30th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210233155 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A USER INTERFACE INCLUDING ITEM SELECTION INTERFACE ELEMENTS ARRANGED BASED ON RELEVANCE DATA AND CONFIGURED FOR EXECUTING TRANSITION ROUTINES BASED ON RECEIPT OF AN EXPIRATION SIGNAL - Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing user interfaces are discussed herein. Some examples may include an apparatus configured to determine one or more additional items based on relevance data related to a primary purchase item that is associated with a user profile, generate a user interface, determine at least one selected item from the one or more additional items, receive an expiration signal indicating expiration of an automatic completion time period, and execute an automatic purchase completion transition routine associated with the at least one selected item in response to receiving the expiration signal. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233156 | PURCHASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A purchase management system includes a central database arrangement, a customer interface to the central database arrangement, and a bank specific database module, arranged to communicate with a transaction authorization module within a bank. The central database arrangement is arranged to receive, from a purchasing entity through the customer interface, purchasing rules applying to a purchasing group, and includes central processing means arranged to: add a selected purchasing group as metadata linked to a first transaction ID in the central database arrangement; add the purchasing rules applying to said purchasing group as metadata linked to the first transaction ID in the central database arrangement; and transfer metadata linked to the first transaction ID to the bank specific database module. The bank specific database module is arranged to receive a purchase approval request from the transaction authorization module, which purchase approval request comprises transaction information, including at least the purchase amount, linked to the first transaction ID. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233157 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING RETAIL CUSTOMERS A SEAMLESS, INDIVIDUALIZED DISCOVERY AND SHOPPING EXPERIENCE BETWEEN ONLINE AND PHYSICAL RETAIL LOCATIONS - The present invention is directed to techniques for providing retail customers a seamless, individualized discovery and shopping experience. With an improved shopper/customer accounting system, along with other technologies such as intelligent fixtures, mobile devices, and product simulations, a shopper's product discovery, purchase, and post-sale experience can be highly integrated and personalized. For example, the shopper's out-of-store (online) and in-store product discovery sessions may be seamlessly linked and analyzed to provide the shopper with customized recommendations and assistance. Other variations and enhancements are disclosed. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233158 | Systems and Methods of Presenting a Multi-Media Entertainment in a Venue - According to one implementation, an interactive retail venue includes a computing platform interactively linked to a display screen, a lighting system, an audio system, a dynamic product display unit, and multiple product sensors. The computing platform includes a hardware processor and a memory storing a venue orchestration software code. The hardware processor executes the venue orchestration software code to receive sensor data from the product sensors, determine respective locations of retail products within the interactive retail venue based on the sensor data, and present a multi-media entertainment featuring the retail products using the display screen, the lighting system, and the audio system. The hardware processor further executes the venue orchestration software code to concurrently activate the dynamic product display unit if at least one of the retail products is situated within a predetermined distance of the dynamic product display unit. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233159 | Computer-Mediated Reality Systems for Selling Products with Contractor Services - A computer-mediated reality system electronically communicates computer-mediated presentation information for a product and a contractor service to a purchaser device. The computer-mediated reality system electronically receives a selection of the product with the contractor service. The computer-mediated reality system automatically places a product code for the product in an electronic shopping cart. The computer-mediated reality system automatically places a service code for the contractor service in the electronic shopping cart, the service code electronically received from a mapping computer system, the service code automatically derived by the mapping computing system programmed to map the product with the contractor service. The computer-mediated reality system electronically communicates electronic shopping cart information to the purchaser device with a request to complete a purchase of the product and the contractor service. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233160 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND USER INTERFACES AND DATA STRUCTURES IN A CROSS-PLATFORM FACILITY FOR PROVIDING CONTENT GENERATION TOOLS AND CONSUMER EXPERIENCE - A cross-platform service engages and connects influencers and consumers by facilitating content generation in connection with electronic-commerce platform. An influencer/content generator facing portal presents a set of tools to enable influencers to create content for use on the e-commerce side and to facilitate transactions related to influencer compensation. A consumer facing portal presents adaptive user interfaces to engage remotely connected consumers by presenting influencer-generated “looks” and tools to selectively navigate and select/deselect presented looks and explore look and products and ultimately to handle transactions for purchasing of products. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233161 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SEPARATE INTEREST RATE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSACTION - Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233162 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING PAST AND PROSPECTIVE ATTRIBUTE VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH A USER ACCOUNT - Systems and techniques are disclosed for accessing accounts associated with a user and estimating a value of an attribute associated with the user based upon the retrieved account information. Transaction data associated with an account at an external user account system is received. The transactions are categorized into transaction groups. For each transaction group, a confidence value that the group is associated with the attribute is estimated, based at least in part upon a distribution of transaction amounts for the transactions of the group over a time period associated with the group. An attribute value is estimated for each group, based at least in part upon the transaction amounts of the transaction of the group. In addition a value of the attribute for a future time period may be predicted based upon the transaction groups. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233163 | ACCOUNT BALANCE SHARING SYSTEM - An account sharing system that enables users to access monetary funds in a virtual account through a system, which includes at least one server, and an application installed on a mobile device. The virtual account has a blocked and an unblocked feature and has monetary limits placed therein for the users to access the monetary funds. The virtual account has a temporary limit for the user to spend the monetary funds at merchant shops and each of the users of the virtual account may spend the monetary funds within the virtual account at different and/or the same merchant shops. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233164 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING VEHICLE PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND LOANS - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to predictive modeling for evaluating vehicles. A device may receive a customer identifier. The system may determine financial data associated with the customer identifier and vehicle data associated with a vehicle. The system may determine loan information associated with the customer identifier and the vehicle. The system may determine a product or service associated with the vehicle. The system may determine a first value indicative of a probability that the customer will purchase the vehicle and the product or service based on the loan information. The system may determine a second value indicative of a profitability of a purchase of the vehicle and the product or service based on the loan information. The system may determine respective indications of the vehicle, the product or service, and the loan information to a user device for presentation. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233165 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED GLOBAL CREDIT SCORING - Systems and methods for decentralized and distributed-ledger based global credit scoring are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for decentralized and distributed-ledger based global credit scoring may include: (1) receiving, at a bank node in a distributed ledger network comprising a plurality of nodes, the bank node comprising a computer processor, customer data and transaction data for a customer transaction; (2) creating, by the bank node, a block comprising the customer data and the transaction data; and (3) submitting, by the bank node, the block to the distributed ledger network. The nodes validate the block and write the block to the distributed ledger. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233166 | System and Method Of Lender, Borrower, and Employee Driven Enrollment - Systems and processes for the gamification of data, including providing scenarios and actionable elements to execute a preferred scenario. Embodiments include providing access to a plurality of users such as a lender and a borrower, who can then collaborate to agree on a financial model to achieve a future credit score. The lender can then provide a loan based on the future credit score contingent on correct implementation of the financial model. The system can monitor changes in the borrower's credit score to confirm implementation, or reassess the financial model. The borrower and/or lender can share a summary of the financial model, and other details with non-users of the system or non-subscriber lenders of the system. Demonstrated results, tailored models, and trust in the recommender motivates the user and/or non-subscriber lender to enroll. Additional benefits can be achieved through bulk underwriting of common groups through driving lender and borrower enrollment. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233167 | ORDER PROCESSING DEVICE, ISSUER DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - An order processing device is connected via a network to a plurality of user devices respectively operated by a plurality of users and to an issuer device operated by an issuer of a financial instrument. The order processing device includes an order information storage device and an execution information storage device, and receives order information from the plurality of user devices and the issuer device and stores in the order information storage device the respective pieces of received order information. The device matches and executes order information of which trading type indicates a sell and order information of which trading type indicates a buy from among the pieces of order information that are stored in the order information storage device, deletes the pieces of executed order information from the order information storage device, and stores execution information in the execution information storage device. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233168 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING ORDERS ON AN ELECTRONIC TRADING PLATFORM - A method for processing orders on an electronic trading platform is provided. The method includes receiving, via a graphical user interface, an order relating to a request to transact in a first debt instrument from a party; extracting information relating to the first debt instrument from the order; determining, using at least one curating model and the extracted information, a counterparty relating to a potential participant to the order in a counterparty database; and transmitting, via a communication network, the order to the counterparty. The method further includes receiving, via the communication network, a response relating to the order from the counterparty, the response including a transaction parameter; and displaying, via a graphical user interface, the response together with the corresponding counterparty. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233169 | BLOCK CHAIN-BASED CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING BROKERAGE SERVER AND TRADING BROKERAGE METHOD CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING PRICE FLUCTUATION AND PREVENTING CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP DUE TO HACKING - The present invention relates to a cryptocurrency trading brokerage server and a trading brokerage method in which records of trading digital tokens are encrypted and connected to node servers through a network having a block chain structure. A transaction between a first wallet client requesting to sell digital tokens and a second wallet client requesting to purchase digital tokens is matched to within a certain pre-set range of a basic ratio value to control price fluctuation. Also, a request from a fourth wallet client is received and an ownership certification key value matched to a personal key of the fourth wallet client is stored in a database of the trading brokerage server, thereby preventing a change of ownership due to hacking. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233170 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY CROSS BORDER PAYMENT SERVICE - A method for the modification of a balance associated with a blockchain account on a plurality of cross-border digital currency (CBDC) systems includes establishing, by a CBDC system, via an integrated, Application Programming Interfaced-based, digital currency integrator mechanism, a peer-to-peer bi-lateral payment agreement with a fiat-based account. The method includes assigning, by the CBDC system, to a user application, a token in a blockchain. The method includes receiving, by a messaging layer integrated into the CBDC system, from the user application, an identification of a request for a banking transaction and an identification of the token. The method includes executing, by the CBDC system, in the blockchain, a smart contract transaction associated with the banking transaction. The method includes directing, by the CBDC system, via the integrator mechanism, the fiat-based account to modify an account identified in the request for the banking transaction in accordance with the smart contract transaction. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233171 | COMPUTER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING A COMMODITY MATERIAL TRANSACTION VIA A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER - A computer method for administering a commodity material transaction includes receiving a proof of ownership of a distinguishable instance of a commodity material, generating a smart contract representing ownership of the commodity material, issuing electronic tokens corresponding to ownership of the distinguishable instance of the commodity material, and transferring at least a portion of the electronic tokens to a first user wallet. The computer method may include receiving, via a first graphical user interface (GUI) from a seller, an ask price for a distinguishable instance of the commodity material, denominated in a first currency, and receiving, via a second GUI from a buyer, a bid price for the quantity of the commodity material, denominated in a second currency. The computer method includes determining that the ask price and the bid price meet a match criterion. The computer method includes receiving a first cryptocurrency transaction corresponding to the bid price from a buyer wallet into a transaction wallet, and transmitting a second cryptocurrency transaction corresponding to the ask price from the transaction wallet to a seller wallet. A computer system, method, and non-transitory medium provides for conveying value of a commodity using a distributed ledger. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233172 | FILTER COMPONRNT FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGERING ACTIONS BASED ON EVENTS IN TRADING INFORMATION - Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically taking actions based on triggering events in market data using a filter component are disclosed. Market trading information is received, including one or more bids and one or more asks. An triggered virtual order is received via a filter component of a graphical user interface (GUI), including a triggering event and associated action. Upon detecting, in the market trading information, an occurrence of the triggering event, the associated action is triggered. The action can include generating an alert and/or submitting an order to a marketplace based on the untriggered virtual order. In some implementations, the filter component can display a filtered portion of the market trading information, and an untriggered virtual order can be configured via the filter component by selecting a bid or ask. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING A LATENCY OF A TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method for generating a prediction of a latency of a transaction processing system includes: sampling a first plurality of messages from a database that stores data indicative of messages previously processed by the transaction processing system including a characteristic and a processing time of each previously processed message; generating latency tables based upon the characteristics and the processing times of the sampled first plurality of messages; determining a characteristic of each of a second plurality of messages being processed by the transaction processing system; selecting, for each of the second plurality of messages, a latency table from the plurality of latency tables based upon the respective determined characteristic; simulating a processing time for each of the second plurality of messages based upon the respective selected latency table; and generating a latency prediction for the transaction processing system based upon the simulated processing times for the second plurality of messages. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233174 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION TIMING OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods are provided for message transmission timing optimization. The system receives a large market disrupting transaction and provides a transaction placement strategy that splits up the transaction to maximizes favorable execution value and minimizes time required to execute the entire transaction. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233175 | CONTROLLING PRICE CASCADE MOVEMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING SYSTEM - A disclosed system, method and computer readable storage medium includes mechanism for controlling cascade price movements in an electronic trading system. Price limits control the prices at which traders can place orders. An upper price limit prevents traders from placing orders above the upper limit and a lower price limit prevents traders from placing orders below the lower limit. The gap between the upper limit and the indicative marked price as well as the gap between lower limit and the indicative market price is controlled so as to cause a breaking effect on very rapidly changing market price. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233176 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A WITHDRAWAL TOOL - A computer system and method for use in retirement planning comprising identifying by a computer a financial account within a retirement plan, assigning by the computer a unique code to each type of transaction activity for the financial account, identifying by the computer an actual withdrawal transaction by the unique code, and calculating an amount withdrawn from the retirement plan based on aggregating transaction amounts for the unique codes representing the actual withdrawal transaction. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INVENTOR IMPACT - A method for determining intellectual property value, includes creating a source of patent data; and analyzing the data to determine a patent value. Also disclosed is an instruction set executable on a machine that includes a processor and a memory. The instruction set executable on the machine to cause to the machine to: create a source of patent data; and to analyze the data to determine a patent value. A media carrying an instruction set executable on a machine. The machine includes a processor, and a memory associated with the processor. The instruction set is executable on the processor to cause to the machine to: create a source of patent data; and analyze the data to determine a patent value. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233178 | ADVISORY THRESHOLDS AND ALERTS FOR MANAGING POSITION CONCENTRATION RISK - Management of a position concentration risk of an account includes the establishment of a threshold level for an aggregate trader position. The aggregate trader position may be associated with one or more customer accounts that are managed by one or more clearing firms. An actual parameter value associated with each of the customer accounts is aggregated to determine an aggregate parameter value, which is compared against the established threshold value. If, based on the comparison between the aggregate parameter value and the established threshold value, it is determined that the aggregate parameter value meets or exceeds the established threshold value, an advisory alert is generated, which may be automatic. The advisory alert is then communicated or otherwise provided to one or more authorized entities. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233179 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING COMPOSITE-INDEX AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE PRODUCT AND PRODUCTS THEREFROM - The invention discloses a method for designing composite-index agricultural insurance and a product therefrom, the method including: S1, Obtaining the required data in the study area; S2, Constructing the climatic simulation scenarios under ideal and disaster, S3, Calibrating the site-level crop growth model, then inputting the simulation scenarios of S2 to get the corresponding output of each site; S4, Calculating the premium rate of agricultural insurance based on the output of S3; S5, Choosing several candidate indicators and using these indicators to construct a composite index; S6, Building a vulnerability model that reflects the response between the yield loss rate and the composite index through combining the composite index of S5 with the output of S3, then determine how to pay out based on the vulnerability model and the premium rate. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233180 | Verification of Vehicle Mileage Using Captured Images - Computer-implemented methods for reducing fraud by remotely verifying odometer mileage of a vehicle are described. Images of the vehicle's odometer and VIN can be obtained using a portable computing device and a tamperproof photo capture algorithm. The image of the odometer can be displayed to the user via an interface of the portable computing device alongside a prompt to manually enter an odometer reading viewed in the image. The captured images and manually entered odometer reading can be uploaded to a remote server. A recognition algorithm can be used to extract an odometer reading and a VIN number from the images. A confidence value representing a likelihood of authenticity of the vehicle's odometer value can be generated by comparing the manually entered odometer reading with the extracted odometer reading. The confidence value can be used to verify the odometer mileage of the vehicle. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233181 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TAX LIABILITY OF ENTITY - Disclosed is system that determines tax liability of entity. The system comprises server arrangement and database arrangement coupled in communication with server arrangement. The server arrangement is configured to: (a) obtain information pertaining to entity; (b) perform natural language processing on the information to generate conceptual representation; (c) determine at least two tax jurisdictions towards which entity has tax liability; (d) access, from database arrangement, knowledge-based information and/or regulation-based information pertaining to tax for at least two tax jurisdictions and analyse the knowledge-based information and/or the regulation-based information to generate conceptual representation of knowledge-based and/or regulation-based information for at least two tax jurisdictions; and (e) analyse conceptual representation of the information, based upon conceptual representation of knowledge-based and/or regulation-based information, to determine tax liability of entity towards at least two tax jurisdictions, wherein server arrangement, by analysing conceptual representation of the information, reduces errors or inaccuracies present in the information. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233182 | INTERACTION RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - The system provides a method and apparatus for generating a profile of a first user, where the profile comprises interaction parameters associated with the user. The system can generate a profile of a second user, also comprising interaction parameters of the second user. The system can then provide suggestions to either or both the first and second user for interacting with each other. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233183 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a storage unit configured to store first information, the first information indicating a behavior history of a user during driving of a vehicle in a first period and a control unit configured to perform a driving evaluation of the user based on the first information for the first period and configured to acquire a degree of credence based on a result of the driving evaluation of the user, the degree of credence indicating a degree of credit of the user in a predetermined service. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AGRICULTURAL DATA - A method and apparatus for analyzing agricultural data using an analytical tool of a server program is disclosed. The server platform includes a receiving tool that continuously receives personalized raw data on agricultural work processes, with the raw data including usage data and business data from a plurality of agricultural data sources. An analyst can present an analytical query to the analytical tool, with the analytical query comprises analytical parameters. The analytical tool, based on the analytical parameters, selects part of the raw data, anonymizes it, and aggregates it into status data based on the analytical parameters. The status data relate to a current agricultural status of an area of agricultural production, which the analytical tool may provide to the analyst. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233185 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD - Cooperation in supply and demand balance of renewable energy in a region is implemented by operation of infrastructures of an infrastructure service such as water supply. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233186 | METHOD FOR MONITORING PROCESSES AND PROGRESS AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE - One variation of a method for monitoring processes and progress at a construction site includes: accessing spatial and temporal representations of a sequence of construction tasks planned on the construction site; accessing a first set of load characteristics derived from data captured by a smart hook, arranged on a crane operated at the construction site, and a drop-off location of the smart hook during a first lift event at the crane; correlating the first lift event with a first construction task, in the sequence of construction tasks, based on the first set of load characteristics and the drop-off location; identifying a first notification trigger, in a set of notification triggers linked to the sequence of construction tasks, assigned to the first construction task; and transmitting a first notification to a computing device, associated with a user, according to the first notification trigger, the first notification identifying the first construction task. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233187 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR TRAVEL PLANNING AND SELLING INVESTMENT PROPERTIES - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for planning and booking travel, lodging, and excursions, for offering travel, lodging, and excursions, and for selling investment properties may include: a client device having installed thereon a client application; a server device having installed thereon a server application; a database device having installed thereon a database application; and application logic of the client application, the server application, or the database application. The application logic may include instructions for: creating a user account, wherein the user account comprises a consumer account, a travel agent account, a host account, or an administrator account; creating a travel listing; or generating a private session, wherein, during the private session, an authenticated consumer user can create a travel itinerary, or an authenticated travel agent user can create and view a travel itinerary for a consumer account associated with the travel agent account. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233188 | Editing and Representing Property Values for a Digital Map - A process, and corresponding system for performing the process, is described for editing and representing property values for a digital map. The process retrieves electronic map data from a style sheet corresponding to a vector map tile set for a digital map. The process displays a plurality of templates and receives selection of a template. The process displays a visual map representing the electronic map with the set of map style layers of the selected template. The process displays a theme and a plurality of components. Each component is a set of map style layers and is a subset of the set of map style layers of the template. The process receives selection of a component. The process displays a plurality of property values associated with the selected component. The process receives an edit to a property value. The process updates the visual map to reflect the edited property value. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-MODE COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for multi-mode communication management are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises presenting real estate listings regarding properties to buyers. Accounts may be created for buyers and real estate agents. Communications from different communication types between one or more buyers and one or more real estate agents regarding any of the real estate listings may be captured. Metadata corresponding to each of the communications may be captured. The communications and the metadata may be stored. A request including identification of a particular real estate agent, a particular buyer, and a particular property may be received. Particular communications may be retrieved in response to the request, the particular communications corresponding to the particular real estate agent, the particular buyer, and the particular property. The particular communications may be provided to the particular real estate agent. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233190 | UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TO PREVENT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES FOR CONTENT DURING DIFFERENT STAGES OF A PROJECT LIFECYCLE - A device may receive content data identifying content created by users and metadata associated with the content. The device may receive rules data identifying rules associated with utilization of the content. The device may utilize the metadata to generate digital DNA signatures for the content in near-real time. The device may store, in a repository, the rules data, the content, the digital DNA signatures, and relationships between the digital DNA signatures. The device may receive, from a client device, new content that is generated based on particular content of the content data and new metadata associated with the new content. The device may utilize the new metadata to generate a new digital DNA signature for the new content. The device may process the new digital DNA signature, the rules data, and the digital DNA signatures to determine whether the new content violates one or more rules of the rules data. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233191 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR OPERATING A MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK WITH ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE - Provided is a method for analyzing a user in a data analysis server, the method including; step A of establishing a question database comprising a plurality of questions, of collecting solving result data of a user for the plurality of questions, and of learning the solving result data, thereby generating a data analysis model for modeling the user; step B of generating an expert model that recommends learning data necessary for machine learning of the data analysis model; step C of extracting at least one question from the question database according to recommendation from the expert model, and of updating the data analysis model using solving result data of a user for the at least one extracted question; and step D of updating the expert model by applying, to update information of the data analysis model, a reward that is set in a direction to improve prediction accuracy of the data analysis model. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233192 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONETIZING DATA IN DECENTRALIZED MODEL BUILDING FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING A BLOCKCHAIN - Systems and methods are provided for leveraging blockchain technology in a swarm learning context, where nodes of a blockchain network that contribute data to training a machine learning model using their own local data can be rewarded. In order to conduct such data monetization in a fair and accurate manner, the systems and methods rely on various phases in which Merkle trees are used and corresponding Merkle roots are registered in a blockchain ledger. Moreover, any claims for a reward are challenged by peer nodes before the reward is distributed. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233193 | DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING PARTICIPANTS TO AN ACTIVITY - A computerized system for verifiably that individual is associated with an event comprising: a computer system in communication with an immutable storage; a set of computer readable instructions included in the computer system configured for: creating a first event record using a first data capture device wherein the first event record includes a first location, a first time and a first set of metadata wherein the first set of metadata includes a first digital representation of an individual, creating a subsequent event record using a second data capture device wherein the subsequent event record includes a second location, a second time and a second set of metadata wherein the second set of metadata includes a subsequent digital representation of a second individual; and, determining a timespan between the first time and the second time and determining if the timespan is consistent with the individual traveling from the first location to the second location. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233194 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR TRACKING ITEMS - Aspects of the invention are directed towards an apparatus and a method for tracking movement of one or more items. One or more embodiments of the invention describe the method comprising steps of receiving an unloading location of each of one or more items and determining a current location of a container. The method further describes steps of determining an angle of arrival and/or an angle of departure based on a signal from the one or more items and determining movement of the one or more items based on the angle of arrival and/or the angle of departure. The method also describes steps of transmitting a message to a device based on the current location of the container, the unloading location and the movement of the one or more items. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233195 | SERVER DEVICE, TRUNK SHARE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A server device includes a processor configured to i) acquire vehicle information when a delivery request is made; ii) acquire predetermined authentication information for unlocking and locking a door of a vehicle, based on the acquired vehicle information; iii) transmit the acquired predetermined authentication information to a delivery terminal; and iv) to acquire predetermined proof information for proving that a user of the vehicle is a rightful recipient of a delivery article, by communicating with a user terminal. The processor is configured to transmit the acquired predetermined authentication information to the delivery terminal, on a condition that the predetermined proof information is acquired. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RIDE ORDER DISPATCHING - Systems and methods are provided for ride order dispatching. Such method may comprise obtaining information on a location of a vehicle and a time to input into a trained neural network algorithm; and based on a policy generated from the trained neural network algorithm, obtaining action information for the vehicle, the action information comprising: staying at a current position of the vehicle, re-positioning the vehicle, or accepting a ride order. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233197 | USING UWB RADIO TO EXECUTE A PEDESTRIAN-VEHICLE RENDEZVOUS - The disclosure pertains to using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio communications to execute a pedestrian-vehicle rendezvous. In one example operation, a personal device such as a smartphone, is used to identify a location of a vehicle with a first level of accuracy. For example, the smartphone may be used by a pedestrian to obtain GPS location coordinates of a ride-hail vehicle summoned by the pedestrian. The vehicle may be located relatively far from the pedestrian. The smartphone may be configured to automatically establish a UWB radio link with a UWB transponder in the vehicle and/or a smartphone carried by a driver of the ride-hail vehicle, when the vehicle is within range to establish UWB communications. The UWB radio link may be used to execute one or more of various procedures to locate the vehicle with a second level of accuracy that is higher than the first level of accuracy. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233198 | MICRO-MOBILITY VEHICLE STATUS COMPLIANCE DETERMINATION - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting non-compliant use of a micro-mobility vehicle, for example, based on parking the micro-mobility vehicle outside of a designated area. In an embodiment, a processor detects that a micro-mobility vehicle shared by a plurality of users has transitioned from an operational state to a parked state, where the micro-mobility vehicle was operated by a user of the plurality of users when in the operational state. The processor determines a location of the micro-mobility vehicle while the micro-mobility vehicle is in the parked state, and evaluates whether it is permissible to transition the micro-mobility vehicle to the parked state at the location. Responsive to determining that it is not permissible to transition to the parked state at the location, the processor updates a profile of the user to indicate non-compliant use of the micro-mobility vehicle. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233199 | TRAFFIC SECTION FEE PAYMENT METHOD, FEE SYSTEM, AND PAYMENT SYSTEM - A client device obtains and records inbound station information. The client device sends first electronic credential information to an inbound charging apparatus, where the first electronic credential information comprises authentication information generated by a payment system based on a user identity in the client device. The client device sends second electronic credential information and the inbound station information to an outbound charging apparatus, where the second electronic credential information comprises authentication information generated by the payment system based on the user identity in the client device. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233200 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED DISTRIBUTED GAMING SYSTEM - The technology teaches a distributed gaming system, comprising a server side node configured to administer transactions for a gambling casino, selling and redeeming chips using a private database, and recording transactions on a distributed ledger using crypto-tokens for a house account having a unique identifier and private key. Administrator wallet tracks transactions on the ledger, maintaining customer and dealer accounts, each with unique identifiers and private keys, and executes API with client side nodes. Customer wallets track transactions on ledger. Dealer wallets track transactions on ledger and accept messages indicating confirmation of payment by customer and transfer of tokens from administrator wallet to customer wallet, accepts messages indicating confirmation of delivery of chips from dealer to customer and transfer of tokens from customer wallet to administrator wallet, and accepts messages confirming delivery of chips from customer to dealer and transfer of tokens from administrator wallet to customer wallet. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233201 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSERTING IDENTIFICATION CODE FOR TRACKING DUPLICATED IMAGE - The present disclosure a method of providing identification code insertion service for tracking a duplicated image, which is performed by a server, including: (a) receiving an image from a user terminal; (b) converting the received image to black and white, and selecting a plurality of insertion regions in the converted image; (c) transforming an image of at least one of a plurality of insertion regions selected at random; and (d) mapping an identification code and image information included in the transformed image of the insertion region, storing the identification code and the image information in a database, and providing the image in which the identification code is inserted to the user terminal. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVOLVING AN IMAGE - A system for convolving an image includes a processing circuitry that retrieves the image including a set of rows, and a set of kernels, and merges serially all columns of each kernel, to generate a merged kernel. The processing circuitry executes parallelly multiple times, a multiply-accumulate (MAC) instruction on a row loaded in a corresponding vector register and a corresponding coefficient of the merged kernel and a load instruction on a subsequent row in one clock cycle. In the same clock cycle based on the MAC instruction, a logical shift operation is executed on the merged kernel to shift a current coefficient of the merged kernel with a subsequent coefficient such that the MAC instruction is executed on the subsequent row and the subsequent coefficient in the next clock cycle. Thus, each clock cycle is utilized by the system for executing both the MAC and load instructions. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233203 | DEPTH-BASED DIGITAL FINGERPRINTING - Digital fingerprints include data indicative of interior features or structures of an object. The physical object may be rigid or malleable. The digital fingerprints may also include data indicative of features on an exterior surface of the object. Digital fingerprints may uniquely identify an object with respect to other objects, even with respect to other objects of a same type or class of objects. The technology may be relatively invariant to changes in scale, rotation, affine, homography, perspective, and illumination as between a reference digital fingerprint and a later acquired or generated digital fingerprint. Digital fingerprints may be used to authenticate an object as being a second instance or appearance of a previously digitally fingerprinted object. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233204 | SYSTEM FOR MITIGATING THE PROBLEM OF DEEPFAKE MEDIA CONTENT USING WATERMARKING - Watermarking media content, in combination with blockchain and distributed storage networks, prevents the proliferation of Deepfake content. Digital watermarks are embedded in the audio and video tracks of video clips of trusted content producers at the time the videos are captured or before they are distributed. The watermarks are detected at the social media network's portals, nodes, and back ends. The embedded watermark imparts a unique identifier to the video, that links it to a blockchain. The watermarks also allow video source tracking, integrity verification, and alteration localization. The watermark detectors can be standalone software applications, or they can be integrated with other applications. They are used to perform three main tasks: (1) they alert the Internet user when he watches an inauthentic news video, so that he may discard it, (2) they prevent a Deepfake content from propagating through the network (3) they perform forensic analysis to help track and remove Deepfake content postings. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233205 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE EMPLOYING A UNIFIED SHADER - A graphics processing architecture in one example performs vertex manipulation operations and pixel manipulation operations by transmitting vertex data to a general purpose register block, and performing vertex operations on the vertex data by a processor unless the general purpose register block does not have enough available space therein to store incoming vertex data; and continues pixel calculation operations that are to be or are currently being performed by the processor based on instructions maintained in an instruction store until enough registers within the general purpose register block become available. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233206 | LINE-BASED IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CROSS-IMAGE ANNOTATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The disclosure relates to devices, systems and methods for image registration and annotation. The devices include computer software products for aligning whole slide digital images on a common grid and transferring annotations from one aligned image to another aligned image on the basis of matching tissue structure. The systems include computer-implemented systems such as work stations and networked computers for accomplishing the tissue-structure based image registration and cross-image annotation. The methods include processes for aligning digital images corresponding to adjacent tissue sections on a common grid based on tissue structure, and transferring annotations from one of the adjacent tissue images to another of the adjacent tissue images. The basis for alignment may be a line-based registration process, wherein sets of lines are computed on the boundary regions computed for the two images, where the boundary regions are obtained using information from two domains—soft-weighted foreground images and gradient magnitude images. The binary mask image, based on whose boundary the line features are computed, may be generated by combining two binary masks—a first binary mask is obtained on thresholding a soft-weighted (continuous valued) foreground image, which is computed based on the stain content in an image, while a second binary mask is obtained after thresholding a gradient magnitude domain image, where the gradient is computed from the grayscale image obtained from the color image. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233207 | METHOD OF PLAYING BACK IMAGE ON DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of playing back an image in a display device obtains a stereo image corresponding to both eyes of a user including a left eye and a right eye, obtains positions of the eyes determines warping transform information corresponding to the positions of the eyes based on a database (DB) provided in advance based on a curvature of an display plane of the display device, warps the stereo image by applying the warping transform information to the stereo image, determines pixel values of a display panel included in the display device from the warped stereo image by performing light field rendering based on the positions of the eyes, and reproduces the determined pixel values on the display panel. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCALIZING A DATA SET BASED UPON SYNTHETIC IMAGE REGISTRATION - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to localize data from at least one of two or more data sets a based upon the registration of synthetic images representative of the two or more data sets. In the context of a method, first and second synthetic images are created from first and second data sets, respectively. In creating the first and second synthetic images, representations of one or more features from the first and second data sets are rasterized. The method also determines a transformation based upon a phase correlation between the first and second synthetic images. The transformation provides for improved localization of the data from at least one of the first or second data sets. The method also generates a report that defines the transformation. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233209 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM CODE - An image processing device, an image processing system, an imaging device, an image processing method, and a recording medium storing program code. The image processing device includes a receiver configured to receive a first image and a second image, a memory configured to store a joining position at each one of a plurality of portions between the first image and the second image received by the receiver, and circuitry configured to evaluate, for each of the plurality of portions, validity of the joining position in a past stored in the memory, and generate a composite image based on the first image and the second image received by the receiver and the joining position in the past stored in the memory on a site where the validity meets a criterion. The method includes reading a past joining position at each one of a plurality of portions between a pair of images. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233210 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REAL-TIME SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGE PROCESSING - A method, system, and article is directed to real-time super-resolution image processing using neural networks. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233211 | ENHANCING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES WITH DATA FROM LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGES - Users often desire to capture certain images from an application. Existing methods of capturing images can result in low-resolution images due to limitations of the display device providing the images. This disclosure provides a method of capturing higher resolution images from source images. Techniques are also disclosed to reduce the storage size associated with the higher resolution images. Through capturing low-resolution versions of the same source images, image effects can be captured and applied to the higher resolution images where those image effects may be altered or missing. Frequency spectrum combination can be used to combine the low-resolution image data and the higher resolution image data. The higher resolution images can be processed using a segmentation scheme, such as tiling, without reducing or limiting the image effects. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233212 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ROTATION OF DISPLAYED IMAGE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method for controlling rotation of an image displayed in a display screen includes establishing a coordinate system with an origin being set at a center of the display screen. The coordinate system includes a coordinate plane in parallel to an average plane associated with the display screen. The method further includes dividing the coordinate plane to four azimuth intervals corresponding respectively to four display modes with four boundary lines being all intersected at the origin of the coordinate system. Additionally, the method includes defining a respective buffer region in a respective angular range around a respective boundary line. Furthermore, the method includes determining whether an azimuth angle of a gravity acceleration vector component in the coordinate plane is kept in a respective azimuth interval corresponding to a current display mode of the image including two buffer regions respectively associated with two boundary lines of the respective azimuth interval. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233213 | ATTENTION-DRIVEN IMAGE MANIPULATION - Techniques of adjusting the salience of an image include generating values of photographic development parameters for a foreground and background of an image to adjust the salience of the image in the foreground. These parameters are global in nature over the image rather than local. Moreover, the optimization of the salience over such sets of global parameters is provided through two sets of these parameters by an encoder: one set corresponding to the foreground, in which the salience is to be either increased or decreased, and the other set corresponding to the background. Once the set of development parameters corresponding to the foreground region and the set of development parameters corresponding to the background region have been determined, a decoder generates an adjusted image with an increased salience based on these sets of development parameters. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233214 | NEURAL NETWORK FOR ENHANCING ORIGINAL IMAGE, AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ENHANCING ORIGINAL IMAGE USING NEURAL NETWORK - A neural network is provided. The neural network includes 2n number of sampling units sequentially connected; and a plurality of processing units. A respective one of the plurality of processing units is between two adjacent sampling units of the 2n number of sampling units. A first sampling unit to an n-th sample unit of the 2n number of sampling units are DeMux units. A respective one of the DeMux units is configured to rearrange pixels in a respective input image to the respective one of the DeMux units following a first scrambling rule to obtain a respective rearranged image. An (n+1)-th sample unit to a (2n)-th sample unit of the 2n number of sampling units are Mux units. A respective one of the Mux units is configured to combine respective m′ number of input images to the respective one of the Mux units to obtain a respective combined image. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233215 | STREAK ARTIFACT CORRECTION - A computer-implemented method is for the correction of streak artifacts in slice images. In an embodiment, the method includes: receiving at least one initially reconstructed slice image by a processor, the at least one initially reconstructed slice image being based on a plurality of initial projection images; determining at least one variation slice image, via the processor, using a variation algorithm, the at least one variation slice image being based on the at least one initially reconstructed slice image; determining at least one variation projection image based upon the at least one variation slice image; and determining at least one corrected slice image as a function of the at least one variation projection image. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233216 | METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR RECONSTRUCTING TIME SERIES, DEGRADED BY THE DEGREE OF UTILIZATION - Method for correcting amplitude underestimations in time series, which were measured on sequences of multi-dimensional signals, wherein the multi-dimensional signals were sampled with one or more integrating sensors, such that the time series are degraded by a center of gravity/centroid formation, which can be characterized by a duty cycle of the integrating sensors. According to the invention, a centroid formation of the time series is corrected based on the duty cycle, the duty cycle or the integration time of the sensors. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233217 | IMAGE RESTORATION DEVICE AND RESTORATION MODEL GENERATION DEVICE - An image restoration device includes an acquisition processing unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by an imaging unit capturing surroundings of a vehicle, and a restoration processing unit. In a case where the captured image includes a stained area caused by a stain of an optical system of the imaging unit, the restoration processing unit is configured to output a restored image corresponding to the captured image acquired by the acquisition processing unit based on a restoration model pre-trained by a machine learning method to output the restored image serving as the captured image in response to an input of the captured image, the restored image in which the stained area is reduced in a different degree in accordance with a position of the stained area in the captured image. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233218 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method includes detecting a gradation area in an input image, and performing, based on a detection result acquired by the detecting, for an area that is not the gradation area, gain processing on the input image by using a gain based on a first gain characteristic in which different gains are set depending on luminance values, whereas performing, for the gradation area, gain processing on the input image by using a gain in which an amount of change in gain with respect to a change in luminance value is more reduced than the first gain characteristic. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233219 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A SWITCHGEAR - A system for monitoring a switchgear includes: an infrared camera for acquiring an infrared image of a switchgear; a visible camera for acquiring a visible image of the switchgear; a processing unit; and an output unit. The processing unit maps a plurality of pixels in the visible image to a plurality of pixels in the infrared image. The plurality of pixels in the visible image includes a plurality of sub-sets of pixels, each sub-set including at least one pixel. Each sub-set of pixels in the visible image is mapped to a corresponding pixel in the infrared image. Each sub-set of pixels in the visible image and the corresponding pixel in the infrared image relates to image data of a same part of the switchgear. The processing unit determines a combined image from the plurality of pixels in the visible image mapped to the plurality of pixels in the infrared image. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233220 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF GENERATING COMPARABLE REGIONS OF A LITHOGRAPHIC MASK - Implementations of the disclosure provide methods for generating an in-die reference for die-to-die defect detection techniques. The inspection methods using in-die reference comprise finding similar blocks of a lithographic mask, the similar blocks are defined by similar CAD information. A comparison distance is selected based on (i) areas of the similar blocks and (ii) spatial relationships between the similar blocks. The similar blocks are aggregated, based on the comparison distance, to provide multiple aggregated areas; and comparable regions of the lithographic mask are defined based on the multiple aggregate blocks. Images of at least some of the comparable regions of the lithographic mask are acquired using an inspection module. The acquired images are compared. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233221 | IMAGE IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL FOR COMPONENT FAULT ANALYSIS - A method of identifying and retrieving component digital images for component fault analysis includes generating a known-fault database of digital images of known faults of a previously analyzed component and corresponding remedial actions. The method also includes accessing the known-fault database with a digital image of a current fault of a new component. The method additionally includes comparing the digital image of the current fault with the digital images in the known-fault database based on a computed target characteristic. The method also includes sorting the digital images in the known-fault database in order based on a magnitude of the computed target characteristic for each respective digital image in the known-fault database relative to the digital image of the current fault. The method further includes outputting the sorted digital images to facilitate correlation of the current fault to a particular known fault and identifying the corresponding remedial action. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233222 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANOMALY DETECTION - A device and a computer implemented method of anomaly detection, including processing a digital representation of a signal or image with a wavelet decomposition to generate a first, second, and third plurality of decomposed representations, processing a first decomposed representation of the third plurality of decomposed representations with a first generative model to determine a first likelihood, processing a second decomposed representation of the third plurality of decomposed representations with a second generative model to determine a second likelihood, processing a second decomposed representation of the second plurality of decomposed representations with a third generative model to determine a third likelihood, processing a second decomposed representation of the first plurality of decomposed representations with a fourth generative model to determine a fourth likelihood, detecting an anomaly when at least one of the first likelihood, the second likelihood, the third likelihood and the fourth likelihood meets a criterium for anomaly detection. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233223 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING INFORMATION FROM A CAMERA IMAGE - A method of producing information from at least one camera image of an object, including: A) recording raw image data of the at least one camera image, B) evaluating the raw image data by a mathematical linkage to produce combination image data, C) deriving the information from the combination image data, D) outputting the information, E) determining an actual measure for a data quality of the raw image data prior to or after evaluation steps in step B), F) determining a deviation between the actual measure for the data quality and a target measure for the data quality of the raw image data of at least one camera image, and G) again recording all raw image data of those camera images, for which the deviation determined in step F) is greater than a predetermined threshold value and repeating at least one evaluation step from step B) and steps C) to F) either until the deviation determined in step F) for the raw image data of all camera images from the plurality of camera images is less than the threshold value or until a predetermined termination condition is fulfilled. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233224 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED PERCEPTUAL VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM - A video quality evaluation system comprises a training module, a calculation module, an analytical module, a designing module, an optimization module, and an estimation module. The training module collects training videos and trains labels of perceptual quality generation that is associated with the collected videos. The calculation module determines objective metrics based on the trained labels that are associated with the collected videos. The analytical module analyses scenes of the training video, and correlates objective metrics associated with the analysed scenes using perceptual parameters. The designing module designs a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Architecture based on data associated with the objective metrics and trains a model generated based on the designed CNN architecture. The optimization module optimizes the model and optimizes power after the model optimization. The estimation module estimates perceptual quality scores for incoming video data after the power optimization. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233225 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING IMAGE DATA OF A VEHICLE - Methods and systems for facilitating photo-based estimation are described. In an aspect, a server is configured to receive, via the communications module from a remote computing device, a signal comprising image data obtained by the remote computing device, the image data including metadata identifying an image capture location and a time of image capture; obtain verification data, the verification data comprising sensor data received from the remote computing device and identifying a location of the remote computing device at the time of image capture; and evaluate the image data based on the verification data to verify the authenticity of the image data by comparing the image capture location in the metadata to the location of the remote computing device at the time of image capture. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233226 | MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPONENT MOUNTING LINE - A component mounter images suction states of components picked up by a suction nozzle, processes images of the suction states of the components to recognize the suction state of the component, and stores the images in a storage device with linking production information related to the components. An inspection machine images a mounted state of each component on a board, processes an image of mounted state of each component to recognize the mounted state of each component, and inspects whether a mounting error occurred for each component based on the recognition result. The inspection machine determines that a mounting error occurred for any of the components the image of the mounted state of the component for which a mounting error was determined to have occurred and a searched image of the suction state of the component are displayed on the display monitor in a comparative manner. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233227 | AUTOMATING INSPECTION USING NEURAL NETWORK - Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media that perform the steps of capturing capture one or more images comprising a plurality of visual features of an inspected device, transmitting the one or more images to a server comprising a neural network, wherein the neural network analyzes the plurality of visual features to identify the inspected device and the server identifies the checklist comprising tasks or questions associated with an inspection process of the inspected device, receiving the checklist associated from the server, and displaying the checklist. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233228 | ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system includes a robot including a hand portion which grips and takes out a workpiece from an accommodation unit in which a plurality of workpieces are accommodated, and transports the workpiece to a predetermined position; a robot control unit which controls conveyance operation of the robot of taking out the workpiece from the accommodation unit and transporting the workpiece to the predetermined position; and a conveyance condition setting unit which sets a conveyance condition regarding the conveyance operation and including, in the workpiece, at least a grip prohibited region that is prohibited from being gripped by the hand portion. The robot control unit controls the robot based on the conveyance condition set by the conveyance condition setting unit. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233229 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECTS ON IMAGED ITEMS - Embodiments of the invention provide a machine learning based detection system, in which defects can be detected even if the system was not trained for these defects and even in items that were not used to train the system, thereby offering an inherently flexible detection system. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233230 | PERFORMANCE INFORMATION SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, WORK MACHINE, METHOD FOR ACQUIRING PERFORMANCE INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERFORMANCE INFORMATION - A performance information server comprises: a request acquisition unit that acquires a request including machine-type information for a work machine, and a performance information request to indicate performance information for the work machine; a storage unit that stores specification data for the work machine in association with the type of the work machine; a control unit that acquires the machine type information included in the request and the performance information for the work machine, on the basis of the specification data corresponding to the machine type information; and a response presentation unit that presents a response including the performance information acquired by the control unit. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233231 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A convolutional neural network performs: a first masking process of masking a pixel region not to be inspected, by computing pixel values of corresponding pixels of an inspection image and of a mask image; an intermediate process for extracting a feature image from the inspection image that has been subjected to the first masking process; and a second masking process of masking the pixel region not to be inspected, by computing the pixel values of corresponding pixels of the inspection image that has been subjected to the intermediate process and of the mask image that has been subjected to a process identical to the intermediate process. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233232 | LEARNING DEVICE, INSPECTION DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND INSPECTION METHOD - A learning device includes a camera configured to acquire image data by imaging a sample of a product, a physical property information acquisition unit configured to acquire physical property information of the sample, and a processing unit configured to generate a learning model. The processing unit is configured to identify a category of the sample based on rule information relating the physical property information to the category, to generate teacher data by relating the identified category to the image data, and to generate a learning model by machine learning using the teacher data. The learning model outputs the category of the sample in response to an input of the image data of the sample. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233233 | Estimating Measurements of Craniofacial Structures in Dental Radiographs - A method and system for receiving a dental radiographic image that includes an oral structure, and in an image processor, selecting a segmenter and an object detector, predicting masks and points of the oral structure using the segmenter and the object detector to become part of image metadata. The dental radiographic image and image metadata are further provided to a measurement processor for selecting at least one measurement method of a set of measurement methods according to the dental radiographic image and the image metadata, calculating a sensor pixel to mm (millimeter) ratio using the measurement method, and calculating a calibrated measurement of the oral structure. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233234 | A medical device for transcription of appearances in an image to text with machine learning - There is provided a device configured to transcribe an appearance of a human being, said device comprising a common housing holding an image capturing sensor, a computing device comprising a data processor, and a computer program product comprising a first machine learning model trained for detecting and labeling human beings, a second machine learning model trained for detecting appearances of human beings and a transcription module to transcribe the detected appearances of human beings to text. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233235 | SCALE FOR DETERMINING THE WEIGHT OF ORGANISMS - There is described a scale for determining weight of one or more organisms contained in a sample. The scale generally has: a camera having a field of view orientable towards the sample and being configured for acquiring an image of the one or more organisms of the sample; a controller having a memory and a processor configured to perform the steps of: accessing the acquired image; using an organism detection engine being stored on the memory and being trained, detecting one or more organism representations in one or more corresponding portions of the accessed image and generating detection data concerning the one or more detected organism representations; and using an organism weight determination engine being stored on the memory and being trained, determining weight data concerning weight associated to the one or more detected organism representations based on the detection data. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES FOR BIOMARKER LOCALIZATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving digital images of a pathology specimen from a patient, the pathology specimen comprising tumor tissue, the one or more digital images being associated with data about a plurality of biomarkers in the tumor tissue and data about a surrounding invasive margin around the tumor tissue; identifying the tumor tissue and the surrounding invasive margin region to be analyzed for each of the one or more digital images; generating, using a machine learning model on the one or more digital images, at least one inference of a presence of the plurality of biomarkers in the tumor tissue and the surrounding invasive margin region; determining a spatial relationship of each of the plurality of biomarkers identified in the tumor tissue and the surrounding invasive margin region to themselves and to other cell types; and determining a prediction for a treatment outcome and/or at least one treatment recommendation for the patient. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233237 | METHOD FOR FORAMINAL STENOSIS RATIO USING 3-DIMENSIONAL CT - A method for providing a foraminal stenosis ratio using 3-dimensional CT includes (a) transmitting a spine image of a patient to an information extracting unit by an image capturing unit in response to an input signal transmitted from an input unit; (b) extracting spine boundary information and neural foramen area information based on a pixel value of the spine image by the information extracting unit; (c) storing the spine boundary information and the neural foramen area information by an information storing unit; (d) calculating the foraminal stenosis ratio by using the spine image, the spine boundary information, and the neural foramen area information by an information calculating unit; and (e) outputting maximum neural foramen area information of the neural foramen area information, a neural foramen angle for the maximum neural foramen area information, and the foraminal stenosis ratio by an output unit. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233238 | DETERMINING BIOMARKERS FROM HISTOPATHOLOGY SLIDE IMAGES - A generalizable and interpretable deep learning model for predicting biomarker status and biomarker metrics from histopathology slide images is provided. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233239 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL IMAGE STYLE TRANSFER USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS - The current disclosure provides for mapping medical images to style transferred medical images using deep neural networks, while maintaining clinical quality of the style transferred medical image, thereby enabling a clinician to evaluate medical images in a preferred style without loss of clinically relevant content. In one embodiment the current disclosure provides for a method comprising, acquiring a medical image of an anatomical region of a subject, wherein the medical image is in a first style, selecting a target style, wherein the target style is distinct from the first style, selecting a clinical quality metric, selecting a trained style transfer network based on the target style and the clinical quality metric, mapping the medical image to a style transferred medical image using the trained style transfer network, wherein the style transferred medical image is in the target style, and displaying the style transferred medical image via a display device. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233240 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CLINICALLY IMPORTANT OBJECTS IN MEDICAL IMAGES WITH DISTANCE-BASED DECISION STRATIFICATION - A method for performing a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) includes: acquiring a medical image set; generating a three-dimensional (3D) tumor distance map corresponding to the medical image set, each voxel of the tumor distance map representing a distance from the voxel to a nearest boundary of a primary tumor present in the medical image set; and performing neural-network processing of the medical image set to generate a predicted probability map to predict presence and locations of oncology significant lymph nodes (OSLNs) in the medical image set, wherein voxels in the medical image set are stratified and processed according to the tumor distance map. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE RISK OF FUTURE LUNG CANCER - Risk prediction models are trained and deployed to analyze images, such as computed tomography scans, for predicting future risk of lung cancer for one or more subjects. Individual risk prediction models are separately trained on nodule-specific and non-nodule specific features such that each risk prediction model can predict future risk of lung cancer across different time periods (e.g., 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years). Such risk prediction models are useful for developing preventive therapies for lung cancer by enabling clinical trial enrichment. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233242 | Detection and Characterization of CancerousTumors - Processes and techniques are disclosed to identify regions of suspected malignancy and their localization within a body part or organ. These methods rely on the analysis of infrared images to identify thermal abnormalities using image post-processing techniques, numerical modeling, iterative solutions methodology or a digital library. The methods utilize noninvasive, non-radiative and no contact infrared imaging that can be used for breast cancer screening for improved prognosis. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233243 | DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM - A movement of an area whose shape changes for each respiration or for each heartbeat is displayed. A diagnosis support program that analyzes images of a human body and displays analysis results, the program causing a computer to execute: processing of acquiring a plurality of frame images from a database that stores the images (S | 2021-07-29 |
20210233244 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING A JOINT DEEP LEARNING MODEL - A method for image segmentation includes receiving an input image. The method further includes obtaining a deep learning model having a triad of predictors. Furthermore, the method includes processing the input image by a shape model in the triad of predictors to generate a segmented shape image. Moreover, the method includes presenting the segmented shape image via a display unit. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233245 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DETECTING FOREIGN OBJECT ON BACKGROUND OBJECT IN AN IMAGE, APPARATUS FOR DETECTING FOREIGN OBJECT ON BACKGROUND OBJECT IN AN IMAGE, AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCT - A computer-implemented method of detecting a foreign object on a background object in a sample image is provided. The computer-implemented method includes extracting image features of the sample image; detecting a salient region in the sample image; and segmenting the salient region to determine a contour of a foreign object region based on results of segmenting the salient region. Segmenting the salient region is performed by an automatic Grabcut operation without user interaction. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233246 | CONFIDENCE-BASED SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE UNITS - Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to robotic devices and artificial intelligence. More specifically, some embodiments relate to modeling uncertainty in neural network segmentation predictions of imaged scenes having a plurality of objects. In some embodiments, a computer vision system for guiding robotic picking utilizes a method for uncertainty modeling that comprises receiving one or more images of a scene comprising a plurality of distinct objects, generating a plurality of segmentation predictions each comprising one or more object masks, identifying a predefined confidence requirement, wherein the confidence requirement identifies a minimum amount of required agreement for a region, and outputting one or more object masks based on the confidence requirement. The systems and methods disclosed herein leverage the use of a plurality of hypotheses to create a distribution of possible segmentation outcomes in order model uncertainty associated with image segmentation. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233247 | MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This application relates to a medical image segmentation method, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining medical image data; obtaining a target object and weakly supervised annotation information of the target object in the medical image data; determining a pseudo segmentation mask for the target object in the medical image data according to the weakly supervised annotation information; and performing mapping on the medical image data by using a preset mapping model based on the pseudo segmentation mask, to obtain a target segmentation result for the target object. Because the medical image data is segmented based on the weakly supervised annotation information, there is no need to annotate information by using much labor during training of the preset mapping model, thereby saving labor costs. The preset mapping model is a model used for mapping the medical image data based on the pseudo segmentation mask. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233248 | Image Processing Method and Apparatus, and Device - An image processing method, where a target area and a background area are determined in an image by performing mask segmentation on the image. Different color processing modes are applied to the target area and the background area, such that luminance of the target area is greater than luminance of the background area, or chrominance of the target area is greater than chrominance of the background area, and a main object corresponding to the target area is more prominently highlighted. This enables a terminal user to have a movie special effect during photographing or video photographing, and improves photographing experience of the user. In addition, the present disclosure further provides a flicker elimination method, such that a color change of video content is smoother and more natural. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233249 | Methods for Unit Load Device (ULD) Localization - Methods for unit loading device (ULD) localization are disclosed herein. An example method includes capturing a set of image data featuring the ULD. The example method further includes cropping the set of image data to generate a cropped image. The cropped image features a portion of the ULD. The example method further includes determining one or more candidate edges of the portion of the ULD within the cropped image. The example method further includes identifying one or more edges of the portion of the ULD from the one or more candidate edges, wherein each of the one or more edges represents a boundary of the portion of the ULD. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING AND CLASSIFYING LINES IN AN IMAGE WITH A VISION SYSTEM - This invention provides a system and method for finding line features in an image that allows multiple lines to be efficiently and accurately identified and characterized. When lines are identified, the user can train the system to associate predetermined (e.g. text) labels with respect to such lines. These labels can be used to define neural net classifiers. The neural net operates at runtime to identify and score lines in a runtime image that are found using a line-finding process. The found lines can be displayed to the user with labels and an associated probability score map based upon the neural net results. Lines that are not labeled are generally deemed to have a low score, and are either not flagged by the interface, or identified as not relevant. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES FOR COMPUTATIONAL DETECTION METHODS - Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving one or more electronic slide images associated with a tissue specimen, the tissue specimen being associated with a patient and/or medical case, partitioning a first slide image of the one or more electronic slide images into a plurality of tiles, detecting a plurality of tissue regions of the first slide image and/or plurality of tiles to generate a tissue mask, determining whether any of the plurality of tiles corresponds to non-tissue, removing any of the plurality of tiles that are determined to be non-tissue, determining a prediction, using a machine learning prediction model, for at least one label for the one or more electronic slide images, the machine learning prediction model having been generated by processing a plurality of training images, and outputting the prediction of the trained machine learning prediction model. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233252 | FRAMELESS ANATOMY-BASED 2D/3D IMAGE REGISTRATION - The present invention relates to the calculation of a 3D representation of a vascular malformation of a vascular structure of an anatomy and to the registration of 2D and 3D medical images for said calculation. The advantages of the used 2D X-ray image data are the high resolution and the fact that differences between arteries and veins are highly visible for the medical practitioner, in particular with respect to the distribution evolvement of a contrast agent within the vascular structure. These advantages of the X-ray image data are transferred into the 3D image data of the same vascular structure when applying the method of the present invention. In particular, the present invention relates to a computer-implemented medical method of 2D/3D image co-registration, a corresponding computer program, a non-transitory program storage medium storing such a program, a computer for executing the program, as well as a medical image analysing system and a radiotherapy treatment system. The method comprises the steps of providing 2D X-ray image data of a vascular structure containing a contrast agent, step S | 2021-07-29 |
20210233253 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING OBJECT - An object tracking method and apparatus are provided. The object tracking method includes detecting a target object in a first-type input image that is based on light in a first wavelength band, tracking the target object in the first-type input image based on detection information of the target object, measuring a reliability of the first-type input image by comparing the first-type image to an image in a database, comparing the reliability of the first-type input image to a threshold, and tracking the target object in a second-type input image that is based on light in a second wavelength band. | 2021-07-29 |
20210233254 | VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video image processing device comprises at least one memory configured to store instructions and, at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The at least one processor controls to display a trajectory indicating a change in a position of an object in a video image. The at least one processor controls to display an image of the object corresponding to a vicinity of the trajectory in the video image around a part of the trajectory. | 2021-07-29 |