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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7982796 | Track for improved video compression A computer readable medium for compressing video data with an edit track is provided. Generally, computer readable code for compressing video data is provided. The computer readable code for compressing comprises computer readable code for accessing the edit track t... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7444023 | Method for coding and decoding digital data stored or transmitted according to the pixels method for transmitting prioritised pixels A method for coding and decoding digital data stored or transmitted according to the pixels method for transmitting prioritized pixels. The content of the information to the coded or decoded consists of individual pixel groups. Each pixel group comprises a place val... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7403204 | Method and apparatus for managing changes in a virtual screen buffer A remote management controller may include a capture engine and a processor. The capture engine may be configured to: obtain a slice of video data output from a video graphics controller; calculate at least one value correlative to the slice of video data; determine... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403660 | Encoding picture arrangement parameter in picture bitstream Encoded pictures comprise one or more independently decodable frames, reference frames, and predicted frames. In the method an arrangement step is performed for arranging the pictures in an encoding order, and information on the presentation order is defined for the... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7376277 | Data transform for improved compression of multicomponent images Color image transform coding methods and apparatus which take advantage of redundant information which is normally present in the luminance and chrominance components of a color image are described. The transform coding method of the present invention, can normally ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373001 | Compressed moving image decompression device and image display device using the same A moving image compression (or encoding) device including: a hardware processing section which compresses moving image data by hardware; a data storage section which stores the moving image data processed by the hardware processing section; and a software processing... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369904 | Integration method for automation components A method for integrating a number of automation components into an industrial controller with a uniform running level model of the runtime system. The basic clock of the running level model is devised from either an internal timer, an internal clock of a communicati... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362805 | High efficiency encoder and video information recording/reproducing apparatus In a high-efficiency encoder which performs motion-compensation prediction, an intra-field is set every n fields. The presence of a scene change is detected. When a scene change occurs, a reference picture of motion-compensation prediction is switched, or the field ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362903 | Wavelet-based mesh coding method A method is provided for coding a source mesh (M) representing a three-dimensional object or a scene, using a simple mesh (M0) having a limited number of facets, each defined by vertices and edges, and coefficients in a base of wavelets, corresponding to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356189 | Moving image compression device and imaging device using the same A moving image compression (or encoding) device including: a hardware processing section which compresses moving image data by hardware; a data storage section which stores the moving image data processed by the hardware processing section; and a software processing... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342968 | Method and system for modeling the relationship of the bit rate of a transport stream and the bit rate of an elementary stream carried therein A method and system are disclosed for controlling the generation of a systems layer stream, such as a transport stream, that carries a program made up of at least one elementary stream, such as an encoded audio signal or an encoded video signal. The systems layer st... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339621 | Imager output signal processing The method and apparatus for processing pixel output signals from column lines in an imager having an array of pixels in rows and columns uses a sigma-delta type analog-to-digital converter to convert the output signals on each column line to digital signals and fee... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340101 | Device and method for compressing and decompressing data for graphics display A data compressing and decompressing device is adapted to be used with an image pickup device and a frame buffer. The data compressing and decompressing device includes a first data register in communication with the image pickup device, a first encoder in communica... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336646 | System and method for synchronizing a transport stream in a single frequency network A single frequency network (SFN) system is provided, where the system includes a head-end and a plurality of transmitters. The head-end is capable of calculating timing information based upon a time reference having a second resolution. Thereafter, the head-end is c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336787 | Critical packet partial encryption An encryption arrangement for multiple encryption of television programs. A system according to embodiments of the present invention multiple encrypts only a portion of the data required for full presentation of a television program to permit coexistence of multiple... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337463 | Displaying heterogeneous video Heterogeneous video may be independently encoded in a processor-based system and transmitted for display on a display device. In the display device, the independent video streams may be de-packetized for display on the same display at different frame rates. Thus, ea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330596 | Image decoding technique for suppressing tile boundary distortion An image decoding device for decoding a hierarchically encoded compressed code obtained by dividing an image into a plurality of tiles and performing discrete wavelet transform on the pixel values of the image tile by tile includes a tile boundary smoothing part tha... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327340 | Liquid-crystal driving circuit and method A liquid-crystal driving circuit has an image data processor that, for example, encodes the present image, decodes the encoded image, delays the encoded image by one frame interval, decodes the delayed encoded image, and uses the two decoded images to generate compe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7312829 | Method of determining a device spectral response A method is provided of determining a device spectral response for an image recording device. The method comprises obtaining a filtered light response from a number of filters of a filter set, wherein each filter has a pass band with at least one boundary defined by... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292235 | Controller driver and display apparatus using the same A control driver includes a display memory control section which generates a first process control signal when image data includes only first image data which has a pixel size equal to or smaller than that of a display section, and generates a second process control... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292271 | Process and apparatus for taking slow motion picture, and process and apparatus for taking and playing slow motion picture A process for taking a slow motion picture is disclosed which comprises: setting a plurality of cameras each having a shutter so that each of them can take an image with a similar view; and continuously taking fields of a subject by said a plurality camera in a time... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7274742 | Model and model update technique in a system for modeling the relationship of the bit rate of a transport stream and the bit rate of an elementary stream carried therein A method and system are disclosed for controlling the generation of a systems layer stream, such as a transport stream, that carries a program made up of at least one elementary stream, such as an encoded audio signal or an encoded video signal. The systems layer st... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269657 | Method and system for providing a mobile IP network with non-path dependent intra domain quality of service A system and method for providing quality of service (QoS) service over a mobile IP network with dynamic domains, multiple or distributed QoS managers per domain and/or with network congestion feedback being used to establish an estimated total domain bandwidth whic... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263275 | System and method of manipulating a system time clock in an audio/video decoding system Systems and methods that manipulate a system time clock in an audio decoding system and/or a video decoding system are disclosed. In one example, the method may include the steps of selecting a trick mode rate and adjusting system time clock update rate as a functio... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253843 | Dual mode signal processing apparatus and method using a picture-in-picture (PIP) mode The present invention relates to a dual mode signal processing apparatus using a picture-in-picture (PIP) window. In particular, the present invention relates to a display apparatus and a function switching apparatus that display two views for DSPs performing differ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7215819 | Method and device for processing an encoded digital signal A method of processing an encoded digital signal comprising a set of data obtained by encoding a set of original data representing physical quantities, and a set of information representing the original data and parameters used during the encoding. The method includ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206456 | Video coding and decoding A video coding and decoding method, wherein a picture is first divided into sub-pictures corresponding to one or more subjectively important picture regions and to a background region sub-picture, which remains after the other sub-pictures are removed from the pictu... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7175281 | Method and apparatus to increase the contrast ratio of the image produced by a LCoS based light engine A transmissive LCD is placed in optical series with pixels of an image. The transmissive LCD is set to full transmissivity when bright pixels of the image pass through the transmissive LCD. Transmissivity is decreased where pixels darker than a darkening threshold p... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174084 | Method and apparatus for performing sub-picture level splicing based on interrupts Techniques to effectuate splicing at sub-picture level. In one aspect, splicing is effectuated via an interrupt generated after each splice has occurred. The interrupt may be generated by either the hardware designated to perform splicing or other peripheral hardwar... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164710 | Rate adaptation for use in adaptive multi-rate vocoder The present invention includes a time-division-multiple-access (TDMA) communication system having a base station and at least one mobile station, each transmitting and receiving an analog radio-frequency signal carrying digitally coded speech. The speech is encoded ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165224 | Image browsing and downloading in mobile networks Systems and methods are provided for browsing miniaturized versions of images stored locally on a mobile device while allowing the associated full-sized image to be transferred to the mobile device as needed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of viewing a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7142204 | Portable information processing device In portable information processing devices, such as notebook computers, that can run on batteries and are capable of receiving digital broadcasting, enable setting an optimal operating state by predicting, in accordance with digital-broadcast reception status, how l... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7111058 | Server and method for transmitting streaming media to client through a congested network A server is provided with a transmit buffer, a transcoder, and a redundancy encoder. The server is for transmitting streaming media to a client through a communication network. A control unit senses when the network is temporarily congested, and activates the transc... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7084921 | Image processing apparatus with another display unit its control method, and recording medium There is disclosed an image processing apparatus in which a system control circuit (50) monitors the power source voltage when data write access to a recording medium (200) occurs, and cuts off power supply to an image display unit (28) when the... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075994 | Signal transmission method and signal transmission apparatus An encoder generates a TS packet of PSI and PCR in synchronization with reference signals generated by an STC reference signal generator and by a picture sequence reference signal generator. A switching TS of multiplexed packet is produced by encoding and packetizin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075945 | Dynamic mapping of broadcast resources In a data communication system such as a high capacity DBS system, dynamic mapping of broadcast resources is provided to exploit occasional redundancy in the program content of two or more input data streams, freeing at least one broadcast resource to carry alternat... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068719 | Splicing of digital video transport streams A mechanism for splicing advertisements, local programming and the like into a digital video transport stream is provided. In order to achieve proper splicing, an appropriate number of frames is inserted between bitstreams to properly close a GOP of the first bitstr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068721 | Method and configuration for coding a digitized picture, and method and configuration for decoding a digitized picture Pixels in a digitized picture are grouped into picture blocks, which in turn are grouped at least in a first picture region and a second picture region. An overall motion vector is determined, through the use of which any shifting of the first picture region in comp... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068740 | Processing of modulated signals In response to a first signal having modulation representing information and a modulation index, embodiments of the present invention generate a second signal that differs from the first signal in its modulation index, and demodulate the second signal. In one embodi... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068847 | High-resolution still picture decoding device A high-resolution still picture decoding device is disclosed, which has a memory device, an image decoder, and a decoding controller. The memory device has a bit-stream buffer, a frame buffer and a temporary buffer. The image decoder and decoding controller decode t... | 06/27/2006 |
