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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7710315 | Radar apparatus A scan-to-scan integrator for use in radar apparatus comprises means for defining a search window for use in verifying a candidate detection. The window is bounded by the intersection of a first zone and a second zone, wherein the first zone comprises a rectangular ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692576 | Radar image display A method is provided that facilitates generating a radar image to be displayed by a radar system. The method includes receiving range data and azimuth data carried by a radar signal transmitted from a radar antenna in communication with the radar system, wherein the... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7679548 | Radar apparatus A radar apparatus where the rate of writing detected image data into an image memory does not decrease, irrespective of an enlarged amount of the detected image data. When an azimuth direction enlargement section of a W data generator receives detected image data of... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7573421 | System and method for the automatic control of video frame rate The video rate processor (10) is made up of an Input Video Stream input (11), at least one Input Processor/Input Devices (12), at least one Most Recent Frame Buffer (14), and at least one Output Processes/Output Device (16). The vi... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7504994 | Radar device and similar device There is configured a radar or similar device that outputs received data that is currently being received and scan correlated image data in parallel with each other. Scan correlated image data and display image data resulting from received data from a display video ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7489267 | Radar apparatus A radar device is realized in which an object and extraneous waves such as radar interference or white noise are distinguished and displayed in different display forms. Subtraction Flag Generator 6 determines the time-wise continuity and the planar consecutiv... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7372399 | Network system for onboard equipment An onboard equipment network system comprises a radar core device, a GPS core device, an echo sounder core device and a sonar core device and display devices which are connected to a network through a hub. Each core device includes a detecting section or a positioni... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369144 | Method and device for correcting the rotation of a video display A method for displaying a video image on a display screen by a scanning of the display screen along lines inclined by a first angle with respect to a reference direction by at least one electron beam modulated by a modulation signal. The method includes the steps of... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7339707 | Method and system for viewing a fax document A system and method for viewing a fax document includes a fax device which may be configured for transmitting/receiving fax transmissions. When a transmitting fax device with a video camera and a video display transmits a fax transmission to a receiving fax device w... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327309 | Radar scan converter and method for transforming A method transforms an image from polar coordinates into Cartesian coordinates. Therefore, the target image in Cartesian coordinates is subdivided into triangles defined by the vertices given in Cartesian coordinates. The respective polar coordinates are coded into ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318168 | Bit map write logging with write order preservation in support asynchronous update of secondary storage A method for maintaining a bit map of data writes, the method including associating each of a plurality of bit groups in a bit map with a different one of a plurality of segments of a data storage device, where each of the bit groups includes a plurality of bits, an... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7274325 | Optimized method of performing spatial transformation A method of spatial transformation, such as scan conversion, uses a packed data table. The raw data and the data table are read sequentially, and the resulting image is computed. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268725 | Radar scan conversion for plan position indicator An angular scan interval may be divided into one or more sweep sectors for display. Polar (r, θ) coordinates may be calculated for rectangular (x, y) coordinates at each pixel of a display interval by computing polar (r, θ) coordinates in an interval of 0 to π/4 ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7203359 | Split screen technique for improving bandwidth utilization when transferring changing images A method is provided for transferring digital image data. The method identifies areas of the image that frequently change and divides the image into regions based on the identified areas. The regions may be created based on a distance between identified areas, an am... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203634 | Computational geometry system, interrupt interface, and method A computational geometry server is provided that includes a server, a communication link, at least one client, and an interrupt interface. The server has processing circuitry and an operation manager. The operation manager is configured to compare source geometric d... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7167276 | Data conversion between color coordinate systems Conversion of color data values from a rectangular coordinate system such as CIELab to a cylindrical coordinate system such as CIELCh using two one-dimensional look-up tables, one each for the C value and the h value. The one-dimensional look-up tables are accessed ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161531 | High performance radar display A scan conversion is provided which allows the scan converter to work with data in its most convenient format in a radar memory. A displayable image is mirrored to a graphics memory simultaneously with the write portion of the radar memory of the scan conversion pro... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158096 | Compact, head-mountable display device with suspended eyepiece assembly A compact, lightweight, head-mountable display device is provided for transmitting an image to a user's eye. The device includes a projection system including a display attached at one end to a head-mountable support fixture. An eyepiece assembly is attached to a se... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151476 | Radar system having a beamless emission signature A radar system having a beamless emission signature is described. In one implementation, the radar system includes a transmission system and a receiver system. The transmission system is configured to transmit a pattern comprising a plurality of radar signals having... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149677 | Geometric model comparator and method A geometric model comparator is provided, which includes processing circuitry, memory, and comparison circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a target model from a source model. The memory is configured to store the source model and the target ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7120084 | Integrated memory controller A system and circuit for reading and writing data to a buffer memory, which is Synchronous Dynamic Random access Memory (“SDRAM”), or Double Data Rate-Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (“DDR”) is provided. The circuit includes logic for managing progr... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110007 | Image processing apparatus and method This invention relates to an image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for combining an original image and another image. In this invention, an original image is segmented into a plurality of segmented images, and a segmented image to be combi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6922546 | GPS signal acquisition based on frequency-domain and time-domain processing An improved code acquisition scheme for faster acquisition of GPS “coarse acquisition” (C/A) codes leads to faster detection of GPS signals, and thereby a wireless terminal may determine its position in a shorter period of time. The scheme is a combination of a ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6806825 | Thin client radar and multimedia networking A radar scan conversion protocol is defined to communicate radar data from application servers to thin clients with reduced network bandwidth requirements. The radar scan conversion protocol may be implemented as an extension to existing thin client protocols. The s... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6621451 | Use of texture memory for WX scan conversion A radar display system (10) according to the present invention generates textured radar display data by utilizing a direct memory access receiver (12) to receive radially scanned radar data, to convert the radially scanned radar data into range bin data s... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6535178 | Antenna device having a learning function and capable of searching and memorizing wireless bands There is provided an antenna device having a learning function and capable of searching and memorizing wireless frequency bands. A control circuit is used to automatically control the receiving angle and direction of an antenna set. When the strongest fre... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6441775 | Radar device, similar device, and received data write method While received data is stored into a video memory through coordinate conversion, the level of image data is gradually reduced simultaneously with this, by which the image of a target is discriminately displayed readily from among a clutter even without pe... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6424292 | Radar device and the like When the range scale has been changed, past target images which have been stored are converted to fit to a new range scale such that the past target images can be displayed in continuity on the new range scale without erasing the previously stored past ta... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6404384 | Method of spoke filling and spoke filling processing unit for radar scan converter A method of spoke filling for radar scan converter and the spoke filling processing unit for the same are provided, the radar scan converter having a buffer, an overlay processor, and the spoke filling processing unit. The spoke filling processing unit co... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400313 | Projection of multi-sensor ray based data histories onto planar grids A method and apparatus which perform efficient projection of 4-dimensional data (3 spatial and 1 time dimension) onto planar grids are described. Multiple frames of data are drawn from a limited time history data buffer and projected onto a planar grid, w... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6342852 | Radar video display and recording device The present invention relates to a radar video display and recording device, which can simultaneously display radar video signals of the whole and designated areas in the polar coordinates and Cartesian coordinates, respectively, and can store the radar v... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6212132 | Three-dimensional radar apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional radar image Disclosed is a three-dimensional radar apparatus comprising a radar transmitting/receiving unit, a three-dimensional polygon-generating unit, and a three-dimensional graphics unit, wherein a radar transmitter/receiver outputs signals concerning orientatio... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6211814 | Method for software scan conversion of target identification data in a general purpose computer A process is provided for near real-time or real-time software based scan conversion in a general purpose computer. The general purpose computer receives data via a digital network comprising range scaled and window detected radar video and antenna azimut... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6198429 | Radar and like systems and method for improving image quality The present invention provides a radar apparatus and like systems and method which comprise coordinate converting means for signals defined in a polar coordinate system to corresponding signals defined in Cartesian coordinate system, an image memory, and ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6198428 | Three-dimensionally designed display radar A three-dimensionally designed display radar in which a two-dimensional image data and three-dimensionally designed image data are depicted in combination in a video memory by the aid of an image controller, and they are simultaneously depicted on a scree... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6140955 | Ruler algorithm for PPI rectangular radar scan converter with staircase line drawing A process provides radar scan conversion from radar amplitude data in polar coordinates to rectangular coordinates by a digital computer which receives (r,θ) coordinate amplitude data from a radar receiver and which supplies (x,y) coordinate amplitude da... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6094460 | Data modulator and data modulating method In a plurality of shift registers which receive M.multidot.n-tuple speed data divided into plural parts, execute modulation of the data, and output modulated data as n-tuple speed data, a period of time required from a start of inputting M.multidot.n-tupl... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6087982 | Radar scan converter and method of mixing image A radar scan converter and method of mixing image. By inserting a radar scan converter (RSC) card in a personal computer, an input video such as a radar video or supersonic video can be mixed on a screen of the personal computer without deteriorating the ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6043775 | Radar scan converter with direct display memory interface The Radar Scan Converter receives range and azimuth data that is generated by a conventional radar and presented in a polar coordinate system, and processes and displays this data, in real time, on a conventional generally rectangular display screen which... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5923285 | Low bandwidth digital radar video distribution system A system for the distribution of digitized radar video over a digital network is presented. The digital network is located at the low data rate point in the radar scan conversion process resulting in low network bandwidth with no loss of video fidelity. T... | 07/13/1999 |
