Archive for the ‘Non-iPod video-related patents’ Category

Applications published on July 12, 2007 (Part 1 of 3)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

20070162855 Movie authoring (20 pages)
Movie authoring via iMovie, including automated movie authoring. Claims are directed to adding themes, the iMovie UI, and a method for automatically authoring parts of a movie.

20070162850 Sports-related widgets (22 pages)
Aggregating sports-related information from one or more sources into a single widget. Not sure why they focuses on sports for this widget, but paragraph 0078 includes the catch-all, saying that this invention also applies to “any type of news item”.

20070162848 Predictive styling (13 pages)
Determining style attributes for objects added to a document based on a template used for the document.

A side note to the author of this application: get formal drawings before you file the case or at least on file in plenty of time to make sure the formals get published.

20070162846 Automatic sub-template selection based on content (12 pages)
Creating or editing a Web page using iWeb. A user selects a content item to be added to the Web page and the code to include the item in the Web page is automatically created.

20070162845 User interface for webpage creation/editing (16 pages)
UI for iWeb, including updating pages as they would appear on the Web in real time based on changes made by the user. Claims are directed to using a template to create the Web page and real time updating.

Patents issued on July 10, 2007

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

D546,277 Battery pack (7 pages)
Design for first gen iPod Shuffle battery back.

7,242,576 Quick release structures for a computer (42 pages)
Release mechanism for the access door on pro-level towers.

7,242,411 Adjustment of color values for optimized image processing (13 pages)
Color space conversion from YCrCb to RGB.

7,242,169 Method and apparatus for voltage compensation for parasitic impedance (14 pages)

Patents issued on July 3, 2007

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

7,240,223 Method and apparatus for dynamic power management in a processor system (11 pages)
Select processor run state (related to power consumption by the processor based on processor load. Can also predict future anticipated processor load based on historical use.

7,239,721 Adaptive motion estimation (14 pages)
Motion estimation for MPEG encoding.

Patents issued on May 22, 2007

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

7,222,310 Graphical user interface(GUI), a synthesiser and a computer system including a GUI (6 pages)
A GUI for displaying three or more input signals. Used in audio and video editing. Uses the GUI to simulate a hardware audio/video editing board.

7,221,570 Heat dissipating device for an integrated circuit chip (14 pages)
Heat dissipation for a chip. Order of stacked components, starting from the bottom: support board, chip, thermal gap filler pad, support structure, heat dissipating device.

Applications published on May 3, 2007 (Part 2 of 3)

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

20070101288 Preview including theme based installation of user interface elements in a display environment (30 pages)
Previewing widgets, using the “carpet” (their term, not mine) on the dashboard.

20070101279 Selection of user interface elements for unified display in a display environment (21 pages)
Determining which widgets can be displayed in a dashboard or other UI element, based on its size. Widget selection can be automatic, based on the context of use of the device (e.g., the iPhone; see paragraph 0026).

20070097266 Spatial and temporal alignment of video sequences (34 pages)
Making a wide angle video from multiple smaller-angle video sources. Blending the multiple sources into a seamless panoramic video.

20070097146 Resampling selected colors of video information using a programmable graphics processing unit to provide improved color rendering on LCD displays (11 pages)
Handling proper display of color on a display where the different colored pixels are not co-located.

Patents issued on April 24, 2007

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

D541,299  Media device    (5 pages)
Design for the iPod, 4G and up, in black.

D541,298  Media device    (5 pages)
Design for the iPod, 4G and up.

D541,297  Media device    (4 pages)
Design for the iPod nano.

D541,042  Electronic device holder    (7 pages)
Design for the iPod nano arm band.

7,209,344  Computer controlled display device    (136 pages)
Various embodiments for the old iMac “desklamp” design. In 102 pages of drawings, this patent shows the mechanical aspects of how the screen is supported and moves.

7,209,146  Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects    (20 pages)
Fade transition effects for video clips.

7,207,104  Hybrid ground grid for printed circuit board    (15 pages)
Printed circuit board layout with ground traces.

Applications published on April 12, 2007 (Part 2 of 2)

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

20070083911  Intelligent media navigation    (69 pages)
Navigating sequential media content (i.e., the Front Row interface).

20070083825  Method and apparatus for displaying a window for a user interface    (30 pages)
Displaying different kinds of user informational windows (e.g., system alerts) in a GUI that automatically disappear after a user-triggered event or input or after a set period of time. Also includes windows that fade out, like the volume adjustment window.

20070083822  Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs    (17 pages)
Rotational input in a GUI is transformed into linear action (i.e., using an iPod scroll wheel to navigate through a GUI).

20070083616  Multi-media center for computing systems    (15 pages)
A modular architecture for a multimedia center. (To be reviewed in greater detail soon.)

20070083471  Techniques and systems for electronic submission of media for network-based distribution    (49 pages)
Submitting media to a media distribution site, which is then later encoded for subsequent purchase and downloading.

Patents issued on April 3, 2007

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

D539,814 Electronic device (3 pages)
First generation iPod Shuffle.

7,200,836 Menu authoring for automatically performing low-level DVD configuration functions (40 pages)
DVD authoring system.

7,199,805 Method and apparatus for titling (30 pages)
Creating titles and text effects in movies.

Applications published on March 22, 2007

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

20070067659  Charging of mobile devices    (7 pages)

20070067523  Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus    (23 pages)

20070067477  Method and apparatus for media data transmission    (38 pages)

20070067173  Unsupervised data-driven pronunciation modeling    (19 pages)

Patents issued on March 20, 2007

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

D538,822  Electronic device    (5 pages)

D538,820  Media device    (4 pages)

7,194,692  Method and apparatus for binding user interface objects to application objects    (24 pages)

7,194,564  Method and apparatus for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus    (32 pages)

7,194,035  Method and apparatus for improved coding mode selection    (12 pages)