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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7382826 | Method and apparatus for the control of a decision feedback equalizer Input data segments of received symbols are continuously stored in a decision feedback equalizer buffer at a symbol rate S. Output data sections of received symbols are supplied from the decision feedback equalizer buffer at an output rate of nS such that void times... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372717 | Methods for resistive memory element sensing using averaging A system for determining the logic state of a resistive memory cell element, for example an MRAM resistive cell element. The system includes a controlled voltage supply, an electronic charge reservoir, a current source, and a pulse counter. The controlled voltage su... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366244 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7330390 | Noise resistant small signal sensing circuit for a memory device Apparatus and method for data sensing circuitry that uses averaging to sense small differences in signal levels representing data states. The apparatus periodically switches the coupling of input terminals and output terminals of an integrator circuit from a first c... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321735 | Optical down-converter using universal frequency translation technology A method and system for converting an optical signal to electrical information signals, including demodulated baseband information signals and modulated baseband signals at multiple harmonics. In an embodiment, the optical information signal is amplitude modulated w... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7295826 | Integrated frequency translation and selectivity with gain control functionality, and applications thereof Methods and apparatuses for frequency selectivity and frequency translation, and applications for such methods and apparatuses, are described herein. The method includes steps of filtering an input signal, and down-converting the filtered input signal. The filtering... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292835 | Wireless and wired cable modem applications of universal frequency translation technology Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein, including cable modem applications. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, enhanced signal reception, unified down-conversion and fil... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7263119 | Decoding method and apparatus Techniques and instrumentalities to improve ISI and ICI cancellation in reception of modulated symbols by selectively decoding subsymbols of such modulated symbol before they can be completely decided or perceived as well as use of decoded symbol/subsymbol informati... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7231310 | Method for evaluating semiconductor device The present invention provides a method for evaluating an intended element or a parameter. In addition, the invention provides an evaluation method for obtaining a more precise result rapidly. According to the invention, a plurality of evaluation circuits are formed... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7187206 | Power savings in serial link transmitters Aspects of saving power in a serial link transmitter are described. The aspects include providing a parallel arrangement of segments, each segment comprising prebuffer and output stage circuitry of the serial link transmitter and each segment enabled independently t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170011 | System and method for modifying electrical characteristics System and methods for modifying an electrical parameter of an electrical component are described. The system includes an electrical component disposed on a circuit board and a dielectric material. The electrical component has an electrical parameter that is sensiti... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171003 | Robust and reliable acoustic echo and noise cancellation system for cabin communication A cabin communication system for improving clarity of a voice spoken within an interior cabin having ambient noise includes an adaptive speech enhancement filter for receiving an audio signal that includes a first component indicative of the spoken voice, a second c... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7133307 | Resistive memory element sensing using averaging A system for determining the logic state of a resistive memory cell element, for example an MRAM resistive cell element. The system includes a controlled voltage supply, an electronic charge reservoir, a current source, and a pulse counter. The controlled voltage su... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123676 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110444 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) using universal frequency translation technology including multi-phase embodiments and circuit implementations Frequency translation and applications of the same are described herein, including RF modem and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. In embodiments, the WLAN invention includes an antenna, an LNA/PA module, a receiver, a transmitter, a control signal gen... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110435 | Spread spectrum applications of universal frequency translation Frequency translation and spread spectrum applications of same are described herein. Such applications include, but are not limited to, unified down-conversion and de-spreading, unified up-conversion and spreading, RAKE receivers utilizing unified down-conversion an... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103108 | Digital signal processor transceiver A digital signal processor transceiver uses a finite impulse response filter memory to construct a phase integrated angle at each clock cycle. The FIR filter memory is addressed by a multibit pattern and a time count which are used in conjunction to determine the ad... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095667 | Noise resistant small signal sensing circuit for a memory device Apparatus and method for data sensing circuitry that uses averaging to sense small differences in signal levels representing data states. The apparatus periodically switches the coupling of input terminals and output terminals of an integrator circuit from a first c... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7082171 | Phase shifting applications of universal frequency translation A universal frequency translation module (UFT) frequency translates an electromagnetic (EM) input signal by sampling the EM input signal according to a periodic control signal (also called an aliasing signal). By controlling the relative sampling time, the UFT modul... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7072390 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) using universal frequency translation technology including multi-phase embodiments Frequency translation and applications of the same are described herein, including RF modem and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. In embodiments, the WLAN invention includes an antenna, an LNA/PA module, a receiver, a transmitter, a control signal gen... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054296 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) technology and applications including techniques of universal frequency translation Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein, including wireless local area network (WLAN) applications such as IEEE Standard 802.11 WLANs. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050388 | Method and system for crosstalk cancellation Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can co... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039372 | Method and system for frequency up-conversion with modulation embodiments A method and system is described wherein an information signals is gated at a frequency that is a sub-harmonic of the frequency of the desired output signal. In the modulation embodiments, the information signal is modulated as part of the up-conversion process. In ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027786 | Carrier and clock recovery using universal frequency translation Coherent detection of a received EM signal using universal frequency translation (UFT) is described herein. The received EM signal is sampled according to a sub-harmonic LO signal, where the LO signal is in frequency and phase coherence with the received EM signal. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7009901 | System and method for sensing data stored in a resistive memory element using one bit of a digital count A method and system sense the logic state of an unknown initial data bit stored in a selected resistive memory cell. According to one method, a first count representing the logic state of the unknown initial data bit stored in the selected memory cell is generated. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010286 | Apparatus, system, and method for down-converting and up-converting electromagnetic signals Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting and up-converting an electromagnetic signal. In embodiments, the invention operates by receiving an electromagnetic signal and recursively operating on approximate half cycles of a carrier signal. The recursive o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006805 | Aliasing communication system with multi-mode and multi-band functionality and embodiments thereof, such as the family radio service A receiver having multi-mode and multi-band functionality and capabilities is described herein. The receiver is capable of selectively operating over a plurality of bands and channels. The receiver operates in a plurality of modes, including but not limited to a sin... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6995795 | Method for reducing dark current A method for reducing dark current within an image sensor includes applying, at a first time period, a first set of voltages to the phases of gate electrodes of vertical shift registers sufficient to accumulate holes of the vertical shift register, beneath each gate... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6977534 | Low voltage differential signaling [LVDS] driver with pre-emphasis A Low Voltage Differential Signaling Driver with Pre-emphasis and including a primary stage having a first switching circuit providing an output representing a sequence of pulses at a predetermined current level, a secondary stage having a second switching circuit a... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6954390 | Noise resistant small signal sensing circuit for a memory device Apparatus and method for data sensing circuitry that uses averaging to sense small differences in signal levels representing data states. The apparatus periodically switches the coupling of input terminals and output terminals of an integrator circuit from a first c... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954391 | Noise resistant small signal sensing circuit for a memory device Apparatus and method for data sensing circuitry that uses averaging to sense small differences in signal levels representing data states. The apparatus periodically switches the coupling of input terminals and output terminals of an integrator circuit from a first c... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6933587 | Electronic circuit unit suitable for miniaturization The invention provides a surface mounting type electronic circuit unit that is suitable for miniaturization. Thin film circuit elements including capacitors, resistors, and inductance elements are formed on an alumina substrate, a semiconductor bare chip of a diode ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6545567 | Programmable analog tapped delay line filter having cascaded differential delay cells Method and system for a programmable analog tapped delay line filter are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention is a programmable analog tapped delay line filter comprising an input line, an output line, and one or more gaincells or taps coupl... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6150901 | Programmable RF/IF bandpass filter utilizing MEM devices A programmable high frequency (HF) bandpass filter is disclosed. The programmable filter has a tunable bandwidth and center frequency over a large range of the radio frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF) spectrum. The programmable filter incorpor... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5887025 | Matched filter acting in charge domain A charge mode operation circuit dedicated to detect the correlation between analog input signal and digital code, and for realizing by "RAKE method" the path diversity reception from the correlation data obtained using the same. The circuit utilizes an an... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5867526 | Matched filter acting in charge domain A charge mode operation circuit dedicated to detect the correlation between analog input signal and digital code, and for realizing by "RAKE method" the path diversity reception from the correlation data obtained using the same. The circuit utilizes an an... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5726710 | Low noise high performance charge detection system The charge coupled device (CCD) charge detection system includes a first CCD register having N non-destructive charge readouts where N is an integer greater than one, and N second CCD registers coupled to the N non-destructive charge readouts where each o... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5615234 | Digital high-pass filter having baseline restoration means A digital high-pass filter derived from a digital low-pass filter of conventional design. The digital low-pass filter periodically calculates respective low-pass filter output values. Corresponding high-pass filter output values are then calculated by sub... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5488540 | Printed circuit board for reducing noise A multi-layered printed circuit board is provided. This printed circuit board includes generally a substrate formed with first and second base layers, a first conductive pattern block formed on a surface of the first base layer of the substrate to connect... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5420448 | Complementary acoustic charge transport device and method A complementary acoustic charge transport circuit element comprises first and second buried channels. Each of the channels is comprised of a piezoelectric semiconductor and each channel has a source through which charge is injected and a drain through whi... | 05/30/1995 |
