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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| 5669010 | Cascaded two-stage computational SIMD engine having multi-port memory and multiple arithmetic units A two-stage cascaded processor engine for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) utilizing parallel multi-port memories and a plurality of arithmetic units, including adders and multiplier-accumulators (MACs) is described. The engine supports a Single Instructio... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5596686 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous parallel query graphics rendering Z-coordinate buffer Apparatus and method for a Parallel Query Z-coordinate Buffer are described. The apparatus and method perform a keep/discard decision on screen coordinate geometry before the geometry is converted or rendered into individual display screen pixels by imple... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5574835 | Bounding box and projections detection of hidden polygons in three-dimensional spatial databases An image is generated from a database of three-dimensional object data where each the objects is formed from at least one polygon having at least one edge. Successively determinations are made as to whether a particular one of the object polygons designat... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5572634 | Method and apparatus for spatial simulation acceleration Apparatus and method for detecting unconstrained collisions between three-dimensional moving objects are described. The apparatus and method addresses the problems associated with handling objects with substance passing through each other in three-dimensi... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5535288 | System and method for cross correlation with application to video motion vector estimator Method and apparatus for computing cross-correlations with application to image processing and video motion estimation, particularly in video compression applications, are described. Two-dimensional Fourier transform convolution techniques form a basis fo... | 07/09/1996 |
