Patents Represented by Attorney Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
  • Patent number: 8343697
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor containing at least a charge generation material and a charge transport material on a conductive support, the electrophotographic photoconductor comprising a diamine compound represented by the formula (1), and also a polyarylate resin having a structural unit represented by the following formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoko Kanazawa, Hiroshi Sugimura
  • Patent number: 8340305
    Abstract: Audio encoding method and device comprising the transmission, in addition to the data representing a frequency-limited signal, of information relating to a temporal filter that is to be applied to the entire enhanced signal, both in its transmitted low-frequency part and in its reconstituted high-frequency part. The application of this filter for reshaping the reconstituted high-frequency part and the correction of compression artefacts present in the transmitted low-frequency part. In this way, the application of the temporal filter, simple and inexpensive, to all or part of the reconstituted signal, makes it possible to obtain a signal of good perceived quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mobiclip
    Inventor: Alexandre Delattre
  • Patent number: 8340450
    Abstract: A vector quantizer includes a lattice quantizer (10) approximating a vector x by a lattice vector belonging to a lattice ?0. A lattice vector decomposer (14) connected to the lattice quantizer successively decomposes the lattice vector into a sequence of quotient vectors y, and a sequence of remainder vectors ri on successive lattices ?I?1 by lattice division with a corresponding predetermined sequence of integers pi?2, where i=1 . . . k and k is a positive integer representing the number of elements in each sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Anisse Taleb
  • Patent number: 8337321
    Abstract: A putting stroke training system includes a putting board with a putting section and a hole, a light sensitive or touch sensitive screen positioned in the putting section of the putting board, where the light sensitive or touch sensitive screen records stroke paths of a putter head, and a processor that correlates successful strokes with respective ones of the stroke paths. The processor generates a preferred stroke path based on an average of the successful strokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Inventor: Norman Douglas Bittner
  • Patent number: 8339409
    Abstract: A tile-based graphics system, and method of operation of such a system, are provided for generating graphics data for a frame comprising a plurality of tiles. Graphics processing circuitry is provided which is arranged to be switched between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the graphics processing circuitry receives the plurality of graphics primitives for the frame, and performs a binning operation to determine, for each of the plurality of tiles, a tile list identifying the graphics primitives which intersect that tile. In the second mode of operation, the graphics processing circuitry receives the tile list for an allocated tile, and performs a rasterization operation to generate the graphics data for the allocated tile dependent on the tile list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: David Robert Shreiner
  • Patent number: 8337284
    Abstract: A touch panel 13 is mounted on a second LCD 12. If the player touch-operates the touch panel 13 so as to touch on an offense button OB, the symbolized representation of any offense athlete among a plurality of player objects composing the player's team becomes relatively large. Thus, in a game where the action or settings of a game object image is changed by touch-operating the game object image, the image of a game object that is highly frequently operated in situations similar to the current situation is enlarged, thereby facilitating touch-operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Nishimura, Masayasu Nakata, Toshikazu Tomizawa, Yosuke Hatayama, Noriyuki Niwa, Keizo Ohta
  • Patent number: 8337308
    Abstract: A game system includes a game device, and a hand-held device having a predetermined input surface. The hand-held device transmits operation data which includes touch data representing a player input position on the predetermined input surface and movement data whose value changes in accordance with movement of the hand-held device. The game device controls an attitude of a control surface placed in a three-dimensional game space based on the movement data. The game device calculates a control direction in the game space based on the attitude of the control surface and the touch data, and performs a game process based on the control direction. The first game image representing the game space is output to and displayed on a display device which is separate from the hand-held device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ito, Keizo Ohta
  • Patent number: 8339364
    Abstract: A human-machine interface involves plural spatially-coherent visual presentation surfaces at least some of which are movable by a person. Plural windows or portholes into a virtual space, at least some of which are handheld and movable, are provided by using handheld and other display devices. Aspects of multi-dimensional spatiality of the moveable window (e.g., relative to another window) are determined and used to generate images. As one example, the moveable window can present a first person perspective “porthole” view into the virtual space, this porthole view changing based on aspects of the moveable window's spatiality in multi-dimensional space relative to a stationary window. A display can present an image of a virtual space, and an additional, moveable display can present an additional image of the same virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Genyo Takeda, Howard Cheng
  • Patent number: 8339876
    Abstract: A static random access memory (SRAM) includes a data line for transferring data to and from the memory and at least one reset line, a plurality of storage cells, each cell including an asymmetric feedback loop; an access device for selectively providing a connection between the at data line and the cell's first access node; a reset device for selectively providing a connection between a reset line and the cell's second access node. The SRAM further includes data access control circuitry for generating control signals for independently controlling the access device and the reset device and to generate a data access control signal. The SRAM also generates a reset control signal to trigger the reset device to provide the connection between the at least one reset line and the second access node in response to a write request to write the complementary predetermined value to the storage cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Vikas Chandra, Satyanand Vijay Nalam, Cezary Pietrzyk, Robert Campbell Aitken
