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1 | US2021005534A1 |
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH THROUGH-SUBSTRATE VIA AND ITS METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
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Publication/Patent Number: US2021005534A1 | Publication Date: 2021-01-07 | Application Number: 16/968,815 | Filing Date: 2019-02-15 | Inventor： Sidorov, Victor Jessenig, Stefan Parteder, Georg | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H01L23/48 | Abstract: A dielectric layer is arranged on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a metal layer providing a contact area is embedded in the dielectric layer, a top metal is arranged on an opposite main surface of the substrate, and an electrically conductive interconnection through the substrate, which comprises a plurality of metallizations arranged in a plurality of via holes, connects the contact area with the top metal. The plurality of metallizations is surrounded by an insulating layer penetrating the substrate. | |||
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2 | US2021003704A1 |
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND PROXIMITY MEASUREMENTS
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Publication/Patent Number: US2021003704A1 | Publication Date: 2021-01-07 | Application Number: 16/767,888 | Filing Date: 2018-12-03 | Inventor： MÜnzer, Martin | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01S17/10 | Abstract: An emitter of electromagnetic radiation is configured for modes of operation providing fields of illumination of different widths, and a photodetector is configured for time-of-flight and proximity measurements by detecting electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by the emitter and reflected to the photodetector. The emitter is operated by a driver, which is configured for an alternation between the modes of operation. A time-of-flight measurement is performed when the field of illumination is narrow, and a proximity or ambient light measurement is performed when the field of illumination is wide. | |||
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3 | EP3712883A1 |
AUDIO SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR AN EAR MOUNTABLE PLAYBACK DEVICE
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3712883A1 | Publication Date: 2020-09-23 | Application Number: 19174437.4 | Filing Date: 2019-05-14 | Inventor： Mccutcheon, Peter Gether, Horst | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G10K11/178 | Abstract: An audio system for an ear mountable playback device (HP) includes a speaker (SP), an error microphone (FB_MIC), which senses sound being output from the speaker (SP), and a sound control processor. The processor is configured for controlling and/or monitoring a playback of a detection signal or a filtered version of the detection signal via the speaker (SP), recording an error signal from the error microphone (FB_MIC), and determining whether the playback device (HP) is in a first state, where the playback device (HP) is worn by a user, or in a second state, where the playback device (HP) is not worn by a user, based on processing of the error signal. | |||
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4 | US2020284727A1 |
CHEMICAL SENSING DEVICE USING FLUORESCENT SENSING MATERIAL
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Publication/Patent Number: US2020284727A1 | Publication Date: 2020-09-10 | Application Number: 16/766,179 | Filing Date: 2018-11-28 | Inventor： Sagmeister, Martin Sidorov, Victor Kraft, Jochen | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01N21/64 | Abstract: The chemical sensing device comprises a substrate of semiconductor material, integrated circuit components and a photodetector formed in the substrate, a dielectric on the substrate, a wiring in the dielectric, and a source of electromagnetic radiation, a waveguide and a fluorescent sensor layer arranged in or above the dielectric. A portion of the waveguide is arranged to allow the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the source of electromagnetic radiation to be coupled into the waveguide. A further portion of the waveguide is arranged between the photodetector and the fluorescent sensor layer. | |||
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5 | US2020012302A1 |
LOW-DROPOUT REGULATOR HAVING REDUCED REGULATED OUTPUT VOLTAGE SPIKES
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Publication/Patent Number: US2020012302A1 | Publication Date: 2020-01-09 | Application Number: 16/493,039 | Filing Date: 2018-03-12 | Inventor： Fiocchi, Carlo Pisati, Valerio | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G05F1/575 | Abstract: A low-dropout regulator comprises an output current branch (10) being arranged between a supply line (Vsupply) to provide a supply potential (VDD) and an output node (O) to provide a regulated output voltage (Vreg). The output current branch (10) comprises an output driver (20) to provide an output current (Iout) at the output node (O). The output driver (20) has a control connection (G20) to apply a control voltage (Vc) to operate the output driver (20) with a different conductivity in dependence on the control voltage (Vc). The LDO comprises an input amplifier stage (30) to provide the control voltage (Vc) to the control connection (G20) of the output driver (20). The input amplifier stage (30) is configured to provide the control voltage (Vc) with a different slew rate in dependence on an increase or decrease of the output current (Iout). | |||
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6 | US2020037901A1 |
CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR AN OPTICAL MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL MONITORING
