Patents Examined by Thomas Alunkal
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Patent number: 9792940Abstract: Using a high sample rate dPES, together with pulsed heater and lock-in technique, to improve dPES SNR for contact detection between the head and media surface. Steps of powering a transducing head actuator with pulsed input signal at a select data track offset from a previously-written to data track of the storage medium, where the pulsed input signal has select amplitude and duty cycle to simulate a response signal, and further locking in an amplitude with respect to the heater frequency, can lead to a determination of level of heater power for initiating contact between the transducing head and the storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Lin Zhou, Juil Lee, Dongming Liu, Huazhou Lou
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Patent number: 9792746Abstract: A safety system and a method using a safety system having at least one mobile key unit (2) with an evaluation unit (3) and having a key station (4) with a receiver for the key unit (2), wherein at least one spatially restricted access zone (6) is arranged having an access station (7) for a facility (8), wherein the key unit (2) is configured for reading data from at least one checking station (9) within a safety zone (16) of the facility (8), wherein the data comprise identification data for the checking station (9), and wherein the mobile key unit (2) has an interface (10) by means of which the data can be wirelessly transmitted from the checking station (9) to the key unit (2), with the checking unit (9) only being accessible via the access zone (6) so that the access zone (6) can be passed through by a person (17) having the key unit (2) before reaching the checking station (9) and after the leaving of the checking station (9), with the data of the key unit (2) being able to be transmitted to the key statiType: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: SICK AGInventor: Fabio Victor Dominik Brunner
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Patent number: 9792928Abstract: A technique includes in a data storage device, sensing a plurality of data streams from a track of storage media as the media moves in a given direction using a plurality of read elements such that at least one of the read elements is redundant. The technique includes combining the data streams to generate a data stream indicating data read from the track.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignees: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Quantum CorporationInventors: Mike Alan Holmberg, John D. Hampton, Turguy Goker, Robert Brummet, JaeWook Lee
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Patent number: 9775329Abstract: An automatic drive unit for a door assembly of the type having a frame with an opening, a door positionable within the opening between an open position and a closed position, and a door actuator for moving the door between the open and closed positions, includes a controller circuit having a power source, a timing circuit for reporting the date and time to a processor, a non-volatile memory, a programmed set of instructions, and a display. The programmed set of instructions are adapted for receiving input of a location and open and close offset times, and storing such information in the memory. The controller circuit executing the instructions determines based on its location and the date a sunrise time and a sunset time, opens the door at the sunrise time plus the open offset time, and closes the door at the sunset time plus the close offset time.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Inventor: Elam Miller
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Patent number: 9773430Abstract: The present invention provides a medical hand controller for disabilities, including a hand controller body; a control button, arranged on the body and applied to control a motor terminal; a voice broadcast device installed inside the hand controller body and applied to voice broadcast a function of the button when the control button is pressed and lasted for an overlong period exceeding a preset value, wherein, the voice broadcast device connects to the control button electrically; and an emboss, set on the control button, applied to mark the function. When a blind or a user with poor eyesight is operating the hand controller, if a control button is pressed, the function of the button will be voice broadcasted, also, the function could be identified through touching the embosses set on the control button, which has facilitated the usage of any users with abnormal eyesight.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: LIMOSS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTDInventor: Christian Gassner
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Patent number: 9767631Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described that are directed to status and control of a garage door system via an alarm system controller. A garage door system may include one or more garage doors and at least one sensor configured to sense data indicative of a status of a garage door of the one or more garage doors. The at least one sensor may further be configured to convey the sensed data to an alarm system controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Vivint, IncInventors: James Ellis Nye, Michael D. Child, Jeffrey G. Thomas, Jeremy B. Warren
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Patent number: 9761268Abstract: A circuit may be configured to precompensate the storage of data on a storage device. The magnitude and polarity of the precompensated time adjustment can be determined by looking up data patterns of storage regions in a table. A boundary can include storage regions of the device used to determine the precompensation.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Jon David Trantham, Rodney Blake, William Radich
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Patent number: 9750868Abstract: The package for a pharmaceutical product includes a syringe and an electronic tag for obtaining information relating to the integrity of the product as assessed from an exposure of said product to physical or environmental conditions during a time span. The tag is attached at or to a constituent of the syringe; or at least a portion of the tag is integrated in a constituent of the syringe. The tag includes an electronics unit having a control unit, a sensor unit having at least one sensor for monitoring the physical or environmental conditions, a display unit having a display for displaying data relating to the integrity referred to as status data and a switch. The control unit is structured and configured for effecting that the display unit displays the status data in reaction to an operation of the switch.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Q-TAG AGInventor: Corneliu Tobescu
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Patent number: 9754140Abstract: A method and a read/write device for selecting at least one wireless data medium from a number of detected wireless data media that are RFID transponders, wherein the data media are registered in a detection area of a read/write device via a plurality of detection cycles, at least one receive parameter is recorded for each of the detected data media, and at least one data medium of the data media is selected based on an evaluation of the recorded receive parameters, a plurality of detection cycles are performed at different antenna polarizations, at least one receive parameter is recorded at each of utilized antenna polarizations for the detected data media, and at least one of the detected data media is selected in each case based on a statistical evaluation of the receive parameters recorded in the different antenna polarizations.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Markus Weinlaender
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Patent number: 9740304Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for providing a multipurpose remote control are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alok Chandel, Pierre-Yves Laligand
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Patent number: 9741190Abstract: There is a need to effectively determine which users should be given priority for using a public service. A way of improving the public service can be to acquire information on congestion degree in use of the public service, to determine whether the congestion degree is higher than a specified level or not, and to transmit information that urges cease of the use of the public service being used to users who have higher utilization of the public service than other users among a plurality of users if the congestion degree is higher than the specified level.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Sakata, Yasushi Sugiyama, Kimio Minami
