Patents Issued in May 14, 2013
  • Patent number: 8441376
    Abstract: A present novel and non-trivial system, module, and method for presenting surface symbology on an aircraft display unit are disclosed. Symbology image data representative of an image depicting takeoff distance symbology is generated by a symbology generator based upon flight management data and navigation reference data provided by a flight management data source and the navigation reference data source, respectively. The takeoff distance symbology comprises a far end and a near end, where the location of the far end corresponds to a location of the end of the assigned runway, and the location of the near end is dependent upon the location of the far end, the direction of the runway opposite of the assigned runway, and the takeoff distance. The takeoff distance symbology may be presented as a superimposition against an image of the assigned runway presented on the screen of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Hung-i B. Tsai, Benjamin J. Helppi, Raymond P. Roland
  • Patent number: 8441377
    Abstract: A method of dynamically adjusting a long-press delay time, an electronic device using the method, and a computer-readable medium are provided, wherein the electronic device has a plurality of keys. When a pressed time corresponding to a key of the electronic device exceeds a long-press delay time of the key, the electronic device executes a long-press function corresponding to the key. In the present method, a plurality of key inputs is first received. Then, the long-press delay time of the key is set according to the input rate related to the received key inputs. Thereby, the electronic device can respond appropriately according to the typing speed of a user, so as to offer the user a smooth operating experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Tung Liu
  • Patent number: 8441378
    Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and devices for reducing capacitor mismatch errors in a pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are disclosed. A plurality of pipeline element circuits are provided, where each pipeline element circuit corresponds to a given bit of the pipeline ADC. A first pipeline element circuit is configured to digitize analog A and B capacitor mismatch error calibration voltages generated by all the pipeline element circuits of the ADC when the pipeline ADC is operating in a capacitor mismatch calibration phase. According to one embodiment, digital representations corresponding to A and B capacitor mismatch error calibration voltages for each of the pipeline element circuits are provided to an output shift register and summing circuit, which generates capacitor mismatch error correction codes corresponding to each bit and pipeline element circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Pixart Imaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Vitali Souchkov
  • Patent number: 8441379
    Abstract: A device (10) for generating a digital output signal by digitizing an analog input signal is disclosed. The device (10) comprises a first signal path comprising a first ADC (20a) arranged to convert a first component of the analog input signal, residing in a first frequency band (40), to a first digital signal, and a second signal path comprising a second ADC (20b) arranged to convert a second component of the analog input signal, residing in a second frequency band (50), to a second digital signal. The first and the second frequency band (40, 50) overlap, such that there is a common frequency sub band (60), which is comprised in both the first and the second frequency band (40, 50). The device (10) comprises a combination unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Signal Processing Devices Sweden AB
    Inventors: Jan-Erik Eklund, Linnéa Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 8441380
    Abstract: A method for converting a sampled analog signal into digital is provided. An input signal is sampled at a sampling instant to generate a sample voltage. A first current is then applied to a node to change a voltage on the node, and a first interval to change the voltage on the node to a reference voltage from the sample voltage using the first current is determined. A second current is then applied to the node to change a voltage on the node prior to a subsequent sampling instant, and a determination of a second interval to change the voltage on the node to the reference voltage from the sample voltage using the second current is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Arthur J. Redfern, Patrick Satarzadeh
  • Patent number: 8441381
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed to compensate for gate leakage currents of thin oxide devices that have very thin oxide layers in a current mirror of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC converts a digital input signal from a digital representation in a digital signaling domain to an analog representation in an analog signaling domain to provide an analog output signal. The DAC uses one or more transistors to convert the digital input signal from the digital representation to the analog representation. These transistors are typically implemented using thin oxide devices that have very thin oxide layers and corresponding gate leakage currents that are associated with these very thin oxide layers. The current-steering DAC provides these gate leakage currents independent of its corresponding reference source without any substantial affect upon its full scale output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ovidiu Bajdechi, Tom W. Kwan
  • Patent number: 8441382
