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| US-6,751,403 |
Optical disc for storing moving pictures with text information and
apparatus using the disc When moving pictures are recorded onto an optical disc, not only is text data recorded, but also video-recording start date and time, video-recording end date... |
| US-6,751,402 |
SET-TOP BOX CONNECTABLE TO A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER VIA AN AUXILIARY
INTERFACE AND SELECTS BETWEEN A RECORDED... A set-top box is connectable to a digital video recorder that includes at least one recorder interface that supports connection of the digital video recorder to... |
| US-6,751,401 |
Method and apparatus for producing program information and receiving
apparatus for processing the information... A program information producing apparatus broadcasts program information of a next program belonging to the same program group as a subjective program in... |
| US-6,751,400 |
Reproducing method and apparatus The reverse direction reproduction of encoded data comprised of picture data compressed in accordance with the MPEG system is to be realized at a higher speed.... |
| US-6,751,399 |
Image recording and reproducing device utilizing attribute information to
identify image type Recording section stores time-varying frames of dynamic picture image information and a frame of still picture image information into a same storage area of a... |
| US-6,751,398 |
System and method for determining whether a video program has been
previously recorded For use in a video recorder, there is disclosed a system and method for determining whether an incoming video program has been previously recorded by the video... |
| US-6,751,397 |
Video signal recording and playing-back apparatus and video signal
displaying apparatus In a video signal recording and playing-back apparatus, a controller sets a preset time with a timer, and a first communicator transmits a message of starting... |
| US-6,751,396 |
Integrated optical devices and method of fabrication therefor The present invention provides an optical apparatus, a method of manufacture therefore, and an optical integrated circuit that includes the optical apparatus.... |
| US-6,751,395 |
Micro-electro-mechanical variable optical attenuator Variable optical attenuators that use a blade in a gap between two fibers to control the optical attenuation without having coupling optics in the gap, where the... |
| US-6,751,394 |
Sleeve insert and sleeve for guiding optical waveguide elements and for
accommodating a splicing device A sleeve insert for guiding optical waveguide elements and for accommodating a splicing device, comprising a profiled body being adapted to the dimension of the... |
| US-6,751,393 |
Optical wiring connection structure enabling optical cross connect
utilizing continuously extending through... An optical wiring connection structure includes a board that has a first end and a second end. A plurality of through-holes continuously extend from the first... |
| US-6,751,392 |
Cable management system for connector assemblies A cable management system is provided for a connector assembly. A housing has a plurality of passages for receiving the terminating ends of a plurality of... |
| US-6,751,391 |
Optical systems incorporating waveguides and methods of manufacture Methods for forming optical systems are provided. A representative method includes the steps of: providing a substrate; depositing on the substrate a first... |
| US-6,751,390 |
Dispersion and dispersion slope compensating fiber and optical transmission
system utilizing same A dispersion and dispersion slope compensating optical fiber includes a segmented core and a cladding layer wherein the refractive index profile is selected to... |
| US-6,751,389 |
Optical fiber for extended wavelength band An optical transmission fiber for use in a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system is disclosed. The transmission fiber includes an inner core... |
| US-6,751,388 |
Fiber lasers having a complex-valued Vc-parameter for gain-guiding The instant invention concerns optical fibers that have complex-valued V.sub.c -parameters due to gain g established by active dopants that are doped into the... |
| US-6,751,387 |
Microporous glass waveguides doped with selected materials The present invention concerns waveguides made from porous glass which have been doped with certain selected materials which exhibit optical properties. In the... |
| US-6,751,386 |
Periodic optical poling of waveguides for quasi phase matching A method of and apparatus for creating a second order non-linearity profile along a waveguide. The method comprises: thermally poling a waveguide structure to... |
| US-6,751,385 |
Method and device for measuring the waveform of an optical signal A nonlinear optical loop mirror having a first optical coupler including first and second optical paths directionally coupled together, a loop optical path... |
| US-6,751,384 |
Method and apparatus for laser protection of photosensitive material A fiber optic faceplate for protecting photosensitive material from high light levels which comprises an optical structure which optically acts like a solid... |
| US-6,751,383 |
Loose tube optical ribbon cable The present invention relates to a loose-tube, optical-ribbon cable, which comprises a central tensile-strength component situated in the center of the... |
| US-6,751,382 |
System for organizing wires and cables A system for organizing elongated objects (such as wires, cables, pipes, hoses, ducts, tubing, and other similar items) into bundles to create a more uniform,... |
| US-6,751,381 |
Embodying amplitude information into phase masks A phase mask, for writing fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) in an optical fiber, adjusts the amplitude and the phase of the FBG, while maintaining a constant mean index... |
| US-6,751,380 |
Fiber grating and method and apparatus for fabricating the same A core 2 is co-doped with Ge in a general concentration equivalent to that in a core of an optical fiber to be connected as well as Sn and Al in predetermined... |
| US-6,751,379 |
System and method for collimating and redirecting beams in a fiber optic
