53rd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150379605 | MANAGEMENT OF AN ELECTRONIC CONTENT CATALOG BASED ON BANDWIDTH OR CONNECTED DISPLAY CAPABILITIES - A system, method, and content provider server for creating a catalog of electronic content, wherein a customer accesses the catalog to browse and purchase electronic content, which is downloaded over a network to a customer premises where the electronic content is presented on a rendering device. Different pieces of the electronic content have different bandwidth requirements and impose different requirements for the rendering device. The server determines whether customer premises capabilities, including those of the rendering device, meet the requirements of each piece of electronic content, and populates the catalog only with pieces of electronic content for which the customer premises capabilities meet the requirements of the electronic content. Alternatively, the server may include all of the electronic content in the catalog while marking those pieces for which the customer premises capabilities do not meet the requirements of the electronic content. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PURCHASE PRODUCTS SEEN IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A product purchase system that purchases a product seen in a multimedia content is provided. The product purchase system includes a database, a product selection module, a product identification module, and a purchase module. The database stores information related to (a) the product tagged in the multimedia content, and (b) a sound signature associated with the product. The product selection module allows a user to select a product that is shown in the multimedia content. The product identification module identifies the selected product based on a tag associated with the product. The product identification module includes a sound signature module that recognizes a sound signature at which the product appears in the multimedia content. The sound signature module identifies the product that is associated with the sound signature by accessing the database. The purchase module directs the user to websites to purchase the product when the product is identified. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379607 | EMPLOYING A SHOPPING LIST ON A HAND-HELD COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AT A RETAILER - A computer-implemented process is described and includes employing a shopping list that is accessible on a hand-held communications device, the shopping list including desired items for purchasing from a retailer. The hand-held communications device is employed at the retailer to capture information associated with a selected product. The information associated with the selected product is compared with the desired items contained on the shopping list accessible to the hand-held communications device. Upon correlating the selected product with one of the desired items contained on the shopping list, the shopping list is updated to indicate the desired item has been acquired. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379608 | COLOR BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for generating social networking recommendations. A color preference of a first user may be determined from a color palette of a first image associated with the user and/or a color palette of an item associated with the user. Other users may be identified that have a similar color preference as the first user based at least in part on the determined color preference of the first user. Interactions between the first user and one or more other users having similar color preferences with respect to the first user may be facilitated. A social networking recommendation may be generated with respect to the one or more other users having similar color preferences with respect to the first user. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379609 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNFAMILIAR USERS BY UTILIZING SOCIAL SIDE INFORMATION - System and method for identifying commodities for recommendation to a target user based on side information that is pertinent to a specific target user and extrinsic to the commodities. Training data is exploited to derive a statistical correlation between users' side information of a plurality of attributes with a plurality of commodities. The training data includes side information of a set of training users and a plurality of commodities towards which the training users have manifested preference. Based on the derived statistical correlation and the target user's side information, a probability distribution representing the target user's tendency to purchase the plurality of commodities can be determined. As a result, a list of commodities can be automatically selected from the plurality of commodities and recommended to the target user. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379610 | RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, AND RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION PROGRAM - A recommendation information presentation device includes a topic generation unit that mechanically classifies words extracted from text information about a plurality of products and generates a plurality of topics made up of a plurality of words, a product profile generation unit that generates a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution of words contained in the text information about products over topics, a presentation unit that presents words contained in at least two topics to a user terminal for each topic, an extraction unit that generates a user profile indicating the tendency of selection of a topic by a user based on selection of a topic by the user and extracts a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution that coincides with the tendency of selection with a certain degree or higher, and a recommendation information presentation unit that presents information about a product associated with the extracted product profile. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379611 | ORDER ACCEPTING DEVICE, ORDER ACCEPTING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An acquirer ( | 2015-12-31 |
20150379612 | MULTI-STRATEGY GENERATION OF PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques are described for dynamically generating recommendations for users, such as for products and other items. In at least some situations, the techniques include using multiple recommendation strategies, such as by aggregating recommendation results from multiple different recommendation strategies. Such recommendation strategies may have various forms, and may be based at least in part on data regarding prior interactions of numerous users with numerous items. In addition, information about current selections of a particular user may be gathered based at least in part on providing a GUI (“graphical user interface”) for display to the user that includes selectable information about numerous recommended items, and dynamically updating the displayed GUI with newly generated recommendations of items as the user makes selections of particular displayed recommended items (e.g., newly generated recommendations that are similar to the selected items in one or more manners, or are otherwise related to the selected items). | 2015-12-31 |
20150379613 | Enhancing a User's Shopping Experience - The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for enhancing a purchasing experience by enabling a purchaser to receive a variety of real-time updates or recommendations regarding products that the purchaser, such as a user, may need or intend to purchase. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon comparing the product with a plurality of sources. The recommendation may include a recommendation that a product may near depletion and thus may need to be replaced, a recommendation that the user may already have a sufficient amount or number of the product, a recommendation that the product may or may not match an existing item owned by the user, or a recommendation not to purchase a product. A virtual closet may also be created according the systems and methods of the subject disclosure, allowing users and contacts selected by the user to collaborate on products. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES FOR CONSUMERS OF INFORMATION - A system and method is provided for using information broadcast by devices and resources in the immediate vicinity of a mobile device, or by sensors located within the mobile device itself, to ascertain and make a determination of the immediate environment and state of the mobile device. The sensor data is then used to identify situational profiles to target and determine the relevance of apps, advertisements, content, and recommendations. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379615 | SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTONS WITH PAYMENT CAPABILITY - Methods and systems for facilitating the purchase of an item on a social networking website are described. Merchants can embed payments in buttons displayed on social networking websites to enable payments at the point of discovery, such as on Pinterest® or Facebook®. As the items associated with the buttons are shared further, the embedded payment capability follows the shared items. For example, a Pinterest® pin has the payment capability embedded within it so as the pin gets re-pinned in the Pinterest® platform, shared on blogs, shared on platforms like Facebook®, or surfaces on Google® Search, the payment capability is also available on those platforms. In some instances, open standards such as oEmbed or Open Graph are used to create the buttons with the payment capability and make creation of the buttons simpler for merchants. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379616 | WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE GIFT REGISTRY SYSTEM - Gift registry systems, user interfaces, and methods are described that provide a registry owner a way to complete a gift registry. The method includes providing an application for a wearable computing device, the wearable computing device having a camera and a display, the application permitting a user to capture an image of one of a product and a product advertisement using the camera of the wearable computing device. The method includes receiving a captured image from the wearable computing device and identifying the product from the captured image. The method further includes generating a user interface for displaying details about the product from the captured image and providing the user interface for display on the wearable computing device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379617 | PARENTALCONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA SERVICE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for parental control of purchases by a child of the parent are described including transmitting a notification to the parent that the child of the parent is attempting to make an online purchase, receiving verification that the parent is authorized to approve the online purchase, transmitting a screen to the parent's receiving device for the parent's approval or disapproval of the purchase and receiving the parent's approval or disapproval. Also described are a method and apparatus for a parent to pre-select online media content purchases of a child of the parent including receiving a request to access a parental control system, receiving verification that the parent is authorized to approve the online purchase, generating and rendering a program guide including media content titles and media content ratings and receiving parental selection of media content approved for purchase by the child. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379618 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONVERTING ONLINE BROWSING TO OFFLINE PURCHASES - A user utilizes an electronic device in order to browse an online store and to tag images of products, by selecting such images, or by dragging-and-dropping such images onto a dedicated on-screen toolbar. The tagged images from multiple online stores are stored in a repository, together with data identifying the tagged products, their prices, and the online stores that sell the tagged products. A matching module determines which offline stores sell the tagged products. In response to a user command, a digital map is generated, showing offline stores which sell offline the tagged product and which are located within a user-defined distance from a particular user-defined geographical location. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING PURCHASE USING GESTURE - A gesture profile may be set up for making a purchase. The gesture profile may define a gesture that triggers a purchase transaction. When the gesture is detected, a purchase target may be searched and identified. The purchase target may be purchased automatically using a payment method defined in the gesture profile. When multiple purchase targets are identified, a user selection may be received to select one or more purchase targets. The selected purchase targets may be purchased using the payment method defined in the gesture profile. Accordingly, a user may purchase a product or service by making a simple gesture on a mobile device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379620 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF TRANSPARENCY BADGES IN E-COMMERCE - In one embodiment, a method include providing an online marketplace. The online marketplace implements a set of policies related to a seller behavior and a buyer behavior. A step includes determining a seller entity's metric with respect to the set of policies. A step includes determining a buyer entity's metric with respect to the set of policies. A step includes generating a seller's transparency badge. The seller's transparency badge comprises the seller entity's metric. A step includes generating a buyer's transparency badge. The seller's transparency badge comprises the buyer entity's metric. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379621 | DISPLAYING METHOD IN COMBINATION WITH THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHOPPING PLATFORM AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONING DEVICE - A displaying method in combination with the three-dimensional shopping platform and the geographical positioning device, relates to the electronic business technical field, more specifically, to a shopping platform. The three-dimensional platform displays on the mobile terminals by a three-dimensional shopping platform displaying system, comprising a server. The mobile terminal is connected to a positioning module which determines the current geographical position of the mobile terminal and transmits the geographical position information to the server. The three-dimensional shopping platform adds the information of the virtual stores corresponding to the physical stores located within a certain distance from the current geographical position into the basic data. The three-dimensional shopping platform displaying system forms a three-dimensional model used for displaying the virtual stores corresponding to the physical stores nearby by the arrays according to the basic data and model units. The three-dimensional shopping platform displaying system makes the physical stores corresponding to the model units. The stores and merchandises of the present invention are displayed in the three-dimensional form, which provides more information to users. It is easy to switch between the virtual stores and the physical stores, which further promotes the experience of shopping. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379622 | METHOD FOR UPDATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHOPPING PLATFORM - The present invention discloses a method for updating three-dimensional shopping platform, especially to a method for updating the data of the complicated display interface. The three-dimensional shopping platform is displayed through a three-dimensional display system on the mobile terminal shopping platform. The three-dimensional shopping platform system comprises: a three-dimensional model, a display module, a motion capturing module and a visual angle switching module. The visual angle switching module is respectively connected to the display module and the motion capturing module. The display module is defined with a predetermined size by the display module. And the method further comprises a data updating module, data updating module changes with the display interface, it updates the shop information and commodity information in the first display area, and the second display in model unit is displayed in the display interface. The present invention technical effect are as follows: it issues the relevant information on the three-dimensional shopping platform and achieves the update connection between the publishing platforms, and improve the convenience and efficiency of the three-dimensional shopping platform. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379623 | DIGITAL AVATARS IN ONLINE MARKETPLACES - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for providing digital avatars. A first request message is received for requesting a digital representation of a first target user combined with a target product for an online marketplace application on a first client device. The first request message is associated with a first user identifier indicative and a product identifier. Based on the first user identifier, a first user record is selected from a first database. The first user record includes measurement data. Based on the product identifier, a product record is selected from a second database. Based at least on the measurement data of the first user record and the selected product record, model data of the target product is determined and provided to the first client device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379624 | PROXIMITY-BASED INTER-COMPUTING DEVICE NEGOTIATION - Embodiments are disclosed herein for inter-computing device negotiation. In some embodiments, a first computing device may determine that a second computing device is within a predetermined proximity of the first computing device, and may cause the transmission of negotiation initiation data to the second computing device in response to the determination. The first computing device may receive negotiation response data provided by the second computing device, and may determine that the negotiation response data meets negotiation evaluation criteria. In response, the first computing device may cause the transmission of a confirmation message to the second computing device. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379625 | System And Method For Administering A Modified Descending Price Auction - A system and method for administering a modified descending price auction is disclosed. The method includes setting an initial current price for a quantity of the product and setting of an auction starting and ending time. A processor determines a rate of decrease in the current price. The current price is displayed, repeatedly decreased, and bidding at the current price is enabled. The method includes receiving bids from bidders at the then-current price or lower and then saving the received bids in a database. The method includes selecting a highest bid in the database not marked as ‘winning’. The method compares the highest bid to the then-current price and marks the highest bid as ‘winning’ and decreases a quantity of products when the highest bid equals or exceeds the then-current price. The method includes awarding the product to bidders with bids marked as winning at the current price when at least one of the following occurs: i) the quantity of products equals zero, ii) the ending time of the auction is reached, and iii) the auction is manually stopped. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379626 | Web Based My Budget My Choice Automated Bid Search Engine - A real time web based automated bid search software system over the internet, which enables the customers/buyers to search for live bids of goods or services with his/her/their desired budget or price and then purchase them through a fully automated auctioning and bidding process from the sellers/partners using reverse auction process. Customers need to provide the price/budget and other inputs of goods or services to be purchased in the search fields of this search system, the software system will automatically create an auction and launch on behalf of the customer and send asynchronous messages with the auction details to all registered sellers of the goods or services with the matching price/budget to participate in the auctioning/bidding process. Upon acceptance of the participation from the sellers/partners, the software system displays all the eligible sellers/partners with one or more offers with the initial bid price, wherein the sellers/partners would like to sell goods or services at the price less then or equal to the price defined by the customer. Upon seeing the search results, the customer can buy directly the goods or services at the initial bid price from a particular seller or he/she can choose (based on the seller's rankings) one or more sellers and submit the request to the system. Upon receiving this request, the system will send asynchronous messages or email or SMS to the sellers to participate and bid for the goods/services and price setup by the customer through the reverse auction process. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379627 | INTEGRATED FINANCIAL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - An integrated financial application management device having a consolidated system that may allow users to access one or more financial applications and/or functions, wherein said users are subject to different regulations governing access to various types of financial information. The integrated financial application management device may provide a tailored user interface such that information that is visible to the user is customized based upon login information identifying a user as, among others, a customer of a financial institution, a fiduciary, or a broker-dealer. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379628 | PAYMENT PARSING MANAGEMENT SERVICES SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Provided herein are systems and methods for providing individuals and entities with coordinated segmented-purchasing-plan (“SPP”) management services. A payment parsing manager may enable SPP-creator to create a segmented-purchasing-plan to coordinate the purchase of deliverable by participants (“SPP-participants) on behalf of a receiver (the “SPP-recipient”), i.e. an individual or entity who is ultimately intended to receive the deliverable, if the purchase of the deliverable is funded. The purchase price of a segmented-purchasing-plan's deliverable is divided into parts, or “deliverable-segments.” The SPP-creator, SPP-participants, and, in some cases, the SPP-recipient, may selectively purchase deliverable-segments of the deliverable until the entire purchase price of the deliverable has been funded. For example, if the purchase price of a deliverable is $500, the SPP-creator may select to divide the $500 purchase price into five $100 deliverable-segments, ten $50 deliverable-segments, fifty $10 deliverable-segments, etc. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379629 | INTERACTIVE WEB-ENABLED COMPUTER APPLICATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION TO AND VERIFYING INFORMATION FROM A LOAN APPLICANT - The present disclosure provides an interactive web-enabled computer application, and method of using the computer application, that (1) serves as a tool to educate loan applicants about relevant facts regarding their particular type of loan; (2) makes the applicants aware of their payment obligations and approximate residual income; (3) educates applicants about the consequences of missing payments; (4) requires the applicants to confirm personal information including, but not limited to, income and other debt obligations; and (5) documents that the applicants have been educated as described above, and that the applicants have verified their personal information. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DATA PACKET WITH SERIAL NUMBER - The present disclosure provides a method and a system for generating a data packet with a serial number, the method includes: receiving a data packet with application messages; generating a payment promise information data packet, and returning a serial number applying message to a network terminal; and generating serial number information by the network terminal. The solution of the disclosure realizes a promised paying information data packet with a user-defined serial number of a user characteristic and application scenario, thus facilitating the visual recognition of a user. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379631 | INTELLIGENT COLLECTIONS MODELS - Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for analyzing credit and tax form data and determining a collection treatment type to collect revenue. A collections model is constructed to determine a collections score that is based on raw credit data and tax form data and is indicative of a debtor's propensity to pay an owed amount. The collections model includes score bands, each score band being associated with a range of credit scores. A collections score is determined from a scoring expression that is associated with a score band and that typically includes a subset of available raw credit data and tax form data. A collections treatment type is determined from a collections score. Each treatment type corresponds to a treatment action that is directed to the debtor. A collections model is constructed from historical tax data, in which score bands and scoring expressions are constructed for the collections model. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379632 | BUSINESS METHOD FOR EFFICIENT AND DIRECT LOAN FINANCING - Disclosed herein are methods of loan financing within a computer-based membership club, comprising the steps of: a) establishing a loan financing membership club on a website on a computer-based network, wherein the membership club comprises at least one loan borrower, at least two lenders, and at least one loan evaluation/underwriting entity; b) accepting a loan application package from the borrower member on a website on a computer-based network; c) on the website, providing access to the loan application package to the loan evaluation entity, and receiving the loan application evaluation results from the loan evaluation entity; d) on the website, creating a loan application package, comprising the loan application package and the loan application evaluation results, and providing access to a completed fully underwritten the loan application package to the at least two lenders; e) on the website, accepting a lending bid from each of the lenders; f) on the website, providing access to the lending bids to the borrower; g) on the website, accepting the borrower's selection of the lending bid; and h) completing the loan funding and closing between the borrower and lender. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379633 | Implied Volatility Futures Product - Systems and methods are described for providing a derivatives product corresponding to an implied volatility of a financial product traded on an exchange. The method may include calculating, by one or more computing devices, a risk neutral density based on options information associated with an option trading on a financial market. The one or more computing devices may calculate an implied volatility associated with the option based on the risk neutral density and provide an implied volatility derivatives product corresponding to implied volatility of a financial product underlying the option, wherein the derivatives product is cash-settled based on the implied volatility. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379634 | Tools for Supporting Investment Transactions - The invention may be used to facilitate swapping bond A for another bond. Data obtained from a public source may be used to provide information about bonds, issuers, and investors. A user may request swap candidates for bond A. An actionable filter identifying characteristics of bond A may be provided to the user. For each characteristic of bond A, the filter includes a window for the user to input an acceptable variance in the same characteristic of a swap candidate. The user's input into the filter is used to find swap candidates. They may be displayed for the user. Additional information about the swap candidates may be provided to the user upon request. The display of the swap candidates and provision of the additional information facilitates the swapping of bond A for another bond by at least saving the user time and effort in determining swap candidates. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379635 | AN ELECTRONIC MINERAL RESERVE VALUATION METHOD AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method and system for implementing an electronic mineral reserve valuation is provided. The system includes a communications module for receiving an electronic request message from a purchaser to purchase a quantity of mineral, at a current spot price for the mineral. The quantity of mineral is currently stored in its natural environment in or on the Earth's crust prior to it being extracted. The request includes that the quantity of mineral is to be made available to the purchaser at a future specified time. A memory for storing relevant data and an issuing module then issues the purchaser with a unique electronic certificate including at least the quantity of mineral, agreed specifications and the future specified time. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379636 | METHOD OF RE-DISTRIBUTING AND REALIZING WEALTH BASED ON VALUE OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS OR OTHER ASSETS - Methods of re-distributing and realizing wealth based on the value of intangible, tangible or other assets are described. For example, one or more intangible assets, including but not limited to the company's established goodwill, may be sold to a purchaser corporation in exchange for an issuance of shares in the purchaser corporation's capital stock. Rights in the intangible assets may then be leased back to the seller company on terms that provide for the payment of periodic rent to the purchaser corporation. With the seller company's intangible assets having been converted at least partially into tangible, recordable investment property, the purchaser corporation may extend a credit facility to the seller company secured by the acquired shares in the corporation's issued capital stock. Loan advances drawn on the credit facility may then be taken by the seller company from time to time so as to generate positive real cash flows to the seller company. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379637 | Method and Interface for Historical Display of Market Information - Trading software may receive information from an exchange. The trading software may track historical bid and ask information for a tradeable object. The trading software may display historical market depth information for the tradeable object on a trading screen. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379638 | TRADING SYSTEM WITH INDIVIDUALIZED ORDER BOOKS - Systems and methods for electronic trading are disclosed. A trading system may store information indicative of limits on trading of items between trading entities, including an entity that is a non-credit extending entity. The computer system may then determine respective order books for at least two trading entities, where the order books include dealable bids and offers that have been individualized using stored trading limits. The stored trading limits may in some cases include different limits for different items (which may be different foreign currency pairs, in one embodiment). In other instances, trading limits may be indicative of a net position that a trading entity is permitted to take in an item. Bids and offers may be individualized based on different costs associated with different trading entities. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379639 | TRADING USING INTERMEDIATE ENTITIES - Systems and methods for facilitating trades between two trading entities are disclosed. A computer system may match a bid of a first trading entity for an item with an offer of a second trading entity for the item. The first and second trading entities may each have a credit relationship with the third trading entity. In response to the matching, the computer system may record indications of trades of the item between the first trading entity and a third trading entity, and between the third trading entity and another trading entity such as the second trading entity. The trades may be booked back-to-back such that a net position to the third trading entity in the item is zero. When the first and second trading entities are connected by a plurality of intermediate entities, the computer system may record indications of one or more additional trades of the item. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379640 | System and Method for Communicating With an Electronic Exchange in an Electronic Trading Environment - System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization stage as well as later during a trading session. Upon detecting that a connection between the client terminal and a gateway is lost, the connection proxy maintains a communication session created for the client terminal at the gateway and receives data intended for the client terminal. If the connection is re-established between the client terminal and the gateway during a predetermined period of time, the connection proxy provides the stored data to the client terminal thus avoiding a surge in processing resources at the gateway due to the necessary downloads. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379641 | Implied Volatility Skew Futures Product - Systems and methods are described for providing a derivatives product corresponding to an implied volatility skew of a financial product traded on an exchange. The method may include calculating, by one or more computing devices, a risk neutral density based on options information associated with an option trading on a financial market. The one or more computing devices may calculate an implied volatility skew associated with the option based on the risk neutral density and provide an implied volatility skew derivatives product corresponding to the implied volatility skew associated with the financial product underlying the option, wherein the implied volatility skew derivatives product is cash-settled based on the implied volatility skew. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379642 | Carry-Adjusted Index Futures - A calculation of a value for a carry-adjusted version of an economic index may include adjusting an equity component by a carrying cost component. The equity component may be based on a value of the economic index corresponding to the current time. The carrying cost component may be based on a carrying cost rate and a time period from the current time to a previous time. The calculation may be periodically reset to, e.g., reflect a new carrying cost rate. The carry-adjusted version of an economic index may be the underlying of a futures contract or other type of product. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379643 | Interest Rate Swap Compression - A computer system may access data corresponding to a portfolio that comprises interest rate swaps and may calculate parameters for a compressed swap. The computer system may determine, based at least in part on the parameters for the compressed swap, a performance bond requirement attributable to the interest rate swaps. The computer system may compare the performance bond requirement to account data associated with a holder of the portfolio and may perform one or more additional actions based on the comparing. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379644 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND REMEDYING ACCOUNT ERROR EVENTS IN NETWORKED COMPUTER SYSTEMS - The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods and system for detecting error events, such as account shortfalls, within networked computer systems operated by the financial institutions and other business entities. In one aspect, a system includes a memory storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instruction to perform operating, such as receiving a payment request for a payment amount from a first account of a user to a destination account. The operations may also include determining that the first account lacks sufficient funds to cover the payment amount, and determining that the user has pre-approved a credit line account secured by a first set of investment holdings of the user that generate revenue that is periodically transferred to the first account. The operations may also include performing a fund transfer operation for the payment amount from the credit line account to the first account. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379645 | PAPERLESS RECEIPT DEVICE - A process and apparatus provide a paperless electronic receipt. A storage device stores a communication identifier prior to a transaction at a point of transaction. Further, a transmitter sends the communication identifier to a point of transaction receipt transmission device at a point of transaction so that the point of transaction receipt transmission device sends an electronic receipt of a transaction at the point of transaction to the communication identifier based upon a selection being received at the point of transaction receipt transmission device to send the electronic receipt to the communication identifier. In addition, the electronic receipt is received and stored at the storage device based upon a selection being received at the point of transaction receipt transmission device to store the electronic receipt at the storage device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379646 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ACCESS CONTROL AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION - Automated provisioning, according to one example embodiment, enables a mutual customer to establish an intelligent and automated connection between an accounting software system and their financial institution. For example, this might be achieved by allowing a financial institution customer to make feeds from their bank accounts available to the accounting software system within financial internet software (e.g., hosted and operated by the customer's financial institution). Once a customer selects the bank account(s) they want to share with the accounting software system, they are passed along to the accounting software system to link the selected bank account with an account they have set up in the accounting software system. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379647 | SUGGESTED ACCOUNTS OR LEADS - In an example embodiment, a request to onboard a first user to a sales tool is received. Then usage information related to the first user is retrieved from a social networking service. One or more entities may then be generated in the sales tool based on the usage information from the social networking service. A score can be calculated for each of the one or more entities, the score indicating a likelihood that the first user will wish to receive insights regarding the one or more entities from the sales tool. Then the one or more entities are ranked based on the calculated score for each of the one or more entities. The one or more entities can be added as entries in the sales tool based on the ranking. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379648 | MINING OF USER EVENT DATA TO IDENTIFY USERS WITH COMMON INTERESTS - A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379649 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING RETAIL SERVICES - Historical and real-time metric data is captured for a retail establishment. When a customer comes for service at the retail establishment, a real-time suggestion as to what service location and what service personnel should be assigned to that customer based on evaluation of the metric data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379650 | COMMUNICATION OF ORDERS AND PAYMENTS IN A DRIVE THROUGH USING WIRELESS BEACONS - There are provided systems and methods for communication of orders and payments in a drive through using wireless beacons. A merchant location may include a drive through with a wireless beacon established in the drive through. The beacon may provide communication services with a device for the user. The merchant may detect that the user is in a vehicle in the drive through using either the connection between the device of the user and the beacon or a camera, sensor, or other detector located near the beacon in the drive through. Based on check-in information generated on the connection, an order for the user may be accessed. The user may pay for the order using the device and through the connection to the beacon. Further, if other devices for additional users in the vehicle connect to the beacon, the additional users may split the payment for the order. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379651 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATION OF ORDERS OF FOOD ITEMS - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques which aid in correctly capturing what a restaurant customer intends to order, and may enhance the customer's satisfaction with the ordering and dining process overall. For example, an interface may be provided through which a customer may specify an order, and the interface may clearly convey such information as each ordered item's ingredients and nutritional content. The interface may enable the customer to customize ordered items, and may clearly convey any changes that the customer has made, allowing the customer to make informed choices about the items included in an order. The interface may embody a design which enables the customer to quickly and easily customize items, and/or to re-order previously customized items. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379652 | USER ENFORCEABLE CONTRACT JURISDICTION SELECTION - Mappings are received that associate one or more contract classes to one or more jurisdictions. Contract classes are determined for contracts being sent by senders or signed by signers. The contract classes may be determined by content analysis performed on the contracts. Content of the contracts may be altered with clauses specifying jurisdictions in accordance with the mappings. The contracts are enabled to be sent by senders or signed by signers. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LICENSE DETECTION AND GENERATING LICENSE REMINDERS - A system and method for license detection is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, at a device, a recording of a speech signal associated with an audio recording application and determining if the audio recording application has an active license. Embodiments may also include inserting license reminder language to the speech signal if it is determined that the audio recording application does not have an active license and ignoring the license reminder language if it is determined that the audio recording application does have an active license. Embodiments may further include producing an output signal wherein the output signal includes the license reminder language if it is determined that the audio recording application does not have an active license and producing an output signal without the license reminder language if it is determined that the audio recording application does have an active license. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379654 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIGITALLY CAPTURING AND MANAGING ATTENDANCE - An embodiment is directed to an attendance management system having a client device and a server device. The client device includes a first transceiving module for receiving one or more parameters from a host; a display module for displaying one or more modes of interaction for selection to the host, the modes of interaction being an audio interaction mode and a visual interaction mode; and an attendance module for capturing and assigning an attendance to one or more members based on a selection of the at least one of the modes of interaction. The server device includes a second transceiving module for receiving the assigned attendance, and a database for storing and maintaining the assigned attendance and other information. The client device and the server device are configured to communicate with each other over a network. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379655 | Fraud tracking network - A tax fraud finder network is provided with a device for calculating a score based on information provided to government agencies by using multiple collections of information. An HEV algorithm uses mismatches in different sets of collections to arrive at a display and edit score. A report is generated and sent to local government agencies to find violations. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379656 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES - A method for monitoring use of controlled substances by one or more test subjects includes the steps of: entering contact data for a test subject into a monitoring program interacting with appropriate communication hardware to contact the test subject; the said step of entering, the monitoring program thereafter executing the step of: scheduling a random date for a drug test or drug usage test or both for the test subject; the monitoring program thereafter executing the step of attempting to contact the test subject and if successful contact is made, executing the step of advising the test subject as to the random date and, if successful contact is not made, executing the step of recording a failed contact entry and associating the failed contact entry with the test subject. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379657 | Emergency ride (Transportation) - This claim is to provide alternate transportation for it's members who sustain a need for emergency transportation, or alternate transportation due to the members vehicle not being operable or simply wanting alternate transportation. These services would be available to a member who has purchased a membership for the current year. Each year a member would be required to purchase a new membership, or the old one would lapse. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379658 | CONTROL DEVICE AND REMOTE CONTROLLER - The storage unit prestores element image data presenting an element image contained in a display image in an image data region that is a continuous storage region, and prestores draw command data containing data for creating display data presenting the display image in which the element image is placed in a draw command region that is a continuous storage region. The central processing unit makes reference to a screen management table when a predetermined drawing condition is satisfied to identify and output the draw command identification data corresponding to the satisfied drawing condition. The draw processing unit acquires from the storage unit the draw command data identified with the output draw command identification data, and creates and outputs to the display unit the display data placing the element image based on the acquired draw command data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379659 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A SET OF MODIFIABLE ELEMENTS IN A GROUP OF PICTURES - A method for determining a set of modifiable elements in a group of pictures of a coded bit-stream representative of an audio video content is disclosed. The method comprises determining a set of a candidate modifiable elements wherein a candidate modifiable element comprises a modified value of the coded bit-stream and a spatial propagation map associated with the modified value, a spatial propagation map comprising pixels whose decoding is impacted when the modified value is placed in the coded bit stream ; determining a heat map for each reference frame, the heat map comprising, for each pixel of the reference frame, an information representative of the usage of said pixel for temporal prediction during the decoding of said part of the coded bit-stream coding a group of pictures; obtaining a set of modifiable elements among candidate modifiable elements, a modifiable element having a spatial propagation map that does not overlap with corresponding heat map. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING DATA - In one embodiment, a watermark is embedded in a sequence of video frames, for each one of the video frames, a set of N rectangular patches, two palettes of pixel values in a selected color space, such that the two palettes are denoted as P | 2015-12-31 |
20150379661 | EFFICIENT HARDWARE MECHANISM TO ENSURE SHARED RESOURCE DATA COHERENCY ACROSS DRAW CALLS - Systems and methods may provide for receiving a plurality of signals from a software module associated with a shared resource such as, for example, an unordered access view (UAV). The plurality of signals may include a first signal that indicates whether a draw call accesses the shared resource, a second signal that indicates whether a boundary of the draw call has been reached, and a third signal that indicates whether the draw call has a coherency requirement. Additionally, a workload corresponding to the draw call may be selectively dispatched in a shader invocation based on the plurality of signals. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379662 | GRAPHICS WORKLOAD SUBMISSIONS BY UNPRIVILEGED APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems may provide for receiving, at a controller, a notification of a workload submission by an application lacking system level privileges. Additionally, the controller may be used to schedule a transfer of the workload submission to a graphics hardware component for execution, wherein the controller has system level privileges. In one example, the transfer bypasses an operating system and a kernel mode driver associated with the graphics hardware component. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379663 | RENDERING GRAPHICS TO OVERLAPPING BINS - In an example, a method for rendering graphics data includes rendering pixels of a first bin of a plurality of bins, wherein the pixels of the first bin are associated with a first portion of an image, and rendering, to the first bin, one or more pixels that are located outside the first portion of the image and associated with a second, different bin of the plurality of bins. The method also includes rendering the one or more pixels associated with the second bin to the second bin, such that the one or more pixels are rendered to both the first bin and the second bin. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379664 | ACCELERATED SINGLE PLANE CLIPPING OF POLYGONS IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING - Methods and hardware may process single plane clipping operations using a pipeline specialized for single plane clipping. A second pipeline may be provided to handle clipping in multi-clipping plane cases. By optimizing the hardware and methods around single plane clipping, polygon throughput may be enhanced. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379665 | Power Optimization with Dynamic Frame Rate Support - A frame of pixel data may be burst at a higher frame rate to create a lower effective refresh rate when the actual image update rate is lower than the frame rate. This results in the ability to power manage the transmit portion of the display engine and the receive portion of the panel electronics, while reducing display initiated repetitive memory traffic to conserve power. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379666 | PIXEL-BASED WARPING AND SCALING ACCELERATOR - Technologies are presented that allow efficient pixel-based image and/or video warping and scaling. An image processing system may include a memory and an accelerator unit communicatively coupled with the memory. The accelerator unit may, based on configuration settings, receive, from a memory, at least a portion of an input image as an array of neighboring four-cornered shapes; and process each shape by: determining locations of an array of output pixels delineated by four corner locations of the shape via linearization; interpolating a value of each pixel of the array of output pixels; and storing the interpolated pixel values in the memory. For warping, the array of neighboring four-cornered shapes may include an array of neighboring distorted tetragons that approximate distortion of the input image, and the interpolated pixel values may represent a warped output image. For scaling, the array of neighboring four-cornered shapes may include an array of neighboring rectangles. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379667 | METHOD OF SUBMITTING GRAPHICS WORKLOADS AND HANDLING DROPPED WORKLOADS - Described herein are technologies related to performing of a preemption operation in graphics hardware. Particularly, the preemption operation includes tracking of unreported or dropped workload independent of workloads submitted to the graphics hardware. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379668 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THREAD EXECUTION PARALLELISM - An apparatus and method for determining thread execution parallelism. For example, a processor in accordance with one embodiment comprises: a plurality of cores to execute a plurality of threads; a plurality of counters to collect data related to the execution of the plurality of threads on the plurality of cores; a dependency analysis module to analyze the data related to the execution of the threads and responsively determine a level of inter-thread dependency; and a control module to responsively adjust operation of the plurality of cores based on the determined level of inter-thread dependency. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379669 | TECHNIQUES FOR CLEARING A SHARED SURFACE - Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to determine that a shared surface is shared between a first application and a second application, determine that a fast clear operation has been performed on the shared surface, the fast clear operation comprising clearing one or more locations of one or more buffers. Further, various embodiments may include writing pixel value information to the one or more locations of the one or more buffers and performing a resolve operation on the shared surface. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379670 | DATA DISTRIBUTION FABRIC IN SCALABLE GPUs - In on embodiment, a hybrid fabric interconnects multiple graphics processor cores within a processor. The hybrid fabric interconnect includes multiple data channels, including programmable virtual data channels. The virtual data channels carry multiple traffic classes of packet-based messages. The virtual data channels and multiple traffic classes may be assigned one of multiple priorities. The virtual data channels may be arbitrated independently. The hybrid fabric is scalable and can support multiple topologies, including multiple stacked integrated circuit topologies. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379671 | FORWARD LATE PREDICTIVE RENDERING IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM - A graphics processing operation may include a set of render target operations, in which render targets are read and one or more intermediate computations are performed before generating final render target output. A method of performing graphics processing includes determining a dependency between render targets and defining a scheduling of tiles to reduce or eliminate a need to write intermediate computations to external memory. An interleaved order may be determined to maintain intermediate computations of dependent render target operations in an on-chip cache hierarchy. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379672 | DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZED DEFERRED RENDERING PIPELINE - A method for dynamically configuring a graphics pipeline system. The method includes determining an optimal pipeline based on: estimating one or more of memory power consumption and computation power consumption of storing and regenerating intermediate results based on graphics state information and one or more factors; determining granularity for the optimal graphics pipeline configuration based on the graphics state information and the one or more factors; collecting runtime information for primitives from graphics pipeline hardware including factors from tessellation or using graphics state information for determining geometry expansion at an output of one or more shader stages; and determining intermediate results to save from a previous processing pass by comparing memory power consumption needed to save the intermediate results with computation power as well as memory power needed for regenerating the intermediate results in one or more later tile rendering passes. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379673 | PROCESSING SIGNALS HAVING A COMMON COMPONENT - Signal processing may include determining a first component common to a first input signal and a second input signal and extracting the first component from at least one of the first input signal or the second input signal, a second component from the first input signal, and a second component from the second input signal. The second component of the first input signal may be different from the second component of the second input signal. An operation may be performed using the extracted, second components. The first component may be combined with a result of the operation. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379674 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING WITH ADVECTION TO RECONSTRUCT MISSING SAMPLE DATA POINTS - In a graphics processing system pixel data and vertex coordinate information from a previous frame is buffered and provided to the current frame. A decision is made in the current frame whether pixel data from the previous frame may be reused. In one implementation if the speed of pixels in a tile is less than a quasi-static speed threshold a decision is made whether or not to reuse a fraction of pixels from the previous frame. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379675 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - An image processor includes: a first division control information acquiring circuit configured to acquire division control information of a first chip; a second division control information acquiring circuit configured to acquire division control information of a second chip; a division process control circuit configured to determine a ratio at which a process is performed by the first image processing circuit and a ratio at which a process is performed by the second image processing circuit, based on the division control information of the first chip and the division control information of the second chip; a division circuit configured to divide data to be subjected to image processing into first-chip data and second-chip data at the determined ratios; the first image processing circuit configured to perform image processing on the first-chip data; and the second image processing circuit configured to perform image processing on the second-chip data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379676 | TEXTURE PIPE AS AN IMAGE PROCESSING ENGINE - A texture pipe of a graphics processing unit (GPU) may receive a texture data. The texture pipe may perform a block-based operation on the texture data, wherein the texture data comprises one or more blocks of texels. Shader processors of the GPU may process graphics data concurrently with the texture pipe performing the block-based operation. The texture pipe may output a result of performing the block-based operation on the one or more texture data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379677 | RADIATION IMAGE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON B/S ARCHITECTURE - The present disclosure provides a radiation image inspection system based on B/S architecture. The system comprises: at least one client terminal, configured to initiate an image operation request to a Web server, and display an image operation result on a browser of the client terminal upon receiving a response from the Web server; an image processing assembly, configured to query, based on the image operation request from the client terminal and forwarded by the Web server, an image which the client terminal desires to process, perform an operation on an image as requested by the client terminal, convert the resulted image into an image in a designated format and quality and return the converted image to the browser of the client terminal via the Web server for displaying; and the Web server, configured to receive the image operation request from the client terminal, forward the image operation request to the image processing assembly, and return the image operation result from the image processing assembly to the client terminal. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379678 | Techniques to Compose Memory Resources Across Devices and Reduce Transitional Latency - Examples include composing memory resources across devices and reducing transitional latency. In some examples, memory resources associated with executing one or more applications by circuitry at two separate devices may be composed across the two devices via use of a midstream buffer. The circuitry may be capable of executing the one or more applications using a hierarchical memory architecture including a near memory and a far memory. In some examples, near memories may be separately located at first and second devices and a far memory may be located at the first device. The near memory of the first device may be used as a midstream buffer to facilitate movement of data over a wired or wireless interconnect to or from the near memory of the second device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379679 | Single Read Composer with Outputs - A processing unit for generating multiple output items for output to a display or encoder. The processing unit may include a memory that stores data that will be used by a composer to generate the multiple output items. The processing unit may include a composer that executes only a single memory read operation when obtaining the data and splits the data to generate the multiple output items. The composer also may perform a function on the data before the data is split if all of the multiple output items require the data to undergo this function. The processing unit may also include a number of output buffers that each receive an output item from the composer and deliver the output item to an output such as a display or encoder. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379680 | LOAD SCHEME FOR SHARED REGISTER IN GPU - Techniques are described for determining whether data of a variable for each of a plurality of graphics items is same. If determined that the data is the same, the techniques store the data in a storage location of a specialized shared general purpose register that is associated with the variable. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379681 | Depth Offset Compression - Zmin and Zmax are determined for depth offset compression. Then a check determines whether Zmin is equal to Zmax. If so, only one of Zmin and Zmax is used for depth offset compression and no index mask may be used. The bits that are saved thereby may be used for other purposes, including improving precision. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379682 | VERTEX ATTRIBUTE DATA COMPRESSION WITH RANDOM ACCESS USING HARDWARE - Processing vertex attribute data may include selecting a plurality of vertices of vertex attribute data and forming groups of components of the plurality of vertices according to component type. Packets of an encoded type or a generic type may be formed on a per group basis according to a data type of the components of each respective group. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379683 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a data processing apparatus of an organic light emitting display device, which performs encoding and decoding through different schemes according to frequency components and data components, thereby preventing loss of a high frequency component included in data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379684 | TEXTURE PIPELINE WITH ONLINE VARIABLE RATE DICTIONARY COMPRESSION - A graphics system supports variable rate compression and decompression of texture data and color data. An individual block of data is analyzed to determine a compression data type from a plurality of different compression data types having different compression lengths. The compression data types may include a compression data type for a block having a constant (flat) pixel value over n×n pixels, compression data type in which a subset of 3 or 4 values represents a plane or gradient, and wavelet or other compression type to represent higher frequency content. Additionally, metadata indexing provides information to map between an uncompressed address to a compressed address. To reduce the storage requirement, the metadata indexing permits two or more duplicate data blocks to reference the same piece of compressed data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379685 | IMAGE DATA CREATION DEVICE AND PROGRAMMABLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A PC includes (i) a cell setting section which divides a background image into a plurality of cells and defines a position and a size of the plurality of cells and (ii) a component setting section which, in a case where an operation, in which a component image is arranged with respect to the background image, is conducted, (a) determines in which one of the plurality of the plurality of cells the component image should be arranged, (b) associates the component image with the cell in which the component image has been arranged, and (c) carries out setting so that the component image is displayed, in the cell associated with the component image in component setting data, in a position or a size in accordance with a size of the cell. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379686 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING A NEW RECTANGULAR WINDOW ON A SCREEN - A method which serves to display a new rectangular window in a display zone on a screen, the display zone already including at least one first rectangular window, the new window being displayed progressively towards the inside and starting from an edge of the first window is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises shifting the content of the first window from the edge through a distance corresponding to the dimension of said new window in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction parallel to the edge. The method may also comprise displaying the new window along the edge, the display having the effect of correspondingly reducing said first window in the second direction and, once the entire new window has been displayed, managing the scrolling of the initial content in the first window. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379687 | Adaptive screen interfaces based on viewing distance - Voice commands and gesture recognition are two mechanisms by which an individual may interact with content such as that on a display. In an implementation, interactivity of a user with content on a device or display may be modified based on the distance between a user and the display. An attribute such as a user profile may be used to tailor the modification of the display to an individual user. In some configurations, the commands available to the user may also be modified based on the determined distance between the user and a device or display. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379688 | ADAPTIVE DESAMPLING IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM WITH COMPOSITED LEVEL OF DETAIL MAP - In a graphics system regions of a frame are analyzed to determine local regions of the frame in which adaptive desampling may be performed. In one implementation a standard sampling scheme includes at least one sample per pixel and regions that are adaptively desampled have one sample for a block of pixels having a size of at least four pixels. A level of detail map is generating to identify regions in which desampling may be performed. The level of detail map may be based on detecting motion, detecting an edge, and detecting a content frequency. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379689 | LENS DISTORTION CORRECTION USING A NEUROSYNAPTIC SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and circuit for image distortion correction. The system includes neurosynaptic core circuits that: receive a set of inputs comprising image dimensions and pixel distortion coefficients for one or more image frames via one or more input core circuits, map each distorted pixel to zero or more undistorted pixels by processing the set of inputs corresponding to each pixel of the one or more image frames by the one or more input core circuits, and route corresponding pixel intensity values of each distorted pixel to output undistorted pixels for each image frame via one or more output core circuits. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379690 | PROGRESSIVE ROTATIONAL VIEW - Systems and methods for receiving and displaying images or sending the images for display include images having multiple key images of an object. Each key image depicts a perspective view of an item from a different angle around the object. The multiple key images are displayed in a gallery view. During the gallery view, multiple supplementary images are received or sent. Each supplementary image includes a perspective view of the object from an angle between adjacent angles used for the key images. After transmission of at least some of the supplementary images, the key images and the supplementary images are mixed into a rotational view of the object. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379691 | MULTI-GRID METHOD AND APPARATUS USING V CYCLE - A multi-grid method using a V cycle includes: obtaining a first intermediate solution and a first residual by smoothing a cell of a fine level; obtaining a cell of a coarse level by down-sampling the cell of the fine level and setting the first residual as a second residual of the cell of the coarse level; obtaining a high-frequency component solution of the cell of the fine level and obtaining a smoothed high-frequency component solution by smoothing the high-frequency component solution; obtaining a coarse solution in the cell of the coarse level; up-sampling and transferring the coarse solution to the cell of the fine level and obtaining a corrected intermediate solution by adding the first intermediate solution, the smoothed high-frequency component solution and the coarse solution; and obtaining a second intermediate solution by smoothing the corrected intermediate solution. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379692 | RECONSTRUCTION OF MISSING DATA POINT FROM SPARSE SAMPLES DURING GRAPHICS PROCESSING USING CUBIC SPLINE POLYNOMIALS - A graphics system includes a reconstruction unit that utilizes higher order polynomials, such as cubic splines, to reconstruct missing pixel data. The computational work to perform interpolation with higher order polynomials, such as cubic splines, is reduced by pre-calculating weights for each sparse sample pattern. The pre-calculated weights may be stored as stencils and used during runtime to perform interpolation. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379693 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR EDGE PRESERVING AND/OR EDGE ENHANCING SPATIAL FILTER - A technique to perform edge-aware spatial noise filtering that may filter random noise from frames While maintaining the edges in the frames. The technique may include receiving a frame comprising a pint ht of pixels, filtering a subset of the plurality of pixels based on a weighting factor associated with each pixel of the subset of pixels, wherein the weighting factor is at least in part based on a difference in pixel value between the pixel and the individual pixels in the subset, and providing the filtered pixel to an encoder for encoding. Example implementation may include a spatial noise filter to receive an image, the noise level, and configuration parameters, and configured to determine weighting factors of pixels of the image based on differences in pixel values and a set of configuration parameters, and further configured to filter noise from the image based on the weighting factors of the pixels | 2015-12-31 |
20150379694 | STRUCTURE PROPAGATION RESTORATION FOR SPECTRAL CT - A method includes obtaining at least one of projection data from a spectral scan or image data generated from the projection data, selecting a local reference dataset from the at least one of the projection data or the image data, determining a noise pattern for the selected reference dataset, estimating underlying local structure from the reference dataset based on the noise pattern, and restoring at least one of the projection data or the image data based on the estimated underlying local structure. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379695 | RESTORATION FILTER GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A restoration filter generation device that generates a restoration filter to perform restoration processing on luminance system image data that is image data related to luminance, which is generated based on image data of respective colors of multiple colors obtained by an imaging device having an optical system, includes an information acquisition device acquiring transfer function information corresponding to point image distribution in the optical system, for each color of the multiple colors, and a restoration filter generation device generating the restoration filter based on the transfer function information acquired by the information acquisition device and generating the restoration filter that performs phase correction of the luminance system image data according to the transfer function information on a single color of the multiple colors. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379696 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The image processing apparatus is configured by including a palm luminance estimation unit and a surface reflected component enhancement unit that separate low-frequency components from a signal indicating luminance values of pixels of an input image, a denoising processing unit that executes a denoising process for the signal from which the low-frequency components have been separated, and a merging unit that generates an image by merging the signal after the denoising process and the low-frequency components. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379697 | DISTORTION MESHES AGAINST CHROMATIC ABERRATIONS - Systems and methods may provide a plurality of distortion meshes that compensate for radial and chromatic aberrations created by optical lenses. The plurality of distortion meshes may include different lens specific parameters that allow the distortion meshes to compensate for chromatic aberrations created within received images. The plurality of distortion meshes may correspond to a red color channel, green color channel, or blue color channel to compensate for the chromatic aberrations. The distortion meshes may also include shaped distortions and grids to compensate for radial distortions, such as pin cushion distortions. In one example, the system uses a barrel-shaped distortion and a triangulation grid to compensate for the distortions created when the received image is displayed on a lens. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379698 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - First RGB image signals are inputted. Color difference signals Cr and Cb are calculated from the first RGB image signals. In a feature space formed by the color difference signals Cr and Cb, a first process is performed such that coordinates corresponding to a second observation area are moved to a reference area containing the origin point while coordinates corresponding to first and third observation areas are maintained unchanged. A second process is performed to move the coordinates corresponding to the first observation area and the coordinates corresponding to the third observation area away from each other. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379699 | GAMMA CAMERA, SPECT DEVICE, PET DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MEASURED GAMMA-RAY IMAGES | 2015-12-31 |
20150379700 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ULTRASOUND IMAGE - An ultrasound image displaying apparatus includes: a composite data generating unit which generates composite data in which data based on echo signals obtained by transmitting ultrasound to a subject are multiple-frame combined; a display unit on which an ultrasound image based on the composite data is displayed; and an index calculating unit which calculates an index related to the amount of motion artifacts in the ultrasound image for each frame, based on the data. The composite data generating unit generates composite data combined using data of some or all frames in each of which the index satisfies a prescribed reference. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379701 | INSPECTION CAMERA UNIT, METHOD FOR INSPECTING INTERIORS, AND SENSOR UNIT - So as to provide an inspection camera unit comprising an inspection camera for taking preferably color inspection photos of interiors, in particular of ships, and a method for inspecting interiors, in particular of ships, by taking preferably color inspection photos using the inspection camera, to thereby increase the utility of the inspection photos and also make improved historical consideration possible, it is proposed for the inspection camera unit to comprise referencing means for referencing the inspection photos and for the inspection photos to be referenced by determining relative location data of the inspection camera and orientation data of the inspection camera during the capture of the inspection photos and assigning them to the inspection photos, the relative location data and the orientation data subsequently being classified into a coordinate system of the interiors. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379702 | Active Imaging Systems for Plant Growth Monitoring - Active imaging systems for plant growth monitoring acquire images in which each pixel represents an absolute NDVI value obtained with active illumination. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379703 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING FIBERS WITH SHAPE AND SIZE USED FOR CODING - Disclosed is a method of characterizing a fiber sample comprising standard fibers and identification fibers which can be used for tracking and tracing fibers through at least part of the supply chain. Each identification fiber exhibits at least one distinct feature. Each group of distinguishable identification fibers can exhibit a taggant cross-section shape, a taggant cross-section size, or combination of the same taggant cross-section shape and same taggant cross-section size. The distinct features and the number of fibers in each group of distinguishable identification fibers can represent at least one supply chain component of the fibers. The fiber sample can include a portion of an acetate tow band or a filter made from the acetate tow band, and the supply chain information can include the manufacturer of the acetate tow band and the customer of the acetate tow band. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379704 | LOST VEHICLE RECOVERY UTILIZING ASSOCIATED FEATURE PAIRS - According to the embodiments described herein, a method for lost vehicle recovery utilizing associated feature pairs may include, for a materials handling vehicle determined to be lost, creating a plurality of associated feature pairs by retrieving a subsequent set of camera data from a camera comprising two-dimensional UV space information, forming pairs from the UV space information, and associating each formed pair with pairs from each of a plurality of three-dimensional global feature points of an industrial facility map. The method may further include calculating a best estimate pose from calculated vehicle poses of the associated feature pairs based on a highest-rated pair of the plurality of associated feature pairs, using an accumulated odometry to update the best estimate pose to a current localized position, updating the seed position as the current localized position, and operating the materials handling vehicle utilizing the updated seed position. | 2015-12-31 |