Patents Represented by Attorney Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8235573
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light guide, a mixing light guide plate, and a plurality of light sources. The first light guide comprises a first side surface. The mixing light guide plate comprises an incident surface with anomalous surface and an emergent surface with fog surface. The mixing light guide plate is set on the first side surface. A plurality of light sources disposed corresponding to the incident surface, with light emitted there from and entering the mixing light guide plate through the incident surface then exits the mixing light guide plate through the emergent surface, finally, entering the light guide through the first side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.
    Inventor: Chih-Li Chang
  • Patent number: 8238261
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving handover in an IEEE 802.21 compliant communication network. A query is transmitted from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a media independent handover (MIH) server (MIHS). The WTRU includes a target point of attachment (PoA) and/or a preferred mobile inter protocol (MIP) method. The WTRU receives a response from the MIHS indicating the MIP method supported by the target PoA. Based on the received response, the WTRU may make an informed decision regarding handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Alan G. Carlton, Juan Carlos Zuniga
  • Patent number: 8238479
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing a receiver to a received signal begins by down-converting the received signal to a first baseband signal. A coarse frequency offset (CFO) of the first baseband signal is determined and is applied to the down-converting of the received signal to a second baseband signal. A fine frequency offset (FFO) of the second baseband signal is determined. The receiver is synchronized to the received signal using the CFO and the FFO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Gillyoung Jung, Azzedine Touzni, Xiaoqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 8238506
    Abstract: A high-accuracy and computational efficient phase-discriminating device is provided and includes a phase-discriminating unit. The phase-discriminating unit converts an input and a reference signals into an input and a reference sequences respectively by a one-bit A/D conversion operation, determines a first value, an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the input signal in response to the input and the reference sequences, and produces an estimated phase of the input signal according to a relation among the first value, the in-phase component and a polarity of the quadrature component, wherein the first value is a certain integer being one of a first integer and a second integer, the first integer is a sampling count of the one-bit A/D conversion operation for producing the input sequence, and the second integer is a summation of an absolute value of the in-phase component and that of the quadrature component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Chieh-Fu Chang, Ru-Muh Yang, Ming-Seng Kao
  • Patent number: 8237161
    Abstract: Amorphous semiconductor films with enhanced charged carrier transport are disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating and treating the film to produce the enhanced transport. Also disclosed are semiconductor p-n junctions fabricated with the films which demonstrate the enhanced transport. The films are amorphous and include boron, carbon, and hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: North Dakota State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Anthony N. Caruso, Joseph A. Sandstrom, David A. Bunzow
  • Patent number: 8236278
    Abstract: An indium oxide-based particle is provided. The indium oxide-based particle has a mono-dispersive and spherical non-crystalline structure (spherical morphology with amorphous phase). The diameter of particle is ranged between 0.10 ?m and 0.70 ?m, and the content of an indium oxide is ranged between 10.0 percent by mass and 99.9 percent by mass. The indium oxide-based particle is generated by the precursor with indium ion reacting with alpha hydroxyl acid in an aqueous solution with alkali-modifier additive at a constant temperature. The indium-oxide based particle can be further calcinated as a crystalline indium oxide particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Wen-Cheng Wei, Sung-En Lin
  • Patent number: 8239721
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus utilize hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions and retransmissions that are usable on multiple carriers, i.e. joint HARQ processes. For example, a downlink (DL) shared channel transmission of a joint HARQ process is received on one of the carriers. A first part of an identity of the joint HARQ process is determined by using HARQ process identity data received on a shared control channel. A second part of the joint HARQ process identity is determined using additional information. The joint HARQ process identity is then determined by combining the first part and the second part. A WTRU is provided that is configured to receive the DL shared channel and to make the aforementioned determinations. A variety of other methods and apparatus configurations are disclosed for utilizing joint HARQ processes, in particular in the context of DC-HSDPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Pelletier, Jean-Louis Gauvreau, Diana Pani, Christopher R. Cave, Paul Marinier, In H. Kim, Philip J. Pietraski
