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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| 20120050293 | DYNAMICALLY SMOOTHING A CURVE This is directed to dynamically adjusting the display of a curve provided on a display while the curve is being drawn. In particular, this is directed to identifying segments between sampled points of a line, and applying a transform to the segments to smooth the line b... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120042028 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING TO DO ITEMS OR NOTES OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES Methods and systems for managing To do items and/or notes and/or emails (or other electronic messages) are described. A record, such as a To do item, in a database maintained locally by the data processing system is encoded into metadata. The metadata is sent as a false... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110298886 | Auto Exposure Techniques for Variable Lighting Conditions Systems, methods, and a computer readable medium for performing auto exposure (AE) techniques that are beneficial in variable lighting conditions—and particularly applicable to handheld and/or mobile videoconferencing applications—are disclosed herein. Handheld and/... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110237131 | AUDIO CONNECTOR HAVING ADDITIONAL DETECTION SWITCH Circuits, methods, and apparatus for improved audio connectors. One example provides an audio connector, that, for purposes of activating circuitry to receive signals from a microphone, does not detect the presence of an audio jack until the audio jack is inserted far e... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110017602 | Dual Anodization Surface Treatment A metal surface treated to have two anodized layers or regions may be used in electronic devices. The surface treatment may include performing a first anodization process to create a first anodized layer, removing the first anodized layer at select locations, and perfor... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100306680 | FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING PHYSICS-BASED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE A graphics development framework for designing physics-based graphical user interfaces is described herein. According to one embodiment, visually linkable patches are displayed in a first window of a graphics development framework, where the patches represent a graphics... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303345 | RED-EYE REDUCTION USING FACIAL DETECTION A computer-implemented method for detecting a red-eye artifact that includes receiving an image depicting a first eye and a second eye corresponding to a human face, and coordinates corresponding to a location of the first eye and the second eye in the image; calculatin... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100281415 | THREE STATE ICON FOR OPERATIONS A three state icon for a computer is disclosed. The icon prevents inadvertent starting of an operation on a computer. The icon has a first state which conceals a second state. Upon selection of the first state with a computer pointing device (i.e., mouse), the icon will... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100169783 | Framework for Slideshow Object A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memory that receives instructions from the one or more processors according to a clock operating at a frequency, one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to: define... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100082344 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE RATE OF SPEECH AND SPEECH PREFERENCES FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS Algorithms for synthesizing speech used to identify media assets are provided. Speech may be selectively synthesized form text strings associated with media assets. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for pro... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100068607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND RESPONDING TO FORCES INFLUENCING A BATTERY Systems and methods for monitoring and responding to forces influencing batteries of electronic devices are provided. One or more sensors may be provided at various positions within a battery assembly including one or more battery cells within an enclosure. In some embo... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20090327285 | SEMANTIC RECONSTRUCTION Determining a semantic relationship is disclosed. Source content is received. Cluster analysis is performed at least in part by using at least a portion of the source content. At least a portion of a result of the cluster analysis is used to determine the semantic relat... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090274393 | Automatic image cropping Upon enabling an automatic cropping feature, a computer-implemented method for cropping a plurality of images retrieves a number of images to process among the plurality of images, and selects an image from the plurality of images to determine a set of crop values for t... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090208824 | POWER SOURCE HAVING A PARALLEL CELL TOPOLOGY A power source with multiple cells connected in parallel to a common node or power supply point. The individual cells within the power source may also have a dedicated controller for each of the individual cells such that the dedicated controllers are connected on a one... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090195394 | CONSUMER ABUSE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A technique is provided for detecting whether consumer abuse has occurred in an electronic device. In accordance with this technique, a system is provided for detecting the occurrence of a consumer abuse event and storing a record thereof. In one embodiment, the system ... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090064202 | SUPPORT LAYER FOR ENABLING SAME ACCESSORY SUPPORT ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS A support layer for enabling same accessory support across multiple platforms may be provided for supporting interactions of applications, operating systems, and accessory devices. Cross-platform use and cross-accessory use can be realized by designing accessories and a... | 03/05/2009 |
