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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117546 | Method and related display device for displaying pictures in digital picture slide show A method for displaying pictures during a digital picture slide show includes receiving a plurality of pictures, determining display characteristics of the plurality of pictures according to weighting values of the plurality of pictures, and displaying the plurality... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116074 | Removable mechanism for drawing an object and removable device thereof A removable mechanism for drawing an object from a housing is disclosed. The removable mechanism includes a first rail disposed inside the housing and on a side of the object for guiding the object to move inside the housing. The removable mechanism further includes... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115990 | Display device and pixel structure thereof A pixel structure of a display device disposed on a substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixel structure. Each sub-pixel structure includes a light-absorption region, a reflection region, a first electrode disposed in the light-absorption region, a second electrode... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115985 | 2D/3D display device A 2D/3D display device is provided. The 2D/3D display device includes a flat display device and a parallax barrier panel disposed on a display surface of the flat display device. The parallax barrier panel has a barrier pattern which includes a first electrochromic ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115823 | Image processing system capable of reducing image data needed to be transmitted and method thereof An image processing system includes a first image processing unit and a second image processing unit. The first image processing unit is utilized for receiving a plurality of images, and the first image processing unit divides a (K+N)th image into a plura... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115747 | Energy-efficient touch panel device and related method An energy-efficient touch panel control device includes a touch panel, a buffer memory, an interrupt initiation unit, for outputting an interrupt signal, an analog to digital conversion unit, for converting analog output voltage to digital trace data and storing the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115746 | Display panel with multi-touch function A display panel with multi-touch function includes a display area and a non-display area. The display area includes a data line, a gate line, a first sensing line, a second sensing line, and a sensing unit. The sensing unit electrically connects the first and second... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115710 | Liquid crystal display control circuit for reducing memory size by detecting image edges and saving edge data and method thereof A liquid crystal display (LCD) control circuit is disclosed. The control circuit includes an edge detecting circuit for detecting image edges in each frame of an image data, and outputting an edge data and a non-edge data; a memory for saving the edge data of the fr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115409 | Driving circuit and method of backlight module A driving circuit includes a signal generator, a resonant circuit, a control circuit and an adjusting circuit. The signal generator is utilized for generating an alternating current (AC) signal having a fixed frequency. The resonant circuit is coupled to the signal ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115253 | Ultra high voltage MOS transistor device An ultra high voltage MOS transistor device includes a substrate having a first conductive type, a first well having a second conductive type and a second well having the first conductive type formed in the substrate, a drain region having the second conductive type... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114734 | Metal capacitor and method of making the same A method of making a metal capacitor includes the following steps. A dielectric layer having a metal interconnection and a capacitor electrode is provided. Then, a treatment is performed to increase the dielectric constant of the dielectric layer surrounding the cap... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113579 | Child safety seat A child safety seat includes a seat body, a headrest mechanism, an illumination device, and a power supply device. The headrest mechanism is connected to the seat body. The headrest mechanism includes a main body and a side wing. The side wing is movably connected t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113523 | Backrest reclining mechanism and related stroller A backrest reclining mechanism is applied to a stroller. The backrest reclining mechanism includes a fabric, at least one pulley, at least one cable, and an adjusting device. The fabric is disposed around a backrest of the stroller. Two ends of the fabric are connec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112602 | Storage controller for handling data stream and method thereof A storage controller for handling data stream having data integrity field (DIF) and method thereof. The storage controller comprises a host-side I/O controller for receiving a data stream from a host entity, a host-side I/O controller for connecting to a physical st... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112059 | Mixer circuit, integrated circuit device and radio frequency communication unit A mixer circuit comprises an input stage arranged to convert an input voltage signal received at an input of the mixer circuit into at least one current signal, and a frequency conversion stage comprising at least one switching element arranged to convert a signal c... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111926 | Image processing method for deriving text characteristic image from input image and related apparatus An image processing method for deriving text characteristic images from an input image includes: performing a plurality of edge detecting processes upon the input image to generate a plurality of edge images, respectively, and deriving a first text characteristic im... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111781 | Radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogators An RFID interrogator includes a signal processing module for converting a transmission signal transmitted from an RFID tag into an input signal; a first matched filter coupled to the signal processing module for generating a first matched signal according to the inp... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111513 | Industrial computer An industrial computer includes a first casing, a second casing, a storage unit, a cover, and a heat dissipation unit. The second casing and the first casing form a closed casing, and the outside of the second casing has a containing area. The storage unit is dispos... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111227 | Liquid crystal display system capable of improving display quality and method for driving the same Systems for displaying images incorporates a display device that includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the plurality of gate lines, a plurality of switches each having a first end coupled to a corresponding gate line and a second... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111226 | Liquid crystal display device A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display device includes a data line, a first gate line, a second gate line, a first sub-pixel unit, and a second sub-pixel unit. The first sub-pixel unit includes a first switch, a first liquid-crystal capacitor and a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111207 | Antenna structure and related expansion card and computer apparatus An antenna structure includes an expansion card connector, an antenna, and a plurality of metal pins. The antenna is disposed on the expansion card connector. The plurality of metal pins is disposed on the expansion card connector, whereof the plurality of metal pin... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111178 | Calibration method and related calibration apparatus for capacitor array A capacitor array includes a plurality of capacitor components each having a first node and a second node, and first nodes of the capacitor components are coupled to each other. A calibration method for the capacitor array utilizes a calibration capacitor component ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111054 | Voltage conversion device capable of enhancing conversion efficiency A voltage conversion device capable of enhancing conversion efficiency includes a charge pump for generating output voltage linear to input voltage according to the input voltage, a feedback unit for generating a feedback signal according to the output voltage gener... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110342 | Method for forming an opening A method for forming an opening is disclosed. First, a semiconductor substrate is provided, in which the semiconductor substrate includes at least one metal interconnects therein. A stacked film is formed on the semiconductor substrate, in which the stacked film inc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109665 | Backlight module A backlight module is provided. The backlight module has a reflective chamber and a light source. The reflective chamber includes a bottom reflector, a top reflector, at least a light entrance, and a plurality of light emitting openings disposed on the top reflector... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109571 | Child safety seat A child safety seat includes a seat body, a backrest, a first side wing, and an adjusting mechanism. The backrest is connected to the seat body. A hole is formed on the backrest and a first slot is formed on a first side of the backrest. A first side wing is movably... | 02/07/2012 |
| D653611 | Solar tile structure | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108615 | Prefetching controller using a counter A pre-fetch controller for pre-fetching data from a memory and providing data to a logic operation unit is disclosed. The pre-fetch controller includes a register for storing a counter value and a controller connected to the register for changing the counter value w... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108530 | Communication method capable of connecting with a communication application service and gateway thereof A communication method capable of connecting with a communication application service for an Internet protocol private branch exchange includes establishing a communication channel in the Internet protocol private branch exchange, transmitting a communication messag... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107443 | Method of performing cell search for a wireless communications system Performing cell search in a wireless communications system includes receiving a preamble signal, match filtering the preamble signal with a pseudo noise sequence to form a filtered preamble signal of a plurality of filtered preamble signals, choosing a largest filte... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107378 | Power managing method applied to a wireless network apparatus and power management thereof A power managing method applied to a wireless network apparatus includes the steps of periodically detecting whether the wireless network apparatus is operated in a non-link status to determine whether to enter a first power-saving mode when the wireless network app... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107014 | Digital receiver and method thereof A digital receiver includes an analog front-end circuit, an automatic-gain controller, a compensation circuit, and a demodulator. The analog front-end circuit receives an input signal, adjusts an average amplitude of the input signal, and converts the adjusted input... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106960 | Image processing system and method thereof An image processing system includes a receiving unit and an image processing unit, where the image processing unit includes a plurality of line buffers. The receiving unit is utilized for receiving a rectangular image. The image processing unit is coupled to the rec... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106841 | Antenna structure An antenna structure consists of a substrate, a radiation element, a signal feeding element, and a grounding element. The radiation element includes a first radiator and a second radiator coupled to the first radiator, wherein the first radiator is identical to the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106685 | Signal receiver and voltage compensation method A signal receiver includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first transistor, a second transistor and a variable load. The first and the second transistors each include a gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode. The gate electrode ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106642 | Current mode buck converter with fixed PWM/PFM boundary A current mode buck converter is disclosed. The buck converter operates in a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode or a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) mode. To prevent an output inductor with various probable magnitudes from varying a decision boundary between the PWM... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106466 | MOS transistor and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a MOS transistor is disclosed. First, a semiconductor substrate having a gate thereon is provided. A spacer is then formed on the sidewall of the gate, and two recesses are formed adjacent to the spacer and within the semiconductor substrate... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106323 | Potential switching apparatus for power adapter A potential switching apparatus for a power adapter which transforms input power to output power delivered through a power output cord. The potential switch apparatus switches the potential of the output power. It includes a first body and a second body located on t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105648 | Method for operating a chemical deposition chamber A method for operating a chemical deposition chamber is disclosed. First, a digital liquid flow controller is provided to guide a precursor fluid into a chemical deposition chamber. Then, a pre-cleaning step is performed in the chemical deposition chamber. Later, a ... | 01/31/2012 |
| D653255 | Liquid crystal display | 01/31/2012 |
