Thomson Licensing S.a.

Bdt Media Automation Gmbh

Ulrich Adrion

Martin Kuner

Torsten Harms

Danny Koch

Franz Bucher

A method for the recognition of spatial proximity relationships in a modular system having module assemblies, each module assembly having a transmitter and a receiver arranged so that the transmitter of a first module assembly corresponds to the receiver of a second module assembly, and each of the module assemblies having a network connection for connection via a communication network to other of the module assemblies, includes: automatically requesting and allocating a network address for each of the respective network connections via the communication network so as to enable an addressing of the module assemblies via the network; and determining spatial proximity relationships of the module assemblies by triggering and evaluating the transmitters and receivers using the communication network via the network connection.

Method and device for automatic addressing and recognition of spatial proximity relationships in modular systems for transferring objects

The pressure-difference microphone is arranged in a housing, and there is provided in one of the housing walls a single opening, directed onto the front side of the microphone, for feeding voice commands which can be produced in the acoustic near field of the housing. According to the invention, the arrangement of the microphone and/or the air volume which surrounds the microphone in this case are such that the microphone can be irradiated with sound through the opening, using the pressure-difference principle.

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Trossingen, Germany

Ulrich Adrion