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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7202896 | Solid state image pickup device having spectral device A spectral device is disposed above a semiconductor substrate formed with a number of photoelectric conversion elements. The spectral device has a plurality of spectral regions each corresponding to a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, each of the spect... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7173656 | Method and apparatus for processing digital pixel output signals Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a digital camera includes: a digital imaging array including a plurality of pixels, and image processing circuitry to process the digital pixel output signals produced by the imaging array. The imaging pro... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7139025 | Active pixel sensor with mixed analog and digital signal integration An active pixel sensor includes mixed analog and digital signal integration on the same substrate. The analog part of the array forms the active pixel sensor, and the digital part of the array does digital integration of the signal. ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136522 | Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image, for rendering the composite image, and for spectral demultiplexing of the composite image to animate recovered source images Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images f... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7119839 | High resolution CMOS circuit using a matched impedance output transmission line Image sensor with CMOS output, an another circuit receiving input. The circuit operates like a transmission line, in current mode, with substantially zero voltage. The impedances are matched by setting bias currents. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116365 | Solid-state imaging element, method for driving the same, and camera system Since the great number of elements constituting a unit pixel having an amplification function would hinder reduction of pixel size, unit pixel n,m arranged in a matrix form is comprised of a photodiode, a transfer switch for transferring charges stored in the photod... | 10/03/2006 |
| 5886659 | On-focal-plane analog-to-digital conversion for current-mode imaging devices A current-mode analog-to-digital converter based on a current copier circuit with a constant bias current that is independent of the input signals. A second-order incremental Σ-Ɗ conversion configuration is implemented. An array of such analog-to-digita... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5621487 | Picture display apparatus having multiple diffusing filter surfaces A picture display apparatus is provided with a display device having pixels disposed in a mosaic pattern. A plurality of optical filter surfaces are respectively placed between the display device and a viewer so that the both surfaces can be overlapped wi... | 04/15/1997 |
| 4445136 | Television camera having an optical lowpass filter A television camera has an optical system including an iris, a master lens, and a color stripe filter. The television camera further comprises an optical lowpass filter provided within an effective light path of an afocal system which reaches the master l... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4417272 | Color television camera having a color separation crossing striped filter The image of a subject imaged on the photoelectric conversion surface of a pickup tube of the color television camera is defocused in a given direction by a given amount to make a blur so that beat interference due to specific black and white pattern of t... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4389666 | Color television camera system A color television camera system including an image pickup tube and having color filter means for forming color separated images of an object and including means for deriving composite color video signals from the image pick-up tube which represent the co... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4246600 | Color image pick-up system for a color television system A color image pickup system for a color television system comprises a single image pickup device, a color filter mounted in front of the screen of said image pickup device, said color filter having an array of the repetition of a pair of horizontal colore... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4101929 | Color encoding video system with optical low pass filter A color encoding video system such as a single or double tube color television camera has an optical grating low pass filter positioned in a plane substantially adjacent the focal plane of the image pickup tube. A separate and interchangeable image formin... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4093346 | Optical low pass filter An optical low-pass filter in the form of a rectangular wave phase grating including at least two sets of parallel phase retardation laminae, the laminae in each set being at an angle to the laminae of the other set. The optical filter is disposed in an o... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4047200 | Single tube color television camera with color strip filters A single tube color television camera employs a camera tube and two color strip filters located one behind the other in the optical image axis. The strip filters may either be installed in the camera tube or structurally separated therefrom and have diffe... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4004176 | Stripe-shaped color separation filter for image pickup tube and method for manufacturing the same A stripe-shaped color separation filter for use with an image pickup tube is disclosed which is covered at its one surface with a layer of transparent material such as glass or SiO2 having a surface thereof which is flat enough to be practical ... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3946434 | Color television camera with luminance non-uniformity compensation A color television camera is provided with a single image pickup tube for producing a luminance signal and a chrominance signal, a demodulator for producing three primary color signals from the chrominance signal, an adder for adding the primary color sig... | 03/23/1976 |
