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20120268589 | Motion Tracking - In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive an identifying feature of a target entity, the identifying feature not requiring that the target entity to be in a line of sight of a camera for the camera to recognize the identifying feature; locate the target entity using the camera based on the identifying feature; and track the target entity using the camera based on the identifying feature. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269386 | Motion Tracking - In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive an identifying feature of a target entity, the identifying feature requiring that the target entity to be in a line of sight of a camera for the camera to recognize the identifying feature; locate the target entity using the camera based on the identifying feature; and track the target entity using the camera based on the identifying feature. | 10-25-2012 |
20130006822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRAVEL NOTIFICATION - According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for travel notification comprises receiving travel information of a card user of a purchase card. The travel information indicates a destination of travel of the card user and a time period of travel to the destination. The method further comprises receiving card information indicating account information associated with the card and generating a computer readable travel notification file based on the travel information and the card information. The travel notification file includes travel confirmation information indicating whether travel by the card user likely occurred. The method also comprises communicating the travel notification file to a card issuer information handling system such that the card issuer information handling system modifies an account associated with the purchase card, based on the travel notification file, to allow use of the purchase card at the destination of travel during the time period of travel. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRAVEL NOTIFICATION BASED ON TRAVEL BOOKING INFORMATION - According to some embodiments of the present disclosure a method for travel notification comprises receiving booking information associated with travel of a card user of a purchase card. The method further comprises parsing through the booking information to determine a destination of travel of the card user and a time period of travel to the destination. The method comprises receiving card information indicating account information associated with the card and generating a computer readable travel notification file based on the travel information and the card information. The travel notification file includes travel confirmation information indicating whether travel by the card user likely occurred. The method also comprises communicating the travel notification file to a card issuer information handling system such that the card issuer information handling system allows use of the purchase card at the destination of travel during the time period of travel, based on the travel notification file. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006858 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A PURCHASE CARD ACCOUNT BASED ON TRAVEL OF THE CARD USER - According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for modifying a purchase card account according to travel by a user of a purchase card comprises receiving, at a card issuer information handling system associated with a card issuer of a purchase card, a computer readable travel notification file. The travel notification file indicates a destination of travel of a card user of the purchase card, a time period of travel to the destination, account information associated with the purchase card and confirmation information indicating whether travel to the destination likely occurred. The method further comprises modifying, by the card issuer information handling system, an account associated with the purchase card based on the travel notification file to authorize use of the purchase card at the destination of travel during the time period of travel. | 01-03-2013 |
20130080181 | TELEHEALTH CARE VERIFICATION AND AUDIT LOGGING SYSTEM - A method for providing telehealth services includes conducting a telehealth session between a provider and a patient, generating metadata associated with the telehealth session, and providing the metadata associated with the telehealth session to an auditing system for validating the telehealth session. | 03-28-2013 |
20130204497 | USER-BASED AUTOMOTIVE CABIN VENTILATION SETTINGS - An automobile may comprise a user interface, a ventilation system, a memory, and a controller. The user interface may be configured to detect presence of a user in the automobile. The ventilation system may comprise at least one vent, the at least one vent comprising an aperture comprising an opening configured to limit an amount of air that can pass through the at least one vent and at least one set of air flow fins configured to control a direction of air expelled by the at least one vent. The controller may be coupled to the memory, the user interface, and the ventilation system and configured to receive from the user interface an indication of the presence of the user, read desired ventilation settings associated with the user stored in memory; and communicate at least one signal to the ventilation system indicative of the desired ventilation settings. | 08-08-2013 |
20130207905 | Input Lock For Touch-Screen Device - In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a touch-screen device may include a touch-screen display and a display manager. The touch-screen display may include a display device configured to display at least one of graphical images and alphanumeric text and a touch sensor configured to detect a tactile touch proximate to the touch sensor. The display manager may be configured to receive an indication of a manifestation of a desire of a user of the touch-screen device to disable at least a portion of the touch sensor and in response to the indication, disable at least a portion of the touch sensor while maintaining a display present on the display device substantially similar to that immediately before the user manifested the desire to disable at least a portion of the touch sensor. | 08-15-2013 |
