Patents Issued in November 2, 2017
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Publication number: 20170318381Abstract: Methods of generating tactile user feedback utilizing headphone devices may involve sending a feedback signal from a computing device to a headphone device operatively connected to the computing device. A tactile vibration may be generated utilizing a tactile bass vibrator of the headphone device in response to the feedback signal. Systems for generating tactile user feedback utilizing headphone devices may include a headphone device operatively connected to a computing device, the headphone device comprising a tactile bass vibrator configured to generate a tactile vibration in response to a feedback signal received from the computing device. The computing device may be programmed to send a feedback signal to the headphone device in response to a predetermined event.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Sam Noertker, John Timothy, Matthew Windt
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Publication number: 20170318382Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for a headset with force isolation, where the headset comprises a headband having two upper headband sections coupled by a center block and two ear cups, where each ear cup is coupled to one of the two upper headband sections. The two upper headband sections may include side support strips between which a movable strip may be placed utilizing a slider knob, thereby increasing the rigidness of the headband when fully extended between the side support strips utilizing the slider knob. The rigidness of the headband may decrease when the movable strips are retracted from between the side support strips and into the center block utilizing the slider knob. The side support strips may be plastic and the movable strip may be metal. The center block may be more rigid than the side support strips. The center block may be plastic. The headband may include headband endcaps at lower ends of the headband.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Scot Cochran, Tim Wiley, Andy Logan
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Publication number: 20170318383Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sealed pipe-loaded loudspeaker for augmenting low frequency response in a portable electronic device. A loudspeaker transducer is configured to radiate sound directly out of a forward radiation area and incidentally out of a rearward radiation area, and a sealed transmission line forming a closed pipe acoustically coupled to the transducer through which the rearward radiation propagates to produce standing waves corresponding to the dimensions of the closed pipe, wherein resonances apply a loading to a diaphragm element of the transducer to lower its resonance frequency. An acoustical wave front radiates away from the diaphragm element for the direct sound and is emitted outside of the device, and the rearward radiation is not emitted from the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL ABInventors: Kelvin Francis GRIFFITHS, Giuseppe DI CARLANTONIO
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Publication number: 20170318384Abstract: An acoustic filter includes holes and is configured to receive sound waves generated by an audio driver of a playback device. The sound waves comprise sound waves of a first frequency that radiate according to a first radiation pattern and sound waves of a second frequency that radiate according to a second radiation pattern that is less directed along an axis of the audio driver than the first radiation pattern. The second frequency is lower than the first frequency. The acoustic filter is configured to attenuate the sound waves of the first frequency so that the attenuated sound waves of the first frequency are emitted from the acoustic filter according to an effective radiation pattern that is less directed along the axis of the audio driver than the first radiation pattern and pass the sound waves of the second frequency in substantial accordance with the second radiation pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Mike Chamness, Aurelio Ramos
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Publication number: 20170318385Abstract: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors and related bias voltage techniques are described. Exemplary MEMS sensors, such as exemplary MEMS acoustic sensors or microphones described herein can employ one or more bias voltage generators and single-ended or differential amplifier arrangements. Various embodiments are described that can effectively increase the bias voltage available to the sensor element without resorting to high breakdown voltage semiconductor processes. In addition, control of the one or more bias voltage generators in various operating modes is described, based on consideration of a number of factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Kieran Harney, Adrianus Maria Lafort, Brian Moss, Dion Ivo De Roo
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Publication number: 20170318386Abstract: Provided is an audio device, including: an audio signal communication unit comprising a reception unit configured to receive an audio signal via wireless communication and a transmission unit configured to transmit an audio signal via wireless communication; a plurality of signal input units including the reception unit; an input selection unit configured to select one signal input unit from among the plurality of signal input units; a control unit configured to control switching of the input selection unit; and a signal processing unit, in which the control unit is configured to: switch, when the input selection unit has selected a signal input unit other than the reception unit, the input selection unit to the selected signal input unit and input an audio signal, which is input from the selected signal input unit, into the signal processing unit; and switch, when the reception unit has received an audio signal via wireless communication, the input selection unit from the selected signal input unit to the reType: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Katsuaki TANAKA, Masahiro ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20170318387Abstract: Systems and methods for stereo separation and directional suppression are provided. An example method includes receiving a first audio signal, representing sound captured by a first microphone associated with a first location, and a second audio signal, representing sound captured by a second microphone associated with a second location. The microphones comprise omni-directional microphones. The distance between the first and second microphones is limited by the size of a mobile device. A first channel signal of a stereo signal is generated by forming, based on the first and second audio signals, a first beam at the first location. A second channel signal of the stereo signal is generated by forming, based on the first and second audio signals, a second beam at the second location. First and second directions, associated respectively with the first and second beams, are fixed relative to a line between the first and second locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Jonathon Ray, John Woodruff, Shailesh Sakri, Tony Verma
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Publication number: 20170318388Abstract: A nonlinear control system and a loudspeaker protection system. In particular, a nonlinear control system including a controller, an audio system, and a model is disclosed. The controller is configured to accept one or more input signals, and one or more estimated states produced by the model to produce one or more control signals. The audio system includes one or more transducers configured to accept the control signals to produce a rendered audio stream therefrom. An active loudspeaker with an integrated amplifier is disclosed. A loudspeaker protection system and a quality control system are disclosed. More particularly, a system for clamping the input to a loudspeaker dependent upon a bank of representative models is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Pär Gunnars Risberg, Erik Lindahl, Marcus Arvidsson, Daniel Karlsson, Landy Toth
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Publication number: 20170318389Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for processing audio input signals, for example, so as to linearize the output of a given loudspeaker. An audio processor is provided, for modifying an audio signal to be provided to a loudspeaker, the audio processor comprising: a first filter stage, for applying to an audio signal a linear model describing an excursion of the loudspeaker in response to a given input signal, the linear model containing only linear terms, and for generating one or more excursion signals; a plurality of second filters for receiving the one or more excursion signals, each of the second filters configured to apply to a respective one of a plurality of frequency bands in the one or more excursion signals the inverse of a model describing an excursion of the loudspeaker in response to a given input signal; and a combiner for combining the outputs of each of the plurality of second filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: Ylva Ellen Maria BJORK, Erik Vilhelm LINDAHL
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Publication number: 20170318390Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for measuring and characterizing a loudspeaker. In particular, the non-linear response of the loudspeaker can be determined. Embodiments of the invention also provide methods and apparatus for processing audio input signals, for example, so as to linearize the output of a given loudspeaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: Ylva Ellen Maria BJORK, Erik Vilhelm LINDAHL
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Publication number: 20170318391Abstract: A diaphragm for a speaker apparatus according to the present invention, which has a major axis and a minor axis perpendicular thereto, comprises: an edge part coupled to a diaphragm edge or a frame and formed as a substantially flat surface; a convex part located inside the edge part and formed to be upwardly convex; and a concave part located inside the convex part and formed to be downwardly concave, wherein, with reference to the section in the direction of the minor axis, the height difference between the highest point of the convex part and the lowest point of the concave part in the central region is larger than the height difference between the highest point of the convex part and the lowest point of the concave part in the outer region in the direction of the major direction where the concave part starts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Han-Ryang LEE, Il-Kyung SUH
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Publication number: 20170318392Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes the following: a surface arranged to be mechanically displaced; a first magnet coupled with the surface; at least one supporting member for supporting the surface; a base comprising a second magnet, wherein the second magnet is arranged, at least partially, to face the first magnet; a coil coupled with the second magnet: and a signal port electrically coupled with the coil, wherein an electrical signal is configured to travel between the signal port and the coil, and wherein the electrical signal in the coil is proportional to mechanic displacement of the surface when a force equilibrium state of the surface is broken either by the electrical signal in the coil or the mechanic displacement of the surface from a position of the force equilibrium state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: Vesa Kajanus
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Publication number: 20170318393Abstract: According to an embodiment, a circuit includes a high-? resistor including a plurality of semiconductor junction devices coupled in series and a plurality of additional capacitances formed in parallel with the plurality of semiconductor junction devices. Each semiconductor junction device of the plurality of semiconductor junction devices includes a parasitic doped well capacitance configured to insert a parasitic zero in a noise transfer function of the high-? resistor. Each additional capacitance of the plurality of additional capacitances is configured to adjust a parasitic pole in the noise transfer function of the high-? resistor in order to compensate for the parasitic zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Luca Valli, Benno Muehlbacher, Richard Gaggl
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Publication number: 20170318394Abstract: An electret element includes: an electret film that contains silicon oxide; and a protective film formed over the electret film and constituted of aluminum oxide deposited through an atomic layer deposition method.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Gen HASHIGUCHI, Yuki NISHIMORI, Shinichi ARIOKA, Masato SUZUKI, Kazunori ISHIBASHI
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Publication number: 20170318395Abstract: Improving noise rejection of a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone by utilizing a membrane sandwiched between oppositely biased backplates is presented herein. The MEMS microphone can comprise a diaphragm that converts an acoustic pressure into an electrical signal; a first backplate capacitively coupled to a first side of the diaphragm—the first backplate biased at a first direct current (DC) voltage; a second backplate capacitively coupled to a second side of the diaphragm—the second backplate biased at a second DC voltage; and an electronic amplifier that buffers the electrical signal to generate a buffered output signal representing the acoustic pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Kieran Harney, Adrianus Maria Lafort, Brian Moss, Dion Ivo De Roo
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Publication number: 20170318396Abstract: A multi-device module, comprising: a first substrate, which houses a first MEMS transducer, designed to transduce a first environmental quantity into a first electrical signal, and an integrated circuit, coupled to the first MEMS transducer for receiving the first electrical signal; a second substrate, which houses a second MEMS transducer, designed to transduce a second environmental quantity into a second electrical signal; and a flexible printed circuit, mechanically connected to the first and second substrates and electrically coupled to the integrated circuit and to the second MEMS transducer so that the second electrical signal flows, in use, from the second MEMS transducer to the integrated circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Roberto BRIOSCHI, Marco Omar GHIDONI
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Publication number: 20170318397Abstract: A hearing system to activate an auditory system using cerebrospinal fluids includes at least one processor configured to receive an audio signal captured using a sound sensor (e.g., a microphone), extract temporal and spectral features from the audio signal, and create modulated ultrasound signals in a range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz with ultrasound carrier frequencies in the range of 50 kHz to 4 MHz, which are ultrasound frequencies that are well-suited to reach the cerebrospinal fluids (e.g., can pass across the skull/bones to reach the cerebrospinal fluids). The system further includes at least one ultrasonic transducer which receives the modulated signal and delivers the modulated signal to the body and activates the auditory system via vibration of cerebrospinal fluids that vibrate cochlear fluids, bypassing the normal conductive pathway that uses middle ear bones and minimizing bone conduction and distortion through the skull.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Hubert H. Lim, Mark Hamilton, Hongsun Guo, Cory Gloeckner
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Publication number: 20170318398Abstract: A hearing assistance system includes a pair of left and right hearing assistance devices to be worn by a wearer and uses both of the left and right hearing assistance devices to detect the voice of the wearer. The left and right hearing assistance devices each include first and second microphones at different locations. Various embodiments detect the voice of the wearer using signals produced by the first and second microphones of the left hearing assistance device and the first and second microphones of the right hearing assistance device. Various embodiments use outcome of detection of the voice of the wearer performed by the left hearing assistance device and the outcome of detection of the voice of the wearer performed the right hearing assistance device to determine whether to declare a detection of the voice of the wearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: Ivo Merks
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Publication number: 20170318399Abstract: A prosthesis including an implantable component including an LC circuit, wherein a piezoelectric material forms at least a part of the capacitance portion of the LC circuit, the piezoelectric material expands and/or contracts upon the application of a variable magnetic field to the inductor of the LC circuit, the LC circuit has an electrical self-resonance frequency below 20 kHz, and the piezoelectric material forms part of an actuator configured to output a force to tissue of a recipient in which the implantable component is implanted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: Werner Meskens
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Publication number: 20170318400Abstract: A hearing aid (10, 11) has a memory (123) for storing personal settings for alleviating a hearing loss for the hearing aid user. A user account is created from an Internet enabled computer device (17) on a remote server (25), and the user account includes the personal settings for alleviating a hearing loss for the hearing aid user and personal information. A wireless connection is set up a between the hearing aid (10, 11) and the personal communication device (13), and the personal communication device (13) is identified as a gateway to the Internet for said hearing aid. The user grants access rights to a third party to modify data in a sub-set of the user account stored on the server (25).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Widex A/SInventors: Soren Erik WESTERMANN, Svend Vitting ANDERSEN, Anders WESTERGAARD, Niels Erik Boelskift MARETTI
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Publication number: 20170318401Abstract: A wearable acoustic device with a microphone is provided. The wearable acoustic device includes a first housing forming a first acoustic emission path, a second housing combined with the first housing in a first direction that is substantially parallel to the first acoustic emission path, an acoustic component part arranged within the second housing and emitting sound through the first acoustic emission path, and at least one microphone arranged adjacent to the first acoustic emission path within the first housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Juhee CHANG, Je-Ok LEE, Taiyong KIM, Sukhyun LEE, Byoung-Hee LEE, Seonmi KIM, Sangju LEE, Ho-Chul HWANG
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Publication number: 20170318402Abstract: A hearing aid comprising a microphone, a receiver, hearing aid electronics coupled to the microphone and the receiver, and conductive traces overlaying an insulator, the conductive traces configured to interconnect the hearing aid electronics and to follow non-planar contours of the insulator. Examples are provided wherein the insulator includes a hearing aid housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Douglas F. Link, David Prchal, Sidney A. Higgins
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Publication number: 20170318403Abstract: This invention relates to an impression-taking pad (10) for taking an impression (20) of an ear canal (30) by an impression-taking material, having a lateral end (el) to be arranged away from a tympanic membrane (35) in said ear canal (30); and a medial end (em) to be arranged proximate to said tympanic membrane (35). The impression-taking pad (10) comprises an outer body (2) tapering from said lateral end (el) to said medial end (em). The impression-taking pad (10) further comprises an inner body (3) for releasable engagement with a tool (11, 12) for visual inspection of the ear canal (30), the inner body (3) being configured to support insertion of the impression-taking pad (10) in the ear canal (30) by the tool (11, 12).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: JANA-KOSIMA SCHWARZLOS-SOOPRAYEN, Erdal KARAMUK, Daniel PROBST, Natasha THUMM
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Publication number: 20170318404Abstract: A transducer protection system for the protection of at least one transducer opening in a housing of a hearing device, including a support and a plurality of fibers each fixed at one end to the support and free to move on the other end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Erdal Karamuk, Josef Mueller, Andi Vonlanthen, Thomas Jenny
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Publication number: 20170318405Abstract: Example techniques may involve calibration with multiple recording devices. An implementation may include detecting, via a microphone, one or more calibration sounds as emitted by one or more playback devices of one or more zones during a calibration sequence. The implementation may further include determining a first response, the first response representing a response of a given environment to the one or more calibration sounds as detected by the first recording device and receiving data indicating a second response, the second response representing a response of the given environment to the one or more calibration sounds as detected by a second recording device. The implementation may also include determining a calibration for the one or more playback devices based on the first response and the second response and sending, to the one or more zones, an instruction that applies the calibration to playback by the one or more playback devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: Klaus Hartung
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Publication number: 20170318406Abstract: Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signal components are processed differently. The ambient HOA component is represented by a minimum number of HOA coefficient sequences. The remaining channels contain either directional signals or additional coefficient sequences of the ambient HOA component, depending on what will result in optimum perceptual quality. This processing can change on a frame-by-frame basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATIONInventors: SVEN KORDON, ALEXANDER KRUEGER
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Publication number: 20170318407Abstract: Spatial exploration systems and methods of spatial exploration utilizing spatial sound in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a spatial exploration system acquires sensor data and constructs a 3D spatial model of a surrounding real world environment. The system can instantiate a 3D object at a location within the 3D spatial model corresponding to the location of a real world feature, determine a location and orientation of a user within the 3D spatial model, and generate an audio clip containing vocalized information describing the feature. The spatial exploration system can then output a spatial sound describing the identified feature by modifying an audio clip based upon the position of the 3D object relative to the location and orientation of the user within the 3D spatial model to encode audio cues as to the location of the feature in the surrounding real world environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Markus Meister, Yang Liu
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Publication number: 20170318408Abstract: An apparatus for generating a plurality of audio channels for a first speaker setup is characterized by an imaginary speaker determiner, an energy distribution calculator, a processor and a renderer. The imaginary speaker determiner is configured to determine a position of an imaginary speaker not contained in the first speaker setup to obtain a second speaker setup containing the imaginary speaker. The energy distribution calculator is configured to calculate an energy distribution from the imaginary speaker to the other speakers in the second speaker setup. The processor is configured to repeat the energy distribution to obtain a downmix information for a downmix from the second speaker setup to the first speaker setup. The renderer is configured to generate the plurality of audio channels using the downmix information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Christian BORSS, Christian ERTEL, Johannes HILPERT, Achim KUNTZ, Michael FISCHER, Florian SCHUH, Bernhard GRILL
