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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5025476 | Redotopography apparatus and method using moire fringe analysis to measure foot shapes A pedotopography apparatus which measures the shape of a foot by producing a moire fringe pattern representative of the underside of the foot, capturing and storing an image of the moire fringe pattern in an image storage buffer, analyzing the image to lo... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025477 | Method for optically sensing marks on objects and apparatus for carrying out the method In a method for optically sensing markings on objects at a plurality detecting stations (10), at which the objects are transported by means of a transport apparatus through the sensing area of an optical sensing apparatus (20), an object upon non-regular ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025478 | Method and apparatus for detecting false edges in an image A method of and apparatus for processing a picture signal for transmission in which the picture signal (Y) is applied to a segmentation device (2) where it is subjected to a segmentation algorithm to identify regions of similar intensity. The resulting re... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025479 | Recognition method for character set An item bearing an indicia which verifies a status of the item and a method and apparatus for applying such indicia. The indicia represents an encrypted message and has the form of a number n base N number system represented by characters selected from an... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025480 | Background referencing Thresholding and background referencing apparatus are disclosed for use with apparatus for scanning documents having images with object and background regions. The background referencing apparatus receives, from the scanning apparatus, a video signal repr... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025481 | Dot region discriminating method A dot region discriminating method discriminates a dot region of an image which is described by a digital input image signal. The method includes detecting one or more extreme points from a first local region within the image. Each of the extreme points c... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025482 | Image transformation coding device with adaptive quantization characteristic selection A transformation coding device which applies high by efficient coding to a digital image signal, and in which a plurality of quantization characteristics are prepared and one quantization characteristic is adaptively selected in accordance with a predicte... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025483 | System for scanning documents without loss of image data A document processing system directs documents at a high rate of speed past an optical scanner which captures written information on the documents as video image data. The video image data is directed over a data channel to a host computer system where th... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025484 | Character reader device A character reader device of the present invention is capable of reading as read data characters written in a portion corresponding to a given read field on a manuscript, detecting a reject character in the read data, generating a pattern image correspond... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025485 | Multi-feed, multi-channel communication system A satellite communication system includes first, second and third electromagnetic radiators, the first and second of which are a contiguous pair, and the second and third of which are also contiguous. Two channels of information are each modulated onto ca... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025486 | Wireless communication system with parallel polling A system which can provide short-range wireless data communication between a base station and a portable low-power module. Each portable module has an identification field by which it can be addressed separately. The identification field (which is 64 bits... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025487 | System for transmitting information on interferometrically generated optical carriers A method of generating high power optical signals in the 1-100 GHz frequency range uses a frequency modulated semiconductor laser and an interferometer. This method is especially useful for microwave carrier frequency optical communications, distribution ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025488 | Optical heterodyne detector Nonlinear optical devices and techniques are used to provide heterodyne detection for coherent optical communications. Heterodyne detection is achieved by matching the wave front of a local oscillator beam with the wave front of a received optical signal.... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025489 | Transformer having shielding wall for driving a magnetron A stationary induction apparatus for supplying and receiving high frequency power of several tens KHz, wherein a partition wall made of a non-magnetic metallic foil in a thickness less than 1/10 the depth of penetration in the using freqency for electroma... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025490 | Cathode-ray tube with its display front protected from undesirable electrification A cathode-ray tube has an electrically conductive film formed over the surface of the panel portion of the tube, a transparent, electrical insulating layer formed on the conductive film and an electrode unit formed on the electrical insulating layer. The ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025491 | Dynamic address binding in communication networks A communications network comprising a plurality of destination stations and associated server stations, each destination station having a unique destination address, and a unique destination name containing no semantic information relating to an associate... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025492 | Damping circuit for the antenna resonance circuit of a radio transmitter-receiver A damping circuit is described for the antenna resonance circuit (28) of a radio transmitter-receiver (10) which in a transmitting phase transmits a time-limited high-energy interrogation pulse and in a receiving phase following the transmitting phase is ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025493 | Multi-element antenna system and array signal processing method A multi-element antenna feed method and system which has superior side lobe characteristics over previous electronically scanned beam approaches is provided. A multi-element antenna feed system generally comprises a multi-element antenna, an antenna array... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025494 | Cross-point contact-free floating-gate memory array with silicided buried bitlines A contact-free floating-gate non-volatile memory cell array and process with silicided NSAG bitlines and with source/drain regions buried beneath relatively thick silicon oxide. The bitlines have a relatively small resistance, eliminating the need for par... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025495 | Motion dependent video signal processing In, for example, a motion compensated video standards converter wherein blocks in a first field or frame of a video signal are each compared with a plurality of blocks in the following field or frame of the video signal for deriving motion vectors represe... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025496 | Odd/even field detector for video signals In a video signal processing system apparatus for differentiating between video field types includes circuitry for measuring an interval between a vertical signal component and a predetermined transition of a horizontal signal component. Measured values f... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025497 | Facsimile apparatus connected to data communication network having time-saving capability A data transmitting apapratus has: a plurality of terminals such as image readers, each for reading original image data and transmitting the image data; a memory for storing the image data from the terminals; a frame processor for producing the frame data... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025498 | Apparatus for controlling the trigger sequence in ignition systems The invention relates to an apparatus for controlling the triggering sequence in capacitive ignition systems for internal combustion engines. The induction achieved by a flywheel magneto usually results in three voltage wave halves, of which two (A,B) hav... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025499 | Process control method and control system A process control system for controlling actions of a process is provided as a qualitative model to which the fuzzy theory is applied to infer and control the process. The process control system includes differentiation apparatus for determining the amoun... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5025500 | Apparatus for providing multiple controller interfaces to a standard digital modem and including integral conflict resolution A communication system which includes a modem and a plurality of controllers has each controller connected to the modem by an interface apparatus, each controller and the modem complying with a predetermined protocol. The interface apparatus comprises a b... | 06/18/1991 |
