Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Publication number: 20120108292
    Abstract: A camera mobile phone with an anti-shaking function and an anti-shaking method for use by the camera mobile phone in image capturing are disclosed. The anti-shaking method comprises the following steps of: using a gravity sensor module of the mobile phone to detect a shaking level of the mobile phone when capturing an image; according to the shaking level detected by the gravity sensor module, controlling an exposure time of the mobile phone in the process of capturing the image so that a camera module of the mobile phone captures the image according to the exposure time; and using an image processing software program to carry out deblurring processing on the blurred image according to a displacement vector generated due to shaking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD
    Inventor: Rili Zhong
  • Publication number: 20120105267
    Abstract: A surveillance system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the surveillance system may include at least one controller adapted to control operation of first and second screening apparatus and to produce image data and screening data, to relate the image data to the screening data, and to produce relational information data from the related image data and screening data. In some embodiments, the system may include a first screening apparatus adapted to screen a subject in a subject position, a second screening apparatus adapted to screen the subject in the subject position, and a controller adapted to produce first and second screening data from the first and second screening apparatus, respectively, relate the first and second screening data, and to produce relational information data from the related first and second screening data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul DeLia, Scott T. TROSPER, Thomas E. BREEN, John J. Reilly, Paul J. Hurd, Michael J. LANZARO, Maya M. Radzinski, Thomas W. GRUDKOWSKI, Edward E. BROMBERG, Joseph Carter
  • Publication number: 20120106365
    Abstract: A solution for network packet latency measurement includes, at a network device having a memory, storing a first time value indicating when an ingress port of the network device received a packet. The solution also includes storing a second time value indicating when an egress port of the network device received the packet for transmission towards another network device. The solution also includes storing a difference between the first time value and the second time value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Terry, Wing Cheung, Surya Prakash Varanasi
  • Publication number: 20120106740
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for encoding a connection between a base (2) and a mobile part (1), and a computer program product. The method comprises the steps of: a) generating a key agreed to by the base (2) and the mobile part (1) during a first connection, wherein the key comprises an index assigned by the base during the first connection, and b) using the generated key for a second connection between the base (2) and the mobile part (1), wherein the data to be transferred between the base (2) and the mobile part (1) are identified and encoded using the index assigned to the key. The security of wireless data transfer is thus increased in a simple and low-cost manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: GIGASET COMMUNICATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Dieter Kehren, Gustavo Fernandez, Stefan Hülder
  • Publication number: 20120104870
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes an earphone jack capable of receiving different types of earphone plugs, a switch, a detecting terminal, and a controlling terminal. The switch is connected to the earphone jack, and capable of switching between a first state and a second state. The detecting terminal is connected to the earphone jack by the switch, and capable of detecting the type of the earphone plug received in the earphone jack. The detecting terminal is connected to the earphone jack by the switch, and capable of detecting the type of the earphone plug received in the earphone jack. The controlling terminal is connected to the switch, and switches the switch to either the first state or the second state according to the type of the earphone plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: FOXCONN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: JO-CHIEN CHANG
  • Publication number: 20120110596
    Abstract: A method for giving a message prompt when a mobile terminal accesses a mobile Internet website and the mobile terminal are disclosed in the present disclosure. The method comprises the following steps of: A. receiving a message of browsing a mobile Internet webpage from a user, and triggering a corresponding message prompt event as needed; and B. parsing the message prompt event to obtain a corresponding prompt message, and displaying the prompt message. Because the present disclosure provides a new function of giving a corresponding message prompt when the mobile terminal accesses a mobile Internet website (e.g., prompting the user of the website traffic, the fee charging information, advertisement information, and etc.), the user can timely know conditions of his or her mobile terminal accessing the Internet, which is very convenient for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD
    Inventor: Baozhong Zhou
  • Patent number: 8170545
    Abstract: A computer support tool is provided. The tool includes diagnostic software and a user interface. The diagnostic software identifies information associated with a computer problem, wherein the information is based on the needs of help desk personnel. The user interface informs a user of the information associated with the computer problem, and suggests a self help option for the user to address the computer problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Alexander Benton Freeburne
  • Patent number: 8170222
    Abstract: A device and method for providing augmented reality enhanced audio. The device is portable and may include a location processing module capable of receiving location information and determining a location of the device in an environment, an orientation processing module capable of determining an orientation of the device at the location, a processor capable of modifying audio content based on the location of the device in the environment and the orientation of the device at the location, and an audio output device capable of outputting the modified audio content. The orientation of the device includes an azimuth and an elevation of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Gregory A. Dunko
  • Patent number: 8169949
    Abstract: Ways for facilitating a method of controlling a media session that includes audio and video data are provide. One variation of the method includes establishing a wireless communications link between a source device and a target wireless device, receiving from the source device a media stream that includes audio information and video information, communicating a first portion of the audio information and video information to the target device, receiving an indication of a desire to receive a different portion of one or more of audio information and video information (the different portion being different from the first portion), and communicating to the target device, a modified portion of the media stream that is consistent with the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Pallavur Ananthakrishnan Sankaranaraynan, Lyle Walter Paczkowski
  • Patent number: 8171472
    Abstract: A method is provided for executing multiple applications concurrently on a single computer. The method comprises discriminating static from non-static execution framework files, installing the non-static files in a first directory on a host computer, installing the non-static files in a second directory on the host computer, and installing the static files in a third directory on a server computer. The method also includes remote mounting the third directory to the host computer. The method further includes executing the first application within a first instance of the execution framework and executing the second application within a second instance of the execution framework, wherein both the first and second instances of the execution framework are based on the non-static files on the host computer and on the static files in the remote mounted third directory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Rex A. Binns, Richard L. McCall, Fabio Santiago
