Patents Issued in February 7, 2017
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Patent number: 9563896Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for tracking manufacturing steps comprising: tracking kinetic movements of an assembler over a period of time to provide kinetic tracking information, the kinetic movements comprising product assembly movements; storing the kinetic tracking information in a kinetic tracking information repository; identifying a defect in an item manufactured during the period of time; and, analyzing the kinetic tracking information to determine whether the kinetic movements of the assembler contributed to the defect.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Bender, Rhonda L. Childress, Michael J. Spisak
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Patent number: 9563897Abstract: Systems and methods to identify intentionally placed products in media content are disclosed. A disclosed system to detect intentionally placed products in media content includes a placement monitor site to record an occurrence of a first intentionally placed product within first broadcast media content in a product placement record; an audience measurement site to record an audience interaction with a second intentionally placed product in second broadcast media content in an event record; and a collection facility to receive the product placement record and the event record.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: David H. Harkness, Arun Ramaswamy
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Patent number: 9563898Abstract: A method and system to automatically create and manage patron accounts using electronic data capture at an automated machine or kiosk, including electronically obtaining personal patron identification information from a patron identification source, such as a driver's license, determining if a patron account exists and if the identification source has expired and updating any existing patron account with the captured data. If the patron identification source is current and no account exists, a temporary account is created and a temporary patron account card supplied to the patron along with promotional offers. Patron activity is monitored at the location and used in creating a permanent patron account for providing additional offers, bonuses, and the like to the patron.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Patricia McMahan, Bryan Kelly, Sethuram Shivashankar
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Patent number: 9563899Abstract: A system distributes digital media content to a plurality of user devices, where a given user is associated with multiple user devices. First content is provided by a controller to a first user device and, in response, the controller determines interaction by the user with the first content. Thereafter, the controller provides second content to a second user device based on the prior provision of the first user content to the first user device and the first interaction information. More extensive user interaction history as well as device types may also be employed by the controller when determining the second content.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITEDInventors: Ana Cristina Andres Del Valle, Kelly L. Dempski
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Patent number: 9563900Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for consumer monitor and tracking. An example method may include receiving client device ID and client device profile data, comparing client device ID and client device profile data to a plurality of known client device versions, generating an updated known client device version in an instance in which the client device ID correlates to at least one of the plurality of known client device versions and the client device profile data does not correlate to the at least one of the plurality of known client device versions and generating a new known client device version in an instance in which the client device ID does not correlate to at least one of the plurality of known client device versions.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Groupon, Inc.Inventors: Jiaqi Guo, Michael Elizarov, Jim Breen, Selvam Velmurugan
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Patent number: 9563901Abstract: Social media content items are mapped to relevant time-based media events. These mappings are used as the basis for calculating metrics based upon the mappings, and ratings of the time-based media there from. Audience response metrics (ARMs) are calculated from the mappings, which provide an indication of audience engagement or response. In addition, ARMs provide information about the virality, depth, and breadth of the response by the viewing audience. The calculated metrics are stored and are used to generate ratings for the time-based media. The ratings may be published in whole or in part, e.g., as part of a ratings system.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: BlueFin Labs, Inc.Inventors: Michael Ben Fleischman, Deb Kumar Roy, Jeremy Rishel
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Patent number: 9563902Abstract: A virtual venue application for displaying information is provided, where the virtual venue application is implemented as part of an apparatus, or a system. The virtual venue application allows one or more users to generate and display a virtual avatar that represents a user of the virtual venue application. The virtual venue application also displays a virtual venue, where the display of the virtual venue is based on a position of the virtual avatar within the virtual venue. The virtual venue application also transports a virtual avatar from a first location to a second location.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: MYRIATA, INC.Inventors: Thomas Clayton Haswell, Glenn Robert Seidman
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Patent number: 9563903Abstract: A method and system for controlling real-time bidding for online advertisements is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a real-time bidding (RTB) request from a bidder. The RTB request contains a campaign target. An online advertisement campaign corresponding to the RTB request is placed. Campaign performance data is received from an impression server and/or an event server. The campaign performance data is compared to the campaign target. Based on the result of comparison, it is determined whether to enable or disable the online advertisement campaign.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: MaxPoint Interactive, Inc.Inventors: Ben Haley, Michael Els, Damien Harris, Chris Farmer
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Patent number: 9563904Abstract: Improved systems and methods for extracting product purchase information from electronic messages transmitted between physical network nodes to convey product purchase information to designated recipients. These examples provide a product purchase information extraction service that is able to extract product purchase information from electronic messages with high precision across a wide variety of electronic message formats and thereby solve the practical problems that have arisen as a result of the proliferation of different electronic message formats used by individual merchants and across different merchants and different languages. In this regard, these examples are able to automatically learn the structures and semantics of different message formats, which accelerates the ability to support new message sources, new markets, and different languages.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Slice Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ievgen Mastierov, Conal Sathi
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Patent number: 9563905Abstract: According to various embodiments, techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the storage of an image of a rendered webpage on a storage medium. A first message including a request for a webpage may be transmitted to a web server via a communications interface. The webpage request may generate an advertising opportunity bid request for bids to place an advertisement on the requested webpage. A second message to place a bid on the generated advertising opportunity bid request may be transmitted. Information for rendering the webpage is received in response to the webpage request, and an image of the rendered webpage may be stored on a storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Turn Inc.Inventor: Douglas Smith
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Patent number: 9563906Abstract: A system and method for a display device is provided. An image display that displays at least one image of at least one of a product and person is coupled to a support structure, and at least one shelf may be operatively coupled to the support structure. Further, at least one database stores a plurality of queries and replies to the queries, and at least one processor is provided that is operatively coupled to the database. The processor(s) programmed and configured to receive from the database at least one reply to a first query. The processor is further configured to transmit at least one instruction to the display for rendering a plurality of images of the person, wherein the rendered images of the person include providing the at least one reply to the first query.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: 4D Retail Technology Corp.Inventor: Dean Stark
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Patent number: 9563907Abstract: Offer based provision of fee based network access is presented herein. An access component can provide a complementary access of first content of a network to a device without a per-access fee to a user account associated with the device. A monitor component can receive, from the device, a request for an alternate access of second content of the network that is different from the first content. The access component, based on a characteristic associated with the network determined to satisfy a defined condition with respect to the alternate access, can send an offer directed to the device for purchase of the alternate access with the per-access fee to the user account.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: VIGO SOFTWARE LTDInventors: Anton Prokopenko, Artem Kirakosyan, Anatoly Rukavitsa, Denis Kulikov
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Patent number: 9563908Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, a system for processing transactions is provided that comprises a transaction processing circuit configured to receive transaction data relating to one or more transactions for the purchase of software applications from a digital application store. The transaction processing circuit is further configured to apply one or more business rules to the transaction data and to generate one or more transaction summary files. The transaction summary files are transmitted to a payment system configured to perform, based on the transaction summary files, at least one of recording revenue related to the transactions and causing payment to be distributed to developers of the software applications. At least a portion of the transaction processing circuit is implemented using a shared, scalable computing system.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Naresh Kumar Shanker, Sharad Mathur, William Stevenson
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Patent number: 9563909Abstract: Provided are methods, apparatus and systems for the sale of digital content over a network. The disclosure herein discusses the recording of a broadcast of a digital data stream by a broadcast receiving device. A listener may select a particular digital data stream to purchase by selecting a content identifier associated with the digital data stream of interest at the recording device. Upon obtaining the selection, a purchase request message is transmitted to an intermediary communication device. The purchase request message includes at least the content identifier. After the transaction is completed at a transaction server, a purchase confirmation message including at least a digital rights management key associated with the digital data stream is returned to and received by the broadcast receiving device. Upon receipt, of the digital rights management key, the recorded digital data stream is released for reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Charles Stahulak, Bruce Barnes, Mark Gribble, Dolores Mallian, Patrick Kenny
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Patent number: 9563910Abstract: To achieve the objective of the present invention, a method for operating a showcase system having a transparent display panel according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a touch input for a predetermined area of a transparent display panel; displaying an image keyboard; receiving product information; and connecting information on the predetermined area and the product information to store the connected information, or the invention comprises the steps of: recognizing a predetermined product; receiving a touch input for a predetermined area of a transparent display panel; and connecting information on the predetermined area and information on the predetermined product to store the connected information.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: LG ELCTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ki Young Lee, Sung Wook Han, Jun Kim, Young Jun Lee, Jae Min Han, Joon Young Park
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Patent number: 9563911Abstract: An automatic evaluation system includes: a navigation device used in a vehicle; and a center that communicates with the navigation device. The navigation device includes: a stop-over determination device that automatically determines whether a user has stopped over at a store; a counting device that counts a cumulative number of stop-over times; a recommended store determination device that determines the store, at which the cumulative number of times has become two, as a recommended store; and a posting device that automatically transmits information on the recommended store to the center. The center includes a registration device that registers the information on the recommended store received from the navigation device in relation with the vehicle as a sender source.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuuko Nakamura
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Patent number: 9563912Abstract: A method of identifying, to a user, acquirable entities that the user may be interested in is disclosed. The method includes at a component configured to analyze information across a plurality of applications, analyzing in one or more of the applications being used by a user, content in the one or more applications. The method further includes based on the content, identifying one or more acquirable entities from the content. The method further includes identifying to the user the identified acquirable entities.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dileep R. Kumar, Philippe Blais, Shrey Nitin Shah
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Patent number: 9563913Abstract: In an approach for suggesting an item to pack, a processor receives an indication that a user is packing a first item of luggage, wherein the indication includes information about a trip. A processor generates a packing list based on the information about the trip. A processor receives a request to link the first item of luggage and a second item of luggage for the trip. A processor links the first and second items of luggage such that contents of each item of luggage are jointly compared to the packing list. A processor receives, via a short-range point-to-point communication reader of the first item of luggage, a signal from a short-range point-to-point communication device operably affixed to a first item. A processor identifies the first item based on the signal. A processor determines that the first item is an item of the packing list.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Bender, Rhonda L. Childress, David B. Kumhyr, Michael J. Spisak
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Patent number: 9563914Abstract: A system for delivering one of a good and service to a customer in a retail environment includes a computer located at an order station. The computer is configured to receive an order for the one good and service. The system includes a first image capture device in communication with the computer. The first image capture device captures a first image of a customer ordering the one good and service in response to the order being submitted. The system further includes a wearable computer peripheral device configured to acquire the first image from the first image capture device and electronically display the first image to a user tasked with delivering the one good and service while carrying the second wearable computer peripheral device. In this manner, an identity of the customer can be compared against the first image upon a delivery of the one good and service.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew A. Shreve, Michael C. Mongeon, Robert P. Loce
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Patent number: 9563915Abstract: Product order and shipping information received via email messages is automatically aggregated for ready user review. Once the user is authenticated, authorization to access their email mailbox is obtained and the email message headers of their entails are analyzed to identify those messages of interest. The bodies of the email messages of interest are parsed to extract the product order and shipping information which is stored and presented for display to the user typically grouped by individual product thus greatly simplifying user review of orders. The aggregated product order and shipping information can be augmented with additional information such as shipping status, delivery status, a product image, and/or a last date that the product can be returned.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Slice Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Scott J. Brady, Benjamin A. Suppe, Eric J. Botto, Harpinder Singh Madan, Ievgen Mastierov, Aditya Khosla, Dmytry B. Mykhaylov, Georgii Verbytskyi, Alexander Lototsky, Michael Mantel
