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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443455 | Automatic gain control based on multiple input references in a video decoder A video decoder (10) for receiving an input video signal and producing output signals for a digital display (12), and involving automatic gain control (AGC) functions (20, 28), is disclosed. For each of the front-end and back-end AGC functions (... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7302021 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus In a digital broadcast receiving apparatus for amplifying a received modulated digital signal wave with automatically adjusted gain and demodulating the modulated signal wave to a digital signal, a tuner frequency-converts the modulated digital signal wave to genera... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7206030 | Fast-convergence two-stage automatic gain control (AGC) Disclosed are methods and systems for automatic gain control (AGC) in circuits. The disclosed methods and systems provide accurate and rapidly converging automatic gain control suited for video applications. According to disclosed preferred embodiments of the invent... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7076224 | Process for controlling the gain of a frequency tuner, and corresponding tuner, in particular for the reception of terrestrial digital television signals A method and device are disclosed for receiving digital television signals by a frequency tuner. The power of the signal is measured after an analog/digital conversion in the frequency tuner, and the gain thereof is controlled on the basis of this power measurement ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6049361 | Automatic gain control circuit and method therefor An automatic gain control (AGC) circuit of a high definition television (HDTV) signal receiver and a method to compensate for a change in amplitude of a high definition signal. The AGC circuit of the high definition signal receiver includes a non-coherent... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5986719 | Video signal clamping method and apparatus with negative peak detection A video clamping apparatus is described which uses transistors manufactured in a CMOS process to clamp an input video signal to a reference level during a SYNC period. A closed-loop system is provided which includes a buffer amplifier, a sample-and-hold d... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5884153 | Delayed automatic gain control circuit A delayed automatic gain control circuit using a simple delayed AGC voltage generation section and capable of fixing a start point of AGC in an RF amplification section at a predetermined received signal level without performing a special adjusting operat... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5737033 | AGC apparatus concurrently satisfying sufficient impedance matching characteristic and linear AGC characteristic An inexpensive AGC apparatus capable of concurrently satisfying a sufficient impedance matching characteristic and a linear AGC characteristic is provided. The AGC apparatus is provided with a linear correction circuit. The linear correction circuit corre... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5305109 | Parallel untuned video if amplifiers supplied signals from TV 1st detector via respective input filters In TV receiving apparatus, a first IF amplifier chain comprises a first gain-controlled amplifier followed in cascade connection by a second gain-controlled amplifier, and a second IF amplifier chain comprises a third gain-controlled amplifier followed in... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5268761 | Automatic gain control system for a high definition television signal receiver including an adaptive equalizer A high definition television receiver including analog and digital signal processing circuits receives an analog high definition television signal representative of digital television information. The received signal contains narrowband high priority info... | 12/07/1993 |
| 4884141 | Automatic gain control circuit The gain of a video intermediate frequency signal processing circuit (11) is varied in accordance with the charge voltage of a capacitor (C1). The capacitor (C1) is charged with a relatively small current when the peak of a video det... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4837625 | Automatic gain control device for video signals An automatic gain control device for video signals in the form of an integrated circuit uses a loop comprising comparators (3, 4) for comparing the video signal to various thresholds. Up-down counters and driving circuit (5) up-down the comparison output ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4812908 | Automatic gain control circuit having a control loop including a current threshold circuit An automatic gain control circuit having different control loops which must each be controlled in a different control current range by one and the same control current, includes a current threshold circuit having an input to which a threshold current sour... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4761687 | Automatic gain control delay circuit for a video signal processor In an automatic gain control (AGC) network in a video signal processing system, a comparator responds to an input control signal for providing an output control signal to an RF tuner amplifier for decreasing its gain below a normal maximum level when the ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4745461 | R,G,B level control in a liquid crystal TV using average of composite video signal A circuit is disclosed which, in order to perform a faithful color reproduction, controls the level of a color video signal on a liquid crystal television receiver by uniformly amplifying primary color signals R, G and B in accordance with an average of c... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4434439 | Digital television AGC arrangement An automatic gain control arrangement is provided for an analog to digital (A/D) converter in a television signal processing system. A gain-controlled source of analog signals applies a video information signal to the input of an A/D converter. The A/D co... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4246543 | Delayed AGC circuit A delayed AGC circuit in which an AGC detection output is divided into two portions, one of them is applied through buffer means to an IF amplification stage to thereby control the gain thereof, and the other portion is applied to a tuner through a thresh... | 01/20/1981 |
| 3931467 | Synchronizing circuit having a variable bandpass filter In a television receiver, an automatic phase control includes a phase detector which generates a control signal passed by a bandpass filter to a horizontal oscillator in order to synchronize locally generated horizontal pulses with the received horizontal... | 01/06/1976 |
