Patents Examined by Niner Tong
  • Patent number: 5574424
    Abstract: An anti-car jacking/theft device for detecting an unauthorized person who is attempting to operate a vehicle and activating an alarm including a measurement mechanism adapted to be coupled to a driver's seat of a vehicle for transmitting an input weight signal indicating a person's weight; a key receiving mechanism adapted for receiving a user-supplied key and transmitting a reset signal when the key is activated, a set signal when the key is de-activated, and a key status ready signal having one mode indicating that the key receiving mechanism is active and another mode indicating that the key means is inactive; control circuitry for receiving the input weight signal from the measurement means and the reset signal, set signal, and key status ready signal from the key receiving means, comparing the input weight signal with a resident reference weight signal and a resident input threshold signal with the control circuitry having one mode for transmitting an alarm command signal indicating that an unauthorized
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Inventor: Duc M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 5517172
    Abstract: A remote access granting system has a remote access requester that reads an identification code from a magnetic strip on a card and provides a sequence of request signals indicative of logical ones and zeros on separate conductors to a remote access interface. In response to the request signals, the remote access interface pulse modulates a DC voltage signal on a transmission line with a request pulse having a first pulsewidth indicative of a logical one or with a request pulse having a second pulsewidth indicative of a logical zero. A controller interface detects the pulse modulation on the DC voltage signal, demodulates the request pulses, and provides on separate conductors to a controller a first request pulse indicative of a logical one and a second request pulse indicative of a logical zero. The controller determines whether the sequence of request pulses matches a predetermined sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Inventor: Manfred F. Chiu
  • Patent number: 5295000
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed which inputs/outputs an image in which image data items having different quantities of information for each pixel are mixed with one another. The information quantity for each of the image data items and information about the I/O positions are stored in a corresponding manner. When data is input, data is converted into the proper information quantities in accordance with input position, for storage. When data is output, the stored image data is converted into output data in accordance with the respective information quantities. As a result, the memory capacity can be reduced, the flexibility can be improved at the time of use and the memory can be used efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nonoshita, Yasuhisa Ishizawa, Yoshitsugu Yamanashi, Kenjiro Cho