Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7139034 | Positioning of a cursor associated with a dynamic background A system and method for positioning a cursor associated with a dynamic background is described. In a first step, the position of the dynamic background in a first frame is calculated. In a second step, the position of the dynamic background in a second frame is calc... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7015978 | System and method for real time insertion into video with occlusion on areas containing multiple colors A system, method and computer program product for real-time insertion of indicia (e.g., an advertisement) into a live (or taped) broadcast. Typically, the invention allow insertion with occlusion onto surfaces such as tennis courts, the wall behind home plate on a b... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6750919 | Event linked insertion of indicia into video This invention relates to a system and method for placing event related information into a video broadcasting so that the added information does not interfere with or obscure the primary action of interest in the broadcast. The disclosed information could be impleme... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6741725 | Motion tracking using image-texture templates Image templates are extracted from video images in real-time and stored in memory. Templates are selected on the basis of their ability to provide useful positional data and compared with regions of subsequent images to find the position giving the best match. From ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6529613 | Motion tracking using image-texture templates Image templates are extracted from video images in real-time and stored in memory. Templates are selected on the basis of their ability to provide useful positional data and compared with regions of subsequent images to find the position giving the best m... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6446261 | Set top device for targeted electronic insertion of indicia into video A method of anonymous targeted insertion of indicia into video broadcasts. Individual televisions or other video reception devices are associated with set-top boxes that monitor the usage and viewing habits of the television set or other video reception d... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6184937 | Audio enhanced electronic insertion of indicia into video A system and method (40) of altering the audio portion of a live television broadcast signal substantially in real time. The system is used to enhance the effects of live video insertion systems. The broadcast signal is received and separated into a patte... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6100925 | Image insertion in video streams using a combination of physical sensors and pattern recognition A live video insertion system (LVIS) is disclosed that allows insertion of static or dynamic images into a live video broadcast in a realistic fashion on a real time basis. Initially, natural landmarks in a scene that are suitable for subsequent detection... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5953076 | System and method of real time insertions into video using adaptive occlusion with a synthetic reference image A system and method for realtime occlusion processing for seamlessly and realistically blending an inserted image such as an advertisement into a region of a live broadcast image without obscuring the action of the live image. The average color and intens... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5892554 | System and method for inserting static and dynamic images into a live video broadcast A live video insertion system efficiently places static or dynamic images into a live broadcast. The system initially identifies natural landmarks within the video scene that can be automatically identified and tracked as the field of view of the camera p... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5808695 | Method of tracking scene motion for live video insertion systems A method for tracking motion from field to field in a sequence of related video broadcast images. The method uses template correlation to follow a set of predetermined landmarks within a scene in order to provide position information of objects in the cur... | 09/15/1998 |
