Abstract: A digital content package includes first content comprising a video feature such as a motion picture or the like, and a user-selectable application configured to operate as follows. When activated using an icon off of a menu screen, the application records an identifier for scenes (discrete portions) of the first content that are selected by a user to generate a playlist. The user may select the scenes by indicating a start and end of each scene. The application saves the playlist locally, then uploads to a server. Via a user account at the server, a user may publish the playlist to a user-created distribution list, webpage, or other electronic publication, and modify the playlist by deleting or reordering scenes.

Abstract: An integrated accessory control system can integrate functionality (services) of multiple disparate accessories and provide a unified user interface for interacting with the system via a controller device. An integrated accessory control system can include one accessory that can detect an event or action and send a notification to the controller device and at least one other accessory, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) camera, that can be operated in response to the notification. In response to the notification, a controller device can generate an integrated user interface for interacting with the accessories in the integrated accessory control system. The interface can include a live feed from the IP camera, which can provide a media stream responsive to instructions from the controller.

Abstract: A method and a device for controlling deformation on an image, and a hardware device are provided. In the method for controlling deformation on an image, a to-be-processed image is acquired; an audio file is acquired; the audio file is played and a first attribute value of the audio file corresponding to a current time point is acquired; an extent of the deformation on the image is determined based on the first attribute value; and deformation processing is performed on the to-be-processed image based on the extent of the deformation on the image. With the method for controlling deformation on an image, the extent of the deformation on the image is controlled based on the attribute value of the audio file, thereby solving the technical problem in the conventional technology that the special effects of deformation cannot be flexibly generated.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed to display advertisements in an augmented window implemented within a capsule traversing an evacuated tube transportation (ETT) structure, where advertisement(s) are displayed within different perspectives rendered in an augmented window. Additional perspectives are continuously computed for rendering in the augmented window each time a passenger moves to a different location within the capsule, where such additional perspectives are derived from pre-recorded video data in real-time and displayed in the display along with the advertisement.

Abstract: A portable device, and a method performed in a portable device, for associating media captured by the portable device to one or more parties having requested the media to be captured at one or more locations. The method comprises: receiving information associating each of the one or more parties with a location; dynamically determining a location of the portable device; dynamically associating the media captured by the portable device to the one or more parties, such that media currently being captured by the portable device is associated with a party that according to the received information is associated with a current location of the portable device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method of a camera module, a control device, a terminal, a nonvolatile computer readable storage medium and a computer device. The control method includes: obtaining a projection distance between a target user and the camera module; determining a control parameter of the camera module according to the projection distance and controlling the camera module based on the control parameter.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention discloses a process of providing a report predicting potential risks relating to an operator driving a vehicle using information obtained from various interior and exterior sensors, vehicle onboard computer (“VOC”), and cloud network. After activating interior and exterior sensors mounted on a vehicle operated by a driver for obtaining data relating to external surroundings and internal environment, the data is forwarded to VOC for generating a current fingerprint associated with the driver. The current fingerprint represents current driving status in accordance with the collected real-time data. Upon uploading the current fingerprint to the cloud via a communications network, a historical fingerprint which represents historical driving information associated with the driver is retrieved.

Abstract: A method, system and computer readable program storage device for controlling placement of a holographic object in a specified area. In an embodiment, the method comprises identifying, by one or more processors, at least one person in a specified area; determining by the one or more processors, a sight zone in the specified area for the identified at least one person; creating, by a holographic projector, a holographic object in the specified area; and controlling, by the one or more processors, a location of the holographic object to keep the holographic object out of said determined sight zone. In an embodiment, a group of persons are identified in the specified area as having no interest or a low interest in the holographic object, and an aggregate sight zone is determined for this group of persons. An allow zone, outside this aggregate sight zone, is determined for the holographic object, and the controlling a location of the holographic object includes keeping the holographic object in the allow zone.

Abstract: Techniques for colorimetric based test strip analysis and reader system are provided. In one aspect, a method of test strip analysis includes: illuminating a test strip wetted with a sample with select spectrums of light, wherein the test strip includes test pads that are configured to change color in the presence of an analyte in the sample; obtaining at least one digital image of the test strip; and analyzing color intensity from the at least one digital image against calibration curves to determine an analyte concentration in the sample with correction for one or more interference substances in the sample that affect the color intensity. A calibration method and a reader device are also provided.

Abstract: A method of determining a pose of an image capture device includes capturing an image using an image capture device. The method also includes generating a data structure corresponding to the captured image. The method further includes comparing the data structure with a plurality of known data structures to identify a most similar known data structure. Moreover, the method includes reading metadata corresponding to the most similar known data structure to determine a pose of the image capture device.

