Patents Represented by Law Firm Rosen, Dainow & Jacobs Limited Liability Partnership
  • Patent number: 5553224
    Abstract: A graphical input and display system for creating and manipulating an abstract graphical image by decomposing it into abstract elemental objects and organizing the elemental objects into a set of perceptually coherent composite objects. The system includes an input device for entering the graphical image, such as a mouse or digitizer and electronic stylus, a display, and a function selection system for manipulating the graphical image. The system decomposes the graphical image entered onto the display into abstract elemental objects each consisting of one or more consecutive "on" pixels within the image. The system organizes the elemental objects into composite objects, which are abstract groups of elemental objects, such that each elemental object belongs to one or more composite objects and each composite object contains one or more elemental objects. The elemental and composite objects are linked in a lattice data structure stored in system memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Saund, Thomas P. Moran, Craig D. Becker
  • Patent number: 5549230
    Abstract: Device for mounting a luggage carrier to the towing hook of a motor car, having a clamping piece mounted on the horizontal part of the towing hook. The clamping piece is provided with a coupling element which cooperate with a corresponding coupling element that is part of the luggage carrier, which can hold the vertical part of the towing hook, and can be clamped and locked on the ball of the towing hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Inventor: Isedore D. M. H. Palmen
  • Patent number: 5548110
    Abstract: Bar codes, comprised of black and white stripes, are shown to be a finite topic, and the optimum bar code methodology, binary coded binary, BCB, is disclosed. Binary digits are utilized to represent bar coded messages and each binary digit is immediately complemented, forming two independent but binarily complemented messages in one bar code symbol. BCB represents given information in less space than, e.g., Interleaved 2 of 5 and Code 39, while using the same x width (the width of a module), and BCB is far more versatile and is easier and less expensive to print and scan. BCB avoids misreads more reliably and achieves a dramatically higher first time read rate through use of applicants' error correcting bar codes. Methods of representing any size character set most efficiently in one number are disclosed as are continuous bar code forms. Optimum error detecting and correcting techniques for binary coding are also disclosed using applicants' sub-pile method of reverse engineering coding questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: CIAS, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Storch, Ernst van Haagen
  • Patent number: 5548705
    Abstract: A computer-controlled graphics display system using object-based representations of the displayed objects, and cooperating with a user-operated motion-sensitive input device. A powerful user interface technique called "wiping" is described. This allows selection by the user of target objects to be acted on by accessing an applicator and sweeping the applicator over the display. Selected objects are determined by selection criteria including spatial intersection of the applicator sweep stroke with the displayed object, and time of object creation. The effect on the selected objects is on the entire object and is determined by an operator associated by the user with the applicator, such as object grouping, deletion, coloring, uncoloring, thickening, or object size relocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas P. Moran, Elin R. Pedersen, Michael K. McCall, Frank G. Halasz
  • Patent number: 5544966
    Abstract: Printer with multifunctional paper handling capability having a lambda rear front structure section, a first (P1) paper path for paper front feeding by a first removable tractor set (21), a second paper path (P2) for cut sheet frontal feeding by driving rollers (22) and a third paper path (P3) for paper rear feeding by the first tractor set or a second tractor set (41), all the manual paper loading operations being performable from the printer front having a dihedral recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Vittorio Pagliaro, Paolo Urso, Lorenzo Caro
  • Patent number: 5542211
    Abstract: A revolving security door for the controlled passage of persons from a non-protected environment to a protected environment, for example a bank, which permits the normal transit of persons even in the event of the interception of an unwelcome person, including a cylindrical chamber formed inside a structure, a turnstile rotatable within the chamber in a predetermined sense of rotation and having sectors each for accommodating a person, an entry aperture and an exit aperture formed in the structure, a sensor associated with the structure for detecting an unwelcome person or object and for emitting an alarm signal, an emergency door associated with the exit aperture and activated to close by the said alarm signal, the said door comprising a first panel and a second panel which are held together and made to rotate in the opposite sense of rotation from that of the turnstile, after the door has been closed by the first panel and before the door is opened by the opening of both panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Tonali S.P.A.
    Inventor: Attilio Colombo
  • Patent number: 5543702
    Abstract: A battery charger and method are disclosed for charging alkaline, Ni-Cad and zinc-based batteries, particularly sizes N, AAA, AA, C and D. For batteries rated at about 1.25 volts to about 1.5 volts, the battery charger and method provide a constant charging current of between about 0.28 ma to about 1.5 ma per gram weight of the battery. A substantially constant current is supplied to the battery while a reference voltage greater than the battery voltage is provided. Thereafter, as the battery voltage increases, the reference voltage is incremented up to a predetermined maximum reference voltage. Charging is terminated when the reference voltage reaches the predetermined maximum, or when the battery voltage does not increase during charging to be greater than a first or a subsequent reference voltage during a predetermined charging time period. The controller may also cause the constant current to be increased by from about 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: JDP Innovations, Inc.
    Inventor: John D. Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 5500935
    Abstract: A system which allows a user to implement pop-up menus and gestural marks when the input location is restricted, such as in a corner region of a display, is disclosed. In such a situation, the system translates its position from one location where space is limited to another location where space is essentially unlimited. In such restricted locations, the system provides a indicator or guide to direct the user to make the required movement of the input device to the unrestricted location. Such a guide consists of a visible path on the display from the current restricted location to the new location. The path guides the user into making the appropriate adjustment after which the user can proceed to make the appropriate menu selection or gestural mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas P. Moran, Gordon P. Kurtenbach
  • Patent number: 5461738
    Abstract: A bed system with an excreting mechanism of the present invention includes a front base for receiving the upper half of a patient's body and having a first front portion capable of being tilted up or down, a rear base for receiving the lower half of the patient's body and having a second front portion capable of being tilted up or down, a pot seat for supporting the patient's buttocks, a chamber pot for receiving the patient's excretions, and a posture regulating mechanism for regulating the patient's posture. In tilting up of the second front portion of the rear base, the pot seat is positioned between the rear end of the front base and the front end of the rear base, and the chamber pot is positioned under the pot seat. The second portion of the rear base is tilted up or down around the rear edge of the second front portion as a supporting shaft and can be tilted up or down around the front edge of the second front portion as a supporting shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Kimura Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Kimura, Tomoe Kimura