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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7818215 | Processing techniques for text capture from a rendered document A facility for initiating a purchase is described. The facility receives a text sequence captured by a user from a rendered document using a handheld text capture device. The facility identifies in the received text sequence a reference to a distinguished product. I... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7702624 | Processing techniques for visual capture data from a rendered document A facility for navigating an electronic document is described. The facility receives user input selecting a portion of the content of a rendered document that constitutes a sentence fragment. In response to receiving the user input, the facility identifies an electr... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7437023 | Methods, systems and computer program products for data gathering in a digital and hard copy document environment A system for easily determining viewership of articles or ads in printed publications and using the determined viewership to determine author compensation, ad rates, or other historical or demographic related information is described. The system receives scan inform... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421155 | Archive of text captures from rendered documents A facility for storing a text capture data structure for a particular user is described. The data structure comprises a number of entries. Each entry corresponds to a text capture operation performed by the user from a rendered document. Each entry contains informat... | 09/02/2008 |
