Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

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Jun Shi

Jingwei Tan

Declan Patrick Kelly

Jun Zhou

Philip Steven Newton

Liang Gan

Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Gestel

Jonathan Alambra Palero

Rainer Hilbig

Yanyan Wang

Jan Frederik Suijver

Achim Gerhard Rolf Koerber

Murtaza Bulut

Bin Yin

Michael Martin Scheja

Zhongchi Luo

Weizhong Chen

Jing Su

Guang Ning

Weiqing Wang

Peter Hermanus Bouma

Huibin Wei

Lucia Lu

Shouyue Sun

Jingwei Johannes Maria Tan

Xuan Zhang

Qiushi Zhang

Sheng Jin

Wei Su

Hilbig Rainer

Shuang Chen

Peng Zhang

A device for use in a process for roasting coffee beans comprises measuring means () for performing measurements of an actual value of particulate matter emission from the coffee beans during a process of roasting the coffee beans, and controlling means () coupled to the measuring means () for receiving the outcome of the measurements from the measuring means (), wherein the controlling means () are adapted to find a pattern of the particulate matter emission over time on the basis of the outcome of the measurements, to determine an actual roasting degree of the coffee beans on the basis of the pattern, and to determine and set at least one characteristic of the roasting process on the basis of the roasting degree.

Method for controlling a process of roasting coffee beans and device for use in a process for roasting coffee beans

A apparatus () for roasting coffee beans is disclosed comprising a compartment () for holding coffee beans (); a roasting element () for roasting the coffee beans in said compartment; and a processor () comprising a control unit () for controlling the roasting element. Wherein, the processor () is adapted to determine a weight loss rate of the coffee beans, and the control unit () is adapted to control the roasting element as a function of the determined weight loss rate. A coffee machine including such an apparatus and a method for roasting coffee beans are also disclosed.

Apparatus and method for roasting coffee beans, and coffee machine

A coffee roasting apparatus is disclosed comprising a compartment for holding coffee beans, a heating arrangement for heating the coffee beans in the compartment during a roasting process of the coffee beans, a volatile organic compound sensor for determining a total concentration of volatile organic compounds residing in the compartment, and a controller for controlling the heating arrangement. The controller is adapted to determine whether a rate of change in the total concentration of volatile organic compounds exceeds a predefined threshold and control the heating arrangement based on a determination that the rate of change in the total concentration of volatile organic compounds exceeds the predefined threshold. A coffee brewing apparatus including such a coffee roasting apparatus and a coffee roasting method are also disclosed.

Coffee roasting apparatus, coffee brewing apparatus and coffee roasting method

A coffee roasting apparatus is disclosed that comprises a compartment for holding coffee beans, a heating arrangement for directing a heated air flow through the compartment during a roasting process of the coffee beans, a particulate matter sensor for detecting a peak amount of particulate matter released by the coffee beans, a timer for determining an amount of time lapsed from a start of the roasting process until the detection of the peak amount, and a controller arranged to control the heating arrangement. The controller is adapted to select a defined control time as a function of the lapsed amount of time and apply the defined control time to the heating arrangement after first cracking of the coffee beans to complete the roasting process. A coffee brewing apparatus including such a coffee roasting apparatus and a method of controlling such a coffee roasting apparatus are also disclosed.

Coffee roasting apparatus, coffee brewing apparatus and method

A coffee processing apparatus () is disclosed that comprises at least one of a grinding stage () for grinding coffee beans () into ground coffee beans (); and a brewing stage () for brewing coffee from ground coffee beans; the coffee processing apparatus further comprising a sensor () arranged to sense a total concentration of volatile organic compounds released by said coffee beans or ground coffee beans; and a controller () responsive to said sensor and arranged to control said grinding stage and/or said brewing stage as a function of said total concentration. Methods of controlling such a coffee processing apparatus are also disclosed.

Coffee processing apparatus and method

An infusion pump is disclosed comprising control unit, container, actuation unit and detection unit. The container can store medicinal liquid for treating hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. The control unit can receive external control signal comprising infusion interval, concentration of medicinal liquid and dose of medicament for treating hypogonadotropic hypogonadism at each infusion. The control unit is configured to activate actuation unit based on infusion interval to cause medicinal liquid to flow out of container. The detection unit can detect output of medicinal liquid from container and feed it back to control unit. The control unit is configured to activate actuation unit based on dose at each infusion, concentration of medicinal liquid and fed-back output of medicinal liquid. According to the invention, sustained, automatic infusions of the medicament for treating hypogonadotropic hypogonadism are allowed without patient intervention. As a result, intelligent infusion of medicament is achieved in an easy and efficient manner.

