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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7938865 | Method of dyeing a substrate with a reactive dyestuff in supercritical or near supercritical carbon dioxide The present invention relates to a method of dyeing a substrate with a reactive dyestuff in supercritical or near supercritical carbon dioxide, said substrate being selected from the group consisting of cellulose fibers, modified cellulose fibers, protein fibers and... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7928610 | Two-hand switch device Task—To provide a two-hand switch device that requires only a small load for each operation cycle. Means to Achieve the Task—The device comprises a left hand RF antenna placed in such a position as to enable a communication with the first RFID tag worn on... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7849278 | Logical partition conversion for migration between storage units A technique that can efficiently achieve migration of a configuration and data between storage units with varying constructions of configuration information and that can alleviate burdens of personal operation by an administrator, etc. With the configuration informa... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848611 | Storage system and digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system is provided, in which an editing storage connected to plural digital image editing apparatuses can be managed as a virtual storage in a collective manner and an editing storage connected to other digital image editing apparatuses can be... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7865680 | Remote copy system Provided is a remote copy system capable of guaranteeing the time ordering of data to be handled by a remote site even when the tasks at the remote site are operated across a plurality of storages or a plurality of volume groups. A consistency group consisting of a ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7842912 | Camera based vision alignment with device group guiding for semiconductor device testing handlers A vision alignment system and method is provided. The vision alignment system includes one or more grouped alignment plates with guiding inserts configured to receive multiple devices, and groups of three actuators, configured to actuate the alignment plates to corr... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7841765 | Static mixer The static mixer comprises mixing elements for separating material to be mixed into a plurality of streams and a mechanism for the layered junction of the same, a transversal edge and guide walls that extend at an angle to said transversal edge, as well as deflectin... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839640 | Electronic device and a thermal connector used therein An electronic device comprises: a housing; blades each of which is detachable from the housing and on each of which at least CPU and a memory are mounted; first cooling devices each of that takes out heat generated in the blade outside the blade, each of said first ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7825380 | Tunable photonic crystal An infrared emitter, which utilizes a photonic crystal (PC) structure to produce electromagnetic emissions with a narrow hand of wavelengths, includes a semiconductor material layer, a dielectric material layer overlaying the semiconductor material layer, and a meta... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7820558 | Semiconductor device and method of producing the semiconductor device A film with small hysteresis and high voltage resistance is obtained by reducing the carbon content in a gate insulating film on a SiC substrate. Specifically, the carbon content in the gate insulating film is set to 1×1020 atoms/cm3 or less. ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7820467 | Imaging device and method that cancels voltage signal noise based on pre-saturated charges and supersaturated charges A solid-state imaging device, a line sensor and an optical sensor for enhancing a wide dynamic range while keeping high sensitivity with a high S/N ratio, and a method of operating a solid-state imaging device for enhancing a wide dynamic range while keeping high se... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7812242 | Electronic musical instruments Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing a musical tone control device for carrying out appropriate control in user-performed operations. A pitch parameter value PB set by a pitch bend wheel may be loaded and a determination may be made... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7801357 | Image processing device, image processing method, program for the same, and computer readable recording medium recorded with program A determination target region includes a combination of a red gray image, a green gray image, and a blue gray image. A CPU part transforms a three gray value matrixes to a single first data array uniquely associated with a pixel position in the determination target ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7799709 | Woven belt and seatbelt device To improve wear resistance of a woven belt and a seatbelt device including the woven belt A woven belt 101 has a structure formed by weaving a plurality of warp yarns 102 extending in a substantially longitudinal direction of the belt and a plur... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7798520 | Airbag arrangement An airbag arrangement for a vehicle occupant restraint system includes an airbag on a side of a backrest of a vehicle seat that when inflated first extends substantially in a direction of a vertical vehicle axis and then forward from a backrest in a direction of tra... | 09/21/2010 |
| RE41741 | Optically driven therapeutic radiation source having a spiral shaped thermionic cathode A therapeutic radiation source includes a spiral-shaped, laser-heated thermionic cathode. A fiber optic cable directs a beam of radiation, having a power level sufficient to heat at least a portion of the electron-emissive surface to an electron emitting temperature... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7791626 | Print head pulsing techniques for multicolor printers In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing ti... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7777887 | Absorption spectroscopy apparatus and method An absorption spectroscopy apparatus including an elliptical mirror centered on the midpoint between a source/detector and a mirror. The cavity between the elliptical mirror and the source/bolometer and mirror defines an interior volume of a sample cell. Electromagn... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7762793 | Infusion device and driving mechanism and process for same with actuator for multiple infusion uses A drive mechanism for delivery of infusion medium a coil capable of being electrically activated to provide an electromagnetic field. The coil surrounds a piston channel extending in an axial direction. An armature is located adjacent the coil, on one side of the ax... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761699 | Computer system using disk controller and operating service thereof When there is an access passing between unit disk controllers, the band of a mutual connecting network must be very large in order to exhibit the performance sufficiently, so that the cost is increased. In the present invention, the access number of a logical volume... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7759626 | Sensor device for generating ambient light information A process circuit sets a plurality of light emitting elements in a state in which light is not emitted through a process circuit, and receives a signal S1 corresponding to received ambient light from each of a plurality of light receiving elements. The proces... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7757055 | Storage system and data migration method for the same A method and system are provided that can realize data migration between volumes accessed by a host computer without stopping the host computer accessing the volumes. A host computer 10 is connected to a storage subsystem 14 via paths 54 and ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756499 | Receiver and amplification-gain controlling device thereof The receiver comprises a variable gain amplification unit, a mixing unit, a filtering unit, and three compensation unit. Each compensation unit detects powers of the signal amplified in the variable gain amplification unit, the signal down-converted in the mixing un... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756206 | FGS identification in scalable video coding A system and method for providing improved FGS identification in scalable video coding. According to the present invention, each FGS enhancement layer is assigned a unique dependency identifier and contains only FGS enhancement information. For subsequent enhancemen... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756088 | Radio base station system, channel allocation method and channel allocation program A frame synchronizing unit of a slave base station synchronizes its own frame with a frame of the master base station, reception control slot setting control unit sets, as a reception control slot, a predetermined reception slot in its own frame matching in timing w... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7739015 | System and method for controlling a vehicle with a sequence of vehicle events A system and method for controlling a vehicle with a sequence of vehicle events. A user interface allows the recording of vehicle functions that are being manually executed. After the vehicle functions are entered, they can be saved as a sequence and named appropria... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725566 | Framework for enabling service tuning for UPNP remote access A system and method for enabling a UPnP device to provide services on behalf of another UPnP device. According to the present invention, all services requested from the original serving devices are redirected to the shadow device, while the original device has no kn... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7714790 | Wall-mounted electrical device with modular antenna bezel frame An electrical device configured to install within a wall mounted electrical box includes an antenna bezel frame, an antenna element, and a radio frequency circuitry component. At least a portion of the antenna bezel frame is configured to protrude through an opening... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706431 | System and method for providing optimized receiver architectures for combined pilot and data signal tracking A system architecture for a receiver to process multiple signals on a common carrier frequency from a satellite. The receiver is arranged such that the receiver receives input data transmitted from the satellite. A pilot signal is tracked from the input data using a... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7703383 | Cappuccino preparation Method for preparing cappuccino wherein at least one coffee pad filled with ground coffee and an instant and/or liquid creamer are utilized, the method further comprising the following method-steps: hot water is forced under pressure through the coffee pad for obtai... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701509 | Motion compensated video spatial up-conversion A method for performing motion compensated video spatial up-conversion on video. The horizontal samples in successive fields are first interpolated using a spatial interpolation technique. This is followed by interpolating the corresponding vertical samples using a ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697923 | System and method for providing an automatic generation of user theme videos for ring tones and transmittal of context information A system and method for automatically generating a video specific to a contact for display on a mobile telephone when a call is initiated with the contact. Media files are manually and/or automatically associated with an individual contact, and a video generator mod... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696324 | Humanized antibodies Humanized antibodies that bind ICAM-1 are provided. Antibodies include those selected from: SEQ ID NO:1 and 3 (HumA); SEQ ID NO:5 and 7 (HumB); SEQ ID NO:9 and 11 (HumC); SEQ ID NO:13 and 15 (HumD); SEQ ID NO:17 and 19 (HumE); SEQ ID NO:21 and 23 (HumF); SEQ ID NO:2... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696175 | Combination cancer immunotherapy with co-stimulatory molecules Provided are methods of reducing the size of a tumor or inhibiting the growth of cancer cells in an individual or inhibiting the development of metastatic cancer by administering an effective amount of a soluble form of a co-stimulatory molecule from an antigen pres... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689932 | Maintenance of shortcut keys in a mobile device A device and method provide for maintenance of a shortcut key to an application accessible at the device. The method includes assigning a first application to a shortcut key at a device, wherein the shortcut key at the device is a button on the device; storing an id... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684688 | Adjustable depth of field A camera having a depth of field which can be modified to produce desired photographic effects. The camera determines the depth of field for a subject when the subject is focused upon. A modification to the depth of field is determined based upon the distance to the... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676374 | Low complexity subband-domain filtering in the case of cascaded filter banks A filtering method and system for a subband-domain is provided. A first analysis filter bank is configured to divide an input signal into a plurality of subbands. A second analysis filter bank divides one or more of the subbands into a second set of subbands. A modi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7667186 | Optoelectronic position determination system A system and method for accurately determining the positioning of a lens system. The lens system includes a lens and a mono-color light reflecting surface. A position sensor includes a light source and a light detector. An initial signal is sent from the light sourc... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664073 | Method for performing a mobile user terminal route update in a telecommunication network operated based on the internet protocol The present invention is a method for performing a mobile user terminal route update in a telecommunication network operated based on the Internet Protocol, the network comprising at least two network transceiver device gateways each communicating with at least one ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7659913 | Method and apparatus for video editing with a minimal input device A system and method for displaying information about video/audio clips that are being edited. When two different clips are being matched, or when one clip is being used to replace another clip, the first clip is shown on a first timeline in a normal form. The other ... | 02/09/2010 |
