Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130047824 | CUSTOMIZABLE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND USER INTERFACE - A customizable electronic musical instrument comprising a mounting frame for securing a plurality of user-installable electronic musical modules of various types including a type for generating at least one real-time control signal responsive to user operation, a type for generating audio signals, responsive to a real-time control signal, and a for processing audio signals responsive to at least one of a real-time control signal. The instrument can transmit electrical signals to an external system and can include internal sound amplification. The instrument can include one or more of a keyboard, touchpad, strumpad, impact sensor, slider control, expression wheel, joystick, ribbon controller, button, switch, pressure sensor, multiple-position selector, knob potentiometer, and music synthesizer elements. Signals may be routed among modules by a switch or bus. | 02-28-2013 |
20130096723 | ENERGY AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDINGS AND CAMPUSES - An elective and private incrementally deployed, incrementally modifiable, relatively inexpensive building control system that provides for a range of energy and environmental capabilities including room and building environment sensing (one or more of temperature, humidity, air quality, etc.), statistical processing software, modeling software, analysis software, information visualization software, decision support software, data logging, storage and recall, control, optimal control, and interfacing with existing building systems (HVAC, solar, valves, power systems, etc. The invention can be configured to include incremental or trial deployment of equipment and software; exploratory or special-purpose information gathering; analysis, modeling, or simulation of current, past, or ongoing energy usage, loss, or waste as well as air temperature and air quality distributions, impacts of changes to a building, facilities, policies, or operations; and design of optimal control for building operation. | 04-18-2013 |
20130141375 | GESTEME (GESTURE PRIMITIVE) RECOGNITION FOR ADVANCED TOUCH USER INTERFACES - This invention relates to signal space architectures for generalized gesture capture. Embodiments of the invention includes a gesture-primitive approach involving families of “gesteme” from which gestures can be constructed, recognized, and modulated via prosody operations. Gestemes can be associated with signals in a signal space. Prosody operations can include temporal execution modulation, shape modulation, and modulations of other aspects of gestures and gestemes. The approaches can be used for advanced touch user interfaces such as High-Dimensional Touch Pad (HDTP) in touchpad and touchscreen forms, video camera hand-gesture user interfaces, eye-tracking user interfaces, etc. | 06-06-2013 |
20130147743 | Spherical Touch Sensors and Signal/Power Architectures for Trackballs, Globes, Displays, and Other Applications - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a spherically-shaped user interface device comprising a tactile sensing arrangement for at least generating tactile sensing measurements in response to tactile input on a spherically-shaped surface and a processor for processing the tactile sensing measurements and producing user interface signals responsive to user touch. The tactile sensing can use capacitive or optical methods employing, for example a spherically-arranged array of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs). Employing high resolution and lensless imaging, the latter arrangement can provide a range of additional valuable functions, such as operation as a fingerprint sensor. lensless camera, and 3-space hand gesture detector. The device can be used as a trackball, interactive globe, and many other applications. | 06-13-2013 |
20130211553 | ADAPTIVE MULTI-LEVEL CONTROL FOR VARIABLE-HIERARCHY-STRUCTURE HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS - A hierarchical multiple-level control system approach comprising subsystems, each with their own control system, that can operate in isolation but—when interconnected or networked with additional subsystems associated with other hierarchical levels, assume their respective role in a hierarchy. Applications of the implementation include, for example, hierarchical cooling and energy harvesting systems for data centers and other applications wherein various elements in the hierarchy can be introduced and/or removed in arbitrary order. Additional applications of the implementation include networked high-reliability control systems, robotics systems, networked sensor systems, adaptive communications networks, high-reliability communications networks, and command-and-control applications. Provisions are included in the hierarchical and/or subsystem control systems for model-based control, Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers, fractional order controllers, saturation compensators, hysteretic controllers, sliding mode controllers, and other approaches. The dynamics within various subsystems can comprise or be structured as linear systems, bilinear systems, nonlinear systems, hysteretic systems, time-delay systems, fractional order systems, etc. | 08-15-2013 |
