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20070116195 | 11261984 | 0 | 1. Messaging interface logic, comprising: display logic for causing the display of a list of communication methods; communication method selection logic for enabling selection of a first communication method from the list; and messaging logic for initiating transmission of input content to at least one recipient based upon the first communication method. |
9448623 | 13673070 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: one or more cameras; a visual data obtaining module configured to obtain from the one or more cameras visual data of a real environment; an activity-inferring visual data acquisition determining module configured to determine whether the visual data indicates one or more user activities; and an augmented view presenting module configured to present an augmented view of the real environment including one or more augmentations based, at least in part, on a determination that the visual data indicates one or more user activities; and a non-augmented view presenting module configured to present one or more non-augmented portions of the view of the real environment that do not include the one or more augmentations based, least in part, on a determination that second visual data indicates one or more second user activities. |
8558466 | 13304503 | 1 | 1. A method of identifying an event, comprising: sensing motion with a light detector; matching the sensed motion with one of a plurality of stored patterns of events; and identifying an event associated with the sensed motion based on a match between a one of the plurality of patterns and the sensed motion. |
20050131290 | 10498594 | 0 | 1. An MR imaging method for forming an image of the nuclear magnetization distribution in an examination zone, which method includes the steps of: a) forming a first MR imaging sequence with a selectable minimum number of phase encoding steps, b) measuring at least two separate MR signal data sets by means of at least two MR receiving coils, c) reconstructing a first MR image by Fourier transformation and combination of the separate MR signal data sets while taking into account the respective spatial sensitivity profiles of the MR receiving coils, characterized in that d) the quality of the reconstructed MR image is evaluated and, in dependence on the evaluation result, either the imaging method is terminated or e) a further MR imaging sequence is formed with a number of further phase encoding steps, f) separate MR additional signals are measured by means of the MR receiving coils and added to the respective MR signal data sets, and g) a further MR image is reconstructed by Fourier transformation and combination of the MR signal data sets modified in the step f) of the method while taking into account the respective spatial sensitivity profiles of the MR receiving coils. |
8122399 | 12200121 | 1 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first generator to generate a behavioral representation of a design for an integrated circuit including 1×N arrays of cells, wherein the behavioral representation comprises a register transfer level (RTL) description of one of the 1×N arrays of cells; a second generator to generate a logical representation of the design, wherein further the second generator is arranged to generate the logical representation via a flat netlist of a physical design representation, wherein further the flat netlist comprises a circuit element altered via at least one of a logic design tool, a synthesis tool, a physical design tool, and a timing analysis tool; and a third generator to generate the physical design representation of the design, wherein at least one of the behavioral, logical, and physical design representations is generated by detecting the alteration of the circuit element from a comparison of the flat netlist with a second netlist of the design before the alteration. |
9571455 | 14474452 | 1 | 1. A method of initializing a virtual machine within a secure hybrid cloud, the method comprising: transmitting service mode credentials to a cloud broker from a cloud-based virtual machine; receiving a service mode community of interest key from a credentialing service based on the service mode credentials; establishing a secure service mode connection based on the service mode community of interest key; receiving role VPN credentials at the cloud-based virtual machine; establishing a secure role connection to the cloud broker using the role VPN credentials, thereby providing, in response to the role VPN credentials, a role VPN community of interest key to a virtual data relay dedicated to the cloud-based virtual machine; receiving role cloud credentials at the cloud-based virtual machine; and establishing secure communications at the cloud-based virtual machine based on the role cloud credentials, including receiving a role cloud community of interest key at the cloud-based virtual machine used for secure communication among the cloud-based virtual machine and other cloud-based virtual machines within a common community of interest with the cloud-based virtual machine. |
7970183 | 12952162 | 1 | 1. A digital image acquisition device, comprising: an imaging optic and detector for acquiring digital images including one or more preview images and a main image; a processor; a face detector to analyze the one or more preview images to ascertain information relating to candidate face regions therein, the face detector including a search module for detecting candidate face regions; a face tracking module for predicting and confirming candidate face regions; an image acquisition chain for image processing to generate a sub-sample resolution version of the main image, including a reduced resolution version of an approximately same scene as the main image; a first speed-optimized red-eye filter to produce a first set of candidate red-eye regions in the sub-sample resolution version of the main image based on the candidate face region information provided by the face detector; a display to show a first speed-optimized red eye filtered acquired image thereon; and a second analysis-optimized red-eye filter configured to be activated after display of said first speed-optimized corrected acquired image on said display, said second filter being activated upon initiation of an image playback mode, said second analysis-optimized red-eye filter being configured to produce, with enhanced accuracy of red-eye detection and/or higher quality of image correction than the first filter, a second set of candidate red-eye regions for viewing at a higher resolution than the first speed-optimized red eye filtered acquired image shown on said display. |
20150100529 | 14085740 | 0 | 1. A method of generating executable code for a target platform in a neural network, comprising: receiving a spiking neural network description; receiving platform-specific instructions for a plurality of target platforms; and generating executable code for at least one target platform of the plurality of target platforms based at least in part on the platform-specific instructions and the network description. |
20030227798 | 10165821 | 0 | 1. A registered memory module, comprising: a register receiving a plurality of signals at respective input terminals, the register storing the input signals responsive to a transition of an internal clock signal applied to a clock terminal when an enable signal is active, the register having output terminals on which the stored input signals are present; a plurality of memory devices coupled to the output terminals of the register, each of the memory devices being selected by a respective select signal being active; and a logic circuit receiving the select signals for the memory devices and applying the enable signal to the register, the logic circuit being structured to make the enable signal active responsive to any of the select signals being active and to make the enable signal inactive response to none of the select signals being active. |
20160376647 | 15242201 | 0 | 1. A method of obtaining nucleotide sequence information, the method comprising: a) fragmenting a nucleic acid sample to provide at least one double-stranded nucleic acid fragment comprising a double-stranded region comprising a sense strand and a complementary antisense strand; b) ligating a first hairpin adapter to a first end of said fragment and ligating a second hairpin adapter to a second end of said fragment, thereby providing a circular nucleic acid; c) performing a rolling circle replication process with said circular nucleic acid as a template, thereby producing a concatemer comprising repeating copies of said sense and antisense strands; and d) performing a real time, single-molecule sequencing process that generates a single sequencing read from said concatemer, said single sequencing read comprising at least one first sequence corresponding to said sense strand and at least one second sequence corresponding to said antisense strand. |
20120166019 | 13411999 | 0 | 1. A method for generating an area coverage path plan, the method comprising: identifying a starting point on a worksite map having a number of landmarks; identifying a first landmark in the number of landmarks; generating a path around the first landmark until an obstacle is detected, wherein the path around the first landmark is a set of concentric arcs; responsive to detecting the obstacle, making the path linear to a vicinity of a next landmark; and generating the path around the next landmark, wherein the path around the next landmark is another set of concentric arcs. |
8977578 | 13535114 | 1 | 1. A synaptic time-multiplexed (STM) neuromorphic network comprising: a neural fabric having nodes and switches to define inter-nodal connections between selected nodes of the neural fabric; and a neuromorphic controller to form subsets of a set of the inter-nodal connections representing a fully connected neural network, each subset being formed during a different time slot of a plurality of time slots of a time multiplexing cycle of the STM neuromorphic network, wherein in combination, the inter-nodal connection subsets implement the fully connected neural network. |
8335687 | 13423595 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a speech recognition model training system and from a client device, a request to generate a new speech recognition model for the client device, wherein the request includes: (i) one or more features extracted from speech data by a feature extractor on the client device, and (ii) metadata regarding the speech recognition model to be generated; generating, by the speech recognition model training system and using the one or more features extracted from speech data by the feature extractor on the client device, the new speech recognition model according to the metadata; and transmitting, by the speech recognition model training system and to the client device, at least a portion of the new speech recognition model. |
20170148228 | 15360659 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for modifying a three-dimensional (3D) model in a shape editing system, comprising: (a) obtaining the 3D model in the shape editing system; (b) selecting one or more first faces (S) of the 3D model; (c) identifying a set of one or more second faces(S′) that are fixed, wherein the one or more first faces do not overlap with the one or more second faces; (d) prescribing shape modification operations to be performed on the one or more first faces (S); (e) constructing a deformation lattice by: (1) setting up a lattice structure with control points, wherein parametric space (u,v,w) is defined in terms of vertices of the lattice structure; (2) mapping Euclidean space (x,y,z) of the 3D model to the parametric space (u,v,w) of the lattice structure; (f) evaluating the deformation lattice by: (1A) when the shape modification operation comprises an affine transformation, applying the affine transformation directly on a selected set of the control points; (1B) when the shape modification operation does not comprise an affine transformation, deforming the deformation lattice based on a discrete fitting problem; and (g) outputting a deformed 3D model based on the evaluated deformation lattice. |
9009048 | 11882444 | 1 | 1. A speech recognition method, comprising: detecting, using at least one processing device, energy changes between a plurality of frames distinguishing portions of a signal, each of the plurality of frames having time lengths less than a whole time length of the signal; and identifying speech segments and/or non-speech segments from the plurality of frames based on the detected energy changes between the plurality of frames by assigning a predetermined weight to a segment in which an energy level of a respective frame is changed and when an energy difference exists between two neighboring frames. |
