Patents Represented by Attorney Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
  • Patent number: 8325113
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a power supply unit outputting a driving voltage, a base voltage and a reference voltage, a source driving unit outputting a data voltage, a gate driving unit outputting a positive scan signal and a negative scan signal, a timing control unit controlling the source driving unit and the gate driving unit, and a display unit receiving the driving voltage, the base voltage, the reference voltage, the positive scan signal and the negative scan signal, the display unit including an organic light-emitting diode that has driving currents depending on the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Hyoung Kim, Won-Kyu Ha, Hak-Su Kim, Su-Jin Baek
  • Patent number: 8324687
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising: a PW layer formed at a surface of a semiconductor substrate; an NW layer formed at the surface of the semiconductor substrate to be in contact with the PW layer; a p+ base layer formed at the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the PW layer; an n+ collector layer formed at the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the NW layer; an n+ emitter layer located between the p+ base layer and the n+ collector layer and formed at the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the PW layer; and an n± layer formed between the n+ collector layer and the PW layer to be in contact with the n+ collector layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Tomomitsu Risaki, Shoji Nakanishi, Koichi Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 8327454
    Abstract: A method for allowing multiple users to access preview content is disclosed. In one embodiment, a user is provided with preview content and is allowed to access the preview content even if another user's access to the preview content has expired. In another embodiment, a user is provided with content that he is not allowed to access but is allowed to access a preview version of the content by creating a license that specifies the user's access to the preview content, wherein the license is stored on a memory device that stores the preview content. Other embodiments are disclosed, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb, Oktay S. Rasizade, Haluk K. Tanik
  • Patent number: 8327391
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for transmitting remote procedure call (RPC) commands are disclosed so that all terminals can be managed by using a protocol or specification in a converged network. The method includes: setting RPC commands in device management (DM) specification information; and transmitting the DM specification information. The system includes: a first device, adapted to: set RPC commands in the DM specification information, and send the DM specification information to a second device; and the second device, adapted to receive the DM specification information from the first device. The apparatus includes a terminal device and a DM server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 8321042
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, an audio system connectable to a portable audio player for playing audio contents includes an audio content narrowing unit for narrowing the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player down to a processing target audio content according to an attribute of the audio content selected by a user, a preset information registering unit for registering, in response to a user preset registration operation, a procedure of the narrowing performed by the audio content narrowing unit as preset information, and a preset playback controlling unit for performing, in response to a user preset playback operation, a narrowing procedure equivalent to the procedure of the narrowing that is registered as the preset information, and causing the portable audio player to play back the audio content narrowed down from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Nagayama
  • Patent number: 8316973
    Abstract: An electric drive unit for a motor vehicle includes an electric motor having a stator that is fixed with respect to a stub axle and a rotor that is rotatably supported with respect to the stub axle. A gear system has its input connected to the rotor for torque transmission. A wheel carrier is connected to the output of the gear system for torque transmission. A first bearing of the wheel carrier is provide on a first axial side of the electric motor facing away from the gear system. A second bearing of the wheel carrier is provided either on the first axial side of the electric motor, or in the gear system, realized in the form of a bearing of a rotatable gear system part connected to the wheel carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz Walter, Andreas Heiland, Fritz Deibel, Peter Ehrhart
  • Patent number: 8321322
    Abstract: A method and system for creating a spot price tracker index is disclosed. The method includes obtaining values of first and second derivatives at a time t and calculating an index value by linear extrapolation from the first and second futures contracts. The index value may be displayed at a trading facility and quotes based on the index value may be transmitted by the trading facility to a market participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated
    Inventor: Catherine T. Shalen
  • Patent number: 8317679
    Abstract: Medical systems, devices and methods are provided for manipulating tissue, such as for closing a perforation in an internal bodily lumen. One embodiment of a medical system generally includes an endoscope, an endcap attached to the distal end of the endoscope, a plurality of needles attached to the endcap, a stylet cap slidably disposed of the endcap, a plurality of stylets attached to the stylet cap, and a plurality of tissue devices. The plurality of needles define a plurality of needle lumens and the plurality of stylets project distally into the needle lumens. The plurality of tissue devices are positioned within the needle lumens, whereby translation of the stylet cap relative to the endcap causes the plurality of stylets to engage the plurality to tissue devices and eject them from the plurality of needles. The medical system may further include a protective tip slidably attached to the plurality of needles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Vihar C. Surti
