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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 |
| 5134667 | Area discriminating system for an image processing system An area discriminating system for use in an image processing system capable of processing an image signal including character images signals and halftone images signals which determines the hues of the images represented by the image signal, produces hue ... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5133019 | Systems and methods for illuminating and evaluating surfaces Systems and methods for illuminating an object surface with light at varying angles of incidence and for optically evaluating the object surface for features and defects, etc. are disclosed. In a specific implementation the systems and methods, the target... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5125040 | Inspection method of photomask reticle for semiconductor device fabrication A method of inspecting a photomask reticle for the fabrication of a semiconductor device such as a die having a first pattern which has its own individual shape and a plurality of second patterns each having the same shape and size among themselves, combi... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5121447 | Apparatus for performing gradation processing on image data Image processing apparatus having an input device for inputting the data of an objective pixel, calculator for obtaining an average density value in a specified region and a quantizer for quantizing the data of the objective pixel based on the average den... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5115478 | Image reader A scan apparatus, comprising: a platen on which a document can be placed; a criterion member on which at least one black zone and at least one white zone are formed successively in the subscan direction, criterion member being arranged near the platen on ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5115477 | Image recognition edge detection method and system A system and method for delineating the edges of an object in an image frame formed of a two dimensional array of pixels represented by a plurality of gray scale values representing the gray scales of the pixels. A reference contrast level based on the di... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5113457 | Image information code processing system An image information code processing system in this invention compresses and encodes a 2-valued image information in a facsimile, etc. For example, an image is expressed by a set of component patterns using bit patterns of divided 4×4 bit rectangular blo... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5109451 | Orthogonal transform coding system for image data An orthogonal transform coding system for images which orthogonally transforms image data to spatial frequencies and divides the domain of the spatial frequencies into low and high frequency domains using a plurality of domain patterns prepared in advance... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5105467 | Method of fingerprint verification A method of fingerprint verification includes determining a direction difference between a direction pattern of an input fingerprint and a direction pattern of a registered fingerprint and comparing the determined direction difference with predetermined u... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5105466 | Method and apparatus for detecting corresponding regions between picture images The method of detecting corresponding regions between a plurality of pictue images includes respective steps of standardizing the concentration values of respective picture image signals in the operation object regions of a plurality of picture images so ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5101452 | Apparatus and method for dynamic step quantization The apparatus and method of the present invention operates upon the problem of contouring that is encountered in the digital image processing field. The preferred apparatus embodiment of the invention forms quantizing steps that vary in size during the pr... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5101438 | Method of discriminating different kinds of image areas, involving two-dimensional orthogonal transforms An image area discriminating method surely distinguishes a character image area and a halftone image area printed on a single document in response to image data outputted by an image reader. An image of interest is divided into N×N blocks and subjected t... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5099520 | Figure retrieval method A figure retrieval method for storing memory addresses for figure data in an address data table which corresponds to positional coordinates of a multi-dimensional array. When retrieving end points, or node points, other points on a line and points on a su... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5097517 | Method and apparatus for processing bank checks, drafts and like financial documents Banking apparatus for reading numeric information on bank checks, drafts and like documents. An electronic black/white pixel image of the numeric information is analyzed by a system capable of reading unconstrained, constrained, printed and typed numeric ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5097516 | Technique for illuminating a surface with a gradient intensity line of light to achieve enhanced two-dimensional imaging To obtain an enhanced two-dimensional image of a raised, light-reflective reflective feature (12), and its lower height surrounding background such that the contrast between them is enhanced, a line of light having a gradient profile is directed at an acu... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5091963 | Method and apparatus for inspecting surfaces for contrast variations A method of and apparatus for inspecting the surface of an article for isolated contrast variations by illuminating the surface, forming an image of the surface from the reflected light, the image being composed of pixels that contain digitized informatio... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5091969 | Priority order of windows in image processing The concept of windows has been widely used in the technical field of image processing. Since the conventional method was necessary to define the shape of the windows so that one window does not include more than one subject, the algorithm of image proces... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5091964 | Apparatus for extracting a text region in a document image A peripheral distribution of filled pixels in a document image is calculated by projecting the filled pixels in an X-axis or a Y-axis direction. A bottom part in the peripheral distribution is detected. The document image is divided into a plurality of pr... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5091974 | Method of processing linework with electronic image processor An original image is represented in a run-length format. Run-length of each image region is compared with a predetermined reference value, and if the former is smaller than the latter, the run-length (l) is divided into two values (l1, l2 | 02/25/1992 |
