A method of singulating includes scribing a first scribe line on a first side of a substrate, scribing a second scribe line on a second side of the substrate, the first and second sides facing away from each other, the second scribe line being substantially parallel to the first scribe line, and simultaneously separating the substrate at the first scribe line and the second scribe line.
H01L 23/48 - Dispositions pour conduire le courant électrique vers le ou hors du corps à l'état solide pendant son fonctionnement, p.ex. fils de connexion ou bornes
H01L 21/78 - Fabrication ou traitement de dispositifs consistant en une pluralité de composants à l'état solide ou de circuits intégrés formés dans ou sur un substrat commun avec une division ultérieure du substrat en plusieurs dispositifs individuels
H01L 21/50 - Assemblage de dispositifs à semi-conducteurs en utilisant des procédés ou des appareils non couverts par l'un uniquement des groupes
H01L 23/00 - DISPOSITIFS À SEMI-CONDUCTEURS NON COUVERTS PAR LA CLASSE - Détails de dispositifs à semi-conducteurs ou d'autres dispositifs à l'état solide
B23K 26/364 - Gravure au laser pour faire une rainure ou une saignée, p.ex. pour tracer une rainure d'amorce de rupture
H01L 21/683 - Appareils spécialement adaptés pour la manipulation des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs ou des dispositifs électriques à l'état solide pendant leur fabrication ou leur traitement; Appareils spécialement adaptés pour la manipulation des plaquettes pendant la fabrication ou le traitement des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs ou des dispositifs électriques à l'état solide ou de leurs composants pour le maintien ou la préhension
H01L 23/04 - Conteneurs; Scellements caractérisés par la forme
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Thermal-image based video compression systems and methods
A system for capturing a thermal video stream includes a thermal image capture component, such as an IR camera, configured to capture and digitize the thermal video stream having n-bits of data per pixel, a memory configured to store the captured thermal images, and a processor. The processor is configured to select captured thermal images as frames for a video stream and subdivide each captured thermal image into separate m-bit and k-bit image streams. The processor is further configured to compress the m-bit thermal image stream in a video compression format that includes frame and metadata, compress the k-bit image stream using a lossless or substantially lossless compression format, and incorporate the compressed k-bit image stream into the coded m-bit video stream as metadata.
H04N 19/12 - Sélection parmi plusieurs transformées ou standards, p.ex. sélection entre une transformée en cosinus discrète [TCD] et une transformée en sous-bandes ou sélection entre H.263 et H.264
H04N 19/85 - Procédés ou dispositions pour le codage, le décodage, la compression ou la décompression de signaux vidéo numériques utilisant le pré-traitement ou le post-traitement spécialement adaptés pour la compression vidéo
H04N 19/119 - Aspects de subdivision adaptative, p.ex. subdivision d’une image en blocs de codage rectangulaires ou non
H04N 19/44 - Décodeurs spécialement adaptés à cet effet, p.ex. décodeurs vidéo asymétriques par rapport à l’encodeur
H04N 19/184 - Procédés ou dispositions pour le codage, le décodage, la compression ou la décompression de signaux vidéo numériques utilisant le codage adaptatif caractérisés par l’unité de codage, c. à d. la partie structurelle ou sémantique du signal vidéo étant l’objet ou le sujet du codage adaptatif l’unité étant des bits, p.ex. de flux vidéo compressé
H04N 19/48 - Procédés ou dispositions pour le codage, le décodage, la compression ou la décompression de signaux vidéo numériques utilisant des techniques de traitement dans le domaine compressé autres que le décodage, p.ex. modification de coefficients de transformées, de données de codage à longueur variable ou de données de codage par longueur de plage
H04N 5/33 - Transformation des rayonnements infrarouges
H04N 21/234 - Traitement de flux vidéo élémentaires, p.ex. raccordement de flux vidéo ou transformation de graphes de scènes MPEG-4
H04N 19/30 - Procédés ou dispositions pour le codage, le décodage, la compression ou la décompression de signaux vidéo numériques utilisant des techniques hiérarchiques, p.ex. l'échelonnage
H04N 21/2365 - Multiplexage de plusieurs flux vidéo
