Patents Assigned to NXP
  • Integrated circuit with trimming
    Patent number: 9331086
    Abstract: An integrated circuit is provided, which comprises at least one first group each having at least one analog unit; and at least one second group each having at least one electronically settable semi-permanent switching unit coupled to the at least analog unit of the first group for trimming the first group and having at least one many-times-programmable and non-volatile cell (MTP). Each many-times-programmable cell (MTP) comprises at least one MOS transistor having a floating gate (FG) with a tunnel oxide (TO) and a first capacitor coupled to the floating gate (FG). The capacitance of the first capacitor is substantially larger than a gate-channel capacitance of the MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Wibo D. Van Noort, Theodore J. Letavic, Francis Zaato
  • Media streaming with adaptation
    Patent number: 9332050
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for receiving a media stream provided in a plurality of different, alternative encoded representations. Each representation comprises a series of discrete fragments and each fragment comprises a contiguous temporal segment of the stream. The method comprises: obtaining (240, 310) at least a part of a first fragment from a first one of the representations; obtaining (210, 320) at least a part of a second fragment from a second one of the representations, wherein the first and second fragments comprise temporal segments that overlap at least partially; decoding (250, 330) a first temporal segment of the media stream from the first fragment; and decoding (260, 350) a second, later temporal segment of the media stream from the second fragment. In this way, the method switches from receiving the stream in the first representation to receiving it in the second representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Arnaud Collard, Nicolas Delahaye
  • Power control
    Patent number: 9329611
    Abstract: As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, an event manager provides control of a battery-powered internal power supply. The power supply has a control port that receives a control signal for activating and deactivating the internal power supply, and one or more output ports for providing a power signal. The event manager includes a plurality of system-event circuits that detect activity signals corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of system events. An event validation circuit, which is powered by the power signal, provides a validation signal that is based upon an activity signal detected by the event manager circuit and that indicates that the internal power supply should provide the power signal in a non-sleep power-operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Franciscus Johannes Klosters, Clemens Gerhardus Johannes de Haas
  • Method and service provider for managing expired or consumed applications being stored in mobile communication devices
    Patent number: 9329853
    Abstract: A system that enables the customer to keep applications that have been consumed or expired or representations of them and yet to delete the applications from the memory element of his/her NFC mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Alexandre Corda, Jonathan Azoulai, Vincent Lemonnier
  • Integrated circuit with directional light sensor, device including such an IC and method of manufacturing such an IC
    Patent number: 9331219
    Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated circuit comprising a substrate having a major surface; a directional light sensor, the directional light sensor comprising a plurality of photodetectors on a region of said major surface, said plurality of photodetectors comprising a set of first photodetectors for detecting light from a first direction and a set of second photodetectors for detecting light from a second direction, wherein a first photodetector is located adjacent to a second photodetector; and a light blocking structure comprising a first portion extending from said major surface in between the first photodetector and the second photodetector; and a second portion extending from the first portion and at least partially overhanging at least one of the first photodetector and the second photodetector. A device including such an IC and a method of manufacturing such an IC are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NXP, B.V.
    Inventors: Zoran Zivkovic, Youri Ponomarev
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING THE LIFETIME OF MULTI-CORE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICES
    Publication number: 20160116924
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and system are disclosed. One embodiment of an integrated circuit device is disclosed. The integrated circuit device includes first and second processor cores configured to perform a respective first and second set of functional processing. The integrated circuit device also includes a core-specific process state monitor associated with the first processor core, a core-specific process state monitor associated with the second processor core, a core-specific aging monitor associated with the first processor core, a core-specific aging monitor associated with the second processor core, a power management unit, a clock generation unit, and a control system configured to individually control operating points of the first and second processor cores and workload in response to feedback from the core-specific process state monitors and from the core-specific aging monitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Rinze Ida Mechtildis Peter Meijer, Ghiath Al-kadi
  • DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF INITIALIZING A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20160119362
    Abstract: A data processing system is conceived, which comprises at least two security levels and key material stored at a specific one of said security levels, wherein the key material is tagged with a minimum security level at which the key material may be stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Timotheus Arthur van Roermund, Cornelis Marinus Moerman, Peter Maria Franciscus Rombouts
  • PACKAGED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH INTERIOR POLYGONAL PADS
    Publication number: 20160118357
    Abstract: Embodiments of a packaged semiconductor device with interior polygon pads are disclosed. One embodiment includes a semiconductor chip and a package structure defining a rectangular boundary and having a bottom surface that includes interior polygonal pads exposed at the bottom surface of the package structure and located on a centerline of the bottom surface of the package structure and edge polygonal pads exposed at the bottom surface of the package structure, located at an edge of the rectangular boundary, and including one edge polygonal pad in the vicinity of each corner of the rectangular boundary. The interior polygonal pads are configured such that a line running between at least one vertex of each of the interior polygonal pads is parallel to an edge of the rectangular boundary of the package structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Roelf A.J. Groenhuis, Kan Wae Lam, Clifford J. Lloyd, Chi Hoo Wan, Fei Ying Wong
  • Antenna structures and methods for omni directional radiation patterns
    Patent number: 9324020
    Abstract: A device is provided for use with a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that receives and modulates a radio frequency (RF) signal. A substrate of the device includes a first short dipole antenna structure that backscatters a received RF signal to produce a first radiation pattern having nulls. A set of connection pads couple the RF signal from the antenna to a frontend transmitter circuit of the RFID chip. A second antenna structure backscatters the received RF signal by electromagnetic coupling to the first antenna structure and produces a second radiation pattern that complements the nulls in the first radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Alexey Nazarov
  • Efficient analog to digital converter
    Patent number: 9325340
    Abstract: An efficient analog to digital converter is disclosed. The efficient analog to digital converter includes a coarse analog to digital converter coupled to an input analog signal. The coarse analog to digital converter is configured to provide an approximate digital representation of the input analog signal. The efficient analog to digital converter also includes a fine analog to digital converter coupled to the input analog signal. The output of the coarse analog to digital converter is coupled to the fine analog to digital converter. The fine analog to digital converter is configured to set input range of the fine analog to digital converter as a function of the output of the coarse analog to digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NXP, B.V.
