Patents Assigned to Coach Master International Corporation
  • Methods of producing data storage devices for appliances which can be used to coach users in the performance of user-selected tasks
    Patent number: 5898462
    Abstract: Encoded data storage devices with stored data corresponding to: (a) information for coaching a user in accomplishing one or more steps of a specified task in a learn-then-perform way, and (b) an instruction set which enables the user access to access the information on a user-selected step of the task. Methods of providing and employing encoded data storage devices of the character just described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Coach Master International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Harrison, Robert D. Lamson
  • Operation of information/entertainment centers
    Patent number: 5764304
    Abstract: Encoded data storage devices with stored data corresponding to: (a) information for coaching a user in accomplishing one or more steps of a specified task in a learn-then-perform way, and (b) an instruction set which enables the user access to access the information on a user-selected step of the task. Methods of providing and employing encoded data storage devices of the character just described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Coach Master International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Harrison, Robert D. Lamson
  • Systems with a remote control in which information can be retrieved from an encoded, laser readable disc
    Patent number: 5748254
    Abstract: Systems which have an integrated unit that allows both television signals and information retrieved from an onboard information storage device to be presented in visual, audio, or visual/audio form via output devices such as television screens and audio speakers. The operating mode--television or stored information retrieval and display--is selected by the user. The user is coached through steps leading to retrieval and presentation of the wanted information if the information retrieval mode is selected. A novel remote control allows the system user to choose the mode of operation and to navigate the steps needed to reach the wanted information from a location convenient to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Coach Master International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Harrison, Robert D. Lamson
  • Systems in which information can be retrieved from an encoded, laser readable disc
    Patent number: 5724102
    Abstract: Systems which have an integrated unit that allows both television signals and information retrieved from an onboard information storage device to be presented in visual, audio, or visual/audio form via output devices such as television screens and audio speakers. The operating mode--television or stored information retrieval and display--is selected by the user. The user is coached through steps leading to retrieval and presentation of the wanted information if the information retrieval mode is selected. A novel remote control allows the system user to choose the mode of operation and to navigate the steps needed to reach the wanted information from a location convenient to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Coach Master International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Harrison, Robert D. Lamson
  • Waterproof remote control device
    Patent number: D458250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Coach Master International Corporation
    Inventors: Chunshik Kim, Robert G. Harrison, Varina Cordova, Russ Whitman