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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...
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