44 results about "Sensor hub" patented technology

There is described a building automation system comprising a mobile tag, sensor devices, and a sensor hub. The mobile tag transmits a broadcast beacon based on RF technology. The sensor devices are co-located with light fixtures and include antennas for receiving a broadcast beacon. The sensor devices generate signals associated with the broadcast beacon received by the antennas. The sensor hub receives the signals from each sensor device and determines a location of the mobile tag based on the signals.

Methods and apparatus to implement always-on context sensor hubs for processing multiple different types of data inputs are disclosed. An examples apparatus includes a first processor core to implement a host controller, and a second processor core to implement an offload engine. The host controller includes first logic to process sensor data associated with an electronic device when the electronic device is in a low power mode. The host controller is to offload a computational task associated with the sensor data to the offload engine. The offload engine includes second logic to execute the computational task.

A device may include an acoustic sensor configured to detect one or more acoustic signals indicative of an arc fault. The device may include a timer configured to record a duration of the one or more acoustic signals detected by the acoustic sensor and a wireless communication interface configured to transmit an alarm signal when a threshold time has been exceeded. The device may communicate with a sensor hub configured to receive the alarm signal from the sensor device wireless communication interface over a local area connection, and in response to receiving the alarm signal transmit a notification.

A system and a method to wirelessly synchronize, monitor, or communicate, or a combination thereof, amongst sensors (e.g., sensors, hubs, sensor controllers, etc.) in a Bluetooth Low Energy-based microlocation system. The system or method, or both, may use the BLE hardware (e.g., transmitters, receivers, antennas, etc.) to interleave a communications protocol within the connection interval gaps of the BLE protocol used to communicate with devices.

The invention relates to a transmission system having a host controller (10), a hub (20), at least one client (30) and at least one sensor (40), the hub (20) being connected to the host controller (10) via a first communication interface (50) in an information-technology manner, the hub (20) is connected to the at least one client (30) via a two-wire bus (60) in an information technology manner and is arranged on the basis of the two-wire bus (60) to provide a supply voltage for the at least one client (30) and to carry out data communication with the client (30), the client (30) is connected to the at least one sensor (40) via a second communication interface (55) in an information technology manner and is configured to transmit data obtained from the sensor (40) to the host controller (10) via the hub (20). The invention also relates to a hub of a transmission system and to a client of a transmission system.

The present invention describes a method for high-precision timestamping and synchronization in a low-power sensor system. Among them, the method is executed by a device and includes: receiving, by a sensor hub of the device, an interrupt signal from a sensor and performing interrupt processing to obtain an interrupt timestamp obtained through a latch, wherein the interrupt timestamp is obtained from a continuously running unified time reference; obtaining, by the sensor hub, sensor data from the sensor; predicting, by the sensor hub, a predicted timestamp based on the amount of sensor data and the interrupt timestamp by using a filtering algorithm; and correcting, by the sensor hub, the timestamp of each sensor data based on the predicted timestamp.

This invention discloses a cockpit-driving fusion redundancy system and method based on dynamic resource scheduling. The system includes an intelligent driving domain controller, an intelligent cockpit domain controller, environmental perception sensors, an intelligent sensor hub, a shared memory pool, and a dynamic resource scheduling kernel. The intelligent sensor hub sends sensor data to the intelligent driving domain controller and the intelligent cockpit domain controller via a first data channel (raw data) and a second data channel (feature data), respectively, achieving perception redundancy. The intelligent driving domain controller writes the intermediate perception feature data generated during processing into the shared memory pool. The dynamic resource scheduling kernel virtualizes the computing resources of the two domain controllers into a unified resource pool and triggers resource reallocation when an anomaly is detected in the intelligent driving domain controller, dynamically scheduling computing power to the intelligent cockpit domain controller. This invention solves the problems of single perception dimension, high takeover latency, and low resource utilization in existing redundancy schemes, achieving seamless and secure takeover with high reliability, low latency, and high resource utilization.

