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"HYAAAAAH!" A bolt of lightning cracked through the air, arching from Seth's fingertips to the beast's gaping mouth. The monster fell to the ground, among the other four. "Cyclops? Not one, but five? Might as well make me fight a dragon!" Seth shouted to the heavy air. He fell to the ground, gasping for breath, blood pouring out of too many gashes to count. "Maybe I should keep the scars to seem authentic." He contemplated, but taking one step made him realize that the pain was simply too much to walk back to the Guild with. He sat, clasping his hands together, and focused on the wounds. After about an hour, it was impossible to discern that he had just been in such a battle, apart from the five corpses, of course. "Speaking of which..." He began the task of loading the monsters into a kart. He decided to take one of their filthy broad swords back. Cyclops were known to be expert forgers, so it might be worth something. On the way back, Seth stopped by a river to wash the blood from his black garb. When that task was thoroughly complete, he took a needle and thread to the tares in the outfit. "Blood and tares without gashes. Now THAT would make the master suspicious."
"Here you are, sir. Five cyclops, as ordered. Would you like some fairies with that, sir?" He meant it as a joke, but he didn't think he'd kept the sarcasm from dripping off of his words.
"Uninjured, yet again, I see." growled the Guild Master.
"Uh, yes, sir. You know how slow those monsters can be." He was certainly getting suspicious.
"Hmm." He grumbled, staring Seth down. "Congratulations on making such a contribution to the scientific community. You may retire for the night, Setharos."
"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir." He turned and headed for his quarters.
Seth's room was on the top floor of the Guild, overlooking the rest of the city. It sounds like a lovely view, but the smog bellowing from the factories made it a sight to be disgusted. It was fumes like these that had turned so many other cities into ruins.
He pulled the enormous sword from under his bed. he had gotten it in here without anyone noticing, but now what? The guild confiscated any money he had in exchange for his board, but maybe he could hold on to some this time. "I'll get someone up here to appraise it tomorrow." He thought.
He removed his black hood and bandana. He had heard that Mitch had run into some trouble outside and took an arrow to the knee. "It's amazing he still one the battle." He admired. But he had to pity him. The only way he would be able stand up within a year would be by magic. Wizards had been driven into hiding decades ago. Sure, Seth helped him once when they were younger, but what if Mitch found out this time? What if anyone found out? "I should at least check up on him."


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|Publication number
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|Application number
|Publication date
|Apr 19, 1994
|Filing date
|May 19, 1992
|Priority date
|Mar 30, 1990
|Fee status
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|Armand Belmares-Sarabis, Stanley J. Chayka
|Original Assignee
|Inprop, Inc.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (19), Referenced by (24), Classifications (6), Legal Events (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 815,892, filed Dec. 30, 1991, which was a continuation of Ser. No. 07/502,057, filed Mar. 30, 1990.
This invention relates to the color correction of video signals, and particularly to the digital color correction of digital and analog video signals.
Modern video color correctors are highly versatile and accurate in separating and correcting various colors in video signal programs. The "Sunburst" color corrector sold by Corporate Communications Consultants, Inc., and shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,862,251, and others, is an example of such prior art color correction systems and methods.
The color correction processes performed in such equipment are basically analog in nature. Essentially, all analog systems are subject to the problems of electrical noise in the signals, drift, and, under certain circumstances, lack of reliability. Also, there are problems caused by the vectorial combination of analog signals in some prior analog devices. It long has been desired to produce a digital color corrector and method to take advantage of the fact that digital systems are essentially noise-free, free of drift, and highly reliable in operation, and it long has been desired to provide color correction free from the other problems mentioned above.
Although equipment has been offered claiming to perform some color correction procedures digitally, it is not known that anyone has yet provided an operating, full-feature digital color corrector or method.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a digital color corrector which overcomes or alleviates the foregoing problems.
More particularly, it is an object to provide such a color corrector which performs all or substantially all of the sophisticated functions of prior analog equipment, but does so in the digital domain.
Furthermore, it is an object to provide such equipment which is relatively noise-free, highly reliable, and is relatively free of drift.
Still further, it is an object to provide such a color corrector and method which avoid the problems associated with the vectorial combination of analog video signals in the usual analog color correction system and method.
It is another object to the invention to provide such a device and method which is a relatively simple and inexpensive to use.
Another problem with prior color correctors using windows to restrict the areas in which color changes are effective is that such devices prevent the correction of other areas without first disabling the window or moving it. Furthermore, prior windows are restricted in their usefulness.
Therefore, it is yet another object of the invention to provide a video color corrector and method in which windows are provided which do not have the foregoing deficiencies, and which permit greater flexibility and utility in their use.
In accordance with the present invention, the foregoing objects are met by the provision of a color corrector and method in which corrections are made entirely digitally, without the vectorial combination of analog signals. A digital computer is provided to convert color parameter adjustments into digital correction signals which will change the apparent phase and amplitude of the signals in a manner so as to create the desired corrections.
Preferably, separate fixed-range color detectors are provided, each with controls to adjust the hue and/or saturation and/or luminance of signals which fall within that fixed sector of the color spectrum. Advantageously, the fixed sectors correspond to the sectors for the three primary and three secondary colors; that is red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, and cyan. A separate adjustment knob is provided for each of the hue, saturation and luminance parameters for each of the six sectors.
Advantageously, a second color correction circuit is provided in which correction of the hue, saturation and luminance of colors falling within a single relatively narrow band can be accomplished. The position of the band in the color spectrum is essentially infinitely variable. Preferably, the width of the band is variable to a very narrow width.
It also is preferred that digital means is provided for forming one or more windows on a video screen displaying the pictures being corrected. The windows are given "soft" edges or boundaries by storing different signal levels in register files and progressively shifting the signal levels to change colors gradually when forming the boundaries of the windows.
In addition, a color corrector is provided in which it is possible for the operator to select one color out of many for exclusive operation with a window. The group of hues among which a selection can be made advantageously includes the three primary and secondary colors. Moreover, a separate window can be provided for each of those six colors. Together with a separate window for the narrow-band circuit a total of at least seven windows can be formed and used in a given picture.
Advantageously, correction of the selected color can be made inside the window, and a different one outside of the window. All other hues remain unaffected by a window dedicated to one hue, and can be color-corrected simultaneously with the selected color, in all parts of the picture.
The foregoing objects, features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in or apparent from the following description and drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic circuit diagram showing a color correction system constructed in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are schematic circuit diagrams of the digital video processor of the system shown in FIG. 1; and
FIGS. 6 and 7 are schematic circuit diagrams of a portion of the circuit of the system of FIGS. 1-5.
FIG. 1 shows a color correction system 10 which includes control panels 12 and 14, a main data processor 28, and a digital video processor 30. Digital video signals are developed by a digital video tape or disc player 32. The player 32, such as the Sony DVR10 professional recorder-player, converts analog video signals into digital form. Analog-to-digital convertors for the same purpose also are commercially available.
The digital video signals are sent to the digital video processor 30 which performs color correction and produces color-corrected digital output signals corresponding to the input signals. The output signals are recorded on a digital recorder 36. The color corrected pictures are displayed on a "digital" color monitor 34. This monitor is an analog monitor with digital-to-analog converter means.
In use, digital video signals are developed by the player 32. Color corrections are made by use of the control panels 12 and 14, and digitally-corrected color signals are stored in the main data processor 28 for each separate scene or frame in a video program.
Preferably, the player 32 is stopped at or near the beginning of each new scene in the video program so that a frame from that scene is displayed on the digital color monitor 34. The color corrections are made by operation of the controls on the control panels, the connected signals are stored in the main data processor, and the player is started and moved to the next scene where the procedure is repeated.
If desired, any prior correction which has been stored in the main data processor can be recalled and applied to a later scene or frame in essentially the same manner as shown and described in the "Sunburst" U.S. Pat. No. 4,862,251; the "Rainbow" U.S. Pat. No. 4,096,523; the "Call-a-Picture" U.S. Pat. No. 4,763,186 and other prior patents identified in those patents.
After the entire program has been color corrected in this manner, the tape player 32 can be re-wound to its start position, and the entire color corrected program can be recorded by use of the digital recorder 36, with color corrections being recalled from memory in the main data processor 28 upon the detection of the first frame of a new scene, etc., as is well-known in the prior art.
Advantageously, unlike most or all analog recorders, the digital recorder 36 is capable of recording with intermittent motion. Therefore, each scene of the program can be recorded immediately after corrections are complete, without returning the player 32 to its starting position and replaying the input record.
The color-corrected digital output signals can be used at intermediate points in editing systems, and in other systems or equipment in which such signals are used.
The control panels 12 and 14 have essentially the same controls as shown in FIG. 2 of the drawings of the Sunburst U.S. Pat. No. 4,862,251.
The controls include a group 16 of color balance controls including rotary adjustment knobs for gain, gamma and pedestal for red, green, blue and luminance. Preferably, each of the controls is a rotary shaft-position encoder device which provides a digital output indication of its movement.
The section 18 includes 18 rotary controls; six each for hue saturation and luminance for yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta and red, the primary and secondary or complementary colors.
The controls 20 include a variable-vector selector control 21 for selecting a narrow band of the color spectrum in which to detect colors, and other controls for setting the width of the band, and setting the saturation level of signals detected in the band, as well as knobs for adjusting the hue, saturation and luminance of the colors detected.
