Abstract: An information system includes a prediction engine for predicting an action based on a set of driving state parameters, and a driving history, and a simulation engine for generating a hypothetical scenario by simulating one or a combination of at least one driving state parameter and at least part of the driving history, such that the prediction engine predicts the action for the hypothetical scenario.

Abstract: An information system includes a prediction engine for predicting an action based on a set of driving state parameters, and a driving history, and a simulation engine for generating a hypothetical scenario by simulating one or a combination of at least one driving state parameter and at least part of the driving history, such that the prediction engine predicts the action for the hypothetical scenario.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for emulating a mouse with a multi-touch sensitive display surface, wherein a touching of the multi-touch sensitive display surface by a user creates a capacitive coupling between the user and the multi-touch sensitive display surface at a location of the touching. The method senses concurrently a first touching by a first finger at a first location on a multi-touch sensitive display surface and a second touching by a second finger at a second location on the multi-touch sensitive display surface, wherein the sensing uses capacitive couplings between the user and the multi-touch sensitive display surface; and displays a graphic object on the multi-touch display surface at a position dependent on the first location and the second location.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention describe a computer-implemented method for extracting data from web pages. During a learning stage, the embodiments receive a template web page represented by a template Document Object Model (DOM) and select a record node, which is a root node of a sub-tree of the template DOM that contains data to be extracted. After that, a record node sub-tree and data field sub-paths are stored in a memory, wherein the record node is a root node of the record node sub-tree, and the data field sub-paths are relative paths of the template DOM from the record node to data field nodes. During the extraction stage, a web page represented by a DOM-tree is received and a matched sub-tree of the DOM-tree according to a structure of the record node sub-tree is identified. Next, data from the matched sub-tree according to the data field sub-paths are extracted.

Abstract: A method summarizes a video acquired of a scene spatially and temporally by specifying a spatial query and a temporal query. Frames of the video are selected according to the spatial query and the temporal query, and then the selected frames are composited into an image that represents spatial and temporal characteristics of the scene.

Abstract: A primary image is displayed a touch sensitive surface while touches at a first location and a second location on the touch sensitive surface are sensed. A baseline between the first location and the second location is determined. The baseline has a length and orientation. A secondary image comparable to the primary image is displayed. The secondary image has a size and a point of view corresponding respectively to the length and orientation of the baseline. Multiple users can also interact with the primary image simultaneously.

Abstract: A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of display images is rendered according to the layout and the trajectory. The set of active images includes a collector image. The collector images is rendered statically in a collector frame of an image plane of the display device, while remaining images in the set of active images are rendered dynamically on the image plane. Then, the layout and trajectory are animated according user input, and the rendering and animating is repeated until a termination condition is reached.

Abstract: An enterprise integration system is coupled to a number of legacy data sources. The data sources each use different data formats and different access methods. The integration system includes a back-end interface configured to convert input data source information to input XML documents and to convert output XML document to output data source information. A front-end interface converts the output XML documents to output HTML forms and the input HTML forms to the XML documents. A middle tier includes a rules engine and a rules database. Design tools are used to define the conversion and the XML documents. A network couples the back-end interface, the front-end interface, the middle tier, the design tools, and the data sources. Mobile agents are configured to communicate the XML documents over the network and to process the XML documents according to the rules.

Abstract: A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of display images is rendered according to the layout and the trajectory. The set of active images includes a collector image. The collector images is rendered statically in a collector frame of an image plane of the display device, while remaining images in the set of active images are rendered dynamically on the image plane. Then, the layout and trajectory are animated according user input, and the rendering and animating is repeated until a termination condition is reached.

Abstract: A computerized system enables multiple users of standard Internet web browsers to collaborate by having significant states of their browser, such as which web page is currently being viewed, scrollbar positions, and form values, to be remotely controlled by users of other Internet web browsers. The system uses a monitor to poll the static and dynamic state of the selected pages, and to communicate the state with a controller executing on a web server. The content of the collaboratively viewed pages is arbitrary because viewed pages remain unmodified. Therefore, pre-existing web pages can be collaboratively browsed. Each of the users is optionally a sender or a receiver of selected web pages, and therefore is allowed to control which web pages are collaboratively viewed.