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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6608866 | Digital video processing A digital video processing system and method for deriving an output compressed video signal from an input compressed video signal. The input compressed video signal represents successive input pictures. Subsets of the input pictures are derived from other... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6606026 | Information processing apparatus and method, and distribution medium In order to prevent meaningless data from being displayed when the data stored in the memory of tag cannot be displayed, the following is performed. When it is judged that matching of character set information intrinsic to the information processing appar... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6600913 | Two-port demodulation device A two-port millimeter-wave demodulation device is particularly adapted for wireless 60 GHz transmission systems. The device for the downconversion and demodulation of a modulated RF signal does not comprise a mixing stage. The RF signal to be downconverted is ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6598117 | Recording medium library device and control method thereof A cassette library (1) is provided with a driving apparatus (13), cassette housing shelves (14, 15) and a cassette carrier (16). A library controller (2) simulates as if driving apparatuses (13) having continuous address numbers were apparently used in th... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597766 | Telephone apparatus At the time of call arrival, when the user of a telephone terminal depresses a response key or performs some other tentative responding manipulation instead of lifting up a handset, the telephone terminal transmits a self-introduction request message to t... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591057 | Editing device and data transmission method Video data inputted from an input terminal 32 is equally divided and recorded on disk drives 18a to 18c, respectively. The video data recorded on the disk drives 18a to 18c is sent out to a data bus 30 at a predetermined timing in accordance with a transf... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6584320 | Server based provision of map data to terminal devices In a terminal equipment, when a signal demanding for the detection of the present position of a mating second portable remote terminal is outputted from a first portable remote terminal, nearest a first base station transmits the signal to a server. The s... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6580188 | Moving apparatus with drive force assist mechanism and movement control method A moving apparatus with a driving force assist mechanism traveled mainly by human power. This moving apparatus detects, in a non-contact manner, with respect to rotating portion such as traveling wheel, etc., rotation speed of the rotating portion to dete... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6574172 | Recording and reproducing system having resume function When the user enters a command to eject an optical disc from an optical-disc apparatus by operating an input unit, a CPU records information such as an operating mode and a location accessed immediately prior to ejection of the disc into a RAM unit as res... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6573872 | Dual-spiral-slot antenna for circular polarization The present invention relates to an antenna comprising a planar dielectric substrate (1) comprising a front (5) and a back dielectric face (6), at least one subantenna means comprising a first (2) and second (3) element for radiating and receiving circula... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571142 | Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and medium A data processing apparatus obtains a prediction coefficient used to predict first data, from second data which has a lower quality than the first data. The apparatus includes a prediction-data extracting section for extracting prediction data used to pre... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6556209 | Memory apparatus of digital video signal A memory apparatus of a digital video signal for storing color compressed video data is disclosed, the color compressed video data being compressed video data that represents components of three primary colors, the memory apparatus comprising a memory por... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553073 | Sending device, receiving device, sending-receiving device, transmitter, and transmitting method An object of the present invention is to provide a sending device, a receiving device, and a sending/receiving device which make it possible to easily implement a two-channel compressed moving picture transmission system by using an existing single-channe... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549763 | Receiving apparatus and method A receiving apparatus and method which can prevent second order harmonic interference and beat interference in a direct orthogonal detector is disclosed. When a control signal of the high level is inputted to a control terminal, then a first high frequenc... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549537 | Communication system and method A communication system is disclosed which can transmit a real-time cell and a nonreal-time cell with no jitters caused in the real-time cell. When a real-time cell and nonreal-time cell are outputted at a same timing, a priority control circuit (40) passe... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6546475 | Disc controller, disc control system, and disc controlling method In the disc controlling system, a buffer memory stores sector by sector data read from a disc or data to be written to the disc. A memory controller allows a floppy disc drive to intermittently read sector by sector data from the disc for supply to the bu... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6546140 | Transmission method and transmission apparatus A method and apparatus can determine the VBV delay from the bit rate without limiting the encoding time and raising the cost. An image compression-coding apparatus adapted to control the volume of generated codes on the basis of the occupied volume of the... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542510 | Network communication system An electronic network system for implementing ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) and RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) type communication. ARP type communication is facilitated by including within the ARP response packet an offset address indicati... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6541927 | Color cathode ray tube and adjusting method The format of a color video signal that has been inputted into a CPU from a video amplifying circuit is identified, and based on a given parameter variable according to this identified format, a second grid electrode voltage and the cathode bias voltages ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538646 | Image display apparatus for efficiently implementing the redundant display of images The object of the present invention is to provide an image display apparatus suited to display a video program or the like for advertisement purposes. The image display apparatus comprises a storage medium installation section (11), a memory section (13) ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535854 | Speech recognition control of remotely controllable devices in a home network environment Home networks low-cost digital interfaces are introduced that integrate entertainment, communication and computing electronics into consumer multimedia. Normally, these are low-cost, easy to use systems, since they allow the user to remove or add any kind... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532337 | Digital-signal playback apparatus A viterbi decoder employed in a digital-signal playback apparatus provided by the present invention such as a video tape recorder and an optical-disc apparatus executes the steps of carrying out tentative discrimination on an input signal, equalizing the ... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529550 | Coded stream splicing device and method, and coded stream generating device and method A system for seamlessly splicing two encoded video streams. In one implementation of the system, one or more coding parameters are extracted from the first and/or second encoded streams and one or more parameters of the first and/or second encoded streams... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6516465 | Digital video receiver, a conditional access module and a method of transmitting data therebetween A digital video receiver, a conditional access module and method of transmitting data therebetween, the digital video receiver having a multi line socket for connection to the conditional access module, the socket having a pre-determined plurality of line... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6507889 | Recording medium library device and control method thereof A cassette library (1) is provided with a driving apparatus (13), cassette housing shelves (14, 15) and a cassette carrier (16). A library controller (2) simulates as if driving apparatuses (13) having continuous address numbers were apparently used in th... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6504994 | Data reproduction apparatus and data storage medium A data reproduction apparatus and a data storage medium for synchronously reproducing multiplexed data with video, audio, and superimposed dialogue data compressed at a variable rate and performing various functions. Data are reproduced from the data stor... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6504533 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus capable of displaying an image signal of an unknown type. Characteristics of an input image signal are examined and, based on the examined characteristics, an attempt is made to identify the input signal as one of a known type. ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6501717 | Apparatus and method for processing digital audio signals of plural channels to derive combined signals with overflow prevented Level detectors detect levels of digital audio signals of individual channels. A controller predicts whether or not an overflow will take place corresponding to detected signals. When the controller predicts an occurrence of an overflow, attenuators atten... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6498893 | Recording/reproducing apparatus A recording/reproducing apparatus by which optimum playback pictures can be produced eve in case of parallel recording/reproduction. A storage unit 123 transiently stores video signals obtained from an overwrite type disc-shaped recording medium 102. A si... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6495989 | Battery control apparatus and management method of battery A battery control apparatus of this invention comprises charge detecting circuit for detecting change of charge of a battery based on current of the battery, first residual charge amount detecting circuit coupled to the charge detecting circuit for detect... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6483789 | Data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method for detecting sector defects A method for detecting a defective sector on a recording medium in a method for recording and/or reproducing data for the signal recording medium. A read gate is opened to reproduce data from a data field at a pre-set timing derived from a timing referenc... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6466267 | System for performing selective detection of image signal peaks and camera employing the system An adaptive peak value detector, wherein the peak value for a peak hold section is detected, the peak hold section being selected by a peak hold control circuit. A solid-state imaging sensor generates pixel signals representative of an image and the peak ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6463179 | Image compression and decompression based on a flat pixel group level, group pixel coorindinate positions, and the number of pixels for the group An encoding apparatus whereby image signals provided in units of frames, each having a plurality of pixels, are divided into macro groups, and the pixels in each macro group are combined, forming a group. The pixels of the group are encoded on the basis o... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6452960 | Audio data transmission apparatus and method, audio data recording apparatus, and audio data recording medium An audio data transmission and recording system and a recording medium according to the system. Gaps in the audio data are used to control the addition of spectrum-diffused data to the audio data. The gaps are also used to control demodulation of the spec... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6445811 | Fingerprint image processing device and fingerprint image processing method A fingerprint image processing device and fingerprint image processing method used for instance in fingerprint check devices which reliably processes the fingerprint image by detecting the ripple DM of the brightness level of the fingerprint image and sta... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6438607 | System using ARP or RARP packet for communicating offset address of an application program and computer unique ID of a computer An electronic network system for implementing ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) and RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) type communication. ARP type communication is facilitated by including within the ARP response packet an offset address indicati... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6437712 | Data stream conversion apparatus and method, variable length coded data stream generation apparatus and method, and camera system The present invention discloses a data stream conversion apparatus and method, a variable length coded data stream generation apparatus and method, and a camera system, the data stream conversion apparatus, comprises a first data combining means for succe... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6433833 | System for efficiently generating a variety of solid signals and key signals A system for generating a variety of solid signals and key signals. The system includes a multiple of solid generators, a multiple of key signal generators and a cross-point switch. Each of the solid generators includes a multiple of solid mixers, and eac... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430225 | Apparatus and method for digital data transmission There is provided a converting processing block 3 for carrying out a processing to convert an arbitration signal into code data of 5 bits and for carrying out 4 bit/5 bit converting processing with respect to packet data to thereby carry out transmission/... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6430122 | Recording and reproducing system having resume function When the user enters a command to eject an optical disc from an optical-disc apparatus by operating an input unit, a CPU records information such as an operating mode and a location accessed immediately prior to ejection of the disc into a RAM unit as res... | 08/06/2002 |
