From: Brad Dolan 
Subject: subliminals 2 (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 21:09:08 -0500 (EST)


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Subject: PATNEWS:  Patents using subliminal techniques

!19951010  Patents using subliminal techniques

    Someone complained that my news item earlier yesterday about Time
Warner's subliminal software had nothing to do with patents.
Something in his message (which while reading I started clucking like
a chicken) prompted me to make a list of some of the patents that use
subliminal techniques.

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US PAT NO:     5,430,493
TITLE:         Manufacturers or users on-screen graphic display upon
               power-off of a television receiver
ASSIGNEE:      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Kyungki, Republic of
               Korea

ABSTRACT:
A message displaying method upon power-off of a television is adapted
to delay power-off execution for a few seconds while performing an
OSD, in which the OSD message is stored in a microprocessor under the
control of a designated program of the microprocessor so that a
company can transmit advertising messages to the viewer whenever the
users power off their televisions.

[Great, televisions that harass us with extra advertising.]



US PAT NO:     5,409,445 & 5,306,228
TITLE:         Brain wave synchronizer

ABSTRACT:
A device for inducing the brain waves of a user to assume a
predetermined frequency comprising a playback device, stereo
earphones, and at least one light mounted on glasses in front of each
eye of the user. Three separate control signals are pre-recorded
superimposed onto a single control track. This composite signal is
read by the playback device and is decomposed into the separate
control signals by filters in a decoder/controller. One control signal
drives a first LED and another drives a second LED. The number of
sinusoids within the first and second control signal determine the
light intensity. The third control signal is passed alternately to two
speakers, with the switching between the speakers being controlledby
the state of the first and second control signal. Conventional
earphones and a conventional tape player may be used. The invention
may be used to selectively activate the pins of a parallel port on a
personal computer, to which are connected the LEDs. Also, the
invention may include a mercury tilt switch mounted to the spectacles
worn by the user to determine if he is dozing off and transitioning
into the Theta brain wave state. The spectacles have optional peep
holes in the lenses.



US PAT NO:     5,388,994
TITLE:         Visual stimulation devices

ABSTRACT:
The disclosure relates to devices for inducing self hypnosis, as well
as for teaching emotionally disturbed children. It utilizes momentary
serial reflections of a user from a mirror with interspersed exposure
to opaque colored areas, or combination of words, pictures, letters,
numbers, etc. The repetity of exposure is variable under control of
the user, and above certain cyclic rates, the impression upon the user
is totally subliminal, and at the slowest speeds, completely hypnotic.



US PAT NO:     5,304,112
TITLE:         Stress reduction system and method
ASSIGNEE:      Theresia A. Mrklas, North Olmsted, OH

ABSTRACT:
An integrated stress reduction system detects the stress level of a
subject and displays a light pattern reflecting the relationship
between the subject's stress level and a target level. At the same
time, the system provides relaxing visual, sound, tactile,
environmental, and other effects to aid the subject in reducing his or
her stress level to the target level. In one preferred embodiment, the
intensity, type, and duration of the relaxing effects are controlled
by a computer program in response to the measured stress level. The
light pattern stress level display uses a laser which is deflected on
one axis by a measured stress level signal and on a second axis
perpendicular to the first by a target signal representing the target
stress level. The pattern produced is more complex when the two
signals do not coincide, and becmes a less complex geometric figure as
the subject's stress level approaches the target.



US PAT NO:     5,283,734
TITLE:         System and method of communication with authenticated
               wagering participation

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for wagering and for evaluating responses to
broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an
instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently
with the television program, or time-multiplexed with a television. At
each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members
of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a situation
presented in the television program by entering a response on a
keyboard. The system includes, at each remote receiving station, a
memory responsive to the instructional signal for storing acceptable
responses, a comparison circuit for comparing responses entered at the
keyboard with those stored in the memory, circuitry for scoring
responses in accordance with commands from the instructional signal,
and a recording device for providing a permanent record of the
audience score at the remote station. For playing a lottery, numbers
are entered at the remote stations and are stored at a central
facility for verification upon presentation of lottery tickets. The
tickets having both a played number(s) and a winning number(s) are
printed at the remote stations. The program may be presented live
conducted by a host at a central station, or by a prerecorded message
accessible by telephone from a remote station with regulation from a
central station.