    Abstract: A current-steering digital-to-analog converter may include a plurality of current cells. Each current cell may comprise a dual bias switched cascode output current source/sink, a bias source, complementary bias switching elements coupled between the bias source and the bias inputs of the switched cascode output current source/sink, and complementary switching signals coupled to the control inputs of the complementary bias switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Puneet Mahajan, Anand Singh Rawat, Anil Kumar
  • Patent number: 8441383
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a photonic digital-to-analog converter (pDAC) system. The system may include a mode locked laser, an optical splitter connected to the laser, and a plurality of reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers connected to the splitter. The mode locked laser transmits a digital optical pulse train to the splitter. The splitter splits an optical pulse of the digital pulse train into multiple optical pulses and provides the multiple optical pulses to the amplifiers via a plurality of optical paths, at least two of the optical paths having different path lengths. The amplifiers amplify the multiple optical pulses and provide the amplified multiple optical pulses to the splitter. The splitter outputs an analog optical pulse train derived from the amplified multiple optical pulses. The system provides for faster sampling rate and lower jitter than Electrical Digital-to-Analog converter (eDAC) systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter J. Morgan
  • Patent number: 8441384
    Abstract: A switched-capacitor circuit is disclosed. The switched-capacitor circuit includes a comparator having a first and second input, a first and second sampling capacitor, and a first and second switching circuitry. The first switching circuitry charges the first and second sampling capacitor with an input signal. The second switching circuitry selectively couples the first sampling capacitor with a reference voltage and selectively couples the second sampling capacitor and the first and second input of the comparator to a common voltage. The comparator performs a compare of the input signals against the reference voltage, and outputs a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Shi Lai, Manoj M. Mhala, Yung-Fu Lin, Hsu-Feng Hsueh, Chin-Hao Chang, Cheng Yen Weng
  • Patent number: 8441385
    Abstract: A digital to analog converter having a plurality of power dividers interconnected into a binary tree configuration, each one having an input and a pair of electrically isolated outputs for dividing power of an input signal at the input equally between the pair of outputs. A plurality of amplifiers is coupled between one of the pair of outputs of the one of the power dividers in one stage of the tree and the input of one of the power dividers in a succeeding stage of the tree. A power combiner is coupled between outputs of the amplifiers in a last one of the stages and an output of the analog to digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Michael G. Adlerstein
  • Patent number: 8441386
    Abstract: A SAR ADC includes a DAC including a first set of capacitors each having a first end connected to a common node, and a second end, and a first set of switches each connecting the second end of a respective one of the capacitors to a first reference voltage. The SAR ADC further includes a second set of capacitors each having a first end connected to the common node and a second end that receives an input to be converted when the common node is connected to ground. The SAR ADC further includes a second set of switches that selectively connect the second end of a first capacitor of the second set of capacitors to ground when the input is disconnected from the second ends of the second set of capacitors and when the common node is disconnected from ground during a first of a plurality of successive approximations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Ronald Francis Strode
  • Patent number: 8441387
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a continuous ramp generator design and its calibration for CMOS image sensors using single-ramp ADCs. An embodiment of the invention comprises controlling a coarse gain, integer gain, and fine gain of the analog-to-digital converter. Gain of the analog-to-digital converter may be calibrated by tuning the integer gain based on reference voltages converted to equivalent digital values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Yibing Michelle Wang
  • Patent number: 8441388
    Abstract: A remote control device comprising a motion detector consisting of a single accelerometer, means for receiving data from the motion detector and mapping the received motion detector data to at least one user instruction, and means for transmitting a signal indicative of the at least one user instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ka Yuk Lee, Qing Shan, Tak Wing Lam, Yeaun Jau Liou
  • Patent number: 8441389
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products disclose a remote control device that controls multiple consumer electronics devices based on orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: John R. Stefanik
  • Patent number: 8441390
    Abstract: An event detecting apparatus capable of high-precision detection of an event even by use of a narrow-band signal comprises: a plurality of antennas 21 that receive radio waves transmitted from a transmitter, a correlation matrix operation unit 22 that expresses signals received by the plurality of antennas 21 as received vectors, to operate a correlation matrix on the basis of the received vectors, an eigenvector operation unit 23 that performs eigenvalue expansion of the correlation matrix operated by the correlation matrix operation unit 22, to operate eigenvectors covering a signal subspace, and an event detecting unit 24 that detects a temporal change in the eigenvectors operated by the eigenvector operation unit 23, to detect an event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Keio University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Shouhei Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8441391
