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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185963 | Protecting live content in a network A method for protecting live content in a multimedia system. An Acquisition Point that receives content distributes it in a network comprising a recording device and a rendering device. The content is associated with a license comprising a content identifier and the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184586 | Radio base station and radio resource allocation method and radio communication system A base station, for allocating to a mobile station a radio resource in a time direction and a frequency direction of a frame to perform radio communications with the mobile station, includes a zone forming unit configured to apply to zones, into which the frame is p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184516 | Method for controlling the quality of storage media A method for controlling the quality of storage media, and more specifically a method for determining if the quality of a storage medium decreases. The method includes: determining one or more quality parameters of the storage medium; and comparing one or more of th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184133 | Methods for sequential color display by modulation of pulses Each color image is decomposed into at least one series of at least three successive primary images of different primary colors which are successively displayed by modulating the activation duration of the pixels of an imaging device. According to the invention, the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181099 | Transmission device Disclosed is a transmission device in a communication system in which a systematic code obtained by systematic encoding of information bits into which dummy bits are inserted and by deleting the dummy bits from the results of the systematic encoding is transmitted a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179989 | Transmission apparatus and transmission method An transmission apparatus includes a pseudo data addition section configured to add pseudo data into transmission data for a free subcarrier of a radio frequency, an OFDM modulator subjecting the transmission data added with the pseudo data to OFDM modulation, a pow... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179981 | Method and apparatus for determining bit allocation for groups of pixel blocks in a picture according to attention importance level Optimised bit allocation is important in video compression to increase the coding efficiency, i.e. to make optimum use of the available data rate. In view of the human visual system, a human usually pays more attention to some part of a picture rather than to other ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179961 | Method and apparatus for adapting a default encoding of a digital video signal during a scene change period The frame following a scene cut is usually coded as an I picture. In CBR encoding, the encoder will try to keep the bit rate constant, which will often cause serious picture quality degradation at scene changes. In VBR encoding, more bits will be allocated to the fi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179863 | Wireless communication apparatus and method A wireless communication apparatus comprises a determination unit to determine whether to increase the number of reference signals to be included in a downlink signal based on an uplink signal. The wireless communication apparatus further comprises a mapping unit to... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179851 | Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and communication apparatus A mobile station-side acquirer acquires the MTU value notified by a base station-side notifier and stores the acquired MTU value in a mobile station-side memory. A mobile station-side transmitter transmits data to a destination with the data size set to be smaller t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179793 | Method for managing data transmission according to a quality of service in a network assembly and a computer network system The invention relates to a new type of quality of service architecture for a network assembly and a corresponding computer network system. The Internet technology as approved by the IETF organization has defined different services. One is the integrated services (In... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179746 | Near-field optical recording apparatus, method and medium An apparatus, a method and a recording medium for optical near-field recording are proposed. The apparatus includes a light source for generating a reading light beam, which is illuminated onto a near-field optical recording medium. The apparatus further includes a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179464 | Circuit and method for reading out and resetting pixels of an image sensor A circuit for resetting and reading out a pixel cell of a CMOS image sensor is proposed. The circuit allows for reading out the pixel cell at least two times during a main integration interval, thereby generating at least two pixel signals. The circuit further compr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177370 | Method to display images with metameric jamming to prevent illegal copy Method to display an image using four or more primaries having different spectral distributions that are distributed into three groups of primaries, wherein, in a visual color space, all primaries belonging to the same group have the same visual color and are metame... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175114 | Base station apparatus and reception processing method thereof In a base station apparatus, signal processing units are connected to a corresponding antenna unit and another antenna unit, a part of resources for processing a signal received by the antenna unit corresponding to each signal processing unit is allocated to process... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171374 | LDPC check matrix generation method, check matrix generator, and code retransmission method A check matrix generation method for generating a check matrix H1 of a code H1 from a check matrix H0 of a code C0, where codes C0 and C1 are LDPC systematic codes having different encoding ratios in a rate-compatible relati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170029 | Intermittent communication system, base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus In an intermittent communication system where an intermittent communication can be made between a base station and a mobile station, a transmitting unit of the mobile station transmits a request to start a normal communication after stopping an intermittent communic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169676 | Holographic storage system with multiple reference beams An apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media is described, and more specifically an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media with two or more reference beams that overlap inside the holographic storage mediu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167432 | Method to display images using metamerism to prevent illegal copy A method to display images using four or more different primaries having different spectral distributions wherein, in the LMS color space, at least two of these primaries have the same L coordinates and the same M coordinates; thank to the invention, different metam... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658811 | Protective garment | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165580 | Cell selecting apparatus and cell selecting method A cell selection apparatus is used in the environment in which multiple communication systems coexists and at least one of the communication systems use guard intervals inserted in the transmission signal. The apparatus includes delay profile creation means (722 | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156218 | Method and system for tracking a cumulative number of identifiable visitors to different objects A computer-implemented method and system is provided for tracking a cumulative number of identifiable visitors to different objects (S1, S2 . . . SN), each of which may be visited by multiple visitors. A data structure is adapted to ... | 04/10/2012 |
