Bizarre Patents
A helium-filled sun shade for protecting individuals engaged in outdoor activities.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7846538 | Connection structure with a workpiece and an object A connection structure includes a workpiece, and a coating layer disposed above the workpiece. A groove is formed on a surface of the coating layer. The connection structure further includes an object installed inside the groove and adhered to the workpiece. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7782142 | High speed differential to single ended converting circuit A differential to single ended converting circuit includes a transconductance circuit having input terminals for receiving differential input voltages and having a first current output terminal for outputting a first current and a second current output terminal for ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7781279 | Method for manufacturing a memory A method for manufacturing a memory includes first providing a substrate with a horizontally adjacent control gate region and floating gate region which includes a sacrificial layer and sacrificial sidewalls, removing the sacrificial layer and sacrificial sidewalls ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7755266 | Pixel structure for electroluminescent panel A pixel structure has a substrate, and a first subpixel unit, a second subpixel unit, and a third subpixel unit disposed on the substrate. The first subpixel unit has three first subpixels arranged in a delta formation, the second subpixel unit has three second subp... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738727 | Method of processing brightness of an image and related device Brightness values of image frames are collected and counted to form a brightness distribution. The brightness distribution of the image frames is compared with predetermined brightness distributions. Brightness values of all pixels of successive image frames are adj... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731572 | CMP head A CMP head includes a membrane support and a membrane. The membrane support is disk-shaped, having an origin and a radius R. The membrane support has at least a ventilator disposed in a central region within the range between origin and (⅔) R, and at least a diver... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7724347 | Tunable liquid crystal lens module An electrically controlled liquid crystal zoom lens system for a camera or the like is set to a desired zoom by an operator. The desired zoom signal is provided to an image signal processor which also receives the output of an image sensor at the output of the lens.... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720165 | Demapper applied to quadrature amplitude modulation trellis coded modulation decoder and related method A demapper, applied to a quadrature amplitude modulation trellis coded modulation (QAM-TCM) decoder, for generating more significant bits of a QAM signal according to the QAM signal and at least a less significant bit of the QAM signal is disclosed. The demapper inc... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7659917 | Method for labeling optical disc A method for labeling an optical disc includes the following steps: receiving a command of a light scribe application program of a host to start labeling, reading an indication area of the optical disc to obtain information of labeling, transmitting the information ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7629923 | Method and device for storing economically auxiliary correction data applied in global navigation satellite system A method applied in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for minimizing storage of correction data is disclosed. The method comprises: determining the receiver position and satellite positions; determining a intermediate point according to the receiver positi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626452 | Driving circuit to avoid reverse current for soft switching DC motor A driving circuit includes a power supply, an input capacitor, a Hall sensor, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a full-bridge driver circuit, and a first operational amplifier. The input capacitor is coupled to the power supply. The input end of the first ampli... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623185 | Synchronization control apparatus and method A synchronization control apparatus for driving a display module in an interlacing scan mode includes: a delay circuit for delaying an input vertical sync (IVS) signal to generate a delayed signal; and a multiplexer coupled to the delay circuit for selecting one of ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7593621 | Method of reserving space on a storage medium for recording audio and video content and recofding device thereof A method of recording audio and video content on a storage medium includes performing recording operations to record audio and video content on the storage medium; classifying the recording operations into a plurality of priority levels; and reserving space on the s... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7549812 | Print control module of thermal printer A print control module for a thermal printer includes a housing, a transmission device, a first driving mechanism, a second driving mechanism, and a power switching mechanism all installed in the housing. The transmission device includes a motor, and a transmission ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548504 | Input sampling circuit and method for processing disc read back signal An input sampling circuit for processing a disc read back signal to generate a digital signal includes an auto gain control (AGC) unit for adjusting a gain value of the disc read back signal, a low-pass filter/equalizer (LPF/EQ) coupled to the AGC unit for low-pass ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7445151 | Card printer with a dust-proof card receiver A card printer includes a housing having a card outlet and a connecting element for connecting to a connecting element of a dust-proof card receiver. The dust-proof card receiver includes an opening. A vertical distance between the opening and the bottom of the hous... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7436356 | Method of cross-correlation and continuous wave interference suppression for GPS signal and associated GPS receiver A method for processing weak indoor signals in presence of cross-correlation or continuous wave interference and associated GPS receiver are provided. The method comprises providing a two-dimensional delay-Doppler accumulated power pattern having a plurality of accu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7409093 | Method and apparatus for encoding video signals A method for a video encoder to encode video data into a video bit stream, the video data includes at least a picture, the picture includes a plurality of blocks, the method includes: receiving an available memory bandwidth value; determining an encoding type for th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403059 | Baseline wandering correction device and method A baseline wandering correction device for correcting baseline wandering of signals at a first output terminal and a second output terminal of a receiver includes: a control circuit for outputting a control signal according to voltages of the first and the second ou... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397383 | Remote monitoring method with event-triggered warning capability A remote monitoring method includes monitoring a plurality of components on a main board. When one of the plurality of components fails to function properly, a warning message is produced to indicate that the component is out of order. Afterward, the warning message... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397740 | Method and recording device capable of selecting a write strategy applied to an optical disc A method and a recording device capable of selecting a preferred write strategy from a plurality of write strategies for an optical disc. The optical disc contains a characteristic value. The method includes: reading the characteristic value from the optical disc; s... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7396717 | Method of forming a MOS transistor A method of forming a MOS transistor, in which a co-implantation is performed to implant an implant into a source region and a drain region or a halo implanted region to effectively prevent dopants from over diffusion in the source region and the drain region or the... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398404 | System and related control device and method for controlling power supply according to a power status A computer system includes a main power, a backup power, an input/output (I/O) board, a main board, a computer host, and controls signal transmission and signal detection with a control device. The control device controls the main power and the backup power accordin... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397853 | Adaptive de-blocking filtering apparatus and method for MPEG video decoder A post processing de-blocking filter includes a threshold determination unit for adaptively determining a plurality of threshold values according to at least differences in quantization parameters QPs of a plurality of adjacent blocks in a received video stream and ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7393797 | Method for thermal processing a semiconductor wafer A method for thermal processing a semiconductor wafer is disclosed. A rapid thermal processing (RTP) chamber encompasses a heating means, a rotation means, and a cooling system for cooling walls of said RTP chamber. A semiconductor wafer is loaded into the RTP chamb... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394241 | Method and apparatus for testing power switches using a logic gate tree A method for testing power switches using a logic gate tree, the method includes providing a logic gate tree electrically connected to a plurality of power switches, each output node of the plurality of power switches being electrically connected to a corresponding ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7327551 | Capacitor structure A capacitor structure is provided. The capacitor structure is configured in a substrate. The capacitor structure includes a plurality of electrode sets, at least a first conductive plug and at least a second conductive plug. The electrode sets correspond with each o... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7297450 | Optical proximity correction method An integrated circuit layout includes dense figures and at least one isolated figure. A plurality of dummy patterns are formed to surround the isolated figure, so as to reduce the difference in pattern density of the integrated circuit layout. A transmitted light of... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291930 | Input and output circuit of an integrated circuit chip An input and output circuit of an integrated circuit chip for exchanging signals between logic circuits of the integrated circuit chip and a system. The input and output circuit includes a plurality of power rings for providing a plurality of power sources, a plural... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7279931 | High voltage tolerance output stage An output stage structure includes first and second PMOS transistors and first and second NMOS transistors, wherein the MOS transistors are manufactured with a twin well process. The first PMOS transistor has a source coupled to a supply voltage (VDD), and a gate co... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7269293 | Video data enhancement method A method for enhancing video data includes inputting image data, providing a first threshold, generating a first mean gray level, generating a first minimum gray level, generating a first maximum gray level, generating a second mean gray level, generating a second m... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7220507 | Flat panel direct methanol fuel cell and method of making the same A flat panel DMFC (direct methanol fuel cell) includes an integrated cathode electrode sheet; a membrane electrode assembly (MBA) unit; an intermediate bonding layer; an integrated anode electrode sheet; and a fuel container. The integrated cathode/anode electrode s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7116616 | Method for controlling an optical drive to record data A method for controlling an optical drive to record data onto a disc. The optical recorder has a pick up head for emitting laser onto the disc to record data onto the disc. The method includes adjusting a write power and a write strategy of the optical drive accordi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111107 | Microcontroller with dedicated memory bank for servicing interrupts A microcontroller with expandable memory banks has a microprocessor, a plurality of memory banks with only one page for storing interrupt service routines(ISR), a memory bank control circuit connected to the microprocessor, and a multiplexer for connecting the micro... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105912 | Resistor structure and method for manufacturing the same A resistor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer positioned on the substrate, a salicide block positioned on portions of the surface of the semiconductor layer, and at least a salicide layer positioned on the portions of the surface of the semiconduc... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099788 | Multiphase waveform generator capable of performing phase calibration and related phase calibration method The present invention discloses a multiphase waveform generator capable of performing phase calibration, and a related phase calibration method. The disclosed multiphase waveform generator includes a multiphase waveform generating module and a calibrating module. Th... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096441 | Method for generating a command file of a group of DRC rules and/or a command file of a group of LVS/LPE rules A method is capable of generating a command file of a group of design rule check (DRC) rules or layout versus schematic (LVS) rules and layout parasitic extraction (LPE) rules that can be used by a layout verification tool to verify the layout and the parasitic char... | 08/22/2006 |
| D526662 | Digital audio system with a fillet-shaped covering | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091079 | Method of forming devices having three different operation voltages The present invention provides a method of forming devices having different operation voltages. First, a substrate having an HV region, an MV region, and an LV region is provided. Then, at least a deep well encompassing the LV region and the MV region is formed in t... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091786 | Linear-in-decibel variable gain amplifier A linear-in-decibel variable gain amplifier used for receiving an input voltage and generating an output voltage according to a first controlling voltage and a second controlling voltage. A voltage gain, that is, the ratio between the output voltage and the input vo... | 08/15/2006 |