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Patent number: 9563916Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method are described for generating a finance attribute. In one embodiment, the systems and methods retrieve raw tradeline data from a plurality of credit bureaus, retrieve industry code data related to each of the plurality of credit bureaus, determine one or more tradeline leveling characteristics that meet at least one pre-determined threshold, and generate a finance attribute using the selected leveling characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Luz M. Torrez, Adam Thomas Kornegay
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Patent number: 9563917Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for determining a cost basis associated with a plurality of shares of a security. In response to information identifying an issuer, the purchase date and the sale date, a list of capital events that occurred in connection with the security between the purchase date and the sale date is retrieved from a database. One or more shares held adjustment ratios are then retrieved from a database. Each of the shares held adjustment ratios corresponds to one of the capital events that occurred in connection with the security between the purchase date and the sale date. A current cost basis associated with the security may then be determined in accordance with the one or more cost adjustment ratios and the purchase price per share of the security.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Networth Services, Inc.Inventors: Nico Willis, Laura Muggli
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Patent number: 9563918Abstract: A computer system configured to generate data to provide an interactive graphical interface for display on a remote user device is configured to provide an interactive graphical interface including first and second screen areas, and icons for user manipulation, each icon corresponding to a user goal. Icons corresponding to user goals of a first set are displayed within the first screen area, and icons corresponding to user goals of the second set are displayed in the second screen area. A gap is calculated and displayed based on data associated with icons and stored data. Responsive to receipt of data indicative of drag and drop movement of an icon between the first and second screen areas, the gap is recalculated and a resized gap is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: David A. Calibey, John D. Diehl, Lori A. LaForge, Eric F. Truntz
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Patent number: 9563919Abstract: Systems and methods are discussed for providing a sensor enhanced employee safety evaluation system. Sensors that monitor employee behavior are placed at the workplace of an insured entity. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety evaluation. Based on the safety evaluation, the insurance provider can adjust the terms of the insurance policy to accurately reflect the risks associated with the insured entity. Feedback based on the safety evaluation is also provided to the insured entity and the employees of the insured entity to promote improvements in safe behavior.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance CompanyInventors: Tom Brown, John J. Anthony, Scott Chalfant, Michael Gingrave, Brian Vines
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Patent number: 9563920Abstract: A method, system and program product comprise accessing a transaction records database. Unmatched records are collected into a first set. The first set at least comprises events and transactions. Probabilities of event matches of transactions originating from an event are calculated. The calculating uses at least defined features and stored probability distributions. A quality value for each of the event matches is calculated. The quality value is at least in part being determined by the probability of the event match. A second set of optimized event matches is determined using at least the quality values. Each of the optimized event matches at least comprises transactions deemed to have been generated by the event.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Operartis, LLCInventor: Tracey Deborah Lall
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Patent number: 9563921Abstract: Provided is a system for detecting a merchant point of compromise. More specifically, provided is a system for detecting a merchant point of compromise comprising a computer system in electronic communication with a transaction processing network containing transaction information, the computer system comprising a point-of-compromise detector, said point-of-compromise detector performing the steps of electronically receiving from the transaction processing network the transaction information; generating at least one of an undirected network or a directed network based on the transaction information; extracting features from the at least one of the undirected network or the directed network; and identifying one or more point-of-compromise merchants based on the extracted features.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Opera Solutions U.S.A., LLCInventors: Lei Shi, Chengwei Huang, Jeong-Yoon Lee, Weiqiang Wang, Jenny Zhang, Yonghui Chen
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Patent number: 9563922Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: CHEMTRON RESEARCH LLCInventor: Brett B. Stewart
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Patent number: 9563923Abstract: During a feedback technique, a system that provides a social network requests feedback regarding an initial connection strength associated with an edge between two nodes in the social graph, which are associated with an entity and a counterparty, respectively. Note that the social graph represents interactions among users of the social network. Based on the feedback, the system determines a directional asymmetry between revised connection strengths received from the entity and the counterparty. Then, the system performs a remedial action based on the determined directional asymmetry, such as adjusting the connection strength of the edge. In addition, the remedial action may include: feedback about an accuracy of the initial connection strength, estimating a power distance between the entity and the counterparty, and/or encouraging interaction between the entity and the counterparty.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Sanjay Sachdev, Abhishek Nigam
