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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110045788 | CALIBRATION OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A communication apparatus (200) has a calibration mode in which a signal is passed through circuitry (30, 80) of the apparatus, and a controller (160) measures the response of the circuitry (30, 80) to the signal and adjusts the circuitry ( 02/24/2011 | |
| 20110044690 | SYSTEM OF DEVICES OF WHICH SOME INCLUDE AN INFARED REMOTE CONTROL INTERFACE Infrared control signals are communicated between an infrared remote control unit (16) and an infrared controlled device (18) via network gateways (14). A sub-network of a backbone network (10) is automatically set up prior to transmission of... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044408 | OFDM RECEPTION A received OFDM signal is demodulated by sampling the OFDM signal at successive time instants and computing a Fourier transform of the samples for a block of time instants. In addition, a sliding Fourier transform is computed at every new one of the same input samples, ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044404 | DIGITAL MODULATOR The application relates to a digital modulator comprising at least one input terminal configured to receive at least one signal, at least one symbol generating unit comprising a first output terminal and at least a second output terminal, wherein the symbol generating u... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043429 | TRANSCEIVING CIRCUIT FOR CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION AND NFC DEVICE OR RFID READER/WRITER DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A TRANSCEIVING CIRCUIT A transceiving circuit (1, 1′) for contactless communication comprises transmitter means (3) being adapted to generate an electromagnetic carrier signal and to modulate the carrier signal according to transmitting data, and an antenna (5) being co... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043275 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT IN DIFFERENT OPERATIONAL MODES A system and method for controlling an IC in different operational modes involves automatically loading operational configurations of target circuitries in the IC for a determined operational mode into at least one register and operating the target circuitries in the IC... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043267 | CALIBRATION OF LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT SYSTEM'S STEP RESPONSE The invention concerns in general measurement of the transfer function of linear time invariant systems, more particular the calibration of such systems based on a measured transfer function. According to a first aspect the present invention an arrangement for measuring... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043264 | DOUBLE DATA RATE INTERFACE The present invention relates to a double data rate interface and method for use between a processor and random access memory, comprising a delay line including means for creating a delay in a data strobe signal from the random access memory, the delay line being arrang... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043129 | DIM RANGE ENHANCEMENT FOR LED DRIVER CONECTED TO PHASE-CUT DIMMER The present invention relates to a driving circuit (100) connected to a conventional phase-cut dimmer. A LED light source (30) is driven by a switched mode power supply (26), which is powered by the mains voltage through a phase-cut dimmer (10 | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038484 | DEVICE FOR AND A METHOD OF PROCESSING AUDIO DATA A device (100) for processing audio data, wherein the device (100) comprises a first audio reproduction unit (102) adapted for reproducing a first part of the audio data and adapted to be attached to a left ear (106) of a user (110), a... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038093 | TURNABLE CAPACITOR AND SWITCH USING MEMS WITH PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL The present invention relates to a MEMS, being developed for e.g. a mobile communication application, such as switch, tunable capacitor, tunable filter, phase shifter, multiplexer, voltage controlled oscillator, and tunable matching network. The volume change of phase-c... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037861 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIGITAL IMAGE STABILIZATION The invention concerns a method for digital image stabilization for removing jitter from an original sequence of images (10) generated by a camera. The original sequence (10) is applied to a stabilization algorithm (11). The global motion of a camer... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037539 | BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR A resonator comprises a bottom electrode layer (12), a top electrode layer (10) which defines a resonator body; and a piezoelectric layer (14) sandwiched between the top and bottom electrode layers. An external region (152) is provided around... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037135 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING METHOD A method of providing a dielectric material (18) having regions (18′, 18″) with a varying thickness in an IC manufacturing process is disclosed. The method comprises forming a plurality of patterns in respective regions (20′, 20″) of the die... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037131 | GATE STRUCTURE FOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR A field effect transistor having a gate structure that comprises an interfacial layer positioned in between the transistor channel region and a high-K dielectric layer of the gate stack. The interfacial layer comprises AlxSiyOz, which ha... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110036913 | ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR An electrochemical sensor device including a sensor chip having an integrated electrochemical sensor element; and a substrate having a first surface on which the sensor chip is mounted, the substrate comprising a reference electrode structure for the integrated electroc... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035174 | TIME SYNCHRONIZATION IN AN IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT A controllable light source (102) is controlled to emit modulated light, preferably using a uniquely recognizable modulation pattern. A plurality of camera units (10) captures images that contain the light source. Clock time values at a time corresponding ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034136 | CANCELLATION OF OSCILLATOR REMODULATION A wireless transmitter (100) comprises a signal generator (10) for generating a signal, an amplifier (50) for amplifying the signal, and a phase shifting circuit (20) coupled between the signal generator (10) and the amplifier (50 | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034001 | METHOD OF MAKING BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR A method of manufacturing a bipolar transistor is compatible with FinFET processing. A collector region (18) is formed and patterned, base contact regions (26) formed on either side, and a gap formed between the base contact region. A base (28), spa... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033315 | MICROFLUIDIC PUMP A microfluidic pump comprises a plurality of metal electrodes (10) which oxidise in air, a liquid droplet (14) to be moved by the pump, which is in contact with a least one metal electrode, and means for controlling the oxidation state of the metal electro... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033077 | MAGNET SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A method of manufacturing a magnet system (101, 201) for an electro-acoustic transducer (100, 200) comprising a magnet element (105, 205) and at least one pole plate (106, 107, 206, 207), is described, wherein the method comprises providing t... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033013 | RADIO RECEIVER GAIN CONTROL A radio receiver (100) comprises an analogue to digital converter (30) for generating a data word representative of received radio signal and a gain control stage (40) comprising a first register (42) for storing the data word. The gain contr... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032648 | ESD PROTECTION An electrostatic discharge protection structure (200) for an integrated circuit, the electrostatic discharge protection structure (200) comprising: a first silicon controlled rectifier structure (211) having a first triggering voltage, the first rec... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032067 | 8-SHAPED INDUCTOR In a first aspect, the invention provides to a device comprising a substrate and an electrical conductor arranged between two terminals (A, B) and shaped for forming an inductor comprising at least two loops (1, 2) and arranged such that, at least locally, the fa... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031949 | SELF-OSCILLATING SWITCHED MODE CONVERTER WITH VALLEY DETECTION An energy converter is disclosed in which self oscillation mode operation is improved by a closed loop feedback control. The feedback control utilises the voltage error from the voltage valley in the drain voltage (Vdrain) of the converter switch (1), to determin... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031945 | THRESHOLD VOLTAGE EXTRACTION CIRCUIT A pair of MOS transistors (10,12) are arranged as a potential divider. As the MOS transistors (10,12) pass from a weak inversion regime to a strong inversion regime, the voltage at the midpoint of the threshold divider changes from being substantially cons... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031926 | BATTERY CHARGER FOR A PHTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM, A CONTROLLER THEREFOR AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A battery charger, or charge controller, for a photovoltaic system is disclosed, comprising a maximum power point tracker (MPPT) circuit, which may be bypassed by means of a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit may be a simple electrical wire or link. The battery charger ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031903 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE JUNCTION TEMPERATURE OF A LIGHT EMITTING DIODE A method of estimating the junction temperature of a light emitting diode comprises driving a forward bias current through the diode, the current comprising a square wave which toggles between high and low current values (Ihigh, llow), the high cur... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031900 | CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF OPERATING A CONTROLLER A controller for controlling a power generator circuit, and a method for operation such a controller, is disclosed. The invention is particularly suited to LED current generators. The current generator may be switched off to conserve power when not required for any LED ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031846 | WAKE-UP UNIT FOR WAKING UP AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF WAKING UP AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A wake-up unit for waking up an electronic device is provided. The wake-up unit comprises a resonating unit (C) for resonating at least one specific frequency, at least one first electrode (TE), at least one piezoelectric material (PM) and at least one second electrode ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031816 | PHOTOVOLTAIC UNIT, A DC-DC CONVERTER THEREFOR, AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME A photovoltaic unit is disclosed comprising a plurality of sub-units connected in series, each sub-unit having a main input and a main output, which main output is connected to the respective main input of a neighbouring sub-unit, each sub-unit further comprising a segm... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031380 | OPTICAL POINTING DEVICE The optical pointing device of the present invention comprises a base and an actuator movable connected to the base, wherein the actuator comprises a reflective portion on a side facing the base, and wherein the base comprises a light source for emitting light towards t... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029803 | CLOCK RECOVERY OF SERIAL DATA SIGNAL A method and a receiver for recovering clock timing information from a serial data signal by determining data symbol transition times. The method comprises determining data symbol transition times of the serial data according to a first determination scheme, and further... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029706 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises at least one master network interface (MNI) with in a credit count unit (CC) for counting received credits and a first buffer unit (FIFO). The electronic device furthermore comprises at least one slave ne... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110028114 | APPARATUS COMPRISING A BROADCAST RECEIVER CIRCUIT AND PROVIDED WITH AN ANTENNA The invention relates to an apparatus 1 comprising a broadcast receiver circuit, an embedded antenna for receiving broadcast signals and a tuning circuit coupled between the antenna and the receiver circuit, which tuning circuit comprises a filter circuit coupled... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110027128 | SENSOR CHIP AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A sensor chip (100) for detecting particles, the sensor chip (100) comprising a substrate (102), an electric connection structure (104) arranged in a surface portion of the substrate (102) and adapted for an electric connection to an e... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026724 | ACTIVE NOISE REDUCTION METHOD USING PERCEPTUAL MASKING A method of active noise reduction is described which comprises receiving an audio signal (132) to be played, receiving a noise signal (105, 107, 116, 118, 126), indicative of ambient noise (111), from at least one microphone (104, 106), and ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026580 | ROTATING PULSE-WIDTH MODULATOR A driver for driving an LED uses PWM in a sequence of the periods. The driver has a modulo counter, that is reset after each period. The driver has a first adder for combining the count value with a quantity indicative of a shift of the LED's control pulse relative to t... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026277 | DRIVING CIRCUIT A driving circuit for an opto-coupler comprising a switched mode regulator configured to convert a first voltage to a second voltage, the switched mode regulator operable in accordance with a control signal (311) representative of the first voltage, and wherein t... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025661 | LIGHT SENSOR NOISE SUPPRESSION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD THEREFOR A light sensor arrangement is used to detect ambient light conditions. According to an example embodiment, a light detector arrangement (e.g., 110) generates an output in response to light incident thereupon. An averaging-type circuit (e.g., 160) samples t... | 02/03/2011 |
