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US-6,493,427 Remote prescription refill system
A central station is provided to which the pharmacy can forward calls at the convenience of the pharmacy. A caller will call in to the pharmacy to request a...
US-6,493,426 Relay for personal interpreter
A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding...
US-6,493,425 Method and system for testing a network element within a telecommunications network
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention test a network element in a telecommunications network using a universal command, such as a telephone...
US-6,493,424 Multi-mode operation of a standing wave linear accelerator
The invention provides a scheme in accordance with which a linear accelerator may be operated in two or more resonance (or standing wave) modes to produce...
US-6,493,423 METHOD OF GENERATING EXTREMELY SHORT-WAVE RADIATION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A DEVICE BY MEANS OF SAID...
A method is described for generating EUV radiation, comprising the steps of generating a flow of a medium (39); transporting this medium through a source space...
US-6,493,422 Phase retrieval in phase contrast imaging
A method of obtaining in image of the phase change introduced by an object in penetrating radiation incident on the object includes irradiating the object with...
US-6,493,421 Apparatus and method for generating a high intensity X-ray beam with a selectable shape and wavelength
An X-ray source is provided for delivering a high intensity X-ray beam with a predefined energy level of monochromatization, intensity and spatial distribution...
US-6,493,420 Apparatus and method for in-situ measurement of residual surface stresses
An apparatus for in-situ measurement of residual surface stresses comprises a compact x-ray tube and a detector. X-rays emitted by the x-ray tube are diffracted...
US-6,493,419 Optically driven therapeutic radiation source having a spiral-shaped thermionic cathode
A therapeutic radiation source includes a spiral-shaped, laser-heated thermionic cathode. A fiber optic cable directs a beam of radiation, having a power level...
US-6,493,418 Method for precisely measuring the weight of mass material and nucleonic weigher employing this method
The present invention discloses a method for precisely measuring the weight of mass material and a nucleonic weigher employing this method. It is characterized...
US-6,493,417 Patient positioning for conducting a medical examination
A positioning arrangement has a positioning element formed of a closed-cell foam, preferably a positioning mat, the positioning element has a seating surface for...
US-6,493,416 Method and apparatus for noise reduction in computed tomographic systems
A method for facilitating a reduction in reconstructed image noise in a computed tomography imaging system. The method includes generating projection data,...
US-6,493,415 X-ray computed tomography method and apparatus
An X-ray computed tomography method and apparatus for obtaining a panoramic X-ray image seen from a direction of a projection line .gamma. (.gamma.') of a curved...
US-6,493,414 Die information logic and protocol
An on-chip parallel/load, serial-shift shift register stores information bits for one or more chip parameters. The bits are represented by fuses that are...
US-6,493,413 Fuel assembly mechanical flow restriction apparatus for detecting failure in situ of nuclear fuel rods in a...
A fuel assembly mechanical flow restriction apparatus for detecting failure in situ of nuclear fuel rods in a fuel assembly during reactor shutdown.
US-6,493,412 Method of calibrating exit thermocouples in a nuclear reactor
The exit thermocouples of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) are calibrated by recording the thermocouple temperature measurements periodically during power...
US-6,493,411 Method for producing formed bodies of high temperature superconductors having high critical currents
Thermal neutron irradiation of superconducting body compositions into which Li or B has been incorporated as a unit cell external or internal dopant introduces...
US-6,493,410 Wide band high resolution synthesizer
A frequency synthesizer includes a direct digital synthesizer (DDS), a digital-to-analog converter for converting the output of the DDS to a DDS output signal, a...
US-6,493,409 Phase detectors in carrier recovery for offset QAM and VSB
Improved carrier recovery, symbol timing, and carrier phase tracking systems and methods suitable for use in connection with a dual-mode QAM/VSB receiver system...
US-6,493,408 Low-jitter data transmission apparatus
For restraining jitter amount of a transmission clock signal (16) generated by a digital PLL (8), a data transmission apparatus comprises a 1/24 clock generator...
US-6,493,407 Synchronous latching bus arrangement for interfacing discrete and/or integrated modules in a digital system and...
A digital bus arrangement and an associated method are disclosed. The bus arrangement includes an input synchronization layer and an output synchronization...
US-6,493,406 Method and apparatus for symbol independent discriminator correlator automatic frequency control
A symbol independent automatic frequency controller (100) includes a symbol correlator (110) for receiving a complex digital signal generated within a selective...
US-6,493,405 Correlator having enhanced memory for reference and input data
A correlator includes a circuit for serially receiving in phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signal data along parallel I and Q signal channels and converting the data...
US-6,493,404 Recycling integrator correlator
An analog input signal that is sampled at a predetermined rate is multiplied by a corresponding binary code sequence, i.e. "+1" or "-1" by the multiplier. The...
