31st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150213277 | METHOD OF PERFORMING MICROPROCESSOR ALU INTEGRITY TEST OVER A DISTRIBUTED ASYNCHRONOUS SERIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR ASIL-D LEVEL SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS - A system includes first and second modules of a vehicle. The first module stores at least one seed value, calculates a key based on the at least one seed value, forms a seed key pair based on the calculated key and the at least one seed value, generates a data bus message including the seed key pair and data corresponding to operation of the first module, and transmits, over a distributed vehicle network, the data bus message. The second module receives the data bus message over the distributed vehicle network, retrieves the seed key pair from the data bus message, determines whether the calculated key matches an expected key, and selectively verifies integrity of the first module based on the determination of whether the calculated key matches the expected key. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213278 | SECURE CREDENTIAL UNLOCK USING TRUSTED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS - Computing devices utilizing trusted execution environments as virtual smart cards are designed to support expected credential recovery operations when a user credential, e.g., personal identification number (PIN), password, etc. has been forgotten or is unknown. A computing device generates a cryptographic key that is protected with a PIN unlock key (PUK) provided by an administrative entity. If the user PIN cannot be input to the computing device the PUK can be input to unlock the locked cryptographic key and thereby provide access to protected data. A computing device can also, or alternatively, generate a group of challenges and formulate responses thereto. The formulated responses are each used to secure a computing device cryptographic key. If the user PIN cannot be input to the computing device an entity may request a challenge. The computing device issues a challenge from the set of generated challenges. Upon receiving a valid response back, the computing device can unlock the secured computing device cryptographic key associated with the issued challenge and subsequently provide access to protected data. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213279 | EFFICIENT STORAGE OF ENCRYPTED DATA IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins with a processing module receiving a request to store a data object from a first requesting device. The method continues with the processing module determining that a substantially similar version of the data object is currently stored in a DSN. The method continues with the processing module determining that a number of unique combinations of retrieving the plurality of sets of encoded data slices has exceeded a threshold and, when so, encoding, with a same decode threshold number and an increased pillar width number, the data object to create and store a plurality of sub-set of redundancy encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module creating a unique combination of retrieving the data object for the first requesting device based on the plurality of sets of encoded data slices and the plurality of sub-set of redundancy encoded data slices. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213280 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SCREEN SHIELD - The present disclosure provides a screen shielding method, applied to a display device of an electronic device, wherein the display device has a display region, and the electronic device is arranged to execute a plurality of applications. The screen shielding method includes determining whether a first predetermined input signal has been received when a first application of the plurality of applications has been executed in the foreground, and producing a privacy block in response to the first predetermined input signal for entering a privacy protect mode. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213281 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING PERMISSION FOR SHARING DATA AND TOUCH LINK ELECTRONIC DEVICE UTILIZING THE SAME - A method of configuring permission for sharing data and touch link electronic device utilizing the same are described. The method, configuring permission for sharing data, adopted by a first touch link electronic device, the method including: establishing, by a touch panel of the first touch link electronic device, a first communication channel to a second touch link electronic device; transmitting the permission to the second touch link electronic device via the first communication channel, wherein the permission corresponds to the shared data; and transmitting the shared data to the second touch link electronic device. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213282 | Online Privacy Management System with Enhanced Automatic Information Detection - A privacy management system (PMS) is disclosed for a Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) or other user to use in monitoring and/or controlling in realtime the flow of data (e.g., outflow) about the user and his/her online experience. The PMS may employ pattern recognition software to evaluate analytics data and potentially block private information from being sent within the analytics data. The PMS may provide a dashboard displaying a whitelist and/or blacklist indicating what destinations/sources are blocked or allowed as well as private information settings indicating what types of private information should be blocked. The PMS includes browser-client scripting code and may also include a PMS-certified verification icon and/or lock and unlock icons for display on webpages being monitored/controlled in realtime by the PMS. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213283 | SECURING VISUAL INFORMATION ON IMAGES FOR DOCUMENT CAPTURE - Techniques to provide secure access to data are disclosed. An indication that an operator is assigned to index a data value extracted from a document image is received. A snippet or other partial image showing just a portion of the document image that includes a text or other content image portion that corresponds to the data value extracted from the document image is displayed to the operator. The data value is included in a subset of data values extracted from the document image, and access to the subset of extracted data values is provided to the operator without providing access to one or more other portions of the document image associated with extracted data values not included in the subset. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213284 | UNIFYING INTERFACE FOR CLOUD CONTENT SHARING SERVICES - Methods and systems that allow a user to see the people or groups who have access to files that are maintained by a plurality of cloud content sharing services. In particular, the user may see what specific party has access to each particular file or directory, regardless of multiple cloud content sharing services involved. Moreover, a user interface and exposed application program interface allows the user to manipulate the permissions, e.g., granting access, to another person or group, to a file or directory. The user interface may also allow the user to terminate access to the file or directory for a person or group. The user's action to change a permission may be effected independently of the particular cloud content sharing service. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213285 | CONFIGURATION OF PARTITION RELATIONSHIPS - Embodiment of the invention pertains to software architecture and configuration of multi-tenant software. In a multi-tenant architecture, a software application is designed to virtually partition its data and configuration, and each user, group of users, or organization works with a customized virtual application instance. A direct relationship between the tenants, virtual application instances represented as partitions, and the data sets supporting the partitions is provided. Alignment among the tenants, partitions, and data sets may be a vertical alignment or a multi-dimensional alignment. The multi-dimensional alignment may be represented with different configurations, including a one to many relationships of tenants to partitions, a tenant hierarchy relationship with a corresponding partition hierarchy relationship, and a many to many relationship of tenants to shared partitions. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213286 | VIRTUAL FILE-BASED TAMPER RESISTANT REPOSITORY - A technique adds virtual file anchoring functionality to a platform by mounting a virtual file system (“system”) to store an anchor file. Binary code to create and run the system is embedded into a trusted application's binary code. Thus, whenever the trusted application executes, the embedded code ensures the system is validated and started or restarted as required. To interrogate the existence of the anchor, it can be read like any other file. To modify the status of the anchor, the name of the associated file is decorated such that instead of modifying the file, foo, the trusted application modifies a pseudo-file, foo#decoration. The decoration varies for each modification operation. To generate the decoration, the algorithm takes as input a time component, e.g. in the form of the last accessed time field of the parent directory where the secure file anchors files reside, and the name of the anchor. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213287 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND CONTROLLING DIRECT ACCESS OF AN ADMINISTRATOR TO A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method, computer program product, and computer system for managing and controlling direct access of an administrator to a computer system. An interceptor application resides on the computer system and intercepts the direct access. The interceptor application receives a request for the direct access to the computer system and determines whether the administrator requests for a new ticket. The interceptor application redirects the administrator to log onto the service management system for generating the new ticket by the service management system, in response to determining that the administrator requests for the new ticket or open tickets are not found. The interceptor application receives from the service management system the new ticket and grants the administrator the direct access to the computer system. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213288 | Scrubber to Remove Personally Identifiable Information - A personally identifiable information (PII) scrubbing system. The PII scrubbing system surgically scrubs PII form a log based on a scrubber configuration corresponding to the log. The scrubber configuration includes context information about locations and types of PII in the log and rules specifying how to locate and protect the PII. Scrubber configurations are quickly and easily created or modified as scrubbing requirements change or new scenarios are encountered. The flexibility provided by the scrubber configurations allows only the PII to be scrubbed, even from unstructured data, without having to include surrounding data. Many consumers can use the scrubbed data without needed to expose the PII because less non-personal data is obscured. Surgical scrubbing also retains the usefulness of the underlying PII even while protecting the PII. Consumers can correlate the protected PII to locate specific information without having to expose additional PII. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213289 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PRIVATE DATA IN MULTI-FUNCTION PRODUCTS - A method and apparatus is provided for managing private data, such as a phone book, in a multi-function product (MFP) used by multiple users. The method involves receiving user information and performing user authentication, and reading data stored in a user area allocated to the authenticated user in a storage unit divided into a number of user areas. Accordingly, when private data is managed in an MFP used by multiple users, by dividing a storage unit in which data is stored into a number of user areas, allocating the divided user areas to users, and allowing a user to access only a user area allocated to the user through an authentication process, the private data can be fully prevented from being accessed by other users, and it will be unlikely for a user to be confused because of other user data. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213290 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided that including a display configured to display content. The display apparatus also includes a main controller configured to control operation of the display, a power supplier configured to supply power to operate the display and the main controller, a power measurer configured to measure the power supplied by the power supplier, a storage configured to store information regarding a third power range which is between a first power range that the display apparatus consumes in a sleep state and a second power range that the display apparatus consumes in a normal state, and a power controller configured to cut off the power supplied by the power supplier in response to the measured power being within the third power range. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213291 | PLUG PART FOR FORMING A PLUG-IN CONNECTION - The plug part ( | 2015-07-30 |
20150213292 | BARCODE AND ELECTRONIC TAG READER - A reader includes a body and a scan member. The body includes a scan zone configured for placing at least one barcode and an electronic tag. The scan member is mounted on the body and is aligned to the scan zone. The scan member includes a barcode reading module and a RFID reader module. The barcode reading module reads barcode information from the barcodes; the RFID reader module reads electronic information from the RFID tag and writes the barcode information into the electronic tag. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213293 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READERS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ADJUSTING A QUERY COMMAND SLOT-COUNTER PARAMETER Q - RFID readers and methods for adjusting a query command slot-count parameter Q for use by radio frequency identification (RFID) tag reader in an RFID tag inventory round are provided. A method for adjusting a query command slot-count parameter Q for use by an RFID tag reader includes setting an initial value for Q for a first inventory round, issuing a query command to a population of RFID tags, and monitoring replies from the population of RFID tags. The value of Q is decreased by a first amount if no reply is received, and the value of Q is increased by a second amount different from the first amount if a tag collision reply is received. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213294 | DECOUPLED CONTACTLESS BI-DIRECTIONAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A contactless bi-directional device including first and second generally mutually electromagnetically decoupled contactless loop antennas which are arranged in at least partially mutually overlapping orientation, first and second contactless communication chips, each of the first and second communications chips being connected to a corresponding one of the generally mutually electromagnetically decoupled contactless loop antennas, thereby providing bi-directional communication. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213295 | LOW ENERGY LOCATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and systems for monitoring the location of animate and inanimate objects include tags operatively connected to the object configured for wireless communication with one or more hubs within a monitoring site. The tags may send preemptive identifying signals to the hubs when in a range of communication using Bluetooth Low Energy signals. The hubs may register with the tags within a certain location and send status signals over a network. The status signals may be used to monitor the location of the objects and tags, and may be used to generate messages indicating location information of the objects. Cloud based computing may be used to run applications and databases to monitor and share tag location information. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213296 | INTERACTIVE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided are an interactive processing method and device and an electronic apparatus. The interactive processing method is applied to a first electronic apparatus that supports radio frequency identification (RFID) transmission. The interactive processing method includes: obtaining data to be processed from a peer communication node through an RFID technology; obtaining a first input operation input by a user through an input device; determining a first control instruction corresponding to the first input operation according to a pre-defined first corresponding relation that records a plurality of input operations and corresponding control instructions; and executing the first control instruction, and controlling the first electronic apparatus to process the data to be processed. The solution improves the use flexibility of the RFID in the electronic apparatus. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213297 | PROCESSING VISIBLE CODING SEQUENCE, PLAYING VISIBLE CODING SEQUENCE - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to data processing, and further the embodiments of the invention relate to a method of processing a visible coding sequence and a system thereof, a method of playing a visible coding sequence and a system thereof. The present invention creatively proposes a scheme of determining sampling rate with synchronized frames to realize effective processing of a visible coding sequence. The scheme of processing a visible coding sequence according to the invention is helpful for visible coding synchronization on the capturing side, enabling the capturing side to determine appropriate sampling rate and sampling timing, and thus effectively acquire the visible coding sequence, which may not only reduce resource waste, but also acquire a complete visible coding sequence. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213298 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A 2D code detecting unit | 2015-07-30 |
20150213299 | INFRARED IMAGE BASED EARLY DETECTION OF OIL SPILLS IN WATER - The invention relates to a method for detecting hydrocarbon spill in an aqueous medium from a plurality of images of the surface of the aqueous medium obtained by an infrared camera comprising analysing an image of the plurality of images; checking whether at least one region that could be identified as spill is displayed in the image, in case of positive result, assessing whether the point representing a multidimensional vector of characteristics associated with the region is within a reference zone defined in a multidimensional space, this reference zone being representative of multidimensional vectors of characteristics of regions corresponding to real spills; if it is determined that the point representing the multidimensional vector of characteristics is within the multidimensional reference zone, generating a warning signal of spill. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213300 | FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS - A method of analysis and comparison of fingerprint images, includes creating a set of data from a first fingerprint image and employing the data for comparison with a set of data obtained from a second fingerprint image, comparing the two sets of data to establish a correspondence of relative positions of at least some minutiae and comparing the numbers of each of one or more different types of minutiae within a prescribed area of each image, the sets of data for the two fingerprint images further including the numbers of each of one or more different types of minutiae lying within a constellation type boundary defined by a plurality of minutiae of identical type and which encircle a core minutia. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213301 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF FIBERS AND BRANCHING STRUCTURES WITHIN AN IMAGE OF A SAMPLE - A computer-implemented method and system of fiber analysis and reconstruction of a fiber-containing biological sample perform efficient and accurate analysis of fiber morphology. The images of objects comprising fiber and/or branching structure are obtained by camera and/or other imaging devices. Variable modules are operable to obtain initial tracing seeds via adaptive threshold method for identifying tracing seeds candidates by local Principal Component Analysis (PCA) calculation and sorting out the seeds with low and high score. Each single fiber segment of interest is traced repeatedly utilizing PCA fitting calculation, and individual fiber segments are assembled by performing crossover matching calculation. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213302 | Automatic Detection Of Mitosis Using Handcrafted And Convolutional Neural Network Features - Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments associated with detecting mitosis in breast cancer pathology images by combining handcrafted (HC) and convolutional neural network (CNN) features in a cascaded architecture are described. One example apparatus includes a set of logics that acquires an image of a region of tissue, partitions the image into candidate patches, generates a first probability that the patch is mitotic using an HC feature set and a second probability that the patch is mitotic using a CNN-learned feature set, and classifies the patch based on the first probability and the second probability. If the first and second probabilities do not agree, the apparatus trains a cascaded classifier on the CNN-learned feature set and the HC feature set, generates a third probability that the patch is mitotic, and classifies the patch based on a weighted average of the first probability, the second probability, and the third probability. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213303 | IMAGE PROCESSING WITH FACIAL REFERENCE IMAGES - Systems and methods are provided for capturing and processing digital images. During a capture session, an image capture system is configured to capture one or more subject images and one or more calibration images potentially containing the user's face under common lighting conditions. The subject images and the calibration images are captured using two differently-aimed cameras within a common enclosure. The one or more calibration images are compared to one or more previously-captured reference images containing the user's face and captured under specified lighting conditions. The comparison yields one or more calibration outputs that are applied to the one or more subject images to generate adjusted subject images, for example, images that have been white-balanced to remove color casts caused by the lighting conditions. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213304 | Verifying Presence of a Person During an Electronic Visitation - Images of residents of a controlled-environment facility may be captured at the time of intake into the facility. A feature detection process may be performed on each image to verify that corporeal facial features are present in each resident image and a copy of such an image of each resident may be saved. A request to initiate an electronic visitation session may be received and an image of a user is captured. A feature detection process is performed on the captured image to verify that images of features of a corporeal human face are present in the captured image, determining whether an image of a corporeal human face is present in the captured image. The electronic visitation session may then be connected in response to a determination that an image of a corporeal human face is present. Further, a facial recognition process may also be performed on the captured image. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALLY DISTINGUISHING FACES IN A DIGITAL IMAGE - A face is detected and identified in a digital image. A weight is calculated and assigned to the detected face based on characteristics of the face and social media connections between the person identified from the face and a target viewer of the digital image. One or more image effects are applied to the digital image to visually distinguish the detected face from other parts of the digital image and/or in relation to other faces detected in the image. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213306 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING QUESTIONABLE PERSONS - An apparatus, method, and system for automatically detecting the presence of questionable persons include receiving the geographical location of a user from a GPS unit and pictorial information relating to scenes behind user from a camera, executing face recognition technologies to capture human face in the scenes, recording a length of time each human face appears in the scenes, marking a human face as dangerous if the length of time exceeds a predetermined threshold, saving the pictures of dangerous human face in a storage unit, and issuing an alarm notification and transmitting the dangerous human face and the geographical location of the user to a local police office if a distance of the dangerous human increases by a predetermined distance threshold. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213307 | RIGID STABILIZATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - Systems and techniques for performing automatic rigid stabilization of facial expressions are provided. The systems and techniques may include obtaining one or more shapes, the one or more shapes including one or more facial expressions of a subject. The systems and techniques may further include generating a subject-specific skull representation, and performing rigid stabilization of the one or more facial expressions by fitting the subject-specific skull with the one or more facial expressions of the subject. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN AN INTELLIGENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - A method for analyzing behavior in an intelligent surveillance system, the system being operable to provide a series of consecutive images of an area under surveillance for consecutive time points, the method comprising the steps of: for each image of the series, generating a set of points defining at least one moving silhouette on an image; tracing the position of points in the sets of points on consecutive images in order to generate trajectories of points; providing a database of predefined trajectories corresponding to behavior; comparing the generated trajectories of points for said moving silhouette with database records; outputting information regarding the type of predefined behavior said moving silhouette corresponds to. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213309 | MEASUREMENT METHOD, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, PROJECTION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A measurement device includes an image capturing unit which includes a photoelectric unit and captures multiple images corresponding to different photoelectric areas of the photoelectric unit, multiple reflecting units arranged at different positions and configured to reflect light traveling from a projection area, changing units which change image capture angles of the reflecting units, a light condensing unit which condenses the light reflected off the different reflecting units to the different photoelectric areas, an obtaining unit which obtains the captured images corresponding to the photoelectric areas and corresponding image capture angles of the reflecting units, a selection unit which selects, from the captured images, two or more images in each of which a measurement subject is captured, and a calculation unit which calculates a position of the measurement subject in a 3D space from the selected captured images and the image capture angles corresponding to the captured images. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213310 | NOTE RECOGNITION AND ASSOCIATION BASED ON GROUPING INDICATORS - Techniques are described for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes. A computing device is described that includes a processor and an image collection module executable on the processor and configured to receive an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes. An image processing engine executable on the processor is configured to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image and generate, for each of the physical notes, a corresponding digital note. The image processing engine is further configured to identify an indication of one or more groups of the plurality of identified notes in the input image and group the plurality of digital notes according to the indication. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213311 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF A PRINTING PRESS AND A FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PRESS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - The present invention relates to a method for controlling the operation of a printing press and a flexographic printing press for implementing said method, wherein the method comprises performing the following steps: a) capturing information from at least one image printed by said printing press; and b) comparing said information captured from said printed image with at least some digital-format information predetermined in prepress, or digital prepress information, including at least one part of the image to be printed. The method comprises adjusting the pressure and/or register setting of one or more printing units of the printing press, using at least the result of the comparison in said step b). The press is designed in order to implement the method. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213312 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing device capable of specifying a character area included in an image even if a variable-density difference in an area included in the image other than the character area is large. A feature point specifying unit specifies corners of edges in a target image as feature points. An area obtaining unit obtains, based on a specified result of the feature point specifying unit, an area including a plurality of feature points aligned in a substantially straight line. A character area specifying unit specifies a character area in the target image based on the area obtained by the area obtaining unit. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213313 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT AUTOMATED SYMBOL RECOGNITION USING MULTIPLE CLUSTERS OF SYMBOL PATTERNS - The current document is directed to methods and systems for identifying symbols corresponding to symbol images in a scanned-document image or other text-containing image, with the symbols corresponding to Chinese or Japanese characters, to Korean morpho-syllabic blocks, or to symbols of other languages that use a large number of symbols for writing and printing. In one implementation, the methods and systems to which the current document is directed carry out an initial processing step on one or more scanned images to identify, for each symbol image within a scanned document, a set of graphemes that match, with high frequency, symbol patterns that, in turn, match the symbol image. The set of graphemes identified for a symbol image is associated with the symbol image as a set of candidate graphemes for the symbol image. The set of candidate graphemes are then used, in one or more subsequent steps, to associate each symbol image with a most likely corresponding symbol code. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213314 | Device, System and Method for Identifying Sections of Documents - A method for identifying sections of contracts. This method works well with documents that originated from scanned images, i.e., documents that could possibly include noise and misleading cues. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213315 | Property Assessment & Prospecting Tool - A property assessment system includes image processing logic configured to identify building structure attributes from image data and rate their associated condition. The outputs can include property condition ratings, occupancy predictions and similar scores | 2015-07-30 |
20150213316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEGMENTING AND TRANSMITTING ON-DEMAND LIVE-ACTION VIDEO IN REAL-TIME - A method and system for producing video-segments of a live-action event involving monitoring a live-action event for detection of event-segments, detecting one or more event-triggers with detectors, determining if an event-segment occurred based on the detected event-triggers, and editing one or more video feeds into a video-segment to encompass the event-segment. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213317 | Intelligent Monitoring System - An intelligent monitoring system for care place is illustrated. The system includes a thermal camera capturing a thermal image of the care place; an image processing unit obtaining user's position and number of user according to region in which temperature is higher than a preset temperature in the thermal image; a temperature recording unit extracting and records user's temperature from the thermal image. When there is only one user, a abnormal event determining unit of the system determines whether an abnormal event occurs according to user's temperature changing rate. When there are several users, the abnormal event determining unit determines whether the abnormal event occurs according to both of the temperature changing rates of the users and an average temperature of the users. If the abnormal event occurs, the warning unit generates a warning signal. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213318 | METHOD, SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE, MOVABLE DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETECTING STATIC ELEMENTS IN VIDEO AND IMAGE SOURCES - The invention relates to a method for determining a static element in images captured by an imaging means mounted on a movable device. The method comprises steps of acquiring a first image and a second image captured by the imaging means. The first image and the second image are captured at capture times separated by a time difference and the method is characterized by the time difference being selected depending on motion parameters of the movable device. A determination measure for corresponding regions of the first and the second image for representing a similarity of the corresponding regions is calculated and a static element of the first and the second image is determined based on the calculated determination measure. An output signal comprising information on the determined static element is generated. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213319 | Imaging System for a Motor Vehicle, Having Partial Color Encoding - An imaging system for imaging an environment outside of a motor vehicle combines color-coded pixels and non-color-coded pixels in a single imaging sensor of a camera. Pixel groups each include at least one color-coded pixel and at least two non-color-coded pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213320 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display processor and a processor. The display processor displays on a screen a handwritten document includes a plurality of handwritten strokes. If copy of the handwritten document is requested, the processor executes a process for reshaping the handwritten document to convert the handwritten document to first data of a first data format viewable by a plurality of kinds of application programs, and stores the first data in a clipboard for exchanging data between application programs. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213321 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND BODY-PART DETERMINING METHOD - In a part determining unit, first and second particular regions are preset in an image capturing area, and finger webs are preset as feature parts of the living body. The first and second particular regions are rectangular and are positioned at two opposing (upper and lower) peripheral portions of the image capturing area, which is rectangular. When a hand is placed over the image capturing area for acquisition of biometric data from the palm, a part near the wrist is positioned in the first particular region, and a part near the base of the four fingers except the thumb is positioned in the second particular region. The part determining unit determines the part of the living body positioned in the image capturing area on the basis of feature parts appearing in the image data corresponding to the first and second particular regions. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213322 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a 2D code detecting unit, a 2D code decoding unit, and an invalidation processing unit. The 2D code detecting unit is configured to detect a 2D code in a document image. The 2D code decoding unit is configured to try to decode the detected 2D code. The invalidation processing unit is configured to perform invalidation of the 2D code so as to make this 2D code undetectable by the 2D code detecting unit if the 2D code decoding unit failed to decode the 2D code. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213323 | VIDEO ANOMALY DETECTION BASED UPON A SPARSITY MODEL - Methods, systems, and processor-readable media for video anomaly detection based upon a sparsity model. A video input can be received and two or more diverse descriptors of an event can be computed from the video input. The descriptors can be combined to form an event matrix. A sparse reconstruction of the event matrix can be performed with respect to an over complete dictionary of training events represented by the diverse descriptors. A step can then be performed to determine if the event is anomalous by computing an outlier rejection measure on the sparse reconstruction. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213324 | PHOTO FORENSICS USING IMAGE SIGNATURES - Evaluating an image is disclosed. A plurality of attributes of the image is analyzed. A determination is made that a portion of the attributes of the image imperfectly matches a reference attribute signature corresponding to a device. It is distinguished whether the imperfect match likely corresponds to a modification of the image. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213325 | INCREMENTAL LEARNING FOR DYNAMIC FEATURE DATABASE MANAGEMENT IN AN OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A method of dynamically updating a feature database that contains features corresponding to a known target object includes providing an image, extracting a first set of features from within the captured image, and comparing the first set of features to the features stored in the feature database. If it is determined that the target object is present in the image then at least one of the extracted features of the first set that are not already included in the feature database are added to the feature database. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213326 | Methods and Apparatus for Item Identification Using Brightness Compensation - Methods and apparatus are provided for low resolution item identification using brightness compensated images. An image of an unknown item is captured in digital RGB image format and converted to HSV image format. Then the HSV formatted image is quantized which greatly reduces the resolution of the image. The quantized HSV image data of the unknown item is compared to a plurality of quantized HSV image data for known items. The comparison includes using a signal-to-noise ratio calculated using the quantized HSV image data for both the unknown and known items. A match is found when the calculated signal-to-noise ratio is above a predetermined threshold value. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213327 | VISUAL FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for image processing are disclosed. For example, a system for processing images includes voxel-ranking circuitry that ranks individual voxels using voxel data derived from physiological responses resulting from exposure to a plurality of corresponding baseline stimulus images, and voxel selection circuitry that selects a portion of the set of ranked voxels based on their rank. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213328 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, OBJECT IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image showing a same object as an object shown in another image is identified more accurately. A difference area in an input image is determined by converting a difference area in a reference image, based on geometric transformation information calculated by an analysis using a local descriptor. Meanwhile, the input image is divided and a divided area descriptor is extracted from each divided area. A descriptor obtained by converting a divided area descriptor in a difference area in the input image and a descriptor in a difference area in the reference image are matched with each other. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213329 | LANDMARKS FROM DIGITAL PHOTO COLLECTIONS - Methods and systems for automatic detection of landmarks in digital images and annotation of those images are disclosed. A method for detecting and annotating landmarks in digital images includes the steps of automatically assigning a tag descriptive of a landmark to one or more images in a plurality of text-associated digital images to generate a set of landmark-tagged images, learning an appearance model for the landmark from the set of landmark-tagged images, and detecting the landmark in a new digital image using the appearance model. The method can also include a step of annotating the new image with the tag descriptive of the landmark. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213330 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT AUTOMATED SYMBOL RECOGNITION - The current document is directed to methods and systems for identifying symbols corresponding to symbol images in a scanned-document image or other text-containing image, with the symbols corresponding to Chinese or Japanese characters, to Korean morpho-syllabic blocks, or to symbols of other languages that use a large number of symbols for writing and printing. In one implementation, the methods and systems to which the current document is directed carry out an initial processing step on one or more scanned images to identify a subset of the total number of symbols frequently used in the scanned document image or images. One or more lists of graphemes for the language of the text are then ordered in most-likely-occurring to least-likely-occurring order to facilitate a second optical-character-recognition step in which symbol images extracted from the one or more scanned-document images are associated with one or more graphemes most likely to correspond to the scanned symbol image. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213331 | EMOTION MODIFICATION FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO CONTENT - Apparatus and method for modification of emotion conveyed by an image. In one aspect, a metric corresponding to the emotion conveyed by an image is generated, and a command for modifying the emotion of the image causes the emotion conveyed by the image to be changed according to the specified change to emotion. The command to modify the image emotion can be made via an emotion keyword, and can include an indicated magnitude of emotion change. Emotion conveyed by an image can be specified via an emotion vector, where elements of the vector correspond with emotions arranged along orthogonal dimensions in an emotion space. In one aspect, an emotion predictor is trained to predict the emotion conveyed by an image via determining characteristic values for a set of image feature categories, based on a set of images associated with emotion keywords of the emotion space. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213332 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a character recognizing unit that performs character recognition on a first image and on a second image, a comparing unit that compares a first character recognition result of the first image obtained by the character recognizing unit, with a second character recognition result of the second image obtained by the character recognizing unit, a determining unit that extracts matching characters between the two character recognition results, and determines whether a character existing between the matching characters, which is obtained as either the first or second character recognition result, is one of a character deleted from the first image, an inserted character that does not exist in the first image but exists in the second image, and a character by which a character in the first image has been replaced, and an outputting unit that outputs a comparison result obtained by the comparing unit. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213333 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REALIZING CHINESE CHARACTER INPUT BASED ON UNCERTAINTY INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method and device for realizing Chinese character input based on uncertainty information, wherein the method comprises: receiving input information from a user; extracting at least two types of uncertainty information of Chinese characters to be input, from the input information; and, determining the matched Chinese characters according to the at least two types of uncertainty information and outputting the matched Chinese character(s). The device comprises a receiving module, an extracting module and a matching module. The method and device as provided by the present invention allow a user who has incomplete memory of pronunciation or glyph information of Chinese characters to be input to realize correct input of the Chinese characters by defining a certain range for candidate characters corresponding to the Chinese characters to be input, in combination with at least two types of the extracted uncertainty information of the Chinese characters to be input. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213334 | CARD READER - A card reader may include a card insertion part which is formed with an insertion port for the card; and a conveying passage for the card which is connected with the insertion port. The card insertion part may include a shutter member disposed on a rear side with respect to the insertion port is movable between a closed position an open position; and a protruding member which is attached to the shutter member and is protruded from the shutter member to an insertion port side. An insertion port side of the protruding member may be formed with a card abutting face. A distance between the insertion port and the card abutting face in a conveying direction of the card may be set to be shorter than a width in the short widthwise direction of the card. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213335 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - A media processing device enables continuous high-speed processing of recording media. A media processing device has a magnetic head | 2015-07-30 |
20150213336 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus including: a first image data creation unit configured to create image data of a main image to be formed on the front side of a first medium; a second image data creation unit configured to create image data of a sub-image to be formed on the back side of the first medium; and an engine unit configured to form the main image on the front side of the first medium on the basis of the image data of the main image, and the sub-image on the back side of the first medium on the basis of the image data of the sub-image. A position indication part that indicates a position of the main image on the front side of the first medium is formed on the sub-image. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213337 | PRINTER COLOR CALIBRATING METHOD - A printer color calibration method includes obtaining first chart printing material by performing the chart printing with a first printer, setting first color data by obtaining the color data measuring the first chart printing material with a second printer, obtaining second chart printing material by performing the chart printing with the second printer, setting second color data by obtaining the color data measuring the second chart printing material with the second printer, and obtaining correction data that is used by the second printer in order for printing output of the second printer to substantially match with printing output of the first printer based on the first color data and the second color data. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213338 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS WRITING INTO A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY, AND A METHOD - The image forming apparatus includes a non-volatile memory that stores data; a volatile memory into which the stored data is read for editing; a reading unit that reads the data from the non-volatile memory into the volatile memory; an editing unit that edits the read data; and a writing unit that writes the edited data into the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory further includes a writing type that is associated with the data and provides a rule of how to write at the time of writing the data into the non-volatile memory after editing the data on the volatile memory. The reading unit reads the writing type at the time of reading the data. The writing unit writes, based on the writing type associated with the edited data, the data into the non-volatile memory. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213339 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a print control apparatus in which, when poster printing is performed using a printer for printing on continuous paper, a user only needs to specify a finish size (or a scaling factor) so as to perform printing processing with appropriate orientation and a minimum number of segments. To achieve this, based on a length of a short side of a finish size specified by the user and a length in a width direction of continuous paper, the number of segments is calculated to divide an enlarged image obtained by enlarging an original. Then, based on the number of segments, the enlarged image is divided in a short-side direction, and a plurality of image portions generated by the division are laid out in a size of an output sheet, whereby print data is generated. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213340 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An integrated circuit includes a pixel identifying unit that extracts a target partial image formed of a pixel of interest and adjacent pixels from input image data, determines a character of the pixel of interest based on the pixel of interest and the adjacent pixels, and generates identification information indicating a result of determination on the character; and a density converting unit that converts a density of a pixel of the image data based on a contour extraction function or an edge density reducing function on the image data by using the identification information. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213341 | IMAGE SCALING MECHANISM - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an image, upsampling the image, eroding the upsampled image to compensate for dot gain and scaling the eroded image to scale the image to a desired size. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213342 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus inputs a color signal representing an image and an image quality signal representing a texture of the image. The image quality signal is converted into a physical quantity signal representing a physical quantity. The color material amount for outputting the image is determined based on the color signal and the physical quantity signal. The image quality signal includes a signal representing glossiness value and a signal representing gloss clarity, and the physical quantity representing respective signals are the refractive index and the surface roughness of the image. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213343 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING COLOR CONVERSION LOOKUP TABLE - A color conversion lookup table generation method includes the processes of (i) acquiring a set of parameter values which represents a specific color; (ii) acquiring a plurality of ink value set candidates which corresponds to the set of parameter values, and evaluated values each associated with a result of printing based on a corresponding one of the plurality of ink amount set candidates; (iii) allowing a user to input a preference characteristic of the user; and (iv) applying a color conversion lookup table which converts the set of parameters into a set of ink amounts which is determined on the basis the preference characteristic and the evaluated values. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213344 | IMAGE DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, AN IMAGE DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND A PRINTING SYSTEM - A replacing unit replaces lower bits of tone values expressed in binary numbers of the specific pixels of source image data with additional information needed in a print data creating process in a printing machine. That is, least significant bits of the tone values expressed in binary numbers of specific pixels of the source image data after RIP processing are replaced with information to be communicated to the printing machine. As the information to be communicated to the printing machine, there is multi-SPM selection information used in a halftone dot process in the printing machine. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213345 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device that changes the output format of the generated printout can dynamically change the output format of the printout using print data from an existing system. An image processing device that executes a process to change the output format of a printout has an output format selector that selects a template determining the format of the printout based on information contained in the print data for the printout, and a print data generator that changes the print data according to the selected template. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213346 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a first control unit that outputs a command for driving an electric part, a detection unit that detects an abnormality of the first control unit, and a second control unit that controls whether or not supply of a drive signal based on the command for driving the electric part to the electric part can be performed, in which the first control unit outputs instruction signals for instructing execution and stop of the detection by the detection unit, and the second control unit cuts off the supply of the drive signal to the electric part in a case where the detection unit detects the abnormality of the first control unit and a case where the instruction signal for instructing the stop of the detection by the detection unit is output from the first control unit. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213347 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, SHEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system includes a printing control apparatus and a printing apparatus. The printing control apparatus stores, in association with a sheet holding unit of the printing apparatus, a combination of stored first attribute information about a sheet and stored second attribute information about the sheet. The printing control apparatus receives, from the printing apparatus, first attribute information about a sheet to be used in a job. Based on the received first attribute information about the sheet received from the printing apparatus, the printing control apparatus obtains the stored second attribute information and sends the obtained second attribute information to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus sets the received second attribute information as attribute information about a sheet to be stored in the sheet holding unit. The printing apparatus notifies a user about the sheet holding unit to which the second attribute information is set. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213348 | Printer and Printer Control Method - A conversion area in a storage of a printer is determined to accommodate slips of different sizes. Slips are conveyed along a path that is guided on one side and open on the other. A detector detects the length of the slip in the conveyance direction. Dimensions of the conversion area are determined based on the detected length of the slip, and a recording range of a recording head is also determined. Font data is read from memory based on font code that is received from a control device and written in the conversion area per line unit in the order in which the font code is received and in a direction corresponding to toward the open side of the conveyance path and away from the guided side of the conveyance path. The recording head is controlled to record the font data in the conversion area on the slip. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213349 | Anti-Copy Optical Materials And Methods - An anti-copy optical material and methods of using the material to passively frustrate scanner-based reproduction processes are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the anti-copy optical material include a fluorescent material to absorb visible incident light from a scan lamp and to emit a visible fluorescence. The anti-copy optical material may also include one or more optical absorbers to absorb one or more peak wavelengths of the visible incident light from the scan lamp. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213350 | WEARABLE DEVICE WITH TIME-VARYING MAGNETIC FIELD - An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213351 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL CREDIT CARD TYPE PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An embodiment includes a credit card device capable of generating a programmed magnetic field of alternating polarity based on a speed of a card swipe, and methods for constructing the device for the purpose of emulating a standard credit card. An apparatus is described to allow said device to emulate behavior of a credit card when used in electronic credit card readers. Additionally methods are described to allow user control of said device for the purpose of authorizing or controlling use of said device in the application of credit, debit and cash transactions, including cryptocurrency and card-to-card transactions. Methods are also described for generating a limited-duration credit card number when performing a transaction for the purpose of creating a limited-use credit card number, which is limited in scope of use to a predetermined number of authorized transactions. Furthermore said device may interact with other similar devices in proximity for the purpose of funds or credit/debit transfers. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213352 | ARTIFICIAL FINGERNAIL OR TOE NAIL WITH AN INCORPORATED TRANSPONDER - An artificial nail for placing onto a finger or a toe is connected to an integrated transponder chip ( | 2015-07-30 |
