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 |
| 8178239 | Cathode material for secondary battery, method for producing same, and secondary battery A cathode material for a secondary battery containing a cathode active material represented by the general formula LinFePO4 (wherein n represents a number from 0 to 1) as a primary component and molybdenum (Mo), wherein the cathode active mater... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171030 | Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional content search and video identification A multi-dimensional database and indexes and operations on the multi-dimensional database are described which include video search applications or other similar sequence or structure searches. Traversal indexes utilize highly discriminative information about images ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166733 | Method for making tamper evident card carrier Techniques for providing cost effective and tamper evident prepaid card packaging are described. By forming a cutout in a panel of the prepaid card packaging, covering the cutout with a material such as red glassine, and aligning an activation bar code or other indi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161267 | Methods and apparatus for scalable array processor interrupt detection and response Hardware and software techniques for interrupt detection and response in a scalable pipelined array processor environment are described. Utilizing these techniques, a sequential program execution model with interrupts can be maintained in a highly parallel scalable ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156261 | Methods and apparatus for providing data transfer control A variety of advantageous mechanisms for improved data transfer control within a data processing system are described. A DMA controller is described which is implemented as a multiprocessing transfer engine supporting multiple transfer controllers which may work ind... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8130954 | Methods and apparatus for authenticating data as originating from a storage and processing device and for securing software and data stored on the storage and processing device Techniques are described for using unique features of a storage medium for authentication of data as originating from the storage medium, and also for installing software and data to a storage medium in a way which inhibits unauthorized copying of the software and d... | 03/06/2012 |
| D655202 | Clear plastic gift card package | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125907 | Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-paths Systems and techniques are described which improve performance, reliability, and predictability of networks without having costly hardware upgrades or replacement of existing network equipment. An adaptive communication controller provides WAN performance and utiliz... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119285 | Cathode material for secondary battery, method for producing cathode material for secondary battery and secondary battery A positive electrode material is disclosed which contains an iron lithium phosphate as a positive electrode active material and has a large charge/discharge capacity, high-rate adaptability, and good charge/discharge cycle characteristics at the same time. Also disc... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117357 | System core for transferring data between an external device and memory Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with w... | 02/14/2012 |
| 6233320 | Method and apparatus for recording and playing back a conversation using a digital wireless phone A wireless telephone with record and playback capability is disclosed. The telephone has an operation module, which transmits near-end signals and receives far-end signals, and a record module which writes transmission packets formed from the near-end sig... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6193642 | Multiple-axis centrifugation bucket for centrifugal transfer between microwell plates An improved centrifugation bucket providing two axes of rotation for a pair of multi-well plates. The centrifugation bucket is adapted to be used with a centrifuge in order to effect material transfer between a pair of microwell plates. The centrifugation... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6175944 | Methods and apparatus for packetizing data for transmission through an erasure broadcast channel A system for transmitting data over an erasure channel. A data block is divided into coarse and fine segments. The coarse segment is encoded using an error-correcting encoding process. The fine segment and the encoded coarse segment are combined and divid... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6175748 | Methods and apparatus for determination of a power level in an RF booster for wireless communications A booster for amplifying the signal of a mobile unit of a cellular telephone system. The booster includes a level determination device which produces a reference level based on a power level of a signal received from the mobile unit. The level determinati... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6173389 | Methods and apparatus for dynamic very long instruction word sub-instruction selection for execution time parallelism in an indirect very long instruction word processor A pipelined data processing unit includes an instruction sequencer and n functional units capable of executing n operations in parallel. The instruction sequencer includes a random access memory for storing very-long-instruction-words (VLIWs) used in oper... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6172634 | Methods and apparatus for providing analog-fir-based line-driver with pre-equalization A line-driver receives as an input a Manchester-encoded digital data signal, which is then converted into an analog signal by a wave-shaping circuit. The wave-shaping circuit comprises a bank of current sources with a combined output, each current source ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6167502 | Method and apparatus for manifold array processing A manifold array topology includes processing elements, nodes, memories or the like arranged in clusters. Clusters are connected by cluster switch arrangements which advantageously allow changes of organization without physical rearrangement of processing... | 12/26/2000 |