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Publication/Patent Number: US2020037901A1 | Publication Date: 2020-02-06 | Application Number: 15/752,238 | Filing Date: 2016-08-17 | Inventor： Trattler, Peter Pauritsch, Manfred Lenhard, Herbert | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: A61B5/024 | Abstract: A circuit arrangement for an optical monitoring system comprises a driver circuit configured to generate at least one driving signal for driving a light source and a detector terminal for receiving a detector current. The circuit arrangement further comprises a current source configured and arranged to generate at the detector terminal a reduction current. The reduction current has an amplitude which is given by a base value whenever none of the least one driving signal assumes a value suitable for activating the light source and by a sum of the base value and a reduction value otherwise. The circuit arrangement also comprises a processing unit configured to generate an output signal depending on a combination of the detector current and the reduction current. | |||
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7 | US2020154544A1 |
LIGHT EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR GENERATION OF SHORT LIGHT PULSES
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Publication/Patent Number: US2020154544A1 | Publication Date: 2020-05-14 | Application Number: 16/633,288 | Filing Date: 2018-07-18 | Inventor： Roehrer, Georg Kappel, Robert Lilic, Nenad | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H05B45/32 | Abstract: The device comprises a bipolar transistor with emitter, base, collector, base-collector junction and base-emitter junction, a collector-to-base breakdown voltage, a quenching component electrically connected with the base or the collector, and a switching circuitry configured to apply a forward bias to the base-emitter junction. The bipolar transistor is configured for operation at a reverse collector-to-base voltage above the breakdown voltage. | |||
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8 | US2020150230A1 |
PROXIMITY SENSOR WITH CROSSTALK COMPENSATION
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Publication/Patent Number: US2020150230A1 | Publication Date: 2020-05-14 | Application Number: 16/628,330 | Filing Date: 2018-06-12 | Inventor： Kriebernegg, Josef Nyshadham, Chandra Thottathil, Rahul Koonari, Thoombath Hafeez | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01S7/48 | Abstract: A proximity sensor (1) with crosstalk compensation comprises a transmitting circuit (10) to transmit a signal to be reflected at a target (2) and a disturbing object (3), and a receiving circuit (20) to receive a reflected signal (RS) having a useful component (RSI) and a noise component (RS2). The receiving circuit (20) comprises an output node (A20) to provide an output signal (Vout2) in dependence from the distance of the proximity sensor (1) from the target (2). The receiving circuit (20) comprises a crosstalk compensation circuit (100) comprising a first charging circuit (110) to provide a first charge for for coarse crosstalk compensation and a second charging circuit (120) to provide a second charge for fine crosstalk compensation. A control circuit (30) sets an amount of the first and the second charge so that the output signal (Vout2) of the crosstalk compensation circuit (100) is dependent on the useful component (RSI) and independent on the noise component (RS2) of the reflected signal (RS). | |||
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9 | US2020220510A1 |
A CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING A CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT
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Publication/Patent Number: US2020220510A1 | Publication Date: 2020-07-09 | Application Number: 16/631,246 | Filing Date: 2018-07-18 | Inventor： Garcia, Gonzalez Jose Manuel Serrano, Gotarredona Rafael | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H03F3/45 | Abstract: A circuit arrangement comprises a first input node, a first output node, a sampling capacitor means and a first switching means being switchable between a first switching state and a second switching state. The first switching means is coupled to the sampling capacitor means, the first input node and the first output node in such a way that the sampling capacitor means is conductively connected to the first input node and disconnected from the first output node in the first switching state and the sampling capacitor means is disconnected from the first input node and conductively connected to the first output node in the second switching state. A first charge-storing element is coupled via a second switching means to the first input node in such a way that the charge-storing element is charged in the first switching state and discharged in the second switching state, thereby at least partly compensating current flow for charging the sampling capacitor means in the first switching state. | |||
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10 | US10819930B2 |
Method of operating a semiconductor image sensor with integrated pixel heating
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Publication/Patent Number: US10819930B2 | Publication Date: 2020-10-27 | Application Number: 16/171,845 | Filing Date: 2018-10-26 | Inventor： Stockmeier, Thomas Forsyth, Richard Troxler, Thomas | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H04N5/335 | Abstract: At least one of the pixels of the image sensor is heated using at least one heater, and the temperature of this pixel is thus increased by a larger degree than the temperature of at least a further one of the pixels. | |||
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11 | US10819352B2 |
Output circuit and method for providing an output current
