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US-6,104,860 Conditional access system for local storage device
A technique for selectively inhibiting a video recorder from recording and/or reproducing those television programs, which are not authorized for viewing....
US-6,104,859 Video signal transmission apparatus
A video signal transmitting/receiving apparatus for converting video signals into picture data in predetermined block units for transmission to a transmission...
US-6,104,858 Apparatus for reproducing a video signal and a corrective signal and for correcting the video signal in...
A video signal is divided into a plurality of partial signals. A time code signal is generated which is incremented every field or frame of the video signal. One...
US-6,104,857 Line glower
A line glower usable in water, rain, snow or in a place where an explosion may possibly take place, and adapted to work with a small power to emit light from the...
US-6,104,856 Optical air-gap attenuator
An optical adapter 100 includes a pair of cylindrical ferrules 121, 122, each containing an optical fiber disposed along its central axis 101--101. The ferrules...
US-6,104,855 Terminal assembly for a multiple fiber optic cable
A terminal assembly for an optic cable equipped with terminal connectors is provided with a housing having a small through-hole and a large through-hole. A plug...
US-6,104,854 Light regulator and surface light source device
A light regulator and a surface light source device employing the light regulator. For liquid-crystal display applications, the surface light source device can...
US-6,104,853 Detachable laser probe having reduced attenuation
A medical laser probe having a dielectric thin film which is coated on the inside wall of a metal pipe and is transparent at a wavelength band of a transmitted...
US-6,104,852 Optical waveguide with photosensitive refractive index cladding
An optical fibre in a core and a cladding that includes an inner cladding region with a refractive index that is photosensitive to UV light, surrounded by a...
US-6,104,851 Transmission system comprising a semiconductor laser and a fiber grating discriminator
The optical signal produced by a modulated semiconductor laser is passed through a fiber grating optical discriminator to increase the modulation response of the...
US-6,104,850 Semiconductor polarization mode converter having a diffraction grating
A semiconductor TE/TM mode converter comprises a semiconductor waveguide layer including a compressive-strained first region and a tensile-strained second...
US-6,104,849 Fiber optic rotary joint
Unidirectional and bi-directional fiber optic rotary joints are disclosed for coupling at least one optical signal across a rotary interface. The unidirectional...
US-6,104,848 WDM optical transmitter
It is the object of the invention to provide a WDM optical transmitter, in which levels of optical signals transmitted therefrom is increased and equalized....
US-6,104,847 Optical device having an optical waveguide structure
A compact optical device operating as a WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) filter is provided. The optical device includes a slab optical waveguide having...
US-6,104,846 System for splicing sensors into a multiple fiber optical cable
The length of optical cable affected when splicing in sensors is reduced by cutting and splicing two distribution fiber lines and two return fiber lines to each...
US-6,104,845 Hand-held scanner with rotary position detector
An optical scanner including a hand-holdable housing including a scanner head for scanning a record medium, a roller engageable with and rotatable by the record...
US-6,104,844 Image sensor having a multiplicity of pixel sensor regions
An image sensor has an optical configuration for imaging an image to be recorded onto sensor elements. The sensor elements have dimensions below a resolution of...
US-6,104,843 Image data storing method and image data rotational processing device
Image data representing a two-dimensional image is stored in N data storage devices driven in parallel. The two-dimensional image is divided into small...
US-6,104,842 Geometry processing of digital video models and images
Method, apparatus and computer program products for transforming from model to screen coordinates by assigning specified subsets of the plurality of parallel...
US-6,104,841 Method and apparatus for reading and processing an image at a rate determined by the magnification to be...
An image is read by moving a line sensor relative to the image in a subsidiary scanning direction perpendicular to the direction of a pixels array of the line...
US-6,104,840 Method and system for generating a composite image from partially overlapping adjacent images taken along a...
A composite image is generated from partially overlapping adjacent images taken at a single location along a plurality of axes. The angular relation among the...
US-6,104,839 Method and apparatus for correcting pixel values in a digital image
A method and apparatus for editing continuous tone digital images representing pixels in which regions containing defects, called "defect regions", are...
US-6,104,838 1/16 size real time decoding of digital video
A system and method to decode encoded video images in such a manner as to maintain high quality images while reducing the computation time needed to decode the...
US-6,104,837 Image data compression for interactive applications
A compression method and apparatus are provided for use in image data processing where two-dimensional pixel images have respective absolute depth values...