    Abstract: A secure communication topology can be used for communications between a locator and one or more transponders to determine the location of the transponders. An example system may include a locator that is configured to transmit an interrogation signal that is encoded for receipt by one or more of the transponders. When a transponder receives and correlates the interrogation signal with an internally stored reference sequence, the transponder can transmit one or more reply transmissions at precisely determined time delay intervals. The time delay intervals are secretly known by both the locator and the transponder. The reply transmissions can each correspond to previously sampled noise signals that are also secretly known by both the transponder and the locator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: RoundTrip LLC
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Karr
  • Patent number: 8441392
    Abstract: A method and system for locating a target, of azimuth Aestimatedtarget and of elevation angle Sestimatedtarget, in space by a carrier uses at least one first antenna array with electronic scanning ARRAY_H and at least one second antenna array with electronic scanning ARRAY_B. The target emits a signal in response to an interrogation from the carrier, each of said antenna arrays includes at least one antenna and the total number of antennas used is at least equal to three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Cyril Descharles, Thierry Triconnet
  • Patent number: 8441393
    Abstract: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system is adapted for radar ranging and imaging. A radar system includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) radio communications transmitter configured to transmit information bits using one or more payload symbols in a transmitted signal; and a receiver configured to: construct the payload symbols from the information bits provided by the transmitter; receive the payload symbols in the transmitted signal reflected from a target; apply a matched filter to the received payload symbols using the constructed payload symbols as a template; and process a magnitude response at an output of the matched filter for estimating location and imaging of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Tialinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Strauch, Soumya K. Nag, Farrokh Mohamadi
  • Patent number: 8441394
    Abstract: A system, controller, antenna, and method for detecting obstruction and misalignment of a ground vehicle radar having an antenna configured to detect objects in a first direction characterized as being substantially parallel to a horizontal plane about the ground vehicle, and detect objects in a second direction characterized as being toward a roadway surface proximate to the ground vehicle. The second direction radar return from the roadway is expected to have certain characteristics. If the characteristics are outside of a predetermined window, then obstruction and/or misalignment of the first direction and the second direction is likely, and so the radar may not reliably detect an object in the first direction, such as a vehicle in an adjacent lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen W. Alland
  • Patent number: 8441395
    Abstract: An electronic scanning radar apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a transmission wave, a receiving unit including a plurality of antennas receiving an incoming wave coming from a target, a beat signal generation unit configure to generate beat signals in response to the transmission wave and the incoming wave, a frequency resolution processing unit obtaining complex number data calculated from beat frequencies having signal levels obtained by performing a frequency resolution for the beat signals based on a predetermined frequency width, a peak detector detecting an existence of a present target by detecting peak signal levels of the beat frequencies, a target link unit associating between the present target detected in a present detecting cycle and a past target detected in past detecting cycles; and a direction detecting unit calculating a direction of the incoming wave based on the weighted averaging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Elesys Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Kanamoto
  • Patent number: 8441396
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing error tolerant robust simplex wireless data for systems employing time correlated data transfer are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: sensors that produce samples of time correlated data; and a node coupled to the sensors by a wireless link. The link comprises a primary stream for simplex transmission of data packets, and a secondary stream for simplex transmission of delayed data packets, the delayed data packets a delayed retransmission of the time correlated data. When the node receives a first data packet from a first sensor via the primary stream, the data receiving node check validity. When the first data packet is corrupted, the node validity checks a second data packet received via the secondary stream. When both packets contain corrupted data, the node builds a reconstructed plurality of sequential time correlated data samples based on non-corrupted data samples from within the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Darryl I. Parmet, Jamal Haque, Mark D. DuBois
  • Patent number: 8441397
