XEROX CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACHIEVING COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT MOTION ESTIMATION IN VIDEO COMPRESSION BASED ON MOTION DIRECTION AND MAGNITUDE PREDICTION - Block-based motion estimation of video compression estimates the direction and magnitude of motion of objects in the scene in a computationally efficient manner and accurately predicts the optimal search direction/neighborhood location for motion vectors, A system can Include a motion detection module that detects apparent motion in the scene, a motion direction and magnitude prediction module that estimates the direction and magnitude of motion of the objects detected to he in motion by the motion detection module, and a block-based, motion estimation module that performs searches in reduced neighborhoods of the target block according to the estimated motion by the motion direction and magnitude prediction module and only for the blocks determined to be in motion by the motion detection module. The Invention is particularly well suited for stationary traffic cameras that monitor roads and highways for traffic law enforcement purposes. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139526 | Bio-based Acrylate and (Meth)acrylate Resins - (Meth)acrylate resins of at least one bio-based (meth)acrylate monomer, where the monomer includes a rosin or isosorbide moiety obtained from natural sources, can be used in toner, carrier coating or both. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139520 | Method for Making Color Toner - A process for making colored polyester latex by phase inversion emulsification is described. | 05-19-2016 |
20160135729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS TISSUE FROM A THERMAL IMAGE - What is disclosed is a system and method for the detection of cancerous tissue by analyzing blocks of pixels in a thermal image of a region of exposed skin tissue. In one embodiment, matrices are received which have been derived from vectors of temperature values associated with pixels in blocks of pixels which have been isolated from a plurality of thermal images of both cancerous and non-cancerous tissue. The vectors are rearranged to form matrices. A thermal image of a subject is received. Blocks of pixels which reside within a region of exposed skin tissue are identified and isolated. For each identified pixel block, an image vector comprising temperature values associated with these pixels is formed. The vector is provided to a classifier which uses the matrices to classify tissue associated with this block of pixels as being either cancerous or non-cancerous tissue. | 05-19-2016 |
20160130451 | SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING - A sustainable material suitable for three-dimensional printing is disclosed. The sustainable material comprises a resin derived from a bio-based diacid monomer and a bio-based glycol monomer. The resulting sustainable material provides a much more robust 3-D printing material with different properties than conventional materials. | 05-12-2016 |
20160124351 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBERS - An intermediate transfer member that contains a mixture of a polyimide, an optional conductive component, and a fluoroaliphatic phosphate. | 05-05-2016 |
20160122506 | Preparing Latex using a Biosolvent - A process for making a latex emulsion, where the process involves dissolving resin in a biosolvent that hydrolyzes on exposure to water. | 05-05-2016 |
20160122500 | METAL NANOPARTICLE-SULFONATED POLYESTER COMPOSITES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - A composite includes a sulfonated polyester matrix and a plurality of silver nanoparticles dispersed within the matrix. Methods to make these composites include heating a sulfonated polyester resin in an organic-free solvent adding a solution of silver (I) ion to the heated resin in water to form a mixture, adding a solution of a reducing agent to the mixture, thereby forming an emulsion of composite particles including a sulfonated polyester matrix and a plurality of silver nanoparticles disposed within the sulfonated polyester matrix. Various articles can be manufactured from such composites. | 05-05-2016 |
20160122499 | METAL NANOPARTICLE-SULFONATED POLYESTER COMPOSITES AND GREEN METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - A method includes heating a sulfonated polyester resin in an organic-free solvent adding an aqueous solution of silver (I) ion to the heated resin to form a mixture and heating the mixture to effect the reduction of silver (I) ion to silver (0) in the absence of an external reducing agent. A composite includes a sulfonated polyester matrix and a plurality of silver nanoparticles dispersed within the matrix; the composite lacks trace residual byproducts from external reducing agents. | 05-05-2016 |
20160119540 | MODEL-BASED PLANE-LIKE PANORAMA AND RETAIL APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems for developing shelf product location and identification layout for a retail environment. Such an approach can include a mobile base navigable throughout the retail environment, at least one camera mounted on the mobile base acquiring images of aisles, shelving, and product located on the shelving throughout the retail environment; and a computer controlling mobile base movement, tracking mobile base location and orientation, and organizing images acquired by the camera including facing information for product associated with shelving and aisles as images are acquired and input to the computer to generate plane-like panoramas representing inventory, inventory location, and layout of the retail environment. | 04-28-2016 |
20160112202 | MOBILE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SAFETY OF IMPROMPTU MEETINGS - A system and method for enabling safety in and for initial impromptu meetings facilitated by electronic devices. Prior to the meeting, participants each download a same generated event ticket and the public key of the other meeting participant. At the meeting location, each individual's electronic device via a mobile application initiates close-proximity communication with the other mobile application; signs the ticket with its stored private key; exchanges signed tickets; verifies the received signed ticket using the downloaded public key; and compares the verified signed ticket with the downloaded ticket to authenticate the other individual. | 04-21-2016 |
20160108271 | SILVER NANOPARTICLE INKS COMPRISING AMINOMETHYLSILANES - An ink includes a plurality of silver nanoparticles, an aminomethylsilane viscosifier, and a hydrocarbon solvent. A method includes providing an ink including a plurality of silver nanoparticles, an aminomethylsilane viscosifier, and a hydrocarbon solvent, the method including printing an image on a substrate with the ink, and annealing the image on the substrate. An ink includes organoamine-stabilized silver nanoparticles, a viscosifier comprising N-(6-aminohexyl)aminomethyltriethoxysilane, and a hydrocarbon solvent. | 04-21-2016 |
20160108262 | LOW-FOAMING INK COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING FLUOROSURFACTANTS FOR INDIRECT PRINTING - The present disclosure provides an ink comprising a fluorosurfactant-stabilized polymer latex, which is suitable for use in an indirect printing method. | 04-21-2016 |
20160108190 | Tethered Organic Siloxy Network Film Compositions - An organo siloxy network film composition including at least one type of tether molecule having a siloxy functionality; at least one type of building block having a siloxy functionality; wherein the tether molecule and the building block each have the same siloxy functionality; and wherein the siloxy functionality in the organo siloxy network film is derived from the same siloxy functionality on both the tether molecules and the building blocks. | 04-21-2016 |
20160105559 | PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS FOR CUSTOMER SATISFACTION BASED ON AGENT PERCEPTION - Methods and systems determining customer satisfaction in a work environment via prescriptive analytics. Self-reported data related to the perception of an agent with respect to customer satisfaction in a work environment (e.g., a call center) can be collected via an interface (e.g., an agent dashboard) that allows the agent to enter the self-reported data regarding the customer satisfaction. The self-reported data can then be correlated with an actual customer satisfaction score associated with the agent to derive data indicative of an interaction between the agent and a customer(s). Feedback data can then be provided via the interface indicating a correctness of the self-reported data based on correlating the self-reported data with the actual customer satisfaction score. | 04-14-2016 |
20160093214 | VISION-BASED ON-STREET PARKED VEHICLE DETECTION VIA NORMALIZED-VIEW CLASSIFIERS AND TEMPORAL FILTERING - A system for estimating parking occupancy includes a vehicle-detection device including an adjustable mast supporting an image capture device at a select height. The image capture device acquires video of a current parking area. A computer processor in communication with the image capture device is configured to receive the video data and define a region of interest in the video data. The processor is further configured to perform a spatial transform on the ROI to transform the ROI to a normalized geometric space. The processor is further configured to apply features of a detected object in the normalized geometric space to a vehicle classifier—previously trained with samples acquired from a normalized camera perspective similar to the normalized geometric space—and determine the occupancy of the current parking area using an output of the classifier. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092734 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SETTLE DOWN TIME USING COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES - A method for detecting settle-down time in a space includes acquiring a sequence of frames capturing a select space from a first camera. The method includes determining an initial time for computing a duration it takes for an associated occupant to settle into a seat in the select space. The method includes determining one or more candidate frames from the sequence of frames where one or both of a sitting behavior and seat occupancy is observed at the seat. The method includes determining a final frame and a final time associated with the final frame from the one or more candidate frames. The method includes computing the settle-down time using the initial and the final times. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEAT OCCUPANCY DETECTION FROM CEILING MOUNTED CAMERA USING ROBUST ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD CRITERIA - A method for detecting sitting behavior includes acquiring a sequence of frames capturing a scene-of-interest at an overhead view. The method includes detecting at least one empty seat within the scene-of-interest and associating the seat as being unoccupied and the frame as a reference frame. The method includes extracting reference features describing a region of the unoccupied seat in the reference frame and quantifying the reference features to form a reference feature vector. The method includes extracting features describing the region in a given frame and quantifying the features to form a current feature vector. The method includes measuring a change in a feature vector over time using the reference feature vector and the current feature vector. The method includes and determining a status of the seat in the given frame as being one of occupied and unoccupied based on the change in the feature vector. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092473 | MULTI-QUERY PRIVACY-PRESERVING PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A privacy-preserving multi-query parking management system and method. An image of a vehicle with respect to a specific part (e.g., license plate) can be captured when the vehicle enters via an entry point. An image signature can be computed by embedding the image into a descriptor space and the image signature can be stored in a database together with relevant metadata. An image of a vehicle with respect to the specific part can be captured when the vehicle exits via at least one exit point and an image signature can be computed. An entry-exit association with respect to the vehicle can be performed by searching for a most similar image signature in the database. Additionally, given a textual query (e.g., a license plate number), a signature can be computed by embedding the text into the same descriptor space. | 03-31-2016 |
20160086125 | IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT COLLECTIVE DEFINITION OF LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY FOR METRICS BASED COMPETITIONS IN CALL CENTERS - Methods and systems for managing a metric-based competition in a work environment to increase productivity. Information related to a set of participants in a work environment can be received. One or more interfaces can be generated, which allow participants to input data for use in collaboratively defining key performance indicators associated with a proposed competition and based at least in part on the information related to the participants, so as to increase participant motivation by providing the participants with more agency and choice with respect to competitions in the work environment. | 03-24-2016 |
20160077471 | TRANSFER ASSIST MEMBERS - A transfer assist member comprising a plurality of layers, at least one of the layers being a check film layer comprised of a crosslinked alkoxyalkylated polyamide. | 03-17-2016 |
20160057413 | ROBUST COLORIMETRIC PROCESSING METHOD FOR PAPER BASED SENSORS - The present disclosure proposes a colorimetric method that couples sensor design with image processing to enable automated evaluation of test results obtained by paper-based sensors. The proposed method can match ink color and dye used in colorimetric reaction in terms of their absorption in spectral range (e.g., red, green, blue). A near-zero absorption channel can then be used to normalize absorption channels and construct a composite image. | 02-25-2016 |
20160051980 | DESIGN OF PAPER SENSOR - The present disclosure proposes a design of a biomedical paper sensor which can determine the concentration of biological materials in fluids such as blood, urine, and saliva. The sensor contains a plurality of axially radiating test zones, each test zone separated from other test zones by wax ink barriers formed by a process that produces thin walls. Each test zone can contain a unique test reagent, or a unique concentration of a test reagent, and can also be identified by printed text. The region of the device outside of the test zone area is printed with a uniform reference color. Benefits of the invention include increased accuracy in the measurement of the concentration of biological materials due to the larger test zone area. Benefits also include the integration of the reference or calibration color which simplifies the calibration needed for quantification of the concentration. | 02-25-2016 |
20160046079 | Ultra-Violet Curable Gel Ink And Process - A process including depositing a non-curable wax to form a mold; depositing one or more layers of an ultra-violet curable phase change gellant ink onto the mold; curing the ink layers; and removing the mold. A process including an ink set comprising a plurality of differently colored curable phase change inks, wherein each ink of the ink set comprises an ink vehicle, a gelling agent, a pigment, and a dispersant, wherein the dispersant is identical in each colored ink and the dispersant is present in a substantially same amount in each colored ink; combining at least two inks from the set prior to depositing; melting the at least two inks; mixing the at least two inks to form a custom color ink; depositing one or more layers of the custom color ink onto the mold; curing the one or more layers; and removing the mold. | 02-18-2016 |
20160032124 | ENCAPSULATED FLUORESCENT AND PHOTOCHROMIC DYE POLYURETHANE DISPERSION - The present disclosure provides an encapsulated dye dispersion and an inkjet ink comprising an ink vehicle and an encapsulated dye dispersion thereof. In particular, the encapsulated dye dispersion includes a fluorescent and/or photochromic dye. The present disclosure also provides a process for producing the encapsulated dye dispersion. | 02-04-2016 |
20160032123 | ENCAPSULATED VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORBING DYE POLYURETHANE DISPERSION - The present disclosure provides an encapsulated visible light absorbing dye dispersion, and the process for producing the same. The present disclosure further provides an inkjet ink comprising an ink vehicle and an encapsulated visible light absorbing dye dispersion thereof, and the process for producing the same. | 02-04-2016 |
20160032121 | ENCAPSULATED TITANIUM DIOXIDE, FLUORESCENT PIGMENTS, AND PIGMENTED POLYURETHANE DISPERSION - The present disclosure provides an encapsulated pigment dispersion and an inkjet ink comprising an ink vehicle and an encapsulated pigment dispersion thereof. In particular, the encapsulated pigment dispersion includes a pigment selected from TiO | 02-04-2016 |
20160026100 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PULSED DIRECT CURRENT MAGNETIC ACTUATED MILLING OF PIGMENT DISPERSIONS - A system for pigment milling includes a pulsing direct current (DC) source that generates a DC pulse, an electromagnetic field generating subunit that includes an electromagnetic coil coupled to the pulsing DC source to receive the DC pulse and to generate a magnetic field, and a rotating container subunit that includes a container for holding magnetic particles and ink pigment particles in an ink carrier, and a rotating subunit to rotate the container. A portion of the container is disposed within the electromagnetic coil and generation of the magnetic field causing motion of the magnetic particles thereby dispersing the ink pigment particles within the ink carrier. | 01-28-2016 |
20160004175 | Magenta Toner - A process for making a latex emulsion where distillation occurs at an elevated temperature is used to make resin particles with a conditioned surface which can be used to make magenta toner with increased efficiency. | 01-07-2016 |
