8425 results about "Information control" patented technology

A system for publicly displaying messages includes elements carried by an automotive vehicle. In some embodiments the vehicle carries a publicly visible electronic display; a sensor for sensing the brightness of light in the vicinity of the display; and illumination varying circuitry for varying the brightness of light generated by the display in response to brightness detected by the sensor. In some embodiments the vehicles carries a publicly visible display formed by ganging together a plurality of displays, each having at least 640×480 pixels; and video drive circuitry for causing images to be shown on the ganged display with different portions of individual images being shown on each of the individual displays. In some embodiments the vehicle has an automotive electrical system and carries a publicly visible high-bright display, capable of providing over 1000 NITS illumination and having 640 by 480 or greater pixel resolution; and video drive circuitry causing images to be shown on the display. In some embodiments the vehicle carries a publicly visible electronic display and a computer. The computer has video drive circuitry for causing images to be shown on the display, a memory device capable of storing representations of animated display images represented in vector-based form; and programming for enabling the computer to generate animated images from the vector-based animation representations. In some embodiments the vehicle receives commands and/or information controlling what it is to display via a wireless transceiver.

An electronic control system for a vehicle includes a plurality of input devices, a plurality of output devices, a communication network, and a plurality of interface modules. The plurality of input devices may include a first input device that provides information pertaining to an angular position of a first vehicle wheel. The plurality of output devices may include an actuator capable of adjusting one or both of the angular position of the first vehicle wheel or an angular position of a second vehicle wheel. The plurality of interface modules can be microprocessor based and can be interconnected to each other by way of the communication network. The plurality of interface modules may also be coupled to the plurality of input devices and to the plurality of output devices. The plurality of interface modules may include one or more interface modules that is coupled to the first input device and to the actuator. The electronic control system can be configured to control the angular position of one or both of the first and second vehicle wheels as a function of the information from the first input device.

Provided is a method for controlling a wireless power transmitter transmitting wireless power to at least one wireless power receiver. The method for controlling a wireless power transmitter, according to the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving information related to a wireless power receiver from at least one of each of the wireless power receiver; and controlling each of a plurality of power transmitting units included in the wireless power transmitter on the basis of the information related to the wireless power receiver.

A will call system for automating the management of storage and retrieval of items, preferably medical prescriptions. The automated system provides information control of all items in the system. The automated will call monitors the length of time an item remains in the system, and into which location an item is placed. An article sensor provides absolute confirmation that an item has been placed or removed from a designated location in the storage units. The automated will call system uses a controller to permit users to monitor and optimize the storage and retrieval procedures.

A remote controller (1000) includes a pointer (1200) for inputting information and a main module (1100). The main module includes a first detection module (1101), a position interpreting module (1102), an information processing module (1106), and a wireless communication module (1107). The first detection module is used for detecting information input by the pointer. The position interpreting module is used for translating the information into position information and control information. The information processing module is used for translating the position information and the control information into cursor location information and remote control codes. The wireless communication module is used for transmitting the cursor location information and the remote control codes.

An identification system and method for medication management comprises a controller, a drug library accessible by the controller, the drug library containing drug library profiles including a data set of drug information, and an identification module configured to read patient identification information from machine-readable identification devices worn by patients and to read drug information from machine-readable identification devices affixed to drugs or containers of drugs. The controller compares the read information to each other and to the drug library profile and provides alerts or error signals in the event of an inconsistency. In one case, identification devices are read by an optical reader fixedly mounted to the identification module. In another case, identification devices are read by an optical reader that is hand-held and mobile and can be moved to the location of the identification device. The hand-held reader communicates with the identification module by wired or wireless means. In another case, a third reader that is non-optical and wireless is fixedly mounted to the identification module. The controller is also configured to provide alerts or error messages in the event that there is an inconsistency between the drug information on the drug or drug container when compared to the drug library profile associated with the controller.

A wearable glasses is provided. The wearable glasses includes a sensing circuit, a communication interface, a display, and a controller. The sensing circuit senses movement information of a user wearing the wearable glasses. The communication interface receives notification message information. The display displays the notification message information within an angle of view of the user wearing the wearable glasses. The controller determines a movement state of the user based on the sensed movement information of the user and controls the display to display the received notification message information according to the movement state of the user.