| D655891 | Garment with low cut neck | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135131 | Method for calculating compressed RSA moduli A method for generating a compressed RSA modulus, allowing up to two thirds of the bits of a modulus N to be fixed. N has a predetermined portion NH, which comprises two parts Nh and Nm. A candidate RSA modulus that shares the N... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130729 | Radio base station system, control apparatus, and radio apparatus In a radio base station system in which a plurality of radio apparatuses are cascade-connected to a control apparatus, the control apparatus transmits information which is updated each time passing through the radio apparatuses, to a communication link that passes t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130258 | Method for processing a video sequence and apparatus implementing said method The present invention is in the field of Content protection, most particularly in cinema venues where camcorder acquisition followed by immediate illegal distribution creates important revenue losses for content owners. It is known that anti-camcorder systems using ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127321 | Suspension arm actuator for a scanning device including a printed coil having a plurality of layers The invention relates to a suspension arm comprising a suspension arm designed as a two-arm lever, said suspension arm mounted to a support such that it can be pivoted between the lever arms about an axis extending perpendicularly to said suspension arm. One of the ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127003 | Method of operating a network subnet manager A method of operating a network subnet manager, in particular Infiniband network subnet manager in a subnet of a network. Only one subnet manager entity can be master within a subnet. A problem related with this specification is that a specific vendor implementation... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125571 | Video data processing module furnished with a configurable video processing unit with a single input bus According to the invention, the video data to be processed and the configuration data are transferred to the module via one and the same data bus. These modules are advantageously chained in series on a common bus which transfers to each module both the configuratio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125365 | Method for generating an analog signal generated by PWM signal, and system generating such signal A generation method of an analogue signal generated by a PWM signal whose cyclic ratio and period are parametrizable is discussed. It is thus possible choose the pair formed from the cyclic ratio and the period producing an analogue value that is the closest to the ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121123 | Method for multicasting of packets in PON residential gateways A method for multicasting packets in a passive optical network (PON) residential gateway. The method comprises storing a payload portion of an input packet in a memory; duplicating a header of the input packet to create duplicate headers as the number of destination... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116192 | Optical recording medium with write-once and rewritable properties A write-once optical recording medium is described, which in addition to the write-once properties also has rewritable properties. The optical recording medium has a recording layer with at least a first recording sublayer and a second recording sublayer for recordi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112572 | Apparatus for swapping high-speed multimedia signals An apparatus for swapping output high-speed multimedia signals. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises a plurality of inputs coupled to a multimedia transmitter; a plurality of outputs coupled to a plurality of pins of a multimedia interface connector; and a cont... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112376 | Signature based system and methods for generation of personalized multimedia channels A system for generating personalized channels of multimedia content. The system comprises an interface to one or more multimedia sources, wherein the multimedia sources provide multimedia content to the personalized channels of multimedia content; and a server for r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111985 | Apparatus and method for performing line analysis of continuous data signals An apparatus for performing an optical line analysis of continuous data signals. The apparatus comprise a phase position processor for computing a phase early/late indicator; a phase control code processor for computing a difference phase indicator; a frequency extr... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111606 | Optical storage medium comprising a multilevel data layer The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, a data layer, and a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure disposed on the data layer, wherein pits and lands having a size above a diffraction limit of a pickup for reading of the data establish a f... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8101315 | Hybrid membranes, method for production of hybrid membranes and fuel cells using such hybrid membranes The invention relates to hybrid membranes that are composed of an organic polymer and an inorganic polymer, a method for producing hybrid membranes, and the use of said hybrid membranes in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. The inventive hybrid membranes compr... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098690 | System and method for transferring high-definition multimedia signals over four twisted-pairs A system and method for transferring high-definition multimedia signals over four twisted-pairs. The system includes a multimedia source for transmitting multimedia data and source-to-sink management data to a multimedia sink over a first channel, a second channel a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096447 | Deformable tube winding device A wind-up device for use with a dispenser including: a body, a gripper inserted into the body, and a brake disposed between the body and the gripper for controlling the direction of rotation of the gripper relative to the body; the brake further comprises a pluralit... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094609 | Communication apparatus, transmitting method and receiving method A communication apparatus that performs receiving processing of data transmitted at timings of a predetermined interval, the communication apparatus having a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal indicating that a data is successfully received when the d... | 01/10/2012 |
