21st week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160148017 | TRANSMITTING MEDICAL DATA RECORDS - The present embodiments relate to a method for transmitting medical data records. The method includes receiving a patient data record from an internal data storage unit, selecting an anonymization setting from a set of predetermined anonymization settings, generating an anonymized patient data record on the basis of the selected anonymization setting or rule, and transmitting the anonymized patient data record to an external data storage unit. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148018 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information providing server ( | 2016-05-26 |
20160148019 | SECURE IMAGE PROCESSING - Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, devices, and software for secure image processing. In particular, the secure image processing may be performed with regard to images, such as image frames of a video stream, from a camera to obscure, either via image modification, encryption, and discarding image frames, to prevent, limit, or secure viewing of sensitive information that may be included within images. One such embodiment includes receiving an image of an image flow from a scanner, such as a product scanner, and determining whether a sensitive item is present in the image. When a sensitive item is determined to be present in the image, such embodiments perform a security action with regard to the image prior to passing the image in the image flow from the scanner. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148020 | TWO-WAY PARITY ERROR DETECTION FOR ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD ENGINES - A method of improving the operation of a processor executing a cryptographic process, by automatically detecting faults during both encryption and decryption operations by the cryptographic process, comprises segmenting the data to be encrypted and encrypting the data segments using a complex non-linear algorithm that can lead to faults; computing an output parity bit from a selected step of the algorithm for a selected data segment, based on the input value of that segment; comparing the actual output parity bit of the selected segment with the computed output parity bit for that segment; and determining whether a fault exists, based on whether the actual output parity bit matches the computed output parity bit for the selected segment. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148021 | Systems and Methods for Trading of Text based Data Representation - A method for sharing encrypted data and encryption keys through a system comprised of the following data types, but not limited to a; 1) Record and its encryption key, 2) RecordSet and its encryption key, and 3) Entity and its encryption key. A Record is encrypted using an encryption key, furthermore, the Record encryption key is encrypted using a RecordSet encryption key, and finally, both the encrypted Record and its encrypted encryption key are wrapped as a single unit, to avoid key the expensive operations of key lookup and general key operation overhead. Access control to the RecordSet encryption keys are provided by a combination of data types, but not limited to a; 1) Entity and its encryption key, 2) Ciphers, and 3) Trusted Entity Lists. For each Entity which is authorized access to access a RecordSet, an encrypted Cipher, made of both the Entity encryption key and RecordSet encryption key, is added to a Trusted Entity List. Tokens are protected by user defined secrets, comprised of Entity encryption keys. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148022 | IMPLEMENTING BLOCK DEVICE EXTENT GRANULARITY AUTHORIZATION MODEL PROCESSING IN CAPI ADAPTERS - A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing block extent granularity authorization model processing in Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) adapters. The CAPI adapter includes an authorization table and a file system authorization function to authenticate data access for a client at an extent granularity and to prevent an application from accessing unauthorized data in the CAPI adapter. Each authorization table entry provides for the CAPI client, a CAPI client identification (ID), a CAPI server register space assigning resource ownership to the CAPI client with a CAPI set of allowed functions. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148023 | CARD READER HAVING DISCRIMINATOR CONTACT - A card reader for a point-of-sale system that is configured to accept both magnetic strip-type and integrated circuit (IC) chip-type payment cards. The card reader is a component of a point-of-sale system including a portable computing device in communication with the card reader that is configured to present a first graphical user interface (GUI) when a magnetic stripe-type card is detected and a second GUI when an IC chip-type card is detected in the card reader. The card reader comprises a slot configured to receive the payment card, a magnetic reading device and an IC chip reading device. The card reader also includes a discriminator contact disposed within the slot that is configured to conduct across a surface of a metal pad of the IC chip-type card prior to the CI chip reading device making contact with the IC chip. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148024 | PASSIVE DETECTOR WITH NONVOLATILE MEMORY STORAGE - A passive detector includes a sensor configured to sense an environmental parameter and to generate an output signal at an output of the sensor in response to the sensed environmental parameter. An energy scavenging circuit is coupled to the sensor, the energy scavenging circuit configured to convert a first voltage, V | 2016-05-26 |
20160148025 | OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM, OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING OBJECT DETECTION PROGRAM - An object detection system includes a reader waveguide ( | 2016-05-26 |
20160148026 | EVENT BASED INTERROGATION ZONE TRACKING SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT SAMPLES - The invention provides a temporary installation of a system of RFID-based terminals and user-worn RFID devices within an event interrogation zone. At an event, terminals are located within, and associated with, vendor booths erected in the interrogation zone. User RFID devices are issued to users wishing to enter the interrogation zone. Each user RFID device includes an element worn by the user, and an attached or embedded RFID tag with a stored unique UserID. Products for sampling have unique ProductIDs. The terminals are programmed for: (1) retrieving the UserID when the user enters the vendor booth; (2) retrieving a ProductID of a product sampled by the user, and (3) retrieving the UserID when the user leaves the vendor booth. The UserID and timestamps of entry, departure, and ProductIDs of products sampled are communicated to a server. The system allows tracking of products sampled and user behaviour during an event. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148027 | Medical Device Identification System - Instrumentation and methods of use are provided for a medical device identification system. The application describes embodiments of a system including a medical device, and an identification tag having an RFID chip and an electrical circuit. The system defines a first configuration in which a first attachment region of the electrical circuit is in electrical communication with a second attachment region of the electrical circuit, and a second configuration in which the first attachment region is electrically isolated from the second attachment region. When the system is in the first configuration the RFID chip is in a first state, and when the system is in the second configuration the RFID chip is in a second state different than the first state. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148028 | PORTABLE RFID READING TERMINAL WITH VISUAL INDICATION OF SCAN TRACE - A portable radio-frequency identifier (RFID) reading terminal can comprise a microprocessor, a memory, an RFID reading device, and a display. The portable RFID reading terminal can be configured to display a scan trace provided by a line comprising a plurality of time varying points. Each point can be defined by a projection of a radio frequency (RF) signal coverage shape of the RFID reading device onto a chosen plane at a given moment in time. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148029 | SECURE CODE GENERATION FOR CUSTOMER TRACKING - An authentication server receives a request for a user-identification code from a computing device. The authentication server generates the user-identification code. The authentication server also generates an expiration date associated with the user-identification code. The authentication server transmits the user-identification code and the expiration date to the computing device. The authentication server also validates the user-identification code received from a code scanning system. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148030 | SCANNER WITH ADJUSTABLE FIELD OF VIEW - A scanner having a single integrated camera and a mechanism to adjustable alter the field of view of the camera to provide a field of view coverage area equivalent to scanners having two or more integrated cameras. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148031 | TOUCH PANEL WITH FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION FUNCTION - A touch panel with fingerprint identification function includes a glass substrate, a fingerprint identification device, a packaging layer, an optical adhesive layer and a sealing layer. The glass substrate has a visible section, a non-visible section and a first plane face. The non-visible section is formed with a recess having a bottom side. The fingerprint identification device is disposed in the recess, having a substrate having a first side. A silicon substrate is disposed on the first side and electrically connected to the substrate via a wire. Multiple fingerprint identification chips are disposed on one side of the silicon substrate. The packaging layer encloses the wire, the substrate and an exposed section of the silicon substrate. The optical adhesive layer is disposed between the fingerprint identification device and the bottom side of the recess. The sealing layer seals the fingerprint identification device in the recess of the glass substrate. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148032 | FINGERPRINT INDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND MANUFACTUREING METHEOD THEREOF - A fingerprint identification apparatus includes a fingerprint identification module and a signal transmitting module electrically connected to the fingerprint identification module. The signal transmitting module includes a loading substrate and a first sensing layer with a plurality of first sensing units. The first sensing units are located on the loading substrate in a matrix. Each corner of the first sensing units is a substantially arc shaped. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148033 | FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION UNIT AND DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a fingerprint identification unit. The fingerprint identification unit includes a substrate, a reception layer, a first electrode layer, a transmission layer, a second electrode layer, and a third electrode layer. The reception layer is positioned at one side of the substrate. The first electrode layer is formed on the reception layer. The transmission layer is positioned at another side of the substrate opposite to the reception layer. The second electrode layer and the third electrode layer are formed on two opposite sides of the transmission layer respectively. The reception layer and the transmission layer are made of piezoelectric materials. At least one of the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, and the third electrode layer is a transparent conductive layer. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148034 | Methods and Sensors for MultiPhase Scanning in the Fingerprint and Touch Applications - Techniques for fully-differential multi-phase scanning in capacitive fingerprint applications are described herein. In an example embodiment, a system comprises a capacitive fingerprint sensor array and a processing device coupled to the capacitive fingerprint sensor array. The processing device is configured at least to: scan the capacitive fingerprint sensor array in a fully-differential multi-phase mode; receive a plurality of measurements that represents a portion of finger on the capacitive fingerprint sensor array; and generate a fingerprint image for the portion of the finger based on the plurality of measurements. In some embodiments, a capacitive fingerprint sensor array may include receive (RX) electrodes and one or more reference electrodes configured to detect noise, where the one or more reference electrodes have width that is substantially equal to the width of the RX electrodes, but the one or more reference electrodes are disposed at a smaller pitch than the RX electrodes. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148035 | SURFACE SENSOR - A sensor unit for measuring surface structures and properties of an object of organic tissue includes a contact surface adapted to have mechanical contact with the object, a first dielectric layer made from a dielectric material, a first conductor layer including at least one shielding electrode essentially covering an area of the dielectric layer facing the contact surface, the at least one shielding electrode surrounding at least one essentially non-conductive aperture defining a sensing region, and a second conductor layer separated from the first conductor layer by the first dielectric layer and comprising a number of conductive wires extending at least partially under the at least one aperture and having a direction essentially perpendicular to the sensing region, each wire having a predetermined width. A sensing area of each wire is defined by the width and the length of each wire extending in the sensing region. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148036 | FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION SENSOR CAPABLE OF SENSING FINGERPRINT USING OPTICAL AND CAPACITIVE METHOD - Provided is a fingerprint recognition sensor capable of sensing a fingerprint using optical and capacitive methods, the sensor including: a capacitive fingerprint sensing unit that includes a transistor (T | 2016-05-26 |
20160148037 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING AND AUTHENTICATING FINGERPRINT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - An electronic device and method for fingerprint authentication are disclosed. The electronic device may include a sensor unit including a first sensor area for detecting a fingerprint via a swipe operation and a second sensor area for detecting the fingerprint via a touch operation, and at least one processor, which may implemented the method. The method may include detecting a touch input to the sensor unit and activating one of the first sensor area and the second sensor area according to whether the touch input is the swipe operation or the touch operation, and storing fingerprint information obtained through the activated first sensor area or second sensor area. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148038 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING BLOOD CELL DYNAMICS - Systems, apparatus, and methods for non-invasively detecting a white blood cell (WBC) event from in vivo capillary data may include obtaining a plurality of images, followed by specifying two-dimensional (2D) coordinates corresponding to internal contour and external contour of a capillary visible in the images. The two sets of 2D coordinates may be resampled to generate two sets of resampled coordinates, between which intermediate curves, including a middle curve, are generated. Curvilinear distances may be defined based on the middle curve. Intensity values, each of which corresponds to one of the images, one of the intermediate curves, and one of the curvilinear distances, may be extracted and transformed to the Radon domain. A plurality of maxima locations in the Radon domain corresponding to a flow trajectory inside the capillary may be identified. Detection of a visual gap in the flow trajectory inside the capillary indicates a WBC event. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148039 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VERIFYING AN AUTHENTICATED DOCUMENT BIOSIGNATURE - In systems and methods of generating an authenticated document biosignature, a processor of a verification device may calculate a base verification score associated with a user based on at least one identification input, the identification input comprising one or more identification features, a feature validity rating of each identification feature, a source where the one or more identification feature are received, and a source validity rating, wherein at least one of the identification features includes a biometric identification feature. The processor of the verification device may generate a glyph based on the base verification score and the identification input. The glyph may be associated with a document, and may be used to verify the identity of the user associated with the glyph. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148040 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT DETECTION BASED ON DOMINANT PIXEL INFORMATION - Provided are an apparatus and a method for detecting an object in an image, and particularly, an apparatus and a method for detecting a vehicle in an image. The present invention has been made in an effort to provide an apparatus and a method for object detection based on dominant pixel information which generate an average image and a standard deviation image of training object images, acquire a feature area representing a feature of a training object, and detect an object by using a value acquired by calculating a similarity between the average image in the feature area and a target image as a feature vector to efficiently detect a target object with a small calculation amount. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148041 | METHOD FOR FACE RECOGNITION THROUGH FACIAL EXPRESSION NORMALIZATION, RECORDING MEDIUM AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for face recognition through facial expression normalization includes: fitting an input two-dimensional face image into a three-dimensional face model by using a three-dimensional face database; normalizing the three-dimensional face model into a neutral-expression three-dimensional face model by using a neutral-expression parameter learned from the three-dimensional face database; converting the neutral-expression three-dimensional face model into a neutral-expression two-dimensional face image; and recognizing the neutral-expression two-dimensional face image from a two-dimensional face database. Accordingly, face recognition may be performed with high reliability without a loss of information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148042 | PERSONAL COMPUTING DEVICE CONTROL USING FACE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION - Systems and methods are provided for control of a personal computing device based on user face detection and recognition techniques. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148043 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - A system for enhancing a facial expression includes a processing circuit configured to receive video of a user, generate facial data corresponding to a face of the user, analyze the facial data to identify a facial expression, enhance the facial data based on the facial expression, and output modified video including the enhanced facial data. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER VISION BASED TRACKING OF AN OBJECT - A system and method for computer vision based tracking of a human form may include detecting a shape of an object in an image of a space and determining the probability of object having a human form shape based on movement of the object. If the probability of the object of being of a human form is above a predetermined threshold the object is tracked and if the probability is below the threshold then the tracking is terminated. Occupancy in the space may be determined based on the tracking of the object. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148045 | POSE DETERMINATION FROM A PATTERN OF FOUR LEDS - The present invention relates to the field of computation and covers methods to find one to one mapping between fiducial markers on a tracked object and fiducial marker projections on the image plane captured by a camera in optical object tracking systems. A method for solving correspondence problem is realized to find correspondences between 3D points of an object and 2D projection of that object onto the image plane so that this can be used to find the object's 3D location and orientation. It is designed to work without current pose of the tracked object thus it is equally efficient on initial correspondence problem as correspondence problem. Furthermore, a method for selecting LED groups to be used for solving correspondence problem is also presented, which uses pose data representing possible poses of tracked object under working conditions thus LEDS groups are selected to satisfy use case requirements. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148046 | ADAPTIVE GUIDELINES FOR HANDWRITING - One embodiment provides a method, involving: receiving, at a device, handwriting input from a user; detecting, using a processor, a location of at least a part of the handwriting input; and providing, on a display device, at least one adaptive line to guide the handwriting input; wherein the at least one adaptive line is positioned based on the location of at least a part of the handwriting input. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148047 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING IRIS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for recognizing an iris and an operating method thereof are provided. The iris recognition apparatus recognizing an iris of an eye includes an image capturing unit to acquire an iris image of an eye, and a controller to assess the focus quality of an iris region in the iris image and then determine an iris recognition target image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148048 | OPTIMIZED IMAGING APPARATUS FOR IRIS IMAGING - The invention comprises a method for configuring an imaging apparatus having an image sensor and an optical assembly. The method modifies a first imaging configuration of the imaging apparatus to achieve a second imaging configuration of said imaging apparatus, by interposing a refractive optical element between an image-side surface of the optical assembly and an imaging surface. In another embodiment, the method modifies a first imaging configuration of the imaging apparatus to achieve a second imaging configuration of said imaging apparatus by removing the refractive optical element from between an image-side surface of the optical assembly and an imaging surface. The invention additionally includes an imaging apparatus configured for switching from a first imaging configuration to a second imaging configuration. At least one of the first imaging configuration and the second imaging configuration may be configured for iris imaging. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148049 | IMAGE COLLECTION WITH INCREASED ACCURACY - Image collection is provided, e.g., a system includes a gaze point detection device for detecting the location of a gaze point of a user with respect to the user, and an image collection device for focusing and collecting a first image according to the location of the gaze point with respect to the user. The gaze point detection device comprises a fundus image collection module for collecting a second image of a fundus of a user, an adjustable lens module for adjusting an imaging parameter of an optical path between the fundus image collection module and an eye and an image processing module for calculating the location of a gaze point of the user with respect to the user according to the imaging parameter. The system and method of the present application can increase the focusing accuracy and the focusing speed of an image collection apparatus. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148050 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING EYES - An apparatus for detecting eyes comprises a camera configured to acquire an eye image using optical coding; and an image processor configured to perform signal processing on the eye image, wherein the signal processing comprises removing noise from the eye image caused by a glasses reflection point. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IRIS DATA ACQUISITION FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION - A system and related method for acquiring high quality images of the iris of an unconstrained subject comprising a camera; a controllable focusing component; a focus controller component that controls the lens to focus at successively different points within a focus range, such focus control performed without any input from measurement of whether the image is in focus or out of focus, be it based from measurements of the image or other distance metrics to the subject; and a sharpness detection component that rejects the most out-of-focus images based on measurement of focus on the image is disclosed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148052 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of kinds of medical apparatus information, which are information acquired from a plurality of medical apparatuses, a generating unit that generates information for presentation including at least a part of the plurality of kinds of medical apparatus information acquired by the acquiring unit, and a presenting unit that outputs the generated information for presentation to an image display apparatus that displays an image. The generating unit generates the information for presentation including at least the medical apparatus information acquired by the medical apparatus, visual recognition of a display unit of which by a user of the image display apparatus is difficult. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148053 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE - An image processing device includes a memory and a processor. The processor acquires an image sequence, calculates deformation information about images, performs a feature area detection process, performs an identicalness determination process on an ith feature area and an (i+1)th feature area based on the deformation information about an ith image and an (i+1)th image, and performs an image summarization process. The processor performs the deformation information calculation process that calculates the deformation information based on an ith deformation estimation target area that includes an area of the ith image other than the ith feature area, and an (i+1)th deformation estimation target area that includes an area of the (i+1)th image other than the (i+1)th feature area. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148054 | Fast Object Tracking Framework For Sports Video Recognition - A solution is provided for object tracking in a sports video is disclosed. A determination whether a position of the object was identified in a previous video frame is made. If the position of the object was identified in the previous video frame, a new position of the object is identified in a current video frame based on the identified position of the object in the previous video frame. An expected position of the object is identified based on the identified position of the object in the previous video frame and a trained object classification model. A determination is made whether the new position is consistent with the expected position; if the new position is consistent with the expected position, the new position is stored as the position of the object in the current frame. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148055 | CONTENT INTERRUPTION POINT IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY - Automated content interruption point identification improves the accuracy with which potential content interruption points are identified, and increases the efficiency of content interruption point identification and content distribution. Potential interruption points are automatically identified based on transitions occurring within the content, including changes in the sound level, changes in the light, or brightness, level, changes in people visible in a scene of the content, transitions that are identified by content metadata, and other types of transitions. In providing content to a content consumer, a determination is made whether to interrupt the provision of the content, at one or more of the identified potential content interruption points, based on factors including interruption point metadata, metadata associated with auxiliary content that would be inserted, and user information, which includes explicitly specified user settings, as well as detected user information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148056 | Filming Method and Device for Secure Production of Drug Preparations, Related Mounting for Positioning Objects - A secure imaging system for drug preparations on a predetermined site comprises a dynamic graphic interface including at least one processing camera having a focal distance adjusted for the detection of objects and connected to a digital unit for managing video signals from the processing camera. The unit has means for establishing a comparison between the stored data of the in-method preparation using first images corresponding to the video signals and steps for preparing stored prescriptions and means for selecting a prescription in accordance with said comparison. Warning means are activated in the event that at least one step of the indexed preparation does not comply with the corresponding step of the selected prescription. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148057 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAME - A camera system includes: a camera configured to capture an image of a surveillance area; a microphone array which includes at least one microphone; and at least one processor configured to implement: a video processor which designates at least one subject in the image as a target; a beam-former which calculates a rotation angle of the microphone array based on a location of the subject; and a driving controller which rotates the microphone array toward the subject based on the rotation angle of the microphone array, wherein the beam-forming unit further performs signal processing on an audio input signal received through the microphone array rotated toward the subject and outputs an audio output signal corresponding to the audio input signal. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148058 | TRAFFIC VIOLATION DETECTION - A method for detecting a vehicle running a stop signal positioned at an intersection includes acquiring a sequence of frames from at least one video camera monitoring an intersection being signaled by the stop signal. The method includes defining a first region of interest (ROI) including a road region located before the intersection on the image plane. The method includes searching the first ROI for a candidate violating vehicle. In response to detecting the candidate violating vehicle, the method includes tracking at least one trajectory of the detected candidate violating vehicle across a number of frames. The method includes classifying the candidate violating vehicle as belonging to one of a violating vehicle and a non-violating vehicle based on the at least one trajectory. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148059 | TRAVEL LANE MARKING RECOGNITION APPARATUS - A travel lane marking recognition apparatus includes a recognizing unit that is mounted to a vehicle. The recognizing unit uses a recognition model to recognize a lane marking that demarcates a lane on a road, based on an image of an area ahead of the vehicle captured by an on-board camera. The recognition model is configured by a plurality of recognition models that includes at least two recognition models among a first-order model that takes into consideration a straight line, a second-order model that takes into consideration a steady curve, and a third-order model that takes into consideration a clothoid curve. The recognizing unit is configured to recognize the lane marking by integrating recognition results acquired using the plurality of recognition models based on a state of the vehicle. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148060 | BARRIER AND GUARDRAIL DETECTION USING A SINGLE CAMERA - Driver assistance systems for detecting a structural barrier extending along a road. The driver assistance system may be mountable in a host vehicle. The camera may capture multiple image frames in the forward field of view of the camera. A processor may process motion of images of the barrier in the image frames. The camera may be a single camera. The motion of the images may be responsive to forward motion of the host vehicle and/or the motion of the images may be responsive to lateral motion of the host vehicle. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148061 | LANE IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS THEREOF - A lane identification method for identifying a lane whereon a vehicle is traveling, which includes: providing a drive video; generating an identification result of recognizing a plurality of lane lines corresponding to the line according the drive video, wherein the identification result is generated based on inside borderlines of the lane lines; and determining the lane according to the identification result. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148062 | VEHICLE VISION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS - A vision system for a vehicle includes a plurality of cameras having respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. The plurality of cameras includes driver and passenger side wide angle cameras having wide angle fields of view, driver and passenger side rearward viewing cameras having fields of view along the respective sides of the vehicle rearward of the vehicle, and a rearward camera having a wide angle field of view rearward of the vehicle. A display is operable to display images derived from image data captured by at least some of the cameras. The display is selectively operable to display images derived from image data captured by all of the plurality of cameras. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by at least some of the cameras to detect objects in the field of view of the at least some of the cameras. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148063 | TRAFFIC LIGHT DETECTION - A method and a system for traffic light detection are provided. The method may include: obtaining a color image; calculating pixel response values for pixels of the color image, respectively, where each of the pixel response values may be calculated using R, G, and B values of a corresponding pixel directly, such that pixel response values of red traffic light pixels are substantially distributed on a first side of a predetermined range and pixel response values of green traffic light pixels are substantially distributed on a second side of the predetermined range which is opposite to the first side; identifying pixels whose pixel response values are distributed on the first side or the second side as candidate pixels; identifying candidate blobs based on the candidate pixels; and verifying whether the candidate blobs are traffic lights. Efficiency and reliability may be improved. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING DRIVER STATUS USING HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - A method for monitoring a driver status in a terminal which interworks with a vehicle head unit through local wireless communication includes receiving vehicle proceeding direction information from the vehicle head unit. Whether or not a driver's gaze deviates from a gaze stability area is determined using the vehicle proceeding direction information. A driver's gaze deviation warning message is transmitted to the vehicle head unit, upon determining that the driver's gaze deviates from the gaze stability area. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148065 | DRIVER MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ILLUMINATOR THEREOF - A driver monitoring apparatus includes: a driver monitoring camera configured to obtain an image of a user while adjusting an irradiation range of irradiated light; and a driver state sensor configured to request the driver monitoring camera to adjust the irradiation range depending on an operation mode. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148066 | DETECTION OF SPOOFING ATTACKS FOR VIDEO-BASED AUTHENTICATION - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture detect spoofing attacks for video-based authentication are disclosed. Disclosed example method to perform video-based authentication include determining whether a sequence of input images provided to perform video-based authentication of a subject exhibits a first region having fluctuating pixel values. Such example methods also include determining that the sequence of input images is associated with a spoofing attack in response to determining that the sequence of input images exhibits the first region having fluctuating pixel values. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148067 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING IMAGE ELEMENTS - A method, system, and machine-readable medium for classifying an image element as one of a plurality of categories, including assigning the image element based on a ratio between an unoccluded perimeter of the image element and an occluded perimeter of the image element and coding the image element according to a coding scheme associated with the category to which the image element is classified. Exemplary applications include image compression, where categories include image foreground and background layers. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148068 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image processing apparatus and method, and an electronic device, wherein the apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image shot in real-time; a detecting unit configured to detect an object needing a fuzzy processing and/or a part thereof in the image shot in real-time; and a processing unit configured to perform a fuzzy processing of the detected object and/or a part thereof. The object needing a fuzzy processing and/or a part thereof is automatically detected in the shooting process to perform corresponding fuzzy processing, rather than recording the shot image in advance, reproducing the recorded image and searching therein, and finally performing a fuzzy processing. Thus the present disclosure can increase the efficiency of the fuzzy processing, improve the accuracy and integrity of the processing result, and reduce the risk of secrete divulgation caused by omission or error processing. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148069 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN OBJECT - It is provided a method for detecting an object in a left view image and a right view image, comprising steps of receiving the left view image and the right view image; detecting a coarse region containing the object in one image of the left view image and the right view image; detecting the object within the detected coarse region in the one image; determining a coarse region in the other image of the left view image and the right view image based on the detected coarse region in the one image and offset relationship indicating position relationship of the object in a past left view image and a past right view image; and detecting the object within the determined coarse region in the other image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148070 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a recording medium realize identification of an object region and a region category with high precision, estimate a relationship between partial regions in an acquired image by using a database about relationships between the images, and determine a target region in the acquired image based on the relationship. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION - An object detection system and a method of detecting an object in an image are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for detecting the object includes computing one or more feature planes of one or more types for each image pixel of the image. A plurality of cells is defined in the image, where each cell includes first through n | 2016-05-26 |
20160148072 | ASSISTED SURVEILLANCE OF VEHICLES-OF-INTEREST - A computer-implemented image processing method includes accessing image data representing a plurality of images of a plurality of vehicles and reading a data model representing a predefined vehicle attribute. The method further includes processing a portion of the image data to detect a vehicle feature of at least one of the vehicles represented in at least one of the images based on the predefined vehicle attribute, and processing the portion of the image data to generate vehicle data representing the detected vehicle feature. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148073 | INSPECTION OF THE CONTOURED SURFACE OF THE UNDERCARRIAGE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for providing an image of a contoured surface includes: a) recording images of one or a plurality of regions of the surface using different light exposure and/or illumination; b) generating s an optimized image for each of the regions from the plurality of recorded images; and c) assembling the optimized images generated for the individual regions of the surface to form an optimized total image of the surface. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148074 | ANALYZING CONTENT OF DIGITAL IMAGES - Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to analyzing the content of digital images. A computer extracts multiple sets of visual features, which can be keypoints, based on an image of a selected object. Each of the multiple sets of visual features is extracted by a different visual feature extractor. The computer further extracts a visual word count vector based on the image of the selected object. An image query is executed based on the extracted visual features and the extracted visual word count vector to identify one or more candidate template objects of which the selected object may be an instance. When multiple candidate template objects are identified, a matching algorithm compares the selected object with the candidate template objects to determine a particular candidate template of which the selected object is an instance. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148075 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTHENTIFICATION OF A USER - Method of authentication of a user via a terminal including acquisition elements for performing a biometric acquisition, includes: presentation to the acquisition elements by the user of a member to be verified by biometric comparison and triggering by the user a biometric acquisition to obtain an acquisition datum; biometric comparison of the acquisition datum with a prestored reference datum, the user being authenticated if the biometric comparison is positive and not authenticated otherwise, the method further including the following steps: providing the user with elements indicative of a first angle, the user applying a corrective rotation by a second angle so as to match an acquisition datum with the second angle, and in the biometric comparison step the reference datum is matched with the first angle, the biometric comparison being positive if the second angle is substantially equal to the first angle. Device adapted to implement such a method. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148076 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING AN IMAGE REJECTION PROCESS - Systems and methods for automating an image rejection process. Features including texture, spatial structure, and image quality characteristics can be extracted from one or more images to train a classifier. Features can be calculated with respect to a test image for submission of the features to the classifier, given an operating point corresponding to a desired false positive rate. One or more inputs can be generated from the classifier as a confidence value corresponding to a likelihood of, for example: a license plate being absent in the image, the license plate being unreadable, or the license plate being obstructed. The confidence value can be compared against a threshold to determine if the image(s) should be removed from a human review pipeline, thereby reducing images requiring human review. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING ENHANCED BY HUMAN MEASUREMENTS - In various embodiments, training objects are classified by human annotators, psychometric data characterizing the annotation of the training objects is acquired, a human-weighted loss function based at least in part on the classification data and the psychometric data is computationally derived, and one or more features of a query object are computationally classified based at least in part on the human-weighted loss function. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148078 | Convolutional Neural Network Using a Binarized Convolution Layer - A convolutional neural network is trained to analyze input data in various different manners. The convolutional neural network includes multiple layers, one of which is a convolution layer that performs a convolution, for each of one or more filters in the convolution layer, of the filter over the input data. The convolution includes generation of an inner product based on the filter and the input data. Both the filter of the convolution layer and the input data are binarized, allowing the inner product to be computed using particular operations that are typically faster than multiplication of floating point values. The possible results for the convolution layer can optionally be pre-computed and stored in a look-up table. Thus, during operation of the convolutional neural network, rather than performing the convolution on the input data, the pre-computed result can be obtained from the look-up table | 2016-05-26 |
20160148079 | OBJECT DETECTION USING CASCADED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS - Different candidate windows in an image are identified, such as by sliding a rectangular or other geometric shape of different sizes over an image to identify portions of the image (groups of pixels in the image). The candidate windows are analyzed by a set of convolutional neural networks, which are cascaded so that the input of one convolutional neural network layer is based on the input of another convolutional neural network layer. Each convolutional neural network layer drops or rejects one or more candidate windows that the convolutional neural network layer determines does not include an object (e.g., a face). The candidate windows that are identified as including an object (e.g., a face) are analyzed by another one of the convolutional neural network layers. The candidate windows identified by the last of the convolutional neural network layers are the indications of the objects (e.g., faces) in the image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECT, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING RECOGNIZER - A recognition method includes receiving an input image; and recognizing a plurality of elements associated with the input image using a single recognizer pre-trained to recognize a plurality of elements simultaneously. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148081 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD IN PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An amount of shift in a printing position detected by a sensor to adjust the printing position is reflected only on a sheet on which an image positioning operation is performed. A control method in a printing apparatus having a reading unit configured to read an image to generate image data includes printing, by a printing unit, an adjustment image for adjusting a printing position on a first sheet, obtaining an amount of shift in the printing position based on image data generated by the reading unit reading the adjustment image printed on the first sheet by the printing unit, and controlling the printing unit based on the obtained amount of shift in the printing position so that an image is printed on a second sheet of a type different from that of the first sheet. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148082 | Method, system and apparatus for rendering a document - A method of rendering a document described in a page description language, is disclosed. The document comprising a plurality of images is received. An intermediate graphical representation of the document is formed based on image metadata for the images, the intermediate graphical representation being subdivided into a plurality of tiles. Image data of one of the images is received to render the intermediate graphical representation. A tile of the intermediate graphical representation touched by the received image is identified, in response to receiving the image data. The identified tile is marked for rendering based on a number of the received images for the identified tile compared to a determined number of images contributing to the identified tile, the number of images contributing to the tile being determined using image metadata of the images. The document is rendered using the marked tile. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148083 | MODULATION OF DISPLAY IMAGERY FOR BARCODE SIMULATION - A method of modulating display imagery for barcode simulation is provided. Barcode information is received into a portable device. The portable device includes an image capture system, the image capture system including an image sensor that is configured to convert light into discrete signals. The image capture system has an image sensor controller that is configured to control the image sensor. The image capture system has an image processor that is configured to convert the discrete signals into formatted image data. The portable device has a display system having a display screen configured to display formatted image data. The barcode information is used to manipulate the image capture system such that the display screen displays a light simulated barcode. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148084 | PACKAGE WITH RADIO IC TAG AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGE WITH RADIO IC TAG - A package with a radio IC tag includes a package unit including a metal sheet and a resin sheet, the metal sheet having a predetermined slot pattern formed therein; and an IC chip unit including an IC chip and an electrode member, the electrode member supplying electric power to the IC chip. An end of the slot pattern is disposed in a corner field of the package unit. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148085 | Method for generating and displaying a security code for a payment card, payment card - A payment card comprises a display device arranged on a face of the payment card, the display device comprising a field for displaying a security code for card verification operations carried out by a card verification server. The method comprises the operations of:
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20160148086 | Radio Frequency Identification Tag - The invention provides a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag particularly suitable for use as a linen or laundry tag, and methods for producing RFID tags. The RFID tag in one embodiment comprises a backing layer, a first adhesive layer overlaying the backing layer, an RFID transponder and antenna overlaying the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer overlaying the RFID transponder and antenna. The layers are laminated together, hermetically sealing the RFID transponder and antenna within the RFID tag. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148087 | Radio Frequency Identification Devices - Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices are provided including a contactless internal voltage generator configured to generate a rectification voltage responsive to a radio frequency (RF) input signal and an internal voltage responsive to the generated rectification voltage and a reference voltage; a clock generator configured to sense an amount of current to a sink path of the contactless internal voltage generator and to generate a clock signal using a variable resistance value, the variable resistance value based on the amount of current sensed; and an internal circuit driven by the internal voltage and the clock signal. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148088 | ENCODING INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE PATTERNED LAYERS - An article of manufacture includes a substrate, a first patterned layer deposited on the substrate in a first region, and a second patterned layer deposited on the substrate in a second region. The first patterned layer encodes first information in first symbols that are detectable by an optical sensor. The second patterned layer encodes second information in second symbols that are detectable by a non-optical sensor. The second information is distinct from the first information and the second region at least partially overlaps the first region. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148089 | ENCODING INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE PATTERNED LAYERS - An article of manufacture includes a substrate, a first patterned layer deposited on the substrate in a first region, and a second patterned layer deposited on the substrate in a second region. The first patterned layer encodes first information in first symbols that are detectable by an optical sensor. The second patterned layer encodes second information in second symbols that are detectable by a non-optical sensor. The second information is distinct from the first information and the second region at least partially overlaps the first region. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION, ENCODING, AND DECODING MULTIPLE SIGNALS HAVING DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS - Systems and methods for channel identification, encoding and decoding signals, where the signals can have one or more dimensions, are disclosed. An exemplary method can include receiving the input signals and processing the input signals to provide a first output. The method can also encode the first output, at an asynchronous encoder, to provide encoded signals. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148091 | THERMODYNAMIC RAM TECHNOLOGY STACK - A thermodynamic RAM technology stack, two or more memristors or pairs of memristors comprising AHaH (Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian) computing components, and one or more AHaH nodes composed of such memristor pairs that form at least a portion of the thermodynamic RAM technology stack. The levels of the thermodynamic-RAM technology stack include the memristor, a Knowm synapse, an AHaH node, a kT-RAM, kT-RAM instruction set, a sparse spike encoding, a kT-RAM emulator, and a SENSE Server. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148092 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ACTIVITY LEVEL AT A MERCHANT LOCATION BY LEVERAGING REAL-TIME TRANSACTION DATA - Systems and methods provide information regarding the activity level associated with a point of interest. Authorization records can be stored regarding electronic/cashless payment transactions at one or more points of interest. Activity level, such as the number of transactions that are processed during a particular period of time and/or the duration of time between subsequent transactions processed can reflect the amount of time a consumer may spend or wait to be served at the one or more points of interest. Additionally, activity levels can suggest the desirability of visiting a particular point of interest. Accordingly, based on the stored authorization records, the level of activity at the one or more points of interest can be determined and provided to the consumer to allow the consumer to choose which point of interest to visit based on the consumer's needs and/or desires. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148093 | Generating Additional Lines of Questioning Based on Evaluation of Previous Question - Mechanisms for generating different lines of questioning based on evaluation of a previous line of questioning are provided. A set of evidential data specifying a plurality of concept entities and input specifying a scenario to be evaluated are received. The scenario specifies a hypothetical link between at least two of the concept entities. A first set of questions corresponding to the at least two information concept entities are evaluated based on the set of evidential data. Based on results of evaluating the first set of questions, a second set of questions is automatically generated to further expand upon and investigate the results of evaluating the first set of questions. The second set of questions are processed and an indication of the scenario and a corresponding measure of support for or against the scenario being a valid scenario is output. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148094 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING THE GENERATION OF A BUSINESS DECISION ANALYTIC MODEL - The present invention envisages a system and method for automating the generation of business decision analytic models. The system uses a plurality of predictor variables stored in a plurality of data sets, to automatically create a business decision analytic model. The system includes a processor configured to process the data sets and determine the total number of records present in each of the data sets and the number of columns containing only numerical values. The processor selects a column containing only numerical values, from a dataset under consideration, and counts the number of unique numerical values in the selected column, and the total number of records present in the selected column. The two counts are compared and the selected column is transformed using a non-linear transformation to obtain a column of transformed values. The transformed values and corresponding time stamps are utilized for the purpose of model generation. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148095 | ELECTRONIC CALCULATING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF AND NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF FOR SENSING CONTEXT AND RECOMMENDING INFORMATION - An electronic calculating apparatus, a method and a non-transitory machine-readable medium are provided. The electronic calculating apparatus includes an input/output (I/O) interface, a knowledge tree database and a processor. The I/O interface receives first data of a user, wherein the first data is comprised of a natural language character string. The knowledge tree database stores a context knowledge tree. The processor receives the first data of the user via the I/O interface, analyzes the first data and generates context characteristic information, and substitutes the context characteristic information into the context knowledge tree to generate first context recommend information. The processor then enables a display apparatus to display the first context recommend information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148096 | EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC RELATIONS USING DISTRIBUTIONAL RELATION DETECTION - According to an aspect, a pair of related entities that includes a first entity and a second entity is received. Distributional relations are detected between the first entity and the second entity. The detecting includes identifying two sets of entities in a corpus, the first set including the first entity and at least one other entity that is semantically similar to the first entity, and the second set including the second entity and at least one other entity that is semantically similar to the second entity. Semantic relations are detected between entities in the first set and entities in the second set. A relation classifier is trained using the pair of related entities and detected semantic relations. The relation classifier model is applied to a new pair of entities to determine a likelihood of a semantic relation between the entities in the new pair of entities. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Methods and systems are provided for managing knowledge. Users of a knowledge management (KM) service or system may post questions, provide answers or search for answers via a user interface. For a given question, users may collectively construct and refine an answer hierarchy that may include multiple answer paths or solutions to the same question. To this end, users may add, remove and/or modify nodes of the answer hierarchy. The nodes may be of predefined types such as Step, Fork, and Goto. In addition, users may interact with a particular node and provide or modify content specific to individual nodes of the answer hierarchy such as attachments, questions, comments, or references. Given an answer hierarchy, users may select different answer paths or solutions comprising a subset of nodes in the answer hierarchy, for example, based on user-specific fact patterns or requirements. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148098 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING THE AMOUNT AND CONTENT OF FUMES - A system includes a fume collection system that collects fumes from a welding operation, multiple data sources that detect operational data of the fume collection system and/or of the welding operation indicative of at least two of arc on time, operator factor, electrode feed speed, electrode size, and electrode type, an analysis system that analyzes the operational data and estimates fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes, and a reporting system configured to populate at least one user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148099 | ASSISTED LABELING OF DEVICES WITH DISAGGREGATION - Electrical usage of devices in a building may be monitored to assist a user in labeling devices. In some implementations, an electrical signal corresponding to devices may be processed with models to determine first information about a device, and this first information may be presented to a user to receive second information about the device from the user. The device may then be labeled using the second information from the user. In some implementations, a user may provide first information about a device, and the first information may be used to obtain models for processing an electrical signal. A model may be selected from the obtained models by comparing the obtained models to an electrical signal. The device may then be labeled using the selected model or the first information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148100 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING ALARM INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH WEATHER - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for changing alarm information based on weather, and more particularly to an apparatus and method for changing alarm information based on weather, which can collect locations, time and weather information for a path, routinely used by a user, and a destination and actively adjust alarm time based on a weather condition, which can measure the gap between a weather forecast and real-time observation data, determine whether a gap notification condition has been satisfied and provide notification to a user, and which can collect location information and weather information via a report message, determine the urgency level of a disaster situation and generate a disaster information list that enables the disaster situation to be effectively determined. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148101 | KNOWLEDGE EVALUATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM - A knowledge evaluation apparatus, method, and system are provided. The knowledge evaluation apparatus includes an extraction module configured to extract at least one of triple information which is previously set with respect to a document for each field accumulated in an Internet community site; a classification module configured to classify and digitize the triple information extracted from the document for each field by a topic and an item; and a measurement module configured to measure knowledge maturity of the Internet community site based on the knowledge classified and digitized by the classification module. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148102 | System and Method for Parallel Processing Prediction - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for space-time complexity speedup for computer algorithms in terms of processing time as a function of dataset size and type, showing serial, sub-linear, linear and superlinear speedup. Serial and parallel effects can be processed and calculated from a decomposed algorithm's sequential functional components, allowing the identification and use of the parallelizable components. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148103 | FAST BEHAVIOR AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION - A system includes an interface configured to receive time series data representing information from a plurality of sensors, and a processor configured to construct a behavior model based on the time series data. The processor identifies features in the time series data, divides the time series data of each of the identified features into segments, and extracts feature components from the segments. The processor further constructs a plurality of state graphs, each state graph including components connected by weighted edges, constructs a behavior graph, wherein the state graphs form vertices of the behavior graph, clusters the state graphs in the behavior graph; and selects a representative state graph from each cluster, wherein the behavior model includes the selected state graphs. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANT MONITORING - A system and method for automatic plant monitoring. The method comprises: identifying at least one test input respective of a test area, wherein the test area includes at least one part of a plant; and generating a plant condition prediction based on the at least one test input and on a prediction model, wherein the prediction model is based on a training set including at least one training input and at least one training output, wherein each training output corresponds to a training input. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148105 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an information providing system for a system administrator not highly skilled in the arts of natural language or artificial intelligence to be able to easily correct or add a response to an input from a user to arrange the response into an appropriate one if the response is not appropriate. When an input sentence does not hit any knowledge data, the system administrator is able to add a combination of the input sentence and a response thereto by opening a new QA quick addition screen from a knowledge maintenance screen by pressing a link of the input sentence. Furthermore, the system administrator is able to easily add the input sentence to knowledge data as a synonymous sentence of a candidate Q, which is determined to be semantically close to the input sentence, by clicking the candidate Q on the knowledge maintenance screen. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148106 | STATE ESTIMATION FOR COOPERATIVE ELECTRICAL GRIDS - Aspects of state estimation for cooperative electrical grids are disclosed. State estimation of a local electrical grid can be based on a local grid model and local electrical grid information. The local state estimation can reflect interactions and interconnections with other electrical grids by determining state estimation solution information based on the local grid model, local electrical grid information, and remote state estimator solution information associated with the other electrical grid. As such, a local state estimator can be configured to receive and employ remote state estimator solution information. This can be in addition to the more conventional technique or receiving a remote grid model and remote electrical grid information to estimate the conditions of the remote electrical grid. Further, state estimation solution information can be incremental to further reduce the amount of information to be transferred and the time needed to accomplish transmission of the information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148107 | Dynamic Prediction of Risk Levels for Manufacturing Operations through Leading Risk Indicators: Dynamic Risk Analyzer Engine - The dynamic risk analyzer (DRA) provided by the present invention periodically assesses real-time or historic process data, or both, associated with an operations site, such as a manufacturing, production, or processing facility, including a plant's operations, and identifies hidden near-misses of such operation, when in real time the process data appears otherwise normal. DRA assesses the process data in a manner that enables operating personnel including management at a facility to have a comprehensive understanding of the risk status and changes in both alarm and non-alarm based process variables. The hidden process near-miss data may be analyzed alone or in combination with other process data and/or data resulting from prior near-miss situations to permit strategic action to be taken to reduce or avert the occurrence of adverse incidents or catastrophic failure of a facility operation. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148108 | SOCIAL MEDIA INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM - An information gathering and intelligence analysis and production system, which in an important version, has a secure interface that aids the user in determining and executing appropriate detailed searches of internet sources such as social media. Results are analyzed and refined to improve the quality of the search results using a wide variety of techniques including intelligence industry analytics. Refined search results may then be further searched and analyzed. Resulting information may be continuously and automatically monitored. Users can select from a variety of reports, predictive analytics, and alert notifications. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148109 | System for Motion Analytics and Method for Analyzing Motion - A system for motion analytics includes acceleration sensors and selectively infrared sensors or microphones. The system also includes a processor and display device. The processor identifies test scores obtained by subjects. The processor also computes degrees of similarities in the real-time physical movements between the at least two groups of subjects using the acceleration sensors, and an amount of time during which some subjects among the at least two groups of subject are engaged in communication using the infrared sensors and/or the microphones. Further, the processor analyzes a correlation between the test scores and the degrees of similarities, and between the test scores and the amount of communication time. The processor then predicts an improvement in the test scores based on patterns in the analysis of the correlation. The predicted improvement of the test scores is then displayed on the display device. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148110 | SPACE-LIKE COMPUTATIONS IN COMPUTING DEVICES - Computing systems and computer-implemented methods for specifying distributed computation. The systems and methods utilize computer-readable code causing a computer to engage in reversible, self-organizing hierarchical space-like computation that create information. At least one sensor and effector adapted to react to an environment external to the computer/computing system can create information based on an input from or “experience” with that environment. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148111 | EVENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS, EVENT ANALYSIS METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An associated event group preparation unit calculates a degree of association between the events on the basis of an event matrix, and prepares an associated event group for each event. A cause-and-effect relationship model establishment unit establishes a probabilistic cause-and-effect relationship model by a Bayesian network on the basis of the event matrix, for each associated event group. An improvement candidate pattern receiving unit receives a setting of an improvement candidate pattern in which a condition of an event to be set as an improvement candidate is determined by attributes of the base point event and the associated event and a conditional probability between the base point event and the associated event. A pattern analysis unit extracts a probabilistic cause-and-effect relationship model conforming to any one of the set improvement candidate patterns, from the established probabilistic cause-and-effect relationship models for each event. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148112 | MULTI-QUBIT COUPLING STRUCTURE - A quantum qubit coupling structure is provided. The quantum qubit coupling structure includes a plurality of qubits and a variable capacitor electrically connected between the plurality of qubits to vary coupling constants of the plurality of qubits. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148113 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DISAGGREGATED ENERGY CONSUMPTION BASED ON LIMITED ENERGY BILLING DATA - Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to train a Bayesian network model based on a given set of data. Information associated with a user can be received. The information can include aggregated energy consumption data at one or more low frequency time intervals. At least a portion of the information can be inputted into the Bayesian network model. A plurality of energy consumption values for a plurality of energy consumption sources associated with the user can be inferred based on inputting the at least the portion of the information into the Bayesian network model. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148114 | Automatic Generation of Training Cases and Answer Key from Historical Corpus - Mechanisms are provided for training and operating a Question and Answer (QA) system pipeline. A corpus of information is received which comprises historical data to which one or more filter criteria are applied to extract filtered historical data relevant to a training objective for training the QA system pipeline. Attribute data, action data, and temporal characteristic data are captured from the filtered historical data. An answer key entry is automatically generated in an automatically generated training answer key data structure based on the attribute data, action data, and temporal characteristic data. The correct answer associated with the answer key entry is an action specified by the action data. The temporal characteristic data provides a historical context for the answer key entry. The QA system pipeline is trained using the automatically generated training answer key data structure. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148115 | EASY DEPLOYMENT OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS - A machine learning model deployment tool can receive a trained machine learning model and driven by a series of user interfaces and by received user input from the user interfaces, can automatically generate machine learning model software and deploy it to a hosting environment. The deployment of a machine learning model can be automated so that custom code does not have to be written by a human. Deployment can be to a single computing device, to a small scale service, to a small scale web service or to “the cloud”, e.g., as a high-scale, fault-tolerant web service utilizing hundreds of computers. Deployment can be guided by a series of user interfaces. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148116 | EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC RELATIONS USING DISTRIBUTIONAL RELATION DETECTION - According to an aspect, a pair of related entities that includes a first entity and a second entity is received. Distributional relations are detected between the first entity and the second entity. The detecting includes identifying two sets of entities in a corpus, the first set including the first entity and at least one other entity that is semantically similar to the first entity, and the second set including the second entity and at least one other entity that is semantically similar to the second entity. Semantic relations are detected between entities in the first set and entities in the second set. A relation classifier is trained using the pair of related entities and detected semantic relations. The relation classifier model is applied to a new pair of entities to determine a likelihood of a semantic relation between the entities in the new pair of entities. | 2016-05-26 |