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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7079748 | Integrated optical device and method of making the same An optical fiber and method of making the same, the optical fiber being characterized by an axial symmetry and comprising a core, doped with phosphorescent or fluorescent impurities, and a transparent envelope. The transparent envelope comprises a cladding layer and... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079776 | Optical signal transmission board and apparatus An individual optical signal transmission substrate includes an optical signal transmission area where at least one of a light emitting element for sending an optical signal to other optical signal transmission substrates or a light receiving element for receiving a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078667 | Photo detector for weak light This invention provides a photodetector for weak light and a weak light detection system including the photodetector for weak light the photodetector for weak light is comprised of a substrate on which an integrating read circuit including a PIN photodiode or an APD... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078677 | Optical encoder disk having a region that continuously increases in size A code disk, an optical encoder using such a disk and a method thereof are described. The code disk includes a first region on the disk and a second region that is adjacent to the first region. The first region increases continuously in size in a radial direction fr... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079257 | Methods and apparatus for evaluating mechanical and thermal strains in electronic materials, semiconductor materials, and other structures Methods for measuring strains in circuit substrates such as circuit boards and semiconductor wafers include illuminating a specimen with a substantially collimated laser flux. A temperature change is produced in the specimen and a series of laser speckle patterns pr... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078668 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion element and a logarithmic conversion unit for converting a signal from the photoelectric conversion element to a logarithmically compressed voltage by means of a diode characteristic of p-n jun... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078670 | Low noise charge gain circuit and CCD using same A charge coupled device (CCD) includes a low noise charge gain circuit that amplifies charge of a cell dependent upon the charge accumulated by the cell. The low noise charge gain circuit receives clocking signals, such as from an input diode, which allow charge to ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075091 | Apparatus for detecting ionizing radiation A photodiode detector assembly for use with an ionizing radiation detector, the assembly includes a first layer having a first side and a second side and an array of backlit photodiodes disposed at the second side, and a second layer disposed proximate to and opposi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075056 | Photopic detector system having a filter with an interference element, an absorptive element and an absorber or reflector A detector system, filter therefor, and method of making same is disclosed. The filter includes an interference element having a reflection band disposed primarily in the near infrared, and having a high transmission over most of the visible region. The filter also ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073955 | Transceiver assembly for use in fiber optics communications A transceiver assembly includes a frame section, a rigid circuit board, a flex circuit, and a controller chip. The frame section includes an optoelectronic device containing a set of photoactive components, a signal processing chip for providing drive signals to the... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075049 | Dual conversion gain imagers An imager with dual conversion gain floating diffusion regions. The dual conversion gain regions yield (1) high conversion gain and sensitivity to achieve excellent low light performance and (2) high full well capacity and conversion gain to achieve high dynamic ran... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075052 | Photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device capable of improving an open-circuit voltage is obtained. In this photoelectric conversion device, many of crystal grains contained in a third non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer have major axes substantially perpendicular to... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072534 | Optical ready substrates An article of manufacture comprising an optical ready substrate made of a first semiconductor layer, an insulating layer on top of the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on top of the insulating layer, wherein the second semiconductor layer ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071455 | Optical receiver The present invention provides an optical receiver in which a signal detection level is independent on whether a ammeter is connected to a current monitor terminal or not. The optical receiver comprises a photo diode, a first current mirror circuit connected to the ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071019 | System and method to improve image sensor sensitivity A method is disclosed for forming at least one image sensor with improved sensitivity along with at least one transistor device. The method comprises forming at least a portion of the transistor device on a substrate, forming the image sensor by doping a predetermin... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071456 | Camera module with ambient light detection A camera module forms digital images and measures an ambient light level. A device such as a digital camera, a telephone, or a PDA containing the camera module can set lighting levels of I/O systems such as keypads or displays according to the ambient light level to... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068482 | BiCMOS electrostatic discharge power clamp A BiCMOS electrostatic discharge (ESD) protecting circuit is triggered by a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) for achieving ESD protection. Due to the layout area of the BJT ESD protecting circuit being smaller than the layout area of an RC circuit, layout area can ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067788 | Control loop apparatus or current measuring circuit including a current sensor or method of current calculation An avalanche photodiode having an operating voltage greater than a DC power supply rail is connected to the rail via a controlled DC-DC converter having an output voltage that drives the photodiode and meets the photodiode voltage supply needs. A measure of the curr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067817 | Radiation image sensor and making method of same An image sensor assembly is mounted and fixed on a mount substrate with an adhesive, and a light sensitive portion of the image sensor assembly is located so as to reach the vicinity of at least one peripheral region. A moisture-proof protective film to cover a scin... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067796 | Integrated circuit for optical encoder An integrated circuit for an optical encoder comprises a signal processing section for generating a position detection signal from a detection signal of a light receiving element, a belt-like power source potential layer which is formed at least between the signal p... