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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6813391 | System and method for exposure compensation A system and method for adjusting exposure in a mosaiced or stitched image. A stitched composite image is typically represented by a set of images and a set of associated transformations. Each transformation corresponds to one image in the input image sequence and r... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6806898 | System and method for automatically adjusting gaze and head orientation for video conferencing The present invention is embodied in a system and method for automatically adjusting gaze and head pose in a videoconferencing environment, where each participant has a camera and display. The images of participants are rendered in a virtual 3D space. Head-pose orie... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6792448 | Threaded text discussion system A threaded text discussion or chat system includes a client graphical user interface that is rendered on display screens of user computers. In one implementation, the user interface includes a threaded discussion message pane and a social accounting pane that are re... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6778553 | System and method for media streaming A system and process according to the present invention involves tagging prescribed portions of the data of each layer in a layered multicast or layered presentation with an indicator of the importance or utility that the data provides to the receiver. Additionally,... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6763454 | System for allocating resources in a computer system A system for allocating resources for use by devices of a computer. Device information for the devices of the computer is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device characteristics associated with the operation of those devices with the co... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6741756 | System and method for estimating the orientation of an object The present invention is embodied in a system and method for automatically estimating the orientation or pose of an object, such as a human head, from any viewpoint and includes training and pose estimation modules. The training module uses known head poses for gene... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6724405 | User friendly remote system interface A system, method, and medium for enhancing a GUI and viewing environment for a computer user is disclosed. Enabling a user to fully navigate and operate a computer through the use of a remote control device, the present invention includes at least a PC mode of opera... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6671391 | Pose-adaptive face detection system and process A face detection system and process capable of detecting a person depicted in an input image and identifying their face pose. Prepared training images are used to train a 2-stage classifier which includes a bank of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) as an ini... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6625803 | Automatic generation of text and computer-executable code for run-time use The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and medium for adding text and text-based components to a Web page hosted on a server. A control, which is run at the designing time of the web page (design-time), when implemented, writes HTML informati... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6552727 | Method for authoring hints for a font using a graphical user interface Authoring hints for a font using a graphical user interface. Graphical hints may be dragged and dropped on a displayed glyph using a graphical user interface. A graphical hint is specified by selecting a hinting tool and selecting one or more points that ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6505167 | Systems and methods for directing automated services for messaging and scheduling Directing automated services for messaging and scheduling. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines a message to analyze. The method then determines the probability that the user would like to review a calendar or to schedule an a... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6487574 | System and method for producing modulated complex lapped transforms The present invention is embodied in a system and method for performing spectral analysis of a digital signal having a discrete duration by spectrally decomposing the digital signal at predefined frequencies uniformly distributed over a sampling frequency... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6473409 | Adaptive filtering system and method for adaptively canceling echoes and reducing noise in digital signals The present invention is embodied in a system and method for performing spectral analysis of a digital signal having a discrete duration by spectrally decomposing the digital signal at predefined frequencies uniformly distributed over a sampling frequency... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6469721 | User friendly remote system interface with menu sizing A system, method, and medium for enhancing a GUI and viewing environment for a computer user is disclosed. Enabling a user to fully navigate and operate a computer through the use of a remote control device, the present invention includes at least a PC mo... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6470469 | Reconstruction of missing coefficients of overcomplete linear transforms using projections onto convex sets A projection onto convex sets (POCS)-based method for consistent reconstruction of a signal from a subset of quantized coefficients received from an N×K overcomplete transform. By choosing a frame operator F to be the concatenization of two or more K×K ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6460153 | Apparatus and method for unequal error protection in multiple-description coding using overcomplete expansions A projection onto convex sets (POCS)-based method for consistent reconstruction of a signal from a subset of quantized coefficients received from an N×K overcomplete transform. By choosing a frame operator F to be the concatenization of two or more K×K ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6396477 | Method of interacting with a computer using a proximity sensor in a computer input device In a method of the present invention, a device message is generated indicating that a touch sensor on an input device has been touched without indicating what location on the touch sensor has been touched. The device message is routed to an application an... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6262730 | Intelligent user assistance facility An intelligent user assistance system is disclosed. The system is constructed using a reasoning model to determine the probability of a user's intentions, goals, or informational needs in the context of a software program. This is accomplished through ana... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6256780 | Method and system for assembling software components An assembly method and system for assembling components into an assembly. An assembly provides connectors through which the components can be exported and through which an external entity can be imported. An exported component can be connected to another ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6138128 | Sharing and organizing world wide web references using distinctive characters The present invention is directed to sharing and organizing world wide web pages using a number of distinctive characters, each having an interest. In a preferred embodiment, each distinctive character is initialized by associating with it one or more web... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6026416 | System and method for storing, viewing, editing, and processing ordered sections having different file formats Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections and the native file format of each section. The ordered sections can be viewed and edited through a... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5949975 | Method and system for negotiating capabilities when sharing an application program with multiple computer systems A method and system for sharing application programs between multiple computer systems. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a multipoint application sharing (MAS) system that resides at each computer system (i.e., node) in a network of comp... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5912661 | Z-encoder mechanism A z-encoder for a computer input device includes a wheel button that is supported on an axle or spindle within the housing of the input device. The axle is supported in the housing by spaced-apart axle supports. The axle supports are configured to allow o... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5852615 | Method and system for transmitting data from a unidirectional transmitter to a receiver A method and apparatus for programming a device, such as a universal remote control unit, using a light source, such as a CRT computer monitor coupled to a conventional personal computer. A unidirectional flow of data from the transmitter is used to confi... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5742848 | System for passing messages between source object and target object utilizing generic code in source object to invoke any member function of target object by executing the same instructions A method and system for interconnecting software components. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention instantiates an event object. The event object includes message information describing the message and a dispatching member function for invoking... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5666526 | Method and system for supporting scrollable, updatable database queries A method and system for supporting scrollable, updatable database queries is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a database engine receives a query request specifying the retrieval of data from a source table stored by the engine. The engine then generat... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5621875 | Method and system for automatic formatting of user selected text A method and system for automatic formatting of user selected text in a word processing system. A number of format options are displayed to the user and a text format selection is then obtained from the user for a selected format option. An identifier ide... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5414526 | System and method for encoding facsimile data A system and method for facsimile data encoding uses vectors indicating the locations of changing elements along a horizontal scan line. The change vectors are stored in a vector table. The system may use a reference vector table and a coding vector table... | 05/09/1995 |