US-6,493,403 Asynchronous timing for interpolated timing recovery
A zero phase restart circuit (308) estimates a quotient (y.sub.2 -y.sub.0 /(y.sub.3 -Y.sub.1), where y.sub.k are asynchronous samples of a sequence. The quotient...
US-6,493,402 Mode control for trellis decoder
A transmitter transmits, and a receiver receives, a data frame is transmitted into an 8 MHZ channel. The data frame contains a plurality of data segments, where...
US-6,493,401 Receiving circuit and method for a controlled area network system
A receiving circuit is described for a CAN (Controlled Area Network) system with digital data transfer via a bus with parallel, redundant pulse signal transfer...
US-6,493,400 Harmonic cancellation system
An RF transmission system including an RF power amplifier, said system comprising an harmonic cancellation processor. The harmonic cancellation processor...
US-6,493,399 Digital wireless communications systems that eliminates intersymbol interference (ISI) and multipath...
A digital wireless communications system which eliminates intersymbol interference in a transmitted signal using a plurality of precoders in a transmitter...
US-6,493,398 Burst mode digital communications system
A burst mode digital communications system which is unique in that it modulates a sinusoidal carrier with discrete cosine segments. The discrete cosine segments...
US-6,493,397 Radio communication device and radio communication method
A compensator eliminates frequency offset contained in digital-converted signals output from A/D converters. A weighting coefficient calculator, a complex...
US-6,493,396 Phase shift key burst receiver having improved phase resolution and timing and data recovery
A receiver includes an I-Q demodulator (135) responsive the I and Q components carried on a first frequency signal line (132). The demodulator comprises a...
US-6,493,395 Multi-carrier transmission systems
A multi-carrier transmission system using orthogonal carriers with high order QAM constellations for the transmission of multiple bits per carrier and symbol....
US-6,493,394 SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNALS BETWEEN LSI CHIPS, RECEIVER CIRCUIT FOR USE IN THE SIGNAL...
A signal transmission system has a response time of a signal transmission line which is set approximately equal to or longer than the length of a transmitted...
US-6,493,393 Digital communication bus for connecting electronic modules
This invention relates to a digital communication bus between electronic modules (S1, Sn), composed of at least one pair of data transmission lines (2A, 2B) and...
US-6,493,392 Method for coding digital interlaced moving video
A method for coding a digital interlaced moving video. Picture-unit overhead information is first transmitted and it is then determined whether a video packet to...
US-6,493,391 Picture decoding method and apparatus
An MPEG downdecoder which eliminates picture quality deterioration ascribable to motion compensation. A decimating inverse discrete cosine transform unit 14...
US-6,493,390 Motion compensation image encoding device
A motion detecting device for enhancement of the image quality at ultra-low bit rates is disclosed, which permits quantization of the prediction error with the...
US-6,493,389 Method and device for modifying data in an encoded data stream
A basic transcoder, that decodes an encoded data stream and re-encodes it, may be used for locally modifying data in said stream. Said modification is carried...
US-6,493,388 Rate control and buffer protection for variable bit rate video programs over a constant rate channel
A system for rate control and buffer management during coding of multiple variable bit rate digital video programs over a constant bit rate channel. The system...
US-6,493,387 Moving picture coding/decoding method and apparatus having spatially scalable architecture and signal-to-noise...
A moving picture coding/decoding method and apparatus having a spatially scalable architecture and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scalable architecture together...
US-6,493,386 Object based bitstream transcoder
A compressed bitstream is scaled down to a reduced rate bitstream by first demultiplexing a compressed input bitstream to extract video objects as elementary...
US-6,493,385 Image encoding method, image encoder, image decoding method, and image decoder
In a picture coding apparatus, even though conditions such as a bit rate are changed, a burden of overhead information arranged in a picture signal is reduced,...
US-6,493,384 Video data compression apparatus and method of same
When repeatedly performing compression and encoding of video data, automatically detecting a previous picture type at an encoder side and performing the...
US-6,493,383 Method of reproduction for protection of data according to both medium protection data and apparatus protection...
In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with...
US-6,493,382 Decoding apparatus providing protection of data decoding according to both transferred protection data and...
In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with...
US-6,493,381 Blind equalization algorithm with the joint use of the constant R and the sliced symbols
A receiver, comprising an adaptive filter, performs blind equalization using a modified form of the constant modulus algorithm (CMA). This modified form of CMA...
US-6,493,380 System and method for estimating signal time of arrival
A method for estimating a time delay including the steps of first, estimating a channel spectrum from a received signal and a known reference signal, second,...
US-6,493,379 Arrival direction estimation method using an array antenna and DS-CDMA receiver unit using the method
The present invention relates to an arrival direction estimation method using an array antenna and a DS-CDMA receiver unit using this method. The method produces...
US-6,493,378 Methods and apparatuses for reducing multipath errors in the demodulation of pseudo-random coded signals
The present application is applicable to receivers for Global Positions (GP) systems which use delay-lock loops (DLLs) and, optionally, phase-lock loops (PLLs)....
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