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| 20130238857 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ACCESS TO LOCATION SOURCES - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of controlling access to location sources. For example, a device may include a location caching controller to store cached location information in a cache based on location information retrieved from two or more location sources, to receive at least one location request from at least one application, to select between retrieving requested location information from at least one of the location sources and retrieving the requested location information from the cache, and to provide to the application a location response including the requested location information. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW POWER PROCESSING BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for offloading services and functionalities from a main host central processing unit (CPU) of a computing device to a dedicated power-efficient offload engine, thereby enabling a longer battery life for the device and an enhanced set of features. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20140092238 | MOBILE DEVICE BASED ULTRA-VIOLET (UV) RADIATION SENSING - The present application discloses device and system embodiments that address mobile device integration considerations for various categories of UV sensors, including cameras, photodiodes, and chemical sensors. The UV sensors may use the functionalities of the existing in-built sensors in conventional mobile devices, and/or integrate additional components specific to UV sensing. By optimally positioning the sensors, UV sensing and other collateral functionalities (e.g., charging a photovoltaic cell integrated with the mobile device) can be realized in parallel. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140094189 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO COMMUNICATE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FOR LOCALIZATION - Embodiments may comprise logic to adaptively prepare and transmit environmental information based upon an estimated current location and, in some embodiments, context of a device and to adaptively cache the environmental information to reduce or optimize environmental information communicated from an information server to the device. Some embodiments comprise an information server to receive a request for environmental information comprising an estimated current location for the device. In many embodiments, the information server may determine a prior set of environmental information conveyed to the device and determine, in response to receiving the estimated current location, the current set of environmental information based upon the estimated current location. In many embodiments, the current set of environmental information may encompass environmental information near the estimated current location of the device but not to encompass environmental information that was included in a prior set of environmental information transmitted to the device. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140162683 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING A LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of estimating a location of a mobile device. For example, a location estimation entity (LE) may be configured to receive from a server location-based location-enabling source (LES) information identifying one or more location-enabling sources based on a location area of a mobile device, and to communicate with the one or more identified location-enabling sources information for estimating the location of the mobile device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140187147 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING NFC-TRANSACTION REMOTELY - A method of performing a transaction between a plurality of devices, the method comprises establishing a communication session between an end device and a first near field communication (NFC)-enabled device. The method further includes receiving instructions from the end device instructing the first NFC-enabled device to move in NFC range of a second NFC device; establishing a NFC session between the first NFC-enabled device and second NFC-enabled device; and sending the transaction data received from the end device to the second NFC device over the NFC session. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140195198 | AGGREGATING AND PROCESSING DISTRIBUTED DATA ON ULTRA-VIOLET (UV) EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT - The present application discloses devices, systems and methods for establishing and utilizing a UV sensing network to harness the efficacy of distributed UV sensing to produce improved accuracy of UV exposure measurement using mobile devices. This may be accomplished by “crowd sourcing”, i.e. having multiple devices work collaboratively to measure the UV exposure. The collaboration can be implemented in many potential ways, such as, using a server based architecture where devices connect to a specific “UV measurements server” to provide measurements and receive aggregate estimated exposure levels, and/or by using a peer-to-peer architecture, where devices in a specific region creates a local ad-hoc UV sensing network. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140214314 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH LOCATION-AWARE ACCURACY AND/OR POWER ADJUSTMENTS - In a navigation system and method, location-aware adjustments may be made to the accuracy and/or power of the navigation system by changing at least one setting of a navigation system receiver in response to at least one characteristic of a navigation route and/or an estimated current position of the receiver. By providing location-aware adjustments, the accuracy may be increased when a higher accuracy is desired and may be decreased when a lower accuracy is sufficient based on the receiver location. A higher accuracy setting may be used, for example, when the estimated current position of a navigation system receiver is within the vicinity of a waypoint along the navigation route and a lower accuracy setting may be used at other times to reduce power consumption. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment. | 07-31-2014 |
