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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7979938 | Changing amplitude of movement by changing the drive frequency of a toothbrush brushhead The drive system drives a brushhead at a driving frequency. The drive system includes a frequency modulation system which changes. the driving frequency about a center frequency in such a manner, with selected frequency deviation and modulation frequency, which inte... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7422476 | Luggage for cooperating with various portable devices Luggage or carrying container (1) having an interface (10) for cooperating with one or more electronic and/or wireless devices (20, 22, 24, 26, 28), a rechargeable power source (30), an integrated antenna (40), and a wireless commu... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414858 | Method of manufacturing an electronic device A semiconductor device (100) comprising a semiconductor substrate (20) and a functional element (31), such as a microstrip, an inductor, a coupler or the like, is provided. Herein the functional element (31) is—at least partially—pres... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411928 | Simplified decoder for a bit interleaved COFDM-MIMO system Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems are candidates for higher data rate wireless communication systems. Currently, for a single input single output (SISO) 1802.11a system can provide a transmission data rate up to 54 Mbps. The present invention is a 2 by 2... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403514 | Telecommunication system with channel sharing A telecommunication system uses at least one dual mode channel capable of supporting variable-rate real-time data (e.g. speech) and non-real-time packet data. The packet data is queued in a buffer and transmitted when the data rate of the real-time data stream is le... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392014 | Measurement of channel characteristics in a communication system A communication system comprises a downlink data channel for the transmission of data packets from a primary station to a secondary station and uplink and downlink control channels. The secondary station measures one or more characteristics of the data channel and i... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390578 | Aryl-substituted poly-p-arylenevinylenes Aryl-substituted poly-p-arylenevinylenes comprising a repeating unit of the formula (C1), in which one or more of the unsubstituted aromatic carbon atoms may be replaced by nitrogen atoms, —OCm and —OCn ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388934 | Detection and correction of phase jumps in a phase sequence According to one example embodiment, a communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver for receiving symbols from a phase-shift shift keying modulation. The system also includes estimation means for estimating a frequency error relating to a symbol based ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379434 | Radio communication system A radio communication system comprises a communication channel for the transmission of data packets from a primary station (100) to a secondary station (110). In response to receipt of a data packet, the secondary station transmits an acknowledgement s... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379228 | Electrophoretic display An electrophoretic display comprises a pixel which has a pixel volume comprising a reservoir volume and an image volume. Particles which have different colors and different electrophoretic mobilities are present in the pixel volume. An amount of the particles presen... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370987 | Display panel comprising a light guide plate The display panel (21) comprises a light guide (2), a second plate (4) and a movable element (3) between both plates for locally decoupling light out of the light guide (2). Voltages, applied to electrodes (5,6 resp. 25 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357877 | Dispersion of nanowires of semiconductor material A method of manufacturing nanowires (104) is provided, according to which method the nanowires are prepared by anodic etching a semiconductor substrate (10) with an alternating current density, so as to create first regions (4) and second region... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358529 | Active matrix display devices, and their manufacture Physical barriers (210) are present between neighboring pixels (200) on a circuit substrate (100) of an active-matrix display device, such as an electroluminescent display formed with LEDs (25) of organic semiconductor materials. The inve... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351951 | Optoelectronic semiconductor device and method of manufacturing such a device The invention relates to a semiconductor device (10) comprising a semiconductor element (1), particularly a solid-state image sensor (1), comprising a semiconductor body (11) of which one surface comprises an optically active part (1 | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348680 | Electronic device and use thereof The electronic device (100) comprises a semiconductor element (1) (e.g. a transistor), an encapsulation (5) and an electrically conductive layer (3) with a first and a second contact pad (11,12), used as signal pads, and a third co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345628 | Location dependent display of information for GPS devices An invention for providing information to a GPS device by selecting location-specific information stored on a memory medium incorporated in the GPS device, or received by the GPS device from location-specific information broadcast by GPS satellites. The stored or br... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340853 | Iron with fabric contact detector An electric iron having a housing (1) and a soleplate (2) in which at least one outlet opening (10;15;34;45) is provided, means (8;19;28;39;43) for generating a fine liquid spray or foam or steam, and means (5) for delivering said ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339911 | Selection between two different coding schemes and corresponding modulation schemes according to the allowable transmission delay of the data Transmitters comprising detectors (32) for detecting packet data to be transmitted are provided with selectors (34) for in response to detection results of real-time requirements selecting first coding schemes and first modulation schemes like convolut... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331495 | Substrate and method of separating components from a substrate A substrate (1) having a first groove (4) is provided with a plurality of protrusions (3) on the first groove (4). These protrusions (4) can have a top with an apex angle of 30 to 150 degrees and results in a controlled breaking of... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332701 | Dual-mode CMOS imaging sensor with supporting LED The present invention relates to a sensor device for sensing an image of an object, wherein a detection means (14) for detecting radiation received from the object is supported by a light-emitting semiconductor means (12) for emitting radiation towards... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326944 | Collapsible irradiation device An irradiation device includes a base part, a support longitudinally extending from the base part and enclosing an angle with a vertical axis, and a housing that includes a central axis, at least one radiation unit, and a radiation emission plane. The housing is piv... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327177 | Hardware/software implementation of a PWM with enhanced features using a standard microprocessor A method and apparatus is provided to generate a pulse-width modulated (PWM) with enhanced features in accordance with a pre-determined protocol using a standard microprocessor. The method and apparatus is able to handle both variable on/off-timing control and multi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315582 | Backward compatible DVB-S standard transmission system The invention relates to digital transmissions. It particularly relates to a new transmission system (DVB-S2), which is backward compatible with a primary transmission system (DVB-S), enabling a receiver of the primary system to receive signals transmitted by a tran... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314782 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device obtained by means of said method The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device (10) in which, in a semiconductor body (1) with a temporary substrate (2), at least one semiconductor element (3) is formed which, on a side of the semiconductor bo... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312668 | High resolution PWM generator or digitally controlled oscillator A high resolution pulse width modulation (PWM) or voltage controlled output (DCO) generator is disclosed. The resolution is increased over that of the circuit clock by delaying the generated signal through a series of delays, all of which are controlled by a delay l... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296207 | Communications protocol A method of communicating datagrams between terminals (nodes) of a communications system. In systems operating over unreliable media, redundancy check data can be included in a datagram for use in verifying the integrity of the datagram when received by a terminal; ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295160 | Multiband microwave antenna A multiband microwave antenna (1) is described, which antenna is intended particularly for surface mounting (SMD) on a printed circuit board (PCB) and has a substrate (10) having at least a first and a second metallization structure (11, 12), wh... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290157 | Configurable processor with main controller to increase activity of at least one of a plurality of processing units having local program counters A processor comprises a main controller (CTR11) and a plurality of processing units (1–9). Each processing unit (1–9) has a local controller (CTR1–CTR9) and at least one functional unit (FU1–FU9) controllable ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286451 | Copy control using digital speed bumps A digital media recorder and a method of controlling such are provided. During attempts to copy media content, sub-sequences are extracted from an input media sequence. A digital fingerprint of the sub-sequence is calculated and compared with at least one first refe... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285909 | Electroluminescent device with a color filter The invention relates to an electroluminescent device comprising a substrate (1), a porous layer (2) that borders on the substrate (1), a laminated body that borders on the porous layer (2) and that is composed of at least a first electro... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284201 | User attention-based adaptation of quality level to improve the management of real-time multi-media content delivery and distribution A method for transmitting a stream of multi-media content from provider server to a user device includes transmitting multi-media content from the provider server to the user device via a communication network and outputting the multi-media content from the user dev... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279702 | Electronic device, method, monomer and polymer The electronic device of the invention comprises one or more active elements, each comprising a first and a second electrode and an active layer of organic material separating the first and second electrodes. Examples of active elements are thin-film transistors and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271409 | Active matrix electroluminescent display devices, and their manufacture Physical barriers (210) are present between neighbouring pixels (200) on a circuit substrate (100) of an active-matrix electroluminescent display device, particularly with LEDs (25) of organic semiconductor materials. The invention forms ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271075 | Method and a device for bonding two plate-shaped objects A method for bonding two plate-shaped objects (5) with an adhesive which is cured by ultraviolet light irradiation and by heating. The two plate-shaped objects (5) with the adhesive in between are transported into a cure chamber (11) comprising ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269338 | Apparatus and method for synchronizing presentation from bit streams based on their content Content of multiple digital bit streams with essentially the same renderable content, and situated at mutually remote locations, are played back in unison. First, time is synchronized among the processors that participate in a synchronized viewing session by playing... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266466 | Watermark time scale searching Method and apparatus are described for compensating for a linear time scale change in a received signal, so as to correctly rescale the frame sequence of the received signal. Firstly, an initial estimate of the sequence of symbols is extracted from the received sign... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265807 | Sealing structure for display devices The invention relates to a sealing structure (6) suitable for a polymer-based electronic device (1), charaterized in that the sealing structure (6) comprises a first layer (7) of a first dielectric material formed on said device (1... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262551 | Electroluminescent device with improved light output The invention relates to an electroluminescent device comprising a substrate (1) and a laminated body composed of a first electrode (3), an electroluminescent layer (4) and a second electrode (5). The light output out of the electrolumine... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260709 | Processing method and apparatus for implementing systolic arrays The present invention relates to a processing method and apparatus for implementing a systolic-array-like structure. Input data are stored in a depth-configurable register means (DCF) in a predetermined sequence, and are supplied to a processing means (FU) for proce... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260220 | Adaptive watermarking A method and apparatus (200) for embedding a watermark in an information signal bit-stream are described. The method comprises receiving a portion of an information signal bit-stream (MPEG2). A first copy of the received portion is stored in a first buffer ( | 08/21/2007 |
