219 results about "Button press" patented technology

A wireless lighting control system comprises a daylight sensor for measuring a light intensity in a space and a dimmer switch for controlling the amount of power delivered to a lighting load in response to the daylight sensor. For example, the daylight sensor may be able to transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals to the dimmer switch. The system provides methods of calibrating the daylight sensor that allow for automatically measuring and/or calculating one or more operational characteristics of the daylight sensor. One method of calibrating the daylight sensor comprises a “single-button-press” calibration procedure during which a user is only required to actuate a calibration button of the daylight sensor once. In addition, the daylight sensor is operable to automatically measure the total light intensity in the space at night to determine the light intensity of only the electrical light generated by the lighting load.

A control device authentication method in a home network system which includes a slave, a home server which controls the slave, and the control device which performs a remote control function to control the home server, includes registering the control device to the home server; generating and storing, by the control device and the home server, a one-way function set; storing, by the control device and the home server, a code value of a button pressed at the control device; creating, by the control device, a first password by performing an operation using a pointer value, the code value, and a one-way function number; requesting, by the control device, authentication by transferring the pointer value, the one-way function number, and the first password to the home server; and creating, by the home server, a second password.

A method and apparatus for providing distributed control of a home automation system is provided. Each device participating in a home automation system is equipped with control logic for providing distributed control. Through the control logic, each device maintains scene definitions describing the state of the device for each scene in which it participates. When any device in the system receives a request to launch a scene, such as a button press on one of the devices, the device broadcasts a scene state change message to all devices within the home automation system. The scene state change message identifies to each device a particular scene that should be launched. Each device in the system receives the message and determines whether the device is a participant in the scene. If the device is a participant in the scene, the device adjusts its state according to a scene definition stored in the device associated with the scene. The device may adjust a controlled electrical load, such as a light, according to the scene definition by turning the load on, off, or setting the load to some intermediate value.

An accessory interface bus for a telecommunications headset adapter or base unit, which controls and monitors the operations of various headset accessories coupled to the interface bus, is disclosed. The accessory interface bus allows the telecommunications headset adapter to detect when a new accessory is coupled to the bus. The interface bus may be implemented within a headset adapter base in a telecommunications system that includes the headset adapter base, a telecommunications headset coupled to the adapter base, and various headset accessories coupled to the adapter base. The interface bus transmits control and status signals between the headset adapter base and the various headset accessories to directly control and monitor operations for each headset accessory coupled to the interface bus. The control and monitoring of a given headset accessory may include activating or deactivating, resetting, and/or simulating a button press of a button located on the accessory.

A locator device includes a pocket-sized casing that contains a keyless remote entry circuit for remotely operating a vehicle security system. A GPS receiver circuit is located in the casing and automatically identifies a vehicle waypoint whenever the vehicle is turned off. The locator device then determines from any current location and with a single button press the direction and/or distance back to the vehicle waypoint. Many other novel applications are also performed by the locator device.

Some bus protocols are useful for management of peripheral devices that exist on a computer's system bus. Such bus protocols include the industry standard architecture bus (ISA), peripheral component interconnect (PCI), PCI express (PCIe), etc. The usefulness of such protocols for control messages, interrupt management and more is limited to the short distances over which the protocols operate, usually measured in inches. The use of longer distance transport protocols, such as Ethernet to encapsulate and transport bus protocol messages allows the advantages of the short distant protocols to be used to control remote devices. A master device, with a controller or processor, may be used to manage the operation of a slave device using the bus or control protocol. Such management may include button presses, indicator lights, slave device configuration, etc. The slave device may have a low cost controller or ASIC to provide real-time operational functions, such as routing.

A touch-sensitive wireless device, such as a wireless telephone or wireless multimedia player, in conjunction with an interactive on screen display, effectively remotely controls a programmable multimedia controller or other system. User gestures, button presses or other touches to or movements of the touch-sensitive wireless device are effectively converted to information that is wirelessly transmitted to the programmable multimedia controller. Once received by the programmable multimedia controller, such information is processed and effectively translated so as to control the operation of the controller.

A portable communication device includes a status indictor in the form of a single multicolor generating LED. The single LED indicates radio channel and battery status. The LED is responsive to a menu button press to indicate a current channel by color. Channel change is indicated by changing to another color. The LED is also responsive to a power button on the portable communication device to generate predetermined colors associated with battery status. The use of a single LED eliminates the need for knobs or a display as part of the status indicator of the portable communication device.

A touch and motion sensitive input control configured to use a combination of touch sensor output and motion sensor output to determine if an input event has occurred at an input area. The touch and motion sensitive input control can detect a particular input event (e.g., a button press) when a touch sensor detects a touch at a particular input area at around the same time as a motion sensor detects a change in motion. Based on the amount and nature of the motion detected, this can indicate that a user intended to cause an input event other than one caused by a mere touching of the input area.

A communication device, such as a telephone or a personal computer, controls one or more remotely controlled devices solely over a signaling path, without necessarily establishing an audio path, thus eliminating the need for the remotely controlled device, or its controller, to include DTMF detection hardware or software or an RTP stack. The communication device can include authentication information, which the communication device uses to authenticate itself to the remotely controlled device, so a user of the communication device can remotely control the device without necessarily entering additional authentication information, such as a passcode. The remotely controlled device (or a controller that controls the device) can register with an element that detects user interactions, such as keypad button presses, with the communication device. The registration can identify one or more patterns of user input. If the element detects the specified pattern of user input in a user interaction with the communication device, the element notifies the remotely controlled device (or the controller). Optionally, other application servers can also register with the element to be notified if the user enters the same or a different pattern of input in a user interaction with the communication device.

