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20130300485 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH VOLTAGE SWITCHES - Apparatus and method for coupling high voltages for a semiconductor device via high voltage switches are disclosed. A high voltage switch includes a switch and a level shifter. The switch is defined between a voltage source and a voltage output. An enable line is coupled to a first transistor of the switch. The level shifter includes an input and an output. A characterization line is coupled to the input of the level shifter and the output of the level shifter is coupled to a second transistor of the switch. The level shifter further includes a power rail that is coupled to the switch between the first transistor and the second transistor. | 11-14-2013 |
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20150054565 | Systems and Methods for Operating High Voltage Switches - A system for communicating high voltages for a semiconductor device is provided. One system includes a controller having an input pad and an output pad, each of the input pad and the output pad being coupled to a respective high voltage switch of the controller. The system also includes a plurality of semiconductor chips, where each of the plurality of semiconductor chips has at least one input pad coupled to a high voltage switch of a respective semiconductor chip. A high voltage that is higher than normal operation voltages of the semiconductor device is coupled from the input pad of the controller to the output pad of the controller via the coupled high voltage switches of the controller. The high voltage is further coupled from the output pad of the controller to the at least one input pad of the respective semiconductor chip via the high voltage switch coupled to the at least one input pad of the respective semiconductor chip. Methods for operating and providing high voltage inputs to one or more semiconductor devices are also provided. | 02-26-2015 |
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20090213225 | Apparatus and method for forming and displaying high dynamic range (HDR) images - Apparatus and method of forming and displaying high dynamic range (HDR) images for various purposes including the testing of image capture devices, such as cameras. A display device has a display panel carrying a plurality of rendered images formed from image data of a scene. At least one light source is used to illuminate the rendered images on the display panel. When the rendered images are aligned with one another and illuminated by the light source, the rendered images are capable of forming a display image having a dynamic range higher than those of the rendered images. | 08-27-2009 |
20090274387 | METHOD OF CAPTURING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES WITH OBJECTS IN THE SCENE - Methods, image processors and imaging devices for capturing a high dynamic range (HDR) image. Multiple images of a scene are captured at respectively different exposure settings. A further image of an object placed in the scene is captured at one exposure setting. A first radiance image is formed from the multiple images. A second radiance image is formed from the further image. The first radiance image and the second radiance image are merged to form the HDR image. | 11-05-2009 |
20120098938 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEMS WITH CONVERGENCE CONTROL FOR REDUCING CONFLICTS BETWEEN ACCOMODATION AND CONVERGENCE - An electronic device may have a stereoscopic camera module with left and right image sensors separated by a stereo base line. The camera module may have an adjustable convergence such that the position at which objects are captured by the left and right image sensors with zero horizontal disparity can be moved closer to and farther from the electronic device. The convergence of the camera module may be adjusted such that a region of interest or an object (i.e., subject) is captured with minimal horizontal disparity. With arrangements of this type, conflicts between accommodation (e.g., the location of a display) and convergence (e.g., the perceived location of the region of interest or subject either behind, on the plane of or in front of a display) may be reduced. | 04-26-2012 |
20150062347 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS FOR VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGING - Imaging systems may be provided with image sensors for capturing information about incident light intensities in the visible and infrared bands of light. The means of capturing information about visible light may be unintentionally and undesirably influenced by infrared light. Similarly, the means of capturing information about infrared light may be unintentionally and undesirably influenced by visible light. Storage and processing circuitry may correct for the undesired influence of infrared and visible light on the signal data from the visible and infrared sensors, respectively. The correction may be determined or chosen based on a detection of the illuminant type of the imaged scene. The correction may alternatively be universal, and applicable to images of scenes illuminated by any illuminant. | 03-05-2015 |
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20100056509 | HETEROARYL SULFONAMIDES AND CCR2 - Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists. | 03-04-2010 |
20100152186 | TRIAZOLYL PYRIDYL BENZENESULFONAMIDES - Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 or CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2 and CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, CCR9-mediated diseases, as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists. | 06-17-2010 |
20100234364 | CCR2 INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 or CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2 and CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, CCR9-mediated diseases, as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists. | 09-16-2010 |
20140031348 | HETEROARYL SULFONAMIDES AND CCR2/CCR9 - Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists. | 01-30-2014 |
