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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7477312 | Photographing apparatus, photographing method, and method for measuring converted data representing a fiber-array image A 360°-image is formed on the object-side surface (doughnut-shaped) 15 of an optical fiber array 13. The image is applied from the element-side surface 16 of the array, which is substantially rectangular, to an imaging element 11 that is... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7440702 | Method for transmitting digital image signal, digital image transmitting device, digital image sending device and digital image receiver A multiplexer of a transmission section generates a clock signal by multiplying a reference clock signal of a digital image signal by a predetermined number ‘K’. A parallel digital image signal is converted into a serial digital signal on the basis of the clock ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7289153 | Scanning type image pick-up apparatus and a scanning type laser beam receive apparatus The present invention has an object of realizing highly reliable search with high precision by obtaining a clear view image over a wide view. In particular, a reflection mirror is formed so as to correspond to an image pick-up element at a focus surface of a converg... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7092791 | Robot system and machining method with robot system A robot system and a machining method capable of accurately and simply cutting an end of a pipe into a saddle shape and forming a hole on an outer surface thereof, and further machining a workpiece of a three-dimensional shape which does not have platelike shape. A ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7025454 | Extended depth of field optics for human vision The present invention provides extended depth of field to human eyes by modifying contact lenses, intraocular implants, and/or the surface of the eye itself. This may be accomplished by applying selected phase variations to these optical elements (e.g., by varying s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7008324 | Gaming device video display system A wagering device video display system for displaying a presentation on a plurality of display devices. A plurality of gaming devices and video displays are provided. Each video display may be controlled by a video display controller that is adapted to communicate w... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6917762 | Optical transmission system for compensating for transmission loss An optical transmission system for compensating for transmission loss includes a transmitting apparatus for serializing a plurality of n (n is a natural number)-bit channel data received from the outside in response to a predetermined clock signal, converting the se... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6774947 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus has a lens, an optical fiber and a scanning stage. The tip end of an optical fiber is disposed on a surface for forming a subject image by the lens via the scanning stage. The scanning stage can rotate horizontal and vertical scanning motor... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6666272 | Externally actuated subsea wellhead tieback connector An externally actuatable tieback connector for establishing fluid communication and force resisting connection of a conduit to a subsea wellhead having an internal locking geometry. The tieback connector has a body structure that is adapted for landing on... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6448544 | Low noise, high resolution image detection system and method A low noise, high spatial resolution, high dynamic range (high intensity resolution) image detection system for use in medical imaging applications such as x-ray mammography systems, scientific imaging systems such as x-ray crystallography and astronomy, ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6195016 | Fiber optic display system with enhanced light efficiency A fiber optic display sign has an optical system with enhanced light efficiency so that the display system is suitable for outdoor use. A number of fiber optics have light receiving ends arranged in a compact bundle for receiving an image from an image ge... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6101337 | Optical system having fiber optical plate An optical system includes an photographic lens, a fiber optical plate, and an image pickup member. The photographic lens forms the first image in the vicinity of the entrance end surface of the fiber optical plate, and after the first image is transmitte... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5835142 | Direct contact type image sensor and its production method A direct contact type image sensor includes an optical fiber array plate including a transparent substrate and an optical fiber array and having a lower face brought into close contact with an original document. A semiconductor image sensor chip including... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5828410 | Video-wall viewing-angle enhancement system A system for increasing the useful viewing angle in an array of video display units, also called a video wall, comprising the duplication of an outer marginal strip of the displayed image on adjacent video display units, a cylindrical lens structure mount... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5467204 | Liquid crystal light valve with dual function as both optical-to-electrical and optical-to-optical transducer A liquid crystal light valve and a various information processors is provided. The processors have the liquid crystal light valve in which information formed in a liquid crystal layer and corresponding to address light can be read as an optical signal and... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5450243 | Imaging system having a blurring optical element for minimizing moire phenomenon An image pickup device using a solid-state image sensor adapted to provide an optical component having a multiple curved surface, polyhedral surface, symmetric cylindrical surface, axially symmetric aspherical surface or asymmetric refracting surface in a... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5414459 | Fiber optic video glasses and projection system The instant invention is a display system that provides visual stimuli to a patient who is undergoing diagnostic treatment within a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The system utilizes a pair of lightweight fiber optic video glasses having a hollow c... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5309241 | System and method for using an anamorphic fiber optic taper to extend the application of solid-state image sensors An apparatus and method for allowing television systems using solid-state image sensors to be compatible with a multiplicity of television standards. Scenes conforming to a standard which specifies a format aspect ratio or a specific number of active scan... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5304791 | Apparatus for detecting high speed events A photon emitting high speed event detector provides for the optimum detection and location of high speed events such as strobe light sources, pulsed laser, gunfire, and lightning. The detector includes a focal plane array, a control circuit and a cueing ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5278639 | Color filter wheel for endoscopes and processing of generated color The color video-endoscope (100) comprises in particular: a single light source (10); a bundle of optical fibers (40) for transmitting the light to a field of observation; a periodic filtering device (50) including three filters (53, 54, 55) illuminating the fi... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276760 | Optical device for photographing images formed from optical fiber bundles An imaging optical system which is designed so as to be connecatable and disconnectable to and from an image guide, and arranged in a camera control unit. This imaging optical system is arranged between an image guide attached to the camera control unit a... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5270825 | Imaging optical system having a moire elimination effect An imaging optical system for forming images of objects on an image surface. The optical system includes an aspherical surface that functions to reduce spatial frequency response of the optical system when aperture size of the optical system is reduced wi... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5159455 | Multisensor high-resolution camera A multisensor high-resolution camera splices together sub-images obtained from a plurality of fiber bundles and can play back these sub-images as a single composite image in real time. The camera can output the composite image as a single high-resolution ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5144416 | Video display and imaging devices having liquid crystal scanning A vacuum tube video display screen and imaging device utilizing waveguides to disperse a horizontal line of image over the vertical area of the viewing screen and an array of closely spaced liquid crystal lines to permit passage of light from the disperse... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5134373 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus employing optical viewing screen In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus wherein an object under examination is positioned within a imaging hole so as to acquire magnetic resonance imaging information derived therefrom by causing a magnetic resonance phenomenon therein, there are provi... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5117249 | Shadowless background for photography A shadowless background board for photography, a subject to be photographed being placed in front of the board and being illuminated by light rays directed toward the board. The shadow cast on the board by the subject creates thereon a shadow zone bordere... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5083120 | Flat panel display utilizing leaky lightguides In a row-backlight column-shutter display, an array of sequentially illuminated leaky lightguides is utilized as the row-backlight component of the display. Light is coupled into each guide from a small high-peak-brightness source such as a light-emitting... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5061036 | Color page scanner using fiber optic bundle and a photosensor array A color image scanner comprises a noncoherent fiber optic bundle having a linear entrance face and an area exit face coupled to an array of photosensors. The density of sensors of the array is such that each fiber end in the exit face corresponds to a plu... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4978952 | Flat screen color video display A video display having a shutter assembly with apertures, optical guides extending behind the assembly and a group of different light sources channeling their light into each of the optical guides, respectively. The guides may be collimators which allow l... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4978195 | Optical-to-electric image conversion system employing a cathode-ray tube or the like An apparatus for translating an optical image, as of a waveform, created by an electron beam device such as a cathode-ray tube into an electric signal. A fiber optics faceplate, having a multiplicity of optical fibers laid parallel to one another, is held... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4977450 | Image pickup system for an endoscope using a first filter matched to a frequency of a fiber array and a second matched to a frequency of an image pickup device An image pickup system for endoscopes includes an image guide fiber bundle, a light guide fiber bundle, an imaging lens unit having optical low-pass filters, and a solid-state image pickup device. Further, a first optical low-pass filter having a spatial ... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4974066 | Circuit for preventing high-intensity false color caused by color separation filters A luminance signal and a color signal are separated from a color picture signal output from an imaging device with a plurality of color filters mounted thereon. The color filters are saturated at different intensity levels. This luminance signal is delaye... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4974094 | Direct lighting/illuminating system for miniature CCD camera An illuminating system for the miniature CCD camera of a direct contact microscope. Light from a light source is channeled through a fiber optic bundle to two half spheres where the light rays are reflected through an observation hole to an object. The il... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4969035 | Observation of furnace interior This invention provides a method of observing the interior of a furnace by viewing, at a remote location, the image depicted by a pinhole camera sited in or within the furnace housing. The image may be real and viewed directly or via a reflective or fibre... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4962429 | Television camera having an increased resolution in a portion of the field of view Television camera for picking-up a scene and for producing a signal for an image therefrom, a portion of which has an increased resolution. At its input the camera is provided with a lens which produces an image of the scene on the input face of an anamor... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4942473 | Intelligent scan image sensor An intelligent scan image sensor including a two-dimensional solid-state array of addressable imaging cells arranged for exposure to an image, where each cell includes a photosensitive diode and a sample and hold unit. The diode accumulates an electrical ... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4930861 | Television camera for endoscopes A TV camera for endoscopes comprising an image guide fiber bundle, an imaging optical system and an image sensor, used for focusing an image formed on the end surface of the image guide fiber bundle onto the imaging surface of the image sensor by the imag... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4871231 | Three dimensional color display and system The disclosure relates to a three dimensional color display wherein controlled modulated laser light of predetermined different frequencies is transmitted via fiber optics and combined in a fiber optic coupler to provide a combined light beam. This light ... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4863233 | Fiber optic interconnect system An EMR containment system coupling an EMR contained computer chassis and a wide band video monitor includes three plastic fiber optic cables terminated in a plug at each end. The computer chassis includes a socket having an electrically conductive surface... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4837615 | Gap measuring apparatus The invention disclosed herein comprises a hand held optical probe axially insertable into the fastener holes of a multilayered panel for measuring the gap between the edges of the panels at the hole site. The hand held probe includes a light source, two ... | 06/06/1989 |