20060236305 | 11107276 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for determining invariants within an object oriented program, comprising: at least partially running a local analysis of the program wherein the local analysis notes at least one local value of at least one object field at at least one program point; at least partially running a global analysis of the program, wherein an object is either mutable or valid; wherein the global analysis stores at least one value which the object field has held when the object is valid; and combining the local analysis and the global analysis to infer at least one invariant for at least one object, wherein the combining comprises the local analysis reaching a program point wherein the object transitions from mutable to valid, the local value of the at least one object field being given to the global analysis, this value within the global analysis comprising the global analysis information about the object. |
20130211821 | 13396559 | 0 | 1. A method, performed by one or more computing devices, comprising: constructing one or more customized dictionaries for a particular user, each of the customized dictionaries comprising a different blending of one or more frequently used words collected from texts submitted by one or more users; and in response to the user inputting text to an electronic device, selecting one of the customized dictionaries and utilizing it to aid the particular user in inputting text. |
20040183016 | 10815817 | 0 | 1. A scanning electron microscope comprising: an electron source; a first focusing lens for focusing a primary electron beam emitted from said electron source; an object lens diaphragm for removing an unnecessary region of the primary electron beam focused by said first focusing lens; a second focusing lens for focusing the primary electron beam that has passed through said object lens diaphragm; an object lens for focusing the primary electron beam focused by said second focusing lens on a sample; a deflecting means for the scanning of the sample by the primary electron beam; a secondary electron detector for detecting a secondary electron emitted from the sample due to electron beam irradiation; and an X-ray detector for detecting an X-ray emitted from the sample; wherein said scanning electron microscope has a function of focusing the primary electron beam on the sample by using said object lens when the magnification of an image to be scanned is higher than a preset value (high-magnification mode), wherein said scanning electron microscope has a function of focusing the primary electron beam on the sample by using said second focusing lens when the magnification of an image to be scanned is lower than a preset value (low-magnification mode), and wherein, in said low-magnification mode, either a first low-magnification mode in which the exciting current of said object lens is set to be a constant value independently of the accelerating voltage of the primary electron beam or a second low-magnification mode in which the exciting current of said object lens is changed as a function of the accelerating voltage of the primary electron beam is selected. |
20130116986 | 13291899 | 0 | 1. One or more computer-readable media holding computer-executable instructions for operating a programming environment using a computer, the media holding one or more instructions for: interacting with a block diagram model, where: the interacting includes receiving a first portion of a block diagram model, the block diagram model includes a plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of blocks represents a set of dynamic equations, and the interacting is performed using the computer; determining relationships between a plurality of: a synthesized input, a synthesized output, a synthesized state, or a synthesized derivative, where the determining: is performed for the first portion of the block diagram model, wherein the determining includes: determining a block Jacobian pattern of relationships between two or more of an input, an output, a state, or a derivative of a first block of the plurality of blocks in the graphical model. |
20040184649 | 10740244 | 0 | 1. An inspection device for inspecting a granular product, comprising: a feed tray having a receiving region for receiving the granular product and an imaging region; a vibration device configured to impart vibrations to the feed tray for moving granules of the granular product from the receiving region to the imaging region; and an image capturing device configured to capture an image of a sample of the granular product in an image area of the imaging region. |
20140289169 | 13849446 | 0 | 1. A method for managing data from Natural User Interface (NUI) devices, the method comprising of converting inputs received from at least one NUI device to a specified form by a NUI adapter; and creating a combined output from the converted inputs and at least one behavioural pattern rule by a behaviour analysis engine. |
8229178 | 12542715 | 1 | 1. A method of personal identification, the method comprising: switching between visible and near infrared light; acquiring palmprint image and palm vein image from a person under the visible and the near infrared light; extracting a palmprint sub-image from the palmprint image, and a palm vein sub-image from the palm vein image, the palmprint sub-image and the palm vein sub-image are based on a common region of interest; extracting palmprint features from the palmprint sub-image, and extracting palm vein features from the palm vein sub-image using a matched filter technique; and matching the extracted palmprint features and palm vein features with stored information in a database to authenticate the person. |
20100306141 | 12792973 | 0 | 1. A method for evolving an annotating model for classifying a document or a data item therein, comprising: composing a first concept evolution model as a training set comprised of a first set of selectively determinable annotations detectable within the document and the first concept evolution model; training a learning algorithm with the training set and the concept evolution model to generate a trained model; using the trained model to predict classes for unlabeled elements within the document; computing a confidence factor that an predicted annotation is accurate; identifying an element instance and a corresponding suggested annotation having a low confidence factor; adjusting the classifying of the applied annotation wherein a second concept evolution model is composed for more accurate classifying of the data item. |
20120060061 | 13058840 | 0 | 1. A computer checking tool that is able to repeatedly process a plurality of data sets, each data set including data distributed according to a chosen statistical rule, the tool comprising: an estimator that is able to establish, for a data set, a value characterizing the reproduction, by that data set, of a criterion concerning the data contained there, a driver designed to call the estimator with a plurality of data sets in order to determine a plurality of values, and to establish a new plurality of data sets on the basis of said plurality of values, and to repeat the estimator ( 8 ) call each time with a new plurality of data sets previously established, until a condition is verified that involves an extremum of said plurality of values and/or number of repetitions. comprising a mixer that is able to establish a new data set on the basis of an existing data set, while maintaining the distribution according to the chosen statistical rule, and in that the driver is designed to call the mixer with at least some of the data sets as a function of a rule based on the plurality of values associated to those sets. |
8913152 | 13628820 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a computing device including one or more processors, a plurality of photos; selecting, at the computing device, a subset of the plurality of photos by performing joint global maximization of photo quality and photo diversity using a quality metric for each of the plurality of photos and a similarity matrix for the plurality of photos, the quality metric for a specific photo being indicative of a quality of the specific photo, the similarity matrix being indicative of a similarity between each unique pair of photos of the plurality of photos, wherein the quality metric and the similarity matrix are each determined based an analysis of a reference photo collection that includes a plurality of reference photos, a quality weight for each reference photo, and a similarity weight for each unique pair of reference photos; determining, at the computing device, a plurality of clusters for the subset of the plurality of photos using a hierarchical clustering algorithm, the plurality of clusters including less than all of the subset of the plurality of photos, each of the plurality of clusters including one or more distinct photos from the subset of the plurality of photos; storing, at the computing device, the subset of the plurality of photos arranged based on the plurality of clusters; receiving, at the computing device, user input with respect to the subset of the plurality of photos arranged based on the one or more clusters, the user input corresponding to at least one of adding a first specific photo from a remainder of the plurality of photos to a specific cluster, deleting a second specific photo from the specific cluster, and moving the second specific photo from the specific cluster to another one of the plurality of clusters; adjusting, at the computing device, at least one of: (i) the quality metrics and (ii) the similarity matrix when the user input corresponds to at least one of adding the first specific photo from the remainder of the plurality of photos to the specific cluster and deleting the second specific photo from the specific cluster to obtain at least one of modified quality metrics and a modified similarity matrix, (iii) the subset of the plurality of photos when the user input corresponds to at least one of adding the first specific photo from the remainder of the plurality of photos to the specific cluster and deleting the second specific photo from the specific cluster to obtain a first modified subset of the plurality of photos, and (iv) the plurality of clusters when the user input corresponds to moving the second specific photo from the specific cluster to another one of the plurality of clusters to obtain a first plurality of modified clusters; and when at least one of the quality metrics and the similarity matrix is adjusted: selecting, at the computing device, a second modified subset of the plurality of photos by performing joint global maximization of photo quality and photo diversity using at least one of the modified quality metrics and the modified similarity matrix, determining, at the computing device, a second plurality of modified clusters for the second modified subset of the plurality of photos using the hierarchical clustering algorithm, each of the second plurality of modified clusters including one or more distinct photos from the second modified subset of the plurality of photos, and storing, at the computing device, the second modified subset of the plurality of photos arranged based on the second plurality of modified clusters. |
7526120 | 10660907 | 1 | 1. A method to determine deployment level of an airbag in a vehicle, the method comprising the following steps: (a) disposing in said vehicle a sensor system that emits optical energy toward a scene and includes an array of detection pixels in which each pixel captures three-dimensional depth information of a corresponding location of said scene using a reflected fraction of said emitted optical energy, each said pixel further capturing intensity of said reflected fraction of said emitted optical energy as well as capturing intensity of ambient optical energy, to repeatedly capture a plurality of frames of time-of-flight (TOF) three-dimensional depth images of said scene, said scene including a region of a seat in said vehicle, from which plurality of frames data representing occupancy of said seat may be determined with a confidence level greater than if data from a single frame were used; and b) repeatedly determining occupancy information using confidence enhancing plurality of frames captured at step (a), wherein determined said occupancy information is useable to determine deployment level to intelligently control deployment of said airbag. |
20080215995 | 12009082 | 0 | 1. An image generating method for simultaneous representative visual display of multiple computer users, comprising the steps of: generating a first image package representative of a first computer user, displaying said first image package on a web browser window, generating at least a second image package representative of at least a second computer user, displaying said second image package on said web browser window, wherein said first image package and said second image package are viewable on a single web browser window. |
