Patents Examined by Daniell L. Negrón
  • Patent number: 11769590
    Abstract: A system and a method for remotely controlling a medical device based on image data are disclosed. The system includes a medical device, an image sensor, and a remote caregiver interface. The medical device includes a controller coupled to a communication network. The image sensor is coupled to the communication network and is configured to capture image data. The remote caregiver interface is coupled to the communication network and is configured to display the image data for viewing by a user, receive a selected remote control function from the user, and transmit an input signal corresponding to the selected remote control function to the controller of the medical device to execute the selected remote control function based on the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Durlach, Ross Nave, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu
  • Patent number: 11763615
    Abstract: A method and system are provided in which information about a barcode on a package is received or more generally, information placed on a package by a delivery service (such as a barcode or other code) is detected. Characteristics of the information or code are extracted. The characteristics of the information or code are compared to characteristics of information or code associated with acceptable delivery services. If the characteristics of the code or information on the package correspond to characteristics of the information or code used by an acceptable delivery service, a locked area is unlocked to allow the package to be delivered. In other embodiments, other types of markings may be placed on the package by the delivery service, and the storage system may check whether those markings have, or information has, the characteristics of an acceptable delivery service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Luxer Corporation
    Inventors: Arik Seth Levy, Bryan Robert Peebler, David Patrick O'Riva
  • Patent number: 11756326
    Abstract: A keepout zone detection system and method for a hazardous area, such as the workspace around a power tool, that includes a safety device that controls a safety event, such as disabling the power tool, and a keepout zone detection device that includes at least one imager for imaging a workspace associated with the power tool. A processor dynamically determines the keepout zone specific to the power tool based on information received from the imager(s) or by referring to a predetermined keepout zone stored in a memory, where the processor includes a pre-trained neural network that processes the received images to further identify the presence of human appendage(s) within the keepout zone; and a communication device that communicates with the safety device to control the safety event, such as disabling the power tool, based on the determination of the presence of the human appendage within the keepout zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LANTERN HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Chad Thomas Green
  • Patent number: 11726568
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed defining haptic patterns that include both haptic events and audio events, and optionally include video or animation. The haptic patterns can be called from an application or included as an attachment to a message and played on an electronic device that receives the message. A haptics application programming interface has a haptic experience mapping functionality that generates a same, or similar, haptic experience on different manufacturers or models of electronic devices having different haptic hardware. Haptic patterns can include synchronized haptic and audio events. Haptic event attributes include start time, sharpness, and intensity. Sharpness and/or intensity can be controlled via a parameter envelope for a single event, or for multiple events in a haptic pattern. Sharpness indicates a quality of the tactile sensation of a haptic event, from smooth or rounded, to sharp or precise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Douglas A. Scott, Michael Y. Diu, Camille Moussette, Jean-Pierre Mouilleseaux, Linus Persson, Madeleine Cordier, Jules Fennis, Mel He, Brian Gleeson
  • Patent number: 11690421
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamically personalizing a respiratory mask. A method for the dynamic personalization of a respiratory mask includes electronically scanning an identification of a guest on an oceangoing vessel, querying a data store of images of guest faces for an image of a face matching the identification of the guest, retrieving the matching image of the face into memory of the computing system, loading a printer with a respiratory mask such as an N95 mask or a KN95 mask, printing onto the mask a portion of the matching image of the face corresponding to a portion of the face obscured by the mask when the mask is worn by the guest and ejecting the mask with the printing from the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nick Weir
  • Patent number: 11694541
    Abstract: A load control system may include devices for performing communications for controlling an amount of power provided to an electrical load. The devices may include load control devices that may communicate by transmitting digital messages. A user device having an adjustable wireless communication range may be used for discovering devices, configuring devices, and/or diagnosing devices in the load control system. The user device may detect whether devices are within an established wireless communication range of one another for performing communications. The user device may detect digital messages transmitted from a device and/or digital messages received at a device to determine whether the digital messages are correctly communicated in the load control system. The user device may provide an indication to a user indicating whether a digital message is correctly transmitted or received by a device in the load control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Jordan H. Crafts, Kyle Thomas Barco, Bryan Robert Barnes, David J. Dolan, William Bryce Fricke, Joel Hnatow, Jonathan T. Lenz
  • Patent number: 11676432
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory circuitry, an interface circuitry, and a processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to determine prioritization data associated with the one or more access control devices. The processor circuitry is configured to control, based on the prioritization data, at least one of the one or more access control devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Carl-Johan Weiderstrand
  • Patent number: 11676436
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for managing a parking facility. A host processor may receive identification information relating to a vehicle entering, exiting and/or parked in the parking facility. The host processor may determine an account associated with the vehicle, based on the identification information and on account information associated with the account. The host processor may determine that the vehicle is authorized to park in the parking facility, based on the account information. And host processor transmits permission information to a user device to thereby allow the vehicle to enter, exit and/or remain parked in the parking facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Marc Chelnik
  • Patent number: 11676479
    Abstract: Multiple portable electronic devices within an exemplary system functionally cooperate amongst themselves to access a remotely controllable device. These portable electronic devices execute exemplary prioritization routines to identify a preferred portable electronic device from among the portable electronic devices to access the remotely controllable device. Thereafter, the exemplary system transfers ownership of a software implemented access token to the preferred portable electronic device to allow the preferred portable electronic device to access the remotely controllable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yann Ly-Gagnon, Arun Unkn
