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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43339 | Audio and video signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method An audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus and method is described, which uses a movable storage memory such as a memory card, so that audio and video signals are easily accessed without separate editing devices. The apparatus uses a separable memory so... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8125571 | Video data processing module furnished with a configurable video processing unit with a single input bus According to the invention, the video data to be processed and the configuration data are transferred to the module via one and the same data bus. These modules are advantageously chained in series on a common bus which transfers to each module both the configuratio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7321719 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio recordings with digital still frame images A digital audio recording device is provided with an audio recorder adapted to receive sound waves and to provide in response a digital audio data stream. The recording device also includes an image recorder which provides digital representations of multiple still f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7298425 | Method for assisting video compression in a computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a method that facilitates compression of video data in a computer system by performing the time-consuming task of computing the difference between successive frames of video data independently from the central process... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7281212 | Object selection using hit test tracks A method for labeling the pixels within a selected visual area of at least one image frame containing that visual area from a sequence of image frames stored in memory and operative to be displayed on an interactive display so that a user may subsequently select the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7251369 | Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images A recording medium having recorded thereon information of images coded by performing motion compensation is provided to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such information includes rounding method information specifying a positive rounding method... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248742 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236635 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233704 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7200274 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196708 | Parallel vector processing A video platform architecture provides video processing using parallel vector processing. The video platform architecture includes a plurality of video processing modules, each module including a plurality of processing elements (PEs). Each PE provides parallel vect... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184601 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7154529 | System and method for enabling a person to view images of the person wearing an accessory before purchasing the accessory A personal optical viewer enables a person to view images of how the person looks wearing an accessory and compare images of how the customer looks wearing different accessories. A seller provides an accessory to a person. A capturing device captures a photograph or... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7129628 | Velocity modulation coil apparatus and cathode-ray tube apparatus A pair of velocity modulation coils are placed with a horizontal plane including a tube axis interposed therebetween, and a pair of magnetic substances are placed with a vertical plane including a tube axis interposed therebetween. A straight line portion of the vel... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7119485 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus BVM coils for modulating a scanning velocity in a horizontal direction of electron beams emitted from an electron gun are provided at a position where the BVM coils are overlapped with an electron gun in a tube axis direction, and a pair of magnetic substance pieces... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7072518 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064756 | Data processing apparatus and shading apparatus In a data processor and a shading apparatus used in the data processor, the data processor selects an address based on the information of a memory or a translation look-aside buffer. Therefore, even when the same data are accessed, a different address at high speed ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061543 | Method and circuit for image-in-image overlay The invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for picture-in-picture insertion, in which a sequence of insertion pictures (Kj=K1,K2, . . . ) is read, with vertical decimation (VD≧1), into a memory device (S) and subsequently read out, the sequence of... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061459 | Display controller, display unit and electronic apparatus The invention provides display controllers, display units and electronic apparatuses using the same, which can achieve transfer rates that can accommodate increases in the amount of display data that may result from increases in the screen size of liquid crystal pan... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050097 | Method and apparatus for the display of still images from image files An apparatus for displaying digital image files on a standard display device such as a television set is provided in the form of a set-top box. The box includes an integrated circuit and memory buffer for computing an image from a file, a second memory buffer for st... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038737 | Image processing device The image processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: DMA control means 112 having image input/output processing means 100, an external memory 111, DMA setting holding means 113, address generating means 114,... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034897 | Method of operating a video decoding system A system and method for decoding a digital video data stream. In one aspect, a plurality of hardware acceleration modules are used together with a core processor. The accelerators operate in a decoding pipeline wherein, in any given stage, each accelerator operates ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7006161 | Bus operation with integrated circuits in an unpowered state A circuit configuration applicable to systems such as consumer electronics devices enables communication between components such as integrated circuits connected to the bus. According to an embodiment, the RUN power supplies are turned to an OFF state in response to... | 02/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6917348 | Video display mode for dual displays A controller, for two display units of a computer system, includes two control elements, VC1 and VC2, having separate connections to the display units. In a dual image (DI) mode of operation, VC1 and VC2 process different data to produce ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915013 | Encoding method using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image coding method is utilized to provide high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image coding method comprises estimating motion vectors between an input image to be coded and a reference image; synthesizing a prediction image of the input image... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909809 | Decoding method using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905257 | Optical interface for 4-channel opto-electronic transmitter-receiver Optoelectronic transceiver modules having photoemitter and photodetector arrays spaced from each other are interfaced to a single optical fiber ribbon having evenly spaced optical fibers. ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6898763 | Information processing apparatus capable of switching signal processing operation between direct and processor-based modes An information processing apparatus includes a tuner receiving a signal according to a received broadcast, a first processing part performing a desired processing on the signal supplied from the tuner, converting the signal into a first signal of a given format, and... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6876400 | Apparatus and method for protecting a memory sharing signal control lines with other circuitry An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is operably coupled to the f... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6870578 | Apparatus and method for sharing signal control lines An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a first device such as a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is op... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6847410 | Picture data memory device with picture data input channels and picture data output channels A picture data memory device which can be used universally comprises a central picture data memory for storing picture data of a plurality of picture data input channels, in which case the stored picture data can additionally be read out via a plurality of picture d... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6771322 | Interface device between a semiconductor storage medium for multimedia and a standard video terminal The interface device between a semiconductor storage medium (18) for multimedia contents and a television standard video port comprises a PCMCIA slot (14) and a card reader (16) in a PCMCIA card format which is connectable therewith. A video gra... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6753925 | Audio/video processing engine An audio/video processing engine that is programmable for processing digital video and digital audio simultaneously, either in parallel or concurrently, has an audio/video I/O processor that communicates with a single programmable hardware processor having reconfigu... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6724440 | Tuning apparatus for a frequency synthesizer tuner A tuner for receiving a video broadcast signal comprises commendable circuits (6, 7, 8, 17) to select a tuned frequency, the tuner comprising a bus interface (21) receiving data bytes and among those data bytes, bytes representing a divider ratio N, an... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6717624 | Line memory in which reading of a preceding line from a first memory and writing of a current line to a second memory are performed in the same time period Two memories respectively have memory capacities which are half of a memory capacity required to store data for one line. In a first time-period of a preceding line is read from a first address of the first memory. In a second time-period dot data of a current line ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6567130 | Method and apparatus for capturing video files for use in HDTV broadcast and demonstration A method and apparatus are disclosed for capturing and storing digital high definition television signals. The signals are taken from an input device in 8-bit parallel fashion at a constant flow rate and put into each of four 8-bit first in-first out memo... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6292854 | Method and apparatus for providing high quality audio in a computer system An arrangement which utilizes the system memory to store the wave tables used in the generation of high quality sound, and a direct memory access controller to rapidly transfer the portions of the wave tables stored in memory using the system bus so that ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6151235 | Card type semiconductor memory device for storing analog image signals in separate analog memory card units In a card type semiconductor memory device, a plurality of memory chips each of which stores, as analog values, a still image formed from a color interleaved analog image signal using analog nonvolatile semiconductor memories for writing/reading color int... | 11/21/2000 |
