Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| 7006695 | Image compression/decompression system employing pixel thinning-out and interpolation scheme An improved image thinning-out processing scheme includes processes of performing pixel thinning-out operation and compressing image data; and determining a position of pixel to be thinned out along a first direction depending on the position thereof along a second ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6611274 | System method, and computer program product for compositing true colors and intensity-maped colors into a frame buffer The color of a pixel is represented in a pixel storage word, wherein color coordinate data and intensity data are coded separately in two fields of the pixel storage word, the color field and the intensity field. This permits a range of colors to be repre... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6330076 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus has a data conversion unit which converts RGB image data of a document to luminance component and chromaticity component, an optimization process unit which converts the distribution state of the luminance component data and ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6205181 | Interleaved strip data storage system for video processing A method and apparatus for storing a macroblock from a video data stream is disclosed. A macroblock is received, the macroblock having a plurality of blocks corresponding to a plurality of color space components and having a width defined by a plurality o... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6184936 | Multi-function USB capture chip using bufferless data compression A method and system for capturing live video signal data using bufferless data compression is disclosed. Live video signal data is vertically scaled. A 4:2:2 to 4:2:0 color format conversion is performed simultaneous with the vertical scaling step. A one-... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6040875 | Method to compensate for a fade in a digital video input sequence A method to compensate for a fade in a digital video input sequence is provided where the video input sequence is to be compressed according to the MPEG-2 video compression standard. The method comprises a first step of dividing each frame of a current fr... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6037982 | Multi-pass video compression First-pass processing is applied to a video sequence comprising a plurality of video frames to generate first-pass processing results for the video sequence. After completing the first-pass processing, subsequent-pass processing is applied to the video se... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5159443 | Image signal encoding/decoding apparatus and system An image signal encoding apparatus that receives a three primary color image signal composed of binary red, green and blue colors. A converter applies predetermined logical conversion to the three primary color image signal to produce first, second and th... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5142272 | Method and apparatus for processing display color signal A color video signal processing method and apparatus wherein the compressed display data of each pixel consists of a color identification code and a color saturation data relative to the color or luminance of the pixel having the maximum saturation change... | 08/25/1992 |
| 4802003 | Color picture information transmission system The color picture information transmission system according to the invention is a system for transmitting a color picture information signal, wherein a color component information signal is created from the inputted color picture information signal, a plu... | 01/31/1989 |
