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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7286290 | Optical illumination apparatus An optical illumination apparatus has a polarization conversion device for converting light from a light source into light polarized uniformly in a predetermined manner and an optical integrator system for illuminating a display panel with the light polarized in the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7251050 | Limited return messaging A method of limiting communication between an application and a user, via a sensing device interacting with machine-readable coded data printed on a surface, the method comprising the steps, performed in a computer system, of: receiving interaction data representing... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248934 | Method of transmitting a one-dimensional signal using a two-dimensional analog medium A method and apparatus for printing a one-dimensional, continuous signal, such as a sound wave, as a printed pattern and for recovering the sound wave from the printed pattern. The method decomposes the one dimensional signal two-dimensional function that is continu... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233320 | Computer system interface surface with reference points A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system. A user is provided with an interface surface containing information relating to the computer software and including coded data indicative of an identity of the int... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7193734 | Printer and image sensor in a mobile communication device A handheld mobile image sensing and printing device includes a support structure; a color image sensor positioned on the support structure for sensing a color image; a color printing mechanism that is positioned on the support structure and operatively connected to ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193688 | Image forming device capable of reproducing sound, and content reproducing method An image forming device includes a printer engine, a display unit, and a sound reproducing unit. The image forming device receives a list of contents from a content distributing device, and has the display unit display the content list. From the content list display... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7114660 | Non-image pixel data stored on hard-copy image media An image bearing article includes a support; a visible image recorded on the support; invisible information recorded on the support, the invisible information relating to and in registration with elements of the visible image. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102772 | Method and system for delivery of a facsimile A method of delivering a facsimile, including: providing a printed form for entering a message thereon using a sensing device adapted to read coded data on the form; receiving, in a computer system, interaction data representing interaction of the sensing device wit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088859 | Apparatus for processing machine-readable code printed on print medium together with human-readable information An information processing system which processes machine-readable code information which is printed, together with human-readable information, on a print medium. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the machine-readable code information, a decoding unit... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6990293 | Picture changer with recording and playback capability A display apparatus (18) capable of sequentially displaying a plurality of annotated image prints (36), each image print having encoded audio data (54) made integral to its back surface (46), thereby providing a convenient way to both dis... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6985207 | Photographic prints having magnetically recordable media A camera provides a photo (7) printed on print media via printer device (6) under the control of a central processor (4). The photo (7) is a print of an image (5) provided by a CCD sensor (3). The photo (7) includes p... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6958760 | False contour correction apparatus in image display system and false contour correction method A false contour correction apparatus and method in an image display system, by which a false contour at a place where conversion of the unit bits of data is severe on a display device driven in a digital system is corrected, is provided. According to the present inv... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6930600 | Image and audio data processing system An image and audio processing system includes a housing, a storage medium, a non-contact audio storage device installed inside the housing for storing audio data in the storage medium by wireless communication technology, and a print device installed inside the hous... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6563563 | Printing of image with related sound A printer 802 is adapted to produce a printed image with an associated sound passage stored on an electronic storage device. The printer 802 comprises an information input for receiving information to define a visual image and also information defining a ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6373552 | Optical correction plate, and its application in a lithographic projection apparatus A plate with substantially constant thickness is used to compensate for the residual distortion in the image projected by a high-quality projection lens for lithography. The two surfaces of the plate have an identical aspherical profile, whose shape has b... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6222608 | Image forming device for forming image on roll of photosensitive/pressure-sensitive recording medium A rotary blade cuts a photosensitive/pressure-sensitive recording medium by when slides in a widthwise direction of the recording medium. At this time, one terminal of an optical fiber moves ahead of the rotary blade while radiating an optical beam on a p... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6163656 | Voice-code-image-attached still image forming apparatus An image processing/editing section visualizes still images input from an image medium on an image display section. While confirming the still images, the user selects, using an operation instructing section, a code image forming mode for forming, on a fi... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6094279 | System and process for non-perceptibly integrating sound data into a printed image Both a system and process are provided that utilize infra-red dyes to integrate data in a visually non-perceptible form into a printed, color image. The system operates by first selecting the areas of greatest light absorptivities out of the image to reco... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6005655 | Projector capable of projecting polarized illumination light A projector is provided with a first lens array, a polarized beam splitter for splitting a beam of light into beams of linearly polarized light components whose polarization axes are normal to each other, a second lens array in vicinity of a position wher... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5995193 | Self-contained device for recording data encoded either in visible or invisible form A self-contained device for recording data encoded either in visible or invisible form or both on a medium, and for playback of data encoded either in visible or invisible form or both on the medium, the device comprises a case for forming a self-containe... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5386256 | Printer module for recording a digital soundtrack An add-on module for a contact printer used to manufacture a motion picture. The module enables the printing of a digital optical soundtrack on motion picture film from a sound negative using a standard contact printing process. The module includes spaced... | 01/31/1995 |
| 4529991 | Method for copying optical information Methods for copying optical information are disclosed. The methods comprise the steps of disposing a master mask with a tracking signal or other information recorded therein over an optical memory material comprised of heat mode recording material which c... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4050811 | Optical data record copier having array of lenses with field gaps aligned with data gaps An optical data record copying apparatus is described which includes an array of lenses whose viewing fields do not overlap but are separated by field gaps. The viewing field gaps are aligned with data gaps between data groups in the data tracks on the ma... | 09/27/1977 |