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Patent No. 5926857

Armor With Rollers

An armor with rollers is provided that enables a user to move in all positions by rolling on a hard and smooth surface while constantly varying his bearing points on the ground.

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Examiner: Johnson, Timothy M.


Primary examiner statistics: 249 patents; average approval time: 262 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 130 patents; average approval time: 1103 days

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6816618 Adaptive variable length image coding apparatus
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6804404 Shape information coder and decoder dividing shape information in...
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6795565 Method to detect watermark resistant to resizing and translation
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6766052 Character display device, character display method, and recording...
6766053 Method and apparatus for classifying images and/or image regions ...
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Patent No. Patent Title:
6341178 Method and apparatus for lossless precompression of binary images
6266449 Information processing apparatus and method which selectively con...
6266446 Image conversion between raster and block formats for compression...
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6249612 Device and method for image coding
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6236758 Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees by backward predi...
6226402 Ruled line extracting apparatus for extracting ruled line from no...
6226414 Image encoding and decoding method and apparatus using edge synth...
6219450 Blocking signature detection for identification JPEG images
6219459 Image transform device for transforming a picture image to a pain...
6215908 Symmetric filtering based VLSI architecture for image compression
6215904 Apparatus and method for selecting encoding schemes based upon im...
6215899 Motion and disparity estimation method, image synthesis method, a...
6215901 Pen based computer handwriting instruction
6212285 Method and apparatus for multi-bit zoned data hiding in printed i...
6208754 Image compression and expansion device using pixel offset
6205252 Two channel HVQ (hierarchical vector quantization) compression
6205254 Image coding apparatus and method, and image decoding apparatus a...
6195463 Multiresolution image processing and storage on a single chip
6192157 Modifications of postscript adaptive data compression (ADC) for 3...
6188786 Image processing apparatus that determines an area in an image ba...
6185324 Semiconductor failure analysis system
6175649 Image scanning apparatus, method of scanning images, and recordin...
6169819 High performance surface normal compression
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6157746 Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees generated by a ...
6151413 Method of coding an arbitrary shape of an object when all pixels ...
6151408 Method for separating a desired pattern region from a color image
6141446 Compression and decompression system with reversible wavelets and...
6137912 Method of multichannel data compression
6137589 Efficient storage of dithered raster image data in a printer or t...
6128416 Image composing technique for optimally composing a single image ...
6118900 Image coding device and image decoding device for use with image ...
6118899 Method for lossless bandwidth compression of a series of glyphs
6115507 Method and apparatus for upscaling video images in a graphics con...
6104841 Method and apparatus for reading and processing an image at a rat...
6097852 Image forming apparatus and method with modes for copying an enti...
6097846 Image processing device with inverse quantization and two dimensi...
 
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