9872362 | 15114396 | 1 | 1. A controller for controlling one or more sources of a utility to provide the utility into a space occupied by one or more users, the controller comprising: motion detection logic configured to process an input from a first sensor to detect motions of a user in said space, and to detect that the motions correspond to predetermined gestures performed by the user, the gestures being performed from different respective positions within said space; positioning logic configured to process an input from a second sensor to detect the respective position from which each of said gestures was performed by the user; control policy selection logic configured, based on an association associating each of a plurality of discrete control policies with a respective combination of predetermined gesture and positional demarcation within said space, to select different ones of the control policies associated with the detected gestures performed from each of the different detected positions in dependence on the respective detected position, each control policy defining a respective response of said utility to the respective associated gesture; and command logic arranged to control the one or more sources to provide the utility in accordance with the respective response of the selected control policy, wherein the detected position comprises at least a directional orientation of the user from which he or she performed the detected gesture, and the positional demarcation associated with one, some or all of the control policies comprises a respective directional demarcation; the control policy selection logic being configured to select said one of the control policies that is associated with the detected gesture and with the directional demarcation within which said directional orientation is detected to fall. |
9767355 | 15461180 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method to compare extracted card data using continuous scanning, comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital scan of a card from a camera; obtaining, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of images of the card from the digital scan of the physical card; creating, by one or more computing devices, a first three-dimensional model of the card that captures a hologram that is displayed on the card based upon a digital manipulation of the plurality of images; comparing, by the one or more computing devices, the first three-dimensional model of the card displaying the hologram to a standard three-dimensional model of the card depicting the hologram on the card; determining, by the one or more computing devices, that perspectives of the first three-dimensional model of the hologram match the standard model of the hologram; and verifying, by the one or more computing devices, the first three-dimensional model based on the determination that the perspectives of the first three-dimensional model of the hologram match the standard model of the hologram. |
8793264 | 11879992 | 1 | 1. A method of determining a subset of documents from which a particular document was derived, the method comprising: receiving similarity measurements indicating similarities between contents of documents; and determining the subset of the documents that the particular document was derived from based on dates the documents were created and the similarity measurements without requiring document tracking information to be associated with the documents to determine the subset. |
20120300101 | 13563888 | 0 | 1. A defect pixel detection apparatus comprising: an image sensor that includes a first pixel configured to include a photoelectric conversion element and an output unit configured to output a pixel signal generated by the photoelectric conversion element, and a second pixel configured not to include a photoelectric conversion element or an output unit; a defect level acquiring unit configured to acquire a defect level of a target pixel in the image sensor; and a defect pixel determination unit configured to determine a defect detection threshold based on whether the target pixel is a first pixel or a second pixel and to determine whether the target pixel is a defect pixel by comparing the defect level of the target pixel with the defect detection threshold. |
7788263 | 11256353 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method implemented using instructions stored on a computer-readable medium and executable by a computing device, the method comprising: initializing event parameters to identify a number of salient events from a corpus of documents, wherein the events comprise occurrences that are described in the corpus of documents and are identified based on a salient score calculated from the distance between peaks on a graph, the peaks on the graph corresponding to each respective one of the events; probabilistically determining, using a generative model, whether documents are associated with a first event to detect representative events of the number of salient events, wherein probabilistically determining comprises: estimating parameters for the generative model using the event parameters; generating event clusters to cluster events reported by the documents using estimated generative model parameters; for each event cluster: increasing or decreasing a number of events to represent a corresponding event; if the number of events is not a minimum or a maximum number of events: (a) again performing operations associated with initializing the event parameters to generate re-initialized event parameters; and (b) using the generative model to probabilistically detect events from salient ones of the documents using the re-initialized event parameters; and if the number of events is a minimum or a maximum number of events, summarizing event(s) associated with the event cluster to assign content of one or more documents to respective events; selecting the first event reported by one or more of the documents; and for each entity associated with the first event: generating a respective news article for the first event; and determining a time for the respective news article. |
9355438 | 14596986 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for correcting one or more geometric distortions in a video content comprising: mapping, by a computing device, a plurality of geometrically distorted frames with a plurality of original frames of the video content; identifying, by the computing device, one or more features associated with the plurality of mapped geometrically distorted frames and original frames, wherein the one or more features are insensitive to the one or more geometric distortions; mapping, by the computing device, the one or more features of the plurality of mapped geometrically distorted frames with original frames based on a predefined similarity threshold; determining, by the computing device, one or more geometric distortion parameters from the one or more mapped features; determining, by the computing device, a frame level average distortion of each of the one or more geometric distortion parameters; determining, by the computing device, a video level average distortion of each of the one or more geometric distortion parameters based on the frame level average distortion; and correcting, by the computing device, the one or more geometric distortions of the video content based on the video level average distortion of each of the one or more geometric distortion parameters. |
20120327100 | 13368357 | 0 | 1. A tactile feedback method for an electronic device, comprising: inputting an original image; converting the original image to a binary image, the binary image comprising a first grayscale value and a second grayscale value; converting the original image to a grayscale image, the grayscale image at least comprising a third grayscale value between the first grayscale value and the second grayscale value; generating an index map according to the binary image and the grayscale image, the index map comprising a plurality of index values indicative of different strengths for tactile feedback; detecting a touch input on a touch panel of the electronic device when the original image is displayed on a display panel; and driving a tactile activation unit of the electronic device to generate tactile feedback according to the index map in response to the detected touch input. |
8948537 | 14184965 | 1 | 1. A controller for enhancing dynamic range of a first image, the controller configured to: identify one or more enhancement regions within the first image for which luminance values satisfy an enhancement criterion; apply a smoothly-varying brightness enhancement function to the first image to obtain a second image having a dynamic range greater than that of the first image, the brightness enhancement function increasing luminance values of the second image over the first image in the enhancement regions and in at least some areas adjacent to the enhancement regions, the effect of the brightness enhancement function dropping off smoothly with increasing distance from the enhancement regions, wherein the controller is configured to apply the brightness enhancement function to the first image for pixels in the first image by multiplying a corresponding first image pixel value by a corresponding brightness enhancement factor. |
20120143853 | 12960018 | 0 | 1. A method for comparing a query object and a set of database objects comprising: providing quantized representations of database objects which have each been transformed with a quantized embedding function which is the composition of a real-valued embedding function and a quantization function; transforming the query object to a representation in a real-valued embedding space using the real-valued embedding function; storing a set of computed query-dependent estimated distance values for the query object, based on the transformed query object; and computing a comparison measure between the query object and each of the quantized database object representations based on the stored query-dependent estimated distance values; and outputting data based on the comparison computation. |
20130177840 | 13780886 | 0 | 1. A set of reticles, wherein each reticle in said set of reticles comprises an alignment structure pattern at a same relative location, each alignment structure pattern comprising a set of gratings including process segmentations, said process segmentations having a reticle segmentation pitch p within each grating of said set of gratings, wherein a relative position of said alignment structure pattern in an (i+1)-st reticle is laterally offset by a distance of 1/n times said reticle segmentation pitch p in a direction of said reticle segmentation pitch p relative to a corresponding alignment structure pattern in an i-th reticle for each i between and including 1 and (n−1), wherein n is a total number of reticles in said set of reticles. |
20040136598 | 10684504 | 0 | 1. A method of selecting data of a compressed digital signal comprising a plurality of levels of spatial granularity of data, in a communication network comprising at least two communication apparatuses connected together by the network, the digital signal being available at least at one, so-called first, of the communication apparatuses, the data being adapted to be transmitted from the first apparatus to the other, so-called second, communication apparatus, and that data being sufficient to reconstitute a spatial part of the signal termed region of interest which is specified at the second apparatus, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: determining at least one level of spatial granularity of data as a function of the region of interest and of the structure and organization of the data in the signal; selecting data for each determined level of granularity as a function of the region of interest and of the structure and organization of the data in the signal. |
20120027248 | 12844330 | 0 | 1. A method for performing foreground analysis, wherein the method comprises: identifying a region of interest in a video scene; applying a background subtraction algorithm to the region of interest to detect a static foreground object in the region of interest; and determining whether the static foreground object is abandoned or removed, wherein determining whether the static foreground object is abandoned or removed comprises: performing a foreground analysis based on edge energy and region growing; and pruning one or more false alarms using one or more track statistics. |
20060123027 | 10544955 | 0 | 1. An ontology accessible to a data processing system, the ontology being used to determine relationships between instances of objects having types and the ontology comprising: a set of ontology objects, the set of ontology objects describing the types and relationships there between; and an accelerator that accelerates determination of a set of types that are relevant to a particular type. |
