Patents Assigned to Genesis
  • Patent number: 7495647
    Abstract: Reducing fast motion artifacts in an LCD panel by receiving a video stream at a first frame rate which is then downsampled to a second frame rate. The downsampled video stream is then upsampled to a third frame rate and a voltage is applied to a pixel element such that the pixel element transitions from a first pixel value to a predetermined second pixel value within a period of time consistent with the third frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: John Tryhub, Steve Selby
  • Patent number: 7491645
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a protrusion-patterned layer on a substrate, the protrusion-patterned layer including a plurality of separated protrusions, each of which includes a base portion formed on the substrate and a top end portion opposite to the base portion; laterally growing a base layer on the top end portions of the protrusions of the protrusion-patterned layer in such a manner that each of the top end portions is covered by the base layer and that the base layer cooperates with the protrusions to define a plurality of cavities thereamong; thickening the base layer to a predetermined layer thickness; and separating the base layer from the substrate by destroying the protrusions of the protrusion-patterned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Photonics Inc.
    Inventor: Cheng-Chuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20090043176
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a heat indicator measuring device that is able to appropriately prevent a heat disorder. The heat indicator measuring device includes: a temperature measuring unit 2 that measures a temperature, a humidity measuring unit 3 that measures humidity; a heat index calculation unit 5 that calculates a heat index from the measured temperature and humidity; a user data inputting unit 6B that inputs user data as data regarding a user; a noticed content memorizing unit 20 that memorizes a noticed content including a content to be noticed and indicating preventive measures against a heat disorder corresponding to the heat index and the user data; a noticed content determining unit 21 that determines the noticed content based on the heat index and the user data; noticing units 8 and 9 that notice the determined noticed content; and a supporting unit 11 that supports each of the units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicants: CHINON CORPORATION, GENESIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakajima, Masazumi Chino
  • Publication number: 20090042369
    Abstract: A method for fabricating free standing thickness of materials using one or more semiconductor substrates, e.g., single crystal silicon, polysilicon, silicon germanium, germanium, group III/IV materials, and others. In a specific embodiment, the present method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a surface region and a thickness. The method includes subjecting the surface region of the semiconductor substrate to a first plurality of high energy particles provided at a first implant angle generated using a linear accelerator to form a region of a plurality of gettering sites within a cleave region, the cleave region being provided beneath the surface region to defined a thickness of material to be detached, the semiconductor substrate being maintained at a first temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventor: Francois J. Henley
  • Patent number: 7487273
    Abstract: A method of coupling a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device by providing a source device having a transmitter unit coupled thereto, providing sink device having a receiver unit coupled thereto, receiving a source data stream in accordance with a native stream rate by the transmitter unit, coupling the transmitter unit and the receiver unit by way of a linking unit, forming a multimedia data packet stream formed of a number of multimedia data packets and generating a transport schedule for transferring the multimedia data packet stream in accordance with a link rate between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit wherein the multimedia data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7484112
    Abstract: Managing power in a display controller having an on-board power supply coupled to a host device having an off-board power supply by way of a connector is described. If the on-board power supply is active, then power is supplied to the display controller by the off-board power supply by way of the connector and a low frequency clock arranged to provide a low frequency clock signal is turned on. Alternatively, when it is determined that the on-board power supply is active, then power is supplied to the display controller by the on-board power supply only, the low frequency clock is turned off and a high frequency clock arranged to provide a high frequency clock signal is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Noorbakhsh, David Keene, John Lattanzi, Ram Chilukuri
  • Patent number: 7479441
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for bonding together substrates in a manner that suppresses the formation of voids between them. In a specific embodiment, a backside of each substrate is adhered to a front area of flexible, porous chuck having a rear area in pneumatic communication with a vacuum. Application of the vacuum causes the chuck and the associated substrate to slightly bend. Owing to this bending, physical contact between local portions on the front side of the flexed substrates may be initiated, while maintaining other portions on front side of the substrates substantially free from contact with each other. A bond wave is formed and maintained at a determined velocity to form a continuous interface joining the front sides of the substrates, without formation of voids therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Harry R. Kirk, Francois J. Henley, Philip James Ong
  • Patent number: 7480809
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for reducing the power consumption of a microprocessor. One or more signal transitions in an instruction set of a microprocessor are profiled. A probability of occurrence is assigned to each instruction in the instruction set. A binary operation code is assigned to each instruction, based on the probability of occurrence for the instruction. The instructions having the highest probability of occurrence are assigned operation codes that require fewer signal transitions. As a result, the power consumption of the microprocessor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Parag Naik
  • Patent number: 7480334
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for performing temporal motion vector filtering in digital video are disclosed. A recursive hierarchical process is used to determine a motion vector. In the recursive hierarchical process, a neighborhood of old motion vectors is filtered to generate a first estimated motion vector for an image patch in a pair of two image frames. The filtering process uses multiple vectors in a neighborhood around the old motion vector to improve the prediction of the first estimated motion vector. The temporal vector partitioning process separates motion vectors associated with an object from motion vectors associated with a background before selecting a best motion vector, which improves the selection process. The process also works well in the absence of object/background boundaries, as in this case the outlier (incorrect) vector or vectors will be separated out from the good vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Hari N. Nair
  • Patent number: 7477244
    Abstract: Detecting when the on-board power supply is powered on or off by an auto activity detection circuit by determining if the reference clock signal (TCLK) is toggling and if the reference clock signal is toggling, then charging a capacitor to a high voltage in the auto activity detection circuit based on the toggling reference clock signal, and outputting an on-board power supply activity signal based upon the high voltage by the auto activity detection circuit indicative of whether or not the on-board power supply is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Noorbakhsh, David Keene, John Lattanzi, Ram Chilukuri
  • Publication number: 20090010253
    Abstract: A packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream rate, a receiver unit coupled to the sink device, and a linking unit coupling the transmitter unit and the receiver unit arranged to transfer a multimedia data packet stream formed of a number of multimedia data packets based upon the source packet data stream in accordance with a link rate between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: GENESIS MICROCHIP INC.
