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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5548327 | Apparatus for selectively generating and enhancing within a window of signal values, video signals representing photographic images previously recorded in a film on a photographic film-type medium Apparatus for selectively generating video signals representing photographic images previously recorded in a film on a photographic film-type medium includes an image pickup device which produces video signals in response to a light image of the projected... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5008668 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data in residue number system In a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data in the residue number system, input binary data are supplied to an encoder to be divided by moduli m0, m1, m2, . . . m (i.e., positive integers having a mutually pri... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4994906 | Digital luminance/chrominance separation apparatus A luminance and chrominance signal separator includes a linear and a non-linear type vertical comb filters which receives a digital composite video signal having the luminance and chrominance signal. The linear and the non-linear type vertical comb filter... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4990911 | Sampling frequency converter A relatively simplified sampling frequency converter for use in a format conversion apparatus is operative to convert sampled input data of an input sampling frequency into sampled output data of an output sampling frequency. The converter has an over-sam... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4991027 | Circuit for detecting a video mode The detection of whether an input FM signal, such as a reproduced signal, which includes particular frequency components representing predetermined information, was recorded in a first or second mode, with the modes having different frequency bands. A fir... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4987047 | Imaging sheet roll containing photosensitive microcapsules An imaging sheet roll has a spool on which is wound a film coated with photosensitive microcapsules to form a roll of film between flanges extending radially at the opposite ends of the spool and provide with annular step portions, and a leader tape of a ... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4987489 | Apparatus for generating an interlaced slow motion video output signal by spatial and temporal interpolation In a slow motion video generation apparatus; successive fields of an input video signal are stored in field stores, a spatial interpolator spatially interpolates between lines of a field selected from those stored in the field stores to produce a spatiall... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4985666 | Safety device for video cassette recorder Motor control apparatus comprised of a drive circuit for supplying drive current to a motor, an overload detector coupled to the motor for detecting the magnitude of the motor current to produce an output signal if that current exceeds a predetermined thr... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4984101 | PCM signal reproducing apparatus Data reproducing apparatus for reproducing data that is recorded with a selected one of at least two different recording densities such that the played back data may exhibit different frequency characteristics, depending upon the recording density. The pl... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4984099 | Apparatus for decoding a transmitted signal An apparatus for decoding a transmitted signal has a receiver for receiving the transmitted signal, a filter for limiting the frequency of the output of the receiver below a predetermined frequency, a generator for generating a clock signal having a frequ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4979057 | Automatic cassette loading and reproducing apparatus An automatic cassette loading and reproducing apparatus has main storage bins for storing recorded cassettes for normal use, for example, recorded with regularly scheduled news stories or commercials to be broadcast, auxiliary storage bins for receiving a... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4977462 | Apparatus for correcting a time base error in a video signal In a time base correcting apparatus in which incoming video signals are written into a memory by write clock signals modulated by time base errors and the written video signals are read from the memory by read clock signals modulated by the velocity error... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4973897 | System analyzer In a spectrum analyzer, an input signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands, the signal level of each of the divided frequency bands is detected, and the signal levels of frequency bands situated between the divided frequency bands are calculat... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4972164 | Amplitude compressing/expanding circuit In an amplitude expanding/compressing circuit for expanding, compressing, or expanding and compressing an amplitude of an input signal, the following are provided: a control signal generator which receives an input signal and generates a control signal fr... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4967289 | PCM signal recording apparatus In an apparatus for recording data on a magnetic recording medium by means of a magnetic head, a recording current supplied to such head, for example, from a recording amplifier, is varied in accordance with the recording density of the data being recorde... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4967281 | Camera with exchangeable lens device removably mounted on a camera body A camera has a main camera body containing a main microprocessor, and exchangeable lens devices interchangeably mountable on the camera body and each containing an auxiliary microprocessor storing information identifying the respective exchangeable lens d... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4965528 | Cross-coupled differential amplifier An amplifier has first and second differential amplifier circuits connected in parallel for improving the distortion ratio characteristic and the like, with the first differential amplifier circuit including first and second transistors connected in commo... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4965849 | Cordless telephone A cordless telephone of multi-channel access (MCA) type has a master station which includes a plurality of sets of transmitting and receiving circuits and communication channels are simultaneously opened between the master station and a plurality of remot... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4963838 | Frequency synthesizer A frequency synthesizer having first and second PLLs coupled by a mixer to provide an output signal which changes in predetermined frequency steps or increments is capable of operation in a first frequency change mode in which frequencies of output signal... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4963868 | Frame synchronizing method and system An original data stream encoded into an M2 coded data stream having a plurality of bit cells has a synchronizing signal with a unique sync pattern based on the logic levels of the original data stream inserted into the M2 coded data ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4964000 | Circuit for separating simultaneously reproduced PCM and ATF signals having at least partially overlapping frequency bands In an apparatus, such as, an 8-mm VTR, in which a pilot signal and a digital signal modulated by an information signal, and occupying frequency bands that overlap at least in part, are recorded together as an addition signal in a track on a recording medi... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4964108 | Volume control for sound reproducing apparatus A sound reproducing apparatus is provided with an audio signal processing circuit for receiving an audio signal from a signal input circuit and applying the same to a speaker or sound producer through a variable resistor which is adjusted to vary its effe... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4959738 | Method and apparatus for driving a stepping motor In driving a stepping motor which, for example, is used to effect tracking movements of a head in an electronic still camera or other magnetic disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and which has a rotor and a plurality of phases to which input puls... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4954901 | Television receiver with two electron beams simultaneously scanning along respective verticaly spaced apart lines A television receiver for providing a non-interlaced display of a received television signal intended for interlaced display includes a cathode ray tube having first and second cathodes, control grids and a fluorescent screen, a circuit for applying a fir... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4953025 | Apparatus for defining an effective picture area of a high definition video signal when displayed on a screen with a different aspect ratio In an apparatus for converting received video signals of a first format, which has a first number of horizontal lines in a field or frame and a picture display of a first aspect ratio, to video signals of a second format, which has a second number of hori... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4953023 | Coding apparatus for encoding and compressing video data A difference between an original digital value of a picture element to be encoded and an original digital value of a spatially adjacent picture element of the picture element is determined by a detecting circuit. The video data of the spatially adjacent p... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4953117 | Method and apparatus for converting sampling frequencies A sampling frequency converter converts sampled input data having an input sampling frequency into sampled output data having a different output sampling frequency. The relative ratio between input data sample periods and output data sample periods is det... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4951128 | Correlation detecting for indicating the correlation of vertically aligned pixel data Correlation of a video signal having a chrominance component is detected by combining three successive line intervals of the video signal to produce a first signal by obtaining the sum of the video signals of those three line intervals, combining at least... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4947249 | Apparatus in which subsampling and block coding are both employed for coding digital video data An apparatus for coding digital video data represented by respective picture element data determines at least one elementary picture element for each block and predicts values of respective picture element data, whereupon predictive errors are detected fr... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4945382 | A printer for printing a certain image on a sheet of developing paper In a printing apparatus, a relatively long film having a photosensitive surface composed of photosensitive microcapsules is withdrawn from a supply spool and selectively exposed to light to form a photographed film frame prior to being passed through a ni... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4935824 | Information recording apparatus In an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing an information signal in successive slant tracks on a record tape; an information signal is recorded by a rotary head in only a part of a respective slant track scanned by the head on the tape, coded index ... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4933596 | Deflection yoke with compensation for misconvergence by the horizontal center raster In a deflection yoke for a color cathode-ray tube having an electron gun assembly for generating a plurality of electron beams which are directed longitudinally to converge substantially at the center of a screen, and in which a deflection magnetic field ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4933748 | Apparatus for processing a color video signal In an apparatus for processing a repeatedly reproduced single field of a color video signal, the phase of a chrominance subcarrier in the color video signal is shifted by 90 degrees at each field period, and the single repeatedly reproduced field of the c... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4933774 | Video signal reproducing apparatus utilizing field memory and delayed sync A video signal reproducing apparatus includes a field memory for storing one field of a reproduced video signal, a signal separator for extracting a horizontal sync pulse signal and a vertical sync pulse signal from the reproduced video signal, and an add... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4933972 | Stereo multiplex demodulator A composite stereo signal comprised of a modulated signal modulated by a sum signal which is the sum of left and right channel audio signals and a difference signal which is the difference between the left and right channel audio signals, and a pilot sign... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4931809 | Mounting assembly for satellite transmitting antenna A mounting assembly for supporting a satellite transmitting antenna on a truck or other mobile vehicle includes a base member having a lower mounting surface adapted to be fixed against a mobile vehicle surface, for example, an air fairing on top of the c... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930012 | Circuit for detecting motion in a video signal on the basis of detected correlation patterns A circuit for detecting motion of a color video signal includes serially-connected first and second frame memories for storing the video signal frame-by-frame. First and second difference video signals are produced which respectively correspond to the dif... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4922329 | Apparatus for coding a digital component video signal Apparatus for coding a digital component video signal, comprising first means for modulating a first carrier signal with one of the component chrominance signals, the first carrier signal having a four-field sequence such that the phase of the first carri... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4914463 | Development of imaging sheets employing photosensitive microcapsules In an apparatus for developing a picture on a sheet of developing paper from an exposed sheet of photo-sensitive material by pressing together the sheets of developing paper and photo-sensitive material, and in which such sheets in contact with each other... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4914523 | Optical disk apparatus compatible with different television system standards An optical disk having radially discrete main and lead-in track areas in which there are respectively recorded color video information according to one of a plurality of TV systems, such as, NTSC and PAL systems, and code data including data identifying t... | 04/03/1990 |
