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| US-6,614,956 |
Bidirectional WDM optical communication system with bidirectional optical
service channels The present invention provides a bidirectional wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system having bidirectional optical service channels. The... |
| US-6,614,955 |
Method and apparatus for an extended wavelength range coherent optical
spectrum analyzer An extended wavelength range light source for an optical instrument includes wavelength-tunable optical sources that generate optical signals, each of the... |
| US-6,614,954 |
Feedback control system for a MEMS based optical switching fabric A control system for controlling individual mirrors in a MEMS-based optical switching fabric is presented. The control system includes a position sensitive... |
| US-6,614,953 |
Modular all-optical cross-connect An all-optical, optical cross-connect includes first and second pluralities of multiport optical devices. Each of the first plurality of multiport optical... |
| US-6,614,952 |
Programmable optical cross-connector using an array of intersecting
waveguides A programmable optical waveguide cross-connection array including a supporting substrate, one or more first waveguides fixed to the supporting substrate, one or... |
| US-6,614,951 |
Optical component having a flat top output The optical component includes an array waveguide grating having a plurality of array waveguides. The optical component also includes a light distribution... |
| US-6,614,950 |
Fiber bragg grating-based optical CDMA encoder/decoder An optical spectral coding scheme for fiber-optic code-division multiple-access (FO-CDMA) networks. The spectral coding is based on the pseudo-orthogonality of... |
| US-6,614,949 |
Precision grid standoff for optical components on opto-electronic devices An optical array chip (60) is flip-chip bonded to ASIC substrate (50), and electrically connected to its supporting circuitry through compressively joined solder... |
| US-6,614,948 |
Electrically switchable optical elements using wavelength locked feedback
loops Electrically switchable optical elements, such as application specific integrated elements including filters, lenses and switches, are combined with wavelength... |
| US-6,614,947 |
Digital optical switch using an integrated mach-zehnder interferometer
having a movable phase shifter A Mach-Zehnder interferometer has first and second arms with first and second optical paths, and an optical phase shifter for introducing a phase into an optical... |
| US-6,614,946 |
System and method for correcting defects in digital images through
selective fill-in from surrounding areas A system and method for correcting defects in an image. A correction area surrounding the defective pixel is dynamically chosen to include a predetermined... |
| US-6,614,945 |
Image processing method and apparatus Optimum image corrections (particularly, distortion correction and ambient light quantity correction) are performed for a film on which a pre-exposure image is... |
| US-6,614,944 |
Image enhancement filter with adaptive threshold A method of adaptive spatial filtering for enhancing digital images is presented. A window is applied to a source pixel to generate an array of windowed pixels.... |
| US-6,614,943 |
Method of image binary coding and image binary coding apparatus A multi-gradation image having a plurality of colors is binary coded by processing halftones in a pseudo manner. After the binary coding, an undesirable... |
| US-6,614,942 |
Constant bitrate algorithm for block based image compression A method of compressing image data to achieve a desired compression ratio corresponding to a desired file size. A target compression ratio (the ratio of... |
| US-6,614,941 |
Image activity in video compression Video data compression apparatus comprises means for detecting image activity values indicative of image activity for regions of an input image to be compressed;... |
| US-6,614,940 |
System, method and computer program product for generic outline font
compression A system, method and computer program product are provided for compression of characters. Upon receipt of a plurality of characters, at least one test is... |
| US-6,614,939 |
Image compression apparatus and decoding apparatus suited to lossless image
compression An image compression apparatus for outputting compressed image information that is suited to progressive image reproduction where completely lossless ... |
| US-6,614,938 |
Image compression with orthogonal transform of blocks within a bounded
shape An image coding system that codes a map signal indicative of the position and shape of a content in a screen inputted for every block of picture signals to be... |
| US-6,614,937 |
Compression circuit for quickly processing two-dimensional image data A compression circuit for quick compression processing of two-dimensional image data, using a simple hardware configuration and operation to deal with the... |
| US-6,614,936 |
System and method for robust video coding using progressive
fine-granularity scalable (PFGS) coding A video encoding scheme employs progressive fine-granularity layered coding to encode video data frames into multiple layers, including a base layer of... |
| US-6,614,935 |
Two-pass encoding method of digital motion video sequences for constant-or
variable bit rate Systems and methods are provided for for encoding units of digital information such as pictures, whereby all the data is first analyzed by running a compression... |
| US-6,614,934 |
Method and apparatus for concatenating bits of odd-length words A method and apparatus for concatenating data words from a bitstream includes a scratch memory (802, 902) containing last words of unfinished blocks and... |
| US-6,614,933 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium An encoding method efficiently encodes information relating to a multivalue image having an arbitrary shape, i.e., a rectangular or non-rectangular shape. An... |
| US-6,614,932 |
Information converting system An information code converting apparatus converts object information acquired with respect to an object into a registered information code in association with... |
