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 |
| 5995953 | Method for verification of signatures and handwriting based on comparison of extracted features This invention describes a technology to improve the feature based comparison of images. The images are captured and their significant features are extracted. For a comparison only the feature values have to be compared instead of the images themselves. T... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5980683 | Production of a support element module for embedding into smart cards or other data carrier cards Described is a method for manufacturing of carrier element modules of a thin carrier element (4) and a thereon mounted semiconductor chip (2). This method renders possible the application of chips (2) with great dimensions (macro-chips) and a wide variety... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5963654 | Apparatus and method for monitoring performance of an image capture device Invented method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining image quality can be employed either during diagnostic mode or at run time of an imaging system. One component performs numerical analysis on a digital image. Another component accep... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5960082 | Post-initialization of chip cards The invention relates to the post-initialization of a chip card which has a processor, a non-volatile memory and an operating system with operating commands which may be utilized in a user mode. A key for a cryptographic algorithm is written onto the chip... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956408 | Apparatus and method for secure distribution of data Data, including a program and software updates, is encrypted by a public key encryption system using the private key of the data sender. The data is also digitally signed by the sender. The receiver decrypts the encrypted data, using the public key of the... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5949053 | Optimized technique for decoding a bar code from an image of an array of pixels A technique for decoding a barcode from an image of the barcode in the form of an array of pixels stored in digital form by determining a series of bar start and bar end locations from the image. An optimization technique is used to select the bar start a... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5912974 | Apparatus and method for authentication of printed documents Printed document contents are scanned and digitized, using a conventional scanner, and displayed page by page on a screen. Using a conventional editor and an input device, the scanned and digitized document contents are edited before being used to generat... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5912453 | Multiple application chip card with decoupled programs The integration of multiple application programs on one chip card is described, whereby the application programs stored on it do not have access to each other, which is achieved through a separation and de-coupling of the individual programs from one anot... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5909678 | Computer systems, method and program for constructing statements by dragging and dropping iconic representations of subcomponent statements onto a phrase template The system, method, and program of this invention enables construction of statements, including queries, programs, and commands, by using drag and drop templates. A predefined phrase template, which is generated and displayed to a user, imposes syntactic ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907621 | System and method for session management Apparatus and method is disclosed for providing user session continuity over several transactions being conducted on the internet. A secure token is made part of each HTML page sent to a user from the server computer and the token is returned to the serve... | 05/25/1999 |
| 4575816 | Interactive transactions processor using sequence table pointers to access function table statements controlling execution of specific interactive functions A peripheral processor has an architecture wherein the function controlling information of a program is separated from portions of the sequence of execution controlling information and each are stored in the form of tables. The function controlling inform... | 03/11/1986 |
