Tone Code (i.e., Frequency Code) Patents (Class 340/7.49)
  • Patent number: 11881902
    Abstract: Remote configuration of an industrial or remote telemetry device using sound. Acoustic energy directed from a remote programming device to a remote industrial or telemetry device has tones indicating a request to establish communication. By directing further acoustic energy from the remote programming device to the remote industrial or telemetry device, the remote programming device requests information relating to a current configuration of the remote industrial or telemetry device. The remote industrial or telemetry device processes the tones to identify the request and replies with acoustic energy that has associated tones indicating the information relating to the current configuration of the remote industrial or telemetry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: James Redmond, Stephen Neave, Scott Guimond, Zackery Sobin
  • Patent number: 11862177
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for systems and methods for implementing a neural network architecture for spoof detection in audio signals. The neural network architecture contains a layers defining embedding extractors that extract embeddings from input audio signals. Spoofprint embeddings are generated for particular system enrollees to detect attempts to spoof the enrollee's voice. Optionally, voiceprint embeddings are generated for the system enrollees to recognize the enrollee's voice. The voiceprints are extracted using features related to the enrollee's voice. The spoofprints are extracted using features related to features of how the enrollee speaks and other artifacts. The spoofprints facilitate detection of efforts to fool voice biometrics using synthesized speech (e.g., deepfakes) that spoof and emulate the enrollee's voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianxiang Chen, Elie Khoury
  • Patent number: 11804808
    Abstract: An exemplary audio enhancement system substantially eliminates latency by returning audio input signals in amplified form directly in the analog domain to the source, thereby reducing signal degradation and removing redundancy from digital and analog audio transmission and processing architectures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Qavalry LLC
    Inventors: Nevin Steinberg, Andrew Funk, Jason Crystal
  • Patent number: 11677371
    Abstract: Offset compensation circuitry for an amplification circuit. One example embodiment is a method of compensating a primary operational amplifier including: creating, by way of a companion circuit, a square wave having an amplitude, a period, and a direct current bias (DC bias), the amplitude proportional to an offset of the primary operational amplifier; integrating, by the companion circuit, the amplitude of the square wave for less than the period of the square wave, the integrating creates a compensation signal; and applying the compensation signal to the primary operational amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Anna Joseph Eggermont
  • Patent number: 11665617
    Abstract: A server-based environment for reporting a status of a security, monitoring and automation controller is provided. Detecting cessation of an always-on persistent network connection between the SMA controller and the server is also provided. Reporting the cessation of the network connection to an end user and defined others is further provided. A further aspect provides for automatically reporting an alarm event to a central station, the end user, and others, in the event the cessation of the network connection occurs while the SMA controller is aimed and after a zone fault event, and not receiving a disarm notification prior to expiration of a preset entry delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Wade Cohn, Gary Robert Faulkner, James Edward Kitchen, David Leon Proft, Corey Wayne Quain
  • Patent number: 11656252
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus has a current sensor and at least one A/D converter, which current sensor has at least two channels (CH1, CH2), via which channels (CH1, CH2) the current sensor (30) respectively provides a measurement signal (CH1_SIG, CH2_SIG) characterizing the current. The at least two channels (CH1, CH2) include a first channel (CH1) and a second channel (CH2), which second channel (CH2) is designed to measure a greater maximum current than the first channel (CH1). Also described is a method for measuring a current flowing through a conductor by way of the measurement apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sven Lill, Harald Schöffler, Daniel Simon
  • Patent number: 11569732
    Abstract: A DC-link charging arrangement is described having a DC-link capacitor, rectifier means, and contactor means arranged between supply voltage ports and the rectifier means and having at least one contactor. Such a charging arrangement should enable charging of a DC-link capacitor in a simple way with low losses. To this end a charging capacitor is arranged bridging the at least one contactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Vacon Oy
    Inventors: Stefan Strandberg, Nicklas Södö
  • Patent number: 11536758
    Abstract: A system may include an array of sensor elements, the array of sensor elements each comprising a first type of passive reactive element, a second type of passive reactive element electrically coupled to the array of sensor elements, a driver configured to drive the array of sensor elements and the second type of passive reactive element, and control circuitry configured to control enabling and disabling of individual sensor elements of the array of sensor elements to ensure no more than one of the array of sensor elements is enabled at a time such that when one of the array of sensor elements is enabled, the one of the array of sensor elements and the second type of passive reactive element together operate as a resonant sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason L. Wardlaw, Michael A. Kost, Anthony S. Doy, Tejasvi Das, Siddharth Maru, Xin Zhao, Matthew Beardsworth, Bruce E. Duewer
  • Patent number: 10838692
    Abstract: A method of and system for presentencing a user interface for the visually impaired is carried by dividing a user interface area of a user interface into a plurality of sections, mapping a different audible tone to each one of the plurality of sections, associating each one of the plurality of sections with a category, displaying a pane in one section of the plurality of sections, the pane having information about the category associated with the one section, receiving a first touch gesture on the pane, outputting a first audio signal having an audible tone mapped to the section, and depending on a type of the first touch gesture, outputting speech data for at least some of the information, the some of the information depending on a duration and a direction of the first touch gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jarnail Chudge, Tinisha Rocca, Joanna Mabbitt, Helen Day, Simon Middlemiss, Stuart McCarthy
