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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4707801 | Word processing system based on a data stream having integrated alphanumeric and graphic data A word processing system is provided with an interactive display terminal for displaying by character generation a data stream representative of alphanumeric characters to be printed on a document together with means for printing the characters on the doc... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4703323 | Method and apparatus for displaying enhanced dot matrix characters A method and apparatus for displaying enhanced dot matrix characters is disclosed. Using stored sets of binary data elements which define the shape of the respective characters of a set, logical operations are performed to add additional binary data eleme... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4694405 | Laser printer controller data alignment device The laser printer controller for accepting a page of data to be printed in ASCII character format converts the data into a dot-by-dot character pattern for packing in a vertically scrolling partial page bit map. The alignment device within the laser print... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4686525 | Image data output apparatus An image data output apparatus such as a laser beam printer or the like includes an input interface, a CPU, an output interface, a detachable ROM cartridge as a character pattern generator and the like. After the initializing operation, the input interfac... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4674895 | Dot matrix printer control and storage device A printer capable of operating in a bidirectional printout mode by converting a print code to pattern data and using a print head in which print elements are arranged in a plurality of arrays. A buffer control is provided for controlling in a ring structu... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4660998 | Dot-matrix printer with font cartridge unit A dot-matrix printer of the invention uses a font cartridge unit storing in advance character pattern data corresponding to characters other than standard characters. The font cartridge unit comprises a ROM or RAM storing character pattern data in a stora... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4660999 | Dot-matrix printer with font cartridge unit A dot-matrix printer of the invention uses a font cartridge unit storing in advance character pattern data corresponding to characters other than standard characters. The font cartridge unit has a memory area divided into a plurality of page areas, and co... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4635212 | Method for generating a rotated print pattern In order that print data edited by a host computer may be printed out by means of a printer having a shorter printing width than the length of the character line thereof, the edited print data is converted into a print pattern in an arrangement which is r... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4627749 | Character generator system for dot matrix printers A character generator system for dot matrix printers wherein a microprocessor receives an input signal in the form of an M bit digital code, such as ASCII code, and representing a text to be reproduced in dot matrix form as well as other bits of informati... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4627002 | Method and apparatus for recording characters A method and apparatus for element-by-element and image-line-by-image-line recording of print characters on a full page by means of an exposing beam deflectable over the full page, and which is switched on and off by a control signal. The characters are s... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4623978 | Print control apparatus having line buffer According to a print control apparatus of a printer which has a line buffer, when one-line data transmitted from a host CPU includes a character and a figure, a print and line feed controller causes a character image generator to access a character patter... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4621343 | Circuit arrangement for detecting error in print control apparatus In a printer of the type arranged to fire print hammers in accordance with the result of comparison between character codes and print data such that a plurality of subscans are effected during an interval in which a type carrier moves by a distance corres... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4615012 | Method of generating character patterns A method of generating character patterns to be printed on a printer, wherein each character is divided into line segments in the X or Y axis direction or 45°-angle direction on the X/Y coordinates. Segments are processed in pairs of contiguous, linked l... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4604712 | Apparatus for controlling reproduction of text characters whose form depends on adjacency of other characters A digital control device is used with a character generator for producing text in a typescript having multiform characters, such as Arabic script. The character generator includes a character store with a base page section to store codes identifying the b... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4591846 | Real time cell specification processor Disclosed is a processor and method for the real time generation of linear arrays of pixel data. The generated pixel data is used to modulate a laser diode as it scans across a printing medium, thereby producing printed font and logo characters. In accord... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4577982 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus for recording on a recording paper characters and symbols as well as graphs based on pattern data stored in memories by actuating keys of a keyboard section. The recording of a character or symbol is effected by moving a writing inst... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4555773 | Printing with a data stream including merged graphic and alphanumeric data A word processing system is provided with printing means for printing on a character by character basis a data stream including merged graphic and alphanumeric data. The word processing system is provided with an interactive display for displaying by char... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554637 | Method for reducing the redundancy of binary character sequences for matrix printing A method for reducing the redundancy of binary character sequences which are utilized in matrix printing assigns coordinates to each image point in a character matrix and determines and stores data corresponding to the difference between image point coord... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4527252 | Character generator The present invention is concerned with a character input device, a disc memory, an output marker, and a character generator for converting byte format character information into an output marker bit stream format, and for allocating the converted bit str... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4520455 | Printing system In a digital printer, method and apparatus for formatting printer control signals. According to the invention, characters to be printed are stored in ASCII format in the memory of a microprocessor system. Successive characters are formatted into an on/off... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4511267 | Method for changing the supply of characters in an ideographic typewriter by combining and storing individual characters Method for altering the supply of characters which are represented by data stored in the character generator of an ideographic typewriter and which can be displayed, under control of the character generator, in at least one standard character area of a di... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4476542 | Printing system In a digital printer, method and apparatus for formatting printer control signals. According to the invention, characters to be printed are stored in ASCII format in the memory of a microprocessor system. Successive characters are formatted into an on/off... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4468141 | Character generator A character generator for generating characters which are transferred to a recording medium by a dot-matrix print head. In the character generator there is stored for each character the information required for the activation of the printing needles of th... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4457229 | Scan correction for a line printer having multi-pitch type carriers A control system for a band printer uses a correction memory which stores address correction values for resetting the start addresses of the address registers which operate to scan the band image and print line buffers. The correction memory is programmab... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4367533 | Image bit structuring apparatus and method A bit structuring apparatus having a font memory for storing alpha-numeric characters and/or tonal definitions in a window representing a pixel space. The alpha-numeric characters thus stored can include both the character and required character spacing. ... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4359286 | Character set expansion A method of, and system for, increasing the number of characters available to be printed with a single print element. If a printer is printing from storage and the character being presented to the printer does not match the print element in use, a determi... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4342096 | Variable pitch character generator for dot matrix printer Proportional spacing of characters, for example by a laser-xerographic printer, is achieved using a character generator memory, for example a random access memory (RAM), to store the characters of a font in a plurality of variable-size binary matrices. Ea... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4145756 | Thermal line printer A thermal printer system for actuating a plurality of groups of thermal printing elements. The system includes a first circuit in which a plurality of data words are stored, the words representing the characters to be printed. A second circuit converts th... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4122520 | Microcomputer controller and direct memory access apparatus therefor A microcomputer controller for a printer, and apparatus for facilitating direct memory access to the microcomputer, includes a central processing unit (CPU) with a known set-up time at the beginning of each machine cycle. A memory, associated with the CPU... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4064561 | CRT key station which is responsive to centralized control Hardware duplication at each of a plurality of CRT key stations is minimized and centralized control is maintained by performing many traditional CRT key station operations under software control by a central processing unit. Simplified CRT key stations i... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4047158 | Peripheral processing system A medium capacity peripheral processing system provides sophisticated interactive human communication without the extremely large, expensive memory systems that are normally associated with a main frame computer. The system includes a data bus interconnec... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4031519 | Printer A printer responds to channel commands including coded data received over a channel from a data processing unit by printing characters represented by the coded data using an electrophotographic printing arrangement. The coded data received by the printer ... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4017837 | Data entry system A data recording system by means of which data can be typed on a form and subsequently automatically punched into the same or a different form. A typewriter is coupled to a memory so that as data is typed onto the form the data is captured in the memory. ... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3999168 | Intermixed pitches in a buffered printer In a printer in which character code bytes representing characters to be printed are translated into graphic code bytes, assembled into lines and pages, and thereafter used to select character image bits which are applied to modulate a scanning laser beam... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3995147 | Photographic composition system using a font strip having a non-uniform character distribution An improved photographic composition system utilizes a pulsed light source which projects a beam of light through a character outline on a font strip to produce an image which is reflected by a mirror onto a light sensitive sheet. The font strip character... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3964591 | Font selection system A font selection system is provided that is useful in conjunction with ink jet printing apparatus. Facilities are included for storing data representative of one or more fonts or character sets and for selecting these on a font basis or a character basis ... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3939458 | Method for the tabulator-like illustration of symbols A method and apparatus for effecting the display of symbols, in tabulated form, on the screen of a data-video device, utilizing a data source, an image repetition store and a symbol generator, in which data is fed by the data source identifying the area o... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3932892 | Superminiature cassette tape recorder A superminiature cassette tape recorder comprising a flat elongated upper casing, a flat elongated lower casing, and an intermediate frame held between the upper and lower casings and having fittings made integral therewith. The tape recorder further comp... | 01/13/1976 |
