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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175046 | Notification of incumbent users in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems A wireless system and method including a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to notify a wireless station of the presence or absence of an incumbent wireless are described. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172968 | Method and system for contacting of a flexible sheet and a substrate The invention relates to a method for contacting a flexible sheet to a first element with improved lateral alignment. The method includes a step of measuring a first lateral misalignment after establishing a first contact between the flexible sheet and either of the... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170052 | Method of operating a network node of a network, a network node, a network system, a computer-readable medium, and a program element A method of operating a network node of a network, a network node, a network system, a computer-readable medium, and a program element A method (300) of operating a network node (101-104) of a network system (100), comprising the steps of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169985 | Coordinated beacon period (BP) merging for distributed wireless networks The application describes a method to merge two wireless networks in which each terminal gets a beacon slot within the beacon period. In order to merge two networks, the beacon slots have to be time-coordinated such that the beacon slots of the first network are com... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166876 | Method and device for transferring a pattern from a stamp to a substrate A device (1) for transferring a pattern (12) from a stamp (10) to a substrate (20) comprises a table (22) for supporting a substrate (20), a flexible stamp (10) and a movably arranged body (25) having a pressur... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155141 | System, apparatus, and method for a two-stage mechanism for quiet period management in spectrum agile radio networks The present invention is a system (1200), base station (1100)/customer premise equipment (1150) apparatus, and method (400 450) for a two-stage quiet-period management mechanism that provides the required protection to incumbents (primary... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153354 | Sealed cell structure A method for forming a sealed cell structure is disclosed. The sealed cell structure comprises first (10) and second (12) substrates that are spaced apart by a plurality of partition walls (14). The partition walls define a plurality of cells ( | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151168 | Method, apparatus and system for error detection and selective retransmission The invention relates to a method for use in a packet-switched communication system, the method comprising: sending a first packet from a source node to a destination node, the first packet containing a first set of data bits; sending a second packet from the source... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149943 | Space time coded MB-OFDM UWB system An MB OFDM system that includes a coder, responsive to a stream of at least one incoming symbol, to form therefrom a set including channel symbols that correspond to each incoming symbol, such that the channel symbols include the incoming symbol, the negative of the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149495 | Reflective display having improved brightness and contrast A reflective display, comprising a plurality of pixels (10), each having a first electrode, a light-modifying layer (12), and a second electrode (3; 16) arranged to enable formation of an electric field in the light-modifying layer (12) t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149342 | Controlling the perceived depth of autostereoscopic display device and method therefor An autostereoscopic display device comprises: a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the pixels being arranged in rows and columns; and at least two arrays of light output directing elements, the arrays being arranged in series ov... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135177 | Motion detection device The invention refers to a device, a method and a computer program product for extracting motion information from a sequence of video frames. Existing solutions for extracting motion information from sequence of video frames need a massive computing power which make ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134590 | Stereoscopic display apparatus In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements such as lenticular elements (4) extending parallel to each other and being slanted at an angle to one of the rows and columns of picture elements the appearance of so called dark bands is p... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132927 | Display device with homogenising attentuating filter A display device includes a display arrangement and an optical attenuator arrangement. The display arrangement has inherent non-uniformity of an output intensity across the display area. The optical attenuator arrangement is positioned in front of the display arrang... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126096 | System, apparatus, and method for multi-band OFDM systems with receiver antenna selection per sub-band The present invention provides a system (300-400), apparatus (300-400), and method for an energy-based antenna selection technique in which the antenna that observes the largest SNR averaged over all carriers per sub-band (405) is ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126007 | Wireless systems and methods including cooperative communication medium access control A complementary medium access control (CMAC) method and apparatus are described. A method of wireless communication includes transmitting a request-to-send (RTS) frame and transmitting a clear-to-send (CTS) frame. The method also includes transmitting a partner-to-s... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126006 | Method of providing a medium access protocol A method of providing a medium access control protocol using a listen before-talk scheme within a wireless network having a plurality of stations communicating over a channel, wherein a valid route from a source station to a destination station via at least one more... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125886 | System, apparatus, and method for spatial multiplexing with symbol spreading The present invention provides a system (400), device (200, 300), and method (200) for a spatial multiplexing (SMX) transmission scheme combined with symbol spreading and rotation using a pre-determined matrix R, which can greatly improve system... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123840 | Electrostatic particle filter The invention relates to an electrostatic particle filter for removing particles from air. The electrostatic particle filter includes a filter medium (3) with first and second opposite sides, a first electrode (1) and a second electrode (2), the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121067 | Quality of service provisioning using periodic channel time allocation To maximize power saving performance without compromising on the QoS requirement of an application stream, a method and wireless network device generates a subset of a periodic service interval can be used for medium time allocation and data and information can be t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116231 | Apparatus and method for enabling discovery of wireless devices A wireless device (A) in a first antenna sector (40) is discovered using a directional antenna (322), which sends and receives signals in multiple antenna sectors. Multiple primary beacons are transmitted in corresponding primary beacon time slots (... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8081575 | System and method for dynamic adaptation of data rate and transmit power with a beaconing protocol A system, apparatus, and method are provided for dynamically selecting the data rate and/or transmit (TX) power. The method consists of devices periodically transmitting beacon frames in which they include data rate and/or TX power feedback for all senders of data s... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059216 | Switchable autostereoscopic display device A switchable autostereoscopic display device comprising: a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the display pixels being arranged in rows and columns; an array of lens elements arranged over the display panel for directing the lig... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054845 | Decoupled connections Methods and nodes are provided herein that can generate reliable acknowledgements within the time-frame required to transmit a single message over a decoupled connection so as to meet the real-time requirements of the CEC protocol. Specifically, there is provided a ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054781 | Channel coordination in wireless network systems Wireless networks in ISM bands are usually established by placing access points that link terminals to each other and to networks. This situation may pose problems when networks are established individually without coordination, for example, in different apartments ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051713 | Two-dimensional adaptive accelerometer based on dielectrophoresis Conventional accelerometers are based on test masses that are suspended in some kind of spring damper system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a two-dimensional adaptive accelerometer based on dielectrophoresis is provided, which measur... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051290 | Increasing integrity of watermarks using robust features This invention relates to a method and an arrangement for embedding a watermark pattern in an information signal. A method of embedding a watermark pattern in an information signal comprising the steps of determining a robust signature as a set of robust features in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046589 | Renewable and private biometrics The present invention relates to a method of authenticating an individual (321) at an authenticating device (311) and an authenticating system for authenticating an individual. A basic idea of the present invention is to store, at a device or a system ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045633 | Estimation of length of channel impulse response In a receiver for processing OFDM encoded signals, wherein the OFDM encoded digital signals are transmitted by means of a symbol in each of subcarrier frequency channels, with at least some of said subcarriers containing user data symbols, an initial estimate of a c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045502 | Method of reserving resources with a maximum delay guarantee for multi-hop transmission in a distributed access wireless communications network In a communication network (100), a method (400) of reserving X slots (610) for transmitting data from a source device (110A) to a destination device (110D) via multi-hop relay includes sending a first hop reservation request from ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045494 | System and method for hibernation mode for beaconing devices A system (400), device (500) (401), and method are provided for power saving in a wireless communication network (400), where all devices (401i) regularly transmit a beacon (600) but can enter a hibernation mode i... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8023922 | Receiver for simultaneously receiving different standards Receivers (5) for simultaneously receiving different radio frequency signals according to different standards are provided with first frequency translating stages (1) for converting the radio frequency signals into first intermediate frequency signals ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023689 | Robust signature for signal authentication A method, system and computer readable medium for the authenticating of an audio-visual signal, such as digital images or video comprising the generation of a robust image signature with variable size. In a preferred embodiment DC-values of blocks of a digital image... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023415 | Measuring and monitoring QoS in service differentiated wireless networks A wireless network (100) includes a plurality of wireless stations (QSTAs) (102) and an access point (QAP) (101). The QAP, or one or more of the QSTAs, or both, are adapted to measure delay data, or queue data, or both, per one or more traffic t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018912 | System and method for a dynamic beacon period in a MAC distributed reservation protocol A system (400), device (401), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising periodic beacon (600) transmissions of all active devices in beacon slots (204) (302) (303), grouping such beacon slots... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013944 | Display device for reducing cross-talk between displayed images The present invention relates to a display device, intended to display different images in different angular regions in front of the display, i.e. a first image to the right and a second image to the left. The display device therefore comprises an imaging layer and ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995583 | Apparatus and method for announcing a pending QoS service schedule to a wireless station An apparatus and method is disclosed for announcing to a wireless station in a wireless network that a Quality of Service (QoS) service schedule is pending for the wireless station. The apparatus of the invention comprises a hybrid coordinator that is capable of cre... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986375 | Multi-view autostereoscopic display device having particular driving means and driving method A multi-view autostereoscopic display device (101) comprises: an image forming means (103); a view forming means (109,117); and a driving means (119). The driving means is arranged to: in a first portion of a driving cycle, drive a first ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986374 | Autostereoscopic display device using controllable liquid crystal lens array for 3D/2D mode switching An autostereoscopic display device has an array (9) of lenticular elements (11) overlying a display panel (3), the lenticular elements comprising electro-optic material (23) and being switchable to enable 2D and 3D viewing modes. The elec... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7976164 | Rear projector and rear projecting method The application relates to a rear projector and a rear projection method. There is provided at least one projection screen, at least two beamers, each of the at least two beamers generating one view of a scene into at least one viewing direction and projecting the v... | 07/12/2011 |
