52nd week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 57

Patent application number	Title	Published
52nd week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 57
20210406473	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING CHATBOT PROVIDING INTELLIGENT CONVERSATIONAL SERVICE - A system for building a chatbot providing an intelligent conversational service is proposed. The system includes: a chatbot-builder conversational interface configured to receive an input of an utterance of a user or a sentence written by the user; an NLU engine configured to analyze the utterance of the user, or the sentence, phrase, and word written by the user to identify utterance intention of the user and a main key keyword used in the utterance intention; a chatbot-building-component recommendation engine configured to analyze the utterance of the user by the NLU engine, analyze an existing scenario and a user input scenario, automatically extract a knowledge base element, and recommend at least one of a service-specific scenario, a chatbot component, and a GUI node structure to the user; and a scenario DB configured to store a service-specific scenario and a customized scenario made by an actual service provider.	2021-12-30
20210406474	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A REFERENCE DATA STRUCTURE FOR ANONYMIZATION OF TEXT DATA - A method and a system of using machine learning to automatically generate a reference data structure for a K-anonymity model. A vector space is generated from reference text data, where the vector space is defined by numerical vectors representative of semantic meanings of the reference text words. Input text words are converted into numerical vectors using the vector space. Word clusters are formed according to semantic similarity between the input text words, where the semantic similarity between pairs of input text words is represented by metric values determined from pairs of numerical vectors. The word clusters define nodes of the reference data structure. A text label is applied to each node of the reference data structure, where the text label is representative of the semantic meaning shared by elements of the word cluster.	2021-12-30
20210406475	FACT CHECKING BASED ON SEMANTIC GRAPHS - In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an approach for fact checking based on semantic graphs. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, after obtaining a text to be fact checked, a plurality of evidence sentences related to the text are retrieved from an evidence database. Then, semantic graphs of the text and the evidence sentences are constructed based on the semantic analysis, and a veracity of a statement in the text can be determined based on the semantic graphs. Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a graph-based reasoning approach for fact checking, and use the constructed semantic graphs to facilitate verification of the truthfulness of the text, thereby improving the accuracy for fact checking.	2021-12-30
20210406476	METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXTRACTING EVENT FROM TEXT - The disclosure provides a method for extracting an event from a text, an electronic device and a storage medium, relate to fields of knowledge graph, deep learning, and natural language processing. The method includes: obtaining an input text; inputting the input text into a model for extracting trigger words to obtain a trigger word extraction result of the input text; inputting the input text and the trigger word extraction result into a model for extracting arguments to obtain an argument extraction result of the input text; and obtaining an event extraction result of the input text according to the trigger word extraction result and the argument extraction result.	2021-12-30
20210406477	SUPPORT FOR GRAMMAR INFLECTIONS WITHIN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK - A natural language understanding server includes grammars specified in a modified extended Backus-Naur form (MEBNF) that includes an agglutination metasymbol not supported by conventional EBNF grammar parsers, as well as an agglutination preprocessor. The agglutination preprocessor applies one or more sets of agglutination rewrite rules to the MEBNF grammars, transforming them to EBNF grammars that can be processed by conventional EBNF grammar parsers. Permitting grammars to be specified in MEBNF form greatly simplifies the authoring and maintenance of grammars supporting inflected forms of words in the languages described by the grammars.	2021-12-30
20210406478	CONTRASTIVE SELF-SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMONSENSE REASONING - In an example embodiment, a self-supervised learning task is used for training commonsense-aware representations in a minimally supervised fashion and a pair level mutual-exclusive loss is used to enforce commonsense knowledge during representation learning. This helps to exploit the mutual-exclusive nature of the training samples of commonsense reasoning corpora. Given two pieces of input where the only difference between them are trigger pieces of data, it may be postulated that the pairwise pronoun disambiguation is mutually exclusive. This idea is formulated using a contrastive loss and then this is used to update the language model.	2021-12-30
20210406479	QUESTION ANSWERING MODELS IN CLOSED DOMAINS - Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for determining an answer to a natural language question. A method can include receiving a question and a passage to be used to answer the question and executing (i) a first trained ML model, based on the passage and the question and in response to determining that the question, passage, or a combination thereof includes more than a first threshold number of out of vocabulary (OOV) words, relative to a general purpose language ML model, to generate a first answer to the question or (ii) executing a second trained ML model, based on the passage and the question and in response to determining the question, passage, or a combination thereof includes less than the first threshold number of out of vocabulary (OOV) words, relative to the general purpose language ML model, to generate a second answer to the question.	2021-12-30
20210406480	METHOD FOR GENERATING CONVERSATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The disclosure discloses a method for generating a conversation, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The detailed implementation includes: obtaining a current conversation and historical conversations of the current conversation; selecting multiple reference historical conversations from the historical conversations and adding the multiple reference historical conversations to a temporary conversation set; and generating reply information of the current conversation based on the current conversation and the temporary conversation set.	2021-12-30
20210406481	AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION OF DYNAMIC CONTENT - Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to localize dynamic content. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving visual content associated with a game from a first client locale, the visual content including text being represented at the first client locale by a first language, converting the text to generate translated text in at least a second language associated with a second client locale, and storing the translated text in a database in association with the visual content.	2021-12-30
20210406482	GENERATING COMMUNICATIONS IN PATIENT-SPECIFIED LANGUAGES - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for communicating healthcare-related information in languages specified by communication recipients (e.g., patients and/or patient proxies) utilizing a healthcare IT platform. Aspects herein provide a tool for applying language maps specific to patient-specified languages to information associated with one or more segments of Health Level 7 (HL7) messages to generate communications that can be consumed and understood by communication recipients regardless of the language in which such communication recipients prefer to communicate and whether or not a communication recipient's preferred language is the same as that of a communicating healthcare provider or organization.	2021-12-30
20210406483	DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Disclosed is a natural language processing technique according to a neural network of high interpretive ability. One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus including a trained neural network into which first natural language text is input and that is trained to output second natural language text and alignment information, the second natural language text being in accordance with a predetermined purpose corresponding to the first natural language text, and the alignment information indicating, for each part of the second natural language text, which part of the first natural language text is a basis of information for generation; and an analyzing unit configured to output, upon input text being input into the trained neural network, a predicted result of output text in accordance with a predetermined purpose, and alignment information indicating, for each part of the predicted result of the output text, which part of the input text is a basis of information for generation.	2021-12-30
20210406484	System and Method for a Natural Language Processing Tool - A system and a method are provided for a natural language processing (NLP) tool that helps answer complex human questions about community needs. The system includes at least one remote server that manages at least one user account and a database engine. The user account is associated with a user personal computing (PC) device. The remote server is a central computing device that serves information to other computing devices. The user account allows an individual to communicate with the remote server. The database engine processes information in order to output a report to the individual associated to the user account. The remote server manages at least one community-based research topic. The community-based research topic includes qualitative topic-related data. The database engine processes the qualitative topic-related data in order to output insights to complex human questions about community needs.	2021-12-30