H04N 21/236 - Assemblage d'un flux multiplexé, p.ex. flux de transport, en combinant un flux vidéo avec d'autres contenus ou données additionnelles, p.ex. insertion d'une adresse universelle [URL] dans un flux vidéo, multiplexage de données de logiciel dans un flu; Remultiplexage de flux multiplexés; Insertion de bits de remplissage dans le flux multiplexé, p.ex. pour obtenir un débit constant; Assemblage d'un flux élémentaire mis en paquets
H04N 21/2343 - Traitement de flux vidéo élémentaires, p.ex. raccordement de flux vidéo ou transformation de graphes de scènes MPEG-4 impliquant des opérations de reformatage de signaux vidéo pour la distribution ou la mise en conformité avec les requêtes des utilisateurs finaux ou les exigences des dispositifs des utilisateurs finaux
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TIR imaging lens, image capturing system having the same, and associated methods
A method of manufacturing lenses includes creating a wafer-level master, overmolding the wafer-level master to form a daughter replica, casting a polymer lens shapes onto a wafer using the daughter replica, transferring the polymer lens shapes into the wafer, and singulating the wafer to create individual dies with a lens thereon. The wafer may be silicon, e.g., silicon having a resistivity between 0.1 and 100 Ωcm.
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide intuitive user interfaces for sonar systems attached to mobile structures. A sonar user interface system includes a logic device configured to communicate with one or more sonar controllers and/or sonar transducer assemblies and associated processing and control electronics and optionally orientation and/or position sensors disposed substantially within the sonar transducer assemblies. Each sonar controller and/or transducer assembly includes channels that can be operated together or independently. Configurations for each channel, transducer assembly, controller, and/or for the entire sonar system are rendered and displayed using a combination of graphical and textual indicators to allow intuitive selection and/or arrangement of system, controller, assembly, and/or channel configurations and to store configurations for recall. Resulting sonar data and/or imagery may be displayed and/or used to adjust various operational systems of the mobile structure.
G06F 3/0484 - Techniques d’interaction fondées sur les interfaces utilisateur graphiques [GUI] pour la commande de fonctions ou d’opérations spécifiques, p.ex. sélection ou transformation d’un objet, d’une image ou d’un élément de texte affiché, détermination d’une valeur de paramètre ou sélection d’une plage de valeurs
G06F 3/0481 - Techniques d’interaction fondées sur les interfaces utilisateur graphiques [GUI] fondées sur des propriétés spécifiques de l’objet d’interaction affiché ou sur un environnement basé sur les métaphores, p.ex. interaction avec des éléments du bureau telles les fenêtres ou les icônes, ou avec l’aide d’un curseur changeant de comport
Techniques are disclosed for measurement devices and methods to obtain measurements of various physical parameters in an integrated manner. For example, according to one or more embodiments, a measurement device includes a housing configured to be hand-held by a user; a light sensor configured to sense light and generate a signal in response; a logic device configured to process the signal from the light sensor to determine an intensity of the light, the logic device being further configured to receive and process another signal to determine a magnitude of a physical parameter associated with an external article; and a display configured to present information representing the intensity of the light and the magnitude of the physical parameter. Such a measurement device may be conveniently carried and utilized by electricians or other users, for example, to perform lighting installation or retrofitting without a need for multiple different devices.
G01R 31/02 - Essai des appareils, des lignes ou des composants électriques pour y déceler la présence de courts-circuits, de discontinuités, de fuites ou de connexions incorrectes de lignes
A laser illuminator/pointer can have an array of diode lasers for providing laser beams. A beam shaping optic can shape each of the laser beams. A movable, substantially transparent window can be in a path of the laser beams. A plurality of diffusers can be disposed on the window and can be positioned to vary a divergence of at least one of the laser beams when the window is moved.
