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| 8076943 | Impedance-based arc detector for computed tomography scanner and method of use thereof The present disclosure relates to an impedance-based arc detector for CT scanners and method of use and diagnosis therewith, and more specifically, to a two- or three-way conductive probe detector system and associated signal processing unit to distinguish the locat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8067813 | Integrated MIS photosensitive device using continuous films An integrated photosensitive device with a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) photodiode constructed with one or more substantially continuous layers of semiconductor material and with a substantially continuous layer of dielectric material. ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7978449 | Integrated electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuitry for signal electrode An integrated electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuitry for a signal electrode. Coupled in shunt between the signal electrode and the positive and negative power supply electrodes are opposing sets of multiple diodes coupled in series. Each set includes a d... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7977921 | AC-to-DC voltage conversion and charging circuitry Voltage conversion and charging circuitry and method for converting an alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage for charging an energy storage element (e.g., battery or supercapacitor). An output capacitance, which is initially charged quick... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962823 | System and method for testing multiple packet data transmitters A system and method for testing a plurality of packet data transmitters in which multiple devices-under-test (DUTs) are tested by providing similar transmit data streams to the DUTs each of which, in response thereto, provides a respective packet data signal. At lea... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953233 | Synchronous detection and calibration system and method for differential acoustic sensors A synchronous detection and calibration system is provided for expedient calibration of differential acoustic sensors in a manufacturing and testing environment. By processing a series of sequentially received tones, respective portions of a system using differentia... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948254 | Digital communications test system for multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) systems A digital communications test system and method for testing a plurality of devices under test (DUTs) in which multiple sets of a single vector signal analyzer (VSA) and single vector signal generator (VSG) can be used together to perform error vector magnitude (EVM)... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945416 | Software or hardware test apparatus and method A software or hardware test system and method repeatedly obtains testing status of a plurality of test units in a group while the test units are testing hardware or software being executed on the test units. The system and method provides for display of the current ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7910149 | Liquid bread improver, the use and the process for producing thereof The present invention relates to a water-free low viscous liquid bread improver, which comprises a liquid emulsifier based on esters of hydroxy polycarboxylic acid derivatives, a glyceride based stabilizer and additive(s) and less than about 20% oil, to the use ther... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900076 | Power management method for a pipelined computer system A power management method for a pipelined computer system in accordance with one or both of a power management signal and a power management instruction. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7900075 | Pipelined computer system with power management control A pipelined computer system with power management control in accordance with one or both of a power management signal and a power management instruction. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893719 | Apparatus and methods for self-biasing differential signaling circuitry having multimode output configurations for low voltage applications A digital data transmitting device is disclosed having differential signaling circuitry, a current source controller and a pair of transistor-implemented current sources is disclosed. The current source controller generates a current source control signal based on a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7849198 | System, method and article of manufacture for utilizing an interface client in an interface roaming network framework A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for utilizing an interface client in an interface roaming network. In general, an interface client in the interface roaming network submits information about the interface client to a wireless link in vicinity... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847803 | Method and apparatus for interleaved graphics processing The present invention provides for programmable interleaved graphics processing. The invention provides an execution pipeline and a number of registers. Each register holds instructions from a separate program. Instructions from the registers are interleaved in the ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7865147 | System for testing an embedded wireless transceiver A test equipment for testing a wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver transmits a first series of packets while operating in a first mode. The wireless transceiver transmits a second series of packets... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863993 | Oscillator for providing oscillation signal with controllable frequency An oscillator, including amplifier circuitry and resonant circuitry, for providing an oscillation signal with a controllable frequency while maintaining a substantially constant steady state magnitude. Controllable reactive circuitry, included as part of the amplifi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857606 | Variable displacement pump A variable displacement pump includes a pump body defining first and second pools for introducing fuel/lubricant oil, and internal and external rotary members rotatably mounted on the pump body and cooperatively defining a space such that, during counterclockwise re... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7825742 | Oscillator with a low power consumption A package device, such as an oscillator, includes a package module, a circuit module, a plurality of conductive pins, and a plurality of conductive arms. The package module defines an airtight space therein. The circuit module is disposed in the airtight space in th... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822130 | Apparatus and method for simultaneous testing of multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitters with single vector signal analyzer Apparatus and method for testing signals from two or more OFDM transmitters simultaneously with a single VSA. ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7788515 | Power control and status circuitry for communicating power on reset control and status via a single electrode A system and method providing, via a single output electrode of an integrated circuit having internal circuitry, a status signal having time multiplexed states indicative of a power on reset condition for external circuitry following enablement of operations of port... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774765 | Method and apparatus for moving area operator definition instruction statements within control flow structures A method and apparatus for use in compiling data for a program shader identifies within data representing control flow information an area operator definition instruction statement located outside the data dependent control flow structures. The method identifies wit... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773531 | Method for testing data packet transceiver using loop back packet generation A method for testing a data packet transceiver as a device under test (DUT) by communicating, between one or more test instruments and the DUT, multiple data packets having at least one mutually distinct signal characteristic, such as data packet type, transmission ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7772922 | Method and system for testing data signal amplifier having output signal power dependent upon multiple power control parameters A method and apparatus for testing a data signal amplifier having an output signal power dependent upon multiple signal power control parameters, e.g., signal gain control and amplifier bias current control. ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770932 | Tank holding frame A tank holding frame for a vehicle body includes front and rear beams connected to the vehicle body, a first beam connected to the vehicle body and the front beam, a second beam connected removably to the vehicle body, and a guard member having at least one end conn... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769247 | Method and apparatus for data re-arrangement A method and method and apparatus for data re-arrangement includes the steps of receiving output pixel coordinates (X, Y) and obtaining an input pixel offset value (ΔS, ΔT), wherein the output pixel coordinate represents a location for a two dimensional matrix. Th... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7746811 | Time shared bi-directional serial signaling system A time shared bi-directional serial signaling system providing a differential signal with apparent duplex signal operation for higher and lower bandwidth data signals in a forward direction and another lower bandwidth data signal in a return direction. ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7737743 | Phase-locked loop including sampling phase detector and charge pump with pulse width control Phase-locked loop (PLL) circuitry in which a sampling phase detector samples the output signal in accordance with the reference signal and a frequency detector detects the output signal frequency in accordance with the reference signal. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7716500 | Power source dependent program execution An electronic device having a processor powered by a power source may be operated by providing a plurality of program portions individually executable by the processor for performing the same computing function. Each program portion causes the processor to exhibit a... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7698493 | Methods and apparatus for translating write request messages in a computing system Methods and apparatus are disclosed to translate memory write requests to be transmitted from a first processor to a second processor in a computing system, such as between a CPU and a Southbridge, as an example. A method includes generating a memory write request i... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7663398 | Circuit and method for high impedance input/output termination in shut off mode and for negative signal swing A circuit including control logic; and configurable impedance logic, operatively coupled to the control logic, comprising a configurable transistor structure operative to selectively change from a high impedance mode where the configurable transistor structure is co... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657762 | Apparatus and methods for power management of a circuit module The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for controlling power consumption of a plug-in card or circuit module. The disclosed method, in particular, controls power to a circuit module and includes implementing a user interface and power manager to aut... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656417 | Appearance determination using fragment reduction A method for determining the appearance of a pixel includes receiving fragment data for a pixel to be rendered; storing the fragment data; and determining an appearance value for the pixel based on the stored fragment data, wherein a portion of the stored fragment d... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656416 | Apparatus for generating anti-aliased and stippled 3d lines, points and surfaces using multi-dimensional procedural texture coordinates A graphics processing circuit includes an anti-aliasing and stippling circuit operative to provide a primitive texture coordinate set in response to vertex data, the anti-aliasing and stippling circuit performing anti-aliasing operations, in parallel, with at least ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654149 | Roller chain wear gauge The present disclosure relates to a handheld, single-piece wear gauge for chains, and more specifically, to a wear gauge with an elongated body carved into segments with markings, varied widths, and varied heights arranged along a guiding back rail. A roller chain w... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7643679 | Method and apparatus for block based image compression with multiple non-uniform block encodings Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for block based image compression with multiple non-uniform block encodings. In one embodiment, an image is divided into blocks of pixels. In one embodiment the blocks are four pixels by fou... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636095 | Pixel delta interpolation method and apparatus A method for rendering an object including receiving a pixel tile representing a portion of a primitive to be rendered, determining attributes of a reference pixel within the pixel tile, and determining the attributes of neighboring pixels within the pixel tile base... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633549 | Apparatus and method for image rendering An apparatus and method for image rendering includes a first buffer operative to receive first video data. A motion mad updater receives video data from the first buffer and updates a motion map using the first video data. A grain information generator is coupled to... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7631413 | Method of manufacturing of an armature winding for electro-mechanical machines A method of manufacturing armature windings for an electro-mechanical machine, includes manufacturing a band of conductor elements with at least one layer, formation of windings on a tool and installation of the windings into an armature. The method results in a hig... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7624287 | Adaptive power state management In a power management scheme for a power-consuming (e.g. electronic) device, one of multiple predefined operating parameter sets is selected. Each of the sets comprises multiple operating parameter values for the device. Examples of operating parameters include cloc... | 11/24/2009 |
| D604454 | Light fixture | 11/17/2009 |
