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Patent No. 5307162

Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage

A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.

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Attorney: Harness, Dickey & Pierce


Number of patents: 5134
Last date: May 21, 2013

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8447009Method and computed tomography scanner for carrying out an angiographic examination
A method and a computed tomography scanner are disclosed for carrying out an angiographic examination of a patient, wherein the utilized computed tomography scanner includes at least one recording system mounted on a gantry such that it can rotate about a z-axis. Pr...
05/21/2013
D683092Drum for washing machine
05/21/2013
D682909Straps connector
05/21/2013
8442168Interference cancellation with a time-sliced architecture
Example embodiments include methods of interference cancellation at NodeB receivers of baseband antenna signals including physical channels. The methods include canceling interference from a received baseband antenna signal by removing a reconstructed baseband signa...
05/14/2013
8439347Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus
A sheet conveying device includes an attractive separation unit and a contacting and separating device. The attractive separation unit includes an attraction belt arranged to face the upper surface of a sheet stack, two rollers that stretch the attraction belt taut,...
05/14/2013
8438651Data reproducing method, data recording/ reproducing apparatus and data transmitting method
A data reproducing method, data recording/reproducing apparatus and data transmitting method are disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of providing information for identifying a player to a server, downloading data based on the information from the ser...
05/07/2013
8437599Recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams
A method of reproducing text subtitle streams, the method includes receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source, each text subtitle stream including a style segment defining a group of region styles and presentation segment, each presentation ...
05/07/2013
8432972Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal
The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access pictur...
04/30/2013
8432779Recording medium with restricted playback feature and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium
A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, capable of preventing unauthorized duplication of data streams, written thereon, onto another medium, such as a BD-RE or BD-R, which includes physical mark information, and...
04/30/2013
8428130Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal
The method includes obtaining initialization information of a reference picture list for a random access slice, the initialization information representing a reference relation between a plurality of views, initializing the reference picture list for inter-view pred...
04/23/2013
8427795Pad interface circuit and method of improving reliability of the pad interface circuit
The pad interface circuit includes a first stack MOS transistor having a first terminal connected to a pad and a bulk connected to a first supply voltage; a second stack MOS transistor having a first terminal connected to a second terminal of the first stack MOS tra...
04/23/2013
8427206Buffer and display device
A single-phase input including transistors all of which have only a single type of channel polarity, which buffer includes: a buffer section 32, including a first series circuit formed by two n-channel transistors connected to each other in series, a second s...
04/23/2013
8426274Method of forming recess and method of manufacturing semiconductor device having the same
Example embodiments relate to a method of forming a recess and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having the same. The method includes forming a field region defining an active region in a substrate. The active region extends in a first direction in th...
04/23/2013
8422105Image forming apparatus including a display apparatus having a memory cofigured to retain settings concerning components forming a display component, a display control method, and a computer-readable recording medium thereof
A display apparatus for displaying an information screen and an operation screen concerning an apparatus to which the display apparatus is connected, is disclosed, including: a screen display request receiving part, a display component creating part, and a display c...
04/16/2013
8421784Display
In one embodiment of the present invention, a display for receiving m-bit display data includes a display driver including a switched capacitor digital/analogue converter including an n-bit input, where m is not greater than n. The upper plates of the capacitors of ...
04/16/2013
8421780Counter circuit, control signal generating circuit including the counter circuit, and display apparatus
In a counter circuit of a control signal generating circuit, a selector circuit selects under control which is in accordance with a selector circuit control signal (CTR) a predetermined one in a signal VSYNC and a signal HSYNC, which are pulse signals, so as to inpu...
04/16/2013
8417127Infrared communications receiver
An objective of one embodiment of the present invention is to reduce abrupt noise derived from infrared light emitted by a light source from a data signal of infrared light received by an infrared communications receiver for use with a display device including a lig...
04/09/2013
8417031Image processing apparatus and method
An image processing method of processing an image obtained by using an optical system having a wide field angle and a large magnification chromatic aberration includes the steps of applying magnification chromatic aberration correction processing to the image, apply...
04/09/2013
8413237Methods of simulating vulnerability
Methods of simulating vulnerability are provided. In an example, multi-stage vulnerability across multiple systems may be simulated by first simulating a probing of at least one intermediate entity, the at least one intermediate entity connected to a target system, ...
04/02/2013
8412050Coaxial free space optical telescope and systems using the same
Example embodiments may include a coaxial Free Space Optical (FSO) telescope providing a simplified and more precise structure. Example embodiment telescopes include a prism structure having at least two parallel surfaces associated with a filter and mirror. The fil...
04/02/2013
