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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6784568 | Device with multiple, concurrently-installed power modules and method for controlling same A device such as an electrotherapy device implementing the invention includes multiple power module receptacles each of which is configured to received at least one type of power module, and a power management system that selectively routes power provided by one or ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6191816 | Interface circuit for a video camera The invention relates to an interface circuit FE intended to receive a pseudo-periodical input signal Vin having a reference level and a video level, and to supply a signal Vs having a level which is representative of the difference between the reference ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188478 | Method and apparatus for film-thickness measurements The invention describes a method for measuring a property of a sample by: 1) irradiating a portion of the sample with an excitation pattern characterized by at least one spatial phase and spatial period; 2) diffracting a portion of a probe beam off a surf... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6188256 | Reset-out circuit with feed back capability A reset device is disclosed which is part of a micro-controller formed on an integrated circuit. The reset device has a counter which outputs a count enable signal after counting a predetermined number of counts. In response to an input reset signal, an i... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185363 | Visual indexing system A video indexing system analyzes contents of source video and develops a visual table of contents using selected images. The source video is analyzed to detect video cuts from one scene to another, and static scenes. Keyframes are selected for each signif... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6173037 | Method of and apparatus for X-ray fluorescent analysis of thin layers An X-ray fluorescent method for performing measurements on a thin layer provided on a substrate, notably a silicon substrate provided with a layer of tungsten silicide (WSix). The layer thickness and the concentration of the chemical elements i... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6172525 | Interface circuit with slew rate control A circuit includes a drive transistor or selectively coupling an output terminal to a power supply. The transistor has a control terminal coupled to an input terminal by a slew rate control device to control the slew rate of the drive transistor. In an em... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6157093 | Modular master-slave power supply controller A master-slave programmable controller arrangement is disclosed for implementing control schemes in various control system topologies. The arrangement employs a modular design which allows a master unit to set operational modes for one or more instances o... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154160 | Circuit arrangement including digital-to-analog current converters A circuit checks the value and the existence of an external load of a digital-to-analog current converter. A first comparator compares a digital word to be converted, with a comparison data word. The output signal of the first converter indicates during w... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6148669 | Acceleration sensor with a spherical inductance influencing member An acceleration sensor (100) includes a spherical chamber (104) accommodating a spherical member (106) made from an inductance influencing material. The member is inductively coupled to one or more coils (110) outside the chamber. A force on the sensor pu... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148003 | Information distribution system The invention relates to an information distribution system with a plurality of stations (100, 102, 104) and at least one shared resource (120, 122), such as an audio channel. Access to a shared resource is managed in a distributed manner. Each station co... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6147427 | Electromotive adjustable drive An electromotive actuating device having a movable member and a stationary member is disclosed. The device includes a first excitation part adapted to generate a constant magnetic flux and a second excitation part adapted to generate a magnetic flux of va... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6141675 | Method and apparatus for custom operations Custom operations are useable in processor systems for performing functions including multimedia functions. These custom operations enhance a system, such as PC system, to provide real-time multimedia capabilities while maintaining advantages of a special... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6134633 | Prefetch management in cache memory A computer system, a cache memory and a process, supporting prefetch operations and cache access operations so as to store information duplicated from a high level memory for use by a processing device, the processing device issuing addresses, including p... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6125229 | Visual indexing system A video indexing system analyzes contents of source video and develops a visual table of contents using selected images. The source video is analyzed to detect video cuts from one scene to another, and static scenes. Keyframes are selected for each signif... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122751 | Pipelined data processing circuit A pipelined circuit contains a cascade of stages, each with an intial register followed by a combinatorial logic circuit. The registers are clocked. At the beginning of each clock period, data in the initial register is updated. After that, during the clo... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6122626 | Sparse index search method The invention relates to a method of searching a plurality of values in an ordered list. Given a data set consisting of data items. With each data item one or more attribute values are associated, which are all stored in an ordered list. Efficiently retri... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6122064 | Method for measuring thickness of films Film thickness variation is measured in a region determined to be particularly non-uniform. Preferably the region is a donut entirely disposed within 15 mm of the edge of the film. Preferably the measurements are effected by and ISTS apparatus. The method... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6111941 | Telecommunication system with loop-free switching tables The invention relates to a telecommunication system comprising a plurality of mutually coupled switching centers and at least one coupled control unit. When switching centers assign paths based on switching data stored in switching tables, switchings take... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6109589 | Electrical actuator with a stabilizing magnetostatic torque, and a throttle device provided with such an actuator An electrical actuator (11, 85) comprises a magnetically permeable stator body (13) and a permanently magnetic rotor body (17) which is pivotable relative to the stator body (13) through a limited angle of rotation ($c;). The stator body (13) exerts a ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108401 | Method of standard-less phase analysis by means of a diffractogram A method of determining the concentrations of the constituents in a mixture of substances by way of an X-ray diffractogram of the mixture. The fundamental difficulty that it is not possible to determine the entire power spectrum (PS) of the diffraction is... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6101467 | Method of and system for recognizing a spoken text A system for recognizing spoken text includes a microphone for converting spoken text uttered by a speaker into analog electrical signals. An analog to digital converter to convert the analog spoken text data into digital electronic signals. A speech reco... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6091800 | X-ray tube having a cooling profile adapted to the shape of the focal spot A focal spot having an annular shape is often formed on the an (4) of an X-ray tube for analytic purposes. For the cooling of an anode it is known to force the cooling water to impinge on the anode with a flow profile having the same shape as the focal sp... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6087730 | Electronic devices and their manufacture A thin-film circuit element such as a top-gate TFT has good quality electrical contacts formed between an electrode (151, 152, 155) of chromium nitride and the semiconductor film (50) of the circuit element and/or another conductive film such as a connect... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6075602 | Method and apparatus for measuring material properties using transient-grating spectroscopy The invention provides an apparatus for measuring a property of a sample (using, e.g., ISTS) that includes: 1) an excitation laser that generates an excitation laser beam; 2) an optical system aligned along an optical axis that separates the excitation la... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6069703 | Method and device for simultaneously measuring the thickness of multiple thin metal films in a multilayer structure An apparatus for measuring a property of a structure comprising at least one layer, the appratus including a light source that produces an optical pulse having a duration of less than 10 ps; a diffractive element that receives the optical pulse and diffra... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6025218 | Method of manufacturing a thin-film electronic device with a laminated conductor A method of manufacturing a flat panel display or other electronic device comprising thin-film circuit elements includes the steps of depositing and patterning a less conductive film (2) and metal film (1) to provide a laminated conductor, depositing and ... | 02/15/2000 |