US PAT NO:     5,270,800
TITLE:          Subliminal message generator

ABSTRACT:
A combined subliminal and supraliminal message generator for use with
a television receiver permits complete control of subliminal messages
and their manner of presentation. A video synchronization detector
enables a video display generator to generate a video message signal
corresponding to a received alphanumeric text message in synchronism
with a receivedtelevision signal. A video mixer selects either the
received video signal or the video message signal for output. The
messages produced by the video message generator are user selectable
via a keyboard input. A message memory stores a plurality of
alphanumeric text messages specified by user commands for use as
subliminal messages. This message memory preferably includes a read
only memory storing predetermined sets of alphanumeric text messages
directed to differing topics. The sets of predetermined alphanumeric
text messages preferably include several positive affirmations
directed to the left brain and an equal number of positive
affirmations directed to the right brain that are alternately
presented subliminally. The left brain messages are presented in a
linear text mode, while the right brain messages are presented in a
three dimensional perspective mode. The user can control the length
and spacing of the subliminal presentations to accommodate differing
conscious thresholds. Alternative embodiments include a combined cable
television converter and subliminal message generator, a combine
television receiver and subliminal message generator and a computer
capable of presenting subliminal messages.



US PAT NO:     5,245,666
TITLE:         Personal subliminal messaging system

ABSTRACT:
A personal subliminal messaging system includes a wide range linear
subliminal modulator (43), a digital audio recording or play device
(46), a microphone (51) to pick up the sound at the ear, and an
earpiece (50) to deliver the subliminal message. The sound level at
the user's ear is detected and measured. After risetime and decay
conditioning of the varying dc control signal, the wide range linear
modulator (43) uses this signal to control the level of the message to
the earpiece (50). The user adjusts the system for a liminal of a
subliminal level. The psychoacoustic phenomena of Post Masking is used
to increase the integrity of the message in subliminal messaging
systems.



US PAT NO:     5,227,874
TITLE:         Mehod for measuring the effectiveness of stimuli on
               decisions of shoppers

ABSTRACT:
Methods for the evaluation of stimuli such as broadcast commercials
intended to promote purchases by shoppers are disclosed. The methods
quantify the effectiveness of controlled variables of stimuli and of
inducements associated therewith. The immediate impact and degree of
erosion of the impact of stimuli on families and on individual
household members are measured. Inducements can take the form of
printouts, such as monetary coupons, dispensed in homes of broadcast
audience members who have responded to a task. The system and method
for evaluating responses to broadcast or telephone programs, such as
television programs, includes an instructional signal, such as a
signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the
television program, or time-multiplexed therewith. At each of a
plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of an
audience has the opportunity to respond to a situation presented in
the program by entering a response or a selection on a keyboard. The
system includes at each remote receiving station a memory responsive
to the instructional signal for storing acceptable responses, and a
comparison circuit for comparing responses entered at the keyboard
with those stored in the memory. Also provided is electronic circuitry
for scoring the responses in accordance with commands from the
instructional signal, and a recording device for providing a permanent
record. A prize-winning respondent can select a product from a listing
and apply the value of a prize to the purchase price of the selected
product.



US PAT NO:     5,221,962
TITLE:         Subliminal device having manual adjustment of
               perception level of subliminal messages
ASSIGNEE:      Popeil Industries, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for presenting subliminal visual and/or audio
messages which allows user verification of message content and
presence, as well as proper djustment of message obviousness while
accounting for ambient conditions and user sensitivities is disclosed.
This method and apparatus also presents synchronized reinforced
sensory input of subliminal messages. This is performed by
simultaneously overlaying images received from a VCR over a plurality
of television signals. This apparatus directs overlay images over RF
television signals having both audio and video components.

