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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110039598 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ADDING SOUND ANNOTATION TO PICTURE AND FOR HIGHLIGHTING ON PHOTOS AND MOBILE TERMINAL INCLUDING THE DEVICES A method and device for adding sound annotations to a picture, and a mobile terminal including the device are disclosed. The method adds sound annotations to a picture in the mobile terminal, comprising: selecting and displaying a picture on a display device of the mobi... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039555 | METHOD INCLUDING A BACKGROUND SCAN FOR IDENTIFYING RADIO ACCESS POSSIBILITIES, MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM While being served by a serving network, a mobile terminal performs a background scan to identify radio access possibilities in the area where mobile terminal is located. Information is stored, herein referred to as BSB information, regarding the identified radio access... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037780 | SYSTEM TO HIGHLIGHT DIFFERENCES IN THUMBNAIL IMAGES, MOBILE PHONE INCLUDING SYSTEM, AND METHOD A method and apparatus in which thumbnail images are compared to differentiate between a selected image and one or more other images, and a difference image of the portion of the selected image that is different from one or more other images is determined. An enlarged v... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110028083 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR MEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION Methods for distributing media content between portable electronic devices enabled for media acquisition and wireless communication are disclosed. The methods comprises forming of a group of the portable electronic devices being present at a common context, providing a ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021251 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE CONTROL A user input device on a surface of the phone different than the surface which a user views information displayed on a display thereof. For example, an electronic device, such as a mobile phone, can have a display on a front side and a user input device such as a touchp... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING MULTIPLE DIGITAL IMAGES A system for tagging multiple digital images includes an electronic device having a display for rendering digital images. An interface in the electronic device receives an input of an area of interest within one of the rendered images, and receives a selection of images... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014953 | USER INPUT ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A touch sensitive user input assembly for enter characters into an electronic device. During a telephone mode, use of the input assembly may be made to enter telephone numbers by touching predetermined areas of the input assembly. During a text entry mode, the user may ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013810 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC TAGGING OF A DIGITAL IMAGE A system for automatically tagging a digital image includes an electronic device having a face detector for receiving a digital image and determining whether the digital image contains at least one face. A faceprint generator generates a faceprint representing a face de... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012869 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS FOR A MOBILE DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TOUCH OPERATION SENSING The present invention relates to a touch sensing apparatus for a mobile device, a mobile device and a method for touch operation sensing to reliably sense an applied force. The touch sensing apparatus comprises a touch sensing section for sensing a force experienced in ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012760 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE, TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE INCLUDING A TOUCH SENSING DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SENSING A TOUCH ON A TOUCH SENSING DEVICE The present invention relates to a touch sensing device, touch screen device, mobile device and method for sensing a touch and, in particular, to a touch sensing device usable as user interface for controlling various functions in different devices to provide additional... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110011650 | SENSOR ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY INCLUDING A SENSOR ASSEMBLY A sensor assembly includes a coordinate input surface and, under a region thereof, a first and second switch assembly. Each assembly includes at least a first and second conductive element. When a force smaller than a first threshold is exerted on the surface, the first... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007023 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE COMPRISING THE DISPLAY DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SENSING A FORCE ON A DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention relates to a display device, touch screen device comprising a display device, mobile device and method for sensing a force on a display device. The display device provides a user interface for controlling different functions allowing additional and... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110001231 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE HAVING NON-UNIFORM CONTACT ARRANGEMENT A semiconductor package has a non-uniform contact arrangement in which clustered contacts (e.g., a group of ground contacts, a group of power contacts, and/or a group of heatslug contacts) are placed closer together than I/O contacts. In one embodiment, I/O contacts nea... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100322635 | USING AMBIENT LED LIGHT FOR BROADCASTING INFO AND NAVIGATION A mobile device for receiving modulated light, an apparatus for transmitting information by modulated light and a system as well as corresponding methods are disclosed to be able to use at least parts of an illumination infrastructure for transmitting data to a mobile d... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322430 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND A METHOD OF PROCESSING SIGNALS THEREIN A portable communication device is disclosed. The portable communication device comprises a speaker adapted to be held to an ear of a user for conveying sound to the user, at least one sensor for sensing sound emanating from said sound conveyed to the user, and a contro... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100317398 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLASH-BASED PHOTOGRAPHY A flash-related function involves flash range indication to indicate when one or more subjects are in the range of a flash and indicate when one or more subjects are not in the range of the flash. The indications may be made to a user on an electronic viewfinder during ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100309442 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN PROJECTING SCREEN The invention relates to a mobile communication device comprising a casing, at least one image projecting device, and a projecting screen. The image projecting device in the mobile communication device is adapted to project an image on the projecting screen.... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100305852 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ROUTE GENERATION OF A SPECIFIED DISTANCE The disclosed systems and methods provide for automatic generation of a route of travel for a user. A user's starting location is determined based on location information received from a navigation system, such as a GPS navigation system. An input device receives an inp... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100295958 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING A DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH AN APPARATUS 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 est... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295957 | METHOD OF CAPTURING DIGITAL IMAGES AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS A method of capturing digital images is disclosed. The method comprises registering an image projected on an image sensor; determining motions present in the image; determining a metric representing an amount of the motions; and storing the registered image with associa... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SOCIAL COMMUNICATION To facilitate social interaction through chat rooms, described are a system and a method for identifying and/or creating chat rooms that correspond to an operational context of a user's electronic device. Various conditions may be monitored and evaluated to identify a c... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100283722 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING A COORDINATE INPUT SURFACE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH AN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electronic apparatus includes a coordinate input surface on which at least a finger of a user can be placed, a first position estimating unit and a second position obtaining unit. The first position estimating unit is for estimating the position, here referred to as ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100280874 | MOBILE DEVICE, NETWORK SERVER AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING CORRELATION BETWEEN ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION AND USER BEHAVIOR The present invention relates to a mobile device, network server and method for evaluating a correlation between advertisement information and the behavior of a user having received the advertisement information to verify the effectiveness of providing advertisement inf... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100279748 | 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 part w... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100279660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL VOICEMAIL To enhance user interaction with voicemail messages and information that may be displayed for the voicemail messages, the present disclosure describes an improved approach to delivering voicemail messages to an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone. In one embod... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100278101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MAINTAINING A CONNECTION IN A NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and system for maintaining a connection between two hosts in a multi-hop network comprising at least one network node disposed between the two hosts and a network element, e.g., a NAT, designed to release the connection after a period of inactivity. The method ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100277348 | MOBILE PHONE WITH IMPROVED KEYBOARD SCANNING AND COMPONENT REDUCTION AND METHOD Apparatus and method to detect one or more keys of a mobile wireless electronic device that have received an activating input, e.g., have been pressed, interrogates simultaneously several keys of a group of keys to reduce time required to detect which of the keys is pus... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100277304 | WAKE-UP SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electronic device may include a wireless transceiver for establishing a wireless interface with a wireless transceiver of another device. The electronic device may further include a wake-up assembly including a permanent magnet that generates a magnet field and a sen... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100271769 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING MOVABLE PARTS An electronic apparatus includes a display panel connected to a body and able to occupy a first and second position with respect to the body, and an input panel connected to the body and able to occupy a first and second position with respect to the body. When the displ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100270378 | CONNECTOR DEVICE A card connector for ejection and introduction of smart cards is disclosed for usage in a portable electronic device comprising a card reader with a resilient card connecting device for operative connection of the smart card to the card reader by introducing the smart c... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100246115 | MEMORY CARD ACTUATOR A portable electronic device comprises a card actuator for ejection and introduction of memory cards and a card holder with a card eject mechanism for ejecting a memory card in a first direction if the card is moved in a second direction, which card actuator is adapted ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING TOUCH SCREEN FUNCTIONALITY A system and method changes touch screen functionality based on whether a user is detected during camera operation. A first camera generates a video signal containing a representation of at least a portion of a scene within a field of view of the first camera. A control... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOUCH-BASED TEXT ENTRY An electronic device includes a touch screen that displays a message log containing text of one or more messages that have been transmitted by the electronic device or received by the electronic device, and that displays an input field to show text for a new message und... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100240345 | EVENT NOTIFIER DEVICE AND HEADSET An event notifier device suitable to be wirelessly associated to a telephone apparatus is disclosed. The event notifier device comprises a receiver arranged to receive a signal wirelessly from the telephone on incoming event notification associated with an event; an out... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238118 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TEXT INPUT TO A COMMUNICATION DEVICE A system and method for generating symbols in a mobile communication device is provided. The system may be provided with a chart provided with symbols, such as Hindi characters, and a device for retrieving information related to the presented symbols, the read retrieved... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235768 | PERSONALIZED USER INTERFACE BASED ON PICTURE ANALYSIS The user interface of an electronic device may be personalized based on one or more images selected by the user. The images are analyzed to create a theme that is applied to the user interface of the electronic device. The theme may be transferred to and applied to the ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100227656 | MECHANISM FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL The present invention relates to a radio communication terminal comprising a first casing, a second casing, a slider mechanism and a hinge mechanism, wherein the slider mechanism is adapted to movably connect the first and the second casing, the hinge mechanism is conne... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100226075 | ELECTROACTIVE ACTUATOR FOR PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES The invention relates to a portable communication device which comprises a first part, a second part, and one or more electroactive polymer actuators, where the electroactive polymer actuator is connected to the first part and to the second part. The invention also comp... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100216441 | METHOD FOR PHOTO TAGGING BASED ON BROADCAST ASSISTED FACE IDENTIFICATION An electronic device, method, and system for obtaining data to be associated with a digital photograph captured with the device. The device includes a photograph management application for associating data with a digital photograph captured with the device. The photogra... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215178 | KEY SELECTION VECTOR, MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING THE KEY SELECTION VECTOR, DIGITAL CONTENT OUTPUT DEVICE, AND REVOCATION LIST A key selection vector for a revocation list in an HDCP system as well as a mobile device and a method for processing a key selection vector, a digital content output device using a key selection vector and a revocation list for use in an HDCP system comprising a key se... | 08/26/2010 |
