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US-5,278,946 Method of presenting multimedia data in a desired form by comparing and replacing a user template model with...
Multimedia data in an object structure include entity objects and relation objects, wherein each entity object has data representing a media element as internal...
US-5,278,945 Neural processor apparatus
A neural processor apparatus implements a neural network at a low cost and with high efficiency by simultaneously processing a plurality of neurons using the...
US-5,278,944 Speech coding circuit
A speech coding circuit is disclosed, which comprises a PCM encoder for converting an analog input into a digital output, and a speech coder with voice activity...
US-5,278,943 Speech animation and inflection system
A voice animation system decomposes pre-recorded samples of actual speech into basic segments to derive speech patterns of a particular speaker to provide...
US-5,278,942 Speech coding apparatus having speaker dependent prototypes generated from nonuser reference data
A speech coding apparatus and method for use in a speech recognition apparatus and method. The value of at least one feature of an utterance is measured during...
US-5,278,941 Electric immersion heater with restricted heat-flow paths to the thermostatic control thereof
An electric immersion heater (10) is provided for heating fluids, such as water in a livestock watering tank. The electric heater includes a heater subassembly...
US-5,278,940 Device utilizing a PTC resistor for electrically heating flowing liquid or gaseous media
A device for heating flowing liquid or gaseous media has a heating element including a PTC resistor arranged between a pair of perforated metallic bodies serving...
US-5,278,939 Vacuum-molded ceramic fiber electric radiant heating unit with resistance heating coils internally free of fibers
A vacuum-molded electrical radiant heating unit having a resistance heating coil embedded in a ceramic fiber body is prepared by a process in which a resistance...
US-5,278,938 Infrared heater array for IC soldering reflective members
An infrared (IR) heater array apparatus that provides focused lines of IR radiation for soldering integrated circuit components or devices, especially fine pitch...
US-5,278,937 Humidifier especially suitable for aircraft air conditioning system
A steam generator for the humidifier of an air conditioning system, especially an aircraft air conditioner system, is connected by a duct to a dilution cone...
US-5,278,936 Thermostatically controlled portable electric space heater with automatic temperature setback for energy saving
An electrically-powered portable space heater of the type having one or more vertically extending fin-tube heating elements disposed within an elongated housing...
US-5,278,935 Device for controlling moving body participating in photographing operation
A control device for a moving body such as a focusing lens or the like is arranged to vary time intervals at which a speed control action is performed on a motor...
US-5,278,934 Throughput maximizing systems for substantially unimodal throughput profiles
Throughput between two objects of light or another physical quantity having a substantially unimodal throughput profile in terms of relative orientation of said...
US-5,278,933 Fiber optic splice organizer and associated method
A fiber optic splice organizer for storing optical fiber splices and the slack associated therewith to permit ready separation of the optical fibers, such as to...
US-5,278,932 Optical fiber splice verification system
The splice verification system of the present invention verifies the efficiency of an optical splice by measuring the scattered light escaping from the splice....
US-5,278,931 Low bend loss singlemode optical waveguide fiber
An optical waveguide fiber with improved bend loss performance while maintaining cutoff wavelength, .lambda..sub.c, and zero dispersion wavelength,...
US-5,278,930 Fiber type wavelength converter
A fiber type optical wavelength converter has a core made of nonlinear optical crystal and a clad surrounding the core. The core and clad have an effective...
US-5,278,929 Optical module, method for fabricating the same and optical module unit with the same
An optical module comprises a capillary in which first and second optical fibers are connected. The first optical fiber is aligned through a lens to an optical...
US-5,278,928 Optical fiber connector having a glass ferrule covered by a thin reinforcing layer
Optical fiber connector comprises a ferrule receiving an optical fiber and a sleeve member for holding the ferrule. The body of the ferrule is made of glass on...
US-5,278,927 Efficient single-hop interconnection network employing merged shared directional multichannels
A system for the scheduled transmission of signals from source stations to destination stations in a passive, static, Single-Hop Interconnection (SHI) employing...
US-5,278,926 Widened output mode semiconductor optical component and method of fabricating it
A widened output mode semiconductor optical component such as a laser includes superposed active and passive waveguides. The width of the active waveguide...
US-5,278,925 Integrated-optic waveguide devices and method
It is possible to utilize changes in the complex effective refractive index caused by bringing a metal membrane in close proximity to the core of an optical...
US-5,278,924 Periodic domain reversal electro-optic modulator
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, an enhanced performance opto-electric modulator (30 or 70) is provided herein which compensates for...
US-5,278,923 Cascaded optical modulation system with high linearity
An optical modulation system having cascade-coupled electro-optic modulator stages in either dual tandem or split tandem configurations. An electrical splitter...
