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| 7194035 | Method and apparatus for improved coding mode selection Some embodiments provide a method of performing mode selection in a video compression and encoding system. The method encodes with several encoding modes from a set of encoding modes. The method computes a distortion value for each encoding mode from the several enc... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7019434 | Deformable mirror method and apparatus including bimorph flexures and integrated drive An apparatus comprising a substrate; and a platform elevated above the substrate and supported by curved flexures. The curvature of said flexures results substantially from variations in intrinsic residual stress within said flexures. In one embodiment the apparatus... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7009425 | Methods and apparatus for improving large signal performance for active shunt-peaked circuits A logic circuit employs a shunt peaked technique to enhance the switching speed of the circuit without an increase in power dissipation. A differential logic gate implements a digital circuit function. The shunt peaked logic circuit includes two resistive and two in... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005885 | Methods and apparatus for injecting an external clock into a circuit A synchronous circuit implements a bypass mode for use in conjunction with an inductive-capacitive (“LC”) buffer. The LC buffer receives differential conventional clock signals, and generates buffered differential conventional clock signals. A synchronous circui... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6858935 | Simulating euclidean wiring directions using manhattan and diagonal directional wires An integrated circuit has a metal layer that includes conductors to provide interconnectivity for components of the integrated circuit chip. The metal layer is divided into at least two sections, such that a first section has a preferred direction and the second sec... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6826737 | Recursive partitioning placement method and apparatus One embodiment of the invention is a recursive partitioning method that places circuit elements in a IC layout. This method initially defines a number of partitioning lines that divide an IC region into several sub-regions (also called slots). For a net in the regio... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6820069 | Rule compliance system and a rule definition language A rule definition language (“RDL”) and a memory server are used to determine compliance with rules, such as rules used in determining compliance in securities trading. The rules, global data and local data are loaded into system memory of the server. The global ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6769105 | Method and arrangement for layout and manufacture of gridded non manhattan semiconductor integrated circuits The present invention introduces several methods for implementing non Manhattan routing systems for integrated circuit manufacture. In one embodiment, a non Manhattan routing system is implemented by memorizing where intersections between wiring pitch grids occur an... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6750734 | Methods and apparatus for tuning an LC filter A receiver, such as a television receiver, tunes an inductive (“L”) and capacitive (“C”) filter based on a desired frequency. The LC filter includes a plurality of inductors, configured in at least one inductive (“L”) bank, and a plurality of capacitors ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6738960 | Method and apparatus for producing sub-optimal routes for a net by generating fake configurations Some embodiments provide a method of producing sub-optimal routes for a net having a set of pins in a region of an integrated-circuit (“IC”) layout. In some embodiments, such a method is used for a router that partitions the region into a plurality of sub-region... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6734880 | User interface for a medical informatics systems A user interface for a medical informatics system, which permits a physician to work with digitized medical images in a manner that the physician is accustomed to working with traditional analog film, is disclosed. The user interface includes a through a patient bro... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6721929 | High accuracy timing model for integrated circuit verification A variable current source model accurately determines timing delays for designs of circuits implemented in integrated circuits. A design for an integrated circuit specifies a resistive-capacitive (“RC”) network. The RC network couples a driving point and a recei... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6711297 | Methods and apparatus for dynamic transfer of image data A dynamic transfer syntax efficiently transfers data, including large data images, from a server to at least one client. Source data is transformed into a hierarchical representation. The hierarchical representation, consisting of essentially non-redundant data, is ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711727 | Method and arrangement for layout and manufacture of gridless nonManhattan semiconductor integrated circuits The present invention introduces several methods for implementing integrated circuits that use gridless non Manhattan routing to connect the integrated circuit components. In one embodiment, the non Manhattan routed integrated circuits are created by creating an ini... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6707459 | Adjustment of color values for optimized image processing A method for processing an image of a given file type is disclosed. The method involves converting the image into data formatted for a new pixel type, the new pixel type is closely correlated with and has all the components of pixels for the given file type. In addi... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6701306 | Methods and apparatus for manipulating polygons in a multidimensional space Geometric objects, such as polygons, are defined in a multi-dimensional data space. The geometric objects are represented by data segments for processing in a computer. "N" dimensional hierarchical trees, or "ng" trees, are generated to organize the data ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6687893 | Method and apparatus for pre-computing routes for multiple wiring models Some embodiments provide a method of pre-computing routes for nets in a region of an integrated circuit ("IC") layout. The method initially defines a set of partitioning lines for partitioning the region into a plurality of sub-regions during a routing op... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6671864 | Method and apparatus for using a diagonal line to measure an attribute of a bounding box of a net The invention is directed towards method and apparatus that consider diagonal wiring in placement. Some embodiments of the invention are placers that use diagonal lines in calculating the costs of potential placement configurations. For instance, some emb... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6625611 | Method and apparatus for representing multidimensional data The mechanism is directed towards method and apparatus for representing multidimensional data. Some embodiments of the invention provide a two-layered data structure to store multidimensional data tuples that are defined in a multidimensional data space. ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6618849 | Method and apparatus for identifying routes for nets Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that identifies a set of routes for a net that has a set of pins in a region of a design layout. The method initially partitions the region into a number of sub-regions. It then identifies a first set of ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6556724 | Methods and apparatus for resolution independent image collaboration An image collaboration system conducts resolution independent image collaboration among a host computer and participating client computers. The subject of the image collaboration involves at least one source image. The source image is transformed into a h... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6417740 | Wide-band/multi-band voltage controlled oscillator A variable frequency signal generator, in the form of a voltage controlled oscillator, provides wide-band and/or multi-band output frequency operation using two control voltage inputs. A pair of LC oscillator circuits are cross-coupled through a transcond... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6364112 | Condiment container for attaching to other objects The invention is a condiment container that attaches to other objects. In one embodiment of the invention, the condiment container is a portable and disposable container that adhesively attaches to the interior of a vehicle. This embodiment facilitates th... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6243799 | Methods and apparatus for byte alignment operations for a memory device that stores an odd number of bytes A first-in-first-out (FIFO) memory device includes a plurality of FIFO memory cores that contain a plurality of cells. A variable cell size circuit supports user programmable cell sizes in a FIFO memory device to permit selection of a wide range of cell s... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6122717 | Methods and apparatus for a memory that supports a variable number of bytes per logical cell and a variable number of cells A first-in-first-out (FIFO) memory device includes a plurality of FIFO memory cores that contain a plurality of cells. A variable cell size circuit supports user programmable cell sizes in a FIFO memory device to permit selection of a wide range of cell s... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6101515 | Learning system for classification of terminology A learning system learns terms in the context of a set of documents. During an accumulation phase, the learning system accumulates contextual data for a term in the form of a categorization schema. The categorization schema, which is based on a classifica... | 08/08/2000 |
