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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,189,881 |
Fingerprint sensor using beams of light and methods of manufacture and use A fingerprint sensor uses beams of light to detect a fingerprint as the finger is swiped over a ridged surface. The beams of light are directed toward... |
| US-8,189,817 |
System for amplifiers with low distortion and low output impedance System for pulse-width-modulated class D audio amplifiers. In one preferred embodiment an adder is described to generate a difference signal responsive to an... |
| US-8,189,744 |
Dynamic hearing/voice carry over for global text telephony A system and method for controlling a telecommunications device capable of text telephone, and voice carry over or hearing carry over operation where transition... |
| US-8,189,725 |
Loop bandwidth enhancement technique for a digital PLL and A HF divider
that enables this technique A method of operating a phase locked loop (FIG. 5) for a wireless receiver is disclosed. The method includes receiving a reference signal (503) having a first... |
| US-8,189,557 |
Secondary synchronization channel design for OFDMA systems Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the... |
| US-8,189,456 |
Apparatus for and method of minimizing backoff for orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing transmission A novel and useful mechanism for reducing the required backoff and the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) needed for an OFDM transmitter whiles still meeting... |
| US-8,189,454 |
Multi-band OFDM communications system A method for providing communication in a wireless network comprising one or more simultaneously operating pico networks includes dividing UWB spectrum into a... |
| US-8,189,309 |
Clamp for controlling current discharge In many applications, particularly in automotive applications, integrated circuits (IC) are designed to withstand large fly-back currents from inductive loads.... |
| US-8,189,284 |
Quiet retraction system A quiet retraction method for regulating constant velocity while parking an arm within a disk drive is described. The method comprises the steps of: driving a... |
| US-8,189,079 |
Imaging apparatus and method In recent years, the performance of CMOS and CCD image sensors has dramatically improved, and to utilize the improved performance of these sensors, processing... |
| US-8,188,902 |
Ternary search SAR ADC Traditionally, successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) using binary search algorithms have consumed power by performing... |
| US-8,188,790 |
Gated class H amplifier/line driver system and method Amplifier circuitry (10) includes a driver amplifier (11) and an integrator amplifier (A.sub.H) producing an output signal (V.sub.AH) that controls a pass... |
| US-8,188,676 |
Systems and methods for driving light-emitting diodes At least some embodiments include a LED driver system. The system includes multiple branches of series-coupled LEDs, multiple current sources, and control... |
| US-8,187,920 |
Integrated circuit micro-module One aspect of the present invention relates to an integrated circuit package that includes multiple layers of a planarizing, photo-imageable epoxy that are... |
| US-8,185,952 |
Static and dynamic firewalls A system comprising control logic adapted to activate multiple security levels for the system. The system further comprises a storage coupled to the control... |
| US-8,185,790 |
Resynchronization memory in series/parallel with control/output data scan
cells An integrated circuit or circuit board includes functional circuitry and a scan path. The scan path includes a test data input lead, a test data output lead, a... |
| US-8,185,789 |
Capturing response after simultaneously inputting last stimulus bit in
scan path subdivisions Scan and Scan-BIST architectures are commonly used to test digital circuitry in integrated circuits. The present disclosure improves upon low power Scan and... |
| US-8,185,774 |
Timer for low-power and high-resolution with low bits derived from set of
phase shifted clock signals The present invention is an electronic device comprising a counter driven by an input clock signal for counting clock cycles and providing most significant bits... |
| US-8,185,672 |
Transmission of data bursts on a constant data rate channel A system and method for transmitting asynchronous data bursts over a constant data rate channel that transmits a continuous stream of data with virtually no... |
| US-8,185,666 |
Compare instruction A processor executes an instruction that causes a comparison to be performed between contents of a first register and contents of a second register and between... |
| US-8,184,579 |
ACK/NAK repetition schemes in wireless networks ACK/NAK repetition may be necessary to provide sufficient coverage for cell edge UEs. For a coverage limited UE, a NodeB may inform the UE that ACK/NAK... |
| US-8,184,474 |
Asymmetric SRAM cell with split transistors on the strong side An integrated circuit containing an SRAM cell array in which each SRAM cell includes an auxiliary NMOS driver or PMOS load transistor plus a bit-side passgate... |
| US-8,184,154 |
Video surveillance correlating detected moving objects and RF signals A surveillance method periodically detects an image of the area, identifies and tracks each moving object in a succession of the detected images, detects radio... |
| US-8,183,939 |
Ring oscillator A ring oscillator has at least one latch connected to the outputs of at least one oscillator stage, where the latch drives the outputs of the oscillator stage... |
| US-8,183,621 |
Non-volatile memory cell having a heating element and a substrate-based
control gate The number of times that a non-volatile memory (NVM) can be programmed and erased is substantially increased by utilizing a localized heating element that... |
| US-8,183,137 |
