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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D638869 | Digital video camera | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949550 | Automated processing of medical data for disability rating determinations Methods and systems are described for automated processing of medical data for insurance and disability determinations. Based on medical conditions claimed by the claimant, medical evidence queries are automatically generated to provide instructions to medical provi... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946720 | Light guide sheet, movable contact structure using the light guide sheet, method of manufacturing the movable contact structure, and switch using the light guide sheet and the movable contact structure A light shielding part includes a slit provided between a first light guide body and a second light guide body, and an attenuation part which has unevenness formed by print and is additionally provided near end sides of the first light guide body and the second ligh... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946533 | Optimized land mobile satellite system for North American coverage A constellation, including a plurality of spacecraft, including a first, second and third spacecraft, each of the plurality of spacecraft including a broadcast capability, and each of the plurality of spacecraft in its own approximately 24-hour orbit. Each of the or... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946490 | Computerized card production equipment An apparatus and method for manipulating images is disclosed. In one embodiment according to the invention, a method for manipulating images comprises: displaying for manipulation at a browser-based user interface a graphical representation of at least a portion of ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946345 | Methods and compositions for carrier fluids comprising water-absorbent fibers The present invention relates to methods and compositions for carrier fluids comprising water-absorbent fibers. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of treating a portion of a subterranean formation, comprising providing a slurry wherein the slu... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946247 | Coating layer thickness measurement mechanism and coating layer forming apparatus using the same In a measurement mechanism for continuously measuring a thickness of a coating layer, provided in an apparatus for forming the coating layer on a conductive elongate base material in a coating treatment base station while the base material is fed, a sensing portion ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946024 | Method of manufacturing a can assembly of an enhanced coreless alternating current linear motor A method of manufacturing a can assembly of a coreless AC linear motor is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a workpiece and gouging out material from the workpiece to form a deep groove in the workpiece. The workpiece having the deep groove forms ... | 05/24/2011 |
| RE42395 | Valve holder for tricuspid heart valve A holding device for a tricuspid prosthetic tissue heart valve which permits the commissure support struts to be drawn toward one another by increasing the tension on the threads which attach the holder to the valve. The resulting tapered valve configuration facilit... | 05/24/2011 |
| D638604 | Electric jack | 05/24/2011 |
| D638513 | Water purifier | 05/24/2011 |
| D638309 | Razor cartridge dispenser | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945654 | Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names A secure domain name service for a computer network is disclosed that includes a portal connected to a computer network, such as the Internet, and a domain name database connected to the computer network through the portal. The portal authenticates a query for a sec... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945184 | Process cartridge with member for electrical connection to image-forming device A cartridge is detachably mountable in an image-forming device, the image-forming device having a power supply supplying a bias. The cartridge includes: a bias-receiving member; a casing; and a terminal member. The bias-receiving member is configured to receive a bi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944915 | Third party VPN certification A virtual private network (VPN) over a telecommunications network is created by sending a request from a first VPN device to a second VPN device for establishing a VPN between the first and second VPN devices. The request includes a first signed certificate having a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944896 | Method to identify voice over packet device capability and use it to make appropriate calls with other client devices A system provides push-to-talk (PTT) or similar communication service via a radio access network providing wireless mobile packet data communications for mobile stations. A server distributes packets of digitized audio received from a broadcasting mobile station to ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944790 | Optical disc apparatus and data recording method thereof In order to ensure recording quality while suppressing the adverse effects due to performance variations among apparatuses and disc radial positions on an optical disc, an optical disc apparatus according to the present invention performs, at the time of data record... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944785 | Optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus and focus-servo method thereof A focus-servo control method of an optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus, for recording or reproducing information onto/from an optical disc having a track with a land and a groove, which are formed in a spiral manner on an information recording surface there... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944493 | Solid-state imaging device with specific contact arrangement In each photosensitive cell, a photodiode 101, a transfer gate 102, a floating diffusion layer section 103, an amplifier transistor 104, and a reset transistor 105 are formed in one active region surrounded by a device isolation re... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944482 | Pixel information readout method and image pickup apparatus When successively reading out pixel information from an image region, where image pickup devices are arranged two-dimensionally, which is divided into a plurality of sub-regions, a readout unit inserts pixel information on pixels of interest in the respective sub-re... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944439 | Display device A display device includes first and second voltage generation circuits each including a voltage circuit for outputting an internal voltage on the basis of a plurality of clocks, a sampling circuit for sampling an output signal from the voltage circuit, a monitoring ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944316 | Multi-phase oscillator A multi-phase oscillator includes a plurality of ring oscillators (21) each having a plurality of output ports and each formed by connecting an odd number of inverters (20) in a ring, and a plurality of resistance elements (30) coupling the outp... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941832 | Authentication device, authentication system, and verification method for authentication device At startup, divided data blocks are received from other authentication devices and are assembled together with the local divided data block to reconstitute first authentication data. After a prescribed time interval, divided data blocks are again received from other... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941773 | Simulation system to verify multicycle path based on circuit operational specification and circuit design specification A simulation system for performing simulation of an operation of a circuit including a particular signal substituting section for making, in the simulation, an output signal of a first flipflop or an input signal of a second flipflop be a particular signal indicatin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941667 | Electronic document authenticity guarantee method, and electronic document disclosure system A need exists for a technology for guaranteeing the authenticity of an electronic document, and an information disclosure system, which can guarantee the authenticity of a disclosed document and delete information regarded as inappropriate for disclosure. An electro... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941579 | Communication system for authenticating authority of host device for accessing storage medium set to periphery device A search-instruction-data creating unit issues a search request command to a peripheral device, and creates search instruction data including a predetermined field that stores supplementary information. A search-instruction-data transmitting unit transmits the searc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941532 | Method and apparatus for conducting a transaction between transaction processing systems When investigating a failure occurring in a transaction between information processing apparatuses, it is possible to reduce the time required for the failure investigation. A first local ID for identifying a transaction processing of first information processing ap... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941008 | Pattern search method According to the pattern search method of the present invention, detection of a detection image region relative to an observation image is performed by a pattern matching. An image whose size is substantially the same as that of the observation image is used as the ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940842 | Reciprocal index lookup for BTSC compatible coefficients An algorithm calculates spectral compression/expansion filter coefficients using a value proportional to a reciprocal of a feedback/feedforward signal and stores the coefficients to a lookup table. The lookup table is indexed by a pre selected set of coefficient bit... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940815 | Fluorescent glass, optical waveguide, optical fiber, optical coherence tomography apparatus, and optical fiber laser The present invention relates to fluorescent glass which is easily put into practical use, and optical elements including the same. In one aspect, the fluorescent glass is comprised of silica-based glass containing Bi as a dopant, and adapted to generate fluorescenc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940799 | Code conversion method and device thereof In order to cope with format conversion of user data, the bit rate value and VBV (Video Buffering Verifier) buffer size value in a sequence header of an input code and the VBV delay value in a picture header of the input code are modified to obtain an intermediate c... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940780 | Data communication system enabling data communication between communication devices through a server A method and a system for speeding up session establishment are provided, wherein the time required to establish a session is reduced, even in the case where a session management server requires a large amount of time to process respective functions required for est... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940631 | Optical pickup device An optical pickup device includes a diffraction grating 12 for separating an emitted light beam into at least three light beams. The diffraction grating 12 is divided into three regions by dividing lines D1 and D2 extending in a first dir... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940587 | Semiconductor memory device and test method thereof A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array having memory cells arranged at intersections of word lines and bit lines, a first sense amplifier connected to a bit line at a predetermined position of the bit lines, a second sense amplifier connected to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940318 | Solid-state imaging device and driving method for a solid-state imaging device for high-speed photography and enabling multiple exposure photography A solid-state imaging device that enables more images to be photographed and a reading time to be shortened by effectively using storage cells is provided. By combining pieces of information which correspond to signal charges output from a photoelectric converter an... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940301 | Vehicle driving assist system In a vehicle driving assist system, an external environment recognition unit detects a 3-D obstacle inhibiting the driving direction of the vehicle based on an image captured by a stereo camera and determines whether the image ahead of the vehicle is in a condition ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940231 | Display panel drive-control device and display panel drive-control method A first latch circuit temporarily memorizes a display pixel data by one line. A second latch circuit temporarily memorizes the display pixel data as a preceding display pixel data that precedes the display pixel data by one line. The load judging circuit judges a tr... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940121 | Operational amplifier and pipeline AD converter A differential voltage interconnect (W101a) electrically connects the gate electrode of a transistor to be used among differential transistors (T101a, T101a, . . . ) to an input node receiving an input voltage (Vinn), and a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940091 | Bootstrapped switch for sampling voltages beyond the supply voltage Methods and apparatus for sampling an input voltage and apparatus incorporating the same are disclosed. An input voltage sampling apparatus includes a voltage sampling circuit coupled to the input voltage and configured to produce a sampled input voltage at an outpu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939965 | Charge of equalization apparatus with parallel connection of secondary windings of multiple transformers The present invention relates, in general, to a charge equalization apparatus with series-connected battery cells and, more particularly, to a charge equalization apparatus, in which series-connected battery cells (B1 to BN) are connected in parallel with the... | 05/10/2011 |
