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Patent No. 5265827

Paddle Wheel Plane

An aircraft having vertical takeoff and landing capability provided with at least first and second laterally extending paddle wheels rotatable on a central axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft fuselage and between its nose and tail.

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Inventor: Chuck Monahan


Address: Mountain View, CA
No. of patents: 5
Last patent issue date: 06/14/2011

NumberTitleIssue Date
7961255Television functionality on a chip
A television on a chip (TVOC) system that provides a cost effective approach for providing television functionality on a single integrated circuit chip is disclosed. A TVOC includes the functionality necessary to receive and display television signals in a variety o...
06/14/2011
7679629Methods and systems for constraining a video signal
Systems and methods for filtering to comply with copy-protection regulations set forth for HDTV signals by the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”) are presented. A copy-protection filter constrains the resolution of the HDTV signal when copy-protectio...
03/16/2010
7511768Dynamic filter to limit ringing
A media processing system for limiting ringing in a filter output. A detection filter receives a media signal and generates a detection signal. The detection signal has a constant value over sections of the media signal having a consistent DC bias. The value of the ...
03/31/2009
7489362Television functionality on a chip
A television on a chip (TVOC) system that provides a cost effective approach for providing television functionality on a single integrated circuit chip is disclosed. A TVOC includes the functionality necessary to receive and display television signals in a variety o...
02/10/2009
7283176Method and system for detecting field ID
Methods and systems for determining fields in a video signal are disclosed. Historic field ID values for a received video signal may be stored and subsequently utilized by a summer and/or a correlator in order to estimate a field ID value for a current field. The su...
10/16/2007
 
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