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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7466239 | Voice bulb A voice bulb, which is adapted for detachably mounting to an electric bulb socket, includes a supporting housing, an illumination unit, and an audio unit. The supporting housing includes a supporting base and an electric head extended therefrom for detachably connec... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7424120 | Method and apparatus for volume control A method and apparatus for generating and controlling volume of a speaker of an appliance is disclosed. The appliance includes an IC chip connected to an amplifier subsystem. The IC chip includes a square-wave audio signal generator, a counter, a register, a compara... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400641 | Bus master for a bus for connection of sensors and/or ignition means A bus master for a bus for connection of sensors and/or an ignition means device, which has at least two bus driver arrangements allowing data to be received independently of one another. For this purpose a polling operation, specifically using a multiplexer or a de... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359757 | Remote control method and apparatus, remote controller, and apparatus and system based on such remote control When a user gives a parameter storage instruction via a remote controller, current settings of parameters in an input switching circuit, surround circuit, graphic equalizer and electronic volume are stored into a non-volatile RAM. Then, once the user gives a reprodu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352288 | Apparatus and method for preventing malfunction of remote controller A malfunction of interpreting one remote control operation as a plurality of remote control operations by mistake is prevented without impairing the responsiveness of a remote controller. A counter code which is updated each time a key of the remote controller is op... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349633 | Access point for constructing optical fiber-based high-speed wireless network system An access point in an optical fiber-based high-speed optical wireless network is disclosed. The access point includes an antenna for receiving communication requirement signals, a switch for selectively outputting a corresponding signal according to the communicatio... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345592 | Control unit A hand-held remote control unit for controlling the operation of a television and other electronic audio/video components, such as a VCR, DVD player, or home stereo, operates in a different mode for use as a video game controller. The location and position of the pu... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342935 | Method and apparatus for sending out multi-channel digital data, method and apparatus for programming the information and method and apparatus for managing multi-channel digital data An information source management system 11 performs inventory management for CDs and a material information management progress programming system 12 performs programming. An material information registration system 13 compresses the musical num... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339926 | System and method for wireless communication in a frequency division duplexing region A method and system for using half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in a Frequency Division Duplexing region to provide wireless connectivity between the half-duplex base stations and customers in multiple sectors of a cell. The method and system can use t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339492 | Multi-media wireless system A wireless content distribution system includes a controller for selectively controlling the system. The controller includes means for storing data and first means for transmitting and receiving data. At least one output device is connected to the controller for out... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324168 | Universal remote control unit A universal remote control unit for controlling the operation of a plurality of devices such as a cable box, a television, a video device, and an audio device, includes a processor having a plurality of operating modes. In one embodiment the universal remote control... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324081 | Augmented-reality system for situation-related support of the interaction between a user and an engineering apparatus The invention relates to an augmented-reality system having a mobile apparatus for the context-dependent insertion of assembly instructions. The context-dependent insertion of assembly instructions with process-optimized allocation of the necessary work steps provid... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319409 | Digital interconnect of entertainment equipment A remote control for communicating commands to a target device having first data that specifies a function supported by the target device. The remote control includes a set of command key indicias, stored within the universal remote control prior to any communicatio... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7304662 | Video surveillance system and method A video surveillance system includes clients coupled to servers using a network. The clients generate data, video, and optionally audio. Using the network, clients communicate in real-time the data, video, and optionally audio to the servers for monitoring, analyzin... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286061 | Method and apparatus for activating optical media A method and apparatus for activating an optical media device with a conditional access mechanism is presented. The optical media device is configured with a conditional access system such as an optical shutter assembly and the apparatus is configured to receive suc... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283177 | Method and apparatus for controlling the functions of an image capturing apparatus A control apparatus for remotely controlling one of adjusting functions of an image capturing apparatus, including contrast, gamma, sharpness, and aperture. The control apparatus transmits to the image capture apparatus a first command requesting a current value of ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283059 | Remote control multimedia content listing system A remote control multimedia content listing system for providing an updated content listing of various media within a remote control. The remote control multimedia content listing system includes a remote control having a housing, a display, a keypad, and an electro... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281664 | Method and system for hierarchical management of a plurality of regions of an encoded surface used by a pen computer A method for hierarchical management of a plurality of regions of an encoded surface. The method includes recognizing unique encoded information on a portion of the surface in response to a pen computer touching down on the portion. A unique location of the portion ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7271732 | Remote operating apparatus and remote operating system A remote operating apparatus includes a selection decision operating device, a controller, a first operation function changing button and a second operation function changing button for changing an operation function of the selection decision operating device. The c... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269449 | User exchangeable mobile phone keypad A handset having a housing having a display and first keypad. The first keypad is removably coupled to the housing. Circuitry is provided within the housing. The circuitry is adapted to interface with the display and the first keypad. A second keypad is provided. Th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266434 | Interactive system and method for customization of an adjustable vehicular feature An interactive system for customizing at least one operational feature on a vehicle by an operator comprises an input device for receiving operator selection data and a message generating device. To assist an operator during the customization process, the message ge... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7249147 | Combination compact disc recorder and player system The combination recorder and player system includes a recorder/player unit and a remote control unit. The recorder/player unit includes a recorder/player computer system and recorder/player software that is operable to cause the recorder/player to record, play, and ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245594 | Method and apparatus for fast closed-loop rate adaptation in a high rate packet data transmission In a high data rate communication system capable of variable rate transmission, an open loop rate control can be adjusted with a closed loop rate control to maximize throughput. An access point generates interleaved multi-slot packets that allow an access terminal t... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242316 | Device control apparatus and method An apparatus and method of distributing media content from a hardware input device to a hardware output device, located remotely from each other, in a home network, is disclosed. A control unit receives a user input and converts it to a control signal. An encoder de... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236600 | Transmission of power and/or signalling between an audio distribution unit and a plurality of remote audio transducers A remote-controlled audio system comprises sets of loudspeakers (14A-14D) connected to power amplifier units (22A-22D) in an audio distribution unit (10) to which several audio sources, such as a compact disc unit, a tape deck, etc... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233781 | System and method for emergency notification content delivery A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229023 | Radio and optical identification tags An identification tag is formed with a single microcircuit. The microcircuit includes an optical transceiver, a radio transceiver, both connected to a memory storing an identification code. At least one of the transceivers operates in receive mode, and at least one ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225981 | Adaptive network-centric online autonomic supply chain management system Provided is an agile, adaptive, globally deployable online network-centric autonomic supply chain management system that when triggered by a predictive/diagnostic condition management system, without user-maintainer intervention, autonomously authorizes a complete r... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224811 | Audio system utilizing personal computer An audio system is constructed by a personal computer and an audio device, which are connected together by way of a serial bus such as a universal serial bus (USB), for example. The audio device such as an audio component stereo system provides at least one audio so... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225135 | Signal-predictive audio transmission system Various methods and systems disclosed compand audio signals using signal prediction, followed by expansion and reconstruction. The methods and systems compress and expand an error signal that represents deviations between samples of the original signal and predicted... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212825 | Network communication system using a single reservation request made with randomly generated information to identify a node A network communication system is provided for communication between network nodes, including individual nodes and a central control station node. In the network, signals are transmitted from the central control node to identify specific timeslots in which individua... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212252 | Method and system for enabling detection of signals in the presence of noise A method for transmitting data to a receiver comprises the steps of transmitting a pre-conditioning signal to the receiver, and beginning to transmit at least one data packet to the receiver within a given period after beginning transmission of the pre-conditioning ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210353 | Multimedia feature for diagnostic instrumentation A system and method for obtaining hearing ability related data from a subject outputs tones or sounds and monitors the subject's responses to the tones or sounds. An error condition is detected based on the responses, and corrective instructions are automatically de... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209748 | Network communication system using a single reservation request over one or more assigned frequencies to identify a node A network communication system is provided for communication between network nodes, including individual nodes and a central control station node. In the network, signals are transmitted from the central control node to identify one or more frequencies that the node... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209900 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209980 | Method and system for interpreting device control commands A multimedia system includes an information handling system, and a plurality of multimedia devices operatively and electrically connected to a computer of the system. Software modules residing in computer memory interpret control commands. This includes receiving a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203486 | Wireless system having a dynamically configured multimodal user interface based on user preferences A wireless system is provided for dynamically configuring a multimodal user interface based on user preferences to communicate with a local appliance. An appliance node is operably linked to the local appliance and configured to transmit interface format data of the... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200406 | Network communication system using a single reservation request made from a node to transmit its data A network communication system is provided for communication between network nodes, including individual nodes and a central control station node. In the network, signals are transmitted from the central control node to identify specific timeslots in which individua... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191024 | Remote control method and apparatus, remote controller, and apparatus and system based on such remote control When a user gives a parameter storage instruction via a remote controller, current settings of parameters in an input switching circuit, surround circuit, graphic equalizer and electronic volume are stored into a non-volatile RAM. Then, once the user gives a reprodu... | 03/13/2007 |