20210406485	Method For Deploying Large Numbers of Waste Containers In A Waste Collection System - A method of redeploying waste containers in a waste collection system with an active or passive signal means requires a user to aim an optical character recognition reader at a waste container comprising a unique optical waste container identifier. The optical character recognition reader reads unique waste container optical identifier. The unique waste container optical identifier is converted to a unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. A unique radio frequency signal identifier is stored on a radio frequency emitting tag and associated with the unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. The radio frequency emitting tag is attached to the waste container.	2021-12-30
20210406486	CARD INSERTION UNIT AND CARD READER - A card insertion unit is provided, which prevents the mixture of lights in different colors even with light sources to emit lights in different colors at the periphery of a card insertion slot. A card insertion unit, having a card insertion slot through which a card is inserted, includes: a plurality of light sources provided to surround the card insertion slot, when viewed in an insertion direction of the card, with a light emitting unit facing in a direction opposite to the insertion direction so as to each emit lights in multiple colors; a translucent cover member that is provided with the card insertion slot and is overlapped with the light sources in the direction opposite to the insertion direction; and a reflective member provided between the light sources and the card insertion slot to reflect light that is to travel from the light sources toward the card insertion slot.	2021-12-30
20210406487	BARCODE SCANNER SYSTEM WITH ANIMATED FEEDBACK - A system and method for providing animated feedback for a barcode scanning system may include receiving image data from a camera, processing the image data, detecting a machine-readable indicia in the image data, and attempting to decode the machine-readable indicia. In response to successfully decoding the machine-readable indicia, displaying a first animation indicative of successfully decoding the machine-readable indicia. Otherwise, in response to not successfully decoding the machine-readable indicia, displaying a second animation indicative of not successfully decoding the machine-readable indicia.	2021-12-30
20210406488	DISTURBING MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR AND CARD READER - Provided are a disturbing magnetic field generator and a card reader capable of suppressing the generation of noise caused by vibration of a core. A disturbing magnetic field generator that generates a disturbing magnetic field for disturbing unauthorized reading of magnetic data recorded on a card includes a coil to generate the disturbing magnetic field, a bobbin including a tubular body part in which the coil is wound on an outer peripheral side, and a core disposed inside the tubular body part. A first gap is provided between the tubular body part and the core.	2021-12-30
20210406489	ASSET TRACKING APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to an asset tracking apparatus. The asset tracking apparatus includes a plurality of RFID tags and a RFID receiver. The plurality of RFID tags are configured to attach to a plurality of objects. Each object of the plurality of objects can have attached to it a different RFID tag of the plurality of RFID tags. The RFID receiver includes a plurality of RFID antennas. The plurality of RFID antennas are configured to be associated with an object support structure. The object support structure is configured such that one or more objects of the plurality of objects can be placed on the object support structure. The RFID receiver is configured to detect a signal transmitted from an RFID tag attached to an object of the plurality of objects when the object is supported by the object support structure.	2021-12-30
20210406490	SATELLITE IDENTIFICATION TAG - Small, low-cost satellite systems, like CubeSats or other microsatellites, can exhibit reduced reliability relative to higher-cost satellite systems. This can result in difficulty identifying, communicating with, and tracking such satellite systems when they fail. Provided herein are reliable, low-cost, low-energy, turn-key systems for identification and tracking of small satellites that can be readily added to a microsatellite with minimal integration costs and while occupying a minimal amount of volume, mass, and external area of the host satellite. These systems are electrically isolated from the satellite bus, being powered by internal batteries or other separate energy sources and providing reliable identification and tracking even when the other systems of the satellite have failed. These improved identification and tracking systems include space environment sensors to maintain the system in a very-low-power state while the system is in vehicle processing and transit on Earth, extending device lifetime and reducing cost and weight.	2021-12-30
20210406491	ASSISTED AIMER FOR OPTIMIZED SYMBOL SCANNING BY A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE HAVING AN INTEGRAL CAMERA - An assisted aimer for rapid, accurate, and low-cost imaging of barcodes, includes a hand-held device, such as a smart phone or tablet, having a digital camera with built-in flash, a specialized software application executing on the phone, and an aimer apparatus attached in front of the flash aperture for forming an aimer beam at a predetermined distance. The aimer beam assists a user in accurately pointing the device at a target barcode. The aimer is attachable directly to the smart phone or camera, or is made a part of an enclosure that accepts the smart phone or tablet into a self-aligning receiving space Aiming beam assistance enables the camera, its auto-focus, and the installed software application image processing to deliver rapid, snappy, barcode imaging.	2021-12-30
20210406492	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDIOVISUAL RESPONSE TO RETAIL DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCT - A system and method are provided for presenting self-diagnostic test instructions in the form of audiovisual messages. The system and method include collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with a testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects of the system and method present test instructions to the user in the form of audiovisual messages. The audiovisual messages are provided to the user as a response to an interaction with a retail diagnostic product. In some aspects, the complete audiovisual message is presented before the user may complete a self-diagnostic test.	2021-12-30
20210406493	SCANNER, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR A SCANNER IMAGING ILLUMINATION FILTER - A scanner is provided having an integrated or retrofitted amber filter placed in front of white illumination LEDs. When an object/item is placed within a field of view of a lens of the scanner, the white illumination LEDs are illuminated and pass through the amber filter, which filters out light in the light spectrum of approximately 340-500 nm. The object/item is illuminated with light approximately above 500 nm and reflected back through a portion of the lens that covers an imaging sensor resulting in an object/item image in the light spectrum approximately above 500 nm, which improves the user experience by removing the glaring blue light component of the white LEDs illumination while not impacting the performance of the object/item recognition when processed for a transaction being conducted at a transaction terminal that is interfaced to the scanner.	2021-12-30
20210406494	Systems and Method for Enabling Selective Use of Illumination Color to Capture Appropriate Data - A bioptic barcode reader is disclosed for selective use of illumination color to capture appropriate data. The bioptic barcode reader includes a housing and a primary imager positioned within the housing, configured to scan a target object during a first time period. The bioptic barcode reader further includes a primary illumination source positioned within the housing configured to emit primary illumination in a primary wavelength range during the first time period. The bioptic barcode reader further includes a secondary imager configured to capture one or more images of a target object during a second time period. The bioptic barcode reader further includes a secondary illumination source configured to emit secondary illumination in a secondary wavelength range during the second time period, wherein the second time period and first time period are interleaved and the secondary wavelength range is different from the primary wavelength range.	2021-12-30
20210406495	LARGE DATA TRANSFER USING VISUAL CODES WITH FEEDBACK CONFIRMATION - A method of confirming receipt, including iteratively capturing by a receiving device visual codes in a series of visual codes displayed on a sending device. A corresponding captured visual code being from a display block that resulted from a partition of an original data file into display blocks, and wherein each display block is converted to a corresponding string and header including an ordered identifying display block number and a total count of the display blocks. Each corresponding string is converted to a corresponding visual code. Each of the captured visual codes is converted into a corresponding string and a header is read for the corresponding string. Captured display blocks are determined. A confirmation message is generated including information indicating which display blocks have been received. The confirmation message is sent over a wireless communication link to the sending device to reduce the number of visual codes being displayed.	2021-12-30
20210406496	TEXTURE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A texture recognition device and a display device are provided. The texture recognition device includes a backlight element, configured to provide first backlight; a light constraint element, configured to perform a light divergence angle constraint process on the first backlight to obtain second backlight with a divergence angle within a preset angle range, the second backlight being transmitted to a detection object; and a photosensitive element, configured to detect the second backlight reflected by a texture of the detection object to recognize a texture image of the texture of the detection object.	2021-12-30
20210406497	A SENSOR CIRCUIT FOR GENERATING AND DETECTING ULTRASONIC SENSING SIGNAL, AN ULTRASONIC SENSING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A circuit for generating and detecting ultrasonic sensing signals is provided. A piezoelectric device having a transmitting electrode and a receiving electrode is coupled to a biasing-and-sampling sub-circuit configured to set different bias voltages to the receiving electrode. The piezoelectric device is configured to transmit an ultrasonic signal upon applying an exciting pulse signal to the transmitting electrode and alternatively to generate a voltage signal at the receiving electrode upon receiving an echo signal based on the ultrasonic signal. A signal-collecting sub-circuit is coupled to the receiving electrode to determine a first sampling voltage based on the voltage signal at the receiving electrode in a first sampling period and a second sampling voltage based on the voltage signal at the receiving electrode in a second sampling period. An output sub-circuit is coupled to the signal-collecting sub-circuit for outputting the first sampling voltage and the second sampling voltage at a same time.	2021-12-30
20210406498	ULTRASONIC SENSING CIRCUITRY AND RELEADED DRIVING METHOD, DETECTION SUBSTRATE AND TOUCH PANEL - An ultrasonic sensing circuitry is disclosed which includes an ultrasonic sensor circuit, an input circuit, a reset circuit, a storage circuit, a selection circuit, a source follower, and a compensation circuit. The ultrasonic sensor circuit generates a sensing voltage corresponding to a received ultrasonic signal to provide the sensing voltage to a first node. The input circuit provides the voltage of the first node to a second node. The reset circuit resets the voltage of the second node. The storage circuit stores a voltage difference between the second node and a second supply voltage terminal. The selection circuit provides a third supply voltage to a third node. The source follower outputs a current corresponding to a voltage between a first electrode and a control electrode via an output terminal. The compensation circuit provides a compensated sensing voltage to a control electrode of the source follower.	2021-12-30
20210406499	TEXTURE IMAGE ACQUISITION CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL AND TEXTURE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD - A texture image acquisition circuit, a display panel and a texture image acquisition method. The texture image acquisition circuit includes a charge neutralization circuit and a first acquisition circuit, the charge neutralization circuit is electrically connected to the first acquisition circuit, the charge neutralization circuit receives a first control signal to cause a current flowing through the first acquisition circuit to be a first current, and the charge neutralization circuit is configured to receive a second control signal to cause a current flowing through the first acquisition circuit to be a second current, a direction of the second current and a direction of the first current are opposite to each other; the first acquisition circuit is configured to receive light from a texture and accumulate a first signal amount that is acquired after the light from the texture is converted, so as to acquire a first acquisition value.	2021-12-30
20210406500	DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a touch sensing module. The touch sensing module includes a touch control unit, a fingerprint sensing module, a vibrating acoustical unit, and a common electrode. The common electrode covers all the above-mentioned and time-divisionally transmits a touch control signal, a fingerprint sensing signal, and a vibrating acoustical signal. Therefore, sound on display functions and fingerprint recognition functions are achieved and holes on the front surface of the display panel are no longer required, which helps increase screen ratio.	2021-12-30
20210406501	FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A fingerprint identification device, a display panel, a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The fingerprint identification device includes a fingerprint sensor, an aperture diaphragm, and a first shielding structure. The fingerprint sensor includes a plurality of sensing units; the aperture diaphragm is on a light incident side of the fingerprint sensor and includes an aperture through which light is allowed to be incident on at least one sensing unit of the fingerprint sensor; and the first shielding structure is on a side of the aperture diaphragm facing away from the fingerprint sensor, and surrounds at least a portion of the aperture.	2021-12-30
20210406502	DISPLAY DEVICE FOR INTEGRATING A SOLAR BATTERY MODULE WITH A FUNCTION OF RECOGNIZING FINGERPRINTS - A display device includes a display screen including sub-pixel units, a storage battery unit, and a control chip. The sub-pixel units include gate lines and fingerprint signal lines intersecting with each other, transistors, solar battery modules each of which includes a first electrode, a light-sensing device for transferring light signals into electrical signals, and a second electrode overlapping sequentially, and light-emitting devices disposed at intervals from the solar battery modules. A gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a source electrode of each transistor connect to the gate line, the first electrode, and the control chip respectively. The storage battery unit connects to the first and second electrodes. When light from the light-emitting device is reflected off fingers and is back toward the light-sensing device, the transistor is turned on, the light-sensing device generates fingerprint signals, and the control chip stores and recognizes the fingerprint signals.	2021-12-30
20210406503	DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a display device are provided, and a technical field in displays is related. The display panel includes an array substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a color filter layer, a sensor layer, a glass substrate, and a collimator mechanism. The sensor layer includes a plurality of fingerprint recognition units. The collimator mechanism is disposed on a side of the sensor layer away from the color filter layer. The display device includes the display panel. Display function, touch function, and fingerprint recognition function are integrated into one, by manufacturing the fingerprint recognition units on the glass substrate on the display panel. The cost and the module thickness are further optimized. A fingerprint recognition area is realized as a full-screen area, and fingerprints can be recognized at any position on the screen.	2021-12-30
20210406504	OPTICAL FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical fingerprint recognition circuit and a display device are provided, which includes a first thin film transistor, a first switching unit, a second switching unit, a reset compensation unit, a storage capacitor, and a photodiode. The reset compensation unit resets a voltage of the gate of the first thin film transistor under the control of a reset signal, and the voltage is set to a sum of a predetermined voltage and a threshold voltage of the first thin film transistor through a reference voltage under the control of the reset signal, thereby compensating the threshold voltage. After the photodiode receives the light signal and changes the voltage according to the light signal, the first thin film transistor generates a corresponding current according to the voltage of its gate, which is independent of the threshold voltage. The accuracy of a recognition signal is ensured.	2021-12-30
20210406505	TEXTURE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A texture recognition device and a manufacturing method of the texture recognition device, a color filter substrate and a manufacturing method of the color filter substrate are provided. The texture recognition device has a touch side and includes: a light source array, a light valve structure and an image sensor array. The light valve structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a light adjustment layer, and is configured to control a first region to be in a light transmission state in response to a control signal, so as to allow light emitted from the light source array to pass through the first region in the light transmission state to form a first photosensitive light source. The second substrate of the light valve structure is closer to the touch side than the first substrate, and the image sensor array is on the second substrate.	2021-12-30
20210406506	TEXTURE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD, TEXTURE IMAGE ACQUISITION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL - A texture image acquisition method, a texture image acquisition circuit and a display panel are provided. The texture image acquisition circuit includes a photosensitive circuit, the texture image acquisition method includes: allowing the photosensitive circuit to receive light from a texture, and obtaining a first curve based on a signal amount accumulated by the photosensitive circuit within a first integral time period, the first curve being a time-varying curve of a residual signal amount which is a signal amount remaining after a signal amount, left over by the photosensitive circuit before the first integral time period, is released over time; obtaining a first acquisition value based on a signal amount accumulated by the photosensitive circuit within a second integral time period which is after the first integral time period; obtaining a first photosensitive signal of an image of the texture based on the first curve and the first acquisition value.	2021-12-30
20210406507	UNDER-SCREEN FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides an under-screen fingerprint identification device, a display panel, and a display device. In the present disclosure, light control films are added to pixel opening areas to distinguish fingerprint identification light from normal display light, and image sensors are set to only identify invisible light, so invisible light can be transmitted to the image sensors only through pinholes in a pinhole layer, thereby improving a signal-to-noise ratio of a fingerprint identification signal.	2021-12-30
