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20090299500 | SYSTEM ON CHIP FOR DIGITAL CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC POWER DEVICES - An integrated digital controller for controlling power electronic devices and method of its use, comprises an analog-to-digital converting scanner module for scanning analog data inputs and used to create digital data correlated with the analog inputs, a loop control module operative to receive the digital data ad used for controlling at least one control loop, and a pulse sequence generator (PSG) module used for generating a variety of fast, configurable, event-driven pulse sequences in cooperation with the PSG and scanner modules. The controller comprises optionally a CPU for managing various tasks and coordinate between the modules, means to create the events, and means for configuration and reconfiguration on-the-fly. The controller is preferably integrated in a semiconductor chip. | 12-03-2009 |
20100052731 | MULTIPLE CHANNEL BALLAST AND NETWORKABLE TOPOLOGY AND SYSTEM INCLUDING POWER LINE CARRIER APPLICATIONS - Control systems and methods for independent control of power systems, particularly lighting network branches, and separate control of individual branch components. Multi-branch systems comprise independently controllable branches that inter-communicate via PLC communications. In each branch, components such as ballasts, local control units, sensors, actuators, and repeaters, may exchange commands and queries independently of a branch remote control unit (BRCU). Alternatively, a BRCU may manage or arbitrate communications, or interact with other BRCUs, other control units and external management systems. Ballasts include a multi-channel ballast that enables close-loop control of individual fixtures, or of individual dimmable or non-dimmable lamps within a fixture. The close-loop control is facilitated by sampling circuits/sensors co-located with each controlled fixture or lamp. All controllers are preferably implemented using an integrated digital controller. The PLC communication is preferably carried out by a direct spread spectrum method that eliminates side lobes from a cross-correlation function, using an anti-collision protocol. | 03-04-2010 |
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20120311050 | USER BROWSING EXPERIENCE - A method for automatically providing a computer application to a user connected to a network, based on the user's searching. A software agent embedded in the user's computer monitors message traffic between a browser and a network search server. The agent detects a search query from the browser to the search server as well as a search result from the search server. The agent reports search parameters to a designated network server, which selects an application relevant to the user's search and automatically installs the application title on the computer. The full application can also be installed for local execution. The application is launched upon installation and a popup window demonstrates the application to the user. An icon representing the application can also be automatically installed on a toolbar in the browser window, so the user can benefit from running the application even when not actively searching on the network. | 12-06-2012 |
20130304801 | User Browsing Experience - A method for automatically providing a computer application to a user connected to a network, based on the user's browsing patterns related to vertical markets. A software agent embedded in the user's computer monitors traffic between a browser and the network. The agent detects website access from the browser to the network as well as patterns related thereto. The agent reports browsing parameters to a designated network server, which selects an application relevant to the user's browsing patterns and automatically installs the application title on the computer. The full application can also be installed for local execution. The application is launched upon installation and a popup window demonstrates the application to the user. An icon representing the application can also be automatically installed on a toolbar in the browser window, so the user can benefit from running the application even when not actively browsing on the network. | 11-14-2013 |
20130331001 | Play System Representing a Character - Methods and apparatus for a play system representing a character, including multiple distinct physical play units for representing the same character simultaneously, while establishing and preserving the impression that, independent of the physical play units, the character itself has a genuine and unique existence of its own. The invention provides for this property of the play system by permitting only a single play unit to fully represent the dynamic components of the character at any given time. Enabled status can be reversibly transferred from one play unit to another by user command. | 12-12-2013 |
