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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7460516 | System and method for compressing communication flows in a network environment A method for compressing data is provided that includes receiving a packet communicated by a mobile station and extracting a high-level data link control (HDLC) payload from the packet. A compression operation may then be performed on the HDLC payload in order to re... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454169 | Method and apparatus for use in securing an electronic device such as a cell phone The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus which may be used to help prevent electronic devices, including cell phones, from operating with software copied from (and only authorized for use by or on) another device. A further aspect is a device, incl... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7446763 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a liquid crystal and a switching element connected to one of the gate lines a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440761 | Communication relay method and device A wireless communication system including a wireless relay station storing a priority table in which identifiers of the communications that are relayed with higher priority are registered, a wireless relay device r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7409234 | Wireless communication headset with exchangeable attachments A communications headset for use with a wireless telephone comprises a mount and a first and second attachment shaped to secure itself to the mount, wherein the first attachment is configured to secure itself around the ear of a user and wherein the second attachmen... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398088 | Handover method and apparatus A method (FIG. 11) and corresponding wireless communication unit (102, FIG. 5) and mobility manager (116, FIG. 6) for facilitating a handover from one communication network (106) to another communication network (108)... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7380021 | Method for designating internet protocol addresses A system and method for selecting one or more real IP6 addresses from a pool of real IP6 addresses in a system. Each of the real IP6 addresses is associated with a physical interface or a virtual physical interface. A human or an application program provides into th... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369110 | Mobile display module Disclosed is a mobile display module capable of displaying optimal still images or moving pictures depending on characteristics of images to be displayed. The mobile display module includes a graphic memory for storing image data, a data latch unit for latching the ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365733 | Backplanes for electro-optic displays A backplane for an electro-optic display comprises a pixel electrode (104), a voltage supply line (C) arranged to supply a voltage to the pixel electrode (104), and a micromechanical switch (106, 112) disposed between the voltage supply line (C)... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365748 | Unique method for performing horizontal and vertical video decimation within a wireless device A method of presenting graphical images within a wireless terminal that includes receiving an original graphical image, having a source resolution, to be presented on a display screen. The native pixel resolution of the display screen may differ from that of the ori... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362300 | Output circuit, liquid crystal driving circuit, and liquid crystal driving method An output circuit for driving a signal line in, for example, a liquid crystal display panel has an impedance conversion element that generates an output signal from an input signal and a feedback signal. During output periods, a first switch conducts the output sign... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362342 | Driving apparatus and method for liquid crystal display A driving apparatus and apparatus for a liquid crystal display wherein an image format of an NTSC image signal can be selectively converted in response to an instruction of a user. In the apparatus, a liquid crystal display panel has liquid crystal cells arranged at... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352349 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display A method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display for reducing the number of data lines is disclosed. In the apparatus, a timing controller receives red sub-pixel data, green sub-pixel data and blue sub-pixel data from the exterior thereof and then divides... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349376 | Dynamic forward error correction in UTRA systems In a wireless communication system using multiplexed transport channels in combinations thereof on a coded composite transport channel (CCTrCh), a system for dynamically varying the combinations of transport channels includes configuring means for configuring mutual... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348962 | Information input apparatus, information input method, and recording medium The operation characteristics of an image capture unit are changed on the basis of the captured image. If an object does not move, i.e., if the user does not input, the capture timing and the like are decreased to reduce the consumption power. The capturing conditio... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339563 | High performance switchable polarizers for optical projection displays and circuits for driving the polarizers The invention is directed towards high performance switchable polarizers for optical projection displays. One embodiment of the invention is a switchable polarizer with (1) two conductive electrodes and (2) a liquid crystal material that is positioned between the tw... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330171 | Amplifier circuit A signal sampled by a sampling transistor is amplified with low power consumption. A display voltage signal Vsig sampled by the sampling transistor is amplified by an amplifier circuit of this invention. A thin film transistor T1 which functions as a MOS capa... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327344 | Display and method for driving the same If a display is subjected to n line dot inversion drive control, the polarity pattern of sub-pixels is shifted line by line in a cycle of n frames. Furthermore, in every n horizontal scanning periods in which the polarities of output terminals of a source driver are... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324492 | Enabling push technologies for mobile IP Methods and apparatus for enabling a Mobile Node supporting mobile IP to roam without an assigned IP address and receive lookups indicating that a Corresponding Node wants to send information to the Mobile Node are disclosed. A name lookup may be sent from a Corresp... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317444 | Method and circuit for improving a quality of display on an LCD screen A method and circuit for improving a quality of display on an LAD screen are disclosed. The method is to synchronize a vertical synchronization signal of a video signal supplied to an LAD system with an oscillation signal produced by a burst mode DC-to-AC inverter d... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318084 | Communication device and method for controlling communication device A communication device includes a communication unit that can transmit and receive an electronic mail message via a network. The communication device also includes a control unit forming a device setting form-data described as a structured document, transmitting the... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310088 | Input operation device An object of the present invention is to provide a novel input operation device in which multi-functionality corresponding to higher functionality of electrical equipment can be achieved along with tactile functionality suitable as a man-machine interface. An input ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302469 | System, method, and computer program product for transferring remote device support data to a monitor using e-mail In a monitoring system for networked devices, a system, method, and computer program product for transferring monitoring information from a remote monitor to a central monitor responsible for monitoring devices on multiple networks. A communications link is establis... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298363 | Innovated keyboard for personal digital assistant An innovated design of keyboard for keying in commands to a PDA, particularly a collapsible type that can be folded for storage and convenient carrying purposes, and its two sides can be unfolded and compressed to a fixed status to minimize measurements, which compr... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289113 | Projection display system with pressure sensing at screen, and computer assisted alignment implemented by applying pressure at displayed calibration marks An interactive display system comprising a touch sensitive display surface for sensing pressure applied thereto and in response generating control signals indicating locations of the applied pressure, a personal computer for receiving the control signals and in resp... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287069 | Using context-sensitive intelligent diffs to modify router configurations Methods and devices are disclosed for changing the configuration state of a network device such as a router, a switch or a similar device without the need for a person to interpret a textual diff. According to some aspects of the invention, a programmatic diff file ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7239293 | Autostereoscopic display An apparatus for displaying an image to an observer. The apparatus comprises a display screen upon which stripes of the image appear in at least three distinct phases. The apparatus comprises a light blocking shutter disposed in front of the display screen forming a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7221662 | Tone detection elimination The present invention discloses a communication system comprising a first communication device, a first network control device for controlling a first network to which the first communication device is connected, and a first interface establishing device connected b... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218314 | Coordinate input device A coordinate input device includes a coordinate input element. The coordinate input element includes a transparent coordinate detector and a controller having a control circuit which drives and controls the coordinate detector and which corrects electrostatic capaci... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215333 | Method for driving LCD device Disclosed is a method for driving pixels of an LCD device, wherein an overlapping area between a data line connected to a data driver and a gate line connected to a gate driver defines a pixel of an LCD device. A first gate driver is selected from the LCD device' at... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212220 | Auto screen centering and expansion of VGA display modes on larger size of LCD display device The invention in one embodiment is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a lookup table having a set of entries, each entry capable of maintaining a value. The apparatus also includes a DDA (Differential Digital Analyzer) table having a set of entries, each entry cap... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209131 | Display and method of controlling the same A display capable of excellently writing data when making transition to a standby operation mode is obtained. This display comprises a pixel part having a memory, a power supply circuit formed on the same substrate as the pixel part for operating the memory and a co... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209458 | Enhanced QoS control The invention is a method and a system for the providing of service to user equipment (UE). A method of providing services to user equipment in accordance with the invention includes providing from a database (420) to a policy decision entity (405) sub... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202845 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device which divides a pixel into a plurality of sub-pixels. In the liquid crystal display device, a gradation and a brightness in each of the sub-pixels have a non-linear relation to each other, and a desired brightness for the pixel is sel... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193624 | Display apparatus with power saving capability A power control unit of a display apparatus includes an AC-to-DC converter for receiving an external AC power. A regulator receives a DC output from the converter, and is operable in one of an enabled state of outputting a target DC power when receiving a first leve... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190381 | Liquid crystal display device and adjusting method of the same A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal panel, a DA converter for generating a common electrode signal to be applied to a common electrode of a liquid crystal, and a non-volatile memory for encoding an optimum value of the common electrode signal into a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190697 | Multiplexing of selection from among streams and parsed-out time synchronization information A method, transmitter and transmission system for transmitting an MPEG-2 transport stream, wherein a portion of the offered transport stream (20) is selected and transmitted as a partial transport stream (27). When the elementary stream containing the ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187361 | Wireless portable input device and receiver of the same A wireless portable input device and a receiver of the same is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, the receiver of the input device can be detached from the motherboard and stored within a receiving chamber of the input device when not in us... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187356 | Driver circuit of a display device In a driver circuit of a display device handling a digital image signal, there is provided a driver circuit with a structure in which the timing of holding the image signal in a latch circuit is not influenced by a delay of a sampling pulse. A pre-charge TFT (102... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176877 | High voltage pulse driver with capacitive coupling A high voltage driver with capacitive coupling that is useful in the presence of the high power supply ripple common with higher-voltage systems. It permits extreme ranges of duty cycle, but without the limitations of transformer magnetics, or the increased complexi... | 02/13/2007 |
