Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100100333 | HUMAN BIOMARKER HYPERMAPPING FOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS - Materials and Methods related to diagnosing depression disorders, or determining a subject's predisposition to develop a depression disorder, using a multi-parameter hypermapping system and algorithms related thereto. | 04-22-2010 |
20100136700 | METABOLIC SYNDROME AND HPA AXIS BIOMARKERS FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER - Materials and methods for using combinations of metabolic syndrome and HPA axis biomarkers for monitoring major depressive disorder. | 06-03-2010 |
20100144052 | Optical Molecular Detection - Optical detection of molecules using a biochip having at least one reagent immobilizing area designed to receive one or more reagents and at least one calibration structure with a predetermined height to provide a height reference for optical measurement is disclosed. When the calibration structure is illuminated by a probe beam of light, a first reflected beam of light is reflected off the calibration structure, and a second reflected beam of light is reflected off the reagent immobilizing area. The first reflected beam and the second reflected beam are compared to determine a height at the reagent immobilizing area. | 06-10-2010 |
20100280562 | BIOMARKERS FOR MONITORING TREATMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASES - Methods for identifying and measuring pharmacodynamic biomarkers of neuropsychiatric disease, and for monitoring a subject's response to treatment. For example, materials and methods for monitoring the effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation in a subject having a neuropsychiatric disease are provided. | 11-04-2010 |
20100280760 | BIOMARKERS FOR MONITORING TREATMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASES - Methods for identifying and measuring pharmacodynamic biomarkers of neuropsychiatric disease, and for monitoring a subject's response to treatment. For example, materials and methods for monitoring the effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation in a subject having a neuropsychiatric disease are provided. | 11-04-2010 |
20110213219 | Multiple Biomarker Panels to Stratify Disease Severity and Monitor Treatment of Depression - Materials and Methods for stratifying disease severity and for monitoring major depressive disorder are provided. | 09-01-2011 |
20110245092 | DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING DEPRESSION DISORDERS BASED ON MULTIPLE SERUM BIOMARKER PANELS - Materials and Methods related to developing a unipolar depression (MDD) disease score in a subject using a multi-parameter system to measure a plurality of parameters, and an algorithm to calculate a score. | 10-06-2011 |
20110269633 | INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS FOR MONITORING DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS - Materials and Methods related to developing a unipolar depression (MDD) disease score in a subject using a multi-parameter system to measure a plurality of parameters, and an algorithm to calculate a score. | 11-03-2011 |
20120178118 | BIOMARKERS FOR MONITORING TREATMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASES - Methods for identifying and measuring pharmacodynamic biomarkers of neuropsychiatric disease, and for monitoring a subject's response to treatment. | 07-12-2012 |
20120289422 | QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS USING MULTIPLE PARAMETERS - Materials and Methods related to diagnosing a clinical condition in a subject, or determining the subject's predisposition to develop the clinical condition, using a multi-parameter system to measure a plurality of parameters and an algorithm to determine a disease score. | 11-15-2012 |
20130099275 | LED PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - LED packages and their fabrication techniques are disclosed to provide LED package with improved thermal dissipation based on one or more thermally conductive channels or studs. In one implementation, a LED package includes a plastic body structured to have a hole that penetrates through the plastic body; a metal contact formed on the plastic body at one side of the hole to cover the hole; a LED mounted to the metal contact at a location that spatially overlaps with the hole; and a stud formed in the hole in contact with the metal contact at a first end of the stud and extending to an opening of the hole at a second end of the stud, the stud being formed of a thermally conductive material to transfer heat from the LED through the metal contact and the stud to dissipate the heat at the opening of the hole via the second end of the stud. | 04-25-2013 |
20130257287 | ADJUSTABLE SOLID STATE ILLUMINATION MODULE HAVING ARRAY OF LIGHT PIXELS - Techniques for constructing a solid-state lighting module that includes solid-state light emitters that emit light of different colors and are selected from separated groups of solid-state light emitters that emit light of two or more separated colors, wherein one or more solid-state light emitters are selected from each of the separated color groups of solid-state light emitters. The lighting module includes a programmable device that stores or remembers desirable optical intensities of the separated color groups of solid-state light emitters, and a control circuit that individually controls light intensity of each of the separated color groups of solid-state light emitters. The light control circuit is coupled to or in communication with the programmable device to receive the desirable optical intensities of the separated groups of solid-state light emitters and is operable to adjust the intensities of the separated color groups of solid-state light emitters based on the desirable intensities. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258634 | OPTICAL BEAM SHAPING AND POLARIZATION SELECTION ON LED WITH WAVELENGTH CONVERSION - Techniques, devices and materials for light source devices that convert excitation light into different light via wavelength conversion materials. One example of a light source includes an excitation light source; a wavelength conversion material that absorbs light from the excitation light source and emits a longer wavelength light; and a layer of a transparent material that has plural optical structures in contact to or in close proximity to the wavelength conversion material to receive the emitted light from the wavelength conversion material and to modify the received light to produce output light with a desired spatial pattern associated with the plural optical structures. | 10-03-2013 |
20130264577 | HIGH FLUX HIGH BRIGHTNESS LED LIGHTING DEVICES - Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing high brightness lighting. In one aspect, an LED lighting device includes a substrate capable of dissipating heat, an LED die located on the substrate, an optically reflective structure that is electrically insulative and located on the substrate and structured to form an optically reflective cavity around the LED die, an electrically conductive line structured at least partially within the optically reflective structure and electrically connected to the LED die for electrically driving the LED die to emit the light, a phosphor material located to receive light emitted by the LED die to emit light under optical excitation of the light from the LED die, and an optical element placed in an optical path of the light emitted by the phosphor material to produce better directionality of the emitted light than directionality of emitted light by the phosphor material without the optical element. | 10-10-2013 |
20130264946 | OPTICALLY EFFICIENT SOLID-STATE LIGHTING DEVICE PACKAGING - Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for light-emitting diode and laser diode packaging designs. In one aspect, an LED lighting device includes a substrate capable of dissipating heat, the substrate formed of a metal or ceramic material, an array of LED dies located on the substrate, electrically conductive lines on the substrate and electrically connected to the LED dies for electrically driving the LED dies to emit light, a grid structure over the substrate forming an array of cavities to surround the LED dies in respective cavities, an optically reflective coating at least partially covering one or more of exposed regions of the substrate, the electrically conductive lines, or surfaces of the grid structure, and optically transparent plates placed over at least some of the cavities of the grid structure allowing transmission of light produced by a respective LED die inside a respective cavity. | 10-10-2013 |
20130270998 | SOLID-STATE LIGHTING SYSTEMS HAVING INTELLIGENT CONTROLS - Techniques, systems and devices are described for controlling the adjustment of colors and optical power of output light of solid-state lighting devices for improved lighting performance. In one aspect, a solid-state lighting system includes a lighting device and a control panel, the lighting device including solid-state light emitters, driver circuits, line sensing electronics that receives signal modulation on a power line connecting the lighting device, a digital controller that decodes the signal modulation into a digital command, and a memory that stores the decoded digital command. The control panel sends the digital command to the lighting device via the power line and modulates electrical power to produce the signal modulation that carries the digital command. In some implementations, a visual indicator may be generated when the control panel receives a digital command from a user to acknowledge the receipt of the digital command. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278153 | SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE - In one aspect, a light source module includes one or more light emitters of a first color forming a first color group, one or more light emitters of a second color forming a second color group, the one or more light emitters of the second color group connected in series to the one or more light emitters of the first color group, a second color group adjustment circuit connected in parallel to the one or more light emitters of the second color group, the second color group adjustment circuit configured to adjust one or both of color and intensity of output light of the second color group, and a current source connected in series to solid-state color emitters of the first and the second color groups. | 10-24-2013 |
20140128273 | Metabolic Syndrome and HPA Axis Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder - Materials and methods for using combinations of metabolic syndrome and HPA axis biomarkers for monitoring major depressive disorder. | 05-08-2014 |
20140135224 | QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS USING MULTIPLE PARAMETERS - Materials and methods related to diagnosing a clinical condition in a subject, or determining the subject's predisposition to develop the clinical condition, using a multi-parameter system to measure a plurality of parameters and an algorithm to determine a disease score. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143034 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS VIA ILLUMINATION LIGHT OF LED LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting system for using illumination light of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to provide one-way data communication to user mobile communication devices is described. The lighting system includes illumination lighting devices at different locations within an area to emit visible illumination light illuminating the area. Each illumination lighting device includes: one or more LEDs producing visible illumination light; and a device lighting control circuit that modulates the visible illumination light to carry data and to broadcast the data in an illuminated area of the respective illumination lighting device which is modulated to carry the data. Each illumination lighting device also includes a device memory to locally store the data which is modulated onto the visible illumination light; and a device memory control circuit that updates the data stored in the device memory. | 05-22-2014 |
20140184555 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON CAPACITIVE SENSING AND COUPLING VIA HUMAN BODY OR DIRECT DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COUPLING - Systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via a human body of a user between (1) a capacitor sensor touch screen device that includes a capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function and (2) a capacitor sensor device that includes one or more capacitor sensors that detect or sense, based on capacitive sensing and without providing a display function, signals transmitted from the capacitor sensor touch screen of the capacitor sensor touch screen device. The human body of a user operates as a signal transmitting medium. In addition, the systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via direct device-to-device coupling between two capacitor sensor touch screen devices each including capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function. | 07-03-2014 |
20140257708 | DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING DEPRESSION DISORDERS - Materials and methods related to developing a disease score for a depression disorder (e.g., unipolar depression or major depressive disorder) in a subject using a multi-parameter system to measure a plurality of parameters, and an algorithm to calculate the score. The materials and methods can be used to, for example, diagnose depression disorders, or determine a subject's predisposition to develop a depression disorder. The methods also can include using a multi-parameter hypermapping system and algorithms related thereto. | 09-11-2014 |
20140273030 | HUMAN BIOMARKER TEST FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER - Materials and methods related to diagnosing depression disorders, using a multi-parameter biomarker system and algorithms related thereto. | 09-18-2014 |
20140313164 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSOR PARTIALLY INTEGRATED WITH LCD DISPLAY - A capacitive touch sensor (touch sensitive panel or screen) partially integrate with an LCD is disclosed. The touch sensor includes an LCD panel and a single layer of transparent conductive traces above the LCD panel. One group of signal traces of the LCD panel, either the gate signal traces or the source signal traces, is used to emit signals that function as the excitation signals of the touch sensor, and the single layer of transparent conductive traces is used to detect the signals to sense touches. The single layer of transparent conductive traces may be form on a flexible medium and affixed to the upper surface of the LCD panel. The LCD panel may be similar to a conventional LCD panel except that the driver circuit is modified so that the gate or source signals are used, in a time-division manner, as excitation signals of the touch sensor. | 10-23-2014 |
20150031064 | MULTIPLE BIOMARKER PANELS TO STRATIFY DISEASE SEVERITY AND MONITOR TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION - Materials and Methods for identifying and measuring pharmacodynamic biomarkers of neuropsychiatric disease (e.g., major depressive disorder), stratifying disease severity, and monitoring a subject's response to treatment are provided. | 01-29-2015 |
20150070273 | USER INTERFACE BASED ON OPTICAL SENSING AND TRACKING OF USER'S EYE MOVEMENT AND POSITION - Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a method for tracking the movement of an eye includes emitting light toward an eye of a user using multiple light sources substantially equally spaced from a photodetector module of a device, receiving at the photodetector module at least a partial retroreflection of the light emitted by each of the multiple light sources retroreflected from the eye, and determining a positional parameter of the eye based on differential values of the at least partial retroreflections corresponding to the multiple light sources. | 03-12-2015 |