A device and method for providing a haptic user interface in a mobile terminal that can provide a haptic response to user manipulation are provided. The device for providing a haptic user interface in a mobile terminal includes a pointing device for receiving manipulation from a user to control a pointer; a display unit for displaying the pointer on a screen; a memory unit for storing information of a voltage level to be supplied to a vibration unit according to a coordinate value of the pointer; a controller for outputting a control signal based on the coordinate value of the pointer in the display unit according to movement of the pointing device and information of the memory unit; and a vibration unit for generating a vibration according to the control signal. Therefore, by generating a vibration according to movement of a pointer, a user can feel a response to manipulation of the user interface with the sense of touch as well as the sense of sight, thereby providing interest and convenience to the user.

The invention comprises a patient information server device (10) which automatically accumulates together with time information:

• • biological information detected by a bedside monitoring device (1) of a patient or a biological-measuring device;
  • biological information and device information detected by a blood purification device (2, 3) which treats a blood sample taken from the patient; and
  • blood information detected by a circulating blood volume measuring device (4) that detects blood information about a circulating blood sample taken from the patient. A client device simultaneously and chronologically displays or records the patient information stored in the patient information server device (10). Through this arrangement, it is possible to obtain on a real time basis the biological information of a human body such as a patient's body, and the device information, for example, of a blood treating device.

A method and apparatus for recording on an optical recording medium, including the recording of management information, are described as a standard for the write-once Blu-ray disc. The management information is recorded in a management area of the disc, such as a temporary defect management area (TDMA), and includes record status information and update information. The record status information is a space bitmap (SBM) indicating whether a recording operation has been performed for a predetermined area of the disc, and the update information is SBM update information indicating whether the record status information is to be continuously managed. The SBM update information controls the state of an SBM-on/off function for each of a plurality of recording areas and may be in the form of either start position information and length information corresponding to the respective areas or an SBM update flag. The SBM update information is recorded in the TDMA and is stored in a memory of an optical disc recording/reproducing device for use during recording and reproducing operations. At the time of recording in the predetermined area, an SBM-on state enables a logical overwriting operation to be performed as necessary.

An on-line device management system provides a common interface for managing devices using a single login to a website associated with the system over a public network. Users sign up for selected services including surveillance and provide information on associated user devices which include devices with different operational programming interfaces, and user and device information is stored by the system. The system communicates with the devices and controls the devices using the stored device information so that the devices send data to the system on a selected schedule. The system creates a customized interface for each user through which the user can monitor and manage building surveillance devices from a remote location at any time.

A topology independent storage array. In a preferred embodiment the topology of the array is reconfigurable due to information control packets passed among storage nodes comprising the array. The topology of the array, as determine by the relationship between data sets stored within the array's storage nodes and storage maps of the storage node, can be reconfigured without requiring a complete duplication of the entire array. In especially preferred embodiments, the topology of the storage array follows a Z-10 or a Z-110 configuration where storage devices store one or more mirrored parts of a data set per storage device.

A packet-switched network system comprises a multiplicity of multi-port network units each of which has first and second ports and other ports and transmission links coupling the first and second ports of said unit in a closed ring. The first and second ports and transmission links support duplex transmission of Ethernet data packets. Each unit transmits from said first and second ports packets including selected information enabling on reception of a packet at any of the units a determination of a number of hops from unit to unit around said ring said packet has made. Each unit has a forwarding database and in response to the said selected information controls the transmission of said packets in two directions around said ring, and each unit causes discard of packets which have according to said selected information circumnavigated the ring.

A vehicle navigation apparatus including a transceiver configured to communicate with at least one other vehicle near a vehicle including the vehicle navigation apparatus and configured to receive traveling information about the at least one other vehicle, a controller configured to calculate first movement information of the vehicle and second movement information of the at least one other vehicle based on the received traveling information, and a display unit configured to display a graphical representation of the vehicle and the at least one other vehicle based on the calculated movement information.

A multimedia control system presents program schedule information to a user in a visually and intellectually-intuitive manner. The multimedia control system can be used to display programming information, control multimedia devices, control home automation devices, etc. In one embodiment, a control screen used to display programming information is configured as a touch screen to allow the user to select programming, control multimedia devices, or perform other functions by touching the screen. In one embodiment, the system uses a consistent, user-selectable, intuitive user interface. In one embodiment, programming information is dynamically updated to provide the user with current programming information, such as, for example, sports scores, commercial breaks, news stories, documentary contents, etc.