COORDINATED ALERT AND EVENT GUIDANCE SYSTEM
Granted: June 27, 2019
Application Number:
20190197887
A system for providing an optical event alert signal to portable devices carried by pedestrians or vehicles, comprises: a video unit located along a thoroughfare, configured to capture sound, and video images of traffic conditions and events, analyze and recognize types of events, and transmit one or more identified event data packets over a communication link to lighting device nodes located around or along the thoroughfare; and one or more lighting device nodes located along a…
SELF-HEALING LIGHTING NETWORK
Granted: June 6, 2019
Application Number:
20190174329
A central management system polls a lighting node in a mesh lighting network, sending a command message for the node to measure a link quality indication (LQI) of the received command message. The node returns a status message, including in its payload the measured LQI. The management system computes from the node's status messages, a statistical characterization of the link quality of the node and compares it with a threshold quality value. If the comparison indicates sufficient…
DISCOVERY MESSAGE AND PROVISIONING REQUEST INTERFACE FOR LIGHTING NETWORKS
Granted: January 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190008017
Example embodiments of an invention to efficiently organize and control a distributed lighting network. A process supports message flows and an interface to facilitate the organization and control a very large array of intelligent lighting nodes. Each newly installed lighting node broadcasts an initial contact message that includes fields specifying requests, such as lighting schedule, intensity, color, aiming direction, flood lighting, etc. A central controller receives the message at a…
HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE VIDEO OF FAST MOVING OBJECTS WITHOUT BLUR
Granted: September 27, 2018
Application Number:
20180276482
Fast moving objects may be monitored by a video unit under a variety of lighting conditions. In a bootstrap phase, a model database is established for each of a plurality of sampling points, each model being a combination of color of the video image, respective optimum exposure, and respective lighting condition. Then in an image capture phase the video unit compares captured color and optimum exposure of the sampling point, with the models of color and respective optimum exposure in the…
VIDEO DATA BACKGROUND TRACKING AND SUBTRACTION WITH MULTIPLE LAYERS OF STATIONARY FOREGROUND AND REGIONS
Granted: August 30, 2018
Application Number:
20180247136
Transient connected regions are tracked in a video sequence, marking them as foreground layer or background layer when the transient regions become stable. A stack of background/foreground Gaussian mixer models is maintained for each pixel. The decision to mark a stable region as background layer or a new or existing foreground layer is done by matching the region with each model in the model stack. If the new region matches an existing model, then the layers above the matched layers are…
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR MINING, CORRELATING, AND ANALYZING LOCALLY OBTAINED TRAFFIC DATA INCLUDING VIDEO
Granted: July 26, 2018
Application Number:
20180211116
A distributed system is disclosed for mining, correlating and analyzing locally obtained traffic video data. The system comprises a central controller configured to correlate traffic counting meta data gathered at a thoroughfare, to transmit control information to specify one or more traffic counting events to be monitored by at least one video unit located at the thoroughfare and to receive traffic counting meta data from the at least one video unit. The at least one video unit located…
FILTERED DISCOVERY OF DEVICES ON A NETWORK
Granted: July 5, 2018
Application Number:
20180191576
A system manages the quantity of responses by discoverable lighting devices in a network, in responding to a device discovery request from a lighting control server. Each device includes a random target number accessible via the network, comprising a plurality of sequentially arranged fields, each field including a random target integer selected from a range of integers, based on a position of the field in the sequentially arranged fields of the random target number. The device discovery…
VIDEO DATA AND GIS MAPPING FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING, EVENT DETECTION AND CHANGE PREDICITION
Granted: May 3, 2018
Application Number:
20180122231
A distributed system for traffic monitoring and event detection includes a plurality of video units within viewing distance of a thoroughfare to be monitored. Each video unit processes a video stream while monitoring events at the thoroughfare, identifies and analyzes events, encodes traffic meta data characterizing the analysis, and transmits the meta data to a central controller. The central controller stores a geographic map representing the thoroughfare, correlates the meta data…
SYSTEM OF CORRELATED VIDEO AND LIGHTING FOR PARKING MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
Granted: April 26, 2018
Application Number:
20180114437
A parking management system includes a parking facility management controller configured to allocate parking spaces at a parking facility as at least one of customer reserved spaces, handicap spaces, electric vehicle station spaces, premium spaces or unreserved spaces, the controller further including a communications unit configured to transmit the allocation of parking spaces to at least one video unit located at the parking facility. The video unit located at the parking facility,…
DETECTING AND LOCATING POWER OUTAGES VIA LOW VOLTAGE GRID MAPPING
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278162
In a power grid capable of electrical power delivery and power line communications, a distribution transformer and at least one smart meter is connected to the power grid. In one embodiment, the distribution transformer is configured to map the smart meters on the power grid to a virtual grid based upon measurements of signal metrics received from the various smart meters on the power grid, and the virtual grid is used to determine if a failure has occurred on the physical grid. A…
