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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7522790 | Optical communications system with selective block/add capability of an optical channel An optical communications system has a selective block/add capability of an optical channel. An optical beam separator receives and separates an input mixed optical beam into a separated optical channel and a remainder optical beam. A block/add unit receives as an i... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522356 | Sight having an asymmetric field of view and its manufacture A sight includes at least one lens having a lens central axis parallel to a lens through-thickness direction and which is laterally physically truncated parallel to the lens central axis, and a sight housing in which the at least one lens is received. The sight hous... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7502166 | Optical sight having obscured reticle illumination An optical sight includes an optical train with a reticle having a reticle substrate, and a reticle relief pattern in the reticle substrate having a relief surface oriented so that the relief surface faces an output end of the optical sight. A layer of a barrier mat... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7386953 | Sighting device with multifunction illuminated reticle structure A sighting device is used to aim along a line of sight at a target. The sighting device includes a reticle structure formed of a roof prism assembly having an inclined final roof-prism mirror surface that is not perpendicular to the line of sight. The inclined final... | 06/17/2008 |
| 5375232 | Method and system for asynchronous pre-staging of backup copies in a data processing storage subsystem A method and system are disclosed for transferring a backup copy of designated datasets stored in a plurality of storage subsystems to a host system via a data channel during concurrent execution of an application. Upon receiving a request for a backup co... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5201053 | Dynamic polling of devices for nonsynchronous channel connection A multi-path controller is disclosed for connecting CPU channels with DASD device subsystems. Extended channel connection time are accommodated in the polling of the devices. The request for access signals for the devices are retained for a period of time... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5191589 | Laser driver and optical disk drive apparatus In response to a source current supply and a sink current supply, a switching circuit selectively forms a current path through which a constant source current from the source current supply flows into a laser in order to turn on the laser and a current pa... | 03/02/1993 |
| 4864516 | Method for implementing an on-line presentation in an information processing system A method for creating on-line presentations on a computer display using a complier, a compressor, and a processor. The complier converts control commands in source code format into object code format in order to specify how the information in an on-line p... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4851987 | System for reducing processor power consumption by stopping processor clock supply if a desired event does not occur An apparatus and method are provided for disabling the clocking of a processor in a battery operated computer during non-processing times. The clocking is disabled at the conclusion of a processing operation. The clocking can then be re-enabled using inte... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4841574 | Voice buffer management In a signal processing environment, voice messages are stored into and read out of a buffer in real time. Since voice messages are being stored and read from the buffer, different sizes and rates of information are being stored therein. Small packets of d... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4833626 | Optimizing printer throughput A method of improving printer throughput by selecting a print velocity based on the characteristics of a line to be printed. Incorporated into an application program are all available printing velocities to be used for printing. As each line to be printed... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4789949 | Printer throughput A method of modifying a graphics data stream for improving printer throughput. The data stream is scanned and nulls preceding printable data are converted to text spaces. Text spaces are recognized by the printer to cause a printhead included in the print... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4789962 | Methods of displaying help information nearest to an operation point at which the help information is requested A method of, and placing help information on a convenient but unneeded portion of a screen. Help information, when called, is placed on the screen adjacent an operating point, and positioned such that needed information adjacent the point is not covered u... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4788659 | Screen building to facilitate later selection of portions thereof A method of, and system for, building a screen and retrieving related portions of the screen through single button depression. The order with which various portions are built in building a screen is used upon recall of the screen and selection of one port... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4785418 | Proportional automatic gain control Automatic gain control in a digital signal processor. An incoming electrical signal is sampled and multiplied by a gain factor with the resulting product compared to a constantly changing maximum value. If the magnitude of the changing maximum value lies ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4768167 | High speed CMOS latch with alternate data storage and test functions A CMOS flip-flop circuit is disclosed which enables a single side pull-down operation for inputting test signals during a test mode and alternately a dual side push-pull operation for inputting data signals during the normal use of the circuit. A pair of ... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4764966 | Method and apparatus for voice detection having adaptive sensitivity This invention enables voice energy to be distinguished from energy due to other sources such as telephone call progress signals. A portion of the audio spectrum is divided into a high and into a low frequency band and the energy content of these bands is... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4747065 | Automatic gain control in a digital signal processor Automatic gain control (AGC) is provided in a digital signal processor environment. A predetermined threshold value, a predetermined automatic gain control value, and a predetermined count threshold value are established and stored in a data memory associ... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4745405 | Object movement feedback A method of, and system for, accurately manipulating objects on a screen to obtain a desired layout. Objects are called or built and then manipulated in terms of rotation and/or displacement. Accurate manipulation is facilitated by displaying a readout of... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4740093 | Proportional spacing printing management A method of determining character width for proportional spacing printing based on information contained in a dot pattern table. For a selected character, the character dot pattern in the table is analyzed to determine leading blanks and the actual charac... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4740927 | Bit addressable multidimensional array A memory array associated with a display can be accessed in either one of two substantially orthogonal directions. The memory array is structured so that it may be accessed, such as for reading or writing, in either the horizontal or vertical direction. P... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4721401 | Printhead control A method of reducing the need for a reverse indexing capability during multi-pass printing. In environments permitting narrow line spacings, requiring multiple passes to print a line, and where platen indexing is by full head height increments, indexing f... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4714918 | Window view control A method of, and system for, controlling a view of window information upon editing the information. The view is controlled based on mode selection. For normal information input operations, information scrolling is selected. Related existing information ad... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4637038 | High speed counter An M-bit binary counter is disclosed having M sequentially ascending binary value stages, the first stage being the lowest significant bit. In accordance with the invention, each stage above the least significant bit stage has a subsequent value decoder w... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4547960 | Methods of and fixture for establishing an electrical connection Leads (22) of an electrical component (20) are positioned within and extend through a plurality of apertures (74) formed through a substrate (54). The substrate (54) includes a circuit (56) formed on one major surface thereof and a plurality of contacts (... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4516739 | Magnetically controlled wire tensioning device The tension imparted to an advancing strand 11 is regulated by passing the strand about a permanent magnet sheave 13 interposed between a pair of permanent magnet discs 19 and 21. The sheave and discs are axially polarized so that the magnet fields about ... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4516737 | Storage reel with peripheral core relief A storage reel (10, 10') particularly adapted for winding bandoliered, axially leaded, tubular components thereon, such as capacitors (18), includes a core (12, 12') formed with a uniquely configured peripheral relief (32, 44, 46). The relief, in accordan... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4456876 | Frequency counter A frequency counter (20) measures and displays a plurality of frequencies appearing on input channels (22, 24, 26 and 28) of an analog circuit (30). A program switch (32) is coupled to a decoder logic circuit (34) which facilitates the operation of counte... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4431474 | Thermocompression bonding apparatus A thermocompression bonding apparatus (10), which is particularly adapted to bond an array of miniaturized electrical leads (36) to a corresponding array of respectively aligned pads (33) of a metallized circuit, supported on a substrate (31), includes a ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4421368 | Lead-receiving socket, multi-socket assembly incorporating same and method of effecting circuit interconnections therewith An auxiliary socket assembly (25) includes an array of sockets (10 or 70) supported within a plastic block (21). Each socket (10 or 70) includes an outer conductive shell (12 or 72) having an upper tubular portion (13 or 73) within which a pre-formed sold... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4398628 | Methods of inserting pins into an apparatus and a pin supporting shuttle used therefor A plurality of pins (20) are supported and held within a pin supporting shuttle (54) by wedging the shank portion (24) of each of the pins between a respective one of a plurality of spaced parallel channels (58) and a ramp (62). The shuttle (54) is then m... | 08/16/1983 |
