| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7433574 |
Audio-video stream data recording, replaying, and editing system |
October 7, 2008 |
| A stream data recording apparatus records stream data in such a manner that the head of each video coding unit and the head of a series of audio coding unit corresponding to each video coding unit contained in the stream data coincide with the heads of access units of a recording med |
| 7366502 |
Sending method of pay contents, radio terminal and carrier |
April 29, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to a sending method of pay contents in a communication system which carry out communication through predetermined communication network (e.g., radiotelephone network or the like) using a predetermined first communication scheme (e.g., CDMA scheme or the like |
| 7363331 |
File device and file access method |
April 22, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to a file device and file access method that divides a file into units of clusters or blocks and records, and has as its object to provide a file device and file access method such that even when there is a failure and the data is not recorded correctly to t |
| 7362955 |
Video recording and reproducing apparatus |
April 22, 2008 |
| A video recording and reproducing apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of image contents recorded at given time points or images at a plurality of given portions within the same image contents is disclosed. A plurality of images read from a randomly accessible data sto |
| 7350084 |
Data management system, data processing system, and computer-readable medium having on which dat |
March 25, 2008 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide a system which reliably protects a copyright of contents in a deciphered version without unreasonably restricting the execution of the copyright. To this end, according to the present invention, there is provided a system including a s |
| 7339588 |
Character image generating system, storage medium storing character image generating program and |
March 4, 2008 |
| The present invention is a character image generation system for generating outline font based on character information and displaying the outline font on a display with a prescribed number of pixels. The character image generation system subdivides a curve expressed by character out |
| 7302869 |
Electric starter motor |
December 4, 2007 |
| A pinion includes: a first pinion flange portion disposed so as to protrude radially at a front end of a pinion boss portion; and a second pinion flange portion disposed so as to protrude radially facing the first pinion flange portion from an opposite side of the pinion boss portion |
| 7262774 |
Character image generating apparatus, character image generating method, display control apparat |
August 28, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to a character image generating apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of types of partial base line generating units, a vector font data storing unit, a partial base line length calculating unit for calculating a line length of a partial base li |
| 7242849 |
Broadcast video image recording apparatus |
July 10, 2007 |
| A broadcast video image recording apparatus for recording broadcast video image data has a first storage unit for storing broadcast video image data, a second storage unit for storing video image data to be played back, and a control unit for searching the first storage unit for video |
| 7222137 |
Difference updating method, program and apparatus |
May 22, 2007 |
| Difference data reception unit receives difference data for all segments and stores it in nonvolatile memory. Restoration processing unit stores restoration process segment number indicative current process segment in the nonvolatile memory, and then restores segment data from difference |
| 7180592 |
Particle size distribution analyzer |
February 20, 2007 |
| A particle size distribution analyzer is equipped with cells, a light source, to irradiate particles in a cell and multiple photo-detectors that detect a light intensity of a diffraction light and/or a scattering light generated from the particles. An information processor calculates |
| 7164464 |
Exposure apparatus and aberration correction method |
January 16, 2007 |
| An exposure apparatus includes a barometer for detecting air pressure, a lens driving unit for driving a lens of a projection optical system, a light-source-wavelength changing unit for changing a wavelength of an exposure light source, and a stage driving unit for driving a wafer stage |
| 7095949 |
Broadcast video image recording apparatus |
August 22, 2006 |
| A broadcast video image recording apparatus for recording broadcast video image data has a first storage unit for storing broadcast video image data, a second storage unit for storing video image data to be played back, and a control unit for searching the first storage unit for video |
| 7054249 |
Access control apparatus and method for controlling access to storage medium |
May 30, 2006 |
| In a write process through channels Ch1, Ch2, and Ch3, the deadline of each channel is set based on the transfer rate variable by the ratio of dummy packets to valid packets, and deadline information is written with write data on a disk. In a read process through a channel Ch4, the d |
| 6995828 |
Exposure apparatus and aberration correction method |
February 7, 2006 |
| An exposure apparatus including a barometer for detecting air pressure, a lens driving unit for driving a lens of a projection optical system, a light-source-wavelength changing unit for changing a wavelength of an exposure light source, and a stage driving unit for driving a wafer stage |
| 6934818 |
Access control apparatus and method for controlling access to storage medium |
August 23, 2005 |
| In a write process through channels Ch1, Ch2, and Ch3, the deadline of each channel is set based on the transfer rate variable by the ratio of dummy packets to valid packets, and deadline information is written with write data on a disk. In a read process through a channel Ch4, the deadl |
| 6925527 |
Storage control apparatus and method for compressing data for disk storage |
August 2, 2005 |
| A method of managing compressed data including a cache segment generating operation generating cache segments each representing data that is obtained by assembling plural pieces of data requested of writing, and a compressed segment generating operation generating compressed segments |
