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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7379720 | Keypad lighting using polymer light emitting devices At least one key of a keypad of an electronic device, such as a wireless terminal, includes a polymer light emitting device, also referred to as a polymer LED, thereon. A polymer LED may be on the inner and/or outer surface of the face of the key and may be unpatter... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373120 | Mobile communication terminal A mobile communication terminal which includes a plurality of lights, apparatus for controlling the activation of the lights, apparatus for storing a number of sequences of activation of the lights, and apparatus for assigning one of the stored sequences of the acti... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7140295 | Printing group including cylinders supported for movement A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of a pair of cylinders each having a circumference that corresponds essentially to a length of a section of a side to be printed. The effective generated surface of at least one of the cylinders comprises, at the m... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7102513 | Automatic installation and alignment mode for wireless bridges Disclosed are methods and apparatus for automatically installing and/or aligning antennas of wireless bridges in computer networks. In general terms, when a particular bridge is installed or aligned, an installation mode is triggered which automatically displays an ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6127936 | Apparatus for and method of providing an indication of the magnitude of a quantity An apparatus for and a method of providing a visual and/or audible indication of a numerical quantity. The quantity may be derived from any source such as an analog or digital quantity. The invention has utility in any application wherein it is desirable ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 5898707 | Data sampling circuit and portable radio terminal device A data sampling circuit samples radio signal data made up of plural successive sets of data, each set of data having a given number of data bits. A first shift register holds and shifts the data bits of the radio signal data to successively obtain sampled... | 04/27/1999 |
| 4661994 | Frequency and volume display for a receiver A receiver having a tuner for tuning to a desired broadcast station and connected with a detector through which a demodulated signal is supplied as an input signal to a function selector which receives at least one other input signal from another source t... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4495651 | Broadcast receiver comprising an entirely electronic control device A broadcast receiver is provided for mounting on board a motor vehicle, whose control circuit is entirely electronic. The receiver comprises a case whose front face, accessible to the user, is free from unevennesses or appreciable projections and which pr... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4340908 | Control level displaying apparatus A control level displaying apparatus includes a remote control signal receiving circuit having a discriminating circuit for producing a sound volume up/down control signal and at least one up/down characteristic control signal relating to at least one oth... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4313212 | Electrical circuit arrangements, for example for use with communications receivers A fully digitally-controlled system is disclosed which employs synthesized communications receivers to measure received signal frequency with greater resolution than that provided by the receiver alone. Variable frequency I.F. translation is used to provi... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4291412 | Portable radio frequency/channel display system A portable radio frequency/channel display control system for use in a portable radio device or the like which is powered by a battery and of the type which includes a display for indicating the frequency/channel to which the radio is tuned. The system se... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4229698 | Tuning indicator An indicator for displaying RTTY signals in a terminal unit. The terminal unit converts mark and space signals from a radio receiver at audio frequencies to digital pulses for a readout device. Proper tuning of the radio receiver is facilitated by viewing... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4227254 | Quasi-analog channel indicator for radio receivers A radio receiver receives a transmitted high-frequency signal which is mixed within the receiver with a local-oscillator-frequency signal to form an intermediate-frequency signal, which in turn is converted into an audio-frequency signal. A plurality of i... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4225971 | Tuning apparatus for providing tuning indication Tuning apparatus which is tunable to different broadcast frequencies and including a scale provided with indicia corresponding to such broadcast frequencies and a pointer movable across the scale to indicate the particular broadcast frequency to which the... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4218775 | Pushbutton radio tuner with illuminated pushbutton display A pushbutton tuner display apparatus for an entertainment device is disclosed in which a plurality of pushbuttons are used to tune a radio apparatus in the entertainment device in one mode of operation, while in another mode of operation the entertainment... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4167702 | Tuning apparatus A tuning apparatus includes a dial plate marked with broadcast frequencies thereon; guide shafts provided in parallel with the dial plate; a plurality of markers slidably mounted on the dial plate, with each marker representing a preset position and forme... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4123714 | FM Receiver with liquid crystal signal indicator An FM receiver having a gate circuit extracting a pilot signal contained in a stereo composite signal and a circuit driving a liquid crystal display device with the output signal from the gate circuit, in which when there exists the pilot signal, "STEREO"... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4122395 | Radio control circuit with microprocessor An FM tuner control circuit contains a digital frequency synthesizing control circuit, digital computer means including a microprocessor, a memory circuit, and a manual control circuit for digitally tuning the tuner to any desired FM station. The memory c... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4039956 | Electronic indicator An electronic frequency indicator for an AM/FM receiver utilizing a plurality of light-emitting diodes. The intensity of the diodes is varied to achieve greater resolution for the number of diodes in the indicator.... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3973206 | Monitoring system for voltage tunable receivers and converters utilizing an analog function generator A system for monitoring the channel to which a remotely located voltage tunable receiver or converter is tuned includes a comparator for comparing the magnitude of the tuning voltage with an internally generated reference voltage to determine the channel ... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3962641 | Tuning apparatus In a tuning apparatus for a broadcast receiver having a voltage controlled variable frequency oscillator for generating a local frequency signal corresponding to a selected broadcasting station, and being provided with a phase locked loop including a refe... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3959729 | Electro-optic tuning indicator A receiver selectively and variably tunable to one of a number of broadcast stations has an electro-optic tuning indicator for providing a visual indication of a selected station. The indicator includes a station encoder having a plurality of sets of indi... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3953800 | Tuning indicator for a radio frequency receiver A radio or television receiver is selectively tunable to one of a number of carrier frequencies transmitted from distant broadcast stations and has a tuning indicator for displaying the frequency of a selected station. The indicator includes a station fre... | 04/27/1976 |
