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US-5,689,625 Document server for processing a distribution job in a document processing system
A document server is provided for processing a distribution job in a document processing system. The document processing system includes a document manager,...
US-5,689,624 Stochastic based increased tonal range flexographic screening process and apparatus
A screening process and apparatus for flexographic printing press control is implemented in hardware and computer software to provide increased tonal range...
US-5,689,623 Spread spectrum digital screening
A spread spectrum digital screening mask and a method and system for digital screening a continuous tone image with the spread spectrum digital screening mask....
US-5,689,622 Method for adjusting network parameters in a multi-layer perceptron device provided with means for executing...
A perceptron device has processing elements arranged in an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer. The training method of the perceptron...
US-5,689,621 Modular feedforward neural network architecture with learning
A first feedforward network receives an input vector signal and a plurality of weight signals and forms an output vector signal based thereupon. A second...
US-5,689,620 Automatic training of character templates using a transcription and a two-dimensional image source model
A technique for automatically training a set of character templates using unsegmented training samples uses as input a two-dimensional (2D) image of characters,...
US-5,689,619 Eyetracker control of heads-up displays
The invention consists of an eyetracker, a display driver, an adaptive display interface controller, and a digital computer. A user of the invention can operate...
US-5,689,618 Advanced tools for speech synchronized animation
A random access animation user interface environment referred to as interFACE enabling a user to create and control animated lip-synchronized images or objects...
US-5,689,617 Speech recognition system which returns recognition results as a reconstructed language model with attached...
A speech recognition system operating on a computer system, where the speech recognition system uses a language model with embedded structure and attached data...
US-5,689,616 Automatic language identification/verification system
A language identification and verification system is described whereby language identification is determined by finding the closest match of a speech utterance...
US-5,689,615 Usage of voice activity detection for efficient coding of speech
A method for efficient coding of non-active voice periods is disclosed for a speech communication system with (a) a speech encoder, (b) a communication channel...
US-5,689,614 Rapid thermal heating apparatus and control therefor
A rapid thermal heating apparatus in which lamps are disposed in a plurality of light pipes arranged to illuminate and supply heat to a substrate. The light...
US-5,689,613 Platinum plated quartz tubes and method of making the same
The quartz tubes of the heating elements of an infrared oven have a limited portion of their circumference coated with a mixture containing platinum. The...
US-5,689,612 Image signal processing device
An image signal processing device generates first image data and second image data based on the same optical image. Each pixel of the second image data is offset...
US-5,689,611 Panorama image producing method and apparatus
A method and an apparatus by which a panorama image is produced with a high degree of accuracy from an image signal are disclosed. An image signal produced by a...
US-5,689,610 Method of making an index print having an indicator of substantially where an image is stored on a motion...
An index print includes a recording sheet having a plurality of imagettes representing images stored on a motion picture image recording medium such as a video...
US-5,689,609 Optical coupling configuration
A coupling configuration includes a flange having a rear side on which an optical element and a front side on which a receiving tube are disposed. A plug prong...
US-5,689,608 Fiber optic assembly
A method of increasing the attachment bond strength between a first and second object comprising respective first and second materials is disclosed. Each of the...
US-5,689,607 Device for holding at least one optical fiber cable, and a splice box making use of the device
A device for holding at least one optical fiber cable includes one fastening support per cable. The device including a cylindrical thimble inside which a...
US-5,689,606 Fiber routing and retention assembly with modular fiber connector support
A fiber routing and retention assembly for routing and mounting at least two fibers having a terminal end within an electronic enclosure. The assembly includes a...
US-5,689,605 Splice holder assembly for an optical fiber cable splice closure
A splice holder assembly of this invention is used in an optical fiber cable splice closure. The assembly includes a splice tray that is an open-topped enclosure...
US-5,689,604 Fiber optic operations center
Disclosed is a fiber optic operations center intended for use in a central office which is responsible for the administration, monitoring, testing, and repair of...
US-5,689,603 Optically interactive nanostructure
Optically interactive nanostructural element. The element includes a semiconductor substrate including at least one radiation guide region extending into the...
US-5,689,602 CCD video scope with illumination to the object
A CCD video scope is mounted in a camera head and has an image capture optical system defining an optical axis, and a half mirror with a light source offset from...
US-5,689,601 Water blocking optical cable reinforcement
An optical cable reinforcement in the form of glass fiber strands [30] having a first coating [32] of a binding agent such as a latex mixture and a second...
US-5,689,600 Electronic circuit structure
An electronic circuit structure having a reduced size includes a circuit substrate, an aperture extending through the circuit substrate, and an electronic...
