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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170419 | Image processing system and control method thereof Provided are an image processing system and method thereof which communicates with an external image source device, the image processing system including: a display device which receives a modulated remote control signal modulated by a modulation method and demodula... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8139945 | Methods and systems for synchronized infrared real time location Methods and systems for determining a location and an identity of a portable device are provided. The system includes apparatus for transmitting timing synchronization information, a plurality of stationary infrared (IR) base stations and a plurality of portable dev... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7970282 | Network repeater, repeater controlling method and program product A bridge controller, which controls relay between terminals including emission units and addresses assigned to the terminals, acquires coordinates of a light-received element in an light receiving unit at which light emitted from an emission unit is received, and st... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7424225 | Systems and methods for implementing contention-based optical channel access A first node (205) in a network includes a non-optical transceiver (415) and an optical subsystem (410). The non-optical transceiver (415) sends a request message to establish an optical link from the first node (205) to a second n... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7373085 | Hybrid satellite and fiber communications system A communication system employing optical fibers and a high data rate satellite is utilized to provide high-speed Internet access to various geographic regions. In one aspect, a first teleport station is located geographically separated from a first user. The first t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359647 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving power over optical fiber A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving power over optical fiber is disclosed. In particular, a power over fiber system in which an optical network transmits electrical power via an optical signal and is also transmits data within the optical network a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7330661 | Method and apparatus for optical communication between devices A method and apparatus for processing a data signal for transmission to a remote device transmits at least two synchronized copies of the data signal, in optical form, in different directions. To that end, the data signal first is synchronized to a clock signal to p... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328236 | Method and system for accessing information and/or data available on a wide area computer network There is disclosed a method and a system for accessing information and/or data available on a wide area computer network (100), such as the Internet. A first modulated acoustic signal (A) is transmitted to a group of potential users each provided with a porta... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7307541 | Light output device, relay and program for controlling the light output device An information processing system formed with a relay and light output devices. In the system, an external information receiver receives first external information transmitted from an outside. An external information acquisition unit acquires second external informat... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302691 | Scalable low bandwidth multicast handling in mixed core systems Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for multicast handling in mixed core systems have been described. A method for multicast handling in mixed core systems includes configuring broadcast group registers located in targets. The method also includes receiving a req... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7266301 | Interference resistant repeater systems including controller units A repeater unit is provided that includes a receiver module and a controller unit. The receiver module is responsive to an infrared signal. The controller unit is adapted to determine whether a signal based on the infrared signal corresponds to a remote control sign... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263292 | Methods and apparatus for controlling multiple infrared devices A method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of infrared devices (ICDs) is provided herein. A remote controller is used to generate an optical signal for controlling a plurality of ICDs. The optical signal generated by the remote controller is converted into a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7236470 | Tracking multiple interface connections by mobile stations A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allowing a mobile station to have a first connection to a network over a first interface and determining that the mobile station is attempting to have a se... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228074 | Infrared repeater system, method, and adjustable brightness emitter therefor An IR emitter for use in an IR repeater system includes an IR light source and a manually adjustable brightness control for adjusting the brightness to a level appropriate for an IR detector of electronic equipment to be controlled. In a preferred aspect, the emitte... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215887 | Method and apparatus for infrared data communication An apparatus and method for conveying contextually relevant information to a wireless client (112) is disclosed. More particularly, an emitter (108) transmits a diffuse infrared signal to a client (112) having an IrDA infrared communication inte... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209663 | Apparatus and method for repeating signal by using wireless optical transmission A repeating apparatus and method using wireless optical transmission is disclosed. The repeating apparatus includes a donor device for transmitting two identical copies of an optical signal by receiving a RF signal from a base station and electro-optic converting th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200567 | Purchasing aid logistics appliance and method for use A purchasing aid logistics appliance that assists a purchaser with a shopping list generation, in-store product location, automated checkout, and financial management. The PAL is in the form of a battery operated PAL with touch screen display and multimedia input/ou... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187867 | Optical wireless communication system The present invention provides a bilateral communication network system, particularly, a optical wireless communication system communicating information frames via an optical node mounted on a mobile object and a plurality of optical repeaters connected to a wired n... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178031 | Wireless security access management for a portable data storage cartridge A portable security system mounted in a portable data storage cartridge for managing access by users to the cartridge. A programmable computer processor mounted in the cartridge is powered by and transfers data to a data storage drive via a wireless RF interface, wh... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7114078 | Method and apparatus for storage of usernames, passwords and associated network addresses in portable memory The memory card is comprised of memory that stores a user name and password for each respective network address or universal resource locator (URL). The information is encrypted to preclude unauthorized access to the memory. A controller controls operation and acces... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113707 | Dynamic optical interconnect This invention provides a dynamic interconnection system which allows to couple a pair of optical beams carrying modulation information. In accordance with this invention, two optical beams emanate from transceivers at two different locations. Each beam may not see ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099589 | Space-division multiplex full-duplex local area network An optical wireless local area network according to the present invention is an optical wireless local area network for interconnecting a plurality of terminals having a line-of-sight optical communication function. In the optical wireless local area network, a base... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092636 | Optical network employing erbium-doped fiber amplifiers A point-to-multipoint bi-directional wide area telecommunications network employing atmospheric optical communication. The network comprises a primary transceiver unit, a plurality of subscriber transceiver units and an optical router. The primary transceiver unit m... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079779 | Repeater apparatus, communication equipment, communication system thereof and repeating method A repeater apparatus (1001) is constituted from infrared transmitter sections (1s, 2s, 3s) and infrared receiver sections (1r, 2r, 3r) as well as connection control sections (... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072586 | Radio base station system and central control station with unified transmission format A central control station, which controls radio base stations connected thereto via radio links and optical fiber links, includes a demultiplexing unit which demultiplexes signals supplied from an upper-level station, signal conversion units which convert the respec... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7061397 | Antitheft protection system, method for operating an antitheft protection system and components of an antitheft protection system An antitheft protection system for a vehicle (10) comprises at least one transmitting and receiving unit (12) connected to the vehicle (10), at least one code transmitter (18), which can communicate with the at least one transmitting and ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062175 | Repeating radio frequency transmission system for extending the effective operational range of an infrared remote control system Inventive systems and methods for remotely controlling infrared controlled devices by using addressed radio frequency control signals. Radio frequency signals propagate through most obstructions to infrared control signals. Augmenting each control signal with an add... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051924 | Value holding system, value holding method, value holding program, and transaction system A value holding system includes a receiving unit that receives an instruction to add or remove a value relating to a payment, a judging unit that judges whether the instruction is identical to a previously received instruction, and a rejecting unit that rejects the ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7023360 | Vehicle parking assistance electronic timer system and method An electronic timer system includes a first unit. The first unit includes a memory device configured to store predetermined parking rule data, a timer device configured to determine at least one of a day, a date and a time of day, and an alert device configured to e... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020401 | Transponder and wavelength division-multiplexing optical transmission equipment A wavelength converter and a wavelength division-multiplexing optical communication apparatus automatically generate clock signals of a specified frequency that match send/receive digital signals and regenerates timing for the send/receive digital signals. The wavel... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6972661 | Anti-interference relay device for signal transmission An anti-interference relay device has a receiving module and a transmitting module. The receiving module modulates a received IR signal from a remote controller and an identification (ID) code of the receiving module to an RF signal and then broadcasts the RF signal... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970827 | System and method for storing information on a wireless device A system and method for storing personal, medical, and insurance related information on a wireless device are disclosed. The information may be stored by sending it from a remote personal computer to a central database using the Internet. The information may be temp... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6930730 | Control system and user interface for network of input devices Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and the like, over a variety of protocols within a network system and, more... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6583908 | Device provided with an optical communications function and optical communication system A device for transmitting and receiving data by optical communications with an external device, provided with a plurality of data transmission.backslash.reception units. Sequentially, during data transmission.backslash.reception, whether or not a transmis... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6559993 | Optical router for a light-based communication network A point-to-multipoint bi-directional wide area telecommunications network employing atmospheric optical communication. The network comprises a primary transceiver unit, a plurality of subscriber transceiver units and an optical router. The primary transce... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6501582 | Cascaded line-of sight free-space communications system A cascaded line-of-sight wireless communications system operating in free-space. The system provides broadband access for subscribers, allowing high speed wireless data communication across cities or towns. The system has a free-space optical network that... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6496290 | Optic repeater system for extending coverage A mobile communication system with fiberoptic system is disclosed to expand the service coverage of one base station. The fiberoptic mobile communication system includes a plurality of slave fiberoptic repeaters processed by a plurality of combiners in th... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6362906 | Flexible optical RF receiver An array antenna is constructed of radiators disposed upon a flexible substrate wherein a plurality of receiving circuits connect with respective ones of the radiators for conversion of RF (radio frequency) signals, received by the radiators, are converte... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6335812 | Communication terminal apparatus and a method A communication terminal apparatus is used in a communication system including at least one first terminal having an optical communication section to optically communicate with one other first terminal and at least one second terminal having a network com... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6336126 | Wearable computer A wearable computer communicates with its display device via an optical link. The optical link may utilize different colored LEDs and corresponding photodetectors for transmitting and receiving the video and control signals to and from the computer and th... | 01/01/2002 |
