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| 6493361 | Data transmission and receiving system for multiplexing data with video data A data transmission apparatus and a camera system for multiplexing serial data into horizontal blanking portions of video data for transmission between a CHU (1) and a CCU (2). On the transmitting side, resampled data is obtained by sampling the serial da... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6480544 | Encoding apparatus and encoding method In an encoding apparatus for processing a video signal with a signal processing circuit, producing coefficient data by an orthogonal transform of differential data obtained by motion compensation, generating coded data by quantization of the coefficient d... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6307393 | Device for detecting defects in solid-state image sensor A device for detection of defects in a solid-state image sensor, comprising a timing generator for generating first and second read pulses to read out signal charges of first and second fields respectively from photo sensing elements disposed in the pixel... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6295206 | Memory card, and receptacle for same A memory card is disclosed which has a card body (2) having a concavity (9) formed at the forward end thereof in the inserting direction and in which terminals (5) are disposed and projections (10) are formed between the terminals (5) to prevent the termi... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6286020 | Signal processor delta-sigma modulator stage A 1-bit nth order Delta Sigma Modulator where n is at least one comprises a linear signal processing section (50) which processes the 1-bit signal and produces a p bit output, a filter (52) which filters the p bit signal, an adder (53) a quantizer Q coupl... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6278482 | Method for imaging a sphere disposition, method and apparatus for measuring the same, and method and apparatus for manufacturing a planer lens A bead disposition is imaged while performing illumination by reflection illumination or penetration illumination so that a peak point of brightness brighter than the outside of a bead is observed in the inside of the bead and the circumferential portion ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6278567 | Apparatus and method for recording a video signal on a recording medium A video signal recording apparatus for recording a video signal on a recording medium comprises a memory for temporarily memorizing the video signal, a synchronizing separating circuit for separating a synchronizing signal from the video signal, a write c... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6275267 | Television receiver for receiving a plurality of formats of video signals having different resolutions Display source memories of resolutions according to image formats are prepared. The image format is discriminated from an extracted video packet. A font or a bit map is read out from the display source memory corresponding to the image format. The font or... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6269123 | Video encoder and video encoding method A video encoder for reducing the deterioration of picture quality of a compress coded video signal by implementing a method for deciding the number of picture elements needed to properly encode an inputted video signal. The decision is calculated based on... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6269063 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and method and program offering medium To ensure compatibility of apparatus, seamless_connection_flag is set to 1 when a succeeding play item can be reproduced in seamless reproduction consecutive to a previous play item and set to 0 when seamless reproduction cannot be guaranteed.... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6269219 | Recording four channels of digital audio data on two channels of a magnetic tape A data transfer and recording apparatus capable of transferring data recorded on a hard disk to a magnetic tape of a VTR apparatus and recording the same there, wherein four channels of audio data reproduced from the hard disk are recorded on the magnetic... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6263504 | Data delivery system, data receiving apparatus, and storage medium for video programs In an NVOD system, a data storage unit is provided in a receiving apparatus, whereby a video program can be provided with an instantaneous response equivalent to the VOD system. Namely, the data of the first part of the video data is stored in the data st... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6262897 | Switching power circuit with secondary side parallel and series resonance As a secondary side resonant circuit, a secondary side parallel resonant circuit and a secondary side series resonant circuit are combined to a secondary winding of an insulating converter transformer to form a secondary side resonant circuit. By this, th... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6262950 | Optical disc recording method and access method, optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus, and optical disc apparatus The present invention provides an optical disc recording method and an optical disc recording apparatus for an optical disc of a high-density recording whose master can be subjected cutting with a high yield. The present invention also provides an optical... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6236682 | Video motion vector detection including rotation and/or zoom vector generation Motion vectors from one video frame to another are detected by segmenting a present frame of video data into plural blocks and then comparing a block in the present frame to a corresponding block in a preceding frame to detect rotational and zoom movement... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6233208 | 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... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6226333 | QAM de-mapping circuit According to the invention, information from a differential decoder (1) receiving the MSB of the in-phase component and the MSB of the quadrature component is used to derotate the LSBs of the in-phase component and the LSBs of the quadrature component int... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6225783 | Battery charge controlled as function of operating mode There is disclosed a battery charging device for charging a battery pack having a battery cell, the battery pack being capable of storing an information for a maximum charging current and a maximum charging voltage of the battery cell and communicating th... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6226246 | Apparatus and method for measuring characteristics of optical pickup and/or optical disc A device for measuring characteristics of an optical pickup and/or an optical disc by which characteristics of tracking signals can be measured accurately in a noise-free manner. The measurement device 1 has a sample-and-hold circuit 8 and an analog-to-di... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222814 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and method for phase-change optical disc The data selector 59 provides the recording signal Data 1 as LD recording signal LD Data 1 and the output control signal Data 3' as LD recording signal LD Data 3, and fixes the LD recording signal LD Data 2 to H level. The S&H select circuit 58 supplies a... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6219311 | Disc recording method and device, and disc like recording medium In recording, onto a disc, data continuously reproduced such as picture data or speech data, etc., minimum continuous recording unit Ba is set. Picture data, etc. is divided into minimum continuous recording units Ba to record such divided data, on real t... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6215609 | Recording/reproducing method and recording/reproducing apparatus In a recording/reproduction apparatus, when a rotational-speed-mode setting instruction is received from an I/F unit, a CPU reads out a control procedure from a storage device, controlling other components in accordance with the procedure. As a result, a ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6215527 | Video signal contour correcting circuit An contour correcting circuit for correcting the contour without deterioration of image quality of the video signal, comprising a first HPF for extracting the high frequency signal component of the video signal supplied from an input terminal Tin, a secon... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212328 | Program recording apparatus and method A video signal and an audio signal of a program which is received are always recorded to a hard disk. When a command for program preservation is given, the rewriting of the recorded area in the hard disk is inhibited and the program can be preserved to th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212097 | Nonvolatile memory The present invention is a nonvolatile memory for segmenting one data file that has an attribute file and that is successively reproduced and recording parts of which the blocks are aggregated so that they disperse in the nonvolatile memory, the attribute... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6208655 | Method and apparatus for serving data VPI/VCI of an ATM cell is translated into an internal ID by distributing VPI/VCI entries into sections in a table according to a portion of each VPI/VCI entry. A section to be searched according to the portion of a VPI/VCI of the received ATM cell is sele... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6199756 | Memory card, and receptacle for same A memory card is disclosed which has a card body (2) having a concavity (9) formed at the forward end thereof in the inserting direction and in which terminals (5) are disposed and projections (10) are formed between the terminals (5) to prevent the termi... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6201833 | Motion determining apparatus, method thereof, and picture information converting apparatus A motion determining apparatus for detecting a motion of a partial picture of an input picture signal is disclosed, that comprises a first detecting means for detecting a frame difference of the partial picture, a second detecting means for detecting a sp... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198589 | Video tape recording apparatus Magnetic recording apparatus are provided for recording signals on a magnetic tape. A recording head records signals in successive tracks on the tape and a tape transport transports a magnetic tape past the recording head in a recording direction. In one ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6195463 | Multiresolution image processing and storage on a single chip The present invention relates to a storage device by which image data is hierarchically encoded and stored, and to a technique for reducing the size of the device and increasing processing speed. Size reduction and increased processing speed are realized ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6186629 | Optical device and display apparatus An illumination optical device has the following elements. A first optical block includes a first lens array having a plurality of cell lenses each being approximately similar in shape to a light modulation device. A second optical block includes a second... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185368 | Redundant disk array with real-time lost data reconstruction A data recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data to and from a plurality of record mediums that are non-linearly accessible is disclosed, that comprises a recording/reproducing portion for recording and reproducing data to the rec... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185254 | Decoder, image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image transmitting method, and recording medium A decoder de-quantizes quantized data and performs a predetermined operation on the de-quantized data. The decoder de-quantizes the data with a quantizing step size different from the step size used in the quantizing operation. An image encoding apparatus... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185622 | Electronic apparatus, communication speed information collection method, communication method between electronic apparatus and recording medium The invention provides an electronic apparatus, a communication speed information collection method, a communication method between electronic apparatus and a recording medium which can minimize the possibility of drop of a communication speed by a perfor... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6184934 | Video signal processing apparatus and composite image adjustment method A video signal processing apparatus inputting a plurality of video signals, making the plurality of video signals in parallel in order to display them as one image and setting peripheral parts of images which are adjacent to each other when they are place... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6181495 | Data recording apparatus In a data recording apparatus, the period of the first clock signal corresponding to the record data is multiplied by the stated numeric corresponding to the transfer rate with the clock signal forming structure, so that the second clock signal is formed.... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6172482 | Battery protection circuit and electronic device A secondary battery needs to be protected by an inexpensive structure having a small number of components. To this end, the structure includes a fuse 41 with a heater, connected to a positive electrode side of a battery cell 2, as a secondary battery, a d... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6167350 | Method and apparatus for selecting information signal range and editing apparatus for information signal A method for selecting a range of an information signal comprises the steps of detecting the area in which the information signal is specified among a plurality of range-specifying areas displayed on a display device and selecting the information signal r... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163573 | Equipment and method for compressing picture data When repeatedly performing compression and encoding of video data, automatically detecting a previous picture type at an encoder side and performing the compression and encoding by matching GOP phases. A motion compensation unit 240 to a DCT unit 244 perform m... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6163132 | Battery charging status indicator apparatus There is provided a charging apparatus comprising a charging circuit for charging a battery cell of a battery pack; a computing unit which is supplied with information on detected voltage of the battery cell and information on a quantity of accumulated ch... | 12/19/2000 |