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Patent number: 9736609Abstract: In general, techniques are described for determining renderers used for rendering spherical harmonic coefficients to generate one or more loudspeaker signals. A device comprising one or more processors may perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to determine a local speaker geometry of one or more speakers used for playback of spherical harmonic coefficients representative of a sound field, and configure the device to operate based on the local speaker geometry.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Martin James Morrell, Nils Günther Peters, Dipanjan Sen
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Patent number: 9734316Abstract: In certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for detecting liveness of a user during biometric authentication. The method comprising identifying a speech signal in a pre-determined time interval associated with the speech signal. Furthermore, the method comprising determining a speech respiration co-occurrence (SRC) score associated with the speech signal. In addition, the method comprising detecting liveness of the user, if the SRC score is above a predefined threshold, wherein the detection of liveness further aids in increasing the security of biometric authentication system.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: WIPRO LIMITEDInventors: Karan Singh, Akshit Singhvi, Vinod Pathangay
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Patent number: 9727762Abstract: A wireless communication module includes an antenna on a first conductive wall among the conductive walls enclosing a closed space; a tag reader connected with the antenna to read an RFID tag in the closed space; and a reflective part having a thin film or plate shape between the first and second conductive walls facing each other. The reflective part partitions the closed space into first and second spaces. The antenna radiates a radio wave that is reflected by the reflective part to become a first reflected wave in the first space. The radio wave also transmits through the reflective part, reflected by the second conductive wall, and transmits through the reflective part to become a second reflected wave in the first space. The position of the reflective part is determined so that the first and second reflected waves are canceled by each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Ashida, Yoji Ohashi
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Patent number: 9728022Abstract: Disclosed are electronic padlocks and related methods. An electronic padlock includes a lock body, a shank, and a locking mechanism operably coupled to electronic circuitry configured to detect physical interactions of a user with the shank and control the locking mechanism. A method of operating the electronic padlock includes detecting physical interactions of a user with a shank of an electronic padlock, comparing the detected physical interactions with a stored predetermined series of physical interactions, and transitioning from a locked state to an unlocked state responsive to determining that the detected physical interactions match the predetermined series of physical interactions.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: NOKE, INC.Inventors: David P. Gengler, Arthur Healey, Cameron Gibbs
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Patent number: 9727758Abstract: An RFID system capable of freely installing a plurality of communication devices and designing a desirable communication area, and a communication device configured to implement the system. In the RFID system, a first communication device configured to communicate with a control device includes a command receiver configured to receive a command from the control device, a first communication processing unit configured to perform communication with an IC tag in order to read/write tag information of the IC tag based on the received command, an instruction output unit configured to output a communication instruction to another communication device in response to a first communication result obtained by the first communication processing unit, and a response processing unit configured to generate response information to the control device based on the first communication result and a second communication result obtained by a second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Yahiro Koezuka
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Patent number: 9722235Abstract: Handheld remote control assemblies with battery isolation tabs are disclosed. An assembly includes a body and a battery pocket formed in the body and defined by a sidewall and a lower surface. An electrical connection terminal is disposed on the lower surface, and a battery is disposed within the battery pocket. The body includes a channel formed therein and extending between the battery pocket and an edge of the body. A battery isolation tab includes a head portion disposed between the battery and the electrical connection terminal, a handle portion disposed external to the body, and a neck portion extending between the head portion and the handle portion, the neck portion at least partially received within the channel formed in the body.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Oculus VR, LLCInventors: Glen Jason Tompkins, Peter Wesley Bristol, Quinton Morris
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Patent number: 9714004Abstract: An electronic key registration system includes an electronic key and a communication master. The electronic key transmits a registration code. The communication master receives the registration code from the electronic key, obtains key information using the registration code, and registers the key information. The registration code is set in accordance with the communication master to which the electronic key is registered. The communication master includes a level determination unit, which determines a key registration security level when the electronic key is registered to the communication master, and a registration execution unit, which obtains the key information using the registration code based on the determined key registration security level and registers the key information to the communication master.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Kawamura, Masahiro Arakawa, Masaki Hayashi, Hiroaki Iwashita, Tetsuya Egawa, Kazunori Arakawa, Ryuta Atsumi, Chihiro Tatebayashi
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Patent number: 9697661Abstract: A wireless access control system may include a remote access wireless communications device and a lock assembly to be mounted on a door. The lock assembly may include a lock, a door position sensor, interior and exterior directional antennas, lock wireless communications circuitry, and a lock controller. The lock controller determine whether the lock is manually unlocked, determine when the door is closed after being opened based upon the door position sensor, and determine whether the remote access wireless device is in an interior or an exterior based upon the directional antennas. The lock controller may also switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the exterior, and not switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the interior.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: UNIKEY TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Philip C. Dumas, David Mascenik, Dirk Wyckoff
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Patent number: 9697658Abstract: A wireless access control system may include a remote access wireless communications device and a lock assembly to be mounted on a door. The lock assembly may include a lock, a door position sensor, interior and exterior directional antennas, lock wireless communications circuitry, a touch sensor, and a lock controller. The lock controller may be configured to unlock the lock based upon the touch sensor, determine when the door is closed after being opened based upon the door position sensor, determine whether the remote access wireless device is in an interior or an exterior based upon the directional antennas, switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the interior, and not switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the exterior.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: UNIKEY TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Philip C. Dumas, Dirk Wyckoff