  • Patent number: 8340554
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing vessel, first and second conveying passages for conveying a developer, first and second conveying members for agitating and conveying the developer, a developing roller, a toner supply port for receiving a supply of toner and an agitator arranged under the toner supply port. The first conveying member has a rotary shaft and first and second conveying blades formed on the periphery of the rotary shaft. The agitator is arranged coaxially with the first conveying member so as to be rotatable independently from the first conveying member. The agitator includes a circular helical blade formed around the outer periphery of the second helical blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Morimoto, Kohichi Takenouchi
  • Patent number: 8338007
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium a magnetic recording medium includes a soft magnetic layer formed on a substrate, magnetic patterns made of a protruded ferromagnetic layer separated from each other on the soft magnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer formed between the magnetic patterns, a nitrogen concentration therein being higher on a surface side than on a substrate side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kaori Kimura, Yoshiyuki Kamata, Satoshi Shirotori, Tsuyoshi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: 8339539
    Abstract: A backlight (illumination device) 2 is disclosed including: light sources (5); light guide plates (7) for causing surface emission of light from the light sources (5); and a diffusing plate (8) for diffusing light from the light guide plates (7), the diffusing plate (8) facing a light-emitting surface (7a) of each of the light guide plates (7) at a predetermined distance. The illumination device further includes at least one maintaining section between the light-emitting surface (7a) of the light guide plate (7) and the diffusing plate (8), the maintaining section (10) maintaining the predetermined distance. The maintaining section (10) is provided on either of first and second end sections of the light-emitting surface (7a) of a light guide plate (7), the first end section being closer to a corresponding light source (5), the second end section being farther from the corresponding light source (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhsaku Ajichi, Takeshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8338343
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for an additive composition comprising an amidized or imidized polymer. The invention further relates to a highly grafted, multi-functional lubricant additive useful to improve the viscosity index and dispersancy properties of a lubricating oil composition. The present invention also relates to a method of extending lubricant drain intervals and improving fuel economy and fuel economy durability. The additive composition is prepared by: (A) reacting an olefin copolymer of ethylene and at least one C3 to C23 &agr; -olefin comprising from about 15 to 80 mole percent of ethylene, from about 20 to 85 mole percent of said C3 to C23 &agr; -olefin and from about 0 to 15 wt percent of a polyene, said copolymer having a number average molecular weight ranging from 1,000 to 500,000, with an olefinic carboxylic acid acylating agent, said process comprising heating said polymer to a molten condition at a temperature in the range of 60° C. to 240° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Lanxess Elastomers B.V.
    Inventors: Patric Meessen, Gerhard Van Vliet, Gerardus Arnoldus Rademakers, Johannes Hendrik Geesink, Zhaoyao Joe Qiu, Franciscus Victoire Paulus Houtvast
  • Patent number: 8336332
    Abstract: Provided are a process for the production of a precision press-molded article having a high transmittance a method of treating a glass to color or decolor the glass, the process comprising heat-treating a press-molded article containing at least one selected from WO3, Nb2O5 or TiO2 in an oxidizing atmosphere to produce a glass molded article, and the method comprising heat-treating a colored glass containing at least one oxide of WO3 and Nb2O5 in an oxidizing atmosphere to decolor the glass, or heat-treating a glass containing at least one oxide selected from WO3, Nb2O5 or TiO2 in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to color the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hayashi, Hiromasa Tawarayama, Xuelu Zou, Hiroshi Kawazoe
  • Patent number: 8337304
    Abstract: An example portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a first display screen, and a cover body incorporating a second display screen. The main body is hingedly connected to the cover body along adjacent forward and rearward edges, respectively, such that the cover body is movable between closed and open positions. The main body is provided with a plurality of control buttons and a pair of game card slots for receiving game cards of different dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki
  • Patent number: 8338177
    Abstract: A method for culturing cells in the presence of an alcanoic acid for enhancing protein production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Lonza Biologics PLC
    Inventors: David Mainwaring, Jeremy Wayte
  • Patent number: 8337926
    Abstract: A method of obtaining yellow-orange coloration of egg yolks and chicken skins using 4-ketolutein as feed additive for chicken feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Gustavo Rodriguez, George Schloemer, Alejandro Diaz
  • Patent number: 8340649
    Abstract: A method of establishing a communications session in a communications system is disclosed. The communications system comprises a caller terminal (103), a mobile terminal (101) associated with the caller terminal (103), a callee terminal (115) associated with a callee and session initiation means (111,113). It has become common yet frustrating for users to have to maintain contact lists on a multiplicity of communications devices (e.g. the caller terminal and the mobile terminal). The method comprises: (i) identifying the callee using the mobile telephone (101); (ii) responsive to identification of said callee, transferring data identifying the callee from the mobile terminal (101) to the session initiation means (111,113); and (iii) in dependence on the transferred data, operating the session initiation means (111,113) to establish a communications session between the caller terminal (103) and the callee terminal (115).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Simon P A Ringland, Francis J Scahill
  • Patent number: D672968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Reinard Steeman, Marcel Jongedijk
  • Patent number: D673259
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Resmed Limited
    Inventors: Aaron Samuel Davidson, Robin Garth Hitchcock, Errol Savio Alex D'Souza, Matthew Eves