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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120032780 | VEHICULAR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an interior electrochromic reflective element. The interior rearview mirror assembly includes a control that has circuitry operable to provide a drive signal to the reflective elemen... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110316668 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Message Transmission and Reception Via Wireline Using Different Transmission Characteristics Upon providing (101) message content (such as a wireline remote control instruction) to be transmitted via wireline, and in conjunction with provision (102) of a plurality of different wireline transmission characteristics (as correspond, for example, to d... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110227698 | WIRELESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD A wireless control system for use in a vehicle and for use with a remote electronic system is provided. The wireless control system includes a transceiver for mounting in the vehicle. The transceiver is configured to communicate according to a Bluetooth communications s... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110193700 | Apparatus And Method For Operating Devices Based Upon Vehicle Detection A movable barrier operator controls access to a secured area which houses vehicles. The movable barrier operator is operable to move a movable barrier from an open to a closed position. A sensor controls the operation of a service-providing device through the controller... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110169604 | UNIVERSAL GARAGE DOOR OPENER AND APPLIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM Universal garage door opener and appliance control system operable to facilitate garage door opener and appliance control with a fob or other wireless device operable to wirelessly communicate corresponding instructions to a vehicle other device for subsequent relay to ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110043328 | Advanced Vehicular Universal Transmitter Using Time Domain With Vehicle Location Loggin System Special time domain techniques with novel circuitry are implemented for instantaneous precision frequency measurement of a signal comprised of short bursts emitted from a reference transmitter. Carrier frequency of the bursts is determined either by a special gated freq... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110030638 | Vehicle Having Remote Start and Garage Door Control The subject of the present invention is a method for remote starting an internal combustion engine of a vehicle. The method includes detecting a wireless remote start signal; after detecting the wireless remote start signal, communicating with a garage door opener to de... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100301999 | CHANNEL-SWITCHING REMOTE CONTROLLED BARRIER OPENING SYSTEM An improved barrier door one way wireless communication system for operating a barrier, such as a garage door, includes the transmission and reception of multibit code hopping data packets in combination with automatic RF channel switching. Packet data is transmitted au... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100289618 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND KITS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ACTIVATING A GARAGE DOOR OPENER Systems, methods, and kits for automatically activating a garage door opener. A garage door opener system is supplemented with motion sensor technology or RFID technology to allow for automatic activation of a garage door opener. An automobile that is moving near or is ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100265034 | PORTAL ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM A combination of specific antenna type(s), with a system of specific antenna Rf field deployment, combined with the intelligent sensing of differing micro processor control of a digital antenna attenuator that controls disproportional attenuation (either synchronously o... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100259361 | SECURITY GATES DEVICE The security gate device is the one that has the ability to deter and seize unauthorized vehicles to enter and that attempt to envade the place; this can be done automatically without giving human being orders. The device is equipped with a room consisting of bumpers an... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100245040 | GARAGE DOOR OPENER TRANSMITTER WITH STATUS REPORTING An improved garage door opener transmitter has a housing with a manually actuable member outside the housing. The transmitter actuating circuitry disposed in the housing. The transmitter circuit is adapted to send a signal to a receiver of a garage mounted opener unit t... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100207724 | Garage appliance control system, and building A garage appliance control system includes: at least one appliance installed in a garage that is provided as a portion of a building or a garage that is provided adjacent to the building; a first light emission portion which is provided in a vehicle that is parked in th... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100188193 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE An interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element having a front surface, a rear surface and a reflector. A display element is disposed to the rear of the rear surface and is operable to emit light when actuated, the emitted light passing through... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100171588 | SYSTEM FOR CAUSING GARAGE DOOR OPENER TO OPEN GARAGE DOOR AND METHOD A system and a method for causing a garage door to open using a garage door opener having a wireless receiver is provided. The system comprises an interface coupled to an environment sensor and configured to receive data from the environment sensor. The system can inclu... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100127825 | DIGITAL ELECTROCHROMIC CIRCUIT WITH A VEHICLE NETWORK A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror system having an electrochromic reflective element, a digital electrochromic drive circuit supplying a drive signal to the reflective element and a garage door opener. The garage door opener include... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100060505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING TRANSMITTER TRAINING WINDOW A method for configuring a transmitter device to transmit a recognized transmission to a receiving device is provided. The method includes transmitting a first transmission and transmitting a second transmission after the first transmission. The method further includes ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100052846 | Control system for garage door A control system for garage door includes a motor, a controller controlling operation of the motor, and a keyboard for inputting an instruction into the controller. The keyboard includes a plurality of keys, a plurality of resistors, a divider resistor for sharing volta... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045429 | Power conserving mobile transmitter used with an automated barrier operating system An operator system for automatically controlling access barriers based on movement of a carrying device. The system consists of an operator controller associated with an access barrier, a base receiver associated with the base controller, and a mobile transmitter that i... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090322475 | IN-VEHICLE WIRELESS SYSTEM An in-vehicle wireless system, capable of operating at least in a copy mode and a transmission mode, comprises: at least one receiving unit receiving a wireless signal transmitted from a remote control transmitter and demodulates a control code signal; and at least one ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090284346 | Door drive The present invention relates to a door drive, in particular a garage door drive, with a door control and with a programming unit for programming the door control during operation and/or maintenance of the door drive. In accordance with the invention, the programming un... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090224877 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO CONTROLLED GATE AND GATE STATUS The invention provides a system for remotely actuating barrier systems using an audio tone. A first two-way radio communication device can be used to send the audio tone to a second two-way radio communication connected to an interface circuit. The interface circuit can... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090160637 | Wireless Event Status Communication System, Device and Method A wireless event status communication system, device and method are disclosed. In one form, a wireless enabled notification system includes a wireless informer operably associated with an environmental element having more than one operating state and operable to determi... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090146843 | Residential garage parking position indicator A residential garage can be either attached or detached from a residence and normally includes a paneled, roll-up door that can be opened and closed either manually or via mechanical means utilizing a motor and drive system. A pendant (soft target) suspended from a cord... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090096937 | Vehicle Rearview Assembly Including a Display for Displaying Video Captured by a Camera and User Instructions An inventive rearview assembly (10) for a vehicle may comprise a mirror element (30) and a display (100) including a light management subassembly (101b). The subassembly may comprise an LCD placed behind a transflective layer of the mi... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090033460 | System and Method for Operating a Transmitter With a Proximity Sensor A system and method are provided that use at least one proximity sensor to illuminate a transmitter such that the transmitter can be seen by the user and/or to activate the transmitter so that the user can interface with the transmitter and send code to a receiver via t... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090021347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND ACTUATING A VEHICLE GATE Systems and methods for monitoring and actuating a vehicle gate are provided by certain embodiments of the invention. Data associated with a vehicle at the gate is collected and at least of the portion of the collected data is analyzed to identify one or more exceptions... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090021348 | ROLLING CODE SECURITY SYSTEM A rolling code transmitter is useful in a security system for providing secure encrypted RF transmission comprising an interleaved trinary bit fixed code and rolling code. A receiver demodulates the encrypted RF transmission and recovers the fixed code and rolling code.... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080169900 | System and methods for automatically moving access barriers initiated by mobile transmitter devices An operator system provides a mobile transmitter configured to communicate with a base operator to automatically open and close an access barrier based on the position of a carrying device that maintains the mobile transmitter. The mobile transmitter periodically transm... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080094186 | Apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling gate operators via power line communication The invention is an apparatus and method for controlling, monitoring and upgrading information via a power line that typically only supplies power to a gate operation system. By introducing an electrical signal to a power line along a frequency not used for the purposes... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080068205 | System and method for training a trainable transmitter A method for training a trainable transmitter in a vehicle that includes receiving a request to enter a training mode of the trainable transmitter from a user, beginning a training mode of the trainable transmitter, receiving a control signal from an original transmitte... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080061926 | Method and apparatus for utilizing a transmitter having a range limitation to control a movable barrier operator A system commands a movable barrier operator to control movement of a movable barrier and perform additional movable barrier functions. An identification transmitter wirelessly transmits an identification signal, where the identification signal comprises a code. A prima... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20070290795 | DIGITAL ELECTROCHROMIC CIRCUIT WITH A VEHICLE NETWORK A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an interior electrochromic reflective element, a housing for the interior electrochromic reflective element, and digital circuitry supplying a drive signal to the interior electrochr... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070290793 | Mesh network door lock Systems and methods are disclosed for sending a code from a mesh network key and wirelessly communicating the code with one or more mesh network appliances over a mesh network such as ZigBee; receiving the code over the mesh network by a mesh network lock controller; an... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070273471 | Systems and methods for controlling access to a site using a combination of identification technologies Systems and methods for authorizing a vehicle to proceed beyond an access point are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a system can include an identification reader configured to obtain various identification information from one or more identification mecha... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070273472 | Transmitter with adaptable display At a transmitter being used in a moveable barrier operator system, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is provided. The LCD is configured with a first visual display and the first visual display providing first information to a user. The LCD is selectively reconfigured with ... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070236328 | All trinary rolling code generation method and system An all-trinary rolling code method and system which allow a barrier opener to generate and transmit trinary rolling codes without entering or storing any rolling code values as binary words includes obtaining a stored trinary counter value upon a transmitter being actua... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070229218 | Wireless Gate Control and Communication System A gate control and communication system of the invention including a base unit located within a premises, a gate receiver unit positioned next to a remotely located gate, and a gate control unit located next to the gate. The base unit provides for voice communications w... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070229220 | Wireless Gate Control and Communication System A gate control and communication system of the invention including a base unit located within a premises, a gate receiver unit positioned next to a remotely located gate, and a gate control unit located next to the gate. The base unit provides for voice communications w... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070216516 | SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-VEHICLE REMOTE TRANSMITTER A security system and method for an in-vehicle remote transmitter that transmits a wireless control signal and has an activation button. A controller determines whether a vehicle status is authorized and permits transmission of the wireless control signal by the in-vehi... | 09/20/2007 |
