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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7332936 | Semiconductor circuit, display device, electronic apparatus To provide a semiconductor circuit having D flip-flops, a display device and an electronic apparatus having the display device, in the invention, the number of transistors is reduced by using 2 n-channel transistors and 2 p-channel transistors instead of using 2 con... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7313201 | Multi-range transconductor and method of operation A method for tuning a transconductor includes receiving a digital value. The method also includes determining a bit value for a selected bit of the digital value, and selecting a tuning range for a transconductor based on the bit value. The method further includes t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7283105 | Microdisplay and interface on single chip A microdisplay having interface circuitry on the same silicon backplane to allow it to receive digital images and video in a variety of formats and convert same to field sequential color signals for generation of full color images. It includes column data processors... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7213310 | Device for finishing denim woven fabric A device for finishing woven denim textiles is described which, proceeding from unfinished goods, is supposed to be brought to predetermined reference values for finished width, skew and woof thread density. The device is supposed to be designed for continuous opera... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7194204 | Photographic firearm apparatus and method A telescopic firearm scope/sight which is fully integrated with a compact digital camera, and which has size, shape and weight characteristics that are substantially the same as those of a conventional, camera-less telescopic scope, is used to photograph a target pr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7154983 | Method of operating a first-in first-out (FIFO) circuit The present invention provides an overflow detector for a FIFO. The FIFO includes a plurality of registers each having an input and an output, a plurality of write signals each respectively coupled to a clock, one of the plurality of registers, and a plurality of re... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7129793 | Device for calibrating the frequency of an oscillator, phase looked loop circuit comprising said calibration device and related frequency calibration method A device calibrates the frequency of an oscillator. The oscillator has first and second inputs and generates an output frequency responsive to a first voltage signal at the first input. The calibration device generates a calibration signal applied at the second inpu... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7116159 | Method and apparatus for adjusting an active filter An adjustable filter, particularly for use as an antialiasing filter in digital telecommunications networks, includes adjustable capacitors which determine frequency response for the purpose of accurate alignment with a particular cut-off frequency. The active filte... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109961 | Electric circuit, latch circuit, display apparatus and electronic equipment In order to perform operations securely, a high potential power supply is connected to a gate electrode of a P-type TFT to which data signals are input. Similarly, a low potential power supply is connected to a gate electrode of an N-type TFT. Thus, a TFT to which d... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7078960 | Method and system for filter tuning using a digital trim value A method for storing a result of a tuning process includes generating a first characteristic signal using a signal generator. The method also includes generating a second characteristic signal using a master circuit, wherein the master circuit generates the second c... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7049869 | Adaptive lock position circuit An adaptive lock position circuit includes a jitter distribution extremity detector and a phase shifting circuit. The jitter distribution extremity detector receives an input data signal and is operable to compare the input data signal with one or more clock signals... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7023285 | Self-calibrating controllable oscillator The controllable oscillator in a phase-locked loop (PLL) can self-calibrate by tapping the PLL's feedback path with a suitable circuit or logic block. The logic block may include a counter. This enables the self-calibration/trimming to be handled completely within a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019586 | High-speed Gm-C tuning A technique to achieve high-speed tuning of a Gm-C circuit, such as, for example, a Gm-C filter. In one embodiment, a master Gm-C time-constant circuit incorporates at least one element (either a transconductance or a capacitance) that is matched to a corresponding ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7010395 | PC-programmed irrigation control system A free-standing field irrigation controller is selectively programmed by a personal computer over a radio link. The computer is equipped with software that displays a screen with seven horizontal time bands representing one day each, arranged vertically to display o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7002427 | Filter trimming An adjustable phase shifter generates a phase shifted reference signal by introducing a phase shift in a reference signal. A phase detector identifies a phase difference between the reference signal and the phase shifted reference signal. A control signal generator ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000693 | Control of hydrocarbon wells An apparatus controls the operation of a hydrocarbon production well. The apparatus includes a supply means for providing an electric power supply. The apparatus also includes a plurality of electrically operated actuating devices. The actuating devices can be a plu... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002404 | Tuning circuit for a filter The invention relates to a tuning circuit for tuning a filter stage, which has an RC element (1) with an RC time constant (τ), with the RC time constant (τ) being the product of the resistance of a resistor (R1) in the RC element (1) and the c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6972633 | Calibrating a loop-filter of a phase locked loop The invention relates to a method of automatically calibrating a loop-filter of a phase locked loop, which loop-filter comprises at least one RC-filter component and is integrated on a single chip together with at least one RC-filter component of another entity than... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6952121 | Prescaling for dividing fast pulsed signal Circuits, devices and methods are provided for dividing a fast pulse signal by an integer M. A dual modulus prescaler receives input pulses, counts them, and generates one prescaled pulse for every Qth input pulse. Q is a division modulus, and has a different value ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6937089 | Offset, delay and parasitically immune resister-capacitor (RC) tracking loop and method of using same A resistor capacitor (RC) tracking loop includes a parasitic insensitive integrator (211) charged by a buffer (207) with offset compensation. The integrator (211) operates to provide an accurate ramped voltage proportional to a measured RC time ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928129 | Phase locked loop circuit and method of frequency modulation in phase locked loop circuit The present invention provides a phase locked loop circuit comprising: a frequency divider for frequency-diving an output signal to generate frequency-divided pulses; an oscillator for generating the output signal under control to an oscillation frequency by a contr... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6917895 | Method for determination of roll density A method for determining roll density in connection with a web reel. A known relation between the length (l), diameter (D), basis weight (b) and density (ρ) of the wound roll, formula (1) is used. Distortions caused in the measurement results by noise and other dis... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914437 | Filter calibration and applications thereof A method for calibrating a filter begins with the filter filtering a first signal having a first frequency to produce a first filtered signal, wherein the first frequency is in a known pass region of the filter. The processing continues by measuring signal strength ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6898479 | Method and device for the failsafe monitoring of the rotational movement of a shaft A method for the failsafe monitoring of the rotational movement of a shaft comprises a first step of picking up a characteristic pulse train with a number of pulses following one another at successive times, the time interval between the pulses is dependent on the r... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6845274 | Communication port control module for lighting systems An improved technique of interfacing a computer lighting device to a control computer is disclosed, wherein a hardware device is interposed between the control computer and the lighting device. The hardware device handles certain functions in hardware, thereby permi... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6556877 | Timed multi-function digital interface In a data processing system a method and apparatus is provided for discriminating between digital signals of a plurality of different rates by monitoring the pulse width and repetition rate of such signals. The digital signals are continuously monitored t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6519311 | Overflow detector for FIFO The present invention provides an overflow detector for a FIFO. The FIFO includes a plurality of registers each having an input and an output, a plurality of write signals each respectively coupled to a clock, one of the plurality of registers, and a plur... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6496556 | Step-down clock control and method for improving convergence for a digitally controlled self-calibrating VCO A PLL system (200) includes a clock sequence generator (190). Clock sequence generator (190) provides a clock that steps down from a fast frequency through several steps to a frequency of zero. This step-down non-linear digression of frequencies causes a ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6473485 | Charge pump leakage current compensation systems and methods A leakage current compensation system and method is disclosed that reduces frequency spurs and phase offset in a frequency synthesizer. The leakage current is determined based on the phase offset of the frequency synthesizer relative to a reference clock.... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6470063 | Method and device to update data transfer count for disc drive Method and device to update a data count in a data transfer operation in which a data counter generates an intermediate count value in accordance with a first amount of data to be transferred to a storage media; and an augmenter augments the intermediate ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6466890 | Device for detecting rotational position deviation The present invention relates to a detecting device of rotational position deviation, which detects deviation of the rotational position of machine axes driven by electric motors with pulse signals outputted from pulse generators, which are attached to at... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6421408 | Counter logic for multiple memory configuration The present invention is an efficient system and method for flexible masking of output bits from a counter. The maskable counter system and method of the present invention modify the chain carry fed into a counter so that any bit (or bits) of the counter ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6396894 | Overflow detector for FIFO The present invention provides an overflow detector for a FIFO. The FIFO includes a plurality of registers each having an input and an output, a plurality of write signals each respectively coupled to a clock, one of the plurality of registers, and a plur... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6356615 | Programmable event counter system Certain events occurring throughout a microprocessor chip are monitored by a counter system (1) containing a number of digital electronic counters (3, 5, 7 & 9) consolidated at a single location on the processor chip. Those events are communicated to the ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6188256 | Reset-out circuit with feed back capability A reset device is disclosed which is part of a micro-controller formed on an integrated circuit. The reset device has a counter which outputs a count enable signal after counting a predetermined number of counts. In response to an input reset signal, an i... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6175607 | Pulse counter The pulse counter counts high speed pulses and detects an absolute phase difference among a plurality of electric motors. Pulse outputs 5 and 6 from pulse generators 3 and 4 are inputted into integrating counters 15 and 16 through pulse converters 9 and 11 and... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6078635 | Seed or particle-counting device A seed counter of the present invention is used to accurately count seeds at a high speed. The invention includes a line vac connected to a linear array laser. The line vac is connected to a supply of seeds which are drawn through the line vac by a source... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6057720 | High speed sticky signal generator The present invention has been made in view of the above mentioned problem, and the present invention provides a sticky signal generator for rapidly generating a sticky signal with a small layout area which uses a shift register of which the size is equal... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6011827 | Electronic hub odometer A system for electronically measuring the distance that a wheel has traveled can be used on a tractor-trailer combination vehicle to independently monitor mileages for the tractor and the trailer. An axle on the tractor and an axle on the trailer each has... | 01/04/2000 |
