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| US-5,790,726 |
Optical waveguide and process for producing it This invention provides an optical waveguide having diffraction gratings with sufficiently high reflectivity, a waveguide member for obtaining the optical... |
| US-5,790,725 |
Multiport illuminator for macro-fibers The inventive system, which is used in transmitting illumination from a central source to a variety of remote locations, efficiently couples the light... |
| US-5,790,724 |
16 .mu.m infrared region by destruction of speckle patterns High power transmission in the 2.6 .mu.m to 16 .mu.m infrared region is hampered by damage to the ends of the optical fiber, especially the delivery end, which... |
| US-5,790,723 |
Multiport illuminator optic design for macro-fibers The inventive system, which is used in transmitting illumination from a central source to a variety of remote locations, efficiently couples the light... |
| US-5,790,722 |
High power optical fiber amplifier/laser system A high power Er-doped fiber amplifier/laser system includes a cladding-pumped fiber grating laser that emits an output beam at a wavelength that falls within an... |
| US-5,790,721 |
Low-noise fiber-optic amplifier utilizing polarization adjustment A fiber-optic amplifier with reduced noise characteristics is provided. A polarization beam splitter/recombiner splits an input signal beam into two orthogonally... |
| US-5,790,720 |
Acoustic-optic silica optical circuit switch An acousto-optic silica optical circuit switch that selectively routes signals to one of two outputs includes a surface-acoustic-wave source and a coupler... |
| US-5,790,719 |
Optical control device An optical control device include a substrate having an electrooptic effect, the substrate having ridges with optical waveguides. A buffer layer is formed on the... |
| US-5,790,718 |
Food portion inventory device with imprinted predetermined date indicia A portion inventory device for holding at least one portion of food or the like. The device uses a container for holding the portions and the container has... |
| US-5,790,717 |
Apparatus and method for predicting subjective quality of compressed
images An apparatus and method are described for predicting a subjective quality rating associated with a reference image compressed at a given level. My apparatus... |
| US-5,790,716 |
Image input apparatus An image input apparatus includes an illumination unit to produce a quantity of light to illuminate a transmitting original and a support unit operable to allow... |
| US-5,790,715 |
Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing mesh pattern data Recorded data is read by an image sensor from a recording medium on which the data is two-dimensionally recorded in a mesh pattern, and the read data is stored... |
| US-5,790,714 |
System and method for scaling video Scaling of video is performed using area weighted averaging of input pixels to calculate coefficients to multiply with luminescence and crominence of input... |
| US-5,790,713 |
Three-dimensional computer graphics image generator A three-dimensional computer graphics image generator has an image input unit for inputting an image of a 3-D object into the CG image generator; a display unit... |
| US-5,790,712 |
Video compression/decompression processing and processors A vision processor includes a control section, a motion estimation section, and a discrete cosine transform ("DCT") section. The motion estimation section... |
| US-5,790,711 |
Image processing apparatus having a smoothing function which references
a bi-level pixel pattern on a main scan... An image processing apparatus capable of normally carrying out correct and moreover highly precise smoothing while preventing the complication of the smoothing... |
| US-5,790,710 |
Autofocus system for scanning microscopy Reliable autofocus is required to obtain accurate measurements of fluorescent stained cellular components from a system capable of scanning multiple microscope... |
| US-5,790,709 |
Method and apparatus for the restoration of images degraded by
mechanical vibrations A method and apparatus to restore images degraded by motion or vibration as characterized by the measurement of the relative motion between the object and the... |
| US-5,790,708 |
Procedure for image processing in a computerized system A method for image processing in a computerized system reduces the amount of memory required for image processing and produces a layered effect which permits... |
| US-5,790,707 |
Film image reading system and image processing method dot sequentially
adjusting image parameters The present invention achieves an exposure control for getting an image with the best SN without a mechanical iris and an image processing which is good at the... |
| US-5,790,706 |
Method and apparatus for scanning of transform coefficients The present invention provides an apparatus and method for, in at least one of: encoding and decoding, scanning transform coefficients in an image/video... |
| US-5,790,705 |
Compression techniques for substantially lossless digital image data
storage A method for compressing digital image of more than a first predetermined number into the first predetermined number of bits in a substantially lossless manner... |
| US-5,790,704 |
Image processing apparatus for performing random mask process An image processing apparatus includes a circuit for correcting a first image data of a target pixel corresponding to a correction amount, a circuit for... |
| US-5,790,703 |
Digital watermarking using conjugate halftone screens A method for generating watermarks in a digitally reproducible document which are substantially invisible when viewed including the steps of: (1) producing a... |
| US-5,790,702 |
High speed pattern recognition system A pattern recognition system uses a Karhunen-Loeve expansion to separate unique characteristics from common characteristics. An approximation using a reduced... |
| US-5,790,701 |