20210406508	FINGERPRINT DISPLAY DEVICE AND INTEGRATION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A fingerprint display device has plural pixel rows. Each pixel row of n pixel rows in the plural pixel rows has plural display pixel units and plural fingerprint pixel units, where n is an integer greater than 1. The n pixel rows are driven at least by corresponding n display scan lines and n select lines for performing display and fingerprint detection. Each fingerprint pixel unit has a reset end and a select end. The reset end of the fingerprint pixel unit of i-th pixel row among the n pixel rows is connected to a corresponding display scan line among the n display scan lines, and the select end of the fingerprint pixel unit of i-th pixel row among the n pixel rows is connected to a corresponding select line among the n select lines, where i is an index value between 1 and n.	2021-12-30
20210406509	ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus, including includes: a display screen, a reflector and a sensor, wherein a region of the display screen located on a front surface of the electronic apparatus is a first display region, a region of the display screen located on a back surface of the electronic apparatus is a second display region, and the display screen is configured to transmit light; the reflector and the sensor are arranged inside the electronic apparatus, and light transmitted from the first display region or the second display region is reflected by the reflector and then irradiated on the sensor; and the sensor generates an electric signal for fingerprint identification based on the light received. Sharing the sensor under the display screen can therefore be realized, with a single sensor to implement fingerprint collection and identification of a multi-surface display device.	2021-12-30
20210406510	METHOD FOR DETECTING AT LEAST ONE BIOMETRIC TRAIT VISIBLE IN AN INPUT IMAGE BY MEANS OF A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK - A method for detecting at least one biometric trait visible in an input image, by means of a convolutional neural network, the method wherein it comprises the implementation, by data processing means of a client, of steps of: (a) Generating, by means of a feature extraction block of said CNN, a plurality of representation vectors each defining a candidate region of interest of said input image potentially containing a biometric trait, the representation vector of a candidate region of interest comprising at least one position value of the candidate region of interest, at least one size value of the candidate region of interest, an orientation value of the candidate region of interest, and an objectivity score of the candidate region of interest; (b) Selecting, by means of a filtering block of said CNN, at least one region of interest from said candidate regions based on the representation vectors thereof.	2021-12-30
20210406511	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A WAVEFORM DATASET AND SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - The present invention relates to a generation of a signal by executing a waveform dataset comprising waveform descriptive parameters. The execution of the waveform description parameters is limited by target device information specifying one or more specific target devices and time information specifying an execution period of the waveform descriptive parameters. By providing a waveform dataset comprising not only the waveform descriptive parameters, but also further information, in particular time information for limiting the execution period of the waveform descriptive parameters, the generation of the respective waveform signal is controlled.	2021-12-30
20210406512	Method for assessing risk to marine hydrocarbon recovery operations - A method for assessing risk to a marine hydrocarbon recovery operation involves collecting a set of training images and labeling sea surface anomalies on the set of training images. The set of training images and associated labels are used to train a model via backpropagation. A set of non-training images is collected and the trained model is applied to identify a potentially disruptive sea surface anomaly on the set of non-training images. Any risk to the marine hydrocarbon recovery operation by the potentially disruptive sea surface anomaly is then assessed.	2021-12-30
20210406513	MULTISCOPIC WHITETAIL SCORING GAME CAMERA SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A game scoring camera system is disclosed for capturing images of game animals for the purpose of scoring the antlers using an accepted scoring method. One or more cameras are used in a multiscopic arrangement for capturing two-dimensional (2-D) images which are then converted to three-dimensional (3-D) data models, the resulting 3-D data models being used for determining measurements of various antler structures for calculating a score for the set of antlers captured in the images, the score being based on existing antler scoring systems. Some embodiments include one or more cameras, each being mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone, for capturing images during an aerial survey of game animals located within a particular area. Other embodiments include at least two cameras mounted in a stationary configuration for capturing images of game animals located within a particular area.	2021-12-30
20210406514	SYSTEM, METHOD, AND WRITING APPARATUS FOR RECORDING USER BIOMETRIC INFORMATION DIRECTLY ONTO DOCUMENTS - A system, method and writing apparatus disclosed herein enables a physical handwritten mark (such as “wet” signature) to be encoded with user biometric characteristics which are unique to the person making the handwritten mark. A system and method are described that may utilize a signature created by the writing apparatus.	2021-12-30
20210406515	Three-dimensional Environment Analysis Method and Device, Computer Storage Medium and Wireless Sensor System - A three-dimensional environment analysis method is disclosed. The method includes (i) receiving original point cloud data of a working environment, (ii) processing a map constructed on the basis of the original point cloud data in order to separate out a ground surface, a wall surface and an obstacle in the working environment, (iii) pairing the ground surface with the wall surface according to the degree of proximity between the ground surface and wall surface that are separated out to form one or more adjacent ground-wall pair sets, and (iv) subjecting the one or more adjacent ground-wall pair sets to ray tracing analysis in order to obtain a line-of-sight zone and a non-line-of-sight zone in the working environment. A three-dimensional environment analysis device, a computer storage medium and a wireless sensor system is also disclosed.	2021-12-30
20210406516	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING FACE DETECTION MODEL, AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING FACE KEY POINT - A method for training a face detection model, including: acquiring a training face image; performing three-dimensional reconstruction on the training face image based on a preset three-dimensional face model, and acquiring a training three-dimensional face model; generating a training UV coordinate map including three-dimensional coordinates of the training three-dimensional face model based on the training three-dimensional face model; and training a semantic segmentation network by using the training face image and the training UV coordinate map, and acquiring a face detection model. The face detection model is configured to generate a UV coordinate map including three-dimensional coordinates.	2021-12-30
20210406517	BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE AND WEARABLE ACCESSARY FOR MEASURING BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE - There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.	2021-12-30
20210406518	MEDICAL MONITORING SYSTEM EMPLOYING THERMAL SENSOR - There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.	2021-12-30
20210406519	GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM EMPLOYING THERMAL SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR - There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.	2021-12-30
20210406520	FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, FACE RECOGNITION METHOD AND FACE RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A face recognition technology that enables high-speed determination of erroneous detection of face regions and high-precision face recognition by means of a first face recognition processing unit of relatively low accuracy for detecting a face region of a person on each captured image captured by a monitor camera, and a second face recognition processing unit for performing face recognition of a person more accurately with respect to the detected face region transmitted from the first face recognition processing unit. The second face recognition. processing unit determines that the first face recognition processing unit has erroneously detected when the second face recognition processing unit is not able to recognize a face region on the detected face region transmitted from the first face recognition processing unit, and the first face recognition processing unit calculates and self-learns a barycentric coordinate of the detected face region as a point mask position. Thereafter, the first face recognition. processing unit checks whether or not the coordinate of the barycentric position has already been stored in a storage as one of the point mask position, and, when the coincident coordinate of the point mask position is found in the data of the barycentric coordinates, this face recognition system does not perform more accurate face recognition processing by the second face recognition processing unit, and proceeds to the next face recognition processing on the next captured image.	2021-12-30
20210406521	METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR EVALUATING IMAGES - A method may include obtaining an image including a face. The method may further include determining at least one time domain feature related to the face in the image and at least one frequency domain information related to the face in the image. The method may further include evaluating the quality of the image based on the at least one time domain feature and the frequency domain information.	2021-12-30
20210406522	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAKING UP DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for waking up a device, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which are related to fields of image processing and deep learning. The method includes: acquiring an environment image of a surrounding environment of a target device in real time, and recognizing a face region of a user in the environment image; acquiring a plurality of facial landmarks in the face region, and acquiring a left eye image and a right eye image according to the facial landmarks; acquiring a left eye sight classification result and a right eye sight classification result according to the left eye image and the right eye image; and waking up the target device in a case of determining that the user is looking at the target device according to the left eye sight classification result and the right eye sight classification result.	2021-12-30
