Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch and Birch, LLP
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Patent number: 8350901Abstract: A brightness image is produced from a frame image input from a scope and a high brightness pixel group including pixels next to one another, of which the brightness values exceed a predetermined value, and of which the number exceeds a predetermined value, is detected. Only when the pixel group is detected, a microcomputer performs light amount adjustment. When no high brightness pixel group is detected any more, a brightness blurred image is produced from the brightness image. If the value of a pixel forming the brightness blurred image is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, the value is replaced with zero. If the value is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the value is replaced with a greater value as the value is smaller. Then, brightness conversion is performed on the brightness image by adding the brightness blurred image after replacement to the brightness image.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Fujinon CorporationInventor: Kazunori Abe
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Patent number: 8350506Abstract: Method and apparatus to start a frequency converter equipped with a direct current intermediate circuit, particularly when a permanent magnet motor whose rotor is rotating at the start-up time is connected to it, wherein the frequency converter has a network bridge (10) and load bridge (11), and the load bridge has controllable power semiconductor switches of the upper and lower branch (V1-V6) and parallel connected zero diodes (D1-D6), and a direct current intermediate circuit between them, and the said frequency converter uses a current transducer placed in the direct current intermediate circuit, and the analogue current signal composed by it features samples of the measured output currents, and the diverter switches of the frequency converter's upper branch are controlled using the bootstrap method, wherein start-up is initiated by controlling the controllable power semiconductor switch of the lower branch of at least one output phase to a conductive state for one or several periods of time, preferably ofType: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Vacon OyjInventors: Andreas Doktar, Stefan Strandberg, Jaakko Ollila
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Patent number: 8351015Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel and a method for testing the same. The liquid crystal display panel includes at least one testing signal supply line having first and second horizontal portions spaced from each other for applying a testing signal to the liquid crystal display panel, first and second electrolytic corrosion blocking patterns connected to ends of the first and second horizontal lines respectively on a substrate and isolated from each other for prevention of transmission of the electrolytic corrosion from the first horizontal portion to the second horizontal portion, and a connection pattern formed of a material resistant to the electrolytic corrosion for connecting the first horizontal portion to the second horizontal portion, electrically.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Ho Yoon, Dae-Young Seok
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Patent number: 8349958Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition for the golf ball that suppresses the bleed out of the low molecular weight material component, as well as improves the fluidity and repulsion performance. The present invention provides a golf ball forming resin composition comprising as a resin component, (A) a high melt viscosity resin; (B) a low melt viscosity ionomer resin having a melt viscosity (190° C.) ranging from 1 Pa·s to 10 Pa·s measured by a brookfield viscometer, in a ratio of (A) the high melt viscosity resin/(B) the low melt viscosity ionomer resin being 55 mass % to 99 mass %/45 mass % to 1 mass %; and (C) a metal ion source capable of neutralizing carboxyl groups of (A) the high melt viscosity resin and (B) the low melt viscosity ionomer resin, in an amount of from 0.1 part to 10 parts with respect to 100 parts by mass of a sum of (A) the high melt viscosity resin and (B) the low melt viscosity ionomer resin.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: SRI Sports LimitedInventors: Takahiro Shigemitsu, Satoko Okabe
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Patent number: 8350051Abstract: A process for producing an ?-hydroxyketone compound, which comprises subjecting an aldehyde compound to a coupling reaction in the presence of an alkoxyimidazolidine compound represented by the formula (1) wherein R1? and R2? independently represent a hydrogen atom, etc., R3? and R4? independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc. and R5? represents an alkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventor: Koji Hagiya
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Patent number: 8350965Abstract: A portable terminal device includes: an operation part 7 including operation keys 71 that are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form; an image enlarging part 91 that, in a state where a plurality of enlargement target areas 93 are preliminarily set as partial areas of an image, generates an enlarged image by, on the basis of an operation of any of the operation keys 71, enlarging an image within an enlargement target area 93 preliminarily related to the operation key 71; a display image generating part 92 that generates a display image including the image in a normal or an enlargement browsing mode generates a display image including the enlarged image; and a display part 5 that displays the display image. The respective enlargement target areas 93 respectively correspond in an arrangement order to the operation keys 71, and form overlap areas with their adjacent enlargement target areas.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Mohri, Kei Okuda
