Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved digital to analog converter circuit of an LCD panel column driver. SOLUTION: The digital to analog converter (DAC) circuit operates over an upper range and a lower range. An upper voltage node is designated AVDD; a middle voltage node is designated HVDD; and a lower voltage node designated ground. An upper DAC stage has at least one NMOS transistors that produces an output to an upper range output node when the output is in the upper range. A lower DAC stage has at least one PMOS transistors that produces an output to a lower range output node when the output is in the lower range. A body bias control circuit couples the body of the upper NMOS transistor to a voltage source equal to HVDD-Vbe and connects the body of the lower PMOS transistor to voltage source equal to HVDD+Vbe. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of stereo sound playback in at least 5.1 speakers system and resolve scalability issues in standpoints of calculation and memory use. SOLUTION: The invention adopts a multi-band processing to allow to handle different frequency bands separately. This achieves better channel separation when more than one dominant signals exist in an arbitrary time. Since chances in which a dominant band falls into different frequency bands as the number of the frequency bands increases, uncertainness in decoding decreases. A problem of a plurality of dominant signals is decreased by implementing slow attenuation of surround signal when one dominant central signal exists and vice versa. This is based on an assumption that not all dominant signals are always active. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
In an embodiment, to deter or delay counterfeiting/cloning of a replacement component of a host device, the replacement component is provided with a code value. The code value is generated from a value of at least one physical parameter of the replacement component and is stored on the replacement component. The host device determines whether the replacement component is authentic if the stored code value matches a reference code value.
Abstract:
An electronic device includes an array of image pixels, with the array of image pixels having inputs coupled to control lines and outputs coupled to output lines, and at least one array of dummy pixels, with the at least one array of dummy pixels having inputs coupled to the control lines. Each dummy pixel of the at least one array of dummy pixels is configured to provide a certain output signal in an absence of a fault with at least one of the control lines or of a fault with at least one of the output lines, such that a lack of output of the certain output signal by one or more of the dummy pixels of the at least one array of dummy pixels indicates the fault.