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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6687768 | Data stream generation apparatus and method of same, variable length coded data stream generation apparatus and method of same, and camera system A data stream generation apparatus for generating a string of fixed length data from variable length data with a smaller circuit and simpler configuration and control. It comprises a control data inserting means for inserting control data with a predeterm... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687137 | Resonant switching power supply circuit with voltage doubler output A switching power supply circuit includes an insulating converter transformer where the insulating converter transformer has a gap formed therein so that a coupling which is efficient for a loose coupling is obtained; switching circuit, a primary side par... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687076 | Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data Copying, dubbing or reproducing copyrighted digital data can be inhibited or restricted to properly protect a copyright. AV data recorded on a pre-recorded tape is output from a reproducing unit of a first digital VCR with protective information indicatin... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687826 | Optical disc and method of recording data into same An optical disc (1) has a plurality of sectors each including a header area and a recording area, in which a position where a predetermined amount of data is recorded provides an ID information (medium ID peculiar to the optical disc). The ID information ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687388 | Picture processing apparatus Picture data of frames [-2] to [+2] of an input picture signal is stored to frame memories fm [-2] to fm [+2]. The picture data of the frame f [0] is supplied to an area extracting circuit. In addition, the picture data of each frame is supplied to a pixe... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6604009 | Signal processors A signal processor for 1-bit signals comprises a fifth order Delta-Sigma Modulator (DSM) having an input for receiving a 1-bit signal and an output at which a processed 1-bit signal is produced by a quantizer. The quantizer receives a p-bit signal from a ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6603512 | Imaging apparatus and control device therefor technical field A moving object 2 transferred by a transfer path 1 is detected by a position sensor 3 to generate a trigger pulse signal TRIG-IN of which pulse width can be adjustably set by a pulse width adjustable setting circuit 5 on the basis of a detection output of... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6599562 | Rigid-printed wiring board and production method of the rigid-printed wiring board The present invention is for providing a rigid-printed wiring board capable of preventing the burst or void phenomenon of a copper paste, and a production method of the rigid-printed wiring board. A rigid-printed wiring board comprising copper clad lamina... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600837 | Image compression controller and image pickup system using the same An image compression controller capable of simplifying the quantization coefficient control in an image compression process and attaining a high speed In image compression, including a first quantization circuit for first quantization based on a quantizat... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600508 | Communication method, communication service apparatus, communication terminal device and communication system The present invention provides an easy-handling and highly-convenient communication system having sufficient adaptability even when a user does not want to transmit a live picture. In a user database for a service provider system, the user establishes bef... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600936 | Terminal for wireless telecommunication and method for displaying icons on a display of such a terminal A terminal (1) for wireless telecommunication and to a method for displaying icons on a display (2) of the terminal (1) for wireless telecommunication includes a display (2) for displaying icons corresponding to menu items and other information, a scroll ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6597140 | Sensorless motor starting system A sensorless motor starting system of a simplified structure is capable of starting a sensorless spindle motor under optimal target starting conditions with low power consumption in accordance with the motor type and the kind of an optical disc to be driv... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597737 | Motion determining apparatus, method thereof, and picture information converting apparatus A motion determining apparatus for detecting a motion of a partial picture of an input picture signal is disclosed, that comprises a first motion detecting portion for comparing a frame difference detected for the partial picture with a predetermined thre... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597403 | System for generating horizontal synchronizing signal compatible with multi-scan There can be solved a problem in which a lock range is narrowed by using an oscillator such as a ceramic having a high Q and a horizontal deflection frequency generating system compatible with all horizontal deflection frequencies of a variety of televisi... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591923 | Robot A walking-on-four-legs type robot whose body is connected at the front right, front left, rear right, and rear left with legs is adapted so that its action saves the user trouble and increases the user's affection for, and curiosity about, the robot.... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6590858 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge comprises a cartridge case in which a disc accommodating chamber is formed between an upper shell, an intermediate shell and a lower shell. The intermediate shell is held rotatably by the upper and lower shells without using a spring; and... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6590937 | Efficient motion vector detection A reference block is divided in the horizontal direction into small blocks, and is also divided in the vertical direction into small blocks. Feature values representing each of the small blocks formed from the reference block are obtained. Similarly, a ch... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6591165 | Robot apparatus, body unit and coupling unit A robot system having a plurality of component units. The robot system includes a first storage device, and a second storage device. The robot system further includes a plurality of control devices, with a first component control device provided with the ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6585138 | Device for supplying wrap film According to this invention, in a device for supplying wrap film, by drawing out a wrap film from a wrap film container and cutting off, a user makes a sheetlike wrap film guide that has the property of adhering to the wrap film is adhered to the end part... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587509 | Reducing undesirable effects of an emphasis processing operation performed on a moving image by adding a noise signal to a decoded uncompressed signal A moving image decoding method and a moving image decoding apparatus for reproducing a natural image from a digital image signal, even when it is viewed on a TV monitor in which emphasis processing is performed. A moving image signal is encoded using a pr... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587123 | Video material selecting apparatus and method for selecting video material A video material selecting apparatus and a method for selecting a video material are proposed, which can remarkably improve the operating efficiency of the selecting operation for the video material. The video data and associated data of each video materi... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587640 | Video and audio recording with audio being recorded in plural channels independently of video on different recording media An AV server comprises a processor part (30) for performing various signal processing, such as compression-expansion, of inputted video and audio signals, a video RAID part (21) for storing video signals, and an audio RAID part (10) for storing audio sign... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584377 | Legged robot and method for teaching motions thereof A legged robot is provided with a plurality of basic motion programs. The legged robot can produce a teaching motion program for performing a series of expressive motions by recognizing and language-processing instructions from a user in the form of voice... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6583600 | Battery pack charging device A charging device for a battery pack in which universality is achieved without restrictions imposed by the charging terminal unit of the battery pack, a demand for size reduction can be met, and in which the request for safety and reliability may be met w... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6583801 | Data processing apparatus utilizing proximity sensing to determine whether user's hand is within predetermined distance An array of user-operable controls and a proximity sensing apparatus are contained in an apparatus wherein the proximity sensing apparatus detects whether a user's hand is within a predetermined distance from the controls. Once the user's hand is a predet... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6580969 | Legged mobile robot and method and apparatus for controlling the operation thereof A legged mobile robot is adaptively controlled in its attitude against variable external forces to continue the operation without inversion. When the legged mobile robot kicks an object having a certain mass, such as a ball, the robot is to be prevented f... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6577340 | Apparatus for generating video signals representing a photographic image previously recorded in a frame on a photographic film-type medium An apparatus for generating video signals from a photographic image previously recorded on film (a cine-video system) which includes a film transport mechanism for advancing or rewinding the film in order to position a film frame at a film gate for projec... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6577321 | Image display apparatus and display control method When scrolling in a vertical direction, field determining means determines whether a field currently being scanned is odd-numbered or even-numbered. Address calculating means decrements a reading address for reading image data from image data storage mean... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6577924 | Robot managing system, robot managing method, and information managing device A robot-related information held at a robot user ad data held at a robot manufacturer as well as to enhance the user's sense of attachment to the robot. Each of personal terminal devices (31A to 31D) has both a function to send information on a robot 1 to... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6573864 | Receiver A receiver is provided which can avoid demodulation performance from deteriorating due to changes in circuit constants caused by changes over time and temperature-dependent changes, prevent an increase in the receiver size, and realize a cost reduction. A... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6573787 | Elimination of noise during power supply switching in an audio amplifier circuit An audio amplifier circuit comprises a voltage-gain amplifier and a current-gain amplifier in series between an input node and an output node. Power supply lines are provided for providing power to the audio amplifier circuit. An outer negative feedback l... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574212 | Transmission of random access bursts with at least one message part The present invention proposes communication devices (1, 6) and a method for transmitting and receiving random access bursts in a random access channel of a digital telecommunication system. Thereby, a random access burst comprising a preamble part for ac... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574611 | Information processing apparatus and method, information management apparatus and method, and information providing medium An information processing apparatus managed by a management apparatus to decrypt encrypted information and use resultant decrypted information. An efficient scheme is implemented for registering users of the system.... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570576 | Method of processing signals and apparatus for signal processing An image processing apparatus processes input signal samples representative of at least part of a color video image to produce legal color signal samples. An over sampled version of the input signal samples is produced. A plurality of adjustment factors a... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570923 | Video signal processing Video signal processing apparatus in which at least first and second input video signals are combined to generate an output compressed video signal, the first and second video signals each having respective associated motion vectors from a data compressio... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6571220 | Copy generation management method, information signal reproducing method, information signal reproducing apparatus, and information signal recording apparatus A reproducing and/or recording system in which copy generation of an information signal is controlled through the use of copy control information that is added to the information signal. The copy control information takes on at least one of three possible... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567128 | Video signal processing in which first video information and additional video information are combined to produce frames that are encoded with different picture qualities for edge and non-edge regions A video signal processor comprises a first input for receiving a compressed first video signal including parameters associated with the frames of the signal and relating to the compression. A decoder decodes the compressed first video signal while preserv... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567383 | Header structure for TDD systems The present invention relates to a header structure for a TDD system which uses preferably an OFDM transmission system. Thereby a header slot according to the present invention fits entirely into one time slot of the GSM TDD structure. The header slot HS ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567988 | Video signal transmission apparatus and video signal transmission method In transmitting the analog video signal via a coaxial cable, a transmission apparatus side is not provided with an emphasis characteristic which is the inverse to the frequency attenuation characteristic of the coaxial cable. In stead, an emphasis is appl... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567374 | Data and pilot mapping in an OFDM system The present invention relates to a wireless transmission method and a wireless transmission system using an OFDM system comprising a plurality of equally spaced subcarriers. According to the present invention a data and pilot mapping in an OFDM system is ... | 05/20/2003 |
