| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| 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... |