A video data communication system and method are disclosed which provides for the secure transmission of video data among devices connected to a video data bus. The video data is transmitted with address information corresponding to a particular device or, alternatively, video data is encrypted and transmitted on the data bus without address information.

An interactive television program guide is provided in which advertisements may be displayed in program listings display regions on program guide screens. The program listings display regions may be browse displays or flip displays. The program guide screens contain video for the current channel to which the user is tuned. The program listin gs display regions containing the advertisements may be ...

N-Acetylneuraminic and derivatives of formula (I) pharmaceutical formulations thereof, their use in medicine, in particular as antiviral agents and methods for their preparation are described.

An improved cutting head for a food product on a slicing machine including upper and lower mounting rings, a plurality of cutter support segments connected to the mounting rings, a cutting blade attached to a front edge portion of each cutter support segment, and opposed first and second pivot pins extending from upper and lower portions of the cutter support segment and through the upper and lowe...

The present invention resides in a wood-type golf club head having a body, a striking face and a crown. The body defines a front opening and an upper opening, and it includes a sole and a side section that extends rearward of the front opening. The striking plate is secured to the body, enclosing the front opening. While partially assembled, final weighting and/or other attachment of other members...

The present invention relates to methods for contrast-enhanced imaging of sexual response. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized X-ray tomography (CT), ultrasound, and optical imaging using contrast agents to measure blood flow during sexual response, especially female sexual response. The invention relates to methods of analyzing...

A die is attached to a substrate and is enclosed in a heat spreader, the heat spreader having a first encapsulant guide and a heat spreader air vent in the heat spreader extending therethrough. An encapsulant encapsulates the die, the substrate, at least a portion of the heat spreader, the first encapsulant guide, and the heat spreader air vent such that the encapsulant enters the heat spreader th...

A very compact interference frequency generator ( 11 ) which emits with an extremely wide band width and extremely powerfully is afforded by the combination of a mechanical pulse generator ( 25 ) with two piezoelectric pillars ( 13 ) which are disposed axially in succession and which can be axially acted upon by the pulse generator ( 25 ) and which are electrically connected in series in opposite ...

A handheld remote control device for a Media Computing Device has a biometric sensor to authenticate a user. The handheld remote control device includes a microphone and speaker to enable integration of a telephony system with the Media Computing Device. The handheld remote control device can be used as the interface with the Media Computing Device, alternatively, the handheld remote control devic...

The present invention describes a network communication system which includes a first slave transceiver configured to communicate a plurality of TDMA data packets at different data rates to a second slave transceiver. The second slave transceiver is also configured to communicate a plurality of TDMA data packets at different data rates to the first slave transceiver. A master transceiver manages d...

Real-time communication of multimedia data over heterogeneous networks that may include constant delay networks, variable delay networks that have a common reckoning of time, and variable delay networks that do not have a common reckoning of time. If there are any variable delay networks in which there is no common reckoning of time in the heterogeneous networks, a common reckoning of time is esta...

A transport stream (TS) demultiplexer has a TS input switch unit and an output switch unit, whereby inputs and outputs can be selected as desired, external output can be easily changed by changing selected information of the TS input switch unit and the output switch unit, without changing inputs. Therefore, the TS demultiplexer receives a plurality of TSs such as MPEG-2 TSs and DSS TSs, and can s...

A method comprises determining a plurality of time intervals Tp and Tn within a variable bit rate (VBR) representation of an image sequence. The time intervals Tp are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is greater than a baseline value. The time intervals Tn are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is less than the baseline value. A second repre...

A method and apparatus for selecting at least one transcoding method for manipulating multimedia data for delivery on the basis of analysis of the content of the multimedia data. Many possible transcoding operations can be performed on multimedia data to adapt it to constraints in delivery and display, processing and storage of client devices. The selection of specific transcoding operations can b...

A system and method for performing register renaming of source registers in a processor having a variable advance instruction window for storing a group of instructions to be executed by the processor, wherein a new instruction is added to the variable advance instruction window when a location becomes available. A tag is assigned to each instruction in the variable advance instruction window. The...

A cable television system provides conditional access to services. The cable television system includes a headend from which service "instances", or programs, are broadcast and a plurality of set top units for receiving the instances and selectively decrypting the instances for display to system subscribers. The service instances are encrypted using public and/or private keys provided by service p...

A method and system of downloading a set of programs, navigational, branding and other data to a consumer's set-top box coupled to a cable TV headend controller. The set-top box is also coupled to the PSTN via the headend controller. A user navigates a series of menus displayed on a display device coupled to the set-top box and makes selections of a desired telephone service and enters any pertine...

The method involves adding a number of erroneous samples based on a number of error flags. A value obtained by adding a product of two normal sample values and two weights is calculated, when one erroneous sample is added between two normal samples. Another value located on a continuous line of one of the samples is calculated. A mean value of the values is set to a sample value of a position wher...

Screen (10) for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array (24) of irregular cells (26), which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. Because of the widely varying length of tree cells (26), if a conventional cursor used to select a cell location were to simply step from one ce...

The invention is a device for providing a clamping force about a connection end of elastomeric hose (14) and tubing. The device includes a heat shrinkable polymer, having a diameter reducing releas e temperature, formed into a band. The band has a first nominal inside diameter defined as the diameter of the band assumes up on being shrunk in free space and being smaller than the outside diameter o...