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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144813 | Receiving method and receiving circuit A receiving method according to the present invention adjusts a level of an output voltage signal by switching a gain to be used for converting an inputted current signal to a voltage signal, in a preamplifier. Performing offset compensation on the output voltage si... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126712 | Information communication terminal, information communication system, information communication method, and storage medium for storing an information communication program thereof for recognizing speech information An information communication terminal (100) that includes: a speech recognition module (6) for recognizing speech information to identify a plurality of words in the recognized speech information; a storage medium (20) for storing keyword extrac... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120930 | Rush current reduction circuit and electric appliance An output node at a plus side of a diode bridge (DB2) is connected to a drain of a transistor (Q1), and a source of the transistor (Q1) is connected to an output node at a minus side the diode bridge (DB2). One end of a resister (R1 | 02/21/2012 |
| 7929605 | Image decoding device, image decoding method, image decoding program, recording medium recording image decoding program In order to make it possible to obtain the correct decoded image even in the case of not decoding a particular frame of the encoded data and improve the coding efficiency, the predicted image production unit 103 selects the image data from the image data of a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907895 | Electric field sensor device, transceiver, positional information obtaining system and information input system When a human hand (100) holds a transceiver (3a), the hand holds a bottom of an external wall surface and a side of the external wall surface of an insulating case (33). Therefore, a transmitting and receiving electrode (105) and a... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7859666 | Electric field sensor The present invention relates to an electric field sensor including: a light source (1); an electro optic crystal (7) which is applied with an electric field based on a signal under test, in which a birefringent index changes according to the electric ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7801483 | Receiver, transceiver, and electric field communication system A transmitter (2) modulates information to be transmitted with an alternating-current signal having a predetermined frequency and includes a variable reactance section (16) which produces resonance with a stray capacitance (18) between a circuit... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7636547 | Reactance adjuster, transceiver and transmitter using the reactance adjuster, signal processing circuit suitable for use in the reactance adjuster, the transceiver, and the transmitter, reactance adjusting method, transmitting method, and receiving method A reactance adjuster includes an electrode (123) inducing an electric-field in an electric-field transmittable medium (121), an adjusting signal generation section (13) outputting alternatingly a high level or a low level signal to a resonance s... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634653 | Event-ordering certification method An event-ordering certification system 100 includes a certification apparatus 1, a plurality of user apparatuses 2i (i=a, b, . . . , n), an audit apparatus 3 for performing an audit of an event-ordering receipt published by the cer... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7583930 | Transmission device, electric field communication transceiver, and electric field communication system There is provided a transmission means (3) configured to transmit a modulated signal obtained by modulating data, a transmission electrode (8) that induces an electric field based on the modulated signal in an electric field transmission medium (20 | 09/01/2009 |
| 7575949 | Semiconductor photo-detector, semiconductor photo-detection device, and production method thereof In a semiconductor photo-detector of the present invention, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer having, and a photo-absorption part composed of a photo-absorption layer sandwiched between these layers are disposed on a substrate, at least the p... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7562127 | Contents additional service inquiry server for identifying servers providing additional services and distinguishing between servers A contents additional services inquiry server for receiving inquiries for additional services provided by a contents center and a third-party contents additional services providing server, wherein a registration request specifies a contents identifier uniquely ident... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555195 | Content combination reproducer, content combination reproduction method, program executing the method, and recording medium recording therein the program Content data and metadata are obtained and reproduced, and combination interface information defining information necessary for executing combination operation on the contents is generated. The combination operation on the contents is controlled by following combina... | 06/30/2009 |
| RE40725 | Magnetic body formed by quantum dot array using non-magnetic semiconductor A practically realizable semiconductor magnetic body having a flat-band structure is disclosed. The semiconductor magnetic body is formed by semiconductor quantum dots arranged on lattice points such that electrons can transfer between neighboring quantum dots and t... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7470925 | Magnetic body, magnetic device using the same, and method of manufacturing the same A magnetic body composed of non-magnetic material, includes a plurality of localized electron regions in each of which at least one electron is confined to form a localized spin, a barrier potential region having a higher energy than a Fermi energy of an electron in... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7460572 | Optical module and method for monitoring and controlling wavelengths The present invention provides wavelength monitoring and/or control enabling size reduction and low power operation without requiring a complicated optical system in its wavelength monitoring and controlling mechanism. The measurement portion (1) measu... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444084 | Optical signal receiver, optical signal receiving equipment, and optical signal transmitting system The optical signal receiver of this invention is an optical signal receiver that receives and frequency-demodulates an optical signal, comprising: an optical branch device for splitting an input optical signal into two optical signals (13); an optical delay l... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433111 | Electrooptic modulation element On one pair of opposed side faces (1a, 1b) of electro-optic crystal (1), grooves (3a, 3b) are formed so as to make bottom faces of the grooves approach each other and make a distance between the bottom f... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7412229 | Sales apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving merchandise information by electric field induced in human body The button apparatus is an apparatus provided for, for example, a vending machine and to be touched and pressed with the body of a user who wants to purchase a commodity from the vending machine. By pressing down the button apparatus, the user can purchase a require... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391978 | Optical signal transmitter and optical signal transmission system The invention provides an optical signal transmitter low in noise and in distortion and provides an optical signal transmission system using this optical signal transmitter. The optical signal transmitter includes a plurality of frequency modulation means for... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7368954 | Phase comparison circuit and CDR circuit Providing a CDR circuit having a stable clock extracting function and a data regenerating function with a high-speed data input process by reducing the operation speed of the phase comparator circuit. With a phase comparator circuit capable of operating with a clock... | 05/06/2008 |