An apparatus can include a sensor hub couplable to a head-mounted display (HMD), the sensor hub including sensors and light sources. The apparatus can further include a processor configured to generate, by activating the plurality of light sources, a constellation including a set of illuminated points, receive a first set of images captured by a camera of the HMD, the first set of images including a portion of the constellation and an environment near the HMD from a first perspective, receive a second set of images capturing the environment from a second perspective, identify a subset of illuminated points, determine position information of the sensor hub, and modify the second set of images based at least in part on the position information of the sensor hub to produce a modified second set of images showing the second portion of the environment modified to be from the first perspective.

A medical device system for providing sensor data capture includes a medical device that may include one or more removably coupled sensor hubs and that includes a display to provide sensor data and at least one data interface (DI) port that may be a sensor-agnostic DI (SA-DI) port and a data transfer cable that may be compatible with the sensor-agnostic DI port and includes a first electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple to the SA-DI port and a second electromechanical connector configured to couple to the sensor and that includes a cable memory and processor configured to execute stored software to format sensor data according to a protocol of the SA-DI port, an authentication circuit, and a cable isolation device to limit patient leakage current flow from the medical device to the sensor and to electrically isolate the authentication circuit from the cable processor and the cable memory.

The utility model provides a learning machine, and relates to the technical field of education equipment. Comprising a control assembly which comprises a processor and a sensing line concentration module connected with the processor; the screen assembly is connected with the processor and used for displaying the learning content; the key assembly is connected with the sensing line concentration module; the key component comprises a plurality of trigger states, and display parameters and / or displayed learning contents of the screen component are different under the condition that the key component is in different trigger states. According to the embodiment of the invention, the contents and styles displayed on the screen can be switched through the key assembly, the operation is simple and convenient, and a user can quickly switch different functions of the learning machine.

The invention relates to an intelligent scene perception method and system based on a time sequence scene classification model. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining multi-dimensional data from a user behavior, an application framework layer, a sensor center and a system state; slicing the multi-dimensional data according to a time window, and fusing and converting the multi-dimensional data into feature vectors; performing scene recognition processing on the feature vector by adopting a double-layer hybrid model to output a clear scene, and performing strategy matching on the output clear scene based on a preset scene-strategy mapping table; by means of the method, through machine learning and behavior analysis, automatic recognition of user use scenes and intelligent adjustment of system parameters are achieved, the system can not only recognize the current scene, but also predict possible scene changes, resource preparation is conducted in advance, and the user experience is improved. The tedious problem that a traditional system needs to be manually adjusted and set by a user is solved.

This application discloses a spatial audio processing method, apparatus, storage medium, and computer program product, relating to the field of audio processing technology. The method is applied to a spatial audio device, which includes a main processor, an audio digital signal processor (ADSP), and a sensor hub. The method includes: transmitting audio stream data to be processed to the ADSP via the main processor; transmitting head motion sensor data to the ADSP via the sensor hub using a preset inter-processor communication method; converting the head motion sensor data into head posture data via the ADSP; and performing spatial audio rendering processing on the audio stream data to be processed based on the head posture data to obtain and output spatial audio stream data. This application reduces the transmission latency of head motion sensor data in spatial audio devices, improves the real-time performance of spatial audio rendering processing, and enhances the actual effect of spatial audio.

A device may include an acoustic sensor configured to detect one or more acoustic signals indicative of an arc fault. The device may include a timer configured to record a duration of the one or more acoustic signals detected by the acoustic sensor and a wireless communication interface configured to transmit an alarm signal when a threshold time has been exceeded. The device may communicate with a sensor hub configured to receive the alarm signal from the sensor device wireless communication interface over a local area connection, and in response to receiving the alarm signal transmit a notification.

An IoT device includes a serial interface controller coupled to external sensors, a Bluetooth controller to transmit signals over a Bluetooth connection, a microprocessor, and a sensor hub that controls operations of the serial interface controller and the Bluetooth controller. The microprocessor is initialized to a normal power state and, in response to a first trigger, is placed in a low-power state during which some operations, including at least including polling the sensors for data, are delegated from the microprocessor to the sensor hub. In this way, the microprocessor can sleep or hibernate, thereby reducing power consumption. The microprocessor is returned to the normal power state in response to a second trigger, and responsibility for the delegated operations returns to the microprocessor. The delegated operations may also include storing the polled sensor data in memory and / or facilitating transmission of the sensor data to a host device over the Bluetooth connection.