The controls 22 include a variety of further controls, as further explained in the Sunburst patent.
The controls in the lower portion 26 of panel 14 include all of the functions as shown in FIG. 3 in the Sunburst patent, as well as controls for the "Interweave" function of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 257,647 filed Oct. 14, 1988, Now U.S. Pat. No. 4,954,883, and the "Call-A-Picture" function shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,763,186 which enable the operator to select color corrections from a prior corrected scene by choosing the scene from a display of miniature images of prior scenes on a supplemental monitor (not shown).
The panel sections 24 and 26 also include the usual controls for starting and stopping the video signal source, storing data, etc., as set forth in the Sunburst patent.
FIGS. 2 through 7 show the digital video processor 30 in some detail. The figures are drawn so that the output signals on the lines at the right of each of FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are continued as input lines to the circuitry on the following sheet, with exceptions as noted on the sheets themselves. Therefore, to obtain a complete diagram, the four sheets, FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5 should be laid side by side, in numerical sequence. FIGS. 6 and 7 show a portion of the circuitry in greater detail.
Now referring to FIG. 2, the input lines 38 at the left are adapted to accept digital video signals, and lines 40 will accept analog video signals. Digital video inputs can be applied to each of the two lines A and B, and the machine selects the input to be processed.
Digital video signals on either line A or B pass through an input processor and digital matrix circuit 42, of known construction, which converts the signals into digital R,G,B, and Y signals; that is, red, green, blue and luminance signals. Those signals are delivered to an input selector circuit 48, which is a multiplexer which selects among the digital video inputs, analog video inputs, or test signals from a test signal generator 46, depending upon the form of the input signals to be corrected.
Analog input signals are converted to digital form by an analog-to-digital convertor 44. Once the signals are converted to digital form, the processing continues in the same way as for digital video input signals.
The multiplexer is controlled by signals received through a line 62 from a computer data bus 60 labelled "C DAT" from a microprocessor computer 54. The computer 54 receives serial data on an input line 56 from the control panel by way of the main data processor 28, or from the main data processor itself. The microprocessor is a 16-bit processor such as the NEC V40.
The microprocessor 54 operates with a set of tables 58 which take the form of EPROM's which store data and algorithms for use in converting shaft position changes of the control knobs, etc. into corrections for the various color parameters corrected by the system, as it will be explained in greater detail below.
The R,G,B, and Y signals output from the input select circuit 48 go to a color balance circuit 50. The color balance circuit 50 includes a red processor 51, a green processor 53, a blue processor 55, and a luminance processor 57. Each of these processors is known and will not be described herein. It is used to modify the gain, gamma and pedestal of each of the red, green, blue and luminance signals in accordance with the operation of the controls on the panel 16 (FIG. 1). The signals from those controls are sent through the microprocessor 54, the data bus 60 and the line 64 to the processors 51, 53, 55 and 57.
After being modified digitally in the color balance processors, the R,G,B, and Y signals are sent to a color level processor 52 which performs essentially the same functions as those set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 4,866,511.
Responsive to signals received over the line 66, the color level processor digitally modifies the overall color level of the signals.
Modification of colors in accordance with pre-determined curves is performed substantially as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,866,511 for signals whose luminance is in the high range; or in the mid-range, or in the low range. The data establishing the curves is stored in look-up tables. In addition, the color level processor subtracts the luminance signal from each of the R,G and B signals and supplies the R-Y, G-Y and B-Y signals on the output lines 68 which go to FIG. 3. The luminance signal by-passes the circuitry of FIGS. 3 and 4 and goes directly to the circuit of FIG. 5.
FIG. 3 shows digital color derivative circuit 69. In that circuit, the R-Y, G-Y and B-Y inputs at 68 are delivered to a 6-Sector discrete sector hue detector 70. The detector 70 contains individual circuits 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 77, each of which is adapted to detect signals in a particular sector or band of the color spectrum; specifically in the red, green, blue, yellow, magenta or cyan sector, respectively.
Each of the circuits 72-74 produces an output signal on its output line 80, 81 or 82 when the data representing a pixel of the picture represents red, green or blue. It should be noted that the pixel can have only one of the three primary colors. Therefore, the output lines 80, 81 and 82 are connected together ("ORed") at a point, 84 to reduce the circuitry required.
Each pixel may have one of the three secondary colors yellow, magenta or cyan, but it cannot have more than one of the secondary colors. Therefore, the output lines 86, 87 and 88 of the three detector circuits 75, 76, and 77 are similarly connected together at a point 90.
