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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180465 | Multi-modal device power/mode management A system that facilitates managing resources (e.g., functionality, services) based at least in part upon an established context. More particularly, a context determination component can be employed to establish a context by processing sensor inputs or learning/infer... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7664557 | Medical apparatus and method To facilitate an intuitive operation of an adjustable device of a medical apparatus, a system for the automatic setting of an operating configuration of the portable control module controlling the adjustable device is provided. Different operating configurations reg... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7620463 | Arrangement for the transmission of data There is described a device for the transmission of data between a portable electronic unit and a field unit, whereby a cable is provided, connected at the one end thereof to the portable electronic unit and comprises a cable coupling piece at the other end thereof,... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7408548 | Triangulating procedural geometric objects A complex procedural surface can be expressed based on some constructive solid geometry operations performed on primitive procedural surfaces. The domain based representation of the complex procedural surface includes implicit curves of intersection. During pre-proc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7379778 | System and methods for home appliance identification and control in a networked environment A home control and automation system and method. The system generally includes one or more wireless remote controls, a plurality of appliances (including network enabled appliances and traditional legacy appliances in the exemplary system), associated control centri... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7353107 | Verifying the validity of traffic status information A method for providing traffic status information as part of a traffic status detection by a motor vehicle, in particular traffic information for detecting traffic jams is provided. To provide high-quality traffic status information at an acceptable cost, it is prop... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333862 | Position control device of moving body, stage device using the position control device, and position control method of moving body A position control device of a moving body, by which position control device a moving body can be driven in a translational manner with high precision where the moving body is not rotated in a yawing direction even if disturbance is input, a stage device using the p... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333579 | Robust symbol timing recovery circuit for telephone line modem A robust symbol timing recovery circuit for a telephone line modem is provided. The symbol timing recovery circuit comprises a timing estimator and an interpolator. The timing estimator, which performs an operation on input samples and estimates a timing offset of a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327986 | System and method for vehicle delay notification using a mobile telecommunications network A system and method of vehicle delay notification. The method includes determining a vehicle delay, determining that the vehicle delay meets or exceeds a delay threshold, determining one or more affected mobile telecommunications subscribers, and sending a message t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7309017 | Secure physical documents, and methods and apparatus for publishing and reading them A security document, comprises a printed document and one or more memory circuits adapted to be read wirelessly attached to or incorporated within the printed document, wherein data in the memory circuit is protected from access by an unauthorised reader, and wherei... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295907 | Recovery of calibrated center steering position after loss of battery power The steering angle of a vehicle is monitored using position sensors of an electric motor of an electric power assisted steering (EPAS) system. A position of the electric motor corresponding to the straight-ahead, center position of the steering system is stored in n... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7269465 | Control system for controlling safety-critical processes There is provided a control system for controlling safety-critical processes that includes a fieldbus, a bus master for controlling a communication via the fieldbus, at least one signal unit for linking to at least one of the safety-critical processes, and a first c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257463 | Traveling body system, automated storage and retrieval system, and method for controlling traveling body A travel distance-measuring unit measures optically a distance to a stacker crane by a travel distance-measuring sensor provided at a reference measuring position between the stacker crane that can travel on a predetermined route along a travel rail and a ceiling ra... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7231060 | Systems and methods of generating control signals Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure between the left channel and the right channel; classifying portions of th... | 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 |
