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CHOCTAW — Three men were arrested Thursday and taken to the Oklahoma County jail on complaints of attacking a Choctaw woman with a stun gun, Police Chief Conny Clay said.
Devonte Sapp, 20, and Anthony Cooper, 21, both of Midwest City, are being held on $90,000 bail and Orlando Freeman, 22, of Spencer, is being held on $45,000 bail.
Clay said 19-year-old Destiny Stephens was attacked shortly after 5 p.m. Nov. 15.
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There is a minor interaction between both, and with regards to food and Kaletra the interaction is moderate.
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Major: Highly clinically significant. Avoid combinations; the risk of the interaction outweighs the benefit.
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1Research the subcultures of Gothic and Grunge. If you don't know what you are doing, you will be considered a lame poser.
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- Girls: Grunge doesn't require much. Just a simple spaghetti strap black dress will do. If you want, add dark-colored jeans underneath. (Skinny Jeans are NOT acceptable.) Shoes? Anything you feel comfortable wearing in public that goes with your outfit. And if you don't want much of a girly look, a black t-shirt with your favorite band on it will do, along with a cute plaid skirt and fishnets. A good icon to emulate is Amy Lee concert outfits from 2002-2007.
- Guys: Wear a trench coat with a dark-fade pair of ripped jeans. Comfortable shoes in a color to match your outfit. Dark T Shirt.
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Potato salad recipes vary as far and wide as Canada itself. Here's a comprehensive list of potato salad recipes - each one equally fantastic - developed by The Canadian Living Test Kitchen.
This version of potato salad has all the comfort of a fully loaded baked potato. If you're near a kitchen, crisp up your cooked and chopped bacon by microwaving it for 20 seconds before sprinkling on the salad.
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Cooking whole, unpeeled potatoes takes a bit longer, but it's the secret to getting the perfect potato salad texture. Toasting the spices before adding them to the dressing gets rid of any raw flavour. Sprinkle with additional cilantro just before serving.
This lightened-up potato salad is dressed with a flavourful mustard-based vinaigrette instead of mayonnaise. Mixed with flaked salmon and topped with eggs, it's wonderful warm but just as good as a cold lunch the next day.
Macadamia nuts are native to Australia and Hawaii. Roasted, they have a delicious nutty flavour with a creamy but crunchy texture. Almonds or cashews are good substitutes. Australian macadamia oil is available at gourmet food shops.
Everyone needs a classic potato salad recipe in their repertoire for summer gatherings. We love this creamy version with a hit of crunchy celery and tangy gherkins.
Persillade, a mixture of parsley and garlic, added to dishes at the end of cooking perks up flavour. Ordinary white or red-skinned boiling potatoes are best for this salad.
In large pot of boiling salted water, cover and cook potatoes until almost tender, about 10 minutes. Add green beans; boil until tender-crisp, about 4...
With its smoky chipotle dressing, this two-tone salad complements many barbecued dishes. Tote the salad and dressing separately, then all you need is a quick toss together for the table.
A Mediterranean-style potato salad pairs deliciously with grilled chicken or any summer barbecue favourite.
In saucepan of boiling salted water, cover and cook potatoes until tender, 10 minutes. Drain and transfer to bowl; let cool for 10 minutes.
Saut?arlic scapes with red onion for a sweet, mellow addition to a classic salad.
Cook extra chicken and in the morning, cut it diagonally or chop and toss with the salad. Pita bread or crackers and a favourite fruit fill the lunch box deliciously.
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In this recipe, potatoes are cooked in a new, nutrient-friendly way. The potatoes are added to the water once it\'s boiling, so the cooking time is shorter and more vitamin C is retained. Buttermilk, made from low-fat milk, adds creaminess to this potato salad.
Potatoes were hot sellers in the spring of 1863 at 50 cents a bushel. Now, as then, this is an excellent way to use the last of the storage potatoes, especially when they\\\'re dressed with a fresh herb vinaigrette. It\\\'s best to make this salad the day of the picnic and keep it without refrigeration.
Excellent served warm or cool, this main-course salad is a piquant addition to a summer picnic supper. Add an extra jalape?f you really want to turn up the heat.
Serve this filling vegetarian salad with a loaf of crusty bread.
Fingerling potatoes are long, finger-shaped new potatoes, but other potatoes are just as suitable. Though lots of different vegetables go into this salad, they can all be prepared a day ahead for maximum ease.
Potato salad is a Canadian summertime favourite — and this one, sporting red and white colours, is no exception.
Traditional potato salad invigorated with strips of colourful peppers and a dressing of contrasting flavours raises this old standby to new heights.
Here's a quick dish for a sultry summer night from our August 2004 "20-minute Supper" story. You can serve this salad on individual plates or attractively arrange it on a large platter.
Available in some supermarkets, sherry vinegar adds a mellow yet assertive note to the dressing. Red or white wine vinegar is a good substitute.
New potatoes are waxy and keep their shape after cooking, making them ideal for salads. Using small ones means you can leave them whole for a pretty presentation.
A wonderful blend of Indian-inspired spices coats this moist, lightened-up salad. If you can't find black mustard seeds in health food or ethnic food stores, the salad is still delicious without them.
This Scandinavian-style salad jazzes up cooked salmon and potatoes with a creamy dressing and crisp cucumber.
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Once again, Kurt Angle has reiterated to the media that his upcoming tour of England with TNA will be his final one for the time being. The former world heavyweight champion still plans on taking time away from professional wrestling to pursue other business ventures. In a rather interesting tidbit, Angle stated that if it were up to him, AJ Styles would be his opponent on the final tour of the United Kingdom.
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Jim Ross on Charlotte
Since she was the daughter of the legendary Ric Flair, Charlotte was already beloved by fans when she decided to join professional wrestling. When she showed that she was more than capable in the ring, fans loved her even more. The second generation star also received some love from Jim Ross this week. The legendary commentator compared her to Kurt Angle, who was one of the fastest learners that the business has ever seen.
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There have been a lot of rumors over the years that Triple H has issues with Kurt Angle. Some state that as the reason why the latter was not brought back to WWE. During a podcast interview with Steve Austin, HHH was quick to praise Angle without being solicited. He stated that the Olympic gold medalist picked up the business of professional wrestling quicker than anyone he has ever seen in his career. Angle is routinely praised for being a fast learner.
