Patent Marketplace: Consumer Electronics Patents for Sale
Wireless Remote Viewing System: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,879,255, 7,609,952 and 7,928,842, and U.S. Patent Application 12/932,579
The technology protected by the patent portfolio relates to remote viewing system, for use in residential, commercial, and industrial establishments. The remote viewing system includes a battery-operated camera and an RF transmitter which transmits activation signal to the camera. Upon activation, the camera transmits captured images in the form of RF signals to be displayed on a video monitor. The camera is normally in low power or sleep mode. Further, in sleep mode it listens for activation signal only for a predetermined time, which serves to further save energy during the sleep mode.
The remote viewing system has a variety of applications, including remote on-demand monitoring of babies or pets, elderly individuals and patients. The remote viewing system is also applicable to industrial applications, including video surveillance of pipelines, well sites, pumping stations, and other remote sites. The primary application of the remote viewing system lies in the remote monitoring of a mailbox. A user may monitor the mailbox using the remote viewing system to track the mail thefts. The remote viewing system does not require a connection to a permanent power source and also eliminates frequent battery replacements.
According to our market research, the patent technology has good market potential for commercialization. Based on a combination of market and technical analysis, it can be said that the successful bidder of the patent portfolio will gain an advantage in the video surveillance industry.
High Data Storage on Single Optical Disk: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,215,743, 5,982,723, and 6,339,568 “Data Recording and Reproducing Method for Multi-Layered Optical Disk System”
These three patents cover a novel data recording and reproduction system that enables high data storage on a single optical disk by using multilayer optical data storage technology. The technology enables flexible data storage at different compression rates by encoding circuits and data reproduction by decoding circuits. Optical disk data storage technologies include optical media disks, disk writers and recorders that have an application in home entertainment systems, a growing market in the coming years.
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A method for recording and reproducing data in a multilayered optical disk
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Selection of data encoding techniques to be used for recording the data
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Selection of a layer and location for data storage on the optical disk
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Routing of input data to a data encoder that encodes the data according to a user-defined data encoding technique
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Recording of the encoded data at the selected location on the optical disk, and a data reference (total of contents data) to indicate the layer, location and technique used for encoding the data
The technology protected by this patent portfolio can be used for recording data on optical disks using different compression techniques. The patented technology has various applications in the field of flexible data recording on optical disks, such as disk recording in home entertainment systems. The ‘723 patent was issued in 1996, the ‘743 patent was issued in 1999, and the ‘568 patent was issued in 2000.
Short Cut Icon: U.S. Patent No. 6,983,425 “Short cut icon vault”
The present technology is related to an improved short-cut icon management, display and access method and system for personal computing devices, mobile devices and cell phones.
- The patent discloses a short-cut icon vault (virtual folder, or stack) in which a user can store multiple short-cuts for multiple items, e.g. pictures, files, programs, folders on the desktop or display screen represented by vault icon, and then retrieve each or all items in the vault through the vault icon whenever necessary.
- The short-cut icon vault is known today as a “virtual folder” or “stack” on the desk top, which hides folders or short-cuts within and provides for a user annotation feature. The user can view the contents of the vault (virtual folder, stack) icon merely by hovering over the icon. Changes to the vault icon can be made with the help of a right-click on a mouse device or by the tap of an electronic pen, or other point device.
- The invention has current and future applications in operating systems, mobile computers, cell phones, PDA’s, e-Readers, MP3 players, web browsers, software as a service (SaaS) offerings, and many more applications in the future such as in-car entertainment systems.
The analysis also shows that the key element of a short-cut icon vault for storing several hidden files or folders with desktop short-cuts has been widely deployed these last 2 -3 years.
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