Having Diverse Art Device Patents (Class 455/66.1)
  • Patent number: 12223219
    Abstract: A method, implemented by a host of a screen splicing system, comprises sending, to a first screen of the screen splicing system, a first indication indicating the first screen to photograph a first image, sending, to a second screen of the screen splicing system, a second indication indicating the second screen to photograph a second image, and determining first orientation information of the first screen according to the first image and second orientation information of the second screen according to the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Xie
  • Patent number: 12216831
    Abstract: A wearable sensor configuration that is configured to operate in a communications system and method is provided. The wearable sensor configuration includes at least one sensor unit being arranged to detect signals from activity of muscles of a user. Thus, the wearable sensor configuration includes at least one sensor unit that is arranged to detect signals from muscle activity of a user of the communications system, such as for example, signals generated by movements and/or muscle activity of a user of the communications system. The wearable sensor configuration can also include a first electronic arrangement that is arranged to determine Internal Digital Information based on detected signals by means of a first mapping function. The Internal Digital Information can also be transmitted to a second electronic arrangement. The Internal Digital Information may be transmitted wirelessly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventor: Peter Idestam-Almquist
  • Patent number: 12217555
    Abstract: A center device includes a distribution control unit that is configured to control distribution of data to a vehicle, a normal operation determination unit that is configured to determine whether operation of distributed data on a vehicle is normal, and a distribution target expansion unit that is configured to expand a distribution target for the data when the normal operation determination unit determines that operation of the distributed data on the vehicle is normal after the data was distributed to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nao Sakurai, Yoshitaka Ozaki
  • Patent number: 12192869
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A user equipment in a communication system, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, includes: a controller that determines at least one communication service to deactivate among communication services that are able to be provided and a transmitter that transmits, to a server, a message for identifying the at least one communication service to deactivate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Han Park, Duckey Lee, Sang-Soo Lee, Sung-Ho Choi, Sang-Bum Kim, Soeng-Hun Kim, Woo-Seong Kim, Ju-Ho Lee, Jae-Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 12171409
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to an endoscopic camera and methods for operating the camera. In one embodiment, the endoscopic camera includes a grip region to facilitate holding by a user. The camera may also include a mechanism for correcting improperly exposed video signals by modulating illumination parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Lesch, Cliff Dowdy
  • Patent number: 12172073
    Abstract: The technology necessary for hands-free video gaming is available, especially for head-gesture-centric controls. However, remapping controls to head gestures ranges from frustratingly tedious to impossible. The inventor proposes a common language of gestures and game actions that categorizes the controls by their use frequency. The suggested categories are primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. The most preferred gestures and more frequently used controls are classified as primary while the least preferred gestures and least frequently used controls classified as quaternary. The inventor also proposes constructing an interface software and API to gather data from game designers, hardware designers, and users to suggest optimized game controls for users requiring accessibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventor: Andrea Joy Brucculeri
  • Patent number: 12162525
    Abstract: A method and system for managing traffic of guided vehicles over a railway network include a first ATS system for regulating traffic of guided vehicles over a first regulation domain of the network and a second ATS system configured for regulating traffic of guided vehicles over a second regulation domain. The regulation domains have a common boundary and at least one track connects a first position within the first regulation domain to a second position within the second regulation domain. The second ATS system detects limited traffic capacity at the second position and automatically computes, as a function of the detected limited traffic capacity, a target headway between two successive guided vehicles crossing the common boundary for entering the second regulation domain. The first ATS system automatically determines, from the received target headway, a reference timetable, complying with the received target headway, for the first regulation domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility SAS
    Inventors: Marius Traian Indre, Thierry Bouchet
  • Patent number: 12148582
    Abstract: An input device is provided which is configured such that no matter which position on an operation surface is pushed, the detection sensitivity of the pushing load is suppressed from varying due to different operation positions on the operation surface. An input device includes a first pressing member, a second pressing member, and a substrate. The first pressing member has an operation surface and a first axis and is tiltable around the first axis by the operation surface being pushed. The second pressing member has a second shaft and is tiltable around the second shaft by being pushed by a tilt of the first pressing member. The substrate includes at least one pressure sensor which is to be pushed by the second pressing member. A position of the first axis in the first pressing member is variable in accordance with a pushed position on the operation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshihara, Kota Araki, Hiroaki Nishiono, Kenji Shibata