A method and system that allows a user to, with a single button press on a remote control, quickly navigate within a program guide to an established reference point, such as the program information associated with the last viewed channel and the current time. The establishment of a reference point provides a subscriber with a known position within program information that may cover weeks of time, thousands of channels, and a variety of categories or sorting methods. The subscriber that has advanced through many hours and channels of program information is provided with a method of easily navigating to a known reference within the program information.

A calculator is provided to assist a vehicle operator with the task of filling out and maintaining their log books. The calculator includes an input device that may receive a signal in accordance with the setting and release of the parking brake. The input device may also be a physical button pressed by the vehicle operator. A clock may be built into the device to provide current time and date. The input device provides a time stamp that may be altered or varied as directed by the user. A filter may be used to select and remove specific display data, such as an activity with a duration of less than a predetermined time which may be 7.5 minutes. A rounding algorithm may be used to generate rounded times in which the time stamp data may be rounded to the closest fifteen minute increment. These rounded times may be stored in a register to be recalled and arithmetically analyzed to assist the user in filling out and keeping the log books up to date.

A system adds functionality to a power button where use of the power button controls the entry and exit from a diagnostic mode. The system includes an information appliance connected to a diagnostic appliance. Once an information appliance is powered up, the information appliance monitors its power button for a press which indicates a request to enter a diagnostic mode. Absent a press of the power button, the system continues to be under control of the information appliance and never enters a diagnostic mode. However, if a press of the power button is detected, the system enters a diagnostic mode. Once in a diagnostic mode the system provides an exit therefrom by interpreting a power button press as a request to exit. The window of time to make such an exit closes once the diagnostic appliance achieves communication with the information appliance. If the power button is pressed during this window of time, then the system ends its diagnostic mode and control of the system returns to the information appliance. If the power button is pressed after the window of time has closed, then the diagnostic appliance retains control of the information appliance and maintains its ability to execute diagnostic type commands thereon. The illustrative system is particularly useful when incorporated into devices with limited interface connections such as legacy-free information appliances. The system allows for a standard existing button on the information appliance to serve diagnostic purposes, avoiding the need for initializing peripherals requiring substantial execution space.

A locking device for releasable securing a compact disc to a disc seat provided in a compact disc case. The device has a flat base, a raised circular shoulder located on the base, and a raised button located on the top of the circular shoulder. The device inserts between the bottom of the case and the disc seat so that the base rests against the bottom of the case, the circular shoulder of the device removable inserts into the middle of the central retaining ring, and the button extends upward through the center opening of the central retaining ring. Although a compact disc can be inserted onto the disc seat without the user manually depressing the button, a compact disc can only be removed for the retaining disk seat by first depressing the button. Depressing the button presses the base against the bottom of the case, which flexes downward sufficiently to allow the shoulder of the device to move downward out of the middle of the central retaining ring, thereby unlocking the flexible teeth that comprise the central retaining ring so that a compact disc can be slipped over them.

A user device with a position control device such as a thumbstick may be used to emulate discrete button presses via user selection of a mode switch on the device.

A keypad assembly for an electronic device where characters are displayed on the buttons has a flexible display laminate (105). The flexible display laminate has a driver layer (106) on which button regions of conductor (300) are formed. Surrounding the button regions are conductorless regions (312). The lack of conductor in the surrounding regions allows appropriate tactile feedback to a user when the user depresses an actuating member (112), through which character formed by the flexible display laminate may be seen, actuating a popple switch circuit which allows the device to detect the button press.

The present invention provides a method and system for providing a user with feedback as to the status of the command they have initiated by depressing a button, series of buttons or sequence of buttons on a human interface device (“HID”) for a time period beyond a fraction of a second to activate a function. In one embodiment, feedback provided for a press and hold (“P+H”) operation informs the user that their button press action has been detected by a multi-function device (“MFD”) and a visual and/or audible indication is provided, informing him or her to continue pressing the button or buttons on the HID to activate one or more functions. A graphical display with a periodically updated progress bar displays how much longer the user should continue pressing the button or buttons to successfully transmit a command to the MFD with an animation showing which command will be activated.

A method and apparatus for providing distributed control of a home automation and control system is provided. Each device participating in a home automation and control system is equipped with control logic for providing distributed control. Through the control logic, each device maintains scene definitions describing the state of the device for each scene in which it participates. When any device in the system receives a request to launch a scene, such as a button press on one of the devices, the device broadcasts a scene state change message to all devices within the home automation and control system. The scene state change message identifies to each device that a particular scene that should be launched. Each device in the system receives the message and determines whether the device is a participant in the scene. If the device is a participant in the scene, the device adjusts its state according to a scene definition stored in the device associated with the scene. The device may adjust a controlled electrical load, such as a light, according to the scene definition by turning the load on, off, or setting the load to some intermediate value. If the device is a not participant in the scene, the device remains unaffected.

The current invention describes a remote display technology which, responsive to button activations from a wireless remote control to a television display device, routes signals to a host computer to activate the application button responsive to the specific remote control button pressed with the application appearing on the television display.