| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090136078 | Loudspeaker - A loudspeaker including a frame and a toroidal magnet that is affixed to the rear of the frame. The toroidal magnet has a central passageway that opens into the frame. A cap is affixed to the rear of the magnet and closes the central passageway. A guide rod is affixed to the cap and projects forwardly from the cap into the central passageway. A tubular former is slidably positioned upon the guide rod. A voice coil is wound about, and is affixed to, the tubular former. A driver plate is affixed to the front of the tubular former. A resilient surround connects the periphery of the driver plate to the front of the frame. A suspension assembly resiliently connects the tubular former to the frame and has a pair of conical diaphragms that are secured together so as to form a bellows. A spider connects the bellows to the frame and another spider connects the bellows to the tubular former. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100054520 | Loudspeaker - A loudspeaker including a bottom plate formed from a material capable of transmitting a magnetic flux. The bottom plate has a bottom portion and a first side portion that is affixed to, and extends upwardly from, the periphery of the bottom portion. A magnet is affixed to, and extends upwardly from, the center of the bottom portion. A top plate, formed from a material capable of transmitting a magnetic flux, has a top portion that is affixed to, and extends outwardly from, the top of the magnet. The top plate also has a second side portion that is affixed to, and extends downwardly from, the periphery of the top portion. The second side portion is laterally spaced away from the first side portion so as to define a first air gap between the second side portion and the first side portion. The second side portion is laterally spaced away from the magnet so as to define a second air gap between the second side portion and the magnet. The second side portion is vertically spaced away from the bottom portion so as to define a passageway between the second side portion and the bottom portion. The first air gap and the second air gap are placed in fluid communication by the passageway. A diaphragm for producing audible sounds includes a bobbin portion that is positioned within the first air gap and is capable of free movement therein. A conical portion is affixed to the top of the bobbin portion remote from the first air gap. A voice coil is wound around, and is affixed to, the bobbin portion within the first air gap. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100104127 | Loudspeaker - A loudspeaker including a bottom plate being formed from a material capable of transmitting a magnetic flux. The bottom plate has a bottom portion, a cylindrical inside portion that extends upwardly from the bottom portion, and a cylindrical outside portion that extends upwardly from the bottom portion and encircles the inside portion. A cylindrical magnet is positioned on the bottom portion. A top plate is formed from a magnetic flux-transmissive material and extends outwardly from the top of the magnet. The top plate is laterally spaced away from the outside portion so as to form an air gap between the top plate and the outside portion. A diaphragm has a bobbin portion that is positioned within the air gap and is capable of free movement in the air gap. The suspension portion of the diaphragm is positioned at the center of the magnet. The sound-producing portion of the diaphragm is affixed to the top of the bobbin portion and is affixed to the top of the suspension portion. A resilient spider extends between the suspension portion of the diaphragm and the magnet. A voice coil is wound around the bobbin portion within the air gap. | 04-29-2010 |
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| 20080316940 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING MANAGED PORT CIRCUITRY TO MAP CONNECTIONS AMONG STRUCTURED CABLING APPARATUS AND NETWORK DEVICES - A managed port circuit includes a detection circuit that is disposed in a communication channel between a first local port and a second local port and a controller that is coupled to the detection circuit and is operable to configure the detection circuit in a detection configuration in which the first and second local ports are connected to the controller and a second pass through configuration in which the first and second local ports are connected to each other via the communication channel, the controller being further operable to determine when an end device is connected to one of the first and second local ports when the detection circuit is in the detection configuration. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20100011097 | Methods of Using Control Communications to Identify Devices that are Connected Through a Communications Patching System and Related Communications Patching Systems - Methods of identifying a first networked computing device that is connected to a connector port of a communication patching system are provided in which a control communication that is transmitted by the first networked computing device is passed through the connector port. An identifier associated with the first networked computing device is extracted from this control communication. The identifier may then be logged in a connectivity database that associates the identifier with the connector port. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100156437 | Apparatus and Methods of Demonstrating Cabling Performance in Real Time - Provided are apparatus and methods for demonstrating cable performance in real time. An apparatus may include a cable bundle of multiple disturber cables and a test cable arranged proximate one another, each coupled between a pair of data transceivers. A data loading device is configured to generate data for transmission across at least one of the disturber cables and the test cable, and a transmission data analyzer is configured to analyze data transmission performance of the test cable. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100216335 | Communications Patching Devices that Include Integrated Electronic Static Discharge Circuits and Related Methods - Communications patching devices are provided that include a mounting frame and a first jack that is mounted to the mounting frame. The first jack has a plurality of input terminals, a plurality of output terminals and a printed circuit board that includes a plurality of conductive paths that each electrically connect a respective one of the input terminals to a respective one of the output terminals. The printed circuit board further includes a plurality of electronic static discharge circuits, each of which circuit provides a path for discharging static charges to ground. Related methods and RJ-45 jacks are also provided. | 08-26-2010 |