Methods and apparatus for a context sensor hub are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first processor core to implement a host controller and a second processor core to implement an offload engine. The host controller includes first logic to process sensor data associated with an electronic device when the electronic device is in a low power mode. The host controller offloads compute tasks associated with the sensor data to the offload engine. The offload engine includes a second logic to execute the compute task.

Systems and methods for multimodal monitoring of physiological conditions are disclosed. The systems include a sensor hub that can detect a presence of sensor devices in its environment. The sensor devices are configured to sense a parameter relevant to patient fluid inflow or outflow. The sensor hub associates at least a subset of the detected sensor devices with a patient profile and determines parameters relevant to patient fluid inflow or outflow that the associated sensor devices are capable of sensing. Based on the determined parameters, the sensor hub enters a mode of multimodal monitoring, activates sensor streams from the associated sensor devices in accordance with the mode of multimodal monitoring, establishes a secured communication channel with a patient medical record system, and transmits an update to the patient medical record system based on data received from the sensor streams.

The invention refers to a detection device (200) for gaseous media (18), in particular a gaseous medium (18) for tempering sensitive, in particular perishable goods (16), said detection device (200) comprising at least one sensor head (210a, 210b, 210c) provided with an electronic circuit (250) comprising at least one sensing element (280) detecting content or parameters of said gaseous medium, such as temperature, humidity, oxygen or carbon dioxide content, the detection device (200) has the at least one sensor head (210a, 210b, 210c) releasably held in position by a sensor hub unit (202), and the electronic circuit (250) of the at least one sensor head (210a, 210b, 210c) is provided with at least one first wireless communication unit (254) for wireless communication with at least one second wireless communication unit (264) arranged in the hub unit (202) for transmitting electric power from said hub unit (202) to said sensor head (210a, 210b, 210c) and / or transmitting data generated by said electronic circuit (250) from said sensor head (210a, 210b, 210c) to said hub unit (202).

The invention discloses a spatial audio processing method and device, a storage medium and a computer program product, and relates to the technical field of audio processing, the method is applied to a spatial audio device, and the spatial audio device comprises a main processor, an audio digital signal processor and a sensor hub. The method comprises the following steps: transmitting to-be-processed audio stream data to an audio digital signal processor through a main processor; head motion sensor data are transmitted to an audio digital signal processor through a sensor hub in a preset inter-processor communication mode; and converting the head motion sensor data into head posture data through an audio digital signal processor, and performing spatial audio rendering processing on the to-be-processed audio stream data according to the head posture data to obtain spatial audio stream data and outputting the spatial audio stream data. According to the method and the device, the transmission delay of the head motion sensor data in the spatial audio equipment is reduced, the real-time performance of spatial audio rendering processing is improved, and the actual effect of spatial audio is improved.

Embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method and related apparatus, and relate to the technical field of terminals. The method is applied to an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a first secure environment TEE, a smart sensor hub, a non-secure environment REE, a client application CA running in the non-secure environment REE, and a first trusted application TA running in the first secure environment TEE. The method comprises: the client application CA indicating first information to the first trusted application TA, the first information being used to indicate target data of the first trusted application TA; and the first trusted application TA transmitting the target data of the first trusted application TA to the smart sensor hub in response to the first information. In this way, the communication mode of the trusted application TA can be enriched.

An apparatus can include a sensor hub couplable to a head-mounted display (HMD), the sensor hub including sensors and light sources. The apparatus can further include a processor configured to generate, by activating the plurality of light sources, a constellation including a set of illuminated points, receive a first set of images captured by a camera of the HMD, the first set of images including a portion of the constellation and an environment near the HMD from a first perspective, receive a second set of images capturing the environment from a second perspective, identify a subset of illuminated points, determine position information of the sensor hub, and modify the second set of images based at least in part on the position information of the sensor hub to produce a modified second set of images showing the second portion of the environment modified to be from the first perspective.