    Inventor: Osamu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7473935
    Abstract: A white-light emitting semiconductor device includes a first light-emitting die, a second light-emitting die, a photostimulable luminescent substance, and a holding assembly. The first light-emitting die emits a first radiation having a first wavelength range. The second light-emitting die emits a second radiation having a second wavelength range, and a third radiation having a third wavelength range different from the second wavelength range. The photostimulable luminescent substance is excitable to emit a fourth radiation having a fourth wavelength range. The fourth radiation is mixed with the first, second, and third radiations to result in white light. The holding assembly holds the first and second light-emitting dies, and the photostimulable luminescent substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Genesis Photonics Inc.
    Inventor: Cheng-Chuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20090001500
    Abstract: A partially completed multi-layered substrate, e.g., silicon on silicon. The substrate has a thickness of material from a first substrate. The thickness of material comprises a first face region. The substrate has a second substrate having a second face region. Preferably, the first face region of the thickness of material is joined to the second face region of the second substrate. The substrate has an interface region formed between the first face region of the thickness of material and the second face region of the second substrate. A plurality of particles are implanted within a portion of the thickness of the material and a portion of the interface region to electrically couple a portion of the thickness of material to a portion of the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventor: Francois J. Henley
  • Patent number: 7471336
    Abstract: Global-adaptive deinterlacing systems and methods for reducing scintillation and feathering artifacts. Motion adaptive deinterlacing (MADI) local motion quantization thresholds are adaptively adjusted according to the amount of global motion present in the video sequence, thereby minimizing scintillation and feathering artifacts when deinterlacing the fields. A set of global motion scenarios are defined for the purpose of classifying fields, and a number of global motion indicators are used to detect on a field-by-field basis different global motion scenarios. The global motion indicators are corrected to reduce Luma dependencies, thereby improving reliability and robustness. Depending on the global motion scenario of a field, the local motion thresholds are adaptively adjusted. The adaptive adjustment of quantization thresholds are optionally also applied to temporal noise reduction and cross-color suppression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Eduardo R. Corral Soto
  • Patent number: 7470600
    Abstract: A technique for forming a film of material (12) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of forming a stressed region in a selected manner at a selected depth (20) underneath the surface. An energy source such as pressurized fluid is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate (10) at the selected depth (20), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, Nathan Cheung
  • Patent number: 7465507
    Abstract: A fuel cell power system has a fuel cell capable of generating electrical power, a battery holder releasably mounting at least one rechargeable battery, and a power controller which receives the electrical power from the fuel cell and distributes the electrical power to an output bus for use by an external load and to the battery for charging the battery. The rechargeable batteries may be easily inserted and removed from the system, with the batteries providing start-up power for the fuel cell power source, as well as surge power when the external electrical load is connected to the power system, or when the load exceeds the capacity of the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Fueltech, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter David DeVries
  • Patent number: 7462526
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit on semiconductor substrates, e.g., silicon wafer. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate characterized by a first lattice with a first structure and a first spacing. In a specific embodiment, the semiconductor substrate has an overlying film of material with a second lattice with a second structure and a second spacing, the second spacing placing the film of material in a strain mode characterized by a first tensile and/or compressive mode along a single film surface crystal axis across a first portion of the film of material relative to the semiconductor substrate with the first structure and the first spacing. The method patterns a predetermined region of the first portion of the film of material to cause the first tensile and/or compressive mode in the first portion of the film of material to change to a second tensile and/or compressive mode in a resulting patterned portion of the first portion of the film of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventor: Francois J. Henley
  • Patent number: 7460181
    Abstract: System and method for increasing the blue component of white and near white pixels while avoiding hard transitions and without affecting flesh-tone colors. Pixels that are bright enough and fall within a detection area in the UV-plane have their blue components increased and their red components decreased. The detection area is limited to avoid application of blue stretch to flesh-tone colors. A transition boundary is provided around the detection area for gradually decreasing the amount of blue stretch as pixels move away from the boundary of the detection area, thereby avoiding hard transitions between areas that are blue stretched and areas that are not blue stretched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: Sheena Luu, Andrew Mackinnon
  • Patent number: 7457438
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for camera pan vector estimation, are disclosed. A camera model is provided for representing motion vectors based on a plurality of parameters. A distribution of the motion vectors is generated. A cluster in the distribution of motion vectors is identified. A center of mass of the identified cluster is determined. The camera pan vector is provided based upon the determined center of mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Hari N. Nair
  • Publication number: 20080286945
    Abstract: A technique for forming a film of material (12) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of introducing energetic particles (22) through a surface of a donor substrate (10) to a selected depth (20) underneath the surface, where the particles have a relatively high concentration to define a donor substrate material (12) above the selected depth. An energy source is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate (10) at the selected depth (20), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, Nathan W. Cheung