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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 |
| 6356708 | Method and apparatus for implementing playback features for compressed video data A compressed video playback system which eliminates playback mode transition artifacts. Transitions between various playback modes are effected in such a manner that transition artifacts are eliminated by delaying playback mode transitions until appropria... | 03/12/2002 |
| 5966120 | Method and apparatus for combining and distributing data with pre-formatted real-time video A system for providing efficient constant bit rate distribution of variable bit-rate encoded video programs while facilitating the distribution of encoded video programs, along with Auxiliary Data of a general character, to one or more receivers. At a par... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5956088 | Method and apparatus for modifying encoded digital video for improved channel utilization A method for increasing channel utilization for a data channel transmitting a multiplex of a set of one or more encoded program streams, each program stream in being decodeable by a corresponding decoder, each corresponding decoder including a correspondi... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5949948 | Method and apparatus for implementing playback features for compressed video data A compressed video playback system which eliminates playback mode transition artifacts. Transitions between various playback modes are effected in such a manner that transition artifacts are eliminated by delaying playback mode transitions until appropria... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5926205 | Method and apparatus for encoding and formatting data representing a video program to provide multiple overlapping presentations of the video program Selective video-on-demand access is provided to a virtually unlimited number of subscribers by partitioning the video program into an ordered sequence of N segments and providing the subscribers concurrent access to each of the N segments. A data stream r... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5877812 | Method and apparatus for increasing channel utilization for digital video transmission A method and apparatus for reducing the size of data rate fluctuations that occur in forming a multiplex of a set of program streams, each program stream in said set being decodeable by a corresponding decoder, each corresponding decoder including a corre... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5862140 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing video programs for improved channel utilization A method and apparatus multiplexing several encoded program streams into a single multiplex suitable for transmission over a data channel, the streams typically including video and audio. According to one embodiment of the invention, high data channel uti... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5612742 | Method and apparatus for encoding and formatting data representing a video program to provide multiple overlapping presentations of the video program Virtually random and on-demand access is provided to a virtually unlimited number of subscribers by partitioning the video program into an ordered sequence of n segments and providing the subscribers concurrent access to each of the n subsequences. A data... | 03/18/1997 |
