US9192326 illustrates a sleep monitoring system that can be embodied within a wearable device or in a mobile device. The system includes an accelerometer to monitor a user’s movements. The system determines when the user is falling asleep into a sleep session based on the user’s movements. The system also identifies… Read More
Author: Alex G. Lee
Sleep Monitoring and Aiding Devices Insight from Patents
Smartphone-based Connected Health Insights from Patents
US20150124067 illustrates an improved technique for monitoring human health vitals without contact using the physiological signals extracted from video images captured by a video camera of a smartphone. One advantage of the contact-less vitals monitoring technique is the avoidance of contact measurement which can be a problem… Read More
Honda Driver-aware Connected Car Insights from Patents
Honda patent applications US20130245886, US20140276112, US20140309881, US20140303899, US20140371984, US20150126818, US20160001781 and patent US8698639 describe systems implementing state monitoring of a driver for automatically adjusting the operation of a vehicle in response to the driver state (e.g., driver’s… Read More
Microsoft Cloud-based Connected Car Service Insights from Patents
Microsoft patent application US20150262486 and patents US9092984 and US9218740 illustrate a cloud computing service to assist drivers with respect to improving driver safety. The cloud-based driver assistive system can warn drivers upon impending collisions.
The cloud-based driver assistive system includes many grid… Read More
Internet of Things 2015 Year End Review (3): IoT Opportunities and Risks Insights from Patents
New IoT Product/Service Development
Even though the IoT is getting a huge attention recently the concept of interconnected billions of devices is not new and has been under development for over 10 years. Thus, there are a large number of related patented technologies that can be exploited for developing new products/services,… Read More
Internet of Things 2015 Year End Review (2): A Patent Perspective of Emerging IoT Products
Smart Home Robots
US20140207282 illustrates a household robot that can take care of your home. The household robot can monitor the state of a home, clean the home and turn on/off various appliances for you automatically and transmit the surveillance data to you in an emergency condition detected by the robot. As illustrated in … Read More
Internet of Things 2015 Year End Review: IoT Business Ecosystem
Goldman Sachs defines the Internet of Things (IoT) as the third wave of internet revolution: By connecting billions of devices to the internet, the IoT can open up a host of new business opportunities and challenges. According to McKinsey, the IoT has the potential to create up to $6 trillion economic value annually by 2025. According… Read More
Self-driving Connected Taxis Insights from Patents
Japanese company Robot Taxi Inc. announced that it will start trials with self-driving taxi service beginning in 2016. US20150339928 illustrates the system for operating the autonomous vehicles taxi service. A user can request a taxi service using an application that is running on the user’s mobile device. The taxi service… Read More
Intellectual Ventures Patents for Internet of Things (IoT)
More than 15,000 Intellectual Ventures’ US issued patents and published patent applications are reviewed for finding the good candidates for the IoT strategically packaged patent portfolio. Even if the Internet of Things (IoT) gets a huge attention recently, the concept of interconnected devices and connecting billions … Read More
2016 Samsung IoT Smart Home Strategy Perspectives from Patents
Samsung launched the first fully integrated smart home system Samsung SmartThings for providing the home automation and safety services to make people’s daily lives easier, more comfortable and safe. Followings show the insights regarding Samsung strategy perspectives for providing other value added services to make Samsung… Read More
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