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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7002623 | Image processing apparatus for correcting a color and texture of an image and displaying the corrected image An image processing apparatus is provided which includes an image input apparatus for inputting an image including an object. The image is input into a reproducing environment converting unit, which sets a desired illuminating environment on a monitor display screen... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6856342 | Control circuitry for high speed video camera operation A device for controlling a video camera in underwater high speed photography in a first aspect includes a plurality of spaced break screen or sense coil members, a projectile for launch through the series of break screen or sense coil members, a video camera operate... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6678590 | Vehicle navigation system with vision system preprocessor using MPEG encoder A navigation system for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) includes an MPEG encoder that pre-processes frame data from a plurality of cameras on the UGV before the data is used to generate maps that identify objects in the vehicle's field of view and that i... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6100517 | Three dimensional camera Apparatus for creating an image indicating distances to points in objects in a scene, comprising: a modulated source of radiation, having a first modulation function, which directs radiation toward a scene such that a portion of the modulated radiation is... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5073857 | Method and apparatus for cell analysis A pap smear inspection apparatus and method for automated screening of cytological smears for dense, possibly malignant cells includes a specimen slide for receiving a cytological smear and a microscope for enlarging the image of the smear. The microscope... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5047848 | Elastomeric gage for borescope An elastomeric distance gage is formed of a ring of elastomeric film to which is joined a vee-shaped ear of elastomeric film. The ring of this gage fits removably onto a video head or other imager at the distal tip of a borescope. The legs of the nose por... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4980763 | System for measuring objects viewed through a borescope This is a device for measuring objects viewed with a borescope by creating an auxiliary image such as a shadow, and projecting it on the object from the general illumination source in a way that its video image changes position or size in proportion to th... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4847687 | Video ranging system A non-contacting sensing method and apparatus is disclosed for positioning a surface, such as the surface of a workpiece. A collimated light beam is projected through a lens having a known focal length onto the surface. Suitable means such as a television... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4829374 | Surface inspection apparatus A surface inspection apparatus having a microscope and a television camera is disclosed. The inspection apparatus samples a signal portion from a horizontal scanning portions of the video signal produced by the television camera, compares the instantaneou... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4814868 | Apparatus and method for imaging and counting moving particles A video imaging and counting system for use in counting moving particles. A video camera (14) is used to monitor the interior of a boiler (12) for carryover particles (46) of burning fuel. A video signal produced by the camera is electronically filtered a... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4804267 | System for microscopically analyzing fluids An apparatus for microscopically analyzing fluids consisting of subsystems for providing fluid flow and for acquiring and displaying an image. The fluid flow subsystem pumps a portion of the fluid sample from a sample container to a flow-through cell, whe... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4798966 | Optical sensor arrangement A lower frequency clock signal is supplied to a CCD line sensor. The step-like test signal detected by a scanning circuit is converted by means of a defining circuit and supplied to an evaluation circuit. The position of a light bar on a sensor is accurat... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4794450 | Method and apparatus for judging agglutination pattern An apparatus for judging an agglutination has a transparent plate stand 5 for supporting a microplate 7 and perforated with positioning openings 9 for centering of each well 8 of the microplate. A light source and TV camera 12 are disposed above the micro... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4794262 | Method and apparatus for measuring profile of three-dimensional object A method of measuring the profile of a three-dimensional object including the steps of scanning the surface of the object to be measured with a slit-ray, forming an optical image of the surface of the object on an imaging plane of a nonscanning type two-d... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4684982 | Multiple array panel matrix measurement system A system for measuring spaces in a periodic matrix includes a plurality of light sources for simultaneously illuminating the matrix with light at a plurality of discrete locations. A plurality of linear photodiode arrays simultaneously receive the respect... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4665429 | Photodetector array interface circuit A photodetector array interface circuit includes a pixel counter circuit having a plurality of sequentially numbered counters for counting pulses in a pixel oscillator signal, and a pixel counter gating circuit coupled to the pixel counter circuit for rec... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4661985 | Process for measuring lamina size distribution A process for measuring the lamina size distribution comprises the steps of uniformly spreading sampled laminae over a conveyor and transporting the same; image-forming the conveyed lamina at a detection region having a given area by using a television ca... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4581633 | Data compression A video image of a relatively simple nature is produced by scanning using a conventional TV camera (1), and the scan results are converted into a Cartesian co-ordinate form for image analysis. This involves seeking a point of interest during the scan, the... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4555724 | Elevator system Apparatus and methods for determining the load in an elevator car, including the preparation of a video image of the car which has a predetermined number of picture elements (pixels). The gray scale level of each pixel is determined and compared with a re... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4539587 | Shift register driven video measurement system for microcomputer A video processing system especially for use with microprocessors or microcomputers characterized by limited memory storage capacity and processing capability. The video processing system includes a TRANSITION DETECTOR for detecting BLACK-TO-WHITE and WHI... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4533944 | Video measurement system for microcomputer A video processing system especially for use with microprocessors or microcomputers characterized by limited memory storage capacity and processing capability. The video processing system includes a TRANSITION DETECTOR for detecting BLACK-TO-WHITE and WHI... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4497066 | Video data acquisition system A video data acquisition system has a video camera for taking pictures of articles and from the picture image digitizes and selects signals within a predetermined amplitude range as representations of pixels of the picture image. A combination of horizont... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4417274 | Electronic measuring method and apparatus Disclosed are a method and apparatus for making area measurements of an image on a kinescope screen. Scan lines of the kinescope are divided into a series of pulses by a switching device. The pulses within the image are counted. The number of pulses count... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4400728 | Video process control apparatus A video process control system for identifying, inspecting, or measuring machined parts or the like in which each part is placed in the viewing field of a video camera. A pixel scan of the camera image is converted to a set of binary bits, one bit for pix... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4352125 | Recognition apparatus A matrix array of objects, for example, semiconductor bars, is located on a carrier such as an XY table and the objects are successively brought into the field of view of a television camera to produce digitized video signals which are utilized in effecti... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4320415 | Method of and apparatus for measuring electrophoretic mobility of cells The electrophoretic mobility of cells in a solution is measured by applying an electric potential along a cell. A linescan camera forms an image frame by line scanning the cell in a direction perpendicular to the cell movement. Two such image frames are c... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4319272 | Electronic positioning method and apparatus Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining the deviation of an image from a predetermined position on a kinescope screen. This method and apparatus is useful, for example, in centering an image on the screen. The scan lines of the kinescope are ... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4297893 | Method and apparatus for measuring flow characteristics of moving fluid stream This invention relates to the measurement of the temperature and/or mass flow rate of a free falling molten stream of material. Previous techniques have not recognized the effects temperature variations of the molten stream of material have on the measure... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4280135 | Remote pointing system A remote pointing system which permits the remote positioning of a laser beam in accordance with signals received from a laser beam situated at another location. These signals are derived through the use of an appropriate filter, television camera, pair o... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4272781 | Nondestructive examining apparatus The disclosed apparatus comprises a movable carriage on which an industrial television camera and nondestructive examining unit or probe are swingably supported. A control means for controlling the carriage, industrial television camera and the probe are ... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4238767 | Arrangement for measuring the mobility of image points of a video image The invention is concerned with an arrangement for measuring the mobility of image points of a video image, particularly for the evaluation of the electrophoretic mobility of particles. The arrangement simultaneously evaluates an entire image contents of ... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4188544 | Method and apparatus for automatically processing a workpiece employing calibrated scanning A system for efficiently scanning and processing a workpiece, particularly logs or pieces cut from logs, wherein the workpiece is first scanned by projecting at least one plane light source at a first angle and detecting the intersection line of the plane... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4096525 | Video scanning change discriminator A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the speed and direction and height/width dimensions of subject movement within a field of view. Two video frames are compared such that the dimensions of change within the two frames are determined, sort... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4070692 | Video digitizing system for single valued functions A visual plot of a single valued function is rotated orthogonally and then iewed by a TV camera. The camera output is recorded on a video recorder and then played back to a digitizer. The digitizer horizontally scans the rotated plot and detects the time i... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4068310 | Display enhancement technique for video moving trace display A system providing a substantially gapless continuous line display of an analog signal as a function of time on a television monitor. The input is digitized and each level of quantization corresponds to one of the raster display lines to give proper verti... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4051458 | Video amplitude related measurements in image analysis Image analysis techniques permit the measurement of a wide variety of parameters of the image being analyzed. This invention is specifically concerned with the measurement of parameters related to the amplitude of the video signal. Measurement related par... | 09/27/1977 |
| 3980870 | Device for measuring contour length of a two-dimensional pattern A device for measuring the contour length of a two-dimensional pattern comprises means for scanning the pattern and sampling each scanned line at a predetermined length to convert the pattern into digitally coded patterns. A rotary means rotates the two-d... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3963991 | Apparatus for discriminating a peak level of a video signal An apparatus for discriminating a peak level of a video signal, comprising a series circuit including a switch means, a discriminator with a video signal input, and at least one video signal peak clamping channel. This channel also comprises a series circ... | 06/15/1976 |
