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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6743171 | Relocatable mental function testing gateway This invention is a gateway for testing mental function comprising a portable structure that houses one or more mental function testers and an access control device that allows the user to enter a defined area based upon the result of the mental function test. The a... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6593952 | Printer system, printer apparatus, printing method, ink ribbon and printing medium A printer system, a printer apparatus, a printing method, an ink ribbon and a printing medium that certainly and effectively prevent a quality of printed image from being degraded without causing trouble to a user. More concretely, the printing medium is ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6562626 | Method for monitoring textile fiber quality, and for analysis and identification of paper, wood and other cellulose containing materials A method of analyzing cell wall components based on a hot dilute acid extraction of plant cellulosic materials such as cotton fibers or wood pulp. The extracts are analyzed by high pH anion exchange chromatography to separate and characterize the carbohyd... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6523979 | Lighting device A lighting device having a safe, long-life, and low-cost light source, is disclosed which has a composite element including a plurality of LEDs arranged in rows and columns.... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6509048 | Method for manufacturing a decorative food A decorative food formed of a plurality of kinds of fluid food materials and manufactured by using a mold is provided. The decorative food has an outside shape thereof conforming to an interior surface of the mold inclusive of an opening of said mold. The... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6502795 | Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a supporting device for rotatably engaging a display device and a housing device and a disengaging device so that the display device may be easily and speedily attached to or detached from the housing device. A display apparat... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6504141 | Adaptive amplifier circuit with enhanced dynamic range An adaptive amplifier circuit with minimal excess noise and a linear charge-handling capacity exceeding 109 electrons to enable high-quality imaging at long wavelength infrared backgrounds and video frame rates with enhanced dynamic range is di... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6499848 | Slide feeder, slide system and slide feeding method A slide feeder, a slide system and a slide feeding method are disclosed. Conventional slide feeders are incapable of feeding the same slide mounts repeatedly to an external appliance with no help by a human hand, accordingly are unsuited to a scanning wor... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6496479 | Network resource reservation control method and apparatus, receiving terminal, sending terminal, and relay apparatus Resources such as VCs (Virtual Connections) are efficiently reserved. When an ASP (AMInet Setup Protocol) message is sent from a receiving terminal (RECEIVER) to a sending terminal (SENDER), virtual connections of a predetermined bandwidth individually sp... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6477315 | Edit list creating apparatus An edit list creating apparatus that can substantially improve the work efficiency in creating an edit list is disclosed. An edit list creating apparatus that can create an edit list and that is functional during the creation of the edit list for setting ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6470894 | Glutathione, green tea, grape seed extract to neutralize tobacco free radicals A composition for inclusion within a cigarette, cigar, pipe or smokeless tobacco. The composition can be included within the tobacco itself, a filter for filtering tobacco smoke once burned or even within the paper or wrapper surrounding the tobacco produ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6462868 | Display device for both hardcopy and digital images A display device is provided which permits viewing of both hardcopy and digital images. An embodiment of an image viewing station comprises a housing having an internal light source and a light transmissive display panel coupled to the housing such that l... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6461548 | Method for improving injection molding of transparent optical components The present method for improving the quality of injection molded optical components consists of proper cleaning of the injection molding apparatus between uses. Injection parts that are not subjected to pressurized polymer are cleaned by passage through a... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6446925 | Display apparatus A display apparatus is provided that includes a devised supporting device for rotatably engaging a display device and a housing device and a disengaging device so that the display device may be easily and speedily attached to or detached from the housing ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6445464 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided for maintaining image quality through simple processing while reducing the number of gradation levels of image data by error diffusion processing. In an image processing apparatus, ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6437500 | Seamless electron transfer for multiple-gun direct view CRTS A CRT for the display of a large screen television set which includes a tube envelope having a pair of tube necks and a phosphor display screen, a pair of electron guns arranged in a same horizontal plane and each positioned in a different one of the tube... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6431691 | Piezoelectric actuator Of the first sheet formed of piezoelectric materials and the second sheet formed of prescribed materials, the upper electrode layer formed of conduction materials is formed on one surface of the first sheet and the lower electrode layer formed of conducti... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430314 | Method and apparatus for entering data strings including hangul (Korean) and ASCII characters Described are methods for entering and editing data strings that are inputted into cellular telephones having a screen. In one method, all basic Hangul consonants and some of the compound Hangul consonants are included in a candidate consonant list and al... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6429922 | Master negative film making apparatus, master negative film making method, and master negative film A reproduction film is made capable of obtaining stable reproduction characteristics constantly. A master negative film is used to transfer data onto a reproduction film upon exposing the master negative film on which the data is recorded at the prescribe... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6430221 | Transmitter, receiver, transmitting method and receiving method A transmitter, a receiver, a transmitting method, and a receiving method which make it possible to transmit or receive moving image data with higher resolution than specified by the prescribed coding and decoding modes. A split moving image data is obtain... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6424659 | Multi-layer switching apparatus and method Multilayer switching device and associated technique enables simultaneous wire-speed routing at OSI layer 3, wire-speed switching at layer 2, and support multiple interfaces at layer 1. Implementation may be embodied using one or more integrated circuits ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6415798 | Antioxidants to neutralize tobacco free radicals A composition for inclusion within a cigarette, cigar, pipe or smokeless tobacco. The composition can be included within the tobacco itself, a filter for filtering tobacco smoke once burned within the paper or wrapper surrounding the tabacco product. In t... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6413117 | Axisymmetric vibrator, vibrator connection, and mounting system A vibrator motor mount for an axisymmetric vibrator is mounted directly on a PCB or other mounting surface and includes a clip for holding the vibrator and a spring type connector. The clip and the vibrator make contact and establish a first electrical co... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6411267 | Monitor adjustment by data manipulation A monitor, preferably a CRT, comprising a display screen for displaying an image, a frame memory for storing one or more frames of video display data for display by the display screen, and a clock control circuit for dynamically varying either or both of ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6397371 | Procedure for worst-case analysis of discrete systems A general methodology for worst-case analysis of systems with discrete observable signals is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a signature ς is chosen and a ς-abstraction F is created, based on the system and the particular property to be analyzed... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6387055 | Tactile sensory testing device The present invention relates to a device for delivering dual point pressure sensations to a subject to provide not only tactile sensory forces, but also precise gradations of these forces in a single hand-held unit. The operator can, by varying the dista... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388963 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD USED IN OPTICAL DISK RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL PICK-UP USING SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS HAVING THIS OPTICAL PICK-UP A signal generation method capable of generating a cross track signal having a predetermined phase difference from a tracking error signal even in a land and groove recording method in which a land width and a groove width are made equal, wherein a main s... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6383539 | Method of manufacturing decorative food, nozzle assembly and decorative chocolate A nozzle assembly branching each stream of at least two fluidized food materials of different colors into multiple streams, and guiding the multiple streams to predetermined locations in a mold, the nozzle assembly including: an upper nozzle plate, at lea... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6385759 | Method for reducing memory requirements in static timing analysis A method used inside a static timing analyzer, or any timing-driven tool, to reduce the memory required to store the timing values. A static timing analyzer stores the arrival times and the required times at every pin of a digital circuit design. As circu... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6375366 | Omnidirectional camera device An omnidirectional camera device is able to restrict a range in which images of objects are picked up. This omnidirectional camera device comprises a rotationally-symmetric convex mirror (24) fixedly attached to one end of a transparent tube assembly (20)... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6361811 | Method for manufacturing a decorative food A decorative food formed of a plurality of kinds of fluid food materials and manufactured by using a mold is provided. The decorative food has an outside shape thereof conforming to an interior surface of the mold inclusive of an opening of said mold. The... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6356156 | Method and system for managing reference signals for network clock synchronization Methods and systems are disclosed for eliminating a phase transient of a controlled frequency oscillator, caused by replacing a first reference signal by a second reference signal when the first reference signal becomes corrupted or otherwise unavailable,... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6351841 | Method and apparatus for creating multi-gate transistors with integrated circuit polygon compactors A method of creating multi-gate transistors with integrated circuit polygon compactors is disclosed. Specifically, in order to provide a more efficient layout when the size of a transistor is increased during design migration, a small multi-gate transisto... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6351270 | Miniature video in the guide logo An integrated DSS/WebTV receiver is communicatively connected to an Internet service provider, a DSS service provider, and (optionally) a local broadcast station to provide a display of DSS programs, Internet web sites, and local broadcast channels in a s... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6348932 | Provide two different types of service in a menu An integrated DSS/WebTV receiver is communicatively connected to an Internet service provider, a DSS service provider, and (optionally) a local broadcast station to provide a display of DSS programs, Internet web sites, and local broadcast channels in a s... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6349272 | Method and system for modeling time-varying systems and non-linear systems A method and system for generating reduced models of systems having a time-varying elements, a non-linear elements or both is provided. The system and method can be utilized with any systems that are capable of being described with non-linear or time-vary... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6343225 | Implantable glucose sensor The sensitivity of enzyme-based polarographic electrodes to oxygen concentration can be significantly reduced or eliminated by providing an oxygen-reservoir in intimate contact with the oxidative enzyme. This is achieved by making a stabilized emulsion be... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6331833 | Highly linear sigma-delta modulator having graceful degradation of signal-to-noise ratio in overload condition A multi-bit analog-to-digital converter architecture, which during normal operation behaves like a single-bit converter, thus sharing the high linearity and low distortion properties of the simpler system. When a high input signal is applied, a second bit... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6332058 | Information reproduction apparatus and information reproduction method To provide an information reproduction apparatus which can consecutively reproduce a plurality of clips of an information material without the need for preparing resources of two channels and without using a special, dedicated encoder a write finish flag ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6318861 | Film positioning system and method thereof In a film positioning system and method thereof, stable film positioning is accomplished. In the present invention, when a film is fed to a stop position by driving first feeding mechanism and second feeding mechanism synchronizing with each other and the... | 11/20/2001 |
