Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Oomori

Mitsuhiro Oomori has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7646209
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit, able to repair a fault and normally operate as an overall circuit even when a fault occurs in a portion of the circuit, and able to reduce a change of signal delay along with the repair of the fault, including N (larger than 2) number of circuit modules which can replace each other's functions; circuit blocks each including R (larger than 1 but smaller than N) number of I/O units for outputting at least one signal to one circuit module, and receiving at least one signal generated in the one circuit module; and a circuit module selection unit configured to select R number of circuit modules from among the N number of circuit modules in response to a control signal, connect the selected R number of circuit modules and R number of I/O units of the circuit block in a 1:1 correspondence, and connect one circuit module selected from at least two circuit modules in response to the control signal to each of the R number of I/O units, and a method of producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Oomori, Tomofumi Arakawa