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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941771 | Method for functional verification of an integrated circuit model for constituting a verification platform, equipment emulator and verification platform A method for on demand functional verification of a software model of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), in a low-level programming language, which separately handles the creation of the model and the debugging of the functional verification tests to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941386 | Forensic systems and methods using search packs that can be edited for enterprise-wide data identification, data sharing, and management A method of automatically identifying relevant or suspect data during a digital forensic investigation is described. Software accepts as input raw data which are extracted from various digital data sources. The software or digital forensic and data identification ap... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940561 | Semiconductor device p-type wells are provided within an n-type embedded well of a semiconductor substrate lying in an area for forming a flash memory, in a state of being isolated from one another. A capacitance section, a data write/erase charge injection/discharge section and a data ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940478 | Imaging lens, optical apparatus and method for forming image using this imaging lens An imaging lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, which are disposed in order from an object. The first lens group has a first lens component having a negativ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938548 | Projection device A projection device includes: a projector unit that has at least a light source and a projection optical system housed in a chassis; a control unit that is assembled with a chassis separate from the chassis of the projector unit; and a rotation support member that r... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937105 | Semiconductor device and electronic device This invention provides a high frequency power module which is incorporated into a mobile phone and which incorporates high frequency portion analogue signal processing ICs including low noise amplifiers which amplify an extremely weak signal therein. A semiconducto... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936672 | System and method for buffer management in a packet-based network A communication system for use with a packet-based network is disclosed. A first node is configured to transmit circuit data in data packets across the network. A second node is configured to receive the data packets from the network and serialize the synchronous da... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936621 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A clock-generating circuit for forming internal clock signals by comparing a signal obtained by delaying, through a variable delay circuit, an input clock signal input through an external terminal with the input clock signal through a phase comparator circuit, and s... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935597 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same Performance and reliability of a semiconductor device including a non-volatile memory are improved. A memory cell of the non-volatile memory includes, over an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate, a select gate electrode formed via a first dielectric film and ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935172 | Ironmaking and steelmaking A steelmaking process is disclosed. The process includes producing molten steel and molten steelmaking slag in a steelmaking process, the steelmaking slag including iron units and flux units, and thereafter producing molten iron in a molten bath based direct smeltin... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934077 | Semiconductor device and data processing system selectively operating as one of a big endian or little endian system The present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that can correctly switch endians on the outside even if the endian of a parallel interface is not recognized on the outside. The semiconductor device includes a switching circuit and a first register. The s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933158 | Nonvolatile memory For a nonvolatile memory permitting electrical writing and erasing of information to be stored, such as a flash memory, the load on the system developer is to be reduced, and it is to be made possible to avoid, even if such important data for the system as managemen... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932881 | Image display device and driver circuit therefor A waveform generator can be constructed at a small area size using thin-film transistors and generates multiple triangular-wave voltage waveforms different from one another in phase, and an image display device that applies the waveform generator. A waveform ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932606 | Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same For simplifying the dual-damascene formation steps of a multilevel Cu interconnect, a formation step of an antireflective film below a photoresist film is omitted. Described specifically, an interlayer insulating film is dry etched with a photoresist film formed the... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928660 | Vehicular conspicuity lamp with rapidly modulated intensity A method and apparatus is used to rapidly modulate the intensity of a vehicular lamp for the purpose of enhancing the vehicle's conspicuity. A timer is used to generate a periodically varying pulse width modulated signal that is used to drive a transistor connected ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928589 | Semiconductor device The present invention provides a non-insulated type DC-DC converter having a circuit in which a power MOS•FET for a high side switch and a power MOS•FET for a low side switch are connected in series. In the non-insulated type DC-DC converter, the power transisto... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927022 | Thrust roller bearing Even when used at a high rotation speed, outside parts in relation to the radial direction of a cage 3, of the circumferential parts of a pocket 7 are kept from being worn away by outside end surfaces 21 of rollers 2. Moreover the rollers... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926352 | Semiconductor pressure sensor and data processing device For example, to adjust an offset of a pressure sensor, there are provided an external resistor RE and an internal resistor circuit that is connected to both ends of RE and formed in a semiconductor chip such as a processor. The internal resistor circuit includes N p... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925046 | Implicit video coding confirmation of automatic address recognition A method for sorting mail that may include performing an automatic address recognition process on a digitized image of a mail piece and generating a plurality of conditional address recognition results and a plurality of confirmation values each associated with one ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924539 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A protection circuit with suppressed erroneous operation due to power source fluctuation has a first resistor and a capacitor connected in series between a power source line and a ground line, an inverter with an input connected between the first resistor and the ca... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924511 | Optical system, method for focusing, and imaging apparatus equipped therewith Providing an optical system having excellent optical performance over entire focusing range from infinity to a close distance, a method for focusing the optical system, and an imaging apparatus equipped therewith. The optical system includes, in order from an object... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924507 | Eyepiece lens and optical instrument comprising same A diopter-adjustable eyepiece lens EL, comprising first through third lenses L1 through L3, satisfies the condition −0.9 | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923795 | Ultrasonic transducer device A lower electrode is formed over a semiconductor substrate via an insulator film, first and second insulator films are formed to cover the lower electrode, an upper electrode is formed over the second insulator film, third to fifth insulator films are formed to cove... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923361 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device The resist film after high-concentration ion implantation has a hard modified layer on the surface thereof, and is difficult to remove in the temperature region as low as about 150 degrees centigrade. This is because the etching rate of the modified layer sharply de... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923319 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device circuit device When a natural oxide film is left at the interface between a metal silicide layer and a silicon nitride film, in various heating steps (steps involving heating of a semiconductor substrate, such as various insulation film and conductive film deposition steps) after ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923292 | Semiconductor device In the semiconductor device which has the structure which stores a plurality of semiconductor chips with which plane sizes differ in the same sealing body in the state where they are accumulated via DAF, thickness of DAF of the back surface of the uppermost semicond... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920652 | Orthogonality detector, and quadrature demodulator and sampling quadrature demodulator using detector thereof To detect phase mismatches between in-phase and quadrature signals of a quadrature demodulator. The phase mismatches can be detected using the signals obtained by removing high frequency components of output of a multiplier by a low pass filter, the output being the... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920341 | Optical system, imaging apparatus, and method for forming image by the optical system Providing an optical system having excellent optical performance, an imaging apparatus, and a method for forming an image by the optical system. The optical system includes, in order from an object, a first lens group G1 having negative refractive power, a se... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920334 | Zoom lens system, optical apparatus and method for zooming the same Providing a zoom lens system being compact with high optical performance, an optical apparatus using the same, and a method for zooming the zoom lens system. The system includes, in order from an object along an optical axis, a first lens group G1 having nega... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920014 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device In order to transfer data at high speed over a long distance, a current mode logic output circuit (CML) having a large number of taps, high accuracy, and a wide switchable range of the amount of pre-emphasis is needed. However, when the amount of emphasis is set by ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917391 | Integrated marketing portal for businesses A method for creating solicitations based on geolocalization and observation. At remote terminal, a need is identified and a solicitation based on that need is created at a server based on commands sent over a network, such as a wireless network. In an example embod... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915666 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices with charge injection corner An erase method where a corner portion on which an electric field concentrates locally is provided on the memory gate electrode, and charges in the memory gate electrode are injected into a charge trap film in a gate dielectric with Fowler-Nordheim tunneling operati... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912698 | Method and system for automated supervised data analysis The invention relates to a method for automatically analyzing data and constructing data classification models based on the data. In an embodiment of the method, the method includes selecting a best combination of methods from a plurality of classification, predicto... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912481 | Receiver, receiver for positioning system using the same, and positioning method An invention for estimating the first path of an arrival signal by a method and device with a simple structure and lower power consumption. In this method, the nominal pulse repetition frequency or its integer multiple are A/D converted at a frequency less than the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911851 | Memory apparatus including programmable non-volatile multi-bit memory cell, and apparatus and method for demarcating memory states of the cell Memory states of a multi-bit memory cell are demarcated by generating read reference signals having levels that constitute boundaries of the memory states. The read reference signals may be dependent upon the levels of programming reference signals used for controll... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911708 | Zoom lens and optical apparatus and method for manufacturing thereof A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, which are disposed ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911706 | Zoom lens, optical apparatus, and method for forming an image of an object In a zoom lens having a plurality of lens groups which are disposed in that order from an object, a first lens group that is disposed to closest to the object among the plurality of lens groups has positive refractive power and comprises a light path bending element... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911299 | Microactuator, optical apparatus, and optical switch A microactuator has a fixed portion and a movable portion that is provided in such a way as to be movable relative to the fixed portion between a first position at which it is in contact with a predetermined portion of the fixed portion and a second position away fr... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911221 | Semiconductor device with speed performance measurement A speed performance measurement circuit that may perform speed performance measurement is provided between a first logic circuit and a second logic circuit. The speed performance measurement circuit includes a first flip flop that stores first data, a first delay ci... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910990 | Insulated gate type semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same In an insulated-gate type semiconductor device in which a gate-purpose conductive layer is embedded into a trench which is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and a source-purpose conductive layer is provided on a major surface of the semiconductor substrate, a por... | 03/22/2011 |
