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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7400727 | Information embedding method, information extracting method, information embedding apparatus, information extracting apparatus, and recording media An apparatus for embedding secret information in an image signal transmitted with a shape signal showing the shape of an object is described. This apparatus comprises an embedding position decision unit for deciding a position in the object where the secret informat... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7336288 | Sampling rate converting system and filtering method A high-definition luminance signal Y1 is converted into a luminance signal Y2 of a rate (subpixel sampling rate) corresponding to the number of subpixels in the horizontal direction on a display by a subpixel number-of-pixel converter. The luminance si... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7301489 | Dithering noise cancellation for a delta-sigma modulator In an embodiment, a delta-sigma modulator is constructed from one or more stages of a first order low-pass filter, which has a modest gain compared to the integrator used in other embodiments of delta-sigma modulators. Delta-sigma modulators can be converted into lo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7256827 | Image reading device with thinned pixel data The image reading device comprises an imaging device on which an on-chip color filter is provided. The on-chip color filter has color filter elements of the Bayer arrangement, for example. Pixel data, output from the imaging device, are stored in a memory. When the ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7197188 | Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding apparatus and image decoding method A coded bit stream generated on a coding side consists of a VO header, a VOL header, a GOV header, a VOP header and VOP data, and the VOL header multiplexes an object intra-coded indicator signal indicating whether all the VOP data contained in a VOL or GOV are intr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184797 | Data transfer rate display selection A device for displaying data transfer rates on a display. The device includes a system for displaying the transfer rates in an alphanumeric mode or an alternative graphics mode; and a system for switching between displaying the transfer rates in the alphanumeric mod... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6965647 | Robust time domain block decoding A method for robust time domain block decoding is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a block of transform domain coefficients, detecting errors in one or more transform domain coefficients, decoding pixel values from the transform domain coe... | 11/15/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6925122 | Method for video-based nose location tracking and hands-free computer input devices based thereon A method for tracking the location of the tip of the nose with a video camera, and a hands-free computer input device based thereon have been described. According to this invention, a convex shape such as the shape of the tip of the nose, is a robust object suitable... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6810082 | Chroma based adaptive signal peaking A method and apparatus for the selective peaking of portions of a video signal is provided. The video signals, such as those transmitted in compressed form, in accordance with MPEG Standards, can be presented as blocks of data encoded using Discrete Cosine Transform... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6671420 | Method for processing saturated intervals in video sequences A method for processing saturated video intervals in a video sequence. The method either removes or retains the saturated interval. If the interval is removed, the sequence is altered to accommodate the removal. The accommodation is either complete elimin... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6603515 | Video data transmission A video data transmission system in which a transmission terminal (1) having a color camera (4) is required to transmit video information to a reception terminal (3) having only a black and white display (7). In order to minimise the transmission bit-rate... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6526174 | Method and apparatus for video compression using block and wavelet techniques A method and apparatus are disclosed for symmetrically compressing and decompressing video information in real time by coupling block and wavelet techniques. In the compression pipeline, the image is divided into blocks comprising 2k×2.sup.k p... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6459814 | Method and apparatus for generic scalable shape coding by deriving shape information for chrominance components from luminance component A generic spatially scalable shape encoding apparatus and method for deriving shape information for chrominance components from luminance component. The present generic spatially-scalable shape encoding applies a series of subband (e.g., wavelet) filters ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6445870 | Image compression and expansion device The image compression and expansion device handles pixel data (R, G, B) which are generated according to the 256-color mode. The pixel data are compressed and recorded in a recording medium. Palette information, composed of color data of the 256-color mod... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6347151 | Image signal converting/encoding method and apparatus An image signal expressing pel values and a significance signal declaring for each pel whether the pel value is significant are supplied as input signals. By referring to the input significance signal values for the pels proximal to the pel being processe... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6144763 | Method and apparatus for compression coding of image data representative of a color image and digital camera including the same A color image data compression coding apparatus of the present invention includes a signal processing section for processing RGB (Red, Green and Blue) color image data input from an imaging device to thereby output YC (luminance and chrominance) image dat... | 11/07/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5953691 | Processing system with graphics data prescaling A method and apparatus for prescaling graphics data for use in a graphics overlay operating mode of a set top box processing system. RGB pixel data for a given pixel are first converted to luminance and chrominance data for that pixel. The luminance and c... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5793427 | Processing system with delta-based video data encoding A method and apparatus for differential video data encoding which utilizes a reduced number of bits per pixel to encode chroma and luma components of a video data stream. A 4-bit absolute code is determined for a given 8-bit luma or chroma component in th... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5768403 | Image-area identifying system for a color image processing apparatus An image-area identifying system for a color image processing apparatus comprises: image area identifying means for identifying a character area or a half-tone image area by using characteristic values of pixels in each pixel block of an image area; hue d... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5642139 | PCMCIA video card Motion video may be imported into a personal or portable computer through an I/O port having a limited data bandwidth, such as a PCMCIA interface. Motion video data is compressed by sub-sampling both luminance and chrominance difference data for different... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5623310 | Apparatus for encoding a video signal employing a hierarchical image segmentation technique An apparatus for encoding a video signal comprises a processor for extracting chrominance levels for pixels in a current image frame of the video signal to generate a current chrominance image and for segmenting the generated image into a plurality of cur... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5604539 | Image processing method and apparatus It is an object of the invention to efficiently transmit a video signal including a luminance signal and a chrominance signal. The invention includes: a first processor to extract the input luminance signal every first block which is constructed by a plur... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5583572 | Moving picture decoding device A moving picture decoding device in which picture data is read from a picture memory responsive to a motion vector to perform decoding the motion-compensated moving picture and in which the picture data is also read in a pre-set sequence for display. With... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5570434 | Circuit arrangement for recognizing a human face A circuit for recognizing a human face in a sequence of video is provided. The circuit includes a block structuring circuit in which the video is structured block-wise and wherein two consecutive frames are subtracted from one another. The circuit also in... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5539664 | Process, apparatus, and system for two-dimensional caching to perform motion estimation in video processing A subset of signals corresponding to a two-dimensional set of signals is stored into an area of computer memory smaller than the two-dimensional set for processing. Additional signals are sequentially stored in the computer memory area and processed until... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5528514 | Luminance transition coding method for software motion video compression/decompression An digital video image processing system employs codes of various lengths to encode the luminance information within the digital video images. The inventive method and apparatus divides a video image into non-overlapping regions containing a plurality of ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5506621 | Image processing method and apparatus It is an object of the invention to efficiently transmit a video signal including a luminance signal and a chrominance signal. The invention includes a first processor to extract the input luminance signal every first block which is constructed by a plura... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5465118 | Luminance transition coding method for software motion video compression/decompression An digital video image processing system employs codes of various lengths to encode the luminance information within the digital video images. The inventive method and apparatus divides a video image into non-overlapping regions containing a plurality of ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5432554 | Method and apparatus for decoding images using a specified data format A method and apparatus for decoding image data. Before decoding, the image data has an OPERATING SYSTEM header, a BITSTREAM header, a Y-COMPONENT DATA field, a U-COMPONENT DATA field, and a V-COMPONENT DATA field. Each of the DATA fields has a four-byte M... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5386232 | Method and apparatus for encoding images using a specified data format A method and apparatus for encoding image data. After encoding, the image data has an OPERATING SYSTEM header, a BITSTREAM header, a Y-COMPONENT DATA field, a U-COMPONENT DATA field, and a V-COMPONENT DATA field. Each of the DATA fields has a four-byte MC... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5381180 | Method and apparatus for generating CLUT-format video images A method and apparatus for generating a video image by converting full-resolution three-component video data into color-look-up-table (CLUT) index data. The three-component video data are processed to generate N-bit index data for a lookup table that maps... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5359438 | Encoding apparatus for color image data There is disclosed an apparatus for encoding, faithful to human visual characteristic, of color image data containing luminance information and color information in the unit of each block of predertermined size, by detecting the edge of the color image da... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5351085 | Method and system for generating compressed image signals A method and system for generating compressed image signal. The system generates an analog image signal corresponding to the image, generates unencoded three-component image data from the analog image signal, and encodes the unencoded image data. After en... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5335071 | Apparatus for enhancing image quality of a videotape recorder using motion adaptive method The present invention relates to a motion adaptive picture image signal reproduction circuit which appropriately unfolds the brightness signal of a still picture image signal foldly recorded on a video tape, and outputs the brightness signal of a picture ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5079621 | DCT transform compression, transmission and recovery of digital color using virtual filtering mechanism A color imagery compression/decompression mechanism employs a contrast sensitivity function model of the human visual system for color images, to derive normalization values for compressing chromatic components of the color imagery data. The CSF model is ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5038202 | Image transmission system An image transmission system includes a modulating part for independently modulating a luminance signal and two kinds of color difference signals and a demodulating part for independently demodulating the modulated luminance signal and the two kinds of mo... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5029000 | High definition television system In a receiver for a high-definition television system a complicated motion compensated interpolation circuit for the chrominance can be dispensed with; in the event of small motions the interferences caused thereby are so small as to be disregarded, in th... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4987480 | Multiscale coding of images Image encoding apparatus and methods include recursively decomposing the luminance values of sequential frames into spatio-temporal spectral components, by quadrature mirror filter (QMF) processing of the luminance values. The filtered signals are subsamp... | 01/22/1991 |
