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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7924346 | Apparatus and method for display screen flicker detection and correction An improved display screen flicker detection and correction system. The system includes a flicker detection component. A test pattern is placed on a display screen to be tested and corrected. The flicker detection component is placed on or near the display screen. T... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7633550 | Apparatus and method for display screen flicker detection and correction An improved display screen flicker detection and correction system. The system includes a flicker detection component. A test pattern is placed on a display screen to be tested and corrected. The flicker detection component is placed on or near the display screen. T... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623184 | Apparatus and method for digital image stabilization The invention provides a digital image stabilization apparatus for compensating a jitter occurred in the ith frame among N frames of a video sequence, where each of the N frames includes a plurality of blocks, N is a natural number larger than or equal to 3 and i is... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7557863 | Digital display jitter correction apparatus and method A jitter correction apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a rising edge corrector to receive a jittered signal and to output a jitter corrected rising edge of the jittered signal. The apparatus may also have a falling edge correcto... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7412004 | Method and apparatus for controlling buffer overflow in a communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling a buffer in a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) communication system. An audio encoder marks a frame as “dropped” whenever a buffer overflow might occur. Only a small number of bits are utilized to process a lo... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405769 | Method and system for 3D comb synchronization and alignment of standard and non-standard video signals In a method and system for 3D comb synchronization and alignment of standard and non-standard video signals, a coarse synchronization is performed on a bottom frame, a current frame, and a top frame based on a bottom frame field count. The current frame is assigned ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7372929 | Closed loop sub-carrier synchronization system A system and method for synchronizing sub-carriers in a signal processing system. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise method steps and structure that receive a sampled signal. Various aspects may produce a synchronization signal based on the sample... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365796 | System and method for video signal decoding using digital signal processing A digital signal processing based decoder is disclosed. The decoder asynchronously samples video signals. By doing so, the decoder can work in pseudo real-time and without analog interface components improving performance while reducing cost. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7333576 | Digital demodulation device and synchronization detecting method A synchronization error occurs when a DTV signal is distorted on a transmission path and this deteriorates demodulation capability. The digital demodulation device and the synchronization detecting method of the invention can correct the synchronization position whe... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7298916 | Image signal processing apparatus and method When performing A/D conversion on image signals, when reducing noise that is caused by jitter by adjusting the phase of the sampling clocks, even if the input waveform has considerable waveform distortion such as a triangular wave, it is possible to reliably reduce ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292610 | Multiplexed data producing apparatus, encoded data reproducing apparatus, clock conversion apparatus, encoded data recording medium, encoded data transmission medium, multiplexed data producing method, encoded data reproducing method, and clock conversion method A multiplexed data producing apparatus which multiplexes N (integer) pieces of object data in which one of video data, audio data, and digital data is multiplexed to produce one piece of multiplexed data comprises a temporal storage means for temporarily storing the... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277133 | Adjusting pixel clock A pixel clock frequency is adjusted in response to periodically monitoring the relative positions between a video signal to be displayed and a video signal captured. Image shear of the display signal may be avoided quickly. Adjustments are made to the color burst si... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275174 | Self-aligning data path converter for multiple clock systems A system and method for aligning an input signal (24) synchronized to a first clock signal (22) with a second clock signal (26) The invention includes a mechanism (106) for generating a third clock signal (354) and an arrangement (... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268824 | Method and apparatus for canceling jitter A jitter canceling apparatus is provided for canceling jitter in a video signal. For processing a video signal, using as a reference an internal synchronization signal and an external synchronization signal different from the internal synchronization signal in the j... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263109 | Clock skew compensation for a jitter buffer A method and system to minimize the potential of jitter buffer underflow/overflow resulting from a difference in sampling rates of an audio encoder and an audio decoder are disclosed herein. The difference in sampling rates, or clock skew, can be determined from a d... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7224407 | Color demodulation device, color demodulation method and image display device A color demodualation device having an AD converter, a phase signal generator, a burst data generator and a multiplier. The AD converter produces digital samples of chrominance signal at a frequency four times a color subcarrier frequency, and the phase signal gener... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212724 | Jitter correcting apparatus and method for video signals A jitter correcting apparatus and method for a video signal in a video signal reproduction system includes a digital video decoder for demodulating an externally-applied video signal and a phase-locked loop for generating a first clock signal synchronized with the v... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212518 | Combining narrowband applications with broadband transport The combination of a narrowband application that provides a narrowband resource with broadband transport is enabled with a temporary connection across the broadband network between the narrowband resource device in a legacy switch and a Media Gateway within the broa... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209133 | Method and apparatus for asynchronous display of graphic images A display controller in a computer system controls the asynchronous output of graphics display data in a computer system having at least one fixed resolution flat panel display. Fixed panel displays may have problems displaying non-native resolutions particularly at... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199834 | Vertical synchronizing signal generation apparatus and video signal processing apparatus The vertical sync signal generator includes: a vertical sync signal separation circuit for separating a vertical sync signal of an input luminance signal and outputting the separated signal as a first vertical sync signal; an automatic frequency control circuit for ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7158045 | Method and apparatus for maintaining an ideal frequency ratio between numerically-controlled frequency sources A method and apparatus for maintaining an ideal frequency ratio between numerically-controlled frequency sources provides a mechanism for maintaining coherence between multiple synchronization references where a known ideal rational relationship between the sources ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7142182 | Image processing circuit, image processing method, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The present invention provides an image processing circuit having a D/A converter that converts input image data Da to an analog signal to generate an image signal VID. The output range of the D/A converter is controlled by an output-range control signal CTLout havi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136323 | Apparatus and method for generating a variable-frequency clock Apparatus and method for generating a variable-frequency clock is disclosed. A control state machine defines various commands and generates corresponding control signals. A variable-frequency clock generator then outputs the variable-frequency clock that has a speci... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127632 | Method and device for synchronizing integrated circuits A method and device for synchronizing the time between at least two integrated circuits (201, 202), which receive the same pulse signal. In the integrated circuits (201, 202) a counter (204, 206) is used to count the number of pulses in the rece... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123307 | Clock jitter limiting scheme in video transmission through multiple stages A scheme to reduce clock jitter is disclosed in applications where video content is transmitted through multiple stages, each having a switch allowing that stage's video stream to be selected. The video data is re-clocked using a new clock at each stage. Before re-c... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120814 | System and method for aligning signals in multiple clock systems A system and method for aligning an input signal (24) synchronized to a first clock signal (22) with a second clock signal (26). The invention includes a mechanism (106) for generating a third clock signal (354) and an arrangement ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113692 | Data processing device and data recording method A recording/reproducing device has an NTSC decoder which receives a video signal and outputs a video signal, an MPEG audio encoder which receives an audio signal and outputs an audio signal, and a synchronous control circuit which detects a synchronizing signal from... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110446 | Method and apparatus for reducing effect of jitter Method and apparatus for reducing effect of jitter is described. More particularly, one or more taps of a delay line are selected for a reference clock signal. These selected taps each have an associated index, which is stored, and stored indices are statistically p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7096271 | Managing timeline modification and synchronization of multiple media streams in networked client/server systems In a client/server network system, multimedia content is streamed from one or more servers to the client. The multimedia content includes multiple media streams that can be streamed to the client from the same server or from different servers. The user is able to mo... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096487 | Apparatus and method for combining realtime and non-realtime encoded content Methods for slice-based encoding of program guides and user interfaces. The program guides include multiple video streams for picture-in-picture and other applications. A method for encoding the program guide includes encoding a first set of slices for each of a plu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095773 | Injection locking type or MOPA type of laser device An injection locking type or MOPA type of laser device capable of always providing stable output energy and wavelength is provided. For this purpose, the laser device includes an oscillator for exciting laser gas by oscillator discharge and oscillating seed laser li... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085905 | Memory data stretcher A memory system which includes a bank of memory chips, a memory interface, and a memory controller. The memory interface stretches a sample period for data from the bank of memory chips, and provides a sufficiently wide timing margin to enable the memory chips to wo... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7062242 | Dynamic path gain compensation for radios in wireless communication systems A DPRAM is placed in the RF path before the digital to analog converter, to provide dynamic path gain compensation to the digital signal prior to conversion to an analog signal. The DPRAM stores corrections to the signal to compensate for amplitude losses in the sig... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053959 | Digital video encoder A mask circuit masks a digital video signal so that a video signal of an analog video signal is not outputted for a predetermined period after the start of output of a horizontal synchronizing signal of the analog video signal. A period of masking the digital video ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050460 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing data streams using time constraints A method and apparatus for multiplexing data streams is provided. An earliest time and a latest time are determined for each packet of a each data stream. The packets of the data streams are multiplexed so as to meet earliest time and latest time requirements. The c... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046299 | Digital video synchronizer with both decoded digital and undecoded analog outputs A digital video synchronizer for providing parallel and coordinated synchronization paths for decoded and undecoded video. Processing is added for a parallel path in a synchronization memory that bypasses the comb filter and video decoder circuitry to allow a digiti... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042911 | Synchronization control device In a synchronization control device, received AC 3 coded data or zero data are written into a FIFO buffer in synchronism with bus clock pulses, while yet-to-be-read data are read out from the first-in-first-out buffer. When a difference between the quantity o... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039070 | Moving image packet decoding and reproducing apparatus, reproduction time control method thereof, computer program product for controlling reproduction time and multimedia information receiving apparatus Error correcting section holds PTS(n−1) and DTS(n−1) of the frame immediately preceding the current frame and the most recent CPTS as determined to be correct in the past. The time stamp of the current frame is determined to be incorrect if (1) CPTS>PTS(n) which... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7023993 | Signal reproducing/recording/transmitting method and apparatus and signal record medium for use with signals featuring a multiple-phase color burst A signal reproducing apparatus for prohibiting copying or unauthorized use. The apparatus includes a copying management information decision circuit 19 for discriminating the state of the copying management information read out from each header of a data sect... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013404 | Semiconductor integrated circuit characterized by timing adjustment of clock switching control The semiconductor integrated circuit capable of reducing the length of time required for clock switching is provided. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a clock generation control circuit which is provided with a register capable of writing and reading sp... | 03/14/2006 |
