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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7925042 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes an additional information conversion means for converting a text of related information into additional information and outputting this additional information, and for outputting an amount of additional information for ea... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925043 | Tactile security feature for document and signature authentication A system and method create an authentication mark on a recording medium by depositing marking material on a medium in an image area to create a marking material image and to create a marking material authentication image. A predetermined amount of additional marking... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920713 | Recorded video broadcast, streaming, download, and disk distribution with watermarking instructions An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to analyze an audio-video data stream to determine watermark appropriate information for the audio-video data stream. The second circuit may be configured to communicat... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920714 | Method and apparatus for comparing document features using texture analysis Systems and methods for assisting in the determination of the authenticity of security documents based on known characteristics of similar but authentic security documents. The system and methods use digital processing to capture a digital image of the document bein... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920715 | Apparatus and method for embedding electronic watermark An electronic watermark embedding apparatus for embedding watermark information as digital information into a document image includes a background eliminating unit that determines whether pixels on an input image are pixels composing a background image and eliminate... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916891 | Apparatus for measurement of floating body posture of person wearing life jacket Taught herein is an apparatus for measurement of floating body posture of a person wearing a life jacket, comprising a backpack frame having a plurality of reference points, an image collecting system, and an image processing system; wherein the image collecting sys... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912243 | Decoding device, decoding method and decoding program A decoding device has data extracting units extracting data from an image, data occurrence frequency calculating units calculating an occurrence frequency of data on a digit-by-digit basis, weighting units setting a weight corresponding to the occurrence frequency f... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912244 | Video fingerprinting using watermarks Video fingerprinting using watermarks is described herein. A watermark encoder embeds a watermark into an input video to produce a watermarked video. The watermark encoder can choose particular regions of the video that are sufficiently complex for watermarking. Spa... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907747 | Device, method, and recording medium for embedding/detecting a digital watermark Even in the case where a positional misalignment occurs to an embedded digital watermark, watermark information is accurately detected. A digital watermark embedding device includes a block dividing section for dividing digital data into a plurality of blocks each h... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907748 | Method for forming images, method for testing electronic devices; and test apparatus, test chamber and test system The test system includes an electronic device comprising a camera for forming an image on a detector. A holographic element of the test system and the camera under test of the electronic device are arranged during testing to be placed at a predetermined distance fro... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907749 | Multi-stage watermarking process and system A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on t... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907746 | Media recognition system A media recognition system comprises an object management space, an object processing module and a media object space for storing media objects generated by object processing, wherein a pattern definition list stored in the object management space includes a plurali... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903839 | Method for canceling impact of physical property variability on image quality performance of digital imaging system A method for canceling the impact of the physical property variability on the image quality performance of a digital imaging system, obtained during quality control (QC) analysis using a serial numbered quality control (QC) target by applying physical property devia... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903840 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing program and program recording medium The present invention provides an image processing method which can search, at high speed, for image coordinates of a pixel corresponding to a position whose three-dimensional position is known, with respect to a line sensor image in which a surface of an object (i.... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903838 | Vision-enabled household appliances The invention is generally related to the systems and methods through which household appliances can provide intuitive and enhanced interactivity through visual inputs. In particular, the disclosure presents methods relating to control of a household appliance, such... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899207 | Image-based visibility measurement The invention provides an image-based visibility measurement solution in which an image is used to calculate a visibility (visual range). In one embodiment, a lighting condition for the image is determined and the visibility calculation is adjusted based on the ligh... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899206 | Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a figure, and evaluating compliance by such figure to an instruction to ass... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899205 | Data content identification A method of detecting a version of input data content, there being a plurality of different versions of said data content, in which: said data content is arranged as two or more segments according to a segmentation pattern; and | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894629 | Sticker including a first and second region A method of associating an electronic object with a sticker placed on a surface is disclosed. The sticker has first and second regions. The first region has disposed thereon coded data encoding an identity of the sticker. The second region exposes a position on the ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894628 | Digital watermark embedding apparatus and digital watermark detection apparatus A digital watermark embedding apparatus includes a scaling unit configured to scale at least a specific frequency component of an input image signal to generate a scaled image signal, a control unit configured to control at least one of a phase and amplitude of the ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894627 | Methods and apparatus for incremental approximate nearest neighbor searching Methods and apparatus are provided for incremental approximate nearest neighbor searching. An approximate nearest neighbor is incrementally retrieved from a data set having a plurality of objects and cells of objects in a hierarchical organization based on a query o... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894630 | Tamper-resistant text stream watermarking A tamper-resistant text stream watermarking system is provided. Content such as any text-based document including programming code is encoded with a watermarking mechanism. The mechanism modifies the text itself according to a preset repeating pattern without changi... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894626 | System and method for the generation of multiple angle correlation-based digital watermarks Disclosed are systems and methods directed to the generation of digitally watermarked grayscale images having a watermark embedded at different arbitrary Rotation Angles. A single public key can be used to retrieve the otherwise invisible watermarks from the waterma... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894625 | Method for developing three dimensional surface patterns for a papermaking belt A process for making an image for a papermaking belt wherein the image is the product of (a) providing an image; and (b) performing at least one image modification algorithm thereon, one of the at least one image modification algorithms being a beta image modificati... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894624 | Image processing method The main CPU executes Fourier transform to the partial image, then performs strict spectrum analysis 1 for judging the presence/absence of data at a coordinate position designated in advance on a Fourier transform plane with high resolution for judging the pr... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889884 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus includes an information acquiring portion that acquires information on image process conditions for processing image data, a creating portion that creates additional image data, serving as a watermark image, with additional information ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885428 | Automatic microparticle mark reader An automatic reader system, apparatus, and method for the identification and authentication of articles enabling automatic collection and processing of code data associated with microparticle marks, automatic determination of the code from the code data associated w... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885426 | Method and system for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied Described system makes it possible to charge copy fees related to the amount of copyrighted material being copied and to provide those fees to the appropriate copyright holder. The scanned information is passed through an OCR filter that produces a stream of text, w... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885427 | System and method for solving the “birthday” problem with watermarking A system and method are provided for facilitating the playing of a watermarked video having the “birthday problem”. Consumers send the problem disc to an authorization center where the disc is analyzed to determine if it is a legitimate disc. The authorization c... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881491 | Method, system and apparatus for operating a device using contextual scripting A system and method for interacting with a digital device by acquiring an image of a display of the device, deriving the functional state and context of the device by analyzing the acquired image and commanding the device to perform an action. the procedure describe... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881492 | Electronic watermark embedding apparatus and method and electronic watermark examining apparatus and method An electronic watermark embedding apparatus includes means for storing a pixel matrix G with n rows and n columns of an input image, means for acquiring eigenvalues s1 to sn and eigenvectors p1 to pn of the pixel matrix G,... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873182 | Multiple camera imaging method and system for detecting concealed objects The present invention is an imaging system for detecting concealed objects on an individual. The imaging system includes an imaging zone that is illuminated with millimeter wave energy. A plurality of millimeter wave cameras are focused to fully surround the imaging... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873181 | Visual image sensor organ replacement: implementation Method and system for enhancing or extending visual representation of a selected region of a visual image, where visual representation is interfered with or distorted, by supplementing a visual signal with at least one audio signal having one or more audio signal pa... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873183 | Embedding and detecting watermarks based on embedded positions in document layout A watermark embedding method for embedding a secret message sequence in a document. The techniques include obtaining layout information of the document, extracting a digest of the document by using a Hash function, calculating embedded positions where the secret mes... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869618 | Method and system for control of a device The invention describes a method for control of a device (1a, 1b, 1c). The method comprises visually presenting a number of user options for the device to be controlled (1a, 1b... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869619 | System and method for display device characterization, calibration, and verification This invention is directed to a system and method for creating characterization information from a first display device that can be transmitted and used by a second display device. Computer readable instructions embodied in a computer readable medium calibrate a fir... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864979 | System and method for embedding dispersed miniature security marks A method is provided for embedding dispersed miniature security marks within documents and images, utilizing a mark parameters database, graphical user interface, and detection simulator. The method includes predicting detection error rates for each pixel location o... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864978 | Smart arrangement and cropping for photo views A random yet smart selection of layouts is provided when viewing a set of photos. A set of layouts may be chosen such that a reasonable sense of variety and uniqueness is provided when viewing the photos. For instance, photos may be randomly assigned to one of a plu... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860267 | System, computer program product and method for managing documents A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes a document manager that is configured to search for application services providers (ASPs) over a network and based on a user input. The document manager can search documents wi... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860269 | Auxilliary navigation system for use in urban areas The invention is a method for the extraction, identification and comparison of skylines from imagery data specifically, for the purpose of accurately locating the position of a mobile platform for navigation purposes. The invention is carried out by processing image... | 12/28/2010 |
