| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| 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... |