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HRL Laboratories, LLC Patents
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HRL Laboratories, LLC
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Malibu, CA
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7622813 Oriented self-location of microstructures with alignment structures November 24, 2009
An electronic apparatus comprising one or more microstructures on a substrate and a method for fabricating the electronic apparatus. The microstructures have alignment structures that allow the microstructures to be oriented in receptacles having shapes that are complementary to the
7619567 Integrated phased array antenna November 17, 2009
An integrated communication device having a substrate layer of substantially electrically nonconductive material with two substantially parallel surfaces, an antenna element disposed on one of the surfaces, a ground layer of substantially electrically conductive material disposed on
7612718 Tunable frequency selective surface November 3, 2009
An apparatus and methods for operating a frequency selective surface are disclosed. The apparatus can be tuned to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. The methods disclosed teach how to tune the frequency selective surface to an on/off state or
7612324 Distributed display composed of active fiducials November 3, 2009
An apparatus configured to obtain, process, and relay data to a user in a coherent and useful manner. An active fiducial is equipped with an interface for receiving and transmitting data. The fiducial may transmit its position using a satellite-based position sensing device such as a
7605974 Method and apparatus for PPM demodulation using a semiconductor optical amplifier October 20, 2009
An optical pulse position modulation receiver relying on the gain dynamics in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Optical PPM signal pulses and periodic optical clock pulses at a different frequency and/or polarization than the signal pulses are coupled into an SOA. Due to the h
7603037 Ultra-dense wavelength and subcarrier multiplexed optical and RF/mm-wave transmission system October 13, 2009
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for optically modulating and transmitting source data. An optical comb comprising optical tones having a frequency spacing equal to .DELTA.f is generated by an optical comb generator. Selected ones of the optical tones in the optical comb are modul
7601981 Electrically programmable hyper-spectral focal-plane-array October 13, 2009
A voltage supply is connected to provide a variable bias voltage to a plurality of optical quantum tunneling photodetectors to thereby vary the spectral response of the photodetectors and thus detect radiation.
7599902 Analogical reasoning system October 6, 2009
The present invention relates to a general-purpose analogical reasoning system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a high-performance, semantic-based hybrid architecture for analogical reasoning, capable of finding correspondences between a novel situation and a know
7599894 Object recognition using a cognitive swarm vision framework with attention mechanisms October 6, 2009
An object recognition system is described that incorporates swarming classifiers with attention mechanisms. The object recognition system includes a cognitive map having a one-to-one relationship with an input image domain. The cognitive map records information that software agents u
7599814 System and method for computing reachable areas October 6, 2009
The present invention relates to computing reachable areas given a first point. More specifically, the present invention relates to the computation of an intersection between a first surface and a second surface for determining a set of points that are reachable from a first point. U
7599405 Method and apparatus for coherently combining multiple laser oscillators October 6, 2009
A laser apparatus having multiple laser devices coupled together. The laser devices comprise optical fibers with laser active regions. Each of the fibers has a reflector disposed at one end and is connected to a combiner on the other end. A laser pump device for each fiber provides p
7598158 Method and device for growing pseudomorphic AlInAsSb on InAs October 6, 2009
A semiconductor device and method are being disclosed. The semiconductor device discloses an InAs layer, a plurality of group III-V ternary layers supported by the InAs layer, and a plurality of group III-V quarternary layers supported by the InAs layer, wherein the group III-V ternary
7598131 High power-low noise microwave GaN heterojunction field effect transistor October 6, 2009
A method for fabricating heterojunction field effect transistors (HFET) and a family of HFET layer structures are presented. In the method, a step of depositing a HFET semiconductor structure onto a substrate is performed. Next, a photoresist material is deposited. Portions of the ph
7592939 Digital domain to pulse domain time encoder September 22, 2009
A system and method for making a digital encoder. The digital encoder has a digital-to-analog converter having multiple inputs and an output. The encoder also has an integrator having an input and an output, wherein the output of the digital-to-analog converter is connected to the input
7587064 Active learning system for object fingerprinting September 8, 2009
Described is an active learning system for fingerprinting an object identified in an image frame. The active learning system comprises a flow-based object segmentation module for segmenting a potential object candidate from a video sequence, a fixed-basis function decomposition modul
7583074 Low cost millimeter wave imager September 1, 2009
Low cost millimeter wave imagers using two-dimensional focal plane arrays based on backward tunneling diode (BTD) detectors. Two-dimensional focal arrays of BTD detectors are used as focal plane arrays in imagers. High responsivity of BTD detectors near zero bias results in low noise
7582536 Electronic device with reduced interface charge between epitaxially grown layers and a method fo September 1, 2009
An electronic device contains a substrate, a sub-collector supported by the substrate, an un-doped layer having a selectively implanted buried sub-collector and supported by the sub-collector, an As-based nucleation layer partially supported by the un-doped layer, a collector layer s
7582349 Morphing cellular structure September 1, 2009
