06th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 47 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170039590 | HIGHLY SCALABLE INTERNET-BASED PARALLEL EXPERIMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING INSIGHTS FROM TEST PROMOTION RESULTS - Methods and apparatus for conducting test promotions in a highly scalable and cost-effective manner using parallel experiment methodology are disclosed. Test promotions are presented to visitors of a website in a parallel experiment manner wherein each page presents one test promotion to isolate the test promotions from one another. The visitors' responses with respect to the test promotion are then recorded and analyzed to determine the performance of the test promotion. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039591 | ANALYSIS OF CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC ATTENTION FOR INTRODUCTION OF STIMULUS MATERIAL - A system analyzes neuro-response measurements including regional electroencephalography (EEG) measurements from subjects exposed to stimulus materials to determine locations in stimulus materials eliciting controlled attention and automatic attention. Additional stimulus materials are inserted into locations having salient attention attributes. In some examples, a challenging task is used to direct controlled attention onto a location and additional stimulus material is subtly presented in the location to benefit from automatic attention and salient attention measurements. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039592 | ADVERTISEMENT COORDINATION - A system is disclosed for serving advertisements to a user of a client device. Based on a user requesting to view an email message in their inbox, the system provides the email message to the user. At least one header field in the header portion of the email message is scanned and data is extracted from at least one header field. The extracted data is delivered to an advertising server, which selects an advertisement that is relevant to the extracted data and delivers the relevant advertisement back to the system. The relevant advertisement is delivered to the user. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION OF DATA - Embodiments for visualization of data are provided. One example embodiment includes a system including one or more processors configured to receive authentication data related to a user. The one or more processor may further be configured to receive profile data and transactional data associated with the user, and selectively aggregate the profile data with the transaction data as aggregated user data. Furthermore, the one or more processors may be configured to visualize the aggregated user data as a data visualization, and generate an advertisement personalized for the user based on the data visualization. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039594 | LOCATION-BASED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SERVICE DRIVEN BY AN EVENT - Distribution of promotional content and/or location information associated with devices in response to, for example, a social event or another type of event. Commerce transactions and/or non-commerce transactions associated with the promotional content can be performed. The location information can be associated with a current location of a mobile device related to the social event. The promotional content can be provided by a network and can be based on consumer preferences associated with the mobile device. The promotional content and the location information can be provided to user devices having a social network relationship with the mobile device. Information related to the social event also can be distributed. Certain type of events can include emergency alerts related to the mobile device. An estimate of the current location of the mobile device can be distributed to user devices while the emergency alert is active. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039595 | INSERTION OF AD-SONG ADVERTISEMENTS - A media programming log is evaluated, and a determination is made that the media programming log includes an ad song scheduled for broadcast within a proximity threshold of a commercial set. The ad song is associated with an advertiser. An evaluation of spot inventory associated with the commercial set is performed, and a determination is made that at least one spot in the commercial set can be used for insertion of an ad-song advertisement. The ad-song advertisement contains at least a portion of a version of the ad song. The ad-song advertisement can then be inserted into at least one spot of a broadcast log, which can be delivered to an audio server for broadcast. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039596 | MODIFYING MEDIA SCHEDULE BASED ON CROSS-PLATFORM DETECTION OF CONTENT TRIGGER - An automated media scheduling system maintains information associating multiple different content triggers with multiple different content adjustment parameters. The media scheduling system monitors media content across multiple media platforms for a content trigger. In response to detecting a particular content trigger, the media scheduling system adjusts playout of scheduled media content based on a content adjustment parameter associated with the detected content trigger. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039597 | METHOD AND/OR SYSTEM FOR USER AUTHENTICATION WITH TARGETED ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING CONTENT THROUGH PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An apparatus and method is provided for generating a request for a one-time password (OTP), and with the OTP transmitted to a mobile device in an electronic message that includes the OTP in conjunction with an electronic advertising content that is targeted to the user of the mobile device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039598 | REMOTE PROMPTING INFRASTRUCTURE - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for sending and receiving prompts to end-users inside and outside the home. A prompt, for example, a message, image, or sound is presented to the end user in order to notify them of a health event, serve as a simple reminder, helps them through their daily activities. The invention includes, for example, the following components: a remote prompting client which runs on the end-user's home network and is typically associated with a physical display device. This entity has the ability to receive a prompt request from a remote prompting host, and display the prompt to the end-user; and a remote prompting host which runs on the end-user's home network and has the ability to scan the network and discover all existing remote prompting clients. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039599 | System and Method to Personalize Products and Services - The present invention relates to a person's personal preferences. These personal preferences are detected or determining according to several different systems and methods and based on these preferences personal services are provided to the person. Certain embodiments of the invention utilize a “so-called” smart card, including a card with EMV contacts, for determining those preferences and/or for providing services. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039600 | ON-PAGE CONFIGURATION OF PAGE ANALYTICS AND CAMPAIGN CREATION - A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a web site for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039601 | CHANNEL INTEGRATION - A unique session is obtained and an anonymous session is generated that maps to the session. The anonymous session is passed to a selected advertisement service, and the selected advertisement service provides, in response thereto, an interface, which is proxied together with an existing interface of a device (associated with the unique session) during the unique session for a consumer to interact with the proxied interface on the device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039602 | Knowledge Model for Personalization and Location Services - A knowledge model is derived from many different data sources, including activities of a person's mobile devices and various media consumption habits. A graph may be built having various nodes representing concepts from the data sources and edges representing relationships between them. From the graph, various inferences may be made that can provide insight that could not otherwise be obtained. The knowledge model may be deployed as several services, including rich geolocation services, recommendation services, and other services. The services may be accessed through an application programming interface, which may be a paid service with various payment options. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039603 | DYNAMIC ORDERING OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT SOFTWARE STEPS - At a bid determination platform, an initial sequence having an initial order of software steps for filtering advertisements in response to receiving an advertisement bid request is selected. Until a trigger event occurs, the initial sequence of software steps is implemented in the initial order in response to receiving advertisement bid requests. Implementing the initial sequence comprises automatically tracking a failure (or success) metric and resource requirement metric for each of the software steps. After the trigger event occurs, a first optimum sequence of the software steps is automatically selected in a first optimum order so as to optimize a total resource usage for execution of the software steps. Selecting the first optimum sequence of the software steps in the first optimum order is based on the tracked failure (or success) metric and resource requirement metric for each of the software steps during implementation of the initial sequence. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039604 | Tracking Metrics for Display in Advertisements - A method performed by one or more processing devices includes tracking values of a metric to be displayed in a portion of an advertisement; receiving a request for the advertisement; determining, based on tracking, a value of the metric at a time of the request; and populating the portion of the advertisement with the value of the metric. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PERSONALISED CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM A PHYSICAL PROVIDER OF GOODS OR SERVICES - A computer-implemented method is proposed for providing a personalized customer service from a physical provider of goods or services. The method comprises: automatically recognizing when a customer enters a physical provider of goods or services through use of an electronic signature; obtaining data on the recognized customer, the data comprising the customer's historical purchasing data; and informing provider staff of one or more of: the customer data, deals, discounts, recommendations or rewards to offer the customer based on the historical purchasing data, such that the staff can provide a personalized service to the customer based on the data provided. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039606 | RECONCILING DETAILED TRANSACTION FEEDBACK - Reconciling detailed transaction feedback by detecting a rating of a transaction, where the rating indicates a negative experience, mining the sentiment of words in feedback text that is included with or as part of the rating to detect whether the words indicate positive sentiment or negative sentiment, responsive to determining that the words in the feedback text indicate that the feedback text connotes a positive sentiment, adjusting the rating of the transaction. The mining may include testing words in the feedback text to detect whether the words indicate positive sentiment or negative sentiment by calculating a sentiment score. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039607 | RETAIL LOCATION ROBOTIC WALL SYSTEM - A robotic retail wall is presented allowing for the dispensing of merchandise within a retail location. The robotic wall includes commodity products and robotics that pick and deliver products to consumers in response to input at a kiosk. The robotics and products are separated from a retail space by a transparent barrier, allowing consumers in the retail space to view the actions of the robotics in retrieving a product. Behind the robotic wall is a product stocking area, where commodity products can be added to the robotic wall with assistance from the robotics. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039608 | Systems and Methods for Automatically Generating Order Data Based on Social Media Messaging - The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods and systems that facilitate automate trade-order entry and execution based on social media messaging. In one embodiment, an apparatus may receive, from a social-networking service, social media data that includes various social media messages associated with social-networking accounts of various users. The apparatus may detect an occurrence of a predetermined element of content within a first social media message associated with a social networking account of a first user, and may extract data identifying at least one parameter of an action from the first social media message. The apparatus may generate proposed transaction parameters that include the at least one extracted action parameter, and in response to a confirmation of the proposed transaction parameters, the apparatus may generate one or more electronic commands to initiate a performance of the action in accordance with the confirmed transaction parameters. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039609 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER AUTOMATED ASSISTANCE FOR DISPARATE NETWORKS AND INTERNET INTERFACES - A variety of systems, methods and arrangements are implemented in connection with a processor-controlled routing arrangement. According to one such implementation, a computer-implemented method facilitates payment provided between disparate payment networks of buyers and sellers. The method uses a computer-arrangement to interface with a social website that has user profiles, each user profile corresponding to a user identifier, and for use with a seller website that offers products or services for purchase by users and that generates transaction data for a current user accessing the website. A current user identifier corresponding to a current user profile and the transaction data is communicates to the computer-arrangement. A buyer payment network is selected from a plurality of disparate buyer payment networks that are each associated with the current user identifier. Based upon the selection, the transaction data is formatted to facilitate payment against the selected buyer payment network. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039610 | CONFIGURABLE ONLINE 3D CATALOG - A system may include a server device configured to receive, from a catalog administrator device, a 3D product model encoded in a 3D modeling format, receive, from the catalog administrator device, a definition of a hotspot including an association of a location on the 3D product model with an element of product media related to an aspect of the 3D product model, and store the 3D product model in a data store in association with the hotspot and the element of product media. A user device may be configured to receive a 3D catalog from a server device, display, on the user device using a 3D object renderer, a 3D product model of the 3D catalog, the 3D product model being encoded in a 3D modeling format, and send, to the server device, analytics data indicative of user interaction with the 3D product model using the 3D object renderer. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039611 | Method and System for Authenticating Genuine Products for Online Shopping - A method of authenticating genuine products in an online shopping platform, including the steps of receiving an online shopping order from a buyer through the online shopping platform, the order having information about a targeted product and a designated store; purchasing the targeted product at the designated store by a buying agent; putting a unique and non-replaceable identification item on the targeted product when the purchase transaction is completed; videotaping selection of the targeted product by the buying agent, the purchasing of the targeted product at the designated store, and putting the unique and non-replaceable identification item on the targeted product; and making the video captured accessible to the buyer of the targeted product. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEBSITE VERIFICATION - A computer-implemented method is proposed for website verification. The method comprises: storing registration records for legitimate websites in a verification register; receiving, from a website to be verified, a user-initiated verification request; responsive to the user-initiated verification request, checking that the website to be verified is in the verification register; generating and transmitting a dynamic code for display on the website if the website to be verified is in the verification register; and responsive to a user entering the dynamic code into a verification module, retrieving details of the website from the verification register and transmitting the details of the website to the user for checking against the website to be verified. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039613 | AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PURCHASING - Disclosed herein is an augmented reality (AR) system that provides information about purchasing alternatives to a user who is about to purchase an item or product (e.g., a target product) in a physical retail location. In some variations, offers to purchase the product and/or an alternative product are provided by the merchant and/or competitors via the AR system. An offer negotiation server (ONS) aggregates offer data provided various external parties (EPs) and displays these offers to the user as the user is considering the purchase of a target product. In some variations, an AR system may be configured to facilitate the process of purchasing items at a retail location. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039614 | SALE MATCHMAKING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT USING THE SAME - A sale matchmaking method is provided. The sale matchmaking method includes following steps. Firstly, in response to a specification of service requirement transmitted from a portable electronic device, the specification of service requirement is compared with the specifications of several service providers in a database. Then, several service providers whose specifications match the specification of service requirement (referred as specification matching providers hereinafter) are chosen from the service providers. Then, the specification of service requirement is transmitted to the specification matching providers. Then, in response to the tender information of tenderers, the tender information is transmitted to the portable electronic device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039615 | Personalized Shopping Mechanism - A network is described. The network includes a profile server to manage fashion analytics data for a plurality of consumers and a plurality of concierge profiles, a first computing device having a consumer application to generate a consumer fashion profile and communicate fashion analytics data associated with the consumer fashion profile with the profile server and a second computing device having a concierge application to generate a first concierge profile and communicate the first concierge profile and the fashion analytics data with the profile server. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039616 | CUSTOMER QUEUE PRIORITIZATION THROUGH LOCATION DETECTION - A computer-implemented method for prioritizing customer service is provided. The method includes receiving at a beacon, information that a customer is proximate a retail location, automatically accessing personal information of the customer located at the store location, automatically sending the personal information of the customer information to a sales associate and prioritizing customer service for the customer based on the analyzed personal information while the customer is located at the store location. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039617 | SHOPPING ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS TO SUPPORT CUSTOMERS - In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to allow customer devices to authorize purchases. In some implementations, a system comprises: a purchase control system comprising: a control circuit; and a memory storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: receive a request to register a remote consumer device; identify, from a plurality of different customers, a first registered customer with which the customer device is to be associated; associate the customer device with a customer account corresponding to the first customer; receive a purchasing authorization for the customer device as authorized by the first customer; and define purchasing authorization limits of the customer device that set limits on the customer device's authorization to initiate purchases over time on behalf of the first customer for one or more products corresponding to the operation of the customer device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039618 | Automated Personalized Product Specification - The present invention relates to a automated system to arrive at a detailed personalized specification for products sold using a website or app to calculate the best fitting personalized specifications, and design for the customer based on the opinions of expert designers in a network, then produces those custom products to those customer unique personalized specifications. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039619 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING A FREE-TEXT SEARCH DATABASE - Systems, methods, and computer program products for implementing a dynamic free-text search database. First data is generated for the dynamic free-text search database that represents a first relationship including a first keyword, a first trip, and a first weight value. A plurality of free-text search requests are received, and a second weight value for the first relationship is calculated based on the free-text search requests. The second weight value differs from the first weight value. The first data is transformed into second by inserting the second weight value into the first data such that the first relationship includes the second weight value. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039620 | SERVER, ANALYSIS METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ANALYZING RECOGNITION INFORMATION AND COMBINATION INFORMATION - According to an embodiment, a server includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, an analyzing unit, and an output unit. The first acquiring unit is configured to acquire recognition information includes a product identification information for identifying the product. The second acquiring unit is configured to acquire combination information including the product identification information of the product to be combined with an object image including an object. The analyzing unit is configured to calculate product priorities for respective products by analyzing the recognition information and the combination information. The output unit is configured to output information based on the product priorities. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039621 | Multi-Agent System for GPS Web Services - The present invention is an internet communications system for connecting mobile Ecommerce consumers with registered mobile goods and services providers. Multi-Agent software is used for the web services Ecommerce platform and the invention uses the dynamic locations of mobile providers and consumers as the basis for matching them. The invention uses a center of the universe view wherein all available resource providers are seen updated in real-time relative to the current position of the consumer. In a demographic application, a contracted goods and services provider then converges to the current location of the customer. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039622 | GARMENT SIZE RECOMMENDATION AND FIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented garment size recommendation and fit analysis system in which a memory stores a virtual profile or model of an end-user and a processor is programmed to receive an end-user's selection of a garment and to then determine, using a garment fit algorithm, how well that garment will fit the end-user's profile or model, and in which the algorithm is trained on actual sales data. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039623 | ON-DEMAND SUPPLY AND STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for on-demand product and service delivery includes receiving by a server computer communicatively connected to a network, a request from a customer device communicatively connected to the network, matching by the server computer the request from the customer device to a partner device at a location corresponding to the customer device, the partner device having registered with the server computer at the location, sending by the server computer the partner device an identifier of the customer device at the location and a product or service identity for delivery to the customer device for the request, receiving by the server computer a confirmation message from the partner device that the request is fulfilled by delivery of the product or service by the partner device to the customer device, updating by the server computer a record of the product or service in a database communicatively connected to the server computer, offering by the server computer for purchase by the partner device, the product for delivery to the customer device on request in the step of receiving the request, selling by the server computer the product to the partner device, storing by the server computer in the database a record of the step of selling, relative to the partner device, and updating by the server computer the record of the product or service in the database. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039624 | TECHNIQUES FOR FILLING ORDERS - A system includes N location indicators and a mobile scanning device. The N location indicators are configured to be arranged throughout a store that includes a plurality of stocked items for picking according to one or more electronic customer orders. Each of the N location indicators is configured to transmit a different location signal. The mobile scanning device includes a display. The mobile scanning device is configured to wirelessly receive an electronic customer order comprising a plurality of ordered items indicating which of the stocked items are to be picked, detect at least one of the N location signals, and arrange at least some of the plurality of ordered items on the display based on which of the at least one of the N location signals is detected. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039625 | RETAIL PURCHASING COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A retail purchasing computer system associated with a retailer is described herein. The retail purchasing computer system includes a retail server computer including a processor coupled to a memory device. The retail server computer receives, from the mobile computing device, a signal including an item identifier associated with an item for sale by the retailer, accesses an item database and retrieves item information associated with the item identifier, and transmits a signal including the item information to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device displays the item information and the operational input on the touchscreen upon receiving the signal including the item information from the retail server. The retail server computer receives a purchase signal including the item identifier and a unique user ID, transmitted when a predefined number of consecutive touch inputs of the operational input by the user via the touchscreen. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039626 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF VIRTUAL COLLECTABLES - A method for collecting virtual collectables comprises providing a system that facilitates the exchange and storage of virtual collectables, in which at least some of the virtual collectables correspond to physical objects. Next, one or more virtual collectables are presented to a user on a user interface of an application associated with the system. A selection for a virtual collectable from the one or more virtual collectables is then received from the user, and the virtual collectable selected by the user is exchanged for an item of value to the user. The virtual collectable is then stored in a virtual storage area of the system that is dedicated to the user. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039627 | Cigar Band Recognition Interface - The present invention comprise a cigar band recognition interface which further comprises a network device having a transceiver; and a processor that is operative to perform actions, comprising: scanning a cigar band to create a cigar band image; comparing the cigar band image with at least one other cigar band image which is catalogued, indexed, and stored to determine a cigar brand; and displaying to a user said cigar brand and at least one price of said cigar brand. Additionally, the network device may further process data over a network, including comparing the cigar band image with the at least one other cigar band image further comprises comparing with the received geographical location marker with at least one known geographical marker of a distributor of said cigar brand, where a proximity marker is used to determine whether a physical distribution location is displayed or whether an ecommerce platform is displayed. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039628 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method. The method includes receiving, at a client terminal, a user request for displaying one or more outfit designs; identifying at least one matching condition associated with the outfit designs; sending a request for image information to a server, wherein the request includes the at least one matching condition; receiving the image information from the server, wherein the image information includes three-dimensional image information of an apparel item and one or more matching apparel items; and displaying one or more outfit images based on the three-dimensional image information and a preset template. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039629 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including a display control part configured to display a human-figure virtual object image in a pose from which to extract information necessary for motion capture, the human-figure virtual object image being the object to be handled corresponding to a person targeted to be recognized. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039630 | 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. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039631 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE SHARING - A network of collection and distribution machines may collect, charge and/or distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Electric vehicles available for sharing, renting or otherwise available for temporary use may be located at such collection and distribution machines or other designated areas. Users may request temporary use of such electric vehicles via a user interface of the collection and distribution machine, the user's mobile device or that of the electric vehicle itself. During temporary use, the user may exchange depleted portable electrical energy storage devices of the vehicle being used for charged portable electrical energy storage devices at the collection and distribution machines and may be offered the opportunity to terminate the temporary use session or continue the temporary use session in conjunction with the portable electrical energy storage device exchange. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039632 | TRACKING ASSETS WITHIN A GEOFENCED AREA - A system for tracking assets with a geofenced area is provided. The system comprises a processor, a memory, and a geofence application stored in the memory that when executed on the processor receives a first message from a client device located at a remote premises, the first message containing a record of a short term loan of an asset by the premises, the record further containing a first data item and a second data item. The system also stores the record in the database, the record associating the first data item, the second data item, and identification of the premises and further describing a due date and time for return of the asset under the loan. The system also receives a second message from the client device indicating return of the asset. The system also converts the record to closed status based on receipt of the second message. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039633 | PROBABILITY MODELING - In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing dynamic bidding notifications and price guidance for buyers are presented. The system receives a selection of a present item listing and accesses historical auction data for a set of historical item listings. The system generates a dynamic bidding model for bidding on the present item and generates one or more bidding notifications based on the dynamic bidding model. The system then causes presentation of the one or more bidding notifications on a client device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039634 | AUCTION PRICE GUIDANCE - In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing price guidance for sellers and buyers are presented. The system receives a present item listing and accesses a set of historical item listings. The system generates a price guidance model for the present item listing and generates a set of prices for the present item based on the price guidance model. The system then causes presentation of the set of prices on a client device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039635 | Auto Auction Arena - An improved auto auction layout places all active auctions within sight of a centralized location. Three or more auctioneer stations placed near the perimeter of the centralized location each correspond to an auto auction lane. Even as lanes independently advance through cars at varying rates, the improved layouts enables bidders and consigners to monitor both the lane with which they are actively engaged and all other lanes, or to participate in multiple simultaneous auctions. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039636 | PROCURING SPATIALLY FEASIBLE ON-DEMAND HOUSEHOLD-RELATED GOODS OR SERVICES - Methods of procuring urgent household-related goods or services enable consumers to obtain goods or services from local vendors offering those goods or services within a predetermined region. These methods may be implemented on devices such as smart phones, desktop computers, and servers. A server computes distances between the consumer device and preapproved vendors' locations, selects, and notifies a number of local vendors of the request. Upon receiving a number of vendor acceptances, the server selects a local vendor, notifies the consumer and the selected local vendor, and presents them with corresponding summaries. Methods of reverse auctioning of household-related goods or services enable consumers to receive and accept the lowest bid from vendors offering those goods or services within a predetermined time interval. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039637 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, A SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ASSESSING THE CREDIT WORTHINESS OF A USER - A computer-implemented method, a system and computer programs products for assessing the credit worthiness of a user, | 2017-02-09 |
20170039638 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCHING - Contextual searches may be performed to identify subsets of search results from an organized dataset. Contextual searching may return search results based on a relevance of the results to a query or search terms. Characters may be input by users at a search field that may be used to define context filters for limiting the search results of the organized dataset. Triggering events may be received that may trigger the definition of context filters that may be used to obtain the subsets of search results from the organized dataset. The triggering event may be a delimiter in the character string, for example. The subset of search results may include a subset of tradable objects that may be traded at an electronic exchange. The subset of search results may continue to be limited based on additional context filters defined from the search input at the search field. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039639 | EXPLICIT ALLOCATION TOOL - Trade orders received from trading devices may be matched according to an order state associated with each trade order. Trade orders may be submitted at trading devices and may indicate an order state. The order state may be a passive order state or an aggressive order state. Trade orders in an aggressive order state may be matched with other trade orders. Trade orders submitted in a passive order state may rest in the market until orders with an aggressive order state are available to match at a complementary price. As passive orders may encourage additional orders to be submitted and executed at an exchange, trade orders that are submitted in the passive order state may be encouraged by providing a trade incentive to a trading device or a user of a trading device that submits a trade order in a passive order state. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039640 | Methods and Systems to Manage a Trading Strategy - An example method includes receiving a desired strategy price and a definition for a trading strategy including at least three legs. The at least three legs include a first leg associated with a first tradeable object, a second leg associated with a second tradeable object, and a priority leg associated with a third tradeable object. The example method includes communicating a priority order for the priority leg to an exchange and receiving a confirmation of a fill of the priority order. The confirmation identifies a priority price for the fill. The example method includes calculating a first price for a first order of the first leg based on market conditions in the second tradeable object associated with the second leg, the received priority price, and the desired strategy price. The example method includes communicating the first order for the first leg at the calculated first price to the exchange. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039641 | REAL-TIME ROUTING SYTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR ADAPTING ORDER FLOW FOR ENHANCED EXECUTION PERFORMANCE - Systems and methods for real-time routing and retail order now adaptation to enhance execution performance can be configured to receive an order from a customer including a product identifier, order characteristics, and pricing information; identify a set of appropriate market venues based on the product identifier and/or order characteristics; determine expected behavior of the market venues based on historical data for executed orders and real-time order statistics; select, based upon expected behavior, a first market venue; and route the order, in real-time, to the first market venue for fulfillment. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039642 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO INTERNALIZE TRADE ORDERS - Methods and apparatus to internalize trade orders are described herein. An example method includes obtaining, via an internalization manager, a trade order communicated to an exchange. The trade order corresponds to a tradeable object offered at the exchange. The example method includes comparing, via the internalization manager, the trade order to one or more trade orders in an internalization order record to determine whether a matching contra-side trade order is included in the one or more trade orders in the internalization order record. The example method includes communicating, via the internalization manager, an order modification to the exchange if a matching contra-side trade order is included in the one or more trade orders in the internalization order record, and matching, via the internalization manager, if a matching contra-side trade order is included in the one or more trade orders in the internalization order record, the trade order to the matching contra-side trade order in the internalization order record. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039643 | MULTI-LEVEL POSITION INTERFACE - Market data from one or more electronic exchanges may be analyzed for generating a multi-level position interface that indicates the market position of a user. The market data may be analyzed to generate one or more circular rings for displaying different levels of information related to the market position of the user. The circular rings may include one or more segments that may display different types of information within each ring related to the market position of the user. The segments in each ring may be displayed in a manner that identifies the relative market position of the user for tradeable objects being traded at the one or more electronic exchanges, such that the user may submit trade orders in response to the relative market position indicated by the multi-level position interface. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039644 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF CREATING ORDER LIFECYCLES VIA DAISY CHAIN LINKAGE - Systems, devices, and methods for linking orders to develop a consolidated audit trail (CAT) are configured to receive event data for one or more orders based on one or more order characteristics; determine linkages between the one or more orders based on parent relationships of the one or more orders; verify the linkages between the one or more orders based on the event data; and determine order lifecycles based on the linkages between the one or more orders. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ORDER DATA BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGING - The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods and systems that facilitate automate trade-order entry and execution based on social media messaging. In an embodiment, an apparatus identifies a first social media message associated with a social networking account of a user and including at least one parameter of a transaction to purchase or sell one or more securities. The apparatus may generate proposed transaction parameters that include the at least one transaction parameter included in the first social media message, and may obtain information confirming the proposed transaction parameters from the user. In response to the confirmation, the apparatus may generate one or more electronic commands to initiate the transaction to purchase or sell the one or more securities in accordance with the confirmed transaction parameters. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039646 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING INVESTMENTS - A system and method for providing information to investors in securities or commodities of a subscriber, the system including at least one sensor disposed for sensing and collecting data in real time corresponding to at least one selected physical characteristic of the subscriber's monitored physical asset, an asset information server including non-volatile storage means for storing the collected data of physical characteristics of the monitored assets of the subscriber, and a communications network coupling each sensor and asset information server, for transferring the detected data about the asset, means in the server for the subscriber to subscribe to the system for storing information about their assets in the asset information server, and means for permitting access to pre-selected kinds of stored data to investors and potential investors in the subscribers. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039647 | System and Method of Automating Trades in Personal Accounts Based on Trading Directives by a Trading Advisory Service Provider - A computer-implemented method and system of automatically executing trades based upon trading directives issued by a trading service provider to which a user is subscribed. The system includes receiving a trading directive that is transmitted from the trading service provider. The trading directive includes a transaction of a financial instrument. The trading directive is effectuated via an interface, e.g. an API, with an electronic trading platform to which a core account, operated by the trading service provider, and subscribers' accounts are linked. The API executes the financial transaction in the core account and simultaneously replicates the financial transaction in the subscribers' accounts, thereby allowing the distribution of financial instruments held by the subscribers to track the changing distribution of financial instruments held by the trading service provider without the need to manually manage the trades and while maintain capital in their own trading accounts. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039648 | SYNCHRONIZED PROCESSING OF DATA BY NETWORKED COMPUTING RESOURCES | 2017-02-09 |
20170039649 | System and Method for Providing Electronic Price Feeds for Tradeable Objects - System and methods for a price feed generation are described. According to an example method described herein, upon receiving market information including a plurality of linear prices and order quantities, a reference price level is selected and a price feed message is generated to include the reference price level and the plurality of order quantities. The price feed message is then provided to client terminals. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039650 | Method and system for the discovery, visualization, communication, alerting, capture and subsequent reporting of user actions and market information relating to the trading requirements and activities of investment management firms - A system for conducting over the counter trades, the system comprising a first initiating party's computer system; a second responding party's computer system; and a Central Communication Hub in contact with the first and second parties' computer systems. The first system enables a user to input a trading interest in a financial instrument, and send information indicative of the trading interest to the Central Communication Hub. The Central Communication Hub makes a hidden request for information to the second system indicative of the second party's ability to fulfil the trading interest. The second system responds to the hidden request for information with summary information indicative of the second party's ability to fulfil the trading interest. The Central Communication Hub forwards some or all of the summary information response to the first party's system. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039651 | DATASET INTERSECTION DETERMINATION - An item is determined to exist in a dataset by arranging the dataset into a plurality of subsets, each bounded by the minimum amount of memory that may be transferred between levels of memory in a memory configuration. The item and the subsets have attributes that allow for a determination of which subset the item would exist in if the item were in the dataset. A singular subset is transferred between levels of memory to determine whether the item exists in the transferred subset. If the item does not exist in the transferred subset, it is determined that the item does not exist in the dataset. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039652 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING USER IDENTITY BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGING - The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods and systems that automatically verify an identity of a user based on social media messaging. In an embodiment, an apparatus identifies a first social media message associated with a social networking account of a user and generated by a device of the user. The apparatus may generate may extract authentication data from the first social media message, and may verify an identity of the user based on a correspondence between the extracted authentication data and at least a portion of stored user profile. In response to the verification, the apparatus may generate one or more electronic commands to initiate an action involving one or more securities. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039653 | DATA ANALYTICS AND PREDICTIVE METHOD - A financial and market analytics and prediction method, including a method for performing market portfolio and trading performance analytics and prediction and market portofolio and trading risk analytics and prediction. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039654 | A computer implemented methodology executed by at least one processor that uses at least the names of individual Private Funds to automatically analyze portfolios of private investments and to create benchmarks. - This methodology is developed to help users thoroughly analyze private investment portfolios that requires minimal information from the user, as little as the Private Fund names in the portfolio of private investments by extrapolating information about the funds as a whole. The methodology automatically analyzes a Portfolio's composition across many Private Fund characteristics; generates benchmarks for a specific type of investor; compares investor's Portfolio to a benchmark; formulate investment recommendations; estimates the secondary market price of the Portfolio; determines the leveragability of the Portfolio; and generates divestment ideas. The main steps involved in the methodology including: construction of databases for investment information, investor information, benchmarks, and lenders information. Collating investment information and investor information, so that for a given investor there is a list of their Portfolio holdings along with investment information and stored in a collated information database. All databases are updated regularly. A specially designed program will perform above analyses using information from databases and minimal data from users and generate a report that may include one or multiple analyses aforementioned. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK MATCHING CLIENTS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES - A system and method that performs a similarity calculation to identify insurance accounts haying similar characteristics. The similarity calculation may be based on an existing insurance account or a synthetic insurance account that has user defined characteristics. The system and method may store account information for a plurality of insurance accounts that is normalized to a coordinate system. Parameters of a similarity account are identified and a similarity calculation is performed to identify a subset of the plurality of insurance accounts that match the similarity account. The similarity calculation includes calculating a distance between the similarity account and each of the plurality of insurance accounts and determining the subset of the plurality of insurance accounts that satisfy a predetermined similarity threshold based on the distance. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING TEXT TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE INSURANCE APPLICATIONS - A system for evaluating text data to support multiple applications is disclosed. In some embodiments, text input data is received from multiple sources. The text input data may then be aggregated and mapped to create composite text input data. A semantic event in the composite text input data may be automatically detected, such as by being triggered by a semantic rule and associated semantic tag. A text mining result database may be updated by adding an entry to the database identifying the detected semantic event and the triggering semantic rule. An indication associated with the text mining result database may then be transmitted to a plurality of applications. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039657 | HARVEST AMOUNT DISTRIBUTING METHOD, HARVEST AMOUNT INPUT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM - A harvest amount distributing method includes receiving, by a computer, input of a harvest amount of a predetermined crop; referring to a recording device recording therein information of fields according to crop, and presenting the information of one or more of the fields corresponding to the predetermined crop, so as to enable selection, the referring and presenting being performed by the computer; and distributing the input harvest amount among the one or more of the fields selected, and recording each distributed harvest amount as a harvest amount of a corresponding field, the distributing and recording being performed by the computer. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039658 | ENERGY COLLABORATION PLATFORM WITH MULTIPLE INFORMATION LEVEL MATCHING - Methods and systems for automatically matching energy transactions between two or more counterparties. One embodiment provides receiving, with a server, first transaction type data from a first counterparty involved in an energy transaction. Embodiments can also provide establishing, with the server, a sequence of concatenated data fields based on the first transaction type data for a first data level. The sequence of concatenated data fields to a second transaction type data associated with a second counterparty involved in the energy transaction are compared. One or more variances between the sequence of concatenated data fields and the second transaction type data are identified. Additional information for a second data level from at least one counterparty involved in the energy transaction is requested to address the one or more variances. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039659 | DAILY ELECTRICITY GENERATION PLAN MAKING METHOD OF CASCADE HYDRAULIC POWER PLANT GROUP - A daily electricity generation planning method of a cascade hydropower plants is disclosed, and the method is comprised of the steps as follows: step | 2017-02-09 |
20170039660 | Autonomous Charging Station - Method and charging station for charging rechargeable battery-operated device(s). The charging station comprises at least one receptacle for receiving at least one rechargeable battery-operated device to be charged, a payment module for processing a payment for allowing one or more of the at least one rechargeable battery-operated device to be charged for a period of time and a charging module for charging the one or more of the at least one rechargeable battery-operated device within the at least one receptacle, in accordance with the processed payment, the charging module receiving electrical power from a local power generator. The method comprises receiving the rechargeable battery-operated device for connection into the receptacle, processing a payment for allowing the rechargeable battery-operated device to be charged for a period of time and charging the rechargeable battery-operated device within the receptacle, in accordance with the processed payment. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND INTERACTING WITH PATRONS AT AN ACTIVITY VENUE - A technologically improved system and corresponding method of operation tracks and manages activities and tasks occurring at an activity venue. In particular, the system operates to track locations and pace of play or participation of the patrons at the activity venue and through various improved technological processes and interactions enabled by the unique hardware of the system, provide the patrons with feedback to manage their locations for an improved participation experience. Furthermore, the system leverages collected information and data to enable live traffic control of the patrons, provide predictive analytics related to gameplay and flow of traffic, and provide operators and patrons with information necessary to maximize a pace of place while optimally maintaining the venue around the patrons without interruption to the patrons and thereby improve the experience of the patrons at the activity venue. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039662 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR MANAGING THE COMPLETE LIFE CYCLE OF A GRIEVANCE COMPLAINT OR ARBITRATION REQUEST - A multi-module based system has been created to manage the complete lifecycle of Grievance and/or Arbitration proceedings within an organization whose constituents abide by a code of ethics and/or professional standards, and/or professional practices, and/or code of conduct in a database system for both industry professionals and consumers. The system incorporates 4 separate modules that support the grievance submission, processing and administration, volunteer management and administration and system reporting. Module 1 (Complaint Submission) provides the intake of claims and/or request for mediation or arbitration. Module 2 (Case Administration) manages the workflow and processing of all submitted claims. Module 3 (Panel Management) systematizes the process of managing, assigning and delegating tasks to professional standards' administrators and volunteers. Module 4 (Reporting) processes all findings to generate summary reports as well as highly detailed reports based on the Case Administration system and its results. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039663 | System and Method for Analyzing and Predicting Behavior of an Organization and Personnel - A networked computer system permits users to analyze events associated with a target entity, using primarily externally reported data. By analyzing the target entity's personnel, procedures and reports, embodiments of the invention can assess, present and predict outcomes and timings of submissions processed by the target entity/organization. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039664 | MICROLEARNING MARKETPLACE IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are disclosed for managing a learning marketplace in a modular learning system. The modular learning system maintains a plurality of listing items in a learning application marketplace. Learning applications, each associated with a price range, are stored in the modular learning system. After receiving a request to list a learning application for a specified price in the learning application marketplace, the modular learning system determines whether the specified price falls within the price range of the learning application and, if so, generates a listing item for the learning application. The listing item is added to the learning application marketplace. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION - A tool to assist applicants for positions, such as students seeking admission to a particular institution, and more particularly, to systems and methods to assist applicants and references through the letter of recommendation process. The system employs a database of recommended questions for an applicant to submit to a reference to guide the reference's drafting and organization of a letter of recommendation. The system allows an applicant to prepare, transmit, track progress of requests, manages responses, and permits submissions by incorporating a unique user ID associated with the applicant's account. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039666 | Connected Logistics Platform - A connected logistics platform is provided to integrate data from various logistics sources. The platform can provide rule-based messaging and/or tracking. The platform can also provide selective access to the integrated data based on user role profile. Related system, method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium are also provided. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039667 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TRANSPORTATION CALL SERVICE IN RESPONSE TO PASSENGER'S VEHICLE SELECTION AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A system for providing a transportation call service in response to a passenger's vehicle selection, including: a transportation call server; a plurality of vehicle terminals; and a passenger terminal associated with a passenger, wherein each of the plurality of vehicle terminals are configured to transmit vehicle position information to the transportation call server, wherein the transportation call server is configured to: generate vehicle position display information using the vehicle position information; and transmit the vehicle position display information to the passenger terminal, wherein the passenger terminal is configured to: transmit departure information to the transportation call server; display the current position of the plurality of vehicles on a map using the vehicle position display information; select a vehicle; and transmit a vehicle selection signal to the transportation call server, and wherein the transportation call server is configured to assign the selected vehicle to the passenger. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039668 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE SHARING - A network of collection and distribution machines may collect, charge and/or distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Electric vehicles available for sharing, renting or otherwise available for temporary use may be located at such collection and distribution machines or other designated areas. Users may request temporary use of such electric vehicles via a user interface of the collection and distribution machine, the user's mobile device or that of the electric vehicle itself. During temporary use, the user may exchange depleted portable electrical energy storage devices of the vehicle being used for charged portable electrical energy storage devices at the collection and distribution machines and may be offered the opportunity to terminate the temporary use session or continue the temporary use session in conjunction with the portable electrical energy storage device exchange. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039669 | HIERARCHICAL WATERMARK DETECTOR - The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking. One aspect of the disclosure includes a method comprising: obtaining data representing imagery; using one or more configured processors, analyzing a plurality of portions of the data to detect a watermark orientation component, said analyzing employing a match filter, in which the match filter yields a correlation value for each of the plurality of portions; determining a first portion from the plurality of portions that comprises a correlation value meeting a predetermined value; and directing a watermark decoder at the first portion to decode a plural-bit watermark payload, in which the watermark decoder produces a watermark signature for the first portion, and in which the watermark decoder searches a plurality of areas at or around the first portion to decode the plural-bit watermark payload. Of course, many other aspects and disclosure are provided in this patent document. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039670 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Images are divided into image groups based on time information indicating a time corresponding to each of the images. If the number of the image groups obtained in the dividing is smaller than a predetermined number, the number of the image groups is matched with the predetermined number by increasing the number of the image groups. If the number of the image groups obtained in the dividing is larger than the predetermined number, the number of the image groups is matched with the predetermined number by decreasing the number of the image groups. At least one image included in each of the image groups obtained in the matching is laid out in a template. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039671 | ROBOTIC SELF-FILMING SYSTEM - In general, embodiments of the present invention relate to a robotic self-filming system. Specifically, the robotic self-filming system includes a base, robot arm, video recording device holder, a video recording device mounted on the video device holder, and a robot control unit. The robot control unit receives video data from the video recording device. Using the video data, the robot control unit detects an object and tracks the object as the object moves freely about the environment. The robotic self-filming system then produces a final video product based on the video data and predefined parameters. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039672 | METHOD FOR CHAINING MEDIA PROCESSING - An embodiment of a system may include a plurality of media units, a processor, and circuitry. Each media unit may be configured to execute one or more commands to process a display image. The processor may be configured to store a plurality of media processing commands in a queue. The circuitry may be configured to retrieve a first media processing command from the queue and send the first media processing command to a first media unit. The circuitry may also be configured to retrieve a second media processing from the queue and send the second media processing command to a second media unit in response to receiving an interrupt from the first media unit. The circuitry may then copy data from the first media unit to the second media unit in response to receiving the interrupt from the first media unit. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039673 | Recording a Command Stream with a Rich Encoding Format for Capture and Playback of Graphics Content - Analyzing an application executing on a target device. An application may be executed on a target device. Low cost measurement may be gathered regarding the application executing on the target device. In response to a trigger, high cost measurement data may be gathered regarding the application executing on the target device. The high cost measurement data may include graphics commands provided by the application. The graphics commands and related information may be stored and provided to a host. The host may modify the graphics commands to perform experiments to determine performance issues of the application executing on the target device. The host may determine whether the performance is limited by the CPU or the GPU and may determine specific operations that are causing performance issues. The host may provide suggestions for overcoming the performance issues. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039674 | MANAGING GRAPHICS LOAD BALANCING STRATEGIES - A method and system for managing graphics load balancing strategies are disclosed. The method comprises using a plurality of rendering servers to render a multitude of graphics frames for a display device, wherein each of the rendering servers has an associated workload; identifying a plurality of load balancing strategies for balancing the workloads on the rendering servers; selecting one of the load balancing strategies; and using the selected one of the load balancing strategies to balance the workloads on the rendering servers. One or more defined metrics are monitored; and in response to a defined changed in said one or more defined metrics, another one of the load balancing strategies is selected and used to balance the workloads on the rendering servers. In one embodiment, the load balancing policy can be changed in real-time during the course of an application session. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039675 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING DATA FILES - Methods and systems of managing data files are described herein. One method includes updating a container file of data files having a container file metadata section and one or more empty records, each record of the one or more empty records having: (i) a data file section reserved for storing a data file, (ii) a file metadata section reserved for storing metadata about the data file, and (iii) a record metadata section including information about the record and having at least a record status mark indicating that the record is empty. The method includes setting the record status mark of the one or more empty records to being updated; writing one or more records containing the data file into the one or more empty records within the container file. After successfully writing the one or more records resetting the record status mark to valid. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039676 | GRAPHICS SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR GENERATING DIRTINESS INFORMATION IN IMAGE HAVING MULTIPLE FRAMES - A graphics system and an associated method for generating dirtiness information indicating dirty regions between frames of image data in a graphics system are provided. The method includes the steps of: dividing each of the frames of the image data into a plurality of regions; obtaining a respective checksum for each region of the frames; and generating the dirtiness information of each frame of the image data according to the respective checksum of each region of the current frame and the previous frame. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039677 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A semiconductor device | 2017-02-09 |
