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| US-6,473,552 |
Apparatus and method for signaling using a light pipe stylus Disclosed is a light pipe signaling device for signaling a user. A light pipe has a first end portion that fits into a receptacle. Both light pipe and receptacle... |
| US-6,473,551 |
Thin film optical waveguides An optical waveguide comprising a first polymeric layer and a second polymeric layer adjacent to the first polymeric layer and a method for making the optical... |
| US-6,473,550 |
Optical fiber transmission-line A dispersion-managed optical fiber transmission-line with which the formation of side bands around the optical signal wavelength can be suppressed even when... |
| US-6,473,549 |
Multi-stage fiber amplifier with flattened gain curves A multi-stage optical amplifier for use in the transmission of optical signals over fiber when using Wavelength Division Multiplexing. Wavelength Division... |
| US-6,473,548 |
Multiple fiber optical cable and method of manufacturing multiple fiber
optical cable A multiple fiber optical cable includes bundled plural optical fibers. In each of the optical fibers to be bundled in the optical cable, a positive dispersion... |
| US-6,473,547 |
Optical components An optical component, such as, for example, a Mach-Zehnder modulator, in which the ground electrodes are formed directly on a surface of a substrate, that is,... |
| US-6,473,546 |
Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer The present invention relates to an AWG type optical multiplexer/demultiplexer having a small size in a state where cross talk is effectively restrained from... |
| US-6,473,545 |
Micromechanical optical switch The present invention relates to optical MEMS components, and in particular, to a micromechanical optical switch. A removable layer is used during fabrication to... |
| US-6,473,544 |
Optical switch having equalized beam spreading in all connections An optical crossbar switch having refractive or reflective components for equalizing beam spreading and diffraction in all the connections. The optical fibers or... |
| US-6,473,543 |
Optical component An optical component comprises channels in which liquids of suitable refractive index are arranged. By displacing the liquids within the channels by means of... |
| US-6,473,542 |
Optical switch and optical disk drive Disclosed herein is an optical switch including: a dielectric substrate having a pair of main surfaces opposed to each other; and a pair of electrodes formed on... |
| US-6,473,541 |
Photon transistors A light transfer device is provided that includes a first light pathway having a first input and a first output and a second light pathway having a second... |
| US-6,473,540 |
Device and method for filtering optical wavelengths The present invention relates to a device and to a method for the wavelength selective filtration of optical wavelength channels. The device includes at least... |
| US-6,473,539 |
Image processing apparatus with an image and binding positions display
feature, related method, and medium An image processing apparatus for preventing overlap of the region of an image of an original with the positions of staples is provided. It is determined if the... |
| US-6,473,538 |
Image sensor To obtain an excellent image signal, an image sensor having a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices each including a plurality of light-receiving... |
| US-6,473,537 |
Process and system for detecting bend angle A process and system capable of accurately extracting the image of a light ray projected onto a workpiece from various images even if the projected light image... |
| US-6,473,536 |
Image synthesis method, image synthesizer, and recording medium on which
image synthesis program is recorded The present invention comprises the first step of dividing a first image and a second image for each triangular patch having three adjacent feature points as... |
| US-6,473,535 |
Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method in which proper image processing conditions can be realized by simple operation, even in cases in which it is difficult... |
| US-6,473,534 |
Multiplier-free implementation of DCT used in image and video processing
and compression Multiplier-free implementation of an approximation of the DCT used in image and video processing. In accordance with the primary aspect of the present invention,... |
| US-6,473,533 |
Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus An input image is subjected to transform by a DCT transforming unit 20. A coefficient analyzing unit 30 compares a predetermined coefficient and coefficient data... |
| US-6,473,532 |
Method and apparatus for visual lossless image syntactic encoding A visual lossless encoder for processing a video frame prior to compression by a video encoder includes a threshold unit, a filter unit, an association unit and... |
| US-6,473,531 |
Image information coding system An image information coding system is disclosed which analyzes an input image and which can make exact image quality control even when the input image has been... |
| US-6,473,530 |
Encoding and decoding apparatuses and image processing apparatus using the
same This invention is to provide encoding and decoding apparatuses capable of increasing the processing speed even when a learning RAM need be frequently cleared for... |
| US-6,473,529 |
Sum-of-absolute-difference calculator for motion estimation using inversion
and carry compensation with full... A specialized Sum-of-Absolute-Difference (SAD) calculator for motion estimation uses inversion rather than 2's complementing. The absolute-value operation of... |
| US-6,473,528 |
Shape adaptive technique for image and video compression A method for wavelet encoding image-representative signals, including the following steps: identifying shape information of a shape in the image; within rows of... |
| US-6,473,527 |
Module and method for interfacing analog/digital converting means and JPEG
