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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7999576 | Sense amplifier control circuit The present invention discloses a sense amplifier control circuit which controls the sense amplifier. A sense amplifier control circuit comprises a voltage comparing unit outputting delay control signals having a value corresponding to each of divided voltages obtai... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7343510 | Method and device for selecting one of multiple clock signals based on frequency differences of such clock signals A clock detection and selection circuit (100) can include a first counter (102-0) that generates a first count value CNT1 according to a first clock signal CLK1 and a second counter (102-1) that generates a second cou... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7295640 | Phase detector A phase detector has a reference signal input for a reference signal and a detector input for a signal to be evaluated. A memory unit is connected to the detector input and stores a state of the signal to be evaluated at a storage instant. An evaluation unit is conn... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7272029 | Transition-encoder sense amplifier A sense amplifier transition encodes an output signal onto a bus such that the bus signal only transitions when a sensed bit line has a state different from the state of a previously sensed bit line. The sense amplifier includes a storage element that changes state ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7170949 | Methods and apparatus for signaling on a differential link Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transitioning a receiver from a first state to a second state using an in-band signal over a differential serial data link. ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7149269 | Receiver for clock and data recovery and method for calibrating sampling phases in a receiver for clock and data recovery A receiver for clock and data recovery includes n sampling latches (SL1 . . . SLn) for determining n sample values (SV1 . . . SVn) of a reference signal (Ref2) at n sampling phases (φ1a . . . (φna) having sampling latch inputs an... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7124084 | Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit const... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7107401 | Method and circuit to combine cache and delay line memory A method and a digital processor circuit to process digital delays are provided. The digital processor circuit may comprise circuit memory and a processor module such as a digital signal processor (DSP), a delay line module, a filter module and a sample rate convert... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7080181 | Hot-pluggable video architecture A hot-pluggable video architecture system is disclosed. The system includes one or more computers, where each of the computers includes a system bus for carrying signals, such as video bus cycles, a hot-pluggable bus, and a hot-pluggable host controller coupled to t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072409 | Space multiplex radio communication method and radio communication apparatus A radio communication system is comprised of: a transmitting system in which N transmission signals, frequency-converted to the same transmission frequency, are generated by N transmitters, N being an integer equal to or greater than 2, and the transmission signals ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7040756 | Process for surface modifying substrates and modified substrates resulting therefrom The present invention generally relates to a method of modifying the surface of substrates such as contact lenses and other biomedical articles by at least partially coating the surfaces of such substrates with a polymeric tie layer having reactive sites. Various ot... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7015062 | Molecular ruler for scaling down nanostructures The present invention is a method and apparatus relating to manufacturing nanostructure patterns and components using molecular science. The method includes overlaying a multilayer organic molecule resist on at least a portion of a parent structure selectively depos... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6980602 | Normalization of equalizer soft output for channels with varying noise power An apparatus for and method of generating normalized soft decision information output from an inner decoder (i.e. equalizer) in a communications receiver. The invention is operative to normalize the soft decision information before it enters a soft outer decoder. Th... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6765416 | Device for recognizing power sources and associated method A device for recognizing power sources and associated method are provided. The device for recognizing power sources comprises two voltage-dividing devices. Each of the voltage-dividing devices is coupled to receive native power, and outputs the part of the voltage o... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6587185 | Distance measuring apparatus In a distance measuring apparatus 1 having a projector 10 that projects pulse light P outside and a light receiver 20 that receives the pulse light being reflected in the outside and performs photoelectric conversion, and outputting measurement data DL re... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6380767 | Connection control circuit A connection control circuit is provided to guarantee a high quality of port-to-port connection service by enabling to maintain the suspended state even when a disparity exists in the pulse widths of the envelope signals of the tone signals between the se... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6298450 | Detecting states of signals A time delay from a triggering event to switching of an output signal in a microelectronic device can be adjusted to compensate for various characteristics of the electronic device. The characteristics include temperature, voltage, and manufacturing proce... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6058152 | Phase comparison method and apparatus for digital signals A phase comparator apparatus compares a first input signal and a second input signal to output first or second compare output signal. The apparatus includes a detector circuit and a compare output generator circuit. The detector circuit detects the phase ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5886657 | Selectable reference voltage circuit for a digital-to-analog converter A selectable reference voltage circuit for a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) which includes an input terminal for receiving an external reference voltage, a voltage comparator having two inputs and an output, one input for receiving the reference voltag... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5878275 | Information processing apparatus which discriminates whether or not input information is stored in memory and controlling the switching from a first control program to a second control program There is disclosed an information processing apparatus, such as a printer, capable of selectively using plural control programs by utilizing an external memory, such as a program cartridge, containing additional programs. When a switching of control progr... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5828238 | Digital frequency discriminator A frequency discriminator circuit that includes a signal shaping and power splitting circuit (20) responsive to a sinusoidal RF input signal for providing first and second substantially identical squarewave outputs having the same frequency as the sinusoi... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5442315 | Bit stream rate asynchronous digital phase-locked loop A system and method for estimating input phase for bit cells recovered from run length limited code where the bits cells have a nominal duration allows use of sampling rate as low as the nominal data rate in an all digital phase-locked loop. For the all d... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5414659 | Semiconductor memory device having address transition detector quickly enabling redundancy decoder A plurality of address transition detecting circuits incorporated in a semiconductor memory device monitors address bits to see whether or not at least one address bits is changed in logic level for producing an address transition signal from the output s... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5412258 | Integrated circuit testing device An integrated circuit testing device, including a small test signal generator for generating a small test signal having a small amplitude corresponding to a test signal supplied to an input terminal of a target integrated circuit to be tested; a test sign... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5410581 | Apparatus and method for determining a time that a system's main power was inactive An apparatus and method for determining a time that a system's main power was inactive includes a counter circuit (171) for accumulating transitions of a clock signal (149) while the system's main power (117) is inactive. Preferably, another circuit (159,... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5396183 | Method for continuously measuring delay margins in digital systems A digital data propagation delay margin monitoring circuit that includes (a) a digital data propagation unit having a send flip-flop, a combinatorial delay, and a receive flip-flop; and (b) a margin detection circuit having a test flip-flop that receives ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5374894 | Transition detection circuit A circuit for detecting the transition of the state of logic signals at a plurality of input terminals is provided. The circuit has a transition detecting block connected to each input terminal which generates a pulse at the transition of a logic signal a... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5350955 | Apparatus for position detection and verification thereof using pulse patterns having sequentially unique properties An apparatus for position detection using pulse patterns created by use of a fixed disk having three conductive patterns disposed thereon. The first and second patterns are annular conductive paths which are coaxial with respect to one another and the thi... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5336947 | Discriminator device A discriminator device for discriminating between two types of signal applied to an input port (EN), the first type being a binary logic signal having high and low values, and the second type of signal being a continuously variable signal or a floating vo... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5327016 | Load control circuit including automatic AC/DC discernment A control circuit for switching AC or DC loads and for automatically discerning the presence of an AC or a DC power supply via a switch has been provided. The control circuit is coupled to alternately render a switch operative and non-operative wherein th... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5319679 | Method and apparatus for recovering data from a radio signal In a communications system using a synchronous digital data stream employing multiple-amplitude-level symbols, preamble acquisition and d.c. offset correction is achieved simultaneously by receiver averaging of sampled values in amplitude and in time to d... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5291141 | Method for continuously measuring delay margins in digital systems A digital data propagation delay margin monitoring circuit that includes (a) a digital data propagation unit having a send flip-flop, a combinatorial delay, and a receive flip-flop; and (b) a margin detection circuit having a test flip-flop that receives ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5263054 | Method and system for interpolating baud rate timing recovery for asynchronous start stop protocol An apparatus for efficient computation of a demodulation process on a digital signal processor for a sampled signal, which includes programming a digital signal processor to apply the sampled signal to an interpolating filter to add interpolation samples ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5222107 | Transmission and reception synchronization device for a communication network station particularly for automotive vehicles This device includes a signal processor (30,35,36,37,38,47,49) to generate sampling signals of information present on a network, and a selection circuit (43) for loading the signal processor with at least one synchronization value (44, 45) corresponding t... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5216302 | Reference delay generator and electronic device using the same A reference delay generator includes a delay unit having a plurality of delay elements which are cascaded and respectively have variable delay times. The delay unit receives a reference signal and generates a delayed signal which is a delayed version of t... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5189314 | Variable chip-clocking mechanism The performance of some chips (e.g., VLSI processors) may be increased by running the internal circuits at higher clock rates, but use of a higher clock rate is limited by the heat-dissipation ability of the chip's package. Apparatus and a method is descr... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5126603 | Circuit utilizes N-channel mos transistors having reduced area dimension for effectively detecting output current of a H-bridge circuit The inventive power supply detecting circuit includes an additional fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth MOS transistors within an output buffer H bridge circuit of a conventional type, in order to reduce the power consumption in the electric current detectio... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5121012 | Circuit for measuring elapsed time between two events A time-to-digital converter for converting a time interval into a digital signal output includes an input section for receiving signals corresponding to the start and stop of the time interval and outputting first and second electrical pulses correspondin... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5073724 | Programmable inverse time delay circuit An inverse time delay circuit includes an integrator for receiving a signal representative of a voltage or current in an external circuit and a reference signal. The integrator produces a control signal representative of the integral of the difference bet... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5036745 | Defaultless musical keyboards for woodwind styled electronic musical instruments A decoder assigns key values according to a system of mathematical weight values in terms of whole and semi-tone intervals of the musical scale, each key contributing its assigned value to the sum when depressed. Any interval along the scale can be reache... | 08/06/1991 |
