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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150362 | Electronically tuned agile integrated bandpass filter A method and apparatus for an electronically tuned agile integrated bandpass filter is described. In one embodiment, the invention is an intermediate frequency filter for use in an integrated circuit. The filter includes a first filter stage, including a first LC re... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8050650 | Hairpin band pass filter and related frequency down converter A band pass filter includes a first micro-strip port for receiving a radio-frequency signal, a second micro-strip port for outputting a filtered radio-frequency signal and comprising at least one resonating cavity formed for enhancing rejecting effect of image frequ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7991379 | RF transmitter and receiver front-end A radio frequency receiver front-end includes a low noise amplifier, a mixing stage, and a selectable channel filter. The low noise amplifier is operably coupled to amplify inbound RF signals to produce amplified inbound RF signals. The mixing stage is operably coup... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7610034 | Method and apparatus for selection of design parameters for double conversion tuner to prevent radiated immunity degradation A double conversion tuner system is disclosed that avoids the problem of degraded performance as a result of radiated interferers. Several selection criteria are described for specifying the parameters of the tuner, including the nominal first or high intermediate f... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7583950 | High linearity tunable bandpass filter A tunable bandpass filter (10) is provided. An RF signal is provided at an input of the tunable bandpass filter, and a level shifted control signal (V1, V2) inputted to the tunable bandpass filter (10) switches a first arrangement and a s... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7570937 | Comfort noise generator Comfort noise is derived from a white noise signal by filtering the white noise signal in a QMF bank to produce comfort noise signal that is selectively coupled to at least one channel in a telephone. Preferably, a plurality of QMF banks are used and the magnitude o... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7499694 | Tuner alignment In a method of tuning a receiver for a digital signal (MPEG2-TS), an input signal (RF-in) is filtered (In-filt, Band-filt) to obtain a processed signal, a digital figure of merit (BER) is determined (Mix/Osc/IF amp IF-downconv-2, C) from the processed signal, and th... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7443269 | Method and apparatus for selectively blocking radio frequency (RF) signals in a radio frequency (RF) switching circuit An RF switching circuit that incorporates a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) device and one or more capacitors that are used to vary the capacitance of the FBAR device to change the frequency range that is blocked by the FBAR device. When the RF switching circuit... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437139 | Method and apparatus for calibrating filtering of a transceiver A method and apparatus of calibrating filtering of receive and transmit signals is disclosed. The method of calibrating filtering of a received signal includes injecting an LO signal. The injected LO signal is filtered by a tunable filter. The filtered signal is fre... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433668 | Controlling Q-factor of filters The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a Q-factor for a filter. The method comprises stabilizing an active feedback to provide a variable feedback in a filter, varying the active feedback based on an input signal to the filter, and ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428262 | Channel estimation in a rake receiver of a CDMA communication system A method and apparatus for channel estimation in a rake receiver of a CDMA communication system operates with a finite-impulse-response channel estimation filter with L taps and having a fixed delay. A pilot sequence of a received sequence of data from a channel of ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415264 | Low noise filter for a wireless receiver A low noise filter is arranged to receive an input signal from a downconverter. The low noise filter is constructed to block or cancel any DC offset in the input signal, as well as filter selected frequency components from the input signal. The low noise filter uses... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409200 | Module integration integrated circuits A first signal conditioning circuit is formed from a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. Signal conditioning functions of each of these portions are facilitated by a predetermined type of integrated semiconductor die within which they are formed. Tw... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406304 | Electronic component with integrated tuning device, allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals An integrated superheterodyne dual-conversion tuner upconverts a signal so as to place it outside a reception band, and then downconverts the signal with a non-zero intermediate frequency. A first filter of the bulk acoustic wave type is positioned between the up an... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398065 | Programmable sampling band pass filter A variable bandwidth, sampled analog filter can be programmed to have a variety of responses. A variable bandwidth, sampled analog filter is preferably a sampled analog resonator based filter that receives a bandwidth control input and a sample clock input. The samp... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395044 | Signal processing apparatus and method of differential transformer A measuring apparatus employing a differential transformer includes a high-frequency oscillator which generates a high-frequency signal having a frequency higher than the excitation frequency of the differential transformer, a frequency divider which divides the hig... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7376440 | N-plexer systems and methods for use in a wireless communications device A wireless communication device comprises an N-plexer, that is, a multi-band device, connected to a single antenna for receiving multiple communication bands on the single antenna. The N-plexer includes a receive band pass filter of a receive signal path to receive ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366486 | System and method for coarse/fine PLL adjustment An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programable attenuation and a programable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358862 | Radiosonde system, radiosonde system receiver and signal processing method in a radiosonde receiver This publication discloses a radiosonde system, a radiosonde system receiver and a signal processing method for use in a radiosonde system. The radiosonde system comprises at least one radiosonde (1) with means for acquisition of position and/or weather data ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352911 | Method for bilateral filtering of digital images A method for processing an image using a bilateral filter. The bilateral filter is reformulated at each pixel location in the image into a sum of the original signal value of a central pixel at said pixel location and a bilateral correction term which is a function ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346327 | Wireless receiving circuit and wireless portable device A wireless receiving circuit includes a mixer, a buffer, an active low-pass filter, and a second order passive low-pass filter which are connected between a signal input terminal and a signal output terminal. The second order passive low-pass filter is for removing ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343142 | Tuner A digital terrestrial tuner has an RF input connected to a filter arrangement, whose output signal is supplied to a zero intermediate frequency frequency changer. The filter arrangement comprises a plurality of signal paths of different frequency responses. The sign... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340237 | Dual-band active filter The present invention discloses a dual-band active filter having filtering response and positive pass-band gain. The dual-band active filter includes an input match unit for gain match of the dual-band active filter and for having a band-pass filtering response; a f... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333793 | Method for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication system The invention relates to a method and system for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication network. The system comprises a mobile node, a first and a second packet switching node. The method enables the parallel sending of logical link layer fram... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328041 | High-frequency switch module A high-frequency switch module is less power consumable, and is able to be small-sized and thinner in thickness. The high-frequency switch module is also able to obtain an amount of attenuation in a stopband and proper characteristics. The high-frequency switch modu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327996 | High sensitivity radio receiver The invention relates to a high sensitivity receiver installed outdoors which may be used in a base station of a mobile communication system, for example. A received radio frequency signal is converted into a signal in a desired frequency band by a reception bandpas... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321735 | Optical down-converter using universal frequency translation technology A method and system for converting an optical signal to electrical information signals, including demodulated baseband information signals and modulated baseband signals at multiple harmonics. In an embodiment, the optical information signal is amplitude modulated w... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321754 | Radio-frequency signal frequency conversion device for a low power RF receiver The radio-frequency signal frequency conversion device generates intermediate complex signals (IF) for a correlation stage of a low power RF receiver. In order to do this, the device includes a first selective pass-band filter for filtering radio-frequency signals p... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319852 | Apparatus and method for DC offset compensation in a direct conversion receiver An apparatus for coarse compensation of a direct current (DC) offset in a direct to baseband receiver architecture utilizes a serial analog to digital converter (ADC), such as a Delta-Sigma converter, to convert the received signal to digital form. The output of the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315731 | Method of measuring and calibrating frequency down converter A frequency down converter that maintains accuracy even if the frequency pass band is wide uses a reference frequency band within the frequency pass band, the reference frequency band being resistant to degradation by aging or temperature variation. The ideal charac... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310029 | Bulk acoustic resonator with matched resonance frequency and fabrication process The resonator comprises a piezoelectric layer arranged between two electrodes. An electrical heating resistor is arranged in thermal contact with at least one of the electrodes. Temporary heating of the electrode enables the material constituting the electrode to be... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308241 | Receiver system A conventional receiver system has a filter circuit with unsatisfactory gain characteristics, and thus does not offer satisfactory reception performance. A receiver system of the invention has a filter circuit employing an equivalent inductor circuit including a cap... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301420 | Piezoelectric resonator filter A piezoelectric resonator filter for allowing a high-frequency signal in a desired frequency band to pass therethrough. The piezoelectric resonator filter presents a low insertion loss while securing satisfactory characteristics in a stop band. The piezoelectric res... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295826 | Integrated frequency translation and selectivity with gain control functionality, and applications thereof Methods and apparatuses for frequency selectivity and frequency translation, and applications for such methods and apparatuses, are described herein. The method includes steps of filtering an input signal, and down-converting the filtered input signal. The filtering... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292834 | Switchable high frequency bandpass filter A switchable high frequency bandpass filter includes an input node and an output node, a switchable LC resonator, and a switch signal input interface circuit. The switchable LC resonator is coupled between the input node and the output node for providing a plurality... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292835 | Wireless and wired cable modem applications of universal frequency translation technology Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein, including cable modem applications. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, enhanced signal reception, unified down-conversion and fil... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289784 | Active tunable filter circuit An active tunable filter circuit for use as an integratable active filter in a mobile radio apparatus, comprises an active amplifier circuit (A) including a reactive feedback network including a first tunable element (L1) set to pass with amplification a want... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286811 | Local oscillator apparatus and method A direct conversion satellite tuner is fully integrated on a common substrate. The integrated tuner receives an RF signal having a plurality of channels and down-converts a selected channel directly to baseband for further processing. The integrated tuner includes o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283840 | Reconfigurable analog baseband for a single-chip dual-mode transceiver A dual-mode analog baseband circuit is implementable on a single IC with reduced chip area. The baseband portion of the IC includes a single dual-mode complex filter that is reconfigurable to be a filter for Bluetooth signals or for wireless local area network (wire... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277623 | Equal duty cycle frequency divider The invention relates to a frequency divider (1), in particular for radio frequency (RF) applications, wherein the division ratio can be expressed by a—preferably odd numbered integer—divisor. The frequency divider (1) comprises an input circuit ( | 10/02/2007 |
