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4953870Tossable strategy-type game with tri-dimensional playing surface
... playing pieces are associated with only the first surface areas. Preferably, the first surface areas have a polygonal configuration defining a plurality of vertices with each vertex of any given first surface area contacting the vertex ... 		09/04/1990
6445442Projection-microlithographic device
... a plurality of rectangular fields and/or fields in the form of parallelograms assembled in the manner of a polygon. 9. The projection-microlithographic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the fields are delimited by two parallel lines ... 		09/03/2002
20100096805CUSTOMIZABLE GAME DEVICES
... viewable for customization of the game board device 100. The windows 140 can be various shapes, including, for example, polygons, rectangles, squares, circles, ellipses, or a various combinations of these and other shapes. In some exemplary ... 		04/22/2010
20060208047Container with flyer disc lid
... from the group consisting of triangular, rectangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, septagonal, octagonal, nonagonal, decagonal and polygonal; at least one light or piece of light material on the disc body; a piece of material larger than ... 		09/21/2006
20100187771THREE- DIMENSIONNAL FLAT GASKET
... . 65. The gasket according to claim 39, wherein the through-opening in the gasket layer has a circular, round, oval, triangular, polygonal or freely formed configuration. 66. The gasket according to claim 39, wherein, in the gasket layer in ... 		07/29/2010
20050001380Game table
... . In particular, the retaining regions 42 may have a generally square, oval, rectangular, triangular, polygonal, or other configuration depending upon the items intended to be positioned in the retaining regions. [0049] Advantageously, the ... 		01/06/2005
4983076Facings for earthworks
... surfaces at the corners of the frames. The frames are advantageously constructed from uniform members comprising the sides of the polygonal shape required. This provides the advantage of simplicity of production and transport. The frames will ... 		01/08/1991
20100102510FOLDABLE GAME BOARD WITH INTERIOR STORAGE COMPARTMENT
... located within the region 70. [0030]In other example embodiments, the game board 10 may be in the shape of a non-quadrilateral polygon (e.g. a circle). For example, if the game board 10 may have a circular shape. The circular game board 10 ... 		04/29/2010
20080116633Cubic Assembly Puzzle and Support Structure
... of a five-unit by five-unit square with a one-unit square removed from each of the four corners, thereby forming a polygonal plus shape; the one-unit by one-unit by three-unit tower is located on the central square of the bottom member. A ... 		05/22/2008
4934708Family quiz board game
... all other ones of said game board spaces. 5. The method of playing a game according to claim 1 Wherein, said game board is polygonal, and said Parking Lot spaces are disposed adjacent the corners of said polygonal game board. 6. The method of playing ... 		06/19/1990
7456841Graphic image texture generation
... a procedural texture at a resolution determined by a received scale factor. In terms of a two-dimensional image composed from polygons projected from three-dimensional object space, this scale factor will directly relate the depth and orientation of the ... 		11/25/2008
20110160869BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS FOR MAMMALIAN STEM CELL GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION
... the features at the surface of the biocompatible material are geometric (e.g. square, rectangular, hexagonal, star-shaped, or polygonal) in shape. [0223] In some embodiments, the cross-sectional shape of the features may be derived from a ... 		06/30/2011
20070242253Moving beam with respect to diffractive optics in order to reduce interference patterns
... with a notch and/or a flattened edge along part of its perimeter. In an example, the substrate has a polygonal shape, e.g., a rectangular shape. [0047] Examples where the substrate has a substantially circular shape include examples where ... 		10/18/2007
4456258Game with an icosahedral geodesic sphere board
... projecting vertically from the playing surface a predetermined distance, the point of attachment of the support pins being at the center of the polygons; the support pins having at their outer ends a hemispherical shape; an imaginary continuous surface ... 		06/26/1984
7961936Non-overlap region based automatic global alignment for ring camera image mosaic
... of current corners; obtaining polygon vertices; identifying upper- and lower-most corners of a column by analyzing points in the polygon vertices; identifying other corners in the column with upper- and lower-most corners; and identifying remaining ... 		06/14/2011
6536766Multi-functional game board with rotating mechanism
... of said outer circle of said game board. 8. A board game apparatus comprising: a game board having a predetermined polygonal shape with corners in which a perimeter thereof is divided into a plurality of playing fields arrayed around said ... 		03/25/2003
20090117311INTERLOCKING SPATIAL COMPONENTS
... and 3d.1 illustrate embodiments corresponding to the intersection of two and three perpendicular cylinders, respectively. Edges of a polygonal surface of connexors may be filleted by cylinders and vertexes by spheres of the same radius. FIG ... 		05/07/2009
20080240612NON-OVERLAP REGION BASED AUTOMATIC GLOBAL ALIGNMENT FOR RING CAMERA IMAGE MOSAIC
... current corners;obtaining polygon vertices;identifying upper- and lower-most corners of a column by analyzing points in the polygon vertices;identifying other corners in the column with upper- and lower-most corners; and identify remaining ... 		10/02/2008
20050187042Tournament reference device and method therefor
... [0011] FIG. 1 is an illustration depicting a perspective view of a reference device having a generally right polygonal structure in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. [0012] FIG. 2 is an illustration depicting a top ... 		08/25/2005
20080208351Biocompatible Material for Surgical Implants and Cell Guiding Tissue Culture Surfaces
... Preferably the features at the surface of the biocompatible material are geometric (e.g. square, rectangular, hexagonal, star-shaped, or polygonal) in shape. [0090]In some embodiments, the cross-sectional shape of the features may be derived ... 		08/28/2008
7677567Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure
United States Patent: 7677567   ( 4151 of 4867 ) United States Patent 7,677,567 Chen March 16, 2010 Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure Abstract A game or puzzle including a plurality of ... 		03/16/2010
20100213670Board Game
... anda set of game rules. 2. A board game comprising:a playing surface formed from a plurality of generally planar, polygonal plates which may be arranged together to form a plurality of different playing surface arrangements and shapes, each ... 		08/26/2010
6105965Magnetic toss game method and apparatus
... which said base portion is of non-circular configuration. 3. A game piece as claimed in claim 2 in which said base portion is of polygonal configuration. 4. A game piece as claimed in claim 1 in which said free end of said rotor is spaced ... 		08/22/2000
5333878Maze type board game
... number of spaces per turn. 8. The game of claim 1 wherein said game board spaces are shaped into regular polygons. 9. The game of claim 1 wherein said maze areas have at least one entry from said segments between playing areas to all marked ... 		08/02/1994
7044465Strategy game with geometrical structure
... to Frankel, discloses a two or three-dimensional strategy game device called playing surface with a continuous arrangement of a plurality of polygonal areas. U.S. Pat. No. 3,452,989, issued to H. Jernstrom, discloses a game apparatus including a playing ... 		05/16/2006
6184713Scalable architecture for high density CPLDS having two-level hierarchy of routing resources
... GSM 380'. The combination of segment layouts and the centralized GSM gives the die a general shape of a regular polygon (e.g., a square). This helps to minimize interconnect lengths and thereby improve signal propagation speeds. I/O pins are ... 		02/06/2001
5272652Expanded field of view (EFOV) display for real-time, manned, interactive air combat simulation, including close-in combat
... selected, step 43b draws the flight path ribbons for the current aircraft as follows by drawing a series of connected polygons whose corners are defined by the position of the aircrafts wingtips over the last 10 seconds. A source code ... 		12/21/1993
4198055Interacting game board and playing piece
... for varying the indicating means of said playing piece located thereon by said locating means, the control means being a four-sided polygon located on some of said stations at different positions relative to said locating means; means depending from said ... 		04/15/1980
20090084582Printed circuit board having stepped conduction layer
... in a straight shape or in a concavely curved shape. [0027]The shape of the base regions may circular, oval, or polygonal, when viewed from above the conduction layer. [0028]On the other hand, the connecting region may be in a solid stripe ... 		04/02/2009
20050029736Strategy game with geometrical structure
... , discloses a two or three-dimensional strategy game device called playing surface with a continuous arrangement of a plurality of polygonal areas. [0012] U.S. Pat. No. 3,452,989, issued to H. Jernstrom, discloses a game apparatus including ... 		02/10/2005
8113761Support platform of non-contact transfer apparatus
... sub-holes 3 may be formed in a substantially rectangular shape, a substantially oval shape, a substantially circular shape, or a polygonal shape. In FIG. 2B, the sub-holes 3 are inclined at a predetermined angle relative to a bottom surface of the support ... 		02/14/2012
20060284042Support platform of non-contact transfer apparatus
... 3 may be formed in a substantially rectangular shape, a substantially oval shape, a substantially circular shape, or a polygonal shape. [0036] In FIG. 2B, the sub-holes 3 are inclined at a predetermined angle relative to a bottom surface of ... 		12/21/2006
6605254Method using ethylene oxide to fumigate corrosion promoting microbes
... such as curvaceous or flat and illustratively but not limited to forming a cylindrical or tubular space, or a polygonal space such as triangular or rectilinear space. The articles enclosing these spaces are typically designed to ... 		08/12/2003
6561909Game in which telephone signals act as semaphores signaling game moves
... a monitor. In CG technology, an object arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space is comprised of a plurality of polygons, and a polygon is comprised of a plurality of pixels. On the monitor, an image when an object in each virtual ... 		05/13/2003
7953260Predicting movement of soft tissue of the face in response to movement of underlying bone
... MA: 1060-1064 (Jun. 1990). cited by other .Sousa, M., et al., "Computer-Generated Graphite Pencil Rendering of 3-D Polygonal Models", Eurographics'99, 18(3):C195-C207 (1999). cited by other .Stam, J., "Exact Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces ... 		05/31/2011
5251322Method of operating a computer graphics system including asynchronously traversing its nodes
... ______________________________________ SGR Primitive Routines Arguments ______________________________________ Primitive SGRs SGR$POLYGON context, vertex.sub.-- format, flags, plane.sub. ... 		10/05/1993
7583841Table detection in ink notes
... then the stroke is segmented and approximated. FIG. 8 illustrates the process of stroke segmentation and approximation. First, polygonal approximation algorithm is applied to approximate each drawing stroke with conjoint line segments, up to a prescribed ... 		09/01/2009
7664325Framework for detecting a structured handwritten object
... then the stroke is segmented and approximated. FIG. 8 illustrates the process of stroke segmentation and approximation. First, polygonal approximation algorithm is applied to approximate each drawing stroke with conjoint line segments, up to a prescribed ... 		02/16/2010
5316307Three-dimensional strategy game
... and segments. Further, although the circular form of plate members is preferred, they may be square or they may be polygons of greater than four sides. The plurality of playing surface plates may be supported solely by a central post ... 		05/31/1994
8099758Policy based composite file system and method
United States Patent: 8099758   ( 468 of 4218 ) United States Patent 8,099,758 Schaefer ,   et al. January 17, 2012 Policy based composite file system and method Abstract A policy configurable file ... 		01/17/2012
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