system A connector to an optical fiber comprises a prism, a ferrule and an aspheric lens. The prism includes a triangular wedge element having a first surface, a second... |
| US-6,751,378 |
Sleeve and a manufacturing method thereof A sleeve for an optical connector and a method of manufacturing the sleeve is provided. The sleeve is put between an optical fiber 6 and a transmitting module 4b... |
| US-6,751,377 |
Micromechanically active reconfigurable add-drop filters In accordance with the invention, a tunable, reconfigurable optical add-drop filter comprises a pair of optical waveguides optically coupled by a microring or... |
| US-6,751,376 |
Integrated micro-optical elements The integration of micro-optical elements on a semiconductor substrate, particularly elements, such as glass-material optical components, such as lenses, beam... |
| US-6,751,375 |
Self-referencing tunable add-drop filters Techniques for adding and dropping a desired band, channel or wavelength by calibrating optical tunable devices precisely for the desired wavelength are... |
| US-6,751,374 |
Light-signal delaying device A light-signal delaying device according to the present invention includes a linear guide rail and a pair of stages mounted on the linear guide rail. The device... |
| US-6,751,373 |
Wavelength division multiplexing with narrow band reflective filters A WDM demultiplexer/multiplexer comprising a plurality of narrow band reflective filters linearly disposed along an optical axis, each narrow band reflective... |
| US-6,751,372 |
Four-port wavelength-selective crossbar switches (4WCS) using reciprocal
WDM MUX-DEMUX and optical circulator... A four-port wavelength-selective crossbar switch generates an add/drop wavelength signal from a wave division multiplexed (WDM) signal using a plurality of... |
| US-6,751,371 |
Method and apparatus for optical element management In one aspect of the invention, a method of managing one or more optical elements includes storing in a memory, provisioning information describing at least one... |
| US-6,751,370 |
Method of aligning a driving force with respect to a movable element using
mechanical resonance A method reduces movement of a reflector in an unintended mechanical mode during movement of the reflector in an intended mechanical mode. The method includes... |
| US-6,751,369 |
Fiber lens assembly for singlemode optical switches An m-input/n-output (e.g. 1.times.1, 1.times.2, 2.times.2) optical fiber switch includes a switch substrate formed with v-grooves in which singlemode fibers are... |
| US-6,751,368 |
Methods of altering the resonance of waveguide micro-resonators Methods of tuning, switching or modulating, or, in general, changing the resonance of waveguide micro-resonators. Changes in the resonance can be brought about,... |
| US-6,751,367 |
Multiplexable fiber-optic strain sensor system with temperature
compensation capability A fiber optic sensor comprises two independent fibers having Bragg gratings which are coupled to commutating broadband optical sources through splitters and... |
| US-6,751,366 |
Multi-port circulator An extendable four-port circulator includes a middle birefringent crystal, a first birefringent crystal, a first non-reciprocal device, a second birefringent... |
| US-6,751,365 |
E-field-modulated bistable molecular mechanical device A molecular system is provided for nanometer-scale reversible electronic and optical switches, specifically, electric field-activated molecular switches that... |
| US-6,751,364 |
Image analysis systems for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat
and/or predicting meat yield of an... The invention is an image analysis system and method for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal. One embodiment of... |
| US-6,751,363 |
Methods of imaging based on wavelet retrieval of scenes Methods of imaging objects based on wavelet retrieval of scenes utilize wavelet transformation of plural defined regions of a query image. By increasing the... |
| US-6,751,362 |
Pixel resampling system and method for text A method and system for determining a transition model between input pixel samples from which output sample values are calculated based on various relative... |
| US-6,751,361 |
Method and apparatus for performing fixturing in a machine vision system A single non-rotationally symmetric fiducial mark, such as a Universal Alignment Target, is placed on an object and the alignment of the object is determined... |
| US-6,751,360 |
Fast video temporal alignment estimation A fast temporal alignment estimation method for temporally aligning a distorted video with a corresponding source video in order to perform accurate video... |
| US-6,751,359 |
Method to program bit vectors for an increasing nonlinear filter An increasing nonlinear-filter represented as a plurality of basis elements along with the filter values at those basis elements by finding, for each output... |
| US-6,751,358 |
Error diffusion for digital printing A system for simulating grayscales in a digital printer, such as an ink-jet printer, exploits a modified error diffusion technique. When a datum for a particular... |
| US-6,751,357 |
Data structure for image transmission, image coding method, and image
decoding method There is provided an image decoding apparatus for decoding a coded image signal having an image identifier based on a data structure of the image signal. This... |
| US-6,751,356 |
Image processing apparatus and method Compressed data having as rendering commands region designation data that designates a region of an image, and a parameter for designating image quality of that... |
| US-6,751,355 |
Wavelet image compression using quantization based on frequency ranges and
absolute values in wavelet image... Input data, distributed along a space axis, is converted into data distributed along a frequency axis by the use of a frequency range dividing filter, and is... |
| US-6,751,354 |
Methods and apparatuses for video segmentation, classification, and
retrieval using image class statistical models Techniques for classifying video frames using statistical models of transform coefficients are disclosed. After optionally being decimated in time and space,... |
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