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Like many broadband providers, Cox has a policy of limiting data usage by customers. At least in Cox's case, it sounds worse than it is. Among other things, limits help reduce the load on the system. And unlike some other ISPs, Cox does not have a policy of killing your connection if you reach their limit.
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I hope that doesn't sound condescending to men........... I don't mean it to - I LOVE men! But, the reality is about 1/2 their listening happens with their subconscious brain. They aren't dual brained as women are, so if they are engaged in any type of task or even watching TV -- they are unable to also listen to their wives. To further expand on this topic........ science has proven that the tone of a womans voice is such that if a man is concentrating on something (say a tv show or the newspaper) he is physically unable to HEAR her unless he changes his focus and listens strictly to her voice. Try it with Hulky sometime when he is playing a game on the computer. Start talking to him about something - then throw in a total ridiculous statement - chances are he won't even catch it - cuz he can't play his game and completely listen to you at the same time. I find it very amusing - and will do this to hubby when I'm feeling playful and silly. Then I start laughing and he will say "what are you yabbering about now?" In reality he hasn't "heard" a word I said.
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Its physiology............. they can't help it. Its the way their brains are wired. Keep that in mind - it will keep you from getting angry and feeling like you're being ignored.
I think it's a taught wiring and not a born trait. Hulky and I both do this though. For me, it's the Executive Functioning Disorder more than anything else. Hulky and I just had a fun conversation about this actually . He's going to use the key word "focus" when he wants to do something with video games & be undisturbed (unless I need to talk to him or am leaving the house for a bit).
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Forest Laboratories, Inc.
) recently entered into a settlement agreement with Glenmark
Pharmaceuticals Ltd., relating to its patent infringement
litigation for Bystolic (nebivolol).
Glenmark was looking to launch its generic version of
Bystolic. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Forest
Labs will provide a license to Glenmark allowing the latter to
launch its generic versions of Bystolic subject to certain
Glenmark will be allowed to launch its generic version three
months ahead of the expiration of US Patent No. 6,545,040
(including any extensions and/or pediatric exclusivities) or on
gaining final FDA approval of its abbreviated new drug
application (ANDA), whichever occurs later. However,
Glenmark could launch its generic version earlier in certain
We note that Forest Labs has already settled litigation with
companies like Hetero Labs Ltd., Alkem Laboratories, Ltd.,
Indchemie Health Specialties Pvt. Ltd. and Torrent
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. All these companies were looking to launch
their generic versions of Bystolic.
However, Forest Labs still has patent infringement litigation
against Amerigen Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and
Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
), and related companies pending in the court.
Forest Labs has a strong presence in the cardiovascular
disease market. Forest Labs' cardiovascular products include
hypertension drug Benicar/HCT and Bystolic, a long-acting,
cardio-selective beta-blocker. We believe that Bystolic's unique
characteristics such as its low side-effect profile could make it
a multi-million dollar revenue generator.
We continue to be encouraged by positive efficacy and
tolerability data which we believe will help differentiate the
drug from generic beta blockers in the market. Bystolic turned in
sales of $347.8 million in fiscal 2012, up 31.6%. Bystolic has
$500 million potential in its current indication.
Forest Labs is looking to drive Bystolic's growth by providing
additional data on the appropriate use of the product. The
company is also working on extending the product's lifecycle by
conducting a phase III study with a fixed dose combination of
Bystolic and valsartan (the market leader) for hypertension. A
fixed dose combination product would expand the patient
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Kroger plans to open three new fuel center locations this week — in Abingdon, Virginia; Decatur, Georgia; and Louisville, Kentucky — that bring the company's fuel center locations total to 2,000.
Every holiday season is filled with uncertainty, and this year is no different, except when it comes to e-commerce, where the only unknown is the size of the sales increase.
Kroger's mid-south division president John Hackett is retiring, after 50 years of service with the company. Hackett began his career with Kroger in 1963 as a store clerk in London, Ohio, while working his way through college at The Ohio State University.
Kroger on Thursday announced plans to bring together more than 4,800 associates at the Kentucky Exposition Center on April 16 to assemble an estimated 17,000 emergency food and personal care boxes for the metro community of Louisville, Ky.


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Since the opening of the ¡Viva México! exhibition at the ROM in May 2015, we have been generously treated to a myriad of events related to the show—visiting artists, talks and Friday Night Live events. Most recently, the museum hosted a magnificent symposium introducing attendees to the ideas and work of various academics and experts on the visual culture of Mexico.


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Take a drive on the north side of Greenwood, and the planes in the air are hard to miss. Chances are those planes are being flown by student pilots from a school at the Greenwood Airport. Some are getting a taste of flying for the first time. Some do it for fun. Others aim to make a career as a commercial pilot or instructor. Find out why they take to the skies.
Realizing a bird's-eye view
The Colich File
Name: Andy Colich
Age: 24
Residence: Southside
Job: Airport volunteer
Started flying: January 2011
Current licenses: Private pilot
Working toward: Commercial pilot's license
Goal: To become a flight instructor and also give sightseeing tours by air.
Sunsets above the clouds, flights over a friend's house and views from the air of a college campus or downtown Indianapolis — those are all reasons Andy Colich feels fortunate to be a pilot.
He was working as a flight attendant for an airline in 2010 when some pilots encouraged him to try flying himself.
As a child, he'd imagined what it was like to be a bird, and he now can go up in the air and get the view he imagined birds get, he said.
"Yeah, you're responsible for the airplane, but it's a very free feeling. You're kind of away from everything," he said. "It's hard to put into words because you're very alone. It's peaceful."
The southside resident began taking flight lessons in 2011 and plans to get his commercial pilot's license in the summer or fall of 2015. Colich, 24, is working on getting his instrument rating, which is Federal Aviation Administration certification that verifies that he can fly with only the gauges within the airplane if he's caught in a cloud or a storm. The rating is necessary for commercial pilots.
Colich's goal is to share with as many people as he can the freedom and the spectacular views through the big, surrounding windows on the small planes he flies. He enjoys taking friends up in the air and showing them sights in the air that the tiny windows of a commercial airline jet could never provide.
That's why he wants to teach other people to fly.
"To be able to share with people, to kind of set them free on their own, I think would be a pretty cool thing to do," he said.
