Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080253015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SHAKES AND PERCUSSIVE IMPACTS AND FOR PROTECTING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WHEN PRE-SPECIFIED SHAKE PATTERNS AND PERCUSSIVE IMPACT LEVELS ARE DETECTED - A system and method detects low grade physical motions of an electronic device, such as a laptop computer, and takes protective measures if the physical motions match a pre-specified physical motion pattern. The pre-specified physical motion pattern may have been selected as a pattern which, if left alone, could cause cumulative damage to the electronic device. Alternatively, the pre-specified motion pattern may have been selected as a pattern which tended to indicate that more aggressive and abrupt movements would be forthcoming. The system and method further detects sustained motion (such as in a laptop bag) such that the laptop may shut-off so that the laptop does not overheat or get damaged. The system and method may be configured such that a system administrator may be notified if laptop is being abused. In a similar manner, the history of the percussive impacts or movements may be kept or logged for future use. | 10-16-2008 |
20080291055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC MONITORING BASED ON THE DETECTION OF A CHARACTERISTIC RADIO FREQUENCY - A method of vehicle traffic monitoring based on the detection of characteristic Radio Frequency (RF) emissions. A detector detects RF pulses on multiple frequencies emitted by ignition sparks in a combustion chamber of a motor vehicle within a detection zone. When RF pulses occur on different frequencies simultaneously, the detector increments a count of ignition events within a first pre-defined time window. When the first time window elapses, the detector transmits the count to a central monitoring station. The central station calculates an average change within a second pre-defined time window and updates a running average. When a difference between the count and the running average is greater than a pre-defined congestion threshold, the central station sets a traffic state to “free flowing”. When the difference between the count and the running average is not greater than the pre-defined congestion threshold, the central station sets the traffic state to “congested”. | 11-27-2008 |
20090015677 | Beyond Field-of-View Tracked Object Positional Indicators for Television Event Directors and Camera Operators - A system and method for implementing beyond field-of-view tracked object positional indicators for television event directors and camera operators. The present invention includes a camera having a field-of-view. The camera tracks an off-screen object. A coordinate manager blends an on-screen indication of distance that the object is away from said field-of-view. The camera is positioned to avoid the object in the field-of-view. | 01-15-2009 |
20090103896 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ANNOUNCER VOICE REMOVAL FROM A TELEVISED SPORTING EVENT - A method of automatic announcer voice removal from a televised sporting event. A sound processing circuit divides an audio input signal of a televised sporting event into multiple audio segments. The audio input signal includes crowd noise and announcer commentary. If an audio segment does not exceed a pre-defined amplitude threshold, a voice removal utility adds the audio segment to a recent crowd noise library and stores the segment in an output buffer. If the amplitude of a segment exceeds the threshold, the utility adds the segment to a recent announcer voice library. The sound processing circuit generates an attenuated version of the segment and blends the attenuated version with one or more mixed segments from the recent crowd noise library. The voice removal utility stores the attenuated and blended segment in the output buffer and outputs one or more audio segments from the buffer in a chronological order. | 04-23-2009 |
20090319164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OVER A BROAD GEOGRAPHIC AREA USING AIRCRAFT CONTRAILS - A method for controlling aircraft contrail placement including detecting an aircraft contrail, determining an approximate location of the aircraft contrail based on at least one of detected aircraft contrail pan information, tilt information, or zoom information, transmitting contrail detection information and contrail location information to a centralized controlling unit, matching the contrail location information with a database of known GPS coordinates to identify the contrail producing aircraft, determining a boundary for an energy management area, determining an amount of cloud cover over the energy management area, determining an optimal cloud cover amount for the energy management area, and transmitting a re-route request to the identified contrail producing aircraft to re-route toward or away from the energy management area based on the determining an amount of optimal cloud cover amount for the energy management area. | 12-24-2009 |
20100017817 | METHOD FOR INSERTING ADVERTISEMENTS INTO A TRAFFIC CAMERA IMAGE - The present disclosure describes a method for inserting advertisements into a traffic camera image. The method may receive an advertisement package, the advertisement package comprising a business identifier, a message text, and a price per congestion level. The method may store the advertisement package. The method may receive a user query for a traffic camera image. The method may receive the traffic camera image, the traffic camera image comprising a camera image, a business indicator, and coordinates of the traffic camera image. The method may associate the traffic camera image with the advertisement package. The method may then produce an overlay image associated with the advertisement package. The method may merge the traffic camera image and the overlay image into a final image. Finally, the method may display the final image. | 01-21-2010 |
20100066563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE MOUNTED INFRARED WAVELENGTH INFORMATION DISPLAYS FOR TRAFFIC CAMERA VIEWERS - Systems and methods for vehicle mounted infrared wavelength information displays for traffic camera viewers are disclosed. A method includes obtaining vehicle positioning data associated with at least one vehicle and, based upon the vehicle positioning data, selectively emitting infrared wavelength light from a set of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged on exterior surfaces of the at least one vehicle | 03-18-2010 |
