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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059957 | Camera module array for obtaining compound images An exemplary camera module array includes lens modules, a first holder, image sensors, a second holder, an optical element, and an image processor. The lens modules are threadedly coupled to the first holder. The image sensors are in optical alignment with the lens ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7606485 | Stereo imager The invention relates to a stereo imager that is reduced in the number of members, favorable in view of cost and less susceptible to variations from optical system to optical system. The stereo imager comprises a single image pickup device 4 and a stereo imag... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7548690 | Shutter device There is provided a shutter device which is used in a camera having two image-capturing optical systems and enables a significant reduction in the number of components. Two shutter openings are formed in a shutter base. Shutter blades and a diaphragm plate are provi... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7437066 | Stereo optical module and stereo camera In this stereo optical module, a constituent member is arranged in at least one of a circuit arrangement space which exists substantially behind a front lens unit and above a primary deflecting mirror and a secondary deflecting mirror and a circuit arrangement space... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7215364 | Digital imaging system using overlapping images to formulate a seamless composite image and implemented using either a digital imaging sensor array An imaging system for obtaining a wide field of view comprises a plurality of imaging devices each having a defined field of view and each of the imaging devices having a mechanism for capturing an image at a selected time instant. The imaging devices are positioned... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7154529 | System and method for enabling a person to view images of the person wearing an accessory before purchasing the accessory A personal optical viewer enables a person to view images of how the person looks wearing an accessory and compare images of how the customer looks wearing different accessories. A seller provides an accessory to a person. A capturing device captures a photograph or... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6748105 | Method and system for creating anaglyphs A method in digital stereo camera for creating anaglyphs of a given subject with a pre-set stereoscopic distance (Sd). The camera has a pre-set distance (D) between and an scene plane and a lens plane defined by pair of first and second lenses aligned alo... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6731778 | Photographing apparatus and monitoring system using same An object of the invention is to provide a photographing apparatus capable of verifying with ease that a transaction processing unit has been wrongfully utilized, and at the same time, reducing an amount of image data for each case of transaction processing while lo... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6603876 | Stereoscopic picture obtaining device Two pictures of a subject obtained by objective lenses and from different locations of viewpoint are respectively rotated by dove prisms, 90 degrees clockwise, and then merged into a single picture by total reflection mirrors. The picture after synthesis ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6512892 | 3D camera A 3D camera includes at least two detector heads which are moveable laterally with respect to each other but whose optical are maintained parallel. Each of the detector heads includes a zoom lens and a detector. A user selects the separation between the d... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6466746 | Stereo camera A stereo camera capable of photographing a stereo picture maintaining an optimum stereo effect. Right and left lens boards 42R, 42L of a stereo camera 41 are coupled to a camera body 46 via upper and lower two sets of parallel links 47. Parallel grooves 4... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6430373 | Stereo camera A distance between the optical axes of the photographing lenses of a stereo camera is set to be smaller than the conventional distance between the optical axes so that when the films are mounted on a stereo slide mount being brought closest to each other,... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6314248 | Image photography apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, image photography and reproducing apparatus, stereographic projector, jig for image stereoscopic vision, and printer A liquid crystal display unit has a transmissive liquid crystal plate having a number of pixels arranged on a two-dimensional basis, on which an image is formed, and a light source unit emitting beams of light of a plurality of luminescent colors for irra... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6292634 | Stereo camera A stereo camera capable of photographing a stereo picture maintaining an optimum stereo effect. Right and left lens boards (42R, 42L) of a stereo camera (41) are coupled to a camera body (46) via upper and lower two sets of parallel links (47). Parallel g... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6278480 | Compound eye camera system A compound eye camera provided integrally with plural image pickup elements and a display unit adapted to display an image, divided into stripes in every scanning line or in every plural scanning lines and to give different directionalities to the display... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6269223 | Camera for mono and stereo photographs A camera for taking both stereo and mono photographs is provided. The camera includes a body that has a mono aperture and a pair of stereo apertures. The camera also includes a lens panel that has a pair of lenses. The lens panel is moveable between a mon... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6253031 | Stereo photographic system A stereo photographic system capable of reproducing a correct stereo image by improving the precision of positions for mounting the films on a stereo slide mount. Positions of the projected images of perforation of the films relative to the focusing plate... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6204899 | High efficiency, color coding light pipe methods for display applications, utilizing chiral liquid crystal materials The invention teaches methods whereby the lighting efficiency of many lighted displays, including liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) are increased by an order of magnitude through the use of chiral nematic liquid crystal materials incorporated into the light ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6144809 | Stereoscopic camera A stereoscopic camera for stereoscopic photography, which reduces losses in the screen when taking a picture in a close range and provides optimum stereoscopic effect without the need of adjusting the distance between the slides that are being mounted. A ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6112033 | Multiple-lens image pickup apparatus for viewing in stereoscopic panoramic, and ordinary photographing modes A multiple lens image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of image pickup systems, a control system, and an optical viewfinder. Each image pickup system is arranged to allow an angle an optical path makes through the system to be changed. The control sy... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5946509 | Multi-lens camera which records status on film A system for producing an integral image includes a camera having spacially adjustable multiple lens for capturing different views of a scene on film and apparatus for forming an integral image of the captured views as a function of the camera lens spacin... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5940641 | Extending panoramic images In a method of making a single image of a scene which is the combined images of different portions of the scene, including providing first and second image capturing structures with the second image capturing structure including a moveable lens; and movin... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5937212 | Image pickup apparatus A compound eye image pickup apparatus with reduced parallax having two optical image pickup systems wherein the cross points between entrance pupils and optical axes of the two optical image pickup systems are generally coincident.... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5923911 | Camera for taking consecutive exposure A consecutive taking camera has 16 taking lenses (13a-13p). Time-sequential exposures can be taken in 16 sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon shutter releasing at one time, the sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) arranged on photo film in a direction of transport... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5892994 | Stereo camera with prism finder A stereo camera has an automatic collimation correcting function and excellent operability of observing right and left pictures by one finder. Right and left photographing lenses 4R and 4L are linearly obliquely moved by an inter-optical axis distance/foc... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5832325 | Stereo camera and printing system for stereoscopic photography A stereo camera is designed to photograph images of an object on a plurality of frames and includes a device for securing focus detecting data of a distance to a chief object and a data recording device for recording parallax data derived from the focus d... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5794088 | Mechanical stereo reflex camera A mechanical stereo reflex camera is disclosed which is composed of two commercially available mono reflex cameras. The drives (4l,4r) of the two leaf shutters (3l,3r) are cocked together. The release movements are transmitted from the drive of one of the... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5778268 | Stereo camera A stereo camera allows a rapid photographing and stereo effect correcting function to be compatible by providing a mechanism for automatically adjusting a distance between optical axes of photographing lenses and a manual adjusting mechanism. Lens shiftin... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5752111 | Multi-lens camera which records status on film A multi-lens camera, comprising: a housing; at least two lenses spaced apart on the housing to obtain different views of a single scene for capturing as a set of simultaneously captured separate frames; a status indicator which provides an indication of at lea... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5737655 | Stereo camera A stereo camera optimally corrects a parallax despite a photographing distance. Lens boards of right and left photographing lenses are mounted with slide guides for obliquely feeding in an inter-optical axis distance approaching direction as the lens boar... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5701532 | Lens adjustment device of stereo camera A lens adjustment device of a stereo camera of this invention operates adjustment rings of right and left lenses of an optical axis distance variable type stereo camera in the interlocking arrangement with each other. Crank arms are provided on stop adjus... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5692226 | Stereoscopic recording systems utilizing chiral liquid crystals Methods of recording and analyzing stereoscopic displays using chiral liquid crystal materials are presented. The methods include cameras that encode stereoscopic pictures in both the film and video formats.... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5678088 | Method for advancing photographic film for interspersing mono and dual images In accordance with the present invention, a method for advancing photographic film is provided for use by a photographic system which uses film cartridges, such as cameras, film development equipment or equipment which provides for the viewing and/or prin... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5532777 | Single lens apparatus for three-dimensional imaging having focus-related convergence compensation The invention comprises an adapter having a set of four mirrors in two pairs located in front of a camera lens. The outer two mirrors face generally outward along the optical axis of the lens and the inner two mirrors face generally inward into the lens. ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5465128 | 2-D and 3-D multi-lens camera with one lens having a wider plane than the other lenses The present invention relates to a multi-lens camera that can be used for taking three-dimensional and two-dimensional photographs. The multi-lens camera is constructed so that it is capable of exposing a series of 2-D images of a scene onto the photograp... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5408295 | Method of making stereoscopic images in a circular pattern A method of making stereoscopic images comprises a first step of exposing a color negative film in a stereoscopic camera to produce a film strip having a plurality of stereo image pairs thereon and then a second step of printing the stereo image pairs ont... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5363161 | Sequential taking camera with plural lenses A sequential taking camera has four exposure chambers arranged in a horizontal line along the transporting direction of a photographic film, and four taking lenses in alignment with the four exposure chambers. Front and rear shutter disks are superposed o... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5355253 | Stereoscopic retinal camera A stereoscopic retinal camera which enables the stereoscopic observation of the fundus of the eye and is capable of photographing the stereoscopic picture of the fundus by dividing a light beam reflected by the fundus into two light beams and transmitting... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5313239 | Shutter apparatus for stereoscopic cameras A shutter apparatus for stereoscopic cameras for simultaneously taking a pair of stereoscopic photographs. A coupled shutter leaf is produced by integrally connecting two shutter leaves respectively disposed on two photographing lens portions provided wit... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5294951 | Dual-mode 3-D and 2-D camera with movable baffles The present invention relates to a multi-lens camera that can be used for both 3-D photography and 2-D photography. When the camera is used in the 3-D mode, a series of slightly different two-dimensional images of the scene are exposed by all the taking l... | 03/15/1994 |
