Patents Issued in December 20, 2016
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Patent number: 9524626Abstract: A securing device for attachment of an object (2) which is to be secured. The securing device has a housing with a base plate and a lid as well as an apparatus for generating an alarm when the securing device is removed from the object without authorization. The securing device has an open and closed state. In the closed state the base plate and the lid can be locked to one another by a lock. The apparatus for generating an alarm comprises a mechanical sensor and/or an optical sensor In the closed state the mechanical sensor can detect contact with the object by the base plate and can react to a loss of contact with the object. In the closed state the optical sensor emits light through the base plate, and can sense reflections of this light from the object through the base plate and can react to changes in these reflections.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Pataco AGInventors: Cornel Brühwiler, Jürgen Kreider
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Patent number: 9524627Abstract: A wallet for a carrier includes a receiving body formed to be folded along a direction of a length thereof and having a plurality of receiving parts at a side surface thereof, a fixing part attached to the receiving body to hold the receiving body in a folded position, and a coupling part attached to a side of the receiving body and having a coupling member fixed thereto, the coupling member coupled to a target for coupling.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventor: Dae Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9524628Abstract: In a general aspect, motion is detected based on wireless signals. In some aspects, a modulation type of a first signal is identified at a motion detector device. The first signal is based on a wireless signal transmitted through a space by a transmitter device and received by the motion detector device. A demodulator at the motion detector device generates a second signal from the first signal by demodulating the first signal according to the identified modulation type. A modulator at the motion detector device generates a third signal from the second signal by modulating the second signal according to the identified modulation type. A channel response is generated based on the first signal and the third signal. The channel response is used to detect motion of an object in the space.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Stephen Arnold Devison, Dustin Griesdorf
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Patent number: 9524629Abstract: Automatically adjusting collection parameters for machines on a route in a collection device, based on states of the machines. For each machine on the route, the machine state is read into the collection device. The machine is included or excluded based on the machine state. The collection device is configured with first collection parameters that are configured based on the machine state. Data is collected from the machine based on the first collection parameters. The data is analyzed using parameters that are configured based on the machine, to determine alerts. Based on the alerts, data is selectively immediately collected from the machine based on second collection parameters that are configured based on the machine state and the alerts. Also based on the alerts, the technician is selectively prompted with the collection device to take a predetermined action and collect data from the machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Computational Systems, Inc.Inventors: Christopher G. Hilemon, Thomas E. Nelson, Robert D. Skeirik, Anthony J. Hayzen, Deane M. Horn
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Patent number: 9524630Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring air flow in a vent pipe of a radon mitigation system includes a base connectable to the vent pipe. The base houses a circuit that is actuatable to indicate the condition of the radon mitigation system. An air flow switch actuates the circuit, the air flow switch includes a vane that is supported by the base and extends into the interior of the vent pipe through an opening in a wall of the vent pipe. The vane includes a wing having portions that are deflectable to permit installation of the wing through an opening in the vent pipe. The deflectable portions return under their own resilience to their non-deflected conditions once they pass through the opening in the vent pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Dwyer Instruments, Inc.Inventors: Alejandro Ignacio Baez Guada, Matthew Goldschmidt
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Patent number: 9524631Abstract: A method 400 and apparatus for setting a notification readout mode based on proximity detection includes an electronic computing device configured to determine 402 that a notification readout function is enabled on the electronic computing device. The electronic computing device is further configured to determine 404 a proximity status for the electronic computing device using at least one sensor of the electronic computing device and to set 410, based on the determined proximity status, a notification readout mode for the electronic computing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Rachid M Alameh, John O'Leary, Satyabrata Rout, Andre Luiz Silva Bazante
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Patent number: 9524632Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for personal tracking of hygiene compliance of a user. For example, a mobile device may host a tracking component (e.g., a personal hygiene compliance app deployed on a cell phone or tablet). The tracking component may be configured to establish a communication connection, such as a Bluetooth communication connect, with a hygiene device (e.g., a soap dispenser). The tracking component may generate either a hygiene compliance metric or a non-hygiene compliance metric based upon whether a dispense event notification, indicating compliance by the user with a hygiene opportunity, is received from the hygiene device. In this way, the user may personally track hygiene compliance information based upon automated communication signals shared between the mobile device and the hygiene device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.Inventor: Mark Moore
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Patent number: 9524633Abstract: A remote control device having capacitive touch controls may be configured to enter a sleep state (or mode). For example, the remote control device may be configured to enter the sleep state upon expiration of an interval of time since a most recent button press. The remote control may be configured to awaken from the sleep state when one or more portions of a housing of the remote control are deflected, for example, when a user grasps the remote control to actuate one or more of the capacitive touch controls. For example, the remote control device may include a switch. The switch may include a carbon structure that may be configured to contact an open circuit pad on a circuit board to close the corresponding circuit when the housing is deflected and awaken the remote control device from the sleep state.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.Inventors: Timothy Mann, Matthew Philip McDonald, Lawrence R. Carmen, Jr., Robert D. Stevens, Jr.
