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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 |
| 7941720 | Scan test circuit and scan test control method A scan test circuit in the present invention includes a control FF for inputting a control signal, and a scan path chain configured of scan storage elements to operate in a shift operation mode when an output of the control FF is a first status value, and in a norma... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7930875 | Jet-type steam engine In an engine, a rotor having a folded jet pipe is rotatably supported in a sealed container filled with a liquid. A heating portion is inserted in a center cylinder at the center of the rotor, and a fluid of a high temperature is passed therethrough to vaporize the ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924473 | Apparatus and method for image evaluation and program thereof An image evaluation apparatus includes a printing status judgment unit for judging a printing status of a target image assigned with an evaluation value and an evaluation value changing unit for appropriately changing the evaluation value based on information repres... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7915958 | Amplifier An amplifier comprises an input terminal that inputs an AC voltage signal; an amplifying unit having a transistor for amplifying the input AC voltage signal; a current detecting unit connected internally of said amplifying unit; and a control-current source controll... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915948 | Current mirror circuit A differential amplifier circuit receives a pair of input signals to develop an output signal. First and second MOS transistors have commonly-connected gates and sources. A third MOS transistor has a drain connected to the commonly-connected gates, and a source conn... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908071 | Electric parking brake control system An electric parking brake control apparatus for controlling an electric actuator for driving a parking brake is provided with: an inclination determination unit for determining an inclination of a road surface based on at least a change of a vehicle speed; and a bra... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7893927 | Touch screen device with guiding surface In a display touch sensor, there configured a guide shape which protrudes from a surface of the touch sensor placed on a display surface of a display and fringes with the surface of the touch sensor with a line using a concave portion as a vertex, and a main CPU for... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7874725 | Optical fiber temperature distribution measuring apparatus, method for measuring optical fiber temperature distribution, and optical fiber temperature distribution measuring system An optical fiber temperature distribution measuring apparatus and a method for measuring optical fiber temperature distribution, provided with a light source for inputting a pulse light to an optical fiber to be measured, a signal detecting unit for detecting a rece... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7855430 | Electronic components on trenched substrates and method of forming same A method of mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes forming at least one trench in a surface of the substrate. The trenches formed in the substrate reduce a stiffness of the substrate, which provides less resistance to shear. Accordingly, the trench... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7841166 | Jet-type steam engine A simply constituted steam engine efficiently obtains mechanical energy not only from a heat source of a high temperature but also from the exhaust heat of an internal combustion engine and various kinds of heat sources of a low-temperature state such as the solar h... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835211 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device is provided including a first fuse link having a copper-containing metal film, a second fuse link having a polysilicon film, a semiconductor substrate, and a field insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate. The second fuse link is ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833202 | Method of gastrostomy, and an infection preventive cover, or catheter kit, and a gastrostomy catheter Disclosed is an infection preventive catheter kit for preventing the infection of the wound. A percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) catheter 20 is inserted into an infection preventive cover 10, which is provided with a socket 13 at a dista... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826272 | Semiconductor memory device The present invention solves a problem of the degradation of the long-term reliability of a conventional semiconductor memory device due to early deterioration of a FET included in a reference cell therein. DRAM 1 has word lines 101 to 10... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825727 | Differential amplifier An input stage of a differential amplifier includes a differential pair formed by an N-channel MOS transistor MN1 having a gate connected to an INM and an N-channel MOS transistor MN2 having a gate connected to an INP, both having sources connected to ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7824929 | Method for producing group III nitride-based compound semiconductor An object of the present invention is to remove micro-scratches on a surface of a GaN substrate cut from a GaN ingot. The invention is directed to establish a method for surface treatment of a GaN substrate, including heating the surface in an atmosphere containing ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7824210 | Connector A connector includes a male connector part composed of a male terminal, a first main body to which the male terminal is attached, and a first terminal housing portion composed of a first housing opening portion in which an end of the male terminal is exhibited and a... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823418 | Method of making glass base material A glass base material manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a glass base material comprising: a plurality burners, arranged in a row at a predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction of a starting base material of the glass base material, for forming... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822945 | Configuration managing device for a reconfigurable circuit A semiconductor device including a multi-layer interconnection substrate having a signal distribution interconnection and a power supply line and semiconductor circuit blocks installed on the multi-layer interconnection substrate for performing required operations. ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822152 | Symbol timing detection method and apparatus, and preamble detection method and apparatus A symbol timing detection method, executed in a processor, is provided where, upon detecting a symbol timing from a received signal composed of a packet having a preamble with periodically allocated symbols placed at a head of data, correlation results indicating a ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822094 | Semiconductor laser element and method for producing same A semiconductor laser element realizes a high COD light output in broader range of reflection factor at a facet with high reliability. A semiconductor laser element has a multi-layered reflection film formed on at least one end facet of a resonator. An optical path ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817528 | Optical disk medium and optical disk apparatus The length of a format modulation area in an address segment is limited to be 25% of the address-segment length or less, and the position of the format modulation area is selectable two possible positions. Subsequently, where a CLV optical-disk medium is used, wobbl... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816989 | Differential amplifier A differential amplifier includes a first differential pair formed by transistors of a first conductivity type, to receive input signals and output first differential-mode currents, a first current amplifier section to output a first output source current and a firs... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7815345 | Vehicle-purpose lighting tool A vehicle-purpose lighting tool is featured by comprising: a light-conducting member having a front light-emitting plane, a rear plane having a concave/convex shape, and a side edge plane; and a light source arranged at a position opposite to the side edge plane; in... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813178 | Semiconductor memory device and write control method therefor Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device which includes a read data latch that holds read data from a phase change memory and latches write data entered from outside and holds write data entered from outside, a write data latch that holds the write data for a cell... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812848 | Memory device, display control driver with the same, and display apparatus using display control driver A memory device includes a memory and a control circuit. The memory includes cells arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The cells are grouped into banks, and each of the banks contains at least one column of the cells. The control circuit instructs a read opera... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812804 | Drive circuit for display apparatus and display apparatus A drive circuit that is an example of the present invention is a drive circuit of a display device for outputting in parallel the analog picture signals generated based on the digital picture signals inputted in serial. This circuit comprises a level shift circuit f... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812752 | Digital-to-analog converter circuit, data driver and display device A digital-to-analog converter circuit includes: a first subdecoder for receiving a first reference voltage group and selecting a reference voltage Vrk based upon an input digital signal; a second subdecoder for receiving a second reference voltage group and selectin... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812689 | Phase shifter including a resonant type switch with a free region Disclosed is a microwave phase shifter including switches each of which utilizes resonance between an off-capacitance of an FET and an inductor connected in parallel with the off-capacitance of the FET, an LPF, and an HPF, a series circuit of an inductor and an MIM ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812340 | Strained-silicon-on-insulator single-and double-gate MOSFET and method for forming the same A method of forming a semiconductor structure (and the resulting structure), includes straining a free-standing semiconductor, and fixing the strained, free-standing semiconductor to a substrate. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7810183 | Bed equipped with side rails A bed in which a gap between back and leg side-rails is kept constant when a back bottom is raised. A first link and a second link (2, 3) are rotatably supported at lower ends thereof on a frame (1). A coupling (6) is fixed to the base end part ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808798 | Versatile Si-based packaging with integrated passive components for mmWave applications An apparatus is described incorporating an interposer having a cavity for a portion of an antenna structure, having conductor through vias, a top Si part having interconnection wiring and having pads for electrically mounting an integrated circuit chip thereon, wher... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801835 | Method for constructing autonomic advisors and learning procedural knowledge from scored examples A system for and method of constructing an executable reusable procedure which includes determining an executable procedure from at least one scored trace of a procedure execution. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793108 | Method of creating password schemes for devices A method of creating a password scheme for a mobile device includes partitioning a storage space on the mobile device into a public portion and a secure portion and encrypting access to the secure portion of the storage space by creating a long password, where the l... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788558 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and control method thereof A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a target circuit configured to operate in a normal mode, to form a scan chain to serially transfer a test data through the scan chain, in a scan path test mode, and to form a plurality of sub scan chains to save an interna... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783929 | Controller for a disk, disk enclosure device, disk array apparatus, method for detecting a fault of disk enclosure device, and signal-bearing medium A method and structure for a controller for a memory unit includes a switch that provides a first identification code for the memory unit and a comparator that compares the first identification code with at least a second identification code for the memory unit.... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783659 | Method and system for assessing and refining the quality of web services definitions A system and method of assessing and refining quality of Web services (WSDL) definitions for enabling automatic discovery and matching thereof, which includes normalizing definition elements and identifying at least one element as being at least one of cryptic, ambi... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783059 | Acoustic device A body device includes: a plurality of sound sources; a speaker and a headphone for outputting sound signals from those sound sources; and a mode setting unit capable of setting a single mode, in which the sound signals from one sound source are output in response t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782204 | Wireless IC tag with counter, and information management system The wireless IC tag has a counter for counting on the basis of a signal received via the antenna or for counting in cases where a signal transmits via the antenna. The wireless IC tag may have a counter for each required data field and incrementing/decrementing a co... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7781787 | Light-emitting diode, led light, and light apparatus An LED light comprising a light-emitting device provided to power supply means, encapsulating means for encapsulating the light-emitting device with a light-transmitting material, a reflective surface for reflecting the light emitted from the light-emitting device t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779066 | Information distributing device, system and method An information distributing machine distributes only information comparatively related to a user. The information distributing machine has a memory for storing a moving path of every user. The information distributing machine also has a distribution information entr... | 08/17/2010 |
