Patents by Inventor Russel Martin
Russel Martin 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).
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Publication number: 20120153970Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for sensing the location(s) of conductive objects disposed near a sensor array. In one aspect, a sensor array includes a conductive row and a conductive column formed of non-transparent material(s). At least a portion of the conductive row overlaps at least a portion of the conductive column and each of the conductive rows and columns include sensing elements. The sensing elements at least partially define volumes including non-conductive and optically transparent material(s) to limit the loss of light that passes therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Marc Maurice Mignard, Donald J. Elloway, Russel A. Martin, Alok Govil
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Publication number: 20120148635Abstract: A method and composition for treatment of bacterial infections caused by gram negative or gram positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Rhodococcus equi, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella oxytoca, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Haemophilus influenzae, Proteus mirabilis, Enterobacter species, Serratia marcescens as well as those caused by Burkholderia cepacia, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Alcaligenes xylosoxidans, and multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, using a formulation containing gallium (III), in a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or complex thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Aridis PharmaceuticalsInventors: Satoshi Ohtake, Vu Truong-Le, David Lechuga-Ballesteros, Luisa Yee, Binh V. Pham, Russel Martin, Atul Saxena
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Publication number: 20120116709Abstract: An optical accelerometer and method of determining an acceleration are disclosed. In one aspect, an accelerometer includes a light source, a substrate, a light guide attached to a first side of the substrate and configured to redirect light from the light source through the substrate. The accelerometer also includes a light detector, a proof mass attached to a second side of the substrate via one or more springs, wherein the second side is opposite the first side and wherein motion of the proof mass alters a characteristic of the light from the light source reaching the light detector, and a processor configured to determine an acceleration based on the characteristic of the light reaching the light detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Russel A. Martin, Manish Kothari, Evgeni P. Gousev
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Publication number: 20110261088Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling analog display elements. In one aspect, a control scheme can be used for controlling analog display elements, including interferometric modulators. This control scheme can be used to drive the analog display elements to a plurality of discrete different states, and can be referred to as “digital” control of the display element state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jae Hyeong Seo, Marc M. Mignard, Alok Govil, Russel A. Martin
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Publication number: 20090207294Abstract: The invention describes in detail the structure of a CMOS image sensor pixel that senses color of impinging light without having absorbing filters placed on its surface. The color sensing is accomplished by having a vertical stack of three-charge detection nodes placed in the silicon bulk, which collect electrons depending on the depth of their generation. The small charge detection node capacitance and thus high sensitivity with low noise is achieved by using fully depleted, potential well forming, buried layers instead of undepleted junction electrodes. Two embodiments of contacting the buried layers without substantially increasing the node capacitances are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: Foveon, Inc.Inventors: Jaroslav Hynecek, Richard B. Merrill, Russel A. Martin
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Patent number: 7557863Abstract: A jitter correction apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a rising edge corrector to receive a jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected rising edge of the jittered signal. The apparatus may also have a falling edge corrector to receive the jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected falling edge of the jittered signal. The jitter correction apparatus may include an output device to receive the jitter corrected rising edge, to receive the jitter corrected falling edge, and to output a jitter corrected signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.Inventors: Stephen J. Keating, Russel Martin, Victor M. Da Costa, Gyudong Kim
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Patent number: 7558326Abstract: A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a TMDS-like link, in which video data and auxiliary data (typically including timing data associated with other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, or in which video data are transmitted over the link from the transmitter to the receiver, and auxiliary data (typically including timing data associated with other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the receiver to the transmitter. In typical embodiments the auxiliary data include one or more streams of audio data.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2001Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lyle, Gyudong Kim, Min-Kyu Kim, Ken-Sue Tan, Paul Daniel Wolf, William C. Altmann, Russel A. Martin