compression means An interface module and method is disclosed for receiving the digital image data output of an analog/digital converter and transmitting the digital image data... |
| US-6,473,526 |
Image processing system and control method of the same, image processing
apparatus and control method of the... In an image processing apparatus for managing hierarchical encoded image data by using a server/client system, a server machine transmits encoded image data in... |
| US-6,473,525 |
Method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image A method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image. A pixel within a support region is selected for processing. The differences between pixel values in... |
| US-6,473,524 |
Optical object recognition method and system An iterative application of an optical object recognition method, such as an OCR method, with enhancements and modifications yields improved speed and accuracy.... |
| US-6,473,523 |
Portable text capturing method and device therefor A portable imaging device includes a user operable pointing device that operates together with interactive segmentation functions and an OCR application for... |
| US-6,473,522 |
Estimating text color and segmentation of images In some embodiments, the invention includes receiving a digital image including text and background. The method includes vector quantizing the digital image such... |
| US-6,473,521 |
Image processing device and image processing method and storage medium Color data, originally corresponding to different colors, are converted to the same density when gray-scale conversion is performed, and no boundary is... |
| US-6,473,520 |
Pellicle, identification system of the same, and method of identifying the
same A pellicle in which a portion for identifying the pellicle, which comprises a conductive film and predetermined patterns composed of conductors formed on the... |
| US-6,473,519 |
Check reader The present invention is an improved check reader which, in addition to having magnetic ink character recognition capabilities, includes image sensing... |
| US-6,473,518 |
Method of measuring a biomagnetic field, method of analyzing a measured
biomagnetic field, method of displaying... The magnetic field data display device make it possible to display on the same screen: a process function display area showing process function items; an... |
| US-6,473,517 |
Character segmentation method for vehicle license plate recognition A method for segmenting and recognizing license plates, in accordance with the present invention includes capturing an image of a license plate and preprocessing... |
| US-6,473,516 |
Large capacity steganography A technique for hiding information in an image that is based a property of the human vision system. Because of its relation to human vision properties, the... |
| US-6,473,515 |
Cap and center pole apparatus and method of coupling The present invention comprises an improved center pole having a distortion reduction cap and an improved method of coupling the cap to a speaker center pole.... |
| US-6,473,514 |
High directivity microphone array A microphone array for providing a focused field of optimum audio reception is disclosed. The array has a series of interconnected microphones spaced within a... |
| US-6,473,513 |
Extended wear canal hearing device A generic canal hearing device is adapted to be positioned deeply and completely within the ear canal, and particularly suited for extended wear. The device... |
| US-6,473,512 |
Apparatus and method for a custom soft-solid hearing aid An apparatus and method of manufacturing a soft-solid elastomer custom ear device into which electronics are embedded provides a completely in-the-ear hearing... |
| US-6,473,511 |
Disposable hearing aid with integral power source A hearing aid includes a microphone, signal processing circuitry, receiver and integral battery all mounted in a casing. The battery may be a metal-air device.... |
| US-6,473,510 |
AC power source filter for audio video electrical load A filter for suppressing noise surges and noise frequencies in ac power lines to an audio video load includes at least one noise suppression circuit. The noise... |
| US-6,473,509 |
Audio system, in particular for motor vehicles An audio system, in particular for motor vehicles, having a loudspeaker installation for supplying sound to an audio chamber and a control unit with a signal... |
| US-6,473,508 |
Auto-recoverable auto-certifiable cryptosystems with unescrowed
signature-only keys A method is provided for digital signature infrastructure that provides public keys which are effective only for verifying digital signatures, and are not... |
| US-6,473,507 |
Apparatus and method for isolating transients associated with a digital
subscriber line A communication apparatus includes circuitry operable to facilitate communication over a digital subscriber line. The apparatus also includes a filter operable... |
| US-6,473,506 |
Signaling using phase rotation techniques in a digital communications
system In a telecommunications system, such as a cellular radio telecommunications system, transmission information, such as modulation scheme selection information,... |
| US-6,473,505 |
Call processing system for handling calls to a call center The invention provides a call processing system to handle calls to a call center by obtaining absolute address for a call center resource from a call center... |
| US-6,473,504 |
Telemanagement system with single point of entry A telecommunication management system drawn to configuring a Service Provider telemanagement program module by a client application, where the Service Provider... |
| US-6,473,503 |
System, method and computer program product for achieving local number
portability network management support A system, method and computer program product for achieving local number protability (LNP) costing and network management support is disclosed. The disclosure... |
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