...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7285808 | Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing solid-state imaging device A plurality of optical sensors (4) are arranged in a surface region of a semiconductor substrate (6) in a matrix pattern, and electric charge generated by the optical sensors (4) is transferred by first and second transfer electrodes (12 ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 6114685 | Solid-state radiation detector having a charge transfer device A solid-state radiation detecting device comprises an insulation layer having a pair of opposed surfaces. First and second single crystal silicon semiconductors are disposed on respective ones of the opposed surfaces of the insulating layer. A photoelectr... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5418387 | Solid-state imaging device with nand cell structure A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, an array of cells on the substrate, a plurality of vertical charge transfer sections extending in a first direction on the substrate, and a horizontal charge transfer section extending in a ... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5365056 | X-ray image intensifier having an image sensor with amorphous semiconductor material layer The invention is directed to an x-ray image intensifier having an evacuated housing, an input luminescent screen, electron optics, and an image sensor applied inside the housing at that side thereof lying opposite the input luminescent screen. The side of... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5343061 | Solid-state imaging device suppressing dark-current noise An FIT or IT solid-state imaging device comprising a p-type Si substrate in which n-type regions forming storage diode portions, signal read-out portions, n-type CCD channels, and p+ -type element isolating regions are formed, a solid-state ima... | 08/30/1994 |
| 4783691 | Color solid-state image sensor A stacked type color solid-state image sensor in which a photoconductive film is formed evenly on a substrate having a matrix array of picture element cells and wiring pattern including a bonding pad pattern. The photoconductive film functions as an optoe... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4651001 | Visible/infrared imaging device with stacked cell structure A solid-state image sensing device such as an IT-CCD has first and second photosensing sections which are stacked so that they separately sense visible and infrared image light components contained in input light. The visible image light component contain... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4608749 | Method of manufacturing a solid-state image pickup device A method of manufacturing a "two-level" solid-state image pickup device wherein a portion of a first metallic electrode electrically connected to a signal storage region is made to project to the highest position above a substrate on which it is formed. A... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4365274 | One-dimensional image sensor A one-dimensional image sensor such as may be used in scanning an original document for use in a copying system and a method for producing the sensor. Integrated drive circuit elements are formed in a relatively small region of a monocrystalline semicondu... | 12/21/1982 |