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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8039785 | LED array having array-based LED detectors The present invention provides an optical system having an array of light emitting semiconductor devices to performing an operation that have multiple characteristics associated with performing the operation. The array includes at least one detector located within t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7813693 | Print media preheating system and method of use A print media preheating system and method of preheating print media that includes an upper heating plate that is arranged to heat a pre-printed side of the print media with a pressure of the upper heating plate on the print media being relieved by lifting the upper... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800049 | Adjustable low voltage occupancy sensor An occupancy sensor having a replaceable cover with a convenient adjustment and installation scheme is disclosed herein. More particularly, a single or multi-technology occupancy sensor, assembled inside a semi-spherical shaped enclosure includes a replaceable cover... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7682008 | Printhead reservoir with siphon vents A printhead reservoir assembly has at least one reservoir to hold ink. The assembly includes an outlet plate having siphon vents to allow air to exit an ink path, a manifold plate having at least one manifold to channel ink and manifold outlets to corresponding to t... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7399050 | Drop emitting apparatus A drop emitting apparatus including a manifold, a viscoelastic structure acoustically coupled to the manifold, and a plurality of drop generators fluidically coupled to the manifold. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7308153 | Weighted absolute difference based noise reduction method and apparatus The invention is a method and apparatus for reducing noise in an image. The method and apparatus involves calculating a plurality of directional operators, comparing the directional operators to a predetermined threshold, and applying a filter responsive to the comp... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298862 | Asymmetrical loudspeaker enclosures with enhanced low frequency response An embedded loudspeaker system is set forth incorporating at least two asymmetric enclosures having different but overlapping frequency responses in order to achieve a substantially flat frequency response. At least one of the speaker enclosures is preferably ported... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286492 | Private branch exchange (PBX) conditioning method and apparatus Method for maintaining a virtual presence of a first remote telephone user in a PBX system having a frame relay network connection between two endpoint routers while permitting the first remote user to make local calls includes first signaling a PBX to represent the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7269025 | Ballout for buffer In some embodiments, a multichip package includes mounting pads to mount devices, such as integrated circuits, to a substrate, such as a printed circuit board, so that devices mutually placed on opposite surfaces of the substrate do not have interfering connections ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268922 | Chassis locking apparatus capable of being unlocked spontaneously A chassis locking apparatus capable of being unlocked spontaneously is used for fixing the chassis in a scanner. The locking apparatus includes a groove interlinking next to the electric socket, a push rod in the groove, and a revolving locking element. By means of ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262720 | Processing circuit and method for variable-length coding and decoding A variable-length encode/decode processor includes a central processing unit and an instruction buffer and a getbits processing engine coupled to the central processing unit. Such a processor can be used to encode data as variable-length symbols or to decode variabl... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7245162 | Apparatus and method for headroom compensation using dynamic transconductance enhancement An output stage circuit may include a sourcing driver device, a nonlinear local feedback loop having a feedback transistor and a first current mirror, a sinking driver device, and an output signal. The output stage circuit may actively and dynamically adjust the tra... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239178 | Circuit and method for CMOS voltage level translation A voltage level translation circuit includes a first power supply voltage, a second power supply voltage, wherein the second supply voltage is lower than the first supply voltage, a low voltage input, wherein the low voltage input is referenced from the second suppl... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236966 | Method and system for providing a user-customized electronic book One embodiment of the present invention enables an individual to selectively choose an area(s) of interest and automatically scan a database to intelligently retrieve the relevant information and filter out the irrelevant information. Next, the relevant information ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236052 | Adaptive predistortion for a transmit system Systems, methods, and devices relating to the provision of deliberate predistortion to an input signal to compensate for distortions introduced by an amplifier subsystem. An input signal is received by a predistortion subsystem which applies deliberate predistortion... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233605 | Method and apparatus for minimizing delay induced by DTMF processing in packet telephony systems The invention solves the problem of DTMF delay by shifting the delay and in-band signal processing to the receiving packet gateway. The transmitting gateway continues to process and transmit voice packets while also detecting DTMF signals. The receiving gateway's ji... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231485 | Universal serial bus (USB) interface for mass storage device A mass storage device motherboard or secondary board includes a bridging circuit. The bridging circuit converts signals from the mass storage device into USB signals. The bridging circuit can be provided by a chip that converts ATA/ATAPI signals into USB signals. | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221233 | Nonvolatile programmable crystal oscillator circuit According to embodiments of the invention, a nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory is used to configure a single die after packaging of the die has occurred. Thus, numerous applications may be supported by a single die or optimization within a given application ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221200 | Programmable low voltage reset apparatus for multi-Vdd chips A programmable low voltage reset apparatus for a device having a plurality of power supplies comprises a low voltage signal generator for sensing when a power supply output decreases below a predetermined voltage and generating a reset signal, a reset selector for s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219252 | Apparatus and method for dynamic overclocking According to embodiments of the invention, temperature, current, or other physical quantities associated with an integrated circuit, which can also include a processor, may be converted to a digital signal, and that digital signal used to choose a corresponding freq... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203732 | Flexible remote data mirroring Methods, systems, and configured storage media are provided for flexible data mirroring. In particular, the invention provides local-remote role reversal, implementation of hot standby server status through a “media not ready” signal, several alternate buffer co... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203456 | Method and apparatus for time and space domain shifting of broadcast signals A method and apparatus for time and space domain shifting of broadcast signals is disclosed. A broadcast station in a first geographic location transmits in a first time frame a broadcast signal to a local receiver also located in the first geographic location. The ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200678 | Selecting network address offered by a plurality of servers based on server identification information A method of dynamically obtaining a network address for a client includes transmitting a request for a network address. A plurality of network address offers can be received from a plurality of servers in response to the request. One of the plurality of offers can t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194520 | Content player for broadcasting to information appliances The present invention is directed to a content player that allows a user to access media content through an information appliance. The content player is suitable for receiving media content from a network, then the media content may be transmitted to various informa... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194032 | Circuit and method for modifying a region of an encoded image A video processing circuit includes a processor that receives an encoded image having first and second regions, decodes the first region of the image, modifies the decoded first region, and re-encodes the modified first region. Such a circuit allows one to modify a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193150 | Submersible pump cable with air line A submersible pump cable includes a conductive wire and an air line. The air line is structured to determine the depth at which the submersible pump cable lies beneath a liquid. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194559 | Slave I/O driver calibration using error-nulling master reference Methods and devices for calibrating a driver on a slave device, using a master device driver as a load, are disclosed. A master reference driver is integrated on the same circuit as the master device driver, with both drivers having the same layout and geometry. The... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180570 | 3:2 pull-down film mode detection using fuzzy logic Fuzzy logic based system and method for 3:2 pull-down film mode detection that detects whether a stream of NTSC video fields originate from film source via 3:2 pull-down technique. Fuzzy logic is used to generate a reference sequence of symbols from the stream of NT... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177413 | Head position based telephone conference system and associated method The invention relates to a telephone conference system and an associated method. A conference phone includes a plurality of input audio signals and a spatial preference sensor adapted to identify a listening preference associated with at least one conference partici... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173453 | Method and circuit for translating a differential signal to complementary CMOS levels A circuit according to some embodiments of the invention includes a first differential to single ended translator having a first output, a second differential to single ended translator having a second output, and a latch coupled to the first output and the second o... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171444 | Remote desktop protocol compression system Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a remote desktop communication protocol that includes spatial and temporal compression techniques. Multimedia presentation data is generated at a server from a source. A compression facility modifies the presentat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170323 | Delay locked loop harmonic detector and associated method We describe and claim a delay locked loop harmonic detector and associated method. A delay locked loop includes a detection circuit to generate a detection signal responsive to an input clock and a control circuit to synchronize the delay locked loop to a fundamenta... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170886 | Devices, methods and software for generating indexing metatags in real time for a stream of digitally stored voice data Devices, softwares and methods generate, in real time, indexing metadata for select portions of a telephone conversation or conference. The indexing metadata is generated responsive to inputs received while the conversation is being recorded live. The inputs are eit... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171059 | Method and apparatus for two-dimensional image scaling An output pixel datum is produced from input pixel data by a method wherein the brightness levels of several input pixels closely associated coordinate-wise with the output pixel, are examined to determine whether a relatively less complex graphics-optimized scaling... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167418 | Television including a timer The invention relates to an improved interactive television having a timer. The timer alerts a television viewer of the expiration of preset timers. For example, the preset timers may be associated with events not traditionally related to television content, such as... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167912 | Method and apparatus for detecting failures in network components A monitoring system includes a monitoring component that compares a number of application-specific request packets sent with a number of response packets received pursuant to the sent request packets during a designated monitoring period to detect failure in a monit... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164431 | System and method for mixing graphics and text in an on-screen display application The invention provides a system and method for mixing graphics and text in an on-screen display application. The system includes font and character memories. The font memory stores bitmaps associated with characters to be displayed on a display device. The character... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164416 | System and method for failsafe display of full screen high frequency images on a flat panel without a frame buffer The invention relates to a system and method for visually displaying data and, more particularly, to a system and method for displaying full screen high frequency data on a flat panel without using a frame buffer that would otherwise not be displayed. The system and... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7142729 | System and method of scaling images using adaptive nearest neighbor A method for interpolating a target pixel from a plurality of source pixels in a high contrast image. The method comprises the following steps. A window of the plurality of source pixels is examined and compared with a plurality of predefined conditions for determin... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137121 | Data-processing circuit and method for switching between application programs without an operating system A data-processing circuit includes first and second cooperating processors where one of the processors context switches between applications without running an operating system. In one implementation, the first processor operates under the control of an operating sy... | 11/14/2006 |
