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| 8185600 | Programming system and method for a video network In a signal processing system, a programming system and method for a video network are provided. An event may trigger an RDMA controller to execute current instructions in a register update list. The triggering event may be a start-of-field signal from a live source... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184960 | Method and system for performing reverse play of SD MPEG video One or more methods and systems to efficiently process MPEG video in order to perform a reverse play or slow rewind function are presented. The method reduces system bandwidth required to implement the reverse play function when SD MPEG video is received by the MPEG... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184749 | Sphere decoding method applied to multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channel A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an nth detection layer corresponding to a MIMO channel matrix are enumerated based on an enumeration rule, and at least one nth sub-set of the n | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184735 | Sphere decoding method applied to multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channel A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an nth detection layer corresponding to the MIMO channel matrix are enumerated based on an enumeration rule, and at least one nth sub-set of the nt... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184732 | Method and system for codebook design for pre-coding techniques Aspects of a method and system for codebook design for pre-coding techniques may include generating one or more matrices whose matrix elements are from a constant amplitude signal constellation, wherein each of the one or more generated matrices may comprise one or ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184567 | Communications device capable of adjusting power consumed thereby and method thereof, and Ethernet communications device A communications device is capable of adjusting power consumed thereby and includes a receiver and a control circuit. The receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter and a decoding circuit. The analog-to-digital converter receives receive-data from another comm... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184367 | Dynamically focused optical instrument An optical system includes a dynamically focused lens that variably changes focal length to focus light on a material under evaluation at discrete axial depths, and a scanning element that laterally scans the material to focus light on the material at points that ar... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184365 | Optical instruments having dynamic focus An optical system suitable for use in an optical instrument such as a handheld optical probe, the optical system including a scanning element and an objective, the objective including a variable focus lens that can be electronically controlled to change the focal le... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184255 | Display panel and method for fabricating the same A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a seal and at least one block. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The seal is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and has a first side and a seco... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184232 | Flat panel display and method for fabricating the same In the specification and drawing a flat panel display with a front cover, a rear cover, a printed circuit board and a display module is disclosed. The rear cover is fixed on the front cover, wherein the rear cover has a printed circuit board region and a panel regio... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184226 | Thin film transistor structure A thin film transistor (TFT) structure is provided. The TFT comprises a gate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a dielectric layer, and a channel layer. By overlapping the area between the first electrode and the gate, the TFT structure acquires a parasitic cap... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184137 | System and method for ordering of scaling and capturing in a video system Various aspects of processing video information in a display controller may comprise calculating a decision value for a current field based on a video format of the current field and an output video format. The decision value may be compared to a threshold value. In... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184081 | Pixel unit, method for controlling the pixel unit, and display apparatus comprising the same A pixel unit, a method for controlling the pixel unit, and a display apparatus having the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a driving circuit and a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel unit includes a switch circuit and an energy storage circu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184078 | Liquid crystal display and source driving circuit having a gamma and common voltage generator thereof A source driving circuit includes a gamma voltage generator, a common voltage generator and a driver. The gamma voltage generator receives gamma data from a timing controller through reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS) transmission interface to generate corr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183932 | Method and system for processing signals via an integrated low noise amplifier having configurable input signaling mode Aspects of a method and system for processing signals via an integrated low noise amplifier having a configurable input signaling mode are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits comprising an integrated amplifier may be configurable such that, in a first con... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182625 | Method of manufacturing a sandwich panel and a sandwich panel as such The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a sandwich panel (10). Such a sandwich panel consists of a foamed core layer (12) and at least one thermoplastic cover layer (14). The sandwich panel is made by in situ foaming. In a first assem... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182237 | Rotary system for submerged pumps ROTARY SYSTEM FOR SUBMERGED PUMPS. The rotary system (2), object of the present invention, is composed of a motoreducer assembly, which is coupled to a rotating shaft (5), through a pulley transmission system. At the lower part of the rotating shaft ( | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182130 | Light guiding structure of a light guide plate A light guiding structure of a light guide plate is provided. The light guiding structure comprises a plurality of protrusion ridge portions extending along a longitudinal direction. The height or the vertex angle of each protrusion ridge portion periodically or ran... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660313 | Display screen portion with user interface | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181038 | Systems and methods for executing encrypted programs Systems and methods for secure program execution are described. At least one embodiment includes a system for securely executing software comprising a host configured to accept a disc containing encrypted content to be accessed and store an encrypted program used to... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180965 | System and method for cache access prediction A cache system includes a cache having a plurality of cache units, a prediction table and a hashing module. The prediction table is utilized to store way information of at least one cache unit corresponding to at least one accessing address, and the hashing module g... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180942 | Arbitration device and method An arbitration device receives a plurality of requests from a plurality of circuits, and grants access to one of the plurality of circuits. The arbitration device includes a sorter and an arbitrator. The sorter receives position information of an image signal includ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180938 | Method, system, and computer program product for automatic learning of software keyboard input characteristics A method for automatic learning of software keyboard input characteristics includes the following steps. (a) An input is received. (b) Whether the input is a normal key input is determined. (c) The input value of the input is stored when the input is determined to b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180928 | Method and system for supporting read operations with CRC for iSCSI and iSCSI chimney Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing SCSI read operations with a CRC via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI read command from an initiator. Data may be fetched from a buffer ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180840 | Automatically replying to instant messaging (IM) messages The present disclosure provides for automatically replying to instant messaging (IM) messages. In some embodiments, an IM message is received by a recipient and displayed to the recipient. If, during a predefined time interval, the recipient does not provide any res... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180775 | Computer-implemented method for clustering data and computer-readable medium encoded with computer program to execute thereof Inferences acquired by applying clustering analysis cannot be reliably assessed before data-originated errors are quantified, an exacting task that is often not performed. This invention presents a clustering method suited for this purpose. Designed for systems with... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180688 | Computer-readable medium, system, and method for item recommendations based on media consumption Disclosed are various embodiments for generating item recommendations based on broadcast media consumed by a user on a client device. An item recommendation application receives a quantity of media information associated with the broadcast media being consumed from ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180648 | Method and system for dual mode subband acoustic echo canceller with integrated noise suppression Certain aspects of a method and system for a dual mode subband acoustic echo canceller with integrated noise suppression may include splitting an input signal into a lowband component and a highband component. The subbands of each of the lowband component and the hi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179950 | Startup protocol for high throughput communications systems A startup protocol is provided for use in a communications system having a plurality of transceivers, one transceiver acting as a master and another transceiver acting as slave, each transceiver having a noise reduction system, a timing recovery system and at least ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179925 | Sink device for a wireless local area network The invention discloses a sink device and a signal receiving method thereof, applicable to wireless local area network. The sink device receives a plurality of beacon signals, synchronizes the beacon output signal generated by itself with the operating clock of the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179771 | Method and apparatus for tuning an analog filter A method for automatically tuning an analog filter includes the steps of making an analog filter filter an input signal to output a filtered signal according to a filtering characteristic, sampling the filtered signal to generate sampled data, computing a sector dat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179645 | Network communication processing apparatus with ESD protection The invention discloses a network communication processing apparatus capable of processing the cable discharge event. The network communication processing apparatus comprises an electrostatic protection circuit coupled between two signal pins used for transmitting/r... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179426 | Pixel arrangement for an autostereoscopic display apparatus An autostereoscopic display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator comprising an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns in a pixel plane, and a spatially multiplexing parallax element capable of directing light from successive columns of pixels towards ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179425 | Alignment of elements of a display apparatus To align a display substrate comprising an array of pixels with a component substrate comprising an array of optical components, the display substrate is divided from a display motherglass formed with an array of panels each comprising an array of pixels sufficient ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179408 | Projective capacitive touch apparatus, and method for identifying distinctive positions A projective capacitive touch apparatus and a method for identifying multi-touched positions are provided. The multi-touched positions are touched on a projective capacitive touch panel. The method comprises the following steps: generating a first set of reference v... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179199 | Transistor resistor and associated method A transistor resistor and an associated method are provided to improve the resistance linearity of the transistor resistor. The transistor resistor includes a transistor operating in the resistive region, where the drain and source of the transistor receive an input... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178993 | Floating wind turbine with turbine anchor The wind turbine 20 includes a wind driven turbine wheel 22 rotatable about a central axis 29 that has sail wings 30 that catch the wind and rotate the turbine wheel 22. An anchor 58 has its anchor line 56 attached to... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178654 | Estrogen receptor intramolecular folding systems, estrogen receptor intramolecular folding sensors, methods of use thereof, methods of detecting ER ligands, and methods of detecting ER agonists and antagonists Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include estrogen receptor (ER) intramolecular folding systems, methods of detecting ER ligands and distinguishing between ER agonists and antagonists, cells including ER intramolecular folding systems, transgenic ani... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177379 | LCD device, backlight module thereof with partition wall and method for manufacturing the same A backlight module, a liquid crystal display using the backlight module, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The backlight module includes a bottom plate, a plurality of light source sets and at least one partition wall. A plurality of lighting areas is... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177233 | Cups and games of skill involving such cups Cups and games of skill involving such cups are provided. A representative cup includes: an aperture communicating with a cavity; and a barrier extending partially about the periphery of the aperture such that a portion of the cup lacking the barrier forms a lateral... | 05/15/2012 |
