Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Bodcomwhi’, characterized by its compact, upright and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy growth habit; dark green-colored leaves; and white-colored flowers with flowers held above and beyond the foliage.
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Abstract: Hybrid tea rose plant having vigorous upright growth; large, fragrant flowers; resistance to rust and powdery mildew; and dark, glossy foliage.
Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Azalea plant found as a branch sport of the Azalea hybrid ‘Conlec’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,580. The new variety possesses a unique blooming time and is superior in development of an upright, dense, globose shaped plant with attractive large single pink flowers.
Abstract: A press has a press ram actuated by a drive apparatus and a dosing system to be actuated by the drive apparatus for lubricating at least the drive apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 3, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 10, 2004
Assignee:
Gebr. Schmidt Fabrik für Feinmechanik
Inventors:
Hartmut Babiel, Thomas Elsässer, Erich Weisser
Abstract: A system for coding of digital video images such as bi-directionally predicted video object planes (B-VOPs), in particular, where the B-VOP and/or a reference image used to code the B-VOP is interlaced coded. For a B-VOP macroblock which is co-sited with a field predicted macroblock of a future anchor picture, direct mode prediction is made by calculating four field motion vectors, then generating the prediction macroblock. The four field motion vectors and their reference fields are determined from (1) an offset term of the current macroblock's coding vector, (2) the two future anchor picture field motion vectors, (3) the reference field used by the two field motion vectors of the co-sited future anchor macroblock, and (4) the temporal spacing, in field periods, between the current B-VOP fields and the anchor fields.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 10, 2004
Inventors:
Robert O. Eifrig, Xuemin Chen, Ajay Luthra
Abstract: A motion estimation and compensation technique is provided for interlaced digital video such as video object planes (VOPs). Predictor motion vectors for use in differentially encoding a current field coded macroblock are obtained using the median of motion vectors of surrounding blocks or macroblocks. When a surrounding macroblock is itself interlaced coded, an average motion vector for that macroblock is used, with fractional pixel values being mapped to the half-pixel. When the current block is not interlaced coded but a surrounding block is, the field motion vectors may be used individually or averaged. In a repetitive padding technique for an interlaced coded VOP, the even and odd lines of the VOP and surrounding block are grouped. Within each field, exterior pixels are padded by setting them to the value of the nearest boundary pixel, or to an average of two boundary pixels. The lines are then reordered to provide a single padded reference VOP image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 10, 2004
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation
Inventors:
Robert O. Eifrig, Xuemin Chen, Ajay Luthra