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Patent number: 9563924Abstract: A predictive-control approach allows an electricity provider to monitor and proactively manage peak and off-peak residential intra-day electricity usage in an emerging smart energy grid using time-dependent dynamic pricing incentives. The daily load is modeled as time-shifted, but cost-differentiated and substitutable, copies of the continuously-consumed electricity resource, and a consumer-choice prediction model is constructed to forecast the corresponding intra-day shares of total daily load according to this model. This is embedded within an optimization framework for managing the daily electricity usage. A series of transformations are employed, including the reformulation-linearization technique (RLT) to obtain a Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) model representation of the resulting nonlinear optimization problem. In addition, various regulatory and pricing constraints are incorporated in conjunction with the specified profit and capacity utilization objectives.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Soumyadip Ghosh, Jonathan R. Hosking, Ramesh Natarajan, Shivaram Subramaniam, Xiaoxuan Zhang
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Patent number: 9563925Abstract: A pharmacy workflow platform and prescription checking and medicament dispensing station and method comprising (a) script display means; (b) scanning means for providing script data and stock bottle label data in electronic format from the prescription and a stock bottle label; (c) CPU means comprising i) means for receiving and storing the script data and stock bottle data in electronic format; ii) means for transferring the script data to the script display means to effect display of the script; iii) means cooperable with medicament dispensing weighing and counting means; (d) medicament-dispensing weighing means in communication with the CPU means; and (e) control means for controlling the CPU means. Medication is dispensed in a more safe, efficient and cost-effective manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Inventor: Sami G. Y. Mikhaeil
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Patent number: 9563926Abstract: A method of verifying the identity of a user at an authentication server that includes receiving user data relating to a signature gesture entered by a user at a computing device, the user data having a plurality of sample points, verifying the user data at the authentication server by comparing to reference signature data, encoding a verification message within a digital image, and notifying the user that their identity has been verified on the basis of the user data received from the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Yossi Avni, Eytan Suchard
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Patent number: 9563927Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, image content is rendered to include a digital watermark pattern at an essentially fixed scale, regardless of the size of screen on which the content is displayed. In one particular embodiment, CSS and JavaScript are responsive to the rendering context (which can include screen size, and/or viewer position) to define the geometry of a watermarked texture block, which is tiled to serve as a background of an HTML-defined page. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventor: Eoin C. Sinclair
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Patent number: 9563928Abstract: Server systems are disclosed that receive content request and respond with hardware-independent graphics commands instead of, or in addition to, unprocessed content items. Some server systems may act as intermediaries between user devices and content sources. The server systems can obtain content pages from content sources, process the content pages (e.g., using a headless browser), and provide hardware-independent graphics commands (e.g., vector graphics commands, that do not require specialized graphics hardware for execution) to user devices in response to requests for content. The hardware-independent graphics commands can be executed by client browsers to generate a representation of the content page that is the same or substantially the same as the representation that would have been generated by processing the content pages locally.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technlogies, Inc.Inventors: Dmitry Sokolowski, Saral Jain
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Patent number: 9563929Abstract: Server systems are disclosed that receive content request and respond with hardware-independent graphics commands instead of, or in addition to, unprocessed content items. Some server systems may act as intermediaries between user devices and content sources. The server systems can obtain content pages from content sources, process the content pages (e.g., using a headless browser), and provide hardware-independent graphics commands (e.g., vector graphics commands, that do not require specialized graphics hardware for execution) to user devices in response to requests for content. The hardware-independent graphics commands can be executed by client browsers to generate a representation of the content page that is the same or substantially the same as the representation that would have been generated by processing the content pages locally.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dmitry Sokolowski, Saral Jain
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Patent number: 9563930Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to determine that a shared surface is shared between a first application and a second application, determine that a fast clear operation has been performed on the shared surface, the fast clear operation comprising clearing one or more locations of one or more buffers. Further, various embodiments may include writing pixel value information to the one or more locations of the one or more buffers and performing a resolve operation on the shared surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventor: Abhishek Venkatesh
