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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7480405 | Methods for selecting high visual contrast colors in user-interface design The invention relates to assessing the level of visual contrast between foreground and background in visually presented information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining whether a given set of foreground and background colors creates suff... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7329244 | Pull-on disposable diaper A pull-on disposable diaper has a body fluid absorbing component folded inward in a transverse direction of the diaper so that a width of the body fluid absorbing component may be reduced in a crotch covering region. In vicinities of leg-holes, elastic members inter... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7276713 | Method for fabricating a metal-insulator-metal capacitor A method for correcting angle zero position of an ion implantation equipment. The method includes loading a semiconductor wafer into the ion implantation equipment, implanting ions into the wafer with varying angle, measuring thermal wave and sheet resistance value ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275820 | Spectacles and sunshade clip assembly using magnets Disclosed herein is a spectacles and sunshade clip assembly. The assembly comprises spectacles including a pair of lens frames, and a pair of hinges affixed to opposite outer ends of the lens, and a sunshade clip including a pair of sunshade lens frames connected to... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276135 | Vacuum plasma processor including control in response to DC bias voltage A plasma processor chamber includes a bottom electrode and a top electrode assembly having a center electrode surrounded by a grounded electrode. RF excited plasma between the electrodes induces a DC bias on them. A measure of the bottom electrode DC bias controls t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276930 | Circuit and method for detecting skew of transistor in semiconductor device A circuit and method for easily detecting skew of a transistor within a semiconductor device are provided. The circuit for detecting the skew of the transistor includes a linear voltage generating unit for outputting a linear voltage by using a first supply voltage,... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276452 | Method for removing mottled etch in semiconductor fabricating process A method for removing mottled etch in a semiconductor fabricating process, prevents mottled etch from being generated after etching, by performing ashing using an oxide plasma, prior to performing wet etching using a photoresist pattern. The method for removing the ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273792 | Semiconductor device and fabricating method thereof A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, a device isolation region formed by filling a trench in the semiconductor substrate with dielectric material and defining device regions in the semiconductor substrate. The trench has a rounded upper edge, ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7273059 | Cosmetic powder appliance Disclosed is a cosmetic powder appliance. The cosmetic powder appliance includes a powder receptacle including a lower powder receptacle and an upper powder receptacle having a cylindrical section and a stepped section formed at an upper portion of the cylindrical s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271091 | Method for forming metal pattern to reduce contact resistivity with interconnection contact A method for forming a metal pattern in a semiconductor device which is capable of reducing contact resistivity with an interconnection contact. The method includes forming a tungsten interconnection contact passing through a lower insulating layer on a semiconducto... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7264987 | Method of fabricating optoelectronic integrated circuit chip Provided is a method of fabricating an optoelectronic integrated circuit chip. In particular, a method of fabricating an optoelectronic integrated circuit chip is provided, in which an optical absorption layer of a wave-guide type optical detector is grown to be thi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263014 | Semiconductor memory device having N-bit prefetch type and method of transferring data thereof A semiconductor memory device in which only global I/O buses, which receive one or more data groups that must be output first among a N number of data groups that are prefetched in a N-bit prefetch type, from an array of memory cells are precharged with a ½ power s... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262097 | Method for forming floating gate in flash memory device A method for fabricating a nonvolatile memory device including successively forming a first oxide layer, an electrically conductive layer, a second oxide layer, a nitride layer and a third oxide layer on a semiconductor substrate. The method also includes patterning... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262669 | Control circuit for refresh oscillator The present invention relates to a circuit for controlling a refresh oscillator, and more specifically, to a circuit for controlling a refresh oscillator, wherein refresh characteristics can be tested in a more efficient manner in such a manner that the refresh char... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263118 | Interference canceling device and method in mobile communication system An interference canceller is herein disclosed wherein a baseband signal is input to a detector's fingers, and the fingers detect multi-path signals and estimate the baseband signal's channel. An MRC uses the finger's despread signal and the channel estimate to outpu... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255688 | Pull-on disposable wearing article A pull-on disposable wearing article has a first waist region and a second waist region. The first waist region is elastically stretch- and contractible in the transverse direction. The second waist region is formed with a pair of finger-grip zones which are non-str... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257636 | Inter-working method of wireless internet networks (gateways) In the inter-working method of wireless Internet (gateways) according to the present invention described above, DIAMETER which is the first version of the IETF-RFC standard of mobile IP application is applied to the application scenario based on wireless Internet ga... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256096 | Semiconductor device having a dual-damascene gate and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a dual-damascene gate including forming LDD regions by forming a gate oxide film on a semiconductor substrate, and by implanting lowly-concentrated impurities in the semiconductor substrate in accordance with a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252962 | Method for detecting sensitivity to acetylcholine esterase in insects A method for checking for sensitivity of acetylcholine esterase in insects using a single insect, includes homogenizing a single insect in aqueous, neutral to acid pH phosphate buffer, providing a solution of acetylcholine iodide in neutral to acid pH phosphate buff... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253039 | Method of manufacturing CMOS transistor by using SOI substrate In a method of manufacturing a CMOS transistor, an n-channel MOS transistor is formed on an upper MOS transistor in a first region of an SOI substrate having first and second regions. Next, an insulating layer of the SOI substrate is exposed by removing an upper sil... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250809 | Boosted voltage generator The present invention provides a boosted voltage generator of a semiconductor device where a boosted voltage efficiency and drivability at a target boosted voltage level can be evaluated accurately by employing an enable signal generator. The boosted voltage generat... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251731 | Call set-up from a mobile radio telephone terminal with biometric authentication To set up a call coming from a user's mobile radio telephone terminal to a receiver terminal for example a home automation terminal, the result of a biometric authentication of the user in the mobile terminal and of a predetermined result are applied to algorithms f... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7247533 | Method of fabricating semiconductor device using selective epitaxial growth A method of fabricating a semiconductor device uses selective epitaxial growth (SEG), by which leakage current generation is minimized using lateral SEG growth in case a contact intrudes a shallow track isolation feature. The method includes steps of forming a sidew... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245176 | Apparatus for generating internal voltage in test mode and its method An apparatus for receiving a first supply voltage in order to generate an internal voltage includes a control signal generating block for receiving a control enable signal and a clock signal and generating a pumping control signal having a period determined by one o... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244676 | Method for fabricating semiconductor device The present invention provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device capable of securing a bottom contact area of a storage node contact as well as of preventing losses of a bit line hard mask insulation layer. These effects are achieved by planarizing an ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243869 | Distribution structure, vertical shaft impact crusher having the distribution structure and method of fabricating the distribution structure A distribution structure of a vertical shaft impact crusher includes a core having a hole into which a vertical shaft is inserted. A distribution member for horizontally distributing an aggregate that is vertically provided to the crusher is fused on an outer face o... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245904 | Reconfiguration of programmable components in an electronic apparatus For the reconfiguration of a radiotelephone unit including components programmable in configuration modes, the invention provides a removable electronic device having stored data defining a plurality of configuration modes which is connected to the apparatus. A conf... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242756 | Method for providing subscriber-based ringback tone in flexible paging mode The present invention provides a caller with an arbitrary sound chosen by a called subscriber instead of a conventional RBT (RingBack Tone) without fails even in a flexible paging mode. In the present method: both exchangers check individually whether first informat... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242636 | Clock control circuit and semiconductor memory device including the same and input operation method of semiconductor memory device The present invention relates to a clock control circuit that can reduce power consumption in the input operation of an address signal and control signals and semiconductor memory device including the same, and an input operation method of the semiconductor memory d... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242757 | Method for providing a subscriber-based ringback tone sound The present invention relates to a method for providing an arbitrary sound chosen by a called subscriber for a caller instead of a conventional RBT (RingBack Tone). The present method comprises: the first step, conducted by an HLR (Home Location Register), of furnis... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241684 | Method of forming metal wiring of semiconductor device A method for forming a metal wiring of a semiconductor device. The method includes forming an etch stop layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a first inter metal dielectric on the etch stop layer, and forming a second inter metal dielectric on the first inter ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239718 | Apparatus and method for high-speed marker-free motion capture A high-speed marker-free motion capture, which is capable of powerfully detecting a body's feature points corresponding to a body's end portions such as a head, hands, feet, trunk, arms and legs at a high speed in an illumination change or background or noises of ca... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234414 | Mastitis detection Method and apparatus for testing a milk for mastitis wherein the milk sample is admixed with a detergent under condition that increase the viscosity of the milk sample; the increased viscosity mixture is subjected to a further procedure for further increasing its vi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236581 | Method for providing subscriber-based ringback tone with no progress tone The present invention relates to method for providing a calling subscriber with an arbitrary sound chosen by a called subscriber instead of a common ringback tone (RBT) with no progress tone. In this present invention, if a call is generated, a terminating exchanger... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233193 | High voltage switching circuit of a NAND type flash memory device A high voltage switching circuit of a NAND type flash memory device that includes a clock level shifter for increasing an amplitude of a clock signal, a pass voltage generator for outputting a pass voltage by pumping a power source voltage in response to a clock sig... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232753 | Method of fabricating semiconductor device A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, provide a simplification of the fabricating process by removing a step of forming an oxide film, and vapor depositing a nitride film, after forming a gate. The method of fabricating the semiconductor device includes th... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231926 | Mascara brush The present invention relates to a mascara brush. The present invention provides a mascara brush, wherein a single brush rod of the mascara brush is formed with both an application brush part with an application portion for applying a mascara liquid to the eyelashes... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233572 | Method and apparatus for transmitting packet by using indirect acknowledgement timer in wired/wireless integrated network A packet transmission apparatus and method is disclosed. The present invention transmits data packets without relaying a duplicate acknowledgement packet by equipping an indirect acknowledgement timer at a buffer, generating/transmitting the indirect acknowledgement... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233213 | Oscillator of semiconductor device An oscillator of a semiconductor memory device, wherein a reference voltage that flexibly shifts according to the shift in a power supply voltage is generated, and a reference clock is generated using the reference voltage. It is thus possible to generate the refere... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231392 | Method and apparatus for blocking contents of pornography on internet Provided is an improved pornography blocking technique which blocks pornography on the basis of the contents of multimedia data. First, feature descriptor is extracted from multimedia data inputted from the Internet by using MPEG-7 scheme. And referring to reference... | 06/12/2007 |
