Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| 20090207246 | Interactive image acquisition device The present invention tracks a specified target object and provides an image in real time in a way that gives a viewer a sense of reality. The present invention connects, in order to produce a spherical image Q1, the images captured by cameras 13 that can ... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090172826 | Model System for TCR (ZETA) Chain Downregulation The present invention refers to an animal model system which mimics the immunosuppressive environment found in cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases, as well as in chronic inflammation. In said animal model system, which is an object of the present invention, susta... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20080193109 | Video Reproducing Device and Method, Recording Medium and Video Reproducing Program To facilitate implementing a user operation control in a picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing contents recorded on a disk or the like. A picture reproducing apparatus selects and reproduces a plurality of prerecorded picture streams in the disk. A reproduction ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080118232 | Video Reproducing Device and Method, Recording Medium and Video Reproducing Program To implement a continue play in a manner intended by contents creators. A reproduction control unit reproduces picture contents prerecorded on a recording medium. A script control unit interprets and executes a script program prerecorded on a recording medium, the scrip... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20070273783 | Autofocus-Control Device and Autofocus-Control Method, Recording Medium, and Program The present invention allows for increasing an autofocus-response characteristic. An image-pickup sensor makes exposures ex 11 and ex12 (FIG. 7C) in synchronization with a video-vertical-synchronization signal VP1 (FIG. 7A). A camera-s... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070274705 | Image Capturing System, Image Capturing Device, and Image Capturing Method To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subj... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070276882 | Composite Memory Device, Data Wiring Method And Program There is provided a composite memory device including a recording medium and nonvolatile recording medium and in which data is written to and read from the recording mediums on the basis of a common file system, the recording medium (10) having a first data area,... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070274165 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method, Program, and Record Medium To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a reproduction process 123 that reproduces material data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, a disc information file management sect... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070206920 | Information Process Apparatus and Method, Program, and Record Medium To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070206732 | Information processing apparatus and method, program recording medium, and program The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a program recording medium, and a program which mitigate inconveniences due to a difference in recording format when performing the processing of copying or moving data between two recordin... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070187571 | Autofocus control method, autofocus control apparatus and image processing apparatus An autofocus control method, an autofocus control apparatus and an image processing apparatus all of which can realize stable autofocus control operation by eliminating influences due to optical systems. In calculation of a focus evaluated value of each of sample images... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070192697 | Information process apparatus and method, record medium, and program To allow the determination of whether data can be reproduced to be easily performed. When a plurality of clips generated by a photographing process are connected as an edit, an edit list management section 15 identifies encoding systems of a plurality of clips (v... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070187312 | Heating element for a filter press The invention relates to a heating element for a filter press, that can be supplied with a fluid heating medium and comprises at least one heating plate consisting of a heat-conducting material and extending essentially over a plane. Said heating plate is fixed to a bas... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070177718 | Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and data transmission system Video data exploitation by alteration of data is prevented. An extractor 111 extracts valid video data in data 110 and predetermined data in the data. An inserter 114 inserts an arithmetic operation result of the predetermined data by an arithmetic ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180443 | Information-signal-processing apparatus, functional block control method, and functional block This invention relates to an information-signal-processing apparatus etc. for performing a series of processing pieces by using plural functional blocks in response to any information signals, in which functions can be easily upgraded through version upgrading of the fu... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070131141 | Surface processing agent for tin or tin alloy material There is disclosed is a method comprising surface-processing a Sn based, Sn alloy based or Sn—Zn alloy based solder particle (1), applied as a coating, such as by electrical plating or melt plating, to the surface of a metal material, such as iron, a steel plat... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070118806 | Electronic apparatus, page display method, program, and storage medium An electronic apparatus capable of displaying linked pages in turn by an easy operation for users is provided. In a element in an SMIL document, the attribute ??dur=t is added to URI description for specifying a media element. The resulting notation implies that ... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070094666 | Resource managing method, resource managing apparatus, resource managing program, and storage medium This invention provides a method and an apparatus for allocating resources between applications efficiently and flexibly to permit exclusive, conflict-free resource usage. When an application APP1 is using a resource, a resource man... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070094290 | File generation apparatus, method, program, and recording medium The present invention aims at improving the usability of recording media and providing efficient read and write processes. A header control portion 53 generates a header arranged at the beginning of a file. A footer control portion 52 generates a footer ar... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070064925 | Integral microphone and speaker configuration type two-way communication apparatus A two-way communication apparatus used for two-way speech and improved from the viewpoint of the performance, the viewpoint of the price, the viewpoint of the dimensions, and the viewpoints of suitability with the usage environment, user-friendliness, etc. is provided. ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070067468 | Information processing apparatus, and method, program recording medium, and program Files are capable of being exchanged between a broadcast device and a personal computer. In a file of an AV multiplex format, a header (size and type information) of a skip atom of QT is described at the beginning (run-in) that is ignored in an MXF file. An MXF header i... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070064675 | Confinement of a data transfer to within a local area network The present invention provides a system for enforcing a confinement of a data transfer to devices within a private-use local area network (1) with steps of identifying the source network address of a device providing the data on occasion of a data request, verify... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070024984 | Zoom lens and imaging device using zoom lens The present invention is directed to a zoom lens used for image pick-up optical system of digital still camera, or video camera, and is composed, in order from the object side, of a first group GR1 including a reflection member for bending or folding the optical ... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070010343 | Golf club The invention provides a golf club, generally indicated by reference numeral (10). The golf club (10) includes a shaft (14) and club head (12) connected to the shaft (14). The golf club (10) further includes means defining a ref... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20070011129 | Program handling data, method thereof, and device thereof A reader program R_PRG parses material stream data STR3 input from an external device 3 to perform a detection process of a key (K) of KLV data from within the data STR3. The reader program R_PRG then outputs to an application program AP an event IV... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20070009228 | Information processing device and method, program recording medium, program, and imaging device The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, a program recording medium, a program, and an imaging device which enable different processing to be set easily and flexibly for different contents to be managed. An entry i in a content manag... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060280496 | Image pickup apparatus, image recording apparatus and image recording method An imaging apparatus selectively recording an image taken by itself or at least one other apparatus is disclosed. A digital video camera selects between an image taken by a camera block (10) thereof, and an image taken by each of at least one other camera and rec... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060262228 | Television broadcast signal receiving apparatus The present invention is directed to an apparatus in which recording reservation is registered by using a VPS/PDC signal and at the same time, a television broadcast program can be viewed even within the time window. Consequently, in a tel... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060256236 | Frame conversion method, frame conversion circuit, and electronic camera A method for converting frames that can display smooth moving images is provided. A memory (16) to which image data of frames in the NTSC format is written is provided. A memory controller (14) for retrieving image data of an odd field and an even field fr... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060253881 | Information processing device and method The invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method by which it is made possible to efficiently provide change information of broadcast contents in accordance with the necessity of a user. A server 2 compares contents information acquired from... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060251415 | Digital camera apparatus and printing method of digital camera apparatus A frame to be printed in motion image data stored in a removable memory is designated and position information of the designated frame to be printed is held. On the basis of the stored position information of the frame, the motion image data is read out of the removable... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060245428 | Transmisssion/reception system, transmitting device and method, and receiving device and method The present invention relates to a transmitter and a receiver designed to improve the reliability of communications therebetween. During communication processes under UDP adopted as the transport layer, data having RTP headers is transmitted and received between the tra... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060247825 | Robot device, information processing method, and program The present invention relates to a robot apparatus capable of notifying a user of the state of communication with an access point, an information processing method and a program therefor. A humanoid robot 5, which independently determines an action in accordance ... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060236403 | Optical media protection driver A method to protect content within protected data areas on a target optical record carrier against unauthorized reading and/or copying with a computer, comprises the steps of—determining whether a target optical record carrier or a non-target optical record carrier is... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060233074 | Reproduction apparatus and method Reproduction signals which are simultaneously obtained from an Ach head 3 and a Bch head 4 are time division multiplexed by a signal layout converting circuit 9 and arranged. An HPF unit 12 and an LPF unit 14 of a waveform equalizing c... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060215513 | Optical recording method and optical recording device The present invention relates to an optical recording method for recording data on an optical disc by using a laser beam. When the optical disc is inserted into an optical recording device (step S1), a test writing area PCA (Power Calibration Area) that can be us... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060217088 | Transmission power control method and device Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission electric power capable of minimizing a decrease in the amount of maximum transmission electric power without degrading an adjacent channel leakage power ratio when code-multiplexing additional control i... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060210065 | Encryption/decryption device and method Input picture data are encrypted with high secrecy and restoration against an error of encrypted data. An EXOR circuit 100 calculates input picture data and a pseudo random sequence and obtains encrypted data. The obtained encrypted data are held in an FF circuit... | 09/21/2006 |
| 20060192892 | Audio processing A network interface device connectable to a network, the device being arranged to receive digital audio data representing an audio signal and, substantially in real time, to launch data packets representing the digital audio data onto the network, the device comprising:... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060184497 | Network-information-processing system and information-processing method As shown in FIG. 3, a network electronic conference system comprises: at least one notebook personal computer PC1 through PCi each having an input operation function to process arbitrary information; presentation apparatus 10 for displaying image ba... | 08/17/2006 |
