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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6233654 | Recording apparatus having a partially exchangeable disk array, a loading/unloading device, and a control device and which uses a disk-like recording medium When a plurality of magneto-optic disks are inserted via a mail slot provided in a front panel block, a controller controls a manipulator of a robotics block so as to load magneto-optic (MO) disks in MO disk arrays constituted by connecting a plurality of... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6222808 | Optical information reproducing method and apparatus An optical information reproducing method for demodulating the information recorded on a recording medium by a viterbi decoding method, in which data can be demodulated with high accuracy even if the recording power has undergone variations at the time of... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6160849 | Selectable field and frame based predictive video coding An encoder considers a frame representing a picture as comprised of areas. For each area, the encoder decides which of frame-based or field-based orthogonal transformation will be most efficient at reducing spatial redundancy in that area. For each area, ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154004 | Battery/discriminating method, drycell battery pack, and electronic device A battery discriminating method discriminates between smart battery packs and dry cell battery packs with a simple structure. A dry cell battery pack is composed of a case for storing a plurality of dry batteries connected in series, positive and negative... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6144407 | Image pickup apparatus which enables a light receiving period to commence within a relatively small amount of time after a shutter signal An image pickup apparatus comprises a solid-state image pickup device including a plurality of light receiving areas, charge transfer areas, charge-reading gate areas and an output portion, a synchronous signal generator for producing line and frame synch... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6105058 | Communication control method and apparatus A plurality of terminals are connected to a common data bus. Each terminal is capable of issuing and processing two types of commands: a simultaneous command and a non-simultaneous command. A receiving terminal processes every simultaneous command, but pr... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6088487 | Apparatus and method for changing a video image to a drawing-style image A method and apparatus for changing a video image having a number of luminance areas to a drawing-style image. An edge boundary between two luminance areas of the video image may be detected and a key signal may be generated therefrom. The key signal may ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6081493 | Apparatus for demodulating digital FM signal in an optical disc device In a demodulator for a digital FM signal, the received digital FM signal is verified at the data bit boundaries for inversion to detect errors. If an uninverted data bit boundary is detected, those sections of the digital FM signal just preceding and just... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6081398 | Recording/reproducing apparatus with read-after-write capability A rotary head recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing digital signals into and from helical tracks on a tape-like recording medium with a rotary head is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a recording head section composed of first a... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6078456 | Variable-speed playback apparatus for digital video signals An apparatus and method for reproducing digital information recorded in tracks of a recording medium, such as a magnetic tape. A track number and a synchronization block number may be utilized to detect a trace phase. Such trace phase and a reference trac... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6057893 | Picture encoding method, picture encoding apparatus, picture transmitting method and picture recording medium A picture encoding method in which an input picture signal is encoded in a pre-set sequence by one of a plurality of encoding modes including at least the intra-frame coding and forward predictive coding for generating encoded data including intra-frame c... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5999354 | Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing digital data and header information to/from areas of a tape record medium Even if a read error of data in a tape management area takes place due to a scratch on the tape, the management area data can be securely restored by the retry process. Assume that the initial value of the physical ID is equivalent to 4000ID that is the d... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5959663 | Stereoscopic image generation method and apparatus thereof The transform arithmetic operations by spatial image transform matrixes and perspective transform matrixes to a screen surface thereon are executed on source video signal representing two-dimensional image so as to generate left-eye and right-eye video si... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5930446 | Edition system As a recording and reproducing apparatus, synchronized recording and reproducing apparatus which can be simultaneously performed a recording operation for recording a video signal and/or an audio signal inputted via a transmission channel on a recording m... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930375 | Audio mixing console An audio mixing console for processing a plurality of audio channels, in each of which a plurality of audio processing functions are to be performed, has a control panel including a plurality of input fields for selecting audio processing functions, displ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930211 | Tracking servo apparatus for optical disc A tracking servo device for use with an optical disc apparatus includes a photodetector unit having a plurality of photodetectors each of which is split in association with the direction of tracks formed on the optical disc, and a tracking error generatin... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5929934 | Key signal processing apparatus for video signal processing A key signal processing apparatus for video signal processing including a signal delay circuit for successively delaying by 1 clock units a key input signal, used for applying a special effect to a video signal, and outputting the delayed key signal; a si... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5926791 | Recursively splitting the low-frequency band with successively fewer filter taps in methods and apparatuses for sub-band encoding, decoding, and encoding and decoding A sub-band encoding method for splitting the frequency spectrum of an input signal into plural bands, encoding the signals of the respective bands and transmitting the encoded signal, is disclosed. The encoding method includes a first step of splitting th... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5920652 | Method and apparatus for dividing an input image into a plurality of images of different frequency bandwidths A method and apparatus for processing an input image by converting an input frame of a predetermined number of pixels into a plurality of output frames, the spatial frequency spectrum of each of said plurality of output frames being that of a respective p... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5915069 | Apparatus and method for recording a video signal on a record medium Video surveillance system which records compressed video signals on a record medium that have been compressed at a controllably selectable compression ratio. An image is picked-up by a camera and a video signal is produced therefrom. The video signal is c... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5909212 | Apparatus and method for controlling display of electrical program guide An improved apparatus is provided to attain enhanced convenience in controlling display of an electrical program guide with a smaller number of manipulating keys. An EPN mode for displaying the electrical program guide includes a main mode to display prog... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5909258 | Cathode ray tube display and television set having the same In a CRT display and a television set having the same, horizontal/vertical synchronizing signals are separated from a video synchronizing signal in a synchronizing separation circuit, and position information S of a vertical frame is generated on the basi... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907527 | Optical disc reproducing method and apparatus for controlling servo gain and/or offset A method and apparatus for optically reading out pre-recorded signals on an optical disc by way of data reproduction. If the quantity of playback data read out from an optical disc 1 and stored in a memory 6 during data reproduction is found to be in exce... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5907444 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information for use with a cassette having a memory and method thereof There is realized a cassette with a memory in which the writing time is short, it can be accessed in a short time, and there is no need to provide an additional memory to the apparatus side of the main body. As for a memory of a cassette with a memory, a ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5903481 | Integrated circuit for processing digital signal An integrated circuit formed on a single chip, such as a large-scale integration (LSI) chip, which enables a plurality of digital signal processing functions to be performed. A desired digital signal processing function may be selected from among the plur... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5900010 | Apparatus for recording magneto-optic disks When a plurality of magneto-optic disks are inserted via a mail slot (12) provided in a front panel block (1), a controller block (23) controls a manipulator of a robotics block (2) so as to load the magneto-optic disks in Magneto-Optic disk arrays (4) an... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5890098 | Device and method for performing fast Fourier transform using a butterfly operation In order to carry out FFT operations at a high speed, a configuration is adopted where, while a FFT (fast Fourier transform) operation or inverse FFT (inverse fast Fourier transform) operation is being carried out by performing a prescribed number of butt... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5886772 | Film processing apparatus An apparatus for intermittently feeding a movie film on a frame by frame basis to a film processing unit for processing thereat by inserting projections into openings formed on both sides of the movie film at predetermined pitches and driving the same by ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5883672 | Apparatus and method for adaptively encoding pictures in accordance with information quantity of respective pictures and inter-picture correlation A method and apparatus for encoding a picture with improved prediction accuracy in predicting the basic quantization step. The apparatus for encoding a picture includes a picture data storage unit, a picture information evaluating unit, an inter-picture c... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5877815 | Frame synchronizer apparatus for synchronizing video and audio data to a reference signal A click noise is prevented from being generated in audio signals when reading of memory jumps. Separated audio data is supplied to a sampling rate converter and converted into an audio signal of a baseband by a D/A converter. This audio signal passes thro... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5878187 | Digital signal recording method and recording apparatus thereof An input digital signal is recorded on inclined tracks on a magnetic tape. The tape has a length L divided quarterly. A leading portion L/4 is reserved for general data, while the remaining portions are reserved for continuous data. The general and contin... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5867692 | Data transfer device operable with two types of interfaces A buffer (4) has a read and write control (8, 7), an input (6), an output (5), and a transfer port (9). An SCSI interface (20) is coupled to port (9) and the read/write control (8, 7). The SCSI interface (20) implements transfer commands for transfers via... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5859737 | Magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a search pattern and data arranged in a longitudinal track for facilitating a high speed search In a magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus applied to an external storage of computers, a recorded file can be searched easily. A recording track is helically formed on a magnetic tape to record file data, and management data are recorded at the... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5856764 | Oscillation circuit having an active circuit portion and a surface acoustic wave resonance device An oscillation circuit comprises a surface acoustic wave resonance device of the single port type, an active circuit portion with which the surface acoustic wave resonance device is connected so that a signal feedback from the active circuit portion to th... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5852471 | Television multiplex data extracting apparatus There is provided a highly flexible television multiplex data extracting apparatus which can fetch the multiplex data of the television broadcast services where the horizontal section for multiplexing data is not fixed, wherein a register receives an info... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5850263 | Video signal processing apparatus for converting a frame video signal representing a plurality of video frames into a field signal representing a plurality of video fields A video signal processing apparatus and method for converting a frame-unit video signal into a field-unit video signal. The apparatus includes a memory for storing the frame-unit video signal, a control circuit for controlling reading of the stored frame-... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5845044 | Recording apparatus comprising a camera and a cassette which includes a separate memory for storing camera parameters Disclosed herein is an image recording apparatus for recording an image signal outputted from an image sensing device on a recording medium held in a cassette. The image recording apparatus comprises a reading device for reading information about control ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5845314 | Data storage apparatus, data reading apparatus and data transmission apparatus A data transmission apparatus including a plurality of buffers for sequentially receiving individual data to be stored in a plurality of memories at every predetermine period and storing supplied data for a predetermined period, a plurality of latch circu... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5841896 | Method and apparatus for displaying the hue of a signal by utilizing an indicator strip having a number of characters or symbols representing respective hues A display apparatus and method for displaying a hue of a color signal so as to be readily understandable to an operator. Such apparatus and method utilizes a display having an indicator strip with a series of characters or letters indicating representativ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5838649 | Apparatus for demodulating digital FM signal in an optical disc device A frequency modulated signal, which is expected to have level inversions at data bit boundaries, and which is produced by the reflection of a laser beam from a wobbled spiral groove on a disk-shaped recording medium is detected. The frequency modulated si... | 11/17/1998 |
