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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189052 | Method and system for evaluating video processing technology Media, systems, and methods are provided for evaluating a video processing technology based on subjective feedback. Videos from a plurality of sources for one or more subjective feedback targets are randomly selected. The selected videos with a video processing tech... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184163 | Methods and systems for detecting and locating skipped frames in a video sequence Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for detecting and locating skipped frames in a test video sequence in relation to a reference video sequence. Some embodiments comprise identifying pairs of temporally aligned reference and test segme... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8164632 | Method and apparatus for measuring moving picture response curve A picture is scrolled on a display 5 to be measured, and the scrolling moving picture is pursuit-captured by a color camera 3 so as to obtain a pursuit-captured moving picture image. A moving picture response curve using received light intensity data o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154601 | Television receiving system A television receiving system has a plurality of setup-data including wireless settings, which can be selected by user's choice the optimum wireless setting for every position where the display is located. This configuration can create a stable signal-receiving envi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150234 | Method and system for video quality assessment A system and method for evaluating a video signal comprising a plurality of video frames. In the plurality video frames, the number of pixels changed from one frame to the next are analysed and each frame is identified as being a repeat if a set proportion of the pi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130274 | Video quality objective assessment device, assessment method, and program A video quality objective assessment device includes a temporal/spatial feature amount derivation unit (12) which derives a temporal/spatial feature amount (PC) which is the feature amount of deterioration which has occurred in a deteriorated video signal (PI... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125524 | System and method for the detection of de-interlacing of scaled video A system, apparatus, and method are provided for a video detector that computes a measure of how much a given video content resembles one of a de-interlaced video content or a progressive video content. More particularly, the present invention determines the positio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8106949 | Small memory footprint light transport matrix capture A projection system uses a transformation matrix to transform a projection image p in such a manner so as to compensate for surface irregularities on a projection surface. The transformation matrix makes use of properties of light transport relating a projector to a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098283 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a personalized, image capture and display system A method, system, and computer program product for implementing image capture and display services are provided. The system includes an enclosure having an opening through which a subject enters, an imaging system encircling the enclosure, a computer processor devic... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8045005 | System and method for video transmission line fault detection A video circuit including a video amplifier adapted to generate an amplified output video signal from an input video signal; a short detection circuit adapted to generate a first signal indicative of whether there is a short present at an output of the video amplifi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040377 | Display apparatus, wireless transmitting and receiving system, display method, display control program, and recording medium In cases where a video signal cannot be normally received, a display apparatus allows a display by which one can recognize whether or not a jamming electric wave in an operation frequency band used for wireless communication makes it impossible to normally receive a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7990418 | Automated test measurement system and method therefor An automated test measurement system (ATMS) (100), for automatically measuring a device under test (DUT) (60), includes a control module (110), a signal generation module (120), an encoder module (130), and a signal analyzer module... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978218 | Single instrument/card for video applications Video processing arrangement including a host computer having a monitor, a video asset coupled to the computer for generating video signals and an interface for connecting the video asset to the computer to enable the display of video signals on the monitor. The vid... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7916173 | Method for detecting and selecting good quality image frames from video A method of determining a quality value for an image frame is disclosed. The method comprises dividing (in a step 202) the frame into a plurality of tiles (906) and determining attributes (in a step 206) of each said tile based upon pixel values... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7889233 | Video image processing with remote diagnosis and programmable scripting This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for receiving a local input video signal, processing the video signal, and providing a processed video signal to a local digital television display panel. A communications port includes an Ethernet or ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7876354 | System, method and article of manufacture for executing a video setup protocol A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for executing a setup protocol. A camera and a visual display device are coupled to a computer. Images are generated by the camera upon activation of the camera. A series of setup tests are then conducted on t... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876355 | Video abnormality detection Methods and apparatuses to detect presence of undesirable video abnormalities during, for example, video ingest or playback. These undesirable characteristics may include an average picture level that is less than a preset threshold value, or static input, in which ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872668 | Video image processing with programmable scripting and remote diagnosis This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for receiving a local input video signal, processing the video signal, and providing a processed video signal to a local digital television display panel. A communications port includes an Ethernet or ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7812857 | Edge analysis in video quality assessment Edge detector techniques, known per se in the art, are applied to the field of automated video quality assessment. Any known edge detection algorithm is used as the basis of an edge detection stage for performing edge analysis of test video fields/frames in order to... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7773112 | Automatic measurement of video parameters A system and method for automatic measurement of video parameters for a video sequence using a video processor that has a software waveform monitor implemented as an integral part of a video processing application run by the video processor. Each frame of the proces... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7733372 | Method and system for video quality measurements A method of measuring a quality of a test video stream, the method comprising measuring a content richness fidelity feature of the test video stream based on occurrences of color values in image frames of the test video stream; measuring a block-fidelity feature of ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7710454 | Video bit stream test The present invention is a method for MPEG compliance testing that designs test bit streams such that every frame of the expected decoded video is known. The test bit stream is generated, decoded and stored as an expected output decoded video. The test bit stream is... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710453 | Method and apparatus for real time testing of DTV antenna transmitting systems in time domain under full power A real time apparatus for testing a DTV antenna transmitting system, wherein the DTV antenna transmitting system transmits an original signal from a DTV transmitter to a DTV transmitting antenna, is disclosed that includes a probe, wherein the probe is connected in ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7705881 | Video quality assessing apparatus, video quality assessing method, and video quality assessing program A subjective quality estimating part (11) receives an undeteriorated reference video signal (RI) and a deteriorated video signal (PI) produced from the reference video signal, calculates video signal feature values for both the signals, and according to a dif... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7675544 | System and method for video transmission line fault detection A video circuit including a video amplifier adapted to generate an amplified output video signal from an input video signal; a short detection circuit adapted to generate a first signal indicative of whether there is a short present at an output of the video amplifi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643058 | Digital TV receiving smart antenna control system and controlling method of the same Disclosed is a digital TV smart antenna system and controlling method of the same, the system converges a smart antenna into an optimal reception by detecting a maximum signal power in a signal acquisition process for a fast acquisition performance and selectively a... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639276 | Simulation system and method for testing performances of TV tuners A simulation system for testing performances of television (TV) tuners (50) attached to a plurality of computers (5) is disclosed. The system includes: a plurality of players (1), each for transmitting an original signal comprising audio and vid... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7633522 | Method and apparatus for real time testing of DTV antenna transmitting systems in time domain under full power A real time apparatus for testing a DTV antenna transmitting system, wherein the DTV antenna transmitting system transmits an original signal from a DTV transmitter to a DTV transmitting antenna, is disclosed that includes a probe, wherein the probe is connected in ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7495688 | Generating an MPEG sequence for multiple CAV measurements A method of generating an MPEG sequence for multiple component analog video measurements modifies a general purpose encoder and provides an MPEG encoded signal to test a device under test (DUT) component analog output that is valid in both RGB and YPbPr in both puls... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7489335 | Photographic apparatus with function of image correction and method thereof A photographic apparatus with an image correction function is provided, in which even if an image has a large distortion at its peripheral area, the lens distortion is suitably corrected and the image distortion is small in spite of an image having a wide field of v... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7436432 | Sight line inducing information display device, sight line inducing information display program and sight line inducing information display method Aspects of the invention can provide a sight line inducing information display device, a sight line inducing information display program and a sight line inducing information display method able to precisely estimate the flowing direction of a sight line of an obser... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7412088 | Inspection method, and inspection device, and manufacturing for display panel A method of inspecting a display panel having a substrate and a plurality of fluorescent layers including measuring bright and dark signals reflected by the fluorescent layers while moving the substrate or an illuminating means generating the signals and an imaging ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405747 | Extended K2T measurement of video K2T measurement of video signals, regardless of video format, is determined by generating a graticule using an algorithm having a single variable that is a function of the video format for the particular video signal. The graticule is set to a normalized value of on... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7405723 | Apparatus for testing display device and method for testing the same An apparatus for testing a display device includes a display device to display test patterns, a graphic process unit to supply analog mode signals and digital mode signals to the display device, and a control unit to allow test patterns of an analog testing mode and... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394483 | Display evaluation method and apparatus A measurement pattern is moved on a display, and an image of the measurement pattern is captured by making a visual field of an image sensor follow the scroll of the measurement pattern. On the basis of the captured image, a motion picture response curve is obtained... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388601 | System and method for the automated, remote diagnostic of the operation of a digital video recording network A method and a system for automatically performing diagnostics of various operational parameters of digital video recorders, cameras, peripheral and associated components encompassing a video system, are provided. Script files are provided including diagnostic instr... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7369159 | Method and apparatus for dynamically testing video equipment A method and apparatus are presented for dynamically testing video equipment. A test pattern utilizes a presentation of alternating pixels and lines, along with features of the electronic video/graphics generator in which it is present to effect a close approximatio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352914 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus is provided for detecting distortion of a data signal to which a template signal has been introduced into different frequency bands of the signal. The apparatus includes a frequency component processor operable to generate data representa... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349011 | Image pickup control apparatus, image pickup control method, image pickup control system, and storage medium In an image pickup control apparatus capable of remotely and reliably controlling an image pickup apparatus from another apparatus, control data for controlling the image pickup apparatus is stored in advance and is transmitted to the image pickup apparatus when the... | 03/25/2008 |