Each circuit 72-77 has an output line 78 upon which a signal appears whenever it detects color. Each of these lines 78 is connected to a register files circuit 92 which has seven levels of output latching circuits. Each of the seven levels represents a different level of output magnitude.
Register files circuit 92 delivers signals over three output lines 100 to each of three multipliers 104, and each of three other output lines 102 delivers signals to one of three multipliers 105. The signals delivered on lines 100 and 102 are pre-determined functions of the sine and cosine of Θ, the phase angle of the detected color.
As it is disclosed in the Sunburst U.S. Pat. No. 4,862,251, by varying the sine and cosine of Θ, one can change the hue of the output digital signals to make hue corrections.
Similarly, saturation corrections are made by increasing the co-efficient of the sine and cosine functions.
The outputs of the ones of the circuits 72-77 which detect color then are directed, together with a signal on one of the lines 100, 102 to one of the multipliers 104, where the signals are digitally multiplied together to produce, respectively, R-Y', B-Y' and ΔY', R-Yc, B-Yc, and Δ Yc (the prime stands for "primary" and the "c" stands for complementary or secondary color).
The outputs of the multipliers 104 and 105 are connected as shown to three adding circuits 106. One of the adding circuits produces an output signal equal to R-Yc. The second produces an output equal to B-Yc, and the third adder produces a signal equal to Δ Yc.
A window circuit 98 is provided (see the lower left-hand corner of FIG. 3). This circuit, which contains conventional circuitry to move the window and enlarge and reduce its size, also contains circuitry, subject to operator control, to select the operation of a window to operate only on a selected one of the six primary and secondary colors. In other words, if red were the selected color for operation of the window, the circuit 98 will alter only red objects within the window. There is no restriction on which colors can be corrected outside the window. Therefore, separate corrections for each of the six colors can be made outside the window. Therefore, for example, the operator can correct the red color of a Coca-Cola can which is located inside the window, while simultaneously correcting the blue sky which is outside the window, and he can provide a separate and different corrections for objects outside of the window.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, a separate window can be formed for each of the six primary and secondary colors. Each can be moved and sized independently of the others and can be dedicated to a different color. This is done without added hardware by use of software.
These functions are enabled from the operator panels. Specifically, the operator can enable the function by the use of one or more keystrokes on a keypad, and the functions are performed by the software of the microprocessor.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, the programming of the microprocessor is such that during the scanning which is used to form a video picture on a screen, as the scan lines move from one side to the other of the band forming the frame around the window, the programming automatically steps through the register files 92 to step from one level to the next to gradually increase or decrease the co-efficients applied to the color correction circuits as one traverses from one edge to the other of the frame. This solves the difficult digital problem of providing a gradual change of the color correction from one edge to the other of the window frame to give the frame a "soft" transition.
In accordance with another feature of the present invention, where the window is specifically designated to affect one and only one hue, the area forming the window frame is given that hue so that operator will know that he has limited the operation of the window to that hue. In other words, if the window is dedicated to the corrections of only blue, the window frame will be blue.
The output signals of the color derivative circuit shown in FIG. 3 are located on terminals 108. Those signals go to the summing circuits 126, 129, and 131 at the right hand side of FIG. 4, where they are added to corrections from the FIG. 4 circuit and sent to terminals at the left-hand side of FIG. 5.
FIG. 5 shows that the R-Y, B-Y and Δ Y signals are sent to an output transcoder 134 which converts the input signals into digital output signals suitable for recording in a recorder, or for other uses. Alternatively, the signals are sent to a 16�4 digital-to-analog convertor 144 which delivers analog output signals on the lines 146. These signals can be used to drive an analog monitor, or they can be used to record program material on video tape in analog form, etc.
It is to be noted that the luminance signal from FIG. 2 is input on line 136 to a delay circuit which introduces a certain amount of time delay to make up for the fact that the luminance signal has by-passed the processing circuitry of FIGS. 3 and 4 and has not been delayed by that circuitry. Therefore, the luminance signal is in synchronism with the other input signals to the FIG. 5 circuitry.
The microprocessor 54 also is synchronized so that it operates during the vertical interval of the video signals and does not interfere with them.
The output of the delay circuit 138 is delivered to a summing circuit 140 which adds the Δ Y and the delayed luminance signals together to provide a corrected luminance signal which is delivered to the output transcoder 134. Thus, the digital or analog output signals have fully corrected video parameters.
FIG. 4 shows a color correction circuit 107 which operates in parallel with the circuit of FIG. 3.
The R-Y and B-Y output signals from the circuit of FIG. 2 are used as input signals to a color detector circuit 109 which operates to detect colors within a narrow region or band of the color spectrum. The band of the color spectrum in which the color is located is essentially infinitely variable by manipulation of the knob 21 (FIG. 1) in the control section 20 of the control panels. The hue or color detector 109 produces a digital signal at output point 121 which indicates that a signal has been detected that falls within the selected range or band of hues. The magnitude of the output signal represents the saturation of the signal.
