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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5546098 | Removable computer display interface A portable computer is configured to accept removable modular display panels of different types that plug into a structure hinged to the body of the computer. Each display panel has a sliding engagement means fixed along a lower edge, and the hinged struc... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5532719 | Remote control of display functions A system for making display adjustments in a monitor connected to a general-purpose computer converts user inputs at the host computer to digital commands and data words, and places the commands a data as serial packets on the VSYNC line to the monitor. A... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5522089 | Personal digital assistant module adapted for initiating telephone communications through DTMF dialing A personal digital assistant module with a local CPU, memory, and I/O interface has a host interface comprising a bus connected to the local CPU and a connector at a surface of the personal digital assistant for interfacing to a bus connector of a host ge... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5504877 | Adaptive DRAM timing set according to sum of capacitance valves retrieved from table based on memory bank size Timing is set for DRAM memory access in a computer by polling the DRAM memory banks, calculating capacitive load by accessing a prestored table of capacitive load versus DRAM size, and assigning wait states according to calculated capacitive load by acces... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5416610 | Integral computer scanning system A photovoltaic film provided with a computer allows the computer to be used as a scanner as well as a conventional computer. In a preferred embodiment the photovoltaic film is transparent, and is applied directly to the display screen of the computer syst... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5365230 | Inductively coupled keyboard A self-contained keyboard for computer transmits keystroke data to a host computer via scan codes encoded in a variable magnetic field. In a preferred embodiment the keyboard generates magnetic bursts by electrical current bursts in a loop of a electrical... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5331509 | Modular notebook computer having a planar array of module bays and a pivotally attached flat-panel display A modular notebook computer has a framework with module bays for receiving CPU modules, power modules, and peripheral function modules such as floppy and hard disk drives. The framework has a built-in compressed bus and a variety of function modules which... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5331434 | Integral computer scanning system A photovoltaic film provided with a computer allows the computer to be used as a scanner as well as a conventional computer. In a preferred embodiment the photovoltaic film is transparent, and is applied directly to the display screen of the computer syst... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5321428 | Laser printer power saver A system using a printer with a fuser-heater has control means for turning off the fuser-heater during times when no printing is required, while leaving the rest of the printing system operable. Time between print requests is monitored, and the fuser-heat... | 06/14/1994 |
