Patents Assigned to Harman International Industries, Incorporated
  • COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SLOTTED ALOHA PROTOCOL
    Publication number: 20150078243
    Abstract: A system for reducing collisions in communications utilizing a media access control (MAC) data communication protocol and/or a time division multiple access-based (TDMA-based) data communication protocol, such as an Aloha protocol or an MS-Aloha protocol, that may include one or more electronic devices (such as electronic devices of a vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Guoxia Zhang, Qingshan Zhang, Zeng Yang
  • Planar speaker system
    Patent number: 8983112
    Abstract: A planar speaker system may include a bottom frame having a cavity. Within this cavity a plurality of magnets may be arranged to form a substantially circular pattern. A diaphragm that includes a plurality of electrically conductive traces may be connected to the bottom frame and extend across the cavity of the bottom frame. When alternating current flows through the electrically conductive traces, the diaphragm may vibrate in response to the interaction between the current flowing in the electrically conductive traces and the magnetic field, thereby producing sound. The planar speaker system may include a top frame having a cavity, and a second set of magnets may be disposed in the cavity of the top frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Zhijun Zhao
  • System for managing lossless failover in an audio-bridging (AVB) network
    Patent number: 8977769
    Abstract: A network communication system includes a listener that receives a plurality of data streams from a talker. The data in the data streams may be identical. The listener identifies one of the data streams as a primary data stream and another of the plurality of data streams as a non-primary data stream. The listener may process data in the primary data stream, and may buffer a minimal amount of data in the non-primary data stream. In the event of a failure or disruption in reception of the primary data stream, the listener may switch over to processing the data in the non-primary data stream. The switch over to processing the non-primary data may be performed in a manner that ensures lossless failover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Aaron Gelter
  • System for managing audio/video streams using non-avb application layer structures in listener devices of an avb network
    Patent number: 8977759
    Abstract: A system that includes a talker, a listener, and a controller may communicate over an Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging network. The controller may communicate control messages to manage data streams between the talker and the listener through one or more application layer interfaces of the talker and the listener. Based on the control messages, the talker and the listener may communicate using a Stream Reservation Protocol to reserve connection for, or remove connection from, the data streams. The talker and listener may communicate the success of reserving or removing the connections to the controller through the application layer interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: David Olsen, Levi Pearson, Craig Gunther
  • PROVIDING ALERTS FOR OBJECTS LEFT IN A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20150061856
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method of alerting a user to the presence of a mobile device in a vehicle. In some example embodiments, a method includes identifying, via an in-vehicle computing system of a vehicle, presence of a mobile device. The method further includes providing an alert responsive to the user exiting the vehicle when the mobile device is still located in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Prakash Raman, Sreejit Gopinath
  • Passive group delay beam forming
    Patent number: 8971547
    Abstract: A loudspeaker array and methods for generating sound in an arc pattern. The loudspeaker array includes a plurality of loudspeakers. A delay network is included, the delay network having a plurality of stages. Each stage has a stage input and a stage output. The stage output of each stage is coupled to the stage input of a next stage. Each stage output is also connected to at least one of the plurality of loudspeakers. The stage input of the first stage is coupled to an audio signal input. Each stage is configured to add an electrical delay of the audio signal at each subsequent stage. The electrical delay is adjusted such that the plurality of loudspeakers generates sound in a desired radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Doug Button
  • Pointing element enhanced speaker system
    Patent number: 8942395
    Abstract: A pointing element enhanced speaker system addresses the need for consistent sound. Despite wide variations in the design and architecture of different venues, the system helps performers ensure that they deliver the desired sound for their audiences. Performers and their technicians, though faced with grueling schedules that impose severe time constraints on equipment setup and tuning as the performers move between venues, may turn to the system to provide the sound desired at each new venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Geoff Lissaman, Robin M. Urry, James D. Pennock
  • Distortion compensation
    Patent number: 8942391
