Abstract: A system and method for associating an audio signal with a Personal Mobile Device (PMD) of a user is provided and includes associating a user with the Personal Mobile Device (PMD) of a user, associating at least one of the user and the PMD with a processing device, determining if the user is using an exercise machine having an exercise machine television and identifying which exercise machine the user is using, determining which channel is being displayed on the exercise machine television and transmitting the audio signal for the channel being displayed available to the user's PMD.

Abstract: A system and method for associating an audio signal with a Personal Mobile Device (PMD) of a user is provided and includes associating a user with the Personal Mobile Device (PMD) of a user, associating at least one of the user and the PMD with a processing device, determining if the user is using an exercise machine having an exercise machine television and identifying which exercise machine the user is using, determining which channel is being displayed on the exercise machine television and transmitting the audio signal for the channel being displayed available to the user's PMD.

Abstract: A method and a system provide a security system for simultaneously capturing events and generating alerts for security. The security system communicates with a data management server via a network. The security system includes an image capture device integrated with a wireless access point, a gateway device, and one or more alarm devices. The security system simultaneously receives event data associated with events from the image capture device and one or more electronic devices connected to the wireless access point, and alarm data simultaneously recorded by the alarm devices based on detection of one or more security conditions. The security system generates alerts for security using the simultaneously received event data and the recorded alarm data. The security system transmits the simultaneously received event data, the recorded alarm data, and the generated alerts to the data management server accessible by a control device and the electronic devices via the network.

Abstract: A system and method for associating an audio signal with a Personal Mobile Device (PMD) of a user is provided and includes associating a user with the Personal Mobile Device (PMD) of a user, associating at least one of the user and the PMD with a processing device, determining if the user is using an exercise machine having an exercise machine television and identifying which exercise machine the user is using, determining which channel is being displayed on the exercise machine television and transmitting the audio signal for the channel being displayed available to the user's PMD.

Abstract: An interface system for facilitating the communication between a fitness device having a television system and a cable/satellite set top box is provided, wherein the interface system includes a first interface article and a second interface article. The first interface article is in signal communication with the television system and the second interface article is in signal communication with the first interface article and the cable/satellite set top box. The first interface article is configured to receive television control signals from the television system, identify channel control signals having Remote Control (RC) codes from the television control signals and transmit the channel control signals to the second interface article and wherein the second interface article is configured to identify the RC codes from the channel control signals, generate a processed signal containing the RC codes and transmit the processed signal to the cable/satellite set top box.

Abstract: An interface system for facilitating the communication between a fitness device having a television system and a cable/satellite set top box is provided, wherein the interface system includes a first interface article and a second interface article. The first interface article is in signal communication with the television system and the second interface article is in signal communication with the first interface article and the cable/satellite set top box. The first interface article is configured to receive television control signals from the television system, identify channel control signals having Remote Control (RC) codes from the television control signals and transmit the channel control signals to the second interface article and wherein the second interface article is configured to identify the RC codes from the channel control signals, generate a processed signal containing the RC codes and transmit the processed signal to the cable/satellite set top box.

Abstract: A signal control system is provide and includes a signal source, a receiving device configured to receive a signal from the signal source, a processing device communicated with the receiving device to receive and process the signal to generate a processed signal and a transmitting device communicated with the processing device, wherein the transmitting device is configured to wirelessly transmit the processed signal.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for configuring and managing a security system wirelessly is provided. The security system includes a gateway device and a wireless access point (WAP) for communicating with one or more electronic devices and monitoring event data from the electronic devices. The electronic devices connect to the gateway device via the WAP in the gateway device. A wireless router is connected to the security system to establish a network. A security management application on a control device accesses, configures, and controls the security system wirelessly through the WAP. The security system receives and transmits event data through the WAP to a database, the control device, and/or one or more secondary devices via the network. The security management application wirelessly configures and manages the security system and one or more electronic devices through the WAP via the network based on the received event data.

Abstract: A method and a system provide a security system for simultaneously capturing events and generating alerts for security. The security system communicates with a data management server via a network. The security system includes an image capture device integrated with a wireless access point, a gateway device, and one or more alarm devices. The security system simultaneously receives event data associated with events from the image capture device and one or more electronic devices connected to the wireless access point, and alarm data simultaneously recorded by the alarm devices based on detection of one or more security conditions. The security system generates alerts for security using the simultaneously received event data and the recorded alarm data. The security system transmits the simultaneously received event data, the recorded alarm data, and the generated alerts to the data management server accessible by a control device and the electronic devices via the network.

Abstract: An interactive toy train system including a track layout, a plurality of vehicles configured to travel along the track, and a plurality of destinations removeably coupled to the track. The vehicles are configured to communicate with one another and the vehicles are further configured to communicate with one or more of the destinations. The system includes an infrared toy network having a network protocol, which determines who is present and who is not present thereby allowing multiple vehicles and destinations to converse intelligently and without interference.

