All The Claims

1. A tamper-protection loop element for use in a tamper-protection loop of a radio-frequency transponder configured to be affixed to an object, the tamper-protection loop element comprising an electrically conductive material forming an electrically conductive circuit that is configured to be sewn onto the object, wherein an electrical conductivity of the tamper-protection loop element is maintained despite any openings formed in the electrically conductive material resulting from the sewing.
2. The tamper-protection loop element according to claim 1, wherein the electrically conductive material of said tamper-protection loop element comprises a sewable part, the sewable part configured to be sewn onto the object using a sewing needle, said sewable part being electrically conductive for passing electric current through the tamper-protection loop element such that an intactness of the tamper-protection element can be detected, said sewable part having a width that is greater than a thickness of the sewing needle and the openings formed in the sewable part by the sewing needle, such that the openings formed in the sewable part by the sewing needle do not interrupt the electrical conductivity of the sewable part and the tamper-protection loop element.
3. The tamper-protection loop element according to claim 2, wherein the electrically conductive material of said tamper-protection loop element comprises an electrically conductive grid or a plurality of electrical conductors, the electrical conductive grid or plurality of electrical conductors having a minimum width that is greater than an opening in the electrically conductive grid or the plurality of electrical conductors formed by a needle puncture to maintain electrical conductivity of the loop element for indicating intactness of the tamper-protection loop.
4. A tamper-protection loop element according to claim 1, wherein the electrically conductive material is configured to conduct an electric current through the tamper-protection loop, wherein an interruption in the electric current identifies a break in the tamper-protection loop.
5. A tamper-protection loop element according to claim 4, wherein the tamper-protection loop comprises a flexible soft material suitable for wearing.
6. A conductor arrangement for a radio-frequency transponder configured to be attached to an object, said conductor arrangement comprising:
a tamper-protection loop for the radio-frequency transponder and an electrical conductor that forms an antenna for said radio-frequency transponder, the tamper-protection loop comprising:
an electrically conductive material that is configured to be sewn onto the object, wherein an electrical conductivity of the electrically conductive material is maintained despite any openings formed by the sewing of the electrically conductive material onto the object, and wherein a size of any openings formed by the sewing are less than a width of the electrically conductive material, and an uninterrupted electrical current flowing through the electrically conductive material indicates an intactness of the tamper-protection loop.
7. The conductor arrangement according to claim 6, comprising a radio-frequency identification chip, said antenna being placed essentially asymmetrically with respect to a position of said chip, said tamper-protection loop placed on an opposite side of the antenna with respect to said chip position.
8. The conductor arrangement according to claim 7, said tamper protection loop configured to be closed by an attachable conducting segment such as conducting sewing thread, glue or an attachable conductor element.
9. The conductor arrangement according to claim 7, comprising a radio-frequency transponder chip electrically coupled to said conductor arrangement.
10. The conductor arrangement according to claim 9, wherein said antenna is a monopole antenna.
11. The conductor arrangement according to claim 10, wherein said tamper-protection loop is placed on an opposite side of the antenna with respect to said radio-frequency transponder chip.
12. A product label for a product comprising:
a radio-frequency transponder;
a tamper-protection loop communicatively coupled to the radio frequency transponder, the tamper-protection loop comprising a tamper-protection loop element, the tamper-protection loop element comprising an electrically conductive material that is configured to be secured to the product by sewing with a needle, wherein an electrical conductivity of the tamper-protection loop element is maintained despite any openings formed in the tamper-protection loop element by the sewing;
said tamper-protection loop element being located on the product label at a place where said product label and the tamper-protection loop element can be attached by sewing to said product such that product information on the product label is left visible.
13. A product label according to claim 12 wherein the product label is a care label for a garment, and the tamper-protection loop element comprises a sewable part, said sewable part being located on the care label at a place where said care label can be sewn to the garment such that care indicators on the care label are left visible.
14. The product label according to claim 13, comprising an indication on the product label for cutting away said transponder, said indication positioned so that when said care label is cut along said indication, said tamper-protection loop is cut and the electrical conductivity of said tamper-protection loop is broken.
15. The product label according to claim 14, wherein said indication comprises a perforation such that said care label can be torn along said indication, breaking the tamper-protection element.
16. The product label according to claim 13, comprising an antenna for the radio frequency transponder and a hard substrate or protective layer in an area of said antenna and said radio-frequency identification chip such that said hard substrate or protective layer prevents breaking said antenna or said radio-frequency identification chip by cutting or tearing.
17. A garment comprising a care label according to claim 13.
18. A garment according to claim 17, comprising a seam, a care label sewn into the seam of the garment, an electrically conductive part of the tamper-protection loop extending and sewn into a sewn portion of the seam.
19. A method of manufacturing a garment, comprising:
placing a care label at least partially on a layer of fabric, said care label comprising a radio-frequency transponder with a tamper-protection loop having a tamper-protection loop element, and
attaching said care label to said garment by sewing, gluing or stapling said layers of fabric and said care label including the tamper-protection loop together to form a seam, said seam being located at least partially across said tamper-protection loop element of said tamper-protection loop, the tamper-protection loop forming an electrically conductive circuit and wherein removing said care label from the garment separates the tamper-protection loop element from the tamper-protection loop and breaks the electrically conductive circuit of the tamper-protection loop.
20. The method according to claim 19, comprising:
placing the care label through a hole in said garment, said care label comprising a radio-frequency transponder with the tamper-protection loop, and
forming a closed loop of said care label such that part of said garment is left inside said care label loop.

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 of receiving a signal having re-stamped program clock references in an MPEG data stream, wherein the re-stamped program clock references in the MPEG data stream comprise corresponding original program clock references re-stamped according to an amount of a delay caused by a buffer, the method comprising:
recovering the MPEG data stream from the signal;
reading the re-stamped program clock references in the MPEG data stream; and,
processing the MPEG data stream in accordance with the re-stamped program clock references.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the recovered MPEG data stream comprises first and second MPEG data streams, wherein the recovering of the MPEG data stream from the signal comprises recovering the first and second MPEG data streams from the signal, wherein the reading of the re-stamped program clock references in the MPEG data stream comprises reading re-stamped program clock references in the first and second MPEG data streams, and wherein the processing of the MPEG data stream in accordance with the re-stamped program clock references comprises processing of the first and second MPEG data streams in accordance with the re-stamped program clock references.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the recovering of the MPEG data stream from the signal comprises:
tuning to the signal;
de-modulating the tuned signal; and,
de-multiplexing the de-modulated signal to recover the first and second MPEG data streams.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein the recovered first and second MPEG data streams comprises corresponding first and second VSB MPEG data streams.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the re-stamped program clock references in the MPEG data stream comprise corresponding original program clock references re-stamped according to a measured variable delay.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the re-stamped program clock references in the MPEG data stream comprise corresponding original program clock references re-stamped according to a measured variable buffering caused delay.

1. An extractor system comprising:
a positive pressure gas stream source;
a negative pressure gas stream source;
a positive pressure conduit configured to convey the positive pressure gas stream towards a work area;
a negative pressure conduit configured to convey the negative pressure gas stream from the work area;
a hood coupled to receive the positive pressure gas stream and to direct the positive pressure gas stream into a region around the work area and to draw airborne components from the work area into the negative pressure gas stream;
wherein the positive pressure gas stream source and the negative pressure gas stream source comprise a single blower driven by a single electric motor, and wherein the electric motor has a nominal power rating of at most approximately 7.5 Hp.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric motor has a nominal power rating of approximately 5 Hp.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric motor has a nominal power rating of approximately 3 Hp.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the blower and electric motor are disposed in a base unit.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the base unit comprises a movable cart.
6. The system of claim 1, comprising a manifold for directing gas flow from the blower to the positive pressure conduit and gas flow from the negative pressure conduit towards the blower.
7. The system of claim 6, comprising a single bend between an outlet of the blower and the manifold.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises a total head across the blower of at most approximately 18 in H2O.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the system comprises a total head across the blower of approximately 14 in H2O.
10. The system of claim 8, wherein the system comprises a total head across the blower of approximately 10 in H2O.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the blower provides a flow rate of approximately 900 CFM and the motor has a nominal power rating of 5 Hp.
