Patents Represented by Attorney Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
  • Patent number: 8335098
    Abstract: Provided is a memory device in which the circuit structure is simplified while the functions of a memory including an OTP memory and a memory including a pseudo-MTP memory are maintained. A memory device includes a plurality of memory sets each including a mark bit storage area for storing a mark bit, which indicates that an object is deleted data, and a data bit storage area for storing data to be stored, the memory device being built from a one time programmable (OTP) memory including an OTP memory block and a pseudo-MTP memory block, the OTP memory block containing a given number of memory sets selected out of the plurality of memory sets to operate as an OTP memory, the pseudo-MTP memory block containing the rest of the plurality of memory sets which remains after the memory sets of the OTP memory block are excluded and operates as a pseudo-MTP memory. The mark bit is written in advance in the mark bit storage area of the OTP memory block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Biao Shen
  • Patent number: 8333011
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention a method for making an electronic assembly is provided. The method comprises positioning a substrate having a plurality of segmented portions. A first segmented portion has a first plurality of conductive traces terminating to form a first plurality of conductive pads. A second segmented portion has a second plurality of conductive traces terminating to form a second plurality of conductive pads. A flex circuit is placed onto the conductive pads. The flex circuit includes a third plurality of conductive traces terminating at a first end to form a first plurality of connecting pads and terminating at a second end to form a second plurality of connecting pads. Electronic components are electrically coupled to the first and second plurality of conductive traces to form a primary PCB and a daughter PCB. The connecting pads are electrically coupled to the conductive pads for electrically coupling the daughter PCB to the primary PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Autoliv ASP, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Still, David R. Stoscup
  • Patent number: 8335222
    Abstract: A method and apparatus supporting the handling of calls using simulcasting of multimedia information are disclosed. Multimedia information exchanged by an associated access device and a gateway. The access device may request for the multimedia information to be recorded during a call, request retrieval of the multimedia information, and playback the multimedia information. The gateway may store the received multimedia information locally or may communicate the multimedia information to storage. The gateway may cause a user of the access device to be notified of the availability of multimedia information for a recorded call, and may communicate the multimedia information to the access device for playback. A user may be notified if storage and bandwidth for the recording of a call is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D. Bennett, Nambirajan Seshadri
  • Patent number: 8333038
    Abstract: A wall assembly includes at least one horizontally extending rail having a rear surface adapted to engage the wall. A plurality of horizontally spaced and vertically extending stiles are coupled to the rail, with the stiles disposed forwardly of the rear surface of the rail. A plurality of interface components are coupled to the plurality of stiles. In various embodiments, the stiles may be interconnected to draw together adjacent interface components. The interface components also may include overlapping upper and lower edges. The stiles may be vertically and/or horizontally (laterally and longitudinally) adjustable relative to the rail. A lock member may be provided to secure at least one of the stiles to the rail. Various systems and methods of assembly and use are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Herman Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Bates, Andrew J. Boyce, Chul Min Kang, Michael J. Katje, Susan R. Lyons, Kurt E. Porter, Jeffrey D. Roetman, Perry L. Sellers, Gianfranco Dino Zaccai
  • Patent number: 8334827
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. The OLED display includes a display panel, a gate drive circuit, a data converter that divides video data corresponding to 1 frame into a plurality of bit-planes each having a different bitrate, maps bit-planes having a relatively large value of assigned time to first subfields, and maps bit-planes having a relatively small value of assigned time to second subfields arranged between the first subfields, so that time assigned values of successively arranged subfields have a zigzag pattern and a last subfield of the successively arranged subfields has a maximum time assigned value, and a data drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungmin Seo, Eunmyung Park
  • Patent number: 8335644
    Abstract: A traffic jam guide image showing traffic jam conditions of a plurality of road sections ahead of a current location of a vehicle is displayed together with a map image during a guidance of a guide route from the current location to a destination. Based on a user operation performed on a touch screen, an object road section in which a search condition is to be changed and the search condition in the object road section are set. A second guide route from the current location to the destination is searched for based on the search condition set for the object road section such that the user has only to perform a simple operation through a touch screen to automatically change the search condition and set the road section to which the changed search condition is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 8333001
    Abstract: A method of shortening an end of a well car includes removing a plurality of parts that would inhibit the shortening process; cutting a shear plate and a set of side sill angles at a location on the well side of the end assembly; detaching the end assembly from a main body of the well car; on each side of the main body: cutting the top tube at a location above a monument plate that is just beyond a reinforcement plate attached to the monument plate; cutting through a weld between the monument and reinforcement plates and a side sheet; cutting through the side sheet generally at the attachment location of the monument and reinforcement plates; and cutting the shear plate of the main body with a contoured cut such that the remaining shear plate has a contoured pattern substantially matching the cut shear plate under the removed end assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: TTX Company
    Inventors: William R. Halliar, Frank F. Stec, Bruce E. Keating
  • Patent number: 8334847