20140143650 | Coordinated Dual Display Screens - A method, system, and apparatus for coordinated presentation of web content on a handheld device having a portable display screen paired with a stationary device having a stationary display screen. If a pairing is detected, a visual channel component of web content video is automatically presented on the stationary device, while a text component is automatically presented on the handheld device. In addition, the visual channel is also blocked from presentation on the handheld device and/or the text component is also blocked from presentation on the stationary device. | 05-22-2014 |
20150100906 | Multiple-Mode Interface For Spatial Input Devices - Systems and methods for providing presentations of digital graphical objects which are optimized at the time of presentation according to the characteristics of the user's input device. A web page has the ability to present a graphical object in one of two alternative representations: The first representation is displayed on the screen of the user's computer when there is no control signal from an input device communicating with the computer, or if an input device communicating with the computer provides fewer than three degrees of freedom simultaneously for manipulating the graphical object. The second representation is displayed on the screen of the user's computer when there is an input device communicating with the computer which simultaneously provides three or more degrees of freedom for manipulating the graphical object. | 04-09-2015 |
20150156268 | Suggesting Topics For Social Conversation - A method and system for suggesting conversation topics to a participant in a social conversation. A conversation log is maintained for the participant, containing records of the times, durations, and parties of previous conversations. When the participant engages in a subsequent conversation with a party, the conversation log is searched to obtain the time of the most recent previous conversation with that party. Social media and other publications subsequent to that time are searched for subjects that can be presented to the participant as topics of conversation. In contrast to other schemes related to conversational topics, no voice analysis of the conversations is required. | 06-04-2015 |
20150234911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEAVING AND RETRIEVING SOCIAL TRACES - Methods and applications (apps) for capturing, storing, retrieving and presenting social traces, which are records of previous visits of friends and contacts of a user to specific locations. Both physical (geographical) and virtual (network) locations are supported. A user at a location may indicate that he or she would like to learn more about the location from a friend or acquaintance listed in the contact list of his or her personal computing device who has previously visited the location. At the user's request, a query is sent out to persons in the contact list, who are prompted to respond if the location appears in a log of their visited locations. A person who responds affirmatively will be automatically connected in a communication session with the inquiring user. Personal privacy is assured, because location and visitation records are kept under control of each user, and no information is sent out without explicit approval by the user. | 08-20-2015 |
20150281628 | WEARABLE ELECTRONIC ORNAMENT - A wearable electronic ornament has a manually-changeable skin and an electronic screen exhibiting a visual. When a user replaces the skin, the visual automatically changes to match the skin. Visuals are received from a store on the skin, a mobile device of the user, or a remote server, or can be generated by a camera of the mobile device. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090273669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CRITICAL DEFECTS - A system and method for evaluating a criticality of a defect. The method may include: obtaining information indicative of at least one spatial relationship between at least one inspected pattern of a layer of a micro-electronic device and an inspected defect; and determining a criticality of the detected defect in response to the obtained information and in response to at least one rule that associates between a criticality of a defect and a spatial relationship between the defect and at least one edge of at least one pattern of a layer of a micro-electronic device. | 11-05-2009 |
20100245566 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTION - Method and inspection system. The inspection system includes: (i) a stage, for supporting an inspected object and for moving the inspected object by a movement that is characterized by speed variations; (ii) a signal generator, for generating triggering pulses at a fixed frequency regardless of the speed variations; (iii) a stage location generator, for providing location information indicative of a location of the stage at points of time that are determined by the triggering pulses; (iv) a strobe illuminator for illuminating areas of the inspected object in response to the triggering pulses; (v) a camera for acquiring images of areas of the inspected object in response to the triggering pulses; wherein overlaps between the images of the areas of the inspected object are characterized by overlap variations; and (vi) a processor for associating location information to the acquired images. | 09-30-2010 |
