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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131060 | Process control method, data registration program, and method for manufacturing electronic device A process control method is provided for a surface mount line including a solder printer for printing solder on a surface of a substrate, a solder print inspector for inspecting the printed solder and outputting printing quality data, a mounter for mounting componen... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131061 | Apparatus for inspecting solder printing An apparatus for inspecting solder printing includes a memory medium, an ideal solder information generation unit, and an image processing unit. Design data are stored in the memory medium. The ideal solder information generation unit generates “ideal solder posit... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7664311 | Component mounting board inspecting apparatus There is provided a component mounting inspecting apparatus which can automatically set a solder bridge inspection region (an inspection point) and output an optimum inspection result of a solder bridge. The component mounting board inspecting apparatus for inspecti... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7373332 | Methods and apparatus for detecting temporal process variation and for managing and predicting performance of automatic classifiers Techniques for detecting temporal process variation and for managing and predicting performance of automatic classifiers applied to such processes using performance estimates based on temporal ordering of the samples are presented. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365837 | Vision inspection apparatus using a full reflection mirror The present invention relates to a vision inspection apparatus and method using total reflection mirrors. The present invention provides a vision inspection apparatus using the total reflection mirrors comprising; a board position control module for fixing a printed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353954 | Tray flipper and method for parts inspection Manufacturing lines include inspection systems for monitoring the quality of parts produced. Manufacturing lines for making semiconductor devices generally inspect each fabricated part. The information obtained is used to fix manufacturing problems in the semiconduc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336816 | Method and apparatus for measuring shape of bumps The present invention provides a bump shape measuring apparatus comprising an illumination optical system which illuminates bumps arranged on a board with illumination light of a low tilt angle to a surface of the board; a detection optical system where reflected li... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327870 | Method for inspecting a region of interest An inspection method utilizing vertical slice imaging. A number of horizontal slice images, extending through an object of interest, are acquired. A vertical region of interest is defined from the data representing the horizontal slice images. A vertical slice image... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327780 | Wireless communications systems and methods for multiple operating system multiple user detection The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection (MUD) processing that have application, for example, in improving the capacity CDMA and other wireless base stations. One aspect of the invention provides a multiprocessor, multiuser detection ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324683 | Bonding pattern discrimination device Determination of inclination of positioning patterns used in bonding being made by: imaging a positioning pattern of reference chip and taking such image as reference-image; specifying a polar coordinate conversion origin for the reference-image; imaging an object (... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324710 | Method and device for determining nominal data for electronic circuits by capturing a digital image and compare with stored nominal data A method and a corresponding device for determining nominal mechanical data for an electronic device by automatic image processing of a digital image of a specimen of said electronic device. In the method, an object in said digital image, which object corresponds to... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321681 | Bonding pattern discrimination program Determination of inclination of positioning patterns used in bonding being made by: imaging a positioning pattern of reference chip and taking such image as reference-image; specifying a polar coordinate conversion origin for the reference-image; imaging an object (... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315361 | System and method for inspecting wafers in a laser marking system An illumination system is disclosed for use in a semiconductor wafer back side inspection assembly. The illumination system includes an illumination source that is configured to direct illumination toward a highly reflective and directionally reflective surface at a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308129 | Characteristic amount calculating device for soldering inspection A characteristic amount calculating device for soldering inspection. The characteristic amount calculating device includes a design information inputting section for inputting design information of an inspection object, an inspection standard inputting section for i... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301673 | Error diffusion processing method An error diffusion processing method includes determining a binary value of an input pixel according to a grayscale level of the input pixel, searching a nearest pixel that has the same binary value as the input pixel, and comparing a measured actual distance with a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7262864 | Method and apparatus for determining grid dimensions using scatterometry A test structure includes a first plurality of lines and a second plurality of lines intersecting the first plurality of lines. The first and second pluralities of lines defining a grid having openings. A method for determining grid dimensions includes providing a w... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263240 | Method, system, and software for improving signal quality using pyramidal decomposition A method, system, and software are disclosed for improving the quality of a signal. A base signal is recursively decomposed for a desired number of pyramid levels. The decomposed signal from the lowest level is modified to generate a preprocessed signal. The preproc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260810 | Method of extracting properties of back end of line (BEOL) chip architecture A method for analyzing circuit designs includes discretizing a design representation into pixel elements representative of a structure in the design and determining at least one property for each pixel element representing a portion of the design. Then, a response o... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253891 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous 2-D and topographical inspection Apparatus for sensing information regarding a surface including a first plurality of optical elements arranged to acquire two dimensional information about a surface, a second plurality of optical elements arranged to acquire topographical information about the surf... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248741 | Video sequences correlation and static analysis and scene changing forecasting in motion estimation The invention teaches correlation analysis of the stochastic relationship between video images for use in motion estimation. On the basis of the method of analysis of correlation values as temporal series, a method was created for the analysis of the dynamics of the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248623 | Wireless communications systems and methods for short-code multiple user detection The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection (MUD) processing that have application, for example, in improving the capacity CDMA and other wireless base stations. One aspect of the invention provides a multiprocessor, multiuser detection ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239740 | Image processing apparatus and method, medium storing program for image processing, and inspection apparatus In a gray level image, the direction and the magnitude of a level gradient are found for each of pixels. With respect to the pixel having a level gradient whose magnitude exceeds a predetermined value, a line segment having a predetermined length is drawn in the dir... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239399 | Pick and place machine with component placement inspection Improved component placement inspection and verification is performed by a pick and place machine. Improvements include stereovision imaging of the intended placement location; enhanced illumination to facilitate the provision of relatively high-power illumination i... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7218668 | Wireless communications systems and methods for virtual user based multiple user detection utilizing vector processor generated mapped cross-correlation matrices The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection (MUD) processing that have application, for example, in improving the capacity CDMA and other wireless base stations. One aspect of the invention provides a multiprocessor, multiuser detection ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218770 | Ball grid array modeling for inspecting surface mounted devices A computer-implemented method for inspecting BGA components using a ball grid array model thereof in semiconductor surface mounted devices. The method comprises setting a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) for all BGA balls to be modeled, building a first grid ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213447 | Method and apparatus for detecting topographical features of microelectronic substrates An apparatus and method for detecting characteristics of a microelectronic substrate. The microelectronic substrate can have a first surface with first topographical features, such as roughness elements, and a second surface facing opposite from the first surface an... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210062 | Wireless communications systems and methods for nonvolatile storage of operating parameters for multiple processor based multiple user detection The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection (MUD) processing that have application, for example, in improving the capacity CDMA and other wireless base stations. One aspect of the invention provides a multiprocessor, multiuser detection ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203221 | Load balancing computational methods in a short-code spread-spectrum communications system The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection (MUD) processing that have application, for example, in improving the capacity CDMA and other wireless base stations. One aspect of the invention provides a multiprocessor, multiuser detection ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201802 | Apparatus for providing a substrate with viscous medium Solder paste application, inspection and correction. Following or during application of solder paste on a substrate, the result thereof is inspected and any detected errors are registered. Following an evaluation as to whether correction of these errors is required ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7177344 | Wireless communication systems and methods for long-code communications for regenerative multiple user detection involving implicit waveform subtraction The invention provides improved CDMA, WCDMA (UTMS) or other spread spectrum communication systems of the type that processes one or more spread-spectrum waveforms, each representative of a waveform received from a respective user (or other transmitting device). The ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173968 | Method for coding and decoding a digitalized image A method and an arrangement in which a digitized image with picture elements is allocated to a number of image segments. The image segments, preferably image blocks, are spread such that interspaces remain between the image blocks to be encoded. The interspaces are ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164706 | Computational methods for use in a short-code spread-spectrum communications system The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection (MUD) processing that have application, for example, in improving the capacity CDMA and other wireless base stations. One aspect of the invention provides a multiprocessor, multiuser detection ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164511 | Distinguishing positive and negative films system and method A system and method for scanning a photographic film using a scanner automatedly identifies the film as either a positive or negative and controls the scanner settings to perform the scan accordingly. The method includes performing a pre-scan of the film, sampling a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159754 | Apparatus and method for corrective soldering The invention relates to a method for soldering an object comprising several soldered joints. The method comprises the steps of mechanically soldering of at least some of the soldered joints, visually assessing the soldered joints, and correctively soldering the vis... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149344 | Systems and methods for detecting defects in printed solder paste A method of analyzing an image of a substance deposited onto a substrate, the image comprising a plurality of pixels, includes defining a region of interest in the image, associating the region of interest with first and second perpendicular axis, wherein a set of p... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143385 | Wiring design method and system for electronic wiring boards A wiring design system when applied to wiring boards having various wiring restrictions, has a rough wiring plan at the floor plan stage so as to complete a wiring design satisfying the wiring restrictions in a short period of time while evaluating the congestion de... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142301 | Method and apparatus for adjusting illumination angle A machine-vision system that provides quick changing and/or automatic adjustment of illumination angle, dispersion, intensity, and/or color of illumination. One such system includes a light source emitting polarized light, a machine-vision imager, an image processor... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139306 | Wireless communication systems and methods for long-code communications for regenerative multiple user detection involving pre-maximal combination matched filter outputs The invention provides improved CDMA, WCDMA (UTMS) or other spread spectrum communication systems of the type that processes one or more spread-spectrum waveforms, each representative of a waveform received from a respective user (or other transmitting device). The ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139421 | Methods and apparatuses for detecting similar features within an image The invention provides methods and apparatuses for finding features that are similar in the image. The invention finds the similar features by searching portions of the image for features that are substantially similar to a feature prototype. First, individual featu... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136714 | Procedure for determining modifications made to an electronic card and methods of fabricating an electronic card and an item equipment provided with an electronic card Procedure for determining modifications made to an electronic card and methods of fabricating an electronic card and an item of equipment provided with an electronic card. According to the invention, a first diagram (S1) illustrating the electronic car... | 11/14/2006 |