The color detector 109 operates on principles substantially the same as those of the color detector in the Sunburst patent, except that there is no analog sign and cosine function generator as in the Sunburst patent, and the operation is entirely digital. The sine-cosine generator function, as has been noted above, has been assumed by the microprocessor 54 (FIG. 2) and its look-up table 58.
The R-Y and B-Y input signals are conducted as shown to one input of digital multiplier circuit 110, 111, 113 OR 115.
Those multiplier circuits receive sine and cosine function signals over the line 112 from the data bus 60, depending upon where the selector knob is set to select a given band of the spectrum, and where the band width or Delta function knob is set to determine the width of the band. The outputs of multiplier circuits 110 and 111 are summed in a summing circuit 114 whose output is supplied as one input to another digital multiplier circuit 120.
The outputs of multipliers 113 and 115 are summed together in a summing circuit 116. The output of that summing circuit is delivered to a look-up table 118 which provides digital output signals having values corresponding to those which would be produced by the multiplier circuits 236 and 242 in FIG. 8 of the Sunburst U.S. Pat. No. 4,862,251, that is, the output will be a funotion of D(R-Y)Cos Θ minus D (B-Y) sine Θ (quantity squared), where Θ is the phase angle determining the hue, D is the factor determining the band width.
The output of the color detector at 121 is sent to a factor and clip circuit 122, which is a dual-threshold level detector which allows the operator to selectively discriminate against signals whose saturation is above or below one of a pair of adjustable levels.
The output of the factor and clip circuit 122 is delivered to each of the three multiplier circuits 124, 125 and 127. Another input to each of these multipliers comes from a register file circuit 128 substantially the same as the register file circuit 92 in FIG. 3. This circuit receives signals, over a line 130 from the bus 60 signals which provide suitable modification of sine and cosine of Θ, and of the multiplier factor therefor to provide adjustments to the hue and the saturation and the luminance of the signals in accordance with the manipulation of those controls on the panel 20 in FIG. 1.
The outputs of the multipliers 124, 125 and 127 are delivered to summing circuits 126, 129 and 131, respectively where the outputs are added together with the outputs from terminals 108 in FIG. 3, and the sums are delivered to the input of the circuit in FIG. 5.
Preferably, the multipliers shown in the drawings are hardware multipliers, and are not formed in or by the microprocessor. The multipliers should be very fast (e.g., they should operate in around 15 nano seconds) and this speed is best provided by hardware.
FIGS. 6 and 7 show further details of the fixed sector color corrector 69 of FIG. 3.
FIG. 6 shows the scheme used to interconnect the R-Y, G-Y, and B-Y signals to cause each of the circuits 72-77 to detect the appropriate hue.
FIG. 6 also shows that the register files circuit 92 shown as a single block in FIG. 3 actually is better shown as a series of separate units 92a, 92b, 92c, 92d, 92e and 92f. Furthermore, the windows circuit 98 shown in FIG. 3 actually is not a separate circuit, but is contained within the register file circuits.
FIG. 7 is a schematic circuit diagram of one of the color detectors or selectors 72 shown in FIGS. 3 and 6. The input lines are labelled "A", "B" and "C" to indicate that the same circuit is used for each of the six color detector units 72-77, and that the one shown in FIG. 7 is merely an example. The inputs lines A, B and C will be connected to receive the R-Y, G-Y and B-Y signals appropriate under the circumstances, and as is shown in FIG. 6. The secondary color selector circuits 75, 76 and 77 receive inverted inputs R-Y, B-Y, and G-Y, in the appropriate combination to select those secondary colors.
The circuit 72 includes three subtractor circuits 150, 152, and 154. Subtractor 150 subtracts the signals on line A from those on line B; subtractor 152 subtracts the signals on line A from those on line C; and subtractor 154 defines the difference between the signals on lines C and B. The outputs from subtractors 150 and 152 are delivered over lines 158 and 160 to separate inputs of an "AND" gate 156. The AND gate 156 detects only the most significant 16-bit signals coming out of the subtractors.
The subtractors are of the type that if the product of the subtraction is negative, the output of the subtractor circuit is true or high. Therefore, an output is produced on line 78 if and only if the outputs of both subtractors 150 and 152 is high, meaning that the signal on line A is larger than the signal on line B and the signal on line C.
The signal on line 78 is sent to the register file section 92a.
