Loud Technologies Inc

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Graham Cyril Jordan

Nathan Pius O'Neill

Kent Benke Swendseid

John Phillip Boudreau

Benjamin Seth Olswang

Frank Larry Frederick

Jeffrey M Humphrey

Robert M Riggs

Paul Eugene Munger

Andrew James Pierce

Alexander Eugene Choi

Benjamin Hong Yee

Joshua R Smith

Somasundaram Niranjayan

James Stephanick

Ismael Medrano

Thomas Duester

Alexander Michael Frenkel

Nicolas Kurczewski

Benjamin Jozef Gyori

Eric Mathew Clayton

Jacob Drewniak

Amey Madhukar Teredesai

Rafiuddin Arif Ahud

Sergio Alfredo Phan Lung Li

Christopher Robert Renner

Alan Akiyoshi Nonaka

Ali Rahimi

David Bryan Michelman

Edwin Louis Howard

Cody Ryder Volk

Sarang Sandeep Bhadsavle

Matthew Zimmer

An apparatus comprising an array of electrical conductors connected to circuitry that determines data indicative of objects at particular locations based on capacitance at junctions of conductors in the array. The apparatus comprises a first set of conductors arranged on a first substrate and a second set of conductors arranged on a second substrate to form an array. The first and second substrates are separated by an air gap within which the electrical conductors are positioned. Each conductor may be independently addressable, having a proximal end connected to readout electronics and a distal end that is not. The apparatus may be cut, at the ends distal to where the conductors connect to the circuitry, to fit a desired location, such as on a store shelf, while remaining operational.

Field-configurable capacitive mat

A load sensor compares generated values of load signals to predicted values of the load signals. Where an error between a generated value and a predicted value is less than a threshold, a value of zero is transmitted by the load sensor to an external systems, in an encoded stream of bits, and the error are used to calculate a predicated value of a next load signal, such that insubstantial changes in loading resulting in small errors are not transmitted to the external system. Where an error between the generated value and the predicted value exceeds the threshold, however, a value representative of the error is transmitted to the external system, in an encoded stream of bits. The external system processes the stream of bits to calculate the error, to determine that an item has been placed on a storage system or removed therefrom, or to identify the item.

Compressing load signal transmissions

An apparatus includes a platform or other accessory that is supported by one or more transducer assemblies using piezoelectric transducers. In one implementation, a saddle structure provides mechanical support to a platform while transferring force from a load onto a portion to which a pair of piezoelectric transducers are affixed. As a load on the saddle changes, the resulting change in strain on the portion produces signals from the piezoelectric transducers. In another implementation a beam provides mechanical support to a platform or other accessory. A pair of piezoelectric transducers are affixed near a strain concentrator, such as a hole in the beam, produce signals indicative of a change in load on the beam.

Piezoelectric weight sensing apparatus

A fixture includes a shelf upon which items may be placed. In one implementation, the shelf is supported by four load cells that provide load cell data that may be used to calculate weight data for the load on the shelf. The load cells are mounted underneath a frame, with an upper portion of a load mount extending upward through the frame and engaged to the shelf. The shelf and the frame include stiffeners to increase rigidity, improving the quality of the load cell data. Electronics and a wiring harness are located underneath the frame. In this configuration, assembly of the fixture may be accomplished completely from the underside, simplifying assembly.

Multi-load cell weighing shelf

Portable audio mixer dock

An audio mixer () include a chassis () adapted to receive a docking tray assembly (), which in turn is adapted to receive a computing device (). The computing device functions to operate and control the audio mixer (), and to this end includes a touch screen display (). The docking tray assembly () includes formed tray () and, optionally, an adapter configured as a formed insert () that nests with the tray () to dock a computing device of a configuration different from the computing device docked directly with the tray ().

Computing device docking tray for audio mixer

Portable audio mixer

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Snohomish, WA, United States of America

Graham Cyril Jordan