1. A system, comprising:
an integrated video camera module that includes a high definition camera portion, an antenna, a wireless transceiver, a microphone and a speaker;
an arm formed from substantially flat material, wherein the arm includes a cutout opening that has a substantially flat circular shape that conforms to a contour of the video camera module and is configured to entirely surround and hold the video camera module when the video camera module is inserted within the cutout opening in the arm;
a base that is configured to be placed on a surface; and
a joint that connects the arm and the base and that provides at least one degree of motion of the arm and video camera module mounted therein with respect to the base.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the joint is adjustable, at least in a forwards direction.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the video camera module further includes one or more of a reset pin, a status light, and one or more infrared light emitting diodes.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the video camera module includes one or more of the following: a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, a Power over Ethernet (POE) port, or an Ethernet port.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the video camera module is powered via an electrical connection external to the arm, the base, and the joint.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the video camera module includes a wireless transceiver.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein video data is exchanged between the video camera module and a server using the wireless transceiver.
8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tripod which is configured to be connected to the base.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the joint is configured to adjust the field of view direction of the camera module by changing angle of a substantially flat surface of the arm with respect to the base.
10. A system, comprising:
an integrated video camera module that includes a high definition camera portion, an antenna, a wireless transceiver, a microphone and a speaker;
an arm formed from substantially flat material, wherein the arm includes a cutout opening that has a substantially flat circular shape that conforms to a contour of the video camera module, and is configured to entirely enclose and hold the video camera module when the video camera module is inserted within the cutout opening in the arm;
a plug, included in the opening, which is configured to be coupled to a port of the video camera module when the video camera module is inserted in the opening, wherein the plug and the port of the video camera module are decoupled when the video camera module is not inserted in the opening;
a wire which is coupled to the plug and which is configured to electrically connect the video camera module and a power supply when the video camera module is inserted in the opening, wherein the video camera module and the power supply are electrically disconnected when the video camera module is not inserted in the opening; and
a surface mount which is configured to, at least temporarily, connect to a surface.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the video camera module further includes one or more of a reset pin, a status light and one or more infrared light emitting diodes.
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the plug includes one or more of the following a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug, a Power over Ethernet (POE) plug, or an Ethernet plug.
13. The system of claim 10, wherein the power supply includes a battery and the system further includes the battery.
14. The system of claim 10, wherein the power supply includes one or more of the following: an AC power supply, a battery, a solar power supply, or a power supply associated with a television.
15. The system of claim 10, wherein video data is exchanged between the video camera module and a server using the wire.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the video data is exchanged using one or more of the following: a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection, an Ethernet connection, a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connection, a television, or a cable modulator-demodulator (modem).
17. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface mount includes an AC power plug.
18. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface mount includes a light bulb outlet plug.
19. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface mount includes wall mounting hardware.
20. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface mount includes side grippers.
21. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface mount includes a hook and loop connector.
22. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface mount includes a clip.
23. The system of claim 10, wherein the power supply includes a lighting fixture, and the surface mount is configured to match the lighting fixture.
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 method for obtaining an envelope adjusted and frequency-translated signal, comprising:
filtering a lowband signal using an analysis filterbank to obtain complex-valued subband signals within a source range, wherein each complex-valued subband signal is represented by a real-valued component and an imaginary-valued component;
patching the real-valued component and the imaginary-valued component of a complex-valued subband signal with index i within the source range to a complex-valued subband signal with index j within a reconstruction range, wherein the source range comprises frequencies lower than frequencies in the reconstruction range;
patching the real-valued component and the imaginary-valued component of a complex-valued subband signal with index i+1 within the source range to a complex-valued subband signal with index j+1 within the reconstruction range;
applying an envelope adjustment to the patched complex-valued subband signals within the reconstruction range; and
filtering the patched and envelope adjusted complex-valued subband signals within the reconstruction range using a synthesis filterbank to obtain the envelope adjusted and frequency-translated signal.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the analysis filterbank and the synthesis filterbank are obtained by complex-exponential-modulation of a lowpass prototype filter.
3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the lowpass prototype filter is designed so that a transition band of channels of the analysis filterbank and the synthesis filterbank overlaps a passband of neighbouring channels only.
4. A method according to claim 1, in which the synthesis filterbank comprises a dissonance guard band, the dissonance guard band being positioned between synthesis filterbank channels in the source range and synthesis filterbank channels in the reconstruction range.
5. A method according to claim 4, in which one or several of the channels in the dissonance guard band are fed with zeros or gaussian noise; whereby dissonance related artifacts are attenuated.
6. A method according to claim 4, in which a bandwidth of the dissonance guard band is approximately one half Bark.
7. A method according to claim 1, in which the step of patching implements a first iteration step, and in which the method further comprises another step of patching implementing a second iteration step, wherein in the second iteration step, complex-valued subband signals within the source range for the second iteration step comprise the complex-valued subband signals within the reconstruction range for the first iteration step.
8. An apparatus for obtaining an envelope adjusted and frequency-translated signal, comprising:
an analysis filterbank for filtering a lowband signal to obtain complex-valued subband signals within a source range, wherein each complex-valued subband signal is represented by a real-valued component and an imaginary-valued component;
a high frequency reconstructionenvelope adjustment unit for patching the real-valued component and the imaginary-valued component of a complex-valued subband signals with index i within the source range to a complex-valued subband signal with index j within a reconstruction range, patching the real-valued component and the imaginary-valued component of a complex-valued subband signal with index i+1 within the source range to a complex-valued subband signal with index j+1 within the reconstruction range, and for applying an envelope adjustment to the patched complex-valued subband signals within the reconstruction range, wherein the source range comprises frequencies lower than frequencies in the reconstruction range; and
a synthesis filterbank for filtering the patched and envelope adjusted complex-valued subband signals within the reconstruction range to obtain the envelope adjusted and frequency translated signal.