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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:00:40 -0500 From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) To: patent-news@world.std.com Subject: PATNEWS: Ultimate Lemelson Submarine - 1957 priority - for animation
!19960314 Ultimate Lemelson Submarine - 1957 priority - for animation
Anyone doing anything with animation, prepared to be sued without being able to rely on prior art to fight back. Jerome Lemelson just was issued an animation patent in which the original priority date is 1955. Yes 1955, before I was even born - in fact before most of the people in today's animation/multimedia business were born.
You think Compton's was bad, this is way worse, because it is much more broader, and has this ridiculous priority date. This patent is so bad that it will probably force Lemelson to donate the money to put APS onto the Internet for free access to get enough goodwill. Whatever arguments were left to support 17-from-issuance patent terms (as opposed to the current 20 from filing) will be blown away.
Anyways, here is the OG entry. Those of you interested is using me on this one, it will cost tens times as much and I doubt I will find anything. Even I have my searching limitations - 1955 is too much for me to handle.
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Here's the entry in the Official Gazette
5,491,591 SERIES OF IMAGES REPRODUCED FROM ADDRESSABLE STORAGE Jerome H. Lemelson, Suite 286, Unit 802, 930 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, Nev 89451-9436
Continuation of Ser. No 719,964, Jun 24 1991, abandoned, which is a division of Ser No. 363,121, Jun. 8, 1989, abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser No. 933,251, Nov. 21, 1986, abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 158,286, Jun. 10, 1980, abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 225,173, Aug. 27, 1962, Pat. No. 4,213,163, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 668,343, Jun. 27, 1957, Pat. No. 3,051,777 which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 544,991, Nov. 4, 1955, Pat. No. 2,959,636, and a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 515,417, Jun. 14, 1955, Pat. No. 3,003,109. This application Jan. 14, 1992, Ser. No. 820,563
Int. Cl. H04N 5/78 U.S. Cl. 360-35.1
1. An apparatus for generating an animated motion picture on an electronic display screen, comprising:
(a) a storage member comprising a magnetic disk and having a plurality of defined storage locations, each of said storage locations being identifiable by a respective location code.
(b) a storage system structured to receive and store in said storage member a plurality of discrete image signals corresponding to a plurality of still images, each of said still images defining part of a specific animation sequence, by: (1) determining selected of said storage locations of said storage member at which to store selected of said discrete image signals; (2) identifying the location codes corresponding to the selected storage locations; (3) assigning said identified location codes to the corresponding discrete image signals selected for storage at said selected locations; (4) assigning at least one cross-reference code relating to a specific animation to the corresponding selected discrete image signals; (5) controlling the storage at said selected locations of said corresponding discrete image signals; and (6) controlling the storage of said cross-reference code in said storage member;
(c) a reproduction system structured to use said assigned location codes to select and reproduce from said storage member a plurality of said stored discrete image signals corresponding to a specific animation sequence and to generate discrete display signals corresponding to said selected discrete image signals; and
(d) a display system coupled to the reproduction system and including a storage device structured to store one of said discrete display signals corresponding to said selected discrete image signal, a video display screen, and a recording device coupled to sequentially replace in the storage device a series of said discrete display signals to produce said specific animated motion picture on said display screen.
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