1. An adaptive morphing airfoil-structure comprising:
an airfoil-structure having spaced apart first and second outer skins having disposed there between a stacked grid of elongated tubular cells each having cell walls with a substantially hexagonal cross-section thereby forming a honeycomb structure and where each of said elongated tubular cells extend perpendicular to a cross-sectional plane of the cells from a first end to a distal end, and where the first end and the distal end are sealed off forming a pressurized cell;
where said cell walls having a material structure that radially deforms along the cross-sectional plane of the substantially hexagonal cross-section responsive to changes in ambient pressure; and
where said first and second outer skins having a material structure to morph responsive to deformation of said cell walls.
2. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 1, where the airfoil-structure is a propeller blade.
3. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 1, where the airfoil-structure is an aero control structure of an aircraft and where said cell walls deform responsive to an ambient pressure-altitude cycle that the aircraft control structure encounters during flight.
4. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 3, where the aero control structure is one of the structures selected from a group of structures consisting of a wing section structure, a flap structure, a nose structure, a tail structure, an elevator structure, an engine inlet structure, an engine outlet nozzle structure and a stabilizer structure.
5. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
a plurality of bladders where each is disposed inside the interior of the cell walls of one of the cells and communicably linked to a controlled compressed air source adapted to change relative pressure of the bladder to thereby change cell differential pressure for effecting cell deformation.
6. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 5, where the plurality of bladders are integrally interconnected and controlled.
7. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 5, where the airfoil-structure is an aero control structure of an aircraft and where said cell walls deform responsive to an ambient pressure-altitude cycle that the aircraft control structure encounters during flight.
8. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 7, where the aero control structure is one of the structures selected from a group structures consisting of a wing section structure, a flap structure, a nose structure, a tail structure, and a stabilizer structure.
9. An adaptive morphing airfoil-structure comprising:
a stacked grid of elongated tubular cells each having cell walls with a substantially hexagonal cross-section thereby forming a honeycomb structure and where each extend perpendicular to a cross-sectional plane of the cells from a first end to a distal end, and where the first end and the distal end are sealed off forming a pressurized cell;
said honeycomb structure bounded on one side by fixed outer boundary skin and on an opposing side by a free boundary area;
where said cell walls having a material structure that radially deforms along the cross-sectional plane from the substantially hexagonal cross-section responsive to changes in ambient pressure; and
where said fixed outer boundary skin having a material structure to morph responsive to deformation of said cell walls.
10. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 9, where the airfoil-structure is an aero control structure of an aircraft and where said cell walls deform responsive to an ambient pressure-altitude cycle that the aircraft control structure encounters during flight.
11. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 10, where the aero control structure is one of the structures selected from a group of structures consisting of a wing section structure, a flap structure, a nose structure, a tail structure, and a stabilizer structure.
12. The adaptive morphing airfoil-structure as recited in claim 10, where the cells that border the free boundary have an immediately adjacent sidewall pair and an opposing immediately adjacent sidewall pair where each of the immediately adjacent sidewall pairs form substantially flat opposing sidewalls in the immediately adjacent sidewall pairs’ default state when the cell differential pressure is substantially zero such that the fixed outer boundary skin has a curvature.
13. A method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure comprising the steps of:
providing an airfoil-structure having proximately spaced apart first and second outer skins having disposed there between a stacked grid of elongated tubular cells each having cell walls with a substantially hexagonal cross-section thereby forming a honeycomb structure and where each extend perpendicular to a cross-sectional plane of the cells from a first end to a distal end;
sealing and pressurizing each cell; and
where said cell walls having a material structure that radially deforms along the cross-sectional plane from the substantially hexagonal cross-section responsive to changes in ambient pressure, where said first and second outer skins having a material structure to morph responsive to deformation of said cell walls.
14. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 13, further comprising the steps of:
controlling the relative pressure within a plurality of bladders where each bladder is disposed inside the interior of the walls of one of the cells by communicably linking the bladders to a controlled compressed air source adapted to change relative pressure of the bladder to thereby change cell differential pressure for effecting cell deformation.
15. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 14, further comprising the steps of:
communicably interlinking the plurality bladders and integrally controlling the relative pressures of the bladders.
16. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 15, further comprising the steps of:
providing a line of cells that have an immediately adjacent sidewall pair and an opposing immediately adjacent sidewall pair where each of the immediately adjacent sidewall pairs form substantially flat opposing sidewalls in there default state when the cell differential pressure is substantially zero such that the first and second skins have a curvature.
17. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 16, further comprising the steps of:
transitioning the cell differential pressure to a value substantially above zero thereby reducing the curvature.
18. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 17, where the airfoil-structure is a propeller blade.
19. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 18, where the airfoil-structure is an aero control structure which is one of the structures selected from a group of structures consisting of a wing section structure, a flap structure, a nose structure, a tail structure, an elevator structure, an engine inlet structure, an engine outlet nozzle structure and a stabilizer structure.
20. The method for adaptively morphing an airfoil-structure as recited in claim 19, where controlling the relative pressure within a plurality of bladders is manually controlled.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A media recording device for managing and delivering media content, comprising:
a media recording structure for capturing a live data stream;
an inputoutput component;
a transmitter for transmitting the live data stream to network-based storage;
a processor in communication with the media recording structure, the input component, and the transmitter; and
a media management application executable on the processor, the media management application configured to:
provide a graphical user interface via the inputoutput component, the graphical user interface including a user-selectable option for managing the network-based storage of media files captured by the media recording structure, the user-selectable option, when selected, generates an alert indicating an amount of recording time remaining for the live data stream before a storage capacity of the network-based storage is reached, the recording time determined as a function of an encoding rate at which the live data stream is being captured; wherein the alert further indicates an amount of time remaining that corresponds to alternate encoding rates available for the live data stream;
receive a selection of the user-selectable option;
monitor consumption of the network-based storage for the live data stream in response to the selection; and
generate the alert pursuant to a corresponding one of the encoding rate and the alternate encoding rate.
2. The media recording device of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable option is one of a plurality of user-selectable options, comprising:
an option to automatically purge the network-based storage based on a threshold value corresponding to an amount of the network-based storage consumed; and
an option to purchase additional storage space, via the inputoutput component and the graphical user interface, with respect to the network-based storage.
3. The media recording device of claim 1, wherein the media management application is configured to:
receive a destination address for a second live data stream captured by the media recording structure, the destination address entered via the inputoutput component; and
transmit the second live data stream to a receiving device associated with the destination address via the transmitter;
wherein the second live data stream is transmitted to the receiving device over a network in response to a request for the second live data stream, the request received at the media recording device from the receiving device.
4. The media recording device of claim 3, further comprising:
a signal detection component in communication with the processor, the signal detection component monitoring signal quality of a communications path associated with the media recording device; and
a storage component in communication with the processor; wherein the media management application is configured to:
store the second live data stream in the storage component, as one of the media files, when a signal is not detected by the signal detection component; and
repeat the monitoring until the signal is detected;
wherein transmitting the second live data stream to the receiving device is performed in response to detection of the signal.
5. The media recording device of claim 4, wherein upon detecting signals for at least two communications paths associated with the media recording device, the media management application is configured to:
compare signal strengths of the signals for the at least two communication paths; and
select one of the at least two communication paths based upon the comparing;
wherein transmitting the second live data stream to the receiving device associated with the destination address includes transmitting the media file over a selected communication path.
6. The media recording device of claim 3, further comprising:
a receiver in communication with the processor;
wherein the receiving device and the media recording device are connected via a communications path over a network; and
wherein the media file is transmitted to the receiving device over the network in response to a request received by the user of the media recording device via the inputoutput component to transmit the media file.
