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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.

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Examiner: Harvey, David E.


Primary examiner statistics: 320 patents; average approval time: 324 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 393 patents; average approval time: 792 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7463818 Information recording/playback processor, method, and computer re...
7464397 Streaming content receiving apparatus and playback apparatus with...
7457528 Recording/reproducing apparatus
7447419 Writable storage medium, apparatus and method of recording to a s...
7444065 System control apparatus for moving picture data
7440677 Detection of copy protection indicators or redistribution control...
7430362 Recording apparatus with determining whether or not information s...
7424202 Editing system and control method using a readout request
7412150 Method and apparatus for facilitating program data acquisition
7412155 Imaging apparatus having a continuous shooting function
7106384 Method and device for simultaneously representing at least a firs...
6930685 Image processing method and apparatus
6922216 Mechanical system for adjusting image centering and rotation in p...
6891894 Method for decoding and displaying digital broadcasting signals
6876402 Television tuner intermediate-frequency circuit that hardly suffe...
6870574 Method and apparatus for enhanced puppetry or similar types of pe...
6859237 Film source video detection
6816205 System and method for camera selection tallying for multiple came...
6809776 Control of video level by region and content of information displ...
6803965 Method of and apparatus for measuring horizontal frequency
6803970 Digital television receiver with match filter responsive to field...
6735776 Motion picture editing and distribution
6700625 Image processing apparatus and method for accepting image signals...
6686972 VSB reset to minimize data loss
6686970 Multi-media editing method and apparatus
6674460 Television system distributing a dynamically varying number of co...
6667776 Video signal processor
6642968 System and method for frame rate matching
6637032 System and method for synchronizing enhancing content with a vide...
6628343 Television signal reception circuit, automatic phase shift contro...
6606747 System and method for grazing television channels from an electro...
6597406 System for enhancing a video presentation of a live event
6590606 Method for the compensating of geometric images and an arrangemen...
6580463 Film source video detection
6577347 Television receiver and additional information transmitting metho...
6577354 Method and system for broadcasting digital audio and video to an ...
6559897 Method for random access to picture blocks in video pictures
6549242 Combining adjacent TV channels for transmission by a common anten...
6532041 Television receiver for teletext
6519304 Circuitry operative on selected symbol slicing results for synchr...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5565910 Data and television network for digital computer workstations
5450122 In-station television program encoding and monitoring system and ...
5448308 Apparatus for clamping a video signal level
5446488 Television programme distribution signal having the capability to...
5442405 Frame synchronizing circuit for frame synchronization of digital ...
5438373 System for developing CRT color-intensity control signals in high...
5438356 Accounting system for multimedia communications system
5434611 Home health care system which employs a two-way community antenna...
5430498 Selective intermodulation correction system
5430488 Image signal processing apparatus for converting to frame format ...
5430497 Removal of the folding carrier and sidebands from an unfolded vid...
5428400 Enabling a display of closed captioning status upon detecting a c...
5424770 Method and apparatus for automatic insertion of a television sign...
5424781 Backing color and luminance nonuniformity compensation for linear...
5422678 Video processor for enlarging and contracting an image in a verti...
5416524 Digital television synchronization system and method
5416525 Method and apparatus for digitally coding and decoding a composit...
5416527 Frequency locking system using sound intermediate frequency (IF) ...
5414470 Sync signal generator for generating a second sync signal synchro...
5414472 Method for eliminating an impulse noise of video signal and appar...
5410366 Circuit and method of clamping a video signal with first and seco...
5410356 Scanning-line interpolation apparatus
5410363 Automatic gain control device for transmitting video signals betw...
5404567 Method of distributing audio programming to passenger entertainme...
5404171 Method and apparatus for synchronizing digital packets of informa...
5404172 Video signal data and composite synchronization extraction circui...
5402178 Apparatus for extracting a signal without external power supply
5396295 Phase control circuit for controlling phase of video signal and s...
5394193 Pattern-adaptive digital comb filter for separation of a luminanc...
5394195 Method and apparatus for performing dynamic gamma contrast contro...
5374952 Videoconferencing system
5371532 Communications architecture and method for distributing informati...
5349389 Video attenuator with output combined with signal from non-linear...
5343300 Apparatus for providing TV program information
5341217 Digital adaptive video synchronizer
5337155 Television receiver including a teletext decoder with rotating pa...
5335018 Digital phase-locked loop
5333015 Image signal processing apparatus having noise eliminating and sp...
5327243 Real time video converter
5327237 Transmitting data with video
 
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