The invention relates to a wireless sensing and control system based on Bluetooth Mesh and Modbus RTU / TCP integration. The wireless sensing and control system comprises at least one sensor, at least one wireless communication module and at least one wireless communication module, the virtual MODBUS TCP server is provided with at least three nodes of a Bluetooth Mesh architecture, and each node is in communication connection with the at least one sensor through an MODBUS RTU (Remote Terminal Unit); the handheld device is in communication connection with one node of the virtual MODBUS TCP server; and the sensor hub is in communication connection with the virtual MODBUS TCP server through an MODBUS TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). Therefore, the broadcast signal of the Bluetooth Mesh is used for receiving and transmitting the data from the non-electric switch and the non-electric sensor, and meanwhile, the MODBUS RTU data is converted and transmitted to the MODBUS TCP network, so that the wireless communication of a large-scale network is realized.

A device may include an acoustic sensor configured to detect one or more acoustic signals indicative of an arc fault. The device may include a timer configured to record a duration of the one or more acoustic signals detected by the acoustic sensor and a wireless communication interface configured to transmit an alarm signal when a threshold time has been exceeded. The device may communicate with a sensor hub configured to receive the alarm signal from the sensor device wireless communication interface over a local area connection, and in response to receiving the alarm signal transmit a notification.

This application discloses an inter-device connection management method, a device, and a system, and relates to the field of terminal communication technologies. In this application, an electronic device may perform device discovery and keepalive work by using a low-power-consumption sensor hub (SH) chip serving as a proxy of an application (AP) processor. When discovering that a device is online or offline, the SH chip wakes up the AP processor to perform device connection or cancel a trust relationship.

Methods and apparatus to implement always-on context sensor hubs for processing multiple different types of data inputs are disclosed. An examples apparatus includes a first processor core to implement a host controller, and a second processor core to implement an offload engine. The host controller includes first logic to process sensor data associated with an electronic device when the electronic device is in a low power mode. The host controller is to offload a computational task associated with the sensor data to the offload engine. The offload engine includes second logic to execute the computational task.

The present disclosure pertains to a communication system, a communication method, and a program that make it possible to more reliably achieve synchronization. After transferring controller authority to a sensor hub device, a host device transmits, to the sensor hub device, time stamp information conforming to a reference time of a grandmaster, and the sensor hub device transmits, to a first sensor device, synchronization information based on the reference time of the grandmaster estimated from the time stamp information. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a communication system that performs communication via an I3C bus and Ethernet.

A communication module for a domestic appliance is configured as a sensor hub. The sensor hub is designed to process digital signals and to generate a signal for a communication bus.

Methods and system disclosed herein provide secure sensor hub enumerations to support native sensor behavior that is vulnerability free and does not permit sensor behavior overrides. In addition, disclosed subject matter enables a firmware protocol to dynamically sense vendor attributes and enumerate a unified layer that handles multiple tailored sensor hub APIs to run seamless sensor operations across various chipset vendors and to enable sensor attribute reset without a need for factory defaults. Disclosed methods may create an abstracted firmware map used to dynamically generate a runtime sensor memory map that is independent of silicon vendor to abstract the flash payload with sensor HID attribute objects.

The invention discloses a data processing method, and the method comprises the steps: a trusted execution environment (TEE) obtains target data, and the target data is obtained according to sensor data collected by a sensor hub module; the sensor hub module is in a safe state; the TEE generates a key for a target application, and generates a signature of the sensor data according to the key; and the TEE transmits the target data and the signature to the target application. According to the application, data acquisition is completed by the management module, and direct non-secure connection is avoided, so that the acquired data cannot be tampered by a role in a non-secure state, and the security of data acquisition is ensured.

A mobile device includes an application processor and an image sensor. The application processor includes an imaging subsystem configured to process high resolution image data through a first interface and a sensor hub configured to process sensor data through a second interface. The image sensor operates in one of first and second modes. The image sensor is configured to capture the high resolution image data in response to a request from the imaging subsystem and the imaging subsystem is configured to access the high resolution image data using the first interface for performing a first operation, during the first mode. The image sensor is configured to capture low resolution image data and the sensor hub is configured to access the low resolution image data using the second bus for performing a second operation, during the second mode.