Abstract:
A portable container (100, 200) includes an insulative body (102) to hold a food item. The insulative body (102) may include an inner wall and an outer wall. Further, the portable container (100, 200) includes a temperature regulator (110) disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall of the insulative body (102). The portable container (100, 200) also includes a plurality of temperature sensors (202) disposed within the inner wall of the insulative body (102). The plurality of temperature sensors (202) being operably coupled to the temperature regulator (110). Further, the portable container (100, 200) includes a controller (210) communicatively coupled to the temperature regulator (110) to regulate the temperature of the food item based on a user input.
Abstract:
A mobile telephone device (10) comprises a microphone (20) and one or more spaced audio sensors (12) to sense the position and/or voice characteristics of one or more individual speakers (16). A mute control means (14) employs sound phase, and/or sound time of arrival, and/or sound loudness to create a map of the positions of individual speakers (16). The mute control means (14) identifies individual speaker (16) voice characteristics using one, the other or both of audio signal analysis of the sound of individual speaker's voices; and use of voice CODEC analysis results for each individual speaker. A call may involve no sound muting, may involve sound muting except for one individual speaker (16), or sound muting except for any one of a plurality of accepted individual speakers. A default individual speaker position immediately before and closest the microphone is provided. Positional tolerance for individual speakers of at least 5% to 10% is employed.
Abstract:
An apparatus (5) can receive and transfer data and energy between adjacent apparatus (5) in a chain. Each apparatus (5) comprises an input antenna (10) for receiving an input signal (12) which is tuned and impedance matched (14) for a receiver and demodulator (40) in a control circuit (18). The demodulated signal is provided as input to a transmitter module (42) to create an output signal (34). The input signal (12) is then impedance transformed (20) to generate a sufficient voltage to energize a power supply (24) which charges a battery (26). The input signal (12) and the output signal (34) can be a radio signal, a magnetic induction signal, or a combined radio and magnetic induction signal. A controller (38) in the control circuit (18) monitors the condition of the battery (26) and power supply (24) and controls a switch (44) operable to selectively power parts of the apparatus (5) dependently upon their monitored condition.