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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6524019 | Inter-cluster data transfer system and data transfer method In a hierarchical multiprocessor system in which a plurality of clusters, each of which is a multiprocessor wherein a plurality of processors share a memory, each of data collecting units 31 of master processors 10-1 and 20-1 in clusters 10 and 20, respec... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6023661 | Streaming potential system and method A fully automated computer controlled system and method to simultaneously measure in a dynamic mode the streaming potential, impedance and permeability resulting from a flow of various liquids through a sample, particularly a compressed mass of human hair... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5875303 | Method and arrangement for transmitting an interactive audiovisual program Disclosed are a method and arrangement for accessing interactive audiovisual programs stored on a remote server (1) by a multimedia station (2). The audiovisual program is stored in the same format as it is stored on a CDi disc, i.e. in the form of sector... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5856930 | Disc-shaped recording medium, disc recording apparatus and disc reproducing apparatus According to the present invention, when image data high-efficiency-coded based on the MPEG standard or the like is clustered at every sector of a predetermined number, a link sector is provided at a connected portion of each cluster and the image data is... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5850352 | Immersive video, including video hypermosaicing to generate from multiple video views of a scene a three-dimensional video mosaic from which diverse virtual video scene images are synthesized, including panoramic, scene interactive and stereoscopic images Immersive video, or television, images of a real-world scene are synthesized, including on demand and/or in real time, as are linked to any of a particular perspective on the scene, or an object or event in the scene. Synthesis is in accordance with user-... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5847972 | Method and apparatus for graphically analzying a log-file A technique for interactively analyzing system log-files. System log-files, which are monitored by technical personnel and systems specialists to determine system performance, status, and software faults, are often generated during various hardware and so... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5838919 | Methods, systems and computer program products for endpoint pair based communications network performance testing Communications network performance is tested utilizing a test scenario simulating actual communications traffic on the network to be tested. The test scenario includes an endpoint node specific test protocol between an endpoint node pair including a first... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5832234 | Encoding images using block-based macroblock-level statistics Block-level statistical measures are generated and then used to generate macroblock-level statistical measures, which are in turn used to determine how to encode the macroblocks of the image. In a preferred embodiment, a macroblock-level intra-SAD measure... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5825674 | Power control for mobile electronics using no-operation instructions A system for regulating power in a mobile electronics device uses "hint" NOP instructions having a reserved field of bits that generate control signals to affect an increase or decrease in power dissipation. The control signals raise or lower the operatin... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5822542 | Electronic and structural components of an intelligent video information management apparatus A structure for supporting a plurality of recording medium drive units includes a base member supporting a floppy disk drive and a DAT drive, an intermediate member supported on the base member and supporting two hard disk drives, and a top member support... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5819036 | Method for message addressing in a full service network The present invention is a novel method for addressing processing units in a network where some of the processing units are connected to a shared communications medium. In an embodiment of the present invention, the network comprises a head end, a plurali... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5806071 | Process and system for configuring information for presentation at an interactive electronic device A process for configuring electronic information for presentation at an interactive electronic device with which an item may be ordered, including the steps of: providing an original template presentation created at a first location to include a plurality... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5798933 | High precision relative digital voltage measurement This device determines a quantity corresponding to a linear function of a voltage to be detected, and includes a circuit for charging with a determined time constant a capacitor, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller compares the voltage across the c... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5793954 | System and method for general purpose network analysis A network interface system and related methods. A single logic control module, which may be implemented in hardware or software, is utilized to perform any of a number of data manipulation functions including, for example, parsing, filtering, data generat... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5793976 | Method and apparatus for performance monitoring in electronic communications networks Management packets are defined that are modified in the payload by each node along a virtual connection and are used to measure both end-to-end QoS and specific individual intermediate node performance parameters. Management packets are implemented by def... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5784285 | Waveform analyzer Disclosed is a waveform analyzer, which inputs measured data of an electronic device to be analyzed; generates an orthogonal analyzing wavelet; produces wavelet-analyzed components in which the measured data is wavelet-transformed into a plurality of wave... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5781729 | System and method for general purpose network analysis A network interface system and related methods. A single logic control module, which may be implemented in hardware or software, is utilized to perform any of a number of data manipulation functions including, for example, parsing, filtering, data generat... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5781730 | System and method for enabling the creation of personalized movie presentations and personalized movie collections A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information. The system operates by presenting the movie to the user, a... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5778190 | Encoding video signals using multi-phase motion estimation Video signals are encoded using motion compensation based on motion vectors generated using multi-phase motion estimation. In a first phase, a first subset of video signals of each block is compared to the reference frame at locations corresponding to a f... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5778191 | Method and device for error control of a macroblock-based video compression technique The present invention provides a method (200) and device (300) for error control of a video compressed sequence in which error protection for both random and burst channel errors is provided. The error control syntax (100) applies a fixed length packet sy... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5778187 | Multicasting method and apparatus A scalable architecture is disclosed for delivery of real-time information over a communications network. Embedded into the architecture is a control mechanism that provides for the management and administration of users who are to receive the real-time i... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5778406 | Apparatus for delivering CPU independent data for little and big endian machines A distributed computer system is disclosed which includes a central location and a plurality of remote locations. A central location computer system generates a module which includes a data section containing a plurality of data units. Each of the data un... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5778177 | Interactive scanning device or system An interactive scanning device or system having one or more single or multi-dimensional scanners, an input device, an image processor, and a communication interface, for scanning an object or surface and interactively displaying and manipulating a threedi... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5774377 | Method and apparatus for monitoring a subsystem within a distributed system for providing an archive of events within a certain time of a trap condition A method and apparatus for monitoring the behavior over time of a distributed system. Time-stamped data descriptive of events at one subsystem are placed into a local buffer. The subsystem is notified of the time when a trap condition occurs at another su... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5774663 | Personal banker customer management system providing interactive video communication in real time concerning banking information A system and process for providing financial services via video in real time to a customer at one of a plurality of remote locations from one of a plurality of personal bankers at a central location via a video self-service device.... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5774376 | Structural health monitoring using active members and neural networks A system for monitoring the structural integrity of a mechanical structure. The system utilizes a trainable adaptive interpreter such as a neural network to analyze data from the structure to characterize the structure's health. An actuator is attached to... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5768148 | Man machine interface for power management control systems A utility for rapid development of three dimensional representations of electrical distribution switchgear is provided. These switchgear elevations have logical connections to the switchgear devices. An elevation can be modified to any dimensions with an ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5768535 | Software-based encoder for a software-implemented end-to-end scalable video delivery system A software-based encoder is provided for an end-to-end scalable video delivery system that operates over heterogeneous networks. The encoder utilizes a scalable video compression algorithm based on a Laplacian pyramid decomposition to generate an embedded... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5768533 | Video coding using segmented frames and retransmission to overcome channel errors A communication system and protocol uses retransmission techniques for video transmission on mobile/wireless channels. The system partitions frames of a moving image into frame segments, and combines a sequence of frame segments to form a sub-sequence of ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5768507 | Method and apparatus for overcoming a slope overload condition while using differential pulse code modulation scheme A display controller to upscale a source video image for display on a display unit of a computer system. An encoder circuit in the display controller circuit stores in a local memory pixel data of previous scan lines required for interpolation in a compre... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5764921 | Method, device and microprocessor for selectively compressing video frames of a motion compensated prediction-based video codec A method (100, 200), device (300) and microprocessor (400) are provided for selectively compressing video frames of a motion compensated prediction-based video codec based on a predetermined set of compression techniques. An energy estimate of the current... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5764876 | Method and device for detecting a cyclic code A method and device for detecting a cyclic code which detects an n-bit cyclic code or shortened cyclic code based on a degree-m generating polynomial or code with a predetermined bit pattern added to the cyclic code or shortened cyclic code in the bit seq... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5764917 | Professional system for switching and bidirectional transmission with time multiplexing for high-fidelity audio-analog and audio-digital signals and control and checking signals A system for recording and broadcast studios for time multiplexed bidirectional transmission and switching high-fidelity audio-analog and audio-digital signals and command and control signals. A first bidirectional transmission medium conveys first frames... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5764529 | Method and apparatus for automatic frequency and voltage selection for microprocessors A method and apparatus for providing automatic frequency and voltage selection for microprocessors in a computer system. Microprocessor identification (ID) bits are burned into a microprocessor during manufacture to specify the correct bus frequency and c... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5764913 | Computer network status monitoring system A status monitoring system for a computer network including obtaining, concurrently displaying, and dynamically updating, the operational state of a plurality of nodes in a computer network. The operational state for each node is displayed concurrently in... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5764542 | Noise filtering utilizing running average A system and method for reducing the amount of electrical noise in a signal produced by a temperature sensor for an appliance which utilizes a running average calculation to provide a more accurate sensor reading in an inexpensive and efficient manner. Co... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5764899 | Method and apparatus for communicating an optimized reply For optimized reply, when sending a reply (902) in a first embodiment a remote communication unit's controller (206) generates a delta between a preceding message and the reply message, and forms an optimized reply (904) using the delta and an identifier ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761423 | Scalable picture storage access architecture for video decoding A memory architecture is disclosed for storing macroblocks of an anchor picture. Each macroblock is an i×j matrix of p blocks of n×m pixels, where i,j,m,n and p are integers, p>1 and p=i.multidot.j. The blocks of each macroblock are consistently ordinal... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5761416 | Method and apparatus for distributing network bandwidth on a video server for transmission of bit streams across multiple network interfaces connected to a single internet protocol (IP) network A novel video server is taught which allows for additional output bandwidth from the server by using multiple physical network interfaces over a single IP subnetwork. This approach is particularly well suited for use with video servers that store and deli... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5761409 | Passive bus monitor detects data corruption for block-oriented data storage A monitor passively observes traffic on a bus connecting a computer with a block-oriented mass storage device, such as a disc. The monitor parses the traffic on the bus to identify read and write operations and the bus address/block address they are inten... | 06/02/1998 |