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Patent number: 7541627Abstract: The invention describes in detail the structure of a CMOS image sensor pixel that senses color of impinging light without having absorbing filters placed on its surface. The color sensing is accomplished by having a vertical stack of three-charge detection nodes placed in the silicon bulk, which collect electrons depending on the depth of their generation. The small charge detection node capacitance and thus high sensitivity with low noise is achieved by using fully depleted, potential well forming, buried layers instead of undepleted junction electrodes. Two embodiments of contacting the buried layers without substantially increasing the node capacitances are presented.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Foveon, Inc.Inventors: Jaroslav Hynecek, Richard B. Merrill, Russel A. Martin
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Patent number: 7295578Abstract: A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a TMDS-like link, in which video data and auxiliary data are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, or in which video data are transmitted over the link from the transmitter to the receiver and auxiliary data are transmitted from the receiver to the transmitter (or from the transmitter to the receiver and also from receiver to the transmitter), a transmitter or receiver for use in such a system, and methods for sending auxiliary data and video data over such a link, synchronizing such auxiliary data with such video data, and generating clocks having frequency closely matching the rate at which the auxiliary data are transmitted. Typically, the auxiliary data include one or more streams of audio data.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2001Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Inventors: James D. Lyle, Gyudong Kim, Min-Kyu Kim, Ken-Sue Tan, Paul Daniel Wolf, Long Van Pham, Russel A. Martin
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Patent number: 7109958Abstract: In a pixel display there is disclosed a pixel arrangement for LCD displays having 5 subpixel components. Namely, red, blue, green with adjacent red green pixels bordered by blue subpixels. Circuitry is disclosed for such pixels in which capacitors, functioning in sample hold circuits receive pulses to their terminal immediately after transistors are open with the resulting voltage change there occurring as an unintended voltage signal being applied to an LCD cell thereby causing unintended image artifacts. A new circuit and method is disclosed by which no transistor is open without its sample and hold stable for the remainder of the frame. Thus, preceding gate lines are tied through subsequent transistors such that all transistors open after the capacitors have their reference terminal stablized. In this way, leakage current does not occur through the source and drain of the transistors attended and certain subpixels do not have unintended image artifacts present.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2002Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Silicon ImageInventor: Russel A. Martin
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Publication number: 20060055822Abstract: A jitter correction apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a rising edge corrector to receive a jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected rising edge of the jittered signal. The apparatus may also have a falling edge corrector to receive the jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected falling edge of the jittered signal. The jitter correction apparatus may include an output device to receive the jitter corrected rising edge, to receive the jitter corrected falling edge, and to output a jitter corrected signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2005Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventors: Stephen Keating, Russel Martin, Victor Da Costa, Gyudong Kim
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Publication number: 20050253803Abstract: An electric display is described including a plurality of rotatable elements, a thin film transistor active matrix array containing a plurality of thin film transistors which are arranged as one or more rows and one or more columns of transistors, each transistor having a gate input and a data input, which inputs are coupled to a gate control logic and a data control logic, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2004Publication date: November 17, 2005Inventors: Malcolm Thompson, Russel Martin
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Patent number: 6961095Abstract: A jitter correction apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a rising edge corrector to receive a jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected rising edge of the jittered signal. The apparatus may also have a falling edge corrector to receive the jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected falling edge of the jittered signal. The jitter correction apparatus may include an output device to receive the jitter corrected rising edge, to receive the jitter corrected falling edge, and to output a jitter corrected signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.Inventors: Stephen J. Keating, Russel A. Martin, Victor M. Da Costa, Gyudong Kim
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Publication number: 20050194653Abstract: The invention describes in detail the structure of a CMOS image sensor pixel that senses color of impinging light without having absorbing filters placed on its surface. The color sensing is accomplished by having a vertical stack of three-charge detection nodes placed in the silicon bulk, which collect electrons depending on the depth of their generation. The small charge detection node capacitance and thus high sensitivity with low noise is achieved by using fully depleted, potential well forming, buried layers instead of undepleted junction electrodes. Two embodiments of contacting the buried layers without substantially increasing the node capacitances are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2004Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Jaroslav Hynecek, Richard Merrill, Russel Martin
