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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110134304 | OPTICAL IMAGING ELEMENT AND MODULE FOR AN OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT, METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN OPTICAL IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS An optical element or module is designed to be placed in front of an optical sensor of a semiconductor component. At least one optically useful part of the element or module is provided through which the image to be captured is designed to pass. A method for obtaining s... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110115053 | RESISTOR IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A resistive element having two vertical resistive portions placed in two holes formed in the upper portion of a substrate and a horizontal resistive portion placed in a buried cavity connecting the bottoms of the holes.... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109521 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING A SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT INTEGRATING AN ANTENNA An electronic device includes a semiconductor component having a support substrate in the form of a wafer. On one side of this substrate integrated circuits including an RF circuit and an antenna connected to this RF circuit are formed. A metal layer is situated on the ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110108801 | SINGLE-CRYSTAL SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER WITH HETEROATOMIC MACRO-NETWORK A single-crystal layer of a first semiconductor material including single-crystal nanostructures of a second semiconductor material, the nanostructures being distributed in a regular crystallographic network with a centered tetragonal prism.... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110095437 | INTERFACE PLATE BETWEEN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS An interface plate capable of being mounted between first and second surface-mounted electronic chips. The plate includes a plurality of first, second, and third through openings, the first openings being filled with a conductive material and being arranged to be in fro... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110085626 | RECEIVE UNIT FOR RECEPTION OF MULTIPLE SATELLITE SIGNALS A satellite receive unit for receiving a plurality of satellite signals from a plurality of satellites, the satellite receive unit including: a plurality of low noise blocks each for receiving one or more of the satellite signals and providing a received signal, at leas... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110084398 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVEGUIDE A semiconductor device includes a substrate. On at least one face of that substrate, integrated circuits are formed. At least one electromagnetic waveguide is also included, that waveguide including two metal plates that are placed on either side of at least one part of... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110073976 | BACK-SIDE IMAGE SENSOR A color back-side illuminated image sensor including, on the side of the thin semiconductor layer opposite to the illuminated surface, periodic thickness unevennesses forming an optic network having characteristics which make it capable of reflecting a given wavelength ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110068381 | IMAGE SENSOR PIXEL CIRCUIT A pixel circuit of an image sensor includes a sense node for storing a charge transferred from one or more photodiodes, a source follower transistor having its gate coupled to the sense node and its source node coupled to an output line of the pixel circuit via a read t... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110063087 | RESISTIVE AND CAPACITIVE MODULATION IN AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPONDER The selection of at least one back-modulation element of an electromagnetic transponder from among a plurality of resistive and/or capacitive modulation elements of the load of an oscillating circuit of the transponder, including selecting the modulation element(s) acco... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110062601 | GENERATING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT IDENTIFIER The generation of a chip identifier supporting at least one integrated circuit, which includes providing a cutout of at least one conductive path by cutting the chip, the position of the cutting line relative to the chip conditioning the identifier.... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110053053 | CELL HOLDER FOR FUEL CELL A porous silicon wafer including, on its upper surface side, multiple recesses, this upper surface being coated with a porous silicon layer having pores smaller than those of the wafer bulk.... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110042747 | STRUCTURE FOR PROTECTING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AGAINST ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGES A structure for protecting an integrated circuit against electrostatic discharges, including a device for removing overvoltages between first and second power supply rails; and a protection cell connected to a pad of the circuit including a diode having an electrode, co... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110037137 | BACK-SIDE ILLUMINATED IMAGE SENSOR PROTECTED AGAINST INFRARED RAYS An image sensor including a first substrate having a first surface intended to be illuminated and a second surface on the side of which is formed a plurality of photodetection areas, said second surface being covered with a stack of interconnect levels including metal l... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032032 | DIGITAL PREDISTORTER FOR VARIABLE SUPPLY AMPLIFIER An adaptive predistorter for applying a predistortion gain to an input signal to be amplified by a power amplifier having a variable supply voltage, the predistorter including: a predistortion gain block adapted to apply a complex gain to a complex input signal; a first... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110022738 | DESIGN METHOD FOR A DMA-COMPATIBLE PERIPHERAL The invention relates to a method for organizing the registers of a peripheral in memory, the peripheral including at least one control register to be addressed in memory to store configuration data of the peripheral, one transmission register to be addressed in memory ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110012693 | BULK-MODE RESONATOR A method for forming a resonator including a resonant element, the resonant element being at least partly formed of a body at least partly formed of a first conductive material, the body including open cavities, this method including the steps of measuring the resonator... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110006721 | CONTROL OF AN ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR The invention relates to a device for controlling the speed and the rotation direction of an asynchronous motor (1), comprising a first circuit (7) with two bi-directional switches (T′4, T′5) individually controlled and having first condu... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100325525 | SOFT OUTPUT VITERBI DECODER ARCHITECTURE A soft output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) decoder arranged to decode symbols received over a transmission channel, the symbols indicating a state transition between two states of a plurality of states that determines a decoded data value, the SOVA decoder comprising a reli... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325320 | VERIFICATION OF DATA READ IN MEMORY A method and a circuit for checking data transferred between a circuit and a processing unit, in which: the data originating from the circuit transit through a first buffer element having a size which is a multiple of the size of data to be subsequently delivered over a... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325183 | CHECKING OF THE SKEW CONSTANCY OF A BIT FLOW A method and a circuit for detecting a loss in the equiprobable character of a first output bit flow originating from at least one first element of normalization of an initial bit flow, including analyzing the flow rate of the normalization element.... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100308411 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LEVEL BY SEQUENTIAL TRIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATION A method for forming a level of a tridimensional structure on a first support in which components are formed, including the steps of forming, on a second semiconductor support, a single-crystal semiconductor substrate with an interposed thermal oxide layer; placing the ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100301987 | MILLIMETER WAVE TRANSFORMER WITH A HIGH TRANSFORMATION FACTOR AND A LOW INSERTION LOSS A millimeter wave transformer including, at its primary, a turn formed of a conductive track made in at least one first metallization level, and, at its secondary, a winding in front of the primary turn, including at least one turn formed of a conductive track made in a... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100295631 | BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAID RESONATOR A resonant device including a stack of a first metal layer, a piezoelectric material layer, and a second metal layer formed on a silicon substrate, a cavity being formed in depth in the substrate, the thickness of the silicon above the cavity having at least a first val... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295416 | MICRORESONATOR A microresonator comprising a single-crystal silicon resonant element and at least one activation electrode placed close to the resonant element, in which the resonant element is placed in an opening of a semiconductor layer covering a substrate, the activation electrod... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293212 | BARREL SHIFTER A barrel shifter receiving N symbols, arranged n2 distinct groups of n1 symbols, applying a circular shift to the N symbols. The barrel shifter comprises n2 first barrel shifters, each applying a first circular shift to one of the groups... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289779 | CURRENT DRIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM This invention relates to systems, methods and apparatus for driving organic light emitting diodes (OLED) displays, in particular those using multi-line addressing (MLA) techniques. Embodiments of the invention are particularly suitable for use with so-called passive ma... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289583 | VARIABLE GAIN RF AMPLIFIER A variable gain amplifier having an input node, a variable current source including a control input coupled to the input node, first and second branches coupled in parallel between a first supply terminal and the variable current source, the first and second branches de... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289107 | PHOTODIODE WITH INTERFACIAL CHARGE CONTROL BY IMPLANTATION AND ASSOCIATED PROCESS A photodiode includes a first doped layer and a second doped layer adjacent to the first doped layer and sharing a common face. A deep isolation trench is provided adjacent the photodiode having a face contiguous with the first doped layer and the second doped layer. A ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289106 | PHOTODIODE WITH INTERFACIAL CHARGE CONTROL AND ASSOCIATED PROCESS A photodiode includes a first doped layer and a second doped layer that share a common face. A deep isolation trench has a face contiguous with the first and second doped layers. A conducting layer is in contact with a free face of the second doped layer. A protective l... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289101 | IMAGE SENSOR An image sensor including an array of pixels, wherein each pixel includes, in a vertical stack: a central photosensitive area; a stack of interconnects on top of the periphery of the photosensitive area, extending upwards up to a first height; a filtering layer on top o... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100269020 | LDPC DECODER A low density parity check decoder for performing LDPC decoding based on a layered algorithm applied to a parity check matrix, the decoder including a channel memory, a metrics memory, first and second operand supply paths each arranged to provide operands based on chan... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100245329 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL CONTROL CIRCUIT A method and circuit to control a circuit for addressing at least one line electrode of a plasma display panel having, for each line, a line selection stage formed of two switches in series between two input terminals of the selection stage, the method including alterna... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100216054 | FUEL CELL WITH LARGE EXCHANGE SURFACE AREA A support wafer made of silicon wafer comprising, on a first surface a porous silicon layer having protrusions, porous silicon pillars extending from the porous silicon layer to the second surface of the wafer, in front of each protrusion. Layers constituting a fuel cel... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208883 | PROTECTION OF A MODULAR EXPONENTIATION CALCULATION PERFORMED BY AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT The invention concerns a method and a circuit for protecting a numerical quantity (d) contained in an integrated circuit (1) on a first number of bits (n), in a modular exponentiation computing of a data (M) by said numerical quantity, which consists in: selectin... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100200964 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A POROUS DIELECTRIC ELEMENT AND CORRESPONDING DIELECTRIC ELEMENT A porous dielectric element is produced by forming a first dielectric and a second dielectric. The second dielectric is dispersed in the first dielectric. The second dielectric is then removed from the second dielectric by using a chemical dissolution. The removal of th... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100182474 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE COMPRISING PIXEL COMBINATION MEANS An image capture device includes n image sensors arranged to capture images respectively of a same scene according to at least three different colors, each of the sensors comprising a pixel array, each pixel being associated with a MOS transfer transistor, the transfer ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100180117 | RANDOM SIGNAL GENERATOR A random signal generator uses a folded MOS transistor, whose drain-source current includes a random component, as an electronic noise source. The random signal generator generates a random binary signal from the random component. The invention may be applied, in partic... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100171548 | ANALOG FIR FILTER An analog finite impulse response (AFIR) filter including at least one variable transconductance block having an input for receiving an input voltage and being adapted to sequentially apply each of a plurality of transconductance levels to the input voltage during at le... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100165156 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE COMPRISING FOCUSING ADJUSTMENT MEANS An image capture device includes first and second image sensors arranged to capture first and second images respectively of a same scene, each of the first and second images including pixel values; an objective lens associated with each of the image sensors, one objecti... | 07/01/2010 |
