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Fork With Timer

A fork with timer for providing a cue to a user after an elapsed period of time for indicating that another bite of food using the fork may be taken.

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Examiner: Broome, Said


Primary examiner statistics: 78 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 62 patents; average approval time: 99 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8164593 Systems and methods for graphical rendering
8164592 Systems and methods for graphical rendering
8159492 Method for simulating optical components for the stereoscopic pro...
8144153 Model production for animation libraries
8144147 Hierarchical bounding of displaced parametric surfaces
8134578 Hybrid importance maps for content aware digital image resizing
8134554 Method and apparatus for spatially mapping three-dimensional opti...
8130222 System and method for resolving visual priority among coincident ...
8125480 Flat texture volume rendering
8111254 Depth image-based representation method for 3D object, modeling m...
8106903 System and method for visually representing a project using graph...
8102392 Image processing/displaying apparatus having free moving control ...
8102389 Box casting using an integrated acceleration data structure
8089484 Video game program and video game device for generating an attrib...
8072458 Storage medium having game program stored thereon and game appara...
8054311 Rig baking for arbitrary deformers
8054309 Game machine, game machine control method, and information storag...
8044955 Dynamic tessellation spreading for resolution-independent GPU ant...
8040343 Map display device and map display method
8035635 Method and system for displaying visual content in a virtual thre...
8031190 Translating two-dimensional user input on three-dimensional scene
8026917 Development tools for animated character rigging
8026916 Image-based viewing system
8018457 Ray tracing system architectures and methods
8013861 Reducing a display quality of an area in a virtual universe to co...
8004528 Method, systems and computer product for deriving three-dimension...
8004525 Displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data cha...
7999805 System and method of converting edge record based graphics to pol...
7999810 System and method for animated computer visualization of historic...
7999807 2D/3D combined rendering
7995060 Multiple artistic look rendering methods and apparatus
7990375 Virtual view schematic editor
7990386 Method for correlating animation and video in a computer system
7990385 Method and apparatus for generating new images by using image dat...
7990378 Methods and apparatus for volume rendering
7990376 Design support system, method and storage medium
7986322 Parallax compensation
7986323 Two dimensional user interface for multidimensional data analysis
7982747 Displaying generated changes to an image file
7982733 Rendering 3D video images on a stereo-enabled display

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7872647 System and method for modeling a spheroid world database
7830378 Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing m...
7791608 System and method of animating a character through a single perso...
7737967 Method and apparatus for correction of perspective distortion
7737977 Techniques for automatically maintaining continuity across discre...
7728837 Angular animation of a physical model
7696991 Method and apparatus for analyzing twinned crystal
7692650 Method of and system for 3D display of multi-energy computed tomo...
7692648 System and method for empty space skipping in sliding texture bas...
7683901 System and method for adaptive tile depth filter
7679616 Image data generation apparatus for adding attribute information ...
7675517 Systems and methods of gradient assisted volume rendering
7646385 Computer graphics rendering method and apparatus
7643024 System and method for view management in three dimensional space
7643034 Synthesis of advecting texture using adaptive regeneration
7619623 Perfect multidimensional spatial hashing
7598956 Blended object attribute keyframing model
7589725 Soft shadows in dynamic scenes
7580036 Detail-in-context terrain displacement algorithm with optimizatio...
7576737 Image processing device and program
7570264 Rig baking
7561159 Control of animation timeline
7545375 View-dependent displacement mapping
7542036 Level set surface editing operators
7535472 Method for generating intuitive quasi-eigen faces
7532212 Techniques for rendering complex scenes
7532213 Bicubic surface real time tesselation unit
7508391 Determining illumination of models using an ambient framing abstr...
7502025 Image processing method and program for visualization of tubular ...
7486289 Recognition model generation and structured mesh generation syste...
7486295 Pickwalking methods and apparatus
7483024 Accelerated ray-object intersection
7471291 Apparatus and method for real-time volume processing and universa...
7463257 Parallax scanning through scene object position manipulation
7446765 Method for generation of a three-dimensional terrain model with t...
7443394 Method and apparatus for rendering of complex translucent objects...
7436405 Terrain rendering using nested regular grids
7432924 3D digital subtraction angiography image processing apparatus
7425950 Web 3D image display system
7345686 Method and apparatus for visibility determination and processing
 
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