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Tuesday, February 18, 2003
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The Image Search
Patent of the Day goes to America Online, Inc. of Virginia
for an Image and text searching techniques
The SciFi Self Help
Patent of the Day goes to Eastman Kodak Company of New York
for a Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images portable biosensor device
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NEWS
Eveready settles patent suit with Rayovac
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/02/10/daily65.html
Eveready Battery Co. Inc., a division of Energizer Holdings, settled a lawsuit it filed against Rayovac Corp. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Madison, Wis.-based Rayovac said the patent infringement suit filed in April 2001 was dismissed, but did not disclose terms of the settlement. It did say, however, it included the settlement in its results of operations for the first quarter ended Dec. 29.
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Streaming patent claims go to court
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-984698.html
Acacia Media Technologies, a company owning broad patents that could affect virtually all companies streaming audio or video online, is going to court for the first time to test its claims.
The company, which has been seeking licensing revenue from several dozen Internet-based adult entertainment companies for months, said Friday that it filed patent infringement suits against 39 of those companies in federal court. Several of those suits were filed several weeks ago, but the adult entertainment companies had not yet been served with the court documents, Acacia general counsel Robert Berman said. The remainder are new suits against companies that have refused to discuss licensing terms or ignored Acacia altogether.
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CollaGenex files patent infringement against West-ward Pharmaceutical
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CollaGenex markets a proprietary tablet dosage form of doxycycline for the treatment of adult periodontitis under the registered trademark Periostat. CollaGenex alleges that West-ward has infringed its Periostat patents under the Hatch-Waxman Act by filing an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a capsule formulation of Periostat. CollaGenex' suit specifically alleges that West-ward infringes and intends to continue to infringe two patents to which it is the exclusive licensee.
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PATENTS OF THE
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Abstract: Conducting a search for both text and images includes receiving input, which may include one or more search criteria for at least one of searchable image characteristics and text terms. The received input may be compared with searchable image characteristics and text terms that have been indexed in a single format for multiple stored images and text segments. A search result is produced based on the comparison. The searchable image characteristics and text terms may be indexed in a uniform data format that enables a search engine to use the same search methodology to search for both images and text. The uniform data format may be an inverted index data format. The produced search result may include identifiers for one or more images and text segments that have been retrieved for display in a ranked manner based on similarity metrics.
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Abstract: A method of classifying an individual's personal preference for an image, comprising: viewing an image for a period of time; and ranking the image on a scale extending between a "detached" feeling and an "attached" feeling, where "detached" is a feeling of not being able to personally connect to the object or situation depicted in the image, and "attached" is a feeling of a personal connection to the object or situation depicted in their image.
Claims: A method of monitoring the physiological state of an individual in order to alert the individual to perform physiological and psychological state management comprising:
providing a portable device worn by an individual, said device having at least one sensor for monitoring a physiological state of an individual carrying the device;
recording at least one sensed physiological state over a period of time; analyzing the recorded physiological data to predict the individual's psychological and physiological state; and
alerting the individual if the predicted state is determined to require management of said state wherein said recording, analyzing and alerting are carried out by a further device worn by said individual.
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Implantable fuel cell
This invention makes use of an electrostrictive material
to increase the efficiency of a fuel cell as used for the
production of power within a human.
Powder conveying and dispensing method
and apparatus using traveling wave transport
This invention is a major advance in printing technology
by resolving a problem with "toner clouds".
Embedded Display
A material that looks like paper functions like a display, with excellent contrast. It can be read in ordinary light and looks just like ordinary paper. It is expected to revolutionize publishing in our lifetimes, allowing for electronic newspapers and magazines. A pending patent cover several exciting applications for this new medium, including intelligent maps, low cost paper brochures with full motion video display and interactive web pages, cereal boxes with built in games, and much more. This invention teaches how an ordinary sheet of paper, or a substrate having the appearance of paper, can contain information related to the document itself. This might take the form of voice annotation that can be played back on a host of devices.
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ALL-TERRAIN, ALL WEATHER WHEELCHAIR
EARTHQUAKE DETECTOR
FREEZER ORGANIZER SYSTEM
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