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| US-6,381,394 |
Method and apparatus for assembling an amplifier assembly An optical repeater includes an internal structure having defined therein a longitudinal plane. The internal structure includes and a plurality of base modules.... |
| US-6,381,393 |
Fanning strip for cable management panel A connector module includes a housing having a front panel for fiber optic terminations, and an interior. A front fanning strip manages the front cables. A rear... |
| US-6,381,392 |
Ion exchange technology for fabrication of waveguide source lasers The invention is directed to optical devices comprising a solid-state structured glass substrate having at least one waveguide incorporated therein, particularly... |
| US-6,381,391 |
Method and system for generating a broadband spectral continuum and
continuous wave-generating system utilizing... Method and system are disclosed for stable, multi-wavelength continuous wave (CW) generation using fiber-based supercontinuum and spectrum-slicing of its... |
| US-6,381,390 |
Color-coded optical fiber ribbon and die for making the same A color-coded optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of substantially parallel, adjacent, longitudinally extending optical fibers disposed, at least at a... |
| US-6,381,389 |
Optical coupling device and optical coupling method using photonic crystal An optical coupling device for coupling optical waveguide devices having different spot sizes to one another includes photonic crystal having a modulation... |
| US-6,381,388 |
Chromatic dispersion compensation An optical waveguide provided with a linearly chirped Bragg reflective grating can be employed as a device that provides linear dispersion compensation. The... |
| US-6,381,387 |
Athermalization of a wavelength routing element An athermalized wavelength router comprises a base, a fiber optic input and output component, a routing array having a plurality of reflectors and a routing... |
| US-6,381,386 |
V-shaped optical coupling structure An optical coupling structure for optically coupling a light emitting device to an optical waveguide is disclosed. The optical coupling structure includes a... |
| US-6,381,385 |
Polarization mode dispersion emulation A PMD (polarisation mode dispersion) emulator which provides at least first and second order emulation of PMD effects observed in fiber installed in the field... |
| US-6,381,384 |
Flexible WDM network architecture A unidirectional or bidirectional node for use in an optical communications network, a network consisting of such nodes. The node comprises one or more optical... |
| US-6,381,383 |
Large N.times.N waveguide grating router The limitation of N in an N.times.N Wavelength Grating Router (WGR) is determined to be because of the intrinsic diffraction characteristics of the grating that... |
| US-6,381,382 |
Dynamic multichannel fiber optic switch An apparatus and method of optical switching wherein a plurality of individual activation strips (18) are adhered longitudinally upon an optical channel, such as... |
| US-6,381,381 |
Optical switching device and image display device An optical switching device comprises: a light guide including a total reflection plane capable of totally reflecting light thereby transmitting the light; a... |
| US-6,381,380 |
Twin waveguide based design for photonic integrated circuits An asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) structure is disclosed that significantly reduces the negative effects of inter-modal interference in symmetric twin-waveguide... |
| US-6,381,379 |
Optical modulator having coplanar electrodes for controlling chirp An optical modulator includes a substrate having an electrooptic effect, an optical waveguide having first and second cascading portions in the substrate, and... |
| US-6,381,378 |
Dynamic thresholding module A dynamic threshold two-level A/D converter, also termed a tracking digitizer circuit. The module circuitry includes a comparator circuit and a tracking low-pass... |
| US-6,381,377 |
Generating a high resolution scan image with a low resolution scan sensor An image scanning apparatus is described that includes a sensor having an array of imaging elements that generates a plurality of scan lines of image pixels from... |
| US-6,381,376 |
Restoring a single image by connecting a plurality of character, shadow or
picture input images An image processing device includes an intermediate processing section for appending identification data to each pixel, showing a kind of region to which each... |
| US-6,381,375 |
Methods and apparatus for generating a projection of an image Novel methods for generating a projection of an image according to the invention concurrently rotate, scale, translate, skew, shear, or otherwise transform the... |
| US-6,381,374 |
Histogram analysis method for defective pixel identification A technique is disclosed for identifying potentially defective circuitry associated with discrete pixel regions in an imaging system detector. Signals... |
| US-6,381,373 |
Apparatus and method for reducing quantization error in digital image
signals A system for processing digital image signals to reduce the effect of quantizing noise in the images represented by the signals. An n-bit image signal is... |
| US-6,381,372 |
Systems and methods for designing image processing filters using templates Image conversion systems and methods optimally perform filter design. The filter design allows for template-based image processing filters to be optimized to... |
| US-6,381,371 |
Method and apparatus for processing image files A method and apparatus for manipulating digitized images stored as variable length encoded bitstreams such as JPEG format in a manner that reduces memory and... |
| US-6,381,370 |
Method and apparatus for image encoding A shape adaptive wavelet transform is performed on a digitized image signal representing an image. First, a shape information is obtained about the image, and... |
| US-6,381,369 |
Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding method, image
