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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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| 8106766 | Brand mapping A user uses a portable electronic device to select an image representative of a brand. In response to the user's selection of the image representative of the brand, the device automatically presents the user with an image of a map that indicates a current location o... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095539 | Taxonomy-based object classification Objects, such as documents, are classified according to a taxonomy. The taxonomy includes nodes, corresponding to object classes, arranged in a hierarchy. Class keywords are associated with the nodes. Search strings are formed for the classes by traversing the taxon... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077192 | Platen temperature model The input energies provided to a print head of a thermal printer are adjusted based on the temperature of a platen in the thermal printer. The platen temperature may be measured by a sensor or predicted by a platen temperature model. Such a model may derive the pred... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068381 | Cache memory Disclosed is a cache memory, and more particularly to a cache memory, in which a word-line voltage control logic unit and a word-line driver are added as a logic circuit between a row decoder and a word line, so that a reinforcement voltage signal having a higher le... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8009184 | Thermal response correction system for multicolor printing Thermal history control is performed in a thermal printer in which a single thermal print head prints sequentially on multiple color-forming layers in a single pass. Each pixel-printing interval may be divided into segments, each of which may be used to print a diff... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7962328 | Method and apparatus for generating a compact data structure to identify the meaning of a symbol A computer-implemented method provides, to a user, representations of a plurality of discriminants of meanings of a plurality of symbols in a natural language. Each of the plurality of discriminants is associated with a corresponding finite set of mutually exclusive... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957934 | Method and system for processing application performance data ouside of monitored applications to limit overhead caused by monitoring The present invention provides a system and method that aggregates and processes monitoring data acquired inside a monitored application outside of the said application to reduce overhead caused by monitoring tasks in the monitored application. Monitoring data acqui... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7933777 | Hybrid speech recognition A hybrid speech recognition system uses a client-side speech recognition engine and a server-side speech recognition engine to produce speech recognition results for the same speech. An arbitration engine produces speech recognition output based on one or both of th... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7831423 | Replacing text representing a concept with an alternate written form of the concept A system enables a transcriptionist to replace a first written form (such as an abbreviation) of a concept with a second written form (such as an expanded form) of the same concept. For example, the system may display to the transcriptionist a draft document produce... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7788265 | Taxonomy-based object classification Objects, such as documents, are classified according to a taxonomy. The taxonomy includes nodes, corresponding to object classes, arranged in a hierarchy. Class keywords are associated with the nodes. Search strings are formed for the classes by traversing the taxon... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7716040 | Verification of extracted data Facts are extracted from speech and recorded in a document using codings. Each coding represents an extracted fact and includes a code and a datum. The code may represent a type of the extracted fact and the datum may represent a value of the extracted fact. The dat... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7683903 | Management of presentation time in a digital media presentation system with variable rate presentation capability Techniques are provided for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In one embodiment, Presentation Time is converted to ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7502741 | Audio signal de-identification Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally identifying information from spoken audio signals and replacing such information with non-personally identif... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7378081 | Composition and method for direct visualization of the human appendix A positive contrast agent composition containing meglumine diatrizoate, sodium diatrizoate, simethicone, famotidine and aspartame in predetermined amounts that is orally administered to a patient for clinical evaluations of appendicitis wherein a positive contrast e... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7274355 | Blended transfer function for computer pointing devices A transfer function is provided for use with computer pointing devices such as trackpads. The transfer function includes a first component having characteristics of a positional transfer function and a second component having characteristics of a velocity-based tran... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7143531 | Plow protector In one aspect of the present invention, a plow protection device is disclosed. Such a device may, for example, protect a plow against substantial damage from impact with an obstruction such as a utility cover. In various embodiments of the present invention, the plo... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6791550 | Management of presentation time in a digital media presentation system with variable rate presentation capability Method for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In a particular, one embodiment of the present invention is a method f... | 09/14/2004 |
