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US-5,555,560 Request cancel system for cancelling a second access request having the same address as a first access request
A request cancel system is incorporated in a processing system which includes a main storage unit having a plurality of banks, a memory control unit and a...
US-5,555,559 Microprocessor capable of ensuring flexible recovery time for I/O device by inserting idle states
A microprocessor which has bus cycles of a memory access operation, an I/O access operation, and an idle state, includes a register for storing the number of the...
US-5,555,558 Method for switching optical signals
The present invention provides an apparatus (74 & 200) for switching an optical signal from an input optical fiber (210) to one of a plurality of output optical...
US-5,555,557 Bit-map image resolution converter with controlled compensation for write-white xerographic laser printing
A method is shown to enable the conversion of binary image data originally generated at a first resolution into representative binary image data of an...
US-5,555,556 Method and apparatus for document segmentation by background analysis
A system for extracting document elements from a document using major white regions includes an input port for inputting a signal representing the document...
US-5,555,555 Apparatus which detects lines approximating an image by repeatedly narrowing an area of the image to be...
Each of feature points (Xs, Ys) in X and Y orthogonal coordinate system of an image taken by a television camera is converted into a group of points (.rho.,...
US-5,555,554 Vented headset speaker
A headset speaker is provided in which a driver is provided in the dome of a speaker earcup and the dome has at least one vent aperture. The vent hole is closed...
US-5,555,553 Method for supporting communication in a communication system using intermediaries between called parties
A method and a system for supporting communication for a first user who desires to be able to communicate with second foreign users in an environment in which...
US-5,555,552 Apparatus for quickly capturing cordless telephone channel to be measured
An apparatus capable of quickly capturing a channel to be measured of a cordless telephone in a shorter period of time than the time required by a conventional...
US-5,555,551 Method and apparatus for fraud control in cellular telephone systems
A method and apparatus for fraud control in cellular telephone systems. Call records from a switch are scanned to identify a fraudulent cellular phone based on...
US-5,555,550 Keypad apparatus with integral display indicators
A keypad apparatus (100) with integral display indicator bars (102-104) provides input to a device while displaying the status of the device on the display...
US-5,555,549 Process for modifying a surface of a fluororesin product
In a process that can readily modify a surface of a fluororesin product in a short time, the surface of the fluororesin product is irradiated with synchrotron...
US-5,555,548 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a master unit and a plurality of slave units
In a method and apparatus for transferring data between a master unit MU, and slave units SU0, SU1 . . . SUX according to a synchronizing signal generated by the...
US-5,555,547 Convolutional coding and viterbi decoding system transparent to phase skips of .pi. and .pi./2, with...
In a convolutional coding and Viterbi decoding system transparent to phase skips of .pi. and .pi./2 with applications in TDMA transmission, the transmitter 3...
US-5,555,546 Apparatus for decoding a DPCM encoded signal
A voice decoding apparatus of an adaptive PCM coding system in which an auxiliary controller is provided between a controller and a prediction coefficient...
US-5,555,545 Connecting apparatus for interconnection between serial data transmission devices
A connecting apparatus for interconnection between serial data transmission devices, includes a DTE/DCE selector switch, a signal level converter, a single chip...
US-5,555,544 Tapered semiconductor laser oscillator
A semiconductor laser oscillator structure and method is described having a tapered gain region in one-half of a laser cavity and a confocal oscillator region in...
US-5,555,543 Crossbar switch apparatus and protocol
A computer networking system includes a cross bar switch and a protocol for operating the same. The crossbar switch typically connects a plurality of ports one...
US-5,555,542 Packet directional path identifier transfer system
A packet directional path identifier transfer system contains on the transmission side thereof, a means 2 of converting packet directional path identifier data...
US-5,555,541 Exchange connected to a control channel junction line
A control channel junction line system for use with a digital switching network wherein a talking channel used in a control channel is used in a high efficiency...
US-5,555,540 ASIC bus structure
A bi-directional ring bus structure is formed on an integrated circuit from a conductive bus and M X:1 multiplexer modules (where M is an integer .gtoreq.2),...
US-5,555,539 Multi-beam split-type optical head for use in optical disk apparatus
A multi-beam split-type optical head has optics including a stationary section and a movable section. A plurality of light beams generated from a plurality of...
US-5,555,538 Optical pickup
An optical pickup includes: a laser diode for emitting p-polarized light, the laser diode having unit for controlling output power of the p-polarized light by...
US-5,555,537 Optical data storage system with multiple write-once phase-change recording layers
An optical disk drive uses an optical disk with spatially separated multiple phase-change WORM recording layers. The optical disk has a light transmissive...
US-5,555,536 Device for playing recorded audio at a selected time
A device for playing recorded audio at one or more selected times. An alarm clock and recorder are coupled together such that audio recorded by the user plays at...
