Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120191454 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Statistical Data from a Conversation - A system is described to monitor various parameters of a conversation, for example distinguishing voices in a conversation and reporting who in the group is violating the proper etiquette rules of conversation. These results would indicate any disruptive individuals in a conversation. So they are identified, monitored, trained to prevent further disturbances, and their etiquette is improved to prevent further disturbances. Some of the functions the system can perform include: report the identity of the voices, report how long one has spoken, report how often one interrupts, report how often one raises their voice, count the occurrences of obscenities and determine length of silences. The system, in addition, can provide meaning of words, send email, identify fast talkers, train to reduce the volume of a voice, provide a period of time to a voice, beep after someone uses a profanity, request a voice to speak up, provide grammatical corrections, provide text copies of conversation, and eliminate background noises. | 07-26-2012 |
20130166191 | Method and Apparatus of Physically Moving a Portable Unit to View an Image of a Stationary Map - A background map remains stationary relative to a portable unit while the portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130328939 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PHYSICALLY MOVING A PORTABLE UNIT TO VIEW AN IMAGE OF A STATIONARY MAP - A background map remains stationary while a portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20140092129 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PHYSICALLY MOVING A PORTABLE UNIT TO VIEW AN IMAGE OF A STATIONARY MAP - A background map remains stationary while a portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit. | 04-03-2014 |
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20090149038 | FORMING EDGE METALLIC CONTACTS AND USING COULOMB FORCES TO IMPROVE OHMIC CONTACT - Vertical metallic contacts are provided along the edge of a plurality of substrates. The vertical metallic contact can range in area and large area contacts can be formed by layering metal traces with vias. The traces and vias should be placed near an edge of a substrate. An etch of the edge exposes the vertical metallic contact. Coulomb forces are used to attract the edge of two substrates together to establish a physical connection of the vertical metallic contacts. A shearing force can be applied to the common surface of the physical connection by using lateral Coulomb forces to break through any oxide layer. Finally, a corner substrate provides a metallic connection between an edge of a substrate and the circuitry in a planar surface of the substrate. Coulomb islands are used to generate the Coulomb forces. | 06-11-2009 |
20120189129 | Apparatus for Aiding and Informing a User - An apparatus is described that allows the user to interact with an electronic system, such as a music player, and notifies when a potentially dangerous situation may be occurring in the immediate vicinity of the user. This is particularly important when the user is listening to music using a loud volume setting thereby making the user oblivious to the any dangerous conditions surrounding them, for example, a car beeping at an intersection. The apparatus monitors the surrounding environment while the user is listening to their music and interrupts the user's interaction with the music player and redirects the user's attention to the audio of the newly determined potentially dangerous situation. The user decides on the urgency of this situation, decides what needs to be done, and responds as they see fit. | 07-26-2012 |
20120189155 | Apparatus for Electrically Coupling Contacts by Magnetic Forces - A system is described that consists of components that are magnetically and electronically coupled together. The electronic coupling allows signals and power/ground to couple between the various components. The magnetic coupling allows the portable system to come apart without damaging the components when an element of a component gets unexpectedly snagged after passing an obstacle. The components can be easily collected and reassembled to reconstruct the system. Furthermore, the positioning of the magnets in the magnetic coupling provides a lock and key combination in that the pattern and anti-pattern between mating surface couplings can be designed to only allow one orientation when the units are coupled. This restriction in orientation prevents the power leads from shorting to ground or other signal leads during the reassembly thereby preventing damage to the system. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191454 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Statistical Data from a Conversation - A system is described to monitor various parameters of a conversation, for example distinguishing voices in a conversation and reporting who in the group is violating the proper etiquette rules of conversation. These results would indicate any disruptive individuals in a conversation. So they are identified, monitored, trained to prevent further disturbances, and their etiquette is improved to prevent further disturbances. Some of the functions the system can perform include: report the identity of the voices, report how long one has spoken, report how often one interrupts, report how often one raises their voice, count the occurrences of obscenities and determine length of silences. The system, in addition, can provide meaning of words, send email, identify fast talkers, train to reduce the volume of a voice, provide a period of time to a voice, beep after someone uses a profanity, request a voice to speak up, provide grammatical corrections, provide text copies of conversation, and eliminate background noises. | 07-26-2012 |
20120295239 | Apparatus and Method to Improve Toddler's Steps and Mobility - An apparatus is described that allows a table to be turned upside down so that a toddler can use the upright legs as grips and the horizontal cross support beams as obstacles to master the art of stepping over this obstacle height of the cross support beams. Once the art of stepping is mastered, the table is flipped upright to function as a table again. Several adjustments are added to a table so that the height of the cross support beams and length of the legs can be adjusted to provide a range of mastering possibilities when in the upside down position. When flipped upright, the surface of the table can have adjustable to have uniform height or a top that slants. | 11-22-2012 |
