Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor and Zafman
  • Image sensor with improved light sensitivity
    Patent number: 8330839
    Abstract: An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the first group of pixels has individual pixels that have spectral photoresponses that correspond to a set of at least two colors. Further, the placement of the first and second groups of pixels defines a pattern that has a minimal repeating unit including at least twelve pixels. The minimal repeating unit has a plurality of cells wherein each cell has at least two pixels representing a specific color selected from the first group of pixels and a plurality of pixels selected from the second group of pixels arranged to permit the reproduction of a captured color image under different lighting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Compton, John F. Hamilton, Jr.
  • Optimal code generation for derivation tables
    Patent number: 8332810
    Abstract: A set order that most efficiently separates a set of output vectors of a derivation table is iteratively determined for a set of input vectors belonging to the derivation table. Code is generated to evaluate the input vectors in the set order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: SAP Aktiengeselleschaft
    Inventor: Klaus Steinbach
  • Barrel plating apparatus
    Patent number: 8329005
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a barrel plating apparatus. The barrel plating apparatus includes a barrel plating tank filled with an electrolytic solution, a barrel container immersed in the electrolytic solution of the barrel plating tank and filled with chip parts and media, a power supply unit for supplying current to an anode part and a cathode part which transfer the current to the barrel container and the electrolytic solution of the barrel plating tank, a driving motor for rotating the barrel container, and a hall current sensor formed in at least one cathode rod of the cathode part, coming into direct contact with the chip parts, the hall current sensor measuring the current. Accordingly, in the barrel plating apparatus, the currents of respective cathode rods are measured by hall current sensors, and thus variations in plating thickness can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Chan Lee
  • Series and parallel hybrid switched capacitor networks for IC power delivery
    Patent number: 8330436
    Abstract: Series switches for power delivery. A regulator operated as a current source is arranged in parallel with a switched capacitor divider. A switched capacitor divider is configured in series with a plurality of linear regulators with each regulating one of a plurality of voltage outputs from the switched capacitor divider. In another embodiment, a series switch bridge has a first pair of switches connected in series with a second pair of switches across a voltage input, each switch within a pair of switches is switched in-phase with the other while the first pair of switches is switched out of phase with the second pair of switches. A balancing capacitor is coupled across one switch in both the first and second pair to be in parallel when either of the pair of switches is closed to reduce a charge imbalance between the switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley S. Oraw, Telesphor Kamgaing
  • Electronic apparatus, image display system and image display method
    Patent number: 8330865
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a display configured to display an image; a display magnification changing module configured to change display magnification of the image; a cursor display module configured to display a cursor; a receiver configured to receive a signal indicating a movement direction; and a cursor movement control module configured to move the cursor a first distance in the movement direction when the display is displaying the image with a first display magnification, and move the cursor a second distance that is longer than the first distance in the movement direction when the display is displaying the image with a display magnification that is larger than the first display magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shigeru Maeda, Tomohiro Kanda
  • Dual fuel compression ignition engines and methods
    Patent number: 8327831
    Abstract: Dual fuel compression ignition engines and methods that allow compression ignition on gaseous fuels like compressed natural gas, hydrogen and ammonia, yet will run on liquid fuels, including diesel fuels for such purposes as starting or when the gaseous fuel is not available or has been consumed and greater range or operating time is needed. Ignition of fuels having a high self ignition temperature is assured by recirculating high temperature exhaust gas back into the intake charge before compression. Existing engines may be converted to run as a dual fuel engine by replacement of the engine head or heads. Various embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sturman Digital Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Oded Eddie Sturman
  • Method of operation of a passive high-frequency image reject mixer
    Patent number: 8331896
    Abstract: A passive implementation of an image reject mixer (IRM), capable of operating at very high frequency, is operative according to the disclosed method. The IRM comprises a quad MOS multiplier and a lumped-element hybrid, resulting in a passive IRM. Operative at a radio frequency (RF) of tens of GHz with an intermediate frequency (IF) of several GHz. The RF+ and RF? signals are provided to two quad MOS multipliers. A local oscillator signal (LO) is used to provide LO+ and LO? signals to one of the multipliers and by providing the LO to a phase shifter, generated are a ninety degree shifted LO+ and LO? signals provided to the other multiplier. Providing the hybrids with the outputs of both multipliers and selecting an appropriate IF signal from each of the hybrids ensures the proper operation of the passive IRM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Theta S.A.