  • Patent number: 12138041
    Abstract: A wireless hub includes a vehicle power connector that can draw power from a vehicle battery on a vehicle, a first wireless transmission circuit that can send or receive data with base stations in a long-range wireless network, a second wireless transmission circuit that can provide a short-range wireless network and to transfer data to and from electronic devices, and a network processor that can process data in the first wireless transmission circuit and the second wireless transmission circuit. The wireless hub has an antenna array for millimeter wave communications. Antenna array beamforming techniques can be applied in various wireless systems, including cellular networks, Wi-Fi, radar systems, and satellite communications, to improve coverage, capacity, and link quality. Using antenna arrays, the system can shape and direct the radiation pattern of the transmitted or received signal. Beam steering can steer the main lobe of the radiation pattern in a particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Micro Mobio Corporation
    Inventors: Zlatko Aurelio Filipovic, Weiping Wang, Guan-Wu Wang, Adam James Wang, Brian Michael Wang, Yi-Jeng Y. Wang
  • Patent number: 12096167
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for transmitting data between a user terminal and another apparatus. The method has a step of generating a signal for driving an electromagnetic functional unit, the electromagnetic functional unit being an actuator of a loudspeaker of the user terminal or the electromagnetic functional unit being an electromagnetic oscillating circuit connected to the user terminal. Additionally, the method has a step of driving the electromagnetic functional unit by the generated signal to produce, by the electromagnetic functional unit, a magnetic signal which carries first data to be transmitted from the user terminal to the other apparatus. Additionally, the method has a step of detecting another signal output by the other apparatus, the other signal carrying second data to be transmitted from the other apparatus to the user terminal. Thus, the magnetic signal and the other signal differ in the physical signal type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schlicht, Josef Bernhard, Gerd Kilian, Dominik Soller, Alexej Jarresch, Stefan Ereth
  • Patent number: 12082278
    Abstract: A surgical system and a method of operating a surgical system are disclosed herein. The surgical system includes a foot-operable control device and a dongle. The foot-operable control device includes a first communication device and a radio frequency (RF) reader and communicates with a surgical console to remotely control a surgical device. The dongle includes a second communication device and an RF device and physically couples to a connection port of the surgical console to be powered through the connection port. The RF reader is configured to receive pairing information from the RF device in response to the RF device being within a threshold proximity of the RF reader. The first and second communication devices are configured to wirelessly connect based on the pairing information to thereby enable the foot-operable control device to wirelessly communicate with the surgical console to remotely control the surgical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: Tirup Vishnubhai Patel
  • Patent number: 12077193
    Abstract: The described systems and methods determine a driver's fitness to safely operate a moving vehicle based at least in part upon observed sleep patterns. A smart ring, wearable on a user's finger, continuously monitors sleep amount and quality or the lack thereof. This sleep data, representing sleep patterns, can be utilized, in combination with driving data, to train a machine learning model, which will predict the user's level of risk exposure based at least in part upon observed sleep patterns. The user can be warned of this risk to prevent them from driving or to encourage them to get more sleep before driving. In some instances, the disclosed smart ring system may interact with the user's vehicle to prevent it from starting while in a sleep deprived and high risk state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUANATA, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Jason Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12071189
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a modular vehicle subassembly (MVS) includes assembling a propulsion system onto a vehicle frame, assembling a suspension system onto the vehicle frame, assembling a steering system and braking system onto the vehicle frame, assembling an electrical distribution system onto the vehicle frame, and integrating an onboard controller with the propulsion system, the steering system, and the braking system. The onboard controller is configured to command the propulsion system, the steering system, and the braking system such that the MVS is operable to move untethered through a top hat assembly line during assembly of a top hat on the MVS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Galen Keith Thomas, Kerry Lance Paskell
  • Patent number: 12033557
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display that outputs display data, an antenna arranged on a display area of the display, at least one processor electrically connected to the display, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, where the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to correct the display data based on characteristic information of the antenna when a display location of the display data overlaps an arranged location of the antenna when the instructions are executed. In addition, various embodiments that are understood through the present disclosure are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Jung, Young Gwon Koo, Dong Ryul Shin, Ho Saeng Kim, Tae Hwan Wi, Jae Bong Chun, Hyun Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 12032923
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes one or more sensors, a display device, and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to control receiving an input, control translating the input based on at least one of a surroundings factor or a translation factor, and control providing a translation result based on at least one of the surroundings factor or the translation factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangmin Park, Gajin Song, Jaeyung Yeo
