Patents Assigned to Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
  • X-ray device provided with a robot arm
    Patent number: 6869217
    Abstract: The invention relates to an X-ray device which includes an X-ray source and an X-ray detector which are mounted at a respective end of a common holding device. The holding device being attached to the room by way of a supporting device. In order to realize a more flexible construction of such X-ray devices that are widely used and are usually provided with a holding device in the form of a C-arm and nevertheless maintain a high positioning accuracy. The invention further relates to a supporting device constructed with a plurality of hinged, serially interconnected supporting members. The supporting device is formed notably by a serial manipulator, for example, a conventional robot arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Volker Rasche, Hermann Schomberg, Erhard Paul Artur Klotz
  • Data processing system and a method of distributing accesses to memories
    Patent number: 6871269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processing system comprising a processor (100), at least one data memory (132), at least one program memory (134) and a main bus (110), common to the data and program memories and connecting these memories to the processor, characterized in that at least one of the memories has a rapid-access mode and in that the device also comprises a distribution interface (120) between the main bus (110) and the memories in order to alternately put in communication, by means of the main bus, one from among the data memory and the program memory with the processor, in a so-called active-access mode, and to keep the other memory in a so-called passive-access mode allowing subsequent rapid access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Arnaud Sebastien Christophe Rosay, Jean-Michel Ortion
  • Reporting the status for an external defibrillator with an audible report in response to a specified user input
    Patent number: 6871093
    Abstract: A defibrillator system including a defibrillator and at least one indicator including at least one visual indicator and/or at least one audible indicator connected to the defibrillator for generating an indication of a functional status of the defibrillator periodically and/or on command by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Kim J. Hansen
  • Method and arrangement for providing access to a consumer device
    Patent number: 6871188
    Abstract: A method of and arrangement for providing access to a consumer device (101). A user can switch between multiple content providers. To switch, he calls up a set of representations (202-207) of offerings by content providers (107, 108, 109). He can then select a content provider. The selection is submitted to a gateway system (106), which then provides the selected content provider access to the consumer device (101), preferably in return for a fee paid by the selected content provider. The invention makes it easier for users to switch content providers even when descrambling boxes, subscriptions and other hassles are normally involved in switching. All these hassles are taken care of by the gateway (106).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Allan Michael De Souza
  • Stereo audio processing device for deriving auxiliary audio signals, such as direction sensing and center signals
    Patent number: 6870933
    Abstract: An audio signal processing device is described for deriving auxiliary audio signals, such as audio direction sensing signals or a center audio signal from first and second audio signals through first and second filter paths, each of which comprises a first adaptive filter, and a first summing means is provided for coupled to the first adaptive filters for providing a summed audio signal at its summing output. Each filter path further comprises a second adaptive filter coupled to said summing output, whose respective adaptive filter coefficients are transferred to the first adaptive filters and are adapted in response to respective comparisons of the first and second audio signals with filtered sums of the first and second audio signals. Therewith correlated and uncorrelated parts of the input audio signals are processed effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: David Antoine Christian Marie Roovers
  • Method and apparatus for transcoding a digitally compressed high definition television bitstream to a standard definition television bitstream
    Patent number: 6870886
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transcoding macroblocks of a high definition television signal to co-sited macroblocks of a standard definition television signal wherein SD macroblocks are derived directly from co-sited HD macroblocks, i.e. without having to compute the SD macroblock information from its corresponding SD image sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Kiran S. Challapali, We dong Mao
  • Method for color mixing with arc stability and straightening of HID lamps operated at high frequencies using duty cycle modulation
    Patent number: 6870324