| 6899024 |
Stencil printing method and apparatus including printing drum with data storage section for stor |
May 31, 2005 |
| A machine for stencil printing includes: a control panel for setting stencil making conditions and printing conditions; a stencil making section making a stencil sheet based on the stencil making conditions; a stencil winding section wrapping the perforated stencil sheet around a pri |
| 6883424 |
Stencil printing machine and method for stencil printing for the same |
April 26, 2005 |
| A machine for stencil printing includes: a control panel for setting an ink-saving printing mode; a stencil making section including a thermal print head performing an ink-saving stencil making corresponding to the ink-saving printing mode, and a thermal print head driving controller |
| 6816942 |
Storage control apparatus and method for compressing data for disk storage |
November 9, 2004 |
| A method of managing compressed data in a disk storage device, including forming compressed segment areas in a continuous area according to a determined occupation ratio of the continuous area; obtaining a compression block corresponding to data to be stored in the disk storage devic |
| 6789177 |
Protection of data during transfer |
September 7, 2004 |
| A method to protect data of a drive from illegal accessing without increasing the load of processing on the drive side and to prevent not only illegal copying on the drive side but also an illegal action on the host unit side. Authentication of the drive is executed by the host unit. |
| 6745282 |
Compressed data managing apparatus and method therefor to manage compressed data of a disk stora |
June 1, 2004 |
| An apparatus and method include allocating a compressed segment representing data that is obtained by assembling pieces of the data requested to write, and compressing the assembled data to a compression sector representing a block; changing, when updating content of the compressed s |
| 6701061 |
Endless video recording apparatus |
March 2, 2004 |
| An apparatus for recording digital video images in an endless fashion. The apparatus includes (a) a video data recording mechanism, (b) a mark setting mechanism, (c) a mark management mechanism, (d) a mark erasure mechanism, and (e) a playback allowing area setting mechanism. Upon pl |
| 6581135 |
Information storage system for redistributing information to information storage devices when a |
June 17, 2003 |
| An information storage device stores data evenly in each of a plurality of external information-storage devices even if the number of external information-storage devices provided in the information storage system is changed. A division processing unit divides the information to be store |
| 6385344 |
Image processing apparatus |
May 7, 2002 |
| An operator can select image processing for a half tone image area among a plurality of processing methods, and image processing appropriate for the image can be carried out thereby. An original image is read by an image sensor 1 and output through either simple binary conversion by bina |
| 6378054 |
Data backup device and method for use with a computer, and computer-readable recording medium ha |
April 23, 2002 |
| A technique related to a data backup for a computer. There are provided a selection section, an archive file creation section, and a backup processing section. The selection section selects data files satisfying given conditions from among data files stored in a first storage section. |
| 6359702 |
Image processing apparatus |
March 19, 2002 |
| Image data for a margin around the image area of a book form original can be erased and image data for a book center portion are obtained without loss. In a photograph mode, a low threshold value is set in first binary conversion means 4, and image data having been input are binary conve |
| 6357348 |
Heat-sensitive stencil master making apparatus |
March 19, 2002 |
| A heat-sensitive stencil master making apparatus for making a stencil master by imagewise perforating thermoplastic film of heat-sensitive stencil master material according to an image on an original includes a thermal head which has an array of a plurality of heater elements and is |
| 6281919 |
Stencil-making device |
August 28, 2001 |
| In order to carry out histogram control so that colors of regions printed for overlapping regions are appropriate for a multi-color, multi-stencil thermal silkscreen stencil-making device, a hue, printing density and corresponding extracted color for ink used in multi-color, multi-stenci |
| 6215906 |
Data compression and restoration system for encoding an input character on the basis of a condit |
April 10, 2001 |
| For handling data having a fixed-order context, a data compression system uses a pipeline control unit to enable an occurrence frequency modeling unit and entropy coding unit to operate in pipelining. A data restoration system uses a pipeline control unit to enable an entropy decoding un |
| 6061398 |
Method of and apparatus for compressing and restoring data |
May 9, 2000 |
| A data compression apparatus is capable of compressing data at a high compression rate and at a high speed. A data decompression apparatus is used in combination with this data compression apparatus to decode the compressed data. The data compression apparatus includes a RAM which st |
| 6026198 |
Data compression and restoration system for encoding an input character on the basis of a condit |
February 15, 2000 |
| For handling data having a fixed-order context, a data compression system uses a pipeline control unit to enable an occurrence frequency modeling unit and entropy coding unit to operate in pipelining. A data restoration system uses a pipeline control unit to enable an entropy decoding un |
| 5956733 |
Network archiver system and storage medium storing program to construct network archiver system |
September 21, 1999 |
| In response to a forming request, an archiver forming module compresses a data file on a network and stores into an archiver. In response to a referring request, an archiver referring module reads out the compressed data file from the archiver, reconstructs on the network, and stores the |
| 5907637 |
Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data |
May 25, 1999 |
