Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7423553 | Image display apparatus, image display method, measurement apparatus, measurement method, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and identification method An external index detection unit (105) receives an image sensed by a camera (100), and detects an external index set in a real scene. A tachometer (110) measures the rotational velocities of two rear wheels of a vehicle. A vehicle measurement un... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7330210 | Method and apparatus for repairing a vidicon camera A method and apparatus is provided for repairing damage to a vidicon camera where the damage is indicated on a video display. The damaged photosensitive target of the video camera is illuminated by light from a light source, the light being of a wavelength and inten... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7187345 | Image forming method and charged particle beam apparatus An image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus suitable for suppressing the inclination of charging when scanning a two-dimensional area with a charged particle beam. A third scanning line located between a first scanning line and a second scanning li... | 03/06/2007 |
| 5943091 | Camera with a very fast non-smear tube This camera comprises an electron tube with a photosensitive target (6) made of single-crystalline semiconducting material, lens (10) for forming the image of a scene on the target, an electron gun (14) to supply an electron beam to read the target, and s... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5793448 | Cathode ray tube packages A cathode ray tube package includes a cathode ray tube assembly and a housing assembly including a deflection coil and/or at least one focus coil. The cathode ray tube assembly includes a collar (31) aligned with the electron beam, being arranged to mate ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 4879593 | Method of and apparatus for performing low-voltage correction of high-voltage deflection signals for electrostatic-deflection camera tubes in a color video camera After sawtooth wave deflection signals are corrected in a summing circuit for position, magnitude, shape, they are keyed by a blanking circuit, within a blanking interval of the video signal, for briefly inserting a low-voltage reference potential. This i... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4769694 | Method of printing a composite image of human figure and personal data using CRT A method of making a print of a composite image which includes at least a figure image and an image of letters, comprises the steps of providing the composite image, displaying the same on a CRT display device, and exposing a printing paper to the display... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4652910 | Automatic beam current control with an envelope detector for a color television camera tube with a stripe filter A feedback control loop for controlling the intensity of a scanning electron beam of an image pickup tube of a color TV camera which is especially useful in a single tube color TV camera with a stripe filter, comprises an envelope detector for detecting t... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4649421 | Circuit for generating a signal for correcting registration in a color television camera with reduction in generation of shading A digital registration circuit for a multi-tube television camera wherein correction quantities corresponding to positions on a target of an image pickup tube are stored in a digital memory. The digital signal for the correction quantity read out from the... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4405938 | Image pickup tube faceplate structure In the faceplate structure of image pickup tube having an organic coat, an inorganic transparent conductive film and an inorganic photoconductive film sequentially laminated on the central part of a transparent glass base, the inorganic transparent conduc... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4267562 | Method of autonomous target acquisition A method of target acquisition and lock-on-launch strike capability of self uided explosive canisters, such as imaging missile systems and imaging artillery projectiles, by launching an imaging sensor platform over the battlefield area and transmitting ima... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4166280 | High performance television color camera employing a camera tube and solid state sensors A conventional, high resolution camera pickup tube is employed to generate the luminance signal corresponding to the greater bandwidth luminance component of a composite video signal. At least one low resolution, solid state sensor is combined with the tu... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4068261 | Image pickup devices and image pickup tubes utilized therein The image pickup device comprises an optical system including an objective lens, light beam spliters such as dichroic mirrors and filters, and image pickup tubes for converting incident light into an electric signal. There is provided at least one transpa... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4028730 | Vidicon camera for closed circuit television system A vidicon camera adapted for use in a direct wire television system and having a vidicon tube, a metal housing having means defining an opening therethrough to permit an optical image to be focused on the imaging surface of the vidicon tube, a first print... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3961363 | Color pickup tubes In a color pickup tube for use in a single tube or two tube type color television camera system wherein an optical color analyzing stripe filter, a transparent film, a transparent electroconductive film and a photoconductor film are disposed in the order ... | 06/01/1976 |
