Abstract:
A computer method and system to allow reconciliation of documents that were originally part of a first mail production job, but that may have been produced as part of a different second mail production job. A database stores a first record that identifies documents in the first mail production job. The record includes one or more fields indicating a production status of the documents in the first mail production job. At some point in the production process, a document is separated from what was originally defined as the first mail production job, to be instead produced as part of a second mail production job. The database further stores a second record identifying documents in the second mail production job. These records are updated to include a pointer indicating the relationship between the document and the first mail production job and the second mail production job. During mail production the production status of a document is determined. The database records are updated to record the current status of the documents. Responsive to a query regarding the status of documents originally in the first job, the pointer is used to identify the status of the document in the second job.
Abstract:
A computer method and system to allow reconciliation of documents that were originally part of a first mail production job, but that may have been produced as part of a different second mail production job. A database stores a first record that identifies documents in the first mail production job. The record includes one or more fields indicating a production status of the documents in the first mail production job. At some point in the production process, a document is separated from what was originally defined as the first mail production job, to be instead produced as part of a second mail production job. The database further stores a second record identifying documents in the second mail production job. These records are updated to include a pointer indicating the relationship between the document and the first mail production job and the second mail production job. During mail production the production status of a document is determined. The database records are updated to record the current status of the documents. Responsive to a query regarding the status of documents originally in the first job, the pointer is used to identify the status of the document in the second job.
Abstract:
A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section filtering as well as DVB and DES decryption and to de-multiplex them. The system processes the PES into digital audio, MPEG video and message data. The system is capable of decoding multiple MPEG SLICEs concurrently. Graphics windows are blended in parallel, and blended with video using alpha blending. During graphics processing, a single-port SRAM is used equivalently as a dual-port SRAM. The video may include both analog video, e.g., NTSC/PAL/SECAM/S-video, and digital video, e.g., MPEG-2 video in SDTV or HDTV format. The system has a reduced memory mode in which video images are reduced in half in horizontal direction only during decoding. The system is capable of receiving and processing digital audio signals such as MPEG Layer 1 and Layer 2 audio and Dolby AC-3 audio, as well as PCM audio signals. The system includes a memory controller. The system includes a system bridge controller to interface a CPU with devices internal to the system as well as peripheral devices including PCI devices and I/O devices such as RAM, ROM and flash memory devices. The system is capable of displaying video and graphics in both the high definition (HD) mode and the standard definition (SD) mode. The system may output an HDTV video while converting the HDTV video and providing as another output having an SDTV format or another HDTV format.
Abstract:
Synchronous signal overlapping and outputting means and sound signal transmitting means of a signal transmitter transmit any color signal which synchronous signals overlapped and the other color signals, and a sound signal on which polarity information of the synchronous signals was added through four signal lines to a signal receiver, respectively. Synchronous signal recovering and outputting means of the signal receiver recovers the synchronous signals on the basis of the synchronous signals separated from the color signal with the polarity information and outputs the signals to an image output unit. Then, it is possible to output sounds together with images inputted from the image inputting source from the image outputting unit with only four signal lines.
Abstract:
The signals received by the three cameras of any color video system are determined by the reflectance properties of the objects in the scene and the spectral distribution function of the illuminant. Since the information of interest to the observer is determined by the scene and not by the illuminant i.e. what kind of objects, characterized by their reflectance properties, are in the scene, not how they are illuminated, it is desirable to correct the signals from the scene for the illuminant before the information is displayed on the CRT. According to the invention, a color video system employs the achromatic variable .xi., where .xi., 0.ltoreq..xi..ltoreq.1, and preferably also the chromatic variables .eta., .zeta., with the following characteristic properties: (1) they are illuminant-independent, (2) they have a representation invariant for a transformation of color matching functions, (3) they substantially optimize the system's power of discrimination under a reference illuminant, and (4) they can be chosen such that they are substantially perceptually meaningful.
Abstract:
An underwater scene is viewed by a TV camera which in place of the conventional blue, green and red filters has three filters with transmission characteristics within the range of colors passed by the water medium, typical filters being blue-green, green, and yellow-green. The three TV signals from these signals are used to energize the conventional blue, green and red guns of a color TV cathode ray tube (CRT).
Abstract:
There is disclosed a still color television signal recording and reproducing apparatus which utilizes a single storage tube of a conventional type. Circuitry is shown which enables to store one field or frame of a color television signal together with a color burst signal in a storage tube and to read out the stored signal from the storage tube with minimum frequency deviation for the color burst and chrominance signals. Then, the read out signal is supplied to a color television monitor including a reference oscillator which is phase-locked to the color burst signal in order to demodulate a plurality of color component signals whereby a still color picture of good quality is reproduced on a cathode ray tube in the color television monitor.
Abstract:
An audio to video translator in which an RF oscillator having a frequency within the commercial television broadcast band is coupled to the antenna terminals of a commercial home television receiver and tuned to the selected channel with no other antenna terminal input. The RF oscillator is modulated with vertical and horizontal sync pulses together with the outputs of a color oscillator which in turn is modulated by incoming audio such as from a standard stereo receiver tape deck or record player. Blanking and unblanking pulses from the output of a video generator also modulate the RF oscillator, the video generator being frequency modulated by outputs from the sync pulse generators and the audio channels.
Abstract:
Apparatus for generating a display upon the screen of a television receiver which display changes with changes in the audio frequency signal is disclosed comprising a carrier signal source, a color subcarrier signal source, a horizontal synchronizing signal source, and means for varying the phase of the color subcarrier signal in accordance with audio frequency signals only in the absence of horizontal synchronizing signals. Flashing horizontal color stripes are displayed on the screen of a color television receiver in rhythm with the sounds coming from an audio source with the pitch of the sound determining the number of sets of color stripes and the loudness of the sound determining the number of hues within each stripe set.
Abstract:
An improvement in a system for reproducing a color image where the composite black-and-white image is formed either on an exposure or is formed from a live image. In either case, modulations are provided in first and second particular line patterns to obtain representations of first and second particular colors. The third color may be unmodulated or modulations may also be provided in a third particular line pattern different from the first and second particular line patterns to obtain a representation of the third particular color. The three colors add optically to form the image luminance. To reproduce the color image, signals are provided by scanning the composite image. Means are provided for operating upon such signals in accordance with the modulations in the first and second particular line patterns and the third particular line pattern if such is provided or the unmodulated signal if such is provided to produce signals representing the first, second and third particular colors. A tapped delay line is used to average the demodulation of the colors over several cycles of the line pattern to reduce luminance/chrominance crosstalk and associated beat frequencies. The demodulated signals are then used to reproduce the color image.