A method and apparatus for automatically detecting the format of a high-definition television (HDTV) signal at a video encoder to allow proper encoding of the signal, including progressive and interlaced scan, and specific pixel and vertical line resolutions. The system is compatible with video standards such as the SMPTE and MPEG-2 standards. A video sample clock is determined by phase-locking cl...

A high speed process for determining whether an externally applied address points to a memory cell or a redundant memory cell in a memory is disclosed. Identification information associated with redundant memory rows and columns is stored and compared with decoded information based upon a decoded externally applied address. This comparison determines if a memory cell of a redundant memory cell is ...

A semiconductor memory device includes a memory array having first and second columns, each column having a plurality of memory locations associated therewith and being identified by first and second column addresses, respectively. Column address decoding circuitry receives column address signals and selects at least one column memory array. The column address decoding circuitry is programmable su...

A repair circuit for a redundancy circuit which replaces a failed circuit with the redundancy circuit using a fuse, wherein the fuse is an anti-fuse programmed by its conduction due to a dielectric breakdown. A repair operation can be performed at a package step of a memory device, by using the anti-fuse conducting due to the dielectric breakdown.

Detection of a watermark in blocks of video or image data which has been subjected to affine geometric distortion is accomplished by approximating the distortion by a spatially varying translation of the blocks. The watermark is extracted by spatial translations of the blocks based on an assumed affine geometric distortion. The extracted watermarks are correlated with possible watermarks and the m...

A method and apparatus for performing harmonic imaging. Each transmit focal zone in the near-field is interrogated by two or more transmit firings of different phase, while each transmit focal zone in the far-field is interrogated by a single transmit firing. On receive, the respective near-field vectors are summed, thereby substantially canceling the fundamental signal components while isolating ...

An analog video signal inputted from a video camera is converted into digital video data in a real-time manner by a real-time encoder and is transmitted. A video server has a plurality of storing devices, stores the inputted digital video data into any one of the storing devices in a real-time manner, and transmits the digital video data read out from any one of the storing devices to a video repr...

An address processor (205) receives contiguous row and column addresses from an address decoder (151). In response, the address processor (205) applies a scattering function to the contiguous row and column addresses to produce scattered row and column addresses of scattered locations in the memory (155).

When loading executable machine code into memories, the defective memory locations can be bypassed by properly inserting jump instructions or dummy memory allocation instructions in the program code. Prior to loading the executable code into the memories, defective memory locations are checked and recorded first. The source program code are analyzed to see which instruction step will fall into def...

The invention relates to a drive circuit for a thermal printer with a thermal print head (1) with a series of electrically drivable heating elements (14), with a microprocessor (2) which transmits data to be printed to a register (13) which is assigned to the thermal print head (1). In order to increase the printing speed, a buffer (15) which is connected to the microprocessor (2) by means of a pa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress required memory quantity and to enable shortening a relieving and analyzing time to a semiconductor memory. SOLUTION: This information take-in device 60 is provided with an address selecting section 602 and a memory control section 604 to which defective cell discrimination information is inputted, a memory 606 storing defective cell specifying information which s...

"TAMPA PROTETORA PARA MANTER UM AMBIENTE LIVRE DE CONTAMINANTE, SISTEMA PARA A TRANSMISSãO NãO DISTORCIDA DE UM FEIXE DE LUZ VISìVEL AO LONGO DE UMA DIREçãO PREDETERMINADA, E, PROCESSO PARA A TRANSMISSãO NãO DESVIADA DE UM FEIXE DE LUZ VISìVEL ATRAVéS DE UMA JANELA OPTICAMENTE TRANSPARENTE AO LONGO DE UMA DIREçãO PREDETERMINADA". Uma cortina estéril (10) servindo para preservar a integridade estér...

"COMPOSTO, COMPOSIçãO FARMACêUTICA PARA TRATAR INFECçõES BACTERIANAS, E, PROCESSOS PARA TRATAR INFECçõES BACTERIANAS, E PARA PREPARAR UM COMPOSTO" Novos compostos de eritromicina ligados em ponte nas posições 6 e 11 e seus sais e ésteres farmaceuticamente aceitáveis que têm uma atividade antibacteriana que tem a fórmula (I) ou (II); composições que compreendem uma quantidade terapeuticamente efica...

"COMPOSTO, COMPOSIçãO FARMACêUTICA PARA TRATAMENTO DE INFECçõES BACTERIANAS, E, PROCESSOS PARA TRATAR INFECçõES BACTERIANAS E PARA PREPARAR UM COMPOSTO" Novos derivados 2-halo-6-O-substituídos e sais e ésteres farmaceuticamente aceitáveis dos mesmos tendo atividade antibacteriana de fórmula (I) ou (II): composições compreendendo uma quantidade terapeuticamente eficaz de um composto da invenção em ...

A yarn feeder intended particularly for flatbed knitting machines and elastic yarns has a yarn tension sensor which is provided with a calibration device. This device lifts the yarn from a peg that is part of the yarn tension sensor, at times in which this can be done without impairing operation of the yarn feeder. Such times are preferably time slots when no yarn feeding is necessary. Once the ya...

A system and method dispense resin between substrates. A top substrate device holds a top substrate concave up. A bottom substrate device holds a bottom substrate concave down. A resin dispensing device has a needle and dispenses a trajectory of resin defined by an arc having a tangent that touches a tangent of a concave-up-shaped top substrate. The top substrate device may be arranged to include ...

C2 to C4 olefins are selectively produced from a gas oil or resid in a two stage process. The gas oil or resid is reacted in a first stage comprised of a fluid catalytic cracking unit wherein it is converted in the presence of conventional large pore zeolitic catalyst to reaction products, including a naphtha boiling range stream. The naphtha boiling range stream is introduced into a second stage ...

Nanofibers are produced having a diameter ranging from about 4 ANGSTROM to 1 nm, and a nano denier of about 10-9. The use of the electro-spinning process permits production of the desired nanofibrils. These fibrils in combination with a carrier or strengthening fibers/filaments can be converted directly into nonwoven fibrous assemblies or converted into linear assemblies(yarns) before weaving, br...

On delivering a program on an On Demand method of a Cable TV, program reservation information is generated for each route of a communication line in a Cable TV center and is provided to a subscriber in order to restrain the number of digital lines in respect of the number of subscribers in a predetermined number and efficiently utilize equipment set in the center's side while maintaining the On De...

A vehicular navigation system includes guide control facilities which acquires stored information of an angle between a road entering and a road departing a rotary branch on a route stored in route information storing means, the angle of a junction to the rotary, and information of the changing angles of individual links forming the rotary. Direction guidance is performed on the basis of this acqu...