Patents by Inventor Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel
Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel 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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Patent number: 9710551Abstract: The invention relates to the field of music therapy. In particular the invention is related to a method for producing a personalized database of sounds and music tracks by filtering and combining personal and hospital databases of sounds which induces variations of the physiological state of a listener.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Thomas Falck, Andre Melon Barroso
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Patent number: 9480783Abstract: A breast pump system (1) comprises a breast pump arranged to extract milk from a user; and a breathing guidance means configured to provide a suggested breathing pattern to the user. The breathing guidance means may be produced by a motorized breast pump unit (10), or may be a series of stimuli at a stimuli frequency, which are perceivable by the user. The system (1) may include a heart rate monitor for measuring the heart rate of the user, and the suggested breathing pattern may be coupled to the measured heart rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Mark Thomas Johnson, Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Rachel Estelle Thilwind, Marjolein Irene Van Lieshout, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
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Patent number: 9173587Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensing unit configured to detect a physiological response from a user of a breast pump and to trigger a change in an operation of the breast pump in dependence of the detected physiological response, the sensing unit being located separately from a funnel of the breast pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Tim Johannes Willem Tijs, Rachel Estelle Thilwind, Martijn Krans
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Publication number: 20140039684Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating an ambience control system (10) comprising an ambience rendering system (14) configured to adapt the ambience in an area (16) so as to establish a current ambience state, a data storage (12) comprising data relating to occurrence of events and ambience states, each of the events being associated with a specific ambience state, and a processor configured to determine estimated time to next event based on the data relating to occurrence of events, provided that the next event relates to an ambience state different from the current ambience state the ambience rendering system (14) (10) being configured to gradually adapt the ambience in the area (16) to match the next ambient state, the method comprising determining current ambience state, determining estimated time to next event, and operating the area (16) ambience system (10) based on the estimated time to next event.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Winifried Antonius Henricus Berkvens, Evert Jan Van Loenen, Ingrid Christina Maria Flinsenberg, Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel
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Patent number: 8482416Abstract: An interactive baby bottle has an electronic unit that includes a sensor unit configured to sense the heart beat of a person bottle feeding a baby and an actuator unit configured to transmit the sensed heart beat to the baby.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Martijn Krans, Ronaldus Maria Aarts, Mark Thomas Johnson, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Nicolle Hanneke van Schijndel
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Patent number: 8376986Abstract: Breast pump for expressing milk from a breast, comprising at least one breast cup (2) for receiving a breast, a pumping system (10) in fluid connection (11) with the at least one breast cup (2) for applying a negative pressure on said breast and a detection unit (3) comprising at least one sensor for measuring a parameter during use of the breast pump (1), wherein the breast pump (1) is adapted for optimising breast pump settings by actively controlling at least one breast pump pumping property, based on measurements of the at least one sensor (4, 5), during a period of use of the breast pump (1), in order to personalize operation of said breast pump (1) for a particular user.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Valery Stephanovich Kot, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
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Publication number: 20120116298Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensing unit configured to detect a physiological response from a user of a breast pump and to trigger a change in an operation of the breast pump in dependence of the detected physiological response, the sensing unit being located separately from a funnel of the breast pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Tim Johannes Willem Tijs, Rachel Estelle Thilwind, Martijn Krans
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Publication number: 20110264453Abstract: In a method of adapting communications in a communication system comprising at least two terminals (1,2), a signal carrying at least a representation of at least part of an information content of an audio signal captured at a first terminal (1) and representing speech is communicated between the first terminal (1) and a second terminal (2). A modified version of the audio signal is made available for at the second terminal (2). At least one of the terminals (1,2) generates the modified version by re-creating the audio signal in a version modified such that at least one prosodic aspect of the represented speech is adapted in dependence on input data (22) provided at at least one of the terminals (1,2).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Dirk Brokken, Nicolle Hanneke van Schijndel, Mark Thomas Johnson, Joanne Henriette Desiree Monique Westerink, Paul Marcel Carl Lemmens
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Publication number: 20110160656Abstract: A breast pump system (1) comprises a breast pump arranged to extract milk from a user; and a breathing guidance means configured to provide a suggested breathing pattern to the user. The breathing guidance means may be produced by a motorised breast pump unit (10), or may be a series of stimuli at a stimuli frequency, which are perceivable by the user. The system (1) may include a heart rate monitor for measuring the heart rate of the user, and the suggested breathing pattern may be coupled to the measured heart rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Mark Thomas Johnson, Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Rachel Estelle Thilwind, Marjolein Irene Van Lieshout, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
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Patent number: 7921007Abstract: The invention relates to an audio encoder and decoder and methods for audio encoding and decoding. In a preferred encoder embodiment an audio signal is encoded by deterministic encoder means to form a first encoded signal part. A spectrum of the audio signal is determined and represented by an excitation pattern, i.e. spectral values corresponding to human auditory filters, as a second encoded signal part. A masking curve is also extracted based on the excitation pattern, thus improving encoding efficiency in terms of bit rate. In a preferred decoder the first encoded signal part is decoded by deterministic decoder means. A noise generator uses the decoded first signal part together with the second signal part, i.e. the excitation pattern for the original audio signal, to generate a noise signal. The noise signal is then added to the first decoded signal part to form an output audio signal. At the decoder side the masking curve is also extracted based on the second encoded signal part, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2005Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Steven Leonardus Josephus Dimphina Elisabeth Van de Par, Valery Stephanovich Kot, Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel
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Publication number: 20110036801Abstract: An interactive baby bottle with an electronic unit is disclosed. The electronic unit comprises a sensor unit configured to sense the heart beat of a person bottle feeding a baby and an actuator unit configured to transmit the sensed heart beat to the baby. The disclosed interactive baby bottle can facilitate the drinking process, since it allows bottle feeding to become an experience of connectedness between the baby and the person bottle feeding the baby thereby approaching breast feeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Martijn Krans, Ronaldus Maria Aarts, Mark Thomas Johnson, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Nicolle Hanneke van Schijndel
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Publication number: 20110004154Abstract: Breast pump for expressing milk from a breast, comprising at least one breast cup (2) for receiving a breast, a pumping system (10) in fluid connection (11) with the at least one breast cup (2) for applying a negative pressure on said breast and a detection unit (3) comprising at least one sensor for measuring a parameter during use of the breast pump (1), wherein the breast pump (1) is adapted for optimising breast pump settings by actively controlling at least one breast pump pumping property, based on measurements of the at least one sensor (4, 5), during a period of use of the breast pump (1), in order to personalise operation of said breast pump (1) for a particular user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Valery Stephanovich Kot, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
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Publication number: 20100329490Abstract: An audio device is arranged to present a plurality of test audio signals to a user where each test audio signal comprises a signal component and a noise component. A user preference processor (109) receives user preference feedback for the test audio signals and generates a personalization parameter for the user in response to the user preference feedback and a noise parameter for the noise component of at least one of the test audio signals. An audio processor (113) then processes an audio signal in response to the personalization parameter and the resulting signal is presented to the user. The invention may allow improved characterization of a user thereby resulting in improved adaptation of the processing and thus an improved personalization of the presented signal. The invention may e.g. be beneficial for hearing aids for hearing impaired users.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Julien Laurent Bergere, Susanne Van Vegten
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Publication number: 20100309434Abstract: A device for delivering a scent to a user comprises a body component, a fluid reservoir, an output component arranged to connect the fluid reservoir to the exterior of the device, and a control component arranged to receive biofeedback data and user preference data on the user, and to control the output from the fluid reservoir accordingly. The device can further comprise a sensor arranged to monitor a physiological parameter of the user and to communicate the biofeedback data to the control component. The device may also include a wireless receiver arranged to receive the user preference data and/or the biofeedback data and to communicate the data to the control component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Ronaldus Maria Aaarts, Fran Wu
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Patent number: 7788090Abstract: An audio encoder in which two or more preferably different encoders cooperate to generate a joint encoded audio signal. Encoding parameters of the two or more encoders are optimized in response to a measure of distortion of the joint encoded audio signal in accordance with a predetermined criterion. The distortion. measure is preferably a perceptual distortion measure. In one encoder embodiment comprising a sinusoidal and a waveform encoder, a constant total bit rate for each audio frame is distributed between the two encoders so as to minimize perceptual distortion for both the first and the second encoder. Other embodiments consider a set of encoding parameters that is larger than only those that minimize the perceptual distortion of the first encoder. In some embodiments, perceptual distortion may be minimized by optimizing encoding via optimizing entire encoding templates, i.e. a complex set of encoding parameters, for the separate encoders.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Steven Leonardus Josephus Dimphina Elisabeth Van De Par, Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Valery Stephanovich Kot, Richard Heusdens
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Publication number: 20090063158Abstract: An audio encoder comprising optimizing means ET OPT adapted to generate an optimized encoding template OET based on properties PV of an input audio signal IN, such as in form of a property vector. The optimized encoding template OET is being optimized with respect to a predetermined encoding efficiency criterion. Encoding means ENC then generates an encoded audio signal OUT in accordance with the optimized encoding template OET. The audio encoder may comprise analyzing means AN adapted to generate the set of input signal properties PV based of the input signal IN. In a preferred embodiment the optimizing means ET OPT is adapted to estimate a resulting distortion associated with an encoding template. The optimizing means ET OPT may further be able to estimate bit rate associated with an encoding template. In one embodiment the optimizing means ET OPT is adapted to optimize a bit rate distribution to a number of sub-encoders based on the input signal properties (PV).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Tor Johan Fredrik Norden, Soren Vang Andersen, Soren Holdt Jensen, Willem Bastiaan Kleijn, Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel
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Publication number: 20080281602Abstract: The invention relates to an audio encoder and decoder and methods for audio encoding and decoding. In the encoder an audio signal is split into an anechoic signal part and information regarding a reverberant field associated with the audio signal, preferably by a representation using only few parameters such as reverberation time and reverberation amplitude. The anechoic signal is then encoded using an audio codec. At the decoder the anechoic signal part is restored using the audio codec, and the restored anechoic signal part is transformed into the substantially original audio signal by applying reverberance according to the information regarding the reverberant field, preferably by convolution with a room impulse response generated on the basis of the reverberant field information. According to the invention the audio codec involved needs only be capable of encoding anechoic audio signals, thus solving the problem of parametric audio codecs providing poor performance on reverberant audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Andreas Johannes Gerrits, Corrado Boscarino