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20090082694 | PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY DETECTION - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a peripheral neuropathy monitor may be incorporated into a scale form factor or other device for monitoring a trend towards peripheral neuropathy by a monitored user or patient. The peripheral neuropathy monitor may include a heating element, a cooling element, and/or a vibrating element, and may be capable of performing the sensitivity of the user to hot, cold, and/or vibrations, and monitor such trends over time to facilitate detecting the onset of peripheral neuropathy. The peripheral neuropathy monitor may be capable of communicating with a remote device via a wired or wireless network for operating the monitor, and for storing and/or analyzing the test results. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083066 | Method for routing user service requests from a telemedicine station - A station such as a telemedicine booth may send a request for medical service to a routing agent, which may route the request for medical service to a medical service provider. The routing may be based on one or more routing criteria, such as for example medical parameters of a user collected at the station and sent to the routing agent, location of a user, or quality of service indicators. | 03-26-2009 |
20090245695 | DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC IMAGE CAPTURE - In some embodiments, provided are methods and reading devices with image capture capabilities for efficiently capturing multiple images. | 10-01-2009 |
20100081414 | BACKUP PIN ENTRY USING CAMERA AND OCR - A personal identification number (PIN) may be used as a basic security measure to unlock an electronic device. PINs are notoriously forgotten or unavailable. A master security code may be used to unlock the device in this situation. The master security code may comprise printed indicia such as an alpha-numeric text string, for example, printed in the device owner's manual. A picture or image of the page containing the master security code may be snapped with a built-in camera feature. Optical character recognition (OCR) may be used to extract the master security code text string from the image and compared to a like master security code stored in the device. If they match, the device may be unlocked even without the PIN. | 04-01-2010 |
20140142937 | GESTURE-AUGMENTED SPEECH RECOGNITION - Methods and systems may provide for generating text based on speech input and recognizing one or more hand gestures. Additionally, an adaptation of the text may be conducted based on the hand gestures. In one example, the hand gestures are associated with operations such as punctuation insertion operations, cursor movement operations, text selection operations, capitalization operations, pause of speech recognition operations, resume of speech recognition operations, application-specific actions, and so forth, wherein the adaptation of the text includes the associated operation. | 05-22-2014 |
20140189391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING SERVICE LATENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR DEVICES CONNECTED TO LOW POWER INPUT/OUTPUT SUB-SYSTEMS - In at least one embodiment described herein, an apparatus is provided that can include means for communicating a latency tolerance value for a device connected to a platform from a software latency register if a software latency tolerance register mode is active. The apparatus may also include means for communicating the latency tolerance value from a hardware latency register if a host controller is active. The latency tolerance value can be sent to a power management controller. More specific examples can include means for communicating a latency tolerance value from the software latency register if the software latency tolerance register mode is not active and the host controller is not active. The apparatus can also include means for mapping a resource space in the software latency register for the device using a BIOS/platform driver. The mapping can be achieved using an advanced configuration and power interface device description. | 07-03-2014 |
20160019895 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROVIDING TEXTUAL INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING THE SAME - Technologies for providing textual information are described. In some embodiments the technologies include an audio sensor, a loudspeaker, and a voice to text server. The audio sensor may function to detect an audio input and produce a first signal containing auditory information. The auditory information may be conveyed to the loudspeaker and the voice to text server. The voice to text server may function to convert the auditory information to textual information and transmit the textual information to one or more client devices, e.g., in a text message. Systems, methods, and devices including or utilizing such technology are also described. | 01-21-2016 |
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20090167838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING A TELEMEDICINE STATION - Apparatus and method for cleaning a telemedicine booth include identifying a custodian in the booth, providing visual and/or audio prompting or instructions on cleaning the booth, receiving input from the custodian regarding the status of the cleaning performed on the booth, and transmitting information regarding the cleaning of the booth to a remote computer system. The method and apparatus further include providing an ultra-violet light source in the booth and activating the light source to reduce the growth of harmful bacteria, or kill bacteria. An alert/notification may be sent to a custodian that the booth needs or could use cleaning. | 07-02-2009 |
