Abstract: A method of assembling an electric motor by building the motor in one direction without the need to turn the motor end over end during the assembly process. The method includes providing a first housing section having motor control components preinstalled therein, and a shaft opening therein for the motor shaft; inserting the stator in the first housing section; temporarily inserting a jig into the stator to position the stator in the first housing section, and injecting a settable material between the stator and the first housing section to secure the stator within the first housing section. After the stator is secured, the jig is removed, and a rotor positioned in the stator, a fan is installed on the rotor, and a second housing section is interfit with the first housing section and the first and second housing sections are secured together.

Abstract: Apparatus provides multiple pivotal rods or dowels for hanging many garments such as trousers or skirts in a confined space. An elongate base is mounted on a vertical wall with its long axis vertical. An elongate rigid bar having a circular cross section is mounted at both ends to the base, with the bar vertical and spaced away from the base. The bar supports multiple horizontal parallel rods pivotally mounted, one atop the other, by a transverse hole through one end of each rod. A spacer is interposed between adjacent rods to allow sufficient space for a garment folded over the rod. Any garment may be accessed by simply swinging all of the garments above it to one side and all of the garments below it to another side of the bar, leaving the garment free on its rod.

Abstract: A post production offline editing system for storing unedited video takes in a random access memory (which is preferably a set of laser video disk players), displaying selected takes (or individual frames from selected takes), and generating an edit list which defines an edited video program. The system includes a computer programmed with software providing an integrated software environment which enables a user conveniently to log unedited takes into the system, and to generate an edit list suitable for use in a subsequent online editing operation. The system software provides global access to a variety of video post production environments at any point during an offline editing operation. The system software presents menus to the user including icons or mnemonic text in windows which may be conveniently selected by the user using a mouse.

Abstract: A system and method for performing error correction on an SFAT format video signal which has been encoded using an error correction code ECC2, and generating a video signal reconstructed from the error-corrected input signal. The error code preferably is a cross interleave Reed-Solomon code. In a preferred embodiment, the system is capable of reconstructing the output video signal so that it has either SFA or SFAT format. Since an SFAT signal includes duobinary encoded data in its active video areas, and thus may be doubly error encoded using two error correction codes (ECC1 and ECC2), the invention is capable of generating from such a doubly encoded signal an ECC1 error-encoded video signal, in SFA (or SFAT) format, which has been error-corrected using error code ECC2. This capability is particularly advantageous where the invention is embodied in a video disk mastering system or method.

Abstract: A test signal generator for generating signals for use in a high definition television, the apparatus including means for storing a plurality of pattern segments which are representative of selected portions of the test signal to be generated, and means for retrieving predetermined ones of the stored pattern segments and for repeating or holding selected ones of the retrieved pattern segments in a predetermined sequence in order to construct, in real time, the entire test signal waveform, and also including means for converting the sequence of retrieved pattern segments into the test signal.