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Bruce Balentine, Denton, TX US
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| 20090268886 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERJECTING COMMENTS TO IMPROVE INFORMATION PRESENTATION IN SPOKEN USER INTERFACES - A method and an apparatus for providing audio information to a user. The method and apparatus provide information in multiple modes that represent various pieces of information and/or alternatives. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100017212 | TURN-TAKING MODEL - A method is claimed for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed in response to a timing position of possible speech onset from the user. In another embodiment, the interaction between the machine and the user is dependent upon the timing of a recognition result, which is relative to a cessation of a verbalization of a desired sequence from the machine. In another embodiment, the interaction between the machine and the user is dependent upon a recognition result and whether the desired sequence was ceased or not ceased. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100324896 | TURN-TAKING CONFIDENCE - A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. In another embodiment, the likelihood value can be dependent on a model of a desire of the user for specific items, a model of an attention of the user to specific items, or a model of turn-taking cues. The values can be used to determine a mode confidence value that is used by the system to determine the nature of prompts provided to the user. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110135072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERJECTING COMMENTS TO IMPROVE INFORMATION PRESENTATION IN SPOKEN USER INTERFACES - A method and an apparatus for providing audio information to a user. The method and apparatus provide information in multiple modes that represent various pieces of information and/or alternatives. In various embodiments, the form of a prompt played is dependent on what previously played prompts were given to the user during that session. | 06-09-2011 |
Douglas Ashley Balentine, Harriman, NY US
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| 20080248172 | NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR SERVINGS - A method for substantiating servings based on nutritional guidelines and formulating food products to nutritional guidelines is disclosed. Preferably, a method for substantiating fruit and/or vegetable servings and formulating based on nutritional guidelines for fruit and/or vegetables is disclosed. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080268103 | Packaged consumer food products and method of communicating a company's products' health values - A consumable food article and a method for broadcasting the nutritional quality of a company's food products or services and making healthy choices easier for the consumer which includes: providing a logo constructed as a geometrical figure having therein indicia associated with healthy eating and nutrition; wherein the logo communicates that the healthy standard is based on dietary standards or guidelines of at least one national and/or world health or food regulatory body or on international scientific guidelines; and applying the logo to a label of a consumable food product or to point of purchase advertising materials. The article bears the logo applied to a label on a package housing a consumable food material. | 10-30-2008 |
James R. Balentine, Austin, TX US
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| 20120029661 | Dynamic User Interface for Configuring and Managing a Process Control System - A process control management method in a computer system for configuring and supervising a process plant includes providing an interactive user interface to manage a plurality of objects in the process plant, where each of the plurality of objects corresponds to a physical or logical entity in the process plant, including generating a navigation pane to display a set of selectable items, each in the set of selectable items corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of objects, and generating a command pane to display a set of selectable controls, each in the set of selectable controls corresponding to a task to be performed on at least one of the plurality of objects in the process plant; receiving a selection of one of an item in the set of selectable items via the navigation panel and a control in the set of selectable controls via the command panel; determining an operational context based on the received selection, wherein the operational context corresponds to one of a range of actions applicable to the selection if the selection is an item selection, or a range of items to which the selection is applicable if the selection is a control selection; and adjusting one of the navigation pane or the command pane according to the operational context, including displaying a subset of selectable items in the navigational pane, wherein each in the subset of selectable items is within the range applicable to the selection, if the selection is a control selection, and displaying a subset of selectable controls in the command pane, wherein each in the subset of selectable controls is within the range applicable to the selection, if the selection is an item selection. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120041570 | Efficient Design and Configuration of Elements in a Process Control System - A process control configuration method in a user interface of a computer system for developing control strategies of a process plant, where the user interface defines a screen area to display a plurality of independent panes therein, includes generating a first edit pane, including displaying a graphical representation of a first set of logical or physical entities for carrying out respective process control operations in the process plant; generating a second edit pane, including displaying a graphical representation of a second set of logical or physical entities for carrying out respective process control operations in the process plant, wherein each in the first set and the second set of logical or physical entities includes at least one input and at least one output, and wherein each of the first edit pane and the second edit pane defines an independent user interface screen within the screen area; receiving a first selection of an output of a first entity in the first set of logical or physical entities; receiving a second selection of an input to a second entity in the first second of logical or physical entities; and automatically generating respective visual indicators in each of the first edit pane and the second edit pane in response to receiving the first selection and the second selection, wherein the visual indicators depict respective endpoints of a connection between the first entity and the second entity. | 02-16-2012 |
James Randall Balentine, Austin, TX US
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| 20100211197 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CONFIGURE A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM USING AN ELECTRONIC DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE SCRIPT - Example methods and apparatus to configure a process control system using an electronic description language (EDL) script are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises loading a first script representative of a process plant, the first script comprising an interpretive system-level script structured in accordance with an electronic description language, and compiling the first script to form a second script, the second script structured in accordance with a vendor-specific configuration language associated with a particular process control system for the process plant. | 08-19-2010 |
Richard D. Balentine, Huntington Beach, CA US
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| 20120105636 | Digital video projection display system - A digital display for viewing images generated by a remote video source. Light collected by a lens is focused and passed through one polarizer filter and is focused through a digital device comprising an array of pixels of which each may be fitted with a micro lens. The light is passed through the digital device, then through a second polarizer filter. A relay lens which may alter image size, transfers the image to a micro-resolution screen surface whose surface features are as small as possible and preferably under 0.5 microns in size. The micro-resolution screen surface acts as a rear projection screen which, due to its structure, achieves near Lambertian illumination. A viewing lens is focused on the image plane of the micro-resolution screen surface for viewing by the user. In one embodiment, the digital device is an LCD that is transmissive and the viewing lens is a biocular lens. The source of the signals to be used to generate the images, may be a computer or a camera. | 05-03-2012 |