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US-6,798,728 Optical disk device and luminescent power control method for semiconductor laser
A means for measuring the temperature in the surroundings of a semiconductor laser is provided and, if the temperature is not above a certain level, power...
US-6,798,727 Optical pickup apparatus
A reflective mirror 14 is inclined and placed with respect to an objective lens 16 and a photoelectric conversion element 15 for monitor is placed in the back...
US-6,798,726 Data decoding
An optical disk data decoder generates estimates of serial input signal values by slicing them into samples. The data sequences contained in each sample are...
US-6,798,725 Wave-shaping apparatus and reproduction signal processing apparatus including the same
A wave-shaping apparatus includes a first detection circuit for detecting a reproduction signal reproduced from an optical disk by an optical pickup circuit...
US-6,798,724 Low cost detection of wobble inversions using a tuned circuit
A tuned circuit is used to detect wobble clock inversions. The tuned circuit reacts to a wobble inversion with a change in amplitude that may be detected by a...
US-6,798,723 Optical pickup head and information recording/reproducing device
An optical pickup head is provided with a light source, a diffracting means for creating a plurality of diffracted beams, a converging means for focusing the...
US-6,798,722 Hand and timepiece using the hand
To provide a hand, free from hand deviation and disengagement, having integrated engaging and wing portions and formed of a low-density material. A hand body has...
US-6,798,721 Electronic timepiece
An electronic timepiece adapted to minimize a horizontal slippage of contact terminals when a display unit housing is diagonally fitted in a case. A liquid...
US-6,798,720 Projection alarm clock
The invention relates to a novel design for a projection alarm clock for displaying various values by means of projection, using a projector with one optical...
US-6,798,719 Electronic device including warranty start date
An electronic device has a central processing unit (CPU), a display, and a memory device. The display and memory device are both coupled to the CPU. The memory...
US-6,798,718 Sensor timepiece, sensor timepiece data input system and method, and computer readable recording medium
To make calibration of temperature compensation etc. of individual sensor timepieces straightforward, to carry out measurements of physical quantities by each...
US-6,798,717 High density pixel array
A pixel array device is fabricated by a laser micro-milling method under strict process control conditions. The device has an array of pixels bonded together...
US-6,798,716 System and method for wireless electrical power transmission
A power transmission system using directional ultrasound for power transmission includes a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device...
US-6,798,715 Biomimetic sonar system and method
The Biomimetic Sonar invention ensonifies submerged objects, digitizes acoustic images reflected from the ensonified objects, and classifies and stores the...
US-6,798,714 Method of performing stretch-free normal moveout (NMO) and stacking of seismic traces
A method of performing normal moveout (NMO) correction and stacking of a common-midpoint (CMP) gather of seismic traces in a manner that avoids NMO stretch is...
US-6,798,713 Implementing software breakpoints
Program code for a Processor is stored in a non-volatile memory (for example, flash memory). An individual data bit stored in a memory cell of the non-volatile...
US-6,798,712 Wordline latching in semiconductor memories
A memory system, and method of operation therefor, is provided having memory cells for containing data, bitlines for writing data in and reading data from the...
US-6,798,711 Memory with address management
The present invention allows for the reduction in power consumption of memory devices. A memory device in one embodiment prohibits address signal propagation on...
US-6,798,710 Synchronous flash memory with virtual segment architecture
An improved memory device and architecture has been detailed that enhances a Flash memory device that has an SDRAM compatible interface. The memory device...
US-6,798,709 Memory device having dual power ports and memory system including the same
A plurality of internal circuits of a memory device are operable at first and second internal voltages, where the first internal voltage is less than the second...
US-6,798,708 Memory controller and serial memory
In a memory controller, a serial data including an instruction bit train with addition of a start bit, a clock signal, a chip enable signal, and a reset signal...
US-6,798,707 Memory control apparatus for serial memory
A memory control apparatus for controlling the operation of a memory array in a serial memory employs a command control section for registering the bits of an...
US-6,798,706 Integrated circuit with temperature sensor and method for heating the circuit
A temperature sensor is integrated together with an integrated circuit on a chip, the sensor delivering a temperature-dependent measuring signal or at least...
US-6,798,705 Noise resistant small signal sensing circuit for a memory device
Apparatus and method for data sensing circuitry that uses averaging to sense small differences in signal levels representing data states. The apparatus...
US-6,798,704 High Speed sense amplifier data-hold circuit for single-ended SRAM
A semiconductor memory with a sense amplifier for high-speed sensing of the signal from a memory cell. The semiconductor memory includes plural memory arrays...