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Patent number: 9524634Abstract: Data is remotely collected from a plurality of fasteners in response to a query signal wirelessly transmitted by a reader. Each of the fasteners includes a sensor for measuring a parameter related to the stress on the fastener. A device adapted to be attached to each of the fasteners receives the query signal, activates the sensor to measure the parameter and wirelessly transmits the data including the parameter to the reader.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Brian J Tillotson, Bradley J Mitchell, Peter E Herley, Brenda K Carlson, Kevin Y Ung, Tamaira E Ross, Steven C Venema, James T Farricker, Daniel A Hendricks, Richard R Rocks, Charles B Spinelli, David B Blackwell
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Patent number: 9524635Abstract: Embodiments provided herein relate to controlling a household via one or more household policies. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, at a processor, a household policy for a household, the household policy related to attaining an end goal; determining, via interpretation of the household policy by the processor, an end goal state of the household policy; incrementally modifying a control trigger threshold of a conditionally controlled smart device over time until the end goal state is reached; wherein the control trigger threshold indicates when the conditionally controlled smart device should be controlled to implement a particular function.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Anthony M. Fadell, Yoky Matsuoka, David Sloo, Maxime Veron
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Patent number: 9524636Abstract: A universal remote controller includes a card and a housing. The card includes an information tag. The housing includes a touch panel, a slot, a reader, a memory, a processor, and a signal transmitter. The memory is used for storing a plurality of databases. When the card is inserted to the slot, the reader in the housing induces the driving signal corresponding to the information tag of the card. The processor enables a corresponding database from the memory according to the driving signal and further provides a plurality of remote control functions on the transparent touch panel corresponding to positions of a plurality of key images according to the enabled database.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: LEADOT INNOVATION, INC.Inventor: Justin Wang
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Patent number: 9524637Abstract: A remote control apparatus is usable to remotely control another device and includes a base unit that is electrically connected with the device and further includes a remote control unit that is remote from the device and that is usable to control the device. The remote control unit includes an emergency stop switch that simultaneously actuates two switches that are electrically independent of one another. A primary control apparatus monitors one of the switches, and a secondary control apparatus monitors the other switch. If either switch is moved from its CLOSED state to its OPEN state, the corresponding control apparatus will take emergency actions. The primary and secondary control apparatuses additionally monitor the switches and perform the aforementioned emergency actions in the event of a fault with one of the switches or on the associated wiring.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: EATON CORPORATIONInventors: Kevin C. Towers, Ray Mihir Rao Sewlochan, Dung Chi Trinh, Andrew Darnell Dueckman
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Patent number: 9524638Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing a function in a mobile device are disclosed. A media sound from a sound output device external to the mobile device is captured and a sound feature is extracted from the captured media sound. A function to be performed in the mobile device is determined by identifying at least one reference sound feature in a set of reference sound features based on the extracted sound feature, each reference sound feature in the set of reference sound features being associated with at least one of a plurality of media sounds and at least one of a plurality of functions. Further, the determined function is performed in the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Taesu Kim, Kyu Woong Hwang, Minho Jin
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Patent number: 9524639Abstract: A tool for a crossing aid on a mobile device. The tool determines, by a first computer processor, a unique ID associated with a crossing signal. The tool searches, by the first computer processor, for a wireless access point (WAP) having the unique ID. The tool determines, by the first computer processor, whether the WAP having the unique ID is found. Responsive to determining that the WAP having the unique ID is found, the tool determines, by the first computer processor, haptic feedback. The tool initiates, by the first computer processor, the haptic feedback on the mobile device to aid in crossing.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: International Business machines CorporationInventor: Siao C. L. Chang
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Patent number: 9524640Abstract: In a traffic simulation in which vehicle models, which simulate vehicles, are moved in a road system model including links, which simulate the smallest segment of roads divided by intersections, etc., and nodes, which simulate the intersections, turning points of the roads, etc., the presence/absence of an entering vehicle model that enters a different link from a link in the road system model via the node is judged; the velocity of the entering vehicle model after entering the different link is calculated on the basis of the density of the vehicle models in the different link after the entering vehicle model has entered the different link; and the calculated velocity is set only for the entering vehicle model that has entered the different link.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Tsuburaya
