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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185008 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus with a temperature detector A fixing device includes a heater, first and second pressure-applying members, a belt support member, a fixing belt, a contact member and a temperature detector. The fixing belt is entrained about the heater, the first pressure-applying member and the belt support m... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184903 | Color correction method and apparatus of RGB signal A color correction method of an RGB signal includes the following steps. First, an original RGB-coordinate point in an RGB color space is defined according to the RGB signal, and a reference plane is obtained according to the original RGB-coordinate point. The origi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184818 | Double-talk detector with accuracy and speed of detection improved and a method therefor A double-talk detector finds an estimated power value of near end background noise based on a residual signal by a noise estimator; the average power of a transmitter input signal by a transmitter average power calculator; the average power of a receiver input signa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184815 | Microphone unit for stereophonic recording To provide a microphone unit for stereophonic recording capable of adjusting an intersecting angle of sound collecting axes in accordance with conditions without impairing directivity and sound quality of the microphone. Respective rotation bases (408, 508) a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184659 | Network system for communicating between different IP versions with multiple translators In a telecommunications network system in which two translators are placed for the conversion of IP version 4 (IPv4)-version 6 (IPv6)-IPv4, one translator converts an IPv4 packet to an IPv6 packet by adding a prefix obtained from a prefix management server managing ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184178 | Method and electronic device for adjusting compression ratio of JPEG image A method and an electronic device for adjusting a compression ratio of a JPEG image are used to adjust a size of a JPEG image file. The method includes the following steps. a raw image, a first compression parameter (SF1) and a second compression parameter (SF2) are... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184139 | Redundance control of temperature compensation for a LED printhead A driving apparatus having driving circuits formed to correspond to driven circuits arranged on a circuit board. Each driving circuit includes a driving control unit for driving the corresponding driven circuit, a reference voltage generation unit for generating a r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183966 | Entirely integrated EMI filter based on a flexible multi-layer strip material An entirely integrated EMI filter is based on a flexible multi-layer strip material. An EE or EI core comprises two side pillars and one middle pillar and forms a closed magnetic circuit. The middle pillar has an air gap. A first winding and a second winding respect... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183963 | Electromagnetic relay and method of making the same A electromagnetic relay in which bad electrical contact and failure of operation are prevented even when shavings are produced while an iron core is press-fitted into and mounted on a base. The electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnetic block supported by pre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183839 | Switching power source system An error voltage Verr, being a difference between DC output voltage Vout and output reference voltage Vref, and an input voltage Vin are multiplied to produce first threshold voltage signal Vth1 in phase with and similar to input voltage Vin and proportional ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183804 | AC motor driving circuit and electric car driving circuit In an AC motor driving circuit from an AC power supply and a DC power supply, a matrix converter and a power conversion circuit are provided. The matrix converter is connected between an output of the AC power supply and an input of the AC motor. In the power conver... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183643 | Semiconductor device having silicide layer completely occupied amorphous layer formed in the substrate and an interface junction of (111) silicon plane A semiconductor device includes diffusion layers formed in a SOI layer under a side-wall, a channel formed between the diffusion layers, silicide layers sandwiching the diffusion layers wherein interface junctions between the diffusion layers and the silicide layers... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183612 | Optical receiver and method of forming the same Provided are an optical receiver and a method of forming the same. The optical receiver includes a lens, a photo detector, and a hetero-junction bipolar transistor. The lens is attached to a backside of a substrate. The photo detector is disposed on a top surface of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183147 | Method of fabricating a conductive post on an electrode A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a semiconductor chip portion having an electrode on a main surface of a wafer; forming a first resist pattern having a first opening on the electrode; filling the first opening with a first electricall... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182582 | Gas storage medium, gas storage apparatus and method thereof Provided are gas storage medium, a gas storage apparatus having the same and a method thereof. The gas storage medium includes a plurality of material layers each having a variable valence, wherein each of the material layers includes redundant electrons that are no... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181248 | System and method of detecting anomaly malicious code by using process behavior prediction technique Provided are a pattern analyzing/detecting method and a system using the same that are capable of detecting and effectively preventing an unknown malicious code attack. To detect such an attack, the method monitors the system to combine all behaviors exhibited withi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180313 | Mixer and transceiver having the mixer Provided are a mixer and a transceiver having the mixer. The mixer includes: an local oscillation (LO) differential signal generator converting an input LO signal into a differential signal; and a mixing unit receiving the LO differential signal as a first input and... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180170 | Apparatus and method of recognizing image feature pixel point An apparatus and a method of recognizing image feature pixels is related to the recognizing method including receiving an image having a plurality of pixels; subsequent filtering the pixels at least once by detecting the edge pixels of objects in the received image ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179572 | Communication device A communication device receives and stores image data, and searches for information image data in the image data. If found, the information image data is removed, thereby shortening the image so that it can be completely reproduced on one page without compressing or... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179479 | Method for separating luminance and chrominance of composite TV analog signal A method for separating luminance and chrominance of a composite TV analog signal includes the steps of: measuring first differences between horizontal neighbor pixels, second differences between vertical neighbor pixels and third differences between temporal neighb... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179297 | Remote control device A remote control device which can remotely control drive quantities of apparatuses arranged two-dimensionally and better matches a sense of adjustment of a user with being excellent in usability. The remote control device comprises an acceleration sensor unit includ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178941 | Semiconductor device In a semiconductor device having a pn-junction diode structure that includes anode diffusion region including edge area, anode electrode on anode diffusion region, and insulator film on edge area of anode diffusion region, the area of anode electrode above anode dif... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178910 | Semiconductor device The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes an SJMOSFET having a plurality of base regions formed at an interval from each other and an SBD (Schottky Barrier Diode) having a Schottky junction between the plurality of base regions. The SBD is... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178893 | Semiconductor element mounting substrate, semiconductor device using the same, and method for manufacturing semiconductor element mounting substrate The invention provides a semiconductor element mounting substrate that, by virtue of an improvement in thermal conduction efficiency between the substrate and another member, can reliably prevent, for example, a light emitting element such as a semiconductor laser f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178892 | LED chip having micro-lens structure A light-emitting diode (LED) chip having a micro-lens structure includes a light-emitting structure and a light guide lens. The light-emitting structure emits a light from a light-emitting surface upon being applied with a current, and the light guide lens is stacke... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178409 | Semiconductor device with alternately arranged P-type and N-type thin semiconductor layers and method for manufacturing the same The invention is related to a semiconductor device with alternately arranged P-type and N-type thin semiconductor layers and method for manufacturing the same. For P-type device, the method includes trench formation, thermal oxide formation on trench sidewalls, N-ty... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177521 | System and method for monitoring and controlling oil return to compressor A system and method for monitoring and controlling oil return to a compressor, characterized by monitoring and controlling oil level, oil temperature, and compressor outlet pressure, so as to determine whether the oil level is lower than a predetermined level thresh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176973 | Finned heat pipe comprising concentric pipes of different length A heat sink assembly in accordance with the present invention increases heat dissipation area, improves heat dissipation efficiency and comprises a base, a core pipe, an outer pipe, a top cover and a working fluid. The base has a top surface. The core pipe is mounte... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176715 | Packing method using air evacuative binding type air packing bag In an air evacuative binding type air packing bag and a packing method using the same, an air cylinder is bended to form a first cushioning wall and a second cushioning wall, two sides of the first cushioning wall and the second cushioning wall are adhered to each o... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659919 | Garment steamer | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175416 | Pixel interpolation apparatus and method thereof A pixel interpolation method includes the following steps. First, multiple first macroblocks and second macroblocks are generated according to pixel data of a first real pixel row and pixel data of a second real pixel row, respectively. Next, block matching is perfo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175152 | Picture coding apparatus and method A moving picture coding apparatus divides each frame of a moving picture into parts and assigns the parts to different coding units, which compressively code their respective parts. The coding process includes motion compensation with respect to a reference frame. E... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175138 | Power efficient FHSS base-band hardware architecture The present invention provides a power efficient FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spreading Spectrum) base-band hardware architecture, and more particularly to a combinational design to reduce the system jitter of a frequency hopping communication system and bring system syn... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175088 | System for offering mobile telecommunication service using internet network with UTP cable Provided is a system for providing mobile telecommunication services using an Internet network built with a UTP cable. The system includes a main unit and a plurality of sub units. The main unit includes a plurality of input ports respectively connected to correspon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175025 | Wireless communication apparatus for selecting suitable transfer route on wireless network A wireless communication apparatus prepared in each of wireless terminals configuring a wireless network adapted to transmit and receive a data signal and terminal information to and from peripheral wireless terminals of a subject wireless terminal; to manage the te... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174854 | Switching power supply system with reduced current consumption at light load A switching power supply system has a control circuit that controls an output voltage by causing a switching device to turn ON and OFF. The control circuit includes a control pulse supplying unit that supplies a pulsed signal that keeps the switching device turned-O... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174458 | Dual-feed antenna The invention relates to a dual-feed antenna. The dual-feed antenna includes a substrate, a first antenna unit and a second antenna unit. The second antenna unit includes a second radiating unit and a second grounding unit. The second radiating unit includes a secon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174328 | Dual-band wideband local oscillation signal generator A dual-band wideband local oscillation signal generator includes an oscillation unit, a division unit, a poly phase filter (PPF), a switch unit, and a single side band (SSB) mixer. The oscillation unit is configured to generate a positive in-phase (IP) signal, a neg... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174188 | Electro-luminescent device including metal-insulator transition layer Provided is an electro-luminescent device (ELD) including a metal-insulator transition (MIT) layer. The ELD includes: a substrate; a EL phosphor layer positioned on the substrate and comprising luminescent center ions generating light; the MIT layer disposed on a su... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174085 | Method of manufacturing MEMS sensor and MEMS sensor A method of manufacturing an MEMS sensor according to the present invention includes the steps of: forming a first sacrificial layer on one surface of a substrate; forming a lower electrode on the first sacrificial layer; forming a second sacrificial layer made of a... | 05/08/2012 |