  • Patent number: 8238912
    Abstract: An improved arrangement is described for signaling enhanced capabilities of a wireless data communication system to a dual-mode wireless handset seeking access to such capabilities and normally operating in a first (non-enhanced) mode. The arrangement, which is especially advantageous for ascertaining operating mode capabilities of a new cellsite to which the handset is being handed off from an existing cellsite, includes a separate capabilities server that is associated with the system and contains a data base populated with information indicative of such capabilities. The handset generates a suitable query message which is transmitted to the data base in the first mode after the handoff to retrieve the capability information for the new cellsite location. The handset is switched from the first mode to the second (enhanced) mode for post-handoff operation if the retrieved capability information indicates that the new cellsite is capable of operation in the enhanced mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard A. Heller, Kevin L. Farley, James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8233719
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing image data comprises correlating received image data. Image statistics are computed based upon the correlated image and eccentricity is estimated based upon the computed image statistics. An entropy metric of the correlated received image data is determined. An interpretation based upon the image statistics, estimated eccentricity, and entropy metric is performed and a report including the content of the processed image data is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventor: Gordon F. Wredenhagen
  • Patent number: 8233472
    Abstract: A full services access multiplexer is described. A master DSL modem is coupled to a conductor pair. A POTS extender is coupled to the conductor pair and may sense the operation of a fallback or other signal on the conductor pair. A suppression signal may be transmitted to the master DSL modem upon occurrence of the fallback. The suppression signal may travel over a control circuit. Traffic over a backplane or other network segment may be uninterrupted to an Integrated Access Device by handling signals inbound and outbound to the backplane via packet assembler and disassembler (PAD). The PAD may transmit a data stream to vocoder and received a data stream from vocoder for injection onto the backplane. The vocoder connects duplexed traffic to the subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC), wherein traffic between the vocoder and the SLIC are in analog formats in or near the audible range of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wissing, Cecil Mathews, Jiri Pek, Drasko Milasin
  • Patent number: 8233527
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention as described herein provide a solution to the problems of conventional methods as stated above. In the following description, various examples are given for illustration, but none are intended to be limiting. Embodiments are directed to a transcoding system that shares the workload of video transcoding through the use of multiple central processing unit (CPU) cores and/or one or more graphical processing units (GPU), including the use of two components within the GPU: a dedicated hardcoded or programmable video decoder for the decode step and compute shaders for scaling and encoding. The system combines usage of an industry standard Microsoft DXVA method for using the GPU to accelerate video decode with a GPU encoding scheme, along with an intermediate step of scaling the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Schmit, Rajy Meeyakhan Rawther
  • Patent number: 8233006
    Abstract: Embodiments include a texture mapping processor incorporating a dynamic level of detail map for use in a graphics processing system. Level of detail values are defined, with 0 being the finest and corresponding to the largest mipmap level. Each bound texture in a graphics object is assigned an identifier. This identifier is used as an index into a minimum-LOD value tracking table that is updated whenever a texel is fetched. A texture processing module controls when the tracking table is initialized and read back, and which identifiers are tracked. The minimum-LOD values in the tracking table are accompanied by a coarse region access mask to associate a minimum LOD value with a specific region of the image or object. A clamping table contains LOD clamp values for each region and a region code that specifies the coarseness of the LOD associated with each region of the texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Grossman, Thomas Frisinger, Daniel M. Gessel
  • Patent number: 8231938
    Abstract: A method of producing enzyme granulates, enzyme granulates produced By the method, and the use thereof in formulations is provided, for example, for animal feed, foodstuffs, washing agents, rinsing agents or for pharmaceutical uses. The enzyme granulates have a high relative proportion of active enzyme, particular particle size, good shelf life, particularly small rounding factors and/or low residual moisture proportion, and further specific properties. The production of the enzyme granulates is achieved by linking of the thermal conditions in the injection zone and temperature conditions in the remainder of the apparatus. This is achieved by introduction of heated process gasses for drying exclusively in the injection zone. The secure introduction of articles into the injection zone is achieved by the specific geometric arrangement of the apparatus using gravity. The absolute value for enzyme activity of the enzyme granulates can be controlled by the addition of particles as seed material for the granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Rümpler, Michael Jacob, Mike Waskow
