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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185773 | Processor system employing a signal acquisition managing device and signal acquisition managing device A processor system having a processor core configured to control an external apparatus in accordance with a control algorithm; a signal acquisition managing device configured to receive state signals provided by the apparatus, perform corresponding actions, and gene... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183655 | Radiation detector of the ΔE-E type with insulation trenches A radiation detector of the ΔE-E type is proposed. The detector is integrated in a chip of semiconductor material with a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface, the detector having at least one detection cell arranged on the front surface for r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183573 | Process for forming an interface between silicon carbide and silicon oxide with low density of states An embodiment of a process for forming an interface between a silicon carbide (SiC) layer and a silicon oxide (SiO2) layer of a structure designed to conduct current is disclosed. A first epitaxial layer having a first doping level is homo-epitaxially gro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183098 | SOI device with contact trenches formed during epitaxial growing A method for manufacturing an integrated electronic device. The method includes providing an SOI substrate having a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor starting layer on the insulating layer; epitaxially g... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181083 | Methods and architectures for layered decoding of LDPC codes with minimum latency An embodiment of a decoder for decoding a Low-Density Parity-Check encoded input data includes a serial processing unit operating in clock cycles to perform serial update of the layers in the code. Operations of the serial processing unit to produce output data for ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179699 | Method for controlling a switching regulator and related switching regulator An embodiment of a power-supply controller comprises a switching-control circuit, an error amplifier, and a signal generator. The switching-control circuit is operable to control a switch coupled to a primary winding of a transformer, and the error amplifier has a f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179399 | Rasterizing method A rasterizing method calculates an attribute (C) of a pixel having coordinates (X, Y) based on the coordinates (X0, Y0), (X1, Y1), (X2, Y2) of vertices of a primitive in a screen space, Z coordinates ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174850 | Method and circuit for avoiding hard switching in half bridge converters A half bridge switching dc-dc converter an input dc voltage to an output dc voltage. The converter includes a switching circuit for receiving the input dc voltage and generating a periodic square wave voltage oscillating from a high value corresponding to the input ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174807 | Integrated circuit with device for protection against electrostatic discharges An integrated circuit includes a substrate of semiconductive material, a first circuit environment made from the substrate which includes an output terminal and a first pair of power supply terminals for receiving a first power supply voltage applicable between the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174419 | Analog-digital converter and corresponding system and method An analog-digital converter for converting an analog signal into a digital signal includes a first configuration register for configuring a first group of channels and a second configuration register for configuring a second group of channels. The conversion result ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174076 | Method for manufacturing electronic devices integrated in a semiconductor substrate and corresponding devices A method manufactures a vertical power MOS transistor on a semiconductor substrate comprising a first superficial semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, comprising: forming trench regions in the first semiconductor layer, filling in said trench regions wi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173513 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor pressure sensor Method for manufacturing a semiconductor pressure sensor, wherein, in a silicon substrate, trenches are dug and delimit walls; a closing layer is epitaxially grown, that closes the trenches at the top and forms a suspended membrane; a heat treatment is performed so ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169442 | Graphic system comprising a fragment graphic module and relative rendering method A graphic system having a central processing unit; a system memory coupled to the central processing unit; a display unit provided with a corresponding screen; a graphic module coupled to and controlled by the central processing unit to render an image on the screen... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164357 | Digital noise protection circuit and method A method of protection from noise of a digital signal generated by a comparator, including the steps of generating an output signal that switches from a first logic state to a second logic state at a first switching of logic state of the digital signal; detecting a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159796 | Power integrated circuit with high insensitivity to parasitic inductances of wires for connection to a package and package for said integrated circuit The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit and a package on which such integrated circuit is placed, the latter having a power output stage, at least one first pad, one second pad and one drive circuit for driving said power output stage, wherein the in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158463 | Process and method for manufacturing a MOS device with intercell ion implant using one or more parallel enrichment windows A process for manufacturing a MOS device includes forming a semiconductor layer having a first type of conductivity; forming an insulated gate structure having an electrode region (25), above the semiconductor layer (23); forming body regions having a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154172 | Electronic circuit for highly efficient driving of piezoelectric loads The invention relates to a circuit for highly efficient driving of piezoelectric loads, comprising a linear driving circuit portion connected to the load through an inductive-resistive connection whereto a voltage waveform is applied. Advantageously, the circuit com... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150315 | Method for verifying the alignment between integrated electronic devices A method for verifying alignment between first and second integrated devices coupled together using a reference and a coupling capacitor, including: transmitting a reference signal on a transmission electrode of the reference capacitor; receiving a coupling signal o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150181 | Method of filtering a video sequence image from spurious motion effects According to the novel method, roto-translational and zooming parameters describing spurious motion effects are determined by exploiting any of the many block matching algorithms commonly used for motion estimation for calculating a motion vector for all or for a se... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149616 | Method for multilevel programming of phase change memory cells using adaptive reset pulses A method for programming multilevel PCM cells envisages: forming an amorphous region of amorphous phase change material in a storage element of a PCM cell by applying one or more reset pulse; and forming a conductive path of crystalline phase change material through... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148707 | Ovonic threshold switch film composition for TSLAGS material A chalcogenide alloy that optimizes operating parameters of an ovonic threshold switch includes an atomic percentage of arsenic in the range of 9 to 39, an atomic percentage of germanium in the range of 10 and 40, an atomic percentage of silicon in the range of 5 an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144977 | Method and relative device of color interpolation of an image acquired by a digital color sensor A method calculates statistical parameters in function of stochastic momentums of the pixel intensities of a same primary color or complementary hue of a first working window (2k+1)×(2k+1), and of at least a second working window of smaller size, both centered on t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143866 | Control device for power factor correction device in forced switching power supplies Herein described is a control device of a device for the correction of the power factor in forced switching power supplies; said device for the correction of the power factor comprises a converter and said control device is coupled to the converter to obtain from an... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143091 | Method for realizing a thin film organic electronic device and corresponding device A method realizes a thin film organic electronic device integrated on a substrate and includes an organic material layer and an organic thin film transistor or OTFT transistor. The method comprises: depositing the organic material layer on the substrate, the organic... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139642 | Method for encoding signals, related systems and program product therefor A method for encoding video signals subjects the signals to unbalanced multiple description coding. The unbalanced multiple description coding codes a video signal in a first high resolution packet and a second low resolution packet and represents, respectively a fi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139621 | Pulse generator for ultra-wide-band modulating systems and modulating systems using it A pulse generator circuit is provided. The pulse generator circuit has an input adapted to receive an input electrical quantity and an output at which an output electrical quantity is made available. A transfer characteristic establishes a relationship between said ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139031 | User controlled device for sending control signals to an electric appliance, in particular user controlled pointing device such as mouse or joystick, with 3D-motion detection A user controlled device, movable into a plurality of positions of a three-dimensional space, includes a MEMS acceleration sensor to detect 3D movements of the user controlled device. The device, such as a mouse, sends control signals correlated to the detected posi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134214 | Electronic device, system, and method comprising differential sensor MEMS devices and drilled substrates Electronic device which comprises a substrate provided with at least one passing opening, a MEMS device with function of differential sensor provided with a first and a second surface and of the type comprising at least one portion sensitive to chemical and/or physi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131450 | Method and associated device for sensing the air/fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine A method of sensing the air/fuel ratio in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine that may be easily implemented by a respective low-cost device includes a pressure sensor and a learning machine that generates a sensing signal representing the air/fuel... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127180 | Electronic system for detecting a fault An electronic adapter device and an electronic system that comprises the electronic adapter device are described. The electronic adapter device comprises a device and a redundant device able to receive data from a first plurality of electronic devices and redundant ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126084 | Processing method for providing, starting from signals acquired by a set of sensors, an aggregate signal and data acquisition system using such method Embodiment for forming an aggregate signal from a plurality of starting signals, comprising: acquiring said starting signals through respective sensors of a homogeneous sensors group; converting acquired signals in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125380 | Position computing method, receiving apparatus and navigation satellite system employing the method A position computing method computes a position of a receiver using a satellite navigation system. The method includes: bringing a satellite receiver in a dark region of the satellite system; bringing the receiver into a visible region of the satellite system outsid... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125159 | LED driving device with variable light intensity In a device for driving LEDs with variable light intensity, a supply stage has a first operating mode, in which a controlled supply current is generated, and a second operating mode, in which a controlled supply voltage is generated. A LED is connected to the supply... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124895 | Planar microelectromechanical device having a stopper structure for out-of-plane movements A microelectromechanical device has a mobile mass that undergoes a movement, in particular a spurious movement, in a first direction in response to an external event; the device moreover has a stopper structure configured so as to stop said spurious movement. In par... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120415 | Circuit for generating a temperature-compensated voltage reference, in particular for applications with supply voltages lower than 1V An embodiment of a circuit is described for the generation of a temperature-compensated voltage reference of the type comprising at least one generator circuit of a band-gap voltage, inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and including an operationa... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117251 | Computation of a multiplication operation with an electronic circuit and method A computing method and circuit for computing a modular operation with at least one operand having a binary representation. Iteratively for each bit of this operand, doubling the value of an intermediate result stored in a first memory element by shifting the bits of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115314 | Deep contacts of integrated electronic devices based on regions implanted through trenches An embodiment of an integrated circuit includes first and second semiconductor layers and a contact region disposed in the second layer. The first semiconductor layer is of a first conductivity, and the second semiconductor layer is disposed over the first layer and... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111217 | Driving circuit for an OLED (organic light emission diode), in particular for a display of the AM-OLED type A driving circuit of an OLED diode is inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and having at least one input terminal receiving an input voltage signal and an output terminal for the generation of a driving current of the OLED diode, the driving circu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107750 | Method of generating motion vectors of images of a video sequence A digital image processing system and method for removing motion effects from images of a video sequence, and generating corresponding motion compensated images. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106924 | Method and system for video rendering, computer program product therefor A method of rendering video frames starting from source frames of a scene acquired using a multi-viewpoint camera system including a Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) synthesizing process. ... | 01/31/2012 |