20170039678 | DISTORTION OF DIGITAL IMAGES USING SPATIAL OFFSETS FROM IMAGE REFERENCE POINTS - A method for distorting a digital image comprising receiving the coordinates of one or more than one image reference point defined by a user within the digital image, receiving one or more than one spatial offset assigned by the user and associated with the coordinates of the one or more than one defined image reference point, providing a mixing function algorithm embodied on a computer-readable medium for distorting the digital image, calculating an offset matrix by applying the mixing function algorithm based on the one or more than one spatial offset and the coordinates of the one or more than one defined image reference point; and distorting the digital image by application of the offset matrix. A graphic tag may be associated with each of the defined image reference points and displayed over the digital image, and the assignment of the spatial offset may be accomplished by movement of the graphic tag with the pointing device. Abstract image reference points may be used to limit distortion. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039679 | WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM, WORK SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A work support system of an embodiment of the present invention includes a list display control unit to display, on a display device, a first list including a plurality of unprocessed task indices and a second list including a plurality of processed task indices and a first moving display control unit to display, when attribution of one of the unprocessed task indices in the first list is changed to a processed task index, the task index, attribution of which is changed, in a moving manner from the first list to the second list, wherein the first moving display control unit displays such that the task index attribution of which is changed is visually recognized as passing behind the unprocessed task indices when displaying such that the task index, attribution of which is changed, passes a display location of at least the unprocessed task indices of other task indices. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039680 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING UI SCREEN ON DISPLAY DEVICE - A display control device comprises an acquisition module configured to acquire a screen resolution of a display device; a size change module configured to change a size of an UI screen to a size corresponding to the screen resolution acquired by the acquisition module; and a display control module configured to display the UI screen of which the size is changed by the size change module on the display device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039681 | GUIDED IMAGE UPSAMPLING USING BITMAP TRACING - A method of increasing resolution of an image includes generating vector contours associated with a first image and scaling the vector contours to a second resolution. The first image has a first resolution, and the second resolution is greater than the first resolution. The vector contours are rendered to generate a guiding image at the second resolution, and a second image is generated from the first image based on the guiding image, by using joint upsampling. The second image is generated at the second resolution. The vector contours can be generated by bitmap tracing binary images at different quantization levels. An apparatus and computer readable device implementing the method of increasing the resolution of an image are also provided. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039682 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DEMOSAICING BAYER-TYPE IMAGE DATA FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - Techniques related to demosaicing Bayer-type image data for image processing. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039683 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a representative position generation unit, a region extraction unit, and a selection information acceptance unit. The representative position generation unit generates a representative position included in a region that is part of an image in accordance with a feature value indicating a feature of the image. The region extraction unit extracts, based on the representative position, plural regions as candidate regions each having a feature value similar to the feature value of the representative position. The selection information acceptance unit accepts, from a user, selection of at least one region from among the extracted plural regions. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039684 | DETECTING GLARE IN A FRAME OF IMAGE DATA - Disclosed are systems, computer-readable mediums, and methods for detecting glare in a frame of image data. A frame of image data is preprocessed. A set of connected components in the preprocessed frame is determined. A set of statistics is calculated for one or more connected components in the set of connected components. A decision for the one or more connected components is made, using the calculated set of statistics, if the connected component is a light spot over text. Whether glare is present in the frame is determined. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039685 | RESTORATION OF LOW CONTRAST STRUCTURE IN DE-NOISE IMAGE DATA - A method includes obtaining original image data and obtaining de-noised image data, wherein the de-noised image data is the original image data after de-noising the original image data. The method further includes determining a noise pattern for the original image data. The method further includes estimating underlying local structure from the original image data based on the noise pattern. The method further includes restoring low contrast structure that is lost during the de-noising of the original image data to the de-noised image data based on the estimated underlying local structure by adding the estimated underlying local structure to the de-noise imaged data, generating low contrast structure enhanced de-noised image data. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039686 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING DEPTH MAP GENERATING UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device and the like that can generate a composite image in a desired focusing condition. In a smartphone | 2017-02-09 |
20170039687 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image signal processing apparatus including multiple color support distortion correcting units receiving a color signal of a correction target image, performing image distortion correction of a color based on a lens distortion characteristic and generating a correction image supporting the color. Each of the multiple color support distortion correcting units performs processing of receiving a reference signal indicating a pixel position in an input image applied to calculate a pixel value of an output correction image, and setting a pixel value of the pixel position indicated by the reference signal in the input image as an output pixel value. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039688 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS THAT CORRECTS CONTRAST OF IMAGE, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus which is capable of appropriately correcting the contrast of an image. A luminance histogram is detected from an image including a subject, and a subject distance to the subject is measured. A frequency percentage, which defines a luminance range in the luminance histogram for use in calculating a control point for a tone curve used to correct contrast of the image, is decided according to the subject distance. The frequency percentage is higher when the subject distance is long than when the subject distance is short. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF RETINAL IMAGES - Embodiments disclose systems and methods that aid in screening, diagnosis and/or monitoring of medical conditions. The systems and methods may allow, for example, for automated identification and localization of lesions and other anatomical structures from medical data obtained from medical imaging devices, computation of image-based biomarkers including quantification of dynamics of lesions, and/or integration with telemedicine services, programs, or software. | 2017-02-09 |