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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4568983 | Image data compression/decompression Scanned image data is assembled to represent scanned strips of a document each strip comprising a plurality of scanned lines. The lines of each strip are read in parallel to form data words defining columns of the scanned strips. The data words are encode... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4566128 | Method for data compression for two-value picture image A method for compressing the data of character images primarily for a font set for kanji (Chinese character) photo-type-setting characterized by the steps of dividing up an original picture image into a plurality of partial picture images, identifying the... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4559531 | Color video generator A video display system has a color display driven by a color generator for generating multicolor segments on a multiline television raster of the display. In this system, a method controls the color and the length of the lines by serially generating an ar... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4547814 | Method of recording a halftone picture electronically A method for recording a halftone picture electronically, for use in a halftone picture reproducing machine for plate making is disclosed. A plurality of halftone data corresponding to a plurality of picture elements of a vignette halftone dot is simultan... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4547810 | Portable facsimile transmitter A portable facsimile transmitter suitable for use by reporters and photographers in the field, for sending high quality pictures to an unattended remote receiver, by telephone or wireless. A rotating drum to which the original is affixed is initially scan... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4546385 | Data compression method for graphics images Graphic images are generally considered to be those images comprised of text and/or drawings. Data compression of graphics images is desired whenever a fast image transmission speed is desired in a limited band width channel. It is also used for storage o... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4543590 | Electronic apparatus with printer Disclosed is an electronic apparatus provided with a printer for printing characters on a recording material with at least two different colors of ink. The apparatus has means for setting a special printing mode. In the special printing mode, data are pri... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4543615 | Automatic scanning device and its control for opto-mechanical processing applications In scanning devices used for opto-mechanical processing of a substrate covered with a photo-sensitive material, it is highly desirable to be able to achieve accurate control of the carriage utilized for scanning the substrate. To accomplish this, the carr... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4543611 | Method and an apparatus for image processing The invention realizes high speed image transmission in an image processing system such as a facsimile system by reducing redundancy of an image data source for transmission, and improves the error rate of analog transmission systems by combining a synchr... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4539587 | Shift register driven video measurement system for microcomputer A video processing system especially for use with microprocessors or microcomputers characterized by limited memory storage capacity and processing capability. The video processing system includes a TRANSITION DETECTOR for detecting BLACK-TO-WHITE and WHI... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4531189 | Data conversion, communication and analysis system A local station and a central computer subsystem remotely located from each other are interconnected by a transmission system, such as a telephone network, so that a medium containing visual data can be read in the vicinity where the cart is made, but aut... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4528572 | Thermal printer A thermal printer includes an inked ribbon, an inked ribbon take-up mechanism, a print head with two arrays of thermal resistance elements, a carriage mounting the print head, and a controller for controlling the print operation. The printer is provided w... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4524456 | Method for compressing data of two-value picture image A method for compressing data of two-value picture image such as an original character pattern for a phototype setting by an electronic computer, wherein an original picture image is divided into a plurality of divisional picture images by division lines ... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4520506 | Method and system for compression and reconstruction of cultural data for use in a digital moving map display A method and digital system for the compression and reconstruction of cultural data for use with display systems, such as a system for producing a real time moving map display of terrain, provides a modified footprint/common boundary technique for data co... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4515487 | Multicolor printer A multicolor printer for moving together and driving at predetermined timing a plurality of dot system printing heads provided for each color of three primary colors, yellow, magenta and cyan to effect multicolor printing. The multicolor printer stores by... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4513444 | Method of compressing data Disclosed is a method for compressing data which is derived by tracing the contour line of a character pattern or a symbol. Normally such a contour line consists of at least one closed-loop line having straight portions and curved portions. A multiplicity... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4513390 | System for digital transmission and synthesis of integrated data An image acquisition subsystem, electronic processing subsystem and workstation subsystem produce information management networks that are almost unlimited in size and scope in integrating data and information stored in both digital form and in human read... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4509194 | Apparatus for producing a code word An apparatus for producing a code word indicative of vertical correlations in color changes between scanned lines of an information bearing document. The apparatus comprises a memory and counter for storing and retrieving the color of picture elements in ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4506342 | Document information filing system Title information recorded on a magnetic tape is reproduced by a longitudinal video recorder and stored in a title memory. A CPU calculates the remaining storage capacity from the address of index information in title information stored in the title memor... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4504115 | Digital facsimile communication system capable of representing tone differences A digital communication system capable of representing tone differences is provided. In the present system, the threshold level used as a reference in converting an analog image signal into a binary image signal is varied, preferably, from scanning line t... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4499498 | Run length decoding apparatus In a run length decoding apparatus of the type comprising a decoding circuit decoding a series of run length encoded data to sequentially output binary data indicative of respective run lengths, and decoding means for decoding a white or black signal havi... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498102 | Method and apparatus for a transmission system for transmitting an image at a reduced output In the method, an image is analyzed by a television camera, is then submitted to differential coding with a "temporal inter-fields prediction", between fields of the same image, with the exception of one initialization line which is coded with a "uni-dime... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4494150 | Word autocorrelation redundancy match facsimile compression for text processing systems A method and system for compacting text data to be transmitted over communications lines and thereby reduce the data volume and transmission time. Transmitting and receiving text processing systems are provided identical library memories containing text s... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4494151 | 4-Pixel run-length code for data compression A circuit to encode image data. The circuit receives image data in four bit nibbles which are either all-zero nibbles or terminating nibbles containing at least one non-zero bit. The circuit output is a series of code words, each a multiple of four bits a... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4492983 | System for decoding compressed data A system for decoding compressed data comprising an address memory of a FIFO type or RAM type, and an addition/subtraction circuit in which addition/subtraction is carried out between the address of a reference color change element and a relative distance... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4491873 | Common controlled facsimile system A common controlled facsimile system which has a plurality of simple facsimile terminals commonly controlled by a single control system. Each facsimile terminal has means (21) for converting picture data to electrical signals, and means (22) for reproduci... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4491853 | Image recording arrangement The disclosure is directed to an image recording arrangement for use in facsimile equipment and the like, adapted to effect an image recording at a rough density for standard information and an image recording at high density for fine information at a den... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4468707 | High speed imaging of electrophotographic film by fine beam scanning Half-tone xerography involving high speed charging of a limited region of an electrophotographic member and subsequent high speed discharging as by writing with a fine laser beam upon the limited region of the electrophotographic member, the beam being mo... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4467364 | Device for measuring amount of tone correction A device used, when a color printing block is produced from a color photographic film in accordance with color scanner technique, for compensating a difference in color density between photograph and print and arranged to measure accumulative density dist... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4453227 | Method and apparatus for transferring a bit pattern field into a memory In order to keep the number of data transfers small in storing bit pattern fields in an external memory, only the first line and the changed data of the bit pattern field are transmitted and the field is reconstructed line by line by means of an interim r... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4446516 | Data compaction system with contiguous storage of non-redundant information and run length counts A plurality of sequentially occuring information signals are stored in a memory by considering past record of the information signals. The number of times the same information occurs is counted, and when the information changes, the current count and the ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4441208 | Picture information processing and storing device A picture information processing and storing device includes a page buffer for storing original picture information for one scanning line in each row thereof, a line buffer for storing original picture information for each row, a read only memory in which... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4426731 | Character recognition employing compressed image data An optical character recognition system stores image data as a compressed run-length code. Preprocessing of characters for segmentation and registration is performed on the compressed data by means of tables created by a microprocessor. Only the image dat... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4415912 | Recording method and recording apparatus to record, on a grey scale, representations of images under control of electrical command signals To render the grey scale of recording on an electrosensitive recording medium (16) independent of voltage applied by an electrode (22) while maintaining a predetermined relationship between a command voltage (Uc) and the resulting grey scale of... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4409622 | Method of skipping all-white blocks by interposing a white signal piece between two adjacent blocks which are not consecutive in an original facsimile signal For each line of scan of an original text, a compressed facsimile signal for transmission, particularly through analog modems, comprises a phase synchronizing signal (S), a control flag signal (F), and a graphic signal section (P) which comprises a succes... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4402010 | Digital television signal processing and transmission system An input signal source of any form (e.g. camera or recorder) supplies a standard base band video wave. This video signal is fed to a conventional analog-to-digital converter (11) which samples the incoming wave train at a rate of 8 megahertz under the con... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4353095 | Facsimile bandwidth compression method system and apparatus A facsimile bandwidth compression method using a facsimile signal comprising a synchronizing signal part, a control signal part having digital signals made by coding signals of existence or non-existence of substantial picture information in blocks which ... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4344086 | Encoder for encoding a multilevel pel signal sequence with probability representative mode codes allotted to prediction error codes for each pel signal and a decoder therefor For each pel signal capable of taking each of a plurality of levels with a first probability dependent on a reference signal, binary prediction error codes are produced to represent one of serial numbers assigned to the first probabilities arranged in a m... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4327381 | Blank jumping teleprinting method and apparatus Blank jumping teleprinting method in which a document is read line by line, each line being read point by point, each reading signal corresponding to each point is stored and groups of P signals are transmitted by multiplexing to a point by point writing ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4327379 | Hardware implementation of 4-pixel code encoder A circuit to encode image data. The circuit receives image data in four bit nibbles which are either all-zero nibbles or terminating nibbles containing at least one non-zero bit. The circuit output is a series of code words, each a multiple of four bits a... | 04/27/1982 |