  • Patent number: 12027756
    Abstract: A communication system and method for vehicles, particularly trains, are described with the vehicle having antenna sets. Each antenna set includes a plurality of antennas mounted onto a convex-shaped vehicle roof in which an axis of one antenna set is approximately perpendicular to an axis of another antenna set and in which the antenna sets are mounted below roof level of the convex-shaped vehicle roof A switching device is operable to switch between a first antenna configuration and a second antenna configuration based on a difference in measured signal power received at the antenna sets. The first antenna configuration is associated with a first stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems and a second antenna configuration is associated with a second stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Swisscom AG
    Inventor: Nima Jamaly
  • Patent number: 11971181
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and method for monitoring air quality are provided. Digital out-of-home advertising display units are located within a geographic area. The units include an electronic display for displaying advertising images located at a housing, an open loop pathway for ambient air extending between an ingestion and exhaustion area of the housing. An air quality monitoring device located along the open loop pathway includes comprising sensor(s) for measuring characteristics of encountered gasses which are electronically communicated by a network connectivity device to a monitoring station. The monitoring station generates visual representations of the received measurements, at least one of which summarizes the measurements from multiple ones of the units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Precision Systems Integration, LLC
    Inventors: Mike Brown, William Dunn, Doug Bennett
  • Patent number: 11973551
    Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, comprising: a plurality of antennas; a communication unit configured to execute ranging sessions with an external communication counterpart through said antennas; an antenna selection unit configured to select a specific antenna from said plurality antennas for carrying out one or more of said ranging sessions, wherein the antenna selection unit is configured to select said specific antenna in dependence on one or more parameters indicative of a communication quality between the antennas and the external communication counterpart. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating a communication device is conceived. In accordance with a third aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program is provided for carrying out said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Dorian Haslinger, Wolfgang Eber, David Veit
  • Patent number: 11934736
    Abstract: A wireless conferencing system for wirelessly connecting a computerized device with a display device includes at least a data transmitter. The data transmitter includes a transmitter self-powered unit, a data transmission module electrically powered by the transmitter self-powered unit, and a computer interface communicatively lined to the data transmission module, wherein when the computer interface is configured for detachably connecting to the computerized device, the data transmission module is powered and ready for wirelessly transmitting data from the computerized device to the display device without consuming power of the computerized device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Viewplay Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Zhong
  • Patent number: 11936842
    Abstract: An immersive experience system is provided. The immersive experience system has a processor that determines a position of a first head-mounted display. Further, the processor determines a position of a second head-mounted display. The processor also generates a first image for a first immersive experience corresponding to the position of the first head-mounted display. Moreover, the process encodes the first image into a first infrared spectrum illumination having a first wavelength. In addition, the processor generates a second image for a second immersive experience corresponding to the position of the second head-mounted display. Finally, the processor encodes the second image into a second infrared spectrum illumination having a second wavelength. The first wavelength is distinct from the second wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Chapman, Joseph Popp, Alice Taylor, Joseph Hager
  • Patent number: 11923895
    Abstract: A test and measurement system includes a test and measurement device, a connection to allow the test and measurement device to connect to an optical transceiver, and one or more processors, configured to execute code that causes the one or more processors to: set operating parameters for the optical transceiver to reference operating parameters; acquire a waveform from the optical transceiver; repeatedly execute the code to cause the one or more processors to set operating parameters and acquire a waveform, for each of a predetermined number of sets of reference operating parameters; build one or more tensors from the acquired waveforms; send the one or more tensors to a machine learning system to obtain a set of predicted operating parameters; set the operating parameters for the optical transceiver to the predicted operating parameters; and test the optical transceiver using the predicted operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Pickerd, Kan Tan, Evan Douglas Smith, Heike Tritschler
  • Patent number: 11902751
    Abstract: Various implementations include portable speakers with detachable wireless transmitters. In some particular aspects, a portable speaker includes an enclosure housing: at least one electro-acoustic transducer for providing an audio output, a processor coupled with the at least one transducer; an audio input module coupled with the processor for receiving audio input signals; and an input channel for receiving a hard-wired audio input connection at the enclosure; at least one wireless transmitter detachably housed in the enclosure and in communication with a corresponding wireless input channel for receiving audio input from a source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Jackson, Thomas Daly, David Ostrer, Randy Kulchy, Benjamin C. Lippitt, James F. Martin, David L Pepin, Jayesh Dilip Sarode
