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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339628 | Method and apparatus to improve decoding of composite video signals Video decoder systems in which both the analog-to-digital converter and the composite decoder are driven by the stable sample clock, such as a crystal source. The outputs of the composite decoder are provided to a source rate converter, having an output that is prov... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7259799 | AGC detector and method for AGC detecting Disclosed is an AGC detector device and an AGC detecting method for television receivers displaying video pictures consisting of a plurality of horizontal lines to be built up successively, wherein a CVBS signal is inputted which includes horizontal sync pulses havi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7061540 | Programmable display timing generator A display timing generator is provided for selecting line types and providing synchronization timing signals for video signals. The display timing generator provides programmability for the user to select line types for a frame to be displayed on a display. The line... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053959 | Digital video encoder A mask circuit masks a digital video signal so that a video signal of an analog video signal is not outputted for a predetermined period after the start of output of a horizontal synchronizing signal of the analog video signal. A period of masking the digital video ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6891572 | Video signal conversion processing apparatus and method A signal processing apparatus and method for up or down conversion of an interlace signal with a high degree of accuracy. The frequency of a write system clock supplied from a PLL circuit is divided by N by a dividing circuit and then multiplied by M by a multiplyin... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6839092 | Feed forward error correction in video decoder In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention a microprocessor in the horizontal phased lock loop reads the horizontal timing with respect to the sync input and provides an increment inch to the horizontal discrete time oscillator to make corr... | 01/04/2005 |
| RE38618 | Method and apparatus for automatic pixel clock phase and frequency correction in analog to digital video signal conversion A method for producing a digital video signal from an analog video signal, the analog video signal including an analog video data signal that is raster scanned in lines across a CRT screen to form consecutive frames of video information, the raster scanning controll... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6720946 | Display device and interface circuit for the display device The present invention is directed to a display device such as a liquid crystal display including: a horizontal clock counter and a vertical clock counter which count each clock signal every horizontal cycle and every vertical cycle for a valid data period of a data ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6628254 | Display device and interface circuit for the display device The present invention is directed to a display device such as a liquid crystal display including: a horizontal clock counter and a vertical clock counter which count each clock signal every horizontal cycle and every vertical cycle for a valid data period... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6573944 | Horizontal synchronization for digital television receiver A horizontal synchronizing system, comprising: a source of a horizontal synchronizing signal; a source of first and second higher frequency horizontal drive signals; a phase detector for generating a first control voltage responsive to the horizontal sync... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6441812 | Hardware system for genlocking A computer system includes a graphics controller with a first refresh rate and a first horizontal synchronization signal; a secondary source of video data having a second refresh rate and a second horizontal synchronization signal; and a genlock unit for ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6177959 | Circuit and method for generating a clock signal synchronized with time reference signals associated with television signals A clock generation circuit for use in a television system displaying images encoded in television signals and images represented by network application data. The clock generation circuit generates a clock signal synchronized with HSYNC signals of the tele... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6014177 | Video display apparatus having phase-locked loop used for synchronizing a horizontal scan frequency with a synchronizing input signal frequency A video display apparatus comprises a phase-locked loop receiving a horizontal synchronous signal for generating an oscillation signal following the frequency of the horizontal synchronous signal, a tracking circuit for generating a tracking control signa... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5953071 | Recovering horizontal synchronization A method of, a device for, and a storage medium for recovering horizontal synchronization from a TV-signal with the use of a PLL. The number of periods during which a predetermined degree of synchronization persists is counted and the result of the counti... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5940136 | Dot clock reproducing method and dot clock reproducing apparatus using the same The invention presents a dot clock reproducing apparatus for automatically reproducing the dot clock easily, by setting the dot clock frequency of a video signal source, and correcting the phase difference of the dot clock occurring in the transmission ro... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5247229 | Adaptive scan control having horizontal scan locked clock system A television receiver includes conventional systems for receiving a broadcast type signal and displaying the received signal upon a cathode ray tube. Vertical and horizontal scan system oscillators and controls produce vertical and horizontal scan signal ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5153725 | Automatic frequency control circuit An automatic frequency control circuit includes a phase comparator, a voltage-controlled oscillator, a frequency divider, a decoder, and a discriminating circuit. The phase comparator compares a phase of an input signal of a horizontal sync signal for tel... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4636860 | Picture display device comprising a noise detector A picture display device having a synchronizing signal separating stage, a field synchronizing signal separating stage, a line synchronizing circuit and a field synchronizing circuit. The picture display device also has a noise detector for detecting nois... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4319276 | Television receiver synchronizing arrangement A television receiver including a synchronizing arrangement for providing line and field drive pulses for line and field output stages, which synchronizing arrangement comprises a line oscillator control circuit for controlling the frequency and/or phase ... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4214260 | Circuit for the line synchronization in a television receiver having a gated auxiliary control loop A line synchronization circuit in a television receiver in which gate pulses are derived from the oscillatorsignal for keying-out the synchronizing signal, in which the gate pulses are positioned by means of a phase-control loop symmetrically with respect... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4051526 | Television system comprising a video storage device and a television receiver A television system comprising a video tape recorder or the like and a television receiver, in which system the television signal contains an identification signal by which it is distinguished from the television signal received from a transmitter. The te... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4048655 | Variable speed horizontal automatic phase control A television receiver includes conventional circuitry for receiving processing and detecting an information bearing signal. Vertical scansion means respond to recovered synchronizing information and provide vertical scansion of a conventional cathode ray ... | 09/13/1977 |
