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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7230459 | Static frequency divider for microwave applications A static frequency divider circuit includes a first and second latch that are interconnected by a series path circuit and by a feedback path circuit. Each of the latches includes a reading BALLSACKbranch and a latching branch. The series path circuit includes a push... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7173664 | Image signal processor with reduced power consumption An image signal processor for reducing power consumption. The image signal processor is connected between a solid-state imaging device, which generates a first image signal, and an external device, and includes first and second regulators, a switch circuit, a signal... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174155 | Charging in communication systems The present invention relates to charging of communications using chargeable resources of a first communication system and a second communication system wherein at least one of said communication systems provides wireless communication services. In accordance with t... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167732 | Method for enhanced power saving on DCF based wireless networks A method for enhanced power saving on DCF based wireless networks is disclosed. The method divides a beacon transmitting section in an Announcement Traffic Indication Message (hereinafter, referred to as “ATIM”) window period defined by IEEE standard 802.11 acco... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164937 | System and method for reducing the size of an electronic message on a mobile communication device Systems and methods are provided for reducing the size of an electronic message on a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device may identify address card information in a received electronic message. The mobile communication device may then automat... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162275 | Apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal An apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal, and an apparatus and method capable of displaying all telephone numbers of persons registered in a phone book when a dial history information is display... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161621 | Image-capturing device with position detector for vibration reduction An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing element that converts light to an electrical signal; a photographic lens member that condenses subject light at the image-capturing element; a board on which the image-capturing element is mounted; and an elasti... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158180 | System and method for varying exposure time for different parts of a field of view while acquiring an image A system and method for exposing different parts of a single field of view for various and differing lengths of time while capturing an image is provided. For astrophotography, unwanted light pollution or over-saturation bleeding from nearby or obtrusive stars may b... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158173 | Method for determining environmental brightness to control display brightness in mobile communication terminal including camera having automatic gain control function, and method for controlling display brightness using the same Disclosed is a method for determining environmental brightness to appropriately control display brightness according to variations of the environmental brightness in different places in a mobile communication terminal including a camera having an automatic gain cont... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149548 | Antenna apparatus for base station and method of optimizing traffic capacity in CDMA communications system An antenna apparatus is installed in a base station in a code division multiple access communication system. The antenna apparatus comprises a plurality of antenna elements, each receiving a radio signal; a controller that produces an antenna control signal based on... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148926 | Image sensing apparatus and signal processing method therefor A color filter arrangement (11) is used, in which a plurality of filter units are each made of 2×2 arrangements of red (R), green (G), green (G) and blue (B) color elements. First, signal charges are added up for all pixels belonging to each of a plurality o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146160 | Caller identification logging system and method for use of same A system (100) for tracking incoming telephone calls includes a first caller identification decoder (166) that decodes caller identification data for a first incoming telephone call including a time stamp having a value reflecting a first time. The sys... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136097 | Camera system for high-speed image processing including selection of at least one frame based on processed results The analog-to-digital converter array 13 includes one analog-to-digital converter 210 for each row of photodetectors 120 in the photodetector array 11. The image-processing unit 14 includes the plurality of processing circuits 4... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133645 | Transceiver with optimal antenna direction indicators A wireless access point includes, in one embodiment, circuitry with a radio transceiver that determines substantially optimal antenna orientation for one or more radio hosts with which an access point is in communication. Received RF signals are down-converted to ba... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123296 | Digital camera device for facilitating a recovery and recycling system In a digital camera in which a photographic field is photographed and which has an image pick-up device 102 for outputting an image signal corresponding to a photographic field, an analog signal processing circuit 106 for processing the image signal, a... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120437 | Method and apparatus for selecting carriers This invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting carriers to be measured by a subscriber unit (301,303, 501). The subscriber unit (301, 303, 501) is served by a communication system and is operable to measure carriers in a frequency band,... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113216 | Electronic camera with internal temperature increase controlled A camera is made compact with its internal temperature adjusted to a more appropriate temperature. A temperature T is read from a temperature sensor disposed within the camera (S100) and it is judged whether or not the temperature T exceeds a threshold Tref1 ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099698 | Complementary beamforming methods and apparatuses Improved methods and apparatuses are provided to address a potential “hidden beam problem” in wireless communication systems employing smart antennas. The improved methods and apparatuses utilize complementary beamforming (CBF) techniques, such as, for example, ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096000 | Handoff method for a communication system of a train In a mobile communication system, even when cells formed by fixed radio base stations are separated from each other, the switching operation between the cells is easily carried out to conduct continuous communication. A first-end radio device mounted in a first-end ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092020 | Resizing images captured by an electronic still camera Provide an electronic still camera using a color filter array (CFA) and a single CCD making it possible to simultaneously execute the processing for color signal interpolation and the processing for resizing. In the electronic still camera according to the present i... