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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160380 | Bi-affinity filter: A bilateral type filter for color images Application of an image filtering algorithm, which defines an algorithm window within which a center pixel is processed relative to the other pixels within the algorithm window, is improved by use of an extended window larger than and encompassing the algorithm wind... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8144976 | Cascaded face model An Active Appearance Model AAM is trained using expanded library having examples of true outlier images. The AAM creates a first statistical fitting pair (a model image of the class of object and corresponding statistical model fitting) using characteristic features... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144925 | Mapping based message encoding for fast reliable visible watermarking A watermarking system uses two distinct bit patterns to identify three distinct bits, a logic 0 bit, a logic 1 bit, and a marker bit that demarcates message block boundaries. A correct orientation is determining by rotating the input image by 90 degrees and determin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8000671 | Dual threshold demodulation in an amplitude modulation radio receiver A method, algorithm, circuits, and/or systems for demodulation in an amplitude modulated (AM) radio receiver are disclosed. In one embodiment, a radio receiver can include an amplifier configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and a gain control sign... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7978928 | View projection for dynamic configurations A method and system for compensating for a moving object placed between a projector and a projection scene is shown. The method/system dividing a movement pattern of the moving object into N discrete position states, and for each of said N position states determinin... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7667866 | Printing apparatus, data storage medium, interface device, printer control method, and interface control method An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory 109 in the printer 101 stores printer settings data. Commands from a host 161 ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7644043 | Check processing apparatus, program, electronic payment system, and check processing method A check processing apparatus and method acquire and save data verifying the identity of a person using a check, and output this information in an effective manner to prevent improper use of the check. A check scanner 140 images all or part of the presented ch... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7598838 | Variable inductor technique An integrated variable inductor is achieved by placing a second closed-loop inductor immediately above or below a primary inductor. The closed-loop configuration of the second inductor may be broken on-chip by several ways, including use of a transistor to selective... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7515286 | Printer, control method for the same, and control device When the printer is off-line and receives a large volume of data, the receive buffer is not filled and the communication interface with the host computer does not enter a busy state. A receive buffer temporarily stores data, including control commands, from the host... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7508035 | Semiconductor device and driving method of semiconductor device A support member for semiconductor device elements includes a conductive layer separated from the semiconductor elements by an insulative layer. A protective potential lower than any operating potential applied to the semiconductor device elements is applied to the ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7503712 | Printing apparatus for selecting the appropriate error state mode according to the application type and user desired print results Data in the host device that was processed before a data interrupt process could run, and data that was already being sent to the printer, can be reliably deleted when an error occurs. A printing apparatus 20 having a normal processing mode for storing data s... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7483163 | Printing apparatus, data storage medium, interface device, printer control method, and interface control method An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory 109 in the printer 101 stores printer settings data. Commands from a host 161 ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7455381 | Inkjet recording apparatus and ink management method for an inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus and ink management method determine how much ink leaks when an ink cartridge is replaced, prompts the user to replace the ink sponge with another sponge of the necessary thickness and ink absorption capacity, and thus prevents ink leaka... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7423935 | Electronic equipment, and reception control method of electronic equipment A radio wave correction timepiece has an antenna 21 for receiving external radio information including time information consisting of external time data, a reception circuit 22, and a time counter 53 for producing internal time data. A control c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7384857 | Method to fabricate completely isolated silicon regions The construction of Shallow Trench Isolation, STI, regions is integrated in to a SIMOX fabrication process for a Silicon On Insulator, SOI, wafer. Prior to the beginning of the SOI process, a preferred nitrogen (N2) implant is applied to the silicon wafer... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379045 | Line drive circuit, electro-optic device, and display device A line driver circuit, an electro-optic device, and a display apparatus efficiently reduce cost by reducing process dimensions and effectively shorten display panel development turn-around time by simplifying the reconfiguration of output voltages. The liquid crysta... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7359076 | Document sharing service for network printing An internet accessible server permits access management to remote printing devices by remote users. Only users having printing access to a target remote printing device may submit a print job for printing on the target remote printing device. Users having printing a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355737 | Apparatus and method for two-color printing based on single color data A printer 10 has a reception unit 28 for receiving print commands from a host 12, and has print heads 64, 66 capable of printing multiple colors. A data processing part 24 applies a specific colorization process according to a prin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353275 | Printing sub-system for java and internet applications A series of approved printers is associated with each of multiples utilities. A client user having a local printer must first identify the local printer as one of the approved printers. The client user may then gain access to the utilities having an association with... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349514 | Frequency/phase locked loop clock synthesizer using an all digital frequency detector and an analog phase detector A frequency synthesizer, for integration in a low voltage digital CMOS process, controls a VCO using a dual loop structure including an analog loop and a digital loop. The digital loop includes an all digital frequency detector, which controls a center frequency of ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7315438 | Technique to reduce ESD loading capacitance The capacitive loading effects of an ESD circuit having an electrostatic-protection diode are reduced by using a capacitance compensation circuit. Under normal operation when no electrostatic discharge is experienced, the capacitance reduction circuit maintains a re... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310260 | High performance register accesses The use of a bus clock is eliminated in communication between a cpu, or mpu, and a register block. The communication between the cpu/mpu and the register block is made combinatorial, such that the cpu/mpu does not require any acknowledge or wait signal from the regi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292369 | Logo data generating method and system A logo generating system and method allow a user to specify colors and adjust an image according to the particular printing purpose. Source data of image elements with two or more colors is obtained and displayed so that the user can view an image of the source data... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7265520 | Electronic apparatus and method of controlling the electronic apparatus An electronic watch in which the display on a liquid crystal display 236 is prohibited when the detected output voltage of a secondary battery 220 drops to a first predefined voltage. An initialization process is performed when the detected voltage of ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265876 | PWM rendering for color/gray-scale text and graphics for laser printer The appearance of edges in an image is improved through precise placement of subpixels within pixel cells that are located on or near edges in an image. Image data is examined to identify a “target pixel” near the edge of an object that represents the object and... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256646 | Neutralization techniques for differential low noise amplifiers An differential LNA has first and second input MOS transistors, with differential inputs applied to their respective control gates and differential outputs taken at their respective drains. The gate-to-drain, Cgd, feedback capacitances of the first and second input ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253552 | Piezoelectric actuator, timepiece, and portable device A rectangular vibrating plate 10 in which a piezoelectric element and a reinforcing plate are stacked is supported on a main plate by a support member 11, and is urged toward the rotor 100 by an elastic force of the support member 11. Thi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7233165 | High speed driver for serial communications A differential output driver capable for selectively switching from an emphasis mode, a non-emphasis mode, and an idle state uses one pull-up device and two pull-down devices per output lead. The pull-up device is preferably always activated, and one or the other or... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7212050 | System and method for synthesizing a clock at digital wrapper (FEC) and base frequencies using one precision resonator A precision PLL based transceiver having a single precision SAW or crystal resonator is configured to lock onto multiple different input frequencies and output generated clocks at the multiple different frequencies. The input reference frequency may be higher or low... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213205 | Document categorizing method, document categorizing apparatus, and storage medium on which a document categorization program is stored A document categorizing apparatus includes a sentence analyzer 12 for analyzing a plurality of documents to detect titles thereof; a feature element extractor 13 for extracting feature elements from the titles detected by the sentence analyzer 12 | 05/01/2007 |
| 7187222 | CMOS master/slave flip-flop with integrated multiplexor A CML master-slave latch incorporates logic into its master latching circuitry to incorporate a multiplexing function into the flip-flop. The multiplexing logic makes use of the pull-up loads and current source of the master latching circuitry. In this manner the pu... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184015 | Line drive circuit, electro-optic device, and display device A line driver circuit, an electro-optic device, and a display apparatus efficiently reduce cost by reducing process dimensions and effectively shorten display panel development turn-around time. A signal driver 30 for display an LCD panel of a liquid crystal ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7167058 | Temperature compensation for a variable frequency oscillator without reducing pull range A variable frequency oscillator having multiple, independent frequency control inputs, each coupled to a respective tuning sub-circuit. The tuning sub-circuits are connected in parallel with each other and with a resonator module, which may be a quartz crystal, indu... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164489 | Rectangular partitioning in printing rotated images A rotated representation of an image is printed by using a coordinate system to assign tile divisions to the image. The size of the tile divisions are selected to maintain their area equal to, or less, than a predetermined maximum. Each segment of the image, as defi... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161440 | Temperature compensation circuit A temperature compensation circuit has multiple configurable modules to produce a compensation signal whose temperature characteristic curve is the inverse of the frequency-to-temperature characteristic curve of a specified oscillator. A set of first modules that pr... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157942 | Digital frequency difference detector with inherent low pass filtering and lock detection A structure and method for implementing a fully digital frequency difference detector uses an n-bit counter to count cycles of a reference clock signal and an m-bit counter to count cycles of a synthesized clock signal, where m is greater than n. The two counters op... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158057 | Circuitry and methods for high speed data encoding An unpartitioned high-speed 8B/10B encoder and corresponding methods use only one edge or level of the clock signal per clock cycle to encode a set of 8B to a corresponding set of 10B data, and thus is not limited to a 50% clock duty cycle. The encoder includes an u... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152066 | Internet based system for creating presentations An internet presentation system includes an internet accessible server that permits specific types of access to a target presentation file by selected remote users. Only users having purchase access to the target presentation file may submit a purchase order for a c... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144375 | Pulsimeter, control method for pulsimeter, wristwatch information device, control program, and recording medium A frequency analyzer carries out a frequency analysis on a pulse wave signal output from a pulse wave detector. A candidate extractor extracts candidate spectrum peaks from a frequency analysis result of the frequency analyzer. A phase variation calculator calculate... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138972 | Liquid crystal element drive method, drive circuit, and display apparatus A multiplex driving method and driving apparatus are provided for a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, a plurality of row electrodes arranged on one of the substrates and a plurality of column electrode... | 11/21/2006 |
