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Patent EP-0556063-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKAKURA EIICHI
IPC: H04N19/895
Filed: 1993-02-12
Abstract: In a digital VCR, which carries out bit rate reduction coding of digital video signals for magnetically recording and reproducing the same, a plurality of blocks each including the digital video signal of a plurality of pixels are formed, and the digital video signals are encoded for each block. A code amount is controlled so that the code amount may be constant on the basis of one or more of the plurality of blocks, and encoding is carried out for correcting a possible error, whereby error correction blocks are formed. The error correction blocks are rearranged so that the error correction blocks included in the blocks, which are adjacent to each other in a screen, may be adjacent to each other on a recording medium, and the data for three rectangular regions, which are obtained by trisecting the screen with respect to the horizontal direction, may be recorded in corresponding three tracks. Thereby, mosaic deformation in a reproduced picture can be prevented.
Patent EP-0571127-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ALLEN ROSS R
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 1993-05-12
Abstract: A thermal ink jet print cartridge (24) that integrates pressure regulation, ink filtration, and melt-on-demand and quick turn-on, temperature regulation heaters into a monolithic print head. Heat spreading is accomplished by thermally-conductive elements (33) within the pen body and heaters adapted to heat the ink (32) prior to ejection. A quick-on, temperature regulating heater (44) is disposed adjacent to an ink drop generator. Melt on-demand heaters (45, 45a) may also be employed that are disposed in contact with heat spreading elements (33) to heat the phase-change ink (32) to a temperature above its melting point to allow it to flow to the drop ejection chambers (52). Pressure regulation is accomplished by a bubble generator (46) having an orifice acting together with a flexible bladder (30). The bladder (30) has a vent (31) to the outside of the cartridge (24) for maintaining a relatively constant partial vacuum as the air in the cartridge expands and contracts due to heating and cooling. Pressure regulation and ink filtration components are integrated into a substrate (41) containing the print engine. Individual filters (70) in the substrate (41) for each drop generator (40) comprising an array of holes takes the place of a single feed-through hole in conventional printers thereby integrating the ink filtration and ink supply functions. The print head uses a freezing mechanism to secure and seal the bubble generator orifice (46) to maintain a subatmospheric internal pressure within the ink cartridge. The phase change of hot-melt ink (32) seals the bubble generator (46) when the print cartridge (24) is in standby mode or when it is removed from the printer. Removal of an active print cartridge (46) from the printer is delayed until the bubble generator orifice (46) freezes. This is accomplished by turning off the temperature regulating heater (44) that maintains the ink (32) in the vicinity of the bubble generator (46) in a liquid state, and dissipating the heat of fusion to form a solid plug or skin within or over the bubble generator (46).
Patent EP-0593209-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CAMPBELL WALTER G
IPC: G06Q20/04
Filed: 1993-10-07
Abstract: Checks used to effect commercial and private transactions may be cleared through the banking system by transporting images of those checks between sending instituions (14) and receiving institutions (16) in forward and reverse flow paths between banks of first deposit and payor banks. The check images are transported through a public switched telephone network (10) which contains a special check imaging node (12) which provides a network-based check clearing service for customers of the telephone network. The check imaging node receives images of checks from institutions which subscribe to this service and routes those images through the telephone network to intended subscriber and non-subscriber recipients. Transmission of check images through a public switched telephone network may completely replace existing check clearance procedures or may be used in conjunction with existing procedures.
Patent EP-0585181-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MUNCH W D C O EASTMAN KODAK CO
IPC: G01N1/34
Filed: 1993-07-23
Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method called the rinse test for determining where silver is being lost and the variability of this loss in a photographic emulsion manufacturing process. Results from this method can be used to determine what parts of the emulsion manufacturing process should be improved to increase silver yield thereby reducing manufacturing costs and what parts of the emulsion manufacturing process should be improved to reduce silver loss variability thereby improving an emulsion's sensitometric response. The photographic emulsion manufacturing process includes at least one kettle and a plurality of processing equipment which may include sections of pipe, permeators, mixers and pumps. The silver loss is determined by adding water to a kettle after the product has been removed from but prior to cleaning of this kettle. The concentration of silver in this rinse water is measured and the amount of silver is determined. Each piece of processing equipment is flushed sequentially with water from this kettle and the concentration of silver in this rinse water is measured after each piece is flushed. The amount of silver in the receiving kettle is determined then the silver loss in each piece of processing equipment is determined from the incremental increase of the total silver in this rinse water.
