Education and demonstration inventions 09/08

20080233543 - Video capture, recording and scoring in firearms and surveillance: A video camera and recording device integrated with a real or toy weapon to provide video recording of the assault and aiming process of the weapon holder in operational training, actual combat, hunting, sports and gaming scenarios. A video camera is boresighted with the weapon, and a video memory stores... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080233544 - Collapsible flight training hood: A flight training hood that can be collapsed for compact storage. A spring member can quickly restore the flight training hood to its pre-collapsed position ready for use.... Agent: Dwc Law Firm, P.s.

20080233545 - System and method for simultaneously advertising consumer products and services and educating students: A system and method for simultaneously advertising and educating students which uses a corporate sponsor of consumer products or service which pays for a modular hands-on real-life simulation of an occasion for encountering the products or service and provides ability to learn and to permit revenue sharing via an internet... Agent: Simmons Perrine PLC

20080233546 - Visual scene displays, uses thereof, and corresponding apparatuses: A method and a device are provided. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving an indication of selection of a key from a keyboard, including at least one of a polysemous symbol and a compilation symbol; and displaying a scene related to the selected at least one of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080233547 - Reading motivational system: A method of promoting literacy through encouraging reading includes the step of providing a medium capable of storing and displaying information. Information relating to an individual is entered onto the medium, with at least a portion of the information being related to current reading materials of the individual. The medium... Agent: Mckenna Mcgovern Burkhart

20080233548 - Method of and light system for dance instruction: A method of using lights and a light system for teaching dance, particularly to students with hearing impairments. The method or dance instruction includes a light bar having a plurality of first lights and second lights. The first and second lights are visually distinguishable. The first lights are turned on... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080233549 - Body anatomie visual aid garments: One embodiment of the apparatus includes clothing depicting a selected body anatomy so that when the clothing is associated with the body to be massaged the clothing presents the location of the body system of interest. Such clothing preferably forms a visual aid that is associated with a body to... Agent: Simmons Patents

20080233550 - Method and apparatus for technology-enhanced science education: The interactive science learning method consists of a sequence of hands-on experiments with matching computer simulations that connect a student's prior experience to core science concepts, and the apparatus implements the learning method. A tutorial is employed to evoke a student's prior experience, and equates that experience with a hands-on... Agent: Ira S. Dorman

20080233551 - Wireless learning system: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a wireless learning system that includes a master control unit and a plurality of trigger units. Each trigger unit is able to wirelessly communicate with the master control unit and the other trigger units. Each trigger unit further includes at least one trigger... Agent: Patrick R. Scanlon Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP

20080227059 - Educational aid for vocabulary and recognition of form spatial structure and word enigma straws: Disclosed are educational straws having an end portion of a defined shape and the name of said shape displayed on the exterior body of the straw thereby instilling a cognitive recognition of a sequence of letters associated with the shape which will enhance vocabulary, spelling and object spatial recognition for... Agent: Jong Hak Choi

20080227060 - Driving mechanism using shape memory alloys and devices equipped with the same: A driving mechanism using shape memory alloys comprises a first and a second shape memory alloys coils (1, 2), a pin-like drive member (3) connected to each of the shape memory alloys coils (1, 2) extending in the axis direction, a substrate (4) having a wiring pattern (11) and a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080227061 - Automatic revolution apparatus of a globe and lelestial globe: An automatic revolution apparatus is disclosed. An automatic revolution apparatus comprises a celestial globe of trans-=parent material fixedly installed on an upper surface of a revolution plate rotated by a revolution shaft; a globe of transparent material provided within the celestial globe and rotated by a rotation shaft installed at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080227062 - Phonetic teaching/correcting device for learning mandarin: A phonetic teaching/correcting device for learning Mandarin includes a book having a plurality of pages. At least one page includes a Chinese character. Also provided on the same page is at least one phonetic symbol component that constitutes a phonetic symbol combination representing pronunciation of the Chinese character. Also provided... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080227063 - Career selection and psychological profiling: A method, software, database and system for determining optimal career choices, psychological profiles (i.e., mental health profiles) and genetic based predispositions of an individual are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is compared against a database containing combinations of genetic and non-genetic... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080227065 - Behavioral modification system and method: An apparatus and method are provided, for enabling communication between an administrator and a student regarding behavior activities of the student. The apparatus comprises (a) a transmitter configured to be carried by an administrator, and (b) a receiver configured to be carried by a student. The transmitter and receiver are... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20080227064 - System for evaluating information competency and method thereof: An information competency evaluation system and a method thereof are disclosed. The system selects an evaluation group containing an evaluation target from evaluation groups classified by business departments and business position. The system provides evaluation problems of evaluation domains to an evaluation target based on a selected evaluation group, estimates... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227066 - Method and apparatus for authoring and optimizing flowcharts: A method and system for generating problem resolution flowcharts, whereby users do not author flowcharts directly but instead author a dependency matrix of questions and answers related by state or underlying problem cause. After creation of a matrix of questions and answers, a corresponding flowchart is then calculated based on... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080227067 - Method and apparatus to encourage development of long term recollections of given episodes: These teachings are applicable for use with an individual who faces problems with respect to forming new long term memories. Generally speaking, pursuant to these various embodiments, one automatically captures (101) a record of experiential content to which the individual is exposed during a given episode and then automatically associates... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080227068 - Horse simulator: The present invention relates to a simulator for simulating the movement of a horse comprising: a base; a body portion for receipt of a rider and having a longitudinal axis corresponding to the simulated forward and backward movement of a horse; a first linkage extending between said body portion and... Agent: Michael A. Makuch Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP

20080227069 - Swimming pool device: A swimming pool device includes a top platform and a framework extending downwardly therefrom. The framework includes a lower end for resting on a swimming pool floor and is telescopic to selectively raise and lower the top platform relative to the framework lower end. A step is coupled to the... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080227070 - Method for educating a caregiver about baby care and development: A method of educating a caregiver about baby care and development, wherein said method comprises the steps of preparing a self-contained baby care kit comprising a storage case, said case being suited for an initial use of storing at least one baby care product and a subsequent use of storing... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080227071 - Method and device to encourage children to brush their teeth: A doll or other object used to remind and encourage children to brush their teeth. This could include adjustable time setting to operate at certain times of the day, physical movement of a brush over the doll's teeth, vocal reminders and encouragement to brush the teeth or movement sensor. Operation... Agent: Uzi Ezra Havosha & Partners

20080227072 - Practice model: A practice model for holding training teeth on which dentistry work can be performed includes a shell into which training teeth are insertable, and a carrier plate disposed in the shell and adapted to support the training teeth.... Agent: Pandiscio & Pandiscio

20080227073 - Methods and apparatus for autonomous casualty simulation: Method and apparatus to provide simulation of a human casualty. In one embodiment an autonomous casualty simulator includes a processing module having a scenario progression controller and a physiological modeling system to receive sensor input and to control effectors. The autonomous casualty simulator can be contained in a nominal human... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080227074 - Correlated electronic notebook and method of doing the same: An electronic notebook, method, and computer program product for providing an electronic book accessible by a user using a computing device, and providing an electronic notebook for storing at least one user generated entry. The at least one user generated entry is correlated with at least a portion of the... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080227075 - Method and system for redundant data capture from scanned documents: Embodiments of the invention may be used to capture student markings on assessment documents. Embodiments of the invention may be used for selected response questions or constructed response questions. Embodiments of the invention may be particularly suited to process exceptional marks.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080227076 - Progress monitor and method of doing the same: A method, computer program product, and device for monitoring student progress may include providing a lesson selection menu for a user to select a lesson and providing a quantity selection menu for the user to select a quantity of lesson material to be rendered. The selected quantity of the selected... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080227077 - Geographic information system providing academic performance indicators and related methods: A geographic information system providing academic performance indicators may include a geographic information processing method including the steps of providing past academic performance data for at least one student residing in at least one geographic location having a lifestyle segmentation profile (LSP) associated therewith, and generating an academic performance indicator... Agent: Stephen H. Luther Allen, Dyer, Doppeit, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080227079 - Method, apparatus and computer program code for automation of assessment using rubrics: A method and apparatus is provided for facilitating the assessment of entities including persons, standards, and/or environments. Contextual information, such as that representing the assessment by a teacher for a student, can be captured by a portable ingestion device and recorded onto media for processing and mapping into rubrics. Assessments... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080227078 - Weighted rating process for rating a changing, subjective category: An invention used to solve the problem in rating a changing, subjective category, like a person's subjective evaluation of their experiences dating someone, tempered by the changing state of their emotions as they deal with the breakup.... Agent: Cristian Miller

20080227080 - Student assessment system: Input and storage devices, student assessment systems, and methods of administering an examination are disclosed herein. An input and storage device according to one embodiment includes at least one processor, provisions for inputting answer data to the processor, and computer memory coupled to the processor. Recorded within the computer memory... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080220397 - Method of firearms and/or use of force training, target, and training simulator: A three-dimensional imaging technique is used to create the illusion of depth in an image or in a video in order to present a more realistic training experience for a person undergoing firearms and/or use of force training. The three-dimensional image can be used in a target, a shoot house,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080220398 - Anticipaintings: The present invention generally relates to a kit and a method for capturing life prints. More particularly, the present invention uses a painted body part to create a body print, whereby at least one shape is positioned around at least one contour of the body print to create a recognizable... Agent: Vonbriesen & Roper, S.c.