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067793 | High speed self-pixelating low light level optical system An optical system includes an InGaAsP photodiode having a bandgap and configured to operate in Gieger mode, a first light source configured to emit an optical signal of a first wavelength less than the bandgap at a first intensity, a second light source configured t... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067792 | Control of a photosensitive cell A device and a method for controlling a photosensitive cell including a photodiode adapted to discharging into a read node via a MOS transfer transistor, the device being adapted to providing a signal for controlling the gate of the MOS transfer transistor to a firs... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068225 | Nano-antenna apparatus and method A nano-antenna apparatus (or equivalently a nano-antenna device) comprises a first conducting surface, a second conducting surface, a gap region between a first conducting surface and a second conducting surface and at least one discharge switch at least one dischar... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067791 | System and methods for dynamic range extension using variable length integration time sampling A photo-detector generated signal is measured as a sample set comprising a long signal and a short signal. The short signal is scaled to the value of the long signal if the long signal exceeds a dynamic range associated with the photo detector. In one embodiment, th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067361 | Methods of fabricating silicon carbide metal-semiconductor field effect transistors SiC MESFETs are disclosed which utilize a semi-insulating SiC substrate which substantially free of deep-level dopants. Utilization of the semi-insulating substrate may reduce back-gating effects in the MESFETs. Also provided are SiC MESFETs with a two recess gate s... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068254 | User identity authentication system and user identity authentication method and mobile telephonic device It is an object to provide an user identity authentication system and an user identity authentication method with the Internet and a mobile information communication device. The mobile information communication device includes a liquid crystal device with a built-in... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064329 | Amplifier-enhanced optical analysis system and method An amplifier-enhanced optical analysis system and method to optically analyze a molecular component of a gas, liquid, or solid. The amplifier-enhanced optical system comprises a laser, a light amplifier, and an optical analysis means, all optically coupled so that l... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064312 | Device for generating electromagnetic waves, method for operating a device of this type and method for modulating the electromagnetic waves to be generated using a device of this type in accordance with data to be transmitted A device is provided for generating electromagnetic waves, in particular for data transfer between a vehicle and a data storage medium, whereby a choke coil (30) is provided between at least one part of an energy supply device (1, 40, 41, 42) and an os... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064637 | Recessed electrode for electrostatically actuated structures An electro-statically actuated switch having a reduced gap distance between electrodes for reducing actuation voltage is provided. The invention provides more reliable electro-statically actuated switches. The invention provides a micro-electro-mechanical system (ME... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064785 | Apparatus and method of correcting for dark current in a solid state image sensor Apparatus and method of correcting for dark current in a solid state image sensor, include capturing an image with the image sensor to produce a digital image having pixel values; correcting the pixel values with a dark level correction value; employing a control sy... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064004 | Induction-based heating for chip attach A method for bonding a semiconductor die to a substrate is described. The method comprises arranging a semiconductor die, an interconnect, and a substrate in a suitable configuration and using induction heating to form the bond. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064313 | Gradual reset voltage reduction for resetting an image sensor A sensor may be formed with a transistor comprising a gate that has both n-type and p-type regions to increase the gate work function. In combination with moving the p-type well such that the p-type well only partially dopes the channel of the transistor, the increa... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7060370 | Organic EL element and organic EL display An organic EL element comprising an organic thin film layer containing a light-emitting layer between an positive electrode and a negative electrode, in which a layer in the organic thin film layer comprises 1,3,6,8-tetraphenylpyrene compound expressed by the follow... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060960 | Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing the same A solid-state imaging device that achieves a reduction in variations appearing on a reproducing screen is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixel cells that are laid out in matrix form on a semiconductor substrate and a driving unit th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061106 | Structure of image sensor module and a method for manufacturing of wafer level package The present invention discloses an image sensor module and forming method of wafer level package. The image sensor module comprises an isolating base, a wafer level package, a lens holder, and a F.P.C.. The wafer level package having a plurality of image sensor dies... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057999 | Optical head for near-field recording and reproduction, and method of manufacturing the same An optical head for near-field recording and reproduction, and a method of manufacturing the optical head. A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and a photodetector are formed on a slider, and a lens layer, an optical path control layer and/or a coil memb... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058247 | Silicon carrier for optical interconnect modules An embodiment of the invention is an optical interconnect module comprising a silicon carrier; a communication integrated circuit mounted on the silicon carrier and an optical integrated circuit flip chip mounted on the silicon carrier. The optical integrated circui... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057220 | Ultrashallow photodiode using indium The invention provides an imager having a p-n-p photodiode with an ultrashallow junction depth. A p+ junction layer of the photodiode is doped with indium to decrease transient enhanced diffusion effects, minimize fixed pattern noise and fill factor loss. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057209 | Light emitting device, method of manufacturing the same and manufacturing apparatus therefor A light emitting device having high definition, a high aperture ratio, and high reliability is provided. The present invention achieves high definition and a high aperture ratio with a full color flat panel display using red, green, and blue color emission light by ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057172 | Particle detector assembly A particle detector assembly includes a substrate on which are mounted at least two superconducting quasiparticle detectors. A processing system is connected to the detectors and distinguishes between events detected simultaneously in each detector and non-simultane... | 06/06/2006 |
