Abstract: Provided herein, inter alia, are methods and compositions for treating diabetes mellitus comprising co-transplantation of an insulin-producing cell and a cell derived from a parathyroid gland (PTG), a CD34+ cell derived from a parathyroid gland, a CD34+ cell derived from a stem cell, or other progenitor cell-derived CD34+ cell.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital proofs of transaction. In one implementation, the method may include receiving an indication of a payment transaction between a merchant and a user and processing payment for the payment transaction. The payment processing system generates one or more interactive digital proofs of transaction including at least details of the payment transaction and availability of a vacancy or resource at the payee location. The user may respond via the interactive receipt.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital receipts. In one implementation, the method may include receiving an indication of a payment transaction between a merchant and a user. Via a customer identification system, an employment profile of the user; may be determined. The employment profile of the user may be compared with one or more employment vacancies within an employment database, where the employment vacancies relate to employment at one of a location of the merchant and another merchant's location. A particular employment vacancy from among the employment vacancies may be selected. The payment processing system generates one or more interactive receipts including at least a transaction component configured to display details of the payment transaction and an employment application component configured to display the particular employment vacancy.

Abstract: Hash-based application programming interface (API) importing can be prevented by allocating a name page and a guard page in memory. The name page and the guard page being associated with (i) an address of names array, (ii) an address of name ordinal array, and (iii) an address of functions array that are all generated by an operating system upon initiation of an application. The name page can then be filled with valid non-zero characters. Thereafter, protections on the guard page can be changed to no access. An entry is inserted into the address of names array pointing to a relative virtual address corresponding to anywhere within the name page. Access to the guard page causes the requesting application to terminate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements is disclosed. Each pixel element comprises a pixel circuit drive element and an emissive element, wherein the pixel circuit drive element comprises a memory cell, a current source element, and a modulation element. The present invention improves on an emissive display by providing a backplane and modulation system that enables fabrication of multi-color or monochrome LED display systems that operate efficiently and without objectionable image artifacts. One aspect of the present invention is to realize the backplane in a single crystal silicon process with a minimum number of metal layers while providing each color with a suitable operating voltage and drive current.

Abstract: Hash-based application programming interface (API) importing can be prevented by allocating a name page and a guard page in memory. The name page and the guard page being associated with (i) an address of names array, (ii) an address of name ordinal array, and (iii) an address of functions array that are all generated by an operating system upon initiation of an application. The name page can then be filled with valid non-zero characters. Thereafter, protections on the guard page can be changed to no access. An entry is inserted into the address of names array pointing to a relative virtual address corresponding to anywhere within the name page. Access to the guard page causes the requesting application to terminate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: Hash-based application programming interface (API) importing can be prevented by allocating a name page and a guard page in memory. The name page and the guard page being associated with (i) an address of names array, (ii) an address of name ordinal array, and (iii) an address of functions array that are all generated by an operating system upon initiation of an application. The name page can then be filled with valid non-zero characters. Thereafter, protections on the guard page can be changed to no access. An entry is inserted into the address of names array pointing to a relative virtual address corresponding to anywhere within the name page. Access to the guard page causes the requesting application to terminate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: Hash-based application programming interface (API) importing can be prevented by allocating a name page and a guard page in memory. The name page and the guard page being associated with (i) an address of names array, (ii) an address of name ordinal array, and (iii) an address of functions array that are all generated by an operating system upon initiation of an application. The name page can then be filled with valid non-zero characters. Thereafter, protections on the guard page can be changed to no access. An entry is inserted into the address of names array pointing to a relative virtual address corresponding to anywhere within the name page. Access to the guard page causes the requesting application to terminate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: An electronic device, method, and computer readable medium for foveated storage and processing are provided. The electronic device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs head tracking and eye tracking; generates a foveated image from an original image based on the head tracking and the eye tracking; and stores the foveated image using one of: a tile-based method or a frame-based method.

Abstract: A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements is disclosed. Each pixel element comprises a pixel circuit drive element and an emissive element, wherein the pixel circuit drive element comprises a memory cell, a current source element, and a modulation element. The present invention improves on an emissive display by providing a backplane and modulation system that enables fabrication of multi-color or monochrome LED display systems that operate efficiently and without objectionable image artifacts. One aspect of the present invention is to realize the backplane in a single crystal silicon process with a minimum number of metal layers while providing each color with a suitable operating voltage and drive current.

