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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154550 | Waveform display device and waveform display method The invention aims to implement a waveform display device capable of visibly displaying a comparison waveform in an arbitrary range and a waveform display method. The waveform display device for executing waveform display of waveform data on a display section compri... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8102396 | Apparatus and method for improved measurement speed in test and measurement instruments An apparatus for measuring a parameter of a digitized signal including a digitizer to digitize an input signal into a digitized signal, a rasterizer to generate a raster image from the digitized input signal, a processor to receive the raster image, and a control in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7952584 | Method of displaying delay time, device and storage medium A delay time of a signal delay caused on a path on an electronic circuit is represented as length in a first direction on a plane having as coordinate axes the first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. When there is a pin at which a si... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7911466 | Method and apparatus for editing timing diagram, and computer product A timing diagram is displayed on GUI of a timing diagram editing apparatus. Numerical information indicating the repetition number for which a waveform image within the arbitrary number of clocks is repeated is received, and the repetition number is determined based... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7652667 | Method and apparatus for visually indicating mask violation locations A digital storage oscilloscope having a display screen to display a waveform, and a mask defining compliant and non-compliant regions. A method of operating the oscilloscope includes receiving a signal, processing the signal, and displaying the signal on the screen.... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7589728 | Digital oscilloscope display and method for image quality improvement A method and apparatus for displaying an acquired signal on an oscilloscope. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an analog signal, digitizing the analog signal and determining a plurality of samples generated by the digitizing that are to be represented by a... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7545377 | Method and apparatus for digitized waveform display An apparatus for displaying a digitized waveform includes an overview display configured to display a digitized waveform scrolling across the overview display, a zoom display configured to display a portion of the digitized waveform, and a control unit configured to... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7505039 | Track of statistics A method and apparatus for generating a statistic based upon a persistence data is provided. The method comprises the steps of defining a plurality of slices of data comprising a persistence data and generating a histogram of the data within each of the plurality of... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7443396 | Instrument having a virtual magnifying glass for displaying magnified portions of a signal waveform An electronic instrument which has a virtual magnifying symbol capable of magnifying a portion of the instrument's signal waveform in a single window of the instrument display. The user is able to position the virtual magnifying symbol with knobs, buttons, or, more ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7420563 | Analysis data management system and program therefor The present invention provides an analysis data management system with which users can efficiently check a number of analysis results obtained through a batch analysis or some other process. The system creates a list of waveform images each showing a chromatogram or... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7373263 | Analog-type measurements for a logic analyzer A logic analyzer that performs analog-type measurements on digital data includes circuitry in its acquisition system that is programmable to search through acquired data to detect analog-type signal characteristics. In a first embodiment, the logic analyzer includes... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369127 | Dynamic control of graphic representations of data The present invention provides user selections to control of one or more graphical representations of data in a graphical display. User selections can include parts of the graphical display, such as tick marks, offset bars scale values, combination bars and/or the g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366993 | Automatic graph display System and method for displaying signals. First user input requesting display of a first signal is received, e.g., to a graphical user interface (GUI) comprised in a signal analysis function development environment, and the first signal programmatically analyzed in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359810 | Characterizing newly acquired waveforms for identification of waveform anomalies A method of characterizing a newly acquired waveform with respect to previously acquired waveforms during monitoring of a generally repetitive signal, where the previously acquired waveforms have been rasterized into a two-dimensional array of memory locations, read... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348979 | Display and method of providing a visual display of multiple time series data A display for showing the inter-dependence of a plurality of time series each varying in different defined sessions includes a plurality of composite geometric objects representative of one of the time series. The objects are positioned sequentially in order of the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348981 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343552 | Systems and methods for freeform annotations Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention provide freeform annotation techniques designed to make freeform annotations on a digital document more flexible, reliable and presentable on a screen of a computing device. They allow users to markup the ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337389 | System and method for annotating an electronic document independently of its content A system, method, and apparatus for annotating an electronic document independently of its content is provided. According to one variation, a tablet and stylus-based computer is programmed with a document browser that permits a user to annotate documents viewed thro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336298 | Video signal level monitoring apparatus A video signal level monitoring apparatus which monitors the level of a video signal, said apparatus comprises means for inputting a first color difference component (Cb) and a second color difference component (Cr) of a component video signal, means for inputting a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324108 | Monitoring events in a computer network Monitoring events triggered by a computer network. Each event being provided with attribute values allocated to a given set of attributes, and providing an event display, determining a primary attribute and a corresponding display label of the