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Philips Electronics North America Corporation

Jancy Engineering Company

Charles Morris

Chee Chen Tong

Mark Keith Reha

Kenneth S Reneris

Liang Jeff Chen

Tanvi Surti

Vikram Reddy Dendi

Derek Martin Liddell

Cheng-Yi Yen

Robert E Strange

Michael Z Stephens

Oren Freiberg

Gregory T Lydon

Yongik Chung

Chris Wendt

Dieter Rindle

Eka Tjung

Amin Lakhani

Yun Xu

Ricardo Meza

Techniques are described for improving language translation of content (e.g., web content) on computing devices (e.g., mobile computing devices). For example, automatic translation can be performed when entering reading view in association with displayed web content by determining that the displayed web content is not in a language that is understood by the user (e.g., as indicated by language settings). As another example, language-related meta-data can be passed between applications and used in language detection of content, such as web content.

Mobile language translation of web content

A system running on a mobile device such as a smartphone is configured to expose a user interface (UI) to enable a user to specify web pages that can be pinned to a start screen of the device. Once pinned, the user may launch a web page by voice command from any location on the UI or from within any experience that is currently being supported on the device. Thus, the user can be on a call with a friend talking about a new video game and then use a voice command to launch a web browser application on the mobile device that navigates to a pinned web page having information about the game's release date. Web pages can be readily pinned and unpinned from the start screen through the UI. When a web page is unpinned from the start screen, the system disables voice web navigation for it.

Client-side personal voice web navigation

A web browser has a user interface that includes a content rendering area within the web browser user interface and a control layout area adjacent the content rendering area. The control layout area includes a user-selectable icon that is always available to the user in the control layout area and which is user-configurable. For example, the user-configurable icon may be configured with one of two pre-defined functions. In one illustrative implementation the two pre-defined functions may be a tabs function and a favorites function.

Web browser having user-configurable address bar button

A method and apparatus for checking/updating existing software on a user's computer utilizes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI enables the user, without knowing what software exists on the computer, to download a text file from a remote server and check whether the software on the remote server is contained on the user's computer. The user can also download and automatically install a new or updated program via the GUI.

Software update manager

A software architecture for a personal computer enables control of an attached television set as a graphic output device, where the software architecture includes a dynamically linked library storing executable library routines that can be called by a computer system routine across an application programming interface, and a hardware extraction layer having hardware-specific routines that are called by a selected library routine to perform a specific hardware operation. The hardware-specific routines control operation of a graphics core configured to control the television set, for example by detecting whether the television set is attached to thecomputer system. Additional operations supported by the dynamically linked library include automatically adjusting the size and resolution of Windows (or portions thereof) output to the television set.

Apparatus and method for automatically detecting and configuring a television display for a personal computer

An arbor for a rotary cutting tool which includes an elongated cylindrical shank that has an axial bore formed therethrough. The upper end of the shank is adapted to be attached to the drive spindle of an electric motor. The arbor shaft is slidably mounted in a carrier sleeve which is rotatable with the arbor shank which is retained against axial movement by a mounting means. An annular cutter is attached to the lower end of the arbor shank and a pilot ejector member is slidably mounted therein. The pilot ejector member is retained in the normal at rest position by a spring which has its upper end mounted in a bore in a piston that is attached to the carrier sleeve. The lower end of the spring engages a plunger member which maintains the pilot ejector member in its initial and other operative positions.

Arbor for rotary cutting tool

Magnetic drill stand

A grindstone type of cylinder ridge remover to be used in conjunction with an electric drill for removing the ridge on the cylinder walls of piston type engines. The plate body of the cylinder ridge grinder rests on the top of the cylinder wall and is rotated by hand around the top of the cylinder wall, while an electric drill turns a grindstone by way of a shaft compatable to the chuck of the electric drill thus grinding away the ridge very effectively and very easily. The distance between the bottom of the body plate edge and the bottom of the grindstone, the depth into the cylinder which is to be ground, is regulated very exactly by an outside threaded sleeve bearing in complete control of the grindstone shaft being screwed up and down inside a threaded hub fixed to the body plate. The grinding depth position is locked by a thumb screw thru the hub side wall and against the outside of the sleeve bearing. Any normal size cylinder can be ridge ground without any complicated adjustments, very accurately since the stone cuts very gradually, and with little effort; a new, practical, the economical way of removing cylinder ridges.

Cylinder ridge grinder

A pole type pruner with an enclosed blade type construction whereby the blade is supported from the sides thru the whole cutting cycle so a thinner blade can be used for easier cutting and less distortion to the wood and bark. This distortion is further reduced by a more choke type, more confining type cutting method, and because regardless of tree limb direction or position the cutting angle of the blade can be directed nearly perpendicular to the limb due to the use of a pole section angle changing box. A pruning saw, one end pivoted to the end of the cutter blade handle, sheathed when desired, being used as part of the cutter blade pull system makes the saw always conveniently available to be pivoted to proper angle of saw direction and clamped to the cutter blade in this position for saw pruning and yet eliminates an awkward outward projection when it's not used for saw pruning. The twist type of blade return coil spring used also reduces any awkward projection. A steel cable removably hooked to the other end of the pruning saw and confined always in near proximity alignment to the pole sections and pulled by the inherent leverage of a windlass as part of and attached to a bottom pole section creates a power and ease of blade pull and cutting really beneficial to tree pruning.

Morris pole type pruner

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Charles Morris