Abstract: A dual communication frequency RFID circuit includes a logic unit for processing data signals received or transmitted at a first frequency by a first antenna or at a second frequency by a second antenna, and a unit for managing the state of a tamper loop linked to the integrated circuit by two connection terminals. The management unit includes a first low-pass filter linked to a first connection terminal, a second low-pass filter linked to a second connection terminal, a current source for supplying a current through the first low-pass filter, a switch linked at the output of the second low-pass filter, and a first inverter connected between the current source and the first low-pass filter for supplying an output signal for the state of the tamper loop to the logic unit.

Abstract: A networked system for managing a physical intrusion detection/alarm includes an upper tier of server devices, comprising: processor devices and memory in communication with the processor devices, a middle tier of gateway devices that are in communication with upper tier servers, and a lower level tier of devices that comprise fully functional nodes with at least some of the functional nodes including an application layer that execute routines to provide node functions, and a device to manage the lower tier of devices, the device instantiating a program manager that executes a state machine to control the application layer in each of the at least some of the functional nodes.

Abstract: A portable information terminal is provided. The portable information terminal includes a housing, a light-emitting region provided for a first surface of the housing, an imaging unit provided for said first surface of the housing, and a controller for supplying a control pulse signal and a shutter signal. The light-emitting region emits pulsed light in accordance with the control pulse signal. The imaging unit performs imaging in an emission direction of the pulsed light and supplies image information in accordance with the shutter signal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for hazard detection are described. A hazard detection device may include a printed circuit board. The hazard detection device may further include a chassis that provides a housing for components of the hazard detection device; a smoke chamber that is mid-mounted; a carbon monoxide sensor that is mounted with the circuit board; and a speaker assembly that partially encircles the mid-mounted smoke chamber.

Abstract: Systems and methods for medication management are provided. Some embodiments provide for a portable medication management and monitoring system for eye drop instillation in ocular chronic conditions. At least one embodiment includes a device having one or more of the following elements: (a) a jacket that goes around an eye drop bottle; (b) tactile sensors to detect the user's fingers and generate data to activate the system; (c) motion sensors to detect the motion of the medication bottle when it is grabbed and moved by the user; (d) a wireless communication module to send and receive data to a computer and portable communication devices; and/or (e) a compartment for holding the electronic components.

Abstract: A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving occupancy data, identifying characteristics of the occupancy data, determining an occupant's location relative to the premises at a predetermined time, and generating a notification based at least in part on the determining.

Abstract: A system and a method implementing such a system. The system includes eyeglasses having hinged stems, a plurality of sensors and an alert alarm. The system further includes a triaxial accelerometer, an IR transmitter, an IR receiver, and a barometric sensor. The sensors are set up in the hinged stems and the rims of the eyeglasses and connected to a processing and calculation unit. The processing and calculation unit includes a microprocessor and a memory. The processing and calculation unit executes a computer program to analyze data issued by the sensors and triggers the alarm based on a result of the analyzed data.

Abstract: A system for determining compliance includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is for receiving an exterior camera data of a vehicle. The processor is for: identifying a person associated with the vehicle based at least in part on the exterior camera data; determining whether the person is complying with a safety rule; and in the event that the person is not complying, indicating that the person is not complying.

Abstract: A method for furnishing a warning signal of a detected imminent microsleep event includes reading in at least one behavior pattern that represents a behavior of a driver while driving the vehicle, comparing the behavior pattern with at least one stored pre-microsleep pattern that represents an individual behavior that has taken place or is taking place prior to a microsleep event on the part of the driver, and outputting the warning signal if a predetermined relationship exists between the behavior pattern and the pre-microsleep pattern.

Abstract: A method and system for generating warning notifications using wireless indoor navigation technology is disclosed. The method comprises determining a location for an individual and a transportation device by receiving device identifiers (e.g., distinctive combination of numbers and/or characters uniquely identifying receiving devices associated with the individual and the transportation device) and location information, received from one or more beacons, from the receiving devices. The method comprises determining a location associated with the individual and the transportation device based on the location information and/or the device identifiers. The method also comprises receiving a destination location and determining an intended path for the transportation device. The method comprises warning the individual upon determining that the location associated with the individual is within a predetermined proximity to the transportation device or its intended path.

