6949 results about "Communication circuits" patented technology

Diabetes health management systems for use in portable devices having and methods thereof having a user interface, a processor, a memory, and a communication circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, a diabetes health management system has program code further including a communications module, a data module, a therapy module, and an analysis module. The communications module wirelessly couples the portable device to a plurality of user devices. The data module receives and stores into the memory blood glucose measurement values, insulin dosage data, and health data entries. The therapy module determines a therapy advice message based at least in part on the received blood glucose measurement values, the received insulin dosage data, and displays the therapy advice message on the user interface. The analysis module displays on the user interface a graphical representation of selected blood glucose measurement values, selected insulin dosage data, selected health data entries, or combinations thereof.

A Web-based television system for enabling an operator to access and display HTML-encoded documents located on the WWW. The system comprises one or more Internet information servers, an Internet terminal unit, and television set having a wireless remote control device and an audio-visual monitor. The Internet information servers store a plurality of HTML-encoded documents at a plurality of storage locations specified by a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The Internet terminal unit is operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet and embodies a GUI-based Internet browser program, supporting the TCP/IP networking protocol. The television set is operably connected to the Internet terminal unit. The wireless remote control device includes a bar code symbol reader for reading bar code symbols, and an IR-based communication circuit for establishing a wireless communication link with the Internet terminal unit. A WWW-site guide is provided to television viewers. On the guide, a plurality of bar code symbols are preprinted along with a plurality of Web-site descriptions. Each preprinted bar code symbol is encoded with information related to one of the plurality of URLs. The bar code symbol reader is programmed for reading the bar code symbols in the WWW-site guide. In response to reading each bar code symbol, the bar code symbol reader produces information related to one of the URLs, and this information is transmitted, over the wireless information communication link, to the Internet terminal unit. Thereupon, the GUI-based Internet browser uses the TCP/IP networking standard and the produced information to automatically access the HTML-encoded document specified by the related URL, and automatically display the accessed HTML-encoded document on the audio-visual monitor of the television set, for viewing purposes.

In a portable radio communication apparatus including a housing, at least one part of at least one of the housing is formed as a housing electrical conductor portion by an electrically conductive material. The housing electrical conductor portion is connected with a radio communication circuit of the portable radio communication apparatus so as to operate as at least one part of an unbalanced type antenna of the radio communication circuit. Further, the portable radio communication apparatus further includes a boom portion coupled with the housing at least at two positions so as to provide at least one penetrating hole between the housing and the boom portion.

A head mounted integrated interface (HMII) is presented that may include a wearable head-mounted display unit supporting two compact high resolution screens for outputting a right eye and left eye image in support of the stereoscopic viewing, wireless communication circuits, three-dimensional positioning and motion sensors, and a processing system which is capable of independent software processing and/or processing streamed output from a remote server. The HMII may also include a graphics processing unit capable of also functioning as a general parallel processing system and cameras positioned to track hand gestures. The HMII may function as an independent computing system or as an interface to remote computer systems, external GPU clusters, or subscription computational services, The HMII is also capable linking and streaming to a remote display such as a large screen monitor.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless appliance for monitoring a vehicle. The wireless appliance includes a microprocessor configured to select a vehicle-communication protocol of a host vehicle, and then communicate with the host vehicle through the vehicle-communication protocol. The appliance also includes a vehicle-communication circuit, in electrical communication with the microprocessor, which collects diagnostic data from the host vehicle using the vehicle-communication protocol. A GPS module, also in electrical communication with the microprocessor, generates location-based data. For transmitting these data, the appliance includes a first wireless transmitter operating on a terrestrial network and a second wireless transmitter operating on a satellite network. The microprocessor selects the first or second wireless transmitter for transmitting the diagnostic and location-based data.

A threat sensing system is provided including, in some aspects, a plurality of threat sensing devices distributed throughout a school or facility, with each of the threat sensing devices comprising one or more acoustic sensors, one or more gas sensors, and a communication circuit or communication device configured to output sensor data to a system gateway. The system gateway is configured to receive and process the sensor data output from the threat sensing devices and determine whether the processed sensor data corresponds to one of a predetermined plurality of known threats (e.g., a gunshot) and, if so, to communicate the existence of the threat, the processed sensor information, and/or predetermined messaging information to one or more recipient devices (e.g., first responders, dispatchers).

