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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7233441 | Stereoscopic display The invention provides a stereoscopic display to display a high-quality three-dimensional video which can be viewed without using polarizing glasses. A stereoscopic display according to the present invention includes an electronically-formed, multi-viewpoint light b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7123811 | Circular display device with a projective light source A circular display includes a columnar waveguide plate and an image projection device. The upper width of the cross-section of the columnar waveguide plate is less than the bottom width of the cross-section of the columnar waveguide plate. The outer surface of the c... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6960873 | CRT having internal neutral density filter field of use A novel CRT and method of making the CRT are disclosed. The CRT comprises an internal neutral density filter that lies between the phosphor deposits and the interior surface of the faceplate panel. The filter enhances the contrast of the CRT without compromising cen... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6175392 | Method and apparatus for improving the color convergence of projection-based displays System and method for improving color convergence in projection display systems employs one or more mirror units disposed for reflecting light from the projection lens to a display screen, each mirror unit including one or more reflective layers adjustabl... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5737037 | Synthetic color television system having display using an integral overlapping color filter assembly A synthetic color television system includes a color-filter for three primary colors and a brightness-sensitive medium. The color-filtering layers for the three primary colors are sequentially excited between the camera and objects taken by the camera so ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5523802 | Dual-mode image display apparatus for displaying color images and black-and-white images A dual-mode image display apparatus includes a black-and-white image display device and a selective filter. The selective filter is caused to assume a first mode in which it sequentially serves as red, green and blue filters, and a second mode in which it... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5489951 | Projection apparatus for creating visible images A projection apparatus creates laser generated visible images utilizing the interference of light principle, and includes individual laser projection devices, positioned and disposed in opposite sets, each structured to emit a select color laser beam whic... | 02/06/1996 |
| 4979026 | Polarized light 360 degree viewing system A viewing system is provided for presenting a real image in space that is rotated extremely rapidly so that an entire audience, regardless of an individual's position about the viewing system, can view the same image substantially simultaneously and conti... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4901140 | Solid state 360 degree viewing system having a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen that encircles the rotating real image in space and functions as a multi-color filter system A viewing system is provided for presenting a real image in space that is rotated extremely rapidly so that an entire audience, regardless of an individual's position about the viewing system, can view the same image substantially simultaneously and conti... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4737843 | Color image display system for producing and combining four color component images each inverted in at least one aspect relative to the other images An image display system comprising a cathode ray type of tube having an electron gun disposed for directing an electron beam onto an output phosphor screen provided with quadrant portions extending from a common point and made of respective different phos... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4709261 | Color image display system for producing and combining two similarly-oriented color component images and an inverted color component image A multi-color image display system comprising a cathode ray type of tube having a single electron gun disposed for directing a beam of electrons onto an output image display screen provided with three juxtaposed segments of different phosphor materials wh... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4701789 | Cathode ray tube A color cathode ray tube has a fibre optic faceplate with a uniform phosphor layer on the inside and color elements on the outside, which may be color filters or color phosphors responsive to light from the inside phosphor layer. With this arrangement, th... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4587553 | Apparatus for displaying images wtih reduced coarseness An image display apparatus includes an image display screen which is formed by a plurality of picture display elements arranged repeatedly with a predetermined pitch for displaying an image as a set of plural picture elements. In this case, one or more do... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4582396 | Field sequential color display system using optical retardation A field sequential color display system incorporates a color switch which includes a zero to half-wave optical retarder and pleochroic filters to provide an image with high color contrast and resolution over a broad range of display sizes. In a preferred ... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4301468 | Color television viewer In this hand-held color television viewing device, differently colored, side-by-side rasters are produced on the screen of a cathode ray tube from standard color television signals by the use of three pairs of serial delay lines. One delay line of each pa... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4271247 | Color picture tube with screen having light absorbing areas A tube of the shadow mask type having a line screen and a slit aperture mask wherein the slits are arranged in columns and the slits in each column are separated by web portions of the mask is improved by the addition to the screen of light absorbing mate... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4245242 | Contrast enhancement of multicolor displays A contrast enhanced color display apparatus, capable of providing a wide variety of colors, comprises a display means for emitting at least three colors and a color filter means disposed between the display means and a viewer. The color filter means has a... | 01/13/1981 |
| 3959584 | Cathodochromic CRT projection display A cathode-ray tube projection system employing a cathodochromic image screen and electron beam erase and in which the image is projected from the image screen surface nearest the electron gun. The main advantages of this system are higher resolution and i... | 05/25/1976 |
