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US-5,432,899 Method for managing resources and information processing system
A method for managing resources and an information processing system having three or more information processing units, with one unit functioning as a server and...
US-5,432,898 System and method for producing anti-aliased lines
A system and method for providing a data processing system operable for displaying anti-aliased lines on a display device comprised of a matrix array of pixels....
US-5,432,897 Method and an apparatus for editing tree structures in display
A method and an apparatus for editing displayed tree structures allows movement and connection of a moving object in the tree structure to an aimed object with a...
US-5,432,896 Watercolor simulation in computer graphics
Watercolor effects are simulated in computer graphics by defining a brush shape and brush type, selecting a wetness level for the drawing area and, in accordance...
US-5,432,895 Virtual reality imaging system
The virtual reality imaging system takes a multidimensional space that contains real world objects and phenomena, be they static or dynamic in nature, and...
US-5,432,894 Graphic data processing system with improved retrieval and display of graphical forms
A method and apparatus for retrieving graphical data from a graphic data processing system that processes graphical forms, the graphic data processing system...
US-5,432,893 Sequential scalar quantization of digital color image using mean squared error-minimizing quantizer density...
A digital color image quantization mechanism employs sequential product code vector quantization, to sequentially extract chrominance and luminance values from...
US-5,432,892 Volummetric linear interpolation
A technique which efficiently approximates a continuous function employs volummetric linear interpolation and implements the interpolation process in an...
US-5,432,891 Image processing method and apparatus
A reduced image is enlarged, difference data representing the difference between the enlarged image and an original image is obtained, and the difference data is...
US-5,432,890 Character processing apparatus capable of automatic kerning
A character processing apparatus includes a pattern memory for storing character patterns, a shift amount memory for storing shift amount data of the character...
US-5,432,889 Vector neural networks
A vector neural network (VNN) of interconnected neurons is provided in transition mappings of potential targets wherein the threshold (energy) of a single frame...
US-5,432,888 Method for acquiring fuzzy knowledge
The definition of membership functions which define a fuzzy set is easily and visually performed by using a pointing device. When a membership function shape...
US-5,432,887 Neural network system and method for factory floor scheduling
Methods are developed on a digital computer for performing work order scheduling activity in a dynamic factory floor environment, in a manner which enables...
US-5,432,886 Speech recognition device for calculating a corrected similarity partially dependent on circumstances of...
In a speech recognition device including a similarity calculator for calculating a usual similarity as a provisional similarity between an input pattern and...
US-5,432,885 Recurrent fuzzy inference apparatus
A fuzzy inference apparatus in which a new membership function is synthesized from a current, weighted membership function and a previously synthesized...
US-5,432,884 Method and apparatus for decoding LPC-encoded speech using a median filter modification of LPC filter factors...
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for improving the quality of synthesized speech that is transmitted through a channel that is susceptible to...
US-5,432,883 Voice coding apparatus with synthesized speech LPC code book
A voice coding apparatus has a first linear prediction analyzer for acquiring linear prediction coefficients based on a received input speech sampled at a given...
US-5,432,882 Automatic electrically heated cigarette lighter socket inserted motor vehicle deodorizer device
An automatic motor vehicle deodorizer device, adapted for insertion into a motor vehicle cigarette lighter socket having two terminals to provide electrical...
US-5,432,881 Optical waveguide with overlapping diffusion regions containing different diffusion materials
A first region diffused with a first diffusion material containing at least one element and a second region diffused with a second diffusion material containing...
US-5,432,880 Angled optical connector ferrule
A method of producing an optical fiber ferrule having an angled, domed end face with the vertex of the dome and the axis of the fiber being substantially...
US-5,432,879 Nondisconnectable FC/PC fiber optic connector assembly
A nondisconnectable fiber optic connector assembly includes two fiber optic connectors and an interconnection assembly for joining the two connectors. Each...
US-5,432,878 Silicon carrier for testing and alignment of optoelectronic devices and method of assembling same
An optoelectronic subassembly is illustrated which ensures the alignment of multiple optoelectronic devices without special assembly process. The optoelectronic...
US-5,432,877 Integrated optical circuit having a waveguide end of lens geometry, and method for making same
A method and apparatus are disclosed whereby integrated optical circuits having waveguide ends of lens geometry are formed which improve the waveguide's optical...
US-5,432,876 Illumination devices and optical fibres for use therein
An optical fibre has a light emitting region. In the light emitting region are reflecting surfaces, at least one of which has a cross sectional area less than...
