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US-7,471,874 Reproducing apparatus and method
For reproduction of transport stream (TS) from a recording medium, it is necessary to control the reproduction so as not to overflow the decoder buffer at the...
US-7,471,873 Method for repairing video/audio files of multimedia video/audio disks
A method for repairing video/audio files of multimedia video/audio disks is provided. The disclosed method may repair the fields with errors in the video/audio...
US-7,471,872 Reproducing apparatus for data stored in disk-shape storage media
A reproducing apparatus performing reproduction of a play list by inserting a frozen image when the length of data of a clip to be referred by the play list is...
US-7,471,871 Index validation system and method
An index validation system comprises a processor and a validator accessible by the processor. The validator is adapted to access index data corresponding to...
US-7,471,870 Time-shifting and synchronizing content and enhanced file-based state data
A computing system such as a Programmable Video Recorder (PVR) receives broadcast data and enhanced file-state data from a data source. The broadcast data may...
US-7,471,869 Equipment layout for fiber distribution hubs
A fiber distribution hub includes a panel mounted within and pivotally movable relative to an enclosure. One or more connector holders are carried by the panel....
US-7,471,868 Cable trough system and method
A telecommunications cable management system includes trough elements including a planar top surface and sides for cable routing and management. The trough...
US-7,471,867 Fiber optic splice and distribution enclosure
An enclosure for housing fiber optic splices between a fiber optic distribution cable and fiber optic customer drop cables includes a first door providing access...
US-7,471,866 Waveguiding structures with embedded microchannels and method for fabrication thereof
The invention provides a method for fabricating planar waveguiding structures with embedded microchannels. The method includes the step of depositing, over a...
US-7,471,865 Apparatus and method for a molded waveguide for use with touch screen displays
An apparatus and method for an inexpensive, simple to make, self-aligning molded waveguide made of an optically transparent material and that can be used to...
US-7,471,864 Optical semiconductor device and optical semiconductor integrated circuit
An integrated optical waveguide has first, second, and third optical waveguiding regions. The second optical waveguiding region has a refractive index different...
US-7,471,863 Near-field interaction control element
A near-field interaction control element includes a near-field optical waveguide containing particles formed of a metal, a metal anion or a metal cation with a...
US-7,471,862 Dry fiber optic cables and assemblies
A fiber optic cable includes at least one optical fiber, at least one strength member, at least one dry insert, and a cable jacket. The cable jacket has a cavity...
US-7,471,861 Optical transmission element
Between an optical fiber (LF11, LFB12, LFB13) and a surrounding core covering (AH11, AH12, SB13) of an optical transmission element (OE11 to OE13) there is at...
US-7,471,860 Optical fiber cable construction allowing rigid attachment to another structure
A tubular and a jacketed cable combination includes a strip of material helically wound about itself to form a tubular structure having an inside dimension and...
US-7,471,859 Programmable optical grating device and method
An optical waveguide has a surface. An array of separately actuated bodies is disposed proximal to the exposed surface, and an actuator separately actuates at...
US-7,471,858 Configurable dispersion compensation trimmer
The invention pertains to optical fiber transmission systems, and is particularly relevant to transmission of large volumes of data over long distances at high...
US-7,471,857 Method of tuning optical components integrated in a monolithic photonic integrated circuit (PIC)
An optical transmitter comprises a monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) chip that includes an array of modulated sources formed on the PIC...
US-7,471,856 Short reach optical interconnect
An optical link includes a polymer waveguide having a top cladding layer, a core polymer layer, and a bottom cladding layer, supported by a substrate, with...
US-7,471,855 Monlithically coupled waveguide and phototransistor
An optical integrated circuit comprises a semiconductor body, a semiconductor optical waveguide located on the body, and a bipolar phototransistor located on and...
US-7,471,854 Laser module allowing direct light modulation and laser display employing the same
Provided are a laser module allowing direct light modulation and a laser display employing the laser module. The laser module may include a semiconductor chip, a...
US-7,471,853 Optical modulator
In an optical modulator according to the invention, with respect to two MZ type optical modulators connected to each other in tandem by a curved folded waveguide...
US-7,471,852 Optical modulator and optical modulation method
An optical modulator has a waveguide on which propagation light is incident, a metal layer located adjacent to the waveguide and having a periodic structure...
