Patents Issued in October 9, 2018
  • Patent number: 10095943
    Abstract: An image recognition apparatus includes a memory, an interface and a processor. The memory stores identification information obtained from code information attached to the objects and image information on the objects used for object recognition, the storage storing the identification information and the image information for each of objects to be recognized. The processor which controls to: extract a target object region including an object therein from a photographed image; extract code information in the target object region and recognize the identification information based on extracted code information; and recognize the object based on an image of the target object region and image information on each object, if the processor fails to recognize the object based on the code information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaaki Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 10095944
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods to enable detection of linear objects such as utility poles in complex and heterogeneous outdoor surroundings. The methods deal with shape and orientation as prominent features of a pole model. Candidate trapeziums from 2D images of the face of the poles are extracted, some of which represent parts of the pole. To overcome the missed detection of certain parts due to problems of occlusion and diffusion into background, shape based techniques, that extrapolate and capture a longer trapezium representing the pole is implemented. The region growing stage or extrapolation is driven by orientation-based clustering of trapeziums. Context information is further used to identify objects of interest, by discarding false positives. Besides detecting poles of interest, the detected poles are further analyzed to identify damages, if any.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Sharma, Adithya Vellaiappan, Balamuralidhar Purushothaman
  • Patent number: 10095945
    Abstract: An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, David McKinnon, Jeremi Sudol, Bing Song, Matheen Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 10095946
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for strike through detection and, more particularly, to systems and methods for detecting a strike through in an address block of a mailpiece. The method is implemented in a computing device and includes: generating edges of lines within a text block identified through optical character recognition processes; locating text lines within the text block; characterizing the edges within the text lines and outside of the text lines; and grouping identified edges of the characterized edges outside of the text lines into co-linear groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard C. Vanhall, Robert S. Lunt, IV
  • Patent number: 10095947
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods of capturing Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) from images captured by a mobile device. Capturing VIN data can be useful in several applications, for example, insurance data capture applications. There are at least two types of images supported by this technology: (1) images of documents and (2) images of non-documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MITEK SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Grigori Nepomniachtchi, Nikolay Kotovich
  • Patent number: 10095948
    Abstract: This disclosure generally provides a fingerprint sensor that derives a fingerprint by measuring capacitive sensing signals while modulating a reference voltage rail used to power the fingerprint sensor. In one embodiment, the fingerprint sensor is integrated into an electronic device which may include other components such as a display, I/O devices, speakers, and the like. To power these components, the electronic device may include a DC power supply which outputs reference voltages. When transmitting the reference voltages to the fingerprint sensor, the electronic device may modulate the voltages using a modulating signal. Because the reference voltages are used to power the components in the fingerprint sensor, modulating the rail voltages also causes the components coupled to the reference voltages to also modulate. While this modulation occurs, the fingerprint sensor measures resulting signals using a plurality of sensor electrodes which are then processed to derive a fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kirk Hargreaves, Patrick Smith, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Stephen L. Morein
  • Patent number: 10095949
    Abstract: A method for area identification includes identifying a plurality of candidate predefined edges in a document image of a document. The candidate predefined edges are edges in a predefined direction of the document. The method further includes determining one of the candidate predefined edges to be a target predefined edge and identifying at least one information area in the document image based on the target predefined edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Long, Tao Zhang, Zhijun Chen
  • Patent number: 10095950
    Abstract: Efficient image processing systems and methods for image scene classification and similarity matching are disclosed. The image processing systems encompassed by this disclosure use a deep convolutional neural network to facilitate scene classification by recognizing the context of an image and thereby enabling searches for similar images. These methods and systems are scalable to a large set of images and achieve a higher performance compared to the current state of the art techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: HYPERVERGE INC.
