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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7539391 | Method and apparatus for trick-mode support of audio/video/data streams with conditional access A method for trick-mode play of an encrypted transport stream containing audio/video/data information comprising: extracting and decrypting data used as local metadata for programs in the encrypted transport stream; creating trick-mode pointers from the metadata; an... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7529983 | Circuit arrangement and method for supporting and monitoring a microcontroller A circuit arrangement for supporting and monitoring a microcontroller, which is constructed externally of the microcontroller, comprises a watchdog circuit for monitoring the microcontroller, which circuit outputs an error signal if not reset by the microcontroller ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526613 | Data processing system with prefetching means The dismissing of cached data that is not expected to be further used is predicted instead of predicting future I/O operations and then data is fetched from the main memory to replace the dismissed data in the cache. Thus, firstly a location in a cache memory contai... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525553 | Computer graphics processor and method for generating a computer graphics image A computer graphics processor is described comprising a model information providing unit (210) for providing information representing a set of graphics primitives, a rasterizer (227) capable of generating a first sequence of coordinates which coincide ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522936 | Wireless terminal A wireless terminal a transceiver coupled to an antenna feed and a ground conductor (502), the antenna feed being coupled directly to the ground conductor (502). In one embodiment the ground conductor is a conducting case (902). The coupling is ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522903 | Three-phase mixer-system Three-phase mixer-systems comprising at least three groups of mixers (1-4,5-8,9-12,30) for frequency translating signals are (basic idea) provided with balancing means (13-21,31) for suppressing certain mixing products with ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522018 | Electro-acoustic resonator with a top electrode layer thinner than a bottom electrode layer An electro-acoustic resonator (1, 8, 17) of the membrane or FBAR type (1) or the solidly-mounted or SBAR type (8), with electrodes comprising a single conducting layer or multiple conducting layers, i.e. sandwich construction (17) with an... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519230 | Background motion vector detection A selector (502) for selecting a background motion vector for a pixel in an occlusion region of an image, from a set of motion vectors being computed for the image, comprises: computing means (510) for computing a model-based motion vector for the pixe... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518450 | Digital amplifier Recently, the use of class D audio amplifiers has become more and more widespread. In contrast to the generally employed class AB linear amplification technology, class D allows for improved efficiency. However, the class D principle is known for its poor distortion... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515074 | Coding information in integrated circuits A method for coding information in an electronic circuit and an electronic circuit for coding information uses at least two electrically coupled signal paths (X0, X1). Cross-talk between two electrically coupled signal paths (X0, X1) can ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515014 | Method for determining cable termination resistances in communication networks and a corresponding communication network The invention relates in general to a method for determining cable termination resistances in communication networks and a corresponding communication network, and is applicable especially to high-speed communication networks in automobiles, which uses dual-wire har... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513434 | Device comprising two mutually adapted impedances for the purpose of power transmission A device (1) for processing a signal (S) has firstly an antenna configuration (5) that is arranged to transmit a signal (S), that has at least one antenna-configuration terminal (6, 7) intended for connecting the antenna configuration (5)... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7418650 | Method for temporal synchronization of clocks In order to carry out in a communication system (1) a temporal synchronization of clocks in a particularly rapid and efficient manner, a method is proposed which has the following steps: acquiring state values which are dependent on a time base (10); f... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7271409 | Active matrix electroluminescent display devices, and their manufacture Physical barriers (210) are present between neighbouring pixels (200) on a circuit substrate (100) of an active-matrix electroluminescent display device, particularly with LEDs (25) of organic semiconductor materials. The invention forms ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268046 | Dual gate oxide high-voltage semiconductor device and method for forming the same A dual gate oxide high-voltage semiconductor device and method for forming the same are provided. Specifically, a device formed according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a buried oxide layer formed over the substrate, a silicon layer for... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7227313 | Organic electroluminescent device The invention provides a tool to select reliable organic LED devices, where the risk for failure before the end of its lifetime is low. This tool comprises the steps of: i) subjecting the device to a high electric field over the electroluminescent layer... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224352 | Active matrix electroluminescent display An active matrix display includes a display element for producing a visual output when the display element is driven with a constant current, and drive circuitry for controllably driving a substantially constant current through the display element. The drive circuit... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221342 | Electroluminescent display device An active matrix electroluminescent (EL) display device has a switching circuit for each display pixel which has a drive transistor (30) and a cascode transistor (32) in series with the associated EL display element (20). The switching circuit i... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221236 | Waveguide communication system A waveguide comprises a longitudinal first conductor (110) located in an inner space of a box-shaped longitudinal shield conductor which is provided with a slot (122) defining a sliding support for a substantially plate-shaped coupler (300). The... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7177660 | Radio communication system A method of operating a radio communication system uses a random access channel to enable a secondary station to transmit a message to a primary station. The secondary station-transmits a preamble to the primary station. After successful receipt of the preamble the ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174183 | Radio communication system A method of operating a radio communication system uses a random access channel to enable a secondary station to transmit a message to a primary station. The secondary station transmits a preamble to the primary station. After successful receipt of the preamble the ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7161536 | GPS receiver module The invention relates to a receiver module (1), more particularly a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver module for receiving PS signals and for determining position data therefrom, as well as a dual band antenna (2) for such a receiver module (... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162243 | Secondary station and method of operating the station A secondary station has a receiver capable of resolving signals received as a plurality of multipath signals from a plurality of base stations during a soft handover process. This capability may, for example, be provided by a Rake receiver. In order to decode and ac... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151916 | Method of receiving a signal and a receiver A method of, and receiver for, countering distortions in radio channels due to intersymbol interference (ISI) and other non-linearities in a radio link, comprises a first equalizer (48) using a training sequence for equalizing one type of distortion, say that... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151767 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing frequency hopping transceivers A slave radio transceiver for use in a frequency hopping radio system synchronizes by receiving on a sequence of simultaneous combinations of radio channels until a paging message is received from a master transceiver, and may then revert to single channel frequency... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145547 | Electrophoretic display device The invention relates to a display device for displaying information comprising a plurality of display elements with an electrophoretic medium, a first electrode (6), a second electrode (6′) and a third electrode (7) associated with each displ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141957 | Converter circuit and control method for same In known converter circuits switching losses occur, which are caused by reverse-recovery currents of a freewheeling diode. To reduce said switching losses it is proposed by the invention to drive the switching elements such that, upon switching from the second to th... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136479 | Method of and apparatus wherein a telephone user on hold is not required to listen to an objectionable audio signal A telephone user who is at a first telephone station and is placed on hold at a second station is prevented from listening to an objectionable audio signal while a call is in process between the user and the second telephone station. The objectionable audio signal i... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134582 | Substrate and method of separating components from a substrate A substrate (1) having a first groove (4) is provided with a protrusion (3) on the first groove (4). This protrusion (4) preferably has a top with an apex angle of 30 to 150 degrees and results in a controlled breaking of the subst... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135923 | Differential amplifier A differential amplifier for amplifying an input differential signal having two components (In+, In−) substantially in anti-phase to each other and generating an output differential signal having two differential components (Out+, Out−). The amplifier comprises ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131134 | Evening planner An apparatus and method for recommending a schedule of events to a user is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment of the system and method, each channel schedule is broken down into time slices. A novel fuzzy-now recommendation-time value is calculated for each time... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130179 | Switching device provided with polarity-inverting means The invention relates to a switching device comprising programmable compensation means which are associated with the input/output connections for inverting the polarity of the input/output connections when said connections present a polarity inversion which is inher... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129976 | Digital image enhancing system A digital image enhancing system for processing pixel contour data comprises a contour filter, means for edge processing and for local noise reduction to reduce the amount of noise in a pixel luminance or color signal (Sin), means to apply a control signal (Ghpf) in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130595 | Transmitter power amplifier ramping method A method for reducing frequency glitches in a digital transceiver due to power amplifier input impedance variations. According to the method, the power amplifier is switched on after the end of a prior packet reception period and before a new packet transmission beg... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126936 | Wireless network for transmitting parameters for an encoded data transmission The invention relates to a wireless network comprising a radio access network and a plurality of terminals which are each provided for encoding certain data to be transmitted and for forming a key in the same manner in dependence on a first and a second frame number... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126385 | Differential inverter circuit An improved differential inverter comprising a differential inverter having a differential input for receiving a first input signal and a second input signal, said inverter further comprising a differential control input for receiving a first control signal and a se... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127015 | Digital filter for reducing voltage peaks The present invention relates to a digital filter suitable for receiving a digital input signal (INPUT(G)) comprising a voltage peak also known as glitch (G). It is characterized in that it comprises: a delay line (T) adapted to produce a delayed digita... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123297 | Processing a sensor output signal including a clip A signal processing device for a sensor output signal from a sensor covered by a color mask pattern having a plurality of colors, the signal processing device comprising a reconstruction unit (5) for generating a plurality of color signal values (R, G, B) for... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122860 | Trench-gate semiconductor devices A trench-gate semiconductor device, for example a MOSFET or IGBT, includes a semiconductor body (20) having a drain region (4) comprising a drain drift region (4a) and a drain contact region (4b). An insulated field plate ( | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122433 | Method for manufacturing trench gate semiconductor device A device termination structure, and/or a gate bus-bar structure, and/or other end structure is provided for at least one group of cells in a cellular trench-gate semiconductor device, for example a power MOSFET. In this end structure, a conductive layer (11 | 10/17/2006 |