20020052963 | 09894641 | 0 | 1. A method in a wearable computer for an executing user characterization system to provide information about a current state of a user of the wearable computer, the user characterization system modeling the current state with multiple state attributes and including state server modules (SSMs) to supply values for the state attributes, state client modules (SCMs) to process values for the state attributes, and an intermediary module to facilitate exchange of state attribute values, comprising: under control of each SSM, generating values for at least one of the state attributes and sending the generated values to the intermediary module; under control of each SCM, receiving values for at least one state attribute from the intermediary module and performing processing based on the received values; under control of the intermediary module, facilitating exchange of values by, receiving values for the state attributes from SSMs and from a first of multiple other characterization systems, each of the other characterization systems executing on another computer to model a current state related to the another computer; for each state attribute, storing the received values for the attribute; and receiving requests for values of indicated state attributes from SCMs and from a second of the other characterization systems, and sending stored values of the indicated state attributes to the SCMs and the second other characterization system; and modeling an aspect of a current state using distributed state information by, identifying multiple portions of the distributed state information needed for the modeling of the aspect, and identifying multiple of the other characterization systems each having access to one of the identified multiple portions; gathering the identified portions of the distributed state information from the identified other characterization systems; and generating at least one value for the modeled aspect based on the gathered portions of the distributed state information, so that the user characterization system can interact with other characterization systems in order to exchange and use distributed state information of interest. |
8007110 | 11966463 | 1 | 1. A projection system, comprising: a projection device for projecting at least one image onto a viewing surface; an input device for acquiring a depth image of at least one foreground object relative to the input device, wherein the input device is at least one of a stereo camera and a system comprising two or more monocular cameras; processing logic configured to: determine from the acquired depth image the position of the foreground object; modify the projected at least one image based on the position of the foreground object; and create from the acquired depth image a dynamic mask of the foreground object. |
9881608 | 15608110 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a client device, audio data corresponding to a user utterance; providing, by the client device, the audio data to a server-based, automated speech recognizer; receiving, by the client device, multiple candidate transcriptions of the user utterance that are generated by the server-based, automated speech recognizer; providing, for output by the client device, a user interface that includes a representation of a first transcription of the user utterance that is selected from among the multiple candidate transcriptions of the user utterance that are generated by the server-based, automated speech recognizer; receiving, by the client device, data indicating a selection, through the user interface, of at least a portion of the representation of the first transcription of the user utterance, wherein the selection identifies the at least the portion of the representation of the first transcription of the user utterance as including at least one incorrect word; and in response to receiving the data indicating the selection, through the user interface, of the at least the portion of the representation of the first transcription of the user utterance, replacing, by the client device and without (i) presenting an option to select one or more alternate words for the at least one incorrect word or (ii) initiating additional communication with the server-based automated speech recognizer, the representation of the first transcription of the user utterance in the user interface with a representation of a second transcription of the user utterance that (i) is selected from among the multiple candidate transcriptions of the user utterance that are generated by the server-based, automated speech recognizer, and (ii) includes one or more alternate words substituted for the at least one incorrect word. |
9861320 | 15171428 | 1 | 1. A method of evaluating an exercise capability, using one or more processors, the method comprising: monitoring a heart rate of a user using a sensor of a wearable device; using a mobile device communicating with the wearable device, setting a detection area of a range of heart rates to measure an exercise capability of the user based on the monitoring and body information of the user; and detecting a feature point based on a mathematical function of heart rates in intervals within the detection area for evaluating the exercise capability from the detection area. |
8532356 | 11762993 | 1 | 1. A method for labeling connected tubular objects within segmented image data, comprising: receiving segmented image data, wherein the segmented image data includes pixels of original image data that are assigned labels such that pixels with the same label share certain visual characteristics; and labeling the segmented image data to identify a plurality of components within the segmented image data, wherein the labeling includes: processing the segmented image data to create a processed image that represents centerline and radii estimates of the connected tubular components to divide the components based on tubular diameter; determining seed point candidates in the processed image that are within a band of radii; grouping the candidates based on their physical distance from each other and their radii estimates; partitioning the segmented image data in accordance with the grouped candidates; and assigning a separate color label to each of the plurality of components that are different from each other, wherein the components include arteries and veins that are differentiated based on the labeling and the labeling is automatic and performed using a processor, and after labeling the segmented image data, the method further comprises: for each labeled component, reconnecting the component to another component and assigning a single label to the reconnected components based on an expected model of a branching structure, wherein the expected model classifies each component into one of a first group and a second group, the first group includes normal isolated tree components and the second group includes extraneous noise and other tree structures, and then, the expected model separates the components in the second group to ensure all components are only isolated portions of the tree. |
20090213337 | 12380167 | 0 | 1. An image projecting system comprising: a plurality of projector apparatuses that project images based on inputted image signals onto a screen so that the images are displaced relative to one another by a predetermined amount and superimposed; an observation apparatus that observes luminance of an image region composed of a plurality of projected images that have been projected onto the screen; and a control apparatus that supplies to the plurality of projector apparatuses the image signals in which a luminance value of each pixel that constructs an image to be projected by each projector apparatus has been adjusted based on an observation result of the observation apparatus, wherein the image region composed of the plurality of projected images is presented by superimposing a first projected image and a second projected image that has a higher resolution than the first projected image, and wherein predetermined pixels in the image region are presented by superimposing corresponding pixels in the projected images from n adjacent projector apparatuses (where n is an integer of two or higher). |
20110047113 | 12220572 | 0 | 1. A method for prediction of order turnaround time in an information verification system comprising the steps of: receiving an information verification order from a user, the information verification order including at least one verification service; and determining the predicted order turnaround time based upon stored statistics related to the at least one verification service. |
20120219398 | 13036744 | 0 | 1. A method of detecting and controlling stall in an axial fan through acoustical measurements in the air flow, comprising: measuring the sound emanating from the flow, preparing a visual representation of the sound, comparing the visual representation with a library of fixed visual representations derived from a plurality of tests representative of the performance of the fan under a range of operating parameters, and selecting the fixed visual representation most closely matching the visual representation of the said sound, wherein the selected visual representation is used to generate a feed back control signal to control the operation and speed of the fan. |
9480917 | 13782249 | 1 | 1. An imaging system, comprising a video camera, the video camera comprising: a wide field of view lens; an imaging sensor operable to form a first image having a first pixel area; and an interface operable to receive commands from a host entertainment device; in which the video camera is operable to receive a command requesting at least one secondary image, the command identifying a second pixel area of the at least one secondary image for a 3D mapping of a portion of the first image; and the imaging system further comprises a graphics processor operable to perform the 3D mapping to generate the at least one secondary image from the first image, in which the 3D mapping transforms a section of the first image depicting a surface having a normal in a first direction to form a given one of the at least one secondary image in which the normal of that surface faces directly out of the given secondary image, and the 3D mapping includes rotating an estimated normal of the depicted surface in 3D space so that its normal substantially coincides with the normal of a 2D plane of the given secondary image. |
20140198607 | 13829210 | 0 | 1. A method of performing a seismic survey comprising: deploying nodal seismic sensors at positions in a survey region; activating a plurality of seismic sources; and using the nodal seismic sensors to record seismic signals generated in response to the activation of the plurality of signals. |
20040207889 | 10633651 | 0 | 1. A multi-function scanner for selectively scanning a first document without a laser/anti-counterfeit mark and a second document with the laser/anti-counterfeit mark, the multi-function scanner comprising: a scan module comprising: a first light source enabled to emit visible light rays to illuminate the first document; a second light source enabled to emit infrared light rays to illuminate the second document; an image sensor; and a lens module for focusing reflected light rays from the first or second document onto the image sensor; and a scan mode control unit for controlling the scan module to selectively enable the first light source and the second light source to perform a first mode scan or a second mode scan. |
8208722 | 13117438 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: accessing, by operation of a computer, color data for use in generating a digital image, the generated digital image comprising a selected variation of a master digital image; accessing, by operation of a computer, illumination data associated with the master digital image, wherein the illumination data indicates illumination values for pixels in the master digital image; and adjusting, by operation of a computer, the color data for pixels in the generated digital image using the illumination data, the adjusted color data adapted for use in a photorealistic representation of the generated digital image. |
7534038 | 11669467 | 1 | 1. A method of positioning a patient in an x-ray apparatus for dental scanning procedures, the method comprising the steps of: providing an x-ray system comprising an x-ray source and x-ray detector, a positioning arrangement to position a patient's head in a predefined position with respect to the x-ray system, and at least one video camera to generate video images of the patient's head; pre-positioning the patient's head in a patient area of the x-ray apparatus using the positioning arrangement; generating at least one image of the head of the pre-positioned patient from at least one view by the at least one video camera; comparing the at least one generated image of the patient's head and a position of the x-ray system; and aligning the x-ray system and the pre-positioned patient using the at least one image generated of the patient's head and the position of the x-ray system. |
8150188 | 12007755 | 1 | 1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: an imaging section capturing an object image and generating data of an image; a subject extracting section extracting a main subject from said image; and an image processing section performing a noise addition process on the data of said image to add noise for an area where said main subject is positioned within said image. |