20110096980 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CONTACT ELEMENTS - A method, system and a computer program product for evaluating contact elements, the method includes: acquiring images of multiple groups of contact elements, wherein each group of contact element was expected to be contacted during a test by the same group of probes so as to form multiple probe marks; and evaluating at least one characteristic of a first contact element in response to a comparison between a number of potential probe marks that appear in the image of a first contact element and a number of potential probe marks that appear in an image of a second contact element. | 04-28-2011 |
20110141267 | OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM USING MULTI-FACET IMAGING - An optical inspection system, the system includes: (i) an image sensor; and (ii) a single optical element, that at least partially surrounds an edge of an inspected object; wherein the optical element is adapted to direct light from different areas of the edge of the inspected object towards the image sensor so that the image sensor concurrently obtains images of the different areas. | 06-16-2011 |
20110199480 | OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM USING MULTI-FACET IMAGING - An optical inspection system, the system includes: (i) an image sensor; and (ii) a single optical element, that at least partially surrounds an edge of an inspected object; wherein the optical element is adapted to direct light from different areas of the edge of the inspected object towards the image sensor so that the image sensor concurrently obtains images of the different areas. | 08-18-2011 |
20120244273 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR SOLDER MASK INSPECTION - A system and a method for method for printing a solder mask on a printed circuit board (PCB), the method includes: acquiring images of multiple areas of a PCB by an inspection unit while the PCB is supported by a mechanical stage; determining spatial differences between a model of the PCB and the PCB based on the images; determining solder mask ink deposition locations based on (i) the spatial differences, and (ii) locations of the model of the PCB that should be coated with the solder mask ink; and printing solder mask ink on the solder mask deposition locations by a printing unit, while the PCB is supported by the mechanical stage. | 09-27-2012 |
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20120220978 | FLUID TRANSFER DEVICES WITH SEALING ARRANGEMENT - The present invention is directed toward fluid transfer devices including a vial adapter having a top wall and a cannula with a cannula tip, and an elastic O-ring like sealing element sealingly encircling the cannula and initially disposed towards the cannula tip and spaced apart from the top wall, the sealing element being brought into initial contact with the vial stopper subsequent to the cannula tip contacting the vial stopper at a puncture site and thereafter being slidingly urged towards the top wall and continuously sealing the puncture site during snap fit mounting the vial adapter on the vial. | 08-30-2012 |
20120271229 | MEDICAL APPARATUS AND SINGLE USE KIT INCLUDING LINEAR FLOW CONTROL DEVICE FOR USE THEREWITH FOR RECONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF LIQUID DRUG DOSAGE - Medical apparatus ( | 10-25-2012 |
20120323172 | INLINE LIQUID DRUG MEDICAL DEVICES WITH LINEAR DISPLACEABLE SLIDING FLOW CONTROL MEMBER - Inline liquid drug medical device having a longitudinal device axis, a housing with a linear displaceable sliding flow control member displaceable along a transverse bore from a first flow control position for establishing flow communication between a first pair of ports for liquid drug reconstitution purposes to a second flow control position for establishing flow communication between a second pair of ports for liquid drug administration purposes, and a manually operated actuating mechanism for applying a linear displacement force for urging the flow control member to slide along the bore from its first flow control position to its second flow control position. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323210 | FLUID TRANSFER ASSEMBLY WITH VENTING ARRANGEMENT - A fluid transfer assembly including a vented female vial adapter and male vial adapter for use with a pair of vials including a vial with contents under negative pressure for liquid drug reconstitution and administration purposes. The vented female vial adapter includes a venting arrangement and the male vial adapter includes a sealing arrangement for selectively sealing the venting arrangement. The fluid transfer assembly is designed such that only filtered air is drawn into the vial under negative pressure subsequent to reconstitution of liquid drug contents to ensure sterile conditions. | 12-20-2012 |
20130046269 | LIQUID DRUG TRANSFER DEVICE WITH VENTED VIAL ADAPTER - Liquid drug transfer devices including a vented vial adapter having a top wall, a downward depending skirt, and a dual lumen puncturing spike. The top wall includes vent apertures in flow communication with an underlying air filter and protective hoods for covering the vent apertures from splashes. The hood-like hoods are preferably quarter sphere shaped with hood apertures facing radial outwards. | 02-21-2013 |