    Inventor: Ioannis Papananos
  • Localized annealing during semiconductor device fabrication
    Patent number: 8329556
    Abstract: A process for the fabrication of semiconductor devices on a substrate, the semiconductor devices including at least one metal layer. The process includes, removing the substrate and applying a second substrate; and annealing the at least one metal layer by application of a beam of electromagnetic radiation on the at least one metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Tinggi Technologies Private Limited
    Inventors: Shu Yuan, Jing Lin
  • Keystroke dynamics authentication techniques
    Patent number: 8332932
    Abstract: A keystroke dynamics authentication system collects measurements as a user types a phrase on a keyboard. A first set of derived data values are computed based on the collected measurements, and then a second set of derived data values are computed based on the first set of derived values. The first and second sets of derived values are used to construct a template for identifying the user based on his typing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Scout Analytics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mechthild R. Kellas-Dicks, Yvonne J. Stark
  • Occlusion devices and methods
    Patent number: 8327852
    Abstract: The invention provides intrafallopian devices and non-surgical methods for their placement to prevent conception. The efficacy of the device is enhanced by forming the structure at least in part from copper or copper alloy. The device is anchored within the fallopian tube by a lumen-traversing region of the resilient structure which has helical outer surface, together with a portion of the resilient structure which is biased to form a bent secondary shape, the secondary shape having a larger cross-section than the fallopian tube. The resilient structure is restrained in a straight configuration and transcervically inserted within the fallopian tube, where it is released. Optionally, permanent sterilization s effected by passing a current through there resilisent structure to the tubal walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Conceptus, Inc.
    Inventors: Julian N. Nikolchev, Dai T. Ton, Ashish Khera, Donnell W. Gurskis, Steven Bacich
  • Produce graph oriented programming framework with scenario support
    Patent number: 8332827
    Abstract: Embodiments of a producer graph oriented programming framework with scenario support have been presented. In one embodiment, a request to evaluate potential impacts by a change on an application program is received. The application program includes a set of producers, each having at least an instance and a method associated with the instance. Responsive to the request, the application program may be simulated with the change while the existing states and existing outputs of the producers are preserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Murex S.A.S.
    Inventors: Elias Eddé, Fady Chamieh
  • Multilayer image sensor pixel structure for reducing crosstalk
    Patent number: 8330195
    Abstract: An image sensor pixel includes a substrate, a first epitaxial layer, a collector layer, a second epitaxial layer and a light collection region. The substrate is doped to have a first conductivity type. The first epitaxial layer is disposed over the substrate and doped to have the first conductivity type as well. The collector layer is selectively disposed over at least a portion of the first epitaxial layer and doped to have a second conductivity type. The second epitaxial layer is disposed over the collector layer and doped to have the first conductivity type. The light collection region collects photo-generated charge carriers and is disposed within the second epitaxial layer. The light collection region is also doped to have the second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Venezia, Ashish Shah, Rongsheng Yang, Duli Mao, Yin Qian, Hsin-Chih Tai, Howard E. Rhodes
  • Methods and apparatuses for dynamic power control
    Patent number: 8332665
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for dynamically budgeting power usage in a data processing system. In one aspect, a data processing system, includes: one or more first components capable of being dynamically throttled to a plurality of different performance level settings; one or more second components; and one or more power usage sensors. The one or more power usage sensors are to determine information on power usage during a first time period of operation of the data processing system. The one or more first components and the one or more second components may include a computing element to determine one of the performance level settings of the one or more first components of the data processing system for a second time period subsequent to the first time period using the information on the power usage during the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Conroy, Keith Alan Cox, Michael Culbert
  • Primitives to enhance thread-level speculation
    Patent number: 8332619
    Abstract: A processor may include an address monitor table and an atomic update table to support speculative threading. The processor may also include one or more registers to maintain state associated with execution of speculative threads. The processor may support one or more of the following primitives: an instruction to write to a register of the state, an instruction to trigger the committing of buffered memory updates, an instruction to read the a status register of the state, and/or an instruction to clear one of the state bits associated with trap/exception/interrupt handling. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Quinn A. Jacobson, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Gautham N. Chinya, Per Hammarlund, Xiang Zou, Bryant Bigbee, Shivnandan D. Kaushik
