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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7123885 | Housing that automatically locks into a mounting structure Located on the right and left sides of a housing of an automobile radio for example is one detent spring each projecting from the housing, which spring is retractable to enable insertion of the housing into a mounting slot and which, by rotating a catch, is retracta... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7106384 | Method and device for simultaneously representing at least a first and a second sequence of pictures in an overall picture The invention relates to a method and a device for simultaneously representing at least a first and a second sequence of pictures (M, S) in an overall picture. The inventive method is characterised in that picture data belonging to a picture of the first sequence of... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7088836 | Door with structural components configured to radiate acoustic Energy A door leaf includes a stiff, light structural part that maintains fed-in vibrational energy and, by flexural waves, propagates this energy in at least one active surface perpendicular to its thickness to distribute resonance mode vibration components over at least ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7064793 | Method and apparatus for measuring the noise contained in a picture To determine the noise contained in a picture, it is proposed first to determine homogeneous picture regions of the picture (100-102) and then to measure the high-frequency signal component in these homogeneous picture regions (BR). The measurement of the hig... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7054121 | Protection circuit for preventing unauthorized access to the memory device of a processor A protection circuit (1) is coupled to a processor (2) and a memory device (3) which preferably form a physical unit, and prevents unauthorized access to the memory device (3) by combining internal and/or external signals (s2, s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6995617 | Data-directed frequency-and-phase lock loop A data-directed frequency-and-phase lock loop for an offset-QAM modulated signal comprises a first multiplier that multiplies the signal by the output of a VCO. The output of the first multiplier is phase-shifted by a second multiplier, then convolved by a third mul... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6968217 | Motor vehicle telephone system A telephone system for a motor vehicle includes a transmit/receive unit that transmits data over a wireless communication channel, and receives data over the wireless communication channel and provides a received signal. The system also includes a control unit that ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964927 | Method and production of a sensor The invention relates to a method for producing a sensor (1), wherein a carrier chip (2) is produced. Said chip is provided with a sensor structure (3) comprising an active sensor surface (4). A material (9) capable of flowing is a... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963234 | Phase regulating circuit with a time-delay element A phase-locked loop with a delay element (DLL) is described which is essentially characterized in that the delay element (3) has a chain of a number n delay units (33n), the outputs (34n) of which are fed to a locking monitoring ci... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6955749 | Sensor for measuring an ion concentration or gas concentration The invention relates to a sensor for measuring ion concentration or gas concentration, with a gas- or ion-sensitive layer (6) that has two sensitive partial areas (20 and 21), two conducting areas (1b and 2b), each c... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6940557 | Adaptive interlace-to-progressive scan conversion algorithm An interlace-to-progressive scan conversion system comprises: a spatial line averaging prefilter; a motion estimator; a three-stage adaptive recursive filter. The motion estimator comprises: a 3-D recursive search sub-component having a bilinear interpolator; a moti... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6929728 | Sensor for measuring a gas concentration or ion concentration The invention relates to a sensor for measuring a gas concentration or ion concentration which has a substrate (11), a drain (3) formed on the substrate, a source (2) formed on the substrate, a channel area (4) of the substrate located be... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928506 | Apparatus using bus capacitance to perform data storage during data transfer across the bus The invention relates to a circuit arrangement with two or more circuit sections, which cooperate through a data transfer device. The invention solves the problem of double area expenditure for two memory devices for each receiver, in that the data bus itself takes ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6898523 | Motor vehicle navigation system with enhanced map selection To facilitate the operation of an in-vehicle navigation system and to shorten the time required for the otherwise time-consuming entering of the destination by crosshairs by reducing the operating steps required, a general map and an enlarged portion of the general ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891206 | Lateral thyristor structure for protection against electrostatic discharge To protect against electrostatic discharges in monolithic integrated circuits in CMOS technology, a lateral thyristor structure is presented which has a much lower firing voltage compared to conventional thyristor structures. ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6886451 | Electrical beverage making apparatus A beverage maker 2 comprises a first chamber 4, a second chamber 6 arranged on top of said first chamber 4, with a tube 8 extending down from said second chamber 6 into said first chamber 4 for transferring liquid bet... | 05/03/2005 |
