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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7305011 | Periodic broadcast and location of evolving media content with application to seminar and stroke media Techniques are provided for broadcasting history or coarse representations or both of stroke media and other media. Levels are created for media, and the levels are periodically broadcast. The levels segment the media and allow the media to be examined with details ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289159 | Video generation and capture techniques Method and arrangement for capturing and automatically formatting video signals in both synchronized and deflection driven forms in which a single real-time capture module is provided including three input channels for receiving the video signals, three analog to di... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7253792 | Video generation and capture techniques Method for controlling stroke video generation components by creating a program to command the video generation components to provide video signals and integrating high level software constructs into the program. Integration of the high level software constructs int... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7236178 | Dynamically adjusted brush for direct paint systems on parameterized multi-dimensional surfaces A system that implements a “tangent space brush,” allowing a user to paint directly onto a parameterized object, for example a three dimensional object. A tangent space brush projects coordinates from an input device to the world-space point on the surface of th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7127631 | Single wire serial interface utilizing count of encoded clock pulses with reset A single wire serial interface for power ICs and other devices is provided. To use the interface, a device is configured to include an EN/SET input pin. A counter within the device counts clock pulses sent to the EN/SET input pin. The output of the counter is passed... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7068829 | Method and apparatus for imaging samples A method for analysis of DNA data. A DNA source image is generated based on the DNA data. A digital bit-map is created from the DNA source image plotting image intensity data against a two-dimensional coordinate system from an initial viewpoint. An image model is ge... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054468 | Face recognition using kernel fisherfaces A face recognition system and method project an input face image and a set of reference face images from an input space to a high dimensional feature space in order to obtain more representative features of the face images. The Kernel Fisherfaces of the input face i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7038695 | User interface display apparatus using texture mapping method A low cost user interface display system, like on screen display (OSD), using texture mapping method is presented. The present invention only uses a little texture memory and can generate very fancy user interface display. With the method of texture mapping, even th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034780 | Plasma display device with video muting function A plasma display device is provided which is capable of preventing image disturbance and imposition of excessive loads even when resolution is switched. A vertical frequency counter counts vertical sync signals using system clocks and a vertical frequency comparator... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7020843 | Method and system for implementing a browser object container A method and system for implementing a browser object container is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a method for implementing a browser object container comprises the steps of identifying content data for inclusion in a browser object container; defining one ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006685 | Method for conducting analysis of two-dimensional images A method of enhancing a source image for analysis. The method comprises the steps of digitizing the source image to obtain pixel data comprising location data and density data, generating a three-dimensional model of the pixel data with the location data represented... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6559609 | Raster center control circuit for CRT-type display device A raster center control circuit for a CRT-type display device that automatically determines a correct horizontal center position of a raster, regardless of a horizontal sync frequency input from a video card. The raster center control circuit includes a h... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6525711 | Haptic interface including clutch control A user can selectively engage some part or all of the haptic display of a haptic interface device to produce an enhanced interaction with an environment with which the user interacts using the haptic interface device. Further, the haptic interface device ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6435682 | Laser imaging using a spatial light modulator An image projection system is provided for generating an energy efficient output representative of a desired input image. The image projection system includes a light source positioning device for directing the light from a light source onto a spatial lig... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6044174 | Method and apparatus for parametric representation of handwritten symbols A method for encoding handwritten symbols operates upon penstroke data received from a device capable of sampling a stylus position at discrete intervals. Each handwritten symbol is segmented into an ordered sequence of discrete strokes. An arc length and... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5969699 | Stroke-to-stroke A digital address filter is provided which converts straight-line and arc analog stroke data into digitized images which comply with Bresenham raster display criteria and can be displayed on a raster scanned monitor or LCD. Data collected over a preselect... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5835086 | Method and apparatus for digital painting A method and apparatus for painting a digital picture using strokes of a digital brush is provided. The painting strokes entered by a user is handled using a "lazy" processing approach, in which a region of the picture being painted is updated according t... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5834745 | Microwave oven with NCAP liquid crystal operation display panel A heating apparatus such as a microwave oven includes a magnetron and a heating chamber for accommodating food to be heated by microwaves generated by the magnetron. The heating chamber has a front opening opened and closed by a door. An operation panel i... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5754433 | Computer-aided design system The computer-aided design system of the present invention is characterized in that a grasping force sensor 4 is mounted on that operating bar 3 at the front end of a manipulator 1 which is grasped directly and operated by an operator, and that the mechani... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5317331 | Symbology display method In a digital display system including a stroke scanning mechanism, a method which comprises the steps of displaying symbology and increasing or decreasing the number of symbols stroke scanned, including the null symbol depending upon comparisons of actual... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5302964 | Heads-up display (HUD) incorporating cathode-ray tube image generator with digital look-up table for distortion correction A heads-up display (50) for an aircraft includes a digital image generator (52), a cathode ray tube (CRT) (54) and an optical system (56) which projects an image (58) formed on the CRT screen (54a) indicating the status of the aircraft operation onto a ho... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5047756 | Video compensation apparatus for stroke mode CRT displays A stroke-mode CRT display having a Z channel (video) compensation circuit is disclosed. The function of the compensation circuit to correct for the lag of the X and Y channels in relation to the Z channel. The compensation circuit is designed so that tran... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4808988 | Digital vector generator for a graphic display system A graphics display system digital vector generator system includes three position vector generators generating position information for each of three different pixel location dimensions and three visual characteristic vector generators operating synchrono... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4742343 | Digital stroke generator A digital stroke generator reads and writes discrete stroke segments in a display memory. The generator comprises principally a line address register, a column address register, a command addresser, a counter and it may also include a data register. The c... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4697175 | Lightpen control circuit A control circuit for a lightpen of a random scanning computer graphics sem (10) enabling the detection of lightpen interrupts or hits on contiguous vectors having drawing periods shorter than the response time of the lightpen (13). The lightpen interrup... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4635050 | Dynamic stroke priority generator for hybrid display A cathode ray tube provides a raster can symbol display superimposed on a stroke vector display, with selected regions of the stroke vector display preferentially masked in response to priority instructions. Stroke vector priority data is loaded into a fu... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4631454 | Quasi-resonant random access deflection system for a calligraphic display monitor A quasi-resonant random access deflection system includes a biresonant, bidirectional deflection circuit connected to the deflection yoke of a display monitor picture tube and a control circuit connected to the deflection circuit and being operable to gen... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4631532 | Raster display generator for hybrid display system A color cathode ray tube has raster scan color zones defined by X and Y positional signals derived from a stroke vector generator and stored in a digital memory. Raster scan and stroke vector displays are alternately presented in a hybrid display. The dis... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4623880 | Graphics display system and method having improved clipping technique The invention concerns a graphics display system of the kind having a refresh raster display device, a line clipping mechanism for clipping line primitives for viewing in a selected rectangular viewport having horizontal and vertical edges parallel to the... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4595918 | Stroke writing character generator with reduced bandwidth A stroke writing character generator pauses between the generation of vectors, which may meet at sharp corners, so as to reduce deflection bandwidth. A stroke state machine having a plurality of states controls the generation of the vectors. The plurality... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4584574 | Information display and editing system A method and system is disclosed for displaying and editing information without flicker. Vector branch commands as well as the vectors comprising the information to be displayed are both divided into two groups. The first groups are those branch commands ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4535328 | Digitally controlled vector generator for stroke written CRT displays A system for developing horizontal and vertical deflection signals for drawing a vector of predetermined length and angle on the face of a cathode ray tube is disclosed. Variable rate integrators are caused to integrate at rates respectively definitive of... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4532504 | Slew length timer A slew length timer generates a variable time delay to signal the end of slew to a display symbol generator. Two memories, one for each deflection channel, are addressed by the starting and ending beam positions in a corresponding channel and programmed t... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4529978 | Method and apparatus for generating graphic and textual images on a raster scan display An image of a two-dimensional matrix to be displayed is formed in a refresh memory entirely by the execution of sequences of "pattern modulated" line segments termed "vectors". Two sequences of vectors are generated for writing each character cell into th... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4511892 | Variable refresh rate for stroke CRT displays In a cathode ray tube display system of the type utilizing stroke techniques, the display refresh rate is allowed to decrease from a specified maximum in order to ensure that all stroke information is displayed. When the cathode ray tube display system fu... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4500879 | Circuitry for controlling a CRT beam A CRT beam control apparatus wherein a microprocessor drives the CRT beam for controlling the beam characteristics, including writing speed, slope, position and intensity. The apparatus includes a single digital-to-analog converter supplying sample-and-ho... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4496944 | Graphics display system and method including associative addressing A graphics display system is disclosed including a memory circuit for storing vector data representing a graphics image, a raster memory circuit for rasterizing the vector data into a second memory for storage, and a processor for controlling the operatio... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4492956 | Graphics display system and method including preclipping circuit A graphics display system is disclosed including a memory circuit for storing vector data representing a graphics image, a raster memory circuit for rasterizing the vector data into a second memory for storage, and a processor for controlling the operatio... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4491835 | Raster and stroke writing deflection amplifier arrangement A Raster and Stroke Writing Deflection Amplifier Arrangement for a cathode ray tube (CRT) is disclosed which uses a conventional vertical oscillator and vertical deflection amplifier and a conventional horizontal oscillator and synchronous horizontal defl... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4481605 | Display vector generator utilizing sine/cosine accumulation The vector generator comprises X and Y digital-to-analog converters providing X and Y deflection voltages to a cathode ray tube display. X and Y digital accumulators provide respective inputs to the X and Y digital-to-analog converters. The word lengths o... | 11/06/1984 |
