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US-7,509,033 Side port insert design for water heater
An electric water heater has a tubular side port insert, projecting into the interior of the filament-wound plastic tank portion of the water heater tank,...
US-7,509,032 Motor drive control circuit and motor apparatus using the same
A motor drive control circuit includes a rotation control amplifier that compares the lower of a voltage limiting reference voltage of a reference voltage source...
US-7,509,031 Optical disk recorder and method of writing signal to an optical disk
In an optical disk recorder, an optimum threshold value (M') of a front-end buffer is calculated from data size, signal transfer rate (Rt) and signal write rate...
US-7,509,030 Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, driving apparatus and driving method for selecting video clips at a...
A method and apparatus for generating and editing audio and/or video data using thumbnail representations of the data. Thumbnail representations are generated in...
US-7,509,029 Apparatus for recording and reproducing plural streams compressed in different formats
A recording and reproducing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing the signals of both a digital broadcast system and an analog broadcast system is...
US-7,509,028 Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information...
US-7,509,027 Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information...
US-7,509,026 Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information...
US-7,509,025 Information playback apparatus and electronic POP advertising apparatus
An information playback apparatus includes a storage memory removably attached to a main unit and in which compressed moving image file data are electrically...
US-7,509,024 Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving system, and method of selecting manipulate signals in...
A broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving system and a method of selecting a control signal in the broadcast receiving system, in which a group of...
US-7,509,023 Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information...
US-7,509,022 Recording medium and system for recording and reproducing the recording medium
A recording medium has a first recording area on which recording information is recorded as a set of recording units, and a second recording area on which...
US-7,509,021 Method and system for providing instant replay
A method for providing instant replay is disclosed, including receiving a video and an audio stream from a source. Each media unit includes at least one video...
US-7,509,020 Method and apparatus for fast forwarding and rewinding in a video recording device
A method and apparatus providing for "instant replays" and "quick skip" functionality in a media playback device. In the case of an instant replay, under user...
US-7,509,019 Contents editing apparatus with frequency adjustment
A content editing apparatus (10) includes a CPU (12). When combining JPEG data and audio data forming a moving file 1 with JPEG data and audio data forming a...
US-7,509,018 Plastic optical fiber and production method thereof
A cylindrical outer clad section is formed by melt-extrusion molding of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) having a molecular structure in which the number of defect...
US-7,509,017 Radius limiter and arrangement
A cable radius limiter having a radius limiting surface that prevents damage to cables due to excessive bending. The cable radius limiter includes mounting...
US-7,509,016 Telecommunication rack unit tray
An interface panel that mounts to a telecommunications rack. The interface panel including a splicing arrangement and a splitter module. The interface panel...
US-7,509,015 Secure fiber optic network cassette assembly
Assemblies and methods for securing a fiber optic network cassette assembly are provided. A typical secure cassette assembly includes a cabinet adapted to be...
US-7,509,014 Two-dimensional photonic crystal having air-bridge structure and method for manufacturing such a crystal
The present invention intends to provide a two-dimensional photonic crystal having a high level of mechanical strength and functioning as a high-efficiency...
US-7,509,013 Two-dimensional photonic crystal
An objective of the present invention is to provide a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which a complete photonic band gap (PBG), i.e. a photonic band gap that...
US-7,509,012 Light emitting diode structures
According to one aspect of the present invention, a light emitting diode (LED) structure including an active core layer and at least one substrate layer having a...
US-7,509,011 Hybrid waveguide
A waveguide system wherein a top cladding layer leaves portions of an underlying core channel exposed to ambient air. The ends of core channels are exposed so...
US-7,509,010 End-surface closely arranged multicore optical fiber and manufacturing method thereof
In an end surface closely arranged multicore optical fiber 200, at least two single-mode optical fibers 10 are, at one and the other ends of the individual...
US-7,509,009 Optical fiber structure and method of manufacturing same
The present invention provides an optical fiber structure that allows for reliable and easy branching of optical fibers, as well as a method of manufacturing...
US-7,509,008 Method and apparatus for locating a localized temperature change in a workspace
A method for monitoring a workspace comprising deploying a fiber optic distributed temperature sensor cable in the workspace, wherein the sensor is capable of...
