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US-5,923,827 Facsimile apparatus using a memory management device having empty memory block maintenance function
A memory management device enables to effectively use a memory which permits its stored data to be erased only in blocks. A facsimile apparatus is arranged to...
US-5,923,826 Copier/printer with print queue disposed remotely thereof
A printing system with a digital reproduction system communicating with a remote document processing station by way of a print server is provided. The printing...
US-5,923,825 Data transmission for a sparse array printhead
A data transmission system and method is provided for furnishing data to respective drivers for a multicolor sparse array non-impact recording head that includes...
US-5,923,824 Color processing method
A color processing method utilizing a plurality of devices having different color spaces as one virtual device. A scanner inquires a computer of color space and...
US-5,923,823 Method and apparatus for generating halftone dots
The present invention generates a first threshold value constituting a first threshold pattern and a second threshold value constituting a second threshold...
US-5,923,822 Image forming apparatus and method therefor
An image forming apparatus for forming a color printed image on a color image forming sheet provided with a color area having plural kinds of colors arranged in...
US-5,923,821 Digital image trapping system
A system for trapping of a dark image object on a lighter colored background is disclosed. In a system using a page description language including overprint...
US-5,923,820 Method and apparatus for compacting swath data for printers
A printing system and method is provided that compacts bitmap print data by determining, per each swath of a page to be printed, the beginning and ending points...
US-5,923,819 Molded polymeric fluid storage tank, and associated fabrication methods
The body structure of a fluid storage apparatus, which may be used for both liquids and gases, is formed from a coaxially and sealingly joined series of...
US-5,923,818 Water fog spraying system for infrared radiant dryers
A water fog spraying system for infrared radiant dryers includes a spraying tube (9) for spraying water fog onto a desired object, and infeed (6) and control...
US-5,923,817 Video data system with plural video data recording servers storing each camera output
A video data record/playback system includes a plurality of magnetic disk devices that sequentially store video data in scattered form, a plurality of servers 5...
US-5,923,816 Recording apparatus which switches from displaying a still image to displaying a moving image during recording...
A recording apparatus of the kind recording a moving image signal in a first area on a recording medium and a still image signal in a second area on the...
US-5,923,815 Apparatus and method for decoding MPEG video data
There is disclosed an apparatus for decoding and reproducing moving picture experts group (MPEG) video data, including: an encoded data input unit for receiving...
US-5,923,814 Methods and apparatus for performing video data reduction operations and for concealing the visual effects of...
Methods and apparatus for converting digital signals having a variable data rate to fixed data rate signals suitable for recording on a tape by a digital video...
US-5,923,813 Apparatus and method for image coding and recording/reproducing
An image coding and recording/reproducing apparatus for encoding video signals using variable-length coding and for recording the video signals in units of...
US-5,923,812 Apparatus for recording and reproducing packetized data containing selectively recorded identification data
A data packet recording apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention is comprised of: a trick play packet generator for generating trick play...
US-5,923,811 Apparatus and method for decoding data
Data decoding suitable for a compressed moving picture, audio information, and so forth recorded on a disc or the like. A pack header and a packet header are...
US-5,923,810 Index signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method for a recording medium
A signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method for a recording medium, wherein when an eject button is depressed, a video sub-code (VSC) area where no...
US-5,923,809 Optical power source derived from engine combustion chambers
An optical power source is disclosed that collects the spectra of the light emissions created in a combustion chamber to provide its optical output signals that...
US-5,923,808 Mid-infrared fiber-optic spectroscopic probe for use at elevated temperatures
A mid-infrared spectroscopic probe attached to a fiber-optic cable comprises an optically transparent, heat-insulating crystal which is placed between the ATR...
US-5,923,807 Storage apparatus for optical fiber
The present invention provides an optical fiber buffer loop management system which may be incorporated into a conventional interconnection box and which...
US-5,923,806 Fiber optics device
A fiber optics device of this invention includes first and second assemblies. The first assembly is obtained by integrating a plurality of optical fibers by...
US-5,923,805 Connector for plastic optical fiber
An optical connector is disclosed for terminating an optical cable 10 comprising a plastic optical fiber 11 surrounded by a protective jacket 12. The connector...
US-5,923,804 Fiber optic connector and an associated method of fabrication
The fiber optic connector includes a crimp body defining a longitudinal bore extending between the first and second opposed ends of the crimp body. The fiber...
US-5,923,803 Method of fabricating a fiber optic connector ferrule
A method is disclosed for fabricating a connector ferrule for a fiber optic ribbon cable which includes a plurality of generally parallel optical fibers in a...
