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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7248194 | Bit-detection arrangement and apparatus for reproducing information Disclosed is a bit-detection arrangement able to convert an analog signal (AS) having an amplitude into a digital signal (DS) representing a bit sequence from which the analog signal (AS) is derived. The bit-detection arrangement has a phase detector which detect th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 6368921 | Manufacture of trench-gate semiconductor devices A trench-gate semiconductor device, for example a MOSFET or IGBT, of compact geometry is manufactured with self-aligned masking techniques in a simple process with good reproducibility. The source region (13) of the device is formed by introducing dopant ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6324476 | Method and apparatus for identifying or controlling travel to a rendezvous Paths are planned for one or more actors, through at least two dimensions of time or space, to identify rendezvous locations meeting a global criterion. At least two scenarios are defined, including at least one for each actor, and a configuration space i... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6297820 | Method and system for designing a graphical user interface for an electronic consumer product A method and system for effectively and efficiently constructing a development environment for graphical user interfaces for an electronic consumer product. The basic aim of the invention tool is to automatically generate an interface in the authoring env... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6275815 | Apparatus for optimizing the layout and charge maps of a flowline of pick and place machines An apparatus uses a computer-controlled algorithm that enables production of high-quality layouts and charge maps or set-ups for arbitrary printed circuit boards for electronic component placement machines alone or as one of many in a production line. A c... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6064866 | Switchable bandpass filter for a multiband tuner To achieve a high passband attenuation, a switchable bandpass filter for a multiband tuner, includes at least a capacitance diode for frequency-tuning of at least a resonant circuit of the bandpass filter, and a switching diode arranged at the input and t... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5907371 | Connector switch apparatus which can provide either a satellite or cable television signal or a ghost-free off-air television signal Connector switch apparatus which can provide either a cable or satellite television signal or a ghost-free off-air television signal. The apparatus obtains the cable or satellite television signal from a cable or satellite tuner, which can be included in ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5886879 | Screening housing for electronic components The invention relates to a screening housing (10) for electrical components (11) arranged in the interior, which housing has a housing opening (13) which is closed with a lid (14) and which comprises a circumferential housing edge (15) which is flanged in... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5859607 | Receiver with digital processing of a phase-splitted input signal In a receiver, both an A/D conversion (ADC) and a phase-split (PSF) is carried out on an input signal (R) to obtain a pair of digital signals (Xd,Yd) which are mutually phase shifted. The pair of digital signals (Xd,Yd) is processed (VSP) as a vectorial s... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5832039 | Data processing circuit To enable a serial data signal to be sampled reliably through a longer time period, the data signal is applied to a data slicer with a dynamically variable slice level. The slice level is dynamically adjusted in dependence upon a feedback of the sliced si... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5802117 | Method and apparatus for joint frequency offset and timing estimation of a multicarrier modulation system A transmitter-receiver system and a method for transmitting and receiving MCM signals, whereby any frequency offset and timing mismatch can be determined and corrected simultaneously, prior to demodulating the received signal. A plurality of single tone s... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5786726 | Device of the phase-locked loop type for demodulating a frequency-modulated signal Device of the phase-locked loop type for demodulating a frequency-modulated signal. Device for frequency demodulation, using a phase-locked loop. According to the invention, for linearizing the variation of the frequency of a local oscillator (11) as a fu... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5737286 | System and apparatus for recovering information from a record currier which exhibits variations of two different physical parameters thereof An information system including a record carrier and a playback apparatus. Information has been recorded on the record carrier in the form of variations of a first physical parameter. The playback apparatus scans the record carrier by means of a transduce... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5729298 | Teletext decoder with page update indication A television receiver including a teletext decoder for receiving and displaying teletext pages for signalling that a requested teletext has been changed or not changed with respect to the previous consultation of the relevant page. To this end the receive... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724327 | Record carrier having first variations of a first physical parameter corresponding to information recorded thereon and second variations of a second physical parameter relating to recovery of the information A record carrier, a playback apparatus and a system including the record carrier and the playback apparatus. Information has been recorded on the record carrier in the form of variations of a first physical parameter. The playback apparatus scans the reco... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5699476 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and/or storing a series of hierarchically encoded digital image data blocks A system for transmitting a series of images of a full motion video scene in a digital format whereby the series of images is divided into a number of sub-series which, when interleaved, represent the original series. A ranking order of increasing magnitu... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5697093 | Zero IF receivers An automatic gain control strategy for zero IF receivers in which the gain of low pass filters (20,22) is altered whilst keeping their bandwidths substantially constant. The low pass filters (20,22) are implemented as gyrator filters, each of which compri... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5694018 | Apparatus for charging a battery Apparatus for charging a battery (5) includes a battery compartment for accommodating the battery in a manner such that its electrical terminals are in contact with a pair of electrodes. The electrodes are connectable to respective poles of a controllable... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5688566 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display cell having a compensation layer of (polymer) material deposited from the gaseous phase. To obtain a smaller angle dependence, the birefringence of the compensation layer is rendered complementary to that associated with a given v... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5689507 | Signal processing system A signal processing system comprising a source apparatus coupled to a destination apparatus, the source apparatus being arranged for supplying the destination apparatus with a signal comprising video data, a time-stamp and synchronization data representin... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5689138 | Integrated microwave semiconductor device with active and passive components A semiconductor device for microwave frequencies with a substrate which is provided at a first side with a semiconductor element, a passive element, and a pattern of conductive elements, while the opposed, second side is provided with a metallization whic... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5687260 | Optical fiber switch using four gate directional coupler and control pulse The invention relates to an optical switch which is switchable by means of light. The switch includes a directional coupler having four gates, the first gate of which forms part of an input of the switch for receiving an optical data pulse series, the sec... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5686230 | Method of manufacturing a device, by which method various parts of a body are brought into a pattern A method of manufacturing a device provided with a body with a surface, at least a portion of the surface being provided with a radiation-sensitive layer, after which portions of the radiation-sensitive layer are exposed to radiation through a mask, a fir... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5687282 | Method and apparatus for determining a masked threshold A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining a masked threshold curve as a function of frequency from an information signal. The method includes (a) a first step of determining for each frequency value a first masking component MC(1,k) at the frequ... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5687067 | Low noise controller for pulse width modulated converters A controller for supplying a switching drive voltage signal to a semiconductor power switch includes a wave-shaper circuit that generates a piece wise linear (PWL) waveform that slows the rate of change of the drive voltage supplied to the control electro... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5684657 | Linear guide arrangement, device comprising a linear guide arrangement and a head for reading and/or writing information from/on a medium, and information reproducing and/or recording apparatus comprising a linear guide arrangement The linear guide arrangement comprises two bodies having respective guide surfaces. The guide surfaces face one another and are spaced from one another by two parallel rollers. The rollers are positioned by means of a number of steel bands secured to the ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5684541 | Transmitter station for transmitting a plurality of television programs, and receiver for receiving the programs Transmitter station for transmitting, and receiver for receiving a plurality of television programs via respective transmission channels. A teletext page with tuning data (F) which are representative of the transmission channels used by the transmitter st... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5684730 | Booth multiplier for trigonometric functions Circuit for multiplying data in accordance with a Booth algorithm, in which the coding of the control signals is adapted to the characteristics of symmetry of a trigonometric function. The values of the function which relate to a single quadrant are store... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5684786 | Record carrier having an information volume including audio information and an information volume including additional non-audio information A record carrier on which a first information volume and an additional information volume are recorded. The first information volume includes audio information, preferably recorded in accordance with the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard. The additional... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5681761 | Microwave power SOI-MOSFET with high conductivity metal gate A technique for making a microwave, high power SOI-MOFET device is set forth together with such a device. An important aspect of this structure is the presence of high conductivity metal gate fingers for the device.... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5682129 | Electrical actuator An electrical actuator comprises a first actuator body (1) and a second actuator body (3). The first actuator body comprises two diametrically opposed magnetic poles (N) and (S). The second actuator body is made of a soft-magnetic material and comprises t... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5674779 | Method for fabricating a ridge-shaped laser in a channel A method for manufacturing a ridge in a channel laser diode in II-VI materials by etching grooves to form an active mesa flanked by support mesas. The method involves using certain etchants for certain compositions of the II-VI layers so that the grooves ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5671236 | Apparatus and methods for use in transmitting and receiving a digital signal, and a record carrier obtained by a transmission apparatus or method Apparatus and methods for transmitting and receiving a digital data signal. At the transmitter side, packets of p m-bit digital words in a digital signal are error protection encoded to produce error protection encoded packets of n m-bit digital words mak... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5668331 | Position sensor The invention relates to a position sensor including at least two sensor units which measure in a contactless manner a position x of an element which is movably arranged relative to the sensor units. Using limited circuitry, the invention precludes source... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5659556 | Device for processing digital data and digital video system compressing the device A device for processing digital data comprises a memory, error detection means and control means which selects addresses for the writing of the data in the memory on the basis of errors detected in the data, and which selects further addresses for the rea... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5631605 | Power amplifier stage supplying a rectangular signal of controlled amplitude A power amplifier stage for producing a rectangular signal across a load, which may be predominantly capacitive, by means of a "bridge" amplifier comprises a first pair of transistors which operate alternately as an emitter follower and a second pair of t... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5627616 | Surveillance camera system A camera module for use in a surveillance camera system is provided. The camera module includes a housing and a pan-and-tilt mechanism that is mounted to the housing. The pan-and-tilt mechanism includes a pan motor for panning a camera and a tilt motor fo... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5626273 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus with movable guide roller A recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising a guide roller for guiding and diverting a magnetic tape. The guide roller includes a roller member, which is rotatably and pivotably mounted on a shaft, and a guide flange for the magnetic tape, which g... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5619284 | Beam combiner for LCD projector utilizing a penta-prism A beam combiner for an LCD projection television system makes use of a penta-prism which focuses three separate light sources on a viewing screen. The use of a penta-prism as a beam combiner allows for a compact light path, simplicity of manufacturing and... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5610787 | Magnetic tape apparatus with tape edge guides for reduced tape edge wear A tape guiding structure for a magnetic tape apparatus has two pairs of tape guide elements, each having upper and lower tape edge guiding limbs. The tape guide elements and a positioning holder for the magnetic head are formed as an integral injection-mo... | 03/11/1997 |
