''He has thirty or forty U.S. patents and over 300 patents around the world, and another fifty or sixty pending. Currently, he's working on four things at once, three of which are top secret. "If any one of them succeeds, we'll all be rich," says Woody.''
http://www.woodynorris.com/interview.htm
If you look at Sanyo's time line their first digital camera hit in 1997... Isn't that a year or so after Their work with us on Flashback.
http://www.sanyo.com/corporate/history/04.html
Noting they say nothing of it.
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