Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7032178 | Tagging content for different activities The present invention is directed to a system and method for classification of media content based upon user-defined classifications. A compilation of media content in conformity with the user-defined classifications and desired criteria may be automatically produce... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030835 | Method for presenting information to an audience A method of presenting information to an audience. The method includes the step of determining the specific information which the presenter desires to convey to an audience. The presenter determines an organizational framework on which to divide the information. The... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030872 | Image data editing A computer based image data processing system reads image data from a framestore and processes this data in response to user commands. In order to effect these commands the user is provided with a graphical user interface. In the interface a first region is displaye... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031594 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for detecting and displaying audio signal levels of input and output and ports A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028269 | Multi-modal video target acquisition and re-direction system and method The present invention relates generally to the field of video-camera systems, such as a video conferencing systems, and more particularly to video camera targeting systems that locate and acquire targets using an input characterizing a target and a machine-classific... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027602 | Personal audio recorder in a vehicular entertainment sound system using recommended audio signals A method of recording a recommended plurality of audio signals (40) in an entertainment sound system (42) associated with an automotive vehicle (12)includes a central server (14) for processing a plurality of data (16) associated w... | 04/11/2006 |
| RE39059 | Computer programmable remote control A portable hand-held remote control unit device is disclosed which may be utilized for selecting designated functions in a plurality of remotely controllable multimedia processing units. Multiple user selectable screen objects may be created from a general purpose c... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023858 | Data delivery in set-top box A method and apparatus for managing ATM formatted MPEG SI data in a television set-top box. A virtual channel indicator (VCI) is used to associate a segment of SI data with a virtual channel. An ATM processor receives a stream of ATM packets containing SI data from ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024461 | Session initiation protocol enabled set-top device A method and apparatus for handling subscriber services from different sources without requiring interaction with different devices. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for receiving multimedia services using session initiation protocol (SIP) ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020580 | Method and system to facilitate reporting results of a defect inspection An invention to facilitate reporting results of a defect inspection. The defect inspection can relate to paint defects, structural defects, dimensional defects, and other defects. The invention is suited to products having multiple body portions. A portable computer... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020841 | System and method for generating and presenting multi-modal applications from intent-based markup scripts Systems and methods are provided for rendering modality-independent scripts (e.g., intent-based markup scripts) in a multi-modal environment, whereby a user can interact with an application using a plurality of modalities (e.g., speech and GUI) with I/O events being... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020651 | Similarity search engine for use with relational databases The invention provides a system and method for defining a schema and sending a query to a Similarity Search Engine to determine a quantitative assessment of the similarity of attributes between an anchor record and one or more target records. The Similarity Search E... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020103 | Broadband communication system using point and shoot approach A broadband communication network uses a point and shoot approach for data transmission. A broadband information signal is transmitted from a transmitting station to a receiving station. The information signal is divided into a series of data packets, each including... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019743 | Performing operations using drag and drop features A method and apparatus for performing operations using drag and drop features is provided. For example, a source object, which includes instructions that perform the operations, is applied to a target object, such as a graphical object or a window, by a user perform... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015925 | System and method for producing a video signal A method and apparatus for producing video signals comprises a receiver for receiving a video signal, a video pipeline for post-processing the received video signal, the video pipeline producing a post-processed video signal, and a video output module for converting... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006457 | Modem front-end apparatus and method A method and apparatus for recovering a second transport stream included within a first transport stream and reducing timing anomaly imparted to the second transport stream within the context of a front-end device subject to random access via a data bus, illustrativ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000188 | System and method for intelligently selecting media through a simplified user interface The present invention is a media player and media player interface. The media player includes a storage unit for various types of media, media related data, and media selection logic. The media player interface is either built into the media player or a separate com... | 02/14/2006 |
| 7000200 | Gesture recognition system recognizing gestures within a specified timing Gesture recognition in which timing data is used to temporally segment video data into video clips. The timing data can be beat data extracted from an audio signal. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996779 | Graphical user interface for a transport multiplexer A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI's that enable operators to easily monitor and manipulate content... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6995526 | Digitally controlled vertical C linearity correction with constant start and end points without using an AGC A method and circuit for digitally controlled vertical C linearity correction with constant start and end points without using an AGC. A squared voltage and a negative squared voltage are added as a correction voltage to a sawtooth-shaped ramping voltage that is emp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993721 | Web channel guide graphical interface system and method In a system and method for enabling a user to navigate among a plurality of internet websites of interest to the user, the system includes a graphical user interface which includes a guide for enabling the user to navigate among the internet websites, and to obtain ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993553 | Data providing system, data providing apparatus and method, data acquisition system and method, and program storage medium A data providing system including a data providing apparatus having a provision image data generating device for generating data of a provision image that is reusable by inlaying an advertisement image into a template image into which a user image is inlaid and a pr... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993727 | MHP television device and GUI application An MHP television device including a user input and a GUI application for use in such a device wherein the GUI application maintains at least one notional wheel to which activities and strings for representing the activities may be assigned and generates an image fo... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6985897 | Method and system for animated and personalized on-line product presentation A virtual personalized animated product selection and customer information gathering method and system includes providing a product presentation to a user by retrieving personalization data for the user from a database, assembling display data that is configured to ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980868 | System and method for application communication A system and a method for integrating electronic apparatuses, e.g. information appliances, are provided. The present invention detects and stores the functions of each electronic apparatus in advance. When one of the electronic apparatuses transmits a signal to exec... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980211 | Automatic schematic diagram generation using topology information A netlist of a schematic diagram is generated. The netlist indicates the connectivity of components through connection lines. A normal display mode is provided in which at least a portion of the components are presented on the display, and connection lines correspon... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978424 | Versatile user interface device and associated system A versatile user interface device and associated system includes a consumer device, such as a set-top terminal, and a user interface device, such as a versatile remote control unit for sending command signals to the set-top terminal. The system enables application s... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978401 | Software application test coverage analyzer A method for analyzing test coverage of a software application is provided. The method includes profiling an executable of the software application to generate application call trees. The method also includes profiling test cases used to test a production Java VM so... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6976216 | Computer system with remote key press events directed to a first application program and local key press events directed to a second application program Computer software allowing enhanced control of the playout of audio/video works on a computer system. In various embodiments, the software allows key events from dedicated audio/video keys, whether part of a full sized keyboard or on a hand held remote, to control t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976268 | Methods and apparatus for efficiently accessing periodically broadcast data The invention relates to methods and apparatus for accessing data that is periodically transmitted by a broadcaster. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a receiver capable of reception of data is disclosed. The data is transmitted by a broadcaster in a b... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976229 | Method and apparatus for storytelling with digital photographs A display showing an imported story track, an authored story track, and a story-in-progress track. Each story contains one or more objects. The display also shows a large photo corresponding to a selected object in a story. Furthermore, the display also provides vis... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976070 | Method and apparatus for automatic information filtering using URL hierarchical structure and automatic word weight learning Disclosed method and apparatus for automatic information filtering are capable of improving both precision and recall and accurately judging inappropriateness of the content even for a page that contains very few or no text information and only displays images, by u... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975364 | Radio television and frequency modulation monitor transmitting receiving control apparatus A radio television and frequency modulation monitor transmitting receiving control apparatus is constructed to include at least one receiving module respectively installed in a respective monitor controlled by a remote controller, and a radio television and frequenc... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976219 | Rights information processing apparatus and method, and program storing medium using a display object for associating with contents A transfer processing unit reads out data relating to contents and rights information corresponding to the contents, from a memory card. A GUI unit controls display so as to display a predetermined icon corresponding to the data, in the event that the rights informa... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973621 | Customization in a content distribution system According to the invention, a method for customizing a video service in a content distribution system is disclosed. In one step, preference information entered by a user of the content distribution system is received and influences a profile for that user. Interacti... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972752 | Display device A display device capable of allowing a page to be turned to give a feeling as if a page is actually turned includes a memory for storing information, a display for displaying information, a page turn instruction unit for detecting that the unit itself is tilted to o... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972364 | User interface and a synthesizer with a user interface A synthesiser to generate sounds often in a musical environment but also in a speech environment. Such synthesis of sounds is often accompanied by at least one mode of filtering or many modes. Hitherto, the application of such filtering has involved a control for ea... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970127 | Remote control for wireless control of system and displaying of compressed video on a display on the remote A system for wireless remote control of a gateway and ordering or invocation of services provided by a headend. The remote control includes a video display and user input device or keyboard and can decompress and display compressed streaming video in some embodiment... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970067 | System for providing personalized services A system comprises an apparatus which is capable of personalizing its behavior in accordance with a user profile, and a gatekeeper device which comprises control means for allowing a user to control said personalization of the apparatus. The gatekeeper device is cap... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966038 | System and method for improved navigation using bookmarks for movement between locations in a windows environment A system and method for providing a bookmark section within each program GUI. The bookmark section contains one or more selectable portions that enable a user to select one or more bookmarks corresponding to programs, files within programs, views within programs or ... | 11/15/2005 |
