Abstract: An apparatus for tracking the status of a lock, comprising: at least one lock tracking device for tracking a status of a lock; and at least one wireless key unit; wherein each of said at least one wireless key unit is connected to one of said at least one lock tracking device, and wherein said at least one wireless key unit includes a transceiver unit for transmitting information obtained from the at least one lock tracking device regarding the status of the lock.

Abstract: In a multi-lingual environment, a method and apparatus for determining a language spoken in a speech utterance. The method and apparatus test acoustic feature vectors extracted from the utterances against acoustic models associated with one or more of the languages. Speech to text is then performed for the language indicated by the acoustic testing, followed by textual verification of the resulting text. During verification, the resulting text is processed by language specific NLP and verified against textual models associated with the language. The system is self-learning, i.e., once a language is verified or rejected, the relevant feature vectors are used for enhancing one or more acoustic models associated with one or more languages, so that acoustic determination may improve.

Abstract: A method for classifying a pair of audio signals into an agent audio signal and a customer audio signal. One embodiment relates to unsupervised training, in which the training corpus comprises a multiplicity of audio signal pairs, wherein each pair comprises an agent signal and a customer signal, and wherein it is unknown for each signal if it is by the agent or by the customer. Training is based on the agent signals being more similar to one another than the customer signals. An agent cluster and a customer cluster are determined. The input signals are associated with the agent or the customer according to the higher score combination of the input signals and the clusters. Another embodiment relates to supervised training, wherein an agent model is generated, and the input signal that yields higher score against the model is the agent signal, while the other is the customer signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for tracking and indicating the status of a lock, comprising: a movement sensing device for sensing movement of a key related to said lock and providing information about said movement; a controller for reception of said information about said movement, processing said information and identifying a key rotation event that is associated with a lock status; and an indication unit being connected to said controller; providing an indication of the lock status according to control signals that are provided by said controller.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods for capturing and analyzing customer interactions the apparatus comprising interaction information units, interaction meta-data information units associated with each of the interaction information units, a rule based analysis engine component for receiving the interaction information, an adaptive database, an interaction capture and storage component for capturing interaction information, a multi segment interaction capture device, an initial set up and calibration device and a pre processing and content extraction device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for processing waste materials and for manufacturing composite materials are disclosed herein. According to some embodiments, the heterogeneous waste includes a plastic component and a non-plastic component, and the non-plastic component includes a plurality of pieces of waste. The heterogeneous waste is heated to melt at least a portion of said plastic component and reducing a volume of said heterogeneous waste, and then mixed (e.g. by rotating a mixing chamber or by stirring) until at least some said pieces are each encapsulated by the melted plastic component. Upon cooling, the mixture optionally sets into a composite material. The presently disclosed invention does not require pre-sorting of the heterogeneous waste and is operative to process “as is” waste. Optionally, the waste is pre-sorted.

Abstract: A method and a system of adaptation of a website to a mobile web browser. The method includes creating a snapshot version of a presentation layer of a website. The method also includes applying a design layer above the snapshot version and indicating an element of the snapshot version using the design layer. Furthermore, the method includes associating an identifying attribute of the element with a template used to create another website and creating a rule that associates a location of the identifying attribute in the snapshot version with another location in the template.

Abstract: The disclosed method and apparatus combine interactions and transactions in order to detect fraud acts or fraud attempts. In one embodiment, one or more interactions is correlated with one or more transactions, the interactions is and transactions features are combined, and features are extracted from the combined structure. The features are compared against one or more profiles, and a combined risk score is determined for the interactions or transactions. If the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, a preventive/corrective action can be taken. In another embodiment, behavioral characteristics extracted from one or more interactions associated with a transaction, with a risk score obtained by analyzing the transaction. The behavioral characteristic are used to enhance suspicion level related to a transaction being fraudulent, and to enable the taking of measures related to the transaction or to the person handling the transaction.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the enhancement of speech to text engines, by providing indications to the correctness of the found words, based on additional sources besides the internal indication provided by the STT engine. The enhanced indications comprise sources of data such as acoustic features, CTI features, phonetic search and others. The apparatus and methods also enable the detection of important or significant keywords found in audio files, thus enabling more efficient usages, such as further processing or transfer of interactions to relevant agents, escalation of issues, or the like. The methods and apparatus employ a training phase in which word model and key phrase model are generated for determining an enhanced correctness indication for a word and an enhanced importance indication for a key phrase, based on the additional features.

