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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5914655 | Self-compensating intruder detector system A method of operating an intruder detector system comprising deploying plural intruder sensors in or adjacent a region to be protected, transmitting signals from each sensor to a processor, the signals relating to at least one local environmental ambient ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5838561 | Automatic control loop monitoring and diagnostics A method of diagnosing a malfunction of a process control system which includes at least one closed loop control loop comprising measuring a histogram of tracking error of the control loop, determining distortion of the tracking error relative to a Gaussi... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835501 | Built-in test scheme for a jitter tolerance test of a clock and data recovery unit A jitter test system for a clock and data recovery unit (CRU) is comprised of a data generating apparatus, apparatus for clocking the data generating apparatus with a jittered clock, apparatus for applying a stream of data generated by the data generating... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5834688 | Electromagnetic intruder detector sensor cable A sensor cable formed of a center conductor surrounded by dielectric material and first and second layers. The first layer is formed of a gapped conductive material surrounding the dielectric material. The second layer has predetermined conductivity and a... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5822333 | Digital memory testing method A method of testing a digital memory comprised of bit storage locations, comprising writing a bit to a first bit storage location, then driving the stored bit sequentially through a plurality of the bit storage locations, reading a last bit storage locati... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5793225 | CMOS SONET/ATM receiver suitable for use with pseudo ECL and TTL signaling environments A pulse receiver, comprising a pair of complementary symmetry metal oxide silicon (CMOS) common gate amplifiers connected between a 5 volt supply (ECL) voltage rail and an ECL ground (AGND), for receiving a pair of pulse input signals IN and INB and for p... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5742544 | Wide databus architecture A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) having pairs of bitlines, each pair being connected to a first bit line sense amplifier, wordlines crossing the bitline pairs forming an array, charge storage cells connected to the bitlines, each having an enable inp... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5742272 | Accelerated full screen video playback A method of drawing moving images on a graphics display comprising (a) receiving data defining an input image in a predetermined resolution, (b) commanding a graphics processor to draw a corresponding image frame on a display having a number of scanning l... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5734911 | Method of linking peripheral devices all of which use the same IRQ to a single interrupt procedure A method of linking peripheral devices to a single interrupt procedure in a computer is comprised of storing in an interrupt vector table of a BIOS ROM, a first pointer to an interrupt service routine related to one of a group of peripheral devices which ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5734541 | Low voltage silicon controlled rectifier structure for ESD input pad protection in CMOS IC's An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure for protection of a circuit to which an operation voltage is to be applied, comprising a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) connected between ground and a pad of the circuit to be protected, the SCR in... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5726682 | Programmable color space conversion unit The present invention relates to a method of converting signal components of one of a first input three component color model signal and a second input three component color model signal to either one of the first or second three component color model com... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5724304 | Repeater with threshold modulation A method of repeating a pulse signal comprised of outputting a signal at a first voltage level upon a first rising edge of the pulse signal exceeding a low threshold, then raising the threshold and outputting the signal at another voltage level upon a sec... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5694481 | Automated design analysis system for generating circuit schematics from high magnification images of an integrated circuit A method of analyzing at least a portion of an integrated circuit (IC) comprised of the steps of automatically: (a) scanning at least a portion of a layer of an integrated circuit using high magnification to provide first digital signals representing pixe... | 12/02/1997 |