Abstract: Provided are an alarm verification system and a method thereof. According to the present invention, when occurrence of an emergency situation such as a crime or a fire is uncertain when a predetermined alarm is generated, a verification request message is transmitted to an emergency contact network which is registered in advance and, when information on the occurrence of an emergency situation is included in a response message thereof, information on the occurrence of an emergency situation is provided to a server of a police station, a hospital, a fire station, or the like, which is registered in advance so that it is possible to avoid payment of penalty for erroneously reporting for occurrence of an emergency situation, perform prompt action in response to the occurrence of the emergency situation, improve convenience in use, and improve reliability of the entire system.

Abstract: A method for a positioning server configured to locate positioning devices and to maintain information on users, who are associated with respective positioning devices. The server receives one or more alert messages from an alerting positioning device. Each alert message conveys identifying information of the alerting positioning device. The server uses the identifying information to retrieve a location estimate of the alerting positioning device. The server forms a first set of other positioning devices in a vicinity of the alerting positioning device and sends an assist request message to the positioning devices in the first set. The assist request message indicates the location estimate of the alerting positioning device and/or said descriptive information.

Abstract: An unexpected event detection system is provided for a rider operating an electric bicycle. The system includes a bicycle data unit configured to receive bicycle data from the electric bicycle; a wireless device data unit configured to receive device data from a wireless device; an unexpected event module coupled to receive the bicycle data from the bicycle data unit and to receive the device data from the wireless device, the unexpected event module configured to identify an unexpected event associated with the electric bicycle based on the bicycle data and the device data and to generate an alert message upon identification of the unexpected event; and an alert module coupled to the unexpected event module and configured to initiate sending the alert message to an assistance center.

Abstract: An apparatus, including a first controller located at a vehicle which monitors, and detects an event regarding, a system, equipment system, component, device, or equipment, of the vehicle. The vehicle is a shipping container, pallet, tote, or piece of luggage. The first controller generates and transmits a first signal, containing information regarding the event, to a second controller. The second controller is located remote from the vehicle, automatically receives the first signal, and generates and transmits a second signal, containing information regarding the event, via the Internet or World Wide Web to a communication device located remote from the second controller. The apparatus activates, de-activates, disables, re-enables, or controls an operation of, the system, equipment system, component, device, or equipment, of the vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the adaptive detection of audio alarms. A system comprises a microphone configured to receive a series of sounds, a memory configured to store a defined set of alarm templates, a communications network interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive and analyze sounds for alarm or background sound characteristics and compare them to a defined set of alarm templates stored in the memory. If not contained in the defined set of alarm templates previously stored in the memory, new alarm templates are learned and stored. An alert is then transmitted to a client device that an audio alarm has been recognized.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for testing a hazard detector that includes transmitting a test mode switching signal from a test device to the hazard detector, setting the hazard detector to a test mode, transmitting a first test mode confirmation signal from the hazard detector to a central monitoring unit, transmitting a second test mode confirmation signal from the hazard detector to the test device, processing a hazard condition detected by the hazard detector as a test event, transmitting a test result signal from the hazard detector to the central monitoring unit, the hazard detector outputting a test completion signal, and setting the hazard detector to a detection mode. The invention further provides a hazard monitoring system, a hazard detector, and a test device.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a manufacturing apparatus includes collecting a control signal, of a controller and a corresponding sensing signal, of the manufacturing apparatus over a predetermined period of time; segmenting the control signal and the corresponding sensing signal to obtain at least one control step; calculating a character of the controller based on at least one of the control signal, the sensing signal, the at least one control step, or information from a user manual; generating, based on the character, a health index indicating health of the controller; and generating a warning signal when the health index exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Systems, methods and media for remote control of electronic devices using a proximity sensor are provided. In some implementations, the system comprises: a proximity sensor comprising an infrared emitter and an infrared detector, wherein the proximity sensor is configured to emit infrared light having specific properties using the infrared emitter and sense reflected light having the specific properties using the infrared detector to determine proximity of the sensor to an object; and a hardware processor that is programmed to: receive a user instruction to cause a command to be issued to control an electronic device; determine a code to be transmitted that corresponds to the command from a plurality of codes associated with the electronic device; and provide at least one signal to the proximity sensor to cause the proximity sensor to emit an infrared signal corresponding to the code instead of emitting infrared light having the specific properties.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining when a traffic signal associated with one or more paths through a road intersection is malfunctioning. Congestion prior to and subsequent to the road intersection is identified from a plurality of probe reports. A malfunctioning traffic signal is determined based on whether or not congestion is identified prior to and subsequent to the road intersection.

