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20120100331 | SELF-CLINGING MAT FOR EATING ASSISTANCE - An eating assistance mat includes a substantially planar sheet of a pliable grippy material with a perimeter and first and second oppositely facing surfaces with a minimum thickness therebetween and defined by the perimeter. The first surface faces a first direction and substantially covers the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The second surface faces a second direction opposite the first direction and substantially covering the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The first surface be substantially smooth, while the second surface includes a plurality of protrusions thereon that extend outward generally in the first direction. The protrusions may be arranged in a regular array, and may be round when viewed normal to the second surface. The sheet may be sized and shaped to fit, while laying flat, within a rectangle of 16 inches by 11 inches. | 04-26-2012 |
20120128922 | SELF-CLINGING MAT FOR EATING ASSISTANCE - An eating assistance mat includes a substantially planar sheet of a pliable grippy material with a perimeter and first and second oppositely facing surfaces with a minimum thickness therebetween and defined by the perimeter. The first surface faces a first direction and substantially covers the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The second surface faces a second direction opposite the first direction and substantially covering the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The first surface be substantially smooth, while the second surface includes a plurality of protrusions thereon that extend outward generally in the first direction. The protrusions may be arranged in a regular array, and may be round when viewed normal to the second surface. The sheet may be sized and shaped to fit, while laying flat, within a rectangle of 16 inches by 11 inches. | 05-24-2012 |
20130098742 | Cooking Device Knob Safety Assembly - A knob safety assembly is operative to selectively restrict depression of a cooking element control knob. The safety assembly includes a blocking plate disposed inside of a bezel assembly. The bezel assembly includes an outer bezel defining one or more angled camming surfaces, and an inner bezel. Rotation of the inner bezel with respect to the outer bezel about a rotational axis slides an ear of the blocking plate along the camming surface to effect movement of the blocking plate along the rotational axis between a raised position, in which the blocking plate restricts depression of a cooking element control knob, to a recessed position, in which the blocking plate facilitates depression of the control knob. The inner bezel is releasably locked from rotating with respect to the outer bezel, and engages the blocking plate to constrain the blocking plate against movement along the rotational axis when locked. | 04-25-2013 |
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20110026997 | Switch with Depth and Lateral Articulation Detection - A key switch to sense and give feedback to a computer of depth, acceleration, velocity, and lateral or vibrato movement. The key switch is suitable for computer keyboards, musical keyboards, foot pedals and the like. Lateral or sideward key movements can be for mouse functions or multi code output from multi directional key movement from one key outputting a single key code or key sequences. | 02-03-2011 |
20120111173 | Split Keyboard for PC Data and Music Output - A split keyboard with an optional middle section of keys for controlling regular PC input to a host, two play music, and to input and play music with a multiple octave keyboard that when the middle section of keys are removed can be portable to travel. | 05-10-2012 |
20130098226 | Split Keyboard for PC Data and Music Output - A split keyboard with an optional middle section of keys for controlling regular PC input to a host, two play music, and to input and play music with a multiple octave keyboard that when the middle section of keys are removed can be portable to travel. And when working on just the split keyboard inputting data to a host the operator arms are not abducted do to the perpendicular advantage or slide apart keyboard where an operators arms are perpendicular to the keyboard keys. | 04-25-2013 |
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20110227762 | Telephone Keypad with Quad Directional Keys - A telephone keypad for one touch text messaging the QWERTY pattern of keys in a matrix of nine keys. Using the quad position biasing keys only one touch is needed for each character, so in use to input the letter “C” you touch one key one time, decreasing the time spend text messaging from cell phones or desk tops and dialing phone numbers advertised in letters. The keypad also has a shift key to get upper case included in the nine keys, and a 2 | 09-22-2011 |
20110248925 | TELEPHONE KEYPAD WITH MULTIDIRECTIONAL KEYS - A telephone keypad for one touch text messaging the QWERTY pattern of keys in a matrix of nine keys. Using the multi position biasing keys only one touch is needed for each character, so in use to input the letter “C” you touch one key one time, decreasing the time spend text messaging from cell phones or desk tops and dialing phone numbers advertised in letters. The keypad also has a shift key to get upper case included in the nine keys, and a 2 | 10-13-2011 |
20140132522 | Telephone Keypad with Multidirectional Keys - A telephone keypad for one touch text messaging the QWERTY pattern of keys in a matrix of nine keys. Using the multi position biasing keys only one touch is needed for each character, so in use to input the letter “C” you touch one key one time, decreasing the time spend text messaging from cell phones or desk tops and dialing phone numbers advertised in letters. The keypad also has a shift key to get upper case included in the nine keys, and a 2 | 05-15-2014 |