20130237904 | INLINE LIQUID DRUG MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING ROTARY FLOW CONTROL MEMBER - Inline liquid drug medical devices for use with a source of physiological fluid and a medicinal vessel for liquid drug reconstitution and administration purposes. The inline liquid drug medical devices include a housing having a longitudinal device axis, a rotary flow control member and a vial adapter for transposing the flow control member from an initial first flow control position for liquid drug reconstitution purposes to a second flow control position for liquid drug administration purposes. The inline liquid drug medical devices include a syringe port and a drug dispensing port co-axial with the device axis. The rotary flow control member is rotatable about an axis of rotation co-axial with the syringe port and the drug dispensing port. | 09-12-2013 |
20140020793 | LIQUID DRUG TRANSFER ASSEMBLY - Liquid drug transfer assemblies for use with a drug vial having a drug vial opening stopped by a drug vial stopper. The liquid drug transfer assemblies include a drug vial stopper puncturing member for puncturing a drug vial stopper. The liquid drug transfer assemblies also include a drug vial adapter having a drug vial adapter skirt, an upright drug vial adapter port and a drug vial adapter sleeve downward depending opposite the upright drug vial adapter port and in flow communication therewith. The drug vial adapter is slidingly disposed on the drug vial stopper puncturing member such that on mounting the liquid drug transfer assembly on the drug vial, the drug vial stopper puncturing member punctures the drug vial stopper to form a throughgoing puncture bore and the drug vial adapter sleeve lines the puncture bore. | 01-23-2014 |
20140352845 | VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH LIQUID CONTAINER AND DRUG VIAL - Valve assemblies for use with a liquid container and a drug vial for enabling an initial transfer of liquid contents from the liquid container to the drug vial for liquid drug formation purposes and subsequent transfer of liquid drug contents from the drug vial to the liquid container for administration purposes. Liquid drug transfer sets can include a valve assembly pre-attached to a liquid container. Alternatively, liquid drug transfer sets can include a valve assembly packaged in sterile blister packaging ready for attachment to a liquid container prior to use. | 12-04-2014 |
20150020920 | INLINE LIQUID DRUG MEDICAL DEVICES WITH LINEAR DISPLACEABLE SLIDING FLOW CONTROL MEMBER - Inline liquid drug medical device having a longitudinal device axis, a housing with a linear displaceable sliding flow control member displaceable along a transverse bore from a first flow control position for establishing flow communication between a first pair of ports for liquid drug reconstitution purposes to a second flow control position for establishing flow communication between a second pair of ports for liquid drug administration purposes, and a manually operated actuating mechanism for applying a linear displacement force for urging the flow control member to slide along the bore from its first flow control position to its second flow control position. | 01-22-2015 |
20150088078 | FLUID TRANSFER DEVICES HAVING CARTRIDGE PORT WITH CARTRIDGE EJECTION ARRANGEMENT - Fluid transfer devices for use in manual cartridge filling procedures for filling cartridges with liquid drug dosages from medicament containing vials. The fluid transfer devices include a double ended main body having a longitudinal axis, a vial port for telescopic receiving a drug vial and a cartridge port for slidingly receiving a leading cartridge end. The cartridge port includes a cartridge securing arrangement for releasably securing a leading cartridge end therein and a cartridge ejection arrangement for at least partially ejecting a cartridge therefrom for assisting manual sliding ejection of a filled cartridge. The cartridge port can include either a combined cartridge securing and ejection arrangement or a discrete cartridge securing arrangement and a discrete cartridge ejection arrangement. | 03-26-2015 |
20150112297 | QUICK RELEASE VIAL ADAPTER - Vial adapters including a skirt having a transverse directed top surface and a pair of opposite downward depending snap fit flex members each integrally formed with an inward directed ridge for telescopically snap fitting onto a vial opening and an upright finger grip extension. Manual inward urging of the pair of opposite finger grip extensions towards one another flexes the pair of opposite snap fit flex members at the top surface such that their pair of opposite inwardly directed ridges are outwardly urged from one another thereby releasing a previously snap fitted drug vial. | 04-23-2015 |