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Patent number: 9524641Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring operating parameters of traffic lamps. A traffic lamp includes one or more memory modules and a controller. The controller receives data pertaining to one or more operating parameters of the traffic lamp and logs the one or more operating parameters to the one or more memory modules using the received data. The controller may log the one or more operating parameters to the one or more memory modules upon detection of a fault in the one or more operating parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: GE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Truong-Khoa Nguyen, Benoit Essiambre, Christian Poirier, Morné Neser
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Patent number: 9524642Abstract: A method performed by one or more processors, comprising: receiving a notification message indicative of an occurrence of an event; determining that a position of a vehicular device that is associated with the one or more processors is located on a boundary of a reachability area surrounding a source of the event; determining that a direction of movement of the vehicular device is towards the source; responsive to determining that the position is on the boundary of the reachability area and that the direction of movement of the vehicular device is towards the source, entering a roadside unit state; detecting one or more vehicular devices that are uninformed of the occurrence of the event and that are located outside of the reachability area; and broadcasting the notification message to the one or more uninformed vehicular devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Ozan K. Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
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Patent number: 9524643Abstract: The present invention provides an Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) 10 and an operating method thereof, which work on long time scales, and guide an ego vehicle 20 away from upcoming risks, rather than only reacting to risks to mitigate the consequences of a crash. To this end, information comprising the orientation of other traffic participants 30, 40, 50, 60, a free driving area of the ego vehicle 20, and/or a driving trajectory of the vehicle 20 as intended by the driver is taken into account, in order to determine potential risks.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBHInventors: Christian Goerick, Bram Bolder, Benjamin Dittes
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Patent number: 9524644Abstract: A notification control method executed by a computer, the notification control method includes: acquiring image data of a displayable image captured by an imaging device, and controlling a notification concerning detection of an object based on output of a sensor, depending on a determination of visibility for the displayable image based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Kimitaka Murashita
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Patent number: 9524645Abstract: A filtering device includes an evaluation value deriving module that derives, for a pair of images having mutual relevance, multiple evaluation values indicative of correlations between any one of blocks (reference block) that is extracted from one of the images (reference image) and multiple blocks (comparison blocks) extracted from the other image (comparison image), an evaluation range setting module that sets an evaluation range of the evaluation values, the evaluation range having one of boundaries at the evaluation value with the highest correlation among the multiple evaluation values, and a difference value determining module that determines whether the evaluation value with the highest correlation is valid as a difference value based on the multiple evaluation values and the evaluation range.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Ono
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Patent number: 9524646Abstract: This invention provides a vessel system and methodology that can be used to promote growth of phytoplankton in the oceans. Unmanned self-controlled wave-powered vessels are equipped with storage units for dispensing a fertilizer, and with sensors to monitor ocean conditions and effects. Fleets of vessels move autonomously by on-board processing of GPS and directional information, piloting a path that is coordinated by a central processing unit. The vessels travel through a defined target area, creating a detailed survey of chemical and biological characteristics that affect grown. The data are processed in a computer model to identify precise locations and precise amounts of fertilizer that will produce the best results. Projected benefits of fertilizing plankton include sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere, and enhancing the marine food chain to improve the fish stock in and around the treated area.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Liquid Robotics, Inc.Inventor: Roger G. Hine
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Patent number: 9524647Abstract: A flight path planning approach may be deterministic and guarantee a safe, quasi-optimal path. A plurality of three-dimensional voxels may be determined as cells of a rectangular grid. The cells may have a predetermined length and width. A shortest safe path through the grid graph may be calculated from a local start to a local goal defined as points on a nominal global path. Geometric smoothing may be performed on the basis line from the local start to the local goal to generate a smooth three-dimensional trajectory that can be followed by a given rotorcraft. Dynamic smoothing may be performed on the three-dimensional trajectory to provide a maximum possible speed profile over a path defined by the dynamic smoothing. The three dimensional path information may be provided to an autopilot, which may then control the rotorcraft to fly along the defined path.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: The Aerospace CorporationInventor: Sylvia Kohn-Rich
