Patents Examined by Van Trieu
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Patent number: 9549705Abstract: A person monitoring system is operable to predict the onset of an adverse condition of a person. The system receives first information corresponding to a feature of a person support apparatus and second information corresponding to a physiological characteristic of the person. The system calculates a condition score as a function of the first and second information. In some instances, the system alerts a caregiver if the condition score exceeds a predetermined threshold. Alternatively or additionally, the person monitoring system alerts a caregiver when a person supported on a person support apparatus is regaining consciousness by monitoring one or more of a change in position, a heart rate, and a respiration rate. A person monitoring system that monitors a person's quality of sleep and presents information concerning the quality of sleep to one or more interested parties is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Carl W. Riley, Timothy J. Receveur, David L. Ribble
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Patent number: 9542581Abstract: Embodiments of the subject technology provide a multi-tenant asset tracking system that disambiguates or filters RFID tags.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Inventor: Wolfgang Gehner
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Patent number: 9536408Abstract: A programmable proximity alert system for providing a sensory reminder to a parent when the exit the vicinity of a vehicle possibly containing their child. The programmable proximity alert system comprises a remote receiver adapted to sense the presence of a seat transmitter that it has been paired with and provide plural sensor alerts upon exiting from within a predetermined proximity of the seat transmitter, as well as a coding remote for initiating a bonding request that pairs a remote receiver and a seat transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventor: Sofia Pinder
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Patent number: 9520049Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for learned overrides for home security. A sensor of a security system may be armed. A trip signal may be received indicating a tripping of the sensor. It may be determined that the trip signal can be automatically overridden based on matching an identity of the sensor and a state of the security system with a pattern in a model. The pattern may represent a state of the security system in which automatically overriding the trip signal from the sensor is permitted. The trip signal from the sensor may be automatically overridden without input from a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Mark Rajan Malhotra, Sophie Le Guen, Jeffrey Alan Boyd, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Todd Hester
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Patent number: 9508250Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for automatic security system mode selection. A set of signals may be received from sensors distributed in an environment with a security system. The security system may be in a first mode. An occupancy model may be received. An occupancy estimate may be generated for the environment based on the set of signals from the sensors and the occupancy model. Mode rules may be received. The mode rules associate occupancy estimates with modes of the security system. A second mode for the security system may be determined based on the occupancy estimate and mode rules. The second mode may be different from the first mode. The mode of the security system may be automatically changed from the first mode to the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Mark Rajan Malhotra, Jeffrey Alan Boyd, Sophie Le Guen, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Prashant Reddy
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Patent number: 9475405Abstract: A vehicle system includes at least two sensors. A first sensor is configured to output a child restraint signal indicating a presence of a child restraint system. A second sensor is configured to output a belt tension signal representing a tension associated with a seat belt. A processing device is programmed to determine whether the child restraint system includes a child seat or a booster seat based on the child restraint signal and the belt tension signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mark A. Cuddihy, Manoharprasad K. Rao, Agnes S. Kim, Robert William McCoy
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Patent number: 9477894Abstract: An overhead clearance system for a vehicle is configured to receive signals from wireless transceivers attached to objects that are towed or carried by the vehicle and extend above a top of the vehicle. A controller is programmed to receive the signals from the wireless transceivers and transmit a request to a remote device to send height data associated with the object and the vehicle. The controller outputs an alert when combined object and vehicle heights exceed a sensed vertical clearance.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric L. Reed, Thomas Lee Miller, Cameron Smyth, Jacob Lucero
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Patent number: 9471452Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve defining and executing predictive models for outputting health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of abnormal-condition indicators in accordance with a prediction of a likely response to such abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Uptake Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Adam McElhinney, John Ciasulli, Michael Horrell
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Patent number: 9472104Abstract: A system for documenting an accident includes a vehicle that includes a transceiver device and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive data from a collision detection device of the vehicle, determine, based on the received data, that an accident is impending or occurring involving the vehicle, generate a request for a nearby vehicle, and transmit, via the transceiver device, the request to the nearby vehicle. The request is for the nearby vehicle to illuminate a region associated with the accident, actively acquire data related to the accident, and record actively acquired data related to the accident.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Elwha LLCInventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
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Patent number: 9463775Abstract: A vehicular emergency reporting device includes a voltage step-down unit, an auxiliary power source, a voltage step-up unit, a control unit, an emergency report executing unit, and a switching unit. When a decreased voltage decreased by the voltage step-down unit is lower than an increased voltage increased by the voltage step-up unit, the emergency report executing unit performs an emergency report using the increased voltage as the operation voltage. When the decreased voltage is lower than the increased voltage, the switching unit switches a power supply mode between a first mode in which the increased voltage is supplied to the control unit and the emergency report executing unit and a second mode in which an auxiliary power source voltage is supplied to the control unit and the emergency report executing unit without being increased by the voltage step-up unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yu Eto
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Patent number: 9466210Abstract: A stop violation detection system and method includes at least one sensor mounted to establish a light shield adjacent a first vehicle, at least one image capture device mounted to record at least one image adjacent the first vehicle, and a control unit operatively coupled with the at least one sensor and the at least one image capture device to detect breach of the light shield by a second vehicle and record the breach of the light shield by the second vehicle with the at least one image capture device.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Comtrol CorporationInventors: Bill Arpin, Mark Pikkarainen
