Patents Assigned to Genesis
  • Patent number: 7348950
    Abstract: A method of overdriving LCD panels to improve LCD pixel response time is described that does not rely upon conventional use of overdrive look up tables. The method is based upon modeling the LCD pixels as linear second-order dynamical systems that leads to simple runtime calculations requiring but a small number of stored panel specific constants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Halfant
  • Patent number: 7348258
    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 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, Nathan Cheung
  • Patent number: 7346226
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for reducing mosquito noise in an image frame of a video signal. A window of the image frame is provided. The window includes a plurality of pixel values. One of the pixel values is selected from the pixel values in the window to define a modified window of pixel value differences. A local mean (DC) value is computed based on the pixel value differences. A mosquito noise reduction value is also computed based on the pixel value differences. An artifact attenuation factor is computed as a function of a dynamic range measure of the pixel value differences. A weighted sum of the mosquito noise reduction value and the local mean value, applying the artifact attenuation factor, and the selected pixel value, is computed to generate a modified pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Vyacheslav Shyshkin
  • Patent number: 7345663
    Abstract: A memory efficient providing LC overdrive for sticky pixels at a frame n?1 for a current frame n based upon sticky pixel data associated with a frame n?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7346109
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for computing motion vectors in a digital video sequence are disclosed. A recursive hierarchical method is used to determine a motion vector by using multiple resolution levels of the image frames. A best motion vector is first determined for the lowest resolution level. The best motion vector is propagated to a higher resolution level, where some adjustments are made and a new best motion vector is determined. The new best motion vector is propagated to yet another higher resolution level, where more adjustments are made and another new best motion vector is determined. This process is repeated until the highest, original, resolution level has been reached and a best motion vector has been identified. The identified best motion vector at the original resolution level is used for performing motion compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: Hari N. Nair, Gordon Petrides
  • Patent number: 7341609
    Abstract: A reforming and hydrogen purification system operating with minimal pressure drop for producing free hydrogen from different hydrogen rich fuels includes a hydrogen reforming catalyst bed in a vessel in communication with a core unit containing a hydrogen permeable selective membrane. The vessel is located within an insulated enclosure which forms an air inlet passageway and an exhaust passageway on opposite sides of the vessel. Air and raffinate pass through a burner within the air inlet passageway, providing a heated flue gas to heat the catalyst to the reaction temperature needed to generate free hydrogen from the feedstock. The burner flue gas flows laterally over and along the length of the bed between the input and output ends of the bed. Hydrogen is recovered from the core for use by a hydrogen-consuming device such as a fuel cell. The remaining unrecovered hydrogen in the reformed gases is contained in raffinate and is used to supply process heat via the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Fueltech, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter David DeVries
  • Publication number: 20080057675
    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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Henley, Nathan Cheung
  • Publication number: 20080056421
    Abstract: An over-sampled sequence detector operates on sampled data and tracks the detection reliability of the sampled data. The detector separately analyzes sample sequences for different sampling phases and then picks a sample sequence that allows for the most reliable detection. For the different sampling phases, the detector inspects some amount of look-behind and look-ahead information in order to improve upon simple symbol-by-symbol detection. The over-sampled information is used to further improve detection performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Eglit
  • Publication number: 20080058763
    Abstract: A cell delivery system and method for delivering cells locally to a tissue, body cavity, or joint is described. The cell delivery system comprises a catheter configured to deliver stem cells in a pressure controlled manner. The catheter may comprise an inner bladder and an outer perforated bladder. The inner bladder may be expanded through the use of a pressure conduit in order to deploy a stent. Cells, such as endothelial cells derived from adipose tissue, may be introduced between the inner and outer bladder. The inner bladder may be further expanded in order to exert pressure on the outer perforated bladder to advance the stems cells though the apertures of the outer bladder. The inner bladder may remain pressurized to hold the outer bladder against the vessel wall, thereby directing the stem cells to specific target sites. The system may be used to deliver stem cells with or without other therapeutic agents. The system may be used with or without a stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Tissue Genesis, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Boland, Stuart Williams, Paul Kosnik
  • Publication number: 20080043850
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for computing motion vectors in a digital video sequence are disclosed. A recursive hierarchical method is used to determine a motion vector by using multiple resolution levels of the image frames. A best motion vector is first determined for the lowest resolution level. The best motion vector is propagated to a higher resolution level, where some adjustments are made and a new best motion vector is determined. The new best motion vector is propagated to yet another higher resolution level, where more adjustments are made and another new best motion vector is determined. This process is repeated until the highest, original, resolution level has been reached and a best motion vector has been identified. The identified best motion vector at the original resolution level is used for performing motion compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: GENESIS MICROCHIP INC.
