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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159832 | Electromagnetic band gap structures and method for making same A folded EBG structure has a plurality of cells arranged in a two-dimensional array. Each of the cells has an electrically conductive patch and an electrically conductive via coupled between the patch and a ground plane. In one dimension of the folded EBG structure,... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8120762 | Light guide and optical sensing module input device and method for making same A light guide has a first surface and a second surface with diffractive structures. A slanted facet is provided at one corner of the light guide. The diffractive structures have concentric fringes centered near the slanted facet. Fringes are arranged such that a lig... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8095134 | Method and apparatus for handover measurement A UE performs pilot measurements over a frequency sub-band of serving cell and adjacent cells based on pilot symbols for used in handover. UE uses channel quality measurement result to adjust frequency sub-band and periodicity of pilot measurement. In interference c... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8059236 | Method for producing reflective layers in LCD display A method for producing a light reflecting structure in a transflective or reflective liquid crystal display uses one or two masks for masking a photoresist layer in a back-side exposing process. The pattern on the masks is designed to produce rod-like structures or ... | 11/15/2011 |
| D648899 | Safety helmet | 11/15/2011 |
| D648279 | Electrical connector | 11/08/2011 |
| D644613 | Combination cable or conduit strap | 09/06/2011 |
| 7973823 | Method and system for image pre-processing An imaging architecture has a memory module to store raw images for the pre-processing stage. The raw image from the output of the pre-processing block may be compressed by a compressor before the image is stored in the memory module. Furthermore, the raw image in t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971713 | Container for shipping vehicles, including extension plate In a container for shipping vehicles, a bottom plate is provided having a predetermined length and a predetermined width satisfying standards of a conventional container holder. Support poles are installed on four corners of the bottom plate and include corner casts... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965322 | Color correction on an image A method and apparatus for adjusting the pixel colors of a digital image. After the raw image data from the digital image is white-balanced, the white-balanced image data is conveyed to a color correction module as color vectors in a color space for color adjustment... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7952612 | Method and system for image construction using multiple exposures A motion sensor is used to sense the movement of the camera during an exposure period. The camera has an image sensor to form one or more exposures. When the movement is within a certain range, the exposures are used to provide one or more frames so that an image ca... | 05/31/2011 |
| D638975 | Drop-in ceiling light fixture | 05/31/2011 |
| 7532808 | Method for coding motion in a video sequence A method of motion-compensated video encoding that enables a video sequence with a global motion component to be encoded in an efficient manner. A video encoder is arranged to assign macroblocks to be coded to specific coding modes including a skip mode, which is us... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529673 | Spectral parameter substitution for the frame error concealment in a speech decoder A method for use by a speech decoder in handling bad frames received over a communications channel a method in which the effects of bad frames are concealed by replacing the values of the spectral parameters of the bad frames (a bad frame being either a corrupted fr... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528003 | Organic photoelectric device with improved electron transport efficiency An opto-electronic device, such as an OLED or organic solar cell, having an electrode structure for use as a cathode. The electrode structure includes an electrically conductive layer and an inorganic layer, wherein the inorganic layer is made of at least one oxide-... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7522011 | High pass modulation of a phase locked loop A radio frequency modulator based on direct frequency/phase modulation of output signal of a controllable oscillator (724) that is a part of a phase locked loop (PLL) provides a direct modulator that is able to operate over a wide frequency range with a flat ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521217 | Carbonic anhydrase having increased stability under high temperature conditions The present invention relates to polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences of carbonic anhydrase variants having increased stability under high temperature conditions compared to native carbonic anhydrase. ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521145 | Fuel cells for use in portable devices A fuel activation assembly disposed between two fuel compartments in a fuel cell, such as a direct methanol fuel cell. The fuel activation assembly comprises a substrate with apertures for securely attaching a plurality of membrane electrode assembly (MEA) segments.... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7509575 | Optimization of content The invention relates to an optimization of digital content being presented on the display. In a method for optimizing content, the content is analyzed and at least one sequence element is determined. According to this sequence element, said content is portioned int... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7504723 | Electrical connection pattern in an electronic panel A connector layout for arranging a plurality of parallel electrical connectors between two electronic devices. In one device, each connector has a strip connected to a bump pad. The bump pad is superimposed on and electrically connected to a bump pad on the other de... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7499706 | Network frequency setting A frequency setting unit for a radio telecommunications network comprising a first, reference base station transmitting signals at a first frequency, and a second base station transmitting at a second frequency; the frequency control unit comprising: a radio receive... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499600 | Method for characterizing a digital imaging system A method for use in characterizing a digital imaging system (53) having an array of imaging elements (35), and in particular for measuring the modulation transfer function (sometimes called the spatial frequency response) even in directions (33)... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498666 | Stacked integrated circuit The invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising a top package with a first substrate carrying an integrated circuit, and a bottom package with a second substrate carrying at least one die. To increase the clearance between the top package and the bottom pa... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498437 | Phosphorescent light-emitting device with doped iridium-complex A phosphorescent OLED uses a phosphorescent dopant in the emissive layer, the dopant includes a metal complex containing a plurality of moieties linking to a transition metal ion. One or more of the moieties contain a ligand with a C—SP3 carbon center. ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497337 | Apparatus for piercing garbage bags, washing materials released from the pierced garbage bags, and collecting nonrigid, elongate objects and powder An apparatus for disposing garbage bags in one embodiment includes a screen assembly including a first conveyor for conveying garbage bags from a feeding device to a hollow screening cylinder for piercing, and a second conveyor mounted below a rear discharge opening... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7491559 | Low-temperature polysilicon display and method for fabricating same A display panel comprising at least one display area and one peripheral circuit area having electronic components for driving the display components in the display area. The electronic components in the display area are fabricated substantially on a polysilicon laye... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7443112 | Current balancing circuit for a multi-lamp system The present invention uses one or more transformers disposed between an inverter driver to drive a plurality of lamps. Each transformer has a first coil and a second coil magnetically coupled to each other. Each of the first and second coils has an input end and an ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444513 | Authentication in data communication A client 110 may be authenticated by transmitting or beaming a telecommunication network subscriber's authentication to the client from a device 120, over a wireless link. For example, a GSM telephone 120 may authenticate an electronic book 1... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441053 | Support of an interaction between a host device and a peripheral device The invention relates to a method for use in a system comprising a host device and at least one peripheral device which are enabled to interact with each other. In order to improve the flexibility of the system, the method comprises a step of transmitting informatio... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439922 | Antenna for a portable device A GPS antenna has two electrically connected L-sections disposed on opposite sides of a circuit board. The L-sections lie on two separate planes parallel to the circuit board surface. One L-section is connected to a feeding point located at one edge area of the circ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437160 | Control of interfrequency handovers A method and a mobile station for controlling interfrequency handovers of the mobile station is provided. The target value for a quality factor of the received downlink signal is used in determining a need for an interfrequency handover. The target value of the hand... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432213 | Electrical connection pattern in an electronic panel A connector layout for arranging a plurality of parallel electrical connectors between two electronic devices. Each connector has a strip connected to a bump pad. Each strip has a certain required strip width and each bump pad has a certain required pad width. Each ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427745 | Optical shutter for miniature cameras The invention relates to a shutter for an optical imaging system, e.g. a digital camera. The shutter comprises an interface between a transparent body and a capillary space. Light rays introduced to the active area of the interface are reflected by total internal re... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421037 | Reconfigurable transmitter with direct digital to RF modulator A radio frequency (RF) transmitter uses two digital-to-RF conversion modules to convert digital baseband signals into RF signals. In cartesian mode, baseband signals are conveyed to the conversion modules for RF conversion. In polar mode, baseband signals are conver... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7410309 | Optical shutter The invention relates to a shutter for an optical imaging system. An amount of opaque fluid is moved in a planar capillary space to open and close the shutter. Depending on the position of the opaque fluid with respect to an optical path passing through the capillar... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7402764 | Multi-functional touch actuator in electronic devices A joystick has a dome facing a flat position sensitive detector for use an electronic device. The dome is elastically mounted so that the apex of the dome rests on the detector. As the joystick is deflected, the dome and the detector roll against each other such tha... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400917 | Protective devices for a mobile terminal This invention describes a protective device and associated method for protecting (including the protection from water and dust) a mobile terminal whether or not the terminal is in use, and for providing a hands-free operation of the mobile terminal, wherein the mob... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398017 | Method and arrangement for taking a camera into use in a mobile device The invention relates to a method for using a mobile device camera, and particularly to implementing the camera rapidly and easily. The method according to the invention for triggering a mobile device camera (322) includes a predetermined key sequence for tri... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382887 | Method and device for reducing high frequency error components of a multi-channel modulator A method and device for reducing error components of a multi-channel modulator. The method comprises the steps of inverting substantially half of the channels of a modulator, and reducing error components between said inverted channels and said non inverted channels... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379748 | Method for speeding up synchronization by having a search frequency list comprising a limited number of search frequencies A method for initial synchronization in a mobile telecommunications network to connect a mobile terminal (10) to a base station (12). The mobile terminal has a search frequency list comprising a limited number of search frequencies. The method comprise... | 05/27/2008 |
