Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360892 | Method and apparatus for selecting contact lens for reshaping altered corneas due to post refractive surgery, previous Ortho-K or Keratoconus A kit for determining a hypothetical cornea for use with post-LASIK and post myopia Ortho-K amendment. The kit has a reference table for determining conformation data by using at least one of following data: pre-treatment KM readings, post-treatment KM readings, pow... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7159771 | Information processing terminal with adjustable and foldable support stand An information kiosk is disclosed. The information kiosk preferably has a touch-screen LCD display for convenient user interface. The information kiosk has an adjustable support stand for supporting the kiosk for convenient viewing by its users. The support stand al... | 01/09/2007 |
| D532374 | Modular track electric connector and jack | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123070 | High frequency gain amplifier with phase compensation circuit A gain amplifier with quadrature phase compensation circuit is disclosed. The gain amplifier for in-phase (“I”) and quadrature (“Q”) signals comprises a first resistive component having a first input node (“Node 1”) and a first output node (“Nod... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099489 | Twin magnetic loop multifunctional vibrator-speaker transducer The present invention relates to a multifunctional device, which is particularly applicable to a twin magnet loop (called TML) transducer with both vibrating and sound functions. The present invention integrates an inner and an outer magnet loop of TML into one devi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7085245 | Coefficient domain history storage of voice processing systems A method and apparatus for canceling a near-end echo of a far-end signal for each channel of a voice over packet multi-channel communications gateway. The invention applies “off-the-shelf” coding mechanisms as well as novel coding schemes to provide fixed compre... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081008 | Apparatus for producing an output voltage to power an electronic device Apparatus for producing an output voltage Vo to power an electronic device is disclosed herein. According to the preferred embodiment, the apparatus comprises a power supply (100) having two or more first connection elements (108) in which s... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080079 | Method of using the internet to retrieve and handle articles in electronic form from printed publication which have been printed in paper form for circulation by the publisher A method and system of using the Internet to retrieve printed articles from printed media. The method of the present invention first tags each printed article that is to be published in print. The tag is also printed with the printed article to allow readers to iden... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070275 | Orthokertology and bi-focal contact lens A contact lens is fitted to a cornea of a patient's eye to gradually alter the patient's cornea during continued wear to reshape the cornea to reduce the hyperopia and/or presbyopia condition. The contact lens has a plurality of zones that includes one or two optica... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7042253 | Self-calibrating, fast-locking frequency synthesizer A frequency synthesizer for dual-band high frequency RF application. The frequency synthesizer first uses a frequency-locked loop circuit (“FLL”) to achieve self-calibration and frequency-locking, and then uses a phase-locked loop circuit (“PLL”) to achieve ... | 05/09/2006 |
| D520016 | Side and top panels for a desktop computer case | 05/02/2006 |
| D518291 | Transport and display case for a golf set | 04/04/2006 |
| 6997553 | Contact lens for reshaping the altered corneas of post refractive surgery, previous ortho-K of keratoconus A contact lens is fitted to a cornea of a patient's eye to gradually alter the patient's cornea during continued wear to reshape the altered cornea conditions such as the corneas of post refractive surgery, post previous Ortho-K. and keratoconus. The contact lens ha... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994182 | Escape device for building A safety device for escaping from building, which includes a flexible tube-shaped object (8), interval installing elastic apparatus (6) longitudinal along the flexible tube-shaped object (8), a supporting frame (9) installed on the top of... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980120 | Universal remote control with digital recorder An improved universal remote control unit (URC) for home entertainment units. The URC has the typical remote controller module for controlling appliances such as TV, stereo, VCR or DVD. Additionally, the URC has a built-in digital recorder module for recording the c... | 12/27/2005 |
| D506300 | Electric powered golf cart | 06/14/2005 |
| D504876 | Liquid crystal television | 05/10/2005 |
| 6882678 | Method and system for canceling multiple access interference in CDMA wireless communication system A receiver for the third-generation (“3G”) CDMA wireless system is disclosed. The receiver is adapted to mitigate the correlated interference by adaptive antenna process which will maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. After the mitigation of cor... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6875101 | Computer housing ventilation arrangement A computer housing ventilation arrangement includes a computer case having an opening in the bottom panel, a wire gauze filter mounted in the opening of the computer case, and electric fan mounted inside the opening and adapted to draw outside cooling air upwardly i... | 04/05/2005 |
