Abstract: A solid-state image pick-up device has photo-diodes each connectable to every second transfer stage of vertical shift registers, and the other stages store false image signal components respectively contained in the electric charge packets; a smear image eliminating circuit subtracts the value of the false image signal component from the value of the associated electric charge packet so as to elimiante the smear image from the optical image represented by the electric charge packets.

Abstract: A dual mode transceiver architecture suitable for adaptation in either a handset or a base station and capable of operating in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode or in Time Division Duplexing (TDD) mode is disclosed. Such a transceiver has an up conversion path capable of up converting an Intermediate Frequency (IF) to a Radio Frequency (RF) signal in either an upper band frequency range or a lower band frequency range. Also the transceiver has a down conversion path, used for receiving, for down converting a RF signal in either the upper band or lower band to a desirable IF frequency. The transceiver includes a switch array capable of switching the up conversion path to either the upper band port or the lower band port of a diplexer and the switch array also switches the upper band port and lower band port of the diplexer to the down conversion path depending on whether the transceiver is operating in TDD mode or FDD mode.

Abstract: A sterile disposable white balance box including a housing of a pure white color having a bore formed therein. Also included is a penetrable seal formed about the bore of the housing whereby the seal is adapted to be penetrated by a scope rod whereupon a seal is afforded about a periphery of the scope rod.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for facilitating interactive television is disclosed. The method for facilitating interactive television comprises the following steps: accessing an interactive program; executing said interactive program; and providing an end user with a set of coded instructions which may be transmitted upstream.

Abstract: An image is divided into a plurality of subdivision areas. A focus evaluation value representative of the high frequency component contained in the electrical signal from the CCD is calculated for each of the subdivision areas. The object distance is calculated for the respective subdivision areas based on the focus evaluation value. A target object is extracted based on the calculated object distance. The target object is focused. During the focusing operation, when a new object having an object distance smaller than that of the target object is detected in any of remote subdivision areas which have an object distance larger than that of the target object, the target object is re-selected.

Abstract: An apparatus for discontinuously operating a receiver (302) includes a receive data circuitry (304) and processor circuitry (306). The apparatus and receiver (302) are incorporated in a communication device (104). The receiver (302) receives a communication signal (106) having a plurality of frames (200, 214, 224). Each of the frames has a synchronization field (202, 217, 222) followed by a data field (204, 218, 228). The receive data circuitry (304) synchronizes the communication device (104) with the communication signal (106) received by the receiver (302) according to an initial synchronization field (202). The receive data circuitry (304) decodes the following data field (204). The processor (306) evaluates the decoded data field. If the decoded data field indicates that the receiver (302) is locked, the processor (306) powers off the receiver (302) for the following synchronization fields (222).

Abstract: In a system controller (102) a quantity of control channels is determined; a portion (344) of a code word (338) is set to identify the quantity of control channels; the code word (358) is transmitted in a predetermined portion (332) of each of a plurality of radio signals. In a multichannel radio (106) a receiver (610) is set to a first channel which includes one of the plurality of radio signals; the portion (344) of the code word (338) is decoded; one of the set of control channels is identified as a new home control channel, the home control channel is revised to the new home control channel, and the receiver (610) is set to the home control channel as revised. The one of the set of control channels is identified based on the quantity of control channels and a predetermined number in the multichannel radio (106).

Abstract: A solid state image sensor architecture that utilizes drain structures at one or more locations on a shift register, as set by the design, allowing the user to select which charge packets are needed to represent the image and draining the remaining packets. Since the used packets are drained, there is no need to provide clock cycles to output charge packets that are not used while in the low resolution mode. Clocking can be stopped after the needed number of cycles without leaving charge packets in the shift register without the possibility of corrupting subsequent image information by charge packets that have not been removed. Additionally, the reduction in clock cycles decreases the time required to process the current information, and allows the system to operate at higher speeds.

Abstract: A system and methods for automated color correction. A computer-based workstation is coupled to an image source such as a telecine or other graphic image generating device, an image processing system such as a color corrector, and a utilization device such as a tape recorder or digital storage device. A target image from the image source is displayed on a display monitor associated with the workstation. An image and data storage device stores images and prestored reference image information for a plurality of selectable reference images. A capture device captures a source image from the image source. An image analyzer software process computes statistical parameters of the source image and compares these statistical parameters to prestored statistical parameters of a selected one of the reference images. The statistical parameters include a color distribution or frequency histogram for various color parameters, e.g. gain, gamma, and black level for video signals.

Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus includes an equalizer for delaying an input color signal by an adjustable phase retardation. A low pass filter is operative for delaying the input color signal by an adjustable phase retardation. A phase detector is operative for detecting a difference between a phase of an output signal of the equalizer and a phase of an output signal of the low pass filter, and outputting a signal representative of the detected phase difference. The phase retardation provided by the equalizer and the phase retardation provided by the low pass filter are adjusted in response to the output signal of the phase detector to maintain the difference between the phase of the output signal of the equalizer and the phase of the output signal of the low pass filter at a predetermined value, for example, 90 degrees.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of photosensitive pixel lines adjacent to each other in the sub-scanning direction, each of the photosensitive pixel lines having a number of photosensitive pixels arranged in the main scanning direction, and horizontal transfer registers disposed outside of the photosensitive pixel lines. A storage part for saving therein signal charges on a pixel-by-pixel basis is interposed between the photosensitive pixel lines and the horizontal transfer registers. Transfer of signal charges between the photosensitive pixel lines, storage part, and horizontal transfer registers are controlled by operating shift gates so that at a time point when exposure of the inside photosensitive pixel line has been finished, signal charges of the outside photosensitive pixel line is saved into the storage part to thereby secure a transfer passage for signal charges of the inside photosensitive pixel line.