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Publication number: 20170318409Abstract: In a method for downloading subscription information to an identification unit connected to a wireless communication device operating within a cellular network, which includes at least one packet gateway node and a remote provisioning server being connected to it, the wireless communication device operates in a mode with limited access to the remote provisioning server.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: GEMALTO M2M GMBHInventor: Thomas LAMPART
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Publication number: 20170318410Abstract: A method of performing a downlink machine type communication from a base station to a MTC (machine type communication) terminal includes, at the base station, transmitting at least one of a system information—the system information excluding a Master Information Block (MIB)—, a control information and data to the MTC terminal using a system bandwidth having a predetermined size. The base station performs frequency hopping using a frequency hopping pattern in a unit of narrow band on the at least one of the system information—the system information excluding a Master Information Block (MIB)—, the control information and the data to transmit to the MTC terminal, and the narrow band is less than the system bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Hyukjun OH, Kyoungja CHO
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Publication number: 20170318411Abstract: A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating an uplink signal over a plurality of subframes. If the plurality of subframes do not include a transmission candidate subframe of a sounding reference signal used to measure uplink reception quality, a controller sets a first transmission format to all the plurality of subframes, and if the plurality of subframes include the transmission candidate subframe, the controller sets a second transmission format to all the plurality of subframes. A transmitter transmits the repetition signals using the set transmission format.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: TETSUYA YAMAMOTO, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, AYAKO HORIUCHI
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Publication number: 20170318412Abstract: The invention relates to method for transmitting data between a first subscriber (22) and a second subscriber (24) using at least one conversion unit (10), wherein the first subscriber (22), the second subscriber (24) and the conversion unit (10) are configured in each case for wireless near-field data transmission with a first transmission method and a second transmission method. The second transmission method has a plurality of variants, wherein the first subscriber (22) and the second subscriber (24) are configured in each case to carry out only those variants which are incompatible with one another. An identifier is transmitted by the conversion unit (10) in a first step using the first transmission method. This identifier of the conversion unit (10) is received by the subscribers (22, 24) using the first transmission method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: MAKAIO GMBHInventor: Christoph SCHRAMM
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Publication number: 20170318413Abstract: A blue-tooth communication system and a broadcasting method therefor are provided. The broadcasting method includes: detecting N blue-tooth receivers in a blue-tooth range of a blue-tooth transmitter; broadcasting a data package during at least one transmitting timing window by the blue-tooth transmitter; and receiving N returned data packages which are respectively returned by the corresponding blue-tooth receivers by the blue-tooth transmitter during N receiving timing windows. At least one of the N returned data packages includes an acknowledge message which is recorded in a header field of the corresponding returned data package.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventor: Li-Wei Chang
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Publication number: 20170318414Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising monitoring if a tunnel to a terminal via an untrusted network is to be established, wherein the tunnel is set up only if the terminal is authenticated and authorized; requesting, if the tunnel is to be established, the authentication and authorization and an information on a location of the terminal; providing the information on the location received in response to the request to a gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Anders Jan Olof KALL, Gyorgy Tamas WOLFNER
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Publication number: 20170318415Abstract: Distributed communication systems provide location information to mobile terminals that may not be able to receive otherwise global positioning system (GPS) information from GPS satellites. Providing location information to clients inside a building or other location may make location based services, such as emergency (E911) services, possible based on the location information. The distributed communications system may be provided location information about its components through a number of techniques. Once the distributed communications system has the location information, such location information may be passed to clients.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: Gerald Bernhart Schmidt
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Publication number: 20170318416Abstract: A method for communicating location information to a device includes receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, location information that represents a geographic location of a device associated with a first user; associating, by the computer system, the received location information with a profile associated with the first user; and sending, from the computer system to a device associated with a second user, a message that is generated based at least in part on the location information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Dennis P. Crowley, Alexander M. Rainert
