| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 434130000 | GEOGRAPHY | 26 |
| 20100047747 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATCHING SOCKS - An apparatus for educating children includes a first symbol for application to a first article of clothing and a second symbol for application to a second article of clothing. The first article of clothing is worn by a user at a same time as the second article of clothing and the first article of clothing and the second article of clothing are both part of a clothing set. The second symbol is non-identical to the first symbol and the first symbol corresponds to and matches the second symbol based on a relationship of an educational topic. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20130071820 | GEOGRAPHICALLY DRIVEN EDUCATIONAL GAME - Aspects for teaching geographic-specific are disclosed, which include apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable storage media to facilitate such teaching. For instance, in an exemplary embodiment, a response to a geographic-specific task is solicited and evaluated. A set of reward units is then adjusted based on an accuracy of the response, and a virtual travel experience is facilitated according to the accuracy. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20140349258 | SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING TRAVEL EDUCATION - There is a system and method for promoting travel education including a toy having a particular geographic association represented visually on the toy. The toy includes a unique identifier observable on the toy and associated with the particular geographic association. The system includes a management module configured to interact with the toy and thereby promote travel education. The management module includes a user account management module associated with the unique identifier of the toy and configured to manage a user account associated therewith and to receive location information in regards to the toy. The management module includes a geographic rules module in communication with the user account management module and configured to store, provide and enforce a set of rules on the user account based on the particular geographic location of the toy associated with the user account. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140363795 | TRAVEL AND EDUCATION APPLICATION AND APPARATUS - The invention relates to a method and apparatus to provide information about a historical site, or other location of interest, through an interactive search/tour computer application particularly suited for site seeing experiences. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150017615 | AUDIO BASED LEARNING SYSTEM COMPRISING A PORTABLE TERMINAL CONNECTED TO AN AUDIO UNIT AND PLURALITY OF ZONES - An audio based learning system includes: at least one audio unit; and at least one portable terminal, wherein the at least one zone spans a bounded area around a geographical position and has an outside portion and an inside portion separated by a zone boundary area, the inside portion of the at least one zone having inside acoustic scene information; wherein the at least one audio unit is configured to be head worn and is configured to communicate with the at least one portable terminal, wherein the at least one audio unit is configured to output outside acoustic scene information about the at least one geographical position of at least one zone when the at least one audio unit is outside the at least one zone, and to output the inside acoustic scene information when the at least one audio unit is inside the at least one zone. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150017616 | EMPIRICAL EXPERT DETERMINATION AND QUESTION ROUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The system collects location tracking data about each user and analyzes the location tracking data to determine the level of expertise a user has for a specific venue/event or a specific geographic region at a particular scale on a map. The system receives questions about a specific venue/event or about a category of venue/event in a specific geographic region at a particular scale on a map and routes those questions in real time to one or more experts for the specific venue/event or the category of venue/event in the specific geographic region. The system receives a response to the question from at least one of the one or more experts and routes the response back to the requestor, also in real time. The system also efficiently represents the location of a plurality of venues/events and/or users within a specific geographic region on a displayed map at a plurality of scales. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150104760 | TOUCH SCREEN SCHOLASTIC TRAINING SYSTEM - An interactive scholastic teaching device may use first and second portions of a touchscreen for presenting problems and receiving answers to the problems from a user. The first portion of a touchscreen display is used for presenting one or more scholastic problems for a user during a problem session, and the second portion of the touchscreen display is used for recording one or more traces manually input by the user on the second portion of the touchscreen display during the problem session. A memory stores the one or more traces. The touchscreen display may also include a third portion having one or more touch buttons structured to accept input from the user during the problem session, which may also be stored in the memory, and associated with the stored traces. The traces may be stored in image form, moving image form, or in data that may be re-created to form a moving image. Methods of performing scholastic training on a touch screen device as well as a computer readable medium containing program instructions for causing a computing device to perform the methods of scholastic training are also set forth. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20180025661 | EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER PUZZLE | 01-25-2018 |
| 434131000 | Terrestrial globe or accessory therefor | 7 |
| 434135000 | Having plural planar or curved surfaces (e.g., flat or frustoconical surfaces, etc.) | 2 |