  • Patent number: 11902534
    Abstract: Dynamic transcode throttling methods and devices for processing resource management and thermal mitigation in electronic devices such as eyewear devices. An electronic device monitors its temperature and, responsive to the temperature, configures a transcoding service to operate at different rates. A frame delay module is configured to add a delay between read frames prior to the transcoding service. This enables the electronic device to consume less power when temperatures are too high in order to provide thermal mitigation and can be performed without powering down the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Jonah Hephzibah Okike
  • Patent number: 11888244
    Abstract: A microstrip antenna includes a first metal layer that constitutes an antenna element, a second metal layer that constitutes a ground, and a flexible member that separates the first metal layer and the second metal layer by a predetermined distance. The first metal layer and the second metal layer each are made of a metal or a metal foil. At least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer is not adhered to the flexible member but is in close contact with the flexible member by a close contact unit. The close contact unit is a clamping mechanism including a first plate, a second plate, and a connecting member. The first plate and the second plate are connected to each other by the connecting member. The connecting member is an elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kanai, Yuki Tanaka, Ryosuke Hasaba, Haruo Hayakawa, Yoshio Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 11876616
    Abstract: Various examples relate to a wired local area network (WLAN) including a shared transmission medium. An apparatus includes a beacon counter and an operational mode controller. The beacon counter is operably coupled to a line of a shared transmission medium of a wired local area network. The beacon counter is to count beacon signals on the line and determine a beacon count over a predetermined time period, or a beacon rate of the beacon signals. The operational mode controller is to control the apparatus to take over operation as a master node of the wired local area network based, at least in part, on a maximum bus cycle length of bus cycles on the line and responsive to the beacon count or the beacon rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Rentschler, Martin Miller, Thorben Link, Venkat Iyer
  • Patent number: 11870927
    Abstract: An in-vehicle hands-free apparatus is configured to: perform control relating to data transfer using a transfer protocol to achieve transfer of first incoming call history data representing a source of an incoming call received by first communication of voice using a phone application dedicated to an operating system of a mobile phone, first outgoing call history data, phone book data, second incoming call history data representing a source of an incoming call received by second communication of voice using a communication application, second outgoing call history data, and registration data, stored in the mobile phone, when the mobile phone exists in a wireless connection area; and store the received first incoming call history data, first outgoing call history data, phone book data, second incoming call history data, second outgoing call history data, and registration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Sakamoto, Tomoaki Katada
  • Patent number: 11853640
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including: a display; a content interface; a communication interface; and a controller configured to: control the display to display an image corresponding to the broadcast signal received through the content interface; receive operation information of an external audio apparatus through at least one interface selected from the content interface and the communication interface; and control the display to display a control menu for providing the operation information of the external audio apparatus and acquiring a user input related to an operation of the external audio apparatus in response to the operation information of the external audio apparatus being received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeonji Lee, Yonghwan Kwon, Soyoung Shin, Jisoo Yoon, Hajeong Yun, Sangjoon Lee, Eunjin Lee
  • Patent number: 11836504
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, a data processing unit communicatively coupled to the processor, a logic device communicatively coupled to processor and configured to, responsive to a shutdown event associated with the information handling system, cause a power system of the information handling system to maintain delivery of electrical energy to the data processing unit until receiving a command to cause withdrawal of the electrical energy to the data processing unit, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor, the data processing unit, and the logic device, and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Deepaganesh Paulraj, Akkiah Choudary Maddukuri, Timothy M. Lambert, Lee E. Ballard, George Harris
  • Patent number: 11825401
    Abstract: Example systems, methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for wirelessly modifying detection characteristics of portable devices are disclosed herein. Example portable devices include example radio circuitry and example processor circuitry. In disclosed examples, the example processor circuitry is to cause the radio circuitry to scan for radio frequency beacons. The example processor circuitry is also to trigger activation of audio monitoring via a microphone of the portable device in response to establishment of a first connection with a first radio frequency beacon, the audio monitoring to at least one of detect an audio code or generate an audio signature. The example processor circuitry is further to cause the audio monitoring to stop in response to establishment of a second connection with a second radio frequency beacon different from the first radio frequency beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Anand Jain, John Stavropoulos, Alan Neuhauser, Wendell Lynch, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Jack Crystal, David Gish
