Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7864290 | Film security code A system and method for coding an intermediate film element, e.g., an interpositive or an internegative, in an effective manner while maintaining the integrity of the film element. A first coat of a stabilizer is applied to frames of a selected scene. A second coat ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7229177 | Restraining temperature rise in light exiting-side polarizer constituting liquid crystal light valve Embodiments of the invention restrain temperature rise in a light exiting-side polarizer included in a liquid crystal light valve without limiting the quantity of light incident on the liquid crystal light valve and a projector that has a liquid crystal light valve ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 6856375 | Liquid crystal light valve and projection display device including the same The invention provides a liquid crystal light valve that makes it possible to increase the life of a polarizer at a light-exiting-surface side of the liquid crystal light valve by reducing the burden thereon, and a projection display device that incorporates the liq... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6545740 | Method and system for reducing motion artifacts A motion artifact reduction system (10) includes a series of cinematic feature image frames (IFm, IFm+1)captured at an incoming frame rate. The motion artifact reduction system (10) also has a processor (12) operable to determine whe... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6338503 | Promotional display structure and method A promotional display structure has a plurality of elongate strips of stiff but bendable material assembled in a pack with their obverse and reverse faces alternating in the pack, the first face having textual display including promotional matter and in s... | 01/15/2002 |
| 5257066 | Pivoting film drive mount A mounting assembly for a film drive unit used with photographic film printers. A mount base having a central aperture is adapted to be secured proximate the optical stage of a photographic printer. A pair of substantially parallel rails are attached to t... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5171038 | Interactive advertising device In particular, the inventive advertising device comprises a stack of sheets stacked one over the other into a deck. These sheets are bound together by a pair of staples. The top side of successive sheets are imprinted with successive frames in a motion se... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5159362 | Dimensional transformation system and related method of creating visual effects A dimensional transformation apparatus and related method for creating visual effects for use in live and prerecorded entertainment. The system engages an elastic projection screen with a three-dimensional object that corresponds to visual effects to be p... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5029997 | Stop-frame animation system An stop motion animation sequence of a tangible object is made by the steps of making a series of drawings representing three-dimensional object to be animated in various sequential positions; sequentially embodying the drawings on a projection medium suc... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4952051 | Method and apparatus for producing animated drawings and in-between drawings A method and system which enables an animator to make drawings and in-between drawings. Preceding and following tweens 74 and 75 are shown to the animator in such a way that they are distinguishable from each other and from the in-between drawing 73 on wh... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4913539 | Apparatus and method for lip-synching animation The disclosed invention takes advantage of the fact that the speech information and processing needed for successful animation lip-synching is actually much less than the information and processing which is needed for identifying individual words, as in t... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4711543 | TV animation interactively controlled by the viewer An animation method supersedes the motion picture branching method by, first, enabling rapid and repeated switching of multiple tracks of different camera-originated animation of the same character during continuous action in a scene, and second, by enabl... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4695141 | Method for the production of a combined live-action and animation motion picture film The method comprises the production of a live-action film of subjects acting against a white background, making black-and-white subjects enlargements with grey gradation of useful film frames, drawing separate contour images from these enlargements, paint... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4278332 | Table apparatus for holding and moving cels for producing animated motion pictures Table apparatus for holding and moving cels for producing animated motion pictures includes a plurality of aligned elements movable relative to each other, with each individual element capable of holding a plurality of cels and with the elements of the ta... | 07/14/1981 |
| 3994091 | Card manipulatable to effect animation of a picture thereon In a card which has a picture and is bent intermediate its ends to enable the card to be moved between an extended position in which a part of the picture at the region of the bend is visible and a contracted position in which the part of the picture at t... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3970379 | Animation method and system A system and method for producing an animated motion picture in which the scene contents for the next succeeding frame in a plurality of sequential picture frames may be aligned with respect to the previous frame scene content prior to the photographic re... | 07/20/1976 |