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Patent number: 8351706Abstract: Document data corresponding to each page included in a document is stored, and furthermore, feature data indicative of a feature of the document data and a document index indicating the document are associated with the document data. A document extracting apparatus obtains input document data, calculates feature data from the input document data, judges similarity between the input document data and the document data based on the feature data, obtains a document index associated with document data similar to the input document data, and extracts a plurality of pieces of document data associated with the document index. Thus, document data concerning the document including a page corresponding to the document data similar to the input document data is extracted for a plurality of pages.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hitoshi Hirohata
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Patent number: 8350800Abstract: The present invention provides a display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Byunghyun An, Minchul Kim, Hoon Hur, Bupsung Jung, Seungse Kim, Myounghwa Ko
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Patent number: 8349867Abstract: A kind of quinoline compounds as formula A, pharmaceutical accepted solvates, optical isomers or polymorphisms thereof. The intermediates of formula D. in which, R1, R2 and R3 is independently H, halo or the subustitents of formula H, in which, R is H, halo, C1˜C4alkyl, C1˜C4alkoxyl. The preparation methods and the uses for the manufacture of a medicament of inhibiting the HMG CoA reductase and treating the diseases relating to the high blood fat. Compared with the fluvastatin, rosuvatatin, pitavastatin disclosed in the prior arts, present quinoline compounds have better activity of inhibiting HMG CoA reductase. Present quinoline compounds can be used for treating the diseases relating to the high blood fat.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical IndustryInventors: Zhengyan Cai, Weicheng Zhou, Qun Hao
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Patent number: 8351009Abstract: A display panel is connected to a wiring-mounted board on which a signal supply wiring that supplies wiring supplies signals for driving the display panel is mounted. The wiring-mounted board has (i) first and second wires extending toward the display panel, and (ii) first and second terminals that are connected to the first and second wires, respectively. The display panel has a first short-circuit wire that is connected to the first and second wires at a connecting part of the display panel and the wiring-mounted board, so as to short-circuit the first and second wires.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Wakita, Seiji Muraoka, Hidetaka Mizumaki
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Patent number: 8350501Abstract: DC/DC bridge for controlling a direct-current load (M1), which bridge is provided with controllable semiconductor switches (S11-S14, S21-S26) and with a control unit (BC1). The bridge comprises two bridge sections (B11, B12), at least the first bridge section (B11) of which is controlled with pulse-width modulation (PWM) to regulate the current magnitude, and which bridge comprises a determination of the current of the direct-current load (M1). The second bridge section (B12) conducts direct current when the determined value (2) of the current of the direct-current load differs from zero by more than the limit value (1) of the current.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kone CorporationInventor: Esa Putkinen
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Patent number: 8347704Abstract: The detection apparatus includes means for detecting rotation speed information of the respective wheels of a vehicle; means for estimating, a frequency characteristic of the wheel rotation speed information; and means for determining, based on the estimated frequency characteristic, a tire having a decreased air pressure. The frequency characteristic estimate means includes, to a time-series signal including the wheel rotation speed information: means for time-series estimating a third order or more linear model parameter; means for generating pseudo input data; means for estimating, based on the estimated linear model parameter and the pseudo input data, output data to a linear model; means for identifying, based on the pseudo input data and the estimated output, a linear model parameter for which the order is reduced to a second order; and means for estimating, based on the identified parameter for which the order is reduced to the second order, a resonance frequency of a tire torsional direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Kawasaki