20150145777 | EYE TRACKING AND USER REACTION DETECTION - Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a device for obtaining a user's eye dynamics data includes a display screen to present at least one content. The device includes an eye sensing module to obtain the user's eye dynamics data including the user's eye movement while presenting to the user the at least one content on the display screen. The device includes a processor in communication with the eye sensing module. The processor can determine the user's reaction to the at least one content presented on the display screen based at least partly on the obtained user's eye dynamics data. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146944 | SECURE HUMAN FINGERPRINT SENSOR - Devices, systems, and techniques are provided for performing human fingerprint detection and authentication for authenticating a request to access a locked mobile device equipped with a fingerprint detection module. In one aspect, responsive to detecting a contact from an object with the fingerprint detection module, described technique can be used to determines whether the contact from the object is from human skin. When determined that the detected contact from the object is from human skin, a presence of a human fingerprint can be detected from the object making contact. The detected fingerprint data can be obtained from the object and compared against stored fingerprint profiles associated with an authorized user of the locked mobile device. Based on the comparing, the request to access the locked mobile device can be granted. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149310 | WEARABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR SECURED TRANSACTION AND COMMUNICATION - A wearable device for capacitive coupled communications is described. The wearable device includes capacitive sensor transceiver circuitry configured to receive a capacitive coupled signal from a host device. The capacitive coupled signal is received through a body of a user of the wearable device and is modulated to include a request for authentication data to authenticate the wearable device with the host device. The wearable device includes processing circuitry in communication with the capacitive sensor transceiver circuitry to process the received capacitive coupled signal and transmit authentication data modulated on a capacitive coupled reply signal to the host device. The capacitive coupled reply signal modulated with the authentication data is transmitted through the body of the user of the wearable device. The capacitive sensor transceiver circuitry receives another capacitive coupled signal from the host device modulated with information indicating a successful authentication of the wearable device with the host device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150195007 | FINGERPRINT SENSOR MODULE-BASED DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - Devices, systems, and techniques are provided for enabling device-to-device communications between a first device equipped with a fingerprint detection module that includes a metal contact and a second device equipped with a capacitive coupling port. In one aspect, a technique for enabling the device-to-device communications includes: positioning the first device and the second device so that the metal contact of the fingerprint detection module of the first device is in capacitive coupling with the capacitive coupling port of the second device; and establishing device-to-device communication between the first device and the second device through electrical signaling between the metal contact of the first device and the capacitive coupling port of the second device. During the device-to-device communication, the metal contact operates as a transmitting and receiving electrode for sending and receiving electrical signals to and from the capacitive coupling port. | 07-09-2015 |
20150199006 | OPTICAL EYE TRACKING - Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a method for tracking the movement of an eye includes emitting a first modulated light and a second modulated light toward an eye of a user, wherein the first modulated light and the second modulated light have substantially the same modulation frequency, but the modulation phases of the two modulated lights are substantially opposite to each other; receiving at a photodetector module a returned light including at least a partial retroreflected light from the eye of the user based on the first and second modulated lights; and processing the output signal from the photodetector module to determine positional and dimensional parameters of the eye of the user based at least on the partial retroreflected light corresponding to the first and second modulated lights. | 07-16-2015 |
20150261359 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON CAPACITIVE SENSING AND COUPLING VIA HUMAN BODY OR DIRECT DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COUPLING - Systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via a human body of a user between (1) a capacitor sensor touch screen device that includes a capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function and (2) a capacitor sensor device that includes one or more capacitor sensors that detect or sense, based on capacitive sensing and without providing a display function, signals transmitted from the capacitor sensor touch screen of the capacitor sensor touch screen device. The human body of a user operates as a signal transmitting medium. In addition, the systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via direct device-to-device coupling between two capacitor sensor touch screen devices each including capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function. | 09-17-2015 |
