeve attached to an earphone housing. A first end of the foldable sleeve may embrace the earphone housing, where an opposite second end of the foldable sleeve may be ada... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169461 | Method and system for a quick start camera application in a camera A mobile radio terminal includes a radio circuit for establishing communication with a communication network, a first camera sensor for taking digital photographs and a second camera sensor for acquiring image data information, wherein the second camera sensor store... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165649 | Torsion spring The invention is about a sliding mechanism for a portable electronic device. Among others, the sliding mechanism comprises a first part with a guiding groove where the first part is arranged along a longitudinal axis. The sliding mechanism also comprises a second pa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165564 | Emotional communication between portable equipments The present invention relates to a possibility of communicating emotional information between a first and a second portable equipment. A first portable equipment for communication in a wireless communication system comprises an input portion adapted to receive infor... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165398 | Method and device for handwriting detection The invention relates to a method for handwriting detection using a handwriting tool (2) being arranged for communicating with a further device (2) and comprising the following steps: recognizing characters using detection of movements carried out by m... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165308 | Arrangement and method for determining operational mode of a communication device A wireless electronic arrangement configured to connect to an earphone arrangement may include a signal generator to generate an electric signal to be sent over the earphone arrangement; a measuring arrangement to make at least one measurement of the electric signal... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164571 | Slideable keyboard for an electronic equipment An electronic equipment (1) comprising a casing (10) having a front surface (11); a display (20); a mechanical keypad (30); and a set (40) of navigation and function/control keys, said display (20) and keypad (30 | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161218 | Network adapter, method, and computer program product A network adapter for plugging into a host computer is provided. The network adapter may include an internal memory and connection means for connecting the host computer to a communications network. The network adapter may include resident application software store... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160288 | In-ear earphone with cushioning member An in-ear canal earphone includes a torus-shaped cushioning member defining an aperture therethrough. An audio housing is connected to the cushioning member such that the cushioning member is movable between a first position, in which the housing extends generally a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159551 | Portable electronic equipment with automatic control to keep display turned on and method Apparatus and method provide a hold on function in a mobile phone or other portable electronic equipment keeps the display thereof turned on in spite of a screensaver or other power saving feature while a user is reading or watching the display and allows activating... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155695 | Apparatus and method to improve WLAN performance in a dual WLAN modality environment A portable communication device including a first wireless transceiver operable under a first communication protocol for transmitting and receiving signals and a second wireless transceiver operable under a second communication protocol for transmitting and receivin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155665 | Adaptive receiver based on mobility information of user device A method includes a user device connecting to another device, receiving position-based signals associated with the user device, calculating mobility information associated with the user device based on the position-based signals, providing the mobility information t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155055 | Automatic re-connection of a previously lost connection in a frequency hopping communication system This disclosure relates to frequency hopping (FH) communication systems, such as Bluetooth. In particular, it relates to a substantially automatic recovery procedure for re-establishing a previously lost link or connection between a master unit and a slave unit in a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155042 | Method and arrangement relating communication devices A method for use in controlling transmit power of a radio transceiver for communication with a receiving and/or transmitting node is provided. The method may include transmitting a signal from the radio transmitter, the signal including a Transmit Power Control port... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154644 | System and method for manipulation of a digital image A system for rendering a digital image includes a rendering device for rendering a digital image and a camera for capturing a sequence of images of a user. A conversion module converts the sequence of images into a manipulation command for altering the rendering of ... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657341 | Mobile phone | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150944 | Electronic apparatus with server device for managing setting data An electronic apparatus and a method for managing access to data for a setting. The electronic apparatus includes a server device and at least one client device that is adapted to interact with the server device to access data for a setting. The data is stored in a ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150454 | System and method for implementing antenna diversity A system, communications device, method and computer program product for implementing antenna diversity may include a first switch to selectively connect a first radio section to one of a plurality of antennas and a second switch to selectively connect a second radi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150091 | Printed circuit board for a flat-panel speaker A flat-panel speaker is attached to an exterior surface of a printed circuit board (PCB) housed within a consumer electronic device. Rather than place the flat-panel speaker within a sealed speaker box and then attach the speaker box to the PCB, as is conventional, ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150072 | Vibration generator for electronic device having speaker driver and counterweight A vibration generator for a portable electronic device includes a speaker driver and a counterweight retained by a housing to form a closed assembly. When a communications transmission is received by the electronic device, an input force signal is transmitted to the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149849 | Zigbee/IP gateway A gateway enables communications between a personal area network, such as a Zigbee network, and an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The gateway includes a first interface device for connecting to the personal area network, a second interface device for connecting to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147327 | Method for updating a multiplayer game session on a mobile device A method for updating a game session comprises detecting a game event during a game session, sending an update request to a game data object server responsive to the game event, receiving a game data object from the game data server responsive to the update request,... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145285 | Flexible gaskets for wireless terminals with sliding members Gaskets and wireless terminals with gaskets for sealing a space between sliding members in wireless terminals. The wireless terminals include: (a) a first member; (b) a second member overlying the first member, wherein at least one of the first and second members is... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145259 | Mobile terminal device A mobile terminal device includes a first case including a display section, a second case including a keyboard, and a slide holding mechanism which, when the first case slides with respect to the second case in the opening direction from a closed state wherein the f... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145004 | System and method for generating a photograph A camera assembly for generating high resolution photograph includes a sensor assembly that has two regions of different effective resolution. Image data from multiple images that are captured with the sensor assembly are combined to generate output image data in th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144990 | Translation and display of text in picture A method performed by a mobile terminal may include receiving an image that includes text, translating the text into another language and superimposing and displaying the translated text over the received image. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144939 | Automatic identifying A method includes storing a picture or video that includes a first person. The method also includes automatically identifying the first person using speaker recognition or image recognition and tagging the picture or video with information indicating that the first ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144232 | Camera system and method for picture sharing using geotagged pictures A system and method provide interactive techniques for sharing digital photos, in which a user of a portable electronic device may seek out a location at which another electronic device was used to capture a photo. The captured image may then be displayed on a displ... | 03/27/2012 |
