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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047443 | NETWORK COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR LARGE SCALE DISTRIBUTION OF STREAMING CONTENT Forward error correction may be implemented in a network having first, second and third nodes. The second node receives streaming media message packets and one or more check packets from an upstream first node. The second node transmits the message packets and check pac... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110035501 | TRAVERSAL OF SYMMETRIC NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATOR FOR MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS CONNECTIONS Handling of multiple connections during NAT traversal for a node behind a symmetric NAT is disclosed. The likelihood of connection failure during symmetric NAT traversal may be reduced by serializing critical time windows after port prediction. Once a connection request... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034244 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING DEPTH AND DIRECTION DETECTION WHEN INTERFACING WITH A COMPUTER PROGRAM Detecting direction pointing direction when interfacing with a computer program is described. Two or more stereo images presented in front of two or more corresponding image capture devices can be captured. Each image capture device having a capture location in a coordi... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110028926 | Diaper Rash Prevention Apparatus A diaper rash prevention apparatus includes a single layer enclosure with a flangeless aperture adapted for being placed in direct contact with the skin surrounding the anus for the purpose of directing fecal matter into the single layer enclosure. An adhesive may be di... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019705 | TAILORED PULSE BURST Output pulses from an optical system having a seed source and an optical amplifier coupled to the seed source may be controlled by controlling a power of a seed signal from the seed source. The seed signal may be varied between a minimum value and a maximum value in a w... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018116 | CHIP SCALE SURFACE MOUNTED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PACKAGE AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE A semiconductor device package die and method of manufacture are disclosed. The device package die may comprise a device substrate having one or more front electrodes located on a front surface of the device substrate and electrically connected to one or more correspond... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110014981 | TRACKING DEVICE WITH SOUND EMITTER FOR USE IN OBTAINING INFORMATION FOR CONTROLLING GAME PROGRAM EXECUTION A tracking device may include a body, a sound emitter operable to emit a sound, an array of two or more microphones adapted to produce discrete time domain input signals at a runtime, one or more processors coupled to the array of two or more microphones; and a memory c... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014766 | BOTTOM-DRAIN LDMOS POWER MOSFET STRUCTURE HAVING A TOP DRAIN STRAP Lateral DMOS devices having improved drain contact structures and methods for making the devices are disclosed. A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial layer on top of the substrate; a drift region at a top surface of the epitaxial layer... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007161 | FLUIDIC OPTICAL DEVICES A variable focal length lens sensor system for use with UAVs is disclosed. A variable focal length lens camera for use with cell phones. One or more static optical components and one or more are within a housing. The variable focal length lens includes a sidewall and fi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100324898 | VOICE RECOGNITION WITH DYNAMIC FILTER BANK ADJUSTMENT BASED ON SPEAKER CATEGORIZATION Voice recognition methods and systems are disclosed. A voice signal is obtained for an utterance of a speaker. The speaker is categorized as a male, female, or child and the categorization is used as a basis for dynamically adjusting a maximum frequency fmax ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321121 | FLEXIBLE LOW CURRENT OSCILLATOR FOR MULTIPHASE OPERATIONS An oscillator includes a reference stage and multiple phase stages. The reference stage has a reference transistor having a gate coupled to a voltage reference and a drain coupled to a reference current source. Each phase stage includes a transistor, two current sources... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100320461 | INTEGRATION OF SENSE FET INTO DISCRETE POWER MOSFET A semiconductor device includes a main field effect transistor (FET) and one or more sense FETs. A transistor portion of the sense FET is surrounded by transistors of the main FET. An electrical isolation structure that surrounds the main FET is configured to electrical... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100314693 | INTEGRATION OF A SENSE FET INTO A DISCRETE POWER MOSFET A semiconductor device includes a main field effect transistor (FET) and one or more sense FETs, and a common gate pad. The main FET and the one or more sense FETs are formed in a common substrate. The main FET and each of the sense FETs include a source terminal, a gat... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100305938 | TRANSLATION BLOCK INVALIDATION PREHINTS IN EMULATION OF A TARGET SYSTEM ON A HOST SYSTEM Emulation systems and method involving invalidating blocks of translated code in emulation of a target system on a host system in are disclosed. One or more blocks of target system code are translated by the host system to produce one or more corresponding blocks of tra... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100305935 | REGISTER MAPPING IN EMULATION OF A TARGET SYSTEM ON A HOST SYSTEM Methods and systems for register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system are disclosed. Statistics for use of a set of registers of a target system processor are determined. Based on the statistics a first subset of the target system registers, includin... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299596 | DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION OF GUI DISPLAY DECOMPOSITION BASED ON PREDICTIVE MODEL A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299595 | HAND-HELD DEVICE WITH TWO-FINGER TOUCH TRIGGERED SELECTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF ACTIVE ELEMENTS A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299594 | TOUCH CONTROL WITH DYNAMICALLY DETERMINED BUFFER REGION AND ACTIVE PERIMETER A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299592 | CUSTOMIZATION OF GUI LAYOUT BASED ON HISTORY OF USE A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295817 | HAND-HELD DEVICE WITH ANCILLARY TOUCH ACTIVATED TRANSFORMATION OF ACTIVE ELEMENT A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295799 | TOUCH SCREEN DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON PRIOR ANCILLARY TOUCH INPUT A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295798 | HAND-HELD DEVICE WITH ANCILLARY TOUCH ACTIVATED ZOOM A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch pad are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. 11/25/2010 | |
