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  • Device and method of reducing junction leakage
    Patent number: 8202767
    Abstract: A device and method for reducing junction leakage in a semiconductor junction includes forming a faceted raised structure in a source/drain region of the device. Dopants are diffused from the faceted raised structure into a substrate below the faceted raised structure to form source/drain regions. A sprinkle implantation is applied on the faceted raised structure to produce a multi-depth dopant profile in the substrate for the source/drain regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Bruce B. Doris, Ali Khakifirooz, Pranita Kulkarni, Ghavam G. Shahidi
  • System and method for providing contemporaneous product information with animated virtual representations
    Patent number: 8199966
    Abstract: A system and method for providing contemporaneous product information with animated virtual representations includes identifying a product by detecting a marker with a user device. Based upon the product, an animated virtual representation is generated in a display of the user device. Information about the product is conveyed to the user by virtual interaction with the animated virtual representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sinem Guven, Myron Flickner, Gopal Sarma Pingali, Mark Edward Podlaseck, Robyn Ruth Schwartz
  • Method and apparatus for encoding enhancement layer video data
    Patent number: 8199816
    Abstract: A method for improving the performance of the BLSkip mode in SVC includes the steps of upsampling the motion field of the base layer, interpolating the motion vectors for the intra MBs, interpolating the 8×8 block motion field to a 4×4 block motion field, and generating a MV predictor for a 4×4 block in BLSkip mode using neighbor candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jiefu Zhai, Peng Yin, Purvin Bibhas Pandit
  • Device for processing a stream of data words
    Patent number: 8200877
    Abstract: State of the art processor systems, esp. in embedded systems, are not able to process data under real-time conditions especially with throughput rates near 10 Gbps. So, when using interfaces like PCI Express (PCIe) or Infiniband or 10 G-Ethernet for 10 Gbps data throughput, special data-paths have to process the high throughput rate data. But tasks like connection management or time uncritical control messaging are better manageable by a processor. According to the invention it is proposed a kind of multiplexer architecture that is needed to split between control and data-path access for a PCI Express based architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Thomas Brune, Michael Walden, Oliver Kamphenkel, Herbert Schuetze
  • Distinguishing between live content and recorded content
    Patent number: 8195791
    Abstract: Distinguishing between live and recorded content in a network comprising a rendering device, an access device, and a storage device. The rendering device broadcasts a message requesting devices in the network to respond if they diffuse a content, and sets a timer. The devices respond if they diffuse the content. The rendering device then determines that the content is: live, if it has received a response from the access device; recorded, if it has received a response from the storage device, but not from the access device; and illegal, if it has not received a response before time-out of the timer. There is further a “still live delay” after diffusion of the content during which the access device responds that it is diffusing the content, and following which it may send a content release message to the storage device that may then respond to request messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Alain Durand, Yan-Mei Tang-Talpin, Olivier Heen
  • Versatile antenna system
    Patent number: 8193988
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna system designed to be used in a wireless link, having polarization directions, respectively for reception and emission, identical to the polarization directions, respectively for emission and reception, presented by a similar system placed in a geometric configuration of use that is different from that of the said first system. The invention enables identical devices to be implemented in separate items of equipment and in distinct positions while enabling the antenna pair to function correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Franck Thudor, Françoise Le Bolzer, Corinne Nicolas
  • Holographic storage system using destructive interference for pixel detection
    Patent number: 8189249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a holographic storage system, and more specifically to a method for pixel detection in a coaxial holographic storage system. In a holographic storage system according to the invention, with a coaxial arrangement of an object beam and a reference beam the bright pixels within the object beam have a phase shift of essentially ? relative to the reference beam. For readout of a data page contained in a reconstructed object beam a detector detects an interference pattern generated by the interference between the reference beam and the reconstructed object beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventor: Frank Przygodda
  • Ultra-compact PLL with wide tuning range and low noise
    Patent number: 8183948
    Abstract: A design for an oscillator, and a PLL incorporating such an oscillator, which takes up little physical area but maintains a large tuning range and low phase noise. Two LC-tanks are nested and switched. Through tuning the inactive tank, the range of the active tank may be increased and finer tuning becomes possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Herschel A. Ainspan, John F. Bulzacchelli, Daniel J. Friedman, Ankush Goel, Alexander V. Rylyakov
  • System and method for adaptive approximating of a user for role authorization in a hierarchical inter-organizational model
    Patent number: 8181230
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for adaptive approximating of a user for role authorization in a hierarchical inter-organization model. The system includes an authorization redirector for receiving a request for an access control decision for a user. The system further includes an adaptive authorizer for dynamically determining, at run-time, a user role approximation for the user responsive to the request. The user role approximation is based on at least one of a system state and a system goal corresponding to a hierarchical inter-organizational model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Genady Grabarnik, Larisa Shwartz, Maheswaran Surendra
  • Fingerprint representation using localized texture feature
    Patent number: 8180121
    Abstract: A system and method for processing fingerprints includes representing each minutiae in a fingerprint by determining quantized Gabor coefficients to represent texture content of the minutiae. A distance is computed between represented minutiae and stored minutiae. The minutiae matches are ranked based on the distance to identify the fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rudolf Maarten Bolle, Sharat Suresh Chikkerur, Sharathchandra UmapathiRao Pankanti, Nalini Kanta Ratha