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Publication number: 20170318417Abstract: A restricted zone monitoring system and associated methods are disclosed. The restricted zone monitoring system can include a connection to a network that includes cellular device location information. The restricted zone monitoring system can also include a restricted zone database including information defining one or more restricted zones. In addition, the restricted zone monitoring system can include a processor that compares the cellular device location information to the restricted zone database to determine whether a cellular device is located in a restricted zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Warren W. Kusumoto, Uma Jha
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Publication number: 20170318418Abstract: In one embodiment, techniques are provided to establish and use semantic associations between location profiles and ambient profiles. One or more location profiles are selected from a location database. A first plurality of ambient profiles is selected for a first area surrounding one or more geographic locations of the location profiles. One or more patterns are extracted from the first plurality of ambient profiles and are used to generate associations between location profiles and ambient profiles in an association database which semantically associates location profiles with ambient profiles independent of geographic location. The associations may be used, among other things, to service requests from mobile devices and/or update ambient profiles or location profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, Russel K. Jones, Richard J. Sutton, Javier Velez, Pathum Mudannayake, Arun Ramamurthy
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Publication number: 20170318419Abstract: A system to communicate with a community of people determined by a geofencing system to be physically present in a geographic region, wherein the system overrides any alert-inhibiting state in the people's smart phones to deliver audio or visual alerts in emergency situations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: IN-TELLIGENT PROPERTIES INC.Inventor: Allan C. SUTHERLAND
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Publication number: 20170318420Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for generating shopping incentives for users based on purchasing patterns of the users. The system performs operations including determining one or more zones within a venue based on wireless signals transmitted by one or more wireless sensors. The operations further include, for at least one zone, determining a current state associated with the zone, monitoring the zone, and, in response to detecting a device entering the zone, notifying the device of the current state associated with the zone. Each zone is assigned to a zone owner. A current state associated with a zone is based on a real-time location of a device carried by the zone owner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: John K. Gerken, III, Jeremy A. Greenberger
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Publication number: 20170318421Abstract: A network device capable of performing rule-based actions dependent on geolocation-based conditions or realtime conditions from an external source. The network device can obtain its geolocation, obtain a rule based on a condition, query sources for and/or calculate updated statuses of the condition based on the geolocation, and perform actions based on the updated status of the condition, the geolocation, and the rule. The network device is capable of safely shutting down when voltage supplied to the network device falls outside of and acceptable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Belkin International, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, Venkata Subba Rao Pathuri, Francis Michael Kelly, Ohad Zeira, Brian Van Harlingen
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Publication number: 20170318422Abstract: Systems and methods to provide navigational guidance to reach a package located inside a building. Low-energy wireless transmitting devices (e.g., Bluetooth devices) are used to transmit their identifiers. Some of the devices are placed at known locations inside the building; and some of the devices are attached to packages. When a mobile device detects the identifier of a device placed at a known location and the identifier of a device attached to the package, the location of the package is identified and recorded based on the known location of the device. Navigational guidance is provided to a mobile device of a user to reach the package based on the recorded location of the package and/or the location of any of the devices the mobile device can detect within the communication range from the current location of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Westfield Retail Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Erik Davin Kokkonen
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Publication number: 20170318423Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitter and/or receiver units (transceivers), such as in particular motor vehicle transceivers. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods and devices for detecting changes in the positions of transceivers relative to each other. For example, a system may include: a distance determining device to measure a current distance value corresponding to a respective distance of two of the transceivers relative to each other; and a comparator to compare the at least one current distance value and with a stored reference distance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Thomas Reisinger, Ulrich Emmerling