  • Patent number: 8319288
    Abstract: The CMOS inverter coupled circuit is composed of CMOS inverters using SGTs and series-connected in two or more stages. Multiple CMOS inverters share source diffusion layers on a substrate. The CMOS inverters different in the structure of a contact formed on gate wires are alternately arranged next to each other. The CMOS inverters are provided at the minimum intervals. The output terminal of a CMOS inverter is connected to the wiring layer of the next-stage CMOS inverter via the contact of the next-stage CMOS inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Shintaro Arai
  • Patent number: 8319824
    Abstract: For continuous tracking without noticeable skips during physical changes in head position, the intensities of all subpixels of the matrix screen are reduced in order to form intensity focuses for subpixel groups behind barrier elements, which comprise a number n of subpixels, including a subpixel reserve, in the image lines. In the case of parallel alterations, these intensity focuses are then displaced by a constant absolute value continuously through directly adjacent subpixels and also through subpixel group boundaries with different stereo image views. Distance changes involve the intensity focuses being increasingly widened or compressed relative to the screen edges. The intensities of the individual subpixels can be altered by means of simple multiplication by standardized constant or variable intensity factors which can be ascertained as a function of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: René De La Barre, David Przewozny, Siegmund Pastoor
  • Patent number: 8321275
    Abstract: A system and method provide advertisement campaign information about an advertisement campaign to an advertiser. The system includes means for organizing advertisement campaign information into one or more ad groups and a web interface to receive advertiser inputs and provide a visual report including the advertisement campaign information to the advertiser. The system further includes a campaign data store configured to store advertisement campaign account data and a reporting system to produce the visual report about performance of the advertisement campaign. The visual report is based on the organization of the advertisement campaign information into the one or more ad groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Paul Joseph Apodaca, Adam J. Wand, Claude Jones, III
  • Patent number: 8321552
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for creating an MO instance in the management tree of a terminal device. The method for creating the MO instance in the management tree of the terminal device comprises adding the node value to an unnamed node or a specified node of the unnamed node in the MO of the management tree in the terminal device, obtaining data information relative to the content of the unnamed node or the specified node of the unnamed node, generating the name of the unnamed node according to the data information, and adding the MO instance into the management tree of the terminal device. The present disclosure accordingly provides a communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaoping Luo, Rui Wang, Yue Song
  • Patent number: 8319857
    Abstract: A process for measuring skin color parameters from a digital photograph using novel color correction algorithms is described. The process includes measuring color values of a digital color photo, correcting the color deviation of each picture to that of a standard color, and converting the corrected RGB values and generating an output that is useful to L*a*b* values to describe changes in the color properties of the photographed skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Access Business Group International LLC
    Inventors: Di Qu, Richard B. Bylsma, James R. Mayne
  • Patent number: 8320657
    Abstract: To deposit a negotiable instrument electronically, a digital image may be used. Systems and methods are described herein that facilitate the use of a digital camera to provide the digital image. A user may capture an image of a negotiable instrument to create a digital image. The digital image may be compressed and saved as a digital image file. The user may then transmit the digital image file to a financial institution, such as a bank, to deposit funds drawn from the account of the negotiable instrument into the user's account. A financial institution may receive digital image files created by a digital camera from account holders and process a deposit request using the digital image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Rickey Dale Burks, Charles Lee Oakes, III, Randy Ray Morlen, Bharat Prasad, Michael Frank Morris, Xia Hua
  • Patent number: 8319480
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a power control apparatus and a method for controlling power, more specifically to a power control apparatus that controls the risk of overcurrent in a power generator when the voltage in the power grid is low. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a power control apparatus that controls power in a power generation system including a generator generating power can include a current comparator, which calculates an error current by using a difference between a current measured at the generator and a rated current of the generator, a controlling unit, which calculates a real power value by receiving the error current and outputs a switch driving signal corresponding to the calculated real power value, a switch, which is operated by the switch driving signal, and a resistance device, which is coupled to the switch to consume the error current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Heavy Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Sang Ko, Yun-Tae Kang, Jae-Doo Lee
  • Patent number: D671516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Ookawa, Michael Shadovitz
  • Patent number: D671517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takehito Katori
  • Patent number: D671518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Ookawa, Michael Shadovitz
  • Patent number: D671537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nishimura, Yoshitaka Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D671663
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tsugihiro Matsuda, Yoshinori Kakuno, Toshio Mori, Nobuyuki Mase