Abstract: An image sensor has two or three rows of imaging elements, all the imaging elements being of the same size. This provides the rows with a native resolution. The image sensor is also provided with three shift registers. First and second shift register elements receive information from respective corresponding imaging element in a first and second row of imagining elements while shift register elements of the third shift register receive information from four imaging elements. The four imaging elements form a super-pixel, allowing the sensor to output information in a low resolution mode, as well a native and a high resolution mode.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 30, 2004
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2008
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc.
Inventors:
Aditya J. Angal, Mahesan Chelvayohan, Patrick L. Kroger
Abstract: A tremolo system for a stringed musical instrument, comprising an arm member rotatably connected to the instrument body; a first fluid member, operatively connected to the arm member, for moving a bridge of the instrument in response to rotation of the arm member so as to change a pitch of a tone generated by the instrument; and a mechanism for rotating the arm member relative to the instrument so that rotation of the arm member in a first direction substantially raises a pitch of a tone generated by the instrument, and rotating the arm member in a second direction substantially lowers the pitch of a tone generated by the instrument.
Abstract: A system for monitoring fluid flow in a water supply for detection of leakage. The system includes sensing means for detecting fluid flow and generating a proportional pulse, timing and memory means for recording an occurrence of the pulses, means for determining if a substantially continuous series of pulses occurred over a time period, and means for indicating the results of the determination.
Abstract: An apparatus for the analysis of power quality and the effects of harmonic distortions on machinery or equipment. The apparatus is compact, portable, and non-invasive in that the apparatus can be operatively connected to an electrical carrier without power interruption. A display device is built in allowing graphical display of averaged or continuously updated measurements and analysis. A central processing unit analyzes measurements using Fourier analysis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 1992
Date of Patent:
November 15, 1994
Assignee:
TCI (Trans-Coil, Inc.)
Inventors:
Michael Z. Lowenstein, Dean R. Mehlberg