decoding apparatus, image data... In order to produce a decoded image substantially identical to an original image by processing a small amount of data, utilizing a thinning circuit (subsampler)... |
| US-6,381,368 |
Image processing apparatus and method When a region obtained by predetermined region division processing is a character image, the image is converted at one of predetermined compression ratios... |
| US-6,381,367 |
Method and apparatus for compression compatible video fingerprinting Fingerprinting and fingerprint detection, techniques are described which, unlike typical fingerprint systems used to conceal video signals, are compatible with... |
| US-6,381,366 |
Machine vision methods and system for boundary point-based comparison of
patterns and images The invention provides boundary-based machine vision methods and systems for comparing a pattern to an image. These contemplate the steps of finding boundary... |
| US-6,381,365 |
Image data processing apparatus and image data processing method An image data processing apparatus for extracting a basic texture pattern as an identifiable feature of an image so that accurate image search can be performed... |
| US-6,381,364 |
Content texture sensitive picture/video encoder/decoder A picture/video encoder is provided with operating logic for segmenting objects with random texture from objects with structured texture in a picture/video... |
| US-6,381,363 |
Histogram-based segmentation of images and video via color moments A histogram-based segmentation of images in a video signal via color moments is initialized by a user defining regions in objects of interest from one or more... |
| US-6,381,362 |
Method and apparatus for including virtual ads in video presentations A system for presenting a virtual advertisement or other virtual content in a sequences of frames of a video presentation utilizes data identifying a candidate... |
| US-6,381,361 |
Method for transforming a gamut of a color image to produce an artistic
effect A graphical effect having a transformed gamut is disclosed. The method includes predetermining a mapping of an input gamut to a desired output gamut so as to... |
| US-6,381,360 |
Apparatus and method for stereoscopic image processing After processing images photographed by a stereo camera apparatus, parallaxes are detected by stereo matching. Influence of a difference in the focal lengths of... |
| US-6,381,359 |
Bonding apparatus A bonding apparatus with an optical detecting device that detects any positional discrepancy between first and second parts which are to be bonded together, the... |
| US-6,381,358 |
System and method for determining reticle defect printability A method and software program for determining printability of a defect on a reticle or photomask onto a substrate during processing. That is performed by... |
| US-6,381,357 |
Hi-speed deterministic approach in detecting defective pixels within an
image sensor What is disclosed is a method including downloading a sequence of images from an image sensor, and then marking on a map a pixel location of the sensor defective... |
| US-6,381,356 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting high-precision patterns A device and method for inspecting a test piece with a laser beam in which the laser beam is divided into plural beams, and each of the plural beams has an... |
| US-6,381,355 |
Inspection method for comparison of articles Two articles are compared to detect differences by forming images of the two articles and then viewing said images in respective eyes. This forms a superimposed... |
| US-6,381,354 |
Method and apparatus for discriminating and counting documents A currency identification system identifies currency bills of different denominations of a plurality of currency systems. The device includes a discriminating... |
| US-6,381,353 |
System for counting colonies of micro-organisms in petri dishes and other
culture media A method for counting objects in an image includes the steps of: (a) providing an image including at least one object defined in the image in shades of at least... |
| US-6,381,352 |
Method of isolating relevant subject matter in an image An image processing method improves contrast of relevant subject matter surrounded or partially bordered by a substantially homogeneous background. A first... |
| US-6,381,351 |
Weighted inverse topography method for digital x-ray image data processing A method for displaying on a display medium an image corresponding to detected exposures of a plurality of pixels converted to a matrix having n rows and m... |
| US-6,381,350 |
Intravascular ultrasonic analysis using active contour method and system An intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis system and method is provided which determines luminal and medial-adventitial boundaries of a blood vessel.... |
| US-6,381,349 |
Projector/backprojector with slice-to-slice blurring for efficient 3D
scatter modeling A method of modeling 3D first-order scatter, non-uniform attenuation, and 3D system geometric point response in an ML-EM algorithm to reconstruction SPECT data... |
| US-6,381,348 |
Network system for medical images Appropriate image processing is carried out on image information input to a network. Processing completion or incompletion judging means in a QC-WS reads header... |
| US-6,381,347 |
High contrast, low distortion optical acquistion system for image capturing An apparatus and method for acquiring an image of a patterned object such as a fingerprint including a light refracting device, a focusing lens, and a light... |
| US-6,381,346 |
Three-dimensional face identification system A three-dimensional (3-D) facial imaging system is disclosed for generating facial images, indexing those images by composite codes and for searching for similar... |
| US-6,381,345 |
Method and apparatus for detecting eye location in an image A simple method for segmenting eyes and extracting parameters enables further processing of the image to enable a person to appear to be making eye contact with... |
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