...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903737 | Method and system for randomly accessing multiview videos with known prediction dependency A method randomly accesses multiview videos. Multiview videos are acquired of a scene with corresponding cameras arranged at poses, such that there is view overlap between any pair of cameras. V-frames are generated from the multiview videos. The V-frames are encode... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7728877 | Method and system for synthesizing multiview videos A system and method synthesizes multiview videos. Multiview videos are acquired of a scene with corresponding cameras arranged at a poses such that there is view overlap between any pair of cameras. A synthesized multiview video is generated from the acquired multiv... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7710462 | Method for randomly accessing multiview videos A method randomly accesses multiview videos. Multiview videos are acquired of a scene with corresponding cameras arranged at poses, such that there is view overlap between any pair of cameras. V-frames are generated from the multiview videos. The V-frames are encode... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706441 | Transcoding apparatus and method, and target bit allocation and picture complexity estimation apparatus and methods used for the same A transcoding apparatus and method, and target bit-allocation and picture complexity estimation units and methods used for the same are provided. The transcoding apparatus includes: a video decoding unit which receives a compressed bitstream and performs decoding th... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7489342 | Method and system for managing reference pictures in multiview videos A system and method manages multiview videos. A reference picture list is maintained for each current frame of multiple multiview videos. The reference picture list indexes temporal reference pictures, spatial reference pictures and synthesized reference pictures of... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483577 | System and method for joint de-interlacing and down-sampling using adaptive frame and field filtering A method and system processes a compressed input video. The compressed input video is processed to produce an interlaced picture, and macroblock coding information of the input video. The interlaced picture has a first spatial resolution, and a top-field and a botto... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7468745 | Multiview video decomposition and encoding A method decomposes multiview video acquired of a scene by multiple cameras. Each multiview video includes a sequence of frames, and each camera provides a different view of the scene. A prediction mode is selected from a temporal prediction mode, a spatial predicti... | 12/23/2008 |