| 7204145 | Activity monitoring An activity monitor is provided that corrects for the effects of motion external to the entity being monitored. For example, the activity monitor can overcome the effects of vehicular travel. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196611 | Barrier movement operator human interface method and apparatus Improvements in human interaction with barrier movement operators are disclosed. A controller of the barrier movement operator is capable of a number of learning modes in which the controller cooperates with a user to learn operating parameters. The controller guide... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191020 | Output service provision system, virtual object management terminal, mobile object, virtual object management terminal program, mobile object program, and output service provision method This invention provides an output service provision system which is capable of allowing a user to easily receive a provided output service, providing an output service responsive to the user and flexibly coping with situational variations. Upon determining that a vi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182692 | Gaming machine with scanning capability A gaming apparatus with a scanner is disclosed where a player can input an object into the scanner, view and modify the scan and take actions based on the scan. ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184844 | Central site architecture for remote service delivery There is provided a central site system for communicating with at least one remote site equipment monitor, the at least one remote site equipment monitor collecting operational data concerning remote site equipment. The central site system includes a data transfer s... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181192 | Handheld portable automatic emergency alert system and method In one embodiment, an automated emergency alert system includes a handheld portable communication device operable to initiate communication over a wireless telecommunications network, a dynamic sensor operable to generate an acceleration profile for the device, and ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177724 | Portable terminal for controlling, programming and/or teaching robots or similar automatic apparatuses A programming system for a robot or similar apparatus comprises a portable programming terminal (6) having a display device (D), a plurality of jog keys (14) for controlling the robot movements and a plurality of teaching keys (15–24, 26). The... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167761 | Methods and systems for modifying the operation of a compressor via a portable memory device A method and system for modifying the operation a device. The method can include obtaining a first reconfiguration kit. The first reconfiguration kit can include a portable memory device. The method can also include connecting the portable memory device to the devic... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164956 | Remote operation management system A remote operation management system for commercial appliances is provided. The system includes a user interface for authorizing use of an appliance and a dedicated appliance controller coupled to the user interface and the appliance for controlling operation of the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164971 | System for programming robots or similar automatic apparatuses, comprising a portable programming terminal A programming system for a robot includes a portable programming terminal (6) having a series of jog keys (14) for controlling the motions of the robot, a key (18) for selecting one among a plurality of possible co-ordinate systems for the jog k... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7140832 | Method and system for rotating a turbine stator ring A method for distributing effects of a circumferential hot streak condition in a turbine includes communicating a control signal to a rotator moving a stator ring with the rotator in response to the control signal. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137770 | Transporting apparatus with position detection sensor A transporting apparatus is provided with a moving platform capable of moving vertically, an article loading platform that can be moved horizontally with respect to the moving platform, a contactless sensor provided on the moving platform, a detected member that is ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7134604 | Non-contact IC card In a non-contact IC card for performing communication with a reader/writer, an encryption block having a DES (data encryption standard) block for performing an encryption operation in accordance with a public key encryption algorithm and an ECC/SHA1 (elliptic curve ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136937 | Contact and contactless interface storage device with processor An integrated storage device for transferring data between a remote base station and an appliance, includes a non-volatile storage device configured for storing the data, an antenna and a processor arrangement. The antenna is configured for wirelessly receiving elec... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133043 | Computer graphics methods and apparatus for ray intersection Ray-intersection methods and apparatus that greatly facilitate processing associated with computer graphics are described. In the described embodiment, a collection of shapes are defined that approximate an object. The described shapes are polygons, with exemplary p... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130701 | System for remote configuration monitoring of an industrial control system A system for providing technical support for remote automation or remote control devices, the system including: a device identifier (35), for determining components of pre-determined automation or control devices, such as for example programmable logic contro... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117047 | High accuracy inspection system and method for using same A method and a system that enable the inspection of large envelopes and complex surfaces. This is accomplished by generating a rotation and translation transform which enables the process monitoring system to define the location of the product placed in a field of v... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113836 | Control device for maneuvering an apparatus Reliable and at the same time simple operation of a plurality of system components using only a single control element is guaranteed by means of the combination of a control lever (10) which can be swiveled manually and a rotational control unit (11) w... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099719 | Output cam system and method In accordance with a first preferred embodiment, a control method comprises monitoring a position of a motion control axis and controlling an output device responsive to the position of the motion control axis. The controlling step further includes latching a cam el... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096077 | Tool identification A tool joint part has a PIC incorporated therein for storing data which can be used to identify the tool to which the joint part is interconnected. PICs are incorporated into tool conditioning circuits. An intermediate circuit operates to match the identity stored d... | 08/22/2006 |
