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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5925001 | Foot contact sensor system This invention relates to a device and method for determining the metabolic energy expenditure by a human during periods of running or walking. The energy expenditure is correlated with the weight of the subject (W) divided by the time of foot contact wit... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5920469 | DC power supply operable from variable A.C. supply mains and utilizing minimally sized energy storage capacitor The DC power supply disclosed herein is adapted to be energized from AC supply mains and incorporates a DC to DC switching inverter provided with an energy storage or filter capacitor for supplying an input voltage to the inverter. The capacitor is charge... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5899810 | Distributed game architecture to overcome system latency The distributed game system disclosed herein provides for interacting play between multiple users, even though the users are interconnected with a host computer through a data communication network having appreciable latency. The host computer supports a ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5791143 | Flow control valve and hydraulic system employing same The hydraulic control system disclosed herein employs a pair of combination poppet/spool valves to control the operation of a hydraulic cylinder driven from a bidirectional pump. Flow introduced through the source port of one valve lifts the poppet of the... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5734649 | Data packet router In the data packet router disclosed herein, a matrix of crosspoint switch elements connects data sources to selected destinations during each of a succession of intervals. Allocation of switch elements to desired connections is accomplished by a process w... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5699357 | Personal data network The data network disclosed herein utilizes low duty cycle pulsed radio frequency energy to effect bidirectional wireless data communication between a server microcomputer unit and a plurality of peripheral units, each of which is intended to be carried on... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5684924 | User adaptable speech recognition system A speech recognition system is disclosed which comprises a core speech recognition program and a plurality of utility program modules for adjusting various recognition parameters such as gain, sensitivity and acceptance threshold and for improving the tra... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5682464 | Word model candidate preselection for speech recognition using precomputed matrix of thresholded distance values In the large vocabulary speech recognition system disclosed herein, a preliminary screening of vocabulary models is provided by applying high speed distance measuring functions. The distance measuring functions utilize subsampled or otherwise reduced repr... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5677991 | Speech recognition system using arbitration between continuous speech and isolated word modules In the speech recognition system disclosed herein, an input utterance is submitted to both a large vocabulary isolated word speech recognition module and a small vocabulary continuous speech recognition module. The two recognition modules generate respect... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676237 | Tracking device The tracking signal generating device disclosed herein is adapted to be utilized between successive conveying sections in which articles are transported at a nominal height. A resilient suspension supports an elongate roller so that it projects above the ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5673236 | Underwater acoustic projector The underwater sound projector disclosed herein employs, as radiating surfaces or pistons, stiff, lightweight panels whose mass is substantially less than the inertial component of the radiation impedance over the operating frequency range. The panels are... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5671426 | Method for organizing incremental search dictionary The electronic dictionary disclosed herein is organized for expeditious search based on partial spelling by assigning words to blocks having a predetermined maximum size, the blocks being represented by respective partial spelling sequencer. The words are... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5641056 | Conveyor system A conveyor system for transporting articles up a steep gradient and having a continuous belt having article engaging lugs projecting from only the outer belt face. Conventional flat idler rollers are employed for turning the direction of the belt between ... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5615868 | Active pneumatic mount In the active pneumatic mount disclosed herein, a bellows or other flexible sealing means is utilized for containing a volume of pressurized gas which supports the weight of the equipment which is to be isolated. Within the pressurized volume is a means d... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5596600 | Standalone canceller of narrow band interference for spread spectrum receivers A spread spectrum interference canceller includes a downconverter for amplifying and translating the received signal from the radio frequency band to baseband, said signal comprising multiple direct sequence-spread spectrum signals and multiple narrowband... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5590320 | Computer file directory system The computer system disclosed herein provides an aggregated directory facility which can encompass the file contents of a large number of high capacity storage devices such as CD ROMS and which enables a user to deal those files as though they were in a s... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5587615 | Electromagnetic force generator The electromagnetic force generator disclosed herein employs first and second elongate magnetic cores having transversely facing pole faces at each end, the cores being essentially parallel with pole faces aligned and facing. Between each pair of aligned ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5577615 | Bag dispensing system The dispensing system disclosed herein is adapted to dispense T-shirt type plastic film bags of the type having an openable mouth and loop handles extending upward on either side of the mouth, the handles being linked at their upper ends by a tearaway str... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5572624 | Speech recognition system accommodating different sources The speech recognition system disclosed herein obtains improved recognition accuracy by employing recognition models which are discriminatively trained from a data base comprising training data from different sources, e.g., both male and female voices. A ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5562213 | Bag dispensing system and rack A stack of T-shirt type plastic film bags having handles extending from an openable mouth are formed into a pack by bonding together bridging strips extending between the handles. A dispensing rack includes a frame providing an upper horizontal edge over ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5558237 | Adaptable baking system The baking system disclosed herein employs a wire rack frame which carries, between a pair of parallel side bars, a plurality of transverse bars the ends of which slidably engage the side bars. The spacing between the transverse bars may thus be manually ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5546499 | Speech recognition system utilizing pre-calculated similarity measurements An input utterance is converted to a sequence of standard or prototype data frames which are compared with word models which are represented by respective sequences of standard or prototype probability states, there being a pre-calculable distance metric ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5526569 | Pizza server The server disclosed herein incorporates first and second relatively rigid elements joined by an elongate hinge. The elements are essentially complimentary in shape and each provides a half handle portion and, extending from the half handle portion, a fla... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5524763 | Dispensing system for t-shirt type bags In the dispensing system disclosed herein, an aligned stack of T-shirt type bags are assembled within a disposable tubular cartridge with the loop handles and a significant portion of the bottoms of the bags extending beyond the ends of the tubular cartri... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5520104 | Food preparation utensil The food preparation utensil disclosed herein facilitates both the pressing and slicing of a foodstuff such as cloves of garlic. A first handle member provides a pressing cavity having an apertured or screen-like bottom and a slicing cavity having a serie... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5503063 | Pizza crisper The pizza crisper disclosed herein is formed of aluminum sheet metal and comprises a bottom portion and an annular rim which rises above the bottom portion. The bottom portion is perforate and comprises a succession of annular lands separated by annular g... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5490454 | Foodstuff treating device In the device disclosed, a foodstuff is placed in a carrier which can be rotated eccentrically around and over the face of a blade providing a circular cutting track by means of a plunger which is slidable within the carrier and can be gripped by a user t... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5484978 | Destruction of hydrocarbon materials In the method of destroying hydrocarbons disclosed herein, a high temperature plasma is generated from an electrical discharge in a flow of hydrogen gas devoid of oxygen. The hydrocarbon to be destroyed is injected into the plasma thereby to decompose the... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5474010 | Sail gathering system A dropped sail is gathered along a boom extending generally horizontally from a mast upon which the sail can be raised during sailing, the mast being supported by a lateral stays. On each side of the boom, a first line, when tensioned, extends from the fr... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5471567 | Image element depth buffering using two buffers Depth buffered anti-aliasing in a real time image generation system utilizing two separate buffers, one for combining attributes of object pixel definitions which are of less than full coverage and another for storing the attributes of each new object pix... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5467572 | Bagging system The bagging system disclosed herein utilizes T-shirt type bags which are mounted on the projecting arms of a rack by means of holes through the handle portions of the bags. Between the handles a mounting tab extends upward from the front and back panels o... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5465318 | Method for generating a speech recognition model for a non-vocabulary utterance The method disclosed herein facilitates the generation of a recognition model for a non-standard word uttered by a user in the context of a large vocabulary speech recognition system in which standard vocabulary models are represented by sequences of prob... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5455513 | System for measuring properties of materials A system for determining a property, such as conductivity, of a material in which a sensor provides a square wave sensor output signal the value if which is selected to the proper in response to a square wave driver signal. The sensor output signal is com... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5455548 | Broadband rigid coaxial transmission line The rigid coaxial transmission line disclosed herein is made up of multiple sections having outer conductors which are joined together at flanges and make up a desired length. Rather than being of equal length, the sections vary in length progressively to... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5401173 | Coaxial connector accommodating differential expansion The coaxial connector disclosed herein accommodates differential expansion between inner and outer conductors in a multi-section run of coaxial transmission line by utilizing a coupler assembly which connects adjacent inner conductors, one of the inner co... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5394394 | Message header classifier The classifier device disclosed herein analyzes message headers of the type which comprise a sequence of bit groups presented successively. The device employs a read/write memory for storing at a multiplicity of addresses, an alterable parse graph of inst... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5388183 | Speech recognition providing multiple outputs In the speech recognition system disclosed herein, the Viterbi decoding of an acoustic recognition network is augmented by implementing additional data structures for each arc in the network which represent, for each arc, the best path cost of reaching th... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5386492 | Speech recognition system utilizing vocabulary model preselection Preliminary screening of vocabulary models is provided by successively applying two different high speed distance measuring functions which provide progressively increasing measurement accuracy. Both distance measuring functions utilize subsampled represe... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5363952 | High temperature transport belt for materials treating furnace In a materials treating furnace, a belt is provided for transporting articles to be treated through a high temperature treatment zone. The belt comprises a succession of interwoven links, each of which is made up of a length of tungsten wire which has bee... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5364026 | Ventilation fan control The residential structure ventilating apparatus disclosed herein employs a variable speed exhaust fan. The speed is responsive to a sensor which detects air temperature at the exhaust port. The fan is energized when the sensed air temperature rises above ... | 11/15/1994 |
