06th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170039390 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRIVACY PRESERVING THIRD PARTY EXTENSION - A computer-implemented method of preserving privacy of private user data using third party extensions on a web application platform is disclosed. The method includes receiving private and non-private user data from a user, providing non-private user data to a remote extension component, receiving remote extension data from the remote extension component and storing it on a local extension cache on the web application platform, providing private user data and remote extension data to a local extension component installed on the platform, executing local extension component instructions in a restricted operating system environment on the platform, receiving local extension data from the local extension component, and providing the local extension data to a user. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions to implement the method of preserving privacy of private user data using third party extensions on a web application platform, and a related system are also disclosed. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039391 | AUTHENTICATION USING OPTICALLY SENSED RELATIVE POSITION - Systems and methods to safeguard data and hardware may include a memory configured to store a first image and sensitive data, and an optical sensor configured to capture a second image. A sensor signal comprising the captured second image may be generated. A controller having access to the memory may be configured to receive the sensor signal. The controller may be further configured to compare the stored first image to the captured second image, and based on the comparison, to determine whether the sensitive data is accessed. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039392 | Managing Regulated Content Items Stored on Non-Regulated Storage Platforms - Methods and systems of storing and managing regulated content items on a non-regulated storage platform are provided. A request to create a regulated content item of which content is subject to one or more regulations is received. The regulated content item is created. An integrity record associated with the regulated content item based on the content of the regulated content item is created. The regulated content item is provided to the non-regulated storage platform for storage. An integrity of the regulated content item stored on the non-regulated storage platform is verified based at least in part on the integrity record. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039393 | NDM File Protection Method and Apparatus - Embodiments of the present application provide an NDM file protection method and apparatus. The method includes: a sending device generates integrity information of an NDM file, and sends the NDM file and the integrity information of the NDM file to a receiving device, so that the receiving device verifies, according to the integrity information, whether the NDM file is tampered with. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039394 | FACILITATING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES BASED ON PHYSICAL PROXIMITY OF DEVICES - Systems and methods for requesting transmission of a document from a sender device to a signer device, for purposes of obtaining an e-signature from the signer device, are disclosed. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods establish and/or determine a physical proximity between a signer device and a sender device, such as via a handshake between the devices, and a document to be signed is provided to the signer device in response to the established physical proximity. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039395 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INVOKING JAVA CARD OBJECT - The present disclosure discloses a method and device for invoking a JAVA card object. The method comprises: receiving, by a JCRE, a service request message transmitted by an application Applet | 2017-02-09 |
20170039396 | HARDWARE ENFORCED CONTENT PROTECTION FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS - This disclosure proposes techniques for graphics processing. In one example, a graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to access a memory according to one of an unsecure mode and a secure mode. The GPU may include a memory access controller configured to direct memory transactions from at least one hardware unit of the GPU to a secure context bank in a memory controller when the GPU is operating in a secure mode, and configured to direct memory transactions from the at least one hardware unit of the GPU to an unsecure context bank in the memory controller when the GPU is operating in the unsecure mode. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039397 | ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION APPARATUS, CONTROLLER AND ENCRYPTION KEY PROTECTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a first encryption key stored in a volatile first storage is input to a data input circuit, the first encryption key input in the data input circuit is encrypted with a second encryption key stored in a volatile second storage, and the access to the data input circuit is limited while the first encryption key is encrypted. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039398 | USER ACCOUNT FOR SYSTEM PROTECTION OR RECOVERY - In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a guest account that is configured to assist in the protection and recovery of the data processing system when it is lost or stolen. In one embodiment, the guest account can allow Internet access and can include a web browser to allow the guest, who might be a thief, to use the system to browse the Internet. While such use occurs, the system can perform actions specified by an authorized user of the system, and such actions can include determining a location of the system and transmitting the location to the authorized user, erasing data on the system, displaying a message, capturing an image, etc. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039399 | CREATING MECHANICAL STAMPS TO PRODUCE MACHINE-READABLE OPTICAL LABELS - A tool for creating mechanical stamps that produce machine-readable optical labels. The tool selects an initial element of a list of two-dimensional labels. The tool selects a pixel difference to apply to a two-dimensional label for the initial element. The tool selects a cardinality for bits in one or more bytes to encode. The tool determines whether a cardinality of a bit difference for each element compared to the initial element equals the selected bit difference cardinality. The tool determines whether a pixel difference between a two-dimensional label for each element and the two-dimensional label for the initial element equals the selected pixel difference. The tool selects one or more elements from the list of two-dimensional labels to create one or more mechanical stamps. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039400 | LABELING AND AUTHENTICATING USING A MICROTAG - An identifier made using a silicon film. The silicon film has a varying optical index of refraction. The varying optical index of refraction reflects one or more spectral peaks when illuminated with light. The one or more spectral peaks includes a reference peak. The silicon film is fragmented and then oxidized. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039401 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA FROM A CONTACTLESS SMART CARD, METHOD AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - The invention relates to a device for processing data coming from a contactless memory card, said device comprising at least one contactless memory card reader. Such a device comprises: | 2017-02-09 |
20170039402 | CALIBRATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF USE - A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039403 | PORTABLE ENCODED INFORMATION READING TERMINAL CONFIGURED TO ADJUST TRANSMIT POWER LEVEL - A system and method of adjusting the transmission strength emitted by an integrated RFID reader. The system may stores the location of the RFID when moved proximate to an object as a point of origin. When the RFID reader moves relative to the point of origin, the system may determine the distance of the RFID reader from the point of origin and may adjust the power level of the RFID reader relative to this distance. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039404 | FOOD FRESHNESS CARD - A food freshness card is disclosed which emits energy tuned to the natural frequency of fresh foods. The card may include a material programmed using scalar waves. The material may be a hologram. Information is embedded into the material via a setup that uses a wave function generator to produce resonant frequencies for the application and drive wave information from a transmitting electrode to a receiving electrode. The scalar waves between the electrodes may be subjected to a wave or field source modulating the resultant wave information received at the receiving electrode. A material placed on a receiving coil at the receiving electrode receives the resultant wave information programming the material to emit energy tuned to the natural frequencies of fresh foods. Food or liquid placed within an effective radius of the card is kept fresher by exposure to the energetic information emitted by the material. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039405 | Smart Passive RFID Reader with Adaptive Beamforming Capability - A smart passive RFID reader includes an RFID reader module, a microcontroller providing a means for increasing the probability of detecting correct passive RFID tags and decreasing the probability of detecting incorrect passive RFID tags, and antennas connected to the RFID reader module, wherein adjacent antennas have orthogonal polarization and the antennas each have a pivoting axis, whereby rotating the antennas about their pivoting axes causes a change in the overlap of the antenna beam radiation patterns and thereby provides a means for adaptive beamforming in order to improve tag reading. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039406 | EXTINGUISHER WITH TRACKING DEVICE AND MONITORING INSTALLATION FOR VEHICLES - An extinguisher with a tracking device and vehicle monitoring feature. A fire extinguisher has at least one wall and a siphon tube operatively connected thereto. A radio frequency transponder is also provided. An active tag is mounted inside the wall of the fire extinguisher or the siphon tube. At least one reader is installed in a traffic light pole, tower, light pole, or existing radar positions on public roads. The radio frequency transponder uses a UHF frequency of up to 985 MHz or a microwave radio frequency communication between 1.0 and 5.8 GHz. The extinguisher allows communication with the readers, whether fixed or mobile, wherein such antennas with fixed readers will capture and transmit data at a distance of approximately one hundred meters which will be installed in the traffic lights pole that exist on public roads of cities or in street lamps, in order to allow the monitoring of both the extinguisher of the vehicle as well as the vehicle itself, so that if the driver of the vehicle removes the extinguishing vehicle, or moves to a distance of more than three meters from the active tag, it sends a signal to the reader, indicating that communication was lost between both tags. The vehicle must be checked by an authority or nearest vehicle. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039407 | CONTAINER AND CODE OF SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE OR FOODSTUFF - A container for a foodstuff or beverage preparation machine, the container for containing beverage or foodstuff preparation material and comprising a code encoding preparation information, the code comprising: a data sequence having a plurality of marker locations, whereby said marker locations either comprise or do not comprise a marker as a variable to at least partially encode the preparation information therein, with adjacent marker locations separated by a distance of Δx; a calibration sequence having at least two markers with a distance of X1 therebetween, whereby the distance Δx between adjacent marker locations of the data sequence is related to the distance X1 of the calibration sequence. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039408 | Fast Retrieval of Information Embedded in an Image - A binary bit-string is encoded in a circular image. The circular image encodes substrings of the bit-string in sectors of the circular image and includes redundant bits, error correcting codes, and metadata pertaining to the encoding scheme. To encode the bit-strings, a circular image is generated that includes a center ring and a first ring. Outward from the first ring, additional rings represent bits in the bit-string according to the width of each ring. The exterior of the image includes an outer boundary ring. The width of the boundary rings is used to define the widths representing the value of each ring. To extract a bit-string from an image, the center of the circular image is identified and a direction is selected to evaluate the image outward, determining the boundaries of each ring. The boundaries are analyzed to determine the width of each ring and the encoded bit values. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039409 | Fingerprint Sensing and Enrollment - A sequence of biometric data images is received, such as, for example, a sequence of fingerprint images, and a set of biometric data images is selected from the sequence of images. The set of images can include one or more segments of at least one image in the sequence of images. One or more portions of at least one image of biometric data in the set of images can be selected to be included in the unified image of biometric data. The unified image of biometric data can be constructed using the one or more portions of the at least one image of biometric data. If the unified image of biometric data is not complete, a user can be prompted for one or more additional images of biometric data. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039410 | FINGERPRINT SENSORS - In one aspect, a method for registering a fingerprint profile on a mobile device includes detecting, at a fingerprint detection module having a rectangular shape, a contact from a finger associated with a swipe motion. The method includes responsive to the detected contact at the fingerprint detection module having a rectangular shape, capturing an image of the finger during the swipe motion. The method includes storing the image of the finger captured during the swipe motion as a registered fingerprint profile of an authorized user. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039411 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image capturing apparatus that can capture a visible light image and an infrared light image of the same object, the image capturing apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect a predetermined object in the visible light image, an extraction unit configured to extract feature information of a specific portion in the object detected in the infrared light image by the detection unit, and an estimation unit configured to estimate unique information of the predetermined object using the feature information extracted by the extraction unit. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039412 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF REGIONS OF INTEREST IN RETINAL IMAGES - Embodiments disclose systems and methods that aid in screening, diagnosis and/or monitoring of medical conditions. The systems and methods may allow, for example, for automated identification and localization of lesions and other anatomical structures from medical data obtained from medical imaging devices, computation of image-based biomarkers including quantification of dynamics of lesions, and/or integration with telemedicine services, programs, or software. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039413 | COMMERCIAL DRONE DETECTION - One embodiment provides a method of capturing the presence of a drone, including: collecting, using at least one sensor, data associated with an aerial object; analyzing, using a processor, the data to determine at least one characteristic of the aerial object; accessing, in a database, a library of stored characteristics of commercially available drones; determining, based on the analyzing, if the at least one characteristic of the aerial object matches a characteristic of a commercially available drone; and responsive to the determining, generating an indication of a positive match. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039414 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An example electronic device ( | 2017-02-09 |
20170039415 | NON-LINEAR IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES - The present invention generally relates to non-linear imaging systems and methods for use in various assisted reproductive technologies and other applications. In one aspect, the present invention is generally directed to two-photon and other non-linear microscope techniques that can be used to determine the status or maturity state of eggs or egg follicles, for example by determining the presence of polar bodies within the egg follicles. In some embodiments, endogenous metabolites, such as NADH or FAD, can be determined, and in some cases without externally altering those metabolite concentrations or without adding other compounds. Other embodiments of the invention are also directed to computer programs or systems that can be used to determine the status or maturity state of eggs or egg follicles, kits in such systems, or the like. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039416 | ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENT TARGETING - Systems and methods provide adapted content to a visitor to a physical environment. An example method receives an image of a visitor to an environment. A visitor portion of the image is distinct from an environment portion of the image. The method detects one or more shapes in the visitor portion of the image using an automatic shape detection technique and defines an approximate boundary of the one or more shapes using a mask. The one or more shapes can be shapes of the visitor's clothing items. The method then calculates an attribute for an area of the image within the mask and identifies electronic content based on the attribute for the area of the image within the mask. The attribute can be a color attribute for the area such as a median color or a dominant color. The method provides the identified electronic content for display in the environment. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039417 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image recognition method for an image recognition apparatus includes detecting, setting, acquiring, selecting, and specifying. At least one part of an identification target is selected from an identification target image. An inquiry region is set based on the detected part. A feature amount of the set inquiry region is acquired. At least one instance image corresponding to the identification target image is selected based on the acquired feature amount. A specific region of the identification target from the identification target image is specified based on the selected instance image. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039418 | FACE AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND DEVICE - The disclosure discloses a face authentication method and device. The face authentication method includes: acquiring multiple face training images; extracting Gabor features of the multiple face training images; extracting Pattern of Oriented Edge Magnitude (POEM) features of the multiple face training images; fusing the Gabor features of the multiple face training image and the POEM features of the multiple face training image to acquire positive samples and negative samples of the multiple face training images; training the positive samples and negative samples of the multiple face training images to obtain training results by an AdaBoost algorithm; and performing face authentication by the training results. By the disclosure, the problem of difficulty of a face authentication method in the related technology in combination of efficiency and recognition rate is solved, and the effects of improving feature extraction efficiency of face recognition and increasing the face recognition rate are further achieved. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039419 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention suppresses feature amounts of faces to be registered in a collation database, thereby preventing the collation database from being bloated. An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a video, a detection unit configured to detect at least one face of the same person from a plurality of frames of the acquired video, a classification unit configured to classify the detected faces into a plurality of predetermined groups, a selection unit configured to select, from the faces classified into the groups, not more than a first predetermined number of faces for each group, wherein the first predetermined number is an integer of not less than 2, and a registration unit configured to register feature amounts of the selected faces in a database. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039420 | EXTRACTING CARD DATA FROM MULTIPLE CARDS - Extracting financial card information with relaxed alignment comprises a method to receive an image of a card, determine one or more edge finder zones in locations of the image, and identify lines in the one or more edge finder zones. The method further identifies one or more quadrilaterals formed by intersections of extrapolations of the identified lines, determines an aspect ratio of the one or more quadrilateral, and compares the determined aspect ratios of the quadrilateral to an expected aspect ratio. The method then identifies a quadrilateral that matches the expected aspect ratio and performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the rectified model. A similar method is performed on multiple cards in an image. The results of the analysis of each of the cards are compared to improve accuracy of the data. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039421 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A VALIDATION DOCUMENT FOR SECURITY - A document validation system receives a scan image of a document to be certified, analyzes the scan image to identify one or more characteristics of the scan image, and uses the identified characteristics to identify a security template. In response to a validation request, the system uses the identified security template to create a validation document that includes descriptive material comprising the location of one or more security elements on the document to be certified. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039422 | SEMIAUTOMATIC MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE-BASED VALIDATION OF SECURE DOCUMENTS - A document validation system receives a scan of a certified document. The system identifies a security template for the document, prompts a user to enter a validation document into the scanning device, receives the validation document, uses the security template identify the location of one or more security elements on the certified document, and analyzes the validation document to identify expected content that should appear on the certified document at the security element locations. The system determines whether the expected content matches actual content of the scan at the security element locations and generates a report of the result. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039423 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE FOR USE IN A MEDICAL FACILITY - A head-mounted display device for interface with a medical device configured to perform an invasive procedure on a patient, such as a blood component collection, an infusion, a feeding operation, etc. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039424 | TRACKING A VEHICLE USING AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE - Tracking a vehicle using an unmanned aerial vehicle is disclosed. One or more first images may be received from a first camera of the first unmanned aerial vehicle located at a first location. A parking violation committed by a first vehicle may be determined in at least one of the one or more first images. The first unmanned aerial vehicle may be then repositioned. One or more second images having the second field of view and showing the first vehicle may then be received. A unique identifier of the first vehicle may then be determined based on at least one of the one or more second images. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CHEMIGATION OF CROPS - A system and method for optimizing chemigation of a crop. The method includes: identifying at least one image of at least one portion of the crop; analyzing, via machine imaging, the at least one image to identify at least one reference image respective of the crop; determining, based on the at least one reference image, at least one abnormality respective of the crop; and generating a chemical composition for treating the at least one abnormality. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039426 | Alert Notification Based on Field of View - Techniques for collecting and presenting information using a wearable device involve receiving criteria information data that specifies one or more criteria for providing information to a user of a wearable device; receiving information indicative of a field of view of the user of the wearable device; detecting that an object in the field of view is associated with one or more attributes that satisfy the user-specified criteria; responsive to detection, executing a rule associated with one or more attributes that satisfy the user-specified criteria; and based on execution of the rule, causing an informational depiction to be presented via a display of the wearable device that visually eliminates or enhances the detected object in the field of view of the user. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039427 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processing method, the importance degree of each person who appears in a first image group and the importance degree of each person who appears in a second image group containing the first image group are determined, and when selecting the image of the output target from the first image group, in a case in which the importance degree of a candidate image of the output target included in the first image group, which is determined from the appearance count in the first image group, exceeds a first threshold and in a case in which the importance degree of the candidate image of the output target, which is determined from the appearance count in the second image group, exceeds a second threshold, the candidate image is selected as the output target. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing method comprises: inputting information of an image group to which one or more of images belong; setting a target range when selecting an image group; if a range identified by the information of the image group input in the inputting straddles a limit of the target range, determining based on the information of the image group and the target range whether to select the image group as an output target candidate; and selecting one or more image groups corresponding to the target range as the output target candidate, in accordance with the determination. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039429 | SCENE UNDERSTANDING USING A NEUROSYNAPTIC SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for scene understanding based on a sequence of image frames. The method comprises converting each pixel of each image frame to neural spikes, and extracting features from the sequence of image frames by processing neural spikes corresponding to pixels of the sequence of image frames. The method further comprises encoding the extracted features as neural spikes, and classifying the extracted features. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039430 | SETTING APPARATUS AND SETTING METHOD - A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039431 | VIDEO MONITORING METHOD, VIDEO MONITORING APPARATUS AND VIDEO MONITORING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a video monitoring method and a video monitoring system based on a depth video. The video monitoring method comprises: obtaining video data collected by a video collecting module; determining an object as a monitored target based on pre-set scene information and the video data; extracting characteristic information of the object; and determining predictive information of the object based on the characteristic information, wherein the video data comprises video data including the depth information. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039432 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SEQUENCING OF VEHICLES IN SIDE-BY-SIDE DRIVE-THRU CONFIGURATIONS VIA APPEARANCE-BASED CLASSIFICATION - This disclosure provides a method and system for automated sequencing of vehicles in side-by-side drive-thru configurations via appearance-based classification. According to an exemplary embodiment, an automated sequencing method includes computer-implemented method of automated sequencing of vehicles in a side-by-side drive-thru, the method comprising: a) an image capturing device capturing video of a merge-point area associated with multiple lanes of traffic merging; b) detecting in the video a vehicle as it traverses the merge-point area; c) classifying the detected vehicle associated with traversing the merge-point area as coming from one of the merging lanes; and d) aggregating vehicle classifications performed in step c) to generate a merge sequence of detected vehicles. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039433 | PITCH ANGLE ESTIMATION APPARATUS - In a pitch angle estimation apparatus, an image acquirer sequentially acquires images in a forward or rearward direction of a vehicle. Each image is referred to as a frame. A movement amount calculator extracts a feature point from each of the images acquired by the image acquirer and calculates an amount of movement of the feature point in a vertical direction of the image. A pitch angle calculator calculates a pitch angle of the vehicle based on the amount of movement of the feature point. An output unit outputs the pitch angle calculated by the pitch angle calculator. A low frequency component calculator calculates a low frequency component of the pitch angle calculated by the pitch angle calculator. An output determiner determines whether to output the pitch angle based on the magnitude of the low frequency component calculated by the low frequency component calculator. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039434 | External-Environment-Recognizing Apparatus - The objective of the present invention is to obtain an external environment-recognizing apparatus with which it is possible to obtain detection results having a necessary accuracy when a plurality of target objects from a captured image are detected. This external-environment-recognizing apparatus has: a plurality of processing units for processing an image; a recognition application-storing unit for storing, by object type, a plurality of recognition applications for recognizing an object by processing using at least one processing unit among the plurality of processing units; an external-information-acquiring unit for acquiring external information that includes at least external environmental information or vehicle behavior information; and a selecting unit for selecting at least one recognition application from the recognition-application-storing unit, and for selecting, on the basis of the external information, a processing unit among the plurality of processing units for processing the selected recognition application. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039435 | Vision-Based Indicator Signal Detection Using Spatiotemporal Filtering - An autonomous vehicle is configured to detect an active turn signal indicator on another vehicle. An image-capture device of the autonomous vehicle captures an image of a field of view of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle captures the image with a short exposure to emphasize objects having brightness above a threshold. Additionally, a bounding area for a second vehicle located within the image is determined. The autonomous vehicle identifies a group of pixels within the bounding area based on a first color of the group of pixels. The autonomous vehicle also calculates an oscillation of an intensity of the group of pixels. Based on the oscillation of the intensity, the autonomous vehicle determines a likelihood that the second vehicle has a first active turn signal. Additionally, the autonomous vehicle is controlled based at least on the likelihood that the second vehicle has a first active turn signal. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039436 | Fusion of RGB Images and Lidar Data for Lane Classification - Point cloud data is received and a ground plane is segmented. A two-dimensional image of the segmented ground plane is generated based on intensity values of the segmented ground plane. Lane marking candidates are determined based on intensity within the generated two-dimensional image. Image data is received and the generated two-dimensional image is registered with the received image data. Lane marking candidates of the received image data are determined based on the lane marking candidates of the registered two-dimensional image. Image patches are selected from the two-dimensional image and from the received image data based on the determined lane markings. Feature maps including selected image patches from the registered two-dimensional image and received data are generated. The set of feature maps are sub-sampled, and a feature vector is generated based on the set of feature maps. Lane markings are determined from the generated feature vector. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039437 | Rear-View Camera System for Vehicle - Disclosed is a rear-view camera system for a vehicle. The rear-view camera system for a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention includes at least one wide-angle lens and at least one standard lens, and may take a rear image of the vehicle using the wide-angle lens or the standard lens. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to reduce an accident risk, while the vehicle is reversing, by providing an image taken through the wide-angle lens or an image taken through the standard lens according to a distance between the vehicle and an object located at a rear thereof or a user's selection, and also to observe rules of parking etiquette without any difficulty. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039438 | VEHICLE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The purpose of the present invention is to contribute to safe vehicle operation by suppressing the movement of a user's line-of-sight and causing the degree of a potential risk to be intuitively presented and recognized. A vehicle display system comprises: a periphery recognition unit that detects the position, type, and the like of a specified object on a road surface; a display unit that displays a wall surface image which is superimposed onto the actual scenery outside of a user's vehicle so as to be visible to a user; and a control unit that controls the display unit. The control unit displays, with the specified object as the point of origin, a lateral wall image having a wall surface section that protrudes upward. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039439 | PARKING SPACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed are a parking space recognition apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The method may include calculating an estimated location value for any one of a plurality of crossings included in a parking space from an around view monitoring image, determining whether stored registered location values for one or more prerecognized existing crossings are present among the plurality of crossings, determining whether a registered location value matching the estimated location value is present among the stored registered location values if the stored registered location values are present, correcting the matched registered location value based on the estimated location value if the registered location value matching the estimated location value is present, and replacing a registered location value for an existing crossing corresponding to the estimated location value with the corrected registered location value and storing the corrected registered location value. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039440 | VISUAL LIVENESS DETECTION - In an approach for visual liveness detection, a video-audio signal related to a speaker speaking a text is obtained. The video-audio signal is split into a video signal which records images of the speaker and an audio signal which records a speech spoken by the speaker. Then a first sequence indicating visual mouth openness is obtained from the video signal, and a second sequence indicating acoustic mouth openness is obtained based on the text and the audio signal. Synchrony between the first and second sequences is measured, and the liveness of the speaker is determined based on the synchrony. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039441 | BIO MARKER DETECTION DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HEALTH INFORMATION - A bio marker detection device and a method for detecting or generating a bio marker from a plurality of strip sensors are provided. The bio marker detection device includes a close-up lens for detecting an image for the plurality of strip sensors, a transparent frame surrounding the close-up lens to evenly pass light from an outside to the plurality of strip sensors, and a strip sensor holder inlet configured for combining the plurality of strip sensors with the bio marker detection device. The method includes detecting a plurality of bio markers from a plurality of sensors, generating user health information based on the detected plurality of detected bio markers, and displaying the generated user health information. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039442 | OBJECT INGESTION THROUGH CANONICAL SHAPES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039443 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING OBSTRUCTED PORTIONS OF DISPLAYED DIGITAL CONTENT - Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, rendering, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems for determining obscured portions of displayed digital content. The disclosed method and apparatus involve acquiring and recording coordinates of each pixel in a digital image, and marking the pixels located at a boundary of the image as boundary pixels. The pixels located at a first region block are extracted and marked as obstruction pixels. An obstructed cutting space area corresponding to each pixel is determined based on positional relations of each pixel in the image. An image obstruction score is calculated based on the cutting space areas and utilized for rendering the pixels of the image. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039444 | OBJECT DETECTION USING DIRECTIONAL FILTERING - Techniques related to object detection using directional filtering are discussed. Such techniques may include determining directional weighted averages for pixels of an input image, generating a feature representation of the input image based on the directional weighted averages, and performing object detection by applying a multi-stage cascade classifier to the feature representation. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039445 | MICRO-LOCATION OF DEVICES WITHIN A WIRELESS NETWORK USING ROOM BOUNDARY IMAGES - In a system for detecting location of an object inside of a building, an image capture device of a mobile electronic device captures an image of a boundary of a room in which the portable electronic device is positioned. The system extracts features of a boundary (ceiling, wall or floor) in the image to determine whether the mobile device is in a known location. When the system identifies a known location, it will take an action that provides the portable electronic device with additional functionality at the identified known location. Such functionality may include connecting to a wireless network or communicating with a stationary device at the known location. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039446 | TEMPORALLY ADAPTIVE PROCESSING - A method of image processing for finding a target in a scene includes receiving a series of images from a sensor and computing a background relative velocity in the series of images. The method further includes estimating a hypothesized target relative velocity of the target in the series of images. The method further includes computing a target revisit time based on a difference of the target relative velocity and the background relative velocity. The method further includes adjusting one or more of a frame capture rate or a frame processing rate based on the target revisit time. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039447 | HIGH SECURITY KEY SCANNING SYSTEM - A high security key scanning system and method is provided. The scanning system may comprise a sensing device configured to determine information and characteristics of a master high security key, and a digital logic to analyze the information and characteristics of the master key. The sensing device may be configured to capture information about the geometry of features cut into the surface of the master key. The logic may analyze the information related to that geometry and compare it to known characteristics of that style of high security key in order to determine the data needed to replicate the features on a new high security key blank. The system may be configured to capture the surface geometry using a camera or other imaging device. The system may utilize object coating techniques, illumination techniques, filtering techniques, image processing techniques, and feature extraction techniques to capture the desired features. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039448 | CAPTURING UNIQUE SCREENSHOTS - A machine-executable process comprises receiving a request to take a screenshot of a display and receiving page source information of the display. The page source information is compared to stored page source information of displays that have had a screenshot taken to determine whether a screenshot of the display has already been taken. If a screenshot has not already been taken of the display, then a screenshot is taken and the page source information of the display is added to the stored page source information. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039449 | METHOD OF PREDICTING CROP YIELD LOSS DUE TO N-DEFICIENCY - A method for determining the yield loss of a crop using remote sensor data is described. The yield loss is determined using the reflectivity of light by the crop canopy measured from remote sensor data such as an aerial photograph. Pixel color values from the aerial photograph, expressed relative to pixel values from nitrogen-sufficient areas of the field, are transformed to yield losses using a transformation that was developed using empirical data. A similar method is described to determine recommended nitrogen fertilization rates for the crop fields. The yield loss data is useful for nitrogen fertilization management decisions, as it allows a producer of crops to weigh the expense of fertilization against the loss of revenue due to yield loss induced by nitrogen deficiency. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039450 | Identifying Entities to be Investigated Using Storefront Recognition - Systems and methods for storefront recognition are provided. A surveyor or other user can access an application implemented on a computing device. A source image of a storefront of an entity can be captured by the surveyor using an image capture device (e.g. a digital camera). A feature matching process can be used to compare the source image against a plurality of candidate images of storefronts in the geographic area and return a list of the candidate images with the closest match. Each candidate image returned by the application can be annotated with a similarity score indicative of the similarity of the source image with the candidate image. The surveyor can use the similarity scores and the candidate images to determine whether the store has been previously investigated. The user can interact with the application to indicate whether the entity seeds to be investigated. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039451 | CLASSIFICATION DICTIONARY LEARNING SYSTEM, CLASSIFICATION DICTIONARY LEARNING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a classification dictionary learning system and the like that can generate a classification dictionary capable of detecting, with a high classification rate, a particular object of which change in the appearance is large in an image. The classification dictionary learning system includes: setting unit sets the priority degree of the classification between the first class and the second class including the sub-class to a value designated by the user and the like; the classifier learning unit sets the priority degree; the selection unit learns multiple classifiers on the basis of the priority degree for each combination of sub-classes; the weight updating unit updates the weight on the basis of the classification accuracy based on the classifier learned with the selected combination. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039452 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL CONTENT - Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content generating, hosting and/or providing system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic discovery of high quality digital content. According to embodiments, the present disclosure describes improved computer system and methods directed to analyzing raw image data, such as features and descriptors of images in order to identify a high quality image(s). Such images can be identified from a database of images, and such images can be identified in real-time, or near real-time during the capture of an image(s) by a camera. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039453 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, obtains the number of images in which a first person and a second person simultaneously appear out of a plurality of images; obtains the number of image groups in which the first person and the second person appear out of a plurality of image groups into which the plurality of images are classified; specifies an intensity of a relationship between the first person and the second person based on the number of images obtained and the number of image groups obtained; generates information of a correlation of a plurality of persons who appear in the plurality of images, based on the specified intensity; and extracts one or a plurality of person groups to which each of the plurality of persons belongs, based on the generated information of the correlation of the persons. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039454 | VIDEO PROCESSOR AND ACTIVATION METHOD OF VIDEO PROCESSOR - A video processor includes: a judgement section configured to judge whether an input is a 2D or 3D image signal; an LR synthesis section configured to embed left and right image signals into an image signal in a side-by-side format to output the signal if the input is the 3D image signal and configured to embed a 2D image signal into a position corresponding to one of the left and right in an image signal in a side-by-side format to output the signal if the input is the 2D image signal; and an image processing section configured to apply image processing to the image signal in the side-by-side format. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039455 | COMPUTER-VISION BASED SECURITY SYSTEM USING A DEPTH CAMERA - A method for securing an environment. The method includes obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) representation of a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The 2D representation includes a 2D frame of pixels encoding depth values of the 3D environment. The method further includes identifying a set of foreground pixels in the 2D representation, defining a foreground object based on the set of foreground pixels. The method also includes classifying the foreground object, and taking an action based on the classification of the foreground object. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039456 | BOOSTED DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS (CNNs) - Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or systems of training multiclass convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are disclosed. For one embodiment, as an example, an auxiliary CNN may be utilized to form an ensemble with the collection as a linear combination. The linear combination may be based, at least in part, on boost prediction error encountered during the training process. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039457 | BUSINESS DISCOVERY FROM IMAGERY - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method includes training a deep neural network using training images and data identifying one or more business storefront locations in the training images. The deep neural network outputs tight bounding boxes on each image. At the deep neural network, a first image may be received. The first image may be evaluated using the deep neural network. Bounding boxes may then be generated identifying business storefront locations in the first image. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039458 | COLOR PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A color processing device includes a color data acquisition section and a first-relationship generation section. The color data acquisition section acquires color data of a first image output by a first image forming device on a basis of image data. The first-relationship generation section generates a first relationship that is a relationship between the image data and the acquired color data, the first relationship being generated by applying the image data and the acquired color data to at least one first relationship candidate prepared in advance in a color gamut wider than a color gamut of the color data and by performing matching on the image data and the acquired color data with the first relationship candidate. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039459 | Control Method of a Printer, Program, and Recording medium - The user can configure the print layout intuitively, and prevent needlessly executing a compensation process based on the printer mode. A plug-in | 2017-02-09 |
20170039460 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a sheet holding unit, a printing unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The printing unit prints an image on types of sheets supplied from the sheet holding unit. The storage unit stores first information indicating a type of sheet placed on the sheet holding unit and second information indicating whether predetermined setting for allowing omission of selection of a sheet type is performed. When the second information indicates that the predetermined setting is performed, a printing operation is executed according to sheet type designated for the first print job. When the second information indicates that the predetermined setting is not performed, a printing operation corresponding to the same sheet type is executed. Where execution of a second print job in which a sheet type is not designated is instructed, a printing operation corresponding to the sheet type indicated by the first information is executed. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039461 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A MEDIA - An imaging system includes an imaging station, an actuator for driving a medium roller for controllably displacing the medium along a media transport path, and a controller assembly. The controller assembly includes a sensor device for generating a position signal and a processor for processing the position signal. The actuator is actuated in response to an actuation command from the controller assembly, which actuation command is derivable from a feedback component and a feedforward component. The feedback component is based on a position error. The processor is further arranged for determining a time dependent status parameter, which status parameter represents a status of the medium on the medium roller. The processor is further arranged for deriving an actuation command estimate based on the status parameter, and wherein the feedforward component includes the actuation command estimate. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039462 | Contact Smart Card and Method of Forming Such - Contact smart card has a smart card contact pad and an IC chip. The smart card contact pad has a circuit substrate with a plurality of via holes there through, a card-reader contact element on a first side of the circuit substrate, and a plurality of chip connection elements on a second side of the circuit substrate. Each chip connection element is associated with a via hole through the circuit substrate. The card-reader contact element has an electrically conductive surface. The plurality of chip connection elements define a chip engagement region on the second side of the circuit substrate. The IC chip is mounted on the chip engagement region and electrically connected to the card-reader contact element through the via holes. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039463 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, TWO-DIMENSIONAL-CODE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL-CODE GENERATION SYSTEM - In this two-dimensional code, data expressed in binary code is divided into cells, and arranged as a two-dimensional matrix-like pattern. The two-dimensional code is characterized by being provided with a basic pattern section, and a peripheral section arranged outside the basic pattern section. The two-dimensional code is further characterized in that the basic pattern section includes: position detection patterns for specifying cell positions; and basic-pattern-section movement information indicating the position of the basic pattern section in the two-dimensional code area. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039464 | A METHOD FOR FABRICATING AN ELECTRONIC/ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for fabricating an electronic device comprising an electronic/electrical circuit, wherein it comprises the following steps: formation of a support-body comprising a battery inside; making of a cavity emerging on the surface of the support-body, said cavity revealing connection terminals of the battery; connection of an electronic/electrical circuit to the battery via the terminals situated in said cavity; exchanging of data in the electronic/electrical circuit by electrical contact. The invention also relates to the corresponding electronic device. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039465 | MIDDLEWARE DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF READER AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MISRECOGNITION OF TAG - A middleware device, a driving method of a reader and a tag misrecognition determining method are provided. The middleware device operated in relation to a reader includes a storage configured to pre-store receiving sensitivity of tag information of a tag of an object recognized at different distances from the reader as a reference value, a communication interface configured to, in response to the object approaching to the reader, acquire the receiving sensitivity of tag information of the tag recognized at a preset time interval, and a tag misrecognition processor configured to compare the acquired receiving sensitivity with the pre-stored reference value to determine misrecognition of the tag. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039466 | UHF RFID WRISTBAND WITH A LONG READ RANGE - A radio frequency identification wristband for attaching to a patient that has a band, a wristband housing attached to or integral with said band, one or more radio frequency identification tag(s) or tag inlay(s), an insulator material, wherein said wristband housing is adhered to said radio frequency identification tag or tag inlay, said radio frequency identification tag or tag inlay is adhered to an isolator material, and wherein said insulator material is nearest to the skin of the patient and insulates the radio frequency identification tag or tag inlay from the patient's skin. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039467 | Neuron network signal detection device - A neuron network signal detection device is disclosed herein, comprising at least two coupled neurons, each neuron is connected to a sensor that transmits DC signal and the output terminal of coupled neuron is connected to a synchronization judgment unit. When adopting the above scheme, the physical or biological signals are converted to DC signals, which act on the mutually coupled neuron or neuron-like circuit. When the coupling strength reaches a certain value, the discharge behaviors of neuron or neuron-like circuit network will also achieve synchronization, and the synchronization judgment unit can detect the output voltage or current response of this kind of circuit. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEARNING NEW TRAINED CONCEPTS USED TO RETRIEVE CONTENT RELEVANT TO THE CONCEPTS LEARNED - A system configured for learning new trained concepts used to retrieve content relevant to the concepts learned. The system may comprise one or more hardware processors configured by machine-readable instructions to obtain one or more digital media items. The one or more hardware processors may be further configured to obtain an indication conveying a concept to be learned from the one or more digital media items. The one or more hardware processors may be further configured to receive feedback associated with individual ones of the one or more digital media items. The one or more hardware processors may be configured to obtain individual neural network representations for the individual ones of the one or more digital media items. The one or more hardware processors may be configured to determine a trained concept based on the feedback and the neural network representations of the one or more digital media items. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039469 | DETECTION OF UNKNOWN CLASSES AND INITIALIZATION OF CLASSIFIERS FOR UNKNOWN CLASSES - A method of detecting unknown classes is presented and includes generating a first classifier for multiple first classes. In one configuration, an output of the first classifier has a dimension of at least two. The method also includes designing a second classifier to receive the output of the first classifier to decide whether input data belongs to the multiple first classes or at least one second class. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039470 | FACTOR EXTRACTION SYSTEM AND FACTOR EXTRACTION METHOD - An objective of the present invention is to efficiently identify a combination of other variables which contribute to variation of a target variable, and extract same as explanatory variables (factors). A factor extraction system according to the present invention defines a covariant composite variable which is configured of a combination of event variables and a binary number which represents whether the combination is present in event data, and obtains a correlation between the covariant composite variable and the target variable, thereby extracting contribution factors. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039471 | NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING DEVICE - A neural network learning device includes a learning unit configured to perform a learning process that learns a neural network using a plurality of learning data sets. The learning process includes a data reading process, a synaptic weight correction process, a neuron generation process, and a neuron removal process. The neural network learning device includes an intermediate layer generation unit configured to perform an intermediate layer generation process. The intermediate layer generation process newly generates an additional intermediate layer including at least one neuron as an intermediate layer of the neural network when a loss function is greater than a predetermined second threshold value after the learning process is performed. When the additional intermediate layer is newly generated by the intermediate layer generation process, the learning unit performs the learning process again, using the neural network in which the additional intermediate layer has been generated. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039472 | MACHINE LEARNING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, a machine learning apparatus includes an interlayer accelerator. The interlayer accelerator includes interlayer units that generate, based on (a) an input vector of a first layer included in a neural network that includes three or more layers and (b) a learning weight matrix of the first layer, an input vector of a second layer next to the first layer. Each of the interlayer units includes a coupled oscillator array. The coupled oscillator array includes oscillators that oscillate at frequencies corresponding to differences between elements of the input vector of the first layer and elements of a row vector that is one row of the learning weight matrix, and combines oscillated signals generated by the oscillators to obtain a calculated signal. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039473 | Methods, systems, non-transitory computer readable medium, and machines for maintaining augmented telepathic data - This document discloses effective augmented telepathic communication as a gadget-free extension of human senses. The conveyance of mental information and cognitive processes to perceive or communicate being made possible by data structures for generating and maintaining representations of biological systems activity with auditory, visual, kinesthetic, tactile, emotion, movement, smell, taste, and concept data in a computing environment. In preferable embodiments of the present invention, one or more methods include steps for representing brain, nervous system, and sensory systems activity with mental information and cognitive processes as data for incorporating values with applications, systems, or instance relevant computing environments. In a preferable embodiment of the present invention, methods also include the association of data representing the objects, elements, assets, acts, conditions, processes, or products of perceiving, cognizing, communicating, experiencing, imagining, remembering, recognizing, thinking, judging, reasoning, problem solving, conceptualizing, or planning with mixes of machine learning tasks for human-computer interfacing and communicating using optional devices or acting as a biological computing environment. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039474 | Optimizer Problem Determination - A computer-implemented method includes receiving an artefact and a problem pattern, transforming the artefact into an abstracted artefact structure, and transforming the problem pattern into a query. The query is matched against the abstracted artefact structure. Any matched portions of the abstracted artefact structure are related back to corresponding result portions of the artefact. The corresponding result portions of the artefact are returned. The method may be embodied in a corresponding computer system or computer program product. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING AN INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT - A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. Embodiments of the present invention rely on the concept of “active ontologies” (e.g., execution environments constructed in an ontology-like manner) to build and run applications for use by intelligent automated assistants. In one specific embodiment, a method for building an automated assistant includes interfacing a service-oriented architecture that includes a plurality of remote services to an active ontology, where the active ontology includes at least one active processing element that models a domain. At least one of the remote services is then registered for use in the domain. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039476 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM CALENDAR COORDINATION - A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one example, the method may include receiving scheduling data associated with a schedule for each of two or more users at a home automation system. The method may further include comparing the received scheduling data for each of the two or more users, and deriving an alert based, at least in part, on the comparing. The method may further include communicating the alert to at least one of the two or more users. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039477 | PROBABILISTIC INFERENCES NETWORK UTILIZING SECOND ORDER UNCERTAINTY - In an inference engine a conditional dependency of variables is characterized in terms of second order uncertainty to aid in improving decision making speed and precision. Mean and distribution of evidence states are utilized to provide first order uncertainties for each of a plurality of states. Higher order statistics such as standard deviation and variance for the states are calculated in order to define second order uncertainties. A covariance layer of the inference engine receives variance information from parent nodes for calculating the states of a child node. Second order uncertainty expresses conditional dependency of the parameters to which the child node responds. The method and apparatus are generalized to apply the propagation of second order uncertainty through inference engines such as Bayesian Networks, Influence Diagrams and Probabilistic Relational Models, to output control signals. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039478 | ROBUST TARGET IDENTIFICATION - A target estimator that properly conditions measurement variates in the case of a series of sensor measurements collected against a target, a system model that captures visible and hidden stochastic information including but not limited to target state, target identity, and sensor measurements and that marginalizes measurement failure and a dynamic mixed quadrature expression facilitating real-time implementation of the estimator are presented. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039479 | RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A risk assessment system and a data processing method are provided. The risk assessment system includes an analyze device and an electronic device. The analyze device generates at least one decision table according to a plurality of data and context features of the plurality of data. Each of the decision table has a plurality of entries, and each of the entries includes at least one of determining condition and probability information corresponding to a specific result. The electronic device communicates with the analyze device. The electronic device receives the decision table and compares the determining conditions of each entries with current conditions of an assessee. When the current conditions are the same to the determining conditions of a specific entry, the electronic device displays the determining conditions and the probability information corresponding to the specific entry. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039480 | Workout Pattern Detection - Aspects of the technology described herein can analyze signal data from multiple computing devices to ascertain a user's exercise pattern. Understanding a user's exercise pattern can help reduce power usage by automatically turning physiological sensors on and off to coincide with the start and end of an exercise event. Exemplary computing devices that can provide signal data related to a user's exercise routine can include a mobile computing device (e.g., smart phone) that captures location signals and other contextual data and a wearable computing device (e.g., fitness tracker) that captures physiological characteristics of the user, such as heart rate, temperature, and movement. The signals captured by the multiple computing devices can be analyzed together to determine when an individual exercise event has occurred. The plurality of exercise events associated with a user or group of users can be analyzed to ascertain an exercise pattern. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039481 | INCORPORATING ARRAYS OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS IN A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION RING MODULATOR IN A JOSEPHSON PARAMETRIC CONVERTER - A Josephson parametric converter is provided. The Josephson parametric converter includes a multi-Josephson junction ring modulator having a first, a second, a third, and a fourth node and a first, a second, a third, and a fourth array of N Josephson junctions arranged in a ring configuration with the nodes inter-dispersed between the arrays. The first array is between the first and second nodes, the second array is between the second and third nodes, the third array is between the third and fourth nodes, and the fourth array is between the fourth and first nodes. N is an integer having a value greater than one. The Josephson parametric converter further includes a first and a second resonator formed from lumped-element capacitors that shunt the multi-Josephson junction ring modulator and respectively enable a first and a second mode of the Josephson parametric converter. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039482 | Mapping Questions to Complex Database Lookups using Synthetic Events - An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager identifies training entities in a training question answer pair and identifies database paths a database that link the training entities. The knowledge manager then generates a generalized query based upon the identified database paths. In addition, the knowledge manager generates a generalized syntactic pattern based upon syntactic relationships between the training entities in the training question answer pair. When the knowledge manager receives a question and matches the syntactic pattern of the received question to the generalized syntactic pattern, the knowledge manager generates a custom query from the generalized query and queries the database using the custom query. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039483 | FACTORIZED MODELS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a factorization model to learning features of model inputs of a trained model such that the factorization model is predictive of outcome for which the machine learned model is trained. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039484 | GENERATING NEGATIVE CLASSIFIER DATA BASED ON POSITIVE CLASSIFIER DATA - Examples relate to generating negative classifier data based on positive classifier data. In one example, a computing device may: obtain positive classifier data for a first class, the positive classifier data including at least one correlated feature set and, for each correlated feature set, a measure of likelihood that data matching the correlated feature set belongs to the first class; determine, for each feature included in the at least one correlated feature set, a de-correlated measure of likelihood that data including the feature belongs to the first class; and generate, based on each de-correlated measure of likelihood, negative classifier data for classifying data as belonging to a second class. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039485 | System and Method for Balancing Computation with Communication in Parallel Learning - A machine learning method includes installing a plurality of model replicas for training on a plurality of computer learning nodes; receiving training data at a each model replica and updating parameters for the model replica after trailing; sending the parameters to other model replicas with a communication batch size; evaluating received parameters from other model replicas; and dynamically adjusting the communication batch size to balance computation and communication overhead and ensuring convergence even with a mismatch in processing abilities on different computer learning nodes. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039486 | ACTIVE FEATURING IN COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTIVE LEARNING - A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039487 | SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE LEARNING METHOD - [Problem] To make it possible to reliably conceal a label of a supervisory signal when support vector machine learning is performed. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039488 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A TAXI SHARING BRIDGE SYSTEM - The system and method disclosed herein provides a taxi sharing bridge system, which uses taxis from a plurality of taxi companies (and their respective taxi sharing systems) to effectively dispatch commuters to their specific destinations when a disruption occurs in a public transportation system. The system and method includes client devices associated with a plurality of users, a taxi sharing bridge system and a plurality of taxi sharing systems. The system uses past transportation service usage data to determine a preferred route of a user to travel from an origin to a destination. The system takes into account a priority level of the users who choose to use the service to group them into taxis to arrive at a destination upon a disruption in the public transportation system. The priority level may be based on the commuter's waiting time, the commuter's loyalty, and preferred route type. | 2017-02-09 |
20170039489 | Mobile Device-Enhanced User Selection of Specific Rental Vehicles for a Rental Vehicle Reservation - A number of techniques are disclosed for making it more convenient and efficient for customers to conduct various rental vehicle transactions. As an example, a technique for performing an automated pickup of a rental vehicle using a mobile device is disclosed. As another example, a technique for performing an automated return administration of a rental vehicle using a mobile device is disclosed. As another example, a technique for permitting customer to select a particular rental vehicle for a rental vehicle transaction using a mobile device is disclosed. Also disclosed is a technique for permitting a customer to keylessly start a rental vehicle using a machine-sensible item such as his/her mobile device without requiring the customer to possess a smart key. | 2017-02-09 |