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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463101 | Voltage controlled oscillator with temperature and process compensation A voltage control oscillator, outputting a clocking signal with a specific frequency according to an input voltage level, has a constant current source, a voltage/current converter, a current mirror and an oscillating circuit. The constant current source provides a ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454574 | Pre-fetch control method A pre-fetch control method comprises the following steps. First, after a data request for M-bytes request data sent from a cache controller is received, a determination is made on whether the M-bytes request data are found in the pre-fetch buffer. Then, a further de... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454563 | Buffer management device, record and reproduction apparatus and management method for buffer memory A buffer management device of record and reproduction apparatus for an optical storage medium and a management method for a buffer memory are provided. By employing two sets of pointers to manage the parts of the buffer memory needed for decoding and encoding respec... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450482 | Method for optimizing write parameters of optical storage medium and recording device therefor A method for optimizing write parameters of an optical storage medium is provided. The method is adapted for a recording device using the optical storage medium. The method includes loading the optical storage medium having a test area into the recording device, det... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440128 | Print data compressing method A print data method includes a slicing step, a compressing step and decompressing step. The slicing step divides a swatch of data to be printed and required by each motor movement into a plurality of slices, each having m bits to represent printed pixels and further... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440015 | Gamma correction method and system A gamma correction method and system, which performs a gamma correction on an n-bit video signal to thus generate a gamma correction value. At first, a first primary index and a first sub-index are obtained by performing an index mapping on a value of the video sign... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439440 | Audio player using sigma-delta pulse-width modulation An audio player using sigma-delta pulse-width modulation includes a Δ-Σ PWM unit, a drive unit, a speaker unit, and an error prediction unit. The Δ-Σ PWM unit receives an input signal and generates a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal by means of sigma-delta pu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433522 | JBIG coding apparatus and method with low cost, high-performance ping-pong buffer arrangement The present invention provides an image coding apparatus and method, which can achieve a low-cost, real time, and high-performance coding process by utilizing a line buffer and an auxiliary buffer to execute a typical prediction process in JBIG encoding, a ping-pong... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432987 | Method of motion detection for 3D comb filter video decoder A method of motion detection for a 3D comb filter video decoder is disclosed. In this method, a plurality of sampled data FmPx,y is obtained and temporarily stored after a composite video signal is sampled, wherein FmPx,y ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428015 | Image sensor and offset-able reference voltage generator thereof An image sensor and offset-able reference voltage generator thereof are provided. The image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels, an offset-able reference voltage generator and a pixel sampling circuit. The pixel senses light from an image and generate an image si... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426293 | Rapid color recognition method A rapid color recognition method is provided. In the method, an area for representing a color of the pixel is identified according to the basic color component data of the pixel, and then the color code is outputted according to a predetermined color classification ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424111 | System and method of applying parity bits to protect transmitting and receiving data A system of applying a parity bit to protect transmitting and receiving data includes a transmitting-end device and a receiving-end device. The transmitting-end device includes a parity generator, a first parity location generator and a parity inserting unit which, ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420624 | Three-dimensional video composite signal demodulating method and system capable of inhibiting pseudo-color noises A three-dimensional video composite signal demodulating method and system capable of inhibiting pseudo-color noises. The system has a two-dimensional luminance and chroma signal separator, a three-dimensional luminance and chroma signal separator, a luminance weight... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414464 | Op driver with the function of canceling op offset An operational amplifier driver capable of canceling an offset voltage of an operational amplifier includes the operational amplifier, first to third switches and a capacitor. The operational amplifier has a chopper, first and second input terminals and an output te... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409065 | Apparatus and method for detecting sound direction An apparatus and method for detecting sound direction is disclosed, which utilizes a plurality of sound source detecting units to receive a plurality of sound signals form a sound source. The sound source detecting units amplify and filter the sound wave signals to ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400540 | Programmable memory and access method for the same A programmable memory includes N number of one-time programmable (OTP) memory rows, an output module, a judge module, and a write-in module. The output module receives all data of the OTP memory rows and generates output data. The judge module receives the output da... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398387 | Device and method for scrambling data by means of address lines A device and method for scrambling data by means of address lines is disclosed, which includes a seed generator, a first parameter generator, a data scrambler and a de-scrambler. The seed generator is connected to an address bus for generating a seed in accordance w... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395491 | Decoding device for decoding product code and decoding method using the same A decoding device for decoding a product code and a decoding method using the same are provided. The decoding device comprises an erasure flag processor, a decoder and a confidence flag processor. The erasure flag processor determines to set a particular value or a ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395035 | Up-conversion mixing system with high carrier suppression An up-conversion mixing system with high carrier suppression, which includes first and second LPFs to filter a first and a second input signals to thereby produce a first and a second filtered signals respectively; a first amplifier to amplify the first input signal... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391280 | Circuit and method for pulse width modulation A circuit and a method for performing pulse width modulation are provided. A pulse density modulator (PDM) is applied to receive the least N bits of the input data and to generate a pulse density modulation signal. The number of pulse of the pulse density modulation... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391412 | Optical mouse with shade compensation and its shade compensation method An optical mouse, with shade compensation, has a light source, a sensor and a controller. The light source illuminates a sampling plane of a mouse. The sensor consists of a 2-dimensional array of sensing elements to capture an image from the sampling plane and tempo... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384109 | Method and apparatus of flexibly controlling print throughput and quality A method and an apparatus of flexibly controlling printing speed and quality are disclosed. The method controls the inkjet printhead module under the draft print mode. According to the moving distance of the inkjet printhead module, the apparatus generates the addre... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378901 | Varactor device A varactor device includes a capacitance circuit having a capacitor set and a first transistor connected across the capacitor set; a first variable resistor; and a second transistor coupled to the first transistor and connected in series to the first variable resist... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376100 | Channel assigning method for ad-hoc network A channel assigning method for ad-hoc networks, which uses an intra-cluster bandwidth reserving procedure, including six phases of reservation request RREQ, reservation response RRSP, code assignment CASN, code conflict detection CCD, code conflict report CCR and co... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375663 | Data simplifying and merging method for a voice decoding memory system A data simplifying and merging method for a voice decoding memory system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: reading a voice data from a non-volatile memory in a memory system; performing logic operation on the voice data in order to obtain an index; fet... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368970 | Level shifter circuit A level shifter circuit includes a level shifter unit and a latch unit. The level shifter unit receives two complementary input signals and converts the voltage levels of two complementary input signals. The latch unit latches the state of two output nodes before th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362141 | Logic device with low EMI A logic device with low electromagnetic interference. The logic device includes a digital logic gate, a voltage-limited circuit and a current-limited circuit. The digital logic gate provides a corresponding digital logic function. The voltage-limited circuit is conn... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362912 | Method and system for immediately determining incorrect pixel values of a captured image A method for immediately determining incorrect pixel values of a captured image on an optical mouse, which determines a quality of an image in a video stream captured by the optical mouse and accordingly finds a motion distance for the optical mouse. The method firs... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362481 | Method for reducing image artificiality by adjusting dot position for overlapped dots in a printer An adjusting dot position method for overlapped dots in a printer is disclosed. The pixels of an image are first input. Then, it determines whether the pixel is an overlapped dot or not. If yes and a pixel on a left side is a blank dot, the magenta, cyan or yellow i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358780 | Low voltage differential signal driver with high power supply rejection ration A LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signal) driver with a high PSRR (Power Supply Rejection Ration) includes a first current source for providing a working current, a switch unit for receiving the working current and determining the current directions of an output curr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350718 | Document with indexes and associated document reader system A document with indexes and associated document reader system. The document is constructed by printing plural pixels and divided into plural areas. Each of the areas has plural indexes respectively consisting of a group of indexing dots to represent an area code cor... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352407 | Digital photo frame device This invention provides a digital photo frame device, wherein a buffer unit temporarily stores TV signals to be displayed or processed, a compression/decompression engine is coupled to the buffer unit for compressing TV signals into an image file or decompressing an... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352904 | Block decoding method and system capable of decoding and outputting data in a longitudinal direction A block decoding method and system capable of decoding and outputting data in a longitudinal direction, which obtains a start address in an input compressed datastream for each block of a decompressed image by a pre-scanned compressed datastream such that the system... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353401 | Device and method for data protection by scrambling address lines A device and method for data protection by scrambling address lines is disclosed, which includes a redundancy area-setting unit, a redundancy area-mapping rule unit, an area check unit, an address-mapping unit and a multiplexer. The area check unit compares an addre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343462 | Method for using non-volatile memory and electronics device thereof A method for using non-volatile memory and an electronics device thereof is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a non-volatile memory pre-loaded with a plurality of original data is provided. When updating the original data with new data, if fr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335868 | Exposure control system and method for an image sensor An exposure control system and method for an image sensor, which includes an image sensor, an illuminator, a controller and a light separator. The image sensor has plural photosensitive pixels in a two-dimensional matrix arrangement. When an exposure is operated in ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324165 | [Automatic contrast limiting circuit and method thereof with spatial domain infinite impulse response filter] An automatic contrast limiting circuit and method thereof with spatial domain infinite impulse response filter are disclosed. A spatial domain infinite impulse response filter is adapted to generate an output value of the spatial domain infinite impulse response fil... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322020 | Circuit layout and semiconductor substrate for photosensitive chip A circuit layout for a photosensitive chip includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first circuit lines and a plurality of second circuit lines. The semiconductor substrate has a matrix of photosensitive units. Each photosensitive unit has a first blocking... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315484 | Memory controller capable of estimating memory power consumption A memory controller capable of estimating memory power consumption includes a memory control unit, a command dispatch device, plural bank state machines and a power-state and current-accumulation device. The memory control unit generates control signals based on a m... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312409 | Touch pad and position detecting circuit and method thereof A touch pad and a position detecting circuit and method thereof are provided. The touch pad uses a waveform generator to generate an input signal; the input signal is capable of gradually moving a position of a zero voltage on the sensing pad in a predetermined dire... | 12/25/2007 |
