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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6871048 | Mobil communication apparatus and information providing system using the mobile communication apparatus There are disclosed a mobile communication apparatus and an information providing system using the mobile communication apparatus in which a user of the mobile communication apparatus can obtain information output of desired contents at a desired time without carryi... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6862314 | Receiver architecture for a multi scrambling code transmission CDMA technique To provide a higher data rate service on one link, it is possible to use more than one scrambling code per link. In this way, the same channelization code can be reused and a higher data rate can be supported because the highest data rate is restricted by the set of... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6850287 | System for dissipating electrical charge from a cabinet of an electronic apparatus A TV receiver having a metal front cabinet is provided with a discharge path between the front cabinet and a ground portion of the TV receiver. The discharge path includes a series circuit in which a discharge tube is connected in series to a parallel circuit of a f... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6847776 | Signal record/playback apparatus and method featuring independent recording and playback processing In a signal record/playback apparatus and its method which performs the recording for recording a signal on the recording medium DISK and the playback for playing back the recorded signal from the recording medium DISK at the same time, the recording position and th... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6845179 | Motion predicted image signal compression A motion predictive inter frame compression system comprising a wavelet transform unit (80) for transforming space domain image data to the frequency domain. A motion estimator (30) operates in the space domain to produce motion vectors. The motion vec... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6845107 | Video data multiplexer, video data multiplexing control method, method and apparatus for multiplexing encoded stream, and encoding method and apparatus The present invention makes it possible to efficiently transmit data for statistical multiplexing which is required for control using statistical multiplexing. By utilizing private packets, respective encoding devices transmit encoding difficulties serving as the da... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6828863 | Multi-band frequency synthesizer for mobile terminals A frequency synthesizer arrangement for generating signals with frequencies for UMTS and GSM/GPRS frequency bands and a mobile terminal with a respective frequency synthesizer arrangement are proposed, comprising a reference frequency source for providing a signal o... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6826282 | Music spatialisation system and method A storage unit stores data representative of one or several sound sources and a listener of said sound sources. These data comprise position data corresponding to respective positions of the sound sources and the listener. An interface is provided for enabling a use... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822661 | Information-display control apparatus and method The video content (program A) currently reproduced is displayed in a video-display area. The complete information of the video content being selected by a selection cursor is displayed in a detailed-information area, and the icon image of the video content being sel... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6813436 | Recording apparatus, recording method and recording medium for preventing illegal duplication A digital watermark detection circuit detects a digital watermark inserted in an input signal. When the digital watermark detection circuit detects a digital watermark indicating the prohibition of duplication, a record controlling circuit controls a recording circu... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6804827 | Transmission system and method signal adjusting apparatus and method and routing apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-channel transmission system suitable for a digital broadcasting system that broadcasts television programs of many channels. Specifically, a selected one of television programs of a plurality of channels is su... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6803950 | Imaging system with memory and control system An imaging system capable of easily and reliably adjusting the functions provided in the camera device and preventing mistaken adjustment of these functions. At a step S255, a specified parameter of a definition file or a user file is deleted or changed in va... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6798593 | Method and apparatus for reproducing data and method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data A magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus which achieves high performance encoding and high efficiency decoding to lower the decoding error rate. A magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus 50 includes, in its recording system, an error correcti... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6798447 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and medium The invention provides an image processing apparatus wherein, when an image of an imaging object is picked up and converted into image data and the image data is compressed, the data amount can be reduced without deteriorating the picture quality. The image processi... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6798326 | Inductor element and integrated circuit employing inductor element An inductor element is formed by helically winding a first conductor and a second conductor by causing both conductors to hold on the condition in parallel to each other. In this case, by causing the first conductor to intersect the second conductor at a predetermin... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6796657 | Projection type display apparatus A projection type display apparatus including an illumination optical system for emitting a light flux, a decomposition optical system for decomposing the light flux into color lights of red, green and blue, liquid crystal light valves for the colors for receiving t... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6795498 | Decoding apparatus, decoding method, encoding apparatus, encoding method, image processing system, and image processing method An image processing system comprising a decoder 10 and an encoder 30. The decoder 10 comprises a section 12 for decoding a bit stream to generate image data, generating coding parameters for each layer and generating an error flag indicat... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6791621 | Image processing apparatus and method and signal switching output device A line doubling processing system has an input signal switching output section for receiving sequential input fields and for outputting, based on the sequential input fields, a plurality of fields obtained from the same image, and a line doubling device for generati... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6791552 | Digital video processing Digital video processing apparatus comprising: a plurality of render processors arranged in an operational sequence, each operable to render an output result relating to an image of a video signal from input data relating to that and/or other images received from a ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6785418 | Image identification apparatus and method of identifying images An image identification apparatus for identifying an image from a hand drawn representation of at least part of the image, the image identification apparatus comprising an image processor arranged in operation to generate a reference identification in response to sp... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782188 | Data recording apparatus and data recording method, and data editing apparatus and data editing method An original coded stream reproduced from a magnetic tape 1 is decoded by an MPEG decoder 29, and original video data of a base band is thus generated. A switching circuit 15 generates edited video data by switching the original video data and su... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778223 | Image display apparatus and method Image data of still images are created based on data produced by one-dimensionally sampling a sequence of two-dimensionally displayed moving image data in one direction while sequentially moving a sampling position in another direction, and particular frame images a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6768514 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, and it is applicable to a variety of kinds of image processing apparatus such as television receivers, video tape recorders, television cameras, printers, etc., and it mak... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6757443 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, learning apparatus, and learning method An input picture signal having noise added through a transmission path or the like is supplied. Noise is removed from the input picture by a class categorizing adaptive process in which predictive coefficients are pre-learnt and decided for each class. A class corre... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757304 | Method and apparatus for data communication and storage wherein a IEEE1394/firewire clock is synchronized to an ATM network clock The present invention relates to a data communication system for data communication between a bus and a network. This data communication system of the present invention includes a first interface device for performing interface processing for the bus, a second inter... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6753910 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method and can be applied to an image information apparatus such as, for example, a television receiver, a video tape recorder, a television camera and a printer so that the gradation can b... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751400 | Reproducing method and apparatus The reverse direction reproduction of encoded data comprised of picture data compressed in accordance with the MPEG system is to be realized at a higher speed. To this end, plural frame memories are used for reverse direction reproduction. The respective pictures ar... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6745199 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and program storing medium A tree display is made in a tree display area of a play list display area as of the contents files were classified in a directory structure, but in reality the contents files are not classified in a directory structure. In the tree display area, the heading “All m... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6744922 | Signal processing method and video/voice processing device The video signal processor 10 includes a chain detector 16 which uses features extracted from visual and/or audio segments divided from an input stream of video data, and a criterion for determination of similarity between visual and/or audio segment p... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6744915 | Image identification apparatus and method of identifying images An image identification apparatus for identifying an image from a sequence of spatial samples generated in response to a hand drawn representation of the image, the image identification apparatus comprising a segment processor arranged in operation to determine from... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6738610 | Detection of noise in a frequency demodulated FM-audio broadcast signal The noise in a frequency demodulated audio signal is detected on the basis of the characteristics of the stereo-multiplex signal to obtain a very reliable information that can be used for the sliding stereo-mono transition, noise blanking and a de-noising of the ste... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738492 | Coding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, data processing system, storage medium, and signal The invention relates to a coding apparatus for embedding second data into first data without deteriorating the first data and a decoding apparatus for decoding coded data into original first data and second data without deteriorating those data. The invention provi... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6732200 | Absorbing jitter during data transmission between applications operating at different frequencies A data processing circuit able to absorb jitter due to differences in operating frequencies between applications by a small-sized and inexpensive configuration when connecting a plurality of applications operating at various frequencies, including a DRAM and a memor... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6732192 | Disc recording scheme for enabling quick access to disc data A system for recording data to a disc shaped record medium. The data is recorded according to a universal disc format employing a hierarchical file system, and data within the hierarchical structure is referenced using pointer information. The pointer information in... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6728175 | Information recording method and apparatus An information recording apparatus for recording data into a recording medium taking as recording unit a sector corresponding to a predetermined amount of information signal, comprises a file management unit (5) to classify an information signal for recording... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6724423 | Video camera and video camera system A video camera system capable of matching colors between configured video cameras by effectively reducing color differences therebetween. A red, a green and a blue signal from imaging devices are amplified by preamplifiers and video amplifiers before being fed to a ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6721118 | Recording medium library device and control method thereof A cassette library (1) is provided with a driving apparatus (13), cassette housing shelves (14, 15) and a cassette carrier (16). A library controller (2) simulates as if driving apparatuses (13) having continuous address num... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6717894 | Optical disc recording method and recording and/or reproducing apparatus operable to accommodate multiple disc formats A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on or from an optical disc, in which the tracking error signal format for a recordable optical disc differs from that for a replay-only optical disc. The recording and/or reproducing appa... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6704463 | Interpolation/decimation apparatus, interpolation/decimation method and image display apparatus The invention provides an interpolation processing apparatus and method which can be applied, for example, to a personal computer such that it can prevent deterioration in picture quality arising from a conversion ratio by applying it, for example, to ima... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6700842 | Optical head, photodetector, optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and focus error detecting method Disclosed are an optical head, a photodetector, an optical recording and reproducing apparatus and a focus error detecting method, which can be adapted to a plurality of kinds of recording media and a land/groove recording system. A photoreceiving part fo... | 03/02/2004 |
