Abstract: A knock detection device includes a proximity sensor, at least one sound sensor, and a signal processing unit. The proximity sensor and the sound sensor are respectively electrically connected to the signal processing unit. The signal processing unit receives and/or processes the signal of the sound sensor according to the signal of the proximity sensor. A household appliance includes the knock detection device. The knock detection device is disposed inside the household appliance on the back side of a panel provided for knocking by a user.

Abstract: A detection sensor or a user device is used to aid in providing authentication and activation of a door system when a user tries to access the door for ingress and egress. Operating parameters of the door systems may be set to allow ingress and egress only when a user is identified and authorized. As such, the operating parameters of the door systems may include authentication and activation parameters such that the door systems are controlled, at least in part, based on the presence of a user and/or a user device and the identification of the specific user. As such operating parameters may be different for different users or types of users. Moreover, the user device may be used to authenticate a user and control ingress and egress through the door automatically or through an authentication action taken by the user.

Abstract: A medical alert device that may be used to transmit a medical alert over a wireless network. The medical alert device includes a microprocessor for controlling the operation of the device, a data store configured to store the phone number of at least one predetermined call recipient, and a wireless communication module that is connectable to a wireless network. The medical alert device also includes a preprogrammed user actuatable button that is configured to, upon being actuated, initiate the execution of software instructions by the microprocessor to retrieve a phone number stored on the data store. The microprocessor may then connect to the wireless network and establish a communication link with the predetermined call recipient by dialing the phone number. Also disclosed are peripheral devices that may be operatively connected to the medical alert device.

Abstract: A system for patient data exchange is provided and includes a plurality of sensors monitoring a patient according to a default sensor configuration, and a patient data exchange engine that receives a request comprising one or more parameters, identifies at least one applicable sensor from the plurality of sensors based on the one or more parameters, and reconfigures the at least one applicable sensor from the default sensor configuration to a different sensor configuration in accordance with the one or more parameters to generate applicable sensor data responsive to the request. In specific embodiments, the patient data exchange engine further computes a monetary value for the generated sensor data based at least on an attribute of the patient and an attribute of the sensor data.

Abstract: The wireless power transmission is a system for providing wireless charging and/or primary power to electronic/electrical devices via microwave energy. The microwave energy is focused to a location by a power transmitter having one or more adaptively-phased microwave array emitters. Rectennas within the device to be charged receive and rectify the microwave energy and use it for battery charging and/or for primary power.

Abstract: A computer system includes memory configured to store a universal data curation platform including multiple device profiles each including multiple fields for storing received device attributes in a standardized format. A processor is configured to execute instructions that include registering a first monitor device of a first vendor with a first member, registering a second monitor device of the first vendor or a second vendor with the first member or a second member, and receiving streaming health data from the devices. The instructions include transforming and storing multiple data values sensed by the first and second monitor device into standardized format device attributes of device profiles corresponding to the first and second monitor devices, and supplying the stored standardized format device attributes to at least one data analysis engine to determine one or more health characteristics of at least one of the first member and the second member.

Abstract: Digital pass verification systems and methods are disclosed herein. An apparatus disclosed herein includes memory including instructions that, when executed, cause processor circuitry to: access a result of a diagnostic test associated with a test kit identification; associate the result of the diagnostic test with a user identification; and transmit the result of the diagnostic test and the test kit identification to a first device to cause the first device to generate a machine-readable pass on a display of the first device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control method of a control device, the control method including determining whether a movable object is located in a first area using a detection sensor, activating a first mode among operation modes of the control device when it is determined that the movable object is located in the first area, acquiring user confirmation information from a terminal when the first mode is activated wherein the user confirmation information corresponds to user-specific information stored in the terminal and is provided to the terminal by a server before the terminal provides the user confirmation information to the control device, transmitting processing request information based on the user confirmation information to the server so that the server performs processing on the user confirmation information, acquiring a processing result for the user confirmation information from the server, and providing the processing result for the user confirmation information to the terminal.

Abstract: An onboard device estimates a traveling state of a vehicle that may be influenced by the psychological state of a driver, based on an utterance of the driver without the use of various sensors, and includes: a voice collection unit for collecting a driver's voice; a traveling state collection unit for collecting traveling state information representing a traveling state of a vehicle; a database generation unit for generating a database by associating voice information corresponding to the collected voice with the collected traveling state information; a learning unit for learning an estimation model, with pairs including the voice information and the traveling state information recorded in the generated database being used as learning data; and an estimation unit for estimating the traveling state of the vehicle that may be influenced by a psychological state of the driver by using the estimation model, based on an utterance of the driver.