    Abstract: A monostatic multibeam radar sensor device for a motor vehicle, including a directional characteristic of an antenna unit having at least one transceiving channel and at least one receiving channel, and including a mixer system, which has an at least approximately isolating mixer for at least one of the receiving channels. The at least approximately isolating mixer includes a Gilbert cell mixer, which, due to a non-ideal isolation between an input of the local oscillator signal and the corresponding receiving channel, emits a transmission power via this receiving channel, using an overcoupling signal, the transmission power influencing the directional characteristic of the antenna unit and the directional characteristic being switchable by controlling the phase position of the overcoupling signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Binzer, Dirk Steinbuch, Elisabeth Hauk, Rahel Hauk, Manuel Hauk
  • Patent number: 8441398
    Abstract: An electronic circuit for a satellite receiver. The electronic circuit includes a correlator circuit operable to supply a data signal including ephemeris data and a subsequent satellite time datum, and a data processor operable to infer satellite time TS from as few as one of the ephemeris data prior to the satellite time datum. Other circuits, devices, receivers, systems, processes of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sandeep Rao, Jawaharlal Tangudu, Karthik Ramasubramanian
  • Patent number: 8441399
    Abstract: A three-dimensional slot antenna includes a loop conductor, a first conductor arm, a second conductor arm, and a third conductor arm. The first radiator section, the second radiator section and the third radiator section are disposed on a same plane. The second radiator section cooperates with the first and third radiator sections to form a first slot segment. The first radiator section further cooperates with the third radiator section to form a second slot segment. The first and second slot segments form a substantially T-shaped slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Hsu Wu, Yuan-Chang Chao
  • Patent number: 8441401
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of apparatus, systems, and methods relating to mounting antenna components, modules, assemblies, etc. to mounting surfaces, such as vehicle roofs, hoods, trunk lids, etc. Other aspects relate to antenna assemblies including the mounting apparatus. An exemplary embodiment generally includes one or more contact parts, a clamping piece, and a fastener. The one or more contact parts, clamping piece, and fastener may be used for mounting an antenna assembly to a mounting surface, such as a vehicle body wall (e.g., a vehicle's roof, hood, trunk lid, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Laird Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich Steinkamp, Jens Simon, Rainer Ecker, Otto Heinemeyer
  • Patent number: 8441402
    Abstract: A measuring instrument for measuring a measurand of an object under measurement is provided. The measuring instrument includes a functional member for converting the measurand into a metered value, a housing and an antenna, in which at least part of the housing and/or part of the functional member form a component part of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Wika Alexander Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Gawronski, Joachim Ciba, Achim Gareus
  • Patent number: 8441403
    Abstract: A security document (1) in the form of a booklet which has a large number of sheets (11, 12, 13) connected to one another to form the booklet. A first sheet (11) of the security document has a carrier layer (20), an antenna structure (21)—arranged in a first region (41)—for RF communication and an electronic circuit (22)—connected to the antenna structure (21)—with a memory device for storing data, and a communication device—connected to the antenna structure—for communicating data stored in the memory device to a reader via a radio interface by means of the antenna structure (21). A second sheet (13) of the security document has a carrier layer (30) and one or more electrically conductive layers shaped in a second region (43) for the formation of at least one LCR resonant circuit (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventors: John Anthony Peters, Ulrich Schindler
  • Patent number: 8441404
    Abstract: Electronic devices and antennas for electronic devices are provided. The antennas may have ground plane elements with dielectric-filled openings. The dielectric-filled openings may be configured to form one or more rectangular slots. The antennas may be fed using transmission lines having first and second conductors. The first conductor of a given transmission line may be coupled to the ground plane element on one side of the slots. The second conductor of the transmission line may be coupled to a planar conductive element. The planar conductive element may couple to the ground plane element on the other side of the slots. The slots may be separated by a portion of the ground plane element. The planar conductive element may bridge at least one of the slots and may overlap the portion of the ground plane element that separates the slots without electrically contacting that portion of the ground plane element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bing Chiang, Gregory Allen Springer, Douglas B. Kough, Enrique Ayala, Matthew Ian McDonald
  • Patent number: 8441405
    Abstract: A transformer between a waveguide and a transmission-line includes a high-frequency circuit module, transmission-lines, a waveguide, and feed pins. The high-frequency circuit module has differential-pair terminals to input and output a differential signal. The transmission-lines are connected to the differential-pair terminals. The waveguide includes first to third metal walls. The feed pins are connected to the transmission-lines inside of the waveguide. The feed pins have a first distance of approximately (?g/2) from each other. One of the feed pins has a second distance of approximately (?g*(1+2?)/4) from the third metal plane. “?g” is a wavelength in the waveguide and “?” is an integer which is equal or larger than “0”. Each of the feed pins has a third distance of approximately (a/2) from the first or second wall. “a” is length of the waveguide along the third metal wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukako Tsutsumi, Tetsu Shijo, Takayoshi Ito, Shuichi Obayashi, Hiroki Shoki