US-5,689,599 Optical fiber connector with enhanced bonding
An improved fiber optic connector for supporting therebetween an array of optical fibers, the connector comprising first and second support members, each having...
US-5,689,598 Connector block and method for simultaneously mating a plurality of optical fiber connector pairs
A connector block and method are provided wherein a plurality of optical fiber connectors can be removably loaded in the block for the simultaneous mating of...
US-5,689,597 Multimode interference couplers and method therefor
The invention relates to the field of integrated optics and communication techniques. In these fields, integrated, compact passive beam splitters and combiners...
US-5,689,596 Nonlinear optical loop mirror device providing pulse width switching
A nonlinear optical loop mirror device having a distributed directional asymmetry. A dispersion decreasing optical fiber is formed into a loop by an optical...
US-5,689,595 Rare earth-doped fiber amplifier assemblies for fiberoptic networks
Assemblies having a first optical circulator, a pumping laser, a rare-earth doped fiber and a first coupler are described. The first coupler has a first fiber...
US-5,689,594 Multiple wavelength bidirectional lightwave amplifier
A system and method for optimizing the performance, in a multichannel optical transmission system, of an optical signal regenerator, by compensating for input...
US-5,689,593 Compact fiberoptic circulator with low polarization mode dispersion
A compact optical circulator which can be expanded into a large number of optical ports is provided. For each port, the circulator has an optical port assembly...
US-5,689,592 Parallel processing of digital signals in a single arithmetic/logic unit
A method of processing a digital signal wherein multiple signal values are simultaneously operated upon in a single register. The register is not segmented in...
US-5,689,591 Apparatus and method for noncausal, predictive, digital image compression
The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for converting a noncausal, two dimensional signal representative of a digitized image into an...
US-5,689,590 Background noise removing apparatus and method applicable to color image processing apparatus
A density converting unit converts densities concerning respective color components in color-image data for each pixel so as to change the densities concerning...
US-5,689,589 Data compression for palettized video images
A data compression system uses sameness information, such as temporal sameness of corresponding pixels, in the coding process. Two sets of contexts are used, one...
US-5,689,588 Method and apparatus for increasing compressibility of multibit image data with the LSB value determined in the...
A method and apparatus for processing image data of pixels to be rendered for efficient storage in a memory or efficient transmission wherein a grey level value...
US-5,689,587 Method and apparatus for data hiding in images
A method of hiding a pattern in a host image increases and decreases parameter values at randomly selected host image locations assigned to respective first and...
US-5,689,586 Methods to print N-tone images with multi-leveling techniques
Generating a N-tone image from a grey scale image with a number of multi-level dither matrices. Both images have many pixels, with each pixel in the grey scale...
US-5,689,585 Method for aligning a text image to a transcription of the image
A method for establishing a relationship between a text image and a transcription associated with the text image uses conventional image processing techniques to...
US-5,689,584 Method of and apparatus for pattern recognition and method of creating pattern recognition dictionary
A method of pattern recognition, including the steps of: (a) creating N subregions by dividing a recognition region of an input pattern into N blocks and...
US-5,689,583 Character recognition apparatus using a keyword
A character recognition unit recognizes a document image to output character candidates; a character correction unit selects a corrected character string which...
US-5,689,582 Image processing apparatus having image region designating function
When a frame marked with a marker pen in a black-and-white image is to be extracted, an intermediate-density portion present on a character edge portion is...
US-5,689,581 Methods of inspection
An inspection method for judging whether an object is defective or not uses a neural network comprising an input neuron which quantizes input feature quantities...
US-5,689,580 Printed letter inspecting apparatus for solid objects
A first, a second and a third RAMs 18, 29 and 34, which preliminarily have stored an absolute value of a difference between any combination of two digital...
US-5,689,579 Rule-based circuit, method and system for performing item level reconciliation
A reconciling circuit for, and method of, reconciling a first database with a second database, the first database containing first item data arranged in records...
US-5,689,578 Polarized wave holding optical fiber, production method therefor, connection method therefor, optical...
The polarization-maintaining optical fiber 10 of the present invention is designed so that a plurality of core portions 12a,12b which have a high refractive...
US-5,689,577 Procedure for the simplification of triangular surface meshes for more efficient processing
A volume image memory (24) stores an electronic image representation of a volumetric region, such as the volumetric region examinedby a medical diagnostic...
US-5,689,576 Surface feature mapping using high resolution C-scan ultrasonography
An ultrasonic system and method for imaging a surface wherein a C-mode ultrasonic scan is performed over a fixed area of the surface and range gating is applied...
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