  • Dynamic service groups based on session attributes
    Patent number: 8332525
    Abstract: Service groups are dynamically created and members are dynamically assigned. A network element receives a request for a subscriber session and transmits an authentication request to a AAA server. The network element receives an authentication reply from the AAA server that includes dynamic service group configuration information that indicates that the subscriber session should be part of a service group and defines the criteria for the network element to dynamically create and join that subscriber session to a service group if an appropriate service group does not exist or dynamically join that subscriber session to an existing service group. The network element derives a dynamic service group identifier from attributes of the subscriber session based on instructions in the dynamic service group configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Timothy J. Lynch, Srikanth Chavali, Francois Lemarchand, Sudhakar Chunduru, Sunny Wang
  • Memory micro-tiling request reordering
    Patent number: 8332598
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory controller is disclosed. The memory controller includes assignment logic, a reorder table and a transaction assembler. The assignment logic receives a request to access a memory channel and assigns the request to access one of two or more independently addressable subchannels within the channel. The reorder table includes two or more table elements. Each table element includes a shared address component and an independent address component corresponding to each of the two or more independently addressable subchannels. The transaction assembler combines the shared and independent address components in a reorder table element and issue a single memory transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James Akiyama, William H. Clifford, Paul M. Brown
  • Electromagnetic bandgap structure and printed circuit board having the same
    Patent number: 8330048
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electromagnetic bandgap structure and a printed circuit board having the same. The bandgap structure includes a conductive layer including a plurality of conductive plates; and a metal layer disposed over or under the conductive layer and including a stitching pattern to electrically connect a first conductive plate to a second conductive plate of the plurality of conductive plates. The bandgap structure includes a spiral stitching pattern formed in a metal layer different from the conductive layer, thus offering a stop-band having a desired bandwidth in a compact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Won Woo Cho, Young Soo Kim, Yoon Jung Kim, Dek Gin Yang, Myung Gun Chong, Hyung Ho Kim
  • Content selection based on simulcast data
    Patent number: 8331966
    Abstract: A computer system receives information snippets from a mobile device. The information snippets are extracted from a simulcast of a data stream of a radio broadcast received on the mobile device. The system identifies content metadata from the information snippets. The content metadata describes one or more features of the radio broadcast. The system selects a radio station from a radio station repository based on attributes of the radio station. One of the selection criteria is that the attributes of the radio station match at least a portion of the content metadata. The system presents a reference to the radio station to the mobile device as a recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy A. Anzures, Henry Mason, Lucas Newman
  • Methods and apparatuses for managing power by leveraging intermediate power margins
    Patent number: 8332679
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to manage a power of a system that leverage intermediate power margins are described. One or more subsystems of the system are operated at one or more performance points. A power consumed by the one or more subsystems at each of the one or more performance points is measured. An operational power of the one or more subsystems at the one or more performance points is determined. The one or more subsystems are operated at well-known conditions at the one or more performance points. The operational power may be adjusted based on data associated with the one or more subsystems. The operational power is provided to a power lookup table. The power is distributed among the one or more subsystems based on the operational power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Conroy, Michael Culbert, Keith A. Cox
  • Backside illuminated imaging sensor with improved infrared sensitivity
    Patent number: 8329497
    Abstract: A backside illuminated imaging sensor includes a semiconductor layer and an infrared detecting layer. The semiconductor layer has a front surface and a back surface. An imaging pixel includes a photodiode region formed within the semiconductor layer. The infrared detecting layer is disposed above the front surface of the semiconductor layer to receive infrared light that propagates through the imaging sensor from the back surface of the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yin Qian, Howard E. Rhodes, Hsin-Chih Tai, Vincent Venezia, Duli Mao