20130162626 | Method and Apparatus of a Marking Objects in Images Displayed on a Portable Unit - Location markers are placed on objects presented on a display screen. The location markers can be letters, numbers, or shapes placed near the desired objects to be viewed. After magnification, those earlier determined location markers of the display screen are located off-screen. However, arrows are labeled and point to the off-screen markers. The user moves the background image in the direction of the arrow to find that object. This innovative technique allows the user to mark locations, magnify the image of the map, and find all marked locations (without reverting to a lower magnification) by following pointers that direct the user to locations that are currently out of view of the screen. Furthermore, the user can find all marked locations without getting lost. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162627 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying a 3-D Object from a 2-D Display of a Portable Unit - A background map remains stationary relative to a portable unit while the portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit allowing the user to assess the relative distance between a source location and a destination. In addition, the orientation or movement at an angle that provides further information about the content of the image. A stationary three dimensional (3-D) background image can be viewed by moving the handheld unit within the 3-D space. The map would be three dimensional and would correspond in scale to the two axes displayed on the screen of the portable unit while the third dimensional or axis can be viewed by moving the device perpendicular to the plane of the screen of the portable device forming a rectangular cuboid. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166191 | Method and Apparatus of Physically Moving a Portable Unit to View an Image of a Stationary Map - A background map remains stationary relative to a portable unit while the portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167014 | Method and Apparatus of Physically Moving a Portable Unit to View Composite Webpages of Different Websites - A composite webpage contains several webpages coupled together appearing as a separate image. Demarcation lines are used to isolate the boundaries of the edges of each individual webpage. The demarcation lines form block-like geometry. Each block contains one webpage. As the user moves the portable unit, the background composite webpage slides across the screen of the portable device. To the user, the background composite webpage appears stationary as if the screen of the portable unit is transparent. These features are advantageous to social websites, ease of portable device use, in the visitation of websites and email servers. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130204860 | Apparatus and Method for Comparing and Statistically Extracting Commonalities and Differences Between Different Websites - The statistics from a reference page serves as a seed to compare the selected page statistics between other webpages. The statistics of all results can be graphically displayed, if desired, in a display or popup window. These results can be analyzed for the determination of a category so an appropriate search expression or a statistical mask can be developed. In addition, statistics of several pages and compare and analyze the results for search term commonality. This step determine how strongly tied the scanned data content of two different webpages are to each other. These results can be analyzed against each other to generate common search terms, a final histogram, and how this histogram compares to the reference histogram. The search expression term can be a Boolean expression or a statistical mask. The statistical mask is used as a seed to start another search moving closer to the final target or desire goal. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205004 | Apparatus and Method to Retrieve and Store Link Results for Later Viewing - The system, a link monitor and predictor unit, monitors the user's habits, interests, attention span, etc. and analyzes the user's interest in a continuous fashion to determine the user's profile. This occurs in the background without the user's knowledge. The system automatically scans and updates the user's recently opened websites. The profile will contain the habitual websites and/or any particular categories that the user tends to view. These are the links that the system automatically downloads when the user is active looking at another website or performing some other function. The habitual system reads the user's profile and provides background instructions to the PC to start uploading the local memory (cache) with the specified website content. Then, when the user requests one of these links, it is readily available. | 08-08-2013 |
20130250100 | Method And Apparatus For Powering Components - A power saving system comprising a visual monitoring system locating a user, a first end of a link coupled to a first transceiver, a second end of the link coupled to a second transceiver, a component coupled to the first transceiver and the visual monitoring system locates the user being beyond a distance to access the component, whereby the link is deactivated and an overall power usage of the link is minimized. The link is activated when the visual monitoring system locates the user being within the distance to access the component. | 09-26-2013 |
20130328939 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PHYSICALLY MOVING A PORTABLE UNIT TO VIEW AN IMAGE OF A STATIONARY MAP - A background map remains stationary while a portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20140024328 | Method and Apparatus for the Alignment of a 60 GHz Endfire Antenna - A portable unit with an endfire antenna and operating at 60 GHz makes an optimum communication channel with an endfire antenna in an array of antennas distributed over the area of a ceiling. The portable unit is pointed towards the ceiling and the system controlling the ceiling units selects and adjusts the positioning of an endfire antenna mounted on a 3-D adjustable rotatable unit. Several transceivers can be mounted together, offset from one another, to provide a wide coverage in both azimuth direction and elevation direction. These units can be rigidly mounted as an array in a ceiling apparatus. The system controlling the ceiling array selects one of the transceivers in one of the units to make the optimum communication channel to the portable unit. The system includes the integration of power management features by switching between Wi-Fi in favor of the 60 GHz channel. | 01-23-2014 |
