Patents Examined by Marlon T. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 11756515
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method and system for generating musical notations for a musical score. The method comprises receiving, via a first user interface, a musical note event of the musical score, processing, via a processing arrangement, the received musical note event of the musical score to determine one or more relevant music profile definitions therefor, defining, via the processing arrangement, one or more parameters to be associated with the received musical note event of the musical score based, at least in part, on the determined one or more relevant music profile definitions therefor and generating, via the processing arrangement, at least one notation output for the received musical note event of the musical score based on the defined one or more parameters associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Vasilij Pereverzev
  • Patent number: 11755280
    Abstract: A media-playback device acquires a heart rate, selects a song with a first tempo, and initiates playback of the song. The song meets a set of qualification criteria and the first tempo is based on the heart rate, such as being equal to or less than the heart rate. The media-playback device also initiates playback of a binaural beat at a first frequency. Over a period of time, the binaural beat's first frequency is changed to a second frequency. Over the period of time, the first tempo can also be changed to a second tempo, where the second tempo is slower than the first tempo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Mateo Rando, Tristan Jehan
  • Patent number: 11749446
    Abstract: A common-mode choke coil is configured such that in one turn of a stranded portion, a number of times a first wire is disposed outside a second wire on a first side surface of a core is equal to a number of times the second wire is disposed outside the first wire on a second side surface that is opposite to the first side surface. Also, a number of times the first wire is disposed outside the second wire on a top surface of the core is equal to a number of times the second wire is disposed outside the first wire on a bottom surface that is opposite to the top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Hashimoto, Takashi Sukegawa
  • Patent number: 11745984
    Abstract: An object of the present application is to obtain a door-pinch detection device and an elevator door device that enable detection of a string-shaped object. Accordingly, the elevator door device of the present application includes: a door panel of an elevator; and a first attachment section and a second attachment section installed on at least either one of a front face or a back face of the door panel, the first attachment section including a pressure sensor, the second attachment section including a repulsive member installed in a manner for the pressure sensor to be housed therein when doors of the elevator are closed, thus enabling adjustment of an angle of the pressure sensor relative to the door panel. Therefore, door-pinch of an alien object can be detected with an improved accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiko Koketsu
  • Patent number: 11749445
    Abstract: A laminated coil component includes an element body, a coil, and a pair of conductors. The pair of conductors is disposed on the element body. Each of the pair of conductors has an L shape when viewed from the third direction. Each of the pair of conductors includes a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion. The first conductor portion is disposed on one of first side faces. The second conductor portion is disposed on a pair of end faces. The coil includes a first coil portion and a second coil portion. The first coil portion includes a first straight portion and a pair of second straight portions. The pair of second straight portions is connected to both ends of the first straight portion. The second coil portion is curved as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Yuto Shiga, Kazuya Tobita, Youichi Kazuta, Yuya Ishima, Satoru Okamoto, Shunji Aoki
  • Patent number: 11749449
    Abstract: An inductor component includes a bottom plate portion that includes a first main surface and a second main surface; an annular core that is disposed on the bottom plate portion; a coil that is wound around the core; and an electrode terminal that is attached to the bottom plate portion and electrically connected to the coil. The electrode terminal includes a mounting surface portion configured to connect to a mount substrate. The core is disposed on the first main surface of the bottom plate portion so that an axis of the core intersects the first main surface of the bottom plate portion. The mounting surface portion is exposed on the second main surface side of the bottom plate portion, and at least a part of the mounting surface portion overlaps the core when seen in a direction perpendicular to the first main surface of the bottom plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sasaki, Shinya Hirai, Shin Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11738968
    Abstract: A device and a method for controlling an apparatus being an elevator, an escalator or automatic doors are provided, by which it is detected whether a fault is present in the apparatus, it is determined, when the fault is present, whether an automatic fault clearing may be carried out, and if it is determined that the automatic fault clearing may be carried out, the automatic fault clearing is performed by automatically clearing one or more faults.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matti Mustonen, Shaun Sequeira
  • Patent number: 11742127
    Abstract: An inductor component includes a base body, a first coil line and a second coil line, a first substantially columnar line and a second substantially columnar line, and a third substantially columnar line and a fourth substantially columnar line. The first substantially columnar line is located closer to the third substantially columnar line than the fourth substantially columnar line. A minimum distance X1 between the first substantially columnar line and the third substantially columnar line is shorter than a minimum distance Y between a first portion of the first coil line and a second portion of the second coil line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Shinya Hirai, Akinori Hamada, Ryuichiro Tominaga, Koichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11738970
    Abstract: A touchless elevator call button selection device utilizing a plurality of infrared beams is disclosed along with its method of use. By using beams of light to detect the position of a user's hand, the touchless elevator call button selection device allows the user to interface with the elevator control system without physically coming into contact with the elevator control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Upward Technology LLC
    Inventors: Dean Speranza, Da Wang, Jamie Wekerle, Sean Zeoli
  • Patent number: 11735152
    Abstract: A musical sound generation device includes a control device which, when a performance operator among a plurality of performance operators has been operated for a part that has been set to sound a predetermined number of simulated voices of an analog synthesizer, assigns a sounding parameter of one or two or more voices, which form a timbre of a simulated voice of the analog synthesizer corresponding to the operated performance operator and are selected from a plurality of sounding voices, to a sound generation circuit, and assigns, to the sound generation circuit, an information set selected from a plurality of information sets and each include a variation value that applies a variation to the sounding parameter of the one or two or more voices, and a sound generation circuit that performs a sounding process of the one or two or more voices using the sounding parameter and the information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwamoto, Takeshi Isogawa
  • Patent number: 11735350
