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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180644 | Method and apparatus for scrolling text display of voice call or message during video display session A method and communication device disclosed includes displaying a video on a display, converting voice audio data to textual data by applying voice-to-text conversion, and displaying the textual data as scrolling text displayed along with the video on the display an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179865 | Method and apparatus for cancelling other cell interference in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for reducing other cell interference in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a symbol generator for generating at least one modulation symbols to be transmitted, a resource mapper for mapping and assigning the modulation symb... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8165229 | Channel estimation method and apparatus in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system Disclosed is a channel estimation method and apparatus in an OFDM system. The method includes performing channel estimation at a pilot position of a received symbol, thereby calculating a first channel estimate, performing diagonal interpolation between the first ch... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159548 | Modular architecture having reusable front end for processing digital video data A device is described that includes an encoder/decoder (CODEC) in which functionality is partitioned between a video front end (VFE) and a video back end (VBE). The VFE encapsulates functionality and image processing operations to support a variety of applications, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155454 | Method and apparatus for encoder assisted post-processing Devices and methods for processing multimedia data to generate enhanced quality multimedia data at the receiver based on encoder assisted post-processing. In one aspect, processing multimedia data includes identifying an indicator of a post-processing technique, enc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155182 | System and method for partial intraframe encoding for wireless multimedia transmission Digital multimedia includes intraframe information and interframe information. In addition to sending separate complete intraframes that are referenced by interframes, some interframes (“hybrid” frames) contain partial intraframe information, so that if a comple... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135443 | Portable device with priority based power savings control and method thereof A portable device includes a controller that is responsive to a remaining power capacity of the battery, and a power consumption level of the portable device and based on user prioritized functional processing capability features, dynamically controls functional pro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7482820 | Sensor for measuring moisture and salinity A sensor for measuring the moisture and salinity of a material is disclosed herein. The sensor preferably includes a soil moisture circuit, a soil salinity circuit and a probe structure. The soil moisture circuit includes a high frequency oscillator, a voltage meter... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7463907 | Plug-in network appliance A plug-in network appliance is disclosed. In one aspect, a network appliance performs a bridge between two wireless communication formats. In another aspect, a network appliance is deployed to perform position location services. In another aspect, a mesh network com... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7443297 | Wireless tracking system and method with optical tag removal detection A wireless tracking system and method with a tag removal detection feature is disclosed herein. The system and method utilize a tag attached to an asset which includes a processor, a motion sensor (such as an accelerometer), a transceiver, a tag removal sensor and a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7408364 | Sensor for measuring moisture and salinity A sensor for measuring the moisture and salinity of a material is disclosed herein. The sensor preferably includes a soil moisture circuit, a soil salinity circuit and a probe structure. The soil moisture circuit includes a high frequency oscillator, a voltage meter... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7336182 | Wireless tracking system and method with optical tag removal detection A wireless tracking system and method with a tag removal detection feature is disclosed herein. The system and method utilize a tag attached to an asset which includes a processor, a motion sensor (such as an accelerometer), a transceiver, a tag removal sensor and a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324824 | Wireless network monitoring system A plug-in network appliance is disclosed. In one aspect, a network appliance performs a bridge between two wireless communication formats. In another aspect, a network appliance is deployed to perform position location services. In another aspect, a mesh network com... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312752 | Wireless position location and tracking system Techniques for accurate position location and tracking suitable for a wide range of facilities in variable environments are disclosed. In one aspect, a system for position location comprises a plurality of sensors (e.g. a network monitor, an environment sensor) for ... | 12/25/2007 |