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Patent number: 9524648Abstract: Uncrewed autonomous vehicles (“UAVs”) may navigate from one location to another location. Described herein are systems, devices, and methods providing countermeasures for threats that may compromise the UAVs. A plurality of UAVs may establish a mesh network to distribute information to one another. A first UAV may receive external data from a second UAV using the mesh network. The external data may be used to confirm or cross-check data such as location, heading, altitude, and so forth. Disagreement between data generated by the first UAV with external data from the second UAV may result in the determination that the first UAV is compromised. Remedial actions may be taken, such as the first UAV may be directed to a safe location to land or park, may receive commands from another UAV, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan, Jesper Mikael Johansson, James Domit Mackraz, Jon Arron McClintock, Brandon William Porter, Andrew Jay Roths
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Patent number: 9524649Abstract: A method, system and portable electronic device for customizing a curriculum and implementing the customized curriculum on the portable electronic device is disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a user interface for customizing a curriculum to be presented during execution of a content title by the portable electronic device. Data may be generated based upon the customization and downloaded to the portable electronic device for implementing the customized curriculum during execution of the content title by the portable electronic device. The customization may involve a limiting of one or more features of the content, adding additional content, removing some or all of previously-customized curriculum, etc. Additionally, usage data associated with the portable electronic device may be uploaded for presenting progress data via the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Leapfron Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Monica Brown, Jennifer Whitley, Elizabeth Young, Teresa Cameron, Nicole Nicodemus
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Patent number: 9524650Abstract: An automated training system comprising a database containing audio files and a training script that defines a sequence of the audio files making up a training call. The system includes a training engine that automatically makes a call to an external system via a first communications connection, executes the training script and outputs audio data contained in the audio files to the external system via the first communications connection in accordance with the training script. The system has a response receiver that receives voice data from the external system, the voice data representing the voice responses of a user of the external system to the training call. A method for training an employee using the automated training system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventor: Hesam Yavari
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Patent number: 9524651Abstract: A user-friendly and interactively created multimedia electronic message, as well as a system and method for creating such messages, combines an audio component (e.g. a voice-over, music, etc.) with user-interaction events that act upon selected visual media that serve as a visual background to the message. The visual media can be images, sequences of images, video, files such as documents or simply a pre-established library of background templates. The user interaction events can be sketch animations, text animations, symbols, shapes, emoticons and image transformation (e.g. pan, zoom, rotation, etc.) events. The user-interaction events may be time-correlated with the audio component through a common clock that is initiated by, and runs throughout, the audio recordation process, or they may be added outside of the audio component time-line.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventors: Raymond Fix, Sanjay Nichani, Chethan Reddy
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Patent number: 9524652Abstract: A method and system for teaching oneself to learn to play a string instrument and master it by analyzing one's real-time hand/finger movement/technique/form, enabling oneself to progress and correct one's own mistakes simultaneously. In one aspect, a system for learning to play a string instrument is provided that includes a simulation instrument that includes a plurality of strings, wherein at least one of the strings includes at least one-touch sensing sensor thereon in communication with at least one processor to receive a signal from the at least one touch-sensing sensor and determine therefrom when and where on the at least one string a user applies pressure to the at least one string.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventors: Keith Grafman, Sunny Gahazi
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Patent number: 9524653Abstract: Apparatus and methods relating to a motivational display device for a visor, such as the sun visor of a vehicle, are described herein. The motivational display device includes a casing for attaching to the visor, wherein the casing retains a motivational message board to which any of a variety of motivational messages may be affixed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventor: Bryan Joseph Whitt
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Patent number: 9524654Abstract: A system for managing the food intake of a person comprises means for collecting information about food consumed by the subject, and means for providing feedback to the subject regarding the food consumed. It further comprises a sensor 57 for obtaining a signal related to the person and monitoring means for generating the information by performing a pattern recognition of the obtained signal for detecting whether the person is consuming food. The sensor comprises a camera and the pattern recognition comprises image processing. The image processing comprises the detection of a mouth and of a hand and of food. The system further comprises means for causing an audio/video-rendering device 56 to deliver the feedback. The camera is attached to the rendering device. The system further comprises means for identifying available rendering devices 56 arranged for being caused to deliver feedback.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Mariana Simons-Nikolova, Maarten Peter Bodlaender
