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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366359 | Image processing of regions in a wide angle video camera A system and method for providing privacy regions in a picture or video. In one example embodiment, a camera is provided which has a lens system and detector, image processing circuitry, compression and formatting circuitry, and control circuitry. Images or video ta... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7269531 | Hybrid sensing techniques for position determination The invention provides for a method and apparatus for improving error-correction in non-contact optical position sensing. The primary application is in page-based data input contexts such as form-filling and paper-based web interfaces and GUIs. The invention utilise... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7172358 | Counting pen An apparatus and method provide a writing device including a button pressed by a user, wherein the button engages a mechanism used to move a writing tip between stowed and operative positions. A counter receives at least one indication each time the button is presse... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7140792 | Swipe digital palm computer with built-in printer A digital palm PC (10) includes a housing, a storage device to store digital text and/or image data, and a printer located within the housing and receiving digital information from the storage device. The printer built into the palm PC (10) casing is c... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6952880 | Measurement and marking device A measurement and marking device includes a housing, a positional sensing assembly mounted in the housing, a printhead assembly mounted in the housing, and a controller mounted in the housing and communicating with the positional sensing assembly and the printhead a... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6942335 | Hand held electronic paint brush A hand held device that accepts a digital image, and transfers it to a wall, ceiling, floor, or any smooth surface. The hand held unit consists of a print element array in addition to a positioning mechanism that determines the absolute position of said device on th... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6773177 | Method and system for position-aware freeform printing within a position-sensed area A method and system for position-aware freeform printing in which a source image space in a source medium and a target image space in a target medium are specified. A selected image in the source image space is copied and/or optionally processed and transferred to t... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6618078 | Digital camera capable of printing captured images in various sizes A method and apparatus for capturing and printing an image of a subject utilizes a tracking mechanism to allow an operator to print the captured image onto a selected surface by manually manipulating the apparatus across the surface. The apparatus is a pr... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6398432 | Printer with failsafe features A portable printer which can print on a variety of surfaces is disclosed. The printer has a number of failsafe features which improve its operation and the quality of print. In particular, printing is inhibited in a certain number of situations. Alternati... | 06/04/2002 |
| 5995123 | Marking and counting probe A marking and counting probe for use with a counter, e.g. a computer, comprises a tubular housing for holding a marking implement, such as a highlighter. One end of the tubular housing has an aperture through which the marking end of the marking implement... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5988900 | Hand-held sweep electronic printer with compensation for non-linear movement A hand-held and self-contained electronic printing apparatus (10) for printing indicia on a medium (M) which includes a housing (12) that can be manually positioned adjacent a surface of the medium (M) and manually swept across a printing area on the medi... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5861877 | Electric pen that functions as hand-held printer with multiple colors and adjustable print area An electric pen is used as a data input/output device with the same feel as though writing on paper with an ordinary pen. The electric pen can be used in conjunction with an external data processor, such as a compact portable electric note book. Hand writ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5848401 | Hand-held portable postage meter that uses pre-printed tape A highly secure hand-held portable postage meter is disclosed that uses partially pre-printed postal tape. Only the date and postage amount remain to be printed on the tape by the meter. The postal tape, pre-printed by Postal Authority, is enclosed within... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5842793 | Printing Device A print device including: a storage unit which stores image data for an image to be printed; a print unit which prints the image on a recording medium based on the image data stored in the storage unit; a print region setting unit which sets, with respect... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5634730 | Hand-held electronic printer A hand-held and self contained electronic printing device for printing indicia on a medium includes a housing that can be manually positioned adjacent a surface of the medium and remain stationary against the medium during a printing sequence; the housing... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5506876 | Counting and marking device A device for reliably counting and simultaneously marking objects includes a tubular sleeve slidably emergent from a housing that contains an electronic counter and electromagnet. A marking tip and ink reservoir are slidably held within the sleeve and are... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5442380 | Marking and counting implement A marking and counting implement comprises a tubular housing for holding a marking implement, such as a highlighter. One end of the tubular housing has an aperture through which the marking end of the marking implement extends. The other end of the housin... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5359359 | Disposable postage meter assembly A disposable postage meter assembly for printing charges and captions on envelopes and/or postage strips includes a base unit and a non-rechargeable disposable module. The base unit and the disposable module have devices for setting variable information.... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5262804 | Bar code printing A device suitable for printing bar codes is disclosed, this device comprising a housing, means for holding a label supply roll, printing means for applying indicia to a label, means for supplying data to determine the nature of the indicia printed on the ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5240334 | Hand held multiline printer with base member for guiding A hand held printer and guiding means which maintains the printer in a fixed angular orientation with respect to an article to be printed, such as an envelope, and which constrains the printer to move linearly in a series of parallel line segments whereby... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5188464 | Hand-held bar code printer for envelopes and labels A pocket sized, electric powered bar code printer has a slot for receiving an envelope or label, interchangeably. The slot and an end stop thereof are situated so as to enable the user to easily locate the label or the lower left corner of the envelope re... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5124801 | Manual image copier with a specific structure housing a specific copy sheet carrying path, drawing utensil carriage, and drive mechanism thereof This invention relates to a handy sketching apparatus which has an image information reading function and a sketching function to draw an image on the basis of the image information read by the image information reading function, and which is easy to oper... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5112149 | Velocity responsive head driving control apparatus of manual sweeping printer A manual sweeping printer has a linear thermal head and sweeps in a direction perpendicular to an arranging direction of the thermal head, thereby performing printing. The printer alternately drives two adjacent heating elements to perform 2-time-division... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5093675 | Hand-held recording apparatus A hand-held recording apparatus for image recording on a recording medium by manual movement comprises a main body, a thermal head provided in the main body and having plural heat-generating elements for image recording on the recording medium, an ink she... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5063451 | Hand held recording apparatus with window on lower body portion for viewing recording position A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording medium is portable and capable of bearing against the recording medium. The recording apparatus comprises recording means for effecting recording on the recording medium, and control means for c... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5028934 | Hand-held portable printing system A portable printing system is provided for printing an image, such as alphanumeric or symbol information on a moveable recording medium, such as a tape, a sheet or the like, by means of manual scanning of the recording medium relative to the printing syst... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5017018 | Clinical thermometer A clinical thermometer which employs an infrared sensor and is constructed so as to prevent the occurrence of a temperature measurement error caused by a change in temperature of a tip portion (of a housing a temperature measuring portion) during temperat... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5012349 | Method and portable device for detection, storage and for eventual processing and reproduction of graphic symbols appearing on any type of carrier A method and device for recording, storing and reproducing graphic symbols such as text, indeograms and the like on a carrier comprises an independent portable assembly with an optical pick up, a memory for the storage of data and a printer. Graphic symbo... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4949283 | Manually sweepable printing apparatus A manually sweepable printer stores data transferred from a data forming apparatus such as a wordprocessor in a memory. The printer is placed on printing paper and manually swept to sequentially print the data stored in the memory. The manually sweepable ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4928183 | Manually scanning apparatus with straightening rollers A manually operable scanning structure employs a mechanism for straightening movement on a record or an image recorded medium. The mechanism comprises a pair of rollers, support members for rotatably supporting the rollers and swaying members for coupling... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4901164 | Hand scanner type image input/output device with reciprocably supported roller and thermal head A hand scanning type image input and output device includes a main body adapted to be moved by hand to scan an object, such as a manuscript, and having an enclosed readout head adapted to read out the information on a desired portion of the object via an ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4768040 | Hand-held marking device in combination with a counter The present invention is a marking device which is hand-held and which a user uses to mark in order to count each of a plurality of items in a set and to automatically record the count. As the hand-held marking device counts each of the items, it simultan... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4758849 | Hand-held ink jet with insertable cartridges A hand held device for spraying liquid utilizes insertable drop-on-demand ink jet cartridges. The disclosed device is simple and inexpensive in design and facilitates interchangeable use of different inks without intervening cleaning.... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4748460 | Self-contained non-contact writing device A self-contained non-contact writing device is disclosed that employs a thermal ink jet to transfer ink to a writing substrate. The problems associated with conventional direct contact writing devices are avoided by preventing direct contact of the ink tr... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4746936 | Ink jet pen An ink jet pen, which is a pen-like writing utensil utilizing an ink jet method of recording, comprises a tubular casing, incorporating means for ink emission and equipped with means for controlling ink emission. In a representative embodiment, the tubula... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4611246 | Handy reader/printer apparatus In a handy reader/printer apparatus for reading recorded information from a desired portion of a medium to be read and printing read information on a desired portion of a medium to be printed, the apparatus has a housing having an opening in a lower surfa... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4609295 | Hand-held printing calculator A hand-held printing calculator for printing calculating results on elongated paper strips from a bundle of paper strips disposed within the calculator is provided. The calculator includes a microprinter having a paper feeding assembly including feeding e... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4585364 | Ball pen combined with electronic watch A ball pen includes an electronic watch embedded in an inner jacket fixed within a pen cap, wherein the pen cap may be depressed to push ball point outwards for writing use and at the same time, electrically contact a circuit of the electronic watch for s... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4574317 | Hand scannable portable copier and method A miniature hand scannable portable copier for use by students and others in copying documents or excerpts of documents, and comprised of a solid state optical sensor array and a thermal print head array supported within a pocket sized housing in substant... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4549243 | Spraying apparatus Electrostatic spraying apparatus e.g. for graphic work, having a hand or finger held body carrying a nozzle to which the atomizing potential is applied from a high voltage generator. The nozzle is of the non-drip type, e.g. a capillary bore or a felt- or ... | 10/22/1985 |