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Patent number: 9563931Abstract: A control method executed by an information processing device including a first processor and a second processor includes specifying a plurality of processes which issued orders for causing the first processor to execute a drawing process for drawing a frame, the plurality of processes being executed by the second processor, first determining whether the drawing process is completed, based on a comparison between the specified plurality of processes and specific processes, and controlling, based on a result of the first determining, a state regarding a power consumption of the first processor until the first processor starts another drawing process for drawing another frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Takeo Murakami, Masaaki Noro
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Patent number: 9563932Abstract: Techniques are described to generate an index for a texture. The index can be used to retrieve a portion of one or more textures from a cache. The index can be adapted based on static texture attributes or direction attributes in order to attempt to achieve texture cache efficiency. Static texture attributes can include, bit are not limited to, 1-dimensional texture, 2-dimensional texture, 3-dimensional texture, or MIPmaps texture, original memory address. Direction attributes can be, but are not limited to, u-major or v-major directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: INTEL CorporationInventors: Kebing Wang, Jun Ye, Jinlong Hou
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Patent number: 9563933Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments are directed to methods and systems for reducing memory space in sequential computer-implemented operations. The method includes generating a directed acyclic graph (DAG) having a plurality of vertices and directed edges, wherein each edge connects a predecessor vertex to a successor vertex. Each vertex represents one of the computer-implemented operations and each directed edge represents output data generated by the operations. The method includes merging one of the predecessor vertex with one of the successor vertex by combining the operations of the predecessor vertex and the successor vertex if the predecessor and successor vertices are connected by a directed edge and there is only one directed edge originating from the predecessor vertex. The merger of the predecessor and the successor vertices reduces the number of directed edges in the DAG, resulting in a reduction of intermediate buffer memory required to store the output data.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Vinod Grover, Mahesh Ravishankar
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Patent number: 9563934Abstract: A method may include processing two or more fiducials included in a three-dimensional medical image and included in a current image to generate two or more transform coefficients of a transform, and applying the transform to the three-dimensional medical image to form a present image.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Gearbox, LLCInventors: Edward S. Boyden, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Eric C. Leuthardt, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Dennis J. Rivet, Michael A. Smith, Thomas A. Weaver, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
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Patent number: 9563935Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with image scaling are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a set of amplitude values describing pixels in an image. A target pixel is identified from the set of pixels and a preceding pixel is identified to the target pixel. An amplitude range of amplitudes is defined between the amplitude of the preceding pixel and the target pixel. The method determines whether the interpolation between the preceding pixel and target pixel will result in an interpolated pixel having an interpolated amplitude outside of the amplitude range. An interpolation slope is determined that reduces overshoot or undershoot in interpolation pixels generated between the target pixel and the preceding pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventor: Douglas G. Keithley
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Patent number: 9563936Abstract: Pixel-based method and apparatus of obtaining a downsampled image are provided. The method includes: constructing a virtual image by an image super-resolution technology according to a resolution of the downsampled image; determining relational expressions between pixels of the virtual image and pixels of the downsampled image; calculating a MSE between the pixels of the virtual image and pixels of the original image based on the relational expressions; determining a coefficient matrix between the pixels of the downsampled image and the pixels of the original image under the condition of the MSE being at a minimum value; determining the pixels of the downsampled image according to the pixels of the original image and the coefficient matrix; and outputting the downsampled image. Accordingly, the present invention can obtain sharp image and avoid color aliasing.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Houliang Hu, Hao Li, Li-wei Chu
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Patent number: 9563937Abstract: It is an object to obtain a high-resolution image generation apparatus that can generate a high-quality image by sorting out good portions from faulty portions in optical flow. The present invention includes: a hard disk that stores multi-viewpoint image information and parameter information of a base image and a plurality of reference images; an optical flow computation unit that extracts a plurality of pairs of the base image and a reference image, the plurality of pairs each including a different reference image, and computes optical flow for each pair; a depth information computation unit that computes depth information which indicates depth of each pixel of the base image for each pair, based on optical flow and the parameter information; and an optical flow sorting unit that determines whether or not each piece of pixel-based correspondence information included in the optical flow of each pair is to be used for improving a resolution of the base image, based on two pieces of the depth information.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Maehara, Yosuke Ishiwatari, Hironobu Abe, Koichi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 9563938Abstract: A system and method for removing noise from images are disclosed herein. An exemplary system includes an edge-detection-based adaptive filter that identifies edge pixels and non-edge pixels in an image and selects a filtering technique for at least one non-edge pixel based on a comparison of the at least one non-edge pixel to a neighboring pixel region, wherein such comparison indicates whether the at least one non-edge pixel is a result of low-light noise.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Analog Devices GlobalInventors: Raka Singh, Rajesh Mahapatra, Gaurav Malik