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20090296270 | THERMAL FLYHEIGHT CONTROL HEATER PRECONDITIONING - Systems and methods for magnetic head preconditioning using a thermal flyheight control heater are discussed. The method of manufacturing the magnetic head comprises measuring a bit error performance of the magnetic head, heating the magnetic head with the thermal flyheight control heater, measuring another bit error rate performance, and determining a performance increase based on comparing the bit error rate performances. The heating of the magnetic head is performed while the magnetic head is unloaded from a disk. An element within the magnetic head is deformed plastically. | 12-03-2009 |
20100134911 | MULTI-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION OF WRITE HEAD PERFORMANCE USING ADAPTIVE RESPONSE SURFACE - A method for optimizing design parameters of a magnetic write head. The method involves compiling a table of data points for a plurality of design parameters. An experimentally derived optimal design point is determined a first set of tests are performed at this experimentally determined design point. A three dimensional response surface is generated based on the testing. Then, a projected optimal design point is determined from the three dimensional response surface. Another test is performed using this projected optimal design point, and a convergence is determined by comparing the results of the first and second tests. If the convergence is within a predetermined value, then the process is complete. If the convergence is not within the predetermined value, then the process is repeated using the most recent projected optimal design point. | 06-03-2010 |
20100277827 | Correcting Errors in Position of an HDD Write-Head - A hard-disk drive (HDD) with a current adjustment component is provided. The current adjustment component changes an amount of current to a magnetic-recording head of the HDD to cause a change in the strength of a magnetic write field produced by the magnetic-recording head in response to a determination that a present position of the magnetic-head head is not in a desired position. To illustrate, in response to a determination that the present position of the magnetic-recording head is further away from an edge of a current track being written than a desired position of the magnetic-recording head, the current adjustment component increases the current to the magnetic-recording head to cause an increase in the strength of the magnetic write field. The change in the strength of the magnetic write field causes data, written by the magnetic-recording head, to be located at a desired location on the magnetic-recording disk. | 11-04-2010 |
20110019298 | TESTING MAGNETIC DISK PERFORMANCE WITH A SINGLE SLIDER SIMULATING SLIDERS OF VARIOUS DISK DRIVE SYSTEMS - Magnetic disk drive systems and associated methods are described for testing magnetic disk performance for certification with a plurality of magnetic disk drive systems prior to installation. The test system may position a slider at a first spacing between the magnetic disk in the slider and simulate the recording performance of a disk drive system with the magnetic disk at the first spacing. The disk drive test system may then transfer a control signal to a heating element in the slider to move the slider to a different spacing between the magnetic disk and the slider to simulate the recording performance of another disk drive system. The test system may, thus, use a single slider to certify a magnetic disk with a plurality of disk drive systems. | 01-27-2011 |
20110026154 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING A MAGNETIC-RECORDING SYSTEM FOR THE PRESENCE OF ADJACENT-TRACK INTERFERENCE AND FAR-TRACK INTERFERENCE - A method for characterizing a magnetic-recording system for the presence of adjacent-track interference and far-track interference. The method includes writing a plurality of repeating pulse-waveforms on a data track of a magnetic-recording disk at a write element of a magnetic-recording head. The method further includes reading a plurality of read-back signals from the magnetic-recording disk over a band of pseudo-data tracks offset from the data track by corresponding pseudo-data-track offsets in a radial direction of the magnetic-recording disk at a read element of the magnetic-recording head. In addition, the method includes displaying a magnetic-recording-signature map synthesized from the read-back signals from the magnetic-recording disk. | 02-03-2011 |
20110075286 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TRACK PITCH IN A HARD DISK DRIVE TO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF BOTH OFF-TRACK CAPACITY AND ADJACENT TRACK ERASURE - Track pitch in a hard disk drive is selected to satisfy the requirements of both off-track capacity (OTC) and adjacent track interference (ATI). The invention separately measures the track pitch requirements for OTC and ATI. The track pitch for the drive is set with the larger of the OTC and ATI track pitches. The OTC track pitch is measured with a 747 curve, and the ATI track pitch is measured by the positions of adjacent tracks at which the on-track error rate is not worse than a given value after the targeted number of adjacent track writes in the ATI requirement. | 03-31-2011 |
20110128646 | SYNCHRONIZED REWRITING OF DATA - A hard disk drive (HDD) including a magnetic disk, the magnetic disk including a data track. The HDD also includes a synchronized rewrite controller for synchronizing a plurality of rewrites of a data pattern on a location of the track of the magnetic disk and the HDD includes a write head controlled by the synchronized rewrite controller for writing the data pattern on the location of the data track and rewriting the data pattern a plurality of times on the location in synchronization with a prior writing of the data pattern on the data track. | 06-02-2011 |
20120026628 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC WRITE HEAD HAVING A TRAILING WRAP-AROUND MAGNETIC SHIELD MAGNETICALLY BIASED IN A CROSS TRACK DIRECTION - A perpendicular magnetic write head having improved Bit Error Rate (BER), Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) and Far Track Interference (FTI). The write head includes a write pole and a trailing wrap-around magnetic shield. A permanent magnetic is located at either outer side of the shield. These magnets are magnetized to have magnetizations that are oriented in the same direction, in a direction that is perpendicular to the track direction and parallel with the air bearing surface. | 02-02-2012 |