Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
340500710 | Garage door | 35 |
20090021347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND ACTUATING A VEHICLE GATE - Systems and methods for monitoring and actuating a vehicle gate are provided by certain embodiments of the invention. Data associated with a vehicle at the gate is collected and at least of the portion of the collected data is analyzed to identify one or more exceptions. A determination is made as to whether at least one exception is identified in the collected data, and the gate is actuated based at least in part on the determination. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021348 | ROLLING CODE SECURITY SYSTEM - A rolling code transmitter is useful in a security system for providing secure encrypted RF transmission comprising an interleaved trinary bit fixed code and rolling code. A receiver demodulates the encrypted RF transmission and recovers the fixed code and rolling code. Upon comparison of the fixed and rolling codes with stored codes and determining that the signal has emanated from an authorized transmitter, a signal is generated to actuate an electric motor to open or close a movable barrier. | 01-22-2009 |
20090033460 | System and Method for Operating a Transmitter With a Proximity Sensor - A system and method are provided that use at least one proximity sensor to illuminate a transmitter such that the transmitter can be seen by the user and/or to activate the transmitter so that the user can interface with the transmitter and send code to a receiver via the transmitter to effect an action, such as the opening or closing of a barrier or garage door. The transmitter can also be deactivated so that the proximity sensor is not continually triggering actions by the transmitter thereby potentially causing unwanted actions by the transmitter. | 02-05-2009 |
20090284346 | Door drive - The present invention relates to a door drive, in particular a garage door drive, with a door control and with a programming unit for programming the door control during operation and/or maintenance of the door drive. In accordance with the invention, the programming unit is configured as an external device, wherein for operation and/or maintenance of the door drive a data transmission connection can be established between the programming unit and the door control. | 11-19-2009 |
20100045429 | Power conserving mobile transmitter used with an automated barrier operating system - An operator system for automatically controlling access barriers based on movement of a carrying device. The system consists of an operator controller associated with an access barrier, a base receiver associated with the base controller, and a mobile transmitter that includes an activity sensor configured to monitor movement in at least one axis of movement and a mobile emitter. The mobile transmitter is configured to automatically emit from the mobile emitter a mobile open signal and a mobile close signal containing at least one warning data bit that is placed in a set state when the activity sensor first detects a change in movement of the mobile transmitter. The base receiver receives the mobile open signal and mobile close signal, and the operator controller resets a last process variable when the at least one warning bit is received. | 02-25-2010 |
20100127825 | DIGITAL ELECTROCHROMIC CIRCUIT WITH A VEHICLE NETWORK - A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror system having an electrochromic reflective element, a digital electrochromic drive circuit supplying a drive signal to the reflective element and a garage door opener. The garage door opener includes a transmitter and logic circuit. The logic circuit supplies signals to the transmitter for transmitting garage door opening signals. A microcontroller is provided which defines, at least in part, the digital drive circuit and logic circuit. In this manner, the digital electrochromic mirror system and the garage door opener have at least some components in common. The microcontroller communicates over a vehicle network with at least one module performing at least one other vehicle function. The vehicle network may have at least wired interconnections and may further have wireless interconnections. | 05-27-2010 |
20100171588 | SYSTEM FOR CAUSING GARAGE DOOR OPENER TO OPEN GARAGE DOOR AND METHOD - A system and a method for causing a garage door to open using a garage door opener having a wireless receiver is provided. The system comprises an interface coupled to an environment sensor and configured to receive data from the environment sensor. The system can include processing electronics coupled to the interface and configured to receive the data from the interface and to use the received data to determine whether an environmental condition exists. The processing electronics provide a command to cause the garage door opener to open the garage door based on the determination of whether the environmental condition exists. | 07-08-2010 |