    Abstract: A method of color mixing with arc stability and arc straightening of HID lamps operated at high frequencies which modulates a duty cycle of a half bridge configured resonant inverter at a frequency which is substantially one-half the frequency of a second longitudinal acoustic mode of the HID lamp. The method also sweeps the switching frequency in a high frequency range of such resonant inverter. The duty cycle modulation effectuates power modulation to create a fixed frequency power component which is substantially equal to the frequency of the second longitudinal acoustic mode. The sweeping switching frequency of the half bridge configured resonant inverter drives the HID lamp in a manner which effectuates arc stability and arc straightening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Eric Shen
  • Method for a tungsten silicide etch
    Patent number: 6869885
    Abstract: A tungsten silicide etch process allows for a high etch rate and about 90° sidewall profiles of etched features. According to an example embodiment, a substrate is placed into an etch zone and a process gas comprising SF6, He, HBr, and a chlorine-containing gas is introduced in the etch zone. A plasma is generated in the etch zone to form an etch gas from the process gas that anisotropically etches the tungsten silicide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Steven Kirk Bowling
  • Protection of a surface by partially subjecting it to an electrochemical treatment
    Patent number: 6869684
    Abstract: In a method of providing a surface with a protection layer having at least a first surface area (2) and a second surface area (1), which surface areas (1, 2) are distinguishable in that the surface areas (1, 2) differ from each other in at least one visual property, parts of the surface situated outside the first surface area (2) are masked with a mask layer which partially covers the surface, and the surface is subjected to an electrochemical treatment (14, 20), whereby non-masked parts of the surface are treated. As the mask layer provided on the surface is a sol-gel layer forming the protection layer in the second surface area (1), a wear-resistant surface-protection layer having visually distinguishable surface areas is provided in an efficient manner. An object which can be obtained by means of the proposed method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Sjoerd Johannes Franciscus Brattinga, Hans Kuiper, Mattheus Franciscus Langedijk, Ytsen Wielstra
  • Shaving apparatus
    Patent number: 6868611
    Abstract: A shaving apparatus with an external cutting member (4) and an internal cutting member which can be driven into rotation relative to the external member. The external cutting member (4) has an annular region (8) with hair-trapping apertures (5) and a skin support region (9) in a central area surrounded by the annular region. To improve the shaving performance, the skin support area is provided with ridges 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Geert Geertsma, Simon Eme Kadijk, Hendrik Poel, Sjoerd Haites
  • Housing
    Patent number: 6870739
    Abstract: The invention relates to a housing. Housing walls (1) are provided which are formed so as to be integral and collapsible, constituting the housing in the collapsed state, and which are fitted with functional elements (8) and closing elements (5) of synthetic resin injection-molded onto the housing walls (1), which closing elements (5) are designed so as to be movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Hartmut Groos, Thomas Nagel
  • Camera with color filter
    Patent number: 6867802
    Abstract: A color camera comprises a light sensitive area (13) comprising light sensitive elements, and a color filter layer (12) associated with the sensitive elements comprising Red, Green and Blue (R-G-B) filter layer elements. The color filter layer (12) comprises a repetitive sub-pattern of eight adjacent lines or columns, which sub-pattern comprises color filter elements in the following sequence: line (column) 1: G-R line (column) 2: B-G line (column) 3: G-R line (column) 4: G-B line (column) 5: G-R line (column) 6: B-G line (column) 7: R-G line (column) 8: B-G.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Cornelis Antonie Maria Jaspers
  • Natural luminance transient enhancement
    Patent number: 6867817
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing an edge transient contained in a video signal include identifying the edge transient and the edge center of the edge transient in the video signal; selecting a side of the edge transient, relative to an edge center thereof, to enhance; and adding an edge change signal to the video signal to asymmetrically enhance the selected edge transient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Erwin B. Bellers
  • Method of implicit partitioning the storage space available on a storage medium
    Patent number: 6868429
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implicitly partitioning the storage space available on a storage medium, to a storage medium for storing user data and to a recording device for storing user data on a storage medium. In order to limit the mount/unmount time of a volume like a UDF volume on a magnetic tape for ADR and to limit overall seek times during reading: a) storage space available for storage on the medium is divided into a directory region and a data region, b) metadata are stored in the directory region, c) user data are stored in the data region being implicitly subdivided into data sub-regions, d) file set data for user data stored in a data sub-region are stored in a corresponding directory sub-region being assigned to this data sub-region, and e) borders and size of data sub-regions are variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes Fontijn
