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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6339433 | Creating a blend of color and opacity between arbitrary edges A method and apparatus for creating a blend from one arbitrary edge (20) to a second arbitrary edge (21) in a computer graphic image creation is disclosed. A color along each of the edges (20,21) is determined. A parametric equation is then formed for a c... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6145064 | Method of efficiently updating hashed page tables A method of updating, directing or moving page table entry values in a virtual memory management system. The method operates without requiring suspension of a search process looking for a predetermined page table entry value of a page table. In a first st... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6134021 | Presentation graphics system for a color laser copier A graphic system for a color copier includes a memory card for storing input object image data, a host processor connected to a user controllable keyboard for selecting and editing the object image data to create edited image data, a real-time processor f... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130661 | Seamless parallel neighborhood process halftoning A method and apparatus are disclosed which permit a seamless halftoning of an image by halftoning regions of the image independently and/or in parallel. Each region of the image being arbitrarily determined, and being halftoned on the basis of halftoned p... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6094511 | Image filtering method and apparatus with interpolation according to mapping function to produce final image An image signal in filtered to provide a filtered image signal representing a filtered image, and a mapping function is determined from a predetermined arbitrary function of the image signal. The filtered image signal and the image signal are interpolated... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6064761 | Near black under color removal An arrangement for sharpening the resolution of printed text in a color printing system is disclosed. An image processing system (1) includes a color conversion apparatus (2) for converting from one color space (RBG) to another color space (CMYK) for disp... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061749 | Transformation of a first dataword received from a FIFO into an input register and subsequent dataword from the FIFO into a normalized output dataword An apparatus for data normalization includes a FIFO buffer for receiving input data words, an input register for receiving a first data word from the FIFO buffer, and a combinatorial circuit for transforming the first data word in the input register and a... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6020899 | System for viewing the structure of computer graphical elements The present invention provides a method and apparatus for displaying a grouped structure (23) in a computer graphics image. This involves providing at least one selection tag (18) for the grouped structure. A group display mode is used so that, when a sel... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6020894 | Full-color desktop publishing system A full-color desk top publishing (DTP) system is disclosed that includes a general purpose computer system, a full-color high resolution graphics system and peripheral devices such as a color laser copier including a scanner and a printer, a workscreen di... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6002408 | Blend control system A method and apparatus for determining color blend of a computer graphical object involves providing a plurality of interactive control points, with each of the control points having an associated color value; and calculating a color value of each portion... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5987219 | Method of producing a dither matrix by dividing an array into a plurality of regions and altering the borders of each region to have continuous irregular boundaries A dither matrix is produced by creating an array of dots and dividing the array into a mutiplicity of regions, each of the regions having a multiplicity of dots. Borders of the regions are altered to have substantially continuous randomly irregular bounda... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5977981 | Softstroking of edges for computer graphics A method for rendering or compositing image components, where at least one of the image components has an edge. The edge is rendered or composited a plurality of times, the repetitions being performed with different values of the edge thickness (i.e., the... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5951713 | Method and apparatus for creating color blends of an output image based on selection of non-coincident points on an input image A method of calculating a color blend for an output image. In a fundamental form, the method comprises the steps of specifying a plurality of non-coincident points (x1, y1, z1), (x2, y2, z2... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5912672 | Object based rendering system for the rendering of images using edge based object descriptions and setable level indicators A graphical object rendering system for the rendering of images from edge based object descriptions, into pixel based data, is disclosed. The system includes a buffer that comprises an array of storage structures to hold pixel level data, with each pixel ... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5900862 | Color generation and mixing device A color generation and mixing system includes a color priority level input, an effects input, an incoming color input, and a mix level input. From the level input, a base color is determined which is interpolated with the effects input, resulting in a gen... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5861961 | Integrated graphics system for a color copier An image processing apparatus for creating a color image by combining object image data with scanned image data includes a scanner for inputting image data and object image input device for inputting object image data. Host processor selects object image ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5845010 | Compression enhancement in graphics system Disclosed is an arrangement which lessens the effects of compression artifacts resulting from the compression of graphic images having high spatial frequency components. Such graphic images are typically text related in view of the high contrast required ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5841898 | Utilization of scanned images in an image compositing system Method and apparatus for producing an image made up of pixels is disclosed. The apparatus in one broad configuration comprises a scanning means for inputting scanned data, storage means connected to the scanning means for storing outlines of objects and a... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5832185 | Alteration of dither matrix size for full color dithering Disclosed is a method of producing a multicolored image in which the image is produced through the aggregation of a multiplicity of color dithering passes (CMYK). The method uses a dither matrix for at least one pass (C) which is of a different size relat... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5745121 | Methods and apparatus for optimizing the composition of graphical elements A system, method and language for compositing or creating images is disclosed. The images typically comprise a plurality of graphical elements each including color and opacity information, The system utilizes operators having the graphical elements as ope... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5566290 | Multi-media device The present invention relates to multi-media products and, in particular, discloses a device (1) which permits both audio and video editing, storage, production and reproduction as well as a computer interface. The device (1) comprises video means (54-59)... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5430496 | Portable video animation device for creating a real-time animated video by combining a real-time video signal with animation image data A portable video animator device for creating a real-time animated video signal by combining a real-time video signal with animation data includes a video input device for inputting a real-time video signal, an image input device for inputting animation i... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5428464 | High volume color image printer system A parallel printing system is disclosed which is particularly useful for colour laser printing. The system includes a source of video image data generally derived from a scanner or a graphics system, and a plurality of print engines that, substantially si... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5422990 | Bezier spline to quadratic polynomial fragment conversion Method and apparatus for converting an object of a computerized graphics system defined by a plurality of spline formats into a corresponding object defined by a plurality of quadratic polynomial fragments (QPF). The method and apparatus include, for each... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5329616 | Compressed image stores for high resolution computer graphics A graphics system is disclosed within which video graphics images are calculated via a computer and output for storage via a buffer whereby the image can be compressed/expanded for storage in compressed form in a dedicated semiconductor memory. The system... | 07/12/1994 |
