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US-5,555,360 Graphics processing apparatus for producing output data at edges of an output image defined by vector data
A graphics processing apparatus carries out an antialiasing for obtaining an output image having smooth edges, enabling a speedy computation of approximate...
US-5,555,359 Computer graphics anti-aliasing method using a partitioned look-up table
An anti-aliasing method greatly reduces the required size of the look-up table (LUT) memory space. The LUT memory is divided into four partitions and the four...
US-5,555,358 Digital printing system and process using compact trapezoidal representations
A system and process for digital printing processes commands to draw a trapezoidal image by initially rendering those commands into an intermediate...
US-5,555,357 Computer system and method for generating and manipulating charts and diagrams
A central processing unit (CPU) is coupled to a display device, an input device, a data storage device and a memory with charting and diagramming tools, element...
US-5,555,356 System and method for generating a trimmed parametric surface for display on a graphic display device
A method and system for representing an arbitrary parametric surface having one or more trimming polylines applied thereto. A quadrilateral mesh coextensive with...
US-5,555,355 System and method for clamping variable values without using branch instructions
A system for efficiently clamping lighted color vertex data without using processor branch instructions. The system implements a processor instruction for...
US-5,555,354 Method and apparatus for navigation within three-dimensional information landscape
A method and apparatus for navigating within a three dimensional graphic display space and manipulating information and data represented by objects in display...
US-5,555,353 Method of and apparatus for producing shadowed images
A shadowing process in which offset values .DELTA.x and .DELTA.y indicating a gradient and a range of the shadowing effect are set as shadowing parameters. A...
US-5,555,352 Object-based irregular-grid volume rendering
Method and apparatus for rendering data for display. The data represents a model space and the method includes the following steps. A first step associates...
US-5,555,351 Host communication message manager for a label printing system with data collection capabilities
A host communication message manager of a local bar code data processing and printing system allows one or more host processing systems to communicate with the...
US-5,555,350 Multi-interpreter printer and process including recognition of out-of-bank characters
A multi-interpreter printer recognizes out-of-band characters by measuring pauses in applied data streams and examining as candidate out-of-band characters data...
US-5,555,349 Printing device and recording paper control
A printing device and control method that facilitates setting of waiting periods for cut-sheet paper insertion and commencement of paper transport or printing...
US-5,555,348 Print device for printing code data in association with code numbers
By selecting a desired code table on an operation panel and depressing a print key, a series of code numbers each of which is divided into a first-digit code and...
US-5,555,347 Method and apparatus for controlling a robot using a neural network
A robot controller for an articulated robot, in which a joint angle vector indicating target joint angles of respective joints of the robot is calculated based...
US-5,555,346 Event-driven rule-based messaging system
A flexible, event driven and conditional rule based mail messaging system which can be transparently implemented for use in electronic mail applications. A rule...
US-5,555,345 Learning method of neural network
The present invention is a learning method of a neural network for identifying N category using a data set consisted of N categories, in which one learning...
US-5,555,344 Method for recognizing patterns in time-variant measurement signals
In automatic speech recognition, confusion easily arises between phonetically similar words (for example, the German words "zwei" and "drei") in the case of...
US-5,555,343 Text parser for use with a text-to-speech converter
A text parser for a text-to-speech processor accepts a text stream and parses the text stream to detect non-spoken characters and spoken characters. The spoken...
US-5,555,342 Planar waveguide and a process for its fabrication
A planar waveguide and a process for making a planar waveguide is disclosed. The waveguide has a layer of doped host material formed on a substrate. The host...
US-5,555,341 Waveguide with an electrically conductive channel
An electrically conductive waveguide is provided. A waveguide including a core region, a cladding region, a first surface and an end surface is fabricated....
US-5,555,340 Optical transmission system with dispersion compensating optical fiber
A dispersion compensating fiber has a negative chromatic dispersion slope and a value of chromatic dispersion suitable for practical application, and a bending...
US-5,555,339 Display matrix comprising light-emitting fibers that are maskable by disks each having a plurality of sectors
The invention relates to a display matrix having light-conveying fibers that are maskable by disks each having a plurality of sectors and rotated by...
US-5,555,338 Self-supporting electrical and optical overhead cable
An electrical overhead cable includes: cabled electrical conductors (3); tensile strength support elements (1, 2); and optical waveguide elements made of metal...
US-5,555,337 Surface wave guideline and object detecting device using surface wave guideline
An electromagnetic surface wave guideline that is formed by intertwisting dielectrics while providing a periodic structure like a rope and arranging conductors...
US-5,555,336 Fiber optic ower distribution
A fiber optic assembly including an elongated light guiding optical fiber strand, a first conductive layer coated around the elongated light guiding optical...