20150379986 | VOICE RECOGNITION - A voice recognition method and system. A voice command can be received from a speech recognition unit associated with a device by a language switching module configured in association with the device. The voice command is recognized and processed into particular content to identify via a language database, a language associated with the device. The language can then be changed based on a detected language so that the language can be altered without reference to an instruction manual. In one scenario, a user walks toward the machine or device associated with the user device and speaks the desired/known language. The device “listens” to the voice detects the language and changes the user interface accordingly. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ADVANCED SINGLE PASS CLEANING OF A REIMAGEABLE SURFACE IN A VARIABLE DATA DIGITAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING DEVICE - A system and method are provided for enclosing a plurality of cleaning unit components in a moist cleaning unit environment, the plurality of cleaning unit components cooperating to employ a cleaner roller in an image forming device to facilitate effective cleaning of a reimageable surface in an image forming device using a proposed variable data digital lithographic image forming architecture. A range of solvents may be applied to a hard smooth high surface energy surface of the cleaner roll and a cleaning unit component internally positioned within the cleaning enclosure to clean the surface of the cleaner roll. Mechanical components are properly placed prior to the cleaner roll-reimageable surface nip to ensure that residual liquid on a surface of the cleaner roll is removed. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375497 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN ADVANCED INKER UNIT SURFACE CONDITIONING SYSTEM IN A VARIABLE DATA DIGITAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING DEVICE - A system and method are provided for providing an improved inker unit surface cleaning and conditioning system, including in a single anilox chamber blade system, for improving image quality, including eliminating ghosting, in a proposed variable data digital lithographic image forming architecture. Techniques are provided to remove acquired oil from an inking member. A particularly-configured containment encloses a cleaner (disturber) roller to emulsify the acquired oil on the inking roller. The cleaner roller is preferably configured with a pliable surface including a silicon roller surface over a porous base. The silicon roller (1) absorbs dampening solution oil; and (2) agitates ink that may be still held in certain cells/cavities of the inking member or roller. In embodiments, a vacuum pressure is applied to the inside of the hollow cleaner roller to better remove the residual ink and dampening solution from the inking roller. | 12-31-2015 |
20150361285 | Aqueous Ink Composition - An aqueous ink composition including water; a co-solvent; an encapsulated resinous pigment; a polymer latex; and a low molecular weight humectant solute; wherein the total solids content of the aqueous ink is from about 2 to about 25 percent by weight based on the total weight of the aqueous ink composition. | 12-17-2015 |
20150348429 | VIRTUAL TRAINER OPTIMIZER METHOD AND SYSTEM - This disclosure provides an augmented Virtual Trainer (VT) method and system. According to an exemplary system, a video based physiological metric system is integrated with a VT system to provide health and/or safety related data associated with a user of the VT system. According to an exemplary embodiment, the disclosed augmented VT system modifies an exercise routine based on the physiological metrics and/or provides audio signals to the user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347880 | CALCULATION OF TRAPPING PARAMETERS - This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for implementing a trapping operation on a digital image during image processing and prorating the size of trap color filter with respect to local irregularity in shape of any target object. Some examples of the present disclosure calculate a plurality of prorated trapping parameters to be applied to portions of an object in a printing process, the calculation being based on repeated generation and application of a 2D Gaussian mask to a binarized object to identify disappeared portions of the object. The calculated plurality of prorated trapping parameters may be applied to the object during the printing process. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347717 | HYBRID PERSONAL TRAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a hybrid personal training method and system according to an exemplary embodiment of the system, a personal trainer or physical therapist works remotely or locally with clients in conjunction with an automated self-learning/self-assessing system for supervising the progress of the clients in the absence of the trainer. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT-AWARE AND PERSONALIZED ACCESS TO VISUALIZATIONS OF ROAD EVENTS - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for context-aware and personalized access to data corresponding to an event. The data is related to multiple predefined parameters including a location, date, time, and a classifier representing a status or an impact intensity for the event. The method includes receiving the data and an event type for the data. The event type is selected from multiple predefined event types. The method also includes creating a hierarchical data structure configured to spatially index the data based on the selected event type. The hierarchical data structure includes a node representing the selected event type. The node is augmented using a linked list for referring to the data to be stored in a database. The node is associated with a frequency of occurrence of the selected event type. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347397 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENRICHING STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION MODELS - Methods and systems for enriching translation models. The first strength metric associated with a phrase in a first translation model is determined. The second strength metric associated with the phrase is received from at least one second translation model. The first translation model is enriched based on one or more translations of the phrase received from the at least one second translation model. The one or more translations are received based on a comparison between the first strength metric and the second strength metric. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347367 | USER EXPERIENCE FEEDBACK RECORDER - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically recording user experience feedback via an electronic device having or associated with a local user interface. A user experience feedback commenting module can be associated with the device to permit selection of a feedback mode utilizing a clearly marked toggle (e.g., UI soft- or hard-button) displayed on the user interface. The feedback comment about, for example, a particular device feature can be provided by the user when he or she enters data using, for example, a soft keyboard or other input feature displayed by the user interface. A user interface screen prior to switching into the feedback mode can be captured in response to activation of a screen capture option. The feedback comment can be captured in association with a reference number upon activation of a submit button and then transmitted to a collecting department or organization during a feedback collection mode. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION FROM LASER SCANS USING GLOBAL ALIGNMENT - A system and method for classifying vehicles from laser scan data by receiving laser scan data corresponding to multiple vehicles from a laser scanner; extracting vehicle shapes corresponding to the multiple vehicles based on the laser scan data; aligning the vehicle shapes; and generating vehicle profiles based on the aligned vehicle shapes. The system and method can further include aligning the vehicle shapes using sequence kernels, such as global alignment kernels, and constraining the sequence kernels based on determined weights. | 12-03-2015 |
20150345951 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING ROUTES IN A NAVIGATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for determining one or more routes in a navigation system. A request comprising a first set of parameters corresponding to a trip is received. The first set of parameters comprise at least one an originating node for the trip, a destination node for the trip, a start time for the trip, or a set of preferences associated with the trip. The one or more routes between the originating node and the destination node are determined based on the first set of parameters. Each of the one or more routes comprises at least one public transportation sub-trip traversed by a public vehicle and a private transportation sub-trip traversed by a private vehicle. The one or more routes are ranked based on a trip score associated with the one or more routes. The trip score is determined based on the set of preferences. | 12-03-2015 |
20150344750 | USE OF EPOXY FILM ADHESIVE WITH HIGH INK COMPATIBILITY AND THERMAL OXIDATIVE STABILITY FOR PRINTHEAD INTERSTITIAL BONDING IN IN HIGH DENSITY PRINTHEADS - An adhesive compound can include an uncured epoxy film having a curing temperature between about 80° C. and about 300° C. The uncured epoxy film can include a cresol novolac resin and a bisphenol A epoxy resin. The uncured epoxy film can have a thickness between about 0.1 mil and about 5 mil. | 12-03-2015 |
20150344714 | PALLADIUM INK COMPOSITIONS - An ink includes a palladium salt, an organic amine that forms a palladium complex from the palladium salt, and, at least one solvent, the solvent has a boiling point at about the decomposition temperature of the palladium complex. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343815 | IDLER ROLL WITH RETARD SPIN FUNCTION - A method and apparatus for preventing excess spin of idler rollers after a sheet of paper or other media has passed a media guide with the idler rollers including a retard function within plastic idler rollers. The retard function is provided by adding a retard flexure molded into the idler roller. This adds a brake which stops excess over spin of the idler rollers. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343797 | INDIRECT PRINTING APPARATUS EMPLOYING SACRIFICIAL COATING ON INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER - A sacrificial coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The sacrificial coating composition comprises a latex comprising polymer particles dispersed in a continuous liquid phase; at least one hygroscopic material; at least one surfactant; and water. | 12-03-2015 |
20150339553 | AUTOMATIC PRINT JOB TICKET SETTINGS BASED ON RASTER IMAGES OF PREVIOUSLY PRINTED DOCUMENT - Exemplary methods and devices herein receive the images of a previously printed document (through scanning, raster image processing, etc.), a second document to be printed, and instructions to use print settings of the previously printed document to print the second document. These methods and devices automatically detect page boundaries, detect page orientation, and detect page sequencing within the images of the previously printed document to identify previous layout parameters used to print the previously printed document. With this, these methods and devices automatically prepare a print job ticket for the second document that has job ticket layout parameters that match the previous layout parameters. After this, these methods and devices output (e.g., print or transmit for additional revisions/processing) the second document using the newly created print job ticket to cause the second document to match the previous layout parameters of the previously printed document. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING MACHINE PRINTED TEXT AND HANDWRITTEN TEXT - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for classifying machine printed text and handwritten text in an input are disclosed. For example, the method defines a perspective for an auto-encoder, receives the input for the auto-encoder, wherein the input comprises a document comprising the machine printed text and the handwritten text, performs an encoding on the input using an auto-encoder to generate a classifier, applies the classifier on the input and generates an output that separates the machine printed text and the handwritten text in the input based on the classifier in accordance with the perspective. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339441 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTACHING ELECTRONIC VERSIONS OF PAPER DOCUMENTS TO ASSOCIATED PATIENT RECORDS IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS - A system and method for automated entry of electronic versions of paper documents into corresponding patient records in an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is provided. A natural language parsing component extracts named entity information from electronic versions of patient-related paper documents and determines the EHR patients which correspond to the electronic versions. The electronic versions are classified by medical procedure and matched with EHR patient orders obtained from querying the EHR. The electronic versions with are matched to EHR patient orders are entered into the EHR and notifications for the electronic versions which are not matched are generated. | 11-26-2015 |
20150337147 | REVERSIBLE POLYMERS IN 3-D PRINTING - An ink jettable 3-D material composition includes a reversible polymer material, which can reversibly transition between a liquid state and a solid state by reversible cyclo-addition reactions, wherein upon cooling, the reversible polymer material transitions from a liquid state to a solid state by reversible cyclo-addition reactions within a time period of less than about 10 seconds. | 11-26-2015 |
20150336762 | PAPER DUST REMOVAL DEVICE - A method and apparatus for removing excess paper dust from paper fed from a high capacity feeder module that includes blades positioned after an exit of the high capacity feeder module that are configured to physically remove paper dust from sheets generated during feeding of the sheets by a fully active retard feeder from the high capacity feeder module. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION PREDICTION USING SHORT TEXT - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for predicting a location of a short text are disclosed. For example, the method trains a model for each parent node of a grid of a plurality of parent nodes of a geographical area using a plurality of previously received short texts having a known location, receives the short text, applies a hierarchical modeling algorithm to the short text to calculate a weighted probability for one or more child nodes of one or more of the plurality of parent nodes and predicts the location of the short text within the grid of the geographical area based upon a child node of the one or more child nodes having a highest weighted probability. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332588 | SHORT-TIME STOPPING DETECTION FROM RED LIGHT CAMERA EVIDENTIARY PHOTOS - A method for detecting a vehicle running a stop signal includes acquiring at least two evidentiary images of a candidate violating vehicle captured from at least one camera monitoring an intersection. The method includes extracting feature points in each of the at least two evidentiary images. The method includes computing feature descriptors for each of the extracted feature points. The method includes determining a correspondence between feature points having matching feature descriptors at different locations in the at least two evidentiary images. The method includes extracting at least one attribute for each correspondence. The method includes determining if the candidate violating vehicle is in violation of running the stop signal using the extracted attribute. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332457 | INCREASING ACCURACY OF A PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO OF A SUBJECT - What is disclosed is a system and method for increasing the accuracy of physiological signals obtained from video of a subject being monitored for a desired physiological function. In one embodiment, image frames of a video are received. Successive batches of image frames are processed. For each batch, pixels associated with an exposed body region of the subject are isolated and processed to obtain a time-series signal. If movement occurred during capture of these image frames that is below a pre-defined threshold level then parameters of a predictive model are updated using this batch's time-series signal. Otherwise, the last updated predictive model is used to generate a predicted time-series signal for this batch. The time-series signal is fused with the predicted time-series signal to obtain a fused time-series signal. The time-series signal for each batch is processed to obtain a physiological signal for the subject corresponding to the physiological function. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332097 | SHORT-TIME STOPPING DETECTION FROM RED LIGHT CAMERA VIDEOS - A method for detecting a vehicle running a stop signal positioned at an intersection includes acquiring a sequence of frames from at least one video camera monitoring an intersection being signaled by the stop signal. The method includes defining a first region of interest (ROI) including a road region located before the intersection on the image plane. The method includes searching the first ROI for a candidate violating vehicle. In response to detecting the candidate violating vehicle, the method includes tracking at least one trajectory of the detected candidate violating vehicle across a number of frames. The method includes classifying the candidate violating vehicle as belonging to one of a violating vehicle and a non-violating vehicle based on the at least one trajectory. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331965 | CREATION OF VARIABLE CUT FILES FOR PACKAGE DESIGN - A package design system creates a package design file. The file includes comprises a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional structure having a plurality of facets having alternative design scenarios that can be selected based on conditions of the cutting and/or folding device that is used to create the package. An example of such a condition is a thickness of a substrate that is being processed by the device. The system creates the file by creating a set of cut and/or fold line definitions. At least one of the cut and/or fold line definitions will be a variable cut/fold line definition. For each identified variable cut/fold line definition, the system identifies one or more alternate parameters for the variable cut/fold line definition, a first cutting/folding scenario that will not use the alternate parameters, and a second cutting/folding scenario that will use the alternate parameters. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331644 | AUTOMATICALLY PRINTING ONLY PAGES CONTAINING BLANK SIGNATURE LINES - Methods and devices receive, into a graphical user interface of a computerized device, an instruction to print an item. Such methods and devices automatically identify one or more blank signature lines within the item using a processor of the computerized device, and automatically output an option on the graphical user interface to print only one or more pages of the item that contain the blank signature lines. Upon selection of the option through the graphical user interface, these methods and devices automatically print only the pages of the item containing the blank signature lines using a printer operatively connected to the computerized device. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331358 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ADVANCED TONER DISPENSING AND EMPTYING OF TONER CARTRIDGE COMPONENTS IN IMAGE FORMING DEVICES - A system and method are provided for operating an image forming device in a first processor-controlled toner control operating mode to maintain a substantially constant dispense rate of toner material from a toner source or bottle. The disclosed systems and methods improve toner material dispensing from the toner source or bottle in the image forming device by transitioning to a second processor-controlled toner control operating mode as an amount of toner material in the toner source or bottle is determined to be in a depleted, or nearly-exhausted, state. The disclosed systems and methods compensate for a determined decrease in a toner dispense rate occurring as an amount of toner material remaining in the toner source or bottle is nearly depleted. One or more toner control parameters, including a pixel count gain, are modified in the second processor-controlled toner control operating mode. | 11-19-2015 |
