01st week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160004210 | Image-Forming Apparatus Having Structure for Stably Supporting Belt Unit - An image-forming apparatus includes a main body, a belt unit detachably attachable to the main body, a coupling and a first restricting part. The belt unit includes: a first roller defining an axis extending in an axial direction, a second roller opposing the first roller other in a first direction perpendicular to the axial direction, and a belt looped over the first roller and the second roller. The coupling is configured to move in the axial direction to come into engagement with the first roller for inputting a drive force into the first roller. The first restricting part is provided on the main body and is configured to restrict the first roller from moving in a second direction perpendicular to the axial direction and the first direction when the belt unit is attached to the main body. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004211 | Image Forming Apparatus that Accommodates Cartridge with Sufficient Amount of Developer - An image forming apparatus includes a main casing, a supporting frame movable relative to the main casing in a first direction between an internal position and an external position, and a developer container supported in the supporting frame. The main casing includes first and second walls extending in the first direction and opposing each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The supporting frame includes first and second plates opposing the first and second walls in the second direction respectively. The developer container includes: a first chamber disposed between the first plate and the second plate; a second chamber for storing developer and disposed between the first wall and the first plate; a third chamber for communicating between the first chamber and the second chamber; and a conveying portion for conveying the developer in the second chamber to the first chamber via the third chamber. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004212 | Photoconductor Cartridge and Image Forming Apparatus - In an image forming apparatus, a photoconductor cartridge including a photoconductor is removably installed in a housing, a transfer unit configured to transfer a developer image onto a sheet in a transfer position is disposed in contact with the photoconductor, a developer cartridge is removably installed in the housing, and a fixing unit is configured to fix a developer image on the sheet in a fixing position. The housing has a first opening provided behind the transfer unit opposite to the photoconductor, and a second opening provided separate from the first opening. The photoconductor cartridge can be removed from and installed into the housing through the to first opening. The developer cartridge can be removed from and installed into the housing through the second opening. The photoconductor cartridge includes a chute that extends between the transfer position and the fixing unit to guide the sheet toward the fixing unit. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004213 | Cartridge Configured of Two Units and Image Forming Apparatus that Accommodates the Cartridge - A cartridge mountable in an image forming apparatus includes a first unit that stores developer and a second unit that accommodates the first unit. The first unit includes a first detected part configured to be displaced irreversibly from a first-unit new-product position to a first-unit used position upon receipt of a driving force from the image forming apparatus, the first detected part contacting a detector provided in the image forming apparatus while being displaced from the first-unit new-product position to the first-unit used position to be detected by the detector. The second unit includes a second detected part configured to be displaced irreversibly from a second-unit new-product position to a second-unit used position upon receipt of a driving force from the image forming apparatus, the second detected part contacting the detector while being displaced from the second-unit new-product position to the second-unit used position to be detected by the detector. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004214 | Image Forming Apparatus Including Endless Belt Disposed Above Photosensitive Drum - An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a photosensitive drum, an endless belt disposed above the photosensitive drum, and a pressing member. The photosensitive drum includes a drum body and a flange portion that is provided on one end portion of the drum body. The flange portion has a contacted portion and a pressed portion. The pressing member presses the pressed portion upward to permit the photosensitive drum to be in contact with the endless belt. The frame has a positioning portion disposed above the pressing member and above the photosensitive drum. The positioning portion is configured to be in contact with the contacted portion and to position the photosensitive drum when the pressing member presses the pressed portion. The pressed portion is disposed farther from the drum body in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum than the contacted portion. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004215 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DUCT - Image forming apparatus ( | 2016-01-07 |
20160004216 | AIR BLOWING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - Disclosed is an air blowing system including: an air blowing device; a duct that guides air blown by the air blowing device; and a ventilation section disposed downstream of the duct in terms of an air blowing direction in which air is blown by the air blowing device so that the air blown by the air blowing device strikes and passes through the ventilation section, wherein the duct has a distorted portion where a part of an inner wall face of the duct located between the air blowing device and the ventilation section is distorted perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the air blowing direction so that the air blown by the air blowing device flows perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to the air blowing direction. Also disclosed is an air blowing system including: an air blowing device; and a duct that guides air blown by the air blowing device, wherein the duct has an outer surface on at least a part of which there is provided a surface area reducing portion for reducing a surface area of a continuous face. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004217 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearer; a charging unit configured to charge a surface of the image bearer by causing a discharging member to discharge; a latent image forming unit configured to form a latent image on the surface of the image bearer charged by the charging unit; a developing unit configured to develop the latent image formed on the surface of the image bearer into a toner image with developer containing toner; an airflow generating unit configured to generate an airflow inside the image forming apparatus such that the airflow passes through at least the charging unit; an image-area-ratio information acquiring unit configured to acquire information on an image area ratio of the toner image; and a control unit configured to control the airflow generating unit so as to change a flow velocity of the airflow in accordance with the image area ratio. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004218 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having: an inside-air duct having a first inlet to an inside of the image forming apparatus; a first ventilator provided in the inside-air duct; an outside-air duct having a second inlet to an outside of the image forming apparatus; a common duct into which the inside-air duct and the outside-air duct are merged; a second ventilator provided in at least one of the outside-air duct and the common duct; a filter provided in the common duct; and a control section that retrieves information indicative of an flow rate in the inside-air duct and increases a pressure produced by the second ventilator based on the retrieved information such that an flow rate in the outside-air duct is substantially constant with respect to an increase of the flow rate in the inside-air duct. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004219 | PROJECTION DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AT LEAST ONE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENE OR OF CONTENT - A projection device is provided for displaying at least one of a two-dimensional and three-dimensional scene or of content. The projection device comprises an illumination device, at least two spatial light modulator devices and an optical system. The illumination device comprises at least one light source for generating a holographic illumination. One of said spatial light modulator devices is designed as spatial light modulator device modulating at least the phase of the light for the holographical generation of illumination patterns. This spatial light modulator device as first spatial light modulator device is followed by a second spatial light modulator device. The optical system is disposed to illuminate the second spatial light modulator device with a predefinable light distribution generated by the first spatial light modulator device. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004220 | HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION DEVICE FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF A VISIBILITY REGION - A holographic projection apparatus and a method for magnifying a virtual visibility region, for observing a reconstructed scene with at least one light modulation device and with at least one light source having sufficiently coherent light for generating a wavefront of a scene that is coded in the light modulation device. By means of imaging the wavefront into a viewer plane, it is possible to generate the virtual visibility region for observing the reconstructed scene. The virtual visibility region has at least two virtual viewer windows. In this case, the virtual viewer windows are dimensioned such that the reconstructed scene can always be observed without tracking of the viewer windows upon movement of a viewer in the viewer plane. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004221 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COHERENT HOLOGRAPHIC DATA CHANNELS - Methods and devices for coherent holographic data channel techniques are presented. Coherent techniques for data detection generally include homodyne and heterodyne detection. Techniques for quadrature homodyne detection, resampling quadrature homodyne detection, n-rature homodyne detection, and spatial wavefront demodulation are presented. Coherent detection techniques in turn enable coherent channel modulation techniques such as phase modulation (including binary phase shift keying, or BPSK; phase quadrature holographic multiplexing, or QPSK; and quadrature amplitude modulation, or QAM). Coherent detection may also enable or improve the performance of other channel techniques such as partial response maximum likelihood (PRML), the various classes of extended PRML, and of noise-predictive maximum likelihood (NPML) detection. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004222 | END LINKS FOR USE IN COUPLING WATCH STRAPS TO BASES OF WATCHES, AND RELATED METHODS - A link is provided for use in a watch for coupling a watch strap to a base of the watch. The link includes a body defining an arcuate seat extending generally longitudinally along the body, and first and second ears extending generally away from the body. Each of the first and second ears defines an opening, and the opening of the first ear is substantially aligned with the opening of the second ear. The link also includes a channel defined between the first and second ears for receiving an end portion of the watch strap when coupling the watch strap to the base of the watch. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004223 | WINDING DEVICE FOR SELF-WINDING AUTOMATIC WATCH - A device for winding automatic watches, including an electrical energy source and a receptacle support including a surface configured to receive in abutment a back cover of a watch, the device configured to generate a magnetic and/or electrostatic field or eddy currents, in a fixed position underneath the bearing surface and generate, on a substantially annular angular sector, a magnetic and or electrostatic field that varies as a function of time and whose direction is orthogonal to the bearing surface, or generating eddy currents that vary as a function of time. The device can be provided for a watch including an automatic winding mechanism with an oscillating weight including a first ferromagnetic inner part and a second heavy metal peripheral part, and possibly with a paramagnetic conductive disc coaxial to the oscillating weight. | 2016-01-07 |
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. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004225 | METHOD AND PROTECTION DEVICE FOR PROTECTING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR AND/OR AN OPERATING MACHINE WHICH IS COUPLED THERETO FROM INCORRECT CONTROL OPERATIONS - A method for protection of an electric motor and/or operating machine coupled thereto from incorrect control operations detects the number of incorrect control operations of the electric motor and/or the operating machine in accordance with first and second error criterions. The numbers are totalled, and an alarm signal is produced and/or the electric motor is switched into a predefined state when the total exceeds a predetermined limit. A protection device for protecting an electric motor and/or an operating machine coupled thereto from incorrect control operations is also disclosed for carrying out the method. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004226 | PID CONTROLLER AND DATA COLLECTING METHOD - A PID controller includes: a manipulated variable calculating portion that calculates a manipulated variable MV based on a set point SP and a process variable PV through a PID control calculation; a manipulated variable outputting portion that outputs a manipulated variable MV to outside of the controller; an alarm notifying portion that generates an alarm when a problem has been detected; a data recording portion that temporarily records time series data for the process variable PV; and a data storing portion that reads out and storing data recorded by the data recording portion 15 before and after the alarm event. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004227 | NOISE DETERMINATION DEVICE - A noise determination device is provided that determines the presence of noise on an input signal with a constant value that is output from an external device. The noise determination device includes a sampling unit that performs three samplings on the input signal, a sampling-interval setting unit that sets an interval between a first one and a second one of the samplings to have a value that is different from an integral multiple of the period of the periodic noise, and sets an interval between the second one and a third one of the samplings to be equal to or larger than an interval that is large enough to fully attenuate the periodic noise, and a noise determination unit that determines that the noise is not superimposed on the input signal only when all values acquired by the first, second, and third samplings match one another. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004228 | COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OF TARGET SYSTEMS - Techniques are described for implementing automated control systems that manipulate operations of specified target systems, such as by modifying or otherwise manipulating inputs or other control elements of the target system that affect its operation (e.g., affect one or more outputs of the target system). An automated control system for such a target system may in some situations have a distributed architecture that provides cooperative distributed control of the target system, such as with multiple decision modules that each control a portion of the target system and operate in a partially decoupled manner with respect to each other, with the various decision modules' operations being at least partially synchronized and each having a consensus with one or more other decision modules, even if a fully synchronized convergence of all decision modules at all times is not guaranteed. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004229 | Secure Remote Actuation System - A secure remote actuation system may comprise a central signal switch and a remote input receptor. The central signal switch may comprise one or more acceptable inputs. The remote input receptor may comprise a user interface for receiving one or more user inputs from a user. The remote input receptor may further comprise a microcontroller for obtaining and comparing the acceptable inputs to the user inputs. In the present invention, the microcontroller obtains the one or more acceptable inputs from the central signal switch after the user begins to use the user interface. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004230 | Secure Remote Actuation System - A secure remote actuation system may comprise a remote input receptor and a central signal switch. The remote input receptor may comprise a user interface for receiving user inputs from a user. The central signal switch may comprise acceptable inputs. The central signal switch may further comprise a microcontroller for obtaining and comparing the user inputs to the acceptable inputs. In the present invention, the microcontroller obtains the user inputs from the remote input receptor while the user is using the user interface. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004231 | METHOD OF MANAGING ELECTRICAL DEVICE, MANAGING SYSTEM, ELECTRICAL DEVICE, OPERATION TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM - In a method of managing an electrical device, details of at least one operation performed using any one of one or more operation terminals to operate an electrical device are stored (S | 2016-01-07 |
20160004232 | Systems and Methods for a Robotic Mount - A robotic mount is disclosed that attaches onto any appropriate stand, framework, or other support structure. The mount can manipulate the position and orientation of affixed devices upon remote command received from any network connected device. A specific or sequence of positions/orientations can be precisely registered and promptly returned to on command. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004233 | COFFEE MACHINE AND RELATIVE METHOD FOR COMMANDING IT - The coffee machine comprises an electronic controller connected to a user interface, which, in turn, comprises an input unit that receives the input commands from a user, the input unit having a surface that is touch-sensitive and/or sensitive to swipe gestures with a finger, the input unit also being configured for the acquisition of commands in the form of symbols defined by sequences of points (n | 2016-01-07 |
20160004234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING POSITION SWITCH STATUS SIGNAL - A system for transmitting a position switch status signal, comprises a signal output unit, a first converting apparatus, a second converting apparatus, and a control unit. Status signals of position switches are outputted by the signal output unit, parallel status signals are converted into parallel first current signals by using the first converting apparatus, currents in the first current signals are summated to obtain a second current signal, and digital status signals of the position switches are restored by using the second converting apparatus and the control unit. Also provided is a method for transmitting a position switch status signal. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004235 | Appliance Control System and Method - An appliance control system ( | 2016-01-07 |