    Inventors: Burak Gonen, Fabio Sebastiano, Kofi Afolabi Anthony Makinwa, Robert Hendrikus Margaretha van Veldhoven
  • Lighting control method, computer program product and lighting control system
    Patent number: 9326345
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a lighting control method is conceived for controlling the illumination of a working area, wherein an RFID-enabled light sensor attached to said working area measures incident light on the working area, and wherein an RFID-enabled luminary periodically reads the measured incident light from the RFID-enabled light sensor and adapts its light level in dependence on the measured incident light, such that a predefined illumination level on the working area is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Ewout Brandsma
  • Method of operating a multi-stream reception scheme
    Patent number: 9325927
    Abstract: A method of operating a multi-stream reception scheme, such as DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications), comprising at least two receivers (10, 12, 14) having respective voltage controlled oscillators (16), the method including monitoring a change in local oscillator frequency in a selected one of the at least two streams and, if the frequency distance between the local oscillator frequencies is below a value likely to cause pulling or coupling between the voltage controlled oscillators of the at least two receivers, resetting the frequency planning of the selected one of the at least two streams to maximize the frequency distance of the voltage controlled oscillator of the selected stream with the voltage controlled oscillators of the or the other streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Yann Le Guillou
  • Task execution determinism improvement for an event-driven processor
    Patent number: 9323540
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for operating an event-driven processor and an event-driven processor are described. In one embodiment, a method for operating an event-driven processor involves configuring a heartbeat timer of the event-driven processor and handling an event using the event-driven processor based on the heartbeat timer. Using a heartbeat timer built into the event-driven processor, the task execution determinism of the event-driven processor is improved and the power consumption of the event-driven processor is reduced. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Adam Fuks, Sergio Scaglia
  • Device and method for providing filtering for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
    Patent number: 9319057
    Abstract: Devices and methods for providing filtering for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are described. In one embodiment, a method for providing filtering for an ADC involves obtaining a filter coefficient of a post-filtering filter that is located after the ADC on a signal path and generating a filter coefficient of a pre-filtering filter that is located before the ADC on the signal path based on the filter coefficient of the post-filtering filter. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Sujan Pandey, Hubertus Gerardus Hendrikus Vermeulen, Abhijit Kumar Deb
  • Smart passive speaker drive
    Patent number: 9319780
    Abstract: A circuit embodied in a mobile device is disclosed. The circuit includes a headphone audio driver, a loudspeaker audio driver and a switch coupled to outputs of the headphone audio driver and the loudspeaker audio driver. The switch is configured to connect the output of the loudspeaker audio driver to an external speaker when an external speaker is connected to the mobile device. The external speaker may be detected using methods such as automatic accessory detection or impedance measurement or a user configuration or a use action. The circuit may also include an impedance detector to drive the switch based on an impedance measurement. A user interface is provided to enable a user of the mobile device to driver the switch based on user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Christophe Macours
  • Resonator
    Patent number: 9318997
    Abstract: A resonator has a main resonator body and a secondary resonator structure. The resonator body has a desired mode of vibration of the resonator alone, and a parasitic mode of vibration, wherein the parasitic mode comprises vibration of the resonator body and the secondary resonator structure as a composite body. In this way, unwanted vibrational modes are quenched by the second suspended body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP, B.V.
    Inventors: Casper van der Avoort, Andreas Bernardus Maria Jansman, Robert James Pascoe Lander
  • Smartcard, smartcard system and method for configuring a smartcard
    Patent number: 9317675
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a smartcard is conceived that comprises at least two pre-installed applications and an application user interface selector, wherein said application user interface selector is arranged to select and configure a specific authentication user interface corresponding to a specific one of the pre-installed applications in dependence on encoded information received from a host application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Suwald
  • Power supply control in a wireless receiver
    Patent number: 9319984
    Abstract: A wireless receiver is activated periodically to measure the level of received signals. It measures the average received level over a plurality of the activation periods, and enables the supply of power to receiver circuitry dependent on the measured average value. In one embodiment the power is enabled if an increase in the average value is detected which is greater than a predetermined margin. The average value may be measured in a sliding or stepped window. In another embodiment the power is enabled if the level in an activation period exceeds the average value by a predetermined margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP Semiconductors
    Inventors: Denis Noel, Steven Aerts, Harry Neuteboom
  • Capacitive position sensor system
    Patent number: 9317164
    Abstract: A capacitive position sensor system is provided for determining the position of an object, wherein the object is positioned within a sensitive area of the capacitive position sensor system and changes the capacitance of capacitors being arranged underneath the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Suwald
  • Chip having two groups of chip contacts
    Patent number: 9318428
    Abstract: A chip (1) has a substrate (2), an integrated circuit (3) provided on the substrate (2), a plurality of conductor zones (ME1, ME2, ME3, ME4, ME5) and a passivating layer (5) provided to protect the conductor zones and the integrated circuit, through-holes (6, 7) being provided in the passivating layer (5) through which chip contacts (8, 9) are accessible, wherein additional chip contacts (10, 11) and connecting conductors (12, 13) are provided on the passivating layer (5) and wherein each additional chip contact has an electrically conductive connection to a chip contact via a connecting conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Heimo Scheucher