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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185815 | Live preview As digital media are being generated, a live preview of how that media would be presented—if encoded, stored, decoded, and presented from the decoded form—is presented to a user. The user can order changes to some or all of the encoding format or its parameters,... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8047496 | Methods and apparatus for suspending fixtures Various systems including brackets and associated wires are disclosed for suspending fixtures from ceilings and the like. The systems improve over the prior art in several ways. Attachment of the wire to the bracket is faster and easier. The attachment can be made m... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8015018 | Multichannel decorrelation in spatial audio coding Each of N audio signals are filtered with a unique decorrelating filter (38) characteristic, the characteristic being a causal linear time-invariant characteristic in the time domain or the equivalent thereof in the frequency domain, and, for each decorrelati... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7802397 | Method and apparatus for tracking vermin A method for tracking vermin includes causing the vermin to be covered in a non-toxic fluorescent substance which will leave a trail as the rodent enters/exits the human habitation, then examining the habitation with an ultraviolet light to determine the location of... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788187 | Abandoned property escheat assignment and reporting system The methods of the invention include interrogating a user provided “Abandoned Property DataBase” (APDB) and assigning a probable escheat jurisdiction to each account based on a series of user-selected processing options. The invention appends confidence codes in... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780049 | Body support for a portable computer An easy to use notebook computer support system which will fit virtually any notebook or laptop computer. It has comfortable shoulder pads and allows access to all ports (front, back and side). In particular, it allows access data ports, power ports as well as disk ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761782 | User programmable deductive spreadsheet apparatus which supports solutions to circular definitions A user programmable deductive spreadsheet is implemented as an add-in to an existing mathematical spreadsheet program and allows the use of a logic programming language such as Prolog via a familiar spreadsheet interface. A syntax is provided whereby a set of multip... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7711123 | Segmenting audio signals into auditory events In one aspect, the invention divides an audio signal into auditory events, each of which tends to be perceived as separate and distinct, by calculating the spectral content of successive time blocks of the audio signal (5-1), calculating the difference... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7660424 | Audio channel spatial translation Using an M:N variable matrix, M audio input signals, each associated with a direction, are translated to N audio output signals, each associated with a direction, wherein N is larger than M, M is two or more and N is a positive integer equal to three or more. The va... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7619546 | Asynchronous sample rate conversion using a digital simulation of an analog filter The sample rate of a digital signal is converted by a digital simulation of an analog filter. The simulation can update the states of complex poles in the analog filter at arbitrary times using different techniques. One technique updates the states at variable rates... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7610205 | High quality time-scaling and pitch-scaling of audio signals In one alternative, an audio signal is analyzed using multiple psychoacoustic criteria to identify a region of the signal in which time scaling and/or pitch shifting processing would be inaudible or minimally audible, and the signal is time scaled and/or pitch shift... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7551745 | Volume and compression control in movie theaters A single control determines both volume and the degree of compression in the reproduction of motion picture soundtracks. For some settings of the control, compression or limiting reduces the highest levels on a movie soundtrack, leaving the dialogue level substantia... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7508947 | Method for combining audio signals using auditory scene analysis A process for combining audio channels combines the audio channels to produce a combined audio channel and dynamically applies one or more of time, phase, and amplitude or power adjustments to the channels, to the combined channel, or to both the channels and the co... | 03/24/2009 |
| D586681 | Portion of a front panel | 02/17/2009 |
| 7461002 | Method for time aligning audio signals using characterizations based on auditory events A method for time aligning audio signal, wherein one signal has been derived from the other or both have been derived from another signal, comprises deriving reduced-information characterizations of the audio signals, auditory scene analysis. The time offset of one ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7448061 | Frame synchronization in an ethernet NTP time-keeping digital cinema playback system In a digital cinema network of NTP-timekeeping devices in which one of the devices decodes video information, the scheduling of future instructions takes into account the differences between the nominal and actual frame rates of the video decoding device and the net... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7395211 | Modulating one or more parameters of an audio or video perceptual coding system in response to supplemental information A method of modifying the operation of the encoder function and/or the decoder function of a perceptual coding system in accordance with supplemental information, such as a watermark, so that the supplemental information may be detectable in the output of the decode... | 07/01/2008 |
| D571792 | Antenna for mobile telephones or the like | 06/24/2008 |
| D566722 | Display panel with icon | 04/15/2008 |
| 7341232 | Methods and apparatus for suspending fixtures Various systems including brackets and associated wires are disclosed for suspending fixtures from ceilings and the like. The systems improve over the prior art in several ways. Attachment of the wire to the bracket is faster and easier. The attachment can be made m... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7313519 | Transient performance of low bit rate audio coding systems by reducing pre-noise Distortion artifacts preceding a signal transient in an audio signal stream processed by a transform-based low-bit-rate audio coding system employing coding blocks are reduced by detecting a transient in the audio signal stream and shifting the temporal relationship... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310370 | Multi-layer video compression system with synthetic high frequencies Multi-layered motion or still video compression includes, in an encoder or encoding function aspect of the invention, separating the video signal into low-frequency and high-frequency components, processing the low-frequency components of the video signal to generat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292902 | Frame-based audio transmission/storage with overlap to facilitate smooth crossfading Methods for splicing PCM audio frames form modified frames by appending to each frame either a portion of the next preceding frame or the next following frame. According to a first approach, splices are obtained by fading up and fading down a frame end and a frame a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283954 | Comparing audio using characterizations based on auditory events A method for determining if one audio signal is derived from another audio signal or if two audio signals are derived from the same audio signal compares reduced-information characterizations of said audio signals, wherein said characterizations are based on auditor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272566 | Reducing scale factor transmission cost for MPEG-2 advanced audio coding (AAC) using a lattice based post processing technique A perceptual encoder divides an audio signal into successive time blocks, each time block is divided into frequency bands, and a scale factor is assigned to each of ones of the frequency bands. Bits per block increase with scale factor values and band-to-band variat... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266714 | Method an apparatus for adjusting the time of a clock if it is determined that the degree of adjustment is within a limit based on the clocks initial time A free-running secure clock in a computing device that is adjustable by a user of the device so long as cumulative adjustments do not exceed a predicted clock drift. The clock may be initially set by the user or by a trusted time authority or the like. Such a clock ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251337 | Volume control in movie theaters A motion picture soundtrack reproduction system has a center front soundtrack channel and a plurality of other soundtrack channels. A volume control adjusts the gain of all the channels. The volume control has a range of settings from a minimum to a maximum, the gai... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7025317 | Methods and apparatus for suspending fixtures The invention includes an angle bracket with a hole for a fastener and a flange for coupling a wire to the angle bracket. The flange is lanced and it is coupled to the wire by crimping. According to a first embodiment of the invention, the flange is provided with tw... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6970567 | Method and apparatus for deriving at least one audio signal from two or more input audio signals A multidirectional audio decoder using an “adaptive” audio matrix derives at least one of a plurality of output audio signals from two or more directionally-encoded audio input signal streams (S1(α), S2(α), . . . SN(α), wherein α is the encoded... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6920223 | Method for deriving at least three audio signals from two input audio signals Various equivalent adaptive audio matrix arrangements are disclosed, each of which includes a feedback-derived control system that automatically causes the cancellation of undesired matrix crosstalk components in the matrix output. Each adaptive audio matrix arrange... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6807528 | Adding data to a compressed data frame Many low bit rate digital audio encoding systems, including Dolby Digital and MPEG-2 AAC generate data streams in which unused dummy, fill, stuffing, or null bits exist whenever the bit allocation function in the encoder does not utilize all available bits from a bi... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6760448 | Compatible matrix-encoded surround-sound channels in a discrete digital sound format Three surround sound channels are provided within the current formats of the Dolby Digital, Sony SDDS and DTS digital soundtrack systems in a manner that provides compatibility with conventional two surround channel playback in standard 5.1 channel and 7.1 channel s... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6724071 | Molded plastic package with heat sink and enhanced electrical performance A molded plastic package for semiconductor devices incorporating a heat sink, controlled impedance leads and separate power and ground rings is described. The lead frame of the package, separated by a dielectric layer, is attached to a metal heat sink. It has more t... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6725412 | Low latency data encoder Codeword-position-caused encoder latency is reduced by avoiding the requirement for knowledge of the message prior to generating an error detecting or concealing codeword associated with the message. A pseudo error detecting or concealing codeword is inserted in pla... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6669158 | Methods and apparatus for suspending fixtures The apparatus of the invention includes an angle bracket with a hole for a fastener and a flange with a hole for coupling a wire to the angle bracket. The flange is arranged to be substantially perpendicular to the axis of the fastener and substantially p... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6637620 | Method and apparatus for sampling and advertising perfume An apparatus for sampling perfume includes a card dispenser which includes a built-in atomizer. The dispenser is operated by a simple control which applies a scent onto a card and ejects the card from the dispenser. The dispenser is preferably designed to... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6632152 | Eccentric planetary gearing An eccentric planetary gearing comprises two internally toothed gears, a double-ring externally toothed planetary gear and a planet carrier. The planet carrier is composed of support means for providing the rotatable mounting of the planet carrier itself ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6497501 | Glare reducing visor for existing PAR bulb exterior lighting fixtures A PAR bulb visor includes an accessory visor with a plurality of spaced apart spring clips which is adapted to removably attach to the lip of a PAR bulb. The visor is retrofittable to virtually any existing PAR bulb fixture where the lip of the bulb is ex... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6246682 | Method and apparatus for managing multiple ATM cell queues Methods for managing multiple queues of ATM cells in shared RAM while efficiently supporting multicasting include providing a common memory for storing ATM cells and for storing at least one pointer to each ATM cell stored, providing a management memory f... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6243359 | Methods and apparatus for managing traffic in an atm network The apparatus includes a separate line side inlet queue for each GFR VC, a single network side outlet queue for all GFR VCs, a single network side inlet queue for all GFR VCs, a single line side outlet bulk processing queue with a post queue packet proces... | 06/05/2001 |