8411744Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal
The present invention provides a method of decoding a video signal. The method includes the steps of obtaining view information of a picture from the video signal and generating information for reference picture management using the view information. ...
04/02/2013
8410737Device and method for generating an initial controller lookup table for an IPM machine
Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and method for generating initial operating points for controlling an interior permanent magnet (IPM) machine. The method includes loading an inductance lookup table, first calculating a maximum torque per Ampere...
04/02/2013
8406632Infrared communications receiver
An objective of one embodiment of the present invention is to perform infrared communications without error by reducing abrupt noise included in a data signal when a light source of a display device is driven by PWM drive. When a control portion is provided with a d...
03/26/2013
8406536Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer product
When encoding each element in numeral string data, a code-string data creating unit creates code string data by assigning a code to a focused element to be encoded based on a magnitude relation between the focused element and an element adjacent to the focused eleme...
03/26/2013
8405701System to freely configure video conferencing camera placement
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to cordless video conferencing camera adaptors and video conferencing systems including the camera adaptors. Embodiments of the present invention overcome some of the inherent problems of known video conferencing pro...
03/26/2013
8405596Display device having dual scanning signal line driver circuits
The display device includes first and second gate driver circuits. Each gate driver circuit including a shift register and a plurality of amplifier circuits connected to one end of a gate line. The first and second gate driver circuits respectively have only a first...
03/26/2013
8400648Image forming apparatus, authentication method, and program
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that include a personal identification method acquisition unit that extracts an identification method for identifying an operator from a first image scanned by an image scanning unit; a verification information extraction unit...
03/19/2013
8400466Image retrieval apparatus, image retrieving method, and storage medium for performing the image retrieving method in the image retrieval apparatus
An image retrieval apparatus, which is included in an image forming apparatus and has a storage medium storing a machine-readable program to perform an image retrieving method, includes a retrieving unit configured to search and retrieve a target image similar to sp...
03/19/2013
D678231Mobile phone
03/19/2013
8396408Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade configured to clean a surface of a rotating subject, a solid lubricant configured to reduce the friction coefficient of the surface of the subject, and a lubricant coating device that includes a coating roller to shave the...
03/12/2013
8396383Image forming apparatus and process cartridge
An image forming apparatus including an image carrier; a charger to charge a surface of the image carrier; an irradiating device to form a latent image; a developing device to form a toner image; a transfer device to transfer the toner image onto a recording medium;...
03/12/2013
8396010Self-configuration of a forwarding table in an access node
The present invention relates to an access node (2a, 2b) comprising: a forwarding mean (31) adapted to forward data traffic according to a forwarding table (32) that comprises one-to-one as...
03/12/2013
8391291Learning the expiry time of an address binding within an address translation device for an SIP signaling server
A signaling server (SS) comprising means for transmitting SIP signaling messages with a client (T) through a NAT address translation device temporarily binding a public address to the client's private address, including means for receiving registration messages from...
03/05/2013
8390652Drive control circuit and drive control method for color display device
One object of an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a drive control circuit for a display device which is capable of displaying high-quality color images suited for external environment, display contents or the like by fully utilizing high representat...
03/05/2013
8390548Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof
A liquid crystal display device includes a group of first signal lines ( . . . , Sm−1, Sm, Sm+1, . . . ) arranged in parallel, a group of second signal lines ( . . . , Gn−1, Gn, Gn+1, . . . ) and a group of auxiliary capacity wirings ( . . . , Csn−1, Csn, Csn+...
03/05/2013
8384639Liquid crystal display device and method for emphasizing temporal signal change on a video signal based on at least a polarity for the video signal
A drive circuit of a liquid crystal display device performs line inversion drive based on a correction video signal V. A look-up table (12) includes two types of tables having stored therein correction values for use in overshoot drive. Based on a current-fra...
02/26/2013
8378954Active matrix liquid crystal device
An active matrix liquid crystal device comprises an active matrix substrate (1) and a counter electrode substrate separated by a layer of liquid crystal material. A temperature sensing capacitor (11) comprises electrodes on the substrates separated by ...
02/19/2013
8374640Controlling a communication system
In a communication system, a plurality of communication entities can establish a plurality of communication links that can potentially interfere with each other. A control of the communication system involves repetitively carrying out a probabilistic parameter setti...
02/12/2013
8374131Frequency planning method for wireless LANs
A method may include allocating channels of a wireless local area network (WLAN) including a plurality of access points to the plurality of access points based on a load of each access point. The load of each access point may include a user load and/or an interferen...
02/12/2013
8373262Source driver, method for manufacturing same, and liquid crystal module
A source driver of a film package type including a film substrate; a semiconductor chip on a surface of the film substrate, the semiconductor chip having a plurality of terminals, the plurality of terminals including input terminals, output terminals, and third term...
02/12/2013
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