20160004236 | A CONTROL SYSTEM - This invention concerns a control system that makes use of a computer user interface to control a process having a plurality of different stages of operation, in particular a multi-stage legal process. The system comprises a computer memory that stores a decision tree having a network of interconnected nodes, each of which represents a stage of the multi-stage process. The system further includes historical patterns of entries made by users and a plurality of different types of resource information for each stage of the multi-stage process. In use, each node requires an input to satisfy specified criterion, in response to which, one of the downstream nodes is automatically selected and the computer screen is updated. Input is made by a user either directly or automatically as determined by a selected historical pattern of entries. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004237 | BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM - Apparatuses, methods and systems of a building control system are disclosed. One building control system includes a plurality of building sensor fixtures, wherein at least one of the plurality of building sensor fixtures includes a sensor, a controller and a communication port. The building control system further includes a system controller. At least one of the system controller and one or more controllers of the plurality of building sensor fixtures is operative to determine a plurality of selected groups of the plurality of building sensor fixtures, compare a first characteristic between the plurality of the selected groups, and identify deviations of the compared first characteristic between the plurality of the selected groups. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004238 | Process Control of a Physical Process - A process control method includes discretizing a physical process by particle-based domain decomposition into a plurality of partial volumes where one particle replaces a multiplicity of objects interacting within the particular partial volume and defines a first process parameter of the process. The method further includes calculating a second process parameter for the inner particles of the process area by LME approximation and calculating the second process parameter for the outer particles by MLS approximation. The method further includes calculating an interaction variable for the inner particles of the process area by LME approximation and the interaction variables for the outer particles by MLS approximation. The method further includes calculating at least one control variable on the basis of the interaction variables calculated for the inner and outer particles. The method further includes setting a target process parameter for the physical process by the calculated control variable. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004239 | SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHOD, AND SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A system development device includes a storage unit that stores therein an object information list, in which an entry is registered for each constituent element that constitutes a single control system, where the entry includes an object type of a constituent element, includes connection information, and includes setting information; a system-configuration displaying and editing unit that generates a workspace display screen for each object information list, where the workspace display screen connects and displays, a display object according to the object type of each entry registered in the object information list; and a dividing unit that, when the system-configuration displaying and editing unit receives a dividing command designating any second system included in a first system, duplicates an entry of the second system that is registered in a first object information list of the first system and that generates a second object information list. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004240 | Method and Device for Identifying a Power Equipment Work Pattern - An outdoor power tool activity monitoring device is provided. The device may include processing circuitry configured for receiving indications of device activity of the outdoor power tool, determining whether the device activity correlates to a predefined work pattern, determining a set of instructions associated with the predefined work pattern in response to the device activity correlating to the pre-defined work pattern, and initiating provision of the set of instructions to define a programmed response to the pre-defined work pattern. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004241 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control system CPU card includes a control CPU chip having a first core and a second core, and a main memory for storing information. A standby system CPU card includes a standby CPU chip having a first core and a second core, and a main memory for storing information. An I/F performs communication to allow the CPU cards to share the information. In the control system CPU card, when the first core is normal, the first core performs control calculation and outputs a calculation result. When the first core is abnormal, the second core is switched to a control core, to perform control calculation and continue output of a calculation result. When the cores are both abnormal, system switching is performed from the control system CPU card to the standby system CPU card. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004242 | LADDER-PROGRAM DISPLAY PROGRAM AND LADDER-PROGRAM DISPLAY APPARATUS - A ladder-program display program that causes a computer to execute: a hierarchical data retaining step of storing a ladder program in a form of a data structure representation that expresses the ladder program by a logical hierarchical structure by expressing each circuit block, which is a hierarchical unit of the ladder program, by a logical expression; and a display processing step of causing, on a basis of the data structure representation, the ladder program to be displayed on a display device in a form of a data structure representation or a ladder diagram in which each hierarchical unit of the hierarchical structure is visually capable of being identified. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004243 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT FABRICATORS WITH COGNITIVE COMPUTING - The present invention provides various aspects of support for a fabrication facility capable of routine placement and replacement of processing tools in at least a vertical dimension relative to each other. The support aspect may include a cognitive computing system. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004244 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transport system is provided. The transport system includes a stocker configured to store an assigned wafer carrier and having a gate port. The transport system also includes a semiconductor apparatus configured to transmit a request signal comprising a processed time according to a processing wafer carrier loaded on the semiconductor apparatus. The transport system further includes a vehicle configured to transport the assigned wafer carrier from the gate port to the semiconductor apparatus and a control system configured to control the vehicle. When the control system receives the request signal, the control system controls the stocker to transport the assigned wafer carrier inside of the stocker to the gate port at a start time, which is earlier than the processed time, and the control system controls the vehicle to transport the assigned wafer carrier from the gate port to the semiconductor apparatus. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004245 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER EXECUTING OPERATION BY TABLE-FORMAT DATA - A numerical controller drives motors for respective axes of a machine tool by using an NC program and table-format data that command positions of those axes with reference to a position of a reference axis. The numerical controller generates, based on a movement command commanded by the NC program, interpolation data for an axis to be controlled by the movement command, generates, based on the table-format data, interpolation data for an axis to be controlled by the table-format data, and further generates interpolation data obtained by selection from or superposition of these two pieces of interpolation data. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004246 | PID CONTROLLER AND DATA COLLECTING METHOD - A PID controller includes: a manipulated variable outputting portion that outputs, to a subject of control, a manipulated variable MV calculated by a manipulated variable calculating portion; a long cycle data storing portion that stores, with each first cycle, time series data for the process variable PV; a short cycle data recording portion that records temporarily, with each second cycle that is shorter than the first cycle, time series data for the process variable PV; and a short cycle data storing portion that reads out from the short cycle data recording portion, and stores, data for an interval wherein there has been a change of at least a prescribed amount in the process variable PV, when there has been a change of at least the prescribed amount in the process variable PV that is recorded in the short cycle data recording portion. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004247 | SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING COMPONENTS OF VARIOUS PRODUCT DESIGNS - A system comprising means mounted on a worktable of a machine for displacing a cutting tool along x, y and z axes, and a control computer programmed to store data relevant to the geometrical configuration of at least one product design and the components thereof, displaying a selected one product design, elicit alterations of such design, revise any such alterations and components thereof, nest the components of the selected design, device a cutting tool pattern for producing such components and operate servomotors to guide such cutting tool to form such components from a workpiece mounted on such worktable. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004248 | WORKING MACHINE FEED AXIS CONTROL METHOD AND FEED AXIS CONTROL DEVICE - A working machine feed axis control device: disposes a velocity feedback loop and forms a cascade coupling on the inner side of a location feedback loop; comprises a velocity gain setting apparatus ( | 2016-01-07 |
