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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6269334 | Nongaussian density estimation for the classification of acoustic feature vectors in speech recognition A statistical modeling paradigm for automatic machine recognition of speech uses mixtures of nongaussion statistical probability densities which provides improved recognition accuracy. Speech is modeled by building probability densities from functions of ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6172769 | Printer dependent descreening method A method and an apparatus to descreen a halftoned picture takes into account the actual distribution of black or colors on the print without the need for scanning printed images but, rather, using only the printing decision matrix and the printer characte... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6157915 | Method and apparatus for collaboratively managing supply chains An active collaboration technology in an open architectural framework that delivers information and decision support tools in a timely, contextual and role sensitive manner to present a collaborative dynamic decision making capability to a community of ro... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6144945 | Method for fast and accurate evaluation of periodic review inventory policy A computer implemented process is provided for fast and accurate evaluation of the performance characteristics of the periodic-review (s,S) inventory policy with complete back ordering. This policy has an underlying stochastic process that is a renewal pr... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6137042 | Visual display for music generated via electric apparatus A visual display is provide for music associated with a theremin or, in general, any space-controlled electric instrument. The theremin is a space-controlled electric instrument that produces an output of sound corresponding to the motion of the user, wit... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6115616 | Hand held telephone set with separable keyboard A detachable keyboard for a telephone set is provided in the form of a keyboard card clipped to the headset, which is completely detached from the body when unclipped. Wireless communication between the handset body and keyboard is used when the card is u... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6104989 | Real time detection of topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods A method is disclosed for detecting topical changes and topic identification in texts in real time using likelihood ratio based methods. In accordance with the method, topic identification is achieved by evaluating text probabilities under each topic, and... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101001 | Target patterns controlled error management A system and method to print grey scale or color images using fewer colors of ink than in the original image. This method distributes the error made at each point (due to the embodied approximation) to the neighbors of that point while obtaining some chos... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6091570 | Architecture for guiding the air flow in a disk storage device A disk drive assembly enclosed in a housing, having a head disk assembly including a spindle, disks axially attached to the spindle, a driving motor for rotating the spindle, a read/write head, and a carriage assembly including a positioning arm, slider m... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6092121 | Method and apparatus for electronically integrating data captured in heterogeneous information systems Reliable and secure transmission of information over the Internet is provided in a financial transaction processing system. The system electronically integrates data captured in heterogeneous information systems and transmits that data reliably and secure... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088123 | Dithering masks with very large periods A method and apparatus for halftoning utilizes a truly aperiodic mask with memory requirements much smaller than the mask itself. The mask is constructed of several smaller compatible masks and a selector which selects between the smaller masks. In this w... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6069955 | System for protection of goods against counterfeiting A visible seal or label containing a serial number is placed in plain view on the product packaging. The visible label contains the serial number as well as a first public key encrypted version of the serial number. A second or hidden label inside of the ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6064701 | Synchronization-based communication systems An alternative to classical spread spectrum communication systems is based on synchronization of dynamical systems which can resist noisy transmission channels, jamming, gain modulation, multiple time delays, and self-jamming.... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061658 | Prospective customer selection using customer and market reference data Prospective customers may be selected for target making with respect to a particular product and market without the need to conduct designed marketing campaigns. A computer implemented process applies data mining techniques to databases containing records... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6055065 | Printer independent halftone image rendering A method and apparatus for matching the print outputs of two printers having different characteristics. For the purpose of laser printing, or more generally for reproduction on any printing device with limited number of printing levels, a color or graysca... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5870078 | Reduced cost pointing stick circuit A low-cost circuit processes, with high precision, the output signals of a pointing stick used for controlling a cursor on a computer display screen. A two-stage method of high precision moderate range analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion is combined with a... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5793353 | Cursor pointing device based on thin-film interference filters A hand-held pointing device for positioning a cursor on a display having a plurality of illuminating devices at a periphery thereof, includes a housing, an interference filter coupled to the housing, a device for detecting light having been emitted from t... | 08/11/1998 |