Character recognition apparatus using edge images A character recognition apparatus comprises a photoelectric conversion section that converts image information including the characters to be recognized into... |
| US-5,790,700 |
Method for automatically recognizing line symmetry of a figure In a line-symmetrical figure shaping system, the symmetry axis candidate pairs of an input figure are generated based on feature data extracted from the input... |
| US-5,790,699 |
Macrodetector based image conversion system An image detection and pixel processing system includes a plurality of detector elements for receiving an image. The detector elements are subdivided into a... |
| US-5,790,698 |
Apparatus and method for identifying a character transcribed onto a
surface An identification arrangement for a character transcribed onto a surface has sensors, circuits for periodically detecting the state of the output signals from... |
| US-5,790,697 |
Method and apparatus for discriminating and counting documents A currency counting and discrimination device for receiving a stack of currency bills, rapidly counting and discriminating the bills in the stack, and then... |
| US-5,790,696 |
Image segmentation apparatus and a character recognition apparatus An apparatus for separating an image from a black frame quickly and precisely wherein corner coordinates for a character field are inferred by using a parameter... |
| US-5,790,695 |
Image coding device for coding image signal to reduce the amount of the
information in the image An image coding device for coding image data includes a motion inter-frame compensation predicting unit for predictively coding an image signal at each frame... |
| US-5,790,694 |
Image processing method for inspecting with analysis of binarized high
and low pass information in wavelet... Input image data is wavelet-transformed in correspondence with each position on its frame (S.sub.1), a combination image area of X-axis (or Y-axis) high-pass... |
| US-5,790,693 |
Currency discriminator and authenticator A method of detecting counterfeit bills includes the steps of determining the denomination of the bill being evaluated, generating data corresponding to the... |
| US-5,790,692 |
Method and means of least squares designed filters for image
segmentation in scanning cytometry In an image segmentation system that processes image objects by digital filtration, a digital filter is defined. The digital filter includes a neighborhood... |
| US-5,790,691 |
Method and apparatus for robust shape detection using a hit/miss
transform An apparatus and method for detecting anomalies morphologically detecting regions of interest. The apparatus and method include a region of interest (ROI)... |
| US-5,790,690 |
Computer-aided method for automated image feature analysis and diagnosis
of medical images A computerized method for the detection and characterization of disease in an image derived from a chest radiograph, wherein an image in the chest radiograph is... |
| US-5,790,688 |
Recognition apparatus with parallel scanning and interpreting of musical
score A recognition apparatus interprets a musical score to produce musical performance data. An image reader is operated for providing score image data representative... |
| US-5,790,687 |
Method and apparatus for the optical determination of the orientation of
a garment workpiece An improved method and apparatus for optical determination of the orientation of a garment workpiece by locating a seam on a stationary workpiece formed from at... |
| US-5,790,686 |
DCT-based motion estimation method A method for estimating the translational motion of an object is provided that first computes a plurality of DCT/DST coefficients for two sequential frames.... |
| US-5,790,685 |
Apparatus and method for detecting and imaging metal This invention relates to the field of metal detectors. More particularly, it relates to an imaging metal detector for imaging the metal on subjects passing... |
| US-5,790,684 |
Transmitting/receiving apparatus for use in telecommunications A transmitting/receiving apparatus for use in telecommunications is provided which makes the user hand-free and is free from such inconveniences as difficulty in... |
| US-5,790,683 |
Headphone including split earphones and coupling means for coupling it
to the ears The present invention relates to an acoustic headphone of the split earphone type, which is connected to the ears by providing, for each earphone, a soft... |
| US-5,790,682 |
Damper for speaker A butterfly damper for preventing an adhesion surface between a speaker frame (6) and an outer peripheral frame (12) from peeling off is provided. The butterfly... |
| US-5,790,681 |
Fixing assembly for a helmet headset A fixing assembly for a helmet headset comprises a body piece, a microphone attached to the body piece, an earphone attached to the body piece, and cabling for... |
| US-5,790,680 |
Microphone-holding decorative pin The present invention relates to a microphone holding decorative pin assembly for the holding of one or more miniature microphones and for providing an... |
| US-5,790,679 |
Communications terminal having a single transducer for handset and
handsfree receive functionality A wireless terminal for personal communication systems is provided with selective handsfree or handset receive mode of operation utilizing a single transducer.... |
| US-5,790,678 |
Digital audio processing in a modified bitBLT controller A method of processing audio signals is comprised of reading samples of digitally stored audio signals from a first source memory, performing a bit block... |
| US-5,790,677 |
System and method for secure electronic commerce transactions An electronic commerce system facilitates secure electronic commerce transactions among multiple participants. Each electronic commerce transaction involves at... |
| US-5,790,676 |
Radio port controller in a wireless personal communications system A preferred embodiment provides a radio port controller in a wireless personal communications system including a first interface module in communication with a... |
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