Abstract: An apparatus and its corresponding method for detecting and reducing interference elements within an indoor communication wireless system by dynamically locating the source of the interference, and by preventing the distribution of the interference via controlled attenuation of the interfering signal. The apparatus and method dynamically controls (44) the potential interference sources by optionally switching off (39) or attenuating (38) the antennas generating the signal carrying interference elements. Further, the proposed apparatus and method is operative in the reconnection of switch off (39) antennas and/or the controlled (44) restoration of the signal strengths where the interference diminishes.

Abstract: A radar system, including: a compact, active phased array antenna for transmission and reception of a focused radiation beam, circuits for providing signals to produce or detect a radiation beam by the phased array antenna and to control or detect the direction of the radiation beam, and wherein the radar is adapted to be mounted on a missile and scan a selected area proceeding the direction of motion of the missile.

Abstract: A wireless area network communication system comprising at least one phased array antenna frame, a phased array antenna circuit connected to the at least one phased array antenna frame wherein said phased array circuit and said at least one phased array antenna frame are adapted to transmit and receive wireless area network compliant signals from or to wireless area network devices.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for repeater-based cellular coverage switching across cellular donor sites in a wireless network is disclosed. The method involves measuring capacity load levels of cellular donor sites, determining cellular switching schemed based on the capacity loads establishing cellular switching configurations based on the cellular switching schemes, and performing cellular coverage switching to cellular donor sits.

Abstract: The present invention relates to radar imaging and to phased array antennas. The invention also relates to transmitter/receiver modules, push-push oscillators and Injection locked push-push oscillators for phased array antennas. The invention reduces the production cost and improves the performance of conventional phased array antennas.

Abstract: A system and method for the conversion of fuel tanks, detachably mountable on the exterior of an aerial vehicle, into high volume, high capacity, diverse functionality and aerodynamically efficient airborne stores is disclosed. A conventional external fuel drop tank is modified such that the exterior shape of the tank is substantially retained while the interior of the tank is suitable restructured to allow for the introduction of diverse airborne stores, associated airborne store mounting means, control and monitoring means and support means therein, which replace the fuel store. The airborne store is suitably interfaced to the stores control and management system of the aerial vehicle. The airborne store is integrated into a new external stores configuration The enhanced airborne store will have aerodynamic characteristics substantially similar to the original external fuel tank while its payload capacity is substantially improved.

Abstract: The present invention, relates to the preparation of a patch antenna with a specific effective dielectric constant; and a reduced dissipation factor. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, size requirements and the desired resonant signal frequency dictate the permittivity value of the dielectric material to be used between the patch plate and the ground plate. Instead of using a dielectric material with the calculated permittivity value and its given dissipation factors a two layer dielectric of the same size with an effective dielectric constant that is equal to the desired dielectric constant, is used to replace the dielectric material and reduce the dissipation factor.

Abstract: A method for enhancing wide dynamic range in images. The method comprises: acquiring at least two images of a scene to be imaged, the images acquired using different exposure times; constructing for a first image an illumination mask comprising a set of two weight values distinctively identifying respective areas of pixels of high or low illumination, over-exposed or underexposed with respect to a predetermined threshold illumination value, assigning one of the values to each pixels in them, whereas the other value is assigned to other pixels of the other images; using a low-pass filter to smooth border zones between pixels of one value and pixels of the other value, thus assigning weight values in a range between the two weight values; constructing a combined image using image data of pixels of the first image and image data of pixels of the other images proportional to the weight values assigned to each pixel using the illumination mask.