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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942531 | Edge lit locally dimmed display An edge lit locally dimmed display has a spatial light modulator illuminated by a light source. The light source is positioned at an edge and behind the spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator is illuminated with a low resolution version of a desired im... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7192346 | Systems and methods for skill game awards Systems and methods for providing awards to players of skill games where the awards are selected, based upon various factors, prior to playing the skill game. The method includes paying, by the player, a buy-in fee, selecting an award, playing the skill game, and pr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184218 | Method and apparatus for increasing quality and resolution of a projected image A lens includes mechanical dithering that displaces pixels adjacent to undithered pixels. The dithering, for example, precisely places pixels above, below, and on both sides of the undithered pixel. Image data is supplemented with interpolation and/or new data in ad... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175281 | Method and apparatus to increase the contrast ratio of the image produced by a LCoS based light engine A transmissive LCD is placed in optical series with pixels of an image. The transmissive LCD is set to full transmissivity when bright pixels of the image pass through the transmissive LCD. Transmissivity is decreased where pixels darker than a darkening threshold p... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7143341 | Method and apparatus for concurrent engineering and design synchronization of multiple tools Concurrent engineering among multiple design groups is facilitated by maintaining design changes in a data model of a design being developed. Design changes for each group are made from a baseline design. Changes are tracked by maintaining change information from al... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143159 | Method for correlating and presenting network management data NIC collected network statistics are captured by agent devices resident on Host machines of a network. A probe (software or hardware) retrieves the collected statistics from one or more monitored hosts (each host on the network, for example) and places them in RMON ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143020 | Method and system for generic inference of sequential elements A method for inferring a requested data input function of a sequential cell from a library of candidate cells, wherein the requested cell and the candidate cell are expressed as polynoms and then divided. The method generates polynomial expressions of the inhibition... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7123650 | Offset carrier frequency correction in a two-way broadband wireless access system A method for correcting for the offset carrier frequency in a wireless modem is provided. The method further allows for the periodic correction of the offset of the carrier frequency. A Fine tuning method is implemented that uses fine tuning frequency increments to ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7095748 | Bridging apparatus for interconnecting a wireless PAN and a wireless LAN A Wireless bridge conjoins two previously incompatible technologies within a single device to leverage the strengths of each. The Wireless bridge marries the Personal Area Network (PAN) technology of Bluetooth as described in Bluetooth Specification Version 1.0B wit... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085708 | Computer system with natural language to machine language translator Presented is a system and method for converting or translating expressions in a natural language such as English into machine executable expressions in a formal language. This translation enables a transformation from the syntactic structures of a natural language i... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7069204 | Method and system for performance level modeling and simulation of electronic systems having both hardware and software elements A method and system for evaluating performance level models of electronic systems having both hardware and software components is provided. The system and method allow for the simplified implementation and testing of several different architectural designs for compl... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062733 | Method and apparatus for delay line calibration Sub-sampled signals are compared to determine time delay, calibration of delay elements, and other precise time domain measurements, based on properties of aliased signals produced by the sub-sampling. In one embodiment, flip-flops sub-sample an input signal and a d... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7042610 | Method and apparatus for improved waveplates and suppression of stray light in LCoS kernel applications Optical components are louvered with a light absorptive material that absorbs stray light rays. The louvers are constructed, for example, using a “black” thin film coating between sheets of glass. The louvered components are placed in an optical path at one or m... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035782 | Method and device for multi-interval collocation for efficient high accuracy circuit simulation A method and apparatus are provided for solving a set of differential-algebraic equation arising in a circuit simulation is provided. A collocation method is applied to each differential-algebraic equation to discretize the set of differential-algebraic equations. A... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7012755 | Use of a lens array to increase the contrast ratio produced by a LCoS microdisplay A lens array is placed over a cover glass of a pixel based LCoS display device. The lens array is situated so that an individual lens in the array corresponds to an individual pixel in the display device. Each lens collects light and/or reflections from a high contr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013438 | System chip synthesis A technique to design deep sub-micron (DSM) integrated circuits is disclosed, in which global wire delays are minimized first, before performing logic synthesis. According to the present method, a designer performs layout of physical blocks by estimating an area for... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006297 | Pathlength matched beam splitter and method and apparatus for assembly Pathlength matched optical devices (such as beam splitters) are produced by viewing optical paths through the optical devices and adjusting relative positions of optical components of the optical devices until the viewed optical paths are equivalent. The optical pat... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999237 | Method and apparatus for configuration and assembly of a video projection light management system A pathlength matched prism assembly is constructed from Polarizing Beam Splitter optical components having varying degrees of precision by arranging them in pathlength matched positions and fixing them to a baseplate or frame. Gaps between the optical components are... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6982829 | Prism assembly with cholesteric reflectors A beam splitter is constructed using one or more cholesteric layers. Each cholesteric layer reflects light of a given wavelength and polarization. The beam splitter is placed in a prism assembly. The cholesteric layers of the beam splitter are chosen such that porti... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6725187 | Latch inference using dataflow analysis A system and method are provided for selectively inferring latch elements in a circuit design from an event-driven hardware description language (HDL) file to an event-independent format. The method includes modeling the file as a plurality of data flow equations, a... | 04/20/2004 |
