Patents Examined by Marlon T. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 12295193
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes light emitting diode chips, each light emitting diode chip includes light emitting units which respectively emit light of different colors, each light emitting unit includes a first electrode, a light emitting layer, a base and a second electrode, and the base and the second electrode are respectively located at both sides of the light emitting layer. In each light emitting diode chip, the light emitting units share the base and the first electrode, the light emitting layers of the light emitting units emit light of the same color, and at least one light emitting unit further includes a first color conversion layer located at a side of the base away from the light emitting layer, so as to convert first color light emitted by the light emitting layer into second color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Can Wang, Wei Li, Lijun Yuan, Jingjing Zhang, Can Zhang, Jinfei Niu, Ning Cong, Minghua Xuan, Xiaochuan Chen, Xue Dong, Qi Qi
  • Patent number: 12245456
    Abstract: A display device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, and a third light emitting element that are disposed on a substrate and emitting light of different colors, respectively; a first insulation layer disposed on the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, and the third light emitting element, and including at least one opening; and a second insulation layer disposed on the first insulation layer, and disposed in the at least one opening, wherein a refractive index of the second insulation layer is higher than a refractive index of the first insulation layer, and the at least one opening overlaps at least one of the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, and the third light emitting element in a plan view, and does not overlap at least another one in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Jin Jeong, Jin Sook Bang, Sang Hoon Yim, Eun Jeong Hong, Kwan Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 12223932
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a harmony processing method and apparatus, a device, and a medium, and the method includes: acquiring a harmonic interval corresponding to a target harmony control in response to a triggering operation on the target harmony control; performing, according to the harmonic interval, sound modification processing on a first sound input originally to obtain a second sound, in which an interval between the first sound and the second sound is the harmonic interval; and generating a target audio according to the first sound and the second sound, wherein the first sound and the second sound are presented as different harmonic parts in the target audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Ma, Xuzhou Ye, Wenwu Liu
  • Patent number: 12190852
    Abstract: Playback, recording, and analysis of music scales via software configuration. In an embodiment, a graphical user interface is generated with staff and keyboard canvases, visually representing a music staff and keyboard, respectively, a scale input, parameter input(s), and a play input. In response to selection of a scale, the staff canvas is updated to visually represent the notes in the scale. In response to the selection of a musical parameter, the staff canvas and/or keyboard canvas are updated to reflect the musical parameter. In response to selection of the play input, a soundtrack of the scale is output, while simultaneously highlighting the note, being played, on the staff canvas and the key, associated with the note being played, on the keyboard canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Nutune Music, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Michael Joyce Wirtz, Matthew Joseph Joyce Wirtz, Sharon Aline Joyce
  • Patent number: 12183314
    Abstract: A method of distribution of digital musical scores for performance by a plurality of musicians. The method includes: receiving a musical score request from a user device; obtaining, via a musical score source, a set of musical score components of a musical part for a piece of music associated with the musical score request; obtaining a transmission delay value associated with a communication path; providing, from the musical score source and using the processor, at least one of the set of musical score components to the user device using a first distribution timing based on the obtained transmission delay value; and providing a set of corresponding musical score components of a different musical part for the piece of music to a different user device based on a different transmission delay value associated with the different user device, such as to enable coordinated playback by users without a conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Paul Andersson
  • Patent number: 12162723
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a method includes collecting a calibration set of vibration data for an elevator car at a plurality of landings in a hoistway. One or more characteristic signatures are determined at each of the landings based on the calibration set of vibration data. An analysis set of vibration data is collected for the elevator car. A position of the elevator car is identified in the hoistway based on comparing one or more features of the analysis set of vibration data to the one or more characteristic signatures. An indicator of the position of the elevator car in the hoistway is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Derk Oscar Pahlke, Craig Drew Bogli
  • Patent number: 12165622