G03B 21/00 - Projecteurs ou visionneuses du type par projection; Leurs accessoires
F21K 99/00 - Matière non prévue dans les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe
F41G 1/35 - Appareils de visée de nuit, p.ex. luminescents combinés à une source lumineuse, p.ex. projecteur pour éclairer la cible
G02B 27/09 - Mise en forme du faisceau, p.ex. changement de la section transversale, non prévue ailleurs
G02B 27/20 - Systèmes ou appareils optiques non prévus dans aucun des groupes , pour projection optique, p.ex. combinaison de miroir, de condensateur et d'objectif pour donner une image d'objets minuscules, p.ex. indicateur lumineux
Various techniques are provided for forming three-dimensional images. For example, in one embodiment, a system for three-dimensional imaging of an object includes an imaging sensor that provides a focal plane array and a sensor controller. The system also includes a laser illuminator coupled to the sensor controller. The laser illuminator is adapted to emit at least one laser pulse to be reflected from at least one plane of the object and detected by the focal plane array as at least one two-dimensional image frame of light intensities. The sensor controller is adapted to associate a range dimension of the plane with the image frame to facilitate formation of a three-dimensional image of the object. Related methods are also contemplated.
Systems and methods disclosed herein, in accordance with one or more embodiments, provide for processing infrared images. In one embodiment, a system includes an infrared sensor adapted to capture infrared images and a processing component adapted to process the captured infrared images by extracting a high pass part from the captured infrared images, extracting a mid-spatial frequency part from the captured infrared images, extracting a low pass part from the captured infrared images, separately scaling each of the parts, and merging the scaled parts to generate enhanced output images. The system may include a display component adapted to display the enhanced output images.
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for some embodiments infrared camera systems for maritime applications. For example in one embodiment, a watercraft includes a plurality of image capture components coupled to the watercraft to capture infrared images around at least a substantial portion of a perimeter of the watercraft; a memory component adapted to store the captured infrared images; a processing component adapted to process the captured infrared images according to a man overboard mode of operation to provide processed infrared images and determine if a person falls from the watercraft; and a display component adapted to display the processed infrared images.
The present invention relates to a method and device for measuring at least two properties of an object, for some embodiments, said device comprising a measuring device for measuring at least one physical property of an object and an infrared imaging device for measuring at least one thermal property of an object, and wherein said first measuring device and said infrared imaging device are arranged to be synchronized to perform simultaneous measurements of the object.
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes patterning a layer of photoresist onto a surface of a wafer to define metal feature areas and residual metal areas. A layer of metal is deposited over the patterned layer of photoresist, the metal layer includes metal feature portions in the metal feature areas, residual metal areas in the residual metal areas, and residual metal flaps at the edges of the metal feature portions. The wafer is sprayed with high-pressure solvent at a pressure to dissolve the layer of photoresist and to physically remove the residual metal portions from the residual metal areas, leaving only at least a portion of the residual metal flaps. The wafer is sprayed with a stream of frozen gas particles to remove the residual metal flaps.
H01L 21/00 - Procédés ou appareils spécialement adaptés à la fabrication ou au traitement de dispositifs à semi-conducteurs ou de dispositifs à l'état solide, ou bien de leurs parties constitutives
H01L 21/44 - Fabrication des électrodes sur les corps semi-conducteurs par emploi de procédés ou d'appareils non couverts par les groupes
H01L 21/461 - Traitement de corps semi-conducteurs en utilisant des procédés ou des appareils non couverts par les groupes pour changer les caractéristiques physiques ou la forme de leur surface, p.ex. gravure, polissage, découpage
Systems and techniques for imaging spectroscopy using improved data acquisition for infrared and near-infrared imaging. A first filter corresponding to a first wavelength may be positioned in the optical path of an infrared camera, and subframe data may be acquired for different exposures. A second filter corresponding to a second different wavelength may be positioned in the optical path of the infrared camera, and subframe data acquired for different exposures. Image data for the first wavelength and the second wavelength may then be compared to reference spectroscopic data.
