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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7019345 | Photodiode CMOS imager with column-feedback soft-reset for imaging under ultra-low illumination and with high dynamic range The present invention provides a CMOS imager with a reset scheme, by which a CMOS imager generates a sub-kTC noise so that read noise does not depend on the sense node capacitance. By using a column feedback circuit, reset noise can be suppressed to a negligible amo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016346 | Apparatus and method for converting data in serial format to parallel format and vice versa Converters and a corresponding method for converting serial data to parallel format and vice versa, particularly for use in switches for telecommunications applications. The converters comprise a storage element associated with each serial channel and comprising two... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6987937 | Reassembled toner cartridge and method of manufacture A reassembled toner cartridge and method of manufacture in which a reassembled toner cartridge is resealed by simultaneous ultrasonic welding at multiple locations resulting in improved product performance, increased production efficiency and decreased production co... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6980441 | Circuit and method for controlling a synchronous rectifier in a power converter A control circuit and corresponding method, particularly for power converters in a system having paralleled power converters, for rapidly and efficiently controlling a free-wheeling synchronous rectifier, so as to prevent any large negative current flow that might c... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6945738 | Method and apparatus for safety protection of temporary roof support Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for safety protection control of temporary roof support. In one embodiment, a temporary roof support has a load sensing member. In another embodiment, a beam structure of temporary roof supp... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6930806 | Scanner with removable data storage media A stand alone flat bed scanner including a CPU, a removable storage medium, a control system displaying digital image and controls for controlling the mode of operation, degree of resolution, related parameters associated with generating, storing and displaying digi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6914812 | Tunnel device level shift circuit A floating gate circuit has a level shift circuit. The floating gate circuit includes: a floating gate; a first and second tunnel device formed respectively between a first and second tunnel electrode; a first circuit coupled to the floating gate for generating an o... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6906609 | Planar transformer A transformer having at least one primary winding and one secondary winding. The windings are disposed between walls of a first and second bobbin member. In preferred eombodiments, the creepage distance between the windings can be increased by providing a flange on ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907210 | Remanufactured toner cartridge having modified roller section A remanufactured laser printer toner cartridge incorporates a used doctor blade and/or a used wiper blade. The used doctor blade has been adapted and oriented to make contact with a developer roller or a magnetic roller along a previously unused portion of the docto... | 06/14/2005 |
| D505668 | Portable electronic device | 05/31/2005 |
| D505669 | Portable electronic device | 05/31/2005 |
| 6898123 | Differential dual floating gate circuit and method for programming A method and circuit for setting a reference voltage in a dual floating gate circuit is disclosed. During a set mode, a first and second floating gate are programmed to different charge levels that are a function of an input set voltage capacitively coupled to the f... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6894928 | Output voltage compensating circuit and method for a floating gate reference voltage generator An apparatus and method is provided for adjusting a reference voltage at an output terminal of a floating gate reference voltage generator circuit in order to improve the accuracy of the reference voltage at an input terminal of a load circuit. The apparatus and met... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6893527 | Biodegradable polyester and natural polymer laminates Methods of making articles are provided in which a self-supporting structure formed of natural polymer has a self-adherent, moisture resistant thermoplastic film comprising gelatinized starch and a hydroxy-functional polyester on the structure surface. The self-supp... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6894466 | Active current sharing circuit An active current sharing circuit that provides a plurality of paralleled DC-DC converters each having a lossless inductor-based current sensing circuit for sensing the average current of the associated DC-DC converter through its output inductor, and a means for ad... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6888061 | Feedthrough interconnection assembly The present invention relates to optimization of communication equipment with respect to size and undesired signal interference. To this aim a ceramic feedthrough interconnection assembly is proposed in order to transport an electrical information signal to and from... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6870764 | Floating gate analog voltage feedback circuit A floating gate circuit in a read mode that includes at least one floating gate and an analog feedback circuit is disclosed. The feedback circuit causes the floating gate circuit to reach a steady state condition in the read mode such that a reference voltage is gen... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6867622 | Method and apparatus for dual conduction analog programming A method and apparatus for setting a floating gate in a floating gate circuit using dual conduction of Fowler-Nordheim tunnel devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a floating gate circuit having a single floating gate. During a set... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6856641 | Ring resonator based narrow-linewidth semiconductor lasers The present invention is a method and apparatus for using ring resonators to produce narrow linewidth hybrid semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the narrow linewidths are produced by combining the semiconductor gain chip with ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856837 | Method and device for electrochemically building of muscle A method and device are disclosed for using electrochemistry to build and strengthen muscles by applying pulses of DC electrical charge, at a duration in the range of about 0.2 to about 1 millisecond and a frequency of at least 1000 Hertz, to the skin by means of an... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6850566 | Implementation of quantization for SIMD architecture A system for improving the speed of the video encoding process by decreasing the number of cycles to perform the quantization. The disclosed system achieves the improvement through use of parallel processor such as one having a Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIM... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6847551 | Apparatus for feedback using a tunnel device An apparatus for using feedback to set a floating gate to a desired voltage during a set mode is disclosed. The apparatus includes a floating gate, a first and second tunnel device formed respectively between the floating gate and a first and second electrode, a fir... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6844946 | Tunable holographic filter An optical add/drop filter is formed using a hologram which is tuned to a wavelength in an optical signal. The diffraction condition of the hologram may be varied to vary the in add or drop content. ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6841891 | Electrogasdy anamic method for generation electrical energy A process is provided for producing electrical energy from thermal energy in which charges are separated between two working media triboelectrically or electrostatically, the charges are moved away from one another by displacement of the working media under the acti... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6841977 | Soft-start with back bias conditions for PWM buck converter with synchronous rectifier A circuit that efficiently prevents the turning on of the synchronous rectifier in a buck converter during a predetermined condition, so as to prevent current reversing through the synchronous rectifier during that time. In one embodiment, the circuit provides contr... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6829164 | Differential floating gate circuit and method for programming A method and circuit for programming a floating gate in a differential floating gate circuit to an input set voltage. The circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit for comparing the voltage on a floating gate with an input set voltage, and a gain stage for a... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6829067 | Method and apparatus for implementing a multi-channel tunable filter The present invention provides a multi-channel tunable filter and methods for making such a filter. In one embodiment, the filter comprises a bank of gratings imprinted into a filter material, such as Lithium Niobate. In another embodiment, the filter comprises a ba... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6826095 | Method and apparatus for data inversion in memory device A method of writing information to a synchronous memory device by examining a present word of N bits to be written, where each bit has a high or low value. The present word is compared to a previous word also having N bits to identify the number of bit transitions f... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6820849 | Multi-function clamp A clamp device designed for use in the motion picture industry where there is a need for temporarily mounting and supporting various lighting and other hardware on or from available surfaces and fixtures without marring them. The clamp device basically includes a fi... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6817918 | Hybrid sealing technique The present invention is a hybrid sealing technique. According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, an unsealed lamp body is heated and a partial pinch seal is performed on a first side of the lamp body at an outer junction area. Then, a shrink seal ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6818895 | Respiratory gas analyzer An infrared gas analyzer includes an infrared source for emitting infrared energy, a sample cell for gases to be analyzed in the path of infrared energy emitted by the source and an assembly having first and second detectors also in the path of infrared energy and a... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6815983 | Analog floating gate voltage sense during dual conduction programming A method for sensing the voltage on a floating gate in a floating gate circuit during a set mode is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) causing the floating gate circuit to enter into a set mode, wherein a first predetermined voltage is coupled to the ga... | 11/09/2004 |
| RE38628 | Pharmaceutical compositions A method of treatment of a condition selected from the group comprising conjunctivitis, keratitis, ‘allergic eyes’, adenovirus infections, corneal homograft rejection, anterior uveitis, nasal polyps, vasomotor rhinitis, allergic manifestations of the nasopharynx... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6807342 | Fiber optic tunable filter using a fabry-perot resonator A tunable filter with a flattopped passband is provided for use as a micromachined optical filter with input and output optical fibers which provides a wavelength tunability with several discrete wavelengths and a flattopped passband. The standard Fabry-Perot resona... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6799030 | Method and apparatus for low power operation of an RF wireless modem The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for extending battery life in a radio frequency (“RF”) wireless modem by automatically commanding the RF modem into a low power, auto-sleep-no-coverage mode when coverage is not available. The auto-sleep-... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6792605 | Method and apparatus for providing web based services using an XML Runtime model to store state session data The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accessing and using services and applications from a number of sources into a customized application. The present invention accomplishes this through an entity referred to as a web service. The web services a... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788557 | Single conversion power converter with hold-up time A power converter is provided that operates with a wide range input and provides the required hold up time using a smaller, less costly hold-up capacitor. A charging circuit is provided to charge a capacitor through an auxiliary winding. The power converter includes... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785335 | Method for adjusting the brightness and color of MPEG encoded video streams A system and corresponding method for adjusting the brightness and color of MPEG encoded video images. A digital versatile disk player capable of decoding a previously encoded MPEG video signal and adjusting the brightness and color of the entire previously encoded ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6785556 | Method and apparatus for a software configurable wireless modem adaptable for multiple modes of operation The present invention provides for a software configurable wireless modem that can be configured using software downloaded by a host computer. The user can select a preferred mode of operation, or mode selection can be done automatically based upon whether one or mo... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778108 | Method and apparatus for compression of binary data The invention is a method and apparatus for compression of binary data. The signal is used before modulation to increase the effective transmission rate by compressing it prior to being encoded onto a magnetic tape or other storage media. The transition bits of the ... | 08/17/2004 |
