Abstract:
A SUBSTRATE AND SOURCE, OF SILICON (SI) OR ALUMINUM (AL), ARE POSITIONED WITHIN A NITROGEN-CONTAINING ATMOSPHERE OF LESS THAN 20 MICRONS. RADIO-FREQUENCY ENERGY IS APPLIED ACROSS THE SUBSTRATE AND SOURCE TO GENERATE A PLASMA CONTAINING SOURCE MATERIAL, AND NITROGEN WHICH REACT SO AS TO DEPOSIT A THIN INSULATING FILM, E.G., OF SILICON NITRIDE (SI3N4) OR ALUMINUM NITRIDE (ALN), RESPECTIVELY, ON THE SUBSTRATE SURFACE. PREFERABLY, THE SUBSTRATE IS MAINTAINED IN EXCESS OF 300*C. DURING THE DEPOSITION PROCESS.
Abstract:
A method of forming a resistive barrier film on an electrically conducting body of an anodizable material through reaction of negative ions with positive ions in a plasma with the positive ions of the anodizable material. A grid of positively charged wires, in the plasma adjacent the anodizable material, absorbs the low energy or cold electrons, while trapping the hot electrons in a potential well of considerable spatial extent, so that the anodization process is speeded up.
Abstract:
YO9-82-O4OX CORRECTION OF SHADING EFFECTS IN VIDEO IMAGES Video images are corrected for shading effects by generating a histogram of picture element (pel) gray scale intensity values and calculating the median and the black and white extremes thereof. A range of permitted background gray scale values is empirically selected. A background image is then created by sampling the intensity values of the original image pels and using a look-up table to remap the image. In one embodiment, pel intensity values are compared with the median value and only corrections lying within the range are carried out. A duplicate image is created from the remapped image and the intensity values of a number of pels in a predetermined region about a first pel in this image are sampled and the value of the corresponding pel in the background image is changed to the largest value among those of the first pel and the sampled pels. This is continued using a look-up table with a 7 bit output until all of the pels in the background image have been changed accordingly. The duplicate image is then changed to conform to the changed background image and the sampling procedure is carried out over a larger surrounding region.
Abstract:
A system and method for masking adaptive quantization during compressed image data transmission by defining a scaling factor for the quantization tables of the multiple image components, wherein the scaling factor signals changes in quantization for successive blocks of the image data. The scaling factor is transmitted as a further component together with the image components to thereby signal adaptive quantization of the image data.