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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6944226 | System and associated method for transcoding discrete cosine transform coded signals A method is provided for transcoding between video signals in two standards, DV and MPEG-2, each standard including discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed signals. The each of the signals have macroblocks containing a plurality of DCT blocks. The DCT blocks are ... | 09/13/2005 |
| D504750 | Wand mounted light for vacuum cleaner | 05/03/2005 |
| 6859970 | Agitator for vacuum cleaner/extractor An agitator includes an axle, a pulley having a hub mounted to the axle and a belt receiving face having at least one lengthwise channel and a sleeve of molded material received over the axle and in the at least one lengthwise channel. A method of constructing an ag... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6832408 | Caddy for vacuum cleaner tool and accessories A two-piece caddy and vacuum cleaner accessory assembly is provided. The caddy includes first and second body sections that are connected together without the use of a separate independent fastener. The first body section includes first, second and third accessory r... | 12/21/2004 |
| D499850 | Single agitator nozzle for vacuum cleaner | 12/14/2004 |
| D498029 | Upright vacuum cleaner nozzle with pivoting agitator | 11/02/2004 |
| 6807708 | Upright vacuum cleaner with dual hoses and hose ports An upright vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle assembly having a nozzle cavity and a canister assembly pivotally connected to the nozzle assembly. A dust bag is carried by the canister assembly. A dirty air pathway provides fluid communication between the nozzle cavity... | 10/26/2004 |
| D497042 | Bagless upright vacuum cleaner | 10/05/2004 |
| D497044 | Dirt cup for upright vacuum cleaner | 10/05/2004 |
| D495455 | Vacuum cleaner canister body | 08/31/2004 |
| D495106 | Dual agitator nozzle for vacuum cleaner | 08/24/2004 |
| D494577 | Face plate for a multi-media multi-zone interface | 08/17/2004 |
| 6772474 | Upright vacuum cleaner with spring loaded nozzle An upright vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle assembly, a canister assembly pivotally mounted to said nozzle assembly, a suction fan and drive motor and a biaser. The biaser has a first end that engages the nozzle assembly and a second end that engages the canister as... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6766559 | Telescoping handle for upright vacuum cleaner An upright vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle assembly and a canister assembly pivotally connected to the nozzle assembly. A suction generator is carried on one of the nozzle assembly or the canister assembly. The upright vacuum cleaner also includes a telescoping han... | 07/27/2004 |
| D490951 | Handle for folding upright vacuum cleaner | 06/01/2004 |
| D490949 | Handle for upright vacuum cleaner | 06/01/2004 |
| D489850 | Combined handle and canister assembly for upright vacuum cleaner | 05/11/2004 |
| D488894 | Folding upright vacuum cleaner | 04/20/2004 |
| D488897 | Nozzle assembly for folding upright vacuum cleaner | 04/20/2004 |
| D488272 | Vacuum cleaner canister assembly | 04/06/2004 |
| D488274 | Combined canister and belted nozzle for upright vacuum cleaner | 04/06/2004 |
| 6628709 | Bit number prediction for VLC coded DCT coefficients and its application in DV encoding/transcoding A simple and efficient scheme is used to predict the number of bits needed to block of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients with variable length coding (VLC). The scheme defines an easily computable parameter that has a strong correlation with the... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6421874 | Pivotal edge cleaning brushes for vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes a housing having a handle pivotally mounted to a nozzle assembly. An agitator is received in an agitator cavity formed in the nozzle assembly. A suction fan and suction fan drive motor are carried on the housing. An edge cleaning... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6411927 | Robust preprocessing signal equalization system and method for normalizing to a target environment The audio source is spectrally shaped by filtering in the time domain to approximate or emulate a standardized or target microphone input channel. The background level is adjusted by adding noise to the time domain signal prior to the onset of speech to s... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6411337 | Function presentation and selection using a rotatable function menu Function representation and selection in a multi-function system that supports user selection of system function by means of a menu-driven graphical user interface includes displaying a rotatable function menu. The rotatable function menu includes a plura... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6351872 | Agitator motor projection system for vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes a housing incorporating a handle assembly and a nozzle assembly, a suction fan and cooperating suction fan drive motor carried on the housing, a rotary agitator held in the nozzle assembly, an agitator drive motor carried on the ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6351559 | User-enclosed region extraction from scanned document images In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a user-enclosed region extraction device allows users to store, in a digital format, only selected portions of a document image. The user can enclose any text or printed material within a user dra... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6327564 | Speech detection using stochastic confidence measures on the frequency spectrum An accurate and reliable method is provided for detecting speech from an input speech signal. A probabilistic approach is used to classify each frame of the speech signal as speech or non-speech. The speech detection method is based on a frequency spectru... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6301743 | Vacuum cleaner with static dissipation circuit A vacuum cleaner including a suction fan and a suction fan drive motor also includes a power control circuit with a controller, and a reset toggle. First and second capacitors are positioned with one on each side of the reset toggle. A zener diode is also... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6298173 | Storage management system for document image database A method of managing storage in a document image database using document analysis to partition documents into logical regions and modified by reducing storage size of the regions using different reduction means according to various storage preference rule... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6289552 | Vacuum cleaner with dual agitator windows A vacuum cleaner includes a housing having a nozzle that incorporates an agitator cavity. A rotary agitator is received in the agitator cavity. A light source is held in an illumination compartment carried on the housing. A first window divides the illumi... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6266098 | Function presentation and selection using a rotatable function menu Function representation and selection in a multi-function system that supports user selection of system function by means of a menu-driven graphical user interface includes displaying a rotatable function menu. The rotatable function menu includes a plura... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6262870 | Suppression of electrostatic interference from a transformer with a short ring A multi-winding transformer with a short ring includes an electrically conductive discharge path connected to the short ring for discharging the short ring and/or the transformer. Discharging the short ring suppresses or eliminates electrostatic interfere... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6246983 | Text-to-speech e-mail reader with multi-modal reply processor A multi-user e-mail reader system allows several users to access their e-mail accounts simultaneously and have the e-mail messages played back with speech synthesis. The user navigates through various functional states of the system using either touch-ton... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6195438 | Method and apparatus for leveling and equalizing the audio output of an audio or audio-visual system A microcomputer for automatically controlling the sound in an audio or audio-visual system. Incoming audio signals from multiple channels are combined and fed to a pair of detector-rectifier circuits. One detector-rectifier circuit is a smoothing circuit ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5926573 | MPEG bit-stream format converter for changing resolution An apparatus or transforming the resolution of an image from a first image resolution to a second image resolution using operations in the spatial frequency domain. The apparatus converts the bit-stream format which defines the first image and can be used... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5867601 | Inverse discrete cosine transform processor using parallel processing An inverse discrete cosine transform processor for transforming a video signal from frequency domain signals into spatial domain signals. A bus converter receives DCT coefficient data from parallel processing paths and converts the DCT coefficient data to... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5841380 | Variable length decoder and method for decoding two codes per clock cycle Apparatus and method for determining the lengths of a plurality of variable length encoded data values included in a data stream within a single clock cycle. The apparatus includes a shifter for receiving the data stream. The shifter is responsive to a sh... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5828416 | System and method for interfacing a transport decoder to a elementary stream video decorder A transport decoder 110, for receiving and processing a transport data stream using MPEG-2 formats, includes connections to a physical layer channel interface (channel interface) 112, a buffer memory 114, a host microprocessor 116, audio and video decoder... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5818539 | System and method for updating a system time constant (STC) counter following a discontinuity in an MPEG-2 transport data stream A transport decoder 110, for receiving and processing a transport data stream using MPEG-2 formats, includes connections to a physical layer channel interface (channel interface) 112, a buffer memory 114, a host microprocessor 116, audio and video decoder... | 10/06/1998 |
