Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5996056 | Apparatus for reducing a computational result to the range boundaries of a signed 8-bit integer in case of overflow An intermediate result signal arising from a manipulation of data signals is checked and reduced without using conditional branches, thereby improving instruction processing. Data signals are represented as signed 8-bit binary values in a two's compliment... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5699279 | Optimized binary adders and comparators for inputs having different widths A first two-input adder computes the sum of one wider and one narrower input by combining a conventional adder for the low-order bits with an incrementer and selection logic for the high-order bits. A second three-input adder computes the sum of one wider... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5432724 | Processor for uniform operations on respective series of successive data in respective parallel data streams A data processing system for processing parallel first and second sequences of successive first and successive second data, respectively, includes a memory, having a memory input to receive the first and second data for storage; and an operating circuit c... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5333313 | Method and apparatus for compressing a dictionary database by partitioning a master dictionary database into a plurality of functional parts and applying an optimum compression technique to each part A method and apparatus for compressing dictionary database information is described. The method divides the database information into a number of parts which are each conducive to a predetermined compression technique. A first part database is formed cons... | 07/26/1994 |
