Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7932941 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup lens having an aperture diaphragm, an image-pickup element that has a color filter which is periodically allocated colors in units of a predetermined unit array and that generates picked-up image data including pixe... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7274454 | Imaging system with programmable spectral switch An imaging apparatus has input optics for obtaining a multispectral image bearing light and a programmable spectral switching section. The programmable spectral switching section has a first lens for directing light toward a dichroic separator that separates the mul... | 09/25/2007 |
| 6940556 | Electronic still camera and information recording appartus An electronic still camera is provided with a photographic image capturing device that outputs image data by capturing a subject image passing through a taking lens, an analytic image capturing device provided at a position adjacent to the position that is conjugate... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6894719 | Method and apparatus for creating a preselected lenticular image A preselected lenticular image is created by capturing a first digital image on a plurality of first charged coupled device (CCD) sensor columns (21, 31). A second digital image is created on a plurality of second CCD sensor columns (22, 32). The first... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6870564 | Image processing for improvement of color registration in digital images A method for improving the wavelength dependent registration of digital images includes the steps of (a) detecting a similar feature in two or more digital records of the same scene, (b) determining from the feature a shift due to misregistration of at least one of ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6809768 | Double slope pixel sensor and array A double-slope MOS active pixel sensor disposed on a semiconductor substrate has a first light-to-output-voltage transfer gain up to a first charge accumulation threshold, has a second light-to-output-voltage transfer gain lower than the first light-to-output-voltag... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6697114 | Triple slope pixel sensor and arry A triple-slope MOS active pixel sensor disposed on a semiconductor substrate comprises first and second capacitive storage elements each having a first terminal connected to a fixed potential and a second terminal. First and second photodiodes each have a... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6590724 | Color image display system and color image pickup system that use decentered optical system A color image display system and a color image pickup system adapted to electronically correct the color shift of color separation images caused by a decentered optical system used to display or capture a color image. The color image display system has an... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6219491 | Electro-developing type camera An electro-developing type camera using an electro-developing recording medium on which an image is developed while an electric voltage is applied thereto. The image is read out from the electro-developing medium by a scanning mechanism. A color separatio... | 04/17/2001 |
| 5978611 | Electro-developing type camera An electro-developing type camera using an electro-developing recording medium on which an image is developed while an electric voltage is applied thereto. The image is read out from the electro-developing medium by a scanning mechanism. A color separatio... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5337081 | Triple view imaging apparatus A triple view imaging apparatus is provided for measuring quantitative distribution of material or property in a sample. In the triple view imaging apparatus, an optical system receives an original optical image of the sample, separates the original optic... | 08/09/1994 |
| 4646156 | High-speed video camera and method of high-speed imaging using a beam splitter In a high-speed video camera, a light beam from a main lens (3) is split into a plurality of light beams having identical optical information, and then these plurality of light beams are intermittently transmitted to different positions of an imaging devi... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4412243 | Method of reproducing colored motion pictures Video information is recorded and stored on an information carrier in the form of a signal sequence corresponding to a sequential scan of two images of a moving colored motif. The two images correspond to interlaced color extracts. The recorded signal seq... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4359757 | Method for the opto-electronic transmission of an image original An axially symmetrical image is interrogated by means of a Z-shaped scanning raster to permit a simple color picture recording, which however contains all subjectively necessary elements. A scan of each of the two symmetrical images with a quadrupled inte... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4301467 | Process for the optoelectronic transmission of an image In order to permit a camera tube having a sensitivity diminishing towards the edge and/or having geometrical distortion to be used in a single-tube camera, two mutually symmetrical different-colored images are produced. At least one of the two images is i... | 11/17/1981 |
