Printing control apparatus compatible with printing systems of a laser scanning unit type and a light emitting diode type
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved printing control apparatus which overcomes the aforementioned deficiencies in the art. It is another object to provide a pr... Read More
Inventors: Kim, Duk-Soo;, Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon, KR) |
Television circuit arrangement for field and line frequency doubling and picture part magnification
What is claimed is: 1. A television circuit arrangement for field and line frequency doubling and picture part magnification, said television circuit arrangement comprising a signal input for receivin... Read More
Inventors: Frencken, Peter H.; Raven, Johannes G.; Annegarn, Marcellinus J. J. C.;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Attachment of lines to objects in interactive draw graphics
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a technique for an interactive computer graphic application wherein lines which are attached to an object move with the object. It is another obj... Read More
Inventors: Christensen, Carol S.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, NY) |
Stacking of materials
Turning to the drawings, a stacking assemblage 10 in accordance with the invention is positioned between a receiving or staging position P1 and an outbound or loading position P2. Items to be stacked... Read More
Inventors: Pulda, William F.;, Assignee: Vanguard Machinery Corp. (Edison, NJ) |
Measurement and dispensing unit
In accordance with the invention, an improved and economically disposable dispensing unit is provided for dispensing a measured amount of liquid or other flowable substance. The dispensing unit genera... Read More
Inventors: Kong, Cheung T.;, Assignee: |
Automatic frequency change device
What is claimed is: 1. An automatic frequency change device comprising: an analog-to-digital converter converting an input analog video signal into a corresponding digital video signal; a phase compar... Read More
Inventors: Kutsuki, Tetsuo;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Buffer occupancy control method for use in video buffering verifier
To solve the above problem, it is an object of the present invention to provide a buffer occupancy control method which can prevent an underflow or overflow of a VBV buffer when a video sequence bitst... Read More
Inventors: Kim, Seong-bong;, Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Kyungki-do, KR) |
Digital signal averager with logarithmic time base
In accordance with the principles of the present invention, there is provided method and apparatus for enabling the observation of a physical reaction over several decades in time. In accordance with ... Read More
Inventors: Debrunner, Peter; Frauenfelder, Hans;, Assignee: University of Illinois Foundation (Urbana, IL) |
Running average computer
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device for digitally computing a running average for a sequence of sampled data values while minimizing the data bit storage associat... Read More
Inventors: Vincent, Allen E.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC) |
Cross-polarization corrector for circular waveguide
What is claimed is: 1. A transmission line comprising: circular waveguide means adapted for propagating a signal in the form of a first polarized electromagnetic signal in a longitudinal direction thr... Read More
Inventors: Woodward, Oakley M.;, Assignee: RCA Corporation (Princeton, NJ) |
Encryption/decryption system
The invention claimed is: 1. An encryption/decryption system for encrypting an input digital signal at a transmitting end of a communications channel and for reproducing the input signal at a receivin... Read More
Inventors: Kage, Kouzou;, Assignee: NEC Corporation (JP) |
Speaker spider with integral lead wire arrangement and manufacturing method thereof
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3 of the drawings, a speaker 10 equipped with an integral lead wire arrangement is illustrated. The speaker 10 comprises a speaker frame 20 and an... Read More
Inventors: Wu, George K.;, Assignee: |
Method for inserting and detecting electronic watermark data into a digital image and a device for the same
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic watermark data inserter and detector where, even when plural electronic watermark data are inserted into an image, the electronic wate... Read More
Inventors: Wakasu, Yutaka;, Assignee: NEC Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Methods for optimizing watermark detection
To mitigate the problem of detecting a watermark signal in the presence of a much-stronger image signal, certain choices are made early in the process--at the embedding operation. The "noise" introdu... Read More
Inventors: Rhoads, Geoffrey B.;, Assignee: Digimarc Corporation (Tualatin, OR) |
Organism-specimen morphological-change detecting apparatus, and organism-specimen morphological-change detecting method
The present invention addresses the problems discussed above. An organism-specimen morphological-change detecting apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a solution administering ... Read More
Inventors: Yahiro, Kanji;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Image data compressing apparatus
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an image data compressing apparatus and image data compressing method capable of controlling the amount of generated codes with less time.... Read More
