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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 |
| 5122911 | Filter lens device for optical color scanner A filter lens device for an optical color scanner comprising a lens, at least three filters and a driving member to drive the filters to line up with scanned data and optical detectors wherein an entire document is scanned completely for each color to be ... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4965840 | Method and apparatus for determining the distances between surface-patches of a three-dimensional spatial scene and a camera system The present invention concerns a method of determining the distance between a surface patch of a 3-D spatial scene and a camera system. The distance of the surface patch is determined on the basis of at least a pair of images, each image formed using a ca... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4676596 | Optical device and document reader using the same In an optical device, small lenses are arranged in two or more rows to constitute a lens array, a plurality of such lens arrays are superimposed with each other between first and second planes, the distance between the optical axes of the rows of small le... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4114168 | Film strip recorder and viewer A compact optical viewer and recorder which employs a Philips-type cassette. Small lenses project microimages from the film strip wound upon the cassette upwardly and onto a plurality of mirrors. The mirrors function to compress the throwing distance of t... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4090243 | Color separating method and apparatus using statistical techniques A color print painted with different colors Ci (i = 1, 2 . . . n) is scanned by a color scanner along a plurality of successive line paths to generate a set of electrical signals each representing the intensity of the spectral components of the... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4079411 | Diffractive phase filter having near field wavelength dependent focusing properties A phase grating structure is defined in which a series of predetermined sawtooth phase delay steps has the property of focusing respective wavelength components of a spectrum of incident wave energy in accordance with their wavelength at different spots i... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4007985 | Multiple function recording and readout system A plural function optical apparatus defined by first and second parallel lensfiche elements positioned with their emulsion sides facing each other and first and second parallel optical screens each spaced from and parallel to a respective face of the lens... | 02/15/1977 |