  • Patent number: 11824881
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a wireless network to dynamically provision security resources during runtime execution of a service environment. The security resources are distributed across cell sites that provide coverage areas for multiple wireless devices (WDs) in multiple service environments. The cell sites are monitored during runtime execution of the multiple service environments to detect risk levels that indicate a vulnerability to the wireless network. When an elevated risk level is detected for a particular cell site, security resources of the security layer are dynamically provisioned for the particular cell site to safeguard the entire wireless network. Hence, the provisioned security resources can include a security resource from a different cell site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Sunil Lingayat, Gaviphat Lekutai
  • Patent number: 11818524
    Abstract: Various implementations include portable speakers with dynamic display characteristics. In some particular aspects, a portable speaker includes an enclosure housing: at least one electro-acoustic transducer for providing an audio output; a processor coupled with the at least one transducer; an audio input module coupled with the processor for receiving audio input signals; and a battery configured to power the at least one transducer, the processor, and the audio input module; an input channel for receiving a hard-wired audio input connection; at least one wireless input channel for receiving an audio input from a source device via a wireless connection; and a display on the enclosure coupled with the processor, wherein the processor adjusts an orientation of the display between a first orientation and a second orientation in response to detecting a change in orientation of the portable speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Anthony Puckett, James F. Martin, Randy Kulchy, Jayesh Dilip Sarode
  • Patent number: 11794540
    Abstract: Technologies for a harness connected with an integrated wireless transceiver are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, an in-line connector with an integrated wireless transceiver is inserted between a vehicle connector and a trailer connector of a trailer wiring harness assembly. The wireless transceiver connects to a wireless sensor such as a camera and passes the sensor data to the vehicle connector. Connections from the trailer connector designated for video or other sensor data may not be connected to corresponding connections of the vehicle connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Clarion Corporation of America
    Inventors: Robert Kahlbaum, Valerie Zelko Byrd, Peter Burke, Leslie Tuckey, Andrew Lakin, Rushikesh Amin
  • Patent number: 11779199
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to an endoscopic camera and methods for operating the camera. In one embodiment, the endoscopic camera includes a grip region to facilitate holding by a user. The camera may also include a mechanism for correcting improperly exposed video signals by modulating illumination parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Entellus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Lesch, Cliff Dowdy
  • Patent number: 11780442
    Abstract: A data generation unit generates second abnormal sound data indicating a change in loudness of a sound each time a rotation state changes by a certain amount, based on first abnormal sound data that is data of an abnormal sound generated due to a rotary motion of a rotation device mounted on an object, and rotation data that is data relating to the rotary motion of the rotation device. The second abnormal sound data is input to a sound source estimation unit, and a certainty factor of being a sound source of the abnormal sound indicated by the second abnormal sound data is output to each of a plurality of parts mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Takamoto
  • Patent number: 11775160
    Abstract: Example implementations may involve using a prompt to prevent inadvertent control or playback of audio content. When a mobile device receives input data indicating a command to play back audio content on a first playback device, the mobile device determines whether the mobile device is in proximity to the first playback device. If the mobile device determines that the mobile device within a given proximity to the first playback device, the mobile device transmits, via the network interface, one or more commands to instruct the first playback device to play back the audio content. However, if the mobile device determines that the mobile device outside the proximity, the mobile device displays a prompt indicating that the mobile device is the outside the given proximity to the first playback device and a selectable control that, when selected, transmits the one or more commands to play back the audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Andrew Bates
  • Patent number: 11762473
    Abstract: Systems and methods for gesture-based control are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system may include a wearable device configured to obtain physiological data and wrist location data. The system may be configured to detect a first gesture and transition to an object control state in which changes in the wrist location data and/or the physiological data are configured to control a movement of the object. In the object control state, the system may be configured to detect a first motion of a body part, generate a first command to move the object in a first command direction, detect a second motion of the body part, and generate a command to move the object in a second command direction. The system may detect a second gesture indicating an intention to cease control of the object, and transition out of the object control state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Pison Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David O. Cipoletta, Dexter W. Ang
  • Patent number: 11750236