The present invention relates to a morphing cellular structure. The morphing cellular structure comprises a group of unit cells with each unit cell configured to have a cellular geometry. The group unit cells are formed of an active material, where the active material has both a firs
7576409 Group III-V compound semiconductor based heterojuncton bipolar transistors with various collecto August 18, 2009
A wafer comprising at least one high F.sub.t HBT and at least one high BVceo HBT having various collector profiles on a common III-V compound semiconductor based wafer. The N+ implant in the collector varies the collector profiles of individual HBTs on the wafer. The method for prepa
7575807 Hybrid active deformable material structure August 18, 2009
A hybrid active deformable material structure is presented. The hybrid active deformable material structure comprises a deformation unit. Each deformation unit includes a selectively deformable material structure and an actively deformable material structure in cooperation with the s
7573305 High speed divider circuit August 11, 2009
A high speed divider circuit is disclosed. The circuit contains a plurality of latches and buffers. The maximum input clock frequency of the divider circuit is increased over that implemented with only latches connected in a ring by feed forwarding the output of an early switching la
7571839 Passive exoskeleton August 11, 2009
The present invention relates to a load bearing apparatus, and more particularly, to a passive exoskeleton whereby a load may be placed on the passive exoskeleton and thereby transfer weight of the load from the passive exoskeleton to a ground surface. The passive exoskeleton compris
7570809 Method for automatic color balancing in digital images August 4, 2009
The present invention provides an automatic color balancing method for digital images by essentially performing adaptive weighting of surface reflectance and illuminant spectra components of the image. The adaptive weighting mechanism is derived from fuzzy logic based inference methods,
7570593 Interference-resilient joint MAC and routing scheme for wireless ad-hoc networks August 4, 2009
The present invention provides a cross-layer design framework for the multiple access and routing problems in interference-limited wireless ad-hoc networks. It identified interference as an essential factor that couples multiple access and routing decisions through the trade-off betw
7569872 Bipolar transistors with low parasitic losses August 4, 2009
Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and single or double heterojunction bipolar transistors with low parasitics, and methods for making the same is presented. A transistor is fabricated such that the collector region underneath a base contact area is deactivated. This results in a drasti
7566916 Ohmic metal contact and channel protection in GaN devices using an encapsulation layer July 28, 2009
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device which protects the ohmic metal contacts and the channel of the device during subsequent high temperature processing steps is explained. An encapsulation layer is used to cover the channel and ohmic metal contacts. The present invention
7561732 Method and apparatus for three-dimensional shape estimation using constrained disparity propagat July 14, 2009
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for three-dimensional shape estimation using constrained disparity propagation are presented. An act of receiving a stereoscopic pair of images of an area occupied by at least one object is performed. Next, pattern regions and no
7559130 Method for fabricating quartz-based nanoresonators July 14, 2009
A method for fabricating a quartz nanoresonator which can be integrated on a substrate, along with other electronics is disclosed. In this method a quartz substrate is bonded to a base substrate. The quartz substrate is metallized so that a bias voltage is applied to the resonator, there
7558762 Multi-view cognitive swarm for object recognition and 3D tracking July 7, 2009
An object recognition system is described that incorporates swarming classifiers. The swarming classifiers comprise a plurality of software agents configured to operate as a cooperative swarm to classify an object in a domain as seen from multiple view points. Each agent is a complete
7557736 Handheld virtual overlay system July 7, 2009
A handheld virtual overlay system (HVOS) device is presented that includes a global positioning system (GPS) receiver for detecting a global position of the HVOS device; a compass/tilt sensor for detecting a direction and tilt of the HVOS device; a communication module for transmitti
7557677 Cascaded monolithic crystal filter with high out-of-band rejection July 7, 2009
In one embodiment, a cascaded monolithic crystal filter is provided. A first filter includes two resonators having a pair of electrodes with the monolithic crystal between. At least one electrode has a periphery which includes a feature capable of shifting a frequency associated with an
7555835 Fabricating a monolithic microwave integrated circuit July 7, 2009
A method of fabricating a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with one or more coupling transmission structures protruding from the MMIC includes providing a support substrate, providing a wafer containing a face side, a back side, and a plurality of individual MMICs disposed
7555824 Method for large scale integration of quartz-based devices July 7, 2009
Methods for integrating quartz-based resonators with electronics on a large area wafer through direct pick-and-place and flip-chip bonding or wafer-to-wafer boding using handle wafers are described. The resulting combination of quartz-based resonators and large area electronics wafer
7550189 Variable stiffness structure June 23, 2009
In some embodiments, a variable stiffness structure is provided having constant stiffness material layers and variable modulus material layers arranged in alternating layers. The variable modulus material layers have a material with a changeable elastic modulus in response to an applied
7542426 Apparatus and method for intra-team multi-hop broadcasting for efficient control signaling in wi June 2, 2009
A broadcast routing protocol and system for the efficient dissemination of control information in ad-hoc networks is disclosed. First, cost is assigned for each link and/or node in the network. In some aspects, cost is assigned using minimum inverse degree (MID-) or combined (C-) cost.
