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| 8168690 | Solvent-free photocurable resin composition for protective film A solvent-free photocurable resin composition is provided which can be applied to the surface of optical discs or the like to form a highly transparent protective film that can stably adhere to the surface and effectively protect the surface from scratches. The solv... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7313203 | Method and system for estimating and compensating IQ imbalance A method of determining IQ imbalance introduced on an RF multicarrier signal received via a channel on a direct conversion analog receiver is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises i) receiving a training signal on the receiver, ii) demodulating the trai... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7163757 | Secondary batteries having a protective circuit A secondary battery with high safety is provided. A heater and a diode are connected in series, and a thermistor is connected in parallel with thus formed series circuit. A fuse is connected in series with thus formed parallel circuit to form a protective circuit, w... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6989356 | Partially-fluorinated-alkyl compound, lubricant comprising the compound, and recording medium using the lubricant To provide a lubricant for recording medium, which is advantageous not only in that it maintains excellent lubricity under various conditions for use and excellent lubricating effect over a long time, but also in that it can impart excellent transport properties and... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6532589 | Method and apparatus for providing a calendar-based planner in an electronic program guide for broadcast events A method and apparatus for providing a calendar-based on-screen planner in an electronic program guide for broadcast events are provided, wherein at least one electronic program guide is generated and displayed representing programming on a number of chan... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6367049 | Encoding multiword information by wordwise interleaving Multiword information is based on multibit symbols disposed in relative contiguity with respect to a medium, and is encoded with a wordwise interleaving and wordwise error protection code for providing error locative clues across multiword groups. In part... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6169714 | Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing magneto-optical information A magneto-optical information recording/reproducing apparatus in which a magneto-optical information recording medium at least including a first magnetic film having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and a second magnetic film to which information record... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6133074 | Thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same A thin film transistor (TFT) which may be used as a pixel drive element in an active matrix LCD display includes a pair of side wall spacers adjacent to the opposing side walls of its gate electrode. The side wall spacers provide the gate electrode with a... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5990964 | Method and apparatus for processing time code A method for processing a time code including the steps of generating information, indicating whether or not a location is proper for editing when converting picture information of a predetermined system into picture information of another system, and wri... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5975912 | Low temperature plasma-enhanced formation of integrated circuits Using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, various layers can be deposited on semiconductor substrates at low temperatures in the same reactor. When a titanium nitride film is required, a titanium film can be initially deposited using a plasma enhan... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5663763 | Picture signal encoding method and apparatus and picture signal decoding method and apparatus An encoding and decoding apparatus and method which has the primary benefit over the prior art of not requiring storage of the nonlinear sequence of numbers representative of the quantization characteristics. The hardware required for quantization is redu... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5557719 | Method and apparatus for forming objects based on free-form curves and free-form surfaces from projecting nodal points and a series of points onto a patch In a method for forming free-form curves and free-form surfaces, the nodal points of the object to be projected and a series of points set on the object to be projected are projected onto a patch. Free-form curves are generated on the patch on the basis o... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5557585 | Broadcast signal receiver which automatically sets an internal clock Broadcast signal receiver which has an internal clock controls an internal or external tuner which receives a plurality of broadcast signals to tune to a predetermined broadcast signal which includes time data indicating a local time. The broadcast signal... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5505544 | Chamber temperature uniformity test fixture A fixture for measuring the temperature of a chamber at a number of locations includes a body sized for placement within the chamber, and a number of temperature probes mounted on the body in orientations such that, when the body is placed within the cham... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5385794 | Cell electrolyte solvent, cell electrolyte comprising the solvent and non-aqueous electrolyte battery comprising the electrolyte Disclosed are a solvent for cell electrolyte comprising a carbamate represented by the following formula [1]; ##STR1## wherein R1, R2 and R3 independently represent a linear or branched alkyl group, cell electrolyte a... | 01/31/1995 |
| 4933774 | Video signal reproducing apparatus utilizing field memory and delayed sync A video signal reproducing apparatus includes a field memory for storing one field of a reproduced video signal, a signal separator for extracting a horizontal sync pulse signal and a vertical sync pulse signal from the reproduced video signal, and an add... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4914463 | Development of imaging sheets employing photosensitive microcapsules In an apparatus for developing a picture on a sheet of developing paper from an exposed sheet of photo-sensitive material by pressing together the sheets of developing paper and photo-sensitive material, and in which such sheets in contact with each other... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4914523 | Optical disk apparatus compatible with different television system standards An optical disk having radially discrete main and lead-in track areas in which there are respectively recorded color video information according to one of a plurality of TV systems, such as, NTSC and PAL systems, and code data including data identifying t... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4911552 | Digital signal processing circuit for digital camera A digital detecting or charge-discharge control circuit is useful in a video camera as a peak detector in an automatic iris control circuit, as a reference voltage generator in an automatic white balance control circuit and/or as a low pass filter in an a... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4912573 | Digital data reproducing apparatus having recording modulation mode detection In a digital data reproducing apparatus for demodulating digital data recorded on a magnetic medium with either a first or second record modulation mode, such mode is detected by identifying the frequency of a recovered clock signal derived from the digit... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4907089 | Timing pulse generator A timing pulse generator for generating timing pulses exhibiting vertical and horizontal scanning frequencies of the type found in video signals, particularly adapted for use with a CCD imaging device. A first counter counts reference pulses having the ho... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4885642 | Method and apparatus for digitally recording and reproducing a color video signal for a SECAM system In digitally recording a color video signal for a SECAM system, a horizontal blanking interval including a horizontal synchronizing signal and a non-modulated carrier is not recorded as in the case of a color video signal for a NTSC or PAL system. In a re... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4885546 | Digital demodulator for AM or FM In a demodulating circuit, for example, for demodulating an amplitude- or frequency-modulated signal, analog-to-digital converted values are obtained at a plurality of sampling points in each cycle of the modulated signal, such converted values are integr... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4882554 | Multi-drop type bus line system A multi-drop type bus line system having a plurality of terminals respectively connected to a common bus line, in which each terminal has a connector interconnecting with the other terminals and the connectors at the respective terminals are interconnecte... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4878737 | Optical low-pass filter An optical low-pass filter for use in the optical system of a color video camera has first and second periodic structures on the same or opposed major surfaces of a transparent substrate and which are dimensioned and arranged in respect to each other to p... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4876599 | Aperture correction circuit An aperture correction circuit adds to the input video signal an aperture correction signal formed from the input video signal and which is subject to non-linear processing to thereby effect the aperture correction for a picture of low or high contrast.... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4876703 | Apparatus for compressing and/or expanding time base In an apparatus having a CCD for compressing and/or expanding the time base of an input signal; a first two-phase transfer clock pulse signal made up of first and second pulse train signals having a first period and arranged to be 180° out of phase with ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4864398 | Motion vector processing in digital television images A television standards converter comprises a motion analyzer for analyzing the motion between consecutive fields of an input television signal of one television standard and for deriving motion vectors in dependence on the motion, a filter for recursively... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4864394 | Motion vector selection in television images Apparatus for processing motion vectors associated with a digital television image comprises a vector filter and a vector calculator for deriving a plurality of motion vectors respectively representing the motion of a pixel in the image, a circuit for tes... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4864393 | Motion vector estimation in television images Apparatus for motion vector estimation in a television image using a digitized signal representing the image, comprises a vector filter and a vector calculator for determining motion in the image at points spaced a predetermined number of pixels horizonta... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4864431 | Tape dubbing apparatus in which each of a plurality of slave recorders is operated in synchronism with a master player In a magnetic tape recording system having a single master tape player and a plurality of slave recording devices each including at least one rotary magnetic head for repeatedly scanning a respective magnetic recording tape, and each receiving, from the s... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862270 | Circuit for processing a digital signal having a blanking interval A digital signal processing circuit for carrying out a series of processings for a digital signal having a signal effective interval and blanking interval such as a video signal. Operation control data added to the blanking interval of the input digital s... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4862267 | Motion compensated interpolation of digital television images A motion compensated interpolator for digital television images comprises a three-dimensional variable separable finite impulse response interpolation filter operating in the horizontal, vertical and temporal domains.... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4862260 | Motion vector processing in television images Apparatus for processing motion vectors associated with a digital television image, comprises a vector filter and a vector calculator for deriving a plurality of motion vectors respectively representing the motion of pixels in a corresponding plurality of... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4862259 | Motion vector reduction in television images Apparatus for reducing the number of motion vectors associated with a digital television image comprises a vector filter, a vector calculator and a vector processor for deriving for each block of pixels within the television image a plurality of motion ve... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4858006 | Method and apparatus for establishing a servicing mode of an electronic apparatus In controlling an electronic apparatus, such as, a color television receiver, of the type having signal processing circuits which are individually adjustable in accordance with respective control signals provided by a microcomputer or central processing u... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4855829 | Aperture correction circuit An aperture correction circuit that adds an aperture correction signal formed from an input video signal to the input video signal, wherein the aperture correction signal is processed by a non-linear processing and then added to the input video signal to ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4853780 | Method and apparatus for predictive coding In transmitting a residual signal determined by the difference between an input signal and a predictive signal, a comparative signal based on the input signal is applied to a plurality of predictors having different respective predictive functions or coef... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4853809 | Apparatus for reproducing video signals as slow-motion pictures In an apparatus for slow-motion reproduction of a video signal having successive field thereof, along with respective pilot signals, recorded in successive oblique tracks on a magnetic tape, a tracking error signal is based on the pilot signals reproduced... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4845564 | Television receiver incorporating a video cassette recorder and capable of displaying a sub-channel picture within a main-channel picture A television receiver incorporating a video cassette recorder and having a display, for example, a picture screen, for showing a main-channel picture within which a sub-channel picture may be superimposed, includes first and second tuners which are indepe... | 07/04/1989 |