20150209230 | LIQUID DRUG TRANSFER DEVICES - Liquid drug transfer devices with universal drug vial adapters for use with a drug vial of a small drug vial and a large drug vial. Some universal drug vial adapters employ the same generally opposite upright flex members for clamping a small drug vial and a large drug vial. Other universal drug vial adapters include a set of minor flex members for clamping a small drug vial and a set of major flex members encircling the set of minor flex members for clamping a large drug vial whereupon the large drug vial underlies the set of minor flex members. Liquid drug transfer devices with a universal injection port connector for attachment on an injection port of an infusion bag. | 07-30-2015 |
20150231034 | TELESCOPIC FEMALE DRUG VIAL ADAPTER - A telescopic female drug vial adapter including a spike component telescopically mounted on a skirt component for snap fit on and puncturing a drug vial in an actuated position. The telescopic female drug vial adapter is particularly suitable for implementation in a vented version to avoid wetting of its air filter during aspiration of liquid contents from a drug vial. | 08-20-2015 |
20150250681 | VIAL ADAPTER FOR USE WITH SYRINGE HAVING WIDENED DISTAL SYRINGE TIP - A vial adapter for use with a syringe having a widened distal syringe tip, and a medicinal vial. The vial adapter includes a top wall, a skirt for telescopically slidingly receiving the medicinal vial, a downwardly depending puncturing spike, and a syringe port opposite the puncturing spike and in flow communication therewith. The syringe port is formed with at least two upright syringe port members for being initially outwardly flexed on the sliding insertion of the widened distal syringe tip into the syringe port and subsequently snapping behind the widened distal syringe tip on its forced full sliding insertion into the syringe port to retain the widened distal syringe tip in said syringe port. | 09-10-2015 |
20150297462 | LIQUID DRUG TRANSFER DEVICES EMPLOYING MANUAL ROTATION FOR DUAL FLOW COMMUNICATION STEP ACTUATIONS - Liquid drug transfer devices employing manual rotation of a drug vial adapter with respect to a liquid container adapter for dual flow communication step actuation for establishing flow communication between a liquid container containing liquid contents and an initially intact, namely, non-punctured, drug vial. Manual rotation compacts a liquid drug transfer device along a longitudinal device axis for urging a puncturing tip through a drug vial stopper during a drug vial flow communication step for flow communication with a drug vial interior. Manual rotation also executes a liquid container flow communication step for flow communication with a liquid container, therefore establishing flow communication between a drug vial and a liquid container. | 10-22-2015 |
20160051446 | DRUG CONTAINER CLOSURE FOR MOUNTING ON OPEN-TOPPED DRUG CONTAINER TO FORM DRUG RECONSTITUTION ASSEMBLAGE FOR USE WITH NEEDLELESS SYRINGE - A drug container closure for mounting on an open-topped drug container to form a ready-to-use drug reconstitution assemblage for use with a needleless syringe. The drug container closure includes a drug container stopper for sealing the drug container and a fluid transfer member with an integral needleless syringe connector and a puncturing cannula. The fluid transfer member is manually disposed along a diametric inverted L-shaped track pair from an initial non-puncturing position to a puncturing position. The inverted L-shaped track pair includes one-way snap members to prevent a user returning the fluid transfer member to an earlier position and indicating progress of the user activation. | 02-25-2016 |
20160081878 | MEDICAL DEVICES INCLUDING VIAL ADAPTER WITH INLINE DRY DRUG MODULE - Medical devices including a vial adapter with an inline dry drug module for use with a vial, a needleless syringe and a carrier liquid for filling the needleless syringe with an injection solution for injection to a patient. The inline dry drug modules include a dry drug storage component for storing a dry drug dosage and a uniform carrier liquid distribution component for promoting uniform contact of the dry drug storage component by the carrier liquid to form an injection solution from the dry drug dosage. The inline dry drug modules can include a discrete dry drug storage component and a discrete uniform carrier liquid distribution component or a dual purpose component for both drug storage and uniform carrier liquid distribution. The vial adapters can be provided in vented or non-vented versions. | 03-24-2016 |
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20090220940 | Method for Testing the Integrity of Membranes - A method for evaluating the integrity of microfiltration, ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes, which method comprises passing a liquid that contains a substantially mono-dispersed population of nano-probes through said membrane to form a permeate and testing said permeate for the presence of said nano-probes, wherein the non-detection of said nano-probes in said permeate indicates that said membrane is substantially intact. | 09-03-2009 |