US-6,798,703 Semiconductor memory device having improved replacement efficiency of defective word lines by redundancy word lines
A semiconductor memory device that efficiently replaces defective word lines by redundancy word lines. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of...
US-6,798,702 Semiconductor memory device capable of testing data line redundancy replacement circuit
In a shift switch circuit for replacing a data line, a transmission gate circuit connecting node N2 corresponding to ith write data line to node N4 corresponding...
US-6,798,701 Semiconductor integrated circuit device having data input/output configuration variable
In an embedded DRAM core of which word configuration can be varied, a modifying circuit selects either word configuration designating information from a metal...
US-6,798,700 Methods of reading and/or writing data to memory devices including multiple write circuits and/or virtual...
Methods can be provided for reading data from a memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of virtual ground lines wherein each memory...
US-6,798,699 Flash memory device and method of erasing
A non-volatile memory device for erasing a block of stack-gate single transistor flash memory cells performs an efficient and controllable mode of programming,...
US-6,798,698 Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device
A NAND cell unit includes a plurality of memory cells which are connected in series. An erase operation is effected on all memory cells. Then, a soft-program...
US-6,798,697 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array with electrically rewritable non-volatile memory cells laid out therein, an address...
US-6,798,696 Method of controlling the operation of non-volatile semiconductor memory chips
Disclosed herewith is a method for controlling the operation of non-volatile semiconductor chips with high sequential access performance realized by smoothing...
US-6,798,695 Arrangement for storing a count
In an arrangement for storing a count, which comprises a non-volatile memory (1) which has at least 3 memory segments (2, 3, 4), a controller (5) is provided...
US-6,798,694 Method for reducing drain disturb in programming
For a multi-sectored flash memory array with bitlines spanning multiple erase blocks, a bias scheme for programming an address in any erase sector while...
US-6,798,693 Semiconductor memory cell and memory array using a breakdown phenomena in an ultra-thin dielectric
A semiconductor memory cell having a data storage element constructed around an ultra-thin dielectric, such as a gate oxide, is used to store information by...
US-6,798,692 Programmable sub-surface aggregating metallization structure and method of making same
A programmable sub-surface aggregating metallization structure ("PSAM") includes an ion conductor such as a chalcogenide-glass which includes metal ions and at...
US-6,798,691 Asymmetric dot shape for increasing select-unselect margin in MRAM devices
A magnetic memory cell and method for improving the write selectivity of memory cells in an MRAM array is provided herein. In particular, the magnetic memory...
US-6,798,690 Magnetic switching with expanded hard-axis magnetization volume at magnetoresistive bit ends
A magnetoresistive apparatus and method of operation with improved switching characteristics is provided. Switching of a magnetic direction of a magnetic layer...
US-6,798,689 Integrated memory with a configuration of non-volatile memory cells and method for fabricating and for...
An integrated memory with a configuration of non-volatile memory cells based on ferromagnetic storage contains both powerful memory cells with a magnetoresistive...
US-6,798,688 Storage array such as a SRAM with reduced power requirements
A CMOS storage array such as a static random access memory (SRAM) and a sense amplifier. The SRAM may be in partially depleted (PD) silicon on insulator (SOI)...
US-6,798,687 System and method for effectively implementing a high speed DRAM device
A system and method for effectively implementing a high-speed DRAM device may include memory cells that each have a bitline for transferring storage data, a...
US-6,798,686 Semiconductor device
In a semiconductor memory device comprising a cell array of memory cells each including a cell transistor and a capacitor, word lines and bit line pairs, the...
US-6,798,685 Multi-output multiplexor
Providing a multi-output multiplexor. The invention is multi-output multiplexor that, depending on the control signals, allows various modulating circuits to...
US-6,798,684 Methods and systems for programmable memory using silicided poly-silicon fuses
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for evaluating one-time programmable memory cells. A threshold current is applied to a resistive...
US-6,798,683 Pattern layout of transfer transistors employed in row decoder
A semiconductor device comprises a memory cell array and a word-line select circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows...
US-6,798,682 Reduced integrated circuit chip leakage and method of reducing leakage
An integrated circuit that may include an array such as a static random access memory (SRAM) with high threshold device array devices and in selected other...
US-6,798,681 DRAM
A DRAM formed of an array of cells, each of which includes a capacitive memory point and a control transistor. The array is formed of the repetition of an...
US-6,798,680 Read-only MOS memory
A read-only memory formed of cells, each of which includes, between a selection line and a bit line, the series connection of a memory element and of a selection...
US-6,798,679 Semiconductor memory module
A bare chip is provided with a pad for activation/deactivation control to which a deactivation control signal for converting a bare chip that has been detected...
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