  • Patent number: 11645867
    Abstract: A device, method and system for controlling an access point based on movement trends of a mover is provided. A device receives images from a camera device, the camera device configured to image a region adjacent an access point, the access point initially in a first state that prevents access therethrough. The device identifies a designator of a mover in the images. The device determines, using the designator in the images, direction vectors of the mover. The device determines a trend of movement of the mover, relative to the access point, based on changes in one or more of slope and angle of the direction vectors of the mover. The device, in response to determining that the mover is trending towards the access point, changes the access point from the first state to a second state that provides access therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Shervin Sabripour, Kurt Grossnickle, Patrick D. Koskan
  • Patent number: 11640737
    Abstract: For secure and safe access control, a method authenticates a user of an equipment unit with a user credential. The method determines an equipment status for the equipment unit. The equipment status includes one of energized and un-energized and one of locked and unlocked. The method determines whether the user is authorized to access the equipment unit with an equipment authorization. The determination that the user is authorized is based on the equipment status. In response to the user being authenticated and authorized to access the equipment unit energized or the user being authorized to access the equipment unit un-energized and the equipment unit being un-energized, the method releases a unit lock for the equipment unit with a unit lock credential and the user credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roberto Marques, James K. Newbern, Calvin C. Steinweg, Robert Dilgard
  • Patent number: 11600109
    Abstract: A system that detects whether a user interacting with a featured activity is wearing glasses is described. The system verifies that the user is wearing the glasses and the system prompts the user and a caregiver and may blur, stop or otherwise interrupt a user experience of a featured activity, such as a video game or film, when the system determined that the user is not wearing the glasses. A glasses module may be positioned at frame of the glasses at a head of the user to detect that the user is wearing the glasses. Optical facial processing may detect a face and glasses on the face. Also disclosed is a hearing aid that may be integrated with such a system. A glasses module that aids in depth perception by reporting distance ahead, and a system that trains eye contact with another person wearing glasses are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Barry Katz
  • Patent number: 11587379
    Abstract: An embodiment system for authenticating a user of a robotaxi includes a smart phone configured to request an authentication of the user based on a digital key, an authentication server configured to create a first authentication number, transmit the first authentication number to the smart phone, receive a second authentication number from the robotaxi when the authentication using the digital key fails, and request unlocking of a door to the robotaxi when the first authentication number and the second authentication number match, and the robotaxi configured to receive the second authentication number from the user, transmit the second authentication number to the authentication server, and unlock the door in response to the request from the authentication server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Da Ye Oh
  • Patent number: 11573601
    Abstract: A portable electronic device that can operate even when electric power supplied through contactless charge by electromagnetic induction is low is provided. The portable electronic device includes a reflective liquid crystal display which includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a power source portion which includes a rechargeable battery capable of charge by contactless charge, and a signal processing portion which includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. In the portable electronic device, electric power stored in the rechargeable battery is used in the reflective liquid crystal display and the signal processing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama
  • Patent number: 11568697
    Abstract: A system includes a lighting module, a processing module, and photovoltaic units. Each of the photovoltaic units receives light reflected off a body portion which is illuminated by light from the lighting module, and converts light energy of the reflected light into electricity. The processing module stores modes each of which specifies a code set. When one of the modes is selected, the processing module activates the lighting module to emit light based on the code set specified by the mode thus selected. The processing module converts electrical quantities measured individually for the photovoltaic units into respective code parameters, and composes an identification code using the code parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ruei-Tang Chen, Fong-Lang Wu
  • Patent number: 11557159
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to perform obtaining result data indicating a result of locking and unlocking performed by a locking and unlocking device that performs locking and unlocking based on authentication information obtained from a portable terminal carried by a user, and generating, based on the result data, proposal data including a proposal for a service to be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Patent number: 11550396
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that generates, on the basis of control information relating to tactile stimulation to be perceived by a second user as configured by a first user and on the basis of characteristics of a tactile stimulation unit that outputs the tactile stimulation to the second user, a control signal which is inputted to the tactile stimulation unit and which serves to cause the second user to perceive the tactile stimulation indicated by the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11544980
    Abstract: An electronic key storage device including an openable and closable door and a plurality of key holders includes a storage unit configured to store key information of an electronic key usable for each registered user and location information of the key holder matching the electronic key, a user authentication unit configured to perform user authentication by receiving user authentication information so that the door is openable or closable, and a control unit configured to control a fastening operation of the key holder to put the electronic key in the key holder and take the electronic key out of the key holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PLATFORMBASE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Bum Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11532190
    Abstract: An access control system includes an energy efficient access control that operates as a Wi-Fi access point that broadcasts a Service Set Identifier (SSID) as indicator of access control level to communicate with a mobile device with WPA2 PSK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Vijaya Ramaraju Lakamraju, Haifeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11532218
    Abstract: Detecting unauthorized access of a locked key container having a key for a vehicle or a premises. An indication is received at a sensor coupled to the key that the key container is being tampered with. A notification is sent in response to receiving the indication that the key container is being tampered with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramesh Lingala, Biswaranjan Pattanaik, Adam Kuenzi