Patents Represented by Attorney Bacon and Thomas
  • Patent number: 8296622
    Abstract: A programmable LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) code decoder and decoding method thereof is disclosed. By combining at least one programmable switch and at least one memory unit to decode any quasi-cyclic-based parity check matrix, one can set the switch state of the programmable switch to dynamically adjust the size of the decoding matrix and determine the locations of 1's and 0's in the decoding matrix. The mechanism helps improving the usability and flexibility of the decoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Xin Yu Shih, An Yeu Wu
  • Patent number: 8292486
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a light guide plate, a first light source module, and a second light source module. The light guide plate has a first incident surface and a second incident surface opposite to the first incident surface. The first and the second light source modules provide light beams into the first and the second incident surfaces, respectively. The first light source module includes at least one first white light emitting diode (LED) and at least one second white LED neighboring with each other. The first and the second white LEDs have different color temperatures. The second light source module includes at least one third white LED and at least one forth white LED neighboring with each other. The third and the forth white LEDs have different color temperatures. The third and the forth white LEDs are located corresponding to the second and the first white LEDs, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Chih Wang, Wei-Chun Yang, Chi-Ming Tseng
  • Patent number: 8286731
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for constructing large vertical boreholes and underground cut-off walls is disclosed. A drill rig assembly with double rotary heads drives a small diameter drill string and a much larger diameter drill string which is concentric with the smaller drill string and has a donut shaped drill bit configuration at the lower end thereof. Preferably, a steerable mud motor/drill is provided on one end of the small drill string and is guided to make as vertical a borehole as possible. In a preferred embodiment, the small inner drill is advanced to the full depth using the steerable mud motor/drill to achieve a high degree of verticality and a slight smaller casing is installed and used as a verticality guide for the much larger diameter outer drill string. In a further embodiment, the inner drill string is advanced a predetermined distance, then the outer string is advanced using the inner string as a verticality guide, these steps being repeated in alternating fashion to the final depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Arturo L. Ressi di Cervia
  • Patent number: 8290623
    Abstract: A sensing escape device of an automatic cleaner includes a control module, a motion module and an inclination limitation sensing module. The control module controls the motion module to drive the movement of the automatic cleaner in mode between a forward mode with head portion as a head and a backward mode with tail portion as a head. The inclination limitation sensing module coupled to the control module includes a critical inclination angle sensing unit outward disposed on a rear bottom of the main body. When the critical inclination angle sensing unit is externally contacted, the inclination limitation sensing module generates a signal and transfers the signal to the control module, to make the control module drive the motion module to switch into the backward mode. The automatic cleaner moves backward immediately when climbing a ramp, to avoid misjudging actions such as a suspension of the motor-driven wheel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 8289624
    Abstract: This invention provides an imaging lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group with negative refractive power comprising a single first lens element with negative refractive power; a second lens group with positive refractive power comprising, in order from the object side to the image side: a second lens element with positive refractive power; a third lens element with negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power; and a third lens group with positive refractive power comprising a single fifth lens element with positive refractive power; wherein by moving the first lens group and the second lens group along the optical axis while keeping the third lens group stationary, the zooming operation is performed such that the system switches between a wide-angle mode and a telephoto mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 8288543
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a phosphorescent tris-chelated transition metal complex comprising i) two identical carbon-nitrogen (C^N) or nitrogen-nitrogen (N^N) chromophoric ligands being incorporated into a coordination sphere thereof with a transition metal, and one carbon-phosphorus (C^P) chelate being incorporated into the coordination sphere; or ii) one carbon-nitrogen (C^N) or nitrogen-nitrogen (N^N) chromophoric ligand forming a coordination sphere thereof with a transition metal, and two identical carbon-phosphorus (C^P) chelates being incorporated into the coordination sphere, wherein the metal is iridium, platinum, osmium or ruthenium, and the chromophoric ligands possess a relatively lower energy gap in comparison with that of the non-chromophoric chelate, the latter afforded an effective barrier for inhibiting the ligand-to-ligand charge transfer process, so that bright phosphorescence can be observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Yun Chi, Jui-Yi Hung, Cheng-Huei Lin, Pi-Tai Chou, I-Hsuan Pai, Chien-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8286534
