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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5790556 | Method and apparatus for video signal processing A video signal is supplied from a digital VTR 1 and is encoded by an MPEG encoder 8. The encoded video signal is recorded as a compressed video signal in an HDD 9. A plurality of compressed video signals are recorded in the HDD 9 and addresses of the comp... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5694842 | Angled squeegee system for screen printing onto a substrate An improved squeegee for a screen printing system. A squeegee with two substantially rectangular shaped elements adjacent each other and each having a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axes are not aligned and instead intersect at an angle unequal to ze... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5622816 | Direct to stamper/mother optical disk mastering A method and apparatus for creating an optical disk mother or stamper wherein the number of processing steps is greatly reduced from the prior art methods. In particular, the present invention involves directly forming a mother or stamper by direct laser ... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5602598 | Television receiver with caption display A television receiver selects an audio signal corresponding to one of a plurality of video signals and a caption signal respectively accompanying one of the plurality of video signals. At least one picture and the selected caption are displayed on a scree... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5602388 | Absolute and directional encoder using optical disk A super high resolution rotary optical encoder having as its disk an optical disk, i.e., a disk employing the optical principle of non-contact readout based on diffraction theory. The encoder is adapted to be coupled to a device of which it is desired to ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5543927 | Variable speed playback of digital video stored in a non-tape media A method for high speed playback of digital video data (e.g. D1 or D2 data) in which, at lower speeds, the frames of data to be played back are made of a mixture of consecutive frames of data. The frames of data are mixed by averaging the pixel values ove... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5542868 | Method and apparatus for stretching a damper wire A method for attaching a stretched damper wire to a cathode ray tube including the steps of locating each end of a damper wire at a first position with respect to a pair of damper springs and welding each end of the damper wire to each of the damper sprin... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5530434 | Matrix switcher apparatus for selectively outputting information signals in response to control signals in the form of various communication protocols A matrix switcher apparatus for selectively outputting information signals includes a first matrix switcher unit for selectively outputting an information signal according to control signals in the form of a first communication protocol, and a second matr... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528577 | Apparatus and method for reading at least partially unmetallized optical discs An optical disc player adapted to read an optical disc having a plurality of pits and lands representative of information stored on the optical disc; the optical disc being at least in part unmetallized. The player includes a semiconductor laser for gener... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5512955 | TV receiver for receiving a broadcast signal and station information A method for entering channel representative information provided by a broadcasting signal that has been received by a television signal receiving apparatus and setting a plurality of channels in response thereto is disclosed. The method includes a first ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5512803 | Apparatus for compensating for image rotation in a CRT display and method for preparing the same A video display device has a CRT, a deflection yoke and control means for producing a compensation current. A coil cover has a coil winding element and is attached to a front part of the yoke. A conductor is wound around and supported by only one surface ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5504820 | Television receiver with stereo speakers In a television receiver having a pair of speakers provided at the right and left sides of its image display portion, respectively, for reproducing the stereo audio signal by the speakers, one of the pair of speakers is constituted by the speaker unit for... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5475283 | Demagnetizer for display unit A demagnetizer for display unit which allows to reliably demagnetize without bothering the user thereof. A start pulse a1 is sent out from a timer 21 to an activating pulse generating circuit 22 in every predetermined time t1 to sent out an activating pul... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5458060 | Screen printing squeegee system An improved squeegee holder for screen printing. A squeegee with a diamond or square shaped portion is clamped between two clamping plates inside V-shaped grooves in the clamping plates. Corner relief portions are provided within the clamping plates so th... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5447002 | Clean room wall system A device for preventing contamination of a clean room during the performance of unclean work. Wall members are provided to be connected in series, to surround and isolate the unclean work. Each wall member includes an interlocking receiving channel that c... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5442653 | Signal transmitting and receiving apparatus A signal transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a transmitting circuit block which has a carrier signal supplying portion for supplying first and second carrier signals having the same frequency and a relative phase angle difference of substantiall... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5422673 | Video camera with automatic focus control A CCD sensor 3 generates video signals in response to an incident light representing an image of an image. In accordance with a video signal supplied from a focusing region of the CCD sensor, a first control section including a focusing control unit 9 gen... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5420483 | Television deflection distortion correcting circuit In an upper and lower pincushion distortion correcting circuit, so-called "cloak distortion" and "vertical intermediate-pincushion distortion" are corrected. A variable voltage source is connected to one end of a secondary winding of a transformer magneti... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5418841 | Telephone answering machine with non-volatile memory An automatically answerable telephone apparatus comprises a control unit having a rewritable memory for storing control data for automatically responding operation and operative to control a line signal processor and a recording and reproducing device, a ... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5416534 | Monitor apparatus including video processing circuit for selecting image quality modes In a monitor apparatus for a television system, a dynamic range of a brightness level of an image quality is widened, and an image very similar to a picture of a movie film is represented on the monitor apparatus. With employment of the YM function for pe... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5331352 | Contrast control wherein reference pulse detection occurs every other line period and wherein clamping occurs in remaining line periods The present invention provides a contrast control circuit capable of controlling the contrast even if the back porch is comparatively short. The contrast control circuit comprises monostable multivibrators (24, 26) which provides a background pulse and a ... | 07/19/1994 |