  • Alignment tool, assembly tool and method for a poly-plane workpiece
    Patent number: 6865794
    Abstract: Tools and method for aligning a first polyhedral workpiece with a central axis and for joining the first workpiece with a second workpiece also aligned with the central axis. The aligning tool includes two sets of urging members offset from one another along the central axis of the first workpiece, each set including urging members biased to urge the first workpiece in a direction transverse to the central axis and opposite from the bias direction of the other set. The invention is useful for example in aligning and joining a rotatable prism to a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Peter J. Janssen, Grant J. McCloud
  • Method of transmitting return signals to a satellite from a videocommunication signal distribution network
    Patent number: 6868255
    Abstract: An antenna system (1) transmits return signals, for example, in the band Ka, based on signals received from a distribution network in the band from 2.5-3 GHz. The return signals are transmitted through the network from a user receiver (PC) with a frequency lying below 65 MHz, they are processed in a frequency converter (up-C) between the network and the antenna system so as to be delivered to the antenna system with a frequency lying in the 2.5-3 GHz band, and frequency management data received in the downstream channel are used in the frequency converter (up-C) for selecting the frequency in the 2.5-3 GHz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Pierre Chanteau, Reynald Edouard, Américo Brajal
  • Speech recognition device with transfer means
    Patent number: 6868379
    Abstract: In a speech recognition device (1) comprising receiving means (36) for receiving voice information (AI) uttered by a speaker and including speech coefficient storage means (38, 39, 40, 41) for storing a speech coefficient indicator (SKI, PRI, SMI, WI) and including speech recognition means (42) which are arranged for recognizing text information (RTI) which corresponds to the received voice information (AI) by evaluating the voice information (AI) and the speech coefficient indicator (SKI, PRI, SMI, WI), transfer means (54) are now provided which enable to import a speech coefficient indicator (SKI, PRI, SMI, WI) and to store the imported speech coefficient indicator (SKI, PRI, SMI, WI) in the speech coefficient storage means (38, 39, 40, 41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Heribert Wutte
  • Portable device interaction with beacons
    Patent number: 6868256
    Abstract: A communication system includes first and second beacon devices capable of wireless message transmission and at least one portable client device capable of receiving such message transmissions. The client device is arranged to broadcast an inquiry message according to a first communication protocol, such as Bluetooth. The first beacon detects such inquiry messages and replies with an inquiry response containing an identifier for the second beacon, enabling the second beacon and client device to perform a service interaction. In an alternative embodiment receipt of the inquiry message is notified to the second beacon which then sends the inquiry response to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Saul R. Dooley, Robert J. Davies
  • Circuit arrangement for a current-controlled resistor having an enlarged linear range
    Patent number: 6867636
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a resistor of high linearity that can be produced in integrated technology and be controlled by the current (Io1, Io2), which circuit arrangement is constructed from two pairs of transistors comprising transistors (T1 . . . T4) of the same junction type connected as diodes. Each pair of transistors (T1, T2 and T3, T4) has a common point of connection (D, E) that connects together the anodes of one pair of diodes and the cathodes of the other pair. The point of connection (D) of the first pair of transistors (T1, T2) is situated on their collector lines and thus connects the anodes and forms the infeed point for a first control current source (Io1). The point of connection (E) of the second pair of transistors connects the cathodes and is thus situated on their emitter lines and forms the infeed point for a second control current source (Io2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Cord Heinrich Kohsiek
  • Method of manufacturing modules with an integrated circuit
    Patent number: 6867111
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing modules (4), each with at least one integrated circuit (2), the integrated circuits (2) are separated from a previously manufactured circuit configuration (1), which is in the form of a flexible film comprising a plurality of integrated circuits (2) on the basis of a polymer, by a combined stamping-vacuum conveying device (6), after which each of the separated integrated circuits (2) is conveyed to a module substrate (5) and connected to the module substrate (5) so as to form a module (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Christian Brugger, Reinhard Fritz, Anthonie Arie De Lange, Johannes Henricus Maria Van Roosmalen, Johannus Wilhelmus Weekamp