    Abstract: An assembled transmission device with bi-rotating directional input and constant rotating directional output can be directly installed in pipe holes of a basic through hole pipe of a vehicle, so that a vehicle to be driven that is installed with the basic through hole pipe is easy to assemble and maintain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Patent number: 8286685
    Abstract: A limit mechanism for door machine for controlling the door curtain in such a manner that it stops accurately at an upper stop level and a lower stop level, the door machine including an output pulley driving a reel of the door curtain. The limit mechanism comprises: a screw rod both ends of which are rotatably supported on a frame, the end portion of one end of the screw rod being provided with a driven pulley which interlinks with the reel of the door curtain; a pair of nut blocks each having a threaded hole centrally arranged for joining with the screw rod so as to slide thereon; a pair of lock devices for locking relative positions between the pair of nut blocks; and a pair of buffer devices arranged respectively at both ends of the screw rod for limiting the sliding stroke of the nut blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Chung-Hsien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8286403
    Abstract: Finishing set for a floor covering, whereby this finishing set at least consists of, on the one hand, a finishing profile and, on the other hand, a holder with at least an attachment portion for attaching said finishing profile at the holder, characterized in that the holder comprises an underlay portion, which at choice can or cannot be provided underneath the remaining portion of the holder, as well as a stop-forming positioning portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventors: Benny Schacht, Pieter Buyck
  • Patent number: 8289814
    Abstract: A timepiece with LED lights uses a simple light-medium body with a very rough finish to allow light from LED(s) to pass though input-end(s) of the light-medium body and travel within the body and obtain a very even brightness on all surfaces of the light medium that are seen by a viewer. Combined with a milky/frosted front sheet overlay, the light-medium surface can get perfect area illumination effects. The movement for the time display can include analog indicators with a guilt-in light-medium on the top cover to achieve a super slim LED illumination for the time piece. For night light application, the sealed-unit may consist of prong-means and an LED related circuit sealed within a safety standard plastic material and assembled with the night light body to save a lot of cost enable use of all kinds of materials. The invention may also be adapted to an LCD display timepiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Tseng-Lu Chien
  • Patent number: 8288863
    Abstract: The present invention provide a heat dissipation structure on the active surface of the die to increase the performance of the heat conduction in longitude direction of the semiconductor package device, so that the heat dissipating performance can be improved when the semiconductor package device is associated with the exterior heat dissipation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Global Unichip Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hwa Wu, Shao-Kang Hung
  • Patent number: 8287325
    Abstract: A flexible display of the present invention is an active matrix flexible display in which a TFT is provided for each pixel. In the flexible display, an adhesive layer, a protective layer, a gate electrode for the TFT, which is buried in the protective layer, a gate insulating layer for the TFT, source and drain electrodes for the TFT, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode, an organic active layer for the TFT, an organic EL layer including a red (R) emitting layer, a green (G) emitting layer and a blue (B) emitting layer, which are formed on a plurality of the pixel electrodes, a metal electrode, and a sealing layer are formed on a plastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Hoso Kyoki
    Inventors: Tadahiro Furukawa, Shizuo Tokito, Youji Inoue, Mitsunori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8288984
    Abstract: For the present invention, under various running speeds statuses, the voltage supplied to the DC brushless motor is relatively increased or decreased on the basis of the internal setting of the motor drive control device according to the increased or decreased rotational output speed, so as to prevent the shortcoming of too much variation of the input impedance caused by the inductive reactance of the winding accordingly changed when the speed of the DC brushless motor is changed, specifically, to prevent the shortcoming of unable producing required torque resulting from the increased inductive reactance caused by increasing the rotational speed which makes the current value become too low when input by the original working voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Patent number: 8289304
