Abstract: Electrical battery apparatus embodiments are presented that generally involve incorporating sensing, computing, and communication capabilities into the one common component that a vast number of electronic devices employ—namely batteries. By integrating these capabilities into disposable and/or rechargeable batteries, new functionality and intelligence can be provided to otherwise stand-alone devices.

Abstract: An aggregation framework system and method that automatic configures, aggregates, disaggregates, manages, and optimizes components of a consolidated system of devices, modules, and sensors. Embodiments of the system and method include a low-power alert sensor, a data aggregator module, and an interpreter module. The low-power alert sensor is a sensor that is continuously on and continuously monitoring its environment. The low-power alert sensor acts as a watchdog and triggers other sensors to awaken them from a power-conservation state when there is a change or event that occurs in an environment. The data aggregator module manages the set of sensors within the system and aggregates sensor data obtained from the sensors. The interpreter module then translates the physical data collected by sensors into logical information. Together the data aggregator module and the interpreter module present a unified logical view of the capabilities of the sensors under their control.

Abstract: A “Logical Sensor Server” or “LSS” acts as a smart hub between related or unrelated sensors, devices, or other systems by translating, morphing, or forwarding signals or events published by various input sources into signals or higher-order events that can be consumed or used by other subscribing sensors, devices, or systems. More specifically, the LSS acts alone or in combination with a Logical Sensor Platform (LSP) to enable various techniques that allow messages received from different input sources to be authored, transformed and made available to one or more subscribers in a manner that allows intelligent event-driven behavior to emerge from a collection of relatively simple input sources. Any combination of automatic configuration or user input is used to define the format of transformed inputs to be received by particular subscribers relative to one or more publications. Subscribers receiving transformed events control their own actions based on those events.

Abstract: An aggregation framework system and method that automatic configures, aggregates, disaggregates, manages, and optimizes components of a consolidated system of devices, modules, and sensors. Embodiments of the system and method include a low-power alert sensor, a data aggregator module, and an interpreter module. The low-power alert sensor is a sensor that is continuously on and continuously monitoring its environment. The low-power alert sensor acts as a watchdog and triggers other sensors to awaken them from a power-conservation state when there is a change or event that occurs in an environment. The data aggregator module manages the set of sensors within the system and aggregates sensor data obtained from the sensors. The interpreter module then translates the physical data collected by sensors into logical information. Together the data aggregator module and the interpreter module present a unified logical view of the capabilities of the sensors under their control.

Abstract: Electrical battery apparatus embodiments are presented that generally involve incorporating sensing, computing, and communication capabilities into the one common component that a vast number of electronic devices employ—namely batteries. By integrating these capabilities into disposable and/or rechargeable batteries, new functionality and intelligence can be provided to otherwise stand-alone devices.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a wireless terminal and a host device. The wireless terminal includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver of the wireless terminal transmits electrical audio signals output from a plurality of microphones over a wireless communication link for enhancement processing, such as noise-cancellation processing, echo-cancellation processing, and/or sidetone processing, at the host device. The wireless communication link can be an electromagnetic-based wireless communication link, a light-based wireless communication link and/or a magnetic-induction-based wireless communication link. The transceiver of the wireless terminal further receives from the wireless communication link enhancement-processed signals based on the electrical audio signals. The processor of the wireless terminal uses the enhancement-processed signals to output an enhanced audio output signal from the terminal device.

Abstract: A sound compensation system alters an electrical audio signal for input to a sonic reproduction device having associated behavioral characteristics. The behavior characteristics of the device are defined by individual or groups of individual components of the sonic reproduction device and include mechanical, acoustic and electromagnetic behaviors. The model includes a plurality of filters that simulate at least one of the behavior characteristics of the sonic reproduction device. The filters are defined by digital signal processes or by analog circuits and are characterized by one or more of an associated frequency, time, phase and transient response. These responses combine to define an overall response for the model. The filters include adjustable parameters which are used to alter filter responses to produce responses that are conjugates to the responses of the unaltered filters and thus the sonic reproduction device. A controller modifies the parameters.