    Abstract: An audio infusion system and method are disclosed. A source audio track is separated into a plurality of audio tracks (e.g., instrumental, vocal, or mixes thereof) and the audio tracks are individually processed to generate a plurality of binaural beat tracks. At least one spatialized track is also generated by filtering the source audio track to provide a filtered track, generating one or more spatialization trajectories based on certain audio feature(s) of the source audio track (e.g., tempo) and a target end-state effect, and spatializing the filtered track using the spatialization trajectories. Other tracks may also be generated, such as one or more infrasonic tracks, ultrasonic tracks, enhanced bass tracks, and/or subharmonic tracks. The tracks may be played simultaneously or mixed for delivery to an end user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED INSIGHTS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Bradford Evenstad, William Matthew Curley, Jason Stuart Doescher, Leigh Murray Smith
  • Patent number: 12157657
    Abstract: Disclosed is an elevator system having: a holding relay configured to energize and deenergize a circuit, the holding relay configured to communicate over a wireless network with a mobile device, wherein the holding relay is configured to: deenergize the circuit responsive to receiving a first signal via the wireless network from the mobile device, indicative of the mobile device being in or near a first architectural location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Ezhil Nanjappan, Andrew S. Bierer
  • Patent number: 12154535
    Abstract: A handheld musical instrument for playing a variety of audio program, the handheld musical instrument includes a main body portion with one or more sensors, a handle portion engaged with said main body portion, wherein said handle portion includes one or more control buttons to select a type of program to be played by said handheld musical instrument and a gesture detection module for detecting gestures associated with said handheld musical instrument and controlling a tempo associated with said program played by said handheld musical instrument based on said detected gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Arne Schulze
  • Patent number: 12139370
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a location of a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system including: detecting a first location of the conveyance apparatus at a first time using a position reference system; detecting a second location of the conveyance apparatus at a second time using at least one of a pressure sensor located on the conveyance apparatus and an acceleration sensor located on the conveyance apparatus; and determining that the second location is equivalent to the first location if the second time is within a selected range of the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Derk Oscar Pahlke
  • Patent number: 12136406
    Abstract: A method creates a virtual ensemble file by receiving, at a central assembler node, recorded performance files from a recording node(s). The recording nodes generate a respective one of the performance files concurrently with playing a backing track and/or nodal metronome signal. Each performance file includes audio and/or visual data. The assembler node generates the ensemble file as a digital output file. Another method creates the ensemble file by receiving input signals inclusive of the backing track and/or metronome signal at the recording node(s), and generating the performance files at the recording node(s) concurrently with playing the backing track and/or metronome signal. The performance files are transmitted to the assembler node. A computer-readable medium or media has instructions for creating the ensemble file, with execution causing a first node to generate the performance files, and a second node to receive the same and generate the ensemble file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Virtual Music Ensemble Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan B. Edwards, Brian S. Kim, Phillip D. Sylvester
  • Patent number: 12122639
    Abstract: An elevator interface, communication, and control system including: a first elevator car configured to move through a first elevator shaft, the first elevator car including elevator doors configured to open and close; a first controller in electronic communication with the first elevator car; a conversion module in electronic communication with the first controller; and a first wireless access point in electronic communication with the conversion module through a hardwired connection, the first wireless access point being configured to wirelessly receive a first command from a first mobile computing device via a wireless protocol, wherein the first wireless access point is configured to transmit the first command to the conversion module, the conversion module is configured to transmit the first command to the first controller, and the first controller is configured to transmit the first command to the first elevator car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Cuauhtemoc Castro, Patricia Derwinski, Nicholas N. Fraser
  • Patent number: 12110211
