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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8345365 | Data processing system having data reproduction independent of data processing A processing unit performs a method including controlling a reading-out of data from a first storage medium at a predetermined read-out data rate to produce inputted data, and controlling a compression of the inputted data to produce first compressed data of a first... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8159766 | Data processing system having data reproduction independent of data processing An information-processing apparatus includes a processing unit that compresses inputted data to produce compressed data of a first compressed format. The information-processing apparatus also includes a storage unit that stores the compressed data in a storage mediu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8009375 | Apparatus and method for receiving and recording digital information A digital information receiving apparatus and method in which a receiver receives a digital signal including a video signal and an audio signal, wherein the received video signal is bit-compressed by a first compression method and the received audio signal is bit-ex... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7952823 | Method for transmitting digital audio and video information A method for digital information including at least one of digital video information and digital audio information to a transmission path. The method includes compressing the digital video information by a first compression method, bit compressing the digital audio ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7859777 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving digital video and audio information A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving digital information including video information and audio information. The video information is compressed by a first compression method and the audio information is compressed by a different second compression m... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7808733 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving digital video and audio information A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving digital information including video information and audio information. The video information is compressed by a first compression method and the audio information is compressed by a different second compression m... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7532419 | Apparatus and method for writing and reproducing data High-rate writing of data recorded on a CD into a hard disk drive (HDD) is performed while reproducing data read out of the CD at the standard bit rate prescribed for the CD. PCM data corresponding to a playback time of 10 seconds, for example, is read out of a CD a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7313520 | Adaptive variable bit rate audio compression encoding An adaptive variable bit rate audio encoder and method that examines audio level information and detects various information in the audio data in a psychoacoustic model to create a quantization value and assign a mode tag to a single frame of audio. A bit rate is as... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310717 | Data transfer control unit with selectable transfer unit size A data processor including a central processing unit and a data transfer control unit is disclosed. The data transfer control unit has an address register for storing a transfer address. The data transfer control unit transfers data according to a transfer unit size... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310547 | Fluorescent fiberoptic probe for tissue health discrimination A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the fluorescent response radiation. The response radiation is observed at... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309867 | Methods and apparatus for characterization of tissue samples The invention provides methods for determining the probability that a given region of a tissue sample contains tissue of a given category, such as CIN 1 (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, grade 1), CIN 2/3 (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grades 2 and/or 3), no... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7286310 | Apparatus for receiving compressed digital information An apparatus for receiving digital information including a receiver which receives the digital information that has digital video information bit-compressed by a first compression system, digital audio information bit-compressed by a second compression system, and e... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282723 | Methods and apparatus for processing spectral data for use in tissue characterization The invention provides methods for processing tissue-derived spectral data for use in a tissue classification algorithm. Methods of the invention comprise application of spectral and/or image masks for automatically separating ambiguous or unclassifiable spectral da... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283175 | System and method for determining lip synchronization between audio and video in a digitized environment using buffer calculation The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for maintaining synchronization between a video signal and an audio signal that are processed using clocks that are locked. The system may comprise a component that determines at least one initial level of a bu... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272179 | Remote surveillance system An audio/visual surveillance system for use in mobile vehicles such as patrol cars includes two video cameras producing video signals and four audio sources producing audio signals. The signals are MPEG-2 compressed and streamed in real time with geographic and time... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260248 | Image processing using measures of similarity The invention provides methods of relating a plurality of images based on measures of similarity. The methods of the invention are useful in the segmentation of a sequence of colposcopic images of tissue, for example. The methods may be applied in the determination ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259926 | Digital information recording/reproducing apparatus A transmitting apparatus and method for transmitting a digital signal in which a time-base compressor compresses the digital signal, a bit compressor compresses the time-base compressed signal from the time-base so that a transmission rate of the time-base compresse... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7230892 | Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information utilizing a selection command that selects recorded information There is provided an apparatus for recording and reproducing information. The apparatus comprises a reading device to read out information recorded on a recording medium, a first recording device in which the information read out by the reading device is written, an... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209633 | System and methods for logical memory devices in a digital media player This disclosure deals with the management of data in the memory of a digital media playback device. Specifically this dislcosure deals with the mechanisms to allow memory to be treated as a partitioned resource, regardless of the physical implementation of the data ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209638 | Uniform memory management for personal devices with non-uniform memory systems The disclosure deals with the management of data in the memory of a digital media playback device. Specifically this invention deals with the mechanisms to allow memory to be treated as a uniform resource, regardless of the physical implementation of the data storag... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206500 | System and methods for recording broadcast programs, converting the programs and managing the storage in a digital media playback device This disclosure deals with the management of recording programs from Radio Frequency transmissions converting such transmissions into alternative formats and managing the ‘freshness’ of content which is placed in the memory of a portable digital media playback d... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203154 | Recording and playback of multi-channel digital audio having different resolutions for different channels Methods and apparatus for recording on DVD-like recording media in which audio content is stored in a high-capacity multi-channel (e.g., six-channel) format are provided. Various channels may use various resolutions. A two-channel audio output may be derived from th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200603 | In a data storage server, for each subsets which does not contain compressed data after the compression, a predetermined value is stored in the corresponding entry of the corresponding compression group to indicate that corresponding data is compressed In a technique for compressing data, a data storage server receives a set of data, which includes a first number of subsets. The storage server defines a number of compression groups for the set of data, each compression group including multiple entries, each entry ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197570 | System and method to send predicted application streamlets to a client device A method and system for streaming software applications to a client uses an application server having a library with the application files stored therein. A streaming manager is configured to send the application files to a client as a plurality of streamlets, each ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191286 | Data redundancy in individual hard drives A method and system are disclosed for recovering lost data with redundancy in an individual hard drive. A mirroring-type process is used in a single hard drive to maintain a backup copy of all data stored on that hard drive. The hard drive maintains two copies of th... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190544 | System and method for tape drive under run control A control system and method for operating a system comprising a host computer, a buffer, a tape drive and a tape is provided. The method includes writing data to the tape while the tape is traveling at a first speed; stopping the tape; determining a minimum distance... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187810 | Methods and systems for correcting image misalignment The invention provides methods of determining a correction for a misalignment between at least two images in a sequence of images due at least in part to sample movement. The methods are applied, for example, in the processing and analysis of a sequence of images of... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178073 | Test method and test apparatus for an electronic module A method for testing an electronic module having a memory cell device includes writing an information item to the memory cell device at a first clock frequency and then reading-out the information item from the memory cell device at a second clock frequency. The rea... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7157871 | Intermittent drive control apparatus of motor Rotation of a capstan motor is detected by a frequency detector, and supplied to a CPU as a rotation detection signal CFG. The CPU derives a period of the rotation detection signal CFG, calculates an average rotational speed of the capstan motor on the basis of the ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155445 | System and method for self-recovering real-time data-feed compression and archiving A system and method for real-time compression and archiving of data files is disclosed. Some data files become so large that archiving onto a single storage medium, such as a CD-ROM or floppy disk, becomes difficult. In order to allow for such archival storage, an i... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7135857 | Serially connected magnet and hall effect position sensor with air gaps between magnetic poles Methods and apparatus are provided for measuring the position of an object. The apparatus comprises a magnetic sensor assembly having a magnetic field source, sensor and air gap, and a platen containing a region of position varying magnetic properties that moves thr... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136518 | Methods and apparatus for displaying diagnostic data The invention provides methods for displaying diagnostic results obtained from a tissue sample. In general, the invention assigns tissue-class probability values to discrete regions of a patient sample, and creates an overlay for displaying the results. The overlay ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133228 | Using data compression to achieve lower linear bit densities on a storage medium Method and apparatus for transferring data to and from a data storage medium, such as a rotatable disc in a data storage device. The medium includes a data sector field with a physical length sufficient to store a first data block at a first write frequency. A compr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133226 | Data accumulating method and apparatus A data accumulating apparatus, comprising: storage media; receiving means for receiving digital raw data about specific information from an external electronic device; first accumulating means for accumulating the digital raw data received by the receiving means int... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127282 | Optical methods and systems for rapid screening of the cervix A method and a system is provided for discriminating between healthy cervical tissue and pathologic cervical tissue based on the fluorescence response of the tissue to laser excitation (LIF) and the backscatter response to illumination by white light (in the spectra... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126770 | Data processing system having data reproduction independent of data processing High rate writing of data recorded on a CD into a hard disk drive (HDD) is performed while reproducing data read out of the CD at the standard bit rate prescribed for the CD. PCM data corresponding to a playback time of 10 seconds, for example, is read out of a CD a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119974 | Storing data to magnetic tape both to one set of tracks and in the same operation rewritten to another set of tracks A recording system of a magnetic tape drive is operated to cause one separate set of write heads to write data discontinuously to magnetic tape as received, and to save the data, and, during the same operation, to cause another separate set of write heads to rewrite... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110473 | Mode controller for signal acquisition and tracking in an ultra wideband communication system A system and method is provided for controlling the mode of operation in a UWB receiver. In one variation, the system and method determines the mode of operation by reading a set number of samples of the signal, estimating mode parameters, calculating a mode probabi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111142 | System for quickly transferring data Data storage systems and methods for writing data into a memory component and reading data from the memory component are disclosed. By utilizing a high-speed data controller, the systems and methods transfer data at a fast data transfer rate. In one implementation, ... | 09/19/2006 |