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Publication/Patent Number: US10819352B2 | Publication Date: 2020-10-27 | Application Number: 16/471,723 | Filing Date: 2018-01-17 | Inventor： Schrei, Thomas Uhde-djefroudi, Vida | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H03L7/089 | Abstract: An output circuit comprises an output terminal (11), a first current mirror (12), a first pass transistor (13) and a first delivering terminal (14) coupled via the first current mirror (12) and the first pass transistor (13) to the output terminal (11). | |||
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12 | EP3404815B1 |
CHARGE PUMP CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A SUPPLY VOLTAGE
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3404815B1 | Publication Date: 2020-11-18 | Application Number: 18182001.0 | Filing Date: 2012-05-14 | Inventor： Schatzberger, Gregor | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H02M3/07 | ||||
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13 | EP3261130B1 |
PHOTODETECTOR DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED HIGH-CONTRAST GRATING POLARIZER
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3261130B1 | Publication Date: 2020-11-18 | Application Number: 16175275.3 | Filing Date: 2016-06-20 | Inventor： Hofrichter, Jens Enenkel, Jan | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H01L31/0232 | ||||
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14 | EP3578928B1 |
POSITION ENCODER ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A FAILURE STATUS OF SUCH ARRANGEMENT
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3578928B1 | Publication Date: 2020-11-11 | Application Number: 18176011.7 | Filing Date: 2018-06-05 | Inventor： Michelitsch, Stephan Oberhoffner, Gerhard | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01D5/244 | ||||
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15 | EP3081963B1 |
AVALANCHE DIODE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DETECTION SIGNAL
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3081963B1 | Publication Date: 2020-11-11 | Application Number: 15163692.5 | Filing Date: 2015-04-15 | Inventor： Leonardo, Vincenzo | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01T1/17 | ||||
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16 | EP2896941B1 |
Miniature spectrometer comprising dispersive body
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Publication/Patent Number: EP2896941B1 | Publication Date: 2020-03-04 | Application Number: 14152305.0 | Filing Date: 2014-01-23 | Inventor： Wang, Yu Glover, Kerry Stoltz, Greg Townson, Will | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01J3/02 | ||||
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17 | EP2661034B1 |
Electric circuit arrangement for galvanic isolated communication
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Publication/Patent Number: EP2661034B1 | Publication Date: 2020-03-11 | Application Number: 12166877.6 | Filing Date: 2012-05-04 | Inventor： Vinau, Jose Poirier, Sébastien Enichlmair, Hubert Ele, Vijay Ranganathan, Rohit Brandl, Manfred | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H04L25/493 | ||||
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18 | EP3633393A1 |
CAPACITANCE TO DIGITAL CONVERTER, INTEGRATED SENSOR INTERFACE AND SENSOR DEVICE
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3633393A1 | Publication Date: 2020-04-08 | Application Number: 18198139.0 | Filing Date: 2018-10-02 | Inventor： Serrano, Gotarredona Rafael García, González José Manuel | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: G01R27/26 | Abstract: A capacitance to digital converter, CDC, has a first and a second reference terminal (T1, T2) for receiving first and second reference voltages (VREFP, VREFN), a reference block (CREF) comprising one or more reference charge stores and being coupled to the first and second reference terminals (T1, T2) via a first switching block (SWB1), a scaling block (SCB) for providing at third and fourth reference terminals (T3, T4) downscaled voltages (SVREFP, SVREFN) from the first and second reference voltages (VREFP, VREFN) depending on a scaling factor, first and second measurement terminals (M1, M2) for connecting a capacitive sensor element (CS), the first measurement terminal (M1) being coupled to the third and fourth reference terminals (T3, T4) via a second switching block (SWB2), and a processing block (PROC) coupled to the reference block (CREF) and to the second measurement terminal (M2) and being configured to determine a digital output signal based on a charge distribution between the sensor element (CS) and the reference block and based on the scaling factor, the output signal representing a capacitance value of the sensor element (CS). | |||
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19 | EP2950525B1 |
Semiconductor image sensor with integrated pixel heating and method of operating a semiconductor image sensor
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Publication/Patent Number: EP2950525B1 | Publication Date: 2020-08-12 | Application Number: 14173903.7 | Filing Date: 2014-06-25 | Inventor： Stockmeier, Thomas Forsyth, Richard Troxler, Thomas | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H04N5/3745 | ||||
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20 | EP3691121A1 |
AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT
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Publication/Patent Number: EP3691121A1 | Publication Date: 2020-08-05 | Application Number: 19154725.6 | Filing Date: 2019-01-31 | Inventor： Fiocchi, Carlo Fitzi, Andreas Mozsáry, András | Assignee: ams AG | IPC: H03F1/32 | Abstract: An amplifier circuit includes a circuit path (320) of serially connected complementary type transistors (Mp1, Mn1). First and second feedback loops include a loop amplifier (301), the transistors (Mp1, Mn1) of the circuit path (320) and a corresponding resistor (302, 303). |
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