Texas Instruments Corporation

Dp Technologies, Inc.

Lightsurf Technologies, Inc.

Verisign, Inc.

Syniverse Icx Corporation

Equator Technologies, Inc.

Agfa Gevaert Nv

Venkat V Easwar

Philippe Richard Kahn

Eric O Bodnar

Arthur Kinsolving

Mark Andrew Christensen

Shekhar Kirani

Sonia Lee Kahn

Arunabha Ghose

Suvarna Harish Kumar

Ralph E Payne

Praveen Kademada Ganapathy

Sadhana Gupta

Robert J Gove

John Setel O'Donnell

David Vogel

William Swinton

Timothy Genske

Ramachandran Natarajan

Matthew Harbridge Gerlach

Santhosh T N Kumar

Andrew Cotton-Clay

Amit Agarwal

William E Nelson

Donald B Doherty

Vishal Markandey

Stephen Wesley Marshall

Partha S Chowdhury

Robert F Janssens

Dirk K Broddin

Frank A Deschuytere

Paul M Urbanus

Chirag C Bakshi

Vivek Kumar Thakur

Steven D Powell

Srinivasan Ramachandran

Fred Jay Reuter

Werner F Heirbaut

Pochiraju Srinivas Rao

Lowell Boggs

Jean-Pierre J Slabbaert

Robert J Grove

Gouresh Govind Kamat

A method of detecting the presence of a person on a bed comprising, receiving movement data in pseudo-real-time, extracting features from the movement data for a time period in pseudo-real-time, recording the user's on-bed and off-bed time segments, and determining a sleep schedule. The method further comprising utilizing a sleep engine to determine sleep stages for the user, and calculating sleep conditions. The method in one embodiment further comprising adjusting the bed when the sleep conditions indicate an event.

Sleep detection and analysis system

The present system ensures that external noise sources do not taint sensor data recorded about a user's sleep parameters, to reduce false positives and false negatives, and provides a more accurate record of the user's sleep sounds, by cycling on and off noise sources. Additionally, the present system, in one embodiment, may be used to track changes in sound patterns from the user and from the environment. This may lead to early warning of health issues, as well as issues with the devices in the bedroom.

Determination of sleep parameters in an environment with uncontrolled noise sources

Devices, systems and methods that track various aspects of a person's sleep and environment to optimize one or more aspects of the user's environment and sleep conditions, quality and duration, together or alone, and help make the one or more users maintain and prolong his or her deep sleep status and improve the their sleep duration and quality.

Sleep ecosystem

A method comprising receiving data from a sleep sensor integrated in a mattress system, the sleep sensor coupled via a cord to a data collection unit, analyzing the data at the data collection unit, and providing results of the analyzed data to a user mobile device via a wireless connection, for display to the user.

Sleep surface sensor based sleep analysis system

Detection of sleep sounds with cycled noise sources

A method of detecting the presence of a person on a bed comprising, receiving movement data in pseudo-real-time, extracting features from the movement data for a time period in pseudo-real-time, determining whether the bed is occupied for the time period in pseudo-real-time, for each time period in which the bed is indicated as occupied, determining a user on a side of the bed, based on data from a plurality of time periods, and utilizing a sleep engine to determine sleep stages for the user. The method in one embodiment further comprising flagging when a majority of the plurality of time periods indicate that the sleep stage for the user is awake and providing a sleep recording to the user, showing the sleep stages for the user.

A method and apparatus to receive data from a dual sleep sensor associated with a sleep surface, and analyzing the data to identify sleep phases of one or more users on the sleep surface. In one embodiment, the dual sleep sensor comprises two or more sensors positioned to enable separation of motion data of a first sleeper and a second sleeper.

Dual sleep monitor

An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete compression following each snapshot or that incorporate heavy, bulky, and expensive RAM hardware capable of maintaining several raw luminosity records (unprocessed file containing a digital image). In the 1st stage compression the raw luminosity record is quickly, yet partially, compressed to available RAM buffer space to allow a user to expeditiously capture a succeeding image. When the higher-priority processes, the user shooting pictures, and stage one compression subside, a 2nd stage compression, which is slower but more effective, decompresses the earlier partially-compressed images, and re-compresses them for saving in flash memory until they are distributed to a remote platform to be finally converted to the JPEG2000 format.

Digital camera device providing improved methodology for rapidly taking successive pictures

A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e.g., desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras. Further, by adopting an image strategy optimized for compression (compressed luminosity record), the present invention decreases the bandwidth requirements for transmitting images, thereby facilitating the wireless transmission of digital camera images.

Digital camera device and methodology for distributed processing and wireless transmission of digital images

A method and apparatus for receiving motion data and determining acceleration vectors based on biomechanical data and the received motion data. The method further comprises creating an improved image based on the acceleration vectors.

Method and apparatus for improving photo image quality

A media spooler system is described that provides a methodology for efficient transmission of media content from client devices, such transmission of digital images from wireless digital cameras. The media spooler or gateway addresses wireless transmission problems by acting as a protocol gateway between a thin-client device and a target host or server (supported by a server infrastructure). More particularly, the media spooler of the present invention acts as a protocol gateway between thin-client devices (e.g., 'mobile visual communicator' in the form of a wireless digital camera) and server infrastructure (e.g., server-based computer systems or 'Web servers' of a photographic service provider). This task entails accepting multiple, simultaneous connections from various client devices (e.g., wireless digital cameras), extracting information from those devices (e.g., digital photographs or other media content), and then uploading that information to the target server infrastructure. In basic operation, the media spooler queries each client device for the information (e.g., media, such as pictures) the client device thinks should uploaded, and then the media spooler queries the server infrastructure for the subset of pictures that have not been already uploaded. This improved coordination or synchronization of information between a device and target host allows for efficient recovery of dropped cellular data calls by essentially allowing the media spooler to &#x201c;pick up where it left off.&#x201d;

Media spooler system and methodology providing efficient transmission of media content from wireless devices

A method to render images is described. The method comprises having an image including a region of interest, and when processing the image, observing parameters associated with the region of interest.

Media publishing system with methodology for parameterized rendering of image regions of interest

A system including methodology for optimizing/customizing display or rendering of requested images is described. In one embodiment, the system provides on-demand creation of images that are customized for a particular device type. The system comprises a module serving as a repository for images, each image comprising image components arranged into distinct layers; a module for processing a request from a device for retrieving a particular image from the repository, the module determining a particular device type for the device based in part on information contained in the request; and a module for creating a copy of the particular image that is customized for the device, the module individually rendering image components in the distinct layers of the particular image based on the determined device type, such that at least some of the image components in the distinct layers of the particular image are customized for the device.

Imaging system providing dynamic viewport layering

A method and apparatus for creating associations between messages in a stateless system. The method comprises adding a unique identification to a notification message at a gateway, and upon receiving a response from a user, identifying the unique identification within the response, and utilizing the unique identification to associate the response with the notification message.

Method and apparatus for response enabled messaging

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