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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7139684 | High bandwidth real time oscilloscope A method and apparatus for digitizing a data signal, the method comprising the steps of receiving an input analog data signal, splitting the received input analog data signal into a plurality of split signals, and mixing at least one of the split signals with a pred... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7042940 | Digital video signal transmission apparatus and image display apparatus A digital video signal transmission apparatus is provided with (a) a digital video signal conversion circuit for converting each chrominance signal of an input digital video signal in such a manner that every plural frames (1) in one frame of the plural frames each ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6853385 | Video, audio and graphics decode, composite and display system A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section filtering as well as DVB and DES decryption and to de-multiplex them. The system processes the PES into digita... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6748005 | Methods and apparatus for providing a direct frequency hopping wireless interface with a personal computer A system and method to provide cost effective, portable and convenient access to the Internet and other personal computer applications from any location within a predetermined distance from a desktop personal computer (PC). According to one aspect, a compact handhel... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6195797 | Apparatus and method for providing computer display data from a computer system to a remote display device A method and apparatus are provided for enabling multiple users to concurrently access a PC-based server in a home local area network using conventional TVs as display devices. A client system includes a TV, conventional input devices, such as a keyboard ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5469219 | RF-based high-bandwidth signal transmission method and apparatus A method and apparatus for signal transmission in which each of a series of input signals (e.g., RGB baseband video signals) is frequency-modulated onto an intermediate frequency. The intermediate frequency signals thus produced are then fed through RF mi... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5438371 | Data transmission method At least a first and a second digital signal, both in parallel form, are converted to a single serial signal and transmitted from a digital color decoder to a signal processing unit so as to avoid picture disturbances in the signal processing unit. The fi... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5365275 | Method and apparatus for generating PAL video signal by digital processing Disclosed is a method and apparatus for highly stably and accurately generating a PAL video signal by digital processing. The method and apparatus comprise generating a basic clock having a frequency which is 11×N times (N: an integer) as high as a horiz... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5134464 | Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception of a multicarrier digital television signal A method and apparatus for encoding a television source signal having a first bandwidth, into a frequency multiplexed signal having a narrower bandwidth and comprising a plurality of subcarriers modulated with digital information. Each of said subcarriers... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5053860 | Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception multicarrier high definition television signal A method and apparatus for generating a multi-carrier high-definition television (HDTV) signal including a digital sound and sync (DSS) component, on a conventional television channel, for example, 6 Hz. MAC derived signal components are quadrature modula... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4970596 | Pseudo line locked write clock for picture-in-picture video applications The write clock controlling operation of the PIP circuitry (e.g. the analog digital converter in the PIP channel) utilizes a clock signal source having a substantially higher frequency (preferably six times) the desired write clock frequency. This clock s... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4958230 | Method of transmitting auxiliary information in a television signal Apparatus for augmenting a television signal with auxiliary signal includes circuitry for modulating a picture carrier with baseband video signal to generate a vestigial sideband television signal. Auxiliary signal is modulated on a further carrier of suc... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4926245 | Quadrature amplitude modulation preserving one channel zero crossing for video telephone The present invention provides a QAM modulation scheme compatible with a single channel demodulator. The inphase (I) channel is provided with luminance information encoded on a series of sine wave symbols. The quadrature (Q) channel is used for color diff... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4893175 | Video signal transmission system with reduced number of signal lines A video signal transmission system for transmitting a plurality of color video signals and horizontal/vertical sync signals from a transmitter part to a receiver part through a plurality of signal transmission lines is disclosed. The transmitter part incl... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4652938 | Digital processing circuit for video signal A digital processing circuit for a video signal digital by processing a composite video signal. More specifically, a composite video signal is separated into a luminance signal and a color signal by means of a Y/C separator (10). The color signal separate... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4597005 | Digital color photographic image video display system In a color photographic video data conversion system digital data representing each of three primary color components of a pixel is converted (i.e. encoded) to digital data comprising luminance data for the pixel and smoothed (i.e. averaged) chrominance d... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4464685 | Method and apparatus for decoding and recording composite digital television signals to prevent degradation of the signals A decoder-recoder arrangement for decoding a composite digital television signal for recording on a digital video recorder and for subsequently recoding the reproduced signal, the arrangement comprising a decoder including filters for separating two chrom... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4295156 | Method for producing color television signals To transmit color video information from one point to another within a color television studio complex, particularly for distribution of source signals which are intended to be processed in a digital mode at another location in the studio, the information... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4068258 | Method for compressing then expanding a television signal The present invention relates to methods which make it possible to partially eliminate the redundancy in television signals. It consists in splitting the spectrum of the video signal into two parts, one containing the low frequencies, this being transmitt... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4051517 | Hybrid sequential and carrier encoded color television transmission method and circuits A method and circuits for encoding a color video signal for processing, preferably recording and/or playback of said signal within a limited bandwidth of not more than 3MHz without a separate channel for color information such that one half the sum of two... | 09/27/1977 |
