Abstract: An unnecessary wave suppressing means suppresses unnecessary waves included in a reception high frequency signal in a frequency band that is changed in accordance with a switching signal. The unnecessary wave suppressing means changes the pass band by inserting a notch into a pass band at a range where a signal is to be suppressed, changing the pass band width so as to exclude a suppression band, retaining a plurality of narrow pass bands for respective frequency bands used and switching among those narrow pass bands in accordance with a frequency band of a receiving signal, or continuously changing the pass band by using a tuning filter.

Abstract: A process and system for forming a video image with a telecine transfer device is disclosed, the process comprising converting a photographic film image into video signals representative of the image with a telecine transfer device which uses a cathode ray tube flying spot scanner in combination with at least one dichroic beam splitting mirror to separate the light from the cathode ray tube into component spectral segments which are then detected by a light detector, wherein a filter is positioned between the dichroic mirror and the light detector to compensate for an inconsistent spectral distribution of light in at least one component spectral segment resulting from a varying angle of incidence of light originating from various positions of the cathode ray tube onto the dichroic mirrors, said filter reducing the magnitude of the range of spectral change due to the varying angle of incidence.

Abstract: Methods of estimating motion in image data include the steps of producing a first frame of image data from a received video signal containing information of an image data frame of higher predetermined resolution (e.g., 352.times.244 pixels) and producing a second image data frame of coarser resolution (e.g., 88.times.61 pixels) relative to the first image data frame. An estimate of motion in the second image data frame is then produced and used to determine a estimate of motion in the first image data frame of higher resolution. The estimate of motion in the first image data frame is then used to obtain an estimate of motion in the received image data frame of predetermined full resolution. The estimate of motion in the second image data frame can be determined by reading a plurality of motion vectors from an image block in a previous version of the second image data frame and reading image data in a reference block in a current version of the second image data frame.

Abstract: Apparatus and a concomitant method for estimating motion vectors having as an input a first image frame and a second image frame, each containing a plurality of pixels representing an image. The apparatus comprises: a pyramid processor for decimating a search area within the first image frame to produce a reduced resolution search area and for decimating a block of pixels in the second image frame to produce a reduced resolution pixel block; global search system for performing a global search within the reduced resolution search area using the reduced resolution pixel block until the reduced resolution pixel block substantially matches a matching block of pixels in the reduced resolution search area; and subsystem for computing an estimated motion vector representing a distance between a location of the reduced resolution pixel block within the second image frame and a location of the matching block of pixels within the first image frame.

Abstract: The invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: an activity detecting unit for detecting an activity of input image data, a processing unit for space filter processing the input image data by controlling filter coefficients in accordance with the activity detected by the activity detecting unit, and an encoding unit for encoding the input image data processed by the processing unit. An image processing apparatus comprising, an activity detecting unit for detecting an activity of input image data, and a quantizing unit for quantizing the input image data by controlling a quantization step in accordance with the activity detected by the activity detecting unit is also provided.

Abstract: An image signal encoding method and apparatus is provided. An input image signal is coded to produce coded picture signals. Specifically, the coded picture signals include a group-of-pictures consisting of predictive coded pictures and bi-directionally predictive coded pictures. For at least some of the predictive coded pictures of the group-of-pictures, slices are designated which consist entirely of intra-coded macroblocks. An indication of the slices designated is provided in the coded picture signals.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprising plural image taking systems for taking the image of an object and outputting image signals, a memory circuit for storing plural image signals output from the plural image pickup systems, a convergence angle setting unit for setting the convergence angle of the plural image pickup systems, and a trimming circuit for extracting, from each of the plural image signals stored in the memory circuit, the signal of a portion corresponding to the convergence angle set by the convergence angle setting unit.

Abstract: A constant luminance corrector for a television system determines brightness information that is discarded in the chrominance channels of an encoder, and adds it to the luminance channel of the encoder. Gamma-corrected luminance and chrominance component signals from a video source, such as a video camera, video tape recorder or the like, are input to the encoder which outputs an encoded luminance component signal and an encoded chrominance component signal that are combined to form a composite signal. The gamma-corrected component signals also are input to a luminance predictor circuit, or alternatively in lieu of the gamma-corrected chrominance component signals a coded chrominance signal and a discarded chrominance signal from the encoder may be input to the luminance predictor circuit. Likewise the encoded luminance component signal may be input to the luminance predictor circuit in lieu of the gamma-corrected luminance component signal.

Abstract: A high speed block matching algorithm for a bi-directional motion vector estimation, capable of improving the accuracy and the amount of computation in the bi-directional motion vector estimation by using a uniform motion model for displacement and spatial correlation of motion vectors in a bi-directional motion estimated prediction structure adaptively using pictures forwardly predicted from a past reference picture and pictures bi-directionally predicted from two, past and future reference.

Abstract: N lines of line-shaped light are projected onto the object by means of a measuring light projecting lens. The light carrying the image of the object is passed through the eyepiece lens 17 in an endoscope 6 and the auxiliary lens 30 in a measuring head 11 and split into two beamlets by a beam splitter 31, with one beamlet being focused at a position coinciding with the entrance end faces of measuring light's position detecting fibers 33(l) to 33(m). The line-shaped light images of the object thus formed in positions coinciding with the entrance end faces of measuring light's position detecting fibers 33(l) to 33(m) are scanned linearly by those linearly aligned fibers as they are oscillated and driven by a fiber scanner 36. The scanned line-shaped light images are then subjected to the necessary signal processing in a signal processor circuit 35 such as to measure the three-dimensional configuration of the object.