12. An extractor system comprising:
a positive pressure gas stream source;
a negative pressure gas stream source;
a positive pressure conduit configured to convey the positive pressure gas stream towards a work area;
a negative pressure conduit configured to convey the negative pressure gas stream from the work area;
a hood coupled to receive the positive pressure gas stream and to direct the positive pressure gas stream into a region around the work area and to draw airborne components from the work area into the negative pressure gas stream;
wherein the positive pressure gas stream source and the negative pressure gas stream source comprise a single blower driven by a single electric motor, and wherein the system comprises a total head across the blower of at most approximately 18 in H2O.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the system comprises a total head across the blower of approximately 14 in H2O.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein the system comprises a total head across the blower of approximately 10 in H2O.
15. The system of claim 2, wherein the blower provides a flow rate of approximately 900 CFM and the motor has a nominal power rating of 5 Hp.
16. An extractor system comprising:
a base unit comprising a positive pressure gas stream source and a negative pressure gas stream source;
a positive pressure conduit configured to convey the positive pressure gas stream towards a work area;
a negative pressure conduit configured to convey the negative pressure gas stream from the work area;
wherein a total static head required to displace the positive and negative pressure gas streams in the base unit and the conduits is at most approximately 18 in H2O.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein the total static head required to displace the positive and negative pressure gas streams in the base unit and the conduits is approximately 14 in H2O.
18. The system of claim 16, wherein the total static head required to displace the positive and negative pressure gas streams in the base unit and the conduits is approximately 10 in H2O.
19. The system of claim 16, wherein the positive pressure gas stream source and the negative pressure gas stream source comprise a single blower driven by a single electric motor, and wherein the electric motor has a nominal power rating of at most approximately 7.5 Hp.
20. The system of claim 16, wherein the base unit comprises a movable cart.
21. An extractor system comprising:
a positive pressure gas stream source;
a negative pressure gas stream source;
a positive pressure conduit configured to convey the positive pressure gas stream towards a work area;
a negative pressure conduit configured to convey the negative pressure gas stream from the work area; and
a hood coupled to receive the positive pressure gas stream and to direct the positive pressure gas stream into a region around the work area and to draw airborne components from the work area into the negative pressure gas stream;
wherein the positive pressure gas stream source produces a flow of at least approximately 900 CFM while being driven by a motor having a nominal power rating of at most 5 Hp, and wherein the hood draws the negative pressure gas stream at a velocity of approximately 100 ftmin at approximately 3 ft from the hood inlet.

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. An apparatus for video surveillance system, the apparatus comprising:
at least one camera sensor, said at least one camera sensor is configured to capture 30 frames-per-second at a minimum of high definition resolution;
at least one image signal processor coupled to said at least one camera sensor for performing image signal processing functions including but not limited to auto white balance, auto gain, wide-angle lens barrel distortion reduction, and lens defect compensation;
a motion adaptive spatial and temporal filtering unit that is coupled to output of said at least one image signal processor for preprocessing of video data;
at least one video compression unit according to H.264 standard that is coupled to output of said motion adaptive spatial and temporal filtering unit, said at least one video compression unit is configured to compress 30 frames-per-second at a minimum of high definition resolution in variable bit rate;
a processor coupled to at least one video compression unit to store compressed data on a removable non-volatile semiconductor storage media in a continuous record loop in a circular queue, said circular queue is configured for storing multiple days of storage of surveillance data, in accordance with size of said removable non-volatile semiconductor storage media, before oldest data is overwritten by newly recorded video;
an encryption unit coupled to said processor, wherein said stored compressed data on said removable non-volatile semiconductor storage media is configured to be encrypted to allow only people with a security key to access said stored surveillance data;
an internet interface unit coupled to said processor using an interface including but not limited to 802.11 wireless interface, 3G data interface, 4G data interface, or a power-line data interface;
a transrating unit coupled to said removable non-volatile semiconductor storage media using said Internet interface unit for transmitting said stored surveillance data at a different constant bit rate (CBR) in accordance with transmit channel and destination capabilities;
wherein said surveillance data from said circular queue for a time of interest from a start time to an end time is sent by said processor upon request by a remote device communicating to said Internet interface unit using a H.264 compressed and encrypted audio-video data file format;
wherein, in case of a trigger event, data enveloping said trigger event is saved and transrated into a lower constant bit rate before encryption and transmittal to one or more predefined internet destinations;
wherein, upon request to transmit a time range of said start time to a stop time, requested data is transmitted in a data file format in non-real-time using TCPIP protocol, said data file is generated by decompressing video, performing temporal and spatial scaling, and compressing video at a different data rate in accordance with request and capabilities of a receiving device;
wherein all elements of the apparatus are integrated into a single compact unit:
whereby the apparatus is configured to save evidentiary data locally in said removable non-volatile storage media;
whereby an intruder is prevented from removing said evidentiary data that is captured and stored on multiple distributed units of the apparatus which are hard to reach or remove; and
image processing and storage of surveillance data collocated at the apparatus without having to stream data continuously over cabling or wireless in real-time, thereby power consumption and local bandwidth of transmitted data are significantly reduced because continuous streaming of data is not required; only said data enveloping said trigger event or a requested time zone is transmitted upon request by said remote device.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a microphone, an audio preamplifier, an audio-to-digital conversion circuit, and an audio compression unit; and
a multiplexer to combine output of said audio compression unit and said at least one video compression unit.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said removable non-volatile semiconductor storage media uses flash memory including but not limited to a USB memory key, a SDHC memory card, a micro SD card.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further including a rechargeable battery to power the apparatus, and a solar cell to recharge said rechargeable battery.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said internet interface unit uses HomePlug AV standard using power lines to connect to a local or remote device for transmission of data when requested.
