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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185055 | Apparatus for determining interference using cyclic prefix and method thereof An interference determination apparatus, including a signal receiver to receive a first signal of a primary network and a second signal of a secondary network; a correlator to compute a correlation value of a first cyclic prefix included in the first signal and a co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184725 | Receiver and method for implementing timing synchronization in OFDM scheme A receiver and method of performing timing synchronization in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. A receiver to perform timing synchronization in an OFDM scheme, the receiver including: an autocorrelation processor to calculate and accumulat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184520 | Optical pickup device having chromatic aberration correction lens An optical pickup device includes a light source to emit light, an objective lens to focus the light on a recording medium to form a light spot, an optical path changer on an optical path between the light source and the objective lens to change the path of incident... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184513 | Recording/reproducing method, recording/reproducing apparatus, optical recording medium, and computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon program for the recording/reproducing method A recording method for use by an apparatus and/or which is encoded on a computer readable medium includes selecting a defect management on mode or a defect management off mode that indicates whether defect management is to be performed or not while data is recorded ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184182 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a blur kernel estimator and an image restorer. The blur kernel estimator is configured to estimate a blur kernel of a first image using the first image and a second image,... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660310 | Mobile terminal with a graphical user interface | 05/22/2012 |
| D660278 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660275 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660274 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660273 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660272 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660271 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181088 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181087 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180528 | Apparatus and method for controlling wiper and washer Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling a wiper and washer. An apparatus for controlling a wiper and washer, includes a wiper to wipe a windshield of a vehicle, a washer to eject washer fluid to the windshield of the vehicle, and an intelligent multi-... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180201 | Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command, and reproducing apparatus for reproducing from the same A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179759 | Information storage medium and recording/reproducing apparatus and method using the same An information storage medium and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method, the information storage medium includes: an area for recording information regarding a predetermined function applied thereto, wherein the information regarding the predetermined functio... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179758 | Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the opt... | 05/15/2012 |
| RE43383 | Method for sharing hybrid resources in a wireless independent network, a station for the method, and a data format for the method and the station In a system for sharing hybrid resources in an independent network, each one of a plurality of stations preferably employs a sharing authority transferring protocol that allows the network control function to be moved from station to station depending on the network... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659691 | Mobile phone case | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176057 | Assessment of a user reputation and a content reliability A method and system for assessing a user reputation and/or a content reliability on contents sharing web sites is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes defining a networked association between users based on social activity information related to the user... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175444 | Method of reproducing from storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command A method of reproducing from a storage medium video data and graphics data for displaying a menu screen. The method includes: decoding graphics data; and outputting, on the basis of the decoded graphics data, the decoded graphics data when an activation command is g... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659154 | Mobile terminal with graphical user interface | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171239 | Storage management method and system using the same A storage management system and a storage management method are provided. The storage management system includes a host, a memory buffer, a plurality of storage blocks, and an input/output bus to perform an interface function among the host, the memory buffer, and t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169919 | Terminal device and relay node selection method of terminal device A terminal device and a relay node selection method of the terminal device are described. The terminal device may sequentially compare a threshold value and an output signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a plurality of relay nodes based on a set test order, and select a r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169917 | Tandem connection monitoring method in MPLS network Disclosed herein are a Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) method in an MPLS network and a data structure of a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) OAM packet for TCM. When data are provided to users through an LSP path comprising multiple network provider in an MPL... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169865 | Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing pointing information An information storage medium includes areas of disk-related information having disk-related information to record or reproduce data with respect to the information storage medium, wherein the disk-related information includes common disk-related information and cha... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165637 | Multiple input multiple output (mimo) antenna system adaptable for environmental multiplicity A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system adaptable to an environmental multiplicity is provided. A MIMO antenna system includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a receiver for receiving at least one of different polarized signals thro... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165526 | Apparatus and method for connecting wireless devices Provided are a connecting apparatus for a wireless device and a connecting method thereof, more particularly, a connecting apparatus for a wireless device, which exchanges basic information required for establishing a wireless communication channel between wireless ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165190 | Apparatus and method for sample rate conversion in a software defined radio communication system A method for converting a sample rate in a Software Defined Radio (SDR) communication system is provided. The method includes setting a sampling frequency range depending on a maximum sampling frequency and a minimum sampling frequency so as to enable support of a p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164852 | Magnetic head having shield and recording apparatus employing the same A magnetic head and a recording apparatus employing the same are provided. The magnetic head includes a recording member, a field inducing member inducing a magnetic field to the recording member, a shield member having the same direction of magnetization as the rec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164525 | MIMO antenna and communication device using the same A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna and an antenna system using the same are provided. The MIMO antenna includes a plurality of antenna elements in which a feeding unit is formed at one end, and another end is connected to a ground, and a connection unit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161340 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160672 | Method and system for data communication in human body and sensor therefor The present invention provides method and system for data communication in the human body and a sensor therefor. The method and system transmit information through the human body to a receiver located outside the human body using low current and voltage polarity, so... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160401 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160359 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160256 | Key calculation method and key agreement method using the same A key calculation method and a shared key generation method, the key calculation method including: generating two keys to perform a key calculation; calculating a first value based on coefficients having an identical coefficient value among coefficients included in ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160125 | System for feeding back index of codeword matrix A system is provided for performing downlink beamforming based on information fed back by a mobile station. The mobile station includes a channel matrix generation unit to generate a channel matrix with respect to channels ranging from a base station to a mobile sta... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159915 | Method of and apparatus for recording data on write-once disc, method of and apparatus for reproducing data from write-once disc, and write-once disc therefor A write-once disc includes: a plurality of update areas in which a predetermined kind of updated information is recorded; at least one main access information area in which main access information is recorded, the main access information indicating a final update ar... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159046 | Capacitor and method for fabricating the same A capacitor includes a lower electrode; a dielectric layer formed on a predetermined portion of the lower electrode; an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer; a hard mask pattern formed on the upper electrode; and an isolation layer having a shape of a spac... | 04/17/2012 |
