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Thomson Licensing S.a.

Paul Michael Pierce

Ronald L Lytel

Mark S Aubuchon

David Evan Schultz

Paul Steven Haney

An apparatus includes a manually operable air pump for providing a compressed flow of air to an air motor. An electrical generator is coupled to the air motor and is powered thereby. The generator in turn provides electrical power to a portable electrical device. In one embodiment, device is disposed in a shoe and the air pumping is manually provided by the user's walking or running. In another embodiment, the air pump comprises squeegy devices for each hand of a runner or walker.

Manually-powered apparatus for powering a portable electronic device

A hand-held TV/computer remote infrared control device has an elongated rectangular housing with a front longitudinal portion and a considerably shorter rear end portion which is downwardly and rearwardly inclined relative to the front portion and has a generally bulbous underside section which may be grasped from below by a control hand of a user, with the elongated front portion extending forwardly beyond the control hand. The device is stabilized against forward tipping in the user's hand by positioning somewhat more than half of the operating weight of the device in its rear end portion. Various control buttons are disposed on the top side of the front portion, and the downward tilt of the grasped rear end portion causes the front end portion to tip upwardly to make the control buttons easier to see by the user. A computer pointing structure, in the form of a track ball and two associated selection buttons, is disposed on the top side of the rear end portion, and an auxiliary computer selection button is disposed on the bottom side of the housing at the juncture of its front portion and rear end portion. The track ball and the two top side selection buttons are positioned to be used by the user's control hand thumb, and the auxiliary selection button is positioned to be used trigger-like by the control hand index finger.

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Paul Michael Pierce