  • Patent number: 10001808
    Abstract: A smartphone case can include one or more piezotransductive materials (e.g., piezoelectric, piezomagnetic, piezoluminescent, etc.) positioned at one or more contact locations of the smartphone case. For example, a piezoelectric material can be positioned at multiple different locations of the smartphone case at which users may physically contact the smartphone case when holding the case. The piezoelectric material can generate an electric charge when pressure is applied to the material, and the generated electric charge can pass through an electromagnetic coil as an electric current to produce a magnetic field which one or more sensors (e.g., one or more magnetometers) of a smartphone that is housed within the smartphone case may be able to detect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Philip Quinn
  • Patent number: 9876905
    Abstract: A communication appliance has a processor, a data store, a display screen, an interface to a wireless network, a microphone, and software executable from a machine-readable physical medium, wherein the software provides a function for comparing incoming audio signals with signals stored in the data store as trigger signals, and a function for initiating an action or sequence of actions in response to recognizing an incoming signal as a trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventor: Charles H. Isaacs
  • Patent number: 9602168
    Abstract: Improved configurations for wireless energy transfer can include system elements of a wireless energy transfer system that may pair in-band and out-of-band communication channels by exchanging related information. Energy transfer signals may be modulated according to defined waveforms. Information about the signal may be transmitted using an out-of-band communication channel. A system element that receives both the signal and information may verify that they correspond to the same system element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: WiTricity Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Lamenza, Kylee D. Sealy, Herbert Toby Lou, Christopher Buenrostro, Alexander P. McCauley, Morris P. Kesler, Matthew J. MacDonald, Katherine L. Hall, Konrad J. Kulikowski
  • Patent number: 9426297
    Abstract: An electronic communication device for facilitating communication between one or more remote devices for voice communication over a unidirectional radio communication channel, the device comprising a receiver for receiving an incoming voice message from a first remote device, a speaker for playing the incoming voice message, a microphone for receiving an output to generate an outgoing voice message, a transmitter for sending the outgoing voice message to a second remote device, an indicator to indicate whether the receiver is in a passive mode or an active mode, and a confirmation circuit to be connected to the receiver, the transmitter, the speaker and the indicator for recording the incoming voice message when the receiver is in an active mode, playing the recorded voice message and sending the played voice message to the remote device as a confirmation receipt of the incoming voice message when the receiver is in a passive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Inventor: Saqr Majed Saqr Al Marri
  • Patent number: 9112619
    Abstract: A portable communications module (600) of FIG. 6 has an input (621) coupled to receive an incident signal. The input (621) split out a first audio channel containing a context audio track from the incident signal and directs the first audio channel along a first audio output path for selective audio output from a speaker (634, 620) either internally within or external to the module. The input (621)also directs a second audio channel in the incident signal to an RF audio transmitter chain for broadcast, the second audio channel comprising a composite audio signal from a plurality of audio tracks, each audio track embedded with a unique activation code that is present for substantially an entire duration of audio activity in each audio segment of each track. The input (621) is further arranged to apply a tone encoded signal in the incident signal to at least a tone decoder (640) in a data transmitter chain distinct from the audio transmitter chain (642).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: REGLER LIMITED
    Inventor: Jason Regler
  • Patent number: 8258947
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application graphical user interface (GUI). In an embodiment of the invention, a method for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application GUI can include loading a target GUI for an application under test in a functional testing tool executing in memory by a processor of a computing system, retrieving different translated source strings in a target spoken language for respectively different control elements of the target GUI and, determining a score for each one of the translated source strings. Thereafter, an alert can be provided in the functional testing tool for each translated source string corresponding to a determined score failing to meet a threshold value, such as a score that falls below a threshold value, or a score that exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer G. Becker, Kenneth Lee McClamroch, VinodKumar Raghavan, Peter Sun
  • Patent number: 7933565
    Abstract: Embodiments describe improved coupling of power amplifiers to antennas for the transmission of signals, such as OFDM signals. A large number of separate windings are utilized on a primary side, wherein each winding is for a different OFDM tone. Each OFDM tone may be amplified individually and combined as a results of transformer coupling. For example, the secondary side can have a single winding that combines the different OFDM tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Lane, Rajiv Laroia, Per Kristensen
  • Patent number: 6414588
    Abstract: A selective caller receiver which can facilitate easy setting of a test mode without using an exclusive jig and also easy management and adjustment of a receiving unit. In the selective caller receiver, a memory for storing therein test mode setting data is provided and turning ON of a control switch causes the data to be read out from the memory. When a test mode is judged to be present on the basis of the read-out data, a battery saving operation is released and the receiving unit is continuously operated to set the receiving unit in the test mode. When a test mode is judged not to be present, the receiving unit is operated in its battery saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamaki
  • Patent number: 6392560
    Abstract: A reminding device to permit the user to determine, at a later date, using a portable device, whether a routine task to secure an object or piece of equipment has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Inventors: Richard J. Stuehling, Brunn W. Roysden, Jr.