| 05th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
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| 20210035175 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods to facilitate programmatic access to a network-based commerce facility via a network are described. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a third party application via the network at the network based commerce facility. The request performs an action pertaining to electronic commerce and being one of a plurality of requests recognized by the network-based commerce facility. In responsive to the request, the method performs the action pertaining to the electronic commerce and communicates from a result of the action from the network-based commerce facility to the third party application in a programmatically accessible format. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035176 | AUTOMATED PRODUCT OFFERING - Automating a product offering presented in a consumer kiosk application for creating and order consumer photo-related products. An automated product offering system determines in real-time or near real-time the availability of products to be offered to the consumer and adjusts the display on the kiosk GUI to guide the user to select products that are currently available. The product availability may be specific to a location and a retailer hosting the consumer kiosk application. The kiosk GUI display is adjusted in accordance with product advertising and promotional campaigns to guide the user to generate orders for products that offer the best value to the consumer while helping retailers and kiosk operators succeed with advertising campaigns. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035177 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SCREEN GENERATING SERVER, AND PRODUCT INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and program of controlling the screen generating server, which achieve a support service assisting system improving user convenience. To achieve this, on a support screen displayed in the case where a remaining ink amount in a printer becomes low, a name of a distributor EC site and a price offered by the distributor are displayed next to an area displaying a price offered by a vendor. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035178 | FACILITATED COMPARISON OF GEMSTONES - Methods and systems are provided for facilitating comparison of gemstones having multiple attributes that characterize the gemstones. A facilitated comparison system receives from a user a selection of a gemstone in a collection of the gemstones. Each gemstone in the collection is associated with a selling index indicating a probability of the gemstone being bought by a customer. For each of a predetermined set of the attributes, the system determines one or more comparable ranges. The system identifies alternate gemstones to recommend using the comparable ranges for the attributes and the selling indices of the gemstones. The system displays to the user the selected gemstone and one or more of the alternate gemstones for comparison. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035179 | Cloud Infrastructure as Visualization Modeling - This tool provides an idea about which can be the probable infrastructure on cloud for any client. The visualization of cloud infrastructure gives the clear-cut picture to the client about which cloud is providing which kind of different cloud services available in specific regions at which costings. This tool provides information about all possible options to the client for upgrading & migrating to cloud in the best possible way, which eventually is a great thing as a customer to take the appropriate decision about cloud selection. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035180 | UNIFIED RANKING ENGINE FOR A SEARCH SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing unified ranking of search result items based on a user-configured ranking attribute for an item listing in an item listing platform. In particular, a unified ranking engine determines a user-configured ranking attribute for an item listing, which is used as part of a boosting model of the unified ranking engine to rank item listings. In operation, an item listing is assigned a boost factor based on the item listing having the user-configured ranking attribute. The boost factor indicates a value that is used to rank the item listing relative to the other item listings of search results item listing. The search result items include a first set of item listings that are promoted listings associated with the user-configured ranking attribute (e.g., promoted-listing ad rates) and second set of listings that are organic listings without user-configured ranking attributes. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035181 | INSTANT VEHICLE TRADING - A vehicle trading platform for providing seamless integration between different aspects of fleet management includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one memory is configured to store a buy matrix database including multiple buy matrices, where each buy matrix includes one or more purchasing rules. The at least one processor is configured to receive a specification of a target vehicle from a selling dealer, compare the specification of the target vehicle with the purchasing rules of the buy matrices, and provide a matched offer for the target vehicle to the selling dealer based on a result of comparing the specification of the target vehicle with the buy matrices. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AUTOMATIC STYLING RECOMMENDATIONS - The disclosure herein relates to the fashion and styling industry. In particular, aspects of the disclosure relates to technologies and methods for generating automatic garment-based and outfit-based styling recommendations based upon selected physical body characteristics and garment characteristics that are most critical for good styling. The disclosure provides simplified rule-based styling logic. The rule based logic is using a small set of physical body characteristics referred to as styling anchors to be matched with a garment molds. The matching for a good styling is based upon applying a combination of associated rules of a garment mold specified as a major class definition of a garment type (skirts, pants, tops, jackets, dresses) with a sub-class definition (neckline shape, waistline position, sleeves, length) to provide a do-able and simplified process of personal styling recommendation. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035183 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A RECOMMENDATION ENGINE UTILIZING PROGRESSIVE LABELING AND USER CONTENT ENRICHMENT - A computer implemented method and system for a recommendation engine utilizing progressive labeling and user context enrichment. The method comprises receive a request from a current user of a user device, for a recommendation of an item, wherein the request comprises an image of the item; analyzing the item in the image using a plurality of objective machine learning models, wherein analyzing the item in the image comprises assigning an objective label and a percentage of confidence in the assigned label for each of the objective machine learning models; analyzing the item in the image using a plurality of subjective machine learning models wherein analyzing the item in the image comprises assigning an subjective label and a percentage of confidence in the assigned label for each of the subjective machine learning models; retrieving user context information for the current user; generating a plurality of new labels based on the objecting labels, subjective labels, and user context information, wherein each of the plurality of new labels includes a weight signifying the importance of each new label; retrieve one or more recommendations, wherein the one or more recommendations comprise universal resource locations to clothing that matches the labels assigned to the image; and transmit the one or more recommendations to the user device when a confidence level in the recommendations exceeds a predefined threshold. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035184 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED SKINCARE FORMULATIONS BASED ON BIOMARKER ANALYSIS - Systems and methods are provided for improving skincare product formulations to address predicted skin trends. A biomarker analysis system is used to determine concentrations of various protein biomarkers of a user. A skin diagnosis computing device uses the protein biomarker concentrations to determine one or more skin trends, and determines one or more skincare product ingredients to address the skin trends. A skincare product is compounded that includes the one or more skincare product ingredients. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035185 | PERSONALIZED SKINCARE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON BIOMARKER ANALYSIS - In some embodiments, protein biomarker concentration information for a subject is obtained, and is used to determine one or more skin trends likely to be experienced by the subject. Skincare product recommendations are generated based on the protein biomarker concentration information. Feedback on the recommended skincare products may be received, and may be used to improve future recommendations for skincare products for the subject or for other subjects. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035186 | Data Representations for Collection of Complex Asset System Data - A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for facilitating a sale of an asset used in a complex asset environment via a sales facilitation operation. In various embodiments the sales facilitation operation includes: identifying a plurality of assets within a complex asset environment; collecting information regarding the plurality of assets within the complex asset environment, the information regarding each of the plurality of assets comprising information from a plurality of data sources; performing an asset adoption recommendation operation, the asset adoption recommendation operation recommending an asset according to an adoption segment of a prospective customer; and, performing the sales facilitation operation based upon the adoption segment of the prospective customer. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035187 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATION BASED ON VISUAL ELEMENTS - A method, a device, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for item recommendation based on visual elements. The method includes: determining, by one or more processors, visual elements from an item image of an item; generating, by the one or more processors, an element descriptor for the item based on at least a part of the visual elements; and calculating, by the one or more processors, a compatibility value between the element descriptor and one or more other element descriptors for one or more other items. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035188 | RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A disclosed apparatus and method provide recommendations for products which a customer may need to order and/or items which the customer may have forgotten to order. An exemplary recommendation unit can communicate with a product information database, a product similarity database, a customer purchase history database and a customer order database. The recommendation unit includes a determining unit to store a determined similarity of products in the product similarity database, a training unit to train a model based on information about products previously purchased by each customer and information about at least one determined similarity as stored in the product similarity database, a similarity unit to generate at least one product similar to at least one product to be purchased by a customer based on information about a current order of a customer, and a calculating unit to calculate a probability that a customer forgot to add a similar product. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REPLENISHING CONSUMABLE ITEMS - A method and system for automatically replenishing consumable items. A consumer is allowed to scan in product codes for consumable items with a camera component on a network device such as a mobile phone. The consumer is also allowed to select desired vendors from which to purchase the selected consumable items, select payment options, select delivery options, create and select list of consumable items to be automatically replenished and create and select lists of consumable items that can be shared on-line and on social media so family, relatives, friends or neighbors of the consumer can purchase items for the consumer when the family, relatives, friends or neighbors are doing their own shopping. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035190 | COMMUNITY BASED NETWORK SHOPPING - A system receives item data corresponding to an item list from a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a community group associated with the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the community group, wherein the member data is associated with the one or more items on the item list. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PURCHASE OUTPUTS BASED ON RECEIVED VOICE INPUT - The present disclosure relates generally to outputting purchase outputs based on received voice input by a client device. The purchase outputs may include an invoice, a purchase order, a request for funds associated with a purchase of one or more items, and the like. In general, the voice input received by the client invoice is used to generate a purchase request input that includes at least one product that an employee wants to purchase. One or more candidate items are generated based on the purchase request input, which may be sent to a user and/or manager for approval before generating a purchase output based on the candidate items. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035192 | NETWORK-CONNECTED SCALE FOR E-COMMERCE AND AUTOMATED REORDERING - Apparatus and associated methods relate to an automatic ordering method including a network-connected machine-readable code scanner identifying a product, and a network-connected weigh scale identifying a current weight of the product, the method further triggering an automatic order process when the current weight crosses a predetermined threshold. In an illustrative example, the automatic order process may send a signal to a user's network-connected personal device containing a notification that the products current weight has crossed the predetermined threshold. The user may be presented one or more options, for example, regarding product purchase. In some examples, user setup selections may provide input to a function that determines the predetermined weight threshold. Various examples may include a network server. Online merchants providing online ordering of the product may also connect to the network server, for example. Various automatic ordering methods may advantageously facilitate and/or promote just-in-time delivery of consumable products. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035193 | DENTAL RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed technology relates to a dental relationship management system configured to provide customized content to a dental professional. The dental relationship management system is configured to provide a platform configured to facilitate processing of dental orders and store dental order information in a database. The dental relationship management system is further configured to select content for delivery based on various factors and provide the content to users of the platform. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035194 | SYSTEM AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - A system includes a processing apparatus and a management server. The processing apparatus includes a first transmission unit configured to transmit information about a state of a consumable item for consumption by the processing apparatus. The management server includes a first generation unit configured to generate a first screen for purchasing the consumable item based on the information transmitted from the processing apparatus about the state of the consumable item, a second transmission unit configured to transmit a request for purchasing the consumable item based on a user instruction designated on the first screen displayed on the processing apparatus, and a second generation unit configured to generate a second screen containing a payment code based on information about the payment code acquired based on the request for purchasing. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035195 | INITIATION AND COMPLETION OF AN ONLINE TRANSACTION VIA A SINGLE USER INPUT ACTION - An online transaction with a merchant website is initiated and completed via a single input action by a user. An online transaction application retrieves a first portion of user credit card information from a first storage location and a second portion of the user credit card information from a second storage location, decrypts the first portion with a first decryption key and the second portion with a second decryption key, encrypts and temporarily stores the complete user credit card information, and publishes an order associated with user order information to a pub/sub message bus. In response to the order being published, a headless browser that is connected to the merchant website retrieves and decrypts the unified user credit card information; completes the merchant checkout process; and deletes, erases, or otherwise removes the temporarily stored complete credit card information. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035196 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING, TRACKING, AND PREDICTING THE LOCATION OF MOVING MERCHANTS - Customer transaction data is processed to determine transaction locations for transactions, including transactions whose locations are not initially known. The transaction location data is then utilized to identify merchants that are mobile merchants, and the mobile merchant locations are periodically recalculated and tracked. Customer transaction data is further utilized to identify relationships between mobile merchants and customers of those mobile merchants. Merchant and customer data is also analyzed to identify potential customers of mobile merchants, and data related to the mobile merchants is provided to current and potential customers of those mobile merchants. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035197 | Generating and Ordering Item Offer Themes - Generating themes for different item offers is described. An item listing system receives a request for a target item and generates themes for the target item by grouping offers based on their properties. The item listing system then determines a display order for the themes based on user behavior data. The item listing system then communicates the themes and display order to a client device from which the request was received, causing the client device to display an interface including at least a subset of the themes, arranged according to the display order. Themes including offers determined to be more appealing to the user of the client device are displayed more prominently relative to other themes. The item listing system is further configured to dynamically modify the display order in real-time based on offer changes, such that the interface continuously provides correct information describing available offers for the target item. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035198 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND VEHICLE - A user can easily grasp a state of wearing clothing, and information regarding coordination corresponding to the clothing is provided to the user. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a communication interface that performs communication with an information providing apparatus that provides coordination information regarding coordination of clothing, and a controller that displays, using a display apparatus mounted on a vehicle, an image of a state in which a user is virtually wearing clothing. The controller transmits the image to the information providing apparatus and receives coordination information, provided by the information providing apparatus, corresponding to the image, via the communication interface, and informs the user of the coordination information received. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035199 | A CUSTOMER PERSONALISED CONTROL UNIT, SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided an apparatus and method for a webshop such that the products shown to a customer are related to the purchasing habits of the customer. A control unit is arranged to communicate with a product information database, a product category database and a customer purchase history database. The control unit includes a product categorising unit arranged to generate at least one product category based on product information in the product information database and to store the at least one generated product category in the product category database. A calculating unit is arranged to calculate a probability of a customer being an underbuyer/overbuyer of a type of product based on the customer's purchase history stored in the customer purchase history database and the at least one product category from the product category database. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035200 | PRODUCT SELLING VALUE SHARING SYSTEM, METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a product selling value sharing system | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035201 | VEHICLE RENTAL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE RENTAL METHOD - A vehicle rental system includes a processor that determines whether a parked vehicle in a standby parking space is a rental vehicle or an owned vehicle of a user on the basis of parked vehicle identification information, rental vehicle identification information, and owned vehicle identification information, and the processor executes wrong parking handling processing for removing the parked vehicle in the standby parking space when the processor determines that the parked vehicle in the standby parking space is not the rental vehicle or the owned vehicle within a rental vehicle usage scheduled period. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035202 | SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A server according to the present disclosure determines a vehicle dispatch schedule of a vehicle for delivery of a rental article to a user and/or for collection of a rental article rented out to a user from the user. The server includes a communication interface for acquiring, from a terminal apparatus used by the user, first information regarding the rental article, and at least one of second information regarding a rental date/time and a rental location and third information regarding a return date/time and a return location; and a controller for determining, according to the second information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for delivering the rental article indicated by the first information to the user by the vehicle, and/or for determining, according to the third information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for collecting the rental article rented out to the user from the user by the vehicle. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035203 | DATA PACKET GENERATOR AND IMPLEMENTATIONS OF SAME - A data packet generator transmits data packets using radio frequency signals. The data packets are included, in some embodiments, in a network name. The network name can be detected by a computing device, which receives the data packet. The data packet can then be used for a variety of purposes. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035204 | HYPERLINK FUNCTIONALITY FOR ENABLING AN AUCTIONING PLATFORM - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to activate a hyperlink of a set of hyperlinks within a webpage of a source website. The method further includes executing a script to initiate an auction that is performed by an auctioning platform, wherein the auction comprises a bidding process that is associated with a set of third-party websites. The method further includes determining at least one preferred third-party website selected from the set of third-party websites. The method further includes outputting third-party digital content representative of characteristics of the preferred third-party website that are associated with the characteristics of the activated hyperlink. The method further includes outputting the first digital content while outputting a portion of source digital content representative of characteristics of the source website. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035205 | Computer Implemented Continuous Dual Auction System - A computer implemented continuous dual auction system consisting of a computer, server, and a process for creating a real-time, or substantially real-time, online marketplace for the sale of goods and services. The system allows a buyer to define parameters of one or more items that the buyer wishes to purchase and place a bid on all of the items that satisfy those parameters. The system automatically takes any fees to be paid by the buyer and the seller into account for a buyer's bid and a seller's offer. The system may be accessed via a web browser or a remote application. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035206 | KIOSKS FOR EVALUATING AND PURCHASING USED ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY - A process for a pre-acquisition auction for recycled electronic devices is disclosed herein. A plurality of pre-acquisition purchase prices are established with each of the plurality of pre-acquisition purchase prices established for a recycled electronic device in a predetermined condition, and each of the pre-acquisition purchase prices established by a winning bid from a bidder of a plurality of bidders for a recycled electronic device. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035207 | ADJUST ADS AUCTION USING PREDICTED USER RESPONSE TO AN IN-AD SURVEY - The present disclosure selects third party content based on feedback. A selector identifies several content items including first and second content items (or more) responsive to a request. A machine learning engine determines a first feature of the first content item, a second feature of the second content item, and a third feature of the web page or a device associated with the request. The machine learning engine determines, responsive to the first feature and the third feature, a first score for the first content item based on a machine learning model generated using historical signals received from devices via a metadata channel formed from an electronic feedback interface. The machine learning engine determines a second score for the second content item responsive to the second feature and the third feature. A bidding module determines a price for the first content item based on the first and second scores. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035208 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a classifying means for setting a class of target data out of data that is a learning target, on the basis of the target data satisfying a predetermined condition, and a model generation means for generating a model for detecting data, on the basis of the target data and the classification set to the target data. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035209 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING UNSECURED LENDING TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating and managing unsecured loan products that utilize borrower's existing credit accounts as a modified collateral. In some embodiments, a lender can provide lending products by using customer's existing credit account as a collateral. In some embodiments, a lender may place preauthorization hold on one of customer's existing credit accounts. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A LOAN APPLICATION - The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for managing a loan application. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that may include identifying one or more unfulfilled conditions associated with a loan application of a customer and sending, to a customer device, a request for a loan application document based on the identified one or more unfulfilled conditions. The method may also include receiving, from the customer device, a responsive loan application document. The method may also include identifying a document type for the responsive loan application document and confirming that the responsive loan application document is a valid document. Finally, the method may also include sending loan application status information to the customer device based on the confirmation. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035211 | NETWORK OF COMPUTING NODES AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE COMPUTING NODES TO EFFECTUATE REAL-TIME BANK ACCOUNT-TO-BANK ACCOUNT MONEY TRANSFER - A network of computing nodes and a method of operating the computing nodes effectuate, in real-time, an international, money transfer from the bank account of a first person (the payer) in a first country to the bank account of a second person (the beneficiary) in a second, different, country. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-IMPLEMENTED SCRIPT-BASED BYTE INTERPRETATION - The invention relates to distributed ledger technologies such as consensus-based blockchains, for example, a Bitcoin blockchain. Computer-implemented methods for a trustless, deterministic state machine that is embodied by the locking script of a spending transaction are described. The spending transaction transfers control of at least one digital asset or portion thereof. The spending transaction references a previous transaction that includes a locking script with a bytecode sequence. The spending transaction also includes a locking script with the same bytecode sequence. The spending transaction can be validated by verifying that the bytecode sequences of the locking scripts of the spending and previous transactions match one another. Control of the at least one digital asset or portion thereof can be transferred as a result of execution of the locking script. For example, the locking script can impose a set of conditions for validation of the spending transaction. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035213 | ORDER EXECUTION FOR STOCK TRADING - An order execution server for stock trading includes a data collection unit configured to collect trading data on at least one item, a subsidiary prediction value generation unit configured to generate a subsidiary prediction value by inputting the trading data into a pre-trained first deep learning model based on supervised learning, an order execution strategy deriving unit configured to derive an order execution strategy for the at least one item during a current period of time based on the trading data and the subsidiary prediction value by using a pre-trained second deep learning model based on reinforcement learning; and an order execution instruction unit configured to instruct order execution for the at least one item during the current period of time by using order information including the order execution strategy. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035214 | ORDER EXECUTION FOR STOCK TRADING - An order execution server for stock trading includes a data collection unit configured to collect trading data on at least one item, a model generation unit configured to generate a reinforcement learning-based deep learning model including two or more actors which are neural networks that determine an action policy of a reinforcement learning agent and a critic which is a neural network that estimates an action value of the reinforcement learning agent and train the reinforcement learning-based deep learning model to derive an order execution strategy for the at least one item based on the trading data and an order execution unit configured to perform order execution for the at least one item during a current period of time by using order information including the order execution strategy. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035215 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A HOME EQUITY SALES PROGRAM - A system and method for conducting a home equity sales (HES) program enables a real estate property owner to sell a partial equity ownership interest in a real estate property. This allows the property owner to sell the interest outright to an investor and receive compensation for the sale of the interest. The property interests of the property owner and the investor are both recorded in property records relating to that particular property. The property owner may sell multiple interests in the same property and an investor may also purchase these multiple interests. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035216 | Method and Apparatus For A Fair Exchange - A fair exchange is disclosed to reduce potential inequities in an electronic trading environment. Market data is sent from a host system to client devices through one or more synchronized local communication servers such that the data can be displayed simultaneously or nearly simultaneously at each client device. Market data sent to client devices might include price information. Likewise, a host system may transaction data sent from client devices via the local communication servers. The ordering of transaction data is based, at least in part, on when the local communication servers received the transaction data from the client devices. Transaction data sent to a host system might include order information. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035217 | UPDATING BLOCKCHAIN-ENCODED RECORDS OF RIVED LONGEVITY-CONTINGENT INSTRUMENTS - A method executed by a computing device includes verifying authenticity of an asset blockchain-encoded record representing sub-assets to produce an asset authenticity indicator and verifying authenticity of a liability blockchain-encoded record representing sub-liabilities to produce a liability authenticity indicator. When the asset authenticity indicator and the liability authenticity indicators are favorable, the method further includes riving another longevity-contingent instrument for inclusion in a set of longevity-contingent instruments to produce updated sub-assets and updated sub-liabilities. The method further includes updating the asset blockchain-encoded record to represent the updated sub-assets and updating the liability blockchain-encoded record to represent the updated sub-liabilities. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRADING USING ALERT MESSAGES FOR OUTLYING TRADING ORDERS - According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. In a market for a particular type of instrument, electronic data including buy orders and sell orders are received from a plurality of traders. Each buy order has an associated bid price and each sell order has an associated offer price. A determination is made of whether the particular trading order is an outlying trading order by electronically determining whether the particular trading order differs from at least one comparison price by more than a threshold value. If it is determined that the particular trading is an outlying trading order, a restrictive action is taken regarding one or more trading orders. For example, if a trader subsequently submits another trading order that would trade with the outlying trading order, an electronic alert message may he sent to the trader and the subsequent trading order may be prevented from trading with the outlying trading order at least temporarily. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035219 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING A TRADING ORDER BASED UPON QUANTITY - An apparatus for routing trading orders comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores first trading information associated with a first buy order placed with a first market center. The first buy order is associated with a product and the first trading information comprises a disclosed quantity of the product and a reserved quantity of the product. The memory also stores second trading information associated with a second buy order placed with a second market center. The second buy order is associated with the product and the second trading information comprises a disclosed quantity of the product and a reserved quantity of the product. The processor is coupled to the memory and receives a sell order associated with a quantity of the product. The processor further cancels at least a portion of the second buy order placed with the second market center for placement with the first market center. The canceled portion of the second buy order is determined based at least in part upon the second trading information. The processor further routes at least one additional sell order to the first market center having a quantity that is based upon at least one of the first trading information and the canceled portion of the second buy order. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035220 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A VERSATILE FINANCIAL MECHANISM AND TRANSACTION GENERATOR AND INTERFACE - Versatile Financial Mechanisms and Transactions Generators and Interfaces (VFMTGI) involve the creation of effective apparatuses, methods, and systems for solutions to create and/or leg complex versatile financial mechanisms. The VFMTGI facilitates user removal of significant transactional risk exposure as the methods, systems and apparatuses facilitate user data entry into spreads that represent alternative futures. Aspects of an implementation of the VFMTGI facilitate investor execution and completion of multiple financial transactions, simultaneously, as a single transaction. The methods, systems and apparatuses facilitates simplification of complex transactions. An implementation of the VFMTGI involves changing risk exposure and/or otherwise hedging a user's underlying position, enabling a user to make a selection to buy or sell an interrelated multi-leg financial transaction from the user's underlying position, which enables identification of subcomponent financial instruments for generating a new position for the user's underlying position. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035221 | Ideal expiration derivatives - A financial instrument. A new type of financial product is disclosed. A method and system of administering a financial product where the pay-off of the product at expiration is based on a model value of some financial product expiring at a later date. The new product is named “ideal expiration derivative.” Ideal expiration derivatives, by design, are easier to hedge and risk manage. A method also includes generating, using the computer processor, prices, payments and/or hedges of ideal expiration derivatives. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035222 | DELAYED REWARD SAVINGS SYSTEM - A delayed reward savings system wherein a required or selected amount above a normal amount for a financial instrument is paid by an individual and transferred and maintained in an individual's reward savings account. Funds in the individual's rewards savings account are released to the individual based upon the occurrence of a predetermined circumstance or criteria. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035223 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CANCELLING AN INSURANCE POLICY, INSURANCE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is a method for cancelling an insurance policy that includes: detecting whether a preset cancellation condition of an insurance policy is satisfied when the insurance policy is under an insurance-applying status or under a to-be-underwritten status; acquiring a corresponding cancellation period of the insurance policy if the preset cancellation condition of the insurance policy is satisfied; detecting within the cancellation period whether a first change instruction is received which first change instruction is intended to change the status of the insurance policy so that the preset cancellation condition of the insurance policy is no longer satisfied; and cancelling the insurance policy when the first change instruction is not detected. Further disclosed are a device for cancelling an insurance policy, an insurance system, and a computer-readable storage media. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035224 | Applying Telematics to Generate Dynamic Insurance Premiums - A system and method that utilizes telemetric data for the dynamic pricing of insurance premiums for arbitrary and optionally multiple perils which receives telemetric data from sensors and other sources of data, analyzes the data for changes in risk associated with a parameter of an insurance policy, and dynamically adjusts policy premiums to account for individual policy risks as well as accounting for risks within the insurer's complete portfolio. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035225 | ELECTRONIC PHARMACY ADJUDICATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An electronic pharmacy adjudication system and associated method and computer program product for performing adjudication service for a healthcare insurance claim is provided. The system includes an interface layer, an orchestration layer and a service and rules engine layer configured for receiving, processing and releasing an adjudication decision. The orchestration layer processes the healthcare insurance claim to generate a sequence of service calls to the service and rules engine layer to derive a sequence of partial decision results, which are derived by processing a set of parameters identified by the service call according to a corresponding subset of decisions rules in a rules repository. The sequence of partial decision results is then processed to derive the adjudication decision corresponding to the healthcare insurance claim. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035226 | Systems, Methods and Platform for Performing a Multi-Level Catastrophic Risk Exposure Analysis for a Portfolio - In an illustrative embodiment, an automated system performs a multi-level risk exposure analysis for geographic locations, such as property locations. The system may include computing systems and devices for calculating, for locations in a portfolio, risk exposure amounts for an area that includes an insured location and including an analysis radius and identifying regions of interest having risk exposure amounts that exceed predetermined amounts due to combined exposure from a portion of the insured locations. The system may generate a grid of intermediate points that is applied to each region of interest. The system may calculate amounts of risk exposure for each of the intermediate points and retain any intermediate points with risk exposure amounts that exceed the amounts for the insured locations. The system may output a risk exposure analysis based on the risk exposure amounts for the insured locations and intermediate points of interest. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035227 | Method of Preparing and Submitting an Insurance Claim - Methods and devices for submitting data to a system for simplified, verifiable compilation of photographs and related data of lost items to be claimed through an insurance company. One method may include the process performed by a claimant to make a claim for a lost item. The claimant uploads at least one photograph for the claimed item in an account for the claim. The claimant further inputs descriptive data corresponding to the one or more photographs. The descriptive data and one or more photographs are then processed and sent to an independent insurance adjuster. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035228 | System and Method for Pre-Qualifying a Consumer for Life and Health Insurance Products or Services, Benefits Products or Services based on Eligibility and Referring a Qualified Customer to a Licensed Insurance Agent, Producer or Broker to Facilitate the Enrollment Process - An artificial intelligence-based multi-channel system and method to evaluate a buyer or consumer's intent to purchase benefits products. The system and method determine the buyer or consumer's needs, identifies and presents relevant benefits products based on eligibility to the buyer or consumer. The system and method can transfer the buyer or consumer to a producer to facilitate an enrollment process for the benefits products. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035229 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION WITH DATA STORES RELATED TO TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Apparatus and associated methods related to interacting with multi-dimensional data stores related to tangible objects (TOs) in real environments (REs) through associated representative objects (ROs) in representative maps (RMs). In an illustrative embodiment, one or more RM is generated representing one or more corresponding RE, and one or more TO is identified in the RE and associated with one or more corresponding RO in the RM(s). Various information, located across multi-dimensional data stores, related to the TOs and REs may be linked to one or more ROs and RMs such that the user may access the information through the ROs and RMs. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035230 | Multi-channel Cognitive Digital Personal Lines Property & Casualty Insurance and Home Services Rate Quoting, Comparison Shopping and Enrollment System and Method - An anthropomorphic, artificial intelligence-based system and method to quote, compare, and purchase personal lines and commercial lines property and casualty insurance or benefits products and services and quoting, comparing, purchasing, or transferring residential services using a cognitive virtual assistant. The system and method collects information from an online advertising platform during the process and returns the collected information to the online advertising platform for optimization of the online advertising platform. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035231 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF MANAGEMENT OF INSURANCE RISK AND INSURANCE EVENTS - This system is directed to the management of insurance information, risks and coverage, wherein a set of non-transitory computer readable instructions included in a kiosk disposed at the construction site can include instructions for creating a certificate of insurance according to a determination that the insurance requirements have been met and storing the certificate of insurance in the distributed ledger. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035232 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF MULTI-ATTRIBUTE CONSUMER PROFILES - Provided is a process of inferring insurability scores, the process including: receiving a request for an insurance comparison webpage; sending instructions to present one or more webpages of a web site having a plurality of user inputs configured to receive a plurality of attributes of the user; receiving the attributes; determining an insurability score with an insurability model based on the received attributes of the user; and sending instructions to display a value indicative of the insurability score. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035233 | DETECTING TRANSPORTATION COMPANY TRIPS IN A VEHICLE BASED UPON ON-BOARD AUDIO SIGNALS - The systems and methods may transmit a plurality of locationing pulse requests from a mobile device in a vehicle to an audio system of the vehicle during a period of operation of the vehicle. The audio system may have an array of speakers disposed inside the vehicle, and the locationing pulse requests may include a request to emit a locationing pulse from the array of speakers. The systems and methods may further receive the locationing pulse at a microphone of the mobile device; and determine, based upon receiving the locationing pulse, that the vehicle was in service of a TNC company, or otherwise operating as a TNC vehicle, during the period of operation based upon passengers entering and leaving the vehicle during the period of operation. Insurance covering the operation of the vehicle for TNC use may be verified, and/or alternatively, offered to facilitate insuring TNC vehicle operation. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING SALES TAX - A system and method of tracking sales tax. The present invention separates and logs each sales tax for each purchase, which eliminates the need for keeping physical receipts on a yearly basis and having to tally sales tax when preparing tax returns. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FRAUD AMONG TAX EXPERTS - A method and system trains, with a machine learning process, an analysis model to detect anomalous behavior of tax professionals affiliated with a tax return preparation system. The analysis model is trained with a training set that includes contextual and behavioral data for a plurality of historical tax professionals. The trained analysis model then analyzes and generates risk scores for current tax professionals based on current behavioral and contextual data associated with the current tax professionals. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035236 | METHOD OF COLLATING, ABSTRACTING, AND DELIVERING WORLDWIDE VIEWPOINTS - The present invention provides a system and method for presenting global issues to users and followers of a social media platform, allowing the users and followers to provide viewpoints on the global issues, and analyzing the various viewpoints to develop statistical data including the location of those providing viewpoints. The present invention also allows a user to present a global issue for consideration by users of the platform, for example, a social media internet-based website, and allows followers of the user to provide their viewpoints on such global issue. Simultaneously, the location of said followers will be collected and collated along with their responses. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035237 | Wanna Hang - “Wanna Hang” is a social network that can help create more effective connections between people, through new and interesting tools. It is addressed to both individual users and businesses, that can interact creating/attending events, get real feedbacks and bring out the best relationships. The aim is to focus on direct contact between people rather than virtual relations. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035238 | MULTI-RECIPIENT SELECTION AND COMMUNICATION PLATFORM - A system includes a processing circuit including a processor coupled to machine readable storage media having instructions stored therein that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving a geographical indicator regarding a user, obtaining a list of government representatives associated with the geographical indicator, displaying the list of government representatives to the user via a graphical user interface, receiving a selection of at least one government representative from the list of government representatives via the graphical user interface, and obtaining information about the at least one selected government representative, where the information includes real-time information pertaining to the at least one selected government representative. The operations further include displaying the information related to the at least one selected government representative to the user via the graphical user interface, and sending a message from the user to the at least one government representative. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035239 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING REAL TIME CONTEXTUAL AND LOCATION BASED TARGETED COMMUNICATION ON MOBILE AND INTERNET BASED CHANNELS VIA RICH COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A system and a method utilize RCS-based mobile communication mechanism to deliver targeted real-time communications based on the context of a particular conversation, which context of conversation is considered to refine the targeted real-time communication. The component messages of a P2P or a group RCS message conversation are threaded by a server based on the unique conversation ID, and an analytics server uses machine learning algorithms to identify the context of the conversation. The system and method can utilize a server implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine-learning capabilities to identify the intent of the conversation and suggest chatbot options and/or suggestions to client(s) at least partly based on the identified intent of the conversation. The chatbot suggestions can be provided in the conversation window on the mobile device based on the conversation context. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035240 | TRUSTABLE INFORMATION CHAIN FOR FISHING, SEAFOOD, OR OTHER INDUSTRIES - A trustable information chain management system for facilitating supply chain and/or marketplace transactions involved with the fishing, seafood, or other industries, and associated methods, is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for creating an information chain for a transaction related to a seafood product is provided. In some embodiments the method can include: receiving, by a first entity, a first information chain packet, wherein the first information chain packet includes first data of a first transaction related to the seafood product; decrypting at least a portion of the first information chain packet; creating a packet base including (1) second data of a second, subsequent transaction related to the seafood product and (2) a reference to the first information chain packet; generating a second information chain packet by encrypting at least a portion of the packet base; and transmitting the second information chain packet to a second entity. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035241 | Vented Utility Meter Enclosure - An enclosure for a utility metering device is configured to reduce internal air temperatures. In an example, the utility metering device has a solar shield and/or filtered ventilation air passage(s). In the example, an enclosure is attached to a base. Opening(s) may be defined in the enclosure, to allow air to remove heat from the metering device by convection. The openings may be covered with filters, to prevent the entry of water, dust, insects, etc. A solar shield may cover at least an upper surface of the enclosure. An air pocket may be defined between the solar shield and at least the upper surface of the enclosure. Air from within the enclosure may be ventilated into the air pocket, and air from within the air pocket may be ventilated into the atmosphere. The ventilation removes heat from within the enclosure, while the solar shield rejects addition of heat energy. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035242 | Modifying Computing System Operations Based on Cost and Power Conditions - Examples relate to flexible datacenters or other power loads tolerant of intermittent operation and configured to use power received behind-the-meter. A system may include a set of computing systems powered by behind-the-meter power and a datacenter control system. The datacenter control system may be configured to monitor a set of conditions that includes behind-the-meter power availability at the set of computing systems and perform a weighted analysis using the set of monitored conditions. Based on the weighted analysis, the datacenter control system may be configured to modulate operating attributes of one or more computing systems of the set of computing systems. In some examples, the datacenter control system is a remote master control system in communication with a datacenter control system of a flexible datacenter housing the set of computing systems. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035243 | Payment System - A payment system may include ways for an entity, such as a restaurant, to provide ordering and payment services, among other services, to customers, who may use their own devices. For example, customers may use their own devices to order and pay for food or drinks that they pick up or consume at a restaurant. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035244 | Scenario-Based Application Recommendation Method and Apparatus - A specific solution includes: obtaining, by a terminal, current scenario information; matching the current scenario information against one or more prompt rules; and when determining that the current scenario information matches a first prompt rule, displaying a first prompt message corresponding to the first prompt rule, to prompt that there is a recommended application in a scenario corresponding to the current scenario information; displaying, in response to a first operation performed by a user on the first prompt message, a first recommendation interface that includes a recommendation item of an application prompted by the first prompt message; and displaying an interface of a first application in response to a selection operation performed by the user on a first recommendation item in the first recommendation interface. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035245 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TITLE PRODUCTS - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for generating title products. A device accepts a title product search request for a title product for a property. The device initiates a search of databases that contain information about the property such as data or evidence of title. A rule engine compares the retrieved information with business rules such as title insurance underwriting criteria. The comparison provides results for generating a title report, insurance contract or other title insurance products. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035246 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for managing IP assets using distributed ledger technology (DLT). An IP asset management platform or application may obtain one or more files associated with an IP asset, and process the one or more files to create a record on a distributed ledger that is associated with the IP asset, where the processing includes, at least in part, generating a hash from information associated with the one or more files and a timestamp. The IP asset management platform or application may then create the record on the distributed ledger, where the record includes at least the hash and the timestamp, and generate a blockchain certificate. The IP asset management platform or application may verify one or more utility tokens are received prior to processing the one or more files to create the record on the distributed ledger. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035247 | METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CONTRACT PREPARATION, REVIEW AND NEGOTIATION - An internet-based method is provided for preparation, review and negotiation, of contracts in an efficient and focused manner. More particularly, the method employs a computer application operable on any type of computing device by two or more parties and focuses their attention on the most important and most negotiated contract clauses. Several options and capabilities are provided, including the ability of parties to select desired contract clauses from a database, and designate which clauses are vitally important, as well as generally important and universally applicable (boilerplate) clauses. The computer application can then be instructed to share and display subsets of the contract clauses selected by all parties, such as only the vitally important clauses, or only clauses having edited variable content, for initial focused negotiation and settlement, before turning to review and negotiation of less important or less critical clauses. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035248 | MULTIPLE MAIL PIECE ASSEMBLY AND WRAPPING SYSTEM - A computer controlled mail piece assembly and wrapping system discloses a process for culling candidate mail pieces from bulk mail pieces, a mail piece feeder, a mail piece reader coupled to the feeder that identifies suitable candidate mail pieces, a collator coupled to the feeder for collating multiple identified mail pieces, a buffer coupled to the collator for regulating the delivery rate of the multiple mail pieces exiting to a wrap inserter, a wrap inserter coupled to the buffer for wrapping mail pieces and selected inserts into a mailing container, a printer interfaced with the wrap inserter for printing information onto the mailing container; an outstacker coupled to the wrap inserter for transferring envelope wrapped mail pieces and selected inserts to a desired location, and a computer with suitable programming for operating the system. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035249 | Systems/protocol for creating an interconnected web of strong identities - A protocol for creating, assigning, verifying and using strong end-point identities for establishing an authenticated relationship between Consumers/Users with Service Providers. The protocol allowing the Consumer accounts to directly control data attributes within the Service Provider environment using encrypted hashing techniques. The protocol defining communications between Consumers/Users, Service Providers and the Control System creating an authenticated relationship among the parties. The protocol defines a method and system for the Consumer/User to interface with one or more Service Providers, pre-authenticated directly by the Service Provider to allow the Consumer/User an authentication/verification system with pre-assigned Consumer/User data attributes that are agreed upon between the Service Provider and the Consumer. The Control System does not hold the consumer identity or any consumer attributes and operates via encrypted hashes that can only be decrypted by the Consumer/user and/or the Service Provider, making the Consumer completely anonymous to the Control System. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035250 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE INVENTORY REPLENISHMENT - The disclosure herein generally relates to inventory management, and, more particularly, to a method and system for adaptive inventory replenishment. The system collects real-time information on product-inflow, product-outflow, and damaged goods, as input, and processes the inputs to learn a product-replenishment pattern. Further, a replenishment policy that matches the learnt product-replenishment pattern is selected, and based on the selected replenishment policy, at least one product-replenishment recommendation for the collected real-time information is generated. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SHARED TRANSPORTATION - A system and method for recommending shared transportation that include determining at least one starting location and at least one destination location of a user. The system and method also include determining at least one type of shared transportation that is located within a predetermined distance of at least one pathway that is utilized to reach the at least one destination from the at least one starting location. The system and method further include recommending the at least one type of shared transportation to the user and reserving the at least one type of shared transportation to be utilized by the user based on the user accepting the recommendation. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035252 | DETERMINING DISUTILITY OF SHARED TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS FOR A TRANSPORTATION MATCHING SYSTEM - This disclosure covers computer-implemented methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that determine disutility metrics for transportation requests in a shared transportation. For example, the disclosed systems determine estimated service metrics for a plurality of combinations of one or more transportation requests in the shared transportation (e.g., an estimated amount of time to perform a transportation service for a combination of one or more transportation requests). Additionally, the disclosed systems analyze the estimated service metrics to determine an effect of the transportation requests on a combined service metric for the shared transportation and then determine disutility metrics for the transportation requests based on the determined effect. The disclosed systems then generate messages including information associated with the disutility metrics for displaying at requester devices associated with the transportation requests. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035253 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SERVICE REQUEST - The present disclosure relates to a method for processing a service request. The method may include receiving, from a first user device, a service request and an amount of power of the first user device via a network. The service request may include a departure location and a destination. The amount of power of the first user device may be not greater than a threshold. The method may also include transmitting the service request to at least one provider terminal via the network, and receiving an order response from a provider terminal of the at least one provider terminal via the network. The method may further include generating order acceptance information based on the order response of the provider terminal, and transmitting the order acceptance information to the first user device and a second user device associated with the first user device via the network. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035254 | PAGE FAULTING AND SELECTIVE PREEMPTION - One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising a processing array within the parallel processor, the processing array including multiple compute blocks, each compute block including multiple processing clusters configured for parallel operation, wherein each of the multiple compute blocks is independently preemptable. In one embodiment a preemption hint can be generated for source code during compilation to enable a compute unit to determine an efficient point for preemption. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035255 | PROGRAMMABLE COARSE GRAINED AND SPARSE MATRIX COMPUTE HARDWARE WITH ADVANCED SCHEDULING - One embodiment provides for a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the compute apparatus comprising a decode unit to decode a single instruction into a decoded instruction, the decoded instruction to cause the compute apparatus to perform a complex machine learning compute operation. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035256 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LAYERED REAL-TIME GRAPHICS DRAWING AND RENDERING - A method and system for drawing and rendering a graphic in real-time in a layered manner are provided. Adjacent application frames spaced with a time period are extracted, a scene change rate is calculated, and whether the scene change rate exceeds a preset change rate threshold is determined. If the scene change rate does not exceed the preset change rate threshold, graphic elements are grouped to a same graphic layer. If the scene change rate exceeds the preset change rate threshold, M application frames chronologically located between the adjacent application frames are extracted. Each application frame is divided into N regions, and a scene change rate of adjacent application frames is calculated for each region. An average scene change rate for each region is calculated, a layering operation is performed based on the average scene change rate, and graphic layers are drew and rendered separately. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035257 | Frequent Data Value Compression for Graphics Processing Units - A control surface tracks an individual cacheline in the original surface for frequent data values. If so, control surface bits are set. When reading a cacheline from memory, first the control surface bits are read. If they happen to be set, then the original memory read is skipped altogether and instead the bits from the control surface provide the value for the entire cacheline. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035258 | SPARSE OPTIMIZATOINS FOR A MATRIX ACCELERATOR ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments described herein include, software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. Embodiment described herein provided techniques to skip computational operations for zero filled matrices and sub-matrices. Embodiments additionally provide techniques to maintain data compression through to a processing unit. Embodiments additionally provide an architecture for a sparse aware logic unit. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035259 | LOW GRANULARITY COARSE DEPTH TEST EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus comprises a processor to compute depth values for one or more 4×4 blocks of pixels using 16 source interpolators and 8 destination interpolators on an incoming fragment of pixel data if the destination is in min/max format, and a memory to store a depth test result performed on the one or more 4×4 blocks of pixels. Otherwise the processor is to compute depth values for one or more 8×4 blocks of pixels using 16 source interpolators and 16 destination interpolators if the destination is in plane format. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for method for image processing, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first image, identifying a target object in the first image, and obtaining leg detection information of the target object; respectively determining a contour line and a target line of a leg region of the target object based on the leg detection information; and performing image deformation processing on the leg region based on the contour line and the target line of the leg region to generate a second image. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035261 | VIRTUAL LENS SIMULATION FOR VIDEO AND PHOTO CROPPING - In a video capture system, a virtual lens is simulated when applying a crop or zoom effect to an input video. An input video frame is received from the input video that has a first field of view and an input lens distortion caused by a lens used to capture the input video frame. A selection of a sub-frame representing a portion of the input video frame is obtained that has a second field of view smaller than the first field of view. The sub-frame is processed to remap the input lens distortion to a desired lens distortion in the sub-frame. The processed sub-frame is the outputted. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035262 | METHOD FOR PRESERVING PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY OF OBJECTS IN IMAGES - A method of modifying a 2D image representing a 3D scene in order to preserve perceptual constancy of objects in the scene the method including the steps: processing an image of a 3D scene to generate an unmodified view of the 3D scene and one or more 3D objects within the scene; selecting one or more objects from within the scene; determining a modified view of the one or more objects; comparing the modified view of the one or more objects with the unmodified view of the one or more objects; interpolating one or more stages between the unmodified view and modified view of the one or more objects; selecting an interpolation for the one or more objects; generating a new 3D scene with the selected interpolated one or more objects; and, projecting and rendering the new 3D scene into a 2D image onto a display. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035263 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING DYSLEXIC READABLE IMAGES - Dyslexic friendly and readable images are provided. Each image includes one or more positioned, non-linear (i.e., curved) boundaries and a plurality of textual objects, where each object is positioned at a distance from the boundaries and follows a boundary. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035264 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING RESOLUTION OF HMD APPARATUS - The present invention provides a method and device for adjusting resolution of a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) apparatus. Wherein, the method comprises the steps of: determining saliency information of display contents in multimedia information; adjusting, according to the saliency information, resolution corresponding to each display content in the multimedia information; and, displaying the resolution-adjusted multimedia information. In the present invention, by determining saliency information of display contents in multimedia information, the resolution corresponding to the display contents is adjusted, which enable the resolution of the display contents to be matched with the saliency of the display contents, and accordingly, the resolution-adjusted multimedia information is displayed without the need of displaying the complete multimedia information in a higher resolution and a higher frame rate. In this way, computation amount for a device is greatly reduced, so that requirement for device hardware is reduced and device cost is reduced, and displaying efficiency is improved whilst at the same time ensuring good displaying effect. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035265 | CLOUD COMPUTING FLEXIBLE LARGE AREA MOSAIC ENGINE - Systems and methods for large-scale geospatial mosaic generation with image processing in a cloud computing environment. The approaches described herein specifically leverage scalable cloud computing features to facilitate highly parallel, granular image processing. Front-end image processing techniques allow for generation of a user interface that may provide automated material selection with human operator refinement. The user interface may be a web-based design that provides browse version images at lower resolutions to improve performance of the user interface and generating mosaic recipe. In turn, the mosaic recipe may be provided to back-end image processing that coordinates strip-level jobs and tile-level jobs and highly parallel fashion scalable cloud computing nodes. In turn, very large-scale mosaic images may be generated from geospatial images in computationally and cost-effective manner. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035266 | FLUID AND RESOLUTION-FRIENDLY VIEW OF LARGE VOLUMES OF TIME SERIES DATA - A tile contains aggregated data at a certain resolution for the actual data present in the duration of time covered in that tile. Tiles are generated at every possible resolution suitable for a computer display and provide aggregate measures such as averages and variances. Tiles provide a summary of data such that from the highest level view down to the specific data time points collected, a user's attention may be drawn to the times when there is the most interesting pattern behavior to review and analyze. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035267 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device can comprise: a light source configured to allow light, excluding a visible light band, to be incident on a designated pattern; a memory for storing designated pattern information; a camera configured to receive the light, which is incident from the light source and reflected by an external object; and a processor. The processor can be configured to: acquire a first image on an external object by using a camera, wherein the first image includes a pattern formed when the designated pattern is deformed by a curve of the surface of the external object; extract deformed pattern information from the first image by using the first image and the designated pattern information; and generate a second image from which the pattern deformed in the first image has been removed, by using the first image and the extracted deformed pattern information. Additional various embodiments are possible. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035268 | Video Repair Method and Apparatus, and Storage Medium - The present disclosure relates to a video repair method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring first forward optical flows and first reverse optical flows between adjacent images among continuous multiple frames of images; respectively performing optical flow optimization processing on the first forward optical flows and the first reverse optical flows to obtain second forward optical flows corresponding to the first forward optical flows and second reverse optical flows corresponding to the first reverse optical flows; performing forward and reverse conduction optimization on the continuous multiple frames of images by utilizing the second forward and the second reverse optical flows, respectively, until all the images in the optimized continuous multiple frames of images satisfy repair requirements; and obtaining repaired images of the continuous multiple frames of images according to the optimized images obtained by the forward conduction optimization and the reverse conduction optimization. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035269 | IMAGE FUSION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REMOVING GHOST ARTIFACTS - An image fusion method for removing ghost artifacts is provided. The method includes: determining a first fusion weight of a reference pixel in a reference frame, wherein the coordinates of the reference pixel are the same as the coordinates of one of input pixels included in an input frame; determining a reference brightness parameter according to values of all channels of the reference pixel; determining an input brightness parameter according to values of all channels of the input pixel; determining a ghost weight according to an amount that the brightness parameter ratio of the input brightness parameter and the reference brightness parameter deviates from a reasonable range; determining a fusion weight according to the first fusion weight and the ghost weight; and fusing the reference pixel with the input pixel according to the fusion weight to generate a fused pixel in a fused frame. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035270 | ON DEMAND MSAA RESOLVE DURING LENS CORRECTION AND/OR OTHER POST-PROCESSING PHASES - Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies, at an image post-processor, unresolved surface data and identifies, at the image post-processor, control data associated with the unresolved surface data. Additionally, the technology may resolve, at the image post-processor, the unresolved surface data and the control data into a final image. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035271 | Adaptive Sub-Tiles For Distortion Correction In Vision-Based Assistance Systems And Methods - Embodiments are disclosed that apply adaptive sub-tiles to captured images for distortion correction in vision-based assistance systems and methods. A captured image is processed to generate corrected tiles, and selected numbers of sub-tiles are used to generate each of the corrected tiles depending upon the pixel densities for regions of the captured image. The corrected sub-tiles are combined to form corrected tiles, and corrected tiles are combined for form a corrected image. The corrected image can be used to output control signals to cause actions to be issued to a user of the system such as a driver of a vehicle. For one embodiment, the corrected tiles are generated one at a time, and corrected sub-tiles for each corrected tile are also generated one at a time based upon individual source data blocks determined by a pre-determined sub-tile configuration. Efficient memory use and data transfers are provided. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035272 | IMAGE BANDING CORRECTION IN HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provide to perform automatic banding correction in captured images. For example, the methods receive from a plurality of sensing elements in a sensor array, first image data captured with a first exposure parameter, and second image data captured with a second exposure parameter. The methods partition first image data and second image data and determine values for each partition. The methods compute banding errors based on the determined values of the partitions for first image data and second image data. The methods also determine a banding error correction to one or more of first image data and second image data based on the banding errors. Further, the methods perform an automatic correction of the banding errors on one or more of first image data and second image based on the banding error correction. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035273 | ENHANCED HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE IMAGING AND TONE MAPPING - The various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards methods for tone mapping High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) image data, as well as controlling the brightness of the image encoded by HDR the image data and/or the tone-mapped image data. HDR image is captured. A tone mapping function for the HDR image data is generated. To generate the tone mapping function, control points are dynamically determined based on an analysis of the HDR image data. The tone mapping function is fit to the control points. The tone mapping function is a non-linear function, and is described by a curve in a plane. The shape of the curve is constrained by a line generated from a portion of the control points. The tone mapping function is applied to the HDR image data. A color-compression is applied to the tone mapped image data to generate Standard Dynamic Range or Low Dynamic Range image data. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035274 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN ENRICHED IMAGE OF A TARGET OBJECT AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The disclosure relates to a method and a system for generating an enriched image of a target object and to a corresponding computer program and a computer-readable storage medium, on which the computer program is stored. In the method, image data of the target object is acquired. Furthermore, tactile data is acquired for the target object, which characterizes a mechanical resistance of at least one section of the target object against a force applied thereto. The enriched image is then generated by merging the image data and the tactile data and/or a classification of the respective section derived therefrom. | 2021-02-04 |
