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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047260 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING A NETWORK The present invention proposes a method of managing a network comprising a set of devices for transmitting a traffic stream using network resources. Each device of the set of devices is individually associated with an expiration time. The expiration time defines a maxim... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046979 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED GUIDELINE-BASED THERAPY AUGMENTED BY IMAGING INFORMATION When treating a patient, clinical decision support system (CDSS) guidelines are employed to assist a physician in generating a treatment plan. These plans are generated using both imaging and non-imaging data. To accomplish this, the CDSS is interfaced with imaging syst... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046789 | BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH ACTIVE BUILDING SKIN, AN ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE COLLECTOR FOR USE IN SUCH A SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF MANAGING RESOURCES USED IN A BUILDING A building management system (100) comprises a measurement system for measuring a demand for resources inside the building and a collecting system for harvesting natural resources available outside the building. The building management system is further provided ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046499 | RESPIRATORY MONITORS AND MONITORING METHODS A respiratory monitor comprises: a first sensor (20, 70) configured to generate a respiration-related motion monitoring signal (72) indicative of respiration related motion; a second sensor (20, 22, 80, 82) configured to generate a sound monitoring ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046484 | DUAL MODE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER A curved array ultrasound transducer is described which is usable in both sector and curved linear modes. The transducer includes a central portion (40) of elements and lateral portions (44) of elements on either side of the central portion. In the sector ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046434 | SYSTEM FOR INDUCING A SUBJECT TO FALL ASLEEP A system (100) for inducing a subject (110) to fall asleep comprises a monitor (120) for monitoring heart rate and breathing rate of the subject (110), a coherence assessing device (130) coupled to the monitor (120) for assessin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045989 | SELECTIVE ENRICHMENT OF N-TERMINALLY MODIFIED PEPTIDES FROM COMPLEX SAMPLES The present invention relates to methods allowing the selective enrichment of N-terminal fragments of polypeptides and/or peptides from complex samples by combining a particular polypeptide/peptide labeling and fractionation strategy with specific chemical and/or enzyma... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045859 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADIO STATION IN A MOBILE NETWORK The present invention relates to a secondary station comprising means for communicating with at least one primary station, the secondary station comprising means for receiving from the primary station a subset of reference symbols selected out a set of possible referenc... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044701 | LIGHT MODULE, ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD INCORPORATING DATA IN LIGHT EMITTED Proposed is a light module (110) comprising at least two primary light sources (111,112,113) capable of emitting a primary color light. This allows the light module to emit light having intensity (Y) and color coordinates (x,y) through additive color mixin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE A PHYSICAL STIMULUS TO A USER, TRIGGERED BY A MOTION DETECTION IN A VIDEO STREAM An audio stream (14) and video stream (12) from a conventional audiovisual source (10) are processed by processor (20). A motion processor (30) establishes at least one motion feature and outputs it to the stimulus controller (32 | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044559 | IMAGE ARTIFACT REDUCTION A method includes generating simulated complete projection data based on acquisition projection data, which is incomplete projection data, and virtual projection data, which completes the incomplete projection data and reconstructing the simulated complete projection da... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044471 | GENERATION OF A DRIVE SIGNAL FOR SOUND TRANSDUCER An apparatus for generating a drive signal for a sound transducer (109) comprises a sound generator (101) which provides an input audio signal. A divider (101) divides the input audio signal into at least a low frequency signal and a high frequency ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044280 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE SPATIAL REUSE OF WIRELESS NETWORKS A method (400) for improving the spatial reuse of a wireless network, comprising selecting a medium access slot (MAS) type for scheduling concurrent transmissions in the wireless network (S410); assigning reservations to the selected MAS (S420); and... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044277 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN TWO DOMAINS The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data from a secondary station to at least one primary station, comprising, at the primary station, transmitting on a signaling channel to the secondary station a resource allocation message allocating resource b... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044224 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BEACON TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION USING DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS A system for broadcasting and receiving a beacon signal includes a beacon transmitter (310, 400) and a beacon receiver (320, 500). The beacon transmitter includes a beacon signal generator (410) to generate a beacon signal, and a directional antenna... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044187 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADIO STATION IN A MOBILE NETWORK The present invention relates to a method for operating a secondary station comprising means for communicating with a primary station, the method comprising receiving from the primary station an interference status report, said interference status report comprising an s... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044061 | Light Control Devices Implemented With Diffusers Having Controllable Diffusion Characteristics Light control devices implemented with diffusers exhibiting controllable diffusion characteristics provide anisotropic luminous intensity distributions and glare control at high viewing angles while maintaining high luminaire efficiency or daylight utilization.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044026 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE WITH LED WITH A SELF-SUPPORTING GRID CONTAINING LUMINESCENT MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SELF-SUPPORTING GRID The invention provides an illumination device (10) comprising (a) a light emitting diode (LED), (b) a heat sink (85) and (c) a self-supporting grid (500). This grid (500) is arranged downstream of the LED (20) and arranged so as to be ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043895 | WAVELENGTH CONVERTING DEVICE, LASER, AND METHOD TO STABILIZE THE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY Proposed is a wavelength converting device (100) comprising a non-linear optical crystal (10) having periodically poled regions (20,30) with alternating polarity. The device (100) is characterized in that the period (41,42) of the pole... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR CONTROLLED CONVEYING OF DIFFERENT VISUAL IMPRESSIONS OF A ROOM WHILE RETAINING IDENTICAL ROOM ILLUMINATION The invention concerns a device for the controlled conveying of different visual impressions of a room while retaining identical room illumination, consisting of at least two sources of light and at least one set of shutter glasses, where at least one of the light sourc... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043549 | HIGH CONTRAST LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH ADJUSTABLE WHITE COLOR POINT A display (1) for displaying an image and a method for driving such display is proposed. Therein, the display comprises: a background light (31), a first LCD panel (3) defining an array of pixel elements (13), a second LCD panel (5) de... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043548 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE In an active matrix electroluminescent display device, an overall brightness level of an image to be displayed in a frame period is determined. A drive transistor of each pixel is controlled in dependence on an input drive signal for the pixel and on the overall brightn... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043208 | DOUBLE LAYER MULTI ELEMENT RF STRIP COIL ARRAY FOR SAR REDUCED HIGH FIELD MR When performing high or ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging, a double-layered transmit-receive coil array (10) improves receive SNR and reduces transmit SAR. A transmit element (14) is placed in close proximity to a radio frequency shield (12 | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043205 | REAL-TIME LOCAL AND GLOBAL SAR ESTIMATION FOR PATIENT SAFETY AND IMPROVED SCANNING PERFORMANCE In a method and apparatus to enable increased RF duty cycle in high field MR scans, a specific energy absorption rate (SAR) calculation processor (36) calculates the local and global SAR or even a spatial SAR map. The efficient implementation by using pre-average... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043136 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE SYSTEM The invention relates to a light emitting system (100), the system comprising a light emitting diode (104), a socket adapter for retrofitting a fluorescent lamp and an electric circuit (112; 200; 306), the electric circuit (112; 200; 306) bei... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043130 | APPARATUS FOR COUPLING POWER SOURCE TO LAMP An apparatus (1) for coupling a power source (2) to a light emitting diode lamp (3) comprises a first part for receiving first voltage and current signals from the power source (2) and a second part for supplying second voltage and current si... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043125 | LED DRIVING UNIT A daisy chain dimming solution can be applied in all kinds of LED driver topologies. A central idea is to measure or sense the current levels or pulse width modulation duty cycles in a previous segment (N−I) in a chain of segments of LED driving units with associated ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043124 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING INFORMATION ON AN A.C. LINE VOLTAGE An AC line voltage may be encoded with control information, such as dimming information derived from an output signal of a conventional dimmer, so as to provide an encoded AC power signal. One or more lighting units, including LED-based lighting units, may be both provi... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043116 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LIGHT Proposed is an illumination system (100) comprising a plurality of light sources (10) provided with encoders (20) arranged to enable light emitted from the light sources to comprise light source identification codes. In order to enable light effect ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042584 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE CONVERSION POWER This invention relates to a device for determining the conversion power of conversion element, a method for performing these measurements and a method for producing pcLEDs with essentially the same color point applying said device and said method. The device comprises a... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040491 | CLASSIFICATION OF SAMPLE DATA A classification system (100) for classification of bio molecular data is provided. An input of the system receives a plurality of features (102) of a sample to be classified and a plurality of respective error estimates (104). A statistical module ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040398 | MULTI-CHANNEL ENCODER In a method of encoding input signals (CH1 to CH3; 400 to 450) in a multi-channel encoder (5; 15) to generate corresponding output data having down-mix output signals (610, 620) together with complementary parametric data (600),... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040189 | COLLAPSED MODE OPERABLE CMUT INCLUDING CONTOURED SUBSTRATE A capacitive ultrasound transducer capable of operation in collapsed mode either with a reduced bias voltage, or with no bias voltage, is provided. The transducer includes a substrate that is contoured so that a middle region of the flexible membrane is collapsed agains... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039535 | RADIO COMMUNICATION STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME A radio communication station in a radio communication system having a plurality of radio communication devices, derives a quantisation parameter and transmits the quantisation parameter to the radio communication devices for use in subsequent quantisation of a channel ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039500 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A NETWORK AND RADIO STATIONS THEREFOR The present invention relates to a method for communicating between a primary station and at least one secondary station, comprising the steps of (a) at the primary station, requesting the secondary station to transmit channel quality information representative of the c... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AN INSERTED SEGMENT INTO A VIDEO DATA STREAM An inserted segment of a video data stream is detected if no graphical object is detected. The presence of at least one active graphical object in the video data stream is detected concurrently with detecting appearance of a new graphical object in the video data stream... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038516 | UNCERTAINTY MAPS FOR SEGMENTATION IN THE PRESENCE OF METAL ARTIFACTS When performing model-based segmentation on a 3D patient image (80), metal artifacts in the patient image (80), caused by metal in the patient's body, are detected, and a metal artifact reduction technique is performed to reduce the artifact(s) by interpol... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038463 | X-RAY TUBE WITH PASSIVE ION COLLECTING ELECTRODE An X-ray tube (1) comprising a cathode (3), an anode (5) and a further electrode (7) is proposed. Therein, the further electrode is arranged and adapted such that, due to impact of ‘free electrons (27) coming from the anode (5... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038355 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION EMPLOYING SPATIAL REUSE RESERVATION PROTOCOL A wireless device (200, 310-1) executes a method (400) of reserving a time slot for communication with a second wireless device (200, 310-4) in a communication network 5 (300). The wireless device (200, 310-1 | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038300 | METHOD FOR SIGNALLING RESOURCES TO A RADIO STATION AND RADIO STATION THEREFOR The present invention relates to a method for signaling a plurality of transmission parameters for a plurality of communications between a primary station and a plurality of respective secondary stations in a multi-user MIMO mode, comprising the steps of (a) signaling t... | 02/17/2011 |
