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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6686966 | Electronic imaging system In an electronic imaging system, the focal point control is performed on the basis of the output of the high frequency component detecting means 14 when the brightness of the scene is higher than a predetermined brightness, and the focal point control is ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6600876 | Photographing apparatus with shake detection function This invention provides a photographing apparatus with a shake detection function that can instantaneously execute shake detection operation while suppressing current consumption in non-use. More specifically, the photographing apparatus with the shake de... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6599442 | Temperature measurement and temperature controlled switching based on helical sense dependent liquid crystal phases Helical arrays comprising structurally different chiral non-racemic molecules or molecular entities that control the helical sense of the helical array provide a method for temperature measurement with a unique characteristic in that the temperature depen... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6595819 | Equipment for fabricating partitioning ribs of plasma display device This invention provides equipment for fabricating partitioning ribs of a plasma display device. The equipment comprises a head, a driver, an X position sensor and a Y position sensor, a laser displacement sensor for detecting the distance of the head from... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6589111 | Snow extractor for use with an air handling system A snow removal device for use with an air handler or HVAC system includes an extractor plate and a heater for heating the extractor plate. The extractor plate has a plurality of holes and may be bent to define a series of connected "Vs". The heater may be... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6560025 | Translucent screen The present invention is a translucent screen comprising a plurality of spherical lenses arranged in an orthohexagonal lattice structure or a tetragonal lattice structure on a two-dimensional plane, a supporting member disposed at the incident side of the... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6559223 | Hydrogels and methods for their production Forming graft copolymers in water using labeling of water soluble polymers with photoinitiators. Water soluble polymers can form environmentally responsive hydrophobically stimulated cages. The cages, which contain initiating radicals after irradiation, m... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6558006 | Image projection display apparatus using plural projectors and projected image compensation apparatus Highly detailed image data from an input terminal is divided by an input image divider in accordance with projectors. The divided image data are subjected to compensation processing by an image compensator, using compensation data for the respective chara... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556785 | Range finder In an apparatus comprising a zoom lens and an electric flash, a range finder that determines, on the basis of an output result obtained by means of one method out of an active AF and a passive AF, whether or not to operate the other method, is utilized.... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6549958 | Connector for coupling electronic imaging system with USB that selectively switches USB host controller and USB interface with connector An electronic camera 1 is disclosed, which has a USB host detector 51 for checking whether a host computer other than itself is connected to a universal series bus. When it is detected that no host computer other than the camera 1 is connected, a host mod... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6542696 | Distance measurement apparatus of camera There is disclosed a distance measurement apparatus of a camera which obtains subject distance information (phase difference of a subject luminance signal) of each distance measurement area by a photoelectric conversion element with a plurality of distanc... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6532037 | Camera system wherein recording medium in camera stores information on angle of view of photographing of image necessary for cylindrical conversion A camera system comprises a camera and a panoramic image synthesizing apparatus. The camera includes a photographing device for photographing an object, and a recording medium for storing divisional images of the object photographed by the photographing d... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529903 | Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same m... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6526231 | Tremble correction camera A correction camera that makes it possible to confirm the result of correction through a viewfinder without an increase in the size of a taking lens or an increase in costs. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a camera in which a taking ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6515271 | CMOS image sensor unit with serial transmitting function A CMOS image sensor unit with serial data transmitting function is disclosed. A CMOS sensor unit as a two-dimensional sensor constituted by a plurality of CMOS elements arranged in a regular array in the row and column directions, a clock unit for obtaini... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6513938 | Multi-display device and multi-display system The present invention provides a multi-display device that has a plurality of projectors and constructs one image as a whole. Partial images projected on a screen from the projectors overlap to have the edges thereof superposed on edges of adjoining parti... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6507711 | Camera for both silver-salt photography and electronic image pickup The camera of this invention has a zoom optical system 21, 23 which forms an object image on silver-salt film 27; an image capture element 15 which captures an electronic image of the above object image; and an image capture optical system 2, 11, 13, 14 w... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6507707 | Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method Provided is a distance measuring apparatus that can cope with the problem of wrong distance measuring attributable to the presence of miscellaneous subjects and minimize the possibility of defocused photographing. In this distance measuring apparatus, pas... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6507195 | Electronic apparatus using removable batteries as drive source The present invention is electronic apparatus using removable batteries as a drive source, the apparatus comprising a control section for detecting an internal resistance value of the batteries and using this value to determine how the batteries are consu... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6501910 | Camera distance measuring device The present invention is a camera distance measuring device having an integral light receiving element for receiving light from a photographic object and outputting light received signals, and a fixed light elimination circuit for eliminating the fixed li... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6487213 | Methods and apparatus for fairly arbitrating contention for an output port A hierarchical arbitration method in which requests are grouped, using a logical OR operation for example, and provided to higher levels of the hierarchy. Then, grant signals from higher levels of the hierarchy are either propagated down through each leve... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6476866 | Imaging apparatus with electrical exposure time control An imaging apparatus with electrical exposure time control function capable of high accuracy control of the electronic shutter and ensuring high exposure accuracy is disclosed. An imaging element accumulates signal charge corresponding to an incident scen... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6470148 | Distance measuring device This invention is an inexpensive distance measuring device having short lag time, configured so as to have a pair of light receiving regions at positions of focal points of a pair of image forming optical systems, comprising functions for dividing the lig... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6464317 | Battery powered printer capable of printing image information picked-up and stored through an electronic image pick-up device A CPU mounted on a printer according to the present invention decides whether at least one sheet can be printed based on a battery capacity detected from a battery controller through a battery check section before a printing operation in a DPOF mode is st... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6463222 | Electronic camera The electronic camera comprises a photographing unit including a lens tube which holds a lens for forming an image of object light on a photographing element, and a photographing board disposed on a proximal end side of the lens tube, on which a photograp... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6455114 | Composite absorbent structure and method An absorbent structure and method utilizes pockets or pouches of inorganic or organic granular materials in absorbent structures (such as a structure containing superabsorbents, including polymeric hydrogel forming materials) and fibrous webs, to form a c... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6449435 | Finder device for a camera A camera includes a finder optical system. A transmissivity variable element is arranged in the finder optical system and changes the light transmissivity. A release signal outputting circuit outputs a release signal. A light exposure mechanism effects a ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6449495 | Imaging device When sending photographic image data obtained in an electronic camera 1 via a communication interface 42 to a radio telephone line of a PDC 3, a PHS 4, etc., an RISC-CPU 11 converts the image data to data having a configuration allowing communication and ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6449283 | Methods and apparatus for providing a fast ring reservation arbitration In a switch having input ports and output ports, a fast ring reservation arbitration is provided by grouping crosspoint units associated with an output port. If any of the crosspoint units of a group request the output port, a received token will be passe... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6442344 | Focusing apparatus This invention is a focusing apparatus including a pair of sensor arrays detecting object image signals obtained by a plurality of optical paths in multiple-point distance measurement, an arithmetic operation control section focusing on an object by compa... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6433859 | Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method A distance measuring apparatus has a sensor, a monitor region selection portion, a distance measuring portion, and a detection portion. The sensor photoelectrically converts the subject image to output a subject image signal corresponding to the luminance... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6412956 | Image projection system An image projection system includes projection means for projecting an image on a transmission type screen from a rear surface side of the screen, standard image information generating means for generating standard image information of a standard image, i... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6389031 | Methods and apparatus for fairly scheduling queued packets using a ram-based search engine A hierarchical searching technique is used to find the first memory location of a calendar queue with a validity bit of "1" (that is, the lowest time stamp). The bit string at any level l (l.noteq.0) can be stored in a RAM of size gl Ml-1.... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6374052 | Camera To provide a camera configured to be supported by the hands of a photographer on the bottom surface of the body thereof whose operability is improved by allowing various settings to be easily made with the camera body supported reliably and allowing a set... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370144 | Methods and apparatus for shaping queued packets using a two-dimensional RAM-based search engine A two (2) dimensional shaper uses a hierarchical searching technique to find the first memory location of the calendar queue with a validity bit of "1" (that is, the lowest time stamp). The bit string at any level l (l.noteq.0) can be stored in a RAM of s... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6366736 | Distance measuring apparatus for camera The present invention provides a distance measuring apparatus for a camera capable of deciding priority of a plurality of types of autofocusing methods automatically and rapidly and achieving high-speed, accurate focusing under various shooting conditions... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363220 | Camera and autofocus apparatus A low-cost and space-saving focus adjusting apparatus which accurately performs focus adjustment by correcting chromatic aberration in focus detecting operation. A digital camera including a photographing lens and a color imaging element, according to the... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6347190 | Display device of an optical apparatus A camera has a finder device. A liquid crystal element is arranged in the finder device and has an image area and at least one of an index area indicating an image range and an index area indicating information relating to photographing. A control circuit... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6329628 | Methods and apparatus for generating a plasma torch A modular system for constructing an atmospheric pressure plasma source. A plasma torch module may be constructed by reassembling the structural components of two (2) different models of spark plugs. Each module can produce a plasma torch having a radius ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6327581 | Methods and apparatus for building a support vector machine classifier Solving a quadratic programming problem involved in training support vector machines by sweeping through a set of training examples, solving small sub-problems of the quadratic programming problem. Each of these sub-problems has an analytic solution, whic... | 12/04/2001 |