20210406523	METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING LIVING BODY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a method and device for detecting a living-body, and a storage medium. The method includes that: a first image captured by a first camera is acquired, and face detection processing is performed on the first image; a second image captured by a second camera is acquired responsive to detecting that the first image includes a face, where the first camera and the second camera are different types of cameras; and face detection processing is performed on the second image, and responsive to detecting that the second image includes a face, a living-body detection result is obtained based on a matching result of the face detected in the first image and the face detected in the second image.	2021-12-30
20210406524	METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING FACE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Aspects of the disclosure can provide method for identifying a face where multiple images to be identified are received. Each of the multiple images includes a face image part. Each face image of face images in the multiple images to be identified is extracted. An initial figure identification result of identifying a figure in the each face image is determined by matching a face in the each face image respectively to a face in a target image in an image identification library. The face images are grouped. A target figure identification result for each face image in each group is determined according to the initial figure identification result for the each face image in the each group.	2021-12-30
20210406525	FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A facial expression recognition method includes extracting a first feature from color information of pixels in a first image, and extracting a second feature of facial key points from the first image. The method further includes combining the first feature and the second feature, to obtain a fused feature, and determining, by processing circuitry of an electronic device, a first expression	2021-12-30
20210406526	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The objective of the present invention is to appropriately estimate the psychological state or developmental characteristic of a subject receiving education or childcare. An observation result acquisition unit	2021-12-30
20210406527	MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICAL EXERCISES - A method for monitoring a person performing a physical exercise based on a sequence of image frames showing an exercise activity of the person. The method includes extracting, based on the sequence of image frames, for each image frame a set of body key points using a neural network, the set of body key points being indicative of a posture of the person in the image frame; deriving, based on a subset of the body key points in each image frame, at least one characteristic parameter indicating a progression of a movement of the person; detecting a start loop condition by evaluating the time progression of the at least one characteristic parameter, said start loop condition indicating a transition from a start posture of the person to the movement of the person when performing the physical exercise, wherein a loop of exercising encompasses one single repetition of the physical exercise; detecting an end loop condition by evaluating the time progression of at least one of the characteristic parameters, said end loop condition indicating a transition from the movement of the person when performing the physical exercise to an intermediate posture, wherein, as a result, the start of the loop and the end of the loop are determined; and deriving the time period for a single loop of the physical exercise based on the start of the loop and the end of the loop and evaluating the time period.	2021-12-30
20210406528	System and Method for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications - A system and method for authoring and implementing context-aware applications (CAPs) are disclosed. The system and method enables users to record their daily activities and then build and deploy customized CAPs onto augmented reality platforms in which automated actions are performed in response to user-defined human actions. The system and method utilizes an integrated augmented reality platform composed of multiple camera systems, which allows for non-intrusive recording of end-users' activities and context detection while authoring and implementing CAPs. The system and method provides an augmented reality authoring interface for browsing, selecting, and editing recorded activities, and creating flexible CAPs through spatial interaction and visual programming.	2021-12-30
20210406529	GESTURE-BASED CASTING AND MANIPULATION OF VIRTUAL CONTENT IN ARTIFICIAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments are directed to a near eye display (NED) system for displaying artificial reality content to a user and to manipulate displayed content items based upon gestures performed by users of the NED system. A user of the NED system may perform a gesture simulating the throwing of an object to “cast” a content item to a target location in an artificial reality (AR) environment displayed by the NED system. The gesture may comprise a first portion in which the user's hand “grabs” or “pinches” a virtual object corresponding to the content item and moves backwards relative to their body, and a second portion in which the user's hand moves forwards relative to their body and releases the virtual object. The target location may be identified based upon a trajectory associated with the backwards motion of the first portion of the gesture.	2021-12-30
20210406530	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL ANIMALS BASED ON IMAGES OF THE BACK - The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for identification of individual animals based on images, such as 3D-images, of the animals, especially of cattle and cows. When animals live in areas or enclosures where they freely move around, it can be complicated to identify the individual animal. The present disclosure relates to a method for determining the identity of an individual animal in a population of animals with known identity, the method comprising the steps of acquiring at least one image of the back of a preselected animal, extracting data from said at least one image relating to the anatomy of the back and/or topology of the back of the preselected animal, and comparing and/or matching said extracted data against reference data corresponding to the anatomy of the back and/or topology of the back of the animals with known identity, thereby identifying the preselected animal.	2021-12-30
20210406531	ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED USER IDENTIFICATION - This disclosure describes techniques for providing instructions when receiving biometric data associated with a user. For instance, an electronic device may detect a portion of a user, such as a hand. The electronic device may then determine locations of the portion of the user relative to the electronic device. Based on the locations, the electronic device may cause a visual indicator to provide instructions to the user for placing the portion of the user at a target location relative to the electronic device. For example, the visual indicator may emit light indicating that the portion of the user is off-centered, angled, too low, and/or too high. After providing the instructions and determining that the portion of the user is at the target location, the electronic device may capture at least an image of the portion of the user and use the image to identify an account.	2021-12-30
20210406532	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING FINGER OCCLUSION IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for detecting a finger occlusion image includes: N first original occlusion images and M first non-occlusion images are acquired, and first training data set is generated based on first original occlusion images and first non-occlusion images; first training is performed, based on first training data set, on neural network model for detection of finger occlusion image; L second original occlusion images and K second non-occlusion images are acquired, and second training data set is generated based on second original occlusion images and second non-occlusion images; linear classifier in neural network model having completed first training is replaced with iterative training module to form finger occlusion image detection model; second training is performed on finger occlusion image detection model based on second training data set; image to be detected is input into trained finger occlusion image detection model, to determine whether image to be detected is finger occlusion image.	2021-12-30
20210406533	METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DECODE DOCUMENTS BASED ON IMAGES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Methods, apparatus, and articles manufacture to decode documents based on images using artificial intelligence are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model executor to input an image into a first artificial intelligence (AI)-based model to generate detected columns of text in the image; and input the image into a second AI-based model to classify the detected columns into categories; a cell identifier to identify rows or cells in the detected columns; and a report generator to: link information corresponding to the rows or cells in the detected columns with corresponding categories; and generating a report based on the linked information.	2021-12-30