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| 20090016599 | SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION MODULE OF A MACHINE-LEARNING ENGINE IN A VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A machine-learning engine is disclosed that is configured to recognize and learn behaviors, as well as to identify and distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior within a scene, by analyzing movements and/or activities (or absence of such) over time. The machine-learning engine may be configured to evaluate a sequence of primitive events and associated kinematic data generated for an object depicted in a sequence of video frames and a related vector representation. The vector representation is generated from a primitive event symbol stream and a phase space symbol stream, and the streams describe actions of the objects depicted in the sequence of video frames. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090016600 | COGNITIVE MODEL FOR A MACHINE-LEARNING ENGINE IN A VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A machine-learning engine is disclosed that is configured to recognize and learn behaviors, as well as to identify and distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior within a scene, by analyzing movements and/or activities (or absence of such) over time. The machine-learning engine may be configured to evaluate a sequence of primitive events and associated kinematic data generated for an object depicted in a sequence of video frames and a related vector representation. The vector representation is generated from a primitive event symbol stream and a phase space symbol stream, and the streams describe actions of the objects depicted in the sequence of video frames. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090087024 | CONTEXT PROCESSOR FOR VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for mapping a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a machine-learning behavior-recognition system. A background image of the scene is segmented into plurality of regions representing various objects of the background image. Statistically similar regions may be merged and associated. The regions are analyzed to determine their z-depth order in relation to a video capturing device providing the stream of the video frames and other regions, using occlusions between the regions and data about foreground objects in the scene. An annotated map describing the identified regions and their properties is created and updated. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090087086 | IDENTIFYING STALE BACKGROUND PIXELS IN A VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is determined. The comparison measure depends on difference of color values exhibited in the acquired video frame and in a background image respectively by the pixel or block of pixels and a corresponding pixel and block of pixels in the background image. To determine the comparison measure, the resulting difference is considered in relation to a range of possible color values. If the comparison measure is above a dynamically adjusted threshold, the pixel or the block of pixels is classified as a part of the background of the scene. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090087093 | DARK SCENE COMPENSATION IN A BACKGROUND-FOREGROUND MODULE OF A VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is determined. The comparison measure depends on difference of color values exhibited in the acquired video frame and in a background image respectively by the pixel or block of pixels and a corresponding pixel and block of pixels in the background image. To determine the comparison measure, the resulting difference is considered in relation to a range of possible color values. If the comparison measure is above a dynamically adjusted threshold, the pixel or the block of pixels is classified as a part of the background of the scene. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090087096 | BACKGROUND-FOREGROUND MODULE FOR VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is determined. The comparison measure depends on difference of color values exhibited in the acquired video frame and in a background image respectively by the pixel or block of pixels and a corresponding pixel and block of pixels in the background image. To determine the comparison measure, the resulting difference is considered in relation to a range of possible color values. If the comparison measure is above a dynamically adjusted threshold, the pixel or the block of pixels is classified as a part of the background of the scene. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100208986 | ADAPTIVE UPDATE OF BACKGROUND PIXEL THRESHOLDS USING SUDDEN ILLUMINATION CHANGE DETECTION - Techniques are disclosed for a computer vision engine to update both a background model and thresholds used to classify pixels as depicting scene foreground or background in response to detecting that a sudden illumination changes has occurred in a sequence of video frames. The threshold values may be used to specify how much pixel a given pixel may differ from corresponding values in the background model before being classified as depicting foreground. When a sudden illumination change is detected, the values for pixels affected by sudden illumination change may be used to update the value in the background image to reflect the value for that pixel following the sudden illumination change as well as update the threshold for classifying that pixel as depicting foreground/background in subsequent frames of video. | 08-19-2010 |