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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7123946 | Portable information terminal device and telephone directory display method used by the device A display order deciding unit decides the display order upon displaying a telephone directory on the basis of setting if the telephone directory is displayed in the display order in response to a usage frequency or in the alphabetical order by a learning function se... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6442379 | Radio apparatus and method having a d.c. component signal superposed on a transmission-signal In a radio apparatus including a transmitter unit and an antenna unit, a detector is located in the vicinity of an antenna in the antenna unit rather than in the transmitter unit. The detector supplies a rectified signal from a transmission wave which is ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6259545 | Mounting assembly for an optical scanner A mounting assembly for an optical scanner includes a base unit with a hole for receiving a post of a rotor unit that includes a laser light source that emits light towards a bar code symbol or other object that reflects the light to a collector also moun... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6212231 | Assign of pels of a macroblock for compression encoding to a memory sequence in one of banks of DRAM In a video processor for compression encoding a series of picture elements of video data (frames or fields) based on macroblocks in some of the video data, each macroblock consisting of up to a predetermined number, such as 16×16, of picture elements in ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6178475 | Multimedia system employing timers to properly allocate bus access An arbiter connects a plurality of devices to a bus. The arbiter determines priority among the devices based on minimum access intervals associated with the devices and timers which keep track of the elapsed time since each device last had access to the b... | 01/23/2001 |
| 5964824 | Two-dimensional IDCT circuit with input adder out output shifter for reducing addition operations during rounding-up The invention provides a high speed two-dimensional discrete cosine transform circuit which can reduce the number of addition operations for rounding to one time. The two-dimensional IDCT circuit calculates M×N-point two-dimensional inverse discrete cosi... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5960271 | Short channel self-aligned VMOS field effect transistor A field effect transistor with a trench or groove gate having V-shaped walls is formed in a semiconductor substrate and a gate oxide is grown on the V-shaped walls to the surface of substrate and filled with a gate electrode material, such a polysilicon. ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5894356 | Color separation apparatus having RGB color filters and a three-line CCD sensor A simple color separation apparatus includes a light source for radiating light on the document, a movable color filter set arrayed in parallel with the main-scanning direction, the movable color filter set includes filters selectively transmitting colors... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5764581 | Dynamic ram with two-transistor cell A dynamic RAM having two-transistor memory cells includes a top array of memory cells and a bottom array of memory cells, with a sense amplifier disposed between the two halves. The memory cells in each column of the top half are coupled to respective Bit... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5732895 | Conical crusher having fluid bellow support assemblies A conical crusher having a rigidly supported outer frustoconically shaped crushing member and an inner conical crushing member supported on a wobble mechanism which is in turn supported by air bellows. The air pressure in the air bellows is regulated to a... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5673421 | Drawing arranging system A drawing arranging system includes a first storage portion for storing coupling relationship between aggregate of characteristic points representing an objective drawing for processing and aggregate of relative vectors connecting characteristic points, a... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5436454 | Optical probe for remote attenuated total reflectance measurements A probe for use in attentuated total reflectance measurements in spectroscopy, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, is formed of an optical waveguide element having input and output sections and a loop between the two sections. The loop has a ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5331874 | Cutting apparatus The present invention relates generally to a cutting system for vegetables, including potatoes, which includes a conveyor for transporting food product to the general vicinity of a rotating cutting blade. The conveyor generally aligns the food product and... | 07/26/1994 |