  • Patent number: 8441406
    Abstract: An apparatus has an improved antenna pattern for a cross dipole antenna. Such antennas desirably have an omnidirectional antenna pattern. Conventional cross dipole antennas exhibit nulls in their antenna patterns, which can cause antennas to deviate from a standard or specification. Applicant recognized and confirmed that the connection of a coaxial cable to the antenna arms is a cause of the nulls in the antenna pattern, and has devised techniques disclosed herein to compensate or cancel the effects of the connection. In one embodiment, the arms of the cross dipole antenna that are coupled to a center conductor of the coaxial cable remain of conventional length, but the arms of the cross dipole antenna that are coupled to a shield of the coaxial cable are lengthened by a fraction of the radius of the outer diameter of the coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Venti Group, LLC
    Inventor: William Ernest Payne
  • Patent number: 8441407
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a mobile communication device. The device comprises a dielectric substrate, a first ground plane, an antenna element, a second ground plane, and an equivalent band-stop circuit. The first ground plane is disposed on the dielectric substrate. The antenna element is disposed on the dielectric substrate or nearby the dielectric substrate and is connected to a signal source disposed on the dielectric substrate. The second ground plane is disposed nearby one edge of the first ground plane and is connected to the first ground plane through a metal strip. The equivalent band-stop circuit is disposed on the second ground plane and includes a slit and a capacitive element. The open end of the slit is near the metal strip. The capacitive element is mounted across the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Cheng-Tse Lee
  • Patent number: 8441408
    Abstract: A miniaturized multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna includes a first antenna element disposed in a first side of a substrate in a round form; a second antenna element in a round form symmetrically with the first antenna element and disposed in the first side of the substrate; and a ground disposed in a second side of the substrate. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are disposed such that electro magnetic waves resonating in the first antenna element and the second antenna element are orthogonally polarized. Accordingly, the antenna size can be reduced. The miniaturized antenna facilitates the component design in the small terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-kyu Kim, Chang-won Jung, Young-eil Kim, Jin-soo Park, Yong-jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8441409
    Abstract: A ground plane for reducing multipath reception comprises a convex conducting surface and an array of conducting elements disposed on at least a portion of the convex conducting surface. Embodiments of the convex conducting surface include a portion of a sphere and a sphere. Each conducting element comprises an elongated body structure having a transverse dimension and a length, wherein the transverse dimension is substantially less than the length. The cross-section of the elongated body structure can have various user-specified shapes. Each conducting element can further comprise a tip structure. The azimuth spacings, lengths, and surface densities of the conducting elements can be functions of meridian angle. An antenna can be mounted directly on the conducting convex surface or on a conducting or dielectric support structure mounted on the conducting convex surface. System components, such as a navigation receiver, can be mounted inside the conducting convex surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Topcon GPS, LLC
    Inventors: Dmitry Tatarnikov, Andrey Astakhov, Anton Stepanenko
  • Patent number: 8441410
    Abstract: A multi-antenna system feed device and a terminal including such a device is suggested. The device includes at least: a set of Wilkinson combiners, a branch of a combiner feeding an antenna, with the branches connected as inputs to a feed point; a set of switches connected between the antennas and the combiners with each switch switching a combiner branch to its corresponding antenna with the antenna being connected to the line when the switch is closed; A branch feeding an antenna, for instance, will be common to two consecutive combiners of the system. The suggested multi-antenna system feed device applies in particular to the extension of multi-antenna or sector antenna systems, used especially in devices with Multiple Inputs/Outputs of the MiMo type and more specifically to mesh network architectures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Robert, Philippe Minard, Ali Louzir
  • Patent number: 8441411
    Abstract: An integrated electronic device, and its method of manufacture, are provided. The integrated electronic device can include an electronic assembly, such as an active RFID assembly, that is electrically coupled to a thin printed flexible electrochemical cell. In one example, the electronic assembly and the electrochemical battery are provided on a single substrate. In one example method of manufacture, the entire cell to be made on a printing press to integrate the battery directly with the electronic assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Blue Spark Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary R. Tucholski, Leonard Blaine Allison
  • Patent number: 8441412
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying data on bi-stable and non-bi-stable displays is provided. The apparatus includes a controller chip capable of being connected to a non-bi-stable display through a first interface channel and also capable of being connected to a bi-stable display via the first interface channel and an additional second interface channel. When connected the non-bi-stable display, the second interface channel is not connected. The second interface channel may carry mode information bits to the bi-stable display module to allow the bi-stable display to utilize power-saving features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William Cummings
  • Patent number: 8441413
    Abstract: An apparatus and a system for viewing a 3D image including a synchronization signal receiver for receiving 3D image synchronization signal; a 3D control signal generator for generating left-eye glass control signal and a right-eye glass control signal in accordance with the synchronization signal received; a left-eye glass that opens or intercepts light transmitted to the left-eye glass; a right-eye glass that opens or intercepts light transmitted to the right-eye glass; a central processor that controls operation of the 3D control signal generator and transmits the synchronization signal to the 3D control signal generator; and a power controller that connects or intercepts power supplied to the synchronization signal receiver and the central processor. The power consumption of the apparatus is minimized by supplying power to the synchronization signal receiver and the central processor at a time when the synchronization signal is received and power is intercepted during the rest period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Lee, Koon Shik Cho
  • Patent number: 8441414
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to luminance enhancement structure for reflective display devices. The structure not only can enhance the brightness of a display device, but also can reduce the Moiré effect of the display device. The present invention is also directed to a display device comprising an array of microcups and a luminance enhancement structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: SiPix Imaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 8441415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for processing data of a picture to be displayed on a display panel with persistent luminous elements in order to reduce load effect in said display means. The method comprises the following steps: computing, for each subfield, the amount of activated luminous elements in each line of luminous elements of the display panel, called line load, calculating, for each subfield, the maximal difference of line loads of two consecutive lines of the display panel, and selecting, for each subfield, a sustain frequency in accordance with its maximal load difference in order to reduce line load effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Sébastien Weitbruch, Cédric Thebault, Carlos Correa
  • Patent number: 8441416
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix electroluminescent display apparatus in which a short circuit between a power line and data line in adjacent sub-pixels can be substantially prevented. The active matrix electroluminescent display apparatus includes: a power line; a first transistor positioned on a side of the power line and connected to the power line; a second transistor positioned on the other side of the power line and connected to the power line; and electroluminescent devices respectively connected to the first transistor and the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Wook Kang, Chang-Soo Kim, Chang-Yong Jeong
  • Patent number: 8441417
    Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. The pixel circuit includes an electro-optical element, a holding capacitor, a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a switching transistor, and first and second detection transistors. The sampling transistor samples and supplies an input signal from a signal line so as to be held into the holding capacitor. The driving transistor drives the electro-optical element with current in response to the held signal potential. The first and second detection transistors supply a threshold voltage of the drive transistor into the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8441418
    Abstract: Charge corresponding to a potential difference between electrodes of an electroluminescence element is accumulated in a period in which the electroluminescence element emits light; the potential difference is detected without decrease in the luminance at the time of light emission of the electroluminescence element; and a reference potential of one electrode of the electroluminescence element is changed based on the detected potential difference, so that reduction in luminance of the electroluminescence element due to deterioration of the electroluminescence element is compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Honda
  • Patent number: 8441419
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an edge processing section extracting an edge component of a display data signal; a display data signal processing section changing the display data signal according to a level conversion signal and adding the edge component thereto; a level conversion signal generating section changing the level conversion signal according to the display data signal and a signal output from the display data signal processing section; and a display section performing a display operation according to the signal output from the display data processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8441420
