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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7980496 | Method for detecting the amount of grains within a grinding device A method for detecting an amount of grains within a container of a rotating grinding member is described, said method comprising the steps of: supplying (FORP1) a first driving torque to the rotating grinding member during a first interval (T1) of a gr... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965769 | Audiovisual data decoding method The present invention relates to a method of decoding audiovisual data allowing to process, on the basis of an improved syntactic language, distincts elements of a scene as objects for which individual animations, particular interactions user/elements, and specific ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961196 | Cost effective rendering for 3D displays A method and apparatus for rendering image data on a 3D display is disclosed. A first image signal is received and then at least one colour component of the first image signal is rendered in reduced spatial resolution to produce a second image signal. The second ima... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958542 | Methods and devices for counting user equipment units in a mobile radio telecommunication network For the transmission of an MBMS content to a plurality of user equipment units, the use of a p2m channel may only be beneficial if the number of joined user equipment units exceeds a threshold. However, counting is made difficult due to the fact that idle mode UE, a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958207 | Method of installing software for enabling a connection of a phone to an interconnected network Method of installing software for enabling a connection of a phone to an interconnected network A method of installing a software on a computer using an operating system in order to enable a connection of a phone to an interconnected network, said method comprising ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957542 | Adaptive beamformer, sidelobe canceller, handsfree speech communication device The adaptive beamformer unit (191) comprises: a filtered sum beamformer (107) arranged to process input audio signals (u 1, u2) from an array of respective microphones (101, 103), and arranged to yield as an output a first audio si... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956877 | Converting a three primary color input signal into four signals A method of converting a three primary color input signal into a four primary color drive signal, includes defining three functions representing the first, second, and third drive signals as a function of the fourth drive signal, determining the intersection values ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953156 | System and method for encoding and decoding enhancement layer data using descriptive model parameters There is provided an image encoding system (300, 400) including an encoder (300) for receiving input image data and generating corresponding encoded image output data. The encoder includes image processing features (310, 320, 330, 360) for proce... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953033 | Method of signalling, a communication system and a communication equipment First and second data is transmitted simultaneously by modulating a first set of signal constellation points, corresponding to the first data, with second data thereby creating a second set of constellation points. The second set of constellation points comprises tw... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952063 | Method and system for operating a pointing device to control one or more properties of a plurality of other devices A method for controlling a plurality of devices, the method including the steps of aiming a pointing device having a camera at an object representing a property of the device to be controlled and manipulating a control input on the pointing device to specify a degre... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945635 | Internet receiving arrangement having quality test means An Internet receiving arrangement, such as an Internet radio, is connected to the Internet and stores internet addresses of information servers which provide information data. The internet receiving arrangement has a quality test device for testing whether the recei... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937725 | Three-way media recommendation method and system An electronic programming guide (EPG) system employing a preference engine and processing system that combines explicit rule profile, history profile, and feedback profile data to generate new predictions. Television shows are presumed to be indexed by many features... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936973 | Detecting a content item in a digital video stream The invention relates to a method of detecting a boundary of a content item in a digital video stream. The method comprises the steps of determining (130) an average bit rate of the video stream over a period of time, and detecting (140) a change of th... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934233 | Method and system for providing complementary information for a video program A method for providing complementary information 226 for a video program is provided that includes receiving complementary information 226 for a video program. A query is received from a consumer. The query is related to a specified portion of the comp... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934155 | Method and electronic device for reducing size of an electronic collection of media elements A method is used to reduce a size of an electronic collection of media elements (41, 43, 45). The method includes the steps of assigning a weight to each media element (41, 43, 45) in the collection and reducing size of the media elements (41, 43, 4... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933176 | Apparatus and method for determining write strategy parameters for recording data on an optical record carrier and for determining read parameters for reading data from an optical record carrier The present invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for determining write strategy parameters for recording data on an optical record carrier (100) and to an apparatus and a corresponding method for determining read parameters for reading... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7420902 | Device and method for recording information A device for recording digitally encoded video information records video segments and playback information for controlling the playback of the segments. The device has an error detection unit (32) for detecting recording errors, and a bridging unit for creati... | 09/02/2008 |
| D558762 | Storage device | 01/01/2008 |