Abstract: A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements is disclosed. Each pixel element comprises a pixel circuit drive element and an emissive element, wherein the pixel circuit drive element comprises a memory cell, a current source element, and a modulation element. The present invention improves on an emissive display by providing a backplane and modulation system that enables fabrication of multi-color or monochrome LED display systems that operate efficiently and without objectionable image artifacts. One aspect of the present invention is to realize the backplane in a single crystal silicon process with a minimum number of metal layers while providing each color with a suitable operating voltage and drive current.

Abstract: An electronic device, method, and computer readable medium for foveated storage and processing are provided. The electronic device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs head tracking and eye tracking; generates a foveated image from an original image based on the head tracking and the eye tracking; and stores the foveated image using one of: a tile-based method or a frame-based method.

Abstract: A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements is disclosed. Each pixel element comprises a pixel circuit drive element and an emissive element, wherein the pixel circuit drive element comprises a memory cell, a current source element, and a modulation element. The present invention improves on an emissive display by providing a backplane and modulation system that enables fabrication of multi-color or monochrome LED display systems that operate efficiently and without objectionable image artifacts. One aspect of the present invention is to realize the backplane in a single crystal silicon process with a minimum number of metal layers while providing each color with a suitable operating voltage and drive current.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital receipts. In one implementation, the method may include receiving an indication of a payment transaction between a merchant and a user. Via a customer identification system, an employment profile of the user; may be determined. The employment profile of the user may be compared with one or more employment vacancies within an employment database, where the employment vacancies relate to employment at one of a location of the merchant and another merchant's location. A particular employment vacancy from among the employment vacancies may be selected. The payment processing system generates one or more interactive receipts including at least a transaction component configured to display details of the payment transaction and an employment application component configured to display the particular employment vacancy.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of a graphics accelerator, which may include an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a local memory; a direct memory access (DMA) engine; a processor; and one or more processing pipelines. The local memory stores graphics data that includes a plurality of pixels. The DMA engine transfers the graphics data between the local memory and an external memory. The processor performs at least one operation, in parallel, on components of at least a portion of the pixels. The one or more processing pipelines process the graphics data. The graphics accelerator works on operands and produces outputs for one set of pixels while the DMA engine is bringing in operands for a future set of pixel operations, and transfers data from the external memory to the one or more processing pipelines by directing data to the one or more pipelines.

Abstract: A graphics display system integrated circuit is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics display system processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The system incorporates a unified memory architecture that is shared by the graphics system, a CPU, and other peripherals. The unified memory architecture uses real time scheduling to service tasks. Critical instant analysis is used to find a schedule for memory usage that does not affect memory requirements of real time tasks while at the same time servicing non-real-time tasks as needed.

Abstract: Method and systems are provided for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections, retrieving at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server and generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content.

Abstract: Herein described is a method and system of vertically filtering a graphics image such that an enhanced image is provided to a display. Filtering of the graphics image may be accomplished by using one or more window descriptors. The method may be implemented by computing a weighted average of one or more pixel intensities. The system may comprise a memory, a processor, and a graphics engine. The graphics engine may comprise a graphics blender. The graphics blender may comprise one or more multipliers and one or more adders. The processor may execute software resident in the memory, such that the one or more window descriptors may be used to compute the weighted average.

Abstract: A television on a chip (TVOC) system that provides a cost effective approach for providing television functionality on a single integrated circuit chip is disclosed. A TVOC includes the functionality necessary to receive and display television signals in a variety of input and output formats. A TVOC can be used in set-top boxes for cable and satellite television, or directly within a television. All functionality provided can be provided on a single integrated circuit. TVOC includes a data transport module, an IF demodulator, a digital audio engine, an analog audio engine, a digital video engine, and an analog video engine. The TVOC also includes three sets of interfaces including output interfaces, control interfaces and ancillary interfaces. Further features and embodiments provide enhanced functionality and increased efficiencies.

Abstract: A video and graphics system has a reduced memory mode in which video images are reduced in half in horizontal direction during decoding. The video and graphics system includes a video decoder for decoding MPEG-2 video data. The video images may not be downscaled in the horizontal direction when no bi-directionally predicted pictures are used. The video and graphics system may output an HDTV video while converting the HDTV video and providing as another output having an SDTV format or another HDTV format. The output having an SDTV format may be recorded using a video cassette recorder (VCR) while the HDTV video is being displayed.