US-5,278,922 Method for re-tracing the end point of an image
A method for re-tracing an end point of an image by an image processing device for converting the line images of the image data into vector data in a...
US-5,278,921 Method of determining exposure
An exposure determination method for determining exposure by extracting feature image data including person's face data. A color original image is divided into...
US-5,278,920 Optical character recognition method and apparatus
A system for recognition of characters on a medium. The system includes a scanner for scanning a medium such as a page of printed text and graphics and producing...
US-5,278,919 Image area determining apparatus
An image area determining apparatus acquires a multi-value image to determine to which one of a picture area and a character area an image signal of the...
US-5,278,918 Optical character recognition method and apparatus using context analysis and a parsing algorithm which...
A system for recognition of characters on a medium. The system includes a scanner for scanning a medium such as a page of printed text and graphics and producing...
US-5,278,917 Lathe cutting simulation method
A lathe cutting simulation method comprises the steps of preparing workpiece shading drawing data from workpiece shape data, displaying the shape of the...
US-5,278,916 Fingerprint image apparatus
A fingerprint image system includes a television camera in a cabinet pivotable between two positions where it views different surfaces on which an image can be...
US-5,278,915 Method for hierarchical estimation of the movement in a sequence of images
The method consists in effecting a hierarchical decomposition of the image by levels of resolutions, (I.sub.31, I.sub.32, I.sub.33 ; I.sub.21, I.sub.22, I.sub.23...
US-5,278,914 Detector systems for existence or non-existence and stagnation of refuse and system for preventing stagnation...
In order to efficiently controlling a compressing feeder of refuse, a novel detector system for existence or non-existence of refuse, a novel detector system for...
US-5,278,913 Active acoustic attenuation system with power limiting
An active acoustic attenuation system prevents overdriving of the canceling output transducer or speaker (14) by shunting at least part of the correction signal...
US-5,278,912 Multiband programmable compression system
An improved audio compressor of the type which is useful in a hearing aid and having a programmable compression ratio is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment,...
US-5,278,911 Speech recognition using a neural net
Multiple examples of a vocabulary of known words are recorded. The examples of each word are temporally aligned and supplied to a neural net which identifies...
US-5,278,910 Apparatus and method for speech signal level change suppression processing
A level measuring circuit first measures a level of an input speech signal. Next, a coefficient calculating circuit determines a value for suppressing a change...
US-5,278,909 System and method for stereo digital audio compression with co-channel steering
Left right and surround components of a stereo signal are coded into a monaural and small co-channel providing volume steering for recreating a stereo effect...
US-5,278,908 Interdiction method and apparatus with programmable jamming effectiveness
An off-premises method and apparatus for the interdiction of unauthorized channels of a broadband cable television signal includes common circuitry for adjusting...
US-5,278,907 Analog scrambling with continuous synchronization
A device and method for scrambling and de-scrambling audio and voice communications including radio, cellular telephone, and conventional telephone...
US-5,278,906 System for encoding data presented with a first coding device and for decoding encoded data with a second...
In a system for de-/encoding data using (de)coding devices at either end of a transmission channel, the data sometimes comprise additional synchronisation...
US-5,278,905 Method and apparatus for processor base encryption
The penalties and drawbacks associated with encrypting information in a portable device having a microprocessor are avoided by, in advance of the time for...
US-5,278,904 Method of verifying identification
A method for secure exchange of password information between a requester node and a server node using a verification protocol for confirming the identification...
US-5,278,903 Information processing system
Disclosed is an information processing system such as a work station, a personal computer system or the like. The information processing system includes an...
US-5,278,902 Method and apparatus for transition direction coding
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding data in the context of a digital system for communicating binary information, including code...
US-5,278,901 Pattern-oriented intrusion-detection system and method
The present invention provides a pattern-oriented intrusion detection system and method that defines patterns of intrusion based on object privilege and...
US-5,278,900 Digital echo canceller comprising a double-talk detector
A digital echo canceller has a receive path (2) and a send path (3) and comprises combining apparatus (10) for forming a send output signal [r(k)] as the...
US-5,278,899 Digital telephone system noise reduction circuit
A telephone system uses above voice-band ASK control and supervisory signals which are appended to digitally encoded voice by forcing the least significant bits...
US-5,278,898 System for managing a hold queue
A system for electronically managing calls in a hold queue wherein the hold queue is prioritized into a number of priority categories according to user...
US-5,278,897 Smart internodal transfer for subscriber access in multinode voice messaging systems
Method for providing smart, internodal transfer for subscriber access which enables a subscriber who inputs a subscriber access number at a node in a multinode...
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