Use of dopants to provide low defect gate full silicidation The disclosure provides a semiconductor device and method of manufacture therefore. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor device, in one embodiment,... |
| US-8,183,117 |
Device layout in integrated circuits to reduce stress from embedded
silicon-germanium An integrated circuit including one or more transistors in which source and drain regions are formed as embedded silicon-germanium (eSiGe). Guard ring... |
| US-8,181,067 |
Apparatus and method for test and debug of a processor/core having
advanced power management An interface unit is provided in a JTAG test and debug procedure involving a plurality of processor cores. The interface unit includes a TAP unit. A switch unit... |
| US-8,180,635 |
Weighted sequential variance adaptation with prior knowledge for noise
robust speech recognition A method for adapting acoustic models used for automatic speech recognition is provided. The method includes estimating noise in a portion of a speech signal,... |
| US-8,179,812 |
System and method for providing status reports of transmitted data packets
in a data communications system A digital communications system for delivering data blocks includes at least one transmit/receive unit (TRU). The TRU includes a storage element for receiving... |
| US-8,179,810 |
Low-complexity primary synchronization sequences Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the... |
| US-8,179,775 |
Precoding matrix feedback processes, circuits and systems An electronic device includes a first circuit (111) operable to generate a precoding matrix index (PMI) vector associated with a plurality of configured... |
| US-8,179,715 |
8T SRAM cell with four load transistors An integrated circuit containing SRAM cells with auxiliary load transistors on each data node. The integrated circuit also contains circuitry so that auxiliary... |
| US-8,179,446 |
Video stabilization and reduction of rolling shutter distortion A method of processing a digital video sequence is provided that includes estimating compensated motion parameters and compensated distortion parameters... |
| US-8,179,235 |
Tactile interface for mobile devices A tactile input to a system having a speaker located in an enclosure with an audio port can be detected by generating a sound wave in response to a signal and... |
| US-8,179,198 |
Variable gain amplifier having automatic power consumption optimization A variable gain amplifier may include a master amplifier that may be configured to generate a first current and a diode coupled with the master amplifier so... |
| US-8,179,160 |
Input-output (I/O) circuit supporting multiple I/O logic-level swings An integrated circuit (IC) includes an input/output (I/O) circuit supporting high-speed operation and multiple I/O logic-level swings. The I/O circuit includes... |
| US-8,178,976 |
IC device having low resistance TSV comprising ground connection A semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit (IC) die including a substrate, and at least one through substrate via (TSV) that extends through the... |
| US-8,178,915 |
Unitary floating-gate electrode with both N-type and P-type gates An analog floating-gate electrode in an integrated circuit, and method of fabricating the same, in which trapped charge can be stored for long durations. The... |
| US-8,176,460 |
Method of optimizing ESD protection for an IC, an ESD protection optimizer
and an ESD protection optimization... An ESD protection optimizer, a method of optimizing ESD protection for an IC and an ESD protection optimization system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the ESD... |
| US-8,176,443 |
Layout of printable assist features to aid transistor control Exemplary embodiments provide a method for laying out an IC design and the IC design layout. The IC design layout can include one or more gate features placed... |
| US-8,176,374 |
Data register control of TDI/AX1 to the data register The present disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for directly accessing JTAG Tap domains that exist in a scan path of many serially connected JTAG... |
| US-8,176,368 |
Error correcting DPCM transcoding A digital system is provided that converts compressed data using an indexed transcoding lookup table. A stream of compressed data samples has data samples that... |
| US-8,176,297 |
Adaptive fetch advance control for a low power processor A digital signal processor (DSP) includes an instruction buffer queue (IBQ) with multiple lines, as well as a modifiable fetch advance parameter to specify a... |
| US-8,176,241 |
System and method for optimizing DRAM refreshes in a multi-channel memory
controller In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for optimizing DRAM refreshes in a multi-channel memory controller are provided.... |
| US-8,175,584 |
System and method to facilitate downloading data at a mobile wireless
device The invention relates to systems and method to facilitate downloading a data file. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a first wireless... |
| US-8,175,549 |
Closed loop transmitter IQ calibration A novel and useful apparatus for and method of closed loop IQ calibration for use in a transmitter. The IQ calibration mechanism functions to provide... |
| US-8,175,375 |
Method of compression of video telephony images A method of compression of videotelephony images characterized by: creating (10) a learning base containing images; centering the learning base about zero;... |
| US-8,175,147 |
Video coding rate control Video encoding (such as H.263, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC) modifies TMN5-type rate control frame skipping and quantization parameter updating according to buffer... |
| US-8,175,077 |
Mapping schemes for secondary synchronization signal scrambling Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the... |
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