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20090021900 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISPLAY ARRANGEMENT FOR CLOSED CONFIGURATION - An electronic device may include a display for displaying information. A housing of the electronic device may have a first section and a second section. The housing sections may be movable with respect to one another such that the electronic device has an open configuration and a closed configuration. The second housing section may retain the display and the first housing section covers an image surface of the display when the electronic device is in a closed configuration. An optical system may be arranged with respect to the display to allow a user of the electronic device to view the displayed information through the housing when the electronic device is in the closed configuration. | 01-22-2009 |
20090096927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CODING USING VARIABLE COMPRESSION AND OBJECT MOTION TRACKING - A video coding technique and system employ variable compression for different portions of an imaged scene and motion tracking of an object. The object is coded to have higher fidelity than a remainder of the scene. The higher fidelity facilitates tracking of the object that, in turn, assists in maintaining quality coding of the object. | 04-16-2009 |
20090128644 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A PHOTOGRAPH - Generating a photograph with a digital camera may include capturing a first image of a scene with a first zoom setting and capturing a second image of the scene with a second zoom setting, where the second zoom setting corresponds to higher magnification than the first zoom setting. The second image may be stitched into the first image in place of a removed portion of the first image that corresponds to a portion of the scene represented by the second image. The result is the photograph, which has a region corresponding to image data of the second image and a region corresponding to image data of the first image. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A PHOTOGRAPH WITH VARIABLE IMAGE QUALITY - Image data for a digital photograph is segmented into a first portion and a second portion. The image data of the second portion is processed to have a quality lower than the image data of the first portion. An image file for the scene is stored where the image file contains image data corresponding to the first and second portions so that the image file has a high quality portion and a low quality portion. | 05-21-2009 |
20090297063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A PHOTOGRAPH - A camera assembly for generating high resolution photograph includes a sensor assembly that has two regions of different effective resolution. Image data from multiple images that are captured with the sensor assembly are combined to generate output image data in the form of a high resolution picture. A first region of the sensor is used to capture image data for the images that are combined. A second region, that is of higher effective resolution than the first region, is used to capture image data for use in aligning the image data from the plural images prior to combination. | 12-03-2009 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120100331 | SELF-CLINGING MAT FOR EATING ASSISTANCE - An eating assistance mat includes a substantially planar sheet of a pliable grippy material with a perimeter and first and second oppositely facing surfaces with a minimum thickness therebetween and defined by the perimeter. The first surface faces a first direction and substantially covers the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The second surface faces a second direction opposite the first direction and substantially covering the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The first surface be substantially smooth, while the second surface includes a plurality of protrusions thereon that extend outward generally in the first direction. The protrusions may be arranged in a regular array, and may be round when viewed normal to the second surface. The sheet may be sized and shaped to fit, while laying flat, within a rectangle of 16 inches by 11 inches. | 04-26-2012 |
20120128922 | SELF-CLINGING MAT FOR EATING ASSISTANCE - An eating assistance mat includes a substantially planar sheet of a pliable grippy material with a perimeter and first and second oppositely facing surfaces with a minimum thickness therebetween and defined by the perimeter. The first surface faces a first direction and substantially covers the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The second surface faces a second direction opposite the first direction and substantially covering the entirety of the sheet within the perimeter. The first surface be substantially smooth, while the second surface includes a plurality of protrusions thereon that extend outward generally in the first direction. The protrusions may be arranged in a regular array, and may be round when viewed normal to the second surface. The sheet may be sized and shaped to fit, while laying flat, within a rectangle of 16 inches by 11 inches. | 05-24-2012 |
20130098742 | Cooking Device Knob Safety Assembly - A knob safety assembly is operative to selectively restrict depression of a cooking element control knob. The safety assembly includes a blocking plate disposed inside of a bezel assembly. The bezel assembly includes an outer bezel defining one or more angled camming surfaces, and an inner bezel. Rotation of the inner bezel with respect to the outer bezel about a rotational axis slides an ear of the blocking plate along the camming surface to effect movement of the blocking plate along the rotational axis between a raised position, in which the blocking plate restricts depression of a cooking element control knob, to a recessed position, in which the blocking plate facilitates depression of the control knob. The inner bezel is releasably locked from rotating with respect to the outer bezel, and engages the blocking plate to constrain the blocking plate against movement along the rotational axis when locked. | 04-25-2013 |