Abstract: A host vehicle receives remote vehicle spatial state information for a remote vehicle and identifies vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of a transportation network based on that information. At least one initial probability value is generated based on comparing the spatial state information and the transportation network information at an initial time point, each initial probability value indicating a likelihood that the remote vehicle is following a lane within the transportation network. A deviation between adjacent values for the spatial state information relative to the transportation network information is generated for a plurality of time points.

Abstract: A driving support device detects a speed limit by imaging a speed sign indicating the speed limit of a traveling lane. Also, the driving support device continuously acquires attribute information from a car navigation system. The speed limit recognized from a road sign is displayed on a screen mounted in a vehicle. When the speed limit recognized from the road sign is not equal to a speed limit acquired from the car navigation system, a display time of the speed limit is limited. When the attribute information is changed, display of the speed limit is stopped.

Abstract: Provided is a device and method for selective announcement of hazard-noise signals detected in ambient vehicle-noise environments are disclosed. The device and method provide for monitoring an ambient vehicle-noise environment for a hazard-noise signal. Upon detecting the hazard-noise signal, determining whether a source location of the hazard-noise signal closes on a monitoring location of the ambient vehicle-noise environment. When the source location of the hazard-noise signal closes on the monitoring location, generating announcement data relating to the hazard-noise signal, and transmitting the announcement data.

Abstract: A vehicle guidance device has a stopping vehicle detector configured to detect stopping vehicles failing to pass through a traffic light while a light is green, the traffic light being installed beside a plurality of lanes extending in a same direction, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a starting characteristic of each detected vehicle, and a simultaneous passage line calculator configured to calculate a simultaneous passage line including a first line and a second line based on the acquired starting characteristics, when a vehicle having a lower starting characteristic than a reference starting characteristic is included in the vehicles stopping on a first lane included in the plurality of lanes, and when a vehicle having a higher starting characteristic than starting characteristics of the vehicles on the first lane is included in the vehicles stopping on a second lane included in the plurality of lanes.

Abstract: A traffic light alert system for a vehicle includes a camera, a processor that processes image data captured by the camera to determine a signal status of a traffic light present ahead of the vehicle, and a global positioning system operable to determine a current geographical location of the vehicle. A display device is operable to display an iconistic traffic light representation. Responsive to determination, via processing of image data captured by the camera, that the traffic light ahead of and being approached by the vehicle has a particular signal status, a control controls the display device so that the displayed iconistic traffic light representation indicates the determined particular signal status. The control adjusts orientation of the displayed iconistic traffic light representation between horizontal orientation and vertical orientation responsive to the current geographic location of the vehicle as determined by the global positioning system of the vehicle.

Abstract: A route searching device extracts roads reaching a destination from a current position as candidate routes based on a predetermined condition, calculates a link cost of each of lanes in the candidate routes based on traffic information, and determines a lane-basis travel route based on the link costs of the respective lanes.

Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a server to receive a unique identifier associated with a parking space from a first receiving device. The server then generate an instruction to query a type of the unique identifier and transmit the instruction to the database. The server in response to determining that a parking space is occupied by the first receiving device, generate an instruction to modify a record within the database associated with the parking space as occupied. The server receive a query from a second receiving device about the availability of parking spaces, and generate an instruction to receive one or more unoccupied parking spaces. The server generates a graphical user interface including a census data where the census data may include the occupied parking spaces, unoccupied parking spaces, and number of occupants within the automobile. The server transmit the graphical user interface to the second receiving device.

Abstract: A method implementable in a mobile device includes determining a driving or walking motion state of the mobile device associated with a user from at least a motion type of sensor on the mobile device and storing a parking location for a vehicle associated with the mobile device, received from a location type of sensor on the mobile device, when the mobile device changes from a driving state to a walking state.

Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle camera device that swiftly and accurately detects, in every frame, data line signals of respective bits from imaging elements. This on-vehicle camera device includes a failure-diagnosis processing unit that diagnoses whether the data line signals of imaging element units, are in a fixed state. Furthermore, the imaging element units each include an entire imaging region that is divided into an effective image region and an ineffective image region. Also provided is a diagnosis data region that includes fixation diagnosis data for diagnosing whether the data line signals of the imaging element units in the ineffective image regions are in a fixed state. In an image acquisition period in which image data of the entire imaging region is acquired, and/or an image-calculation processing period, the failure-diagnosis processing unit uses the fixation diagnosis data of the diagnosis data region to perform failure-diagnosis processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for conducting agricultural operations in a field using autonomous vehicles in which a collision avoidance mechanism may be provided. The system may include providing a mission plan for autonomous vehicles to conduct agricultural operations, establishing a hierarchy for the vehicles, and monitoring for an event conditions indicating vehicles are traveling toward a collision with respect to one another. Upon receiving an event condition, the system may revise the mission plan to adjust a path of one of the vehicles based on the hierarchy in order to avoid the collision.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, by a computing device of an autonomous vehicle, one of multiple entities within a proximity of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes determining a location of the one of the entities relative to the autonomous vehicle, determining a type of the one of the entities, and determining a predefined message to be presented to the one of the entities based on the location of the one of the entities relative to the autonomous vehicle and further based on the type of the one of the entities. The predefined message is specific to the type of the one of the entities. The method includes causing the predefined message to be presented to the one of the entities by a notification device of the autonomous vehicle associated with the location of the one of the entities relative to the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A method and system for detecting an object in the “blind-spot” of a moving vehicle. The system can be user-installed to retrofit a vehicle, e.g., one that lacks a more complex, factory-installed blind-spot detection system. The invention thus provides an inexpensive and simplified vehicle safety enhancement.

Abstract: An example method for flight path variation of an aircraft for noise management includes receiving noise inquiries of a community related to aircraft noise during flight over the community, receiving an output from noise sensors positioned within the community, determining a noise distribution plan for additional aircraft flying over the community so as to steer the additional aircraft and distribute additional aircraft noise in response to the noise inquiries and the output from the noise sensors, and based on flight path data of the additional aircraft and the noise distribution plan, assigning a flight path modification to aircraft via a data communication link. The flight path modification informs the aircraft to adjust the flight path to remain within associated margins of a required navigation performance (RNP) instrument flight procedure and to reduce noise impact to the community underneath the flight path.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic climbing and gliding method of a high altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The disclosed method includes setting a cylindrical virtual flight region so that the high altitude UAV climbs and glides, setting a first target point on an end of a first flight radius which is vertically arranged to form the virtual flight region, setting second to Nth target points at arbitrary second to Nth flight radii sequentially arranged above or below the first flight radius, having the target points have a predetermined plane slope angle, and allowing the UAV to climb along a straight path line sequentially connecting each of the target points.

