Patents Issued in February 7, 2017
  • Patent number: 9563796
    Abstract: A synthetic grass implant/marker that serves as a surface mounted visual marker for a feature or device located nearby or underground and has all the features and advantages of such a synthetic grass implant, and that additionally includes an externally mounted RFID and coil antenna mounting device having a cavity in which is mounted an RFID device such as an RFID tag or chip that can programmed with information concerning the feature or device it is marking, and which information can be obtained by utilizing an RFID reader to obtain the stored information from the implant/marker, as well as a coil antenna for the RFID device. Legs on the externally mounted RFID and coil antenna mounting device interconnect with holes located in a top surface of the implant/marker to mate the two pieces together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: PHMPHILIPPE MORISSE SAL
    Inventor: Philippe Marc Francois Morisse
  • Patent number: 9563797
    Abstract: Provided herein is a system for transmitting data to an object travelling along a surface. The object preferably contains an antenna which produces a read range having a length (L) in the direction of travel and a width (W) substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel. A first plurality of RFID transponders may be positioned within a surface as a row which is substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel. A second plurality of RFID transponders may be positioned following the first row. Depending on the speed of the object travelling the surface at this location, more rows of transponders may be used. A method for placing the RFID transponders within the surface is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ADAPTIVE CONTROLS HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Smith
  • Patent number: 9563798
    Abstract: A method and system for enabling a conventional smartphone to read and authenticate an invisible barcode or other invisible insignia printed using an invisible printing ink containing a phosphorescent luminophore, and a software application, without a hardware alteration to the smartphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: V.L. Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Vadim Laser, Max Burkhart
  • Patent number: 9563799
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing the likelihood of false positive decodes within a set of barcodes are disclosed. The method can be implemented in a computing device, which includes: providing a list of barcode configurations that meet damage tolerance criteria; reducing, if possible, each configuration list to barcode configurations that have a compatible configuration pair between sets; and comparing all possible combinations of barcode type configurations to find at least one set of configurations that are resistant to false positives decodes between barcode types during decoding processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Richard C. Vanhall
  • Patent number: 9563800
    Abstract: An intelligent entrance guard unlocking method includes: transmitting electric energy of a power unit of a intelligent entrance guard in a wireless electromagnetic radiation via a transmit coil; receiving the electric energy via a receiver coil of a powerless smart key; capturing a fingerprint image of an user and storing the fingerprint image in a second storage unit of the powerless smart key; controlling a wireless transmit unit of the powerless smart key to transmit a wireless signal containing the fingerprint image to the intelligent entrance guard; obtaining a predefined fingerprint image from a first storage unit of the intelligent entrance guard and comparing the fingerprint image with the predefined fingerprint image; unlocking the intelligent entrance guard when the fingerprint image matches with the predefined fingerprint image and not unlocking the intelligent entrance guard when the fingerprint image does not match with the predefined fingerprint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Nan Chen, Chia-Wei Chang, Wen-Kuei Chou, Kuang-Yao Liao, Chih-Chung Weng
  • Patent number: 9563801
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for producing a relief print image. Two or more sensor arrays can be combined, and an electroluminescent layer can be deposited over the combined arrays. A resulting scanner component may be able to scan a larger area of a body part at the same time. The scanner may generate a relief print data sets indicative of light from the electroluminescent layer that are received by a first and second sensor array. The scanner can comprise the first and second sensor arrays coupled together, and the sensor arrays can be configured to convert received photons to an electrical signal. The scanner may also comprise the electroluminescent layer disposed on top of the coupled first and second sensor arrays. An image stitching component can stitch together the sets of relief print data, to create relief print image data indicative of a relief print image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: IB Korea Ltd.
    Inventors: Fred Frye, Gerard R. Weimann
  • Patent number: 9563802
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification chip with enhanced ESD protection includes receiving pads disposed on a surface of a chip and arranged in a matrix format. The receiving pad has a central region and a peripheral region which surrounds at least an edge of the central region. The peripheral region of the receiving pad is higher than the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Po-Chuan Lin
  • Patent number: 9563803
    Abstract: This document describes techniques enabling tagging of visual media on a mobile device. In some cases the techniques determine, based on meeting a threshold of manual tagging of a person or object, to “bulk” tag visual media stored on the mobile device. Thus, the techniques can present, in rapid succession, photos and videos with the recognized person or object to enable the user to quickly and easily confirm or reject the recognition. Also, the techniques can present numerous faces for recognized persons or sub-images for recognized objects on a display at one time, thereby enabling quick and easy confirmation or rejection of the recognitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Bakak Robert Shakib, Denis Otchenashko, Andrii Tsarov
  • Patent number: 9563804
    Abstract: A display device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method for controlling a display device comprises a display unit configured to display visual information, including a private region and a public region; a control input sensing unit configured to detect a control input and to deliver the detected control input to a processor; and the processor configured to control the display unit and the control input sensing unit. In this case, the processor may display a control object in the private region, detect a first control input, move the control object from the private region to a first position of the public region based on the detected first control input and display a control indicator corresponding to the control object in a second position of the private region. In this case, the second position may be set based on the first position of the control object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihwan Kim, Sihwa Park
  • Patent number: 9563805
    Abstract: The invention relates to method and apparatus of an eye gaze tracking system. In particular, the present invention relates to method and apparatus of an eye gaze tracking system using a generic camera under normal environment, featuring low cost and simple operation. The present invention also relates to method and apparatus of an accurate eye gaze tracking system that can tolerate large illumination changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hong Kong Baptist University
    Inventors: Yiu-ming Cheung, Qinmu Peng
  • Patent number: 9563806
    Abstract: A measurement vector of compressive measurements is received. The measurement vector may be derived by applying a sensing matrix to a source signal. The sensing matrix may be derived from a frequency domain transform. At least one first feature vector is generated from the measurement vector. The first feature vector is an estimate of a second feature vector. The second feature vector is a feature vector that corresponds to a translation of the source signal. An anomaly is detected to in the source signal based on the first feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Raziel Haimi-Cohen, Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 9563807
    Abstract: A method for analyzing an image recorded by a camera of a vehicle. The method includes a step of reading the image of the camera. Furthermore, the method includes a step of recognizing at least one object in a subsection of the image, the subsection imaging a smaller area of the vehicle surroundings than the image. Furthermore, the method includes a step of transmitting the subsection and/or information about the subsection of the image to a driver assistance module. Finally, the method includes a step of using the subsection of the image and/or the information about the subsection of the image instead of the entire image in the driver assistance module, in order to analyze the image recorded by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Petko Faber, Gregor Schwarzenberg
  • Patent number: 9563808
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for improved target grouping of sensor measurements in an object detection system. The method uses road curvature information to improve grouping accuracy by better predicting a new location of a known target object and matching it to sensor measurements. Additional target attributes are also used for improved grouping accuracy, where the attributes includes range rate, target cross-section and others. Distance compression is also employed for improved grouping accuracy, where range is compressed in a log scale calculation in order to diminish errors in measurement of distant objects. Grid-based techniques include the use of hash tables and a flood fill algorithm for improved computational performance of target object identification, where the number of computations can be reduced by an order of magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Shuqing Zeng, Kevin A. O'Dea, Dmitriy Feldman, James N. Nickolaou
  • Patent number: 9563809
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle includes at least one forward viewing camera and a control having an image processor operable to process image data captured by the forward viewing camera. The vehicle includes start-stop technology operable to turn off the engine of the vehicle when the vehicle stops and operable to restart the engine of the vehicle to enable the vehicle drive forward. Responsive at least in part to processing by the image processor of captured image data, the driver assistance system determines that the vehicle, when stopped, is behind a stopped leading vehicle. Responsive at least in part to processing by the image processor of captured image data, the driver assistance system determines forward movement of the leading vehicle from its stopped position. Responsive at least in part to the determination of forward movement of the leading vehicle, the control automatically restarts the engine of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ove J. Salomonsson, Christopher L. Van Dan Elzen
  • Patent number: 9563810
