Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5838799 | Digital sound broadcasting using a dedicated control channel A method and apparatus for transmitting digital sound is disclosed. The method contemplates transmitting a digital radio signal (such as an FM band signal) over a plurality of sub-channels subject to some constraints on the digital signal power. A control... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835749 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamically linked libraries According to the present invention a variety of methods and apparatus for providing dynamically linked libraries are taught. A "standard DLL" is a dynamically linked library (DLL) which is pulled into the data closure of a process by direct reference in t... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5831566 | Low voltage digital-to-analog converter A low voltage digital-to-analog converter (DAC) uses a resistor string to divide a supply voltage. The voltage output for the DAC is fixed at an intermediary node in the resistor string, and NMOS and PMOS transistors are used to switch in VSS a... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5795682 | Guard rings to compensate for side lobe ringing in attenuated phase shift reticles Disclosed is an attenuated phase shift reticle design having a compensating transmissive region located where side lobe ringing is anticipated to be most severe. Unlike other transmissive regions on the reticle, no integrated circuit features are defined ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5789795 | Methods and apparatus for fabricationg anti-fuse devices An integrated circuit having a semiconductor substrate and an anti-fuse structure formed on the semiconductor substrate. The anti-fuse structure includes a metal-one layer and an anti-fuse layer disposed above the metal-one layer. The anti-fuse layer has ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5788387 | Tape cartidge and printing device The present invention provides a novel structure of a tape cartridge accommodating a printing tape and an ink ribbon used for printing, which prevents the printing tape from being stuck in a cartridge case or the ink ribbon from being slackened. The tape ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5786751 | System for monitoring alignment of wheels using a photoelectric sensor A system for monitoring the alignment of the wheels, such as the front wheels, that control the steering of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a pair of alignment sensing devices that extend between each steering arm and a tie rod coupled to the a... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5774715 | File system level compression using holes A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for compressing data in a file system utilizing the concept of "holes". A mapping table in a file system maps the logical blocks of a file to actual physical blocks on disk where the data is stored. Blocks m... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5770469 | Method for forming semiconductor structure using modulation doped silicate glasses A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure utilizing doped silicate glass on a substrate of a wafer. The method includes the step forming a modulation doped silicate glass structure over a first layer of the wafer. The modulation doped silicate gla... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5767839 | Method and apparatus for providing passive force feedback to human-computer interface systems A method and apparatus for interfacing the motion of an object with a digital processing system includes a sensor which has a sensing resolution and detects movement of the object along a degree of freedom. An amount of play less than the sensing resoluti... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5764563 | Thin film load structure A resistive load structure and method for making a resistive load structure for an integrated circuit includes the use of an amorphous silicon "antifuse" material. The resistive load structure can be used in an SRAM cell to provide a load to counteract ch... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5760594 | Contamination monitoring using capacitance measurements on MOS structures A method for monitoring contamination in a semiconductor wafer uses a capacitance-frequency measurement on MOS structures to calculate an impurity concentration. The silicon substrate along with an oxide layer is first biased into the inversion region usi... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5758127 | Method and apparatus for providing a plurality of protocol serial communications A digital communication system including a digital controller (11), a master circuit (14) capable of communicating in a variety of serial protocols, and at least one slave circuit (16). The digital controller is preferably a microprocessor. The master cir... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5748896 | Remote network administration methods and apparatus A method for managing network services on the plurality of network servers in a computer network. The method includes the step of providing at least one service component in a component repository. The service component corresponds to one of the network s... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5748307 | Image pickup apparatus There is provided an image pickup apparatus excellent in color reproducibility without requiring a complicated circuit. In image pickup operation, a sum pixel signal (SCCD) output from a color image pickup element (100) is converted into digita... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5747779 | Method of fusing and programming fuse frame A method of fusing and programming a fuse frame for use in a semiconductor package is disclosed. A fuse frame includes an external lead arranged for electrically connecting to a first internal element of the semiconductor package and to extend externally ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5746434 | Chamber interfacing O-rings and method for implementing same Disclosed is a method for implementing a vacuum seal between an interface of a transport chamber interface port of a transport chamber and another chamber. The transport chamber being configured to mate with the another chamber in an adjacent relationship... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5745716 | Method and apparatus for tab access and tab cycling in a pen-based computer system A method implemented on a hand-held computer system for tab access to a desired portion of a list of items includes displaying the list of items on a display screen of the hand-held computer system, displaying a plurality of tabs on the display screen, an... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5742754 | Software testing apparatus and method The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method for testing a software product using a server computer system and a plurality of servant computer systems which are networked together. The method includes the step of providing the server comp... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5742154 | Multi-stage current feedback amplifier A multi-stage current feedback amplifier having a first stage and a second stage. The multi-stage amplifier comprises a transistor device having a base, an emitter, and a collector, as well as a replicating device having a base, an emitter, and a collecto... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5742079 | Integrated circuit with variable pad pitch A method for making an integrated circuit characterized by: determining a range of bonding pad pitches which varies between a minimum bonding pad pitch and a maximum bonding pad pitch; setting a driver pitch to the minimum bonding pad pitch; forming a bas... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5740455 | Enhanced compound document processing architectures and methods therefor A computer program product, which includes a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for processing data in a compound document. The compound document includes a plurality of embedded object editors for respectively rendering... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5737607 | Method and apparatus for allowing generic stubs to marshal and unmarshal data in object reference specific data formats The invention provides solutions to the problems which are encountered by object oriented systems designers when attempting to implement schemes for object invocation and for argument passing in distributed systems wherein the arguments may be objects, an... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5736971 | Method and apparatus for increasing resolution of a computer graphics display The graphic board can be mounted inside the expansion slot of the computer, and the frequencies of the horizontal synchronizing signal and the vertical synchronizing signal can be preset finely through presetting the values on the registers from the compu... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5734699 | Cellular private branch exchanges A cellular private branch exchange for facilitating cellular communication for a first plurality of mobile station units, which includes a first base station subsystem for communicating with a first and a second mobile station unit of the first plurality ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5733729 | Computer-aided probability base calling for arrays of nucleic acid probes on chips A computer system for analyzing nucleic acid sequences is provided. The computer system is used to calculate probabilities for determining unknown bases by analyzing the fluorescence intensities of hybridized nucleic acid probes on biological chips. Addit... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5733193 | Boxing arcade game An arcade game including a movable object such as a punching bag for a player to repetitively hit or strike during a game. The bag is suspended from a frame structure that is adjustable in height to accommodate differently-sized players. A sensor is posit... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5731804 | Method and apparatus for providing high bandwidth, low noise mechanical I/O for computer systems A method and apparatus for providing high bandwidth and low noise mechanical input and output for computer systems. A gimbal mechanism provides two revolute degrees of freedom to an object about two axes of rotation. A linear axis member is coupled to the... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5729734 | File privilege administration apparatus and methods An improved file service administration method is disclosed in a computer network having an administrator account and a user account. The administrator account has an administrator privilege, and the user account has a user privilege which is different fr... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5729249 | Touch sensitive input control device A family of controllers incorporate multiple force/touch sensitive input elements to provide intuitive input in up to six degrees of freedom, including position and rotation, in either a Cartesian, cylindrical or spherical coordinate system. Six dimension... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5727822 | Advanced door security lock The present invention relates, in one embodiment, to an apparatus for holding a door. The apparatus includes a body member and a blocking member rotatably coupled to the body member. The coupling is such that when the body member is positioned vertically ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5727145 | Mechanism for locating objects in a secure fashion In a distributed object computing system, a client makes a call to a daemon process of a host computer in order to communicate with a target object in an object server process. This call uses a particular security mechanism to ensure a secure communicatio... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5726902 | Method and apparatus for characterizing timing behavior of datapaths for integrated circuit design and fabrication A method and apparatus for characterizing the timing behavior of datapath in integrated circuit design and fabrication. A set of circuit specifications for an integrated circuit are developed and described in a hardware description language (HDL) descript... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5725007 | Valve mechanism and method for making same A diaphragm valve including a main valve body and a ring member welded to the main valve body, and a flexible diaphragm having an outer periphery welded to the ring member. The weldment between the main valve body, the ring member, and the diaphragm, prov... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5724503 | Method and apparatus for interpreting exceptions in a distributed object system A computer system and a computer-implemented method are described which may be used in a distributed client/server computing environment to convert an exception identifier received by a host computing system from a remote device to a more readable message... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5724003 | Methods and apparatus for signal amplitude control systems A method for obtaining a rectified signal from a first alternating current signal. The method includes the step of inputting the first alternating current signal into a variable gain amplifier to obtain a second alternating current signal. The second alte... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5723358 | Method of manufacturing amorphous silicon antifuse structures Disclosed is an apparatus and method for manufacturing antifuse structures on topographically varying silicon substrates. The antifuse structures are intelligently formed over topographically lower silicon substrate regions such that subsequent via hole e... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5723233 | Optical proximity correction method and apparatus A photolithography optical proximity correction method for mask layouts (e.g., reticle masks) is disclosed. The method includes performing pattern recognition on a layout design to identify locations of feature edges with respect to other feature edges in... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5721949 | Disk controller having sequential digital logic in a state machine for transferring data between DMA device and disk drive with minimal assistance of the CPU A method for transferring data between a host computer and peripheral storage including the steps of: (a) receiving data from the host; (b) determining if an escape command is present in the data; (c) writing the data to the a peripheral storage medium if... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5717633 | Low power consuming memory sense amplifying circuitry Low power consuming circuitry for amplifying sensed signals in memory devices is disclosed. The low power circuitry includes a amplifier circuit having a data bus line for receiving a data signal from a selected column of a memory array. The data bus line... | 02/10/1998 |
