20th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160140372 | BARCODE READER AND ACCESSORY FOR THE BARCODE READER - A barcode reader and an accessory are disclosed. A barcode reader may include an interface for communication with a host computer via a wireless or wired link and an authentication system to establish mutual authentication with the host computer. The barcode reader may include a connector for connecting the barcode reader to the external power source or the host computer. The connector may be a combined power and data connector. An accessory may provide operating power to a barcode reader and provide decoded data of an image of a barcode received from the barcode reader to a host computer. The accessory may include connectors and an interface system. The interface system may include a processor configured to send the decoded data to the host computer, an authentication system, and a power interface. The accessory may include RF circuits for communicating with the host computer via a wireless link. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140373 | EMBEDDING INFORMATION IN AN IMAGE FOR FAST RETRIEVAL - A binary bit-string is encoded in a circular image. The circular image encodes substrings of the bit-string in sectors of the circular image and includes redundant bits, error correcting codes, and metadata pertaining to the encoding scheme. To encode the bit-strings, a circular image is generated that includes a center ring and a first ring. Outward from the first ring, additional rings represent bits in the bit-string according to the width of each ring. The exterior of the image includes an outer boundary ring. The width of the boundary rings is used to define the widths representing the value of each ring. To extract a bit-string from an image, the center of the circular image is identified and a direction is selected to evaluate the image outward, determining the boundaries of each ring. The boundaries are analyzed to determine the width of each ring and the encoded bit values. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140374 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DECODING TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATRIX SYMBOLS - Systems and methods for reading a two-dimensional matrix symbol or for determining if a two-dimensional matrix symbol is decodable are disclosed. The systems and methods can include a data reading algorithm that receives an image, locates at least a portion of the data modules within the image without using a fixed pattern, fits a model of the module positions from the image, extrapolates the model resulting in predicted module positions, determines module values from the image at the predicted module positions, and extracts a binary matrix from the module values. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140375 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The embodiments of the disclosure provide a two-dimensional code recognition method and associated apparatus. The two-dimensional code recognition method comprises steps of determining whether there is a picture displayed on a screen; determining whether the picture includes a two-dimensional code, when the picture is displayed on the screen; and identifying the two-dimensional code, when the picture includes the two-dimensional code. According to the disclosure only when determining the picture includes a two-dimensional code, the two-dimensional code is identified, and cameras are not required for the recognition of the local two-dimensional code picture. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140376 | Capacitive Fingerprint Sensor with Quadrature Demodulator and Multiphase Scanning - A fingerprint sensing circuit, system, and method is disclosed. The fingerprint sensor maybe include a plurality of inputs coupled to a plurality of fingerprint sensing electrodes and to an analog front end. The analog front end may be configured to generate at least one digital value in response to a capacitance of at least one of the plurality of fingerprint sensing electrodes. Additionally, the analog front end may include a quadrature demodulation circuit to generate at least one demodulated value for processing by a channel engine. The channel engine may generate a capacitance result value that is based, in part, on the demodulated value and is stored in a memory. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140377 | LATCHUP RECOVERY MECHANISM FOR FINGERPRINT SENSOR BASED ON STATE MONITOR AND HANDSHAKE - Devices and methods are provided for recovering from latchup state in fingerprint sensor devices. For example, a disclosed device can be operated to perform operations that include, receiving, at a microcontroller of the fingerprint sensor device, raw sensor data from a sensor array in communication with the microcontroller, comparing the received raw sensor data against a predetermined threshold, and, based at least partly on the comparing, resetting power supplied to the fingerprint sensor device to recover from a latchup state. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140378 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE INCLUDING TEMPLATE VALIDATION AND RELATED METHODS - An authentication device may include a housing and a finger sensor carried by the housing and including first processing circuitry and a finger sensing area coupled thereto. The first processing circuitry may be configured to generate finger image data based upon a finger positioned adjacent the finger sensing area, and generate and store a first template based upon the finger image data. The authentication device may include second processing circuitry carried by the housing and configured to obtain the finger image data from the first processing circuitry. The second processing circuitry may be configured to generate a second template based upon the finger image data. The first processing circuitry may further be configured to obtain the second template from second processing circuitry, and validate the second template against the first template. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140379 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO USER AUTHENTICATION - A user authentication method and system is disclosed, in which the same sensor surface is used for scanning a fingerprint and for entry of a user-specific code. The user specific-code comprises gestures that are guided by a frame. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140380 | FINGERPRINT SENSORS - A sensor for detecting fingerprints is provided having first and second substrates, a two-dimensional array of sensing elements formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of thin-film transistors or TFTs for controlling the sensing elements at pixel location along the array. Each of the sensing elements detects one of electrical signals (e.g., capacitance, resistance, or impedance), temperature, or light via one of the first or second substrates representative of one or more fingerprints. The top of the second substrate or the bottom of the first substrate may provide a platen upon which one or more fingers can be disposed. The sensor may be utilized in a fingerprint scanner having one or more processors driving sensing elements or reading from sensing elements analog signals representative of one or more fingerprints, and generating an image representative of the one or more fingerprints from the analog signals. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140381 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS - A portable, handheld device for forensic analysis that includes: an input unit configured to receive a forensic input at a scene of forensic analysis; and a processing unit configured to generate a first image of the forensic input, scale the first image to a predetermined format suitable for forensic analysis, and generate a second image of the forensic input in which the first image is scaled to the predetermined format, compare the second image with forensic records, each forensic record including previously collected forensic data associated with one or more individuals or specimens, determine whether the second image matches at least a portion of one of the forensic records, upon determining that the second image matches at least a portion of one of the forensic records, generate a matching notification identifying the record which the second image is determined to match, and output the generated matching notification. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140382 | CELLULAR ACTIVITY QUANTIFICATION USING LABELED PROBES - Methods and systems for quantifying cellular activity using labeled probes, e.g., quantum dots, are disclosed. In one example approach, a method for quantifying cellular activity in a sample containing intact cells having labeled complexes comprises receiving images of the sample at a plurality of depths and detecting individual intact cells in the images of the sample at the plurality of depths. For each detected cell, discrete labels may be detected and localized in the cell at each depth, a total number of detected and localized labels may be calculated in the cell, and an activity level of the target molecule for the labeled probe in the cell determined. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING FACIAL FEATURE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION - A method and an apparatus for extracting a facial feature and a method and an apparatus for recognizing a face are provided, in which the apparatus for extracting a facial feature may extract facial landmarks from a current input image, sample a skin region and a facial component region based on the extracted facial landmarks, generate a probabilistic model associated with the sampled skin region and the facial component region, extract the facial component region from a face region included in the input image using the generated probabilistic model, and extract facial feature information from the extracted facial component region. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140384 | GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD AND GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A gesture recognition method and an gesture recognition apparatus using the same method are proposed. The method includes the following steps: transmitting an infrared signal, and detecting whether an object appears in a predetermined range based on a first infrared signal retrieved from the infrared signal being reflected; when the object appears in the predetermined range, capturing a plurality of images including the object and a plurality of second infrared signals retrieved from the infrared signal being reflected; and recognizing the images to retrieve a horizontal movement direction of a gesture of the object within the predetermined range, and recognizing the second infrared signals to retrieve a depth movement direction of the gesture within the predetermined range. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140385 | USER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING USER - The present invention discloses an identification system which includes an image sensor, a storage unit and a comparing unit. The image sensor captures a plurality of images of the motion trajectory generated by a user at different timings. The storage unit has stored motion vector information of a group of users including or not including the user generating the motion trajectory. The comparing unit compares the plurality of images with the motion vector information to identify the user. The present invention also provides an identification method. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AND RECOGNIZING PEOPLE - A tracking and recognition system is provided. The system includes a computer vision-based identity recognition system configured to recognize one or more persons, without a priori knowledge of the respective persons, via an online discriminative learning of appearance signature models of the respective persons. The computer vision-based identity recognition system includes a memory physically encoding one or more routines, which when executed, cause the performance of constructing pairwise constraints between the unlabeled tracking samples. The computer vision-based identity recognition system also includes a processor configured to receive unlabeled tracking samples collected from one or more person trackers and to execute the routines stored in the memory via one or more algorithms to construct the pairwise constraints between the unlabeled tracking samples. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140387 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a method includes displaying a document on a display; receiving at least one first stroke made on the document; determining a first handwriting candidate comprising first coordinates in response to a reception of the at least one first stroke, wherein the first coordinates are determined according to both a shape of the first handwriting candidate and an input position of the at least one first stroke; displaying the first handwriting candidate on the display; converting at least part of the first coordinate to generate second coordinates of the first handwriting candidate according to an input area of the document; and inputting the first handwriting candidate into the document according to the second coordinates, if the first handwriting candidate is selected. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140388 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: an image pickup unit, a recognition unit and an execution unit. The image pickup unit photographs a recording medium to generate a picked-up image. The recognition unit recognizes a handwritten mark in the picked-up image generated by the image pickup unit. The execution unit performs a predetermined process according to the handwritten mark recognized by the recognized unit. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140389 | INFORMATION EXTRACTION SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information extraction supporting apparatus includes a first acquirer, a determiner, a selector and an extractor. The first acquirer acquires a document from which at least one attribute indicating a type of desired information is extracted as an analysis target. The determiner determines whether or not the at least one attribute is valid, and obtains at least one of the valid attributes as one or more attribute candidates. The selector selects an attribute to be used for an analysis from the one or more attribute candidates as a selected attribute. The extractor extracts an expression belonging to the selected attribute from the document as an attribute expression. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140390 | LIVENESS DETECTION USING PROGRESSIVE EYELID TRACKING - Techniques for liveness detection using progressive eyelid tracking are disclosed. A series of frames of a user are captured by a camera. The user's face, including a pair of eyes and eyelids, are detected within each of a plurality of captured frames. A respective pair of regions of interest is extracted from each captured frame within the plurality of respective captured frames, each respective region of interest including a respective eye of the respective pair of eyes detected and a respective eyelid corresponding to the respective eye. A respective score corresponding to a percentage of the respective eye unobstructed by the respective eyelid is calculated for each region of interest. A liveness indication is generated by a pattern recognizer analyzing the series of respective pairs of scores for an abnormal eyelid movement sequence. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140391 | AUTOMATIC TARGET SELECTION FOR MULTI-TARGET OBJECT TRACKING - Techniques related to automatic target object selection from multiple tracked objects for imaging devices are discussed. Such techniques may include generating one or more object selection metrics such as accumulated distances from frame center, accumulated velocities, and trajectory comparisons of predicted to actual trajectories for tracked objects and selecting the target object based on the object selection metric or metrics. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VIDEO CONTENT - Various aspects of a method and system to process video content for extraction of moving objects from image sequences of the video content are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the method includes determination of one or more object contours of one or more moving objects in the video content. A first object bounding box (OBB) that encompasses a first object contour of a first moving object is created based on the determined one or more object contours. A first object mask for the first moving object is generated in a first destination image frame, based on infilling of the first object contour in the created first OBB. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140393 | IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD - An identification apparatus for identifying vehicles and/or vehicle components includes: an image signal receiving unit receiving from an image signal source an image signal containing image data of a vehicle and/or of at least one vehicle component; a memory unit storing data of vehicles and/or at least one vehicle component; a comparison unit comparing the image data received with image data of the data sets stored in the memory unit, and to identify those data sets which contain image data that match the received image data; and an image signal data generating unit which generate output image signal data for at least one output image, the output image signal data containing at least a portion of the received image data and data from the data sets stored in the memory unit which have been identified by the comparison unit. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140394 | VISUAL OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM WITH MODEL VALIDATION & MANAGEMENT - System, apparatus, method, and computer readable media for on-the-fly captured image data object tracking. An image or video stream is processed to detect and track an object in concurrence with generation of the stream by a camera module. In one exemplary embodiment, HD image frames are processed at a rate of 30 fps, or more, to track one or more target object. In embodiments, object detection is validated prior to employing detected object descriptor(s) as learning data to generate or update an object model. A device platform including a camera module and comporting with the exemplary architecture may provide 3A functions based on objects robustly tracked in accordance with embodiments. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140395 | ADAPTIVE SAMPLING FOR EFFICIENT ANALYSIS OF EGO-CENTRIC VIDEOS - A method, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and apparatus for adaptive sampling an ego-centric video to extract features for performing an analysis are disclosed. For example, the method captures the ego-centric video, determines a spatio-temporal location of interest within the ego-centric video, applies an adaptive sampling centered around the spatio-temporal location of interest to obtain one or more spatio-temporal patches, extracts one or more features using the one or more spatio-temporal patches and performs an analysis based on the one or more features. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCALIZING A TALKER USING AUDIO AND VIDEO INFORMATION - A videoconferencing endpoint includes at least one processor a number of microphones and at least one camera. The endpoint can receive audio information and visual motion information during a teleconferencing session. The audio information includes one or more angles with respect to the microphone from a location of a teleconferencing session. The audio information is evaluated automatically to determine at least one candidate angle corresponding to a possible location of an active talker. The candidate angle can be analyzed further with respect to the motion information to determine whether the candidate angle correctly corresponds to person who is speaking during the teleconferencing session. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140397 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS USING DEPTH SENSING - A method and system for performing video content analysis based on two-dimensional image data and depth data are disclosed. Video content analysis may be performed on the two-dimensional image data, and then the depth data may be used along with the results of the video content analysis of the two-dimensional data for tracking and event detection. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140398 | CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION OF VISUAL MEDIA - An analysis master control can be configured to derive contextual information of visual media that includes extracted information and extrapolated information. The analysis master control can receive the extracted information characterizing visual media from a recognizer. An information finder can be configured to query a plurality of information sources for information based on the extracted information. The analysis master control can also be configured to match information received from the information sources with the extracted information to form the extrapolated information that characterizes the visual media. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140399 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR, AND IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - An object detection apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of partial areas from an acquired image, a distance acquisition unit configured to acquire a distance from a viewpoint for each pixel in the extracted partial area, an identification unit configured to identify whether the partial area includes a predetermined object, a determination unit configured to determine, among the partial areas identified to include the predetermined object by the identification unit, whether to integrate identification results of a plurality of partial areas that overlap each other based on the distances of the pixels in the overlapping partial area, and an integration unit configured to integrate the identification results of the plurality of partial areas determined to be integrated to detect a detection target object from the integrated identification result of the plurality of partial areas. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140400 | ATOMIC SCENES FOR SCALABLE TRAFFIC SCENE RECOGNITION IN MONOCULAR VIDEOS - Systems and methods are disclosed to provide an Advanced Warning System (AWS) for a driver of a vehicle, by capturing traffic scene types from a single camera video; generating real-time monocular SFM and 2D object detection from the single camera video; detecting a ground plane from the real-time monocular SFM and the 2D object detection; performing dense 3D estimation from the real-time monocular SFM and the 2D object detection; generating a joint 3D object localization from the ground plane and dense 3D estimation; and communicating a situation that requires caution to the driver. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140401 | ROAD SURFACE INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS - A road surface information acquisition apparatus a lane line recognizer configured to, based on a road surface image of a carpool lane forward of a vehicle acquired by a camera, recognize lane lines of the carpool lane. The apparatus further includes a determiner configured to, based on a lane partition line recognized by the lane line recognizer, determine a start point and an end point of the entrance and exit, and a lane-width calculator configured to, based on the lane lines recognized by the lane line recognizer, calculate a lane width of the carpool lane. The apparatus further includes a lane-width corrector configured to, based on determinations made by the determiner, correct the lane width calculated by the lane-width calculator. Based on a broken line as the lane partition line, the determiner determines the start point and the end point of the entrance and exit of the carpool lane. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING PAINTED ROAD MARKINGS IN AN AUTOMOTIVE DRIVER-VEHICLE-ASISTANCE DEVICE - An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method includes the steps of arranging a digital camera on a vehicle body, operating the digital camera to provide an image file depicting an image of a scene related to vehicle operation on a road, in a computer memory, receiving from the memory the image file depicting pixels of an image of the scene related to vehicle operation on a road, and using an analysis of the pixels to generate an illumination invariant image of the scene. A further process step includes using the illumination invariant image to analyze the road scene for painted road markings. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140403 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL VEHICLE MANEUVERING ASSISTANCE - Arrangements relate to providing multi-directional assistance while maneuvering a vehicle. The vehicle can have an exterior with a first lateral side and a second lateral side. The vehicle can include a side camera provided on one of the first lateral side or the second lateral side. The side camera can be movable between a plurality of facing positions. It can be determined whether a current facing position of the side camera matches a current vehicle movement direction. If it is determined that the current facing position of the side camera does not match the current vehicle movement direction, the facing position of the side camera can be automatically adjusted so that the facing position of the side camera matches the current vehicle movement direction. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140404 | Method and apparatus for automatically detecting use of a mobile phone - Disclosed is a method of automatically detecting use of a mobile phone. The method includes capturing one or more images using one or more image capturing devices. Further, the method includes analyzing the one or more images using a processor. Additionally, the method includes detecting use of a mobile phone based on the analyzing. The detecting may be performed by a processor. Furthermore, the method may include transmitting at least one of the one or more images and the detection of use of the mobile phone to a remote server. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140405 | PREVENTING FACE-BASED AUTHENTICATION SPOOFING - System and techniques for preventing face-based authentication spoofing are described herein. A visible light emitter may be controlled to project a pattern into a camera's field of view during an authentication attempt. An image may be obtained from the camera for the authentication attempt. A potential spoofing region on image may be identified by finding the pattern. An authentication attempt based on a face found in the potential spoofing region may be prevented. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140406 | FALSE FACE REPRESENTATION IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods for identifying a false representation of a human face are provided. In one example, a method for identifying a false representation of a human face includes receiving a plurality of different data streams captured by a respective plurality of sensors of differing sensor types sensing a candidate face. In a cascading plurality of stages, one or more of the different data streams are analyzed, wherein each of the stages comprises a different analysis. In one of the cascading plurality of stages, the method determines that one or more of the different data streams corresponds to a false representation of the human face. Based on determining that one or more of the different data streams corresponds to a false representation of a human face, an indication of the false representation is outputted. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION - The present invention relates to a method and system for generating and comparing a biometric singular signature of a person comprising the steps of a) obtaining a first image of a person; b) obtaining a hair portion image of the person; c) transforming the hair portion image into its frequency domain image and optionally saving said frequency domain image in a database. Additional applications associated to the method are disclosed. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140408 | Neural Network Patch Aggregation and Statistics - Neural network patch aggregation and statistical techniques are described. In one or more implementations, patches are generated from an image, e.g., randomly, and used to train a neural network. An aggregation of outputs of patches processed by the neural network may be used to label an image using an image descriptor, such as to label aesthetics of the image, classify the image, and so on. In another example, the patches may be used by the neural network to calculate statistics describing the patches, such as to describe statistics such as minimum, maximum, median, and average of activations of image characteristics of the individual patches. These statistics may also be used to support a variety of functionality, such as to label the image as described above. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140409 | TEXT CLASSIFICATION BASED ON JOINT COMPLEXITY AND COMPRESSED SENSING - A server computes a sparsifying matrix from a set of reference blocks that is selected from first blocks of text based on joint complexities of each pair of the first blocks of text. The server determines one of the set of reference blocks that is most similar to a second block of text based on the sparsifying matrix, a measurement matrix, and a measurement vector formed by compressing the second block of text using the measurement matrix. The server transmits a signal representative of the one of the set of reference blocks to indicate a classification of the second block of text. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140410 | IMAGE ACQUISITION USING A LEVEL-INDICATION ICON - During an information-extraction technique, visual suitability indicators may be displayed to a user of the electronic device to assist the user in acquiring an image of a document that is suitable for subsequent extraction of textual information. For example, an imaging application executed by the electronic device may display, in a window associated with the imaging application, a visual suitability indicator of a tilt orientation of the electronic device relative to a plane of the document. When the tilt orientation falls within a predefined range, the electronic device may modify the visual suitability indicators to provide visual feedback to the user. Then, the electronic device may acquire the image of the document using an imaging device, which is integrated into the electronic device. Next, the electronic device may extract the textual information from the image of the document using optical character recognition. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140411 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING IMAGE IN CHARACTERISTIC REGION OF ORIGINAL IMAGE INTO IMAGE OF BRUSHSTROKE PATTERNS - An object of the present invention is to obtain an image that is more similar to a real ink-wash painting. An ink-wash painting conversion unit converts data of an original image into data of a painterly image. A characteristic region detection unit detects a characteristic region of the original image from the data of the original image. A conversion unit executes gradation processing of gradating the characteristic region detected by the characteristic region detection unit, and margin setting processing of setting a margin region to be added to the painterly image, as image processing of further converting the data of the painterly image that was converted by the ink-wash painting conversion unit. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140412 | System and Method for Enhanced Defect Detection with a Digital Matched Filter - Enhanced defect detection of a sample includes acquiring two or more inspection images from a sample from two or more locations of the sample for a first optical mode. The defection detection also generating an aggregated defect profile based on the two or more inspection images from the two or more locations for the first optical mode for a selected defect type and calculating one or more noise correlation characteristics of the two or more inspection images acquired from the two or more locations for the first optical mode. Defect detection further includes the generation of a matched filter for the first optical mode based on the generated aggregated defect profile and the calculated one or more noise correlation characteristics. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140413 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WEIGHT, IN PARTICULAR THE WEIGHT OF A CONTAINER FILLED WITH PRODUCT - The invention relates to a device and a method for determining the weight of product ( | 2016-05-19 |
20160140414 | DENSITY MEASURING DEVICE, DENSITY MEASURING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a density measuring device includes a first calculator, a second calculator, and a first generator. The first calculator calculates, from an image including objects of a plurality of classes classified according to a predetermined rule, for each of a plurality of regions formed by dividing the image, density of the objects captured in the region. The second calculator calculates, from the density of the objects captured in each of the regions, likelihood of each object class captured in each of the regions. The first generator generates density data, in which position corresponding to each of the regions in the image is assigned with the density of the object class having at least the higher likelihood than the lowest likelihood from among likelihoods calculated for object classes captured in the corresponding region. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140415 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIFFERENTIATING SYNTHETIC AND NON-SYNTHETIC IMAGES - The techniques introduced here include a system and method for transcoding multimedia content based on the results of content analysis. The determination of specific transcoding parameters, used for transcoding multimedia content, can be performed by utilizing the results of content analysis of the multimedia content. One of the results of the content analysis is the determination of image type of any images included in the multimedia content. The content analysis uses one or more of several techniques, including analyzing content metadata, examining colors of contiguous pixels in the content, using histogram analysis, using compression distortion analysis, analyzing image edges, or examining user provided inputs. Transcoding the multimedia content can include adapting the content to the constraints in delivery and display, processing and storage of user computing devices. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING PAINTED ROAD MARKINGS IN AN AUTOMOTIVE DRIVER-VEHICLE-ASISTANCE DEVICE - An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method includes the steps of arranging a digital camera on a vehicle body, operating the digital camera to provide an image file depicting an image of a scene related to vehicle operation on a road, in a computer memory, receiving from the memory the image file depicting pixels of an image of the scene related to vehicle operation on a road, and using an analysis of the pixels to generate an illumination invariant image of the scene. A further process step includes using the illumination invariant image to analyze the road scene for painted road markings | 2016-05-19 |
20160140417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - A method for image processing is provided comprising: detecting a rectangular image region (RIR) in one of a plurality of images while the plurality of images is being received; obtaining a coordinate corresponding to the detected RIR; and storing in a memory the coordinate and a link associating the coordinate with the image in which the RIR is detected. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140418 | MODELING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed modelling method includes: calculating a first function for generating data of a closed surface that contains plural points representing an annular structure in an object, based on positional information of the plural points; generating data of a first point set representing a boundary of the object, from tomographic image data; detecting data of points which are included in the first point set and located inside the closed surface by using the first function; removing the detected data of points from the data of the first point set to generate data of a second point set; calculating a second function for generating data of a shape of the object using the data of the second point set and data of the plural points; and storing data of the shape of the object, which is generated by using the second function, in the memory. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140419 | Image Processing Method, Image Processing Apparatus, And Image Processing Program - An image processing method includes obtaining information on periodicity in a direction of rotation of at least one of a template image and an image to be searched, carrying out first matching in respect to the direction of rotation between the template image and the searched image and determining a plurality of candidates for an amount of rotation for correcting relative displacement in direction of rotation between the template image and the searched image based on a result of first matching and the information on periodicity, generating a plurality of sets of images resulting from correction of relative displacement in direction of rotation between the template image and the searched image with each of the candidates for the amount of rotation, and carrying out second matching in respect to a position in each of the sets of images and outputting a result relatively high in likelihood, among results of second matching. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140420 | MEANS FOR USING MICROSTRUCTURE OF MATERIALS SURFACE AS A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER - It describes methods to automatically authenticate an object by comparing some object images with reference images, the object images being characterized by the fact that visual elements used for comparison are non-disturbing for the naked eye. In some described approaches it provides the operator with visible features to locate the area to be imaged. It also proposes ways for real-time implementation enabling user friendly detection using mobile devices like smart phones. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140421 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING RELEVANT AREAS IN DIGITAL IMAGES, METHOD OF ENCODING DIGITAL IMAGES, AND ENCODER SYSTEM - A method of identifying relevant areas in digital images is provided. The method comprises receiving information representative of pixels in a first digital image, and calculating a spatial statistical measure of said information for groups of neighboring pixels in said first image to form a group value for each group of pixels. Further, the method comprises calculating differences between group values, and comparing said differences to a predetermined threshold value. If said difference is equal to or above said threshold value, said group is identified as relevant, and if said difference is below said threshold value, said group is identified as not relevant. A method of encoding digital images based on the identification of relevant and non-relevant areas is also provided, as well as a digital encoder system. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140422 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - It aims to accurately identify a class concerning classification of an object for each area of an image. A plurality of subsets are created from a plurality of learning images, and an area discriminator for performing area discrimination of the learning images is learned for each subset created. Then, area discrimination of a plurality of learning evaluation images is performed by using the plurality of learned area discriminators. Further, an integrated identifier is learned based on an area discrimination result performed to the plurality of learning evaluation images and scene information previously associated with each of the plurality of learning evaluation images. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140423 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESET TOUR CAMERA - Disclosed herein is an image classification method and apparatus for a preset tour camera. More particularly, according to the image classification method and apparatus for a preset tour camera, a classification group is generated not to be duplicated by analyzing feature information included in image frames continuously taken by a preset tour camera that has panning, tilting, and zooming functions, and the image frames are classified by the classification group based on the feature information and stored with an index, whereby when an accident occurs and image analysis is required, the image frames are searched for based on the classification group, thus the image analysis may be conveniently and quickly performed. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140424 | Object-centric Fine-grained Image Classification - Systems and methods are disclosed for classifying vehicles by performing scale aware detection; performing detection assisted sampling for convolutional neural network (CNN) training, and performing deep CNN fine-grained image classification to classify the vehicle type. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH JOINT FEATURE ADAPTATION AND CLASSIFIER LEARNING - A technique for improving the performance of image classification systems is proposed which consists of learning an adaptation architecture on top of the input features jointly with linear classifiers, e.g., SVM. This adaptation method is agnostic to the type of input feature and applies either to features built using aggregators, e.g., BoW, FV, or to features obtained from the activations or outputs from DCNN layers. The adaptation architecture may be single (shallow) or multi-layered (deep). This technique achieves a higher performance compared to current state of the art classification systems. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-FACTOR IMAGE RECOGNITION - A mechanism for image recognition based on multiple factors is described. A method, system and computer-readable medium for multi-factor image recognition includes using environmental contextual attributes to create likelihood tiers in an image recognition database such that irrelevant entries are excluded from the search. The mechanism described here limits and sorts by contextual likelihood the number of entries to be searched, increasing both the speed and accuracy of the image recognition process. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140427 | SECURITY CODING SYSTEM AND MARKER, OPTOELECTRONIC SCANNER AND METHOD OF CODING ARTICLES - A scanner ( | 2016-05-19 |
20160140428 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAYING CODE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device including: a display unit which displays a code generated based on tabular data; and a processor, wherein the processor performs: a compressing process of compressing numerical data having a plurality of digits and contained in the tabular data by reducing the number of digits of the numerical data; an encoding process of encoding the tabular data containing the numerical data compressed through the compressing process; and a code displaying process of displaying a code obtained by the encoding process on the display unit. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140429 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYANCE OF MODULE STATE INFORMATION - A control module comprising a display, according to various embodiments, can include an input/output module configured to receive one or more signals responsive to a state of at least one diagnostic sensor, the state being indicative of at least one from the group including a fault, an error, and a malfunction. A processor is configured to match values of the received signals to one of a plurality of stored table values to identify a matching value, each matching value corresponding to a code. A barcode generator creates a two-dimensional barcode representative of the code and outputs the barcode to the display. In one embodiment, the diagnostic sensor can be an internal diagnostic sensor within the control module capable of performing self-diagnostics. In another embodiment, the diagnostic sensor can be an external diagnostic sensor associated with an external device for performing remote diagnostics. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAYING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - An electronic device includes: a display unit which displays data and a two-dimensional code; and a processor. The processor performs: an encoding process of encoding the data displayed on the display unit into the two-dimensional code; a two-dimensional code displaying process of performing a first masking operation to the two-dimensional code with a first mask pattern and displaying the code having been subjected to the first masking operation on the display unit; and a two-dimensional code changing process of performing a second masking operation to the two-dimensional code with a second mask pattern, and displaying the code having been subjected to the second masking operation instead of the code having been subjected to the first masking operation on the display unit, when a user operation is executed while the two-dimensional code having been subjected to the first masking operation is displayed on the display unit. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140431 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A RADIO-FREQUENCY DEVICE MAINTAINING ANISOTROPIC CONNECTION - The invention relates to a method for producing an intermediate device comprising an electronic module, said intermediate device being used to receive at least one film or portion of a film or covering layer, said device comprising: a supporting body; at least one area for the interconnection of an electric circuit, borne by the supporting body; and an electronic module connected to said interconnection area by an anisotropic connection material, said material being compressed between said area and the module. The method comprises the implementation of a means for maintaining the compressed state of said anisotropic material and/or a means for isolating said material from the outside of the supporting body. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140432 | Hand Tool Having an Electronic Identification Device - Disclosed is a tool ( | 2016-05-19 |
20160140433 | Semiconductor Device Including a Radio Frequency Identification Tag - A device includes a semiconductor element and a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag is configured to provide information about at least one of a property of the device and a property of a manufacturing of the device. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140434 | METHOD FOR PSEUDO-RECURRENT PROCESSING OF DATA USING A FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE - Recurrent neural networks are powerful tools for handling incomplete data problems in machine learning thanks to their significant generative capabilities. However, the computational demand for algorithms to work in real time applications requires specialized hardware and software solutions. We disclose a method for adding recurrent processing capabilities into a feedforward network without sacrificing much from computational efficiency. We assume a mixture model and generate samples of the last hidden layer according to the class decisions of the output layer, modify the hidden layer activity using the samples, and propagate to lower layers. For an incomplete data problem, the iterative procedure emulates feedforward-feedback loop, filling-in the missing hidden layer activity with meaningful representations. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140435 | GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating descriptions of input images. One of the methods includes obtaining an input image; processing the input image using a first neural network to generate an alternative representation for the input image; and processing the alternative representation for the input image using a second neural network to generate a sequence of a plurality of words in a target natural language that describes the input image. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140436 | Face Detection Using Machine Learning - A disclosed face detection system (and method) is based on a structure of a convolutional neural network (CNN). One aspect concerns a method for automatically training a CNN for face detection. The training is performed such that balanced number of face images and non-face images are used for training by deriving additional face images from the face images. The training is also performed by adaptively changing a number of trainings of a stage according to automatic stopping criteria. Another aspect concerns a system for performing image detection by integrating data at different scales (i.e., different image extents) for better use of data in each scale. The system may include CNNs automatically trained using the method disclosed herein. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140437 | METHOD TO PREDICT THE EFFLUENT AMMONIA-NITROGEN CONCENTRATION BASED ON A RECURRENT SELF-ORGANIZING NEURAL NETWORK - An intelligent method is designed for predicting the effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration in the urban wastewater treatment process (WWTP). The technology of this invention is part of advanced manufacturing technology, belongs to both the field of control engineering and environment engineering. In order to improve the predicting efficiency, a recurrent self-organizing neural network, which can adjust the structure and parameters concurrently to train the parameters, is developed to design this intelligent method. This intelligent method can predict the effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration with acceptable accuracy and solve the problem that the effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration is difficult to be measured online. Moreover, the online information of effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration, predicted by this intelligent method, can enhance the quality monitoring level and alleviate the current situation of wastewater to strengthen the whole management of WWTP. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140438 | Hyper-class Augmented and Regularized Deep Learning for Fine-grained Image Classification - Systems and methods are disclosed for training a learning machine by augmenting data from fine-grained image recognition with labeled data annotated by one or more hyper-classes, performing multi-task deep learning; allowing fine-grained classification and hyper-class classification to share and learn the same feature layers; and applying regularization in the multi-task deep learning to exploit one or more relationships between the fine-grained classes and the hyper-classes. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140439 | Evidence Aggregation Across Heterogeneous Links for Intelligence Gathering Using a Question Answering System - Mechanisms, in a Question Answering (QA) system comprising a processor and a memory, for evaluating a hypothetical link in an ontology are provided. An initial analysis of the ontology is performed to identify a set of information concept entities and links between information concept entities in the ontology. The hypothetical link between a first information concept entity and a second information concept entity in the ontology is generated based on the initial analysis of the ontology. Natural language questions corresponding to the hypothetical link are processed to generate answer results directed to a plurality of links between a plurality of information concept entities. The answer results are aggregated across the plurality of links to determine an aggregate answer result for the hypothetical link. An indication of whether or not the hypothetical link is a valid link is output based on the aggregate answer result for the hypothetical link. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140440 | REAL-TIME PROACTIVE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM BASED ON USER AUDIOVISUAL FEEDBACK - Disclosed herein are techniques for implementing a machine intelligence computer system that can proactively monitor user audiovisual feedbacks as ques for improving the machine learning and predictive data analytical processes. Based on the real-time feedbacks, the introduced proactive machine intelligence system (PMIS) can dynamically revise (e.g., by assigning different weights) and/or filter the gathered input data for machine learning purposes. The PMIS can also dynamically adjust the machine learning algorithms adapted in the predictive models based on user real-time feedbacks. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140441 | GUIDING METAHEURISTIC TO SEARCH FOR BEST OF WORST - Figures of merit by actual design parameters are tracked over iterations for candidate solutions that include both actual design parameters and actual context parameters. Instead of returning a current iteration figure of merit, a worst observed figure of merit for a set of actual design parameters is returned as the figure of merit for a candidate solution. Since the candidate solution includes both actual design parameters and actual context parameters and the worst observed figures of merit are tracked by actual design parameters, the figure of merit for a set of design parameters will be the worst of the observed worst case scenarios as defined by the actual context parameters over a run of a metaheuristic optimizer. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SUBJECT CONDITIONS IN MOBILE HEALTH CLINICAL TRIALS - A method for calculating a subject's state or condition comprises integrating data that are captured from multiple sources, storing the integrated data in a first database, calculating time intervals in which to collect an optimal amount of data to predict the subject state, developing a predictive model using a recorded diary or electronic data capture information, testing the model against a portion of the captured data, and applying the predictive model to new data from other sources. The predictive model may determine a subject state that may be a digital bio-marker for a disease condition. A system for predicting subject state is also disclosed. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140443 | MANAGEMENT OF BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS THROUGH QUANTIFICATION OF RELIABILITY - Energy usage can be monitored within at least one building having a plurality of energy consuming components. A database can be generated that contains values for a set of data points corresponding to data received from the plurality of energy consuming components. A change in a configuration can be detected for the plurality of energy consuming components based upon a change in values received from plurality of energy consuming components relative to the database. Based upon the change, an additional data point can be added to the set of data points in the database. Based upon the values for the set of data points, a probability can be determined that a rule for the additional data point is valid. A message can then be generated that includes the determined probability. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140444 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL RECIPE RECOMMENDATION - A computing device identifies one or more contextual variables within one or more social media messages. The computing device determines a contextual influence value based on the one or more social media messages. The computing device determines an appetite level. The computing device determines an unadjusted expected value of pleasantness based on the determined contextual influence value and the determined appetite level. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140445 | Evaluating Evidential Links Based on Corroboration for Intelligence Analysis - Mechanisms for evaluating an evidential statement in a corpus of evidence are provided. A first evidential statement for which corroboration is sought is received and a corpus of evidence data is processed to determine a measure of corroboration of the first evidential statement by other evidence data in the corpus of evidence data. An indication of trustworthiness of the first evidential statement is generated based on the measure of corroboration of the first evidential statement by the other evidence data in the corpus of evidence data. A representation of the indication of the trustworthiness of the first evidential statement is output in association with the first evidential statement. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140446 | Grading Sources and Managing Evidence for Intelligence Analysis - Mechanisms for evaluating an evidential statement in a corpus of evidence are provided. An evidential statement is received for determining a level of confidence in a hypothetical ontological link of an ontology. A source of the evidential statement is identified and a grading of the source of the evidential statement is determined based on a source grading measurement value indicative of a degree of reliability and credibility of the source. An indication of trustworthiness of the evidential statement is generated based on the source grading measurement value. A representation of the indication of trustworthiness of the evidential statement is output in association with the evidential statement. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140447 | Deriving Semantic Relationships Based on Empirical Organization of Content by Users - A computer-implemented content suggestion engine provides content suggestions to a requesting user based on information about content items that other users may have independently categorized or organized into folders within a content repository. Embodiments of the method comprise a content repository having a plurality of content items, where each content item is associated with one or more user-created folders. Embodiments further comprise receiving, via a network, a suggestion request for suggested content, where the suggestion request identifies a first content item for which suggestions are sought. Other content items in the content repository are then identified as potential suggestions based on the application of a formal relationship between the first content item and the potential suggested content items. One or more of the potential suggested content items may then be provided in response to the suggestion request via the network. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING PETROLEUM FUELS PRODUCTION - A method for selecting one or more crude oils from a plurality of crude oils. In some embodiments, a plurality of scenarios may be generated, each scenario comprising a plurality of values corresponding, respectively, to a plurality of uncertain parameters, the plurality of uncertain parameters comprising at least one uncertain parameter relating to a quality of a crude oil of the plurality of crude oils. In some embodiments, a stochastic programming model may be solved to obtain a solution that optimizes an objective function, and one or more crude oils may be procured based on respective procurement amounts in the solution of the stochastic programming model. In some embodiments, a chance-constrained programming model may be solved to obtain a solution that optimizes an objective function, and a plurality of feedstocks may be blended into a final product based on the solution of the chance-constrained programming model. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140449 | FUZZY LINEAR PROGRAMMING METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CHARGING SCHEDULES IN UNIDIRECTIONAL VEHICLE-TO-GRID SYSTEMS - The fuzzy linear programming method for optimizing charging schedules in unidirectional vehicle-to-grid systems is a computerized fuzzy linear programming method for an electric vehicle (EV) aggregator that coordinates the provision of ancillary services, such as regulation and spinning reserves, to electricity markets using unidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G). The fuzzy optimization incorporates uncertainties while maintaining the tractability of the problem size since, in fuzzy optimization, there is no need to represent each stochastic parameter by a number of scenarios. This allows for optimizing the charging of all EVs simultaneously, as well as taking market aspects into account, guaranteeing maximization of aggregator profits, and further considering electricity market uncertainties, such as ancillary service prices and ancillary service deployment signals. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140450 | ATOMISTIC QUANTUM DOTS - A quantum device is provided that includes controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds extending from a surface of a semiconductor material. Each of the controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds has a separation of at least one atom of the semiconductor material. At least one electrode is provided for selectively modifying an electronic state of the controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds. By providing at least one additional electron within the controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds with the proviso that there exists at least one unoccupied dangling bond for each one additional electron present, the inventive device is operable at least to 293 degrees Kelvin and is largely immune to stray electrostatic perturbations. Room temperature operable quantum cellular automata and qubits are constructed therefrom. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140451 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LARGE-SCALE MULTI-LABEL LEARNING USING INCOMPLETE LABEL ASSIGNMENTS - At least one label prediction model is trained, or learned, using training data that may comprise training instances that may be missing one or more labels. The at least one label prediction model may be used in identifying a content item's ground-truth label set comprising an indicator for each label in the label set indicating whether or not the label is applicable to the content item. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140452 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING A COMPOSITION OF AUTONOMOUS SELF-LEARNING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FOR PERFORMING COMPLEX REAL TIME DATA-PROCESSING TASKS - A composition of autonomous self-learning skill software components interact with one another to solve a real time complex task. Each software component includes a knowledge base and an inference algorithm that uses the knowledge base to solve a given data-processing task involving input data. Each software component may also include a machine learning algorithm for training the knowledge base with new data in real-time as the new data is received. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140453 | Intelligence Gathering and Analysis Using a Question Answering System - Mechanisms are provided for identifying and evaluating hypothetical ontological links in an ontology and outputting intelligence information. An ontology is received that comprises a plurality of information concept objects and one or more actual links between the information concept objects. An indication of a selected information concept object for which a hypothetical ontological link is to be evaluated is received. One or more natural language questions are generated for processing by a Question Answering (QA) system pipeline based on at least an identification of a type of the selected information concept object. The one or more natural language questions are processed to generate answer results and a score for the hypothetical ontological link is calculated based on the answer results. Intelligence information associated with the hypothetical ontological link is output based on the score for the hypothetical ontological link. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140454 | User Interest Learning through Hierarchical Interest Graphs - User interest learning through hierarchical interest graph techniques are described. In one or more implementations, each of a plurality of categories in a directed hierarchical interest graph are assigned a distance value which represents a shortest distance in the directed hierarchical interest graph from a root category to the category. A list of keywords is formed from user data that denotes a corresponding said category and frequency of the category. A maximum of the frequencies amongst the plurality of categories is determined and a score is calculated for each of the keywords based on the frequency of the category, the maximum of the frequencies, and the distance value for the keyword. Increments of scores may be propagated from child categories to parent categories in the hierarchical interest graph such that greater weighting is given to child categories that are less abstract than parent categories in the directed graph. Further, the scores of the plurality of categories may be adjusted based on subsequent scores calculated from subsequent user data. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140455 | METHOD OF SELECTING A CONTRACT FOR A BOOKING USING A LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) - A logistics management system (LMS) may include receiving, at a server, a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier's cargo hold for a designated route; receiving, at a server, a selected agreement for assignment to the booking corresponding to a campaign; assigning, by the server, the terms of the selected agreement to the booking according to the campaign; and generating, by the server, a price quote for the requested booking based, at least in part, upon the terms of the selected agreement. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140456 | GENERATING PRICE QUOTES PASSING DYNAMIC HURDLE RATES WITH REAL-TIME CAPACITY USING A LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) - A logistics management system (LMS) may include receiving, at a server, a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier's cargo hold for a designated route; generating, by the server, a price quote for the booking based, at least in part, upon the designated route and booking characteristics; and receiving a hurdle rate for the route; and comparing the price quote to the hurdle rate to determine whether to confirm the booking to ship the cargo. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140457 | WORKING MULTIPLE BOOKINGS OFF A QUEUE IN ONE STEP - The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for filtering queued booking and air waybills in a centralized system. Various embodiments of the invention may reserve bookings from multiple sources and generate air waybills associated with the bookings. The bookings and air waybills may be aggregated in a centralized system and filtered according to several attributes. The integration of a centralized system may allow filtered bookings may be worked on by a user of any facility at any time. As a result, workloads may be distributed between several facilities, thus providing an efficient means for managing bookings and air waybills in a timely manner. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140458 | KIOSK FOR ENERGY SECTOR LOGISTICS - An automated kiosk and related apparatus provide check-in and boarding services to energy sector passengers, such as helicopter passengers. Preferably, the kiosk and related apparatus can take and store a picture of the passenger, calculate and/or measure the weight of the passenger and the passenger's luggage, print luggage tags and boarding printouts, check third parties' databases (such as a no-fly list (NFL)) for approval for the passenger's flight and can transmit data to another location (server, third party employer, pilot). | 2016-05-19 |
20160140459 | DIGITAL TICKET ISSUANCE, EXCHANGE AND VALIDATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The invention provides, in some aspects, a digital ticketing system, comprising first and second digital data devices (e.g., cell phones, PDAs, etc.) that are coupled, at least intermittently, with a server via a network. The server responds to a request, e.g., from the first digital data device, by electronically issuing to it a ticket (or option therefor) for use by a holder thereof in gaining a seating (or other selected attendance) at an event. The server responds to a subsequent request, e.g., by the second digital data device, by (re)issuing the ticket (and/or option) to it for use by a holder of that second device in gaining the aforesaid seating (or other selected attendance) at the event in lieu of that by the holder of the first digital data device. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140460 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTEGRATED ONLINE PORTAL AND MARKETPLACE FOR EVENT-RELATED ITEMS - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for integration of systems associated with ticketing, advertising, membership, social networking, merchandizing, and/or similar commercially valuable functions. An integrated marketplace system, referred to variously as an integrated system or integrated portal, may comprise or communicate with modules for retail services, social networking, marketing information, ticketing sales, merchandise sales, membership services, or any other type and form of module. In some embodiments, the systems and methods discussed herein allow teams, bands, event operators or other attraction providers to sell tickets direct to consumers or fans, reducing fees and costs due to ticket resellers, while retaining customer information for future targeted marketing. Accordingly, teams, bands, artists, or other attractions may utilize the integrated platform to provide a fan- or consumer-centric experience with ticket sales and merchandise offers made dynamically based on analyzing user behavior, past purchasing behavior, and/or social networking data. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ANALYTIC PROCESS FLOWS TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES AND MANAGE HEALTHCARE COSTS - A system and method for automating analytic processes to improve health outcomes and manage healthcare costs. Data associated with healthcare encounters with managed care organizations (MCOs) is acquired. Findings, predictions, and recommendations for tracking services provided by the MCOs are identified with analytic flows that are based on the data. Relations between the services provided by the MCOs and the healthcare encounters are identified. Utilization statistics are extracted from the data with the analytic processes. Information from the utilization statistics relevant to the healthcare encounters is output. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140462 | Computer-Guided Corporate Relationship Management - A system is disclosed for organizing, managing, and reporting data relating to a corporate entity, comprising: at least one database configured to store: a first entity record representing a first legal entity; a second entity record representing a second legal entity in a relationship with the first legal entity; a source team associated with the second legal entity and further comprising team members; and a reference to a team stakeholder associated with the first entity record, the team stakeholder further comprising a reference back to the team members of the source team and access rights for the team members within the context of the first entity, thereby enabling team members associated with the second legal entity to be represented in the context of the first legal entity. The represented stakeholder may further comprise a signature, byline, title, and name. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140463 | DECISION SUPPORT FOR COMPENSATION PLANNING - Aspects model a set of different employee compensation adjustment factors from a locally weighted linear regression function of employee data. Retention probabilities are generated for retaining each of the employees, and employee retention costs modeled as a function of historic employee wage data, the modeled set of employee compensation adjustment factors and the retention probabilities. Costs are modeled for replacing employees as a function of the employee wage data and the historic market data, and revenues are modeled for employee productivity as a function of the retention probabilities and the historic business performance and strategy data. The modeled employee compensation adjustment factors are iteratively optimized to maximize a profit objective value determined as a function of the modeled costs for replacing employees and employee productivity revenues. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140464 | EVENT ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND EVENT ASSISTANCE METHOD - An event assistance device is provided with a control section which is connected to a schedule management system and a plurality of service management systems. Each of the service management systems executes a type of process corresponding to an event to be managed. The control section identifies an event to be managed based on an event in schedule information recorded in the schedule management system. In order to cause a type of process corresponding to the event to be managed to be executed, the control section provides notification based on the event to be managed to each of the service management systems. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140465 | WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - A method of constructing a workflow is described. The method is carried out by a programmed processor and a memory of a computing apparatus using a workflow processing language. One or more hooks are provided in the workflow processing language. Each hook is adapted to provide a programming interface to one of one or more applications. An input stream is received and converted into an input object that can be processed by the workflow processing language. A workflow with hooks to one or more applications is then used. The one or more hooked applications are used through the programming interface provided by the respective hook to prepare and provide an output stream. The computer apparatus adapted to construct and perform such workflows is also described. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140466 | DIGITAL DATA SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING, MANAGING AND MONITORING OF RISK SOURCE DATA - A method and system for triaging and monitoring a risk source based on risk categorization. The system comprising a risk management server comprising a risk triage module configured to identify a risk source, receive information associated with the risk source, determine a category risk of the risk source, probe an inherent risk of the risk source, and configure scorecard monitoring for the risk source. The system further comprises a communications interface communicatively coupled to one or more client devices. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140467 | System and Method for Enhancing and Sustaining Operational Efficiency - The instant specification discloses methods and means for enhancing and sustaining performance efficiencies within an organization, the methods and means including at least an operational methodology and a software package. Using the Methodology with the related software enables an organization to effectively plan, document, manage and continuously improve its operations in order to achieve (and possibly exceed) its business goals. Therefore, the Methodology and the related System enable an organization to safely and efficiently achieve business excellence and sustain it over time. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140468 | CALCULATING POWER USAGE EFFECTIVENESS IN DATA CENTERS - A system and method of measuring efficiency of a datacenter is provided. The method includes the acts of identifying at least one space within a model of a datacenter, the at least one space including a first equipment group consuming at least one shared resource provided by at least one shared resource provider, determining an amount of power consumed by the first equipment group, determining an amount of the at least one shared resource consumed by the first equipment group, determining an amount of power consumed by the at least one shared resource, calculating a loss of the first equipment group, and calculating an efficiency metric based on the amount of power consumed by the first equipment group, the amount of power consumed by the at least one shared resource provider, the loss of the first equipment group, and the loss of the at least one shared resource provider. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140469 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPATCHING RESOURCES - Dispatching resources is disclosed including acquiring first configuration information of a first resource warehouse and second configuration information of a second resource warehouse, determining configuration match information of the first resource warehouse and the second resource warehouse based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information, and in the event that the configuration match information exceeds a predetermined configuration match threshold value, establishing a corresponding third resource warehouse based on the configuration match information, the third resource warehouse including resources in the first resource warehouse and the second resource warehouse. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LEAD-TIME OFFSET VALUES - Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing inventory using lead-time offset values. According to certain embodiments, a master routing, master component inventory, and routing report are received. An earliest required lead-time offset value for each component in the master component inventory is determined, and the earliest required lead-time offset value for each component in the master component inventory is compared to the planned lead-time offset value for the component. Each component for which the earliest required lead-time offset value is greater than the planned lead-time offset value is identified, and the planned lead-time offset value for each identified component is set to the earliest required lead-time offset value for the component. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140471 | SHEDDING AMOUNT ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND DEVICE - A shedding assignment method executed in a shedding assignment device of an aggregator has steps as follows. According to multiple historical data of historical shedding events, one user with a highest participating probability among non-selected users is selected, and a probability model of the selected user is generated. According to the probability model of the selected user, an expected shedding amount of the selected user is calculated. A total expected shedding amount is added with the expected shedding amount of the selected user to update the total expected shedding amount. If the total expected shedding amount is larger than or equal to a demand amount, at least corresponding one shedding event is published to at least one of the users, wherein a shedding amount of the shedding event to the user is obtained according to the probability model of the user. | 2016-05-19 |