20160277863 | 14662880 | 0 | 1. An acoustic monitoring system, comprising: an array of microphone devices; an acoustic image controller communicatively coupled to the array of microphone devices and configured to output acoustic image data based on a plurality of audio signals received from the array of microphone devices; and a computer audio vision (CAV) controller communicatively coupled to the acoustic image controller and including an event recognition mode configured to analyze at least a portion of the acoustic image data to detect one or more sound events within an observed scene, and to determine at least one condition causing the one or more sound events. |
9395431 | 12113675 | 1 | 1. A method for producing a series of cardiac gated magnetic resonance images of a subject's heart, the steps comprising: a) administering a contrast agent to the subject; b) producing a gating signal that indicates the start of the subject's cardiac cycle; c) producing a radio frequency (RF) inversion pulse that inverts spin magnetization throughout a field of view a preset time after the gating signal is produced; d) acquiring k-space data as a series of data segments at successive cardiac phases after the RF inversion pulse is produced using a plurality of steady-state free precession (SSFP) pulse sequences during a time period in which the inverted spin magnetization recovers such that some data segments in the series of data segments are acquired when tissue contrast is changing and other data segments in the series of data segments are acquired when tissue contrast is no longer substantially changing; e) repeating steps b) through d) until a desired amount of k-space data is acquired in each data segment; f) reconstructing a series of image frames depicting the heart at a succession of cardiac phases using the k-space data acquired in the series of data segments, and in which images in the series of image frames reconstructed from the data segments acquired when tissue contrast is changing depict a time-varying tissue contrast of the heart, and in which images in the series of image frames reconstructed from the data segments acquired when tissue contrast is no longer substantially changing depict cardiac wall motion; and g) producing a T 1 * map by: i) determining for a given pixel location in the T 1 * map, a T 1 * value by fitting magnitude values from corresponding pixel locations in the series of image frames reconstructed in step f) to a signal model that relates magnitude values to T 1 *; and ii) setting magnitude values for each given pixel location in the T 1 * map to the corresponding T 1 * value determined in step g)i). |
9824290 | 14618551 | 1 | 1. A method of creating an orthomosaic of a corridor area which has a greater length than width, the corridor area at least partially described by a corridor path which is not straight, the method comprising: (a) flying an aircraft substantially level along a primary flight line, the primary flight line comprising a sequence of straight primary flight line segments, each primary flight line segment approximating part of the corridor path; (b) capturing, during flight along each primary flight line segment and via an aerial camera system carried by the aircraft, a sequence of primary images, each primary image at least partially overlapping its successor in the sequence; (c) flying the aircraft along a secondary flight line, the secondary flight line comprising a sequence of secondary flight line segments, each secondary flight line segment substantially parallel to part of the corridor path; (d) capturing, during flight along each secondary flight line segment and via the aerial camera system carried by the aircraft, a sequence of secondary images, at least some of the secondary images overlapping at least some of the primary images; (e) identifying, in a plurality of the primary images and secondary images, common features corresponding to common ground points; (f) estimating, via bundle adjustment and from the common ground points, an exterior orientation associated with each primary image and a three-dimensional position associated with each ground point; (g) orthorectifying, using at least some of the exterior orientations and at least some of the three-dimensional ground point positions, at least some of the primary images; and (h) merging the orthorectified primary images to create the orthomosaic. |
8285014 | 12061357 | 1 | 1. A system for obtaining perfusion images comprising: a C-arm X-ray device; and a computer operative to: accept a plurality of projection X-ray images representing a first data set of a patient and a second data set of a patient; convert each of the first data set and the second data set to form a first volumetric data set and a second volumetric data set, respectively; process the second volumetric data set to form a data set of segmented contrast-enhanced blood vessels; excise the segmented contrast-enhanced blood vessels from the second volumetric data set to form a third volumetric data set; and subtract the first volumetric data set from the third volumetric data set to form a fourth volumetric data set that represents a cerebral blood volume (CBV) on a voxel-by-voxel basis, wherein the second data set is contrast-enhanced data. |
20170352163 | 15611453 | 0 | 1. A method for perceiving material bodies, which is intended to locate said bodies on an at least 2-dimensional occupancy grid G, having a first resolution stepsize R G , and comprising a set of cells represented by vertices and segments connecting these vertices, the method using a sensor for detecting obstacles which is positioned at a source point S, said method comprising: Acquisition by said sensor of a measurement of the position of a material body detected at a point F; Definition of the coordinates of the points S and F in a space discretized with the aid of a spatial stepsize δ, the spatial stepsize δ being smaller than the resolution stepsize R G of the grid G, the size of the cells being defined by size (c)=r·δ, r ∈ , a point M with coordinates (l,m) in this discretized space being situated in the continuous space at the point (x,y), where
x=l·δ
y=m ·δ the points S and F having respectively coordinates (l S , m S ) and (l F , m F ); Determination of the cell c s of the occupancy grid G containing the point S; Determination of the coordinates, in the discretized space, of an initial vertex V0 of the cell c s ; Computation of the value of an, integer, error parameter E by using an error function Err d (M) making it possible to evaluate, in the discretized space, an offset between a point of the space and a straight line connecting the points S and F, said error parameter E being initialized to the value taken by said error function for said initial vertex V0 of the cell c s , Computation of the value of said error parameter E for at least one first vertex V1 i of the current cell c i of the grid in the course of observation, corresponding to Err d (V1 i ), this computation consisting in carrying out an addition or subtraction operation between integer numbers, between on the one hand said value of the parameter E, obtained for the initial vertex V0 i of the current cell c i , and corresponding to Err d (V0 i ), and on the other hand an integer increment value (Δ) predefined as a function of the coordinates of the points S and F in the discretized space, Studying the previously computed value of the error parameter E with respect to a reference value and determining a following cell c i+1 situated in proximity to the path [SF]; Computing, if necessary, the value of said error parameter E for an initial vertex V0 i+1 of the following cell c i+1 , corresponding to Err d (V0 i+1 ), this computation consisting in carrying out an addition or subtraction operation between integer numbers, between on the one hand said value of the parameter E, obtained for at least one vertex V i of the current cell c i , and corresponding to Err d (V i ), and on the other hand an integer increment value (Δ) predefined as a function of the coordinates of the points S and F in the discretized space, Using this following cell c i+1 and said value of the error parameter E, obtained for said initial vertex V0 i+1 of this cell, as starting point and repeating steps f to h until at least the cell c F containing the final point F is reached, Determining the list {c i } of cells considered in the previous steps and situated on the path [SF] or situated a predefined distance from the path [SF] and updating said occupancy grid G for the listed cells. |
8676487 | 13148507 | 1 | 1. A movement region prediction apparatus comprising: a mobile body detection device that detects a mobile body around a host vehicle; a prediction device that predicts a movement region of the detected mobile body after a prediction time, wherein the prediction device has a plurality of movement prediction models that have different prediction times for predicting the movement region of the mobile body, and performs prediction using the plurality of movement prediction models to predict the movement region of the mobile body; and a degree of normality acquisition device that acquires a degree of normality of a situation of movement of the detected mobile body, wherein the prediction device selects a movement prediction model from the plurality of movement prediction models based on the acquired degree of normality, and predicts the movement region of the mobile body using the selected movement prediction model, wherein, in the case where the movement prediction of the mobile body around the host vehicle that is normal in the situation of movement is performed, the prediction in conjunction with short prediction times are performed using movement prediction models prepared for a mobile body that is abnormal in the situation of movement, and the prediction in conjunction with long prediction times are performed using movement prediction models prepared for a mobile body that is normal in the situation of movement, and wherein the movement prediction model prepared for the mobile body that is normal in the situation of movement predicts a smaller range of existence in which the movable body is to exist after a predetermined time, as compared with the movement prediction model prepared for the mobile body that is abnormal in the situation of movement. |
6057851 | 09054021 | 1 | 1. In a computer graphics system wherein objects are represented by one or more primitives each defined by a plurality of vertices, and wherein said objects are rendered to generate a two dimensional image for display during which coordinates of each vertex of said primitives are subjected to a perspective transformation which yields a perspectively transformed depth coordinate associated with the vertex, a method for mapping a texture function to pixels covered by at least one of said primitives comprising the steps of: associating at least one texture parameter to each vertex of said at least one of said primitives; for each vertex of said at least one of said primitives, determining a perspective factor associated with the given vertex based upon the perspectively transformed depth coordinate associated with the given vertex, applying said perspective factor associated with the given vertex to each texture parameter associated with the given vertex to generate a perspectively transformed texture parameter associated with the given vertex; for each pixel covered by said at least one primitive, for each texture parameter associated with each vertex of said at least one primitive, determining a perspectively transformed texture parameter associated with the given pixel according to perspectively transformed texture parameters associated with each vertex of said at least one of said primitives, determining a perspective factor associated with the given pixel according to said perspective factor associated with each vertex of said at least one of said primitives, generating an approximation of M over said perspective factor associated with the given pixel according to data stored in a look up table, and for each perspectively transformed texture parameter associated with the given pixel, performing an operation on said perspectively transformed texture parameter, said perspective factor and said approximation associated with the given pixel to determine a perspectively correct value of said texture parameter associated with the given pixel. |
20070156677 | 11676487 | 0 | 1. A human-computer user interface method, comprising the steps of: (a) defining a user interface for interacting with objects having associated a resource locators; (b) searching for objects from a set of indexed objects with a search engine, based at least in part on a user input, and returning at least respective resource locators of objects corresponding to the user input; (c) presenting to the user a hierarchal object comprising at least three levels of a taxonomic hierarchy each containing at least one object corresponding to the user input, and at least one level having at least two objects, the objects being taxonomically organized based on a content associated with a respective object; and (d) providing a third party subsidy based on a set of separate objects, presented within the taxonomic hierarchy based on a relation of a taxonomic classification of the separate objects and the levels of the taxonomic hierarchy containing at least one object corresponding to the user input. |