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20140044922 | PROCESS FOR THE FORMATION OF METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES COATING OF A SOLID SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a process for the formation of a coating comprising peroxynanoparticles of metals selected from the group consisting of: Ga, Ge, As, Se, In, Sn, Sb, Te, Tl, Pb and Bi on a solid substrate, comprising providing a basic solution containing at least a first metal selected from said group and hydrogen peroxide, and contacting said solution with a solid substrate having oxygen-containing chemically reactive groups on its surface. | 02-13-2014 |
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20140047464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING TV OR OTHER MEDIA DELIVERY DEVICE VIEWER'S ATTENTION - A TV system with camera or any other media delivery device with camera comprising a screen and related electronics, comprises in combination: 1) Human detector suitable to determine whether one or more viewers are located in front of the screen; 2) A viewer's body pose tracker suitable to analyze a body pose and to determine whether a change has occurred in said pose; 3) An object detector suitable to detect the presence of a plurality of objects in the environment of the screen; 4) An object tracker suitable to detect a change in location of one or more objects; and 5) Logic circuitry suitable to obtain inputs from one or more detectors and trackers and to determine whether a specified condition has been reached on the basis of said inputs. | 02-13-2014 |
20140099028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO RECOGNITION BASED ON VISUAL IMAGE MATCHING - A method for identifying a stream of images, comprises: a) capturing one or more frames from the media which is to be identified; b) sending the selected image(s) as queries to a server; c) in the server, analyzing the one or more images to identify them from a database that for each movie stored comprises switched significantly different frames; d) if more than one image is processed, aggregating the various server's replies; and e) displaying the results to the user. | 04-10-2014 |
20150157224 | System and Method for Remotely Identifying and Characterizing Life Physiological Signs - A system remotely determines living objects and their heartbeat rate or breath rate. The system has a laser source, a diffractive optics, a defocusing lens, a laser CCD, and a vibrations analyzer. The laser source is used for emitting a laser beam. The diffractive optics is used for dividing said laser beam to a grid of plurality of laser beams in which the living object is located. The defocusing lens is used for receiving pluralities of laser beams as reflected from objects within the area of interest, and for defocusing said reflected beams, thereby to produce defocused speckles on the laser CCD. The vibrations analyzer is used for analyzing vibrations within said displayed speckles, and for determining therefrom a vibrations rate of heartbeat or breath respectively of the living object | 06-11-2015 |
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20090067291 | COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS USING ACOUSTIC SIGNALS - A method of communicating with an electronic device. The method includes providing an electronic device having an audible sound receiving and generating sub-system including a microphone, transmitting from a source at least one acoustic signal encoded with information, receiving said at least one acoustic signal by said microphone and determining a spatial position, distance or movement of the microphone relative to the source, responsive to the received at least one signal. | 03-12-2009 |
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20130332355 | PHYSICAL PRESENCE DIGITAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - The interactive authentication system allows a consumer to interact with a base station, such as broadcast media (e.g., television and radio) or PC, to receive coupons, special sales offers, and other information with an electronic card. The electronic card can also be used to transmit a signal that can be received by the base station to perform a wide variety of tasks. These tasks can include launching an application, authenticating a user at a website, and completing a sales transaction at a website (e.g., by filling out a form automatically). The interaction between the base station and the electronic card is accomplished by using the conventional sound system in the base station so that a special reader hardware need not be installed to interact with the electronic card. The user is equipped with an electronic card that can receive and transmit data via sound waves. In the various embodiments, the sound waves can be audible or ultrasonic (which can be slightly audible to some groups of people). | 12-12-2013 |
20140026213 | CARD FOR INTERACTION WITH A COMPUTER - A smart card comprising:
