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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 |
| 8176439 | Navigating content One embodiment of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which information obtained from a uniform resource locator is converted into at least one texture. The texture is mapped onto a surface of a three-dimensional object located in the virtual thr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161410 | Computer-implemented display of ordered items A method, in one embodiment, of displaying items arranged in a hierarchy, the hierarchy having predetermined levels and divisions. The method comprising: displaying divisions of a first level of the hierarchy along a first direction; and displaying the items on a pl... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8132120 | Interface cube for mobile device A computing device presents, on a screen, a three-dimensional rendering of an interface cube that includes a representation of a user's contacts displayed on at least one surface of the interface cube. The computing device receives a communication item from a periph... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127251 | Method and apparatus for a user interface with priority data A system and corresponding method for providing a 3-dimensional (3-D) user interface displays images in a 3-D coordinate system. The method includes receiving user data input information. The method also compares the user data input information to frequently used te... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117563 | Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) and a method and apparatus for providing the same. The apparatus includes a control module which creates a polyhedron component that can be opened and that has at least one opening face and an internal space c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8086505 | Enhancing touch and feel on the internet A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions. In one embodiment, the good being sold is in a packag... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8046719 | Virtual work place The present invention is concerned with a method and computer-based system for configuring, monitoring and/or operating a graphical user interface in two or three dimensions. In particular it is concerned with a graphical user interface used for controlling, monitor... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8024671 | Three-dimensional graphic user interface, and apparatus and method of providing the same An apparatus and method for providing a three-dimensional graphic user interface includes a control module which creates a three-dimensional interface space having a predetermined plane and an axis perpendicular to the plane, and a plurality of objects presented in ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7921382 | Method for smooth rotation A method for smooth rotation of an object viewed from a finite number of angles encompasses resetting the drag origin in response to the pointer exiting a region centered on the drag origin. Upon exiting the region, a new view of the object displays thereby providin... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917868 | Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) and a method and apparatus for providing the three-dimensional MGUI are provided. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface includes a first polyhedron component that is formed of a plurality of face... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913190 | Method, system and software for visualizing 3D models A combined viewer-spreadsheet application provides display of (i) a spreadsheet including a tree window for an extendable tree structure of an object and (ii) a three dimensional (3D) model of the object. A user of the application is able to add one or more columns ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7873920 | Methods and systems for displaying network information Methods and systems for displaying a network structure using force-directed layout are provided. The network includes a plurality of nodes, each node including an associated slack parameter having a value. The method including selecting a central time-directed axis,... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7849420 | Interactive content representations enabling content sharing A system and method providing interactive content representations enabling content sharing are disclosed. In general, a content representation that is descriptive of content made accessible by a hosting user is presented in association with a content representation ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7805473 | Data center management systems and methods Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for managing data centers. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed which comprises receiving, at an interface for a data center management system, a grid location input for a first asset, the grid locatio... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7802205 | Graphical chronological path presentation The life history of a person or entity can be presented in a graphical representation of a highway. Life events may be represented by simple data strings, or by files such as photographs, dissertations, job offers, and love-letters, among others. For ease in viewing... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7774695 | Presenting data to a user in a three-dimensional table An improved solution for presenting data to a user is provided. In particular, the data can include multiple instances of a dataset, which are displayed in a three-dimensional table. The three-dimensional table allows the user to perform various manipulations on it.... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7739623 | Interactive 3D data editing via 2D graphical drawing tools Method and system for 3D data editing is disclosed. A 3D volumetric data is rendered in a rendering space. A 2D graphical drawing tool is selected and used to create a 2D structure. Apply a 3D operation to the 3D volumetric data based on the 2D structure. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7716606 | Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and providing medium The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7694238 | Selection of obscured computer-generated objects Selecting an obscured object of a computer-generated model consisting of a plurality of objects displayed on a computer screen includes receiving input data interpreted as an instruction to change a visibility characteristic of a first one of the plurality of object... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685534 | Method and apparatus for a three-dimensional web-navigator A three-dimensional browser wherein in an exemplary embodiment, information from a uniform resource locator is converted into at least one texture. The texture is mapped onto a surface of a three-dimensional object located in a virtual three-dimensional space in ord... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7640515 | System for dynamically mapping input device movement as a user's viewpoint changes The present invention is directed to a two-handed input control system that dynamically changes an input-to-object mapping for mapping movement of a graphical object on a display of a virtual scene as the viewpoint of the virtual scene changes. As input to the syste... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7631277 | System and method for integrating media objects System and method for integrating media objects for viewing on and manipulation via a computing device such as a personal computer. The system and method may be provided via an application program interface (API) which provides functions that allow an application pr... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7603631 | Method and apparatus for monitoring dynamic systems using n-dimensional representations of critical functions A method, system and apparatus for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed and/or simulated data, converting such data into a displayable object... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7562312 | 3-dimensional graphical user interface A system comprising a display, a processor, and a storage device is provided. The storage device is operable to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, display on the display a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of objects. The plura... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7559038 | Method for navigation through displayed medical image information In a method for navigation through medical image information, upon selection of a second operating mode, slice images from different slices within a slice image set can be selected by a movement of a control device in the y-direction and slice images from further sl... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7536655 | Three-dimensional-model processing apparatus, three-dimensional-model processing method, and computer program Three-dimensional-model processing apparatus, three-dimensional-model processing methods, and computer programs are provided. In a three-dimensional-model processing apparatus, method, and computer programs, it is determined whether relative positions or relative at... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7512902 | Method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional task gallery computer interface The present invention provides a three-dimensional user interface for a computer system that allows a user to combine and store a group of windows as a task. The image of each task can be positioned within a three-dimensional environment such that the user may utili... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7480873 | Method and apparatus for manipulating two-dimensional windows within a three-dimensional display model One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates manipulating a 2D window within a three-dimensional (3D) display model. During operation, the system receives an input from a 2D pointing device, wherein the input specifies a 2D offset withi... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7441201 | Method for placing graphical user interface components in three dimensions A method for creating a three-dimensional (3D) graphical user interface (GUI) involves creating a first two-dimensional (2D) container and a second 2D container, and placing the first 2D container and the second 2D container in a 3D environment to create the 3D GUI,... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428710 | Visualization of multi-dimensional data having an unbounded dimension An interactive visualization of stored data includes a representation of a three-dimensional generally helical path extending between spaced apart ends of the path. Selected parts of the stored data are mapped to corresponding parts of the helical path to facilitate... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418674 | Visualization of multi-dimensional data having an unbounded dimension An interactive visualization of stored data includes a representation of a three-dimensional generally helical path extending between spaced apart ends of the path. Selected parts of the stored data are mapped to corresponding parts of the helical path to facilitate... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409647 | Control of interactions within virtual environments A virtual object for use in an object oriented environment; the virtual object comprising at least a user-sensible aspect and further comprising at least a functional aspect; the said user-sensible aspect being encapsulated as a user-sensible encapsulation, separate... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404151 | System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene is presented. Clusters are placed in a three-dimensional scene arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine. Each cluster includes one or more conc... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398481 | Virtual environment capture A system and method for capturing and modeling an environment is described. A user may direct a rangefinder within an environment to capture data points and correlate the data points with predefined objects. One may also capture images of the environment to be used ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372463 | Method and system for intelligent scalable animation with intelligent parallel processing engine and intelligent animation engine A method and a system for computer graphics animation is disclosed. The present invention provides a novel client-server architecture for scalable computer animation particularly adapted to computer animation. The animation tasks are identified as those that scale w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373612 | Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies A method of displaying correlations among information objects comprises receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and l... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370056 | Navigation in a hierarchical structured transaction processing system A method performed in a system having multiple navigable nodes interconnected in a hierarchical arrangement involves receiving an input containing at least one word identifiable with at least one keyword, identifying at least one node, other than the first node, not... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370287 | Dynamic controls for use in computing applications A system and process for providing adaptable controls to computing applications to facilitate interaction by an operator with computing application content is provided. The present invention provides a system to update the control parameters remote to the computing ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366547 | Communications apparatus that displays data in a standby screen A communications apparatus able to attach to a standby screen of a mobile phone a plurality of memos adjustable in position and adjustable in size and able to execute communications data included in a memo by a simple action from a selected memo, provided with a dis... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362323 | Method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems A method and apparatus that utilizes coordinates of a “hot spot” selected in an image map to index a location in a secondary image. An object table is indexed using data stored in the indexed location of the secondary image to link a program action to the “hot... | 04/22/2008 |