[Great - subliminal stuff from the infomercial people]




US PAT NO:     5,215,468
TITLE:         Method and apparatus for introducing subliminal changes
               to audio stimuli

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for introducing gradual changes to an audio
signal so that the changes are subliminal. The changes can involve
tempo and volume, for example, and can take the form of a gentle
gradient having ever increasing/decreasing ramp-like changes over a
sufficient duration, or a more complex program involving several
gentle gradients. In the preferred embodiment, an enhanced audio play-
back device such as a portable audio cassette recorder can be
programmed to subliminally alter the characteristics of a standard
pre-recorded tape containing music, for example. As a motivational
tool during walking, jogging or other repetitive exercise, the tempo
is gradually increased over a period of time to encourage a
corresponding gradual (and subliminal) increase in physical exertion
by a user whose rate of movement is proportional to the tempo of the
music. The tempo can be either manually changed in conjunction with a
subliminal program, or by itself in an override mode, or by itself in
a version of the present-inventive audio play-back device which allows
only manual tempo alternation. In an alternate embodiment, a special
pre-recorded tape contains subliminal changes in tempo, for example,
for play-back on a standard audio cassette recorder (which operates at
one speed, only) to cause the same effect as the preferred embodiment.



US PAT NO:     5,194,008
TITLE:          Subliminal image modulation projection and detection
                system and method
ASSIGNEE:      Spartanics, Ltd., Rolling Meadows, IL

ABSTRACT:
Weapon training simulation system including a computer operated video
display scene whereon is projected a plurality of visual targets. The
computer controls the display scene and the targets, whether
stationary or moving, and processes data of a point of aim sensor
apparatus associated with a weapon operated by a trainee. The sensor
apparatus is sensitive to non-visible or subliminal modulated areas
having a controlled contras of brightness between the target scene and
the targets. The sensor apparatus locates a specific subliminal
modulated area and the computer determines the location of a target
image on the display scene with respect to the sensor apparatus.



US PAT NO:     5,170,381
TITLE:         Method for mixing audio subliminal recordings

ABSTRACT:
Audio subliminal recordings are made in which in addition to using a
primary carrier, such as music, two audio channels are used to deliver
subliminal messages to the brain. On one channel, accessing the left
brain hemisphere, the message delivered is meaningfully spoken,
forward-masked, permissive affirmations delivered in a round-robin
manner by a male voice, a female voice and a child's voice. On the
other channel, accessing the right brain, directive messages, in the
same voices, are recorded in backward-masked (or meta-contrast). The
three voices are recording in round-robin fashion with full echo
reverberation. The audio tracks are mixed using a special processor
which converts sound frequencies to electrical impulses and tracks the
subliminal message to synchronize the subliminal message in stereo
with the primary carrier. The processor maintains constant gain
differential between the primary carrier and the subliminal verbiage
and, with the subliminal verbiage being recorded with round-robin,
full echo reverberation, ensures that none of a message is lost. The
primary carrier should be continuous music without breaks or great
differences in movements.



US PAT NO:     5,159,703
TITLE:         Silent subliminal presentation system

ABSTRACT:
A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very
low or very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic
frequency spectrum, are amplitude or frequency modulated with the
desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for
inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers,
earphones or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be
transmitted drectly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and
stored on mechanical, magnetic or optical media for delayed or
repeated transmission to the listener.



US PAT NO:     5,135,468
TITLE:         Method and apparatus of varying the brain state of a
               person by means of an audio signal

ABSTRACT:
A method of varying the brain state of a person includes the steps of
supplying the first audio signal to one ear of the person, supplying a
second audio signal to the other ear of the person, and substantially
continuously varying the frequency of at least one of the first and
second audio signals to vary the brain state of the person.



US PAT NO:     5,134,484
TITLE:         Superimposing method and apparatus useful for
               subliminal messages
ASSIGNEE:      MindsEye Educational Systems, Inc., Strafford, PA

ABSTRACT:
Data to be displayed is combined with a composite video signal. The
data is stored in a memory in digital form. Each byte of the data is
read out in sequential fashion to determine: the recurrence display
rate of the data according to the frame sync pulses of the video
signal; the location of the data within the video image according to
the line sync pulses of the video signal; and the location of the data
display within the video image according to the position information.
Synchronization of the data with the video image is derived from the
sync pulses of the composite video signal. A similar technique is
employed to combine sound data with an audio signal. Data to be
displayed may be presented as a subliminal message or may persist for
a given time interval. The data may be derived from a variety of
sources including a prerecorded or live video signal. The message may
be a reminder message displayed upon a television screen to remind the
viewer of an appointment. The data may be stored in a variety of
different memory devices capable of high speed data retrieval. The
data may be generated locally on-line or off-line and transferred to
memory which stores the dat necessary to create the message.