20210406534	SUBSTANCE DESCRIPTION MANAGEMENT BASED ON SUBSTANCE INFORMATION ANALYSIS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES - A device may generate, from a subset of historical ontology data and a substance description of a substance, a knowledge base. The subset of historical ontology data may be associated with historical substances. The device may generate, based on the knowledge base, a substance knowledge graph embedding (KGE) that is representative of the substance; compare the substance KGE and a historical KGE associated with the knowledge base; determine, based on comparing the substance KGE and the historical KGE, a similarity score associated with the substance KGE and the historical KGE; determine, based on the similarity score, whether substance data associated with a related substance is similarly represented in the substance KGE and the historical KGE; and perform, based on whether the substance data is similarly represented in the substance KGE and the historical KGE, an action associated with the related substance relative to the substance description or the knowledge base.	2021-12-30
20210406535	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF SCHOLASTIC WORKS - A system for classification of scholastic works includes a computing device configured to receive a first scholastic work, identify an author and a category of the first scholastic work, determine at least a work theme by receiving theme training data, the theme training data including a plurality of entries, each entry including a training textual element and a correlated theme, training a theme classifier as a function of the training data, and determining the at least a work theme as a function of the plurality of textual elements and the theme classifier, calculate a reliability quantifier as a function of the at least a theme, the author, and the category, select the scholastic work as a function of the reliability quantifier, derive, from the scholastic work, at least a correlation between a diagnostic element and a practice, and store the at least a correlation in an expert database.	2021-12-30
20210406536	ASSIGNING AUDIBLE ALERTS AMONG CO-LOCATED APPLIANCES - Smart appliances communicate over a local area network. A selected sound palette includes multiple soundfile groups that each include multiple soundfiles. Each soundfile within a given sound palette has a first common sound attribute, each soundfile within a given soundfile group has a second common sound attribute, each soundfile within a given soundfile group has a variation of the second common sound attribute that is unique among the soundfile groups, and each soundfile within a given soundfile group has a unique variation of a third common sound attribute. One soundfile group may be assigned to each of the appliances, and one soundfile within each soundfile group may be assigned to an alert type. The assigned soundfile group is sent to the appliance with identification of the alert type to which each soundfile is assigned, such that the appliance may use an assigned soundfile for audible alerts.	2021-12-30
20210406537	ELECTRICAL POWER GRID MODELING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for electric grid modeling using surfel data are enclosed. An electric grid wire identification method includes: obtaining a set of surface elements (surfels), wherein each surfel of the set of surfels represents a portion of a surface of an object in a geographic region; selecting, based on one or more surfel attributes, one or more surfels of the set of surfels that each represent a portion of a surface of an electric grid wire; generating a representation of the electric grid wire from the selected one or more surfels; and adding the representation of the electric grid wire to a virtual model of the electric grid. Obtaining the set of surfels can include obtaining ranging data of the geographic region; and generating the set of surfels from the ranging data.	2021-12-30
20210406538	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE-GUIDED AGRICULTURE - A method for image-guided agriculture includes capturing images based on one or more ground sampling distance values; processing the images to generate an orthophoto image of a target area; performing feature classification of the orthophoto image to identify corresponding crop information in regions of the target area; and assessing crop conditions in the regions based on one or more vegetation indices and the corresponding crop information in the regions.	2021-12-30
20210406539	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE-GUIDED AGRICULTURE - A method for image-guided agriculture includes receiving images; processing the images to generate reflectance maps respectively corresponding to spectral bands; synthesizing the reflectance maps to generate a multispectral image including vegetation index information of a target area; receiving crop information in regions of the target area; and assessing crop conditions for the regions based on the identified crop information and the vegetation index information.	2021-12-30
20210406540	AUTOMATED PLANT DETECTION USING IMAGE DATA - A plant treatment platform uses a plant detection model to detect plants as the plant treatment platform travels through a field. The plant treatment platform receives image data from a camera that captures images of plants (e.g., crops or weeds) growing in the field. The plant treatment platform applies pre-processing functions to the image data to prepare the image data for processing by the plant detection model. For example, the plant treatment platform may reformat the image data, adjust the resolution or aspect ratio, or crop the image data. The plant treatment platform applies the plant detection model to the pre-processed image data to generate bounding boxes for the plants. The plant treatment platform then can apply treatment to the plants based on the output of the machine-learned model.	2021-12-30
20210406541	Plane Detection Using Semantic Segmentation - In one implementation, a method of generating a plane hypothesis is performed by a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a scene camera. The method includes obtaining an image of a scene including a plurality of pixels. The method includes obtaining a plurality of points of a point cloud based on the image of the scene. The method includes obtaining an object classification set based on the image of the scene. Each element of the object classification set includes a plurality of pixels respectively associated with a corresponding object in the scene. The method includes detecting a plane within the scene by identifying a subset of the plurality of points of the point cloud that correspond to a particular element of the object classification set.	2021-12-30
20210406542	AUGMENTED REALITY EYEWEAR WITH MOOD SHARING - Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two users of eyewear devices to allow one user of an eyewear device to share a personal attribute of the user with a second user. The personal attribute can be selected from a list of attributes, such as Bitmojis®, avatars, symbols, and tests. In an example, the personal attribute can reflect the mood of the first user. The personal attribute received by the first user is displayed proximate a portion of the first user, such as a head or mouth, on the display of the first user's eyewear device. The personal attribute may be displayed in a speech bubble proximate the first user.	2021-12-30
20210406543	PROVIDING TRAVEL-BASED AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT WITH A CAPTURED IMAGE - Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing augmented reality content with a captured image in association with traveling, in accordance with some example embodiments. The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application running on a device of a user, a request to scan an image captured by a device camera; determining, in response to the receiving, a travel parameter associated with the request and an attribute of an object depicted in the image; obtaining supplemental content based on the travel parameter and on the attribute; and displaying an augmented reality content item, which includes the supplemental content, with the captured image.	2021-12-30
20210406544	APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATIC ITEM SEARCHING AND VERIFICATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for automatic item searching and verification. In example contexts, embodiments provide such functionality to improve the accuracy and efficiency of item searching during item loading and/or unloading, such as when delivering packages. Some embodiments provide for capturing an image, or set of images, identifying relevant items represented in the captured images, generating augmented reality elements associated with such relevant items, and rendering the augmented reality elements in an augmented reality environment, which can be maintained as the user continues to perform user action. Some embodiments additionally or alternatively detect improper actions based on captured image(s), and generate and provide notifications to a user for viewing.	2021-12-30
20210406545	SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED DEVICE CONNECTIVITY AND AGILE DEVICE CONTROL FOR DYNAMIC OBJECT TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for integrated device connectivity and agile device control for dynamic object tracking and management. In this regard, embodiments of the invention provide provides a comprehensive integrated platform for dynamic inventory construction and tracking, dynamic food item identification, expiration tracking, dynamic inventory construction, recipe generation, interactive meal planning and guided cooking, in real-time. The system is also configured for establishing operative communication with a plurality of auxiliary devices for achieving the foregoing. The system may initiate a presentation of parameters identified by the auxiliary devices on a user interface associated with a user device.	2021-12-30
20210406546	METHOD AND DEVICE FOR USING AUGMENTED REALITY IN TRANSPORTATION - Augmented reality may be used to help navigate a user to a desired location. A first location and a device orientation of a user device may be obtained. A second location may be obtained. A path from the first location to the second location may be determined. A camera feed may be displayed on the user device. An indicator of the path may be displayed over the camera feed based on the device orientation. A marker may be displayed over the camera feed in response to determining that the device orientation aligns with the second location, and the marker may indicate the second location.	2021-12-30
