Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6595644 | Dynamic time multiplexed holographic screen with 3-D projection A dynamic time multiplexed holographic system including a holographic screen and a projector that projects successive perspective images onto the holographic screen. The projector includes a rotating polygon that provides successive image slices to the ho... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6563612 | Collimating screen simulator and method A collimating screen simulator comprising a projector and a holographic diffuser screen. The projector is adapted to project a viewable image onto a focal plane that is spaced from the projector. The focal plane has a backside and a viewing side opposite ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6169594 | Beam deflector and scanner A beam deflector comprising a pair of mated microprism arrays with one of the arrays comprised of a variable refractive index material capable of being selectively changed in response to a field whose magnitude or intensity is regulated by regulating volt... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5886675 | Autostereoscopic display system with fan-out multiplexer An autostereoscopic display system including: I) image signal electronics; II) a first projector including: A) a first light source 33; B) a first spatial light modulator 35 optically connected to said first light source and electrically connected to said... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5631754 | Holographic high contrast viewing screen embedded in a liquid crystal display Systems and methods for shaping light from a liquid crystal display are described. A holographic high contrast viewing screen embedded in a liquid crystal display includes a first substrate; a first electrode connected to said first substrate; a light sha... | 05/20/1997 |
