| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6987474 |
Beamformed ultrasonic imager with delta-sigma feedback control |
January 17, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for reducing distortion in a dynamically delayed digital sample stream of an imaging system. The method includes the steps of delta-sigma modulating an input analog signal of the imaging system at a frequency above the Nyquist frequency of the inpu |
| 6954168 |
Active load clamp for a track-and-hold circuit |
October 11, 2005 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for tracking and holding a voltage. The method includes the steps of providing an external analog voltage on an input of the track and hold circuit during a tracking mode of the track and hold circuit, storing a representation of the sampled external v |
| 6377514 |
Acoustic lens-based swimmer's sonar |
April 23, 2002 |
| An acoustic/video processing stack of a plurality of substantially identical acoustic/video processing stacks is provided for attachment to a processing stack backplane and which together generate a VGA signal for display of a three-dimensional acoustic image. The acoustic/video proc |
| 6208189 |
Beamformed ultrasonic imager with delta-sigma feedback control |
March 27, 2001 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for reducing distortion in a dynamically delayed digital sample stream of an imaging system. The method includes the steps of delta-sigma modulating an input analog signal of the imaging system at a frequency above the Nyquist frequency of the input |
| 5964708 |
Beamformed ultrasonic imager with delta-sigma feedback control |
October 12, 1999 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for reducing distortion in a dynamically delayed digital sample stream of an imaging system. The method includes the steps of delta-sigma modulating an input analog signal of the imaging system at a frequency above the Nyquist frequency of the input |
| 5923061 |
CCD charge splitter |
July 13, 1999 |
| An apparatus and method of equalizing a first and second charge packet. The apparatus includes a charge splitter for splitting the first charge packet into a third charge packet on the first side of the charge splitter and a fourth charge packet on the second side of the charge splitter. |
| 5708282 |
CCD charge splitter |
January 13, 1998 |
| An apparatus and method of equalizing a first and second charge packet. The apparatus includes a charge splitter for splitting the first charge packet into a third charge packet on the first side of the charge splitter and a fourth charge packet on the second side of the charge splitter. |
| 5614740 |
High-speed peristaltic CCD imager with GaAs fet output |
March 25, 1997 |
| An improved CCD imaging array is disclosed which is capable of operating at 10,000 frames-per-second. The imager consists of an array of 512.times.512 pixels having 16 serial output channels which provides a composite output data rate up to 250 Megasamples/second. The serial output regis |
| 5334962 |
High-speed data supply pathway systems |
August 2, 1994 |
| The high speed data pathway system is used to convey data signals to integrated circuits connected to mother and daughter boards. The integrated circuits include a package and an integrated circuit chip carried by the package. An internal transmission line is carried by the package a |
| 5327138 |
Charge-mode analog to digital converter |
July 5, 1994 |
| A symmetric pipelined charge-mode analog to digital converter including a signal-reference CCD channel having a plurality of charge storage stages that are arranged in a serial configuration to carry the signal and reference charges, and a CCD digital channel. A set of two step compa |
| 5061927 |
Floating point analog to digital converter |
October 29, 1991 |
| A floating point analog to digital converter having an exponent converter which divides the input signal successively one-half until the divided signal is within the range of a mantissa linear analog to digital converter. The exponent converter also generate a digital exponent repres |
| 4751193 |
Method of making SOI recrystallized layers by short spatially uniform light pulses |
June 14, 1988 |
| Method is provided for manufacturing large crystalline and monocrystalline semiconductor-on-insulator devices. |
| 4586010 |
Charge splitting sampler systems |
April 29, 1986 |
| Methods and apparatus for high speed signal sampling and recording utilizing mutual repulsion field-induced splitting of charge carriers in a charge transfer channel. |
| 4521752 |
Passive transient recording systems |
June 4, 1985 |
| Methods and apparatus for recording pulse signal information utilizing threshold integrating devices in which a pulse shaped signal is applied to a plurality of threshold integrating devices each having a predetermined quantity of electric charge carriers stored therein, in which the |
| 4393357 |
High speed transient recorder systems |
July 12, 1983 |
| CCD methods and devices for recording transient data signals, in which charge is transferred under the influence of transmission line fields at sampling sites disposed along a charge transfer channel. |
| 4340874 |
Transient data recorder systems |
July 20, 1982 |
| Transient data recorder systems including a high speed charge coupled device and a device exerciser, including a high speed sampler and driver circuitry. |
| 4314212 |
Transient data recorder systems |
February 2, 1982 |
| Transient data recorder systems including a high speed charge coupled device and a device exerciser, including a high speed sampler and driver circuitry. |