Abstract: A teaching device includes a base and a first set of equipment. The first set of equipment includes a first rod portion including a first spiraling rod portion installed in the base. A first encircled object is disposed on the base plate and is encircled by the first spiraling rod portion. Also included is a first rod slider. The first rod slider is slidably movable along the first rod portion and around the first encircled object.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to interactive training, and in particular, to methods and systems for computerized interactive skill training. An example embodiment provides a method and system for providing skill training using a computerized system. The computerized system receives a selection of a first training subject. A training challenge related to the first training subject is accessed from computer readable memory. The training challenge is provided to a user via a terminal, optionally in verbal form. A first score related to the correctness and/or completeness of a verbalized challenge response provided by the user is stored in memory. A second score related to how quickly the trainee provided the verbalized challenge response is stored in memory. A third challenge score related to the confidence and/or style with which the trainee verbalized the challenge response is stored in memory.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed invention encompass physiological and behavioral measurement techniques that can index dynamical diseases. Embodiments include a system and method for continuously measuring locomotor patterns which may be in combination with classic summary measures of performance, compared to summary measures alone. A unique classification of mathematics may be employed to prescribe certain patterns which correspond to locomotor patterns of a test subject.

Abstract: A training tool, method and a system for measuring crew member communication skills are disclosed, wherein an audio data processing terminal interfaced with a crew training apparatus, typically a crew-operated vehicle simulator. Audio data corresponding to a conversation between at least two crew members is recording during a training session and stored. Respective audio data of each crew member is extracted from the stored audio data, and a series of measures for at least one prosodic parameter in each respective audio data extracted is computed. A correlation coefficient of the series of measures is then computed, wherein the correlation coefficient is indicative of a level of prosodic accommodation between the at least two crew members. Specific communication skills in addition to prosodic accommodation performance can the be determined inferred.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a welding teaching system, which is formed by a six degrees of freedom platform or Stewart Platform on which the welding gun carrying the electrode is placed. The Stewart Platform is connected to communication means and automatized movements as well as processing means which allow the recording of the experimented welder's movement in order to reproduce them for a welder trainee who is in a training stage. The objective of the present invention is providing a system for teaching how to weld, composed by a Stewart Platform, a welding gun, at least a sensor, an interface, a processor, a memory, a controller and actuators. The present invention also comprises methods for capturing the movements of an experienced welder in order to teach how to weld a welder trainee in the training stage.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus facilitate the orientation of a user in a virtual environment. This involves a user initiating a change between two views of the virtual environment. A first view provides a detailed representation of a destination and a second view is scaled such that both the destination and a reference point, such as a current position, are presented together.

Abstract: The present invention is a card that stands perpendicular to a horizontal surface. The card is made up of a single piece of material on which graphic images and letters have been printed and which has been specially shaped and pre-creased to enable a recipient to fold the base part of it so that the display part will rise up perpendicular to or at a raked angle from the horizontal surface on which it is placed. The single piece of material has no removed portions within an external outer edge of the material, capable of forming open apertures; The business/greeting/advertising display card stands upright to a horizontal surface within a line of sight of a viewer. Optionally the straight bottom may have an arcuate surface, capable of making the novelty card oscillate when manually pushed in a rocking side to side motion.

Abstract: Apparatuses are disclosed, including apparatuses providing a rotatable sign configured with a base, a display panel, and a support, where a portion of the support defines a horizontal axis and is secured to the panel. The base may be configured to hold the support to allow rotation about the horizontal axis, the height of the horizontal axis of the support may be equal to or lower than a midpoint of the panel height. In addition, apparatuses are disclosed that include a counterweight attached to a support, where some or all of the counterweight may be below the horizontal axis of the support when the support is in an initial rotational position, such that it is disposed to return a sign back to its vertical orientation when in use.

Abstract: An LED strip light for shelf signboards, comprises a strip-shaped lamp chamber, and an LED light-emitting module. The strip-shaped lamp chamber comprises a card board connecting edge, a non-transparent edge, an upper transparent edge and a lower transparent edge. The LED light-emitting module comprises at least one LED chip, and a strip-shaped lens. The strip-shaped lens includes an incident surface, a first fully reflecting surface, a second fully reflecting surface, a refractably reflecting surface. The first fully reflecting surface reflects all the incident lights thereon toward the upper light transparent edge. The second fully reflecting surface reflects all the incident lights thereon toward the refractably reflecting surface. And the outgoing light of the refractably reflecting surface is directed toward the lower transparent edge.

