| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,198,857 |
Add/drop optical multiplexing device An optical multiplexing device is disclosed for multiplexing optical signals, for example, for a fiber-optic telecommunication system employing wavelength... |
| US-6,198,856 |
Optical switch having test ports An improved optical switch allows for the testing, calibration and monitoring of optical switch points in an optical switching matrix. A test column and a test... |
| US-6,198,855 |
Velocity-matched, traveling-wave electro-optical devices using
non-conductive and conductive polymer buffer layers An electro-optic device such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer that includes a lithium niobate substrate having an optical waveguide that is formed in an upper... |
| US-6,198,854 |
Mach-Zehnder modulator A Mach-Zehnder modulator intensity modulating signal light using a simple drive circuit for the modulating voltage. The modulator includes two waveguides with... |
| US-6,198,853 |
Semiconductor optical functional element A semiconductor optical functional element driven with broad range of withstand voltage even if put in forward bias is provided a double heterojunction structure... |
| US-6,198,852 |
View synthesis from plural images using a trifocal tensor data structure in
a multi-view parallax geometry The invention is embodied in a process for synthesizing a new image representing a new viewpoint of a scene from at least two existing images of the scene taken... |
| US-6,198,851 |
Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding A technique for encoding an interlaced picture comprises the steps of rearraying the interlaced picture on a scanning line basis, splitting the re-arrayed... |
| US-6,198,850 |
System and method for segmentation dependent lossy and lossless compression
for higher quality A method and system takes advantage of both lossy and lossless compression techniques to increase processing speed and efficiency, and to decrease required image... |
| US-6,198,849 |
Process for producing and evaluating a video data stream for video
transmission A method for generating a stream of image data which is to be transmitted via a data channel, in particular a mobile radio channel. In this method, the images... |
| US-6,198,848 |
Method and apparatus for compressing and storing data indicative of a
full-color image An image processing apparatus in which the amount of data bits for each of plural block units is controlled to be the same for all block units, so as to... |
| US-6,198,847 |
Apparatus and method for recognizing a nonuniformly sampled pattern In a pattern recognition apparatus, light from an original on which a pattern to be recognized is depicted is focused by an optical system. The focused image is... |
| US-6,198,846 |
Character recognition system A separating position candidate detecting unit 21 detects separating position candidates in a character row derived by a character row deriving unit 11. A... |
| US-6,198,845 |
Method for determining document background for adjusting the dynamic range
of an image of the document The background grey-level of a document is determined based on the gain of the document. A histogram is generated and compressed. The standard deviation of the... |
| US-6,198,844 |
Image processing apparatus A method of processing an image includes steps of: obtaining data concerning the brightness of an original image; dividing the data concerning the brightness... |
| US-6,198,843 |
Method and apparatus for color gamut mapping Colorimetric values such as L*a*b* are input from an input section to a color gamut mapping portion. A filtering process is performed on an image of the... |
| US-6,198,842 |
Multi-spectral image compression with bounded loss A system and method for generating bounded-loss color transformations employed in the compression and decompression of multi-spectral images is provided. The... |
| US-6,198,841 |
Color image processor In a digital full color image processor, color data are obtained by reading a color image with a color image sensor. An image forming mode of the color image... |
| US-6,198,840 |
Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a color table for storing color information corresponding 1:1 to color information codes. The apparatus executes color recording... |
| US-6,198,839 |
Dynamic control and decision making method and apparatus Dynamic control of the processing flow of an image analyzer such as a biological specimen analyzer as processing proceeds. Data collected and processed from a... |
| US-6,198,838 |
Method and system for detection of suspicious lesions in digital mammograms
using a combination of spiculation... A method and system for detecting suspicious portions of digital mammograms by using independently calculated mass and spiculation information is disclosed. The... |
| US-6,198,837 |
Method of storing medical image information recorded in sheet shaped
recording medium Image information recorded on a sheet-shaped recording medium is read and converted into digital image data, wherein the image information includes medical image... |
| US-6,198,836 |
Method and device for recognizing non-unrolled fingerprints For the better identification of not-enrolled fingerprint images, images of skin lines of two juxtaposed fingers (1, 2) of a hand are recorded. The orientations... |
| US-6,198,835 |
Image input device and method for providing scanning artifact detection A system and method which enables the location and orientation of an image to be determined without introducing scanning artifacts into the rendered image. The... |
| US-6,198,834 |
Meat imaging system for palatability yield prediction An image analysis (IA) system for scoring characteristics predictive of palatability and yield of a meat animal carcass or cut. The IA system uses an imaging... |
| US-6,198,833 |
Enhanced interactive video with object tracking and hyperlinking A tracking software module for tracking a moving image entity in a video display has an interface for receiving and processing a video data stream while the... |