20080220399 - Cognitive educational tool for effectuating learning: The following concept is to be utilized in the acquisition of information by combining various learning styles. Key areas addressed are the increment of student participation, increased levels of student honesty, and higher rates of student responsivity. The tool encourages the development of student-teacher rapport levels and thus promotes the... Agent: Christopher Giwa

20080220400 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for stochastic psycho-physiological assessment of attentional impairments: A method, apparatus, and computer program product that provides, among other things, a procedure for the enhanced assessment of attention-related impairments of individuals. Further, the method, apparatus, and computer program product enhances existing assessment instruments by providing a way to reduce diagnostic error through the combining of the results of... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080220401 - Therapeutic tool and method for use thereof: A therapeutic tool for use with a patient in psychotherapy is provided, the tool includes a central gyroscopic element, a plurality of concentric rings extending around the central gyroscopic element, and a plurality of outer elements removably disposed on the rings and configured to be movable around the rings, wherein... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080220402 - Method for creating a faith based legacy memorial: The present invention is directed toward a method for capturing an individual's autobiographical life story in light of its spiritual significance to the individual prior to their demise. The method comprises capturing in a digital format the steps of having the individual, while alive, introduce themselves, explain the purpose of... Agent: John K. Mccormick

20080220403 - System and method for managing diabetes: A system and method are provided for automatically analyzing data for a patient with type 1 diabetes on insulin pump therapy and recommending appropriate therapeutic adjustments to the patient. In the system and the method, case-based reasoning is used as a primary reasoning modality in determining the therapeutic adjustments.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080220404 - Articulator: In an articulator (1) by means of which demonstration movements of a lower jaw model (8) can be undertaken and comprising a two-piece carrier frame (2) with an upper jaw model (7) attached to its locationally fixed top part (3) and the lower jaw model (8) attached to its bottom... Agent: Pandiscio & Pandiscio

20080220405 - Magnetic display for use by coaches and trainers of various sports: A display device or diagramming a play includes a housing. A recess of the housing receives a display panel filled with a layer of magnetic particles and on which an outline of a field of play, or a portion thereof, is drawn. A stylus has a tip end which, when... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080213732 - System and method for calculating a projectile impact coordinates: A training system and method to calculate actual coordinates of a projectile impact at one or more screens has been disclosed. A projectile is launched at a screen. One or more targets are projected onto the screen. A calibrated sensor is directed at the screen surface. The sensor continually captures... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080213733 - Dieter's reality check garbage can: The dieter's reality check garbage can is made of plastic and is a miniature replica of a galvanized residential trash can. The contents inlude artifical foods made of plastic or rubber (pizza, donuts, soda, french fries, cake, candy bars). A tote bag made of canvas.... Agent: Kay C George

20080213734 - Method for decoding pictographic signs present on ancient artifacts: The invention is a method for transcribing and decoding/reading pictographic characters found on ancient artifacts, dated either prior, during or after the time of the beginnings of Dynastic Ancient Egypt (circa 3100 BC), in such a way, so that they may be presented in schematic drawings (sets of pictographic signs)... Agent: Todor Yotov

20080213735 - Manipulative object with adhesive backing: An educational device having a two-dimensional setting having a smooth surface and at least one three-dimensional manipulative figure and/or object comprising a front side that is 3-dimensional in shape, a backside that is releasably adhereable to said setting. The manipulative can be posable into a desired configuration and can include... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080213736 - Method and apparatus for emotional profiling: A method for emotional profiling comprises: obtaining, from plural respondents, non-verbal emotional response data, along with verbal responses; grouping the verbal responses according to the non-verbal emotional response data; and reporting the verbal and/or text-based responses by group. An apparatus for emotional profiling comprises: means for obtaining quantitative and/or qualitative... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080213737 - Enclosed vapor pressure oscillation device: A mechanical toy having two enclosed chambers, one positioned above the other, connected by a tube; a vaporizing medium contained within the enclosed chambers and tube; means for rotationally supporting the tube and chambers; means for exciting the vaporizing medium within the lower chamber to create an increase in vapor... Agent: Edward Doran

20080213738 - Electronic circuit experiment board: The present invention is an electronic circuit experiment board, which is composed of an insulated base plate, copper binding posts and a bracket and so on. The base plate is divided into an upper plate and a lower plate, which have binding post inserting holes and circlips. The binding posts... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20080213739 - School-level outcome standard setting method: A standard setting method for schools including establishing a student level standard, generating a school-level standard based on a percentage of students that meet the student-level standard for performance criteria, and generating a report.... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080213740 - System and method for creating, executing and searching through a form of active web-based content: Xml pages are obtained from knowledge bases that contain step by step instructions. The xml pages are presented as “active content,” by which we mean a series of prompted questions and answers. A user's interactions with the active content is recorded so that the results may be copied to the... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080213741 - Distributed learning platform system: A system for distributing educational information includes compiling educational information from educational sources. The user connects to a management system through a network connection. A user account may be authenticated with a user identification. The management system then transmits a plurality of educational material that may be used and operated... Agent: Workman Nydegger