Education and demonstration inventions 06/07

20070148624 - Kinesthetic training system with composite feedback: An apparatus for training a subject to perform a specified physical activity is based on the presence of two or more kinesthetic body sensors, whether mounted on the body or separately from the body, that deliver signals to a processing system that, in turn, delivers a single output signal. This... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070148625 - Disease treatment simulation: There are provided a method, system and medium having instructions embedded to determine an attribute of a simulated patient's state resulting from a patient-physician encounter. The method includes receiving a current treatment move and an initial value of the attribute; calculating a maximal expected incremental effect value of the current... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070148626 - Three-dimensional model: A three-dimensional model capable of replicating dynamic characteristics of a body cavity portion such as a blood vessel is proposed. A membranous model having a cavity replicating a body cavity such as a blood vessel, which is formed based on tomogram data of a subject, therein is embedded in a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070148627 - Merchandising method and system: Activity themes may be selected, each activity theme corresponding to an activity performed by a child during a day. An activity theme area may be established, including a display area and a learning station in close proximity to the display area. Goods relating to the activity theme may be displayed... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070141538 - Simulator utilizing a high resolution visual display: A simulator comprising a projection surface, a line-of-sight detection apparatus for detecting the orientation of a trainee's head, a projection system for projecting a high-resolution image and a low resolution image on to the projection surface, and at least one mask for merging the high-resolution image and the low-resolution image... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070141539 - Educational method for improving dietary habits: The invention provides an educational method for increasing a subject's skill in human nutrition science from a first low skill level to a second high skill level. The method comprises enrolling the subject in one education pathway with one or more skill levels therein. Each skill level has one or... Agent: Philip Swain Phd

20070141540 - Recipe generating methods and systems: The methods and systems for generating recipes are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a method for generating a recipe that includes receiving a request for a recipe recommendation, collecting customer information, and providing a recipe based on the customer information, a defined promotional strategy, or relationship... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/cargill, Inc.

20070141541 - Assessment in cognitive training exercises: A method on a computing device is provided for assessing a stimulus threshold of an older adult by requiring the adult to differentiate between rapidly presented stimuli. The method trains the time order judgment of the adult by presenting upward and downward frequency sweeps, in random order, separated by an... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070141542 - Device for teaching a proper elbow position: A device for teaching a proper elbow position is disclosed. The device comprises a lever and a base member connected by a spring loaded hinge. The lever is attached to an elbow of a student and the base member abuts against a rib cage of the student. Also provided is... Agent: Vladimir Khiterer Khiterer Law Office

20070141543 - Interventional simulator system: The present invention relates to an interventional procedure simulation system, comprising a control unit and an interface unit, said control unit communication with said interface unit to simulate handling of at least one instrument interfaced by said interface unit. The instrument is a self expanding tool inserted inside a simulated... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070141544 - Apparatus for grading and evaluating compositional essays: There is provided a device capable of evaluating a composition by a computer in the Internet. First, a task of a composition corresponding to the grade level of a learner and evaluation tasks are presented on the Internet. A compositional essay created by the learner according to the presented tasks... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070141545 - Content-based indexing and retrieval methods for surround video synthesis: Systems and methods for synthesizing a surround visual field of image related to an input image are described. In one embodiment, the surround visual field is displayed in an area partially surrounding or surrounding an input image being displayed. In an embodiment, this surround visual field may comprise a plurality... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070141546 - Display board assembly: The present invention provides a display board assembly including a display board having a dry-erase surface, a recess in the dry-erase surface of the display board, and a support member removably received at least partially within the recess and defining at least one receptacle configured to receive at least one... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070141547 - Method of promoting group learning: Promoting of group learning by three students by physically attaching with a cover their desks so that by forced observation and interaction their learning is enhanced.... Agent: Myron Amer, P.C.

20070134626 - Book and method for enhancing collective group reading activity: A customizable book system enhances the collective reading activity of a classroom group. The book system comprises a book assembly, a lesson-specific storyline; and certain name-installing software. The book assembly comprises an outer cover and a plurality of pages. The cover provides a title-receiving medium and certain photograph-displaying structure for... Agent: Meroni + Meroni

20070134627 - Water blocking cable tape and methods for making the same: The invention provides a water blocking tape for use in a variety of cable designs, such as power cable, data communications cable and telecommunications cable. A water blocking tape according to the invention includes layers of lightweight nonwoven fabric with one or more swellable water blocking compounds, such as water... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070134628 - Bilingual safety manual: A bilingual handbook having illustrated embodiment of a message to be conveyed with a supporting description in one language on one side of a page and the same illustration and description in a second language appearing on a side of an adjacent page for use in teaching certain principles to... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070134629 - General-purpose language-learning system: A general-purpose language-learning system includes at least one word carrier and an audio device. The word carrier includes at least one picture or at least one word corresponding to a primary meaning and a code number of Arabian figures corresponding to a secondary meaning that is substantially the same as... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070134630 - Method and system for teaching vocabulary: A method using a spatial-temporal software game for both teaching math concepts to a child and for scoring the child's proficiency in these math concepts. These scores are compared with the child's performance on a language-based test of the math concepts. If the child's score on the language-based test is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070134632 - assessment in cognitive training exercises: A computer-implemented method is described for assessing an aging adult's ability to integrate visual-spatial and auditory memory by requiring the adult to spatially match pairs of graphically presented response buttons that are associated with aurally presented stimuli which is processed by a computing device. The adult is presented with a... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070134633 - Assessment in cognitive training exercises: A method on a computing device for determining a psychophysical threshold regarding an aging adult's ability to temporarily store and retrieve an order of the syllables by requiring the adult to listen to two or more aurally processed syllables, presented serially, view the syllables graphically, and designate the order in... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070134634 - Assessment in cognitive training exercises: Computer-implemented method for determining a threshold regarding an aging adult's ability to remember and perform sequences of auditory instructions. A stage specifies a set of stimulus attributes. First and second tracks are respectively initialized to stage values below and above an initial anticipated threshold specifying an initial estimate of stimulus... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070134635 - Cognitive training using formant frequency sweeps: A method on a computing device for enhancing the memory and cognitive ability of a participant by requiring the participant to differentiate between rapidly presented aural stimuli. The method trains the time order judgment of the participant by iteratively presenting sequences of upward and downward formant frequency sweeps, in random... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070134631 - Progressions in hifi assessments: Computer-implemented method for assessing an aging adult's ability to classify formant transition and segment duration information in making phonetic categorizations. A representative subset of multiple confusable pairs of phonemes is selected. A representative subset of multiple stimulus levels for the phonemes is selected for use with the phoneme subset. For... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070134636 - Cognitive training using a maximum likelihood assessment procedure: Computer-implemented method for improving cognition and memory in an aging adult, utilizing a computing device to present stimuli to the adult, and to record responses from the adult. A psychophysical threshold for an aging adult with respect to stimuli in a cognitive development exercise is determined using a maximum likelihood... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070134637 - Medical simulation device with motion detector: A computerized system for performing a simulated medical procedure, comprises: (a) a physically simulated interventional instrument that looks and feels like an endoscope, for providing user input to a computer simulated medical angioplasty procedure; (b) a motion detector circuit to provide navigation signals representative of the movement of the physically... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070134638 - Talking book: The present invention provides systems and methods of creating talking books that employ photo-electronics for autonomous page recognition. More particularly, this invention relates to systems and methods for employing one or more light sensing components, such as photoresistors, phototransistors, and photodiodes, on the pages of a book in order to... Agent: Jeffrey D. Mullen

20070134640 - Interactive language learning advertisement: An embodiment is a method and system for providing foreign language lessons at no cost to consumers online in exchange for the consumers' feedback on the products or services embedded in the language lessons. The language lessons may use television advertisements as course material, serving both educational and promotional purposes.... Agent: Manabu Masaoka

20070134639 - Simulation process with user-defined factors for interactive user training: A process for modeling and graphically simulating a real environment in order to train a user to obtain a desired performance. This process enables the user to input model parameters from real events to simulate the real event, to interact with the system, and to track the results. The process... Agent: Etherton Law Group, LLC

20070134641 - Personalized content delivery: A method and apparatus for use in conjunction with a “push” approach to multimedia content delivery is disclosed. Content that is received by the client is stored in memory. Items of content that are of interest to the user are “preserved” in memory by the user. Feedback relating, among other... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070134642 - System for instruction and learning: A system for controlling communications between instructors and students relating to specific coursework. Instructors create courses and profiles relating to courses. The profile includes information regarding the course and the communication requirements. When a course is accepted by a student, the system controls the communications between instructor and student in... Agent: Law Office Of Brett N. Dorny

20070134643 - Answer totalizer/anayzer: An answer totaling and analyzing apparatus according to the present invention possesses an auxiliary light-projecting and receiving unit relaying a light-emitting and reception between a center unit and answer units, in addition to the center unit and the answer units exchanging signals by optical pulses. The center unit assigns answer... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070134644 - 3d learning environment: The present invention provides a learning environment that presents information in an organized fashion with defined objectives using an extension of current 3D online technology. By combining 3D virtual space technology with additional asynchronous and synchronous communications features, a content rich learning environment can be created that allows students more... Agent: Law Office Of Steven B. Leavitt, L.L.P.

20070134645 - Multi-layered displays providing different focal lengths with optically shiftable viewing formats and terminals incorporating the same: Wireless terminals with layered displays that provide different focal lengths and allow a user to view data presented on different layered displays by optically shifting his/her focus.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070128582 - Method, apparatus, and system for private lunar exploration: A method of registering for private space travel to the moon, comprises providing a first spacecraft adapted to carry at least one private individual, receiving payment from the private individual for registration for a flight on the first spacecraft, providing launching of the first spacecraft from the earth carrying the... Agent: Venable LLP

20070128583 - Electronic circuit, method of driving the same, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: At a writing time, a first transistor 412 is turned on so that a data signal Xj is supplied to one end of a capacitor 420. At this time, since a second transistor 414 is turned off, driving current does not flow to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC