Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of calculating an audio calibration profile for a three-dimensional space such as a room. The present disclosure achieves this by creating a model of the three-dimensional space using three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques in conjunction with feedback from a sound recording device. The information gathered can be used by a digital signal processing (DSP) device to perform room equalisation. The information can also be used by beamforming audio sources to adjust beam characteristics to recreate the ideal spatial or surround sound experience at the user's location in the three-dimensional space.

Abstract: A modular portable device system and method allow extended user input. The system includes a first device and a second device, the devices being attachable via a plurality of magnetic attachment points (magnets or magnetically responsive attachment points) on each. In a first configuration, the devices are held together by all of the magnetic attachment points, and in this configuration an extended user input facility on the second device is not user-accessible. In a second configuration, the devices are connected by only a subset of the magnetic attachment points, and in this second configuration the extended user input facility is user-accessible. A Hall Effect sensor on the first device and sensor magnet on the second device are positioned to overlap when the devices are connected in the second configuration in order to alert the first device that the second device has been attached in the extended input mode.

Abstract: A modular portable device system and method allow extended user input. The system includes a first device and a second device, the devices being attachable via a plurality of magnetic attachment points (magnets or magnetically responsive attachment points) on each. In a first configuration, the devices are held together by all of the magnetic attachment points, and in this configuration an extended user input facility on the second device is not user-accessible. In a second configuration, the devices are connected by only a subset of the magnetic attachment points, and in this second configuration the extended user input facility is user-accessible. A Hall Effect sensor on the first device and sensor magnet on the second device are positioned to overlap when the devices are connected in the second configuration in order to alert the first device that the second device has been attached in the extended input mode.

Abstract: An in-line system of packaging, securing, and weighing items which are originally collected in a tote pan and delivered to a packaging bench where they are placed into a container and then onto a conveyor which moves them to a first photo-electric eye and weighing scale. The containers are then either removed at that point or are passed along a second conveyor and to a second photoeye and weighing scale, and those containers may be banded or wrapped and are then set off for shipping. The entire system is an in-line system where the containers move along in a supported arrangement on a conveyor and need not be removed from the conveyor until the containers are ready for shipping and they have therefore been packaged, secured by banding or the like, weighed, postage applied, and the like.