This document is intended to disclose certain lines of thought, to prevent their development as proprietary or defensible intellectual property of any other party, and to prevent any future disclosure by other parties from being considered as novel. These have been independently developed by myself free of third-party claim. These are not abandoned, but may be pursued by myself at a later date. - Scott Small, 13 May 2003, approx. 1:30am PDT

Fabric patterns may be printed or dyed on demand with custom patterns, in a range of dimensions by integrating current printing systems of the sort commonly used in the computer industry and dye/pigment chemistry. It is possible to construct such a printer either with purpose-specific head technology or by refitting existing hardware to work with alternate feed materials and media. One example would be to refit an Epson inkjet printer with an alternate ink supply based on a dye like Procion. A complementary technology to this device would be a calibration system for matching gamut and profile of the display and editing system with the actual performance characteristics of the media/substrate combination. One possible form for this would be a test pattern that could be printed, processed, and then scanned to determine lookup values against the original image.

Aircraft employing current "stealth" technology for radar signature suppression may be rendered detectable by a system of passive listeners tuned for the radiation emissions of radio emitters located separately from the receiver. The current GPS constellation and other airborne sources can paint a wide area looking down, and ground sources can illuminate targets against airborne/extraatmospheric receivers. An absorber would leave a travelling shadow or "hole", similar to the effect noticed with early stealth boat technology presenting an area without natural backscatter by water effects. Reradiation would impart a temporal distortion that would be perceptible, likely as a travelling area resembling multipath distortion. Active jamming could be rendered less effective with the simple use of pseudorandom or cryptographically generated data, shared or derivable by both transmitter and receiver, that would present a variability in the signal that would be difficult for the target to spoof.

Apparent depth of field of digital optics systems may be modulated by introducing tilt and swing movements into the photodetector mount. These movements could be optimized for greater or lesser degrees of apparent depth of field by canting the CCD/CMOS/other element appropriately, based on manual control or programmed response to autofocus, mode, or focus selector signals. Actuator mechanism could take the form of a piezo element, memory metal component, motor, solenoid, or other mechanical system. The optical components mounting system, lens mounts, etc., may be similarly modulated for similar effect or to separate tilt and swing movements to different components. This separation may improve rigidity of the mounts. Where active optics provide an effective vibration compensation equivalent to a stop or more of shutter speed, this scheme should be able to provide significant analogous effects with focus.

Dynamic generation of a sinusoidal surface for use as a lenticular screen for three-dimensional visualization apparatus may be performed by oscillation of an optically active surface. For a refractive system, standing waves in the surface of an optically clear sheet would provide the needed refraction of underlying optical elements. Amplitude and period of the oscillations would dictate focus distance and other relevant optical behavior. Variances in intraocular spacing could also be similarly accomodated. The sheet may be presented as a homogenous material of moderate hardness, or as a laminate of materials with complementary physical or optical characteristics. A variant of the refractive system may also be based upon a material that changes optical polarization based on electrical or mechanical stimulus. A reflective system may be generated by ripples in a standing pool of reflective material like mercury, heated, osmium, etc., or by modulation of a sheet similar to the refractive example coated with a reflective material. For both systems, a feedback loop to control the chroma and luminance modulating elements will be required in order to set up the stereo images.

Network security hardware or software can be constructed to terminate connection-oriented sessions perceived as hostile by spoofing a RESET command in the networking protocol in use at the time. As an example, an interactive SQL or terminal session running over TCP that triggers an alarm could be terminated by the action of the monitoring system issuing a TCP RESET, ICMP DESTINATION UNREACHABLE, or similar response with a forged source address to cause the underlying network layer to abandon the session or modify route states to prevent future communication. One use for this would be to allow moderation by an otherwise passive monitoring system maintained separate from exposed or potentially vulnerable hosts, to augment, implement, or ensure policy compliance.