Abstract: A method is provided for placing a first content and a second content on a display screen at a distance D along a Y-axis in an orthogonal coordinate system formed by an X-axis and the Y-axis. The method includes identifying, in the first content, a first non-display-target region which is located on the second content side, identifying, in the second content, a second non-display-target region which is located on the first content side, calculating a plurality of total widths each of which is a sum of a width of the first non-display-target region in a direction of the Y-axis and a width of the second non-display-target region in the direction of the Y-axis, the widths being at a same X-coordinate, and determining the distance D based on the plurality of total widths and a predetermined reference.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a picture generation method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium. The picture generation method includes: acquiring a plurality of content elements contained in a design of a target picture, the content elements having respective attribute information, in response to a drawing instruction, parsing the content elements to obtain one or more graphic elements for each of the plurality of content elements, each graphic element having an associated graphic parameter that corresponds to the attribute information of a respective content element, drawing the graphic elements according to the associated graphic parameters to obtain content element pictures for respective content elements, and combining the obtained content element pictures to generate the target picture.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects for altering avatar backgrounds and rendering volumetric avatars in a three-dimensional virtual environment. An aspect begins by receiving, from a first device of a first user, configuration settings specifying how a background of a first user's avatar is to be presented to a second user in the 3D virtual environment. The aspect continues by capturing a video stream of the first user and altering portions of the video stream. The configuration settings and the video stream with the altered background are used to render the first user's avatar. Another aspect begins by receiving configuration settings and a video stream with a background. The aspect continues by rendering a front surface, back surface, and side surface of an avatar based on the configuration settings and video stream.

Abstract: Vectorization of an image begins by receiving a two-dimensional rasterized image and returning a descriptor for each pixel in the image. Corner detection returns coordinates for all corners in the image. The descriptors are filtered using the corner positions to produce corner descriptors for the corner positions. A score matrix is extracted using the corner descriptors in order to produce a permutation matrix that indicates the connections between all of the corner positions. The corner coordinates and the permutation matrix are used to perform vector extraction to produce a machine-readable vector file that represents the two-dimensional image. Optionally, the corner descriptors may be refined before score extraction and the corner coordinates may be refined before vector extraction. A three-dimensional or N-dimensional image may also be input.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for remotely generating modified digital images utilizing an interactive image editing architecture. For example, the disclosed systems receive an image editing request for remotely editing a digital image utilizing an interactive image editing architecture. In some cases, the disclosed systems maintain, via a canvas worker container, a digital stream that reflects versions of the digital image. The disclosed systems determine, from the digital stream utilizing the canvas worker container, an image differential metric indicating a difference between a first version of the digital image and a second version of the digital image associated with the image editing request. Further, the disclosed systems provide the image differential metric to a client device for rendering the second version of the digital image to reflect a modification corresponding to the user interaction.

Abstract: An electronic price tag display method and an electronic price tag display system, a server and a computer readable storage medium. The method is applied to the server, and includes: obtaining basic information of data to be displayed in an image; converting the basic information into bitmap data; and delivering the bitmap data to an electronic price tag in order that the electronic price tag displays the content of the data to be displayed. By implementing the method, the process of manually editing bitmap data by the user is abandoned, the manpower resource and the time cost are saved, the efficiency of display control of the electronic price tag is improved, and the condition that the editing result is affected by human operation error is avoided simultaneously.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying objects of interest and providing relevant information about the objects of interest using augmented reality devices are disclosed. For example, a computer-implemented method may include identifying an object of interest among a plurality of objects present in an image view, determining real-time information for the object of interest based on the identifying, presenting the determined real-time information for the object of interest as part of the image view, and processing a transaction involving the object of interest based on a user selection associated with the image view.

Abstract: A method and a digital device for evaluating a generalized rational function are provided in which the evaluation of the generalized rational function includes computing all discontinuities of the generalized rational function, determining, for each discontinuity, whether or not the discontinuity is a removable discontinuity, wherein the determining includes determining whether or not the generalized random function approaches a point near the discontinuity, and displaying each removable discontinuity. A method for evaluating a generalized rational function on a handheld graphing calculator is provided that includes determining whether or not the generalized rational function has at least one asymptote and displaying the at least one asymptote on a display screen when the generalized rational function has the at least one asymptote.

Abstract: A method is provided that includes displaying, by a computing device, representations of a plurality of stock videos to a user. The representations are at a still image, a partial clip, and/or a full play of the stock video. Each of the representations include a face outline for insertion of a facial image of a user. When the user has provided a self-image to the computing device, the facial image of the user is inserted in the face outline of the representations. The facial image is extracted from the self-image. The method may include receiving a selection of one of the representations of the plurality of stock videos, and displaying a personalized video including a selected stock video with the facial image positioned within a further face outline corresponding to the face outline of the selected representation.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) identify a source map and a target map for transferring map data, where the source map and the target map have different respective coordinate frames and respective coverage areas that at least partially overlap, (ii) select a real-world element for which to transfer previously-created map data from the source map to the target map, (iii) select a source image associated with the source map in which the selected real-world element appears and has been labeled, (iv) select a target image associated with the target map in which the selected real-world element appears, (v) derive a geometric relationship between the source image and the target image, and (vi) use the derived geometric relationship between the source image and the target image to determine a position of the real-world element within the respective coordinate frame of the target map.

Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, eyeglass systems configured to automatically adjust an optical-power value, or optical power, of lenses of the eyeglass system based on the distance between eyes of a user wearing the eyeglass system and an object that the user is looking at. In some instances, the eyeglass system may determine a degree-of-convergence (DoC) or convergence angle between the left eye and the right eye of the user to determine the distance between the eyes of the user and the object the user is viewing. Further, the eyeglass system may include a power source and lenses that change their optical-power value based on different voltage or current values provided to the lenses by the power source.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating a video. The method may include: acquiring a cartoon face image sequence of a target cartoon character from a received cartoon-style video, and generating a cartoon face contour figure sequence based on the cartoon face image sequence; generating a face image sequence for a real face based on the cartoon face contour figure sequence and a received initial face image of the real face, a face expression in the face image sequence matching a face expression in the cartoon face image sequence; generating a cartoon-style face image sequence for the real face according to the face image sequence; and replacing a face image of the target cartoon character in the cartoon-style video with a cartoon-style face image in a cartoon-style face image sequence, to generate a cartoon-style video corresponding to the real face.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for displaying comment information. The disclosed techniques comprise determining position information of a mobile terminal in a first coordinate system, the mobile terminal comprising a camera, a focus point of the camera being an origin of the first coordinate system; determining first position information associated with at least one comment in the first coordinate system based on the position information of the mobile terminal; converting the first position information associated with the at least one comment to second position information associated with the at least one comment in a second coordinate system based on one or more predetermined rules; obtaining the at least one comment; and displaying the at least one comment based on the second position information associated with the at least one comment in the second coordinate system.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for creating a virtual vehicle environment includes: receiving data of a real vehicle environment; generating a first feature vector representing a respective real object by applying a second machine learning algorithm to the respective real object and storing the first feature vector; providing a plurality of stored second feature vectors representing synthetically generated objects; identifying a second feature vector having a greatest degree of similarity to the first feature vector; selecting the identified second feature vector and retrieving a stored synthetic object that is associated with the second feature vector and that corresponds to the real object or procedurally generating the synthetic object that corresponds to the real object, depending on the degree of similarity of the identified second feature vector to the first feature vector; and integrating the synthetic object into a predetermined virtual vehicle environment.

Abstract: Video decoding innovations for multithreading implementations and graphics processor unit (“GPU”) implementations are described. For example, for multithreaded decoding, a decoder uses innovations in the areas of layered data structures, picture extent discovery, a picture command queue, and/or task scheduling for multithreading. Or, for a GPU implementation, a decoder uses innovations in the areas of inverse transforms, inverse quantization, fractional interpolation, intra prediction using waves, loop filtering using waves, memory usage and/or performance-adaptive loop filtering. Innovations are also described in the areas of error handling and recovery, determination of neighbor availability for operations such as context modeling and intra prediction, CABAC decoding, computation of collocated information for direct mode macroblocks in B slices, reduction of memory consumption, implementation of trick play modes, and picture dropping for quality adjustment.

Abstract: A computer-aided design system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and user customizable design areas that are graphically indicated on the image corresponding to the model. A design area selection may be received. In response to an add design element instruction and design element specification, the specified design element is rendered in the selected design area on the model image. Customization permissions associated with the selected design area are accessed, and using the customization permissions, a first set of design element edit tools are selected and rendered. User edits to the design element may be received and rendered in real time. Manufacturing instructions may be transmitted to a printing system.

Abstract: A client device that includes a camera and an extended reality client application program is employed by a user in a physical space, such as an industrial or campus environment. The user aims the camera within the mobile device at a real-world asset, such as a computer system, classroom, or vehicle. The client device acquires a digital image via the camera and detects textual and/or pictorial content included in the acquired image that corresponds to one or more anchors. The client device queries a data intake and query system for asset content associated with the detected anchors. Upon receiving the asset content from the data intake and query system, the client device generates visualizations of the asset content and presents the visualizations via a display device.

Abstract: An information providing system provides information relating to dirt in a drain pan of an air conditioner. The information providing system is provided with a computer which is connected to a camera and a user terminal. The computer acquires image data of a target object imaged by the camera, identifies a dirty region in the image data, creates dirt-related information in which the dirty region is highlighted in the image data, and outputs the dirt-related information to the user terminal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method for providing a smart parking space guide service to provide a real-time moving route and occupancy state is executed by a parking space guide service provider server and comprises starting to trace a vehicle's moving route upon receiving the vehicle's entry event from an entry recognition device for recognizing entry of the vehicle into a parking lot, updating, in real-time, the vehicle's moving route upon real-time entry of the vehicle's moving route from at least one movement recognition device, displaying occupancy by the vehicle's parking on a pre-stored parking spot map upon sensing the vehicle's parking state from any one of at least one vehicle recognition sensor installed in at least one parking spot, and updating, in real-time, and displaying the vehicle's moving route and occupancy state on the pre-stored parking spot map.

Abstract: An augmented reality viewer includes components, assemblies, and executable logic to provide a user with the perception of rich augmented reality experiences, including aspects of the aquatic world.