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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5148496 | Optical correlator with symmetric reflective optics A discoid optical correlator system having a plurality of reflective optical components, a source of electromagnetic radiation, such as visible light, and an output detector which are positioned around the rim region of a solid disk body to develop a symm... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5119436 | Method of centering bond positions A method for increasing accuracy and reducing the time required to teach the target bonding points on a reference semiconductor device and its associated lead frame comprises manually approximately locating at least a first target bonding point and at eac... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5109434 | Image processing apparatus There is disclosed an image recording apparatus having reader for photoelectrically reading an original and generating image information, a first transmitter for transmitting the image information from said reader, after compressing treatment, to an outsi... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5093872 | Electronic image compression method and apparatus using interlocking digitate geometric sub-areas to improve the quality of reconstructed images A method and apparatus for compressing digital image data using interlocking digitate geometric sub-areas. The digital picture elements, or PELs, representing the image are divided into interlocking digitate sub-areas, which, in the preferred embodiment, ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5077812 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus including an input circuit for receiving image data, a binarizing unit for binarizing a subject pixel of the image data supplied from the input circuit, an error detector for detecting an error between a binarized image data ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5075895 | Method and apparatus for recognizing table area formed in binary image of document A method for recognizing a table area in a document, includes the steps of extracting image data on a table area having a table from binary image data on a document, extracting a line segment extending in a first direction from the image data on the table... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5073965 | Image processing system There is disclosed an image processing system capable of effectively utilizing a large-sized display unit by expanding the image signals to be displayed.... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5073966 | Image data processing apparatus An image data processing apparatus comprises output means for outputting image data for each pixel and compression means for compressing the image data supplied from the output means to image data of a predetermined number of bits. The compression means c... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5068904 | Image memory circuit for use in a rotation of image data A memory circuit receives (n×n) data dots of an image data and stores a plurality of data dots selected from the image of data in a single address. Before the plurality of data dots are stored in the single memory, they are shifted in a transverse row di... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5065436 | X-ray computerized tomograph In an X-ray CT which extracts data corresponding to transmitted data of a parallel beam X-ray from transmitted data of an X-ray acquired based on a fan beam X-ray and carries out reconstruction of an image based on the data, the present invention which re... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5063604 | Method and means for recognizing patterns represented in logarithmic polar coordinates Image processing method and apparatus wherein candidate points are first selected in a log-polar image domain. The points may be selected by edge detection, thresholding, or any method suitable for identifying image points which are likely to lie on some ... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5058186 | Method and apparatus for image compression In order to highly efficiently compress images of large quantity obtained by the photographing from a plurality of view points, provision is made of means for photographing a three-dimensional body or the like from a plurality of view points, means for fo... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5054088 | Signature verification data compression for storage on an identification card Apparatus and methods are described which take advantage of the peculiar characteristics of dynamic signature data while segmenting and compressing such data for storage on a limited capacity device. Compression is accomplished by digital oversampling, se... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5054103 | Picture encoding system A picture encoding system which performs a prediction of picture element values within a block having a plurality of picture elements into which an original picture is divided, a discrete sine transform with respect to prediction error signals for obtaini... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5054096 | Method and apparatus for converting documents into electronic data for transaction processing A system for electronically transaction processing a large volume of documents utilizes high speed local area networks to distribute images and data related to the documents. Connected to the high speed network are slower speed networks in which the proce... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5052042 | Method and apparatus for using microfilm for data input into a computer The invention relates to a system that uses human readable microfilm to store information and retrieve that information for later use in a computer. The microfilm is put into a Computer Input Microfilm (CIM) Reader that scans the film and converts the cha... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5048110 | Method and apparatus for automatically correcting subtraction image density In a temporal subtraction processing conducted by use of stimulable phosphor sheets, the difference between maximum transmitting radiation amount of digital image signals detected from the stimulable phosphor sheets carrying radiation images stored therei... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5042078 | Method of effecting gradation and color correction of a composite image A method of making color and gradation correction performs color and gradation correction differently for a human subject image and a computer graphic image before or after composing these images. A gradation correction is carried out by the use of linear... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5042077 | Method of highlighting subtle contrast in graphical images A display for medical diagnostic equipment produces an image of the subject under study and a histogram image which indicates the distribution of brightness levels of the image pixels. Using a trackball, the operator manipulates a contrast window which is... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5038381 | Image/text filtering system and method Image/text filtering apparatus and method for use in optical character recognition (OCR) scanning is disclosed. The invention filters video data representing text and image data on a document and erases the image data so that only the text data remains.... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5038379 | Image information searching apparatus There is an image information searching apparatus for analyzing the character information in the image information inputted from an image inputting apparatus and producing search information to search the image information. This apparatus comprises: a sca... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5038393 | Method of effectively reading data written on data sheet, and data reading apparatus therefor In a character reading apparatus, a slip image having three reference marks printed at three of the four predetermined corners of the slip is stored in an image buffer. The image in the image buffer is scanned to detect the three reference marks. A feed o... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5036545 | Picture image reading system In a picture image reading system having a scanning system for scanning the surface of a picture image medium with light beams, an optical system for condensing the light beams transmitted through or reflected from the picture image medium and dividing th... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5033098 | Method of processing character blocks with optical character reader To efficiently process character blocks including mutually contacting characters by an optical character reader, not only are histograms prepared in a known manner but after candidate positions are determined from a histogram according to a specified set ... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5033101 | Method for character-and/or-object recognition Unknown characters and objects are read opto-electronically and the read signals are digitized to generate a binary image of the characters and objects, said image being compared with binary reference images of known reference characters and reference obj... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5033105 | Video compression algorithm A method for encoding compressed graphics video information and decoding such information. The method consists of enriching the video information in zeros through shifting and Exclusive ORing video with itself. A number of methods are attempted in the shi... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5027416 | Method of recognizing and locating the positions of templates disposed on sheet or plate material A method of recognizing templates and detecting their positions on sheet or plate material, e.g. hide, which hide is placed on a supporting table, the method using optical reader means and template marker means which are readable by said optical reader me... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5022088 | Image processing apparatus with provision for memory operation There is disclosed an image processing apparatus for electrically handling image information, particularly in compressed form, in which the efficiency of memory utilization is improved by storing information of plural pages in successive manner in a memor... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5020122 | Automatic document image revision A system for electronically storing revisions or modifications to documents which are already electronically stored in unrevised or unmodified form. The system compares, at the pixel-by-pixel level, a modified document bit map with a stored document bit m... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5020121 | Neighborhood block prediction bit compression A method for compression of data used to describe an ideographic character, or a set of such characters such as Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic or Tamil characters or a set of two-level images, on a computer screen. The computer screen is divided into a... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5020113 | Maskable bilevel correlators A method and apparatus for correlating two signals representing a live image and a reference image are disclosed. The reference signal is processed to provide a polarity bit and mask bit for each pixel position in the reference image. The processed video ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5020110 | Arrangement for checking documents An arrangement for checking or examining bank-notes or similar documents include a detector, such as a CCD array of, for example, 256 photocell devices. The documents are scanned by the photocell devices transversely of their longitudinal extent. The sign... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5018213 | Method and apparatus for registration mark identification Apparatus and method particularly suitable for use with the close loop color to color registration system of a commercial web printing apparatus utilizes a CCD camera for identifying registration marks. The registration mark composed of a pattern of dot p... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5014333 | Image processor with smooth transitioning between dither and diffusion processes An image processor converts a multiple gray-level image to a bi-tonal image using both error diffusion and ordered dither to enhance image quality. The error diffusion process is attenuated smoothly as the local area intensity approaches a light or dark m... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5012521 | Context-base input/output system When a pattern is manually drawn on a tablet with an electronic pen, a computer executes a graphic processing to display on a CRT a geometrically defined pattern which best resembles the manually drawn pattern. Moreover, a pattern element is erased, divid... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5008948 | System for recognizing handwritten letters A handwritten letter recognition system comprises a reading unit and a recognition unit which are connected to a local area network. In the reading unit, a handwritten letter is read by a reading section to change the read handwritten letter into handwrit... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5007102 | Data compression using block list transform A transform approach to image coding where pixels are coded in the order prescribed by a predetermined "List". The code for each pixel is developed by computing a prediction for the pixel based on the known pixel values in the neighborhood of the pixel an... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5007098 | Vectorizing method A vectorizing method generates an original train of codes for specifying boundary pixels. A revised train of codes is generated solely from the original codes. The revised train may includes points omitted from the original train. Vector points defining b... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5003612 | Method of identification of a product for the purpose of preventing fraud and device for carrying out this method This method consists in introducing a programmed defect at the writing level; the defect will be detected at the reading level by means of a key corresponding to the writing control algorithm which is known only to the user.... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5001767 | Image processing device An image processing device capable of processing images containing poorly contrasted letters and/or bold letters in addition to well contrasted letters and pictures such that both resolutions of letters and tones of pictures can be preserved. The device m... | 03/19/1991 |
