Celebrity Inventors
Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8065533 | Reliable storage medium access control method and device A method of and device for granting access to content on a storage medium, including obtaining cryptographic data from a property, such as a wobble, of the storage medium, reading helper data from the storage medium, and granting the access based on an application o... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064035 | Polarization gratings in mesogenic films A polarizer including a polarization grating comprising a polarization sensitive photo-alignment layer and a liquid crystal composition arranged on said photo-alignment layer. An alignment pattern, corresponding to the polarization pattern of a hologram, is recorded... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050432 | Sound system To conclude, in a preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention, the sound system comprises two loudspeakers (LA, LB) which mask their spectral signatures at the ear (C1) of the listener by positioning the two loudspeakers (LA, LB) such that their max... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7995748 | Method and apparatus for providing ecryption/decryption using two sequences of numbers A method encrypting data including selecting a pair of sequences based on a seed, performing a transposition of the data utilizing elements of a first one of the pair of sequences to produce a first transposition result, and performing a transposition of the first t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990913 | Mobility manager A mobility manager provides mobility management of mobile nodes in accordance with bandwidth allocated from an access point. The mobility manager receives traffic shaping report messages from a traffic shaper within an access network of which the access point forms ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990875 | Telecommunications system and method A telecommunications system provides mobile internet protocol related communications services to mobile nodes via a plurality of access networks that each include an access gateway, a mobility manager operable to receive link quality messages from the mobile nodes p... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7934224 | Method, interface and apparatus for discovering a location of a device A system, method, Application Programming Interface (API) and device for discovering a location of a device, for example, to provide location information for a Location Based Service (LBS). The device includes a memory, a display, and a processor operably coupled to... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7917153 | Method and apparatus for creating, directing, storing and automatically delivering a message to an intended recipient upon arrival of a specified mobile object at a designated location A technique to electronically deliver a message from a sender to an intended recipient based on tracking movement of a mobile object, including obtaining a message provided by the sender, obtaining a location designated by the sender for delivery of the message, tra... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7838795 | Method of breaking a brittle substrate The invention relates to a method of breaking a substrate of a brittle material, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate (1) of a brittle material, heating the substrate with a laser beam (3) to create a heated spot on the substrate, m... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7663558 | Tag reader with conformal antenna stand A mobile device includes a housing having a transceiver configured to transmit and/or receive a signal. A stand attachable to the housing has a profile that increases stability of the housing in a resting position. The stand may also be attachable to a further housi... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7568113 | Reliable storage medium access control method and device A method of and device (110) for granting access to content on a storage medium (101), comprising obtaining cryptographic data (Y) from a property (102), such as a wobble, of the storage medium (101), reading helper data (W) from the stor... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7540680 | Abrasive injury cleaning system A brush system including a brush body, bristles attached to the brush body, and a sponge attached to another part of the brush body. The brush system is arranged to dispense at least two of a topical numbing agent, an antiseptic, and a washing solution. The topical ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7362082 | Switch mode power supply with output voltage equalizer A switch mode power supply for feeding a single ended class D amplifier, having. two voltage sources (1, 2) is disclosed. The power supply comprises a voltage equalizer circuit including a coil (10) having a first terminal connected to said common poin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7123739 | Copy protection via multiple tests A multi-layered copy protection scheme distinguishes between security failures due to faulty watermark detection schemes and true security failures. At an initial security level, the fault-tolerance is low. If the security test fails at this initial security level, ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7085929 | Method and apparatus for revocation list management using a contact list having a contact count field Access to information is controlled by maintaining, for a given device or other entity through which information may be accessed, a contact list that includes information identifying one or more other entities which have attempted to communicate with the given entit... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7053292 | Device comprising a sound signal generator and method for forming a call signal This device (1) enables the user to personalize the call signal (ringing) which it is called on to deliver. This personalization consists of transforming a melody (FIG. 1) which the user hums into his microphone in order to transform it into a polyphon... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7017172 | Recommender system using “fuzzy-now” for real-time events Real-time events are electronically recommended using a fuzzy-now function of time. Real-time experiencing apparatus can be automatically tuned to a particular real-time event using a surf ring related to recommendations or automatically without a user request. Reco... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6988276 | In-house TV to TV channel peeking A method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer communications between televisions wherein a query request is sent from any of the televisions to any other of the televisions. The query request is for information identifying content currently watched on the querie... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6986048 | Protecting content from illicit reproduction by proof of existence of a complete data set using security identifiers A number of data items are selected for inclusion in a data set so as to discourage a transmission of the entire set over a limited bandwidth communications path, such as the Internet. The data set includes an entirety parameter that is used to determine whether the... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6973201 | Person tagging in an image processing system utilizing a statistical model based on both appearance and geometric features An image processing system processes a sequence of images to generate a statistical model for each of a number of different persons to be tagged so as to be identifiable in subsequent images. The statistical model for a given tagged person incorporates at least one ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970067 | System for providing personalized services A system comprises an apparatus which is capable of personalizing its behavior in accordance with a user profile, and a gatekeeper device which comprises control means for allowing a user to control said personalization of the apparatus. The gatekeeper device is cap... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6971011 | Watermark detection Method of detecting a watermark embedded in a signal (S), in which a plurality of frames of the signal (S) is combined to a detection set (Dj) for one detection event. According to the invention, the reliability of watermark detection is enhanced by using non-consec... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968152 | Computer-aided method of transmitting teaching materials The invention relates to a method of transmitting teaching materials by means of an electronic data network, wherein a person to be taught is first shown the teaching material on a client computer system. After the teaching material has been displayed, the person to... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968294 | Automatic system for monitoring person requiring care and his/her caretaker A monitoring system for an infant, child, invalid, or other person requiring care uses computer vision and hearing, and inputs of other modalities, to analyze the status of a caretaker and/or cared-for person and its environment. The conditions are classified as nor... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965885 | Self-organizing feature map with improved performance by non-monotonic variation of the learning rate The learning rate used for updating the weights of a self-ordering feature map is determined by a process that injects some type of perturbation into the value so that it is not simply monotonically decreased with each training epoch. For example, the learning rate ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6958731 | Circuit board and SMD antenna for this A printed circuit board (4) is described for surface mounting of electrical and/or electronic components, in particular an SMD (surface mounted device) antenna with a ceramic substrate (1) and at least one resonant track structure (20; 30), and ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952713 | Information processing device The invention relates to an information processing device (1), including a user control unit (2) for the selection of units of primary information to be processed and functions to be invoked. The device also includes storage means (3) for storin... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6944625 | Method for charging information about an error in a database A target database (4) connected to the Internet (NET) is designed to gather entry data (EI) stored in source databases (1, 2, 3) similar in content, which source databases (1, 2, 3) are likewise connected to the Internet (NET). The target databa... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943775 | Information processing system An information processing system comprises a plurality of information objects. The system has an input device through which a user can select a particular information object to be processed. An information object has an object representation to allow selection of th... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6933685 | Method and apparatus for controlling lighting based on user behavior A lighting controller is disclosed that automatically adjusts a lighting device based on user activity. The disclosed lighting controller processes at least one of audio and video information to identify predefined user events that suggest that a lighting device sho... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931596 | Automatic positioning of display depending upon the viewer's location A system having a video display screen that provides video to a user. The position of the display screen is adjustable based upon the location of the user with respect to the display screen. The system includes at least one image capturing device trainable on a view... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6931656 | Virtual creature displayed on a television An animated virtual creature is generated on a display such as a television set, in order to simulate a pet or to facilitate user interface functions. In one embodiment, one or more signals corresponding to the program being watched are monitored. When certain event... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928192 | User interface for interactive removal of defects in an image sequence A method and apparatus are disclosed for repairing an image using an image defect matte that indicates portions of an image that have been repaired in previous iterations or are proposed modifications for a current iteration. A user interface incorporates graphical ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925182 | Administration and utilization of private keys in a networked environment The private and public keys of users, as encrypted with a symmetric algorithm by using individual user identifying keys are stored at a network server, indexed or addressable by user ID, and are sent to the user equipment only when needed. The user identifying keys ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925342 | System and method for protecting digital media A system and method for verifying digital recordings that have a plurality of tracks. The system includes an encoder that: divides the digital recording into a plurality of sections and associates a random number with each section; calculates an identifier as a func... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925434 | Audio coding Coding (1) of an audio signal is provided including estimating (110) a position of a transient signal component in the audio signal, matching (111,112) a shape function on the transient signal component in case the transient signal component is ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922805 | Selective packet retransmission with timing control at the transmitter end The invention proposes a mechanism for retransmitting packets which comprises a step for checking at the transmitter whether the retransmitted packet will be received by the receiver in time to be processed. To this end, the receiver sends in its retransmission requ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920496 | Network communication system for providing a user with a paging message A network communications system comprises a number of user stations, coupled via a data network to a number of service provider host systems. The user stations are registered as client stations at the host system of a service provider, with the host system maintaini... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6909746 | Fast robust data compression method and system A video compression process speeds the optimal choice of quantizers for compressing a data stream by setting up the optimization problem as a path-optimization problem in configuration space and finding the lowest cost path through the configuration space. The proce... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909378 | Method and system for upgrading a universal remote control A method of and a system for upgrading a universal remote control with a command code of an electronic appliance are provided. The command code is downloaded from an internet server into a personal computer or set-top box, which is coupled to an infrared transmitter... | 06/21/2005 |
