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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7328412 | Method and apparatus for displaying a gain control interface with non-linear gain levels A method for displaying a gain control interface having a gain level display with non-linear gain levels. The gain level display has a first end having an associated first pixel offset value and a second end having an associated second pixel offset value. A range of... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310003 | Configurable IC with interconnect circuits that have select lines driven by user signals Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (“IC”). The IC includes a first set of circuits and a second set of circuits interspersed among the first set of circuits. Each set of circuits includes at least ten volatile configurabl... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310793 | Interconnect lines with non-rectilinear terminations Some embodiments of the invention provide vias that are not in shape of quadrilaterals. In some embodiments, some or all vias are in shape of non-quadrilateral polygons, such as octagons and hexagons. In some embodiments, some or all vias have a circular shape. Some... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307449 | Sub-cycle configurable hybrid logic/interconnect circuit Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (“IC”). This IC includes several configurable circuits for receiving configuration data and configurably performing a set of operations based on the configuration data. It also includes ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308263 | Apparatus for supporting the handover of a telecommunication session between a licensed wireless system and an unlicensed wireless system The invention discloses a wireless communication handset comprising licensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry and unlicensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry. The invention further discloses a control circuit connected to both the... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298370 | Depth ordering of planes and displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data characteristics A method for determining a depth ordering between two planes in a 3D workspace of an application is provided. The method includes projecting vectors from a reference position through points of interest on the planes, determining corresponding points on the other pla... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295612 | Determining the number of unidirectional and bidirectional motion compensated frames to be encoded for a video sequence and detecting scene cuts in the video sequence Methods for processing a set of successive video frames in two passes to determine the number of bidirectional (B) and unidirectional (P) motion compensated frames to be encoded in a video coding system. During the first pass, motion vectors and motion costs are com... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295037 | Configurable IC with routing circuits with offset connections Some embodiments provide a configurable integrated circuit (“IC”) that includes several configurable tiles arranged in a tile arrangement. Each configurable tile has a set of configurable logic circuits and a set of configurable routing circuits for routing sign... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292636 | Using order value for processing a video picture A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290243 | Method and apparatus for application building using build styles What is disclosed is a method of building a software product in an integrated development environment using several build styles and a target. The method includes (1) determining an order of precedence for the build styles, where each of the build styles comprises a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289132 | Method and apparatus for image acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284222 | Method and apparatus for identifying connections between configurable nodes in a configurable integrated circuit Some embodiments provide a method that defines a set of connections that connect the nodes in a configurable node array. The method identifies different sets of connections for connecting a set of the nodes. For each identified set of connections, the method compute... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283822 | Service access control interface for an unlicensed wireless communication system Some embodiments provide a system for authorization and authentication of an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) subscriber. The system includes an UMA network controller (UNC) which is communicatively coupled to a licensed wireless communication system. The system also ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283821 | Radio resources messaging for a mobile station in an unlicensed wireless communication system An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282950 | Configurable IC's with logic resources with offset connections A configurable integrated circuit (“IC”) that includes several configurable tiles arranged in a tile arrangement. Each configurable tile has a set of configurable logic circuits and a set of configurable routing circuits for routing signals between configurable ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277595 | Method and apparatus for digital image manipulation to remove image blemishes To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an intuitive system for digital manipulation. The system of the present invention allows a user to simply fix small blemishes in digital images. In one embodiment,... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276933 | Reconfigurable IC that has sections running at different looperness Some embodiments provide a reconfigurable IC that includes at least two sections, each with several configurable circuits. Each configurable circuit configurably performs a set of operations. Each section stores multiple configuration data sets for each configurable... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272537 | Spout for dispensing liquid from a liquid container Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for monitoring liquid consumption at one or more establishments. At each establishment, the system includes one or more spouts and a local computer. Each spout is mounted on a liquid container. Also, each spout gene... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272397 | Service access control interface for an unlicensed wireless communication system Some embodiments provide a system for authorization and authentication of an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) subscriber. The system includes an UMA network controller (UNC) which is communicatively coupled to a licensed wireless communication system. The system also ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272031 | Method and apparatus for reduced power cell The invention relates to reduced power cells. Some embodiments of the invention provide a memory circuit that has a storage cell. The storage cell contains several electronic components and an input. The electronic components receive a reduced voltage from the input... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268586 | Method and apparatus for accessing stored data in a reconfigurable IC Some embodiments provide a first interconnect circuit for accessing stored data in a reconfigurable IC. The reconfigurable IC has at least one reconfigurable circuit and a set of storage elements for storing several data sets for the particular reconfigurable circui... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259587 | Configurable IC's with configurable logic resources that have asymetric inputs and/or outputs Some embodiments provide a configurable IC that includes several configurable tiles. The configurable tiles include several interior tiles within the interior of an arrangement of configurable tiles. The arrangement has several sides that define the exterior boundar... | 08/21/2007 |
