518 results about "Hand held devices" patented technology

A system for delivering ordinance is disclosed. The system includes a flight capable drone having a lift capacity suitable for carrying a munition, a fire control module in communication with the munition, and a handheld device in remote communication with the fire control module. At least one encrypted firing code generated by the fire control module is received by the handheld device and the munition is armed in accordance with at least the location of the drone.

This is directed to an electronic device enclosure. The enclosure includes an outer periphery member forming an outer surface of a device, and to which an internal platform is connected. Electronic device components can be assembled to one or both surfaces of the internal platform. The enclosure can include front and back cover assemblies assembled to the opposite surfaces of the outer periphery member to retain electronic device components. One or both of the cover assemblies can include a window through which display circuitry can provide content to a user of the device.

The invention is a handheld device that utilizes light for skin treatment. It consists of a handle with a power source, a user interface, and at least two capacitors. Connected to the top surface of the base unit is a head with at least two flash lamps and at least two reflectors. The device includes a control unit that regulates the voltage on the discharge capacitors to control the light energy from each flash lamp. Additionally, the device comes with an exchangeable cartridge, with each type of cartridge featuring a unique window layout and electronic chip containing information on lamp activation.

Provided is a heater assembly for a hand-held appliance. The assembly includes a ceramic heater substrate having a heated region that includes heater elements for converting electrical energy to heat, and an unheated region adjacent to the heated region. The assembly includes a heat sink for dissipating heat from the heater elements, where the heat sink extends from the heated region of the ceramic heater substrate. The assembly includes electronic control devices for controlling electrical energy supply to the heater elements, and which are mounted at the unheated region of the ceramic heater device. The assembly includes heat dissipation means to dissipate heat from the heater elements to maintain the unheated region at a lower temperature than the heated region.

Systems and methods to automatically provide graphics rendering optimization settings in real-time to a client device for rendering of graphics by a client application such as running on a browser or hand-held device. Specifically, a specially-configured Graphics Rendering Optimization Client application running on a client device sends requests to a corresponding Graphics Rendering Optimization Service running on a server system to obtain graphics rendering settings in real-time for rendering of graphics by the client application running on the client device, thereby providing automated and real-time graphics rendering optimization with little impact on the performance of the client application and client device. In certain embodiments, the Graphics Rendering Optimization Service employs an AI-based model that is trained and used to predict the graphics rendering settings in real time to improve the rendering performance.

The invention relates to a clitoris stimulation apparatus with improved ergonomics and comprising: a pressure field generating device having a drive unit and a hollow space, the drive unit being capable of periodically generating a pressure field with alternating positive and negative pressures in the hollow space when the drive unit varies the volume of the hollow space, said hollow space having an opening which can be placed on the clitoris; a control device designed to control the drive unit; and a sensor device designed to detect when the stimulation apparatus comes close to the clitoris or, alternatively, when the stimulation apparatus comes into contact with the clitoris, and designed to output an activation signal to the control device upon detection of any approximation or contact. The control device is designed such that the drive unit is activated in the presence of an activation signal. The pressure field generating device, the control device and the sensor device are accommodated in a housing of the stimulation apparatus and the stimulation apparatus is designed as a portable handheld appliance.

A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld input device for controlling the electronic device. A lanyard may be removably attached to the handheld input device or a non-electronic object. The lanyard may include visual markers, such as infrared light-emitting diodes and / or fiducials, that can be detected by an external camera and used to track a location of the lanyard. For example, the lanyard may be fabric, and the visual markers may be incorporated into the fabric or attached to the fabric. The lanyard may also include motion sensors, visual-inertial odometry cameras, or other sensors to determine the location of the lanyard. The lanyard may be electrically coupled to the handheld input device, such as to transfer power and / or data. Alternatively, the lanyard may be coupled to a non-electronic object and may include a battery and / or a haptic output component.