7541266 Covert transformation of transistor properties as a circuit protection method June 2, 2009
A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The technique includes the use of a light density dopant (LDD) region of opposite type from the active regions resulting in a transistor that is always off when standard voltages are applied to the device.
7534672 Tiered gate device with source and drain extensions May 19, 2009
In one embodiment, a tiered gate device is provided including a source, a drain, and a gate foot therebetween. A gate head is attached to the gate foot. A source extension extends from on the source toward the gate foot along the substrate. In some embodiments a drain extension extends f
7533615 Smart chaff May 19, 2009
A chaff element for interfering with radar signals. The chaff element has a dielectric substrate and a pair of elongate electrically conductive elements, having a total length of approximately one-half wavelength of the radar signals or otherwise tuned to the radar signals, disposed on
7531851 Electronic device with reduced interface charge between epitaxially grown layers and a method fo May 12, 2009
An electronic device contains a substrate, a sub-collector supported by the substrate, an un-doped layer having a selectively implanted buried sub-collector and supported by the sub-collector, an As-based nucleation layer partially supported by the un-doped layer, a collector layer s
7528778 Structure for coupling power May 5, 2009
Structures and a method of manufacturing an oscillator are disclosed. The structure contains a substrate with a first and a second major surfaces, a first plurality of conductors arranged in a first pattern on the first major surface, and a second plurality of conductors arranged in a se
7528075 Self-masking defect removing method May 5, 2009
A method for removing defects from a semiconductor surface is disclosed. The surface of the semiconductor is first coated with a protective layer, which is later thinned to selectively reveal portions of the protruding defects. The defects are then removed by etching. Finally, also the
7515835 System, method and apparatus for clockless PPM optical communication April 7, 2009
A PPM transmitter includes an optical clock generator for generating equally-spaced optical pulses with a sampling period T; an encoder for transforming an incoming waveform U(t) into a linear combination V(t) of U(t) and a delayed output V(t-kT) according to a rule V(t)=a(U(t)+V(t-k
7515156 Method and apparatus for parallel speculative rendering of synthetic images April 7, 2009
A method, apparatus and computer program product for parallel speculative rendering of synthetic images in an image rendering system are presented. The operations include obtaining measurements regarding scene characteristics. The measurements are provided to predictors, each predict
7515084 Analog to digital converter using asynchronous pulse technology April 7, 2009
A digital to analog converter includes a time encoder that converts an analog input signal into a asynchronous pulse sequence, a pulse asynchronous DeMUX circuit that converts the asynchronous pulse sequence into a parallel stream of pulse sequences at a relatively lower speed, a par
7514759 Piezoelectric MEMS integration with GaN technology April 7, 2009
A process for fabricating a combined micro electromechanical/gallium nitride structure. The micro electromechanical structure comprises a piezoelectric device, such as a piezoelectric switch or a bulk acoustic wave device. According to the process, high Q compact bulk acoustic wave r
7514755 Integrated circuit modification using well implants April 7, 2009
A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The integrated circuit structure is formed having a well of a first conductivity type under the gate region being disposed adjacent to active regions of a first conductivity type. The well forming an ele
7514708 80 nanometer diameter resonant tunneling diode with improved peak-to-valley ratio April 7, 2009
A sub-micron, on the order of 80-nanometer diameter, resonant tunneling diode having a peak-to-valley ratio of approximately 5.1 to 1, and a method for its manufacture. The invention is unique in that its performance characteristics are unmatched in comparably sized resonant tunnelin
7513921 Exhaust gas filter apparatus capable of regeneration of a particulate filter and method April 7, 2009
An exhaust gas filter apparatus includes a particulate filter for collecting a particulate from an exhaust gas. The exhaust gas filter also includes a electromagnetic radiation resonator to heat a portion of the particulate to ignite the particulate and regenerate the particulate fil
7499653 Multiple wavelength photonic oscillator March 3, 2009
A multi-wavelength photonic oscillator has a plurality of lasers each emitting light at a different frequency. An optical wavelength multiplexer combines the light emitted by the plurality of lasers at an output thereof as a set of optical wavelengths. An optical modulator is arrange
7495592 Low-power voltage comparator based on quantum tunneling coupled transistors February 24, 2009
A voltage comparator including a quantum tunneling coupled transistor and a method for tuning the voltage comparator. The comparator includes a quantum tunneling coupled transistor coupled to a resistor and is capable of operating above 10 Giga-samples-per-second or a clock rate of 10 GH
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