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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7898716 | System and method for controlling a digital micromirror device (DMD) system to generate an image According to particular embodiments, a system comprises one or mores light sources, a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) system, and a controller. A light source is configured to generate light, and the DMD system comprises DMD regions configured to modulate the light... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7839560 | Packaged spatial light modulator and a display system using the same A spatial light modulator comprises an array of individually addressable pixels enclosed within a space formed by a package lid and a package substrate. An aperture through which incident visible light pass into the package is formed on the package lid. In display s... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835054 | Optical architecture having a rotating polygon for use in imaging systems An optical architecture comprises a refractive cylinder that is movable relative to the incident light. By moving the refractive cylinder, the output light from the refractive cylinder is capable of sweeping through a spatial angle. Examples of the optical architect... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7536566 | System architecture for a power distribution network and method of operation Digital and analog functionality are separated and optimized in an Ethernet port architecture to free port circuit space for additional desired functionality. A power controller and physical link controller for the port share a high speed communication link to trans... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7339240 | Dual-gate integrated circuit semiconductor device The present invention provides a method for fabricating a dual gate semiconductor device. In one aspect, the method comprises forming a nitridated, high voltage gate dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate, patterning a photoresist over the nitridated, high ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7254192 | Iterative detection in MIMO systems Detection for a MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) wireless communications system with symbols iteratively detected in subsets with maximum likelihood hard decisions within subsets. Previously detected subsets of symbols are used to regenerate corresronding inpu... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7215670 | Hardware acceleration for reassembly of message packets in a universal serial bus peripheral device A Universal Serial Bus (USB) modem (14) in which reassembly and segmentation operations are performed outside of the host computer (12) is disclosed. A USB interface device (30) is coupled to a digital signal processor (DSP) (32) in the m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7194646 | Real-time thermal management for computers A real-time thermal management apparatus and method for a computer employs a monitor (40) to determine whether a CPU may rest based upon real-time sampling of temperature levels and CPU activity levels within the computer. The monitor activates a hardware sel... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7120546 | Integrated spectrum analyzer for tuners A scheme to provide a spectral view of the signals present at the customer premises equipment by the network operator and includes a digital signal processor (DSP) or other signal processing apparatus integrated into a customer premises equipment (CPE) tuner in whic... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110477 | Gaussian frequency shift keying digital demodulator A digital demodulator employing a digital differential detection mechanism based on extracting phase differences directly from the I and Q signals after downconversion to zero-IF and image rejection are performed. The phase of the input I and Q signals is determined... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7027659 | Method and apparatus for generating video images A method and system for generating a video image is disclosed in which an object is monitored with a video camera to produce a sequence of video frames. Each of the video frames is divided into a plurality of regions, each region being representative of a portion of... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6949984 | Voltage controlled oscillator having control current compensation A voltage controlled oscillator (600) includes a voltage to current portion (400) that is inversely proportional to the semiconductor processing in order to compensate for variations both in the low-frequency and high-frequency portions of the VCO gain... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6844566 | Suspended gate single-electron device The present invention provides a single-electron transistor device (100). The device (100) comprises a source (105) and drain (100) located over a substrate (115) and a quantum island (120) situated between the source and dr... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6838348 | Integrated process for high voltage and high performance silicon-on-insulator bipolar devices High-voltage bipolar transistors (30, 60) in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) integrated circuits are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, an collector region (28) is formed in epitaxial silicon (24, 25) disposed over a buried insulator layer (2... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6831929 | Multistage PN code aquisition circuit and method A circuit for detecting a serial signal comprises a first circuit (400) coupled to receive the serial signal (200) during a predetermined plurality of time periods of substantially equal duration. The first circuit is coupled to receive a first code ( | 12/14/2004 |
| 6792508 | Cache with multiple fill modes A cache architecture (16) for use in a processing device includes a RAM set cache for caching a contiguous block of main memory (20). The RAM set cache can be used in conjunction with other cache types, such as a set associative cache or a direct mappe... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6791607 | Optical black and offset correction in CCD signal processing An image processing apparatus for a charge coupled device including analog front end circuitry having optical black and offset correction, whereby the an offset and optical black correction circuit has a digitally programmable bandwidth is disclosed herein. The imag... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6789031 | Method for determining the equivalency index of products, processes, and services A method is disclosed wherewith a person skilled in the art of statistical quality control may determine whether a process, a product or a service is statically equivalent to another of known quality, or to a desired known quality. The method may also be used to det... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6784535 | Composite lid for land grid array (LGA) flip-chip package assembly A composite lid for a semiconductor package, in which the lid includes at least two materials. The first material is disposed over and attached to the back surface of the die with a low-modulus thermal gel and the second material is disposed towards the perimeter of... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6768210 | Bumpless wafer scale device and board assembly A semiconductor chip having a planar active surface including an integrated circuit; the circuit has metallization patterns including a plurality of contact pads. Each of these contact pads has an added conductive layer on the circuit metallization. This added layer... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6768663 | Semiconductor device array having dense memory cell array and hierarchical bit line scheme A semiconductor device architecture (200) is disclosed. Like unit circuits (202), arranged in rows and columns, are coupled to lower conductive segments (204a-204h). The lower conductive segments (204a-204 | 07/27/2004 |