20150213353 | SMART BUSINESS CARD - The present invention is a smart business card with touchscreen surface for transmitting information stored in a memory card or in the internet and displaying the information on screen by using touchscreen technology all disposed within a business card sized housing. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213354 | CHIP CARD ASSEMBLING STRUCTURE AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a chip card assembling structure and a method thereof, including at least one base plate, at least one fixing element having a side forming a fixing trough corresponding to the base plate, at least one adhesive film disposed on one side of the fixing element to cover the fixing trough, and at least one thin-film chip received in the fixing trough and bonded to the adhesive film. To use the present invention, the adhesive film, together with the thin-film chip, is lifted and the base plate is placed into the fixing trough, following setting the adhesive film and the thin-film chip back to have the thin-film chip coupled to the base plate. Then, the adhesive film is lifted to remove the coupled thin-film chip and base plate, so that the relative position between the thin-film chip and the base plate is precise and correct. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213355 | VIRTUAL ASSISTANT SYSTEM TO REMOTELY CONTROL EXTERNAL SERVICES AND SELECTIVELY SHARE CONTROL - A virtual assistant system includes a mobile device, an assistant server and devices and services included within the virtual assistant system desired to be controlled. The virtual assistant system can control any such devices and services by receiving an input to perform a function at the devices and services, translate the input into a language sharable by all of the external devices and services through a respective plugin so that such inputs can be understood between the plurality of devices and services, and functions can be performed at the desired device(s) or service(s) either remotely or locally. This control is sharable with other users as instructed. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213356 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING VALUES INTO SPIKES - A method for transmitting values in a neural network includes obtaining a parameter value. The method also includes encoding the parameter value based on at least one value used by a neuron. The encoding is based on a spike to be transmitted via a spike channel. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213357 | LEARNING USER INTERFACE - Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating a learning user interface. The interface may be presented as a plurality of dynamic icons representing a plurality of items. The interface may be facilitated by receiving, by a processor, a selection indication associated with one item of the plurality of dynamic icons. The interface may be facilitated by determining, via the processor, at least one suggested item of the plurality of items based on the selection indication. The interface may also be facilitated by determining a visual bias for at least one suggested dynamic icon representing the at least one suggested item relative to at least one secondary dynamic icon and may be facilitated by applying the visual bias, via the interface, to the at least one suggested dynamic icon. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213358 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SYSTEM EVENTS - Apparatus and methods facilitate analysis of events associated with network and computer systems. Event data, such as security threats, are comparison matched with event rules of event rule sets associated with each network or computer system to determine whether the items are potentially significant. Additionally, the system-event data may be scored where the score is used for prioritizing system-event data as to their significance. Associated with the comparison matching are various analytics that further analyze event data for measuring and analyzing the system-event data according to various algorithms. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213359 | KNOWLEDGE BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCAL COMMERCE - A system and method that utilizes knowledge representation system to express relationships among consumers, between consumers and businesses, within a specific business, and across businesses. The system and method supports defining which businesses consumers patronize, which locations they prefer, and what products and services they intend to secure from what businesses. The system can supports defining how businesses are structured, what businesses are similar, and how businesses relate both to consumers and to other businesses. By combining this consumer knowledge and business knowledge the system enables a number of mutually compatible applications across a matrix of consumer and business interactions (consumer-to-consumer, consumer-to-business, and business-to-business.) | 2015-07-30 |
20150213360 | CROWDSOURCING SYSTEM WITH COMMUNITY LEARNING - Crowdsourcing systems with machine learning are described, for example, to aggregate answers to a crowdsourced task in a manner achieving good accuracy even where observed data about past behavior of crowd members is sparse. In various examples a machine learning system jointly learns variables describing characteristics of both individual crowd workers and communities of the workers. In various examples, the machine learning system learns aggregated labels. In examples learnt variables describing characteristics of an individual crowd worker are related, by addition of noise, to learnt variables describing characteristics of a community of which the individual is a member. In examples the crowdsourcing system uses the learnt variables describing characteristics of individual workers and of communities of workers for any one or more of: active learning, targeted training of workers, targeted issuance of tasks, calculating and issuing rewards. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213361 | PREDICTING INTERESTING THINGS AND CONCEPTS IN CONTENT - An “Engagement Predictor” provides various techniques for predicting whether things and concepts (i.e., “nuggets”) in content will be engaging or interesting to a user in arbitrary content being consumed by the user. More specifically, the Engagement Predictor provides a notion of interestingness, i.e., an interestingness score, of a nugget on a page that is grounded in observable behavior during content consumption. This interestingness score is determined by evaluating arbitrary documents using a learned transition model. Training of the transition model combines web browsing log data and latent semantic features in training data (i.e., source and destination documents) automatically derived by a Joint Topic Transition (JTT) Model. The interestingness scores are then used for highlighting one or more nuggets, inserting one or more hyperlinks relating to one or more nuggets, importing content relating to one or more nuggets, predicting user clicks, etc. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213362 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a course setting unit that sets a course containing at least one place associated with positional information, a course information generation unit that generates first course information regarding the course on the basis of first user behavior information generated from a behavior of a first user having visited the course, and a course information provision unit that provides the first course information to a second user different from the first user. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TARGETED CONTENT TO A SURFER - A system and method for providing targeted content to a surfer is disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention seek to provide novel solutions for determining which content object, taken from a group of content objects, will be best suited for presentation in association with a link on a web page that has been requested by a certain surfer. Exemplary types of content objects may comprise the text, topic, font, color or other attribute of an external advertisement or internal advertisement. Still other content objects may comprise the specific design of the object, an image, the design of the page in which the object is presented, etc. The decision process for selecting a content object can be based on predictive information that is associated with the request, such as a common HTTP request, or historical information about the surfer. Exemplary associated predictive information may include the day and time of receipt of the request for the web page, the IP address and\or domain from which the request was sent, the type and the version of the browser application that is used for requesting the web page, or the URL used by a surfer for requesting the web page with the parameters that are attached to the URL. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213364 | PREDICTING POLLUTION FORMATION ON INSULATOR STRUCTURES OF POWER GRIDS - A method and a device for predicting insulator pollution grade includes acquiring prediction data affecting the insulator pollution grade; acquiring current pollution status of the insulator; predicting the insulator pollution grade based on the prediction data, the current pollution status and an insulator pollution grade calculating model, wherein the insulator pollution grade calculating model at least comprises an initial pollution status variable of the insulator, and a pollutant accumulation prediction and a pollutant reduction prediction based on the initial pollution status variable, at least one of the accumulation prediction and the reduction prediction being associated with the prediction data, and the initial pollution status variable being associated with the current pollution status. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - There is provided a computer-implemented method for identifying functions within software applications, comprising: receiving a software application for identification; automatically identifying third-party data acquisition functions embedded within the software application, the third-party data acquisition functions communicating with a remote third-party server; and providing the identified third-party data acquisition functions for the software application. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213366 | EDITING AND COMPILING BUSINESS RULES - A component in a graph-based computation having data processing components connected by linking elements representing data flows is updated by receiving a rule specification, generating a transform for transforming data based on the rule specification, associating the transform with a component in the graph-based computation, and in response to determining that a new rule specification has been received or an existing rule specification has been edited, updating the transform associated with the component in the graph-based computation according to the new or edited rule specification. A computation is tested by receiving a rule specification including a set of rule cases, receiving a set of test cases, each test case containing a value for one or more of the potential inputs, and for each test case, identifying one of the rule cases that will generate an output given the input values of the test case. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213367 | Inferential People Matching Method, System, and Device - An inferential people matching method, system, and device infers people's mutual interests in making contact with each other from usage behaviors associated with computer-implemented systems. The usage behaviors may comprise monitored geographic location information that is associated with portable processor-based devices. In accordance with the inference of mutual interest, recommendations of each of two people are generated for delivery to the other of the two people. Expressions of interest between the two people are determined based on usage behaviors exhibited by the two people in response to the recommendations. These post-recommendation usage behaviors may include gestures and physiological responses. A bilateral expression of interest is revealed to the two people if the bilateral expression of interest that is determined from the expressions of interest is sufficient. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213368 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SERVER - The present disclosure discloses a method, apparatus, and server for information recommendation. Search behavior data, browsing behavior data, and click behavior data on recommended content of a specified user in a forum are acquired. A preprocessing on the search behavior data, the browsing behavior data, and the click behavior data on recommended content is performed respectively to obtain a first recommendation result, a second recommendation result, and a third recommendation result. Distribution and integration on the first recommendation result, the second recommendation result, and the third recommendation result are performed according to weights to obtain recommended content to be recommended to the specified user. Search behavior data, browsing behavior data, and click behavior data on recommended content are taken into comprehensive consideration, data used in recommendation is enriched, and accuracy of recommendation is improved. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213369 | SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY PROVIDING AUTOMATION SECURITY ANALYSIS AND NETWORK INTRUSION PROTECTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT - Automation security in a networked-based industrial controller environment is implemented. Various components, systems and methodologies are provided to facilitate varying levels of automation security in accordance with security analysis tools, security validation tools and/or security learning systems. The security analysis tool receives abstract factory models or descriptions for input and generates an output that can include security guidelines, components, topologies, procedures, rules, policies, and the like for deployment in an automation security network. The validation tools are operative in the automation security network, wherein the tools perform security checking and/or auditing functions, for example, to determine if security components are in place and/or in suitable working order. The security learning system monitors/learns network traffic patterns during a learning phase, fires alarms or events based upon detected deviations from the learned patterns, and/or causes other automated actions to occur. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213370 | LABEL INFERENCE IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method of inferring attribute labels for a user in a social networking system based on the user's social connections and user-specified attribute labels in the social networking system. The method can include: establishing variational equations based on attribute labels of nodes in an ego network in a social graph of a social networking system; determining likelihood scores for at least a portion of the attribute labels of neighboring nodes from a focal user node in the ego network based on user-specified attribute labels from the social networking system; and calculating probability distributions of possible attribute labels for the focal user node of the ego network based on the variational equations and the likelihood scores. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213371 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR INFERRING A MOBILE USER'S CURRENT CONTEXT AND PROACTIVELY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE - A device, method and system for automatically inferring a mobile user's current context includes applying a user activity knowledge base to real-time inputs and stored user-specific information to determine a current situation. Automated reasoning is used to infer a user-specific context of the current situation. Automated candidate actions may be generated and performed in accordance with the current situation and user-specific context. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMAIL RESPONSE PREDICTION - Techniques for predicting a user response to the e-mail content are described. According to various embodiments, member email interaction data associated with a particular member and email content data describing a particular email content item is accessed. The data is then encoded into one or more feature vectors and assembled to thereby generate an assembled feature vector. Thereafter, a prediction modeling process is performed, based on the assembled feature vector and a trained prediction model, to predict a likelihood of the particular member performing a particular user action on the particular email content item. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213373 | DETECTING DEVIATIONS BETWEEN EVENT LOG AND PROCESS MODEL - A method for detecting deviations between an event log and a process model includes converting the process model into a probability process model, the probability process model comprising multiple nodes in multiple hierarchies and probability distribution associated with the multiple nodes, a leaf node among the multiple nodes corresponding to an activity in the process model; detecting differences between at least one event sequence contained in the event log and the probability process model according to a correspondence relationship; and identifying the differences as the deviations in response to the differences exceeding a predefined threshold; wherein the correspondence relationship describes a correspondence relationship between an event in one event sequence of the at least one event sequence and a leaf node in the probability process model. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213374 | DETECTING HOTSPOTS USING MACHINE LEARNING ON DIFFRACTION PATTERNS - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for detecting lithographic hotspots. The mechanism receives a design layout. The mechanism generates spatial pattern clips from the design layout. The mechanism performs a transform on the spatial pattern clips to form frequency domain pattern clips. The mechanism performs feature extraction on the frequency domain pattern clips to form frequency domain features. The mechanism utilizes the extracted features on a set of training samples to train a machine learning classifier model. The mechanism classifies a set of previously unseen patterns, based on frequency domain features of the previously unseen patterns using the trained machine learning classifier model, into hotspots and non-hotspots. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213375 | NEIGHBOR DETERMINATION AND ESTIMATION - Embodiments are described for determining and/or estimating a nearest neighbor to a data vector in a dataset are presented. Some embodiments redistribute data vectors between clusters based upon the character of the clusters to more evenly balance the computational load. Some embodiments employ Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) functions as part of the clustering and remove redundant data vectors from the data set to mitigate unbalanced computation. The disclosed embodiments may facilitate the analysis of very large and/or very high dimensional datasets with reasonable runtimes. | 2015-07-30 |
20150213376 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CLASSIFIERS FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - There is provided a method for training a classifier for classifying applications, comprising: identifying, at a central server, features from training software applications; identifying a classification effectiveness rank for each of the features, wherein the classification effectiveness rank defines a difference in accuracy of classification of a respective of the training software applications with and without extraction of the feature; identifying resource requirements of each of the features of each of the training software applications; combining the classification effectiveness rank and the resource requirements for each of the features of each of the training software applications to select a group of classifying features from the features; generating a classifier for evaluating software applications based on the group of classifying features; and providing the classifier to a resource limited client terminal, for feature extraction and classification of a software application locally by the client terminal. | 2015-07-30 |