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Edward Cai, Camas, WA US
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| 20110174940 | Hook for hanging object on a wall - A hook for hanging objects comprises a first plate for mounting to a wall, a holder and a distributor having a second plate and a thin gap between the plates for dissipating the object's weight to prevent the hook from falling off the wall. The holder has a first opening to receive a wine glass, second opening to allow the stem of the wine glass to enter the first opening and third opening for stabilizing the wine glass. The wine glass may deform the second plate, which acts as a weight watcher to indicate on a mark plate whether the wine glass is overweight, thereby further preventing any accidental falling off the hook, thus the wine glass, from the wall. | 07-21-2011 |
Edward Z. Cai, Camas, WA US
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| 20100018161 | Vacuum generating device for sealing perishable products and method of use - A vacuum sealing device comprises a lid having a rigid rim with a lower opening for receiving a dish, an impermeable elastic membrane peripherally affixed to the rigid rim for sealing the dish, and a valve-less air evacuator formed between the elastic membrane and the dish rim. The valve-less evacuator allows air to flow out of the dish when the lid is being pressed and becomes closed when the lid is released to cause said lid to rebound to form a vacuum in the dish. The rigid rim prevents lid deformation when the lid is pressed, thus enabling the vacuum formation. To facilitate lid removal, the device has a valve-less vacuum releaser comprising a finger-receiving chamber and a section of the elastic membrane located above the chamber and connected to the rigid rim for releasing the vacuum in the dish. To prevent vacuum loss during storage in freezer or fridge, the elastic membrane is sufficiently thinned prior to being affixed to the rigid rim. In use, one places the lid on a dish, forces air out of the dish via the air evacuator between a section of the elastic membrane and the dish rim by pressing the lid, and releases the lid to cause the air evacuator to close and vacuum to form in the dish. To restore the device's capability to generate and maintain vacuum after numerous uses, the lid is exposed to a hot fluid having a temperature higher than 45° C. for a period of time. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100018169 | Vacuum generating device for sealing perishable products and method of use - A vacuum sealing device comprises a lid having a rigid rim with a lower opening for receiving a dish, an impermeable elastic membrane peripherally affixed to the rigid rim for sealing the dish, and a valve-less air evacuator formed between the elastic membrane and the dish rim. The valve-less evacuator allows air to flow out of the dish when the lid is being pressed and becomes closed when the lid is released to cause said lid to rebound to form a vacuum in the dish. The rigid rim prevents lid deformation when the lid is pressed, thus enabling the vacuum formation. To facilitate lid removal, the device has a valve-less vacuum releaser comprising a finger-receiving chamber and a section of the elastic membrane located above the chamber and connected to the rigid rim for releasing the vacuum in the dish. To prevent vacuum loss during storage in freezer or fridge, the elastic membrane is sufficiently thinned prior to being affixed to the rigid rim. In use, one places the lid on a dish, forces air out of the dish via the air evacuator between a section of the elastic membrane and the dish rim by pressing the lid, and releases the lid to cause the air evacuator to close and vacuum to form in the dish. To restore the device's capability to generate and maintain vacuum after numerous uses, the lid is exposed to a hot fluid having a temperature higher than 45° C. for a period of time. | 01-28-2010 |
Lixin Cai, Ravensdale, WA US
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| 20080268790 | ANTENNA SYSTEM INCLUDING A POWER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM - An antenna system may include a reconfigurable array antenna system including a plurality of elements each capable of radiating and receiving electromagnetic energy. The antenna system may also include an electronically reconfigurable power management and control system to selectively power each of the plurality of elements to generate a desired beam pattern. | 10-30-2008 |
Oin Cai, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080221896 | Grammar confusability metric for speech recognition - Architecture for testing an application grammar for the presence of confusable terms. A grammar confusability metric (GCM) is generated for describing a likelihood that a reference term will be confused by the speech recognizer with another term phrase currently allowed by active grammar rules. The GCM is used to flag processing of two phrases in the grammar that have different semantic meaning, but that the speech recognizer could have difficulty distinguishing reliably. A built-in acoustic model is analyzed and feature vectors generated that are close to the acoustic properties of the input term. The feature vectors are then sent for recognition. A statistically random sampling method is applied to explore the acoustic properties of feature vectors of the input term phrase spatially and temporally. The feature vectors are perturbed in the neighborhood of the time domain and the Gaussian mixture model to which the feature vectors belong. | 09-11-2008 |
