Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7355680 | Method for adjusting lithographic mask flatness using thermally induced pellicle stress A method for adjusting the flatness of a lithographic mask includes determining an initial mask flatness of the mask, determining an applied stress for bringing the mask to a desired mask flatness, and determining a mounting temperature of a pellicle frame to be mou... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336391 | Multi-exposure drawing method and apparatus therefor In a multi-exposure drawing method for drawing a pattern on a drawing surface, using an exposure unit including a plurality of optical modulation elements arranged in a matrix manner, the unit is continuously and relatively moved at a constant velocity with respect ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7311951 | Phoretic display A phoretic display having a liquid crystal suspension medium and a relief structure alignment layer comprising a relief structure surface incorporating a plurality of indentations. The relief structure alignment layer is adapted to generate a preferred alignment of ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7289276 | Illumination optical system, exposure device using the illumination optical system, and exposure method In an illumination optical system constituted to uniformize the intensity distribution of illumination light by use of an optical integrator, the overall length thereof is shortened. The illumination optical system includes: a light source including a laser irradiat... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274452 | Alignment apparatus An alignment apparatus 10 comprises a table 11 which is provided rotatably in a plane, and equipped with a loading plane 12A capable of sucking a wafer W, a shift mechanism 30 that moves the table 11 in the X- and Y-axis directions... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270932 | Imaging composition and method Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be used in me... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265879 | Multifunction automatic document feeder (ADF) switch A method and apparatus for an imaging device to automatically detect the presence of an automatic document feeder. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263328 | Image forming system, control method, recording medium, and program An image forming system has an image forming apparatus which has a printing unit which can perform a printing process of data of a storage unit which can store data of a plurality of jobs and which has a conveying unit which can convey a sheet from the print unit to... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259906 | System and method for voice control of medical devices A light source includes a wavelength shifter that is capable of shifting a shorter optical signal wavelength to a longer optical signal wavelength based at least in part on a Raman effect in a waveguide. The wavelength shifter includes a pump laser that operable to ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245845 | Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and printing system An apparatus for executing a printing process on the basis of a print job from an external apparatus, comprises a post-processing unit which can apply post-processing for printed paper sheets using paper sheets prepared independently of the printed paper sheets; a d... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7223519 | Imaging compositions and methods Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be applied to... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207559 | Sheet treating apparatus A sheet treating apparatus to be connected to an image forming apparatus, which has a sheet guide portion which selectively guides a sheet to a sheet stacking portion or a sheet treating portion and, in a state in which a power supply of the sheet treating apparatus... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199860 | Method of processing a roll of exposed photographic film containing photographic images into corresponding digital images and then distributing visual prints produced from the digital images This invention is directed to a method of processing at least one digital image of at least one photographic image and distributing at least one visual print produced from the at least one digital image. The method includes the steps of storing at least one digital ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7175712 | Light emitting apparatus and method for curing inks, coatings and adhesives A UV curing apparatus and method is provided for enhancing the distribution and application of UV light to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink, coating or adhesive. The UV curing apparatus and method comprises UV LED assemblies in a first row with the UV LED ass... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7154515 | Method and apparatus for reducing printing artifacts of stitched images A method and apparatus for eliminating artifacts in images formed using more than one image segment. A buffer region associated with two adjacent image segments is defined wherein the intensity levels of the pixels are attenuated. When image segments substantially o... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149006 | Scanner lid white board This invention relates to scanner lids that can be removed from the scanner and utilized as a white board. After the desired markings have been placed upon the lid/white board, the lid/white board is placed back upon the scanner and the desired markings are scanned ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144676 | Imaging compositions and methods Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be applied to... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7116484 | Lens plate, method for manufacturing the same and image transfer device Spherical convex micro-lenses are arranged between rectangular grooves adjacent to each other of a lens plate. The arrangement of convex micro-lenses is made to be in parallel with the short-side direction of the lens plate, namely, the direction of the rectangular ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7108435 | Printing control apparatus and method, and printing system In a printer having a stapling function for binding together a plurality of sheets of printing paper that have been printed out, processing for performing stapling at a set position cannot be carried out if the set staple position and the orientation of printing pap... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099619 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder (ADF) including a platen cover which covers a copying region, a document tray which is provided on the platen cover and on which a document fed to the copying region is stacked, a pickup assembly which includes a pickup roller that picks... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095532 | Scanning apparatus A scanning apparatus includes a housing with a flatbed. A loading glass is installed at the scan flatbed for loading a to-be-scanned document. A photoelectric sensing device is disposed in the housing for sensing the light signals corresponding to the to-be-scanned ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7090252 | Folded integral composite image product and method of making A dual sided integral composite image product and method of make same. The image product includes a first support substrate having a separate image layer thereon and a second support substrate having separate image layer thereon. The second support substrate being s... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7087006 | Album leaf and method and apparatus for making an album leaf An apparatus and method for automatically folding a sheet of media, for example, a photographic paper about a fold line, such that a album page is formed. The photosensitive media has images only on one side. A heat activated adhesive sheet is provided between the s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088425 | Exposure apparatus, optical projection apparatus and a method for adjusting the optical projection apparatus An exposure apparatus includes a plurality of projection optical systems and a substrate stage. Each of the plurality of projection optical systems forms an exposure field on the substrate. The substrate stage holds the substrate and moves in at least a scanning dir... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086713 | Media detack from an intermediate printing member An inkjet printer for printing on a print medium having an obverse side and a reverse side, including a rotating intermediate transfer member for receiving a print image and transferring the print image to the obverse side of the print medium and a rotating drag for... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7058352 | Image forming apparatus A paper feed cassette or a paper transporting unit is selectively inserted into an image forming apparatus body. A manual paper feed unit is coupled to the paper transporting unit. A recording medium is fed out of the manual paper feed unit, passes through the paper... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7048272 | Media qualification accessory and method A media qualification device configured to sort media sheets according to one or more detected media characteristics. The media qualification device comprises a media sensor, an unusable media path and at least one usable media path. Qualified media sheets may be pa... | 05/23/2006 |
| RE39083 | Projection exposure apparatus Constant speed drive of a reticle and a wafer in a relative scanning direction and positioning of the reticle and the wafer are simultaneously performed with high precision by a slit scanning exposure scheme. A reticle side scanning stage for scanning a reticle rela... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021439 | Clutch apparatus Disclosed is a clutch apparatus for use in two-phase position control, which includes a clutch housing for supporting and rotating together with the shaft and a driving gear for selectively driving the housing in a rotatable manner with the help of a clutch interven... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016623 | Image forming apparatus with power control to sheet processing unit An image forming apparatus has an image forming device, a first discharge tray for receiving a sheet on which an image was formed, a conveyer for selectively transporting the sheet on which the image was formed by the image forming device to one of a first discharge... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6974066 | Built-in equipment type stapler In a built-in stapler built into a machine including a driver unit (2) for ejecting staples against sheets of paper to be bound by a motor-driven driver; and a clincher unit (3) for folding legs of the staples, the driver unit and the clincher unit bei... | 12/13/2005 |
| RE38798 | Projection exposure apparatus Constant speed drive of a reticle and a wafer in a relative scanning direction and positioning of the reticle and the wafer are simultaneously performed with high precision by a slit scanning exposure scheme. A reticle side scanning stage for scanning a reticle rela... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940078 | State detecting device for sheet-like image recording medium When an output voltage from an acceleration sensor is judged as being larger than a reference voltage of a reference voltage setting unit, a comparator outputs a pulse signal to a holding circuit. The holding circuit holds a high-level energization signal, and an LE... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6924072 | Method for exposing a peripheral area of a wafer and apparatus for performing the same A method and an apparatus for precisely exposing a predetermined width of a peripheral area of a wafer coated with a layer of photoresist material with light from a light source, wherein the wafer is moved when the light is radiated onto the wafer to expose the phot... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918179 | Method of deforming flexible cable sections extending between rigid printed circuit boards A method for preforming of two or more flexible cables in an arrangement consisting of a combination of rigid printed circuit boards and flexible cable sections extending therebetween. Moreover, also provided is an apparatus for the preforming of two or more flexibl... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6906779 | Process for roll-to-roll manufacture of a display by synchronized photolithographic exposure on a substrate web This invention relates to an electrophoretic display or a liquid crystal display and novel processes for its manufacture. The electrophoretic display (EPD) of the present invention comprises microcups of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio and the microcups ar... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6778259 | Photo film advancing device having a guide holder and a photo film carrier A photo film cassette contains IX240 type of photo film in a manner movable out through a photo film passageway. A photo film carrier has a feeding path with an entrance, toward which the photo film is advanced. The photo film carrier includes a carrier base plate d... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6707536 | Projection exposure apparatus In a scanning exposure apparatus and method, first and second interferometers of an interferometer system monitor first and second stages of a stage system, one of which holds a mask and the other of which holds a substrate. The first stage is moved at a first scann... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6630987 | Rotational mask scanning exposure method and apparatus A method and rotational mask scanning apparatus for exposing a plurality of images on a workpiece, include a rotatable mask having a pattern of image segments thereon, an optical system for projecting the image segments onto the workpiece, and a device fo... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6538718 | Photographic film conveying device To achieve for a photographic film conveying device that no external force causing conveying speed to vary is applied to a photographic film during image reading, after a preceding photographic film is discharged from a reading conveying path, the time un... | 03/25/2003 |
