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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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| 6911388 | Individual selective rework of defective BGA solder balls A method for reworking a ball grid array (BGA) of solder balls is provided including one or more defective solder balls on an electronic component workpiece using a single-ball extractor/placer apparatus having a heatable capillary tube pickup head optionally augmen... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6787912 | Barrier material for copper structures A barrier material that is particularly suited as a barrier layer in copper interconnects structures found in semiconductor structures. The barrier layer contains one or more regions with one region containing at least 50 atom percent of a copper interface metal. Th... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6660608 | Method for manufacturing CMOS device having low gate resistivity using aluminum implant A CMOS device (10) having p-channel and n-channel transistors with aluminum implanted gates (20). When making the device (10), aluminum is non-selectively implanted to form a source and drain for the n-channel transistor and to reduce the resistivity of t... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6301025 | Method for performing a color space transformation A method for transforming a first image defined by a first multi-dimensional color space (RGB) into second image defined by a second multi-dimensional color space (CMYK). The method computes the transformation using information derived from a previous tra... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5861960 | Image signal encoding apparatus An image signal encoding apparatus reads an image from an original and converts the image into color data values including lightness and chromaticity components. The data values are stored and divided into pixel blocks with data values of lightness compon... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5818610 | Scanner frame A scanner frame comprises a vertical track which is slidably attached at one end thereof to a horizontal track. The horizontal track is attached to a drawing board or any other suitable flat surface. An optical imaging device (i.e., an optical scanner) is... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5796495 | Image input equipment An image input equipment including a stage having a diffusion board provided on an upper surface thereof on which an object is to be placed, an image input head for inputting an image of the object and photoelectrically converting the image into an electr... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5742410 | Color image processing apparatus capable of correcting a color deviation by converting only chroma signals An edge quantity is determined from a lightness signal of image signals on a uniform perception color space. A chroma is determined from chroma signals of the uniform perception color image signals. A black/color edge degree is calculated from the edge qu... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5712678 | Method and apparatus for scanning a terrain surface A method and apparatus are disclosed for scanning a surface of an object, transversely to a direction of motion. A scanner is provided for flying over the object at a flight altitude and flight velocity, having a system focal length, a scanning element ro... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5710644 | Color expressing method and image processing apparatus thereof In a color expression method and an image processing apparatus using that method, characteristics of human vision which responds in proportion of a cube root of a luminance signal indicated by CIE L*a*b* colorimetric system is utilized. In look-up tables ... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5689346 | Image data processing system An Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transformation is widely used for orthogonally transforming image data. The number of adders necessary for sum-of-product operations in a matrix multiplication is reduced. A high speed matrix multiplication and a progressive im... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5671070 | Tonal consistency in a radiographic image network Method and apparatus for insuring tonal consistency between radiographic images visualized on softcopy display devices (video display) or hardcopy display devices radiography film laser printer). The method of transmitting an input digital radiographic im... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5666212 | Method of coding image segments of any shape A method of coding digital image data of an original image for transmission and reproduction. The original image is subdivided into partial image regions whose shapes are adapted to local image structures. For each partial image region, a set of two-dimen... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5638189 | Raster scanner, mirror supporting structure of the same and method for adjusting mirror angle using the structure A raster scanner characterized in that at least one reflecting mirror is supported by a movable supporting mechanism in a manner capable of moving along an incident optical axis while being kept in a certain angle attitude or that an optical sub-frame pro... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5581580 | Low complexity model based channel estimation algorithm for fading channels A low complexity model based channel estimator is disclosed for use by a receiver in Rayleigh fading environments. The receiver contains at least one channel state estimator which uses an auto regressive model for channel variations. The channel state est... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5574572 | Video scaling method and device A linear interpolator and decimating FIR filter with constant coefficients may be used in various configurations to scale a still or moving color video image horizontally (changing the number of pixels per row) or vertically (changing the number of pixels... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5574575 | Facsimile machine In an image recording apparatus, a feeding mechanism synchronously feeds an original bearing an original image and image receiving medium for receiving an image, the original image having successive original image sections. A reading device reads out each... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5570141 | Molded frame for fixing optical elements in a liquid crystal shutter A molded frame for fixing optical elements in a liquid crystal shutter including a registration portion configured similar to a 35 mm slide frame for precisely registering the elements relative to one another and a mounting portion configured to mate with... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5568284 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus with good color reproduction and easy color adjusting function. An image recording apparatus includes a first color correction unit coupled to receive image signals from the image signal source, a second color correction unit ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5566001 | Method and apparatus for fax messaging in a selective call receiver system using multiple code-book data compression A fax selective call receiver system (10) featuring compression of a fax message with an optimal one of a plurality of compression code-books (50). At least a portion (44) of a source document (26) is compressed with each of a plurality of code-books (50)... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5563723 | Method of calibration of image scanner signal processing circuits Signal processing circuit for a multi-pixel scanner array is calibrated by establishing gain and offset correction factors from selected scanner signal measurements and known gain/offset settings that provide accurate calibration of the processing circuit... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5557267 | Apparatus and methods for measurement system calibration Apparatus and methods for calibrating a transducer measurement system having a plurality of subsystems, permitting total system calibration by a few selected adjustments without requiring complete system calibration when a new subsystem is added or a subs... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5557426 | Image information signal processing apparatus An image information signal processing apparatus for processing a first image information signal having at least a first image signal and a second image signal which is different from the first image signal, and a second image information signal having a ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5543939 | Video telephone systems Differential image data compression systems and techniques are disclosed for use in video telephone systems for full duplex, real time transmission of audio and video images over nominal 3 kHz residential telephone lines and other narrow bandwidth channel... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5539540 | Method and associated apparatus for transforming input color values in an input color space to output color values in an output color space This invention provides a method for mapping an input color space to an output color space in such a way that the color reproduction characteristics of the saturated colors can be adjusted in a custom manner, while maintaining the desired tone reproductio... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539534 | Method of scaling an image capable of line width preservation In scaling an image, a projected position is corrected in accordance with pixel values of original pixels surrounding a projected position where a pixel of a scaled image is projected onto an original image, and a pixel value of a pixel of a scaled image ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539780 | Computationally efficient data decoder and method used therein A computationally efficient data decoder that includes a measurement function (18) for providing a channel quality indication, an index function (35) for selecting, responsive to the channel quality indication, a predetermined value representative of a si... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539529 | Facsimile communication with selective call receivers A selective call receiver (40) includes a receiver (66) for receiving information represented as a bitmap image. The selective call receiver 40 further includes a segmenter (206), coupled to the receiver (66), for segmenting the bitmap image into a text r... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537109 | Capacitive transducing with feedback A variable capacitance high precision, stable transducer for detecting position of a moving member including a first stationary conducting surface connected to a source, a second surface with at least two conducting, sensing regions and a third movable co... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5525980 | Method and apparatus for operating a capacitive tactile keyboard A method and apparatus for determining a valid selection of a capacitance tactile keyboard as a function of a selection state and validation state of the keyboard. The selection state is determined from measured capacitive values of each key by during a f... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5521652 | Proximity controlled safety device for a video monitor A proximity controlled safety device for a video monitor that prevents accidental over exposure to electromagnetic radiation and optical brightness. A proximity sensor detects the presence of a person near the video monitor. A control device determines ho... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5517327 | Data processor for image data using orthogonal transformation In a data processor, image data of a pixel matrix is subjected to orthogonal transformation to coefficient data, the coefficient data is quantized with a first quantization table for character image and a second quantization table for half-tone image, and... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5513212 | Conversion of a fax modulation to a data modulation A simultaneous voice and data (SVD) modem is coupled to both a fax machine, which includes a fax modem, and a telephone set. When the fax machine initiates a fax-call, the SVD modem emulates signaling of the local loop. This allows the fax machine to oper... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5510907 | Facsimile apparatus having urgency message transmission function A facsimile apparatus includes: a memory unit for storing subscriber number records indicating destination stations for urgency message transmission, and for storing voice and image urgency message records respectively indicating voice and image urgency m... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5506694 | Scanner-equipped electrophotographic printing machine Upon writing, a portion of light emitted from light-emitting devices of a light-emitting and light-receiving head 2 is deflected by a half mirror and is then allowed to pass through a first lens array to achieve optical writing on a rotating or moving pho... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5506695 | Light shutter apparatus for a photographic film scanner A low cost, compact light shutter apparatus for a photographic film scanner in which an elongate light shutter mechanism has a curvilinear surface nested in a mating, curvilinear recess formed in an opaque plate. The shutter mechanism preferably is compri... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5506686 | Method and device for determining bit allocation in a video compression system The present invention provides a method (100) and device (200) for allocating bits to video pictures in a video compression system. A sequence of video frames or pictures is received, and the number of bits used to compress a previously encoded frame and ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5502574 | Facsimile apparatus which can avoid unwanted interline breaks in output In a facsimile apparatus which can be connected to a data processing apparatus for transmitting/receiving a digital signal, when a specific pattern which is to overlap two or more lines of print without a space between the lines is to be output, a pattern... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5500746 | Color image input apparatus A color image input apparatus or scanner which has three color input devices which input three color images and then convert color image optical signals to analog electric signals. Three analog/digital convertors convert the analog signals to digital sign... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5499109 | System for transferring messages between input and output devices in a communication device A method and system for processing messages is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a message scheduler, a job process, and a format resolution module are used. The message scheduler identifies when a new message is to be processe... | 03/12/1996 |
