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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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| 8178028 | Laser patterning of nanostructure-films A novel nanostructure-film patterning method is discussed, wherein a laser is employed to etch a nanostructure-film. The laser may be a solid state UV laser, and the nanostructure-film may be patterned while mounted and moving on a roll-to-roll apparatus. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8150776 | Methods of operating a coal burning facility Methods involve adding sorbent components, such as calcium oxide, alumina, and silica, as well as optional halogens as part of environmental control. Use of the sorbents leads to significant reductions in sulfur and mercury emissions that otherwise would result from... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149718 | Communication network management system for automatic repair of failures Disclosed is a management system for a communication network including a diagnostic module to determine a diagnosis based on information provided by network elements this diagnosis identifying a failure within the network. The management system also includes a repai... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8114368 | Sorbents for coal combustion Sorbent compositions containing halogen and calcium are added to coal to mitigate the release of sulfur and/or other harmful elements, including mercury, into the environment during combustion of coal containing natural levels of mercury. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103186 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including an image forming section; an upper unit located over the image forming section with a space therebetween and slidable in a direction of from the front side to the rear side of the apparatus and the opposite direction; a sheet dis... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8066592 | Dampening system for stringed-racquet A system for storing one or more stringed-racquet vibration dampeners on an article of apparel so that they are easily accessible during game play is disclosed. In disclosed embodiments, the vibration dampener is detachably secured to an article of footwear by way o... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050915 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signals using hierarchical block switching and linear prediction coding In one embodiment, sample information and frame length information are obtained from the audio signal. The sample information indicates a total number of audio data samples for each channel in the audio signal, and the frame length information indicates a number of ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7935641 | Thin film etching method Example methods may provide a thin film etching method. Example thin film etching methods may include forming a Ga—In—Zn—O film on a substrate, forming a mask layer covering a portion of the Ga—In—Zn—O film, and etching the Ga—In—Zn—O film using th... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7891699 | Airbag module cover A cover for a driver's side airbag module is provided, the cover having a central body portion with an opening disposed therein, the central body portion having a predetermined tear seam for defining a pair of deployable doors, the predetermined tear seam extending ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7871906 | Storage nodes including a phase chang layer and methods of manufacturing and operating the same, phase change memory devices and methods of manufacturing and operating the same In various embodiments, the present disclosure may provide a storage node. In various implementations, the storage node may include a bottom electrode having a non-planar bottom surface that conforms with and is connected to a non-planar top surface of a diode elect... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7866302 | Method and system for starting or restarting an internal combustion engine via selective combustion A selective combustion starting system and method selectively provides a proper amount of fuel to one or more combustion chambers in an internal combustion engine. The particular combustion chambers selected depend upon the state of the piston of the combustion cham... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7851256 | Method of manufacturing chip-on-chip semiconductor device Provided is a method of fabricating a chip-on-chip (COC) semiconductor device. The method of fabricating a chip-on-chip (COC) semiconductor device may include preparing a first semiconductor device with a metal wiring having at least one discontinuous spot formed th... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7842391 | Gel reduction in blends of thermoplastic polyurethane and hydroxyl functional polymers Gas barrier layers and composites contain a low gel sheet produced from a composition containing a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), a hydroxyl functional copolymer, and a gel reducing additive. The gel reducing additive has functional groups that can react with iso... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7823438 | Fluid detector A device is disclosed for sensing a fluid, such as in a ventilation duct. In at least one embodiment, the device includes a sensing element, a housing accommodating the sensing element, and a supply duct and a discharge duct, which ducts at one end commucicate with ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7814009 | Anonymous on-line cash management system A method for a customer to anonymously purchase goods or services from an on-line merchant, including the steps of depositing currency in the form of cash with a depository, the depository issuing to the customer one or more randomly-generated serial numbers, the cu... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812914 | Display device The present invention realizes a display device with dummy pixel portions and a frame region required for the dummy pixel portions and code notation, in which the frame region is minimized while achieving code notation in required size. In a dummy pixel porti... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7806162 | Controlled pressure casting A method of forming metal castings includes positioning a first end of a structural member in a first mold cavity and a second end of the structural member in a second mold cavity. The first and second mold cavities are fluidly coupled to a reservoir of molten metal... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804878 | Nitride semiconductor laser device and method of producing the same A method of producing a nitride semiconductor laser device includes: forming a wafer including a nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer of a nitride semiconductor, a nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and an... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7782284 | Video signal line drive circuit, and display device having the circuit The present invention relates to a video signal line drive circuit of a display device. An object of the present invention is to, when gradation conversion is performed in the display device using an error diffusion method, provide a display with a smooth gra... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7757962 | Thermostatic device and related method A thermostatic device for selectively opening and closing one of more apertures used for controlling the flow of a coolant fluid includes a housing, at least one fixed element and at least one moveable element. The at least one fixed element is fixedly interconnecte... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7749631 | Fuel cell separator plate coating A fuel cell electroconductive element, or bipolar plate, that includes a substrate with a cationic or anionic exchange resin coating deposited thereon, and a method for making the same. The bipolar plate has a fluid flow field formed therein. The ion-exchange polyme... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7737540 | Stacked semiconductor devices and signal distribution methods thereof A stacked semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked chips, each having a plurality of elements to receive a signal. At least one first ladder main signal line for receiving the signal is arranged to pass through the chips. At least one second ladder main ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7722111 | Truck box with external storage structural frame A truck box includes front and rear corner brackets and an inner side panel having a first end fixed to the front corner bracket and a second end fixed to the rear corner bracket. A rail longitudinally extends substantially the entire length of the inner side panel ... | 05/25/2010 |
| D615545 | Computer mouse with scanner | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706436 | Decision-feedback equalizer and method of updating filter coefficients Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an equalizer combined with a decoder and a method of updating filter coefficients. The method may include calculating output error signals ek, multiplying the output error signals by a parameter, obta... | 04/27/2010 |
| D614189 | Computer mouse with scanner | 04/20/2010 |
| 7680012 | Recording medium, method of configuring control information thereof, recording and/or reproducing method using the same, and apparatus thereof A method of recording control information in a recording medium, such as an optical disc, including at least one recording layer is provided Velocity information and per recording velocity write strategy (write strategy parameters) is included in control information... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7663591 | Display device and method of driving same A display device is made up of (i) a source driver made up of source driver ICs each driving an identical number of data signal lines, the source driver ICs being grouped into at least a first individually-driven circuit group and a second individually-driven circui... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663590 | Flicker-constrained liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display has pixel electrodes, a common electrode, a liquid crystal layer provided between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, and a back light that supplies light transmitting through the liquid crystal layer, further has a control circui... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656863 | Method for soft switch call control and soft switch device using the same A method for soft switch call control and a soft switch device therefore are provided. The soft switch device acquires an initial address message (IAM) at a calling side, analyzes information of the calling party and the called party based on the acquired initial ad... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654906 | Damper with trigger plate To prevent the number of parts from being increased due to a trigger plate in a damper with trigger plate, a damper which is formed by interposing a sleeve and an elastic body between a hub fitted to a rotating shaft and an annular mass body disposed at the outer pe... | 02/02/2010 |
| D609413 | Portable restroom | 02/02/2010 |
| D607677 | Portable sanitary dispenser assembly | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643557 | Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive image block based on a list 0 motion vector of a co-located block using a bit operation In one embodiment, the method includes selecting the list0 motion vector of the co-located image block for the bi-predictive image block as a motion vector for deriving motion vectors of the bi-predictive image block if the co-located image block has a list1 and a l... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642076 | Process for immobilization of protein catalysts, product, and use An immobilized protein catalyst is prepared by applying an adhesive to a polymeric support, applying a layer of a globular protein over the layer of adhesive, binding a crosslinking agent to the protein layer, and binding the protein catalyst by reaction with the cr... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7635148 | Inflatable air-bag An inflatable air-bag is disclosed which is provided with a controllable vent formed in the fabric of the air-bag. The vent comprises a hole formed in the fabric of the air-bag and a flexible vent tube which extends inwardly of the air-bag from the hole so as to ter... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634007 | Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive image block based on a list 1 motion vector of a co-located block using a bit operation In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 1 motion vector of the co-located block in a first list 1 reference picture as the motion vector for deriving list 0 and list 1 motion vectors of the bi-predictive block, if the co-l... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7632947 | Pyrimidopyrimidine derivatives, organic thin film transistors using pyrimidopyrimidine derivatives and method for fabricating the same Pyrimidopyrimidine derivatives, organic thin film transistors using pyrimidopyrimidine derivatives and method for fabricating the same are provided. Pyrimidopyrimidine derivative structures, along with example syntheses, are provided. The pyrimidopyrimidine derivati... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7619950 | Recording medium and apparatus method for forming, recording and reproducing the recording medium A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, which includes copy protection information for preventing illegal copying of the contents recorded on the recording medium, and to methods and apparatuses for forming, reco... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7605798 | Electro-optic device and electronic instrument An electro-optic device includes spaced apart pixel electrodes in respective unit areas arranged in a plane defined by dividing the plane into common shapes without gaps, and an electro-optic layer facing the pixel electrodes. In response to an applied first electri... | 10/20/2009 |
