Abstract: Systems and methods for migrating customers to alternative financial products are provided. A set of customers of a financial institution may be identified by a financial system that includes one or more computers. Each of the customers may be eligible for a migration from a first financial product to a second financial product. A pre-migration test may be conducted for a subset of the set of customers to determine an attrition risk associated with the migration of the set of customers to the second financial product. Based upon a determination that the attrition risk is acceptable, the migration of the set of customers from the first financial product to the second financial product may be directed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating alternative financial products are provided. A first financial product offered by a financial institution may be identified, where one or more customers of the financial institution are eligible for migration from a second financial product to the first financial product. An attrition risk associated with migration of the one or more customers to the first financial product may be determined. If the attrition risk satisfies a threshold, then migration of the one or more customers to the first financial product may be directed. Otherwise, if the attrition risk fails to satisfy the threshold, then one or more characteristics associated with the first financial product may be modified.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating financial institution product offer proposals are provided. Historical information associated with a customer of a first financial institution may be evaluated to identify transaction information including at least one of (i) a set of one or more payments directed to a second financial institution different from the first financial institution or (ii) a set of one or more bills received from the second financial institution. Based at least in part upon an evaluation of the transaction information, a customer candidacy for an offer associated with a first financial institution product may be determined, and an offer proposal for the first financial institution product may be generated. The generated offer proposal or an offer for the first financial institution product may then be transmitted to a recipient.

Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizations involving insufficient funds conditions are provided. An identification of a first account of a customer of a financial institution may be received by a financial system comprising one or more computers. The first account may be a deposit account at the financial institution. Interest income and non-interest income attributable to one or more of a plurality of accounts, including the first account, that the customer has with the financial institution may be analyzed by the financial system. Based at least in part on the analyzed interest income and non-interest income, a recommended next action associated with the first account may be determined by the financial system. The recommended next action may be associated with an actual or potential insufficient funds (NSF) condition associated with the first account.

Abstract: A strategy dice game that incorporates a game platform that includes four color-coded pegs inserted into holes formed on the platform with an equal same number of twenty matching color discs placed thereon. The game also includes at least one numbered die and three colored die. Each numbered die includes twelve sides with two sides assigned to dots one thru four. Each colored disc also includes twelve sides. The first colored die has six faces with one dot that matches the color of one stack of disc and six faces with one dot that matches the color of another stack of discs. A second colored die has twelve faces divided so that four faces have three different colored dots. The third colored die has twelve faces divided so that three faces have four different colored dots. During play, each player takes turns simultaneously tossing the numbered die and one colored die. The player having the option of removing discs for from their assigned stack of discs or blocking other players from removing discs.

Abstract: A method for building a component for an electrical rotating machine is provided. The method includes providing a powdered magnetic material and an electrically conductive material, positioning these materials within a mold selected to produce the required dimensions in the materials after the application of a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) procedure, and applying at least one HIP procedure to the materials in the mold. Temperatures and pressures of the process are chosen to ensure that the electrically conducting and magnetic portions of the component are bonded without the materials seeping into each other. The method may be employed to build small compact motor systems using motor components formed as described to produce uniform grain structure and consistent magnetic and structural properties in the motor components that are useful in vehicle drive wheels.

Abstract: Systems and methods can provide for customer value optimization. The customer value optimization can include analyzing certain transaction and/or non-transaction data of customers with one or more predictive models to determine predictive modeling scores, values, or indicators. These one or more predictive modeling scores, values, or indicators can be used with other transaction or non-transaction data of customers, either alone or with other derived values/calculations, to provide certain optimizations relating to relationship optimization.

Abstract: Systems and methods can provide for customer value optimization. The customer value optimization can include analyzing certain transaction and/or non-transaction data of customers with one or more predictive models to determine predictive modeling scores, values, or indicators. These one or more predictive modeling scores, values, or indicators can be used with other transaction or non-transaction data of customers, either alone or with other derived values/calculations, to provide certain optimizations relating to product/service optimization.

Abstract: A strategy dice game that incorporates a game platform that includes four color-coded pegs inserted into holes formed on the platform with an equal same number of twenty matching color discs placed thereon. The game also includes at least one numbered die and three colored die. Each numbered die includes twelve sides with two sides assigned to dots one thru four. Each colored disc also includes twelve sides. The first colored die has six faces with one dot that matches the color of one stack of disc and six faces with one dot that matches the color of another stack of discs. A second colored die has twelve faces divided so that four faces have three different colored dots. The third colored die has twelve faces divided so that three faces have four different colored dots. During play, each player takes turns simultaneously tossing the numbered die and one colored die. The player having the option of removing discs for from their assigned stack of discs or blocking other players from removing discs.