A brace for stabilizing a handheld device such as a handgun against a user's forearm includes a vertically elongated body adapted to detachably engage a portion of the handheld device, and an arm pivotably connected to a portion of the body. The pivotable arm is selectably moveable between a stowed position wherein the arm is vertically aligned with the body, and a deployed position wherein the arm provides a surface against which a user's forearm is removably receivable to stabilize the handheld device when the body is engaged with the handheld device.

A docking station for storing a handset. A storage tray has a first recessed area for storing the handset and a second recessed area for a passenger to grip a top surface of the stored handset. The docking station includes a second latch extended into the second recessed area to engage an indent in the bottom surface of the handset. The docking station includes a first latch extended into the second recessed area to engage an indent located in the front surface of the handset. Depression of a release actuator retracts the first latch to release the top surface of the handset. The release actuator extends through an opening in the first recessed area, which has a length sufficient to allow a finger to actuate the release actuator and grip the top surface of the remote control handset while the remote control handset is stored in the storage tray.

A haptic transducer having first and second members that are reciprocally movable relative to one another. The members are magnetic and comprise a compliant member coupled between them. The haptics transducer embodiments are suitable for wearable or handheld devices or apparatuses, such as headphones or footwear as they comprise a low-profile yet provide suitable haptic feedback without significantly altering the compliance of the wearable or handheld device or apparatus.

A system and a method of tracking an input sign for an extended reality are provided, wherein the method including: obtaining an image; detecting for a handheld device and a hand in the image; in response to a first bounding box of the hand and a second bounding box of the handheld device being detected, detecting at least one joint of the hand from the image; performing a data fusion of the first bounding box and the second bounding box according to the at least one joint to obtain the input sign; and outputting a command corresponding to the input sign via the output device.

Provided is a handheld device and a method for detecting weld defects on a weld surface. The handheld device projects a thin beam laser light on the weld surface using a laser emitter. A processor receives the projected thin beam laser light from a laser receiving sensor, which indicates captured contours of the weld surface. The captured contours are processed to filter laser lines and extract contours. The extracted contours are utilized to classify a type of weld surface such as, surface joints, butt joints, corner joints, and tee joints. The processor, upon classifying, automatically adjusts angle and position of the laser light to be projected on the weld surface and detects deviation patterns by employing an ensemble of a laser line extraction process and a pixel width measurement process. The processor determines the detected deviation patterns as one or more defects on the weld surface that is being inspected.

Systems and methods to automatically provide graphics rendering optimization settings in real-time to a client device for rendering of graphics by a client application such as running on a browser or hand-held device. Specifically, a specially-configured Graphics Rendering Optimization Client application running on a client device sends requests to a corresponding Graphics Rendering Optimization Service running on a server system to obtain graphics rendering settings in real-time for rendering of graphics by the client application running on the client device, thereby providing automated and real-time graphics rendering optimization with little impact on the performance of the client application and client device. In certain embodiments, the Graphics Rendering Optimization Service employs an Al-based model that is trained and used to predict the graphics rendering settings in real time to improve the rendering performance.

A handheld device for sonifying electrical signals obtained from a subject is provided. The device can utilize at least one of several operations including (but not limited) digitizing signals from electrodes, adjusting the signals based on accelerometer input, filtering the signals, conditioning the signals according to conditioning parameters, modulating the signal according to sound synthesis parameters, and generating sound from the representations of the signals to accomplish sonification. The device can include an analog-to-digital (A / D) converter to digitize the one or more electrical signals and a processor that receives the one or more digitized electrical signals and produces a representation of an acoustic signal. The device further includes a speaker system that sonifies the representation of the acoustic signal.

A system for use in controlling operating functions of a controllable device includes a hand-held device and an intermediate device in communication with the hand-held device and the controllable device. The hand-held device is adapted to receive a gesture based input and to transmit a signal having data representative of the gesture based input. The intermediate device has programming for translating the data representative of the gesture based input in a signal received from the hand-held device into a command signal to be communicated to the controllable device wherein the command signal has a format appropriate for controlling an operating function of the controllable device that is associated with the gesture based input.

