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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7534704 | Thin layer structure and method of forming the same In a thin layer structure and a method of forming the same, a first preliminary insulation pattern is formed on a substrate and includes a first opening exposing the substrate. One or more preliminary seed patterns including single crystalline silicon are formed in ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7486736 | Apparatus and method for direct measurement of channel state for coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver An apparatus and method for direct measurement of the channel state of a receiver, such as an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) receiver. The apparatus adapts a frequency selective channel using a squared Euclidean distance between a received signal ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486879 | Image blur correcting device To provide an image blur correcting device in which the fluctuation of an image is little and the image blur can be properly corrected relative to the vibration of a wide range of frequency region, an image blur correcting device is provided in which angular velocit... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7460453 | Recording medium, method of recording and/or reproducing speed information on a recording medium, and apparatus thereof A method for recording/reproducing data on/from a recording medium. The method provides for reading/recording speed information from a specific area of the recording medium, where the recording speed information includes a first information indicating a maximum reco... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581367 | Contact for plug | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456676 | Charge pump circuit for semiconductor memory device A charge pump circuit may include a cross-coupled load unit and a bias determination unit. The cross-coupled load unit may receive first and second input signals applied with mutually opposite phases to obtain a charge pumping. The cross-coupled load unit may have f... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451560 | Holder, wall provided with a holder, and method The present invention provides a holder for arranging against a wall one or more image carriers such as photos, cards, photo frames, brochures and the like, wherein the holder comprises: a support member for placing along the wall;... | 11/18/2008 |
| D580829 | Buggy | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447295 | Method and tomography unit for the reconstruction of a tomographic display of an object A method is disclosed for reconstructing a tomographic representation of an object from projection data off a moving radiation source through this object onto a detector, filtering and back projection of the projection data being executed in the reconstruction. In a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7439793 | Charge pump circuits and methods for the same A charge pump circuit may include a plurality of charge pump cells. Each charge pump cell may further include an output node for supplying charge, a pumping node for receiving a clock signal and a pumping capacitor, which may be connected between the output node and... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432456 | System and method for providing certified weighing services at remotely attended scales A remotely attended scale system for providing certified weighing services for a vehicle. The system having a plurality of weigh sites located remotely from one another and a weighmaster located at a central location. The weighmaster verifies proper placement of the... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428821 | Dehumidifying system A dehumidifying system is disclosed which comprises a dehumidifying element to extract moisture from the air, a rotor to rotate the dehumidifying element, and a heat pump to cool and heat the air within the dehumidifying system. The dehumidifying unit has at least a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7429981 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display of the invention includes a plurality of pixels each of which has a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of electrodes for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer and which are arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, wherein: each o... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428294 | Method for recording an X-ray image, and X-ray detector To speed up the availability of imaging data after the recording of an X-ray image, a method is disclosed. In the method, X-ray radiation emitted for an X-ray pulse duration is detected in an X-ray time window by an X-ray detector, and an X-ray image is recorded fro... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427558 | Method of forming solder ball, and fabricating method and structure of semiconductor package using the same A method of forming solder balls may involve forming bumps through wire boding on land patterns of a circuit substrate. Solder cream may be applied to the bumps through screen printing. The solder cream may be melted via reflow to form solder balls in which the bump... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425514 | Method of forming material using atomic layer deposition and method of forming capacitor of semiconductor device using the same Disclosed are methods of forming dielectric materials using atomic layer deposition (ALD) and methods of forming dielectric layers from such materials on a semiconductor device. The ALD process utilizes a first reactant containing at least one alkoxide group that is... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7420129 | Semiconductor package including a semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing the same A method and apparatus of manufacturing a semiconductor device and the semiconductor device used in a semiconductor package are disclosed. The semiconductor device may include a main body having one or more supporting layers, a plurality of metal wires that may be f... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417902 | Input circuit for a memory device, and a memory device and memory system employing the input circuit In one embodiment, the input circuit includes a receiver circuit that generates a data signal based on a pair of differential data signals. A detecting circuit detects an offset voltage between the pair of differential data signals, and an adjusting circuit adjusts ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418638 | Semiconductor memory device and method for testing memory cells using several different test data patterns There is provided a memory device in which memory cells may be tested using several different test data patterns. The memory device may include a switch unit, a plurality of storage units, and a selector. The switch unit may transfer bits of data received in respons... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415098 | Collimator for stray radiation, in particular for medical x-ray devices and method for producing said collimator A collimator is disclosed for stray radiation, in particular for medical X-ray devices. In addition, a method is disclosed for producing the collimator. The collimator includes numerous absorption elements for X-ray radiation which are separated from one another by ... | 08/19/2008 |