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) display device having a plurality of pixel circuits formed at crossing points of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines is provided. Each pixel circuit includes at least two driving transistors connected to a first power voltage line, the at least two driving transistors receiving a data signal through at least one of the data lines and outputting a driving current corresponding to the data signal; and an organic light emitting diode having at least two first electrodes respectively connected to the at least two driving transistors and emitting a light corresponding to the driving current. The organic light emitting diode has the at least two first electrodes and a common second electrode per pixel in order to prevent the whole pixel from not operating due to a short circuit occurring between one of the first electrodes and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Ah Kim, Jeong-No Lee
  • Patent number: 8441421
    Abstract: A pixel includes an OLED coupled to a second power supply, a first transistor coupled to a first power supply for controlling current through the OLED, a second transistor coupled between a data line and the first transistor, third transistors coupled between a gate electrode and a second electrode of the first transistor, the second and third transistors configured to be turned on when the scanning signal is supplied to the i-th scanning line, fourth transistors coupled between an initial power supply and the first transistor, and configured to be turned on when the scanning signal is supplied to an i?1-th scanning line, a first capacitor coupled between the first power supply and the first transistor, and a second capacitor with a first terminal coupled to nodes between two of the third transistors and two of the fourth transistors, and a second terminal coupled to the first power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sam-Il Han, Ki-Myeong Eom
  • Patent number: 8441422
    Abstract: A system comprising a stack of layers configured to display an image and including multiple elements configured to sense light. The system is configured to obtain a first reference image based on output from the multiple elements in a dark lighting condition associated with the system, and calibrate object detection based on output from the multiple elements using the obtained reference image. Additionally, a system comprising a display having a stack of layers configured to display an image and including a first and second set of elements. Each of the elements in the first set is configured to sense light, and each of the elements in the second set is configured to sense a dark current. The system is configured to perform object detection based on output from the elements in the first set, and calibrate the object detection based on output from the elements in the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adiel Abileah, Willem den Boer, Richard T. Tuenge, Terrance S. Larsson
  • Patent number: 8441423
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which problems such as an increase of power consumption and increase of a load of when light is emitted are reduced by using a method for realizing pseudo impulsive driving by inserting an dark image, and a driving method thereof. A display device which displays a gray scale by dividing one frame period into a plurality of subframe periods, where one frame period is divided into at least a first subframe period and a second subframe period; and when luminance in the first subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax1 and luminance in the second subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax2, (1/2) Lmax2<Lmax1<(9/10) Lmax2 is satisfied in the one frame period, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 8441424
    Abstract: A driver circuit for an LCD display includes; a gate line; a data line crossing the gate line; a feed TFT connected to the gate line; a feed control line connected to the feed TFT to switch on the feed TFT; and a feed signal line connected to the feed TFT to supply a feed signal to the gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8441425
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device suitable for a thin film transistor which uses an oxide semiconductor. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light is used as an interlayer film which covers at least the oxide semiconductor layer. As the film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light, a coloring layer can be used and a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer is preferably used. An interlayer film which includes a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer and a light-blocking layer may be formed in order that the light-blocking layer is used as a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Ishitani, Daisuke Kubota
  • Patent number: 8441426
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display panel includes a timing controller, a plurality of pairs of transmission lines, a plurality of source driving circuits, a plurality of terminal resistors, and a plurality of auxiliary resistors. The timing controller functions to generate a plurality of differential signals outputted via a plurality of output ports. Each output port includes two output ends for outputting a corresponding differential signal. Each pair of transmission lines is coupled to the timing controller for receiving a corresponding differential signal. Each source driving circuit is coupled to the pairs of transmission lines for receiving the differential signals so as to generate a plurality of data signals. Each terminal resistor is coupled between two terminals of a corresponding pair of transmission lines. Each auxiliary resistor is coupled between two output ends of a corresponding output port of the timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Fan Chung, Sheng-Kai Hsu