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20140154969 | PHYSICAL PRESENCE DIGITAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - The interactive authentication system allows a consumer to interact with a base station, such as broadcast media (e.g., television and radio) or PC, to receive coupons, special sales offers, and other information with an electronic card. The electronic card can also be used to transmit a signal that can be received by the base station to perform a wide variety of tasks. These tasks can include launching an application, authenticating a user at a website, and completing a sales transaction at a website (e.g., by filling out a form automatically). The interaction between the base station and the electronic card is accomplished by using the conventional sound system in the base station so that a special reader hardware need not be installed to interact with the electronic card. The user is equipped with an electronic card that can receive and transmit data via sound waves. In the various embodiments, the sound waves can be audible or ultrasonic (which can be slightly audible to some groups of people). | 06-05-2014 |
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20090017765 | System and Method of Enabling a Cellular/Wireless Device with Imaging Capabilities to Decode Printed Alphanumeric Characters - A system and method for decoding printed alphanumeric characters from images or video sequences captured by a wireless device, including the pre-processing of the image or video sequence to optimize processing in all subsequent steps, the searching of one or more grayscale images for key alphanumeric characters on a range of scales, the comparing of the values on the range of scales to a plurality of templates in order to determine the characteristics of the alphanumeric characters, the performing of additional comparisons to a plurality of templates to determine character lines, line edges, and line orientation, the processing of information from prior operations to determine the corrected scale and orientation of each line, the recognizing of the identity of each alphanumeric characters in a string of such characters, and the decoding of the entire character string in digitized alphanumeric format. | 01-15-2009 |
20090132487 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CALL BASED CONTENT RETRIEVAL, DIRECTORY AND WEB ACCESS SERVICES - A system and method for the retrieval of electronic information, comprising a remote device for inputting information requests, and for receiving and displaying received information; a communication network for establishing a communication link between the remote device and an information network; a protocol stack for receiving and decoding information requests from the remote device; an RTP dispatcher for sending audio visual content to the protocol stack; a video encoder for encoding video content in a format suitable for display on the remote device; a DTMF decoder for determining what DTMF information was conveyed by the remote device; a rendering engine to render on the screen of the remote device possible matches to the data entries being made by the user, and to start delivering content to the user. | 05-21-2009 |
20090147990 | System and Method of Generic Symbol Recognition and User Authentication Using a Communication Device with Imaging Capabilities - A system and method for recognizing symbols and identifying users or services, including the displaying of an image or video clip on a display device in which identification information is embedded in the image or video clip, the capturing the image or video clip on an imaging device, the transmitting of the image or video clip from the imaging device to a communication network, the transmitting of the image or video clip from the communication network to a processing and authentication server, the processing of the information embedded in the image or video clip by the server to identify logos, alphanumeric characters, or special symbols in the image or video clip, and converting the identified logos or characters or symbols into a digital format to identify the user or location of the user or service provided to the user, and the using of the processed information in digital format to provide one or more of a variety of additional applications. | 06-11-2009 |
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20100226530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERIC SYMBOL RECOGNITION AND USER AUTHENTICATION USING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH IMAGING CAPABILITIES - A system and method for recognizing symbols and identifying users or services, including the displaying of an image or video clip on a display device in which identification information is embedded in the image or video clip, the capturing the image or video clip on an imaging device, the transmitting of the image or video clip from the imaging device to a communication network, the transmitting of the image or video clip from the communication network to a processing and authentication server, the processing of the information embedded in the image or video clip by the server to identify logos, alphanumeric characters, or special symbols in the image or video clip, and converting the identified logos or characters or symbols into a digital format to identify the user or location of the user or service provided to the user, and the using of the processed information in digital format to provide one or more of a variety of additional applications. | 09-09-2010 |