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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7831468 | System for customizing benefits for financial customers A system for customizing benefits to be made available from benefit providers to financial account holders through their account providers, wherein a promotional enterprise gathers and segments appropriate information in a central server system for use by participan... | 11/09/2010 |
| 6471627 | Heat-shrinkable UHMV polymer film, tubing, and roll covers The present relates to the heat shrinkable thermoplastic materials which are used as roll covers. The heat shrinkable materials used for the roll covers include only ultra high melt viscosity polymers, having a melt viscosity too high for conventional mel... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5381557 | Tick and small crawling creature barrier and trap A device serving as a barrier and trap for ticks, other arachnids, insects and other small crawling creatures, which is to be worn around the limb of a user, i.e., the leg(s) and/or arm(s), depending on the area(s) of potential exposure. It comprises a ba... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5231484 | Motion video compression system with adaptive bit allocation and quantization A system and method are disclosed for implementing an encoder suitable for use with the proposed ISO/IEC MPEG standards including three cooperating components or subsystems that operate to variously adaptively pre-process the incoming digital motion video... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5227330 | Comprehensive process for low temperature SI epit axial growth A system and method for growing low defect density epitaxial layers of Si on imperfectly cleaned Si surfaces by either selective or blanket deposition at low temperatures using the APCVD process wherein a first thin, e.g., 10 nm, layer of Si is grown on t... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5222214 | Image processing using a RAM and repeat read-modify-write operation An image processing system adaptable to pattern recognition that can serve any image width using a minimum of additional hardware by constructing a line buffer using a RAM and filling the RAM with image data while repeating the RMW (Read-Modify-Write) ope... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5210602 | Coupled-color error diffusion A system and method for improving the quality of the output of a full-color image on a reproduction device, such as a display on a monitor or printout from a printer, that only consists of a small number of colors in comparison to the number of colors rep... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5155478 | Method and apparatus for converting gray scale A system for converting selected M gray levels in a K-gray scale to M identifiable levels in an N-gray scale, where K>NࣙM. A first table is created in which the respective M gray levels of the K-gray scale are mapped to different levels in the N-gray sc... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5146551 | System for generating a circular or elliptic arc on a digital display A method for generating a circular or elliptic arc on a digital display, especially adapted for use in a scan conversion painting system. A modified DDA method has been provided, whereby each of the intersections between scan lines and curves concerned is... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5142681 | APL-to-Fortran translators The present invention relates to apparatus and method for translating computer programs in an application from an array source language--having attributes of APL--to a scalar target language. In particular, source language primitive functions--which can b... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5133986 | Plasma enhanced chemical vapor processing system using hollow cathode effect A high-efficiency, low-temperature, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system for growing or depositing various types of thin films on substrate surfaces, or etching such surfaces, using substrates of materials such as silicon, plastic, etc... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5099440 | Probability adaptation for arithmetic coders The present invention relates to computer apparatus and methodology for adapting the value of a probability of the occurrence of a first of two binary symbols which includes (a) maintaining a count of the number k of occurrences of the first symbol; (b) m... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5099415 | Guess mechanism for virtual address translation A system providing a guess mechanism for improving the speed of translating effective addresses produced by a processor to real addresses in memory is disclosed wherein a set of Lookaside Tables and logic elements are used along with a set of validity reg... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5059962 | Display system A display system for converting first gray level signals of N bits/dot each, representing 2N gray levels, to second gray level signals of M bits/dot each, representing 2M gray levels, where N is an integer larger than or equal to 2 a... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5050225 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method is disclosed for rapidly rotating images through selected angles by first generating each pel row of a scaled version of an original image in response to scaling values determined by the rotation angle selected; th... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5045852 | Dynamic model selection during data compression A system and method for maximizing data compression by optimizing model selection during coding of an input stream of data symbols, wherein at least two models are run and compared, and the model with the best coding performance for a given-size segment o... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5001559 | Transform coding using coefficient prediction techniques A system and method for improving the quality of decoded images, without any cost to compression efficiency, in both progressive still frame and motion video applications wherein the images are coded with intraframe transform based coding techniques, such... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4982292 | Method and apparatus for processing pel signals of an image A system for processing image data of a text document in compressed form wherein pel signals of the original image are stored in pel positions in an input image buffer and the pel signals stored in every other pel (EOP) positions in the input buffer are s... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4980822 | Multiprocessing system having nodes containing a processor and an associated memory module with dynamically allocated local/global storage in the memory modules A multiprocessing system is presented having a plurality of processing nodes interconnected together by a communication network, each processing node including a processor, responsive to user software running on the system, and an associated memory module... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4965677 | Compression of binary halftones A system is described for reformatting halftone data for compression, wherein an original bilevel image is reformatted to produce another bilevel image that allows vertical correlations to be recognized by the compression technique, thus improving compres... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4926369 | Leading 0/1 anticipator (LZA) A method and system for performing a leading 0/1 anticipation (LZA) in parallel with the floating-point addition of two operands (A and B) in a computer to significantly reduce the Addition-Normalization time. A combinational network is used to process ap... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4905297 | Arithmetic coding encoder and decoder system Apparatus and method for compressing and de-compressing binary decision data by arithmetic coding and decoding wherein the estimated probability Qe of the less probable of the two decision events, or outcomes, adapts as decisions are successively encoded.... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4901363 | System for compressing bi-level data A system is disclosed for arithmetically compressing bi-level data of an image by sampling history pels, which are adjacent pels to a current pel to be processed, and pels so separated from the adjacent pels as to adapt to a period of a dither matrix for ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4899294 | Graphics processing system A graphics processing system has the capability of generating a map of an image in terms of the individual picture elements or pixels from data defining the boundaries of component areas of the image. The disclosed generating system comprises a plurality ... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4888645 | Method for encoding and decoding a digital image A method for encoding and decoding digital image data, includes the steps of: testing the data for a vertical relationship between adjacent lines of the image; generating directly a reference code word representative of the vertical relationship for each ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4885576 | Soft copy display of facsimile images Digital data defining images are stored in a multiplane buffer. The buffer may store plural images by restricting data corresponding to an image or image portion to storage in less than half the bit planes of the buffer. An image is displayed by reading d... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4885786 | Method for enlarging an image stored in run representation form The method according to the present invention enlarges a binary digital image by a method comprising the steps of: storing the rows of the image as a plurality of run end representations, in which a row is represented as a sequence of values giving the wh... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4870695 | Compression and de-compression of column-interlaced, row-interlaced graylevel digital images In an image in which some pixels in some rows of an image have values associated therewith, apparatus and method of processing, for subsequent entropy coding or decoding, graylevel data for the remaining pixels in the image.... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4836105 | Direct negative and offset master production using thermal liftoff An improved printing member for use in a system wherein a current source, in combination with a resistive ribbon, produces heating in selected areas of the ribbon for effecting the formation of a printing pattern on the printing member, which member is co... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4814746 | Data compression method Communications between a Host Computing System and a number of remote terminals is enhanced by a data compression method which modifies the data compression method of Lempel and Ziv by addition of new character and new string extensions to improve the com... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4799105 | Modified technique for suppression of flicker in interlaced video images A method for suppressing the perception of flicker in interlaced video images, includes the steps of: testing, each pixel in an image, for an intensity value below a first predetermined threshold; modifying, for each tested pixel, an intensity value repre... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4783834 | System for creating transposed image data from a run end or run length representation of an image A system for formatting electronic binary image data, which may be in compressed raster form, into transposed or rotated raster form for storage or output, such as on a printing device, is disclosed wherein the image data is first assembled in a buffer in... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4776024 | System for segmenting character components A system and method for electronically segmenting character components on character-containing documents involving first scanning a document and quantizing the image information obtained by the scanning into two levels, e.g., black and white, by 1 and 0 b... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4763119 | Image processing system for area filling of graphics An area fill technique for graphic images is disclosed wherein the contour lines constituting an image are given in a series of line segments or a series of vectors, and horizontal line segments are ignored. Each line segment other than the horizontal one... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4759894 | Method and apparatus for producing an ultra-high controlled transient temperature with an electrical discharge An intense electrical discharge along the axis of a capillary having condensed phase (liquid or solid) walls produces a controlled transient plasma temperature of 10 million degrees Kelvin or more. In order to reach such a temperature, the capillary is fo... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4754394 | Multiprocessing system having dynamically allocated local/global storage and including interleaving transformation circuit for transforming real addresses to corresponding absolute address of the storage A multiprocessing system is presented for dynamically partitioning a storage module into a global storage efficiently accessible by a number of processors connected to a network, and local storage efficiently accessible by individual processors, including... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4731860 | Method for identifying three-dimensional objects using two-dimensional images For recognizing a three-dimensional object from its two-dimensional image which was produced e.g. by a TV camera, a Hough transform representation is generated of the image and specific configurations or structures of the cluster points which constitute t... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4725815 | Method for encoding and decoding a digital image A method for encoding and decoding digital image data, includes the steps of: testing the data for a vertical relationship between adjacent lines of the image; generating directly a reference code word representative of the vertical relationship for each ... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4712140 | Image reduction method A binary image is reduced in size by a method including the steps of: storing the image in bit sequence; dividing the image into transposable blocks; transposing by look up table, for each block having any nonzero data, each group of 6 bits along a first ... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4712214 | Protocol for handling transmission errors over asynchronous communication lines A system or scheme for automatic detection of and recovery from transmission errors in the asynchronous communication mode at the data link level with complete transparency at the higher levels is disclosed wherein the transmissions are in the form of a s... | 12/08/1987 |