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHASE-BASED MULTI-CARRIER MODULATION (MCM) PACKET DETECTION
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140269949
A method is disclosed for detecting packet at a receiving system in a Multi-Carrier Modulation (MCM) system. The method starts with receiving a signal at the receiving system. Then during the plurality of symbol durations, a set of phases of the signal for each symbol duration is obtained, where each phase is a phase of a carrier of the number of carriers. Then a set of phase variances for each carrier of the number of carriers is obtained, where each phase variance is a difference of…
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-CARRIER MODULATION (MCM) PACKET DETECTION BASED ON PHASE DIFFERENCES
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140269948
A method is disclosed for detecting packet at a receiving system in a Multi-Carrier Modulation (MCM) system. The method starts with receiving a signal at the receiving system. Then a deviation value of the signal is computed, where the deviation value is computed at least partially based on phase differences between some number of carriers in the preamble. The deviation value is compared with a threshold to determine whether a packet has been detected from the received signal. In…
METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ENHANCING SIGNAL PROCESSING IN A SHARED MEDIUM NETWORK
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140269758
A method implemented in a device is disclosed for networking through signals transmitted across a shared medium network. The method starts with monitoring for a first signal on a shared medium of the shared medium network. The first signal is processed after it is received and while the first signal is being processed, a set of one or more signals is received on the shared medium. Then a set of one or more amplitude increases is determined, where each amplitude increase is from an…
STAGGERED LASER-ETCH LINE GRAPHIC SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE
Granted: December 19, 2013
Application Number:
20130337238
A staggered laser-etch line graphic system, method, and articles of manufacture are provided. One described method includes the steps of laser engraving a first plurality of lines associated with a first component section of a graphic on a surface of an article; laser engraving a second plurality of lines associated with a second component section of the graphic on the surface of the article; and controlling said laser engraving of the first plurality of lines and said laser engraving of…
Compounds and methods of use thereof for assaying lysophospholipase D activity
Granted: October 14, 2010
Application Number:
20100260682
Fluorogenic lysophosphatidic acid derivatives which can be used as substrates in a continuous, fluorogenic assay that can be performed in microtiter plates. The assays permit measuring LysoPLD activity levels in normal events such as pregnancy or disease states such as cancer. In addition, the present invention can be adopted to high throughout screening (HTS) for identification of potential inhibitors of lysoPLD activity.
Compounds and methods of use thereof for assaying lysophospholipase D activity
Granted: March 12, 2009
Application Number:
20090068697
Fluorogenic lysophosphatidic acid derivatives which can be used as substrates in a continuous, fluorogenic assay that can be performed in microtiter plates. The assays permit measuring LysoPLD activity levels in normal events such as pregnancy or disease states such as cancer. In addition, the present invention can be adopted to high throughout screening (HTS) for identification of potential inhibitors of lysoPLD activity.
Method and system for network-based, distributed, real-time command and control of an enterprise
Granted: November 17, 2005
Application Number:
20050256735
Methods and systems for command and control of an enterprise. An enterprise operating system is disclosed including five frameworks: an enterprise bridge framework, an enterprise controller framework, a performance measurement framework, a control processing framework, and an enterprise operating system services framework. A system is disclosed to receive a plurality of messages, filter and sort the messages, generate courses of action based on the messages, validate and resource the…
Compounds and methods of use thereof for assaying lysophospholipase D activity
Granted: September 2, 2004
Application Number:
20040171096
Fluorogenic lysophosphatidic acid derivatives which can be used as substrates in a continuous, fluorogenic assay that can be performed in microtiter plates. The assays permit measuring LysoPLD activity levels in normal events such as pregnancy or disease states such as cancer. In addition, the present invention can be adopted to high throughout screening(HTS) for identification of potential inhibitors of lysoPLD activity.
Lipid phosphatase assays in disease and drug discovery
Granted: May 20, 2004
Application Number:
20040096923
A lipid assay method, kit, and apparatus involving exposing a lipid detector protein containing a lipid recognition motif with a binding specificity for a product lipid of a lipid phosphatase, to a solution containing a substrate lipid of the lipid phosphatase; and determining whether the product lipid is present. The assay is preferably a competitive assay wherein the product lipid has a stronger affinity to the lipid detector protein than the substrate lipid. The lipid recognition…
Internet based home communications system
Granted: April 3, 2003
Application Number:
20030065407
An Internet based home communications system for allowing a homeowner to monitor and control various features of their home from a distant location via a global computer network. The inventive system comprises a plurality of control devices positioned within a home, a control unit in communication with the plurality of control devices wherein the control unit is connected to a global computer network (i.e. Internet), and a data center having server computers connected to the global…
