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7747020 |
Technique for implementing a security algorithm
Performing a hash algorithm in a processor architecture to alleviate performance bottlenecks and improve overall algorithm performance. In one embodiment of the invention, the hash algorithm is...
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7656382 |
Shift register and liquid crystal display device using the same
A shift register having a plurality of stages in which each of the stages includes: an input circuit part arranged to receive an input signal; an exclusive OR circuit arranged to generate a toggle...
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7619201 |
Multiplication register for amplifying signal charge
A multiplication register for use in solid state imaging apparatus, such as a CCD, is described. The multiplication register has a gain element 22 comprising a plurality of register electrodes 30,...
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7576586 |
Common-mode charge control in a pipelined charge-domain signal-processing circuit
In a differential bucket-brigade device (BBD) pipeline it is necessary for proper circuit function to maintain the common-mode charge within an acceptable range at each pipeline stage. Embodiments...
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7570192 |
Charge-domain pipelined analog-to-digital converter
An ADC implementation of a bucket brigade type charge transfer pipeline using Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Bucket Brigade Devices (BBDs) that can be used in Analog-to-Digital (A/D) converters...
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7485840 |
Semiconductor charge multiplication amplifier device and semiconductor image sensor provided with such an amplifier device
A charge multiplication amplifier device comprises a series arrangement of a first separation barrier facility, a temporary storage well for charge carriers, a second charge transfer barrier...
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7003068 |
Device for subtracting or adding a constant amount of charge in a charge-coupled device at high operating frequencies
A circuit for adding or subtracting an amount of charge from a charge sample, such as in a Charge Coupled Device (CCD), by portioning and pipelining the processing stages, to avoid introducing a...
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6862333 |
CMD and CMD-carrying CCD device
This invention controls the signal amplification rate in a simple way with high precision in a CMD or CMD-carrying CCD device. CMD 12 has plural sections, such as M sections (U1-UM), each of which...
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6825877 |
Multiplex bucket brigade circuit
A sensor chip assembly time delay integration circuit useful with image sensing arrays uses a duplex bucket brigade circuit (120) with two or more charge transfer paths, a number of capacitors...
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6784412 |
Compact image sensor layout with charge multiplying register
The image sensing device incorporates a charge multiplication function in its serial register. The design layout is compact in size and the charge multiplication register consists of multi-channel...
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6784929 |
Universal two dimensional (frame and line) timing generator
A programmable two-dimensional timing generator according to the invention employs a clock generator (102) and a user-defined two-stage waveform generator (106, 108). A single static random access...
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6728330 |
Register arrangement for a microcomputer with a register and further storage media
There is provided a register system of a microcomputer having a register that includes at least one register bit and having an additional storage arrangement allocated to the register and on which...
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6459077 |
Bucket brigade TDI photodiode sensor
A TDI sensor includes a bias charge voltage circuit, a reset voltage circuit, a bucket brigade column having a plurality of nodes, and a plurality of pinned photodiodes. Each photodiode is formed...
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6215840 |
Method and apparatus for sequential memory addressing
Circuits for sequentially addressing memory locations in time with pulses received from a clock are disclosed. The circuits may provide a positive voltage output signal at successive output nodes...
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6036834 |
Process and devices for the electrolytic formation of a deposit on a chosen group of electrodes
A method and device for the electrolytic formation of a deposit on a group of electrodes of an electrolysis support. The support has a plurality of electrodes. Electric charges are selectively...
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5952685 |
Signal processing applications of massively parallel charge domain computing devices
The present invention is embodied in a charge coupled device (CCD)/charge injection device (CID) architecture capable of performing a Fourier transform by simultaneous matrix vector multiplication...
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5848305 |
Circulating shift register and distance measuring device
When a voltage signal corresponding to charges circulating a circulating shift register including charge transfer channels, which are arranged in a ring pattern, are read out from the shift...
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5694445 |
Semiconductor device with means for charge recycling
A semiconductor device of the invention is provided with a charge-discharge capacitor and plural charge collecting capacitors which are respectively connected in parallel to the charge-discharge...
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5585652 |
Method and apparatus for real-time background illumination subtraction
The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for accurately detecting light energy of a signal of interest (e.g., a laser pulse) even when the signal-to-noise ratio is relatively low....
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5396527 |
Recovered energy logic circuits
A logic circuit is driven by a single alternating voltage power supply so that the energy stored in parasitic capacitances can be mostly recovered, rather than dissipated, as in conventional logic...
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5379252 |
Memory device
The present invention provides a memory device for realizing an analog memory that or a multilevel memory easy to produce and requires only small scale circuitry. The memory device comprises: a CCD...
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5371397 |
Solid-state imaging array including focusing elements
A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate in which an element part including a plurality of light responsive elements for generating charge carriers in response to incident...
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5362978 |
Method for establishing an electrical field at a surface of a semiconductor device
A thinned backside illuminated charge-coupled imaging device has improved quantum efficiency by providing a sharp ion implant distribution profile (20) disposed at the rear surface (22) of the...
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5357548 |
Reversible charge transfer and logic utilizing them
Logically and thermodynamically reversible charge transfer (RCT) devices and logic are provided for conditionally transferring individually identifiable charge packets from one or more sources to...
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5291083 |
Bucket brigade analog delay line with voltage limiting feedback
A bucket brigade analog delay line with voltage limiting feedback includes an input stage for receiving an input signal and a series of delay stages coupled to the input stage for propagating the...
