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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149329 | Image processing system and related image processing method thereof An image processing system, for processing display data and vertical blanking interval data carried by a composite signal, is disclosed. The image process system includes: a video decoder, for decoding the display data to generate corresponding image data; a VBI dec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7415718 | Receiving and processing vertical blanking interval data A system and method for receiving, processing, and storing electronic data transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a video signal. The system provides a flexible mechanism for reading electronic data from video signals including those in National Television... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7379653 | Audio-video synchronization for digital systems The audio-video synchronization process ensures continuity of displayed AV data. To initialize the process, a transport processor determines whether an occupancy criterion of a buffer storing received audio and video frames has been met. If the criterion is met, the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7334248 | Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system A method and an apparatus for processing a packetized transport stream that determines whether a sequence of transport packets are received in a proper sequence and whether an error is present in a particular transport packet. The method includes the steps of determ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7230986 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a video formatter and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7215679 | Method, apparatus and data structure enabling multiple channel data stream transmission A method, apparatus and data structure enabling multiple channel data stream transmission by inserting data to be transmitted into portions of a plurality of transport streams nominally including NULL packets. The inserted packets have associated with them stream id... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210159 | System and method for transmitting and utilizing electronic programs guide information Television schedule information transmission and utilization systems transmit TV schedule data and associated network control messages provided by computer as packets via the Video Blanking Interval (VBI) lines in the TV signal from various television program provid... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203663 | System and method for converting information on paper forms to electronic data The invention is a system and method for converting paper forms to electronic data. More specifically, a special purpose system and technique are described for performing the conversion in a manner that is advantageous in terms of overall cost and cycle time. The ap... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197164 | Time-varying video watermark A digital watermark embedder reduces a watermark signal as a function of time varying properties of video such that a watermark that would otherwise be static over frames is selectively reduced to make it imperceptible. The method computes a watermark signal corresp... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7155674 | Accessing television services A television system allows viewers to access a number of different groups of television content, or “service aggregates.” A portal interface for each group provides a direct means for the viewer to navigate between members of a service aggregate, without necessa... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150028 | Method and system for downloading, storing and displaying coupon data using the horizontal overscan portion of a video signal A method and system for decoding and storing encoded coupon data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An electronic coupon displays representations of coupons defined by coupon data that can be extracted from an encoded video signal that can... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149811 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a reconfigurable processing stage and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7138991 | Lighting apparatus, communication method, display unit, communication circuit and terminal adaptor A display data packet contains identification information. A display unit communication system includes a control unit, a terminal adaptor to which a terminal adaptor ID is assigned and which is connected to the control unit, and a display unit to which a display un... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130791 | Computer system and OSD displaying method for the same Disclosed is a computer system including a computer body operated according to a predetermined operating system, and a display device having a display section for receiving a video signal from the computer body to display images on the screen thereof in response to ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126714 | Method and apparatus for printing contents carried on broadcast signals A printing apparatus for printing out contents carried on broadcast signals onto paper, which comprises a receiving unit for receiving the broadcast signals; a detecting unit for detecting designated contents, which are designated for printing, from contents carried... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7107286 | Integrated information processing system for geospatial media An integrated information processing system for geospatial information processing. The information processing system includes a scheduling module, an acquisition module, a production module, a distribution module, a geospatial data specification, and a geospatial me... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102689 | Systems and methods for decoding teletext messages A system and method for efficiently detecting and decoding valid teletext message sequences is provided. A system is provided that includes a correlator, a sine wave generator, two time window generators, a phase detector, a framing code search engine, and a match f... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095783 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including start codes and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088732 | Apparatus and methods for storing and comparing PIDs An apparatus for storing and comparing PIDs (Packet Identifiers) is disclosed which comprises a plurality of PID storing units for separately storing portions of PIDs in groups of 2 or more bits, a plurality of PID receiving and storing units for storing a PID of a ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7054463 | Data encoding using frail watermarks Image, video, or audio data is encoded with both a frail and a robust watermark. The two watermarks respond differently to different forms of processing (e.g., copying the object may render the frail watermark unreadable), permitting an original object to be disting... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050603 | Watermark encoded video, and related methods Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizable obj... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039930 | Television advertising automated billing system Advertising is marked with a code in a way which makes it difficult to fool the system. The advertising is marked with a code at the time the advertising is produced. Then, when the advertising is broadcast, the code on the advertising is analyzed. Different securit... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027520 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously retrieving portions of a data stream from different channels An apparatus and method for simultaneously processing each of a plurality of carrier signals having data modulated thereon, wherein a complete data stream is formed by extracting at least portions of at least two of the modulated signals and combining the extracted ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024676 | System for acquiring and processing broadcast programs, program guide and channel identification data A system for acquiring program guide information conveyed on one of a plurality of broadcast channels involves identifying an individual broadcast channel in response to user entry of either of, (a) a first channel identification number (e.g. a virtual channel ident... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020889 | Method for calling up information about current radio and television programmes A method for calling up information about current radio and television programs wherein desired signals are transmitted together or separately with decodable additional information signals. The method includes the steps of selecting from the additional information s... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019723 | Display unit communication system, communication method, display unit, communication circuit, and terminal adapter A display data packet contains identification information. A display unit communication system includes a control unit, a terminal adaptor to which a terminal adaptor ID is assigned and which is connected to the control unit, and a display unit to which a display un... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6999511 | Dynamically switching quant matrix tables within an MPEG-2 encoder A digital video encoder is presented adapted for dynamically switching between sets of quantizer matrix tables without pausing encoding of a stream of video data. Two or more sets of quantizer matrix tables are held at the encoder's quantization unit and compressed ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6977689 | Method for timing data processing and implementing device The invention relates to a process and a device for time-managing the utilization of data detected in a data flow and constituting a data set. The device comprises a circuit (MP) for calculating a minimum duration of utilization of the detected data, which is... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978471 | System for acquiring and processing broadcast programs and program guide data Decoder system initialization involves scanning to associate a particular program guide with individual channels. A similar procedure is also performed upon introduction of a new channel. A system for acquiring program guide information conveyed on one of a pluralit... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970960 | Instream loader A method of downloading data to a receiver/decoder comprises the steps, at the receiver/decoder, of: receiving a bitstream including the data; downloading a loader for loading the data from the bitstream into the receiver/decoder, and downloading said data from the ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6952236 | System and method for conversion of text embedded in a video stream A system and method for converting text data having a Teletext format to text data having an Electronics Industries Associations-608 (EIA-608) format are illustrated herein. A video stream with embedded text data having a Teletext format is received by a dual mode t... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950930 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including pipeline processing and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 09/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6937294 | Multiplexed video signal interface signal, system and method A multiplexed video signal interface in accordance with the present invention provides a multiplexed component video signal which includes component video signals with OSD data and user-controllable contrast and video gain, along with the ability to individually con... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937289 | Method and system for downloading and storing interactive device content using the horizontal overscan portion of a video signal A method and system for decoding and storing encoded control data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An interactive device such as an interactive toy performs behavior defined by control data that can be encoded into a video signal that ca... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6925092 | Communications system and communication method for data multiplexing A communication station and communication method for effectively multiplexing data into a combined data stream by adding a special header to the combined data packet. The bit positions of this special header indicate the presence of data packets in a data stream in ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917691 | Substituting information based on watermark-enable linking OLE-like principles are implemented using watermark data in digital objects in order to effect object linking or embedding. In one embodiment, a photocopier scans an original paper document to produce image data. This image data is analyzed for the presence of water... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912008 | Method of adding data to a data communication link while retaining backward compatibility A method of adding auxiliary data, e.g., audio data, to a high-speed serial video link in such a way that it is invisible to existing receiver and such that auxiliary data, e.g., audio, can be transmitted without any knowledge of the capabilities of the display to r... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6910125 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a decoder with token generator and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909467 | Broadcast text data sampling apparatus and broadcast text data sampling method A broadcast text data sampling apparatus comprises an A/D converter for sampling a broadcast text signal supplied from the outside, with a sampling clock of a predetermined frequency, to convert the text signal into digital data; a binarization circuit for convertin... | 06/21/2005 |