Abstract: In embodiments of the present principles, the transmission bit rate of a video stream including anti-camcorder measures can be reduced while maintaining anti-camcorder effects and video quality. In one embodiment, a segmentor is included to segment a portion of a frame, such as a pixel, into most significant bits and least significant bits. A representative LSB can be generated and employed for concatenation with each MSB value of a sample set of portions of frames. Use of the representative LSB values in lieu of LSB values of the sample set enables an efficient transmission bit rate, as the representative LSB value can have less bits than the LSB of an original portion and can be reused with a plurality of MSB values of a sample set of portions.

Abstract: A digital cinema anti-piracy system includes a modulator configured to convert an input signal to a desired disruptive frequency and to analyze a brightness, B, of each input pixel in an input frame of the signal, the modulator for determining at least the amount of brightness Bj of each pixel to be displayed in each frame j of a set of N frames, wherein the average of all the brightness values Bj in the N set of frames is substantially equal to B, and N is substantially equal to the number of frames output for each input frame. A brightness of a pixel in a second region Bf(j) can be displayed ‘out of phase’ with the brightness Bj to create a disruptive effect which is distinguishable from the first flicker effect.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) performing a trick mode on a video signal containing a plurality of original pictures. The method includes the steps of selectively skipping (214) at least one of the original pictures to convert the video signal to a trick mode video signal in response to a trick mode command and selectively inserting (224) at least one dummy bidirectional predictive picture in the trick mode video signal using field-based prediction. The method can also include the steps of monitoring (220) the trick mode video signal in which the step of selectively inserting at least one dummy bidirectional predictive picture in the trick mode video signal can be done if the bit rate of the trick mode video signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A method of performing a trick mode on a video signal includes the steps of receiving a trick mode command and repeating a picture in the video signal to form a trick mode video signal in response to the trick mode command. If the picture being repeated is a bi-directional predictive picture, then the method can limit the repeating step to a predetermined number of times.

Abstract: A method for providing improved trick mode performance in a DVD having a plurality of video object units where each of the VOBUs contains a navigation pack. The method involves storing on the DVD within each navigation pack certain supplemental disc search information. The SDSI can include one or more of the following: a picture structure of the VOBU; a number of fields to be displayed from each picture in a normal play mode; and a number of groups of pictures contained in said VOBU.

Abstract: A method (300) of converting interlaced Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) video signals to progressive video signals can include receiving an interlaced video signal representing a luma component specifying luma lines and a chroma component specifying chroma lines (310) wherein the chroma component can specify approximately one-half the number of lines of the luma component. The interlaced video signal can be decoded and the number of the chroma lines can be increased to approximately the same as the number of the luma lines (320). The number of chroma lines of the interlaced video signal then can be decreased (340), to substantially reverse the previous increase. The interlaced video signal then can be deinterlaced to produce a progressive video signal (350), which can be processed further (360) as needed.

Abstract: A method for presenting video content including displaying the video content at an enhanced frame rate selectively modified to interfere with a recording of the video content by a camcorder. For example, the video content can be displayed at a frame rate of 54 pictures per second or a frame rate of 66 pictures per second. For implementation of the enhanced frame rate, a first picture can be displayed within the video content a first number of times and at least a second picture can be displayed a different number of times.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and system for performing a trick mode on a video signal containing a plurality of original pictures. The method includes the steps of selectively skipping at least one of the original pictures to convert the video signal to a trick mode video signal in response to a trick mode command and selectively inserting at least one dummy predictive picture in the trick mode video signal using field-based prediction. The method can also include the steps of monitoring the trick mode video signal in which the step of selectively inserting at least one dummy predictive picture in the trick mode video signal can be done if the bit rate of the trick mode video signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and system for performing a trick mode in response to a trick mode command. The method 200 can include the steps of modifying a field display order indicator of at least one intra picture having at least a first field and a second field in a video signal containing intra pictures to enable the second field of the at least one intra picture to be displayed before the first field of the at least one intra picture and decoding the at least one modified intra picture. In one arrangement, the decoding step can be performed with a remote decoder, and the video signal can include non-intra pictures.

Abstract: A projection system including an integrator with an output end having a matrix of output windows therein. A pattern of red, green and blue monochromatic filters are disposed on the output windows passing a matrix of red, green, and blue monochromatic pixels of light. An imager modulates the pixels of monochromatic light A light shift device shifts the matrix of monochromatic pixels of light to temporally form a pattern of overlying pixels of light of different colors, viewable as a color image.

Abstract: A circuit (10) for reducing errors due to adjacent pixel interdependence in a liquid crystal display includes a decomposer (12) for dividing an input signal into a plurality of signals having at least a high brightness signal and a low brightness signal, a delay match circuit (14) for the high brightness signal a split low pass filter arrangement (25) for the low brightness signal, and a combiner (24) for combining the delay matched high brightness signal and the filtered low brightness signal to provide an output, wherein the output signal has reduced sparkle.