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Patent No. 6049912

Mountable Printable Placard With Headband

A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.

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Attorney: Robert Platt Bell & Associates


Number of patents: 4
Last date: January 14, 1997

NumberTitleIssue Date
5594660Programmable audio-video synchronization method and apparatus for multimedia systems
A multimedia system including an audio/video decoder/decompresser for decoding/decompressing a compressed encoded audio/video data stream to generate video images for display and audio signals for audible reproduction. The multimedia system includes an in...
01/14/1997
5539428Video font cache
A video controller receives character data, attribute data and font data, each of which are stored in different planes of a video memory. The font data comprises bit maps of at least two character fonts, which may be user fonts or default fonts loaded fro...
07/23/1996
5523791Method and apparatus for applying overlay images
Apparatus for use with standard television (TV) for superimposing images, captions, titles, or other information over the television scene. Synchronization of the superimposed images with the television scene is brought about by phase locking the images t...
06/04/1996
5510843Flicker reduction and size adjustment for video controller with interlaced video output
An apparatus and method are provided for reducing flicker and/or vertically scaling an interlaced video image. In a first embodiment, a sequence controller selectively addresses a video memory to retrieve pixel data from adjacent scan lines. The pixel dat...
04/23/1996
 
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