COMPANIES - APPLE (partial list)

Patent Number    Patent Title
6,404,892 Reduced complexity audio mixing apparatus
6,369,902 Method and system for achieving enhanced glyphs
6,366,884 Method for improved duration modeling of phonemes
6,359,617 Blending arbitrary overlaying images into panoramas
6,345,128 Generation of tone reproduction curves using psychophysical data
6,297,830 Apparatus and method for storing a movie within a movie
6,288,730 Method and apparatus for generating texture
6,285,378 Method for span and subspan sorting rendering system
6,285,344 Automatic adjustment of color balance and other display parameters in digital displays
6,275,606 Method for color matching between digital display devices
6,243,071 Tool set for navigating through an electronic book
6,239,795 Pattern and color abstraction in a graphical user interface
6,229,917 Digital image coding system having self-adjusting selection criteria for selecting a transform function
6,222,549 Methods and apparatuses for transmitting data representing multiple views of an object
6,188,995 Method and apparatus for enforcing software licenses
6,141,121 Method and apparatus for color halftoning
6,115,724 Method for displaying a double-sided graphic image
6,072,902 Method for color matching between digital display devices
6,064,960 Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes
6,005,566 Aspect and style elements of an improved
6,002,399 Apparatus and method for creating diagrams
5,995,110 Method for placing texture on three-dimensional objects
5,986,667 Mechanism for rendering scenes using an object drawing subsystem
5,963,206 Pattern and color abstraction in a graphical user interface
5,963,201 Color processing system
5,960,108 Creating an image-based virtual reality environment using a fisheye lens
5,930,755 Using a recorded sound sample as a voice source in a speech synthesizer
5,930,387 Method and apparatus for encoding color image data using dynamic color matching
5,929,861 Walk-through rendering system
5,929,853 Simulating display of on-screen objects in three dimensions
5,926,189 Method for typographic glyph construction including a glyph server
5,909,291 Color matching apparatus and method
5,909,223 Text face scaler
5,903,275 Subjectively pleasing color gamut mapping in a color computer graphics system
5,884,261 Method and apparatus for tone-sensitive acoustic modeling
5,881,210 Color printing system and method with reduced bleed
5,878,396 Method and apparatus for synthetic speech in facial animation
5,872,895 Method for object based color matching when printing a color document
5,860,064 Method and apparatus for automatic generation of vocal emotion in a synthetic text-to-speech system
5,835,098 Method and system for managing color profiles in a document for making the document portable to other systems
5,832,434 Automatic assignment of duration values for synthetic speech
5,805,733 Method for detecting scenes and summarizing video sequences
5,802,516 Method of controlling an electronic book for a computer system
5,784,557 Method and apparatus for transforming an arbitrary topology collection of nodes into an acyclic directed graph
5,777,757 Method and system for halftoning
5,771,041 System for producing directional sound in computer based virtual environment
5,761,347 Method and system for halftoning by tiling subsets of a threshold array over portions of an image
5,757,383 Method for highlighting typography along a geometric path
5,754,309 Tone correction for multi-level halftoned images
5,754,186 Method and apparatus for blending images
5,751,281 Apparatus and method for storing a movie within a movie
5,739,820 Method for specular reflection shading of computer graphic images
5,717,827 Text-to-speech system using vector quantization based speech encoding/decoding
5,704,007 Using multiple voice sources in a speech synthesizer
5,680,526 Method and system for selectively rendering image data in a bi-level or multi-level format
5,678,013 Multi-type subroutines for graphical rewrite rules
5,642,466 Intonation adjustment in text-to-speech systems
5,596,352 Printing apparatus and method for printing color boundary regions having reduced color bleed
5,557,712 Color map tables smoothing in a color computer graphics system avoiding objectionable color shifts
5,555,102 System and method for generating images with improved visual quality using local correlation, ordered dither
5,506,609 Minimizing color bleed while maximizing throughput for color printing
5,493,636 System and method for shading graphic images using an accessibility factor to simulate tarnish accumulation for realistic rendering
5,386,493 Apparatus and method for playing back audio at faster or slower rates without pitch distortion
5,317,647 Constrained attribute grammars for syntactic pattern recognition
D457,890 User interface for computer display
D456,023 Display
D454,874 Display
D454,574 User interface for computer display
D453,937 User interface for computer display
D453,166 User interface for a computer display
D453,082 Table
D447,471 Speaker
D445,427 Menu design for a computer display screen
D443,597 Composite desktop for a computer display screen
D443,279 Window for a computer display screen
D442,606 Window for a computer display screen
D442,187 Window for a computer display screen
D442,185 Composite desktop on a computer display screen
D434,763 Visual display monitor
D433,392 Window for a computer display screen
D432,544 Composite desktop for a computer display screen
D431,038 Window for a computer display screen
D427,980 Scroll bar design for a window for a computer
D427,608 Composite desktop on a computer display screen
D427,607 Composite desktop on a computer display screen
D427,576 Menu design for a computer display screen
D427,575 Modal window for a computer display screen
D426,525 Window for a computer display screen
D426,209 Window for a computer display screen
D425,040 Modal window for a computer display screen
D424,543 Scroll bar design for a window for a computer
D424,542 Composite desktop for a computer display screen
D424,040 Window for a computer display screen
D424,039 Window for a computer display screen
D424,038 Composite desktop for a computer display screen
D424,037 Window for a computer display screen
D423,486 Window for a computer display screen
D423,485 Computer display screen with a computer
D423,483 Modal window for a computer display screen
D422,982 Scroll bar design for a window for a computer display screen
D422,580 Window for a computer display screen
D421,974 Window for a computer display screen
D420,341 Window for a computer display screen
D419,981 Menu design for a computer display screen
D419,542 Utility window for a computer display screen
D418,825 Window for a computer display screen
D418,122 Modal window for a computer display screen
D416,549 Computer display
D416,241 Computer display screen with scroll bars
D414,758 Set of windows for a computer display screen
D413,588 Menu design for a computer display screen
D404,385 Composite desktop for a computer display screen
D402,284 Set of windows for a computer display screen
D392,963 Scroll bars on a computer display screen
D392,258 Icon for a display screen
D387,341 Icon for a display screen
D386,516 Icon for a display screen
D386,487 Icon for a display screen
D386,485 Icon for a display screen
D386,476 Icon for a display screen
D385,870 Icon for display screen
D385,869 Icon for a display screen
D385,309 Computer game player accessory housing
D384,112 Computer game player controller
D382,866 Icon for a display screen
D382,553 Icon for a display screen