    Abstract: A break detection device includes an extraction unit (22), an extraction unit (23), a detection unit (24), and a determination unit (26). The extraction unit (22) extracts, from an output signal from a sensor, a vibration component in a specific frequency band. The extraction unit (23) attenuates, from the vibration component extracted by the extraction unit (22), a steady vibration component and a progressively increasing vibration component to extract a determination signal. The detection unit (24) detects, on the basis of the determination signal, occurrence of an abnormal variation in the output signal from the sensor. The determination unit (26) determines whether or not a rope has a broken portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazawa, Toshiaki Kato, Daiki Fukui, Hiroyuki Murakami, Satoshi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 12110210
    Abstract: Disclosed is an elevator system including an elevator car, a sensor operationally connected to the elevator car, and a smart device configured to: display collected sensor data, instruct the sensor to dynamically collect sensor data, displaying dynamically collected data, thereby dynamically illustrating trends in the sensed data. Further disclosed is a method of collecting sensor data in an elevator system using one or more features and elements of the disclosed elevator system, wherein the method includes display collected sensor data, instructing the sensor to dynamically collect sensor data, and displaying dynamically collected data, thereby dynamically illustrating trends in the sensed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Ranjith Vushakola, Srinivasa Rao Ladi
  • Patent number: 12112732
    Abstract: A sensing system for a keyboard. Each key sensor comprises passive and active resonant circuits. The passive resonant circuit has a resonant frequency and the active resonant circuit excites the passive resonant circuit at the resonant frequency. A sensor driver drives the active resonant circuit with an RF drive signal, a multiplexing system multiplexes the drive signal such that simultaneously driven key sensors are separated by at least (k?1) keys, and a detector detects a level of RF signal from a driven key sensor for sensing a position and/or velocity of a key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SONUUS LIMITED
    Inventors: James Hastings Clark, John Michael McAuliffe
  • Patent number: 12098058
    Abstract: An automatic configuration method of fixture and a fixture. The automatic configuration method of fixture includes: S1: sending, by a fixture, a predetermined request toward a predetermined address to an elevator controller; S2: judging a control function corresponding to the predetermined address; and S3: configuring the fixture according to the control function corresponding to the predetermined address. The automatic configuration method of fixture and the fixture of the present invention have the advantages of being simple, reliable, convenient to maintain and the like, and can automatically configure the fixture during installation and maintenance, effectively improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Heping Qiu, Tan Liu
  • Patent number: 12098057
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for performing validation of a passenger boarding, where the embodiments include receiving a call request, and detecting beacon information responsive to the call request. The techniques also include validating a boarding status of a passenger that placed the call request based at least in part on the beacon information, and responsive to the validation, transmitting a notification of the boarding status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jayapal Reddy Gireddy, Ganesh Rajarapu
  • Patent number: 12091285
    Abstract: A method for determining the mass of a car and counterweight of an elevator, running in an elevator shaft along their traveling paths driven by an elevator motor, in which method at least one test run is performed preferably as complete round trip of the elevator car and counterweight, in which test run a) the hoisting system balance mB, b) the hoisting system friction F?S, and c) the hoisting system compensation ?B is calculated from constant speed data, and in which test run d) the hoisting system inertia mass mI is calculated from constant acceleration/deceleration data. From these parameters the weight of the car and counterweight is calculated without any need of weight measurements, but merely by using the power data of the elevator drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tapio Tyni, Pekka Perälä
  • Patent number: 12091282
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an elevator, including: a first power converter; a second power converter; and switching means. The switching means being configured to selectively achieve: a first circuit configuration that causes the first power converter to operate as the regenerative converter, and also causes the second power converter to operate as the inverter; and a second circuit configuration that causes the second power converter to operate as the regenerative converter, and also causes the first power converter to operate as the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Kajita
  • Patent number: 12077409
    Abstract: An elevator control system, an elevator system, and a control method therefor. The elevator control system includes: a data collection unit configured to receive a call request signal from a machine passenger at each landing, and receive information about the machine to ride the elevator sent by the machine passenger; and a control unit configured to determine whether to accept the call request from the machine passenger based on elevator operating condition and the information about the machine to ride the elevator, and send information about the rules of riding the elevator to the machine passenger after accepting its call request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Xingang Gou