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...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080256591 | Virtual webcam and method thereof A virtual webcam applied in a computer includes a user interface application module for exchanging information between a computer and a user, so that a user can set parameter and format of a video signal source, select a special effect for a video signal, and select an ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080253678 | Denoise method on image pyramid The present invention is to provide a denoise method on Gaussian/Laplacian image pyramid, which integrates Pyramid analysis/synthesis algorithm, MMSE (minimum mean square error) filter and NL (non local) filter on the image pyramid to reconstruct and output a denoised i... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080235662 | Method for obtaining context of corresponding Xlet while playing BD-J title The present invention is to provide a method for enabling BD-J to effectively obtain context of the corresponding Xlet while playing BD-J title, which comprises the steps of setting up source file attribute of each class by adding an Xlet context ID as an unique code to... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080209396 | Homepage for Modular Software A multi-module application has a main module that generates a homepage user interface in a window for accessing a number of function modules of the application. Upon startup of the application, the main module parses a startup xml file that stores information about the ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080205782 | JPEG Processing Engine for Low Profile Systems A method is provided for processing minimum coded units (MCUs) in a Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) bit stream representing an image. A data structure is generated for storing MCU block numbers, corresponding MCU block coordinates, and corresponding MCU block edi... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080204445 | Dynamic Decoder Switch A method provides for dynamic changes in a software video player. The method includes learning of a dynamic change from an input pin of a decoder filter, recording states of the decoder filter and a renderer filter, stopping the decoder and the renderer filters without ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080187224 | Face Component Replacement A method is provided for cloning a facial feature template image into an original image including a face to form a new image. The method includes detecting the face and facial features in the original image, reducing the original and the template images, cloning the red... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080170787 | Method for image separating A method for image separating, said method being applied to an electronic apparatus to separate a foreground and a background of an image displayed on said apparatus, comprising the steps of scanning pixels in said image, applying arithmetic algorithm on said pixels and... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080144717 | Variable length decoding method The present invention is to provide a variable length decoding method for decoding complete binary tree code, which is implemented to an entropy coding module for executing the process comprising the steps of: procuring a TabIndex to calculate a value T=└log2 06/19/2008 | |
| 20080137957 | Method of automatically detecting and tracking a face by an electronic capturing device The present invention discloses a method of automatically detecting and tracking a face by an electronic capturing device that alternatively uses a face detecting algorithm to quickly locate a face in a frame based on a skin color model and a face tracking algorithm to ... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080137507 | Method for storing data compatible with DVD read/write formats to hard disk, HD-DVD, or Blue-Ray DVD The present invention is to provide a method to be used on an electronic device, which employs the demultiplexing process to divide the data streams from video file compatible with DVD read/write formats, or video file from several DVD disks; into several independent an... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080123974 | Method of parallelly filtering input data words to obtain final output data words containing packed half-pel pixels The present invention is to provide a parallel filtering method, which is implemented to an interpolation filter and comprises the steps of separating coefficients of the interpolation filter into two sets comprising the positive and negative coefficients respectively f... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080089560 | Known face guided imaging method A known face guided imaging method applied for an electronic imaging device uses the scale of a known face sensed in a previous frame to define a scale range of a searching window, which adds a scale constraint into the searching window so as to search a current frame h... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080037836 | Method for driving virtual facial expressions by automatically detecting facial expressions of a face image A method for driving virtual facial expressions by automatically detecting facial expressions of a face image is applied to a digital image capturing device. The method includes the steps of detecting a face image captured by the image capturing device and images of a p... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080025576 | Method for detecting facial expressions of a portrait photo by an image capturing electronic device In a method for detecting facial expressions of a portrait photo by an image capturing electronic device, a face captured in the portrait photo is detected. The position and range of the opened and closed facial features are detected, and the facial features within an i... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080022218 | Method for cache image display A method for cache image display in an electronic apparatus having at least a LCD screen and a storage device, said method being applied when a user performs operations such as shrinking, enlarging, dragging or adjusting the viewing area of a thumbnail image on said scr... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20080013120 | Method for automatically adjusting the position and size of each object of an image mask to fit an image page The present invention discloses a method for automatically adjusting the position and size of each object of an image mask to fit an image page, and the method is applied to an image mask. The image mask includes an object such as a frame, a figure and a text, and each ... | 01/17/2008 |