20130213812 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROFLUIDIC MICRO-DROPLET ARRAYS FOR ELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND COMPONENT COOLING, ENERGY-HARVESTING, CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL MICROREACTORS, MINIATURE BIOREACTORS, AND OTHER APPLICATIONS - A microfluidic transport system for transporting microdroplets in three spatial dimensions. In an example arrangement, a first planar arrangement for transporting microdroplets in two spatial dimensions responsive to electric fields created by electrical operation of electrodes is fluidically connected by one or more conduits to other planar arrangement for transporting microdroplets in two spatial dimensions responsive to electric fields created by electrical operation of electrodes. Microdroplets can be transported through the one or more conduits so as to be moved among the first and second planar arrangements. | 08-22-2013 |
20140092229 | SMALL-PROFILE LENSLESS OPTICAL MICROSCOPY IMAGING AND TOMOGRAPHY INSTRUMENTS AND ELEMENTS FOR LOW COST AND INTEGRATED MICROSCOPY - Arrangements for small-sized, inexpensive, and innovative lensless and other micro-optic microscopy imaging and tomography are presented. An imaging region comprising flat or curved surfaces is provided with an illumination source proximate to the imaging region or arranged for collimated illumination. Light travels through the imaging region and produces a resulting light field affected by objects, materials, fluids, organisms, etc. in the light path and is presented to an image sensing surface proximate to the imaging region, responsively creating electrical image signals. The illumination surface can be light emitting elements such as LEDs, OLEDs, or OLET whose illumination can be sequenced in an image formation or tomography process. Light-emission and light detection elements can be printed, permitting extremely low-cost manufacturing and readily accommodating imaging regions having curved shapes. Applications include laboratory instruments, micro-arrays, microplates, flow microscopes, cytometry systems, environmental and contamination monitoring systems, industrial monitoring instruments, food safety systems, and implants. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098068 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE CLOSED-FORM SINGLE-SCAN CALCULATION OF OBLONG-SHAPE ROTATION ANGLES FROM OPTICAL IMAGE DATA OF ARBITRARY SIZE AND LOCATION FOR USER INTERFACE APPLICATIONS - A method and system for calculating oblong-shape rotation angles from optical image data of arbitrary size for user interface applications is described without the need of eigenvector routines and storage of the image data. The oblong shape may be of arbitrary size and location and need not be precisely elliptical. A few running sums are calculated and stored throughout each scan, and the results are obtained in closed form by simple post-scan computation. An algorithmic embodiment can execute on one or more hardware processors with limited or otherwise constrained computation power, available instruction cycles, available memory, etc. Hardware processors may CPUs found in desktops, laptops, tablets, or handheld computing devices. The resulting arrangement may be used for touch or optical user interfaces and other purposes. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098279 | LENSLESS IMAGING CAMERA PERFORMING IMAGE FORMATION IN SOFTWARE AND EMPLOYING MICRO-OPTIC LAYERS THAT IMPOSE LIGHT DIFFRACTIONS - An approach is presented for a lensless imaging camera wherein image formation is implemented in software image processing operations rather than by means of a lens. The image formation operations are coordinated with an array of micro-optical elements that impose light diffraction. The array of micro-optical elements can comprise one or more micro-optic layers, and micro-optic layers can be configured so that different portions of the micro-optic layer affect light in different ways. The image formation operation can include deconvolution based on an impulse response determined by the array of micro-optical elements which can be configured to produce a desired spatial light intensity pattern on the array of photosensors so as to optimize detection characteristics. The image formation operation can comprise include frequency-domain division operations, and the system can be configured to avoid division by zero values of the frequency-domain impulse response of the array of micro-optical elements. | 04-10-2014 |
20140104219 | SENSOR ARRAY TOUCHSCREEN RECOGNIZING TOUCH GESTURES - Touchscreen user interfaces for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments with touch gestures. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touchscreen can be realized with a transparent touch sensor array positioned over a visual display. Dynamically assigned labels can be provided by the visual display. Multitouch capabilities can be included that are responsive to additional contact, for example by other parts of a user hand. Displayed visual content, including visual content selection, motion, and sizing, can be controlled by finger flicks and other touch gestures. Finger movement trajectories can be tracked, and pluralities of control parameters can be associated with each gesture. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104220 | SENSOR ARRAY TOUCHSCREEN RECOGNIZING FINGER FLICK GESTURE - Touchscreen user interfaces configured to detect a finger flick touch gesture for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touchscreen can be realized with a transparent touch sensor array positioned over a visual display. Dynamically assigned labels can be provided by the visual display. Multitouch capabilities can be included that are responsive to additional contact, for example by other parts of a user hand. Displayed visual content, including visual content selection, motion, and sizing, can be controlled by a finger flick gesture. Finger movement trajectories can be tracked, and pluralities of control parameters can be associated with the finger flick gesture. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104475 | LENSLESS IMAGING CAMERA PERFORMING IMAGE FORMATION IN SOFTWARE EMPLOYING MICRO-OPTIC ELEMENTS CREATING OVERLAP OF LIGHT FROM DISTANT SOURCES OVER MULTIPLE PHOTOSENSOR ELEMENTS - A lensless camera with image formation performed by image processing software rather than by lens. Image formation operations are coordinated with a micro-optical element array that can comprise apertures, micro-optic layers, etc. configured so light received from a distant source overlaps onto multiple photosensors. Algorithms for image formation are determined by pixel overlap functions resulting from micro-optic elements directing light to a photosensor array, and can include deconvolution, edge-effect handling, decimation, and interpolation. Image formation operations can comprise frequency-domain operations or other approaches. The micro-optical element array can be configured to produce a spatial light pattern on the photosensor array with optimized detection characteristics. Light-detecting photosensors can comprise elements capable of light emission, for example organic materials with electroluminescent properties. The camera can be implemented or integrated upon any one of a wide variety of surfaces or substrates. Fabrication can employ techniques from semiconductor processing and flat panel display manufacturing. | 04-17-2014 |
20140109025 | HIGH PARAMETER-COUNT TOUCH-PAD CONTROLLER - An apparatus including a touch user interface device including a sensor array configured to sense spatial information associated with one or more contiguous regions of contact and a processing device in communication with the touch user interface device configured to discern a first contiguous region of contact corresponding to a first finger from the one or more contiguous regions of contact, determine a first spatial distribution profile of the first contiguous region at a first time, determine a second spatial distribution profile of the first contiguous region at a second time, analyze a shape variation of the second spatial distribution profile in comparison to the first spatial distribution profile to determine a rotational movement of the first finger, generate a control signal in response to the detected rotational movement. | 04-17-2014 |
20140109753 | MODULAR APPROACH TO LARGE STRING ARRAY ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS SPECIALIZED HARPS, ZITHERS, SYMPATHETIC STRING ARRAYS, PARTCH KITHARA AND HARMONIC CANNON - A modular approach to large string array electronic musical instruments such as specialized harps, zithers, sympathetic string arrays, the Harry Partch Kithara, the Harry Partch Harmonic Cannon, and other large string array electronic musical instruments is presented. | 04-24-2014 |
20140129196 | SPLIT, BREAK, SUBSTITUTE, AND FRAGMENT-SPLICE OPERATIONS FOR COMPUTER MODELS OF ENZYME CASCADES, METABOLIC SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION, SIGNALING PATHWAYS, CATALYTIC CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS, AND IMMUNOLOGY - Computer utilities for adapting data and properties of computer modeled biochemical pathways for use in a modified form. Utilities can be provided for split, break, substitute, and fragment-splice operations are presented for computer models of enzyme cascades, metabolic signal transduction, signaling pathways, catalytic chemical reaction networks, and immunology. Substitution operations can be used in situations where a specific portion of a modeled biochemical pathway is identified and replaced with an alternate topologically-compatible portion of a modeled biochemical pathway. Split/break operations can be used to break a modeled biochemical pathway into two or more fragments. Splice operations can be used to splice fragments obtained from previous editing operations. These and other operations can be used to introduce a new node or pathway hop in a step in a modeled biochemical pathway. The invention provides for resultant modeled biochemical pathway to comprise added feedback, feedforward, allosteric and/or non-allosteric modulation attributes and components. | 05-08-2014 |
20140132548 | TOUCH SCREEN WITH DISPLAY AND SENSOR ARRAY IN CONTACT WITH THE DISPLAY - Touch screen user interfaces for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments with touch gestures. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touch screen can be realized with a touchscreen having a touch sensor array in physical contact with a visual display. Implementations can include a touch screen having a transparent sensor array in physical contact with a visual display to form a touch screen configured to process a touch on the touch screen. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132549 | SENSOR ARRAY TOUCHSCREEN RECOGNIZING FINGER FLICK GESTURE FROM SPATIAL PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION PROFILES - Touch screen user interfaces configured to detect a touch gesture for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touch screen can be realized with a transparent touch sensor array positioned over a visual display. The touch screen can be configured to measure a spatial pressure distribution profile from a touch on the touch screen and recognize gestures based on dynamics among spatial pressure distribution profiles. In an example implementation, the gesture recognition may rely solely on dynamics of shape differences between hand contact patterns and omit the use of pressure, as the shape of the spatial pressure distribution profile does not vary much by pressure. | 05-15-2014 |
