28th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 41 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150193829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED IMAGES FOR AN ITEM OFFERED TO A USER - There is provided systems and method for personalized images for an item offered to a user. A user may upload one or more user images to a server, or the server may access the image from another online source. The user images may include a portrait of the user, such as a facial portrait or a full body portrait. The images may then be used to create personalized images using the portrait and an image of an item. For example, the image may be used in place of a stock image of an actor or other generic person in an advertisement to show the product or service offered in the advertisement with the user instead. Additionally, the image may be utilized for account features as well, such as a security feature, where the image is displayed on entry of a username for a user account of the user. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MARKETING DECISIONS BASED ON VISITOR PROFITABILITY - Marketing is facilitated based on a profitability prediction. A merchant optimizes offers to a website visitor based on predicted profit for potentially offered items. The profitability predication can be deployed to determine incentives to marketing affiliates, and to determine bids for search terms when the merchant uses a paid search bid manager. Information specific to a site visitor is used to predict a profitability metric for specific items that can be offered to that visitor. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193831 | FUTURE DECISIONING FOR CREATIVE SLOTS - A future decisioning module receives, from a user agent, a call requesting a creative for a first slot of the plurality of slots in a template. The future decisioning module generates bid requests for each of the plurality of slots and receives, from one or more bidders, responses to the bid requests, the responses comprising prices for the plurality of slots. The future decisioning module performs a yield optimization based on the responses to the bid requests to determine creatives for each of the plurality of slots that will optimize a payout (or value) for the template and serves, to the user agent, the determined creatives for each of the plurality of slots. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193832 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING AND PRESENTING PRODUCT INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for presenting information. The method includes determining, by a receiver terminal, identifying information corresponding to presentation-related information, searching for an image corresponding to the identifying information among one or more images stored on the receiver terminal, in response to the receiver terminal finding the image corresponding to the identifying information, presenting the image corresponding to the identifying information, in response to determining that the receiver is not able to locate the image corresponding to the identifying information among the one or more images stored on the receiver terminal, invoking a rendering template to populate the presentation-related information into the rendering template, and rendering the populated template to generate rendered information, generating, based on the rendered information, a presentation result comprising a generated image, and establishing a correspondence between the identifying information and the generated image. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193833 | Platform Independent System for Context-Related Advertisement Delivery and Display - A video display apparatus including a processor, non-volatile memory coupled to the processor storing binary code segments, an Internet interface coupled to the processor, and a video display coupled to the processor capable of displaying an advertisement received via the Internet. Example binary code segments include client code segments, board support package (BSP) code segments, player support package (PSP) code segments, application support package (ASP) code segments, and application code capable of interacting with the client code segments and the ASP code segments. A multi-platform advertising system provides a web server for concurrently communicating with two or more display devices to derived demographics of a common user for the purpose of delivering a targeted video advertisement. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING AN ADVERTISEMENT TO A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION - A system and method is provided for adding at least one advertisement to a personal communication and providing additional communication data to a recipient that interacts with the advertisement. A sender network device communicates with an advertising application operating on a Web site to generate a personal communication containing at least one advertisement, where the at least one advertisement is selected from a palette of advertisements. In one embodiment of the present invention, the sender has control over advertisements that are displayed together with the personal communication by allowing the sender to delete (or remove) an advertisement from either the at least one advertisement or the palette of advertisements. If a displayed advertisement is interactive, and the advertisement is interacted with, the advertising application will provide the recipient with additional communication data in a format that can be understood by the recipient network device. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193835 | COLLAPSIBLE ADS - In an example embodiment, an area of a web page devoted to displaying an ad is rendered. Then, an ad server is called for ad content. Then, a collapsible ad script is received from the ad server in lieu of ad content. The collapsible ad script is executed, causing a message to be sent to a scripting engine in a web browser, the message causing the web browser to set a height of the area of the web page to zero. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193836 | COMPARISON SHOP AD UNITS - Merchants create ecommerce-enabled ad units advertising items offered by the merchants. The ad units contain functionality enabling customers to purchase the items by interacting with the ad units. The ad units have associated bid prices that the merchants agree to pay for sales through the ad units. The merchants provide the ad units to a broker. The broker publishes the ad units on web pages provided by publishers as comparison shop ad units that contain multiple ad units and functionality for navigating among them. A customer receiving a web page interacts with an ad unit to purchase the item. During the interactions, the broker dynamically updates the ad unit to conduct the transaction. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193837 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING AND DISTRIBUTING MONETARY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS - A performance-based method of allocating and distributing campaign contributions using a computer system accessible through an interactive interface, like a web site or mobile application. The computer system collects monetary campaign contribution pledges from Donors, the pledges being associated with a particular piece of legislation rather than a particular candidate. The Donor indicates whether they are for or against the legislation when making their pledge. The computer system then monitors the legislative body's action on the legislation and once voted on, it allocates pledge funds to incumbents or their challengers based on how the incumbent voted. Multiple Donors' allocated pledges for multiple pieces of legislation are accumulated over time per seat. At the end of each seat's term, the pledges are then distributed accordingly. Thus, a contribution decision is ultimately made based on an incumbent's record rather than on his or her promises. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193838 | REAL CHARITY - REAL CHARITY is a new business method for distributing commissions on real estate transactions whereby twenty to fifty percent of said commission is directed to a non-profit organization of buyer or seller's election, for which the buyer or seller receives a tax receipt/tax benefit. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DONATING TO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES - The present invention relates to a network based, third-party beneficiary donation system, and in particular to systems and methods that allow a merchant to provide a choice to participating consumer(s) in the form of donations to third party beneficiaries based on consumer purchases wherein the consumer chooses their third party beneficiary from a merchant curated list or customer self-generated list and independently determines the percentage amount of the donation or selects a pre-determined amount. In this manner, consumers are provided with an option to purchase products from the authorized merchant knowing that the product purchases may result in a specified donation to a customer selected third-party beneficiary or multiple customer selected third party beneficiaries on a per product or per order basis. Third party beneficiaries are generally intended to be charities or causes but are not required to have tax-exempt status. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193840 | CUSTOMER CONTEXT ANALYSIS AGENT COMMUNICATION AID - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing an agent communication aid based on customer context analysis, such that the agent or communication channel can more effectively assist a customer. As such, the system may provide a customer context profile associated with the customer to the channel. The profile compiles event data associated with the customer from online, inquiry, transactional, status, or external sources. Subsequently, this data is processed through rules and logic to provide real-time data associated with prior customer communications via the customer context profile. Furthermore, the system may predict one or more reasons for future customer communications and provided options for the customer's communications. Thus, providing the agent or communication channel with a customer context profile with a holistic view of the customer prior to a future customer communication. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193841 | Registration of Customers - Systems and methods for registration of a customer inside a business place are disclosed. A method can include transmitting, by one or more ultrasound speakers associated with the business place, an ultrasound audio signature to a mobile device associated with a customer. In addition, the method can include sending, over one or more networks, a message from the mobile device to a server. An example message includes at least information associated with the customer and the ultrasound audio signature. In response to the message, a notification concerning the customer is sent from the server to the business place, according to various embodiments. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193842 | Gas Supply Stop Instruction System and Gas Supply Stop Instruction Method - A delivery server includes a storage device configured to manage meter indication data for each gas meter, a reception unit configured to receive the meter indication data of the gas meter from a communication terminal, a calculation unit configured to calculate a gas bill for the current month based on the meter indication data, a determination unit configured to check an uncollected bill on the calculated gas bill for the current month and gas bills for previous months to determine whether or not a predetermined due date for payment has passed, and a processing unit configured to give a notification of gas cutoff or an instruction to disconnect gas supply, for each gas meter, based on a result of the determination. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MANAGING PAYMENTS THAT ENABLE LINKING ACCOUNTS OF MULTIPLE GUARANTORS - Systems and methods of managing payments for services or products are disclosed. Billing system data is extracted or accessed to provide business intelligence and. Visit charges from multiple billing systems can be aggregated to guarantor accounts within or across multiple billing systems and provide a single statement of charges for a given time period. Accounts are accessible online. Accounts can be linked to delegate management authority of a first guarantor's account to a second (manager) guarantor. Visit charges for linked accounts are included in the manager guarantor's statement an online access. Open charges balances can be brokered or transferred to a new asset holder. Pre-determined payment options can be configured by a provider, asset holder, and/or potential asset holder. The pre-determined payment options can include an option for financing a balance. A configurable financing option may enable a guarantor to request terms and receive automatic approval, subject to authorized terms. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193844 | Alerting Servers Using Vibrational Signals - Customer-used objects, such as tabletops, dinnerware, and retail racks, are impregnated with an accelerometer, a processor, and a Bluetooth chip. Taping or knocking such an entity by alerts a worker of a requested service. The accelerometer captures vibration data associated with the tapping or knocking and sends that data to the processor. The processor recognizes the gesture's vibrations. Finally, a recognized gesture will command the Bluetooth chip to send an alert to the server. The invention prevents a customer from second-guessing possible orders or purchases and allows an employee to become more efficient, thus saving time money. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193845 | Method, System and Program Product for Conditional Transfer of Gifts - A method, system and program product comprise communicating with a gift purchase system at least a user's selection of a gift for a recipient and communicating with a condition/challenge system at least the user's criteria for the recipient to receive the gift. The condition/challenge system is at least configured for communicating with a computing device of the recipient, presenting, to the recipient, displays associated with the criteria, receiving the recipient's response, determining a measure of completion from the responses, and communicating the measure of completion to a fulfillment system being configured for communicating a portion of the gift, at least in part based on the measure completion. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193846 | RETAIL PHOTO SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MODULE AND SYSTEM - The present invention is a configuration module for a Retail Photo System. The configuration module is a memory module that provides system configuration information for use with a network connected Retail Photo System. Physical and digital controlled access to the configuration module is provided by a locking enclosure, password protected access, and an automatic scenario based activation means. Access to the configuration module is limited to authorized personnel and remote access, or via scenario based activation. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193847 | MERCHANDISE SALES PROCESSING SYSTEM - A merchandise sales processing system includes a presentation processing unit that presents a shopping bag frame having a predetermined shape corresponding to blocks, and merchandise pieces respectively associated with merchandise items, each of the merchandise pieces corresponding to a predetermined number of the blocks and having a predetermined shape unrelated to the corresponding merchandise item; a merchandise piece arrangement processing unit that receives, from a purchaser, a request to arrange one of the merchandise pieces at a predetermined position to which no other merchandise pieces are arranged in the shopping bag frame, and arranges one of the merchandise pieces at the predetermined position when a shape of the merchandise piece matches a shape of the predetermined position; and a sales processing unit that performs a sales process for the merchandise items associated with the merchandise pieces arranged in the shopping bag frame. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193848 | Method and server for information processing - A method for information processing is disclosed. The method includes that a server acquires the first co-purchase information which is related to a consumption place and input by a first consumer; according to the geological location of the consumption place, the server acquires the second co-purchase information which is related to the consumption place and input by other consumers; the server pushes the second co-purchase information to the first consumer; when the first consumer determines to participate in a co-purchase that other consumers have joined in, the server generates consumption information of each consumer according to the first co-purchase information and the second co-purchase information; and the server pushes the consumption information of each consumer to the first consumer and the other consumers. Accordingly, a server for information processing is disclosed. As a result, the server may help a consumer look for other co-purchasers in time according to the location of the consumption place, and the consumers can communicate with each other through a Social Networking Services (SNS) platform, thereby improving the user experience effectively. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193849 | SERVICE QUOTATION PROCESSING - This disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, computer systems and computer programs for service quotation processing. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for repair quotation processing, the method being implemented using a first processing device. The method comprises(a) receiving quotations from a second processing device associated with a service provider, wherein each quotation is associated with a service provided by the service provider; (b) sending, in response to each quotation, a quotation authorisation to the second processing device; and (c) for a batch of quotations, adjusting the quotations to distribute any cost deviation between (i) an aggregate predetermined service cost that is agreed between the service provider and an insurer for the batch, and (ii) an aggregate quoted service cost for the batch, across the quotations in the batch. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193850 | NETWORK-BASED SERVICE MATCHING - A method for matching one or more language transforming service providers to a consumer of a requested language transforming service includes receiving by a server via a communication network from the consumer a document for language transforming and a description of the requested language transforming service. One or a plurality of candidates for performing the language transforming service on the document are retrieved by the server from a database of registered language transforming service providers based on professional language transforming skills of each of the candidates with respect to the described requested language transforming service. The retrieved candidates are caused to be presented on a device of the consumer for selection by the consumer. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193851 | METHOD, SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT COMPARISON - A method for product comparison is described, including: receiving a product comparison request sent by a client terminal, the product comparison request carrying identification information of at least two products to be compared; pulling attribute information of each of the at least two products according to the identification information of each of the at least two products; calculating an integrated score of each of the at least two products according to the attribute information of each of the at least two products; and generating comparison information of the at least two products, and returning the comparison information to the client terminal. Further, a server, a client terminal, and an electronic commerce system are also described. A comparison conclusion can be visually presented in comparison information of products, improving the actual effect and usage rate of the product comparison and enhancing the intelligence of the electronic commerce system. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-USER EVALUATION OF HEALTHPLAN BENEFIT BASED ON PRESCRIPTION COVERAGE ANNUAL COST - A system and method for displaying health plans to consumers is provided. The system and method can be accessed directly by consumers or other entities can help consumers by providing information needed to make a decision. For example a pharmacy can implement the system within their environment where patient drug profile is easily accessible to find the best plan for the member as a service. A user can search for a health plan based on input criteria such as their ZIP Code and their choice of drugs. Based on the input criteria, the method displays the most cost effective health plans with the least annual drug costs for available pharmacies. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193853 | Methods and Apparatus to Generate Product Recommendations - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to generate product recommendations. A disclosed example method involves generating an affinity rule based on a first set of characteristic values of first products associated with a transaction in response to receiving data identifying the first products associated with the transaction, and generating a product recommendation based on the first set of characteristic values, the product recommendation being indicative of a second product having a second set of characteristic values, the affinity rule identifying a second portion of the second set of characteristic values as having affinity with a first portion of the first set of characteristic values. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193854 | AUTOMATED COMPILATION OF GRAPH INPUT FOR THE HIPERGRAPH SOLVER - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating a product recommendation by translating transaction data to graph representation for input to a graph analytics application. During operation, the system generates a transaction table to store transaction data, a customer table to store customer data, and a product table to store products data. The system generates a table containing topology and edge identifier information and a table containing edge attribute information. Next, the system generates headers that include data describing the customer table and/or the product table and/or the table containing edge attribute information. The system then generates files containing the one or more headers and data from the tables, in which the data describes a graph with edges representing transactions and vertices representing customers or products. Subsequently, the system submits the one or more files as input to the graph analytics application to generate a product recommendation. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193855 | MODEL HANDSET MODEL CHURN IN A MOBILE NETWORK BY TRACKING UNIQUE SUBSCRIBERS OVER TIME - A method for providing a handset recommendation to subscribers in a mobile telecommunication network includes receiving information related to a subscriber's utilization of a handset. A recommended handset for the subscriber is identified based on the subscriber's handset utilization and historical handset migration information. A recommendation is presented to a subscriber. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193856 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LIGHTING CONTENT - An apparatus and method for providing lighting content are disclosed. The apparatus for providing lighting content includes a lighting content creation control unit, a lighting content distribution/sales control unit, and a lighting content consumption control unit. The lighting content creation control unit creates lighting content. The lighting content distribution/sales control unit controls the distribution and sales of the lighting content created by the lighting content creation control unit. The lighting content consumption control unit enables the purchase of the lighting content through the lighting content distribution/sales control unit, provides the lighting content to a user, and receives user evaluation results corresponding to the lighting content from the user. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193857 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUICK TRANSACTIONS - A system and application for purchasing one or more items via quick online transactions from a vendor system is provided. An electronic shopping page listing products for sale and corresponding buy selectors is provided on a user device that includes the quick transaction system. Upon user selection of a buy selector, the user's log on status and payment information are determined, and, if necessary, the user is prompted to log on to the quick transaction application and/or complete any missing user payment information if necessary. A single click or tap on the buy selector generates a completed purchase transaction without the need for a shopping cart or user checkout process. Methods and machine-readable medium for quick online transactions are also provided. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193858 | POST TRANSACTION ORDER MODIFICATION SYSTEM - A system and application for modifying an electronic transaction with a seller after the transaction has been completed. An electronic receipt or confirmation listing the information associated with a recently completed electronic transaction is provided on a user's device, including a time display showing how much time remains to modify or cancel the completed transaction and an unbuy selector. Upon user selection of the unbuy selector during the displayed time window, the completed electronic transaction is immediately cancelled. Rebuy and continue shopping options are provided with the cancellation receipt. Product, shipping address, shipping method, payment method, gift and coupon options are also modifiable after an electronic order transaction is completed. Methods and machine-readable medium for post transaction order modification are also provided. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193859 | System and method for providing delivery and other services for third party sales - This system and method allows e commerce retailers, at their direction or at their customer's direction, to ship their products to a brick and mortar store or other physical delivery point where the customer can pick up their purchase, offering incentives for the customer to do so. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193860 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of electronic commerce includes a system at a first location receiving a buyer order communicated to the system, wherein the buyer order specifies a plurality of order characteristics selected from product components, product attributes, a product price, and/or delivery terms. The system identifies one or more inventory products of at least one merchant having the order characteristics of the buyer order. The system assigns a value to the inventory product characteristics and the system calculates an inventory score for each inventory product based on an aggregate of the assigned values. The system determines and filters one or more matching inventory products and communicates to the buyer the matching inventory products together with a respective merchant offer to purchase, where the matching inventory products are arranged according to the inventory score. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193861 | DIRECT FROM COMMUNICATION BUYING - A system and application for completing an electronic purchase transaction directly from a seller's electronic marketing communication to a user are provided. An electronic marketing communication listing products for sale by the seller is provided on a user's device, including a buy selector associated with each listed product. Upon user selection of the buy selector when viewing the electronic marketing communication, an electronic purchase transaction of the selected product is immediately completed if it is determined that the user is logged in and the user's shipping and billing information are complete. A receipt of the purchase transaction is displayed, where unbuy, edit and continue shopping options are provided with the receipt. User interfaces prompt for completion of login or user information if necessary. Machine-readable medium for direct from communication buying are also provided. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193862 | ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A MARKETPLACE FOR DATA CENTER RESOURCES - An apparatus and method for implementing a marketplace for data center resources. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a broker component to manage data center information, the broker component to receive updates containing the data center information and to respond to queries to provide the data center information; a database accessible by the broker component to store the data center information, wherein each record in the database comprises data for a physical data center provider or a virtual data center provider, each record for a physical data center provider comprising a first identification code identifying the physical data center provider, resource data specifying resources provided by the physical data center provider and cost data specifying costs associated with using the resources; and each record for a virtual data center provider comprising a second identification code identifying a user who has purchased a right to use the resources of a physical data center provider at a specified cost for a specified duration, the record further identifying the physical data center provider and the resources provided by the physical data center provider; and a selection engine to perform data center selections and/or recommendations for a cloud user based on data center records read from the database accessible by the broker component including the physical data center records and the virtual data center records, wherein the data center selections and/or recommendations are made based on data center requirements and/or preferences specified by the end user. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING PRODUCT IMAGES - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and system searching for and displaying product images to a user. The method includes acquiring an initial product image set for a user, wherein the initial product image set includes a product image corresponding to a product purchased by the user, a product image characterized as interesting by the user, a product image bookmarked by the user, or a combination thereof; searching for product images that are similar in one or more characteristics to initial product images in the initial product image set; and sending found product images to be displayed to the user. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193864 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND RENTAL - Technologies for managing rental properties include a rental management device configured to determine whether a rental property is rented and transmit an access authorization message to a renter of the rental property via a remote computing device. The access authorization message includes access information required for entry to the rental property during a rental term. The rental management device determines whether the rental term is concluded and determines whether the rental property requires service. The computing device schedules a required service for the rental property in response to a determination that the rental property requires service. Additionally, the computing device may determine a recommended service vendor to perform the required service. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193865 | Improper Financial Activity Detection Tool - An illustrative method for identifying information associated with a ring of individuals performing improper financial activities may include combining a list of user identifiers with one or more attributes tables corresponding to the financial transactions. A computer device may analyze a first list of identifiers in relation to an attribute table, where the identifiers may be associated with one or more suspected improper financial activities and the attribute table may include attributes of one or more financial transactions performed over a specified duration. The computer device may then link the first list of identifiers with one or more attributes included in the attribute table to determine a second list of identifiers and the process may be repeated until a stopping condition has been reached. After the stopping condition has been met, the computer device may communicate a report to a user. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BALANCE NOTIFICATIONS - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing account status notifications. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a device for providing account status notifications including a memory storing software instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to perform operations. In one aspect, the operations may include receiving account status notification information for a first account associated with a user. The account status notification information may be generated based on one or more notification rules and account information associated with the first account. The operations may also include generating, based on the received account status notification information, a first account status indicator that provides a status of a first account parameter associated with the first account that is presented via a device component without a user request to receive the status of the first account parameter. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193867 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BALANCE NOTIFICATIONS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing account status notifications. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a device for providing account status notifications including a memory storing software instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to perform operations. In one aspect, the operations may include receiving account status notification information for a first account associated with a user. The account status notification information may be generated based on one or more notification rules and account information associated with the first account. The operations may also include generating, based on the received account status notification information, a first account status indicator that provides a status of a first account parameter associated with the first account that is presented, via a device component and within a field-of-view of the user, without a user request to receive the status of the first account parameter. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193868 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BALANCE AND EVENT NOTIFICATIONS - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing account and event status notifications. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a device including a memory storing software instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to perform operations. In one aspect, the operations may include obtaining information identifying an event and a deadline specified by a user. The obtained information may link the event and deadline to corresponding user-specified temporal intervals. The operations may also include determining whether a current date falls within a time period prior to the deadline, the time period being established by the first temporal interval. When the current date falls within the time period, the operations may generate first notification information that, when presented via a client device in accordance with a user-specified indicator type, notified the user that the current sate falls within the first time period. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193869 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BALANCE NOTIFICATIONS TO CONNECTED DEVICES - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing account and event status notifications. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a communications device including a memory storing software instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to perform operations. In one aspect, the operations may include receive a notification of a status of an account parameter. The operations may also include identifying a device eligible to access the notification in accordance with a user-specified data restriction, and identifying at least a portion of the notification that is consistent with the data restriction. The communications device provide the identified portion of the notification to the eligible device without receiving input from the user, and the eligible device may present at least one of a visual, audible, or tactile indicator of the status of the account parameter. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193870 | GENERATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS (EDOCS) FOR TRANSACTIONS - Some implementations include a disclosure system to receive a template and values used to fill in fields of the template. The values may include consumer information associated with a consumer. The disclosure system may receive signature data including a signature of the consumer. The disclosure system may create a disclosure that includes the template, the values, and the signature data. The disclosure system may associate a universally unique identifier with the disclosure and create, using a cryptographic hash function, a digital signature that represents the disclosure. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193871 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC FINANCIAL LIABILITY MANAGEMENT - Financial liabilities are dynamically managed by receiving liability information relating to a client associated with multiple financial liabilities. Each financial liability is associated with a respective interest rate. A payment is allocated among the financial liabilities, for example, as a function of the interest rates associated with the financial liabilities. When a change in a financial liability occurs, the allocation of the payment is adjusted. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193872 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MANAGING PAYMENTS THAT ENABLE CONFIGURABLE FINANCING AND PAYMENT TERMS - Systems and methods of managing payments for services or products are disclosed. Billing system data is extracted or accessed to provide business intelligence and. Visit charges from multiple billing systems can be aggregated to guarantor accounts within or across multiple billing systems and provide a single statement of charges for a given time period. Accounts are accessible online. Accounts can be linked to delegate management authority of a first guarantor's account to a second (manager) guarantor. Visit charges for linked accounts are included in the manager guarantor's statement an online access. Open charges balances can be brokered or transferred to a new asset holder. Pre-determined payment options can be configured by a provider, asset holder, and/or potential asset holder. The pre-determined payment options can include an option for financing a balance. A configurable financing option may enable a guarantor to request terms and receive automatic approval, subject to authorized terms. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC, RISK-BASED PURCHASE FINANCING - This disclosure relates generally to credit-based transactions, and more particularly to dynamic purchase financing methods and systems. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides a conditional credit line. The method receives a payment authorization request, and parses, via a processor, the payment authorization request to extract payment information. The method determines that the payment information includes information related to an extra credit line. The method generates, via the processor, a credit-risk allocation notification associated with the extra credit line, and transmits the credit-risk allocation notification to a computer associated with a financial institution. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193874 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSET VALUATION - Systems and methods for asset valuation, whole loan processing and inventory management is described. The systems and methods may include modules. An asset valuation tool may use multiple data sources for producing current and predicted future values and historical and intermediate data points on a requested timeline. A loan information pricing tool may perform unlimited volumes of loan program eligibility and multi-variable pricings on a user desktop. A workout activity tracking tool may capture, monitor, measure and report on a loan workout process including direct hosting and integration of the asset valuation tool and the loan information pricing tool. The present invention may offer diverse and competitive modular components as well as an integrated and innovative platform that does not exist in the market. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193875 | CREATION PROCESSOR FOR DIVISIBLE INSTRUMENTS - The present invention provides a Creation Processor for Divisible Instrument System, includes apparatus and methods for the creation of divisible financial instruments on an ongoing basis over time. According to the present invention, Financial instruments can be divided after issuance and offered on a continual basis by the issuer upon initial creation and also thereafter over time and are referred to herein as Divisible Instruments. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193876 | System for Trading Electronic Traded Properties - A programmed computer for facilitating trades of electronic traded properties (ETP) including a memory and a processor executing program code stored in the memory. The program includes receiving a number of shares and rentable building area for an ETP, generating an indifference factor for the ETP based on the number of shares and the rentable building area, receiving and displaying in real time a price expressed in price per share for the ETP, and generating and displaying in real time a price expressed in price per square foot based on the price expressed in price per share and the indifference factor. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193877 | RETAIL AGGREGATOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for facilitating retail price improvement of a security order. The systems and methods may include receiving at an exchange, using a processor, a retail order to buy or sell a security; receiving at the exchange, using a processor, a contra-side non-displayed order for the security, wherein the contra-side non-displayed order has an improved price relative to a benchmark; and filling, using a processor, at least a portion of the retail order at the improved price using the contra-side non-displayed order. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193878 | RETAIL AGGREGATOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for facilitating retail price improvement of a security order. The systems and methods may include receiving at an exchange, using a processor, a retail order to buy or sell a security; receiving at the exchange, using a processor, a contra-side non-displayed order for the security, wherein the contra-side non-displayed order has an improved price relative to a benchmark; and filling, using a processor, at least a portion of the retail order at the improved price using the contra-side non-displayed order. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193879 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF A DISTRIBUTED CAPITAL SYSTEM - A method conducting financial transactions over a computerized network, which includes conducting awareness propagation such that capital movement over a participant system-network is optimized. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193880 | Revenue Generating Method - A method of generating revenue by investing in intellectual property. In one embodiment, one or more investors invests in an invention. The investors may work in conjunction with a company that can provide one or more representatives that can assist the investors with various aspects of their investment. For example, the representatives may assist the investors with improving and developing an invention, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling the invention, and the like. The investors can vote by proxy with a NAND gate system in order to make decisions throughout the investment process. The investment is continually monitored to determine gains and losses. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193881 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING ROOF AGE OF A STRUCTURE - A computer-implemented method for determining roof age of a structure is provided. Such methods comprise receiving data related to a plurality of structures in computer-readable form; converting the computer-readable data into a standardized database format, and based on the converted data, determining a level of roof-enforcement and coverage area for each building department serving the structures; calculating an area average roof age for a plurality of geographical areas of different scope for those structures in the coverage area of building departments passing a roof-enforcement level threshold; and determining roof age for a particular structure based on whether the structure is covered by any of the coverage areas and whether data on roof replacements for the structure is available; wherein the determined roof age may be based on roof replacement data or an area average roof age. The methods are particularly useful in the home owner's insurance industry. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193882 | BLI-Bullion Life Insurance - Method to offer life insurance that will remit the financial interest of a life insurance policy to a beneficiary redeemable in bullion after the death of the insured. The aforementioned claim can be employed through term, universal, whole life products, and is not limited to lump sum payment, BLI can function in any life insurance entity irrespective if the insurer is a mutual or stock insurance company. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING AND ANALYZING ATTRIBUTES FOR HABITATIONAL INSURANCE POLICIES - Systems and methods are provided for depersonalizing and aggregating insurance-related attributes for individuals of a multi-unit complex into aggregated insurance-related data, based on received data, and analyzing the aggregated insurance-related data. Data for a multi-unit complex may be received from an insurance carrier or other entity. Insurance-related attributes for individuals of the multi-unit complex may be retrieved from an insurance data database, based on the received data. The insurance-related attributes may be depersonalized and aggregated to generate insurance-related data. The aggregated insurance-related data may be analyzed to generate analytic data, which can be transmitted to the insurance carrier or other entity. Insurance carriers can use the analytic data to obtain more accurate risk assessments for multi-unit complexes so that the insurance carriers can provide improved and more optimal pricing for habitational insurance policies. Financial institutions can use the analytic data to improve commercial lending underwriting. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193884 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POTENTIAL PROPERTY INSURANCE FRAUD - A system and method for assessing a condition of property for insurance purposes includes a sensor for acquiring a spectral image. In a preferred embodiment, the spectral image is post-processed to generate at least one spectral radiance plot, the plot used as input to a radiative transfer computer model. The output of the model establishes a spectral signature for the property. Over a period of time, spectral signatures can be compared to generate a spectral difference, the spectral difference can be used to determine whether a change in the condition of the property was potentially fraudulently caused. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193885 | CONTINUOUS IDENTITY MONITORING FOR CLASSIFYING DRIVING DATA FOR DRIVING PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - Embodiments are provided for determining driving behavior. In an example method for determining driver behavior from a driving session, the method includes obtaining sensor data from a sensor during a driving session, obtaining image data from an imaging device during the driving session, and analyzing at least one of the sensor data and the image data from the driving session, to identify an event of interest. The method further includes assigning a classification to the event of interest according to a correlation between the sensor data for the event of interest and at least one image from the image data for the event of interest, the correlation based on time the sensor data and the image data is obtained during the driving session, and, wherein the at least one image for the event of interest provides the context for the event of interest. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193886 | Pay Request System - Disclosed is a method of tracking payments and a system for implementing the method of tracking payments. In example embodiments, the method may include building a three dimensional virtual model and associating payment tracking information with various elements of the model. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193887 | SAVING TRACKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - System and method for analysis of cost saving in a procurement process are described. The system includes a processor unit and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium stores instructions executable by the processor unit. The instructions are programmed to perform the steps of receiving baseline cost information, receiving purchase cost information, and computing a plurality of components of cost saving. The instructions are also programmed to transfer indication of the computed components of cost saving to display device and/or financial accounting system. Moreover, the instructions are programmed to adjust at least one of the pluralities of the components of the cost saving utilizing at least one factor selected from the group consisting of currency exchange rate, commodity price, and inflation rate. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193888 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION - A method of proposing actions for users to take with respect to a social networking site is disclosed. Activity-location profiles for users of a social networking site are generated. The activity-location profiles are based on an analysis of locations and activities of each of the users over a time period. A recommendation is generated for at least one of the users. The recommendation is based on an analysis of the activity-location profiles of the at least one of the users and activity-location profiles of other users. The recommendation proposes an action for the at least one of the users to take with respect to the social networking site. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193889 | DIGITAL CONTENT PUBLISHING GUIDANCE BASED ON TRENDING EMOTIONS - A moderating system is disclosed for providing publishing guidance for proposed online content prior to publishing that content. The system is configured to, for a given post to be published and a target audience, automatically determine the topic of the post and compare the emotion associated with that post with the trending emotion associated with the target audience, for that particular topic. In one such embodiment, the comparison of the post emotion and the target audience emotion is accomplished by determining the similarity between two emotion histograms (one based on the post and one based on the target audience) using vector similarity measures and other suitable similarity estimation techniques. Each of the post emotion and the trending emotion within the target audience for the topic can be represented by multiple emotions (e.g., emotion pair based on Plutchik's emotion model, or other advanced emotion indicator). | 2015-07-09 |