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5274687 |
Source-follower circuit for CCD image sensor
The present invention is directed to an output circuit for a charge transfer device which can reduce a coupling voltage of a floating diffusion type charge detecting section and in which a DC...
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5268583 |
Homogenizing electrical signals generated by a detection system and transmitted to an exploiting system
An exploiting or readout circuit for a linear or matrix type photodetector array is of the multiplex type, such as a charge-coupled device (CCD). The exploiting circuit has a number of input stages...
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5239565 |
Driving circuit for a charge transfer apparatus
In this invention, a plurality of clock buffers are provided to supply clock signals to a charge transfer apparatus. These clock buffers are driven by the same basic clock which is introduced...
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5220587 |
Output circuit for a CCD with a D.C. restoration circuit integrated together with the CCD in a monolithic semiconductor chip
An amplification MOSFET in a source ground form receives at its gate an output signal of a source-follower circuit through a second capacitor. The source-follower circuit, on the otherhand,...
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5200983 |
Fiso analog signal acquisition system employing CCD array storage
A FISO analog signal acquisition system includes a plurality of CCD arrays (20a-20d), with each array containing a plurality of CCD serial registers (22). Each serial register (22) has a first cell...
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5115155 |
CCD delay line
A charge-coupled device (CCD) delay line having a temperature compensation circuit capable of compensating for temperature variations for providing an accurate and consistent delay of an input...
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5093589 |
Charge injection circuit having impedance conversion means
A charge injection circuit for injecting a charge to a signal processing circuit has a photo-voltaic element for generating a photocurrent when an infrared light is received, a field effect...
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5077762 |
Charge transfer device having MIM structures and method for driving the same
There is provided a one-dimensional MIM array having MIM structures arranged on an insulative substrate in a lateral direction and each used as a unit for storing a signal charge, for sequentially...
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5068701 |
Device for reading out quantities of electrical charge supplied by photodiodes having a semiconductor substrate
The invention concerns a device for reading quantities of electrical charge supplied by photodiodes. These photodiodes (1) are arranged at the intersections of rows and columns (4,5) of a matrix...
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5047862 |
Solid-state imager
A solid-state imager comprising a substrate of a semiconductor material of one conductivity type having a major surface. A plurality of photodetectors are in the substrate and are arranged in an...
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5040071 |
Image sensor having multiple horizontal shift registers
An image sensor is disclosed which comprises an imaging region and horizontal shift registers which receive charge carriers generated in the imaging region and transfer them to an output circuit...
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5019884 |
Charge transfer device
In a charge transfer device including spaced apart channels on a semiconductor substrate, first electrodes are disposed in gaps between the channels, second electrodes are disposed opposite...
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4994875 |
Virtual phase charge transfer device
A uniphase, buried-channel, semiconductor charge transfer device wherein a portion of each cell includes an inversion layer, or "virtual electrode" at the semiconductor surface, shielding that...
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4990985 |
Charge coupled device having a parallel-serial converting portion
A charge coupled device includes a plurality of first CCD shift-registers transferring charge signals in parallel and a second CCD shift-register receiving the charge signals from the first CCD...
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4987558 |
Semiconductor memory with voltage stabilization
In dynamic memories, generally a fluctuation of 10% of the nominal value of the supply voltage is allowed. Since, when reading, the input gate is applied to the supply, this fluctuation in the...
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4977341 |
Integrated circuit to reduce switching noise
A transistor (14) having a plurality of sub-transistors (26a-f) includes a voltage controlling device (45). The voltage controlling device induces a current through an elongated gate (24) producing...
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4962512 |
Step-up circuit
A step-up circuit is comprised of plurality of charge pumping circuits connected in parallel to an output line. Each charge pumping circuit is activated by a pair of mutually opposite clock signals...
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4951302 |
Charge-coupled device shift register
A two phase shift register comprises four serial registers each having an input section, a transfer section, and a lead-in section disposed between the input section and the transfer section. The...
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4949143 |
Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same
The semiconductor devices include a semiconductor substrate, a first CCD region formed at the surface of said substrate, and a second CCD region having a side connected to said first CCD. A channel...
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4939560 |
Charge transfer device
A charge transfer device, suitable for use, for example, in a solid state imager device, having a floating gate electrode in a charge detecting section, a protruding portion provided in at least...
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4935793 |
Transfer device having self-induction members
The invention relates to a charge transfer device (CTD) having two or four phases, for which the speed of transferring the stored charges is increased by means of self-induction members connected...
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4839911 |
Charger transfer shift register with voltage sensing device using a floating-potential diode
The invention pertains to a charge transfer shift register provided with a device for voltage sensing using a floating-potential diode. Towards that end of the register which is located on the...
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4831621 |
Device for analog multiplexing by charge transfer devices
An analog multiplexing device using charge transfer devices has as many charge transfer multiplexing registers R'i as there are input signals, at the frequency Fe, to be multiplexed, all of these...
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4689807 |
Linked cell discharge detector having improved response time
The present invention enables improved response time in a linked cell discharge detection device by providing additional discharge paths when indicated to speed discharge of circuit nodes in a...
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4670666 |
MOS transistor circuit for shared precharging of bus lines
An MOS transistor circuit for precharging parasitic capacitances C1 -C8 associated with a plurality of parallel data transfer bus lines 1-8 under the control of a clock signal φ. Each bus line is ...
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