He also likes the job options he could have with a certified flight instructor rating and a commercial pilot's license. He could teach throughout the country and also offer flights for sightseers, he said.
Among the opportunities piloting has given him was a chance to fly in California, where he got to see sweeping views of the ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains.
"It's a pretty special place to fly," he said. "It's a place where the ocean and the mountains collide."
Her goal: Be a flying angel
The Pawley File
Name: Melissa Pawley
Age: 39
Residence: Greenwood
Job: Teacher
Started flying: April 1, 2009
Current licenses: Private pilot
Working toward: Instrument rating
Goal: To become an angel pilot, which is a pilot who flies patients with long-term medical conditions, to distant hospitals.
In high school, she decided she wanted to fly helicopters like the pilots giving radio traffic reports.
But then Melissa Pawley tried flying a single-engine airplane from the Greenwood Airport, and during that 30-minute flight she was hooked.
"I actually told the instructor, 'As long as I don't get sick on this flight, I'm signing up for lessons,'" Pawley said.
The elementary school librarian has logged more than 150 hours in flight and earned her private pilot's license. She is taking lessons to learn how to fly small planes without looking out the windows.
She'll have to fly 40 hours to get the instrument rating, which will allow her to fly as an angel pilot. An angel pilot donates her time and a plane rental to pick up patients with chronic or long-term medical conditions who need to get specialized treatment far from home.
Pawley's training to get that rating includes flying with an instructor from Jeff Air, the Greenwood Airport flight school, wearing foggy goggles to practice using the plane's dashboard gauges. With her instrument rating, she'll be trained and certified to fly entirely by looking at gauges that tell her, for example, whether the plane's nose is up or down and how high above the ground it is. That way, based only on looking at her instruments, she can fly through clouds and bad weather no matter what is visible through the windows.
For the training and to keep her license, she has to make short and long flights, which means she's taken brief trips to cities such as Cincinnati and longer trips to Texas, which took about six hours each way.
Sometimes, all she'll do at her destination is get a bite to eat at a restaurant, which is why pilots have a standing joke that all they get out of flying is an expensive hamburger.
Pawley likes to fly as a hobby, but she also wants the cost of renting a plane to have a purpose beyond fun.
That's why she applied for a $10,000 Lilly Endowment grant, which is paying for the flight lessons for her to get the instrument rating. Once she's flown the required 500 hours, she will be able to volunteer her flight time for patients who can't afford to get to their specialized treatment.
"I love to help people. I almost became a nurse," she said. "I need something more than a $100 hamburger."
Dream of teaching pilots
The Singh File
Name: Harjinder Singh
Age: 28
Residence: Greenwood
Started flying: 2009
Current licenses: Private pilot, instrument rating, commercial pilot, multiengine, certified flight instructor instrument rating
Working toward: Certified flight instructor
Goal: To become a flight instructor
As a teen, he found the planning and science of flight intriguing.
He was fascinated by how a combination of increasing and decreasing air pressure on a plane's wings lift the plane off the ground.
Harjinder Singh, 28, of Greenwood, started taking science classes at Purdue University before ever knowing about the flying lessons offered at the college. He then discovered the flight school and committed to becoming a pilot.
Singh graduated in 2012 with private and commercial pilot's licenses, as well as multiple certifications.
"That's always something I wanted to do from the beginning. I like the challenge of it," he said.
Currently he works part time for a trucking company driving and dispatching. But once he finishes his in-air flight instructor certification, Singh wants to apply to be an instructor at the Greenwood Airport. The school is hiring full-time flight instructors for the first time this year.
In his flight lessons, Singh is learning how to teach about every part of an airplane and emergency procedures, what could go wrong and how to fix it.
He's taking one-on-one lessons with Tom Jeffries, owner of Jeff Air, the Greenwood Airport flight school, where he practices teaching how to fly the small Piper Warrior.
Singh hopes to get his certification by the end of May but first has to take a check ride, or in-flight test, with a Federal Aviation Administration inspector.
Singh will add flight hours to his log book as an instructor if he gets hired on at Jeff Air.
Teaching would help get him from the 260 flight hours he has now to the 1,500 hours he would need to get a job as an airline pilot, he said.


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According to police reports, the burglary occurred sometime between 11:30 p.m. and midnight Thursday.
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With Thanksgiving and Black Friday behind us, the Christmas shopping season is fully underway.
Stores are enacting holiday hours. Kohl's, for example, has announced that for the first time ever, it will keep its doors open for more than 100 hours straight.
The marathon will begin at 6 a.m. on Friday, December 20 and go through 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, December 24.
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RedFest is calling for volunteers for all aspects of the operation and your particular skills will be highly valued should you put your hand up to join the volunteers ranks.
Becoming a volunteer at the RedFest means an invigorating weekend of community activity, music, food and fun in a well recognized supportive role for the City's premier cultural icon event in September. As a volunteer of the festival you will become part of our fabulous team, who willingly give their time in serving in this annual community event. You will get to meet many new friends in a busy & friendly environment where activity is all around you.
RedFest is a fabulous community event run by volunteers in our community and people from all walks of life are invited to apply and join our terrific team. Be part of this vibrant festival atmosphere and share in the success of this important Redlands event. This year's festival needs people for roles as gate and parking attendants, administration, bus drivers, ticket sellers, stage hands, site operations assistants, catering assistants, VIP liaison, seating assistants and many more. Positions in some areas are limited, so get in early to lodge your expression of interest in your area of expertise.
RedFest 2016 will feature some fabulous artists, as well as the World Famous Strawberry Eating Competition, Lantern Parade and RedFest Drama Festival to name just a few. Join us on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th September 2016 at Norm Price Park – Redland Showgrounds – Cnr Long Street and Smith Street Cleveland.


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You use program Lips which comes with EliteMap. You need trwo ROMs, one clean, unmodified and the edited one. So, when you open it, it should ask you what do you want to do. Choose "Create IPS patch". Then, a dialog box will appear. Navigate to clean ROM, choose it and press Enter. Then, navigate to your edited ROM and again, do as before. OR just click the Open button. Then, a box saying that IPS Patch was successfully created, and there you are, clean nice patch, ready for distribution.
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Can someone please upload a working Dexter onto Megaupload or something and send me a PM with the link.
