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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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| 8174972 | Software assisted multicast filtering A method is described including determining if a packet length parameter included in received data matches a first pre-determined value, determining if an address parameter included in received data matches an address of a receiving device, determining if a length p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8150966 | Multi-party cooperative peer-to-peer video streaming A method and apparatus for transmitting data are described including partitioning a stream of data into a plurality of sub-streams, establishing an allocation of the plurality of sub-streams among a plurality of sending devices, enabling the plurality of sending dev... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134981 | Correlator for primary cell search using memory architecture An apparatus including a second stage correlator for receiving input data from a first stage correlator, wherein said second stage correlator includes a memory is described. A method for performing a second stage correlation on data including resetting a read pointe... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8089892 | Adaptive joint source and channel coding scheme for H.264 video multicasting over wireless networks A method and apparatus for estimating packet loss rate are described including calculating a real packet loss rate in a time slot at the end of the time slot, estimating average packet loss rate for a subsequent time slot, estimating variance of packet loss rate for... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085297 | Method for modifying a user interface of a consumer electronic apparatus, corresponding apparatus, signal and data carrier According to the invention a user interface of a consumer electronic apparatus is modified, which can be used for example to update a given basic UI functionality or to temporarily implement isolated, dedicated UI sub-domains. For this purpose side information is re... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081628 | Multicast distribution tree establishment and maintenance in a wireless multi-hop relay communication system A method and apparatus for multicast communications in a multi-hop relay network are described including sending an extended request message, wherein the request message includes a multicast connection identification, multicast distribution tree information and a pa... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081576 | Multipath searcher results sorting method A method and apparatus for identifying valid multipath energy peaks are described including locating an energy peak in a profile of energy peaks, categorizing the located energy peak based on a plurality of thresholds and processing energy peaks in at least one of t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074285 | Copy protection method for digital data stored on a medium A method of protection against the copying of digital data stored on an information carrier envisages, on the basis of a first identification of an encryption of the digital data and of a second identification of a watermarking of digital data, the determination of ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064416 | Route selection in wireless networks A method and apparatus are described for locating a route between a source node and a destination node in an on-demand wireless network including flooding the wireless network with a route request message by the source node and receiving a route reply message respon... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059211 | System and method for changing television channels in a video signal processor A system and/or method that reduces the blanking time between changing from one video channel to another video channel, particularly from a digital video channel. The system provides as much video of the old video channel as possible for display until video from the... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8023426 | Method to select access point and relay node in multi-hop wireless networking A method and apparatus are described for selecting an access point in a wireless network, including initializing a channel index, recording a received signal power and information contained in one of a beacon message and a probe request response message, calculating... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7984191 | Updating parameters in a bridged multistandard home network The invention relates to the field of home networks, in particular to the connection of two home networks of different types via a gateway. The network appliances in the network of the first type are also intended to be able to control the network appliances in the ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983911 | Method, module, device and server for voice recognition The invention relates to a speech recognition process implemented in at least one terminal (114), the speech recognition process using a language model (311), comprising the following steps: detection (502) of ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969955 | Method and device for multimedia multicast transmission over a wireless network A system and a method for multimedia multicast transmission in a mobile wireless network are proposed, which can be applied in a multiple-antenna system as well as a single antenna system. The basic message and additional message are transmitted at the same time. Re... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961646 | Multicast mesh routing protocol A method for a node to select a route to join a multicast group in a wireless mesh network, including establishing the route between the node and the multicast group using media access control addresses is described. A method for determining a multicast group leader... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944940 | Method and apparatus for media access in contention-based networks A method and apparatus are described for gaining access to a communication medium in a contention-based network, including determining a slot count based on a number of stations in the contention-based network, adjusting the slot count, initiating a frame transmissi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7917336 | Geometric source separation signal processing technique A computer system that processes mixtures of signals, such as speech and noise sources derived from multiple simultaneous microphone recordings, in order to separate them into their underlying sources. A source separation routine optimizes a filter structure by mini... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912084 | Method of transmitting IEEE 1394 data over a wireless link and apparatus implementing the method The invention relates to a method of transmitting data over a wireless link, comprising the insertion of the data into packets according to a format corresponding to at least certain layers of a first protocol for data transmission over a wireless network, as well a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7865622 | Updating parameters in a bridged multistandard home network The invention relates to the field of home networks, in particular to the connection of two home networks of different types via a gateway. The network appliances in the network of the first type are also intended to be able to control the network appliances in the ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860485 | Device and process for wireless local area network association and corresponding products The present invention concerns WLAN association device and process for associating a new station to a WLAN, via a central apparatus. The association device comprises receiving and sending means for exchanging signals between the station and central apparatus,... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860375 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous recording and displaying two different video programs A method and apparatus for simultaneously recording and displaying video signals from two different video sources. The apparatus comprises a main channel processing circuit, a second channel processing circuit, and common circuitry. The common circuit comprises a di... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7804838 | Time synchronizing device and process and associated products The present invention concerns a time synchronizing device and process, and a local gateway comprising that device. The time synchronizing device synchronizes a router arranged between two communication networks. It comprises intercepting means of a message coming f... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801326 | Digital watermark and film mark A method and system are described for inserting a watermark, including receiving partially encrypted or transformed content, receiving a watermark unit and replacing directly an unencrypted and untransformed portion of the partially encrypted or transformed content ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7769162 | Acoustic echo canceller with multimedia training signal In an electronic device having an acoustic echo canceller and being capable of implementing audio applications and at least one of a conferencing application and a telephony application, there is provided a background training method for the acoustic echo canceller.... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764660 | Registration of a WLAN as a UMTS routing area for WLAN-UMTS interworking A system for employing a wireless local area network (WLAN) as a cellular network routing area includes a cellular network, which is capable of determining a location where a service request is made. The cellular network includes a packet-based support node B, which... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7750977 | Automatic signal error display and user guided signal recovery in a digital television signal receiver In a digital television signal receiver, upon a signal disturbance of a digital television signal, system state information, with regard to the nature of the signal disturbance of the particular digital television channel is preferably automatically provided to a us... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7716704 | Television program selection apparatus and method A television program selection system and method for selecting television programs for viewing or recording utilizing a guide schedule list which is received from a cable or satellite broadcaster for example, and comprises characteristics such as topic-theme, releva... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7675901 | Method and an apparatus for mapping an MPEG transport stream into IP packets for WLAN broadcast A method for mapping from an MPEG-2 transport stream to an IP-based RTP/UDP/IP stack for broadcasting service in a WLAN. All the mapping functions may be performed in a receiver transcoder (FIG. 2). Mobile devices such as laptop computers, cell phones and PDA... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675881 | Interfacing a WLAN with a mobile communications system An interface for connecting networks includes an interworking function provided between a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a public mobile land network (PLMN) to provide communication interactions between the PLMN and the WLAN. The interworking function includ... | 03/09/2010 |