| D503175 | Computer front panel | 03/22/2005 |
| 6788885 | System for heating instillation or transfusion liquids A system for warming a fluid includes a fluid warmer having a housing that retains therein a heating element, and cartridge that is retained inside the housing and which receives heat from the heating element. The cartridge has a rigid plate having a first surface a... | 09/07/2004 |
| D493780 | Information processor and router | 08/03/2004 |
| D492622 | Golf bike | 07/06/2004 |
| 6760908 | Embedded software update system A method and system for an embedded software update system, which helps manufactures or vendors avoid costly product recall activities in the event their digital products have field software errors (“bugs”) or hardware problems. One aspect of the present inventi... | 07/06/2004 |
| D491821 | Thermostat control | 06/22/2004 |
| D490130 | Protective cover for golf drivers | 05/18/2004 |
| 6726112 | Illuminating thermostat A thermostat for a HVAC system with visual display of status and operating condition. The thermostat has a power switch to select one of Heater and Cooler for the HVAC system, a light sensor (200) to sense ambient lighting, a temperature sensor (210) t... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6652095 | Orthokeratology and bi-focal contact lens A contact lens is fitted to a cornea of a patient's eye to gradually alter the patient's cornea during continued wear to reshape the cornea to reduce the hyperopia and/or presbyopia condition. The contact lens has a plurality of zones that includes one or... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6653934 | Electro-magnetic audio transducer for surface-mounted devices An electromagnetic audio transducer for SMD applications. The transducer comprises a lead frame with external terminals, which are formed into a predetermined shape. The transducer has a case with inside and outside surfaces, where the case is integrated ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6641187 | Self-closing bag holder and assembly A self-closing bag holder for a flexible bag. The bag holder has a pair of resilient arms for supporting the bag and a pair of resilient handles. Each arm is joined with a handle by a rocker, which provides a fixed angle between the arm and the handle. Th... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6402815 | Methods and apparatus for purifying air using mixing liquid Methods and apparatus for purifying contaminated air using mixed liquid are disclosed. The invention includes an air inlet structure for taking in contaminated air, an air purifying compartment connected to the air inlet structure at one end for purifying... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6361169 | System and method for orthokeratology The present invention provides a method for selecting a contact lens for orthokeratology. The method comprises selecting an appropriate contact lens based on the patient's ocular information using a vision improvement program reference table and fitting t... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6256837 | Hinge assembly for car-mounted video display unit A hinge assembly for mounting a video display with a screen to the interior of an automobile is disclosed. The hinge assembly comprises an open shaft adapted to pivot the screen about a first axis, a rotate shaft adapted to pivot the screen about a second... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6113858 | Monitor with in-situ optical probe for continuous concentration measurements An on-site monitor is disclosed for providing automatic measurements of chemical concentrations in a liquid or gaseous environment. The opto-electronic monitor has an extended probe, which can be inserted into the liquid or to be in contact with the ambia... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5945848 | Effectively differential, multiple input OR/NOR gate architecture A multiple input, low voltage, OR/NOR gate architecture based on a single-ended OR/NOR gate circuit, wherein a plurality of input transistors are connected in parallel. A reference transistor connects to the input transistors. A feedback means connects th... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5922052 | Fast Ethernet combination chaining of auto-negotiations for multiple physical layer capability A circuit and method for Ethernet combination chaining of auto-negotiation sessions for multiple physical layer capability. The present invention provides control circuitry for arbitrating between different physical layer circuit types that heretofore wer... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5920853 | Signal compression using index mapping technique for the sharing of quantization tables A signal compression system includes a coder and a decoder. The coder includes an extract unit for extracting an input feature vector from an input signal, a coder memory unit for storing a predesigned vector quantization (VQ) table for the coder such tha... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5916301 | Sample rate conversion for synchronous variable rate The concept of integer ratio sample rate conversion is extended to fractional values, where the exact ratio is expressed as M+N/D!/L with L being a constant. This methodology allows sample rate conversion for all synchronous rates, where all rates are d... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5892792 | 12-chip coded spread spectrum modulation for direct conversion radio architecture in a digital cordless telephone A cordless direct sequence spread spectrum telephone using a direct conversion radio architecture wherein the code sequence used for spreading and despreading is an even code sequence to prevent addition of low frequency noise in the down-conversion proce... | 04/06/1999 |
