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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7948220 | Method and apparatus to reduce dynamic Rdson in a power switching circuit having a III-nitride device A method of preventing the Rdson of a III-V Nitride power switching circuit from varying over time. The method includes biasing the switch to a pre-bias voltage level just below turn ON when the switch is OFF, wherein traps are discharged when the switch is biased t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948069 | Surface mountable hermetically sealed package A high reliability package which includes electrical terminals formed from an alloy of tungsten copper and brazed onto a surface of a ceramic substrate. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944193 | Digital PWM modulator with fast dynamic response and fine resolution A pulse width (PWM) controller for a voltage converter having at least one switch, an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) circuit for digitizing inputted state variables including a feedback voltage from an output of the voltage converter and a reference voltage for s... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943990 | Power semiconductor device with interconnected gate trenches A power semiconductor device which includes a plurality of gate trenches and a perimeter trench intersecting the gate trenches. ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7532670 | Hypothetical reference decoder with low start-up delays for compressed image and video In one aspect, a method for encoding pictures is provided. The method is applied to each picture in a sequence of pictures, and the method comprises the steps of assigning a pre-decoder buffer removal time to the picture; selecting, for the picture, a number of bits... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532581 | Voice quality monitoring and reporting There is provided a method of detecting and reporting poor voice quality for use by a gateway device. The method comprises facilitating a connection between a telephone and a remote telephone via a network, and detecting a poor voice quality indictor during the conn... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529988 | Storage of descriptive information in user defined fields of failure bitmaps in integrated circuit technology development A system for processing tester information including receiving data from a tester and forming a user defined field for storing descriptive information. A bitmap is created and compressed into a compressed image. The user defined field and the compressed image are th... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529664 | Signal decomposition of voiced speech for CELP speech coding An approach for improving quality of synthesized speech is presented. The input speech or residual is first separated into a voiced portion and a noise portion. The voice portion is coded using CELP methods. The noise portion of the input speech may be estimated at ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7518067 | Metal cage structure and method for EMI shielding According to one exemplary embodiment, a structure comprises an electronic device situated over a substrate of a semiconductor die. The structure further includes a metal cage comprising a number of contacts situated over the substrate and surrounding the electronic... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7498620 | Integration of phosphorus emitter in an NPN device in a BiCMOS process According to one exemplary embodiment, a heterojunction bipolar transistor includes a base situated on a substrate. The heterojunction bipolar transistor can be an NPN silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor, for example. The heterojunction bipolar trans... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496277 | System and method of programmatic window control for consumer video players A media playback device capable of displaying multiple streams simultaneously and with expanded picture-in-picture capabilities is provided. The placement, size, aspect ratio, cropping, scale, transparency, tint, contrast, and cropping of the media can be set or adj... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7494885 | Disposable spacer process for field effect transistor fabrication According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for forming a field effect transistor on a substrate comprises a step of forming disposable spacers adjacent to a gate stack situated on the substrate, where the disposable spacers comprise amorphous carbon. The dispos... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7486213 | Method and system for increasing resolution and accuracy of an analog to digital converter According to one embodiment, a method for increasing resolution and accuracy of an analog to digital converter receiving an input voltage includes dithering a number of digital output values from the analog to digital converter to generate a number of dithered value... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487492 | Method for increasing manufacturability of a circuit layout According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for increasing manufacturability of a circuit layer includes determining a threshold value for at least one image property from a repetitive section of the circuit layout. According to this embodiment, the method furth... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7462923 | Bipolar transistor formed using selective and non-selective epitaxy for base integration in a BiCMOS process According to one exemplary embodiment, a bipolar transistor includes an active area situated between first and second isolation regions in a substrate. The bipolar transistor further includes an epitaxial extension layer situated on the active area, where the epitax... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460671 | Encryption processing apparatus and method for voice over packet networks In one aspect, a device includes an encoder configured to receive a speech sample and generate an encoded voice packet from the speech sample, the encoded voice packet having a packet size and a plurality of bytes. The device also includes an encryption unit configu... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457746 | Pitch prediction for packet loss concealment There is provided a pitch lag predictor for use by a speech decoder to generate a predicted pitch lag parameter. The pitch lag predictor comprises a summation calculator configured to generate a first summation based on a plurality of previous pitch lag parameters, ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454335 | Method and system for reducing effects of noise producing artifacts in a voice codec There is provided a method of reducing effect of noise producing artifacts in silence areas of a speech signal for use by a speech decoding system. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of incoming samples of a speech subframe; summing an absolute value of an e... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452095 | Device and method for illuminating liquid droplets There is provided a liquid droplet illumination device, which includes at least one liquid droplet traveling on a first surface. The liquid droplet can be distilled water and the first surface can be a ribbon of translucent material. The liquid droplet illumination ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451411 | Integrated circuit design system The present invention provides an integrated circuit design system, comprising providing a design system in a computer system, providing a layout design tool coupled to the design system, wherein the layout design tool creates an interconnect structure to satisfy el... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449413 | Method for effectively removing polysilicon nodule defects According to one exemplary embodiment, a method includes a step of forming a polysilicon layer over a substrate by using a deposition process, where the deposition process causes polysilicon nodule defects to form on a top surface of the polysilicon layer. The metho... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7418605 | System for controlling power to sequential and combinatorial logic circuitry in an integrated circuit A method for reducing power consumption in an integrated circuit and an integrated circuit having a power reduction feature. The integrated circuit has at least two functional circuit blocks and two upper supply rails. A first upper supply rail is coupled to the fir... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414350 | Acoustic mirror structure for a bulk acoustic wave structure and method for fabricating same According to one embodiment of the invention, an acoustic mirror structure situated in a bulk acoustic wave structure includes a number of alternating low acoustic impedance and high acoustic impedance layers situated on a substrate. Each high acoustic impedance lay... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414479 | Automatic bias control circuit for reduced current consumption in a linear power amplifier According to an exemplary embodiment, an amplification module includes a power amplifier configured to receive an RF input signal and provide an RF output signal. The amplification module further includes an autobias control circuit configured to receive and convert... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411941 | Text telephone modem communications over packet networks A modem detection method is provided for use by a first gateway, the first gateway capable of communicating with a second gateway over a packet network. The method comprises setting the first gateway to a voice mode having a first coding scheme, encoding an input si... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412266 | Aligning a frame pulse of a high frequency timer using a low frequency timer A low frequency timing circuit is used to reestablish a timing signal in a high-frequency timing circuit after the high frequency timing circuit has lost and regained power. The timing of the low frequency circuit is measured against the timing of the high frequency... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411169 | Wide dynamic range image sensor and method of use An exemplary image sensor comprises a photodetector proximate to a pixel site, and a light meter proximate to the pixel site configured to approximate an initial charge acquired by the photodetector at the end of a first integration period of a frame exposure period... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408330 | Voltage up-conversion circuit using low voltage transistors According to one exemplary embodiment, a voltage up-conversion circuit includes a modulated voltage generator circuit, where the modulated voltage generator circuit is configured to receive an input voltage and generate a modulated voltage, and where the modulated v... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407882 | Semiconductor component having a contact structure and method of manufacture A semiconductor component having a titanium silicide contact structure and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor component. A layer of dielectric material is formed over a semiconductor substrate. An opening having sidewalls is formed in the dielectric layer ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408413 | Circuit for accurately controlling power amplifier output power According to an exemplary embodiment, an amplification module includes a power control circuit. The amplification module further includes a power amplifier coupled to the power control circuit and configured to draw a supply current and receive a supply voltage from... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400013 | High-voltage transistor having a U-shaped gate and method for forming same According to one exemplary embodiment, a method includes forming first, second, and third shallow trench isolation regions in a substrate, wherein the second shallow trench isolation region is situated between the first and the third shallow trench isolation regions... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400169 | Inductor-tuned buffer circuit with improved modeling and design According to one exemplary embodiment, an inductor-tuned buffer circuit includes at least one input transistor for receiving a time varying input signal, where the at least one input transistor drives an output of the buffer circuit. The buffer circuit further inclu... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397089 | ESD protection structure using contact-via chains as ballast resistors According to an exemplary embodiment, an ESD protection structure situated in a semiconductor die includes a FET including a gate and first and second active regions, where the gate includes at least one gate finger, and where the at least one gate finger is situate... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388835 | Gateway configuration for controlling data flow in modem over packet networks An apparatus and method for configuring a gateway device for a modem over packet network session is disclosed. The method for configuring the first gateway device generally comprises: negotiating with a first client device to establish a first link; receiving, from ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385442 | System and method for constant bandwidth DC offset correction in an amplifier According to one embodiment, a system for constant bandwidth DC offset correction in an amplifier includes a number of amplifier stages having an input and an output coupled together in series. The system for constant bandwidth DC offset correction further includes ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381936 | Self-calibrating anti-blooming circuit for CMOS image sensor having a spillover protection performance in response to a spillover condition A method and apparatus to provide blooming protection for a pixel in an array while extending dynamic range. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383139 | Synchronous power gauge According to one exemplary embodiment, a synchronous power gauge is coupled to a processor for determining total charge consumed from a power source in an electronic device. The synchronous power gauge includes a controller for receiving a synch signal that indicate... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379866 | Simple noise suppression model An approach for efficiently reducing background noise from speech signal in real-time applications is presented. A noisy input speech signal is processed through an inverse filter when the spectrum tilt of the input signal is not that of a pure background noise mode... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378363 | Dielectric ceramic composition having wide sintering temperature range and reduced exaggerated grain growth According to one exemplary embodiment, a dielectric ceramic composition includes a main component group, where the main component group is represented by MgxCayZnzTiO2+x+y+z, where the sum of x, y, and z is less than or eq... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378310 | Method for manufacturing a memory device having a nanocrystal charge storage region A method for manufacturing a memory device having a metal nanocrystal charge storage structure. A substrate is provided and a first layer of dielectric material is grown on the substrate. A layer of metal oxide having a first heat of formation is formed on the first... | 05/27/2008 |
