Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6507661 | Method for estimating optical flow A method for estimating the optical flow between a plurality of images is provided. The method includes obtaining a motion orientation component and a motion magnitude component. Determining the motion orientation component includes creating, a first grap... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6496871 | Distributed agent software system and method having enhanced process mobility and communication in a computer network A distributed software system and method are provided for use with a plurality of potentially heterogeneous computer machines connected as a network. The system may comprise at least one agent comprising a protection domain, wherein the protection domain ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6489106 | Control of the expression of anchored genes using micron scale heaters The present invention demonstrates that gene expression can be controlled in vitro using DNA (gene) sequences immobilized on a template with micron scale temperature heaters. Such expression is controllable by varying temperature of the template on a shor... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6396261 | Scanning AC hall microscope A scanning AC hall microscope and a method which measures the domain pattern of magnetic materials, such as magnetic storage media, by measuring the oscillatory motion of a domain boundary under the influence of an external applied AC magnetic field, whic... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6392919 | Reduction of imprint in ferroelectric devices using a depoling technique A method for reducing imprint in a ferroelectric device which includes the steps of: applying a signal having a bipolar pulse shape for a predetermined time to the ferroelectric device; and decreasing the signal amplitude gradually in predetermined interv... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6363186 | X-cube integrated solid optics component An X-cube integrated solid-optics component which can perform beam-splitting and filtering functions among four input beams. The X-cube component can also be used for various wavelength-division multiplexing communication and interconnection applications,... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6362907 | Apparatus and method for transmitting data between VLSI chips A transmitter for transmitting data in the form of an optical signal. The transmitter having: a transmitter chip module having a material capable of radiating light of a first wavelength when both a zero voltage potential exists across the material and wh... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6353317 | Mesoscopic non-magnetic semiconductor magnetoresistive sensors fabricated with island lithography Mesoscopic magnetic field sensors which can detect weak magnetic fields (typically 0.05 Tesla) over areas as small as tens of thousands of square nanometers (e.g. 40 nm×400 nm). The combination of enhanced magneto-resistance in an inhomogeneous high mobi... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6338291 | Cost-effective side-coupling polymer fiber optics for optical interconnections A unidirectional and bidirectional optical fiber couplers using polymer optical fibers having mirrors formed within the polymer optical fibers for reflecting optical signals. The mirrors comprise a notch having at least one surface angled with respect to ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6332051 | Beam splitting ball lens, method for its manufacture, and apparatus for its packaging Accordingly, a beam-splitting ball lens is provided. The beam-splitting ball lens has: a ball lens; and a beam-splitter filter disposed within the ball lens. The ball lens preferably has first and second portions wherein the beam-splitter filter is dispos... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6311260 | Method for perfetching structured data A method for prefetching structured data, and more particularly a mechanism for observing address references made by a processor, and learning from those references the patterns of accesses made to structured data. Structured data means aggregates of rela... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6295524 | Learning edit distance costs Edit distance costs or similarity of two data strings is optimized, or the costs are minimized, based upon a learning algorithm using examples of similar strings, i.e. learning data. In this manner, the costs are learned rather than being a predetermined ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6294393 | Reduction of imprint in ferroelectric devices using a depoling technique A method for reducing imprint in a ferroelectric device which includes the steps of: applying a signal having a bipolar pulse shape for a predetermined time to the ferroelectric device; and decreasing the signal amplitude gradually in predetermined interv... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6289342 | Autonomous citation indexing and literature browsing using citation context An autonomous citation indexing system which can be used as an assistant agent automates and enhances the task of finding publications in electronic form, including publications located on the world wide web. The system parses citations from papers and id... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6285508 | Beam splitting ball lens method for its manufacture and apparatus for its packaging Accordingly, a beam-splitting ball lens is provided. The beam-splitting ball lens has: a ball lens; and a beam-splitter filter disposed within the ball lens. The ball lens preferably has first and second portions wherein the beam-splitter filter is dispos... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6285020 | Enhanced optical transmission apparatus with improved inter-surface coupling An apparatus for enhanced light transmission through a perforated metal film is provided. The apparatus comprises a metal film having a first surface and a second surface, at least one aperture provided in the metal film and extending from the first surfa... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6278792 | Robust digital watermarking A watermarking procedure that is applicable to images, audio, video and multimedia data to be watermarked divides the data to be watermarked into a set of n×n blocks, such as the 8×8 blocks of MPEG. The same watermark signal can be distributed throughou... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6266452 | Image registration method A method for registering a pattern image with a reference image is provided. The pattern image and the reference image differ from each other by a Rotation-Scale-Translation (RST) transformation defined by a scale factor s, a rotation factor $c;, and a... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6261943 | Method for fabricating free-standing thin metal films Methods for fabricating a free-standing thin metal film are provided. In one method, a sacrificial silicon nitride membrane structure is provided comprising a silicon wafer having first and second surfaces, a first silicon nitride layer applied to the fir... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6259820 | Progressive JPEG decoding This invention enables progressively higher resolution images of a JPEG compressed image to be produced in a cost effective manner during the JPEG decompression process. The operation count is very low when images of 1/64th, 1/16th, and 1/4th of full reso... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6236033 | Enhanced optical transmission apparatus utilizing metal films having apertures and periodic surface topography An apparatus for enhanced light transmission is provided. The apparatus comprises a metal film having a first surface and a second surface, at least one aperture provided in the metal film and extending from the first surface to the second surface, and a ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6208735 | Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia data Digital watermarking of audio, image, video or multimedia data is achieved by inserting the watermark into the perceptually significant components of a decomposition of the data in a manner so as to be visually imperceptible. In a preferred method, a freq... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6195228 | Thin, horizontal-plane hall sensors for read-heads in magnetic recording Thin, horizontal-plane Hall sensors for read-head in magnetic recordings and methods for fabricating the sensor provide a novel sensor exhibiting high sensitivity and high spatial resolution.... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6184765 | Switch useful at superconducting temperatures and comprising superconducting material The present invention is directed, inter alia, to a switch comprising: (A) a superconducting material whose field cooled and zero field cooled ac permittivities differ from each other, and whose field cooled and zero field cooled ac susceptibilities differ fro... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6154571 | Robust digital watermarking A watermarking procedure that is applicable to images, audio, video and multimedia data to be watermarked divides the data to be watermarked into a set of n×n blocks, such as the 8×8 blocks of MPEG. The same watermark signal can be distributed throughou... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6139626 | Three-dimensionally patterned materials and methods for manufacturing same using nanocrystals A method for patterning materials according to a predetermined, three-dimensional pattern, as well as patterned materials produced by said methods, are provided. A template is prepared comprising a template material, the template having a plurality of por... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6117690 | Method of making thin, horizontal-plane hall sensors for read-heads in magnetic recording Thin, horizontal-plane Hall sensors for read-head in magnetic recordings and methods for fabricating the sensor provide a novel sensor exhibiting high sensitivity and high spatial resolution.... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6104371 | Modular, high-intensity fiber optic backlight for color displays A modular, high-intensity fiber optic color backlight for color displays wherein light is distributed to the display through side-emitting optical fibers. The optical fibers are ordered into an array of channels, wherein each channel contains a number of ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101009 | Holographic data storage and/or retrieval apparatus having a spherical recording medium A holographic data storage and/or retrieval apparatus having a spherical holographic recording medium and addressing means for rotating the recording medium to selectively expose the recording medium to data and reference beams at predetermined rotational... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6092051 | Secure receipt-free electronic voting A number-theoretic based algorithm provides for secure receipt-free voting. A vote generating center generates a choice of votes for each voter or vote chooser. The votes are encrypted, shuffled, and conveyed to a vote chooser along with information regar... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6078688 | Method for image segmentation by minimizing the ratio between the exterior boundary cost and the cost of the enclosed region Segmentation of an image into separate regions is useful in many computer vision problems. The separate regions may be represented by their enclosing contours. A planar graph is constructed for each image. The optimal contour is determined by the assignme... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6069914 | Watermarking of image data using MPEG/JPEG coefficients A watermark is embedded into video/image/multimedia data using spread spectrum methodology. The watermark is extracted from watermarked data without the use of an original or unwatermarked version of the data by using MPEG/JPEG coefficients. The image to ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6058228 | Cost-effective side-coupling polymer fiber optics for optical interconnections A unidirectional and bidirectional optical fiber couplers using polymer optical fibers having mirrors formed within the polymer optical fibers for reflecting optical signals. The mirrors comprise a notch having at least one surface angled with respect to ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6052238 | Near-field scanning optical microscope having a sub-wavelength aperture array for enhanced light transmission A metallic film has apertures located therein in an array arranged in a pattern so that when light is incident on the apertures, surface plasmons on the metallic film are perturbed resulting in an enhanced transmission of the light emitted from individual... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6048632 | Self-biasing, non-magnetic, giant magnetoresistance sensor A self-biasing, non-magnetic giant magnetoresistive sensor having a Corbino-disk geometry constructed from a thin film of e.g., doped, Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) Hg1-x Cdx Te exhibiting anomalously large Giant Magnetresistance (... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6046830 | Dynamic refresh for optical data storage A method for dynamically refreshing a holographic data storage medium wherein data is stored in a plurality of data pages, each of which comprises a two dimensional pattern of pixel data. Each data page is stored by interfacing an image or a Fourier trans... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6046763 | Maximum flow method for stereo correspondence A method for solving the stereo correspondence problem transforms the problem into a maximum-flow problem. Once solved, the minimum-cut associated to the maximum-flow results in a disparity surface for the entire image at once. This global approach to ste... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6040936 | Optical transmission control apparatus utilizing metal films perforated with subwavelength-diameter holes Generally speaking, in accordance with the invention, an optical transmission modulation apparatus is provided for modulating light transmitted through the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a metal film having a periodic array of subwavelength-diameter h... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6038337 | Method and apparatus for object recognition A hybrid neural network system for object recognition exhibiting local image sampling, a self-organizing map neural network, and a hybrid convolutional neural network. The self-organizing map provides a quantization of the image samples into a topological... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6034821 | Optomechanical components for use as optical interconnects Optical components that are designed to be coupled together in modular fashion to form an optical network. The components are shaped so that a plurality of components can be coupled together to form a light cube. The components are provided with mating me... | 03/07/2000 |
