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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156067 | Systems and methods for performing anytime motion recognition Techniques for performing anytime motion recognition are disclosed. Based on a motion signal received from a motion-sensitive device being manipulated by a user as a way to interact with an application, a processing unit is configured to a set of prototypes included... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8127820 | System for producing optical recording medium Techniques for producing optical medium that can be read at substantially high speeds with greater stability and accuracy are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a molding station includes an optimized stampler which does not have an exact inverse ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125284 | Temperature compensation method and apparatus for an output frequency signal based on successive approximation Techniques of compensating frequency in an output in reference to a reference frequency signal are disclosed. The reference frequency signal may be from a crystal oscillator or other oscillators. Due to the changes of the temperature, the reference frequency signal ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118218 | Method and apparatus for providing electronic purse Techniques for portable devices functioning as an electronic purse (e-purse) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a mechanism is provided to enable a portable device to conduct transactions over an open network with a payment server without compr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112371 | Systems and methods for generalized motion recognition Techniques for performing motion recognition using generalized motion recognition capability are disclosed. At least two types of sensors are used to generate sensor signals about a motion made by a user. The sensor signals are then transformed to device-independent... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107020 | Color-based microdevice of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplay The invention pertains to an improved LCOS microdevice that eliminates colored lights required generally in a prior art system. According to one aspect of the present invention, the LCOS structure uses color filters directly in the LCOS chip. Depending on the number... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8087809 | Apparatus for illuminating brand in a bottle and method for the same Designs of bottle sets are disclosed to highlight a sign in a transparent container. In one embodiment, a bottle set includes a bottle and a base. A fixture is provided and disposed within the bottle. The fixture includes a light guide extended from an interior bott... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081410 | Overcurrent protection circuit Designs of an overcurrent protection circuit Techniques are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, an overcurrent protection having continuous protection thresholds is provided to efficiently protect a battery from discharging overcurrent espec... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081146 | Multifunctional driver controllers The present invention discloses a multifunctional driver controller capable to drive one or more voltage-controlled devices or current-controlled devices. According to one embodiment, the multifunctional driver controller comprises a selection unit receiving a contr... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073909 | Hybrid platform for video games Techniques for providing a hybrid platform for video games are disclosed. To enjoy the video and audio quality a TV could provide, all game actions with a video game are provided via a TV. However, the video game itself is running on a generic personal computer (PC)... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072441 | Device and method for detecting multiple touch points Techniques for detecting multiple touch points for touch screens are disclosed. A touch screen includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, each conductive layer having a positive terminal and a negative terminal. Efficient operations of detectin... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8051024 | Example-based creation and tuning of motion recognizers for motion-controlled applications Techniques for tuning motion recognizers in motion detections are described. The motion recognizers are created or generated in advance by trained users. The motion recognizers are then loaded into a processing unit that receives motion signals from a handheld motio... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041659 | Systems and methods for motion recognition using multiple sensing streams Techniques for motion recognition using multiple data streams are disclosed. Multiple data streams from inertia sensors as well as non-inertial sensors are received to derive a motion recognition signal from motion recognizers. These motion recognizers are originall... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040426 | Automatic focusing mechanism An automatic focusing mechanism comprises a plurality of lenses and an image sensor disposed along an optical axis, an electromagnetic driving device for generating an electromagnetic force to drive the image sensor to move along the optical axis, and a position-lim... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8016592 | Method and system for thermal processing of objects in chambers A thermal processing system is disclosed. The thermal processing system includes a transfer stage, one or more thermal processing chambers and an interface to a deposition equipment. The transfer stage is provided to receive workpieces for thermal processing. Furthe... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996469 | Method and system for sharing files over networks A collaborative communication system is disclosed. The collaborative communication system allows registered user to share a file with online or offline users by sending the file to a store remotely located with respect to a client machine being used by a sender. Eac... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996464 | Method and system for providing a user directory Techniques for providing a graphic environment to facilitate communication with one or more users in a directory. The directory includes a plurality of registered users and a corresponding status thereof. At least one of the registered users in the directory is asso... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991528 | Rear-view car mirror for accommodating a GPS device An interior rear-view mirror for cars is so designed that a portable GPS device may be readily mounted on. Depending on implementation, a portable GPS device may be slid in or clipped onto a rear-view mirror. ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990352 | Monochromatic liquid crystal display for colors Techniques for providing backlight techniques in liquid crystal flat panel displays are disclosed. According to embodiment, the backlighting includes three color groups of light emitting diodes that are turned on successively. Pixels in an LCD are controlled in acco... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986499 | Current limiting circuit and voltage regulator using the same Techniques pertaining to a voltage regulator with a current limiting circuit having low quiescent current are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a current limiting circuit is provided for limiting a current passing through an output pass ci... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7975105 | Solid state storage devices with changeable capacity A reconfigurable type of flash memory-based storage device is disclosed. According to one aspect, a flash SSD comprises a data bridge and a plurality of flash memory cards. The data bridge includes necessary interfaces, a data buffer and a data management module to ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7953246 | systems and methods for motion recognition with minimum delay Techniques for performing motion recognition with minimum delay are disclosed. A processing unit is provided to receive motion signals from at least one motion sensing device, where the motion signal describes motions made by a user. The processing unit is configure... | 05/31/2011 |
| D638841 | Game controller | 05/31/2011 |
| 7938906 | Method and apparatus for dynamic thin-layer chemical processing of semiconductor wafers A semiconductor wafer processing and analysis apparatus (20) includes a processing micro chamber (22) for closely receiving a semiconductor wafer (27) therein. The chamber may be opened for loading and removing the semiconductor wafers and then ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937243 | Method and apparatus for non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements Techniques for non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements are disclosed. In one aspect of the techniques, ontology is defined to specify an application domain. A program interface (API) is also provided for creating raw features by a developer. Thus a module i... | 05/03/2011 |
| D636645 | Lamp changer | 04/26/2011 |
| 7917455 | Method and system for rapid evaluation of logical expressions Methods and systems capable of determining which subset of a set of logical expressions are true with relatively few evaluations of the primitives that together with any standard logical connectives, make up the logical expressions. A plurality of directed acyclic g... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912374 | High isolation wavelength division devices Techniques for designing optical devices with high reflection isolation are disclosed. According to one aspect of the devices, an optical filter and a reflecting element are used. Depending on implementation, the reflecting element may be another optical filter, a p... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905092 | Solar-powered shielding mechanism Solar-powered shielding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes a shield, a pair of tracks, an energy collecting device for collecting solar energy, storage for storing liquid being heated in the energy collecting device, and a motor powered by electricity ge... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899772 | Method and system for tuning motion recognizers by a user using a set of motion signals Techniques for using motion recognizers are described. The motion recognizers are created or generated in advance by trained users. The motion recognizers are then loaded into a processing unit that receives motion signals from one or more motion sensitive devices b... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895282 | Internal electronic mail system and method for the same Techniques for delivering internal mail over the Internet without relying upon a domain name in an email address commonly known to include an @ sign are disclosed. An embodiment of the techniques is for a collaborative communication system or platform, where each of... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889010 | Compensation circuit An improved compensation circuit with loop compensation is disclosed. The compensation circuit can get an equivalent large capacitance by amplifying a small capacitor. Hence, the compensation circuit can get a good compensation effect with a minimum chip area, hence... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885907 | Automatically creating a component to rapidly evaluate logical expressions Methods and systems capable of creating a component for determining which subset of a set of logical expressions are true with relatively few evaluations of the primitives that, together with any standard logical connectives, make up the logical expressions. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876844 | Apparatus and method for determining positions of pilot sub-carriers in an OFDM symbol Techniques for determining positions of pilot sub-carriers in a received OFDM symbol are described. Components of pilot sub-carriers from a theoretical OFDM symbol are extracted to form M theoretical pilot sequences according to M possible distributions in frequency... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869504 | Coefficient scaling operational units Techniques for providing a coefficient scaling operational unit to perform the coefficient scaling computation for various image compression schemes are disclosed. To minimize multiple units, each for one image encoding/decoding scheme (e.g., MPEG4 and WMV9), a sing... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860166 | Method and apparatus for motion estimation in video signal decoding Efficient search window storage schemes for motion estimation in video signal processing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, motion estimation is carried out as follows: allocating a ring buffer to store at least critical number of macro-blocks of luminance ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859561 | Method and system for video conference Techniques for compressing video stream in a video conference are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, the method comprises obtaining a frame image sequence and selecting a reference frame image; determining whether an N-th frame image has acute mov... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853050 | System and method for operation without touch by operators Techniques to control computing systems without the physical touches by operators are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a non-touch operation system comprises a display unit for displaying operating objects, a capture unit for capturing images of... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843644 | Compact free-space WDM device with one-sided input/output ports Techniques for designing compact free-space optical device with all input/output ports on one side are disclosed. Instead of folding a fiber, a beam folding means is provided to turn a light beam to significantly reduce the size of the device. In one embodiment, the... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831464 | Method and system for dynamically representing distributed information Techniques for dynamically representing distributed information are disclosed. According to one embodiment, metrics for deployed resources in a predefined environment (e.g., an enterprise) is designed. The metrics includes at least various logic and data sources and... | 11/09/2010 |
