Patents by Inventor Harish Dixit

Harish Dixit 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).

  • Patent number: 11050461
    Abstract: There is disclosed a toy comprising a central unit and at least one peripheral unit which is operatively coupled to said central unit, wherein the central unit is arranged to establish Near Field Communication (NFC) with the peripheral unit, and wherein the central unit is further arranged to control one or more functions of the peripheral unit in dependence on control data received, via NFC, from said peripheral unit. Furthermore, a corresponding method for controlling a toy and a corresponding computer program product are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Swapnil Borgaonkar, Harish Dixit, Sreedhar Patange, Srikanth Dandamudi
  • Patent number: 10412079
    Abstract: There is disclosed an NFC device comprising an NFC communication unit and a memory unit; the NFC device being arranged to receive, through the NFC communication unit, a device identifier of a computing device and to store said device identifier in the memory unit; the NFC device further being arranged to send, upon or after storing said device identifier, at least one software installation key through the NFC communication unit to the computing device. Furthermore, a corresponding software installation method, software uninstallation method, computer program and article of manufacture are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Harish Dixit, Rahul Ravindra Pathak
  • Patent number: 10372216
    Abstract: A gesture recognition device (100) for recognising gestures made by a user is disclosed. The device comprises a gesture detector for detecting a gesture made be a user and a gesture analysis block, the gesture analysis block comprising a memory configured to store known gestures, and a pattern recognition block configured to associate a gesture detected by the gesture detector with a known gesture stored in the memory. The device (100) further comprises a magnetic field generator for interacting with a wearable tag (200), the magnetic field generator configured to provide a magnetic force (202) on the wearable tag (200) when a particular gesture is recognised by the gesture analysis block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Srikanth Dandamudi, Harish Dixit
  • Patent number: 10307661
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a game board being arranged to accommodate at least one game piece, said game board comprising at least one NFC device and a plurality of NFC antennas which are operatively coupled to said NFC device, wherein said NFC device is arranged to activate a function of said game piece by establishing NFC with the game piece through one of said antennas. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure a corresponding method for activating at least one game piece on a game board is provided. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure there a corresponding computer program product is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Srikanth Dandamudi, Harish Dixit, Swapnil Shekhar Borgaonkar, Sreedhar Patange
  • Patent number: 9762845
    Abstract: There is disclosed a media player comprising a playing unit being arranged to play at least one media element, and a processing unit being arranged to identify at least one data element in said media element, to extract said data element from the media element, and to make said data element available to an external NFC device. Furthermore, there is disclosed a corresponding method for playing media, a corresponding computer program, and a corresponding article of manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Harish Dixit
  • Publication number: 20170255265
    Abstract: A gesture recognition device (100) for recognising gestures made by a user is disclosed. The device comprises a gesture detector for detecting a gesture made be a user and a gesture analysis block, the gesture analysis block comprising a memory configured to store known gestures, and a pattern recognition block configured to associate a gesture detected by the gesture detector with a known gesture stored in the memory. The device (100) further comprises a magnetic field generator for interacting with a wearable tag (200), the magnetic field generator configured to provide a magnetic force (202) on the wearable tag (200) when a particular gesture is recognised by the gesture analysis block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Srikanth Dandamudi, Harish Dixit
  • Publication number: 20160310832
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a game board being arranged to accommodate at least one game piece, said game board comprising at least one NFC device and a plurality of NFC antennas which are operatively coupled to said NFC device, wherein said NFC device is arranged to activate a function of said game piece by establishing NFC with the game piece through one of said antennas, According to a second aspect of the present disclosure a corresponding method for activating at least one game piece on a game board is provided. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure there a corresponding computer program product is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Srikanth Dandamudi, Harish Dixit, Swapnil Shekhar Borgaonkar, Sreedhar Patange
  • Publication number: 20160261313
    Abstract: There is disclosed a toy comprising a central unit and at least one peripheral unit which is operatively coupled to said central unit, wherein the central unit is arranged to establish Near Field Communication (NFC) with the peripheral unit, and wherein the central unit is further arranged to control one or more functions of the peripheral unit in dependence on control data received, via NFC, from said peripheral unit. Furthermore, a corresponding method for controlling a toy and a corresponding computer program product are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Swapnil Borgaonkar, Harish Dixit, Sreedhar Patange, Srikanth Dandamudi
  • Publication number: 20160134831
    Abstract: There is disclosed a media player comprising a playing unit being arranged to play at least one media element, and a processing unit being arranged to identify at least one data element in said media element, to extract said data element from the media element, and to make said data element available to an external NFC device. Furthermore, there is disclosed a corresponding method for playing media, a corresponding computer program, and a corresponding article of manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Harish Dixit
  • Publication number: 20160094545
    Abstract: There is disclosed an NFC device comprising an NFC communication unit and a memory unit; the NFC device being arranged to receive, through the NFC communication unit, a device identifier of a computing device and to store said device identifier in the memory unit; the NFC device further being arranged to send, upon or after storing said device identifier, at least one software installation key through the NFC communication unit to the computing device. Furthermore, a corresponding software installation method, software uninstallation method, computer program and article of manufacture are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Harish Dixit, Rahul Ravindra Pathak