20160004249 | Methods for Schedule Optimization Sorting of Dry End Orders on a Corrugator to Minimize Short Order Recovery Time - A method and a non-transient computer readable medium for sorting orders to be run on a multi-section slitter/scorer at a corrugator dry end includes collecting specifications of orders in current, prior, and/or subsequent paper group queues. Run times and slit/score head recovery times for orders in the current paper group queue are calculated using the specifications. Those orders for which recovery time exceeds run time are flagged as short orders. For a given short order, pairs of preceding and following orders that would require recovery times less than the short order's run time are determined and flagged as potential bracketing pairs. The current paper group queue is searched to determine if a bracketing pair can be formed from its orders, and if so, the orders in the current paper group queue are reorganized such that the orders in the bracketing pair immediately precede and follow the given short order. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004250 | Ultra High Speed Navigation Magnetic Satellite and Unmanned Aircraft - The present invention is about a new satellite or unmanned aircraft guided by earth's magnetic fields, instead of gravitational fields, as in the case of traditional satellites. This type of magnetic satellites can fly many times faster than traditional satellites, and sustain a much heavier load if necessary. In order to navigate in earth's magnetic fields, the magnetic satellite needs to be heavily charged. The charges, interacting with the magnetic field, induce a magnetic force, which replaces the gravitational force as the centripetal force for circular motion. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004251 | DATA TRANSMISSION AND CONTROL OVER POWER CONDUCTORS - A system for controlling a subsea device comprises a complimentary set of data communication interfaces operatively coupled to an electronically interrogatable component of a subsea device and a remotely disposed device controller via a power conductor which defined data pathway between the subsea device and the remotely disposed device controller. A data transceiver is operatively coupled to the electronically interrogatable component and the remotely disposed device controller via the complimentary set of data communication interfaces over the power conductor. In configurations, control and/or telemetry or other data may be unidirectionally and/or bidirectionally transmitted between the electronically interrogatable component of a subsea device and a remotely disposed device controller. In configurations, data faults may be monitored in a primary data path and, if a fault detected, control and/or telemetry or other data transmission switched to the power conductor data pathway, manually and/or automatically. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004252 | DELIVERY VEHICLE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING DRIVE OF DELIVERY VEHICLE - A traveling controller of a delivery vehicle includes a command generator and an acceptable value calculator. The acceptable value calculator calculates a command acceptable value based on a current position of the delivery vehicle. An acceptable value determiner of the command generator determines whether a command position generated by a command position generator exceeds the command acceptable value. When the command position is determined to exceed the command acceptable value, a command position changer of the command generator changes the command position to the command acceptable value. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004253 | SELF-PROPELLED DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTROL - A self-controlled device maintains a frame of reference about an x-, y- and z-axis. The self-controlled device processes an input to control the self-propelled device, the input being based on the x- and y-axis. The self-propelled device is controlled in its movement, including about each of the x-, y- and z-axis, based on the input. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004254 | CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus is used in a vehicle that performs automatic travel control. The apparatus includes a search section which searches for an external unit, when information used for the automatic travel control is no longer available due to abnormality, the external unit providing assist information for complementing missing information that is the information no longer available due to the abnormality, an acquisition section which acquires the assist information from the external unit obtained as a result of the search of the search section, and a processing section which performs a process for performing assist travel control, which is the automatic travel control as a result of complementing the missing information with the assist information. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004255 | AIRCRAFT CONTROL METHOD - A computer-implemented method of controlling an aircraft including, determining whether a change in altitude at a predetermined thrust-setting can be performed, the determination including: determining a climb-requirement including initial and final altitudes and a required range of airspeeds at the final altitude; determining aircraft performance data including a thrust at the final altitude at the thrust-setting, an initial airspeed at the initial altitude and an aircraft total mass at the initial altitude; using the aircraft performance data to determine a final airspeed and drag at the final altitude if a change in altitude at the predetermined setting were performed; determining whether thrust at the final altitude at the thrust-settings and airspeed is greater than drag; and providing a signal indicating whether the calculated final airspeed falls within the required range of airspeeds, and whether the thrust at the final altitude and airspeed at the cruise thrust-setting is greater than drag. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004256 | PRESSURE INDEPENDENT CONTROL AND BALANCING VALVES - A device having pressure independent control and balancing valves, suitable for use in a hydronic system, comprises a seat, a plug having an upstream surface and a downstream surface, and a piston, wherein the seat, plug and piston are aligned coaxially, a controller determines the size of a first flow restriction between the upstream surface of the plug and the seat, the piston is operable to move in response to differential pressure across the first restriction and a predetermined force, the position of the piston relative to the downstream surface of the plug determining the size of a second flow restriction thereby in use maintaining a substantially constant differential pressure across the first restriction. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004257 | METERING VALVE AND METERING METHOD - The invention discloses a metering valve for metering a metering material, having a valve chamber comprising an outlet aperture, a closure element arranged in or on to the valve chamber, a valve chamber casing and an actuator assembly realized to move at least the outlet aperture, preferably the valve chamber, relative to the valve chamber casing in an ejection direction and/or a retraction direction during operation such that, in at least one movement mode, metering material is expelled by the closure element through the outlet aperture by a movement of the outlet aperture in the ejection direction. The invention further discloses a metering method which can be performed by means of such a metering valve. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004258 | Valve Assembly with Integral Sensors - A valve assembly includes an electronics housing and a valve housing assembly engaged to the electronics housing. The valve housing assembly includes a valve body defining a plurality of fluid ports in fluid communication with the valve bore. A plurality of fluid dampeners is disposed in the fluid ports. A sensor plate is engaged to the valve body. The sensor plate defines a plurality of sensor ports that are generally aligned with the fluid ports of the valve body. At least four fluid sensors are disposed in the plurality of fluid ports of the valve body. A cover is engaged to the sensor plate. The cover defines a cavity. A circuit board is disposed in the cavity of the cover. The circuit board is in electrical communication with the fluid sensors. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004259 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELF-REGULATING FLUID CHEMICAL DELIVERY - Methods and apparatus for chemical delivery are provided herein. In some embodiments, a first reservoir holds a first volume of fluid, receives a carrier gas, and outputs the carrier gas together with vapor derived from the first volume of fluid. A second reservoir holds a second volume of fluid and is capable of delivering a part of the second volume of fluid to the first reservoir. A self-regulating tube extends from the first reservoir to a region above the second volume of fluid in the second reservoir. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004260 | ADD-ON CHAMBER FOR IMPROVED RESPONSE OF GAS PRESSURE REGULATORS - A gas pressure regulator regulates a pressure of a gas system. The gas pressure regulator includes a first chamber, a first diaphragm which separates the first chamber into a first compartment and a second compartment, a second chamber, with a second diaphragm separating the second chamber into a third compartment and a fourth compartment, the fourth compartment being connected to, and in communication with, the first compartment of the first chamber. A movement of the first diaphragm causes a corresponding movement of the second diaphragm, and a change in the volume of the fourth compartment. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004261 | Fluid-Pressure Regulation Systems and Software - A fluid-pressure regulator for regulating the pressure of a fluid. The regulator includes a variable-resistance fluid element and a variable-volume fluid element located downstream of the variable-resistance element. Pressure in the fluid at the outlet of the regulator is controlled by substantially simultaneously changing the resistance of the variable-resistance element and the volume of the variable-volume element. In one example, a decrease in pressure is effected at the outlet by simultaneously increasing the resistance of the variable-resistance element and increasing the volume of the variable-volume element. Some embodiments of the regulator are particularly useful to effect long-term and high-speed pressure changes in high-resistance fluidic channel networks. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004262 | SPATIAL STABILIZATION DEVICE, SPATIAL STABILIZATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SPATIAL STABILIZATION PROGRAM - Provided is a spatial stabilization apparatus that realizes high spatial stability with a single inertial sensor. The present invention includes: a first object that is rotatably connected to a moving body; a second object that is rotatably connected to the first object; means that measures angular velocity of either the moving body or the first object and outputs a first detected signal that includes one or more components of an orthogonal coordinate system that is fixed to either the moving body or the first object; means that outputs an estimated signal that is estimated or detected angular velocity with respect to a first angle of the first object in relation to the moving body: means that outputs a target angle signal of the first angle; means that outputs a target angle signal of a second angle of the second object in relation to the first object; means that outputs a second detected signal obtained by adding a signal based on the estimated signal and a signal based on the first detected signal; means that controls the first angle based on a signal based on the target angle signal of the first angle and a signal based on the first detected signal; and means that controls the second angle based on a signal based on the target angle signal of the second angle and a signal based on the second detected signal. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004263 | GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITHIN TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIATED ENVIRONMENTS - Electrical power is provided to power consuming, heat-exhausting devices by multiple gas-fueled electrical power sources located near such devices. Exhaust heat from such devices is utilized as intake cooling air for the gas-fueled power sources, thereby excluding them from cooling capacity requirements. The gas piping delivering gas to gas-fueled power sources is positioned so as to be within hot aisles comprising exhaust heat. The gas piping is located up high for lighter than air gasses and near the floor for heavier than air gasses, with leak detection located nearby. Additionally, gas piping is externally coated with material that visually indicates a leak. By locating gas piping in the hot aisle, exhausted heat increases temperature and, thereby, pressure of the gas, resulting in more efficient gas distribution through the piping and preventing valve freezing. Furthermore, the gas piping is located after potential ignition sources in the airstream. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004264 | THERMAL BALANCING VALVE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A thermal valve having a sealed expansion chamber containing heat-sensitive material that expands or contracts based on a fluid temperature flowing through the valve, which operates a rod/piston to close or open a valve. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004265 | RADIO FREQUENCY PEAK DETECTION WITH SUBTHRESHOLD BIASING - A radio-frequency peak amplitude detection circuit includes a load capacitor, a current source that charges the load capacitor and set the bias current for the field effect transistors, and a pair of field effect transistors. The gates of the field effect transistors are biased at a level below the threshold voltage of the transistors. The transistors are arranged in parallel with the capacitor and are operable to drain the capacitor at a rate determined by a differential input at the gates of the transistors. The voltage across the load capacitor is low-pass filtered and has a voltage level representative of the amplitude of the differential input signal. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004266 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTIPHASE SMPS INTERLEAVING - In described examples, a phase interleaver obtains (i) a first signal indicating a variance between a reference voltage and a regulated output voltage and (ii) a second signal indicating a voltage across an energy storage device. A voltage regulator includes multiple phase blocks collectively configured to generate the regulated output voltage. In a repeating cycle, (i) the voltage across the energy storage device is increased while the second signal is less than the first signal and (ii) in response to a determination that the second signal is greater than the first signal, the energy storage device is substantially discharged, multiple stages of a clock divider are transitioned in the phase interleaver, and a set of control signals is output from the clock divider. The control signals have a common switching frequency and a common switching period. The control signals control the phase blocks active in generating the output voltage. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004267 | DYNAMIC BIASING FOR REGULATOR CIRCUITS - The disclosed invention provides apparatus and methods for dynamic biasing in electronic systems and circuits. The apparatus and methods disclosed provide non-linear biasing responsive to monitored load conditions. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004268 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM COMPRISING A PREPROCESSING DEVICE - A power supply system contains a plurality of power generating devices, a plurality of power consuming devices, and a controller. The controller controls the power supply system based on a rated consumption value indicating an anticipated power consumption of the power supply system and also based on a standby value indicating a standby power. The standby value indicates the standby power made available by the power supply system at which emergency measures can be avoided if the actual power consumption deviates from the rated consumption. The power supply system further has a preprocessing device for calculating a rated consumption value and a standby value at which an emergency measure-free operation can be attained with the required probability, based on consumption values recorded in the past and using a probability value defined on the user side which defines the probability of the emergency measure-free operation of the power supply system. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004269 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR TRIMMING AN OUTPUT PARAMETER - Methods and circuits for adjusting the output parameter of a device wherein the output parameter is temperature dependent are disclosed herein. An example of a method includes: adjusting the output parameter to a target level at a first temperature; adjusting a linear temperature-dependent variable related to the output parameter to zero at the first temperature; adjusting a nonlinear temperature-dependent variable related to the output parameter to zero at the first temperature; adjusting the output parameter to the target level at a second temperature using the linear-dependent variable; adjusting the nonlinear temperature-dependent variable to zero at the second temperature; and adjusting the output parameter to the target level at a third temperature by adjusting the nonlinear variable. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004270 | INCEPTOR APPARATUS - An inceptor apparatus and method for operating a machine, the operation of the machine providing an output from at least one inertial sensor. The apparatus comprises a stick member having a base portion, and a grip portion extending from the base portion in only one direction. The apparatus further comprises at least one sensor for generating actual stick member position data, and a control unit configured to receive an inertial force signal from the or each inertial sensor and the actual stick member position data. The control unit is operable generate a first stick member position compensation signal in dependence upon the inertial force signal and actual stick member position data. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004271 | Accelerator Pedal Assembly - An accelerator pedal assembly is disclosed. The accelerator pedal assembly can include a pedal configured to be movable by a vehicle operator to control a speed of a vehicle. In addition, the accelerator pedal assembly can include an electromagnetic resistance mechanism coupled to the pedal. The electromagnetic resistance mechanism can be configured to provide a force to resist movement of the pedal by the operator to indicate an operational condition of the vehicle to the operator. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004272 | PEDAL COVER ASSEMBLY AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF - Some embodiments relate to a cover assembly for use with a vehicular plate member. The cover assembly includes a pad that is over-molded to a resilient member. The pad includes a primary contact member having an exterior surface with a relatively high coefficient of friction and disposed to be frictionally engagable with the vehicle operator's foot, the primary contact member being abradable through frictional engagement with the operator's foot. The pad can also include a connector member that is configured for attachment to the plate member. The cover assembly can also include a secondary contact member between the exterior surface of the primary contact member and the plate member. The secondary contact member is disposed completely below the primary contact member and thereby hidden from view prior to abrasion of the primary contact member, but disposed to frictionally engage the operator's foot subsequent to abrasion of the primary contact member. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004273 | Clock generator, communication device and sequential clock gating circuit - The present invention discloses a clock generator comprising: an oscillator operable to generate a reference clock; a multi-phase clock generating circuit operable to generate a plurality of output clocks of the same frequency but different phases according to the reference clock and stop or start outputting the output clocks according to a power control signal; a sequential clock gating circuit operable to sequentially stop or start outputting a plurality of gated clocks according to a gate control signal and maintain an output cycle number relation between the gated clocks even though the multi-phase clock generating circuit stops and then starts outputting the output clocks; and a clock operation control circuit operable to provide the power control signal and the gate control signal. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004274 | APPARATUS, A METHOD AND MACHINE READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUERYING TIMERS - An apparatus including: an input interface configured to enable user configuration of a future time window; and a report interface configured to produce a report relating to a first sub-set of a plurality of active timers that expire at programmed future points in time, wherein the first sub-set of the plurality of active timers expire during the user-configured future time window. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004275 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including: a display panel including a substrate and an encapsulating member and realizing an image; a circuit member arranged to overlap at least a portion of the substrate of the display panel; and a shield member arranged between a surface portion of the substrate of the display panel and the circuit member, the surface portion overlapping the circuit member. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004276 | WEARABLE COMPUTER WITH TIME INDICATIONS AND MOVEMENTS - Embodiments of a wearable computer are disclosed. The wearable computer comprises an electronic module, a display device, at least one rechargeable electrical energy storage device, a housing containing the display device and the electronic module, and at least one additional visual time indication built into the housing area surrounding the display device at the frontside. In some embodiments, the wearable computer can have a means for wirelessly charging the energy storage device, and a strap or band mounted on the housing. This permits the wearable computer to provide a long runtime and to assume novel configurations. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004277 | Power band for a wearable computer - There is provided a wristband for attaching to a computer device. The wristband includes a first end configured to attach to a first side of the computer device, a second end configured to attach to a second side of the computer device, a battery, a battery connection interface configured to connect to a battery port of the computer device for providing power from the battery to the computer device, and a charging port configured to connect to an interface of an external power source to receive power from the external power source for charging the battery. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004278 | CAPACITANCE SENSING ELECTRODE WITH INTEGRATED I/O MECHANISM - A touch sensing device is disclosed. The touch sensing device includes one or more multifunctional nodes each of which represents a single touch pixel. Each multifunctional node includes a touch sensor with one or more integrated I/O mechanisms. The touch sensor and integrated I/O mechanisms share the same communication lines and I/O pins of a controller during operation of the touch sensing device. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004279 | Tablet Attachment System - A display mounting system comprises a display ( | 2016-01-07 |
20160004280 | Locking Assembly - A locking assembly is disclosed herein. An example includes a first cam lobe and a first cam lobe lock coupled to the first cam lobe. The example additionally includes a first cam lobe lock recess that receives the first cam lobe lock via movement of the first cam lobe to limit rotation of a panel of a computing device about a shaft. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004281 | DRIVER DEVICE DETECTION - A device dock of a vehicle may receive a one-time key over a data connection between the device dock and a vehicle computing system (VCS), and send the one-time key over a location-identifying connection to a nomadic device placed within proximity to the dock, to cause the nomadic device to send the one-time key to the VCS to integrate with the VCS as a driver device. The VCS may receive, from a nomadic device in a device dock, via a data connection between the VCS and the nomadic device, a one-time key provided from the VCS to the device dock over a data connection between the VCS and the device dock, and responsive to receipt of the one-time key from the nomadic device, integrate the nomadic device with the VCS as a driver device. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004282 | SERVER FRAME - A server frame includes a motherboard subframe ( | 2016-01-07 |
20160004283 | Electronic Devices with Submersion Detection Circuitry - A portable electronic device may include submersion detection circuitry for detecting when the electronic device is submerged in water or other liquids. The submersion detection circuitry may include a barometric pressure sensor that gathers air pressure information. Control circuitry in the electronic device may monitor the air pressure sensor for sharp changes in air pressure indicating that the electronic device has been dropped or submerged in water. Various actions may be taken in response to determining that the electronic device is in water. If the electronic device is not intended to operate underwater, a power management unit may automatically power down electrical components in the electronic device in response to determining that the electronic device is in water. If the electronic device is intended to operate underwater, control circuitry may determine and track a water depth level at which the electronic device is submerged based on the air pressure information. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004284 | THERMAL GAP PAD - This application relates to efficiently distributing heat within a portable computing device. More specifically an apparatus for conducting heat between internal components of the portable computing device is disclosed. The apparatus, referred to as a thermal gap pad, is configured to bridge a variably sized gap between internal components. This is accomplished by wrapping a resilient core in a layer of highly thermally conductive material. The resilient core allows a shape of the thermal gap pad to vary in accordance with a size of the gap. A resilience of the thermal gap pad can be adjusted to account for an amount of variance in the gap. In some embodiments, an electrically conductive layer can be added to facilitate the passage of electrical current through the thermal gap pad. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004285 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a power supplying method thereof are provided. An electronic device includes a host and a power supply. The host receives a power via a power supply path. The power is transmitted to the host via the power supply path. The power supply detects state changes of a plurality of supply current values at the power supply path obtained by the host from the power supply at a plurality of time intervals, so as to generate a determining result. A voltage value of the power is changed according to the determining result. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING POWER AT A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE AND A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE DOCKING STATION - A method of managing power distribution between a portable computing device (PCD) and a PCD docking station is disclosed and may include determining that the PCD is docked with the PCD docking station, switching a power supply to the PCD from a PCD battery to a PCD docking station battery, and powering the PCD and the PCD docking station from the PCD docking station battery. Further, the method may include determining whether a PCD battery power equals a charge condition and charging the PCD battery when the PCD battery power equals the charge condition. The method may also include monitoring a PCD docking station battery power, determining whether the PCD docking station battery power equals a warning condition, and transmitting a first warning when the PCD docking station battery power equals the warning condition. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004287 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - A portable electronic device with OTG functionality is provided. The portable electronic device includes a USB connector, a processor and a power management module. When the USB connector is coupled to a USB device, the processor provides a switching signal according to identification data of the USB device. According to the switching signal, the power management module selectively provides a first power signal to the USB device, so as to power the USB device, or receives a second power signal from the USB device for charging a battery. The USB connector has an identification pin coupled to a ground. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004288 | LEAKAGE CURRENT VARIABILITY BASED POWER MANAGEMENT - Technologies are generally described to provide a leakage current variability based power management of a processor. According to some examples, instruction counters and aggregated power consumption of the processor may be used to process power measurements of the processor into linear equations. The linear equations may be processed to produce a set of leakage values for the processor. In an example scenario, computation data from a power controller and processor instruction counters (PICs) of a core of the processor may be used to determine the leakage current variability of the core. A table of linear combination samples may be generated from the computation data. A micro-architectural leakage map of the core may be generated from the linear combination samples within the table. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004289 | TERMINAL DEVICE FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed are a terminal device and a method for controlling the terminal device that can reduce power consumption. The disclosed terminal device includes: a response time establisher unit which establishes a response time of an interactive application executed on the terminal device, with a frequency of a processor within the terminal device and a priority value of the interactive application as variables; a frequency determiner unit which determines the frequency of the processor based on a default priority value such that the response time does not exceed a preset response time threshold; a priority value determiner unit which determines the priority value based on the determined frequency such that the response time does not exceed the response time threshold; and an executor unit which runs the interactive application based on the determined frequency and the determined priority value. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004290 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING ENERGY USAGE IN BUILDINGS - A method and system for managing energy usage in a building is provided. The method includes collecting data on energy consumption in the building on a generally continuous basis for at least a given time period. Information relating to the energy consumption is displayed to a user on one or more devices. The information includes (a) the data collected on energy consumption to be displayed in real-time on the one or more devices, (b) a comparison of the data collected on energy consumption in the building to energy consumption data of a cohort or group of cohorts, (c) recommendations for reducing energy consumption in the building based on the data collected on energy consumption, and (d) progress report data comparing the data collected on energy consumption to a desired consumption level. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004291 | User Level Control Of Power Management Policies - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having a core and a power controller to control power management features of the processor. The power controller can receive an energy performance bias (EPB) value from the core and access a power-performance tuning table based on the value. Using information from the table, at least one setting of a power management feature can be updated. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004292 | MICROCONTROLLER WITH MULTIPLE POWER MODES - A microcontroller operable in a high power mode and a low power unit (LPU) run mode includes primary and LPU domains, primary and LPU mode controllers, and primary and LPU clock generator modules. The primary domain includes a first set of circuits and a first set of cores. The LPU domain includes second and third sets of circuits, a second set of cores, and a switching module. In the high power mode, the switching module connects the first and second sets of cores to at least one of the first, second and third sets of circuits, while in the LPU run mode, the switching module isolates the LPU domain from the primary domain and activates a small microcontroller system (SMS) that includes the LPU domain, the LPU mode controller and the LPU clock generator module. The SMS has further low power modes within the LPU run mode. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004293 | DISPLAY DRIVING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a display driving apparatus for updating information displayed on a display of an electronic device, an electronic device including the same, and a method for driving the display using the same. A display driving apparatus includes a driving controller configured to receive promotion setting information from a device controller of an electronic device and drive the display according to the received promotion setting information independently of the device controller. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004294 | DEVICE POWER CONTROL - In various embodiments and/or usage scenarios, device power control, such as relating to one or more power control commands, requests to transition operation to a specific power mode, and/or device power management commands, is advantageous and improves one or more of: performance, reliability, unit cost, and development cost of one or more devices, such as storage devices (e.g. a Solid-State Disk (SSD)) or systems including same. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004295 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus includes first and second information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus has a first power mode and a second power mode in which electric power consumption is smaller than in the first power mode. The second information processing apparatus is capable of communicating with the first information processing apparatus and an external apparatus via a network. Definition information including identification information identifying a packet received via the network and process information indicating a process to be performed on the packet is received at least from one of the first information processing apparatus and the external apparatus. If a packet is received from the external apparatus in the second power mode, the packet is analyzed to identify definition information corresponding to the packet based on the identification information. A process is performed according to the process information included in the definition information. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004296 | AUTONOMOUS C-STATE ALGORITHM AND COMPUTATIONAL ENGINE ALIGNMENT FOR IMPROVED PROCESSOR POWER EFFICIENCY - Methods and apparatus relating to autonomous C state mechanism and computational engine alignment for improved processor power efficiency are described. An embodiment determines whether a semiconductor package should enter a package C state based on energy consumption values for entry into and exit from the package C state, an amount of time the semiconductor package stayed in the package C state previously, and one or more breakeven time points between the various package C states. Another embodiment detects a delay by an imaging computational unit of a processor to enter a low power consumption state relative to one or more other computational units of the processor. The logic causes the imaging computational unit to enter the low power consumption state in response to detection of the delay. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004297 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An energy management system includes an instruction unit ( | 2016-01-07 |