7. The media recording device of claim 1, wherein the live data stream comprises multimedia.
8. The media recording device of claim 1, wherein the media recording structure is a video camera.
9. A method for managing and delivering media content, comprising:
providing a graphical user interface via an inputoutput component of a media recording device, the graphical user interface including a user-selectable option for managing network-based storage of media files captured by the media recording device, the user-selectable option, when selected, generating an alert indicating an amount of recording time remaining for the live data stream before a storage capacity of the network-based storage is reached, the recording time determined as a function of an encoding rate at which a live data stream is being captured; wherein the alert further indicates an amount of time remaining that corresponds to alternate encoding rates available for the live data stream;
receiving a selection of the user-selectable option;
monitoring consumption of the network-based storage for the live data stream in response to the selection; and
generating the alert pursuant to a corresponding one of the encoding rate and the alternate encoding rate.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the user-selectable option is one of a plurality of user-selectable options, comprising:
an option to automatically purge the network-based storage based on a threshold value corresponding to an amount of the network-based storage consumed; and
an option to purchase additional space, via the inputoutput component and the graphical user interface, with respect to the network-based storage.
11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:
receiving a destination address for a second live data stream captured by the media recording device, the destination address entered via the inputoutput component of the media recording device; and
transmitting the second live data stream to a receiving device associated with the destination address via a transmitter of the media recording device;
wherein the second live data stream is transmitted to the receiving device over a network in response to a request for the second live data stream, the request received at the media recording device from the receiving device.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
storing the second live data stream in a storage component of the media recording device, as one of the media files, when a signal is not detected by a signal detection component of the media recording device, the signal detection component in communication with a processor of the media recording device, the signal detection component monitoring signal quality of a communications path associated with the media recording device;
wherein transmitting the second live data stream to the receiving device is performed in response to the monitoring and subsequent detection of the signal.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein upon detecting signals for at least two communications paths associated with the media recording device, the method further comprises:
selecting one of the at least two communication paths for transmitting the media file, the selecting based upon a comparison of signal strengths of the signals associated with the least two communication paths;
wherein transmitting the second live data stream to the receiving device associated with the destination address includes transmitting the media file over a selected communication path.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein the receiving device and the media recording device are connected via a communications path over a network, and wherein the second live data stream media file is transmitted to the receiving device over the network in response to a request received by the user of the media recording device via the inputoutput component to transmit the media file.
15. The method of claim 9, wherein the live data stream comprises multimedia.
16. A computer program product for managing and delivering media content captured by a media recording device via a media recording structure, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having instructions encoded thereon, which when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to implement a method, comprising:
providing a graphical user interface via an inputoutput component of a media recording device, the graphical user interface including a user-selectable option for managing network-based storage of media files captured by the media recording device, the user-selectable option, when selected, generating an alert indicating an amount of recording time remaining for the live data stream before a storage capacity of the network-based storage is reached, the recording time determined as a function of an encoding rate at which a live data stream is being captured; wherein the alert further indicates an amount of time remaining that corresponds to alternate encoding rates available for the live data stream;
receiving a selection of the user-selectable option;
monitoring consumption of the network-based storage for the live data stream in response to the selection; and
generating the alert pursuant to a corresponding one of the encoding rate and the alternate encoding rate.
17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the user-selectable option is one of a plurality of user-selectable options, comprising:
an option to automatically purge the network-based storage based on a threshold value corresponding to an amount of the network-based storage consumed; and
an option to purchase additional space with respect to the network-based storage.
18. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising instructions for:
receiving a destination address for a second live data stream captured by the media recording device, the destination address entered via the inputoutput component of the media recording device; and
transmitting the second live data stream to a receiving device associated with the destination address via a transmitter of the media recording device;
wherein the second live data stream is transmitted to the receiving device over a network in response to a request for the second live data stream, the request received at the media recording device from the receiving device.
19. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising instructions for:
storing the second live data stream in a storage component of the media recording device, as one of the media files, when a signal is not detected by a signal detection component of the media recording device, the signal detection component in communication with a processor of the media recording device, the signal detection component monitoring signal quality of a communications path associated with the media recording device;
wherein transmitting the second live data stream to the receiving device is performed in response to the monitoring and subsequent detection of the signal.
20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein upon detecting signals for at least two communications paths associated with the media recording device, the method further comprising:
selecting one of the at least two communication paths for transmitting the media file, the selecting based upon a comparison of signal strengths of the signals associated with the least two communication paths;
wherein transmitting the second live data stream to the receiving device associated with the destination address includes transmitting the media file over a selected communication path.