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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281272 | Method and system for copyright protection of digital images A method and system for protecting digital images copied from a video RAM, including the steps of transmitting stored pixel data from a computer memory to a video RAM, identifying protected pixel data within the stored pixel data, modifying the stored pixel data, th... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260262 | Display control method, and program, information processing apparatus and optical character recognizer A method for controlling the display of a screen which allows the user to discriminate the scanned image and the recognition result intuitively and easily. The display control method for allowing the user to verify the recognition result of a character on a verifica... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7206756 | System and method for facilitating commercial transactions over a data network A method, a computer system and a computer program product to facilitate comparison-price shopping over a data network, such as the Internet, is provided that includes a price availability feature guaranteeing a price of a product associated with product-related inf... | 04/17/2007 |
| 6999057 | Timing of fields of video An apparatus and method to delay a field of video by one row in a two field frame to reduce DC build-up or stick caused by textual image. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6975349 | Two-dimensional video timing display A two-dimensional video timing display with numeric readouts allows a user to quickly, easily and precisely measure the timing difference between video signals. A graphic display area within a raster display region provides a two-dimensional display of vertical timi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6944822 | Method and apparatus for preventing reuse of text, images, and software transmitted via networks A method for providing textual information in a network environment, the method comprising: receiving a request via a network for text-editable textual information; converting the text-editable textual information into a non-text-editable textual format on line upon... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6836271 | Boldfaced character-displaying method and display equipment employing the boldfaced character-displaying method Character data to be displayed is obtained. The obtained character data is boldfaced by increasing a character line width of the obtained character data in a first direction by an amount corresponding to at least a width of a light-emitting element. A boldfaced char... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6791550 | Management of presentation time in a digital media presentation system with variable rate presentation capability Method for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In a particular, one embodiment of the present invention is a method f... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6701263 | Method and apparatus for displaying electric power elements for video display appliance A method and apparatus for displaying electric power elements for a video display appliance that can compute a voltage and current actually applied to the appliance and power consumption computed therefrom, and display them on a screen. The apparatus incl... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6587034 | Data communication device Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The simplified data message terminals provide message and paging commun... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6512626 | Composite sheets with electrically switchable optical properties made of light-scattering base material An electrophoretic display constructed from an illumination unit, two control electrodes and a light-scattering microcompartment film. The electrophoretic display can be used as a display board, a computer display or a flat-panel display screen.... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6380928 | Dynamically configurable electronic survey response alert system An improved portable, electronic survey and satisfaction questionnaire device adapted for use in the hospitality industry, and more particularly restaurants, which incorporates a transceiver to signal restaurant personnel upon the achievement of certain t... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6292164 | System and method for character display and entry in character processing system Displaying a set of characters in a size larger than characters already accepted and displayed in the system. A method for accepting input in a system. The method includes receiving a set of user inputs associated with a set of characters. The set of char... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6057813 | Single chip microcomputer having a built-in on screen display device A microcomputer has a plurality of on screen display devices in one chip. Under control of a CPU, display tasks are respectively controlled in the on screen display devices in an independent manner, thereby obtaining a desired display screen on which the ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5870074 | Image display control device, method and computer program product A character table unit stores as attribute data of each character of an image a character name, a horizontal direction character size, a vertical direction character size, a horizontal display coordinate value and, a vertical display coordinate. A counter... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5555172 | User interface for controlling accessories and entering data in a vehicle A data entry system includes a display of either icons, alphabet letters, numerals or a combination of visual and alpha-numeric information and allows the user to select data for entry, by using a reversible control to highlight a selected icon or other d... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5494573 | Reverse osmosis water purification diagnostic system A monitor for a beverage processing system that can sense a characteristic of the system, compare the characteristic to a threshold value to determine if a component of the system is not operating properly, and transmit the characteristic to a remote site... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5248964 | Separate font and attribute display system A method and circuitry for using two buffers containing video display information is shown. One buffer contains character mask or dot image information, while the other buffer has two portions, foreground and background, which store attribute information.... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5233336 | Connected-run dropout-free center point fill method for displaying characters An improved method of displaying a character on a raster device using a modified center point fill method is described, beginning by defining the character by an outline of a series of edges in a path, scaling the character to a pixel grid of columns and ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5187775 | Computer representation of nucleotide and protein sequences A display system for use on a digital computer is specifically designed to display information about nucleotide sequences, such as DNA sequences and the protein or amino acid sequences associated with those nucleotide sequences. The system uses a speciall... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5029289 | Character display system A synchronized timing controller has an access controller for controlling a central processing unit and a display controller of a display device to alternately access a refresh memory in a character display system. The timing controller has a clock synchr... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5012232 | Bit mapped memory plane with character attributes for video display A video display controller for controlling the display of characters stored in a bit plane memory. The characters to be displayed are arranged in the bit plane memory in a set number of scan lines with a set number of data bits in each scan line. Attribut... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4935893 | Data display apparatus Data display apparatus is described in which data from a video RAM is displayed on a CRT monitor. The apparatus includes master and slave CRT controllers which are locked together in synchronism. In operation, the displayed is divided into a main applicat... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4853683 | Enhanced capacity display monitor The character displaying capacity of a monitor is enhanced by operating the pixel clock at a frequency at which beam narrowing occurs so that adjacent pixels are substantially distinct from each other. The operating clock frequency exceeds the bandwidth o... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4843468 | Scanning techniques using hierarchical set of curves Conventionally, transmission of television images is performed by Raster scanning. To avoid the problems associated with flyback, and the limiting of Raster scanning to image scanning standards it is proposed to transmit images by scanning along a locus d... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4772883 | CRT display control system A CRT display control system controls a character display operation on a CRT image screen. The entire character line height is divided into a display allowed raster section and a display inhibited raster section. The display allowed raster section is prov... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4727366 | Apparatus and method for CRT display screen The video memory of a CRT display system is split into an application video memory and a CRT memory. The two memories are interconnected by logic means for manipulating primary and secondary texts whose characters proceed in directions which are different... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4684937 | Enhanced data display system Display of alphanumeric characters and other symbols generated in a dot-matrix form on a CRT is enhanced by modulating the CRT beam sinusoidally at the dot matrix clock rate to produce one full cycle of modulation for each dot space with a phase to displa... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4633142 | Multibeam graphic display system utilizing bit mapping memory A high definition bit mapped page display system for graphics and text utilizing multiple beams in a CRT is disclosed. Information for the several lines which are written simultaneously is made available in parallel. The invention is described in terms of... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4625203 | Arrangement for providing data signals for a data display system The present invention includes a microprocessor which acts to generate groups of its signals from its read only memory (ROM) thereby forming character representations of groups of coded signals, such as ASCII coded signals, coming from a main data process... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4581611 | Character display system A cathode ray tube of long persisting time has a control unit operably associated with a central processing unit and a CRT controller wherein the control unit generates signals to select data bus and memory access. A video inhibit signal is generated for ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4574279 | Video display system having multiple selectable screen formats A video display system having two different selectable screen formats for displaying images in a display field is disclosed. The system includes circuitry for switching from a first screen format defining a display field of a first number of horizontal sc... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4555763 | Method and apparatus for storage and accessing of characters, and electronic printer employing same Electronic printer apparatus in which the intensity of the beam of a cathode-ray tube is controlled during successive beam sweeps to display and project onto a rotating electrostatically-charged surface an image of successive slices through a row of chara... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4555701 | Legibility enhancement for alphanumeric displays Alphanumeric CRT display has normal/reverse video attribute. In reverse video, the character dots are made wider than in normal video, to equalize the apparent width of the dots in the two modes.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4521020 | Apparatus for displaying grouped characters in scanning type display A cathode ray tube is coupled to an electric circuit to display characters on the screen thereof through horizontal scanning and vertical scanning. A plurality of characters are displayed in one character group comprising characters arranged in rows and c... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4491925 | Precision time tracking line generator A display system line generator network having an error correction feedback loop which achieves high positional accuracy for both plan position indicators PPI and synthetic character and line data. Digital reference position and relative beam motion data ... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4475124 | Synchronizing system for character display A system is described for synchronizing the display of characters within a character image area on a raster scanned cathode ray tube. The system's input is a composite blanking signal which includes conventional horizontal rate and vertical rate blanking ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4455554 | Proportionality in minature displays In a word processing system having a keyboard display for data entry and modification, and a printer with a choice of pitch, the technique is presented for displaying on less than the entire CRT screen a representation of a full page of text being process... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4451824 | Color convergence data processing in a CRT color display station A preconverged color display station is disclosed which is compatible with a computer controlled control unit that provides electrical convergence control signals. Compatibility is obtained by causing the control unit to transmit the electrical convergenc... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4435703 | Apparatus and method for simultaneous display of characters of variable size and density Apparatus and method for simultaneous display of alphanumeric characters of variable character density on a raster scan CRT monitor is disclosed. Circuitry is provided to supply multiple sources of timing for terminal operations, to switch among timing so... | 03/06/1984 |
