Bizarre Patents
A forehead support apparatus for resting a standing users forehead against a wall above a bathroom commode or urinal or beneath a showerhead.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903292 | Method for transmitting data in networks over data lines Bandwidth of a data line of a network is subdivided into at least two portions before or during transmission so that, while a recipient is receiving data being transmitted to the recipient from a sender over a first portion of the data line, the recipient can transm... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7260358 | Data-storage system having a wireless connection architecture for wireless data exchange between modules A connection architecture for a data-storage system may include: a connection-plane structure; a data-storage module attached to, and drawing power from, the connection-plane structure; an input/output (I/O) module attached to, and drawing power from, the connection... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7126934 | Method for base station compressing and transmitting high speed data Two related voiceband compression techniques are employed in order to enable an RF telecommunications base station to accommodate data signals of high speed voiceband modems and FAX machines. A High Speed Codec enables the base station to pass voiceband modem and FA... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123584 | Digital subscriber line user capacity estimation In a particular embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to a data communications system. The data communication system includes a plurality of digital subscriber lines, a digital subscriber line multiplexer coupled to each of the plurality of digital subscrib... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7050202 | Image data transmission method and apparatus, image data recording method and apparatus When transmitting at least one group of image data from a transmitter for transmitting image data or a relay apparatus for relaying image data using common wiring or frequency band having the same transmission wave, it is checked whether a total volume of the image ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7006259 | Facsimile apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus A facsimile apparatus is provided with boxes corresponding to an F-code which is received by facsimile transmission procedures, executes a center-machine application using the corresponding boxes based on sub-address information when receiving image information, the... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6954281 | Method and apparatus for image processing, and a computer product A programmable image processor capable of realizing a plurality of image formation operations is comprised of an SIMD type data operation processing section, RAMs, memory controllers, and memory switches. The memory controller and the memory switches selectively con... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6583887 | Method and apparatus for data compression Compression apparatus is described that operates to select an optimum compression procedure to apply to received image data. The compression apparatus can be employed in a page printer having a print engine that must be provided with video data at a const... | 06/24/2003 |
| 5900946 | Image information encoding/decoding apparatus assuring a minimum compression ratio and limiting a transfer rate Transfer control information for controlling a transfer amount per unit time of a transfer path is delivered from a transfer control section to an information transfer section. During encoding, the information transfer section receives image information f... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5663807 | Method of reducing facsimile data transmission bottlenecks in low data rate networks by dropping data lines System and method for minimizing data bottlenecks in Low Data Rate Networks (LDRNs) that communicate facsimile transmissions. An LDRN is a facsimile network having a transmission data rate less than the data rate of the FAX machines serviced by the networ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5539531 | System and method for facsimile data transmission System and method for minimizing data bottlenecks in Low Data Rate Networks (LDRNs) that communicate facsimile transmissions. An LDRN is a facsimile network having a transmission data rate less than the data rate of the FAX machines serviced by the networ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5515177 | Facsimile data transmission over a low data rate network by one dimensional decoding and two dimensional re-encoding System and method for minimizing data bottlenecks in Low Data Rate Networks (LDRNs) that communicate facsimile transmissions. An LDRN is a facsimile network having a transmission data rate less than the data rate of the FAX machines serviced by the networ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5452103 | Method and a device for image coding The invention relates to a method and a device for image coding having a particular, but not necessarily an exclusive, application in the transmission of video signals. The video signal is converted to a bit stream by coding and quantising and stored in a... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5072308 | Communication signal compression system and method A telecommunication system and method for communicating communication signals between various stations over a selected carrier medium. An improved encoder and method is provided for compressing a communication signal into a selectively formatted encoded s... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4974099 | Communication signal compression system and method A telecommunication system and method for communicating communication signals between various stations over a selected carrier medium. An improved encoder and method is provided for compressing a communication signal into a selectively formatted encoded s... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4386373 | Facsimile apparatus A predetermined number of plural lines of compressed data are processed as one group before addition of fill bits while a minimum transmission time for each such predetermined number of lines, that is, plural lines having a predetermined length is determi... | 05/31/1983 |
