"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965274 | Display apparatus using electrophoretic element A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group a... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7853099 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, learning apparatus and learning method and program An information processing apparatus includes an image taking means for taking images of a subject, a class-classification means for classifying a first image outputted by the image taking means into a class according to a characteristics thereof, a storage means for... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7630018 | On-screen display apparatus and on-screen display generation method The present invention allows a device to easily convert an on-screen image in HD format or SD format without increasing the processing load. The device according to an embodiment of the present invention uses the on-screen image D3 in which the number of hori... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626733 | Image-processing apparatus, an image-processing method, a program, and a memory medium Efficient utilization of a memory medium is enhanced in an image-processing apparatus, in which encoded data of JPEG 2000 or Motion-JPEG 2000 are stored in the memory medium as a file. File size of the encoded data is adjusted close to, but not to exceed an integer ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7603190 | Digital recording/reproducing apparatus Based on a digital recorder/player taken as a basic apparatus and which accommodates a field frequency of 60 fields/sec or a frame frequency of 30 frames/sec, an apparatus is implemented to record or reproduce source video and audio signal originated from the basic ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7594391 | Exhaust system and control method for an internal combustion engine An exhaust system for an internal-combustion engine comprises an exhaust bypass in parallel with an upstream portion of a main exhaust path having a main catalytic converter in a downstream portion thereof; an exhaust bypass catalytic converter provided in the exhau... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7559196 | Exhaust system of an internal combustion engine An exhaust system of the internal combustion engine comprises upstream main paths for cylinders that are attached to a side of a cylinder head and extend towards a side of the engine, and are connected to the respective cylinders; a downstream main path in which the... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7505630 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and recording medium that allow setting of most appropriate post-quantization condition An image processing apparatus includes a condition setting unit with which a user sets a post-quantization condition. A partial decoding and decompression unit partially decodes and decompresses coded data according to the post-quantization condition set by the user... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7441400 | Exhaust system for an internal combustion engine An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The exhaust system includes at least one main exhaust path connected to at least one cylinder, an exhaust recirculation path that is branched out from the main exhaust path so that part of exhaust gas... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433523 | Image browsing device acquiring coded data for saving a displayed image from image data source Upon browsing an image stored in an image data source, coded data used for display of the image is acquired from the image data source. The acquired coded data used for the display is decoded/extended, and the image is displayed on a display unit. A user inputs a di... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7409095 | Image processing apparatus and method for scalable encoded image data An image processing apparatus for reproducing a moving image from its encoded data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a decoding unit to decode the encoded data, and a control unit to control the decoding by the decoding unit. The control unit inhibits image repro... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7359549 | Imaging device, image processing method, and recording medium An image processing method includes obtaining raw image data of an object by generating the object by an imager that generates an image of the object with color decomposition, decomposing the raw image data into a plurality of color planes such that each of the colo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7333664 | Image compression method capable of reducing tile boundary distortion An image compressing apparatus divides an image into plural tiles, decomposes each tile into plural sub band by frequency conversion, and conducts bit plane encoding of each sub band for each encoding unit, wherein the image compressing apparatus includes a code dis... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315651 | Image recording apparatus and image data selection method An image recording apparatus includes means for recording image data in a recording medium; means for obtaining information for determining a data amount reduction remaining force of image data recorded in the recording medium; means for selecting image data determi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310447 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium In response to a partial codestream truncation command, a partial codestream truncation process unit temporarily truncates a code line of encoded data. The partial codestream truncation process unit can also temporarily truncate the code line frame by frame. In resp... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7071930 | Active matrix display device, video signal processing device, method of driving the active matrix display device, method of processing signal, computer program executed for driving the active matrix display device, and storage medium storing the computer program An active matrix display device includes a pixel array unit having pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, a scanning circuit which sequentially selects pixels in unit of rows, and a signal circuit which receives a video signal containing serial dot data corresponding ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6760009 | Coordinate position inputting/detecting device, a method for inputting/detecting the coordinate position, and a display board system The coordinate-position inputting/detecting device comprises a lighting device for emitting light into an entry area into which an arbitrary pointing body is inserted to perform an entry operation. At least two image pickup devices are provided with a prespecified s... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6518960 | Electronic blackboard system An electronic blackboard system with a PDP for displaying characters and images. A touch input device with a touch panel surface is provided on the front surface of the PDP. A printer outputs image data onto recording paper. A computer provides control ov... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6507695 | DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL RECORDING APPARATUS FOR RECORDING A DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL TO A RECORD MEDIUM AND DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING A DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL FROM A RECORD MEDIUM Input terminals to which two types of serial data with similar formats are sent are disposed. Video data sent to the normal dubbing input terminal is data that has not been compressed/encoded. Data sent to the straight dubbing input terminal is data that ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6438316 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and method for including line numbers A line number LN is extracted from serial data corresponding to BTA S-004 standard. The line number LN is placed as LN0 and LN1 to each of a luminance signal Y and color difference signals Pr/Pb of a 4:2:2 signal. The 4:2:2 signal is converted into a 3:1:... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6421042 | Coordinate position inputting/detecting device, a method for inputting/detecting the coordinate position, and a display board system The coordinate-position inputting/detecting device comprises a lighting device for emitting light into an entry area into which an arbitrary pointing body is inserted to perform an entry operation. At least two image pickup devices are provided with a pre... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6393197 | Digital video signal recording/reproducing apparatus and method thereof Reproducing heads reproduce signals from a tape in advance of recording heads for a time period equivalent to a system delay. An ECC decoder corrects an error of a signal received from each reproducing head. A BRR decoder decompresses and decodes the sign... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6009227 | HDTV digital recorder with compressed image data inserted in a video signal that corresponds to a video interface standard A signal processing method and apparatus wherein digital image data is compressed, recorded, and edited and where multiple playback/record cycles do not degrade the quality of the image. Digital image signals are compressed and recorded by a digital VTR. ... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5841794 | Error correction processing method and apparatus for digital data A digital data error correction processing method and apparatus suited for high density recording in a high definition VTR etc. When the number of tracks per field is N, the digital data recorded, for example, the video signals, are given at least 1/N out... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5047865 | System for transmitting a digital video signal In the transmission of digital video data signals, for example, in a digital video tape recorder, a luminance signal and first and second chrominance signals, such as R-Y and B-Y, are individually sampled to provide respective digital luminance data signa... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5027193 | System for transmitting a digital video signal including time code signals In the transmission of digital video data signals, for example, in a digital video tape recorder, a luminance signal and first and second chrominance signals, such as R-Y and B-Y, are individually sampled to provide respective digital luminance data signa... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4714965 | Write clock pulse generator used for a time base corrector In a time base corrector for correcting time base fluctuations of signals reproduced from a record medium, on which a plurality of time-compressed component signals occurring within one horizontal period in a predetermined sequential order are recorded in... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4714954 | Read start pulse generator for time base corrector A read start pulse generator comprises circuit elements for automatically adjusting the phase of a read start pulse signal by cancelling phase offset caused when phase adjustments are made to a synchronizing signal, burst signal, and hue signal.... | 12/22/1987 |