| A method and an apparatus for compressing and decompressing data employ a splay coding instead of an arithmetic coding to achieve a high speed code entering process. The data compressing apparatus encoding input data according to a history of occurrence of the input data in the past to |
| 5889481 |
Character compression and decompression device capable of handling a plurality of different lang |
March 30, 1999 |
| A compressing apparatus separates a data string inputted from source data of a Unicode in which different languages mixedly exist into a language string of each language and, after that, compresses the data string every language string. When decompressing, each language string is decompr |
| 5854597 |
Document managing apparatus, data compressing method, and data decompressing method |
December 29, 1998 |
| In a document managing apparatus for forming a compressed document file where a keyword retrieval is available, a first process operation and a second process operation are alternately executed. In the first process operation, when document data to be compressed is given, the respective |
| 5844508 |
Data coding method, data decoding method, data compression apparatus, and data decompression app |
December 1, 1998 |
| A data compression and decompression apparatus and method providing a high compression ratio. The data compressing apparatus includes, for example, an obtaining section, a first coding section, a first controlling section, a judging section, a second coding section, and a second controll |
| 5825315 |
Data coding apparatus and data decoding apparatus and methods thereof |
October 20, 1998 |
| Data coding apparatus and decoding apparatuses to encode and decode data at a high speed. A data coding apparatus provided with a code table in which ranks and codes are made corresponding so that a code length becomes larger as the rank becomes lower. A rank holding unit is stored with |
| 5813011 |
Storage of a compressed file containing its own compression management table |
September 22, 1998 |
| A compressed file consists of: a header that carries information showing the position of a compression management table; compressed codes; and the compression management table that holds information showing the storage location of the compressed code of each original record. In a preferr |
| 5801648 |
Data compressing method, data compressing apparatus, data decompressing method and data decompre |
September 1, 1998 |
| A data compressing method involves the use of a data string registering unit for registering a charactor or charactor string and the context and a code information registering unit for registering coding information of the character or character string following the context, the coding |
| 5796356 |
Data compressing apparatus, data restoring apparatus and data compressing/restoring system |
August 18, 1998 |
| In a data compressing apparatus, when a data input unit inputs unit data, a coding unit obtains an order corresponding to the input unit data and outputs a code corresponding to this order with reference to a compression table. When completing this coding process, a compression table upd |
| 5781296 |
Closed loop type fiber optic gyroscope for measuring absolute rotation by delta serrodyne wave p |
July 14, 1998 |
| A fiber optic gyro can overcome the defects encountered with conventional fiber optic gyros of phase-modulation method, closed-loop system with serrodyne modulation and digital modulation. A reference phase difference .DELTA..beta. and a ramp phase difference .sigma. are generated in an |
| 5717393 |
Apparatus for data compression and data decompression |
February 10, 1998 |
| The present invention provides a plurality of code tables such as a high-usage code table and a low-usage code table in an entropy coding unit, and transforms a block-sorted last character string from a block-sorting transforming unit into an MTF code string in an MTF transforming un |
| 5673042 |
Method of and an apparatus for compressing/decompressing data |
September 30, 1997 |
| The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for compressing/decompressing data, to improve the compression ratio of sliding-dictionary-type Ziv-Lempel codes. A sliding-dictionary-type data compression method finds a matching character string in a coding character st |
| 5650783 |
Data coding/decoding device and method |
July 22, 1997 |
| A device for coding a series of symbols based on a multi-level arithmetic coding scheme includes a coding unit for coding the symbols based on frequency of occurrence of the symbols and orders of the symbols according to the frequency of occurrence, a context holding unit for storing the |
| 5511137 |
Process and apparatus for image magnification |
April 23, 1996 |
| A process and apparatus for determining values of new pixels which are to be interpolated between original pixels of an image during magnification of the image. The interpolation is carried out in each unit area which is surrounded by original pixel centers. The process includes the foll |
| 5254990 |
Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of data |
October 19, 1993 |
| In a data compressing and decompressing apparatus, having improved efficiency and enhanced compression ratio whereby character sequence of received data is coded and decoded by referring to a dictionary related to the last character of the immediately preceding character sequence, and a |
| 5150119 |
Data compression method and apparatus |
September 22, 1992 |
| In a data compression method based on an LZW coding procedure, a list which defines a sequence of tracing partial strings registered in a dictionary is modified so that a position of a first registered partial string among the registered partial strings in a tree structure of registered |
| 5138673 |
Data compression system |
August 11, 1992 |
| A data compression system is provided having a fixed length coding unit provided before a universal coding unit. The fixed length coding unit detects mode classifications and mode conditions of changing picture elements in a mode detecting unit. Then, the mode classifications and mode |
| 5136289 |
Dictionary searching system |
August 4, 1992 |
| A dictionary searching system retrieves a character string which is described by input reference number and characters from a plurality of mutually different character strings which are registered in a dictionary in correspondence with reference numbers assigned to the character stri |
