At+t Corp.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

At&t Bell Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories

AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

Lucent Technologies Inc.

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., At&t Bell Laboratories

Henry Spalding Baird

John Stewart Denker

Donnie Henderson

Hans Peter Graf

Wayne E. Hubbard

Richard Edwin Howard

Lawrence David Jackel

Lawrence O'gorman

Richard E Howard

Urs A Muller

Daniel Dongyuel Lee

Ibrahim Volkan Isler

Daewon Lee

Xiaoran Fan

Evelyn L Hu

Richard Howard

Stephen Whittaker

Yann Andre LeCun

Corinna Cortes

Julia Hirschberg

Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr

Ronald J Brachman

Sheryl Leigh Woodward

Amit Garg

Byoung-Jo J Kim

Thomas M Smith

Rajeev B Patil

Barry S Bosik

Theodoor Charlouis Damen

Jeffrey L Tuttle

Dae Won Lee

Hans P Graf

Wan-Ping Chiang

Colin Prepscius

Lawrence O'Gorman

Yuan Chen

Caleb Sebastian Escobedo

Beat Flepp

Riley William Simmons-edler

Siddharth Rupavatharam

William J Skocpol

Michael A Duguay

Linus A Fetter

William Lee

Wayne E Hubbard

Hyunjune Sebastian Seung

Patrick Joseph Smith

Andrea Basso

In some embodiments, an apparatus for performing reactive positioning of a robot gripper includes one or more fingers disposed on an end-effector of the robot, a signal processing circuit, a memory storing instructions, and a processor. Each of the one or more fingers includes a transducer configured to generate vibrational energy based on an input signal, and convert an acoustic reflection of the vibrational energy from an object into a voltage signal. The signal processing circuit is configured to provide the input signal to each transducer, and perform signal processing on the voltage signal of each transducer resulting in reflection data. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to perform pre-touch proximity detection on the reflection data, perform grasp positioning on the reflection data, perform contact detection from the reflection data, and provide, to the robot, results of the pre-touch proximity detection, the grasp positioning, and the contact detection.

Sonicfinger: low-cost, compact, proximity and contact sensor for reactive positioning

An apparatus for collision avoidance by surface proximity detection includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed adjacent to a surface of an object, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to control a first one among the piezoelectric elements to generate an acoustic wave along the surface of the object, and receive, via a second one among the piezoelectric elements, an acoustic wave signal corresponding to the generated acoustic wave. The at least one processor is further configured to execute the instructions to filter the received acoustic wave signal, using a band-pass filter for reducing noise of the received acoustic wave signal, obtain a proximity signal for proximity detection, from the filtered acoustic wave signal, using a linear time-invariant filter, and detect whether an obstacle is proximate to the surface of the object by inputting the obtained proximity signal into a neural network.

Method and apparatus for robot collision avoidance by full surface proximity detection

A tactile sensing system of a robot may include: a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed at an object, and including a transmission (TX) piezoelectric element and a reception (RX) piezoelectric element; and at least one processor configured to: control the TX piezoelectric element to generate an acoustic wave having a chirp spread spectrum (CSS) at every preset time interval, along a surface of the object; receive, via the RX piezoelectric element, an acoustic wave signal corresponding to the generated acoustic wave; select frequency bands from a plurality of frequency bands of the acoustic wave signal; and estimate a location of a touch input on the surface of the object by inputting the acoustic wave signal of the selected frequency bands into a neural network configured to provide a touch prediction score for each of a plurality of predetermined locations on the surface of the object.

Method and apparatus for estimating touch locations and touch pressures

A method of collision localization on a robotic device includes obtaining audio signals from a plurality of acoustic sensors spaced apart along the robotic device; identifying, based on a collision being detected, a strongest audio signal; identifying a primary onset time for an acoustic sensor producing the strongest audio signal, the primary onset time being a time at which waves propagating from the collision reach the acoustic sensor producing the strongest audio signal; generating a virtual onset time set, by shifting a calibration manifold, based on the identified primary onset time, the calibration manifold representing relative onset times from evenly spaced marker locations on the robotic device to the plurality of acoustic sensors; determining scores for the marker locations based a standard deviation of elements in the virtual onset time set; and estimating a location of the collision based on a highest score of the determined scores.