| 5086486 | Apparatus for reading a document and processing the image An image processing system characterized by recognizing a document area and binarizing an image data read from a document based on an image data read from the recognized document area.... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5081691 | Filtering techniques A digital filter for a digitized graphic image which eliminates border aberrations in the transition from one color to another in the image, which eliminates isolated dots while retaining isolated background in the center of alphanumeric characters, provi... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5081693 | Thermal imager arrangements Pictorial data from a thermal imager is applied on a line to a RAM at which a histogram representing the numerical distribution of pixel values is produced. This is applied to a microprocessor which uses the histogram to produce a transform to control the... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5077808 | Method for processing an image by histogram alteration An image processing method for flatten=ing histogram with distribution comprising steps of: a density conversion table is generated for indicating to which densities each density is to be converted, as well as how many pixels are to be converted; the latt... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5077806 | Machine vision analysis apparatus A machine vision analysis apparatus and method for automatically checking objects for specified characteristics. A video camera is provided for producing an analog video input signal corresponding to an area having an object therein being observed by the ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5077805 | Hybrid feature-based and template matching optical character recognition system A feature-based character recognition identification and confidence level are determined for an unknown symbol. If the confidence level is within an intermediate range, the feature-based identification is confirmed by matching the unknown character with a... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5068910 | Image signal processor for reading dark and light characters from light and dark backgrounds respectively An image signal processor is capable of precisely reading a dark-colored character or the like drawn on a light-colored background, such as a white board, and to perform binary encoding, but also capable of precisely reading a light-colored character or t... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5067166 | Method and apparatus for DP matching using multiple templates A pattern recognition method and apparatus using dynamic programming in which an input sequence of labels is matched to a set of candidate templates (candidate reference label sequences). The set of candidate reference label sequences is grouped into subs... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5065444 | Streak removal filtering method and apparatus A filter for decreasing sensor artifacts in an image frame as, for instance, sensor induced streaking in the image frame, has a frame buffer for temporary storing the picture elements of the image frame. A picture element mask is utilized to group related... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5060277 | Pattern classification means using feature vector regions preconstructed from reference data A method for classifying an input feature vector representing an unknown pattern as belonging to one of a set of pre-defined pattern classes, wherein the input feature vector is compared with pre-constructed regions. A hierarchy of possibility regions is ... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058188 | Manual scan type image reader for correcting read image data to faithfully reproduce read image Thers is disclosed a manual scan type image reader for reading a document image by manually moving an image sensor for optically reading the image in a predetermined manual scan direction, converting the read document image into document image data, and o... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5058185 | Object management and delivery system having multiple object-resolution capability A method and apparatus which allows an object management and delivery system to perform capture, prefetch, display, print and/or modify operations with only a modicum of interaction between the operations of a host computer system and the object managemen... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5058184 | Hierachical information processing system Plural efferent signal paths paired with plural conventional afferent signal paths respectively are provided between lower order cell-layers and higher order cell-layers of a neural network model. Once an output response has been derived from the higher o... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5058177 | Method for inspection of protruding features An automatic system for the inspection of a plurality of protruding features of an object employing computer vision. The system examines the position of a tip of the feature and compares it with an ideal position to determine if the object is defective or... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5054101 | Thresholding of gray level images using fractal dimensions The locality of a two dimensional gray level image from which is generated a reference threshold value for converting the image to its corresponding binary image is determined by finding the fractal dimension of a hypothetical three dimensional surface ov... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5050219 | Method of handwriting recognition A method of recognition of handwriting consisting in applying predetermined criterions to a tracing of handwriting or to elements of this tracing so that several characterizing features of this tracing or of these elements be determined, comparing charact... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048114 | Image reading and processing apparatus responsive to attributes for designating copying conditions An image reading and processing apparatus in which an image-carrying medium is scanned along a predetermined path in a line-by-line manner and, during each cycle of line scanning, image data is produced from a line of pixels on the scanned image-carrying ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5048102 | Multiple interpolation process for image correction A multiple interpolation process for image correction involves the precalculation of interpolation contributions relative to all the possible locations of the points of an elementary mesh. The positions of these locations are determined as a function of a... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5046190 | Pipeline image processor An image morphological processing system is formed by a cascade of a plurality of transformation stages. A pair of handshake data flow control lines couple each pair of adjacent stages. One line carries a first signal indicating when the previous stage ha... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5046113 | Method of and apparatus for detecting pattern defects by means of a plurality of inspecting units each operating in accordance with a respective inspecting principle An apparatus for inspecting pattern defects in circuit board conductors or other images has inspecting units which perform inspection operations based on various pattern matching approaches, which include design rule checking and expansion/contraction pro... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5046109 | Pattern inspection apparatus An apparatus for inspecting a pattern formed on an object such as a mask or a reticle in accordance with design data includes a character extraction circuit that employs a multiplicity of templates for detecting any of a plurality of different types of be... | 09/03/1991 |