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Publication number: 20170318424Abstract: This disclosure describes an in-motion proximity guidance system that may alert a mobile device user of a likelihood that a projected pathway of an in-motion mobile device will intersect with a projected pathway of another in-motion mobile device or a location of a stationary object. The in-motion proximity guidance may further trigger visual and/or audible alerts to indicate an imminent collision. These alerts may be emitted from the in-motion mobile devices or stationary sensor devices physically coupled to stationary objects. Further, the in-motion proximity guidance system may transmit a corrective action to a collision avoidance system of a vehicle that is communicatively coupled to a mobile device in order to reduce a likelihood of an imminent collision. The in-motion proximity guidance system may also interact with a smart traffic light system, such that a sequence of traffic light indications may be altered to avoid an imminent collision between vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Damon Gene Laursen, Eric W. Yocam
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Publication number: 20170318425Abstract: An information processing method performed at a terminal includes: starting a location service of a first application; obtaining place-of-departure information and destination information in a display based on an operation of a user, and generating route indication information according to the place-of-departure information and the destination information; detecting, based on the location service of the first application, real-time information of the user when the user moves along a route indicated by the route indication information, and reporting the real-time information to a server, to obtain push information that is obtained through comprehensive determining based on at least one combination of location information, time information, user behavior information, historically collected information, and point-of-interest (POI) information; and receiving the push information that is directionally pushed when a preset condition is satisfied, and displaying, in the first application, the push information and/orType: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: Wenhan DAI
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Publication number: 20170318426Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for selecting a base station or a set of base stations for RTT measurements, or other interactive radio localization technique, to determine a position fix of a device are presented. The method imposes a processing load on only inactive or less active base stations. Busy or busier base stations are not used in the interactive radio localization technique. By imposing a processing load on only less active base stations, transmitting devices may be under loaded and encounter a more uniform processing delay, and thus provide a more accurate measurement resulting in a more accurate position fix.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Vrajesh BHAVSAR, Yin CHEN, Saumitra Mohan DAS
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Publication number: 20170318427Abstract: A method of performing functions by proxy for a set of associated proximate devices is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method may comprise associating a set of user equipments (UEs), wherein upon determination that a first UE in the set is unavailable for performing a requested function, at least one alternate second UE in the associated set of UEs is selected, wherein the at least one second UE is proximate to the first UE and the at least one second UE is available for performing the requested function. The performance of the requested function on the at least one second UE is initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Sai Pradeep VENKATRAMAN, Weihua GAO, Benjamin WERNER, Arnold Jason GUM
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Publication number: 20170318428Abstract: Embodiments provide a location information obtaining method and a device, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: obtaining, by a network device, location information of a reference point and location information of first user equipment; determining, by the network device, relative location information of the first user equipment relative to the reference point; and sending, by the network device, the location information of the reference point and the relative location information of the first user equipment relative to the reference point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Jian Wang, Xiaocui Li
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Publication number: 20170318429Abstract: A system and method for determining the location of nodes within a network. Beamforming coefficients associated with signals transmitted from a first node to a second node are determined and, based on the beamforming coefficients, direction is determined between the first and second nodes. Distance is determined as a function of direction and the location of the second node is determined as a function of distance and direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Harold Roberts, Jeffrey Buffum, Jason Dove
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Publication number: 20170318430Abstract: A method and system are provided for next location prediction. The method includes inferring, by a hardware processor, a store layout, based on user location data and user transaction data for a plurality of users. The method further includes clustering, by the hardware processor, the plurality of users based on the user transaction data to form a set of clusters. The method also includes ensembling, by the hardware processor, users within each of the clusters and building a location prediction model for each of the clusters. The method additionally includes predicting, by the hardware processor, a next location of a particular user from the plurality of users based on a weighted vote taken over the location prediction model for the cluster corresponding to the particular user. The cluster corresponding to the particular user includes at least one other user from the plurality of users in addition to the particular user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Raghu K. Ganti, Norbert Herman, Shubhadip Ray, Mudhakar Srivatsa