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| 20090204482 | System and method for streamlining social media marketing - A method and system for streamlining social media marketing continuous activities are provided for finding Potential Friends (PFs) on various social media avenues, gathering information about PFs' interests and activities on an going basis, creating attractive presences (APs) on various social media sites, befriending with PFs to turn them in Actual Friends (AFs), conversing with AFs to foster the relationship with them, creating Social Campaigns (SCs) to promote Desired Items (DIs), running SCs with the help of AFs, and measuring results of SCs and overall progress. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20120185337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMLINING SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING - A method and system for streamlining social media marketing continuous activities are provided for finding Potential Friends (PFs) on various social media avenues, gathering information about PFs' interests and activities on an going basis, creating attractive presences (APs) on various social media sites, befriending with PFs to turn them in Actual Friends (AFs), conversing with AFs to foster the relationship with them, creating Social Campaigns (SCs) to promote Desired Items (DIs), running SCs with the help of AFs, and measuring results of SCs and overall progress. | 07-19-2012 |
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| 20100237228 | CMOS Image Sensor Pixel With Internal Charge Amplifier - A CMOS image sensor in which each column of pixels is connected to a signal line that is coupled to a current source, and each pixel includes a charge amplifier having a common source configuration arranged such that a charge generated by its photodiode is amplified by the charge amplifier and transmitted to readout circuitry by way of the signal line. In one embodiment the charge amplifier utilizes an NMOS transistor to couple the photodiode charge in an inverted manner to the signal line while converting the charge to a voltage through a capacitor coupled between the signal line and photodiode (i.e., forming a feedback of the NMOS amplifier transistor). | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110050874 | CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Without Internal Sample/Hold Circuit - A very small area CMOS image sensor, e.g., for an endoscopic system, includes only four pads (power, ground, digital in, analog out), and includes an array of 4T pixels and associated control circuitry for performing correlated double sampling (CDS) to generate analog reset level and analog signal level values associated with light detected by photodiodes in each pixel. Instead of processing the analog values on-chip, the analog reset values and analog signal values are transmitted in separate sets one row at a time along with interleaved synchronization signals by way of a single analog contact pad, e.g., to a host device of an endoscopic system, which uses the synchronization signals to reconstruct the sensor's internal clock in order to process the analog values. An endoscope housing incorporating the CMOS image sensor thus requires only four wires. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20130127371 | CMOS Bootstrap Circuit For DC/DC Buck Converter Using Low Voltage CMOS Diode - A modified bootstrap circuit utilized, for example, in a high voltage DC/DC CMOS buck converter to convert a high input voltage (e.g., 24V) to a regulated voltage (e.g., 4V) for use, for example, by an LED driver circuit. The bootstrap circuit utilizes a feedback diode and a PMOS switch to avoid high reverse diode voltages across a low voltage bootstrap diode. A bootstrapped buck converter implements the bootstrap circuit to generate a high gate voltage on a high-side NMOS switch during all operating phases. The PMOS switch is controlled by the NMOS switch's output voltage to pass a system voltage (e.g., 5V) through the bootstrap diode whenever the output voltage drops low (e.g., 0V), and to shut off when the output voltage subsequently rises such that the feedback diode forward biases to pass the output voltage to the anode of the bootstrap diode. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20140263950 | Single-Exposure High Dynamic Range CMOS Image Sensor Pixel With Internal Charge Amplifier - A single-exposure high dynamic range (HDR) image sensor utilizes a charge amplifier having two different charge-to-voltage conversion capacitors that read a single photodiode charge during a two-phase readout operation. The first capacitor has a lower capacitance and therefore higher conversion gain (sensitivity), and the second capacitor has a higher capacitance and therefore lower conversion gain (sensitivity). The two-phase readout operation samples the photodiode charge twice, once using the high sensitivity capacitor and once using the low sensitivity capacitor. The high sensitivity readout phase provides detailed low light condition data but is saturated under brighter light conditions, and the low sensitivity readout phase provides weak data under low light conditions but provides high quality image data under brighter light conditions. The final HDR image is created by combining both high and low sensitivity images into a single image while giving each of them the correct weighted value. | 09-18-2014 |
