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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4882616 | Color filter for a solid state imaging device A color filter, particularly a color filter for a solid state imaging device, comprising a dyeable resin layer, a plurality of variously colored dyed-areas formed in the dyeable resin layer, a plurality of non-dyed areas separating the dyed area from each... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4862173 | Method and circuit for carrying out forward and inverse quantization by varying a reference step size A succession of input signals supplied to a quantizer is processed at sampling instants into a succession of quantized codes by step sizes with a current one of the quantized codes produced at each sampling instant with reference to a current step size ad... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4799101 | Substrate bias through polysilicon line A high-density integrated circuit employing different first and second channel types of insulated gate field effect transistors is disclosed, which comprises at least three stacked wiring layers, the lowest layer being formed of polycrystalline silicon an... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4786523 | Substrate having a pattern of an alloy of gold and a noble and a base metal with the pattern isolated by oxides of the noble and the base metals In a wired substrate, a conductive pattern is formed of an alloy of gold, a base metal, and a noble metal and is contiguous to an insulating layer of a mixture of oxides of the base and the noble metals. The alloy preferably includes the base and the nobl... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4758834 | Pager receiver for giving at least one of extraordinary tones and extraordinary displays A pager receiver for a radio calling signal carrying a call number and/or a message comprises a processing unit for producing a drive and an information signal to produce ordinary tone or tones related to the call number and to provide ordinary visual dis... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4744082 | Multiplexer apparatus having nBmB coder A multiplexing communication system for combining several asynchronous digital signals 151, 156 into a single high-speed line 141 comprising synchronizing circuits 101, 106 on each on n input data lines, service information insertion circuits 180 on each ... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4727484 | Memory address control apparatus with separate translation look aside buffers for a data processor using a virtual memory technique A memory control apparatus for a data processor using a virtual memory technique includes two cache memories one for storing a portion of the instructions located in the main memory (MMU), the other for storing a portion of the operand data located in mai... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4725876 | Semiconductor device having at least two resistors with high resistance values A semiconductor device comprising at least two pinch resistors or two ion-implanted resistors having a precise resistance ratio therebetween. The pinch resistor and ion-implanted resistor have at least one region contributing to the determination of a res... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4704608 | Pager receiver for giving at least one of extraordinary tones and extraordinary displays A pager receiver for a radio calling signal carrying a call number and/or a message comprises a processing unit for producing a drive and an information signal to produce ordinary tone or tones related to the call number and to provide ordinary visual dis... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4700291 | Memory address control apparatus with separate translation look aside buffers for a data processor using a virtual memory technique A memory control apparatus for a data processor using a virtual memory technique includes two cache memories one for storing a portion of the instructions located in the main memory (MMU), the other for storing a portion of the operand data located in mai... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4690960 | Vibration damping material A vibration damping material having an improved mechanical strength and excellent vibration damping characteristic is disclosed. The material is made by usage of composition of 40 to 90 weight percent of iron oxide particles 0.1 to 100 μm in size and 60 to 10... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4689618 | Display apparatus time-division controlled in a dynamic driving system A control circuit for a time division multielement display in which a display information generator provides display information to all elements of the display in common, a digital signal generator enables each of the elements in sequence, an active perio... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4674034 | Data processing machine suitable for high-speed processing A modular data processing unit includes first through fourth memories and an arithmetic unit all connected in a recirculating pipeline mode. An interface unit couples an external bus to the pipeline bus at a point between the arithmetic unit and first mem... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4670903 | Echo canceller for attenuating acoustic echo signals on a frequency divisional manner For use in combination with a loudspeaker and at least one microphone, for example, by attendants in an auditorium, an echo cancelling circuit comprises a self-adaptive echo canceller responsive to a lower frequency component, such as below 1.7 kHz, of a ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4652991 | Data transfer apparatus In an information processing apparatus of the type comprising a CPU, a memory device and input and output device, where a portion of the memory region storing a plurality of bytes as a unit of data to be stored overlaps a portion of the memory region to w... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4644322 | Analog-to-digital converter A parallel comparison type A/D converter comprises a voltage divider having 2N divider junctions connected in series between a reference voltage terminal and a ground potential terminal, 2N comparators for receiving as reference volt... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4631424 | Multi-input logic circuit A multi-input logic circuit which operates in a push-pull manner is composed of first and second logic sections. The first logic section is coupled between an output terminal and a reference voltage source and composed of a plurality of enhancement field ... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4631640 | Portable radio device for protecting a radio circuit from static electricity In a portable radio device comprising a housing (20), a printed wiring board (11) encased in the housing, and a machine screw (50) for fastening the board to the housing through a tapped and a via hole (17) and (25), the machine screw has head and threade... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4630034 | Sampling frequency converting apparatus A sampling frequency converting apparatus converts an input digital television signal which is sampled at a first frequency into an output digital signal which is sampled at a second frequency. The apparatus comprises a memory, a write-address producer wh... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4630039 | Display processing apparatus A display processing apparatus which can simply and easily control the size and display screen location of character patterns. The invention is comprised of a memory for storing character data of a predetermined size, an addressing circuit for reading out... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628149 | Substrate having a pattern of an alloy of gold and a noble and a base metal with the pattern isolated by oxides of the noble and the base metals In a wired substrate, a conductive pattern is formed of an alloy of gold, a base matal, and a noble metal and is contiguous to an insulating layer of a mixture of oxides of the base and the noble metals. The alloy preferably includes the base and the nobl... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4628218 | Driving circuit suppressing peak value of charging current from power supply to capacitive load A buffer circuit, which supplies current to a capacitive load, has a first circuit for reducing the power supply charging current to the capacitive load during switching intervals. The first circuit includes a charge storage device precharged between inve... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4622571 | CMOS integrated circuit device There is provided a CMOSIC device including: first and second regions of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, the first and second regions being surrounded and isolated by a field insulating film formed in and on a major surface of the ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4615581 | Optical fiber connector First and second ferrules of an optical fiber connector assembly are provided with angled apertures proximate their contacting ends. The angled apertures have a common axis when the two ferrules are assembled together, and the single optical fibers within... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4615006 | Physical address developing unit An expanded memory field is obtained by forming a physical address for accessing a main memory unit according to the present invention. The physical address is developed following an address-mode provided in an instruction including an address field. When... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4612453 | Integrated circuit device having a circuit means for detecting a disconnection of input signal line A circuit for detecting a disconnected input signal line to an integrated circuit includes an emitter follower stage having a transistor whose base is connected to the monitored input signal line, the input signal being transferred to the integrated circu... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4611132 | Circuit utilizing Josephson effect A gate circuit includes a first group of N resistors connected together at one end to form a first input terminal for receiving an input current, a second group of N-1 resistors connected in series and connecting the other ends of the first group of resis... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4608708 | Pattern matching system A pattern matching system comparing two patterns A and B, at least one of which is compressed in accordance with a piecewise straight line approximation and is represented by a series of representative vectors, of fewer number than the uncompressed patter... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4607257 | Remote calibrating system for satellite time A remote time calibrating system has a calibrating station with a reference time and a remote station having a local time, the local time having to be adjusted to coincide with the reference time. The calibrating station receives telemetry signals sent fr... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4607174 | Voltage detection circuit using threshold as reference voltage for detecting input voltage A voltage detection circuit for comparing an input voltage against a reference voltage, the reference voltage being derived from the threshold voltage of a semiconductor active device which forms a portion of the voltage detection circuit. To make the det... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4604691 | Data processing system having branch instruction prefetching performance In a data processing system there are provided a main memory device for storing information, a plurality of buffer memory devices including a plurality of blocks for storing a copy of information stored in the main memory device, an arithmetic operation c... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4603263 | Josephson pulse generator of current injection type A Josephson pulse generator of the current injection type is composed of a first group of N (Nࣙ2) resistors, one end of each being connected together, the other ends of two of the N resistors being connected to first and second nodes. A second group of ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4601054 | Pattern distance calculating equipment A pattern recognition apparatus for recognizing spoken words of a nonspecific speaker or of a specific speaker. A reference pattern composed of a sequence of feature vectors, each composed of n feature parameters, bi, is stored. The reference p... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4601015 | Josephson memory circuit A Josephson memory circuit comprises a closed superconducting loop having a first node and including a first Josephson gate therein, and a first line connected to the node. The circuit also includes a second line provided to electromagnetically couple to ... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4599615 | Pager receiver comprising a memory storing a sequence of information signals to be tested In a pager receiver comprising a display circuit and an ROM, a controller produces a test mode signal indicative of a test mode in which either the display circuit or the ROM is tested. Responsive to the test mode signal, the ROM supplies the display circ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4596047 | Satellite broadcasting receiver including a parabolic antenna with a feed waveguide having a microstrip down converter circuit A compact satellite broadcasting receiver comprises a circular waveguide, a strip-line-shaped probe projected into the circular waveguide, a reflecting element provided downstream of the probe in the circular waveguide and a microwave circuit having a str... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4594653 | Data processing machine suitable for high-speed processing A modular data processing unit includes first through fourth memories and an arithmetic unit all connected in a recirculating pipeline mode. An interface unit couples an external bus to the pipeline bus at a point between the arithmetic unit and first mem... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4594688 | Power supply circuit for flip-flop memory A memory device is disclosed which is automatically and stably set to a predetermined logic state upon the application of power thereto. The memory device comprises a flip-flop having first and second cross-connection points, a state setting transistor co... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4594593 | Synthetic aperture radar image processing system In an SAR image processing system of the type wherein an image is reproduced from received data, the reproduced image is obtained on the basis of range compression, range curvature compensation and azimuth compression, the correlation coefficient between ... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4592993 | Pattern forming and etching process using radiation sensitive negative resist A process for fabrication of resist comprising a substrate and an overlying radiation sensitive layer, said overlying layer consisting essentially of a specific polymer or copolymer of vinylnaphthalene.... | 06/03/1986 |
