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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7884972 | Image processing apparatus capable of handling image file stored in another apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method According to an image processing apparatus, if image data designated to be stored in a storage unit within the image processing apparatus is stored in a storage device outside the image processing apparatus, a memory remaining amount or the like of the image process... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7787155 | Communications device and communications method In a communications device, a terminal machine transmits/receives data over a network and makes a request for a response to a data transmission from a receiving-end machine. In the terminal machine, an e-mail message identifying unit determines whether data to be re... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7436539 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium storing a program readable by a computer and program At the image processing time for an image data, a storage area to be secured is reduced, and moreover, the number of access processing times for the storage area which is required until the image processing result is obtained is sharply reduced, thereby shortening t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7376289 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus Image data having a total number of pixels being H×V is written in SDRAM having an enough number of recording domains capable of storing all the pixel data of the image data and the number of Column addresses set therein at 2n (4≦n) in the order of lin... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7352494 | Pixel block data generating device and pixel block data generating method In order to reduce the capacity of a line memory when converting image data that are input in a raster scan order into pixel block data such as 8×8 pixels for JPEG compression and the like, data on the first 0th to 7th lines is written in an 8H line memory in a ras... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7283265 | Raster data compression apparatus and method A plurality of patterns such as solid patterns, edge patterns, half-tone patterns, and verbatim data are losslessly represented in a compressed raster data stream. A pattern selection module selects among the various patterns to provide the best combination of lossl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266254 | Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method therefor There are provided a data processing apparatus which makes an I/F for data processing modules (processors) versatile to facilitate addition/modification on a data processing module basis in accordance with processing contents, an image processing apparatus, and a me... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254272 | Browsing JPEG images using MPEG hardware chips Rapid throughput of still image compressed data (e.g. JPEG) is achieved for presentation of images in rapid succession for browsing or browsing by panning within large images by using a hardware decoder adapted for presentation of moving images to reduce the process... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7206093 | Scanning device and method for saving compensation memory A method of reducing memory requirement in the compensation memory unit of a scanner. The method includes providing an even compensation data value and an odd compensation data value and averaging the two to produce an odd-even compensation data value. Only half as ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7130074 | Image encoding and recording apparatus An image recording apparatus is provided. The image recording apparatus includes a generator that generates information of recordable capacity of a storage and a holder for holding in advance data to be stored in the storage. A signal generator generates a signal in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7088466 | Print system and data transfer apparatus and method To efficiently transfer data from a host computer to a printer, a part of data developed in the first memory is outputted on the basis of a draw command to the printer, the data remaining in the first memory is stored in the second memory after the data was outputte... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072078 | Image storage apparatus, image storage method, and storage medium Information including parameters for JBIG-encoding is managed page-by-page, and image information is JBIG-encoded with the information managed page-by-page, after which the encoded data is stored in an image memory. The encoded data stored is then decoded with the i... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7006698 | Method and apparatus for compressing a video image An apparatus and method for performing two-pass real time video compression is provided. Tactical decisions such as encoding and quantification values are determined in software, whereas functional execution steps are performed in hardware. By appropriately apportio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6996279 | Compressed storage of data items Storing of data items in a memory (31) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of the memory (31), and when applying a data piece to the m... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6970265 | Digital image processing device and digital camera using this device A digital image processing device, more particularly, a digital camera, which includes: a static digital image extracting device used to extract the static digital image and output; a compressing device used to compress the static digital image using wavelet transfo... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967731 | Multifunction apparatus and data printing method A multifunction apparatus which has a facsimile communication section configured to conduct a facsimile communication. The multifunction apparatus includes an interface which receives PDL data from a host apparatus, and a controller which obtains image data based on... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6900906 | Apparatus, method and computer readable recording medium for processing image information An image processing apparatus, method and computer readable recording medium provided with a primary memory device and a secondary memory device both having image data memorized therein, in which said image data are input to said primary memory device, and including... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6809832 | Print control apparatus with decompression, and method and storage medium A print control apparatus which can print and output bit map image data while executing a decompressing process. The print data is directly outputted to a recorder and printed without being written into a frame buffer, or is stored into the frame buffer and outputte... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6731808 | Compressed storage of data items Storing of data items in a memory (31) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of the memory (31), and when applying a data piece to the m... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6621592 | Data storage control apparatus and data storage control method To provide data storage control apparatus and method capable of performing plural processes including processes that data are required to be processed in real time, without increasing cost and decreasing productivity, a RAM for storing data, a hard disk (... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6583887 | Method and apparatus for data compression Compression apparatus is described that operates to select an optimum compression procedure to apply to received image data. The compression apparatus can be employed in a page printer having a print engine that must be provided with video data at a const... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6031634 | Image information transmitting method and apparatus An image information transmitting/receiving apparatus for time and cost-saving repetitive transmission. In facsimile communication, image data where further information is added to previously-transmitted image data is often received. In the present appara... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5926292 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus has a memory device for storing pixel image data including both halftone image data such as data of image of a photograph having a gradation and line image data such as data of text containing characters. The storage is condu... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5872639 | Multi-function facsimile apparatus connectible to computers and communication lines Print data received from a computer (1) is converted into first image data in a dot format by a printer emulator (2). The first image data, a second image data from document read circuits (3, 4), and a third image data received through a facsimile communi... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5818607 | Image signal processing apparatus and information transmission/reception apparatus An information transmission/reception apparatus having a reader for reading an image and outputting an image signal of the image, an encoder having a plurality of line memories for storing the image signal for encoding the image signal into a code signal ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5636294 | Method and apparatus for truncation of images during data compression An apparatus for and method of truncating images during data compression. The present invention truncates an image when the memory requirements for the compressed image exceeds a predetermined threshold. However, unlike prior art systems, the present inve... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5621820 | Video data compression method and system which measures compressed data storage time to optimize compression rate A method and system for processing and storing data in which the average time needed for storing the processed data in a storage device is automatically measured, and a processing parameter is optimized in response to the measured average storage time. In... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5608539 | Image processing method and apparatus thereof An image processor inputs coded image data, which is comprised of a plurality of resolution levels, and image processor thereafter rearranges and stores the coded image data into image memory 4 so that the resolution levels of the coded image data can be ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5563961 | Video data compression method and system which measures compressed data storage time to optimize compression rate A method and system for processing and storing data in which the average time needed for storing the processed data in a storage device is automatically measured, and a processing parameter is optimized in response to the measured average storage time. In... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5553160 | Method and apparatus for dynamically selecting an image compression process based on image size and color resolution A method and apparatus which dynamically selects an image compression process for an image to be transferred from a first agent to a second agent. The image being compressed has a particular size associated with it, which indicates the amount of storage s... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5535290 | Method and apparatus for limiting the number of a compressed output type in a compression/decompression system A method and apparatus for reducing the necessary size of a buffer between two cascaded decoding stages is described. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for encoding data into multiple blocks of data. The present invention also includes... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5479165 | Two-dimensional coding apparatus A two-dimensional coding apparatus for two-dimensionally coding binary image data prepared by way of a FIFO memory, which reduces a time for which a host computer participates to enhance the speed of decoding processing. A two-dimensional coding circuit o... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5452103 | Method and a device for image coding The invention relates to a method and a device for image coding having a particular, but not necessarily an exclusive, application in the transmission of video signals. The video signal is converted to a bit stream by coding and quantising and stored in a... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5351133 | Color video display with built-in color decompression system Color video display apparatus with built-in color decompression includes, in one embodiment, a first holding buffer for storing compressed video data representative of a color video image. A decompression means decompresses the stored image data into a fr... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5331425 | Image data encoding apparatus providing increased encoding efficiency with reduced dependency on image content A data encoding apparatus, applicable for example to a facsimile apparatus, increases the degree of image data compression that can be achieved by a variable length encoding scheme, by limiting the maximum amount of data outputted from the encoding appara... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5247369 | Image transmission system An image transmission system for transmitting image data added with code data is disclosed. The image transmission system of the invention has an image transmission device 11 connected with a portable terminal device 13 and a video floppy disk player 12. ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5187592 | Image communication method and apparatus with selection of binarization method for transmission According to this invention, when n-value image data is transmitted, data associated with its compression method is transmitted to a reception-side apparatus, so that the reception-side apparatus can perform proper image processing. More specifically, the... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5168374 | Picture data encoding circuit with compression responsive to the amount of stored data A picture data encoding circuit is constituted by a picture data buffer part storing the read picture data temporarily, an encoding circuit part for encoding the picture data per one line, a picture memory device part storing the encoded picture data, a p... | 12/01/1992 |
| 4775893 | Facsimile transmission system A facsimile transmission system which comprises steps of recognizing, at a signal transmission side, a minimum transmission time at a signal receiving side and a capacity of a buffer memory for temporarily storing there in received data; transmitting imag... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4760459 | Binary data compression and expansion processing apparatus According to a binary data expansion processing apparatus of this invention, unicolor image data is generated in a generation section in accordance with data associated with a run length and a color instruction for designating the color of image data to b... | 07/26/1988 |