20100188193 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE - An interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element having a front surface, a rear surface and a reflector. A display element is disposed to the rear of the rear surface and is operable to emit light when actuated, the emitted light passing through the mirror reflective element to be viewable to a driver of the vehicle. A garage door opener device is included in the rearview mirror assembly, which includes at least one user actuatable input device associated with operation of the garage door opener device. Actuation of at least one user actuatable input device causes the display element to provide a visual indication to the driver viewing the front surface, when the mirror assembly is installed in the vehicle, of at least one of (i) operation of the garage door opener device and (ii) coding the garage door opener device. | 07-29-2010 |
20100207724 | Garage appliance control system, and building - A garage appliance control system includes: at least one appliance installed in a garage that is provided as a portion of a building or a garage that is provided adjacent to the building; a first light emission portion which is provided in a vehicle that is parked in the garage, and which emits visible light; a first light reception portion that is provided in the garage, and that receives visible light emitted from the first light emission portion; and a control portion that controls the appliance based on light reception by the first light reception portion. | 08-19-2010 |
20100245040 | GARAGE DOOR OPENER TRANSMITTER WITH STATUS REPORTING - An improved garage door opener transmitter has a housing with a manually actuable member outside the housing. The transmitter actuating circuitry disposed in the housing. The transmitter circuit is adapted to send a signal to a receiver of a garage mounted opener unit to move a garage door having an open position and a closed position from a current position thereof to the other position. The improvement is a visually-observable indicium having first and second conditions. The indicium is connected to the actuable member and actuation thereof toggles the indicium from a current position thereof to the other position. In some embodiments, a non-visual indicium is also used. | 09-30-2010 |
20100259361 | SECURITY GATES DEVICE - The security gate device is the one that has the ability to deter and seize unauthorized vehicles to enter and that attempt to envade the place; this can be done automatically without giving human being orders. The device is equipped with a room consisting of bumpers and anti-blast walls to protect the facility and the workers from damage caused by such an explosion. Meanwhile, this device can arrest the intruders of the gate. | 10-14-2010 |
20100265034 | PORTAL ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM - A combination of specific antenna type(s), with a system of specific antenna Rf field deployment, combined with the intelligent sensing of differing micro processor control of a digital antenna attenuator that controls disproportional attenuation (either synchronously or independently) of the transmission and reception areas of the antenna(e), of electronically paired devices, together with conditional time delays, is used to securely determine the ID and intent of an Rf access system user. A multifunctional remote device (condition unit) is carried by a carrier, the remote device transmits a short range radio frequency (Rf) signal which, when within range, is received by a stationary control unit. A second multifunctional remote device (cluster unit) is carried by the operator of the carrier and must be in secure communication with the condition unit to enable secure transmission between the control and the control unit. The operation of both said multifunctional remote units changes significantly with application in differing fields of use. By intelligently varying the interactive antenna Tx and Rx area, the proximity and therefore position of the remote (condition) unit to the base (control) unit can be deduced, outwardly appearing as a decoding of the intent of the carrier. This system can be implemented as a secure card-less RFID entry system for vehicle, building, border entry and mass transit systems. | 10-21-2010 |
20100301999 | CHANNEL-SWITCHING REMOTE CONTROLLED BARRIER OPENING SYSTEM - An improved barrier door one way wireless communication system for operating a barrier, such as a garage door, includes the transmission and reception of multibit code hopping data packets in combination with automatic RF channel switching. Packet data is transmitted automatically on more than one RF channels in a switching style while sending two or more redundant multibit code hopping data packets on each of the RF channels. The system also provides for the learning of a transmitter to a receiver where two or more code hopping data packets must be received and decoded by the receiver on all RF channels before a transmitter can be learned to a receiver. Once the transmitter is learned, actuation of the transmitter during a learn mode can open a window for learning of a single channel transmitter. | 12-02-2010 |