Abstract: Briefly, a method for verifying the visual perceptibility of a display is provided. An intended message is written to a bistable display. Pixels that comprise portions of the message are measured and evaluated to determine if the message actually displayed on the bistable display was perceptible by a human or a machine. In some cases, information regarding the message actually perceivable from the display may be stored for later use. Responsive to determining that a message is perceivable or not perceivable, alarms may be set, one or more third parties notified, or additional display features may be set.

Abstract: A near-eye light field display for use with a head mounted display unit with enhanced resolution and color depth. A display for each eye is connected to one or more actuators to scan each display, increasing the resolution of each display by a factor proportional to the number of scan points utilized. In this way, the resolution of near-eye light field displays is enhanced without increasing the size of the displays.

Abstract: A display panel has a first pixel group selected by a first scan line, and second pixel group selected by second scan line. A data line is shared by pixel in the first pixel group and a pixel in the second pixel group. In first scanning period, a driving unit in a circuit device outputs a data voltage with first polarity to the first data line, and outputs data voltage with second polarity, which is polarity opposite to the first polarity, to the second data line. In second scanning period, the driving unit outputs a data voltage with third polarity to the first data line, and outputs a data voltage with fourth polarity, which is polarity opposite to the third polarity, to the second data line. A polarity setting unit in the circuit device sets the first polarity, the second polarity, the third polarity, and the fourth polarity.

Abstract: A timing controller, a display device, and a method of driving the same able to prevent a dark defect that would otherwise be formed when two or more image control methods are disclosed.

Abstract: In a display apparatus having a plurality of light emitting elements, a single frame includes a plurality of sub-frames, each of which includes a plurality of weighted elements with different gradations expressed at powers of two. When the number of sub-frames in a single frame is X (X is an integer greater than 1) and a maximum gradation value that can be expressed in each of the sub-frames is 2Y?1 (Y is an integer greater than 1), and the single frame is expressed by the gradation value in a range of X·2Y-1 to X(2Y?1)?2Y-1, a lighting controller allocates the gradation value to each of the sub-frames so that the weighted element at an end of a timeline of at least one sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames in the single frame is turned OFF.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of gate lines; a gate driving circuit including a plurality of driving stages configured to apply gate signals to the gate lines; a voltage generator configured to output a gate-on voltage through a voltage output terminal thereof; and a signal controller configured to sense a variation in current of the voltage output terminal to output a back bias control voltage corresponding to the sensed current variation, wherein each of the driving stages comprises a plurality of oxide thin film transistors and at least one of the oxide thin film transistors is a four-terminal transistor in which a threshold voltage thereof is controlled by the back bias control voltage.

Abstract: A power supply circuit includes a comparison circuit, a preset value setting circuit, a reset detecting circuit and a reset signal generating circuit. The comparison circuit compares a first and second voltage to output a comparing result. The first and second voltages correspond to a first and second preset value, respectively. When the comparison result shows that the second voltage is greater than the first voltage, the preset value setting circuit outputs the second preset value; otherwise it outputs a third preset value, which is greater than the first preset value. The reset detecting circuit determines whether the operation voltage of the power supply circuit drops to the preset value outputted by the preset value setting circuit, and outputs a control signal accordingly. The reset signal generating circuit determines whether to output a reset signal for resetting gate lines in a display panel based on the control signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first data driver, a second data driver, and a first capacitor. The display panel is connected to a plurality of data lines. The first data driver is connected to first data lines among the plurality of data lines, and is configured to perform a first charge sharing for the first data lines. The second data driver is connected to second data lines among the plurality of data lines, and is configured to perform a second charge sharing for the second data lines. The first capacitor is connected to the first data driver and the second data driver. Each of the first and second charge sharings is performed using the first capacitor.