| D561187 | Detection card | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316518 | Closure for cable connection A closure for cable connection capable of being readily assembled with fastening force of a sufficient level, rapidly accomplishing leading-out of a cable from a cable connection section and storage of the cable, and exhibiting enhanced airtightness while exhibiting... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305010 | Multicast communication system In order to make the client host capable of learning an accounting information or an authentication failure information, the accounting information or the authentication failure reason is notified from the routing device 2 to the client host 3, by addi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7272317 | Optical multiplexing communication system using ultra high speed signal transmission In an optical multiplexing communication system, a frequency conversion of the optical multiplexed signals having different amplitudes for different communication channels into a plurality of optical pulse sequences having different carrier frequencies for different... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263295 | Transceiver suitable for data communications between wearable computers In a transceiver for inducing electric fields based on data to be transmitted in an electric field propagating medium and carrying out transmission and reception of data by using induced electric fields, having a transmission electrode and a transmission circuit, a ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256062 | Semiconductor photo-detector, semiconductor photo-detection device, and production methods thereof In a semiconductor photo-detector of the present invention, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer having, and a photo-absorption part composed of a photo-absorption layer sandwiched between these layers are disposed on a substrate, at least the p... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7206510 | Ring network using multi-wavelength generator A first optical fiber transmission path is used to transmit continuous-wave light for upstream signal light from the center node to each of the remote nodes, while a second optical fiber transmission path is used to transmit downstream signal light from the center n... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7188358 | Email access control scheme for communication network using identification concealment mechanism An email access control scheme capable of resolving problems of the real email address and enabling a unique identification of the identity of the user while concealing the user identification is disclosed. A personalized access ticket containing a sender's identifi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7068412 | Multi-wavelength generating method and apparatus based on flattening of optical spectrum With respect to the relative intensity noise (RIN) for inputs to an optical modulator or the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for outputs therefrom, the optical modulator modulating coherent lights of different wavelengths obtained by slicing a spectrum of the multi-wave... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7017637 | Thin film forming apparatus and thin film forming method Prior to the start of transfer of an insulation film to a substrate, the degree of opening of a butterfly valve is set small so that evaporation of a solvent component contained in the insulation film is suppressed and the fluidity of the insulation film is ensured ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6990219 | Image capturing method and apparatus and fingerprint collation method and apparatus An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section and capture control section. The image capturing section converts the shape of an object into an electrical quantity in accordance with the parameter value set in a parameter setting section, and outpu... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6937728 | Verifiable anonymous channel Two El Gamal ciphertexts, which are input to a two-input two-output unit switching gates SW forming a permutation network, are randomized with a random number and randomly permuted, and a zero-knowledge proof, which proves the correspondence between the inputs and o... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6924924 | Multi-wavelength generating method and apparatus based on flattening of optical spectrum A multi-wavelength generating apparatus generates a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal by modulating light with a single central frequency and with an electric signal having a particular pulse repetition frequency. The resulting optical spectrum configura... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917032 | Semiconductor photo-detector, semiconductor photodetection device, and production methods thereof A semiconductor photodetection device includes a light incident facet for receiving light from an optical waveguide. Light received at the light incident facet is refracted through a photo-absorption layer to register photonic events. A material may be introduced be... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6831774 | Multi-wavelength generating method and apparatus based on flattening of optical spectrum Amulti-wavelength generating apparatus generates a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal by modulating light with a single central frequency and an electric signal having a particular pulse repetition frequency. The resulting optical spectrum configuration i... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6810381 | Audio coding and decoding methods and apparatuses and recording medium having recorded thereon programs for implementing them In the CELP coding system a low-order synthesis filter and a cascade-connected synthesis filter formed by a cascade connection of low- and high-order synthesis filters are provided, a synthesized acoustic signal is estimated in a mode decision part for an input acou... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6785391 | Apparatus and method for simultaneous estimation of transfer characteristics of multiple linear transmission paths N correlated signals are processed by N pre-filters whose transfer characteristics have different zero points, then the processed signals are input into an N-input M-output linear FIR system, and its transfer characteristics are estimated from its response outputs a... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6770945 | Semiconductor photo-detector, semiconductor photodetection device, and production methods thereof In a semiconductor photo-detector of the present invention, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer having, and a photo-absorption part composed of a photo-absorption layer sandwiched between these layers are disposed on a substrate, at least the p... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6769063 | Data converter and recording medium on which program for executing data conversion is recorded A plurality of round processing parts (38) are provided each of which contains a nonlinear function part (304), and each nonlinear function part (304) comprises: a first key-dependent linear transformation part (341) which performs a line... | 07/27/2004 |
