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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6807306 | Time-constrained keyframe selection method A method for candidate frame selection involves sampling the source frames of the source video at a predetermined fixed periodic interval. The largest frame differences represent candidate boundaries, and the frames before and after the N/2 largest candidate boundar... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6699247 | Spine distraction implant A spine distraction implant alleviates pain associated with spinal stenosis and facet arthropathy by expanding the volume in the spine canal and/or neural foramen. The implant provides a spinal extension stop while allowing freedom of spinal flexion.... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6620335 | Plasma etch reactor and method A plasma etch reactor 20 includes a upper electrode 24, a lower electrode 24, a peripheral ring electrode 26 disposed therebetween. The upper electrode 24 is grounded, the peripheral electrode 26 is powered by a high frequency AC power supply, while the l... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6604022 | Robot for autonomous operation A robot which incorporates a body, arms with a hand grip, legs, several sensors, light elements, an audio system, and a video system. The sensors allows the robot to interact with objects in the room, and prevents the robot from traveling off an edge or b... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6594551 | Robot for expressing moods A robot which incorporates a body, arms with a hand grip, legs, several sensors, light elements, an audio system, and a video system. The sensors allows the robot to interact with objects in the room, and prevents the robot from traveling off an edge or b... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6587895 | Method for accepting a freeform input containing message with time reference thereupon providing an alert message according to the time reference A method and apparatus for generating reminder messages based on a freeform input is disclosed. In one embodiment, freeform inputs are handwritten annotations on paper that are scanned into a computer system. Based on information contained in the freeform... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6581797 | Pill dispenser with reminder A programmable vitamin and pill dispenser that is capable of storing multiple pill groups. The dispenser provides reminders to an individual when it is time to ingest the next serving. The serving is dispensed into a cup upon depressing a dispenser button... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581088 | Smart stub or enterprise javaTM bean in a distributed processing system A clustered enterprise Java™ distributed processing system is provided. The distributed processing system includes a first and a second computer coupled to a communication medium. The first computer includes a Java™ virtual machine (JVM) and kernel so... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6573997 | Hybrid shearing and phase-shifting point diffraction interferometer A new interferometry configuration combines the strengths of two existing interferometry methods, improving the quality and extending the dynamic range of both. On the same patterned mask, placed near the image-plane of an optical system under test, patte... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570555 | Method and apparatus for embodied conversational characters with multimodal input/output in an interface device Deliberative and reactive processing are combined to process multi-modal inputs and direct movements and speech of a synthetic character that operates as an interface between a user and a piece of equipment. The synthetic character is constructed as an al... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6566345 | Polyacid/polyalkylene oxide foams and gels and methods for their delivery The present invention relates to improved methods for delivering bioadhesive, bioresorbable, anti-adhesion compositions. Antiadhesion compositions can be made of intermacromolecular complexes of carboxyl-containing polysaccharides, polyethers, polyacids, ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6563132 | Conductive polymer materials and methods for their manufacture and use Quantum nanowires are produced in a medium comprising ions, dopants and free electrons, wherein the free electrons are solvated by complexes of ions and dopants. Electrical conductivity of the quantum nanowires can be higher than for conventional metal co... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6521107 | Target for use in magnetron sputtering of nickel for forming metallization films having consistent uniformity through life Improved targets for use in DC magnetron sputtering of nickel or like ferromagnetic face-centered cubic (FCC) metals are disclosed for forming metallization films having effective edge-to-edge deposition uniformity of 5%(3ς) or better. Such targets may b... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6509898 | Usage based methods of traversing and displaying generalized graph structures A method for generating a tree structure representation of a generalized graph structure for display includes the more important links in the representation. Usage parameters are referenced in generating the tree structure from the generalized graph struc... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6504541 | Warping geometric objects A system is disclosed for warping models made from geometric objects, such as electronic maps, to correct local distortions in the models without compromising model topology. A set of transformation functions are derived from relationships between points ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6500314 | Plasma etch reactor and method A plasma etch reactor 20 includes a upper electrode 24, a lower electrode 24, a peripheral ring electrode 26 disposed therebetween. The upper electrode 24 is grounded, the peripheral electrode 26 is powered by a high frequency AC power supply, while the l... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6501681 | Using a low drain bias during erase verify to ensure complete removal of residual charge in the nitride in sonos non-volatile memories An erase-verify operation is performed on a nonvolatile memory cell with an oxide-nitride-oxide structure by using a low drain bias voltage to allow residual charge remaining in the nitride layer after a typical erase operation to be detected effectively ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6493577 | Method and system for detecting white matter neural injury and predicting neurological outcome particularly for preterm infants A method for detecting white matter neural injury and predicting neurological outcome for a patient, comprises acquiring EEG signal(s) from the surface of the head of the patient, and analyzing the frequency distribution or content of the signal(s) to pro... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6492280 | Method and apparatus for etching a semiconductor wafer with features having vertical sidewalls A method and apparatus provide for etching a semiconductor wafer using a two step physical etching and a chemical etching process in order to create vertical sidewalls required for high density DRAMs and FRAMs.... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6492675 | Flash memory array with dual function control lines and asymmetrical source and drain junctions A flash memory formed by a process wherein at least two parallel stacked gate strips are formed on a silicon substrate such that the stacked gate strips are separated by field oxide islands. Asymmetrical first and second junctions are formed in each of a ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6486069 | Cobalt silicide etch process and apparatus Method and apparatus for etching a silicide stack including etching the silicide layer at a temperature elevated from that used to etch the rest of the layers in order to accomplish anisotropic etch.... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6448163 | Method for fabricating T-shaped transistor gate A method of forming a T-shaped gate for a transistor, comprising: defining a base length of the gate by forming a gate stack on a substrate; defining a contact length by forming a layer of nitride on the gate stack; and defining gate height by selectively... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6440819 | Method for differential trenching in conjunction with differential fieldox growth A local oxidation of silicon (LOCOS) process directed to forming differential field oxide thickness on a single wafer with minimized process steps and optimized planarity. When patterning the masking layer, at least two window widths are formed in the mas... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6438726 | Method of dual use of non-volatile memory for error correction A method of dual use of memory for the correction of errors, if any, in memory data comprises the steps of assigning data bytes to a first portion of each memory page and error correction bytes to a second portion of each memory page. In a non-error corre... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6419544 | Battery powered gyroscopic entertainment device and system A battery operated gyroscopic entertainment device is powered from a mating cradle, or from a battery supply within the device. The device includes an egg-shaped housing in which is disposed a high speed DC motor whose motor shaft preferably extends from ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6410448 | Plasma etch reactor and method for emerging films A plasma etch reactor 20 includes a reactor chamber 22 with a grounded upper electrode 24, a lower electrode 28 which is attached to a high frequency power supply 30 and a low frequency power supply 32, and a peripheral electrode 26 which is located betwe... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6407009 | Methods of manufacture of uniform spin-on films This invention describes improved apparatus and methods for spin-on deposition of semiconductor thin films. The improved apparatus provides for controlled temperature, pressure and gas compositions within the deposition chamber. The improved methods compr... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6404925 | Methods and apparatuses for segmenting an audio-visual recording using image similarity searching and audio speaker recognition Methods for segmenting audio-video recording of meetings containing slide presentations by one or more speakers are described. These segments serve as indexes into the recorded meeting. If an agenda is provided for the meeting, these segments can be label... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6391148 | Cobalt silicide etch process and apparatus Method and apparatus for etching a silicide stack including etching the silicide layer at a temperature elevated from that used to etch the rest of the layers in order to accomplish anisotropic etch.... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6384829 | Streamlined architecture for embodied conversational characters with reduced message traffic An architecture including a speech manager that identifies input, input content, and location of the input (speech, for example), a action scheduler, a dialog manager, and an animation system provides reduced message traffic and streamlined processing for... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6374289 | Distributed client-based data caching system A system and method for enabling data package distribution to be performed by a plurality of peer clients connected to each other through a network, such as a LAN (local area network). Each peer client can obtain data packages from each other or from an e... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6360322 | Automatic recovery of forgotten passwords In accordance with the invention a method of securely and automatically authenticating a user is disclosed. Bona fides are entered for a user, hashed, and stored at an authenticating entity, remote from the user's computer. When a user forgets his/her pas... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6359633 | Apparatus and method for abstracting markup language documents An apparatus and a method to generate a hyperlinked abstract from a markup language document by parsing the document to create a syntax tree, analyzing statistically the syntax tree based on at least one rule, classifying information at each node of the s... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6359748 | Electronically damped flexure based actuator system An electronically damped actuator control system that determines an amount of damping to be applied to an actuator or other moving part. The amount of damping applied is proportional to a measured velocity of the actuator. The velocity is measured by at l... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6355528 | Method to form narrow structure using double-damascene process A narrow groove is formed over a substrate. To form such a narrow groove, a first material is formed over a substrate, the first material having a sidewall. A spacer is formed abutting the sidewall. Subsequently a second material is formed adjacent to the... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6354240 | Plasma etch reactor having a plurality of magnets A plasma etch reactor 20 includes a upper electrode 24, a lower electrode 24, a peripheral ring electrode 26 disposed therebetween. The upper electrode 24 is grounded, the peripheral electrode 26 is powered by a high frequency AC power supply, while the l... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6353797 | Database minimizing by wireless input of location related information A method, system and article of manufacture is provided to efficiently identify the location of an individual. A first area surrounding the location is obtained by triangulation or other position location methods. A set of street names in the first area i... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6329952 | Automobile radar antenna alignment system using transponder and lasers A transponder (200) is attached to a laser alignment fixture (210) and used to align an automobile collision avoidance radar antenna boresite with the thrust vector of the vehicle. The alignment fixture (210) has attached reflectors for alignment with two... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6310983 | Efficient search for a gray-level pattern in an image using ranges of sums The present invention is directed to a system for finding a transformation of a gray level pattern in an image. The system recursively searches a transformation space in a multi-resolution manner. At each resolution, the transformation space is divided in... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6300834 | High performance intermediate stage circuit for a rail-to-rail input/output CMOS operational amplifier An intermediate stage for a rail-to-rail input/output CMOS opamp includes a floating current source separating two current mirrors (151-154,155-158), where the ideal current source includes a floating current mirror (500,501,502,503,504,505) enabling an o... | 10/09/2001 |
