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One pet-friendly inventor patented "a device for watering pets, e.g., a dog or cat." The device, he helpfully noted, "has the general shape of a toilet."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7107339 | Predictive monitoring and problem identification in an information technology (IT) infrastructure An information technology (IT) infrastructure may be monitored, and the data thus collected may be used to infer problems and predict future conditions. In one embodiment, the present invention may include receiving a plurality of component metrics, each component m... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6927882 | Method of producing a light source compensating element This invention discloses a method of producing a light source compensating element for adjusting the brightness distribution of light projected from a light source of a scanner onto a scanned object. The light source compensating element produced in accordance with ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 5864360 | Multi-eye image pick-up apparatus with immediate image pick-up In a multi-eye image pick-up apparatus, an optical axis angle controller sets the optical axes of first and second video camera portions at predetermined optical axis angles when a power supply voltage for allowing an image pick-up operation is supplied. ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 4897730 | Image pickup device with index signal generator An image pickup device comprises an image pickup tube and an index generator having a light shield box; a light emitting diode held in the light shield box; a stripe screen provided on the photosensitive layer of the image pickup tube and shading compensa... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4614965 | Color camera with stripe filter using two controllable bias lights for improving color reproducibility in dark scenes and reducing afterimages A color TV imaging apparatus has a color TV imaging device which generates a multiplex color TV video signal by means of a photoelectric transducer section equipped with a color separation stripe filter. A first bias light supply device is located in a fr... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4578699 | Color camera with stripe filter using controlled bias light for dark scene noise improvement A color TV imaging apparatus comprises a TV imaging device for generating a composite color TV video signal by use of a color separation stripe filter, at least two demodulators for individually producing color signal components by demodulating a carrier ... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4143399 | Imaging device Disclosed is an imaging device having an image pick up tube provided with a color selective stripe filter. Means are provided for parallel light beams in the longitudinal direction of the stripe filter, as a bias light to be applied onto a photo-conversio... | 03/06/1979 |
