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| 7071950 | Super imposed image display color selection system and method An optimal pen color is automatically selected for a given background color based upon a predetermined relative distance in the Munsell color-order system. The predetermined distance is defined in terms of saturation, hue and or lightness. In general, sufficient vis... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7039425 | Terminal usage limiting apparatus A terminal usage limiting apparatus for limiting the use of a portable telephone in a specific predetermined area. The terminal usage limiting apparatus 105 is installed to provide service to mobile terminals 101 in a usage limiting area 108. Th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6987879 | Method and system for extracting information from images in similar surrounding color Characters or image portions are extracted from a background whose color is similar to that of the characters or the image portions. In order to chromatically isolate the characters and the image portions, a threshold value used for binarization is adjusted as the b... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6987891 | Image display device The image data is divided into groups of a predetermined fixed length, and the divided groups are simultaneously compared to predetermined patters for the entropy encoding to render a display image in the video memory unit. Because of the above processing, the encod... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6985649 | Optical switching apparatus and optical switching method An optical switching apparatus includes an optical switch having a plurality of input ports and output ports, optical amplifiers, monitor circuits, optical amplifiers monitor circuits, and a controller that controls the optical switch. The optical amplifiers are con... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6975811 | Optical one-to-one protection switching apparatus An optical one-to-one protection switching apparatus exchanges signals between a transmit node and a receive node. If a fault is detected in the first transmission line (down-stream), a controller in the node controls a drive circuit so as to shut off a gate. Then, ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965695 | Method and system for processing character edge area data The quality of the reproduced image in separating the character portions and the areas near or surrounding the character portions has been improved. In particular, as the result of the character edge enhancement, the possibility for mistakenly processing white areas... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6917991 | Method of and system for efficiently tracking memory access by direct memory access controller The debug controller makes an efficient use of memory in tracing the direct memory access by the processor and the direct memory access controller for the purpose of debugging. The direct memory access for read and write is efficiently traced by first writing a next... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915835 | Die clamping system and method of clamping die A die-clamping system has a die and a clamping device. The die includes a first engaging portion in a first predetermined shape. The die is transferred in a first direction from a first position toward a second position. The clamping device has a second engaging por... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6892208 | Method and system for database management for data mining Customer data is displayed to a user for making decisions in dealing with customers. The displayed data is generated based upon characteristic rules that are generated with respect to predetermined data definition information on the customer data. After confirming t... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6877012 | Method and system for database management for data mining Customer data is displayed to a user for making decisions in dealing with customers. The displayed data is generated based upon characteristic rules that are generated with respect to predetermined data definition information on the customer data. After confirming t... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873801 | Optical transmitter and optical transmission system using electro absorption modulator In the application of the optical transmitter to any system for the compensation of passing degradation, the invention provides the optical transmitter which maintains constant modulator output and the highly reliable optical transmission by tuning, the alpha parame... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6860729 | Compressor having main and adjustable balancer portions A compressor has a compression unit for compressing gas to a desired pressure, a drive shaft and a balancer. The drive shaft is connected to the compression unit for driving the compression unit. Imbalance on the drive shaft is generated due to movement of the compr... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6829623 | Method and system for managing multiple database storage units The system manages at least a database in multiple database storage units, and the database is duplicated for redundancy. The system maintains the database redundancy for security. The system enables the maintenance and reorganization of the database storage units w... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6810213 | Optical module and optical transceiver To provide economical high-speed optical communications through an optical module a silicon substrate with a ball lens and semiconductor luminescence element mounted thereon, and a laser driver IC are provided. A silicon subassembly includes a silicon substrate with... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6808007 | Die opening/closing apparatus for die-casting systems and machines and methods for opening dies using such die opening/closing apparatus Die opening apparatus (50) of a die-casting system (10) is operable to open a die (D1, D2). A first cylinder (51) may perform an initial die opening operation and a second cylinder (55) may perform a subsequent die opening o... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6808006 | Die-casting systems and machines and methods for withdrawing cores in die-casting systems and machines A die-casting system includes a core withdrawing device (50). The core withdrawing device is configured independently of a die (D1, D2) and is operable to withdraw a core (d) from the die. ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6804944 | Spinning machine traveler A traveler is formed by a base material consisting of hard steel wire, a nitrogen compound layer, and a sulfide layer such that the nitrogen layer is on the base material side. The nitrogen compound layer and the sulfide layer are formed by executing sulphonitriding... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6788854 | Optical coupler and AWG having the same The invention pertains to an optical coupler comprising at least one input waveguide, a coupling region, and a plurality of output waveguides. The coupling region comprises a plurality of coupled waveguides, which diverge with respect to each other in the propagatio... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6776592 | Scroll type compressor In a region where heat deformation of a movable scroll spiral wall and/or a fixed scroll spiral wall for a scroll type compressor is relatively large, a relieving part is formed for relieving the heat deformation of the movable scroll spiral wall and/or the fixed sc... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771954 | Remotely controlling operation mode of portable wireless communication terminals Portable wireless communication terminals such as cellular phones are equipped with features that are useful in controlling an operational mode in response to termination attempts according to a predetermined set of rules. When the rules are satisfied, the mode swit... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6762747 | Coordinate input detection device and method for electronic blackboard An electronic blackboard displays information and optically detects input information on a display/writing surface by determining the corresponding coordinates. To determine the input coordinates, a predetermined number of pairs of light emitting elements and light ... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6751971 | Variable displacement type compressor, air conditioner with the variable displacement type compressor, and method for controlling displacement in the variable displacement type compressor A variable displacement type compressor circulates a refrigerant in an air conditioning circuit. The compressor has a compression mechanism and a displacement controller. The compression mechanism compresses and discharges the refrigerant. The displacement controlle... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6722666 | Seal structure for use in housing of compressor A seal structure for use in a compressor has a first member, a second member, an O-ring and a gasket. The first member and the second member constitute a housing of the compressor. The first member and the second member are joined to each other at a joint. The O-rin... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6724499 | Pseudo halftone image expression method There is provided a pseudo-halftone image expression method capable of processing vector data with an excellent image quality and small computational complexity. Gray levels of n×n/m are expressed by varying the number of formed dots within a matrix of n×n dots on... | 04/20/2004 |
