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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145330 | Plant growing system using portable telephone A plant growing environment control terminal (P) comprises an image data receiving section (1a) for receiving image data on the image of a plant from a plant growing facility (Q), an image display section (1b) for displaying the plant ima... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8041437 | System and method for virtual control of laboratory equipment A system for virtual control of electronic laboratory equipment includes a local computer system. One or more items of electronic laboratory equipment are connected to the local computer system. Each item of electronic laboratory equipment has a physical control pan... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7885718 | Component mounting apparatus, service providing device and servicing method A service receiving method for receiving a component library generated from mounted component data, including component size and mounting conditions, via a communication system that includes the Internet. The method includes the service provider receiving mounted co... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7643893 | Closed-loop feedback control using motion capture systems Systems and methods for closed-loop feedback control of controllable devices using motion capture systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a motion capture system configured to measure one or more motion characteristics of one or more controllable... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7433760 | Camera and animation controller, systems and methods Embodiments of the invention provide novel controllers for filmmaking and/or animation, as well as systems and methods for their use. In a set of embodiments, a controller has an actuator (e.g., a joystick, etc.) that receives input from a user for controlling an ob... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418521 | Controller for bridging a host computer and networked laundry machines A laundry system has a plurality of laundry machines networked together and a remotely located host computer for collecting operation data and audit data from the laundry machines and to program the laundry machines with operation parameters. A bridging controller i... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412292 | Remote control apparatus The present invention provides a remote control apparatus comprising a controlled appliance and a server being connected via communication means, in which if data stored in the server is present, a notice command is promptly issued to the corresponding controlled ap... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403838 | Messaging system based building control An arrangement using an Instant Messaging (“IM”) chat-type interface for monitoring and controlling devices in an automated home is provided. The automated home is arranged to be accessible as an IM contact (often called a “buddy”) to a user of an IM service... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403827 | Equipment control system A technology for achieving energy saving by efficiently controlling each of a plurality of equipment systems is proposed. The equipment control system includes an air conditioner system, a refrigerator system, a refrigerator/freezer showcase system and a central coo... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398127 | Systems and methods for facilitating wireless communication between various components of a distributed system The present invention provides systems and methods for facilitating communications between various components of distributed system. Specifically, the systems and methods of the present invention provide a wireless network for linking the various components of manuf... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395126 | Remote control of wireless electromechanical device using a web browser A system enabling one or more persons to control one or more wireless electromechanical devices located in remote locations. The system includes a first personal computer (10) equipped with an internet connection. The first personal computer uses a web browse... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7353070 | Building control system using network global data An arrangement in a building control system includes a plurality of field panel devices. Each field panel device is configured to receive control inputs and further configured to provide control outputs to at least one building control device. Each field panel devic... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346404 | Data sharing in a process plant A process plant uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of the process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance function... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345593 | Apparatus for implementing universal remote controller and method thereof The present invention provides an apparatus for implementing a universal remote controller and method thereof, by which a multitude of electronic products can be controlled by one remote controller. In a system including an electronic product module storing each rem... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343004 | Numeric and text paging with an integral PLC modem At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising formatting a message at a first modem integral to a first programmable logic controller, and transmitting the formatted message from the first modem via a communications network.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328347 | Method and apparatus for distinguishing the origin of operator inputs in electronic control systems and printing machine having the apparatus A method and an apparatus distinguish the origin of operator inputs in electronic control systems having at least one first operating element and at least one second operating element. A first signal is processed in the electronic control system when the at least on... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327396 | Smart camera with a plurality of slots for modular expansion capability through a variety of function modules connected to the smart camera A smart camera with modular expansion capabilities, including a housing, a camera directly attached to the housing for acquiring an image of an object, a functional unit comprised in the housing and coupled to the camera, where the functional unit is configurable to... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317952 | Managing field devices having different device description specifications in a process control system According to an aspect of the present invention, device descriptions specified using different device description (DD) specifications are converted (represented) into a single format. In an embodiment, the single format corresponds to extended markup language (XML).... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7296039 | Managing checkpoint queues in a multiple node system Techniques are provided for managing caches in a system with multiple caches that may contain different copies of the same data item. Specifically, techniques are provided for coordinating the write-to-disk operations performed on such data items to ensure that olde... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283886 | Practical measurement system for a manufacturing process A complete Direct Digital Numerical Control (DDNC) automation system for a practical measurement system for a manufacturing process where a given slide or ram is moved under power by input of GO-TO location commands to cause a cascade of motion events to an approxim... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281214 | Automatically updating user programmable input sensors to perform user specified functions In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for automatically updating programmable buttons on a remote client device using a set of user preferences is described. A remote client device is coupled (either wired or wirelessly) to the host comput... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272455 | Remote controlling device, program and system with control command changing function A control device for controlling a control target device includes a control content acquisition unit, a recognition unit, a device control unit, and a communication unit. The control content acquisition unit acquires control information containing operation instruct... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272456 | Position based machine control in an industrial automation environment A method and apparatus for controlling machine operations in an automated industrial facility including at least one machine, the method for restricting machine operation when a wireless information device associated with a facility user is within a restricted facil... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269640 | Methods and systems for management and control of an automation control module An e-mail-enabled automation control module (ACM) includes an ACM and an e-mail subsystem electrically connected to the ACM. The e-mail subsystem is configured to perform at least one of sending e-mail messages from the ACM through a network and receiving e-mail mes... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269198 | Systems and methods for beaconing in wireless networks with low probability of detection Systems and methods for performing neighbor discovery in a network (100) including a number of nodes are provided. A first node (110) in the network (100) generates a spread signal for alerting other nodes in the network (100) of the pres... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266812 | Arrangements, storage mediums and methods for transmitting a non-proprietary language device description file associated with a field device using a web service An arrangement, storage medium and method are provided to convert a particular proprietary language Device Description file and/or a particular Device Description language source code associated with a particular type of a field device into a particular non-propriet... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266429 | Digitization of field engineering work processes at a gas turbine power plant through the use of portable computing devices operable in an on-site wireless local area network A system for digitization of work processes in a power plant having a gas turbine including at least one processor system having a controller. The processor receives power plant data and the controller preferably controls the gas turbine. At least one interface devi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263370 | Method for intelligent home controller and home monitor A method utilizing a transmitter emitting a unique signal and a base station receiver having a database of household members is used to ascertain the identity of household members who are home at any particular time. Such information is used by the local telephone n... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259696 | Interactive web-based codeset selection and development tool An interactive, web-based codeset selection and development tool transmits hypertext documents from a web server to a web browser of a developer of microcontroller code for a new remote control device. The hypertext documents include selection criteria for groups of... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252633 | Remote controllable endoscope system An endoscope control system comprises a network server device which is provided with an interface for executing an external application software and stores a graphical user interface (GUI) which is a display information which is written in at least a server language... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254403 | Wireless terminal-interoperable home network system Disclosed herein is a home network system interoperable with a wireless terminal of at least one user registered therein, wherein a terminal server is adapted to transmit and receive data to/from the wireless terminal, and a home server is adapted to manage/control ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246684 | Boom lift vehicle and method of controlling boom angles A boom lift vehicle includes a tower boom pivotally coupled at one end to a vehicle base for tower lift function and rotatable relative to the vehicle base for swing function. A main boom is pivotally coupled to an opposite end of the tower boom for main lift functi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245501 | Configurable circuit board and fabrication method Circuit boards capable of receiving different sets of electrical devices are fabricated from raw boards of the same type by forming respective networks of electrically conductive traces with a common layout on the raw boards, including open circuits within the netwo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242318 | Event detection and transmission system The present invention concerns a data acquisition and transfer device comprising a sensor responsive to change of predetermined nature, and a transmitter for transmitting over the mobile phone network data concerning the occurrence of such a change to a receiver sta... | 07/10/2007 |
| RE39716 | System and method for creating a controlling device A system and method for creating a controlling device. In response to a user specifying one or more operating criteria for the controlling device, the system selects executable instructions from a library of executable instructions and command code sets from a libra... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231041 | Method, device, and system for secure motor vehicle remote keyless entry Methods and apparatus are provided for sending an encrypted command message from a remote keyless entry device to a receiver in a motor vehicle. The method comprises defining a key generating key within the remote keyless entry device, and using that key generating ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231263 | Method for controlling insulin pump through internet A method for controlling an insulin pump through the Internet. The method comprises the steps of ascertaining whether a logged-in person is a physician; determining the logged-in person as a nurse when the logged-in person is not a physician, receiving a patient's b... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221984 | Method and system of programming at least one appliance to change state upon the occurrence of a trigger event An automation system for programming appliances having programmable controllers, programmable devices and trigger devices that communicate over a communication link. The user programs the programmable devices by placing the programmable controller in its training mo... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218975 | Integrated mill A ystem for localizing and optimizing harvesting of trees or stands of trees, using locating devices for tracking same over time, and geographically tracking same once harvested, and for providing such information to users. Sensors may be provided along with the loc... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216007 | System and method for providing direct web access to controllers in a process control environment A controller includes an execution environment capable of executing an application for controlling a process element in a processing environment. The controller also includes a web server capable of being executed in the execution environment. The web server is also... | 05/08/2007 |
