Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: circuits and systems inventions 03/08

20080069292 - Gated ring oscillator for a time-to-digital converter with shaped quantization noise: Described is a compact, lower power gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter that achieves first order noise shaping of quantization noise using a digital implementation. The gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter includes a plurality of delay stages configured to enable propagation of a transitioning signal through the delay stages during an... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080056429 - Pedometer: An acceleration sensor outputs a walk signal having a charge corresponding to a walk. The walk signal is converted by charge-voltage conversion means into a voltage walk signal, removed of noise by filter means, amplified by amplification means and converted by binarization means into a digital signal, followed by being... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Suite 1231

20080056430 - Shift register with low stress: A shift register includes a plurality of register stages. Each register stage includes an output circuit, a first switching circuit and a second switching circuit. The output circuit is capable of outputting a first driving signal. The first switching circuit is used to pull down the output circuit into a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080056431 - Shift register array, and display apparatus: A display apparatus comprises a shift register array. The shift register array comprises a plurality of shift registers. At least one shift register comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a driving circuit. The gate and the first electrode of the first transistor receive an input... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP