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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420564 | Shape and animation methods and systems using examples Shape animation is described. In one aspect, examples that pertain to a shape or motion that is to be animated are provided. The examples are placed within a multi-dimensional abstract space. Each dimension of the abstract space is defined by at least one of an adje... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7152989 | Bracelet A bracelet includes at least one electronic display unit. Each display unit has a display having a plurality of display elements arranged in a sequence lying along the length of the bracelet and/or arranged in a sequence lying substantially around the perimeter of t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7116341 | Information presentation apparatus and method in three-dimensional virtual space and computer program therefor An information presentation apparatus creates a three-dimensional animation of a specific object in a three-dimensional virtual space on the basis of the human characteristic of paying more attention to a moving object. A user's attention can be drawn to a specific ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109993 | Method and system for the automatic computerized audio visual dubbing of movies A method for automated computerized audio visual dubbing of a movie comprises (i) generating a three-dimensional head model of an actor in a movie, the head model being representative of specific facial features of the actor, and (ii) generating a three-dimensional ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7053899 | Animation packager for an on-line book A system for creating an on-line book with an animated cover. The system includes an animation program for inserting an animation sequence at the beginning of an on-line book which is compiled into the M14 format. The animation program includes: a user interface mod... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7012607 | Method and system for generating user-interface output sequences A system and/or method that generates user interface output sequences controlled by a user interface output system. The user interface output system can provide event definitions to an application pro that specify high-level actions to be performed by the sequence a... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6999079 | Position related information presentation system, position related information presentation method and recording medium recording control program thereof To provide a position related information presentation system that allows a user to experience as if the user had actually walked round and collected information about an area. A 3D map/information superimposed displaying portion reads 3D map data from a 3D map stor... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6912431 | Method and apparatus for indicating states of electronic devices An electronic device operation method and apparatus. A current state of a device such as TVs or VCRs is indicated as a graphic moving picture of a familiar character shape. Pictures containing an associated character shape are stored in correspondence with a various... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6856329 | Automated acquisition of video textures acquired from a digital camera for mapping to audio-driven deformable objects A technique for enhancing an audio-driven computer generated animation includes the step of mapping a video clip generated by a digital camera to an object displayed in the animation. Additionally, the object or the video clip can be deformed when selected events ar... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6621499 | Video processor with multiple overlay generators and/or flexible bidirectional video data port A video processing device and method receives data from a common data source, such as a frame buffer and outputs first overlay information in a first color space from a first port and outputs second overlay information in a second color from a second port... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6587574 | System and method for representing trajectories of moving objects for content-based indexing and retrieval of visual animated data There is disclosed, for use in a system for detecting a movement of a selected object in a sequence of visual animated data frames, a video processing device for generating a descriptor data structure representative of a trajectory of the selected object.... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6492990 | Method for the automatic computerized audio visual dubbing of movies A method using computer software for automatic audio visual dubbing (5) using an efficient computerized automatic method for audio visual dubbing of movies by computerized image copying of the characteristic features of the lip movements of the dubber ont... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6459824 | Method of retrieving moving pictures using joint points based on pose information There is disclosed a method of retrieving moving pictures using joint point based moving information for allowing an user to retrieve pictures including a desired person object or the pose of the person object for still picture/moving picture data of mult... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6369821 | Method and system for synchronizing scripted animations An animation system provides synchronization services to synchronize actions of two more interactive user interface characters that are displayed simultaneously. The animation services allow applications to make animation requests to control the actions o... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6288727 | Method and apparatus for providing realistic movement of human characters on a video display A computer, such as a PC includes a memory having an imaging program stored in it and a display unit, such as a restor scan CRT are all operatively connected together so that the computing unit can generate a signal that will result in an image being disp... | 09/11/2001 |
| 5977965 | Automatic frame accumulator A method, apparatus, and computer program product for building at least a portion of a motion picture on a computer system first monitors memory in the computer system for the creation of a frame of the motion picture. It consequently sets a flag in the c... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5903743 | Apparatus and method for drill design A drill design aide for designing a drill having a plurality of positions wherein a user is able to access the drill design aide through a graphical interface which displays a drill being designed. A drawing module within the drill design aide enables a u... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5764980 | Method for coordinating production of an animated feature using a logistics system A computer animation production system (2) for processing digital image data is disclosed. The computer animation production system (2) contains at least one information processing device (44-76) for enabling at least one user to develop, utilize and enha... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5684942 | Image processing apparatus and method for generating a third image from first and second images An image processing apparatus and method for handling digital image data having tones, in which, for each of a plurality of types of digital image data that have been input, an area is set, the digital image data in each area set are transformed and digit... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5544305 | System and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations A system and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations comprises an authoring editor. The authoring editor presents an authoring user interface with a comic book metaphor form for the creation of simulations. The aut... | 08/06/1996 |