    Abstract: Apparatus for identifying a requesting individual who wishes to receive a computer file, or to input or alter computer information, where identifying information for each of a plurality of registered individuals allowed such access is stored in a database, calls for capturing images of such requesting individual, and determining whether this individual is the same as a registered individual. The stored identifying information includes both an alphanumeric identifier and images of a unique, identifier of each registered individual. The specificity of the identification is enhanced by providing and storing, by apparatus situated at the information source, a code which is converted to a code-image and displayed in proximity to the requesting individual; by obtaining composite images of both the biologic identifier and the code-image; by comparing the obtained image information with stored image information; and by providing computer access only if the obtained image information matches stored image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Matos
  • Patent number: 9563811
    Abstract: A character recognition method for recognizing a character of a medium is provided. A character image of an individual character from a medium is acquired and the character image is read out step by step to determine the character according to a hierarchical structure in which a set of predetermined characters are hierarchically classified into a plurality of groups configured of main groups and sub groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Beum Yong Koo
  • Patent number: 9563812
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a recognition unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a first similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a first character string appearing on a first image and respective candidate characters in a candidate character group, and to calculate a second similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a second character string appearing on a second image and the respective candidate characters in the candidate character group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Yasunaga, Kazuki Taira
  • Patent number: 9563813
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for tracking objects are described herein. Aspects of this disclosure efficiently update object “belief” data by creating a bitmap representation of object locations and velocities. The bitmap provides a three-dimensional representation of the object as viewed by one or more sensors. The bitmap representations are blended with sensor data over time to determine a current object belief state which can accurately account for asynchronous sensor data. Peaks in the belief data, which may be represented by pixels with an intensity value above a threshold value, are identified as likely objects. Additional sensor data is used to detect longitudinal velocities located at one or more of the peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Leigh Smith
  • Patent number: 9563814
    Abstract: Some aspects of the invention relate to a mobile apparatus including an image sensor configured to convert an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. The mobile apparatus includes an interface configured to transmit the vehicle license plate information to a remote apparatus and receive a vehicle identification number corresponding to the vehicle license plate image in response to the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Blinker, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Russell Wilbert, Hans Brandon Wach, David Ching-Chien Chung
  • Patent number: 9563815
    Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of, at a computer system, receiving an image recorded at and transmitted from a remote source, at the computer system, processing the transmitted image, for segregation of the transmitted image into a corresponding intrinsic image and, at the computer system, processing the corresponding intrinsic image to perform a preselected task, for a result. As a further feature of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the remote source comprises a cell phone or remote computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias M. de Haan, Richard Mark Friedhoff, Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Casey Arthur Smith, Youngrock Yoon
  • Patent number: 9563816
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a first feature extraction unit configured to extract, as a first feature, a feature of a component assembly in which components are assembled for each of viewpoints; a second feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature of the components as a second feature for each of the viewpoints; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the first feature and the second feature, a viewpoint for inspecting an assembled state of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sonoko Miyatani
  • Patent number: 9563817
    Abstract: An apparatus reconstructs an image using high energy-based data regarding a scene provides access to first image-capture data regarding the scene that is formed using a first image-capture modality and to second image-capture data that is formed using a second (different) image-capture modality. A control circuit executes an iterative image reconstruction process that establishes a first and a second image-representation channel, a fidelity error measure that measures inconsistency of the image as compared to first image-capture data and second image-capture data, and a prior-penalty term that scores the image based on a priori likelihood or desirability using, at least in part, for each of a plurality of pixels, a non-separable matrix-penalty of a Jacobian-matrix of the image at that pixel, such as nuclear norm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin M. Holt
  • Patent number: 9563818
    Abstract: A system derives and associates tag information with an image supporting image feature search. The system receives arrangement search information used for searching for one or more images including a target object associated with a specific arrangement of tag information. The system analyzes the tag information of the images, and searches for an image having the arrangement information which satisfies the arrangement search information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Kyung Hwang, Doo-Suk Kang, Sae-Mee Yim, Eui-Chang Jung, Bo-Kun Choi
  • Patent number: 9563819
