| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| 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.... |