6. An apparatus for security and evidentiary recording, the apparatus comprising:
a camera image sensor with at least high definition resolution for capturing video at 30 frames per second;
an audio microphone;
a removable flash memory including but not limited to USB memory key, SD memory card, or micro SD memory card;
a rechargeable battery;
a system-on-a-chip processor coupled to said removable flash memory and said camera image sensor, said system-on-a-chip processor comprising:
a camera ISP;
a hardware unit for lens barrel distortion reduction and lens defect compensation;
a first hardware accelerator module for motion adaptive spatial and temporal filtering;
a second hardware video accelerator unit for H.264 video compression at 30 frames-per-second with variable bit rate (VBR);
a hardware accelerator for transrating a VBR stream to a different bit rate CBR stream in accordance with available network channel bandwidth and target device display capability;
a security processor for encryption or decryption of locally stored and transmitted data;
a processor unit for audio compression;
an audio and video multiplexing circuit;
wherein compressed, encrypted and multiplexed audio-video surveillance data are stored on said removable flash memory using a circular queue, said circular queue is configured for storing at least several days of recording;
wherein a time range from a start time to a stop time of surveillance data is transmitted to a remote device upon request by said remote device or upon occurrence of a trigger event;

an Internet interface coupled to said system-on-a-chip processor including but not limited to 802.11 wireless interface, 3G wireless data interface, 4G wireless interface, and a power-line networking interface, said internet-interface is active only for sending data for said start time to said stop time upon request by said remote device and for signaling a trigger event to said remote device;
wherein, upon request to transmit said time range of said start time to said stop time, requested data is transmitted in a data file format in non-real-time using TCPIP protocol, said data file is generated by decompressing video, performing temporal and spatial scaling, and compressing video at a different data rate in accordance with request and capabilities of a receiving device;
wherein said trigger event including but not limited to motion detection, causes copying data enveloping said trigger event to a separate file in said removable flash memory, and sending said copied data as an attachment to a predefined email address;
wherein all elements of said apparatus are tightly packed in a single small enclosure; and
whereby one or more units of the apparatus concurrently capture video surveillance data continuously and store said video surveillance data locally for at least several days of past history and ensure that all evidentiary data are captured and analyzed when occurrence of an event is detected at a later time.
7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said power-line networking interface uses HomePlug AV standard.
8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the apparatus is packaged in a compact enclosure which is less than 2 inches by 2\xbd inches in size and directly plugged into a power outlet.
9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said removable flash memory is configured to be unplugged and plugged into a PC or a TV for viewing said video surveillance data.
10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein contents of said removable flash memory are encrypted so that only people with security key is provided access to view said video surveillance data.
11. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein data is captured and stored with variable bit rate in said circular queue, and is converted to a constant bit rate stream to transmit over a low-bandwidth network channel upon request.
12. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said remote device is one of a personal computer, a cell phone, or a monitoring station,
13. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the apparatus also performs facial detection and triggers a certain action for a certain list of individuals.
14. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein an electronic bill of material cost is less than $75.