Abstract: A physical location access control system is configured to receive. via a network interface, a request to provide a temporary access right for a first physical location to a first user, the request providing an indication as to a first time period associated with the temporary access right. In response to determining that the requester has an access right to the first physical location for a second time period that comprises the first time period, a temporary access token corresponding to the first time period is created and the requester's access right to access the first physical location for the first time period is disabled. The temporary access token is transmitted to a device associated with the first user, enabling the first user to access the first physical location during the first time period.

Abstract: A penetration-type monitor includes a casing pipe and sensor penetration scissors, the sensor penetration scissors are arranged in a shear shape, and a first blade and a second blade rotate close to each other or away from each other in the vertical direction so as to define an initial position and a monitoring position of the sensor penetration scissors; when the sensor penetration scissors are located at the initial position, ends of pressed portions of the first blade and the second blade are arranged at an interval one above the other, when the sensor penetration scissors are located at the monitoring position, the pressed portions move close to each other, and shearing portions penetrate out of a mounting hole to shear a sliding mass; and a monitor arrangement system drives the sensor penetration scissors to move from the initial position to the monitoring position.

Abstract: A wireless signal blocking lockbox comprises a housing and a locking mechanism is presented. The housing comprises an access panel, a plurality of layers, and a storage body. The plurality of layers comprises an outer layer, a wireless signal blocking layer, and an inner layer. The access panel and the storage body are selectively connected to each other through the locking mechanism. The plurality of layers is distributed about the housing. The wireless signal blocking layer is positioned between the outer layer and the inner layer.

Abstract: A method of requesting a lock-event utilizing a regional lock-state system is configured to request a lock-event by sending a lock-event request from a mobile device to a control arrangement. Upon receipt, the lock-event request is recorded by the control arrangement. An administrator notification is then sent to an administrator device for alerting an administrator. The lock-event command is initiated by the administrator via the administrator device. A lock event directive is then sent to the mobile device. Upon receipt, a lock-event command is sent from the mobile device to a lock assembly.

Abstract: An automated vehicle parking system uses a driver's authentication device, such as a mobile phone or portable tag, to identify the driver. Vehicle sensing terminals detect when and where a vehicle has parked and send wireless notifications to the vehicle owner's authentication device. The authentication device, the vehicle sensing terminal and a cloud server interact using secure wireless communications to validate the driver's qualifications and record the parking event. Vehicle sensing terminals detect when the vehicle leaves its parking space and the parking system automatically terminates the parking session. The authentication device handles the bulk of the communication with the cloud server to reduce consumption of the vehicle sensing terminal's power supply. The sensing and portable tag devices communicate using secure tokens that are encrypted with unique individual or group keys.

Abstract: A key information management device includes: a key information distribution unit configured to distribute key information to a company that provides a delivery service that allows an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user to be designated as a delivery destination of a package, key information being used by a delivery person of the company to unlock a specified entrance of the vehicle, the building, or the facility; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the delivery person who delivers the package has reached within a specified range of the vehicle, the building, or the facility, wherein the key information distribution unit is configured to distribute the key information to the company when the determination unit determines that the delivery person has reached within the specified range of the vehicle, the building, or the facility.

Abstract: Calibration of a sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a sensor configured to sense a condition. In the sensing device, a voltage-dividing resistance and a reference voltage of an analog-to-digital converter are set to configure a quantization range of the analog-to-digital converter given characteristics of the sensor. During calibration, a binary search is performed between lower and upper limits of the voltage-dividing resistance, which is a variable resistance, to find the resistance of the voltage-dividing resistance at which the sensing device is operated.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to unlock the locker when the user device is in the vicinity of the locker. The locker may include a beacon for detecting and pairing with the user devices. Pairing the user device and the locker may include entering a locker identifier into the user device to ensure that the intended user device is paired with the intended locker.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a method and a system to reduce electromagnetic pollution deriving from smartphones and portable devices. Some mobile device modules can be disabled during a call or black screen mode. The user can be notified in case of abnormal values. The system and method operate using algorithms, software, devices, and databases allowing data sharing of user behavior, and allow for electromagnetic pollution data savings to be displayed on a map.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes a biometric information sensor to read biometric information of a user, a biometric information storage unit to pre-register biometric information of a registered person as registered biometric information for verification, a determination unit to determine whether or not a captured image captured by the biometric information sensor is suitable for biometric authentication, and to perform biometric authentication by comparing the captured image to the registered biometric information registered in the biometric information storage unit when the determination unit determines that the captured image is suitable for the biometric authentication, and a notification unit to issue a notification indicating that the captured image is unsuitable for the biometric authentication.