20140086140 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF A CONFIGURABLE NETWORK - A mobile device which is moved within this network can stay connected to the network. The net work routes signals horn client to client and from the internet to client using transceivers. The transceivers in the relay can be a software radio and can be software controlled. Streams of bits are transferred from a source to a destination in a wireless network. Portions of these streams of bits can be transferred between these software radios to distribute signals in the network In addition, servers can be located within the network to provide local and immediate high bandwidth information. As the bandwidth increases, the range of the wireless signal typically decreases. Thus, inserting relays or multiple transceivers can be used to maintain high bandwidth coverage over a large networking range, | 03-27-2014 |
20140092129 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PHYSICALLY MOVING A PORTABLE UNIT TO VIEW AN IMAGE OF A STATIONARY MAP - A background map remains stationary while a portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit. | 04-03-2014 |
20140100084 | Apparatus and Method to Improve Toddler's Steps and Mobility - An apparatus which can be operated in one of two modes. The apparatus has a plurality of legs, a processor, at least one electronic motor controlled by the processor, a plurality of mechanical gears coupled to the at least one electronic motor, the plurality of mechanical gears are configured to adjust a length of the at least one leg wherein a point on a surface of the apparatus can be adjusted in height. The plurality of legs can be adjusted in length to slant the surface of the apparatus at an angle or to vary a height of the surface of the apparatus. The two modes may include an upside down mode wherein the apparatus is configured to operate as a toddler gym or a right side up mode where the apparatus is configured to operates as the table. | 04-10-2014 |
20140330562 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Information from the Web - An intelligent conversation system augmenting a conversation between two or more individuals uses a speech to text block configured to convert voices of the conversation into text, a determination circuit configured to determine topics from the text of the conversation, search parameters determined by the determination circuit from the topics are sent to an Internet, search results corresponding to the search parameters are received from the Internet; and a memory configured to store the search results received from the Internet. The speech to text block is configured to convert the search results to speech. An earphone is configured to transmit the speech to one of the two or more individuals. The speech is used by one of the individuals to augment the conversation. | 11-06-2014 |
20140375539 | Method and Apparatus for a Virtual Keyboard Plane - Two cameras forming a 3-D camera system are used to project the key pattern of the plane from the displayed keyboard of a small display of a smartphone to that of a larger initialization plane of a virtual keyboard which is displaced in a parallel plane and increased in size from the displayed keyboard plane. The displayed keyboard is located on a screen of the display screen of the smartphone. The angular variation of the finger's position from the displayed keyboard plane based on the camera image indicates the keyboard character being depressed. Plenoptic cameras can also be used. The displacement distance or baseline of the plenoptic cameras is advantageous to increase. Highlighting the keys on the displayed keyboard when the fingers are in the initialization plane or activation plane of a virtual keyboard either by color, shading, or any other visual means provides positive feedback to the user. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375771 | Method and Apparatus for an Attachable Unit for a Portable Wireless System - Separable units comprising plenoptic cameras and eye ports can be attached to either the smart phone or to the eyeglasses by a mating surface. These separable units can be wireless coupled to a remote device, to a remote display, to other separable plenoptic cameras, or to other eyeglasses. The separable units can be mated to an eyeglass and positioned over the eye or eyes of the user. In addition, these separable cameras can be electrically wired through the mating device. The cameras can be placed at various distances apart from another offers greater flexibility in analyzing the depth of images. These images from these cameras are shared within the system. The smart phone can be in wireless contact with a remote system comprising another server, the Internet, another smart phone, another camera system, or the camera mounted on the eyeglass. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375772 | Method and Apparatus for an SR and LR 3-D Visual Images and Sharing - Long and short distance 3-D images can be shared between users. The first user takes an image or video of an object using a plenoptic camera. The user can focus the original image using the crystalline lens measuring unit to any POD automatically or manually adjust the focus using a far/near button. In addition, the user can send the original image to a second user or guest. The first and second users can perform a process to align their accommodation information versus the function of the POD. The first user can view the original image and their crystalline lens measuring unit can determine the POD being viewed setting the accommodation value or do so manually using the far/near button The accommodation value is sent to the second user who translates the first user's accommodation value into their accommodation value and observes the final image being perceived by the first user. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375788 | Method and Apparatus for a Self-Focusing Camera and Eyeglass System - An involuntary action adjusted by the accommodation of the crystalline lens of the eye provides the data to the embedded algorithm to get the new image. Instead of the user performing a voluntary action to control the embedded algorithm, an involuntary action by the user is used to control the embedded algorithm allowing the user to automatically adjust the Plane of Depth (POD) for a Light Field Photograph (LFP) image or an eyeglass image. The adjustment of eyeglass image is used by an accommodation system to control the mechanical system of lenses in an eyeglass to automatically focus the glasses over a range of PODs. In addition, a voluntary far/near button can be used manually to adjust the POD for both the LFP image and the eyeglass adjustment. The variation of the crystalline thickness to adjust the focus of nearby and distant objects is called accommodation. | 12-25-2014 |