US PAT NO:     5,128,765
TITLE:         System for implementing the synchronized
               superimposition of subliminal signals
ASSIGNEE:      Visual Subliminal Technologies, Inc., New York, NY

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and system for the controlled delivery of a subliminal
video and/or audio message on to a source signal from a video tape
player or similar. The source signal is divided into audio and video
portions. A video processor reads sychronization information from the
source signal. A controller transmits a stored subliminal image at
designated times to a mixer amplifier fully synchronized with the
source signal. Concurrently, an audio subliminal message is applied to
the source audio at a volume level regulated at some fraction to the
source audio. The combined signals are transmitted to a monitor for
undistracted viewing.



US PAT NO:     5,057,915
TITLE:         System and method for attracting shoppers to sales
               outlets

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs,
such as televison programs, includes an instructional signal modulated
onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, or
time-multiplexed with a television. At each of a plurality of remote
receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the
opportunity to respond to a situation presented in the television
program by entering a response on a keyboard. The system includes, at
each remote receiving station, a memory responsive to the
instructional signal for storing acceptable responses, and a
comparison circuit for comparing responses entered at the keyboard
with those stored in the memory. Also provided is electronic circuitry
for scoring the responses in accordance with commands from the
instructional signal, and a recording device for providing a permanent
record of the audience score at each of the remote receiving stations.
Scoring is performed at differing levels of difficulty, set by a host
or by a contestant, withcredit being given also for the length of time
required for response. The mode of response includes the use of a key
word or phrase. Alternatively, the program may be presented by a
prerecorded message accessible by telephone from a remote station with
regulation from a central station. A prize-winning respondent can
select a product from a listing and apply the value of a prize to the
purchase price of the selected product.



US PAT NO:     5,027,208
TITLE:         Therapeutic subliminal imaging system
ASSIGNEE:      Sub-Tv Limited Partnership, Newton Junction, NH

ABSTRACT:
A therapeutic subliminal imaging system wherein a selected subliminal
message is synchronized with and added to an existing video signal
containing a supraliminal message. A television receiver or video
recorder can be used to provide the supraliminal message and a video
processing circuit varies the intensity of that perceptible message to
incorporate one or more subliminal images.



US PAT NO:     5,017,143
TITLE:         Method and apparatus for producing subliminal images
ASSIGNEE:      Popeil Industries, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus to produce more effective visual subliminal
communications. Graphic and/or text images, presented for durations of
less than a video frame, at organized rhythmic intervals, the rhythmic
intervals intended to affect user receptivity, moods or behavior.
Subliminal graphic images having translucent visual values locally
dependent on background values in order to maintain desired levels of
visual contrast.



US PAT NO:     4,909,501
TITLE:         Anamorphic amusement device

ABSTRACT:
An anamorphic amusement device suitable for distribution and use as
disposable service in fast food establishments and as disposable party
goods for private comsumption. The device consists of a frustoconical
reflective element having means for securing the same about the
frustoconical surface of a drinking cup, and a planar placemat having
a distorted image printed on an upper surface. he placemat includes a
printed index area for locating the cup so as to enable viewing the
image in corrected form on the reflective element.