20120159160 | HIGH SECURITY DISPLAY OF PRIVATE DATA - A device, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes an inbound port to receive information from an information retrieval peripheral. The device also includes an outbound port to send information to a local computing device. The device includes masking logic to cause the local computing device to recognize the portable security device as at least one of a plurality of endpoint devices. The device also includes data obfuscation logic that is capable of obfuscating simple data format data, received from the information retrieval peripheral, obfuscating that data into a non-simple data format, and sending the obfuscated data to the local computing device. The non-simple data format includes at least one frame of video. | 06-21-2012 |
20120272090 | SYSTEM RECOVERY USING EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for computer system recovery is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a connection, via an interface, to a computer system to support the system recovery of the computer system. The method includes executing an emulation application as a recovery agent. The method includes retrieving, based on identifiers associated with the computer system, remote data via another interface. The method further includes performing the system recovery by using at least a part of the remote data. | 10-25-2012 |
20130002722 | ADAPTIVE TEXT FONT AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS IN SMART HANDHELD DEVICES FOR IMPROVED USABILITY - Systems and methods of operating a system may involve obtaining an image from a front-facing camera of the system, and conducting a facial distance analysis on the image. In addition, a visualization characteristic of display content associated with the system may be modified based at least in part on the facial distance analysis. | 01-03-2013 |
20140176572 | Offloading Touch Processing To A Graphics Processor - In an embodiment, a processor includes a graphics domain including a graphics engines each having at least one execution unit. The graphics domain is to schedule a touch application offloaded from a core domain to at least one of the plurality of graphics engines. The touch application is to execute responsive to an update to a doorbell location in a system memory coupled to the processor, where the doorbell location is written responsive to a user input to the touch input device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176573 | Offloading Touch Processing To A Graphics Processor - In an embodiment, a processor includes a graphics domain including a graphics engines each having at least one execution unit. The graphics domain is to schedule a touch application offloaded from a core domain to at least one of the plurality of graphics engines. The touch application is to execute responsive to an update to a doorbell location in a system memory coupled to the processor, where the doorbell location is written responsive to a user input to the touch input device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHIP SELF DEACTIVATION - In some embodiments, provided is a processor chip including self deactivation logic to deactivate the processor chip after a threshold of qualified events have been monitored. | 07-03-2014 |
20140355476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESH NETWORK DEPLOYMENT - Systems and methods to deploy a mesh network comprising one or more access point (AP) modules and at least one deployment server to a deployment region. The AP module may be configured to determine location and/or status information based on global navigation satellite signals and/or sensor signals and communicate the location and/or status signals to the deployment servers. The deployment servers may be configured to initiate deployment of additional AP modules to the deployment region based at least in part on the received location and/or status information. | 12-04-2014 |
20150082890 | BIOMETRIC SENSORS FOR PERSONAL DEVICES - Methods and systems may provide for a system having a flexible substrate, an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to the flexible substrate and a processor coupled to the ultrasonic transducer array. The processor may identify a fingerprint based on a signal from the ultrasonic transducer array. The system may also include an external component having a curved profile, wherein the ultrasonic transducer array is embedded in the external component and includes a read surface that conforms to the curved profile. In one example, the external component includes a button having a function that is separate from identification of the fingerprint. | 03-26-2015 |
20150177372 | MIR Two Dimensional Scanner - In accordance with some embodiments, a micro impulse radar (MIR) hand scanner enables scanning of structures concealed by conventional wall, floor, or ceiling surfaces such as wall board, plywood, plaster, brick siding and the like. By simply scanning a wand across a wall surface one can determine not only what is within the wall but may also gain information about the types of materials are involved and their specific location within the wall relative to the wall surface. This may assist in identifying exactly what it is behind the wall. | 06-25-2015 |
20160021199 | DETECTION AND DETERRANCE OF UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MOBILE DEVICES - This disclosure pertains to device-monitoring systems, and in particular (but not exclusively) to detecting and deterring unauthorized use of electronic systems at distinct locations and during specific time periods. An apparatus consistent with the present disclosure includes logic, at least partially implemented in hardware, to receive an entrance message. The entrance message may include at least one policy for the manner to which a device is to be operated when present within a device restricted area. The apparatus may also include logic to send an acknowledgement notification to indicate receipt of the entrance message and an agreement to abide by the at least one policy. Furthermore, the apparatus may also include logic to detect an attempt to execute an action contrary to the at least one policy. | 01-21-2016 |