Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166446 | Flexible test fixture A system for testing an electronic circuit board (ECB) having a plurality of test points in a pre-defined arrangement on a measurement device having a plurality of resources includes an interface fixture having a plurality of contact pads arranged in an array on a f... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8089583 | Light guide blade with color balancing structures and blue absorption compensation for large screen LED backlight unit One or more embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses, methods and systems to form a thin LED backlight unit for a large-screen flat-panel display. The backlight unit is able to achieve improved color mixing within a shorter mixing distance than the c... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8079718 | Embeddable 2-D projection nano engine for personal projector A projector has a transmissive spatial light modulator backlit by a collimated illuminator that includes a light source that outputs red, green, blue (RGB) light, and a combiner disposed in light-receiving relation to the light source for mixing or combining the RGB... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8063975 | Positioning wafer lenses on electronic imagers A low cost manufacturing method (300) and assembly (100) for positioning a lens (106) relative to an electronic imager (102). A viscous adhesive (104) is applied to the lens (106) or the electronic imager (102) outsid... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7983032 | Incorporation of two or more hard disk drives into a single drive carrier with a single midplane connector Carrier for the rack mounting of two or more data storage devices into a chassis. The carrier includes support members along the length of the carrier, to receive and retain the two or more data storage devices. The carrier further includes a single electrical commu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978414 | Positioning system for a combiner in a head up display A combiner positioning system (300) for a heads-up display (100). The positioning system (300) is arranged on a frame (302) including a base plate (334). A movable carrier (306) is provided for supporting a combiner (106 | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969531 | Integrated multi-function light guide for LCD backlighting A backlighting apparatus for a flat panel LCD display includes an elongate light guide having a front wall through which travels polarized light in a direction toward the LCD display. An RGB LED set is positioned adjacent a first end wall of the light guide so that ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7944687 | Storage device carrier Carriers for a data storage device. The carriers comprise a support member sized and shaped to receive and retain the data storage device. The carriers also comprise one or more projecting members configured to retain the data storage device in the support member. T... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7456586 | Voltage controlled light source and image presentation device using the same A device (300) includes a driver circuit (200) having a field effect transistor (FET) (30), acting as a current sink, a current sense network (10), an operational amplifier (opamp) (20), and a light emitting diode (LED) (40)... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7437039 | Optical engine with tightly coupled light source An image presentation device (100) with an associated optical light engine includes one or more semiconductor light emitting diodes or other such devices (122, 124, 126) that are combined to provide a source of light to a micro-display panel (150 | 10/14/2008 |
| 7406125 | Method for initialization of per tone frequency domain equalizer (FEQ) through noise reduction for multi-tone based modems An improved per-tone FEQ method with a noise reduction technique using periodic training pilot tones increases the throughput for long-reached modems. This method can reduce the noise effects in estimating FEQ equalizer coefficients. Each per-tone FEQ can be estimat... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7377657 | Image presentation device with light source controller An image presentation device (100) includes a set of color light sources (122, 124, 126) and a micro-display panel (150) capable of operating in both image processing and non-image processing modes. A sensor (170) is coupled to the micro-... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7325956 | Light-emitting diode (LED) illumination system for a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) and method of providing same A light illumination system for projecting a color image to a digital micro-mirror display (DMD) panel includes a light-emitting diode (LED) illumination assembly (101, 102, 103), a dichroic combiner (107) for providing a single light source and a cond... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325957 | Polarized light emitting diode (LED) color illumination system and method for providing same A polarized light illumination system includes a light emitting diode (LED) (601, 602, 603) for providing a source of light that is directed to a non-polarizing dichroic combiner (607) for combining light from the LEDs into a single light source. A pow... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7236534 | Method and apparatus for noise reduction by spectral and subcarrier averaging The method and apparatus in accordance with the present invention provides signal-to-noise ratio improvement through noise reduction by means of spectral averaging and subcarrier based averaging techniques. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 6996189 | Symmetric spherical QAM constellation A quadrature amplitude modulation implementation incorporating a symmetric spherical quadrature amplitude modulation constellation. The symmetric spherical quadrature amplitude constellation, as displayed in a multi-dimensional complex plane, is bounded by a surface... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6925112 | Discrete multitone modem initialization system and method The present invention discloses an improved initialization method for modem communication wherein the timing offset required for synchronization is estimated utilizing an entire received DMT frame and the channel impulse response is estimated utilizing the pilot ton... | 08/02/2005 |