20150328889 | PRINTHEAD WITH NARROW ASPECT RATIO - A printhead includes an aperture plate having an array of nozzles therethrough. The printhead further includes an array of jets fluidly connected to an ink supply chamber, each jet comprising a body chamber having a length:width ratio of at least 3:1. The body chamber comprises a first end, and a second end opposite the first end, the first end and the second end defining a height. Ink flows into body chamber through an inlet, and an outlet on the first end is fluidly connected to a nozzle. A diaphragm is present adjacent the second end of each body chamber in the array of jets. The body chambers are angled relative to a row of nozzles. | 11-19-2015 |
20150328835 | STABILIZED METALLIC NANOPARTICLES FOR 3D PRINTING - A material for use in a 3D printer. The material may include a plurality of metallic particles and a stabilizing material. The metallic particles may have an average cross-sectional length that is less than or equal to about 100 nm. The stabilizing material may include an organoamine, carboxylic acid, thiol and derivatives thereof, xanthic acid, polyethylene glycols, polyvinylpyridine, polyninylpyrolidone, or a combination thereof. | 11-19-2015 |
20150324954 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED ORIENTATION DETECTION AND CORRECTION - Some embodiments are directed to a method of automatically modifying a scanned image of a page from an input document comprising a plurality of pages. First, scanned images of the plurality of pages are obtained. Next, a user selection for an output orientation of an output document and optionally value of N for an N-Up operation is received. Thereafter, input orientation of each scanned image is detected. Then, the scanned image is rotated, based on the detected input orientation, the output orientation and the value of ‘N’ if provided by the user. Next, the rotated scanned image content is resized so that it fits on a page. Finally, the output document is prepared that includes pages in the output orientation. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324669 | DYNAMIC SPOOLER LOAD BALANCING - Methods and systems monitor print data being retrieved by a dedicated spooler of a printing device, and monitor the quantity of print data within the print queue to be printed by a printing engine of the printing device. The dedicated spooler and the printing engine share computing resources and, therefore, the processing activities of the dedicated spooler slow processing activities of the printing engine. These methods and systems dynamically reduce the rate at which the print data is retrieved by the dedicated spooler based on the quantity of documents within the print queue to increase printing speed (for example, these methods and systems can reduce the rate at which the print data is retrieved by the dedicated spooler based on the quantity of print data within the print queue being above a threshold amount). | 11-12-2015 |
20150324653 | VEHICLE OCCUPANCY DETECTION USING PASSENGER TO DRIVER FEATURE DISTANCE - A method, system, and apparatus for vehicle occupancy detection comprises collecting image data of a vehicle, creating a first value according to a plurality of characteristics of a driver position of the vehicle, and then creating at least one other value according to a plurality of characteristics of at least one other candidate occupant position in the vehicle. The characteristics of the driver position of the vehicle and candidate occupant position of the vehicle are compared in order to determine the vehicle occupancy. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCORPORATING ADDITIONAL CONTENT IN A PRINTED DOCUMENT AT A TIME OF PRINTING - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for incorporating additional content in a document at a time of processing are disclosed. For example, the method initiates a request to process a document, receives an option to include one or more additional content to the document, selects at least one additional content to add to the printed document from the endpoint device at the time of processing, defines at least one access control of the at least one additional content and sends the request to process the document, wherein the at least one additional content is incorporated into the document that is processed and the at least one additional content has the at least one access control. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNIVERSAL CONTROL OF NETWORKED DEVICES - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for communicating a command to a networked device that requires a driver via an endpoint device that does not have the driver installed are disclosed. For example, the method establishes a first connection with virtual device server, establishes a second connection with a universal device driver API server, transmits a command to the universal device driver API server, receives a translated command compatible with the driver of the networked device from the virtual device server, wherein the translated command is received by the virtual device server from the driver that is called by the universal device driver API server, establishes a third connection with the networked device using identical connection information associated with the second connection with the virtual device server and transmits the translated command to the networked device over the third connection. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324155 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NETWORK-BASED EXTENSIBLE INTERFACE PLATFORM FOR MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES - Methods and systems for accessing a network-based extensible interface platform via multifunction devices. The extensible interface platform can be hosted on a network server accessible via a network in communication with the network server. An access to a device that communicates with the network server via the network can be authenticated in response to invoking a login procedure at the device. An account can be automatically linked to the network server after authenticating access to the device. The extensible interface platform can be loaded onto a local user interface associated with the device to present an extensible interface platform workflow associated with the account even though the extensible interface platform is not installed at the device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150321467 | AQUEOUS INK JET BLANKET - There is described a transfer member or blanket for use in aqueous ink jet printer. The transfer member includes a surface layer having a surface roughness (Ra) of from about 50 nm to about 5 microns. The surface layer has a surface energy between 8 mN/m | 11-12-2015 |
20150319328 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSOR-READABLE MEDIA FOR PREVENTING RENDERING JOBS/SETS FROM BEING SPLIT BEFORE STACKER IS FULL - Methods, systems and processor-readbale media for preventing a job/set splitting across a stacker. A splitting prevention module can be configured to include a prevent job splitting feature or a prevent set splitting feature. The prevent job splitting feature and the prevent set splitting feature can be selected by a user so that the stacker will not begin stacking the job/set unless the stacker possesses a capacity for stacking the complete job/set. The stacker automatically unloads the job/set with respect to a job/set boundary provided by the user. Such an approach prevents the jobs/sets from being split when the stacker goes full. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE CARPOOLING IN A WORK CONTEXT - A computer implemented method of forming carpools. Lists of participants in a rideshare environment are maintained. The participants are members of a private group and have privileges based on membership. A location of a participant is automatically determined based on a location detection method. A driver from the list of participants is automatically identified based on a current location of the driver. The driver proposes a trip comprising an approximate start time, approximate start location, end location, and number of available seats. Requests for transportation are received from passengers who are participants on the list of participants. For each available seat, the requests for transportation are automatically matched with the trip based on the approximate start time, the approximate start location, or the end location. Only certain passengers are matched with certain drivers. The matching identifies proposed riders. A finalized start time and finalized start location are negotiated between the proposed riders and the driver. The driver publishes the finalized start time and finalized start location. The proposed riders are automatically notified of the finalized start time, and the finalized start location. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317546 | AUTOMATIC ACCESS TO HIGH-LEVEL EXPLANATIONS OF SCHEDULING CONFLICTS IN PRINT ENGINE SCHEDULES - Methods and devices receive scheduling constraints for sheets of print media being processed as a print job through a printing device, and prepare a timing schedule for each of the sheets of print media based on the scheduling constraints. The timing schedule determines a location of each of the sheets of print media relative to the processing components of the printing device and relative to a linear time scale. Such methods and devices augment the timing schedule to produce an augmented timing schedule by adding explanatory text to the timing schedule, and receive user input selecting a portion of the augmented timing schedule. In response to the user input that selects a portion of the augmented timing schedule, the methods and devices output corresponding portions of the explanatory text that correspond to a location on the linear time scale represented by the selected portion of the augmented timing schedule. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317411 | DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF DETAILED FLAT DESIGN BASED ON DESIRED FINAL STRUCTURAL ATTRIBUTES - A method and system for creating a customized package design. Package design and preference information related to a shape of the package design is received. The preference information includes user-specified information related to one or more levels of one or more structural attributes of the package design. A detailed design is generated that incorporates the user-specified information and a detailed design file is generated and output. Generation of the detailed design includes identifying functional elements associated with the package that correspond to the user-specified information and altering at least one physical characteristic of the identified functional elements based upon the preference information, and incorporating the altered physical characteristic into the detailed design. A determination can be made as to whether the altered detailed design satisfies any constraints associated with the package being design, and the detailed design file can be updated accordingly. | 11-05-2015 |
20150316866 | CARRIER AND DEVELOPER - Disclosed is a carrier suitable for use with an electrophotographic developer and an electrophotographic developer containing the carrier. In particular, the carrier is powder coated and comprises a copolymer of cyclohexylmethacrylate and dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate. | 11-05-2015 |
20150315409 | FILM-FORMING HYDROPHILIC POLYMERS FOR TRANSFIX PRINTING PROCESS - Provided is a coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The coating composition can include at least one hydrophilic polymer, at least one of hygroscopic plasticizer, at least one surfactant, and water. | 11-05-2015 |
20150315403 | SACRIFICIAL COATING AND INDIRECT PRINTING APPARATUS EMPLOYING SACRIFICIAL COATING ON INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER - A coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system is disclosed. The coating composition comprises: at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of i) polyvinyl alcohol and ii) a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and alkene monomers; at least one hygroscopic material; and at least one surfactant. An indirect printing apparatus and an indirect printing process employing the coating composition are also disclosed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150315395 | PROCESS FOR THERMALLY STABLE OLEOPHOBIC LOW ADHESION COATING FOR INKJET PRINTHEAD FRONT FACE - A coating for an ink jet printhead front face, wherein the coating comprises an oleophobic low adhesion coating having high thermal stability as indicated by less than about 15 percent weight loss when heated to up to 300° C., and wherein a drop of ultra-violet (UV) gel ink or a drop of solid ink exhibits a contact angle of greater than about 50° and sliding angle of less than about 30° with a surface of the coating, wherein the coating maintains the contact angle and sliding angle after the coating has been exposed to a temperature of at least 260° C. for at least 30 minutes. | 11-05-2015 |
20150314589 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A RELEASE FILM FOR A CLEANING UNIT IN AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE USING DIGITAL OFFSET LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING TECHNIQUES - A system and method are provided for depositing a release layer/film on a cleaner roller in an image forming device to facilitate effective cleaning of a reimageable surface in an image forming device using a proposed variable data digital lithographic image forming architecture. A borax or other solute solution is deposited on a surface of a cleaner roller and an air knife is used to evaporate a liquid component of the solution causing the liquid to come off and a thin-film of borax or other solute to remain on the surface of the cleaner roller. The thin film layer is then dry at a point of contact with the reimageable surface to recover residual ink from the reimageable surface with the surface of the cleaner roller on top of the thin film layer. The thin film layer is re-wetted to support efficient transfer of the ink to a web. | 11-05-2015 |
20150313502 | DETERMINING ARTERIAL PULSE WAVE TRANSIT TIME FROM VPG AND ECG/EKG SIGNALS - What is disclosed is a system and method for determining arterial pulse wave transit time for a subject. In one embodiment, a video is received comprising a plurality of time-sequential image frames of a region of exposed skin of a subject where a videoplethysmographic (VPG) signal can be registered by at least one imaging channel of the video device used to capture that video. Also received is an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal obtained using at least one sensor placed on the subject's body where a ECG signal can be obtained. Batches of image frames are processed to obtain a continuous VPG signal for the subject. Temporally overlapping VPG and ECG signals are analyzed to obtain a pulse wave transit time between a reference point on the VPG signal and a reference point on the ECG signal. The pulse transit time is used to assess pathologic conditions such as peripheral vascular disease. | 11-05-2015 |
20150312529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-BASED DETERMINATION OF QUEUE CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS - A method for automatically determining a dynamic queue configuration includes acquiring a series of frames from an image source surveying a queue area. The method includes detecting at least one subject in a frame. The method includes tracking locations of each detected subject across the series of frames. The method includes generating calibrated tracking data by mapping the tracking locations to a predefined coordinate system. The method includes localizing a queue configuration descriptor based on the tracking data. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF OPERATING PROCEDURES FROM RECORDED TROUBLESHOOTING SESSIONS - A method for generating procedures includes receiving a log of a troubleshooting session. The log includes device data including a sequence of detected operations performed on the device causing respective components to change states. Steps of a candidate operating procedure are generated, based on the log, each corresponding to one of the detected operations. Missing steps may be identified, based on state charts and/or stored operability constraints for the device. The candidate operating procedure is compared with existing operating procedures stored in a knowledge base for the device to identify at least one existing operating procedure which includes steps which match at least some of the steps of the candidate operating procedure and, based on the identified at least one existing operating procedure, generating a textual description based on the textual description of the matching steps. The candidate procedure can be presented to an editor for validation. | 10-29-2015 |
