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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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| 8164693 | Line memory packaging apparatus and television receiver According to one embodiment, using several random access memory components, these several RAM components are integrally driven to form a logical line memory. The number of using RAM components is reduced to the minimum, and thereby, hardware cost is reduced. A line ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7336765 | Portable system and method for non-intrusive radioscopic imaging Described herein is a portable, self-contained, electronic radioscopic imaging system that utilizes a multiple camera imager and advanced processing techniques to image suspicious containers. An X-ray sensor or imager utilizes a scintillating screen that produces fl... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336302 | Frame memory device and method with subsampling and read-out of stored signals at lower resolution than that of received image signals A frame memory device is employed in a digital camera, for example, to output raster-scanned digital color image signals at lower resolution than that of original image signals. The order of sequentially received original raster-scanned digital color image signals i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7289602 | Portable, digital X-ray apparatus for producing, storing, and displaying electronic radioscopic images A portable, self-contained, electronic radioscopic imaging system uses a pulsed X-ray source, a remote X-ray sensor, and a self-contained, display and controller unit to produce, store, and/or display digital radioscopic images of an object under investigation. The ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7142638 | Portable, digital X-ray apparatus for producing, storing, and displaying electronic radioscopic images A portable, self-contained, electronic radioscopic imaging system uses an X-ray converter screen for converting impinging X-ray radiation to visible light, and thus each point impinged on the screen by X-ray radiation scintillates visible light emissions diverging f... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7110496 | Portable system and method for non-intrusive radioscopic imaging Described herein is a portable, self-contained, electronic radioscopic imaging system that utilizes a multiple camera imager and advanced processing techniques to image suspicious containers. An X-ray sensor or imager utilizes a scintillating screen that produces fl... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7065715 | Processing device that maintains display order between corresponding items in different display areas An image information processing system that displays first and second information about image information stored in the system and interlinks the first and second information, such that when the order of the first information is changed, the order of the second info... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053888 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus include a plurality of scan wirings and a plurality of modulation wirings forming a matrix, display elements to be driven in matrix according to a scan signal applied by the scan wirings and a modulation signal applied by the modulation wi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6950143 | Motion compensated de-interlacing in video signal processing A processing circuit for motion compensated de-interlacing of video signals, having a line memory 21, a de-interlacing circuit 22, a frame memory 24, and a cache memory 25, further includes a pixel mixer 29 interposed between the c... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6937291 | Adaptive video scaler An adaptive filter is adjustable for performing scaling operations. During a scaling operation, the adaptive filter stores scaled data in a memory such that more data samples may be retrieved during a subsequent scaling operation. The size of a finite impulse respon... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920180 | Image processing inspection apparatus In the present invention, the same image data, captured by a TV camera, is processed by the use of an image-processing board connected to an extension bus constituted by a personal computer and a CPU board inside the personal computer so that the CPU board and the i... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6903782 | System and method for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image There is disclosed an apparatus for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image. The apparatus comprises: 1) an input buffer for storing video frames of an incoming video signal; 2) a segmentation controller capable of segmenting a first stored frame... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6753932 | Method and apparatus for controlling convergence of color signals An image processing apparatus is disclosed by which correction of convergence and correction of distortion of an image can be performed with a high degree of accuracy. Correction data to be used for correction of position errors of the three colors of red, green and... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6525773 | Image processing device and method with data block flow control An image processing device of the present invention includes a plurality of processing sections for successively receiving and decoding a plurality of data blocks, which have been obtained by encoding a plurality of image blocks of an image. The plurality... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6515715 | Method and system for code packing in a digital video system New and improved methods and apparatus for code packing in a digital video system. Among others, a method of transferring a data block to a storage device is disclosed. The storage device can include a plurality of compartments. The method includes receiv... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6205181 | Interleaved strip data storage system for video processing A method and apparatus for storing a macroblock from a video data stream is disclosed. A macroblock is received, the macroblock having a plurality of blocks corresponding to a plurality of color space components and having a width defined by a plurality o... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6104416 | Tiling in picture memory mapping to minimize memory bandwidth in compression and decompression of data sequences A method of storing a picture in a memory such that the latency of the memory can be reduced when retrieving a picture from the memory to be displayed while still reducing the bandwidth when retrieving an array portion of the picture from the memory, and ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6052149 | Method and apparatus for interleaving chrominance signals in a video signal processor A video signal memory holds blocks of data representing luminance and first and second chrominance signals, the first and second chrominance signals being held in interleaved rows within the blocks, data being transferred from said blocks to a temporary s... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5982425 | Method and apparatus for draining video data from a planarized video buffer A method and apparatus for draining video data from a planarized video buffer in a video camera. The method includes the steps of reading a first sequence of video data from a first plane of the planarized image buffer starting at a buffer address indicat... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5920352 | Image memory storage system and method for a block oriented image processing system A multi-channel memory system for holding video image data employs a particular form of interleaving in each channel to achieve optimum performance. Data representing luminance and chrominance components are written into the memory in respectively differe... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5917478 | Memory allocation method and apparatus for compression and decoding picture data An information processing method used for compressing or decoding picture data wherein, in securing an area in which to store restored picture data, pre-set processing can be performed speedily without producing caching errors. Storage sites on a data mem... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5838394 | Picture storage device separates luminance signal into even number and odd number data and separates two channel color signal into former half pixels and latter half pixels A picture storage device conveniently employed in conjunction with an electronic still camera or a video camera has an input data converting unit for separating luminance signals of input color picture data having a non-interlaced data format with the sam... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5710604 | Video memory device for color-sequential-type displays A field emission device (10) includes a video memory device (12) that receives video data in parallel for each of three colors red, green, and blue. The video memory device (12) provides the video data in color sequential manner to a controller (14). The ... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5706059 | Motion estimation using a hierarchical search A hierarchial search for moving image encoding determines a motion vector by comparing a target block to sets of blocks selected according to the results of previous comparisons. Typically, each set of blocks includes a central block and four blocks offse... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5680181 | Method and apparatus for efficient motion vector detection A method and apparatus for efficient motion vector detection is disclosed that provides an expanded search window with a plurality of motion processors. The internal search window of each motion processor is arranged as a set of N row by M column rectangu... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5654773 | Picture storage device separates luminance signal into even number and odd number data and separates two channel color signal into former half pixels and latter half pixels A picture storage device conveniently employed in conjunction with an electronic still camera or a video camera has an input data converting unit for separating luminance signals of input color picture data having a non-interlaced data format with the sam... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5623311 | MPEG video decoder having a high bandwidth memory A decoder for a video signal encoded according to the MPEG-2 standard includes a single high-bandwidth memory and a digital phase-locked loop. This memory has a single memory port. The memory is used to hold 1) the input bit-stream, 2) first and second re... | 04/22/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5557426 | Image information signal processing apparatus An image information signal processing apparatus for processing a first image information signal having at least a first image signal and a second image signal which is different from the first image signal, and a second image information signal having a ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5557332 | Apparatus and method for reproducing a prediction-encoded video signal A digital video signal that has been encoded using motion-compensated prediction, transform encoding, and variable-length coding, is decoded using parallel processing. Frames of the video signal are divided into slices made up of a sequence of macroblocks... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5541658 | Image coding-decoding apparatus with efficient memory access An image coding and decoding apparatus which can produce an improved amount of the effective data per time unit especially in a case where the image data are processed in the field unit. The apparatus includes: a subtracting unit which subtracts a referen... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5528380 | Apparatus and method for synchronizing picture signals An apparatus for synchronizing a plurality of signals forming a picture signal is provided. The plurality of signals include at least two types of signals, each having a predetermined time unit. The two types of signals are alternately outputted. The appa... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5526057 | Video storage A video storage arrangement produces a continuous video signal representing a test pattern. One luminance frame store is provided and two chrominance frame stores. A selection can be made between NTSC, PAL and SECAM modes. Switches are provided for select... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5488432 | Video signal processing method for changing a video signal display format The present invention concerns a processing method for a video signal coded in the form of blocks of K words, this signal being written to or read from two frame memories (FM1, FM2) each including an input port, a high speed output port and a low speed ou... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5450130 | Method and system for cell based image data compression A method and system for compressing color video or other image data for transmission over a low cost, low bandwidth bus (or other transmission link). Preferred embodiments implement lossless compression and include a frame buffer for storing data compress... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5416510 | Camera controller for stereoscopic video system A method and apparatus for time multiplexing and demultiplexing two channels of picture information within a standard video channel. The method is specifically designed for field sequential stereoscopic display applications, but may be used for non-stereo... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5384581 | Image processing apparatus There is disclosed a control circuit of a memory device of a random access type for storing first data and second data whose reading/writing cycle time is longer than that of the first data, including: a memory circuit for reading/writing a predetermined ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5379071 | Method of encoding a location of changes in a sequence of video images The present invention divides a video frame into a series of smaller and smaller quadrants until reaching a single pixel size. By issuing a series of commands, a logical cursor moves within the quadrants to evaluate the frame for changes from the previous... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5311303 | Image processing apparatus having a memory for storing information relating to color At the time of registration, an image processing apparatus registers color information (R, G, B) from a host computer as permanently registered information in a buffer and as temporarily registered information in a table in accordance with a command from ... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5068650 | Memory system for high definition television display A system for combining a plurality of video signals and various forms of still imagery such as text or graphics into a single high resolution display is disclosed. The inventive system utilizes a multiport memory and a key based memory access system to fl... | 11/26/1991 |
