Abstract: A lighting system includes a light source and a switch configured to receive input power and provide switched power. A control module is configured to receive the switched power and control the light source. The control module is further configured to provide the switched power to the light source in response to toggling the switch more than once within a predetermined time period.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a stack of layers having a basic layer, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. An organic light-emitting layer is sandwiched between the first and second electrode layers. At least one shunt element has a connection-end and a free-end. The connection-end is connected with one of the electrode layers, and the free-end is jutting out of the stack of layers.

Abstract: An illumination system, comprising a radiation source and a luminescent material comprising a phosphor capable of absorbing a part of light emitted by the radiation source and emitting light of a wavelength different from that of the absorbed light; wherein said phosphor is a europium-activated oxonitridoalumosilicate of general formula AE1?y?zLnySi3-xAlx?aBa O1+x?yN4?x+y:Euz, wherein AE is an alkaline earth metal selected from the group of Sr, Ca, Ba, Mg and Zn; Ln is a lanthanide metal selected from the group of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and Y; B is a trivalent metal selected from the group of boron, gallium and scandium and a 0?a<2, 0?x<2, 0?y?1, 0.001<z?0.1 provides white or colored illumination with high efficacy.

Abstract: A transmission system includes a speech decoder, the speech decoder having a detector which determines a level of background noise in a speech signal and a post filter in electrical communication with an output of the decoder when the level of the background noise is equal to or less than a threshold value. A synthesis filter is connected to the output when the level of the background noise is greater than the threshold value.

Abstract: A gateway device couples a mobile telephone with a data network, such as the Internet, for voice communications. The gateway device is configured to provide a consistent interface with a user of the voice communications facility, independent of the method of user-access to the gateway device, and independent of the access to the data network. The gateway device allows for user-access from both wired and wireless telephone instruments, and provides the user a consistent service profile, independent of the location of the user at the time of access. The gateway device provides a service, such as a conventional “Voice over the Internet” (VoIP) application, that allows the user to place and receive telephone calls to other VoIP users, or to conventional telephone service users.

Abstract: This invention provides the framework of a security system that is property specific as well as area specific. The invention includes a distributed software controlled security system that monitors and assesses the status of individual property items and conventional area security devices within a secured area. The activation of an alarm and the action taken in response to the alarm are determined by the state of the secured area, the state of the individual property item, and rules associated with each state or combination of states. Depending upon the capabilities of the individual property items, or appliances, and the area security devices, the security capabilities of this invention are distributed amongst a variety of appliances. In a preferred embodiment, the communication of messages and signals among the components of the system is in accordance with existing or proposed standards, such as HAVi and Home API, thereby allowing interoperability among components of varying vendors.

Abstract: A monocular input image is transformed to give it an enhanced three dimensional appearance by creating at least two output images. Foreground and background objects are segmented in the input image and transformed differently from each other, so that the foreground objects appear to stand out from the background. Given a sequence of input images, the foreground objects will appear to move differently from the background objects in the output images.

Abstract: Documents that contain content information and script information that controls user-interactivity with the document are encoded as a content section that is separate from the script information. The script information contains references to the content section, which typically comprises text information. By segregating the text information from the script, all text applications are able to display an undisturbed copy of the text information. In a preferred embodiment, the script is appended to the text information segment of the document, so that the direct display of the initial portion of the document is an immediately readable version of the text. In a second encoding method, which can be independent or combined with the first method, the script information is encoded using “invisible” sequences of characters. In one example embodiment, unique sequences of invisible characters, such as space, backspace, tab, etc., are used to encode each script element.

Abstract: A cellular radio communication system operating in accordance with a time division multiple access protocol assigns different fractional loading factors to different time slots. As a result, as well as because of the effects of local propagation conditions, different time slots will have different interference levels. A mobile station in a worst-case propagation environment (such as near the edge of a cell or when subject to severe shadowing fading) can be assigned a time slot having a low interference level, while a mobile station in a good propagation environment can be assigned a time slot having a higher interference level.

Abstract: An electronic equipment includes a housing which is formed by two housing parts of which one is integral with a retractable screen which may take up a first/closed position and a second/open position. The open position permits to see the whole screen. In the closed position, one part of the screen remains visible and the other part of the screen is hidden in a second part of the housing. This second housing part supports other elements of the equipment, such as a microphone and keyboard.

Abstract: Each pixel in an image has its own color value that is defined in a color look-up table. Regions of the image are separated into groups with similar color values. For each group, the color of one of the pixels is selected. The image is compressed by retaining only references to the color look-up table that define the color values of the pixels selected for the groups and a pixel map which indicates for each pixel, the group to which the pixel belongs among the groups which constitute the region. Upon decompression, each pixel is shown with the color of the pixel that was selected for the group to which the pixel belongs.