20150311613 | LATCH APPARATUS FOR RETAINING A FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT CABLE WITHIN A RECEPTACLE MOUNTED ON A CIRCUIT BOARD - A latch apparatus for retaining a flexible circuit cable within a receptacle mounted on a circuit board comprises a latch body having a second planar side comprising opposing alignment pins positioned at a first edge and a second edge of the body. A second end of the body comprises alignment protrusions extending from the second end in a first direction. The second end also comprises clamping protrusions extending from the second end in the first direction. The clamping protrusions are a distance from the alignment protrusions equal to a thickness of the circuit board. A latch member extends from the second end. The latch member comprises a linear clip surface extending from the latch in a direction perpendicularly away from the second planar side, and the linear clip surface runs in a second direction and has a length less than a width of the receptacle. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310954 | STRETCHABLE CONDUCTIVE FILM BASED ON SILVER NANOPARTICLES - An article of manufacture includes a substrate and a stretchable, conductive film. The stretchable, conductive film includes a plurality of annealed silver nanoparticles disposed on the substrate. The conductive film can be formed from a liquid composition comprising silver nanoparticles in a decalin solvent. The conductive film can further include a first conductivity associated with an as-annealed shape of the conductive film, and the film can include a second conductivity upon being stretched in at least one direction beyond the as-annealed shape. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310628 | METHOD FOR REDUCING FALSE OBJECT DETECTION IN STOP-AND-GO SCENARIOS - Video-based object tracking accuracy is improved by a tentative identification of objects to be tracked. An identified blob that does not encompass a previously established set of tracking features (“tracker”) triggers initialization of an infant tracker. If that tracker remains the only tracker or becomes the “oldest” tracker associated with a blob identified in subsequent video frames, the “age” of the tracker is increased. If, in subsequent frames, the tracker is encompassed by a blob that is associated with an “older” tracker, the “age” of the tracker is decreased. Infant trackers that reach or exceed a threshold “age” are promoted to adult status. Adult trackers can be processed as being associated with valid objects. Trackers established for blobs identified due to mask segmentation tend not to cause false object detections. When segmentation is corrected, blob segments are combined and redundant trackers for the associated object are demoted and ignored. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-BASED DETECTION OF DRIVE-AROUNDS IN A RETAIL SETTING - A system and method for detection of drive-arounds in a retail setting. An embodiment includes acquiring images of a retail establishment, analyzing the images to detect entry of a customer onto the premises of the retail establishment, tracking a detected customer's location as the customer traverses the premises of the retail establishment, analyzing the images to detect exit of the detected customer from the premises of the retail establishment, and generating a drive-around notification if the customer does not enter a prescribed area or remain on the premises of the retail location for at least a prescribed minimum period of time. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-BASED DETECTION OF DRIVE-OFFS AND WALK-OFFS IN VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN QUEUES - A system and method for detecting customer drive-off/walk-off from a customer queue. An embodiment includes acquiring images of a retail establishment, said images including at least a portion of a customer queue region, determining a queue configuration within the images, analyzing the images to detect entry of a customer into the customer queue, tracking a customer detected in the customer queue as the customer progresses within the queue, analyzing the images to detect if the customer leaves the customer queue, and generating a drive-off notification if a customer leaves the queue. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310370 | VIDEO TRACKING BASED METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SEQUENCING OF VEHICLES IN DRIVE-THRU APPLICATIONS - A method for updating an event sequence includes acquiring video data of a queue area from at least one image source; searching the frames for subjects located at least near a region of interest (ROI) of defined start points in the video data; tracking a movement of each detected subject through the queue area over a subsequent series of frames; using the tracking, determining if a location of the a tracked subject reaches a predefined merge point where multiple queues in the queue area converge into a single queue lane; in response to the tracked subject reaching the predefined merge point, computing an observed sequence of where the tracked subject places among other subjects approaching an end-event point; and, updating a sequence of end-events to match the observed sequence of subjects in the single queue lane. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-BASED DETECTION OF GOODS RECEIVED EVENT IN A VEHICULAR DRIVE-THRU - A system and method for detection of a goods-received event includes acquiring images of a retail location including a vehicular drive-thru, determining a region of interest within the images, the region of interest including at least a portion of a region in which goods are delivered to a customer, and analyzing the images using at least one computer vision technique to determine when goods are received by a customer. The analyzing includes identifying at least one item belonging to a class of items, the at least one item's presence in the region of interest being indicative of a goods-received event. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310274 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING STATIC OCCLUSIONS - This disclosure provides a method and system to locate/detect static occlusions associated with an image captured scene including a tracked object. According to an exemplary method, static occlusions are automatically located by monitoring the motion of single or multiple objects in a scene over time and with the use of an associated accumulator array. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310273 | STATIC OCCLUSION HANDLING USING DIRECTIONAL PIXEL REPLICATION IN REGULARIZED MOTION ENVIRONMENTS - This disclosure provides a static occlusion handling method and system for use with appearance-based video tracking algorithms where static occlusions are present. The method and system assumes that the objects to be tracked move in according to structured motion patterns within a scene, such as vehicles moving along a roadway. A primary concept is to replicate pixels associated with the tracked object from previous frames to current or future frames when the tracked object coincides with a static occlusion, where the predicted motion of the tracked object is a basis for replication of the pixels. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310177 | SOCIAL MEDICAL NETWORK FOR DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE - A method for diagnosis assistance exploits similarity between a new medical case and existing medical cases and experts when embedded in a common embedding space. Different types of queries are provided for, including a query-by-cases and a query-by-experts. These may be associated with different cost structures that encourage the requester to use the query-by-cases first and seek expert assistance if this proves unsuccessful. Depending on whether the query-by-cases or query-by-experts is requested, a subset of the existing cases or experts is identified based on the similarity of their representations, in the embedding space, with a representation of the new case in the embedding space. There may then be provision for communicating the new case to a selected one or more of the subset of experts for the expert to attempt to provide a diagnosis. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING A POPULATION TO PREDICT INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR USING LOCATION DATA FROM SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for predicting a location behavior of at least one individual are disclosed. For example, the method receives a plurality of social networking messages having spatial location data and user identification information, filters the plurality of social networking messages to remove one or more of the plurality of social networking messages that are not related to mobility of a user to create a filtered plurality of social networking messages, creates a population model by applying a kernel density estimation to the filtered plurality of social networking messages, creates an individual model for each different user identification by applying the kernel density estimation to a subset of the filtered plurality of social networking messages for the each different user identification and generates a probability density function map that predicts the location behavior of the at least one individual. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309453 | DUAL LAYER COMPOSITE COATING AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A member for a fuser assembly of a printer. The member may include a support body and a composite coating disposed on an outer surface of the support body. The composite coating may include a fluororesin and a nanocarbon material dispersed within the fluororesin. The nanocarbon material may be present in a higher concentration proximate the support body and a lower concentration proximate an outer surface of the composite coating. The lower concentration may be less than or equal to about 2 wt % of the nanocarbon material. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309452 | CARBON NANOPARTICLE AND FLUORPOLYMER COMPOSITE FUSER COATING - A fuser comprises a substrate and a composite layer formed on the substrate. The composite layer comprises a fluoropolymer and at least one of (a) perfluorosulfonated polymer-treated, carbon nanotube-comprising particles, and (b) perfluorosulfonated polymer-treated, graphene-comprising particles. Methods of making a fuser and methods of fusing toner particles are also disclosed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A VAPOR CONDENSATION TECHNIQUE FOR DELIVERING A UNIFORM LAYER OF DAMPENING SOLUTION IN AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE USING A VARIABLE DATA DIGITAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PROCESS - A system and method are provided for depositing a uniform layer of a dampening solution using a vapor deposition/condensation process or technique on a reimageable surface in an image forming device using a proposed variable data digital lithographic image forming architecture that transfers ink at an efficiency rate in excess of 95 percent. A reimageable surface is configured of a low surface energy surface component that directly accepts a vaporized dampening solution having a lower surface energy than the surface energy of the reimageable surface. A uniformity in the layer of condensed dampening solution on the reimageable surface is a product of the relative difference in the low surface energy of the reimageable surface and the lower surface energy of the dampening solution. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307727 | Release Agent Composition For Tandem Solid Inkjet Imaging Systems Having Improved Wettability - Functional amine release agents displaying improved wetting as compared to standard silicone oils comprise a polydimethylsiloxane oil and a functional amine selected from the group consisting of pendant propylamines and pendant N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyl, in which the concentration of functional amine to polydimethylsiloxane oil is approximately less than 0.0006 meq/g and the release agents have a viscosity of 20 cSt and 10 cSt. In an in-line tandem print system, the 20 cSt release agent is used in the upstream print engine while the 10 cSt release agent is used in the downstream print engine. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307723 | INK WITH ENHANCED WETTING PROPERTIES - An ink for a printer may include one or more latexes in an amount from about 0.1 wt % to about 15 wt %, one or more amines in an amount from about 0 wt % to about 2 wt %, and one or more pigments in an amount from about 0.5 wt % to about 8 wt %. The ink may also include four or more solvents that, in the aggregate, are present in an amount from about 10 wt % to about 50 wt %. The ink may further include one or more surfactants in an amount from about 0.001 wt % to about 3 wt %. | 10-29-2015 |
20150306867 | Release Agent Composition For Improved Coefficient of Friction - A functional amine release agent displaying reduced coefficient of friction as compared to standard silicone oils, comprises a polydimethylsiloxane oil and a functional amine selected from the group consisting of pendant propylamines and pendant N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyl. The concentration of functional amine to polydimethylsiloxane oil is approximately less than 0.0001 meq/g. According to certain embodiments, the functional amine release agent is operable to impart a coefficient of friction of about 0.5 or more to the print media, resulting in improved finishing and converting equipment interaction. The release agent may have a viscosity of about 50 cSt. | 10-29-2015 |
20150305140 | CIRCUIT BOARD REFLOW OF COMPONENTS USING ON BOARD COPPER TRACES AS HEATING ELEMENT - An electronic circuit board has at least one copper trace, at least one array of contact pads connected to the copper trace, a heater connected to the copper trace, wherein when heat is applied to the copper trace, solder in the array of contact pads will reflow. An electronic circuit board system has an electronic circuit board. The electronic circuit board includes at least one copper trace, at least one array of contact pads connected to the copper trace, a heater connection to the copper trace, wherein when heat is applied to the copper trace, solder in the array of contact pads with reflow, and a heater to connect to the copper trace, wherein when heat is applied to the copper trace, solder in the array of contact pads will reflow. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304735 | LAYERED VIDEO TRANSMISSION OVER COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - Embodiments of a method are disclosed for transmitting one or more videos provided by one or more video cameras disposed at a mobile object traveling along a pre-defined route. The method includes receiving the videos, bandwidth map data for multiple communication channels, travel time data for the mobile object, and service level agreement (SLA) parameters. The received video is transformed into multiple video layers. For each video layer, a transmission cost over the multiple communication channels is computed based on the bandwidth map data, the travel time data and the SLA parameters. Out of the multiple communication channels, a particular communication channel is selected for each video layer, which has the minimum transmission cost over the selected communication channel. The video layers are scheduled for transmission over the respective selected communication channels. The scheduled video layers are transmitted with respect to at least one of the SLA parameters. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304521 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR PRINTABLE OR SCANNED CONTENT - Methods and devices receive a document comprising raster images, using an optical scanner. These methods and devices automatically identify topical items within the raster images based on raster content in the raster images, using a processor. Further, these methods and devices automatically associate the topical items with topics in the document based on previously established rules for identifying topical sections, and automatically crop the topical items from the raster images to produce cropped portions of the raster images, using the processor. These methods and devices then automatically create an index for the document by combining the cropped portions of the raster images organized by the topics, using the processor, and output the index from the processor. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERY OF SCAN JOBS IN DISCONNECTED NETWORK TOPOLOGIES - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for delivering a document obtained on a remote network that is disconnected from a protected network are disclosed. For example, the method receives the document at the remote network that is disconnected from the protected network, stores the document on the mobile endpoint device, detects a presence of the protected network, delivers the document to a repository on the protected network and deletes the document from the mobile endpoint device. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304315 | SEMI-TRUSTED DATA-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORM - A system and method provide for shared access to a database in a semi-trusted platform. In the method, for each of a set of users, provision is made for regenerating a respective user key, based on a respective predefined user input, such as a hashed password. One or more of the users is authorized to have access to an encrypted database. For each of these, the method includes encrypting a key for the encrypted database with the respective user's user key to generate an encrypted database key. During a user session, one of the authorized users is provided with access to the encrypted database by decrypting the database key from the encrypted database key with the respective user's user key, and decrypting the database, from the encrypted database, with the database key. The database key and each user's user key are not stored on the platform and are thus inaccessible to platform administrators and unauthorized users between user sessions. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302611 | VEHICLE DIMENSION ESTIMATION FROM VEHICLE IMAGES - A method and system for determining one or more dimension estimations for a vehicle. A sequence of image frames of a vehicle is received, and a digital representation of the vehicle is extracted from each image in the sequence of image frames. A bounding box is determined for the vehicle based upon the extracted digital representation for each digital representation of the vehicle and at least one dimension of the vehicle is estimated based upon the determined bounding box. An indication of the at least one estimated dimension is output. The indication of at least one estimated dimension is transferred as an input to a comparison technique for further processing the indication of the at least one estimated dimension. The comparison technique can include a parking determination process configured to determine a recommended spot for the vehicle based upon the indication of the at least one estimated dimension. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302423 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CATEGORIZING USERS - Methods and systems for categorizing users. A first set of communities and a second set of communities are identified based on a set of keywords and one or more messages posted by at least the users on one or more websites. The first set of communities corresponds to at least one of a product or a service, and second set of communities corresponds to at least one of a competitor-product or a competitor-service. The one or more conversations associated a user in at least one of the first set of communities or the second set of communities are determined. The one or more conversations correspond to exchange of messages at least between the user and a user-representative. The one or more conversations are analyzed to obtained one or more attributes. The users are categorized based on the one or more attributes. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302386 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING DOCUMENT BANKING ON MOBILE DEVICES - The disclosure discloses a method facilitating transfer of documents from a document bank account to a mobile device, the method includes authenticating a user to login into the document bank account; upon successful authentication, retrieving and displaying a list having one or more documents associated with the document bank account, the list of one or more documents is stored in a storage repository; receiving one or more documents selected by the user for transfer and corresponding transfer type for each of the one or more documents, the transfer type for each of the documents includes transferring a document in the form of a document, or transferring a document in the form of a QR (Quick Response) code; and based on the transfer type, transferring the documents from the document bank account to the mobile device. Additionally, the transferred documents are transacted to a document account of another user. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302243 | DISTANCE BASED BINARY CLASSIFIER OF HANDWRITTEN WORDS - This disclosure provides methods and systems to classify handwritten words associated with an answer to a question. According to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, a reference dictionary is constructed as a function of a known answer to the question, the reference dictionary including handwritten characters which are used for comparison purposes to determine if the handwritten answer if correct or not. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302155 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING HEALTH CONDITION OF HUMAN SUBJECT - Disclosed are the methods and systems for classifying one or more patients in one or more categories. A distribution of one or more physiological parameters associated with the one or more patients is determined based on a patient dataset. The one or more physiological parameters correspond to at least a stroke scale score. One or more parameters associated with a copula are estimated by the one or more processors. In an embodiment, the copula defines a joint distribution of the one or more physiological parameters. A classifier is created based on the one or more parameters, wherein the classifier classifies the one or more patients in the one or more categories. The one or more categories correspond to a range of the stroke scale score. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPUTER CONTROL SIGNALS FROM BREATH ATTRIBUTES - A method for computing output using a non-contact (invisible) input signal includes acquiring depth data of a scene captured by a depth-capable sensor. The method includes generating a temporal series of depth maps corresponding to the depth data. The method includes generating at least one volumetric attribute from the depth data. The method includes generating an output based on the volumetric attribute to control actions. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301467 | TONER RESINS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING THE SAME - Unsaturated polyester resins and processes for making the same are disclosed herein. In particular, the process for making the resin provides resins with improved properties. The unsaturated polyester resins have substantially reduced free fumaric acid as compared to that made from conventional processes. The toner resins are used to prepare toner compositions that have improved performance. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301466 | TONER RESINS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING THE SAME - Amorphous polyester resins and processes for making the same are disclosed herein. In particular, the process for making the resin provides resins with improved properties. The amorphous polyester resins have substantially reduced free fumaric acid as compared to that made from conventional processes. The toner resins are used to prepare toner compositions the have improved performance. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301463 | Toner Comprising Colorant Wax Dispersion - A toner including a resin; and a colorant wax comprising a plurality of colorant wax particles comprising a colorant core surrounded by a wax shell, wherein the colorant wax particles exhibit a particle size distribution of from about 150 nanometers to less than about 300 nanometers; and wherein the colorant wax is prepared by (a) melting and mixing a dry colorant with at least one wax to form a colorant concentrate, wherein the colorant concentrate contains at least 25 percent by weight of colorant; (b) milling the colorant concentrate of step (a) to form a milled colorant concentrate; (c) combining the milled colorant concentrate of (b) with water and dispersing to form the plurality of colorant wax particles; wherein the melting and mixing of step (a) and the milling of step (b) is done in an immersion media mill; and wherein the combining of step (c) is done using a piston homogenizer. | 10-22-2015 |
20150299485 | Process For Preparing An Aqueous Ink Jet Printing Ink - A process for preparing an aqueous ink composition including 1) preparing a colorant concentrate; 2) preparing a colorant wax dispersion by (a) melting and mixing a dry colorant with at least one wax to form a colorant concentrate, wherein the colorant concentrate contains at least 25 percent by weight of colorant; (b) milling the colorant concentrate of step (a) to form a milled colorant concentrate; (c) combining the milled colorant concentrate of (b) with water and dispersing to form a colorant wax dispersion comprising a plurality of colorant wax particles comprising a colorant core surrounded by a wax shell, wherein the colorant wax particles exhibit a particle size distribution of from about 150 nanometers to less than about 300 nanometers; wherein the melting and mixing of step (a) and the milling of step (b) is done in an immersion media mill; and wherein the combining of step (c) is done using a piston homogenizer; and 3) blending the colorant wax dispersion with an aqueous ink vehicle and optional ink additives to form an aqueous ink composition; and filtering the aqueous ink composition. | 10-22-2015 |
20150299484 | Aqueous Ink Jet Printing Ink - An aqueous ink composition including water; a co-solvent; and an aqueous submicron colorant wax dispersion comprising a plurality of colorant wax particles comprising a colorant core surrounded by a wax shell, wherein the colorant wax particles exhibit a particle size distribution of from about 150 nanometers to less than about 300 nanometers; wherein the aqueous submicron colorant wax dispersion is prepared by (a) melting and mixing a dry colorant with at least one wax to form a colorant concentrate, wherein the colorant concentrate contains at least 25 percent by weight of colorant; (b) milling the colorant concentrate of step (a) to form a milled colorant concentrate; (c) combining the milled colorant concentrate of (b) with water and dispersing to form the colorant wax dispersion; wherein the melting and mixing of step (a) and the milling of step (b) is done in an immersion media mill or a horizontal mill; and wherein the combining of step (c) is done using a piston homogenizer. | 10-22-2015 |
20150299466 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING PIGMENT AND WAX DUAL DISPERSIONS - Disclosed herein are formulations and processes for the preparation of pigment and wax dual dispersions by (1) providing a solution comprising a water and at least one surfactant in a dispersion apparatus comprising a container, a rotor-stator homogenizer, and a piston homogenizer coupled via a recirculation device; (2) adding at least one pigment to the solution; (3) forming a pigment dispersion by flowing the at least one pigment and the solution to the rotor-stator homogenizer via the recirculation device; (4) adding at least one wax to the pigment dispersion; and (5) flowing the at least one wax and pigment dispersion to the piston homogenizer via the recirculation device until a pigment and wax dual dispersion is formed. Also disclosed herein are pigment and wax dual dispersions, as well as a dispersion apparatus for preparing pigment and wax dual dispersions. In certain embodiments, a dispersion apparatus for preparing a pigment and wax dual dispersion may comprise a container, a rotor-stator homogenizer, a piston homogenizer, and a recirculation device coupled to the container and the homogenizers that allows a dispersion to flow between the container and the homogenizers. | 10-22-2015 |
20150299425 | Pigmented Wax Dispersion And Method For Preparing Same - A process for preparing a pigmented wax dispersion including (a) melting and mixing a dry pigment with at least one wax to form a pigment concentrate, wherein the pigment concentrate contains at least 25 percent by weight of pigment; (b) milling the pigment concentrate of step (a) to form a milled pigment concentrate; (c) combining the milled pigment concentrate of (b) with water and dispersing to form a pigmented wax dispersion comprising a plurality of pigmented wax particles comprising a pigment core surrounded by a wax shell, wherein the pigmented wax particles exhibit a particle size distribution of from about 150 nanometers to less than about 300 nanometers; wherein the melting and mixing of step (a) and the milling of step (b) is done in an immersion media mill; and wherein the combining of step (c) is done using a piston homogenizer. | 10-22-2015 |
20150297143 | ASSESSING PATIENT RISK FOR AN ACUTE HYPOTENSIVE EPISODE - What is disclosed is a system and method for assessing patient risk for an acute hypotensive episode. In one embodiment, the present method involves retrieving a training set from a database. The training set comprises mean arterial pressures (MAPs) for a plurality of subjects. Each MAP comprises systolic and diastolic measurements. The training set is used to train the present classifier system. Once trained, the present classifier system classifies an unclassified patient into either a first class or a second class. The first class is at risk for an acute hypotensive episode occurring within a prediction window of w≧60 minutes in the future. The second class is not at risk for an acute hypotensive episode. A MAP of an unclassified patient is retrieved or otherwise obtained. Thereafter, the present classifier system proceeds to classify the patient into the first or second class. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 10-22-2015 |
20150295898 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION - Disclosed are systems and methods that provide authentication for printed and/or electronic versions of a document through the use of a document authentication device in the form of a computational tag configured for short-range wireless communication only. This document authentication device receives authentication information for a document from a computerized device over a wireless communication link and uses this authentication information to generate encoded data to be embedded in the document in order to establish the authenticity of the document by functioning as an imprimatur. Specifically, when embedded in the document, this encoded data can add a visible feature or non-visible feature that, upon inspection, establishes the authenticity of an electronic version of the document and/or can add a printable feature, which will be readable off a surface of a printed version of the document to establish the authenticity of that printed version. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295336 | SPRING POWER CONTACT HAVING NON-LINEAR SLOT - A power supply apparatus receives a voltage from power rails on a circuit board. The power supply apparatus comprises a frame and arms connected to the frame. Each of the arms comprises a contact end. The frame positions the contact end of each of the arms to contact the power rails of the circuit board. The contact end is biased towards the power rails to maintain the contact end in contact with the power rails. The contact end comprises a curved planar surface having a first edge and a second edge that terminates at an end edge. The first edge and the second edge follow a curved line, while the end edge follows a straight line. The contact end comprises a non-linear slot extending from the end edge along the curved planar surface and is positioned equally between the first edge and the second edge. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294394 | USING HEAD MOUNTABLE DISPLAYS TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME ASSISTANCE TO EMPLOYEES IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - A system for delivering one of a good and service to a customer in a retail environment includes a computer located at an order station. The computer is configured to receive an order for the one good and service. The system includes a first image capture device in communication with the computer. The first image capture device captures a first image of a customer ordering the one good and service in response to the order being submitted. The system further includes a wearable computer peripheral device configured to acquire the first image from the first image capture device and electronically display the first image to a user tasked with delivering the one good and service while carrying the second wearable computer peripheral device. In this manner, an identity of the customer can be compared against the first image upon a delivery of the one good and service. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294230 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODELING CLOUD USER BEHAVIOR - Some embodiments are directed to a system for identifying clusters from a plurality of users using cloud services. A behavior collection module is configured to obtain user preferences for the plurality of users, and an EM module to configured estimate at least one parameter of a distance-based model by the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for various values of G (number of clusters). A selection module is configured to compute Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) with the at least one estimated parameter obtained from the EM module for various values of G, compare BICs obtained for various values of G, select the model with the highest BIC as the best model (best model including the plurality of clusters) and use estimated latent variables of the best model to build a classifier. A characterization module is configured to classify each user into a cluster of the best model using the classifier, and to determine ranking preference of each cluster. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294229 | AUTOMATICALLY ENHANCED VISUAL PROCESS REPAIR USING PROCESS SUPERPOSITION AND UGLINESS INDICATORS - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for visual process analysis. The disclosed techniques can include: obtaining a theoretical and an empirical process model, generating a theoretical process layout corresponding to the theoretical process model, where the theoretical process layout is generated using a layout algorithm, generating an empirical process layout corresponding to the empirical process model, where the empirical process layout is generated using the layout algorithm, superposing the empirical process layout onto the theoretical process layout, such that a superposition layout is generated, annotating the superposition layout based on ugliness indicators, such that an annotated superposition layout is generated, and causing the annotated superposition layout to be displayed. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294191 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING ICONICITY OF AN IMAGE - A system and method for evaluating iconicity of an image are provided. In the method, at least one test image is received, each test image including an object in a selected class. Properties related to iconicity are computed for each test image. The properties may include one or more of: a) a direct measure of iconicity, which is computed with a direct iconicity prediction model which has been learned on a set of training images, each training image labeled with an iconicity score; b) one or more class-independent properties; and c) one or more class-dependent properties. A measure of iconicity of each of the test images is computed, based on the computed properties. By combining a set of complementary properties, an iconicity measure which shows good agreement with human evaluations of iconicity can be obtained. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294175 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT IMAGE CROPPING AND ANALYSIS - A system and method for cropping a license plate image to facilitate license plate recognition by obtaining an image that includes the license plate image, dividing the image into multiple sub-blocks, computing an activity measure for each sub-block; determining an activity threshold, determining that a sub-block is an active sub-block by comparing the activity measure for the sub-block with the activity threshold, generating a second image of the license plate information, where the second image includes the active sub-block, and obtaining the license plate information based on the second image. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294170 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING ASSESSMENT CHARACTERS - A method of determining an input character based upon character recognition output of an education assessment system may include receiving, by a processing device, a proposed value generated using character recognition. The proposed value may be associated with at least one handwritten character of an assessment. The method may include determining, by the processing device, whether the proposed value is correct, by determining a posterior probability associated with each of one or more possible characters, identifying the possible character associated with the posterior probability having a highest value, and in response to identifying the proposed value as the possible character associated with the posterior probability having a highest value, determining, by the processing device, that the proposed value is correct, otherwise, determining that the proposed value is incorrect. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD BASED OBJECT DETECTION - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for detecting an object in an image are disclosed. For example, the method receives the image, calculates a score for each one of a plurality of locations in the image, performs a box plot of the score of the each one of the plurality of locations of the image, identifies an outlier score that falls outside of the box plot, determines that a distance ratio of the outlier score is less than a predefined distance ratio and detects the object in a location of the plurality of locations of the image corresponding to the outlier score. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293910 | RETRIEVAL OF DOMAIN RELEVANT PHRASE TABLES - A method for generating a phrase table for a target domain includes receiving a source corpus for a target domain and, for each of a set of comparative domain phrase tables, computing a measure of similarity between the source corpus and the comparative domain phrase table. Based on the computed similarity measures, a subset of the comparative domain phrase tables may be identified from the set of comparative domain phrase tables, and/or weights for combining them, and a phrase table is generated for the target domain based on the at least a subset of phrase tables. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293908 | ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION WITHOUT IN-DOMAIN PARALLEL DATA - A system and method for estimating parameters for features of a translation scoring function for scoring candidate translations in a target domain are provided. Given a source language corpus for a target domain, a similarity measure is computed between the source corpus and a target domain multi-model, which may be a phrase table derived from phrase tables of comparative domains, weighted as a function of similarity with the source corpus. The parameters of the log-linear function for these comparative domains are known. A mapping function is learned between similarity measure and parameters of the scoring function for the comparative domains. Given the mapping function and the target corpus similarity measure, the parameters of the translation scoring function for the target domain are estimated. For parameters where a mapping function with a threshold correlation is not found, another method for obtaining the target domain parameter can be used. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293479 | FUSER MEMBER - The present teachings provide a fuser member. The fuser member includes a substrate layer. The substrate layer substrate layer includes a polyimide having dispersed therein a plurality of poly(p-phenylene benzobisthiazole) fibers. An intermediate layer is disposed on the substrate layer. A release layer is disposed on the intermediate layer. | 10-15-2015 |
