Techniques for communication with body-carried devices
First Claim
1. An apparatus to communicate via light transmissions comprising:
- a processor; and
logic, at least partially implemented by the processor, the logic to;
analyze a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a light source present in at least a predetermined number of the set of consecutively captured frames is a light transmission from a body-carried device located within the portion of the venue;
demodulate the light transmission to retrieve an identification (ID) data associated with the body-carried device from the light transmission;
map a location of the light source in a field of view of the set of consecutively captured frames to a location within the portion of the venue to correlate the location of the light source in the field of view to a location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue;
select a command to wirelessly transmit to the body-carried device based on the location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; and
employ the ID data to wirelessly transmit the command to the body-carried device.
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Abstract
Various embodiments are directed to techniques for employing a camera to receive multiple light transmissions conveying at least identifying data from multiple body-carried devices to enable locations of those devices within a venue to be determined and transmissions to individual ones of those devices to be made. An apparatus to communicate via light transmissions includes an analysis component to analyze a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a light source present in at least a predetermined number of the consecutively captured frames is a light transmission from a body-carried device located within the portion of the venue, and to demodulate the light transmission to retrieve an identification (ID) data associated with the body-carried device from the light transmission; and a communications component to employ the ID data to wirelessly transmit a command to the body-carried device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus to communicate via light transmissions comprising:
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a processor; and logic, at least partially implemented by the processor, the logic to; analyze a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a light source present in at least a predetermined number of the set of consecutively captured frames is a light transmission from a body-carried device located within the portion of the venue; demodulate the light transmission to retrieve an identification (ID) data associated with the body-carried device from the light transmission; map a location of the light source in a field of view of the set of consecutively captured frames to a location within the portion of the venue to correlate the location of the light source in the field of view to a location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; select a command to wirelessly transmit to the body-carried device based on the location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; and employ the ID data to wirelessly transmit the command to the body-carried device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An apparatus to communicate via light transmissions comprising:
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an antenna; a processor; an interface coupling the antenna to the processor; and logic, at least partially implemented by the processor, the logic to; analyze a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a plurality of light sources present in at least a predetermined number of the set of consecutively captured frames are a plurality of light transmissions from a plurality of body-carried devices located within the venue, demodulate the plurality of light transmissions to retrieve identification (ID) data associated with each body-carried device of the plurality of body-carded devices from the plurality of light transmissions, the ID data associated with the each body-carried device comprising an identifier unique to the each body-carried device, map locations of the plurality of light sources in a field of view of the set of consecutively captured frames to correlate the locations of the plurality of light sources in the field of view within the portion of the venue to locations of the each body- carried device of the plurality of body carrier devices within the portion of the venue; select commands to wirelessly transmit to the each body-carried device of the plurality of body carried devices in multiple serial transmissions based on the locations of the each body-carried device within the portion of the venue, and employ the ID data of the each body-carried device to serially transmit the commands to the each of the body-carried devices. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A computer-implemented method for communicating via light transmissions comprising:
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analyzing a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a light source present in at least a predetermined number of the set of consecutively captured frames is a light transmission from a body-carried device located within the portion of the venue; demodulating the light transmission to retrieve an identification (ID) data associated with the body-carried device from the light transmission; mapping a location of the light source in a field of view of the set of consecutively captured frames to a location within the portion of the venue correlating the location of the light source in the field of view to a location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; selecting a command to wirelessly transmit to the body-carried device based on the location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; and employing the ID data to wirelessly transmit the command to the body-carried device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:
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analyze a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a light source present in at least a predetermined number of the set of consecutively captured frames is alight transmission from a body-carried device located within the portion of the venue; demodulate the light transmission to retrieve an identification (ID) data associated with the body-carried device from the light transmission; map a location of the light source in a field of view of the set of consecutively captured frames to a location within the portion of the venue to correlate the location of the light source in the field of view to a location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; select a command to wirelessly transmit to the body-carried device based on the location of the body-carried device within the portion of the venue; and employ the ID data to wirelessly transmit the command to the body-carried device. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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