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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6486885 | Memory device and method A memory device for storing a sequential image data in succession and outputting the stored image data is provided. The memory device comprises a memory unit comprising N memory blocks, each memory blocks being capable of individual serving, a write addre... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6449018 | Video processing apparatus and video processing method A video processing apparatus includes a selection means (14) for selecting a video signal constituting a main screen and a video signal constituting a sub-screen, a first video processing means (16, 18) for processing the video signal for the main screen ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6443628 | Optical fiber connecting device, electronic equipment, network system and optical fiber connecting method An optical fiber connecting method and apparatus in which optical communication is performed in a uni-core bidirectional system as optical crosstalk is prevented from occurring. To this end, an optical fiber connector 1 includes a refractive index matchin... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6442326 | Commercial broadcasting system A commercial sending system that can easily record a non-recorded commercial material is provided. When a play list is input from a creating block or a receiving block, a CM material DB managing block is asked whether or not CM materials included in the l... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6442208 | Apparatus and method for transmitting data DVD reproducing apparatus which transmits variable-bit rate data on a digital serial bus having a predetermined transmission rate. The DVD reproducing apparatus reproduces data from a record medium in accordance with a control signal to produce variable r... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6438316 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and method for including line numbers A line number LN is extracted from serial data corresponding to BTA S-004 standard. The line number LN is placed as LN0 and LN1 to each of a luminance signal Y and color difference signals Pr/Pb of a 4:2:2 signal. The 4:2:2 signal is converted into a 3:1:... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6424793 | Data recording medium and data replay apparatus A data recording medium and a data replay apparatus are provided for allowing an automatic return to a menu at the completion point of a replay of one content and allowing an arbitrary jump to the next or previous content during a replay of one content. A... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421585 | 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 device, with a first component control device provided with the f... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6420852 | Battery pack When any one or ones of at least two cells connected in parallel together is judged to be faulty by a cell failure detector, it is electrically disconnected to the normal other cells. Alternatively, when any one or ones of at least two cells connected in ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6418167 | Moving picture compression/expansion apparatus A moving picture compression apparatus in which signal deterioration can be minimized on repeated compression/expansion. The moving picture compression apparatus compresses a moving picture signal having a motion vector multiplexed in its blanking portion... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6411773 | Storage medium unit for storing information data, preferably video data and/or audio data The present invention provides a storage medium unit, comprising: storage means for storing information data; table means for memorizing data which represent a relation between routing information and said information data; memory means for storing progra... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6411055 | Robot system A modular robot system is provided with memory means for memorizing task information concerning task of each component unit and the recognition means for recognizing the task of each component unit based on the task information of each component unit. Fur... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6404937 | Method and apparatus for image retrieval An image retrieval method and an image retrieval apparatus are disclosed in which it is possible to identify in which image-information recording medium or in which group an image to be retrieved is included. The image retrieval apparatus has a recording ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6393197 | Digital video signal recording/reproducing apparatus and method thereof Reproducing heads reproduce signals from a tape in advance of recording heads for a time period equivalent to a system delay. An ECC decoder corrects an error of a signal received from each reproducing head. A BRR decoder decompresses and decodes the sign... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389593 | Method of and apparatus for controlling transmission of information on programs A program-related-information transmission control method adopted on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by way of a data-transmission means, includes the steps of: ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388968 | Signal recording/reproducing apparatus and method A signal recorder/reproducer comprising an integrated buffer memory 22 having a memory area for a recording system and a memory area for a reproduction system, the allocation of the memory areas being variable, and a system controller 5 to control, via a ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6356310 | Signal converting apparatus and method for converting a first digital picture into a second digital picture having a greater number of pixels than the first digital picture A delay register section 31 holds SD pixels of a luminance signal and a classification section 33 decides a class, reads a coefficient corresponding to the decision result from a coefficient RAM section 40, and outputs the coefficient to a product-sum sec... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6347399 | Interface for a receiver and method of arrangement thereof An interface for connecting one or more conditional access modules to a receiver, the interface including a plurality of interface sections, each for connection with a respective socket for receiving a conditional access module and each having a plurality... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6345019 | Disk drive system with releasing apparatus Disclosed is a thread servo of a disk drive system, in which a slide mechanism is driven on a slide drive signal generated from an error signal of the slide mechanism. When a precursory phenomenon of making unstable the operation of the slide mechanism is... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6330295 | Data processing system and data processing method Disclosed is data processing carried out by an SIMD (Single Instruction stream/Multiple Data stream) parallel processor. When the piece count of pixel data increases, another data processing apparatus is newly added to an existing data processing apparatu... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6330214 | Signal recording/reproducing apparatus and method A signal recorder/reproducer comprising an integrated buffer memory 22 having a memory area for a recording system and a memory area for a reproduction system, the allocation of the memory areas being variable, and a system controller 5 to control, via a ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6327420 | Image displaying method and editing apparatus to efficiently edit recorded materials on a medium At the start of editing, video clip icons of a temporally continuous video material are displayed in a window 31. When an icon 31-m is selected, a window 32 is opened in which icons of images are displayed at intervals of 15 seconds starting from the firs... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6327419 | Composite recording/playback device A composite record/playback device capable of independently using recording media of different forms, i.e. a video tape record/playback block and a hard disc drive block, comprises a video tape record/playback unit, a hard disc drive, a first encoder, a f... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6323905 | Picture conversion apparatus picture conversion method learning apparatus and learning method An apparatus for converting a first picture comprising pixels into a second picture comprising pixels is provided. The second picture is converted by executing on the first picture an adaptive process that determines prediction values of the second pictur... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6292623 | Data reproducing method, reproducing speed control apparatus and reproducing apparatus An image data reproducing method which is possible to obtain a search picture with high quality, a reproducing speed control apparatus, and a recording/reproducing apparatus by finding search speed that it is possible to reproduce image data as much as po... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6201581 | Video signal processing device and method, image synthesizing device, and editing device In synthesizing a foreground picture and a background picture in accordance with a key signal, for example, by soft chroma key processing, a preview screen 102 as a picture as a result of processing by the key signal and a key parameter setting screen 101... | 03/13/2001 |
