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| 1 | EP0903169A2 (Hideki Hashimoto, 1999) | (Original Assignee) Konami Holdings Corp (Current Assignee) Konami Holdings Corp | Music action game machine, performance operation instructing system for music action game and storage device readable by computer | ▪ screen window ≈ outer periphery ▪ video encoder ≈ game system | X | X |
| 2 | US5828848A (David Ross MacCormack, 1998) | (Original Assignee) Sensormatic Electronics Corp (Current Assignee) Sensormatic Electronics LLC | Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of video data streams | ▪ decoding input signals ≈ respective character ▪ video decoder ≈ compression process ▪ video encoder ≈ other field, said pixel | X | X |
| 3 | US5774666A (Michael J. Portuesi, 1998) | (Original Assignee) Silicon Graphics Inc (Current Assignee) Open Invention Network LLC | System and method for displaying uniform network resource locators embedded in time-based medium | ▪ video decoder ≈ additional decoding ▪ video encoder ≈ encoding system | X | X |
| 4 | US5742347A (Dilip Dinkar Kandlur, 1998) | (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) International Business Machines Corp | Efficient support for interactive playout of videos | ▪ screen window ≈ display control ▪ video encoder ≈ command signal | X | X |
| 5 | US5605332A (Brian P. Harnett, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Pixel Products Unlimited (Current Assignee) Pixel Products Unlimited | Pixelated puzzle | ▪ video encoder ≈ said pixel ▪ screen window ≈ same size | X | X |
| 6 | US5873735A (Satoshi Yamada, 1999) | (Original Assignee) Sharp Corp (Current Assignee) Sharp Corp | Information reproducer and information creating unit | ▪ screen window ≈ display control ▪ Y columns ≈ control circuit | X | |
| 7 | US5835495A (Philippe Ferriere, 1998) | (Original Assignee) Microsoft Corp (Current Assignee) Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC | System and method for scaleable streamed audio transmission over a network | ▪ X rows ≈ selected number ▪ video decoder ≈ audio signal | X | X |
| 8 | US5768533A (Xiaonong Ran, 1998) | (Original Assignee) National Semiconductor Corp (Current Assignee) National Semiconductor Corp | Video coding using segmented frames and retransmission to overcome channel errors | ▪ video encoder ≈ transmission control, video encoder ▪ video decoder ≈ video decoder | X | X |
| 9 | US5612900A (Faramarz Azadegan, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Toshiba Corp (Current Assignee) Toshiba Corp | Video encoding method and system which encodes using a rate-quantizer model | ▪ screen window ≈ display control ▪ video decoder ≈ audio signal | X | X |
| 10 | US5686954A (Hitoshi Yoshinobu, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Sony Corp (Current Assignee) Sony Corp | Program information broadcasting method program information display method, and receiving device | ▪ screen window ≈ display control ▪ X rows ≈ program table | X | |
| 11 | US5671226A (Tokumichi Murakami, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Mitsubishi Electric Corp (Current Assignee) Mitsubishi Electric Corp | Multimedia information processing system | ▪ processing means ≈ changing operation ▪ decoding input signals ≈ output data | X | |
| 12 | US5548340A (Randall L. Bertram, 1996) | (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) Dish Technologies LLC | Intelligent television receivers combinations including video displays, and methods for diversion of television viewers by visual image modification | ▪ screen window ≈ display control ▪ processing means ≈ signal stream | X | |
| 13 | US5606374A (Randal L. Bertram, 1997) | (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) DISH Technologies LLC | Video receiver display of menu overlaying video | ▪ processing means ≈ command receiver ▪ screen window ≈ display control ▪ video decoder ≈ image signal | X | X |
| 14 | US5769719A (Jerry Hsu, 1998) | (Original Assignee) United Microelectronics Corp (Current Assignee) United Microelectronics Corp | Video game system having means for displaying a key programming | ▪ decoding input signals ≈ communication method ▪ processing means ≈ rolling operation ▪ video encoder ≈ game system | X | X |
| 15 | EP0676898A1 (Ming-Syan Chen, 1995) | (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) International Business Machines Corp | Frame sampling scheme for video scanning in a video-on-demand system | ▪ processing means ≈ processing means ▪ video decoder ≈ video decoder | X | |
| 16 | US5513991A (Julia Reynolds, 1996) | (Original Assignee) Vamp Inc (Current Assignee) Vamp Inc | Method of simulating personal individual art instruction | ▪ X rows ≈ selected number ▪ video decoder ≈ audio message | X | |
| 17 | US5699123A (Kazuyuki Ebihara, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Victor Company of Japan Ltd (Current Assignee) JVCKenwood Corp | Television receiver with an adjustable frame size | ▪ decoding input signals ≈ output data ▪ screen window ≈ lower edge | X | X |
| 18 | US5702303A (Takatoshi Takemoto, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Ace Denken KK (Current Assignee) Ace Denken KK | Game machine having a playing display screen | ▪ video encoder ≈ game system ▪ random order ≈ when b | X | X |
| 19 | US5585858A (Gregory W. Harper, 1996) | (Original Assignee) ACTV Inc (Current Assignee) OpenTV Inc | Simulcast of interactive signals with a conventional video signal | ▪ processing means ≈ rolling operation ▪ video decoder ≈ audio signal | X | |
| 20 | EP0634872A2 (Tetsujiro C/O Intellectual Property Div. Kondo, 1995) | (Original Assignee) Sony Corp (Current Assignee) Sony Corp | Processing digital video data | ▪ decoding input signals ≈ storing means ▪ Y columns ≈ one screen ▪ processing means ≈ said plane | X | X |
| 21 | US5592228A (Kenshi Dachiku, 1997) | (Original Assignee) Toshiba Corp (Current Assignee) Toshiba Corp | Video encoder using global motion estimation and polygonal patch motion estimation | ▪ video decoder ≈ decoding apparatus ▪ video encoder ≈ video encoder | X | X |
| 22 | US5307263A (Stephen J. Brown, 1994) | (Original Assignee) Raya Systems Inc (Current Assignee) Health Hero Network Inc | Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system | ▪ processing means ≈ processing means ▪ video encoder ≈ encoded signals, game system | X | X |
| 23 | WO9004439A1 (Peter Samuel Vogel, 1990) | (Original Assignee) Right Hemisphere Pty. Limited | Audience response system | ▪ decoding input signals ≈ storing means ▪ X rows ≈ time values ▪ Y columns ≈ total time | X | X |
| 24 | US4669730A (Maynard E. Small, 1987) | (Original Assignee) Small Maynard E | Automated sweepstakes-type game | ▪ video decoder ≈ user to select one ▪ processing means ≈ processing means | X | |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | EP0903169A2 Filed: 1998-09-16 Issued: 1999-03-24 Music action game machine, performance operation instructing system for music action game and storage device readable by computer (Original Assignee) Konami Holdings Corp (Current Assignee) Konami Holdings Corp Hideki Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki, Yuichiro Sagawa |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (game system) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (outer periphery) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
EP0903169A2 CLAIM 8 A music action game machine according to claim 7 , wherein a loud speaker is provided on the front side of the main body , and the illumination device comprises a loud speaker illuminator surrounding an outer periphery (screen window) of the loud speaker . EP0903169A2 CLAIM 39 A storage device readable by a computer which stores data defining a procedure for operating operation members provided in a game system (video encoder) in association with a predetermined music , and a program for instructing a player to operate the operation members through a screen of a display device provided in the game system , said program being prepared for causing the computer to execute steps of : displaying an image of an instruction on the screen of the display device to operate the operation members based on the data defining the procedure ; producing a performance effect in response to an operation of the operation members performed by the player ; estimating the operation of the operation members based on a relationship between the data defining the procedure and the operation performed by the player ; and informing a result of said estimating step to the player . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (game system) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
EP0903169A2 CLAIM 39 A storage device readable by a computer which stores data defining a procedure for operating operation members provided in a game system (video encoder) in association with a predetermined music , and a program for instructing a player to operate the operation members through a screen of a display device provided in the game system , said program being prepared for causing the computer to execute steps of : displaying an image of an instruction on the screen of the display device to operate the operation members based on the data defining the procedure ; producing a performance effect in response to an operation of the operation members performed by the player ; estimating the operation of the operation members based on a relationship between the data defining the procedure and the operation performed by the player ; and informing a result of said estimating step to the player . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5828848A Filed: 1996-10-31 Issued: 1998-10-27 Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of video data streams (Original Assignee) Sensormatic Electronics Corp (Current Assignee) Sensormatic Electronics LLC David Ross MacCormack, Charles Park Wilson, Gerhard Josef Winter, Harry Eric Klein, Lyn Nguyen, Patrick O. Nunally |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (other field, said pixel) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5828848A CLAIM 33 . Apparatus according to claim 32 , wherein pixel data corresponding to said reference image is provided to said JPEG integrated circuit , said JPEG integrated circuit processes said pixel (video encoder) data corresponding to said reference image to produce compression-encoded image data representative of said reference image , and said compression-encoded image data representative of said reference image is stored in said storage means . US5828848A CLAIM 62 . A method of characterizing a block of video data in a first field of video data , said block of video data to be characterized in comparison with a corresponding block of video data in another field (video encoder) of video data , said block of video data in the first field being in the form of an m×m pixel data array , m being an even , positive integer , the method comprising the steps of : dividing said m×m pixel data into four quadrants each consisting of an (m/2)×(m/2) pixel data array ; selecting pixels from each of said quadrants in accordance with a checker-board sampling pattern ; with respect to each of said quadrants , summing the pixels selected from said quadrant and dividing the resultant sum by a scaling factor to generate a characterizing statistic for the respective quadrant ; subtracting each of the respective characterizing statistics from a characterizing statistic for a corresponding quadrant of the corresponding block of video data in said another field to generate a difference value for each quadrant of the block of video data in the first field ; comparing each of said difference values with a threshold level ; and characterizing the block of video data in the first field as different from the corresponding block of video data in said another field if the absolute value of any one of the difference values for the four quadrants of the block of video data in the first field exceeds the threshold level . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (compression process) for decoding input signals (respective character) previously coded by the video encoder (other field, said pixel) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5828848A CLAIM 27 . A method according to claim 9 , wherein said image data is obtained by applying JPEG compression process (video decoder) ing to the selected rectangular blocks of the present frame . US5828848A CLAIM 33 . Apparatus according to claim 32 , wherein pixel data corresponding to said reference image is provided to said JPEG integrated circuit , said JPEG integrated circuit processes said pixel (video encoder) data corresponding to said reference image to produce compression-encoded image data representative of said reference image , and said compression-encoded image data representative of said reference image is stored in said storage means . US5828848A CLAIM 62 . A method of characterizing a block of video data in a first field of video data , said block of video data to be characterized in comparison with a corresponding block of video data in another field (video encoder) of video data , said block of video data in the first field being in the form of an m×m pixel data array , m being an even , positive integer , the method comprising the steps of : dividing said m×m pixel data into four quadrants each consisting of an (m/2)×(m/2) pixel data array ; selecting pixels from each of said quadrants in accordance with a checker-board sampling pattern ; with respect to each of said quadrants , summing the pixels selected from said quadrant and dividing the resultant sum by a scaling factor to generate a characterizing statistic for the respective quadrant ; subtracting each of the respective character (decoding input signals) izing statistics from a characterizing statistic for a corresponding quadrant of the corresponding block of video data in said another field to generate a difference value for each quadrant of the block of video data in the first field ; comparing each of said difference values with a threshold level ; and characterizing the block of video data in the first field as different from the corresponding block of video data in said another field if the absolute value of any one of the difference values for the four quadrants of the block of video data in the first field exceeds the threshold level . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5774666A Filed: 1996-10-18 Issued: 1998-06-30 System and method for displaying uniform network resource locators embedded in time-based medium (Original Assignee) Silicon Graphics Inc (Current Assignee) Open Invention Network LLC Michael J. Portuesi |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (encoding system) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5774666A CLAIM 11 . A system for distributing a video signal having an encoded uniform network resource locator , comprising : an encoding system (video encoder) operable to generate a video signal including video and encoded information , the encoded information defining a uniform network resource locator embedded in the video to be displayed and active during a period of time during playback of the video ; and a decoding system operable to receive the video signal , the decoding system further operable ; to decode the encoded information from the video signal , to display the video to a user including the embedded uniform network resource locator as displayed and active within the video during the defined period of time , and to allow the user to select and activate the embedded uniform network resource locator from within the video during the defined period of time ; and the decoding system operable to follow the embedded uniform network resource locator to retrieve a resource addressed by the embedded uniform network resource locator if the embedded uniform network resource locator is activated . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (additional decoding) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (encoding system) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5774666A CLAIM 11 . A system for distributing a video signal having an encoded uniform network resource locator , comprising : an encoding system (video encoder) operable to generate a video signal including video and encoded information , the encoded information defining a uniform network resource locator embedded in the video to be displayed and active during a period of time during playback of the video ; and a decoding system operable to receive the video signal , the decoding system further operable ; to decode the encoded information from the video signal , to display the video to a user including the embedded uniform network resource locator as displayed and active within the video during the defined period of time , and to allow the user to select and activate the embedded uniform network resource locator from within the video during the defined period of time ; and the decoding system operable to follow the embedded uniform network resource locator to retrieve a resource addressed by the embedded uniform network resource locator if the embedded uniform network resource locator is activated . US5774666A CLAIM 17 . The system of claim 15 , further comprising a plurality of additional decoding (video decoder) systems , and wherein the encoding system is associated with a television station distributing a video signal to the decoding systems . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5742347A Filed: 1996-01-24 Issued: 1998-04-21 Efficient support for interactive playout of videos (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) International Business Machines Corp Dilip Dinkar Kandlur, Ming-Syan Chen |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (command signal) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (display control) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5742347A CLAIM 12 . An apparatus for playing out videos provided in a temporally dependant , compressed form , comprising : an interface for receiving compressed video data ; a decoder , coupled to the interface , for decompressing the compressed video data ; a buffer memory for storing the decompressed video data ; a display control (screen window) ler , coupled to the buffer memory , for reading the data from the buffer memory and converting the data to a displayable form ; an encoder coupled to the buffer memory , for converting at least some of the compressed video data into temporally independent anchor frames suitable for use decoding interframe encoded frames during subsequent provision of the video signals to the playout device ; and , a secondary storage device connected to receive the temporally independent anchor frames from the encoder . US5742347A CLAIM 17 . The apparatus of claim 12 further comprising user controls and means for playing out the frames of the local storage format from the secondary storage in reverse temporal order , in response to a command signal (video encoder) from the user controls . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (command signal) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5742347A CLAIM 17 . The apparatus of claim 12 further comprising user controls and means for playing out the frames of the local storage format from the secondary storage in reverse temporal order , in response to a command signal (video encoder) from the user controls . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5605332A Filed: 1996-01-19 Issued: 1997-02-25 Pixelated puzzle (Original Assignee) Pixel Products Unlimited (Current Assignee) Pixel Products Unlimited Brian P. Harnett |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (said pixel) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (same size) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5605332A CLAIM 1 . A jigsaw puzzle comprising a plurality of inner pieces each adapted to engage at least one other inner piece and together bearing a complete solved image which has been pixelated , and which comprises a plurality of pixels arranged on a grid defined by a plurality of sets of parallel lines which sets of lines intersect one another , wherein each inner piece comprises a plurality of said pixel (video encoder) s and wherein edges of each inner piece comprise portions of said lines whereby each pixel is located solely on a single inner piece . US5605332A CLAIM 16 . A jigsaw puzzle bearing a complete solved pixelated image , capable of being assembled into a plurality of different arrangements , wherein one arrangement displays the solved pixelated image , the puzzle comprising a plurality of inner pieces adapted to engage one another , wherein the inner pieces are substantially square and are of the same size (screen window) and comprise only straight edge portions , wherein the inner pieces comprise first sides and second sides complementary to the first sides , wherein each inner piece includes at least one first side and at least one second side , whereby the first side of any one inner piece can be engaged with the second side of any other inner piece and wherein each inner piece comprises an integral plurality of pixels , whereby each pixel is included in only one inner piece . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (said pixel) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5605332A CLAIM 1 . A jigsaw puzzle comprising a plurality of inner pieces each adapted to engage at least one other inner piece and together bearing a complete solved image which has been pixelated , and which comprises a plurality of pixels arranged on a grid defined by a plurality of sets of parallel lines which sets of lines intersect one another , wherein each inner piece comprises a plurality of said pixel (video encoder) s and wherein edges of each inner piece comprise portions of said lines whereby each pixel is located solely on a single inner piece . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5873735A Filed: 1995-12-18 Issued: 1999-02-23 Information reproducer and information creating unit (Original Assignee) Sharp Corp (Current Assignee) Sharp Corp Satoshi Yamada, Hiroomi Ueda, Seiichi Senoo, Tsutomu Satou |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (display control) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns (control circuit) ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5873735A CLAIM 4 . The information reproducer according to claim 1 , wherein the display means further comprises the function of selectively displaying , on a screen , the sound information stored in the storage means , and the information reproducer further comprises : sound information designating means for partially designating an area of the sound information displayed on the display screen , reproduction control means for making the sound information reproducing means reproduce the sound information in the designated area , display control (screen window) means for reading from the storage means the visual information connected with the designated sound information and making the display means display the read visual information when the visual information is not displayed in the display means . US5873735A CLAIM 9 . The information reproducing device according to claim 8 , wherein the reading device comprises a scanner and wherein the visual information designating device comprises at least one of a keyboard , a pen , a tablet , a coordinate detecting circuit and a cursor position control circuit (Y columns) . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5835495A Filed: 1995-10-11 Issued: 1998-11-10 System and method for scaleable streamed audio transmission over a network (Original Assignee) Microsoft Corp (Current Assignee) Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC Philippe Ferriere |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows (selected number) and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5835495A CLAIM 7 . A method for supplying digital audio files to a recipient , the recipient having a modem operating to receive digital data at an effective bit rate . the method comprising the following steps : storing an audio file in uncompressed format ; configuring the audio file into individual audio data blocks in real-time wherein each audio data block contains a selected number (X rows) of bits of digital audio data sampled at a selected input sampling rate , the selected number of bits and the selected input sampling rate determining a bit stream bit rate that is less than or equal to the effective bit rate of the recipient' ; s modem ; and transmitting the audio data blocks at the bit stream bit rate to the recipient' ; s modem . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (audio signal) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5835495A CLAIM 20 . A communication system comprising : first and second communication units , each communication unit being equipped with a modem operating to receive and transmit data at an effective bit rate ; a network interconnecting the first and second communication units ; said first communication unit being configured to supply the effective bit rate of the modem for the first communication unit to the second communication unit ; said second communication unit being configured to determine a smallest effective bit rate from between the effective bit rates for the modems of the first and second communication units and to send the smallest effective bit rate back to the first communication unit ; said first and second communication units being configured to generate digital audio samples representative of an audio signal (video decoder) at a selected input sampling rate , the first and second communication units being equipped with an audio coder/decoder having multiple quantizers that encode the digital audio samples into various sized audio data blocks which contain various quantities of bits of the audio samples , said first and second communication units using an appropriate input sampling rate and selecting an appropriate quantizer to encode the audio samples into audio data blocks that yield an encoded bit stream bit rate less than or equal to the smallest effective bit rate of the modems ; and said first and second communication units exchanging the audio data blocks over the network . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5768533A Filed: 1995-09-01 Issued: 1998-06-16 Video coding using segmented frames and retransmission to overcome channel errors (Original Assignee) National Semiconductor Corp (Current Assignee) National Semiconductor Corp Xiaonong Ran |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (transmission control, video encoder) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5768533A CLAIM 16 . A video encoder (video encoder) comprising : counters which correspond to regions of a moving image , wherein each counter also corresponds to frame segments which indicate the content of the region which corresponds to that counter ; and an encoding circuit adapted to partition a frame of the moving image into frame segments which correspond to the regions , to select inter coding or intra coding as a coding process for each frame segment , and to use the selected coding process for a frame segment to generate a digital code for that frame , wherein the encoding circuit selects the coding process for each frame segment according to a count in the one of the counters which corresponds to that frame segment . US5768533A CLAIM 18 . The encoder of claim 16 , further comprising : a buffer coupled to the encoding circuit to store data packets representing digital codes ; and a retransmission control (video encoder) ler coupled to the buffer to select from the buffer either a current data packet for transmission or a previously transmitted data packet for retransmission . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (video decoder) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (transmission control, video encoder) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5768533A CLAIM 16 . A video encoder (video encoder) comprising : counters which correspond to regions of a moving image , wherein each counter also corresponds to frame segments which indicate the content of the region which corresponds to that counter ; and an encoding circuit adapted to partition a frame of the moving image into frame segments which correspond to the regions , to select inter coding or intra coding as a coding process for each frame segment , and to use the selected coding process for a frame segment to generate a digital code for that frame , wherein the encoding circuit selects the coding process for each frame segment according to a count in the one of the counters which corresponds to that frame segment . US5768533A CLAIM 18 . The encoder of claim 16 , further comprising : a buffer coupled to the encoding circuit to store data packets representing digital codes ; and a retransmission control (video encoder) ler coupled to the buffer to select from the buffer either a current data packet for transmission or a previously transmitted data packet for retransmission . US5768533A CLAIM 20 . A video decoder (video decoder) , comprising : a receiving buffer for data packets which represent portions of frame segments ; a status buffer containing an array of entries , each entry corresponding to a frame segment and indicating whether one or more data packets for that frame segment have been received without an error , wherein a frame segment for which all data packets have been received without an error has a corresponding entry which indicates whether the data packets for the frame segment represent an inter code or an intra code ; and a decoding circuit coupled to the receiving buffer and the status buffer , wherein the decoding circuit decodes a frame after checking the entries in the status buffer and determining the frame is the most recent frame for which all digital packets required for decoding have been received without an error . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5612900A Filed: 1995-08-31 Issued: 1997-03-18 Video encoding method and system which encodes using a rate-quantizer model (Original Assignee) Toshiba Corp (Current Assignee) Toshiba Corp Faramarz Azadegan, Hiroaki Unno, Hideki Mimura, Tetsuya Kitamura |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (display control) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5612900A CLAIM 20 . A memory containing data structures for storing video generated according to claim 1 , audio signals , and sub-picture information , comprising : a data structure stored in said memory for storing a sub-picture unit , including : a field for storing a sub-picture unit header ; a field for storing a bit mapped image ; and a field for storing a display control (screen window) table including a plurality of table entries , each of said table entries including : a sub-field which stores a display start time of the bit-mapped image ; a sub-field which stores an address of a subsequent table entry ; and a sub-field for storing at least one display control command selected from a group of commands which include a commands indicating a display area , pixel color , pixel contrast , and color and contrast changes of the pixels which occur as video frames are displayed ; a data structure for storing encoded audio signals ; and a data structure for storing said video generated according to claim 1 . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (audio signal) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5612900A CLAIM 14 . A memory containing data structures for storing video generated according to claim 1 , audio signal (video decoder) s , and information used for processing of menus , comprising : a data structure stored in said memory including : a field for storing a number of menu cells , a cell being a unit of information ; a field for a start cell of a title menu ; a field for a start cell of an audio selection menu ; a field for a start cell of a menu used to select sub-picture information , the sub-picture information being used to present bit mapped information different from the video ; a field for a start cell for a menu used to select a plurality of programs , when a plurality of programs exist in the memory ; and a field for a start cell for an angle menu used to select a camera angle , when a plurality of angle views exist in the memory ; a menu cell information table containing table entries for each menu to be displayed , each of said table entries including : a field indicating whether a menu corresponding to the table entry is a title menu , a program menu , an audio menu , a sub-picture menu , or an angle menu ; a field indicating a number of selection items ; a field describing at least a portion of a system clock reference of a start portion of the corresponding menu cell ; a field describing a start address of the corresponding menu cell ; and a field describing a number of blocks of the corresponding menu cell ; a data structure for storing information displayed for each menu ; a data structure for storing encoded audio signals ; and a data structure for storing said video generated according to claim 1 . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5686954A Filed: 1995-06-06 Issued: 1997-11-11 Program information broadcasting method program information display method, and receiving device (Original Assignee) Sony Corp (Current Assignee) Sony Corp Hitoshi Yoshinobu, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Yoshitsugu Hattori |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (display control) occupied by said sequence into X rows (program table) and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5686954A CLAIM 9 . A receiving device for displaying a program schedule comprising : a program information extraction means for extracting , from received broadcast wave signals , scheduled program information in which the contents of programs to be broadcast are represented by a plurality of classification items and detailed items for each of said classification items , and said classification items and the detailed items are represented , respectively , by first and second identification data , and corresponding table data for the data for character display of said classification items and said detailed items corresponding to said first and second identification data , a program schedule data generation means for replacing said identification data of said scheduled program information with the data for corresponding character display by using the corresponding table data thereby generating program schedule data ; and a display control (screen window) means for displaying the program schedule based on said program schedule data generated by said program schedule data generation means on a display screen . US5686954A CLAIM 28 . A method according to claim 27 , further including a program table (X rows) for displaying said searched programs , wherein said program table includes broadcasting stop and start times for said searched programs . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5671226A Filed: 1995-06-05 Issued: 1997-09-23 Multimedia information processing system (Original Assignee) Mitsubishi Electric Corp (Current Assignee) Mitsubishi Electric Corp Tokumichi Murakami, Kazuhiro Matsuzaki, Yoshiaki Kato, Hideo Ohira |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals (output data) previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5671226A CLAIM 4 . A multimedia information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein said transmitting processing means comprises : error correction coding means for correcting errors in accordance with transmission media or storage media ; transmission frame generating means for processing transmission framing to output data (decoding input signals) of said error correction coding means ; and modulating means for modulating output data of said transmission frame generating means for transmitting or recording . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5548340A Filed: 1995-05-31 Issued: 1996-08-20 Intelligent television receivers combinations including video displays, and methods for diversion of television viewers by visual image modification (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) Dish Technologies LLC Randall L. Bertram |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (display control) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5548340A CLAIM 1 . A combination comprising : a television receiver having : a video display device for displaying visual images to a human observer ; an audio transducer for emitting sound associated with displayed visual images ; and video/audio reception circuitry coupled to said video display device and to said audio transducer for receiving signals transmitted at frequencies which are outside direct sensing by the human observer and for delivering to said video display device video signals which drive said video display device to display said visual images and to said audio transducer audio signals which drive said audio transducer to emit said sound ; a remote control device usable at some distance of separation from said television receiver and having : a housing sized to be held in the hand of the human observer ; a manually engagable input device mounted in said housing for manipulation by the human observer ; and control transmitter circuitry mounted in said housing and coupled to said input device for transmitting at a frequency which is outside direct sensing by the human observer command signals coordinated in a predetermined manner to manipulation of said input device by the human observer ; and a display control (screen window) ler having : command receiver circuitry for receiving said command signals from said command transmitter circuitry and for deriving from said received command signals image directing signals directing modification of said visual images ; a microprocessor coupled to said command receiver circuitry and to said video reception circuitry (a) for receiving said image directing signals , (b) for executing control sequences in response to said image directing signals , and (c) for modifying said visual images as directed by manipulation of said remote control device by the human observer ; memory devices coupled to said microprocessor for receiving and storing and delivering digitally encoded data used by said microprocessor in executing control programs ; and digitally encoded control program data stored in said memory devices and effective on execution by said microprocessor for modifying said video signals in predetermined manners in response to predetermined image directing signals ; said control program data comprising game program data for selectively manipulating said visual images to display intentional distortions of visual images otherwise displayed for purposes of diversion and further comprising menuing program data effective on execution by said microprocessor for controlling modification of said video signals . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5606374A Filed: 1995-05-31 Issued: 1997-02-25 Video receiver display of menu overlaying video (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) DISH Technologies LLC Randal L. Bertram |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (display control) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5606374A CLAIM 1 . A combination comprising : a television receiver having : a video display device having a predetermined screen area for displaying visual images to a human observer ; and video reception circuitry coupled to said video display device for receiving signals transmitted at frequencies which are outside direct sensing by the human observer and for delivering to said video display device video signals which drive said video display device to display said visual images ; a remote control device usable at some distance of separation from said television receiver and having : a housing sized to be held in the hand of the human observer ; a manually engageable input device mounted in said housing for manipulation by the human observer ; and control transmitter circuitry mounted in said housing and coupled to said input device for transmitting at a frequency which is outside direct sensing by the human observer command signals coordinated in a predetermined manner to manipulation of said input device by the human observer ; and a display control (screen window) ler having : command receiver circuitry for receiving said command signals from said command transmitter circuitry and for deriving from said received command signals image directing signals directing modification of said visual images ; and command processor circuitry coupled to said command receiver circuitry and to said video reception circuitry (a) for receiving said image directing signals , (b) for generating a cursor image signal for overlay of a cursor image onto said visual images , and (c) for displaying over a portion of said visual images a menu element display from which the human observer may select further modifications of said visual images as directed by manipulation of said remote control device by the human observer , said display Controller and Said remote control device cooperating for moving said cursor image across the area of said visual images and said menu display to position the cursor image onto a displayed element and for directing modification of said visual images in response to selection of a displayed element overlain by the cursor image , said display controller cooperating with the television video display device for displaying full motion video visual images occupying substantially the entirety of the screen area and a menu display occupying a minor portion of the screen area and overlying said full motion video visual images . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (image signal) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5606374A CLAIM 1 . A combination comprising : a television receiver having : a video display device having a predetermined screen area for displaying visual images to a human observer ; and video reception circuitry coupled to said video display device for receiving signals transmitted at frequencies which are outside direct sensing by the human observer and for delivering to said video display device video signals which drive said video display device to display said visual images ; a remote control device usable at some distance of separation from said television receiver and having : a housing sized to be held in the hand of the human observer ; a manually engageable input device mounted in said housing for manipulation by the human observer ; and control transmitter circuitry mounted in said housing and coupled to said input device for transmitting at a frequency which is outside direct sensing by the human observer command signals coordinated in a predetermined manner to manipulation of said input device by the human observer ; and a display controller having : command receiver circuitry for receiving said command signals from said command transmitter circuitry and for deriving from said received command signals image directing signals directing modification of said visual images ; and command processor circuitry coupled to said command receiver circuitry and to said video reception circuitry (a) for receiving said image directing signals , (b) for generating a cursor image signal (video decoder) for overlay of a cursor image onto said visual images , and (c) for displaying over a portion of said visual images a menu element display from which the human observer may select further modifications of said visual images as directed by manipulation of said remote control device by the human observer , said display Controller and Said remote control device cooperating for moving said cursor image across the area of said visual images and said menu display to position the cursor image onto a displayed element and for directing modification of said visual images in response to selection of a displayed element overlain by the cursor image , said display controller cooperating with the television video display device for displaying full motion video visual images occupying substantially the entirety of the screen area and a menu display occupying a minor portion of the screen area and overlying said full motion video visual images . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5769719A Filed: 1995-05-26 Issued: 1998-06-23 Video game system having means for displaying a key programming (Original Assignee) United Microelectronics Corp (Current Assignee) United Microelectronics Corp Jerry Hsu |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (game system) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5769719A CLAIM 1 . A video game system (video encoder) comprising : (1) a video display for displaying a key programming process , and for displaying video output of the video game system ; (2) a game cartridge having a video game software stored in the game cartridge ; (3) a game control unit having a program key and a plurality of control keys , said game control unit having no processing unit for processing the program key and said plurality of control keys ; and (4) a game box comprising : (a) an electrical cable for connecting the video display ; (b) a slot for receiving the game cartridge wherein the game cartridge is removable when the game cartridge is plugged in the slot ; (c) a memory unit and a central processing unit (CPU) for program execution ; (d) a system software for controlling operations of the game box ; the system software comprising a displaying software for controlling operations of displaying the key programming process over the video display after the program key is pressed and terminating display of the key programming process after the program key is pressed again ; the key programming process defining a function of a control key by using a key sequence which is formed by a plurality of other control keys of the game control unit , said key sequence being stored in said game box ; wherein the video game software stored in the game cartridge is executed by the CPU when playing the video game , and the game box receives input signals from the game control unit to control proceedings of the video game and displays video outputs over the video display . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals (communication method) previously coded by the video encoder (game system) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5769719A CLAIM 1 . A video game system (video encoder) comprising : (1) a video display for displaying a key programming process , and for displaying video output of the video game system ; (2) a game cartridge having a video game software stored in the game cartridge ; (3) a game control unit having a program key and a plurality of control keys , said game control unit having no processing unit for processing the program key and said plurality of control keys ; and (4) a game box comprising : (a) an electrical cable for connecting the video display ; (b) a slot for receiving the game cartridge wherein the game cartridge is removable when the game cartridge is plugged in the slot ; (c) a memory unit and a central processing unit (CPU) for program execution ; (d) a system software for controlling operations of the game box ; the system software comprising a displaying software for controlling operations of displaying the key programming process over the video display after the program key is pressed and terminating display of the key programming process after the program key is pressed again ; the key programming process defining a function of a control key by using a key sequence which is formed by a plurality of other control keys of the game control unit , said key sequence being stored in said game box ; wherein the video game software stored in the game cartridge is executed by the CPU when playing the video game , and the game box receives input signals from the game control unit to control proceedings of the video game and displays video outputs over the video display . US5769719A CLAIM 5 . The video game system of claim 1 wherein the game control unit communicates with the game box by using a wireless communication method (decoding input signals) . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | EP0676898A1 Filed: 1995-03-20 Issued: 1995-10-11 Frame sampling scheme for video scanning in a video-on-demand system (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp (Current Assignee) International Business Machines Corp Ming-Syan Chen, Dilip Dinkar Kandlur, Philip Shi-Lung Yu |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (video decoder) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
EP0676898A1 CLAIM 7 A video-on-demand system , comprising : a user station having a video decoder (video decoder) , a control interface for receiving scan speed control commands from a user and a first network interface for receiving video data from the video server and for communicating the scan speed control commands to the video server ; a video server having a mass storage media , a second network interface for sending the video data to the user station and for receiving the control commands from the user station ; and , processing logic responsive to the control commands , for identifying particular frames of a video to be retrieved from the mass storage media and provided to the user station ; and a communication network , coupled to the first network interface and the second network interface . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5513991A Filed: 1994-12-02 Issued: 1996-05-07 Method of simulating personal individual art instruction (Original Assignee) Vamp Inc (Current Assignee) Vamp Inc Julia Reynolds, John Richardson |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows (selected number) and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5513991A CLAIM 6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein said portrait includes a plurality of zones separable at least in part from each other by easily removable guidelines , and wherein said master program includes a first set of specific questions having been posed by the teacher , and already recorded on said medium , to ascertain whether said guidelines have been approximately correctly positioned on a painting at least partially completed by the student , and representing said model , and a program for determining whether any of the answers expected to be given by the student from a preselected number (X rows) of answers require an already recorded second set of instructions on said medium for repositioning at least some of said guidelines , and , if so advising the student how to reposition said guidelines , whereby the student can progress with further work on said painting , without , in the majority of cases , being required to start again form scratch . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5699123A Filed: 1994-10-19 Issued: 1997-12-16 Television receiver with an adjustable frame size (Original Assignee) Victor Company of Japan Ltd (Current Assignee) JVCKenwood Corp Kazuyuki Ebihara, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Izuru Shirai |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window (lower edge) occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5699123A CLAIM 20 . A method of detecting aspect-ratio information , comprising the steps of : a) sampling and accepting segments of data of an incoming video signal which correspond to a plurality of vertically-extending regions in at least one field ; b) checking a luminance level represented by ones among the sampled and accepted data segments which correspond to upper and lower edge (screen window) picture regions , and deciding whether or not upper and lower mask regions are present in a picture represented by the incoming video signal in response to the checked luminance level ; c) detecting a luminance level in the upper and lower edge picture regions when the upper and lower mask regions are decided to be present ; d) nonlinearly converting all the sampled and accepted data segments into conversion-resultant data segments with respect to a reference value based on the detected luminance level ; and e) detecting horizontal-line positions at which a central effective region of every picture starts and ends respectively in response to the conversion-resultant data segments . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals (output data) previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5699123A CLAIM 1 . A frame-size adjusting apparatus comprising : a low pass filter for removing high-frequency components from an incoming video signal ; an A/D converter for converting an output video signal from the low pass filter into corresponding digital data ; a calculation circuit for sampling and accepting segments of the digital data which correspond to a plurality of vertically-extending regions in at least one field , and for detecting upper and lower mask regions in every picture represented by the incoming video signal ; and an aspect converting circuit for controlling an aspect condition of the incoming video signal in response to a result of the detection by the calculation circuit ; wherein the calculation circuit comprises first means for differentiating the sampled and accepted segments of the digital data along a vertical direction for each of the vertically-extending regions , second means for subjecting output data (decoding input signals) from the first means to one of a squaring process or an absolute-value calculating process , and third means for detecting horizontal-line positions at which a central effective region of every picture starts and ends respectively in response to output data from the second means . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5702303A Filed: 1994-09-12 Issued: 1997-12-30 Game machine having a playing display screen (Original Assignee) Ace Denken KK (Current Assignee) Ace Denken KK Takatoshi Takemoto, Masayuki Tsurumi |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (game system) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order (when b) . |
US5702303A CLAIM 3 . The game machine as claimed in claim 2 wherein said detecting means further includes : a player determination section for outputting a player signal if the detection signal of said player detector is output for a predetermined time or longer ; and a quantitative input determination section for outputting a quantitative signal if the number of game play media input into the machine and counted by said input counter becomes a predetermined number or more , and wherein said detecting means judges the game start to occur when b (random order) oth the player signal has been output from said player determination section and the quantitative signal has been output from said quantitative input determination section , and judges the game end to occur when the input of the player signal stops . US5702303A CLAIM 20 . A game system (video encoder) comprising a plurality of game machines for paying out game play media for a winning game if a given condition is satisfied after a game is started after game play media are input and a management computer for managing said plurality of game machines , each of said game machines comprising : a display having a game display screen ; a jackpot output section for detecting a jackpot condition during game execution and controlling payout of game play media for the winning game play and outputting information indicating the jackpot condition ; an input counter for cumulatively counting and outputting a value corresponding to the number of game play media input into the game machine ; and a payout counter for cumulatively counting and outputting a value corresponding to the number of game play media paid out by said jackpot output section ; said management computer reading said information indicating the jackpot condition output by said jackpot output section and the values output by each of said input and payout counters from each of said game machines , preparing management data and sending a part of the management data to the corresponding game machine for displaying said part of the management data in a part of said display screen of said display of said game machine . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (game system) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order (when b) , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5702303A CLAIM 3 . The game machine as claimed in claim 2 wherein said detecting means further includes : a player determination section for outputting a player signal if the detection signal of said player detector is output for a predetermined time or longer ; and a quantitative input determination section for outputting a quantitative signal if the number of game play media input into the machine and counted by said input counter becomes a predetermined number or more , and wherein said detecting means judges the game start to occur when b (random order) oth the player signal has been output from said player determination section and the quantitative signal has been output from said quantitative input determination section , and judges the game end to occur when the input of the player signal stops . US5702303A CLAIM 20 . A game system (video encoder) comprising a plurality of game machines for paying out game play media for a winning game if a given condition is satisfied after a game is started after game play media are input and a management computer for managing said plurality of game machines , each of said game machines comprising : a display having a game display screen ; a jackpot output section for detecting a jackpot condition during game execution and controlling payout of game play media for the winning game play and outputting information indicating the jackpot condition ; an input counter for cumulatively counting and outputting a value corresponding to the number of game play media input into the game machine ; and a payout counter for cumulatively counting and outputting a value corresponding to the number of game play media paid out by said jackpot output section ; said management computer reading said information indicating the jackpot condition output by said jackpot output section and the values output by each of said input and payout counters from each of said game machines , preparing management data and sending a part of the management data to the corresponding game machine for displaying said part of the management data in a part of said display screen of said display of said game machine . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5585858A Filed: 1994-08-12 Issued: 1996-12-17 Simulcast of interactive signals with a conventional video signal (Original Assignee) ACTV Inc (Current Assignee) OpenTV Inc Gregory W. Harper, Michael J. Freeman |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (audio signal) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5585858A CLAIM 1 . A fully interactive system for receiving an interactive program signal simulcasting an interactive program and a conventional television program , both programs provided with one conventional television video signal , to multiple subscriber locations permitting authorized interactive subscribers to interact with and receive different and personalized responses from the interactive program and noninteractive subscribers to view and listen to a conventional television program , the system comprising : at least one means for receiving the interactive program signal , wherein the interactive program signal contains a plurality of audio channels , graphics data , control data , a standard video signal and standard audio signal (video decoder) , wherein the control data contains branching codes and trigger points , and whereby the branching codes provide for the linking of one or more audio segments to form a complete and personalized message ; at least one means for displaying the standard video signal , at least one interactive program means , connected to the receiving means and display means , for permitting authorized interactive subscribers to interact with and receive different personalized responses , comprising : a means for demodulating the standard video and standard audio signal ; means for extracting , connected to the demodulating means , the plurality of audio channels and graphics and control data from the interactive program signal , wherein each audio channel comprises one or more audio segments ; means for storing the graphics and control data , wherein the graphics comprises graphics codes designating at least one interrogatory message ; means for gathering at least one subscriber entry ; program selection means , operably connected to the storage means and extracting means , for reading the control data , controlling operation of the interactive program means , and selecting a personalized response at predetermined trigger points , whereby the trigger point initiates the selection of the personalized response corresponding to an interactive event for presentation to the subscriber , comprising : means for selecting one or more audio segments or graphics messages to form a personalized audio or graphics response , whereby the subscriber entry and branching codes are used in each branch in formulating the personalized audio or graphics response ; a graphics generator , connected to the program selection means , for presenting graphics messages on the display means ; and means for interactively presenting the standard video and standard audio and the personalized audio or graphics response to the interactive subscribers so that interactive subscribers fully interact with the program to alter program content and interact uniquely and differently from other interactive subscribers to receive personalized responses while noninteractive subscribers continue to receive a conventional television program . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | EP0634872A2 Filed: 1994-07-11 Issued: 1995-01-18 Processing digital video data (Original Assignee) Sony Corp (Current Assignee) Sony Corp Tetsujiro C/O Intellectual Property Div. Kondo |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns (one screen) ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
