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Patent No. 6293874

User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks

An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.

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Examiner: Nolan, Daniel


Primary examiner statistics: 2 patents; average approval time: 1195 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 304 patents; average approval time: 905 days

Patents as Primary Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
6711545 Hand-held transmitter having speech storage actuated by transmiss...
6704703 Recursively excited linear prediction speech coder

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
RE39336 Formant-based speech synthesizer employing demi-syllable concaten...
6895380 Voice actuation with contextual learning for intelligent machine ...
6882974 Voice-control for a user interface
6879955 Signal modification based on continuous time warping for low bit ...
6868382 Speech recognizer
6862567 Noise suppression in the frequency domain by adjusting gain accor...
6853971 Two-way speech recognition and dialect system
6845358 Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems
6832196 Speech driven data selection in a voice-enabled program
6826527 Concealment of frame erasures and method
6826525 Method and device for detecting a transient in a discrete-time au...
6823308 Speech recognition accuracy in a multimodal input system
6820052 Low bit-rate coding of unvoiced segments of speech
6810379 Client/server architecture for text-to-speech synthesis
6804646 Method and apparatus for processing a sound signal
6804649 Expressivity of voice synthesis by emphasizing source signal feat...
6801894 Speech synthesizer that interrupts audio output to provide pause/...
6799161 Variable bit rate speech encoding after gain suppression
6795807 Method and means for creating prosody in speech regeneration for ...
6789060 Network based speech transcription that maintains dynamic templat...
6785644 Alternate window compression/decompression method, apparatus, and...
6775649 Concealment of frame erasures for speech transmission and storage...
6775654 Digital audio reproducing apparatus
6766298 Application server configured for dynamically generating web page...
6757653 Reassembling speech sentence fragments using associated phonetic ...
6757657 Information processing apparatus, information processing method a...
6757656 System and method for concurrent presentation of multiple audio i...
6757649 Codebook tables for multi-rate encoding and decoding with pre-gai...
6754626 Creating a hierarchical tree of language models for a dialog syst...
6754627 Detecting speech recognition errors in an embedded speech recogni...
6754624 Codebook re-ordering to reduce undesired packet generation
6754630 Synthesis of speech from pitch prototype waveforms by time-synchr...
6751589 Voice-actuated generation of documents containing photographic id...
6741964 Data transfer system and data transfer method
6741961 Low power audio processor that multiplexes component distribution...
6738739 Voiced speech preprocessing employing waveform interpolation or a...
6735567 Encoding and decoding speech signals variably based on signal cla...
6735564 Portrayal of talk group at a location in virtual audio space for ...
6728681 Interactive multimedia book
6714907 Codebook structure and search for speech coding
 
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