  • Patent number: 8233626
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent data from being tampered with, and to prevent operation mistakes, when sending and receiving data between a management software managing storage devices. Encrypting predetermined information by using a first key managed by a first manager when temporarily keeping the predetermined information in a data holding unit; decrypting the predetermined information encrypted with a second key kept in a storage device managed by a second storage manager when moving the encrypted predetermined information to the second storage manager; and arranging the predetermined information in the second manager based on the decryption result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimichi Kishimoto, Shinichiro Kanno
  • Patent number: 8233450
    Abstract: This invention relates to wireless local area networks (WLANs), and the interoperability of networks of different types or conforming to different standards, and to methods and apparatus to allow a multimode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), which is able to operate in more than one type of network, to handover from one network type to another without adversely affecting service, utilizing a mechanism and information flows implemented in a new protocol stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Maged Zaki, Juan Carlos Zuniga, Marian Rudolf, Shamim Akbar Rahman, Kamel M. Shaheen, Alan Gerald Carlton
  • Patent number: 8233455
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and device may be used to perform a media independent handover between technologically diversified access networks. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to communicate with a plurality of technologically diversified access networks, such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.X networks and Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) networks. The WTRU may include a plurality of access network specific protocol stacks and a media independent handover (MIH) function. The WTRU may be configured to communicate information with each of the plurality of access network specific protocol stacks using protocols specific to each to the plurality of access network protocol stacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M Shaheen, Alan G Carlton, Marian Rudolf, Guang Lu, Juan Carlos Zuniga, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Maged M Zaki
  • Patent number: 8228886
    Abstract: A code is provided for transmission. The code is transmitted over a first antenna in a first time slot and the code is not transmitted over a second antenna in the first time slot. The code is transmitted over the second antenna in a second time slot and the code is not transmitted over the first antenna in the second time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: D. Ridgely Bolgiano, Gilbert E. LaVean
  • Patent number: 8229437
    Abstract: Systems and methods of pre-allocating identifiers to wireless devices for use in requesting resources over a random access channel are described. A wireless communication system includes a random access channel over which wireless devices can anonymously send requests for resources. The base stations receiving and processing the anonymous requests reduces the probability of random access channel collisions and conserves the resources needed to support the anonymous requests by pre-allocating one or more codes to select wireless devices. The wireless devices having the pre-allocated codes can transmit a particular code over the random access channel as a request for resources that uniquely identifies the requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Adam E. Newham, Lei Wang, Srikanth Gummadi
  • Patent number: 8230304
    Abstract: An iterative turbo decoder for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) of a wireless communication system and method for error correcting received communication signal data are provided. The decoder implements a stopping rule through use of signature codes to determine whether successive iterations of decoder data are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: David S. Bass
  • Patent number: 8222287
    Abstract: A heteroannelated anthraquinone derivative compound is provided. The heteroannelated anthraquinone derivative compound is represented by a formula (I): wherein R1 is a substituent being one selected from a group consisting of i) a first substituent being one selected from a group consisting of a hydryl group, an amino group, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group and a cyan group, ii) a second substituent being one selected from a group consisting of (CH2)nX, a straight (CH2)n alkyl group, a (CH2)n alkoxyl group, a branched (CH2)n alkyl group, a C3˜C12 nephthenic group, and a C3˜C12 cyclic alkoxyl group, wherein 1?n?12, and X is a halogen, iii) a third substituent being one selected from a group consisting of a straight C1˜C8 alkyl group with a double-bond, a C1˜C8 alkoxyl group with a double-bond, a branched C1˜C8 alkyl group with a double-bond and a C3˜C8 nephthenic group with a double-bond, and iv) a fourth substituent of a C5˜C12 heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: National Defense Medical Center
    Inventor: Hsu-Shan Huang