Abstract: A communication system includes first and second terminals which are able to communicate control messages to each other. One of the terminals can reconfigure itself by a process of service negotiations with the other terminal where the capabilities of the reconfigurable terminal are provided to the other terminal. Each of the terminals has a transceiver, a memory for storing software functions, and a processor for controlling the operation of the terminal in accordance with stored software functions. At least one of the software functions is alterable in response to the receipt of a control message containing the new software function plus interface software required by the processor in building a new function into an actual implementation on the terminal. The communication system may be a cordless and/or cellular telephone system where messages are sent over-the-air, or a corded system where messages are relayed by landline.

Abstract: A radio communication system has a random access channel for the transmission of data (214) from a secondary station to a primary station. Such a channel is intended for use by the secondary stations having data (214) to transmit to a primary station while not actually engaged in a call. By enabling access requests (202) to be transmitted with a range of time offsets relative to the boundary (302) of their time slot, a much greater number of degrees of freedom is available to a secondary station requesting access to a random access channel. This enables significantly improved efficiency of resource allocation by increasing the amount of information transmitted to the primary station by the access request (202).

Abstract: To overcome a watermark security system that is based on a limited set of possible watermark values, a collection of authentic watermarked material is created, and a substitution system provides material from this collection in lieu of the content material that the watermark verification system is intended to verify. In security systems that are designed to verify the existence of authentic watermarked material, without regard to the actual content of the material, this substitution scheme will be successful. In security systems that are designed to verify the existence of an entirety of a data set in order to authorize the presentation of select material from the data set, the substitution of authentic watermarked material for the non-selected material will also be successful. A dictionary of expected watermarks for the data set is provided.

Abstract: A television system allows extraction of a sub-image and streaming of the sub-image contents to an external device during a sequence of successive screen refresh intervals.

Abstract: An apparatus including a controller having an input for receiving an input signal is disclosed, the input signal having an audio component. A housing having an outer surface on which is fixed a conforming and surface covering light output device is also provided, whereby the controller enables creation of a visually dynamic decorative pattern on the surface of the housing dependent on the input signal and under the control of software programs. The controller enables creation of a visually dynamic decorative pattern on the surface of the housing dependent on the signal and under the control of pattern producing software. The input signal can be an audio, video, and/or environmental input signal. The output device can be visual display, audio speaker array, scent generator, and/or tactile device.

Abstract: A universal programmable remote control device has programmability functions that enable the end-user to customize the device through editing or programming the device's control functionalities. The programming can be achieved via a PC. The control configuration created via an editor on the PC can be downloaded into the device. The PC has emulator software to test the configuration before downloading. The emulator software and the remote's control software are made identical as a consequence of a software layer that abstracts from the remote's hardware. The emulator for the end-user is thus obtained as an almost free byproduct of the software development phase at the manufacturer.

Abstract: A communication system economically mitigates the frequency-selective multipath effects and co-channel interference in wireless LANS. The communication system comprising a wireless local area network (LAN) formed by a plurality of spacially separated transceivers (TR, TR?). Each of the transceivers has a transmitting section (10) for transmitting data by a combination of dual code spread spectrum techniques and a receiving section (12) for recovering the data. The receiving section (12) comprises a plurality of diversity antennas (ANT 1 to ANT n), an adaptive forward equal gain combiner (60) having a plurality of branches (62 to 74 and 62? to 74?), each branch being coupled to a respective one of the diversity antennas. The adaptive forward equal gain combiner (60) selects a signal in one of the branches as a reference signal and co-phases the signals in the remaining branches with the reference signal.

Abstract: Microwave antennas with a dielectric substrate (1) and at least one resonant conductor track structure (31 to 39) are described, which are particularly suitable for mobile dual-band and multiband telecommunication devices such as mobile and cellular telephones, as well as for devices which communicate in accordance with the Bluetooth standard. In addition, attuning of the resonance frequencies of various operating modes to a concrete constructional situation is possible thanks to various line segments (34, 35) and tuning stub lines (41, 42) without the necessity of changing the fundamental antenna design. Finally, the antennas may be soldered together with other components onto a printed circuit board in a conventional surface mounting process.

Abstract: A communications system includes first and second beacon devices capable of wireless message transmission and at least one portable device capable of receiving such message transmissions. The first beacon is arrange to broadcast a series of inquiry messages according to a first communications protocol, such as Bluetooth. The portable device detects such inquiry messages and replies with an identifier for the portable device. The first beacon then transmits the received identifier to the second beacon, with the second beacon and portable device configured to perform a service interaction when triggered by the second beacon receiving the portable device identifier.