A communications device such as a mobile phone has a main body communications circuit and a movable housing element such as a touch sensitive slide or a flip-type hinged structure. In one embodiment, the main body communications circuit responds to a touch sensitive slide signal, for providing a communications signal to a communications system. The communications device includes a main body or housing for containing the main body communications circuit of the communications device, as well as a speaker and display. The touch sensitive slide responds to a contact force by a user, for providing the touch sensitive slide signal containing information about a position of the contact force applied by the user on the touch sensitive slide. The touch sensitive slide is slidably or hingeably mounted on the main body, and may contain slide position sensing. In this embodiment, the touch sensitive signal contains information about the position of the touch sensitive slide in relation to the housing. The touch sensitive slide is adaptable for use as a mouse or a drawing table together with the display of the communications device, which enables for windows-based word and data processing and graphical applications, as well as internet applications.

Wireless communications between a digital camera and a printer dock are established in a simple manner. A processor (10f) of a digital camera (10) detects a printer dock (12) within communication range via a communications circuit (10e) and its ID is acquired. The processor (10f) uses the acquired ID to transmit a sequential power transmit request to the printer dock (12). In response to this request, the printer dock (12) wirelessly transmits power from a communications circuit (12b) and a transmitting coil (12c). When power is received by a receiving coil (10a), it specifies that printer dock (12) is the communication party, and photographed data is wirelessly transmitted using an ID of the specified printer dock (12).

An electronic device includes a display, a microphone, a communication circuit, a memory configured to store at least one application, and one or more processor(s), wherein the processor is configured to obtain voice data corresponding to the user's voice received through the microphone, transmit the voice data to an external electronic device through the communication circuit, receive a sequence of tasks for performing a first function of the at least one application, which is determined based on the voice data, from the external electronic device through the communication circuit; and while performing the tasks based on the sequence of tasks, when it is determined that execution of a first task in the sequence of tasks is not completed within a specified time, extending a time-out time of the first task and switching the execution of the first task to the execution in background.

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for managing a temperature of a wireless power receiver. In one aspect a wireless power transmitter is provided. The wireless power transmitter includes a transmit circuit including a transmit coil. The transmit circuit is configured to wirelessly transmit power to a wireless power receiver. The wireless power transmitter further includes a communication circuit configured to receive information based on a temperature measurement of the wireless power receiver. The wireless power transmitter further includes a transmit controller circuit configured to adjust an operating point of power transfer based on the information.

A lighting device, such as a replacement lighting device, comprising a light source (LS), e.g. LEDs, for producing light along an optical axis (OA). A heat sink (HS) made of a material with an electrical resistivity being less than 0.01 Ωm, e.g. a metallic heat sink being a part of the housing, transports heat away from the light source (LS). A Radio Frequency (RF) communication circuit (CC) connected to an an antenna (A) serves to enable RF signal communication, e.g. to control the device via a remote control. Metallic components, including the heat sink (HS), having an extension larger than 1/10 of a wavelength of the RF signal are arranged below a virtual plane (VP) drawn orthogonal to the optical axis (OA) and going through the antenna (A). Hereby a compact device can be obtained, and still a satisfying RF radiation pattern can be obtained. The antenna can be a wire antenna or a PCB antenna, e.g. a PIFA or a IFA type antenna. In a special embodiment the antenna is formed on a ring-shaped PCB with a central hole allowing passage of light from the light source. Preferably, the antenna is positioned at least 2 mm in front of the heat sink (HS).

An electronic device may include a PCB having a substantially planar surface and one or more electronic components mounted thereon. A first EHF communication unit may be mounted on the substantially planar surface of the PCB. The first EHF communication unit may include a first planar die containing a first communication circuit, the first die extending along the substantially planar surface of the PCB in a die plane. A first antenna may be operatively connected to the first circuit by interconnecting conductors, the first antenna being configured to at least one of transmit and receive electromagnetic radiation along a plane of the substantially planar surface of the PCB. The first EHF communication unit may have an uppermost surface having a height from the substantially planar surface of the PCB, the first EHF communication unit height being determined by an uppermost surface of the die, the first antenna, and the interconnecting conductors.

