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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| 8174177 | Segmented conductive coating for a luminescent display device A luminescent display is provided that comprises: a plurality of individual phosphor elements (13) formed over a glass anode plate (11), and conductive segments (21) formed on each of the individual phosphor elements, wherein each of the conduct... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172619 | Smart card heat sink A heat sink for a smart card, the heat sink having a contact plate having a contact surface, a riser extending upward from the contact plate, and a hook extending upward from the contact plate and located opposite the riser is disclosed. A smart card socket having a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8144068 | To planar antennas comprising at least one radiating element of the longitudinal radiation slot type The present invention relates to a planar antenna structure comprising at least one radiating element constituted by a longitudinal radiation slot etched onto a substrate. This structure comprises at least one modification element of the radiation pattern positioned... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138664 | Bi-silicate matrix coating for a display A display screen of a color display is disclosed (see FIG. 1). The display screen includes a glass plate having an array of three different color-emitting phosphors thereon. A graphite-based matrix is placed in the interstitial regions between each of the thr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132241 | Method for device insertion into a community of network devices A method for performing at least one evolution operation in a dynamic, evolutive community of devices in a network comprising at least a first device. The method comprises a step of sending at least one message over the network from the first device to a second devi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116185 | Holographic storage medium with integrated phase mask A holographic storage medium is proposed, and more specifically a holographic storage medium with an integrated phase mask layer. The holographic storage medium has a phase mask layer on top of a holographic storage layer, wherein the phase mask layer has one or mor... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103050 | Method for computing a fingerprint of a video sequence The invention concerns a method for computing a fingerprint of a video sequence. The method comprises the steps of—Computation of a visual digest for each frame of the video, —Computation of the distance between the visual digest of each frame of the video in or... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8054859 | Precesion/speed compromise of a synchronization signal reception device A reception device is able to receive packets in a communication network comprising at least two stations. The device is capable of receiving packets containing samples of the network which originate from data sampled every period Tsmp, where Tsmp | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054734 | Objective lens and optical pickup comprising the objective lens Optical pickup 24 for operation in the far-field and in the near-field mode comprising a movable part 26 having an objective lens 2 comprising a solid immersion lens 4 and a multifocal lens 6, which are both disposed on a common op... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8036094 | Objective lens and optical data storage apparatus comprising the objective lens An objective lens is described, which is switchable between a far-field mode and a near-field mode. The objective lens comprises a lens, an optical element having a variable refractive index and a solid immersion lens, which are disposed on a common optical axis, wh... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031383 | Common aperture holographic storage system with reduced noise An apparatus for reading from or writing to holographic storage media, and more specifically a common aperture type apparatus for reading from or writing to holographic storage media with multiple reference beams having a reduced noise. In a common aperture type app... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030647 | Transmitter and associated display device The invention relates to a light transmitter comprising two electrodes facing each other, and at least one light-emitting organic layer with two ends. The thickness of the organic layer varies continuously between the two ends. The invention also relates to a displa... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018970 | Under sampled clock signal synchronization aid device and device for reconstructing undersampled clock signals, for a packet-switched network A synchronization aid device is part of receiving communication equipment of an IP network, having a primary clock signal consisting of primary clock pulses spaced apart by a first period. This device comprises i) a required to increment its value by one unit on eac... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018749 | Synchronous rectifier The disclosed embodiments relate to apparatus and method for reducing power losses in a power supply. There is provided an apparatus comprising means for coupling a first signal (S2) to a reference level (ground) when the coupling means is conductive, mea... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7994695 | Luminescent materials for a carbon nanotube (CNT) field emission device (FED) A RGB phosphor system for a carbon nanotube (CNT)/field emission device (FED) display operated between about 4-10 kV. The RGB phosphor system is formed on an interior surface of a screen of the CNT/FED display. The RGB phosphor system includes ZnS:Cu, Al (green phos... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983129 | High data capacity storage medium with protection code, method for obtaining the protection code and respective data reading apparatus The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, and a data layer disposed on the substrate layer, the data layer comprising data being arranged in tracks as marks and spaces. A protection code is coded in one of the tracks or a part of a track which code com... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973801 | Method and device for processing video data for display on a display device A method for processing video data for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements comprising: applying a dithering function based on single ones of said luminous elements to at least part of said video data to refine the grey scale portrayal... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965503 | Fan and storage device mounting assembly for elecronic device A fan [36] and storage device [37] mounting assembly [1] for an electronic device comprises a base [2] having opposing front [4] and rear [5] walls. The rear wall [5] has a plurality of ventilation openings [11... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965262 | Display device with capacitive energy recovery Device comprising a display panel, preferably organic electroluminescent with passive matrix, comprising an array of columns and an array of rows of electrodes for powering an array of cells and drivers adapted for successively connecting each row electrode to one o... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7950032 | Ratings control system with temporary override capability A system and related apparatus for comprising a video processing system having a ratings control system which blocks or permits viewing of programs which are broadcast with ratings or spending information according to a profile set by a supervisor who has entered a ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7936704 | Method for routing and load balancing in communication networks The invention concerns a method of configuring the topology of a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes (i,j, . . . , N), the communication network being organized as a forest structure comprising trees and subtrees, wherein at least one node i mainta... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7911545 | Method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular in film mode sequences The invention relates to a method for processing video pictures, the video pictures consisting of pixels digitally coded, the digital code word determining the length of the time period during which the corresponding pixel of a display is activated, wherein to each ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7896504 | Projection module and projector incorporating same A projection module intended to project an image on a screen defining a specified projection plane is disclosed. The module includes an objective, for emitting an imaging beam; a curved mirror; and at least two deflection surfaces for deflecting the imaging beam, th... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7882515 | Device and process for acquiring files by accumulation of points and associated products The present invention relates to a device and a process for acquiring files by accumulation of points. The device is designed for a user of a receiver of data of a communication network, able to earn points by accomplishing at least one predefined operation, and to ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7849476 | System and method for automatic switching to interactive application during television program breaks A system and method for automatically switching a primary image of a display module from a television program to an interactive application upon detecting the beginning of a commercial break and optionally switching the primary image back to the television program u... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849380 | Interleaver mode detection in a digital video receiver A method and apparatus for decoding received digital data representing video, audio, information or a combination thereof. After a forward error correction (FEC) frame sync lock is detected, a counter is incremented corresponding to the number of identical control w... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847989 | Method for conversion of a colour space using separate chromatic and luminance look-up tables According to the method, starting from the chromatic components xS, yS of the color vector to be converted, the components of an intermediate color vector RINT-CR, GINT-CR, ΣINT-CR ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847788 | Device for operating television appliances In an arrangement for operating television-technological apparatuses, operating and display elements can be represented on a screen. The screen is provided with a touch-sensitive input field. The respective value of at least one quantity to be set is represented gra... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7877439 | Data requesting and transmitting devices and processes It relates notably to a data requesting device from a data server, comprising means for sending requests of determined data to the server, means for receiving streamed data from that server and for providing said data to processing means, and means for producing pau... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876482 | Method for wavelength mismatch compensation in a holographic storage system A method for compensating for a wavelength mismatch between a readout reference beam and a recording reference beam in a holographic storage system is described. In order to compensate for a wavelength mismatch in a first step the wavelength mismatch is determined. ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876295 | Circuit and method for driving a light-emitting display The invention proposes a circuit for an element of a light-emitting display. The element comprises a current control means, first and second switching means and a light-emitting means. In one embodiment, a signal holding means is provided. In addition, a light-emitt... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876240 | Arithmetic decoding method and device A method for decoding elements is disclosed. The method decodes at least a part of the binary stream into a set of elements on the basis of first and second decoding parameters CodlOffset0 and CodIRange, the set of elements comprising a prefix composed of... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853076 | Device and method for creating a saliency map of an image The invention concerns a device and a method for creating a saliency map of an image. It comprises the steps of: Projection of said image according to the luminance component and if said image is a color image, according to the lum... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851814 | Light-emitting diode, one of the electrodes of which is a multilayer made of amorphous carbon Diode comprising a substrate and an organic electroluminescent layer interposed between a lower electrode and an upper electrode, at least one of which electrodes is formed from a multilayer which is itself formed by the stack of adjacent sublayers made of amorphous... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7831603 | System and method for transmitting media based files A method and apparatus is disclosed for transmitting a requested media file through a network. A master controller of a server partitions the media object. The master controller of the server then assigns a segment of said partitioned media object to a file partitio... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830572 | Holographic storage system based on common path interferometry The present invention relates to a holographic storage system, and more specifically to a holographic storage system using a phase spatial light modulator. According to the invention a holographic storage system with a phase SLM for imprinting a 2-dimensional... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825918 | System and method for applying power to high intensity discharge lamps A liquid crystal display television receiver projection system uses a controller responsive to a first signal by providing power to a first set of circuits of the system. The controller is responsive to a second signal by removing power from a second set of circuits... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823067 | Process of navigation for the selection of documents associated with identifiers, and apparatus implementing the process The present invention relates to a process for navigation within a set of audiovisual documents in an audiovisual apparatus. At least one document is recorded previously in the apparatus. Next, the apparatus receives a command of association of at least one identifi... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7804695 | System for interconnecting two substrates each comprising at least one transmission line The present invention relates to an interconnection system of a first substrate (1) comprising at least one first transmission line (3) with a second substrate (10) comprising at least one second transmission line (11), the orientation of... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804509 | Method and device for encoding luminance values into subfield code words in a display device The invention relates to a method and a device for encoding the luminance value of a pixel of a picture into a subfield code word in a display device. It can be applied to every display device using a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) technology and subfields for display... | 09/28/2010 |
