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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7230648 | Image sensing apparatus and method of focusing and enlarging/reducing the in-focus image data on a display device Disclosed is a digital still camera in which focusing can be checked easily even if a display device constituting the viewfinder is comparatively small. When a shutter-release button is pressed half-way, focusing is performed and the image in a focusing zone is made... | 06/12/2007 |