If this wasn't the right section to ask please re-direct me.
I've heard that Dexter has it inside originally, but I'm not sure. HackMew is working on a Pokédex editor, you should wait for it. It would be safer.
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|Numéro de publication
|Type de publication
|Numéro de demande
|Date de publication
|19 janv. 1999
|Date de dépôt
|26 sept. 1996
|Date de priorité
|26 sept. 1996
|État de paiement des frais
|Autre référence de publication
|Numéro de publication
|Girmay K. Girmay, Robert P. Loce
|Cessionnaire d'origine
|Xerox Corporation
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|Citations de brevets (16), Citations hors brevets (11), Référencé par (21), Classifications (12), Événements juridiques (6)
|Liens externes: USPTO, Cession USPTO, Espacenet
The invention relates generally to an architecture and processing method and more particularly to logic filtering operations that are employed to produce a digital output image at a predetermined resolution from input images having one of a plurality of input resolutions.
The following related application is hereby incorporated by reference for its teachings: "VIDEO PATH ARCHITECTURE INCLUDING LOGIC FILTERS FOR RESOLUTION CONVERSION OF DIGITAL IMAGES," Robert P. Loce et al., Application No. 08/XXX,XXX, filed concurrently herewith. (D/95498)
The present invention is directed to digital printing systems that handle numerous document and data formats. Such systems are preferably open systems where devices from different manufacturers are integrated to provide solutions to customers' needs. A key feature in such printing systems is enabling electronic documents from various sources to be printed on output devices. In order to achieve device-independence efficient methods of image resolution conversion or enhancement are required. Hence, raster conversion technology, where a bitmap created for a first output device (e.g., at 240 spots per inch) is altered so as to be adequately rendered by an output device having a different resolution, is a very important aspect of the open system technology.
Digital documents created on mainframe or similar legacy computer systems may be digitized at resolutions as low as 240 spots per inch (spi). However, many modern printers operate at 300 spi or 600 spi and it is desirable to enable artifact-free printing of these 240 spi source images on 300 or 600 spi printers. While it is known to accomplish resolution conversion using bit or pixel-level conversion (e.g., bit replication), as employed in the Xerox DocuTech Production Publisher and Xerox 4850/4890 Highlight Color Printers, the present invention enables device-independent printing using an area mapping technique during image processing to enhance binary input images having a first resolution and producing images having a second resolution while reducing or eliminating image distortions upon printing.
Heretofore, resolution enhancement has been accomplished using various techniques, including those described in the following disclosures which may be relevant:
Torrey Pines Research, Behind Hewlett-Packard's Patent on Resolution Enhancement™ Technology, (Becky Colgan ed., BIS CAP International, 1990) pp. 1-60.
James C. Stoffel et al., A Survey of Electronic Techniques for Pictorial Image Reproduction, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-29, No. 12, December 1981.
L. Steidel, Technology Overview: Resolution Enhancement Technologies for Laser Printers, LaserMaster Corp.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,437,122 to Walsh et al., issued Mar. 13, 1984, teaches an improved method of converting low resolution images into images of higher resolution for printing so as to simultaneously increase density and smooth character edges. In a CRT display or hardcopy output apparatus, the invention is accomplished by converting an original pixel into a higher resolution 3×3 enhanced representation. The status of each of the nine elements in the enhanced representation is determined as a result of an examination of the neighboring pixels of the original pixel.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,841,375 to Nakajima et al., issued Jun. 20, 1989, discloses an image resolution conversion apparatus that converts image data having a predetermined pixel density to a pixel density matching that of a printer so as to enable printing by the printer. The pixel density converter includes: a conversion-pixel position detector for detecting the position of a converted pixel; an original-pixel extractor for extracting a reference original pixel; a conversion-pixel density operation circuit for calculating the density of a conversion pixel; a threshold-value setter for dynamically setting a threshold value; a binary encoding circuit for digitizing the conversion-image density; an input interface for inputting image data; an output interface for outputting image data; and a control circuit for controlling the input/output (I/O) and the conversion operations.
U.S. Pat. 4,847,641 (issued Jul. 11, 1989) and U.S. Pat. No. 5,005,139 (issued Apr. 2, 1991) to Tung disclose print enhancement circuitry for a laser beam printer. The bit map of a region of the image to be output is compared to a number of patterns or templates. When a match is detected, a section of the bitmap that was matched is replaced with a unique bitmap section designed to compensate for errors. The replacement bitmap section may include predetermined shifting of some dot positions to compensate for the error in the original bitmap section.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,539,866 (issued Jul. 23, 1996) to Banton et al. teaches increasing the resolution of a binary input image to be printed by an electronic printing system. The method includes storing a portion of the binary input image and determining the binary state of a central pixel and a plurality of pixels neighboring the central pixel and comparing the states of the central pixel and the neighboring pixels to a predefined template. Based upon the comparison, the method detects when a match occurs a multi-bit digital signal is generated as a value associated with the predefined template and the multi-bit digital signal is converted into a resolution enhanced output pixel for printing by the system.
U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 07/513,415, and the corresponding Japanese laid-open patent publication 4-227584 published Aug. 17, 1992, to Mailloux et al. disclose a method to enable the conversion of binary image data originally generated at a lower resolution into representative binary image data of a higher resolution, wherein the conversion ratio, or magnification factor, is an integer value. Included within the resolution magnification invention are methods for smoothing the interpolated output image and thereby reducing objectionable visual characteristics.
The following pending patent applications describe image resolution conversion methods employing morphological processes: appl. No. 08/169,487 by Loce et al. (filed Dec. 17, 1993) and corresponding Japanese Patent Appl. No. 7,226,884 on Aug. 22, 1995, and appln. No. 08/451,376 (filed May 23, 1995), both of which are assigned to the assignee of the present application.
