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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for determining a score characteristic of the definition of a digital image. SOLUTION: The method and a system determine the score characteristic of the definition of the digital image by cumulating the quadratic norm of horizontal and vertical gradients of luminance values of pixels of the image. The pixels are selected at least according to a first maximum luminance threshold of other pixels at least in the concerned direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device finally locked for selecting an operating mode of an integrated circuit including no fuse or reverse fuse. SOLUTION: This device for selecting the operational mode of the integrated circuit includes a ROM storing at least one predetermined value formed of data words, a controllable non-volatile programmable memory for storing the predetermined value, a comparator indicating how many data words of the value stored in the programmable memory are identical to the data words of the predetermined value, and a control means deactivating a selection signal for selecting the operating mode when the number of the identical words is greater than a predetermined threshold. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antifraud method against an attack by the physical signature analysis of an integrated circuit processing secret data. SOLUTION: This antifraud method including randomizing the physical signature of the integrated circuit executing a main program, including providing in the main program a branch to a randomly-chosen address of a sub-program having at least the feature that any operation code that it contains directly or indirectly leads to an instruction included in the same sub-program except for at least one instruction for returning to the main program, to randomize the total execution time of the main program. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an insulating circuit feeding power at a low voltage to a control circuit of a load of a high voltage in the intermediate or the upstream of a full-wave three-phase rectification bridge. SOLUTION: The insulating circuit is provided with a first low-voltage capacitor connecting a first electrode to one of rectifying output terminals of the bridge and at least one second capacitor supplying a low voltage, a first electrode of the second capacitor is connected to one of AC input terminals of the bridge, respective second electrodes of the capacitors are connected by a high voltage diode with a cathode connected to the second capacitor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variable phase shift circuit having characteristics suitable for a use in a phase interpolator. SOLUTION: The variable phase shift circuit is provided with: an input A for inputting an input signal Sin having a designated oscillation frequency; an output B for supplying an output signal Sout having the same oscillation frequency as the input signal and having a variable phase shift to the input signal; and at least one control input C. The control input C inputs a control signal Is for controlling the phase shift of the output signal corresponding to the input signal. The circuit includes a synchronous oscillator OS having a synchronous input in1 connected to the input of the variable phase shift circuit for inputting the input signal Sin and at least one output out1 connected to the output of the phase shift circuit for outputting the output signal Sout. The synchronous oscillator OS has a variable free-running oscillation frequency which is controlled by the control signal Is. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for protecting at least one first data to be stored in an integrated circuit. SOLUTION: The method includes, upon storage of the first data, performing a combination with at least one second physical data coming from at least one network of physical parameters, and only storing the result of this combination, and in read mode, extracting the stored result and using the second physical data to restore the first data.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lateral MOS transistor for intermediate power for which access resistance to a source and a drain is reduced. SOLUTION: A MOS power transistor is formed in an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type. The MOS power transistor is formed on the front surface of a heavily-doped substrate of the first conductivity-type and includes alternate drain and source arrays of a second conductivity-type separated by a channel, conductive fingers, covering source fingers and drain fingers and a second metal layer connecting all drain metal fingers and covering the entire source/drain structure. Each source finger includes a heavily-doped region of the first conductivity-type, in contact with the epitaxial layer and with the corresponding source finger, and the rear surface of the substrate is coated with a source metallization. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photodetector whose structure is simple, and whose manufacturing costs are low capable of preventing the deterioration of an image picture. SOLUTION: A light detector is provided with a photodiode whose anode is connected to a reference voltage, an initialization MOS transistor connected between the cathode of the photodiode and a first power supply voltage for setting the cathode as the first power supply voltage in an initialization phase, and a means for setting the cathode of the photodiode as a saturation voltage near the reference voltage just before the initialization phase for measuring the voltage of the cathode of the photodiode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an electromechanical component manufacturable easily, requiring low cost, and having optimum performance, in particular in terms of motion characteristics. SOLUTION: Manufacturing method according to the invention includes at least five stage, i.e. (a) a stage to form a base board 15 having one silicon region covered partially with two insulating regions, (b) a stage to form a silicon-germanium alloy sacrifice layer with selective epitaxy starting at the uncovered portion of the silicon region, (c) a stage to form a silicon layer having one mono-crystalline region arranged on the sacrifice layer and two multi-crystalline regions arranged on the insulating regions and having undergone a doping in a high concentration by the epitaxy, (d) a stage to simultaneously form a vibrational structure and a working electrode by etching the prescribed patterns in the mono-crystalline region so that a space is formed between the electrode 23 and the vibrational structure 22, and (e) a stage to remove the sacrifice layer of silicon-germanium alloy by means of selective etching. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate a balun transformer and a low-pass filter on the same circuit. SOLUTION: A mode-switching transformer, combined with a differential low-pass filter, including a first planar winding in a first conductive level having an external end terminal, defining a common-mode input/output terminal; a second planar winding electrically in series with the first winding and formed in a second conductive level; at least one capacitor, connecting an external end terminal of the second winding to ground; a third winding formed in the second conductive level and having an external end terminal defining a first differential mode access; and a fourth winding, electrically in series with the third one and formed in the first conductive level, an external end terminal of the fourth winding defining a second differential mode access terminal and the central ends of all windings being interconnected to ground. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI