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20130037891 | MEMS DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMATION THEREOF - The present disclosure provides a method including providing a first substrate; and forming a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device on a first surface of the first substrate. A bond pad is formed on at least one bonding site on the first surface of the first substrate. The bonding site is recessed from the first surface. Thus, a top surface of the bond pad may lie below the plane of the top surface of the substrate. A device with recessed connective element(s) (e.g., bond pad) is also described. In further embodiments, a protective layer is formed on the recessed connective element during dicing of a substrate. | 02-14-2013 |
20130099355 | MEMS Structures and Methods for Forming the Same - A method includes forming a MEMS device, forming a bond layer adjacent the MEMS device, and forming a protection layer over the bond layer. The steps of forming the bond layer and the protection layer include in-situ deposition of the bond layer and the protection layer | 04-25-2013 |
20130203199 | Methods of Bonding Caps for MEMS Devices - A method includes bonding a first bond layer to a second bond layer through eutectic bonding. The step of bonding includes heating the first bond layer and the second bond layer to a temperature higher than a eutectic temperature of the first bond layer and the second bond layer, and performing a pumping cycle. The pumping cycle includes applying a first force to press the first bond layer and the second bond layer against each other. After the step of applying the first force, a second force lower than the first force is applied to press the first bond layer and the second bond layer against each other. After the step of applying the second force, a third force higher than the second force is applied to press the first bond layer and the second bond layer against each other. | 08-08-2013 |
20130320556 | Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Structures and Hybrid Bonding Methods for Semiconductor Wafers - Three dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) structures and hybrid bonding methods for semiconductor wafers are disclosed. A 3DIC structure includes a first semiconductor device having first conductive pads disposed within a first insulating material on a top surface thereof, the first conductive pads having a first recess on a top surface thereof. The 3DIC structure includes a second semiconductor device having second conductive pads disposed within a second insulating material on a top surface thereof coupled to the first semiconductor device, the second conductive pads having a second recess on a top surface thereof. A sealing layer is disposed between the first conductive pads and the second conductive pads in the first recess and the second recess. The sealing layer bonds the first conductive pads to the second conductive pads. The first insulating material is bonded to the second insulating material. | 12-05-2013 |
20140011324 | Hybrid Bonding Systems and Methods for Semiconductor Wafers - Hybrid bonding systems and methods for semiconductor wafers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a hybrid bonding system for semiconductor wafers includes a chamber and a plurality of sub-chambers disposed within the chamber. A robotics handler is disposed within the chamber that is adapted to move a plurality of semiconductor wafers within the chamber between the plurality of sub-chambers. The plurality of sub-chambers includes a first sub-chamber adapted to remove a protection layer from the plurality of semiconductor wafers, and a second sub-chamber adapted to activate top surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor wafers prior to hybrid bonding the plurality of semiconductor wafers together. The plurality of sub-chambers also includes a third sub-chamber adapted to align the plurality of semiconductor wafers and hybrid bond the plurality of semiconductor wafers together. | 01-09-2014 |
20140020818 | Systems and Methods of Separating Bonded Wafers - Systems and methods of separating bonded wafers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for separating bonded wafers includes a support for the bonded wafers and means for applying a sheer force to the bonded wafers. The system also includes means for applying a vacuum to the bonded wafers. | 01-23-2014 |
20140051336 | GRINDING WHEEL FOR WAFER EDGE TRIMMING - A grinding wheel for wafer edge trimming includes a head having an open side and an abrasive end bonded around an edge of the open side of the head. The abrasive end is arranged to have multiple simultaneous contacts around a wafer edge during the wafer edge trimming. | 02-20-2014 |
20140091438 | MULTIPLE METAL LAYER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND LOW TEMPERATURE STACKING METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A semiconductor device including a conductive element and an interface surface fabricated atop the conductive element, and a method for fabricating such a device are described. An exemplary device includes a substrate having a conductive element and a metal layer fabricated atop the conductive element. An oxide layer is fabricated atop the metal layer, thus forming an interface surface. During polishing (e.g., planarization), in which an upper portion of the interface surface is removed, the presence of the interface surface greatly reduces the loading on the conductive element. A second substrate fabricated using the same process may be stacked atop the first substrate and bonded using a hybrid bonding process. | 04-03-2014 |
20140117546 | HYBRID BONDING MECHANISMS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS - The embodiments of diffusion barrier layer described above provide mechanisms for forming a copper diffusion barrier layer to prevent device degradation for hybrid bonding of wafers. The diffusion barrier layer(s) encircles the copper-containing conductive pads used for hybrid bonding. The diffusion barrier layer can be on one of the two bonding wafers or on both bonding wafers. | 05-01-2014 |
20140191341 | Method and Apparatus for a Semiconductor Structure - A semiconductor structure may include a first device having first surface with a first bonding layer formed thereon and a second device having a first surface with a second bonding layer formed thereon. The first bonding layer may provide an electrically conductive path to at least one electrical device in the first device. The second bonding layer may provide an electrically conductive path to at least one electrical device in the second device. One of the first or the second devices may include MEMS electrical devices. The first and/or the second bonding layers may be formed of a getter material, which may provide absorption for outgassing. | 07-10-2014 |
20140248730 | MEMS Device and Method of Formation Thereof - The present disclosure provides a method including providing a first substrate; and forming a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device on a first surface of the first substrate. A bond pad is formed on at least one bonding site on the first surface of the first substrate. The bonding site is recessed from the first surface. Thus, a top surface of the bond pad may lie below the plane of the top surface of the substrate. A device with recessed connective element(s) (e.g., bond pad) is also described. In further embodiments, a protective layer is formed on the recessed connective element during dicing of a substrate. | 09-04-2014 |
20140256087 | Hybrid Bonding and Apparatus for Performing the Same - A method includes performing a hybrid bonding to bond a first package component to a second package component, so that a bonded pair is formed. In the bonded pair, first metal pads in the first package component are bonded to second metal pads in the second package component, and a first surface dielectric layer at a surface of the first package component is bonded to a second surface dielectric layer at a surface of the second package component. After the hybrid bonding, a thermal compressive annealing is performed on the bonded pair. | 09-11-2014 |
20140263586 | Integrate Rinse Module in Hybrid Bonding Platform - A method includes performing a plasma activation on a surface of a first package component, removing oxide regions from surfaces of metal pads of the first package component, and performing a pre-bonding to bond the first package component to a second package component. | 09-18-2014 |
20140264948 | Air Trench in Packages Incorporating Hybrid Bonding - A package component includes a surface dielectric layer including a planar top surface, a metal pad in the surface dielectric layer and including a second planar top surface level with the planar top surface, and an air trench on a side of the metal pad. The sidewall of the metal pad is exposed to the air trench. | 09-18-2014 |
20150044786 | Alignment Systems and Wafer Bonding Systems and Methods - Alignment systems, and wafer bonding alignment systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, an alignment system for a wafer bonding system includes means for monitoring an alignment of a first wafer and a second wafer, and means for adjusting a position of the second wafer. The alignment system includes means for feeding back a relative position of the first wafer and the second wafer to the means for adjusting the position of the second wafer before and during a bonding process for the first wafer and the second wafer. | 02-12-2015 |
20150064810 | Low Contamination Chamber for Surface Activation - An embodiment low contamination chamber includes a gas inlet, an adjustable top electrode, an adjustable bottom electrode, and an outlet. The chamber is configured to adjust a distance between the adjustable top and bottom electrodes in accordance with a desired density of plasma disposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. | 03-05-2015 |
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20120075480 | VIDEO TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A video testing system tests the performance of a video player. The video player plays a predetermined video having video characteristics that correspond to the to-be-tested performance of the video player. The testing system includes a capturing member, a decomposition unit, an analysis unit, and a determination unit. The capturing member captures the video played by the video player. The decomposition unit decomposes the captured video into a sequence of frames according to a predetermined playback speed of the video player. The analysis unit selects frames of the captured video, and compares the selected frames to analyze video characteristic parameters of the captured video. The determination unit determines whether there is a difference between the video characteristic parameters of the captured video and standard characteristic parameters of the predetermined video is below a predetermined range to obtain the performance of the video player. | 03-29-2012 |
20120170866 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE COMPARISON METHOD THEREOF - The disclosure relates to an electronic device with image comparison function and an image comparison method utilized in the electronic device. The method includes loading a multimedia file in response to a first input signal and processing the multimedia file to form a two-dimensional array of each image and generate pixels of each image, acquiring a selection reference value in response to a second input signal and selecting an image comparison algorithm according to the acquired selection reference value, and comparing with the pixels of two adjacent images according to the selected image comparison algorithm and obtaining a comparison result. | 07-05-2012 |
20130173251 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A natural language analysis method for an electronic device is provided. The language analysis method includes the steps of: receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textual information; segmenting the textual information into a number of vocabulary segments, each vocabulary segment including a number of separated vocabularies; retrieving the use frequency of each of vocabulary, sorting the vocabulary segments, and obtaining a first sorting of the number of vocabulary segments into descending order; segmenting the textual information into a number of sentence segmentations; obtaining a second sorting of the vocabulary segmentations, according to the number of sentence segmentations and the number of vocabulary segment results; and determining a reply to the textual information, according to the topmost result after the second sorting. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173252 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A language analysis method for an electronic device storing a basic corpus and a temporary corpus is provided. The language analysis method includes steps of receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textualized information; analyzing the textualized information; obtaining a first understanding result according to the basic corpus, the vocabulary segmentation results, and the sentence segmentation results; determining whether the first understanding result is an appropriate understanding according to the context; determining one or more anaphoric vocabularies when the first understanding result is an inappropriate understanding; determining a temporary understanding result of the one or more anaphoric vocabularies and a second understanding result of the textualized information according to the context; and determining a reply for the textualized information, according to the second understanding result, the basic corpus, and the temporary corpus. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided. | 07-04-2013 |
20130231919 | DISAMBIGUATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A disambiguating method includes providing a storage unit storing a first database and a second database. The first database includes a dictionary of ambiguous language data, the second database includes a collection of disambiguating algorithms, each piece of ambiguous language data in the dictionary is associated with at least one of the disambiguating algorithms. A sentence input is received from the application system via the interface and recognized if the sentence comprises a piece of ambiguous language date which is defined in the dictionary. The recognized piece of ambiguous language data in the sentence is disambiguated using the at least one associated disambiguating algorithm, and results of disambiguating are generated. An interpretation is selected from the results and output to the application system via the interface. A disambiguating system is also provided. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232139 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATION CONTENT - An electronic device includes a database, a display, and several program modules executable by a processor. The program modules include a query receiving module to receive a search query from a user, a query analyzing module to analyze the received search query and determine a content of interest associated with the search query and associated content associated with the content of interest. Also include are a search module to search for the content of interest and associated content associated with the content of interest in the database, a sorting module to sort the search results retrieved by the search module according to the number of times that the search has been conducted before, and a result presenting module to present the sorted search results according to a screen size of the display. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242200 | MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING RESPONSE TIME OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for calculating response time of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: obtaining a video file recording a process of change of interface displayed from an original interface to a new interface chosen by a user, the video file comprises a series of video frames; searching for a key video frame among all the video frames of the video file, the image of the key video frame indicates the point of demarcation between the original interface and the new interface displayed; and calculating a time interval from a first video frame of the video file to the key video frame, according to timestamps of the first video frame and of the key video frame, so as to determine the actual response time of the electronic device. A related measuring device is also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251190 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING WATERMARK INTO IMAGE - A method of embedding a binary watermark into an image and a computer applied such are disclosed. The binary watermark is transformed to a watermark sequence consisting of K binary numbers and the image is converted into a grayscale image, being segmented into several sections. K sections are selected randomly while each selected section corresponds to one of the binary numbers of the watermark sequence. In relation to each selected section, a sum of a first part of the pixels and a sum of a second part of the pixels is compared. Each of the selected sections having their result of comparison being made to correspond to corresponding binary number in accordance with a predefined correlation results in the binary watermark being embedded into the image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY - A semantic ambiguity reduction system deconstructs the sentence into a number of basic word units according to predetermined word definitions and semantic logic rules. The semantic ambiguity reduction system acquires the semantic judgments based on the basic word units and the semantic logic rules, stores the semantic judgment if only one semantic judgment of the sentence is acquired, and determines a number of keywords of a semantic ambiguity if more than one semantic judgment is acquired. The semantic ambiguity determines critical information by searching the keywords in the word definitions and the semantic judgments being stored, and selects one semantic judgment from the more than one semantic judgment about the sentence according to the critical information. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262665 | REMOTE SERVER AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RUNNING STATUS OF REMOTE SERVER - A method for managing running status of a remote server includes the steps of: monitoring a running status of the remote server in response to a monitoring request received from at least one client; obtaining corresponding status data of the remote server; transmitting the obtained status data to the at least one client, receiving a control signal generated by the at least one client according to the status data, and adjusting the running status of the remote server to a normal status according to the control signal. | 10-03-2013 |
20130276077 | PASSWORD RESETTING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING PASSWORD RESETTING FUNCTION - A computerized method for resetting a password of a user, the user uses an electronic device to access to an information system provided by a server according to a user ID of the user and the password. An index code and device information of the electronic device are stored in the server corresponding to the user ID. When the password is to be reset, the user ID and the index code are inputted by the user and the device information of the electronic device is acquired. A verification string is generated using the index code and the user ID inputted by the user and the acquired device information, and is sent to the server for verification, thereby requesting to reset the password. | 10-17-2013 |
20140002672 | TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING SAME | 01-02-2014 |
20140351944 | SOFTWARE PROTECTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A software protecting system existing as an independent program in an electronic device protects against misuse of new software to be installed. The protecting system includes an invoking module and an input/output setting module. The invoking module invokes the genuine software in response to user input but the input/output setting module sets input/output functions of the genuine software when the genuine software is run to prevent complete of peripheral functionality during any trial period of use. An electronic device with the software protecting system is also provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20140365646 | NETWORK CONNECTION MANAGING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure provides a device and a method for managing network connection. The device is used to connect a number of external devices to a network, and stores a plurality of pieces of network configuration information. The method includes detecting whether one or more external devices requests to connect to the network via the device; and determining the configuration information corresponding to each external device, configuring the allowed external devices and connecting the configured external devices to the network according to the determined network configuration information. A network connection managing system is further provided. | 12-11-2014 |
20140376882 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH VIDEO ANALYZING FUNCTION AND VIDEO ANALYZING METHOD - A computer-implemented video analyzing method includes dividing a video into a plurality of sections. The similarity value of the first frame and the last frame of each section is greater than zero. A representative frame is selected from each section, and the similarity value of each two representative frames is computed. Two sections the similarity of whose representative frames is the greatest are combined into one section. The recording time of the first frame and the recording time of the last frame of each section is determined if the similarity value of representative frames of each two adjacent sections is zero. | 12-25-2014 |
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20120076474 | VIDEO PLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD - A video playing device includes a playing unit, a selection unit, a comparison unit, and an acquisition unit. The playing unit is adapted to play a video stored in a memory which is further used for storing a unique identifier of each frame of the video. The selection unit selects two sequential frames of the video from the memory. The comparison unit compares the two selected sequential frame to determine whether the two selected sequential frames are the same, and generates an acquisition signal when it is determined that the two selected sequential frames are not the same. The acquisition unit acquires the unique identifiers of the selected frames from the memory in response to the acquisition signal. The playing unit is further adapted to play the video stored in the memory according to the acquired unique identifiers. | 03-29-2012 |
20120155660 | AUDIO TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An audio testing system includes an acquisition unit, an input unit, a first analysis unit, a second analysis unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit obtains an audio signal played back by the audio player. The input unit generates a first input signal and a second input signal. The first analysis unit analyzes the acquired audio signal with a first analysis method in response to the first input signal to obtain performance parameters of the audio player. The second analysis unit analyzes the acquired audio signal with a second analysis method in response to the second input signal to obtain another set of performance parameters of the audio player. The first analysis unit is more accurate than the second analysis unit, and efficiency of the second analysis unit exceeds that of the first analysis unit. | 06-21-2012 |
20120265527 | INTERACTIVE VOICE RECOGNITION ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD - An interactive voice recognition electronic device converts a received voice signal to a text, and searches a voice databases to find a matched voice text of the converted text. The matched voice text is taken as a recognized voice text of the voice signal if the matched voice text exists in the voice database. The electronic device obtains a predetermined number of similar voice texts if no matched voice text exists in the voice database. The electronic device converts the predetermined number of similar voice texts to the voice signals, outputs the converted voice signals in turn, and selects one of the similar voice texts as the recognized voice text according to the selection of the user. The electronic device obtains the associated answer text of the recognized voice text in the voice database and converts the answer text to voice signals. | 10-18-2012 |
20130004083 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING OBJECT OUTLINE - The disclosure provides a process whereby an image processing device may isolate an outline of an object from an image, and a method adapted for the image processing device. When the image processing device | 01-03-2013 |
20130016207 | TEST DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING DISPLAY PARAMETERSAANM XIONG; YU-KAIAACI Shenzhen CityAACO CNAAGP XIONG; YU-KAI Shenzhen City CNAANM LU; XINAACI Shenzhen CityAACO CNAAGP LU; XIN Shenzhen City CNAANM WONG; SHIH-FANGAACI Tu-ChengAACO TWAAGP WONG; SHIH-FANG Tu-Cheng TWAANM LV; DONG-SHENGAACI Shenzhen CityAACO CNAAGP LV; DONG-SHENG Shenzhen City CNAANM LI; XIN-HUAAACI Shenzhen CityAACO CNAAGP LI; XIN-HUA Shenzhen City CNAANM ZHANG; YU-YONGAACI Shenzhen CityAACO CNAAGP ZHANG; YU-YONG Shenzhen City CNAANM ZHU; JIAN-JIANAACI Shenzhen CityAACO CNAAGP ZHU; JIAN-JIAN Shenzhen City CN - A test device is for testing display parameters of an electronic product with a page browsing function. The electronic product stores display times of a number of standard frames which selected from a standard video file. The standard video file includes frames record the play process of a testing file being played by a standard electronic product. The test device controls a video capturing unit to capture an original video file which includes frames to records the playing process of the electronic product. The electronic product searches matching frames of the number of standard frames in the original video file. Thus the parameters of the electronic product can be determined by display times of the matching frames in the video file. | 01-17-2013 |
20130130646 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SIM CARDS - A mobile communication terminal includes a first SIM card, a second SIM card, a surfing detecting module, a bandwidth detecting module, and a control module. The first SIM card uses a first payment mode to pay for surfing the Internet according to bandwidth used. The second SIM card uses a second payment mode to pay for surfing the Internet according to time used. The surfing detecting module detects whether the mobile communication terminal is connected to the Internet. The bandwidth detecting module detects the bandwidth used. The control module enables one of the first and the second SIM cards according to the bandwidth used. | 05-23-2013 |
20130223750 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TWO IMAGES - A computerized method determines similarities between a first image and a second image. The first image is converted into a first grayscale image, and the second image is converted into a second grayscale image, where a number of pixels of the second image is not less than a number of pixels of the first image. Each pixel of the first grayscale image is matched with a pixel of the second grayscale image to create a pixel pair sequence. A similarity value indicating the similarities between the first image and the second image is calculated according to the grayscale value of each pixel in the pixel pair sequence S. | 08-29-2013 |