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| 7114071 | Method and apparatus for embedding digital watermarking into compressed multimedia signals A method and apparatus for adding watermark data to an input signal is provided. For this method watermark data is embedded into the input signal by modulating elements of the input signal to predefined relationships in reference to other elements of the input signa... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110298 | Non-volatile system with program time control In a non-volatile memory system, when it is discovered that the voltage pump pulse provided by a charge pump for programming the memory cells does not match a reference voltage, the programming time period of the voltage pump pulse is adjusted to a value that remain... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106632 | Integrated circuit with analog or multilevel storage cells and user-selectable sampling frequency Techniques are used to store information in a medium such as the memory cells of an integrated circuit, and also retrieval of information from the medium. The integrated circuit includes nonvolatile memory cells (416) capable of multilevel or analog voltage l... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7079913 | Package and mail delivery system At the shipping department of a company, contracted outlets or outlets of delivery companies, information concerning the shipper and receiver are written into a label having a memory, but no controller or energy source. The label has a transmitter and the label make... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075637 | Optical scanning system for surface inspection In an optical scanning system for detecting particles and pattern defects on a sample surface, a light beam is focused to an illuminated spot on the surface and the spot is scanned across the surface along a scan line. A detector is positioned adjacent to the surfac... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067803 | Gating device and driver for modulation of charged particle beams By connecting the Bradbury-Nielson gate (BNG) directly to a driver without a transmission line, distortion of the voltage waveform experienced a the BNG are much reduced. Because the magnitude of the modulation defects grows as the applied modulation voltage is incr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057939 | Non-volatile memory and control with improved partial page program capability In a non-volatile memory programming scheme where the memory cells are programmed in two or more sequential programming passes, when there is insufficient host data to program at least some of the memory cells during the second pass, some of the memory cells may be ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053483 | Semiconductor package using terminals formed on a conductive layer of a circuit board A small package is provided for a flash EEPROM memory. The small package uses terminals which are part of a bottom conductive layer of a circuit board. In this manner, the final package can be quite thin. The circuit board can be connected to the integrated circuits... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050029 | LCD driving system with low power requirements Two separate power supplies are employed to generate electrical potentials for driving row and column electrodes of LCDs. One or more energy storage devices are preferably used together with the two power supplies for generating such potentials. In the first phase, ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038772 | System and methods for classifying anomalies of sample surfaces Two or more defect maps may be provided for the same sample surface at different detection sensitivities and/or processing thresholds. The defect maps may then be compared for better characterization of the anomalies as scratches, area anomalies or point anomalies. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028096 | Method and apparatus for caching for streaming data Streaming video data from the video title is delivered to a client from a central server and a proxy server. To reduce the backbone bandwidth required, a portion of the video title is cached at the proxy server where the portion cached is distributed over the video ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023549 | Parametric profiling using optical spectroscopic systems A gallery of seed profiles is constructed and the initial parameter values associated with the profiles are selected using manufacturing process knowledge of semiconductor devices. Manufacturing process knowledge may also be used to select the best seed profile and ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016031 | System and methods for classifying anomalies of sample surfaces Two or more defect maps may be provided for the same sample surface at different detection sensitivities and/or processing thresholds. The defect maps may then be compared for better characterization of the anomalies as scratches, area anomalies or point anomalies. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014741 | Cylindrical magnetron with self cleaning target A cylindrical magnetron capable of running at high current and voltage levels with a target tube that is self cleaning not only in the center portion, but also at the ends. Sputtering the ends of the target tube virtually eliminates accumulation of condensate at the... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009704 | Overlay error detection An overlay target with gratings thereon is illuminated and radiation scattered by the target is imaged onto detectors. A phase difference is then detected between the outputs of the detectors to find the mis-alignment error. In another aspect, an overlay target with... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6970993 | Architecture to relax memory performance requirements The present invention provides a memory architecture allowing for instructions of variable length to be stored without wasted memory spaces. Instructions of one, two, and three bytes can all be retrieved in a single fetch. The exemplary embodiment divides the memory... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967872 | Method and system for programming and inhibiting multi-level, non-volatile memory cells A multi-level non-volatile memory cell programming/lockout method and system are provided. The programming/lockout method and system advantageously prevent memory cells that charge faster than other memory cells from being over-programmed. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6958494 | Light emitting diodes with current spreading layer A light-emitting diode (LED) for both AlGaInP- and GaN-based materials needs a good transparent current spreading layer to disseminate electrons or holes from the electrode to the active layer. The present invention utilizes a conductive and transparent ITO (Indium ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6953970 | Scalable self-aligned dual floating gate memory cell array and methods of forming the array An integrated non-volatile memory circuit is formed by first growing a thin dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate surface, followed by depositing a layer of conductive material such as doped polysilicon on this dielectric layer, the conductive material then ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950348 | Source controlled operation of non-volatile memories Non-volatile memory such as flash EEPROM has memory cells that may be programmed in parallel using a self-limiting programming technique. Individual cells have charge storage units that may be charged by hot electrons in a self-limiting manner. As the charge storage... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944068 | Method and system for programming and inhibiting multi-level, non-volatile memory cells A multi-level non-volatile memory cell programming/lockout method and system are provided. The programming/lockout method and system advantageously prevent memory cells that charge faster than other memory cells from being over-programmed. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941412 | Symbol frequency leveling in a storage system Methods and apparatus for transforming data into a format which may be efficiently stored in a non-volatile memory are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for storing information of a first data format in a memory system includes ge... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931917 | System for sensing a sample A profiler or scanning probe microscope may be scanned across a sample surface with a distance between them controlled to allow the sensing tip to contact the surface intermittently in order to find and measure features of interest. The distance is controlled so tha... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922096 | Area efficient charge pump A first charge pump includes a collection of voltage adder stages. The first voltage adder stage receives an input voltage VCC and in response to a clock signal provides a first voltage signal alternating between 2*VCC and VCC. The Nth voltage adder stage receives a... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6898121 | Deep wordline trench to shield cross coupling between adjacent cells for scaled NAND A NAND flash memory structure with a wordline or control gate that provides shielding from Yupin effect errors and generally from potentials in adjacent strings undergoing programming operations with significant variations in potential. ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6887791 | Optimization methods for on-chip interconnect geometries suitable for ultra deep sub-micron processes The present invention presents optimization methods for interconnect geometries that readily extend to the UDSM region for determining on-chip interconnect process parameters more realistically and accurately than in the prior art. A method for reconstruction flow t... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6618134 | Sample inspection system A curved mirrored surface is used to collect radiation scattered by a sample surface and originating from a normal illumination beam and an oblique illumination beam. The collected radiation is focused to a detector. Scattered radiation originating from t... | 09/09/2003 |
