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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7295200 | Computer generated hologram display system A method of displaying a computer generated hologram includes displaying the image as a set of facets that approximated to the true shape of the object to be displayed. Each of these facets is populated with points that together make up the image. The invention prov... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7254304 | Devices and techniques for logical processing The invention is directed to apparatus, methods, systems and computer programs which permit a simplification or reduction of the description of a complex digital circuit. This is accomplished by using a completely new system of propositional logic (13B), repr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221353 | Liquid crystal display device and method for operating the same A liquid crystal display (LCD) including an LCD panel having a plurality of gate lines running in parallel in one direction and a plurality of data lines running in parallel perpendicular to the gate lines, gate input drivers for providing gate signals to the gate l... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204419 | Method and apparatus for reading firearm microstamping An indicia for marking on an object, such as a cartridge case, for representing selected information, such as identification indicia identifying the firearm that discharged the cartridge, and methods and apparatus for generating, imprinting and reading the identific... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204647 | Monitoring a semiconductor laser utilizing an incorporated beam splitter device A method and apparatus for monitoring of a semiconductor light source utilizing a beamsplitter within a photonic package is described, wherein the photonic package comprises a housing, a semiconductor light source disposed within the housing. The semiconductor light... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7174325 | Neural processor Disclosed is a digital neural processor comprising at least one neural processing element. The neural processing elements including at least one simulated dendrite and a simulated axon. Each of the simulated dendrites may include: a dendrite input capable of receivi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7123407 | Apparatus and method for realizing all-optical NOR logic device using gain saturation characteristics of a semiconductor optical amplifier The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for realizing all-optical NOR logic device using the gain saturation characteristics of a semiconductor optical amplifier(SOA). More particularly, the invention relates to a 10 Gbit/s all-optical NOR logic d... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6970489 | Semiconductor laser module, spatial optical transmission system and electronic appliance A highly sensitive and inexpensive spatial optical transmission system using an LD (Laser Diode) as a light source and making use of the characteristics of a light receiving element is provided. The system includes a laser chip oscillating a laser beam, and a light ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6931387 | Method and system for ergonomic assessment and reduction of workplace injuries A method and system for facilitating resolution of engineering and business issues is provided which comprises an issue component for identifying the issues to be resolved, an inquiry component for facilitating collection of client information relevant to the issue ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6903859 | Homogenizer An aspect of the present invention includes a method for homogenizing a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Said beam of electromagnetic radiation is impinged onto a first array of deflecting elements. Said beam of electromagnetic radiation is dispersed into a number... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6763340 | Microelectromechanical system artificial neural network device A novel microelectromechanical system artificial neural network (MEMS ANN) device performs the function of a conventional artificial neural network node element. Micro-machined polysilicon or high aspect ratio composite beam micro-resonators replace as computational... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6754646 | Optical pulse-coupled artificial neurons The present invention discloses low noise, optically coupled optoelectronic and all-optical artificial neuron devices that can be configured in an array to simulate the function of biological neural networks, and methods for making the artificial neurons. In a first... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6687686 | Hebbian synapse circuit A Hebbian synapse emulation circuit models the conductance of a synapse circuit. In one embodiment, the circuit includes a counter that provides control signals determining the conduction states of electrical pathways, which define the conductance level o... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6529276 | Optical computational system In optical filter systems and optical transmission systems, an optical filter compresses data into and/or derives data from a light signal. The filter way weight an incident light signal by wavelength over a predetermined wavelength range according to a p... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6513023 | Artificial neural network with hardware training and hardware refresh A neural network circuit is provided having a plurality of circuits capable of charge storage. Also provided is a plurality of circuits each coupled to at least one of the plurality of charge storage circuits and constructed to generate an output in accor... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6493687 | Apparatus and method for detecting glass break A glass break detector is disclosed that uses a neural network to determine if an audio signal is breaking glass. A characteristic extraction unit is used to extract a set of signal characteristics from a time domain signal based on the audio signal. The ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6404750 | Sensor-assisted aloha for wireless networks The invention is made of an apparatus which incorporates a sensor-based means for stabilizing random access networks. In the preferred embodiment, a grid of sensors is used to gather energy measurements for analysis. In a preferred embodiment a neural net... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6397201 | E-cell (equivalent cell) and the basic circuit modules of e-circuits: e-cell pair totem, the basic memory circuit and association extension The e-cell is a computational element for the construction of circuits capable of performing transform invariant pattern recognition, scene segmentation, and regularity extraction in a variety of sensory modes including vision, hearing, olefaction, touch,... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6376831 | Neural network system for estimating conditions on submerged surfaces of seawater vessels An algorithm method of predicting estimated sea energy, wave directions and other seastate data with respect to submerged sea-going vessels, based on inputs derived from signal processed measurements of keel depth, pitch, roll and forward speed applied to... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6307854 | Telecommunications switch A self-routing switch such as a Banyan switch has a controller which recognizes incoming routing requests which would give rise to blocking in the switch and makes and optimum selection of queued requests which can be handled without blocking. The control... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6023663 | Method and apparatus for inspecting a solder joint using a correlation neural network A solder joint inspection process and system includes using a correlation values to classify the shape of the solder joint. The solder joint is illuminated by a multiple colors, and the image of the solder joint is captured. This multiple color image is t... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5995954 | Method and apparatus for associative memory A method and apparatus for an electronic artificial neural network, which serves as an associative memory that has a complete set of N-dimensional Hadamard vectors as stored states, suitable for large N that are powers of 2. The neural net has nonlinear s... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5956702 | Time-series trend estimating system and method using column-structured recurrent neural network Each neural element of a column-structured recurrent neural network generates an output from input data and recurrent data provided from a context layer of a corresponding column. One or more candidates for an estimated value is obtained, and an occurrenc... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5926296 | Vector normalizing apparatus A vector normalizing apparatus which normalizes an input vector or weight vectors by L2 -norm and adds norm information to the vector before it is normalized. Vector data from an input vector acquiring device (1) is displayed on an input vector... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5864836 | Optically programmable optoelectronic cellular neural network An optoelectronic cellular neural network, which can be programmed optically, in amorphous or polycrystalline silicon, which makes up a monolithic image processing system with optical input and output which can be programmed by optical signals. Its layere... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5842191 | Neural network that incorporates direct optical imaging A compact neural network architecture is trainable to sense and classify an optical image directly projected onto it. The system is based upon the combination of a two-dimensional amorphous silicon photoconductor array and a liquid-crystal spatial light m... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5793932 | Image recognition device and an image recognition method An image recognition device includes an input section for inputting an image; a pattern extraction section for extracting a plurality of predetermined patterns from the input image; a first feature extraction section for extracting a first feature indicat... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5729660 | 3-D inverse scattering by artificial intelligence : apparatus and method An unknown object is non-destructively and quantitatively evaluated for three-dimensional spatial distribution of a set of material constitutive parameters of the unknown object, using a multi-element array-source transducer and a multi-element array-dete... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5717834 | CNN programamble topographic sensory device The main design components underlying the implementation of physiologically faithful retina and other topographic sensory organ models on Cellular Neural Network (CNN) universal chips is discussed. If the various retinas are implemented on a CNN universal... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5704015 | Optical operation element, optical data processing circuit and photoelectric operation element A modulating optical operation element is composed of a light receiving separation element having a pair of light receiving elements, a photoelectric operation element made of an operation element for calculating electric signals outputted from the light ... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5701396 | Multimode-laser for an optical information processing system such as a neural net An optical information processing system comprises a coding unit for individually coding a plurality of optical information carrier waves, and a processing unit for processing the plurality of coded waves. The processing unit has a laser for producing las... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5664065 | Pulse-coupled automatic object recognition system dedicatory clause The pulse-coupled automatic recognition system processes information utilizing parallel neural network and transmits information to and from the processing sites as time signals which encode in their pulse phase structure the geometrical content of the sp... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5649065 | Optimal filtering by neural networks with range extenders and/or reducers A method and apparatus is provided for processing a measurement process to estimate a signal process, even if the signal and/or measurement processes have large and/or expanding ranges. The method synthesizes training data comprising realizations of the s... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644681 | Learning method for neural network having discrete interconnection strengths A learning method for a neural network, in which at least a portion of the interconnection strength between neurons takes discrete values, includes the steps of updating an imaginary interconnection strength taking continuous values by using the quantity ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5640261 | Optical operation apparatus for finding an inner product of vectors using light In an optical operation apparatus for carrying out an operation for finding an inner product of a first vector and a second vector by utilizing light, an optical vector encoding system forms an encoded distribution, which is based on all of elements of th... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5630022 | Self-organizing pattern learning optical system A pattern learning system uses a self-organizing optical neural network of the Kohonen variety for unsupervised learning. The learning system comprises an optical pattern correlation degree detector, which comprises a pattern storing device for storing a ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5581499 | Micro information storage system A device for optically storing and retrieving information incorporating a cadmium fluoride crystal. Using focused ionizing radiation, patterns can be formed in the crystal by the creation of color centers and/or intrinsic luminescence quenched areas. The ... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5581660 | Neural network structure having lateral interconnections A neural network layer (1) is made up of nodes or neurons which each comprise a pair of physically separate and optically coupled sub-units (X1, Y1). One sub-unit broadcasts excitatory and receives inhibitory signals, whereas the oth... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5570457 | Visual information processing device A visual information processing device having a neural network function and capable of visual information processing comprises a semiconductor integrated circuit section equipped with a plurality of neuronic circuit regions realizing a neuron function inc... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5546504 | Information processing device capable optically writing synapse strength matrix An information processing device having neural network functions for performing information processing includes a semiconductor integrated circuit section including a plurality of neuronic circuit regions having a neuronic function which is one of the neu... | 08/13/1996 |
