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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 5537605 | Method and apparatus for controlling at least one piece of equipment An arrangement is provided which enables one or more controllable pieces of equipment to be controlled by a control unit. Each piece of controllable equipment includes a control structure definition for that equipment. The controllable equipment is respon... | 07/16/1996 |
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| 5491479 | 8B-16B RLL decoder with hamming distance detection Apparatus for decoding an input digital signal by replacing successive n-bit groups of the input digital signal with respective ones from an ensemble of m-bit data words, each m-bit data word having an associated n-bit code word, where n is greater than m... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5355169 | Method for processing a digital video signal having portions acquired with different acquisition characteristics An input digital video signal representing a series of input frames with at least some of the input frames each having a first picture portion having a first acquisition characteristic (such as 60 Hz, 2:1) and a second picture portion having a second acqu... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5253065 | Digital video effects system for reproducing moving effects A digital video effects system for emulating motion blurring includes a digital video effects apparatus for manipulating an input image to generate an effect, and a controller for controlling the apparatus to generate an output image sequence comprising a... | 10/12/1993 |