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Patent number: 8348572Abstract: A hole-forming and thread-forming screw for screwing into a sheet piece, including a slotted screw head for accommodating a tool, a threaded shank and a tapering hole-forming part having outer sides with a continuous convex-shaped curve along an entire length thereof, ribs running like threads along the hole-forming part being provided. The hole-forming part ends in a rounded, blunt end piece, and the rounded ribs, which chiplessly displace the material of the sheet part, are situated symmetrically opposite one another and have a pitch that is a multiple of the thread pitch.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: EJOT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Heinrich Friederich, Michael Achenbach, Eberhard Christ
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Patent number: 8349885Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preserving cells, tissues and organs, comprising as an active ingredient indole and indazole compounds of formula (1), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or isomer thereof, which are effective for preventing injury of organs, isolated cell systems or tissues caused by cold storage, transplant operation or post-transplantation reperfusion; a preservation method; and a preparation method of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Life Sciences Ltd.Inventors: Soon Ha Kim, Hyoung Jin Kim, Chul Woong Chung, Heui Sul Park, Hyo Shin Kwak, Sung Ho Kim, Jin Gu Park
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Patent number: 8350088Abstract: To provide a gelling agent containing a fluoroalkyl derivative, a small amount of which can gelatinize or solidify various organic solvents. The gelling agent for organic liquids contains a fluoroalkyl derivative represented by the following formula: wherein each of m, n and x is a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: National University Corporation Yamaguchi UniversityInventors: Hiroaki Okamoto, Yuki Morita
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Patent number: 8348006Abstract: A structure for mounting ancillaries on a vehicle wherein one end of a first bracket in a plate form extends downwardly and is fixed to a body frame and the other end of the first bracket supports a reservoir. In addition, the first bracket supports the regulator in the proximity of the reservoir. The reservoir attached to the forward end of the first bracket functions as a deadweight which, because of the inertia of the deadweight, suppresses the vibrations of the forward end of the first bracket due to vehicle traveling and engine rotation. Thus, this structure suppresses and attenuates the vibration of the regulator attached to the first bracket.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hirukawa, Taeko Togawa
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Patent number: 8348729Abstract: A method for processing a carcass part of slaughtered poultry includes performing a process on the carcass part using a processing device, in which the carcass part has a predefined position and orientation in relation to the processing device, during the processing at least a harvestable part of the carcass part is separated from the rest of the carcass part, conveying the harvestable part to a tray using a feed device, where the orientation of the harvestable part relative to the feed device is known beforehand based on the orientation of the harvestable part relative to the processing device, and depositing the harvestable part of the carcass part in the tray in a predefined position and in a predefined orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Stork PMT B.V.Inventors: Petrus Christianus Hendrikus Janssen, Gerardus Johannes Catharina Van Bussel, Adrianus Josephes Van Den Nieuwelaar
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Patent number: 8350807Abstract: A scrolling method, which includes displaying at least one scroll icon on a screen of a touch device, sensing an operation in which one of the displayed scroll icons is touched and dragged, and scrolling the screen displayed on the touch device in a direction in which the touched scroll icon is dragged when the sensing step senses the scroll icon is touched and dragged.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Eunyoung Park
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Patent number: 8351214Abstract: This publication discloses an electronics module comprising an insulating-material layer having two opposite surfaces, and at least one microcircuit embedded to the insulating-material layer. The microcircuit has a first contact surface comprising first contact terminals, from which the microcircuit is electrically connected to first conductor structures in the form of a patterned first conductor layer contained on first surface of the insulating-material layer, and a second contact surface opposite to the first contact surface, in which there is at least one second contact terminal, from which the microcircuit is electrically connected to second conductor structures contained in the form of a patterned second conductor layer on second surface of the insulating-material layer. According to the invention there is provided a local adhesive layer between the component and the first contact surface and first conductor layer, the adhesive layer filling the space between the component and the first conductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Imbera Electronics OyInventors: Risto Tuominen, Antti Iihola
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Patent number: 8351881Abstract: Disclosed are an addition circuit that makes it possible to add two vector signals in a high-frequency region, a power amplifier circuit using the same, and a transmission device and communication device using the power amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Akira Nagayama