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Patent number: 6914314Abstract: A vertical color filter sensor group formed on a substrate (preferably a semiconductor substrate) and including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors, each having a different spectral response. At least one of the sensors includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material other than crystalline silicon (for example, silicon carbide, or InxGa1-xN, or another III-V semiconductor material, or polysilicon, or amorphous silicon). Other aspects of the invention are arrays of such vertical color filter sensor groups, and methods for fabricating such vertical color filter sensor groups and arrays thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2003Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Foveon, Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Merrill, Russel A. Martin
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Patent number: 6894265Abstract: A vertical color filter sensor group, formed on a substrate (preferably a semiconductor substrate) by a semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication process, and including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors. Other aspects of the invention are arrays of such vertical color filter sensor groups, and methods for fabricating such vertical color filter sensor groups and arrays thereof. In some embodiments, the sensor group is a block of solid material having a readout surface. At least two vertically stacked sensors are formed in the block and a trench contact is provided between one of the sensors and the readout surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Foveon, Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Merrill, Russel A. Martin
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Patent number: 6870930Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for protecting digital content during transmission. One version of the invention provides a method for encryption in a high-speed digital video transmission system that includes the steps of: a) performing transition controlled encoding of a first sequence of n bit data words into encoded n+1 bit data characters where the n is a positive integer, b) performing XOR masking of the encoded n+1 bit data characters with an XOR mask to produce masked n+1 bit data characters; c) DC balancing the masked n+1 bit data characters to produce DC balanced, masked n+2 bit data characters; d) scrambling the DC balanced, masked n+2 bit data characters using a scrambling formula to produce encrypted n+2 bit data characters; e) encoding control data into encoded n+2 bit control characters, f) generating a serial data stream in response to the encrypted data characters and encoded control characters, and g) transmitting the serial data stream over a communication link.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.Inventors: Gyudong Kim, Victor M. Da Costa, Bruce Kim, David D. Lee, Russel A. Martin, Seung Ho Hwang
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Patent number: 6841816Abstract: A vertical color filter sensor group formed on a substrate (preferably a semiconductor substrate) and including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors. In preferred embodiments, the sensor group includes at least one filter positioned relative to the sensors such that radiation that has propagated through or reflected from the filter will propagate into at least one sensor. Preferably, the filter is or includes a layer that has been integrated with the sensors by a semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication process. In other embodiments, the sensor group includes a micro-lens. Other aspects of the invention are arrays of vertical color filter sensor groups, some or all of which include at least one filter or micro-lens, and methods for fabricating vertical color filter sensor groups and arrays thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Foveon, Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Merrill, Richard F. Lyon, Richard M. Turner, Robert S. Hannebauer, Russel A. Martin
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Publication number: 20040178464Abstract: A vertical color filter sensor group formed on a substrate (preferably a semiconductor substrate) and including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors, each having a different spectral response. At least one of the sensors includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material other than crystalline silicon (for example, silicon carbide, or InxGa1-xN, or another III-V semiconductor material, or polysilicon, or amorphous silicon). Other aspects of the invention are arrays of such vertical color filter sensor groups, and methods for fabricating such vertical color filter sensor groups and arrays thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: FOVEON, INC.Inventors: Richard B. Merrill, Russel A. Martin
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Publication number: 20040178465Abstract: A vertical color filter sensor group formed on a substrate (preferably a semiconductor substrate) and including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors. In preferred embodiments, the sensor group includes at least one filter positioned relative to the sensors such that radiation that has propagated through or reflected from the filter will propagate into at least one sensor. Preferably, the filter is or includes a layer that has been integrated with the sensors by a semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication process. In other embodiments, the sensor group includes a micro-lens. Other aspects of the invention are arrays of vertical color filter sensor groups, some or all of which include at least one filter or micro-lens, and methods for fabricating vertical color filter sensor groups and arrays thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: FOVEON, INC.Inventors: Richard B. Merrill, Richard F. Lyon, Richard M. Turner, Robert S. Hannebauer, Russel A. Martin