26th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160189257 | USER INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS TO USERS - Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion may include a link to an additional page that includes controls for editing the shopping cart and/or includes additional information regarding contents of the shopping cart. The recommendations portion may include multiple recommendations sections that are populated using different respective item selection methods. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SECURE TRANSACTIONS WITH A DIGITAL DEVICE - Method to perform secure transactions with a digital device starts with microphone receiving signal generated by the digital device. Signal includes product information in inaudible portion of signal that identifies at least one product associated with a timeframe of signal. Trusted execution environment (TEE) generates start signal based on first sensor signal from first sensor that may be inertial sensor. Start signal is generated when first sensor signals indicate that user wishes to perform transactions with digital device. TEE verifies an origin of the product information to determine integrity of the origin and data. Display device displays purchasing information to a user that is based on the product information. TEE authenticates user based on second sensor signal from second sensor that may be biometrics sensor. TEE completes transaction to purchase at least one product by providing payment information associated with user. Other embodiments are also described. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189259 | MANAGING A DISTRIBUTED SECONDARY PRODUCT INVENTORY - Systems and methods to manage a secondary distributed product inventory are described. A method includes receiving from a seller of an item, a request to add the item to a secondary auction of items at a network-based marketplace, receiving one or more seller conditions that apply to the item in the secondary auction, identifying the secondary auction based on the item being compatible with other items in the secondary auction, adding the item to the secondary, and notifying the seller in response to receiving an offer from the buyer that satisfies the conditions. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189260 | Systems and methods for presenting vehicular transaction information in a data communication network - A system for dynamically presenting vehicular transaction information in a data communication network includes a network interface subsystem and a dynamic communication subsystem. The dynamic communication subsystem is configured to: based on offer data parameters and any received response messages, generate data representing an initial list of at least one purchase and financing option; when a first communication trigger condition is detected, generate signals for communicating the data representing the initial list for display on a device associated with a customer; when additional response messages are received, generate update data representing at least one additional or updated purchase and financing option; and generate signals for communicating the update data representing the at least one additional or updated purchase and financing option. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189261 | Method and System for E-Auction - System intelligent interactive base for having supplier inputs and posing further questions to the supplier, including a portal system for conducting electronic auction requests for information, wherein buyer managing supplier inputs include an interconnection of at least one configurable and namable business process element. The system includes a host computer system, at least one database component associated with the host computer system, and a communication interface for accessing the host computer system from a plurality of remote input/output devices to manage the business process element. The system further includes a buyer on a web enabled handheld device (e.g., mobile devices and/or web based devices) and a supplier on a second web enabled handheld device (e.g., mobile devices and/or web based devices), in order to access a flexible price builder tab for capturing requests for information sought by the buyer from various suppliers for the purpose of conducting electronic auctions. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUY THROUGH TRANSACTIONS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for buy through transactions are presented. In an example embodiment, buy through listings for desired products are created by buyers. The buy through listings specify buyer product criteria, which may include product information of the desired products, geographic location information of the desired products, a requested delivery date for the desired products, and pricing information for the desired products. Potential sellers who provide seller purchase criteria may be activated as buy through sellers. The seller purchase criteria may include geographic location information of sellers, product category information related to products the sellers are willing to acquire from third parties, and pricing information related to interested price ranges of the products the sellers are interested in acquiring. The active sellers are provided access to matching buy through listings to bid on. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189263 | Method and system of directed, two-way consultative communications between a webpage user and a remote representative - A method of providing directed, two-way consultative communications between a consumer and a customer service representative comprises: establishing a storyboard layout by a company to provide a guideline for the customer service representative to follow; receiving a request by the consumer for a consultation regarding a product or service offered by the company; initiating a two-way online web browser session between the consumer and the customer service representative; pushing content from customer service representative computing device to a consumer computing device, wherein the content is pulled from a server of the company and place in the storyboard layout; and returning data from the consumer computing device to the customer service representative device in response to the content pushed from the customer service representative computing device to the consumer computing device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189264 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GARAGE DOOR SALE AND MAINTENANCE PRESENTATION AT POINT OF SERVICE - A method and system for a garage door sale and maintenance presentation at the point of service is disclosed. A computer based multimedia sales tool that is useful for sales and maintenance presentations with a customer at their garage. The application program can show a new garage door design overlaid on top of the existing garage door on the house. The application program can additionally present photos of failing parts and the need for repairs. The application program includes the ability to document customer equipment issues. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189265 | PRODUCT INTEROPERABILITY DETERMINATION - A user input pertaining to a question is received. Based on the question a new message is generated and posted in at least one web based forum. Responses to the new message are monitored and analyzed to determine whether, for each response, the response pertains to a subject of the question. Responsive to determining that at least one response pertains to the subject of the question, information contained in the response is presented to the user. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189266 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR RULE-GUIDED AUTONOMOUS GOAL ACHIEVEMENT - Technologies for autonomously determining conditions to achieve a goal include determining a goal to be achieved, determining a pool of available resources usable to achieve the goal, determining a set of rules to be satisfied to achieve the goal, updating the pool of available resources based on the determined set of rules, and determining the conditions required to achieve the goal utilizing resources from the updated pool of available resources that satisfies the set of rules. A set of final conditions may be determined to achieve a set of multiple goals. The goals, rules, and resources may be provided by a user, an agent of the resources, or otherwise determined or inferred by the disclosed system. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189267 | MARKETPLACE LISTING GENERATION USING MESSAGE METADATA - Systems and methods are disclosed to receive a message from a user device. The message may include metadata that includes data related to one or more specifications of the user device. The method may also determine a sales price for the user device based on the one or more specifications of the user device and create a listing for the user device that includes at least the sales price and at least one of the one or more specifications of the user device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189268 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR INTERACTING WITH MEDIA-INTEGRATED VENDORS - A wearable display device receives an image from a visual media being viewed through a lens of the display device and also receives an indication of at least one designated interaction location in the image. In response to a user input, interface objects are displayed on the lens so that the user sees them overlaid at one of the at least one interaction locations. The user then selects an interface object representing a type of product and an image associated with a vendor of the product type is displayed so that the user sees it overlaid at one of the at least one interaction locations. In response to a user input, a plurality of vendor interface objects associated with the vendor are displayed and the user selects a vendor interface object representing a specific product sold by the vendor. Additional information or options regarding the specific product are then displayed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ON-LINE PURCHASE OF ITEMS DISPLAYED WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT - A method for viewing media content includes receiving, from a user viewing the media content, a request for product data corresponding to the media content. In response to the request, the product data is sent over a network to a computing device operable by the user. The product data includes a list of the one or more purchasable products and, for each of the purchasable products, a link to an online commerce site from which the purchasable product may be purchased. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189270 | VISUAL GRAPHIC AIDED LOCATION IDENTIFICATION - A method includes receiving an indication of a product to be located in a retail environment; identifying a location of the product; communicating the location of the product to a visual display; and displaying a digital image of the product on the visual display. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189271 | Real estate buyer lead generation system - Novel real estate lead generation method leveraging buyers' desired property specifications, as opposed to only property listings, which increases the effectiveness of the real estate search process and facilitates connections between buyers and sellers for pocket listings and off-market properties. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189272 | MOBILE LOCAL SEARCH PLATFORM - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a method comprising hierarchically structuring geographic locations to attach and deliver content to individuals near the geographic locations through a web-based search facility, wherein the geographic locations have data associated with them; storing the geographic locations with their associated data as points of interest (poi) in a poi database; and claiming ownership of the poi by an entity associated with the poi, via an Internet web application and whereby an entry in the poi database is marked as being owned by that entity. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189273 | EVENT AND LOCATION BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are presented for generating and causing presentation of recommendations of one or more portable articles suitable for a desired location. In some embodiments, the system receives a set of identification data from a set of portable articles and a set of location data indicative of a set of locations corresponding to one or more portable articles of the set of portable articles. The system generates a set of associations between the set of identification data and the set of location data. The system receives a desired location of the set of locations. The system generates a recommendation of one or more recommended portable articles from the set of portable articles and causes presentation of the recommendation on a user interface of a user device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189274 | FASHION ADMINISTRATION - A system may include a feature detector, an information gatherer, a trend identifier, a fashion database, a preference identifier, and a recommendation engine. The feature detector may analyze images including visual data showing apparel. The feature detector may determine characteristics of the apparel. The information gatherer may identify non-visual data related to the images and may derive non-visual details related to the apparel. The trend identifier may identify defined trends embodied by the apparel based on the characteristics of the apparel. The fashion database may store and categorize fashion metrics of the apparel, including the characteristics, the defined trends, and the non-visual details related to the apparel. The preference identifier may identify fashion preferences of a customer. The recommendation engine may present a fashion recommendation to the customer based at least in part on a comparison of the fashion preferences of the customer and the fashion metrics. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189275 | Purchase Option Enablement for Online Tutorials - Systems and methods are disclosed to create a virtual shopping cart of products related to an online tutorial. In some embodiments, the method may include receiving an indication that a user has elected to view an online tutorial related to completing a task; determining a plurality of products that are useful for completing the task; determining a plurality of products provided by an electronic marketplace based on each of the plurality of products; determining a quantity for each of the plurality of products; and creating a virtual shopping cart having a description of each of the plurality of products, a price for each of the plurality of products, and the quantity for each of the plurality of products, the virtual shopping cart also having a button that is selectable to purchase each of the plurality of products. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189276 | SMART SHOPPING LIST SYSTEM - A system provider shopping list display device, including a shopping list support engine to receive user location information from a plurality of beacon devices that indicates a location of a user at a merchant physical location and to retrieve shopping list information that includes a plurality of products that are available in a first order. The shopping list support engine is further configured to: receive a product removal input that indicates the user has removed a first product, remove the first product in the shopping list following the product removal input, and provide the plurality of the products remaining in the shopping list in a second order based at least in part on locations of the plurality of products remaining and a location of the user after the first product is removed, and cause at least one of the plurality of the products in the second order to be displayed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189277 | SELF-CHECKOUT ARRANGEMENTS - Self-checkout technologies for retail stores are improved by incorporation of enhanced fraud detection arrangements. For example, if a shopper enters an item on a self-checkout tally, while positioned at a location remote from the normal stock location for that item, a responsive action may be taken Likewise, if a shopper enters the same item on a self-checkout tally twice, at widely separated times, a responsive action may be taken. These responsive actions can include dispatching a store clerk to assist the shopper, or increasing a risk score that is repeatedly re-calculated during the shopper's visit. A great variety of other features and arrangements (e.g., powering arrangements for mobile phones in shopping carts) are also detailed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189278 | Assortment Breadth and Mix Guidance and Reconciliation - A method comprising receiving planned order information, receiving actual order information, determining an assortment of products based on the planned order information and the actual order information, determining an assortment breadth that is a count of product identifiers comprised by the assortment of products, causing display of an assortment breadth indicator that indicates the assortment breadth, identifying a product attribute type that is descriptive of a classification of at least one product attribute, determining a set of product attribute breadths associated with the product attribute type such that each product attribute breadth of the set of product attribute breadths is associated with a distinct product attribute of the product attribute type, the product attribute breadth being a count of product identifiers that identify products that have the distinct product attribute, and causing display of a set of product attribute breadth indicators that indicate the set of product attribute breadths. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189279 | GROUPING ORDERS FOR DELIVERY TO VENDORS OF A VENUE - To improve user interaction with a venue, a venue management system is associated with the venue and maintains information associated with users and with vendors associated with the venue. The venue management system receives orders for products or services from users and communicates the received orders to vendors associated with the venue to be fulfilled. The venue management system may group orders having one or more common characteristics received from various users and communicate the group to a vendor to allow the vendor to more efficiently fulfill orders. Further, the venue management system maintains associations between vendors and regions of the venue and may dynamically modify the associations between vendors and regions of a venue to expedite the fulfillment of orders received from various users. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189280 | MODIFYING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN VENDORS AND REGIONS OF A VENUE - To improve user interaction with a venue, a venue management system is associated with the venue and maintains information associated with users and with vendors associated with the venue. The venue management system receives orders for products or services from users and communicates the received orders to vendors associated with the venue to be fulfilled. The venue management system may group orders having one or more common characteristics received from various users and communicate the group to a vendor to allow the vendor to more efficiently fulfill orders. Further, the venue management system maintains associations between vendors and regions of the venue and may dynamically modify the associations between vendors and regions of a venue to expedite the fulfillment of orders received from various users. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189281 | Multi-Site Order Fulfillment with Single Gesture - Disclosed is a system and method for fulfilling orders for multiple entities located on websites with distinct entity checkout systems with a single user input. The process for fulfilling orders for two entities includes receiving a first indication to purchase a first entity and a second indication to purchase a second entity, where the first entity is associated with a first retailer and the second entity is associated with a second retailer. The method also includes extracting information associated with the first and second entities from the respective web pages where the entities are available for purchase, and receiving a user input to initiate order fulfillment. The method further includes checking the availability of the entities at their respective retailers and providing alternate entities and/or retailers, if applicable. The method is completed by deploying fulfillment agents and purchase agents for completing the transactions. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189282 | DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITTED ORDERS AND BOOKINGS - The present invention relates to an apparatus comprising an Internet server and a device associated with said Internet server, adapted to allow a user to automatically order goods and/or services so as to reduce purchasing times and difficulty. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ON-DEMAND SERVICE DATA COLLECTIONS - A system and method for managing on-demand services includes integrating a consumer's personal resources with institutional service providers. The consumer's service request is fulfilled by streamlining the selection of resources and seamlessly extending the search to a larger system when the consumer's personal resources are exhausted. The system and method advantageously provides focused communications to selected contacts and automates the selection process. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189284 | CONFIRMING PRODUCT LOCATION USING A SUBSET OF A PRODUCT IDENTIFIER - A system and method include providing product location information to a user; prompting a user to provide check digits; receiving a subset of digits from a set of digits associated with a product that are used for a purpose different than for check digits; and comparing the subset of digits to product check digits to confirm the user has located the product. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189285 | VISUAL GRAPHIC AIDED LOCATION IDENTIFICATION - A method of product location identification includes receiving an indication of a product to be located in a retail environment; identifying a product location using the product as a key; determining associated visual symbols from the product location; and communicating the associated visual symbols to a worker to guide the worker to the product location. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189286 | Methods and Devices for Smart Shopping - There are provided methods and devices for improving a shopping experience of a user, including methods and devices for creating, updating, and maintaining a list such as a shopping list and methods and devices for automatically identifying a suitable substitute to a user selected product. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189287 | Method for Ordering, Receiving, and Paying for Drink and Food Services Using a Smart Phone to Scan a Mobile Vehicle Tag Providing Identification and Location Information - A method for ordering, receiving, and paying for drink and food services using a smart phone to scan a mobile vehicle tag, such as one found on a golf cart used on a golf course that can provide identification and location information. Using the smart phone, an order is placed for products or services. The order is sent from the smart phone, using the smart phone services which is then received by a mobile service or product provider. A tracking process and method then calculates where the services or product need to be delivered when prepared or ready. This is necessary as the party placing the order may also be moving along a route or from location to location so simply using the location when the order was placed would not allow deliver of the order to be completed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189288 | METHOD OF SIMULATING A VIRTUAL OUT-0F-BOX EXPERIENCE OF A PACKAGED PRODUCT - A method of simulating a virtual out-of-box experience of a packaged product with an electronic device is disclosed. The packaging of the product has a computer-readable code which is scanned with a camera on the electronic device. A product demonstration application is retrieved for the product from the internet. Surfaces of the packaging are recognized by the application. An image of a virtual representation of the product is rendered on an image of the packaging to make a combined image, which is displayed to the user on the display of the electronic device wherein the combined image simulates X-Ray vision into the packaging, revealing the product. The method further updates the combined image as the user manipulates the product in front of the camera, revealing different view of the product, a three-dimensional view of the product may further be displayed outside the packaging, and features demonstrated of the virtual product. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189289 | VENDOR WEBSITE GUI FOR MARKETING GREETING CARDS - A system stores, in a database, different stock templates and also, for each stock template, a stock image to be displayed with the template. The system receives a user-designated image. The system then displays items simultaneously. Each item incorporates a different one of the stock templates along with the respective template's stock image. The system provides an image selector that is in a first position and capable of being switched by a user to a second position. Each time the user switches the selector to the second position, the system transforms the stock images in the displayed items simultaneously to the user-designated image. Each time the user switches the selector to the first position, the system transforms the stock images in the displayed items simultaneously to the items' respective stock images. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189290 | DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A RENTAL ARTICLE HAVING A FLEXIBLE THIN FILM SOLAR CELL - A distributed generation system and method of using a rental article having a flexible thin film solar cell are disclosed. The distributed generation system of a rental article using a flexible thin film solar cell can include: a rental article which generates electric energy from collected solar energy; and a station which is positioned in a space for renting and returning the rental article, and distributes and transmits electric energy provided from the rental article to a power demand target. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189291 | MULTI-LENDER SERVICING OF A CREDIT ALLOWANCE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-lender servicing of a credit allowance are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to provide a credit allowance for a payment account, analyzing a payment history associated with the payment account, determining a credit allowance for the payment account, notifying a user of the determined credit allowance, requesting offers from a plurality of lenders to finance a first portion of the credit allowance, receiving user acceptance of an offer from a first lender to finance the first portion of the credit allowance, requesting offers from a plurality of lenders to finance a second portion of the credit allowance, receiving user acceptance of an offer from another lender to finance the second portion of the credit allowance, updating available credit for the credit allowance in view of the accepted offers of the different lenders. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189292 | PROGRAMMATIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOAN UNDERWRITING FOR PREPAID ACCOUNTS - Systems and methods for loan underwriting for prepaid accounts in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for processing transactions includes obtaining transaction data using an account servicing server system, wherein the transaction data includes price data and metadata identifying a consumer account, obtaining product account data based on the metadata using the account servicing server system, wherein the product account data includes account balance data describing the funds available, calculating loan risk data based on the transaction data and the product account data using the account servicing server system, determining loan eligibility data based on the calculated loan risk data using the account servicing server system, generating transaction approval data based on the loan eligibility data and the transaction data using the account servicing server system, and providing the transaction approval data using the account servicing server system. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189293 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING THE PERFORMANCE OF REJECTED CREDIT APPLICANTS - Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include systems, methods, and apparatus for inferring the performance of rejected credit applicants using non-tradeline data. According to an example implementation, a method is provided for evaluating factors that may indicate financial distress and/or future credit performance associated with an applicant. In an example implementation, the method may include receiving applicant information associated with an applicant of a credit application. Responsive to a query, the method may include receiving by at least one processor, non-tradeline data related to the applicant. The method includes scoring, using a predictive scoring model, and based at least in part on the non-tradeline data, a prediction of the applicant's future credit performance. The method includes generating, based on the scoring, an estimated credit performance of the applicant over a predetermined period; and outputting an indication of the estimated credit performance. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPLEMENT ENDPOINT COLLATERALIZED FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT - Aspects direct to systems and methods for implementing an endpoint collateralized financial instrument. A borrower may use an endpoint device to send a request to a server for a loan or credit product. Upon receiving the request, the server determines whether the endpoint device is subject to an approval for the endpoint collateralized financial instrument. When the endpoint device is approved, the server further determines an amount of money, and issues a notification to the endpoint device via the network to indicate the approval and the amount of money. Thus, the borrower may choose to borrow the amount of money for the loan using the endpoint device as the collateral, and the server sends the amount of money as a loan to the borrower. The borrower retains a right to use the endpoint device under a condition. The server may disable the endpoint device when the borrower violates the condition. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189295 | Compression of Price Data - Price change categories may be identified for price changes corresponding to different times. Codes may then be selected based on the identified price change categories and stored. The stored codes may be used for price validation and/or other purposes. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189296 | FLEXIBLE PRICE-VOLUME INDICATOR - Example methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media are described and disclosed. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, market data related to a tradeable object. The example method includes displaying, by the computing device, a flexible price-volume indicator, the flexible price-volume indicators aligned with a specific value level in a value axis. The example method includes updating, by the computing device, a display property associated with the flexible price-volume indicator, the display property reflecting a quantity value determined based on the received market data. The example method includes displaying, by the computing device, the flexible price-volume indicator in a differentiated state based on a change in the market data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189297 | DATASET GENERATION FOR SYSTEM BACKTESTING AND ANALYSIS - A trading strategy may be backtested using modified datasets that include simulated market data. The modified datasets may be determined from datasets that include actual or synthetic market data. Each record in the modified datasets may be based on a record in the datasets that include the actual or synthetic market data. The modified datasets may include more records than the datasets based on the actual or synthetic market data to extend the amount of information that may be used for backtesting. A trading strategy may be applied to one or more modified datasets that include the simulated market data and a result of the trading strategy may be output. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189298 | POWER ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, POWER ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A first estimator estimates first power to be generated by a photovoltaic power generation apparatus during an interested period. A second estimator estimates second power to be consumed by an electric load during the interested period. A power purchasing cost calculator calculates, when there is a shortfall in the first power compared to the second power, a cost to be paid for receiving, from a power grid, power for compensating for the shortfall. A determiner compares an amount of money to be paid to a customer facility in accordance with a trading term when power is supplied from the power storage apparatus to the power grid, with the cost calculated by the power purchasing cost calculator. A controller causes the power storage apparatus to the electric load when the cost to be paid to the customer facility is equal to or less than the cost. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189299 | System And Method For Facilitating Unified Trading And Control For A Sponsoring Organization's Money Management Process - An embodiment of the present invention provides a system, method, process, software and standards that enable a unified trading and control process utilized by sponsoring organizations and asset managers (money managers) for sub advised or externally managed investment portfolios as to increase control over the trading process by a sponsoring organization, enhance regulatory compliance, substantially lower trading costs and improve investment performance on a recurring basis for the shareholders and beneficiaries investing in registered and non registered mutual funds and institutional investment portfolios. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189300 | Modeling Asset Transfer Flow Relationships Discovered in Unstructured Data - Mechanisms are provided for performing an analysis of content based on a flow of property between entities. The mechanisms analyze a corpus of unstructured documents to identify one or more asset transfer flow relationships between entities. The mechanisms generate an asset transfer flow model defining a flow of an asset between entities based on the one or more asset transfer flow relationships between entities. The mechanisms input the asset transfer flow model into an analysis engine for use in analyzing content. The mechanisms analyze the content using the asset transfer flow model to generate results of the analysis and output the results of the analysis based on the asset transfer flow model. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189301 | Diversity Analysis with Actionable Feedback Methodologies - Various embodiments of the present technology relate to diversity and similarity analysis. In some exemplary embodiments, a method includes, for each of a plurality of entities, receiving a set of variables that are indicative of attributes of an entity. The exemplary method also includes comparing the sets of variables for the plurality of entities to each other, locating clusters of similar variables shared between two or more of the plurality of entities, determining a probable maximum loss for the plurality of entities that share the clusters, the probable maximum loss being a loss value attributed to a cyber event against one or more of the shared variables, receiving feedback from an end user in response to providing the probable maximum loss to the end user, and updating the probable maximum loss in response to the feedback. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189302 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING RETIREMENT INCOME - Methods and systems for the provision of a targeted risk-protected minimum income benefit or protected distribution through the design and management of a trust that allows for exposure to the equity and fixed-income markets. The targeted minimum income amounts depend upon the performance of equity and fixed income assets and risk mitigation instruments contained in the Trust. The method and system rely upon the adjustment of constituent assets to provide for the targeted minimum retirement income amounts. The action of risk management procedures eliminate reliance upon third-party guarantors. The methods and systems include mortality management procedures that protect the participants against longevity risk. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189303 | Risk Based Automotive Insurance Rating System - A method and system for determining the risk associated with providing vehicle insurance. A database is compiled that contains historical information pertaining to vehicle and driver activities and risk factors associated with elements of a road network. The historical information may include, for example, accident counts, and weather and road conditions during the accidents. A statistical predictive relationship is developed to estimate insurance risk as a function of the historical information for each road element. During driving, vehicle and driver activity are monitored and subsequently, insurance premiums are calculated based on the developed model and when and where a vehicle and/or driver travel. The model is periodically updated and refined. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189304 | DETECTION OF USERS AND VEHICLE USAGE FOR VARIABLE INSURANCE TERMS - There are provided systems and methods for detection of users and vehicle usage for variable insurance terms. A user may utilize a vehicle and require an insurance policy for usage of the vehicle. The user may have an existing insurance policy or may require a new insurance policy. Once the user is detected as utilizing the vehicle, usage factors of the vehicle by the user may be communicated to a variable insurance server. Usage factors may include a location of use of the vehicle, speed of travel, a driver history for the user, or other information. The server may determine a new insurance policy for the user or may determine an adjustment to the user's existing insurance policy. Such insurance policy changes may be based on the user, the vehicle, and the user's usage of the vehicle. The user may accept the server's proposal to initiate the change. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189305 | Road Geometry and Weather Factors - A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189306 | Route Risk Mitigation - A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189307 | Route Risk Mitigation - A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189308 | Route Risk Mitigation - A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189309 | System for Accessing and Processing Information - A method for procuring and tracking evidence of insurance, the method under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, includes a processor which operates to receive an evidence of insurance request from a user corresponding to a specific collateralized property, said request comprising information corresponding to the specific collateralized property; generate and assign a permanent unique code for the collateralized property corresponding to insurance information for the collateralized property; create a profile of insurance information on a first database corresponding to the collateralized property; access insurance information related to the collateralized property on a second database to obtain insurance information corresponding to the collateralized property; confirm the existence of insurance for the collateralized property; and generate an electronic evidence of insurance document. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189310 | VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC INCIDENT BASED ON SENSOR DEVICE DATA - A system, a method, and a computer program product for providing a recreation of an event are disclosed. A plurality of data is received from a plurality of sources of information. The plurality of data describes an event. Each data in the plurality of data has a different format. Each data in the plurality of data is converted into a predetermined format. The converted received plurality of data is combined. Based on the combined converted received data, a report describing a recreation of the event is generated. The generated report is transmitted for display on at least one user interface. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189311 | PROVIDING TRANSIT ALTERNATIVES BASED ON MONITORED VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS - Performance parameters of a vehicle can be measured by an on-board performance parameter measuring device. The performance parameters can be measured while the vehicle is being used. The measured performance parameters of the vehicle can be transmitted to a computing device. The computing device can be configured to generate a user cost that reflects a cost for insuring the vehicle based on the measured performance parameters of the vehicle. A graphical user interface can be generated by the computing device for presentation to a user via a display device, that graphical user interface can include the user cost. An alternative transportation route for the journey and an alternative transportation cost for the journey can be determined and presented to the user through the graphical user interface. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING SPEND PATTERNS OF CROSS BORDER PAYMENT CARD HOLDERS - A method and a system are provided for indexing purchasing and/or payment activities of cross border payment card holders. In particular, one or more indices are generated based on the purchasing and payment activities of the cross border payment card holders, the countries of origin of the cross border payment card holders, and the categories of merchants. Based on the one or more indices, purchasing and/or payment behavior of cross border payment card holders is assessed. The method includes retrieving a first set of information comprising payment card transaction information of a plurality of cross border payment card holders; optionally retrieving a second set of information comprising merchant information; generating one or more indices based on the first set of information and optionally the second set of information; and assessing purchasing and payment behavior of the plurality of cross border payment card holders based on the one or more indices. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189313 | CONTENT PUBLISHING SYSTEM SERVER AND PROGRAM - A period setting module | 2016-06-30 |
20160189314 | STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus which acquires character string information and position information of the character string in a receipt image by an Optical Character Recognition (OCR), acquires value information corresponding to a keyword corresponding to predetermined item information from the acquired character string information, associates and stores the acquired value information, position information corresponding to the acquired value information and the predetermined item information, displays the receipt image and an object at a position of the receipt image corresponding to the stored position information, selects, in a case where it is determined that same type value information which is a plurality of the value information associated with a same type of the item information is stored, processing to be executed in accordance with a type of the item information related to the same type value information, and executes the selected processing. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189315 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SEARCHING AND CONTRIBUTING IN A SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEM - A method and system for providing searching and contributing via social commerce within a social media ecosystem on a cloud communications network. A user is able to select as plural individual electronic lists, personal preferences and favorite items for social media ecosystem gifting, charitable contributing and time-of-need donating. Controlled access for the plural individual electronic lists selected by the user is provided to plural general search engine sites and plural social media sites in a social media ecosystem. Secure private permission-based viewing of and electronic operations on the stored plural individual electronic lists of favorite items is provided to plural other users so the plural other users can view and contribute a gift, charitable contribution or time-of-need donation. Electronic purchases of favorite items or electronic contributions to a charity or for time-of-need assistance are accepted. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189316 | Native selling platform - Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing a native selling platform. In example embodiments, an operating system of a device is configured to share information with other devices and services using native functionalities of the operating system. An indication to share an image of an item is received. A sharing user interface is presented that includes a plurality of services with which the image of the item is sharable. A selection of a publication system from the plurality of services is received. In response, a listing user interface is presented that includes fields for input of parameters used to generate a listing for the item in the image. Parameters and an indication to list the item are received and are shared with the publication system to cause the publication system to create the listing for the item. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189317 | Personalized Patient Experience System - A system and method to monitor, update, and manage a personalized patient experience. The system permits the patient to control the receipt and dissemination of information and data from one or more sources to one or more outputs. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WELL ABANDONMENT - Systems and methods facilitate and automate well abandonment procedures. In an embodiment, well field data for a plurality of wells is categorized into well types. An inspection set of wells, including wells of each type, is determined from the entire plurality of wells. Inspection data is collected for each well type, including environmental, regulatory, and well condition data. The inspection data is extrapolated onto wells with similar types for the entire filed and analyzed. The analysis may include determining an optimal sequence of well abandonment activities, and an estimate of costs for abandoning each well, all wells of each type, and the entire well field. In an embodiment, a risk assessment analysis is performed and may include an analysis of factors that may change the cost of abandoning the well field or a sequence of well abandonment activities. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189319 | VIRTUAL NET METERING FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS - The present disclosure is related to community virtual net metering of photovoltaic systems. A method may include identifying at least two photovoltaic (PV) system customers in a single geographical area. The method may also include crediting power overproduction of a first PV system customer of the at least two PV system customers to a second, different PV system customer of the at least two PV system customers. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL ESTATE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - Methods for managing real estate using a computer-implemented real estate management program and selectively presenting real estate properties in a web browser using a computer-implemented system. The methods provide automatic servicing of buyers based on buyer viewing history and web browser usage as well as providing metric based coaching for agents that takes into consideration sales activities. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189321 | Integrated Unique Device Identifier (UDI) Patient Safety Notification System - Embodiments provide methods and systems for medical device safety notification. One such embodiment begins by receiving medical device complaints. Next, indications of the received complaints are stored, each complaint includes a respective unique device identifier (UDI) of a corresponding medical device. In turn, each respective manufacturer of the corresponding medical device is notified of the complaint. Then, in response to instructions from the respective manufacturer, safety notifications are generated and sent about the corresponding medical device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES USING AN INTERNET-ENABLED DEVICE - A system for tracking a public transportation vehicle includes a reporting device implemented on the public transportation vehicle that transmits a signal including information regarding an identity of the public transportation vehicle and a receiving device implemented on a public transportation station that receives the signal from the reporting device and communicates the information regarding the identity of the public transportation vehicle and a time-stamp regarding an arrival of the public transportation vehicle at the public transportation station. The system further includes an internet-enabled back-end server that receives the communication from the reporting device and stores the identity of the public transportation vehicle and the time-stamp regarding the arrival of the public transportation vehicle at the public transportation station in a database of the back-end server. The back-end server is configured to allow access of its database by an internet-enabled commuter device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189323 | RISK DETERMINATION METHOD, RISK DETERMINATION DEVICE, RISK DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AND RISK OUTPUT DEVICE - In a risk determination method: moving body information, in which accompanying information that indicates the current position of a moving body and a current-position image that indicates a situation around the moving body at the current position are included in correspondence to each other, is obtained; and, if risk occurrence information corresponding to the current position indicated in the accompanying information included in the moving body information is not stored in a risk occurrence information manager and risk occurrence information corresponding to a position other than the current position is stored in the risk occurrence information manager, a degree of risk at the current position is determined on the basis of a similarity between the current-position image included in the moving body information and a risky-position image included in at least one piece of risk occurrence information stored in the risk occurrence information manager. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189324 | PARKING GUIDANCE AND PARKING SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH WIRELESS BEACONS - There are provided systems and methods for parking guidance and parking services provided through wireless beacons. A location may include a nearby or attached parking structure having wireless beacons established throughout the parking structure, such as near an entrance and individual parking spaces of the parking structure. The beacons may provide communication services with a device for the user. When the user arrives at the parking structure, the user may be informed of available parking spaces, payments for parking services based on a loyal customer status, or other parking feature for the parking structure. The wireless beacons may monitor the parking structure and the individual parking spaces to determine a best space for the user. Moreover, once the user leaves the vehicle, the user may provide additional payment for parking time and utilize courier and locker services for purchased items through the wireless beacons. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189325 | Method for reversible image data hiding - A method for reversible image data hiding comprising: encrypting an original image by an encryption process to generate an encrypted image, embedding a message into the encrypted image by an embedment process to generate an embedded image, and extracting the message and the original image from the embedded image by a decryption and extraction process. The encryption process including: generating a key stream by using a secret encryption key, and generating an encrypted image by XORing the original image with the key stream. The embedment process including: generating an embedded image by embedding the message via XORing the encrypted image with a predetermined public key set. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189326 | AUTHENTICATING IDENTIFICATION AND SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND OTHER OBJECTS - The application discloses identification and security documents and methods, apparatus and systems for authenticating such identification and security documents. Some such methods and apparatus involve steganography or data hiding. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189327 | REDUCED POWER IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS - Systems and methods may provide a graphics processor that may identify operating conditions under which certain floating point instructions may utilize power to fewer hardware resources compared to when the instructions are executing under other operating conditions. The operating conditions may be determined by examining operands used in a given instruction, including the relative magnitudes of the operands and whether the operands may be taken as equal to certain defined values. The floating point instructions may include instructions for an addition operation, a multiplication operation, a compare operation, and/or a fused multiply-add operation. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189328 | Configuring a User Interface based on an Experience Mode Transition - Techniques for configuring a user interface based on an experience mode transition are described. Generally, an experience mode refers to a visual and functional arrangement that is presented to a user of a device. Different experience modes present different visual and functional arrangements to a user. According to various embodiments, a computing device is configured to operate in multiple experience modes and may transition between different experience modes and based on a variety of different triggering events. Generally, a transition between different experience modes causes a visual and/or functional reconfiguration of a user experience on a device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189329 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Several systems and methods for data processing are disclosed. In an embodiment, a data processing system includes a host processor, a plurality of slave processors and a plurality of frame buffers. Each slave processor is associated with at least one data co-processor configured to process data sub-frames based on one processing stage. For a first data sub-frame, a first messaging call is provisioned to the host processor by each slave processor subsequent to execution of a processing stage by an associated data co-processor. The host processor is configured to provision a second messaging call to a next slave processor upon receiving the first messaging call. Further, for each subsequent data sub-frame, a third messaging call is provisioned by each slave processor to a next slave processor subsequent to execution of the corresponding processing stage by the associated data co-processor for facilitating execution of the next processing stage. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189330 | Image Processing Device and Image Processing System - The present invention provides CPU load reduction and a method of efficient image data transfer. An image processing device, which comprises an image generating unit ( | 2016-06-30 |
