Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 7151843 | Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more hierarchical verification levels are used to verify whether a human fac... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7058528 | Automated optimization of asymmetric waveform generator LC tuning electronics Disclosed is method of controlling an asymmetric waveform generator including the steps of providing a reference timer signal, and generating an asymmetric waveform as a combination of a first sinusoidal wave having a first frequency and a second sinusoidal wave hav... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6081753 | Method of determining probability of target detection in a visually cluttered scene A method to determine the probability of detection, P(t), of targets within infrared-imaged, pixelated scenes includes dividing the scenes into tar blocks and background blocks. A plurality of ƊT metrics are applied to the blocked scenes to derive vari... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6075898 | Reflective array compressor A reflective array compressor for a fast pattern recognition system. The system includes a combination of digital and analog processing circuitry which allows the system to achieve super computing processing speeds within an open personal computer archite... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5647018 | Method and apparatus for generating images A method of generating images of a specimen containing at least two regions of different opacity to the passage of radiation comprises irradiating the specimen with radiation from a radiation source, detecting the radiation to produce a plurality of signa... | 07/08/1997 |
| 3987411 | Character recognition system employing extraneous and required peak detection with variable threshold controlled timing A character recognition system utilizing precisely designed correlation network to match the voltage waveform of a character being read with the closest ideal waveform in a standard character font along with an extraneous peak detector that determines whe... | 10/19/1976 |