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for visualizing a product using standard and personal objects. An image can be retrieved from the shopping history or shopping cart of a user, and the dimensions of the image can be automatically adjusted to make an accurate relative size comparison to a product for purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Minkyong Kim, Min Li, Clifford A. Pickover, Valentina Salapura
  • Patent number: 9563820
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for organization and presentation of content. In some embodiments, a plurality of images and a plurality of similarity rules for image categorization are received. For each image in the plurality of images, that image and each remaining image from the plurality is compared by: applying each similarity rule to the image and a remaining image from the plurality to obtain a numeric result, and recording the numeric result for the pair of images in a numeric representation, the numeric representation embodying similarities. The numeric representation is used as a reference for clustering the plurality of images into clusters of similar images, and each image is stored with a marker denoting a cluster to which it has been assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dwan, Jinpeng Ren
  • Patent number: 9563821
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detecting the location of a face feature point using an Adaboost learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yeongjae Cheon, Yongchan Park
  • Patent number: 9563822
    Abstract: A first extracting unit extracts partial images from a learning image. A first calculator calculates a feature amount of the partial image. A retrieving unit retrieves objects included in the partial image, and gives, as a label, a vector to the feature amount. The vector represents relative positions between a first position in the partial image and each object included in the partial image. A voting unit generates a voting histogram for each partial image. A learning unit divides the feature amount of each partial image into clusters to reduce variation of the corresponding voting histogram, so as to learn a regression model representing a relationship between the feature amount of the partial image and the relative position of the object included in the partial image. A first predicting unit predicts, for each cluster, a representative label from the label given to the feature amount belonging to the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Quoc Viet Pham
  • Patent number: 9563823
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first management unit configured to classify and manage feature information of a plurality of objects extracted from image data in units of similar feature information, a second management unit configured to classify and manage the plurality of objects extracted from the image data object by object, an association unit configured to associate the objects in the first management unit with feature information in the second management unit, and an input unit configured to input a correction instruction about classifications of the objects by the second management unit. The second management unit is configured to, if the correction instruction is input, correct and manage a classification to which a target object of the correction instruction belongs and the first management unit is configured to change and manage a classification to which feature information associated with the target object of the correction instruction belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Umeda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi
  • Patent number: 9563824
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for assigning a color class of a defined finite set of colors to at least one sub-region within a test image are presented. A plurality of sub-regions are identified within a test image. A first sub-region color value is determined for a selected first sub-region of the test image. Using the first sub-region color value and a plurality of zero-order probability distributions, a first color class of the defined finite set of colors is determined as a hypothesis color for the first sub-region. A second sub-region color value is determined for a selected second sub-region of the test image. Using the second sub-region color value and a conditional probability distribution conditioned on the hypothesis color for the first sub-region, a second color class of the defined set of colors is determined. The second color class is assigned to the second sub-region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Emilio Maggio, Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr
  • Patent number: 9563825
    Abstract: A convolutional neural network is trained to analyze input data in various different manners. The convolutional neural network includes multiple layers, one of which is a convolution layer that performs a convolution, for each of one or more filters in the convolution layer, of the filter over the input data. The convolution includes generation of an inner product based on the filter and the input data. Both the filter of the convolution layer and the input data are binarized, allowing the inner product to be computed using particular operations that are typically faster than multiplication of floating point values. The possible results for the convolution layer can optionally be pre-computed and stored in a look-up table. Thus, during operation of the convolutional neural network, rather than performing the convolution on the input data, the pre-computed result can be obtained from the look-up table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaohui Shen, Haoxiang Li, Zhe Lin, Jonathan W. Brandt
  • Patent number: 9563826
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an advertisement is matched to subject matter in a portion of rich media content, such as a digital video, Flash™ animation, etc. For example, during the playing of rich media content, it may be determined by audio recognition techniques that the content's subject matter matches or correlates with an advertisement. Rendering preferences associated with the advertisement are then determined. The rendering preferences may be used to determine how the advertisement should be rendered (i.e., displayed in association with the content). The advertisement is then served to a device. The advertisement is served such that it can be rendered relative to a time that the portion of media is being displayed on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Tremor Video, Inc.
