39th week of 2018 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20180276717 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF CONTENT-LIMITED PREVIEWS FOR ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN A SHARING PLATFORM - Described are systems, media, methods, and platforms that provide an application for generating content-limited, interactive previews for electronic media. The application includes an interface allowing a content provider to upload a full electronic media and select one or more contiguous subsets of the media, a module configured to process the electronic media to restrict consumer access to the one or more contiguous subsets of the full electronic media, an interface allowing the content provider to input promotional content, a module configured to integrate the promotional content into the one or more contiguous subsets of the full electronic media to form the content-limited, interactive preview for the electronic media, and a module configured to send an invitation to the consumer to view the preview. The previews operate in a sharing economy wherein a consumer gains access to a preview by sharing an invitation with at least one other consumer. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276718 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING MACHINE-GENERATED ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and process provide a novel methodology to improve advertising performance by creating and testing new ad copy within advertisements more effectively and efficiently. The system includes an automated technology that produces a virtually unlimited number of predictably high-quality machine-generated advertisements, by combining and recombining the words and phrases (e.g., ad copy) that have proven to be most effective in previous advertisements with new words and phrases that are determined as likely to be effective based on the motivations of the target audience that will be viewing the advertisements. The novel technology is a combined order of specific rules that renders information into a specific format that is then used and applied to create desired results in the form of top performing ad copy and top performing machine-generated advertisements. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276719 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AREA OF MESSAGE OPERATION REGION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and a device for determining an area of a message operation region and an electronic device are provided. The method includes the followings. A first total delivery amount and a first user amount are acquired (S | 2018-09-27 |
20180276720 | ADVERTISING CREATIVE PROCESSING METHOD, ADVERTISING CREATIVE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A server provides an exchange platform linking requesters for creatives and creative manufacturing systems. A specification for required creatives is distributed to multiple creative manufacturing systems, and triggers parallel manufacturing of the required creatives on at least a first and a second creative manufacturing system, each proceeds with a respective portion of the required quantity of the required creatives. Before each manufacturing system completes their respective portions of the manufacturing, the server independently requests and receives, in multiple discrete batches, respective quantities of the required creatives that have been completed by the first and second creative manufacturing systems. The server performs independent and parallel verification on the respective quantities of the required creatives that have been completed by the first and second creative manufacturing systems. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276721 | REAL-TIME ADVERTISING PLACEMENT - A real-time advertisement placement method, system, and computer program product include determining focus portions for one or more advertisements, each focus portion comprising a portion of an advertisement, determining a working portion of a display area comprising a region of the display area with which a user is interacting, and displaying one or more of the focus portions for the one or more advertisements in a region of the display area outside of the working portion of the display area without redirecting user interactions to the one or more advertisements. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276722 | BROWSING SYSTEM, BROWSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A browsing system includes an information processing apparatus that executes a process including transmitting first identification information of the information processing apparatus to an image distribution apparatus, upon acquiring screen information from a device; acquiring a wide-angle image, determined based on the first identification information, and a display state of the wide-angle image; and displaying the acquired wide-angle image in the display state, and an image distribution apparatus that executes a process including referring to a storage storing the first identification information, second identification information of the wide-angle image, and the display state; referring to a storage storing an attribute of a viewer of the first identification information; determining the display state of the wide-angle image according to the attribute of the viewer determined by the first identification information acquired from the information processing apparatus; and transmitting the wide-angle image and the display state to the information processing apparatus. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING CUSTOMERS OF AGENT'S AVAILABILITY - A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for notifying customers of agent's availability is disclosed. An input indicative of a customer seeking an interaction with an agent of an enterprise is received on a first interaction channel. Subsequent to receiving the input, it is determined whether at least one agent is available for interacting with the customer. If no agent is available for interacting with the customer, a status message including an estimate of a waiting time for the interaction with the agent is provided to the customer. Subsequent to detecting the availability of the agent, a notification is provided to the customer for informing the customer of the availability of the agent. An interaction is facilitated between the customer and the agent subsequent to providing the notification to the customer. The interaction is facilitated on the first interaction channel or a second interaction channel different than the first interaction channel. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276724 | DYNAMIC REPRICING OF AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION - A method and associated e-commerce system for dynamically repricing an online subscription automatically identify a competing offer that offers a product that is equivalent to a subscribed product. If the competing offer offers a quantity of the equivalent product that is different from a quantity specified by the subscription, or if the competing offer is effective during a period of time that differs from a replenishment period of the subscription, the system automatically reconciles the differences and compares the resulting unit cost of the subscription product to the unit cost of the competing offer product. The system then determines whether it would be more beneficial to the subscriber to reprice a certain number of units of the subscription or to reprice the subscription for a certain period of time, and raises or lowers the price of the subscription accordingly as a function of this determination. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276725 | Bundling Online Content Fragments For Presentation Based on Content-Specific Metrics and Inter-Content Constraints - Embodiments are disclosed for bundling and arranging online content fragments for presentation based on content-specific metrics and inter-content constraints. For example, a content management application accesses candidate content fragments, a content-specific metric, and an inter-content constraint. The content management application computes minimum and maximum contribution values for the candidate content fragments. The content management application selects, based on the computed minimum and maximum contribution values, a subset of the candidate content fragments. The content management application applies, subject to the inter-content constraint, a bundle-selection function to the selected candidate content fragments and thereby identifies a bundle of online content fragments. The content management application outputs the identified bundle of online content fragments for presentation via an online service. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276726 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING INCORRECT PRODUCT INFORMATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DATA CATALOG - Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of determining an accuracy score for existing product information using a first set of rules that compares the existing product information for the product with product information of other internal or external sources, determining if the accuracy score exceeds a predetermined accuracy threshold, automatically replacing incorrect product information in the existing product information with correct product information from the other sources if the accuracy score does not exceed the predetermined accuracy threshold, coordinating displaying of the existing product information with the correct product information replacing the incorrect product information on a webpage for the product on a website of the online retailer. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276727 | System and Method for Automated Retrieval of Apparel Items and the Like - A computer-implemented method for automatically retrieving items for a user from an online product catalogue, the items being suitable for an upcoming calendar event, includes receiving, by a server, data from a curated list over a network, the data including curated classifications of apparel items. Trending apparel items are received by the server from selected websites for the upcoming calendar event. A deep learning module analyzes the data from the curated list and the trending apparel items to learn attributes associated with the upcoming calendar event. The server searches the online product catalogue for one or more selected apparel items which match the learned attributes. Information regarding the one or more selected apparel items is then returned to a client device of the user. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276728 | TRANSACTION FACILITATING MARKETPLACE PLATFORM - A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions, non-public shipper records, and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF A REGULATED PRODUCT - In a method for providing business to business alcohol product distribution, a distributor maintains a virtual inventory of alcohol products at a computing system, where the virtual inventory is populated by suppliers of the alcohol products. Access to the virtual inventory of alcohol products to is provided to resellers, where the alcohol products accessible to the resellers for purchase are based at least in part on sales markets and license types of the respective resellers. Responsive to a purchase request from a reseller for a particular alcohol product, a purchase of the particular alcohol product by the distributor from a supplier of the particular alcohol product is effectuated. Transport of the particular alcohol product from the supplier to the reseller is effectuated. Legal possession of the particular alcohol product is transferred from the distributor to the reseller. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276730 | VENDOR WEBSITE GUI FOR MARKETING GREETING CARDS AND ENVELOPES - A processor-based system stores different card templates in a database. Each card template has a card feature that can have any color from among a first set of colors. The system also stores, in the database, for each stored card templates, a corresponding envelope template. Each envelope template has an envelope feature that can have any color from among a second set of colors. The system receives a user selection of a card template from among the card templates and a user selection of a color to be applied to the card feature. The system displays the card template, with the card feature having the user-selected color. The system also displays the corresponding envelope template that corresponds, in the database, to the selected card template. The envelope feature is displayed with the user-selected color based on the user-selected color having been selected for the card feature. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276731 | System and Method for Automated Product Recommendations - A computer-implemented method for automated product recommendations personalized to a user browsing a webpage of an e-commerce website or web application via a computer device. Image data of one or more product items displayed on the webpage is captured responsive to user input, and then sent to a server over a network. A software module that executes on the server analyzes the image data and segments it into one or more of attributes, constituent items, or objects of the one or more product items. The software module also receives media content feeds that contain images representative of style preferences of the user. The software module selects one or more specific items from a product catalogue of the e-commerce website or web application based, in part, on a visual similarity to the images representative of the style preferences of the user. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276732 | SKIN PRODUCT FITTING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THEREFOR - A skin product fitting method and an electronic apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes following steps: capturing a skin image of a current user by using an image capturing device and analyzing the skin image to determine a skin concern; obtaining a skin type of the current user; and sorting a plurality of skin products stored in a product database at least according to the skin concern and the skin type so as to provide product information fitting a skin condition of the current user. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276733 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, an evaluation unit, and an output unit. The first acquisition unit acquires first information indicating groups of plural articles. The second acquisition unit acquires second information indicating purchase histories of the respective articles. The evaluation unit evaluates, for each group, a relationship between the articles based on the purchase histories of the articles. The output unit performs output in accordance with the evaluation by the evaluation unit. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276734 | INFORMATION PUSH METHOD AND APPARATUS, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and apparatus is described to push to-be-recommended products onto users' terminals based on similarities in the to-be-recommended products and products in the users' historical records of products. To improve the pushed recommendations various technics are applied, including: using predefined criteria to filter products provided from the users' historical records, applying temporal decay to provide real-time recommendations, removing already obtained products from the to-be-recommended products to be pushed, improving similarity calculations by determining similarity using pairwise variations between products both in and out of the candidates for to-be-recommended products, sorting the to-be-recommended product according to a preset recommendation policy, calculating pairwise variations using multiple types of similarity measures, using weights to determine the to-be-recommended products, and applying a preset recommendation policy based on a given scenario. Accordingly, the embodiments described herein avoid an excessive recommendation phenomenon (e.g., products previously obtained) and provide improved recommendations. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276735 | System and Method for Providing Location-Based and Activity-Centric Recommendations for Cleaning Products and Other Services - The present invention is a system and application that is engineered to “learn” the current location and/or activity of a user by tracking, monitoring, recording, analyzing, etc. where that user goes, as well as what that user is doing, in order to determine if they may be in an area deemed to be a “high touch surface” location and therefore more susceptible to germs and bacteria. If it is the present invention will then utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms in order to recommend to said user a variety of cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, and other such products and services for their mobile device, person, vehicle, or other such items. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276736 | SORTING AND DISPLAYING ECOMMERCE PRODUCT REVIEWS - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product sorts and displays product reviews of ecommerce products. One or more processor(s) receive product reviews for different types of ecommerce products from product reviewers. Reviewer profiles of the product reviewers, a biometric reading for a user from a biometric sensor, and a geophysical location reading for the user from a geophysical sensor are received. The biometric reading and the geophysical location reading are utilized to define a user profile of the user. The user profile is matched to a specific reviewer profile of a specific product reviewer from the product reviewers. The product reviews are sorted according to the different types of ecommerce products and the specific reviewer profile, visually modified based on the defined user profile, then displayed on an ecommerce webpage. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELAYED TRANSACTION COMPLETION - A user's payment preference and other payment information may be linked to a virtual shopping cart to later complete an e-commerce transaction for items stored in a virtual shopping cart. For example, a user may place one or more items in a virtual shopping cart and select a payment method to purchase those items. The user may then be able to select an option to link the selected payment method to the order, but delay completing the purchase by causing a payment payload to be delivered to the merchant without debiting the user's payment account. Later, the user may establish another network session with the merchant. This new session will display the incomplete purchase transaction with both the items and the linked payment method for which the merchant has already received the payment payload. The user may then complete the purchase transaction without having to re-enter payment information. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276738 | SYSTEM OF PROVIDING PRODUCT INFORMATION USING COPY/PASTE FUNCTION OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SHOPPING CART, METHOD THEREOF AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - Disclosed are a system of providing product information using a copy/paste function of an electronic commerce shopping cart, a method thereof and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon. The method can be used as an effective intercommunication means by mutual exchange of shopping lists with acquaintances or friends rather than solo shopping. Further, user convenience in purchasing products and the probability of purchasing products can be enhanced by the method. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276739 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED RETAIL AND ECOMMERCE SHOPPING PLATFORMS - Systems and methods for integrated retail and ecommerce shopping platforms. A shopping system for selling products including: a shopping facility including a primary product storage area; at least one showroom; at least one delivery location; a transport system for moving products between locations within the primary product storage area, the at least one showroom and the at least one delivery location; an inventory control system; a network server in operational communication with the inventory control system and the transport system, the network server adapted to transmit interactive shopping interface pages over a network; and a customer client device associated with one of the customers adapted to receive and display the interactive shopping interface pages, for selectively displaying product information about the products sold by the shopping system, and receiving customer input regarding the selecting and deselecting of one or more of the products for possible purchase by the customer. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276740 | Product Palletizing System - A computer-implemented product palletizing system and a method of product palletizing which includes processor in communication with a memory element containing a computer code executable to coordinate the discrete activities of one or more pickers and conveyor product sorting assembly to allocate a plurality of products to a plurality of pallets. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276741 | EQUIPMENT STAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM - In various embodiments, a method and system for staging equipment rentals is given. In association with an equipment rental facility, a specified function is identified to be performed, such as loading an equipment asset on a vehicle. Parameters associated with an equipment rental reservation are identified and assigned a value. Based on the values so assigned, staging activities can be developed and modified, determined by a rule-based mechanism. Adjustments can be made to the nature, scope and timing of staging activities based on changes in the value(s) of reservation parameters. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZATION OF RENDERING POLICIES IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, includes receiving one or more bids for at least one of an enhanced rendering quality and an enhanced rendering order of an object in a virtual universe (VU) and performing a bid resolution for the received one or more bids. Additionally, the method includes rendering one or more objects in the VU with the at least one of the enhanced rendering quality and the enhanced rendering order based on the bid resolution. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276743 | ONLINE BIDDING SYSTEM - A method and computer program product is provided for an online bidding system. The method may include receiving a plurality of bids from a plurality of online bidding communities during a live auction event at one of a primary technology provider and a relying technology provider, wherein the live auction event simultaneously occurs on a physical auction floor and virtually. The method may also include processing the plurality of bids at the primary technology provider. The method may further include providing the processed plurality of bids to a single designated clerking console associated with the primary technology provider for the live auction event. The method may also include receiving an accepted bid from the single designated clerking console. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276744 | Multicomputer Digital Data Processing to Provide Access and Process Control - Systems for controlling processing of an event are provided. A system may receive a request to initiate an event and the request may cause activation of access and process control functions of the systems. The system may receive event details and requirements may be extracted from the event details. The requirements may include data and/or document requirements necessary to process the event to completion. The event details may be compared to the extracted requirements to determine whether one or more requirements are met. If so, the event may be processed. If not, processing of the event may be suspended and the event may be transmitted to a computing device to prevent further processing of the event. Additional information may be received and evaluated to determine whether the requirements are met. If so, the system may transmit an instruction to the computing device to release the event for further processing. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276745 | Auditing of Mortgage Documents - Auditing of mortgage documents is faster and simpler. An electronic mortgage application often contains or references a collection of many separate electronic mortgage documents. Electronic data representing an original version of an electronic mortgage document and its current version may be hashed to generate digital signatures. Any auditor may then quickly compare the digital signatures. If the digital signatures match, then the audit reveals that the electronic mortgage document has not changed since its creation. However, if the digital signatures do not match, then the electronic mortgage document has changed since its creation. The auditor may thus flag the electronic mortgage document for additional auditing processes. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276746 | Known Nearest Neighbor (KNN) - Systems and methods of improving the operation of a transaction network and transaction network devices is disclosed. A lightning KNN host may comprise various modules and engines as discussed herein wherein lookalike records may be identified whereby the speed of the lightning KNN network may be enhanced and the accuracy and precision of results improved whereby the transaction network more properly functions according to approved parameters. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276747 | CARD REGISTRY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A card registry system is configured to automatically identify financial card information in one or more credit files associated with a consumer and populate a card registry account of the consumer with the identified financial card information. Once the financial card information has been obtained from the credit file(s), the card registry system may transmit cancellation and/or reissuance requests to the respective card issuers in the instance that one or more cards are compromised, so that the financial cards may be easily and efficiently cancelled and/or reissued at the request of the consumer. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276748 | OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREDIT SCORE OF USER - An optimization method for obtaining a user credit score is provided. The method includes obtaining initial credit scores of users in multiple social-network user sets; obtaining initial credit scores of the social-network user sets according to the initial credit scores of the users; and determining a social-network relationship between each two social-network user sets according to a social-network relationship between the users in each two social-network user sets. The method also includes, according to a credit score of at least one social-network user set having a social-network relationship with a target social-network user set and the social-network relationship between the at least one social-network user set and the target social-network user set, optimizing and adjusting a credit score of the target social-network user set; and correcting credit scores of users in the target social-network user set according to the optimized and adjusted credit score of the target social-network user set. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276749 | MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME TRADING SIGNAL WITHIN A DESIGNATED TIME FRAME - A computer system manages a multi-disciplinary comprehensive real-time trading signal within a designated time frame. A classical computer apparatus includes a processor; a memory; and a media management application that is stored in the memory and executable by the processor; a quantum optimizer in operative communication with the classical computer apparatus, where the quantum optimizer includes a quantum processor; and a quantum memory; where the media management application is configured for transmitting historical media information and historical product information to the quantum optimizer; and where the quantum optimizer is configured for receiving the historical media information and historical product information; and analyzing the historical media information and historical product information to determine one or more indicative attributes that may be indicative of product pricing movement. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276750 | Methods for modeling credit risk metrics of publicly traded companies in a shot noise market - Computer-implemented methods are proposed for modeling credit risk metrics of publicly traded companies. The company is characterized with an asset value modeled by superposition of two Geometric Shot Noise random processes. The credit risk metrics include Probability of Default, Distance to Default, Credit Spread, Expected Credit Loss, and Recovery Rate. The proposed analytical structural default model is designed based on options pricing equation obtained by using superposition of two Geometric Shot Noise processes with market memory. The methods define three modes for calculating the credit risk metrics: a double jump mode, a jump-diffusion mode, a diffusion mode. Each mode is characterized with market memory due to autocorrelation of stock price returns empirically observed in the markets. Market memory has two limitation cases: long memory and short memory. For each of the above modes, the long memory case initiates a coherent sub-mode, while the short memory case initiates a memoryless sub-mode. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276751 | COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL BASED MESSAGE IDENTIFICATION TRANSMISSION - A data transaction processing system receives electronic data transaction request messages from client computers over a data communication network and augments each message with hardware level data, and generates a monotonically increasing identification number for each electronic data transaction request message based on the hardware level data. The data transaction processing system transmits the identification number to the client computer utilizing transport layer protocols. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276752 | Visual Depiction of Warnings and Errors - Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media disclosed herein provide visual depictions of warnings and errors. An example method includes detecting, using a computing device, a change in a design of a trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is defined by a user-specified arrangement of blocks representing trading functionality. The example method includes determining, using the computing device, whether the trading algorithm complies with a trading algorithm rule. The example method includes facilitating, using the computing device, at least one of warning handling or error handling when the trading algorithm does not comply with the trading algorithm rule. Facilitating warning handling or error handling includes displaying a warning or an error to the user in connection with the trading algorithm before the trading algorithm is available for execution. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276753 | EXCHANGE FEED FOR TRADE REPORTING HAVING REDUCED REDUNDANCY - The disclosed embodiments relate to communication of financial messages from an Exchange to market participants whereby messages, or at least a portion of the content thereof, indicative of changes in the market, due to one or more trades between two or more market participants, are structured so as to reduce redundant data therein and prioritize the transmission of that portion of the message which summarizes the event and result thereof. Further, these event reporting messages may further consolidate, or otherwise be combined with, the corresponding directed reporting messages communicated to the particular market participants participating in the reported trade while preserving the anonymity of those market participants to which messages are particularly directed. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276754 | RANK PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention provides a system for a non-seasoned user to make superior investment decisions by providing a system for the non-seasoned user to build an investment portfolio wherein the selection of the components is rules-based and ranked for effectiveness. The system of the present invention also provides a trading mechanism that further incorporates changes and alerts for an optimized portfolio management. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276755 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND ANALYZING FINANCIAL CORRELATION DATA - A method for displaying a matrix of correlations or other statistical measures of co-movement associated with a plurality of financial instruments, portfolios, indices, or asset classes is disclosed. The method includes: converting the matrix of correlations or other co-movement measures into a probability transition matrix; defining a corresponding abstract distance measurement between any two of the plurality of financial instruments, portfolios, indices, or asset classes based on the probability transition matrix; assigning coordinates in a Euclidean space to each of the plurality of financial instruments, portfolios, indices, or asset classes, wherein a Euclidean distance between any two financial instruments, portfolios, indices, or asset classes in the Euclidean space corresponds to the corresponding abstract distance measurement; and displaying on a display device the plurality of financial instruments, portfolios, indices, or asset classes based on more significant dimensions of the Euclidean space. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276756 | PROCESSING SECURITIES-RELATED INFORMATION - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for improving clarity of disclosure materials provided to investors, by enabling securities issuers, intermediaries and/or other entities to create and disseminate clear and concise summary-level information on individual securities to investors to enable informed investment decisions. The information may include a summary version of the full statutory prospectus (a “summary prospectus”). A summary prospectus may include a concise, “plain English” synopsis and/or representation of certain information contained in the full statutory prospectus, such as a security's investment objectives and strategies, costs, risks and/or other information. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276757 | Methods and Apparatus for Improving Factor Risk Model Responsiveness - Construction of factor risk models that better predict the future volatility of returns of a portfolio of securities such as stocks, bonds, or the like is addressed. More specifically, improved factor-factor covariance estimation is made even when the covariances change rapidly over time. Methods and techniques for achieving better accuracy, responsiveness, and stability of factor risk models are addressed. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276758 | TRANSACTION EFFECTS - A method comprising creating and storing, in computer memory, a financial graph having nodes and edges, wherein the nodes include first nodes representing assets and second nodes representing any one or more of accounts in which one or more of the assets are held, individuals who own one or more of the assets, or legal entities who own one or more of the assets; obtaining, from an asset custodian data source, asset transaction data associated with one or more of the assets represented by the first nodes of the financial graph; transforming the asset transaction data into one or more stored transaction objects, wherein each transaction object is associated with a plurality of transaction effect objects; wherein each of the plurality of transaction effect objects is associated with a particular edge in the financial graph and represents one of a credit to an account type associated with the particular edge and a debit from an account type associated with the particular edge. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276759 | ADAPTIVE, SELF-OPTIMIZING, LEVERAGED CAPACITY SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF - Proposed is an adaptive, layered, automated risk-transfer system and method thereof, with a self-optimizing, increased leveraged capacity and enhanced drop-down cover structure with a plurality of adjustable risk-transfer layers. If a triggered risk-event is assignable to either of the top risk-transfer layer or the bottom risk-transfer layer of the drop-down cover structure, a shared exhaustion factor is generated based on the assigned risk-transfer layer and based on a cover of the loss associated with the triggered risk event. The shared exhaustion factor is applied mutually to both layers by the system eroding both layers by the same exhaustion factor. The top layer and the bottom layer are reinstatable by a corresponding generated normalized reinstatement parameter values normalized over both layers and based on a thus provided shared limit and the erosion of the top layer and the bottom layer. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276760 | MACHINE-VISION-BASED ELECTRONIC AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE FEE METER - The present invention provides a machine-vision-based electronic automobile insurance fee meter. The machine-vision-based electronic automobile insurance fee meter can capture a lane departure behavior, and record a distance and duration of a lane departure in a memory module; also can capture a following-too-close behavior, and record a distance and duration of dangerous following in the memory module; and also can calculate a journey-based mileage insurance fee, a total mileage insurance fee P being a product of a mileage L of a journey, a unit mileage (per kilometer) insurance rate R | 2018-09-27 |
20180276761 | Object Oriented Framework for Modelling Financial Transactions via a Communication Medium - A method and system that enables the representation of financial transactions via the Internet or a downloadable computer program is described. Users of the system draw up a transaction diagram consisting of boxes and arrows representing parties to the transaction and existing and proposed financial relationships between them. By means of contextual menus users can select from a range of related financial instruments which the arrows represent. The user is able to enter terms of the financial instruments through a grid and obtain (i) links to relevant legal topics available through an independent subscription service and (ii) standard documentation based on the details he has entered. The transaction diagram can be saved as a file for later access. Users include investors, arrangers and borrowers in the financial markets as well as advisors such as lawyers and accountants. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276762 | SECURE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM - A secure data collection system includes a centralized management server, a first data collection system including a plurality of computing devices communicating with each other and a first communication interface connected to a public network, and a second data collection system including a plurality of computing devices communicating with each other and a second communication interface connected to the public network. The management server is connected to the public network and configured to enhance security of the first data collected and transmitted through the first communication interface by the first data collection system and second data collected and transmitted through the second communication interface by the second data collection system while converting the first data and the second data into composite data. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276763 | Hybrid Electronic Lockbox - A method of managing an electric lockbox, such as to reduce processing times associated with remittance processing, may include receiving, by one or more computing devices at a financial institution, a batch file and/or one or more physical remittances at lockbox associated with a payee, the batch file and any physical remittances comprising information associated with a plurality of financial transactions between one or more payors and the payee. The one or more computing devices may then determine whether at least a portion of the information corresponds to a payee preference. A report may be communicated to the payee, the report including a record of the plurality of financial transactions as a set of documents corresponding to the payee preference. In some cases, the report may include at least a portion of the remittance information associated with the plurality of financial transactions deposited into an account associated with the payee. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276764 | LOCATION-BASED TRACKING SYSTEM - Described is identifying entities based at least in part on the location of a user device. A server or the user device will determine the location of the user device and/or whether there are any beacons, such as proximity beacons, in the vicinity. The server or the user device will then determine where the user is and if there are any identifiable entities within a certain distance to that location. In performing these steps, the server and/or the user device may access a database for the geographical area. The user device will then receive information related to a function as indicated by the user, such as the facilitation of a donation, a non-obligated payment, or an obligated payment to the entity. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276765 | COMPUTERISED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHING - A method of providing page content options for user-selection to personalise pages of a publication for digital printing, the method being operable using a computerised system, and the method including the steps of: (i) prescribing parameters for page content associated with pages of the publication to be digitally printed; (ii) communicating the prescribed page content parameters to a plurality of content contributors; and (iii) receiving page content produced by the plurality of content contributors in response to the prescribed parameters communicated thereto; wherein, the received page content produced by the plurality of content contributors is able to be presented as page content options for user-selection to personalise pages of the publication for digital printing. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276766 | AUTOMATIC JOURNALIZING DEVICE FOR TRANSACTION DETAILS, AUTOMATIC JOURNALIZING METHOD, AND AUTOMATIC JOURNALIZING PROGRAM - An automatic journalizing device includes a collation unit that collates the content of journalizing target detail data which is input by a detail data input unit with the content of already journalized detail data stored in a detail data storage unit, so as to determine whether or not a determination item matches each other, and an automatic journalizing unit that sets the same account title as an account title set for the already journalized detail data, for the journalizing target detail data, in a case where it is determined that matching occurs. By using already journalized detail data for which an account title is already set without using a correspondence table related to a keyword, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a problem that accurate automatic journalizing cannot be performed since there is no keyword of the correspondence table or a plurality of keywords are included. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276767 | BUILDING ENERGY SPLIT CALCULATION AND VISUALIZATION - A computer-implemented method of splitting whole building energy consumption includes collecting sensor data from a plurality Variable Air Volume (VAV) boxes in a building, an electric meter in the building, and a gas meter in the building. The total heating energy consumption is split across a plurality of zones within the building using the sensor data, thereby yielding heating energy consumption for each zone. The total cooling energy consumption is split across the plurality of zones using the sensor data, thereby yielding cooling energy consumption for each zone and the total ventilation energy consumption is split across the plurality of zones using the sensor data, thereby yielding ventilation energy consumption for each zone. Zone energy consumption by aggregating the heating energy consumption for the zone, the cooling energy consumption for the zone, and the ventilation energy consumption for the zone. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276768 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a mode setting acceptance unit that accepts a setting of a time to control a plurality of devices, on the basis of a mode in which operation contents of the devices are set, and an execution unit that outputs the operation contents of the plurality of devices at the set time. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276769 | CASHLESS TIPPING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A gratuity is electronically transferred to at least one gratuity recipient. In the gratuity transfer process, a marker item is read. The marker item contains recipient data that identifies the recipient or recipients. A monetary amount for the gratuity is selected by the person giving the gratuity. That person also approves a funds transfer transaction for transferring the monetary amount to the recipient or recipients | 2018-09-27 |
20180276770 | RESTAURANT TABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A restaurant table management system including: a processing subsystem having a processor, a memory, an input device and an input/output device; an imaging device for recording activity of a patron and contents on a table; a theme park database storing information regarding past orders and future activities associated with patrons frequenting the restaurant, each of the patrons having a specific identification code for identifying a given patron; and a user device which receives and transmits information to the processing subsystem. The user device inputs the identification code associated with a given patron and transmits the identification code to the processing subsystem, and the processor retrieves the information stored in the theme park database associated with the identification code of the given patron, and predicts service needs of the patron based on the activity of patron and data contained in the theme park database associated with the given patron. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276771 | System and Method for Making Reservations in a Hospitality Establishment - A system and method for making reservations in a hospitality establishment are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a database includes multiple the media source files relative to guest room spaces within a room. A server which handles reservations renders a map view of the hospitality establishment based on obtained map data. The map view includes a graphical representation of the room as well as other rooms. In response to the room being selected, the graphical representation of the selected room is annotated with room reservation data and at least one of the media source files of the selected room. The server may execute a reservation for the selected room. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276772 | TOUR MATCHING AND GENERATING SYSTEM WITH METHOD - A tour matching and generating system with method includes a platform for intelligent tour product booking and price comparison allowing users to customize tour products and request quotes in a timely manner. The tour matching and generating system uses browsing history and purchasing history to create customized user-preference oriented tour products. A tour route is intelligently created by the system based on user preference pattern combined with a result from big data analytics. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING MILEAGE TICKETS TO TAKE AIRPLANES - A system of using mileage ticket to take airplanes includes: a store for selling mileage tickets; a flight service provider for providing service of using mileage tickets to take airplanes; and a plurality of user ends, each being used by a passenger to purchase a specific amount of mileages from the store. The passenger requests the flight service provider to exchange some of the specific amount of mileages for a desired mileage ticket. The desired mileage ticket involves at least one flight segment provided by at least one airline. The at least one flight segment includes a flight distance between a departure airport and a destination airport. The flight service provider uses the flight distance to directly correspond to an amount of mileages required to purchase the desired mileage ticket. As being based on the distance between two cities, the ticket price is always constant and easy for inquiry. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276774 | RENTABLE MULTIPURPOSE PRIVATE FACILITY AND METHOD OF USE - Embodiments for a rentable multipurpose private facility and method of use are provided. The facility includes frontend space, a backend space, a plurality of customization options, and a point-of-sale system. Generally speaking, these components are structured such that the facility includes a frontend space and a backend space with the point-of-sale system located in the frontend space. The method includes displaying information identifying reservation option, reserving a rentable multipurpose private facility, displaying information identifying configuration selection options for the rentable multipurpose private facility, receiving the configuration selection, displaying information identifying payment selection options, receiving payment selection, in response to receiving payment selection, configuring and furnishing the rentable multipurpose private facility according to the configuration selection, displaying information identifying selection of purchasable services and items for the rentable multipurpose private facility, and preserving the configuration selection for continued use at a later date. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276775 | SPACE UTILIZATION AND BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS - Devices, methods, and systems for space utilization and building management system analysis are described herein. One apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to receive data collected by a plurality of different types of existing systems associated with a facility, analyze a space utilization of the facility using the received data, and provide the analysis of the space utilization of the facility to a user. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276776 | Process and system in which a person can attend an event like a funeral remotely. - The current invention is system and application that can provide live streaming of an event like funeral services to unite loved ones separated by distance. The system, in the preferred embodiment, can work like a smartphone application or a website application. Users can pay their respects and be part of the service from their cell phone or tablets. The system allows users to filter for local funeral homes, find the service information they need and pass on their respects and condolences. If they can't attend for any reason, they can watch the service through the system's live streaming network, which is password protected and secure. The system will further provides a one-stop platform for friends and relatives to donate money or flowers for the event. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276777 | INTELLIGENCE BASED METHOD AND PLATFORM FOR AGGREGATING, STORING AND ACCESSING FOOD SAFETY COURSES, CONTENT AND RECORDS - A method and platform for providing access to a plurality of food safety related course, content and resources. The computer program product embodiment has a front end for user access and a back end being a repository for a plurality of food safety courses, content or links thereto. The front end is coupled to the back end over a transport facility, the front end having a user interface. The invention further comprises an analytics engine coupled between the front end and the back end for analyzing data received from the end user and based thereon, filtering which of the plurality of food safety courses, content or links are most appropriate for the end user. The invention uses blockchain technology to secure end user records and certifications. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276778 | DUPLICATE IMAGE EVIDENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY - The present disclosure relates to a duplicate image evidence management system for verifying authentication and integrity, the duplicate image evidence management system being capable of verifying that a duplicate image has authentication and integrity when an original image generated by an image storage device is copied by an image collecting device. The duplicate image evidence management system according to the present disclosure includes: an image generating unit for generating an original image; a hash generating unit for generating an original hash value for the original image; a hash checking unit for checking whether the original hash value is changed; and a duplicate image generating unit for copying the original image so as to generate a first duplicate image and generating a first hash value for the first duplicate image, when it is checked by the hash checking unit that the original hash value is not changed. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276779 | Model Determination Devices and Model Determination Methods - According to various embodiments, a model determination device may be provided. The model determination device may include: a receiving circuit configured to receive manufacturing data related to a product and carrier data related to transporting the product; and a determination circuit configured to determine a model of an impact of the transporting of the product based on the manufacturing data and based on the carrier data. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RIDESHARING - A system and method for providing a reliable rideshare scheduling service rideshare fault tolerant watchdog system that may be reliant on other on-demand rideshare facilities or underlying rideshare sub-systems. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276781 | PARAMETER ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON STRENGTH CHANGE - In an example, a capture system includes a content capture mechanism, an isolation engine, a mark strength engine, and a parameter controller. In that example, the isolation engine generates mark data, the mark strength engine identifies a first variance level in a first region of a first set of mark data, and the parameter controller adjusts a parameter of the content capture mechanism in accordance with a strength change based on a comparison of the first variance level to a second variance level in a first region of a second set of mark data. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276782 | HIERARCHICAL WATERMARK DETECTOR - The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking. One aspect of the disclosure includes a method comprising: obtaining data representing imagery; using one or more configured processors, analyzing a plurality of portions of the data to detect a redundantly embedded watermark signal, the analyzing producing detection statistics for each of the plurality of portions, the detection statistics comprising a payload signature, a rotation angle and a scale factor for each portion of the plurality of portions; accumulating payload signatures based on compatible rotation angles and scale factors, said accumulating yielding an accumulated payload signature; and decoding a plural-bit payload from the accumulated payload signature. Of course, many other aspects and disclosure are provided in this patent document. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276783 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit; an acquisition unit that acquires at least two images having different exposures; a compression unit that acquires at least two compressed images; a transmission unit that transmits the at least two compressed images; a composition unit that generates a composite image by compositing the transmitted at least two compressed images; and a luminance distribution acquisition unit that acquires luminance distribution information of the composite image, the acquisition unit controlling exposure of the at least two images based on the luminance distribution information acquired by the luminance distribution acquisition unit, and the compression unit performing the compression processing of the at least two images based on the luminance distribution information and the exposure of the at least two images. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276784 | EFFICIENT PARALLEL ALGORITHM FOR INTEGRAL IMAGE COMPUTATION FOR MANY-CORE CPUS - Techniques are provided herein for generating an integral image of an input image in parallel across the cores of a multi-core processor. The input image is split into a plurality of tiles, each of which is stored in a scratchpad memory associated with a distinct core. At each tile, a partial integral image of the tile is first computed over the tile, using a Single-Pass Algorithm. This is followed by aggregating partial sums belonging to subsets of tiles using a 2D Inclusive Parallel Prefix Algorithm. A summation is finally performed over the aggregated partial sums to generate the integral image over the entire input image. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276785 | OPTIMAL DATA SAMPLING FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS - One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving image data with a first image resolution, and determining an optimal image resolution for sampling the image data based on a learned model. The optimal image resolution is lower than the first image resolution. The method further comprises sampling the image data at the optimal image resolution, and performing image analysis on sampled image data resulting from the sampling. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276786 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING - A data processing system replicates the operation of a target graphics processor using a graphics processor of the data processing system. A driver for the target graphics processor converts higher level commands and program expressions intended for the target graphics processor into lower level control data and instructions suitable for use by the target graphics processor. The lower level control data and instructions suitable for use by the target graphics processor are then converted into lower level control data and instructions for the graphics processor of the data processing system. The graphics processor of the data processing system then generates an output using the lower level control data and instructions for the graphics processor of the data processing system. The data processing system provides an efficient and comprehensive testing environment when replicating the operation of the target graphics processor. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276787 | MULTIPLE STAGE MEMORY LOADING FOR A THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOOK UP TABLE USED FOR GAMUT MAPPING - A processor is configured to store color component values associated with a first subset of vertices of a three-dimensional (3-D) look up table (LUT) in a first subset of memory elements. The color component values are defined according to a destination gamut. A data select module is configured to access the color component values from the first subset of the memory elements concurrently with the processor storing color component values associated with a second subset of the vertices of the 3-D LUT in a second subset of the memory elements. The data select module is configured to access the color component values from the first and second subsets of the memory elements in response to the processor storing the color component values associated with the second subset of the vertices of the 3-D LUT in the second subset of the memory elements. This process can be extended to additional subsets. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND ENCODING PROJECTION-BASED FRAME WITH 360-DEGREE CONTENT REPRESENTED IN PROJECTION FACES PACKED IN SEGMENTED SPHERE PROJECTION LAYOUT - A video processing method includes receiving an omnidirectional content corresponding to a sphere, generating a projection-based frame according to at least the omnidirectional content and a segmented sphere projection (SSP) format, and encoding, by a video encoder, the projection-based frame to generate a part of a bitstream. The projection-based frame has a | 2018-09-27 |
20180276789 | SPHERE EQUATOR PROJECTION FOR EFFICIENT COMPRESSION OF 360-DEGREE VIDEO - Provided are systems and methods for processing 360-degree video data. In various implementations, a spherical representation of a 360-degree video frame can be segmented into a top region, a bottom region, and a middle region. Using a cylindrical equal area projection, such as the Lambert cylindrical equal area projection, the middle region can be mapped into one or more rectangular areas of an output video frame. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276790 | SINGLE PASS FLEXIBLE SCREEN/SCALE RASTERIZATION - An apparatus, such as a head mounted device (HMD), includes one or more processors configured to implement a graphics pipeline that renders pixels in window space with a nonuniform pixel spacing. The apparatus also includes a first distortion function that maps the non-uniformly spaced pixels in window space to uniformly spaced pixels in raster space. The apparatus further includes a scan converter configured to sample the pixels in window space through the first distortion function. The scan converter is configured to render display pixels used to generate an image for display to a user based on the uniformly spaced pixels in raster space. In some cases, the pixels in the window space are rendered such that a pixel density per subtended area is constant across the user's field of view. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276791 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a thumbnail image generator that generates thumbnail image from content data formed of a plurality of pages, an instruction accepting section that accepts a page switching instruction, a rendering processor that generates image data to be displayed by a projector apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus, a communication section that communicates with the projector apparatus, and a controller that controls generation of data to be transmitted to the projector apparatus. The controller determines, upon acceptance of the switching instruction, the thumbnail image, transmits thumbnail image data representing the determined thumbnail image to the projector apparatus via the communication section, and then transmits high-resolution image data corresponding to the thumbnail image to the projector apparatus via the communication section. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEWARPING IMAGES - A computer-implemented method comprises: extracting a setting from a description file of a virtual pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera used to capture an original image through a wide-angle lens; determining a first set of coordinates of a pixel of the original image for each cell of a sparse conversion map represented as a first look-up table, wherein the sparse conversion map corresponds to a sparse grid of pixels of an output image; determining, via interpolating the first set of coordinates, a second set of coordinates of a pixel of the original image for each cell of a full conversion map, wherein the second set of coordinates is represented as a second look-up table, wherein the full conversion map corresponds to a full grid of pixels of the output image; instructing a display to present the output image, wherein the original image is less rectilinear than the output image. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276793 | AUTONOMOUS PERFORMANCE OF AN OPERATION ON AN OBJECT USING A GENERATED DENSE 3D MODEL OF THE OBJECT - A method for performing an operation on an object includes capturing a plurality of images of the object. Each image is a different view of the object. The method also includes generating a sparse 3D point cloud from the plurality of images. The sparse 3D point cloud defines a 3D model of the object. The sparse 3D point cloud includes a multiplicity of missing points that each correspond to a hole in the 3D model that renders the 3D model unusable for performing the operation on the object. The method additionally includes performing curvature-based upsampling to generate a denser 3D point cloud. The denser 3D point cloud includes a plurality of filled missing points. The missing points are filled from performance of the curvature-based upsampling. The denser 3D point cloud defines a dense 3D model that is useable for performing the operation on the object. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276794 | VIDEO RESOLUTION UP-CONVERSION METHOD AND DEVICE - This application discloses a method and an apparatus for lifting video resolution, where an initial magnified signal obtained by performing upsampling on an original signal is decomposed into two parts, that is, a first signal and a second signal by means of forward wavelet transform, where the first signal and the original signal have the same volume, and high-frequency information in the original signal is preserved; then the first signal is enhanced, so that enhancement on the first signal is transferred to the second signal by performing inverse wavelet transform on the second signal and the enhanced first signal, to compensate high frequency loss in the second signal, that is, high-frequency information of an entire final magnified signal obtained through inverse wavelet transform is compensated relative to the initial magnified signal, so that a magnified image corresponding to the final magnified signal can better preserve high-frequency information of an original image, vagueness of the magnified image is reduced or even eliminated, and definition of an entire video is improved. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276795 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A display control device for a vehicle is mounted on a host vehicle, and the display control device for a vehicle is configured to generate a non-rectangular image from a rectangular image of an area located rearward of the host vehicle, the rectangular image being captured by a capturing unit mounted on the host vehicle, and display the non-rectangular image in a rectangular display area of a display unit. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276796 | Method and device for deblurring out-of-focus blurred images - The present application provides a method and a device for deblurring an out-of-focus blurred image: first, a preset blur kernel is used to carry out blurring processing on an input original image to obtain a re-blurred image. The blur amounts of pixels in an edge area of the original image are estimated according to the change of the image edge information in the blurring processing procedure to obtain a sparse blur amount diagram. The blur amounts of pixels in a non-edge area of the original image are estimated according to the parse blur amount diagram to obtain a complete blur amount diagram. Deblurring processing is carried out according to the complete blur amount diagram to obtain a deblurred image. In the method and device provided by the present invention, since a blur amount diagram is obtained based on the change of edge information after image blurring, the blur amount diagram can be more accurate, so that the quality of a deblurred image is improved. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276797 | COMPLEX ARCHITECTURE FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - A system allows for editing images. The system accepts a first image including multiple pixels with corresponding pixel information as an input. The system divides the first image into multiple segmented regions based on the pixel information. The system identifies a segmented image from a first segmented region of the segmented regions. The system accepts a template image comprising an image rendering parameter as another input. The system generates a second image corresponding to the first image based on the template image and the segmented image. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276798 | Motion Imagery Corner Point Sequencer - A computer-implemented method for ordering vertices in an image frame within a data stream, wherein the image frame corresponds to Earth-viewing data. A point of intersection of a primary pair of lines is determined and loaded into computer memory, and interrogated as to a sign of a signed remainder with respect to each of two secondary lines defined by the pairwise ordered sets of vertices. In the case of opposite remainder sign with respect to the two secondary lines, two provisional indices are swapped to obtain a rectified index for each of the four vertices. The process is repeated with respect to the signed remainder of the intersection point of the secondary lines relative to the primary lines. The four vertices are then fit, in accordance with index ordering, into a tiling of the surface of the Earth based on the rectified index of each of the four vertices. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276799 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor operatively coupled to a memory, serving as an obtaining unit configured to obtain a contrast material-enhanced image of an object a first region extraction unit configured to extract a first region representing a first region representing a first anatomical portion of the object from the image, and an estimation unit configured to estimate a state of the image concerning a temporal change in gray level from the first region. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276800 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SOURCE DYNAMIC RANGE PROCESSING OF PANORAMIC CONTENT - Apparatus and methods for source dynamic range processing of panoramic and/or spherical imaging content. In one exemplary embodiment, apparatus and methods are disclosed in which capturing the aforementioned panoramic and/or spherical imaging content in a source dynamic range, receiving a viewport position for the panoramic and/or spherical imaging content, stitching (if necessary) the panoramic and/or spherical imaging content in the source dynamic range, and rendering the viewport in the source dynamic range. In a variant, the viewport in the source dynamic range is developed into a display dynamic range, encoded in the display dynamic range and shared with a viewer of the viewport. In another variant, the rendered viewport in the source dynamic range is encoded in the source dynamic range, transmitted and decoded in the source dynamic range and rendered in the display dynamic range. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276801 | DYNAMIC RANGE CODING FOR IMAGES AND VIDEO - For obtaining an good yet easy to use luminance dynamic range conversion, we describe an HDR video decoder ( | 2018-09-27 |
20180276802 | CONTRAST-ENHANCED REPRODUCTION OF SPECTRAL CT IMAGE DATA - A method is for setting a contrast of a multi-energy CT image representation. In an embodiment of the method, a plurality of multispectral image datasets of an examination region of a patient are received. Furthermore, an automated identification of a structure to be examined is achieved based upon the multispectral image datasets and an automated combining of the differently weighted multispectral image datasets is accomplished such that the contrast between the structure to be examined and its environment is improved compared to a uniform weighting. Further, a multi-energy CT imaging method is described. An image setting device is also described. In addition, a computed tomography system is described. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276803 | IMAGE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON LOCALLY FLAT SCENES - Imaging systems and methods are disclosed that use locally flat scenes to adjust image data. An imaging system includes an array of photodetectors configured to produce an array of intensity values corresponding to light intensity at the photodetectors. The imaging system can be configured to acquire a frame of intensity values, or an image frame, and analyze the image frame to determine if it is locally flat. If the image frame is locally flat, then that image data can be used to determine gradients present in the image frame. An offset mask can be determined from the image data and that offset mask can be used to adjust subsequently acquired image frames to reduce or remove gradients. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276804 | ENHANCING IMAGES - A method of enhancing an image includes constructing an input histogram corresponding to an input image received at a focal plane array, the input histogram representing a pixel intensity distribution corresponding to the input image and performing an analytical operation on the input histogram to produce a modified cumulative distribution, wherein the analytical operation is a function of camera temperature. The input image is transformed using the modified cumulative distribution to produce an enhanced output image corresponding to the input image, wherein at least a portion of the input image is enhanced in the output image. In addition to or in lieu of the non-linear operation, the binning edges of the input histogram can be adjusted based on at least one of camera temperature and sensitivity state to construct an adjusted cumulative distribution. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276805 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Stereo Vision - A method and apparatus for segmenting an image are provided. The method may include the steps of clustering pixels from one of a plurality of images into one or more segments, determining one or more unstable segments changing by more than a predetermined threshold from a prior of the plurality of images, determining one or more segments transitioning from an unstable to a stable segment, determining depth for one or more of the one or more segments that have changed by more than the predetermined threshold, determining depth for one or more of the one or more transitioning segments, and combining the determined depth for the one or more unstable segments and the one or more transitioning segments with a predetermined depth of all segments changing less than the predetermined threshold from the prior of the plurality of images. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276806 | METHOD FOR DETECTING COORDINATES, COORDINATE OUTPUT DEVICE AND DEFECT INSPECTION DEVICE - A method for detecting coordinates includes detecting a first position in an inspection target placed on a placement surface of an inspection stage and a second position in the inspection target separated from the first position. A coordinate shift from the first position to the second position includes a first shift component in a first direction taken along the placement surface, and a second shift component in a second direction taken along the placement surface and crossing the first direction. The method further includes calculating a coordinate in the first direction of the second position using a first function, the first function including the first shift component and the second shift component as variables; and calculating a coordinate in the second direction of the second position using a second function, the second function including the first shift component and the second shift component as variables. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276807 | Machine-Learning Measurements of Quantitative Feature Attributes - A computer system may train and use a machine-learning model to quantitatively analyze an image. In particular, the computer system may generate the machine-learning model based on a set of reference images that include content with instances of a quantitative feature attribute and one or more feedback metrics that specify locations of the instances of the quantitative feature attribute in the reference images and numerical values associated with the instances of the quantitative feature attribute. Then, after receiving the image from an electronic device, the computer system may analyze the image using the machine-learning model to perform measurements of one or more additional instances of the quantitative feature attribute in the image. Moreover, the computer system may provide a measurement result for the image, the measurement result including a second numerical value associated with the one or more additional instances of the quantitative feature attribute in the image. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276808 | Dynamic Care Areas for Defect Detection - Systems and methods of a two-pass inspection methodology that dynamically creates micro care areas for inspection of repeater defects. Micro care areas can be formed around each location of a repeater defect. After inspection, additional repeater defects in the micro care areas can be identified. Attributes of the repeater defects can be compared and any repeater defects with attributes that deviate from an expected group attribute distribution can be classified as nuisance. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276809 | METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES FROM METALLIC NANOWIRES - A method for distinguishing semiconducting nanowires from metallic nanowires is related and including: applying nanowires on a substrate; making a metal electrode on the substrate and electrically connected to the nanowires; taking a SEM image of the nanowires and the metal electrode, wherein the SEM image comprises light segments, and each light segment corresponds to one nanowire; and comparing length of each light segment with length of corresponding one nanowire, when the first length is same as the second length, the corresponding one nanowires is a metallic nanowire; when the first length is shorter than the second length, the corresponding one nanowire is a semiconducting nanowire. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276810 | STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING EMPLOYING PHYSICS MODELS - A method for detecting structural defects is provided. The method includes generating a first probabilistic map of a critical location of a structural component based on a physics model of the critical location and capturing data of the critical location. The method also includes generating a second probabilistic map based on an analysis of the captured data of the critical location, aligning the first probabilistic map and the second probabilistic map, combining the aligned first and second probabilistic maps, and determining if the structural component includes a structural defect based on the combined probabilistic maps. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276811 | AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An automatic optical inspection system includes a first AOI machine and a second AOI machine, and the second AOI machine is electrically connected to the first AOI machine. The first AOI machine is configured to use a first resolution to inspect an object, so as to detect a possible defective region(s) of the object. The second AOI machine is configured to use a second resolution higher than the first resolution of the first AOI machine to inspect within the possible defective region(s) only, so as to detect whether there is/are any defect(s) within the possible defective region(s) of the object. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276812 | CORRECTION METHOD, CORRECTION APPARATUS, AND INSPECTION APPARATUS - A correction method according to an embodiment includes illuminating an object to be inspected by using critical illumination by illumination light L | 2018-09-27 |
20180276813 | WEAKLY SUPERVISED PROBABILISTIC ATLAS GENERATION THROUGH MULTI-ATLAS LABEL FUSION - In many medical image classification problems, distinctive image features are often localized in certain anatomical regions. The key to efficient and accurate classification in such problems is the localization of the region of interest (ROI). To address this problem, a multi-atlas label fusion technique was developed for automatic ROI detection. Given training images with class labels, the present method infers voxel-wise scores for each image showing how distinctive each voxel is for categorizing the image. The present method for ROI segmentation and for class specific ROI patch extraction in a 2D cardiac CT body part classification application was applied and shows the effectiveness of the detected ROIs. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276814 | TISSUE IDENTIFICATION BY AN IMAGING SYSTEM USING COLOR INFORMATION - In one embodiment, an imaging device determines color information for a portion of organic tissue from one or more captured color images of the tissue. The imaging device identifies one or more optical properties of the portion of tissue based on the determined color information. The imaging device adjusts fluorescence data captured via one or more fluorescence images of the portion of organic tissue. The imaging device provides the adjusted fluorescence data to an electronic display for display. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276815 | Highly Integrated Annotation and Segmentation System for Medical Imaging - A method for training a segmentation correction model includes performing an iterative model training process over a plurality of iterations. During each iteration, an initial segmentation estimate for an image is provided to a human annotators via an annotation interface. The initial segmentation estimate identifies one or more anatomical areas of interest within the image. Interactions with the annotation interface are automatically monitored to record annotation information comprising one or more of (i) segmentation corrections made to the initial segmentation estimate by the annotators via the annotation interface, and (ii) interactions with the annotation interface performed by the annotators while making the corrections. A base segmentation machine learning model is trained to automatically create a base segmentation based on the image. Additionally, a segmentation correction machine learning model is trained to automatically perform the segmentation corrections based on the image. | 2018-09-27 |
20180276816 | RADIATION IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A radiation image processing apparatus includes a display and a hardware processor. The display displays an image. The hardware processor is configured to perform the following, acquire radiographic moving image data comprising a plurality of frame images, subject the moving image data to predetermined analytical processing, generate an analyzed moving image comprising a plurality of analyzed frame images, select a plurality of specific analyzed frame images from the analyzed frame images of the analyzed moving image, derive a calculation signal value based on signal values of pixels having common coordinates positioned in common coordinates in the selected specific analyzed frame images, and cause a calculated image based on the calculation signal values generated according to coordinates to appear on the display. | 2018-09-27 |