| 6760333 | Hybrid digital subscriber loop and voice-band universal serial bus modem A Universal Serial Bus (USB) modem (14) having two operating modes, namely Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL) mode and a voice-band mode, is disclosed. A USB interface device (30) is coupled to a digital signal processor (DSP) (32) and contains a sha... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6753559 | Transistor having improved gate structure A gate structure which includes a semiconductor substrate having a channel region, a gate insulator adjacent the channel region of the semiconductor substrate and a conductible gate adjacent the gate insulator. A primary insulation layer is adjacent the semiconducto... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6709938 | Source/drain extension fabrication process with direct implantation An improved source/drain extension process is provided by the following processing steps of implanting NMOS devices directly on either side of the gates without an oxide layer (step D2), covering the gates with a cap oxide layer(step E2), covering NMOS... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6706561 | Method for fabricating preplated nickel/palladium and tin leadframes A method for fabricating a leadframe structure comprising a chip mount pad and a plurality of lead segments, each having a first end near the mount pad and a second end remote from said mount pad. The structure is formed from a sheet-like starting material. In a fir... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6690668 | Modular interconnection of network switches Network switching systems (10, 110, 210, 310, 410) for use in an Ethernet network are disclosed. Each of the switching systems includes switch devices (20) supporting multiple (e.g., eight) local ports, and one gigabit high-speed port; each of the high-sp... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6656811 | Carbide emitter mask etch stop Bipolar transistors and methods for fabricating bipolar transistors are disclosed wherein an emitter-base dielectric stack is formed between emitter and base structures, comprising a carbide layer situated between first and second oxide layers. The carbid... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6650694 | Correlator co-processor for CDMA RAKE receiver operations A programmable, flexible, vector correlation engine for CDMA mobile and base station chip rate signal processing. A correlator co-processor (CCP) performs the de-spreading tasks for a RAKE receiver, early/late correlations for time tracking, and has provi... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6649435 | Precision micromirror positioning A system and method of aligning a micromirror array to the micromirror package and the micromirror package to a display system. The system and method improve the alignment of the micromirror array to the display system by using a consistent set of precisi... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6646513 | Oscillator circuit having an improved capacitor discharge circuit An oscillator circuit (300) disclosed herein includes an improved capacitor discharge circuit. The oscillator includes at least one capacitor coupled to a charging circuit portion (202, 210) and a discharging circuit portion (208) through a switching netw... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6631993 | Display system A projecting display system includes a light source (101) which produces light which is spatially modulated by a number of spatial light modulators (105, 107). A splitting means (103) is provided in the light path between the light source (101) and the sp... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6628129 | Clamping and unclamping apparatus for a semiconductor test board A system for simultaneously securing a plurality of integrated circuits in a test fixture, comprising a base supporting a test board having a plurality of sockets. Each socket is configured to receive a integrated circuit and has a locked position and an ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6627507 | Integrated circuit and method of using porous silicon to achieve component isolation in radio frequency applications The invention relates to an improved substrate (100) using a layer (112) or region (130) of porous silicon that is created in the bulk silicon substrate material (110) to increase the resistivity of the substrate (100) thus making it suitable for passive ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625882 | System and method for reinforcing a bond pad A reinforcing system for a bond which includes at least one dielectric layer or stack disposed under the bond pad. A reinforcing patterned structure is disposed in the dielectric layer or stack with the delectric filling the portion of the patterned struc... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6614375 | Sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter having improved reference multiplexer A low power, sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter having an improved reference multiplexer that eliminates noise in a reference voltage signal. The sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter includes a passive filter circuit connected to receive a differe... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6611469 | Asynchronous FIFO memory having built-in self test logic An asynchronous First-In-First-Out memory integrated circuit is equipped with a Built-In Self Test logic structure which allows extensive full-frequency asynchronous memory testing requiring minimal external test equipment. Memory input data patterns are ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6238845 | Method of forming lead frames with preformation support The invention is a method for making a lead frame (30) having fine pitched lead frame leads (32). A first side of the lead frame material is etched to for the lead frame and define the lead frame leads and die pad, but the etch process does not etch compl... | 05/29/2001 |