    Abstract: A distortion compensation system minimizes distortion in an audio system by monitoring a supply voltage and adjusting a clipping threshold and/or compression knee. An adjustable gain circuit controls the gain of the audio signal according whether the audio signal exceeds a variable threshold. The variable threshold is adjusted within a threshold range based on the supply voltage. Distortion due to clipping of the audio signal is minimized while available power at any given time is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Kenneth Carl Furge
  • System for automated generation of audio/video control interfaces
    Patent number: 8938675
    Abstract: A system for automating generation of an audio/video (AV) control interface includes a computing device having a processor to enable a user, with a user interface of the computing device, to configure the AV system. The processor may enable the user to draw output zones to create a representation of a geographical layout of a venue in which the AV system is located. The processor may enable the user to place transmitting and receiving AV devices within the output zones that substantially represent physical locations thereof within the venue. The processor may enable the user to logically associate receiving AV device channels of receiving AV devices within an output zone. The processor assigns parameters of the associated AV devices to a control interface for user control thereof. To do so, the processor identifies controllable parameters associated with the AV devices associated with the output zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam Holladay, Richard A. Kreifeldt, Gregory Matthew Nelson, Spencer Warren George
  • LOUDSPEAKER HORN
    Publication number: 20150014089
    Abstract: A horn for use with a loudspeaker may include an entrance disposed at a first axial end of the horn and configured to receive a driver. A mouth may be disposed at a second axial end of the horn opposite the entrance. A contoured surface may extend between the entrance and the mouth. A cross sectional shape of a coverage pattern of audible sound emitted by the loudspeaker coupled with the horn may be independent of a shape of the entrance and a shape of the mouth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Charles M. Sprinkle
  • Speaker surround structure for maximizing cone diameter
    Patent number: 8934656
    Abstract: A surround that is generally arched in shape and that includes a radial exterior flange that extends downward from exterior side of the arched portion of the surround and that adhesively attaches to the inner wall or edge of the mounting ring of the frame of the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Ronnie S. Espiritu
  • System and method for automatically posting user-location information to a social network
    Patent number: 8930452
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically interfacing with Internet-based social networks for safely providing friends of a mobile user with location updates. In particular, a system and method are provided for automatically posting user-location information to a social network. A system interface receives user data including a location update activation indicator and location update conditions. A navigation engine obtains information associated with the current location of the mobile user. A social network client module of the system is configured to determine that the location activation indicator is active and to determine that a location update condition is met. A communications interface automatically posts a location update to the social network if the social network client determines that at least one location update condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvin Baalu, Dibyendu Chatterjee, Ramana Rao
  • Speaker and mixer assembly
    Patent number: 8929579
    Abstract: A transportable audio system is described. The transportable audio system may include a speaker module and speaker mating module. The speaker module may include a backside mating edge and a backside interior inset from the backside mating edge. The backside mating edge may include a first attachment mechanism. The speaker mating module may include a frontside mating edge and a frontside face. The frontside mating edge may include a second attachment mechanism. The speaker mating module may be removably mountable to the speaker module via the first and second attachment mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Val Kalyuzhny, Tim Nugent
  • Loudspeaker
    Patent number: D722595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Damian Mackiewicz, Alexander Demin, Hyungwoo Yoon
  • Display screen with icon
    Patent number: D722616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Philipp Sonnleitner, Andy Brown, Robert Huber, Bjorn Sorensen, Detlef Meier
  • Side cheek of an audio mixing board
    Patent number: D723006
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Andrew Pat
  • Headphone
    Patent number: D723508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Tylor Garland, Stephen Bradford
  • Headphone
    Patent number: D723509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Tylor Garland, Stephen Bradford
  • Transducer cover
    Patent number: D724569
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Charles M. Sprinkle
  • Earphone
    Patent number: D725081
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Seth D. Burgett, Aaron Gorga, Effrosini A. Karayiannis