Qin Cai, Clyde Hill, WA US
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| 20100074433 | Multichannel Acoustic Echo Cancellation - A multi-party spatial audio conferencing system is configured to receive far end signals from remote participants. The system comprises a speaker array that outputs spatialized sound signals and one or more microphones that capture and relay a sound signal comprising an echo of the spatialized sound signal to a multichannel acoustic echo cancellation (MC-AEC) unit having a plurality of echo cancellers. Respective echo cancellers perform cancellation of an echo associated with a far end signal from one of the multiple participants according to an algorithm based upon echo cancellation coefficients. The echo cancellation coefficients are determined from the input channel signals, the spatialization parameters associated with each input channel, and the audio signals captured by the microphones. This allows respective echo cancellation filters to be updated simultaneously even though the corresponding remote participant is not talking. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20110063403 | MULTI-CAMERA HEAD POSE TRACKING - Techniques and technologies for tracking a face with a plurality of cameras wherein a geometry between the cameras is initially unknown. One disclosed method includes detecting a head with two of the cameras and registering a head model with the image of the head (as detected by one of the cameras). The method also includes back projecting the other detected face image to the head model and determining a head pose from the back-projected head image. Furthermore, the determined geometry is used to track the face with at least one of the cameras. | 03-17-2011 |
Shaopei Cai, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090181979 | PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALTS OF QUINOLINONE COMPOUNDS HAVING IMPROVED PHARMACEUTICAL PROPERTIES - A lacate salt of a compound of Formula I or a tautomer of the compound, wherein Formula I has the following structure and R | 07-16-2009 |
Wenyu Cai, Redmond, WA US
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| 20110016141 | Web Traffic Analysis Tool - A log file may include a line corresponding to a request received at a web server. A rules file may include rules that are applied in a specified order. The rules may include a first rule associated with a first request identifier and a second rule associated with a second request identifier. A determination is made as to whether the line matches the first rule. If the line matches the first rule, then identification data is updated to associate the first request identifier with the line. If the line does not match the first rule, then a determination is made as to whether the line matches the second rule. If the line matches the second rule, then the identification data is updated to associate the second request identifier with the line. If the line does not match the second rule, additional rules in the rules may be similarly applied | 01-20-2011 |
Yizheng Cai, Sammamish, WA US
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| 20110179049 | Automatic Aggregation Across Data Stores and Content Types - Project-related data may be aggregated from various data sources, given context, and may be stored in a data repository or organizational knowledge base that may be available to and accessed by others. Documents, emails, contact information, calendar data, social networking data, and any other content that is related to a project may be brought together within a single user interface, irrespective of its data type. A user may organize and understand content, discover relevant information, and act on it without regard to where the information resides or how it was created. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179061 | Extraction and Publication of Reusable Organizational Knowledge - An analysis module, when triggered by a synchronization framework when a new data item is added to a project data store, runs a series of analysis feature extractors on the new content. An analysis may be conducted, and features of interest may be extracted from the data item. The analysis utilizes natural language processing, as well as other technologies, to provide an automatic or semi-automatic extraction of information. The extracted features of interest are saved as metadata within the project data store, and are associated with the data item from which it was extracted. The analysis module may be utilized to discover additional information that may be gleaned from content that is already in the project data store. | 07-21-2011 |
Zhenxiao Cai, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090314714 | METHOD FOR REMOVING CONTAMINANTS FROM LIQUIDS USING MEMBRANE FILTRATION IN COMBINATION WITH PARTICLE ADSORPTION TO REDUCE FOULING - Metal oxide particles heated while immersed in water in a closed container are combined with membrane filtration to remove contaminants from water. The use of the heated particles reduces fouling of the membrane typically encountered when membranes alone are used to remove contaminants from water. | 12-24-2009 |