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Patent number: 9524655Abstract: An interactive Braille display apparatus which includes a frame; 3-sided rotating members installed within the frame such that only one side of the 3-sided rotating members is displayed at a time. Each 3-sided rotating member includes a flat side; a first raised portion side having a first raised portion; a second raised portion side having a second raised portion connected to an input device to receive an input from a user, the second raised portion having a height greater than the height of the first raised portion. The apparatus further includes a microprocessor electrically connected to each clickable switch of each second raised portion, the microprocessor detecting when the clickable switch of at least one second raised portion has been depressed by the user and outputting that the clickable switch of the at least one second raised portion has been depressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Gerardo M. Campos de Leon
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Patent number: 9524656Abstract: A sign language image input method and a device are illustrated. The sign language image input method is provided for a computer device which has a database. The database has a plurality of sign language images, wherein each of the sign language images correspondingly has a code combination. Steps of the sign language image input method are described as follows. The computer device generates at least one key combination by pressing a plurality of key blocks which are disposed in the computer device, wherein the key combination is formed based on at least one hand shape, at least one position, and/or at least one hand action of an input sign language image. The key combination is compared with all code combinations of the database. The input sign language image is outputted according to a comparison result of the key combination and the all code combinations.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SABUZ TECH. CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien Chiang Peng, Cheng Yi Yeh, Yu Wei Wang
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Patent number: 9524657Abstract: An apparatus and method for use in conducting an eruption reaction are disclosed. The apparatus includes a catalytic solids container with a mouth and fluid egress opening and a trigger device or mechanism that allows for the controlled release of a catalytic solid into an eruptible fluid. The catalytic solids container may be adapted to be coupled to a container for an eruptible fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventor: Steven D. Spangler
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Patent number: 9524658Abstract: An article comprising a pop-up card is provided. The article comprises a single sheet of paper including a single crease and separating the sheet of paper into a left panel and a right panel, wherein the sheet is in a closed position when folded along the crease, and wherein the sheet is in the open position when not folded along the crease, a pop-up sliceform element coupled to said sheet, wherein the sliceform includes a first plurality of sliceform elements perpendicular to a second plurality of sliceform elements when in the open position, wherein the sliceform element comprises a first and last sliceform element each with a distal tab, and wherein in the open position the pop-up sliceform element is displayed as a three-dimensional configuration, and in the closed position said pop-up sliceform element folds together into a flat configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: LovePop, Inc.Inventors: John Perry Wise, Robin Sebastian Koske Rose
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Patent number: 9524659Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to a label and a method of application of the label on a container that both protects confidential information and functions to allow for the placement of auxiliary labels even if an overall length of a label exceeds the perimeter of the container to which it is applied. The auxiliary labels are disposed in a fanned fashion, attached to a primary label portion by, for example, a micro perforation line, and where the auxiliary labels are separated from each other by micro perforation lines and where the adhesive back of each pair of auxiliary labels are attached to each other in order to form a plurality of protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Safeway Inc.Inventor: Mike Barry
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Patent number: 9524660Abstract: A display apparatus including a display module, and a drive device to deform the display module, is provided. The drive device switches the display module between a planar state and a curved state in which at least one lateral end of the display module protrudes forward. As such, the user may use the display module both in a planar state and a curved state.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Yup Lee, Jae Hyung Kim, Woo Sung In, Gyu Sung Do, Byung Joo Paek, Jeong Roh Lee, Jun Ho Yang
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Patent number: 9524661Abstract: A billboard includes a support structure and first and second lighting assemblies. Each lighting assembly includes a number of circuits boards arranged in a common orientation. Each circuit board of the first lighting assembly is planar and has a number of LEDs and optical elements attached thereto. The LEDs are thermally coupled to a first heat sink. The LEDs are arranged in rows on each circuit board, with each row including a number of LEDs mounted so that all of the LEDs are arranged in a common orientation. Each optical element is disposed over only one associated LED. The optical elements are arranged to direct the light across a portion of the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Ultravision Technologies, LLCInventors: David Siucheong Auyeung, William Y. Hall, Simon Magarill
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Patent number: 9524662Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying on a portable terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a display unit configured to display information at a display location on a screen, a sensor configured to provide motion information of the portable terminal when the portable terminal is bent, and a controller configured to adjust the display location on the screen based on the motion information. A method comprises displaying information at a display location on a screen, providing motion information of the portable terminal when the portable terminal is bent and adjusting the display location on the screen based on the motion information provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventor: Woo-Up Kwon