    Abstract: An inductor includes a body including a coil and a magnetic portion, and having two facing principal surfaces and side surfaces adjacent to the two principal surfaces. The coil includes a winding portion formed from a conductor and a pair of extended portions extended from the winding portion. The magnetic portion includes magnetic powder and contains the coil. The winding portion includes a first meandering portion and a second meandering portion each including straight portions continuously formed so as to extend substantially circularly from an outer side to an inner side of the body when the winding portion is seen through the principal surfaces of the body from the principal surfaces. The first and second meandering portions are continuously formed on the inner side of the body. The straight portions constituting the first meandering portion and the straight portions constituting the second meandering portion are disposed apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianxin Sheng
  • Patent number: 11735351
    Abstract: A pair of iron-based E-shaped cores is arranged so that middle leg core parts of respective E-shaped cores are disposed opposite each other, and coils are respectively attached to the middle leg core parts in a winding state. A cross-sectional area of the middle leg core part orthogonal to an extending direction thereof and a cross-sectional area of an outer leg core part orthogonal to an extending direction thereof have a specified relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11727904
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described that are utilized for remotely controlling a musical instrument. A first digital record comprising musical instrument digital commands from a first electronic instrument for a first item of music is accessed. The first digital record is transmitted over a network using a network interface to a remote, second electronic instrument for playback to a first user. Optionally, video data is streamed to a display device of a user while the first digital record is played back by the second electronic instrument. A key change command is transmitted over the network using the network interface to the second electronic instrument to cause the second electronic instrument to playback the first digital record for the first item of music in accordance with the key change command. The key change command may be transmitted during the streaming of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: VoiceLessons, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael John Elson
  • Patent number: 11724907
    Abstract: Systems and methods floor bypass in an elevator system are provided. Aspects includes receiving, by the first controller, a first elevator destination call to a first floor, wherein the first destination call causes a first elevator car to dispatch to the first floor. First sensor data associated with a first passenger area associated with the first elevator car is collected, from the first sensor. A presence of a passenger in the first passenger area is detected based at least in part on the first sensor data. And the first elevator car is operated based on the presence of the passenger in the first passenger area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Rajinikanth Pusala, Pradeep Miriyala
  • Patent number: 11718504
    Abstract: The present invention provides device system and a method for monitoring movements of mining conveyances in a mine shaft. One or more sensors that form part of the system may be installed directly on the mining conveyances. The sensors may be accelerometers and are for detecting movements on mining conveyances. The system may analyze the descent and ascent paths of the mining conveyances on guides by recording vertical, horizontal and transverse accelerations. The analysis may comprise associating the movements with position of the mining conveyances on the guides for identification of an anomaly at a specific position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HIS MAJESTY THE KING IN RIGHT OF CANADA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Yan Germain, Daniel Côté, Louis Germain
  • Patent number: 11721312
    Abstract: A system and methods for collaborating on a musical composition over a communication network, the system having processing circuitry that obtains the musical composition stored within a data storage device of the system, the musical composition including a first musical input data associated with a first channel, receives, via the communication network, second musical input data from a client device, the second musical input data being associated with a second channel, generates a data block based on the received second musical input data, the generated data block including synchronization data associated with the second musical input data relative to at least a portion of the musical composition, and transmits the data block to memory, the memory being accessible via the communication network to the client device and other client devices that are collaborating on the musical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MIXED IN KEY LLC
    Inventors: Yakov Vorobyev, Fabian Hernandez, Isaac Sprintis
  • Patent number: 11715590
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor component includes an element body that is an insulator and a coil in which a plurality of coil conductor layers that extend along planes in the element body are electrically connected to each other. Also, each of the coil conductor layers includes metal part and glass part, and the glass part include internal glass portion that is entirely included in the metal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kido, Masahiro Kubota, Tomonori Sakata, Kenta Kondo, Shimpei Tanabe, Yoshiyuki Oota
  • Patent number: 11708242
    Abstract: A control system for an elevator includes a first car speed detection device and a second car speed detection device to measure a moving speed of the car, a hoist brake to apply braking to the hoist, emergency stop equipment to brake the car by grasping guide rails, and a control device to control the hoist, the hoist brake, and the emergency stop equipment based on outputs of the first car speed detection device and the second car speed detection device. If two pieces of velocity data that have been output from the first car speed detection device and the second car speed detection device respectively differ from one another and acceleration data of the car calculated from one that is higher of the two pieces of velocity data is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold, the control device decides if either car speed detection device is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kondo, Shinsuke Inoue, Naoaki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11702315
    Abstract: Elevator systems and methods for displaying information associated with the elevator systems. The systems including an elevator car located within an elevator shaft, a display located within the elevator car, and an elevator emergency monitoring system having an elevator shaft monitoring device mounted on the elevator car and configured to capture an image of the elevator shaft. The elevator car is operable in an emergency mode of operation such that an image captured by the elevator shaft monitoring device is displayed on the display within the elevator car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Nicolas Beaubois
  • Patent number: 11699550
    Abstract: An inductor structure includes a first curve metal component, a second curve metal component, a connection component, and a capacitor. The first and the second curve metal components are disposed on a layer. The layer is located at a first plane, the first and the second curve metal components are located at a second plane. The connection component is coupled to the first curve metal component and the second curve metal component. A first terminal of the connection component is coupled to a first terminal of the first curve metal component. A second terminal of the connection component is coupled to a first terminal of the second curve metal component. A first terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a second terminal of the first curve metal component. A second terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a second terminal of the second curve metal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiao-Tsung Yen, Chih-Yu Tsai, Kai-Yi Huang