The handheld device comprises a rear cover and a main body which are in butt joint, the damping part is used for being arranged between the rear cover and the main body, the rear cover is provided with an inner surface facing the main body, and the main body comprises a sound module. The inner surface of the rear cover is provided with a preset area which is opposite to the sound module of the main body; a preset gap is formed between the preset area and the sound module, the damping part of the handheld device comprises a sound absorption powder sheet, the sound absorption powder sheet is in a sheet shape with a certain thickness and has a preset compression ratio, and the thickness of the sound absorption powder sheet in an initial state before compression is larger than that of the preset gap; and the sound absorption powder sheet at least covers the preset area. According to the invention, on the premise of ensuring that the handheld device has better sound quality, vibration which has negative significance to a user is reduced as much as possible, and the use experience of the user is improved.

An air quality sensing module includes a chamber, an air quality sensor and an air pump. The air quality sensing module is disposed or to be disposed within a handheld device. The air pump produces an airflow toward or away from the chamber, for the air quality sensor to perform an air quality sensing operation. A direction of the airflow produced by the air pump within the handheld device is reversible.

This invention describes providing information of objects in the surroundings by a handheld device using a universal pointing and interacting device. The universal pointing and interacting (UPI) device is configured to identify objects in the surroundings and to interact with the handheld device such as a smartphone or a tablet. The handheld device is further configured to provide visual information on its screen or audio information by its loudspeaker or by a connected earpiece or headphones.

Device (10) for holding a broom head (12) and a broom handle (11), comprising a first receiving section (13) for clamping a broom handle (11), a second receiving section (14) for clamping a broom head (12), openings (15a, 15b) for screws for fixing the device (10) to a mounting surface (16), and at least a third receiving section (17) for receiving a handle (49) of a hand tool (19), e.g. a hand brush (18), and / or at least a projection (37) for fixing a hand tool (19), such as a dustpan.

A brace for stabilizing a handheld device such as a handgun against a user's forearm includes a vertically elongated body adapted to detachably engage a portion of the handheld device, and an arm pivotably connected to a portion of the body. The pivotable arm is selectably moveable between a stowed position wherein the arm is vertically aligned with the body, and a deployed position wherein the arm provides a surface against which a user's forearm is removably receivable to stabilize the handheld device when the body is engaged with the handheld device.

The invention belongs to the technical field of signal transmission, and discloses a signal transmission and encryption method and system for an anti-explosion scene Internet of Things mobile handheld device. The method comprises the following steps: collecting real-time multi-dimensional state monitoring data of the Internet of Things mobile handheld device in an explosion-proof scene; acquiring a real-time health index of the real-time multi-dimensional state monitoring data, and if the real-time health index exceeds a health index threshold, entering the next step; state abnormity detection is carried out; signal transmission and encryption optimization are carried out; switching a signal transmission channel of the multi-path signal transmission fusion network; updating the dynamic encryption algorithm of the signal to be transmitted; and according to the real-time dynamic encryption algorithm, encrypting a to-be-transmitted signal of the Internet of Things mobile handheld device, and performing signal transmission on the encrypted to-be-transmitted signal by updating the signal transmission channel. According to the invention, the problems of unstable signal quality, low transmission security and insufficient real-time performance in the prior art are solved.