20110043328 | Advanced Vehicular Universal Transmitter Using Time Domain With Vehicle LocationLoggin System - Special time domain techniques with novel circuitry are implemented for instantaneous precision frequency measurement of a signal comprised of short bursts emitted from a reference transmitter. Carrier frequency of the bursts is determined either by a special gated frequency counter or high speed sampling and spectral analysis. As a result of inherent precision frequency measurement and reproduction by using time domain techniques, the range of a combined unit, i.e., universal garage door openers UGDO and remote keyless entry RKE which is referred to as UT (Universal Transmitter) is further improved. Instantaneous determination of frequency and code of the reference transmitters is achieved and training procedure difficulties/failures which occur from auto-shutoff feature are totally eliminated. A new function for logging the most recent location of the vehicle is implemented on a fob or a key fob, referred to as RLV (Recent Location of Vehicle) unit which can be an added to a UT and/or RKE or can be realized as a standalone unit. High performance antenna with a reliable and stable impedance match is achieved by realization of novel wideband techniques. Dual-band operation, i.e., European and North American bands is easily implemented without the need for additional hardware. The dilemma of utilizing a universal opener for reproduction of rolling codes (which were devised to prevent reproduction) is resolved by means of user authentication. | 02-24-2011 |
20110169604 | UNIVERSAL GARAGE DOOR OPENER AND APPLIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM - Universal garage door opener and appliance control system operable to facilitate garage door opener and appliance control with a fob or other wireless device operable to wirelessly communicate corresponding instructions to a vehicle other device for subsequent relay to the garage door opener or controlled appliance. | 07-14-2011 |
20110227698 | WIRELESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A wireless control system for use in a vehicle and for use with a remote electronic system is provided. The wireless control system includes a transceiver for mounting in the vehicle. The transceiver is configured to communicate according to a Bluetooth communications standard. The transceiver is further configured to provide a control signal to the remote electronic system. The transceiver is also trainable to provide a carrier frequency and control information for the control signal. | 09-22-2011 |
20110316668 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Message Transmission and Reception Via Wireline Using Different Transmission Characteristics - Upon providing ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120032780 | VEHICULAR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM - A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an interior electrochromic reflective element. The interior rearview mirror assembly includes a control that has circuitry operable to provide a drive signal to the reflective element to vary the reflectance level of the interior electrochromic reflective element. The control includes a bus interface that interfaces with a vehicle bus of the equipped vehicle. The interior rearview mirror system includes a forward-facing camera. The control may control at least one of (a) operation of a video display, (b) operation of the forward-facing camera and (c) operation of a headlight control for controlling a headlight of the equipped vehicle. The interior rearview mirror assembly may include a video display operable to display video information for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. | 02-09-2012 |
20130147600 | Access Authorization via Location-Aware Authorization Device - An apparatus and method are provided to allow a user to authorize control of a remote device using a location-aware control device. The location-aware control device compares its location to a target position. When within a user-defined proximity of the target position, the control device offers a user the ability to communicate with a remote device. The remote device may be a movable barrier operator or a web server in communication with a movable barrier operator. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147601 | Apparatus And Method For Operating Devices Based Upon Vehicle Detection - A movable barrier operator controls access to a secured area which houses vehicles. The movable barrier operator is operable to move a movable barrier from an open to a closed position. A sensor controls the operation of a service-providing device through the controller of a movable barrier operator or by direct communication to a controller for the service-providing device. The sensing device senses whether a vehicle is present in the secured area. The sensor is operatively connected to the moveable barrier operator and is used to control the operation of at least one service-providing device without necessarily effecting movement of a barrier by the movable barrier operator. Operation of the service-providing device is effected upon sensing whether a vehicle is present in the secured area to effect an operation of the service-providing device. | 06-13-2013 |
