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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7947556 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor apparatus A method of manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus includes forming a trench in a semiconductor layer, forming a gate electrode inside the trench, forming a thermally-oxidized film on the gate electrode inside the trench, forming a silicate glass film on the therma... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947521 | Method for forming electrode for group-III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting devices A method for forming an electrode for Group-III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting devices includes a step of forming a first electrode layer having an average thickness of less than 1 nm on a Group-III nitride compound semiconductor layer, the first elec... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945765 | Method and structure for asynchronous skip-ahead in synchronous pipelines An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of stages serially interconnected as a pipeline to perform sequential processings on input operands. A shortening circuit associated with at least one stage of the pipeline recognizes when one or more of input operands fo... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944262 | Duty correction circuit A duty correction circuit is formed using at least one delay circuit, which is constituted of a first inverter including three transistors of different conduction types and a second inverter including three other transistors of different conduction types and which d... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944052 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, an electrode pad provided in the semiconductor chip, in which the electrode pad includes Al as a major constituent and further includes Cu, a coupling member coupled to the electrode pad, in which the coupling me... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944036 | Semiconductor device including mounting board with stitches and first and second semiconductor chips A first memory chip (103a) and a second memory chip (103b) mounted in this order on one surface of a mounting board (101) each have a rectangular planar shape and include a plurality of electrode pads formed in a single line along ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944021 | Semiconductor device with suppressed hump characteristic A semiconductor device includes an element isolation film formed on a semiconductor substrate surface of one conductivity type, a gate electrode having one pair of end portions located on a boundary between an element isolation film and an element forming region, a ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943470 | Chip-stacked semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a through electrode that penetrates through a silicon substrate, an isolation trench provided to penetrate through the silicon substrate to surround the through electrode, a silicon film in contact... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943399 | Spin-current switched magnetic memory element suitable for circuit integration and method of fabricating the memory element A magnetic memory element switchable by current injection includes a plurality of magnetic layers, at least one of the plurality of magnetic layers having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy component and including a current-switchable magnetic moment, and at least ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942733 | Slot machine that sets free game when predetermined condition is satisfied A slot machine includes: a display device that is defined with a plurality of symbol display areas in which one of a plurality of types of symbols including a special symbol is displayed; an operation unit; and a game controller that operates to: accept a bet of a g... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941728 | Method and system for providing an improved store-in cache A system and method of providing a cache system having a store-in policy and affording the advantages of store-in cache operation, while simultaneously providing protection against soft-errors in locally modified data, which would normally preclude the use of a stor... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940435 | Apparatus, method and program for image display When images classified into groups of similar images are displayed, the similar images are efficiently displayed. For this purpose, a selection unit selects representative images representing the respective groups from the images classified into the groups. A displa... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940348 | Display device with electrically conductive member An electrically conductive film is placed between a contact finger and an electrically conductive polarizing plate which hold a display panel therebetween, and static electricity accumulated in the display panel is released to a front frame through the electrically ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936363 | Data receiver circuit, data driver, and display device Disclosed is a data receiver circuit including a differential pair having first and second transistors of a first conductivity type, which receives at first and second inputs thereof a binary signal by which data transfer is performed in a differential form, a load ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936345 | Driver for driving a display panel To reduce EMI and current consumption in internal wiring after display data have been input to a data driver. Display data DN/DP constituted by RSDS signals input to a data driver in a first stage are converted to display data DA constituted by CMOS signals, subject... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936161 | Bias circuit having second current path to bandgap reference during power-on In a conventional bias circuit, as a power supply voltage increases, a current supplied to a bandgap reference becomes unstable due to a fluctuation of the power supply voltage, which makes it impossible for the bias circuit to perform stable bias operations in some... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935592 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having of spacer gate structure In a case of using a silicon nitride film as an offset spacer for forming an extension region of a transistor, an oxide protective surface is formed by oxygen plasma processing on the surface of the silicon nitride film. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935576 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same Semiconductor device 10 includes wiring substrate 11 including wiring 14 and wiring 15 in predetermined patterns, semiconductor chips 19 and 23 which are mounted on wiring substrate 11 with electrodes electrically con... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935549 | Seminconductor device The present invention provides a signal transmitting/receiving method comprising: disposing a ferromagnetic film between a semiconductor device having an inductor and an external device which includes an external inductor provided in a position corresponding to the ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934043 | Data processing apparatus for controlling access to a memory based upon detection of completion of a DMA bus cycle A data processing apparatus contains a first bus connected to a first memory, a first central processing unit (CPU) being accessible to the first memory via the first bus, a first Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller being accessible to the first memory via the fir... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933465 | Processing data supply method and image processing apparatus When performing arithmetic processing on unprocessed image data with use of a target pixel and reference pixels in its proximity, buffers of a number corresponding to the number of lines required for the arithmetic processing, which are a first buffer and a second b... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932942 | Solid-state imaging device including three stacked photoelectric conversion layers, three accumulators, and a single readout circuit A solid-state imaging device is provided and has: three photoelectric conversion layers stacked above a semiconductor substrate 1, each detecting a different color; three signal charge accumulators in a semiconductor substrate for accumulating signal charges ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932578 | Semiconductor device having high frequency wiring and dummy metal layer at multilayer wiring structure A semiconductor device includes, a metal wiring, which functions as an inductor or transformer, formed on a first portion of a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first dummy layers formed in a first density on the first portion of the semiconductor substrate, a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932128 | Polymeric material, method of forming the polymeric material, and method of forming a thin film using the polymeric material A method of forming a polymeric material with a pendant polycyclic aromatic compound precursor includes forming a polycyclic aromatic compound precursor (e.g., a pentacene precursor) including at least one polymerizable functionality, and polymerizing the polymeriza... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932107 | Method for growing nitride semiconductor A method for growing a nitride semiconductor has a first step for forming a surface reformation layer on a sapphire substrate, a second step for raising a temperature of the sapphire substrate with the surface reformation layer formed thereon up to a growth temperat... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931542 | Golf club The invention provides a golf club including a clubhead including a hosel portion having an internal screw portion and a first support surface; a shaft including a neck portion having an external screw portion which screws into the first screw portion and a second s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931411 | Optical transmission apparatus to which optical cable is connected An optical transmission apparatus includes a wiring board, an electronic device mounted on the wiring board, a connection part that mechanically connects the electronic device and the wiring board to each other in such a manner that the electronic device and the wir... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931375 | Illuminating optical system for projector including first and second integrators An illuminating optical system that includes a first integrator that includes a plurality of lens, a second integrator that includes a plurality of lens cells on which the respective partial luminous fluxes are incident, a polarization converting element that unifor... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636614 | Chair | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930606 | Selectively debugging processor cores through instruction codes A semiconductor integrated circuit (chip) includes a primary TAP controller and a secondary TAP controller. The primary TAP controller interprets a bit string of n bits included in the group 1 having an m-bit length (m≧2) and less than the total number of m bits a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930431 | Contents using method, contents using system, contents using program, and server and electronic device used in same system A contents using method is provided that enables a user to watch and listen to freely same contents by a simple operation by either of an image display device or a server and enables the user to use the server for other applications without a need for paying attenti... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929077 | Light source, display device, portable terminal device, and ray direction switching element A planar light source includes a backlight that emits light in a planar shape, a ray direction regulating element that regulates a direction of light made incident from the backlight and emits the light, whereby a directivity of the light is improved, and in which a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928817 | Switchable high pass filter/low pass filter phase shifter having a switch circuit with FETs connected in parallel A switch circuit in which the cut-off characteristic is improved over a wide range of frequencies in the microwave band includes a first field-effect transistor functioning as a switch element, a second field-effect transistor and an inductor. A serially connected c... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928586 | Semiconductor device with multiple designation marks The semiconductor device having a bonding pad is provided. The bonding pad enables highly reliable connection and high flexibility of the selection of the area to be bonded. The semiconductor device includes a bonding pad and an area designation marking. The bonding... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928551 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In a semiconductor device, a first semiconductor chip is stacked on a wiring substrate and has first electrode pads disposed at predetermined positions on an upper surface thereof. A second semiconductor chip is stacked on the first semiconductor chip through an ins... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928548 | Silicon heat spreader mounted in-plane with a heat source and method therefor A heat spreader attached to a heat source that includes a semiconductor chip includes a silicon structure that provides a plurality of heat flux paths, including a lateral, in-plane heat flux path. The heat spreader is mounted in-plane with the heat source. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925992 | Method to assist users in preventing errors when using type-ahead A method and system to provide selection of entries in input fields, such as email client, includes pre-processing a list of potential addresses before the list is shown to a user by eliminating less important or invalid entries, and then displaying a list of entrie... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925884 | Fraud detection in seals A method of verifying a carved seal includes detecting a pressure on a carved seal stamp is detected through pins extending from a face of the carved stamp steal. It is determined if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. A fingerprint of a user of t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925614 | Method and structure to isolate a qubit from the environment A method (and structure) of coupling a qubit includes locating the qubit near a transmission line approximately at a location corresponding to a node at a predetermined frequency. ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925415 | Vehicle drive assist system In automatic steering control, when both a traveling lane and a preceding vehicle are detected, a target position on a first vehicle traveling path based on traveling lane information and a target position on a second vehicle traveling path based on preceding vehicl... | 04/12/2011 |
