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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7924660 | Optical data carrier An optical data carrier includes at least one session in which one or more tracks are stored, wherein each session includes a plurality of data frames, and wherein each data frame includes controlling data and content data coded in a first format. In place of at lea... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7719929 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, and storage medium for displaying symbols and reproducing desired data When the user designates the reproduction of searching audio data, the designated searching audio data and audio volume data are read from a searching data recording portion. The searching audio data is reproduced corresponding to the audio volume data. When the use... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7688686 | Enhanced table of contents (TOC) identifiers A method for identifying the contents of a compact disc manipulating a received table of contents (TOC) identifier associated with the compact disc. The method parses portions of the TOC comprising a series of numbers corresponding to track offsets for each track of... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7616529 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, and storage medium When the user designates the reproduction of searching audio data, the designated searching audio data and audio volume data are read from a searching data recording portion. The searching audio data is reproduced corresponding to the audio volume data. When the use... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7558159 | Recorder and recording medium Each record of a file recording management table has three fields: Type, Contents, and Next Record Number. The Type field indicates whether the record is a “file name record” that has file name information in the Contents field or a “consecutive recording area... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7363530 | Data recording method and data recording apparatus The latest management data recorded in a recording medium is read. Then, it is judged whether the fault is in this latest management data or not. When it is judged the fault is not in this latest management data, a data size of user data under the management of this... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359619 | Transmitting signals to cause replays to be recorded at a plurality of receivers A video stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the video stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being re... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327942 | Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327640 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, and storage medium When the user designates the reproduction of searching audio data, the designated searching audio data and audio volume data are read from a searching data recording portion. The searching audio data is reproduced corresponding to the audio volume data. When the use... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7286446 | Track management method and apparatus for managing tracks on a storage medium A track management method includes steps of obtaining track information from a play order table having track information entries arranged in a predetermined play order, the track information corresponds to a track to be deleted and points to a track descriptor in a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283454 | Information storage medium and method of recording information thereon An information storage medium (a disc) includes an area and a user data area. The area includes a recordable zone having a drive & disc zone in which information on a drive and information on a state of the disc are recorded. The drive & disc zone includes a plurali... | 10/16/2007 |
| RE39811 | Musical information recording and reproducing technique for use with a recording medium having a UTOC area There is generated a rhythm corresponding to a designated tempo and meter of a music piece to be recorded. Performance of a musical instrument is started at specific timing according to the generated rhythm, and the musical information resulting from the performance... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7245817 | Multimedia transfer system A multimedia transfer apparatus is described comprising: a plurality of media readers; one or more encoder modules, configured to encode data read by the media readers in a specified encoding format; and a data communication interface configured to copy the encoded ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239469 | Recording apparatus, server apparatus, recording method, program, and storage medium A data recording apparatus recording data of a CD on an HDD in a manner such that the content of record in the CD is faithfully accounted for and shortening an operation time for a synchronized ripping operation. When the data recording apparatus reads, from the CD,... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230893 | Method of formatting optical recording medium A method of formatting a rewritable optical recording medium includes registering defective blocks in a primary defect lists (PDL) and performing a slipping replacement corresponding to the number of PDL registrations, determining whether an error has occurred in th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7200090 | Information recording apparatus including information attaching and generating device which generates group control information When a detection device detects any kind of change regarding track recording after the start of the track recording, a grouping instruction is given to information attaching and generating device. Then, the information attaching and generating device attaches the sa... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187627 | System for controlling recording and reproducing data using management information on the medium An information reproducing/recording system has a reproducing apparatus which reproduces program information from a first recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus which records program information on a second recording medium or reproduces program informa... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7161885 | Copy-protected compact disc and method for producing same The present application relates to a copy-protected compact disc and a method for producing the optical disc and preventing unauthorized copying. The contents of at least one of the lead-in items in the optical disc are altered so that it is no longer uniform, there... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161887 | Method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a medium A computer-implemented method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a medium. Digital audio extraction techniques are implemented with additional features that improve the quality of the resulting audio playback files. In one embodiment of the invention, a ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159090 | Reproducing method, reproducing apparatus, and data accessing method A data accessing method includes the steps of obtaining a track information entry about a predetermined track from a play order table, which points to a track descriptor in a track information table; obtaining the track descriptor from the track information table, t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151717 | Recording medium transport device and image forming apparatus A recording medium transport device has: a pair of transport roller units which nip and transport a recording medium and which are disposed at an upstream side and a downstream side of a recording area respectively, the transport roller unit in the upstream side inc... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151730 | Copy-protected compact disc and method for producing same A copy-protected compact disc and a method for producing the optical disc and preventing unauthorized copying is provided. In one embodiment, the contents of at least one of the lead-in items in the optical disc are altered so that it is no longer uniform, thereby m... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149156 | Editing apparatus for optical reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are s... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145741 | Recording apparatus server apparatus recording method program and storage medium A data recording apparatus recording data of a CD on an HDD in a manner such that the content of record in the CD is faithfully accounted for and shortening an operation time for a synchronized ripping operation. When the data recording apparatus reads, from the CD,... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142773 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus with a ring buffer and method for monitoring ring buffer An information recording and reproducing apparatus with a ring buffer, in which user can know a state of the ring buffer in a real-time manner and a monitoring method of the ring buffer. A ring buffer monitor image signal is generated which indicates an image showin... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130249 | Device for inputting title of recording medium A device for inputting the title of a recording medium readily. When a capturing key of a tuner unit (1) is depressed, a first system controller (7) stores the text information, received currently by an FM multiplexed text broadcasting receiving tuner ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7115807 | Information processing unit, display method for the information processing unit, program for the same, recording medium for recording the program therein and reproducing unit A reading section (10) reads information recorded in an optical disk and outputs a read signal. A DSP (20) detects the read signal, and make it reproducible. An operational instruction recognizing section (51) recognizes an instruction for a spe... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111113 | Apparatus and method to write information to and/or read information from an information storage medium A method to write information to an information storage medium. The method creates one or more objects comprising information and provides a first one of those one or more objects. The method writes a header label to an information storage medium, where the header l... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106665 | Method of overwriting data of rewritable disk The present invention relates to a method of overwriting data of a rewritable disk quickly, which regards a rewritable disk as empty irrespective of whether or not the disk contains written data, or modifies not-empty-regarded information about a rewritable disk to ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089292 | Interface including non-visual display for use in browsing an indexed collection of electronic content The invention facilitates browsing of an indexed collection of electronic content by displaying information identifying a current location within the collection of electronic content using a non-visual display (e.g., audio display and/or haptic display). The informa... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085201 | Optical disc drive and method of checking optical disc An optical disc drive 1 of the present invention can record and/or reproduce data including audio data and non-audio data onto and/or from a multi-session optical disc 2 when the optical disc is loaded into the optical disc drive. The optical disc driv... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7057980 | Device and method for recording information A method and device for recording information blocks on a record carrier is described. The device has control means 20 for recording and retrieving position data indicative of the position of the recorded information blocks. The control means include a mappin... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050362 | Editing apparatus for optical reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are s... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050369 | Method of combining newly established entries with original entries for updating a defect table when an optical disc drive stops writing data into an optical disc A method for managing data on an optical discincludes two different memory areas allocated in the memory of an optical disc drive, one is used to temporarily store an original defect table from the optical disc, the other is used to temporarily store new used-entrie... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046588 | Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing audio highlight portion and recording medium for storing additional information for the same A method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing an audio highlight portion of an audio selection, and a recording medium for storing additional information therefor. A particular portion is designated on an audio track as a representative portion of the audi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7027384 | Storage medium recording method and storage medium having multiple recording areas A storage medium includes a first area configured to have data stored therein in a first recording format; a second area configured to have data stored therein in a second recording format; a management table configured to manage a replacement area for a defect area... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020056 | Method for managing spare blocks of an optical disc A method for defect management of an optical disc. The optical disc includes a plurality of data blocks and a plurality of spare blocks, each data block is for recording data, each spare block is for replacing a defect data block to record a data. The method include... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6982934 | Recording-medium management apparatus, recording-medium management method, program having function of managing recording medium, and computer-readable program storage medium for storing the program A recording-medium management apparatus includes a playback unit and a recording-medium management unit. The playback unit includes a reading unit for automatically reading an identifier from a recording medium when data is played back and a transmission unit for tr... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6973256 | System and method for detecting highlights in a video program using audio properties There is disclosed an apparatus for detecting program highlights in a video program. The apparatus comprises: 1) a keyword detection circuit for detecting a location of a selected keyword in an audio track of the video program; and 2) an audio signal energy level de... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967905 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided, which can provide a sound which sounds natural by controlling an abrupt change in a tempo in the case of random access playback. When a cue point is registered, audio data which makes seamless playback possible is store... | 11/22/2005 |