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084906 | Reducing computation time in removing color aliasing artifacts from color digital images A method of reducing color aliasing artifacts from a color digital image having color pixels including providing luminance and chrominance signals from the color digital image; downsampling the luminance and chrominance signals; using such downsampled luminance and ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7069010 | Method for determining a position of a wireless communication antenna Disclosed is a method for setting a wireless communication antenna for use in the home, and more particularly to a method for setting an antenna used in local area wireless communication. The present invention provides a method for determining position of a wireless... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064788 | Electronic camera with repeating flash An electronic camera is provided with an image pickup sensor, a flash repeating an emission of a flashlight plural times according to a light emission timing pulse which repeats plural times, a photographic lens leading photographic light to an image pickup sensor i... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058416 | Traffic channel allocating method in GSM mobile communication The present invention relates to a method for allocating a traffic channel in a concentric cell. Said method comprises the following steps: establishing a SDCCH (Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel) between the base station and the mobile station; the base station... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053946 | Video camera imager and imager IC capable of plural kinds of double-image processings An inventive video camera imager supports an interlace scan mode, a dynamic range-widening scan (WS) mode and a sequential scan mode with a limited amount of circuitry. For this, a WS image signal of 2N lines and a sequential scan image signal of 2N lines (N is the ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053943 | Scanning circuit, and imaging apparatus having the same A scanning circuit operates at a driving speed approximately twice the conventional speed when clock signals having the same frequency as those in the prior art are supplied. By alternately driving the switches in even-numbered and odd-numbered transfer stages T1... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053949 | Charge couple device control system for scanner A control system and method for the CCD scanner, wherein the CCD can process multiple primary colors and includes a shift register and a transfer gate. The control system at least includes a transfer controller. The characteristic includes providing a transfer signa... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050098 | Signal processing apparatus and method, and image sensing apparatus having a plurality of image sensing regions per image frame In processing an image signal output from an image sensing unit which includes a plurality of image sensing regions constructing one frame and a plurality of output terminals in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of image sensing regions, and which outputs... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043258 | Mobile position fixing A mobile telephony handset has a wireless communications transceiver for exchanging signals with a base station, and a positioning receiver for receiving coded ranging signals from a satellite-based positioning system. The handset is configured such that the positio... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043243 | Mobile assisted handoff system and method A system and method for improved mobile assisted handoff in a digital cellular communication system that gives the mobile station the ability to synchronize to candidate base station transmissions in order to read the transmitted digital voice color code (DVCC) of t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039394 | Communication system and method for compressing information sent by a communication device to a target portable communication device A method and system are provided for compressing information to be sent from a server to a client such as a portable communication device. The server maintains first and second dictionaries for each portable device in the system. The first dictionary is provided to ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7030910 | Wireless camera A wireless camera 11 includes a main body unit 16, encoding/transmission unit 17, and a battery unit 18. The encoding/transmission unit 17 includes a encoding/modulation unit 23 for performing MPEG 2 encoding and OFDM modula... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030927 | Apparatus for detecting focusing status of taking lens The number of pixels of image pickup devices for detecting a focusing status is smaller than the number of pixels of an image pickup device for image-output, or an image pickup size of the image pickup devices for detecting the focusing status is smaller than the im... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027096 | Image pickup control device for controlling an exposure time and a method of driving an image sensor during such exposure time An image pickup control device of the present invention drives an image sensor including an output amplifier. A controller feeds a first control signal to a driver, which drives the image sensor, for controlling an exposure time. A switching circuit switches a power... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024163 | Method and apparatus for adjusting feedback of a remote unit Methods and apparatus implementing spatial processing in a remote unit. In general, in one aspect, the present invention provides a remote unit, that includes a plurality of antennas and a spatial processing unit coupled to the plurality of antennas. The remote unit... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020469 | Method for power saving routing in wireless networks A method for power saving routing in wireless networks is disclosed. The present invention calculates a distance to a destination node to select and estimate candidate nodes so as to reduce the amount of calculations in the event of routing. Furthermore, the inventi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7002625 | Image pickup apparatus for recording a photographed image in a directory An image pickup apparatus, which is a device for recording an image file on a recording medium according to a file system having a plurality of directories including attributes associated with a photographing position of image data and a photographer, detects the ph... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999121 | Idle read of conversion element in radiation image pick-up apparatus A radiation image pick-up apparatus includes a conversion element, accumulation element, read element, detection element, driving circuit, and controller. The conversion element converts radiation into an electrical signal. The accumulation unit accumulates the elec... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999756 | Apparatus for processing call of wireless LAN using callback function and method thereof An apparatus for processing a call of a wireless LAN using a callback function and a method thereof are for connecting calls when target terminals (destination terminals) are converted into a keep-alive state from a keep-dead state (for example, out of an access poi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6975853 | Personal identification device for mobile telephone A personal identification device for use with a mobile telephone in a wireless communications network includes an connector mated to a connector of the mobile telephone normally used for a hands-free kit or a data port. In a typical application, a user of the mobile... | 12/13/2005 |
