Patents by Inventor Anthony Davies
Anthony Davies has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240141711Abstract: In one aspect, a system includes a movable barrier operator configured to open and close a movable barrier; at least one ultra-wideband device associated with the movable barrier operator and electrically configured to receive ultra-wideband radio frequency signals; and a processor operatively connected to the at least one ultra-wideband device and configured to use the ultra-wideband radio signals to determine a status of the movable barrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Casparus Cate, Michael Joseph Davies, Benjamin David Hunt, Thomas Jason Jankovsky, Paul Anthony Kuzich, Michael Joseph Phillips, Maged Riad
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Publication number: 20240144811Abstract: The present invention relates to a community security system capable of monitoring multiple, generally adjacent, consecutive private security areas to confirm human activity and engage sensory alerts. The community security system includes at least two private security areas having the capability of being networked together to enable information sharing. Each private security area is monitored by a private security system and contains one or more detection devices for monitoring and detecting activity occurring within the boundaries of the private security area. Information detected by detection devices within the private security areas can then communicate with other detection devices within the private security area or with the community security system to confirm activity, track activity across adjacent boundaries, engage sensory alerts and notify community members or authorities, as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20230379650Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
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Patent number: 11785412Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
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Publication number: 20230072391Abstract: An audio rendering system includes a processor that combines audio input signals with personalized spatial audio transfer functions having room responses. The personalized spatial audio transfer functions are selected from a database having a plurality of candidate transfer functions derived from in-ear microphone measurements for a plurality of individuals. Alternatively, the personalized transfer functions are derived from actual in-ear measurements of the listener. A room modification module allows the user to modify the personalized spatial audio transfer functions to substitute a different room or to modify the characteristics of the selected room without requiring additional in ear measurements. The module segments the selected transfer function into regions including one or more of direct; head and torso influenced; early reflection, and late reverberation regions. Extraction and modification operations are performed on one or more of the regions to alter the perceived sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee LEE, Christopher HUMMERSONE, Mark Anthony DAVIES, Toh Onn Desmond HII
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Publication number: 20230007433Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee LEE, Geith Mark Benjamin LESLIE, Mark Anthony DAVIES, Edwin TOMBOZA, Toh Onn Desmond HII
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Patent number: 11503423Abstract: An audio rendering system includes a processor that combines audio input signals with personalized spatial audio transfer functions having room responses. The personalized spatial audio transfer functions are selected from a database having a plurality of candidate transfer functions derived from in-ear microphone measurements for a plurality of individuals. Alternatively, the personalized transfer functions are derived from actual in-ear measurements of the listener. A room modification module allows the user to modify the personalized spatial audio transfer functions to substitute a different room or to modify the characteristics of the selected room without requiring additional in ear measurements. The module segments the selected transfer function into regions including one or more of direct; head and torso influenced; early reflection, and late reverberation regions. Extraction and modification operations are performed on one or more of the regions to alter the perceived sound.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee Lee, Christopher Hummersone, Mark Anthony Davies, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
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Patent number: 11445321Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
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Publication number: 20220178487Abstract: A kit comprising an adapter, having a slip end and a reverse-threaded end, and a pipe nipple having standard threads on one end and reversed threads on the other end. And the kit has PVC or other pipe cement, fittings with standard slip threaded connections blades, saws, cutters, or other irrigation pipe cutters, and valves, among other components. A method for repairing a valve manifold with the steps of cutting a pipe system near a broken component (such as a valve); connecting a slip end of an adapter having a slip end and a reverse-threaded end to the system (sometimes gluing the connection with cement); removing the broken component from the system; attaching a replacement for the broken component; supplying a pipe nipple having a threaded end and a reverse-threaded end; inserting the pipe nipple into the normal threaded end and the reverse-threaded end; and tightening the pipe nipple to yield sealed joints.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventor: Anthony Davies
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Publication number: 20210266696Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee LEE, Geith Mark Benjamin LESLIE, Mark Anthony DAVIES, Edwin TOMBOZA, Toh Onn Desmond HII
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Patent number: 11006235Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
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Publication number: 20200413122Abstract: A user interface for a television display includes a remote control with a touch pad. The user controls movement of an indicator by means of gestures and/or other actions performed on the touch pad. The movement of the indicator may be constrained in a horizontal and/or vertical direction. Actions by the user on the touch pad below a predetermined magnitude may be prevented from causing movement of the indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: ROBERT COENEN, ANTHONY DAVIES, PAWEL NOWAKOWSKI, ANDREW OLSON, GREG FLEMING, LEWIS PEEL, STUART KEELEY, JULIEN HEANLEY
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Publication number: 20200137508Abstract: An audio rendering system includes a processor that combines audio input signals with personalized spatial audio transfer functions having room responses. The personalized spatial audio transfer functions are selected from a database having a plurality of candidate transfer functions derived from in-ear microphone measurements for a plurality of individuals. Alternatively, the personalized transfer functions are derived from actual in-ear measurements of the listener. A room modification module allows the user to modify the personalized spatial audio transfer functions to substitute a different room or to modify the characteristics of the selected room without requiring additional in ear measurements. The module segments the selected transfer function into regions including one or more of direct; head and torso influenced; early reflection, and late reverberation regions. Extraction and modification operations are performed on one or more of the regions to alter the perceived sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee LEE, Christopher HUMMERSONE, Mark Anthony DAVIES, Toh Onn Desmond HII
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Cell suspension medium and cell suspension medium additive for the three dimensional growth of cells
Patent number: 10526575Abstract: The present invention relates to a cell culture medium additive comprising a xanthan polysaccharide and a mannan polysaccharide, such as a glucomannan or a galactomannan, that supports the growth of cells in suspension, and to a cell culture medium containing the additive. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a cell culture medium additive that supports the formation of multicellular bodies such as spheroids, and prevents sedimentation of cells without adversely affecting the physical properties of the cell culture medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, and the other Members of the Board of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen ElizabethInventor: Anthony Davies -
Publication number: 20190379995Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond HII
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Patent number: 10390171Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
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Publication number: 20190215637Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Teck Chee LEE, Geith Mark Benjamin LESLIE, Mark Anthony DAVIES, Edwin TOMBOZA, Toh Onn Desmond HII
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Patent number: 10298993Abstract: A user interface for a television display includes a remote control with a touch pad. The user controls movement of an indicator by means of gestures and/or other actions performed on the touch pad. The movement of the indicator may be constrained in a horizontal and/or vertical direction. Actions by the user on the touch pad below a predetermined magnitude may be prevented from causing movement of the indicator.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SKY CP LIMITEDInventors: Robert Coenen, Anthony Davies, Pawel Nowakowski, Andrew Olson, Greg Fleming, Lewis Peel, Stuart Keeley, Julien Heanley
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Patent number: D992516Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Sky CP LimitedInventors: Christopher Weightman, Anthony Davies, Edward Snodgrass
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Patent number: D999191Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Sky CP LimitedInventors: Christopher Weightman, Anthony Davies, Edward Snodgrass