| 20090197223 | Map in azimuthal equidistant hemispheric projection with reduced distortion - According to one embodiment, world maps in the Azimuthal Equidistant (AE) Hemispheric projection are formed by depicting the main hemisphere of a globe in full and the opposing hemisphere in the form of two semi-hemispheres contiguous two spaced side portions of the main hemisphere. Any city (or location) of interest in the world can be highlighted as the center point of the main hemisphere. Each of these two semi-hemispheres is movable along the circumference of the main hemisphere so that a straight line can be drawn from the center point of the main hemisphere to any other point on the two semi-hemispheres via corresponding tangent points. This straight line is a part of a great circle and will show correct distance and direction from the center point to the other point. A transparent ruler, a set of gears, a compass rose and others may be attached to this map for quicker and easier acquisition of correct distance and direction. Differing from the regular AE projection, this AE Hemispheric projection has less distortion and more realistic shapes of the continents, even at remote areas, and also shows the antipodal point explicitly as a point. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20160253925 | Globe Structure And Fabrication System And Method | 09-01-2016 |
| 434136000 | Rotated by mechanical drive | 1 |
| 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 the angle of 66.5° with respect to the horizontal direction, with the standard map of the world displayed thereon; a revolution device installed within an upper and lower cover to rotate the revolution shaft; a rotation device installed within the revolution plate to rotate the rotation shaft; a celestial globe view horizon provided within the celestial globe to be the horizon of an observer; a zenith display part vertically provided in a center of the celestial globe view horizon to display the observer's position; and a manual operation knob installed at an end of the rotation shaft for a user to rotate the globe manually. An object of the present invention devised to solve the problem is to provide an automatic revolution apparatus of a globe and celestial globe which can present the earth position, seen from the sun and other stars, and can enhance students scientific thinking power to comprehend the revolution of the universe spatially and three-dimensionally. | 09-18-2008 |
| 434137000 | Collapsible or arranged for convenient assembly, disassembly, or storage | 1 |
| 434138000 | Inflatable | 1 |
| 20150079552 | World map for demonstrating properties of azimuthal equidistant hemispheric projection - A spherical body map having one hemisphere centered on any given point of the body and another hemisphere centered on its antipodal point is provided in the Azimuthal Equidistant Hemispheric projection. Both hemispheres are placed side by side so to show a great circle line passing through the center and antipodal points straight. This map can show correct directions and distances from the center point to any other points on the body with realistic and recognizable shapes, even for remote continents. It can also demonstrate three important properties of this projection: directions from points along a great circle to a center point do not show the exact opposite of directions from the center point to the points; distances between any two points, not only from the center point, along a great circle line are correct; and the map is convertible from flat to three-dimensional forms. | 03-19-2015 |
| 434145000 | With internal light | 1 |
| 20090155749 | Electronic globe and game system used therewith - A teaching device including a globe and a DVD player. A wireless connection is provided between the globe and the DVD player. Based upon an individual's choosing a location on the globe or based upon a video clip played on the monitor of the DVD, information relating to that particular spot on the globe would be displayed. | 06-18-2009 |
| 434146000 | With means to facilitate finding or reading indicia thereon | 1 |
| 20110159464 | SPHERICAL OBJECT PROVIDED WITH A MAP - A spherical object is disclosed provided with a map substantial covering its entire surface wherein the map represents only a portion of the Earth such as a town, city, district, county, state or country. A label is also disclosed provided comprising a series of biconvex shapes which collectively describe such a map. | 06-30-2011 |
| 434147000 | With map segment attachable thereto (e.g., continent, nation, etc.) | 1 |
| 20120264090 | Favored Position Globe - A favored position globe includes a stand assembly and a frame coupled thereto having an arcuate configuration. First and second axles are mounted along the frame that define an imaginary axis therebetween. A sphere is coupled to the axles so that the sphere is rotatable about the axis, the sphere defining a hollow interior area. A container is positioned in an interior area of the sphere. A processor and memory are positioned in the interior area. A motion sensor is in communication with the processor and positioned to detect rotation of the sphere. A speaker is in communication with the processor and configured to emit sound data stored in the memory. Programming causes the processor to actuate the speaker to emit sound data when the motion sensor detects the sphere is moving. The container defines a weight that causes the sphere to always rest in a predictable position. | 10-18-2012 |
| 434149000 | Means indicating time at different points on earth | 1 |
| 20110151415 | ELECTRONIC PRESENTATION OF WORLD TIME ZONES - An electronically generated simultaneous display of the local time within multiple time zones in the world is adjusted to accommodate local time arising from Daylight Saving Time. A preferred modified south polar projection of the Earth which schematically depicts the Northern Hemisphere is divided into geographical time zones. Each geographic time zone is associated with a time marker that points to an adjacent time scale. Either the geographical time zones or the time markers are adjusted in order to correctly display the ongoing time changes resulting from the continuous observation of Daylight Saving Time in time zones of the world. As further features, a user may adjust the display to present a hypothetical time and the corresponding times experienced in different time zones around the world. A user may have a specific time zone highlighted by invoking data, such as a city name, a telephone area code or an address book contact reference, which is associated with specific time zone. Conversely, highlighting a time zone may invoke a list of data associated with that time zone, e.g. city names, countries. | 06-23-2011 |
| 434150000 | Map or terrain model | 10 |
