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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110044219 | MECHANISMS TO EXTEND UMA OR GAN TO INTER-WORK WITH UMTS CORE NETWORK Mechanisms to extend UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or GAN (General Access Network) to inter-work with a UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) core network. A UMA network controller (UNC) is provided to interface between a UMA network and a UMTS core network... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043407 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Embodiments of the present invention include a method of determining a location of a mobile device. The method comprises transmitting a signal between a plurality of known locations and receiving signal at device of unknown location such as a mobile device. The signal m... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038337 | Mobile station messaging for channel activation in an unlicensed wireless communication system An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile s... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035700 | Multi-Operation User Interface Tool Some embodiments provide a method for performing operations in a user interface of an application. The method activates a cursor to operate as a multi-operation user-interface (UI) tool. The method performs a first operation with the multi-operation UI tool in response ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035552 | User Interface Contrast Filter A method of defining a dynamically adjustable user interface (“UI”) of a device is described. The method defines multiple UI elements for the UI, where each UI element includes multiple pixels. The method defines a display adjustment tool for receiving a single disp... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035284 | LOCATION-AWARE CONTENT AND LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING WITH A MOBILE DEVICE Many mobile devices such as smart phones can generate content ranging from text and audio, to images and videos that are taken with their cameras. These devices are also equipped with wireless radios and magnetometers that can be used to obtain position and orientation ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031998 | CONFIGURABLE IC'S WITH LARGE CARRY CHAINS Some embodiments provide a configurable IC that includes several configurable logic circuits, where the logic circuits include several sets of associated configurable logic circuits. For each several sets of associated configurable logic circuits, the reconfigurable IC ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029830 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) WITH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NETWORKS AND DEVICE CONTAINING SUCH AN IC Some embodiments provide an integrated circuit (“IC”) with a primary circuit structure. The primary circuit structure is for performing multiple operations that implement a user design. The primary circuit structure includes multiple circuits. The IC also includes a... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019879 | Adaptive Motion Estimation Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for adaptively performing motion estimation. In some embodiments, the method initially performs a first motion estimation operation. It then determines whether the estimated error in the result of the first motion estim... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018582 | CONFIGURATION CONTEXT SWITCHER WITH A CLOCKED STORAGE ELEMENT Some embodiments provide an IC with configuration context switchers. The IC includes several configurable circuits, each of which configurably performs one of several operations at any given time, based on the configuration data set that it receives at that time. The IC... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110013084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING AUDIO AND VIDEO STREAMS Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for synchronizing an audio stream with a video stream. This method involves searching in the audio stream for audio data having values that match a distinct set of audio data values and synchronizing the audio stream wi... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110010372 | CONTENT QUALITY APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Embodiments herein receive a set of content quality threshold values, a search string, and a content data stream at a content quality metric (CQM) apparatus. Content segments associated with the content data stream are scored and/or graded according to a set of content ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007798 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A QUANTIZER IN A MULTIMEDIA COMPRESSION AND ENCODING SYSTEM Method For Implementing A Quantizer In A Multimedia Compression And Encoding System is disclosed. In the Quantizer system of the present invention, several new quantization ideas are disclosed. In one embodiment, adjacent macroblocks are grouped together into macroblock... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004734 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MORE LOGICAL MEMORY PORTS THAN PHYSICAL MEMORY PORTS Some embodiments provide for a method of mapping a user design to a configurable integrated circuit (IC). The method is for a configurable IC that implements a user design with an associated user design clock cycle. The IC operates on a sub-cycle clock that has multiple... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332981 | Providing Media Settings Discovery in a Media Processing Application Some embodiments provide a method for automatically identifying settings of a media file. The method initially receives the identification of a piece of media content. Media content includes sound and image data that can be stored as a media file. It then performs an au... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329564 | Automatic Generation and Use of Region of Interest and Domain of Definition Functions An automated method of generating sets of image processing instructions that identifies a region of picture elements for processing and a region of picture elements to be produced is described. The method receives a first set of image processing instructions for perform... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329349 | EFFICIENT USE OF STORAGE IN ENCODING AND DECODING VIDEO DATA STREAMS Some embodiments facilitate encoding/decoding of a frame by organizing frame data in a storage structure in a novel manner. Specifically, in a portion of the storage structure allocated for a frame slice, used partition entries are stored in a first section of the alloc... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329333 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF RATE-DISTORTION TRADEOFF BY MODE SELECTION IN VIDEO ENCODERS A Method And Apparatus For Control of Rate-Distortion Tradeoff by Mode Selection in Video Encoders is Disclosed. The system of the present invention first selects a distortion value D near a desired distortion value. Next, the system determines a quantizer value Q using... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328327 | Multi-platform Optimization Techniques for Image-Processing Operations An automated method of rendering image data using a multithread central processing unit (“CPU”) is described. The method retrieves a set of image processing instructions. The method determines an image section size to be processed by the CPU using the set of image p... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328326 | Multi-platform Image Processing Framework A method for compiling image processing instructions is described. The method receives multiple image processing instruction sets. The method, for each received image processing instruction set, produces several image processing instruction sets, where two different pro... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328325 | Fingerprinting of Fragment Shaders and Use of Same to Perform Shader Concatenation An automated method of quantifying a set of processing resources used by an image transform operation is described. The method receives a set of image processing instructions for performing the transform operation, and, for the set of image processing instructions, gene... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100321469 | Video Processing in a Multi-Participant Video Conference Some embodiments provide an architecture for establishing multi-participant video conferences. This architecture has a central distributor that receives video images from two or more participants. From the received images, the central distributor generates composite ima... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100317891 | METHOD FOR THE PURIFICATION OF ORGANIC ACIDS The invention relates to a method for the purification of worts containing optionally neutralised organic acids, which comprises the following steps: (a) removal of a portion at least of the divalent cations and optionally of a portion at least of the monovalent cations... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313198 | USER INTERFACE FOR ASSISTING IN THE INSTALLATION OF AN ASSET Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that assists in the installation of an asset in a graphical user interface for a computer system. The method receives a selection of the asset that has not yet been installed on the computer system. It then responds to ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309217 | Reformatting Content With Proper Color-Region Conversion Some embodiments of the invention provide several novel methods for distributing image content (e.g., picture content, video content, etc.). In some embodiments, the method tags the content with data that specifies an initial target color-region for the content. Some em... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A MOBILE DEVICE Some embodiments use scanning devices to characterize radio signals received at a number of locations within a geographical area of interest. The signal characteristics along with the location information associated with the characteristics are stored in a centralized r... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306702 | Radial Menus Some embodiments of the invention provide several novel techniques for manipulating radial menus in graphical user interfaces of an application. In some embodiments, radial menus include multiple selectable items arranged about an internal location (e.g., a center of th... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303778 | COMPOSITION FOR HUMAN AND/OR ANIMAL NUTRITION, USES THEREOF AND YEASTS The invention relates to novel yeast strains, to the yeasts resulting from these strains, to a composition containing at least one Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast and/or derivatives of a yeast having a particular interest as a food additive and/or probiotic and/or... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303561 | TOOL HOLDER AND CUTTING INSERT WITH CENTERING NOSE PORTION The cutting tip comprises a lateral face for aligned lateral positioning against a lateral alignment line with a tool holder housing, comprising an alignment snout with first and second lateral alignment surfaces that bear respectively against first and second lateral d... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302245 | PROVIDING INTERACTIVE LIGHT CONTROLS IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITING APPLICATION Some embodiments provide a three dimensional (3D) compositing application that provides a set of lighting tools for the user to better visualize the effects of a light in a 3D space by allowing a user to incorporate interactive visible light sources into a 3D scene that... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302244 | PROVIDING A VISIBLE LIGHT SOURCE IN AN INTERACTIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITING APPLICATION Some embodiments provide a three dimensional (3D) compositing application that provides a set of lighting tools for the user to better visualize the effects of a light in a 3D space by allowing a user to incorporate interactive visible light sources into a 3D scene that... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100295663 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UTILIZING BACKSCATTERING TECHNIQUES IN WIRELESS APPLICATIONS Embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for utilizing backscattering techniques in wireless applications. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of wirelessly controlling a device comprising, in a first electronic device, gen... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295574 | Runtime Loading of Configuration Data in a Configurable IC Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) that has several configurable circuits for configurably performing different operations. During the operation of the IC, each particular configurable circuit performs a particular operation... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100290526 | Selecting Encoding Types and Predictive Modes for Encoding Video Data In some embodiments, a method of determining encoding type and predictive mode(s) selections for a macroblock of a video frame is provided. In some embodiments, a general method 1) selects the encoding type (16×16 or 4×4) that is initially considered for a macroblock ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289520 | Debug Network for a Configurable IC Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) that includes several configurable circuits grouped in several tiles. The configurable IC also includes a configuration network for loading configuration data into the IC, where the configu... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100288506 | Method for Controlling a Hydrocarbons Production Installation The invention relates to a method for controlling a hydrocarbons production installation. The installation comprises at least one hydrocarbons production string activated by a gas injection using a gas injection choke, and a production choke on the string. The method co... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100281404 | EDITING KEY-INDEXED GEOMETRIES IN MEDIA EDITING APPLICATIONS Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for editing the value of an attribute of a media item (e.g., a media content or a media operation) for a media editing application. Such attributes of a media item can include scale, rotation, opacity, pan, volume,... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281386 | Media Editing Application with Candidate Clip Management A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a presentation display area for displaying a composite presentation that the applicat... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281385 | Presenting an Editing Tool in a Composite Display Area A computer readable medium (CRM) storing a media editing application providing a consolidated editing tool is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has a display area for displaying a composite presentation that the application cr... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281384 | Tool for Tracking Versions of Media Sections in a Composite Presentation A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media c... | 11/04/2010 |