Abstract: A method for shedding traffic load in a code division multiple access mobile communication system, the method performing a soft handoff operation using the ratio of the received forward link pilot signal power to the sum of all interference signals power to transfer a portion of traffic load in the present serving cell with a high traffic density to an adjacent cell with a low traffic density. When the amount of traffic load in the present serving cell is increased and thus exceeds a link capacity of the present serving cell, handoff parameters of all mobile stations in the present serving cell can be updated on the basis of a power allocation state managed by a base station without reducing the coverage of a forward link.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved image processing device which more rapidly provides an image that appears to have a greater resolution by using dithering to an output device having a lower resolution. An interpolator register cooperates with an input register. Dither values are loaded into the interpolator register and added to input data that has been loaded into the input register. The natural carry function of the adder performs any necessary incrementing, and an output register receives the sum, after truncation of as many bits as required to fit the dithered sum into the space available or usable by the display device.

Abstract: A digital signal decoder system for receiving compressed encoded digitized video signals and transmitting decompressed decoded digital video signals with accurate expansion for various aspect ratios. This is accomplished through convolution multiplication carried out in 4-tuple parallel with 4-2 counters through a folding serial adder which creates a convolution sum of pixels of the motion compensated data stream to thereby expand the output video display to the desired aspect ratio.

Abstract: A base station arrangement including an antenna array is disclosed, wherein the uplink signals are weighted with complex array weights and the downlink signals are steered, wherein the downlink signals are steered using data from directional information derived from the uplink signals. A method of operation is also disclosed.

Abstract: A data processing system receives a continuous stream of real time transactional data regarding market transactions of fixed income securities. The incoming data is qualified and then used to determine the term structure of interest rates based on price information. The system provides linear interpolation techniques to complete an operative data set. This set is updated with current trade data, with term structure shifting using pivot points from newly qualified data. An index value for a pre-select portfolio of securities is then calculated and expressed in terms of price relative to par, yield to maturity and duration.In a specific implementation using U.S. Treasuries as the monitored security, the index value supports an automated trading function for futures and/or options contracts based on the change in value of the index. The index provides a more accurate barometer of market changes and a more useful tool in measuring portfolio management for plan sponsors.

Abstract: An unburned carbon and other combustibles monitoring and control system for a fossil-fueled boiler, such as a pulverized coal fired boiler. An infrared imaging camera counts the moving hot particles entrained in the hot gases exiting the boiler and provides a first signal representative of the number of hot particles in the hot gases over a predetermined period of time. A signal processor is connected to the infrared imaging camera for counting the hot particles for receiving the signal representative of the number of particles in the hot gases and providing a second signal representative of the unburned carbon and other combustibles content of the fly ash produced by the boiler.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of transmission power control to minimize a downward interference caused by the soft hand-off operation for a mobile station existing in the cell border in a cellular mobile communication system which uses a code division multiple access (CDMA) system for radio communication system are provided. The mobile station detects the signal power of pilot channels of the respective base stations A and B, and reports them to the respective base stations. Each base station calculates the propagation characteristic between the mobile station and the base station to determine a transmission power of the traffic channel, which is the most suitable level for the mobile station which is executing the soft hand-off operation, based on the relation among the reported information, the current transmission power of the pilot channel and the traffic channel.

Abstract: An apparatus for encoding a digital video signal to provide a digitally coded video signal comprises a source coder for generating a set of quantized transform coefficients corresponding to each of the coding blocks, a scanning order determination block for adaptively determining a scanning order for each video frame based on a number of quantized transform coefficients having a non-zero value, located at a same pixel position in each of the coding blocks contained in a video frame and generating scanning order information representing the scanning order for each video frame, a scanner for scanning the set of quantized transform coefficients in response to the scanning order information to thereby generate scanned quantized transform coefficients, a statistical coder for statistically coding the scanned quantized transform coefficients to thereby generate statistically coded data, and a channel coder for encoding the statistically coded data together with the scanning order information to thereby generate dig

Abstract: A diversity receiver for receiving digital signals, particularly, but not exclusively, digital private mobile radio signals, comprises first and second reception branches (10,12) which frequency down convert respective input signals to the zero IF signals which are digitized and combined in a maximal ratio combiner (22) and the result is applied to a digital demodulator (23). The first and second branches are asymmetrical with the first branch (10) being fully specified and the second branch (12) being deliberately degraded relative to the first branch (10).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for encoding a digital video image stream in an encoder. The encoding includes spatial compression of still images in the digital video image stream and temporal compression between the still images. The spatial compression is carried out by converting a time domain image of a macroblock to a frequency domain image of the macroblock, taking the discrete cosine transform of the frequency domain image, transforming the discrete cosine transformed macroblock image by a quantization factor, and run length encoding the quantized discrete cosine transformed macroblock image. The temporal compression is carried out by reconstructing the run length encoded, quantized, discrete cosine transformed image of the macroblock, searching for a best match macroblock, and constructing a motion vector between them. This forms a bitstream of runlength encoded, quantized, discrete cosine transformed macroblocks and of motion vectors.