20150193890 | ALLOWING A USER TO VIEW NETWORK CONTACTS OF OTHER USERS WHEN VISITING AN ENVIRONMENT OF A DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION - A method, system and computer program product for allowing a user to view network contacts of other users when visiting an environment of a different organization. A visitor requests to view a profile of a user while the visitor is visiting the environment or tenant space of a different organization. The organization of the visitor is obtained. Furthermore, the organization and network contacts of the user whose profile is requested to be viewed are obtained in response to validating the visitor's organization. The requested profile is then displayed to the visitor containing the accessible network contacts (if any) of the user based on whether the user and the visitor belong to the same organization. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS - A method for providing information based on geographic parameters is disclosed. The method includes providing a map. A user-defined position on the map is received. Data of a first type, wherein the first type data relates to the user-defined position on the map, is provided. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193892 | PARCEL DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS - Distressed real property is offered for sale at real property parcel auction events. Such distressed real property presents an investment opportunity. The parcels available at real property parcel auction events are often identified using a primary identifier assigned by a taxation authority or municipal utility. Such identifiers can be autonomously retrieve, collect, and analyze primary parcel specific information. One or more secondary identifiers such as a street address may be autonomously extracted from the primary parcel specific information. Using the one or more secondary identifiers, secondary parcel specific information may be obtained. The retrieved primary and secondary parcel specific information is collected, organized, and analyzed by the parcel data collection and analysis system. The parcel data collection and analysis system then presents the collected, organized and analyzed primary and secondary parcel specific information in tabbed or tabular user interface formats. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193893 | EFFICIENTLY DISPLAYING INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DOCUMENTS - A system for displaying, on a computer screen, information concerning the interrelationships of documents. A system employing the present invention also allows for the efficient research of documents that cite a document shown on the computer screen. In one embodiment, the present invention involves displaying at least a portion of a first document and simultaneously displaying a representation of one or more citing documents. The citing documents cite some portion of the displayed document. In another embodiment, the invention involves displaying at least a portion of a first document, and displaying a representation of one or more citing documents, wherein the displayed citing documents cite the displayed portion of the first document. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193894 | MITIGATING UNAUTHORIZED CONTENT CLAIMS - For mitigating unauthorized content claims, an identification module ranks a plurality of content according to a value policy. The plurality of content is provided through a content host. Each content item of the plurality of content is associated with at least one authorized claimant. The identification module further identifies an unauthorized claim for a content item of the plurality of content by an unauthorized claimant. A mitigation module mitigates the unauthorized claim. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193895 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND/OR FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION FOR, REGARDING, AND/OR FOR FACILITATING, THE COMMERCIALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT, MARKETING, SALE, TRANSFER, LICENSING, AND/OR MONETIZATION, OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - A computer-implemented method, including receiving, with a receiver, information regarding an intellectual property; processing, with or using a processing device or a computer, the information regarding the intellectual property, wherein the processing device or the computer processes information for creating a posting, a listing, or a registration, of, for, or associated with, the intellectual property, and further wherein the processing device or the computer processes information for generating a profile for the intellectual property and a report containing information regarding the intellectual property; processing, with or using the processing device or the computer, information for identifying a provider of a service, services, goods, or products, or for identifying a funding service or an investor; and transmitting, with or from a transmitter, the processing device, of the computer, the report to a communication device associated with the provider, the funding service, of the investor. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193896 | MANAGING TITLE RISK OF PATENT ASSETS - Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or systems for managing title risks of patent assets are described. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193897 | USER BASED LICENSING FOR APPLICATIONS - A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AIRPORT SECURITY - A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating passage of a passenger through immigration, customs, and security at a destination airport. Immigration and customs forms are completed and assistance is requested by communicating either on-line or verbally with a port-of-entry (POE) and requesting assistance from the POE, using a hand-held, portable communication device, prior to landing at the destination airport. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193899 | Detecting Displayed Channel Using Audio/Video Watermarks - Methods and systems for determining what channel a user is viewing through a TV receiver are described. At the TV receiver, a plurality of TV signals is received. A channel selection is received. The TV receiver tunes to the selected channel from among the plurality of TV signals. A watermark is inserted into a component of the tuned TV signal to form a modified TV signal, and the modified TV signal is output from the TV receiver. The watermark encodes meta-information associated with the tuned TV signal. In some implementations, the modified TV signal is received by a computer system. The watermark from the modified TV signal is processed to decode the meta-information, and the meta-information is provided to an application running on the computer system. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193900 | COMPOSITE DEVICE AND APPLICATION PROCESS AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A composite device comprising a human-readable target device and a verification device in machine-readable (or non-human-readable) encoding in which the verification device is related to the target device by a predefined scheme of operation, the target device may comprise a plurality of human readable symbols. For example, the human readable symbols may be arranged into a string of symbols which is also referred to as a ‘token’ herein. The composite device is useful for applications such as authentication, automated Internet access etc. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193901 | DIVISION OF PROCESSING BETWEEN SYSTEMS BASED ON EXTERNAL FACTORS - A method includes acts for rendering, on a data processing system, a result derived from a set of data by performing data processing across a first data processing system and a second data processing system. The amount of processing performed by the second data processing system can be dynamically adjusted depending on factors affecting the second data processing system. The first data processing system receives information defining how the result will be rendered at the second data processing system. The first data processing system receives information indicating factors affecting the second data processing system. The first data processing system dynamically allocates the needed data processing between the first data processing system and the second data processing system, based on factors affecting the second data processing system. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193902 | DIVISION OF PROCESSING BETWEEN SYSTEMS BASED ON BUSINESS CONSTRAINTS - A method includes acts for a method of rendering a result derived from a set of data by performing data processing across first and second data processing systems. The amount of processing performed by the second data processing system can be dynamically adjusted depending on business factors. The first data processing system receives information defining how the result will be rendered. The first data processing system receives information indicating at least one business constraints affecting at least one of the first data processing system or the second data processing system. The first data processing system determines data processing needed for providing the result. The first data processing system dynamically allocates the needed data processing between the first data processing system and the second data processing system, based on the business constraints affecting at least one of the first data processing system or the second data processing system. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193903 | EFFICIENT CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A TILED ARCHITECTURE - A surface cache stores pixel data on behalf of a pixel processing pipeline that is configured to generate screen tiles. The surface cache assigns hint levels to cache lines storing pixel data according to whether that pixel data is likely to be needed again. When the pixel data is needed to process a subsequent tile, the corresponding cache line is assigned a higher hint value. When the pixel data is not needed again, the corresponding cache line is assigned a lower hint value. The surface cache is configured to preferentially evict cache lines having a lower hint value, thereby preserving cache lines that store pixel data needed for future processing. In addition, a fetch controller is configured to throttle the rate at which fetch requests are issued to the surface cache to prevent situations where pixel data needed for future operations becomes prematurely evicted. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193904 | GRAPHICS ACCELERATION FOR APPLICATIONS EXECUTING ON MOBILE DEVICES WITH MULTI-OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - The invention provides, in some aspects, a computing device that includes a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, and a display, all coupled (directly or indirectly for communications). The central processing unit executes a native operating system including one or more native runtime environments within which native software applications are executing, where each such native software application has instructions for execution under the native operating system. A first native software application (“ACL”) executing within one or more of the native runtime environments defines one or more hosted runtime environments within which hosted software applications are executing. Thus, for example, according to some practices of the invention, the first native software application executes code comprising those hosted runtime environment or portions thereof (such as virtual machines); whereas, in other practices, the first native software application can, instead or in addition, effect the installation, instantiation and/or invocation of services/processes that make up those environments or portions thereof (but, indeed, may not in some practices execute code comprising that environment). Each such hosted software application has instructions for execution under a hosted operating system that differs from the native operating system. Hosted software applications executing within the hosted runtime environment(s) execute instructions to effect generation of three-dimensional display graphics using a hosted graphics subsystem and a hosted windowing subsystem (collectively, “hosted graphics framework”), both common to the hosted runtime environment(s). Native software applications executing within the native runtime environment(s) likewise effect generation of three-dimensional display graphics using a native graphics subsystem and a native windowing subsystem (collectively, “native graphics framework”), also, both common to the native runtime environment(s). The three-dimensional graphics can be, for example, graphical windows (or portions thereof) representing visual sequences of games or other graphics applications. The native graphics framework is coupled to the graphics processing unit to accelerate execution of at least certain instructions in the native software applications. The hosted graphics framework and the native graphics framework cooperate to accelerate execution of at least certain instructions in the hosted software applications using the graphics processing unit. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193905 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of processing data in a display device for displaying an image is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes: dividing the data elements of an image data into sections based on the distribution of the data elements; then generating a header for each section; compressing each data element to a compressed data element by using an offset specific to the section including the data element, an interval of the section including the data element and the header for that section; and generating an image data signal for displaying the image using the compressed data element. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193906 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) FOR DISPLAYING - Methods and devices for generating Graphical User Interface (GUI) for displaying are provided, wherein the GUI is generated based on a plurality of windows. The method for generating GUI includes the step of: separately drawing a plurality of pictures into the plurality of windows by a first graphical processing unit; and selecting the first graphical processing unit or a second graphical processing unit according to a predefined rule to compose the plurality of windows with pictures into a frame buffer, such that the GUI is obtained; wherein the first graphical processing unit and the second graphical processing unit are different. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193907 | EFFICIENT CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A TILED ARCHITECTURE - A surface cache stores pixel data on behalf of a pixel processing pipeline that is configured to generate screen tiles. The surface cache assigns hint levels to cache lines storing pixel data according to whether that pixel data is likely to be needed again. When the pixel data is needed to process a subsequent tile, the corresponding cache line is assigned a higher hint value. When the pixel data is not needed again, the corresponding cache line is assigned a lower hint value. The surface cache is configured to preferentially evict cache lines having a lower hint value, thereby preserving cache lines that store pixel data needed for future processing. In addition, a fetch controller is configured to throttle the rate at which fetch requests are issued to the surface cache to prevent situations where pixel data needed for future operations becomes prematurely evicted. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193908 | METHOD AND MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGES - Provided are a method and medical imaging apparatus for displaying a medical image suitable for a standard view. The method includes acquiring information related to at least one landmark point in the medical image; and displaying a view of the medical image that satisfies requirements included in a standard view, through a display unit, based on the at least one landmark point. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193909 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PANORAMIC IMAGE PROCESSING - The present disclosure provides an image processing method comprising: receiving a stream of overlapping images; obtaining a corresponding stream of floating panoramic images by computing in real time, for each received overlapping image, an associated floating panoramic image using said overlapping image and a floating panoramic image associated with an overlapping image received prior to said overlapping image; displaying in real time with a predetermined scaling factor the stream of floating panoramic images in a preview window of a display unit, wherein the displaying comprises shifting the floating panoramic images relative to the preview window when the floating panoramic images scaled according to the predetermined scaling factor extend beyond the preview window so that at least a working portion of the overlapping image associated with the floating panoramic image being displayed is visible in the preview window. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193910 | Method for Increasing Resolutions of Depth Images - A resolution of a low resolution depth image is increased by applying joint geodesic upsampling to a high resolution image to obtain a geodesic distance map. Depths in the low resolution depth image are interpolated using the geodesic distance map to obtain a high resolution depth image. The high resolution image can be a gray scale or color image, or a binary boundary map. The low resolution depth image can be acquired by any type of depth sensor. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193911 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a display control device, including a display control section that displays a plurality of images in a display section in time series in accordance with a plurality of pieces of effect information set for the plurality of images, an aspect ratio determination section that determines an aspect ratio of the display section, and an effect information selection section that selects, from the plurality of pieces of effect information set for respective aspect ratios, a piece of the effect information corresponding to the aspect ratio of the display section as effect information for use in display of the plurality of images. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193912 | DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING DIRECTION OF DISPLAYED IMAGE - Mobile terminal device has a display rotation function for rotating a direction of an image on a screen so that the downward direction of the image fits the vertical downward direction in the real world. While no touch of a finger of a user is detected, the display rotation function remains on, and when a touch of the user is detected, the display rotation function is turned off. When the user does not wish to use the display rotation function, the user can temporarily turn off the display rotation function simply by maintaining his/her finger in contact with the screen, and when the user wishes to use the display rotation function, the user can turn on the display rotation function simply by releasing his/her finger from the screen. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193913 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes an image input unit capable of inputting an image in a first format in which a first resolution in a first direction is higher than a second resolution in a second direction and an image in a second format in which the second resolution is higher than the first resolution, a determination unit configured to determine whether a format of the image input via the image input unit is the first format or the second format, a rotation unit configured to rotate the image such that the first and second directions are replaced with each other, a rotation controller configured to control the rotation unit depending on the format of the image, and a display unit configured to display an output image from the rotation unit. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193914 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a writing controlling unit that writes image information of an input image to a memory; a detecting unit that detects one of a plurality of blocks into which the input image is divided, the one being a block for which writing of corresponding image information to the memory is completed; and a correcting unit that performs a process of correcting a distortion occurring in the input image, for each block in order in which the blocks are detected by the detecting unit. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193915 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROJECTING AN IMAGE ONTO A SURFACE WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device includes a projector configured to project images onto a target surface that resides within a projectable area. The mobile device identifies the target surface within the projectable area and then tracks that target surface as the mobile device is subject to different types of motion, including translation and rotation, among others. The mobile device then compensates for that motion when projecting the images, potentially eliminating distortion in the projected images. Additionally, the mobile device may compensate for geometric differences between the projected image and the target surface by cropping the images to fit within the target surface. One advantage of the disclosed technique is that the mobile device is capable of projecting images with reduced distortion despite movement associated with the mobile device. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193916 | IMAGE DISTORTION COMPENSATING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an image distortion compensating apparatus and an operating method thereof. The image distortion compensating apparatus includes an image composing unit, an edge detecting unit, a first straight line calculating unit, an intersection point calculating unit, a parking space generating unit, a parking space setting unit, and a second straight line calculating unit. The apparatus removes or deduces inconsistency that occurs at a boundary between images for channels in an AVM system. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193917 | ARTIFICIAL VISION SYSTEM - One aspect of the present invention includes artificial vision system. The system includes an image system comprising a video source that is configured to capture sequential frames of image data of non-visible light and at least one processor configured as an image processing system. The image processing system includes a wavelet enhancement component configured to normalize each pixel of each of the sequential frames of image data and to decompose the normalized image data into a plurality of wavelet frequency bands. The image processing system also includes a video processor configured to convert the plurality of wavelet frequency bands in the sequential frames into respective visible color images. The system also includes a video display system configured to display the visible color images. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193918 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING LINE WIDTH AND/OR POSITIONAL ERRORS OF A PATTERN - A method and system for imaging an object to be inspected and obtaining an optical image; creating a reference image from design pattern data; preparing an inspection recipe including one or more templates and parameter settings necessary for the inspection; checking the pattern and the template against each other, and selecting the reference image which corresponds to the template; detecting first and second edges in the selected reference image in accordance with the parameter setting using determined coordinates as a reference; detecting first and second edges in the optical image, this optical image corresponds to the selected reference image; and determining an inspection value by acquiring the difference between the line width of the optical image and the reference image using the first edge and second edge of the reference image and the first edge and second edges of the optical image. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193919 | AUTOMATED NITAL ETCH INSPECTION SYSTEM - A system and method to inspect flaws associated with a part. The system includes a first image capturing device configured to capture a first set of images of the part and a computer operably associated with first image capturing device and configured to receive and analyze the first set of images. The method includes treating the part with a nital etchant solution, capturing a first set of images of an outer surface of the part with the first image capturing device, and identifying a part defect with an algorithm associated with the computer. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193920 | MAPPING GLINTS TO LIGHT SOURCES - The technology disclosed herein provides various embodiments for mapping glints that reflect off from an object to light sources responsible for the glints. Embodiments disclosed herein are able to correctly map glints to light sources by capturing just a few images with a camera. Each image is captured while illuminating the object with a different pattern of light sources. A glint free image may also be determined. A glint free image is one in which the glints have been removed by image processing techniques. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193921 | EFFICIENT CARDIAC MR WORKFLOWS BASED ON AUTOMATED PLANNING FROM MDIXON SURVEYS | 2015-07-09 |
20150193922 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THE DEFLECTION OF A FUEL ELEMENT CAN FOR A FUEL ELEMENT OF A BOILING WATER REACTOR - The invention relates to a method for measuring the deflection of a fuel element can for a fuel element of a boiling water reactor. According to said method an image of the fuel element can is taken with a camera and evaluated by photogrammetry. By means of the method according to the invention, it is possible to determine the deflection of a fuel element can by taking a single image, even in the absence of external structural features recognisable in the image, and without knowledge of the relative position between the camera and the fuel element can. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193923 | DETERMINING INFORMATION FROM IMAGES USING SENSOR DATA - A device for determining information from images using sensor data may include at least one processor circuit. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to receive a series of images from an image capture device, where each image of the series of images includes a representation of a physical object. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to receive a series of sensor data items from at least one sensor device, where each of the series of sensor data items corresponds to one of the sequence of images. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to determine a physical length of the physical object based at least in part on the series of images and the corresponding series of sensor data items. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193924 | Augmented Reality Virtual Automotive X-Ray having Service Information - A tool for providing a user with information on a particular object related to a position and an orientation of the tool with respect to the object includes an image capturing device configured to capture an image of the object. The tool further includes a position and orientation sensor configured to determine the position of the tool with respect to the object, a processor configured to determine from the image the type of object, a display configured to display the image of the object, the display further configured to display additional information in addition to the image of the object in response to the determination of the type of object, and the processor further configured to determine a change in one of the position and the orientation of the sensor and the tool and further configured to modify the display. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHETHER AN APPARATUS OR AN ASSEMBLY PROCESS IS ACCEPTABLE - An apparatus is scanned to obtain a 3-dimensional image of the apparatus. A 2-dimensional cross-sectional image for a section of the 3-dimensional image is generated using a processor. The 2-dimensional cross-sectional image is compared with the processor to a preferred 2-dimensional cross-sectional image or to preferred dimensions for the 2-dimensional cross-sectional image. The processor determines if the apparatus or the process for making the apparatus is acceptable based on the comparison. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193926 | INSPECTION HAVING A SEGMENTED PUPIL - A method and an apparatus that may include optics that is arranged to illuminate a surface of a sample with radiation and to collect reflected radiation from the surface of the sample; wherein the optics includes a pupil that has multiple pupil segments that correspond to different angular regions of collection or illumination; and a detection module arranged to receive the reflected radiation and generate, for each pupil segment, pupil segment detection signals. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193927 | ATTENUATION MAP RECONSTRUCTION FROM TOF PET DATA - Advantageous methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. An attenuation map for an image can be reconstructed with no known sub-region of the attenuation map prior to performing the method. Gradient data of an attenuation sinogram can be estimated, and an algorithm can be performed to reconstruct the attenuation map from the estimated gradient data of the attenuation sinogram. | 2015-07-09 |
20150193928 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL IMAGING, SORTING, AND ISOLATION - The invention provides a method and apparatus for isolating individual target cells. The apparatus includes a body structure comprising a main channel, a collection channel, and a waste channel fluidly coupled at a first fluid junction. A plurality of trapping channels intersect the collection channel, each trapping channel having a diameter at a location adjacent to the intersection of the trapping channel with the collection channel that is less than a diameter of an individual target cell. The apparatus also includes an imaging system configured to image individual target and non-target cells within the main channel, thereby producing imaging data; a processor configured to perform real-time, multivariate analyses of the imaging data; and a directing system configured to direct the individual target cells. A pressure source is in fluid communication with one or more of the collection channel, the waste channel, the first side channel, and the second side channel. | 2015-07-09 |