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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7195162 | Optical reading apparatus An automatic optical reading apparatus (1) having a light emitting section (26), a light receiving section (27) and an outside interface section (36). A first unit (2) houses at least one of the emitting section (26) and the... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6871785 | Method and device for compensating undesired variations in an electrical signal generated by an optical code reader The method for compensating undesired variations in an electrical signal generated by a sensor of an optical code reader comprises the steps of generating an envelope signal starting from the electrical signal generated by the sensor and normalizing the electrical s... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6742710 | Method of reconstructing successive scans of a bar code A method of reconstructing successive scans of bar codes having a plurality of dark elements separated from light elements, comprising the steps of: performing a first scan of the bar code thereby determining the position and the width of the elements in the first s... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6607131 | Reading method and reader for an optical code Reading method for an optical code using a reader which comprises photoemitters, photoreceivers and a processor circuit, in which the following steps are carried out: emitting radiation toward the exterior of the reader; detecting the presence of at least... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6394352 | Method of reconstructing successive scans of a bar code A method of reconstructing successive scans of bar codes having a plurality of dark elements separated from light elements, comprising the steps of: performing a first scan of the bar code thereby determining the position and the width of the elements in ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6347740 | Method and machine for reading and assigning optical codes A method and machine for reading and assigning optical codes to a succession of moving articles, each having at least one respective optical code, and the method including the steps of feeding the succession of articles, by means of a conveyor, through a ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6219434 | Maxicode locating method A method of locating an optical code of the maxicode type wherein a central target element comprises three concentric black rings separated by two white annular spaces and a white circular central space defining the center of the target element. The metho... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6215280 | Portable optical code reader with a device for controlling the charge state of the reader battery A portable optical code reader, in particular for bar codes, having at least one supply battery; an electronic circuit with a microprocessor; and optoelectronic lighting and receiving devices cooperating with the microprocessor to read an optical code, in... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6129280 | Optical code reading method and device The reading method includes the step of successively performing a first and at least a second scan of an optical code along a first and, respectively, second scanning line parallel to each other. More specifically, the first and second scan of the optical... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6116508 | Portable code reading and cursor pointing A portable code reading device, in particular for reading optical codes, wherein a hand-held casing supports an electronic viewing device for generating signals related to the image of an examined optical code, and an electronic circuit cooperating with t... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6102292 | Method of compensating the edge positions of a signal generated by scanning a bar code A method of compensating the edge positions of a signal generated by scanning elements of a bar code, the method including the steps of lighting the code and determining the light diffused by the code to generate in response a signal having a substantiall... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6098883 | Method of estimating the mid-points of bar code elements A method of estimating the mid-points of elements of a bar code, wherein the code is illuminated, and the light diffused by the code is picked up to generate in response a signal having a substantially alternating waveform profile defined by high-amplitud... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6047893 | Method of locating an object-applied optical code A method wherein an image of an object bearing an optical code is divided into a number of elementary images for which a brightness gradient vector is calculated. The calculated gradients of a magnitude above a given threshold value (Glim) are transformed... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6000618 | Method of reading an object-applied bar code A method whereby the image of a bar code is located in a digitized image of an object traveling along a conveyor belt; the orientation of the longitudinal axis of the code with respect to a reference system of the image is determined, and the code is scan... | 12/14/1999 |
