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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6345109 | Face recognition-matching system effective to images obtained in different imaging conditions A system capable of pattern matching between a less noisy face image and a noisier face image obtained in different imaging conditions. A weighted sum of a covariance matrix calculated from less noisy sample images obtained for a plurality of sample faces... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6320977 | Method and apparatus for positional detection using pattern matching process A first signal represents an image of an object to be inspected. Portions of the first signal are selected as second signals respectively. The second signals represent partial images of the inspected-object image respectively. The partial images are of a ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6260051 | Recording medium and character string collating apparatus for full-text character data All two-character chains including two general characters and all three-character chains including one special character between two general characters are detected from a registration character string in which a large number of special characters not hav... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6243105 | Drill-down method to historical data in a performance monitor using a platform independent program A computer implemented method and system is disclosed for changing a display from a display of individual peak values of web site performance to a graphical display of web site performance, including at least one of the individual values. The individual p... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6212329 | Method of protection of data reproduction, and reproduction apparatus providing protection of data reproduction In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6208601 | Optical information recording method and apparatus An inclination, at a pit forming position, of the information recording surface of an optical disc with respect to a plane that is perpendicular to laser light emitted from an optical pickup is detected by a tilt sensor. Pits are formed while the laser li... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205346 | Electrodes apron for ECG The present invention relates to an electrodes apron for ECG which is comprised of an apron cast from flexible material to be placed over the chest of the patient, ten electrodes inlaid within the apron in predetermined places wherein six of the said elec... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6203928 | Housings for parking meters and other outdoor token handling devices and method of making and refurbishing same A zinc coating directly covers a bare ferrous base of parking meter housing parts. A non-epoxy thermosetting electrically insulating organic non-epoxy powder coating directly covers the zinc coating. The organic coating is directly applied to the zinc coa... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6201926 | Apparatus for recording digital picture signal Code words, which correspond to orthogonal-transform-resultant coefficients having order numbers equal to or higher than an order number "n+1", are deleted from code words composing each 1-intra-frame segment of an input digital picture signal to generate... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6194027 | Method and equipment for powder spray coating A method for powder spray-coating objects utilizes pneumatic conveyance of powder from an injector to a spraying system having a spray coating zone through which objects are consecutively conveyed in an automated system. Power conveyance is interrupted be... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6184879 | Multi-media title editing apparatus and a style creation device employed therefor The present invention aims to easily create multi-media title without requiring a high technique. A multi-media editing apparatus comprises: style creation 101 for creating a style that defines setups of all of layouts and display attributes; style storag... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6183459 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper having a pair of cuffs longitudinally extending on the inner surface of the diaper along transversely opposite sides thereof across front and rear sections as well as a crotch section longitudinally interdisposed between these two sect... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6184488 | Low inductance large area coil for an inductively coupled plasma source A low inductance large area coil (LILAC) is provided as a source for generating a large area plasma. The LILAC comprises at least two windings which, when connected to an RF source via impedance matching circuitry, produce a circulating flow of electrons ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6182116 | Virtual WWW server for enabling a single display screen of a browser to be utilized to concurrently display data of a plurality of files which are obtained from respective servers and to send commands to these servers A virtual WWW (World Wide Web) server apparatus which can obtain a plurality of predetermined HTML files and combine these into a single HTML file in response to a specific URL sent from a WWW browser, can connect to WWW servers and the browser via a netw... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6181689 | Bi-directional information exchange mechanism for collaborative network navigation among a group of user terminals A collaborative navigation server is able to share network navigation information among a group of user terminals. The server can designate one of the user terminals as a leading terminal, so that the location information of information pages are relayed ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6169999 | Dictionary and index creating system and document retrieval system A high-speed document retrieval system creates a regular expression dictionary and a word index on the basis of a retrieval document and a word dictionary to conduct retrieval to a document through the regular expression dictionary and the word index at a... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167634 | Measurement and compensation system for thermal errors in machine tools A measurement and compensation system for thermal errors in a machine tool is disclosed. A module is provided to compensate thermal errors of the machine tool. The module comprises an operating part, a data bank, an analog to digital converter, a counter ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167373 | Linear prediction coefficient analyzing apparatus for the auto-correlation function of a digital speech signal A sample speech is analyzed by a speech analyzing unit to obtain sample characteristic parameters, and a coding distortion is calculated from the sample characteristic parameters in each of a plurality of coding modules. The sample characteristic paramete... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163917 | Rotating brush for surface treatment of working pieces Disclosed is a rotating brush for surface treatment of working pieces. The rotating brush includes a brush fitting clamped between two clamping disks. The brush is so designed that the two clamping disks present on their opposing sides an axial shoulder o... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163456 | Hybrid module and methods for manufacturing and mounting thereof In a hybrid module which is mounted on a mother circuit board with a first surface of a substrate opposed to the mother circuit board, a cavity is formed on the first surface, and a heat-generating circuit component is facedown-bonded in the cavity. Heat ... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6161473 | Rice washing apparatus A rice washing apparatus which can wash rice in a short time with a high degree of efficiency, and which can prevent occurrence of fragmentation of the rice, is composed of a rice washing tank formed of a cylindrical body, having a lower part in an invert... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6155762 | Fasteners snappable onto a threaded rod and use thereof An article has a tubular barrel (4) formed with a cavity and a catch (6) extending within a cavity window (5). A threaded rod (22) is adapted to be received in the cavity. In the absence of stress, the catch (6), in a rest position, has a wedge (12A) proj... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6155367 | Drive assistance device for a hand-driven wheel chair A drive assistance device for a hand-driven wheel chair has two running wheels, said running wheels being adapted to be detachably mounted to a wheel chair frame and being provided with hand rims for applying manual force. Each of said running wheels comp... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154737 | Document retrieval system A document retrieval system for searching a document coinciding with a retrieval request the user inputs and further ranking the document in accordance with the degree of coincidence between the document and the retrieval request. In the document retrieva... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6149093 | Tension reducer of a retractor for an automobile safety seat belt A tension reducer for relieving the drawing force of a retractor for an automobile safety seat belt comprises a clutch apparatus cooperated with a retractor for inducing the smooth operation of a webbing upon the pulling out and retracting of a web, the c... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148978 | Friction resistance generator The present invention provides a friction resistance generator which can more effectively generate a stable friction resistance. More specifically, according to the present invention, in the configuration where a rotor and a passive member face each other... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6149955 | Snack food container and coin bank A snack food container comprises a blow molded extruded transparent polyvinyl chloride housing having solid wall and base segments, a token slot, and an opening through which a solid particulate snack food product is loaded into and removed from the housi... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6149333 | Writing instruments A ball-point pen which includes a shaft 16 which engages with balls 10 and 18 of rubbery elastic material at each end, ball 10 acting as the cap of the pen. When dropped or thrown, these balls will cause it to bounce in an entertaining fashion. The shaft ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6146789 | Battery having a visible-light or near-infrared-light curing resin as an insulating seal In a battery in which a metallic battery case for accommodating electricity-generating elements also serves as an electrode, a visible-light or near-infrared-light curing resin is used for providing a coating to insulate an end face and a peripheral edge ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6146367 | Training pants for infants Training pants for infants include a pant body including of a topsheet, a backsheet and a water-impervious intermediate sheet disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a wetness retaining sheet substantially made of hydrophilic fibers such as r... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6145286 | Apparatus for strapping packages An apparatus for strapping packages with a band (7) made of weldable plastic comprises a band-supply unit, a band-transporting and -tensioning unit, a closure unit, which is provided as a separate unit and has an abutment plate, and a band-guidance unit a... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6142374 | Optical character reader An optical character reader is provided for detecting frame lines of a character entry frame printed on a medium in which a character is written. The optical character reader includes a scanner, a frame width determining circuit, and a frame line equation... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6144149 | Cathode ray tube In a cathode ray tube, a shadow mask has a hole portion where a plurality of electron beam passing holes are formed and a skirt portion extending from the edge of the hole portion. A frame has a support portion to which the skirt portion of the shadow mas... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6141104 | System for determination of a location in three dimensional space An optical improvement for angular position sensors, which may be used to determine the spatial coordinates of a small source of light (or other energy) in a 3-dimensional volume. Such sensors normally include a linear photosensitive image detector such a... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6138887 | Fixing device with a piston propelled by compressed gas The device for fixing a plug in a support (100), with a piston (6) propelled by compressed gas, comprises a cylinder (5) in which the piston (6) is mounted, a combustion chamber (3), a combustion chamber sleeve (4) intended to close the chamber (3) at the... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6138363 | Portable knife A portable knife includes a retainer portion to reliably hold a knife within a sheath even when a grip of the knife collides with a solid object. An actuating slider mounted in proximity to the retainer portion slides in the direction along which the knif... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6140964 | Wireless communication system and method and system for detection of position of radio mobile station A method of detecting a position of a radio mobile station in radiocommunications, which is capable of accurately and simply finding the position of the mobile station. At a measuring point the mobile station measures the reception radio strength levels f... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6135264 | Electronic component supplying apparatus An electronic component supplying apparatus conveys electronic components in an aligned state to supply the same to a predetermined taking-out position. When a leading chip component abuts on a component stopper and a component conveyance is stopped, a pl... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6135114 | Vagabond restraint system A restraint system is disclosed for immobilizing injured patients and, more particularly, a releasable restraint using netting to restrain the patient. The patient restraint includes a pair of substantially parallel transverse straps and a pair of substan... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6134664 | Method and system for reducing the volume of audit data and normalizing the audit data received from heterogeneous sources A method of reducing the volume of native audit data from further analysis by a misuse and intrusion detection engine is disclosed. Typically, more than ninety percent of the volume of audit information received from heterogeneous operating systems does n... | 10/17/2000 |