US-6,104,836 Computer architecture for video data processing and method thereof
A system and method for video data processing for searching a region of overlapping candidate blocks to locate the best match to a comparably sized reference...
US-6,104,835 Automatic knowledge database generation for classifying objects and systems therefor
A method for automatically generating a knowledge database in an object classification system having a digital image data source, and a computer, includes the...
US-6,104,834 Matching CCITT compressed document images
A fast, memory efficient, and accurate document image matching system is disclosed. Document image matching is based on identifying anchor points of characters...
US-6,104,833 Pattern recognizing apparatus and method
An environment recognizing unit extracts the first through N-th states from an input image and calls data corresponding to the first through N-th states from the...
US-6,104,832 Image processing method and apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit which inputs an image, and an image thinner for taking the OR of (m dots in the vertical ...
US-6,104,831 Method for rejection of flickering lights in an imaging system
A video surveillance system is disclosed which readily distinguishes between changes within an observed scene, caused by the presence of an intruder within the...
US-6,104,830 Method and apparatus for correction of color cast in a digital image
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the analysis and correction of colour casts in a digitally represented image. According to a preferred...
US-6,104,829 Image processing apparatus and method which forms a color image corresponding to mapped image data in...
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method realize an optimum color reproduction and as a result provide an ideal output by selectively using...
US-6,104,828 Ophthalmologic image processor
A medical image processor according to the present invention is used for analyzing eye fundus images 28 and 29, and comprises an image monitor capable of almost...
US-6,104,827 Image analysis for meat
A process and apparatus for identifying a target section within an image of a meat section. Color data for each pixel is stored and the pixels having a...
US-6,104,826 Method of watermark-embedding/extracting identification information into/from picture data and apparatus...
The present invention relates to methods for watermark-embedding/extracting identification information into/from picture data and apparatuses thereof. When...
US-6,104,825 Planar magnetic transducer with distortion compensating diaphragm
Diaphragms of planar magnetic transducers having electrical conductor runs applied thereto are deformed to create lines of flexation such as by knurling,...
US-6,104,824 Headphone device with headband arranged around occipital regional of the head
A headphone device and to a technique that makes the headphone device both easy to wear and comfortable when being worn. The headphone device is constructed in...
US-6,104,823 Speaker system
A speaker system excellent in reproduction in bass range, which comprises a reinforcing post 3a to abut against the back side of a speaker unit 5 installed in a...
US-6,104,822 Digital signal processing hearing aid
A digital signal processing hearing aid is disclosed having a plurality of digital signal processing means for processing input digital signals, and a selector...
US-6,104,821 Electrical hearing aid device with high frequency electromagnetic radiation protection
An electrical hearing aid device has a housing in which an integrated amplifier circuit is located. Also contained in the housing is at least one microphone, a...
US-6,104,820 Musical massager
A massaging musical device is provided including a music source adapted to generate a musical electric signal corresponding to music at an output thereof. A...
US-6,104,819 Combination speaker and earphone apparatus
An audio transmission apparatus has a primary speaker and a secondary speaker apparatus. Two primary speakers are provided to correspond with the left channel...
US-6,104,818 Microphone circuit
A microphone circuit with low distortion and having the capability of an electronic volume control. The circuit includes a capacitor microphone cap provided with...
US-6,104,817 Speaker and amplifier system
A sound reproduction system employs at least one amplifier system and at least one speaker. The speaker provides two negative feedback signals: one indicative of...
US-6,104,816 High noise communication system
A head-supported two-way communication system. The system combines a thin bstrate forehead or head-bone microphone, a noise filter embedding the microphone, a...
US-6,104,815 Method and apparatus using geographical position and universal time determination means to provide...
Method and apparatus for providing authenticated, secure, on-line communication between remote locations including a user terminal adapted to enable a player in...
US-6,104,814 Method and apparatus for jamming different television channels using an oscillator circuit oscillating at...
In a system for jamming television programs in a cable television system, modified oscillators are used to provide jamming signals to control ports where they...
US-6,104,813 Interactive compact disc system
A system for controlling the playing of rented compact discs on an end-user's compact disc player. The end-user obtains a validation disc on which is stored a...
US-6,104,812 Anti-counterfeiting method and apparatus using digital screening
An apparatus and process for hiding the secondary image within the primary image and generating a high quality hard copy of the unified elemental image of a...
US-6,104,811 Cryptographically secure pseudo-random bit generator for fast and secure encryption
A pseudo-random number generator is used as a pre-processing step to generating a long random bit string. The bit string is then "stretched" by performing...
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