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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185668 | System having processor and I/O controller A method of controlling an apparatus including a processor and an I/O controller includes storing execution information, receiving a first and a second requests successively, determining whether initiation of each execution of the first and the second requests is to... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185397 | Speech processing apparatus, medium, and method recognizing and responding to speech using entity information A speech processing apparatus, medium, and method recognizing speech and responding to the speech. The speech processing apparatus may includes an entity extracting unit which extracts entity information and an upper entity corresponding to the entity information fr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185393 | Human speech recognition apparatus and method A speech recognition apparatus generates a feature vector series corresponding to a speech signal, and recognizes a phoneme series corresponding to the feature vector series using sounds corresponding to phonemes and a phoneme language model. In addition, the speech... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185385 | Method for searching fixed codebook based upon global pulse replacement The present research can decrease the amount of computation and enhance speech quality by using a global pulse replacement method in a fixed codebook search. The fixed codebook search method in a speech encoder based upon global pulse replacement, includes the steps... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185108 | Multi-mode communication system and method thereof The present invention relates to a multi-mode communication system and a method thereof. The multi-mode communication system uses a first mode among a plurality communication modes for accessing a first mobility control entity (MCE) among a plurality of MCEs, and co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185028 | Image forming apparatus and auto color registration method thereof An image forming apparatus and an auto color registration method thereof, the auto color registration (ACR) method including: transferring test patterns respectively corresponding to a plurality of colors; detecting the transferred test patterns; cleaning the transf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184999 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof, the control method including applying a minimum current to a light emitting element, and applying one or more higher currents, up to a maximum current, to the light emitting element, if a light receiving eleme... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184994 | Optical receiving circuit An optical receiving circuit receives and demodulates an optical signal subjected to phase modulation and wavelength division multiplexing. The optical receiving circuit includes an interfering unit that causes a reference signal to interfere with the optical signal... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184990 | Light source wavelength control apparatus Equipped between a transmitter 20 and an optical multiplexer module 25 of a division/multiplexer unit 24 are band-pass filters 23-1 through 23-m letting only a light of right wavelength pass while reflecting other wavelength... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184972 | Method and apparatus relating to secure communication Data is encrypted onto an electromagnetic beam by providing an electromagnetic beam having a signal component having a modal state, wherein the signal component is susceptible to accumulation of a geometric phase, and a reference component, transmitted along a path ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184708 | Motion vector encoding device and decoding device A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction er... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184592 | Method, medium, and system for searching crossover router and method, medium, and system for reserving resources in mobile network A method, medium, and system for reserving resources in a mobile network. A mobile node reports a start of a handover to a present access router if the handover of the mobile node occurs, and the previous access router transmits specified session information to a ca... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184588 | Apparatus and method for performing fast handover An apparatus and a method to perform a fast handover that is capable of determining whether to switch an internet protocol (IP) using a received, unique code of an access router when a mobile node performs a fast handover in a wireless network. The apparatus to perf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184569 | Method for terminal to join multicast broadcast service in wireless network and system using thereof A method for a terminal to join a multicast broadcast service (MBS) in a wireless network and a wireless communication system are provided, so as to enable a terminal to successfully join an MBS and receive MBS content. The method and the system relate to a wireless... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184355 | Light modulation device A light modulation device capable of stabilizing a phase set in phase modulation processing and improving optical communication quality. A phase modulator is provided for each of plural branched input lights and performs phase modulation of the input light. A phase ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184338 | Image forming apparatus and method for controlling printing and auto color registration A method for controlling printing of an image forming apparatus includes receiving a printing command from a user, determining whether a condition for auto color registration is satisfied, asking the user whether to perform auto color registration if the condition f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184314 | Image forming apparatus and a communication method with trays thereof An image forming apparatus having a main body and optional trays and a communication method between the main body and the optional trays, the apparatus including: the main body having a main controller; at least one optional tray detachably set up in the main body a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184127 | Apparatus for and method of generating graphic data, and information recording medium An apparatus for and method of generating graphic data, and information recording medium storing the same. An apparatus for generating graphic data includes: a line information extractor extracting line information of each line from the graphic data, the graphic dat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183581 | LED arrangement An LED arrangement (light emitting diode) has a plurality of adjacent radiating LEDs that are nearly identically aligned for forming an extended area light source. The LEDs are attached to a metallic multi-film support having sandwich-like insulating intermediate la... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182071 | Thermal inkjet printhead and method of driving same Provided are an inkjet printhead and a method of driving the inkjet printhead. The inkjet printhead includes a heater configured to heat ink to produce ink bubbles, an electrode configured to apply or provide the current to the heater, and a resistor connected to th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182055 | Damping unit and refrigerator having the same Disclosed is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body, a refrigerator door for opening/closing a front surface of the body, with the refrigerator door having an opening, an auxiliary door for opening/closing the opening of the refrigerator door, and a dampin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182010 | Robot hand and humanoid robot having the same Disclosed are a robot hand and a humanoid robot having the same. The robot hand includes a plurality of finger members and a base member to which one end of the finger members is rotatably coupled, respectively. The finger members are rotated through pneumatic press... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181492 | Washing machine with steam generator Disclosed herein is a washing machine that is capable of generating hot air and steam to be supplied into a rotary tub using a single heater. The washing machine includes a rotary tub to receive laundry, a heating duct defining a channel to supply hot air to the rot... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181449 | Control method of exhaust gas purification system and exhaust gas purification system An exhaust gas purification system has an exhaust gas purification device for purifying components in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. In order to recover a purification ability of the device, and in order to prevent oil dilution occurring when post i... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660276 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181141 | Dummy rule generating apparatus A dummy rule generating apparatus includes a critical pattern estimating unit that determines a wiring pattern whose total perimeter length of wirings is smaller than an appropriate range based on constraints on the wirings for a circuit layout as a critical pattern... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181064 | Information processing apparatus for inhibiting instructions, saving and restoring internal information in response to abnormality in redundant processor system A northbridge, when detecting a synchronization break of a redundant CPU, stops the operation of an abnormal CPU bus where an error has occurred and the firmware in a firmware hub instructs the northbridge to inhibit an external instruction. In addition, the firmwar... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180827 | Method and apparatus for associating graphic icon in internet virtual world with user's experience in real world A method and apparatus to associate a graphic icon representing a user in an Internet virtual world with the user's experience in the real world, the method including: logging data of an event occurring to the user in the real world; transmitting the logged data to ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180764 | Apparatus, method and medium for transmission and/or reception of digital content based on time or location information A digital content transmission apparatus, method and medium, and a digital content reception apparatus, method and medium enable multimedia content, extracted according to the location and time of a transmitting mobile terminal, and alphanumeric text, to be combined... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180612 | Electromagnetic field simulator and electromagnetic field simulating program product An electromagnetic field simulator for repeatedly calculating a space distribution of an electromagnetic field at a next point in time using a distribution of an electromagnetic field in a 3-dimensional space includes: a unit for calculating a distribution of an ele... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180196 | Optical recording/reproducing apparatus and data recording method thereof An optical recording/reproducing apparatus and a data recording method thereof. The optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: an encoder which encodes a data for recording in a specified format; an optical pickup which records the encoded data onto a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179874 | Automatic tunnel configuration method using router advertisement message An automatic tunnel configuration method using a router advertisement message is provided, including: periodically receiving a router advertisement message containing a tunnel end-point address option from an access router of an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) ne... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179778 | Method and system for effective adaptive coding and modulation in satellite communication system A Second Generation Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite (DVB-S2) system is provided. More particularly, a method and apparatus for maintaining synchronization of a signal by changing an Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) method that is used for a conventional... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179697 | Control panel assembly and washing machine having the same The control panel assembly includes a control panel provided with at least one hook, a guide member disposed at the inside of the control panel and provided with at least one hook reception part corresponding to the at least one hook, and an electronic component fix... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179681 | Module structure An apparatus includes a case including a surface, a bottom face and a first hole arranged on the bottom face; a first connector on the bottom face of the case; and a guide pin arranged in the first hole and being capable of moving in the first hole. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179593 | Optical-switch drive circuit and method thereof An optical-switch drive circuit including a driver unit that generates, in response to a control signal, an on/off signal for driving a semiconductor optical amplifier gate switch, and a buffer unit having a high input impedance and connected between an output termi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179582 | Micro electro mechanical device having an opening between a fixing portion and a torsion bar A micro electro mechanical device includes an inner frame provided with a movable part and an outer frame provided in a circumference of the inner frame. The outer frame has a fixing part fixed by a joining material. A first torsion bar is provided between the outer... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179269 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a fatigue determining portion determining whether an operator is tired or not by referring to fatigue information on the operator's fatigue, and a processing control portion causing a first display for recovering the oper... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179114 | Voltage converting device and voltage converting method A changing-speed calculator monitors a current value of an output current flowing through a load circuit to calculate a change speed of the current value. A correction-amount obtaining unit reads from a correction-amount table a correction amount of a duty ratio cor... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178788 | Electronic component package An electronic component package includes a film board where an electronic component is mounted, and a lid part mounted on the film board so as to cover a surface of the film board. The electronic component is provided in a cavity formed by the film board and the lid... | 05/15/2012 |