    Abstract: A system includes a touchscreen display and an interface application. The interface application may control the touchscreen display to provide a container and a selectable user interface control. The user interface control may be selected through manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container proximate the user interface control. The user interface application may identify a gesture function in response to manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container when the manipulation has a motion magnitude in a plane of the touchscreen display exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: QNX Software Systems Limited
    Inventor: Steve Tomkins
  • Patent number: 8333343
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jet engine nacelle intended to equip an aircraft, comprising a forward air inlet section, a mid-section intended to surround a fan of the jet engine, and an aft section formed from at least first and second half-shells (9, 10) rotatably mounted about an axis (A) such that they can each be deployed between a working position in which the half-shells (9, 10) are drawn towards one another and a maintenance position in which the half-shells (9, 10) are spaced apart, the mid- and aft sections being connected to one another by a frame (12) which is fixed with respect to the jet engine, the first and second half-shells (9, 10) being equipped with positioning means (13) which in the working position cooperate with complementary positioning means (14) formed on the fixed frame (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventor: Gilles Bourdon
  • Patent number: 8335730
    Abstract: A data processing system generates a scorecard analysis that displays multiple scorecard windows, each directed to a specific different perspective on a particular business function. Each perspective may have at least one corresponding objective, and each objective may have at least one corresponding key performance indicator. Each scorecard may include drill down capability from a top level analysis to more detailed information on a perspective, objective, or key performance indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: David A. Davidson, Scott P. Elsky, William A. Parkan
  • Patent number: 8335445
    Abstract: Provided are a development apparatus and an image forming apparatus which, in a hybrid development apparatus provided with a plurality of toner carriers, a toner supply capability to supply toner to each toner carrier is controlled independent of development electric fields between the toner carriers and an image carrier, whereby each toner carrier is allowed to exhibit a desired development capability, and even in the case of high speed development, a high quality image is provided. The phases, the frequencies, and/or the duty ratios of the alternating current components of the voltages applied to the plurality of the toner carriers are made to be different, whereby the toner supply amount for each toner carrier from the developer carrier is controlled independently of the development electric fields between the toner carriers and the image carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeo Uetake, Toshiya Natsuhara, Junya Hirayama, Takeshi Maeyama, Makiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8333493
    Abstract: A dual direction light pipe includes a first section having a first set of prisms oriented to reflect a portion of the light within the first section of the light pipe in a first direction and a second section having a second set of prisms oriented to reflect a portion of the light within the second section of the light pipe in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: North American Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Amine Taleb-Bendiab, Manish N. Sharma, Dianna Lynn Stadtherr
  • Patent number: 8335685
    Abstract: A speech enhancement system controls the gain of an excitation signal to prevent uncontrolled gain adjustments. The system includes a first device that converts sound waves into operational signals. An ambient noise estimator is linked to the first device and an echo canceller. The ambient noise estimator estimates how loud a background noise would be near the first device before or after an echo cancellation. The system then compares the ambient noise estimate to a current ambient noise estimate near the first device to control a gain of an excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: QNX Software Systems Limited
    Inventor: Phillip A. Hetherington
  • Patent number: 8335907
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining an address table for mapping logical addresses to physical addresses include continuously consolidating main address maps and an update address map, and periodically compacting the update address map. Consolidating includes selecting a main address map, reading valid mapping entries from the main and update address maps, constructing a mapping set including the valid mapping entries, and writing the mapping set to a second main address map. The update address map is compacted if a criterion is met, and includes copying the valid mapping entries to an unwritten block or metablock and assigning the unwritten block or metablock as a new update address map. The length of consolidation may depend on the average length of compacted mapping entries following a compaction operation. Increased performance due to lower maintenance overhead may result by using these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Alan W. Sinclair, Nicholas J. Thomas
  • Patent number: 8335640
    Abstract: A navigation system for a vehicle includes an input unit configured to receive an input corresponding to a destination, a determining unit configured to determine if the input destination corresponds to a route that includes a ferry route or a rail-based route, a modifying unit configured to modify the input destination to a modified destination that corresponds to a termination of a road linked to the route or in the vicinity of a terminal of the route, when it is determined that the input destination corresponds to a location on the route. A route guidance unit is configured to search for a guide route to the modified destination and perform guidance along the guide route, wherein when the navigation system in the vehicle arrives at the termination of the road or in the vicinity thereof, or when the vehicle is positioned in the vicinity of the terminal, and the navigation system is turned off, and the route guidance unit determines that the vehicle has arrived at the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Shinichi Tachihana
  • Patent number: D672754
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Inada
  • Patent number: D672767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yoneya, Yoshitaka Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D672801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Nakamura, Atsushi Sasaki
  • Patent number: D672864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyake, Nobuyuki Mase
  • Patent number: D672875
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishibashi, Yosimasa Simogochi, Takeshi Umeda, Takashi Fujikawa