EP0634872A2 CLAIM 4 The apparatus for coding digital video data according to Claim 1 , wherein said memory means for storing the background plane data stores background plane data of wider range of picture frame than that of one screen (Y columns) of the digital video data . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals (storing means) previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
EP0634872A2 CLAIM 9 An apparatus for coding digital video data , comprising : plane data generating means supplied with several frames of the digital video data for generating background plane data representing a still image of the digital video data and at least one of motion plane data representing a motion image of the digital video data ; typical image storing means (decoding input signals) for storing a plurality of typical image data ; a plurality of memory means each for storing said background plane data and said at least one of motion plane data ; means for selecting typical image data which resembles most among the typical image data from the background plane data or motion plane data stored in said memory means to obtain discrimination data which corresponds to the selected typical image data and position data which indicates the position of the typical image data ; change information detecting means for detecting a motion plane change information representative of a difference of the typical image data and the motion plane data of a present frame of said digital video data ; and transmitting means for transmitting the discrimination data and position data as well as the motion plane change information . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5592228A Filed: 1994-03-02 Issued: 1997-01-07 Video encoder using global motion estimation and polygonal patch motion estimation (Original Assignee) Toshiba Corp (Current Assignee) Toshiba Corp Kenshi Dachiku, Shogo Yamaguchi, Kazuo Ozeki, Katsumi Takahashi, Mitsunori Omokawa, Takaaki Kuratate |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (video encoder) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5592228A CLAIM 3 . A video encoder (video encoder) /decoder system comprising : a video encoding apparatus , including a moving object analyzing means for extracting a moving object from an input video signal , analyzing its motion and outputting a residual signal relative to a reconstruction picture and motion parameters , a residual coding means for encoding said residual signal from said moving object analyzing means to form encoded residual data , a reconstruction means for reconstructing a picture image using said motion parameters from said moving object analyzing means and said encoded residual data from said residual coding means , and a variable length coding means for performing a variable length coding of said motion parameters from said moving object analyzing means and said encoded residual data from said residual coding means to produce variable length-coded data , wherein said moving object analyzing means comprises a global motion estimating means for estimating a global motion parameter of the moving region within the input picture , a polygonal patch motion estimating means for estimating polygonal patch motion parameters by applying polygonal patches to the moving region within the input picture or reconstructed picture , and a motion compensating means for performing a motion compensation of the reconstructed picture using the global motion parameter estimated by said global motion estimating means and the polygonal patch motion parameters estimated by said polygonal patch motion estimating means ; and a video decoding apparatus including a variable length decoding means for receiving the variable length-coded data , decoding and resolving the variable length-coded data into the global motion parameter , the polygonal patch motion parameters and a residual code , residual code decoding means for decoding the residual code from said variable length decoding means and outputting a decoded residual signal , a global motion compensating means for performing a motion compensation of the entire moving region using the decoded picture of a preceding frame stored in a frame memory and the global motion parameter output from said variable length decoding means and outputting a global motion compensated image , a polygonal patch compensating means for performing a local motion compensation within the moving region using the global motion compensated image output from said global motion compensating means and the polygonal patch motion parameter output from said variable length decoding means and outputting a motion compensated prediction image , and an adding means for adding the motion compensated prediction image from said polygonal patch compensating means and the residual code output from said residual code decoding means to construct a decoded picture and outputting the decoded picture to a frame memory . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (decoding apparatus) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (video encoder) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5592228A CLAIM 2 . A video decoding apparatus (video decoder) comprising : a variable length decoding means for receiving variable length-coded data , decoding the coded data and resolving it into a global motion parameter , polygonal patch motion parameters and a global motion parameter , polygonal patch motion parameters and a residual code ; a residual code decoding means for decoding the residual code from said variable length decoding means and outputting a residual signal ; a global motion compensating means for performing a motion compensation of an entire moving region using a decoded picture of a preceding frame stored in a frame memory and the global motion parameter output from said variable length decoding means and outputting a global motion compensated image ; a polygonal patch compensating means for performing a local motion compensation within the moving region using the global motion compensated image output from said global motion compensating means and the polygonal patch motion parameter output from said variable length decoding means and outputting a motion compensated prediction image ; and an adding means for adding the motion compensated prediction image from said polygonal patch compensating means and the residual code output from said residual code decoding means to construct a decoded picture and outputting the decoded picture to a frame memory . US5592228A CLAIM 3 . A video encoder (video encoder) /decoder system comprising : a video encoding apparatus , including a moving object analyzing means for extracting a moving object from an input video signal , analyzing its motion and outputting a residual signal relative to a reconstruction picture and motion parameters , a residual coding means for encoding said residual signal from said moving object analyzing means to form encoded residual data , a reconstruction means for reconstructing a picture image using said motion parameters from said moving object analyzing means and said encoded residual data from said residual coding means , and a variable length coding means for performing a variable length coding of said motion parameters from said moving object analyzing means and said encoded residual data from said residual coding means to produce variable length-coded data , wherein said moving object analyzing means comprises a global motion estimating means for estimating a global motion parameter of the moving region within the input picture , a polygonal patch motion estimating means for estimating polygonal patch motion parameters by applying polygonal patches to the moving region within the input picture or reconstructed picture , and a motion compensating means for performing a motion compensation of the reconstructed picture using the global motion parameter estimated by said global motion estimating means and the polygonal patch motion parameters estimated by said polygonal patch motion estimating means ; and a video decoding apparatus including a variable length decoding means for receiving the variable length-coded data , decoding and resolving the variable length-coded data into the global motion parameter , the polygonal patch motion parameters and a residual code , residual code decoding means for decoding the residual code from said variable length decoding means and outputting a decoded residual signal , a global motion compensating means for performing a motion compensation of the entire moving region using the decoded picture of a preceding frame stored in a frame memory and the global motion parameter output from said variable length decoding means and outputting a global motion compensated image , a polygonal patch compensating means for performing a local motion compensation within the moving region using the global motion compensated image output from said global motion compensating means and the polygonal patch motion parameter output from said variable length decoding means and outputting a motion compensated prediction image , and an adding means for adding the motion compensated prediction image from said polygonal patch compensating means and the residual code output from said residual code decoding means to construct a decoded picture and outputting the decoded picture to a frame memory . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US5307263A Filed: 1992-11-17 Issued: 1994-04-26 Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system (Original Assignee) Raya Systems Inc (Current Assignee) Health Hero Network Inc Stephen J. Brown |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder (encoded signals, game system) for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows and Y columns ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
US5307263A CLAIM 1 . A self-care health monitoring system comprising : a programmable microprocessor-based unit , said programmable microprocesses-based unit including a display screen and a plurality of switches , said microprocessor-based unit including a receptacle for receiving a program cartridge that includes a memory circuit having stored therein program instructions for controlling the operation of said programmable microprocessor-based unit ; monitoring means operable for sensing a condition indicative of a person' ; s physical well-being and for producing digitally encoded signals (video encoder) representative of said condition ; and a microprocessor-based data management unit connectable in signal communication with both said programmable microprocessor-based unit and said monitoring means , said microprocessor-based data management unit including a central processing unit and a memory circuit , said memory circuit for storing program instructions for controlling the operation of said central processing unit , said central processing unit being responsive to program instructions stored in said memory circuit of said microprocessor-based data management unit for processing said digitally encoded signals supplied by said monitoring means that are representative of said sensed condition , said central processing unit of said data management unit supplying signals representative of said sensed condition to said programmable microprocessor-based unit in response to digitally encoded signals that are supplied to said data management unit by said programmable microprocessor-based unit upon selective operation of at least one of said switches of said programmable microprocessor unit . US5307263A CLAIM 2 . The self-care health monitoring system of claim 1 wherein said programmable microprocessor-based unit is a compact video game system (video encoder) . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder (encoded signals, game system) as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US5307263A CLAIM 1 . A self-care health monitoring system comprising : a programmable microprocessor-based unit , said programmable microprocesses-based unit including a display screen and a plurality of switches , said microprocessor-based unit including a receptacle for receiving a program cartridge that includes a memory circuit having stored therein program instructions for controlling the operation of said programmable microprocessor-based unit ; monitoring means operable for sensing a condition indicative of a person' ; s physical well-being and for producing digitally encoded signals (video encoder) representative of said condition ; and a microprocessor-based data management unit connectable in signal communication with both said programmable microprocessor-based unit and said monitoring means , said microprocessor-based data management unit including a central processing unit and a memory circuit , said memory circuit for storing program instructions for controlling the operation of said central processing unit , said central processing unit being responsive to program instructions stored in said memory circuit of said microprocessor-based data management unit for processing said digitally encoded signals supplied by said monitoring means that are representative of said sensed condition , said central processing unit of said data management unit supplying signals representative of said sensed condition to said programmable microprocessor-based unit in response to digitally encoded signals that are supplied to said data management unit by said programmable microprocessor-based unit upon selective operation of at least one of said switches of said programmable microprocessor unit . US5307263A CLAIM 2 . The self-care health monitoring system of claim 1 wherein said programmable microprocessor-based unit is a compact video game system (video encoder) . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | WO9004439A1 Filed: 1989-10-20 Issued: 1990-05-03 Audience response system (Original Assignee) Right Hemisphere Pty. Limited Peter Samuel Vogel |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 1 . A video encoder for processing a sequence of animated pictures , said encoder comprising : means for dividing a screen window occupied by said sequence into X rows (time values) and Y columns (total time) ; means for separately encoding each one of the X·Y parts of each picture of the sequence thus obtained ; and means for associating , to each of said parts , a specific label indicating a position of the part in the window , and for encoding these labels in a random order . |
WO9004439A1 CLAIM 1 . A method of gathering and evaluating responses made by individual members of an audience to a group of questions posed comprising the steps of : for each of a group of questions posed : i) inviting members of an audience to select a response from a set of possible responses ; ii) sensing a response made by a member of an audience ; iii) storing , in memory means located in close proximity to the responding member of the audience and unique to that member , a response value identifying which one of said set of possible responses is sensed ; iv) storing , in said memory means , a time value derived from timer means corresponding to the time at which a response is sensed ; and , on completion of gathering of responses , for each response sensed : v) recalling said response value from said memory means vi) recalling said time value from said memory means vii) comparing said recalled response value to a predetermined value representative of a preferred response ; viii) accumulating a score according to the result of said comparison ; ix) calculating , using said recalled time value , a response time ; x) comparing said calculated response time to a predetermined range of time values (X rows) within which responses are considered valid xi) providing an indication that a response is not valid if said comparison indicates that said response time is not valid and providing an indication that a response is valid if said comparison indicates that said response time is valid . WO9004439A1 CLAIM 5 . A method according to claims 1 , 2 or 4 wherein the value corresponding to the time at which the response is sensed is a number of time units which do not correspond directly to time of day or date but are time units indicating times of responses relative to each other and the step of calculating a response time comprises the substeps of : i) accessing the timer means from which the time value originated ii) reading from said timer means a value corresponding the current total time (Y columns) value iii) subtracting the time value recalled from said memory means from said current total time value to give a relative time value corresponding to the relative time between the sensed response and the current time iv) measuring the absolute time period of the signal used to clock the timer means v) multiplying said relative time value by said clock period to give an absolute elapsed time value ; and vi) subtracting said absolute elapsed time value from the current time and date to yield an absolute response time . |
| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder for decoding input signals (storing means) previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
WO9004439A1 CLAIM 32 . Apparatus according to claim 18 wherein said writing surface , and said sampling , memory , and storing means (decoding input signals) are located at a first geographical location and said recalling and displaying means is located at a second geographical location and further comprising communication means adapted to communicate said recalled values from said first geographical location to said second geographical location . |
| US6452515B1 Filed: 1999-04-16 Issued: 2002-09-17 Video encoder and decoder (Original Assignee) Koninklijke Philips NV (Current Assignee) Uniloc 2017 LLC Laurent Duquesnois, Cécile Dufour, Lionel Bouchard, Ivo Jansch | US4669730A Filed: 1984-11-05 Issued: 1987-06-02 Automated sweepstakes-type game (Original Assignee) Small Maynard E Maynard E. Small |
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| US6452515B1 CLAIM 2 . A video decoder (user to select one) for decoding input signals previously coded by the video encoder as claimed in claim 1 , said decoder comprising : means for decoding said encoded parts and said coded associated labels ; and means for displaying the decoded parts in a random order , while storing the decoded associated labels . |
US4669730A CLAIM 16 . Apparatus for playing a game by a user , said apparatus comprising : (a) a plurality of remote computer terminals ; each of said computer terminals being in electronic communication with a financial institution data processing machine ; each of said computer terminals being one of an automated teller machine or a point-of-sale terminal of the type used by financial services-type institutions ; (b) user identification means ; said remote computer terminals being responsive to said user identification means to provide user access to said remote computer terminals ; (c) said remote computer terminals each having means allowing the user to designate an amount of money to be withdrawn from a financial account associated with said user and transferred to an account associated with a lottery-type game ; (d) a data processor having means for reading an account number associated with said user' ; s financial account to effect the transfer of funds from said user' ; s financial account to said lottery-type game account ; (e) means associated with said data processor for generating user indicia for participation in the lottery-type game ; said means for generating user indicia including means for allowing the user to select one (video decoder) or more lottery numbers for participation in the lottery-type game ; and (f) means associated with said data processor for transmitting said user indicia to processing means associated with the lottery-type game , such that user indicia is entered into said lottery-type game . |