Acoustic collision detection and localization for robotic devices

A method of managing communications received by a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) terminating at a residence associated with a subscriber is disclosed. The DSL is divided into one baseband line, one or more derived lines and a data connection. A query is received from a Service Control Point (SCP) for subscriber preferences for handling an incoming communication. The query is translated into an Internet Protocol (IP) message and communicated to a web server. A Common Gateway Interface (CGI) application module is invoked that corresponds to the particular type of communication being sent to the residence. The subscriber's preferences for handling the particular type of communication are retrieved from a database. Based on the retrieved preferences and invoked CGI application, call handling instructions are sent to the SCP.

Method of managing circuit switched and internet protocol telephone lines associated with a digital subscriber line service

A novel method and apparatus for recording an audio note for a voice message stored on a messaging platform are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for voice mail notes

The present invention is a system and method for providing and displaying information collected from a variety of information providers such as an electronic mail server or an information content server. Each of the variety of information providers provides information updates which are captured and rendered in a variety of status images which are provided to a user via a Web page or similar facility. The display of information on the Web page is robust against displays from one or more of the information providers since each of the status images and the remainder of the Web page content are rendered independently.

System and method for providing status information from multiple information sources in a single display

The invention provides a system and method for publishing electronic mail messages on the Internet. A user selects an electronic mail message to be published and moves the selected electronic message to a designated folder. The electronic mail message is then processed to convert the electronic mail message into a format suitable for Internet publication. Once converted electronic mail message content is published on the Internet and accessible from any suitable browser software.

System and method for automatically publishing electronic mail messages on the internet

A method for improving video conferencing/calling between participants is disclosed. A video conference/call display window is provided to call participants. The position of the video call window is restricted to a portion of a video display screen which is close to the position of a video camera which is used during the video call. In this manner, a video call participant will be perceived to be looking at the video camera during the video call.

Method for improving video conferencing and video calling

A call-forwarding system can be remotely controlled in a simple and easily understood manner, thereby increasing the usage of call-forwarding. By maintaining a registry of special telephone numbers for a user's telephone and, upon receiving a telephone call from one of the special telephone numbers, the system forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. The call-forwarding system includes a registry of special telephone numbers and a call-forwarding controller which, upon receiving a call from one of the special telephone numbers, forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. In addition, the call-forwarding controller includes a caller-ID application which identifies all incoming telephone calls and passes this information to the controller. The controller then compares the incoming call to the telephone numbers in the registry and, upon obtaining a match, activates a routine for forwarding future incoming calls to the matched telephone number. The above method of controlling call-forwarding of an office telephone from a remote telephone provides the end user a very simple interface to allow remote enabling and disabling of call-forwarding.

Method and apparatus for remotely controlling telephone call-forwarding

A messaging system uses the standard email subject line to control where a message gets delivered, when a message gets delivered and the appearance of a message when it gets delivered. This enables a company to use its standard intranet email system as a pseudo real-time messaging transport with a range of delivery options. Several codes control the features of the alerting message, and a predefined escape sequence for use by the sender is recognizable by a dedicated server. This escape sequence enables these codes. By placing the escape sequence in a predetermined location in each message, the sender indicates to the system that codes for controlling the features of the alerting message follow the escape sequence. Using these codes, the user can then specify when, how often and in what manner the alert message is displayed to the recipient in a window on the recipient's workstation. In addition, the sender can certain aspects of message routing and delivery using these codes. In addition, routing of the message within the network can be controlled by the sender in the same manner by specifying a particular routing within the subject line of the message following the escape sequence. This includes routing the message to a facsimile, a pager or a telephone, or voice mail system. This is in addition to the normal email address used in the message.

Method and system for delivery of e-mail and alerting messages

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Lawrence David Jackel