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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6292590 | Dynamic coding with exchanging pixels In ordinary encoding operations, edges are disadvantageous in terms of compression because of the large amount of information involved there so that distorted and unbalanced quantization can occur as a result of encoding. Thus, in a coding apparatus accor... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6275617 | Method and apparatus for separating/generating background and motion object planes A transmitter which allows to reproduce a high quality and smooth dynamic image on the receiving side even with a transmission medium having a low transmission rate is provided. Background plane data representing a still image of a background image of vid... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6271992 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge comprising a center core at the central portion thereof with which it is chucked onto a rotary drive, a disk to be mounted onto the rotary drive and rotated at a rotation speed of at least 3,000 rpm, and a cartridge body for rotatably acc... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6268889 | Video signal processing apparatus and signal transmitting method RGB signals and sync signals H and V are inputted from a personal computer or the like. Additional information is superimposed to a vertical blanking period of the R signal. A timing generating unit generates a sampling pulse on the basis of the sync sign... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6262375 | Room temperature dielectric HTSC cable A high temperature superconducting cable comprises a cryogenic core, with a superconducting material either inside the cryogenic core or wrapped around the core. A space maintained at a vacuum and functioning as a cryostat surrounds the core; within this ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6247313 | Plant for exploiting geothermal energy A plant for exploiting geothermal energy by circulating water through a geological formation (1) at a substantial depth below the earth surface (2), comprises at least one supply hole (3) leading from the surface (2) down to said formation (1) and at leas... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6233207 | Polarity switching signal generator, method of the same, and optical disk drive A polarity switching signal generator able to stably generate a suitable polarity switching signal for inverting the polarity of a tracking error signal, wherein a reference value stored in a reference value storage circuit is updated by a rotational angl... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6229661 | Digital data recording and reproducing apparatus and digital data reproducing apparatus This invention provides a digital data recording and reproducing apparatus and a digital data reproducing apparatus for recording data to a recording medium which can handle instrumental data as the data. In the digital data recording and reproducing appa... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6219322 | Optical information recording apparatus, optical information recording method, optical information recording medium and optical information reproducing apparatus An identification code that may be read out by a reproducing apparatus and which may not spoil ordinary user information is recorded on an optical information recording medium. An optical information recording apparatus (1) for recording digital informati... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6201565 | Method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional images The method and apparatus of the invention pertains to a simultaneously modulated light beam carrying the information of a three-dimensional image is directed to pixels (image points) defining a first light emitting surface, a component of the light beam i... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6185018 | Holographic stereogram printing system A holographic stereogram printing apparatus that is able to formulae a holographic stereogram superior in light utilization efficiency and in picture uniformity. The holographic stereogram printing apparatus causes the laser light from a laser light sourc... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6178147 | Recording method, recording apparatus, reproducing method and reproducing apparatus A recording method, a recording apparatus, a reproducing method and a reproducing apparatus for a recording medium such as an optical disk or the like are able to simultaneously record and simultaneously reproduce a plurality of independent information or... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6170743 | External storage apparatus and control apparatus thereof and data transmission/reception apparatus The object of the present invention is to enable to prevent an erroneous erase of a data stored or writing another data on the data as well as to enable to easily switch an erroneous erase prevention switch. A command generator, upon reception of a register in... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6163284 | Signal processing circuit and signal processing method This invention relates to a repeater of a serial digital transmission system. The repeater comprises NRZI/NRZ converter, descrambler, scrambler and NRZ/NRZI converter. Data sent on a coaxial cable is input to a cable equalizer for attenuation characterist... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6158026 | Scrambling apparatus, method thereof, descrambling apparatus, and method thereof A G circuit is based on a matrix of a generated polynomial for generating an M sequence of eight degrees. The matrix is squared and thereby a G2 circuit is obtained. 16-bit data is divided into high order eight bits and low order eight bits. Th... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6147718 | Motion vector detection apparatus and predictive coding system for compensating for movement with the apparatus A reference frame block from a memory is supplied to a feature extraction circuit and a search frame block from a separate memory is supplied to a feature extraction circuit. Within the extraction circuits, the frame blocks are divided into minor blocks a... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6133956 | Dual standard video signals processor A video signal processor interpolating lines in a vertical filter (24) in dependence on whether the lines are of a 625 line frame or a 525 line frame. The interpolated lines are filtered in a horizontal filter (26). The resultant lines are vertically and ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6125140 | Processing encoded signals A frame of time-domain video signals Si is supplied via a frame reorderer (40) to a motion vector estimator (41), and then to a DCT transformer (43) and a quantizer (44) to produce a quantized, transformed current frame ST i/q. A subtracter (42... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6124896 | Corner detection device and corner detection method A corner detector capable of detecting each corner position of a predetermined area from an input signal with a simple structure. There is provided memory means (9B) for storing memorizing an input signal (keyT) and corner detection means (9C) for detecti... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6125273 | Apparatus and method for operating a cellular or portable telephone A technique for activating a cellular or portable telephone includes a circuit for transmitting and receiving signals, a controller for the transmitting and receiving circuit, and a display device, e.g., liquid crystal display. A service program stored in... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6121339 | Cationically polymerizable epoxy resins and optical information recording medium made therefrom An epoxy resin composition according to the present invention is one initiating cationic polymerization upon irradiation with energy rays. The epoxy resin composition is formed of at least bisphenol epoxy resin (A) as an active ingredient, epoxy resin (B)... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6115333 | Method and apparatus for calibrating optical disc systems A system for initializing an optical disc player when reproduction of data from a side of a multilayer disc is desired. The initialization procedure involves determining one or more initialization values for a first layer of data on the side, storing the ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111833 | Data decoder In a data decoding apparatus of this invention, level of a reproduction RF signal 7a at the time of the binary level judgment of channel bit is temporarily stored into a RF signal level memory section 20. The portions which do not satisfy the conditions o... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6088703 | Material supplying system and material supplying method A material storage unit copies materials to supply buffer units corresponding to a play list. The supply buffer units designate use frequency levels to individually copied materials. The use frequency levels are automatically updated corresponding to the ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6086209 | Mirror holder and optical axis correcting device using the same Disclosed is an optical axis correcting device which allows high accuracy optical axis adjustment and which has an excellent responsiveness. An optical communication device suited for long distance optical communication using this optical axis correcting ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6088755 | External storage apparatus which can be connected to a plurality of electronic devices having different types of built-in interface without using a conversion adapter The present invention enables connection and a high-speed access to a plurality of electronic apparatuses having different types of built-in interfaces. The present invention provides an external storage apparatus including: storage means 22; an interface... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6084831 | Apparatus and method of averaging disk transfer rate including division of disks into disks accessible in a radially inward direction and disks accessible in a radially outward direction A disc control apparatus handles an even number of disc-shaped recording mediums run in rotation at a constant angular velocity and to which addresses are accorded for incrementing from an inner disc rim side or from an outer disc rim side. The disc contr... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6081251 | Apparatus and method for managing picture data An apparatus for managing picture data receives picture data representing a number of pictures at different times, generates a time code indicating the time of receipt of each picture, and stores the received picture data with a header that includes the t... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6081403 | Tape guide members for a tape travel system for a tape loading mechanism in a recording and reproducing apparatus A tape-loading mechanism of a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present invention has a tape travel system in which a magnetic tape drawn out of a supply-side tape reel is helically wound around a drum along a lead thereof by t... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6078975 | Data input/output apparatus, data input/output method, data recording and reproducing apparatus, and data recording and reproducing method A data recording and reproducing apparatus capable of coping with various applications has been difficult to be realized. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, a plurality of first input/output sections, a data recording and reproducing section... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6075760 | System for performing focusing operation when recording and/or reproducing data on multilayered optical disks The invention provides a recording and/or reproduction apparatus and a recording and/or reproduction method by which information can be recorded or reproduced accurately onto or from any of a plurality of record layers of an optical disk. In the recording... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6075662 | Multichannel Audio recording method and apparatus Audio recording apparatus comprises a multichannel audio recorder in which recording channels are selectable between a recording mode and a non-recording mode; and a gain controller for altering the level of an audio signal for recording on all recording ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6069995 | Video data recording and reproducing apparatus and method of same A video data recording and reproducing apparatus with which the quality of the video is not lowered even if the compressed video data is recorded in an overlapped manner without accurate matching of boundaries of the GOP's, wherein a recording position co... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6067399 | Privacy mode for acquisition cameras and camcorders A method and apparatus for recording video data by receiving unrecorded video data from a subject and detecting the skin tone detail of the subject, or if the subject is an inanimate object, any characteristic color thereof. The video information correspo... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6046780 | Broadcasting facility management system and method The software of the system has a hierarchical structure. In the highest hierarchical level, a GUI 103, an automation and traffic control 104 that can be designated by the user are disposed. In the next hierarchical level, an application software program 1... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6040524 | Printed circuit board having two holes connecting first and second ground areas A printed circuit board and video switcher board containing the circuit board including a first dielectric lamina having opposed surfaces and a first layer deposited on one of the surfaces which has of a plurality of first layer signal lines on one of the... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6038370 | Recording and/or reproducing device and its method A recording and/or reproducing device and its method capable of alleviating the noise generated in the audio-output at the time of the variable speed reproduction mode. At the time of recording, a series of audio data is recorded on a tape recording mediu... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6037592 | System for measuring gases dissolved in a liquid A method and apparatus for continuously monitoring and measuring the concentration of gases in a gas-containing liquid such as a transformer oil. The method and apparatus employ a passive gas extraction technique which comprises a high performance membran... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6038270 | Radio receiver apparatus and radio receiving method A radio receiver apparatus and method for decoding a received signal based on a predetermined pattern of synchronization signal which is inserted in a predetermined period comprising demodulating a received signal to a base band signal, decoding the demod... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6034661 | Apparatus and method for advertising in zoomable content Advertisments are displayed in zoomable content data by fading in and then fading out advertisements between respective zoom levels at which different content data are provided. When first content data is displayed at a first zoom level and a zoom request... | 03/07/2000 |