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20090184744 | DRIVING CONFIGURATION OF A SWITCH - A driving circuit of a switch includes first and second transistors connected in series to each other and to relative intrinsic diodes in antiseries and driven by a driving device that includes at least one first and one second output terminal connected to the switch to supply it with a first control signal for driving the switch in a first working state and a second control signal for driving the switch in a second working state. At least one latch circuit coupled between respective common gate and source terminals of the first and second transistors supplies the common gate terminal with the first and second control signals, respectively, according to the working state to turn off and turn on the first and second transistors. The latch circuit comprises at least one flip-flop coupled to the common source terminal and having a reset terminal coupled to the first output terminal of the driving device and to the common source terminal by means of a reset resistance, a set terminal coupled to the second output terminal of the driving device and to the common source terminal by means of a set resistance and an output terminal coupled to the common gate terminal. The latch circuit further includes an activation circuit connected to the set and reset terminals of the flip-flop and to the common source terminal in order to dynamically short-circuit the set and reset resistances during the falling edges of the signal applied to the switch. | 07-23-2009 |
20100164582 | DRIVING CONFIGURATION OF A SWITCH - A circuit includes a switch, having first and second transistors, and a driving device for driving the switch. A latch circuit, coupled between respective common gate and source terminals of the first and second transistors, supplies the common gate terminal with first and second control signals to turn off and on the first and second transistors. The latch circuit comprises a flip-flop coupled to the common source terminal and having a reset terminal coupled to the common source terminal by a reset resistance, a set terminal coupled to the common source terminal by a set resistance and an output terminal coupled to the common gate terminal. The latch circuit further includes an activation circuit connected to the set and reset terminals of the flip-flop and to the common source terminal to dynamically short-circuit the set and reset resistances during the falling edges of the signal applied to the switch. | 07-01-2010 |
20110018068 | INTEGRATED DEVICE INCORPORATING LOW-VOLTAGE COMPONENTS AND POWER COMPONENTS, AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH DEVICE - An integrated device includes: a semiconductor body having a first, depressed, portion and second portions which project from the first portion; a STI structure, extending on the first portion of the semiconductor body, which delimits laterally the second portions and has a face adjacent to a surface of the first portion; low-voltage CMOS components, housed in the second portions, in a first region of the semiconductor body; and a power component, in a second region of the semiconductor body. The power component has at least one conduction region, formed in the first portion of the semiconductor body, and a conduction contact, connected to the conduction region and traversing the STI structure in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the first portion of the semiconductor body. | 01-27-2011 |
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20100075484 | SOI DEVICE WITH CONTACT TRENCHES FORMED DURING EPITAXIAL GROWING - A method for manufacturing an integrated electronic device. The method includes providing an SOI substrate having a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor starting layer on the insulating layer; epitaxially growing the starting layer to obtain a semiconductor active layer on the insulating layer for integrating components of the device, and forming at least one contact trench extending from an exposed surface of the starting layer to the semiconductor substrate before the step of epitaxially growing the starting layer, wherein each contact trench clears a corresponding portion of the starting layer, of the insulating layer and of the semiconductor substrate, the epitaxial growing being further applied to the cleared portions thereby at least partially filling the at least one contact trench with semiconductor material. | 03-25-2010 |
20110012267 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED DEVICE HAVING A CONTACT STRUCTURE, AND CORRESPONDING MANUFACTURING PROCESS - An integrated device, including: a first conductive region; a second conductive region set at a distance from the first conductive region; an etch-stop layer, made of a first dielectric material, at least partially overlapped on the first and second conductive regions; an insulating layer, made of a second dielectric material, different from the first, overlapped on the first and second conductive regions and on the etch-stop layer; at least one through opening extending through the insulating layer and the etch-stop layer; and a barrier layer, made of a third dielectric material, different from the first, set between the first conductive region and the etch-stop layer and between the second conductive region and the etch-stop layer. | 01-20-2011 |
20130070429 | INTEGRATED VOLTAGE DIVIDER - A semiconductor structure including a high-voltage transistor; voltage dropping circuitry, at least part of which is overlapping the high-voltage transistor; at least one intermediate contact point to the voltage dropping circuitry, connected to at least one intermediate position between a first and a second end of the voltage dropping circuitry; and at least one external connection connecting the at least one intermediate contact point to outside of the semiconductor structure. | 03-21-2013 |