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| US-6,493,477 |
Optical integrated circuit and manufacturing method therefor The present invention reduces the waveguide loss in an optical coupling between an optical waveguide layer and a photodetector. A cladding layer having a first... |
| US-6,493,476 |
Apparatus and method for integrated photonic devices having gain and
wavelength-selectivity An integrated photonic apparatus that includes a glass substrate having a major surface, wherein the glass substrate includes a plurality of regions, each region... |
| US-6,493,475 |
Monolithic integration of signal-monitoring scheme in an optical switch An integrated device includes a micro-lens and an opto-electronic device can be formed on a single substrate. The opto-electronic device may be one or more... |
| US-6,493,474 |
Fiber devices based on fiber squeezer polarization controllers An improved polarization control method and apparatus is provided. The described invention uses super-polished squeezing surfaces to apply pressure against a... |
| US-6,493,473 |
Method and apparatus for providing transformation of the polarization of
light Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing endless transformation of the polarization of light. A polarization splitter splits light having an input... |
| US-6,493,472 |
Sheet processing apparatus, sheet processing method and information
processing apparatus CPU of a sheet processing apparatus reads a sheet by a scanner, stores the image of the sheet in an image memory, checks to determine whether expanding,... |
| US-6,493,471 |
Linear horizontal and vertical zoom for compressing an image to a smaller
area in display In a video signal compression method, compression ratio control signals (K) and a previous sum (Csum) are added (AD1) to generate a new sum, compression control... |
| US-6,493,470 |
Image processing method and apparatus for detecting the tilt amount of
input image data An image processor which corrects tilt of an input image without operator intervention. Projections of two partial images of an original are obtained at check... |
| US-6,493,469 |
Dual video camera system for scanning hardcopy documents A face-up document scanning apparatus stitches views from multiple video cameras together to form a composite image. The document scanning apparatus includes an... |
| US-6,493,468 |
Image processing apparatus and method It is difficult properly to perform correction processing such as white balance adjustment and exposure compensation for all types of images. This invention... |
| US-6,493,467 |
Image processor, data processor, and their methods The characteristic of nonlinear processing with respect to image data is designated by a GUI and the result of the processing quickly displayed. A personal... |
| US-6,493,466 |
Image data compression or expansion method and apparatus, and image
transmission system and monitoring system... Image data compression method and apparatus which improves image quality in a scene where image greatly changes and reduces the image data, and image ... |
| US-6,493,465 |
Matching point extracting method and apparatus therefor This invention provides a matching point extracting method and an apparatus therefor, for extracting the matching points among plural images based on the... |
| US-6,493,464 |
Multiple pen stroke character set and handwriting recognition system with
immediate response A pen-based computer text input system capable of interpreting a special pre-defined set of single stroke glyphs. Each input stroke is identified with one of... |
| US-6,493,463 |
Segmentation tag cleanup using neighborhood tags A system and method for processing segmentation tags is disclosed. The system comprises a neighborhood analysis module, transition analysis module, and a tag... |
| US-6,493,462 |
Image processing apparatus An image processing device determines whether or not a scanned image is copy-prohibited based on comparisons between a histogram of the brightness of the... |
| US-6,493,461 |
Customizable international note counter A document handling system is adapted to accommodate a plurality of different currency types. The system includes a sensor for counting the number of bills in a... |
| US-6,493,460 |
Method and apparatus for automatically detecting malignancy-associated
changes A method for detecting malignancy-associated changes. A sample of cells is obtained and stained to identify the nuclear DNA material. The sample is imaged with a... |
| US-6,493,459 |
Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a laser stimulating ray source for emitting a laser beam, a base made of transparent material and bearing thereon an image... |
| US-6,493,458 |
Local positioning apparatus, and method therefor An apparatus and method for correctly determining the position of a vehicle in a traffic lane by obtaining correct information about the position of the traffic... |
| US-6,493,457 |
Electronic watermarking in the compressed domain utilizing perceptual
coding A method and apparatus are described for inserting a watermark in the compressed domain. The watermark inserted does not require a reference. An overall... |
| US-6,493,456 |
Thin speaker assemblies including laterally offset resonator cavities and
personal electronic devices including... A personal electronic device includes a main body and an ear flip member coupled to the main body. The ear flip member includes a speaker assembly. The speaker... |
| US-6,493,455 |
Subwoofer assembly The invention relates to a loudspeaker assembly including a housing having a central driver mounting plate upon which a driver is mounted. The central driver... |
| US-6,493,454 |
Hearing aid A hearing aid includes a faceplate (2) and a matching adaptor plate (4) below it. These plates are held in together by fasteners such as clips or screws (12).... |
| US-6,493,453 |
Hearing aid apparatus An improved earring-style hearing aid that includes an ear mold that renders the majority of the ear canal unfilled, and that delivers to the eardrum amplified... |
