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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7447335 | Apparatus for detection of objects The present invention relates to an apparatus for locating objects (such as exploded or unexploded ordnance). The embodiments take advantage of spectroscopic features of an object's paint or surface finish to discriminate between the object and the background area. ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7433528 | Image processing apparatus In an image processing apparatus that performs image processing including a plurality of steps that do not need to be executed simultaneously, processing circuits used in steps that do not need to be executed simultaneously are reconfigured in time division using dy... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421101 | System and method for local deformable motion analysis A system and method for local deformable motion analysis accurately tracks the motion of an object such that local motion of an object is isolated from global motion of an object. The object is viewed in an image sequence and image regions are sampled to identify ob... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418127 | Apparatus for testing infrared camera An apparatus for testing infrared cameras includes: a front plate which has holes arranged in line, and which is adapted to emit an amount of infrared light; and a back plate which is disposed in parallel to and behind the front plate as viewed from infrared cameras... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418159 | Document processing system with track allowing selective reprocessing of documents A document processing system includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The document track assembly includes at least one feedback section forming a document return path that extends from an exit point at one part of the document track to a reentry point at anot... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415282 | Wireless communication system providing seamless switching between full-duplex and half-duplex modes A wireless communication system is disclosed comprising a call controller to establish a communication session in a first communication mode between two or more users; receive a request from at least one of the users to switch the first communication mode of the com... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415148 | System and method for detecting anomalous targets including cancerous cells A method and system for identifying anomalous cells includes an imaging subsystem to generate a track file from collected images of cells, a image processing subsystem to extract features from the track file and generate feature sets for particular cells, and a disc... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400754 | Method and apparatus for characterization of chromophore content and distribution in skin using cross-polarized diffuse reflectance imaging A digital imaging system provides color information of an entire port wine stain or other skin condition with a single image in CIE L*a*b* color space (L*, a*) derived from RGB pixel data (R, G, B). Cross-polarization optics produce marked reduction in specularly re... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391917 | Image processing method Stored digital data is searched for on the basis of an input image, difference information is extracted by comparing the retrieved digital data and the input image, and the difference information is composited to the digital data. Digital data generated by compositi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391925 | System and method for estimating noise using measurement based parametric fitting non-uniformity correction A system and method for estimating noise using measurement based parametric fitting non-uniformity correction is disclosed. Fixed pattern noise (“FPN”) is estimating from an overall noise component within a detection system to enhance candidate target detection ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391907 | Spurious object detection in a video surveillance system A system detects an object in frames of a video sequence to obtain a detected object, tracks the detected object in the frames of the video sequence to obtain a tracked object, and classifies the tracked object as a real object or a spurious object based on spatial ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389091 | High-frequency amplification circuit A resonance circuit comprising, for example, an inductor and a plurality of capacitors is provided as a load of a transistor. The capacitors are changed over by a switch. As the capacitors are changed over by the switch, a resonance frequency is changed according to... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386316 | Enhanced video streaming using dual network mode A method and system for video data delivery for 3G mobile systems is disclosed. The throughput and quality of video data delivery in real-time is enhanced by using a combination of circuit-switched and packet-switched network and using optimal video frame dispatchin... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379757 | System and method for estimating the multi-path delays in a signal using a spatially blind antenna array A method is described that enables a system to estimate the individual times of arrival of multi-path signals components in a received signal while blind to the particular angular response characteristics of an antenna array. Additionally, a system is described that... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376416 | Subscriber radiotelephone terminal unit and terminals for such units A radiotelephone terminal unit is provided for a subscriber who has a portable radiotelephone terminal of the mobile network type or cordless telephone type which can be carried around by a user and by means of which the user communicates via a communication network... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370532 | RF communications method and system for laser ultrasonic testing A system including a processor, a high-energy density system linked to the processor, and a communicator linked to the processor. The communicator comprehensively integrates a plurality of hardware and software functions associated with operating the high-energy den... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372990 | Texture image compressing device and method, texture image decompressing device and method, data structures and storage medium A texture image compressing device includes a separating unit configured to separate intensity maps, including intensity values and light source-independent texture images, those images including color components from a plurality of texture images corresponding to d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369871 | System and method for allowing a TDMA/CDMA portable transceiver to operate with closed loop power control A method for a closed power control feedback loop allows a single portable transceiver architecture to be used for systems in which a transmit signal including both a phase modulated (PM) component and an amplitude modulated (AM) component are supplied to a power am... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369809 | System and method for continuous broadcast service from non-geostationary orbits A method, apparatus for providing at least near continuous broadcast services to one or more terrestrial receiver stations is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of satellites, each satellite in an inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbit, each satellite pr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369835 | Image rejection mixer providing precision image rejection An image rejection mixer includes a first mixer, a second mixer, a first output adjust circuit, and a second output adjust circuit. The first mixer is coupled to receive an input RF signal and a local oscillator signal and includes a first mixer stage and a first ou... