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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8053817 | Vertical transistor and method for forming the same A vertical transistor and a method for forming the same. The vertical transistor includes a semiconductor substrate having pillar type active patterns formed on a surface thereof; first junction regions formed in the surface of the semiconductor substrate on both si... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7420235 | Solid-state imaging device and method for producing the same In the solid-state imaging device of the present invention having a photoelectric conversion section and a charge transfer section equipped with a charge transfer electrode for transferring an electric charge generated in the photoelectric conversion section, the ch... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7317214 | Amplifying solid-state image pickup device An amplifying solid-state image pickup device includes photoelectric conversion transfer parts respectively composed of a photodiode and a transfer transistor, and a switched capacitor amplification part provided for every k (k: natural number) photoelectric convers... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312109 | Methods for fabricating fuse programmable three dimensional integrated circuits A method of fabricating a field programmable integrated circuit comprised of: constructing a semiconductor device comprising a fuse circuit to customize the logic content of a programmable logic circuit; and attaching said semiconductor device in a detachable lid pa... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7274052 | CCD charge-splitter adjustment by static charge gradient A charge splitter for separating an incoming charge packet into two outgoing packets while the charge is in a static state, i.e., not while it is flowing down a channel or over a barrier. A splitting gate may have a biasing charge impressed upon it, such as via the ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268440 | Fabrication of semiconductor integrated circuit chips A semiconductor wafer includes a plurality of active circuit die areas, each of which being bordered by a dicing line region through which the plurality of active circuit die areas are separated from each other by mechanical wafer dicing. Each of the plurality of ac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7250970 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup device including an array of a plurality of pixels including photoelectric conversion portions for accumulating signal charges generated by photoelectric conversion and an amplifying transistor for amplifying the signal charges generated by the photo... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7199409 | Device for subtracting or adding charge in a charge-coupled device The present invention provides an apparatus for adding or subtracting an amount charge to or from a charge packet in a CCD as the packet traverses the CCD. The apparatus uses a “wire transfer” device structure to perform the addition or subtraction of charge dur... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7154134 | Adjustable CCD charge splitter An adjustable charge coupled device (CCD) charge splitter includes a channel control structure and an associated plurality of output channels. Control signals applied to the channel control structure determine an amount of charge, which passes into each one of the p... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7132702 | Image sensor In the present invention, a charge transfer unit is arranged on a first-plane side of a thinly-formed semiconductor base. Charge accumulating units are arranged on a second-plane side, the opposite side. A depletion prevention layer is arranged closer to the second-... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7116748 | Pulse output circuit, shift register and electronic equipment A driver circuit of a display device, which includes TFTs of a single conductivity type and outputs an output signal with normal amplitude. A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 to turn ON the TFTs and a potential of a node α is raised. When the pot... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6992341 | Amplifying solid-state image pickup device There is provided an amplifying solid-state image pickup device capable of improving S/N and maintaining a charge-voltage conversion efficiency high. In the amplifying solid-state image pickup device, signal charges of a plurality of photodiodes 1 are added u... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6967348 | Signal sharing circuit with microelectric die isolation features A signal sharing circuit includes a first pad adapted to receive a signal and a first sharing device associated with a first microelectronic die. The first sharing device is adapted to selectively share the signal with at least a second microelectronic die on one si... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965134 | Image pick-up unit including an image pick-up device and optical filter layers An image pick-up unit includes an image pick-up device; and a plurality of optical filters which are cemented together in layers and positioned in front of the image pick-up device. At least two optical filters among the plurality of optical filters, which have diff... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6903429 | Magnetic sensor integrated with CMOS A magnetic sensor device formed using SOI CMOS techniques includes a substrate, a silicon oxide layer and in some cases a plurality of gated regions. A first terminal is located between two innermost gated regions and supplies a supply voltage. A second and a third ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6887760 | Fabrication process of a trench gate power MOS transistor with scaled channel A process for forming a trench gate power MOS transistor includes forming an epitaxial layer having a first type of conductivity on a semiconductor substrate, and forming a body region having a second type of conductivity on the epitaxial layer. A gate trench is for... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6703653 | Image sensor having photodiode on substrate The present invention relates to a photodiode of an image sensor. Particularly, the photodiode is formed on a substrate so that an occupying area of a unit pixel of the image sensor is reduced. To achieve this effect, there is provided an image sensor com... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6586794 | Semiconductor device and its manufacture A semiconductor device having: a substrate having a first area and a second area surrounding the first area; an insulating film formed in the second area; electrodes formed above the surface of the substrate in the first area; dielectric films formed abov... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6580106 | CMOS image sensor with complete pixel reset without kTC noise generation In an image sensing array, the structure of the image sensor pixel is based on a vertical punch through transistor with a junction gate surrounding its source and connected to it, the junction gate being further surrounded by an MOS gate. The new pixel ha... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6534806 | System for generating a reference voltage A system for generating a reference voltage is provided that includes a first p-type, thick-gate transistor, a second p-type, thick-gate transistor, a third p-type, thick-gate transistor, and a fourth p-type, thick-gate transistor. The first p-type transi... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6515318 | Charge transfer device A charge transfer device is provided which is capable of reducing a reset field-through noise in a stable manner without being affected by characteristics of transistors and without occurrence of a mustache-shaped pulse-like noise. The charge transfer dev... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6417531 | Charge transfer device with final potential well close to floating diffusion region A charge transfer device has a charge transfer region under charge transfer electrodes for stepwise conveying charge packets through potential wells to a floating diffusion region, and the charge transfer region has a boundary sub-region contracting towar... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6365950 | CMOS active pixel sensor The present invention relates to a CMOS active pixel sensor which includes a compensation circuit capable of compensating a lowered pixel voltage output due to leakage current of a photodiode. The CMOS active pixel sensor having a light sensing unit for g... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6342710 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit, particularly a circuit for a high-speed low-power-consumption table look-aside buffer mounted in a microprocessor LSI. The semiconductor integrated circuit is provided with field effect transistors for comparing inputte... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6207983 | Charge transfer device, and driving method and manufacturing method for the same In a charge transfer device and a driving method therefor, electrons are injected through an insulating film into floating gate 108 or electrons are extracted through the insulating film from the floating gate 108, whereby the potential of the floating ga... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6195742 | Semiconductor multi-chip module An electronic circuit package having a wiring substrate, at least two semiconductor chips and a bus line. All the semiconductor chips to be connected by means of the bus line are bare chip packaged on a wiring substrate, and the semiconductor chips and th... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6121646 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit, particularly a circuit for a high-speed low-power-consumption table look-aside buffer mounted in a microprocessor LSI. The semiconductor integrated circuit is provided with field effect transistors for comparing inputte... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5760430 | Charge transfer device and solid-state imaging apparatus using the same device A charge transfer device is disclosed in which the number of transfer clocks can be decreased, and also, power consumption, the heating amount and parasitic emissions are also reduced. Three groups of electrodes are repeatedly disposed in an alternating s... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5748035 | Channel coupled feedback circuits Channel coupled feedback- technology for implementing many analog and digital signal processing functions in a single-polysilicon digital IC fabrication process is described. Field effect transistors are constructed having a common channel and the substra... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5640028 | Charge transfer device with reduced parasitic capacitances for improved charge transferring A charge transfer device formed on a semiconductor substrate comprising: a charge transfer section formed on the semiconductor substrate for transferring charges, a floating gate having a floating gate diffusion layer formed on the semiconductor substrate... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5606367 | Solid state imaging device having common output coupling for monitoring a photosensitive pixel and picture photosensitive pixels A solid state imaging device includes a plurality of picture photosensitive pixels (pixel trains P1 -Pn) for generating signal charges corresponding to an incident light amount, a shift gate (12) and a charge coupled device (CCD) reg... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5591996 | Recirculating charge transfer magnetic field sensor A device for producing an output voltage which is proportional to an applied magnetic field. The device includes a plurality charge injection regions, a corresponding plurality of charge exit regions, and a charge transfer region. The charge transfer regi... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5530275 | Semiconductor device for summing weighted input signals The invention relates to a semiconductor device with which input signals can be weighted and the weighted input signals can be summed, and which in conjunction with a neuron can be used, for example, as a synapse in a neural network. The device comprises ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5464996 | Process tracking bias generator for advanced lateral overflow antiblooming drain The process tracking bias generator for antiblooming structures includes a lateral overflow antiblooming drain and bias circuitry coupled to the antiblooming drain for automatically adjusting a bias for the antiblooming drain independent of process variat... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5381177 | CCD delay line capable of automatic adjustment of an input bias voltage to charge transfer regions A CCD delay line comprises of first, second and third transfer regions which are formed in a semiconductor substrate. Output portions of the second and third transfer regions are connected to a differential amplifier. The output terminal of the differenti... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5260591 | Solid-state image sensor for temporarily fixing a picture on a video screen There is disclosed a solid-state image sensor comprising: photo-detecting devices arranged in a matrix structure for receiving external light signals; vertical charge transfer device interposed between the columns of said photo-detecting device for vertic... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5189499 | Charge-coupled device and process of fabrication thereof A charge-coupled device has a multi-layer structure insulating layer is formed beneath a transfer electrode, floating electrodes and an electrode adjacent the floating electrodes so that pin hole phenomenon in a charge transfer section of the charge coupl... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5177772 | Charge coupled device with enhanced input structure An input structure of CCD comprises a primary register having an input gate and a source region and an automatic biasing system which generates a feedback signal to be fed back to input of the primary register. The output of the automatic biasing system i... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5086440 | Charge coupled device with enhanced input structure An input structure of CCD comprises a primary register having an input gate and a source region and an automatic biasing system which generates a feedback signal to be fed back to input of the primary register. The output of the automatic biasing system i... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5041890 | Pre-processing wafer for the output currents of detection diodes subjected to thermal radiation A wafer is provided for pre-processing the output currents of detection diodes subjected to thermal radiation, comprising an input stage for integrating the output currents of the diodes and an output stage delivering a signal related the incident radiati... | 08/20/1991 |
