Abstract: Aspects relate to computer implemented methods, systems, and processes to automatically enable audio-based display indicia during playback of a media content including receiving, by a processor, one or more user preference audio profiles, the user preference audio profiles defining at least one audio characteristic and an associated criteria, playing the media content having audio-based display indicia, monitoring, with one or more detectors, the at least one audio characteristic defined in the user preference audio profiles, and when the at least one audio characteristic meets the associated criteria, enabling the audio-based display indicia in the media content.

Abstract: Aspects relate to computer implemented methods, systems, and processes to automatically enable audio-based display indicia during playback of a media content including receiving, by a processor, one or more user preference audio profiles, the user preference audio profiles defining at least one audio characteristic and an associated criteria, playing the media content having audio-based display indicia, monitoring, with one or more detectors, the at least one audio characteristic defined in the user preference audio profiles, and when the at least one audio characteristic meets the associated criteria, enabling the audio-based display indicia in the media content.

Abstract: A preferred storage container includes a base that defines an interior, and a lid that defines a reservoir. The lid is configured to engage the base so that food products placed within the interior may be retained therein. An absorbent material is arranged within the reservoir of the lid and is retained therein by a cover formed of liquid permeable material. The cover permits liquid exuded from the food products to enter the reservoir so that the absorbent material may absorb the liquid, such as when the storage container is inverted. Methods also are provided.

Abstract: A storage container (12) includes, in some embodiments, a tray insert (10) having a base (14) and side walls (16) which define a reservoir (18) for retaining fluids exuded from stored food. The base (14) of the tray insert (10) substantially conforms to the bottom of the storage container (12) into which the tray insert (10) is placed and the upper edge (28) of the side walls (16) substantially conforms to the interior side wall of the storage container (12). A series of ribs (20) and optional rib segments (25) extend upwardly from the base (14) of the tray insert (10), with the ribs (20 and 25) and the upper edge (28) of the side walls (16) supporting a cover (26) formed of liquid permeable sheet material so that the cover (26) supports food which has been placed into the storage container (12).

Abstract: A retention device or clip for retaining a handgun trigger guard in a holster has a first end wall for securing against a rear end wall of the holster, a pair of flexible side walls projecting forwardly from the first end wall and a flexible third wall projecting forwardly from the first end wall at a location spaced below the side walls and extending at right angles to the side walls. Each side wall has a free end or ear biased inwardly towards the ear of the other side wall for extending into the trigger guard of a gun seated in the holster. The third wall acts as a rest for a lower edge portion of the trigger guard after it is pushed below the side walls, and also biases the trigger guard upwardly into engagement with the side walls for added security.

Abstract: A holster for a handgun includes a pouch for releasably receiving the handgun and an outer panel secured to the pouch with an attachment device for attaching the pouch to a user, such as a belt, waistband, ankle or shoulder harness. The pouch has two side walls secured together at a central wall portion. Rear edge portions of the side walls are secured together by at least one faster which also secures the panel to the pouch. The panel is adapted to pass around the pouch and is also secured to the central wall portion by a second fastener. A strip secured to the central wall portion on the inside of the pouch has a portion covering the inner end of the second fastener.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for mounting a push/pull handle on a latch mechanism is disclosed. Recently, it has become desirable for large medical service facilities, such as hospitals, to change their door latch mechanisms from rotatable lever handles to push/pull handles. The apparatus comprises a pair of mating adapter plates mountable on either side of a door outwardly adjacent a mortise lock presently mounted in the door. The adapter plates include a plurality of pairs of aligned apertures, each of the several pairs of which are adapted to align with a pair of apertures which differing lock manufacturers position in differing radial and arcuate positions with respect to a mortise operating key. The adapter plates fasten through the mortise to the respective door sides and allow push/pull type handle assemblies to be mounted on the adapter plates so as to be operatively connected through the mortise operating key.

Abstract: A holster has an elongate spine of rigid material with elongate grooves running along opposite sides of the spine, and a holster body with opposite side walls for forming a handgun receiving cavity. The rear edges of the side walls are each located in a respective one of the grooves in the spine so that the spine forms the rear end wall of the handgun receiving cavity. The holster body is secured to the spine via releasable or permanent fasteners.

Abstract: A hanger device for suspending a holster from a wearer's waistband, belt, shoulder harness or the like has a first end part adapted to engage a wearer's waistband, belt or a shoulder harness encircling the wearer's shoulders, and a second end part spaced from the first part for engaging at least one end wall of the holster. A releasable or permanent fastener device secures the second end part to the holster end wall. A substantially rigid connecting member extends between the first and second end parts of the securing device.

Abstract: An interactive keyboard and display apparatus is used to enter ideographic characters in a computer or other utilisation device. The characters are defined by manually selecting displayed symbols such as phonemes, strokes, radicals and inflective tones represented in displayed key cells which are arranged in a matrix for rapid selection. Simultaneous multiple key cell selection is possible for accelerated character entry. The keyboard and display are integrated in a format suitable for replacing conventional keyboards. To avoid spurious entries, a pre-determined amount of pressure must be applied to the display panel when entering a symbol or character.

Abstract: A handgun holster has a handgun receiving cavity in which a moveable trigger guard gripping device is mounted. The gripping device has at least one projection for extending into the trigger guard of a handgun, and is moveable with the gun between a first position in which the projection is rigidly held in the trigger guard and a second position in which the projection is only loosely biassed into the trigger guard so that it can be released by simply pulling the handgun away from the gripping device. The holster has a separate or integral pocket with a rigid locking surface which holds the projection in the trigger guard when the gripping device is in its first position, so that the gripping device must be moved to its second position before the gun can be released.

Abstract: A swimming pool producing surrounding visual effects utilizes large picture generating surfaces adjacent to water-containing surfaces for displaying large images emulative of remote swimming environments. The pool has controllable water currents for in-place swimming or diving in one or more directions. These controlled water currents and the large images are coordinated by a computer for producing a virtual underwater environment in which picture scenes evolve and water-currents flow as a function of swimmer activity. A large apparent swimming area can therefore be produced. For added realism, the pool may include sound-generating devices and parametric weather machines to accurately emulate natural environments and also produce spectacular special effects for the swimming or diving subject and for possible observers thereof.

Abstract: A mounting device for suspending a holster or other article carrier from a wearer's waistband or belt is a U-shaped paddle member in one version for hooking over a wearer's waistband, and a plate with slots for receiving a belt in another version. Both the plate and one leg of the paddle member are provided with a pivot opening for receiving a first, pivotal fastener for pivotally connecting the devices to a holster, and a pair of arcuate slots positioned symmetrically one on each side of the pivot opening for receiving a pair of releasable fasteners for securing the holster in a selected angular position. The other leg of the paddle member is of arrowhead-like shape with its free end slightly pointed for easy insertion into the waistband, and a pair of inwardly directed barbs for fitting under the waistband to resist inadvertent pulling up and dislodging of the member. The plate can be rotated 180 degrees when the releasable fasteners are removed between a high ride and a low ride position.

Abstract: An elastic pickup saddle for the bridge of a stringed musical instrument uses the anti-nodal area of a flexible elastic member therein to support an elastic vibratable string. The elastic member may be a beam, a span, a plate, a diaphragm, or a composite structure acting mechanically in a similar manner. The loaded anti-nodal area of the elastic member flexes between at least two nodal points of support. The elastic member is pre-stressed and deformed by a relatively static string pressure proportional to the string's tension. When string and/or body vibrations modulate this relatively static pressure, the pre-stressed elastic member interacts mechanically with the string, thus disturbing those vibrations. A piezoelectric strain sensor monitors the flexions of the elastic member and produces an enriched tone signal in response to the disturbed string and/or body vibrations. The flexible member is supported by a massive element typically including the bridge and a portion of the instrument body.

Abstract: A pickup responsive in all planes of vibration of a vibrating element of a musical instrument uses two transducers, each maximally responsive in a different plane of vibration. The transducer signals are dephased with respect to each other in order to reduce and possibly eliminate the additive and substractive tendencies of the common portion of the signals when they are combined to produce the pickup signal. The signals may be dephased using a phase shifting network or device, or by using different types of transducers (i.e.: position-sensing for the first transducer and velocity-sensing for the second transducer) which produce signals which are already dephased and thus only require to be combined in order to produce the claimed response.

Abstract: A handgun holster has a front fold to which a strip of material having a central channel and side flanges is secured along the center line of the channel with the channel facing inwardly to receive and protect a handgun sight when a handgun is inserted into, or removed from, the holster. The strip is otherwise unsecured to the holster and can conform to any holster inside radius.

Abstract: A holster of soft material has a retention device for applying pressure to a handgun in the holster to resist inadvertent removal of the handgun. An elongate band or strip of resilient material is formed into a loop around the outside of the holster by folding the band about a central region extending over a fold in the holster and securing opposite ends of the band together through the holster to urge the opposite side portions of the band towards one another. The opposite side portions of the band compress corresponding underlying wall portions of the holster against a handgun in the holster pocket, providing a controlled resistance to draw which is preferably adjustable and also resisting inadvertent removal or slipping of the handgun out of the pocket.

Abstract: A locking mechanism to be applied to an inactive door of a set of active and inactive double doors coordinated so that the inactive door closes first relative to a frame followed by the closing of the active door. Adjustable drive means is employed capable of either lengthwise contraction upon the application of a force between first and second separated locations on the adjustable drive means exceeding a threshold value, or linear movement without substantial contraction upon the application of a force less than the threshold value. A door-lock actuating element is coupled to the adjustable drive means at the first location. A door-locking element is coupled to the adjustable drive means at the second location. The adjustable drive means, the door-lock actuating element, and the door-locking element are supported at an upper or lower corner of the inactive door.

Abstract: A noise-cancelling pickup for a stringed instrument uses two transducers to monitor different forces exerted by a vibratable string under tension. The first transducer is responsive to the music vibrations of the vibrating portion of the string but it is also responsive to variations of the string tension which are not related to the music vibrations of the string. The second transducer is mainly subjected to the variations of the string tension which are not related to the desirable music vibrations. The signals from the transducers are combined in and out-of-phase manner to produce a joint signal in which the spurious components corresponding to the variations of the string tension are significantly attenuated and possibly eliminated.

Abstract: A pickup for a string under tension of a musical instrument having an improved planar response uses a pair of mechanically independent pressure transducers preferably adjacent to one another which provide independent support to transversely adjacent points of the string. The independent transducers allow the string to roll slightly on one transducer when applying pressure to the other as a result of the string vibration, thus increasing the sensitivity of the pickup in planes near the plane of minimum sensitivity. The transducers may rest on a common massive element which is resiliently coupled to the bridge of the instrument. The transducers preferably have rounded string-contacting surfaces in order to reduce the magnitude of the shear forces exerted on the pickup when the string tension is varied.