Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fromer Lawrence & Haug LLP
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Patent number: 7805052Abstract: A video recording apparatus for continuously presenting a main program to a user without a break while presenting a commercial. A main program buffer records a main program of a video signal in accordance with a temporal position of at least the main program or commercials in the video signal, and a commercial buffer records the commercials. A controller determines whether a current time is in a period to display a commercial, on the basis of at least the temporal position of the main program or the commercials in the video signal. A mixer mixes the main program and the commercials such that the main program is temporally continuously displayed in a full screen area and such that a commercial is displayed in a small area in the bottom right corner of the screen during a period in which the commercial should be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2004Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Nakamura, Mototsugu Abe
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Patent number: 7582305Abstract: The present invention is to provide a safe antidiarrheal agent and a method for suppressing diarrhea by which an efficient antidiarrheal effect is achieved without using antibiotics or synthetic antibacterial agents that have been conventionally used against infections in livestock and poultry. Antibiotic-resistant pathogenic infections can also be prevented and treated by the present invention. The antidiarrheal agent for livestock and poultry comprising heat-killed bacteria of Enterococcus faecalis EC-12 (FERM ABP-10284) or a treated product thereof as an active ingredient is orally administered to livestock and poultry, particularly to breast-feeding sows and piglets around the weaning period.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Combi Co.Inventors: Kazunari Ushida, Takamitsu Tsukahara, Wakoto Bukawa, Tatsuhiko Kan, Takumi Watanabe, Noritaka Matsubara
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Patent number: 7410773Abstract: A method of increasing the relative number of cells expressing one or more stem cell markers in a cell population including committed cells is described. The method comprises: i. contacting the cell population with an agent that operably engages said committed cells; and ii. incubating committed cells that are engaged by said agent such that the relative number of cells expressing one or more stem cell markers increases as a result of said engaging.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Ghazi Jaswinder DhootInventor: Ilham Saleh Abuljadayel
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Patent number: 7389093Abstract: A call apparatus, a call method and a call system, are disclosed, in which the problem otherwise caused by fixed setting of the sound volume level of the BGM or the effect sound with respect to the call voice may be overcome. A decoded output of a decoder 17 (PCM data) is multiplied in a gain adjustment unit 18 with a gain coefficient k2, as the SE sound volume level as set by a user. A multiplication output of the gain adjustment unit 18 is sent to an adder 13. The decoded output of a decoder 20 is multiplied in a gain adjustment unit 21 with a gain coefficient k3, as the BGM sound volume level, as set by the user. A multiplication output of the gain adjustment unit 21 is sent to an adder 13. The adder 13 sums the multiplication outputs of the gain adjustment units 12, 18 and 21 and sends a sum output to an encoder 22.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Kunito, Satoshi Kawahata, Akihiro Hokimoto, Tadayuki Hattori
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Patent number: 7372858Abstract: A data transmission device and a data transmission method are adapted to add an RTP time stamp accurately synchronized with the PCR when sequentially transmitting data stored in a recording medium in advance with the MPEG2-TS format or data sequentially formatted to the MPEG2-TS format by means of hardware according to the RTP.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Nobuyoshi Tomita
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Patent number: 7341851Abstract: This present invention relates to a novel protein, termed INSP085, herein identified as an IL-8 like protein and to the use of this protein and nucleic acid sequence from the encoding genes in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2005Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Ares Trading, S.A.Inventors: Richard Fagan, Christopher Benjamin Phelps, Mark Douglas Davies, Christine Power
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Patent number: 6757029Abstract: A television receiving apparatus for receiving an analog television broadcast and a digital television broadcast is disclosed, that comprises a tuner means for receiving both an analog television broadcast signal and a digital television broadcast signal, selecting a signal having a desired carrier frequency from the received signals, and converting the selected signal having the desired carrier frequency into an intermediate frequency signal, an analog demodulating means for demodulating the analog television broadcast signal to a video signal, a digital demodulating means for demodulating the digital television broadcast signal to a base band signal, a first filter means disposed downstream of the tuner means, a second filter means disposed between the first filter means and the analog demodulating means, and a third filter means disposed between the first filter means and the digital demodulating means.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Tadao Kurihara
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Patent number: 6430316Abstract: A soft windowing technique involves the use of a window for vector assisted frame differing, the window being larger than a macroblock of the structure defined over the video picture. The edges of each window taper so that overlapping windows provide the correct pixel weighting at the edges. For a scheme having 16*16 luminance macroblocks and 8*8 chrominance macroblocks, the luminance window is 24*24 and the chrominance window is 12*12.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1996Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventor: James Hedley Wilkinson
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Patent number: 5990971Abstract: A picture-display-region discriminating apparatus comprising a device for setting a number of picture detection regions on a display screen of a television receiver, a detecting device for detecting a level of a video signal corresponding to each picture detection region by utilizing two reference levels, and a device for determining whether or not a picture exists in each picture detection region based on detection results from the detecting device. One of the reference levels utilized by the detecting device is a black level of a luminance signal of the video signal and the other reference level utilized therewith is a white level of the luminance signal of the video signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1996Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenzo Nakai, Yukihiko Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5980906Abstract: The live recombinant avian vaccine comprises, as vector, an avian herpesvirus comprising at least one nucleotide sequence coding for and expressing an antigenic polypeptide of an avian pathogenic agent, inserted into the region lying between the ATG of ORF UL55 and the junction of U.sub.L with the adjacent repeat region, under the control of the CMV immediate early promoter. The vector is preferably chosen from the group consisting of Marek's disease viruses (MDV and HVT), infectious laryngotracheitis virus ILTV and herpes of ducks. A polyvalent vaccine formula comprises at least two vaccines of this type, with different inserted sequences.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 1995Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Rhone MerieuxInventors: Jean-Christophe Francis Audonnet, Michel Joseph Marie Bublot, Raphael Jean Darteil, Carole Veronique Duinat, Eliane Louise Fran.cedilla.oise Laplace, Michel Albert Emile Riviere
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Patent number: D625693Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: SOMFY SASInventor: Olivier Charleux