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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110246263 | METHOD FOR DETECTING VEHICLES WITH TRAILERS A method for detecting vehicles with trailers in a road toll system, which comprises at least one radio beacon for radio communication with radio OBUs, wherein vehicles and trailers are respectively provided with their own OBUs carried by them, and a vehicle and a trail... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110032121 | Method, System, And Optical Communication Assembly For Obtaining Traffic Information The present invention relates to method for obtaining traffic information by means of optical signals between a vehicle and an optical communication node, wherein the node forms part of a road network. According to the present invention there is provided a method compri... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100102990 | Light source discriminating apparatus, a light source discriminating program, a vehicles detection apparatus, and a light control apparatus A light control system identifies in the processing that discriminates light sources in the acquired image as either luminous objects or reflective objects, each pixel obtained that constitutes the acquired image being classified into a plurality of groups according to ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20090207046 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING VEHICLES A system to detect the transit of vehicles having license plates includes at least one video camera to detect license plates capable of framing the plates of said vehicles and, preferably, at least one video camera to detect vehicles capable of framing a zone of transit... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20070199255 | Glazing Comprising A Marking Element, Glazing Identification Method And Identification System Thereof A glazing unit including at least one marking element visible from the outside thereof and including a string of characters. The marking element can be visually identified by whomsoever and can be communicated remotely to an identification device. The identification dev... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070103339 | VEHICLE SPACING DETECTOR AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM A device for the detection of tailgating between vehicles on a roadway. The device may emit ultrasonic signals on to a roadway and receive said reflected signals. The device has a processor adapted to use the received signals to determine the presence or absence of a ve... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20050242306 | System and method for traffic monitoring, speed determination, and traffic light violation detection and recording A system of lasers and detectors to detect the presence of objects and determine their speed is disclosed. The system comprises of a pair of lasers and a pair of detectors focused through a single lens. An electronic board that accompanies the lasers and detectors is us... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050231389 | Device for detecting the crossing of a road marking for motor vehicle The present invention concerns a device for detecting crossing of a horizontal land demarcation marker of a carriageway for motor vehicles, characterized in that it includes at least one box (2) to be placed under the vehicle and enclosing means for projecting tw... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050068198 | Method and device for tracking objects, especially for monitoring traffic A method for tracking objects, especially for monitoring traffic, wherein a sensor measuring in an essentially horizontal and radial manner detects metrical data on moving objects in the form of raw data and transmits said data to a computer unit. The raw data is proces... | 03/31/2005 |