    Inventors: Hari Nair, Gordon Petrides
  • Publication number: 20080046261
    Abstract: A method and system for managing a direct repair program includes receiving one or more estimates of repair cost from one or more shops and determining which of the received one or more estimates are in compliance with one or more requirements. The one or more compliant estimates from the one or more shops and stored feedback on the one or more shops associated with the compliant estimates are provided to the source of the claim. A selection of one of the compliant estimates based on the compliant estimates and the stored feedback is received and the claim is awarded to the selected one of the one or more shops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: Scene Genesis, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Cunningham
  • Publication number: 20080038901
    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: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Henley, Nathan Cheung
  • Publication number: 20080037627
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for reducing mosquito noise and blockiness in an image frame of a video signal. A border of a pixel block is determined, and if the region surrounded by the border is determined to be associated with mosquito noise or blockiness, then the mosquito noise or blockiness, respectively, is reduced in the region only.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: GENESIS MICROCHIP INC.
    Inventors: Tianhua Tang, Peter Swartz, Xu Dong
  • Publication number: 20080038908
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing doped substrates using a continuous large area scanning implantation process is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a movable track member. The movable track member is provided in a chamber. The chamber includes an inlet and an outlet. In a specific embodiment, the movable track member can include one or more rollers, air bearings, belt member, and/or movable beam member to provide one or more substrates for a scanning process. The method may also include providing a first substrate. The first substrate includes a first plurality of tiles. The method maintains the first substrate including the first plurality of tiles in a vacuum. The method includes transferring the first substrate including the first plurality of tiles from the inlet port onto the movable track member. The first plurality of tiles are subjected to a scanning implant process. The method also includes maintaining a second substrate including a second plurality of tiles in the vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventor: Francois Henley
  • Patent number: 7327329
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel based display, a method of dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel voltage overdrive is disclosed. The method is carried out by performing the following operations. A video vertical refresh rate of an incoming video data stream is determined and based upon the determining, only one video data stream conditioning protocol from a number of available video data stream conditioning protocols is selected. The selected video data stream condition protocol is then applied to the video data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Kobayashi, Anders Frisk
  • Patent number: 7324163
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a video decoder configured to receive a composite video signal modulated on a sub-carrier signal and having a luma component and a chroma component, the video decoder configured to perform a motion detection operation on the luma component and the chroma component in a plurality of frequency regions respectively. The video decoder includes variable threshold logic, coupled to the video decoder, and configured to provide a unique threshold value to the video decoder for each of the plurality of frequency regions respectively. The apparatus also includes a sub-carrier detection logic, coupled to the variable threshold logic, and configured to detect the sub-carrier signal by checking both spatial and temporal characteristics of the sub-carrier detection logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Ravi Ananthapur Bacche
  • Publication number: 20080013725
    Abstract: A packet based high bandwidth copy protection method is described that includes the following operations. Forming a number of data packets at a source device, encrypting selected ones of the data packets based upon a set of encryption values, transmitting the encrypted data packets from the source device to a sink device coupled thereto, decrypting the encrypted data packets based in part upon the encryption values, and accessing the decrypted data packets by the sink device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20080008172
    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: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: GENESIS MICROCHIP INC.
    Inventor: Osamu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070300232
    Abstract: A messaging server application system handles message creation, receipt, and response for any sort of digitizable message in any format. It typically operates as a core application and application infrastructure in a communications network or networks in the multiple sender, receiver and user modes of the same or varying design and operational characteristics. The system uses an application architecture organized using a set of ten loosely-coupled subsystems falling into three general functional groups: interface/connector subsystems, core subsystems, and storage subsystems. The interface/connector subsystems include voice, data and multimedia gateways as well as message connectors and a multimodal authenticator. The core subsystems include a multimedia messaging bus, an independent metadata messaging bus, and a content transformer. The storage subsystem can include various storage subsystems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Voice Genesis, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Marriott, Reza Behravanfar
  • Patent number: RE40074
    Abstract: An interlaced television signal is derived from an interlaced 625 line, nominally 50 Hz field rate television signal, the derived television signal having perceived reduced line structure and reduce flicker. The field rate and the number of lines of the derived television signal are increased with respect to the field rate and the number of lines of the original television signal, such that perceived flicker and line structure in the derived television signal is reduced. The increase in the field rate and the increase in the number of lines in the derived television signal results in a horizontal scanning rate that does not substantially exceed twice the horizontal scanning rate of the original television signal while minimizing undesirable motion artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventors: Donald S. Butler, Xu Dong, Jack J. Campbell