Abstract: On-demand watermarking of digital content, particularly in the context of retail transactions, is described. Rather than replicating the digital content in bulk or mass at once, the digital content is replicated on-demand, at the time that a customer orders or otherwise transacts for the content. After the order is placed, the digital content is watermarked. The watermark can be defined based on personal information related to the customer, thereby personalizing or customizing the watermark and the digital content.

Abstract: A fountain for liquid chocolate, comprising: a heated bowl, at least two parallel adjacent open cylinders extending normally of the bowl from a fluid intake position near the bottom of the bowl to a fluid outlet position remote from the bowl, each cylinder containing a coextensive auger whose spiral flight has a rim engaging an inner cylindrical surface of the cylinder and the auger being mounted for rotation about the axis of the cylinder, means for rotating the augers to cause fluid entering the cylinders from the bowl to be conveyed axially to the fluid outlets, and a partition extending across the bowl to prevent mixture of fluid in different portions of the bowl, the arrangement being such that, when the fountain is orientated in use with the cylinders vertical, fluid falling from the top of each cylinder reaches only the respective portion of the bowl from which it was taken.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing an inverse telecine process is provided. For the method of the present invention, a computer system reads a series of frames in an input video sequence. The pixels in each frame are analyzed to determine if the frame is a composite frame produced by a prior telecine process. Frames that are determined to be composite frames are reconstructed, when practical, using their immediately preceding frames. Composite frames that cannot be reconstructed are transformed into interpolated frames. The computer system adds the reconstructed frames, along with the frames that did not need to be reconstructed, to an output video sequence.