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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166238 | Method, device, and system for preventing refresh starvation in shared memory bank A multi-port memory device includes a refresh register and a refresh controller for preventing refresh starvation in a shared memory unit of the memory device. The memory device further includes a plurality of ports sharing access to the shared memory unit. The refr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159583 | Correlated double sampling unit in image sensor with attenuation of parasitic voltage loss A correlated double sampling unit in an image sensor includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a capacitor switch. The first capacitor is coupled between a first node and an input node of a tripping unit. The second capacitor is coupled between the first n... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154567 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display device including the same A liquid crystal panel includes a first type pixel and a second type pixel that are formed adjacent to each-other. The first type pixel has a first layout of respective first and second sub-pixels, and the second type pixel has a second layout of respective first an... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149608 | Multi-level phase change random access memory device A multi-level phase change random access memory device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a phase change material disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The multi-level phase change random access memory device also includes a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130561 | Self pre-charging and equalizing bit line sense amplifier A bit-line sense amplifier includes a latching unit and a control unit. The latching unit has a plurality of field effect transistors coupled between first and second bit lines. The control unit controls application of a bias voltage to a set of the field effect tra... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129765 | CMOS image sensor with photo-detector protecting layers An image sensor includes a logic region and an APS region having a first gate electrode, a photo-detector, a first protecting layer, first spacers, and a second protecting layer. The first gate electrode is formed over a semiconductor substrate. The photo-detector i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8106980 | Image sensor having high speed operation An image sensor includes a data formatter and a transformer. The data formatter divides N-bit data into K-bit units with N and K being natural numbers and with K | 01/31/2012 |
| 8076234 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same including a conductive structure is formed through at least one dielectric layer after forming a via structure For forming a semiconductor device, a via structure is formed through at least one dielectric layer and at least a portion of a substrate. In addition, a protective buffer layer is formed onto the via structure. Furthermore, a conductive structure for an integrated ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068157 | Image sensor with wide operating range An image sensor includes a photoelectric converter, a source-follower transistor, and a selection transistor. The photoelectric converter generates electric charge in response to received light, and the electric charge varies a voltage of a detection node. The sourc... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8058703 | Semiconductor transistor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor transistor device includes a drift region, an insulating structure, a gate insulator, a gate electrode, a source, and a drain. The drift region includes a first lateral portion having a first dopant concentration and a second lateral portion having a... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054352 | Color filter array with reduced crosstalk effect and image sensor and image pickup apparatus having the same An image sensor includes a color filter array including a primary color pixel such as a green filter pixel for sensing a predetermined primary color, a first secondary color pixel such as a yellow filter pixel, and a second secondary color pixel such as a cyan filte... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054350 | Shade correction for lens in image sensor An apparatus for performing shade correction for a lens in an image sensor includes a gain profile extractor, a common profile calculator, a gain controller calculator, and a memory device. The gain profile extractor generates a respective channel gain profile for e... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053163 | Method of fine patterning semiconductor device For patterning during integrated circuit fabrication, an image layer is activated for forming a respective first type polymer block at each of two nearest activated areas. A layer of block copolymer is formed on the image layer, and a plurality of the first type pol... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032695 | Multi-path accessible semiconductor memory device with prevention of pre-charge skip A multiprocessor system includes first and second processors and a multi-path accessible semiconductor memory device including a shared memory area and a pseudo operation execution unit. The shared memory area is accessible by the first and second processors accordi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031505 | Stacked memory module and system A three dimensional memory module and system are formed with at least one slave chip stacked over a master chip. Through semiconductor vias (TSVs) are formed through at least one of the master and slave chips. The master chip includes a memory core for increased cap... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029688 | Method of fine patterning semiconductor device For patterning during integrated circuit fabrication, a first pattern of first masking structures is formed, and a buffer layer is formed on exposed surfaces of the first masking structures. Also, a second pattern of second masking structures is formed in recesses b... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8003424 | Method for fabricating CMOS image sensor with pocket photodiode for minimizng image lag A CMOS image sensor includes a photosensitive device, a floating diffusion region, a transfer transistor, and a pocket photodiode formed in a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. The floating diffusion region is of a second conductivity type. The tr... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7998782 | Fabrication of image sensor with improved signal to noise ratio For fabricating an image sensor, an isolation structure is formed to define a first active region of a semiconductor substrate. A first transistor and a second transistor of a unit pixel are formed in the first active region. In addition, a threshold voltage lowerin... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998357 | Method of fine patterning semiconductor device For integrated circuit fabrication, at least one spacer support structure is formed in a first area over a semiconductor substrate, and a mask material is deposited on exposed surfaces of the spacer support structure and on a second area over the semiconductor subst... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990437 | Color correction in CMOS image sensor For color correction in an image sensor, an image sensor processing block generates a plurality of color correction parameters corresponding to a plurality of selected pixels of the image sensor for defining a plurality of areas of a sample image. In addition, a col... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975162 | Apparatus for aligning input data in semiconductor memory device An apparatus for aligning input data in a semiconductor device includes at least one alignment block and a decision block. The at least one alignment block is for aligning serial input data into groups of parallel data synchronized to at least one divided data strob... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969501 | Method and apparatus for auto-focusing in image sensor For auto-focusing of a focusing lens within an image sensing system, an N-bin luminance histogram is generated by a digital signal processor from an image. A microprocessor determines a type of the image from the N-bin luminance histogram. The microprocessor also de... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7955888 | Method of fabricating image sensor having reduced dark current An image sensor includes a light receiving device, a field effect transistor, a stress layer pattern, and a surface passivation material. The light receiving device is formed in a first region of a substrate. The field effect transistor is formed in a second region ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948768 | Tape circuit substrate with reduced size of base film A tape circuit substrate includes a base film with first wiring and second wiring disposed on the base film. The first wiring extends into a chip mount portion through a first side and bends within the chip mount portion toward a second side. The second wiring exten... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7936289 | Method, device, and system for data communication with preamble for reduced switching noise A data communication device or system includes a preamble unit and a data interface. The preamble unit generates or detects a first preamble having a first length for a first data line, and generates or detects a second preamble having a second length for a second d... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928987 | Method and apparatus for decoding video data A video decoder organizes and stores pixel lines of a reference picture into first and second memory devices. The video decoder then reads portions of a pixel block from the first and second memory devices and processes such a pixel block for generating a subsequent... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928949 | Flexible control of charge share in display panel A source driver of a display panel includes a channel state signal generator, first switches, and second switches. The channel state signal generator generates first and second channel state signals that are each activated for a respective time period depending on a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7865543 | Offset compensation for rail-to-rail avereraging circuit An averaging circuit includes an averaging unit and an offset compensation unit. The averaging unit generates an average signal from first and second input signals. The offset compensating unit is coupled to the averaging unit for conducting away bias currents from ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7839438 | CMOS image sensor having small size optical black area A CMOS image sensor includes a plurality of active pixel rows and an optical black pixel row. The optical black pixel row is activated to generate a respective optical black signal upon activation of each of at least two of the active pixel rows. Such sharing of the... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834350 | Semiconductor device with test pads and pad connection unit A semiconductor device includes at least one first type of pad and at least one second type of pad having a different area from the first type of pad. A pad connection unit electrically couples the at least one second type of pad to an integrated circuit of the semi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818488 | Memory module with registers Pairs of registers with reduced pins are disposed to overlap on front and back surfaces of a memory module. An input signal INS is transferred through the registers in series in a daisy chain fashion to avoid divergence of the input signal INS for preserved signal i... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800427 | Switched capacitor circuit with inverting amplifier and offset unit A switched capacitor circuit includes an amplifier, a charging unit, an offset unit, and an integrating unit. The charging unit is coupled between an input node and a first node, and is for accumulating charge corresponding to an input signal during a sampling mode.... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796425 | Control of set/reset pulse in response to peripheral temperature in PRAM device A driver circuit for a PRAM (phase-change random access memory) device includes a write driver that generates a set/reset current in response to a set/reset pulse. In addition, a temperature compensator controls a pulse width of the set/reset pulse in response to a ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782238 | Asymmetric PWM signal generator, method thereof, and data processing apparatus including the same A pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator includes a quantizer for generating a quantized signal by quantizing an input signal, an asymmetric pulse width modulator, and an error correction unit. The asymmetric pulse width modulator generates an asymmetric PWM ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778479 | Modified Gabor filter for image processing In a Gabor filter, a modified Gabor mask function is generated from an original Gabor mask function. A convolution of an image is performed with the modified Gabor mask function to generate a filtered image. The modification of the original Gabor mask function to th... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7776644 | Phase change memory cell and method and system for forming the same For fabricating a phase change memory cell, a layer of phase change material and a layer of a first electrode material are deposited. In addition, the first electrode material is patterned using an etchant including a low-reactivity halogen element such as bromine o... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7760824 | Elimination of DC offset in analog baseband circuit with minimized transients An analog baseband circuit includes first and second DC (direct current) offset cancellers and an offset canceller controller. The first DC offset canceller includes a first filter and a first PGA (programmable gain amplifier) with a first gain step for eliminating ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7750432 | Semiconductor fuse box and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor fuse box includes a fuse structure and a protective structure disposed between the fuse structure and an integrated circuit structure. The protective structure has at least one irregular side surface. The protective structure (which may also include ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7750281 | CMOS image sensor with current mirror An image sensor includes a pixel with a drive transistor and a select transistor. The drive transistor is driven according to a voltage at a floating diffusion node. The select transistor is coupled in series with the drive transistor for being turned on when the pi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746521 | Analog-to-digital conversion in CMOS image sensor An analog-to-digital converter in an image sensor is implemented with a plurality of comparator units. Each comparator unit has a respective capacitor array and respective switches integrated therein. Such capacitors and switches across the comparator units are oper... | 06/29/2010 |
