| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7606869 |
Method and device for the exchange of data |
October 20, 2009 |
| A system for exchanging data includes at least two memory units, each unit functioning as both a transmitter and a receiver of data. The exchange of data occurs whenever at least two memory units are within a certain distance of each other. The user is thus capable of simultaneously bein |
| 7593065 |
Method and circuit for channel filtering of analog or digitally modulated TV signals |
September 22, 2009 |
| In order to suppress interference signals from adjacent TV channels, an intermediate frequency signal is demodulated with a signal (S(f.sub.BT; 0.degree.)) at a video carrier frequency into an in-phase signal, and with a signal (S(f.sub.BT; 90.degree.)) shifted in phase by a phase angle |
| 7592195 |
Method for producing a sensor or actuator arrangement, and corresponding sensor or actuator arra |
September 22, 2009 |
| In a method for producing a sensor arrangement and the resulting sensor arrangement, a sensor is provided on or in a chip and the chip is covered with a protective cover, the cover being an interface between the sensor and the environment. An adhesive layer is provided between the chip a |
| 7563762 |
Composition and process for stabilizing of biomolecules |
July 21, 2009 |
| The present invention relates in general to the field of biotechnology. The invention particularly relates to a composition and process for stabilizing or preserving biological molecules, as well as devices that comprise correspondingly stabilized or preserved biomolecules. |
| 7554135 |
Device for detecting a gas or gas mixture |
June 30, 2009 |
| A device for detecting a gas or gas mixture having at least one first gas sensor designed as an SGFET and at least--one second, additional gas sensor designed as a Lundstrom-FET. The gas sensors are connected to a processing device designed to analyze the measurement signals from both |
| 7553458 |
Alcohol sensor using the work function measurement principle |
June 30, 2009 |
| An alcohol sensor having gas-sensitive layers made of polymers or inorganic oxides wherein a signal is read out by means of work function change which is produced in the form of a field-effect transistor. |
| 7538996 |
Circuit with protection against electrostatic destruction |
May 26, 2009 |
| A circuit with protection against electrostatic destruction comprises at least two sections (A, B) composed of a first and second section (A, B). Each of the sections (A, B) has its own working voltage system with a fundamental voltage (USS or USS1) and a supply voltage (UDD or UDD1), an |
| 7532216 |
Method of scaling a graphic character |
May 12, 2009 |
| A graphic character that has a character matrix with a number of character units that are indivisible at least in either a horizontal direction or a vertical direction is scaled by dividing the character matrix into one first and at least one second character segment, each comprising at |
| 7521994 |
Three-stage amplifier |
April 21, 2009 |
| A CMOS output stage operates in A/B push-pull mode and is driven with a control potential (ud) from a preamplifier stage via a control line (st). The control line (st) feeds the gate terminals of a complementary transistor pair (kt), the first transistor (n1) of which is used as first |
| 7512208 |
Digital clock divider |
March 31, 2009 |
| A digital clock divider includes an adder and a clock division device configured to receive a first clock signal with a first frequency and to output a second clock signal having a lower frequency relative to the first frequency. The digital clock divider also includes a division value |
| 7501276 |
Apparatus for intracellular manipulation of a biological cell |
March 10, 2009 |
| A process is provided for the intracellular manipulation of a biological cell (3) which is positioned adhering to a support area (5) in a culture medium (2). Inside the support area (5) for the cell (3) an opening into the membrane of the cell (3) is created spaced from its support edge. |
| 7496165 |
Method and device for motion-compensated noise evaluation in mobile wireless transmission system |
February 24, 2009 |
| A device for motion-compensated noise evaluation for mobile wireless transmission systems, in which reference symbols are sent out by a transmitter, includes storage devices for reference symbols sent out in direct or indirect temporal succession and furnished to a receiver. The devi |
| 7492178 |
Method and apparatus for testing a hall magnetic field sensor on a wafer |
February 17, 2009 |
| A method for testing a Hall magnetic field sensor on a wafer includes generating a current flow in a Hall plate of the Hall magnetic field sensor. At least one voltage value across first and second nodes is measured and a measured voltage signal is provided indicative thereof. An ele |
| 7470962 |
Field effect transistor for measuring biocomponents |
December 30, 2008 |
| The invention relates to a device for measuring living cells or similar biocomponents comprising a field effect transistor which is provided with a source, a drain and a channel area placed on a substrate. Said channel area connects said source and drain and is provided with a gate-elect |
| 7459732 |
Gas-sensitive field-effect transistor with air gap |
December 2, 2008 |
| A gas-sensitive field-effect transistor may be formed from a substrate with a gas-sensitive layer and a transistor processed separately and then assembled. The substrate may be patterned to form spacers by which the height of an air gap between the transistor and the sensitive layer may |
| 7422816 |
Fuel cell system |
September 9, 2008 |
| A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell and a fuel infeed device. The fuel cell has first and second electrodes (cathode and anode). A layer with catalytic activity permeable to protons is between the electrodes. A fuel supply device provides a fuel, and a reactant supply device provides |
| 7418379 |
Circuit for improving the intelligibility of audio signals containing speech |
August 26, 2008 |
| The speech intelligibility of an audio signal of unchanged volume is improved by raising the total audio signal by a constant factor and lowering the amplitude of this raised signal by a high-pass filter. The corner frequency f.sub.c of the high-pass filter is adjusted such that the |
