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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7949680 | Program ancillary data producing device, picture program editing device and picture program producing device An apparatus for producing program ancillary data pertinent to each scene of a picture program to be recorded includes a display control unit for demonstrating, on a display picture, an input form having, as an input item, the information pertinent to a scene as an ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949428 | Robot apparatus and method of controlling the same A robot apparatus having a plurality of movable sections includes a motion control section that generates a control signal for the periodic motion of at least part of the movable sections according to the output of an oscillator showing self-oscillation and entrainm... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949187 | Character string recognition method and device A character string recognition method for recognizing a character string may include a first step in which a first projection data of image data are calculated in a direction of the character string and a second step in which a position of the character string is de... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948476 | Touch screen input method and device A touch panel 47 is constructed by a display/sensor unit 51a which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD 46 and a sensor unit 51b which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on th... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947013 | Pressure-propelled system for body lumen Apparatus (10) is provided for use with a biologically-compatible-fluid pressure source (16), the apparatus (10) including an elongate carrier (26), adapted to be inserted through a proximal opening (18) of a body lumen (20)... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946183 | Bending-detection apparatus A bending-detection apparatus includes a sheet-shaped substrate having flexibility and a bending-detection mechanism including a sensor which measures a potential difference to detect bending deformations of the substrate and two bending-detection sections which are... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944479 | Image-capture apparatus, camera control unit, video camera system, and method of transmitting warning information An image-capture apparatus having an intercom connecting unit, capable of voice communication with an external camera control unit (CCU) is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit, a warning-sound signal generator, a receiving unit, a voice synthesizer and a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943722 | Fire-retardant polyarylate resin containing dihydroxyphenylacetylene and compositions thereof Provided is a flame-retardant polyarylate resin and a composition thereof, and more particularly, a polyarylate resin prepared by co-polymerizing 4,4′-dihydroxyphenylacetylene (DHPA), phthaloyl chloride (PC) and bishydroxyphenol (BHP) and a composition of the poly... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943067 | Nanogels and their production using liposomes as reactors The present invention includes a method for preparing polymer hydrogel spherical particles on a nanometer scale (nanogels). The method includes encapsulating hydrogel-forming components into liposomes, diluting the large unilamellar liposomes suspension to prevent p... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941944 | Tongue for sports boots A sports boot tongue, which comprises a comfort element (5) positioned directly on its surface (4) designed to be oriented toward the inside of the sports boot in order to come into contact with the foot or the leg of a user, this comfort element (5... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7534682 | Semiconductor memory device with a stacked gate including a floating gate and a control gate and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor memory device includes first and second MOS transistors. The first MOS transistor is formed on a region enclosed by a first element isolating region and includes a first gate insulating film and a first gate electrode. The second MOS transistor is fo... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7483452 | Method and apparatus for sending out multi-channel digital data, method and apparatus for programming the information and method and apparatus for managing multi-channel digital data An information source management system 11 performs inventory management for CDs and a material information management progress programming system 12 performs programming. An material information registration system 13 compresses the musical num... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483566 | Digital picture signal processing apparatus, method thereof, digital picture recording apparatus, method thereof, transmitting method thereof, and data record medium thereof A digital picture signal processing apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a picture processing means for compressing a captured digital picture signal, and a mode designating means for generating a signal that designates a picture processing operation of the pictur... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483625 | Picture recording apparatus and method thereof A picture recording apparatus for compression-encoding a moving picture sequence and recording the resultant data to a record medium is disclosed, that comprises an encoding unit for compression-encoding an input moving picture sequence, a recording unit for recordi... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484009 | Network connection apparatus, connection system, and network connection method A system for connecting networks that can automatically avoid address clashes to maintain communication in inter-network communication, which includes a storage unit for storing a table, a comparison unit for comparing an interface address which has been set up in a... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480981 | Method of producing hard disk drives of reduced size A method of producing hard disk drives of reduced size including using a one or more MEMS spindle motors, and one or more magnetic heads. Each spindle motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor carries a film of magnetic film, and a head is arranged to communica... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484201 | Nonlinear editing while freely selecting information specific to a clip or a track A nonlinear editing method for performing editing by displaying an editing window having a area for displaying a track on a display device and disposing a clip representing a selected material on the track, the nonlinear editing method including: having a first obje... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484235 | Television reception system, channel selection apparatus and display apparatus A television reception system is disclosed by which a television broadcasting program can be enjoyed at any place in a home without being influenced by connection to an antenna cable or a communication circuit and which can be connected to a network such as the Inte... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7481781 | Ultrasound therapy Described and claimed is the combined use of an electric field and ultrasound to ablate a cell or tissue, the use of ultrasound to disrupt a nucleated cell which has previously been electrosensitised by exposure to an electric field, and the use of an electric field... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7481980 | Device for staining and hybridization reactions A device to perform complex protocols in immuno-cytochemistry and in situ hybridization on specimens attached to microscope sliders wherein such device encloses a biological material attached to a glass slide in such a way that a capillary gap is formed in combinati... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7482606 | Apparatus and method for compensation of movements of a target volume during ion beam irradiation The invention relates to an apparatus and method for compensation of three-dimensional movements of a target volume (1) during ion beam irradiation. For the purpose, the apparatus comprises a position location and tracking system (4) for detecting the ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7482737 | Aluminum nitride thin film, composite film containing the same and piezoelectric thin film resonator using the same A piezoelectric thin film resonator has a substrate and a piezoelectric layered structure including a lower electrode, piezoelectric aluminum nitride thin film with c-axis orientation and upper electrode formed on the substrate in this order. The lower electrode are... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7482922 | Electronic device controlling apparatus and electronic device controlling method A movement made by a user viewing a television broadcast program, which is recorded on a hard disk device and read from the hard disk device to enable time shift viewing, is reproduced at a television (TV) set. The movement of the user is detected via a transmitting... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483079 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, storage medium, and program A system and method in which a sequence of motion images including a scene of interest is zoomed up and displayed smoothly at a specified arbitrary playback speed. Pixel data of taps corresponding to each pixel of interest in each unit of pixel block of an output im... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480818 | Data storage device, reconstruction controlling device, reconstruction controlling method, and storage medium The present invention provides a method including a step of determining whether a number of storage media usable for one of input and output of processing data is not smaller than one plus a number of storage media necessary for one of input and output of processing... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480703 | System, method, and computer program product for remotely determining the configuration of a multi-media content user based on response of the user A method for remotely determining the configuration of a computer of a multimedia content user includes sending player detection code to the user's computer and receiving configuration information regarding the user's computer. A method of determining a connection s... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480440 | Optical disc recording apparatus and method thereof There are provided: a unit data group formation section for forming a unit data group comprising at least one piece of unit data; a thumbnail image generation section for generating a thumbnail image for unit data; a link information generation section for generatin... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479993 | Image device and method for removing noise An image capturing apparatus capable of removing a noise due to a dark signal from a solid-state imaging device is provided. After storing an image signal (A2) obtained through an ordinary capturing in an image memory, an image signal (B2) captured imm... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479988 | Video camera apparatus using an image sensor The video camera apparatus obtains a still image sensing signal with high image quality in a progressive scan mode and is capable of recording onto a recording medium by a recording means which performs recording operation corresponding to an interlace scan mode. An... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479471 | 2-Amino-4-bicyclylamino-6H-1,3,5-triazines, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators The compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof in which R1 to R5, X1 to X4, Y1, Y2 and n and m are as defined in formula (I) according to cl... | 01/20/2009 |
| D584883 | Cuff | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480930 | Data transmission and reception system A command packet C2 comprehending a version command, the profile of which is to be checked, from a data source (STB) to a data destination side (printer device) and a response packet R2 including the profile information as the search result is transmit... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478312 | Method and apparatus for performing turbo encoding in a 3GPP mobile communication system A communication terminal device includes: a turbo encoder that performs two systems of convolutional encoding with respect to input data and preforms turbo encoding processing with in-block interleave preformed on one of the two systems using an internal interleaver... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7478166 | System, method, and computer program product for media publishing request processing A system, method, and computer program product for publishing transcoded media content in response to publishing service requests from end users. A user request for media content, is processed intelligently, either by directing the processing of the request to one o... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7478052 | Contents market research system, contents market research apparatus, contents polling apparatus, contents market research method, and recording medium A system and method that reduces content selection cost, to commercialize the proper picture content quickly, and to reduce the cost required to research the detailed sales market. Content introduction information is sent to a contents polling apparatus, the content... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477833 | Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recorded medium specifying particular picture characteristics An information processing apparatus includes a generating unit for generating ClipMark formed by a mark specifying a characteristic picture extracted from an input AV stream, as management information for supervising the AV stream, and for generating PlayListMark, f... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477830 | Recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus and file management method A recording apparatus, a reproduction apparatus and a file management method are disclosed wherein, even if one of files recorded on a recording medium cannot be reproduced regularly, another file selected by the user can be reproduced normally. A file having a hier... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477801 | Information processing apparatus A data processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of signal processes. The data processing apparatus switches processes of a pre-processing portion, a data processing portion, and a post-processing portion with a control signal supplied from a function... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477786 | Data conversion device, data conversion method, learning device, learning method, program, and recording medium The present invention relates to a data conversion device and a data conversion method, in which HD image data having an image quality higher than that of the original SD image data can be obtained, to a learning device therefor, to a learning method therefor, to a ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477761 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus An apparatus and method for separating a background image and an object image. The apparatus comprises an area specifying unit for specifying areas of the image. The area specifying unit specifies, in a first period-of time, an uncovered background area in which for... | 01/13/2009 |