20140150629 | JOINT AND COORDINATED VISUAL-SONIC METAPHORS FOR INTERACTIVE MULTI-CHANNEL DATA SONIFICATION TO ACCOMPANY DATA VISUALIZATION - Data sonification arrangements for use with data visualization so as to provide parallel perceptual channels for representing complex numerical data to a user seeking to identify correlations within the data are presented. In an implementation, several varying data quantities are represented by time-varying graphics while several other varying data quantities are represented by time-varying sound, both presented to a user to observe correlations between sonic and visual events or trends. Sonification can be used to offload some information-carrying information capacity from a visualization system, while other information can be rendered via both sonification and visualization to provide affirming or orienting redundancy. In an implementation joint and coordinated visual-sonic metaphors are used for this or other purposes. For example, data sonification can include multiple data-modulated sound timbre classes, each rendered within a stereo sound field according to a spatial metaphor that is shared with the visualization. | 06-05-2014 |
20140163702 | CROSS-FEEDBACK-CONTROLLED HYSTERON SYNTHESIZED HYSTERESIS NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, CONTROLLERS, MUSIC, AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS IN PHYSICS, ENGINEERING, AND ECONOMICS - A method for synthesis of an advanced hysteresis function of a plurality of inputs providing cross-feedback-controlled hysteron synthesized hysteresis networks for signal processing, controllers, music, and computer simulations in physics, engineering, and economics is described. The method includes receiving and processing of a plurality of input signals with at least two parameterized multivariable nonlinearities, each parameterized multivariable nonlinearity serving as a parameterized hysteron, to produce at least one associated output signal. The output signals are processed by controller functions, each controller function comprising memory and producing at least one control signal responsive to at least one of the output signals and for controlling an associated parameterized hysteron. The resulting system provides a hysteretic response to at least one of the plurality of input signals, and can be used in the modeling and nonlinear control of systems involving networks of gears, electrical transformers, economic processes, or other networked hysteretic elements. | 06-12-2014 |
20140176500 | PIECEWISE-LINEAR AND PIECEWISE-AFFINE SUBSPACE TRANSFORMATIONS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) OUTPUT DECOUPLING AND CORRECTIONS - Methods for piecewise-linear and piecewise-affine transformations parameter decoupling in High Dimensional Touchpad (HDTP) user touch interfaces including those with multitouch capabilities are described. A calculation chain provides a first-order calculation of a subset of a collection of touch parameters (including for example left-right, front-back, downward pressure, roll angle, pitch angle, yaw angle) responsive in real-time to user touch on a touch-responsive sensor array. A piecewise-affine transformation is applied to these first-order calculations to produce parameter decoupling. The piecewise-affine transformation can be structured to depend only on current numerical values from the first-order calculation. Alternatively, the piecewise-affine transformation can be structured to additionally depend on the positive or negative direction of change over time of at least one numerical value from the first-order calculation, thereby providing a correction for hysteresis effects. | 06-26-2014 |
20140193091 | CORRECTION OF OVER-FOCUS IN DIGITAL IMAGES USING CENTERED DISCRETE IMAGINARY-POWER FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS WITH HIGH-ACCURACY ORTHONORMAL EIGENVECTORS - A method for correcting overfocus of a digital image created from coherent imaging using centered fractional Fourier transforms or mathematical equivalents is described. A received image is presented to a numerical processor, and a first numerical value for an imaginary power variable is selected and used in an iterative algorithm, numerical procedure, system architecture, etc. A centered discrete fractional Fourier transform of an imaginary power and a phase restore operator associated are applied to the image file to produce a modified image. A change in mis-focused is determined and used in adjusting the specified imaginary power for a next iteration. | 07-10-2014 |
20140210786 | SENSOR ARRAY TOUCHSCREEN RECOGNIZING FINGER FLICK GESTURE FROM SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PROFILES - Touch screen user interfaces configured to detect a touch gesture for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touch screen can be realized with a transparent touch sensor array positioned over a visual display. The touch screen can be configured to measure a spatial distribution profile from a touch on the touch screen and recognize gestures based on dynamics among spatial pressure distribution profiles. In an example implementation, the gesture recognition may rely solely on dynamics of shape differences between hand contact patterns and omit the use of pressure, as the shape of the spatial distribution profile does not vary much by pressure. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211811 | HIERARCHICAL CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF POLICY, GOAL, AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT USING BOTH SERVICE-SPECIFIC AND NETWORK MONITOR OBSERVATIONS - A Unified Bandwidth Manager that functions as a multi-service bandwidth manager to interface with and hierarchically manage a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems for at least one associated network resource is described. The Unified Bandwidth Manager includes a hierarchical control structure, and an interface for providing observed information relevant to policy, goal, and observed resource usage to the hierarchical control structure. At least one service-specific observation element and at least one network monitor observation element provide observation information relating to network conditions imposed on and observed in the associated network resource. The hierarchical control structure is provided with a plurality of feedback inputs that are responsive to associated ongoing observation information from each of an associated observation reporting element. The hierarchical control structure uses the plurality of feedback inputs, together with policy information or goal information, to produce at least one element of outgoing control information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140267123 | WEARABLE GESTURE BASED CONTROL DEVICE - An apparatus and method for musical instruments with multiple vibrating elements where multiple-channel electronic signal handling and processing is used to produce diverse musical timbre, effects, and control. A plurality of vibrating elements are coupled, individually or in distinct possibly overlapping groups, to sense transducers which are in turn used to drive signal processors and/or vibration stimulating drive transducers. Sense transducer signals may be mixed prior to signal processing and signal processor outputs may be mixed prior to final system output. All mixing and signal processing can be controlled dynamically, and/or by pre-programming. The invention provides for drive transducers to be electromagnetic and/or piezo, for visual indicators (such as LEDs) to show the activity of each drive transducer, and for the drive transducers to be fed signals from an external source. The invention also provides for overtones in signals from sense transducers to be used to derive control signals for controlling synthesizers, lighting, signal processors, etc., for example via MIDI. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267670 | MOBILE MICROSCOPY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - A mobile microscopy apparatus usable in connection with a mobile computing device comprising a memory unit and camera, the mobile microscopy apparatus comprising: an illumination module for illuminating a removable media with an illuminating light, an image acquisition optics for creating an image of the sample for acquisition by the camera of the mobile computing device, and a mounting frame assembly for detachably mounting the illumination module and the image acquisition optics to the mobile computing device and for holding the removable media in a predetermined position. In various implementations, the illumination module may provide either backside or frontside illumination of the removable media using the light generated by a light source of the mobile computing device. The mobile microscopy apparatus may operate in the microscope configuration, visible colormatic microarray configuration, and/or fluorescent microarray configuration. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273045 | Modular Biochemical Signaling Laboratory Breadboard for Disease Research, Drug Discovery, Cell Biology, and Other Applications - A “breadboard” approach by which a biochemical signaling process, pathway, or network under study is separated or segmented into interconnected smaller portions, at least one of which can to a degree of approximation be accurately emulated with a replica microscale and/or nanoscale fluidic implementation whose constituent species can be closely controlled and at least one aspect of whose behavior can be measured. Control and measurement information interfaces with a computer that executes algorithms comprising one or more of a control process, control event-script, experiment, data recording, and mathematical model. A model can be used to simulate the actions, behavior, or other aspects of another portion of the biochemical signaling process, pathway, or network. Replica constituents can include enzymes, other proteins, lipids, ions, peptides, and other materials provided under controlled conditions and timing, as well as varying degrees of competitive species, drugs, environmental influences, and substitute or representative molecular crowding. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273191 | Cell Incubator and Cellular Culture Laboratory Test bed - A cell incubation system and methods for using a cell incubation system are described. The incubator system comprises an incubation compartment for receiving a microplate for processing samples. The microplate comprises a plurality of wells, each of the plurality of wells including a collection chamber, and a plurality of fluidic structures coupled to the plurality of wells. The microplate further comprises a plurality of sensors coupled to the plurality of wells. | 09-18-2014 |