Bizarre Patents
Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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 |
| 7672071 | Servo field preamble detector and methods for use therewith A servo field preamble detector includes an upsampling module that generates a plurality of upsampled read samples by upsampling a read signal by an upsampling factor. An interpolation filter module generates a plurality of interpolated read samples from the plurali... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7636212 | Magnetic disk drive with control of sense current of magnetic head An output of a magnetic head changes depending on the environmental temperature of a magnetic disk. In particular, under cold temperature conditions, an output of the head largely decreases mainly due to an increase in coercivity of a magnetic recording medium, whic... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7619841 | Disk drive subtracting low frequency disturbance from a servo burst signal A disk drive is disclosed including a disk having a plurality of data tracks, wherein each data track comprises a plurality of data sectors and a plurality of servo sectors, and each servo sector comprises a plurality of servo bursts. A data path comprising a data d... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7440675 | AV information reproducing system and a reproducing method applied to the same system In a system for reproducing AV information from a recording medium, such as a DVD, not only are usual titles reproduced, but also related information relevant to specific stream information is acquired easily by making use of resources on a computer network. In a re... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417713 | Optical disc with a theft deterrent coating An optical disc used for storing content includes a theft control area selected to render the disc unreadable. The disc must be exposed to radiation of a specific wavelength before it can be read by a regular device. The theft control area may include an area that c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7400821 | Device and method for reproducing photographic sound recordings For a reproduction of optical sound information in a double variable-area track (DZ) an optoelectronic converter device scans the optical sound track of a film. The converter device generates a digital image signal for buffer storage in the memory of a program-contr... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7365929 | Synchronous servo channel for tape drive systems A fully synchronous servo channel for a data type drive is provided which includes the initial acquisition of synchronous servo channel parameters, generation of a timing basis for signal interpolation, generation of a tape velocity estimate and a y-position estimat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359528 | Monitoring of video or audio based on in-band and out-of-band data The presently claimed invention relates generally to monitoring and/or filtering video or audio data. In one implementation a method is provided including: obtaining data representing video or audio; analyzing the data representing video or audio for an in-band sign... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342734 | Disk drives with radially aligned servo burst patterns that generate orthogonal contributions to a read signal and related demodulators and methods A disk drive includes a rotatable data storage disk, a transducer, an actuator, and a servo burst demodulator. The rotatable data storage disk includes a plurality of servo burst patterns thereon. The plurality of servo burst patterns are substantially radially alig... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7324646 | Method and apparatus for film anti-piracy A method and apparatus is disclosed for introducing alterations or distortions in projected images. The distortions on the projected image are imperceptible to a human viewer. The distortions are recorded on recording devices and observable upon viewing the recorded... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313539 | Method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services. A server network device provides to a client network device via a computer network, a list of available goods or services including plural electronic options with associated option fees for the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292962 | Technique for detecting changes in signals that are measured by quantization A technique for detecting changes in a signal that is measured and reported by quantization uses a model that is updated in response to the sampling of quantized values representing the signal. In one stage, (i) frequencies of occurrences of different sampled quanti... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283455 | Data media having variable control field in data units Data units on a data storage medium include a control field. In one example embodiment, a control block specifies the control action determined by the state of one or more bits in the control field. By using a control block to specify the action of one or more bits ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280296 | Apparatus and method for recording digital broadcast on exchangeable storage medium, and exchangeable storage medium therefor An apparatus and method for recording digital broadcasts on an exchangeable storage medium are provided for automatically recording broadcast contents desired by a user on the exchangeable storage medium. When recording the digital broadcast contents on exchangeable... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274527 | Method for optimizing dynamic stroke in the self servo-write process Methods in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can be applied to determine a width of a data stroke along a rotatable medium of a data storage device. In one embodiment, the width can be determined by measuring a distance from a marker zone edge of ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263501 | Point-of-care inventory management system and method A system and method are disclosed for controlling an inventory of a plurality of point-of-care diagnostic devices. The plurality of devices includes at least one type of device. Each device is configured to perform at least one sample analysis. Each device has a usa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260167 | Method and apparatus for synchronization of a bit stream for long latency date detection A method is for decoding a bit stream from a waveform representing the bit stream, having a first synchronization mark, data, and a second synchronization mark. Digitized samples are decoded to form a reconstructed bit stream. The reconstructed bit stream is then st... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254702 | Method of distributed recording whereby the need to transition to a second recording device from a first recording device is broadcast by the first recording device An automatically configuring storage array includes a plurality of media storage devices coupled together within a network of devices. Preferably, the network of devices is an IEEE 1394-2000 serial bus network of devices. The media storage devices are utilized to re... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245450 | Synchronous servo channel for longitudinal position detection and position error signal generation in tape drive systems A fully synchronous longitudinal position (LPOS) detection system is provided for improving the reliability of servo channels in tape systems. The system is based on the interpolation of the servo channel output signal, which is sampled by an analog-to-digital conve... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7215498 | Dynamic stroke optimization in the self servo-write process Systems and data storage devices in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can execute instructions to determine a width of a data stroke along a rotatable medium. In one embodiment, the width can be determined by measuring a distance from a marker zon... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215634 | Multi-layer record carrier and method of manufacturing thereof and recording thereon, with reduced transmission differences in the upper layer A multi-layer record carrier and method of manufacturing thereof and recording thereon, includes data written in units of blocks on tracks of at least two information layers. A first guard field is written at the start of a data block and a second guard field is wri... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203366 | Video retrieval method and apparatus A method of characterizing a video includes the steps of extracting frame images from an input video, calculating a time length between each of the frame images and a next one of the frame images, assigning index information determined by the calculated time length ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196979 | Calibration storage methods for a digital focus and tracking servo system with calibration A method of storing calibrated optical parameters is presented. In some embodiments, calibrated optical parameters are stored in place of stored parameters. In some embodiments, averages between the calibrated operating parameters and stored optical parameters are s... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193801 | Method and apparatus for testing a servo circuit of a read/write head system A test pattern generator for generating test patterns for testing a servo circuit of a read/write head system. The pattern generator uses a relatively simple encoding technique to produce test patterns that have peaks with phase characteristics similar or identical ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185248 | Failure analysis system and failure analysis method of logic LSI A failure analysis system of a logic LSI incorporates software therein. The analysis system includes a function to record the terminal signal information of said logic LSI in synchronization with a clock and a function to reproduce said recorded terminal signal info... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181022 | Audio watermarking to convey auxiliary information, and media embodying same Methods of processing audio to convey auxiliary information therein without audible evidence of data alteration. Various arrangements are disclosed. One receives plural bit auxiliary data in which the auxiliary information is included, and modulates a carrier signal... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7149163 | Recording technique with particular sunchronization data Disclosed is a disk-like recording medium, a disk recording apparatus and a disk recording method, and a disk playback apparatus and a disk playback method. Disk ID is recorded over a circle of a burst cutting area on an optical disk. The circle is divided into n bl... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139148 | Recording medium, recording method, and recording apparatus When the data recording is performed on a magnetic tape in various recording densities, information relating to the recording density (recording-density related information) is recorded in the data recorded on the magnetic tape. Accordingly, recording and reproducti... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139147 | Apparatus and method for drive control, and computer product A drive control apparatus receives an instruction from an upper unit, to mount a predetermined medium onto a predetermined drive unit. If a combination of the predetermined medium and the predetermined drive unit is determined as inappropriate, the drive control uni... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136440 | Timing recovery for data sampling of a detector A partial response Class 4 detector in a recording and retrieval system and method of operating the detector for correcting the timing error of the detector. The detector includes a sequence table and comparison circuitry for comparing a sequence of data samp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133233 | Disk drive with read while write capability A disk drive includes recording media having one or more recording surfaces, one or more transducer heads positionable relative to the recording surfaces by an actuator operating within a head position servo loop, and a data transfer driver. A preamplifier in the da... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133228 | Using data compression to achieve lower linear bit densities on a storage medium Method and apparatus for transferring data to and from a data storage medium, such as a rotatable disc in a data storage device. The medium includes a data sector field with a physical length sufficient to store a first data block at a first write frequency. A compr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130939 | Controlling and managing plurality of disk drives in disk enclosure having serial port wherein serial to parallel converters are connected to individual disk drives A disk enclosure is provided with a plurality of HDDs, an enclosure manager that outputs control and management information of the disk enclosure, and S/P converters that are provided for the respective HDDs. Each S/P converter converts a control and management comm... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123815 | Data playback apparatus The present invention relates to a data playback apparatus which efficiently performs playback or erasure of a program composed of video or audio which is stored in a memory card. A decoding unit for reading data from the memory to decode the read data retrieves an ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123567 | Recording technique with particular bit-distance control in the synchronization pattern Disclosed is a disk-like recording medium, a disk recording apparatus and a disk recording method, and a disk playback apparatus and a disk playback method. Disk ID is recorded over a circle of a burst cutting area on an optical disk. The circle is divided into n bl... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124292 | Automatically configuring storage array including a plurality of media storage devices for storing and providing data within a network of devices An automatically configuring storage array includes a plurality of media storage devices coupled together within a network of devices. Preferably, the network of devices is an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network of devices. The media storage devices are utilized to re... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7106954 | Digital camcorder A digital image and speech recording and reproducing apparatus is arranged to quickly and simply retrieve, classify, and erase a great deal of data for improving the operativity in small-sized equipment. The apparatus includes a recording and reproducing unit for a ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095582 | Magnetic tape drive A magnetic tape drive has a servo head for performing the tracking control and a head unit. The head unit includes a recording head group composed of a plurality of recording heads, which are lined up along the width directions with respect to a magnetic tape. In th... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095730 | Data transmission with interruption phases The invention relates to a method for data transmission in a communication system, especially in a CDMA mobile radio system, wherein the data are transmitted structured into frames (1, 4, 5) and a transmitting station transmits the data in such a manner that ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095580 | Methods to determine gross and fine positioning on a reference surface of a media Methods in accordance with the present invention can include determining a position of a head along a stroke by locating one or more marker-zones printed to a reference surface of a disk. The one or more marker-zones can be printed to a portion of the reference surf... | 08/22/2006 |
