Celebrity Inventors
Magician Harry Houdini patented a "Diver's Suit" enabling the wearer to "quickly divest himself of the suit while being submerged and to safely escape and reach the surface of the water."
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090138756 | METHOD OF DETERMINING DEFECTS IN INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM A method of determining whether a defect exists on an information storage medium is provided along with a recording/reproducing apparatus using the same. Such a method comprises: seeking a defect entry whose state information indicates that a defect block or a replaceme... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138695 | Method and apparatus for restoring system using virtualization A display device includes a display panel and a fixing member fixed to the panel, the fixing member being formed of a resin material and being disposed to cover at least a portion of each surface of the display panel and increases durability of the display panel against... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136850 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, CATHODE CONTAINING THE CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL , AND LITHIUM BATTERY CONTAINING THE CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL A cathode active material includes a lithium metal phosphate represented by Formula 1; and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a metal oxynitride, a metal nitride, and a mixture thereof:
| |
| 20090136840 | SECONDARY BATTERY A secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly including: a first electrode plate connected to a first electrode tab, a second electrode plate connected to a second electrode tab, and a separator disposed therebetween; a can having an opening, to house the electro... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135692 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WRITE STRATEGY, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING DATA An apparatus and method for determining an optimal write strategy when recording data onto an optical disk, and an apparatus and method for recording data, the method of determining a write strategy including: recording test data for each size of marks and spaces based ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135691 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DATA ON WRITE-ONCE DISC, METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING DATA FROM WRITE-ONCE DISC, AND WRITE-ONCE DISC THEREFOR A method and apparatus recording and/or reproducing data on/from a write-once disc, and a write-once disc therefor, the write-once disc having at least one recording layer including: a plurality of update areas in which predetermined updated information is recorded; and... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135339 | WHITE PHOSPHOR, LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE AS BACKLIGHT UNIT A white phosphor including: 40 to 50 parts by weight of a blue phosphor selected from the group consisting of ZnS:(Ag,Cl), ZnS:(Ag,Al), ZnS:(Ag,Al,Cl), and a combination thereof; 20 to 30 parts by weight of a green phosphor (Sr1−xCax)Ga2 05/28/2009 | |
| 20090135143 | CHARACTER INPUT METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME A character input method and an electronic device. According to the character input method, if a plurality of characters are input together by a user substantially simultaneously, the electronic device may recognize that the user desires to input a character other than ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090130550 | SECONDARY BATTERY A secondary battery includes: a bare cell; an insulation case located on the bare cell; a protection device seated on the insulation case and electrically coupled to the bare cell; and a first lead electrically coupled to a first terminal of the protection device, where... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090130494 | BOARD ASSEMBLY FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERY AND BATTERY PACK USING THE SAME A board assembly for a rechargeable battery includes a cover case including a cover plate, and side walls disposed on a circumference of the cover plate and including respective openings that are offset from each other; and a circuit board mounted between the side walls... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129229 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING DATA A method and apparatus for reproducing data, by which the quality of signals input to a Viterbi decoder are improved by using a two-step equalizer, and the Viterbi decoder is operated in an optimum state so that the quality of reproduction signals is improved, the appar... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128262 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING POWER WIRELESSLY An apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly is provided. The apparatus comprises: a dielectric resonator which generates evanescent waves in a predetermined direction in order to transmit power; and a loop antenna which is coupled to a surface of the dielectric reson... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090127947 | SPINDLE MOTOR Provided is a spindle motor on which an optical disc is put, rotated and operated. The spindle motor includes a rotor, a stator, a stop washer, and a cap. The cap is put on a thrust supporter that supports a rotation shaft of the rotor, and the cap is pressed into a bea... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090055918 | METHOD OF MUTUALLY AUTHENTICATING BETWEEN SOFTWARE MOBILITY DEVICE AND LOCAL HOST AND A METHOD OF FORMING INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) CHANNEL A method of mutually authenticating between a local host and a software mobility device including an operating system virtualization layer, and a method of forming an input/output (I/O) channel. The method of authenticating a local host in the software mobility device i... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090055710 | DIGITAL BROADCAST TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER HAVING IMPROVED RECEIVING PERFORMANCE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF A digital broadcast transmitter/receiver, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a randomizer randomizing a dual transport stream which includes a normal data packet and a robust data packet and into which stuff bytes are inserted, a stuff-byte exchanger repla... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090055700 | METHOD OF DETERMINING BINARY SIGNAL OF MEMORY CELL AND APPARATUS THEREOF A method and apparatus to determine a binary signal of a memory cell capable of decreasing an error rate of binary signal determination that occur due to neighboring cells and noise, the apparatus including: a data collection unit to collect target data stored in a targ... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090053606 | SURFACE TREATED ANODE AND LITHIUM BATTERY USING THE SAME A surface treated anode and a lithium battery using the same are provided. The surface treated anode includes a current collector, and an anode active material layer formed on the current collector. The anode active material layer is treated with an amine group containi... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090052780 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING FEATURE POINTS FROM DIGITAL IMAGE An apparatus and method for extracting feature points from an image in a multiprocessor system having a plurality of processors, the method including: dividing an original image into a plurality of regions so as to be allocated to a plurality of processors of the multip... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090052589 | TRANSPORT STREAM GENERATING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND A DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD THEREOF A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which genera... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080305376 | ELECTRODE FOR FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL EMPLOYING THE SAME Provided are an electrode for a fuel cell and a fuel cell employing the electrode, the electrode comprising a catalyst layer including: a catalyst; a material having stronger binding force to anions than the catalyst; and a binder. According to the electrolyte for a fue... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303945 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PLAYING BACK THE STORAGE MEDIUM A storage medium includes text-based subtitle data including style information for use with an apparatus and a method of playing back the storage medium. The storage medium includes moving image data, and subtitle data for providing a subtitle for the moving image data.... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080304384 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DISC DEFECTS USING TEMPORARY DEFECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION (TDFL) AND TEMPORARY DEFECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION (TDDS), AND DISC HAVING THE TDFL AND TDDS A disc having an updatable defect management area used by an apparatus for managing defects on the disc, the disc including a user data area which includes user data, a spare area that is a substitute area for a defect existing in the user data area, and an area in whic... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080304844 | LIGHT SCANNING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME A light scanning unit of an image forming apparatus, the light scanning unit including: a base frame comprising a metal material to prevent the base frame from expanding and/or contracting due to an ambient temperature change; one or more mounting members provided in th... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080304848 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME A fixing device includes a pressing member, a belt member which rotates in contact with the pressing member and forms a nip with the pressing member, a first roller member and a second roller member to guide a rotation of the belt member, and a heating member which is m... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303921 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS HAVING FUNCTIONS OF PORTABLE MULTIMEDIA PLAYER A photographing apparatus having portable multimedia player (PMP) functions. The photographing apparatus provides the PMP functions to store multimedia content such as images, music and moving image files and to play back the stored multimedia content using recording an... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303491 | SWITCHED-MODE POWER SUPPLY QUASI-RESONANT CONVERTER, SWITCH CONTROL CIRCUIT CONTROLLING SWITCHING OPERATIONS OF SWITCHED-MODE POWER SUPPLY QUASI-RESONANT CONVERTER, AND INPUT SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT CONNECTED TO CONTROL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT OF SWITCH CONTROL CIRCUIT Aspects of the invention relate to a Switched-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) quasi-resonant converter, a switch control circuit controlling switching operations of the SMPS quasi-resonant converter, and an input signal processing circuit connected to a control Integrated Circ... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080305757 | Broadcast Receiver for and Method of Providing Broadcast Channel Information A broadcast receiver for and a method of providing broadcast channel information in which a broadcast search list is dynamically created and provided to a user, the broadcast receiver including: a tuner unit to tune a broadcast channel from a plurality of broadcast chan... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303776 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE A flat panel display device is capable of reducing a resistance difference according to the lengths of signal lines and has a stably designed resistance value of the signal lines arranged in edges of wire groups diverging from a driving circuit unit. The flat panel disp... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303023 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate, each pixel includes: a display region including at least one pixel thin film transistor and an organic light-emitting device electrically connected to the pixel thin film... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303350 | HIGH VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY A high voltage power supply (HVPS) including first and second high voltage output controllers controlling output of a high voltage output signal; and a plurality of transformers transforming an output signal provided from the first and second high voltage output control... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303437 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LOWER PANEL FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL USING X-RAYS A method of manufacturing a lower panel for a plasma display panel using X-rays which includes preparing a base substrate; forming a barrier rib material layer on the base substrate; defining barrier rib patterns by scanning X-rays on the barrier rib material layer; and... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080305367 | BATTERY PACK A battery pack including: a bare cell, a case to house the bare cell, having at least one hole formed therein; a protection circuit board connected to bare cell; an adhesive applied onto the case, and to the bare cell via the hole, and a label attached to the bare cell ... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080298199 | WRITING STRATEGY PARAMETERS INDEXING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS THEREFOR A writing strategy parameters indexing method and a recording apparatus therefor. The writing strategy parameters indexing method includes operations of receiving an NRZ sequence; moving the NRZ sequence by as much as a bit with respect to a channel block using a slide-... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080298776 | STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium include... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080297817 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COLOR CONVERTING METHOD THEREOF An image forming apparatus including a scanning unit to scan an image and to output corresponding digital color coordinates; a determining unit to determine a local color gamut including the digital color coordinates, based on a reference matrix computed from a standard... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080297653 | STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium include... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080298774 | STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDING STYLE INFORMATION A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium include... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080297483 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TOUCHSCREEN BASED USER INTERFACE INTERACTION A method and apparatus for a touchscreen based user interface (UI) interaction that controls a volume through circular UI graphics and switches between different application images by dragging an indicator on a touchscreen of a terminal device. The method includes: disp... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080297050 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL A plasma display panel including: first and second substrates facing each other; a barrier rib defining a plurality of discharge cells, disposed between the first and second substrates; a plurality of address electrodes disposed on the first substrate, adjacent to the d... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080297021 | FILM-TYPE FILTER, PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE FILM-TYPE FILTER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS A film-type filter, a plasma display apparatus comprising the film-type filter, and a method of manufacturing the plasma display apparatus. The film-type filter includes: a base film, an external light reflection reduction layer disposed on a first side of the base film... | 12/04/2008 |
