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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940623 | Methods and devices for recording marks in an information layer of an optical record carrier, and record carriers for use therein Methods and devices are described for writing to an optical record carrier, in which a mark representing recorded data is written in a phase-change layer of a record carrier by a sequence of radiation pulses. A rear heating pulse is introduced after a last write pul... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7529672 | Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms A method of synthesizing a speech signal by providing a first speech unit signal having an end interval and a second speech unit signal having a front interval, wherein at least some of the periods of the end interval are appended in inverted order at the end of the... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7519032 | Apparatus and method for providing QoS service schedule and bandwidth allocation to a wireless station An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a Quality of Service (QoS) service schedule and bandwidth allocation message to a wireless station in a wireless network. The apparatus of the invention comprises a hybrid coordinator that is capable of (1) creating... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7496017 | Method for formatting an optical disc A device for recording information writes marks in a track on a record carrier of a re-writable type. The device records the information according to a predefined recording format like DVD for constituting a recording area containing user data preceded by a lead-in ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495651 | Electrophoretic display panel The electrophoretic display panel (1) for displaying pictures has drive means (100) which are arranged for controlling the potential difference of each picture element (2) to be a picture potential difference having a picture value and an associ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492677 | Method and device for playing optical discs and method for determining tracking quality A method for reading data from a track (3) of a data carrier (2) comprises the following steps. During reading, a tracking quality parameter (Q) is determined, relating to a track portion (3Px) of the data carrier from which the data is being re... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489448 | Optical scanning device An optical scanning device provides a radiation source (2,200), a collimator lens (4,40), an objective (7,90) for converting a beam (5,30′) to a scanning spot at the position of an information layer (101) of a record carrier (... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489791 | A/D converter with integrated biasing for a microphone A combination of a microphone and a sigma-delta A/D converter include at least one feedback loop, such as a DC feedback loop. The DC feedback loop provides the bias current for a junction FET of the microphone. In this way, the signal current from the FET can be inj... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486198 | System and method for performing telemetric measurements System for performing telemetric measurements, comprising a plurality of mobile communication devices (100), each communication device (100) being provided with at least one sensor (110) and a sensor control section (120) for performing m... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486602 | Tilt control for reading information An apparatus for scanning a track on a record carrier has a head for scanning the track and generating a read signal. The tilt between the head and the record carrier (11) is compensated via a tilt servo loop. Thereto the head is provided with tilt compensati... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487306 | Device and method for recording information A device for recording information records blocks, having continuous logical addresses on a record carrier at corresponding physical addresses, translates logical addresses into physical addresses in dependence of defect management information. The, defect managemen... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487387 | Recording medium defect management A recording medium (D) comprises a file system area (FSA), a data area (DAA) and an initial defect management area (DMA). A system comprises a drive (DR) for writing data (DA) to or reading data (DR) from the data area (DAA) or the defect management area (DMA), and ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487429 | Simple decoding method and apparatus A method of decoding possibly mutilated codewords (r) of a code (C) into information words (m′) including information symbols (m′1, m′2, . . . , m′k), the information words (m) being encoded into codewords (c) of the code (C). In order not to c... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483218 | Optical component for introducing optical aberrations to a light beam An optical component (48) for introducing optical aberrations to a light beam defining an optical axis (28) is described, comprising a fluid chamber (46) having a first fluid (56) and at least a second fluid (58) therein, the first... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483770 | Cooling assembly comprising micro-jets A cooling assembly for cooling a heat source, such an electronic components, with a coolant includes micro jets adapted to eject the coolant onto the heat source in response to a control signal, and a controller adapted to control the ejection of the coolant from th... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480225 | Method for recording information on a multi layer record carrier, and record carrier for use by such method This invention relates to a method for recording information on a multi layer record carrier. The information is recorded on the record carrier according to special filling patterns, such that the record carrier is compatible with the DVD-ROM standard while the time... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480222 | Disc drive apparatus, and method for recognizing CD and DVD A method for recognizing type (CD; DVD) of an optical disc, wherein: a light beam (32) is caused to reflect from the optical disc (2); wherein an optical lens (34) is caused to move axially with respect to said optical disc (2); a detecto... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480756 | Electronic data processing circuit that transmits packed words via a bus An electronic data processing circuit contains a plurality of data handling units (10a-d, 16a-b) with data outputs, at least part of the data handling units having address outputs. The data handling units supply words of preferably selectable size to a... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480296 | Method and device for generating a multiplexed MPEG signal A method and a device are described for generating a program stream of MPEG coded video and audio signal, wherein several functional tasks are distributed in an optimal manner between hardware on the one hand and software on the other hand. Forming the elementary st... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477725 | Computed examination of an object by using coherent-scattered radiation An examination apparatus, such as for inspection of baggage or any object of interest, has a source of radiation which is moved during scanning of the object of interest. A scattered radiation are detected which is scattered by the object of interest under a particu... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477248 | Display device, electric device comprising such a display device and method for driving a display device The invention relates to a display device and a method of driving a display device, wherein the display comprises a plurality of light emitting elements and means for applying a driving signal to the light emitting elements. The display device comprises control mean... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477904 | System for locating a mobile unit A wireless local area network (LAN) comprises an access point which transmits a beacon signal at 0 dBm. The detection threshold of the mobile unit is −65 dBm and thus the mobile unit is detected when located within 10 meters of the access point. ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474283 | Electroluminescent display devices In an active matrix electroluminescent display device a storage capacitor (24) is provided in each pixel (10) for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor (22) which controls the illumination of the electroluminescent displ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474728 | Computed tomography apparatus The invention relates to a computed tomography apparatus (CT apparatus) for imaging by means of radiation having traversed an object to be examined (that is, directly transmitted radiation), as well as by means of radiation scattered by the object to be examined, wh... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471280 | Tactile device The invention relates to a tactile device provided with a number of fluid elements (1) containing an electrically conducting fluid (3, 4). The fluid level in each element is movable by actuator means (V, 6) applying a electric power to said flui... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7471062 | Wireless battery charging Batteries in portable electrical or electronic devices are charged, through by a wireless battery charger, having an intermediate electrical energy storage device that is charged from a non-power line connected source, and discharged to recharge the battery of a por... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7465514 | Electrochemical energy source and electronic device incorporating such an energy source The invention relates to an electrochemical energy source comprising at least one fuel cell, which fuel cell comprises: a first current collector coupled to a negative electrode, a fuel source connected to said negative electrode, a second current collector coupled ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466246 | Modulation apparatus/method, demodulation apparatus/method and program presenting medium A DSV control bit determining/inserting unit 11 inserts DSV control bits for execution of DSV control into an input data string and outputs the data string including the DSV control bits to a modulation unit 12. The modulation unit 12 converts t... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466390 | Active matrix displays and other electronic devices having plastic substrates A method of manufacturing an active matrix display device involves manufacturing a first substrate arrangement comprising a rigid glass substrate and an overlying plastic substrate. Pixel circuits are formed over the plastic substrate. The rigid glass substrate (... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463408 | Fast full color electrophoretic display with improved driving The present invention provides a novel design for color electrophoretic displays. In the display, each pixel (200) comprises at least two sub-pixels (210, 220, 230), and each sub pixel is fitted with a color filter (211, 221, 231) and contains a... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463222 | Devices and methods for electroluminescent display In an active matrix electroluminescent display device, a storage capacitor (24) is provided for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor (22). A discharge photodiode (27) is provided for discharging the storage capacitor in... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463407 | Electro-optically active device The invention relates to an electro-optically active display device, comprising at least one individually addressable pixel, each pixel being provided with an obstructing element (3), such as a reservoir light shield, a black matrix or a mirror element. Accor... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457217 | Method and device for measuring the tilt of an optical disc A method and device for measuring the tilt in an optical disc drive (1) is disclosed. The optical disc drive (1) comprises two lasers (31, 41) generating two laser beams (32, 42) having mutually different optical characteristics. One of t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453424 | Matrix display device with photosensitive element A matrix display device comprises an array of addressable pixels (10) each having a display element (20) and a control circuit for controlling the operation of the display element. The control circuit includes a charge storage capacitor (36) and... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451871 | Housing for storing multiple information discs A multiple information disc housing for storing optical discs and including a first housing part (3), a second housing part (5) and an intermediate third housing part (7) arranged between the first and second housing parts. The first housing par... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453974 | Beam-hardening and attenuation correction for coherent-scatter CT In CSCT, an exact reconstruction of a scattering function for each voxel is not known for polychromatic primary radiation. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a beam hardening compensation is performed prior to reconstruction allowing to p... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453394 | Method of position determination A device includes an antenna for receiving an incoming signal. A multiplier multiplies the incoming signal with an output from a carrier generator in order to mix down signal the incoming signal. The output of the multiplier is provided to correlators for sequential... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7446383 | Electronic device mountable onto a substrate using surface mount techniques, and method The sensing device (100) comprises a first sensing element (10) having a reference plane (1), between which sensing element (10) and a contacting side (3) of the device (100) a predefined angle is present. Conductors couple ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440075 | Birefringent optical system The invention relates to an optical system comprising a fluid chamber 1 and a birefringent part. The fluid chamber comprises first and second fluids 10, 12 having different indices of refraction, the interface between the fluids forming a meniscus 1... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439771 | Integrated interface circuitry for integrated VRM power field effect transistors A down converter includes an interface section, which connects the down converter to switches and respective driver circuits, wherein the driver circuits and the switches are combined on an integrated circuit. The driver circuits include a high-side driver circuit, ... | 10/21/2008 |