| 7414308 |
Integrated circuit with offset pins |
August 19, 2008 |
| An integrated circuit comprises a package and having adjacent connection pins on two opposite sides of the package, with every second connection pin being inwardly bent so that the connection pins are offset. The ends of the inwardly bent connection pins and the ends of the outer connect |
| 7408491 |
Method for determining and method for compensating a characteristic of an A/D converter, circuit |
August 5, 2008 |
| An analog-to-digital converter circuit arrangement comprising an analog-to-digital converter that receives an analog input signal and provides a digital output signal. A correction device that corrects the digital output signal using multidimensional correction coefficients indicativ |
| 7397873 |
Adaptive signal weighting system |
July 8, 2008 |
| A system for decoding an electrical input signal includes a filter that impresses a variable gain on a portion of the input signal to deemphasize a spectral region of the input signal. The variable gain is set as a function of a variable gain control signal. A frequency detector gene |
| 7391476 |
Method and device for interpolating a pixel of an interline of a field |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method and device for interpolating a pixel of an interline of a first field in a sequence of interlaced fields includes selecting at least one first pixel and one second pixel from scan lines of the first field adjacent the interline, and a third pixel from a second field temporally |
| 7369960 |
Device and method for detecting an angular position of a rotating object |
May 6, 2008 |
| In detecting the time at which a rotating object passes a given angular position, a value range of an angular position sensor output signal which varies relatively rapidly with angular position acts as a trip threshold that, when exceeded, indicates the object has achieved the detected |
| 7355374 |
Direct current voltage transformer |
April 8, 2008 |
| A DC voltage transformer includes an oscillator, which can be controlled in terms of a characteristic such as its phase and/or frequency, and a modulation circuit that provides a periodic or random control signal to the oscillator. A power switch is connected in series with an inductance |
| 7339412 |
Digital clock generator |
March 4, 2008 |
| The invention relates to a clock generator comprised of a system clock input (2) for applying a high-frequency system clock signal, of a digital input (3) for applying a settable digital increment value, of an adder (6) for adding the increment value with the feedback digital cumulative |
| 7330141 |
Compensation circuit and compensation method to compensate nonlinear distortions of an A/D conve |
February 12, 2008 |
| The invention relates to a compensation circuit (1 6) to compensate nonlinear distortions of an A/D converter comprising a signal input and a compensation system. In order to avoid the high costs related to the complex analog design of the A/D converter and/or the high energy consump |
| 7326974 |
Sensor for measuring a gas concentration or ion concentration |
February 5, 2008 |
| A field-effect transistor used as a sensor for measuring a gas or ion concentration utilizes a surface structure such as rings along with surface profiling, for example elevations of the rings and depressions therebetween, to decrease the surface conductivity between a guard ring and |
| 7319418 |
Sensor with multiplex data output |
January 15, 2008 |
| A method of transmitting data from a sensor (1) to a receiver (4) in which each original data word is split in positional fashion into at least two separate short data words (MSN, LSN). The separate short data words (MSN, LSN) are each converted by digital-to-analog conversion (15) into |
| 7318079 |
Method and device for filtering a video signal |
January 8, 2008 |
| A method and device operable per the method for high-pass filtering an input signal having a sequence of signal values to provide a high-pass filtered output signal having a sequence of filtered signal values. The method includes selecting a first signal value of the input signal and a |
| 7317800 |
Apparatus and method for processing an audio signal to compensate for the frequency response of |
January 8, 2008 |
| A circuit for processing an input audio signal received at an input of the circuit provides a processed audio signal at a circuit output. The circuit includes first and second conductive paths through which the received audio signal travels. The audio signal is processed such that ha |
| 7317758 |
PCM-to-PWM converter |
January 8, 2008 |
| The invention relates to a method and a device for converting a digital, pulse-coded signal (PCM) to a pulse-width-modulated signal (PWM), wherein the digital signal PCM, f(t) is multiplied by at least one derivative (f'(t), f''(t), . . . , f.sup.(n) (t)) of the signal (f(t)). The in |
| 7315331 |
Method and device for converting video signals |
January 1, 2008 |
| A method for the motion-vector-based conversion of a first video signal which contains a first image sequence at a first frequency to a second video signal which contains a second image sequence at a second frequency, where at least some of the images of the second image sequence whi |
| 7304593 |
Linearization circuit with digital element matching for digital-to-analog converters |
December 4, 2007 |
| A linearization circuit with digital element matching for digital-to-analog converters includes an n-bit delta-sigma modulator that receives an input signal and provides a modulated n-bit signal. An encoder receives the modulated n-bit signal and provides an encoded signal (X) having |
| 7293120 |
DMA module having plurality of first addressable locations and determining if first addressable |
November 6, 2007 |
| A DMA module includes an address generator to perform a write or read access to a location of an addressable memory, and an address counter to advance a stored address to an adjacent memory location. The address counter does not act on an internal register of the DMA module but inste |
| 7292655 |
Apparatus and method and decoding biphase signals |