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Patent number: 9460597Abstract: Systems (100) and methods (200) for security tag detachment or deactivation authorization. The methods involve: communicating at least one first product code for each article of a plurality of purchased articles from a Point-Of-Sale (“POS”) to a remote authorization system; generating by the remote authorization system an authorization code to facilitate authorization of detachment or deactivation of security tags attached only to said plurality of purchased articles, in response to the first product code; using the authorization code to obtain a list of articles identifying first articles of the plurality of purchased articles which have security tags attached thereto; and authorizing the detachment or deactivation of only the security tags that are attached to the articles identified in the list of articles.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: John J. Clark, Pierre-Michel G. Simon
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Patent number: 9460608Abstract: An event analysis engine on a user device may be configured to receive information representative of a user event and to determine a type of the event according to the received information. One or more tasks associated with the determined type of event may be identified. Each of the identified tasks may be associated with a reminder having a trigger condition that is a function of information specific to the task. The task-specific information may be retrieved and the reminders associated with the tasks may be displayed when a device condition matches a calculated trigger condition for the reminder. Each task may be identified as completed when a completion condition associated with the task is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Swapnil Dave, Devrim Varoglu
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Patent number: 9446715Abstract: A vision system for a vehicle includes an attachment element adhered to the in-cabin surface of a vehicle windshield at a windshield first location and an attachment member adhered to the in-cabin surface of the vehicle windshield at a windshield second location. The attachment element is configured for mounting thereto an interior rearview mirror assembly. An accessory module is configured to attach to and be supported by the attachment member adhered to the in-cabin surface of the vehicle windshield. The accessory module includes a forward facing camera that has a field of view through the vehicle windshield. The forward facing camera may be a component of a collision avoidance system of the vehicle. A light absorbing layer may be disposed at the vehicle windshield to at least partially mask the presence of the attachment element and/or the accessory module from view through the vehicle windshield from outside the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kenneth Schofield, Niall R. Lynam
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Patent number: 9449480Abstract: A circuit for a security system includes a power circuit, a closed loop detection circuit and an alarm circuit. The detection circuit includes a first loop circuit with an alarm sensor and a second loop circuit with a relay. The alarm circuit provides a plurality of output voltages or signals to at least one alarm device, such as two 120 VAC outputs and two 12 VDC outputs. The alarm circuit is coupled to the relay of the detection circuit, such that an alarm condition sensed by the alarm sensor causes the relay to supply energy from the power circuit to the plurality of outputs to activate at least one alarm device. The security system may be turned on and off by a remote control.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: PAIGE ELECTRIC COMPANY, LPInventor: Roger L. Rumsey
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Patent number: 9443154Abstract: A computerized system mountable on a vehicle operable to detect an object by processing first image frames from a first camera and second image frames from a second camera. A first range is determined to said detected object using the first image frames. An image location is projected of the detected object in the first image frames onto an image location in the second image frames. A second range is determined to the detected object based on both the first and second image frames. The detected object is tracked in both the first and second image frames When the detected object leaves a field of view of the first camera, a third range is determined responsive to the second range and the second image frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Gideon Stein, Amnon Shashua, Yoram Gdalyahu
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Patent number: 9428119Abstract: A method is provided for learning driver preferences relative to the use of a vehicle's camera system, where the system automatically activates a specific camera based on these driver preferences, and where the driver preferences include both identification of the specific camera and the geographic locations associated with activating and then deactivating that camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: ATIEVA, INC.Inventor: Yadunandana Yellambalase
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Patent number: 9430925Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a detector unit and sensor chamber with matter retention member and method for making the same. In one embodiment, a smoke chamber can include a detection circuitry member having a surface, a particle trapping member mounted to the surface, and a chamber coupled to the detection circuitry member. The chamber can include a planar member, and several baffles extending away from the planar member in the direction towards the detection circuitry member and disposed around a periphery of the planar member, wherein a distal end of each baffle interfaces with the particle trapping member.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventor: Adam Mittleman
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Patent number: 9428221Abstract: A drive assist control device includes a steering determination unit 21 that determines a steering state of a vehicle, a curved state estimation unit 22 that estimates a curved state of a traveling road where the vehicle is traveling, a threshold value setting unit 23 that, in a case where it is determined by the steering determination unit 21 that a steering occurs after a steering wheel stationary state, sets a determination threshold value at the time of steering ts based on the curved state estimated during a period ts to ts+Tc from the time of steering ts to the set time Tc after the time of steering ts or a period ts?Tc to ts from the set time Tc before the time of steering ts to the time of steering ts and which is sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering ts, and a warning control unit 25 that actuates a warning in a case where the steering speed at the time of steering ts exceeds the determination threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kiyoto Hanita
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Patent number: 9428149Abstract: A vehicular emergency reporting device includes a voltage step-down unit, an auxiliary power source, a voltage step-up unit, a control unit, an emergency report executing unit, and a switching unit. When a decreased voltage decreased by the voltage step-down unit is lower than an increased voltage increased by the voltage step-up unit, the emergency report executing unit performs an emergency report using the increased voltage as the operation voltage. When the decreased voltage is lower than the increased voltage, the switching unit switches a power supply mode between a first mode in which the increased voltage is supplied to the control unit and the emergency report executing unit and a second mode in which an auxiliary power source voltage is supplied to the control unit and the emergency report executing unit without being increased by the voltage step-up unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yu Eto