20150267898 | LED-BASED PERSONAL AND OTHER LIGHTING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS - Lighting systems, devices and techniques are provided to construct solid-state lighting devices and systems that provide energy-efficient illumination, including personal lighting devices, desktop lighting devices, and ceiling/overhead lighting devices based on semiconductor-based solid-state light sources such as LEDs or laser diodes. The disclosed solid-state lighting devices and systems use an illumination plate to receive the generated light from one or more LEDs or laser diodes and to process the received light to exhibit desired spatial distribution of light power across the illumination plate and desired direction of the out put light from the illumination plate. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269563 | FINANCIAL TRANSACTION BASED ON DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS - The systems, devices and techniques disclosed provide a credit card type device which is integrated with active electronics to perform credit card type financial transactions. In one aspect, a credit card type device includes a device-to-device communication port to wirelessly communicate with another device in an attempt to complete a financial transaction. The credit card type device includes an authentication mechanism to authenticate access to the credit card type device for the initiated financial transaction. The credit card type device includes controller circuitry to control operations of the device-to-device communication port and the authentication mechanism. The credit card type device includes an output device to display information associated with the access authentication and the financial transaction. | 09-24-2015 |
20150370965 | MULTIPLE BIOMARKER PANELS TO STRATIFY DISEASE SEVERITY AND MONITOR TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION - Materials and methods for identifying and measuring pharmacodynamic biomarkers of neuropsychiatric disease (e.g., major depressive disorder), stratifying disease severity, and monitoring a subject's response to treatment are provided. | 12-24-2015 |
20160004224 | SMART WATCH - A smart watch described in this document includes hardware and software necessary to obtain motion and sensor data from a user wearing the smart watch. The described smart watch can continuously collect sensor data from the user and combine the sensor data from multiple sensors to enhance the accuracy of the sensor data analysis and provide relevant feedback information to the user. In addition, the described smart watch is capable of pairing with an external personal portable device, such as a smartphone or tablet to correlate the collected sensor data with activities performed by the user on the paired device. The smart device can also transmit data to a cloud server to collect sensor data and correlation analysis data for further analysis and provide statistical analysis of the collected sensor data and correlation analysis data. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004899 | INTEGRATION OF TOUCH SCREEN AND FINGERPRINT SENSOR ASSEMBLY - Devices, systems, and techniques are provided for integrating a touch screen with a fingerprint detection module as an assembly for a mobile device. The integrated touch screen/fingerprint sensor assembly includes at least two glass layers bonded together to provide overall mechanical strength for the touch screen display. The upper glass layer is a toughened/hardened cover glass that does not have an opening for fitting the fingerprint detection module through this glass layer. The lower glass layer is a support glass layer underneath the hardened cover glass to provide additional mechanical strength and to include an opening at a location close to an end of the support glass layer. The integrated touch screen/fingerprint sensor assembly also includes a fingerprint detection module positioned within the opening of the support glass layer and directly underneath the hardened cover glass. | 01-07-2016 |
20160022160 | OPTICAL HEART RATE SENSOR - Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for implementing a heart rate sensor based on optical measurements of color response of human blood. An optical heart rate sensor can include light source circuitry including a first light emitting diode (LED) to output a first source light signal to a target measurement site, a second LED to output a second source light signal to the target measurement site, a first current pulse driver communicatively coupled to the first LED to modulate the first source light signal output from the first LED at a first predetermined frequency and a second current pulse driver communicatively coupled to the second LED to modulate the second source light signal output from the second LED at a second predetermined frequency different from the first predetermined frequency. The optical heart rate sensor can include detector circuitry including a light detecting photodiode connected to a bias voltage. | 01-28-2016 |
20160113051 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON CAPACITIVE SENSING AND COUPLING VIA HUMAN BODY OR DIRECT DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COUPLING - Systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via a human body of a user between (1) a capacitor sensor touch screen device that includes a capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function and (2) a capacitor sensor device that includes one or more capacitor sensors that detect or sense, based on capacitive sensing and without providing a display function, signals transmitted from the capacitor sensor touch screen of the capacitor sensor touch screen device. The human body of a user operates as a signal transmitting medium. In addition, the systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via direct device-to-device coupling between two capacitor sensor touch screen devices each including capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function. | 04-21-2016 |