US-5,923,802 Flexible connector assembly having slack storage
The at least partially flexible connector assembly includes a slack storage tube connected to the first end of a fiber optic cable for loosely storing excess...
US-5,923,801 Optical branching element
An optical branching element has an input waveguide (10) and a plurality of output waveguides (20a, 20b), which are so disposed at a distance from the input...
US-5,923,800 Optical waveguide module having main-line waveguide and branch waveguides, and optical transmission device...
An optical waveguide module having a main-line waveguide, which is excellent in optical branching properties, important properties of a bus communication...
US-5,923,798 Micro machined optical switch
Optical switches utilizing electrostatically-driven actuators formed from micro machined plates are disclosed. Under an applied voltage, a movable plate moves...
US-5,923,797 Frequency-controlled optical switch
In a frequency-controlled optical switching system, a first light source generates a data signal having a first wavelength. A second light source generates a...
US-5,923,796 Microelectronic module having optical and electrical interconnects
A multichip module having high density optical and electrical interconnections between integrated circuit chips includes a substrate overlaying an array of...
US-5,923,795 Optical waveguide device having a double-refractor at an input thereof
An optical waveguide device comprises: a waveguide substrate with a waveguide created therein; optical fibers optically linked to the waveguide at both end...
US-5,923,794 Current-mediated active-pixel image sensing device with current reset
An image sensing device comprising active pixels is disclosed, each pixel having a charge accumulation region for collecting charges generated by a ...
US-5,923,793 Handwritten character recognition apparatus with an improved feature of correction to stroke segmentation and...
A method and apparatus for changing a segment of one or more strokes which are to constitute any of characters and signs by recognizing a relationship in the...
US-5,923,792 Screen display methods for computer-aided data entry
An optical character recognition screen editing process is performed efficiently and only when necessary. The process is ordered so that editing is performed in...
US-5,923,791 Video merging employing pattern-key insertion
Disclosed is a technique for deriving a composite video image by merging foreground and background video image data supplied from a plurality of separate video...
US-5,923,790 Method and apparatus for detecting vertical direction of document
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for reliably detecting the upside and downside vertical direction of an image, such as characters on a...
US-5,923,789 Band limited interpolation and projection of spatial 3-D images
A bandlimited 3D image data set is interpolated before being projected onto a 2D image plane to improve image resolution. The 3D MRA image data set is divided...
US-5,923,788 Image processing apparatus
There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of easily removing or suppressing an area which need not be copied in an image. A characteristic amount...
US-5,923,787 Quantization device and method, inverse-quantization device and method, and image processing device and method
A quantization device includes a multiplying unit for multiplying one of n.times.n values of quantization matrix information by a selected scale factor so as to...
US-5,923,786 Method and device for encoding and decoding moving images
An image encoding method for encoding moving images, comprising the steps of: detecting characteristic points of a moving image; encoding a chain generated based on...
US-5,923,785 System and method for compressing data
A method codes a hierarchical subband system of coefficients of a wavelet transform that is representative of an image. One step of this method includes...
US-5,923,784 Analyzer and methods for detecting and processing video data types in a video data stream
A video data stream analyzer modifies an input digital video signal so that the resulting output digital signal can be optimally compressed by a digital video...
US-5,923,783 Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus
The present invention aims to execute effective compression even in the case where inputted image information has the bit number smaller than that of a pixel...
US-5,923,782 System for detecting and identifying substantially linear horizontal and vertical lines of engineering drawings
There is provided a method for detecting horizontal and vertical lines of an encoded run length image to identify cells of the image that are formed by the...
US-5,923,781 Segment detection system and method
A segment detection system automatically, contactlessly, rapidly, and precisely detects a segment along an edge, such as a boundary, of an object in a digitized...
US-5,923,780 Method for detecting target patterns in a texture region using probability densities
In a process for detecting target patterns in a texture with which a system state can be represented as a distribution of points in an n-dimensional space,...
US-5,923,779 Computing circuit having an instantaneous recognition function and instantaneous recognition method
The present invention has as an object thereof to provide an intelligent electronical system which conducts the real-time recognition of real world data and...
US-5,923,778 Hierarchical representation of reference database for an on-line Chinese character recognition system
A hierarchical database system for on-line Chinese character recognition is disclosed. The hierarchical database system comprises: (1) the database of character...
US-5,923,777 Method for irregular triangle mesh representation of an image based on adaptive control point removal
An image representation method for representing an image using triangular mesh which is adaptively formed based on a degree of texture description of the image....
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