20150291860 | SOLVENT SYSTEM ENABLING THIN FILM DEPOSITION OF EPOXY ADHESIVES FOR HIGH DENSITY PIEZO PRINTHEAD INTERSTITIAL BONDING - The disclosure provides a solvent system for dissolving an epoxy adhesive such as I2300L epoxy adhesive. The solvent system includes a dialkyl ether solvent and an alkyl alcohol solvent. The disclosure also provides methods for preparing a uniform thin film deposit of an epoxy adhesive for printhead interstitial bonding during their fabrication. | 10-15-2015 |
20150291847 | TRANSFIX SURFACE MEMBER COATING - An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to an indirect printing apparatus. The indirect printing apparatus comprises an intermediate transfer member comprising a substrate and a surface layer disposed over the substrate. The surface layer comprises a fluoroelastomer-aminosilane grafted polymer and infrared absorptive filler materials. The indirect printing apparatus also comprises a coating mechanism for forming a sacrificial coating onto the intermediate transfer member and a drying station for drying the sacrificial coating. At least one ink jet nozzle is positioned proximate the intermediate transfer member and configured for jetting ink droplets onto the sacrificial coating formed on the intermediate transfer member. An ink processing station comprises a radiation source for at least partially drying the ink on the sacrificial coating formed on the intermediate transfer member. The indirect printing apparatus also comprises a substrate transfer mechanism for moving a substrate into contact with the intermediate transfer member. | 10-15-2015 |
20150291715 | VINYL ACETATE CROTONIC ACID INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBERS - An intermediate transfer member that includes a mixture of a polymer, a vinyl acetate crotonic acid copolymer, an optional conductive component, an optional fluoropolymer, and an optional polysiloxane. | 10-15-2015 |
20150290651 | MAGNETIC MILLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Pigment dispersions are prepared by including magnetic particles in a reaction mixture. When placed in an alternating current magnetic field, milling of pigment particles occurs in the reaction mixture. | 10-15-2015 |
20150288849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MERGING AND INCLUDING ADDITIONAL ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS IN A SCAN JOB - Methods and systems for merging and including an additional electronic document in a scan job. The scan job can be initiated and controlled by an application module running on a mobile communications device and the scan job can be stored in a buffer associated with a MFD scanner. A scan option to merge the scan job with the additional electronic document can be selected via the mobile communications device. The additional electronic document can be decomposed into pages by an interpreter and stored in the buffer. The scan job and the decomposed electronic document stored in the buffer can be delivered to a marshaling service running on a network. The additional electronic document can be added to the scan job based on an order of merging in order to generate a combined electronic document by an electronic document builder configured with the marshaling service. | 10-08-2015 |
20150287339 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPARTING TRAINING - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for imparting a spoken language training. The method includes performing a spoken language evaluation of a speech input received from a user on a first training content. Thereafter, the user is categorized based on the spoken language evaluation and a profile of the user. Further, a second training content, comprising one or more tasks, is transmitted to the user based on the categorization and the spoken language evaluation. The user interacts with another user belonging to at least the user group, by comparing a temporal progression of the user with the other user on the one or more tasks, challenging the other user on a task from the one or more tasks, and selecting the task from the one or more tasks based on a difficulty level assessed by the other user. | 10-08-2015 |
20150287058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING PRICES FOR PARKING USING BLOCKING RATES AND TRAFFIC FLUX - A system and method for recommending pricing using blocking rates and traffic flux. For a given block face, occupancy and traffic flow information are collected and analyzed to determine a blocking rate. The traffic flux for the block face is determined using the collected traffic flow information. External costs, including cost to drivers slowed and cost to drivers blocked from parking are estimated and a cost rate is determined as a function of the blocking rate, the traffic flux, and the external costs. A utility rate is calculated and a price change is recommended based upon a maximization of the utility rate. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286935 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES - Methods and systems for recommending one or more computational resources. A portion of computational resources is determined from a set of computational resources associated with a datacenter based on a user-profile associated with a user, from one or more users, and the set of computational resources. The user-profile comprises at least one of a required performance level, a required load, or a cost constraint. The one or more computational resources are recommended from the portion of computational resources, in response to requests received from the one or more users. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286884 | MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR DETECTING MOBILE PHONE USAGE BY A DRIVER - A system and method for detecting electronic device use by a driver of a vehicle including acquiring an image including a vehicle from an associated image capture device positioned to view oncoming traffic, locating a windshield region of the vehicle in the captured image, processing pixels of the windshield region of the image for computing a feature vector describing the windshield region of the vehicle, applying the feature vector to a classifier for classifying the image into respective classes including at least classes for candidate electronic device use and candidate electronic device non-use, and outputting the classification. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286883 | ROBUST WINDSHIELD DETECTION VIA LANDMARK LOCALIZATION - A system and method that includes training a classifier using uniquely defined landmark points along the windshield region based on an elastic deformation model. The deformation model uses mixtures of trees with a shared pool of parts and can be globally optimized with dynamic programming and still capture much relevant global elastic structure. Once a candidate area is identified in the scene, a learned threshold is applied to the classification score of the candidate area to determine if the candidate area is a windshield. The identified area is then cropped out for further downstream process. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286832 | PHOTOBOOK WITH AUGMENTED SOCIAL CAPABILITY - Method and system for providing an augmented photobook that includes at least one interactive feature. An image of a symbology printed on a page of a photobook is captured, and address information contained therein is decoded. A web browser of an electronic device is directed to a website identified by the address information, and additional information related to the photobook is received from a remote computing device associated with the website. The additional information related to the photobook is displayed on the electronic device. Additionally, a level of access to the website is determined for a user of the electronic device. A user request to transmit new content to the website is received it is determined whether the level of access corresponds to permission rights for the website. If the level of access corresponds to the permission rights then the new content is transmitted and aggregated at the website. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING A PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL INTO A VIDEO - What is disclosed is a system and method for embedding a time-varying physiological signal corresponding to a physiological function of a subject into a video. In one embodiment, a video of a subject is received along with a time-varying signal corresponding to a physiological function of the subject. A representative image is obtained from the video. The received time-varying signal is divided into a plurality of signal segments. The obtained image is repeatedly replicated to generate a video sequence. The signal segments are encoded in the images comprising the generated video sequence. The video sequence containing the encoded physiological signal is then compressed using a video compression technique. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286632 | PREDICTING THE QUALITY OF AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION OF AN ENTIRE DOCUMENT - A system and a method for predicting the translation quality of a document are provided. The method includes receiving a translation quality estimate for each of a plurality of sentences of an input document which have been translated from a source language to a target language using machine translation. The translation quality of the translated input document is predicted based on the translation quality estimate for each of the sentences and parameters of a model learned using translation quality estimates for sentences of training documents and respective manually-applied translation quality values. The parameters of the model may include an exponent for an aggregating function and a set of weights, each of the weights being mapped to a respective one of a predefined set of translation quality estimates for weighting the translation quality estimates in the aggregating function. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286156 | ROBUST PHASE INVERSION EMULSIFICATION PROCESS FOR POLYESTER LATEX PRODUCTION - The disclosure provides robust phase inversion emulsification (PIE) processes, which produces polyester latex particles having particle size distributions with high centering capability indexes (Cpk), for the preparation of toners of good quality. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286155 | STEAM INJECTION PROCESS FOR PREPARING POLYESTER LATEX AND APPARATUS THEREOF - The present embodiments disclose processes for preparing a polyester latex containing an amount of residual organic solvent which is less than 100 ppm by weight of the total weight of the polyester latex. | 10-08-2015 |
20150285846 | PRINTER DEVICE POWER CONSUMPTION PROFILING AND POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS USING SAME - A power meter generates a time series of observations of power drawn by a device configured to operate in an active mode and to transition through a sequence of inactive modes comprising one or more intermediate inactive modes each having a bounded time duration terminating in a final inactive mode of unbounded time duration, and further configured to transition from any of the inactive modes to the active mode in response to a device activation signal. An electronic data processing device is programmed to determine statistical characteristics of the power draw of the device in each of the inactive modes by fitting a state model to the time series of observations. The state model represents each intermediate inactive mode including its bounded time duration and further includes a probabilistic representation of the transition from any of the inactive modes to the active mode in response to a device activation signal. | 10-08-2015 |
20150284575 | SCRATCH RESISTANT INKS - An ink includes a C | 10-08-2015 |
20150284209 | PADDLE WHEEL COMPILER - A paddle wheel compiler includes a paddle wheel that accepts sheets from the front of the paddle wheel to form a set, unlike a disk stacker which accepts sheets from the top or back of the disk and flips the sheet. The paddle wheel compiler is unique in that it maintains control of all sheets in a set, except for the top sheet during tamping. The top sheet is registered to the set with side tampers, followed by a scuffing action to register the sheet against a registration wall in the process direction. | 10-08-2015 |
20150284203 | FINISHER REGISTRATION SYSTEM USING OMNIDIRECTIONAL SCUFFER WHEELS - A sheet registration system is for use in connection with a finisher for a digital printing system. A scuffer carriage has omnidirectional scuffer wheels with a plurality of overlapping rollers to provide uninterrupted traction to move media sheets against a registration wall for process direction registration. A pair of opposed tamper plates will move toward one another pushing the media sheets together in the cross process direction. The freely rotating scuffer rollers will allow free movement of the media sheets in the cross process direction. Thus, cross process registration is achieved simultaneously with process direction registration, and registration time is minimized. Process direction registration is maintained by not lifting the scuffer from the media sheets during cross process registration. | 10-08-2015 |
20150283818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING SOLID-INK PELLETS - The present disclosure provides apparatus and method for supplying uninterrupted flow of solid-ink pellets to an image-forming device. The apparatus includes a container for retaining solid-ink pellets, and a selectably-inflatable bladder disposed within the container. Further, the apparatus includes a tube communicating the bladder with a pressure supply. | 10-08-2015 |
20150283759 | METHOD OF MAKING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS USING BIO-RENEWABLE CRYSTALLINE-AMORPHOUS MATERIALS - A method for forming a three-dimensional object using layer by layer formation of the object through application of stereolithography. More specifically, the formation of a three-dimensional object using a three-dimensional printer based on thermal stereolithography and phase change materials comprising a combination of crystalline and amorphous compounds, that are derived from low cost, stable and bio-renewable materials. | 10-08-2015 |
20150283758 | METHOD OF MAKING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS USING CRYSTALLINE AND AMORPHOUS COMPOUNDS - A method for forming a three-dimensional object using layer by layer formation of the object through application of stereolithography. More specifically, the formation of a three-dimensional object using a three-dimensional printer based on thermal stereolithography and phase change materials comprising a combination of crystalline and amorphous compounds. | 10-08-2015 |
20150281543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSIVE IMAGING OF A SCENE USING A SINGLE PIXEL CAMERA - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for compressive imaging of a scene in a single pixel camera are disclosed. For example, the method moves a pseudo-random pattern media behind an aperture until a pseudo-random sampling function of a plurality of pseudo-random sampling functions is viewable through the aperture, records a value of an intensity of a modulated light from the scene with a detector, wherein the intensity of the modulated light is representative of an inner product between the pseudo-random sampling function and an image of the scene and repeats the moving and the recording until a necessary number of a plurality of inner products are processed. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281117 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHARING COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES - Methods and systems for sharing computational resources. A request from a first node is received for the one or more computational resources. The request comprises a service level agreement (SLA) associated with the requested one or more computational resources. The request is compared with one or more advertisements sent by at least two second nodes, other than the first node. The one or more advertisements correspond to an availability of a set of computational resources associated with each of the at least two second nodes. A portion of computational resources from the set of computational resources associated with each of the at least two second nodes is allocated to the first node, based on the comparison, such that a combination of the portion of computational resources satisfy the SLA associated with the request. | 10-01-2015 |
20150279209 | VEHICLE WHEEL AND AXLE SENSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Methods and systems for counting vehicle wheels and axles. A strip material can be embedded in a roadway to produce a slightly raised surface. The strip can be angled at a relatively large angle, (e.g., 78 degrees) with respect to the direction of travel. The number of wheels per axle and the number of axles per vehicle can be counted as the vehicle rolls over the strip and the wheels contact the strip at different times. A signal emitted from a detection mechanism(s) associated with the strip material can be transmitted to a signal processing unit to determine the number of wheels and axle with respect to the vehicle. The vehicle wheel and axle counts can be determined by the number and grouping of signals from the detection mechanism. Such an approach provides a reliable, direct measure of the wheel and axle counts for toll charge or classification purposes. | 10-01-2015 |