| 20100159424 | CEREAL BOX SLEEVE - An article including a series of different cereal box sleeves dimensioned to fit over a cereal box, each of the sleeves including content printed or otherwise formed thereon, wherein the content is a subject unrelated to cereal contained in the cereal box, wherein a common theme connects the content of the sleeves in the series of the sleeves. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100184008 | 3D EFFECT TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS AND METHOD OF MAKING SAID MAPS - A weatherproof topographical map having a 3D image effect printed on a weatherproof flexible fabric allowing the production of a map which is easy to use and store without the tendency to lose detail along fold lines. And a method of making a weatherproof topographical map having a 3D image effect particularly suitable for use by outdoor users having weatherproof/waterproof features as well as 3D rendering of elevations and easy to find and read information. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110306022 | Manufacturing of three-dimensional topographical scale models - The invention shows the method to create a high accuracy topographical scale model for the purpose of science by using multi layered/laminated materials. The invention is based on and involves the following steps: The geometry and the data of terrain are measured, collected, and recorded; The data is entered into a computer and design components are added, if needed; Based on these data a three-dimensional surface or solid is created; A block of multi-layered/laminated materials made of a combination of veneers, or machinable dividers/layers, laminated one on the top of another, is constructed. Based on the three-dimensional surface or solid, a program product for a C.N.C machine is generated; Based on the program product, the C.N.C. machine cuts/removes the excess material from the block of multi-layered materials. The three-dimensional surface, contour lines, elevations, outlines, and edges are then exposed automatically and are easy visually measurable. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20130065203 | MULTILAYER 3D FLOATING IMAGES IN A SINGLE SUBSTRATE - A multilayer sheeting with a 3D floating image. The sheeting includes a layer of microlenses and a multilayer material disposed adjacent the microlenses. The multilayer material includes multiple adjacent layers having X-Y planar positions and a Z-direction orthogonal to the X-Y planar positions. Individual images, which contrast with the material, are formed in the multilayer material and include connected elements at interfaces between the multiple layers and conjunction elements between connected elements. The connected elements are registered in the Z-direction at the X-Y planar positions in the interfaces between the layers. The individual images collectively form a composite 3D image that appears to the unaided eye to be three-dimensional and floating above or below the sheeting, or both. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130309638 | Home-school Geography Curriculum, Game, and Study Aid - A comprehensive geography curriculum, game, and study aid geared toward home-school environments. The invention includes (a) an oversized map surface playing area containing unlabeled, pictorial representations of geographical regions or geological features including, without limitation, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia-Oceania, Canada, Europe, North America, South America, the United States, and/or significant geological world features; (b) a plurality of labeled tokens which cross-reference with aforementioned regions or features represented on the map surface playing area; (b) a plurality of question and answer cards pertaining to historical data and current events of aforementioned regions or features represented on the map surface playing area; and (c) a booklet containing advanced information pertaining to regions or features represented on the map surface playing area. The method of play is designed as a multi-level, multi-sensory process which enhances retention and engages students in active learning through an entertaining medium. It also fosters self-study and instructor independence. | 11-21-2013 |
| 434151000 | With model or sample of natural or man-made item associated therewith | 4 |
| 20090104588 | Topographic Map that Can be Visually Perceived in a Three-Dimensional Manner - The invention relates to topographic maps which can be visually perceived in a three-dimensional manner and in which a pre-definable part of a territory is printed on a planar rear face of a lenticular foil in the form of strip images or a carrier that has been printed in this manner is adhesively bonded to or placed directly on the planar rear face of a lenticular foil. In order to increase the information content of such topographic maps, regions comprising thematic data which can be visually perceived in a two-dimensional form from pre-definable angles of observation are printed underneath cylindrical lenses of the lenticular foil in addition to strip images | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090136906 | Backlit map with interchangeable pictures - This invention is directed toward a map overlaying a lighted display box. The map has a plurality of magnified eye holes though which a person can view lighted, magnified pictures or photographs. The map can be easily opened such that the pictures can be interchanged, such that a user may begin with a map containing generic, stock photos of various national parks, surf spots, or baseball stadiums, then, over time, as the user physically visits these locations he/she can replace the stock photos with personalized photos. The color of light can be changed as well once a location is visited, to give the user a sense of visual association and accomplishment. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20120308967 | Method for Displaying Wildfires and History - A method and system for displaying predicted wildfire movements and wildfire history including getting fire history data, analyzing the fire history data to find significant wildfire parameters, determining wildfire modeling parameters, modeling the wildfire behavior to create a plurality of preconfigured models, processing geographical data for each of the preconfigured models, overlaying the geographic data onto the map data for each of the preconfigured models and selectively displaying the overlaid geographic data onto the map data and/or history data via a display. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20160012754 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAP DISPLAY DEVICE | 01-14-2016 |
| 434152000 | Relief | 1 |
| 20160133163 | Generating a Three-Dimensional Representation of a Topography - A three-dimensional topography representation generating hardware device includes a plurality of movable pins. A converting logic converts a topographic map of a region of a physical topography into a set of commands to individually control each of the plurality of movable pins, wherein each of the plurality of movable pins is selectively movable to create a three-dimensional representation of the region of the physical topography based on the topographic map. | 05-12-2016 |