Patent EP-0595790-A2 (EP)
Inventor: EBNER ANDREAS
IPC: H04N7/00
Filed: 1992-04-09
Abstract: For the compatible introduction of a 16:9 letterbox format into existing 4:3 television standards, the video information of the 16:9 recording is represented with black stripes at the top and bottom picture edge. For a full-screen display on a 16:9 receiver, additional information, which allows improved picture quality, is transmitted in the black stripes of the compatible 4:3 transmission. Correct decoding of the television signals by a 16:9 receiver requires a corresponding identification of the signal types. To avoid a change or impairment of the previous allocation of the vertical blanking interval, an additional signal-type information item is transmitted in the half of the first or last active frame line of the television signal which is free of picture signals. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0612167-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RIFE DAVID C
IPC: H04L7/027
Filed: 1994-02-16
Abstract: A method for estimating the frequency of the symbol clock in an incoming signal so as to match the frequency of the local symbol clock to the frequency of the remote symbol clock. An analog front end (15) samples an incoming signal to provide a sampled signal. A frequency estimator and clock recovery circuit (16) recovers the symbol clock in the incoming signal and performs a Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) at two frequencies, F1 and F2. The amplitude of the DTFT at F1 is compared with the amplitude of the DTFT at F2 to provide an estimate of the frequency of the symbol clock in the incoming signal. A master clock (20) provides a clock signal to a clock adjustment circuit (23), which divides the clock signal to provide the transmitter symbol clock for the modem (10). The estimate of the frequency of the symbol clock in the incoming signal is used to adjust the divide ratio in the clock adjustment circuit (23) so that the frequency of the transmitter symbol clock of the modem (10) matches the frequency of the symbol clock of the incoming signal. The present invention matches these frequencies within 10 parts per million (ppm). Therefore, a precision symbol clock can be generated using a master clock having an accuracy of only 100 ppm.
Patent EP-0615384-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WU ALLEN
IPC: H04N7/26
Filed: 1994-03-10
Abstract: Digital video signals are adaptively compressed for communication to a receiver. Superblocks (230), each containing a plurality of blocks (232) of digital video data, are compressed using PCM, DPCM with a general motion vector for the entire superblock, and DPCM with a specific motion vector for each block contained within a superblock. The result of each compression mode is compared (58) after accounting for overhead data, to determine which results in the least amount of data for each block (232). These blocks are assembled into a superblock (230), and compared (80) together with necessary overhead and motion vector data to the same superblock processed using all PCM as well as the superblock processed using all DPCM. The comparison determines which compression mode produces the least amount of data for the superblock. The most compact superblock is selected for transmission. The transmitted superblocks are decoded by a decoder (Fig. 5) that recovers the necessary motion vectors and overhead information which identifies the type of compression used to provide the superblock.
Patent EP-0621308-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ELLUL MARIA D
IPC: C08K3/34
Filed: 1994-04-14
Abstract: Thermoplastic elastomers having improved low temperature properties are provided by incorporating suitable low molecular weight ester plasticizer into blends of crystalline polyolefin homopolymer or copolymer and olefinic rubber. The rubber component of the composition is at least partially cured.