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Patent number: 9524663Abstract: A color calibration device, a color calibration method thereof, a display apparatus and a display system having the same are provided. The color calibration device includes a storage configured to store at least one of characteristic information of a display screen that is measured by a color sensor, and color calibration information acquired by the color sensor; and a controller configured to calibrate a color of the display apparatus by using at least one of the characteristic information and the color calibration information.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-yong Park, Kil-soo Park, Nam-kyun Beon, Sang-kyun Im
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Patent number: 9524664Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a driver. The driver generates APL-calculation image data corresponding to an APL-calculation luminance image through an APL-calculation filtering process on the input usage data, calculates area characterization data including first APL data of each area in the APL-calculation luminance image and calculates second APL data depending on the position of each pixel and the first APL data of the area characterization data associated with the area in which each pixel is located and with the adjacent areas to generate pixel-specific characterization data including the second APL data. The driver generates output image data on the basis of the second APL data of the pixel-specific image data and drives each pixel in response to the output image data. The APL-calculating filtering process involves setting a luminance value of the target pixel in the APL-calculation luminance image to a specific APL-calculation alternative luminance value.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose, Akio Sugiyama
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Patent number: 9524665Abstract: A display panel and a gate driver are disclosed. The gate driver includes a plurality of drive circuits. Each drive circuit includes a shift register unit and a select unit. The shift register unit is configured to generate a driving signal. The select unit is electrically coupled to the shift register unit, and is configured to receive the driving signal and to output the driving signal to one of a plurality of gate lines according to a clock signal. An enabling interval of the driving signal is an N-th power of 2 times a period of the clock signal, in which N is 0 or a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: AU OPTRONICS (XIAMEN) CORPORATION, AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Shao-Peng Peng
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Patent number: 9524666Abstract: OLED display modules for large-format displays are disclosed. The OLED display module includes a matrix of OLEDs, with each OLED having an anode and a cathode, and an OLED drive circuit having electrical connections defined by rows and columns that electrically connect to the OLEDs in the OLED matrix. Groups of adjacent rows are arranged in parallel and groups of adjacent columns are arranged in parallel, thereby defining super pixels each having an array of four or more OLEDS, wherein the OLEDs in a given super pixel cannot be individually activated. The modules can be combined to form the large-format display.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Revolution Display, LLCInventors: Jeremy Hochman, Robbie Thielemans
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Patent number: 9524667Abstract: A pixel circuit for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes an organic light emitting diode, a first transistor, a storage unit, a second transistor and a third transistor. The first transistor controls the amount of current flowing from a first power source coupled to a second power source via a second node and the organic light emitting diode in response to a voltage at a first node. The storage unit is connected to a data line, and stores a data signal from the data line. The second transistor is connected to a fourth node and the first node and is turned on when a second control signal is supplied. The third transistor is connected to the first node and a third node and is turned on when a third control signal is supplied.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Jung-Bae Kim, Bo-Yong Chung
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Patent number: 9524668Abstract: An AMOLED driving circuit, a driving method and a display device, wherein a control unit is connected to a data line and a control line, and is connected to a driving unit via first, second and third nodes; a charging unit is connected to the driving unit via the first node, and is connected to a first power source; the driving unit is connected to one end of a light emitting device, and is connected to the first power source; the other end of the light emitting device is connected to a second power source. The control unit controls a current so as to charge the charging unit through the driving unit, and controls the charging unit so as to supply a voltage to the driving unit through the first node, so that the driving unit is driven by the voltage and drives the light emitting device to emit light.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi
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Patent number: 9524669Abstract: A light-emitting element display device includes a light-emitting element display panel that displays an image by light emission of light-emitting regions of a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first R sub-pixel, a second R sub-pixel, a first G sub-pixel, a second G sub-pixel, a first B sub-pixel and a second B sub-pixel. The second R sub-pixel, the second G sub-pixel, and the second B sub-pixel include a W electrode as a common electrode that causes the second R sub-pixel, the second G sub-pixel, and the second B sub-pixel to simultaneously emit lights in response to the application of a potential. The driver circuit includes a sub-pixel control unit that calculates a peak luminance in a screen based on the video signal and controls the plurality of sub-pixels based on the peak luminance.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 9524670Abstract: A display apparatus includes: pixels at a display area; dummy pixels at a dummy area; and repair lines coupled to the dummy pixels and connectably arranged to the pixels, each of the dummy pixels including: a driving transistor configured to output a driving current corresponding to a data signal applied to a gate electrode thereof; an emission control transistor between a connection node of a corresponding repair line of the repair lines and the driving transistor, configured to be controlled by an emission control signal; a bypass transistor between the connection node and a first initialization voltage line through which a first initialization voltage is supplied, configured to be controlled by an initialization control signal; and a coupling removal transistor between the connection node and the first initialization voltage line, configured to be controlled by a coupling control signal applied at a different timing from the initialization control signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoung-Tae Park, Tae-Gon Kim, Warrick So, Sung-Ho Cho
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Patent number: 9524671Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an edge processing section extracting an edge component of a display data signal; a display data signal processing section changing the display data signal according to a level conversion signal and adding the edge component thereto; a level conversion signal generating section changing the level conversion signal according to the display data signal and a signal output from the display data signal processing section; and a display section performing a display operation according to the signal output from the display data processing section.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 9524672Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display apparatus includes a power circuit and a pixel. The power circuit serves to provide a first voltage. The pixel includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a capacitor, and an OLED. During a programming period, a first terminal of the capacitor receives a data voltage through the turned-on first transistor, a first terminal of the second transistor receives the first voltage, a control terminal of the second transistor is coupled to a second terminal of the capacitor and coupled to a second terminal of the second transistor through the turned-on third transistor, and the power circuit regulates a voltage level or a current of the first voltage to accelerate a voltage level of the control terminal of the second transistor to reach a target voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, LTD.Inventors: Bo-Jhang Sun, Chin-Hai Huang, Szu-Chi Huang
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Patent number: 9524673Abstract: Provided is a display device including a pixel array unit that is made by arranging a drive transistor to drive a light emitting unit, a sampling transistor to sample a signal voltage, and a pixel circuit having a storage capacitor to store the signal voltage which is written by sampling with the sampling transistor, and a drive unit that makes a gate node and a source node of the drive transistor be in a floating state up to performing writing of the signal voltage with the sampling transistor, after writing an initialization voltage in the gate node when the source node of the drive transistor is in a non-floating state.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kei Kimura, Yusuke Onoyama, Naobumi Toyomura, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 9524674Abstract: A stage circuit includes a first driver, a second driver, a first output unit, a second output unit and a controller. The first driver controls voltages of first and second nodes, according to a first power source, a third power source, a start signal or a carry signal of a previous stage input to a first input terminal, and a clock signal supplied to a second input terminal. The second driver controls voltages of third and fourth nodes, according to voltages of the first power source, the third power source, the first input terminal and the first and second nodes. The first output unit outputs a carry signal to a first output terminal, according to voltages of the first power source, the second input terminal and the third and fourth nodes. The second output unit outputs a scan signal to a second output terminal, according to voltages of the second power source, the second input terminal and the third and fourth nodes. The controller is electrically coupled to the first output terminal and the second driver.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang-UniversityInventors: Oh-Kyong Kwon, Yeong-Keun Kwon, Jong-Hee Kim, Ji-Sun Kim, Jae-Keun Lim, Chong-Chul Chai
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Patent number: 9524675Abstract: The present disclosure presents a shift register and a gate driver circuit comprising a signal input unit, a reset control unit, a light emitting signal output control unit, and a scanning signal output control unit. At a charging phase, the signal input unit controls the light emitting signal output control unit to conductively connect the first reference signal terminal to the light emitting signal output terminal, and controls the scanning signal output control unit to conductively connect the second clock signal terminal to the scanning signal output terminal. At a scanning signal output phase, the scanning signal output terminal outputs a scanning signal. At a light emitting signal output phase, the light emitting signal output terminal outputs a light emitting signal. The above shift register provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure integrates the function of outputting scanning signals and the function of outputting light emitting signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dongmei Wei, Haigang Qing, Yin Deng