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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 10:58 AM EST |
It is relevent for physical activity, but not the computation.
It as long as the computation can be done by the mind a person it is by
definition abstract.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tknarr on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 12:09 PM EST |
So if I took the device and used a display slow enough that you could see the
scan process (and yes such displays exist, they even have their uses), it
wouldn't infringe? Even though it was exactly the infringing software running on
exactly the infringing hardware using exactly the infringing algorithm? I think
not. Slowing down the process doesn't change the process, only the speed at
which it happens. A coining press doesn't cease infringing on a patent just
because it's run slower to only mint coins 1 per second instead of 1000 per
second. Nor would an algorithm for making the screen bounce cease infringing
merely because the video refresh was slowed down from 60Hz to 1Hz (which is all
it takes to slow down screen updates to where you can clearly see the pixels
flip as the scan progresses). [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 03:19 PM EST |
But what relevance does the crater have to the patent?
Yet again, you are trying to patent the CONSEQUENCES of what you're doing.
As I said above, just because doing the maths by hand means the results aren't
finished in time to be useful, doesn't mean "doing the maths faster"
is worthy of a patent.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 08:08 PM EST |
The image was very crude, but I did that forty years ago after canabalising a
couple of strings of Christmas lights.
I'd need around 4,500,000 leds and on/off switches, to produce a moving
image with HDMI quality, in a basic home electronic workshop.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 09:36 AM EST |
Pigeons see very much faster than we do. If one goes to the movies, all it sees
are still images played one after the other.
By turning the lights one and off by hand, the effect would be that we see much
more closely what a pigeon would see of the original "bounce" effect.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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