Stationary exercise bike
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
D974498
Wrist support
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
D950742
Techniques for fine grained correction of count bias in massively parallel DNA sequencing
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11127485
Techniques for automated determination or correction of count bias are based on nucleic acid base content on a finer grained scale than a bin of interest in a target sequence. The techniques include obtaining a target sequence with bins where relative abundances indicate a condition and raw counts Hj of reads, from a subject, which start at each locus j. A partition indicates a fine-grained window at a position relative to a current locus and multiple strata indicating different base…
Method and system for enhancing communication reliability when multiple corrupted frames are received
Granted: July 20, 2021
Patent Number:
11068334
An exemplary communications receiver includes an error detector for determining whether a first and second received frame is corrupted, each frame comprising of a plurality of bits. The receiver includes a filter for determining whether the second received corrupted frame should be recovered. The receiver includes a frame generator for generating a recovered frame based on the plurality of bits of the first and second corrupted frame and frame information of the second corrupted frame,…
Neck pillow
Granted: June 29, 2021
Patent Number:
D923361
Back cushion
Granted: October 20, 2020
Patent Number:
D899142
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for provisioned networking
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10764942
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for network provisioning are described. In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a processor to execute instructions stored in memory; a communication interface coupled to the processor to communicate with an external device; and memory to store instructions which when executed by the processor to provide provisioning capabilities for the apparatus, wherein the memory to further store a node information structure including identifiers for each node…
Filtered discovery of devices on a network
Granted: January 28, 2020
Patent Number:
10547512
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…
Installation of networkable devices
Granted: December 31, 2019
Patent Number:
10523501
Embodiments described herein include systems, apparatuses, and methods for attempting to wirelessly communicate with a networkable device with a mobile device to retrieve an identifier for the networkable device; receiving the identifier from the networkable device; storing the identifier in the mobile device; and sending a request to a provisioning server to provision the networkable device.
High dynamic range video of fast moving objects without blur
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10474906
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…
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for powerline communication
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10474223
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for improved powerline communication (PLC) are described. In one embodiment, a system comprises power down hardware coupled to internal wiring of a premises to selectively power down a portion of the internal wiring on request, and at least one hardware device to transmit a request to the power down hardware to selectively power down a portion of the internal wiring on request and to transmit data using power line communication hardware of the at least…
Video data background tracking and subtraction with multiple layers of stationary foreground and background regions
Granted: October 8, 2019
Patent Number:
10438072
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: October 8, 2019
Patent Number:
10438071
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…
Self-healing lighting network
Granted: September 17, 2019
Patent Number:
10419953
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…
System and method for construction of internal controls for improved accuracy and sensitivity of DNA testing
Granted: June 25, 2019
Patent Number:
10331849
Techniques for construction of internal controls for improved accuracy and sensitivity of DNA testing include obtaining first data and determining weights over real numbers for a normalization function in less than a day. The first data indicates a measured amount of reference sequences for nucleic acids from training samples. The reference sequences include a target, for which an abundance is indicative of a condition of interest, and covariates not correlated with the condition of…
Video data and GIS mapping for traffic monitoring, event detection and change prediction
Granted: March 5, 2019
Patent Number:
10223911
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: February 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10217359
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,…
System and method for bottom-up invocation of control signal repeaters in a mesh lighting network
Granted: January 15, 2019
Patent Number:
10182357
Example embodiments of the invention efficiently organize, control and prioritize a distributed lighting network. A mesh lighting network is organized from the bottom up into groups of lighting devices with control signal repeaters fanning out control signals to each group. Each lighting device is capable of forwarding control signals to additional lighting devices. During build-out of the mesh network, as new lighting devices are installed, the control network automatically selects a…
Methods and systems for applying an improved interleaver for modems operating on power grid
Granted: November 20, 2018
Patent Number:
10135467
Methods and systems are disclosed for applying an interleaver that better distributes signal errors to be used in devices operating on low voltage power grids. One embodiment of a method comprises: determining a frequency cycle of the communication medium; setting an interleaver block size based on the frequency cycle of the communication medium; re-arranging bits in a data packet based on the interleaver block size; transmitting the re-arranged data packet over the communication medium…
Method and system of processing an image upgrade
Granted: October 16, 2018
Patent Number:
10101987
Embodiments of the invention include methods, apparatuses, and systems for processing an image update in a networkable node. An exemplary method comprises initiating an image update process with a node, transmitting an update image to the node, transmitting a confirmation request to determine the node received the update image, upon receiving confirmation the node received the update image, transmitting a switchover command to the node to cause the node to switch from its primary image…
