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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 20100027874 | Stereo image matching method and system using image multiple lines Disclosed is a stereo image matching method for re-creating 3-dimensional spatial information from a pair of 2-dimensional images. The conventional stereo image matching method generates much noise from a disparity value in the vertical direction, but the present invent... | 02/04/2010 |
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| 20080112650 | Image Processor, Image Processing Method, and Program An image processor is disclosed. The image processor includes: N execution means (where N is 2 or greater) for executing given image processing; and a control means for dividing an input image into N parts from a boundary portion between given processing unit blocks to ... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070211963 | Integrated circuit, image processing apparatus, method of controlling clock signal and clock signal control program There are provided an integrated circuit that can easily realize efficient reduction of power consumption of an ASIC with a simple configuration without requiring control of a sleep function by a CPU and an image processing apparatus including the integrated circuit. Th... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20060140474 | Apparatus and method for generating analysis data, computer-readable recording medium in which analysis data generating program is stored, analysis apparatus, analyzing method and computer-readable recording medium in which analysis program is stored An apparatus for generating analysis data including: an analysis data generating section for generating analysis data by dividing three-dimensional design data representing an object having elements into a number of rectangular parallelepipeds for each element; a non-co... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20050168770 | Image processing system and method, printing system When image processing is performed, the present invention increases the speed of processing for an individual scanning line constituting an image, and improves the throughput while suppressing the required memory area. The present invention is an image processor for per... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050141017 | Printer controller A printer controller provides a network controller for receiving data from an outside device; a digital signal processor having a VLIW structure capable of parallel processing; and a fixed logic LSI for receiving/transmitting data from/to a printer engine, where: respec... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050063013 | Enhancing black & white image quality with limited image processing resources What is disclosed is a system and method to improve the black and white image quality of tag-based color imaging systems in a color image path by making use of the additional two channels available. The present method exploits the resources of the two un-utilized channe... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050018929 | Processor to processor communication in a data driven architecture In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first processor that includes a first processor element. The apparatus also includes a second processor that includes a second processor element. The first processor is configured to transmit data to the second processor through... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050002050 | Image processing apparatus A method and apparatus for processing image data is provided, including a buffer configured to store processed image data for providing to an output device, and a processing unit configured to process image data into the processed image data to be stored in the buffer. ... | 01/06/2005 |
