36th week of 2019 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20190272572 | FULFILLMENT OF CLOUD SERVICE USING MARKETPLACE SYSTEM - In some examples, a marketplace system receives information from multiple service providers as part of onboarding of the multiple service providers with the marketplace system. Responsive to the onboarding, a cloud service created by the respective service provider is synchronized with the marketplace system. A marketplace catalog is linked with catalogs of the service providers, the linking including aggregating content of the catalogs into the marketplace catalog. Responsive to a request from a requester received through a portal of the marketplace system, at least one cloud service is identified using the marketplace catalog based on at least one search criterion of the request. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED PRICING - Systems and methods for generating location-based retail pricing options are discussed herein. In an example, a method for generating location-based retail pricing options includes receiving, over a network from a user, a pricing request. The pricing request includes information identifying the user, a merchant, and an intended purchase. In this example, the method further includes determining a pricing option associated with the merchant and the intended purchase, and transmitting the pricing option to the user. The method still further includes processing a purchase transaction, associated with the user, for the intended purchase based on the pricing option. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272574 | OBTAINING VENDOR INFORMATION USING MOBILE INTERNET DEVICES - Various systems and methods for obtaining vendor information using mobile internet devices are described herein. An inquiry for a product or service is received from a user. A location for the receipt of the product or service is received. Vendor information of a vendor of the product or service proximate to the location is determined, with the vendor information including a price for the product or service, and a wait time to receive the product or service. The vendor information is then transmitted to the user. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272575 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING ARTICLES OF APPAREL - A method herein is directed toward measuring clothing through image processing. The method comprises capturing a digital image of a clothing article and a reference object with the camera of the portable electronic device, analyzing the reference object in the digital image to determine a scale of the digital image with the processor of the portable electronic device, analyzing the clothing article in the digital image to determine a determined value for each of a plurality of measurements of the clothing article with the processor of the portable electronic device based upon the determined scale of the digital image, and transmitting the determined value for each of the plurality of measurements with the wireless communication transceiver of the portable electronic device, whereby the clothing article is measured with the portable electronic device. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272576 | NETWORK OF PERSONALIZED DEVICES DETERMINING DATA FOR SHOPPING PREDICTIONS - There are provided systems and methods for a network of personalized devices determining data for shopping predictions. A personalized device may include processing components for determining purchase predictions for one or more items to purchase on behalf of a user. The purchase predictions may be based on personality traits and other information that may indicate interests of the user. The purchase predictions may also be based on purchase information for the item, including inventory of the item, price of the item, availability of the item to the user, or other factor. Once the purchase prediction is determined, the personalized device may generate a purchase request for the item from a merchant having the item at a physical merchant location accessible to the personalized device or a delivery device associated with the personalized device. The personalized device may retrieve and deliver the purchased item. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272577 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTION-BASED REAL TIME PRE-INTENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SEQUENTIAL PURCHASE - A method for providing a real-time purchase recommendation includes receiving customer profile data associated with a customer and authorization request data associated with a request to authorize an attempted purchasing using a financial account associated with the customer. The method includes determining attempted purchase data including an identity of a merchant, a merchant location, and a purchase category associated with the attempted purchase. The method includes generating a sequential purchase recommendation based on the attempted purchase data, wherein the sequential purchase recommendation is a real-time recommendation for one or more goods or services for future purchase sequentially following the attempted purchase. The method further includes transmitting a message including the sequential purchase recommendation to a customer computing device associated with the customer. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING HOME DECOR ITEMS BASED ON AN IMAGE OF A ROOM - A method, system, and article of manufacture for recommending items for a room. An image of a room is received, a box image is fitted to the image of the room. Information is extracted from the fitted box image and is used for recommending items for the room. The image is a color image and extracting information is done by extracting color histograms from the fitted box image. The color histograms are used to determine items that match the color scheme of the room, the lighting of the room, and/or the decorating style of the room. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE MANAGEMENT OF A UNIVERSAL SHOPPING CART - The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and techniques for managing transaction cards. User registration processes, order processes, and failure detection processes for a secure universal shopping cart are provided. Systems and methods may acquire identifiers. Systems and methods may also identify items associated with the identifiers. In addition, systems and methods may acquire a list of merchants that offer each item. Systems and methods may further determine, for each identifier, merchants based on user preferences. Even further, systems and methods may generate a payment token for each item. Systems and methods may then transmit the payment token for each item to its respective merchant. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272580 | MONITORING OF CUSTOMER CONSUMPTION ACTIVITY AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON MONITORING - A monitoring-based service providing system includes a table monitoring terminal associated with one of a plurality of tables in a venue, a central control terminal, and an order terminal associated with said one of the plurality of tables. The central control terminal includes a communication interface communicable with the table monitoring terminal, and a controller. The controller is configured to compare the image data received at first timing with the image data received at second timing after the first timing, determine a remaining amount of the consumable item based on a comparison result of the image data received at the first and second timing, and generate recommendation information upon the determining remaining amount decreasing to a predetermined threshold, and control the second communication interface to transmit the generated recommendation information. The order terminal includes a display, on which a recommendation screen is displayed based on the recommendation information. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272581 | ORDER INFORMATION DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides a method for determining a user's order in a physical store, without requiring the user to queue for checkout and have their order manually created. A service management system performs a gesture recognition on the user, as well as receives location information of a commodity. The service management system then determines whether the user is leaving a shopping area with the commodity, and adds information corresponding to the commodity to the user's order. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272582 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES - A method of dynamically promoting goods and services by providing a display device having an embedded algorithm to make queries to a customer that would commence upon entering a contained environment that would narrowly and effectively communicate promotions of goods and services that are personal and individualized to the consumer is disclosed. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272583 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF WEBSITE INTEGRATION - A computer system configured to integrate a plurality of websites is provided. The computer system includes a memory, a display, and at least one processor coupled to the memory and the display. In one example, the system comprises a monitoring component executed by the at least one processor and configured to analyze web content generated by a website provider and detect one or more identified elements within the web content. The system may also comprise a converting component executed by the at least one processor and configured to, responsive to detection of the one or more identified elements by the monitoring component, convert at least one portion of the web content into converted content, wherein the at least one processor is configured to display, in the display, the converted content and at least one other portion of the web content. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CONSUMER PROMOTION, SALE, OR GIFTING OF CONTENT ITEMS SUCH AS MOVIES - Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for selling content such as movies online. In one implementation, a user obtains permission from the content owner to sell access to an item of video content. The user acts as a promoter for the content and receives compensation from the content owner for each sale. The user does not have or create copies to transfer to buyers—the commercial transaction and fulfillment are provided by the content owner. The user can build a library or online store of content that the user promotes. In another implementation, the system provides significant gifting functionality for content items, such as for providing previews and gift wrapping skins for gifted content items. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272585 | VIRTUAL SHOPPING SOFTWARE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A virtual shopping software system and method; the method includes providing a virtual shopping software system having a computing device hosting an application and in communication with a product supplier via a communication network, and a database coupled to the computing device and storing therein at least one product selection. The virtual shopping software system and method may generate a 3D shopping experience. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272586 | VIRTUAL REALITY BASED SHOPPING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Disclosed is a virtual reality based shopping method. The method includes: acquiring a user image and user information; establishing a shopping model corresponding to the user according to the user image and the user information; fitting clothes onto the shopping model when the clothes selected by a user are received; and transferring the shopping model having the clothes fitted thereon to a virtual reality device used by the user, wherein the virtual reality device presents the shopping model having the clothes fitted thereon. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272587 | Methods And Apparatus For Selling Paint In Stores That Traditionally Do Not Sell Paint - A sales person at a retail store which traditionally does not sell paint assists a consumer in selecting and purchasing a non-paint product and thereafter employs a computer terminal and display in conjunction with a website operated by a paint manufacturer to provide a paint color recommendation to the consumer. The sales person may thereafter respond to consumer selection of a particular paint color by employing an on-line electronic ordering tool to transmit a paint order to an order processing terminal located at a paint manufacturer facility. Thereafter, the paint manufacturer may proceed to process the order, perform tinting and shaking steps to formulate paint of the particular color, package the tinted paint, and cause the packaged paint to be shipped to the consumer. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OFFLINE INTERACTION BASED ON AUGMENTED REALITY - Augmented reality interaction is described, combining online virtual resource allocation and management with consumption and image scanning operations of a user at a target place. Consumption data of a user is obtained. A quantity of virtual resources corresponding to the user are allocated to the user based on a consumption amount, and then accumulated. A determination is made whether a predetermined identifier corresponding to the target place is identified from image information of a scanned real-world image obtained through image scanning. Virtual data related to the virtual resources in the virtual resource pool is delivered from the augmented reality server to the augmented reality client device. The augmented reality client device is configured to perform augmented display of the related virtual data by overlaying and combining the virtual data with the image information at a location corresponding to the predetermined identifier in the scanned real-world image. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272589 | SECURITIZATION OF TRANSPORTATION UNITS - Implementations of various securitization methods and systems of transformed transportation units based on a network, GPS system, mobile computing devices, servers, transportation unit data transformations, forward commodity market servers, grouping instructions for virtual hubs, transparent open access pricing systems, blockchain audit and safety instructions, virtual hub instructions, banking and credit account instructions, priced based GPS map routing algorithms in a simple easy to use graphical user interface format for mobile, audio interface or virtual interface computing over various mediums which are connected via a network to transact and trade transformed transportation capacity units in airline transport, subway transport, train transport, automobile transport, autonomous vehicle transport, taxi transport, space transport, package freight transport, tractor trailer freight transport, cargo freight transport, container freight transport, virtual transport, underground transport, ship or sea transport, public transport, private transport or drone transport on a computer, mobile computer device, audio computer device, virtual reality computer device or mixed reality computing device. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272590 | STRESS TESTING AND ENTITY PLANNING MODEL EXECUTION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA - A method and product designed for preferably creating, validating and executing regression based models and calculations for Stress Testing and Entity Planning purposes is provided covering model execution life-cycle details from model creation, validation, and execution. The preferred embodiments include a self-service regression based model configuration and creation with workflow approval tool called a model wizard; a central standardized I/O data interface called ODS to receive and store quarterly historical and spot financial market information, and reference data used as model input, and to store model output(s) in the preferred form of quarterly base and stress projections; a java based execution engine to run the approved models from the repository with ability to apply model adjustments; a web-based user interface to view the model lineage, input, equations in mathematical form using MathJax and the output. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272591 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SERVICING AN OBLIGATION UTILIZING A BLOCKCHAIN - Apparatus and methods for providing transparency, security, and auditability to a loan servicing process by encoding Loan Actions and associated Action data, onto a Blockchain. The Blockchain is distributed to Participants in the Loan, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of Vendor Formats for inclusion on the Blockchain and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain. simplifying Transactions such as assignment of the rights of a Participant are simplified and memorialized and accessible via a communications network. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272592 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPLEMENT ENDPOINT COLLATERALIZED FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT - Aspects direct to systems and methods for implementing an endpoint collateralized financial instrument. A borrower may use an endpoint device to send a request to a server for a loan or credit product. Upon receiving the request, the server determines whether the endpoint device is subject to an approval for the endpoint collateralized financial instrument. When the endpoint device is approved, the server further determines an amount of money, and issues a notification to the endpoint device via the network to indicate the approval and the amount of money. Thus, the borrower may choose to borrow the amount of money for the loan using the endpoint device as the collateral, and the server sends the amount of money as a loan to the borrower. The borrower retains a right to use the endpoint device under a condition. The server may disable the endpoint device when the borrower violates the condition. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272593 | System and Method for Spend Management and Investment of Funds - A transaction management method and system are providing for managing disposition of funds for system users based on account activity. The method stores account data for the system users and instructions and at least a downloadable mobile application, The method receives through an interface over a network, an indication of account activity by the system user and determines a type of account activity. The method further identifies identifying a spending category for the account activity and performs an accounting for the spending category to determine if the account activity is indicative of system user underspending. The method further includes investing calculated underspending. An investment card may be utilized. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT INSPECTION - Systems and methods for user-configurable financial instrument inspection are provided. A user may select the type of financial performance information and presentation format of the financial performance information to be displayed when the user selects a particular financial instrument. The user may associate a set of financial performance information and presentation format with a particular financial market for financial instruments. The financial instrument inspector may also facilitate trading of financial instruments. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272595 | Distributed Server Side Device Architecture - An electronic trading method is provided. The method includes receiving a trading strategy order having a parent trading strategy including multiple quoting legs; splitting the trading strategy order into multiple child orders; and submitting each of the multiple child orders to exchange systems adapted to fill the quoting legs in the child orders. Each child order includes a child trading strategy having a single quoting leg or a reduced number of quoting legs relative to the parent trading strategy. The child trading strategies are the same as the parent trading strategy except for the number of legs marked as quoting legs. The method may be performed by a trading strategy device disposed between a client device and multiple server side devices. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING REVERSE GIFT CARD TECHNOLOGY - The disclosure relates to interactive and adaptive systems and methods for insurance application. An example method includes presenting a first set of user interfaces for inputting retail card information and receiving at least one identifier of a retail card via the first set of user interfaces. The example method also includes transmitting the at least one identifier to a remote computing device for validating the retail card, and in response to receiving an indication of successful validation of the retail card, presenting a second set of user interfaces for applying for an insurance product based, at least in part, on one or more incentive configurations associated with the retail card. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272597 | EMPLOYEE DETERMINED PAYROLL PAYMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Processing payroll payments for employees is performed by a payment processing system and employee devices, so that the employee can with access security set short pay periods and have wage payments made according to their profile. The payment processing system has an interfacing server, a storage server, and a processing server, using internal signalling and file transfer. They receive from an employer computer net pay data for employees for a long period, and communicating with the employee devices to determine a desired payment split over the long period, and automatically notify an employee device of opening of a window for user editing of a payment split profile, and subsequently are instructed by the employee device as to edit the profile. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272598 | CEPHALOPOD FISHERY FORECASTING METHOD IN NORTHWEST AFRICAN WATERS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS - A cephalopod fishery forecasting method in northwest African waters based on environmental factors, including the following steps: step 1: acquiring catch production statistical data from cephalopod fisheries in northwest African waters of many years; step 2: acquiring marine environmental data corresponding to the catch production statistical data, the marine environmental data including sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface height anomaly (SSHA); step 3: studying the relationship between the operating haul, the operating output ratio and the average output per haul in each interval as indexes of a central fishery and the marine environmental data of step 2; and step 4: establishing suitability indexes (SI) of different environmental factors, and calculating habitat suitability indexes (HSI) under different weight cases by using an expert assignment method, thus obtaining distribution waters of the central fishery of cephalopod fisheries in northwest African waters for forecasting the central fishery. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED HIGH SCALE FABRICATION OF CUSTOM ITEMS - Method and system for providing volume manufacturing of customizable items including receiving a data package including a plurality of manufacturing parameters, each of the plurality of manufacturing parameters associated with a unique item, verifying the received data package, and implementing a manufacturing process associated with the received data package is provided. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272600 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE IN RESERVING A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY WITH A CHARGING STATION - A method is proposed to assist a user of an electric vehicle in reserving a rechargeable battery with a charging station. A reservation assistant unit that is related to the electric vehicle computes an estimated travelling distance from a current location corresponding to the electric vehicle to a destination, and computes a remaining distance based on residual electric energy of a rechargeable battery currently used by the electric vehicle. When the estimated travelling distance is greater than the remaining distance, the reservation assistant unit provides charging station information that indicates the closest charging station that has a rechargeable battery available. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272601 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, DATA STRUCTURE, AND POWER TRANSACTION SYSTEM - Provided is a control method including: receiving, from first power equipment, first transaction data including, for example, transmitted power amount information indicating the amount of power transmitted to power accumulation equipment; obtaining, from the power accumulation equipment, received power information including, for example, received power amount information indicating the amount of power received from the first power equipment; verifying the first transaction data by referring to the received power information; executing a first consensus algorithm with second servers when the first transaction data is verified successfully; and recording a block including the first transaction data in a distributed ledger of a first server when the validity of the first transaction data is verified through the first consensus algorithm. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272602 | COGNITIVE TRAVEL ASSISTANCE - Data sources containing a plurality of health information is combined throughout a plurality of travelers. Profile vectors are created from each individual member of the traveling party and a group profile vector is built as a representative whole of the traveling parties interests. Potential travel destinations vectors are clustered and mapped with dimensions comprised in the group profile vector. A recommended vacation or travel destination itinerary is proposed based on the highest overlaying dimensional score between the group profile vector and potential travel destinations. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272603 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus that performs a received processing request; a relay device that relays the processing request performed by the information processing apparatus; and a user terminal that transmits the processing request to the relay device, wherein the relay device transmits the received processing request to the information processing apparatus capable of performing the processing request in a case of receiving the processing request from the user terminal, and designates a transmission destination of deficiency information and transmits the designated transmission destination to the user terminal in a case where there is the deficiency information which is not possible to be acquired in the relay device among pieces of information required for performing the processing request, and the user terminal transmits the deficiency information to the transmission destination designated by the relay device. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272604 | SYSTEM FOR INTEGRALLY OPERATING AND MANAGING BEHAVIOR INFORMATION RELATING TO TRANSACTION OF ASSET AND VALUE OF RESIDENT OF HOUSE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSACTING SAME - The present invention generally relates to an unified management system of transaction information of resident's personal asset and value and the method of transaction thereof and more particularly to a system that manages transactions (including sharing and trading) of residents' all assets and values (including ideas and skills) by linking households via digital network and the method of transacting such assets and values. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the unified management system of transaction information of resident's personal asset and value is characterized by linking resident information devices (dispersed database) together, which are used for member registration, via blockchain (a form of dispersal database) based digital network, managing logs of transaction information of residents' personal assets (including talents) and values (including ideas and skills) using a blockchain based “my homepage” or application server after the logs are chronologically logged (coded) into the resident logging system based on blockchain technology. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272605 | Trust Systems and Methods for Facilitating Funding of Real Estate Improvements - Disclosed is a system and method to facilitate the transaction of real estate owned by a seller, organized by a real estate agent, and purchased by a buyer who finances the transaction using a mortgage loan from a mortgage lender. The system and method include incentives. For example, the real estate agent can offer a reduction of the real estate agent's commission. Also, the mortgage lender could provide an incentive in the form of an adjustment of the interest rate or points on the mortgage. The incentivized funds are placed in trust during closing, where the beneficiary of the trust consists solely of the real estate and improvements thereon. After closing, the trustee approves and disburses from the trust for the benefit of improvements on the real estate. The disbursements are limited to a network of pre-approved suppliers, vendors, contractors and tradesman. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272606 | Trust Systems and Methods for Facilitating Funding of Real Estate Improvements - Disclosed is a system and method to facilitate the improvement of real estate transferred during a closing to a buyer who finances the transaction using a mortgage loan from a mortgage lender. The system and method include incentives. For example, the real estate agent can offer a portion of the real estate agent's commission. Also, the mortgage lender could provide an incentive in the form of an incentive amount from a lender as part of the mortgage. The incentivized funds are placed in trust during closing, where the beneficiary of the trust consists solely of the real estate and improvements thereon. After closing, the trustee approves and disburses from the trust for the benefit of improvements on the real estate. The disbursements are limited to a network of pre-approved suppliers, vendors, contractors and tradesman. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272607 | NACHA COMPLIANT SECURE FUND TRANSFER - A transaction settlement system is disclosed that allows for transferring funds to a pre-established financial account. In an embodiment, a fund transfer application provides a user interface through which a user can initiate a transfer of funds to a pre-established financial account. The user interface allows the user to specify an amount of funds to transfer and a financial account from which to withdraw the specified amount of funds. In response to a fund transfer authorization from the user, the fund transfer application processes the fund transfer from the specified financial account to the pre-established financial account. In an embodiment, the fund transfer application using an ACH payment transaction. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272608 | CLASS SCHEDULE OPTIMIZATION BASED ON PROJECTED STUDENT GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT - A method and system may be provided to predict student growth and achievement based on growth metrics of one or more teachers. Multiple growth metrics may be provided for a single teacher to allow for multiple growth rates for different types of students at different levels. Predicted growth and achievement may be used as a basis for optimizing a school class schedule or for helping one or more students choose a teacher or school. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272609 | Methods And Systems For Fulfilling Drug Orders - Methods and systems for fulfillment gateway are described. In one embodiment, a prescription order for a prescription drug is received from an order processing station. An order message associated with the prescription order is generated. The order message has a prescription parameter and a dispensation preference for fulfilling the prescription order. The order message is assigned to an order fulfillment station based on the prescription parameter, the dispensation preference and a dispensary attribute of the order fulfillment station. In other embodiments, the order message is selected for delivery based on based on the prescription parameter, the dispensation preference and a dispensary attribute of the order fulfillment station. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISITATION MANAGEMENT IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT - A system is described herein that facilitates the easy scheduling and conducting of prison visitations. The system provides a remotely-accessible means for visitors to authenticate themselves, check the availability of those they wish to visit, and schedule a visit with that individual. As part of this process, the system tracks the availability of prison inmates as well as the devices and visit sites that are available to those inmates. In this manner, the system can quickly identify the availability of different inmates in order to provide on-demand scheduling capabilities to potential visitors. The system is connected to multiple facilities as well as public networks, and therefore can be remotely accessed. Additionally, the system also functions to monitor visits while they are in progress, as well as to store visit recordings for future review. Because the system is networked, remote monitors can access the review system in order to monitor visits or review recordings. The system also employs rigorous authentication and other security measures to ensure the safety and security of the visitors, the inmates, the staff, as well as others within the prison facility. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272611 | BANDWIDTH-LIMITED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY LIMITING MEMORY BANDWIDTH OF GPU FOR UNDER BANDWIDTH-LIMITED SYSTEM - A method for dynamically limiting a memory bandwidth of a graphics processing unit (GPU) is applicable to a bandwidth-limited system. The bandwidth-limited system includes an audio/video decoder and a GPU. The method includes detecting a plurality of decoding times of a plurality of frames of an audio/video decoded by an audio/video decoder, and adjusting a max grant amount of a memory bandwidth of a GPU according to the plurality of decoding times of the plurality of frames and a target time. Therefore, in the case where the total memory bandwidth is limited, the memory bandwidth of the GPU is limited by the performance of the corresponding audio/video decoder such that, during audio/video playback, the effect of audio/video playback can be prevented from being affected and at the same time a better graphical user interface can be provided. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272612 | PRE-PASS SURFACE ANALYSIS TO ACHIEVE ADAPTIVE ANTI-ALIASING MODES - Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a position associated with one or more polygons in unresolved surface data and select an anti-aliasing sample rate based on a state of the one or more polygons with respect to the position. Additionally, the unresolved surface data may be resolved at the position in accordance with the selected anti-aliasing sample rate, wherein the selected anti-aliasing sample rate varies across a plurality of pixels. The position may be a bounding box, a display screen coordinate, and so forth. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272613 | Frequent Data Value Compression for Graphics Processing Units - A control surface tracks an individual cacheline in the original surface for frequent data values. If so, control surface bits are set. When reading a cacheline from memory, first the control surface bits are read. If they happen to be set, then the original memory read is skipped altogether and instead the bits from the control surface provide the value for the entire cacheline. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272614 | VIRTUAL MACHINE GRAPHICS RESOURCE USAGE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for calculating graphics resources for a virtual machine. One of the methods includes determining resources available on a graphics card device included in a computer executing a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine configured to execute a virtual desktop; determining, based on data received from a hypervisor that manages execution of at least one of the plurality of virtual machines, a graphics profile for a virtual machine included in the plurality of virtual machines executing on the computer; determining a portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine using the graphics profile; and computing an amount of resources on the graphics card device consumed by a virtual desktop of the virtual machine based on the portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272615 | DATA DISTRIBUTION FABRIC IN SCALABLE GPUS - One embodiment provides for a processor comprising a three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit stack including multiple graphics processor cores and interconnect logic to interconnect the graphics processor cores of the 3D integrated circuit stack to enable data distribution between the graphics processor cores over a virtual channel including multiple programmatically pre-assigned traffic classifications. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272616 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING PROJECTION-BASED FRAME THAT INCLUDES PROJECTION FACES PACKED IN CUBE-BASED PROJECTION LAYOUT WITH PADDING - A video processing method includes: obtaining a plurality of square projection faces from an omnidirectional content of a sphere according to a cube-based projection, scaling the square projection faces to generate a plurality of scaled projection faces, respectively, creating at least one padding region, generating a projection-based frame by packing the scaled projection faces and said at least one padding region in a projection layout of the cube-based projection, and encoding the projection-based frame to generate a part of a bitstream. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272617 | CUBE-BASED PROJECTION METHOD THAT APPLIES DIFFERENT MAPPING FUNCTIONS TO DIFFERENT SQUARE PROJECTION FACES, DIFFERENT AXES, AND/OR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OF AXIS - A cube-based projection method includes generating pixels of different square projection faces associated with a cube-based projection of a 360-degree image content of a sphere. Pixels of a first square projection face are generated by utilizing a first mapping function set. Pixels of a second square projection face are generated by utilizing a second mapping function set. The different square projection faces include the first square projection face and the second square projection face. The second mapping function set is not identical to the first mapping function set. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272618 | HEMISPHERE CUBE MAP PROJECTION FORMAT IN IMAGING ENVIRONMENTS - A mechanism is described for facilitating hemisphere cube map projection format imaging environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes capturing, by a camera coupled to one or more processors, an image having image content, wherein the image content being represented by the image is omnidirectional such that the image content is mapped on a sphere while representing less than the sphere; mapping the image to a cubic representation based on six faces of a cube, wherein one or more of the six faces are classified as inactive regions such that they remain unoccupied or partially occupied; and arranging, based on the cubic representation, the six faces in a compact representation by avoiding inclusion of the inactive regions. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272619 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes image sensors configured to include a plurality of pairs of image sensors, each pair of image sensors facing in substantially the same direction and generating image data and each of which has a different field of view, a processor configured to be operatively connected to the image sensors, and a memory configured to be operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions, when executed, causing the processor to receive at least one set of image data from the pairs of image sensors, recognize at least one object from the image data, determine depth information of the at least one object, and stitch the at least one set of image data using the at least one object and the depth information. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE UPSCALING - A system and method for training a neural network to perform image upscaling is provided. The method includes receiving first, second and third image data at a processor. The processor generates input image data and target image data to feed as a training pair to a neural network processor. In particular, at least one of the first, second and third image data is generated from a high quality imaging device, such as a high resolution thermal camera, or a high resolution RADAR sensor. The neural network processor applies an image upscaling function to the input image data, and minimizes a loss function between upscaled output image data and the target image data to train the neural network. Subsequently, the high quality imaging device may be removed from the system, and the neural network may upscale input image data to approximate image data achieved with the high quality imaging device. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272621 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The present image processing apparatus includes an input unit to which an image is input; and a processor which extracts visual characteristics by reducing an input image and obtains a high-definition image by reflecting extracted visual characteristics on the input image. The disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system and application thereof that simulate functions such as cognition and decision-making of a human brain using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272622 | ENHANCING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES WITH DATA FROM LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGES - Users often desire to capture certain images from an application. For example, garners can capture displayed images from a game to show they obtained a skill level within the game or simply to capture a particular scene within the game. Existing methods of capturing images can result in low-resolution images due to limitations of the display device providing the images. This disclosure provides a method of capturing higher resolution images from source images. Techniques are also disclosed to reduce the storage size associated with the higher resolution images. Through capturing low-resolution versions of the same source images, image effects can be captured and applied to the higher resolution images where those image effects may be altered or missing. Frequency spectrum combination can be used to combine the low-resolution image data and the higher resolution image data. The higher resolution images can be processed using a segmentation scheme, such as tiling, without reducing or limiting the image effects. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272623 | EDGE DETECTION SYSTEM AND ITS USE FOR MACHINE LEARNING - Systems and methods are disclosed that remove noise from roughness measurements to determine roughness of a feature in a pattern structure. In one embodiment, a method includes generating, using an imaging device, a set of one or more images, each including an instance of a feature within a respective pattern structure. The method also includes detecting edges of the features within the pattern structure of each image using an inverse linescan model, generating a biased power spectral density (PSD) dataset representing feature geometry information corresponding to the edge detection measurements, evaluating a high-frequency portion of the biased PSD dataset to determine a noise model for predicting noise over all frequencies of the biased PSD dataset, and subtracting the noise predicted by the determined noise model from a biased roughness measure to obtain an unbiased roughness measure provided as part of a training data set to a machine learning model. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272624 | DISPLAY OF IMAGES - The following provides a system and method to display images on a display screen (e.g. via a display panel or by projection) and the processing of image data therefor. In one aspect, the system implements a luminance retargeting method for altering the perceived contrast and/or colours of an image to match their appearance under different luminance levels. In another aspect, the system may provide a method for transforming an image locally within a sub-area of an image to adjust image contrast for display by a display device. In yet another aspect, the system may provide a method for transforming an image of a first luminance to adjust a perceived colour hue thereof for display by a display device according to a second luminance. In yet another aspect, the system may provide a method for transforming an image having a first luminance to adjust a colour saturation thereof for display by a display device having a second luminance. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272625 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGES BASED ON IMAGE FEATURE INFORMATION AND IMAGE CORRECTION SCHEME - An electronic device according to embodiments may include: a communication module; a first processor configured to correct images, and a second processor operatively connected to the communication module and the first processor. The second processor is configured to control the first processor to correct a first image set obtained from a database, select at least one image from the first image set based at least on a correction result of the first image set, and transmit feature information on the selected at least one image to the first processor. The first processor is configured to obtain a second image set from the database based on the feature information, and generate a third image set by correcting the second image set. Various other embodiments may be possible. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272626 | A RENDERING PROCESS AND SYSTEM - A rendering process and system that may be used to composite virtual objects in panoramic video to provide a virtual reality and augmented reality experience. The process includes receiving low dynamic range (LDR) video data, e.g. 360° video; generating radiance maps, such as diffuse and specular maps, from the LDR data; inverse tone mapping the LDR data of the maps to generate high dynamic range (HDR) data for the maps; and receiving at least one virtual object and applying image based lighting (IBL) to the virtual object using the HDR data of the maps. A perceptually based threshold is also applied to radiance maps to detect prominent pixels, and using the prominent pixels as salient lights for image based shadowing (IBS) associated the virtual object. Objects are composited 360° video in real time using IBL and IBS without precomputation allowing user interaction with the objects. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272627 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING IMAGE DATASETS FOR USE IN IMAGE RECOGNITION AND DETECTION - Systems and methods relating to image processing and artificial intelligence. Given a small number of defect images, a multitude of other defect images can be generated to serve as training data sets for training artificially intelligent systems to recognize and detect similar defects. Given original images showing defects, a clean image of the background of the original images is created. The defect image is then isolated from each of the original images. The characteristics of each defect image are determined and characteristics of similar defects are also determined, either from other images or from subject matter experts. Based on these characteristics of similar defects, multiple other defect images are then generated. The generated defect images are combined with the clean image to result in defect images with a suitable background. Each of the resulting images can be used in training systems in recognizing and detecting defects. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272628 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING OPTICAL FEATURE OF WORKPIECE, METHOD FOR ENHANCING OPTICAL FEATURE OF WORKPIECE THROUGH DEEP LEARNING, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides an apparatus for enhancing an optical feature of a workpiece, comprising at least one variable image-taking device, at least one variable light source device, an image processing module and a control device. The variable image-taking device obtains images of the workpiece, and an external parameter and an internal parameter of which are adjustable. The variable light source device provides light source to the lighting the workpiece, wherein the variable light source device has an adjustable optical properties. The image processing module generates feature enhancement information according to the defect image information. The control device adjusts the external parameter, the internal parameter, and the optical properties according to the feature enhancement information and controls operations of the variable image-taking device and the variable light source device to obtain feature-enhanced images of the workpiece. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272629 | Method for Fast Judging and Optimizing Light Emitting Quality of Light Guide Plate Based on Image Processing Technology - The present invention discloses a method for fast judging and optimizing light emitting quality of a light guide plate based on an image processing technology. According to the method, an illuminance diagram of the light guide plate is regarded as a single-color image, illuminance information is converted into a gray level, gray levels of all pixel points are calculated through a gray level histogram, the light outgoing quality of the light guide plate is analyzed according to a discrete degree of the gray levels, positions of the gray levels discrete in distribution in the gray level histogram on the illuminance diagram are found out through programming, a net point filling rate in a corresponding area is directly optimized and is eliminated, and a uniformity degree evaluation formula with a precision P judgment criterion is given. The present invention effectively improves the optimizing efficiency of the light guide plate, and an optimized result is closer to an actual visual effect. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272630 | IMAGE INSPECTING APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTING METHOD AND IMAGE INSPECTING PROGRAM - An image inspecting apparatus includes at least one image capturing part, a lighting part, a control part including a moving part, a searching part analyzing an image captured by the image capturing part under a first image capturing condition and searching for a defect candidate from an object under inspection, and a determining part. When the searching part finds the defect candidate from the object under inspection, the control part controls an image capturing condition such that a part where the defect candidate is found by the searching part is photographed under a second image capturing condition that is clearer than the first image capturing condition. The determining part analyzes an image captured by the image capturing part under the second image capturing condition and determines whether the defect of the object under inspection is present or absent. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272631 | IDENTIFYING SUSPICIOUS AREAS IN OPHTHALMIC DATA - An ophthalmic image diagnostic tool and method submits a test image to a neural network trained to identify abnormal regions of an ophthalmic image, to distinguish between multiple types of abnormalities, and to associate an abnormality type with each identified potentially abnormal region. Each potentially abnormal region in the test image is highlighted, and in response to a user-selection of a highlighted region, a previously diagnosed sample (e.g., from a library of samples) of the abnormality type associated with the selected highlighted region is displayed. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272632 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING A 3D PRE ACQUIRED IMAGE COORDINATES SYSTEM WITH A MEDICAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COORDINATE SYSTEM AND WITH A 2D IMAGE COORDINATE SYSTEM - A method for registering a three dimensional (3D) coordinates system with a Medical Positioning System (MPS) coordinate system and with a two dimensional (2D) coordinate system, includes acquiring at least one 2D image of a volume of interest, the volume of interest including at least one tubular organ within the body of a patient. The 2D image is associated with the 2D coordinate system, and a plurality of MPS points is acquired, within the at least one tubular organ. The MPS points are associated with the MPS coordinate system, the MPS coordinate system being registered with the 2D coordinate system. A 3D image model is extracted of the at least one tubular organ form a pre-acquired 3D image of the volume of interest. A volumetric model of the at least one tubular organ from the 2D image is estimated and from the acquired MPS points, the 3D coordinate system is registered with the MPS coordinate system and with the 2D coordinate system by matching the extracted 3D image model and the estimated volumetric model of the at least one tubular organ. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272633 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE DATA PRODUCTION METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE DATA PRODUCTION SYSTEM - A three-dimensional shape data production method and a system for the same for realizing contactless receiving of data regarding the inner shape of a tubular body which includes a step of generating multiple pieces of two-dimensional image data based on a signal from an image capturing device configured to be movable inside a tubular body and configured to capture an image of the inside of the tubular body; a step of receiving space information on the image capturing device upon image capturing by the image capturing device based on a signal from a motion sensor placed at the image capturing device; and a step of associating the two-dimensional image data and the space information with each other and generating three-dimensional shape data of the inside of the tubular body based on the two-dimensional image data and the space information. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES FOR IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY - A method for image segmentation comprises receiving volumetric image data for an anatomical region and generating a first volumetric patch from the volumetric image data. The method also comprises generating a second volumetric patch from the first volumetric patch by weighting a plurality of volumetric units in the first volumetric patch and receiving the second volumetric patch as an input to a convolutional neural network. The method also comprises conducting a down-sampling filter process and conducting an up-sampling filter process within the convolutional neural network. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272635 | Method And Apparatus For Monitoring Of A Human Or Animal Subject - A method and apparatus for monitoring a human or animal subject in a room using video imaging of the subject and analysis of the video image to derive an estimate of vital signs such as heart rate or breathing rate. The method includes determination of whether the subject in the images is still or moving, and whether any of the regions from which vital signs are being detected are not on the subject. The subject's movement may be manually or automatically detected, and the determination of whether regions from which vital signs are being detected are not on the subject can be input manually, by displaying the regions to the user in a visually distinguishable manner, or automatically. Vital signs measurements are only displayed if the subject is determined as being still and if there are no regions in the image which are returning vital signs signals but are not determined as being on the subject. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272636 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED TRIAGE - A system for computer-aided triage can include a router, a remote computing system, and a client application. A method for computer-aided triage can include determining a parameter associated with a data packet, determining a treatment option based on the parameter, and transmitting information to a device associated with a second point of care. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272637 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BLOOD ANALYSIS BY IMAGE PROCESSING - The present application describes a new device and method of use thereof, which allows identifying certain antigens and antibodies present in the blood. The device of the present invention is a closed device consisting of two parts, wherein the upper part has a chamber surrounded by LEDs illuminating the analysis plate, which is supported by the rotating platform. In turn, the rotating platform is connected to a motor that will promote the rotation thereof for mixing reagents with blood. After a period of time, the camera will capture and send the resulting image to a computer program that will analyze the sample, using image processing techniques. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272638 | Automated Stereology for Determining Tissue Characteristics - Systems and methods for automated stereology are provided. A method can include providing an imager for capturing a Z-stack of images of a three-dimensional (3D) object; constructing extended depth of field (EDF) images from the Z-stack of images; performing a segmentation method on the EDF images including estimating a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), performing morphological operations, performing watershed segmentation, constructing Voronoi diagrams and performing boundary smoothing; and determining one or more stereology parameters such as number of cells in a region. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272639 | COVARIATE MODULATE ATLAS - The disclosed technology relates generally to medical imaging, and more particularly, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for creating and using a covariate modulated or “dynamic” atlas. Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for predicting an alas using General Additive Model (GAM) parameters, wherein the GAM parameters are derived by registering (and optionally segmenting) a plurality of image data sets from a plurality of different subjects to an initial atlas estimate (e.g., a seed atlas), and analyzing the resulting registration, segmentation, and intensity parameters as correlated with input covariates. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272640 | LEARNING DATA CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, LEARNING DATA CREATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND LEARNING DATA CREATION SUPPORT PROGRAM - Provided are a learning data creation support apparatus, a learning data creation support method, and a learning data creation support program that create learning data required for learning without performing a complicated operation. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272641 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Methods and apparatus for analyzing embryonic development images. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of embryonic development images captured in a time series, determining, for at least one of the plurality of embryonic development images, a time series of evaluation values for each of a plurality of evaluation items associated with the plurality of embryonic development images, and evaluating a characteristic of cells represented in one or more of the plurality of embryonic development images based, at least in part, on the time series of evaluation values for the plurality of evaluation items. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272642 | Image Segmentation with Touch Interaction - In one embodiment, a method includes detecting one or more objects in an image, generating at least one mask for each of the detected objects, wherein each of the masks is defined by a perimeter, classifying the detected objects, receiving gesture input in relation to the image, determining whether one or more locations associated with the gesture input correlate with any of the masks, and providing feedback regarding the image in response to the gesture input. Each of the masks may include data identifying the corresponding detected object, and the perimeter of each mask may correspond to a perimeter of the corresponding detected object. The perimeter of the corresponding detected object may separate the detected object from one or more portions of the image that are distinct from the detected object. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272643 | SEGMENT-BASED RESHAPING FOR CODING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE VIDEO - Given a standard-dynamic range (SDR) video input, techniques for generating and compressing composer metadata describing inverse luma and chroma reshaping functions are described. Given the SDR input, the composer metadata allow a decoder to generate a corresponding output in high-dynamic range. Three techniques are proposed: a static, sequence-based, architecture, a two-stage, scene-based, distributed solution with a centralized post-processing method, and a single-stage distributed solution using overlapped segments. Techniques to reduce the amount of transmitted composer metadata are also described. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272644 | LIVER BOUNDARY IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to the technical field of medical image processing and, in particular, to a liver boundary identification method and a system. The method includes: obtaining liver tissue information of a liver tissue to be identified; identifying a liver tissue boundary in the liver tissue information according to a feature of the liver tissue corresponding to the liver tissue information and a feature of the liver tissue boundary corresponding to the liver tissue information using an image processing technology or a signal processing technology; and outputting position information of the identified liver tissue boundary. By using the disclosed method, the liver tissue boundary can be identified automatically, the efficiency of identifying the liver boundary can be improved, and automatic positioning of the liver boundary can thus be achieved. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING INSTANCE SEGMENTATION - Systems and methods for performing instance segmentation. A memory stores instructions for executing processes for performing instance segmentation and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The processes include: generating a learning objective that uses pair-wise relationships between pixels in an input image; sampling pixels in each object instance to determine whether the sampled pixels are within a same object instance; training a neural network using the learning objection, wherein the neural network is configured to make pixel-wise predictions and to assign a cluster index to each pixel of the input image, with each pixel cluster being an object instance; performing graph coloring to assign a color to each object instance, with adjacent object instances having different colors; performing connected component extraction to recover each object instance based on the graph coloring; and generating a rendered image having the assigned color applied to each object instance. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272646 | FEATURE TRACKABILITY RANKING, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Image feature trackability ranking systems and methods are disclosed. A method of establishing a trackability ranking order from tracked image features within a training video sequence at a tracking analysis device includes establishing a tracking region within the training video sequence using a feature detection algorithm. Trajectories of tracked image features within the tracking region are compiled using a feature tracking algorithm. Saliency metrics are assigned to each one of the trajectories of tracked image features based on one or more feature property measurements within the tracking region, and a trackability ranking algorithm that is a function of the saliency metrics and a defined feature trajectory ranking associated with the training video sequence is determined, the trackability ranking algorithm being usable for ranking, based on trackability, tracked image features within another video sequence. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272647 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes a display configured to display at least one screen; a communication interface configured to receive camera information from at least one camera; a processor configured to extract position information, time information, and image information corresponding to one another from the camera information and generate a first screen displaying the position information, a second screen displaying the time information, and a third screen for displaying the image information; and a user interface configured to receive a user input for selecting first position information from the position information or first time information from the time information, wherein the processor is further configured to extract first image information corresponding to the first position information or the first time information from the image information and reproduce the first image information through the third screen. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272648 | SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A sales data processing apparatus includes an imaging unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to cause the imaging unit to capture an image of an item, identify a candidate item corresponding to the item by object recognition processing on the image, transmit identification information for the candidate item and the image of the item to an external device; and then receive a confirmation result from the external device indicating whether or not the item included in the image matches the candidate article according to the transmitted identification information. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272649 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING THE LOCATION OF A TARGET AND OBSERVERATION DEVICE ENABLING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS METHOD - A method for assisting the location of a target for a first user equipped with an observation device includes an augmented reality observation device associated with a first user reference frame. According to this method, a reference platform associated with a master reference frame is positioned on the terrain, the reference platform is observed from at least one camera worn by the first user, the geometry of the observed platform is compared with a numerical model of same and the orientation and location of the first user reference frame is deduced with respect to the master reference frame. It is then possible to display, on an augmented reality observation device, at least one virtual reticle locating the target. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272650 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A GAZE POINT ON A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT - A system for determining the gaze endpoint of a subject, the system comprising: a eye tracking unit adapted to determine the gaze direction of one or more eyes of the subject; a head tracking unit adapted to determine the position comprising location and orientation of the eye tracker with respect to a reference coordinate system; a 3D Structure representation unit, that uses the 3D structure and position of objects of the scene in the reference coordinate system to provide a 3D structure representation of the scene; based on the gaze direction, the eye tracker position and the 3D structure representation, calculating the gaze endpoint on an object of the 3D structure representation of the scene or determining the object itself. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272651 | Patient Monitoring System For Detecting Adverse Clinical Conditions - A patient monitoring system receives time series matrices, detects perturbations, extracts a set of features of the perturbations. The system also converts each perturbation into at least one object, links the features of each perturbation with the object into which the perturbation was converted, and formats the objects and the features into a time series of feature linked objects. The system includes an image recognizer programmed to receive the time series of feature linked objects, and detect an image comprised of at least three objects in timed relation to each other to generate an output indicative of the potential presence of the target condition in response to the detection of the image. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272652 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING TISSUE ORGANIZATION USING POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - A system and method for characterizing tissue organization using polarization sensitive optical coherence (PSOCT) tomography is provided. A PSOCT device is controlled, by a computing device, to obtain PSOCT A-line scans across a sample. For each of the PSOCT A-line scans, the computing device determines a frequency characteristic of any banding present in a respective PSOCT A-line retardance scan. The computing device controls display device to render a map of the frequency characteristic. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION - The present disclosure a system and method for generating a tomographic image of a subject. In some aspects, the method includes receiving an initial image acquired from a subject using the tomographic imaging system, and performing, using the initial image and a cost function model, a penalty calculation based on a spatially variant hyper-parameter. The method also includes generating an updated image using the penalty calculation, and generating a finalized image by iteratively updating the updated image until a stopping criterion is met. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING CLINICAL PATHWAYS WITHIN A GUI - There is provided a method of creating a cohort clinical pathway graph based on knowledge-driven manual user input and automated data-driven mining comprising: receiving via a graphical user interface (GUI), manual selections including: knowledge-driven variable(s) denoting clinically significant values representing elements of a clinical decision making process, and an anchoring location of each knowledge-driven node denoting a respective knowledge-drive variable within a directed acyclic graph (DAG), computing individual clinical pathways for each of the sampled population of patients by automatically computing data-driven nodes denoting the data-driven discovery of event types relative to the manual selections, and aggregating the individual clinical pathways to compute a cohort clinical pathway DAG, wherein the cohort clinical pathway DAG includes nodes comprising the knowledge-driven nodes, the data-driven nodes, and links connecting the nodes, each link denoting an automatically discovered sequence between two respective nodes, and presenting the cohort clinical pathway DAG within the GUI. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SCANNING AND EDITING TWO DIMENSIONAL FLOORPLANS - One or more embodiments are described for generating a two dimensional map of an environment using a set of submaps that include point clouds of the environment that are captured using a scanner device that is moved from one position to another in the environment. An example method includes revising the two-dimensional map by editing at least one of the submaps from the set, independently of the other submaps from the set. In one or more examples, the editing may be based on one or more of the other submaps from the set. The one or more embodiments facilitate revising the two-dimensional map in an offline manner and without rescanning the environment. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272656 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH IN-CONTEXT MESSAGING - A communication apparatus, a system, and a method are provided that allow in-context electronic communication. In particular, communications received by a user is organized with in-context information, such as pictures or profiles of senders or recipients, forwarding history of the communication, relationship among the senders or recipients, subject matter and flow of conversation, and the like. As such, the user may review the received communication in context. For example, a graphical interface may be provided to present received messages as graphical conversations among different characters or persons using their pictures. The graphical interface may depict participants, listeners, and speakers in different panels to represent a flow of group conversation. In an embodiment, the communication may be depicted in a story or comic based format to layout messages or comments from different people. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272657 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device: calculates, for each image, length of a side in a first direction when resizing length of a side in a second direction to a specific length; arranges images such that the number of images arranged in the first direction is not more than a threshold number and a total of lengths of sides in the first direction of the images arranged in the first direction is not more than a threshold length; executes, for each image, resize processing for resizing the images arranged in the first direction such that the total of the lengths is approximated to the threshold length and lengths of sides in the second direction of the images arranged in the first direction are approximated; and displays the images, on which the resize processing is executed, in the display area side by side in the first and second directions. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272658 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - It is intended to easily generate an edited image from which various and natural feelings are obtained. Depth information of pixels in an image which is set as a processing object is used therefor. Reference depth information serving as a comparison reference for the depth information of pixels in image processing is set. In addition, an image editing process is performed using the reference depth information and the depth information of the pixels of the image which is set as the processing object. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272659 | System for Beauty, Cosmetic, and Fashion Analysis - A system and method are provided to detect, analyze and digitally remove makeup from an image of a face. An autoencoder-based framework is provided to extract attractiveness-aware features to perform an assessment of facial beauty. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272660 | Methods and Systems for Head Up Display (HUD) of Aerial Refueling Operation Status and Signaling - Example methods and systems for providing information to a pilot of a receiver aircraft during a refueling operation are described. The refueling operation includes a tanker aircraft with a hose for supplying fuel to the receiver aircraft and a refueling coupler coupled to an end of the hose. One example method includes, receiving at a first transceiver located at the receiver aircraft refueling information from a second transceiver located at the tanker aircraft, receiving from a vision system located at the receiver aircraft image information indicative of the hose and the refueling coupler, and displaying, on a head up display (HUD) of the pilot of the receiver aircraft a visual representation of one or more of the refueling information and the image information. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272661 | Preserving The State Of An Avatar Associated With A Physical Location In An Augmented Reality Environment - A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating an avatar in an augmented reality environment on a computing device, associating that avatar with a particular physical location, configuring the avatar to perform certain actions, configuring access rights for the avatar, and then storing the state of the avatar. At a later time, the user of another computing device visits the same physical location, views the physical location through the computing device, and the avatar is inserted into the image on the display of computing device and then performs the actions previously specified. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272662 | TECHNIQUES FOR MODIFYING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU) OPERATIONS FOR TRACKING IN RENDERING IMAGES - Examples described herein generally relate to modifying operations of a graphics processing unit (GPU) for tracking. An indication of multiple shaders to be executed in rendering an image can be obtained from a command buffer of commands to be provided to the GPU for rendering the image. At least one shader of the multiple shaders can be modified to generate a modified shader that includes a command to log one or more parameters when executing the modified shader. The command buffer can be provided to the GPU for executing the commands for rendering the image including executing the modified shader. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272663 | SIMULATING DISPLAY OF A 2D DESIGN ON AN IMAGE OF A 3D OBJECT - Methods and systems are provided for real-time rendering of a simulated display of a 2D image on 3D object while retaining the object's original texture, folds, shadows, and lighting. The methods and systems give designers the ability to showcase their work in professional grade photography for fashion and lifestyle commerce without the cost and time invested in manually creating simulated displays of final products. The resultant images are fully customizable to the art of each individual design uploaded, giving the appearance of shadows, textures and folds in the underlying materials, as well as retaining hyper-real lighting and ambiance. Methods and systems and provided are described for displaying a 2D design to simulate its appearance on a 3D object, including using three image layers to simulate the display of a 2D design on an image of a 3D object. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272664 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS OF RAY TRACING IMAGES - Examples described herein generally relate to generating a visualization of an image. A proprietary structure that specifies ray tracing instructions for generating the image using ray tracing is intercepted from a graphics processing unit (GPU) or a graphics driver. The proprietary structure can be converted, based on assistance information, to a visualization structure for generating the visualization of the image. The visualization of the image can be generated from the visualization structure. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272665 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOXEL MAPPING - A device can be configured to receive map data from at least one map data provider, the map data including data points representing information regarding a space. The device can generate a first set of voxels based on the map data, the first set of voxels representing a first three-dimensional space that includes: at least a portion of the space represented by the map data, and voxel data corresponding to at least one of the data points. The device may also index the first set of voxels in a first index; generate a second set of voxels based on the first set of voxels, the second set of voxels representing a second three-dimensional space that is included in the first three-dimensional space; and index the second set of voxels in a second index. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272666 | AERIAL IMAGING HIGH-ACCURACY SCALE CALIBRATION - The disclosure provides for a system of markers and methods of using the system of markers to provide a precise scene scale reference for captured aerial images. Each of the markers may include one or more pairs of aligned collimated light emitters, where each pair of light emitters is configured to emit two light beams that converge at a known distance from the marker. When two or more markers are used, the system of markers may be aligned in a unique physical orientation to form a shape of known dimensions (e.g., a line, a triangle, or square) that provides an accurate scene scale reference for captured images. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING B-MODE IMAGES FROM 3D ULTRASOUND DATA - The present disclosure describes a medical imaging and visualization system that provides a user interface enabling a user to visualize a volume rendering of a three dimensional (3D) data set and to manipulate the volume rendering to dynamically select a MPR plane of the 3D data set for generating a B-mode image at the dynamically selected MPR plane. In some examples, the 3D data set is rendered as a 2D projection of the volume and a user control enables the user to dynamically move the location of the MPR plane while the display updates the rendering of the volume to indicate the current location of the MPR plane and/or corresponding B-mode image. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272668 | Interactive Caricature Generation from a Digital Image - Caricature generation techniques and systems are described that are configured to preserve an individuality identity of a subject of the caricature and thus overcome inaccuracies and failures of conventional techniques. In one example, a caricature generation system is employed by a computing device to determine deviations of facial features of a subject captured by a digital image from reference values. Caricature-specific blend shapes are then employed by the caricature generation system to generate a digital image caricature from a digital image based on these deviations. In one example, blend shapes include interaction rules that define an interplay of distortions that are jointly applied to at least two of the facial features of a subject in the digital image. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARAMETRICALLY CREATING AN OPTIMAL THREE DIMENSIONAL BUILDING STRUCTURE - Given a parcel of land that is regulated by city zoning rules, the system and method described uses a combination of rule based coded and machine learning to parametrically create geometry for the maximum or optimal buildable envelope with the least amount of regulation. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272670 | REAL-TIME HAND MODELING AND TRACKING USING CONVOLUTION MODELS - Technologies are provided herein for modeling and tracking physical objects, such as human hands, within a field of view of a depth sensor. A sphere-mesh model of the physical object can be created and used to track the physical object in real-time. The sphere-mesh model comprises an explicit skeletal mesh and an implicit convolution surface generated based on the skeletal mesh. The skeletal mesh parameterizes the convolution surface and distances between points in data frames received from the depth sensor and the sphere-mesh model can be efficiently determined using the skeletal mesh. The sphere-mesh model can be automatically calibrated by dynamically adjusting positions and associated radii of vertices in the skeletal mesh to fit the convolution surface to a particular physical object. | 2019-09-05 |
20190272671 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONSTRUCTING 3D SCENE MODEL - A method and apparatus for constructing a 3D scene model are provided. The method includes: acquiring a first point cloud corresponding to a current target scene (S | 2019-09-05 |