20th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220156837 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER IMPLEMENTATION FOR ENTITY FORMATION AND MONITORING SYSTEM - A system for operating a distributed ledger implementation for tracking and monitoring entity shares involves receiving a share configuration control at an entity formation and management system by way of a user interface. The system configures a distributed ledger comprising a plurality of gateway nodes to record share transfer activity comprising entity share distribution between the entity, the user account, and combinations thereof in a blockchain as entity records. The system communicates with an oracle service, information provided by the share configuration control, to verify share transfer requirements for each entity share distribution. The system transfers entity shares to the first party in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity. The system writes a share transfer record into the blockchain in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LEVEL CONTAINER SEQUENCING - A preferred embodiment of the invention allows the designation, configuration and rearrangement of multiple value unit wallets that allow an end user to designate which types of value units in conjunction with an algorithmic sequence to create a transaction product account may be implemented on a per-transaction basis such that a utilization product determines how a transaction may be processed on a transaction-by-transaction basis. The utilization product may be controllable via an application programming interface to select alternate sequences whereby prioritization of different types of value units may be designated on a transaction-by-transaction basis. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156839 | OPTIMIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING PROXY CONSTRAINTS - A method includes receiving, by a server device, a plurality of input settings from a client device. In a tangible memory, the server device stores the plurality of input settings. The server device sets a linear proxy constraint based on the plurality of input settings to replace a non-linear constraint. The server device solves a system of equations to determine a feasible solution. The server device determines the feasible solution. Based on the determining the feasible solution, determining, by the server device, whether a current solution satisfies a convergence criterion. In response to determining the current solution satisfies the convergence criterion, the current solution is stored in the tangible memory by the server device. In response to determining the current solution does not satisfy the convergence criterion, the server device updates one or more of the input settings and solving the system of equations. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156840 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FINANCIAL INVESTMENT PRODUCT INFORMATION BASED ON FINANCIAL INVESTMENT PRODUCT HAVING PERIODIC PROPERTY - A method of providing financial investment product information based on a financial investment product with periodic nature by using a server, includes providing a user interface which provides information on at least one of financial investment product buying information and financial investment product selling information according to a request of a user terminal and includes plurality of pieces of financial investment product item information. Also providing detailed information on the received financial investment product item information, wherein the financial investment product item information provided in the user interface includes a financial investment product item name and expected return information at the time of selling or buying the financial investment product item, and either one of the financial investment product item name and the expected return information can be provided. Here the expected return information is calculated based on periodic nature of a market price of the financial investment product item. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156841 | Integrated Investment and Insurance Accounts - The techniques disclosed herein generally relate to providing insurance via an integrated investment and insurance account. An integrated account may have an owner, and may include an investment vehicle portion and an insurance policy portion. The investment vehicle portion may include or be associated with one or more investment vehicles via which the account owner may invest money and, based on the invested funds, the insurance policy portion may provide insurance for which the account owner is designated as the insured party. Premiums for the insurance policy portion may be borne by the operating expenses of the investment vehicle portion. Additionally, a payout or benefit amount of the insurance provided by such integrated accounts may be based on the value of accumulated assets under management of the investment vehicle portion at the time of the payout. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156842 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A calculation unit calculates an insurance premium of a security including a non-guaranteed portion and performs a process of calculating the insurance premium to be borne by a security holder according to a risk that an issuing entity becomes unable to pay interest and/or defaults. The calculation unit collects at least a portion of the interest as the insurance premium. A payment determination unit pays insurance proceeds when the issuing entity becomes unable to pay interest and/or defaults. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCESS TO STANDARDIZED MEDICATION INFORMATION - The present invention relates to systems and methods for enabling real-time, remote access to up-to-date medication coverage information for medical insurance plans. The inventive concepts disclosed herein enable users to check whether a medication is covered under an insurance plan and identify alternative medications covered by the specified insurance plan. Appropriate dose information for the alternative medications is automatically calculated or determined and provided to users thereby providing users with an opportunity to identify an appropriate medication for a patient in light of the patient's insurance coverage. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156844 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING FOR UNDESIRED FACTORS IN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS - A method of training and using a machine learning model that controls for consideration of undesired factors which might otherwise be considered by the trained model during its subsequent analyses of new data. For example, the model may be a neural network trained on a set of training images to evaluate an insurance applicant based upon an image or audio data of the insurance applicant as part of an underwriting process to determine an appropriate life or health insurance premium. The model is trained to probabilistically correlate an aspect of the applicant's appearance with a personal and/or health-related characteristic. Any undesired factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and/or race, are identified for exclusion. The trained model receives the image (e.g., a “selfie”) of the insurance applicant, analyzes the image without considering the identified undesired factors, and suggests the appropriate insurance premium based only on the remaining desired factors. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156845 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOMEOWNER-DIRECTED RISK OF PROPERTY DAMAGE MITIGATION - Methods and systems for homeowner-directed risk mitigation for damage to a property associated with insurance-related events are provided. A smart home controller may analyze data received from a plurality of smart devices disposed on, or proximate to, a property as well as data received from an insurance provider. If it is determined that an actual or potential risk of property damage exists, the smart home controller may transmit an alert to a homeowner detailing the risk. The homeowner may respond to the alert by transmitting an instruction to mitigate or prevent damage associated with the risk back to the smart home controller. Subsequently, the smart home controller may transmit information about the actual or potential risks and any homeowner-directed mitigative actions to an insurance provider. The insurance provider may interpret the transmitted data and perform insurance activities, such as providing discounts and adjusting an insurance policy associated with the property. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156846 | OUTLIER SYSTEM FOR GROUPING OF CHARACTERISTICS - A device and method is disclosed for automatically grouping data based on characteristics. The device and method include a communication interface for receiving data for component information, a storage medium for storing the received data, and a processor for performing an analysis on the received data to determine parameters included within the data and processing the data using correlations within the data to group or isolate data points. The correlations enable the processor to identify attributes associated with particular groups of the data. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-PURSE DEBIT CARD - The present disclosure is directed to conducting electronic transactions via a computer network. A server receives data packets carrying data identifying a merchant category, an electronic account maintained and configured on the server, and a first monetary amount of a first electronic transaction. A first device generates the data packets at the merchant to conduct the electronic transaction. A policy engine selects a first purse of a plurality of purses allocated to the electronic account based on a policy applied to the data. The first purse may be configured as a benefits purse. The server obtains the first monetary amount of the electronic transaction from the first purse. The policy engine applies a second policy to the data to determine a reimbursement amount based on the first monetary amount of the transaction, and electronically provides the reimbursement amount to a different second purse of the electronic account. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156848 | System for Reducing Tax Credit Risk - In a method of reducing risk associated with a taxpayer claiming a tax credit issued by a taxing authority, qualifying activities are analyzed and an output indicating a range of amounts that taxpayer is eligible to claim is generated. The taxpayer is prequalified for a tax credit policy based on the range of amounts. A report that includes the amount of the tax credit is generated and is transmitted to an insurance company. When the report meets a set of standards for the insurance company, then an insurance agreement is entered into between the insurance company and the taxpayer, which obligates the insurance company to pay for an audit defense for the taxpayer if the taxpayer is audited and obligates the insurance company to pay the taxpayer a difference between the claimed amount of the tax credit and an amount of the tax credit that is allowed. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156849 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS SYSTEMS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR IMAGE-INITIATED PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN - An intermediate computer hosts a tax return preparation application and generates an interview screen presented to a preparer through a display of the preparer computing device executing a browser. In response, the preparer acquires images of tax documents to begin preparation of an electronic tax return, e.g., by sequentially taking photographs of tax documents using a camera of a mobile communication device, which transmits the images or results of image processing such as Optical Character Recognition(OCR) to the intermediate computer. The intermediate computer, as necessary, performs OCR processing and automatically populates a plurality of electronic tax forms with the first electronic tax data and the second electronic tax data. The electronic tax return may be completed by tax document imaging and manual corrections to OCR results as necessary, in contrast to traditional tax return preparation applications structured according to a pre-determined and programmed sequence of interview screens. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BILL PAYMENT DIRECTLY FROM PAYROLL SYSTEM - This disclosure relates to a system and method for bill payment from a payroll system. In particular, this disclosure enables employees to effectively pay their bills directly from their employer's payroll system, which has a number of benefits including providing employees with a clearer understanding of their discretionary income and, in turn, provides employees with benefits to their overall physical and mental health. This disclosure also provides increased certainty to third party billers, knowing their bills will be paid from a relatively secure source, namely the employer's payroll system. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156851 | ASSERTING GENERAL LEDGER BALANCE CHANGES - A software application or module enables real-time tracking and auditing of general ledger assertions in real-time during the processing of a given event with respect to a particular contract, ensuring that all entries are reconciled and recorded as they occur. The system allows an internal audit to be performed in real-time, and can be configured to automatically block workflow in the case of a discrepancy between a contract and the general ledger as revealed by the audit. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156852 | CREATING AND UTILIZING SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MAPS - A system and method for providing service information on a social network. The method can include: receiving, from a first client device, a social media post including a request for a service, where the request for the service includes a set of objectives, service location information, and an identification of an account requesting a service on the social network; applying, by a computer processor, grouping criteria to a first set of user accounts to generate a group, where: the group is a subset of the first set of user accounts, and applying the grouping criteria includes: ranking each user account according to a geographic distance of a client device of the user account from a location specified by the service location information, and selecting, based the ranking, the subset of user accounts for inclusion in the group, where the selecting includes excluding at least one user account of the first set of user accounts from inclusion in the group based on the ranking; providing, to one or more user accounts in the group, the social media post for display by the client devices of the one or more user accounts. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156853 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING SINGLE TARGET NODE WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for selecting single target node within a social network is configured to select the single target node and deliver a message. A node providing step is performed to set one of nodes within the social network as a source node. A probability calculating step is performed to calculate a plurality of propagation-node numbers of the source node according to a Monte Carlo module and a layered-search module. An expected value generating step is performed to generate an expected value according to the propagation-node numbers and a plurality of propagating success probabilities. A target node selecting step is performed to reset another of the nodes as the source node and repeat the probability calculating step and the expected value generating step to generate another expected value, and compare the expected value with the another expected value to select the single target node having a maximum expected value. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156854 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SORTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, a sorting method, and a recording medium storing a program. The information processing system includes circuitry configured to sort a plurality of orders to at least one production site based on a degree of environmental load when a prescribed condition is satisfied, and send a request for production of a product, the request being included in each of the plurality of orders, to the at least one production site. The information processing device includes the circuitry. The sorting method includes sorting a plurality of orders to at least one production site based on a degree of environmental load when a prescribed condition is satisfied, and sending a request for production of a product, the request being included in each of the plurality of orders, to the at least one production site. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156855 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING A PRIVATE UTILITY - Systems, methods, and computer systems for intelligent power supply are provided herein. The system enables a private utility at a building. The system includes a plurality of power sources. Each of the power sources is configured to provide power to the building when enabled. The system also includes at least one external data source, at least one onsite data source, and a computer system. The computer system is communicatively connected to the power sources, the external data source, and the onsite data source. The computer system receives external data from the external data source and building data from the onsite data source. The computer system determines a preferred power source based on the external data and the building data. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156856 | ENERGY RESOURCE NETWORK - An energy resource network with plurality of energy resources each capable of delivering a quantum of energy; and a plurality of energy-consuming-devices each capable of accepting a quantum of energy. Each energy resource is associated with an energy-resource-processor which is configured to issue one or more offer-messages in respect of a quantum of energy available for supply from the energy resource Each energy-consuming-device is associated with at least one energy-consuming-processor) that is configured to receive one or more offer-messages in respect of a transaction for receiving a quantum of energy from one of the energy resources The energy-resource-processor and/or the energy-consuming-processor being configured to issue a cryptographically-secured transaction record of the transaction for inclusion within a publicly-available distributed ledger. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156857 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS - In some embodiments, a construction management method includes providing, at a central computer, a plurality of interactive 2-D construction drawings, each drawing including a respective affordance of a digital construction entity, where the respective affordances include different 2-D perspectives of the digital construction entity. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156858 | Intelligent Web Server with Multi-Modes of Contact, Multi-Communications Protocols, Multi-User and Parallel Operational Capabilities for Use in a Hospitality Market Comprising - An information management and synchronous communications system and method facilitates database equilibrium and synchronization with wired, wireless, and Web-based systems, user-friendly and efficient generation of computerized menus and reservations with handwritten/voice modifications for restaurants and other applications that utilize equipment with nonstandard graphical formats, display sizes and/or applications for use in remote data entry, information management and communication with host computer, digital input device or remote pager via standard hardwired connection, the internet, a wireless link, printer, or the like. Various operations employing automated telephone calls and/or messaging may, for instance, be performed. For example, desired reservation and/or appointment information may be automatically converted and conveyed to one or more entities via automated telephone call and/or messaging. As another example, information regarding reservation acceptability may be received and automatically converted via automated telephone can and/or messaging. Telephones may, for instance, be the only equipment required by the entities. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156859 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROUTING PATH SELECTION - Methods and systems for selecting fare paths. A machine learning model is trained on historical fare path data. An output of the machine learning model provides a fare path selection prediction for each fare path. In response to a request from a client device, flight paths fulfilling the request are determined, fare paths are determined by combining the set of flight paths with pricing units, the machine learning model is applied on the fare paths to determine a subset of fare paths for which the selection prediction is higher than a threshold, details of the subset of fare paths are queried, valid fare paths are determined, and details of a subset of the valid fare paths are returned to the client device. The details of the subset of the valid fare paths may be displayed on the client device for final selection of a fare path. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156860 | System and Method of Optimizing a Lead Conversion Rate for a Real Estate Agent - A method and system of optimizing a lead conversion rate for a real estate agent is used by a real estate agent to secure a higher number of listings by reducing the amount listing presentation cancelations and by innovating the agent's listing presentation to secure more listings. The method uses an agent introduction video, an agent promotional magazine, and an agent script for the real estate agent. The agent introduction video is a custom video that serves as a third-party endorsement to the agent. The agent promotional magazine is a custom magazine that illustrates the ability of the real estate agent to sell the property faster and at a higher price by utilizing the innovative technology available to the agent. The agent script is used in conjunction with the agent promotional magazine to illustrate to the potential seller the benefits of choosing the real estate agent to list the property. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DATA-DRIVEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for blockchain-based data-driven property management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for blockchain-based data-driven property management may include: (1) receiving, by a property management computer program, title information for a property from a title recordation office; (2) validating, by the property management computer program, the title information with an owner of the property, a lienholder of the property, and/or a recorder of the title information; (3) recording, by the property management computer program, the title information to a distributed ledger, wherein a consensus algorithm executing on nodes in a distributed ledger network update the distributed ledger with a block comprising the title information; (4) periodically polling, by a first smart contract, the title recordation office for updated title information for the property. (5) automatically notifying, by the first smart contract, an interested party of the updated title information. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING GRANTABILITY OF A LEGAL FILING - A gradient boosted networked computer system permits users to analyze the grantability of potential legal filings associated with a target entity, using specific externally reported data. By analyzing the target filing and judicial prerogatives, embodiments of the invention can assess, present, and predict outcomes and timings of decisions made by a judge before the filings are submitted. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156863 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system including a determination unit that acquires, on the basis of metadata added to the content, information associated with one or more pieces of material data used at the time of generation of content and generation information associated with generation of the content and determines contribution of the one or more pieces of material data to the content, and a decision unit that decides feedback to a right related person of the one or more pieces of material data according to contribution information indicating the determination and a use status of the content. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156865 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ALERTS IN AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented system and method for providing alerts in an online learning environment is provided. An electronic gradebook is maintained for a teacher of an online learning environment and includes education related data for each student of the teacher. An event in the online learning environment is identified based on receipt of further education related data for one of the students of the teacher for entry into the electronic gradebook. Automatically upon receipt into the electronic gradebook, an alert is generated for the event by identifying a type of the further education related data received and selecting a template for the alert based on the type of the further education related data. The template is filled with the further education related data and recipients of the alert that are associated with the student are identified. The alert is delivered to the identified recipients. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156866 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACES FOR A WEB-BASED PERSONALIZED UPSKILLING PLATFORM INCLUDING PROVIDING UPSKILLING CONTENT TO USERS BASED ON ROLE DATA AND SKILL DATA - Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for managing upskilling content are provided. An upskilling system ingests information regarding learners and regarding roles, including information regarding current skills (and skill levels) for individual learners and target skills (and skill levels) for roles. Skill gaps for learners are then identified based on the difference between current skills and target skills for a learner's role. The system selects upskilling content based on skill information associated with various pieces of upskilling content, wherein the selected content is selected such that the learner may reduce or eliminate a skill gap by consuming the selected content. The system associates upskilling content with role profiles for roles and/or with user profiles for learners. The system provides access to upskilling content, via a graphical user interface, for learners, and monitors consumption of upskilling content by learners. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156867 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR IDENTIFYING MEDICAL CARE PROVIDERS OUTSIDE A PROCESS-OF-CARE STANDARD - A computer system for identifying medical care providers outside a process-of-care standard for a field of health care is configured to perform steps that include retrieving claim line item information including procedure/service codes, and retrieving definitions for marker code groups associated with each of a set of medical conditions; deriving, for each marker-condition pair, an actual rate of utilization of the marker code group for episodes of the associated medical condition; and assigning a status to each marker-condition pair in response to the actual rate of utilization respectively exceeding or not exceeding a target rate. The steps also include aggregating the statuses across the marker-condition pairs to obtain an overall score, and causing an output to be displayed in a viewable format. The output includes the overall score, each marker-condition pair of the set of medical conditions, and the status for each marker-condition pair of the set of medical conditions. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156868 | System and Method for Providing Selective Savings at a Retail Outlet - A networked and computerized system is disclosed for providing savings and discounts to certain individuals at the time of purchase from a retail outlet. Specifically, savings and discounts may be provided to SNAP recipients (such as products not eligible for SNAP discounts) by manufacturers when certain products are purchased. The individuals eligible for such discounts are determined based upon the payment information and/or based on their eligibility under the SNAP program. Discounts can be taken at the time of purchase or may be transferred to another account. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156869 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING PRIVACY RISKS IN DATASETS - Embodiments described herein relate to establishing a privacy risk score between two datasets based on features common to the datasets. Methods may include: receiving a first dataset of probe data points defining a trajectory; receiving a second dataset of the probe data points defining the trajectory; identifying a plurality of features common to the first dataset and the second dataset; computing a privacy risk value for the identified features common to the first dataset and the second dataset; and computing an aggregate privacy risk score between the first dataset and the second dataset. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156870 | SAFETY PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR PASSENGERS AND DRIVERS OF ONLINE RIDE-HAILING AND TAXI SERVICES - A safety protection system for passengers and drivers includes passenger and driver seat belt fastening state detection apparatuses, emergency alarm apparatuses, a car roof sounding alarm, passenger and driver fastening and isolation and protection apparatuses, wherein if a passenger is a single female, a pregnant woman, an elderly man or woman, a child, an infant, a person with difficulty in moving and an intoxicated person, an order will only be assigned to a vehicle provided with the above-mentioned apparatuses | 2022-05-19 |