  • Patent number: 8170186
    Abstract: An electronic device may be controlled with a remote control device. The remote control device may be moved in a first manner to cause the electronic device to scroll through an ordered sequence. The remote control device may be moved in a second manner to cause the electronic device to select an entry from the ordered list. During scrolling of the ordered sequence, audio feedback regarding the nature of an associated entry may be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Martijn Kuiken
  • Patent number: 8170877
    Abstract: A method for producing speech output can include the step of selecting a TTS output device from a plurality of available output devices. The selected output device can be associated with outputting content of an application responsive to a print command. According to the method, the print command can be detected, which results in the content of the application being conveyed to the selected TTS output device. The TTS output device can be associated with at least one text-to-speech engine. Upon content conveyance to the TTS output device, at least a portion of the content can be automatically converted using the text-to-speech engine. The speech converted content can be outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, Oscar J. Blass, Charles T. Rutherfoord
  • Patent number: 8170006
    Abstract: A digital telecommunications system, a method of managing a communications network in such a system and a program product for managing audio transmission in a digital communications system. A softswitch manages communications between devices at network endpoints, e.g., session initiation protocol (SIP) devices, and detects when communications include a non-human, e.g., an audio system, at an endpoint. The softswitch selects conversational communications for calls between voice devices and messaging communications parameters with lower overhead for communications with an audio system, e.g., messaging systems such as voice mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Farrokh Mohammadzadeh Kouchri
  • Patent number: 8170510
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques, systems, and methods relating to minimizing mutual coupling between a first antenna and a second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Bernd Adler, Peter Bundgaard, Jan-Erik Mueller, Gert F Pedersen, Mauro Pelosi
  • Patent number: 8171502
    Abstract: One or more custom device drivers for a peripheral device may be installed from the peripheral device onto a host computer. Upon connecting the peripheral device to the host computer, an operating system of the host computer is exposed to a default configuration of the peripheral device that contains only a device driver class interface or interfaces for which the operating system includes preinstalled class level device drivers. The peripheral device then receives an install command from the host computer, and automatically transmits one or more custom device drivers from the peripheral device to the host computer. In response to receipt of a change command from the host computer, the configuration of the peripheral device is changed to an alternate configuration that includes interfaces for the custom device drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Samuel L. Mullis, II, William Lennon, Philip Elcan
  • Patent number: 8170881
    Abstract: The present invention can include a method of call processing using a distributed voice browser including allocating a plurality of service processors configured to interpret parsed voice markup language data and allocating a plurality of voice markup language parsers configured to retrieve and parse voice markup language data representing a telephony service. The plurality of service processors and the plurality of markup language parsers can be registered with one or more session managers. Accordingly, components of received telephony service requests can be distributed to the voice markup language parsers and the parsed voice markup language data can be distributed to the service processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Creamer, Victor S. Moore, Glen R. Walters, Scott Lee Winters
  • Patent number: 8170422
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an FSK demodulator which can be used in the optical information and telecommunications and the like, and which can appropriately demodulate an FSK signal by compensating a delay of an optical FSK modulated signal due to dispersion and the like of an optical fiber. The above-mentioned problem is solved by a frequency shift keying (FSK) demodulator (1) composed of a branching filter (2) for branching an optical signal according to wavelengths thereof; a delay adjusting apparatus (3) for adjusting a delay time of two lights branched by the branching filter; a first photodetector (4) for detecting one optical signal branched by the branching filter; a second photodetector (5) for detecting a remaining optical signal branched by the branching filter; and a means (6) for calculating a difference between an output signal of the first photodetector and an output signal of the second photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Incorporated Administrative Agency
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawanishi, Masayuki Izutsu
  • Patent number: 8169418
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display screen including an array of electromagnetic radiation detectors. The array of electromagnetic radiation detectors is configured to generate an image signal that represents an image of a user input object that is closely spaced to the display, and to generate a touch signal in response to the display screen being touched by the user input object. The electronic device further includes a controller circuit that is configured to display a plurality of keys forming a keyboard and to display characters on the keys. The controller identifies from the image signal a size and/or an angular orientation of the user input object relative to the display screen. The controller identifies a user's selection among characters indicated on the keyboard keys in response to the identified size and/or the angular orientation of the user input object and in response to the touch signal, and outputs character data corresponding to the identified user selected character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Jörgen Birkler
  • Patent number: 8169461
    Abstract: A mobile radio terminal includes a radio circuit for establishing communication with a communication network, a first camera sensor for taking digital photographs and a second camera sensor for acquiring image data information, wherein the second camera sensor stores the acquired image data information in a storage element. A control circuit is coupled to the radio circuit, the first camera sensor, the second camera sensor and the memory and the control circuit is configured to execute logic to: store image data information acquired from the second camera sensor in the memory; detect initiation of a camera application by an associated user; generate a control signal to launch the camera application, wherein at least a portion of the acquired image data information is provided to the camera application as one or more parameters upon launching of the camera application; and acquiring image information from the first camera sensor for taking a photograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Carl M. Ek, Par M. Ragnarsson
  • Patent number: 8169974
    Abstract: A method of increasing operational safety of a wireless communication network operating in a process control environment and having a plurality of network devices includes detecting a first triggering condition associated with an increased operational risk due to a wireless transmissions by at least one of the plurality of network devices, sending a suspend command to at least some of the plurality of network devices, suspending transmissions at the at least some of the plurality of network devices; and resuming transmissions at the at least some of the plurality of network devices upon occurrence of a second triggering condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hart Communication Foundation
    Inventors: Wallace A. Pratt, Jr., Mark J. Nixon, Eric D. Rotvold, Robin S. Pramanik, Tomas P. Lennvall