20150279238 | 14436782 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented medical training method, comprising: (a) one or more users engaging a simulation computer system to initiate an ophthalmic examination training routine by means of one or more computer processors, the simulation computer system including an eye model, one or more movement sensors, an image display, and a controller for controlling the image display that displays one or more images of an eye; (b) each of the one or more users moving an ophthalmoscopy tool relative to an eye model in a way that is similar to the movements used to conduct an ophthalmic examination; (c) detecting the movements using the one or more movement sensors so as to generate input information to the controller; and (d) the controller iteratively using the input information to select and display a region of interest view from an image of an eye, or image section, that corresponds to the input information, and to initiate the display of the image section by the image display so as to simulate the appearance of an eye in connection with an ophthalmic examination across a set of movements and corresponding input information. |
20100077051 | 12627259 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: training an email system for determining spam, where training includes at least the following: tokenizing at least a portion of a first email message to create a token; determining, from the token, a spam probability for the first email message; in response to a determination that a spam probability from the token indicates that the first email message is likely spam, determining whether the generated token is present in a database of tokens, in response to a determination the generated token is not present in the database of tokens, assigning a probability value for the generated token as spam; and in response to a determination that the spam probability from the generated token indicates that the first email message is not likely spam, determining whether the generated token is present in a database of tokens; and filtering a second email message according to the training. |
20070291232 | 11818260 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining eye tracking data characterizing pupil dilation and point of gaze for an individual; associating the data with one or more of a plurality of predefined mental proficiency levels; and identifying the associated predefined mental proficiency level. |
20110098021 | 12607150 | 0 | 1. A wireless communications device configured to dynamically organize voicemail, the wireless communications device comprising: a transceiver portion configured to: receive a notification of an available voicemail; and a processing portion configured to: determine a first attribute of the available voicemail based on the notification, generate a visual voicemail entry based on the first attribute, determine a first position of the visual voicemail entry among a plurality of visual voicemail entries based on the first attribute, and generate a first view comprising the visual voicemail entry. |
20050149889 | 10741757 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: scanning a layer of a layout in a first direction and selecting a first rectangle in a scan order; scanning the layer of the layout in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to find a second rectangle that intersects the first rectangle; and if the second rectangle is found, performing a union of the first and second rectangles to generate a set of non-intersecting rectangles equivalent to the first and second rectangle. |
9454724 | 14936003 | 1 | 1. A membrane for removable electronic identifiers comprises: a release liner; a plurality of labels; a margin sheet; each of the plurality of labels comprises a flexible planar body, a display surface, an electronic circuit, an antenna, and a first adhesive coating; the margin sheet comprises a second adhesive coating; the electronic circuit being mounted between the first adhesive coating and the flexible planar body; the electronic circuit being positioned opposite the display surface through the flexible planar body; the antenna being mounted between the first adhesive coating and the flexible planar body; the antenna being positioned opposite the display surface through the flexible planar body; the electronic circuit being electronically connected to the antenna; each of the plurality of labels being adjacently attached to the release liner by the first adhesive coating; the margin sheet being adjacently attached to the release liner by the second adhesive coating; the margin sheet being perimetrically aligned with the release liner; and the margin sheet being positioned around the plurality of labels. |
20070239713 | 11392993 | 0 | 1. A method in a computing system for ranking web pages in a result set, comprising: establishing a system of ratings for combinations of a web page with a query term that reflect the level of relevance of the web page to the query term; in response to each of a plurality of content interactions performed by users, each content interaction performed with respect to a web page included as results in a result set that was generated in response to a query comprising a set of one or more query terms: adjusting a rating score for each combination of the web page and a query term among the set of query terms; and for each of a plurality of web pages included as results in a distinguished result set produced in response to a distinguished query comprising a set of distinguished query terms: selecting established and adjusted rating scores for each combination of the web page and a query term among the distinguished set of query terms, and determining a ranking score for the web page in the distinguished query result by combining the selected rating scores. |
9779329 | 14940871 | 1 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the image processing apparatus to function as: a creating unit configured to create a plurality of subsets, wherein each of the plurality of subsets is created by selecting, from a plurality of learning images, one or more learning images; a learning unit configured to learn an area discriminator for discriminating a class of each area obtained by dividing the learning images, for each subset created by the creating unit; a learning discriminating unit configured to discriminate a class of each area obtained by dividing a plurality of learning evaluation images, by using the plurality of area discriminators learned by the learning unit; and an identification learning unit configured to learn an integrated identifier based on a discrimination result for each area of the plurality of learning evaluation images discriminated by the learning discriminating unit and scene information associated with each of the plurality of learning evaluation images. |
7890386 | 09698310 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: capturing via a handheld cellular telephone and in response to actions of a user, a digital image of a location including a restaurant; displaying the digital image of the restaurant to the user on a display device of the handheld cellular telephone; interacting with the user to select the digital image via the handheld cellular telephone; displaying an object class menu on the display device of the handheld cellular telephone, the object class menu having a plurality of object classes including a person class, a product class and an event class; interacting with the user via the handheld cellular telephone to select one of the plurality of object classes from the object class menu; displaying a task menu on the display device of the handheld cellular telephone, the task menu including a plurality of tasks that are based on the selected one of the plurality of object classes, the plurality of tasks including a restaurant reservation task; interacting with the user via the handheld cellular telephone to select one of the plurality of tasks from the task menu; transmitting the digital image from the handheld cellular telephone to a server system along with data indicating the selected one of the plurality of tasks; when the selected one of the plurality of tasks is the restaurant reservation task: identifying the restaurant via the server system, based on the recognition of the restaurant in the digital image of the location, and not based on the recognition of an optical code; retrieving restaurant information via a computer network, based on the identification of the restaurant; displaying at least a portion of the restaurant information on the handheld cellular telephone; and facilitating reservations for the restaurant via the handheld cellular telephone. |
8902482 | 14094222 | 1 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether input image data has a color space based on subtractive color mixing; a first color conversion unit configured to convert non-subtractive image data into subtractive image data, wherein the non-subtractive image data has a color space based on mixing other than subtractive color mixing, and wherein the subtractive image data has a color space based on subtractive color mixing; an overprint detection unit configured to detect whether overprinting is specified for the subtractive image data; a drawing processing unit configured to perform overprint processing for the subtractive image data if: (1) a color value of a foreground object corresponding to the image data, for which it is detected that overprinting is specified, indicates that a region where the foreground object overlaps a background object is colored, and (2) an underlying region of the background object behind the foreground object is colored, wherein a color value of an overlapping region is overwritten with the color value of the foreground object, and wherein the color value of the overlapping region is not overwritten with the color value of the foreground object if the color value of the foreground object indicates that the region where the foreground object overlaps the background object is colorless; and a second color conversion unit that is configured to convert image data subsequent to the overprint processing into image data having output colors in accordance with characteristics of the image forming apparatus. |
20100245933 | 12564722 | 0 | 1. An image processing system for comparing and correcting images, the system comprising: an image selection module operable to select monochromic images from a storage system; an image skeleton extraction module operable to extract skeletons of objects in the monochromic images to generate skeleton images; an image covering module operable to cover the skeleton images with the monochromic images to generate covered images; a variance correction module operable to correct allowable variances in the covered images; an image output module operable to output the covered images with corrected variances; and a processor that executes the image selection module, the image skeleton extraction module, the image covering module, the variance correction module, and the image output module. |
20090132460 | 12274633 | 0 | 1. A medical outcome prediction tool for predicting an individual patient's medical outcomes, the medical outcome prediction tool implementing a method comprising: a. identifying patients having a same disease; b. selecting a set of characteristics unique to an individual; c. determining the similarities between the individual and other cases by: i. calculating the number of matches between the individual and the cases over the set of characteristics; and ii. using the result of the calculated matches to determine a similarity score; and d. calculating the expected outcome for the individual that is proportional to a weighted sum of outcomes of similar the cases. |
8688715 | 13491092 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, from a computer device, a query that includes terms and that is in a format that is unstructured for a plurality of databases; receiving data identifying resources that are determined to be responsive to the query, each resource being associated with a search score that defines a respective position of the resource in an order of responsiveness to the query; determining, by a data processing apparatus, a selected service requirement from the terms of the query, the selected service requirement being selected from a plurality of service requirements fulfilled by the databases, the determining the selected service requirement from the terms of the query comprising: accessing data defining, for each of the databases, a service requirement fulfilled by the database and parameter types associated with the service requirement, each parameter type defining a parameter input type or parameter output type that the database receives as input or provide as output, respectively, for a search operation particular to the database that fulfills the service requirement; selecting, from the query, terms that define parameter values for parameter types associated with service requirements; and selecting the service requirement based on the terms that define parameter values for the parameter types of the service requirements; determining, for each of the databases, a service requirement score for the database, the service requirement score being a measure of an ability of the database to fulfill the selected service requirement, the determining comprising determining a first score based on matches of the parameter values defined by the terms to the parameter types of the service requirement fulfilled by the database and a quantity of parameter values of the matching parameter types in the database; for each resource that is associated with one of the databases, adjusting the search score based on the service requirement score for the database; generating search results, each search result identify a corresponding resource that was determined to be responsive to the query, and the search results being ordered according to the respective search scores and adjusted search scores of the resources; and providing the search results to the computer device according to the order in response to the query. |
