Abstract: A method for determining power consumption levels of an appliance includes reducing a power consumption of the appliance to a minimum value; measuring a first voltage value at an internal terminal of the appliance; increasing the power consumption of the appliance to a factory default value; measuring a second voltage value at the internal terminal of the appliance; computing a supply wire resistance based on the measured first and second voltage values; and determining a maximum allowable power consumption value of the appliance based on the computed supply wire resistance.

Abstract: Method for audio volume control, the method comprising the steps of: receiving (301) a volume change request; changing (304) the volume according to a volume change step; the method being characterized in that the volume change step determination (302) is executed by applying one or more rules wherein each rule provides a definition of at least two ranges, with respect to a monitored condition, wherein the volume change step, associated with each such range, is different; storing a new volume change step in a volume step register (120).

Abstract: A system for balancing an input device, the system comprising: a spherical device having an outer spherical wall and an inner spherical wall the system further comprising: an internal circuitry module housing internal circuits and positioned in the center of the spherical device and balanced in the center in order hold the spherical device still on a flat surface; a cavity formed between the outer spherical wall and the inner spherical wall; a rheological fluid disposed in the cavity wherein the volume of the rheological fluid is below 50% of the volume of the cavity and such that the weight of the rheological fluid is above the weight of the spherical device without the rheological fluid; wherein al least one of the outer spherical wall and the inner spherical wall comprises a rheological fluid activation means configured to change the state of the rheological fluid; and a rheological fluid activation controller configured to control the rheological fluid activation means in response to occurrence of a prede

Abstract: A device (100) comprising a Radio Frequency Identification transponder and means for selectively controlling the Radio Frequency Identification communication, the device (100) comprising: a first, internal, electromagnetic shield fixed on one side of the Radio Frequency Identification transponder's antenna and a second, internal, electromagnetic, movable shield (180) on the other side of the Radio Frequency Identification transponder's antenna wherein the device (100) comprises an internal actuator (170) configured to operate a movable mechanism (150), influencing the position of the movable shield, such that when the internal actuator is in a first position, the movable shield is in a first position allowing communication with the Radio Frequency Identification transponder and when the internal actuator is in a second position, the movable shield is in a second position, in which it blocks all contactless communication with the Radio Frequency Identification transponder.

Abstract: A method for a follow me television function the method comprising the steps of: receiving an audio video content; processing and delivering the content to a first device at a first location for playback; the method further comprising the steps of: monitoring location of at least one another device by a device monitoring means; monitoring location of a user by a user monitoring means; detecting whether the user is closer to a second device than to the first device currently used for playback; wherein in case the user is closer to the second device than to the first device currently used for playback, transferring the audio video playback session from the first device to the second device; and starting playback of the audio video content on the second device and stopping playback on the first device.

Abstract: A plug comprising: a housing (210); an ejector (220); an inner core (230) comprising at least two pins (232); wherein: the inner core (230) is slidably mounted within the ejector (220) while the ejector (220) is slidably mounted in the housing (210); the housing (210) comprises a fixedly mounted first bracket (211) configured to guide a first end of a lever (240); the ejector (220) comprises a fixedly mounted second bracket (221) configured to guide a second end of the lever (240); the lever (240) has a middle mounting element (242B), shifted from the center of the lever (240) towards one of its ends, configured to guide a rod (243) attached to the inner core (230); wherein the lever (240) is configured within the housing (210) such that when the ejector (220) slides out of the housing (210) to a first extent, due to the movement of the lever (240), the inner core (230) slides within the ejector (220) to a second extent, which is lower than the first extent.

Abstract: Method for generating an IDR picture slice in an H.264/AVC stream, the method including finding an I-type picture and identifying it as a start picture, modifying and/or adding, in each slice header of the start picture, IDR-specific elements, removing, from each slice header of the start picture, non-IDR-specific elements, removing all reference and non-reference B-slices between the start picture and the next I-picture or P-picture, following the start picture, that is a frame or the first field, in decoding order, of a complementary field pair. Starting from the first picture after the removed slices, for each slice header executing: correcting frame_num so that they are valid with reference to the previous picture, correcting references, in the MMCO, as a function of the removed reference B-pictures, correcting references, found in the “Reference picture list reordering” structure, as a function of the removed reference B-pictures and restoring slice encapsulation for modified slices.

Abstract: A method and system for determining parameters of a satellite signal present in a coaxial cable, the method including the steps of aligning two capacitive coupling sensors in proximity to a length of the coaxial cable, wherein the distance between the capacitive coupling sensors is below 10 centimeters; receiving from two capacitive coupling sensors a signal being a differential voltage in the coaxial cable between the locations of the capacitive coupling sensors wherein the voltage is relative to a voltage level in a coaxial cable; amplifying the differential voltage by a bandpass amplifier; detecting a valid DiSEqC command sequence being indicative of signal quality.

Abstract: A device for monitoring a signal, comprising: a combiner (103, 303) configured to combine the received signal to be monitored with an impairment signal; a signal spectrum analyzer (105, 305) configured to analyze spectrum of a signal output from the combiner (103, 303) upon receiving a trigger signal; a signal quality analyzer (108, 308) configured to analyze the signal output from the combiner and output a signal quality factor; a trigger generator (110, 310) configured to monitor the signal quality factor and output the trigger signal upon detecting the signal quality factor below a trigger threshold level; and an impairment simulator (112, 312) configured to generate the impairment signal and an impairment scaler (113, 313) configured to scale the impairment signal and input the scaled impairment signal to the combiner (103, 303).