Publication by Edward Dougherty et al. "Optimal binary differencing filters: design, logic complexity, precision analysis, and application to digital document processing," Journal of Electronic Imaging, Jan. 1996. Vol 5, no. 1, p 66-86, discloses statistical and logical properties of template-matching filters. Also disclosed are design methods for optimal template matching filters for digital document restoration and resolution conversion and enhancement.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method for processing a highlight color digital input image signal representing a highlight color image, comprising the steps of: quantization slicing the input image signal to produce at least a first binary image and a second binary image; passing, in parallel channels, each of the first and the second binary images through a binary, template-based resolution conversion operation to yield an intermediate image, wherein the intermediate image is a high-addressability image; arbitrating between the intermediate image available on the parallel channels and associating a marker with each pixel of the intermediate image, said marker indicating the result of the arbitrating step; passing the intermediate image and associated markers to a lookup table, wherein the lookup table outputs, in response to the image pixel and associated marker a digital signal suitable for driving a pulse-width, position modulated marking engine.
One aspect of the invention is based on the discovery of a new technique for improving the image quality of resolution enhanced images, and in particular highlight color images. The techniques of the present invention are intended to enable the processing of highlight color images wherein the techniques increase the resolution of an input image to a common resolution of a highlight color output device while preserving local average density, stroke or line width and edge position in the output image.
Such techniques can be implemented, for example, by an image processor working in conjunction with a highlight color printing system. For example, a machine implementing the invention can include the Xerox® 4850 Laser Printing System or 4890 Highlight Laser Printer.
One aspect of the invention is based on the observation of problems with conventional resolution conversion techniques, particularly techniques that result in strong halftone moire when converting from 240 spi input to 300 spi output. This aspect is based on the discovery of a technique that alleviates these problems by employing a computationally simple, moire-free conversion. This technique can be implemented, for example, using interlocked area mapping techniques and pixel averaging in an image processing architecture designed to provide highlight color image processing.
The techniques described herein are advantageous because they are computationally efficient, simple and do not require modifications to the output device to achieve the improved image quality. The present invention, therefore, may be adapted to any of a number of output devices where open systems interfaces require the receipt and rendering of images having various resolutions.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system implementing logic filtering operations in accordance with an aspect of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an illustration of an exemplary template-based mapping window and the relationship between the window and an area mapping region;
FIG. 3 is another illustration of an exemplary template-based mapping at an input resolution different than that of FIG. 4;
FIG. 4 is an illustration of an exemplary area mapping region;
FIG. 5 is an illustration of the area mapping region of FIG. 4 with further indications of the mapping between input and output pixels in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an aspect of an improved system capable of accomplishing the resolution conversion of a plurality of different input resolutions so as to produce a primary output resolution in accordance with area mapping techniques;
FIG. 7 illustrates an area mapping region for accomplishing an exemplary 240 spi to 600 spi resolution conversion in accordance with the system depicted in FIG. 6; and
FIG. 8 illustrates an area mapping region for accomplishing an exemplary 300 spi to 600 spi resolution conversion in accordance with the system depicted in FIG. 6.
The present invention will be described in connection with a preferred embodiment, however, it will be understood that there is no intent to limit the invention to the embodiment described. On the contrary, the intent is to cover all alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as may be included within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
For a general understanding of the present invention, reference is made to the drawings. In the drawings, like reference numerals have been used throughout to designate identical elements. In describing the present invention, the following term(s) have been used in the description.
The term "data" refers herein to physical signals that indicate or include information. For example, a binary item of data, also referred to as a "bit," has one of two values, interchangeably referred to as "1" and "0" or "ON" and "OFF" or "high" and "low."
A "circuit" is any physical arrangement of matter that can respond to a first signal at one location or time by providing a second signal at another location or time. Circuitry "stores" a first signal when it receives the first signal at one time and, in response, provides substantially the same signal at another time. Circuitry "transfers" a first signal when it receives the first signal at a first location and, in response, provides substantially the same signal at a second location. A "data processing system" is a physical system that processes data. A "data processor" or "processor" is any component or system that can process data, and may include one or more central processing units or other processing components.
A "logic operation", for example an operation accomplished using a logic circuit, is an operation that obtains a result using each bit of an operand independent of values of other bits of the operand. NOT is an example of a logic operation that uses one operand. OR, AND, and XOR are examples that use two or more operands.
An item of data "defines" an image when the item of data includes sufficient information to produce the image. For example, a two-dimensional array can define all or any part of an image, with each item of data in the array providing a value indicating the color of a respective location of the image. Each location in an image referred to herein as a "pixel." A "pixel" is the smallest segment of an image whose value is indicated in an item of data defining the image. In an array defining an image in which each item of data provides a value, each value indicating the color of a location may be called a "pixel value". Each pixel value is a bit in a "binary form" of an image, a gray scale value in a "gray scale form" of an image, or a set of color space coordinates in a "color coordinate form" of an image, the binary form, gray scale form, and color coordinate form each being a two-dimensional array defining an image. An operation performs "image processing" when it operates on an item of data that relates to part of an image.
Pixels are "neighbors" or "neighboring" within an image when there are no other pixels between them and they meet an appropriate criterion for neighboring. For example, if the pixels are rectangular and appear in rows and columns, each pixel may have 4 strongly connected neighbors, 4 weakly connected neighbors, r 8 connected neighbors, or neighbors defined by a window.
An "image input device" or "image input terminal" (IIT) is a device that can receive an image and provide an item of data defining a version of the image. A "scanner" is an image input device that receives an image by a scanning operation, such as by scanning a document.
An "image output device" or "image output terminal" (IOT) is a device that can receive an item of data defining an image and provide the image as output. A "display" and a "printer" are both image output devices that provide the output image in human viewable form. The visible pattern presented by a display is a "displayed image" or simply "image."
Turning now to FIG. 1, illustrated therein is a block diagram of a system for implementing logic filtering enhancement on a highlight color image. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, a highlight color image at a point within the image rendering circuitry typically comprises a pair of binary images, each a different color, superposed with respect to one another. Often such images employ a black image and an alternate color image such as red. Hereinafter, the highlight color image may be referred to as having three components, black (K), red (R) and a white or non-printed regions (W).
As seen in FIG. 1, the highlight color inputs K, W and R are supplied in a 2-bit/pixel format, where three of the four levels are used to indicate a white, red, or black mark for a given pixel. Any number of image input terminals may be employed to produce the K, W, R input information, including printing systems designed for mass mailing or billing purposes where customized colors or logos are printed on non-preprinted stock.