    Inventors: Wai Kit Lau, Steven Lee, Pete Martin
  • Patent number: 9563827
    Abstract: An extractor extracts a gloss control value unused in first gloss control plane data. A conversion table generator generates a conversion table defining a special color density value corresponding to the extracted gloss control value. A second surface effect conversion table generator generates a second surface effect conversion table obtained by registering, in the first surface effect conversion table, definition information for the special color image specified by the special color density value in the conversion table in association with the gloss control values in the conversion table. A second gloss control plane data generator generates second gloss control plane data in which the special color density value in the clear plane data is converted into the corresponding gloss control value in the conversion table. A clear toner plane generator generates the clear toner plane data based on the second surface effect conversion table and third gloss control plane data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Awamura, Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9563828
    Abstract: A color conversion method according to the present invention, in which a scanner that outputs a first color value of a device-dependent color space is used, includes the steps of: acquiring the first color value by reading, by the scanner, a printed material which is based on image data composed of C, M, Y, K values; converting the acquired first color value to a second color value using a scanner profile of the scanner; mapping the first color value acquired from the printed material to the K value of the image data of the printed material; determining a correction quantity of the second color value from the mapped first color value and the K value using a scanner profile correcting LUT; and correcting the converted second color value using the determined correction quantity of the second color value, and outputting the second color value after being corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Rumi Imaseki, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9563829
    Abstract: A jam detection section detects a sheet jam on a conveyance path based on results of detection by a sheet detection sensor. A printing stop section stops an image formation operation upon the sheet jam detection by the sheet jam detection section. Upon detection of completion of an operation of resolving the sheet jam by a user by a resolving operation detection section, a sheet breakage confirmation section judges, for the sheet taken out from the conveyance path by the user in the operation of resolving the sheet jam and then loaded on a document stand, whether or not there is any sheet lacking portion, based on image data generated by an image reading section. The stopping release section, upon judgment by the sheet breakage confirmation section that there is no sheet lacking portion, permits execution of image formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Daigo, Masuo Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9563830
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an incremental information object with an embedded information region (IIOEIR) are provided. A method includes analyzing an IIOEIR to determine a first code, wherein the IIOEIR includes a plurality of tiles, and wherein a first set of the plurality of tiles includes a first code and a second set of the plurality of tiles includes a second code. The first code is confirmed, and, if the confirmation succeeds, generating a new code comprising a bitstream, overwriting the bitstream onto the first region. A new second code is generated, wherein the new second code is related to the first code, and the new second code is overwritten onto a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven J. Simske, A. Marie Vans
  • Patent number: 9563831
    Abstract: A method of, and a system and a label for, authenticating an object in situ create an authentication pattern signature for the object to be authenticated, associate a random distribution of multiple, three-dimensional elements with the object, aim a portable, handheld, image capture device at the object to capture return light from the elements as a single image, verify from the single image that the elements are three-dimensional, process the single image to generate an image pattern of the elements, compare the image pattern with the authentication pattern signature, and indicate that the object is authentic when the image pattern matches the authentication pattern signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ZORTAG, INC.
    Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Xianfeng Gu, Robert James Hart
  • Patent number: 9563832
    Abstract: Excess radio-frequency (RF) power storage and power sharing RF Identification (RFID) tags, and related RFID tag connection systems and methods are disclosed. The excess RF power storage and power sharing RFID tags and related RFID tag connection systems and methods in embodiments disclosed herein allow connected RFID tags to store excess energy derived from excess received RF power in a shared energy storage device. In this manner, an individual RFID tag or a group of connected RFID tags in the RFID tag connection system can continue operation during temporary times when sufficient RF power is not being received from a RFID reader. Sharing stored energy derived from excess received RF power in a shared energy storage device among connected RFID tags in a RFID tag connection system can significantly mitigate problems of RF power interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: John David Downie, James Scott Sutherland, James Patrick Trice, Richard Edward Wagner, Matthew Scott Whiting
  • Patent number: 9563833
    Abstract: A method of detecting a stimulus can include detecting an output from a radio frequency identification tag including a sensor. A smartphone-based sensing strategy can use chemiresponsive nanomaterials integrated into the circuitry of commercial Near Field Communication tags to achieve non-line-of-sight, portable, and inexpensive detection and discrimination of gas phase chemicals (e.g., ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, cyclohexanone, and water) at part-per-thousand and part-per-million concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Timothy Manning Swager, Joseph Michael Azzarelli, Jens Bomholdt Ravnsbæk, Katherine Andrea Mirica
  • Patent number: 9563834
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a flexible high-temperature-tolerant RFID tag having an RFID integrated packaged in an SOT package attached with a high temperature solder to a flex circuit defining an RFID antenna. In an illustrative embodiment, the flexible high-temperature-tolerant RFID tag may be encapsulated in a flexible material. For example, the SOT packaged RFID integrated circuit may be encapsulated in rubber. In some embodiments the entire assembled RFID tag may be encapsulated in rubber or another flexible compound. In some embodiments, such flexible high-temperature-tolerant RFID tags may be advantageously used in high-temperature applications. In an exemplary embodiment, flexible high-temperature-tolerant RFID tags may be attached to products that may be flexible and/or deformable. In an exemplary embodiment, a flexible high-temperature-tolerant RFID tag may be molded into a rubber that will be used in a flexible application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Imbruglio
  • Patent number: 9563835
    Abstract: An apparatus for automatic radio-frequency identification (RFID). In an embodiment, the apparatus comprises a flexible strap comprising a plurality of holes and a buckle configured to buckle to any one of the plurality of holes, such that, when the buckle is buckled to one of the plurality of holes, the strap forms a closed loop. The apparatus further comprises one or more tag enclosures. Each tag enclosure comprises one or more buckles and a RFID tag configured to communicate identifying data to a reader device. The one or more buckles of each tag enclosure are each configured to buckle to any one of the plurality of holes on the strap such that the tag enclosure may be attached to the strap at any one of a plurality of positions on the strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUAKE GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventors: Chetan Shantilal Karani, Alexander Lee O'Bruba
  • Patent number: 9563836
    Abstract: A wearable tag capable of wireless communications includes a first elastic layer, a second elastic layer over the first elastic layer, wherein the second elastic layer is embedded with a first conductive circuit. The wearable tag includes a dielectric layer on the second elastic layer, a third elastic layer on the dielectric layer, wherein the third elastic layer is embedded with a second conductive circuit, wherein the dielectric layer comprises via holes that contain electric connections between the semiconductor chip and the first conductive circuit. A semiconductor chip is in connection with the first conductive circuit and the second conductive circuit, wherein the semiconductor chip, the first conductive circuit, and the second conductive circuit are configured to wirelessly communicate with external devices. The wearable tag also includes a fourth elastic layer on the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: VivaLnk Limited (Cayman Islands)
    Inventors: Junfeng Mei, Jie Li
  • Patent number: 9563837
    Abstract: A hybrid tag is employed to magnetic system and radio frequency system and contains: an IC chip and an antenna electrically connected with the IC chip. The IC chip includes a memory storage unit configured to store digital data, and the antenna is made of mixture composition in a printing manner, wherein the mixture composition includes electrically conductive material, magnetic material, dispersant and adhesive, and wherein the hybrid tag responds magnetic waves within low frequency (LF) range and responds radio frequency signals within high frequency (HF) range, ultra high frequency (UHF) range, and microwave range. Thereby, the hybrid tag is manufactured easily at low production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: BGT MATERIALS LIMITED
    Inventors: Chung-Ping Lai, Jia-Cing Chen, Kuo-Hsin Chang
  • Patent number: 9563838
    Abstract: A loop antenna includes first and second conductors configured to have conductivity, the first conductor including first and second patterns, the first pattern being provided along a first surface and including a first feed point, and the second pattern being coupled to the first pattern at a first end of the first surface and being provided to oppose the first pattern; and a second conductor configured to have conductivity, the second conductor including third and fourth patterns, the third pattern being provided on the first surface with a gap generating a capacitance between the first pattern and including a second feed point, the fourth pattern being electrically coupled to the third pattern at a second end opposing the first end on the first surface, the fourth pattern overlapping the second pattern so as to cause capacitive coupling or being connected to the second pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasumitsu Ban, Manabu Kai