20160189331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTER-MODULE COMMUNICATION - Devices and methods are disclosed for utilizing a module running in an operating system to enable communication with decreased latency between a source of input event data and one or more user application processes awaiting input events in a computing device. The module receives a notification that a frame of input event data from a source of input event data is ready to be read. In response, the module reads the frame of input event data from a communication channel such as a named pipe, loads the frame of input event data into a buffer, or into a memory of a dedicated processing unit, and generates a notification to the user application process, thereby causing the user application process to read the frame of input event data from the buffer. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189332 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SCHEDULING FOR VIRTUALIZED GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS - An example device including virtualized graphics processing units (vGPUs) is configured to respectively receive commands from a plurality of operating systems (OSs). A vGPU scheduler is configured to schedule an order and times for processing of the commands by a GPU. The vGPU scheduler can, for example, schedule the order and times such that a command from a foreground OS (FG OS) among the plurality of OSs is scheduled to be processed first. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189333 | OPPORTUNISTIC COMPRESSION FOR DISPLAY SELF REFRESH - A display device, a processing system, and a method are provided for updating a display device using self-refresh techniques. The described technique provides an indication to a host processor of whether a frame of display update data has been successfully compressed and stored entirely within a local frame buffer of the display. The host processor may invoke a self-refresh of the display for updating the display with a static display image, based on the received indications. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189334 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL REALITY CONTENT - A method for generating virtual reality (VR) content includes obtaining source information from original media content. retrieving characteristic information stored in a first memory based on the obtained source information wherein the retrieved characteristic information related to the original media content, generating the VR content by combining the retrieved characteristics information and the obtained source information, wherein at least one feature of the retrieved characteristic information is mapped to a corresponding at least one feature of the obtained source information, and outputting the generated VR content and the original media content to be reproduced to a viewer. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189335 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF CONTENT FOR DISPLAY ON A SECONDARY DISPLAY DEVICE - An example method of dynamically selecting content to display on a secondary display coupled to a user device includes allocating, at a kernel, a first frame buffer for content to be output to a primary display. The method also includes receiving a set of image layers. The method further includes allocating, at the kernel when the set includes one or more image layers to be displayed only on the primary display, a second frame buffer for content to be output to the secondary display. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189336 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a controller and a display panel. The controller receives original image data and output a display image signal. The display panel receives the display image signal and displays a display image corresponding to the display image signal. The controller includes an image shift controller and a memory. The image shift controller generates shifted image data by modulating the original image data to shift the display image sequentially along a preset shift path on the display panel. The memory stores a shift path value indicating a distance by which the display image has been shifted on the preset shift path. The image shift controller generates the display image signal by processing the shifted image data. When the display device is powered on, the image shift controller generates shifted image data corresponding to a shift path value stored in the memory. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189337 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - A data storage device to be coupled to a display device including a display unit including a plurality of blocks, each including a plurality of pixels, the data storage device including: a memory device to store a first address value and a second address value including information on a position of one of the plurality of blocks, store a first indication value to be utilized to determine whether the first address value is effective and a second indication value to be utilized to determine whether the second address value is effective, and store compensation data including information on the blocks; an effective address determinator to determine whether the first address value and the second address value are effective corresponding to the first indication value and the second indication value; and an updater to update the first and second indication values, the first and second address values, and the compensation data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189338 | COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION OF GRAPHICS DATA USING PIXEL REGION BIT VALUES - Techniques related to graphics rendering including techniques for compression and/or decompression of graphics data by use of pixel region bit values are described. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189339 | ADAPTIVE 3D REGISTRATION - An adaptive error measure, weights and sampling criterion for 3D registration algorithms. Adjusting a sampling criterion for each entity of the 3D model by a factor controlled by a value associated with the expected error for the particular entity, derived from parameters such as accuracy and local 3D model density. Similar adjusted error measure that evaluates the quality of the 3D registration result at different regions of the 3D models, and an adjusted weighting scheme, that assign weight for each entity of the 3D model, are also discussed. In an iterative 3D registration algorithm, adjusted outlier detection criterion after each iteration according to the convergence rate of the algorithm is presented, therefore allowing iterative 3D registration algorithms to escape areas of slow convergence rate and local minima. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189340 | ADJUSTING CONTENT ON AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY TO USER PHYSICAL HEIGHT AND REACH - Methods and systems may provide for identifying a reference position on an interactive display, wherein the reference position is associated with a physical height and/or reach of a user. Additionally, previously drawn content on the interactive display may be identified and automatically moved to the reference position. In one example, a prompt is displayed adjacent to the reference position and a response to the prompt is received, wherein the previously drawn content is moved based on the response. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189341 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAGNIFYING THE APPEARANCE OF AN IMAGE ON A MOBILE DEVICE SCREEN USING EYEWEAR - A system for magnifying the appearance of an image on a mobile device screen includes an eyewear frame adapted to be mounted on a user in the user's field of vision, an image capturing device connected to the eyewear frame and oriented to capture an image in the user's field of vision, and an image display device connected to the eyewear frame and oriented to display the captured image to the user. The system further includes a processor in electronic connection with the image capturing device and the image display device. The processor is configured to analyze the captured image for the presence of the mobile device screen, and, if the mobile device screen is present, magnify the image to include a magnified mobile device screen image in the magnified captured image and send the magnified captured image to the image display device for display to the user. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189342 | AUTOMATIC SCALING OF OBJECTS BASED ON DEPTH MAP FOR IMAGE EDITING - Automatic scaling of image objects being moved or copied to a target object location is presented. An original image and its depth map are received within which the user selects an original object and a target location for the object to be moved or copied. A center of scaling is found and a base location selected at which depth value is to be obtained at the target location for use in scaling. Target object is then scaled in response to a ratio between original object depth and target object depth. An occlusion check is made, after which non-occluded pixels are pasted to the target location to complete the move/copy which is in proper proportion and accounts for surrounding structures. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189343 | IMAGE CROPPING - Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein relate to image cropping, such as for digital images, for example. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189344 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PAGE - A method for adjusting a page includes determining a selected page on a display device of the electronic device. An image of a user of the electronic device is acquired at a predetermined time interval using a camera module of the electronic device. A facial contour is recognized from the acquired image and a circumcircle of the recognized facial contour is computed. A reference circumcircle corresponding to a reference facial contour of the user is acquired from a storage device of the electronic device. According to the computed circumcircle and the reference circumcircle, an adjustment ratio of the selected page and an adjustment direction of the selected page are computed. According to the adjustment ratio and the adjustment direction of the selected page, the selected page is adjusted. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189345 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first display surface displaying vehicle information; and a second display surface which is disposed facing the first display surface and transmits light, has a drawing pattern drawn across a display area and outside the display area of the first display surface when seen from a direction in which the second display surface is stacked on the first display surface, and can switch to a displayed state in which the drawing pattern is displayed and a hidden state in which the drawing pattern is hidden. The display device displays information by the first display surface and the second display surface. The display device can therefore realize a visual effect that makes the display area look relatively large. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189346 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to: receive first image data for displaying a first image that comprises a plurality of regions, modify a first region of the first image by adding at least a high-frequency component based on second image data, the first region of the first image including fewer noise components than a first threshold, and output third image data for displaying the first image that comprises the plurality of regions and the modified first region. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189347 | Grayscale Compensation Method and System for Defect on Display Panel - A method of grayscale compensation to defects on a display panel includes: (A) obtaining a set of coordination of the defect on the display panel, and determining a defect area where the defect locates based on the set of coordination; (B) obtaining a gamma curve of the defect, a gamma curve of a background of the defect area, and a standard gamma curve of the background of the display panel; (C) obtaining a standard gamma curve of the defect and a standard gamma curve of the background of the defect area; and (D) calculating a grayscale-compensation value for each grayscale of the defect, based on the standard gamma curve and the standard gamma curve of the background of the defect area. The present invention is to reduce calculation, and to achieve the best compensation to defects on a display panel. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING MAPPING AND MODELING DATA - A method for post-processing georeferenced mapping data includes providing positioning data indicating a position of a data acquisition system in a defined space at specific moments in time, providing ranging data indicating relative position of objects in the defined space with respect to the data acquisition system at the specific moments in time, performing a smoothing process on the positioning data to determine smoothed best estimate of trajectory (SBET) data for trajectory of the data acquisition system, performing a scan matching process on the SBET data and the ranging data to identify objects and/or object features in the defined space, performing a process to revise the SBET data so that the SBET data aligns with the identified objects and/or object features and storing the revised SBET data with the range data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189349 | DE-NOISING SYSTEM FOR ROMOTE IMAGES OF GROUND BUILDINGS USING SPETRUM CONSTRAINTS AND DE-NOISING METHOD THEREOF - A de-noising method for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints. The method includes: 1) obtaining a reference image of ground buildings from a remote image database of the ground buildings, performing a Fourier transformation on the reference image to obtain an amplitude spectrum, and performing a threshold segmentation, an erosion operation and a dilation operation successively on the amplitude spectrum to obtain a binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings; and 2) obtaining a real-time image of the ground buildings by a high-speed aircraft, performing a Fourier transformation on the real-time image to obtain a spectrum, filtering the spectrum of the real-time image in frequency domain by the binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings, and performing an inverse Fourier transformation thereon to generate a filtered real-time image of the ground buildings. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMAPPING OF IMAGE TO CORRECT OPTICAL DISTORTIONS - Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to a system and method for efficiently addressing the lens distortion problem in digital imaging. Aspects include a coarse mapping of the output pixel location position, further fine mapping of the pixel location position and interpolation of the pixel data. The coarse mapping of the output pixel location position and the fine mapping of the pixel location position are drawn to a back-mapping of output pixel location positions to the corresponding input pixel location positions. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189351 | STABILIZING CONTENT DISPLAY ON WEARABLE DEVICES - Stabilization of content displays in a wearable device when the wearer is in motion is disclosed. The acceleration and rotation forces acting on the wearable device are obtained. The forces acting on the body part bearing the wearable device are modeled. One or more offsets to counteract the forces are determined based on the models. The offsets are applied to the content display shown on the wearable device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189352 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DISTORTION - An image processing method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from an imaging sensor input image data arranged in a plurality of pixel data rows corresponding to a grid of sensor pixels, and sampling the input image data to provide sampled image data having less pixel data rows. The method further comprises correcting image distortion in at least a portion of the sampled data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189353 | Method for vignetting correction of image and apparatus therefor - Method and apparatuses for correcting vignetting effects of an image are disclosed. A method for vignetting correction of an image according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise receiving a two-dimensional image; calculating a radial bright channel representing intensity of the two-dimensional image; estimating a vignetting function of the two-dimensional image having similarity to the calculated radial bright channel; and correcting the vignetting effects of the two-dimensional image by using the estimated vignetting function. The vignetting correction methods and apparatuses according to the present disclosure can rapidly correct vignetting effects of an image by using a smaller memory, and correct vignetting effects of an arbitrary single image without being affected by a camera setting and camera lenses used for the image. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189354 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system, an image processing device, and image processing method are provided. Each of the image processing system, the image processing device, and the image processing method includes dividing an image into a plurality of areas according to a predetermined division condition, measuring an optical transmittance of each of the plurality of divided areas or data correlating with the optical transmittance as transmittance data, calculating the optical transmittance or the data correlating with the optical transmittance from the image as the transmittance data, determining a parameter for adjusting a contrast for each of the plurality of areas according to the transmittance data obtained by the measuring or the calculating, and adjusting a contrast of each one of the plurality of areas using the parameter determined by the determining. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189355 | USER CONTROLS FOR DEPTH BASED IMAGE EDITING OPERATIONS - A method, information handling system, and article of manufacture providing receiving a touch input from a touch screen display, determining a first axial motion element of the touch input, selecting a first depth image from a plurality of depth images in response to the first axial motion element, determining a second axial motion element of the touch input, selecting additional depth images of the plurality of depth images proximate in depth to the first depth image in response to the second axial motion element, applying an image processing filter to the first depth image and the additional depth images, combining the first depth image and the additional depth images filtered by the image processing filter with other depth images of the plurality of depth images not filtered by the image processing filter to obtain a display image, and displaying the display image on the touch screen display. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189356 | CUSTOMS INSPECTION AND RELEASE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for customs inspection and release are disclosed. In one aspect, a system includes a device layer of devices for inspection and release, at least some of which generate subject detection data. The system also includes an adaptor layer of adaptors corresponding to the devices that receive detection data from its corresponding device and convert it into an event in a formatted message. The system also includes a message service layer including a bus that receives events from the adaptor layer and constructs event messages based on them. The system also includes a processing control layer that receives and processes event messages, generates instructions associated with them, and transmits the instructions to the message service layer, which constructs instruction messages based on the received instructions and transmits them to the adaptor layer. The adaptor layer converts them into device instructions that operate based on them. | 2016-06-30 |