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369829 | Signal reception apparatus and method for multi-band ultra-wideband communication systems A signal reception apparatus and method for communication systems. The signal reception apparatus for communication systems according to the present invention is applicable to communication environments in which a plurality of sub-bands having different frequency ba... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366478 | Partitioned radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods Radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes receiver analog circuitry that receives an RF signal and provides at least one digital signal to receiver digital circuitry that functions in cooperation with the receiver analog circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry and th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363014 | Transmitting apparatus and radio communication apparatus A transmitting apparatus 100 operates a high-frequency power amplifier 105 as a nonlinear amplifier in a first mode, and operates high-frequency power amplifier 105 as a linear amplifier in a second mode. When high-frequency power amplifier 1... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356341 | Scheduling communications in a wireless network Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a module or communications device is configured to select a plurality of terminal pairs each having a transmitting terminal a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356328 | Pre-paid wireless interactive voice response system with variable announcements A wireless communication system providing interactive voice response is disclosed. The system uses CSS7 equipment and infrastructure to account and manage pre-paid wireless services and to provide IVR (Interactive Voice Response) services. The system uses an SCP in ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349560 | Fingerprint verification device and method for the same A fingerprint verification process system comprises analysis means for analyzing fingerprint data to determine a verification scheme for verifying fingerprint, and execution means for verifying fingerprint using the determined verification scheme. The analysis means... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349559 | Fingerprint verification method and fingerprint verification device A fingerprint verification method includes extracting ND sample feature points from a fingerprint image that has been sampled, assigning sample numerical values to each of the sample feature points as sample numerical value information. The sample numeric... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343031 | Method of tracking position and velocity of objects' borders in two or three dimensional digital images, particularly in echographic images A method of tracking position and velocity of objects' borders in two or three dimensional digital images, particularly in echographic images. A sequence is acquired of at least two consecutive ultrasound image frames of a moving tissue or a moving object. The frame... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336931 | Electrical device comprising analog frequency conversion circuitry and method for deriving characteristics thereof An electrical device comprises analog conversion circuitry having an input and an output. The electrical device is essentially provided for converting a first input signal within a first frequency range applied to the input to a first output signal within a second f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336934 | Transmission modulation apparatus Linear transmission modulation apparatus 100 has high frequency amplifier 102 that amplifies the high frequency phase modulation signal of a high frequency signal and power source voltage controller 101 that amplifies the baseband amplitude modu... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336850 | Method for concealing dark defect in image sensor Disclosed is a method for concealing a dark defect in an image sensor. The method includes the steps of: setting a window including five sequential pixels from pixel data sequentially outputted, the third pixel and the fifth pixels being identical in Bayer color wit... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333675 | Method and device for extracting a subset of data from a set of data A method for extracting a subset of data from an ordered set of bi-dimensional matrices (data arrays) such as a sequence of pictures or a multi-dimensional matrix, for instance, is implemented by dedicated hardware that may be used each time it is necessary to extra... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330693 | Broadcast channels for wireless telephony A wireless system and method for providing informative broadcast services includes a plurality of base stations, each serving a plurality of wireless communications device users via a plurality of communications channels. An alert message is first transmitted to wir... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330699 | Method and apparatus for providing multicast services in a wireless communication environment Method for multicasting messages to users of a wireless communication system includes the steps of establishing a power ratio threshold for transmitting the messages, measuring respective power ratios of the users, comparing the established power ratio threshold to ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328033 | Wireless network system and method Embodiments of the present invention provide a flexible system for providing wireless broadband access. The system can include a gateway that has a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“GPE”) units and a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327983 | RF-based antenna selection in MIMO systems A method is presented for processing signals of a multiple-input, multiple-output communications system in the RF domain. The system includes multiple transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas connected by a wireless channel. A matrix M is generated based on l... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324692 | Character recognition method The present invention is a character recognition apparatus, which comprises a background discriminating section, a non-character line discriminating section, a first non-character line removed image creating section that creates a first non-character line removed im... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321786 | Method for a random-based decision-making process The method is for a random-based decision making process. A communication device is activated and a menu is displayed. In a selecting step a random generating item is selected from the menu. The variables are then defined and the variables may be provided with diffe... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7295853 | Methods and apparatus for the immediate acceptance and queuing of voice data for PTT communications In one illustrative example, a mobile station includes a wireless transceiver; a user interface including a Push-To-Talk (PTT) switch for initiating a PTT voice communication and a microphone for receiving voice input signals; one or more processors; and a First-In-... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295709 | Object identification A method of object identification comprising, for an image in which an object is to be identified, determining for each of a set of location in the direction in which the gradient of intensity change to an adjacent location is greatest together with the magnitude of... | 11/13/2007 |