The output of subtractor 154 is used to send a select signal on line 166 to the select terminal of a multiplexer 162. Multiplexer 162 selects between one of two inputs on lines A and B to sent an output signal on line 164 to a tri-state gate 168. The output of the tri-state gate goes to the node 84 (see FIG. 3 and 6). The gate 168 is gated on by the signal which appears on line 78 which is transmitted through the line 170.
The output of the subtractor 154 is either high or low depending upon whether the signals on line B are greater than those on line C or vice versa. If the B signal is greater than the C signal, the B input of the multiplexer 160 is selected. If the B input is less than the C input, the input on line A will be selected by the multiplexer 162.
The output of the multiplexer which appears on line 164 represents the magnitude of the color signal which has been detected. Therefore, the output of the circuit 72 indicates that signals falling within a specified sector (e.g., the red sector) of the color circle have been detected, and the signal output from the gate 168 indicates the magnitude of those signals.
Of course, as with the rest of the color correction circuitry described herein, the operation is entirely digital, and the signal output from the gate 168 is a 16-bit digital signal.
It can be seen from the foregoing that the present invention meets the objectives set forth above. The color correction circuitry operates entirely digitally, even when either the input or output signals are in analog form. The circuitry is characterized by the fact that it requires fewer multipliers and hardware as compared with prior circuits which perform similar functions. The circuit is stable, reliable and essential noise-free. Moreover, the problems inherent in vectorially adding analog signals together are avoided.
A window control is provided with a versatility which has not been reached in the past, and thus provides a major improvement for analog as well as digital color correctors.
The above description of the invention is intended to be illustrative and not limiting. Various changes or modifications in the embodiments described may occur to those skilled in the art and these can be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.
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glade") could have been brought here by Norwegian imigrants? The
red-berried are the most invasive and the prettiest. They are
blooming right now and the red berries
are veru pretty until the birds get them. They like them...I've
tried them but they have no flavor...also didn't kill me! The
black-berried ones bloom later and taste wonderful...great pies and
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Due to the nature of this very important holiday that we are celebrating this weekend, I thought we could all take a look back and be thankful for the reason we all visit this site. I sincerely understand that, most importantly, we all need to be thankful for those that have lost their lives so that we may have all that we do today.
I felt that we should go back in time and honor these special moments in Adam's life, moments that made him the entertainer he is today.
I specifically started with I Just Love You because, really, what else do we ALL feel the same about him? We ALL can say that we just love him.
Secondly, yes Adam, you DO make us Crazy but in an Oh So Good way! Which leads us to Crawl Thru Fire, which I am pretty sure we ALL would do if he were standing on the other side to save us.
Then, Adam wrestles with his emotions as he sings I Can't Make You Love Me. Sweet Adam, you don't have to MAKE us do anything because we DO truly love you. You should know that by now…
Lastly, the reason we should ALL be thankful, is that because of Adam, OUR change has already come. We have learned to love one another, support each other, and to strive be just as beautiful on the inside as we are on the outside, just as Adam does. What more can we be thankful for?
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With a stay at Holger Danske Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Christiansted, steps from Judith's Fancy and St. Croix Government House. This hotel is within close proximity of Apothecary Museum and Scale House.
Make yourself at home in one of the 42 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed. Rooms have private balconies or patios. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries.
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Featured amenities include a computer station, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Free self parking is available onsite.
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His pectoralis major distracted me as he moved back and forth on me. They contracted in sync with the movement of his arms and his breath. His abs, the warmth his muscular torso and his arms pumping an sensation into me that I haven't felt in a while, as he crawled over my little bigger than petite body.
He kissed my lips and his arms met my stretched arms above my head, touching the head-board of the bed. His head started to move below my neck, leaving a soft kisses trail behind. He slid his love around on my sexually-deprived body.
My eyes were closed the whole time but I bet he could tell I was enjoying his touch and every move he was making. He lifted my legs and he put them on his shoulders while his hands were pressed in my goodies.Then he started... eating his favorite food. "Oooooo" I said, It felt so good, as my eyes rolled back.
My eyes started to flutter as his head started to move with every thrust of his tongue. I started to breathe hard as he made sure I felt every thing he was doing.
He popped up, and said, "Say my name, baby" and slid back down.
"Ca- ca... " I never wanted to give a man that much controls, especially now by saying his name, but he was doing the damn thing by making me grasp for air. It felt so good; the warmth of his mouth.
"Ca...Ca..." He popped up again, "haha, you gonna make me work! Say my name!" and slid back down.
He did something with his tongue that made me scream! "Ahhhh!" I said. I started to cry, it felt sooooo good!
My hands gripped the back of his head as he started to go harder. The doorbell rang. As soon as I heard that sound, I knew it couldn't be good.
"Cam, stop... I gotta answer the door." I stuttered but he kept going.
Then we heard voices.
"O.M.G. thats my sisters voice."