Abstract: Audio systems in which a primary audio device (28) communicates wirelessly with a second audio device (36) include a latency caused by the communication between the two audio devices. For example, a truly wireless audio device can comprise a first earpiece and a second earpiece. The electronic device (10) that is playing a media file transmits audio data to the first earpiece. The first earpiece then transmits a portion of the audio data to the second earpiece. This communication between the first and second earpiece causes a latency that the system can account for in order to synchronize a video playback with the corresponding audio playback on the wireless headset.

Abstract: Feature information characterize features of video clips may be obtained. A given video clip may be selected as a segment of a video edit. Other video clips may be iteratively selected as other segments of the video edit based on the feature information of the video clips and recommended feature information of the segments. Recommended feature information of a particular segment may be obtained by processing feature information of a previously selected video clip through a trained recurrent neural network. Video edit information defining the video edit may be generated. The video edit may include the selected video clips as the segments of the video edit.

Abstract: A method for playing media data is disclosed, including: transmitting, by a first operating system, a request for processing the media data to a second operating system, the first operating system and the second operating system being installed on a same device; receiving, by the first operating system, processing results from the second operating system, wherein the second operating system is configured to process the media data based at least in part on the request to generate the processing results; and playing the media data by the first operating system based at least in part on the processing results.

Abstract: An time variant geographical information acquisition system for mobile vehicles and the system thereof is disclosed, which provides the time variant geographic information system to at least one mobile vehicle located in the aforementioned three-dimensional space, wherein the system comprises: a plurality of image capturing apparatus, at least one monitoring host and at least one time variant geographical information acquisition system for mobile vehicles installed on the above-said mobile vehicle, in which the data capture device includes: a wireless communication unit, connected to the image capturing apparatus and/or the monitoring host; a timing unit, used to output a timing signal in cooperation with the wireless communication unit; a memory module, storing the geographic information corresponding to at least the aforementioned mobile vehicle in the three-dimensional space; and a traffic scenario output interface, collectively displaying the geographic information and the time variant object information.

Abstract: An augmented reality display system is configured to direct a plurality of parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images into a viewer's eye. The parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images provide different parallax views of a virtual object, and impinge on the pupil from different angles. In the aggregate, the wavefronts of light forming the images approximate a continuous divergent wavefront and provide selectable accommodation cues for the user, depending on the amount of parallax disparity between the intra-pupil images. The amount of parallax disparity is selected using a light source that outputs light for different images from different locations, with spatial differences in the locations of the light output providing differences in the paths that the light takes to the eye, which in turn provide different amounts of parallax disparity.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image-capturing device includes a first camera, a second camera, a driving member and a sensing member. The second camera is at one side of the first camera and is capable of being moved laterally by the driving member. After depth-sensing and establishing orientations in an image, the driving member is able to drive the second camera to move relative to the first camera, to change a distance between the first camera and the second camera. Such relative movement allows a greater range of three dimensionality for face recognition and other purposes.

Abstract: A social entertainment user interface operating on a wireless networked record session device capable of producing a live video and/or audio stream as if made in a vintage record booth. Record sessions are listened to and/or watched by a plurality of other social entertainment user interfaces operating on other networked listening/watching wireless networked devices. Video and audio filters emulate various altered looks and sounds. Record sessions are streamed live or near-live for other social entertainment user interfaces operating on other networked wireless devices to listen and/or watch, and passively and actively rated to dynamically enable watching of the most preferred record sessions.

Abstract: To provide HMD including an image display unit worn by a user on a head and configured to display an image, a camera provided in the image display unit and configured to capture an image in a predetermined direction relative to the image display unit, and a control unit configured to specify a non-display region in an imaging range of the camera, perform a process of lowering a clarity of the non-display region on captured image data of the camera, and output the processed captured image data.

Abstract: A video management method and apparatus, image capturing device and storage medium are provided. The video management method includes: obtaining a first driving record video from storage space when a capacity of available space of the storage space is less than a target capacity threshold, wherein the storage space stores at least one driving record video of a target vehicle, and the first driving record video includes a plurality of video frames; and deleting at least one video frame from the video frames included in the first driving record video to obtain a second driving record video. Object captured in the first driving record video are in the second driving record video, so that information safety of users is ensured.

Abstract: A processor determines metadata associated with an audio track. The processor identifies categories that are related to the audio track based on the metadata. The processor determines rankings for the categories that are related to the audio track. The ranking is indicative of a relevance of a particular category to the audio track. The processor performs a query to identify visual media for one or more of ranked categories. The visual media is related to the audio track. The processor generates a visual presentation for the audio track by selecting at least some of the visual media to include in the visual presentation.