Infusion pump

A method for brewing coffee involves providing two separate quantities of coffee particles, wherein only a first quantity of coffee particles is used for an actual process of brewing coffee by causing this quantity to interact with an extracting medium, and wherein another, secondary quantity of coffee particles is heated for enhanced aroma release. The second quantity may be small compared to the first quantity. The two separate quantities of coffee particles may be obtained by first providing a single quantity of coffee particles, for example by grinding a number of coffee beans in a grinding module (), and then dividing the single quantity into the two quantities. In a device () which is suitable for carrying out the method, a dividing arrangement () may be applied for realizing a suitable distribution of coffee particles over a brewing chamber () and a heating module () of the device ().

Method for brewing coffee and having enhanced aroma release

A coffee roasting apparatus is disclosed that comprises a compartment for holding coffee beans; a roasting element for roasting the coffee beans in said compartment; a controller for controlling the roasting element; and a sensor for monitoring a total amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by said coffee beans during roasting and providing the controller with an indication of said monitored amount. The controller is adapted to receive an indication of the total weight of the coffee beans in the compartment and control the roasting element as a function of the indication of the monitored total amount and the indication of the total weight, said function defining the total VOC release characteristics of said coffee beans during roasting. A coffee brewing apparatus and coffee roasting method are also disclosed.

A sleep monitoring system () for monitoring the sleep of a subject is disclosed. The system comprises a COsensor () and a processor () communicatively coupled to the COsensor, wherein the processor is adapted to monitor a COconcentration from sensor data produced by the COsensor; and derive sleep pattern information from the monitored COconcentration, wherein the sleep pattern information comprises at least an indication that the subject is awake and an indication that the subject is asleep. A sleep monitoring method and computer program product are also disclosed.

Sleep monitoring

Disclosed is an air purification system () including an air purification apparatus () comprising an air inlet (); an air outlet () for expelling air in a target direction () into a region and including an adjustment mechanism () arranged to adjust said target direction in response to a target direction adjustment signal from a control system for aiming the air outlet at the face of a person in said region; at least one pollutant removal structure () in between the air inlet and the air outlet; and an air displacement apparatus () for displacing air from the air inlet to the air outlet through the at least one pollutant removal structure, and a sensor () adapted to determine a breathing parameter of the person, wherein the air purification apparatus is configured to expel said air as a function of said breathing parameter. A computer program product for configuring such a control system is also disclosed.

Targeted clean air delivery

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for editing an audio/video program. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the description information of two program segments of the program, the program segments being in sequence in playing order, the description information comprising the ending description information of the previous program segment and the start point information of the subsequent program segment, generating a guiding information to guide the ending point information to the start point information according to the description information and playing order of the program segments and updating the description information of the program according to the guiding information. With this invention, excessively detailed application editing work and an expense of high buffering cost may be avoided in editing compact disc program.

Method and apparatus for editing a video and/or audio program

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for editing a program on a re-writable compact disc. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the description information of two program segments of said program, said program segments being in sequence in playing-back order, said description information comprising the ending description information of the previous program segment and the start point information of the subsequent program segment, generating a guiding information to guide the ending point information to the start point information according to the description information and playing-back order of said program segments and updating the description information of said program according to said guiding information. With this invention, excessively detailed application editing work and an expense of high buffering cost may be avoided in editing compact disc program.

Method and apparatus for editing a program on an optical disc

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for editing a program on a re-writable compact disc. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the description information of two program segments of said program, said program segments being in sequence in playing-back order, said description information comprising the ending point information of the previous program segment and the start point information of the subsequent program segment, generating a guiding information to guide the ending point information to the start point information according to the description information and playing-back order of said program segments and updating the description information of said program according to said guiding information. With this invention, excessively detailed application editing work and an expense of high buffering cost may be avoided in editing compact disc program.

A method and device for storing an interactive television program for playback at a later point in time, wherein said interactive television program comprises at least one interactive television application. The applications are transmitted inside modules () through a data carousel () within a transport stream (). The method comprises receiving the transport stream, parsing the stream for application modules and storing them as a storage stream on a storage medium (). The storage stream is stored separate from said transport stream (). The data or object carousel is recorded outside the Transport Stream and recorded like a stream, preferably as a single file. This file is a sequence of modules with some header information preceding the modules making playback faster as the information needed to obtain the objects from a module is located directly in the header of that module. Furthermore, the solution according to the invention solution is platform independent.

Method and apparatus for storing an interactive television program

A method (1) of transmitting interactive television, whereby interactive television applications are transmitted inside application-modules. These modules are transmitted in a broadcast stream. Recording systems cannot decide which modules are to be recorded. Therefore storage related information of said modules is signalled in the broadcast stream. Module identification information related is implemented in the Application Information Table (AIT) and/or in the Download Information Indication (DII) message. Thus information is included in the broadcast stream concerning categories stating whether application modules are mandatory, optional or forbidden to record. Alternatively properties of a module are chosen from Code/Data/Both and/or Fixed/Variable. Recording systems use this information do decide if application modules are to be recorded or disregarded. Alternatively, application module identification information is transmitted in said broadcast stream. A module identification number is used to avoid multiple recordings. Application modules having the same category are preferably grouped together.

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Jun Shi