20210406547	OBJECT TRACKING WITH FEATURE DESCRIPTORS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using feature descriptors to track objects depicted in images. One of the methods includes receiving hue, saturation, value data for an image and data that indicates an object detected in the image, generating a feature descriptor that includes hue data and saturation data, determining, for each of two or more tracked objects that each have a historical feature descriptor that includes historical hue data and historical saturation data, a distance between (i) the respective historical feature descriptor and (ii) the feature descriptor, associating the feature descriptor for the object with a tracked object from the two or more tracked objects, and tracking the tracked object in one or more images from a video sequence using the feature descriptor and the historical feature descriptor.	2021-12-30
20210406548	METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - A method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for processing an image are provided. The method includes: acquiring a target video including a target image frame and at least one image frame of a labeled target object; based on the labeled target object in the at least one image frame, determining a search area for the target object in the target image frame; based on the search area, determining center position information of the target object; based on a labeled area in which the target object is located and the center position information, determining a target object area; and based on the target object area, segmenting the target image frame.	2021-12-30
20210406549	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING INFORMATION INSERTION REGION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for detecting an information insertion region is provided. In the method, a video is obtained. The video is segmented to obtain video fragments, each of the video fragments including a subset of image frames in the video. A target frame is obtained in the video fragments. Objects in the target frame are identified and segmented, to obtain labeling information corresponding to the objects. A target object is determined according to the labeling information. Clustering is performed on the target object, to obtain a plurality of candidate to-be-inserted regions. A target candidate to-be-inserted region is determined from the candidate to-be-inserted regions. Further, maximum rectangle searching is performed in the target candidate to-be-inserted region to obtain a target to-be-inserted region in which an image is to be inserted.	2021-12-30
20210406550	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus (	2021-12-30
20210406551	METHOD FOR COMPARING VIDEOS OF SURGICAL TECHNIQUES - A method for comparing videos of a surgical procedure is disclosed. The method comprising selecting a plurality of videos from a surgical video database. Each of the plurality of videos including video data of a first surgical procedure comprising a plurality of surgical steps. The method further including identifying a first surgical step included in the plurality of surgical steps within a first video segment in each of the plurality of videos. The method also including warping the first video segment to standardize a dimension of the first video segment in each of the plurality of videos.	2021-12-30
20210406552	METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS BASED ON A ROUTE - According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of recommending content based on a movement route of a user includes extracting at least one video associated with a search term from among video lists associated with a position of the user when the search term is input from the user, extracting at least one piece of content associated with the search term from the extracted at least one video, and playing back detail shot information associated with a region of interest together with content selected by the user when the user selects the region of interest within the selected content.	2021-12-30
20210406553	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LABELLING INFORMATION OF VIDEO FRAME, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for labelling information of a video frame, includes: obtaining a video; performing feature extraction on a target video frame in the video, to obtain a target image feature of the target video frame; determining, according to image feature matching degrees between the target video frame and labelled video frames, a guide video frame of the target video frame from the labelled video frames, the guide video frame being used for guiding the target video frame for information labelling, and the image feature matching degrees being matching degrees between the target image feature and image features corresponding to the labelled video frames; and generating target label information corresponding to the target video frame according to label information corresponding to the guide video frame.	2021-12-30
20210406554	LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING EMOTION EXPRESSION VIDEO AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EMOTION EXPRESSION VIDEO CREATION - A learning apparatus for creating an emotion expression video according to an embodiment disclosed include first generative adversarial networks (GAN) that receive text for creating an emotion expression video, extract vector information by performing embedding on the input text, and create an image based on the extracted vector information, and second generative adversarial networks that receive an emotion expression image and a frame of comparison video, and create a frame of emotion expression video from the emotion expression image and the frame of comparison video.	2021-12-30
20210406555	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING LICENSING OF A VEHICLE - Disclosed herein is a method for facilitating licensing of a vehicle. Accordingly, the method may include receiving, using a communication device, vehicle information associated with the vehicle from a device. Further, the method may include analyzing, using a processing device, the vehicle information. Further, the method may include determining, using the processing device, identifiers associated with the vehicle based on the analyzing. Further, the method may include generating, using the processing device, symbols corresponding to the identifiers based on the determining. Further, the method may include generating, using the processing device, a license plate image for a license plate of the vehicle based on the generating of the symbols. Further, the method may include transmitting, using the communication device, the license plate image associated with the vehicle to the device. Further, the method may include storing, using a storage device, the license plate image and the vehicle information.	2021-12-30
20210406556	Total Property Intelligence System - A total property security system may be implemented to conduct security and surveillance operations. The system includes security operations centers that are connected to one or more sensors and vehicles for collecting and transmitting surveillance data to a database hosted on cloud services. The collected surveillance data is analyzed in order to automatically deploy security measures and/or recommend courses of action using a rules engine that can be configured to client-specific or user-specific security needs. The cloud services can provide a set of application program interface services that can act on the surveillance operations center. Sensor fusion data and other surveillance data can be also transmitted to vetted monitoring service providers on a subscription basis to provide physical security services to the area within the property perimeter. During the subscription period, the selected monitoring service providers can obtain time-based encryption token for accessing surveillance data.	2021-12-30
20210406557	MACHINE PERCEPTION USING VIDEO/IMAGE SENSORS IN AN EDGE/SERVICE COMPUTING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE - An edge computing system is deployed at a physical location and receives an input from one or more image/video sensing mechanisms. The edge computing system executes artificial intelligence image/video processing modules on the received image/video streams and generates metrics by performing spatial analysis on the images/video stream. The metrics are provided to a multi-tenant service computing system where additional artificial intelligence (AI) modules are executed on the metrics to execute perception analytics. Client applications can then be run on the output of the AI modules in the multi-tenant service computing system.	2021-12-30
20210406558	SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AGGREGATE AND DISTRIBUTE DYNAMIC INFORMATION OF CROWDSOURCING VEHICLES FOR EDGE-ASSISTED LIVE MAP SERVICE - A method includes receiving sensor data, with one or more sensor of a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is associated with an environment of the vehicle, detecting an object based on the sensor data, determining pixel coordinates of the object based on the sensor data, converting the pixel coordinates of the object to world coordinates of the object, extracting a set of features associated with the object, and transmitting the set of features and the world coordinates to a remote computing device.	2021-12-30
20210406559	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFECTING MAP LAYER UPDATES BASED ON COLLECTED SENSOR DATA - Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system configured to (i) maintain a map that is representative of a real-world environment, the map including a plurality of layers that are each encoded with a different type of map data, (ii) obtain sensor data indicative of a given area of the real-world environment, (iii) based on an evaluation of the obtained sensor data and map data corresponding to the given area, detect that a change has occurred in the given area, (iv) based on the collected sensor data, derive information about the detected change including at least a type of the change and a location of the change, (v) based on the derived information about the detected change, determine that one or more layers of the map is impacted by the detected change, and (vi) effect an update to the one or more layers of the map based on the derived information about the change.	2021-12-30
20210406560	SENSOR FUSION FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING - In various examples, a multi-sensor fusion machine learning model—such as a deep neural network (DNN)—may be deployed to fuse data from a plurality of individual machine learning models. As such, the multi-sensor fusion network may use outputs from a plurality of machine learning models as input to generate a fused output that represents data from fields of view or sensory fields of each of the sensors supplying the machine learning models, while accounting for learned associations between boundary or overlap regions of the various fields of view of the source sensors. In this way, the fused output may be less likely to include duplicate, inaccurate, or noisy data with respect to objects or features in the environment, as the fusion network may be trained to account for multiple instances of a same object appearing in different input representations.	2021-12-30
20210406561	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANE DETECTION - Systems and methods for lane detection are provided. The methods may include obtaining an image and determining, for each of a plurality of pixels in an image, a semantic category using a trained semantic segmentation network. The methods may further include determining one or more pixel sets based on the plurality of pixels according to a predetermined rule. Each of the one or more pixel sets includes one or more pixels of a same semantic category. The methods may further include, in response to a determination that there are one or more erroneous pixels in a pixel set, removing the one or more erroneous pixels from the pixel set to obtain a fitting line corresponding to a lane line. The methods may further include determining a position of the lane line based on the fitting line.	2021-12-30
20210406562	AUTONOMOUS DRIVE EMULATION METHODS AND DEVICES - A hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) test system is for testing sensor fusion of an advance driver assistance system (ADAS). The ADAS includes a plurality of sensors and an electronic control unit (ECU) processing outputs of the sensors. The HiL test system includes a three-dimensional (3D) scenario simulator for generating drive scenarios including objects in a surrounding environment of a simulated vehicle, and a sensor target emulator for generating emulated sensors inputs to the plurality of sensors corresponding to the drive scenarios generated by the 3D scenario simulator. The sensor target emulator is configured to synchronize the emulated sensor inputs by interpolating a current location of the objects from parameters extracted from the drive scenarios.	2021-12-30
20210406563	DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A determination device includes a processor. The processor is configured to detect an object in an image captured by an image capture section provided at a vehicle, generate a determination area in accordance with a direction of movement of the vehicle based on travel information of the vehicle and based on a position and a speed of the object, and determine danger to be present in a case in which the object is present in the determination area.	2021-12-30
20210406564	PERCEPTION DATA DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure discloses a perception data detection method and apparatus. The specific implementation scheme is: acquiring labeled data and perception data, where the labeled data includes a labeled position and a labeled type of at least one first obstacle, and the perception data includes a perception position and a perception type of at least one second obstacle; performing, according to a negative sample in the labeled data, rough filtering on the second obstacle in the perception data to obtain a third obstacle remaining after the rough filtering, where the negative sample is a non-physical obstacle; determining a matching relationship between the third obstacle and the negative sample, and determining the negative sample having the matching relationship with the third obstacle as a target obstacle; and determining, according to the number of the target obstacle and the number of the first obstacle, a detection result of the perception data.	2021-12-30
20210406565	Dynamic Information Protection for Display Devices - A system for controlling visual protection for a display unit includes a camera which is configured to generate a video signal; a video signal processing unit which is configured, based on the video signal of the camera, to determine a particular position of each of one or more persons relative to the display unit and to determine a particular viewing direction of one of the one or more persons; a database which is configured to generate a prediction for a behaviour of each of the one or more persons based on the particular position and viewing direction of each of the one or more persons detected by the video signal processing unit, wherein the prediction includes one or more predicted viewing directions of the particular person; and a display control unit which is configured to control the visual protection for the display unit based on the prediction.	2021-12-30
20210406566	ASSET TRACKING AND MONITORING IN TRANSPORTATION - An asset monitoring system includes a server, and a monitoring system mounted in a container. The monitoring system includes a camera, a transceiver, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images of the inside of a container, and control the transceiver transmit the images to a server. The server is configured to process the images to determine loading data including at least one of an unused volume or an unused floor space inside the container, and transmit the loading data to a customer computer.	2021-12-30
20210406567	AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The disclosure is detecting an authentication target who is moving in a predetermined direction in a video; inputting a first image in which an entire body of the target; calculating characteristic information from an image of the entire body in the first image, comparing the calculated characteristic information with characteristic information of the entire body stored in first memory that stores characteristic information of entire bodies of targets, and extracting candidate information of the targets from the first memory based on a first authentication result; inputting a second image in which an iris of the target; and comparing characteristic information of irises stored in second memory that stores the characteristic information of the irises of targets with characteristic information of an iris from the second image, calculating a verification score, executing second authentication on the target in the second image based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.	2021-12-30
20210406568	UTILIZING MULTIPLE STACKED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO DETECT DEEPFAKE CONTENT - A device may receive training data for training a first machine learning model, a second machine learning model, and a third machine learning model and may train the first machine learning model, the second machine learning model, and the third machine learning model with the training data. The device may receive input content and may process the input content, with the first machine learning model, the second machine learning model, and the third machine learning model, to generate a first model result, a second model result, and a third model result, respectively. The device may process the first model result, the second model result, and the third model result, with an aggregation model, to generate a detection result indicating whether the particular input content is a deepfake or is real and may perform one or more actions based on the detection result.	2021-12-30
20210406569	LIVENESS TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS - A liveness test method and apparatus is disclosed. The liveness test method includes detecting a face region in an input image for a test target, implementing a first liveness test to determine a first liveness value based on a first image corresponding to the detected face region, implementing a second liveness test to determine a second liveness value based on a second image corresponding to a partial face region of the detected face region, implementing a third liveness test to determine a third liveness value based on an entirety of the input image or a full region of the input image that includes the detected face region and a region beyond the detected face region, and determining a result of the liveness test based on the first liveness value, the second liveness value, and the third liveness value.	2021-12-30
20210406570	AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PROFILES BASED ON OCCUPANT IDENTIFICATION - A profile is automatically generated for an occupant of a vehicle. In one approach, data is collected from an interior of a vehicle to determine whether an occupant is present. If an occupant is present, a local profile is automatically generated. The local profile is sent to a remote computing device. The remote computing device links the local profile to a remote profile stored by the remote computing device. Configuration data is generated by the remote computing device based on linking the local and remote profiles. The configuration data is sent to the vehicle and used by the vehicle to control the operation of one or more components of the vehicle.	2021-12-30
20210406571	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING A LABEL ATTACHED TO A FOOD PACK - A method of inspecting a label attached to a food pack comprising: determining the location of a plurality of target portions of the label; inspecting the target portions to identify at least the presence of text and/or graphic information within each target portion; and determining whether or not each target portion successfully compares with corresponding predetermined criteria; and determining that the label is unacceptable if the total number of successful comparisons is below a predetermined acceptance threshold.	2021-12-30
20210406572	BIOMETRIC INFORMATION IMAGING DEVICE - Provided is a biometric information imaging module, used for imaging palm veins, and method of using same. The imaging module includes a housing with a cover attached to a top of the housing; a lens assembly with a lens for taking images provided in the housing; a light shielding structure provided around at least part of the lens of the lens assembly for shielding the lens from light reflected from the cover; and an image sensor to convert light focused by the lens assembly to photoelectric conversion to an electrical signal. The lens assembly is attached to a first circuit board and the light shielding structure is connected to a second circuit board in the housing.	2021-12-30

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