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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE40368 | Data input device A data input device including an optically generated image of a data input device, the image including at least one input zone actuable by an action performed thereon by a user, a sensor operative to sense the action performed on the at least one input zone, and to ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7256793 | System and method for color management of multiple color devices and color spaces A color management user interface controller is provided for use in a color management system for assisting users to manage color settings of multiple colour entities, such as color devices and color spaces. The user interface controller has a representation control... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7230629 | Data-driven color coordinator A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218322 | Systems and methods for providing a fine to coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization metrics in a graphics system Systems and methods are provided for providing a fine-to-coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization in a graphics system. The use of a variety of parametrization metrics may be supplemented and improved by the fine-to-coarse look ahead techniques of the in... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215325 | Point inputting device and method for three-dimensional images Where an arbitrary point on an image is designated in the field of a medical image, it is generally designated on a sectional image, and an arbitrary point on a three-dimensional image cannot be designated. According to the invention the orientation of the three-dim... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196690 | Input device off table switch According to one aspect of the invention, a movable cursor control device is provided for controlling a cursor on a display screen of a digital processing system. One exemplary cursor control device comprises a housing, an electromagnetic emitting device coupled to ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193632 | Distributed color coordination system A distributed color selection and coordination system including a remote computer communicatively coupled to a server. The remote computer is configured to select a starting color and access a database in the server to find one or more complementary colors. The colo... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190375 | Rendering ink strokes of variable width and angle Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering digital ink strokes of arbitrary stroke width while a user is drawing the ink strokes. An ink rendering system may receive sampled pen tip positions associated with a stylus or pen on a digitizer. The ink rendering sys... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184045 | Image processing apparatus, display apparatus with touch panel, image processing method and computer program An image processing apparatus comprises: a boundary line designating unit which designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a plurality of regions; and a region selecting unit which selects either one of the inside and the outside of the boundary line desi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176533 | Semiconductor devices having contact plugs including polysilicon doped with an impurity having a lesser diffusion coefficient than phosphorus Forming a semiconductor device can include forming an insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate including a conductive region thereof, wherein the insulating layer has a contact hole therein exposing a portion of the conductive region. A polysilicon contact plug... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176578 | Method for processing a thin film substrate The present invention comprises a processed thin film substrate (10) and a method therefore, in order to produce a flexible printed circuit card, having a plurality of microvias going or passing through the thin film substrate and electrically connected along... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176553 | Integrated resistive elements with silicidation protection In a process for the fabrication of integrated resistive elements with protection from silicidation, at least one active area (15) is delimited in a semiconductor wafer (10). At least one resistive region (21) having a pre-determined resistivity... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176931 | Modifying hyperlink display characteristics A method for visualizing data includes receiving code representing content for display on the screen of a computer, the content including at least one hyperlink to other content and at least one attribute associated with the hyperlink. User preferences are set for e... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176946 | Displaying apparatus and method of controlling the same A displaying apparatus including a signal generator part generating a video signal, and a display part displaying thereon a picture based on the video signal generated by the signal generator part, further comprising including a setting part including a portion set ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173311 | Light-emitting semiconductor device with a built-in overvoltage protector An overvoltage-proof light-emitting diode has a lamination of light-generating semiconductor layers on a first major surface of a silicon substrate. A front electrode in the form of a bonding pad is mounted centrally atop the light-generating semiconductor layers wh... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170120 | Carbon nanotube energy well (CNEW) field effect transistor A structure to form an energy well within a Carbon nanotube is described. The structure includes a doped semiconductor region and an undoped semiconductor region. The Carbon nanotube is between the doped semiconductor region and the undoped semiconductor region. The... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170528 | Fast glyph rendering for vector based fonts A method of rendering a glyph of a vector-based font comprises the steps of: generating a MIP map for a glyph, where the MIP map comprises at least one level having a plurality of pixels and where each level is generated from original vector data for the glyph; and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170865 | Communications system having enhanced fault tolerance The invention relates to communications systems, and particularly to enhancing tolerance to failures in network elements and transmission systems. The fault tolerance is achieved by providing two or more active ATM permanent virtual channel (PVC) connections between... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170086 | Organic electroluminescent device, electronic device and manufacturing method thereof An organic electroluminescent (EL) device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, an emission layer comprising a polymer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode formed on the emission layer, and a metal infiltration preventing ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167182 | Scalable multiparty conferencing and collaboration system and method of dynamically allocating system resources in same A networking conferencing and collaboration tool utilizing an enhanced T.128 application sharing protocol. This enhanced protocol is based on a per-host model command, control, and communication structure. This per-host model reduces network traffic, allows greater ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164661 | System and method for providing a two-way satellite system A two-way satellite communication system is disclosed. A transceiver transmit signals over a return channel to a satellite and receives signals over a downlink channel from the satellite. A hub communicates with the transceiver over the return channel, wherein the h... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161563 | Electronic vehicle registration and license plate A method and apparatus is provided for electronically providing vehicle identification and registration information to a vehicle. The system includes a remote control unit, which receives and stores vehicle identification and registration information. At least one c... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161191 | HF-control SCR switch structure A vertical SCR-type switch including a control area having a first control region forming a first diode with a first neighboring region or layer, and a second control region forming a second diode with a second neighboring region or layer. A contact is formed on eac... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161558 | Calibration system for an electronic sign Electronically programmed signs consist of any array of picture elements (pixels) that can be controlled independently to create an image. Varying the intensity of each pixel and adding multiple colors per pixel will enhance the image quality. It is currently common... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161203 | Gated field effect device comprising gate dielectric having different K regions This invention includes gated field effect devices, and methods of forming gated field effect devices. In one implementation, a gated field effect device includes a pair of source/drain regions having a channel region therebetween. A gate is received proximate the c... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158145 | Method for applying colored information on an object A description is given of a method for applying colored information to an object (4), the object having at least two different chromophoric particles, at least in a layer (4A) close to the surface, which change the color of this layer (4A) under... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157739 | Active matrix type electro-optical device with patterns of contact hole formation-positions and electronic apparatus The invention provides an active matrix type electro-optical device and an electronic apparatus using the same capable of preventing interference of light due to contact holes and interference of reflecting light from light-reflecting film. In a thin film transistor... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158500 | Method and apparatus for mobile location center to mobile location center communication in the packet-switched domain A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for requesting location data in a communications network, where the communications network includes a first base station server (BSS) in communication with a first serving mobile location center (SMLC), a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157769 | Flash memory having a high-permittivity tunnel dielectric A high permittivity tunneling dielectric is used in a flash memory cell to provide greater tunneling current into the floating gate with smaller gate voltages. The flash memory cell has a substrate with source/drain regions. The high-k tunneling dielectric is formed... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158493 | Radio communications system with a minimal broadcast channel In one embodiment, the present invention comprises transmitting a broadcast burst in a broadcast channel from a base station of a radio communications system. The invention further comprises receiving a request burst from a user terminal, and transmitting a message ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154126 | Feed through structure for optical semiconductor package Includes a stem with a hole, a dielectric sealed into the hole of the stem and including a pair of pin insertion holes, and a pair of high frequency signal pins that penetrate and fit into the pair of pin insertion holes of the dielectric, and constituting different... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154507 | System, method and computer program product for texture shading A system, method and computer program product are provided for texture shading in a hardware graphics processor. Initially, a plurality of texture coordinates is identified. Further, it is determined whether a hardware graphics processor is operating in a texture sh... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148512 | Thermal interface with silver-filled carbon nanotubes An exemplary thermal interface (40) includes a silver colloid base (32), and an array of carbon nanotubes (22) disposed in the silver colloid base uniformly. The carbon nanotubes have nanometer-scale silver filled therein, are substantially para... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148531 | Magnetoresistive memory SOI cell A ferromagnetic thin-film based digital memory having a substrate formed of a base supporting an electrically insulating material primary substrate layer in turn supporting a plurality of current control devices each having an interconnection arrangement with each o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142555 | Method and apparatus for switching data using parallel switching elements Data cells arriving in a switching unit are routed to virtual output queues. Load balancing method selects switching elements based on a dynamic utilization tracked by request virtual output queues that store switching requests from the virtual output queues. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141869 | Electronic package for image sensor, and the packaging method thereof A semiconductor device package and method for its fabrication are provided. The semiconductor device package generally includes at least one semiconductor die and a substrate coupled to the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is provided with a front side defin... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141843 | Integratable polarization rotator Embodiments of the invention provide a polarization rotator. The polarization rotator may be integrated with a waveguide on a substrate, and may include a ferromagnetic semiconductor layer on the substrate, a first doped layer on the ferromagnetic semiconductor laye... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142522 | Device for managing resources for a satellite telecommunication system A satellite telecommunication system includes a plurality of user stations and at least one satellite. A resource manager for the satellite telecommunication system includes a congestion controller that assigns resources to uplinks, a demand assignment device that a... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142557 | Programmable logic device for wireless local area network Method and apparatus for a wireless local area network programmable logic device is described. More particularly, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) is coupled to memory having programming instructions for configuring the FPGA with a medium access layer selected... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141841 | Image sensor having a transistor for allowing increased dynamic range Embodiments of the invention provide an image sensor having an improved dynamic range. A pixel cell comprises at least one transistor structure. The transistor structure comprises at least one semiconductor channel region, at least one gate for controlling the chann... | 11/28/2006 |
