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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180992 | Method for configuring a memory space divided into memory banks A method for configuring a memory space, the method including reading a piece of configuration information in the memory space, determining a division of at least one part of the memory space into memory banks according to the configuration information read; and all... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179996 | Method and device for decoding a signal A method and a circuit for determining the frame header of a signal that can be applied to standard DVBS2. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179967 | Method and device for detecting movement of an entity provided with an image sensor An image sequence sensor senses images. To associate a motion vector with an image of the sequence currently being processed, k candidate vectors are generated by adding, to a reference motion vector, respectively k search vectors. Then, a motion vector is selected ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178426 | Method for manufacturing a structure of semiconductor-on-insulator type A method for manufacturing an insulated semiconductor layer, including: forming a porous silicon layer on a single-crystal silicon surface; depositing an insulating material so that it penetrates into the pores of the porous silicon layer; eliminating the insulating... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166769 | Self-cooled vertical electronic component A self-cooled electronic component comprising a vertical monolithic circuit, in which the vertical monolithic circuit is electrically connected in series with a Peltier cooler so that the D.C. current flowing through the circuit supplies the cooler and in which the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166283 | Generator of a signal with an adjustable waveform A generator of a signal including a memory in which instructions are stored, each instruction including a code portion and an argument portion; circuitry for successively reading instructions stored in the memory; decoding circuitry capable of receiving, for each re... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164183 | Integrated circuit cooling device A pump having: a cavity formed inside an insulating substrate, the upper part of the substrate being situated near the cavity having an edge; a conductive layer covering the inside of the cavity up to the edge and optionally covering the edge itself; a flexible memb... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161293 | Protection of the execution of a program executed by an integrated circuit A method and a circuit for protecting the execution of a program, including initializing at least one counter, carrying on with the normal program execution, interrupting this execution when the counter reaches a given value, and executing at least one integrity che... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159587 | Pixel read circuitry A method of reading voltages from an image sensor having an array of pixels, each pixel Having at least one photodiode connectable to a storage node, the method including: controlling each pixel in a row of pixels to store and output a first voltage value at a first... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159109 | 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 elec... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158495 | Process for forming a silicon-based single-crystal portion Silicon-based single-crystal portions are produced on a surface of a substrate, selectively in zones where a single-crystal material is initially exposed. To do this, a layer is firstly formed over the entire surface of the substrate, using a silicon precursor of th... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154307 | Electronic circuit comprising a device to measure phase noise of an oscillating and/or resonant device An electronic circuit includes several (at least two) oscillating and/or resonant devices. The circuit uses a measuring device to measure the phase noise of one of the two oscillating/resonant devices. This measuring device is integrated on a chip on which the oscil... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153947 | Pixel circuit for global electronic shutter An image sensor formed of an array of pixels, each pixel including a photodiode coupled between a first reference voltage and a first switch, the first switch being operable to connect the photodiode to a first node; a capacitor arranged to store a charge accumulate... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149322 | Image sensor with an improved sensitivity An image sensor having a surface intended to be illuminated and pixels, each pixel including a photosensitive area formed in an active area of the substrate, at least one first pixel including a first microlens located on the surface, the sensor including at least o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144865 | Protection of the execution of a DES algorithm A method for protecting an execution, by an integrated circuit, of a ciphering and/or deciphering algorithm taking into account data and at least one valid key and performing several iterations of the same calculation, including at least one execution of an iteratio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144775 | Method and device for generating candidate motion vectors from selected spatial and temporal motion vectors A motion estimation method and device are provided for processing images to be inserted, between a preceding original image and a following original image, into a sequence of determined images. Each image is divided into pixel blocks and a motion vector is associate... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139823 | Method for capturing images comprising a measurement of local motions A method for capturing a sequence of video images, using an imager including an estimation of the parameters of a model of global motion between successive images. The method may include measurement of local motions on edges of the images, with the estimation of the... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138998 | Control of an electroluminescent display A device for controlling an electroluminescent matrix display by successive selection of its lines, including a column control circuit having circuitry capable of placing, at the beginning of the selection of a line, the display column at a precharge voltage based o... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135129 | Protection of a modular exponentiation calculation performed by an integrated circuit A method and a circuit for protecting a numerical quantity contained in an integrated circuit on a first number of bits, in a modular exponentiation computing of a data by the numerical quantity, including: selecting at least one second number included between the u... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130159 | Electromagnetic field generation antenna for a transponder An antenna generating an electromagnetic field for an electromagnetic transponder and a terminal provided with such an antenna. The antenna comprises a first inductive element designed to be connected to two terminals employing an energizing voltage, and a parallel ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129967 | Voltage regulator with self-adaptive loop A voltage regulator includes an amplifier and a regulation loop. The regulator includes a first PMOS transistor connected to a terminal supplying an input voltage, a second PMOS transistor connected in series with the first PMOS transistor. A node between those two ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121230 | Correction of mismatches between two I and Q channels A method for correcting mismatches between a digital signal in phase and a digital signal in quadrature originating from a signal broadcast by terrestrial channel, comprising a phase correction method. A set of first error values is measured during a first period. A... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115547 | Reconfigurable power amplifier and use of such amplifier for making a multi-standard amplification stage for mobile phone communications A reconfigurable power amplifier includes at least one amplification circuit (E1, E2), and a circuit (6) for controlling the amplification circuit so as to adapt its operation according to an applied input signal (RFin). The circuit f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102997 | Processor for executing an AES-type algorithm A processor for executing a Rijndeal algorithm which applies a plurality of encryption rounds to a data block array in order to obtain an array of identical size, each round involving a key block array and a data block substitution table, wherein said processor comp... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8059760 | Method and device for the analog processing of a radio signal for a radio frequency receiver A device processes a received radio signal. Circuitry formulates voltage samples of the radio signal. Analog processing of those samples is performed. Then, digital processing is performed on the output of the analog processing. The circuitry for formulating voltage... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058926 | Amplifier input switch configuration with improved PSRR A switch including a first transistor including a first main terminal connected to a first switch node, a second main terminal connected to a second switch node and a control terminal, the second switch node being connected to a first clean voltage supply, and first... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054930 | Clock recovery circuit A circuit is provided for clock recovery. The circuit includes a reference extraction unit for extracting from a datastream time references defining a reference time base, and a digital Phase Locked Loop including a first programmable counter in the guise of a digit... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053871 | Implementation of a metal barrier in an integrated electronic circuit A metal barrier is realized on top of a metal portion of a semiconductor product, by forming a metal layer on the surface of the metal portion, with this metal layer comprising a cobalt-based metal material. Then, after an optional deoxidation step, a silicidation s... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051230 | Synchronous data transmission method The method is for transmitting data between two devices via a clock wire or line and at least one data wire or line. The clock wire is maintained by default on a logic value A, and each device is capable of tying the clock wire to an electric potential representing ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045712 | Stream ciphering of the content of a memory external to a processor A method and an element of ciphering by an integrated processor of data to be stored in a memory, including applying a ciphering algorithm which is a function of a key specific to the integrated circuit and of an initialization vector, and of memorizing at least the... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045653 | Method and system for controlling a receiver in a digital communication system Detection method and device for a receiver in a digital communication system designed to process a frame comprising a periodic sub-set of length n, said method comprising the following steps:—determining a first vector u having a length n;—determining a second s... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044892 | Automatic adaptation of the precharge voltage of an electroluminescent display A circuit for controlling a matrix display formed of light-emitting diodes, capable of successively selecting lines of the screen and, for each line from a set of selected lines, of selecting columns, the voltage of each selected column settling at an operating volt... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044443 | Photosensitive integrated circuit equipped with a reflective layer and corresponding method of production A method for producing a photosensitive integrated circuit including producing circuit control transistors, producing, above the control transistors, and between at least one upper electrode and at least one lower electrode, at least one photodiode, by amorphous sil... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041950 | 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 pa... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041538 | Estimating of the amplitude of a noisy binary signal A method and a device for estimating a first value of a signal formed of a series of values corresponding either to the first value or to a second value equal to the opposite of the first value, where the signal can take values other than the first and second values... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040339 | Optimized rowoff voltage Circuitry for controlling a display matrix formed of light-emitting diodes arranged in rows and columns, diodes in each row being connected to common row lines, and diodes in each column being connected to common column lines, each of the column lines being selectiv... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036020 | Circuit for reading a charge retention element for a time measurement A method and a circuit for reading an electronic charge retention element for a temporal measurement, of the type including at least one capacitive element whose dielectric exhibits a leakage and a transistor with insulated control terminal for reading the residual ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8022675 | Detection of the supply state of a load supplied by a variable voltage A method and a circuit for detecting the state of supply of a load by a variable voltage, including measuring the difference between values representative of the variable supply voltage and of a voltage across the load. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020080 | Receive circuit A method and a circuit for decoding a coded signal including a first decoding system capable of receiving the coded signal and of providing a first signal comprising portions considered correct and a second decoding system capable of providing a second signal from t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018062 | Production of a self-aligned CuSiN barrier A semiconductor product includes a portion made of copper, a portion made of a dielectric and a self-aligned barrier between the copper portion and the dielectric portion. The self-aligned barrier includes a first copper silicide layer comprising predominantly first... | 09/13/2011 |
