Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144775 | Method and device for generating candidate motion vectors from selected spatial and temporal motion vectors A motion estimation method and device are provided for processing images to be inserted, between a preceding original image and a following original image, into a sequence of determined images. Each image is divided into pixel blocks and a motion vector is associate... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126084 | Processing method for providing, starting from signals acquired by a set of sensors, an aggregate signal and data acquisition system using such method Embodiment for forming an aggregate signal from a plurality of starting signals, comprising: acquiring said starting signals through respective sensors of a homogeneous sensors group; converting acquired signals in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120415 | Circuit for generating a temperature-compensated voltage reference, in particular for applications with supply voltages lower than 1V An embodiment of a circuit is described for the generation of a temperature-compensated voltage reference of the type comprising at least one generator circuit of a band-gap voltage, inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and including an operationa... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119454 | Manufacturing fan-out wafer level packaging Fan-out wafer level packaging includes an integrated circuit having a top surface, a bottom surface and a bond pad defined on the top surface, and a substrate having a cavity. An adhesive layer is positioned between a top surface of the cavity and the bottom surface... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117251 | Computation of a multiplication operation with an electronic circuit and method A computing method and circuit for computing a modular operation with at least one operand having a binary representation. Iteratively for each bit of this operand, doubling the value of an intermediate result stored in a first memory element by shifting the bits of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111217 | Driving circuit for an OLED (organic light emission diode), in particular for a display of the AM-OLED type A driving circuit of an OLED diode is inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and having at least one input terminal receiving an input voltage signal and an output terminal for the generation of a driving current of the OLED diode, the driving circu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111140 | Transponder load modulation An electromagnetic transponder and a method for controlling by pulse trains a switch for modulating the load of this transponder in an electromagnetic field from which it extracts its power supply, the duty ratio of the pulses being controlled according to the trans... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110879 | Controlling lateral distribution of air gaps in interconnects Properties of a hard mask liner are used against the diffusion of a removal agent to prevent air cavity formation in specific areas of an interconnect stack. According to one embodiment, there is provided a method in which there is defined a portion on a surface of ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110117 | Method to form a recess for a microfluidic device A method includes forming a recess in a first surface of a substrate, the recess having a width, depth, and height selected to correspond to a width, depth, and height of a fluid chamber, forming a sacrificial material in the recess, forming a first heater element, ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107750 | Method of generating motion vectors of images of a video sequence A digital image processing system and method for removing motion effects from images of a video sequence, and generating corresponding motion compensated images. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106924 | Method and system for video rendering, computer program product therefor A method of rendering video frames starting from source frames of a scene acquired using a multi-viewpoint camera system including a Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) synthesizing process. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106832 | Circularly polarized patch antenna with single supply point An antenna for circularly polarized radiation having a lamina of electrically conductive material with a generally square shape and a first chamfer on a first vertex of the generally square shape. The chamfer determines an asymmetrical shape of the lamina. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102997 | Processor for executing an AES-type algorithm A processor for executing a Rijndeal algorithm which applies a plurality of encryption rounds to a data block array in order to obtain an array of identical size, each round involving a key block array and a data block substitution table, wherein said processor comp... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102924 | Arrangements and methods for per tone equalization with reduced complexity An equalizer for a multi carrier signal for carrying out equalization adapted to each carrier or group of carriers, Fourier transforms the multi carrier signal, and obtains difference terms of the multi carrier signal. Both are input to an adaptive filter, to output... | 01/24/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8101991 | Semiconductor device with vertical current flow and low substrate resistance and manufacturing process thereof A semiconductor device with vertical current flow includes a body having a substrate made of semiconductor material. At least one electrical contact on a first face of the body. A metallization structure is formed on a second face of the body, opposite to the first ... | 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 |
| 8099640 | Shared diagnosis method for an integrated electronic system including a plurality of memory units A shared diagnosis method may be for an electronic integrated system embedding a plurality of memory units associated with Built In Self Test (BIST) hardware portions for executing a test on memory locations of the memory units. A FAIL signal may be provided from th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099585 | Predicated execution using operand predicates Full predication of instruction execution is provided by operand predicates, where each operand has an associated predicate bit intuitively indicating the validity of the operand value. In a programmable processor supporting operand predication, an instruction will ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099545 | Wear leveling in storage devices based on flash memories and related circuit, system, and method A wear leveling solution is proposed for use in a storage device based on a flash memory. The flash memory includes a plurality of physical blocks, which are adapted to be erased individually. A corresponding method starts with the step for erasing one of the physic... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098720 | Method and apparatus for suppressing adjacent channel interference and multipath propagation signals and radio receiver using said apparatus A method detects multipath propagation in a modulated digital signal. The method provides a first value of channel frequency, representing the modulated digital signal free of multipath propagation, providing a second value of said channel frequency, representing th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098666 | Method and system for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function using a super-frame structure A method for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function (DCF) in a wireless network is provided. The network includes an access point and a plurality of stations. The method includes receiving at a first station a super-frame from th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098445 | Focussing apparatus A focusing device for a lens, including a frame, a lens carrier movable relative to the frame from a first position along an optical axis, a motor for driving the lens carrier along the optical axis, and at least one biasing member adapted to bias the lens carrier t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098089 | Voltage booster A voltage booster for generating a boosted voltage, including a charge pump adapted to generate the boosted voltage starting from a supply voltage by a transfer of electric charge controlled by at least one oscillating signal having an oscillation frequency; an osci... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097868 | Galvanic optocoupler and method of making A galvanic optocoupler of the type monolithically integrated on a silicon substrate and having at least one luminous source and a photodetector interfaced by means of a galvanic insulation layer. The photodetector can be a phototransistor realized in the silicon sub... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090199 | Reduction of color bleeding effects in a digitally processed image A method of processing digital images to reduce the effects of color bleeding. Chrominance components for pixels in a working window are determined and weights are assigned to the pixels in the working window. A chrominance correction for a center pixel in the worki... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078804 | Method and arrangement for cache memory management, related processor architecture A data cache memory coupled to a processor including processor clusters are adapted to operate simultaneously on scalar and vectorial data by providing data locations in the data cache memory for storing data for processing. The data locations are accessed either in... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069399 | Method and system for decoding signals, corresponding receiver and computer program product A method and system for decoding signals includes a transmitter configured for transmitting signals encoded with a mapping, with different and separable configurations in a real part and an imaginary part of the signal. The signals may be encoded according to a Gray... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064278 | Protection register for a non-volatile memory A non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory cells configured to store data and a plurality of redundant memory cells configured to be used for functionally replacing defective memory cells. The memory further includes a protection register comprising stora... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063729 | Mode-switching transformer A mode-switching transformer comprising a first line in common mode and a second line in differential mode, each line comprising two sections in series respectively coupled with one of the two sections of the other line and all sections having the same lengths, the ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063693 | Electronic circuit for generating low voltage and high frequency phases in a charge pump A charge pump latch circuit is provided that includes at least one first and at least one second charge pump stage interconnected by an intermediate circuit node, and a stabilization stage connected to the intermediate circuit node and to control terminals of transi... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8062976 | Low cost method of fabrication of vertical interconnections combined to metal top electrodes A method is for forming a vertical interconnection through a dielectric layer between upper and lower electrically conductive layers of an integrated circuit. The method includes forming an opening through the dielectric layer and placing a solidifiable electrically... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060732 | Multiple purpose integrated circuit An integrated circuit is operable to execute boot loader code and a boot code from external memory. To provide security so that the CPU does not execute malicious codes, the circuit resets in a restricted mode in which only certain functional units may be connected.... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060725 | Processor architecture with processing clusters providing vector and scalar data processing capability A processor architecture for multimedia applications includes processor clusters providing vectorial data processing capability. Processing elements in the processor clusters process both data with a bit length N and data with bit lengths N/2, N/4, and so on accordi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 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 |
| 8058926 | Amplifier input switch configuration with improved PSRR A switch including a first transistor including a first main terminal connected to a first switch node, a second main terminal connected to a second switch node and a control terminal, the second switch node being connected to a first clean voltage supply, and first... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055989 | Boot security using embedded counters The present disclosure provides a system for providing a security and method of providing an enhanced security booting environment. The system and method includes a basic input/output system (BIOS) stored in memory. The system and method also includes a counter embe... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054930 | Clock recovery circuit A circuit is provided for clock recovery. The circuit includes a reference extraction unit for extracting from a datastream time references defining a reference time base, and a digital Phase Locked Loop including a first programmable counter in the guise of a digit... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054883 | Method for transcoding compressed video signals, related apparatus and computer program product therefor Transcoder apparatus for transcoding an input video bit-stream having a first encoding profile (e.g., MPEG-2) into an output video bit-stream having a second encoding profile (e.g., H.264), the first encoding profile including motion estimation information, the appa... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054787 | Apparatus and method for enhanced adaptive channel selection and subframe allocation in a communication system A first base station is adjacent to one or more second base stations, and the second base stations are adjacent to one or more third base stations. One or more frequency channels or subframes used by the third base stations are identified by the second base stations... | 11/08/2011 |
