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20100231140 | DATA BASED AMBIENT LIGHTING CONTROL - In controlling an ambient lighting element, a category of data being rendered by a host is identified, ambient lighting data associated with the identified category is retrieved, and the retrieved ambient lighting data is rendered in correspondence with the rendered data. The retrieved ambient lighting data may be an ambient light script arranged to determine temporal portions of ambient lighting data. The ambient lighting data may be associated with the category based on user input. A sub-category of the data may be identified and the retrieved ambient lighting data may be modified with additional ambient lighting data associated with the sub-category. An association of a category with ambient lighting data may be edited by a user. A default association of a category to ambient lighting data may be provided. | 09-16-2010 |
20100300263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING A SOUND RELATED TO A LIGHTING ATMOSPHERE - The invention relates to the automatic creation of a sound related to a lighting atmosphere, which is created with a lighting system. An embodiment of the invention provides a system ( | 12-02-2010 |
20110110108 | REMOTE COOLING BY COMBINING HEAT PIPE AND RESONATOR FOR SYNTHETIC JET COOLING - This invention relates to thermal management for removing heat generated by a heat source ( | 05-12-2011 |
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20110160656 | BREAST PUMP SYSTEM - A breast pump system ( | 06-30-2011 |
20110176935 | JET EDUCTOR PUMP - The invention provides a synthetic jet eductor pump that includes a synthetic jet actuator coupled to a fluid conduit. The synthetic jet actuator may include a vibratable membrane, an actuating portion that vibrates the vibratable membrane, a pump chamber coupled to the vibratable membrane, and a pump conduit in fluid communication with the pump chamber such that vibration of the membrane draws fluid into and ejects fluid from the pump conduit to create a net momentum of fluid in a predetermined direction. The fluid conduit may include a jet receiving portion between intake and ejection portions thereof, wherein the jet receiving portion is in fluid communication with the pump conduit. The net momentum of fluid created by the synthetic jet actuator may be communicated to the fluid conduit at the jet receiving portion to create fluid flow in the fluid conduit from the intake portion to the ejection portion. | 07-21-2011 |
20110190913 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE SUITED TO SOCIAL SETTING AND MOOD IN AN ENVIRONMENT - The invention relates to the automatic creation of an atmosphere such as a lighting atmosphere combined with music, which is suited to social setting and mood in an environment such as a room. An embodiment of the invention provides a system ( | 08-04-2011 |
20110260875 | ALERT DEVICE AND METHOD - An alert device and method include an elongated cavity ( | 10-27-2011 |
20120029322 | PROCESSING A BIO-PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL - The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for processing at least one bio-physiological signal of a sleeping object, such as a brain wave signal or electroencephalography (EEG) signal, an electro-oculogram (EOG) signal, or an electro-myogram (EMG) signal. The signal is captured by at least one sensor, which may be included in a pliable device such as a pillow or headgear. A processing unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
20120045071 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING SNORE ANNOYANCES - The present invention relates to a method and a device for reducing snore annoyances, wherein a snore sound pattern of a snoring person is determined to predict an upcoming snore sound level and wherein a faked snore sound is played to flatten the resulting snore sound level. | 02-23-2012 |
20120163626 | ACTIVE SOUND REDUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention refers to an active sound reduction system and method for attenuation of sound emitted by a primary sound source, especially for attenuation of snoring sounds emitted by a human being. This system comprises a primary sound source, at least one speaker as a secondary sound source for producing an attenuating sound to be superposed with the sound emitted by said primary sound source, a reference microphone for receiving sound from said primary sound source, and at least one error microphone being allocated to each speaker to form a speaker/microphone pair. The at least one error microphone is provided as a directional microphone pointing at its allocated speaker to receive residual sound resulting from the superposition of the sounds from the primary sound source and the corresponding speaker. The error microphone and speaker of at least one speaker/microphone pair and the primary sound source are arranged substantially collinear. A control unit is provided to receive an output reference signal of the reference microphone representing the sound received by the reference microphone and an output error signal of the at least one error microphone representing the sound received by the at least one error microphone and to calculate a control signal for the speaker from the output reference signal and the output error signal. | 06-28-2012 |
20130190554 | BREATH PACING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PACING THE RESPIRATION OF A PERSON - The invention relates to a breath pacing apparatus, comprising a haptic output unit with a variable haptically perceivable feature, said haptic output unit being provided to change said haptically perceivable feature periodically according to a sequence of desired respiration cycles, wherein a characteristic of the change of said haptically perceivable feature is related to the length of the respiration cycles. The invention is further related to a corresponding method for pacing the respiration of a person. | 07-25-2013 |
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20150102745 | LIGHTING CONTROLLER, LIGHTING SYSTEM AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD - In a lighting system, sound levels are detected in the vicinity of at least one lighting unit to determine when there is a sound level above a threshold. The illumination provided by the lighting unit is adapted in such a way as to encourage a reduction of noise generation. | 04-16-2015 |
20150304597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTION OF CONTENT FROM A STREAM OF DATA - A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit ( | 10-22-2015 |
20160051150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING BLOOD PRESSURE USING AN ACOUSTIC SIGNAL - There is provided a method for measuring the blood pressure of a subject, comprising receiving an acoustic signal comprising an electronic representation of sounds generated by a hemodynamic effect of the subject's heart beats on one or more blood vessels in a body part of a subject; deriving one or more parameters from the received acoustic signal; and calculating a blood pressure value based on the one or more derived parameters. | 02-25-2016 |
20160066801 | PULSE TRANSMIT TIME MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - Proposed is a Pulse Transit Time, PTT, measurement concept wherein a forced oscillation technique, FOT, is used to determine a pulse arrival time at alveoli of the lungs of a patient. | 03-10-2016 |
20160128641 | ACTIGRAPHY METHODS AND APPARATUSES - An actigraphy method includes receiving a physiological parameter signal as a function of time for a physiological parameter other than body motion (such as electrocardiography or a respiration monitor), computing a body motion artifact (BMA) signal as a function of time from the physiological parameter signal (for example, using a local signal power signal, a local variance signal, a short-time Fourier transform, or a wavelet transform over epochs of duration on order a few minutes or less), and computing an actigraphy signal as a function of time from the BMA signal, for example by applying a linear transform to the BMA signal and optionally applying filtering such as median removal and/or high-pass filtering. | 05-12-2016 |