November 6, 2007 |
| A technique of decoding a biphase signal comprises sampling the biphase signal to obtain phase sample values and sampling the biphase signal to obtain magnitude sample values. A first digital signal is derived from the phase sample values and associated bit combinations are formed from |
| 7287110 |
Storage device for a multibus architecture |
October 23, 2007 |
| A storage device for a multibus architecture includes at least one memory to store data, information, and/or addresses, along with a memory connection having a port to connect the memory to one of the buses of the multibus architecture. The memory connection, the port, and the bus have |
| 7284321 |
Method for testing a chip with a package and for mounting the package on a board |
October 23, 2007 |
| A method for testing a chip with a package having connecting pins and mounting the package on a board combines the advantages of a package with inline connecting pins with that of a package with offset connecting pins. The package with inline connecting is inserted into a socket for |
| 7274402 |
Method and apparatus for motion-vector-aided pixel interpolation |
September 25, 2007 |
| In a method and apparatus for motion-vector-aided interpolation of a pixel in an intermediate image lying temporally or spatially between first and second images, motion vectors are assigned to the pixel to be interpolated, one pixel in each image being assigned to each vector. Video |
| 7266353 |
Control loop for digital signals |
September 4, 2007 |
| The invention improves the control behavior of a control circuit for digital signals which is used in AGCs (automatic gain control), using a simple supplementary circuit. In a first example of an embodiment, the output signal of an integrator member is looped back to the input of said |
| 7262591 |
Technique for sensing the rotational speed and angular position of a rotating wheel |
August 28, 2007 |
| A method of processing a pulse train output signal provided by a non-contact sensor that senses the rotational speed and angular position of a rotating wheel includes comparing the amplitudes of the pulses with a variable switching threshold value, and adjusting the value of the vari |
| 7260668 |
Network co-processor for vehicles |
August 21, 2007 |
| A network processor exchanges data of various descriptions via a plurality of network nodes with external network devices, such as other processors, controllers, transducers, or sensors. The network processor includes a master processor for control tasks of the processor, and a network |
| 7250253 |
Immobilization of molecules on surfaces via polymer brushes |
July 31, 2007 |
| The invention relates to polyfunctional polymer monolayers (polymer brushes) comprising a multitude of polymer chains attached to a surface, with each polymer chain comprising a multitude of units carrying at least on functional group which allows the interaction of the polymer chain |
| 7233271 |
Noise shaper circuit and method for reducing switching noise |
June 19, 2007 |
| Noise that is normally generated during the switching of a noise shaper may be reduced by switching the noise shaper to an inactive or off state after the occurrence of one or more predetermined criteria, for example the detection of a predetermined number of data values below a threshol |
| 7215273 |
Method and device for reconstructing and controlling the phase position of a sampling clock rela |
May 8, 2007 |
| In a method and device for reconstructing and controlling the phase position of a sample clock relative to an analog signal to be sampled, the analog signal is sampled at a plurality of different instants in time during a time interval and a plurality of time gradients at the same or |
| 7202532 |
Integrated circuit |
April 10, 2007 |
| An integrated circuit includes at least two circuit components formed on a common semiconductor substrate. Each circuit component has a self-contained supply voltage system. Coupling circuits couple the supply voltage systems for the at least two circuit components. Each coupling cir |
| 7196645 |
Method and compensation device for compensation of characteristic errors of an analog-digital co |
March 27, 2007 |
| To compensate for errors during the conversion of an analog input signal into a digital output signal in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), an error of the digital output signal is corrected during operation of the ADC by a compensation device that utilizes stored correction values. T |
| 7181084 |
Device and method for sub-band decomposition of image signals |
February 20, 2007 |
| A device that receives and processes an image signal for sub-band decomposition of an image includes a first median filter that receives the image signal and processes signal values of pixel locations (x.sub.0, y.sub.0), (x.sub.0-1, y.sub.0), (x+1, y.sub.0), (x.sub.0, y.sub.0-1) and |
| 7166232 |
Method for producing a solid body including a microstructure |
January 23, 2007 |
| According to a method for producing a solid body (1) including a microstructure (2), the surface of a substrate (3) is provided with a masking layer (6) that is impermeable to a substance to be applied. The substance is then incorporated into the substrate regions not covered by the |
| 7162038 |
Audio source selection circuit |
January 9, 2007 |
| Audio source selection circuit (QW) for an audio signal processor with inputs for source signals (F1, F2, NA, NB) provided by at least one source (Q1, Q2), with a processing device (V) which forms pairs of signals from the source signals, with a settable source selection logic (Qs) t |
| 7145604 |
Method and device for determining the spacing between a first and a second signal sequence |
December 5, 2006 |
| In a method and device for determining the spacing between first and second sequences of signal values, first and second successive signal values of the first sequence have assigned thereto a third signal value of the second sequence, the third signal value being located temporally o |
| 7142249 |
Interpolating a pixel from an intermediate line of a field |
November 28, 2006 |
| The invention relates to a method for interpolating a pixel from an intermediate line of a first field of a sequence of interlaced fields. |