events selected from t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325194 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers between measurement systems based upon semantically labeled strings Number conversion between different units of measurement in a document is enabled. A string of text entered into an application program is analyzed to determine whether it includes a number having an associated unit name. Found numbers with associated unit names are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319390 | Data processing apparatus, intrusion sensor and antitheft apparatus A data processing apparatus executes data processing with respect to an output of A/D conversion of an input signal. The data processing apparatus includes a high-frequency noise recognition unit. The high-frequency noise recognition unit detects number of peaks of ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319764 | Method and apparatus for controlling volume Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for controlling the volume of an audio track. This method represents the volume of an audio track with a graph. This graph is defined along two axes, with one axis representing time and the other representing the vo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312806 | Dynamic width adjustment for detail-in-context lenses A method for reducing occlusion in a presentation of a region-of-interest of an original image, the presentation generated by distorting the original image to produce a lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310782 | Method and apparatus for arranging program and I/O controls A computer system includes a display and a processor. The processor operable to implement a user interface on the display. The user interface including a plurality of program controls for initiating processing tasks. The processor is operable to, responsive to an ac... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310777 | User interface for viewing performance information about transactions Data about a transaction is accessed. The transaction has a set of components. A graphical representation of the components of the transaction is displayed such that the graphical representation includes a time axis and a call stack position axis. In one embodiment,... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295527 | Signal analyzer and method for displaying power levels of code channels A signal analyzer and a method for displaying code-channel power levels of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) signal that contains code changes having different spreading factors. The individual code-channel power level is measured from a received signal and displ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281245 | Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application A method and system are provided for downloading software components from a remote source to a software application for providing updates or additions to the application's functionality. All components and files that may be utilized to update or add to functionality... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278101 | Controlling audio volume in processor-based systems A processor-based system may control the volume level of information played by said processor-based system. The system may allow the user to set one or more preset audio volume levels and the system automatically implements those levels. In one embodiment of the pre... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268783 | Image alias rejection using shaped statistical filtering Image alias rejection when converting a high resolution rasterized waveform to a lower resolution rasterized waveform for display uses a statistical filter. The statistical filter provides a shaped probability density function either by combining the outputs of mult... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265062 | Ionic additives for extreme low dielectric constant chemical formulations A process for depositing porous silicon oxide-based films using a sol-gel approach utilizing a precursor solution formulation which includes a purified nonionic surfactant and an additive among other components, where the additive is either an ionic additive or an a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257509 | Measuring device with functional units controllable via a block diagram A measuring device, in particular a signal generator, comprises several functional units which may be connected to each other in various combinations, a control device which determines the connection and functions of the functional unites, and optical display device... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251127 | Convertible and detachable laptops According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of converting a computer from a folded position into an alternate position is disclosed. The method includes: providing a display; providing a base coupled to the display; providing a base flap pivotally... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248263 | User interface for representing multiple data sets on a common graph A method and user interface are provided for independently and conveniently scaling y-values of multiple data sets whereby the data sets may be plotted against a common y-axis and provide satisfactory variability. A multiplier is selected by which data points in a d... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246017 | Waveform measuring apparatus for measuring waveform data and writing measurement data to acquisition memory A waveform measuring apparatus can sequentially and continuously read measurement data from an acquisition memory, where the measurement data has been written by multiple acquisitions, after acquisition stops. The waveform measuring apparatus writes measurement data... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239316 | Method and apparatus for graphically manipulating data tables An interactive display system includes a display such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), for example, and a display controller. The display controller and display operate in concert to display graphical images that are representative of numerical, tabular, data. The displ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239616 | Signal analyzer and method for displaying power levels of code channels with orthogonal transmit diversity A signal analyzer and a method for displaying power levels of code channels of a CMDA signal sent with orthogonal transmit diversity (OTD) via at least one of at least two antennae is described. Once a code class has been determined for representing the power of eac... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239341 | Vector waveform rotation device A vector waveform rotation device (60) for rotating a vector waveform displayed on a vector comprises rotation amount setting means (5′) for holding a rotation amount α, and means (6′) for inputting a first color difference signal (B-Y sign... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233349 | Video timing display indicator A timing alignment or offset display shows the relationship between a reference signal and a test signal, in particular two analog or digital video signals. Timing extraction circuits derive a lower frequency signal synchronized to horizontal lines and a higher freq... | 06/19/2007 |