  • Patent number: 9563839
    Abstract: A non-biological asynchronous neural network system comprising multiple neurons to receive respective input signals representing an input stimulus for the network, supply an output signal representing a spatio-temporal sequence of rhythmic electric pulses to an external system, wherein respective ones of the multiple neurons are connected using multiple mutually inhibitory links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: The University of Bath
    Inventor: Alain Nogaret
  • Patent number: 9563840
    Abstract: A parallel convolutional neural network is provided. The CNN is implemented by a plurality of convolutional neural networks each on a respective processing node. Each CNN has a plurality of layers. A subset of the layers are interconnected between processing nodes such that activations are fed forward across nodes. The remaining subset is not so interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton
  • Patent number: 9563841
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a globally asynchronous and locally synchronous neuromorphic network. One embodiment comprises generating a synchronization signal that is distributed to a plurality of neural core circuits. In response to the synchronization signal, in at least one core circuit, incoming spike events maintained by said at least one core circuit are processed to generate an outgoing spike event. Spike events are asynchronously communicated between the core circuits via a routing fabric comprising multiple asynchronous routers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Paul A. Merolla, Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 9563842
    Abstract: A neural system comprises multiple neurons interconnected via synapse devices. Each neuron integrates input signals arriving on its dendrite, generates a spike in response to the integrated input signals exceeding a threshold, and sends the spike to the interconnected neurons via its axon. The system further includes multiple noruens, each noruen is interconnected via the interconnect network with those neurons that the noruen's corresponding neuron sends its axon to. Each noruen integrates input spikes from connected spiking neurons and generates a spike in response to the integrated input spikes exceeding a threshold. There can be one noruen for every corresponding neuron. For a first neuron connected via its axon via a synapse to dendrite of a second neuron, a noruen corresponding to the second neuron is connected via its axon through the same synapse to dendrite of the noruen corresponding to the first neuron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 9563843
    Abstract: Systems and methods for understanding (imputing meaning to) multi modal data streams may be used in intelligent surveillance and allow a) real-time integration of streaming data from video, audio, infrared and other sensors; b) processing of the results of such integration to obtain understanding of the situation as it unfolds; c) assessing the level of threat inherent in the situation; and d) generating of warning advisories delivered to appropriate recipients as necessary for mitigating the threat. The system generates understanding of the system by creating and manipulating models of the situation as it unfolds. The creation and manipulation involve “neuronal packets” formed in mutually constraining associative networks of four basic types. The process is thermodynamically driven, striving to produce a minimal number of maximally stable models. Obtaining such models is experienced as grasping, or understanding the input stream (objects, their relations and the flow of changes).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventor: Yan M. Yufik
  • Patent number: 9563844
    Abstract: A tool computes fitness values for a first generation of a first sub-population of a plurality of sub-populations. A population of candidate solutions for an optimization problem was previously divided into the plurality of sub-populations. The population of candidate solutions was created for an iterative computing process in accordance with an evolutionary algorithm to identify a most fit candidate solution for the optimization problem. The tool determines a speculative ranking of the first generation of the first sub-population prior to the fitness values being computed for all candidate solutions in the first generation of the first sub-population. The tool generates a next generation of the first sub-population based, at least in part, on the speculative ranking prior to completion of computation of the fitness values for the first generation of the first sub-population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jason F. Cantin
  • Patent number: 9563845
    Abstract: Techniques are described for employing precomputed results of applying rules to content items, the rules applicable to determine whether content items may be electronically published. On receiving a request for a content item, rules applicable to the content item may be identified. A datastore of precomputed results of rule application may be accessed to determine whether the datastore includes a result of applying a current or previous version of each rule. If the datastore includes a current result, the current result may be employed in determine whether the content item may be presented. If the datastore includes a previous result, the previous result may be so employed. If the datastore includes a previous result or no appropriate result, a job may be queued to calculate the current result asynchronously relative to the request for the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon William Porter, Robert Stanley Bailes, Aaron Ben Fernandes, Michael James McInerny, Vishal Parakh, Harsha Ramalingam, Karthik Tamilmani