20150279036 | SIDE WINDOW DETECTION IN NEAR-INFRARED IMAGES UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING - Methods, systems and processor-readable media for side window detection in near-infrared (NIR) images utilizing machine learning. An image-capturing unit can capture an image/video in a near-infrared (NIR) band via a side window of an incoming vehicle. A deformable part model can be generated utilizing a side window detection and B-frame detection in order to obtain a set of candidate side-windows. Side window detection can be performed based on a mixture of a tree model and a shared pool and can be globally optimized with dynamic programming and still-capture to detect the backseat side window boundary utilizing a B-pillar. A false alarm with respect to the deformable part model can be removed utilizing a super pixel generation and a longest-line detection unit in order to generate a refined deformable part model. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278969 | INTEGRATED AUTOMATED SOLUTION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SERVICES FOR THE DISABLED AND OTHERS - Methods and systems for managing services for disabled persons. A tracking database can be created and updated with information from a number of databases or with information based on an elapsed time. A smart tag can be issued to a disabled person upon request by processing and analyzing data contained in the tracking database. Information with respect to status of the smart tag can be viewed by enforcement authorities to detect the validity of the smart tag. The smart tag can be automatically activated or inactivated by mapping data from the tracking database to prevent fraudulent usage. The smart tag can be configured with a universal handicapped logo and a panic alert button for alerting a response service when the disabled person is in an emergency situation. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278747 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROWDSOURCING A TASK - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes extracting one or more components from at least one task based on a task category associated with the at least one task. Each component corresponds to a part of the at least one task, that requires an input from a crowdworker. Further, the one or more components are categorized in a set of first categories, each of which includes similar components, and a second category that includes dissimilar components. The categorization is based on a comparison between content of each of component, and the task category. Thereafter, a representative component from at least one category from the set of first categories, and at least one component from the second category are combined to create the task. The task, so created, is crowdsourced to one or more crowdworkers. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278724 | VARIABLE COLOR WIDGET AND MESSAGE PRESENTATION USER INTERFACE TO ENCOURAGE USERS TO CONSUME LESS PRINTING RESOURCES - Methods, systems, and devices automatically monitor printing activities of a user using a tangible processor, and automatically analyze the printing activities of the user to determine the printing history of the user over time using the tangible processor. Also, these methods, systems, and devices automatically compare the printing history with previously established printing data (using the tangible processor) to produce an analysis of user printing activity, and automatically change the appearance of a graphic screen item on a graphic user interface based on the analysis of the user printing activity. Further, these methods, systems, and devices display details of the analysis of user printing activity on the graphic user interface in response to user interaction with the graphic screen item. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278632 | EXTENDING DATA-DRIVEN DETECTION TO THE PREDICTION OF OBJECT PART LOCATIONS - Methods and systems for detecting an object part location based on an extended date-driven detection. A specific relevance value between configurations of parts with respect to a set of training images annotated with annotating objects can be defined. A similarity learning algorithm can be applied with respect to the parts to obtain a similarity function based on the similarity between the part configurations. The similarity learning algorithm receives a set of positive pair having similar part configuration and a negative pair having different configuration and returns the similarity function that tends to assign a high score to new positive pair and a low score to negative pairs. A similarity between a new image and the training images can be measured utilizing the learned similarity function to obtain a neighbor image and a visible and/or non-visible part location with respect to the image can be predicted based on the neighbor image. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278616 | FEATURE- AND CLASSIFIER-BASED VEHICLE HEADLIGHT/SHADOW REMOVAL IN VIDEO - A method for removing false foreground image content in a foreground detection process performed on a video sequence includes, for each current frame, comparing a feature value of each current pixel against a feature value of a corresponding pixel in a background model. The each current pixel is classified as belonging to one of a candidate foreground image and a background based on the comparing. A first classification image representing the candidate foreground image is generated using the current pixels classified as belonging to the candidate foreground image. The each pixel in the first classification image is classified as belonging to one of a foreground image and a false foreground image using a previously trained classifier. A modified classification image is generated for representing the foreground image using the pixels classified as belonging to the foreground image while the pixels classified as belonging to the false foreground image are removed. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278609 | EFFICIENT METHOD OF OFFLINE TRAINING A SPECIAL-TYPE PARKED VEHICLE DETECTOR FOR VIDEO-BASED ON-STREET PARKING OCCUPANCY DETECTION SYSTEMS - A method for training a vehicle detection system used in a street occupancy estimation of stationary vehicles. The method includes defining first and second areas on an image plane of an image capture device associated with monitoring for detection of vehicles. The method includes receiving video-data from a sequence of frames captured from the image capture device. The method includes determining candidate frames that include objects relevant to a classification task in the second area. The method includes extracting the objects from the candidate frames, extracting features of each extracted object, and assigning labels to the each extracted object. The method includes training at least one classifier using the labels and extracted features. The method includes using the at least one trained classifier to classify a stationary vehicle detected in the first area. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278403 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODELING CROWDSOURCING PLATFORM - Methods and systems for creating statistical model. Values of at least one output parameter corresponding to each combination of values of a set of input parameters are collected. The at least one output parameter and the set of input parameters are associated with one or more crowdsourcing tasks. Each combination of the values of the set of input parameters is determined based on at least one of one or more design of experiments or a historical data. Further, a distribution of the values of the at least one output parameter is determined. The statistical model is created based on the values of the set of input parameters and one or more characteristics associated with the distribution of the values of the at least one output parameter. | 10-01-2015 |
20150276466 | FLOATING MECHANICAL LEVEL SENSOR - Devices and methods for a vertical float system. A float guide, located in a tank containing a fluid, has first and second sections with a first diameter and a third section between the first and second section. The third section has a smaller, second diameter. A float is slidably attached to the float guide in the third section. The system includes a switch and a level sensor located in the first section or the second section. The switch becomes activated when the float contacts the level sensor. One of an inner face of the float and the third section of the float guide has projections arranged in a contiguous pattern around the one of the inner face of the float and the third section of said float guide. The projections are shaped to establish point contacts between the float and the float guide in the third section. | 10-01-2015 |
20150275022 | IMAGING PLATE COATING COMPOSITE COMPOSED OF FLUOROELASTOMER AND AMINOSILANE CROSSLINKERS - Provided is a polymer coating composition for a surface layer, comprising a product of a grafting reaction between a fluoroelastomer and at least one of an aminosilane component and an aminofunctionalized fluorosilicone component. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273917 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Printheads Ejecting Clear Ink Using Thermal Substrates - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing. The apparatus operates the printhead or printheads in the printer to form test pattern on a thermal substrate. The heat of the materials used to form the test pattern change the optical density of the areas where the materials land. The area where the test pattern is formed is imaged and the image data are analyzed to identify inoperative inkjets. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273916 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INOPERATIVE INKJETS IN PRINTHEADS EJECTING CLEAR INK USING A ROTATING MEMBER HAVING A LIGHT TRANSMITTING SURFACE - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets in a printhead. The apparatus includes a rotating member having a light transmitting surface layer onto which material is ejected by the printhead. A light source directs light into the edge of the light transmitting surface layer and an optical sensor generates image data of the surface of the surface layer of the rotating member. Inoperative inkjets are detected with reference to the image data of the surface of the surface layer of the rotating member. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273915 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Three-Dimensional Object Printing Using A Profilometer And Predetermined Test Pattern Printing - A printer detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The printer includes an area where a printhead ejects material in a predetermined pattern and a profilometer is operated to measure the ejected material in the area. The measurements are used to identify inoperative inkjets or inkjets that operate errantly. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273914 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Printheads Ejecting Clear Ink Using Three Dimensional Imaging - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes a supply of substrate that is pulled to a position opposite a printhead to enable a test pattern of material to be formed on a portion of the substrate. That portion is then pulled past a laser sensor, which generates measurement data of the material on the portion of the substrate bearing the test pattern. These measurement data are analyzed to detect inoperative inkjets. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273913 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Three-Dimensional Object Printing Using An Optical Sensor And Reversible Thermal Substrates - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes a reversible thermal substrate that changes optical density in areas where material drops are ejected onto the substrate. An optical sensor generates image data of the substrate after material drops are ejected onto the substrate and these image data are analyzed to identify inoperative inkjets. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273912 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Three-Dimensional Object Printing Using A Digital Camera And Strobe Light - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes an optical sensor with a predetermined focal plane. The optical sensor is moved to a position that enables the sensor to generate image data of material drops ejected by a group of inkjets in a single row of a printhead. These image data are analyzed to detect inoperative inkjets to enable printhead maintenance at appropriate times to maintain the operational status of the inkjets in the printhead. The optical sensor is moved along a length and width of the printhead to enable the sensor to generate image data of all the inkjets that eject material from the printhead. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273911 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Three-Dimensional Object Printing Using A Camera And Substrate Roll - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes a roll of substrate that extends to a take up roller. A printhead prints a test pattern on a portion of the substrate pulled from the roll and the portion with the test pattern is moved opposite a digital camera. The digital camera generates data of the test pattern on the substrate and these data are analyzed to identify inoperative inkjets in the printhead. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273857 | System For Detecting Inoperative Inkjets In Three-Dimensional Object Printing Using An Optical Sensor And Movable Test Substrates - An appartus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes an optical sensor that generates measurements of a height, a diameter, and a position for test dots formed on a substrate with material ejected from a printhead. These measurements are analyzed to detect inoperative inkjets to enable printhead maintenance at appropriate times to maintain the operational status of the inkjets in the printhead. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273818 | Discontinuous Layer Of Auxiliary Transfer Fluid - A device includes a substrate; and a discontinuous layer disposed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the discontinuous layer is formed from non-contiguous drops of auxiliary fluid which do not draw back or pool on the substrate when a fluid drop is deposited thereon. A method for ink jet printing includes providing a discontinuous layer formed from drops of auxiliary fluid on a transfer member, wherein the drops of auxiliary fluid are non-contiguous and do not draw back or pool on the substrate when an ink drop is deposited thereon; ejecting ink droplets to form an ink image on the discontinuous layer; and transferring the ink jet image from the transfer member to a recording medium. An intermediate transfer member of an ink jet printer includes a substrate; and a discontinuous layer disposed on a surface of the substrate. An ink jet printer includes a transfer member; and a discontinuous layer disposed on a surface of the transfer member. | 10-01-2015 |
20150273817 | AQUEOUS INK JET BLANKET - There is described a transfer member or blanket for use in aqueous ink jet printer. The transfer member includes a non-woven polymer fiber matrix and a polymer dispersed throughout the non-woven polymer fiber matrix. The polymer fiber matrix has a first surface energy and the polymer has a second surface energy. The difference between the first surface energy and the second surface energy is from about 30 mJ/m | 10-01-2015 |
20150272456 | DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND SINUS RHYTHM IN PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS OBTAINED FROM VIDEO - What is disclosed is a system and method for determining whether a subject is in atrial fibrillation. A video is received of a region of exposed skin of a subject. The video is acquired of a region where a videoplethysmographic (VPG) signal can be registered by at least one imaging channel of a video imaging device. For each batch of image frames, pixels associated with the region of exposed skin are isolated and processed to obtain a time-series signal. A VPG signal is extracted from the time-series signal. The power spectral density (PSD) is computed across all frequencies within the VPG signal. A pulse harmonic strength (PHS) is calculated for this VPG signal. The pulse harmonic strength is compared to a discrimination threshold, defined herein. A determination is made whether the subject in the video is in atrial fibrillation or in normal sinus rhythm. | 10-01-2015 |
20150271364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CORRELATION AND GLOSS MARK IMAGES - A method and system create an image-based pattern color space for use in conjunction with rendering a print job. The pattern color space is defined, in a page description language, by a variable portion, a fixed portion, and a bounding shape. A procedure is defined for painting the variable and fixed portions within the bounding shape. The variable portion is based upon variable data associated with the print job and the fixed portion is an image associated with the print job such that a gloss mark is created in rendering the print job by painting a gloss mark font text symbol with the image of the print job, and a correlation mark is created in rendering the print job by painting a correlation mark font text symbol with the image of the print job. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271329 | NON-CONTACT STRESS ASSESSMENT DEVICES - Embodiments of a system are disclosed for stress assessment of a call center agent while interacting with a customer. The system is for use with a communication network. The system includes a stress assessment device and an agent device that includes an imaging unit. The agent device is configured to capture video of a target region of exposed skin of the agent using the imaging unit, collect customer interaction data based on interaction with a customer device over the communication network, and communicate the captured video and the customer interaction data to the stress assessment device. The stress assessment device is configured to passively estimate agent stress-level based on the received video, and generate feedback to the agent based on correlation between the customer interaction data and the estimated stress-level over a predefined time interval. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269862 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PENMANSHIP FEEDBACK - A method of providing feedback to a student on penmanship may include receiving, by a computing device, a completed assessment that includes one or more handwritten responses of a student, classifying one or more of the responses into one or more classifications by applying intelligent character recognition to the responses, presenting one or more classification results to a user, receiving, by the computing device, validation information associated with the presented classification results, identifying one or more penmanship issues based, at least in part, on the received validation information, generating a second assessment that includes one or more questions designed to improve one or more of the identified penmanship issues, and providing the second assessment to the student. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269703 | DARK TO LIGHT WATERMARK WITHOUT SPECIAL MATERIALS - Methods and systems rasterize a document to produce a bitmap having first pixels of a first color as background uniformly located across a watermark region and second pixels of a second color located in a pattern forming foreground items within the watermark region. The rasterization causes the first pixels to deposit a first marking material (forming the first color) to a first height on the print media, and the rasterization causes the second pixels to deposit a second marking material (forming the second color) to a second height (different from the first height) on the print media. In the printed document, by having the first color be different from the second color and the second height be different from the first height, this causes the relative darkness between the background and the foreground items to reverse when the printed document is viewed from different angles (relative to a light source). | 09-24-2015 |