    Abstract: A display device for receiving and displaying an image signal is disclosed. The display device comprises a display screen, a light sensor, a light information determining unit, an image analysis unit, a luminance determining unit, and a control unit. The light sensor is installed near the display screen for detecting an ambient luminance level. The light information determining unit is utilized for determining a first luminance adjusting value according to the ambient luminance. The image analysis unit is utilized for analyzing the image signal to obtain a color level value. The luminance determining unit is utilized for calculating a second luminance adjusting value according to the color level value, and for determining a final luminance adjusting value according to the first luminance adjusting value and the second luminance adjusting value. The control unit is utilized for adjusting the luminance of the display screen according to the final luminance adjusting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Junc Chiou
  • Patent number: 8289905
    Abstract: A mobile communications system includes a control station that identifies a base station zone serving as a communications area of a base station and performs position registration of first mobile stations which belongs to the base station; and a relay terminal station that relays radio communications between the base station and a second mobile station, the second mobile station being located outside the base station zone and inside a relay terminal zone. Further, the second mobile station sends a position registration request signal to the base station via the relay terminal station; the base station receives the position registration request signal and transfers the received position registration request signal to the control station; and, after completing the position registration, the control station sends a position registration acknowledgement signal to the second mobile station via the base station and the relay terminal station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Nawata
  • Patent number: 8291286
    Abstract: In a decoding system and method for a high-density recording medium, a high protective codeword decoder decodes a burst indicator subcode (BIS) while a low protective codeword decoder decodes a long distance code, so as to eliminate the waiting time required for completely decoding all burst indicator subcodes (BISs) and starting the long-distance code (LDC) decoding. In addition, a first memory having a high access speed is implemented to store the BISs and corresponding BIS erasure indicators, and the access to a second memory have a lower access speed relative to the first memory is relatively reduced such that the bandwidth can be effectively used to thereby increase the decoding efficiency on the high-density recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sih-Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 8291137
    Abstract: A system for universal serial bus (USB) image capturing with two isochronous transfers includes a USB image capturing device and a host. The USB image capturing device has two endpoints for transferring a video stream through a USB. The host has a driver for receiving the video stream through the USB. The driver receives the video stream, and creates a read extension data structure for the endpoints. The driver manages and dispatches the packets of the endpoints, and copies data of the packets into a first buffer and a second buffer, respectively. When a first end frame flag in a packet of the first endpoint is set and a second end frame flag in a packet of the second endpoint is set, the driver combines data of the first and the second buffers into a frame and sends the frame to the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Kuang Ting Hsiao, Ji-Jeng Deng, Chien-Chung Lin
  • Patent number: 8287941
    Abstract: A simple and efficient method for transforming conformation of parts of chains in the amorphous phase in a conjugated polymer to extended conjugation length (termed as ? phase) is disclosed. The ? phase acts as a dopant and can be termed self-dopant. The generated self-dopant in the amorphous host allows an efficient energy transfer and charge trapping to occur and leads to more balanced charge fluxes and more efficient charge recombination. For example, a polyfluorene film was dipped into a mixed solvent/non-solvent, tetrahydrofuran/methanol in volume ratio of 1:1, to generate a ?-phase content up to 1.32%. A polymer light emitting diode with the dipped polyfluorene film as a light emitting layer therein provides a more pure and stable blue-emission (solely from the self-dopant) with CIE color coordinates x+y<0.3 and a performance of 3.85 cd A?1 (external quantum efficiency 3.33%) and 34326 cd m?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Show-An Chen, Hsin-Hung Lu, Ching-Yang Liu, Chih-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: D668977
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Index Measuring Tape Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jason Huang
  • Patent number: D669070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Compal Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Chih Hsu, Shi Kuan Chen, Hong-Tien Wang, Po-Hsien Yang, Hsiang-Ling Liu