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Patent number: 9563939Abstract: A de-noising method for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints. The method includes: 1) obtaining a reference image of ground buildings from a remote image database of the ground buildings, performing a Fourier transformation on the reference image to obtain an amplitude spectrum, and performing a threshold segmentation, an erosion operation and a dilation operation successively on the amplitude spectrum to obtain a binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings; and 2) obtaining a real-time image of the ground buildings by a high-speed aircraft, performing a Fourier transformation on the real-time image to obtain a spectrum, filtering the spectrum of the real-time image in frequency domain by the binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings, and performing an inverse Fourier transformation thereon to generate a filtered real-time image of the ground buildings.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Tianxu Zhang, Zheng Wang, Li He, Li Liu, Xuan Hou, Chuan Zhang, Sufei Fan, Yimeng Chen
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Patent number: 9563940Abstract: Smart image enhancements are disclosed, including: obtaining a representation of a user's face associated with a set of images associated with the user's face; obtaining a set of extrinsic information corresponding to an image of the set of images; determining a modified smoothing map by modifying a model smoothing map to correspond to the representation of the user's face; and determining an enhanced image based at least in part on the set of extrinsic information corresponding to the image, the modified model smoothing map, and the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Ditto Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Sergey Surkov
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Patent number: 9563941Abstract: An image processor includes a correction signal generator configured to generate a correction signal by calculating a difference between an image and an image obtained by applying an unsharp mask generated based on a PSF corresponding to an image-pickup conditions of an image-pickup optical system to the image, and a correction signal applier configured to sharpen the image by multiplying the correction signal generated by the generator by a constant and by adding a multiplied correction signal to the image.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Oniki, Koshi Hatakeyama
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Patent number: 9563942Abstract: Apparatus and method for rendering an image of a fibrous material. The method includes providing parametric fibrous material optical properties derived from actual material fiber samples via the apparatus; providing a parametric virtual light environment; providing a virtual fibrous material array; and rendering an image of the virtual fibrous material array according to the interaction of the parametric fibrous material properties and the parametric virtual light environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: NOXELL CORPORATIONInventors: Mathias Herrlein, Thomas Hirn, Knut Meinert, Hartmut Schmidt, Amo Zinke
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Patent number: 9563943Abstract: Methods and systems for design based sampling and binning for yield critical defects are provided. One method includes aligning each image patch in each inspection image frame generated for a wafer by an optical subsystem of an inspection system to design information for the wafer. The method also includes deriving multiple layer design attributes at locations of defects detected in the image patches. In addition, the method includes building a decision tree with the multiple layer design attributes. The decision tree is used to separate the defects into bins with different yield impacts on a device being formed on the wafer. The method also includes binning the defects with the decision tree.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corp.Inventors: Satya Kurada, Raghav Babulnath, Kwok Ng, Lisheng Gao
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Patent number: 9563944Abstract: A display system and method for graphically representing a host aircraft comprises a display, a first source host aircraft position data and a second source of data representative of airspace in the vicinity of the host aircraft. A processor is coupled to the display, the first source, and the second source and is configured to (1) determine a position of the host aircraft that expands the visualization of an intended trajectory of the host aircraft, and (2) display the host aircraft at the position on the display.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Thea L. Feyereisen, Ivan Sandy Wyatt, Gang He
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Patent number: 9563945Abstract: A device for pollinating plants such as flowering trees. The device is a movable platform such as a drone that has an image capturing device that is in communication with image recognition software. Images of plants are analyzed to detect objects that are consistent with pollen-receiving plants and/or plant areas. Once such plant object is detected, the device automatically disperses pollen in the proximity of the detected plant or plant object.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Inventor: Bernard Fryshman