Patent EP-0661326-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HARAZOE HIROFUMI C O MITSUI PE
IPC: C08G63/88
Filed: 1994-12-27
Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing a polyester comprising [A] a liquid phase polycondensation step in which a dicarboxylic acid including terephthalic acid or its ester derivative and a diol including ethylene glycol or its ester derivative are subjected to polycondensation reaction in liquid phase and molten state under heating in the presence of a polycondensation catalyst to produce a polyester (a) having an intrinsic viscosity, as measured in o-chlorophenol, of 0.7 to 1.5 dl/g; [C] a hot water treatment step in which the polyester (a) is contacted with hot water of 60 to 130 °C for 30 minutes to 10 hours; [D-1] a drying step in which the polyester after the hot water treatment step is dried at a temperature of 110 to 150 °C for 30 minutes to 6 hours; and [D-2] a heat treatment step in which the polyester after the drying treatment step is heated at a temperature of 160 to 200 °C for 1 to 10 hours; wherein the finally obtained polyester has an acetaldehyde content of not more than 10 ppm. 
     The polyester (a) obtained in the step [A] can be precrystallized in [B] a precrystallization step by keeping it in an atmosphere of a heat-up crystallization temperature (T c1 ) to 200 °C for 1 minute to 4 hours, prior to the drying step [D-1] and the heat treatment step [D-2]. 
     Further, when the precrystallization step [B] is carried out, the polyester obtained in the step [B] can also be subjected to the heat treatment step [D-2] and then the hot water treatment step [C]. 
     The process of the invention has advantages that a solid phase polycondensation step can be omitted, and the process can provide a polyester having a low acetaldehyde content as well as reduced tendency to increase acetaldehyde during the molding process. Thus the polyester obtained by the process of the invention is particularly suited as a material for preform and beverage bottles formed from the preform. These bottles do not alter the tastes of the contents therein.
Patent EP-0611168-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ONO MIYOKI
IPC: C12C11/00
Filed: 1994-02-11
Abstract: There are provided a method of extracting essential  oil-rich hop extract from hop, using supercritical or  subcritical carbon dioxide as the solvent, the above  mentioned essential oil-rich hop extract, and a product  comprising a mixture of the hop extract and a hop extract  residue. There is also provided a method of applying the  product to the production of wort or beer. The  extraction is carried out either in one stage controlling  the pressure of the carbon dioxide in the extraction tank  at 80 - 100 kg/cm², or performing the extraction at a  pressure of over 100 kg/cm² and conducting the separation  in two stages.  
     It is possible to produce beer having a pleasant,  flowery hop fragrance and a refreshing, deep-bodied hop  flavor.
Patent EP-0626266-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NAGOSHI SHIGEYASU C O CANON KA
IPC: B41J25/34
Filed: 1994-05-26
Abstract: A recording apparatus wherein a recording head which has been mounted can be identified more precisely by measuring characteristics of the recording head to obtain information for defining a drive condition of the head and storing the characteristics as ID information of the recording head.
Patent EP-0656614-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CALLENS SERGE
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1994-12-02
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for confirming the authenticity or the absence of tampering with an object such as a document or a package. It includes   - a base sheet (5) intended to be stuck by one of its faces to the object, - a flexible and transparent flap (6), integral with the base sheet (5) and capable of covering over the latter, the face of the flap (6) able to come into contact with the base sheet (5) being covered by an adhesive product, and - a removable protective film applied to the face of the flap (6) which is covered with the adhesive product.   <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0683295-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHENCK HANS-PETER
IPC: E05D15/52
Filed: 1995-05-19
Abstract: The scissor unit (10) connects a window casement to a fixed frame has a control arm (18) movably mounted on the pane and a bolt member (30) movably mounted on casement and interacting with a control curve (32) on an underneath side of the control arm facing the casement. The control arm has a shank angled towards the casement at least in the area of the control curve and/or in the area of an arm length adjustment device on its front longitudinal edge relative to the first tilting direction (A). The bolt member can leave and enter the area of the control curve underneath the arm unimpeded by the angled shank. The control arm at least in the area of the control curve preferably has an L, U or C shaped cross-section perpendicular to arm length direction.
Patent EP-0686547-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TURNER PAUL H
IPC: F16F9/16
Filed: 1995-06-06
Abstract: Shock absorbing fork, especially a front fork (1), for a two-wheeled vehicle, particularly a bicycle, of the type having a pair of telescoping struts (3) and a hydraulically damped shock absorbing arrangement (15) disposed within each of the telescoping struts (3), the shock absorbing arrangement (15) having a piston (16) which divides a hydraulic fluid containing cylinder (19) into upper (21) and lower (22) chambers, a valve (24) regulating flow of hydraulic fluid through the piston (16) between the upper (21) and lower (22) chambers, and a piston rod (25) connected to the piston (16). Among the improvement of the invention is the provision of a spring (S) for absorbing shocks that acts on the piston (16) of the hydraulic shock damping arrangement (15) upon compression of the telescopic struts (3), and a location sensitive flow control arrangement (37) having a flow path (F) extending between opposite sides of said piston (16) and a flow adjusting element (39) which is displaceable into and out of said flow path (F) as a function of the extent which the spring (S) is compressed by compression of the telescopic struts (3).
Patent EP-0718243-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHOUBYE PETER
IPC: F28F1/40
Filed: 1995-12-13
Abstract: A method to provide a glass tube with an internal glass spiral being formed from a straight glass rod and fastened to the internal wall of the glass tube by merging the glass rod with the glass wall in the line of contact between the glass wall and the spiral wherein the glass rod is conducted into the glass tube through a guiding tube placed inside the glass tube at a velocity  v₁  relative to the guiding tube, the guiding tube being provided with a heating zone at its front end inside the glass tube, the glass rod being heated to its softening point in the heating zone before leaving the guiding tube through a mouth piece, at the same time the glass tube and/or the guiding tube being rotated at a frequency  n , and the glass tube being moved at a velocity  v₂  relative to the guiding tube.
Patent EP-0679937-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GOEDEWEECK RUDI C O AGFA-GEVAE
IPC: G03C1/035
Filed: 1995-03-07
Abstract: There is provided a silver halide photographic, black-and-white medical hard copy material, comprising an opaque reflecting polymeric support and at least one hydrophilic colloid outermost layer, characterised in that :
     (i) the material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer A and a silver halide emulsion layer B, coated on the same side of said support, the emulsion layer B being closest to said support and   (ii) the silver halide emulsion layer A is faster than the silver halide emulsion layer B.    Emulsion layer A is preferably between 1.25 and 3.20 times faster than emulsion layer B. 
A method is also provided for printing radiological images in combination with the protocol describing said radiological images onto a single sheet of hard-copy film.
Patent EP-0701328-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WOO NAM-SUNG
IPC: H03K19/177
Filed: 1995-08-30
Abstract: A programmable logic cell of a field programmable gate array having a decoder circuit arrangement for increasing the number of inputs to each programmable logic cell. The decoder circuit arrangement couples to the look-up table of each programmable logic cell.
Patent EP-0718619-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KUBOTA FUMIO
IPC: G01N35/10
Filed: 1995-12-20
Abstract: The particle measuring apparatus includes a specimen pipetting section for pipetting a specimen liquid, a reagent dispensing section for dispensing a reagent, a mixing section for receiving the specimen liquid supplied by the specimen pipetting means and the reagent dispensed by the reagent dispensing means and a flow cell for receiving the specimen liquid and the reagent transferred from the mixing section and measuring particles therein; the pipet being so constructed as to be positioned in a first state of picking up the specimen liquid as well as in a second state of supplying the specimen liquid into the mixing section, the mixing section being open when the pipet is in the first state, the mixing section being kept closed by the pipet in the second state so that the reagent dispensed by the reagent dispensing section can press and transfer the specimen liquid in the mixing section out toward the particle measuring section.
Patent EP-0676597-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FERROLI DANTE C O FERROLI S P
IPC: F28F13/00
Filed: 1995-03-06
Abstract: The present invention relates to a pipe assembly for conveying fumes in steel boilers provided with condensate quick evaporating means, characterized in that it comprises an inner pipe (2) and an outer pipe (3) which define a closed gap (4) therebetween. 
     The main feature of the invention is that between the inner pipe (3) and outer pipe (4) are provided contacting lines extending according to parallel lines which are either helicoidal or not.
Patent EP-0727261-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GRAY CALVIN G
IPC: G01J3/51
Filed: 1996-01-19
Abstract: A photo-optical detector for use in a multichromatic sorting machine, each detector including at least two separate photodiode materials responsive to a different spectral range and a multipeak optical filter having transmission response characteristics that are respectively defined in a frequency spectrum of the respective spectral ranges of the materials. The sorting machine using such detectors can be selectively programmed using the various resulting signals from the detectors after appropriate amplification and threshold detection to cause resulting ejection mechanism activation.
Patent EP-0728713-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MEININGER SIEGFRIED DIPL-ING
IPC: C01B17/50
Filed: 1996-02-01
Abstract: Process for the combined utilisation of residues, which are produced from the mfr. of cement and H2SO4, and with the aid of chemically reactive carbon are split with the CaSO4, is claimed. The CaO is calcined to cement at over 1200 degrees C in the presence of SiO2, Al2O3 an Fe2O3 and the SO2-contg. waste gas liberated from dust, washed, mixed with air, and converted to SO3 and H2SO4. An appts. for carrying out the process is also claimed.
Patent EP-0735365-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MACHIDA HIROAKI
IPC: C07H21/04
Filed: 1996-03-22
Abstract: The improved DNA base sequencer comprising an electrophoresis plate (74) having a gel electrolyte layer (90) held between two glass plates (86, 88), one of which is partially cut away on the top edge in the direction of width, an assay compartment (22) for accommodating said electrophoresis plate in a vertically erect position, a lower reservoir (30) of a buffer solution in which the lower part of the gel electrolyte layer in the electrophoresis plate is to be immersed, an upper reservoir (28) of a buffer solution in which the upper part of said electrolyte layer is to be immersed, photoexciting laser light applying means (70) by which laser light is emitted from a lateral side of the electrophoresis plate in such a way that it crosses the lanes in said plate at right angles, and fluorescence detecting means (84) by which the fluorescence emitted from a DNA fragment illuminated with the laser light is picked up and converted to an electric signal, wherein a sharkstoothcomb (1) made of a water-swellable material is inserted from the top edge of said electrophoresis plate (74) into the space between the two glass plates, either the top or bottom edge of said sharkstoothcomb being provided with a plurality of teeth (3) which are each tapered from the root toward the tip.
Patent EP-0738964-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SHERMAN WILLIAM
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 1996-04-09
Abstract: A method for animating composite behavior of scenarios in association with a scenario presentation tool for the definition, maintenance, and presentation of scenarios, the scenarios comprises a series of steps representing the dynamic behavior of a system, the tool utilizing a system description and including an arrangement for reading and presenting the system description and an arrangement for selecting elements from the system description and for facilitating the definition, maintenance, and presentation of scenarios, comprises the steps of defining a sequence of steps by selecting elements from the system description in accordance with a predetermined syntax, saving the steps with sufficient information to reproduce the scenarios, constructing an object communication diagram (OCD) for which is a composite picture a plurality of the scenarios, and saving the OCD diagram.
Patent EP-0740470-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WAHL STEFAN
IPC: H04N7/173
Filed: 1996-04-10
Abstract: The communication system (KS) has the service requests received from the users (U1,...UN) handled by a hierarchy server structure, with the system divided into a central region (I) and a remote region (II) adjacent the user. The frequently requested films are stored by servers (SL1,...SLN) in the remote region and seldom requested films are stored by servers (SM) in the central region, with the user connected to the central server when the requested film is not available from the local server.
Patent EP-0739066-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KAZUAKI KAMEI
IPC: H01R43/28
Filed: 1996-04-18
Abstract: A wire decurling apparatus (100) occupies a minimum of space and has two interconnected subassemblies (1, 2) which are hinged together so that the upper subassembly (2) may pivot with respect to the lower subassembly (1). Each subassembly (1, 2) has a plurality of rollers (11, 11') arranged therein which are shifted in two directions with respect to each other, thus subjecting the wires to both to vertical and lateral bending simultaneously while passing through the apparatus (100).