| 7194617 | Method and apparatus to prevent the unauthorized copying of digital information A method for authorizing the rendering of a digital recording. A first section and a last section of a track is first identified. A watermark is then decoded from the first and last sections of the track. It is then determined if at least one reserved bit is marked ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7155021 | Loudspeaker having an acoustic panel and an electrical driver A panel-shaped loudspeaker comprising a panel (1) having a first main surface (1A) and a second main surface (1B) parallel to the first main surface and further comprising an exciter (3) positioned at the first main surface. When the exci... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139017 | Method and system for obtaining the best picture quality in a scarce-power device An apparatus and method for scaling the power consumption of a video processor is provided. The apparatus includes a video processor having a plurality of video-processing modules for receiving a stream of image signals at an input and producing a processed image st... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136498 | Loudspeaker having a dual chamber acoustical enclosure with two external vents and one internal vent A loudspeaker includes an acoustical enclosure having an internal wall dividing the enclosure into first and second subchambers, an electro-acoustical transducer having a vibratable speaker cone mounted in an opening in the internal wall of the acoustical enclosure,... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136336 | Optical record carrier recording method and apparatus An optical record carrier recording method forms pits and lands by directing a radiation beam (12) onto a recording surface (21) of an optical record carrier (20). The radiation beam for each pit to be recorded is set to at least one write power... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127065 | Watermark embedding and detection In a method and arrangement for embedding and detecting a watermark in an information signal, the embedded watermark (Wi) is selected (13) from a plurality of watermarks (W1 . . . WN) in dependence upon a property P of the sig... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127618 | Data protection via reversible data damage A security system purposely damages at least a portion of content material, using a damaging process that is easily reversible, until a verification of authorization is determined. While the authorization to access the content material is in an unverified state, an ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7113038 | Power amplifier A switching power amplifier of class D has a switching stage for generating a block wave signal by alternately switching the block wave signal between supply voltages. A filter (24, 25) generates a power output signal (22) corresponding to an input sig... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110556 | Multichannel audio signal processing device An audio signal processing device includes a signal supply for supplying coded audio signal over more than one input channel and, per input channel, over separate frequency sub-bands domain sub-channels. Further filters are used to decode and synthesize the audio si... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110336 | Methods, optical recording apparatus using such methods and optical recording medium for use by the methods and the apparatus In methods and an optical recording apparatus using these methods, an optimum write power of a radiation beam in the apparatus is set by writing a series of test patterns on the optical recording medium, forming a read signal from the patterns and processing the rea... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103829 | Coding for informed decoders A method of selecting a generator matrix (G) for encoding information words (m) including information symbols (m1, m2, mk) into codewords (c) of a code (C) provides an enhanced error correction capability if at least one information ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091997 | One-to-one direct communication The progress of transferring an electronic object from a sending handheld to a receiver is graphically represented as an object gradually sliding out of view on the display of the sender and gradually sliding into view on the display of the receiver. A gravity senso... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088779 | Method and apparatus for reducing the word length of a digital input signal and method and apparatus for recovering a digital input signal A method and signal processing apparatus for reducing the number of bits of a digital input signal (Mi), includes adding a pseudo-random noise signal (Na) to the digital input signal (Mi) to obtain an intermediate signal (Di | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085209 | Record carrier having a servo track with non-modulated parts at a first frequency and modulated parts at a second frequency, and apparatus for scanning the record carrier A record carrier (1) has a servo track (4) indicating an information track (9) intended for recording information blocks represented by marks, the servo track (4) having a periodic variation of a physical parameter at a first frequency an... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079050 | Arithmetic decoding of an arithmetically encoded information signal In order to improve an arithmetic decoder, the method of arithmetically decoding an arithmetically-encoded information signal into an information signal including a serial sequence of n-bit symbols is adapted to decode two subsequent symbols of the information signa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079465 | Optical record carrier recording method and apparatus An optical record carrier recording method forms pits and lands by directing a radiation beam (12) onto a recording surface (21) of an optical record carrier (20). The radiation beam for each pit to be recorded is set to at least one write power... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075519 | Method for entering a character sequence into an electronic device as well as an electronic device for performing said method In a method for entering a character sequence consisting of one or more characters into an electronic device including keys for entering keystrokes by a user as well a display panel for presenting information to the user, wherein a group of characters is presented o... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075876 | Method of registering a running time on an information carrier, information carrier and apparatus Method of registering a running time on an information carrier, the information carrier comprising main data and subcode data, the running time being indicated in a subcode channel by a subcode time expressed in accordance with a predetermined format. A pseudo-runni... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071762 | Supply assembly for a led lighting module A supply assembly for an LED lighting module includes a control switch for supplying a constant current to the LED lighting module. A dual switching signal composed of low frequency bursts of high frequency pulses is applied to the control switch. By varying the low... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068916 | Method of masking picture display transitions upon change-over of the video playback speed A method of reducing the response time upon a change-over between different display modes of a video display device, picture information from a first channel being displayed in one display mode and picture information from another channel being displayed in another ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065021 | Method and devices for storing and reading data on a storage medium in accordance with at least two file systems, and storage medium for use in at least two file system The invention relates to a method and devices for storing and reading data (5, 6) on a storage medium (17). In order to allow compatibility between different file systems (JAFS, UDF) data structures are stored in a first administrative area (10)... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065535 | Methods and devices for recording or reading files on/from a sequential medium and sequential medium In a method and a device for reading and a method and a device for recording files on a sequential medium as well as the sequential medium itself, in order to enable the use of sequential write-once mediums, the file system descriptor pointing to a current version o... | 06/20/2006 |