  • Method for aligning demonstrated user actions with existing documentation
    Patent number: 8176422
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for aligning document actions specified in a documented procedure with demonstrated user actions. The apparatus includes an alignment device for computing an alignment between the document actions and the demonstrated user actions based on at least one similarity metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Castelli, Eugene Rogan Creswick, Tessa A. Lau, Daniel A. Oblinger
  • Method for recovering a video-on-demand session
    Patent number: 8176522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recovering a downloading section that has been interrupted, in a device comprising an interface with a network enabling access to a remote server and means for implementing a downloading session with the said server, comprising the steps for starting up a downloading session of a content from the remote server, by means of more than one signalling channel with at least the said server, detecting a premature interruption of the downloading session, verifying the availability of all the channels, as long as one of the channels is unavailable, the session is not recovered and when all the channels are again available, the session is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Thierry Quere, Duncan Lamb, Jean-François Lagardere
  • Strained CMOS device, circuit and method of fabrication
    Patent number: 8169025
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and fabrication method include a strained semiconductor layer having a strain in one axis. A long fin and a short fin are formed in the semiconductor layer such that the long fin has a strained length along the one axis. An n-type transistor is formed on the long fin, and a p-type transistor is formed on the at least one short fin. The strain in the n-type transistor improves performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen W. Bedell, Kangguo Cheng, Bruce B. Doris, Ali Khakifirooz, Devendra K. Sadana, Ghavam G. Shahidi
  • In-situ design method and system for improved memory yield
    Patent number: 8170857
    Abstract: A system and method for designing integrated circuits includes determining a target memory module for evaluation and improvement by evaluating performance variables of the memory module. The performance variables are statistically simulated over subset combinations of variables based on pin information for the module. Sensitivities of performance on yield to the variables in the subset combinations are determined. It is then determined whether yield of the target module is acceptable, and if the yield is not acceptable, a design which includes the target module is adjusted in accordance with the sensitivities to adjust the yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajiv V. Joshi, Rouwaida Kanj
  • Device and method for recording multimedia data
    Patent number: 8170397
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for recording multimedia data received in programme form. The device comprises temporary storage device designed to continuously record the multimedia data received in programme form and permanent storage device, capable of selectively transferring programmes from the temporary storage device to the permanent storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Lionel Oisel, Izabela Grasland, Ewa Kijak, Francois Le Clerc
  • Display method in an active matrix display device
    Patent number: 8169383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for displaying an image in an active matrix display device and more particularly in an active matrix OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) display. The purpose of this invention is to increase the video dynamic range of each color component. The voltages applied to the OLED cells are based on reference voltages or currents. According to the invention, a different set of reference voltages is used for each color component. To this end, the video frame is divided into at least three sub-frames and at least one color component of the picture is addressed during each subframe with a set of reference voltages adapted to said color component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Sébastien Weitbruch, Ingo Doser, Sylvain Thiebaud
  • Adaptive profiling by progressive refinement
    Patent number: 8166461
    Abstract: A system/method for profiling a sequence of values from a range to determine a frequency of occurrence of a subrange includes, for a current block, determining whether cells of the current block include a count cell or a pointer cell. If the cell includes a pointer cell, follow an address that the pointer makes reference to and designate a new block as the current block and repeat the determining step for the new block. If the cell includes a count cell, increment the count cell and compare the incremented count cell to a threshold. If the count exceeds the threshold, convert the count cell to a pointer cell, which points to a newly allocated block. The newly allocated block is made the current block, and the steps are repeated until count cells do not exceed the threshold or a limit resolution is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michel Henri Theodore Hack
  • Implementing instruction set architectures with non-contiguous register file specifiers
    Patent number: 8166281
    Abstract: There are provided methods and computer program products for implementing instruction set architectures with non-contiguous register file specifiers. A method for processing instruction code includes processing a fixed-width instruction of a fixed-width instruction set using a non-contiguous register specifier of a non-contiguous register specification. The fixed-width instruction includes the non-contiguous register specifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Karl Gschwind, Robert Kevin Montoye, Brett Olsson, John-David Wellman
  • Device, server, system and method to generate mutual photometric effects
    Patent number: 8164591
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for generating mutual photometric effects and a server for delivering photometric parameters for generating mutual photometric effects and a system including such a device and such a server. The device comprises a receiver for receiving and demultiplexing the visual data sets and photometric parameters respectively associated with the data sets, a module for defining the mutual photometric effects to be generated for these photometric parameters, a compositor and a rendering module for positioning the visual data sets in the common support space and applying the effects defined for the photometric parameters from at least one of the visual data sets to at least one other of the visual data sets so that at least one visual data set influences one other visual data set in the common support space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Jürgen Stauder, Bertrand Chupeau, Gérard Briand
  • Sandal
    Patent number: D659956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventor: Chi Huynh