20040075055 | 10636999 | 0 | 1. A lattice strain measurement method that quantizes lattice strain of crystal material constituting a measurement object, comprising the steps of: obtaining a HOLZ pattern by causing convergent beam electrons to impinge on the crystal material; transforming coordinates of a plurality of points extracted from the HOLZ pattern into Hough transform images by means of the Hough transform, extracting a plurality of clusters of Hough transform images, and specifying HOLZ lines by means of reverse transformation of the clusters; and quantizing the lattice constant of the crystal material in accordance with positions of the specified HOLZ lines. |
10134148 | 14893632 | 1 | 1. A method of assessing breast density for breast cancer risk applications, the method comprising: receiving digital image data including a plurality of pixels; calibrating the digital image data, wherein each pixel is mapped into a normalized percent glandular representation; performing a statistical analysis with optimization on the calibrated digital image data, by; determining measured characteristics of the calibrated image or the digital image data based on a deviation of the pixel values within a breast region; and determining four-state breast density variables based on the determined measured characteristics by applying an optimization, wherein the optimization comprises maximizing or minimizing a fitness function by a repeated processing of case-control data with plural random vectors for a given breast density measurement determination for a number of generations, wherein the number of generations is less than predetermined value when a preset convergence condition is met; and associating the statistically analyzed digital image data with a measure of risk for breast cancer. |
8301402 | 13146677 | 1 | 1. An in-plane compressive strength evaluation device that is disposed in a steam generator and evaluates an in-plane compressive strength of a tube support plate, in which are formed a number of through-holes through which heat transfer tubes pass, the in-plane compressive strength evaluation device comprising: a memory unit in which, when a test piece having substantially a same structure as the tube support plate that is actually used is formed and an in-plane compressive strength evaluation is performed by exerting a load in a state where the heat transfer tubes having a prescribed length are inserted into the through-holes formed in the test piece, respectively, an evaluation result related to the load and a displacement of the test piece is stored as first information; a first analysis unit that obtains, by producing a structural model of the test piece and by performing a simulation of the in-plane compressive strength evaluation under same conditions as the in-plane compressive strength evaluation, second information that is an evaluation result related to the load and the displacement in the structural model; an adjustment unit that adjusts an elemental factor of the structural model that influences the in-plane compressive strength such that the second information that is obtained by the first analysis unit approaches the first information that is stored in the memory unit; and a second analysis unit that, in a state where the elemental factor that is used when the second information approaches the first information most closely, or when a difference between the second information and the first information falls within an allowable range is maintained, expands the structural model into a structural form of the tube support plate that is actually applied to the steam generator and performs the in-plane compressive strength evaluation using the expanded structural model. |
10096077 | 15254015 | 1 | 1. An information embedding device, comprising: a memory; and a processor configured to execute a procedure, the procedure including: acquiring an image including a plurality of pixel blocks from the memory; from the plurality of pixel blocks, determining a position of a pixel block having a value that, after being changed by a specific value corresponding to information to be embedded into the image, will be within a first specific range of an average of values of surrounding pixels within the pixel block as a position of an embedding target pixel block, while distinguishing a position of a pixel block that is not determined to be the embedding target pixel block as a position of a non-embedding target pixel block, to thereby suppress image quality degradation due to embedding information into the image according to the determined positions of the embedding target pixel block and the non-embedding target pixel block; and changing the value of the embedding target pixel within the embedding target pixel block by the specific value corresponding to the information to be embedded into the image. |
20170032781 | 14811190 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving (i) data including a set of terms associated with a target user, and, (ii) from each of multiple other users, data including a set of terms associated with the other user; selecting a particular other user based at least on comparing the set of terms associated with the target user to the sets of terms associated with the other users; selecting one or more terms from the set of terms that is associated with the particular other user; obtaining, based on the selected terms that are associated with the particular other user, a biased language model; and providing the biased language model to an automated speech recognizer. |
9690990 | 14692426 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for classifying images using an electronic device, the method comprising: extracting parameters from each of the images via a processor of the electronic device; quantizing the parameters of each of the images to obtain quantization data of each of the images; and classifying the images according to the quantization data of each of the images; wherein the images are classified by: setting a number of groups; selecting an image for each of the groups from the images; setting quantization data of the selected image to be reference data of each of the groups; calculating a difference value between the quantization data of each of the images and the reference data of each of the groups using a predetermined formula; determining a minimum difference value for each of the images; and executing a first classification of the images by allocating each of the images to a group that corresponds to the minimum difference value of each of the images. |
8676768 | 13185374 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising: one or more instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to provide access to a model via a remote model creation environment, the remote model creation environment being used to create models, the model including information relating to a computation; one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive a rating for the model; one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to determine a rating for the model based on the received rating; and one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to cause the determined rating for the model to be displayed, in the remote model creation environment, with information identifying the model, the information identifying the model including: information identifying a quantity of comments received for the model, information identifying a date or a range of dates when the model was received by the at least one processor, and information identifying a quantity of downloads of the model. |
20100177948 | 12666406 | 0 | 1. Method for correcting an acquired medical image of a patient having an internal body structure, said acquired image having a region of interest showing a representation of said internal body structure, said acquired image having been acquired in a medical imager having a radiation source and a radiation detector spaced from one another along an image-taking direction, and between which the patient is disposed, wherein the method comprises: a) obtaining, from the acquired image, a corrected image taking into account a position of the internal body structure along the image-taking direction. |
20080114732 | 11756477 | 0 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: storage means for storing a recommendation degree that indicates a degree of recommendation of a content for a user; similarity degree calculation means for calculating a degree of similarity between a part, of a user profile as updated and a content profile; recommendation degree variation calculation means for calculating, based on the degree of similarity calculated by said similarity degree calculation means, an amount of variation of the recommendation degree of the content for the user; and recommendation degree calculation means for calculating a new recommendation degree by adding the amount of the variation of the recommendation degree calculated by said recommendation degree variation calculation means to the recommendation degree stored in said storage means. |
20080211826 | 12018496 | 0 | 1. A method for characterizing a shape of an object surface, comprising: acquiring image data including the object; analyzing the image data at a locus of points that are at a predetermined distance from a point of interest proximate to the object surface to determine which of the locus of points represents a foreground and which of the locus of points represents a background; and characterizing the shape of the object surface based on the characterization of the locus of points. |
8805097 | 12905607 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for compressing a three-dimensional (3D) mesh, the apparatus comprising: a mesh simplifying unit to generate a base mesh by simplifying an inputted 3D mesh, thereby eliminating at least one vertex; a base mesh coding unit to code the base mesh; a vertex coding unit to code, based on a covariance matrix, the at least one vertex eliminated by the simplification; and an entropy coding unit to entropy-code the coded base mesh and the coded at least one vertex into a bit stream by performing entropy-coding. |
9494534 | 14499762 | 1 | 1. A method of determining material composition of an object, the method comprising: capturing a series of digital radiographic images of the object using an x-ray beam; determining an intensity of the captured images of the object; determining a phase shift magnitude that occurred in the object using the captured images of the object; generating a differential phase shift image of the object; generating an integrated phase image of the object; determining a difference in material composition of the object based on a combination of the differential phase shift image and the integrated phase image; and generating and displaying a radiographic image of the object including separately displaying within the radiographic image of the object glandular and adipose tissue inside the object. |
20180128636 | 15346223 | 0 | 1. A method for generating interactive representations of navigation routes, the method comprising: determining, by one or more processors, a nonlinear route for traveling from a source to a destination, the route including a sequence of (i) route segments and (ii) intermediate geographic locations defining endpoints of the route segments; generating, by one or more processors, an initial linear visual representation of the route, including: selecting an initial subset of the intermediate geographic locations, the initial subset not including at least one of the intermediate geographic locations in the sequence, positioning indicators of the intermediate geographic locations along a single line to generate multiple segments of the line between corresponding pairs of the indicators, for each of the segments of the line, providing a respective interactive control which, when activated, generates an expanded linear visual representation of only the corresponding segment of the route, wherein the expanded linear visual representation includes at least one of the intermediate geographic locations not selected for the initial linear visual representation, each interactive control including at least one of the indicators of the intermediate geographic locations or one of the segments, individually selectable via tapping or clicking; and displaying the linear representation of the route via a user interface of a computing device. |