20150269670 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC RISK AND AUTOMATIC TARGETING AND ACTION PRIORITIZATION IN LOAN MONITORING APPLICATIONS - Presented are a method, system, and apparatus for semi-automatic and automatic loan risk targeting and action prioritization in loan monitoring applications. In an off-line mode, a computing device associated with a multi-window computer-based tool receives a plurality of loan account histories for loan risk analysis. A predictive multi-output risk model is trained with the received plurality of loan account histories, the predictive multi-output risk model indicating a risk level associated with each of the loan accounts. In an online mode, the user is presented an option for semi-automatic loan analysis, in which the user is presented with output of a predictive multi-output risk model associated with the plurality of loan accounts. The user is also presented with the option for automatic loan analysis, allowing the user to be automatically presented with loan accounts at a greatest level of risk of all loan accounts. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269669 | LOAN RISK ASSESSMENT USING CLUSTER-BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR DIAGNOSTICS - Presented are a system, method, and apparatus for loan risk assessment by assignment of a specific loan account to a loan cluster of a plurality of loan clusters. A computing device receives plurality of loan account histories describing a plurality of loan accounts during a training phase. An appropriate supervised classification method is applied to the loan account histories to obtain a mathematical description of loan cluster set. Next, the computing device receives a test loan account payment history describing a test loan account to be analyzed. The test loan account is assigned to at least one cluster of the previously trained cluster set. One or a plurality of causes is then determined for assigning the test loan account to the cluster set; and a predicted risk value for the test loan account is determined based on the cluster the test loan account is assigned to. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269668 | VOTING MECHANISM AND MULTI-MODEL FEATURE SELECTION TO AID FOR LOAN RISK PREDICTION - Presented are a system, method, and apparatus for loan risk prediction. A computing device receives a plurality of loan account histories containing variables x; a plurality of algorithms then independently selects features from the loan account histories, the selected features being functions of the received variables x; the selected features are then grouped into a first data structure x | 09-24-2015 |
20150269662 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING A VALIDITY OF COMMUNICATION FROM A FRAUD DETECTION SERVICE - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for verifying a validity of a communication from a fraud detection service are disclosed. For example, the method receives the communication from the fraud detection service indicating that a credit card number is associated with potentially fraudulent activity, provides a personal identification to the fraud detection service via a secured connection to request a confirmation that the communication is from the fraud detection service, wherein the personal identification is used to identify the credit card number and receives the confirmation that the communication is valid and was sent from the fraud detection service based upon a verification performed by the fraud detection service that compares the credit card number to a database containing a plurality of credit card numbers that are flagged for potentially fraudulent activity. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269645 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING A FOOD ITEM - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for recommending a food item are disclosed. For example, the method receives one or more food item data communications over a short range communications protocol that are pushed to a mobile endpoint device, filters the one or more food item data communications in accordance with a food item filter pre-defined by a user to identify an acceptable food item to recommend to the user and recommends the acceptable food item to the user. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269502 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING PROCESS DEVIATIONS AND RECOMMENDING REPAIRS IN A BUSINESS PROCESS - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for recommending a repair for a business process are disclosed. For example, the method identifies an empirical process graph that corresponds to a theoretical process graph of the business process, decomposes the theoretical process graph into one or more sub-process graphs, identifies a portion of the empirical process graph to compare to one of the one or more sub-process graphs, compares the portion of the empirical process graph to the one of the one or more sub-process graphs to calculate a remainder, repeats the identifying and the comparing for each one of the one or more sub-process graphs and recommends a list of one or more repairs, wherein each one of the one or more repairs corresponds to a respective remainder calculated in the comparing. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269491 | PREDICTING ARRIVAL TIMES OF VEHICLES BASED UPON OBSERVED SCHEDULE ADHERENCE - A method and system for determining real-time delay information in a transportation system. Historical operational information about the transportation system, including data related to a plurality of arrival events corresponding to one or more stops within the transportation system is received and a dependency graph is built based upon the historic information. The dependency graph defines relationships that exist in the transportation system between the plurality of arrival events, each of the relationships defining a specific dependent relationship between at least two of the arrival events. Delay dependency values are fitted into the dependency graph, each of the delay dependency values being associated with one of the plurality of relationships and defining a specific dependency value associated with that relationship. Predictive delay information is determined based upon the fitted dependency graph for one or more of the arrival events based upon current operating information. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269453 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER SEGMENTATION - A system and method for determining handwritten character segmentation shape parameters for a user in automated handwriting recognition by prompting the user for a training sample; obtaining an image that includes handwritten text that corresponds to the training sample; sweeping the image with shapes corresponding to parameters to determine coordinates of the shapes in the image; segmenting the image into segmented characters based on the coordinates of the shapes; determining character segmentation accuracies of the parameters; and storing an association between the user and the parameters. The system and method can further include receiving a writing sample from the same user and utilizing the stored parameters to segment characters in the writing sample for use in automated handwriting recognition of the writing sample. | 09-24-2015 |
20150267078 | POLYDIPHENYLSILOXANE COATING FORMULATION AND METHOD FOR FORMING A COATING - Provided is composition for a liquid coating. The composition may include a silanol terminated copolymer, at least one cross-linker, and a catalyst. The silanol terminated copolymer may include from about 10 to about 25 mol % of a diphenylsiloxane repeat unit and greater than about 50 mol % of a dialkylsiloxane repeat unit. The at least one cross-linker may be one or more selected from: tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), a trialkoxysilane terminated polydialkylsiloxane and/or one or more of a trialkoxysilyl terminated polymer. | 09-24-2015 |
20150266290 | TRANSFIX SURFACE MEMBER COATING - A transfix surface member for use in aqueous ink jet printer comprises a substrate. A conformance layer is disposed on the substrate layer. A surface layer comprising a siloxane polymer network is on the conformance layer. The siloxane polymer network comprises a plurality of diphenylsiloxane moieties and a plurality of polar moieties, the diphenylsiloxane moieties and polar moieties being bonded to the siloxane polymer network by one or more siloxane linkages. An indirect printing apparatus employing the transfix surface member is also disclosed. | 09-24-2015 |
20150266289 | WETTING ENHANCEMENT COATING ON INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER (ITM) FOR AQUEOUS INKJET INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER ARCHITECTURE - Described herein is a method and apparatus for ink jet printing. The method includes providing a wetting enhancement coating on a transfer member. The wetting enhancement coating (WEC) includes water, an acid treated, waxy maize cationic starch, a humectant and a surfactant. The wetting enhancement coating is dried or semi-dried to form a film. Ink droplets are ejected onto the film to form an ink image on the film. The ink image is dried and the ink image and film are transferred to a recording medium. | 09-24-2015 |
20150265187 | NON-CONTACT MONITORING OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESPIRATORY MECHANICS VIA DEPTH SENSING - Systems and methods are proposed for non-contact monitoring of spatio-temporal mechanics comprising motion patterns of respiratory muscles, lungs and diaphragm. The depth capable sensors system is comprised of modules, including a depth estimation module, a reference shape generation module, a region of interest shape estimation module, and a shape comparison module. A recommender module is optionally included. The acquisition of spatio-temporal respiratory mechanic data comprising a time varying sequence of spatially dependent representations of the respiratory mechanics of the subject are processed for identifying differences between the subject's actual respiratory mechanics and desired mechanics that can improve the health of the subject, or identify particular maladies. | 09-24-2015 |
20150262338 | COMPENSATING FOR MOTION DURING REAL-TIME BATCH PROCESSING OF VIDEO FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT - What is disclosed is a system and method for compensating for motion during processing of a video of a subject being monitored for physiological function assessment. In one embodiment, image frames are received. Successive batches of N video frames are processed to isolate pixels associated with a body region of the subject where a physiological signal is registered by the camera. The pixels are processed to obtain a time-series signal for each batch. A determination is made whether movement during video acquisition of this batch of image frames exceeds a threshold level. If so then a size N of the next batch of image frames is changed to: N=N+M | 09-17-2015 |
20150261108 | ALCOHOL PHOSPHATE TREATED CARBON BLACK COMPOSITIONS - An intermediate transfer member that contains a composition of an alcohol phosphate and carbon black, and where there is formed a chemical attachment between the carbon black and the alcohol phosphate, and processes thereof. | 09-17-2015 |
20150261105 | BIPHENYL POLYCARBONATE CONTAINING PHOTOCONDUCTORS - A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, an optional anticurl layer, an optional ground plane layer, an optional hole blocking layer, an optional adhesive layer, a photogenerating layer, a charge transport layer, and an optional protective coating, and where the photogenerating layer contains a biphenyl polycarbonate, or where the photogenerating layer and the charge transport each contains a biphenyl polycarbonate. | 09-17-2015 |
20150258778 | AQUEOUS INK JET BLANKET - Described herein is a transfer member for use in aqueous ink jet printer. The transfer member includes a surface layer of a cross-linked polydiphenylsiloxane network formed from a silanol terminated dialkylsiloxane-diphenylsiloxane copolymer and a trialkoxy- or trihydroxysilane terminated polydialkylsiloxane. The diphenylsiloxane moieties are from about 5 weight percent to about 80 weight percent of the network. The trialkoxy- or trihydroxysilane terminated polydialkylsiloxane are from about 1 weight percent to about 60 weight percent of the network. All silane molecules are bonded together via silicon oxide (Si—O—Si) linkages in a single system. The network is insoluble in solvents selected from the group consisting of: ketones, chlorinated solvents and ethers. | 09-17-2015 |
20150257661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ARTERIAL PULSE WAVE TRANSIT TIME - What is disclosed is a system and method for determining the time it takes for an arterial pulse pressure wave to transit between a proximal and a distal point of a patient's body. In one embodiment, a signal is received from each of a first and second device worn circumferentially around a proximal and a distal region, respectively. The devices are worn on an area of exposed skin. Each of the devices comprises at least one emitter/detector pair fixed to an inner side of each device and has at least one detector paired to at least one illuminator. Each detector has at least one sensor that is sensitive to a wavelength band of light emitted by its illuminator. Each device generates signals that are proportional to an intensity of light emitted by an illuminator. The signals are analyzed to determine arterial pulse wave transit time between the proximal and distal regions. | 09-17-2015 |
20150256712 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FORM-INDEPENDENT REGISTRATION OF FILLED-OUT CONTENT - A device for registration of content in a filled-out application form is disclosed. The device is configured for scanning at least one portion of the filled-out application form. The device is configured for extracting filled-out content from the scanned form. The geometrical features of the master form are retrieved. The master form includes one or more anchor fields. Each anchor field has one or more anchor zones and at least one anchor segment. At least one anchor segment has global adjustment parameters and geometrical features. The extracted filled-out content is related to the retrieved geometrical features of a master form to create a new geometrical representation of the extracted filled-out content of the scanned application form. The new representation of the filled-out content based on the global adjustment parameters for the at least one anchor segment is globally adjusted. The globally adjusted filled-out content based on the geometrical features for the anchor segments is locally adjusted. | 09-10-2015 |
20150256434 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY BOTTLENECK CAUSES IN APPLICATIONS USING TEMPORAL BOTTLENECK POINT DETECTION - Methods and systems are provided for determining performance characteristics of an application processing system. The method comprises monitoring throughput of a plurality of resources of the system in a selected time window. A change rate is detected in the throughput of the resources, respectively, representative of a change to constancy of workload in at least some of the resources. Such a change in constancy comprises a knee point of a plot of resource usage comprising load relative to throughput. The time of the change rate is identified within the time window. A relatively first to occur of a plurality of resources knee points is determined wherein the resource corresponding to the first to occur is determined to have a fully loaded throughput within the multi-tier processing system. The determination of the first to occur knee point comprises pinpointing a bottleneck starting point within the application processing system. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254456 | LOW-COST SPECIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF A PRIVACY-BY-CONSENT- POLICY FOR ONLINE SERVICES - A system and method for implementing a privacy policy in an application to be run are provided. Definitions are received for a set of fields. At least one of the fields is designated as sensitive by a default privacy policy. A user is provided with a consent editor whereby the user can consent to relaxing the default privacy policy for at least one of the sensitive fields. A consent privacy rule is generated based on the received consent. A mapping aspect is provided which identifies joins at which code of the application is to be augmented by calling a minimization service to apply the default privacy policy by generating a minimized value of data in each of the designated sensitive fields used by the application unless there is a generated consent privacy rule which authorizes relaxation of the default privacy policy for the user's data in a respective sensitive field. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254424 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING MEDICATION REGIMEN ADHERENCE - A computer-based system for improving medication regimen adherence, including: a container arranged to hold a first medication and including a wireless transceiver and a unique identifier; and a wireless communications device (WCD) including: a memory element configured to store a medication regimen including a prescription for the medication and the unique identifier, the unique identifier associated with the medication regimen; and a processor configured to when the container is within a predetermined distance of the WCD obtain, via the wireless transceiver, the unique identifier from the container, confirm that the unique identifier from the container matches the unique identifier stored in the memory element, obtain data from the container regarding instances of the container being opened, determine, according to the data and the medication regimen, that a reminder to take the medication is desired, and output a sensory reminder signal. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254024 | USING PRESET COMBINATION OF PAGE EXCEPTION PRINT SETTINGS TO ESTABLISH EXCEPTION PAGES WITHIN DOCUMENTS - Methods and systems provide exception shortcut keywords, each of which identifies a preset combination of exception print settings containing a unique combination of print media, printing color, printing image quality, and simplex/duplex controls, etc., that are different from the document print settings, and from the other preset combinations. In response, these methods and systems receive an exception shortcut keyword for at least one of the sections. This causes these methods and systems to automatically change print settings of corresponding sections to the preset combination of exception print settings. All the setting changes associated with a selected preset combination of exception print settings are made in response only to receiving a single exception shortcut keyword. | 09-10-2015 |
20150251413 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING LIGHT EMITTING DIODES - A semi-conductor chip for a print head, including: a plurality of LEDs; a drive circuit for supplying electrical power to the plurality of LEDs; and a control system calibrated to supply, using the drive circuit, the electrical power at a first magnitude to every LED in the plurality of LEDs and configured to: receive a first external clock pulse less than a second external clock pulse used to calibrate the plurality of LEDs; change the first magnitude to at least one second magnitude proportional to the first external clock pulse; receive a third external clock pulse different from the first and second external clock pulses; and energize, using the drive circuit and in response to the third external clock pulse, the plurality of LEDs for a first internal strobe time at the at least one second magnitude calculated by the control system. | 09-10-2015 |
20150251186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAGNETIC ACTUATED MIXING - A method and system for magnetic actuated mixing which use magnetic particles, non-magnetic abrasive particles and electromagnetic field to facilitate milling. The method and system use magnetic particles and a generated electromagnetic field to facilitate the milling as well. The method and system can be used in any application that requires the preparation of small-sized particles at either the micro or nano scale, including for example, preparing toners, inks, wax, pigment dispersions and the like. | 09-10-2015 |