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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6747647 | System and method for displaying immersive video An immersive video system is provided which enables a user to interact with immersive video on a variety of platforms. To accommodate different types of platform components, the resolution of the immersive video may be changed. In one embodiment, a pair of immersive... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6714209 | Browser-based system providing methodology for labeling of photo compact discs with a photo-facsimile table of contents A browser-based system is described that provides a methodology for labeling of photo compact discs with a photo-facsimile table of contents. The system allows a customer at an e-commerce photo Web site to easily archive multiple albums that are on-line onto a CD-RO... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6658418 | Authoring system for computer-based information delivery system A multimedia kiosk authoring system for use in developing and maintaining user interface screens for multimedia kiosk systems. The authoring system enables the user interface for each individual kiosk to be customized quickly and easily within wide limits... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6650339 | Three dimensional modeling and animation system A three dimensional (3D) modeling system for generating a 3D representation of a modeled object on a display device of a computer system. The modeled object is represented by an initial definition of an object and a set of modifiers. Each modifier modifie... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6628295 | Modifying a stylistic property of a vector-based path Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for locally modifying a stylistic property of at least one path in an electronic document. All or a portion of an electronic document and at least one brush tool... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6587119 | Method and apparatus for defining a panning and zooming path across a still image during movie creation A method and apparatus for enabling a user to define a panning and zooming path across a still image in a digital imaging device during interactive movie creation. The method and apparatus include allowing the user to define the position of a plurality of... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6564201 | Expert designer system virtual plug-in interface A virtual plug-in interface for an expert designer system for use with one or more database system types is disclosed. The expert designer system includes a core for performing functions. The virtual plug-in interface interacts with the database system su... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6549205 | Method of drawing shapes In a system for producing an animation on a computer by use of keyframes, shapes are drawn on the basis of the positions of vertices designated by a user without direct manipulation of control points for Bezier curve so that there is little problem even i... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6525745 | Sheet metal geometric modeling system A three dimensional geometric modeling system featuring an executable program (400) allows a user to select and then drag and drop sheet metal solid shapes into a scene or assembly depicted on a display screen. The user selects the sheet metal solid shape... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6507349 | Direct manipulation of displayed content The disclosed information describes a method, system, and computer-readable medium for performing direct manipulation of displayed content (e.g., dragging the displayed content in a particular direction or dragging a particular part of the displayed conte... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6463338 | Industrial controller and network card with buffer negotiation An interface for a network communication card for industrial controllers uses a dual-port memory that may be re-partitioned by values communicated through the dual-port memory itself. A default partitioning and a non re-partitionable common area allow fle... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6304272 | Graphics system and method having objects conformed to a template A computer graphics program embodied in a computer-readable medium displays a template having a boundary and a plurality of regions, displays an object that can be associated with the template, and moves the object with respect to the template in response... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6108010 | Method and system for a true-scale motion path editor A movement path is defined for a multimedia object in an application development environment. A multimedia object is placed in a layout area of the application development environment. A movement path is then specified within the layout area for the objec... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5982382 | Interactive selection of 3-D on-screen objects using active selection entities provided to the user A three dimensional selection entity for interactively selecting among the displayed objects represented in three-dimensional space. A user selects one of several three-dimensional selection entities provided in accordance with the present invention. The ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5872558 | Method and system in a data processing system for processing data utilizing a cursor having multiple pointing spots In a data processing system, an object is displayed on a display coupled to the data processing system. Also displayed, is a multiple-point cursor having at least first and second pointing spots. The multiple-point cursor is typically positioned by user m... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5835692 | System and method for providing mapping notation in interactive video displays A video imaging system and method that allow a user to manipulate an image displayed on a video display are disclosed. The video display includes a mechanism that controls a portion of a virtual display area to be shown on the display. The video imaging s... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5812143 | General pattern blit source type A method of performing a bit block transfer (Bitblt) comprised of reading a pixel data sequence from a source trajectory, writing an X coordinate portion of the pixel data sequence to a destination trajectory, repeating the writing step to the end of a sc... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812142 | Motion movement cueing through synchronized display port and image A user interface provides, in a fixed screen display, for both decoupling head and body turning and for integrating them without the need for specialized equipment. Using successive synchronized viewport and contained display image movement steps, the pre... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5796400 | Volume-based free form deformation weighting A system and method for weighting one or more vertices in a region being deformed by free-form deformation techniques assigns a weight a vertex based on the position of that vertex within the deformation lattice. The assigned weight is used to alter the a... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5719765 | Real-time scrolling drive-trace display for a vehicle engine analyzer A method and apparatus for generating a horizontally-magnified, scrolling drive-trace line on a graphical display screen of an engine analyzer aids a technician in controlling a vehicle's speed over a fixed driving period of successive driving time interv... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5717845 | Method and apparatus for transferring a brush pattern to a destination bitmap Method and apparatus for transferring a brush pattern of pixels stored in memory to a destination bitmap in memory. The method transfers an entire row of the brush pattern to the scan line of a destination bitmap without checking each byte for the end of ... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5640499 | Method of editing a drawing displayed on a display unit of a computer by simultaneously moving plural elements included in an editing area A drawing which is drawn on a personal computer includes plural drawing elements and is displayed on a display unit of the personal computer. An editing area and a location to which the editing area is moved are specified by means of a pointing device suc... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5583538 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus has a display memory for storing a one-frame image, a mouse for pointing a desired point on a CRT display, a keyboard including a key for instructing display area displacement, and an MPU to control display area displacement in ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5528259 | Method and system for multi-dimensional scrolling of displayed data collections in a data processing system A method and system are disclosed for permitting multi-dimensional scrolling of overlapping data collections which are displayed in multiple layers or in a simulated three-dimensional manner within a data processing system. A moveable and selectable contr... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5452371 | Method of aligning shapes on a display of a computer system An apparatus for recognizing shapes characterized by a stroke grouper receptive to a plurality of strokes formed on a screen of a pen-based computer system; a shape recognition engine receptive to a stroke group produced by the stroke grouper; and a knowl... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5444833 | Graphic editing apparatus with grid size selection In a graphic editor, a graphic pattern is entered by a pointer with the aid of grid points. The size of the grid points is varied over the entire display image or over a portion of the display image according to the type of entering operation.... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5442739 | Image processing including cut and paste editing An image is encoded/decoded in blocks of m×n pixels. The phase of a cutout position on an original image with respect to a block is stored. Cut and paste editing is performed so that the phase of a paste position specified on an image to be edited may co... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5428721 | Data processing apparatus for editing image by using image conversion Translation handles are set on vertices of a conversion source image frame by a mouse. Frame move processing, enlargement/reduction processing, rotation processing, and deforming processing are performed in accordance with the number and positions of the ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5030945 | Interactive image display A method of and an apparatus for interactively controlling the display of an image on a monitor screen has the image stored in digital data form defining the color content of pixels of the image. The method includes displaying a representation of the imag... | 07/09/1991 |