The disclosure relates to a handheld device (1) and system for optoacoustic imaging of an object (3), the device (1) comprising a housing (2) configured to be grasped by an operator's hand and guided and / or positioned by the operator relative to the object (3) during imaging, wherein the following components are integrated in and / or provided on the housing: a) an illumination unit (4, 6) configured to illuminate the object (3) with time-varying electromagnetic radiation (5), the illumination unit (4, 6) comprising at least one radiation source (4, 6), in particular at least one laser diode (LD), vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) or light-emitting diode (LED), having a front side (4a) and a back side (4b) opposite the front side and configured to emit the electromagnetic radiation (5) at the front side (4a) of the at least one radiation source (4), the illumination unit (4, 6) further comprising a first electronic controller (6) provided at the back side (4b) of and / or close to the at least one radiation source (4) and configured to control the at least one radiation source (4) to emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation (5) exhibiting at least one of a predefined electromagnetic spectrum and / or wavelength(s), pulse amplitude, pulse shape, pulse width (duration) and / or pulse repetition rate, and b) a detection unit (7, 9) configured to detect ultrasonic waves (8) emanating from the object (3) in response to illuminating the object (3) with the time-varying electromagnetic radiation (5), the detection unit (7, 9) comprising at least one ultrasonic transducer (7), in particular at least one micromachined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) and / or at least one piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer (PUT), having a front side (7a) and a back side (7b) opposite the front side and configured to convert ultrasonic waves (8) impinging at the front side (7a) of the at least one ultrasonic transducer (7) into detection signals, the detection unit (7, 9) further comprising a second electronic controller (9) provided at the back side (7b) of the at least one ultrasonic transducer (7) and configured to process the detection signals, in particular to digitize and / or filter the detection signals and to reconstruct an image of the object (3) based on the digitized and / or filtered detection signals.

Systems and methods to efficiently get precision geometry for a graphic object on a thin client application such as running on a browser or hand-held device. Specifically, a Precision Geometry Client running on a client device sends requests to a corresponding Precision Geometry Service running on a server system to obtain precision geometry primitives that the client device, thereby offloading the processor-intensive precision geometry processing from the client to the server system.

A method for sharing a display of a mixed reality experience is described. In one aspect, the method includes pairing a head-wearable device with a handheld device to establish a shared coordinate system, and displaying, based on a pose of the handheld device, a virtual object of a first mixed reality application operating at the head-wearable device, with a second mixed reality application operating at the handheld device using the shared coordinate system.

A method may include using a handheld device having a magnifying lens configured to produce a magnified image of an abnormal skin lesion. The magnifying lens comprises a vertical crosshair and a horizontal crosshair intersecting in a perpendicular configuration to segment the magnified image into quadrants, the crosshairs each having a linear scale disposed thereon. The method includes accessing qualities of a skin lesion observed in each quadrant.

A shaft sealing assembly of a handheld device includes: a center shaft; and a movable sealing assembly, including a fixation seat and a movable sealing member. The fixation seat defines a sleeving hole, an inner circumferential surface of the sleeving hole defines an annular sealing slot, the sealing slot has a front wall surface and a rear wall surface opposite to the front wall surface in an axial direction. The movable sealing member is made of flexible material, the movable sealing member is received in the sleeving hole and extends into the sealing slot, the movable sealing member defines a fixation shaft hole which is sealed to and fixedly sleeves the center shaft, the movable sealing member is sealed to and rotatably mated to the front wall surface and the rear wall surface.

Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for using a handheld device such as a ring to manipulate a virtual object being displayed by a wearable device such as eyewear. The path of the virtual object in motion is substantially linked, in time and space, to the course traveled by a hand holding the handheld device. The methods in some implementations include presenting the virtual object on a display at a first location relative to a three-dimensional coordinate system, collecting motion data from an inertial measurement unit on the handheld device, displaying the virtual object at a second location along a path based on the motion data. In some implementations the eyewear includes a projector located and configured to project the display onto a lens assembly.

Systems and methods to automatically provide graphics rendering optimization settings in real-time to a client device for rendering of graphics by a client application such as running on a browser or hand-held device. Specifically, a specially-configured Graphics Rendering Optimization Client application running on a client device sends requests to a corresponding Graphics Rendering Optimization Service running on a server system to obtain graphics rendering settings in real-time for rendering of graphics by the client application running on the client device, thereby providing automated and real-time graphics rendering optimization with little impact on the performance of the client application and client device. In certain embodiments, the Graphics Rendering Optimization Service employs an AI-based model that is trained and used to predict the graphics rendering settings in real time to improve the rendering performance.

Systems and methods to efficiently get precision geometry for a graphic object on a thin client application such as running on a browser or hand-held device. Specifically, a Precision Geometry Client running on a client device sends requests to a corresponding Precision Geometry Service running on a server system to obtain precision geometry primitives that the client device, thereby offloading the processor-intensive precision geometry processing from the client to the server system.