20160004298 | Chemical Compositon And Its Devlivery For Lowering The Risks Of Alzheimer's Cardiovascular And Type -2 Diabetes Diseases - Chemical compositions of bioactive compounds and/or bioactive molecules for lowering the risks of Alzheimer's, Cardiovascular and Diabetes diseases are described. Targeted, passive and programmable/active deliveries of the bioactive compounds and/or bioactive molecules are described. Many embodiments of various subsystems for detection of disease specific biomarkers/an array of disease specific biomarkers and programmable/active delivery of the bioactive compounds and/or bioactive molecules in near real-time/real-time are also described. A portable internet appliance, a portable internet cloud appliance and an augmented reality personal assistant subsystem are also described along with various applications. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004299 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING, VERIFYING AND ADJUSTING THE AFFECTIVE STATE OF A USER - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, devices and methods for assessing, verifying and adjusting the affective state of a user. An electronic communication is received in a computer terminal from a user. The communication may be a verbal, visual and/or biometric communication. The electronic communication may be assigned at least weighted descriptive value and a weighted time value which are used to calculate a current affective state of the user. Optionally, the computer terminal may be triggered to interact with the user to verify the current affective state if the current affective state is ambiguous. The optional interaction may continue until the current affective state is achieved. Next, the computer terminal may be triggered to interact with the user to adjust the current affective state upon a determination that the current affective state is outside an acceptable range from a pre-defined affective state. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004300 | System, Method, Device and Computer Readable Medium for Use with Virtual Environments - According to the invention, there is disclosed a system, method, device and computer readable medium for a user to interact with objects in a virtual environment. The invention includes a gesture controller, associated with an aspect of the user, and operative to generate spatial data corresponding to the position of the aspect of the user. A mobile device processor is operative to receive the spatial data of the gesture controller and to automatically process the spatial data to generate a spatial representation in the virtual environment corresponding to the position of the aspect of the user. Thus, the invention is operative to facilitate the user interacting with the objects in the virtual environment using the spatial representation of the gesture controller based on the position of the aspect of the user. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004301 | CONTEXTUAL USER INTERFACE - Embodiments of the present invention analyze a context in which a user interacts with a computer interface and automatically optimizes the interface for the context. The controller or control mode the user selects for interaction may define the context, in part. Examples of control modes include gesturing, audio control, use of companion devices, and use of dedicated control devices, such as game controllers and remote controls. The different input devices are designed for different tasks. Nevertheless, a user will frequently attempt to perform a task using a control input that is not adapted for the task. Embodiments of the present invention change the characteristics of the user interface to make it easier for the user to complete an intended task using the input device of the user's choice. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004302 | Eye Contact During Video Conferencing - In one embodiment, a video-conferencing terminal has a monitor; a non-visible-light (e.g., IR) camera configured to generate an eye-contact non-visible-light (e.g., IR) image of a video-conference participant; one or more visible-light cameras, each configured to generate a non-eye-contact visible-light image of the participant; and a mirror positioned in front of the monitor and configured to (i) transmit visible light from the monitor towards the participant and (ii) reflect non-visible light from the participant towards the non-visible-light camera. The terminal (1) generates an eye-contact visible-light image from the eye-contact non-visible-light image and the one or more non-eye-contact visible-light images and (2) transmits the eye-contact visible-light image to a remotely located video-conferencing terminal. The eye-contact visible-light image is generated using pattern matching and color mapping processing that may be less complex than the stereoscopic analysis and image rotation processing of the prior art. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004303 | EYE GAZE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An eye gaze tracking system is disclosed. The system includes a gaze data acquisition system including a plurality of light sources and a plurality of image sensors. The plurality of light sources are arranged to emit light to a head of the user, and the plurality of image sensors are configured to receive the light. In an embodiment, the system further includes a gaze tracking module including an ocular feature extraction module, a point of regard (POR) calculation module and a POR averaging module. The ocular feature extraction module is configured to process the gaze data and to extract ocular features, and is configured to determine a confidence value associated with an accuracy of the parameters. The POR calculation module is configured to determine a POR from the ocular features. The POR averaging module is configured to determine an average POR. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004304 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment includes: at least one sensor; a display unit; and a host processor receiving data detected by the sensor and processing image data of which a display is changed according to the data. The display unit includes: a display panel displaying the image according to the image data; and a local processor receiving the data detected by the sensor and controlling the display panel by using the data without intervention of the host processor. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004305 | Method and Apparatus for Construction Machine Visualization - A system for displaying information to an operator of a machine comprises a head tracking system and a projection system. One system for displaying information uses a projection system and a see-through display to present two-dimensional images to an operator. One system uses a projection system and a see-through display to present three-dimensional images to an operator. One system uses a pair of smart glasses to display information to a user based a direction a user is looking. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004306 | EYE-WEARABLE DEVICE USER INTERFACE AND AUGMENTED REALITY METHOD - A software controlled user interface and method for a head-mountable device equipped with at least one display or connectivity to at least one touch pad. The method can scale between displaying a small to large number of different eye gaze target symbols at any given time, yet still transmit a large array of different symbols to outside devices. At least part of the method may be implemented by way of a virtual window onto the surface of a virtual cylinder, with touchpad or eye gaze sensitive symbols that can be rotated by touchpad touch or eye gaze thus bringing various groups of symbols into view, and then selected. Specific examples of use of this interface and method on a head-mountable device are disclosed, along with various operation examples including transmitting data including text, functionality in virtual or augmented reality, control of robotic devices and control of remote vehicles. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004307 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, a display, a detection unit, and a controller. The imaging unit is configured to capture an image to acquire a captured image. The imaging unit is configured to capture an image to acquire a captured image. The display has a display surface that faces in the same direction as an imaging direction of the imaging unit. The detection unit is configured to perform imaging processing on the captured image to detect an opening degree of eye of a user in the captured image. The controller is configured to control a presentation of the display based on a result of the detection by the detection unit. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004308 | Systems and Methods for Surface Elements that Provide Electrostatic Haptic Effects - One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a processor configured to determine an electrostatic force (ESF)-based haptic effect and transmit a haptic signal associated with the ESF-based haptic effect. The illustrative system also includes an ESF controller in communication with the processor, the ESF controller configured to receive the haptic signal, determine an ESF signal based at least in part on the haptic signal, and transmit the ESF signal. The illustrative system further includes a surface configured to contact a user, and an ESF device coupled to the surface and in communication with the ESF controller, the ESF device configured to receive the ESF signal and output the ESF-based haptic effect on the surface. | 2016-01-07 |
20160004309 | Systems and Methods for Multi-Output Electrostatic Haptic Effects - One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a processor configured to determine a haptic effect, wherein the haptic effect includes a static ESF effect or a confirmation ESF effect; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The illustrative system also includes an ESF controller in communication with the processor, the ESF controller configured to receive the haptic signal, determine an ESF signal based at least in part on the haptic signal, and transmit the ESF signal. The illustrative system further includes an ESF device in communication with the ESF controller, the ESF device including an ESF cell and configured to receive the ESF signal and output the haptic effect. | 2016-01-07 |