US-5,432,875 Fiber optic monitor module
A fiber optic connector module includes a beam splitter for directing 10 percent of a fiber optic signal to a monitor connector. The input of the beam splitter...
US-5,432,874 Duplex optical fiber link
A light signal transmitting apparatus having first and second light signal terminals and two optical fibers for coupling the first and second light signal...
US-5,432,873 Optical switch
An optical switch comprises a substrate, a first thin film layer formed on the substrate and including a first optical waveguide having a coupling portion and...
US-5,432,872 Light energy broadening coupler
An optical device comprising an optical waveguide (13) on a substrate (11) which over part of its length forms one of a stack (15) of coupled optical waveguide...
US-5,432,871 Systems and methods for interactive image data acquisition and compression
An interactive image data transmission system uses the expertise of an image end user distant from the image collection point. An image with a wide angle field...
US-5,432,870 Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing images of documents
A method and apparatus for compressing images having a binary extractor, a binary compressor and a JPEG compressor. The binary extractor produces a binary image...
US-5,432,869 Image signal processing method and apparatus
An improved image signal processing method and apparatus which can reduce the color noises of high level with a simple construction without deterioration of the...
US-5,432,868 Information medium recognition device
An information medium recognition device for recognizing an information medium such as a handwritten signature inputted by performing an offline input operation....
US-5,432,866 Method for detecting eye structure and its apparatus
The method for detecting an eye structure and its apparatus according to this invention examines an image having an eye and its vicinity of a human face...
US-5,432,865 Method and apparatus for generating a plurality of parameters of an object in a field of view
A method and an apparatus for generating a plurality of parameters of an object in a field of view is disclosed. An electrical image of the field of view is...
US-5,432,864 Identification card verification system
The present invention provides apparatus and method for verifying the identity of a person by comparing that person's face (or selected facial features) with an...
US-5,432,863 Automated detection and correction of eye color defects due to flash illumination
A method of determining and correcting for eye color defects in an image due to flash illumination includes determining whether an eye color defect group...
US-5,432,862 Frequency division, energy comparison, source detection signal processing system
A frequency division, energy comparison, source detection signal processing system which decomposes a wide-band signal into a plurality of narrow frequency band...
US-5,432,860 Speaker system
A speaker system includes an acoustic horn disposed in a cabinet. The acoustic horn is cone-shaped, is composed of a porous sound absorbing material, and has an...
US-5,432,859 Noise-reduction system
A noise-suppression circuit (10) divides the signal from a microphone (12) into a plurality of frequency sub-bands by means of a noise-band divider (18) and a...
US-5,432,858 Enhanced concert audio system
A audio enhancement system and method of use with a sound system for producing primary sound from at least one main loudspeaker located at a main position. The...
US-5,432,857 Dual bandpass secondary source
An active muffler for use in motor vehicles comprises a sensor, an electronic control responsive to the signal generated by the sensor for producing a drive...
US-5,432,856 Sound effect-creating device
A sound effect-creating device adds a reverberation tone signal to a monaural original tone signal by the use of a reverberation circuit, and delays a monaural...
US-5,432,855 Stereo and dual audio signal identifying system
A stereo and dual audio signal identifying system comprising, an FM detector, bandpass filter, and AM detector which generate a filter/detected input to a first...
US-5,432,854 Stereo FM receiver, noise control circuit therefor
A noise control system for a FM stereo receiver senses the presence of noise outside of the FM stereo transmission bandwidth at an output of a FM detector and...
US-5,432,853 Digital signal processing system
A selector circuit (11) generates generator polynomial information (SD) by performing a predetermined logic operation in response to a random number signal (S1)....
US-5,432,852 Large provably fast and secure digital signature schemes based on secure hash functions
The present invention describes new digital signature schemes that are provably secure against any adaptive chosen-message attack. The scheme, which is based on...
US-5,432,851 Personal computer access control system
An access control system which uses a password token scheme for controlling user access to data within computer systems. The key component in the access control...
US-5,432,850 Method and apparatus for secure data transmission
A method for secure transmission of data having a destination address and a source address on a shared communication network comprising the steps of transmitting...
US-5,432,849 Secure cryptographic operations using control vectors generated inside a cryptographic facility
The invention described herein suggests methods of cryptographic key management based on control vectors in which the control vectors are generated or derived...
US-5,432,848 DES encryption and decryption unit with error checking
An improved DES unit internally checks whether the DES algorithm is being performed without error. A standard DES algorithm performs an initial permutation of...
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