20220156871 | Ranking Method of Urban Parking Lots Based on Temporal and Spatial Features and Its Device, Terminal, and Medium - A ranking method of urban parking lots based on temporal and spatial features and its device, terminal and medium, wherein the method comprises: adopting service capability model and temporal-spatial transition model to get the initial service capability ranking of all parking lots and the transition probability matrix between parking lots at the moment based on all parking lots within the preset urban regions and their static and dynamic information; using the power iteration algorithm to iteratively calculate the comprehensive service capability ranking of all parking lots at the moment in accordance with initial service capability ranking and transition probability matrix until the stopping conditions for the iteration are met; sequencing the parking lots based on comprehensive service capability ranking, thus achieving real-time quantitative computation of service capability of any urban parking lot from the temporal and spatial dimensions | 2022-05-19 |
20220156873 | IMAGE SYNTHESIS DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING WATERMARK - An image synthesis method includes inputting an original image and a watermark image into a synthesis model and obtaining a synthesized image output from the synthesis model. The original image and the watermark image are respectively processed in first and second sub-models of the synthesis model and then combined, and the concatenated result is processed in a third sub-model to generate the synthesized image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156874 | PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE PRIORITY-BASED TWO-LEVEL BINNING - Systems and methods related to priority-based and performance-based selection of a render mode, such as a two-level binning mode, in which to execute workloads with a graphics processing unit (GPU) of a system are provided. A user mode driver (UMD) or kernel mode driver (KMD) executed at a central processing unit (CPU) configures low and medium priority workloads to be executed in a two-level binning mode and selects a binning mode for high priority workloads based on whether performance heuristics indicate that one or more binning conditions or override conditions have been met. High priority workloads are maintained in a high priority queue, while low and medium priority workloads are maintained in a low/medium priority queue, such that execution of low and medium priority workloads at the GPU can be preempted in favor of executing high priority workloads. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156875 | THREAD SCHEDULING OVER COMPUTE BLOCKS FOR POWER OPTIMIZATION - Thread dispatch circuitry is configured to dispatch threads of a two-dimensional (2D) thread group based on data access locality associated with the threads. The thread dispatch circuitry can dispatch a first 2D sub-group of the 2D thread group to a compute block of the multiple compute blocks, the first 2D sub-group associated with a first 2D tile of memory and dispatch a second 2D sub-group of the 2D thread group to the compute block of the multiple compute blocks, the second 2D sub-group associated with a second 2D tile of memory. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156876 | COMPUTE OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS - An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processing units to provide a first set of shader operations associated with a shader stage of a graphics pipeline, a scheduler to schedule shader threads for processing, and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) dynamically configured to provide a second set of shader operations associated with the shader stage of the graphics pipeline. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156877 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE RENDERING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device is provided. The electronic devices includes a display, a memory, and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the display and the memory. The processor is configured to generate a main thread related to a user input and data processing on an application in response to execution of the application and a render thread related to rendering image data in units of frames based on data processed in the main thread, configure a target frame rate for displaying an execution screen of the application on the display, calculate an expected processing time of a current frame based on a processing time of at least one previous frame output through the display, determine a time margin based on the target frame rate and the calculated expected processing time, and perform the user input and data processing after the main thread waits in a sleep state for the time margin. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156878 | MODEL INFERENCE METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON GRAPHICS RENDERING PIPELINE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This application provides a model inference method and apparatus based on a graphics rendering pipeline, and a storage medium for model inference based on a graphics rendering pipeline. The method includes: obtaining an instruction stream in a render thread; extracting and saving texture data information from the instruction stream, where the texture data information includes texture data; and inputting the texture data information to a graphics processing unit (GPU) rendering pipeline, where the GPU rendering pipeline is used to perform GPU model-based inference on the texture data based on a GPU model to obtain an inference result of the texture data, and the GPU model is a model running in a GPU. This implements model inference on the texture data, and avoids conversion of the texture data into another data type, thereby reducing I/O memory overheads. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156879 | MULTI-TILE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT - An apparatus to facilitate processing in a multi-tile device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of processing tiles, each including a memory device and a plurality of processing resources, coupled to the device memory, and a memory management unit to manage the memory devices in each of the plurality of tiles to perform allocation of memory resources among the memory devices for execution by the plurality of processing resources. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156880 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES - Systems and methods for compressing and decompressing a sequence of images are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: retrieve the captured visual information from electronic storage; extract a portion from the captured visual information; compress the extracted portion horizontally into a compressed video sequence; create a container that is configured to contain the compressed video sequence; and store the container in electronic storage. The compressed video sequence is decompressed for presentation to users. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156881 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-OBJECT MICRO-ASSEMBLY CONTROL WITH THE AID OF A DIGITAL COMPUTER - System and method that allow to jointly cause movement of multiple micro-and-nano-objects to desired positions are described. A high speed camera tracks the locations of the objects. An array of photo-transistor-controlled electrodes is used to generate a dynamic potential energy landscape for manipulating objects with both DEP and EP forces, and a video projector is used actuate the array. One or more computing devices are used to: process images captured by the camera to estimate positions of the objects; generate desired trajectories of the objects using an objective function; compare the desired chiplet positions with current positions and generate input signals to minimize the error between them; and map the control inputs to images that are projected on the array using a video project. The projected images activate or deactivate electrodes, as indicated by the control inputs. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156882 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD TO IMPROVE SCALE CONSISTENCY AND/OR SCALE AWARENESS IN A MODEL OF SELF-SUPERVISED DEPTH AND EGO-MOTION PREDICTION NEURAL NETWORKS - A computer-implemented method to improve scale consistency and/or scale awareness in a model of self-supervised depth and ego-motion prediction neural networks processing a video stream of monocular images, wherein complementary GPS coordinates synchronized with the images are used to calculate a GPS to scale loss to enforce the scale-consistency and/or -awareness on the monocular self-supervised ego-motion and depth estimation. A relative weight assigned to the GPS to scale loss exponentially increases as training progresses. The depth and ego-motion prediction neural networks are trained using an appearance-based photometric loss between real and synthesized target images, as well as a smoothness loss on the depth predictions. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156883 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS - Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to generate images with one or more visual effects applied. In at least one embodiment, one or more visual effects are applied to one or more images having a resolution that is less than a first resolution and those visual effects approximated for one or more images having a resolution that is greater than or equal to the first resolution. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156884 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method comprising training a pre-trained artificial neural network using degraded data together with higher-quality reference data to obtain an adapted artificial neural network. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156885 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - A method comprising: obtaining an image; identifying a rotation angle for the image by processing the image with a first neural network; rotating the image by the identified rotation angle to generate a rotated image; classifying the image with a second neural network; and outputting an indication of an outcome of the classification, wherein the first neural network is trained, at least in part, based on a categorical distance between training data and an output that is produced by the first neural network. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156886 | NOVEL VIEW SYNTHESIS WITH SPATIAL AND ROTATIONAL CONSISTENCY - Methods, system, and computer storage media are provided for novel view synthesis. An input image depicting an object is received and utilized to generate, via a neural network, a target view image. In exemplary aspects, additional view images are also generated within the same pass of the neural network. A loss is determined based on the target view image and additional view images and is used to modify the neural network to reduce errors. In some aspects, a rotated view image is generated by warping a ground truth image from an initial angle to a rotated view angle that matches a view angle of an image synthesized via the neural network, such as a target view image. The rotated view image and the synthesized image matching the rotated view angle (e.g., a target view image) are utilized to compute a rotational loss. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156887 | KERNEL RESHAPING-POWERED SPLATTING-BASED EFFICIENT IMAGE SPACE LENS BLUR - Embodiments are disclosed for generating lens blur effects. The disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving a request to apply a lens blur effect to an image, the request identifying an input image and a first disparity map, generating a plurality of disparity maps and a plurality of distance maps based on the first disparity map, splatting influences of pixels of the input image using a plurality of reshaped kernel gradients, gathering aggregations of the splatted influences, and determining a lens blur for a first pixel of the input image in an output image based on the gathered aggregations of the splatted influences. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH IMAGE RECOGNITION - An image recognition method includes: receiving an input image of a first quality; extracting an input feature of a second quality of the input image from the input image by inputting the input image to an encoding model in an image recognizing model; and generating a recognition result for the input image based on the input feature. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156889 | SALIENCY MAP GENERATION METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A saliency map generation method and an image processing system using the same are provided. The method includes the following steps. An original underwater image is received. A blurring processing is performed on the original underwater image to generate a defocus map. The defocus map is input to an auxiliary convolutional network model to obtain multiple feature maps of the defocus map. The original underwater image and the feature maps are input to a main convolutional network model to generate a saliency map of the original underwater image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156890 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image enhancement method includes: acquiring an image in a YUV format ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220156891 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEBLURRING BLURRY IMAGES - Methods and systems for image deblurring are described. The weights of a deblurring network are first trained by meta-training the deblurring network on both a primary deblurring task and an auxiliary reconstruction task. Application-time training of the deblurring network is then performed, using an application-time blurry input image, to obtain values of application-time trained weights. Application-time training includes performing the auxiliary reconstruction task on the application-time blurry input image, and updating the weights of the deblurring network based on an auxiliary loss computed from the auxiliary reconstruction task. A deblurred output image is generated from the application-time blurry input image, using the application-time trained weights in the deblurring network. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156892 | NOISE-ADAPTIVE NON-BLIND IMAGE DEBLURRING - Systems and methods to perform noise-adaptive non-blind deblurring on an input image that includes blur and noise involve implementing a first neural network on the input image to obtain one or more parameters and performing regularized deconvolution to obtain a deblurred image from the input image. The regularized deconvolution uses the one or more parameters to control noise in the deblurred image. A method includes implementing a second neural network to remove artifacts from the deblurred image and provide an output image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156893 | IMAGE INPAINTING BASED ON MULTIPLE IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS - Various disclosed embodiments are directed to inpainting one or more portions of a target image based on merging (or selecting) one or more portions of a warped image with (or from) one or more portions of an inpainting candidate (e.g., via a learning model). This, among other functionality described herein, resolves the inaccuracies of existing image inpainting technologies. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156894 | MODULAR INPAINTING METHOD - A method for processing images is described, wherein a scenery is recorded as at least one raw image by at least one optical capture means mounted on a vehicle, and wherein image data of the scenery are mapped incompletely and/or erroneously in the subsequently rendered render image in at least one area. In order to provide a user of one or more cameras on a motor vehicle, that have visibility restrictions with a more agreeable visual experience, the method includes identifying the area(s) of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping in the render image on the basis of existing visibility restrictions, generating masks that enclose the area(s) of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping as masked areas, reconstructing image data in unmasked areas of the render image by means of digital inpainting and synthesizing together with the masked areas to produce a correction image, and displaying the completed and/or debugged correction image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156895 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, IMAGE DETECTING METHOD AND SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method and device, an image detecting method and system, and a storage medium are provided. The image processing method comprises: acquiring a target image; counting pixels of the target image to obtain a count value; adding compensation data at a peripheral position of an edge pixel of the target image according to the count value, to obtain pixel data of the compensated target image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE INPAINTING BASED ON LAYOUT-GUIDED PRE-PROCESSING ATTENTION MECHANISM - An inpainting method includes obtaining an image including an object having a delicate shape and identifying a target region within the image, where the target region is adjacent to the object. The method also includes using a first mask to separate the image into a number of semantic categories and aggregating neighboring contexts for the target region based on the semantic categories. The method further includes restoring, based on the aggregated contexts, textures in the target region without affecting the delicate shape of the object. In addition, the method includes displaying a refined image including the restored textures in the target region and the object. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING FAKE IMAGES - An apparatus for classifying fake images according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an artifact remover configured to receive an input image to generate an artifact-removed image from which artifacts are removed, an artifact image generator configured to generate an artifact image by using a difference between the input image and the artifact removal image, and a determiner configured to determine whether the artifact image is a real image or a fake image by receiving the artifact image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156898 | DOWNHOLE IMAGING - This invention relates to a method of imaging a downhole region of interest. In particular this invention relates to a method of processing images captured downhole to remove or reduce distortions due to the optical system as a function of the temperature experienced by the optical system in the downhole environment. A method of imaging a downhole region of interest comprises contemporaneously capturing an image of a region of interest and recording a temperature associated with the region of interest; selecting a pre-defined set of distortion data from a plurality of pre-defined sets of distortion data based on the recorded temperature; and applying the selected set of distortion data to the captured image to create an un-distorted image, wherein the pre-defined set of distortion data comprises distortion values associated with a range of field angles at a specified temperature. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156899 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING CAMERA ILLUMINANT AND METHOD OF THE SAME - A method for processing image data may include: obtaining a first image and a second image that capture a same scene in different views, from a first camera and a second camera, respectively; spatially aligning the first image with the second image; obtaining a color transformation matrix that maps the first image to the second image based on color values of the first image and the second image; obtaining an estimated illuminant color from an output of a neural network by inputting the color transformation matrix to the neural network, wherein the neural network is trained based on a pair of reference images of a same reference scene and a color rendition chart that are captured by different cameras having different spectral sensitivities; and performing a white balance correction on the first image based on the estimated illuminant color to output a corrected first image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156900 | AUTOMATIC OCCLUSION DETECTION - A method includes producing a filter mask based on a blur mask and a saliency mask and identifying locations of a plurality of bounding boxes of a plurality of objects of interest in a received image. The method also includes applying the filter mask to the received image and to the locations of the plurality of bounding boxes in the received image to remove at least one object of interest from consideration. The method further includes performing a comparison of a location of a bounding box of the plurality of bounding boxes of an object of interest remaining in consideration to a predetermined safe region of the received image and generating a validation result based on the comparison. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156901 | 3D MODELING METHOD FOR PORE-FILLING HYDRATE SEDIMENT BASED ON CT IMAGE - The present invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum exploitation engineering, and discloses a 3D modeling method for pore-filling hydrate sediment based on a CT image. Indoor remolding rock cores or in situ site rock cores without hydrate can be scanned by CT; a sediment matrix image stack and a pore image stack are obtained by gray threshold segmentation; then, a series of pore-filling hydrate image stacks with different saturations are constructed through image morphological processing of the pore image stack such as erosion, dilation and image subtraction operation; and a series of digital rock core image stacks of the pore-filling hydrate sediment with different saturations are formed through image subtraction operation and splicing operation to provide a relatively real 3D model for the numerical simulation work of the basic physical properties of a reservoir of natural gas hydrate. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156902 | APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING IMAGE QUALITY AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - An apparatus for enhancing image quality includes a combining module configured to combine an independent image having pixels independent from each other and a correlated image including correlation information between pixels and an artificial intelligence (AI) apparatus configured to provide a weight used to combine the independent image and the correlated image. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156903 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH PRECISION MULTI-APERTURE SPECTRAL IMAGING - Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to systems and techniques for spectral imaging using a multi-aperture system with curved multi-bandpass filters positioned over each aperture. The present disclosure further relates to techniques for implementing spectral unmixing and image registration to generate a spectral datacube using image information received from such imaging systems. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to using such a datacube to analyze the imaged object, for example to analyze tissue in a clinical setting, perform biometric recognition, or perform materials analysis. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156904 | PROVIDING AN OPTIMUM SUBTRACTION DATA SET - A method for providing an optimum subtraction data set includes: receiving first image data sets acquired by a medical imaging device and which map an object under examination within a first time phase; receiving at least one second image data set acquired by the same or another medical imaging device and which maps a change in the object under examination within a second time phase; dividing the at least one second image data set into a plurality of image regions; generating subtraction image regions for the plurality of image regions; determining an image quality parameter for each subtraction image region; determining an optimum subtraction image region for each image region of the plurality of image regions of the at least one second image data set by comparing the image quality parameters; generating the optimum subtraction data set from the optimum subtraction image regions; and providing the optimum subtraction data set. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156905 | PROVISION OF AN OPTIMUM SUBTRACTION DATA SET - A method for providing an optimum subtraction data set includes receiving first image data sets that are recorded by a medical imaging device and map an examination object within a first temporal phase. At least one second image data set that maps the examination object within a second temporal phase and is recorded by the same or another medical imaging device is received. Mask data sets are determined. The mask data sets include at least one of the first image data sets and/or an averaging of at least one combination of the first image data sets. Subtraction data sets are generated by subtracting one of the mask data sets from the at least one second image data set, and an image quality parameter is determined for each of the subtraction data sets. An optimum subtraction data set is provided by a comparison of the image quality parameters. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156906 | ENHANCED EXTENDED DEPTH OF FOCUSING ON BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - A system and method for constructing a digital composite image of a three-dimensional biological sample. The system includes an optical system that captures images of cells and tissue presented on a specimen slide. The system systematically acquires a stack of images at different segments across the specimen slide. For each segment, the system dynamically calculates an optimal focal plane. Once an optimal focal plane is determined for each of the stacks of images, the system generates a composite image by copying the sharpest objects from each of the optimal focal planes. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156907 | Monitoring Of Pipeline Systems - A method and system for detecting displacements in installed pipeline systems and identifying components and their properties, comprising:
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20220156908 | Blister-Strip Inspection Device - The invention relates to a blister strip inspection device ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220156909 | LUBRICATING OIL DEGRADATION EVALUATION SYSTEM AND LUBRICATING OIL DEGRADATION EVALUATION METHOD - Provided are a lubricating oil degradation evaluation system and a lubricating oil degradation evaluation method capable of immediately evaluating degradation and a contamination state of a lubricating oil by including: a storage unit | 2022-05-19 |
20220156910 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE - A method for generating reconstruction a reconstructed image is adapted to an input image having a target object. The method comprises converting the input image into a feature map with vectors by an encoder; performing a training procedure according to training images of reference objects to generate feature prototypes associated with the training images and store the feature prototypes to a memory; selecting a part of feature prototypes from the feature prototypes stored in the memory according to similarities between the feature prototypes and the feature vectors; generating a similar feature map according the part of feature prototypes and weights, wherein the weights represents similarities between the part of feature prototypes and the feature vectors; and converting the similar feature map into the reconstructed image by a decoder; wherein the encoder, the decoder and the memory form an auto-encoder. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156911 | OPTICAL INSPECTION OF A WAFER - An image analysis device may align an image to determine a position of a wafer within the image. The wafer may include a plurality of wafer bumps. The image analysis device may mask, based on the position of the wafer, the image to obtain an image of a portion of the wafer. The image analysis device may binarize the image of the portion of the wafer to create a binarized image of the portion of the wafer. The image analysis device may determine a bump pattern, associated with the plurality of wafer bumps, based on the binarized image of the portion of the wafer. The image analysis device may perform a defect analysis of the determined bump pattern. The defect analysis may be associated with detecting regions of the portion of the wafer in which one or more wafer bumps have abnormal bump heights. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156912 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING DETECTION ABILITY OF AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION AND DISPLAY PANEL INCLUDING INSPECTION ELEMENT GROUP USED THEREFOR - A display panel includes a substrate including a display area in which elements used for display are disposed and a peripheral area, and an inspection element group disposed in the peripheral area of the substrate, where the inspection element group includes defects that are repeatedly disposed. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156913 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An image processing system includes a housing that forms a passage through which paper pieces pass, imaging units that capture images of the paper pieces passing through the housing, and an AI image processing apparatus that restores a restoration target on the basis of the images captured by the imaging unit so that the contents of the restoration target become viewable. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156914 | SURFACE ABNORMALITY DETECTION DEVICE AND SYSTEM - There is provided a surface abnormality detection device, and a system, capable of detecting an abnormal portion having a displacement below the distance measurement accuracy when detecting the abnormal portion on the surface of a structure. A surface abnormality detection device includes a classification means for classifying an object under measurement into one or more clusters having the same structure, based on position information at a plurality of points on a surface of the object under measurement; a determination means for determining a reflection brightness normal value of the cluster based on a distribution of reflection brightness values at a plurality of points on a surface of the cluster; and an identification means for identifying an abnormal portion on the surface of the cluster based on a difference between the reflection brightness normal value and the reflection brightness value at each of the plurality of points. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156915 | AUXILIARY PARTS DAMAGE DETERMINATION - A method of determining, one or more damage states of one or more auxiliary parts of a damaged vehicle, the vehicle comprising a plurality of normalized parts and at least some of the normalized parts further comprising one or more auxiliary parts. The method includes receiving one or more images of the vehicle, using a plurality of classifiers, each determining at least one classification of damage to the vehicle, each said classification being determined for each of a plurality of normalized parts of the vehicle, determining one or more classifications for the plurality of auxiliary parts using one or more trained models, wherein each classification comprises at least one indication of damage to at least one auxiliary part and outputting the determined damage states of the one or more auxiliary parts. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156916 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE OF AN OBJECT - A device for generating an image of an object by electromagnetic waves has a transmission device which is set up to radiate electromagnetic waves in the direction of the object, a receiving device which is set up to receive electromagnetic waves from the object, and a digital processing and control unit which is set up to generate image data of the object from the measured data. Here, the transmission device and the receiving device are arranged in at least one modular unit. The digital processing and control unit has an interface via which different modular units can be exchangeably coupled to the digital processing and control unit. Here, the interface is set up to transmit data to the modular unit and to receive from this, to transmit control signals to the transmission device and to the receiving device, and to supply the modular unit with energy. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156917 | NORMALIZING COUNTS OF PLANT-PARTS-OF-INTEREST - Implementations are described herein for normalizing counts of plant-parts-of-interest detected in digital imagery to account for differences in spatial dimensions of plants, particularly plant heights. In various implementations, one or more digital images depicting a top of a first plant may be processed. The one or more digital images may have been acquired by a vision sensor carried over top of the first plant by a ground-based vehicle. Based on the processing: a distance of the vision sensor to the first plant may be estimated, and a count of visible plant-parts-of-interest that were captured within a field of view of the vision sensor may be determined. Based on the estimated distance, the count of visible plant-parts-of-interest may be normalized with another count of visible plant-parts-of-interest determined from one or more digital images capturing a second plant. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156918 | AUTOMATIC, DYNAMIC, AND ADAPTIVE SLICE PLANNING FOR CARDIAC MRI ACQUISITION - Systems and methods for predicting a location for acquiring a target view of an anatomical object of interest in an input image are provided. An input image of an anatomical object of interest of a patient is received. An output image is generated using a machine learning based network. The output image depicts a projection of a 3D image plane for acquiring a target view of the anatomical object of interest identified on the input image. The output image is output. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156919 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL IMAGING - Devices, systems, and methods for generating a medical image obtain scan data that were generated by scanning a scanned region, wherein the scan data include groups of scan data that were captured at respective angles; generate partial reconstructions of at least a part of the scanned region, wherein each partial reconstruction of the partial reconstructions is generated based on a respective one or more groups of the groups of scan data, and wherein a collective scanning range of the respective one or more groups is less than the angular scanning range; input the partial reconstructions into a machine-learning model, which generates one or more motion-compensated reconstructions of the at least part of the scanned region based on the partial reconstructions; calculate a respective edge entropy of each of the one or more motion-compensated reconstructions of the at least part of the scanned region; and adjust the machine-learning model based on the respective edge entropies. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156920 | Enhanced Thermal Digital Subtraction Angiography (ETDSA) - A method and a device for performing enhanced thermal digital subtraction angiography comprising infrared video camera, computer cable of subtracting all images produced by tissues having a temperature below a setup point, reconstructing and displaying 2D or 3D images of the received data, performing measurement of the vessels being displayed, conducting data analysis and mathematical calculation of hemodynamic parameters, storing and displaying the images produced. Said device is coupled to embodiments to warm the intravascular injectate, to warm the J-tip guide wire and to warm the intravascular catheter during angiography and during endovascular procedures. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156921 | DATA PROCESSING PLATFORM FOR ANALYZING STEREO-SPATIO-TEMPORAL CROP CONDITION MEASUREMENTS TO SUPPORT PLANT GROWTH AND HEALTH OPTIMIZATION - An apparatus includes at least one processor configured to obtain stereo-spatio-temporal data measurements of plants in a growing area. The stereo-spatio-temporal data measurements include (i) first spatio-temporal data measurements of the plants in the growing area and (ii) second spatio-temporal data measurements of the plants in the growing area. The at least one processor is also configured to analyze the stereo-spatio-temporal data measurements to identify one or more actual or potential problems associated with one or more of the plants. The at least one processor is further configured to generate a graphical user interface identifying at least one of the one or more actual or potential problems with the one or more plants. The first and second spatio-temporal data measurements of each stereo-spatio-temporal data measurement are associated with at least one common plant characteristic and different three-dimensional positions within the growing area taken at one or more known times. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156923 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING SEGMENTED STRUCTURES - A system comprises a display system and a control system communicatively coupled to the display system. The control system is configured to receive anatomic image data for an anatomic tree structure and generate an initial segmentation of the anatomic image data. The initial segmentation includes a trunk structure and a branched structure unconnected to the trunk structure. The control system is also configured to determine whether to connect the branched structure to the trunk structure based on an assessment of a shape of the branched structure and an assessment of a relationship between the trunk structure and the branched structure. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156924 | PRE-MORBID CHARACTERIZATION OF ANATOMICAL OBJECT USING STATISTICAL SHAPE MODELING (SSM) - Techniques are described for determining a pre-morbid shape of an anatomical object. Processing circuitry may determine an aligned shape based on image data with under- or over-segmentation. The processing circuitry may utilize the aligned shape and a shape model such as a mean shape model of the anatomical object to register the aligned shape to the shape model and generate information indicative of the pre-morbid shape of the anatomical object. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156925 | DYNAMIC INTERVENTIONAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL DEFORMATION - A controller for assisting navigation in an interventional procedure includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220156926 | A METHOD OF PROCESSING AN IMAGE OF TISSUE, A SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE OF TISSUE, A METHOD FOR DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND A DISEASE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - A computer implemented method of processing an image of tissue, comprising: inputting image data comprising a plurality of pixels into a first trained model, the first trained model generating a value corresponding to each of a plurality of pixels representing a feature relevant to disease diagnosis; wherein the first trained model comprises a convolutional neural network comprising a layer in which a first filter and a second filter are applied, at least one of the first filter and the second filter comprising a dilated convolution, wherein the output of the first filter and the second filter are combined and input into the subsequent layer. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156927 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - By analyzing an image of a cell sample, whether a cell shown in the image is cancerous or not, the type of cancer, etc. are objectively and appropriately determined. An image analyzing device ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220156928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL IMAGES - A method of generating a virtual MRI image includes receiving an initial MRI image of a patient in a first position, the initial MRI image depicting at least a portion of an anatomy of the patient; receiving a plurality of images of the patient in a second position, each of the plurality of images depicting at least a plurality of bony elements within the portion of the patient's anatomy; receiving soft tissue information corresponding to at least a plurality of soft tissue elements within the portion of the patient's anatomy; segmenting the initial MRI image to identify a depiction of each of the plurality of bony elements and each of the plurality of soft tissue elements within the initial MRI image; and generating a virtual MRI image based on the MRI image, the plurality of images, and the soft tissue information. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156929 | MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYZING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A medical image analyzing system and a medical image analyzing method are provided and include inputting at least one patient image into a first model of a neural network module to obtain a result having determined positions and ranges of an organ and a tumor of the patient image; inputting the result into a second model of a first analysis module and a third model of a second analysis module, respectively, to obtain at least one first prediction value and at least one second prediction value corresponding to the patient image; and outputting a determined result based on the first prediction value and the second prediction value. Further, processes between the first model, the second model and the third model can be automated, thereby improving identification rate of pancreatic cancer. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156930 | CANCER RISK STRATIFICATION BASED ON HISTOPATHOLOGICAL TISSUE SLIDE ANALYSIS - The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for providing reliable risk stratification for early-stage cancer patients by predicting a recurrence risk of the patient and to categorize the patient into a high or low risk group. A series of slides depicting serial sections of cancerous tissue are automatically analyzed by a digital pathology system, a score for the sections is calculated, and a Cox proportional hazards regression model is used to stratify the patient into a low or high risk group. The Cox proportional hazards regression model may be used to determine a whole-slide scoring algorithm based on training data comprising survival data for a plurality of patients and their respective tissue sections. The coefficients may differ based on different types of image analysis operations applied to either whole-tumor regions or specified regions within a slide. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156931 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - This application relates to the artificial intelligence field, and provides an image processing method, an apparatus, and a system. The image processing method includes: obtaining a plurality of image blocks by segmenting a to-be-analyzed pathological image; inputting the plurality of image blocks to a first analysis model to obtain a first analysis result, where the first analysis model classifies each of the plurality of image blocks based on a quantity or an area of suspicious lesion components; inputting at least one second-type image block in the first analysis result to a second analysis model to obtain a second analysis result, where the second analysis model analyzes a location of a suspicious lesion component of each input second-type image block; and obtaining a final analysis result of the pathological image based on the first analysis result and the second analysis result. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156932 | SKIN DISEASE ANALYZING PROGRAM, SKIN DISEASE ANALYZING METHOD, SKIN DISEASE ANALYZING DEVICE, AND SKIN DISEASE ANALYZING SYSTEM - Provided are a skin disease analysis program, a skin disease analysis method, a skin disease analyzer, and a skin disease analysis system, which can analyze skin disease more accurately. The program according to the present invention is executed by a computer to execute a second step of predicting a kind of skin tumor for an image to be analyzed of skin tumor by a first-learned model that has machine learned from images of affected parts of various skin diseases in advance, and either one or both of a first step and a third step, in which the first step determines whether or not the image to be analyzed is an image of skin tumor by a skin disease determination engine, prior to the second step, and in a case where the determination result of the second step has been one kind of skin tumors that are easily mistaken for each other, the third step re-predicts the kind of skin tumor for the image to be analyzed by a second-learned model that has machine learned from images of affected parts of specific skin diseases including the skin tumors that are easily mistaken for each other. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156933 | FLATTENED VIEW FOR INTRA-LUMENAL NAVIGATION - Methods for creation and use (e.g., for navigation) of displays of flattened (e.g., curvature-straightened) 3-D reconstructions of tissue surfaces, optionally including reconstructions of the interior surfaces of hollow organs. In some embodiments, data comprising a 3-D representation of a tissue surface (for example an interior heart chamber surface) are subject to a geometrical transformation allowing the tissue surface to be presented substantially within a single view of a flattened reconstruction. In some embodiments, a catheter probe in use near the tissue surface is shown in positions that correspond to positions in 3-D space sufficiently to permit navigation; e.g., the probe is shown in flattened reconstruction views nearby view regions corresponding to regions it actually approaches. In some embodiments, automatic and/or easily triggered manual view switching between flattened reconstruction and source reconstruction views is implemented. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156934 | AI-BASED HEAT MAP GENERATING SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A multi-label heat map generating system is operable to receive a plurality of medical scans and a corresponding plurality of medical labels that each correspond to one of a set of abnormality classes. A computer vision model is generated by training on the medical scans and the medical labels. Probability matrix data, which includes a set of image patch probability values that each indicate a probability that a corresponding one of the set of abnormality classes is present in each of a set of image patches, is generated by performing an inference function that utilizes the computer vision model on a new medical scan. Preliminary heat map visualization data can be generated for transmission to a client device based on the probability matrix data. Heat map visualization data can be generated via a post-processing of the preliminary heat map visualization data to mitigate heat map artifacts. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156935 | SPATIAL-AND-CONTEXT AWARE VIRTUAL BIOPSY RADIOGENOMIC MAPS TO TARGET TUMOR MUTATIONAL STATUS - Embodiments discussed herein facilitate determination of tumor mutation status based on context and spatial information. One example embodiment can access a MRI scan of a tumor comprising voxels; extract radiomic feature(s) from the voxels; generate a spatial feature descriptor indicating probabilities the tumor has a first mutation status and a second mutation status, based on the MRI scan, a first population atlas for the first mutation status, and a second population atlas for the second mutation status; provide the radiomic feature(s) and the spatial feature descriptor to a machine learning model; and receive, via the machine learning model, a map indicating, for each voxel of the voxels, a probability of the first mutation status for that voxel and a probability of the second mutation status for that voxel, wherein the map is based at least on the one or more radiomic features and the spatial feature descriptor. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156936 | REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT OF VISIBLE SURFACE AREA FROM COLONOSCOPY VIDEO - The present invention comprises a system and a computer-implemented method designed for measuring the visible colon surface area that has been seen from a colonoscope, and for displaying the results of the measurement. The method estimates the orientation of the camera of the colonoscope, estimates the travel distance of the scope camera from the axial vector lengths coming from or headed towards the focus of expansion point, and visualizing the percentage of the visible surface of the entire colon. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156937 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSORY SUBSTITUTION BASED ON DEPTH-TIME MAPPING - Provided are an apparatus and method for sensory substitution based on depth-time mapping. The apparatus for sensory substitution based on depth-time mapping according to the present invention includes an image segmentation unit configured to generate a plurality of depth images by segmenting three-dimensional (3D) image information based on depth, a sensory substitution unit configured to generate pieces of sensory substitution information by converting at least any one of the plurality of depth images into preset sensory information, a depth-time mapping unit configured to map the sensory substitution information to a time axis based on depth information corresponding to the depth image, and an output unit configured to sequentially output the pieces of sensory substitution information in order mapped to the time axis. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156938 | Protocol-Aware Tissue Segmentation in Medical Imaging - For medical imaging such as MRI, machine training is used to train a network for segmentation using both the imaging data and protocol data (e.g., meta-data). The network is trained to segment based, in part, on the configuration and/or scanner, not just the imaging data, allowing the trained network to adapt to the way each image is acquired. In one embodiment, the network architecture includes one or more blocks that receive both types of data as input and output both types of data, preserving relevant features for adaptation through at least part of the trained network. | 2022-05-19 |
20220156939 | Systems and Methods for Video Object Segmentation - Systems and methods for generating object segmentations across videos are provided. An example system can enable an annotator to identify objects within a first image frame of a video sequence by clicking anywhere within the object. The system processes the first image frame and a second, subsequent, image frame to assign each pixel of the second image frame to one of the objects identified in the first image frame or the background. The system refines the resulting object masks for the second image frame using a recurrent attention module based on contextual features extracted from the second image frame. The system receives additional user input for the second image frame and uses the input, in combination with the object masks for the second image frame, to determine object masks for a third, subsequent, image frame in the video sequence. The process is repeated for each image in the video sequence. | 2022-05-19 |