| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-5,781,248 |
Multipoint receiving and data processing apparatus A multimedium terminal apparatus which can simultaneously communicate with maximum N (N: integer of 2 or larger) terminals through a plurality of lines... |
| US-5,781,247 |
Customizable menu for a television receiver accessed via a remote
control keyboard A television receiver, provides a hierarchy of menus for controlling functions affecting the display of the video image. A "fetch" menu which can be customized... |
| US-5,781,246 |
Electronic television program guide schedule system and method An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television... |
| US-5,781,245 |
Merging of video mosaic with teletext Video data and TXT data are combined into a single image. The video data is representative of a mosaic of video windows. The TXT data form a plurality of TXT... |
| US-5,781,244 |
Image signal processing apparatus In the image signal processing apparatus in this invention, control is carried out in such a manner that an enlarged image signal based on an image signal stored... |
| US-5,781,243 |
Display optimization for night vision enhancement systems Night vision apparatus including an infrared night vision sensor having a selected field of view and a display panel positioned for displaying an image detected... |
| US-5,781,242 |
Image processing apparatus and mapping method for frame memory An image processing apparatus for storing image data into or from a frame memory is disclosed. The image data includes plural pieces of element data arranged in... |
| US-5,781,241 |
Apparatus and method to convert computer graphics signals to television
video signals with vertical and... A method and system is disclosed for scaling computer video in the process of scan rate conversion. In the disclosed system and method storage is provided for at... |
| US-5,781,239 |
System and method for performing an optimized inverse discrete cosine
transform with improved efficiency An MPEG decoder system and method an MPEG decoder system and method for decoding frames of a video sequence. The MPEG decoder includes IDCT computation logic... |
| US-5,781,238 |
Information signal encoding apparatus, encoding method thereof,
information signal decoding method, and... Difference signals generated in the prediction encoding process for an input digital information signal are block segmented. The maximum value and minimum value... |
| US-5,781,237 |
Video coding apparatus and video coding method N pieces of quantized data are generated by quantizing video signals in quantizing widths proportional to N temporary quantizing parameters Q(i). N temporary... |
| US-5,781,236 |
Image sensing apparatus and image sensing method An image sensing apparatus has a cut-off characteristic which is changed by a mechanism for rotating a simple optical low-pass filter having a tightly sealed... |
| US-5,781,234 |
Charge-coupled image sensor operable to simultaneously transfer pixels
from adjacent image acquisition and... A charge-coupled image sensor having adjacent image acquisition and image storage areas is described. Pixel transfer can take place from the image acquisition... |
| US-5,781,233 |
MOS FET camera chip and methods of manufacture and operation thereof An integrated circuit functions as an image detector providing an output signal representing the detected image. A two dimensional array of sensor cells is... |
| US-5,781,232 |
Recording medium insertion and removal mechanism An insertion and removal mechanism for recording media includes a door that can move between a closed position that covers a loading chamber by moving in a... |
| US-5,781,231 |
Real-time parameter adjustment of digitally synthesized video test
signals A digital test signal generator that provides for real-time parameter adjustment of digitally synthesized video test signals has a pair of test signal memories... |
| US-5,781,230 |
Method and apparatus for illuminating translucent and semi-transparent
material A machine vision system and method of enhancing the imaging of an article which is comprised of optically translucent or semi-transparent material. Generally,... |
| US-5,781,229 |
Multi-viewer three dimensional (3-D) virtual display system and
operating method therefor A three-dimensional (3-D) virtual display system for displaying a flicker-free 3-D virtual image to each of N viewers randomly dispersed about a horizontally... |
| US-5,781,228 |
Method and system for displaying an interactive program with intervening
informational segments In association with an interactive television system, a method and system for displaying an interactive program having intervening informational segments. When... |
| US-5,781,227 |
Method and apparatus for masking the effects of latency in an
interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for masking the effects of latency within an information distribution system. The apparatus comprises a set top terminal that requests and... |
| US-5,781,226 |
Network virtual memory for a cable television settop terminal The present invention comprises a memory management system employed in a settop terminal which utilizes memory available at the headend of a CATV system through... |
| US-5,781,225 |
Method and apparatus for improving electronic recording of depth images A system and method in which a size of a pixel used to print lenticular depth images is changed to remove overlap in the slow scan print direction. A space... |
| US-5,781,224 |
Device for producing a screen printing stencil In the production of a screen printing stencil, a thin-walled hollow cylinder having a light responsive layer on the outside is rotated about its cylinder axis... |
| US-5,781,223 |
Head device for printer A print head for use in a printer has a light source, a pair of lenses, and a pair of light guides. The light source has five light-emitting diodes for emitting... |
| US-5,781,222 |
Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus supplying a smaller
