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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366890 | Method for switching to a service mode of operation in response to detecting a device connected to an I/O port of the system Provided are a method, system, deployment and article of manufacture, wherein in one embodiment, a mode of operation may be switched to a service mode by detecting a device inserted into a connector of an input/output port of a system. In the illustrated embodiment,... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365858 | Systems and methods for phase measurements Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for phase measurement which address the problem of phase noise using combinations of a number of strategies including, but not limited to, common-path interferometry, phase referencing, active st... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362444 | Interferometers for optical coherence domain reflectometry An interferometer system includes an optical radiation source, an optical circulator connected between the optical radiation source and a sample location for transmitting optical radiation from the optical radiation source to the sample location, an output of the op... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359061 | Method and apparatus for providing polarization insensitive signal processing for interferometric sensors A method and apparatus that uses specific source modulation and detectors to detect a response that carries information about a system response matrix associated with each sensor in a interferometric sensor array and extracting a sensor response in a manner that eli... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349101 | Lithographic apparatus, overlay detector, device manufacturing method, and device manufactured thereby A device according to one embodiment of the invention may be applied to measure the overlay (e.g. as a machine performance number) quickly and over an expanded range of locations (possibly everywhere) on a wafer. One method using such a device includes measuring the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340618 | System and method for regulating system power by controlling memory usage based on an overall system power measurement A power governor for DRAM in a multi-node computer system regulating memory power consumption of an entire computer system employs a closed ring that connects all the power governors within the system to enable them to work in concert so that each of the power gover... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340619 | System and method for circulating power usage information on a closed ring communication path within a multi-node computer system A method of regulating power for multi-node computer system components has a closed-ring path that links all the power governors and circulating in the ring is a system power number that represents the power consumption of the entire system. Meanwhile, all the gover... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321973 | System for controlling power to a system part using a control unit and wherein the power to the control unit is controlled using a power controller An electronic device includes a system part having a plurality of electronic components; a system power supply outputting a system operating power by transforming electrical power supplied from the battery pack into the system operating power to operate the system p... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313706 | System and method for managing power consumption for a plurality of processors based on a supply voltage to each processor, temperature, total power consumption and individual processor power consumption An electronic processing system contains a power supply subsystem and a multi-processor module. Programmable control circuitry manages power consumption in the electronic system by allocating priority among a plurality of competing demands, such as total power consu... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293183 | System for storing working context in a non-volatile memory while in a power-off suspend mode and restoring the working context when the power-off suspend mode is released Provided are an apparatus and method of transmitting working context, which can minimize power consumption in a power-off standby mode of a portable apparatus including a system on a chip, where the method includes selecting a power-off standby mode, transmitting wo... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293181 | Use of one voltage regulator module to support two processors to improve power and thermal limitations Several processors have specifications setting forth that each processor be coupled to a separate specified voltage regulator circuit. Instead, a number of specified voltage regulator circuit(s) is coupled to the several processors. The number of voltage regulator c... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280224 | Interferometry systems and methods of using interferometry systems In general, in one aspect, the invention features methods that include interferometrically monitoring a distance between an interferometry assembly and a measurement object along each of three different measurement axes while moving the measurement object relative t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274464 | Position measuring device A position measuring device for detecting the spatial position of a movable element in relation to a base body, the device including a linear measuring device that measures a distance between a movable element and a base body and an angle-measuring apparatus that me... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275164 | System and method for fencing any one of the plurality of voltage islands using a lookup table including AC and DC components for each functional block of the voltage islands An integrated circuit (IC) chip (100) containing a plurality of voltage islands (124I-M) containing corresponding functional blocks (104I-M) that can be selectively fenced, i.e., powered down, while saving the states of the corresponding inputs,... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272711 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and method for updating firmware of the apparatus In a recording/reproducing apparatus capable of communicating with a data transmission site and the other apparatus through a network, a control unit controls the recording and reproducing of the information based on firmware. A receiving unit receives first informa... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268887 | Overlapping common-path interferometers for two-sided measurement Two common-path interferometers share a measuring cavity for measuring opposite sides of opaque test parts. Interference patterns are formed between one side of the test parts and the reference surface of a first of the two interferometers, between the other side of... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266714 | Method an apparatus for adjusting the time of a clock if it is determined that the degree of adjustment is within a limit based on the clocks initial time A free-running secure clock in a computing device that is adjustable by a user of the device so long as cumulative adjustments do not exceed a predicted clock drift. The clock may be initially set by the user or by a trusted time authority or the like. Such a clock ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7259867 | Method and device for analyzing a light intensity distribution over a cross-section of a laser beam For analysis and/or monitoring the light intensity distribution over the cross-section of a laser beam (1), the laser beam (1) is reflected with a laser mirror (2), and local thermal expansions of the laser mirror (2) caused by different ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259859 | Terahertz modulation spectrometer A method and apparatus for detecting spectral properties of a sample are disclosed. Electromagnetic radiation in the Terahertz range emitted from a first laser source is modulated and combined with electromagnetic radiation emitted from a second laser source. The fr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259868 | Method for determining the optical nonlinearity profile of a material A method determines a nonlinearity profile of a material. The method includes providing a magnitude of a Fourier transform of a measured nonlinearity profile measured from the material. The method further includes providing an estimated phase term of the Fourier tra... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257729 | System and method for processing an instruction according to a clock and adjusting the phase of the clock according to the instruction A processor with an adjustable operating frequency and method thereof. The pipeline processor includes a clock providing module for providing a reference clock, and a processing core coupled to the clock providing module for processing a first instruction according ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254721 | System and method for controlling an intergrated circuit to enter a predetermined performance state by skipping all intermediate states based on the determined utilization of the intergrated circuit A computer system has multiple performance states. The computer system periodically determines utilization information for the computer system and adjusts the performance state according to the utilization information. If a performance increase is required, the comp... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251041 | Spatial filtering in interferometry Spatial filtering of beams in interferometry systems is used to reduce a displacement of the beams from an optical path corresponding to the path of the beams in an optimally-aligned system. By reducing beam displacement from the optical path, the system reduces the... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248372 | Technologies for measuring thickness of an optical disc The disclosure includes a system, device, apparatus and programmed medium of measuring thickness of an optical disc by using an interference effect of the optical disc layer. Such a system can include: a spectroscope to separate light, reflected from a surface of an... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249270 | Method and apparatus for placing at least one processor into a power saving mode when another processor has access to a shared resource and exiting the power saving mode upon notification that the shared resource is no longer required by the other processor The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method of controlling access to a shared resource. The data processing apparatus has a plurality of processors operable to perform respective data processing operations requiring access to the shared res... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240225 | System and method for throttling power in one or more information handling systems An information handling system includes support for dynamic power throttling. In one embodiment, an information handling system includes power level detection and power control modules. The power level detection module may monitor power consumption for the informati... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236252 | System and apparatus for measuring displacements in electro-active materials A device designed to apply uniaxial pressure to the surface of an electro-active material while simultaneously applying a current to the material under controlled temperature conditions and then measuring the displacement of the material by means of a laser interfer... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236254 | Exposure apparatus with interferometer A projection exposure apparatus includes an exposure light source, an illumination system for illuminating a pattern, formed on a first object, with light from the exposure light source and passing through the illumination system, a projection optical system for pro... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231531 | Personal electronics device with a dual core processor A novel personal electronic device includes a processor having first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) cores including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first core performs relatively limited functions, while the second core performs ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231530 | System and method for saving power in a wireless network by reducing power to a wireless station for a time interval if a received packet fails an integrity check A method, an apparatus and a carrier medium storing instructions to implement the method. The method is in a first wireless station of a wireless network, and includes wirelessly receiving a signal corresponding to a packet wirelessly transmitted by a second wireles... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230718 | Simultaneous phase-shifting fizeau interferometer The tilted relationship between the reference and test mirrors (24,26) of a Fizeau interferometer is used to spatially separate the reflections (R,T) from the two surfaces. The separate beams (R,T) are filtered through a spatial polarization element (32 | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230717 | Pixelated phase-mask interferometer A phase-difference sensor measures the spatially resolved difference in phase between orthogonally polarized reference and test wavefronts. The sensor is constructed as a pixelated phase-mask aligned to and imaged on a pixelated detector array. Each adjacent pixel o... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230720 | Film thickness measuring method of member to be processed using emission spectroscopy and processing method of the member using the measuring method A standard pattern of a differential value of an interference light is set with respect to a predetermined film thickness of a first member to be processed. The standard pattern uses a wavelength as a parameter. Then, an intensity of an interference light of a secon... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230719 | High sensitivity scanning probe system The present invention provides a hybrid optical and interferometric atomic force microscope system (40) for monitoring a cantilever probe (46). A light source (42) provides a light beam which is focussed on the back of the cantilever probe (4... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224466 | Compact multi-axis interferometer A multi-axis plane mirror interferometer uses shared measurement and reference beams that respectively reflect from measurement and reference reflectors before that shared beams are split into individual beams corresponding to the measurement axes of the interferome... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224464 | Fourier-transform spectrometers A novel tilt-compensated interferometer geometry is described. The design uses tilt- and shear-compensation optics to simultaneously maintain high throughput and precise interferometric alignment, even in the presence of non-ideal scanning motions. The tilt-compensa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224463 | Resolving quadrature fringes of interferometer signals in real time Techniques and devices for digitally resolving quadrature fringe signals from interferometers such as optical interferometers and interferometer-based sensing devices. In one implementation, two quadrature fringe signals from an interferometer which causes two signa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222248 | Method of switching voltage islands in integrated circuits when a grid voltage at a reference location is within a specified range An integrated circuit has a power grid and a set of independently switchable voltage islands, together with a system and method for measuring the voltage and history of the voltage on the power grid to determine the correct time to allow a large capacitive load (suc... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222250 | Display unit and power save controller An object of the present invention is to provide a display unit and a power save controller capable of reducing the power consumption in a power save mode. There are provided a power supply section 110 which supplies power to a display unit 100 connect... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221458 | Method for measuring the microrelief of an object and optical characteristics of near-surface layer, modulation interference microscope for carrying out said method Method of optical measuring the microrelief of an object using a modulation interference microscope. An input coherent monochromatic polarized light flux is split into an object light beam exposing the object and a reference beam. The light flux intensity is redistr... | 05/22/2007 |