In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 1 the highlight color inputs 20 are directed, depending upon the input resolution, into one of two distinct channels in the image processing system 24. In particular, channel A is intended to handle 240 spi input and channel B 300 spi input. Once directed to the appropriate channel, the general processing methodology continues in essentially the same manner in each channel. Accordingly, the following description will be directed to a single channel, channel A. At split buffer 28A, the K, W, R signals are divided or split into two bit planes indicated as Blk/NBlk (Black/NOT Black) and Red/NRed. Essentially, the split buffer splits the 2-bit/pixel input into two distinct bits, one for each of the two colors in the highlight color system. Bit-slicing or level-slicing (threshold-based) are quantization slicing techniques employed to separate the signals. The single-color plane pixel values (data) are then fed, in parallel to template maps 30A, where an area mapping process is employed to convert the pixels at an input resolution of 240×240 spi to an output resolution of 600×300 spi as will be described with respect to FIG. 2.
Once mapped to the output resolution, the high addressability output (where each 1/300" output pixel is represented by 2 bits in the fast-scan direction), having been grouped into 2-bits per pixel is passed to arbitration/serialization block 34A. At block 34A the arbitration process selects the output color should both the black and red planes indicate a pixel is to be marked. In one embodiment the arbitration may be to simply select the black pulse in the case of all conflicts. However, other arbitration schemes may be employed, for example the arbitration circuit, such as disclosed by Cianciosi et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,479,175 "Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Discharged Area Developed Regions in a Tri-level Printing System", hereby incorporated by reference, may be employed to select between the enhanced resolution black or highlight color output pixels. In one embodiment, the arbitration, step may associate an arbitration marker with the output so as to indicate the results of the arbitration. It will be appreciated that the use of an arbitration result marker or the actual selection of the black or red output are equivalent and one or the other means for arbitration may be employed depending upon the hardware embodiment or subsequent processing necessary. After arbitration, the bit-stream is serialized using a buffering capability also found within block 34A, so that the area mapped output pixels can be output from block 34A as a serialized stream of bits. It will be understood by those skilled in the art of digital image processing that a buffering operation is necessary in order to take a block or array of image pixels that have been mapped and convert them into a stream of data representing a series of scanline delimited rasters for rendering by an image output terminal.
Having produced the serialized high-addressability output 600×300, the data is passed through MUX 38, where the channel output, A or B, is selected based upon the input resolution. The output of MUX 38 is then passed to PWM translation block 40, where the resolution converted, high-addressability data is translated to pulse-width modulated output signals as described by Cianciosi et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,479,175. For example, the image data and associated markers (e.g., arbitration) may be passed to a look-up table (LUT) 40, wherein the lookup table outputs, in response to the image pixel and associated markers a digital signal suitable for driving the pulse-width, position modulated marking engine. The possible outputs resulting from the production of high-addressability output being: white, black, black-left (gray1), black-right (gray2), red, red-left (pink1) and red-right (pink2) and perhaps even combinations of pink and gray. This is an enhanced range of output states relative to the K, W and R previously produced by highlight color systems.
Having described the basic operation of an embodiment of the present invention, attention is now turned to FIG. 2 which is an illustration of an exemplary template-based mapping window 50 and the relationship between the window and an input pixel region 60. More specifically, the mapping operation carried out in the template mapping blocks 30 in FIG. 1 are accomplished using a 6×6 observed window of input pixels 42 as seen in FIG. 2. Within the observed window, a smaller input mapping region 60 is employed. In the 240 spi to 600×300 spi conversion illustrated by FIG. 2, the 2×4 input pixel mapping region 60 is employed to produce the 5×5 output pixel mapping region 60', wherein each input pixel maps to approximately 31/8 high addressability output pixels. It will be appreciated that template-based techniques may be employed to determine the output states of one or more of the pixels within output pixel mapping region 60'. As illustrated a template-based mapping window 50 may be employed as indicated to determine the output state for all output pixels that map to the input pixel indicated by the circle 54 in FIG. 2.
In a similar manner, FIG. 3 illustrates template-based mapping at an input resolution of 300 spi--as would be processed in accordance with the steps previously described, but through channel B of FIG. 1. Specifically, FIG. 3 depicts a 6×6 observation window 68. Within the window, a 2×4 input mapping region 80 is employed to produce the 4×4 output pixel mapping region 80' (each input pixel mapping to 2 output pixels).
Turning now to FIG. 4, there is illustrated an area mapping region for the 240 spi to 600×300 spi resolution conversion operation accomplished in blocks 30A of FIG. 1. In FIG. 4 the positions of the input pixels are outlined as rectangular areas 90 whereas the output pixels are indicated by elliptical regions 92. As will be observed, there are approximately 3 1/8th output pixels for each input pixel. Moreover, various output pixels are split between one or more input pixel positions so as to make the operation of image-artifact-free mapping input pixels to output pixels more difficult, but enabling the use of interlocked mapping techniques such as those described by R. Loce in application Ser. No. 08/451,376, hereby incorporated by reference, to avoid the objectionable image quality obtained with well-known bit-replicating resolution conversion techniques.
FIG. 5 depicts the interlocked mapping that is preferably employed as an aspect of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5, each of the eight input pixels 90 has been assigned a reference number in the form column.row. For example, the upper left input pixel is in the first column, first row position and is identified by the reference numeral 1.1. Most of the output pixels 92 have been mapped or related to one of the input pixel positions and the mapping is indicated by various fill patterns within the output pixel ellipsis. The output pixels within the 5×5 array are referred to hereafter as a cluster. The individually grouped sub-clusters, subsets of the cluster, each contain only those output pixels that will be mapped to a common input pixel value. As will be seen, there are a total of eight sub-clusters within the 5×5 array of output pixels. To further illustrate the interlocked aspects of the mapping operation, the centers of the pixels within each sub-cluster have been connected by a bold line, for example line 98. As indicated by the bold lines connecting output pixels with the sub-cluster it is apparent that adjacent sub-clusters preferably do not have a common shape. The non-symmetrical nature of adjacent sub-clusters is preferred so as to avoid adding structure to the output image. Mirror or rotation orientations of the preferred cluster scheme are also equally preferable.