| US-6,198,832 |
Embedding and detecting a watermark in images A digital image signal is watermarked by locally changing geometric features of the image. The watermark consists of a pseudo-random, dense subset of image... |
| US-6,198,831 |
Panel-form loudspeakers A panel form loudspeaker/microphone combination has a distributed resonant bending wave member and two transducers mounred on the member at sites where the... |
| US-6,198,830 |
Method and circuit for the amplification of input signals of a hearing aid In a method and circuit for the amplification of input signals of a hearing aid, a compression of the signals picked up by the hearing aid ensues in a AGC... |
| US-6,198,829 |
Process and device for focusing acoustic waves Public announcements are made in a space using n speakers after having determined the impulse response h.sub.ij (t) between a plurality of calibration points j... |
| US-6,198,828 |
Off-line feedback path modeling circuitry and method for off-line feedback
path modeling An off-line modeling system (50) is provided for modeling a feedback path by calculating filter taps. The off-line modeling system (50) includes a reference... |
| US-6,198,827 |
5-2-5 Matrix system A matrix system encodes five discrete audio signals down to a two-channel stereo recording and decodes the recorded stereo signal into at least five stand alone,... |
| US-6,198,826 |
Qsound surround synthesis from stereo The inventive mechanism produces multiple output signals from a two-channel stereo input signal. The mechanism produces a first pair of output signals which... |
| US-6,198,825 |
Wireless speaker circuit A 900 MHz wireless speaker system having a tuning system that is features a variable down conversion scheme provided by a phase lock loop system controlled by a... |
| US-6,198,824 |
System for providing secure remote command execution network A method and apparatus is disclosed for enhancing the security of a message sent through a network server from a client computer to a destination server. A... |
| US-6,198,823 |
Method for improved authentication for cellular phone transmissions An authentication process is triggered when a subscriber of a GSM-type cellular-phone-network service attempts a call. In this process, an encrypted result, or a... |
| US-6,198,822 |
Enhanced scrambling of slowly changing video signals An enhanced scrambled video signal, method for making an enhanced scrambled video signal and apparatus for enhanced scrambling of a video signal are all... |
| US-6,198,821 |
Earphone-microphone adapter An adapter for connecting an earphone-microphone set to a mobile telephone such that a muting function is added to the system. Moreover, an older ... |
| US-6,198,820 |
Portable remote terminal apparatus The portable remote terminal apparatus comprises a CPU, a clock oscillating means and a keyboard for operation, and is arranged to execute communication in a... |
| US-6,198,819 |
Echo canceller having improved non-linear processor A non-linear processor for use in an echo canceller is set forth. The non-linear processor includes a center clipping digital filter receiving an echo... |
| US-6,198,818 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the input impedance of an analog front
end circuit of a data... The present invention provides a method and apparatus for use with an analog front end circuit of a DCE of a multipoint system for preventing an impedance null... |
| US-6,198,817 |
Communication interface having combined shaping of receive response and
synthesized matching terminating... A communication interface and a design method therefor simultaneously shape a synthesized terminating impedance matching different frequency bands on different... |
| US-6,198,816 |
Capacitively coupled ring detector with power provided across isolation
barrier A communication system is provided with a capacitive isolation barrier in which at least a portion of the ring detection circuits may be integrated into the line... |
| US-6,198,815 |
Communication apparatus with stored sets of destination and communication
mode information that automatically... A communicating apparatus having a redial function comprises: an input unit to supply a destination and a communicating mode; a redial memory to sequentially... |
| US-6,198,814 |
System and method for entering call outcome records in a computer database
in an outbound predictive dialing... In an outbound predictive dialing application, a fast, simple and economical system for entering brief call results in a computer database. Only one computer... |
| US-6,198,813 |
System and method for providing call processing services using call
independent building blocks A call logic program (30) is provided that is composed of individual call independent building blocks (10) and grouped call independent building blocks (20).... |
| US-6,198,812 |
Incoming telephone call filter utilizing a duplicitous caller-ID
recognition method and apparatus A telephone line incoming call filtering device. A ring-through of an incoming call to a subscriber's controlled telephone is reserved to a second call attempt... |
| US-6,198,811 |
Systems and methods for extracting switch data A system and method downloads data and reconfigures the data into a database. A telephone user purchases a specific number of lines and specific services (i.e.,... |
| US-6,198,810 |
Authentication system for a communication network In some communication services such as, for example, virtual card calling (VCC), authentification methods are employed to check the access authorization of the... |
| US-6,198,809 |
Multi-functional personal telecommunications apparatus The present apparatus integrates a user interactive display with multiple functional telecommunications capabilities such as scanning, facsimile and telephonic... |
| US-6,198,808 |
Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice
message to a text message The principles of the present invention introduce non-realtime messaging systems (and controllers for use therewith) that are capable of converting received oral... |