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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7529162 | Wobble demodulation for high density optical recording media The present invention relates to a method for the demodulation of the ADIP data of a wobble signal of an optical recording medium, whereby the wobble signal is modulated using two different methods, and to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical reco... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7519118 | Two-layer decoding for hybrid high-definition DVD A hybrid high-definition decoder and method are disclosed, for processing signal data as a plurality of block transform coefficients for each of base layer data and enhancement layer data, where the decoder includes a standard-definition decoder for decoding the sta... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7512650 | Physical layer recovery in a streaming data delivery system An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) digital document delivery system is provided. A customer premise unit is configured to permit a customer to order and receive a data stream. A buffer is coupled to the customer premise unit to store the data stream before transmit... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7502862 | Data transmission device and data reception device using predetermined profiles A device for transmitting data to a plurality of client devices transmits the data according to a plurality of predetermined profiles. Each of the plurality of client devices is associated with at least one profile. The device includes a unit for adapting the conten... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499382 | Method for gain adjustment for production of a lens position signal, and a corresponding appliance for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium A lens position signal LCE which indicates the discrepancy between the lens and its geometric mid-position is required for coarse tracking of optical storage drives. The prior art is for the lens position signal LCE to be formed in three-beam pick-ups by weighted co... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496946 | System for collating data from multiple sources to form a composite program guide for display A video decoder system collates program guide information acquired from a variety of local and remote sources. Program guide information is received from a first source and a selectable program guide menu icon is displayed. A category of program guide information it... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496275 | System and method for providing recording function when no program information is available A method and system for recording a program in an apparatus that has auxiliary programming information available are described. A program is first selected for recording. A determination is made to see whether the associated auxiliary programming information is avai... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496207 | Cabinet for audio devices The present invention is related to a cabinet for consumer electronic devices equipped with loudspeakers. Examples for such devices are audio equipment like CD players, tape recorders, radios, and television receivers. In particular, the invention is related to devi... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495642 | Sequential multi-segment pulse width modulated display system A field sequential pulse width modulated display system comprises a digital micromirror device (DMD) having a plurality of micromirrors that each selectively pivot to reflect light onto a screen to illuminate a corresponding pixel. A driver circuit controls the DMD ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495202 | Device for detecting electromagnetic radiation The central idea of the present invention is that the resetting of the energy store associated with the receiver prior to every detection interval and/or prior to every exposure period, during which the energy stored in the energy store is to be changed in accordanc... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492040 | Glass lid, and package provided with such a lid, for the encapsulation of electronic components The encapsulation lid comprises at least two glass layers of different compositions, a first layer called the bottom layer, which is continuous, and at least a second layer, which is discontinuous and designed so as to define cavities or anfractuosities in this lid.... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492818 | Equalizer mode switch An apparatus for automatically selecting one of a standard decision directed mode and a soft dd mode in a decision feedback equalizer for receiving a data signal comprises an equalizer for providing a DFE output signal and having a control input responsive to a cont... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489730 | Cross-encoding of information in independent channels Independent first and second information signals (content1 and content2) are transmitted over separate independent physical channels to a receiving location. Security is provided by encoding (12a) at least the first information by means o... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7488077 | Objective for a projection apparatus, and corresponding front-projection or backprojection apparatus The invention relates to a projection objective comprising at least one lens and intended to transmit a divergent light beam onto a flat screen. A hyperbolically shaped mirror is oriented so as to receive, on its convex face, the light emanating from the lens. | 02/10/2009 |
| 7490329 | Remote key manager An apparatus having a memory and an operating system running a plurality of applications that are controlled by user signals, means to register the user signals required by each application, means to receive user signals, and means to send each received user signal ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486009 | Electron gun for cathode-ray tube with improved beam shaping region An electrode gun for a cathode-ray tube, including at least a first electrode and a second electrode for shaping and focusing the electron beam emitted by a cathode is described. These electrodes are made of a non-oxidizing alloy whose coefficient of expansion betwe... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483451 | Multi-media jitter removal in an asynchronous digital home network A method and an apparatus using a system level clocking scheme to remove jitter from multi-media packets distributed over an asynchronous network, in particular an asynchronous network. The present invention overcomes the problems associated with jitter introduced i... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483620 | Replay appliance for accessing a recording media containing information blocks A relay appliance at a defined playing time for accessing information on recording media containing information blocks, if the recording medium has no concordance list producing a relationship between the replay time and the recording location, or the concordance li... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484230 | Scanning device for an apparatus for reading from or writing to optical recording media A scanning device for an apparatus for reading from or writing to optical recording media, with at least one mounting device with a receptacle along an optical axis for an optical component arranged on a cylindrical holder and with setting elements for the holder al... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479929 | Broadband antenna and processes for manufacturing such an antenna The present invention relates to a broadband monopole antenna comprising a “cup”-shaped radiating element mounted on an earth plane forming support of annular shape. This antenna can be used in the field of portable television apparatuses. ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480441 | Method for seamless real-time splitting and concatenating of a data stream When recording packetized real-time streaming data, e.g. multimedia data, it is in general not possible to know in advance the size of the data stream, and thus the required storage area. Therefore the storage device may be full before the data stream is completely ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479934 | Reduction of phosphor lag artifacts on display panels Since the phosphor lag effect results from the slowness of the green and red phosphors and since it is not possible to make these phosphors faster, the blue one has to be made slower in order to reduce the color trail effect. Therefore, a part of the blue component ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480447 | Pause time recovery and playback speed-up without loss of picture information The invention concerns a method and digital recording device for faster than normal playback of a 24 fps presentation without any loss of program information. A 24 fps playback signal is produced from a storage medium. Subsequently, a pull-down process can be perfor... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477590 | Optical recording medium having at least two recordable layers The present invention relates to an optical recording medium having at least two information carrier layers, on which information can be written by means of a focused light beam. In this case, a separating layer is arranged between the information carrier layers and... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477211 | Driver for a plasma display panel The invention relates to a driver for a plasma display panel. According to the invention, in order to reduce the current loops during the sustain of the display cells, a novel driver architecture is proposed. The switches of the sustain circuit, together with the sw... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7472344 | Device and method for generating metadata from essence The generation of metadata shall be simplified. Therefore, a method is presented in which a metadata-template is filled with selected essence and MD-links obtained from a list of links to essence and/or a list of current metadata. Furthermore, it is possible to obta... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7471988 | Method and apparatus for automatic equalization mode activation A digital audio player and a method for processing encoded digital audio data, wherein the digital audio data is encoded using one of a plurality of encoding formats. The exemplary audio data player includes a hard disk or other data storage medium for storing data ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469420 | Key transport tamper protection A method for protecting the digital output signal of a security module, comprising the steps of: receiving a scrambled digital signal from a source external to said security module, recovering at least one transport scramble control flag from the scrambled digital s... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469005 | Method for synchronizing memory areas in a transmitter apparatus and a receiver apparatus, and receiver apparatus The invention relates to a method for synchronizing a transmitter memory area in a transmitter memory in a transmitter apparatus with a receiver memory area in a receiver memory in a receiver apparatus, and to a receiver apparatus. The transmitter memory area stores... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468844 | Apparatus for adding red light to a polarized light system An apparatus for adding red light to a polarized light system includes a first light source and a second light source. A polarizing beam splitter combines S-polarized-light from the first light source and P-polarized light from the second light source. A first multi... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468754 | High-definition de-interlacing and frame doubling circuit and method A combined de-interlacing and frame doubling system (114, 114′ and 114″) advantageously serves to de-interlace successive lines of Present Field Video data at twice the field rate to yield an output bit stream suitable for display on display device... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468962 | Method and apparatus for antenna selection using channel response information in a multi-carrier system The disclosed embodiments relate to a technique for selecting one of several antennas or channels in a receiver based on the quality of the channel response at each of the antennas in a multicarrier system employing convolutional forward error-correction coding. Cha... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469027 | Symbol timing search algorithm A system is described for establishing timing synchronism between a local receiver symbol clock and a transmitter symbol clock. A prescribed number of offset values are calculated for desired symbol timing range, the offset values being grouped substantially symmetr... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468935 | Optimized tracking method The invention relates to a method for optimized tracking of an optical scanner along a track of an optical recording medium, the track having information markings arranged in dense succession, and also having fundamental changes in properties in significantly lower ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469095 | DVD-ROM backwards compatible defective sector management in recordable DVD media A method for DVD-ROM backwards-compatible defective sector management in recordable DVD media can include the following steps. Initially, a first block of logically contiguous sectors can be allocated in which indivisible data can be written to the recordable DVD me... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7464590 | Digitally programmable bandwidth for vibratory rate gyroscope A signal-processing circuit for a dual-axis vibratory rotation-rate sensor has a digitally programmable bandwidth. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts analog sense signals to digital signals at a high sampling rate. The results of successive ADC conversion... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466973 | Single conversion tuner A single conversion tuner suitable for receiving RF signals having different requirements as to selectivity, linearity and image rejection is presented. Tuners of this kind are particularly useful for digital terrestrial as well as cable reception, where different m... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466636 | Method for generating a corrected error signal, and corresponding apparatus In order to obtain a corrected or compensated focus error signal or track error signal, it is proposed to generate primary and secondary scanning beams incident on adjacent tracks of an optical recording medium and to detect the primary and secondary scanning beams ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466774 | Mixed inter/intra video coding of macroblock partitions A video encoder and corresponding method are provided for mixed inter/intra encoding of a macroblock having a plurality of partitions, where the encoder includes a reference picture weighting applicator coupled with a reference picture weighting factor unit for assi... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466826 | Method of secure transmission of digital data from a source to a receiver To transmit digital data representing a content from a source to a receiver through a digital communication channel, the data being scrambled by at least one control word, the method includes the following steps. The source generates an encryption key which it store... | 12/16/2008 |