Although the sub-clusters account for the majority of the output pixels, it will be appreciated that because of the equality in the numbers of pixels in each sub-cluster there are pixels not associated with any sub-cluster. In the example illustrated in FIG. 5, the non-associated or remainder pixel 102 is positioned in the center of the 5×5 array. The output state of remainder pixel 102, or for that matter any remainder pixel, is preferably determined so as to preserve the average density of at least the local region surrounding the remainder pixel. In accordance with the present invention, the remainder pixel output value is determined by first averaging the density of at least two input pixels to determine a local average and then binarizing the average value and setting the remainder pixel equal to the result of the binarization operation. In particular, a preferred method of arriving at the output value for pixel 102 would be to average the values for the four input pixels in the center of the 2×4 input pixel array, and then apply a threshold to determine whether the high-addressability output should be a mark (e.g., black or red) or no mark (e.g., white). Although a threshold has been described as the binarization operation, it will be appreciated that any number of possible techniques may be employed, including forms of halftoning-based thresholding. By averaging the input pixels, the present area mapping operation maintains the average image density for the local region of the image. By employing an interlocked arrangement for the sub-clusters, the area mapping operation not only preserves stroke and line width and position, but also eliminates the potential for objectionable moire as a result of the resolution conversion. A less costly treatment of pixel 102 simply includes it within a neighboring cluster.
Having described one embodiment of the present, attention is now turned to an alternative embodiment of the resolution conversion apparatus and method previously described. In particular, reference is made to FIG. 6 which is a block diagram illustrating a system capable of accomplishing the resolution conversion of a plurality of different input resolutions to produce a primary output resolution. The alternative embodiment preferably substitutes the circuitry represented in FIG. 6 for the template map blocks 30 in the embodiment of FIG. 1. In particular, the template map blocks take a region of the input pixels and map the values of the pixels to a plurality of output pixels. However the system depicted in FIG. 1 requires distinct channels for each input resolution. The alternative depicted in FIG. 6 takes the input image data (M) over a 2×4 region (e.g., 8 bits per color plane) on lines 120 and applies the template-based mapping logic at block 124 previously described to produce outputs for a plurality of output pixels (N0 -N24) on lines 128 at a higher resolution. The values for each of the output pixels is, for example, determined based upon the mapping technique previously described with respect to FIG. 5 and all outputs are provided to the selection and buffering block 132. In a simplified representation, block 132 operates to latch or otherwise buffer the signals on lines 128 and then select the outputs to be employed to generate the appropriate number of output pixels for the given resolution conversion, preferably using combinatorial logic. Operation of the selection block is accomplished as a result of an input received from selection logic block 136. Selection logic block 136 receives as input the resolution of the input image and produces a combinatorial logic output signal which controls the selection of various signals buffered within block 132. The resultant output from block 132 is a plurality of output pixels that may be further processed as previously described with respect to FIG. 1.
To further illustrate the operation of the alternative embodiment, reference may be had to FIG. 7 which illustrates an area mapping window for accomplishing an exemplary 240 spi to 600 spi resolution conversion in accordance with the system depicted in FIG. 6. In particular, the rectangular input pixel positions are labeled using numerals for the column.row designation as previously described. Similarly, the output pixel positions use alphabetical column.row notation. As will be appreciated from the discussion directed to the embodiment of FIG. 1, the state or value for each output pixel or group of output pixels may be determined using a template-based technique, for example those techniques described by Loce et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,359,423 to Loce for a Method for Statistical Generation of Density Preserving Templates for Print Enhancement, issued Oct. 25, 1994 or the paper by Edward Dougherty R. Loce entitled "Optimal Binary Differencing Filters: Design, Logic Complexity, Precision Analysis, and Application to Digital Document Processing" cited previously. In all cases, the output pixel is defined as the result of logical operations performed on one or more input pixels surrounding a target input pixel (I) at location X.X. Accordingly, the output (O) of pixel at position x.x could be represented as:
Ox.x =flogic (IX.X, IX-1.X, IX.X-1, . . . ),
where flogic is a template-based logic operation associated with the particular output pixel position.
As will be further appreciated by one skilled in the art, the logic operations and hardware necessary to perform such operations may be implemented in an application specific integrated circuit or gate array device. To capitalize on the hardware invested to implement the various template-based operations, the embodiment of FIG. 6 would be employed to produce a plurality of 600 spi output pixel values as indicated in FIG. 7, such as a.a, b.d or e.c. However, as shown in FIG. 8 an exemplary 300 spi to 600 spi resolution conversion may also be accomplished using the same logic used to produce the twenty-five output pixels of FIG. 7.
For example, 600 spi output pixel a.a in FIG. 7 is likely to be generated primarily as a logical function of 240 spi input pixel 1.1. Similarly, 600 spi output pixel a.a in FIG. 8 is likely to be produced by the same logical function applied to 300 spi input pixel 1.1 in FIG. 8. Thus, the same hardware within the mapping logic block 124 of FIG. 6 can be employed to produce both of the a.a output pixels found in FIG. 7 or FIG. 8. Thus, as depicted in FIG. 8, sixteen of the twenty-five outputs generated by mapping logic block 124 are preferably employed to produce the outputs for the 300 spi to 600 spi conversion represented therein. Those skilled in the art will recognize that such a system is extendible so as to allow the conversion of a multitude of input resolutions to a common output resolution, the primary difference being one of controlling the speed and synchronization of the logic operations as a function of the input and output resolution. Moreover, the advantageous interlocked mapping applied as indicated with respect to FIG. 5 may also be employed in the compacted implementation scheme of FIG. 6 so as to provide an improved rendition of the resolution converted image with a hardware minimized system capable of converting a plurality of input resolutions to a common output resolution.
In recapitulation, the present invention is a method and apparatus for logic based resolution conversion of digital images. The invention employs an interlocked area mapping technique to provide one or more resolution converted bit planes of digital image data. The system has particular use in highlight color systems, wherein the highlight color data may be processed separately for each color plane, using the present invention, and then recombined to produce enhanced highlight color output.
It is, therefore, apparent that there has been provided, in accordance with the present invention, a method and apparatus for resolution conversion of digital image data. While this invention has been described in conjunction with preferred embodiments thereof, it is evident that many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, it is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and broad scope of the appended claims.
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CHIBA — Shunsuke Watanabe is a rabbit's foot, a twisting, turning good luck charm who gets it done.
Watanabe isn't the strongest or the meanest, and he certainly isn't the hardest throwing pitcher, but he has a way of making teams better, a subtle nastiness.
