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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6608699 | Video processing apparatus for processing pixel for generating high-picture-quality image, method thereof, and video printer to which they are applied A video processing apparatus according to the present invention includes edge detecting means for detecting an edge direction of an image, coefficient selecting means for selecting a coefficient based on the edge direction detected by the edge detecting m... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6594214 | Drive apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data and for detecting a boundary between a recorded region and a recordable region on a recording medium An apparatus and method to detect the boundary between a recorded region and a recordable region. When data is recorded on fixed length packets, with each packet comprised of a plurality of blocks, the boundary is determined by a block in which a reading ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6593866 | Signal processors A differential microphone (50) produces a differential pair of output signals which are applied by a differential analogue amplifier (52). The amplified differential signals are converted to 1-bit form by a pair of analogue to digital converters (54, 55) ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591419 | Digital multi-media device and method relating thereto A method of transmitting a transport stream over an IEEE 1394 Serial Bus comprising stripping out of the transport stream identifiable unrequired data so as to reduce the bandwidth of the transport stream, a digital multi-media receiver for transmitting a... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6591017 | Wavelet transform method and apparatus An image signal encoded for compression using a wavelet transform as a transform system is to be decoded at a resolution corresponding to an optional rational number. To this end, the wavelet decoding device includes an entropy decoding unit 1 for entropy... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6581002 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus To obtain good approximate solutions of a combinatorial optimization problem such as traveling salesman problem and to enable its processing apparatus in form of massively parallel exclusive devices, an information carrier corresponding to the distributio... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580711 | Serial interface circuit and signal processing method of the same To provide a serial interface circuit capable of converting a large volume of data into packets based on a predetermined standard for transmission and reception and capable of performing smooth transmission and reception processing, which comprises a tran... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6577910 | Digital audio signal processors A digital audio signal processor processes digital audio signals having a first sampling rate S1. The processor has a multiplicity of manually adjustable controls (403) for setting desired parameters of signals to be processed. Sampling means (404) sample... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6577325 | Recording medium library apparatus and method for operating the same A recording medium library apparatus made up of a combination of units and capable of readily outputting information representing the configuration and readily collecting management information. A library controller of a recording medium library apparatus... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6570673 | Video processing apparatus for processing pixel for generating high-picture-quality image, method thereof, and video printer to which they are applied A video processing apparatus according to the present invention includes edge detecting means for detecting an edge direction of an image, coefficient selecting means for selecting a coefficient based on the edge direction detected by the edge detecting m... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567470 | Device and method for compressing images Video decoder decodes pictures B0, B1, I2, B3 of GOP-3 which have been read out from a recording medium along with recording of new compressed picture data onto the recording medium thereafter to further decode pictures B4, P5, B6 . . . to restore them. N... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6564002 | Editing system and method, image recorder, editing device and recording medium To improve the efficiency of primary editing of a video tape, a shot mark as a mark at the time of primary editing is determined. With a video tape of a digital VTR format, the shot mark may be recorded onto a user's bit on a time code track. Even at the ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556769 | Continuous recording apparatus for surveillance Another operation such as searching for information recorded is achieved without interrupting recording of input information. A CPU controls a VCR block so that input information is recorded on a video tape when the video tape is ready for recording. When... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556240 | Video camera system having remote commander An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. We... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556205 | Animation of video special effects Video special effects apparatus comprises a core program object; and a plurality of render processor plug-in program objects responsive to the core program object, the render processors being arranged in directed acyclic graph, each operable to render an ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6549682 | Image data processing apparatus and method, and provision medium An image data processing apparatus wherein patterns obtained on the basis of common image information shared by a plurality of pre-conversion pixels with one post-conversion pixel are stored in a calculation data selector, and there is decided a pattern c... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545997 | Transmission method and transmission apparatus for transmitting signals on the basis of a OFDM/TDMA-system with pilot symbols The present invention relates to a transmission method and a transmission apparatus for transmitting signals on the basis of a OFDM/TDMA-system, wherein a plurality of subcarriers being orthogonal to each other are allocated to a variable number of channe... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6545964 | Optical reproducing apparatus and method, optical recording apparatus and method, and optical recording medium The optical beam of the read power corresponding to the rotating velocity is radiated to a recording medium. Thereby, the rotating velocity of optical disc can be detected and the optical beam of read power corresponding to the detected rotating velocity ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6545708 | Camera controlling device and method for predicted viewing A personal computer detects the current state of a video camera with reference to setting information transmitted thereto from a work station. When a command for controlling the video camera is inputted from a mouse, the personal computer predicts an imag... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542518 | Transport stream generating device and method, and program transmission device Each of the data amount of a video stream multiplexed in one video frame period and the data amount of an audio stream multiplexed in a predetermined period is almost constant in any video frame period. The data amount of a transport stream generated in o... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6540610 | System for and method of processing data, and entertainment system A portable computer is removably connected to a video game machine which processes data, and a digital camera is connected to the video game machine. Image data supplied from the portable computer or the digital camera to the video game machine is process... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535172 | Antenna device and radio communication card module having antenna device Realizing a small-sized antenna device whose protruding length from a main apparatus is made minimum when installed and adding radio communication function thereto and has polarization diversity characteristics. A module main body 5 has a circuit board 22... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532567 | Method and apparatus of Viterbi detection for trellis-code A method and apparatus for Viterbi detection to detect a code sequence containing a sync word, from an output sequence on a transmission path, by using a trellis detection that has a time-variant structure. The apparatus comprising a base counter for meas... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6532242 | Method for encoding, editing and transmitting digital signals A digital signal encoding, editing and transmitting method enabling seamless coupling of plural video bitstreams without causing disruption of a decoder buffer. In coupling a second bitstream from an encoding unit 20 to the trailing end of a first bitstre... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6526579 | Internet downloaded programmable remote control for registered devices In a system, tabulated information on broadcasting programs is supplied through a network. When a user selects information on a desired program from the tabulated information of programs, supplemental information attached to the individual program informa... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6526146 | Information recording system An optical disc recorder/reproducer, a personal computer, a television receiver, an IRD and so forth are connected mutually via a 1394 serial bus. When data transmitted from the personal computer to the optical disc recorder/reproducer via the 1394 serial... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6525894 | Tape drive apparatus and method for mounting a volume from a tape medium A method of mounting a volume from a tape medium on a tape drive apparatus. The method reads a bar-code indicating the volume from a tape cartridge, attaches the tape cartridge to a tape drive, and detects the current track position on the basis of a long... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6522829 | Data reproducing apparatus, data recording and reproducing apparatus, data reproducing method and data recording and reproducing method The invention relates to a data recording and reproducing apparatus capable of highly accurate editing such as a cross-fade and a mute on audio signal by use of randomly accessible recording medium such as RAID in a broadcasting station. The inventive app... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6522329 | Image processing device and method for producing animated image data A trace line picture which is manually drawn with a pen is taken in by a camera or a scanner, and is supplied to a personal computer as an original line drawing. The personal computer carries out thinning processing on the supplied line drawing, and paint... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6519353 | Motion vector detecting apparatus and method and distribution medium A motion vector detecting circuit calculates a residual between the reference block read from a frame memory and retrieving block at the predetermined position of a retrieving frame to output to an operation control circuit. The operation control circuit ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6507615 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method A video signal processing apparatus and a video signal processing method can switch resolution effectively and efficiently. The video signals coming from an imaging apparatus is converted into digital signals by an A/D converter 2 an compressed by a compr... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6501163 | Semiconductor memory card A semiconductor memory card is disclosed which achieves augmentation in design property, promotion of understanding and augmentation in identification facility of the type thereof. A memory card housing is entirely or partially transparent or translucent ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6496647 | Video signal recording apparatus and method, video signal reproduction apparatus and method, video signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method, and recording medium A video signal recording and reproduction apparatus comprising a video signal recording block and a video signal reproduction block. The video signal recording block includes a sub information/feature amount detector for detecting sub information and/or a... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6496389 | Power factor improving switching circuit A switching power circuit having a power factor improving circuit for a composite resonance type converter, wherein a switching pulse is fed back from a tertiary winding, which is coiled around an insulating converter transformer, via a series resonance c... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6487612 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a recording medium. The information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a hardware-dependent input means having a normal mode in ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6483546 | Picture information converting apparatus, picture information converting method, and television receiver A picture information converting apparatus for generating an output picture signal with a different scanning line structure from an input picture signal is disclosed, that comprises a first picture data selecting means for selecting adjacent pixels with a... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6480234 | Method and apparatus for synchronously encoding audio signals with corresponding video frames This invention enables coded audio data to be reliably decoded even if an audio signal coded in blocks not in synchronism with the frames or fields of a video signal is decoded on the basis of these frames of fields. By filling an integral number of coded... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6470136 | Video recording apparatus and method with reserved recording function for recording programs broadcast from any time zone A video recording apparatus having a storage means to store program reservation data and equipped with a reserved recording function which utilizes program ID superimposed on broadcast signal. This apparatus includes a time difference table to store data ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6469718 | Recording medium retaining data for menu control, menu control method and apparatus A recording medium retaining data for menu control, a menu control method and an apparatus are provided for creating a menu highly expressive and attractive to the viewer. When operation of a menu button is determined on a menu created with a moving pictu... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6466269 | Video signal converter, conversion method of video signal, image display unit using them and television receiver This invention relates to a video signal converter, a conversion method of video signal, respectively suitable to be applied when a video signal according to National Television System Committee (NTSC) is illustratively converted to a video signal corresp... | 10/15/2002 |
