U.S. Patents

[P3D Hayden B. Baldwin <hbaldwin@xxxxxxxxx>]

While looking for information on a patent I came across the following at
the US Patent web site:

US Patent 5,371,562 was issued Dec. 6, 1994 to Timothy Hahm & Joseph
Mainco of the Eastman Kodak Company for a "STEREOSCOPIC DISK and VIEWER
and METHOD OF MAKING. The abstract for the patent reads as follows: "A
stereoscopic disk for viewing stereo images in a binocular viewer
includes a film disk with a plurality of stereo images pairs disposed
around the perphery of the film disk, sandwiched between two pairs of
disks of opaque material defining windows, in which the stereo images on
the film disk are located."

Sounds like VIEW MASTER to me! Kodak patent in 1994? Something you folks
at the Rochester conference forgot to tell us?  :-)

On the lighter side, I also found a patent for an "Odor dispensing
system for hand-held stereoscopic viewer & replaceable container."
Patent issued June 17, 1980 for a gentleman in San Francisco, CA.

The abstract states in brief.... A hand-held sterescopic viewer with a
cavity in which a container may be inserted or removed. The cavity is
located adjacent the nostrils of the user...... etc.

Now THERE is a man after my own heart...scratch & sniff slides must be
just around the corner!


-- 
Hayden B. Baldwin, The 3D Bear


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