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A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090129605 | Apparatus and methods for augmenting a musical instrument using a mobile terminal A mobile communications terminal for augmenting a musical instrument includes an audio signal receiver that is configured to receive an audio signal from the musical instrument and a signal processor that is configured to perform a signal processing function on the audi... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128460 | Apparatus and Methods for Selecting Light Emitters for a Transmissive Display Provided are devices and methods for providing front-of screen uniformity. Methods include estimating a filter function corresponding to the display and selecting multiple light emitters as a function of characteristics corresponding to light transmitted from the displa... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090050924 | DROOP-FREE HIGH OUTPUT LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING AND OPERATING SAME Light emitting devices include a semiconductor light emitting diode that is configured to operate at a substantially droop-free quantum efficiency while producing warm white light output of at least about 100 lumens/cool white light output of at least about 130 lumens. ... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090049156 | Notifying Remote Devices of Available Content Methods of operating a portable electronic device including a display screen, a user interface, a controller, a memory and a transceiver are provided. The methods include executing a resource on the controller, and receiving a snapshot command through the user interface... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090040674 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING DISPLAY COMPONENTS FROM ADVERSE OPERATING CONDITIONS Provided are systems and methods for protecting display components from adverse operating conditions. A lighting panel system according to some embodiments includes a lighting panel including a plurality of strings of solid state lighting devices arranged across the pan... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090039365 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES WITH APPLIED WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MATERIALS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME A semiconductor structure includes an active region configured to emit light upon the application of a voltage thereto, a window layer configured to receive the light emitted by the active region, and a plurality of discrete phosphor-containing regions on the window lay... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090039375 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES WITH SEPARATED WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MATERIALS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor light emitting device (LED) that emits light having a first peak wavelength upon the application of a voltage thereto, and first and second phosphor-containing regions on the LED that receive the light and convert at least... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090042345 | Methods of Fabricating Transistors Having Buried N-Type and P-Type Regions Beneath the Source Region High electron mobility transistors are provided that include a non-uniform aluminum concentration AlGaN based cap layer having a high aluminum concentration adjacent a surface of the cap layer that is remote from the barrier layer on which the cap layer is provided. Hig... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090037846 | APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS PROVIDING MENU EXPANSION AND ORGANIZATION FUNCTIONS Display of menu items on a display of an electronic device, such as a cellphone or other portable device, is managed by defining first and second menus including respective first and second groups of menu items (e.g., graphic icons and/or text), wherein the first group ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090035926 | Methods of Fabricating Silicon Carbide Devices Incorporating Multiple Floating Guard Ring Edge Terminations Edge termination for silicon carbide devices has a plurality of concentric floating guard rings in a silicon carbide layer that are adjacent and spaced apart from a silicon carbide-based semiconductor junction. An insulating layer, such as an oxide, is provided on the f... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090033612 | CORRECTION OF TEMPERATURE INDUCED COLOR DRIFT IN SOLID STATE LIGHTING DISPLAYS Methods of controlling a display including a backlight unit having a plurality of solid state light emitting devices are disclosed. The methods include receiving a target color point for the display, measuring a temperature associated with the display, generating a comp... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080278841 | SELECTIVELY INHIBITING TRANSDUCER OUTPUT RESPONSIVE TO DETECTED JERK Various embodiments relate to selectively inhibiting output from a transducer in response to the rate of change of acceleration that is experienced by the transducer. The rate of change of an acceleration signal, which is indicative of transducer's acceleration, is dete... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080278842 | CORRECTED READ/WRITE OFFSET COMPENSATION A read trajectory and/or a write trajectory of a read/write head of a rotatable disk drive is adjusted using a compensation signal that compensates for a time-varying difference between the read trajectory and the write trajectory.... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20070297088 | Embedded runout correction based on written-in runout measurement Performing embedded runout correction for a track on a rotational data storage disk includes measuring written-in runout for the track, selecting a number of revolutions in response to the measured written-in runout of the track, calculating embedded correction values f... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070283217 | Correction of data errors in a memory buffer Methods, circuits, and disk drive that correct errors in data that is temporarily stored in a memory buffer are disclosed. An error detection code and an error correction code are generated for data. The data, the error detection code, and the error correction code are ... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070280141 | Hardware implementation of loop initialization protocol A device includes a loop port controlled by a loop initialization procedure in response to control flags. The device includes a programmable controller and a fibre channel loop port including a transmitter, a receiver, and a port control circuit. The port control circui... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070273996 | REDUCED CONVOLUTION FOR REPETITIVE DISTURBANCE REJECTION Methods according to some embodiments include writing servo patterns on a data storage medium including a plurality of timing patterns in response to phase correction values generated using a phase correction value (PCV) kernel having a length that is less than the numb... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070268615 | CLOSED LOOP FLY HEIGHT CONTROL A distance between a head and a storage media is measured. An amount of power applied to a heater element in the head is adaptively adjusted based on a difference between the measured distance and a reference position indicating a desired distance between the head and t... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268618 | REGULATING READ/WRITE TRANSDUCER MOVEMENT RESPONSIVE TO ACOUSTICS Various methods and circuits are described for controlling movement of a read/write transducer. The acoustics that are generated when moving a read/write transducer are detected. Movement of the transducer is regulated in response to the detected acoustics.... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268613 | REGULATING DATA WRITES RESPONSIVE TO HEAD FLY HEIGHT Write commands through a read/write head are regulated in response to head fly height. The head fly height is determined, and the rate at which the write command is carried out is regulated in response to the determined fly height. The rate may be regulated by inserting... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268614 | HEAD DAMAGE DETECTION BASED ON ACTUATION EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS An actuation efficiency for a head is determined based on a displacement of the head relative to a storage media responsive to excitation of a heater element. Damage to the head is detected based on the determined actuation efficiency. Related circuits and devices are a... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268612 | ESTIMATION AND CONTROL OF HEAD FLY HEIGHT Various embodiments are disclosed that control head fly height based on estimates of head fly height. The fly height clearance between the head and a data storage media is estimated. Heating of the head by a heater element is then regulated in response to the estimated ... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268610 | ESTIMATING RESIDUAL TEMPERATURE FOR FLYING HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT OF READ/WRITE HEADS Methods of estimating a flying height of a read/write head include determining an idle period of the head since a last selection of the head as a working head, estimating the residual temperature of the head in response to the idle period, and estimating the flying heig... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268611 | Controlling head heating based on upcoming data sector write pattern A disk drive includes a rotatable data storage disk, a head, a heater element, and a controller. The disk includes a plurality of data sectors between servo spokes. The head is configured to fly on an air cushion relative to the rotating disk while writing data on the d... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070268797 | Stability Margins and error recovery in servo control systems Adjusting a servo control system includes identifying a gain crossover frequency for the servo control system, generating a sensitivity function for the servo control system, measuring a sensitivity peak in the sensitivity function, comparing a frequency of the sensitiv... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20060073971 | Substituted isoxazoles as fungicides The present invention provides compounds of formula I: along with methods of making the same, compostions thereof, and methods of use thereof, particularly methods of use as fungicides. ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20050149616 | Methods, systems and computer program products for assisted browser navigation Assisting navigation of a first browser executing on a first data processing system is provided by navigating, responsive to a second browser executing on a second data processing system, to identify information to be displayed using the first browser on the first data ... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050130390 | Semiconductor substrate assemblies and methods for preparing and dicing the same A method for forming semiconductor devices using a semiconductor substrate having first and second opposed surfaces and including first and second device regions includes directing a beam of laser light at the substrate such that the beam of laser light is focused withi... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050058299 | Methods, devices, and computer program products for changing time intervals of the occurrence of audio information from local and remote sites A method of processing audio information for broadcast to an audience can include changing first audio information from occurring in a first time interval to occurring in a second time interval to provide time-changed audio information. The time-changed audio informatio... | 03/17/2005 |