US PAT NO:     4,807,031
TITLE:         Interactive video method and apparatus
ASSIGNEE:      Interactive Systems, Incorporated, Beaverton, OR

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for in-band, video broadcasting of commands to
interactive devices are described. Control data are encoded by
subliminally modulating, prior to the remote, composite video
broadcast of video program material, a selected sequence of video
image fields. The resulting modulated video fields within the viewing
area of a television, each having alternately, proportionately raised
and lowered luminance horizontal scan lines, are monitored by a light
sensitive device positioned adjacent the user's television screen. A
semirigid, twisted pair cable connects the device to nearby
receiver/transmitter electronics that discriminate the binary data
from the program material and amplitude modulate a high frequency
infrared (IR) carrier with the data. Interactive devices, e.g.
educational aids or action toys, within range of the wireless IR
transmission detect energy in this frequency range, decode the
commands embedded in the control data, and selectively execute
predetermined actions in response to the data-encoded broadcast. In a
proposed modification, low radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic
radiation emanating from the television's raster scan electronics is
coupled by a conventional RF antenna to the receiver electronics,
which identically discriminate the binary data, from the program
material, for transmission to the interactive devices.



US PAT NO:     4,777,529
TITLE:         Auditory subliminal programming system
ASSIGNEE:      R. M. Schultz & Associates, Inc., McHenry, IL

ABSTRACT:
An auditory subliminal programming system includes a subliminal
message encoder that generates fixed frequency security tones and
combines them with a subliminal message signal to produce an encoded
subliminal message signal which is recorded on audio tape or the like.
A corresponding subliminal decoder/mixer is connected as part of a
user's conventional stereo system and receives as inputs an audio
program selected by the user and the encoded subliminal message. The
decoder/mixer filters the security tones, if present, from the
subliminal message and combines the message signals with selected low
frequency signals associated with enhanced relaxation and
concentration to produce a composite auditory subliminal signal. The
decoder/mixer combines the composite subliminal signal with the
selected audio program signals to form composite signals only if it
detects the presence of the security tones in the subliminal message
signal. The decoder/mixer outputs te composite signal to the audio
inputs of a conventional audio amplifier where it is amplified and
broadcast by conventional audio speakers.



US PAT NO:     4,734,037
TITLE:         Message screen

ABSTRACT:
A transparent sheet is disclosed having a message thereon. The sheet
has a first side adapted to be attached facing a plate which is
normally viewed by a viewer and a second side facing the viewer. The
message is arranged to be readably intelligible from the second side
but is not liminally visible to the viewer when viewed from a normal
viewing distance from the second side under normal viewing conditions.
The message has a subliminal effect upon the viewer when viewed from
the normal viewing distance from the second side under normal viewing
conditions. A viewer can electively subject him or herself to
subliminal messages while viewing television at leisure.



US PAT NO:     4,717,343
TITLE:         Method of changing a person's behavior

ABSTRACT:
A method of conditioning a person's unconscious mind in order to
effect a desired change in the person's behavior which does not
require the services of a trained therapist. Instead the person to be
treated views a program of video pictures appearing on a screen. The
program as viewed by the person's unconscious mind acts to condition
the person's thought patterns in a manner which alters that person's
behavior in a positive way.



US PAT NO:     4,692,118
TITLE:         Video subconscious display attachment

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for introducing messages to the subconscious
mind is disclosed, which includes a panel positioned adjacent a
television screen, with the panel having non-distractive messages
imprinted thereon, such that as the subject consciously focuses his
attention on the video screen, his subconscious mind records the
message from the panel that is within his peripheral vision.



US PAT NO:     4,616,261
TITLE:         Method and apparatus for generating subliminal visual
               messages
ASSIGNEE:      Stimutech, Inc., Ann Arbo, MI

ABSTRACT:
A system for generating a subliminal message during the display of a
normal television program on a television receiver utilizes a personal
computer to generate an RF carrier modulated with video signals
encoding the subliminal message. The computer runs under the control
of an application program which stores the subliminal message and also
controls the computer to cause it to generate timing signals that are
provided to a single pole double-throw switch. The source of the
normal television program and the video output of the computer are
connected to the two switch inputs and the switch output is connected
to the television receiver antenna system. The timing signals cause
the switch to normally display the conventional television program and
to periodically switch to the computer output to generate the
subliminal message. The video output of the computer includes
horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals which are of
substantially the same frequency as the synchronizing signals
incorporated within the normal program source but of an arbitrary
phase.


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Greg Aharonian
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