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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356141 | Baud rate modulation encoding/decoding method and device for remote controller A encoding/decoding method and device for a remote controller utilizing a baud rate to encrypt data for transmission. The encoding device includes an encoder encoding an identification code into an encrypted code; and an interpreter interpreting the un-encoded porti... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7334735 | Card for interaction with a computer A smart card comprising: a memory for storing information; at least one transmitting or receiving antenna; and a low frequency circuit, for handling information associated with said antenna and said memory, which information is modulated at a modulation frequency of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331519 | Traceability signature system, signature method and program product A signature device having an item selection input section which accepts a selection of a group of items formed by combining an item delivered from at least one supplier and an item generated by itself, a path verification information updating section which updates p... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7251339 | Wireless remote control for a hearing instrument A remote control for programming a hearing instrument includes a housing and a mechanism associated with the housing for mechanically generating an acoustical pulse for effecting control of a hearing instrument. The remote control is passive. A hearing instrument sy... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7227075 | Lighting controller In the present invention, a lighting controller is provided to provide illumination based upon the playing of musical instruments. The lighting controller is programmed with lighting profiles which control the lights on a device. When musical instrument is played, a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218203 | Motion activated reminder system A motion activated, voice controlled reminder system, wherein a programmable device automatically reminds the intended receiver of a future event, without any extraordinary action on the part of the recipient, thus enabling the user to, via a telephone, leave a mess... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7191024 | Remote control method and apparatus, remote controller, and apparatus and system based on such remote control When a user gives a parameter storage instruction via a remote controller, current settings of parameters in an input switching circuit, surround circuit, graphic equalizer and electronic volume are stored into a non-volatile RAM. Then, once the user gives a reprodu... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7171309 | Downhole tool controller using autocorrelation of command sequences The present invention provides for an apparatus and method of use to control a downhole tool remotely based on the autocorrelation of command sequences. Repeating signals of a priori unknown or undefined shape can be correlated to themselves to reliably distinguish ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7138575 | System and method for musical sonification of data A musical sonification system and method sonifies data, such as real-time financial market data, to produce an audio signal output including a musical rendering of the data. A sonification engine converts the data into sound parameters based on configuration data an... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135635 | System and method for musical sonification of data parameters in a data stream One embodiment of a musical sonification system and method receives a data stream including different data parameters. The sonification system may apply different sonification processes to the different data parameters to produce a musical rendering of the data stre... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7120257 | Audible sound detection control circuits for toys and other amusement devices A control circuit for an amusement device includes a sound detector, a band-pass filter, a peak integrator and a controller. The sound detector is configured to detect audible sound signals. The band-pass filter is electrically coupled to the sound detector. The ban... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102485 | Motion activated communication device A motion activated, voice control communications device interactive with voice mail systems and electronic mail systems and effective as a stand-alone unit. In general, when a motion detector detects motion in the vicinity of the device, a microprocessor receives in... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7039590 | General remote using spoken commands A speech-translating remote control includes a microphone operable to receive speech command, thereby outputting a speech signal; an audio transmitter operably connected to the microphone to transmit an audio input signal to a host system based on the speech signal;... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6970097 | Location system using retransmission of identifying information A location system and method for determining the location of a tagged item in a facility. In one embodiment, the location system includes a plurality of room transmitters designed to be located throughout the facility. Each room transmitter has a unique signature. T... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957185 | Method and apparatus for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device Methods for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device by a service provider, wherein the portable device may be in communication with the service provider over a voice line such as a telephone line or the like, and the portable device does not requ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6868045 | Voice control system with a microphone array Voice control systems are used in diverse technical fields. In this case, the spoken words are detected by one or more microphones and then fed to a speech recognition system. In order to enable voice control even from a relatively great distance, the voice signal m... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6825769 | Automatic shut-off light system when user sleeps A method and system for the automatic detection of a sleeping person and for adjusting electrical power supplied to a number of electronic devices; it includes a unit for observing the behavior of a person in a predetermined area under surveillance and a unit for an... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6791468 | Remote control, remotely controllable device and remote control configuration A remote control, particularly for wireless remote control of a closing device in a motor vehicle, has a first transmitter for outputting an optical signal, and a second transmitter for outputting a radio signal. The two transmitters are able to be activated for sig... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6778098 | Method and electronic device for speech control Reliable and efficient activation and deactivation control of a number of electronic products (P1, P2, P3) is effected by activation of one of the products by emission of an activation command specific to the product and controlling performance ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771166 | Air bag deployment sensing apparatus and method In a vehicle (102) a method of detecting air bag (106) deployment includes detecting an acoustic energy level increase (150) and developing a spectral content (502) of the increase. Further comparing the spectral content (502) to a... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6760276 | Acoustic signaling system An acoustic signaling system comprises a transmitter, which has frequency stability to create sounds which can reliably be received and which is loud enough to be heard by a receiver. The receiver includes an electret microphone, a limiting amplifier which has high ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6496115 | System and method for analyzing baby cries This invention provides a system for analyzing baby cries capable of diagnosing a cause of cry of a baby based on a cry from the baby. A microphone (1) picks up a cry from a baby as an audio signal. At a certain sampling frequency, an A/D converter (2) sa... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6433689 | System for supervision and control of objects or persons A system for supervision and control of objects or persons within a limited area, such as a building, comprising a plurality of electronic identification chips for placing on respective objects/persons to be supervised/controlled, each chip having stored ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6359558 | Low power audible alarm relay device for a rolling code security system An alarm relay device including a microphone that produces a signal responsive to an audible alarm having a frequency. A first circuit coupled to the microphone produces a first detect signal when the signal is above a predetermined level. A second circui... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6246322 | Impulse characteristic responsive missing object locator operable in noisy environments An electronic key or other missing object locator device is responsive to the impulse characteristics of received sounds to distinguish expected impulse-like triggering sounds such as humanly produced hand claps from other impulse-like sounds such as spee... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6240347 | Vehicle accessory control with integrated voice and manual activation A voice activated control system responsive to spoken voice commands is integrated with an advanced central display/control unit having dedicated and reconfigurable push buttons to control individual vehicle accessories in a complementary fashion as well ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6161005 | Door locking/unlocking system utilizing direct and network communications A remote door locking/unlocking system includes both telephone receiver/DTMF decoder circuitry and a wireless radio frequency or infrared sensor for enabling the system to be actuated either by a portable short range transmitter or by any telephone. The t... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6130624 | Talking remote control A remote control device having buttons with a primary function of activating generation of a control signal by the remote and secondary function of activating generation of an audio sample. The audio sample is unrelated to the primary, functional signal g... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6124791 | Safety switching device for an electromotive garden appliance In an electromotively driven garden appliance, for example a lawnmower or a lawn-aerator, the on-off switch is usually arranged on the handle-bar such that it can easily be accessed for operation. This on-off switch is connected via a cable to the motor c... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6054926 | Baby monitor A baby monitor that monitors an infant while keeping the infant in a safe sleeping position that consists of infant positioning blocks incorporating a battery powered audio pickup with a low power FM transmitter. Infant positioning blocks are popularly kn... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6035047 | System to block unwanted sound waves and alert while sleeping A cordless, wireless headset to block unwanted sound waves and/or noise from entering the ears of a user. The headset (FIG. 5) contains an electronic receiver, an audible tone/alert generator, volume control/switch and battery. The wireless headset would ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5999089 | Alarm system An alarm system that includes a number of alarm detecting devices wherein each alarm detecting device includes an alarm condition detecting circuit, a secondary alarm activation circuit, and an audible alarm output circuit including an audio oscillator an... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5933090 | Method and apparatus for field programming a remote control system A remote control system comprises a transmitter for transmitting a first data signal having a command and an identification code. Further, the remote control system comprises a receiver for receiving the first data signal having an operational mode for in... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5828314 | Pager with adaptable alarm A paging device references current ambient sound energy in selecting alarm presentation. In the illustrated embodiment, a low volume alarm presentation occurs in relatively quiet ambient sound conditions and a high volume alarm presentation occurs in rela... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5802457 | Method for realizing ambience listening, and radio unit A method for activating ambiance listening in which a first, mobile radio unit transmits ambient sounds and voice to a second radio unit over a radio path. To check that the second radio unit has listening authority, the second radio unit commands the fir... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5736927 | Audio listen and voice security system A security alarm system including multiple, zone distributed audio monitors and alarm sensors which report and verify detected alarms and communicate with a system controller and central station. Ambient audio is continuously and selectively recorded in a... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5734445 | Current generating system for remote control devices A hand held remote controller for operating an electronic device from a distance having its own self-contained source of electric current. The remote controller has a mechanical energy source for operating an a.c. voltage generator, a d.c. voltage convert... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5717258 | Switching system The present invention relates to a manual and remote control switching system in which users can optionally turn on/off any load among a plurality of loads in different places. The switching system switches a power source being supplied to the plurality o... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5677673 | Apparatus for locating a plurality of objects An apparatus for locating a plurality of objects including a plurality of receiver units. Each receiver includes a receiver housing with a first pile fastener secured to a bottom surface thereof for allowing coupling with a second pile fastener situated o... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5608377 | Acoustic anti-tampering detector A method of supervising the operation of an intrusion detector having a housing, the method including periodically generating in the housing at least one sound wave signal, sensing an acoustic image formed in the housing in response to the at least one so... | 03/04/1997 |