Cameron looked up at me, "Your sister?"
"Yea" I said, "She has a key to the house."
He stopped and said, "Is everything okay?"
I replied as I looked at the clock, "Yea, we have a breakfast date at 11 am"
I lied, and I knew she was only here to check up on me. I jumped up, tossed on my bath robe and ran into the bathroom. He just laid there with all his sexiness. I washed my face as I heard the rest of my girl's voice also.
"Stay here!" I said to Cameron as I calmly walk out of my bedroom to meet my friends.
The door opened, and I walked out to my friends.
"Is everything ok?" said Laura Ann.
"Yeah, I'm good now! Sorry about the scare. You guys can go now" I whispered.
The girls were sitting around my table, while Bre was making herself a plate of food.
Toya replied, "Why are you whispering?"
I quickly replied, holding my robe tightly: "Sore throat."
"You don't got no sore throat. Maybe from screaming" said Eve as I rolled my eyes.
The girls burst into laughter.
Toya started walking towards my bedroom, and I grabbed her before she opened the door.
"What are you doing?" I whispered.
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difference was about $6000 and our
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Best Western Space Age Lodge places you within a leisurely stroll of Community Center Park and Gila Bend Branch Library. This 3-star hotel has 41 guestrooms and offers an outdoor pool, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. Burleson Park is also 0.9 mi (1.4 km) from this Gila Bend hotel.
Free full breakfast is included with your stay. Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at Space Age Outer Limits, the hotel's onsite restaurant.
Best Western Space Age Lodge's 41 rooms are air-conditioned and provide refrigerators, coffee makers, and free local calls. Guests can expect free WiFi and TVs with cable channels. Pillowtop beds grant a restful night's sleep, and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Ironing boards are also standard.
Property features
Guests staying at Best Western Space Age Lodge enjoy an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and free WiFi in public areas. If you decide to drive, there's free parking. The 24-hour front desk has staff always at the ready. Additional amenities include a meeting room, a business center, and a computer station.
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Best Western Space Age Lodge features an outdoor pool and a spa tub. The hotel offers a restaurant. A complimentary breakfast is offered. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room. This business-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands and a television in a common area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Total number of rooms - 41
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Best Western Space Age Lodge offers 41 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Beds feature pillowtop mattresses. Premium cable television is provided.
This Gila Bend hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and complimentary toiletries. Housekeeping is provided daily.
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Space Age Outer Limits - This family restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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National doll produced to represent an Austrian woman. It is one of 17 sent to Monica Gates by her Austrian Grandparents. Monica began receiving these dolls in 1957, they represent various traditions and dress from eight of Austria's states. This doll is dressed in traditional Austrian women's folk dress, which generally consists of a dirndl skirt, fitted bodice or vest, white blouse, apron, and some form of headwear. Regional differences are shown through the use of various colours, embroidery and the type of headwear. The large hat which is the colour of straw and the fine detailing of the costume, suggests the doll is dressed to represent a women from the Salzburg region. Salzburg folk dress is often quite romantic and a woman's 'best' costume could be made from silk and is often worn with a large straw hat and umbrella.
The Gates collection contains 170 national dolls from 74 different countries and some correspondence relating to the acquisition of several of the dolls. The costumes of the dolls represent national costumes from the 19th Century to the 1990s. Monica Gates collected or was given these dolls between 1957 and 1990.
These dolls were purchased as souvenirs of particular countries and like many mass produced souvenirs they are often not accurate representations of a particular country or region, and may actually better reflect neighbouring counties or regions. This occurs because costumes are often stylised and simplified resulting dolls wearing generic costume elements which are common to many countries/regions. Often the fabrics and decorations used are selected to make the dolls cheap and easy to manufacture and aesthetically pleasing. This can result in the fabrics, colours and decorations of the doll's clothing having little or no reflection of the costume associated with a particular country or region they are meant to be representative of.
Physical Description
This doll is wearing a green long skirt with a green bodice and white cotton sleeves and collar edged with lace. Over the skirt is a red and white striped apron, and underneath are white knickerbockers, white hose and black plastic shoes. Her long blonde hair is braided and curled into two buns on either side of her head. She wears a large cream felt hat which is tied on with a long black ribbon.
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Salzburg, Austria
Doll is intended to represent an Austrian woman wearing traditional folk costume from the Salzburg region
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Warface is free to play, aims to build buzz for Crytek's latest cloud-based engine
future of gaming is in the cloud
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" hints at. While the game will be available in traditional form
on the Xbox One
in 2014, for now gamers have access to it via their browser.
