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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463688 | Methods and apparatus for removing blocking artifacts of MPEG signals in real-time video reception A method for efficient removal of blocking artifacts in blocks of pixels forming a video image frame, without blurring image edges. First a current pixel is checked to determine whether it is a block boundary pixel. If the current pixel is a boundary pixel, then the... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7448467 | Acoustic enclosures An acoustic enclosure such as a loudspeaker (10) uses within the cabinet adsorbent material, and/or containment means (22) for the adsorbent material, which is at least partially hydrophobic. Preferably, the material is activated carbon treated to prov... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7420570 | Methods and systems for video processing using super dithering A super dithering method of color video quantization maintains the perceived video quality on a display with less bit depth of color than the input video. Super dithering relies on both the spatial and temporal properties of human visual system, wherein spatial dith... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418154 | Methods of suppressing ringing artifact of decompressed images A suppression method that provides adaptive (i.e., selective) processing of an input picture to generate an enhanced output picture with ringing-like areas of the input picture suppressed. For each such window in the input picture, if the window is detected as aroun... | 08/26/2008 |
| D575769 | Loudspeaker | 08/26/2008 |
| D573545 | Flat-panel switch | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403617 | System and method for copy protection for digital signals Embodiments of the present invention provide for the copy protection of distributed material after conditional access is applied, regardless of where the material is distributed. The solutions described provide the advantage of being sufficiently simple in implement... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403234 | Method for detecting bisection pattern in deinterlacing A method for detecting the Bisection pattern for use in conjunction with the deinterlacing is to improve low angle direction detection capability. A method of Bisection pattern detection operates in an interlaced video containing both top and bottom fields. For each... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397862 | Method of designing interleavers for multiple-encoder MIMO OFDM systems An improved interleaver design to fully explore the diversity of the MIMO OFDM systems provides higher diversity gain than usual. A method for wireless data communication using such interleaver design implements parsing a bit stream into multiple spatial data stream... | 07/08/2008 |
| D571984 | Sport footwear | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391933 | Method and apparatus for image interpolation based on adaptive polyphase filters An interpolation system interpolates image positions in an original image to produce an interpolated output image, wherein the original image is represented by digital input pixel data. A first filter with a sharp interpolation characteristic, that interpolates a se... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7377167 | Nonresonant micromachined gyroscopes with structural mode-decoupling A four-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) nonresonant micromachined gyroscope utilizes a dynamical amplification both in the drive-direction oscillator and the sense-direction oscillator, which are structurally decoupled, to achieve large oscillation amplitudes without resona... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379625 | Edge direction based image interpolation method A method for interpolating pixel data of an omitted line by use of pixel data from an interlaced scan, for de-interlacing an interlaced video image. Image edge direction is detected at the center position of every two neighboring scan lines in an interlaced scan. Al... | 05/27/2008 |
| D569585 | Sport footwear | 05/27/2008 |
| D568584 | Sport footwear | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370342 | Method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming A system residing preferably in a television set-top box monitors the television watching habits of one or more viewers and creates one or more profiles for each viewers descriptive of various characteristics of each viewers, including television watching preference... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356084 | Method for tracking the disappearance of detected logos within digital video signals A method and system for sensing disappearance of the previously detected logos in noisy digital video signals. When a video program starts, a short period of time is allowed to initially detect the existence and the location of the logo within the incoming video fra... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349967 | Architecture for home network on world wide web with private-public IP address/URL mapping A method for providing user interfaces in a first network to a remote access device, the first network including interconnected first devices and at least one interface device for connecting the first network to a second network. The remote access device establishes... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349761 | System and method for distributed facility management and operational control An environmental control system controls monitoring and operation of a multiplicity of disparate environmental control devices by determining an appropriate configuration for each control device and communicates corresponding monitoring and control commands to each ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339601 | Methods of suppressing ringing artifact of decompressed images A suppression method that provides adaptive (i.e., selective) processing of an input picture to generate an enhanced output picture with ringing-like areas of the input picture suppressed. For each such window in the input picture, if the window is detected as aroun... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340762 | Method and apparatus for broadcasting, viewing, reserving and/or delayed viewing of digital television programs Methods and apparatus are provided for a digital television service where a Preview Program is transmitted along with associated Broadcast Scheduling Information (BSI) so that a viewer can easily reserve an associated Main Program for later viewing and/or recording.... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336707 | Method and apparatus for detecting improper area for motion compensation in video signal A motion compensation method for estimating motion between one image frame and another image frame. Each frame is divided into a number of block, and a match is found for a block of one frame within a search area in another frame. A motion vector is determined that ... | 02/26/2008 |
| D562588 | Display base | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337217 | Architecture for home network on world wide web A method for providing user interfaces in a first network to a remote access device, the first network including first devices and at least one interface device for communication with the remote access device, the user interfaces for controlling the devices currentl... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333673 | Method and apparatus for image detail enhancement without zigzagged edge artifact A method and system for detecting slant edge areas in an image comprising a plurality of pixels, and for preventing zigzagged slant edge artifacts in an image detail enhancement process. Image pixels that belong to a slant image edge are detected and gain suppressio... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330218 | Adaptive bidirectional filtering for video noise reduction A video noise reduction system for reducing video noise in a sequence of video frames. In the video noise reduction system, a temporal filter computes multiple temporal average values for the video frames in different temporal directions. A motion detector computes ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330592 | Method and apparatus for detecting the location and luminance transition range of slant image edges A system and method for detecting location and luminance transition range of slant image edge in a digital image. The variance value for the pixels inside a window in the image is calculated, based on which a current pixel is classified. If the current pixel is in a... | 02/12/2008 |
| D561594 | Beverage bottle | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322972 | In vivo port wine stain, burn and melanin depth determination using a photoacoustic probe A photoacoustic probe for port wine stain (PWS), burn and melanin depth measurements is comprised of optical fibers for laser light delivery and a piezoelectric element for acoustic detection. The probe induced and measured photoacoustic waves in acryl amide tissue ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317842 | Global and local statistics controlled noise reduction system A global and local statistics controlled noise reduction system in which the video image noise reduction processing is effectively adaptive to both image local structure and global noise level. A noise estimation method provides reliable global noise statistics to t... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308909 | High pressure three way valve A solenoid operated valve includes a fluid inlet and a fluid inlet, a common port, a normally open port and a normally closed port combined on an end cap. The valve further includes a coil housing that houses two coils, a first coil and second coil, that are in para... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310770 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308644 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308645 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298379 | Luminance preserving color conversion from YUV to RGB This invention presents a YUV to RGB conversion method which preserves high precision of luminance information in an original YUV image signal when converting it to RGB signal. The method can be used to convert the original YUV signal to arbitrary quantization level... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289163 | Method and apparatus for adjusting color edge center in color transient improvement An improved method for color transient enhancement in an input video frame of pixels. The luminance value of a current pixel is compared to that of neighboring pixels. A correction value is determined and the chrominance value of the current pixel is “pushed” to... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274828 | Method and apparatus for detecting and processing noisy edges in image detail enhancement A method and system that detect image pixels of noisy and sharp image edges, and enhance such pixels differently than other pixels, so that noise around the detected pixels is essentially not boosted. A detection process is conducted on a pixel basis, wherein each p... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271851 | Adaptive color transient improvement A superior Color Transient Improvement technique is adaptive to the local image features, so that more natural color edge transition improvement can be accomplished. A gain control function is provided that depends on the local image feature so that different region... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269296 | Method and apparatus for shoot suppression in image detail enhancement A general shoot suppression method and system for image detail enhancement that provides good suppression in shoot areas while preserving the enhancement (with less or no suppression) in non-shoot areas. Asymmetry checker checks the luminance variation of pixels aro... | 09/11/2007 |
| D549579 | Bottle | 08/28/2007 |
