Did You Know...
...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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060008092 | Interactive broadcast channel A broadcast music channel for a one-to-many broadcasting infrastructure, broadcasting at least vocal and instrumental parts of musical performances to currently connected users of the channel, and supporting a user operated interactive control allowing each user indepen... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050239030 | Sound system with dedicated vocal channel A karaoke sound system had a mixer that combines the singer's real-time voice signal from a microphone with the pre-recorded background song/music signal from a player, an amplifier that receives the mixed signal from the mixer to provide amplification or gain boosting,... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050142526 | Music apparatus with selective decryption of usable component in loaded composite content A music apparatus has a capability of using a composite music content. In the music apparatus, a storage section stores a file of the composite music content composed of a plurality of content materials, each of which is encrypted individually. The content materials inc... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050123887 | System and method for providing karaoke service using set-top box A system and method for providing a karaoke service using an object-oriented audio/video karaoke contents through a digital TV using a set-top box connected to a cable network or internet is disclosed. The system for providing a karaoke service using the set-top box, th... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050123886 | Systems and methods for personalized karaoke Systems and methods are described that implement personalized karaoke, wherein a user's personal home video and photographs are used to form a background for the lyrics during a karaoke performance. An exemplary karaoke apparatus is configured to segment visual content ... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050106546 | Electronic communications device with a karaoke function A method of performing a karaoke function from an electronic communications device comprises the steps of reading music data and providing a music signal, reading text data and presenting text on a display, receiving a voice signal, providing a first output signal compr... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050084835 | Karaoke system with built-in camera A karaoke system with built-in camera includes a decoder, a camera system, and a video selector. The decoder (e.g., a CDG decoder) receives data from a disc and provides a first video signal having graphics, e.g., for lyrics of a selected song. The camera system capture... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050048457 | Interactive device An interactive device includes a base unit and at least one interchangeable cartridge. The base unit comprises a transparent pressure-sensitive touchscreen overlying the cartridge and a microphone. The cartridge comprises a scroll having a plurality of image frames whic... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050042591 | Methods and apparatus for use in sound replacement with automatic synchronization to images Digital audio and video files are created corresponding to selected scenes from a creative production and are provided with a processing system that enables dialog to be selected from a scene and replaced by a user's dialog which is automatically synchronized with the o... | 02/24/2005 |