20100077263 | Autonomously Configuring Information Systems to Support Mission Objectives - Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for automatically configuring information systems to support mission objectives. A Mission SoulPad is connected to an information system via a communication bus, such as a USB bus connection. The Mission SoulPad may autonomously detect and configure components of the information system (e.g., displays, sensors, emitters, transceivers) to support the defined objectives of the Mission SoulPad. The Mission SoulPad may also identify malfunctioning components of the information system needing repair or replacement. Typical operations of malfunctioning components may be dynamically re-routed to functional components. Entire sensor and information display suites may be transitioned simply by moving the Mission SoulPad between available information systems. This ensures that mission critical information is consistently available regardless of the type of system the Mission SoulPad is connected to. | 03-25-2010 |
20100100376 | VISUALIZATION INTERFACE OF CONTINUOUS WAVEFORM MULTI-SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to receive a current waveform of a communication between a plurality of participants. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to create a voiceprint from the current waveform if the current waveform is of a human voice. Furthermore, the programming instructions are operable to determine one of whether a match exists between the voiceprint and one library waveform of one or more library waveforms, whether a correlation exists between the voiceprint and a number of library waveforms of the one or more library waveforms and whether the voiceprint is unique. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to transcribe the current waveform into text and provide a match indication display (MID) indicating an association between the current waveform and the one or more library waveforms based on the determining. | 04-22-2010 |
20110105035 | Reducing Multipath Signal Degradation Effects in a Wireless Transmission System - A transmitter transmits a signal to a receiver along a transmission path. The respective positions of the transmitter and the receiver are determined, and notice is received that a moving vehicle is proximate to the transmission path. Responsive to such notice, the moving vehicle position is determined, and such position is used with the transmitter and receiver positions to determine whether the moving vehicle is located between the transmitter and receiver positions. If so, the moving vehicle position is used to calculate the time delay between the times at which first and second components of the transmitted signal are received at the receiver, wherein the first component is transmitted directly to the receiver, and the second component is transmitted to the receiver after reflection from the moving vehicle. The calculated time delay is then used to provide a corrective signal component, which is employed to reduce degradation of the first component caused by the second signal component. | 05-05-2011 |
20130046538 | VISUALIZATION INTERFACE OF CONTINUOUS WAVEFORM MULTI-SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to receive a current waveform of a communication between a plurality of participants. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to create a voiceprint from the current waveform if the current waveform is of a human voice. Furthermore, the programming instructions are operable to determine one of whether a match exists between the voiceprint and one library waveform of one or more library waveforms, whether a correlation exists between the voiceprint and a number of library waveforms of the one or more library waveforms and whether the voiceprint is unique. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to transcribe the current waveform into text and provide a match indication display (MID) indicating an association between the current waveform and the one or more library waveforms based on the determining. | 02-21-2013 |
20130279701 | AUTOMATIC ANNOUNCER VOICE ATTENUATION IN A PRESENTATION OF A BROADCAST EVENT - A method of automatic announcer voice removal from a televised sporting event. A sound processing circuit divides an audio input signal of a televised sporting event into multiple audio segments. The audio input signal includes crowd noise and announcer commentary. If an audio segment does not exceed a pre-defined amplitude threshold, a voice removal utility adds the audio segment to a recent crowd noise library and stores the segment in an output buffer. If the amplitude of a segment exceeds the threshold, the utility adds the segment to a recent announcer voice library. The sound processing circuit generates an attenuated version of the segment and blends the attenuated version with one or more mixed segments from the recent crowd noise library. The voice removal utility stores the attenuated and blended segment in the output buffer and outputs one or more audio segments from the buffer in a chronological order. | 10-24-2013 |
20140343941 | VISUALIZATION INTERFACE OF CONTINUOUS WAVEFORM MULTI-SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to receive a current waveform of a communication between a plurality of participants. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to create a voiceprint from the current waveform if the current waveform is of a human voice. Furthermore, the programming instructions are operable to determine one of whether a match exists between the voiceprint and one library waveform of one or more library waveforms, whether a correlation exists between the voiceprint and a number of library waveforms of the one or more library waveforms and whether the voiceprint is unique. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to transcribe the current waveform into text and provide a match indication display (MID) indicating an association between the current waveform and the one or more library waveforms based on the determining. | 11-20-2014 |