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| 7941470 | Synchronization and customization of a clone computer A computer implemented method for maintaining synchronization between a master computer disk and a clone disk that includes cloning the clone disk from the master computer disk, the clone disk having a customization portion; and customizing the customization portion... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7702703 | Determination apparatus and determination method To provide a determination apparatus and a determination method which are capable of determining whether a signal outputted from a testing object is good or not, a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) calculation circuit unit performs calculation on an image signal and a d... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7428561 | Apparatus and method for scaling digital data information A data processing apparatus for scaling a digital data source is provided. The data processing apparatus includes a ratio transformation module and a scaling module. The ratio transformation module receives a ratio signal and generates a Look-up Table (LUT). The sca... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7330864 | System and method for using native floating point microprocessor instructions to manipulate 16-bit floating point data representations A method for providing a 16-bit floating point data representation where the 16-bit floating point data representation may be operated upon by a microprocessors native floating point instruction set. The method contemplates the use a variety of techniques for conver... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7251581 | Circuit for computing moment pre-products for statistical analysis A circuit for computing moment pre-products for statistical analysis reduces data transfer volume for on-chip statistical measurements. The circuit calculates the sums of multiple exponentiations of outputs of one or more measurement circuits, thereby reducing the a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7149369 | Method and system for image scaling A method for image scaling. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for image scaling that begins by selecting an input pixel from a first image. An input edge characteristic is determined from an input window associated with the inp... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7110620 | Apparatus for processing digital image and method therefor An apparatus which processes a digital image and a method therefor which can reduce an error when calculating an output value obtained by interpolating pixel values of the input digital image. The apparatus includes an interpolation processing unit which interpolate... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103621 | Processor efficient transformation and lighting implementation for three dimensional graphics utilizing scaled conversion instructions Efficient techniques for computation of texture coordinates using scaled conversion operations for a 3D graphics pipeline utilizing a scaled floating point to integer instruction and a scaled integer to floating point instruction to significantly reduce memory requi... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7080127 | Method and apparatus for computing within a wide area network A cluster computer system including multiple network accessible computers that are each coupled to a network. The network accessible computers implement host computer programs which permits the network accessible computers to operate as host computers for client com... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7013327 | Method and apparatus for computing within a wide area network A cluster computer system including multiple network accessible computers that are each coupled to a network. The network accessible computers implement host computer programs which permits the network accessible computers to operate as host computers for client com... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007070 | Method and apparatus for computing over a wide area network A cluster computer system including multiple network accessible computers that are each coupled to a network. The network accessible computers implement host computer programs which permits the network accessible computers to operate as host computers for client com... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6985641 | Picture processing method and apparatus In a picture enlarging processing employing a MAP method, the processing volume is to be decreased to obtain a clear picture without producing blocked distortion without deteriorating the picture quality from that in the conventional practice. An energy function of ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6847378 | System and method for performing scale and bias operations by preclamping input image data In one embodiment, a scale and bias unit for use in a graphics system includes a preclamping unit configured to receive an input and to responsively generate an output value equal to a first value if the input is within a first input range. The scale and bias unit a... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6834293 | Vector scaling system for G.728 annex G A method, by a processing device, for scaling an M-bit integer input vector containing one or more vector elements. The method comprises receiving a maximum permitted left shift (MLS) value for the input vector, said MLS value being less than or equal to M−2; dete... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6728739 | Data calculating device and method for processing data in data block form A data calculating device preferably used to improve the calculation precision when fixed-point calculation is performed by block-floating-point system. Each piece of data of a data group is calculated, the minimum scale factor representative of the calculate... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6614839 | Method and apparatus for identifying the encoding type of a central office codec A technique for identifying the encoding law utilized by a central office codec may be implemented in a receive modem. The encoding law, which is typically dictated by the country in which the central office is located, is employed to generate a plurality... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6591361 | Method and apparatus for converting data into different ordinal types A method and apparatus that converts integer numbers to/from floating point representations while loading/storing the data. The method and apparatus perform this conversion within a central processing unit having a converter unit and a set of conversion r... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6587602 | Resolution conversion system and method There is disclosed a resolution conversion apparatus for converting an original digital image into a digital image having a different number of pixels in accordance with an instructed conversion magnification factor. In the apparatus, a determination circ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6559856 | Apparatus for fixed-point graphics and method therefor Lighting parameters are received as floating-point numbers from a software application via an application programming interface (API). The floating-point numbers are converted to a fixed-point representation having a preselected number of bits. The number... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6446102 | Method and device for high speed scale conversion A method and a device for high-speed scale conversion wherein a value N within a range of N1 and N2 is converted into a small value M within a range of M1 and M2. The method includes the step of obtaining an approximate value of M by loading the value (N-... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6389180 | Resolution conversion system and method There is disclosed a resolution conversion apparatus for converting an original digital image into a digital image having a different number of pixels in accordance with an instructed conversion magnification factor. In the apparatus, a determination circ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6343303 | Method of determining a scaling factor A method of determining the scaling factor for a signed n bit binary number, where n=2e, includes the steps of dividing the number into a plurality of subgroups of at least two bits each; providing a plurality of subunits holding the respective... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6219464 | Source data interpolation method and apparatus A method of generating an upsampled target pixel positioned between two lines of input source data includes the step of comparing pixels of different lines of the source data in a region surrounding the upsampled target pixel to be generated in at least t... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6161118 | Digital comb filter having a cascaded integrator stage with adjustable gain A comb filter is provided for achieving substantial attenuation of aliasing or imaging bans of a signal to be filtered. The comb filter can perform decimation or interpolation, depending upon its application. Integration can include an integration term wi... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6038576 | Bit-depth increase by bit replication A method for bit-depth increasing digital data represented by a first number of original bits which are sequentially ordered beginning with a start bit and ending with an end bit. To bit-depth increase the data, in an expanded presentation, the original b... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6002810 | Resolution conversion system and method There is disclosed a resolution conversion apparatus for converting an original digital image into a digital image having a different number of pixels in accordance with an instructed conversion magnification factor. In the apparatus, a determination circ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5991463 | Source data interpolation method and apparatus A method of generating an upsampled target pixel positioned between two lines of input source data includes the step of comparing pixels of different lines of the source data in a region surrounding the upsampled target pixel to be generated in at least t... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5956494 | Method, apparatus, and computer instruction for enabling gain control in a digital signal processor A digital signal processor (10) for implementing a gain instruction. The gain instruction, when decoded, controls a multiplexer (43) to select a gain control index signal. The value of the chosen gain control index signal is added to a program control reg... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5949923 | Image reader In an image reader, a main scanning start point of a magnification-changing processing is stored in a main scanning start point register. An increment corresponding to a magnification-changing ratio is stored in an incremental register. A pixel number to ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5574572 | Video scaling method and device A linear interpolator and decimating FIR filter with constant coefficients may be used in various configurations to scale a still or moving color video image horizontally (changing the number of pixels per row) or vertically (changing the number of pixels... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5550862 | Method and apparatus for centering equalizer taps A method and apparatus for a decision-directed timing recovery scheme to stabilize its equalizer positioning by centering equalizer taps is disclosed. First, the measure of equalizer positioning is calculated. The measure is then scaled to generate a timi... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5497436 | System and method for bit-masked color signal scaling A system for bit-masked color signal scaling comprises a processing unit, a display device, and a memory wherein a scaling unit, an image memory, a multiplication image memory, an approximation image memory, an approximation multiplication image memory, a... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5457643 | Pocket electronic data retrieval device allowing access to compressed data on a memory chip with unique interchangeable chip carrier A compact electronic data retrieval device allowing access to compressed data stored on interchangeable ROM chips. The chips which can contain directories, manuals or other materials that may be available for convenient access. The chips which are not eas... | 10/10/1995 |
| 4983966 | High-speed universal scaler A high-speed universal scaler operates in real time, accepting as an input an N-bit binary data word which is to be scaled (multiplied) by a scale factor specified in units per bit. The input data word is divided into M-bit sections which are provided (to... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4807171 | Digital phase rotation of signals A method and apparatus for effecting phase rotation of a digital signal by applying said digital signal as partial address signals for a look-up table in a memory together with rotation control signals forming additional address signals whereby the memory... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4800514 | Electronic graphic arts proportional calculator A specialized dimension proportioning hand-held calculator designed specifically for computing percent reductions of photographs in the graphic arts field. The calculator computes the percent reduction from an original width or height of the photograph an... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4785418 | Proportional automatic gain control Automatic gain control in a digital signal processor. An incoming electrical signal is sampled and multiplied by a gain factor with the resulting product compared to a constantly changing maximum value. If the magnitude of the changing maximum value lies ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4747065 | Automatic gain control in a digital signal processor Automatic gain control (AGC) is provided in a digital signal processor environment. A predetermined threshold value, a predetermined automatic gain control value, and a predetermined count threshold value are established and stored in a data memory associ... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4727506 | Digital scaling circuitry with truncation offset compensation A scaling circuit for scaling PCM signals by factors less than one includes a bit-shift and truncating circuit. Roundoff error compensating circuitry adds an offset value to the samples to be scaled by the bit-shift circuitry to compensate for errors prod... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4482973 | Digital automatic gain control circuit A digital automatic gain control circuit provided with a first AGC loop and a second AGC loop; activated alternately. The first AGC loop is activated when an input signal is initially supplied. The loop produces a certain digital value calculated as an in... | 11/13/1984 |
