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Aj Minich, San Mateo, CA US
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20150022316 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING GESTURE EVENTS IN A HAZARD DETECTION SYSTEM - Hazard detection systems and methods according to embodiments described herein are operative to enable a user to interface with the hazard detection system by performing a touchless gesture. The touchless gesture can be performed in a vicinity of the hazard detection system without requiring physical access to the hazard detection system. This enables the user to interact with the hazard detection system even if it is out of reach. The hazard detection system can detect gestures and perform an appropriate action responsive to the detected gesture. In one embodiment, the hazard detection system can silence its audible alarm or pre-emptively turn off its audible alarm in response to a detected gesture. Gestures can be detected by processing sensor data to determine whether periodic shapes are detected. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022344 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SILENCING AN AUDIBLE ALARM OF A HAZARD DETECTION SYSTEM - Hazard detection systems and methods according to embodiments described herein are operative to enable a user to interface with the hazard detection system by performing a touchless gesture. The touchless gesture can be performed in a vicinity of the hazard detection system without requiring physical access to the hazard detection system. This enables the user to interact with the hazard detection system even if it is out of reach. The hazard detection system can detect gestures and perform an appropriate action responsive to the detected gesture. In one embodiment, the hazard detection system can silence its audible alarm or preemptively turn off its audible alarm in response to a detected gesture. Gestures can be detected using one or more ultrasonic sensors, or gestures can be detected using a motion detector in combination with one or more ultrasonic sensors. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ULTRASONIC INPUTS - Hazard detection systems and methods according to embodiments described herein are operative to enable a user to interface with the hazard detection system by performing a touchless gesture. The touchless gesture can be performed in a vicinity of the hazard detection system without requiring physical access to the hazard detection system. This enables the user to interact with the hazard detection system even if it is out of reach. The hazard detection system can detect gestures and perform an appropriate action responsive to the detected gesture. In one embodiment, the hazard detection system can silence its audible alarm or pre-emptively turn off its audible alarm in response to a detected gesture. Gestures can be detected using one or more ultrasonic sensors, or gestures can be detected using a motion detector in combination with one or more ultrasonic sensors. | 01-29-2015 |
Allen Minich, San Mateo, CA US
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20150300892 | THERMODYNAMIC MODEL GENERATION AND IMPLEMENTATION USING OBSERVED HVAC AND/OR ENCLOSURE CHARACTERISTICS - Techniques for determining and using a thermodynamic model that characterizes a thermodynamic response of an enclosure conditioned by an HVAC system are disclosed. To determine a thermodynamic model, temperature information when the HVAC system operates in a first state may first be received. A response interval may then be determined where the response interval indicates an estimated time between when the HVAC system begins operating in the first state and when the temperature within the enclosure begins to change in a direction associated with the first state. Weighting factors corresponding to basis functions may then be determined, where the weighted basis functions characterize the temperature trajectory of the enclosure in response to the HVAC system operating in the first state. The basis functions may include a first basis function that is evaluated from a time that the HVAC system begins operating in the first state until a time when the response interval ends, and a second basis function that is evaluated beginning at the time when the response interval ends. | 10-22-2015 |
Allen Joseph Minich, Mountain View, CA US
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20160123618 | ENHANCED AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM SCHEDULING USING A PREFERENCE FUNCTION - In an embodiment, an electronic device may include storage containing processor-executable instructions and a current setpoint schedule, and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may cause the processor to control an environmental control system based at least in part on the current setpoint schedule, and to determine the current setpoint schedule by detecting user behavior that indicates satisfaction with setpoints, based at least in part on the detected user behavior, determining a preference function that maps weights indicating user preferences for setpoints, determining candidate setpoint schedules, scoring the candidate setpoint schedules against the weights of the preference function to obtain first scores, where candidate setpoint schedules that best fit the weights of the preference function have the highest first scores, modifying the first scores to obtain second scores, and selecting the candidate setpoint schedule with the highest second score as a new current setpoint schedule. | 05-05-2016 |
20160123619 | ENHANCED AUTOMATED CONTROL SCHEDULING - In an embodiment, an electronic device may include storage containing processor-executable instructions, a preference function that maps weights indicating likely user preferences for the range of values of a device setting in relation to a range of values of a variable, and a current automated device control schedule configured to control the device setting of the electronic device in relation to the variable, and a processor. The instructions may cause the processor to determine the current automated device control schedule based on the preference function by detecting user behavior that indicates satisfaction or dissatisfaction with values of the device setting in relation to the variable, updating the preference function based on the detected user behavior, and determining the current automated device control schedule by comparing a number of candidate device control schedules against the weights of the preference function and selecting the candidate with the highest score. | 05-05-2016 |
David C. Minich, Willoughby, OH US
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20150025672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING CUTTING TOOLS - A method of identifying a plurality of cutting tools for machining a feature having defined attributes associated therewith in a workpiece. The method comprises: assigning a characteristic to each cutting tool; receiving an indication from a user of a specific feature to be machined and at least one associated attribute; selecting a cutting tool based upon the specific feature to be machined, the at least one associated attribute of the specific feature to be machined, and the characteristic previously assigned to the cutting tool; determining if the characteristic of the selected cutting tool requires the use of another cutting tool to form the specific feature; and selecting at least one other cutting tool based at least upon the characteristic of the selected cutting tool until all of the attributes of the feature to be machined are capable of being produced by a combination of all of the selected cutting tools. | 01-22-2015 |
Mark Minich, Cape Coral, FL US
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20120288328 | Integrated Paving Process Control For A Paving Operation - Process control for a paving operation is facilitated by obtaining paving material conveyance information for a time period during which paving material is delivered to a screed of a paver by a material conveyance system and distributed over a surface to be paved. The paving material conveyance information includes data indicating incremental advance of the paving material to the screed of the paver during the period of time and data indicating incremental quantity of the paving material at one or more points of the material conveyance system, both of which are correlated to points in time during the time period at which the data is acquired. Incremental quantity of paving material delivered to the screed is determined to facilitate process control in the paving operation. | 11-15-2012 |
Waldemar Minich, Berlin DE
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20150301040 | IDENTIFICATION OF MODULATORS OF BINDING PROPERTIES OF ANTIBODIES REACTIVE WITH A MEMBER OF THE INSULIN RECEPTOR FAMILY - The present invention relates to methods and kits useful in the identification of modulators of the binding properties of antibodies reactive with one or more members of the insulin receptor family selected from the insulin receptor (IR), the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R), the insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor (IGF2R), the insulin-IGF1 hybrid receptor (IIHR), and the insulin receptor-related receptor (IRRR) and methods for the detection of such antibodies. | 10-22-2015 |