US-7,471,851 Method and apparatus for propagating high resolution detail between multimodal data sets
The dataset describing an entity in a first modality and of a first, high resolution is used to enhance the resolution of a dataset describing the same entity in...
US-7,471,850 Reversible transform for lossy and lossless 2-D data compression
A 2D transform and its inverse have an implementation as a sequence of lifting steps arranged for reduced computational complexity (i.e., reducing a number of...
US-7,471,849 Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image
Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image derived from a plurality of images including a first image as a center of projection, and a...
US-7,471,848 Program for correcting image distortion, apparatus for correcting image distortion, method for correcting image...
A projection set of geodesic lines which are parallel with each other on a curved surface of a paper face is extracted from an image in which a paper face has...
US-7,471,847 Image processing method and apparatus for correcting image brightness distribution
An image processing apparatus comprises a luminance extraction means for extracting a luminance component from image data, a scale conversion means for obtaining...
US-7,471,846 Perfecting the effect of flash within an image acquisition devices using face detection
Within a digital acquisition device with a built in flash unit, the exposure of an acquired digital image is perfected using face detection in the acquired image...
US-7,471,845 De-ringing filter
An image de-ringing filter system and method are provided. The method comprises: accepting image pixels; collecting data from a first group of pixels neighboring...
US-7,471,844 Method, apparatus and system for multi-feature programmable tap filter image processing
Apparatus, systems and methods for providing a multi-feature, programmable tap filter architecture for image processing are disclosed. In one implementation, a...
US-7,471,843 System for improving an image displayed on a display
A system for improving the an image displayed on a display.
US-7,471,842 Method and apparatus for dynamically detecting pixel values
A pixel value array is provided, which includes an examined pixel value. Several reference pixel values are each subtracted from the examined pixel value to...
US-7,471,841 Adaptive breakpoint for hybrid variable length coding
A method, a carrier medium, and an apparatus to process a plurality of ordered series of quantized coefficients of a block of an image to reduce the amount of...
US-7,471,840 Two-dimensional variable length coding of runs of zero and non-zero transform coefficients for image compression
A method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying events that each includes a run...
US-7,471,839 Multimedia transmission with image and audio compressions
An apparatus for transmitting multimedia, wherein the apparatus includes an image compression unit for compressing an image portion of a multimedia data frame,...
US-7,471,838 Image data processing apparatus, image data processing method, and computer readable medium
To reduce the processing required to embed a code into image data and decode the code. The present invention includes a block dividing section 101 that divides...
US-7,471,837 Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images
A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image...
US-7,471,836 Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images
A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image...
US-7,471,835 Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image data
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding images, more particularly to an encoding unit in conjunction with a library of pictorial entities...
US-7,471,834 Rapid production of reduced-size images from compressed video streams
Methods for fast generating spatially reduced-size images directly from compressed video streams supporting the coding of interlaced frames through transform...
US-7,471,833 Method and apparatus for processing image data
A method of representing a data distribution derived from an object or image by processing signals corresponding to the object or image comprising deriving an...
US-7,471,832 Method and apparatus for arbitrating outputs from multiple pattern recognition classifiers
A system (400) for classifying an input image into one of a plurality of output classes includes a plurality of pattern recognition classifiers (420, 422, 424)....
US-7,471,831 High throughput reconfigurable data analysis system
The present invention relates to a system and method for performing rapid and programmable analysis of data. The present invention relates to a reconfigurable...
US-7,471,830 Preprocessing device and method for recognizing image characters
Disclosed is a device and method for recognizing characters in an image. An input part receives the image. A blurring decision part classifies the received image...
US-7,471,829 System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity
A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system...
US-7,471,828 Adaptive digitizer for optical reader
The present invention is an optical reader configured to adaptively digitize a set of image data in a manner that depends of characteristics of the image data....
US-7,471,827 Automatic browsing path generation to present image areas with high attention value as a function of space and time
Systems and methods for automatic generation of a browsing path across image content to present areas with high attention value are described. In particular, an...
US-7,471,826 Character segmentation by slices
A method for segmentation of characters in text that segments text into lines, words and slices and determines at least one of fixed pitch and proportional pitch...
US-7,471,825 System and method for utilizing a graphic equalizer in performing image search procedures
A system and method for utilizing a graphic equalizer in performing image search procedures includes a histogram calculator for creating sets of histograms that...
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