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...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 |
| 7315417 | Screen frame and bezel clip system An apparatus and methods that facilitate efficient and easy installation of a display screen and protective shield onto a cabinet of a display unit such as a projection TV (PTV) and the like. Preferably, a screen frame and bezel clip system includes a bezel clip hav... | 01/01/2008 |
| 6661463 | Methods and devices for time-varying selection and arrangement of data points with particular application to the creation of NTSC-compatible HDTV signals Processes for selecting, manipulating and arranging data points or pixels derived from information bearing signals are useful to reduce the bandwidth of, or improve the perceived quality of, such a signal as transmitted and displayed. The techniques utili... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6459531 | Screen mounting device for projection TV A screen mounting device for a projection TV includes a mask for protecting an edge of a screen on which an image is displayed which is arranged to enclose an edge portion of the screen and having a hooking socket formed at a back side thereof, and a hold... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6025882 | Methods and devices for incorporating additional information such as HDTV side strips into the blanking intervals of a previous frame Methods and devices for incorporating additional information, such as HDTV side strips, into the blanking intervals of a previous frame. These may be used in conjunction with Inventor's time-varying STS techniques or otherwise. The information thus incorp... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5847768 | Apparatus for converting screen aspect ratio An improved screen aspect ratio conversion apparatus displays a 4:3 broadcast signal on a screen having an aspect ratio of 16:9 by expanding the screen aspect ratio to 4:3 in an interpolation unit and by removing a portion exceeding a certain range of the... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5361101 | Preamplifier for multimedia display An RGB preamplifier for a video display includes respective multipliers independently operable for adjusting the contrast of input primary and secondary video signals. The contrast adjusted video signals are added to form a combined display signal, the co... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5182644 | Multiplexed signal receiving apparatus A first image signal for a screen wider than that obtained by a TV signal of an existing television system is converted to a multiplexed signal that can be reproduced with a receiver of the existing television system, and input to a selector. The selector... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5161003 | Compatible television system with companding auxiliary signal A compatible television signal encoder for encoding a television signal having a first signal and a second signal. The decoder includes a divider for dividing the wide aspect television signal into a main signal having the first signal and low-frequency c... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5151779 | Signal transmission system for high definition television A signal transmission system for high definition television that can handle a second television signal which is superior in quality to a first television signal such as an NTSC (National Television System Committee) television signal. The transmitting end... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5146327 | Addition signal multiplexing apparatus for a television system The present invention is ingeniously conceived for a transmission system for a first television signal so as to enable a first television signal of a wide aspect screen to be transmitted in one channel and the transmitted television signal to be reproduce... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5126844 | Decomposition and recombination of a wide-aspect ratio image Each line of a wide aspect ratio television signal is divided into a main panel component and an autmentation panel component joined to the main panel component at a stitch point for transmission or storage. At the transmitter, a first signal is extracted... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5122868 | Side panel signal processor for a widescreen television system In a widescreen television signal processing system, a side panel high frequency luminance information component and a side panel color difference information component are combined and processed as a combined signal by a noise reduction encoder, time exp... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5115301 | Apparatus for eliminating a motion artifact in a widescreen television signal Main panel and side panel components of a widescreen television signal are intraframe processed over different frequency ranges, resulting in a noticeable difference between "judder" motion artifacts of main and side panel images displayed by a receiver. ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5032917 | Video signal blending apparatus A first video signal component and a second video signal component represent constituent portions of an image to be displayed. An analog signal blending network blends these components together along a boundary region several pixels wide to reconstitute a... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4912549 | Video signal synchronization system as for an extended definition widescreen television signal processing system Apparatus and method of synchronizing the component signals of a multi-component augmented television signal between its generation reception are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus includes circuitry which generates a training signal that indicates the po... | 03/27/1990 |