Abstract: An image sensing device having an array of photodetectors capable of generating electron/hole pairs from incident photons, with multiple charge coupled devices organized in a tandem well design that employs multiple storage wells per pixel. The wells use thresholds to control the overflow of charge from one well to the next and are arranged such that a first charge coupled device having a plurality of cells is operatively coupled to the photodetectors by first transfer means for placing charge accumulated within the photodetectors from generated electron/hole pairs within the first charge coupled device, and a second charge coupled device having a plurality of cells being operatively coupled to the first charge coupled device by second transfer means for removing charge exceeding a predetermined threshold within the first charge coupled device and placing charge exceeding the predetermined threshold within the second charge coupled device.

Abstract: A television receiver for searching and displaying pictures from multiple TV channels can display at least two parallel screens. Each screen is capable of simultaneously displaying picture signals from first and second tuners. The receiver includes an interface for receiving a signal from a user to begin a channel-search operation. A memory stores the screen mode existing before the channel search command was received. A multi-window view displays a plurality of pictures such that a user can perform the channel search operation to select a desired channel picture signal. After the channel search operation is completed, a controller coupled with the memory automatically returns the display to the original screen mode view at the time the channel search function was requested.

Abstract: A video signal detection circuit of the present invention is provided with a trapping circuit which traps frequencies corresponding to color sub-carrier wave signal components and which is disposed between a phase comparing circuit and a voltage controlled oscillation circuit in a PLL circuit performing synchronous detection.

Abstract: A camera housing assembly for protecting a camera from potentially-damaging environmental conditions, such as high temperatures, humidity and corrosive air-borne particulates, has a housing and an internal heat sink received within the housing. The internal heat sink defines a hollow body extending in the elongated direction of the housing and forming an internal chamber for receiving the camera and for transferring heat away from the chamber and camera. A polymeric insulating material is disposed within an annular space formed between the internal heat sink and housing in order to thermally insulate the internal heat sink from the housing. A thermoelectric cooling device extends through an aperture formed in a wall of the housing, and is thermally coupled between the internal heat sink and an external heat sink mounted to an external wall of the housing for transferring heat from the internal heat sink to the external heat sink.

Abstract: A multiplicity of baseband input signals are supplied to a signal processor which functions to modify the input signals such that when the modified signals modulate corresponding multiple carrier wave signals which are combined to produce a composite signal which is applied to the input of an amplifier, the "peaking" at the input to the amplifier and the resultant intermodulation at the output of the amplifier are reduced. In response to the application of the baseband input signals, the signal processor determines the extent of peaking and modifies at least one of the phase and amplitude of the input signals. In one embodiment of the invention, a block of data representing the input signals over a time slot is supplied to the signal processor which then generates a fixed phase shift over the time slot. In another embodiment of the invention, a block of data representing input signals is applied to a signal processor which then determines the worst case peaking and the time of their occurrence.

Abstract: A data/video server having the following elements: n I/O access channel connectors, m storage arrays and a commutator which connects individual ones of the I/O access channel connectors to different individual ones of the storage arrays in accordance with a connection diagram with which the server is being operated in accordance with at a given time, further includes a system (operating in accordance with a method) for enabling it to implement operation in accordance with a new connection diagram (which can enable the bandwidth provided to one or more I/O access channels coupled thereto to be changed). That system includes a bandwidth manager for generating a new connection diagram; and a control system, coupled to the bandwidth manager, for obtaining the new connection diagram and causing the elements of the server to implement operation in accordance with the new connection diagram.

Abstract: A system for encoding control data onto a clock signal includes at least one clock cycle in the clock signal; a first transition in the at least one clock cycle, the first transition is from a first voltage level to a second voltage level, the first transition is in a first location in the at least one clock cycle; a second transition in the at least one clock cycle, the second transition is from the second voltage level to the first voltage level, the second transition has a variable location in the clock cycle; and an encoder circuit for positioning the second transition in the variable location in response to the control data.

Abstract: In a method for displaying images on a display device having a predetermined size, m.times.n frames of matrix-like subset images including at least a single desired image, the subset images being among a plurality of images in a set of control format images, which are to be displayed on the display device and in which the plurality of the images are arrayed in a matrix-like form comprising M.times.N frames, wherein M>m and N>n, are enlarged with a scale of enlargement such that the subset images may be displayed simultaneously with a maximum possible size on the display device. The enlarged subset images are simultaneously displayed on the display device. The desired image is thereby displayed legibly such that it can be used as an effective tool in, particularly, the accurate and efficient diagnosis of an illness.

Abstract: A transmitter (135) responds to a first control signal by outputting a transmit signal at a transmit power according to the first control signal. A power-level detector (149) responds to the transmit power by outputting a second control signal representative of a power level of the transmit power. A sensing network (159) is capable of changing from one state to another state in response to a stimulus, for example, the position of a retractable antenna (101) or attachment of a connector (113) or both. The sensing network may modify the second control signal depending upon the state of the sensing circuit. A controller (161) responds to the second control signal, whether modified or not, by determining the first control signal according to the second control signal.