20130321127 | REMOTE BARRIER OPERATOR COMMAND AND STATUS DEVICE AND OPERATION - The present disclosure provides a barrier operator system in which a remotely located transceiver type controller is in wireless communication with a transceiver type adapter connected to a barrier operator, and in electronic communication with the barrier operator's microcontroller. The controller is operable to wirelessly transmit door operator status inquiries to the adapter. This may be effected automatically in connection with the transmission and receipt by the adapter of door toggle commands or separate and apart from same. The status information is wirelessly transmitted by the adapter in broadcast form without source or destination address to the remote device in a signal that is non-addressed broadcast door operator (and, indirectly, door) status information by relying upon the receipt of the message by the remote within the specific time limit of the reception window of the remote. | 12-05-2013 |
20140139316 | Apparatus And Method For Operating Devices Based Upon Vehicle Detection - A movable barrier operator controls access to a secured area which houses vehicles. The movable barrier operator is operable to move a movable barrier from an open to a closed position. A sensor controls the operation of a service-providing device through the controller of a movable barrier operator or by direct communication to a controller for the service-providing device. The sensing device senses whether a vehicle is present in the secured area. The sensor is operatively connected to the moveable barrier operator and is used to control the operation of at least one service-providing device without necessarily effecting movement of a barrier by the movable barrier operator. Operation of the service-providing device is effected upon sensing whether a vehicle is present in the secured area to effect an operation of the service-providing device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140145824 | SYSTEM FOR CAUSING GARAGE DOOR OPENER TO OPEN GARAGE DOOR AND METHOD - A system and a method for causing a garage door to open using a garage door opener having a wireless receiver is provided. The system comprises an interface coupled to an environment sensor and configured to receive data from the environment sensor. The system can include processing electronics coupled to the interface and configured to receive the data from the interface and to use the received data to determine whether an environmental condition exists. The processing electronics provide a command to cause the garage door opener to open the garage door based on the determination of whether the environmental condition exists. | 05-29-2014 |
20140247114 | UNIVERSAL TRANSCEIVERS AND SUPPLEMENTARY RECEIVERS WITH SPARSE CODING TECHNIQUE OPTION - A garage door/gate opening/closing mechanism is provided that utilizes electromechanical actuation to exert force on a button or buttons of a wall switch in order to actuate a garage door, where the switch actuates a garage door opener. The electromechanical actuator is actuated by means of an electrical signal produced by a radio frequency receiver or by means of a switch. | 09-04-2014 |
20140266592 | NETWORK GATEWAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for adding a gateway to a first device having a first network connector. An embedded gateway module includes a processor, a memory connected to the processor and first and second network interfaces, wherein the first network connection uses a first network protocol and the second network connection uses a second network protocol. The embedded gateway module is installed in the first device, wherein installing includes sharing the first device's first network connector. The gateway then connects the gateway through the first network to a device manager application at a remote location, connects the gateway module to the second network, installs gateway program data for receiving data from a second device over the second network and storing the received data as channels of data and installs presentation program data for presenting the channel data to applications running on the cloud. | 09-18-2014 |
20140266593 | GARAGE DOOR STATUS AND CONTROL VIA A SECURITY SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and devices are described that are directed to status and control of a garage door system via an alarm system controller. A garage door system may include one or more garage doors and at least one sensor configured to sense data indicative of a status of a garage door of the one or more garage doors. The at least one sensor may further be configured to convey the sensed data to an alarm system controller. | 09-18-2014 |
20140320263 | METHODS, PROGRAM PRODUCTS, AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO VEHICULAR GARAGE DOOR CONTROL SYSTEMS - Embodiments of method performed in conjunction with a vehicular garage door control system are provided, as are embodiments of a vehicular garage door control system and a program product executed by a smartphone in communicating with such a garage door control system. The vehicular garage door control system may include an in-vehicle Garage Door Opener (GDO) signal generator, a wireless receiver, and a controller. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at the controller via the wireless receiver, a request signal originating from a remote electronic device requesting actuation of a GDO unit that, when actuated, moves a garage door between open and closed positions. In response to receipt of the request signal, a command signal is supplied from the controller to the in-vehicle GDO signal generator commanding the in-vehicle GDO signal generator to generate a GDO actuation signal requesting actuation of the GDO unit. | 10-30-2014 |