| US-6,614,931 |
Handwritten instructions for messaging appliances A messaging device has a message reception component configured to receive a printable message from a message originator, and a printer that prints the received... |
| US-6,614,930 |
Video stream classifiable symbol isolation method and system An image processing device and method for classifying symbols relies on a connected-component technique for isolating symbol regions. The device and method form... |
| US-6,614,929 |
Apparatus and method of detecting character writing area in document, and
document format generating apparatus An apparatus for detecting a character writing area inputs a plurality of images of written documents respectively having different characters recorded thereon... |
| US-6,614,928 |
Automatic parcel volume capture system and volume capture method using
parcel image recognition An automatic parcel volume capture system and an automatic parcel volume capture method are provided. An automatic parcel volume capture system in accordance... |
| US-6,614,927 |
Visual image system A visual image system is constructed as including: a three-dimensional visual image reproducer for transmitting a three-dimensional video signal; a parallax... |
| US-6,614,926 |
Methods and apparatuses for generating from an image a model of an object The invention provides methods and apparatuses for generating from an image of an object a model of the object, when the object contains similar features. First,... |
| US-6,614,925 |
System and method for performing basic training A system and method for performing basic training in a dynamic image recognition system, including collecting raw image data on a blank object, segmenting out a... |
| US-6,614,924 |
Adaptive mask technique for defect inspection A two-dimensional scatter plot is created by plotting the gray levels of pixels from a test image against the gray levels of corresponding pixels from a... |
| US-6,614,923 |
Pattern inspecting method and apparatus thereof, and pattern inspecting
method on basis of electron beam images... For purpose of providing a defect inspecting method and an apparatus thereof and a defect inspecting method on basis of electron beam image and an apparatus... |
| US-6,614,922 |
Wire pattern test system The present invention includes testing devices and testing systems. This invention also includes machines or electronic apparatus using these aspects of the... |
| US-6,614,921 |
3-D localization of clustered microcalcifications using cranio-caudal and
medio-lateral oblique view A method using CC and MLO views localized in a display in 3-D as a breast virtual model, incorporating, feature capturing using gradient, energy and entropy... |
| US-6,614,920 |
GOD fingerprint operated ignition switch and entry system A fingerprint entry and engine starting system, including a computerized video recorder, and transmitter installed in a driver's door of a vehicle housing a... |
| US-6,614,919 |
Method of extracting iris region and individual identification device An individual identification device and a method for extracting an iris region which can extract the iris region with high accuracy even if the shape of a pupil... |
| US-6,614,918 |
Apparatus for inspecting light-and-shade portions and method thereof A light-and-shade inspection apparatus and method therefor include an image pick-up device for picking up an image of an object across a dimension (e.g., width)... |
| US-6,614,917 |
Dynamic process for identifying objects in multi-dimensional data A method for identifying a detected object in multi-dimensional imagery data is disclosed. The method includes, (a) providing (1) a set of comparative feature... |
| US-6,614,916 |
Machine vision system and triggering method A machine vision system and associated triggering method utilizes images acquired by a video camera to trigger the video camera to acquire an image feature of... |
| US-6,614,915 |
Image capture and marking A digital image is scanned to generate image data, which is processed to steganographically embed plural-bit auxiliary data. The system is useful, e.g., for... |
| US-6,614,914 |
Watermark embedder and reader A watermark system includes an embedder, detector, and reader. The watermark embedder encodes a watermark signal in a host signal to create a combined signal.... |
| US-6,614,913 |
Vehicle speaker pod A speaker pod for housing an audio speaker. The speaker pod is adapted to be installed in a channel having an effective height and a depth defined by a floor, a... |
| US-6,614,912 |
Sound reproducing device, earphone device and signal processing device
therefor A sound reproducing device including a signal processing device including a first signal processing circuit supplied with an input audio signal of at least one... |
| US-6,614,911 |
Microphone assembly having a windscreen of high acoustic resistivity and/or
hydrophobic material A microphone assembly includes one or more transducers positioned in a housing. Circuitry is coupled to the transducer for outputting an electrical signal such... |
| US-6,614,910 |
Stereo sound expander A stereo sound expander reproduces a realistic sound image in three dimensions by coupling modified and unmodified stereo signals. By not modifying a Head... |
| US-6,614,909 |
Methods, systems, and circuits for generating keys for public key
cryptosystems using parallel processing for... Modular operations are used to perform encryption/decryption of keys in a public cryptosystem. The modular operations process a first data in parallel with a... |
| US-6,614,908 |
Adjustable apparatus holder An adjustable apparatus holder used in a carrier and adapted to hold a personal electronic apparatus is disclosed to include a base panel, a first side plate... |
| US-6,614,907 |
Echo canceller employing dual-H architecture having variable adaptive gain
settings An echo canceller circuit for use in an echo canceller system is set forth that provides sensitive double-talk detection. The echo canceller circuit comprises a... |
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