| D575403 | Surgical knife | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415497 | Method and apparatus for asynchronously transferring at least one message signal In a client/server computer architecture, a message signal appearing on a server computer is assigned a further message signal and the latter is written to a pipe and transmitted to a servlet on the server computer via the pipe. The further message signal is then tr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410819 | Nitride semiconductor light-emitting device and method for producing same In a method for producing a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device according to the present invention, first, a nitride semiconductor substrate having groove portions formed is prepared. An underlying layer comprising nitride semiconductor is formed on the nitr... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411528 | Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal In one embodiment, a block of audio data is partitioned into N sub-blocks, and a plurality of code parameters s(0), s(1), . . . s(N−1) are determined. The N sub-blocks are entropy encoded using a plurality of entropy codes defined by the plurality of code paramete... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408443 | Circuit and method for reducing fixed pattern noise An image sensor and method, which includes a switching device for establishing a connection between at least one column line and one of at least two analog-to-digital converter blocks, where at least one of the at least two analog-to-digital converter blocks is conn... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402812 | Method for gain calibration of an X-ray imaging system, and X-ray imaging system In order to increase the useful surface of an X-ray detector, in particular a flat image detector, a method is provided for gain calibration of an X-ray imaging system with a digital X-ray detector including an active matrix having pixel readout units. Pixels are re... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392670 | End yarn treatment apparatus and method of weft knitting machine First and second grippers are moveable in the longitudinal direction along needle beds of the weft knitting machine and in a direction that is closer to and away from a needle bed gap of the needle beds, switchable between a state of not holding a yarn and a state o... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394701 | Circuit and method of driving a word line by changing the capacitance of a clamp capacitor to compensate for a fluctuation of a power supply voltage level A word line driving circuit includes a read voltage generator and a word line driver. The read voltage generator precharges a clamp capacitor with a power supply voltage to stably generate a read voltage in response to a read command. A capacitance of the clamp capa... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392750 | Internal ceiling cladding for a large vehicle for passenger transport in particular a rail vehicle An internal ceiling cladding for a large vehicle for passenger transport, in particular, a rail vehicle, includes a cladding element, arranged in the vicinity of a door drive and arched elements adjacent thereto. The cladding element is provided as base module and i... | 07/01/2008 |
| D571643 | Vibration and shock absorber | 06/24/2008 |
| D571013 | Sphygmomanometer | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382383 | Driving device of image display device, program and storage medium thereof, image display device, and television receiver A noise adding circuit adds noise data to video data, and a circuit rounds a less significant bit, so as to output video data of 6 bits from 8 bit input data for example. The video data of 6 bits is stored in a frame memory until a further next frame, and a previous... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7374292 | Image projection table An image projection table including: a projector which projects an image; a housing in which the projector is housed; and a top plate on which the image projected from the projector is projected, wherein the top plate includes an operational part for operating the p... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376240 | Coil for an electroacoustic transducer An electroacoustic transducer comprising a magnetic circuit of a magnetically conductive material with a pair of opposed surfaces defining a gap therebetween, the magnetic circuit comprising a magnet inducing a magnetic field in the gap, the magnet having a surface ... | 05/20/2008 |
| D569518 | Sphygmomanometer | 05/20/2008 |
| D568242 | Power supply | 05/06/2008 |
| D567919 | Air purifier | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366369 | Transmission of measured values in high-voltage supply units for electrofilters Disclosed is a high-voltage supply unit for electofilters. The unit includes high-voltage devices which are arranged close to the electrofilter and by which the electrofilter is supplied with high voltage, measuring heads which are assigned to the high-voltage devic... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362844 | Tomography appliance, and method for a tomography appliance A tomography appliance and method for a tomography appliance make it possible to calculate, in a simple and efficient manner, detector-element-related coefficients of an intensity function dependent on the detector output signal and to calculate the X-ray-emitter-re... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358948 | Driving method of liquid crystal display apparatus, driving apparatus of liquid crystal display apparatus, and program thereof A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of areas in which response speeds greatly different from each other coexist in a pixel. A first replacement process section replaces the image data of the desired target frame with a first gradation, when a gra... | 04/15/2008 |