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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| 7967209 | Method of blocking a portion of illumination rays generated by a countertop-supported digital imaging system, and preventing illumination rays from striking the eyes of the system operator or nearby consumers during operation of said countertop-supported digital image capture and processing system installed at a retail point of sale (POS) station A method of illuminating objects on a countertop surface using an automatically-triggered digital image capture and processing system installed thereupon, and having a single array of LEDs disposed behind the upper edge portion of its imaging window, above which a l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 6857572 | Automatically-activated hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system with omnidirectional and unidirectional scanning modes in addition to a data transmission activation switch A hand-supportable bar code symbol reading device having a laser scanning engine that is controlled to selectively operate in either an omni-directional scan mode or a single line scan mode. In the single line scan mode of operation, symbol character data produced b... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6375074 | Holographic laser scanner for producing a highly-defined three-dimensional scanning volume having multiple focal regions within which the laser scanlines are spatially confined A holographic laser scanner for scanning bar code symbols, in which a plurality of scanning planes are projected through a plurality of different focal regions in order to provide, at each such focal region, a plurality of scanlines that are substantially... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6111598 | System and method for producing and displaying spectrally-multiplexed images of three-dimensional imagery for use in flicker-free stereoscopic viewing thereof A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof. In one illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6062479 | Holographic laser scanning system and process and apparatus and methods for designing and constructing the same A holographic laser scanning system comprising a support disc rotatable about an axis of rotation, and having an inner perimeter, an outer perimeter, and an available light collecting region defined between the inner perimeter and the outer perimeter. A l... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6027024 | Hand-held portable WWW access terminal with visual display panel and GUI-based WWW browser program integrated with bar code symbol reader A portable hand-held WWW access terminal for accessing HTML-encoded documents located on the WWW. The terminal includes a bar code symbol reader in a hand-supportable housing for reading URL-encoded symbols specifying the location of HTML-encoded document... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6003772 | Holographic laser scanning system employing holographic scanning disc having dual-fringe contrast regions for optimized laser beam scanning and light collection operations Holographic laser scanning system employing a holographic scanning disc with holographic facets having dual-fringe contrast regions optimized for scanning and light collection operations. In the preferred embodiments, the first region of each holographic ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5992752 | Internet-based system for enabling information-related transactions over the internet using Java-enabled internet terminals provided with bar code symbol readers for reading Java-Applet encoded bar code symbols A novel transaction-enabling system is disclosed, wherein a transaction-enabling Java-Applet is embedded within 2-D bar code symbol. An HTML-encoded document and code associated with the transaction-enabling Java-Applet is created and stored in an HTTP se... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5905248 | System and method for carrying out information-related transactions using web documents embodying transaction enabling applets automatically launched and executed in response to reading URL-encoded symbols pointing thereto A novel transaction-enabling method and system are disclosed, wherein a transaction-enabling Java-Applet is embedded within an HTML-encoded document stored in an HTTP server at predetermined URL. When a code symbol (e.g., magstripe or bar code) encoded wi... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5886816 | Method and system for recording spatially-multiplexed images of 3-D objects for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof An electro-optical recording system for recording spatially multiplexed images (SMI) of a 3-D object for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof with high image quality and resolution. A micropolarization panel of electrically passive polarization is employed... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5870968 | Pole structure for supporting a flag without furling thereabout An improved flag pole structure having a substantially uniform outer diameter along its entire longitudinal extent. The flag pole structure comprises a pole, a first bearing collar, a second bearing collar, a rotatable sleeve, and first and second flag su... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5838653 | Multiple layer optical recording media and method and system for recording and reproducing information using the same Disclosed is a novel optical information storage media having M information storage decks. Each information storage deck has N information storage layers, and each information storage layer has a pair of information storage structures. Each paired informa... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5828427 | Computer-based image display systems having direct and projection modes of viewing An electro-optical backlighting panel construction for use in portable computer-based systems having direct and projection viewing modes of operation. In the illustrative embodiments of the present invention, the electro-optical backlighting panel is inte... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5801793 | Backlighting construction for use in computer-based display systems having direct and projection viewing modes of operation A reconfigurable backlighting construction for use in portable computer-based systems having direct and projection viewing modes of operation. In the illustrative embodiments of the present invention, the backlighting construction is integrated with a LCD... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5760827 | Pixel-data processing system and method for producing spectrally-multiplexed images of three-dimensional imagery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof. In one illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5745164 | System and method for electro-optically producing and displaying spectrally-multiplexed images of three-dimensional imagery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing wherein pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D scenery are produced usin... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5742333 | Electro-optical device for selectively transmitting polarized spectral components A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof. In one illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5565729 | Microchannel plate technology A process for fabricating microchannel plates produces large area microchannel plates that have channel exit openings as small as 0.5 micron, MTF~1, pitch-limited resolution (a factor of 10 potential improvement in resolution) and at a cost of $0.40/sq. c... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5553203 | Pixel data processing system and method for producing and graphically presenting spatially multiplexed images of 3-D objects for stereoscopic viewing thereof Pixel data processing system and method for producing a spatial multiplexed image of a 3-D object for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof. The pixel data sets of each pair of first and second perspective (e.g. left and right) images of a 3-D object, are s... | 09/03/1996 |