It probably has something to do with his uncanny ability to make opposing batters look foolish. Watanabe is tough, and he's no one-pitch wonder.
"All of my pitches are out-pitches," Watanabe said. "When you're in trouble and a batter knows what to expect, they will hit you or just not swing.
Marines pitcher Shunsuke Watanabe would like to face the
best hitters in the world, but he said he is not ready to
leave Japan.
"What I have and what they don't have in the big leagues are slow pitches. I capitalize on them. They are my weapons."
Deadly weapons, at that.
Watanabe will never be the guy who burns up the radar gun, but with his control, he could find his spot on a leopard, and that's to say nothing of his ability to change speeds.
Ranging from down in the 90s up to the 120s regularly, he can alter velocity by more than 30 kph from pitch to pitch, which keeps hitters guessing.
"All of his pitches are nasty," said teammate Matt Franco, who was 0-for-2 against Watanabe during a World Baseball Classic exhibition game last month in Fukuoka. "His slider actually rises.
"It's so deceptive. He doesn't get you with speed, but he still is nasty."
Hitters had a tough time figuring out Watanabe last season.
Going 15-4 with a 2.17 ERA and eight complete games, Watanabe was a force for the Marines as they won interleague, Pacific League, Japan Series and Asia Series championships.
Watanabe threw a complete-game shutout against the Hanshin Tigers in the Japan Series and was named most outstanding pitcher of the Series, and with Team Japan in the WBC, he had a 1.98 ERA and struck out six in 13 2/3 WBC innings.
As good as he was through the regular season, Watanabe was able to crank it up in the postseason as well as in the WBC.
He had no-decisions against Korea in his two WBC starts, but Watanabe still turned in solid outings for the world champions.
Watanabe was money for Lotte in the Pa League playoffs, the Japan Series and the Asia Series.
He was so money, so good, the Marines more than doubled his salary in the offseason.
Watanabe, a 2001 draft pick from Nippon Steel Kimitsu Works, made 61 million yen in 2005. After posting the second-best ERA in the PL last season, Watanabe's salary rose to 140 million yen.
Life on the corporate circuit was a large influence on Watanabe's big-game mentality.
"I had played in the corporate league, and when you lose one there, you're out of it," Watanabe said. "I was playing under the pressure that if we lost, our club would be disbanded because a lot of teams were disappearing.
pitching style, starring for the Chiba Lotte Marines and
for Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic.
"The pressure of playing in the postseason is very similar. The fans really get into it, and it helps me focus on the game."
More than pleased with what he accomplished last season, Watanabe isn't ready to take it easy.
Although the Marines were tops in almost every way possible during last year's magical run, Watanabe said his numbers could have been just a little bit better.
Stress the word "little."
Fukuoka Softbank Hawks pitchers Toshiya Sugiuchi (2.11) and Kazumi Saito (16-1) led the league in ERA and winning percentage, respectively, last season, something Watanabe wants to do this year. Being close is not good enough for the competitive hurler.
"As a starter, it is important to have consistent games and not to lose, if you want to win that title," he said. "Aiming at (Saito's) title makes me focused. That's the one I want to win."
Goals met does not necessarily equal challenges left behind, Watanabe said.
Even if Watanabe blasts through the regular season and win ERA and winning-percentage titles, there is enough in Japan to keep him interested.
He is not champing at the bit to get posted for the major leagues like Seibu Lions pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka or Tokyo Yakult Swallows third baseman Akinori Iwamura.
"At this moment, I am not thinking of it," said Watanabe, who turns 30 this season. "I have anxieties with my language and lifestyle, and we've just had a baby. My wife and I have two kids, so considering my family, I should stay in Japan for a while."
Under the right circumstances, however, Watanabe said it would be an intriguing opportunity for him someday.
"I'm curious about the game in the majors," he said.
Major leaguers are pretty curious about him too.
Watanabe's underhand submarine pitching style made him one of the most recognizable players for Team Japan in the WBC.
"He's that guy who throws the crazy underhand, right?" New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez said.
"He would be tough to hit. He looks like he is going to drag his knuckles on the ground every time he throws the ball."
A-Rod and Team USA faced Koji Uehara in the WBC, so Major League Baseball's highest-paid star never got an at-bat against Watanabe.
One major-league team that did face Watanabe was the Milwaukee Brewers, who Japan played in an exhibition game between the Tokyo and Anaheim rounds of the WBC.
Brewers manager Ned Yost was impressed with Watanabe, who gave up two hits in three innings against the Brewers. Watanabe left with a 1-0 lead, but Sugiuchi blew the lead and Japan lost 5-4.
"I don't know how he throws it like that, but sure enough, he throws strikes," Yost said. "He changes his spots and then comes back. Just amazing stuff."
But could Watanabe succeed in the majors?
"For sure," Yost said. "With his command, he could make it over here."
It would require a big change in mind-set for Watanabe to go across the Pacific and compete. Against more powerful hitters, Watanabe said, he would have to become a little trickier.
"I consider my fastballs as change-ups because I throw from the bottom and nothing goes straight," Watanabe said. "Against the major leaguers, it is better to go with a slow pitch, so I would use curveballs and sinkers."
Watanabe's always been known for being a submarine pitcher.
Going back to junior high school, when he adopted the pitching style after a heart-to-heart with father and baseball fanatic Hideo Watanabe.
Shunsuke Watanabe told his father he wanted to become a big-time pitcher, and knowing his son's physical ability, Hideo Watanabe advised become a sub.
The Marine part came later.
"I wanted to play for a school that would go to Koshien and continue at university," Shunsuke said. "I thought it would be interesting to change to submarine because my body is so flexible."
Watanabe played for Kokugakuen University Tochigi High School, but he first fell in love with the magic of the Koshien tournaments when Kazuhiro Kiyohara led PL Gakuen to a title.
"I went out rooting for a Tochigi Prefecture school, but since then, I've been a fan of Kiyohara," Watanabe said.
Kiyohara is back in the Pacific League this season after signing with the Orix Buffaloes. Orix and the Hawks both will be in hot competition with the Marines in a top-heavy Pacific League.
He has come a long way since those days of sitting in the stands at Koshien, playing integral roles in domestic and world championships.
Kaz Nagatsuka contributed to this report.
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