| 20100295797 | CONTINUOUS AND DYNAMIC SCENE DECOMPOSITION FOR USER INTERFACE A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch pad are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably c... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100294834 | AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE USING BANKNOTE PACKAGES PACKED IN ADVANCE An automatic teller machine comprises a plurality of banknote boxes (2) in different amounts, in which a plurality of banknote packages (11) packed in advance are loaded, each banknote package (11) having therein one to hundreds of banknotes, both t... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100291744 | HIGH DENSITY TRENCH MOSFET WITH SINGLE MASK PRE-DEFINED GATE AND CONTACT TRENCHES Trench gate MOSFET devices may be formed using a single mask to define gate trenches and body contact trenches. A hard mask is formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. A trench mask is applied on the hard mask to predefine a body contact trench and a gate trenc... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100281292 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOLVING CLOCK MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN EMULATION INVOLVING BOTH INTERPRETED AND TRANSLATED CODE Methods and systems for resolving clock management issues in emulation of a target system on a host system are disclosed. A first set of code instructions of a target program is emulated to generate a first set of emulated instructions that emulate a first component on ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100253690 | DYNAMIC CONTEXT SWITCHING BETWEEN ARCHITECTURALLY DISTINCT GRAPHICS PROCESSORS Graphics processing in a computer graphics apparatus having architecturally dissimilar first and second graphics processing units (GPU) is disclosed. Graphics input is produced in a format having an architecture-neutral display list. One or more instructions in the arch... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100237416 | BOTTOM-DRAIN LDMOS POWER MOSFET STRUCTURE HAVING A TOP DRAIN STRAP Lateral DMOS devices having improved drain contact structures and methods for making the devices are disclosed. A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial layer on top of the substrate; a drift region at a top surface of the epitaxial layer... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235845 | SUB-TASK PROCESSOR DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULING A method for processing of processor executable tasks and a processor readable medium having embodied therein processor executable instructions for implementing the method are disclosed. A system for distributing processing work amongst a plurality of distributed proces... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235651 | SECURE OPERATION OF PROCESSORS Secure operation of processors is disclosed. A cell processor receives a secure file image from a client device at a processor of a host device (host cell processor), wherein the secure file image includes encrypted contents.... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232031 | FLUIDIC LENS WITH MANUALLY-ADJUSTABLE FOCUS A fluidic lens may have a transparent window member, a transparent distensible membrane, an inner ring between the window member and membrane, and a top ring disposed such that the membrane is between the piston ring and the inner ring. A layer of liquid may be stored b... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100225296 | HIGH VOLTAGE AND HIGH POWER BOOST CONVETER WITH CO-PACKAGED SCHOTTKY DIODE A high voltage and high power boost converter is disclosed. The boost converter includes a boost converter IC and a discrete Schottky diode, both of which are co-packaged on a standard single common die pad.... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100214643 | MEMS DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED VIA AND SPACER A MEMS device and fabrication method are disclosed. A bottom substrate having an insulating layer sandwiched between an upper layer and a lower layer may be bonded to a device layer. One or more portions of the upper layer may be selectively removed to form one or more ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211391 | AUTOMATIC COMPUTATION STREAMING PARTITION FOR VOICE RECOGNITION ON MULTIPLE PROCESSORS WITH LIMITED MEMORY Speech processing is disclosed for an apparatus having a main processing unit, a memory unit, and one or more co-processors. Memory maintenance and voice recognition result retrievals upon execution are performed with a first main processor thread. Voice detection and i... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100211387 | SPEECH PROCESSING WITH SOURCE LOCATION ESTIMATION USING SIGNALS FROM TWO OR MORE MICROPHONES Computer implemented speech processing is disclosed. First and second voice segments are extracted from first and second microphone signals originating from first and second microphones. The first and second voice segments correspond to a voice sound originating from a ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100211376 | MULTIPLE LANGUAGE VOICE RECOGNITION Computer implemented speech processing generates one or more pronunciations of an input word in a first language by a non-native speaker of the first language who is a native speaker of a second language. The input word is converted into one or more pronunciations. Each... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100208357 | FLUIDIC LENS WITH REDUCED OPTICAL ABERRATION A fluidic lens device capable of providing variable focal power with reduced optical aberration is disclosed. The device includes a lens member and an actuator. The lens member comprises one or more elastic optical surfaces, a compliant support member in communication w... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100190307 | HIGH DENSITY TRENCH MOSFET WITH SINGLE MASK PRE-DEFINED GATE AND CONTACT TRENCHES Trench gate MOSFET devices may be formed using a single mask to define gate trenches and body contact trenches. A hard mask is formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. A trench mask is applied on the hard mask to predefine a body contact trench and a gate trenc... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100182407 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH 3D SHUTTER CONTROL UNIT A system for providing respective video signals to at least two viewers is disclosed. The system includes a control unit; and a display connected to the control unit. The control unit is operable to control the display to alternately display an image from a first video ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100177174 | 3D SHUTTER GLASSES WITH MODE SWITCHING BASED ON ORIENTATION TO DISPLAY DEVICE A shuttered filter apparatus comprises a frame, one or more shuttered filters attached to the frame, and a tracker attached to the frame. Each shuttered filter is configured to selectively prevent a viewer from seeing through the filter in response to a signal from a co... | 07/15/2010 |
