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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7080318 | Schema, syntactic analysis method and method of generating a bit stream based on a schema The invention proposes a new type of schema derived from the XML schema which permits to describe a coding format in a generic fashion. Such a schema is used to carry out the syntactic analysis of a bit stream to produce a document that represents the bit stream whi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072522 | Image processing apparatus and method The invention provides a method of burying additional information in an image, which can suppress deterioration of image quality and reduce an extraction error rate when extracting the additional information. For implementing the method, in an image processing appar... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7050198 | Communication terminal apparatus with e-mail address input function A communication terminal capable of sending e-mail is described in which a complete e-mail address of an e-mail recipient is specified by combining one or more e-mail address parts with two or more e-mail address parts designated by making a selection from a display... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7016089 | Amplification-type solid state imaging device with reduced shading To control the potential distribution generated in a well at the time of amplification and reduce a shading in a solid-state imaging device of amplification type, the amplification type solid-state imaging device of the present invention comprises a plurality of pic... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6760120 | Printing device control apparatus and method The object of the invention is to automatically select an optimum printing device according to the characteristics of a page in units of pages to print the page, thereby reducing the load on the operator in print processing. For this purpose, it is determined in uni... | 07/06/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6556714 | Signal processing apparatus and method A signal processor comprises a decoder 1 which decodes a bit stream S10 to provide an image signal S1 and a coding parameter S8, a switch SW1 to select a destination to which the image signal S1 from the decoder 1 is to be sent, a post-processing circuit ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6507566 | Mobile communication device, mobile data communication method, and recording medium In a mobile communication system, the PAD of the data-processing-terminal-interface has a packet assembling/disassembling function for the protocol for data-link layer A and the protocol for data-link layer B. The protocol for data-link layer A of the dat... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6323960 | Facsimile apparatus The objective of the invention is to provide a communication apparatus which can prevent an RTC signal or the like from being divided into two blocks, and can maintain appropriate ECM communications. When an ECM transmission mode is selected, image information... | 11/27/2001 |
| 5881070 | Variable length coding apparatus There is provided a coding apparatus which comprises a coding section for variable-length coding an input signal on a predetermined unit basis, an output section for outputting the data which was variable-length coded by the coding section on the predeter... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5881064 | Packet-switched data network and method of operation A node system for use in a data communication network including a plurality of source and destination data communication devices. The node system receives data packets from another node system, and forms image data from the received data packets. The node... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5854857 | Using encoding cost data for segmentation and background suppression in JPEG-compressed images An enhancement to the standard JPEG image data compression technique includes a step of recording the length of each string of bits corresponding to each block of pixels in the original image at the time of compression. The list of lengths of each string ... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5822085 | Data communication system for writing or reading data to/from image forming apparatus at a remote distance and data communicating apparatus constructing such a system In a remote registry system, an object of the invention is to read and write memory data as binary data. A memory access method is limited for a data read inhibit area or a write inhibit area. A facsimile apparatus of a remote registry system comprises an... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5724391 | Apparatus for transmission of variable length data A variable length data transmission apparatus is provided which includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter splits input variable length data into first code blocks having a block length k to convert them into a plurality of first error-correct... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5691820 | Data communication system and facsimile machine in the data communication system A facsimile communication system includes a transmitter for transmitting data in a state where a minimum value of a total amount of data to be transmitted for each scanning line is secured, the data for each block including image data, and a receiver for ... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5587810 | Communication apparatus for disabling messages specifying non-standard communication features A facsimile interface unit, which encodes signals from a facsimile terminal for transmission by satellite, can only encode signals which conform to the Group 3 standard. The interface unit intercepts signals which identify non-standard features supported ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5394406 | Data communication apparatus A data communication apparatus having an error correction communication mode, includes a memory for storing data to be transmitted in the error correction communication mode, and a control unit for, when a data amount to be transmitted in the error correc... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5374998 | Data link control method for controlling receiver and transmitter In a data link control method, a receiver and a transmitter are connected so that the transmitter can transmit every line of a predetermined data at a first speed, the receiver plotting every line of the predetermined data on a recording paper thereof at ... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5282238 | Facsimile radio communication system A communication system which enables conventional telephone-type facsimile apparatus to reliably and efficiently communicate over a conventional two-way voice radio communication system. The system includes an interface unit which is connected to the facs... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5282062 | Facsimile data processing apparatus In a facsimile data processing apparatus, printer code, including a line pitch amount control command and character codes are received from a host computer. The character codes are converted into image data and the image data is converted into transmissio... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5267036 | Video coder/decoder with shift prevision for correctly decoded signal blocks A coded data stream with end-of-block (EOB) words is divided into groups each having n EOB words so that loss of an EOB word can be determined at the receiver. When such loss is determined, EOB word(s) is or are inserted locally at the receiver to prevent... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5235618 | Video signal coding apparatus, coding method used in the video signal coding apparatus and video signal coding transmission system having the video signal coding apparatus A signal coding apparatus, which is coupled, via a transmission path, to a receiver having a receiver buffer and a decoder, includes a coding unit for coding a signal and outputting information generated in a frame unit, the information being a coded sign... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5045953 | Image data transmission apparatus with detachable reader A group III facsimile apparatus is provided with a detachable image reading unit for hand held scanning of large or bulky originals. Lines of image data from the image reading unit are stored in a memory, and then read out and converted to modified Huffma... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4947268 | Data transmission system A data transmission system including a transmitter which has functions for encoding image data and transmitting it as one unit data, and a receiver which is connected to the transmitter over a communication line and has functions for sending its minimum t... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4661857 | Facsimile communication control method A control method for controlling a facsimile communication between a transmitter and a receiver is provided. During protocol procedure, information including decoding speed and capacity of a buffer memory is supplied from the receiver to the transmitter. ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4533958 | Method of transmitting serial data between facsimile equipment and interface performing the same A method of transforming serial binary data exchanged between facsimile transceivers having different horizontal resolutions. Binary signal elements representing a scanning line are separated into a sequence of n bit data words and the number and type of ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4262309 | Facsimile reception apparatus An expander (13) expands lines of compressed received data. Each line of compressed data includes data bits followed by fill bits. A sync code follows each compressed line. A memory (14), (16) stores a previous line of expanded data and a current line of ... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4149192 | Transmission of encoded facsimile signals at variable intervals commensurate with recording time In a facsimile communication system wherein a document is scanned along its line path to generate a binary signal waveform for each line scan and the length of black or white run of each binary digit in the waveform is translated into a corresponding code... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4090222 | Facsimile signal reception system A system for receiving an input facsimile signal sometimes added with dummy codes for each predetermined number of scanning lines by the use of a decoder for decoding the input facsimile signal for each information block of picture elements on the predete... | 05/16/1978 |
