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Frank Flider, Scottsdale, AZ US
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20110129428 | Safflower with Elevated Gamma-Linolenic Acid - The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preparing gamma-linoleic acid (GLA) in safflower plants, particularly from seeds of safflower. Nucleic acid sequences and constructs encoding one or more fatty acid desaturase sequences are used to generate transgenic safflower plants that contain and express one or more of these sequences and produce high levels of GLA in safflower seeds. Provided are transgenic safflower plants and seeds that produce high levels of GLA. Additionally provided are oils produced from seeds of this invention. The invention also relates to methods of treating a variety of diseases including nervous system disorders, inflammatory conditions, cancer and cardiovascular disorders using the oils of this invention. | 06-02-2011 |
Gennadiy Flider, San Francisco, CA US
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20120029845 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLUID MONITORING - According to some embodiments, an apparatus and method are provided for detecting the composition of a fluid. An alternating electromagnetic field may be applied to the fluid and distortions in the electromagnetic field are compared with predetermined, expected distortion “signatures” for particular components at particular concentrations. The presence and concentration of the components in the fluid may be detected by detecting these distortion signatures. | 02-02-2012 |
20120040166 | Composite Material, Method of Manufacturing and Device for Moldable Calibration - Composite materials and methods and systems for their manufacture are provided. According to one aspect, a composite material includes a collection of molded together multilayer capsules, each capsule originally formed of a core and shell. The shell, after a plastic deformation process, forms a pseudo-porous structure, with pores locations containing the capsule cores. The cores are made of a material, e.g., synthetic diamond, which is harder than the external shell, which can be formed of, e.g., a ductile metal such as copper. The composite material has high thermal and/or electrical conductivity and/or dissipation. | 02-16-2012 |
Mark Flider, Mountain View, CA US
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20110040804 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATION FRAMEWORK - A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memory from which the processor may fetch instructions according to a clock operating at a frequency, a display device, and one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to create a structured file for storing data related to the media presentation, access the data related to the media presentation from the presentation application, organize the data related to the media presentation according to an event, and export the organized data related to the media presentation to the structured file. These instructions may also be executed as steps of a method and may be fetched during the execution of one or more programs stored in a computer-readable storage medium. | 02-17-2011 |
20140304307 | Framework for Media Presentation Playback - A system for generating a structured file that includes all of the various media items need to play the corresponding media presentation is described. (Media items include, for example, images, movies, and audio files.) In one implementation, all of the various media items needed to support the presentation's playback may be collected, where after at least one of them is texturized. Texturing means converting a media item from a larger format to a smaller format. For example, a JPEG file (described in terms of scalable vector-based data) may be texturized to a PNG file (described in terms of pixel data). The items may then be organized in accordance with an event, and stored in a structured file. Once organized by event (e.g., presentation pause-points, frame transitions, effect transitions, input “click” and the like), the media items may be stored into the structured file, ready to playback the media presentation. | 10-09-2014 |
Mark Flider, Pittsburgh, PA US
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20090044123 | ACTION BUILDS AND SMART BUILDS FOR USE IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - A presentation application for animating objects placed on slides is provided. Using the presentation application, the user may add objects to slides of a presentation, and apply animations to the objects. The animations may include action builds (e.g., fundamental animations) and smart builds (e.g., complex combinations of action builds). The animations used in slides may be pre-processed, or may instead be rendered in real-time as the slides are being presented. The real-time rendering may be performed by graphics circuitry, such as the GPU of a video card. | 02-12-2009 |
Mark Flider, Cupertino, CA US
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20090044136 | BACKGROUND REMOVAL TOOL FOR A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - A presentation application for masking portions of an object, such as the background of an image, is provided. The presentation application may provide a background removal tool that allows a user to define an initial point in the background of the object. The presentation application may establish an initial background color based on the initial point, and may compute and automatically adjust a color tolerance of the background color based on the distance that a user-controlled cursor is from the initial point. Using a seed-fill algorithm, the presentation application can select a contiguous portion of the object for masking that includes the initial point and surrounding pixels that are within the background color tolerance. To smoothen the edges of the contiguous portion, the presentation application can convert the portion to a vector graphic before masking the object. | 02-12-2009 |
20140300630 | Background Removal Tool for a Presentation Application - A presentation application for masking portions of an object, such as the background of an image, is provided. The presentation application may provide a background removal tool that allows a user to define an initial point in the background of the object. The presentation application may establish an initial background color based on the initial point, and may compute and automatically adjust a color tolerance of the background color based on the distance that a user-controlled cursor is from the initial point. Using a seed-fill algorithm, the presentation application can select a contiguous portion of the object for masking that includes the initial point and surrounding pixels that are within the background color tolerance. To smoothen the edges of the contiguous portion, the presentation application can convert the portion to a vector graphic before making the object. | 10-09-2014 |
Mark J. Flider, Mountain View, CA US
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20150113368 | OBJECT MATCHING AND ANIMATION IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - Animation by creating intermediate objects for transitioning between two objects having a mappable function. In certain implementations a processor determines whether a first object in a first slide in the slide presentation differs from a matching second object in a second slide in the presentation in one or more properties that have one or more corresponding known mappable transition functions other than translation, rotation, or scaling transitions. Furthermore, the processor creates one or more intermediate objects that incrementally reflect changes from the first object to the second object based at least in part on the one or more mapped transition functions where the one or more intermediate objects are configured to smooth the transition from the first object to the second object. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113370 | OBJECT MATCHING IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - Object matching between slides of a presentation is disclosed. In certain implementations, different objects within separate slides are matched and can be separately and independently handled during slide transitions as compared to unmatched objects. In certain embodiments, this involves matching objects on both an outgoing and incoming slide and providing specific animation or handling for those matched objects. Further, different degrees or levels of object matches may be provided and this information may be leveraged in the slide transition process. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113371 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM MOTION BLUR - Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for enhancing presentation system animations by applying motion blur to animated objects within a presentation system. Clipping the blur effect to particular regions may increase efficiencies over calculations of motion blur across an entire screen. Further, in certain embodiments, the motion blur may be calculated and presented on a per-object basis. Accordingly, relational objects (e.g., objects seemingly inside other objects and/or overlapping or crossing objects) may each have their own blur effect without impacting the other objects' blur effects. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113372 | TEXT AND SHAPE MORPHING IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - Character morphing between slides of a presentation is disclosed. In certain implementations, Characters with varying styles within separate slides are matched and can be animated during slide transitions using distance field morphing. In certain embodiments, this involves matching characters on both an outgoing and incoming slide and providing a morphing process in order to smoothly transition from the outgoing slide to the incoming slide. Additionally, different techniques may be provided along with the distance field morph to further improve the slide transition process. | 04-23-2015 |