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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7761326 | Token type content providing system and token type content providing method and portable user terminal A token type content providing system is provided, in which the system includes a portable user terminal and a linkup server, the portable user terminal includes: a part for obtaining a token from an information notification medium; a part for sending the token to a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7365858 | Systems and methods for phase measurements Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for phase measurement which address the problem of phase noise using combinations of a number of strategies including, but not limited to, common-path interferometry, phase referencing, active st... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7333963 | Cognitive memory and auto-associative neural network based search engine for computer and network located images and photographs Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7236650 | Signal processing apparatus, method of the same, an image processing apparatus and method of same An image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a high resolution image from a low resolution image without making processing in a camera signal processor complicated, wherein a CCD image sensor is moved by a CCD drive and a plurality of received light signals ha... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7164779 | Privacy-enhanced display device A method displays an image only to an authorized user by generating a mask image from a data image. The data and mask image are then displayed periodically in an alternating manner on a display device by a select signal. The opening end shutting of an optical shutte... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154540 | System for enhancing video Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast camera's field of view. Pattern recognition techniques can be used to de... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149358 | Method and system for improving contrast using multi-resolution contrast based dynamic range management A method, system and computer readable medium for implementing and performing a multi-resolution contrast-based dynamic range management algorithm and allowing for the efficient compression of an intensity dynamic range of an input image to a reduced intensity dynam... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7130463 | Zoomed histogram display for a digital camera An apparatus and a method are provided to allow a portion of a captured image to be evaluated with a digital camera. A display device of the digital camera can display the captured image. A specific area of interest of the captured image can be defined on the displa... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7119905 | Spatial-heterodyne interferometry for transmission (SHIFT) measurements Systems and methods are described for spatial-heterodyne interferometry for transmission (SHIFT) measurements. A method includes digitally recording a spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis using a reference beam, an... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116425 | Faster processing of multiple spatially-heterodyned direct to digital holograms Systems and methods are described for faster processing of multiple spatially-heterodyned direct to digital holograms. A method includes of obtaining multiple spatially-heterodyned holograms, includes: digitally recording a first spatially-heterodyned hologram inclu... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7057769 | Method for calibrating color of transmitted digital image In the color image transmission system between a pair of computer image processing systems A & B, a common basic color such as R.G.B. basic color is firstly decided, then this common basic color is transmitted from the system A to the system B so that a digital imag... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7002691 | Spatially-heterodyned holography A method of recording a spatially low-frequency heterodyne hologram, including spatially heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis, includes: splitting a laser beam into a reference beam and an object beam; interacting the object beam with an object; focusing the refe... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999178 | Spatial-heterodyne interferometry for reflection and transmission (SHIRT) measurements Systems and methods are described for spatial-heterodyne interferometry for reflection and transmission (SHIRT) measurements. A method includes digitally recording a first spatially-heterodyned hologram using a first reference beam and a first object beam; digitally... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6919970 | Method for calibrating color of an image in transmission of a digital image When transmitting an image between a pair of computer image processing systems A and B, a common color image Z is used as a medium image, the medium image is read as digital data into the computer of the system B from the system A, the color of the digital image dis... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6914586 | LCD module identification A circuit and a method for an effective way to customize the display driver software of any type of LCD-display and any type of LCD-driver chip used in an LCD display system is achieved. This is important in a multiple sourcing environment where LCD driver chips and... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6873725 | Simultaneous measurement and display of 3-D size distributions of particulate materials in suspensions An apparatus and method in which a still image, or still images, are obtained of a plurality of particles suspended in a fluid medium. Each still image is transferred to an image analyzing unit that measures a set of dimensional characteristics per particle for part... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6741929 | Virtual navigation system and method using moving image Disclosed is a virtual navigation system using a moving image. The system comprises an input section for inputting a command information such as a departure point and a destination each related to a traveling route; a traveling route estimating section for reading t... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6525302 | Wavefront coding phase contrast imaging systems The present invention provides extended depth of field or focus to conventional Phase Contrast imaging systems. This is accomplished by including a Wavefront Coding mask in the system to apply phase variations to the wavefront transmitted by the Phase Obj... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6219451 | Method and apparatus for counter based liquid crystal display panel identification for a computer A notebook computer system having a base unit, a display panel, and display panel indication circuit for identifying the display panel includes a table of display panel IDs and corresponding display panel identification characteristics stored within the b... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6021223 | Image forming apparatus An image H(x, y) for displaying a target image G(x, y) is displayed on a liquid-crystal display panel and illumination light from an illumination light source is made to pass therethrough to form an image on a PALSLM. Read light h.nu. is radiated to the P... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5695854 | Light mask Apparatus for producing a light mask for balancing light across a display area of a vehicle instrument cluster comprises a camera, a digitiser and a computer. An image of the display area is obtained and digitized to produce data relating to the illuminat... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5499304 | Light mask Apparatus for producing a light mask for balancing light across a display area of a vehicle instrument cluster comprises a camera, a digitiser and a computer. An image of the display area is obtained and digitized to produce data relating to the illuminat... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5131055 | Auto and hetero-associative memory using a 2-D optical logic gate An optical system for auto-associative and hetero-associative recall utilizing Hamming distance as the similarity measure between a binary input image vector V.sup.(k) and a binary image vector V.sup.(m) in a first memory array using an optical Exclusive-... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5022087 | Apparatus for detecting primitive patterns in an image In an apparatus for extracting primitive patterns included in an image such as a character or any other figure, the image subjected to primitive pattern extraction is optical multiplied by a multiplier to form simultaneously in parallel a plurality of opt... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4862511 | Local feature analysis apparatus In an apparatus for analyzing local features of a character or any other figures, an extraction of the local features is performed by correlation calculations using a plurality of first reference masks, an analysis associated with combinations of the extr... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4845766 | Simultaneous projection feature analysis apparatus In an apparatus for serially performing simultaneous feature processing and similarity discrimination of an image such as a character or any other figure, an input image is multiplied by a first multiplier into a plurality of optical pattern images which ... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4790024 | Vector discrimination apparatus In a vector discrimination apparatus for performing discrimination such as class classification and recognition of a vector consisting of vector components corresponding to features of predetermined information, an optical pattern displayed on a display a... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4612666 | Automatic pattern recognition apparatus A pattern recognition apparatus makes use of both optical templation and nal correlation techniques by using liquid crystal panels, CCD type cameras, video storage techniques, inter alia, to detect and identify electronic signal patterns transmitted ther... | 09/16/1986 |
| 3975710 | Character pattern recognition method and apparatus using feature enhanced magnetic domain patterns A character pattern recognition method and apparatus for recognizing an unknown character pattern in accordance with a correlation between the unknown character pattern and each known standard character pattern, in which the unknown character pattern is t... | 08/17/1976 |