20050196020 | 11054996 | 0 | 1. A method of detecting a passing vehicle comprising the steps of: receiving a video sequence comprised of a plurality of image frames; measuring image intensity and estimating image motion in each image frame; formulating a hypothesis model describing background dynamics; using the measured image intensity and motion estimation to determine if the background dynamics has been violated in a given image frame; and if the background dynamics has been violated, using motion coherency to determine whether the violation of the background dynamics is caused by a passing vehicle. |
3989896 | 05358427 | 1 | 1. Apparatus for tracking a spectral peak within the frequency spectrum of a spoken word wherein a spectral peak is a frequency which corresponds to a peak amplitude in the spoken word, comprising: first and second electronically tunable filter means connected to receive spoken words and produce an output signal having an adjustable center frequency and an adjustable Q characteristic, said first tunable filter means responding to the frequency content of spoken words occurring in a frequency range in a first direction from said center frequency and a second tunable filter means responding to the frequency content of spoken words occurring in the frequency range in an opposite direction, said first and second tunable filter means including control inputs to receive control input signals to adjust said center frequencies and said Q characteristics, and feedback control means connected to the outputs of said first and second tunable filter means to determine the deviation of said center frequencies from a spectral peak in said spoken word and develop a control input signal to adjust said center frequencies to establish a predetermined relationship between said center frequencies and spectral peak. |
9760759 | 13910764 | 1 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a storage unit capable of storing a slide image including a sample image and a label image which are obtained by shooting the slide, the slide holding the sample and having a front surface on which the label indicating label information relating to the sample is provided; an output unit capable of outputting a thumbnail image; and a processing unit capable of generating a label-removed slide image by removing the label image from the slide image, wherein the output unit is configured to select one of the slide image and the label-removed slide image as the thumbnail image. |
20050238161 | 10830599 | 0 | 1. A method for dialog management within a call handling system, comprising: initiating a dialog between a contact and an operator; monitoring a dialog attribute; presenting an instantaneous value of the dialog attribute on an operator display; and effecting a dialog rule in response to a value of the dialog attribute. |
9818221 | 15053930 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: organizing, by at least one processor, a plurality of primitives of a scene in a hierarchical data structure, wherein a plurality of bounding volumes are associated with nodes of the hierarchical data structure; rasterizing, by the at least one processor, representations of each of the plurality of bounding volumes to an off-screen render target, wherein each representation of the representations of each of the plurality of bounding volumes is associated with a different color value of a plurality of color values; determining, by the at least one processor and based at least in part on a color value of the plurality of color values of a pixel of a representation of a respective one of the bounding volumes in the off-screen render target that maps to a ray, a non-root node of the hierarchical data structure associated with the respective one of the bounding volumes as a start node to start traversal of the hierarchical data structure; and traversing, by the at least one processor, a set of nodes of the hierarchical data structure starting from the start node to determine whether the ray in the scene intersects one of the plurality of primitives. |
7751084 | 11710915 | 1 | 1. An image processing apparatus performing a processing to a processed image where a figure is placed in a background image composed of a main color component having a relatively low lightness and a sub color component having a relatively high lightness, so as to remove the sub color component around the figure, the image processing apparatus comprising: a deciding part to decide whether it is necessary to remove the sub color component based on a density value of the main color component, at each position around the figure; a removing part to remove the sub color component based on a result of a decision in the deciding part; and a reference density value setting part to set a reference density value, wherein the deciding part decides whether it is necessary to remove the sub color component by comparing a density value of the main color component with the reference density value, at each position around the figure; the image processing apparatus further comprising: a comparing part to compare a ratio of a region around the figure where a density value of the main color component is the reference density value or higher, with a reference ratio; and a cancel part to cancel a removal processing by the removing part, based on a result of a comparison in the comparing part. |
20120170835 | 12981275 | 0 | 1. A computerized method for determining a quality metric of a model of an object in a machine vision application, the method comprising: receiving a training image and a first set of model parameters; generating a first model of an object; generating a second model of the object based on the training image and a second set of model parameters modified from the first set of model parameters; determining a set of poses that represent possible instances of the second model in the training image; and computing a quality metric of the first model based on an evaluation of the set of poses with respect to the training image. |
9251434 | 13788433 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for matching images across from heterogeneous sources, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and at least one processor device, coupled to the memory, operative to: (a) parse each of the images into different spatially connected semantic labeled regions; (b) create a list of potential matches by matching spatial structure-free representations of the images based on two or more of the images having same semantic labeled regions; and (c) prune the list of potential matches created in step (b) by then taking into consideration spatial arrangements of the semantic labeled regions in the images by analyzing spatial relationships of the semantic labeled regions in the images, wherein the images are parsed into the different semantic labeled regions based on a semantic visual content of the images, and the images from the heterogeneous sources are matched based on the semantic visual content of the images, and wherein the images from the heterogeneous sources comprise photographs from different perspectives and from different modalities. |
20150080729 | 14465014 | 0 | 1. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which performs transmission and reception of an ultrasonic beam from an ultrasound probe toward a blood vessel in a subject and produces an ultrasound image based on a sound ray signal obtained by processing a reception signal output from the ultrasound probe, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprising: a candidate vascular wall boundary point determiner which determines candidate vascular wall boundary points based on the sound ray signal; a first evaluation value calculator which calculates a first evaluation value representing accuracy of each of the determined candidate vascular wall boundary points as a vascular wall boundary point; a second evaluation value calculator which, by means of a sound ray signal in a predetermined depth range including the determined candidate vascular wall boundary points and a sound ray signal adjacent to the sound ray signal, calculates a second evaluation value representing similarity between the sound ray signal and the adjacent sound ray signal; a third evaluation value calculator which calculates a third evaluation value for determining the vascular wall boundary point from among the candidate vascular wall boundary points based on the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value; and a boundary determiner which determines the vascular wall boundary point based on the third evaluation value and determines a vascular wall boundary based on the determined vascular wall boundary point. |
20080205741 | 11917191 | 0 | 1. Method for recognizing a coin which is inserted in a coin-acceptor unit by using the embossed image thereof which has characteristic features, said embossed image being recorded by a camera device, the method comprising: spreading of the features, which prescribe a pattern arrangement, in the image of the coin, reducing the features by reducing the image and transforming the same with a polar transformation, comparing the transformed image with a plurality of prescribed reference patterns, according to a first simplified criterion, with a rapid processing time and producing a list of reference patterns, sorted according to their similarity to the transformed image, comparing the transformed image with the reference patterns contained in the list corresponding to the sorting thereof according to a second, exact criterion and emitting a recognition signal if one of the reference patterns corresponds to the transformed image, stopping the comparison process and rejecting the coin according to a prescribed condition. |
20020099694 | 09876925 | 0 | 1. A method for ranking relevancy of search results of a search for media on a communications network, said method comprising the steps of: categorizing metadata associated with said media, each category of metadata comprising at least one set of metadata; assigning at least one weight to each set of metadata, wherein a value of each weight is determined in accordance with a content of each set of metadata; and calculating a score for ranking said relevancy of each search result, wherein a score is calculated for each search result in accordance with said at least one assigned weight and category of each set of metadata. |
9298986 | 13708585 | 1 | 1. A method of processing video to determine an optimal or near-optimal area of interest of the video to live broadcast, comprising: receiving live video data of a playing area of a sporting event from at least one camera; defining templates for the playing area independently of the live video data, each template defining a plurality of regions of the playing area and linking an interest rating factor to each region of the plurality of regions of the playing area; determining a movement profile for each of a plurality of movable objects identified in the live video data by tracking the plurality of movable objects using at least one tracking technique not based on the live video data, wherein the movement profile defines the corresponding object's movement within the playing area of the sporting event over time, the movement profile comprising a trajectory of the object defined as a plurality of positions of the object within the playing area at a plurality of time points of the sporting event and at least one velocity at a time point of the plurality of time points; determining, at one or more time points of the sporting event, an overall interest-rating for each movable object of the plurality of movable objects based on a correlation between the movement profile of that object and at least one region of at least one template of the templates of the playing area that the movable object is currently positioned in or moving towards at the one or more time points in the sporting event, the overall interest-rating comprising a combination of the interest rating factor linked to the at least one region of the at least one template and at least one additional interest rating factor derived from the movement profile of the movable object, the movement profiles of other movable objects, and contextual factors for the sporting event; identifying, at the one or more time points of the sporting event, a sub-portion of the live video data of the playing area based on an aggregated interesting rating of a sum-total of a portion of the overall interest-ratings of the of movable objects being at least a high threshold value; determining an action to control the at least one camera for selecting an optimal camera of the at least one camera or camera position for the at least one camera; and broadcasting the identified sub-portion of the live video data of the playing area by triggering the action to control the at least one camera. |
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