Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185842 | Electronic device and user interface display method thereof An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, organize a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185336 | Test apparatus, test method, program, and recording medium reducing the influence of variations Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, including a vector expanding section that sequentially generates a plurality of test vectors; a predicting section that calculates a predicted value for each test vector by simulating an operation of the d... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185223 | Multimedia playing method and apparatus using the same A multimedia playing method is provided. First, N audio files selected by a user are received, wherein N>0. Then, the memory space required for playing each of the N audio files for a predetermined time is respectively detected. Next, whether total memory space requ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184709 | Low-power and high-throughput design of fast motion estimation VLSI architecture for multimedia system-on-chip design A method of fast motion estimation in VLSI architecture with low-power and high-throughput for multimedia System-on-Chip design is disclosed. The method uses the data prediction and data reuse technique to find out the best matching block within the search range of ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184451 | Fixing structure for electronic card A fixing structure for an electronic card is suitable for mounting a long electronic card or a short electronic card within a housing. The fixing structure includes a pressing plate, a locking slice, and a locking member. Two ends of the pressing plate have two buck... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184212 | Sound intermediate frequency demodulator and sound intermediate frequency detecting method thereof A sound-IF demodulator including a first demodulating unit and a second demodulating unit and a sound-IF detecting method thereof are provided. A sound de-matrix unit is adapted to generate a driving signal by de-matrixing outputs of the sound-IF demodulator. The fi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184202 | Display apparatus and phase detection method thereof A display apparatus including an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module, a phase detecting module, and a clock generator is provided. The ADC module is used to receive a first analog video signal, and convert the first analog video signal into a digital signal acc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184105 | Touch panel A touch panel including a substrate, a plurality of first sensing series, and a plurality of second sensing series is provided. The first sensing series and the second sensing series are disposed on the substrate. The first sensing series extend along a first direct... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183769 | Organic electroluminescent display unit and method for fabricating the same An organic electroluminescent display unit suitable to be electrically connected to a scan line and a data line including at least one transistor, a first photo-sensor, a second photo-sensor, a conductive layer, an organic electroluminescent layer and a cathode laye... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183459 | Handheld electronic device and rising mechanism A handheld electronic device including a first body, a second body, and a rising mechanism is provided. The second body is stacked under the first body. A side of the second body facing the first body has a depression. The rising mechanism is connected between the f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183393 | Dye compound and dye-sensitized solar cell A dye compound is described, which is expressed by formula (I): wherein A1, A2 and A3 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted 1,4-phenylene or 2,5-thiophene group, and B | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182129 | Light guide unit and backlight module A light guide unit including a light guide plate and a plurality of rod lenses is provided. The light guide plate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a light incident surface connecting the first surface and the second surface. T... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180848 | Apparatus and method for distributing video image to a plurality of live communication interfaces simultaneously An apparatus and a method for distributing video image are provided. The apparatus stores a video image captured by a video unit through a monitor module. When a plurality of communication interfaces are activated simultaneously, the video image previously stored in... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180145 | Method for producing image with depth by using 2D images A method for producing an image with depth by using 2D image includes obtaining a set of internal parameters of a camera. The camera takes at least a first and a second 2D images with a small shift. The first 2D image has N depths, and N≧2. Several sets of externa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180089 | Earphone An earphone including a case, a case extension unit, a plate, a cover, a first speaker and a second speaker is provided. The first speaker is disposed on a supporting portion of the plate and is disposed on a first plane different from a second plane where the secon... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179970 | Low power video compression chipset for protable application A data reading method for motion estimation in a video processing chipset is provided. The video processing chipset is coupled to an external memory device, wherein a first frame is stored in the external memory device. In the data reading method, a second frame is ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179761 | Filter and filtering method thereof A filter, including a direct-current (DC) tracking unit, a subtracter and a control unit, is provided. The DC tracking unit extracts a DC component of a radio-frequency (RF) signal and accordingly generates a level signal. The subtracter subtracts the level signal f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179683 | Display device A display device includes a display panel, a flexible printed circuit and a back light module. The flexible printed circuit is suitable for supporting the driving element and is electrically connected to the display panel. The back light module includes at least one... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179668 | Handheld electronic device A handheld electronic device including a lower body, an upper body, a sliding mechanism and a pivot axle is provided. The lower body has a carrying surface and a recess on the carrying surface. The upper body is disposed on the carrying surface. The sliding mechanis... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179644 | Two-way electrostatic discharge protection circuit An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit electrically connected to a first conductive line and a second conductive line is provided. The ESD protection circuit has a first ESD protection circuit unit, wherein the first ESD circuit unit includes a first co... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179506 | Method for fabricating a pixel structure and the pixel structure A transparent conductive layer and a first conductive layer are formed. A first photoresist layer having a first part and a second part with different thicknesses is as a mask to remove a portion of the first conductive layers to form a composite gate, and expose th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179487 | Thin film transistor array substrate A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate including a substrate, a plurality of scan lines disposed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of pixels arranged in array on the substrate is provided. Each scan line is ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179441 | Hand-off monitoring method and hand-off monitoring system A hand-off monitoring method is provided for monitoring a space divided into several monitoring regions. Each of the monitoring regions is monitored by a surveillance camera. The hand-off monitoring method comprises receiving a warning signal from a location and ide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179360 | Display and gate driver circuit thereof A gate driving circuit including M shift registers, a detecting unit, a control unit, a repair starting unit, a signal repairing device, and a signal replacing unit is provided, wherein M is a positive integer. The shift registers sequentially shift a starting signa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179354 | Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display applying the same A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, scan lines, data lines, pixel unit sets, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The scan lines, data lines, and pixel unit sets are disposed on the first substrate. A first gap is forme... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179243 | Lane departure warning method and system thereof A lane departure warning method and system thereof are provided. First a driver model is established, wherein the driver model is established according to a lateral position error of a vehicle being driven and a steering angle generated by a driver for controlling t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179181 | Power-mode-aware clock tree and synthesis method thereof A power-mode-aware (PMA) clock tree and a synthesis method thereof are provided. The clock tree includes a sub clock tree and a PMA buffer. The sub clock tree transmits a delayed clock signal to a function module, wherein a power mode of the function module is deter... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179154 | Device, test apparatus and test method Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test. The device under test includes: a circuit under test; and a switching section that that connects an internal terminal being tested, from among one or more internal terminals of the circuit under test, to e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179115 | Bandgap circuit having a zero temperature coefficient A bandgap circuit is provided, which includes a current source, a voltage boost circuit, a voltage input circuit, a voltage equalizer circuit, and a voltage output circuit. The current source provides a first current, a second current, and a third current, which are... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178890 | Light emitting diode package structure A light-emitting diode (LED) package structure including a carrier substrate, at least one LED chip, an optical element and a highly thermal-conductive transparent liquid is provided. The LED chip is disposed on the carrier substrate and has an active layer. The opt... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178803 | Electronic device having key An electronic device including a main body, a carrying layer disposed at the main body, a waterproof layer stacked on the carrying layer and located between the carrying layer and the main body, a supporting element disposed on the carrying layer, a key disposed on ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178447 | Methods of forming hydrophobic silicon dioxide layer and forming organic thin film transistor A method of forming a hydrophobic silicon dioxide layer is provided. A substrate is provided. Thereafter, a hydrophobic silicon dioxide layer is formed on the substrate by using a plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, in which tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178288 | Method for fabricating display substrate and liquid crystal display A method for fabricating a display substrate is provided. A substrate is provided first. After that, an alignment film coating and an alignment treatment are performed to the substrate, and a layer of photoreactive monomer material is coated on the surface of the su... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178262 | Method for fabricating color filter layer A method of fabricating a color filter layer is provided. An active device array substrate having an opaque metal pattern formed thereon is provided. A planarization layer covering the opaque metal pattern is formed. A back-side exposure process is performed on the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176548 | Protection system for display apparatus and method thereof A protection system for a display apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The protection system includes an electronic key and a protection module. The protection system performs security identification with a plurality of passwords and updates the passwords ev... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175828 | Evaluation apparatus, evaluation method, program, recording medium and electronic device Provided is an evaluation apparatus that evaluates a characteristic of a propagation apparatus propagating a signal, comprising an output signal measuring section that measures a probability density function expressing a probability density distribution of jitter of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175735 | System and method of multi-objective capacity planning in TFT-LCD panel manufacturing industry A system and a method of multi-objective capacity planning in the thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel manufacturing industry are provided. The system includes a capacity planning module and a multi-objective planning module. In the present me... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175180 | Pre-encoding and pre-decoding apparatuses and methods thereof A pre-encoding apparatus and a pre-decoding apparatus are provided. The pre-encoding apparatus adopts a cascade structure constituted by a plurality of pre-encoding units and a plurality of interleavers for pre-encoding, and the pre-decoding apparatus adopts a casca... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174904 | Memory array and method of operating one of a plurality of memory cells An embodiment of the invention provides a memory array including a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of memory cells and a device. Each of the plurality of memory cells has a first node, a second node and a third node, wherein the third node is coupled to one of t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174840 | Multi-functional composite substrate structure A multi-functional composite substrate structure is provided. The first substrate with high dielectric constant and the second substrate with low dielectric constant and low loss tangent are interlaced above the third substrate. One or more permeance blocks may be f... | 05/08/2012 |
