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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7156120 | Inline liquid flow control valve An inline liquid flow control valve includes an intake fitting member with a bottom portion having a bottom portion threaded section and a liquid flow section having apertures. The valve further includes an outlet fitting member with a top portion having a liquid ou... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7142222 | Halftone controller circuitry for video signal during on-screen-display (OSD) window Digital circuitry for imparting halftone to that portion of a video image over which an on-screen-display (OSD) window is superimposed. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7135902 | Differential signal generator having controlled signal rise and fall times with built-in test circuitry Integrated differential data signal generator circuitry for providing differential data signals with controlled rise and fall times and built-in test capabilities. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7123687 | Method for displaying digital X-ray image data at high resolution A method for providing X-ray image data signals corresponding to a selected portion of a two-dimensional image at an enhanced image resolution. During selective exposure of an X-ray receptor to X-ray radiation corresponding to the subject image, image pixel data cor... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120193 | Decision feedback equalizer with dynamic feedback control A decision feedback equalizer with dynamic feedback control for use in an adaptive signal equalizer. Timing within the decision feedback loop is dynamically controlled to optimize recovery of the data signal by the output signal slicer. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120810 | Instruction-initiated power management method for a pipelined data processor An instruction-initiated power management method for a pipelined data processor by which a clock signal to pipeline subcircuitry is selectively disabled in response to an instruction executed by the pipeline subcircuitry. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113050 | Integrated circuit with oscillator and electrostatic discharge protection An integrated circuit (IC) with an oscillator and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in which the parasitic capacitance of the ESD protection circuitry is disassociated from the oscillator circuitry to minimize loading of the tank circuit thereby minimizing de... | 09/26/2006 |
| D528796 | Case storage and transport rack | 09/26/2006 |
| 7090280 | Mounting system for accessories A readily removable accessory for a motorcycle or the like. The cycle has two pairs of docking points for the accessory, which is preferably a windshield and includes a pair of brackets with a pair of latching claws. Each bracket contains partial openings which are ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6991116 | Multi-chute gravity feed dispenser display A set of panels having chutes therebetween. The chutes being defined by curvilinear rails on such panels. The curvilinear rails having stops thereon for stopping the products for viewing. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| D512942 | Three-point hitch trailer | 12/20/2005 |
| 6945415 | Refrigerated merchandising apparatus A refrigerated merchandiser including a display case and a cooling module. The display case includes a plurality of walls defining a cavity and a receptacle. A plurality of vertically spaced shelves are disposed in the cavity extending between the side walls. A disp... | 09/20/2005 |
| D506062 | Bow case | 06/14/2005 |
| 6880698 | Arrow case A case for archery equipment includes, interengaging first and second case sections connected for relative movement between open and closed positions. The first and second case sections each include a wall for cooperatively defining an interior compartment when disp... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6847335 | Serial communication circuit with display detector interface bypass circuit A circuit and method serves as a slave interface to support both register read/write and monitor detection operations by a graphics controller chip, or other display data source, with a plurality of display devices. The circuit supports differing monitor detection p... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6834265 | Method and apparatus for selective speech recognition A method and apparatus for selective speech recognition includes receiving a media file (112) having a media type indicator (114). The method and apparatus further includes a browser (104) that receives the media file and a speech recognition en... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6831652 | Method and system for storing graphics data In accordance with a specific implementation of the present invention, the control portion of a graphics processor receives a command having both a data portion and a data duration portion. When the data duration portion indicates the data is transient data for shor... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6825842 | Method and system for queueing draw operations In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the client maintains a count of the number of commands issued to a circular buffer associated with the drawing engine. For every predetermined number of commands issued, a store command is issued that inclu... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6809737 | Method and apparatus for supporting multiple monitor orientations In accordance with a first mode of operation of the present invention, a portrait image is received from a system device. The portrait image is translated and stored within the graphics engine memory such that it can be displayed on a landscape monitor that has been... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6654872 | Variable length instruction alignment device and method An instruction aligner and method evaluates a fixed length instruction cache line by breaking it into at least two components. These two components, in one embodiment, include half of the instruction cache line being designated as most significant bytes a... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6647762 | Detecting leaks in pipes An apparatus for permanently or semi-permanently fitting to an underground water pipe 15, 16 for detecting leaks therein, comprises a hydrophone 26 mounted to acoustically monitor water flowing along the pipe 15, 16 and means 29 for analysing a parameter ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6650334 | Optimizing texture tag checking for three-dimensional computer graphics A circuit for texture tag checking includes a first comparison gate which compares a first dimension field of a tag with a first dimension element for a group of texels associated with a sample point. A second comparison gate compares a second dimension f... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6633940 | Method and apparatus for processing interrupts in a computing system A method and apparatus for processing interrupts in a computing system include processing for ordering a plurality of interrupts for at least one processor. Such interrupts include system event interrupts, external device interrupts, and may further inclu... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6624797 | Method and apparatus for providing video and control to a monitor A method and apparatus for combining a control signal and a video signal on a standard video cable is disclosed. The video cable is connected to a display monitor in order to provide access and control functions to the monitor. In a particular implementat... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6618508 | Motion compensation device A computer system that performs motion compensation pixels, the computer system includes a storage device; a memory unit that loads at least one error correction value and at least one reference component into the storage device; and a calculation unit co... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6618026 | Method and apparatus for controlling multiple displays from a drawing surface A method and apparatus for controlling multiple displays from a drawing surface begins by obtaining a drawing surface setting that includes at least one of a refresh rate, resolution, and pixel depth. A user may select the drawing surface settings or are ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6614449 | Method and apparatus for video graphics antialiasing using a single sample frame buffer and associated sample memory A method and apparatus for antialiasing in a video graphics system is presented. This is accomplished by determining if a pixel sample set, which results from oversampling, can be reduced to a compressed sample set that includes a single color value and a... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6606450 | Method and apparatus for processing video signals having associated access restriction data A method and apparatus that includes processing for restricting usage of video signals in accordance with associated access restriction data begins by detecting the presence of the associated access restriction data as video signals are being received. Th... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6604687 | Thermal fluid control valve A thermal control valve provides more accurate control of the valve outlet temperature for a high flow rate valve in a low flow rate environment. The valve utilizes a thermal motor to close the valve during high temperature operation and includes flow-dir... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6606098 | Method and apparatus having an extended video graphics bus A method and apparatus that extends the video graphics bus from the computer unit to a monitor is used within a computer system that includes a computer unit and a monitor. The computer unit includes a central processing unit, system memory, an accelerate... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6601729 | Automated portable medication radial dispensing apparatus and method using a carrier tape A portable medication cartridge allows for both manual and automated dispensing of tablets or capsules of virtually all sizes through a radial dispensing apparatus. The cartridge may be sealed and encoded with medication and patient identification. A micr... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6595475 | Dispenser platform A support stand for a beverage container is formed from rigid wires and includes a substantially planar support platform supported by two legs that are removably interengaged with and locked with locking loops formed as part of the wire support members.... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594750 | Method and apparatus for handling an accessed bit in a page table entry A method and apparatus for handling an accessed bit in a page table entry is provided. When a page table entry is not present in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), an electrical circuit causes a TLB miss exception and branching to a first software exce... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591280 | Method and apparatus for generating a multimedia document A method and apparatus for generating a multimedia document that includes video image samples and associated audio is accomplished by decoding video signals into decoded video representations, sampling the decoded video representations at a rate below the... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6580432 | Spread spectrum FIFO and method for storing data for multiple display types A FIFO memory device, FIFO control method and graphics processing system are disclosed which incorporate spread-spectrum EMI compensation. In one embodiment, a FIFO memory device and method includes generating a spread-spectrum adjustment signal for a spr... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6581085 | Approximation circuit and method An approximation circuit approximates a function f(x) of an input value "x" by adding at least the first two terms in a Taylor series (i.e., f(a) and f'(a)(x-a)) where "a" is a number reasonably close to value "x". The first term is generated by a first l... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6578134 | Multi-branch resolution A branch resolution logic for an in-order processor is provided which scans the stages of processor pipeline to determine the oldest branch instruction having sufficient condition codes for resolution. The stages are scanned in order from the latter stage... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6574733 | Centralized secure backup system and method Briefly, a centralized secure data backup system pulls information to be securely backed-up from one or more data sources such as computer nodes or other communication units. A processor or other suitable processor centrally initiates extraction of data t... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574693 | Method and apparatus for gating interrupts in a computing system A method and apparatus for processing interrupts in a computing system include processing for ordering a plurality of interrupts for at least one processor. Such interrupts include system event interrupts, external device interrupts, and may further inclu... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571946 | Case for archery equipment A case for archery equipment includes, interengaging first and second half portions connected for movement between open and closed positions. The first half portion includes a first wall defining a first interior recess and having a first mating rim. The ... | 06/03/2003 |