    Abstract: A system includes a network of nodes. A controller of the system is operable to communicate with the network of nodes through one or more electromagnetic signals. A plurality of waveguides is configured to guide transmission of the one or more electromagnetic signals. A radio frequency transceiver is configured to establish communication between the controller and a first waveguide of the plurality of waveguides. A membrane is configured to support communication between the first waveguide and at least one node of the plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Gilson, Joseph V. Mantese, Goran Djuknic, Gurkan Gok, Brenda J. Lisitano, Coy Bruce Wood, Sanjay Bajekal
  • Patent number: 11736959
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) circuit includes a tank circuit having a selectively variable impedance. The RF circuit further includes a tuning circuit adapted to dynamically vary the impedance of the tank circuit, and to develop a first quantized value representative of a change to impedance of the tank circuit. The RF circuit further includes a detector circuit adapted to develop a second quantized value representative of a field strength of a received RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.
    Inventor: Shahriar Rokhsaz
  • Patent number: 11711657
    Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, the present invention is directed to a contact hearing system including: a transmit coil positioned in an ear tip wherein the transmit coil includes an electrical coil wound on a ferrite core; a receive coil positioned on a contact hearing device wherein the receive coil includes an electrical coil without a core; a load connected to the receive coil; and a demodulation circuit connected to the receive coil and the load wherein the demodulation circuit includes a voltage doubler and a peak detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Earlens Corporation
    Inventor: Stuart W. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 11695468
    Abstract: A highly sensitive RADAR system comprising a plurality of ground stations, where each ground station includes a plurality of ground-based directional antennae, each ground-based directional antenna having a beam width associated with a particular area of the sky above the ground station and, for each ground-based directional antenna, a least one software defined radio is coupled to the directional antenna in such a manner as to enable the ground-based directional antenna to transmit radfrequency signals generated by the software defined radio at one or more frequencies and to provide to the software defined radfrequency signals received by the ground-based directional antenna at one or more frequencies; and where each of a plurality of the ground stations is configured to transmit a radfrequency signal into a specific defined area of space in such a manner that the various transmitted radio signals will arrive in the defined area of space at substantially the same time; and wherein, each of the plurality of g
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Holloway H. Frost
  • Patent number: 11665045
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for secure transmission of computer server event notifications, including receiving a topic subscription request from a partner, registering the partner topic subscription request, obtaining a new computer server event to report, determining a subscribed partner subscribed to computer server events of a same type as the new computer server event, transmitting an event notification to the subscribed partner, and registering the event notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Sachin Pawaskar
  • Patent number: 11651658
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a wagering system may receive a stream of state information of a live sporting event in real time and determine initial and possible future states of a first performance parameter of the event based on the stream. After a beginning of the game and before the start of the event, a probability of occurrence is calculated for possible future states of the first performance parameter, based on historical data. During an initial state of the first performance parameter, a signal operative to open a first market for betting on the possible future states based on the probability of occurrence is transmitted. Before an end of the initial state, a signal operative to close the first market is transmitted, and then an outcome of the first performance parameter is determined based on the stream. Payouts of the first market are resolved based on the outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Storm, Foster Barton, Andrew Garrood, Thomas Bradshaw
  • Patent number: 11622031
    Abstract: A communication device, method and computer program product enable multiple transceiver communication in a communication device having a configurable housing. A pivot mechanism is connected between first and second housing portions for relative movement of a housing assembly between open and closed positions. The closed position aligns four antenna positions in the first housing portion adjacent to one of four antenna positions in the second housing portion to present four pairings of adjacent antenna positions. Four antennas are positioned within the first housing portion or the second housing portion at a different one of the four pairings of adjacent antenna positions. A radio frequency (RF) front end is communicatively coupled to the four antennas and has two or more transceivers that utilize the four antennas to communicate without antenna-to-antenna signal cancellation in RF low band while the housing assembly is in either of the open position and the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Junsheng Zhao, Mohammed R. Abdul-Gaffoor, Md Faisal Abedin, Md Rashidul Islam, Kasra Ghaemi
  • Patent number: 11569904
    Abstract: Techniques for differentiating orthogonally modulated symbols from different transmitters using one or more antenna arrays are described. According to some techniques, symbols received at one or more antenna arrays are grouped together by matching respective sets of receive beams for each symbol. In this manner, symbols received from a first transmitter at a first location can be differentiated from symbols received from a second transmitter at a second location, and both sets of symbols can be successfully decoded. When the symbols are received using frequency hopping, the receive beams for each symbol can be sorted according to path length, which improves performance, and also enables precise location of the transmitter(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hubble Network Inc.