Abstract: A baby monitor including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of digital signals, each produced by a separate electrical unit and representing an audible acoustical signal. The baby monitor also including a speaker configured to output the sounds represented by the plurality of digital signals, a microphone configured to detect sound waves generated by a first user, a CODEC configured to convert the sound waves generated by the first user to a digital signal, and a transmitter. The transmitter operable in a first mode, in which the transmitter transmits the digital signal representative of the sound waves generated by the first user to less than all of the electrical units from which it has received digital signals.

Abstract: A baby monitor system has a child unit with a child transducer that receives and converts incoming audio signals to an incoming analog signal. The child unit has an analog-to-digital converter that converts the incoming analog signal to outgoing digital data. A child unit microprocessor converts the outgoing digital data to a wireless signal and a transmitter of the child unit transmits the wireless signal. A parent unit has a receiver that receives the wireless signal and converts the wireless signal to incoming digital data. A parent unit microprocessor processes the incoming digital data. A digital-to-analog converter in the parent unit converts the processed incoming digital data to outgoing analog information. A parent unit transducer converts the outgoing analog information and transmits outgoing audio signals representative of the incoming audio signals.

Abstract: A high frequency signal transmission apparatus includes a transmitter for transmitting received signals from a signal source as a modulated signal on a high frequency 900 MHz carrier to a remote receiver. The remote receiver converts the high frequency carrier in at least one conversion step to a lower frequency carrier signal. The lower frequency carrier signal carrying the modulated signal is then converted to an audio output or to another carrier signal and retransmitted as a modulated second signal to another remote receiver capable of demodulating the signal and broadcasting the audio sounds or video images. The oscillators in the transmitter and receiver are selectable to operate at discrete frequencies. Automatic fine tuning control is provided in the receiver to accommodate drift of the oscillator in the receiver.

Abstract: A wireless audio transmission apparatus and method for coupling audio players to audio receivers for broadcast of audio signals stored in and processed by the audio player. A housing carrying operative circuitry is electrically connected by a multiconductor cable to an audio player for receiving stereo channel signals. Band pass filters couple the stereo signal and signal ground conductors in the cable to the stereo encoder in the housing. The filtered stereo signals are received by a stereo encoder in the housing and modulated onto a radio frequency carrier signal. A transmitter coupled to an antenna carried in the cable wirelessly transmits the carrier signal and the audio signals to a remote radio frequency receiver for demodulation and broadcast of the audio signals. Preferably, the carrier signal is an FM radio frequency signal. The carrier signal is optionally selectable from a plurality of different carrier signal frequencies.

Abstract: A multiple signal carrier transmission apparatus and method for broadcasting stereo sounds to an audio output device uses three related carrier frequencies on which are modulated the sum of first and second stereo channel signals and the first and second stereo channel signals themselves. The composite multiple carrier frequency signal is transmitted to a receiver which separates the three carrier frequency signals to generate a separate left channel signal, a right channel signal and a composite center channel, monophonic, signal which is the sum of the first and second channel signals. A detector monitors the signal strength of each separate left and right channel signal to detect a decrease in either channel output below a threshold. When a decrease below the threshold is detected, the center sum signal replaces the left and/or right channel signal having the diminished signal strength for output through the appropriate speaker to minimize channel fade out.

Abstract: A multiple signal carrier transmission apparatus and method for broadcasting stereo sounds to an audio output device uses three related carrier frequencies on which are modulated the sum of first and second stereo channel signals and the first and second stereo channel signals themselves. The composite multiple carrier frequency signal is transmitted to a receiver which separates the three carrier frequency signals to generate a separate left channel signal, a right channel signal and a composite center channel, monophonic, signal which is the sum of the first and second channel signals. A detector monitors the signal strength of each separate left and right channel signal to detect a decrease in either channel output below a threshold. When a decrease below the threshold is detected, the center sum signal replaces the left and/or right channel signal having the diminished signal strength for output through the appropriate speaker to minimize channel fade out.

Abstract: A high frequency signal transmission apparatus includes a transmitter for transmitting received signals from a signal source as a modulated signal on a high frequency 900 MHz carrier to a remote receiver. The remote receiver converts the high frequency carrier in at least one conversion step to a lower frequency carrier signal. The lower frequency carrier signal carrying the modulated signal is then converted to another carrier signal and retransmitted as a modulated second signal to another remote receiver capable of demodulating the signal and broadcasting the audio sounds or video images. The oscillators in the transmitter and receiver are selectable to operate at discrete frequencies. Automatic fine tuning control is provided in the receiver to accommodate drift of the oscillator in the receiver.