An automated identification and configuration system for use with an implantable medical device (IMD) is disclosed. The system includes a first communication circuit that is attached to, or otherwise carried by, a detachable component associated with the IMD such as a medical lead. The communication circuit stores data such as model numbers, serial numbers, technical data, and/or calibration information that describes the additional component. This information may be transferred by the first communications circuit to a second communications circuit that is external to the additional component. This transferred data can be used to automatically configure the internal circuitry and connection functions of the IMD to properly interface with, and support, the additional component. For example, the data can be used to automatically adjust amplifier gains or other sensor circuitry, or to configure a connector block to properly couple to the component. The data may further be entered into a patient record on an external programmer, or may be transferred to a central storage location to be generally accessible to health care providers. In one embodiment, the first communication circuit is a passive RF transponder. This first communication circuit may include a receiver as well as a transmitter to allow the circuit to programmably receive data at the time of component manufacture.

An object of the present invention is to supply a semiconductor device capable of communicating data through radio communication, such as an RFID tag or a label-like object, with high productivity at low cost. In the invention, a memory portion, a signal control circuit portion and a communication circuit portion are formed with the use of a TFT formed over an insulating substrate, and the insulating substrate is fixed opposite to a support provided with an antenna so that the antenna is connected to a terminal portion connected to a communication circuit. The invention is an RFID tag and a label-like object including an ID chip whose memory portion, signal control portion and communication circuit portion are formed with the use of TFTs formed over an insulating substrate and an antenna formed to connect to a terminal portion of the ID chip, in which data stored in a memory portion or data to be stored in a memory portion can be communicated through a communication circuit by radio communication.

A display data packet contains identification information. A display unit communication system comprises a control unit, a terminal adaptor to which a terminal adaptor ID is assigned and which is connected to the control unit, and a display unit to which a display unit ID is assigned and which is connected to the terminal adaptor in series and drives a display element according to the display data packet supplied from the control unit. The terminal adaptor receives a display data packet the terminal adaptor ID of which agrees with that contained in the identification information and transfers the display data packet to the display unit. The display unit receives the display data packet the display unit ID of which agrees with that contained in the identification information, and drives the display element to display an image.

In a wireless communication system, a terminal is identified by a base station in accordance with beacon signals transmitted periodically from the base station, and to the identified terminal, the presence or absence of data to be transmitted and a period until a transmission of a next beacon signal are notified. A terminal-side wireless communication section in the terminal transmits, to the base station, a request for setting of a period between transmissions of beacon signals. A communication control section in the base station sets the period between transmissions of beacon signals in accordance with the request having been received from the terminal. With this arrangement, the terminal can optimize its period between receptions of beacon signals, thereby keeping OFF power supply to a communication circuit from a power source section until the timing for receiving a beacon signal. This allows the terminal to reduce its power consumption.

An RFID which provides a wide working voltage range and general versatility at low cost, without the need for changing its internal circuit design due to external factors. In the RFID, there is provided an arrangement that a low impedance state is given when its internal data communication circuit is in a reset state.

A digital image capture device and method for operating the same are provided. The digital image capture device has a digital image capture device comprising: a housing (20); a digital image capture system (22); a biometric reader (70) adapted to sense biometric data of a user; a wireless communication circuit (54) adapted to transmit wireless signals to a remote database and to receive authorization signals from the remote database; a processor (26) adapted to control and enable operation of the digital image capture system (22), the wireless communication circuit (54) and the biometric reader (70), wherein the processor (26): is adapted to cause biometric data to be read from a user, and wirelessly transmitted to a remote database so that the remote database can compare the sensed biometric data to stored biometric data and will transmit an authorization signal when the sensed biometric data corresponds to stored biometric data, said processor further being adapted to determine a set of authorized actions for a user of the digital image capture device based upon an authorization signal transmitted by the remote database; with said processor further being adapted to execute actions as requested by the user when the requested actions are within the set of authorized actions.