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 |
| 6877857 | Steerable lightfield display An apparatus for showing images. The apparatus includes a screen. The apparatus includes a mechanism for displaying a distinct and separate image for each of a number of different observers simultaneously on the screen. A method for showing images. ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6801127 | Driving assistance display apparatus In correspondence with each face of a rectangular parallelepiped obtained when the inside of the rectangular parallelepiped is shot, a monitor screen is split into a plurality of sub-screen areas. An image shot by a vehicle-mounted camera is processed and the proces... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6623120 | Video projection system and design method therefor A video projection system employing a concave video screen which provides for enhanced depth cueing. A method of designing a variety of shapes of video screen surfaces by varying certain parameters of a common master equation. Video screen surface shapes ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6578971 | Self-illuminating concave video screen system A self-illuminating video screen system employing a concave display surface which provides for enhanced depth cueing. A method of designing a variety of shapes of self-illuminating video screen display surfaces by varying certain parameters of a common ma... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6183089 | Motion picture, TV and computer 3-D imaging system and method of use A 3-D imaging system for projecting a 3-D panoramic illusion of an object to a viewer has two primary components: a camera having a pair of horizontally spaced anamorphic lenses capable of viewing and capturing a wide angle panoramic view of the object as... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6108130 | Stereoscopic image sensor A stereoscopic image sensor may be formed of a single image sensor having a pair of fields formed therein. The fields may be closer to one another than are a pair of left and right image collectors. The close spacing may be achieved by using an image redi... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6072627 | Stereoscopic image capture device A stereoscopic image capture device of this invention includes: an image capturing face on which light from an object is incident; an optical element disposed on a side of the image capturing face on which the light is incident, the optical element conver... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5671089 | Device for forming an autostereoscopic image A device for forming autostereoscopic images by implementing a cylindrical lens array, the device being characterized in that it comprises in succession: an entrance objective (L1, L2); a lens array (20) having diverging elementary cylindrical lenses disposed ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5347644 | Three-dimensional image display device and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to a three-dimensional image display device comprising two or more parallel elements, each element being formed from a transparent material, each element having a coating formed thereon, the coating including means for reflecting a ... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5225861 | Apparatus for projection of three-dimensional images An apparatus for presentation of apparent three-dimensional images without special viewing glasses is disclosed. A projection system projects right and left stereo images from a stereoscopic slide so that the right stereo image and the left stereo image b... | 07/06/1993 |
| 4872750 | Image projection apparatus A projected image displaying apparatus for displaying bright three-dimensional images on a display screen. In one embodiment, images in three colors, each in the form of vertically oriented stripes, are projected onto a transmissive diffusion surface with... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4760443 | Display means For the purpose of simultaneous presentation of an information on a display array (6) a display means has an image movement device (12,13), with the aid of which the image of the display array can be aimed in different directions, preferably along a circl... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4571616 | Device for displaying three-dimensional images In a device for displaying three-dimensional pictures, N (with N=2, 3, 4 . . . ) recorded images corresponding to different spatial observation positions are displayed on one or more intermediate display screens (3, 4, 5, 82, 83, 84). The device comprises... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4431280 | Planar rotational autostereoscopic display This invention is an improved synchronized autostereoscopic display device whereby luminous images originating from any transmittance media capable of pictoral image display are both projected from separate fixed positions, each originating from its respe... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4033683 | Image viewing apparatus In an apparatus for viewing an enlarged image there are provided means adapted to project an image onto a reflective surface which in turn projects the image onto a moving screen. The angle of projection of the image onto the screen is maintained less tha... | 07/05/1977 |
