10th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160072908 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROXY-BASED MULTI-THREADED MESSAGE PASSING COMMUNICATION - Technologies for proxy-based multithreaded message passing include a number of computing nodes in communication over a network. Each computing node establishes a number of message passing interface (MPI) endpoints associated with threads executed within a host processes. The threads generate MPI operations that are forwarded to a number of proxy processes. Each proxy process performs the MPI operation using an instance of a system MPI library. The threads may communicate with the proxy processes using a shared-memory communication method. Each thread may be assigned to a particular proxy process. Each proxy process may be assigned dedicated networking resources. MPI operations may include sending or receiving a message, collective operations, and one-sided operations. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072909 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE ACCESS TO IMS DATABASES - Systems and methods are provided that allow client programs using IMS database access interfaces to access IMS database data available from IMS systems on remote logical partitions and remote zSeries mainframes rather than from a local IMS system. For example, a method may include intercepting an IMS request having a documented IMS request format from a client program executing on a source mainframe system. The method may also include selecting a destination mainframe system and sending a buffer including information from the request from the source mainframe system to the destination mainframe system and establishing, at the destination mainframe system, an IMS DRA connection with the IMS system from the request. The method may further include receiving a response from the IMS system, sending a buffer having information from the response from the destination mainframe system to the source mainframe system, and providing the information to the client program. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072910 | Caching of Machine Images - Technology is described for reducing computing instance launch times. A computing instance that is expected to be launched in a computing service environment during a defined time period may be identified. A machine image associated with the computing instance may be determined to be cached in the computing service environment using a launch time prediction model to reduce a launch time for launching the computing instance as compared to not caching the machine image. At least one physical host in the computing service environment that is available to cache the machine image may be selected to lower the launch time of the computing instance as predicted by the launch time prediction model. The machine image may be stored in the physical host in order to minimize the launch time for launching the computing instance in the computing service environment, using the processor. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072911 | PHYSICAL LOCATION INFLUENCED CACHING - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to the caching of network content requested by a user of a client computing device during a browsing session. The client computing device's various networks and varying bandwidth can have a negative impact on the browsing session. Caching of network content can enhance performance. For example, network content can be cached on a wireless mobile device so that it is available on the device at a further time without requiring significant bandwidth or, in some cases, even a network connection. Predicting the bandwidth at the time the cached content will be accessed can allow customized caching and an improved user experience. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072912 | APPARATUS FOR USER CHALLENGE GENERATION FOR COMPETITIVE COLLABORATION - Apparatuses, methods and storage media for user challenge generation are described. In one instance, an apparatus may include an integrated circuit; and logic to be operated by the integrated circuit to: select a polyhedron having a number of vertices that substantially corresponds to a number of users having user-associated information that includes first and a true statement and false statements; associate each edge of the polyhedron with a character; select a face of the polyhedron for a provision of a secret code comprising a sequence of characters associated with edges of the selected face; associate user information with vertices; and generate challenges for the users based on the above actions. The challenges include suggestions for the characters comprising the secret code, e.g., those characters that are associated with edges, which correspond with true statements and false statements. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072913 | AUTOMATIC APPLICATION DISCOVERY, DOWNLOAD, INTEGRATION AND LAUNCH - A mechanism is provided for integrated functionality across separate software applications to provide a response. First and second software applications are determined both of which are independently designed to perform actions to provide the response. The first software application has a first functionality software component and a first data source software component. The second software application has a second functionality software component and a second data source software component. According to a user profile, the OS selects between the first and second functionality software components a selected functionality software component, and selects between the first and second data source software components a selected data source software component from which to provide the data corresponding to the user request. The response is presented as the integration of the selected functionality and data source software components. The selected functionality and data source software components are not from the same software application. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072914 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND BROWSER STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - It is determined whether a user has logged in to a web browser. If the user has logged in to the web browser, local storage data is encrypted and stored in a user-specific storage. If the user has logged in to the web browser, local storage data is decrypted and acquired from the user-specific storage. If the user has logged in to the web browser, data in the user-specific storage is deleted. If the user has not logged in, data is stored in a shared storage without encryption. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE INTERACTIVE, USER-CUSTOMIZED CONTENT TO TOUCH-FREE TERMINALS - A method of displaying content to a user within a managed space comprised of one or more touch-free interactive kiosks includes collecting user data about the user. In addition, the plurality of touch-free interactive kiosks are configured to uniquely identify users located at the kiosk. Based on the identified user, and collected user data associated with the user, content is selected to be displayed to the user. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072916 | Electronic Interactive Business Card Mobile Software System with Customer Relationship Management Database - An electronic interactive business card system for mobile devices that provides electronic cards that contain direct contact links for the card owner's phone numbers, addresses, websites, and social media webpages. These cards can only be exchanged with approval of the original card owner. The system includes a central server for storing and automatically updating all electronic business cards to keep all cardholders and recipients completely updated on all their card contact information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072917 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A distributed computing system is disclosed. The system includes a host computer and a plurality of mobile computing devices in communication with the host computer via a communication network. The host computer splits a computing task into a multiple independent calculations and assigns the independent calculations to the mobile computing devices. The mobile computing devices execute the independent calculations and transmit results of the independent calculations to the host computer. The host computer obtains an end result of the computing task by combining the results of the plurality of independent calculations. A distributed computing method is also disclosed. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072918 | System and Method for Acquisition, Management and Distribution of User-Generated Digital Media Content - Disclosed are systems and methods for acquisition, management and distribution of digital media content. An exemplary system includes a content management server that generates a content request task comprising a plurality of parameters, including a content description and a location for content acquisition; identifies one or more registered and active mobile device users that match one or more parameters of the content request task; transmits the content request task to one or more identified mobile device users that match one or more parameters of the content request task; receives the requested digital media content from one or more mobile device users; processes the received digital media content for previewing, editing and moderating the content by a content moderator; determines, based on results of the moderation, whether to accept or reject the digital media content received from user; and submits accepted digital media content to one or more media distribution platforms. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072919 | DIRECT TRANSMISSION OF DATA BETWEEN APPLICATIONS IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Overhead of sending data from one application to another by doing input and output processing can be costly. The present invention provides a method of transmitting data with a low overhead between applications in a multi-tenant runtime environment. The multi-tenant runtime detects a connection between tenants, and then performs low-overhead data transmission mechanisms by cloning data from one tenant space to another tenant space, while keeping the data isolated for two tenants. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072920 | PROVISIONING MULTIPLE NETWORK RESOURCES - A resource provisioning service allows users to provision multiple, different network resources in an atomic manner and with a single call to a resource provisioning service. In some instances, the multiple, different network resources comprise individual types of resources that form a portion of one or more cloud-computing platforms. For instance, one or more entities may host and operate a cloud-computing platform that includes different types of network resources, such a storage service, a load balancing service, a compute service, a security service, or any other similar or different type of network-accessible service. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESS TO CONTINOUSLY RUNNING APPLICATION PROGRAMS BY NETWORK CONNECTED END-USER DEVICES - A system for providing access to one or more application device, such as a respective processed application program, is connected to a telecommunications network including at least one user device. The system includes a manager device connected to the respective application device, and the manager device communicatively connects to the respective user device. Each application device includes a respective processing state and a state table of each respective processing state. The manager device updates the respective processing state of the state table for each application device and respective user device. Each user device accesses the manager device to obtain the respective processing state in the state table of the particular application device for the particular user device. User devices can switch communications with the manager device and application device, providing continuing operations of the application device with same processing state. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072922 | MANAGING EDITS OF CONTENT ITEMS - One or more embodiments provide features for managing and editing content items. In particular, one or more embodiments enable one or more users to access and modify content items from one of multiple client devices without requiring storage of the content item locally on the client device. Additionally, one or more embodiments enable storing reduced resolution content items on multiple client devices in a way that saves storage space on the client devices while providing access to a content item without requiring constant network access to a central system. Further, one or more embodiments enable globally applying local edits to a content item and corresponding reduced resolution content items on multiple client devices. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072923 | CLIENT SYSTEM COMMUNICATION WITH A MEMBER OF A CLUSTER OF SERVER SYSTEMS - In an approach for connecting an access point in a client region to an access point within a cluster of server regions for a transaction process, a processor receives a connect request to a cluster of server regions sharing a network end point from a client region. A processor reroutes the connect request by a connection balancing mechanism to a network end point corresponding to a server region within the cluster of server regions. A processor transmits connection information to the client region, wherein the connection information allows the client region to connect to the server region within the cluster of server regions. A processor connects the server region within the cluster of server regions to the client region. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072924 | METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE VIRTUALIZATION AND MANAGEMENT - A method for electronic device virtualization and management includes transmitting a signal to a server from a client. The signal is initiated by a user of a user interface of the client. The user interface of the client presents at least two devices to the user, which the user may interact with. The signal may include a power cycling instruction directed to at least one of the devices. When the server receives a communication back from the at least one device, it may send the information to the client, where the user interface may be updated in response to the communication. The devices may be controlled with other instructions, such as scheduling instructions, firmware update instructions, and configuration backup instructions. If a power device is virtualized, it may be controlled on a port-by-port basis. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072925 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An information processing system includes terminal devices of a first network; and an information processing device of a second network. A first terminal device includes a unit for retrieving device information of electronic devices and the information processing device of the second network; and a unit for transmitting an output request to the information processing device. A second terminal device includes a unit for retrieving device information of the electronic devices and the information processing device; and a unit for transmitting a retrieval request to the information processing device, and for retrieving electronic data. The information processing device includes a unit for retrieving the output request and the retrieval request; a unit for transmitting the output request and the retrieval request to the electronic device, and for receiving the electronic data; and a unit for providing the electronic data to the second terminal. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072926 | REFERENCING CHANGE(S) IN DATA UTILIZING A NETWORK RESOURCE LOCATOR - The subject disclosure relates to techniques for referencing a change in data utilizing a network resource locator. An interface component can receive one or more requests that are associated with a data set from a client, and send, based on the one or more requests, a network resource locator and at least one portion of the data set to the client. Further, a data service component can compute a parameter that is associated with a change of the data set, and include the parameter in the network resource locator. In other embodiments, the data service component can receive a request utilizing the network resource locator, determine the change of the data set based on the parameter, and send the change of the data set to the client. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072927 | ODATA ENABLED MOBILE SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A system and a method for accessing data objects provided through an OData service involve receiving, at an application server, a data access request from a client computing device. The data access request specifies in a platform-independent manner an access operation to be performed on a first data object. The application server translates the data access request into an OData compliant request. The OData compliant request is then transmitted to the OData service to perform the access operation. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072928 | SIMPLIFIED NOTIFICATION OF NETWORK TRIGGERED REPORTING - FIRST CORE NETWORK NODE (E.G., GGSN) AND METHOD - A first Core Network (CN) node (e.g., Gateway GPRS Support Node), a second CN node (e.g., Serving GPRS Support Node) and a wireless access node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem) are described herein that are configured to efficiently deliver a network triggered report notification to a wireless device (e.g., Internet of Things device). | 2016-03-10 |
20160072929 | PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR BUS DATA - A communication controller apparatus couples a device comprising a device processor to a data bus. The communication controller comprises an input/output controller coupled to the bus to receive a plurality of types of data packets. The types of data packets comprise at least one type of data packets having a high priority determined by timing criticality. The input/output controller is operable to process data packets received via the bus before providing any of the received data packets to the device processor. The communication controller comprises a high priority data path comprising a high priority data packet queue a low priority data path to the device comprising a low priority data packet queue. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072930 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and apparatus, a communications device, and a communications system, which relate to the communications field, and the method includes: receiving at least two IP packets; determining at least two multiplexing packets from the at least two IP packets according to a multiplexing policy; encapsulating the at least two multiplexing packets into one GTP-U packet; and sending the GTP-U packet. In the present invention, at least two IP packets that meet a multiplexing policy are encapsulated into one GTP-U packet, and the GTP-U packet is sent. When an IP packet is being transmitted on a PRN, resources consumed for obtaining a transmission route each time when forwarding is performed are significantly reduced compared with the prior art. In addition, a proportion of an IP packet to a GTP-U packet increases, thereby improving transmission efficiency. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072931 | MODIFIED ETHERNET PREAMBLE FOR INTER LINE CARD COMMUNICATIONS IN A MODULAR COMMUNICATION CHASSIS - A method of providing information regarding an Ethernet frame, within the Ethernet preamble of the Ethernet frame, comprises inserting into the Ethernet preamble an inter-line-card header that includes a start control character, a version number, a parity bit, a source port, a destination port, and a forwarding domain entry; and preserving said inter-line-card header, inside of said Ethernet preamble, in a Media Access Control (MAC) sub-layer in said Ethernet frame. The method may include a step of selecting the decoding format for the inter-line-card header corresponding to the version number and/or forwarding other Ethernet frames according to additional forwarding information provided by the forwarding domain entry. The inter-line-card header may be preserved in the MAC sub-layer by keeping the Ethernet preamble at the beginning of an Ethernet frame received over an Ethernet backplane, and passing the combined preamble and associated Ethernet frame to an inter-line-card header processing module. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072932 | HOUSING FEATURES OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An enclosure and a method for forming an enclosure are disclosed. The enclosure may be formed from metal, such as aluminum, and further include a non-metal portion allowing for transmission and receipt of electromagnetic waves. The non-metal portion may be interlocked to the enclosure and in particular, to a region within the enclosure including a first material having a relatively high strength and stiffness compared to the non-metal portion. Interlocking means may include forming dovetail cuts into the enclosure to receive the non-metal portion, a hole or cavity drilled into the enclosure which includes internal threads, and a rod inserted into the first material to provide a tension to the non-metal portion. Methods of assembling internal components using anodization are also disclosed. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072933 | CASE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE BACK PLATE - A protective case is configured to receive a mobile device and to magnetically attach to another article and includes a front face mechanically connected to a plurality of side faces (the front face and side faces for detachably connecting to a mobile device), and a back face comprising at least one magnet for magnetically coupling an article comprising at least one magnet to said protective case. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072934 | Ergonomic tubular anechoic chambers for use with a communication device and related methods - Disclosed, in general, are devices that provide a substantially sound-tight chamber over a sound source while absorbing fields of sounds from the sound source. In general, the devices feature: an anechoic chamber that is configured to receive a sound source in a substantially sound-tight manner; an active noise canceling means in the anechoic chamber; and an anechoic channel that is in fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072935 | Wireless Device Networks With Smoke Detection Capabilities - An electronic device may include a smoke detector. The electronic device may use the smoke detector to monitor for the presence of smoke. In response to detecting smoke with the smoke detector, the electronic device may issue an alert or take other suitable action. The electronic device may transmit alerts to nearby electronic devices and to remote electronic devices such as electronic devices at emergency services facilities. Alerts may contain maps and graphical representations of buildings in which smoke has been detected. Motion detectors and other sensors and circuitry may be used in determining whether electronic devices are being used by users and may be used in determining where the electronic devices are located. Alerts may contain information on the location of detected smoke and building occupants. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072936 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - An electronic device and a system including the same are disclosed. An electronic device of the present invention includes: a body; a plurality of supports each of which is coupled to the body through one side thereof; and a holder configured to connect other sides of the plurality of supports having a curved portion corresponding to the shape of the ear of a user and fitted in the ear of the user, wherein at least one of the plurality of supports rotates on the body, wherein the radius of the holder is changed according to rotation of the at least one of the plurality of supports. According to the present invention, the supports coupled to the body rotate to be fixed to the user's ear. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072937 | Auto reminder, alarm and response system and method - A auto-response message (ARM) system is disclosed. In operation a sender generates an executable ARM and sends the executable ARM to one or more contacts, receivers or recipients. When one more contacts, receivers or recipients accepts the ARM, the ARM is executed to remind the or more contacts, receivers or recipients of an activity, event or some other time sensitive subject. In further embodiments, a user sets their smart device to send and ARM responses to incoming texts or phone calls based on the user's activity. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072938 | CEASE AND DESIST CALL FLAGGING - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing cease and desist call flagging. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to provide a user interface for reporting cease and desist requests associated with a plurality of customers; receive, via user input into the user interface, a cease and desist request associated with a customer having at least one account maintained by an entity, wherein the cease and desist request specifies at least one rule to be implemented when contacting the customer; and automatically terminate contact to the customer on behalf of the entity based at least partially on the at least one rule specified in the cease and desist request. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072939 | CORDLESS TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND CORDLESS TELEPHONE SYSTEM - A cordless base unit includes a controller that performs control in a case where an incoming call arrives from the landline telephone network, in such a manner that the cordless handset and the mobile information terminal perform sound ringing for the incoming call, that automatic answering starts after a predetermined time has elapsed and the sound ringing for the incoming call is stopped except for the mobile information terminal that is set to be used outside of the house, and that while the automatic answering is performed, the mobile information terminal that is set to be used outside of the house continues to perform the sound ringing for the incoming call. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072940 | AUTOMATIC PERSONAL ASSISTANCE BETWEEN USERS DEVICES - Methods and systems are presented for providing automatic personal assistance on a user device (e.g., mobile phone). In some embodiments, a personal assistant on a first user device may respond automatically to a received input communication from a second user device. In some embodiments, the personal assistant may perform a local search of data stored on the first user device in order to retrieve data responsive to the received input. In some embodiments, the personal assistant may perform a local load of an entry into an application on the first user device in order to perform an action responsive to the received user input. In some embodiments, the automatic response may include sending a responsive output communication to the second user device. The automatic personal assistance may be customized based on user-editable automatic personal assistance settings. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072941 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONNECTABLE TO EXTERNAL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A communication apparatus connectable to an external apparatus via first communication unit and second communication unit different from the first communication unit, comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain device information about the external apparatus from the external apparatus via the first communication unit; a connection unit configured to perform connection processing to the external apparatus via the second communication unit based on the device information; and a control unit configured to determine an internal state of the communication apparatus and to control a connection to the external apparatus via the second communication unit in accordance with a determination result, wherein the control unit changes a determination timing in accordance with a type of the external apparatus determined based on the device information obtained via the first communication unit. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072942 | DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF VIRTUAL TTY APPLICATION MANAGER - An apparatus for communicating teletype (TTY) messages over a wireless voice link is provided. The apparatus includes a virtual TTY device manager, a display controller, and a keyboard controller. The virtual TTY device manager is disposed within a wireless communication device, and is configured to format first TTY messages for transmission over the wireless voice link, and is configured to extract second TTY messages from frames received over the wireless voice link. The display controller is disposed within the wireless communication device and is coupled to the virtual TTY element, and is configured to present the second TTY messages over a display of the wireless communication device. The keyboard controller is disposed within the wireless communication device and is coupled to the virtual TTY element, and is configured to enable a user to enter the first TTY messages via a keyboard of the wireless communication device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072943 | CALL METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL, MOBILE TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE - The present invention discloses a mobile terminal control method, including: receiving a communication request sent by a communication request initiating party, and calculating a time interval between a time when the communication request is received and a time when a previous communication request from the communication request initiating party is received; and if the time interval is greater than a preset threshold, skipping generating a vibrating and/or ringtone alert for the communication request, and detecting an online status of a communications software account associated with the communication request initiating party and sending prompt information to an online communications software account, where the prompt information is used to indicate that a mobile terminal is in a Do Not Disturb mode. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072944 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A mobile electronic device includes a communication unit, a display, and a controller. The communication unit performs communication for a phone call. The display displays a first screen during the phone call made by the communication unit. The controller causes a second screen different from the first screen to be displayed on the display when the display of which display is turned off is to be re-displayed during the phone call after the display of the first screen is turned off during the phone call. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072945 | CALL RECORDING TEST SUITE - A call recording test suite comprising a call recording test manager stored and operating on a network-connected computing device and a test database, wherein the call recording test manager connects over a network to a call recording system and verifies the existence of an expected call recording and stores the results of the query in the database, and a method for call recording testing for a specific call recording, and a method for call recording testing using a synthetic test call. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CALLER TO MAKE THE CONVERSATION MEANINGFUL - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing contextual information about the individual to make the conversation meaningful. For this purpose, the system comprises a device for receiving call from the individual, an external system for collecting information from various third party Information Service Providers like Email servers, Social Networks, Enterprise Software Solutions, Content Websites, Search services, Directory services, etc., for which the user who is being called has given access to and provides to the user the collected relevant information in a form so as to have a meaningful conversation with the individual. The system also saves the conversation discussed over the call once the call is disconnected. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072947 | ENHANCED CALLER-ID INFORMATION SELECTION AND DELIVERY - Technologies relating to enhanced Caller ID information selection for a caller associated with a call and delivery of the selected enhanced Caller ID information to a callee associated with the call include one or more processors selecting, according to selection criteria, one or more enhanced Caller ID information items from a collection of available enhanced Caller ID information items pertaining to the caller that are stored across one or more databases of enhanced Caller ID information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072948 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INCOMING/OUTGOING INFORMATION AND MANAGING CONTACTS - A method and electronic device for extracting incoming/outgoing information and managing contacts are provided. The method includes determining whether a communicating electronic device which has been or is in communication with the electronic device is included as a contact in a first contact list; extracting incoming/outgoing information based on at least one of metadata and contents of the communication with the communicating electronic device when the communicating electronic device is not included as a contact in the first contact list; and displaying the extracted incoming/outgoing information on a touchscreen of the electronic device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072949 | Collection and Analysis of Audio During Hold - Apparatus having corresponding methods comprise a microphone configured to produce audio; a hold control configured to select a connected selection or a hold selection; a processor configured to identify the audio produced during the connected selection as primary audio, and to identify the audio produced during the hold selection as secondary audio; and a transceiver configured to transmit the primary audio and the secondary audio. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072950 | SERVER FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED SERVICES TO CONTACT CENTER AGENTS - Systems and methods for permitting a contact center to provide enhanced services to its agents are described. An agent server is interconnected with the automatic call distributor (ACD) and agent telephones of the contact center. The server intercepts messages sent by the ACD, which contain caller-provided data obtained by an interactive voice response system. When it is determined that the particular agent has access to both a telephone and a personal computer, the agent server draws a distinction in the information content of the received message. In doing so, the agent server provides the call initialization information in the message to the agent's telephone, and appears as if the information were coming from the ACD; additionally, the agent server provides the caller-provided data to the agent's personal computer. The personal computer is then able to execute a predetermined application, such as a display-oriented presentation application, based on the caller-provided data. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072951 | Voice Transcription - Methods, systems, computer readable media, and apparatuses for voice data transcription are provided. Packets that include voice data may be received and for each time that a threshold amount of voice data is received, a segment of voice data may be created and transcribed to text. A message that includes the transcribed text may then be transmitted to an intended recipient of the voice data, to allow the intended recipient to view the message prior to transcription of the remaining segments of the voice data. Additionally, subsequent to transmission of the message, another message may be transmitted that includes text transcribed from a different segment of the voice data. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072952 | System and Method for Voice Messaging - A system and method for voice messaging the enables the modification of recorded voice messages and caller-specific conveniences. More particularly, the present invention pertains to identifying a caller and, thereby, enabling the caller to modify recorded voice messages and enabling a recipient to designate how calls from a particular caller should be handled, for example, by specifying a greeting message for a particular caller or by specifying the order in which voice messages are presented based upon the associated caller. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072953 | MANAGING PHONE NUMBERS IN A TELEPHONY SYSTEM - Techniques are described for managing phone numbers associated with a telephony system to reduce the likelihood that calls or transmissions directed to a subscriber or endpoint to which a phone number was previously assigned are received by a new subscriber or endpoint to which that number is reassigned. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072954 | MOBILE DEVICE SYNCHRONIZATION TO A GATEWAY | 2016-03-10 |
20160072955 | ESTABLISHING TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS WITH SECONDARY DEVICES - A method, system, and apparatus, including a program encoded on computer-readable medium, for providing ring notifications in parallel to a primary incoming call are disclosed. An example method can include receiving, at a server system, a notification of a primary incoming call directed to a subscriber telephone number associated with a user device, notifying, by the server system, one or more secondary destinations of the primary incoming call based on the notification, sending, from the server system, an instruction to perform one or more operations to trigger forwarding of the primary incoming call to a telephone number associated with the server system, wherein the instruction is only sent after notifying the one or more secondary destinations of the primary incoming call, receiving the forwarded incoming call at the server system, and connecting, by the server system, the forwarded incoming call to a particular secondary destination. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072956 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISHING LOCATION-BASED CONFERENCE CALLS - A method for automatically establishing multi-participant interactions and/or conference calls between users of mobile devices, according to which an interaction establishing application is installed on the mobile device of each participating user and receives for each user, phone numbers of other users defined as his friends and a list of predetermined triggers as conditions for initiating an interaction between users. The application constantly monitors the location of each user's mobile device and upon detecting that one or more of the triggers are met, the application automatically initiates one or more interactions between users that comply with the triggers that are met. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072957 | Call Center Calling Apparatus And Method - A call center having a telephony server configured for a caller to hold two-way telephone conferences with a plurality of contacts in sequence, in which the telephony server initiates a call to the contact, and upon establishing a connection with the contact joins the connection to a conference bridge with the caller, disengages the connection to the conference bridge upon disconnection of the call by the contact, and initiates a subsequent call to another contact while maintaining the caller in connection with the conference bridge. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072958 | Method ad Apparatus for in-Ear Canal Sound Suppression - A method and system of conferencing can include the steps of initiating a conference call at a communication device with two or more communication devices and selecting to suppress a voice communication of at least one communication device on the conference call where a modified electronic signal is generated with the selected at least one communication device so that the voice communication from the selected at least one communication device is inaudible. The method or system further includes sending the modified electronic signal to at least one other communication device on the conference call. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072959 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IP COMMUNICATION COMPLETION VIA A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods and systems for internet protocol (IP) communication completion via a wireless network include receiving a request from a first device to setup an IP telephony communications session with a second device, generating, based on user device data retrieved for the second device, a first message based on a first communication protocol including telecommunication invitation data to complete the IP telephony communications session, sending the first message to the second device, receiving a response message based on a second communication protocol from the second device, and connecting the second device with the first device to establish the IP telephony communications session. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072960 | DISASTER RELIEF EVENT CALL FLAGGING - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing disaster relief event call flagging. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to create a disaster relief event associated with a plurality of customer accounts maintained by an entity, wherein the disaster relief event comprises one or more parameters that identify locations associated with the disaster relief event; create a temporary dialer file for use in contacting the plurality of customers in reference to the accounts, wherein the dialer file is based at least partially on the one or more parameters of the disaster relief event, and automatically suspend contact to one or more customers based at least partially in response to the telephone numbers of the one or more customer being excluded from the temporary dialer file. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072961 | VERIFICATION OF NETWORK ACTIVITY/USAGE DATA - There is provided verification of network activity/usage data between a user equipment and a service provider server. The verification is performed in the service provider server. A first set of network activity/usage data for a user account is acquired from a user equipment. A second set of network activity/usage data for the user account is acquired from a subscription account of the user account. It is determined if a second post in the second set of network activity/usage data is related to a first post in the first set of network activity/usage data. If so, first data of the first post is compared to second data of the second post. The second post is updated with the first data in a case the first data does not match the second data. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072962 | ACR BUFFERING IN THE CLOUD - A network element of an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem buffers network resource usage information in the cloud. After generating network resource usage information based on an observation of network resource usage, the network element transmits the network resource usage information to a cloud-based storage service for buffering. Once a network resource usage collection function is available, the network element retrieves the network resource usage information from the cloud-based storage service and transmits it to a charging collection function for generation of call detail records. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072963 | GROUP CHARGING METHOD, GATEWAY DEVICE, CHARGING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present disclosure discloses a group charging method, a gateway device, a charging device, and a communications system, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining a group identity and personal identity information of a user; obtaining a charging rule generated according to the group identity; and establishing, according to the group identity, the personal identity information, and the charging rule, a charging session for a group account corresponding to the group identity, so that a charging system performs group charging according to the group identity and the charging rule. In the present disclosure, it is determined, according to a group identity of a user, that the user belongs to a certain group, and accordingly, a charging session is maintained for the user of the group. In this way, group charging can be achieved, thereby avoiding a complex signaling interaction process, and improving the charging efficiency. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072964 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Sharing Usage Plans - Shared usage plans are popular with families, friends, and small businesses. These shared usage plans share some cumulative utilization of resources, such as communications services. Even though multiple devices may share a monthly allotment of resources, an individual threshold is established for each device. The multiple individual thresholds may then be dynamically regulated to maintain the monthly allotment of resources. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072965 | INDEXING SYSTEM FOR A PRINTING PRESS - A system is disclosed for adjusting a printing press prior to operation of a print job. The system includes an Anilox roll of the printing press, a printing cylinder of the printing press, an impression cylinder of the printing press; and a computerized device. The computerized device includes programming configured to monitor print job parameters, automatically control a distance between the Anilox roll and the printing cylinder, calculate an index factor based upon the print job parameters and an ideal roller position function configured to output an ideal distance between centerlines of the printing cylinder and the impression cylinder, and output upon a display device the index factor for manual adjustment of the printing press. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072966 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device includes a preview unit that displays a specific page on a basis of a feature amount of an image of each page of document image information generated by optically scanning a document with an optical scanning unit. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072967 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR CREATING COMMUNICATION APPLICATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING APPLICATION CREATION PROGRAM FOR CREATING COMMUNICATION APPLICATION - An information processor includes: an application information reception section, a function information reception section, a communication setting reception section, and an application creation section. The application information reception section receives an input of application information. The function information reception section receives an input of print settings as the function information from an operator. The communication setting reception section receives an input of communication settings, including an URL of a data storage server, required for the communication with the data storage serve. The application creation section creates, by using the application information, the communication application for executing processing in accordance with the print settings and the received communication settings. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072968 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT GENERATION APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT GENERATION SYSTEM - An electronic document generation apparatus generates a recognition object image by performing an image processing on a scan image so that each of a plurality of line areas extracted from a character area of the scan image should be determined as a unit recognition area and transmits the recognition object image to the cloud server. The apparatus further receives text data which is a processing result of an optical character recognition processing on the recognition object image, in which a delimiter code is added at the end of a character recognition result for each of a plurality of unit recognition areas, from the cloud server, separates the text data into a plurality of character string data on the basis of the delimiter code, and generates an electronic document by arranging each of the plurality of character string data in the line area corresponding to each character string data. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072969 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, LICENSE SERVER, COMMUNICATION RELAY DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND DATA RESTORATION METHOD - An information processing system comprises: an image processing device; an application server that provides with an application service for cooperation with the image processing device; a communication relay device that relays communications between the image processing device and the application server; a license server managing the communication relay server; and a backup server. The communication relay device includes: a relay information generating part that generates relay information to relay the communications; a storage part in which the relay information is stored; a communication relaying part that relays the communications based on the relay information; a backup part that sends the relay information to the backup server; an identification information transmission part that reads identification information and sends the read identification information to the license server; and a setting applying part that obtains the relay information from the backup server and stores the obtained relay information in the storage part. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072970 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND NONVOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING USER INTERFACE CONTROL PROGRAM - An electronic apparatus includes a display control section that shows a graphical user interface on a screen and a reception section that receives a user's operation. In response to a first user's operation, the display control section shows a transition in which a first screen including a first element changes to a second screen including a plurality of second elements related to the first element. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072971 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE READING PROGRAM - An image reading apparatus includes a storage storing shortcut information having specific information for specifying an external apparatus as a transmission destination of read data and associated reading setting values set through an input device, and a control device which, when the input device receives an operation of selecting one shortcut information, determines whether activation information indicating the setting that the specific application is to be activated at the external apparatus specified by the specific information included in the selected shortcut information is stored, executes a first scan operation in accordance with reading setting values included in the selected shortcut information when the activation information is stored, and executes a second scan operation in accordance with reading setting values preset in the external apparatus specified by the specific information included in the selected shortcut information when the activation information is not stored. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072972 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing system including a server and a plurality of information processing apparatuses. The server stores setting information of menu screens of the plurality of information processing apparatuses. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses registers the setting information of a menu screen displayed on the information processing apparatus, and stores registered first setting information as a non-synchronization target and registered second setting information as a synchronization target. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses transmits, to the server, difference information between the second setting information and the setting information stored in the server, and performs synchronization of the second setting information with the server. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072973 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image forming portion contained within the apparatus body, a control board controlling the image forming portion, an electrical unit, a storage device attachable to /removable out of the electrical unit, and a storage portion. The electrical unit includes the control board disposed along a vertical direction, provided so as to project upward on an upper surface of the apparatus body, and disposed on a back side of the apparatus body on the upper surface of the apparatus body. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072974 | MULTI-FUNCTION APPARATUS - A multi-function apparatus includes a body, an image reading unit, a document cover and a locking member. The image reading unit is movable between a closed position and an opened position. The document cover is movable between a closed position and an opened position. The locking member is movable to a first position and a second position and includes a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion. In response to a movement of the document cover to the opened position, the locking member moves to the first position and locks the image reading unit to the closed position. In response to a movement of the image reading unit to the opened position, the locking member moves to the second position and locks the document cover to the closed position. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072975 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management system includes a device management apparatus, a first electronic device, a second electronic device, and an intervening apparatus. The device management apparatus includes a memory storing authorized user identification information, a receiver receiving user identification information from the first electronic device, and processing circuitry determining whether it is allowed to use at least the first electronic device. If so, third device identification information is stored. The intervening apparatus includes a receiver receiving the user identification information from the second electronic device and processing circuitry determining whether it is allowed to use at least the first electronic device. If so, the third device identification information is received. The second electronic device includes a receiver receiving a request and processing circuitry determining whether the third device identification information in the request matches the third device identification information received from the device management apparatus, and accepts the request. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072976 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT READING METHOD - An image reading apparatus includes: an operation unit; a setting unit configured to set one of a plurality of operation modes, in which different processing is executed for a document, in accordance with an operation content of the operation unit; a reading unit configured to read the document in response to a reading execution request from the operation unit; and a control unit configured to control the reading unit whether or not to execute a reading preparation operation before the reading execution request is made depending on the set operation modes set by the setting unit. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072977 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an address information storage storing recipient information relating to a recipient and the recipient's address with an address identifier as address information; a program storage storing setting information in association with a program identifier as program information, the setting information including program identification information specifying a program and the address identifier; a program execution unit executing the program associated with the program identifier based on the setting information; an address information change unit changing the address information in the address information storage, and changing the address identifier along with the change in the address information; and an information change adjusting unit adjusting, upon detecting a change in one of the address identifier and the address information, the address identifier of the program information including the address identifier in the program storage in response to the change in the corresponding address identifier or the address information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072978 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT CONTINUES WITHOUT HALT TO PERFORM PRINT JOB INCLUDING SIGN WHERE GLYPH IS INVALID DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a print device, a sign printing circuit, and a sign analyzing circuit. The print device performs a print job onto a print medium. The sign printing circuit causes the print device to print a sign where a glyph is present in a font corresponding to a code based on the code included in print data. The sign analyzing circuit analyzes whether or not the glyph is invalid data where the sign printing circuit is not able to cause the print device to print. When the sign analyzing circuit analyzes that the glyph present in the font corresponding to the code of a target sign is the invalid data, the sign printing circuit causes the print device to print a specific alternative sign as an alternative to the target sign. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072979 | METHOD OF SECURELY TRANSMITTING AN IMAGE FROM AN ELECTRONIC IDENTITY DOCUMENT TO A TERMINAL - The invention relates to systems and methods of securely transmitting an image stored in the memory of an identity document to a first terminal that is suitable for receiving the image. In various implementations, operations are performed by the identity document, including
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20160072980 | Creation and Identification of Unforgeable Printable Image Information Data - The present application relates to a method for producing and authenticating unforgeable printable image comprising information color values and inference color values. The present application further provides for unforgeable printed images. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DOTS IN IMAGE REPRODUCTION - This invention discloses a method and apparatus for generating dots in image reproduction, and relates to the field of image reproduction in the printing industry. The method comprises performing a binarization process on a threshold matrix of one or more basic dots according to level thresholds to obtain a set of level-binarization matrixes corresponding to the threshold matrix; determining substitution binarization matrixes and auxiliary binarization matrixes from the set of level-binarization matrixes; performing a Boolean operation on the substitution binarization matrixes and the auxiliary binarization matrixes to generate resulted binarization matrixes; substituting binarization matrixes to be substituted in the set of level-binarization matrixes with the resulted binarization matrixes; and according to the substituted set of level-binarization matrixes, forming a substituted threshold matrix, and generating shape-varied dots according to the substituted threshold matrix. The shapes of dots with some grayscale in basic dots are changed by Boolean calculation among binarization matrices, thereby achieving the purposes of changing the overall shape of the basic dots and constructing dots with complicated shapes using dots with simple shapes, so that it is simple and easy to implement. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072982 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In order to suitably perform image processing for enhancing edge reproducibility on an image, an image processing apparatus, determines whether or not a pixel of interest in an input image is a pixel configuring an edge, and determines whether or not the pixel of interest in the input image is a pixel configuring a semi-transparent object. In addition, the apparatus performs image processing for enhancing edge reproducibility for the pixel of interest if it is determined that the pixel of interest is a pixel configuring an edge and is not a pixel configuring a semi-transparent object. On the other hand, the apparatus inhibits execution of the image processing for the pixel of interest if it is determined that the pixel of interest is a pixel configuring an edge and is a pixel configuring a semi-transparent object. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072983 | PRINTER CALIBRATION USING LIMITED RANGE REFLECTION SCANNERS AS INPUT SOURCES - A method of calibrating a printer using a reflective scanner is disclosed. Because the reflective scanner used for calibration may only be able to accurately measure a limited density range that is less than the full density range of the printer, some information from the reflective scanner is disregarded or deemphasized during the calibration process. A calibration page is printed and scanned. Lookup tables (LUTs) that comprise the printer calibration values are updated based on adjustments calculated from the scanner for density regions where the scanner produces relatively accurate measurements, but updated based on the preexisting settings for density regions where the scanner produces relatively inaccurate measurements. In transitions regions between accurate and inaccurate regions, the LUTs are adjusted based on a combination of measurements from the scanner and the preexisting settings. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072984 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMPLEX OPTICAL APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a gesture recognition apparatus including a substrate, a light emitting device, an image sensor and a processing unit. The light emitting device is for emitting a light beam according to a first clock signal. The image sensor is disposed on the substrate and is for receiving the light beam reflected by an object according to a second clock signal to generate an object image. The processing unit is disposed on the substrate and is for recognizing the object image detected by the image sensor to provide a command signal. There is a correlation between a period of the first clock signal and a period of the second clock signal. The present invention also provides a complex optical apparatus. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072985 | System and Method for Preparing a Pharmaceutical Compound - A system for preparing a pharmaceutical compound comprises: a computing device comprising a user interface providing an operator with instructions for preparing the pharmaceutical compound and at least one processor operatively connected to the user interface; a scale operatively connected to the at least one processor; and an image capture device operatively connected to the at least one processor and the scale and positioned to capture an image of at least one of a component used in preparing the pharmaceutical compound and the pharmaceutical compound. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072986 | BODY PART IMAGING SYSTEM - A device having an array of optical imagers, said imagers disposed near a substantially planar optically transparent medium with an array of calibration indicia disposed within the optical range of at least one of the imagers, said calibration indicia including a plurality of images spaced a predetermined distance from each other. Also included are skew indicia, which may include a plurality of images spaced a predetermined angle from each other, and a processor, coupled to the array of optical imagers and operable to process information from the imagers. Certain embodiments have the calibration and skew indicia etched into the transparent medium and include a chamber with a light source for capturing images. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072987 | DEVICE HAVING A CAMERA UNIT AND A DOUBLE-WALLED HOUSING - The invention relates to a device, comprising a camera unit ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160072988 | Camera Mounting Assembly - A camera mounting assembly is configured to couple to a camera housing. The camera mounting assembly includes a plurality of indentations configured to allow for the passage of light through the indentations and upon the image sensor of a camera enclosed by the camera housing. The camera mounting assembly can further include recessed channels within an inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly configured to further allow for the passage of light through the indentations, through the recessed channels, and upon the image sensor. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072989 | LOW PROFILE CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTORS FOR IMAGING SYSTEMS - An imaging system may include an image sensor, and a connector that electrically connects the image sensor with electrical cabling. The image sensor may have electrical contacts integrated with an outer surface of an outer package. The connector may include a circuit board having opposing planar surfaces and a plurality of electrical connections that electrically connect the electrical cabling with the electrical contacts. The electrical connections may be bonded to the electrical contacts and disposed on one or both of the opposing planar surfaces. At least one of the opposing planar surfaces may form an angle with the outer surface that is greater than zero degrees and less than 180 degrees. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072990 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS WITH INTEGRATED POWER PROVISION - Power for an illumination device and a camera is provided from power integrated onto a data cable between a controller/computer and the light illumination device. The camera—controller/computer interface includes one of GEV with PoE, USB and CXP, where a power is provided within the data interface cable, and the distance between the camera and the controller/computer is very long. In order to avoid running multiple long cables in a production manufacturing environment, a power extraction module is incorporated into a light illuminator, in order to extract the power for the interface cable, and to generate the individual powers for the light illuminator and the camera. In cases where the interface standard does not provide integrated power, power can be injected to the cable and extracted from the light illumination module. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072991 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS WITH INTEGRATED POWER AND SECONDARY ILLUMINATION PROVISIONS - Power for an illumination device and a camera is provided from power integrated onto a data cable between a controller/computer and the light illumination device. The camera-controller/computer interface includes one of GEV with PoE, USB and CXP, where a power is provided within the data interface cable, and the distance between the camera and the controller/computer is very long. In order to avoid running multiple long cables in a production manufacturing environment, a power extraction module is incorporated into a light illuminator, in order to extract the power for the interface cable, and to generate the individual powers for the light illuminator and the camera. In cases where the interface standard does not provide integrated power, power can be injected to the cable and extracted from the light illumination module. The light illuminator may electrically and mechanically support secondary and/or supplemental light illuminators. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072992 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A light-emitting-part holder moves between a housing position in which the light-emitting-part holder is housed in a housing part formed in a strobe base and a light emission position in which the light-emitting-part holder projects from the housing part. One end of an arm member is supported by the light-emitting-part holder, and the other end thereof is supported by the strobe base. An arm cover member holds a magnet, and in a case where the arm member is housed in the housing part, the arm cover member is fixed to the face of the arm member facing the housing part. A part of a light-emitting-part flexible board (flexible wire member) is disposed between the magnet held by the arm cover member and the arm member. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072993 | Apparatus and Method for Controlling the Quality of Transparent Objects - The invention relates to an apparatus for controlling the quality of transparent objects, comprising at least one light source being adapted to illuminate the object, and at least one image capturing device, by means of which at least one image of the object can be detected, wherein the apparatus comprises further at least one reflector, wherein the reflector and the image capturing device define a beam path, wherein the reflector, the image capturing device, and the light source are arranged such that the object can be arranged between the reflector, on the one hand, and the image capturing device and the light source, on the other hand, such that a single sheet of material is located in the beam path. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding method for controlling the quality of transparent objects. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072994 | IMAGING SYSTEM, ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, AND CONTROLLING METHOD - An imaging system includes an illumination apparatus and imaging apparatus, and the illumination apparatus includes a light emitting unit, a movable unit including the light emitting unit, and configured to be rotatably held to a main body unit, a driving unit configured to drive the movable unit, a calculating unit configured to calculate an illumination direction of the light emitting unit, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the imaging apparatus, information about a charged voltage of a capacitor for storing energy to cause the light emitting unit to emit light. The transmitting unit transmits, to the imaging apparatus, information indicating that the charged voltage of the capacitor is less than the predetermined value, when the driving unit is used to drive the movable unit to cause the calculating unit to calculate the illumination direction, even if the charged voltage of the capacitor is a predetermined value or more. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072995 | IMAGING SYSTEM, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD - To enable light emission shooting according to the condition of an imaging apparatus, an imaging system, which includes an illumination device capable of automatically driving a movable portion including a light emission unit to change a radiation direction of the light emission unit and an imaging apparatus, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information classifying a lens unit attached to the imaging apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the radiation direction of the light emission unit based on the information classifying the lens unit acquired by the acquisition unit. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072996 | DUAL SHOT STROBE LENS AND FLEX AND STIFFENER FEATURES OF A CAMERA - An electronic device having a lens and a lens retaining member is disclosed. The lens and the lens retaining member may both be molded in a single mold cavity. However, the lens includes a first material that is clear and translucent, while the lens retaining member includes a second material that is opaque. The lens retaining member may include an alignment such that the lens and lens retaining member, when secured to a flexible circuit, may self-align with a window. The window allows a light source to emit light while the lens retaining member blocks or reflects light. In another embodiment, a container having a first member and a second member may be positioned around a camera module. The container may act as an EMI shield for the camera module. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072997 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - In a device, first and second transforming units acquire first and second audio spectrums from audio data obtained by first and second microphones, a first subtracting unit subtracts a first noise spectrum from the first audio spectrum if an instruction to drive a drive unit is input, a second subtracting unit subtracts a second noise spectrum from the second audio spectrum if the instruction is input, a control unit selects one of a third audio spectrum and a fourth audio spectrum in accordance with a result of comparison between the third and fourth audio spectrums, a third transforming unit acquires first audio data from the audio spectrum selected among the third audio spectrum and the fourth audio spectrum, and a fourth transforming unit acquires second audio data from the audio spectrum selected among the third audio spectrum and the fourth audio spectrum. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072998 | STAGE APPARATUS, IMAGE-SHAKE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A stage apparatus includes a control circuit board, a stationary support member facing the control circuit board, a stage member superposing the stationary support member and provided on the opposite side of the stationary support member to the control circuit board, the stage member being movable relative to the stationary support member in a plane; an electronic component fixed to the stage member; a flexible conductive member, one end thereof connected to the electronic component and the other end thereof connected to the control circuit board; and a driver generating a driving force for moving the stage plate. The stationary support member includes a conductive member escape recess, recessed from a peripheral edge toward a central portion thereof and extending through the stationary support member in the thickness direction. Part of the flexible conductive member is inside the conductive member escape recess. | 2016-03-10 |
20160072999 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus that records a moving image used for generating a still image by a generation unit, comprises: a correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, for each frame of the moving image, a correction amount for correction of a rolling shutter distortion of an image signal based on a shake amount detected by a camera shake amount detection unit; and a recording unit configured to record the correction amount in association with an image for each frame of the moving image, wherein the generation unit corrects an image of a selected frame from among the images of the frames based on the associated correction amount, and generates a still image. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A LASER-BASED LIGHTING SYSTEM - The present invention concerns a method for controlling a laser-based lighting system comprising a scanning mirror arrangement, arranged to be rotatable around two substantially orthogonal axes. The method comprises: (a) a sensor capturing a first image; (b) the sensor sending data representing at least part of the first image to an image generation unit; (c) the image generation unit generating a second image based on the data representing at least part of the first image, wherein the generated second image comprises information representing a feature region in the first image; (d) the image generation unit sending the second image to a projection system controller; and (e) the projection system controller, based on the received second image, controlling the operation of a projection system comprising a laser light source; and a scanning mirror arrangement for receiving the light radiated by the laser light source, and for reflecting the received light to a wavelength conversion element to project the second image. In the method the second image is streamed to the projection controller as an image pixel stream without first saving it in a memory. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073001 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - At least one imaging apparatus includes a sensor configured to output a signal according to an incident light amount, a calculation unit configured to calculate an evaluation value in regard to a flicker based on the output signal from the sensor, a notification unit configured to notify a user of information about a presence of the flicker based on the evaluation value, and a control unit configured to control processing for reducing an influence of the flicker based on the evaluation value. When the evaluation value is equal to or larger than a first threshold value, the notification unit notifies the user of the information about the presence of the flicker. When the evaluation value is equal to or larger than a second threshold value which is larger than the first threshold value, the control unit performs control to carry out processing for reducing the influence of the flicker. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073002 | USER INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND USER INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS - The present application discloses a user information acquisition method and a user information acquisition apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring an image comprising at least one digital watermark; acquiring user related information corresponding to a current user and comprised in the at least one digital watermark, wherein the user related information comprises application startup information used to start a corresponding application; and projecting the user related information to a fundus of the user. The present application enables a user to start a corresponding application rapidly, securely, and conveniently. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073003 | OPERATION APPARATUS - Provided is an operation apparatus including a main body section including an operation section including a first operation section for performing a record operation of an image pickup device and a display section that displays an image transmitted from the image pickup device, and a fixation section that fixes the main body section to an attachment object. The first operation section and the display section are both located on a first face of the main body section. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073004 | DETECTION OF OBJECT IN DIGITAL IMAGE - A detection apparatus for detecting a subject in a digital image, including: an input section to which a word for identifying the subject is input; and a processor configured to: receive the word for identifying the subject from the input section; determine an attribute that is specified by the word for identifying the subject; select a method of detection in accordance with the determined attribute; and apply the selected method of detection to the digital image to detect the subject in the digital image. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073005 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING FOCUSING PROGRAM - The interchangeable lens apparatus provided with an image capturing optical system and being detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus being configured to detect a defocus amount of the image capturing optical system by using a signal acquired by photoelectric conversion of an optical image formed by the image capturing optical system. The interchangeable lens apparatus includes a focus lens included in the image capturing optical system, and a memory to store information on a focus sensitivity indicating a relation between a unit movement amount of the focus lens and a displacement amount of the optical image. The information on the focus sensitivity is information for enabling acquiring the focus sensitivity different depending on an image height. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073006 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - Focus detection can be performed preferentially in an area that is likely to include a main object. An image capturing apparatus is configured to detect a main object in an image with a particle filter, divide the image into divided areas respectively corresponding to a plurality of focus detection areas, set a priority to each of the focus detection areas based on a distributed state of particles distributed in each of the divided areas, and select the focus detection area based on the set priority. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073007 | FOCUS CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, FOCUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING FOCUS CONTROL PROGRAM - The focus control apparatus performs focus control of the interchangeable lens by using information obtained through detection of a focus state of an interchangeable lens and a correction value corresponding to the interchangeable lens. The interchangeable lens is a first interchangeable lens holding unique correction value calculation data used to calculate the correction value, or a second interchangeable lens not holding the correction value calculation data. The focus control apparatus includes a first memory storing values for calculating the correction value corresponding to the second interchangeable lens. A controller calculates the correction value by using the correction value calculated based on the values read from the first memory when the second interchangeable lens is attached to the image capturing apparatus, and by using the correction value calculation data acquired from the first interchangeable lens when the first interchangeable lens is attached to the image capturing apparatus. | 2016-03-10 |