    Inventor: Ben Juda Wild
  • Patent number: 11567493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for 1 for controlling transmission of data in a data communication network, the transmission of data being a transmission of data between a mining and/or construction machine and a network node of said data communication network, said transmission of data being carried out at least partly over a wireless communication link. The method comprises: —estimating a measure of the communication capacity of said wireless link, the estimation being based at least partly on a round-trip time of a transmission over said wireless communication link, and —adapting the data transmission load of said mining and/or construction machine on the wireless communication link on the basis of said measure. The invention also relates to a system and a mining and/or construction machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: EPIROC ROCK DRILLS AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Wesley Santos, Roland Pettersson, Rickard Egbäck, Håkan Lundvall
  • Patent number: 11564420
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is provided that includes a battery, at least one solar panel configured to charge the battery, an output charger connected through a wire to the out least one solar panel, and a controller configured to charge an external electronic device through the output charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Brengel, Wieslaw Bober
  • Patent number: 11533764
    Abstract: A surgical system and a method of operating a surgical system are disclosed herein. The surgical system comprises a surgical console, a control device, and a dongle. The surgical console operates a surgical device and comprises a connection port. The control device communicates with the surgical console to remotely control the surgical device. The dongle physically couples to the connection port of the surgical console. The control device comprises a first communication device and a radio frequency (RF) reader, and the dongle comprises a second communication device and a passive RF device. The RF reader receives the pairing information from the passive RF device in response to the passive RF device being with a threshold proximity of the RF reader. The first and second communication devices wirelessly connect based on the pairing information, enabling the control device to wirelessly communicate with the surgical console to remotely control the surgical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: Tirup Vishnubhai Patel
  • Patent number: 11533624
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a network access node to thwart unauthorized activity on a network such as a 5G wireless network. For example, the method can include employing contextual information to determine risk to the 5G wireless network. A network access node can detect that a wireless device seeks to perform unauthorized activity, and then implements security measures such that the unauthorized activity is thwarted at the network access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Sunil Lingayat, Gaviphat Lekutai
  • Patent number: 11532897
    Abstract: A configurable array having a plurality of antenna elements arranged in at least four adjacent groups of array elements on a panel array, the first group of elements having an inter-element spacing based on a transmit signal wavelength, a second group of elements having an inter-element spacing based on a receive signal wavelength, and a third and fourth group of elements having an inter-element spacing based on a wavelength between the transmit signal wavelength and the receive signal wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Innophase, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Xu, Jeffrey Shamblin
  • Patent number: 11528351
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a first middle frame; a second middle frame connected to the first middle frame, wherein the first middle frame and the second middle frame are configured to fold or unfold via a rotary shaft; a first antenna module, disposed on the first middle frame; a second antenna module, disposed on the second middle frame, wherein when the first middle frame and the second middle frame are closed, a projection of the second antenna module to the first antenna module at least partially overlaps with the first antenna module; and the first antenna module and the second antenna module are respectively connected to corresponding feed circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinhao Guo