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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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| 7421375 | Organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device and a driving method thereof. The organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of scan lines in a first direction, a plurality of data lines in a seco... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7386185 | Image processing device and image processing method An image processing apparatus for automatically improving the contrast of an input image that is obtained from a digital camera or the like, and obtaining a sharper and clearing image. A contrast improvement unit (11) performs a contrast improvement process o... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386186 | Apparatus and method for processing images A method and apparatus for processing an image. Specifically, one exemplary embodiment of the method comprises inputting an image into a pixel array producing pixel output signals, executing an image edge detection routine on the pixel output signals that detects pi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7366244 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355654 | Character display control circuit A character display control circuit comprises a selection circuit to select and output, as one of the RGB signals, one of a first voltage, a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and one or more third voltages existing between the first and second voltages; a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7345690 | Display system for adjusting video parameters for user-selected area A display system for adjusting video parameters of a user-selected area is disclosed. The display system includes a level detector detecting a line pattern included in one of a plurality of image lines representative of a complete image being displayed, and a patter... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342560 | Voltage current conversion device and light emitting device In case an input voltage is zero, to sufficiently shut off an output current, a source side of a first transistor T1 is connected to the drains of fourth and fifth transistors T4 and T5, and during a self-bias period of the first transistor T... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336277 | Per-pixel output luminosity compensation Per-pixel luminosity adjustment uses a luminosity mask applied as a texture. In one embodiment, a luminosity texture is defined. Pixel data of an underlying image is converted to an image texture. The image texture is blended onto a target surface. The luminosity te... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330164 | Video controlled detector sensitivity A method for setting opto-sensor detection sensitivity in a projection video display comprising the steps of sequentially generating video signals of different colors for illuminating a sensor with video images of the video signals. In responsive to the video signal... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7301545 | Method of visually measuring brightness of ambient lighting around display device A method of visually measuring the brightness of ambient lighting around a display device is disclosed. In this method, first, a reference brightness of the display device is determined according to a type of display device. Thereafter, information about locations w... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292209 | System and method of driving an array of optical elements A system and/or method for controlling a display array without the use of row and column drivers. The display elements within the system are configured to maintain an active address signal in response to a received signal containing serially encoded display settings... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289683 | System and method for scintillation suppression in intensified digital video A method for scintillation suppression of video images includes receiving a frame of pixels having intensity values and identifying pixels in the received frame having scintillation noise. The method modifies intensity values of pixels in the received frame, which a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280705 | Tone correction method using a blending mask A digital imaging system includes an image sensor, a frame buffer and a tone correction circuit. The tone correction circuit computes tone corrected pixel data using one or more tone correction curves. In operation, tone corrected pixel data for a first pixel is com... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277835 | Boundary representation per feature methods and systems Computer implemented methods and systems for CAD data exchange, and in particular for creating boundary representations (“breps”) on a feature-by-feature basis are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the techniques described herein, a parameterized feature ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261414 | Ophthalmologic apparatus There is provided an ophthalmologic apparatus capable of changing a gain to a digitized image signal according to observation and image taking operations by rewriting data in an LUT or selecting a suitable LUT from a plurality of LUTs. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7221808 | Image processing device An image processing device for emphasizing a specified luminance area of an image taken by an image sensor. The contrast between a bright portion and a dark portion of an image taken by the image sensor having a wide dynamic range of a logarithmic output characteris... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7201597 | Connector assembly structure of a terminal The present invention relates to a connector assembly structure of a terminal used for converting connecting wires. A terminal base is disposed on a frame of a cooling system, and the terminal base has a socket into which a first connector is inserted. The first con... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7161605 | Display device for construction machine A display device that has a display screen is disclosed that has the ability to prevent reflections of the display screen from appearing on glass, without lowering the visibility of a display portion of the display screen. The brightness of the display color of eith... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154153 | Memory device A floating gate transistor has a reduced barrier energy at an interface with an adjacent gate insulator, allowing faster charge transfer across the gate insulator at lower voltages. Data is stored as charge on the floating gate. The data charge retention time on the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7123676 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7106342 | Method of controlling brightness of user-selected area for image display device A method of controlling brightness of a user-selected area on a monitor screen is disclosed. First, a starting point of a topmost line of a displayed image is determined as a new reference point. Then a line pattern being included in one of image lines of the displa... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7088372 | Image display apparatus, image display method and computer-readable recording medium storing image display program An image display apparatus in which image signals of a plurality of primary colors are transformed by an image processing section into color space that includes lightness and chromaticity. When the chromaticity (color vividness) in this color space is being correcte... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7071951 | Image processor An image processing device of the present invention has a first element which produces partial straight lines from a straight line. One of the vertical or horizontal coordinate values of each of the partial straight lines has the same value. The image processing dev... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7050388 | Method and system for crosstalk cancellation Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can co... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7002605 | Image display apparatus for fixing luminance of blank area and varying only luminance of image An image display apparatus fixes the luminance of a blank area and varies only the luminance of an image. The image display apparatus includes an A/D conversion device to convert an input analog image signal into digital image data, a black level setting device for ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6965417 | Signal processor An object of the present invention is to provide a signal processor which improves the offset accuracy of a video signal without increasing the number of bits of a circuit. An N-bit adder (103) adds a video signal (S101) and an upper-N-bit signa... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6959779 | Belt force sensor An occupant restraint assembly and for a motor vehicle operates to sense the tension forces on a seat belt to detect the presence of a human occupant or a child restraint seat. A sensor attached to the seat belt measures tension forces. The sensor is mounted in line... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6935746 | Method and apparatus for reducing scattered light in a projection system The invention includes a color projection system comprising having a light source optically coupled to a light management device. The light management device being optically coupled to a polarizer. The color projection system also includes a projection lens opticall... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930613 | Electrical instruments circuits A device representing a simple means of multiplying the functionality of wiring in point to point control circuits such that fault tolerant, fault reporting circuits can be constructed with less wire. The circuit can employ the wiring on a continuous basis by the us... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6906633 | Program-controlled household appliance The optical indicator unit of a program-controlled household appliance includes one or more indicator elements for the display of information in plain text. Each indicator element includes a matrix with 5×8 pixels for the display of a character. Each indicator elem... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6829494 | Radio communication terminal and control method therefor In a radio communication terminal, a microprocessor determines a mode selected by user manipulation of a key input portion. The microprocessor turns on a backlight of a display with the backlight in accordance with the determined mode, controls the time period of a ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6822625 | Image processing device Picture processing apparatus has a pixel judgment circuit and a pixel correction circuit. The pixel judgment circuit includes a target pixel detection circuit for detecting a target pixel having a peak level from the input picture signal, and an edge detection circu... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6791576 | Gamma correction using double mapping with ratiometrically-related segments of two different ratios Gamma correction or other power functions are generated for correcting the light intensity for digital pixels. Two levels of mapping of segments are preformed to reduce the total number of segments for a given precision. The range of inputs is divided into successiv... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6741224 | Video pre-amplifier and method for increasing number of colors of on-screen display signal A video pre-amplifier for increasing OSD signal colors in a display device and a method thereof includes an OSD interface block, a video signal amplifying block, an IIC bus control unit, and an intensity control unit. An OSD interface block receives the R, G, and B ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6710781 | Image display apparatus having different display mode and method thereof When an image having an aspect ratio of 16:9 is compressed in a vertical direction to be displayed on a display screen having an aspect ratio of 4:3, a gray scale signal is inserted into a top and a bottom of an image signal and a brightness level of the inserted gr... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6580405 | Information processing device An information processing device and its system is provided in which a display unit (head mount display) is used and a user carries out an information processing operation while seeing a virtual display screen. Polycrystalline silicon using CGS is used fo... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6567058 | Digital convergence correction device and display device A problem to be solved by the invention is to prevent a digital convergence correction device from lowering in precision of correction performed when a relation between screen raster and effective area of picture varies. A vertical display area detection signa... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6483517 | Circuit for regulating brightness and size of picture in display apparatus A circuit for regulating the brightness and size of picture in a display apparatus is disclosed, in which a picture brightness regulating circuit and a picture size regulating circuit are organically coupled together, and the picture brightness and size a... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6392612 | Opto sensor signal current detector A projection display apparatus comprises a display device forming an image for projection to illuminate a display screen. A current source generates a current. A current sink is adjacent to the display screen and is coupled to the current source for recei... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6344837 | Three-dimensional image display with picture elements formed from directionally modulated pixels A three-dimensional image display system includes an array of directionally-modulated pixels or light emitting picture elements. Each directionally-modulated pixel (DMP) emits light which is modulated in a manner that is not uniform in all directions, to ... | 02/05/2002 |
