"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7168618 | Retail store method and system Image capture devices attached to a computer processor are located in a retail store. Items of merchandise for sale are tracked from their display position to a shopping container using optical tracking software. The software is capable of identifying the items and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6968997 | Banknote receipt and payout apparatus Provided is a banknote receipt and payout apparatus which handles several denominations, having a banknote loading and collecting function, and which is capable of handling several denominations. A banknote receipt and payout apparatus comprising a receipt and payou... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6879323 | Three-dimensional model generation device, three-dimensional model generation method, and recording medium for storing the three-dimensional model generation method Featured is a device for generating a 3-D model of a target object detects size, position, and direction of the target object in an input image. The device calculates the position of each vertex of a 3-D rough geometric model projected onto a 2-D plane in the detect... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6867044 | Method and system for detecting biological and chemical hazards in networked incoming mailboxes A method and system for detecting chemical or biological hazards in items is provided. A plurality of incoming mail mailboxes each include a sampler to sample air from a letter that is tested using a first sensor. Source information corresponding to hazard flagged m... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6681034 | Method and system for fingerprint template matching A method for matching templates and a system thereof. Each template includes a plurality of data chunks, each data chunk representing a minutia and comprising a location, a minutia angle and a neighborhood. The location is represented by two coordinates. ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6393140 | Paper-like piece identifying method and device Detected data for a plurality of predetermined positions on a particular bill to be identified are each converted into relative-value data to a minimum value of the detected data for the individual positions, to extract a characteristic pattern of designs... | 05/21/2002 |
| 5780825 | Automatic teller machine including a halt requesting mechanism in a durss period An automatic teller machine having an operation guide, an input unit, a transaction medium handling unit a halt requesting unit for requesting suspension of a transaction, a transaction recording unit for recording transaction information including inform... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5712830 | Acoustically monitored shopper traffic surveillance and security system for shopping malls and retail space Acoustic surveillance of objects and human traffic in spatial zones of a shopping mall and associated retail selling space is used to detect shopper traffic movement and from it, traffic data such as: shopper volume, shopper flow, crowding, and also unusu... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5519669 | Acoustically monitored site surveillance and security system for ATM machines and other facilities Acoustic surveillance of objects and human traffic in a spatial zone of a financial transaction device is used to detect movement within the zone. Several specific types of detected movement defined as abnormal trigger an alert to a remote monitoring stat... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5488671 | Reducing operator balancing in a document processing system employing automatic reading An image-based transaction processing system employing automatic reading of machine-printed and handwritten financial amounts on transaction documents to enhance transaction balancing by reducing the number of transactions which have to be balanced by an ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5253167 | Remote maintenance/supervisory system and method for automated teller machines In a remote maintenance system for automated teller machine comprising an automated teller machine for performing automatic transaction of cash and a supervisory arrangement for remotely supervising the automated teller machine, imaging means for imaging ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 4942464 | Surveillance device for the protection of an automatic delivery apparatus A surveillance device for the protection of an automatic delivery apparatus operable by code carriers, in particular of a money dispenser, has a video camera (12), which is arranged to be triggered responsive to actuation of the automatic delivery apparat... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4663622 | Non-counterfeitable document system A system for authenticating an object on the basis of certain physical phenomena or character, specifically, measurable, but not practicably duplicable random variations in the object. In one form, the object (authenticator (T)) is a paper tag having a re... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4603390 | Computerized parking system A computerized parking system which includes a first camera for reading the license plate of a vehicle entering a parking area, and a second camera for reading the license plate of the vehicle as it leaves the parking area. In each instance, the letters a... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4509136 | Teller machine with preset abilities A teller machine includes numeral keys, function keys, a central processor unit, and a printer for printing out transaction data onto a desired bill. A preset ability is employed by the teller machine so that a bill issuance number is limited at operator'... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4420773 | Electronic photographic camera An electronic photographic camera includes an imaging optical system operable to be focused to an object to be photographed, a solid state imaging sensing device including a plurality of light-receiving elements disposed in the imaging plane of the imagin... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4405856 | Apparatus for recording identifying data concerning the use of a credit card, cheque or the like An apparatus for recording identifying data relating to the use of a credit card, cheque or the like and for dispensing a receipt disclosing at least part of such data; the apparatus comprises a housing in which a camera is mounted for taking, through a o... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4376574 | Camera with electronically controlled shutter and flash triggering assembly A camera including an electronically programmed shutter including improved witches closed during operation of the shutter is provided. The shutter assembly includes an opening member and a locking member carrying shutter blade pivotably mounted to the open... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4370724 | Circuit for the sensor controlled distance measurement A circuit for sensor controlled distance measurement is disclosed having two linear image sensors which are positioned to receive corresponding lines of two images derived from an object. The sensor signals are subjected to correlation measurements from w... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4351008 | Modulator for use in an interface between a digital signal processing apparatus and an audio tape deck An improved modulator is capable of facilitating recording and reproducing on and from an audio cassette tape digital signals such as programs and numerical data coming from digital signal processing apparatus including an electronic cash register as well... | 09/21/1982 |