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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6687020 | Video processing apparatus and printing apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a video processing apparatus which makes it possible to print a picture having an arbitrary size without forging an original picture. A video processing apparatus according to the present invention inclu... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6609010 | Dual frequency band transceiver A dual frequency band transceiver (10) is provided adapted to be operated into different transmission frequency bands. A control unit (8) controls a switching (6) between a first transmission frequency band FC1 and a second transmission frequen... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6606320 | Data communication system and method, data transmission device and method In a data transmission system, a data transmission method, a data transmitting apparatus and a data transmitting method according to this invention, in carrying out transmission of data at a predetermined transmit period from the server unit to the termin... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6600871 | Digital video cassette recorder A digital video cassette recorder comprising a plurality of heads provided on a rotary member and performing the recording/playback of the data on slanted tracks in performing helical scanning for a magnetic recording medium with the above mentioned heads... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6597391 | Security system A security system has a plurality of cameras (C1 to C7) presenting different views of an area. The system is programmed to present on a display means (M11) a predetermined hierarchy of views (FIG. 5). Each level of the hierarchy comprises one or more sets... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594439 | Encoded stream generating apparatus and method, data transmission system and method, and editing system and method A method and apparatus for generating an encoded data stream representing a number of pictures or frames and having a number of layers including a picture layer in which time code information attached to the original data is described or inserted therein ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6584099 | Communication command system and method A communication command system controls communications between equipment having sub-devices for outputting different types of communications. A bus with different channels is connected to the input/output ports of the equipment to send communications back... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581080 | Digital filters A technique for generating coefficients for a digital filter. A gain control signal with a value of reference gain and a frequency control signal with a value of reference frequency are provided. A plurality of gain and/or frequency points are calculated,... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6577633 | ATM communications device An ATM communications device connected to an ATM network via an optical fiber improving the efficiency of the traffic in the ATM by separating the real-time data communication system and non real-time data communication system. A CPU bus (or a PCI bus) an... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6574418 | Apparatus and method for reproduction and distribution medium To perform non-normal speed reproduction without preventing a user from understanding of the program content. The audio data which has been blocked into blocks of a predetermined time unit is stored in a buffer. Blocks having the level equal to or lower t... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570889 | Transmitter and transmitting method increasing the flexibility of code assignment According to the present invention a transmitter and a transmitting method for communicating data symbols over a communication channel, for example, according to the CDMA system is presented. The transmitter (24, 25) comprises means (9) for spreading each... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570925 | Digital still camera and image data processor The invention relates to an image data expansion processor for digital still camera. Two blocks of 8-bit luminance data and one block of 8-bit color difference data are repeatedly output from a compressing/expanding unit in the above order and are supplie... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570728 | Tape cassette including memory unit storing reproduction control instructions A tape cassette includes a tape recording medium for recording audio and/or video signals, and a memory unit storing information related to the tape recording medium including positional information of audio and/or video signals stored thereon. The memory... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567531 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and providing medium An image processing apparatus performs processing for embedding information in an image. The image processing apparatus includes a selection unit for selecting a pixel of the image. A processing unit performs processing on the pixel selected by the select... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567471 | System method and apparatus for seamlessly splicing data A plurality of bit streams are seamlessly spliced. Separate decoders decode each bit stream. A controller selects the decoded pictures according to a re-encoding range in the vicinity of a splicing point of the bit streams. Pictures presenting a reorderin... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6564009 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data onto and/or from an optical disk and method thereof An optical disk apparatus for recording and/or reproducing user data onto and/or from an optical disk. The apparatus includes an optical head for irradiating a laser beam having a wavelength of approximately 680 (nm) or less to the optical disk and having... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6560282 | Transcoding system using encoding history information The present invention provides a transcoder having a MPEG decoder and a MPEG encoder, for changing a GOP structure and,the bit rate of an encoded bitstream obtained as a result of an encoding process. The MPEG encoder receives a past encoding parameters g... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556714 | Signal processing apparatus and method A signal processor comprises a decoder 1 which decodes a bit stream S10 to provide an image signal S1 and a coding parameter S8, a switch SW1 to select a destination to which the image signal S1 from the decoder 1 is to be sent, a post-processing circuit ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556594 | Data multiplexing apparatus, method and system A data multiplexing apparatus, method, and system, generates scheduled data for instructing the reading and multiplexing of clips, sequentially reads from a storage unit, transport stream packets based on clips corresponding to the scheduled data, and use... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6555822 | Method for identification of plastic materials by optical measurements Method for identification of plastic materials of interest by spectroscopic measurements, comprising the steps of measuring a sample and providing a sample spectrum; providing reference spectra for a given group of reference materials of interest, determi... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553396 | Filter bank constituting method and filter bank apparatus A method and apparatus for constructing a filter bank designed to split the frequency spectrum of digital signals into plural bands. Specifically, a low-pass analysis filter unit (H0 (z)), adapted to pass frequency components of an input signal... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549677 | Data conversion method and apparatus and signal recording and reproduction apparatus utilizing same Method and apparatus for performing data conversion between first-format encoded data in which orthogonal transform coefficients are arranged in an order of DC components and AC components from a low spatial frequency order to a high spatial frequency ord... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545726 | Color conversion apparatus for image data and color conversion method for image data It is an object of the present invention to provide a color conversion apparatus in which an output result of a color converting circuit at the succeeding stage for color-converting a specific color can be prevented from being affected by an output result... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6546519 | Optical disc recording/reproducing method, optical disc and optical disc device Data recording/reproduction is carried out in a disc format such that error correction codes interleaved with respect to the direction of data on a disc are collectively blocked into an error correction unit and that the input/output order of user data in... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542142 | Voltage generating circuit, spatial light modulating element, display system, and driving method for display system A voltage generating circuit which enables realization of iminiaturization, reduction in operating voltage and reduction in dissipation power, a spatial light modulating element and a display system using the same, and a driving method for display system ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6542203 | Digital receiver for receiving and demodulating a plurality of digital signals and method thereof A method of receiving and demodulating a plurality of digital signals transmitted with different respective carrier frequencies and a digital receiver for receiving and demodulating a plurality of digital signals transmitted with different respective carr... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6539119 | Picture coding apparatus and method thereof In a picture coding apparatus and a picture coding method, when a picture data is hierarchically coded, compression efficiency can be improved, and the deterioration of picture quality can be reduced. When a picture data is hierarchically coded by utilizi... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6539166 | Data multiplexer, data multiplexing method, data recording medium, data recorder, data demultiplexer and data demultiplexing method A data multiplexer for multiplexing at least digital moving picture data and pattern data (character data) comprises a packetizing means for forming the digital moving picture data and the pattern data into PES packets of a predetermined format based on t... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535688 | Apparatus and methods for multiplexing, recording and controlling the display of image data, and recording medium therefor Digital image data which has been compressed in accordance with the MPEG system and corrected for aspect ratio is multiplexed with correction data provided as PSM data for correcting the aspect ratio of such digital image data in the letterbox mode, squee... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535346 | Dual head disk drive unit for differing recording densities A disc driving device of the type in which two different head units are moved by a linear motor along the radial direction of two discs having different recording densities. If a floppy disc with the standard recording density (lower order mode) is loaded... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529206 | Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor A projected image of a three-dimensional object is displayed in a frame which is a constituent of a moving picture. Shape information concerning the shape of a surface of the three-dimensional object and a characteristic point on the projected image of th... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6526510 | Signal reproducing method and apparatus, signal recording method and apparatus and signal recording system A signal reproducing method and apparatus in which the generation limitation information, such as a token or a ticket, contained in digital data, is recorded in analog signals. A reproducing device 20 reproduces, from a source disc S, picture data etc hav... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6525680 | Decoder and decoding method A decoder has a reduced circuit dimension that does not adversely affect the decoding performance of the circuit. The decoder includes an addition/comparison/selection circuit added to give the log likelihood and adapted to compute a correction item expre... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6526178 | Picture mapping apparatus and picture mapping method, and picture generation apparatus and picture generation method Picture data which has been caused to undergo repetitive transform encoding (e.g., fractal encoding) is caused to undergo repetitive transform decoding while implementing scaling at a repetitive transform decoding unit 20 to temporarily preserve the decod... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6522866 | Alternative frequency service verification An alternative frequency of e. g. a digital shortwave signal like a DRM signal can easily and satisfactorily be checked whether or not the same service is transmitted before a fast seamless switching to this alternative frequency can be performed. The inv... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6519365 | Encoder, decoder, recording medium, encoding method, and decoding method To compress images using transition information of adjacent pixels, index transition patterns of two adjacent pixels in the horizontal scanning direction of an image are computed and arranged in order of appearance frequency, then patterns within the uppe... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6516034 | Stream processing apparatus and method A stream processing apparatus and method for replacing a macroblock having a syntax error in an encoded stream with a marcroblock having an acceptable syntax. In such apparatus and method, a plurality of coding parameters may be extracted from the source ... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6515708 | Clock generator, and image displaying apparatus and method A clock generator is provided which comprises a reference signal generator; a voltage controller/generator to generate a dot clock signal; a frequency divider to divide the frequency of the dot clock signal supplied from the voltage controller/generator; ... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6507694 | Intermittent data recorder, intermittent data recording controller, intermittent data recording method, and intermittent data recording control method It is an object of the invention to suppress burden on a device portion and a tape recording medium occurred through recording of intermittent data. A CPU (7) controls a RAM block (3) and a VTR block (4) to record input information on a RAM (32), and tran... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6507695 | DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL RECORDING APPARATUS FOR RECORDING A DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL TO A RECORD MEDIUM AND DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING A DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL FROM A RECORD MEDIUM Input terminals to which two types of serial data with similar formats are sent are disposed. Video data sent to the normal dubbing input terminal is data that has not been compressed/encoded. Data sent to the straight dubbing input terminal is data that ... | 01/14/2003 |
