Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4398176 | Image analyzer with common data/instruction bus An image analyzer system includes a pipeline of individually programmable neighborhood transformation stages. Programming of the stages is accomplished by way of coded command signals which are either of a local or global type. Global commands propagate d... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4395697 | Off-image detection circuit for an image analyzer An image analyzer system and a method of analyzing image information contained in serial scan lines of pixels in which some of the pixels have valid data values representing image information while other pixels have invalid data values not representing ch... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4395699 | Method and apparatus for pattern recognition and detection An image analyzer system employs at least one neighborhood transformation stage for analyzing groups of neighborhood pixel values and selectively transforming the pixel values as a result of the analysis. In one embodiment, the center pixel in the neighbo... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4395700 | Image analyzer with variable line storage A system for analyzing images represented by a plurality of raster scan lines of pixel values employs at least one neighborhood transformation stage. The stage includes a processor portion for analyzing windows of neighboring pixel values and providing a ... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4395698 | Neighborhood transformation logic circuitry for an image analyzer system An image analyzer system employs one or more neighborhood transformation stages. The stage operates to access groups of neighboring pixels in an image matrix, analyzes them and generates a transformation output as a result of the analysis. The stage inclu... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4322716 | Method and apparatus for pattern recognition and detection A system is disclosed for analyzing 3-dimensional as well as 2-dimensional images represented by digital electrical signals corresponding to a matrix of points constituting the image. The 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional portions of the system each include... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4309691 | Step-oriented pipeline data processing system Architecture for step-oriented pipeline data processing is disclosed utilizing a plurality of cascaded modules, each module including a programmable general purpose processor and a read/write random access memory. The memory of each module, shared with th... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4301443 | Bit enable circuitry for an image analyzer system Apparatus for analyzing patterns made up of a matrix of points, with each point being represented by a multi-bit digital electrical signal. The apparatus includes a chain of substantially identical serial neighborhood transformation stages. Each stage inc... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4174514 | Parallel partitioned serial neighborhood processors Apparatus for performing neighborhood transformations on data matrices for image processing and the like achieves processing speeds greater than conventional serial processors with an economy of memory through use of a plurality of serial neighborhood pro... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4167728 | Automatic image processor A chain of substantially identical serial neighborhood transformation modules are utilized to analyze patterns represented by a serial stream of digital electrical signals representing a matrix of points. Each module includes an input for receiving a seri... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4162482 | Pre-processing and feature extraction system for character recognition Character recognition apparatus and a method for identifying machine-printed and hand-printed characters. A character is optically scanned and converted to a rectangular matrix representation containing black and white points. The matrixed character is pr... | 07/24/1979 |