US-7,509,006 Optical device
An optical device wherein an optical waveguide is formed on a dielectric substrate, the optical device includes an input part and an output part where the...
US-7,509,005 Resistive heater for thermo optic device
Resistive heaters formed in two mask counts on a surface of a grating of a thermo optic device thereby eliminating one mask count from prior art manufacturing...
US-7,509,004 Apertured fiber optic stub for control of multi-mode launch condition
Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods for launching high-transmission-rate optical communication signals into legacy...
US-7,509,003 Optical waveguide, optical device, and manufacturing method of the optical waveguide
An optical waveguide has a diffusion area (optical waveguide) with a high refractive index formed by diffusing impurities on a substrate. The diffusion area has...
US-7,509,002 Adaptive optical signal processing with multimode waveguides
Optical signals are passed in an optical medium using an approach that facilitates the mitigation of interference. According to an example embodiment, a...
US-7,509,001 Optical circuit board
An optical circuit board which facilitates a mounting process and provides advantageous aspects of electric interconnection and optical interconnection. An...
US-7,509,000 Downhole optic fiber wet connect system and method
A downhole optic fiber wet-connect system includes first and second matable portions of a tool body; first and second matable portions of a connector. Further...
US-7,508,999 Fiber optic sensor device for measuring chromophoric compounds in biological fluid
A fiber optic sensor device for detecting the presence of a chromophoric compound in a biological fluid is disclosed. The fiber optic sensor device includes at...
US-7,508,998 Image search apparatus, image search method, program, and storage medium
This invention realizes, with low cost, an image search apparatus which can quickly obtain adequate search results upon searching for document images which are...
US-7,508,997 Method and apparatus for video image interpolation with edge sharpening
A method and apparatus for video sample interpolation with edge sharpening, whereby edge sharpness can be essentially preserved and/or enhanced in the...
US-7,508,996 Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus includes: image inputting portions for inputting a plurality of images; attribute inputting portions for inputting attribute...
US-7,508,995 Method and apparatus for monitoring electronic transmission of an image
In a monitoring method and image processing apparatus for monitoring electronic transmission of an image, an image detector supplies an input image to a...
US-7,508,994 Method for detecting streaks in digital images
The present invention uses five regions of interest, 4 corners and 1 center to do Fourier Transform analysis to mark rough location of the streaks, if there is...
US-7,508,993 System and process for automatic exposure correction in an image
A system and process for improving the appearance of improperly colored and/or improperly exposed images is presented. This involves the use of two novel...
US-7,508,992 Image-processing apparatus for compressing binary-format image data
An apparatus for image processing is disclosed. The apparatus is for reducing one or more runlengths by converting binary-format image data for each of black and...
US-7,508,991 Method of generating a sequence of matrix factors for a transformation matrix
A method of generating a sequence of matrix factors for a transformation matrix having a plurality of rows and columns using a computer, wherein the...
US-7,508,990 Apparatus and method for processing video data
An apparatus and methods for processing video data are described. The invention provides a representation of video data that can be used to assess agreement...
US-7,508,989 Image processing method and device for resolution conversion of compressed moving image data
An image processing method comprising: a decoding processing step of applying decoding processing to a first kind of image data and a second kind of image data;...
US-7,508,988 Method, program and apparatus for image processing capable of effectively performing image transmission, and a...
An image processing apparatus includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive a request, from at least one different image processing apparatus connected...
US-7,508,987 Method, apparatus, system, and program for image processing capable of recognizing, reproducing, and enhancing...
A method, apparatus, system, and program for image processing are provided to perform operations of recognizing, reproducing, and enhancing an image,...
US-7,508,986 Document recognition device, document recognition method and program, and storage medium
In document recognition processing for accurately recognition a document image at high speed, a shape feature is extracted from a component included in an input...
US-7,508,985 Pattern-matching system
An XML parsing system includes a pattern-matching system 1 that receives an input stream 2 of characters corresponding to the XML document to be parsed, and...
US-7,508,984 Language recognition method, system and software
A language such as English or a language group such as an Asian language group is recognized based upon document image data. The document image data is processed...
US-7,508,983 Method and device for dividing target image, device for image recognizing process, program and storage media
According to a region dividing device, a region dividing member generates a plurality of primary region groups, each of which includes a plurality of primary...
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