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A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185083 | Systems and methods for managing power consumption GPS navigation devices or GPS receivers can consume less power by using a temperature recorder circuit and/or a power manager in maintaining the accuracies of the GPS receiver time and reference frequency to improve battery life. A representative receiver includes a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180315 | Mobile terminal and functional operation control method of the same A mobile terminal includes: a battery supplying electric power; a voltage detection portion which detects the voltage of the battery; a function activation control portion which activates a predetermined function at a preset time; and a warning portion which, in ref... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160535 | RF adapter for field device An adapter for coupling to a process control transmitter of the type used to monitor a process variable in an industrial process is provided. The adapter includes I/O circuitry configured to couple to a two wire process control loop and to the process control transm... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145180 | Power generation for process devices A process device includes a controller and a wireless communications module. The wireless communications module is coupled to the controller. A power generation module is provided to generate electricity for the process device. The power generator module can be disp... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140046 | Mobile station having waiting process with main power off While main power in an automobile is off, a telematics station in the automobile intermittently runs to execute a process. The station has a first CPU in a wireless section for a wireless signal waiting process and a second CPU, having active and sleep modes, in a c... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8116718 | Power management for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith A communication device includes a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) that includes a memory module that stores a plurality of applications corresponding to a plurality of uses of the communication device. A processing module executes a selected one of the plu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095106 | System and method for power savings in a wireless communication network A method for power savings in a wireless communications network including selecting one or more connections with common performance characteristics to create a plurality of power savings classes, attributing a power savings window size to each power savings class, a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086214 | Electric field communication apparatus, electric field communication system, and method of controlling electric field communication apparatus An electric field communication apparatus includes: a plurality of electric field communication antennas for carrying out electric field communication; a detecting unit that detects the electric field communication antenna in connected state where at least electric ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086213 | Circuits, architectures, apparatuses, systems, algorithms, methods, and software for wireless arbiter power saving Circuits, architectures, systems, methods, algorithms, and software and/or firmware for arbitrating media access requests from multiple wireless communication protocol components. Exemplary circuits include a request processing circuit configured to set a positive m... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081949 | Methods and systems for enhanced sleep request messages for multi-mode operations Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a method of managing multi-mode operations such that a multi-mode MS may utilize the WiMAX sleep mode for monitoring the paging intervals of other supported radio access technologies. For example, certain embodiments... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078134 | Mobile terminal and method of controlling operation of the mobile terminal A mobile terminal is provided including a display module, an acceleration sensor, and a controller. The display module is for displaying first content and second content. The acceleration sensor is for providing measurement data on a direction of gravitational accel... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060052 | Semiconductor device In an RF tag, a mask ROM or a flash memory is used for storing data such as an ID number. Although the mask ROM can be realized at a low price, rewriting is not possible. In addition, in the flash memory, although electric rewriting is possible, production cost incr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041328 | System and method for activating an electronic device The disclosure provides a circuit and method for activating an electronic device from a low power state. The activation circuit comprises: a first accelerometer located in the device to detect a movement of the device along a specific axis; a second accelerometer wh... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032106 | Method for switching a component to an operation mode for reducing power consumption in a wireless communication device An embodiment of a method for switching to an operating mode a device comprising a counter counting the pulses number of a first clock and a date synchronized with an external reference date. The embodiment comprising at least: ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019316 | Lower power wake-up device A circuit producing a wake-up signal with a frequency selective RF amplifier that produces an amplified RF output. An RF detector detects the RF output and produces a signal W indicative of the the RF output signal's presence. A threshold detector determines if the ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014748 | Communication system having a communication device A communication system is enclosed. In one embodiment, the communication system includes a communication device configured to puts itself into an activated state or into a deactivated state at alternate times. The communication device receives time information in a ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010078 | Power mode control for a communication device and radio frequency integrated circuit for use therewith A power status signal is received in an integrated circuit that indicates an inductive power status of an off-chip inductive power module and a battery power status of a battery. A power mode is selected based on the at least one power status signal. A power mode si... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995985 | Wireless security messaging model Reducing power consumption and interference in wireless communication is provided. For example, in one embodiment, a method is provided that listens for radio frequency (“RF”) activity on a receiver utilizing a first receiver antenna. When no RF activity is dete... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979048 | Quasi non-volatile memory for use in a receiver Image rejection factors are calibrated for a receiver circuit (106) during an initialization period. The image rejection factors are stored in a quasi non-volatile memory (124) associated with the receiver circuit (106). The quasi non-volatile m... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7945233 | Systems and methods for dynamically controlling a tuner Systems and methods for dynamically controlling a tuner are provided. In exemplary embodiments, the tuner receives control signals generated by digital signal processing hardware (DSPHW). These control signals control noise figure and linearity characteristic of com... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7912441 | Apparatus and method for enabling near field communication equipment in a portable communications device An apparatus and method for enabling a Near Field Communications (NFC) equipment integrated into a portable communications device, such that when the portable communications device's battery is low the residual charge of the battery is used to power the NFC equipmen... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899434 | Power management for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith A communication device includes a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) that includes a memory module that stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a plurality of power modes that each corresp... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899433 | Method and apparatus for saving power by controlling listening periods in wireless telecommunication device having a plurality for power-saving modes A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption by controlling listening periods in a wireless telecommunications device having a plurality of power-saving modes are provided. The method includes: setting a first power-saving mode and a second power-saving mod... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881693 | Semiconductor device In an RF tag, a mask ROM or a flash memory is used for storing data such as an ID number. Although the mask ROM can be realized at a low price, rewriting is not possible. In addition, in the flash memory, although electric rewriting is possible, production cost incr... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7835718 | Semiconductor circuit for wireless receiving provided with controller circuit for controlling bias current A constant voltage source supplies a bias current to a wireless receiver circuit. A bias current detector circuit detects the bias current, and outputs a detection result to a current controller circuit. The current controller circuit outputs the detection result of... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822404 | Driving voltage control module Provided is a driving voltage control module capable of minimizing current consumption and time taken to return from a standby state to a normal state by controlling driving voltages for electronic circuits and systems for communication when a mobile communication t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7792515 | Power mode control for a communication device and method for use therewith A power status signal is received in an integrated circuit that indicates an inductive power status of an off-chip inductive power module and a battery power status of a battery. A power mode is selected based on the at least one power status signal. A power mode si... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7751794 | Apparatus, system and method capable of integrating a cellular phone stack in an extended firmware interface (EFI) layer An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless device capable of integrating a cellular phone stack in an extended firmware interface (EFI) layer, wherein the cellular phone stack within the EFI layer may include TDMA or CDMA-bas... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7725093 | Method and apparatus for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer to simulate a connected scenario An apparatus and method for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer (MPC) are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of a data synchronization wakeup event while the MPC is operating accordi... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706771 | Inductive powering for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) receives at least one power status signal indicating an inductive power status of an off-chip inductive power module, the inductive power status including an inductive power ready state, and the at least one power status s... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7689196 | Timer-based sleep for terminals in wireless communication systems Techniques for performing timer-based sleep to extend sleep time and thus battery life for a terminal in a wireless communication system. The likelihood of data traffic may be related to recent usage. If recent usage indicates that data traffic is unlikely, then the... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676214 | Method and system for increasing the standby battery life of a mobile device A method and system for increasing the standby battery life of a GSM mobile device. The method increases the standby battery life of a GSM mobile device by reducing monitoring of the serving cell's paging messages using a deterministic and adaptive procedure with ze... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672660 | Method of performing actions related to handover by a mobile station that is in power saving mode in a wireless mobile communication system A method of performing actions related to handover by a mobile station (MS) in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the MS receives information from a base station (BS), wherein the information includes at least one action for perf... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7636563 | Performing idle mode in a wireless access system A method for controlling an idle mode in a mobile station comprises transmitting an idle mode request message to a serving base station to enter the idle mode. The method also comprises determining whether a skip threshold parameter has been exceeded, the skip thres... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7620382 | Frequency converter capable of preventing level of intermediate frequency signal from lowering due to rise in temperature There is provided a bias power supply for setting a collector bias current of a mixer transistor and a collector bias current of an oscillation transistor. When a control voltage is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value, an output voltage of the bias ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7606552 | System and method for activating an electronic device The invention provides a system and method for activating an electronic device from a low power state. In the system, an activation circuit for an electronic device is provided. The circuit comprises: a motion sensor circuit; an input device; and a monitoring circui... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7596365 | Device for transmitting and receiving A device for transmitting and receiving is disclosed that includes: a) an antenna, b) a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting and receiving data according to a communications standard, which has a transmitting unit, connected to the antenna, for transmitting ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593709 | Method for managing power of a mobile communication device The method for managing power includes the steps of: setting up a wake up time; checking the power supply status of the mobile communication device during the wake up time, and setting up the power supply status as an initial status; waking up the mobile communicati... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590402 | Power-saving clipping apparatus for wireless electronic devices A power-saving clipping apparatus for wireless electronic devices aims to hold and anchor a receiver in a wireless electronic device. The clipping apparatus has a power-saving switch which is electrically connected to the wireless electronic device. The power-saving... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587194 | Mobile station having waiting process with main power off While main power in an automobile is off, a telematics station in the automobile intermittently runs to execute a process. The station has a first CPU in a wireless section for a wireless signal waiting process and a second CPU, having active and sleep modes, in a c... | 09/08/2009 |