high-frequency current to a first... An optical information recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a first semiconductor laser for generating a light beam for recording or erasing... |
| US-5,781,221 |
Method of printing visually readable information on a compact disk A method of printing human readable information on a CD having a substrate, a record layer over the substrate, and a reflective layer over the record layer... |
| US-5,781,220 |
Thermal head The invention relates to a thermal head which comprises: a plurality of heating elements arranged at regular intervals on the top surface of an electrically... |
| US-5,781,219 |
Ink sheet and thermal transfer type color printer An ink sheet for a thermal transfer type color printer. In the ink sheet, a head sensor mark is provided in a transparent portion on one side of a base film, one... |
| US-5,781,218 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an opposing electrode disposed facing a supporting device; a control electrode disposed between the supporting device and... |
| US-5,781,217 |
Device for direct electrostatic printing (DEP) comprising an
intermediate image receiving member A device for direct electrostatic printing is provided wherein a flow of toner particles in a electrical field from a toner source to the surface of an... |
| US-5,781,216 |
Ink-jet printing cloth, textile printing method of the same and print
resulting therefrom An ink-jet printing cloth is disclosed in which a selected type of polyethylene oxide is incorporated in specified amounts. The polyethylene oxide has a larger... |
| US-5,781,215 |
Ink jet recording method An ink jet recording method includes the steps of: (a) holding a sheet-like recording medium having a glossy surface in which the 60-degree mirror glossiness... |
| US-5,781,214 |
Method of preventing clogging of nozzles A method of preventing clogging of nozzles, particularly nozzle orifices in a drop-on-demand ink jet printers, during intervals when no ink flows through the... |
| US-5,781,213 |
Liquid storing container having filter interface for recording apparatus A liquid storing container, having a liquid feed portion for supplying liquid to a liquid injection recording apparatus, includes a rectangular receiving case... |
| US-5,781,212 |
Purgeable multiple-orifice drop-on-demand ink jet print head having
improved jetting performance and methods of... An ink jet print head (10) has a supply channel (14, 24, 52) connecting an ink source with an upper manifold (60U) and a lower manifold (60L). Each manifold has... |
| US-5,781,211 |
Ink jet recording head apparatus An ink jet recording head apparatus of simplified construction comprising ink flow channels defined by electrical conductors; the conductors connected to a... |
| US-5,781,210 |
Recording method and recording solution A recording method of ink jet system which employs a recording solution composed of a dye which vaporizes more than 90 wt % upon heating at a temperature above... |
| US-5,781,209 |
Method of producing an ink ejecting device A manifold is connected to a plurality of fluid chambers formed in the actuator plate of an ink jet printer head and nozzles formed in a nozzle plate are also... |
| US-5,781,208 |
Sealing mechanism for and ink-jet recording head A sealing mechanism for an ink-jet recording head provided with an acrylate copolymer obtained by crosslinking an acrylic copolymer with isocyanate, the acrylic... |
| US-5,781,207 |
Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus comprises input keys for inputting information to be recorded, a protection device for protecting a recording head for discharging... |
| US-5,781,206 |
Apparatus and method for recalibrating a multi-color imaging system An apparatus and method for recalibrating a multi-color imaging system are provided. The multi-color imaging system is capable of applying different colorants to... |
| US-5,781,205 |
Heater power compensation for temperature in thermal printing systems A method of and apparatus for compensating printing heads which operate, e.g., in the coincident forces drop on demand printing mode for the effects of ambient... |
| US-5,781,204 |
Ink jet apparatus with suction recovery controlled according to head
temperature and ink discharge frequency An ink jet apparatus is described which includes a suction recovery device and control thereof so as to appropriately remove air bubbles created in an ink jet... |
| US-5,781,203 |
Ink ejecting device for use in an ink jet printing apparatus An ink ejecting device for use in an ink jet printing apparatus, includes: a number of ejecting elements arranged in a matrix having a first number of columns... |
| US-5,781,202 |
Fax machine with concurrent drop selection and drop separation ink jet
printing A facsimile machine having a print head comprising: (1) a plurality of drop-emitter nozzles; (2) a body of ink associated with said nozzles; (3) drop selection... |
| US-5,781,201 |
Method for providing improved graphics performance through atypical
pixel storage in video memory A method for improving the performance of a graphics system includes the steps of allocating appropriate pixels to slices of memory such that corresponding... |
| US-5,781,200 |
Tile memory mapping for increased throughput in a dual bank access DRAM A method and apparatus for configuring memory within a dual access dynamic random access memory (DRAM) frame buffer so that array conflicts are reduced between... |
| US-5,781,199 |
Parallel processing method for use with graphics processor A parallel processing method for use with a graphics processor wherein graphics processing is performed by each of configured command processors efficiently in a... |
| US-5,781,198 |
Method and apparatus for replacing a background portion of an image An image processing system for removing and replacing the background portion of an image with a replacement background image. The image processing system... |
| US-5,781,197 |
Method for maintaining contiguous texture memory for cache coherency The invention provides a method for downloading texel data into a contiguous block of memory in a computer graphics system. The texel data for the first level is... |