US-5,555,535 Watch dial
A watch dial which is made by laminating a cut section of a Tagua nut to a watch dial base plate. The cut section of the Tagua nut has a unique grain pattern...
US-5,555,534 Method and apparatus for doppler receive beamformer system
An ultrasonic receive system includes two receive beamformers. A first receive beamformer is optimized for imaging modes such as B-mode and color Doppler flow...
US-5,555,533 Control system for diver VOX/PTT communication system
A control system which enables a diver to electronically switch between voice operated (VOX) operation and push-to-talk (PTT) operation by actuation of the...
US-5,555,532 Method and apparatus for target imaging with sidelooking sonar
A method and apparatus for imaging underwater targets utilizing sidelooking onar. A sonar pulse consisting of a concatenated series of subpulses is transmitted....
US-5,555,531 Method for identification of near-surface drilling hazards
A method is disclosed to identify existence of near-surface drilling hazards in the vicinity of a sea floor location comprising the steps of: obtaining 3D...
US-5,555,530 Method for improving signal to noise ratio
A method for improving the signal to noise ratio from a pair of detectors such as geophones which each detect a noisy signal comprising a signal of interest (S)...
US-5,555,529 Power saving architecture for a cache memory
An improved cache memory architecture is disclosed, having particular application in a cache having static random access memory (RAM). In a typical static RAM...
US-5,555,528 Dynamic random access memory persistent page implemented as processor register sets
The sense amplifier registers (SARs) servicing the arrays of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) located on a semiconductor chip with a processor are all...
US-5,555,527 Semiconductor memory, moving-picture storing memory, moving-picture storing apparatus, moving-picture...
A memory array divided into a plurality of sub-memory-arrays is disposed on a chip so that, if a specified sub-memory-array is selected by a sub-memory-array...
US-5,555,526 Synchronous semiconductor memory device having an auto-precharge function
A semiconductor memory device according to the present invention having a plurality of memory banks, a row address strobe signal buffer, a column address strobe...
US-5,555,525 Method of making graded refractive index polymeric optical fibers and optical fibers made by the method
A continuous manufacturing method is provided by extruding a composite optical fiber from two polymeric solutions containing two different monomers having...
US-5,555,524 Semi-synchronous dual port FIFO
An FIFO is provided which has two synchronous ports that may operate asynchronously to one another. The FIFO design is unaffected by gate delays, and is...
US-5,555,523 Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells including at least a first memory cell and a second memory cell, a first bit line connected...
US-5,555,522 Semiconductor memory having redundant cells
A semiconductor memory comprising a flip-flop circuit, a redundant memory cell row and column, a specific address detecting gate, a transistor, a sense amplifier...
US-5,555,521 Method of operating the semiconductor memory storing analog data and analog data storing apparatus
The operational method is disclosed, for storing analog data in an electrically programmable and erasable memory cell. The memory cell includes a transistor...
US-5,555,520 Trench capacitor cells for a dram having single monocrystalline capacitor electrode
The present structure is characterized by the electrode of a trench capacitor of a DRAM and a periphery thereof. A trench is formed adjacent to an N type region...
US-5,555,519 Dynamic random access memory device with the combined open/folded bit-line pair arrangement
A dynamic random access memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of parallel word lines on the substrate, and a plurality of pairs of bit...
US-5,555,518 Depth sensing expendable oceanographic probes
An expendable oceanographic probe includes a body having a weighted nose section and an after body having a tail for stabilization. A spool of wire is paid out...
US-5,555,517 Apparatus and method for efficient carry skip incrementation
A carry-skip incrementor mitigating propagation delay experienced by conventional ripple carry incrementors without employing a substantially greater device...
US-5,555,516 Multipurpose error correction calculation circuit
A bit-oriented error correction calculation circuit performs numerous mathematical operations including bit-oriented convolutions, inversions, multiplications,...
US-5,555,515 Apparatus and method for generating linearly filtered composite signal
An apparatus and method for generating a linearly filtered composite signal, wherein the original signal of said composite signal can be divided into a plurality...
US-5,555,514 Method of and apparatus for generating doppler sounds
Method and apparatus for generating Doppler sounds, even when there are segmented Doppler modes, wherein I and Q components of a Doppler signal are respectively...
US-5,555,513 Data processing system having a compensation circuit for compensating for capacitive coupling on a bus
A compensation circuit (64) for ensuring that a first conductor (60) of a plurality of parallel conductors (60, 61, 62) in a bus (50) remains at a logic high...
US-5,555,512 Picture processing apparatus for processing infrared pictures obtained with an infrared ray sensor and applied...
A picture processing apparatus is composed of an infrared ray sensor for producing an infrared picture in which a heat distribution of a measured area is...
US-5,555,511 Data processing system for picture coding processing
A data processing system for a picture coding, includes a data memory for storing a discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficient data successively transferred one...
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