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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7932932 | Method and apparatus for a chopped two-chip cinematography camera A method of capturing a color image includes steps of operating a first sensor of a camera to integrate a first charge over a first time interval, operating a second sensor of the camera to integrate a second charge over a second time interval and scanning the first... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7105876 | Reticulated gate CCD pixel with diagonal strapping A sensor includes an array of pixels organized in rows and columns and a plurality of metal busses overlaying the array of pixels. A first column of pixels includes a proximal set of first pixels and a distal set of first pixels separated by a first jog region. A se... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6891926 | Fiber bundles for x-ray imaging An apparatus includes a sensor and a bundle of optical fibers. The bundle of optical fibers has a first end and a second end. The bundle of optical fibers at the first end extends in a first fiber direction and defines a first section plane that is normal to the fir... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6770860 | Dual line integrating line scan sensor A line scan sensor includes first and second rows of pixels, corresponding first and second readout registers, and a first clocking structure disposed between the first row of pixels and the first readout register. The first clocking structure includes a transfer ga... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6593871 | Automatic A/D convert positioning circuit and method A circuit includes a programmable delay circuit to provide a sequence of delayed pulses, an A/D circuit to convert a sequence of values into digital values sampled at times defined by the sequence of delayed pulses, and a jitter correction circuit to adju... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6566697 | Pinned photodiode five transistor pixel A pixel includes five transistors, a pinned photodiode and a storage node. A first transistor is coupled between the pinned photodiode and the storage node. A second transistor is coupled between the storage node and an output drain voltage. A third trans... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6465820 | CMOS compatible single phase CCD charge transfer device A single phase charge-couple device (CCD) transfer device in a substrate of a first conductivity type. The device includes a gated region and a photo-diode region. The gated region includes a gated part and a gate electrode insulatively spaced over the ga... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6459077 | Bucket brigade TDI photodiode sensor A TDI sensor includes a bias charge voltage circuit, a reset voltage circuit, a bucket brigade column having a plurality of nodes, and a plurality of pinned photodiodes. Each photodiode is formed integral with a corresponding node of the bucket brigade co... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6323479 | Sensor pixel with linear and logarithmic response A pixel includes a photon detecting element coupled between a node and a ground, a transistor structure coupled between the node and a first predetermined voltage to provide a logarithmic response region, and a reset transistor coupled between the node an... | 11/27/2001 |
| 5703639 | Charge coupled device pulse discriminator Accordingly, the present invention is directed to providing methods and apparatus for detecting light energy in real-time while minimizing the effects of background charge accrual on the charge-coupled device. Exemplary embodiments provide relatively fast... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5585652 | Method and apparatus for real-time background illumination subtraction The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for accurately detecting light energy of a signal of interest (e.g., a laser pulse) even when the signal-to-noise ratio is relatively low. The present invention is further directed to accurate det... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5440648 | High speed defect detection apparatus having defect detection circuits mounted in the camera housing A defect detection system includes a video camera with defect detection circuits for detecting defects in video signals being outputted by corresponding sections of an array sensor such as a TDI CCD two-dimensional array sensor. Each defect detection circ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5235197 | High photosensitivity and high speed wide dynamic range CCD image sensor A wide dynamic range photodetector comprising a photosensitive region for generating signal electrons in response to being illuminated, a collection region for storing the signal electrons generated within the photosensitive region, a shift register for r... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5221964 | Electronically expandable modular CCD camera An electronically and mechanically expandable camera in which a tubular metal casing having removable front and back plates has a CCD image sensor mounted on a secondary front plate removably received within the casing for a direct thermal path to the cas... | 06/22/1993 |