Systems and techniques for improving the dynamic range of infrared detection systems. For example, a mechanical superframing technique may comprise positioning a first filter in the optical path of an infrared camera at a first time, receiving infrared light from an object through the first filter at a detector array, acquiring first subframe image data for the object, positioning a second filter in the optical path of the infrared camera at a later time, receiving infrared light from the object through the second filter, acquiring second subframe image data for the object, and generating first superframe data based on at least some of the first subframe image data and at least some of the second subframe image data.
An electrical continuity test system with a tester and a remote probe. The tester includes circuitry for creating a pulsed current, an output for connection to a local end of a first test conductive element, to inject the pulses into the first test conductive element, an input for connection to a local end of a second test conductive element, and a visual and/or aural indication when the injected pulses are present on the second test conductive element. The remote probe includes an input for connection to a remote end of a first unidentified conductive element, an output for connection to a remote end of a second unidentified conductive element, a first visual and/or aural indication when the first unidentified conductive element is the first test conductive element, and a different visual and/or aural indication when the first unidentified conductive element is the second test conductive element.
Systems and methods provide high and low resolution cameras. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a camera system provides wide and narrow fields of view simultaneously. An operator may select different views to be provided by the camera system (e.g., a wide field of view, a narrow field of view, or the combination of the wide and narrow field of views).
H04N 5/33 - Transformation des rayonnements infrarouges
G02F 1/01 - Dispositifs ou dispositions pour la commande de l'intensité, de la couleur, de la phase, de la polarisation ou de la direction de la lumière arrivant d'une source lumineuse indépendante, p.ex. commutation, ouverture de porte ou modulation; Optique non linéaire pour la commande de l'intensité, de la phase, de la polarisation ou de la couleur
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved cameras and camera systems. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a networkable camera system is disclosed that is able to provide up to a 360° field of view and is operable during day and night conditions by utilizing thermal imagers.
H01L 31/00 - Dispositifs à semi-conducteurs sensibles aux rayons infrarouges, à la lumière, au rayonnement électromagnétique d'ondes plus courtes, ou au rayonnement corpusculaire, et spécialement adaptés, soit comme convertisseurs de l'énergie dudit rayonnement e; Procédés ou appareils spécialement adaptés à la fabrication ou au traitement de ces dispositifs ou de leurs parties constitutives; Leurs détails
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Humidity meter with non-contact temperature measurement
A humidity meter with non-contact temperature measurement capability, including a humidity meter contained at least partially in a housing and having outputs relating to measured humidity parameters including humidity and ambient temperature, an output display contained in the housing, for displaying measurements to a user, a non-contact optically-based temperature sensing device coupled to the housing, having an output related to sensed temperature, and circuitry contained in the housing for processing both the humidity meter outputs and the temperature sensing device output, and transmitting the processed output to the output display.
A handheld instrument that accomplishes non-contact infrared (IR) temperature measurement, and the measurement of movement of an object. The instrument has a case, and a movement-sensing device coupled to the case and operable to be directed toward or placed against an object being measured, for generating an output signal based on the sensed movement. An IR detector, also carried by the case, senses IR energy emitted from a surface being measured along an IR-sensing axis that extends from the case, and generates an IR output signal. The sensed IR energy is converted to a temperature value, and the output signal from the current-sensing device is converted to at least a measured current value. A display device in the case displays instrument measurements to the user.
A handheld instrument that accomplishes infrared (IR) temperature measurement and non-contact electrical current measurement. The instrument has a case, a current-sensing device coupled to the case and operable to be placed around a conductor, for generating an output signal based on the current flowing through the conductor, and an IR detector carried by the case, for sensing IR energy emitted from a surface being measured along a sensing axis that extends from the case, and generating an IR output signal. Sensed IR energy is converted to a temperature value, and the output signal from the current-sensing device is converted to at least a measured current value. There is a display device in the case, for displaying instrument measurements to the user.
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