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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102435 | Method for acquiring a digital image with a large dynamic range with a sensor of lesser dynamic range A method is provided for obtaining an image with a large dynamic range. An image is acquired such that each image pixel is represented by a plurality of values obtained at the same time but for different integration levels (effective exposures). For each pixel, a re... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101448 | Manufacturing method of a gas sensor integrated on a semiconductor substrate A method manufactures a gas sensor integrated on a semiconductor substrate. The method includes: realizing a first plurality of openings in the semiconductor substrate; realizing a crystalline silicon membrane suspended on the semiconductor substrate, forming an ins... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8059119 | Method for detecting border tiles or border pixels of a primitive for tile-based rendering A method detects border tiles or border pixels of a primitive corresponding to an object to be displayed on a display screen. The detecting includes: calculating the number of border tiles or pixels covered by an edge of the primitive; identifying a plurality of ver... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054120 | Integrated circuit operable in a standby mode An integrated circuit, comprises a wakeup terminal; a supply voltage terminal configured to receive a supply voltage; and a power control circuit. The power control circuit comprises an enable circuit coupled to the wakeup terminal and configured to generate a volta... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054006 | Power supply of luminous sources A power supply of luminous sources is disclosed comprising a first circuit configured to generate a direct voltage signal from an alternating input voltage and a second circuit having in input the direct voltage signal and configured to generate an alternating volta... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050011 | Process for sealing and connecting parts of electromechanical, fluid and optical microsystems and device obtained thereby A process for connecting two bodies forming parts of an electromechanical, fluid and optical microsystem, wherein a welding region is formed on a first body; an electrically conductive region and a spacing region are formed on a second body; the spacing region exten... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049287 | Substrate-level assembly for an integrated device, manufacturing process thereof and related integrated device A substrate-level assembly having a device substrate of semiconductor material with a top face and housing a first integrated device, including a buried cavity formed within the device substrate, and with a membrane suspended over the buried cavity in the proximity ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049197 | Self-aligned nano-cross-point phase change memory One embodiment is a phase change memory that includes a heater element transversely contacting a storage element of phase change material. In particular, an end of the storage element contacts an end of the heater element. A first pair of dielectric spacers is posit... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042396 | Microelectromechanical sensor with improved mechanical decoupling of sensing and driving modes A driving mass of an integrated microelectromechanical structure is moved with a rotary motion about an axis of rotation, and a sensing mass is connected to the driving mass via elastic supporting elements so as to perform a detection movement in the presence of an ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042394 | High sensitivity microelectromechanical sensor with rotary driving motion A driving mass of an integrated microelectromechanical structure is moved with a rotary motion about an axis of rotation, and a sensing mass is connected to the driving mass via elastic supporting elements so as to perform a detection movement in the presence of an ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035423 | Driving configuration of a switch A circuit includes a switch, having first and second transistors, and a driving device for driving the switch. A latch circuit, coupled between respective common gate and source terminals of the first and second transistors, supplies the common gate terminal with fi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8034713 | Method for stacking and interconnecting integrated circuits A method for stacking and interconnecting integrated circuits includes providing at least two substrates; forming a trench in each substrate; filling the trench with an insulating material; forming, in each substrate, at least one conductive area; thinning each subs... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8030805 | Microsystem comprising a bending beam and process of manufacture A mechanical micro system comprising a flexible bending beam extending along a direction, and at least one magnetic element for creating a magnetic field. The flexible beam includes: a first circuit having a first topology for generating, in response to one current ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030765 | Configuration terminal for integrated devices and method for configuring an integrated device A configuration terminal for integrated devices includes a first and a second portion structurally independent and connected to respective first and second terminals and it has at least one contact terminal suitable to be selectively connected to such first and seco... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026173 | Semiconductor structure, in particular phase change memory device having a uniform height heater A phase change memory formed by a plurality of phase change memory devices having a chalcogenide memory region extending over an own heater. The heaters have all a relatively uniform height. The height uniformity is achieved by forming the heaters within pores in an... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024879 | Three-dimensional back-lit device A display device includes at least one wall with transparent areas and a reflecting object arranged inside the display device and oriented so as to receive an incident external light and to redirect a reflected light onto the transparent areas. The transparent areas... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022996 | Image stabilizing device of the MEMS type, in particular for image acquisition using a digital-image sensor A device for stabilizing images acquired by a digital-image sensor includes a motion-sensing device, for detecting quantities correlated to pitch and yaw movements of the digital-image sensor, and a processing unit, connectable to the digital-image sensor for receiv... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018786 | Method for reading semiconductor memories and semiconductor memory A phase change memory cells including a memory element or a threshold device is read using a read current which does not threshold either the memory element or the threshold device in the case of both a set and a reset memory element. As a result, higher currents ma... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8012832 | Process for manufacturing a multi-drain electronic power device integrated in semiconductor substrate and corresponding device A process manufactures a multi-drain power electronic device integrated on a semiconductor substrate of a first type of conductivity whereon a drain semiconductor layer is formed. The process includes: forming a first semiconductor epitaxial layer of the first type ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004322 | Synchronization scheme with adaptive reference frequency correction The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing synchronization of an output signal to a synchronization information. The synchronization is accomplished by providing coupling of a correction control information that controls a signal generati... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990222 | Converter with parallel coupled differential input pairs A circuit for converting first and second differential input signals into an output signal is provided with a first differential input stage comprising first and second inputs for receiving the first differential input signal and comprising first and second outputs ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987061 | Non-linear frequency and phase measurement scheme The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring a frequency or a phase of a measuring signal, wherein the frequency (fg) or the phase (φg) are estimated by approximating the relationship between a collecting clock (c) and... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984213 | Control device for a USB interface and control method thereof A control device for a USB interface including at least one first terminal for inputting the data to be transmitted and at least one second terminal for the transmission of the packet data on a bus; the packet data include one end-of-packet signal. The USB interface... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982178 | Phototransistor with source layer between barrier layer and photosensitive semiconductor layer A photo transistor has an active region spaced from a source by barrier. A drain is laterally spaced from the active region. Light incident on the active region creates electron-hole pairs. Holes accumulate at the barrier and modulate the effective barrier height to... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973302 | Forming phase change memory cells Small phase change memory cells may be formed by forming a segmented heater over a substrate. A stop layer may be formed over the heater layer and segmented with the heater layer. Then, sidewall spacers may be formed over the segmented heater to define an aperture b... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966544 | Loading the input memory of an LDPC decoder with data for decoding An input memory of an LDPC decoder is loaded with data corresponding to an LDPC frame to be decoded and including N LLRs, of which K are information LLRs and N−K are parity LLRs. At least one stream is formed of binary words of a first type, each corresponding to ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964432 | Method of manufacturing lenses, in particular for an integrated imager A method for manufacturing a micro-module for capturing images having an imager and at least one lens, includes manufacturing at least one imager on a first plate of a semiconductor material, producing at least one optical zone to form a lens in at least one second ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7956824 | Light emitting element driver device A driver device for driving light emitting elements comprises a data latch having an input coupled to an input signal, a current control circuit having an input coupled to the data latch, and an output coupled to the input of an output stage, the latter being config... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940996 | Image noise detection An image comprises columns and rows of blocks of pixels. In each row and/or column, a series of pairs of blocks of pixels comprise first and second adjacent blocks of pixels, with the second block in a previous pair of blocks corresponding to the first block in a ne... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940555 | Row decoder for non-volatile memory devices, in particular of the phase-change type A hierarchical row decoder is for a phase-change memory device provided with an array of memory cells organized according to a plurality of array wordlines and array bitlines. The row decoder has a global decoder that addresses first and a second global wordlines ac... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939815 | Forming a carbon passivated ovonic threshold switch By making an ovonic threshold switch using a carbon interfacial layer having a thickness of less than or equal to ten percent of the thickness of the associated electrode, cycle endurance may be improved. In some embodiments, a glue layer may be used between the car... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936189 | Driver circuit and method for reducing electromagnetic interference An apparatus and a method switch a load through a power transistor. The apparatus includes: a first current generator for generating a current to charge a capacitance of a control terminal of the power transistor during power on of the power transistor; a second cur... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936047 | Method for realizing a contact of an integrated well in a semiconductor substrate, in particular for a base terminal of a bipolar transistor, with enhancement of the transistor performances A method realizes a contact of a first well of a first type of dopant integrated in a semiconductor substrate next to a second well of a second type of dopant and forming with it a parasitic diode. The method comprises: formation of the first well; formation of the ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925848 | Method for initializing a memory A method for initializing a control device of a memory, the control device executing commands for accessing the memory transmitted to the memory by a control signal, the method comprising steps of detecting the switching on of the memory and of at least partially in... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924082 | Driving configuration of a switch A driving circuit of a switch includes first and second transistors connected in series to each other and to relative intrinsic diodes in antiseries and driven by a driving device that includes at least one first and one second output terminal connected to the switc... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912440 | Apparatus for filtering a reference voltage and mobile phones comprising such apparatus Apparatus (40) comprising a voltage input (49) for applying an unfiltered voltage (V_unfil) and a current input (48) for receiving a bias current (Ib) from a current source. The apparatus (40) further comprises a differential filtering re... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911192 | High voltage power regulation using two power switches with low voltage transistors A switching regulator having first and second power switches. The first power switch has at least two transistors connected in series, the transistors having a first maximum voltage across their terminals which is less than the input voltage of the regulator. The tr... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910444 | Process for forming differential spaces in electronics device integrated on a semiconductor substrate A forms spacers in a electronic device integrated on a semiconductor substrate that includes: first and second transistors each comprising a gate electrode projecting from the substrate and respective source/drain regions. The process comprises: forming in cascade a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906874 | Method and circuit for managing start-up phase of at least a micro fuel cell to be connected to a load A managing method of the start-up phase of at least one micro fuel cell to be connected to a load includes: measuring a micro fuel cell voltage value across the micro fuel cell activated by means of a fuel injection; comparing the micro fuel cell voltage value with ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902804 | Method and related circuit for protection against malfunctioning of the feedback loop in switching power supplies A method and the related circuit protect against malfunctioning of the feedback loop in switching power supplies. More particularly, the circuit identifies a condition of excessively high voltage at the output. In one embodiment the circuit for the protection agains... | 03/08/2011 |