Inventors: Watanabe, Tohru;, Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for adaptive entropy encoding/decoding of quantized transform coefficients in a video compression system
The present invention is a method and apparatus for adaptive entropy encoding/decoding of a plurality of quantized transform coefficients in a video/image compression system. For encoding, first, a pr... Read More
Inventors: Auyeung, Cheung;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Data processor for image data using orthogonal transformation
An object of the present invention is to provide a coding apparatus which can performs discrimination of a character image and a half-tone image more precisely and efficiently in a short time. Another... Read More
Inventors: Nakatani, Munehiro; Suzuki, Hiroyuki; Sakatani, Kazuomi;, Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP) |
Processing images using two-dimensional forward transforms
The present invention comprises a computer-implemented process and an apparatus for encoding images, as well as a computer program embodied in a tangible medium. According to a preferred embodiment, i... Read More
Inventors: Nickerson, Brian R.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Bit rate control mechanism for digital image and video data compression
What is claimed is: 1. A bit rate controller for a moving image data compression encoder comprising: means in response to an actual bit rate for a prior coded block of the moving image data for genera... Read More
Inventors: Tabatabai, Ali; Naveen, T.; Eifrig, Robert O.;, Assignee: |
Mosaic generation and sprite-based coding with automatic foreground and background separation
Automatic object segmentation generates high quality mosaic (panoramic) images and operates with the assumption that each of the objects present in the video scene exhibits dynamical modes which are d... Read More
Inventors: Crinon, Regis J.; Sezan, Muhammed Ibrahim;, Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, WA) |
Device for recombination of a message transmitted by a frequency hopping transmitter
I claim: 1. A system for recombining a message transmitted by a frequency hopping transmitter operating in accordance with a predetermined frequency hopping program, including a predetermined dwell ti... Read More
Inventors: Petry, Karl-Heinz;, Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (DE) |
Method and apparatus for determining surface profile and/or surface strain
Briefly, the present invention satisfies the need for an improved vision-based approach to determining surface profile and/or surface strain with portable equipment by providing a photogrammetry targe... Read More
Inventors: Manthey, David W.; Lee, Daeyong;, Assignee: CamSys, Inc. (Troy, NY) |
Optical testing method and apparatus employing a distortion verification grid
The need is met according to the present invention by a method and apparatus for testing the configuration of an optical element that includes an optical test-set having a holographic optical element ... Read More
Inventors: Hayden, Joseph E.;, Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
Watermarking of a digitized image
OF THE INVENTION FIG. 1 illustrates the flow chart of the method for watermarking of digitized image of this invention. As shown in this invention, in embedding a watermark into a digital image file,... Read More
Inventors: Chen, Trista; Hsu, Wen-Hsing;, Assignee: Hsu; Wen-Hsing (Hsinchu, TW) |
Watermarking method and apparatus for compressed digital video
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for watermarking a compressed digital video bitstream. The watermark data sequence is spread by repeating individual bits, and is then modulated b... Read More
Inventors: Girod, Bernd; Hartung, Frank H. D.;, Assignee: Vivo Software, Inc. (Waltham, MA) |
Method for embedding and reading watermark-information in digital form, and apparatus thereof
It is the object of the present invention to make it possible to read embedded information even if compression processing or compilation processing are performed, and to minimize the deterioration of ... Read More
Inventors: Nakamura, Takao; Ogawa, Hiroshi; Takashima, Yoichi;, Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (JP) |
Methods and systems for performing short integer chen IDCT algorithm with fused multiply/add
Methods for performing a two-dimensional inverse discrete cosine transform consistent with this invention comprise stages performed by a processor. A processor receives at least one input component re... Read More
Inventors: Wang, Naxin;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP); Sony Electronics, Inc. (Park Ridge, NJ) |
Method and apparatus for selecting image data to skip when encoding digital video
A block and frame skipping technique decides which image regions, blocks or frames in a video frame or series of frames should be skipped. Many of the blocks in a given video frame are very similar to... Read More
Inventors: Ribas-Corbera, Jordi; Lei, Shaw-Min;, Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, WA) |
Method of producing an X-ray image by means of a photoconductor, and device for performing the method
We claim: 1. A method of producing an X-ray image by means of a photoconductor comprising a plurality of pixels, which converts X-rays into a charge pattern at each pixel, which is uniformly charged p... Read More
Inventors: Rupp, Stephan G.; Schiebel, Ulrich;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Image Analysis 