| US-6,493,452 |
Speaker unit A speaker unit includes a woofer having a diaphragm with an ellipse shape sound emitting opening, and a separate speaker having an ellipse shape diaphragm with... |
| US-6,493,451 |
Communication helmet A communication helmet having an enhanced noise reduction effect. The communication helmet incorporates a microphone disposed in the vicinity of the mouth of the... |
| US-6,493,450 |
Intercom system including improved automatic squelch control for use in
small aircraft and other high noise... An automatic squelch is provided within an intercom to control the gating of a microphone signal path. The automatic squelch includes an analog-to-digital... |
| US-6,493,449 |
Method and apparatus for cryptographically secure algebraic key
establishment protocols based on monoids The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing cryptographically secure algebraic key establishment protocols that use monoids and groups... |
| US-6,493,448 |
Process for echo suppression with adaptive fir filters A process for suppressing total echoes comprising a plurality of partial echoes in telecommunications (TK) equipment such as terminals, transmission systems, or... |
| US-6,493,447 |
Contact server for call center for syncronizing simultaneous telephone
calls and TCP/IP communications The present invention is a Contact Server that enables customers to submit call-back requests to a call center via the Internet, or virtually any other... |
| US-6,493,446 |
Call center posting program A method of scheduling remotely located call center agents comprising the steps of connecting a call center client and a remotely located call center agent by... |
| US-6,493,445 |
Providing alerting/call waiting/call holding services to on-line internet
users This invention relates to methods and apparatus for handling incoming or intra-office calls when a telephone subscriber having a POTS, (Plain Old Telephone... |
| US-6,493,444 |
Enhanced application telephone network An enhanced application switched telephone network and a method of completing calls using the network are described. In the enhanced application switched... |
| US-6,493,443 |
Self-generating return call service A technique for bridging the gap between an initial call and a return call by using network capabilities to capture the caller's information and by providing... |
| US-6,493,442 |
AIN triggers to invoke non-AIN features An addition to AIN that allows SSP triggers to jump to internal SSP addresses for feature processing without a return. There is no query sent to an SCP nor the... |
| US-6,493,441 |
Method of controlling telecommunications signalling A method for inhibiting the use of dual tones over an established voice channel of a telecommunications network. The method inhibits a call tone by removing at... |
| US-6,493,440 |
Thermal management for a thin environmentally-sealed LCD display enclosure The present invention relates to a thermal management system for a thin depth LCD display enclosure. The LCD display enclosure may be used in environmentally... |
| US-6,493,439 |
Analog caller identification transmission method and apparatus A method for routing analog Caller ID signals includes receiving an incoming telephone call for a first telephone extension, the incoming telephone call... |
| US-6,493,438 |
Direct distance dialing (DDD) access to a communication services platform Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) access is provided for a communications services platform. A caller may dial a local DDD number or a long distance DDD number to... |
| US-6,493,437 |
Advertising-subsidized PC-telephony A system subsidizes telephone calls over a network. The system includes a service provider 120 that establishes a telephone call between a calling party terminal... |
| US-6,493,436 |
System for correcting failures of music on transfer A plurality of audio sources are provided in a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and monitored to determine if audio is available from any of the sources. Once an... |
| US-6,493,435 |
Alarm system interface An interface for connecting an alarm system control panel and one or more telephone sets to a special telephone line is disclosed, wherein the interface includes... |
| US-6,493,434 |
Update of web audio messages via audio user interface A method and system are disclosed for updating announcements on a packet network site such as a website. An exemplary method includes receiving an announcement... |
| US-6,493,433 |
Multi-threaded database system for an interactive voice response platform The multi-threaded database system manages access to a plurality of databases. A separate thread is assigned to each of the databases so as to encapsulate... |
| US-6,493,432 |
System for ensuring calling party privacy in a call screening system The system for providing calling party privacy during subscriber call screening for a central office switching system enables a subscriber to monitor and... |
| US-6,493,431 |
Method and system for capturing telephone calls A server facilitates communication between a calling party and a called party. The server includes a communications interface for enabling communications with... |
| US-6,493,430 |
Method of wireless retrieval of information A mobile station subscriber can access data from an informational database and have it forwarded to a desired destination. A database associated with the... |
| US-6,493,429 |
Telephone with ability to push audible read out data In one embodiment according to the invention, a telephonic apparatus includes an interface to a network, a memory adapted to store a telephone number, a... |
| US-6,493,428 |
Text-enhanced voice menu system A text enhanced voice menu system includes data storage, a voice communication path, a text communication path and switch logic. The data storage stores audio... |
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