20140347162 | AUTOMATIC DOOR SYSTEM HAVING A SECURITY SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING SAID SYSTEM - The invention relates to an automatic door system having a security sensor device and to a method for using said system, in which a controller is connected to a security sensor, the sensor device comprising: a signal emitter for detecting at least one parameter representative of the door; and a receptor of the signal generated by the generator; wherein the controller activates at least the emitter by means of a triggering signal, said triggering signal being a signal independent of the signal to be emitted by the emitter. | 11-27-2014 |
20150015369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A MOVABLE BARRIER SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a method conducted by a movable barrier gateway device is disclosed for controlling a movable barrier, comprising receiving, by a communication interface, a remote command from a remote control device to move the movable barrier, the remote command sent over a network, delaying transmission of a signal to a movable barrier controller to move the movable barrier, by a processor, for a predetermined time period after the remote command is received, detecting movement of the movable barrier within the predetermined time period by a barrier movement detector, and ignoring the remote command by the processor in response to detecting movement of the movable barrier within the predetermined time period. | 01-15-2015 |
20150022319 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vehicle system includes a vehicle communication module in the vehicle, a remote start system in the vehicle, and a vehicle processor. The vehicle processor is configured to determine if the vehicle is in a garage, and further configured to receive an indication of a remote start request from the remote start system, receive a garage door status from a garage door opener using the vehicle communication module, and determine, based on the received garage door status, if a garage door is closed. In response to determining that the garage door is closed, the vehicle systems transmits a remote command to the garage door opener formatted to cause the garage door opener to open the garage door. | 01-22-2015 |
20150339869 | Automatic Wireless Door Opening System and Method of Using the Same - The present invention relates to an automatic wireless Bluetooth®-enabled garage door opener, gate opener or other automatic door opening system and method. Specifically, the door opener system and method comprises a Bluetooth wireless receiver interconnected to a low voltage wired garage door opening system, and a control application on a smart device, such as a smart phone, tablet, or other like Bluetooth®-enabled wireless transmitter. | 11-26-2015 |
20160071348 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vehicle system includes a vehicle communication module in the vehicle, a remote start system in the vehicle, and a vehicle processor. The vehicle processor is configured to determine if the vehicle is in a garage, and further configured to receive an indication of a remote start request from the remote start system, receive a garage door status from a garage door opener using the vehicle communication module, and determine, based on the received garage door status, if a garage door is closed. In response to determining that the garage door is closed, the vehicle systems transmits a remote command to the garage door opener formatted to cause the garage door opener to open the garage door. | 03-10-2016 |
20160117879 | SYSTEM FOR CAUSING GARAGE DOOR OPENER TO OPEN GARAGE DOOR AND METHOD - A system and a method for causing a garage door to open using a garage door opener having a wireless receiver is provided. The system comprises an interface coupled to an environment sensor and configured to receive data from the environment sensor. The system can include processing electronics coupled to the interface and configured to receive the data from the interface and to use the received data to determine whether an environmental condition exists. The processing electronics provide a command to cause the garage door opener to open the garage door based on the determination of whether the environmental condition exists. | 04-28-2016 |
20160148451 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CLOUD BASED COMMANDS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A MOVEABLE BARRIER - A control system for providing Cloud based commands to a garage door includes one or more Cloud servers for receiving commands from at least one mobile web enabled user device. A load balancer is used for receiving communication from a server for distributing commands from at least one web enabled device to the Cloud. A server based garage door opener is used for receiving commands and controlling operation of a garage door from the server. The status of the garage door is determined by measuring a distance of the garage door to the garage floor using a distance measuring device such that distance measuring information is communicated to the server for determining the open or closed status of the garage door before movement. | 05-26-2016 |
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