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 |
| 5978811 | Information repository system and method for modeling data A data model for an information repository (10) models data as objects (12), the relationships (14) or interdependencies between the data, their physical storage or access information (18) and rules or methods of accessing the data (16).... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5973738 | Method and apparatus for improved video coding The present invention includes a video encoder optimized so as to be implemented using general purpose DSPs or as software executable on a general purpose microprocessor. The present invention includes a modified motion detector module (50) which classifi... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5896165 | Method and system for a video answering machine The present invention is a video answer machine which includes a video data recorder (26) for accepting and recording an outgoing video message, an audio data recorder (22) for accepting and recording an outgoing audio message, and data storage (19) for s... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5787280 | Apparatus and method for providing a facility for managing versions and configurations of persistent and transient objects A system (20) and method for managing change in software systems and applications manages change for both transient and persistent objects in a domain independent, non-intrusive, object-oriented fashion. The system (20) and method are designed and impleme... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5757678 | Method of simultaneous simulation of a complex system having system objects, parameter objects, state objects, and simulation objects Simulation of a complex system begins by generating a plurality of system objects (12) describing items within the system through structural information within the system object (12). Each system object (12) corresponds to a plurality of parameter group o... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5749064 | Method and system for time scale modification utilizing feature vectors about zero crossing points A method and system for implementing time scale modification wherein the method includes a Zero Crossing Module (22) for determining zero crossing points in the signal, a Feature Vector Module (24) for generating feature vectors describing the zero crossi... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5745872 | Method and system for compensating speech signals using vector quantization codebook adaptation The present invention is a speech processing system and method which includes a codebook generator (26) for generating a reference vector quantization codebook which describes a reference environment and for generating at least one secondary vector quanti... | 04/28/1998 |