US-5,555,335 Optical fibres for blown installation
An optical fibre package suitable for installation using a fibre blowing process includes at least one optical fibre, an inner coating about said fibre, and an...
US-5,555,334 Optical transmission and receiving module and optical communication system using the same
A bidirectional optical transmission and receiving module of a simplified structure and an optical communication system using the same. The optical transmission...
US-5,555,333 Optical module and a fabrication process thereof
An optical module includes an optical connector element formed of first and second substrates for carrying optical fibers therebetween, and a device substrate...
US-5,555,332 Applicator and associated method for inserting guide pins in a fiber optic connector
An applicator for inserting guide pins in the corresponding apertures of a fiber optic connector includes a carrier body defining a number of bores and a number...
US-5,555,331 Device for connecting optical fibres to waveguides formed in a substrate
Device for connecting at least one optical fiber to at least one integrated-optics waveguide which is formed within a substrate at a predetermined distance from...
US-5,555,330 Wavelength division multiplexed coupler with low crosstalk between channels and integrated coupler/isolator device
Wavelength division multiplexed couplers are provided with the ends of input and output optical fibers arranged with respect to GRIN lens so that light from one...
US-5,555,329 Light directing optical structure
A light directing optical structure is formed of a light waveguide preferably made of clear plastic; attached to or formed with the waveguide are a multiplicity...
US-5,555,328 Total internal reflection knife edge
There is disclosed a total reflection knife edge which is a transparent optical element for receiving a scanning light beam and allowing the light beam at...
US-5,555,327 Frustrated total internal reflection device
A device (10) for processing an optical signal (28) is provided. The device includes a refractor (12) having first (34) and second (36) ends and having a...
US-5,555,326 Optical waveguide intensity modulator using electro-optic polymer
An optical waveguide intensity modulator of a polymer waveguide utilizes and electro-optic effect and optical birefringence induced from a poling process of a...
US-5,555,325 Data capture variable priority method and system for managing varying processing capacities
A data processing system and method manages the recognition of text characters in a plurality of document images. The documents are predefined forms having a...
US-5,555,324 Method and apparatus for generating a synthetic image by the fusion of signals representative of different...
A method and system for processing two input digital image signals, each being representative of a different two dimensional view of the same scene, to produce...
US-5,555,323 System for bi-level symbol coding/decoding with saved storage and method for same
An arithmetic datastream representative of an original sequence of input bi-level symbols is transmitted, before an information code carrying information on a...
US-5,555,322 Image storing device for electronic filing system
An image storing device for compressing an original image, storing the compressed image, and expanding the stored image while enabling a high speed searching for...
US-5,555,321 Image data binary coding method and apparatus
A method and device for decoding received coded image data for image compression in moving picture telecommunication, wherein data are subjected to discrete...
US-5,555,320 Pattern recognition system with improved recognition rate using nonlinear transformation
A pattern recognition system capable of handling the non-Gaussian feature vector distribution in the feature vector space such that the recognition rate can be...
US-5,555,319 Critical dimension measuring method and equipment thereof
A critical dimension measuring equipment includes a filtering circuit for inputting image data from a SEM and performs spatial filtering processing of the image...
US-5,555,318 Thresholding method for segmenting gray scale image, method for determining background concentration...
In a thresholding method for segmenting gray scale image which is less dependent on the concentration distribution of the input image, the threshold in...
US-5,555,317 Supervised training augmented polynomial method and apparatus for character recognition
A system that classifies or identifies hand printed or machine printed alphanumeric characters using an iterated least squares polynomial discriminant method is...
US-5,555,316 Inspecting apparatus of mounting state of component or printing state of cream solder in mounting line of...
An inspecting apparatus is arranged on an electronic component mounting line for inspecting whether a mounting state of the component mounted by a mounting...
US-5,555,315 Pinhole inspection device and method
An inspection device and method that closely approximates a visual inspection technique for evaluating the quality of a sample. A mask image generation section...
US-5,555,314 Fingerprint data processing method
The present invention provides a method of processing an unknown physical fingerprint for use in a data processing system to verify/identify an unknown...
US-5,555,313 Method and apparatus for characterizing the performance of a printer or an imaging system
A method and apparatus for characterizing the performance of either a printer used to print a two-dimensional symbol or an imaging system used to generate an...
US-5,555,312 Automobile apparatus for road lane and vehicle ahead detection and ranging
An apparatus recognizes road traffic lines and a car running ahead without regard to obstacles and noise signals. A video image recording unit on a car provides...
US-5,555,311 Electro-acoustic system analyzer
A method and apparatus for analyzing performance parameters of an electro-acoustic system. The bandwidth of the electro-acoustic system is determined by applying...
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