Crytek -- well known for its CryENGINE game software and Crysis, a game designed to showcase the graphical might of CryENGINE -- has shifted gears in a major way with the release of CryENGINE 3.0. Rather than focusing singular on squeezing the most computation out of your enthusiast PC, CryENGINE 3.0's goal is to open gaming to the masses, by moving it partially to offline rendering and in-browser gaming.
While online gaming, or even 3D online gaming for that matter, is nothing new really, Warface is perhaps the first true cloud-based AAA PC FPS.
To that end Crytek has launched a new hub dubbed "GFACE" where users will play multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) games and interact. The hub -- and the games inside (CryENGINE 3.0/Warface) -- require a browser with the latest in web rendering technology. Hence currently only Google Inc.'s (
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) Safari are
not currently compatible
The good news, though, is that Warface is entirely free. How Crytek plans to monetize this cloud giveaway remains to be seen, but traditionally a significant portion of its revenue came from licensing its CryENGINE to third parties, so this may be more of a proof of concept to build a buzz, with the payoff being third party licensing pickups.
You can run GFACE/Warface on a rather minimalist hardware spec -- a 2.0 GHz CPU, 1.5 GB of RAM, and decade old video card (think Radeon X1950), thanks to the cloud doing most of the dirty work. Still gamers are advised to get slightly newer systems, to allow for higher framerates and more graphical niceties. All of this indicates that Warface should run very well on laptops -- unlike Crytek's earlier
hardware-crunching products
, such as last year's
best-selling Crysis 3
The game has four classes:
... with some classes like engineer taking a couple of hours of gameplay to unlock.
The new title was developed heavily by Crytek's new Seoul, South Korea office. Yohan Kim, Managing Director of Crytek Seoul cheers, "Crytek's proven pedigree with its multi-award winning AAA FPS games combined with our own cutting-edge technology CryENGINE® 3 and our dedicated team of experts makes us confident Warface will revolutionize the genre and become the next generation in online FPS."
Warface is just the latest app to make the leap to the cloud.
This new engine from Crytek is the latest in a disruptive trend of software jumping to the cloud. Microsoft has seen
significant traction to date pushing its Office users towards
its cloud based
Office 365 solution
. And while Adobe Systems Inc. (
showed the dark side of the cloud
when its user information trove was breached, it also has been pushing hard to move its users online.
There are many advantages to the cloud --
cross platform compatibility
and easier access to your data on the go. But there are also downsides, aside from pure security concerns. For hardware makers it's a mix bag as the cloud is minimizing the value of client-side hardware, making consumers likely to upgrade their laptops and desktops at a slower pace; but by the same token the cloud requires lots of new server hardware on the enterprise side, so it's not all bad news for OEMs. Access in the case of internet outage or when traveling through areas with unreliable internet is another major issue.
But like it or not, the cloud is gaining a lot of momentum and now Crytek is looking to become the marquee face of cloud gaming.
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Dani: like (new found) father, like (slightly exhausted) daughter.Mature
I picked myself off the ground, groaning as I felt a slight twinge in my wrist. Hey, at least that hangover was gone. But what about...
'Dad! Dad!' My eyes hurriedly scanning his, as they slowly glazed over from unconsciousness. His eyelids closed over drowsily... I punched the ground. I had no idea where we were, some woodland area. Must be just outside DC. I checked for all the signs...pulse was good, there wasn't anything weird where it shouldn't be. Just lack of oxygen. I tugged the canister off my back and as I administered what should be enough for now, I couldn't help giggling. Ironic how the rookie was helping the boss. Then again, all that stuff that had just happened. It was still a bit blurry, and that was without any alcohol fogging up my memory. He'd put his life before mine...then I'd managed to save him from-He could have died.
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'Sorry about this,' I mumbled. The conversation seemed to lighten the fact that I was carrying my unconscious father and was going to have to make this canister last until I found the others, or he woke up. 'But...to be brutally honest, you are a little heavier than I expected...not an insult!' I sighed. It was the fact that he couldn't pick himself up a little. Everything is weighed down when you're not thinking about it.
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He's my father, and I love him, but please, God, do not reduce me to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Much as we're bonding and that, I don't think fathers and daughters should ever be that close.


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New England cruise
Sail Date: September 18, 2014
Reviewed: 2 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Oceanview
Missed a good show every evening like our other cruises, that is the reason for only three stars. Service was very good, food was very good, clean stateroom, all staff very courteous and helpful. David our server was extremely kind and good at his job. would use RC again.
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|Ship Quality
|getting a little dated
|Food and Dining
|Al food was tasty and served well
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|Would like a good show every night, like our other cruises
|Children's Programs
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|Could do without Portland
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|Always made neat and clean.
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|Baltimore, Maryland
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|Portland, Maine
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|Saint John, New Brunswick
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Try the roast beef sandwich in the solarium, in the afternoon, its great.