    Inventors: Vignesh Krishnakumar, Hariprasad Prayagai Sridharasingan, Adarsh Amarendra Tadimari, Saivenkatesh A
  • Patent number: 10095951
    Abstract: During a description technique, a local descriptor for an object may be generated by computing a 2-dimensional histogram of pairs of angles between pairs of line segments that are aligned with edge pixels associated with the object. The pairs of line segments belong to a subset of k neighboring or proximate line segments. Moreover, this 2D histogram may represent the relative displacement and the relative orientations of the pairs of line segments in the subset as weights in bins or cells defined by angular quantization values, and the 2D histogram may exclude lengths of the line segments. Subsequently, the generated 2D histogram may be compared to predefined sets of descriptors in a model library that are associated with a set of objects, and the object may be identified as one of the set of objects based on a group of match scores determined in the comparisons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Datalogic IP Tech S.R.L.
    Inventors: Federico Tombari, Alessandro Franchi, Luigi Di Stefano
  • Patent number: 10095952
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and device for acquiring clothing image attribute points, which can increase an efficiency of acquiring the clothing image attribute points. The method comprises: saving five attribute points manually calibrated and determining first to eleventh points in sequence by taking a horizontal direction as a horizontal coordinate and a vertical direction as a vertical coordinate, for a first side of two bilaterally symmetric sides of the clothing image. By means of a technical solution of an embodiment of the present invention, for the clothing image, five points are manually calibrated first; and then the other eleven attribute points can be determined by a computer, so that a manual workload is reduced, and the efficiency of acquiring the clothing image attribute points is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: BEIJING JINGDONG SHANGKE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING JINGDONG CENTURY TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10095953
    Abstract: Techniques of depth modification for display applications are disclosed. A multiscopic video frame, including at least first and second images depicting a scene, is received. Depth information pertaining to the multiscopic video frame is received. A depth mapping function is determined based on one or more image characteristics of the multiscopic video frame, other than depth. The depth information is modified based on the depth mapping function. At least a third image is generated based on the modified depth information and based further on at least one of the first and second images, where the third image is output for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zurich (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)
    Inventors: Aljosa Aleksej Andrej Smolic, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Steven Charles Poulakos, Simon Heinzle, Alexandre Chapiro
  • Patent number: 10095954
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for matching trajectories across disjointed video views. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a plurality of tagged trajectories that are tagged with an indicator of which trajectory pairs of the plurality of tagged trajectories are matching trajectory pairs and processing each of the trajectory pairs using each of a plurality of trajectory matching algorithms. The method further provides creating a model for matching trajectories based on the output of each of the plurality of trajectory matching algorithms for each of the pairs. The method further provides receiving a pair of trajectories and processing the pair of trajectories using each of the plurality of the trajectory matching algorithms. The method further provides processing the output of each of the plurality of the trajectory matching algorithms for the pair of trajectories using the model to determine whether the pair of trajectories is matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Shahar Daliyot, Gadi Zimerman, Shmuel Kiro, Oren Golan
  • Patent number: 10095955
    Abstract: An object retrieval apparatus includes a storage and a retrieval. The storage stores first to N-th space index information relating to X1 objects to XN objects which are selected in a descending order of an object size from among a plurality of objects, and in which a value of XT (where T is a value from 1 to N) decreases as a value of T increases. The retrieval processor divides a sight range into a plurality of pieces according to distance from a sight point, assign a different one of the first to N-th space index information to each divided range such that a smaller index number of the space index information is assigned to the divided range closer to the sight point, and specifies an object having a size visible from the sight point among objects existing in each divided range by retrieving the assigned space index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Endoh, Hiromasa Shin
  • Patent number: 10095957
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and system for unsupervised word image clustering, comprises capturing one or more image wherein the one or more image comprises at least one word images. Extracting at least one feature vector using an untrained convolution neural network architecture, wherein the convolution filters are initialized by random filter based deep learning techniques using Gaussian random variable with zero mean and unit standard deviation, and wherein the convolution filters are constrained to sum to zero. The extracted feature vectors are used for clustering, wherein clustering is performed in two stages. First stage includes clustering word images which are similar using a graph connected component. Second stage clustering includes clustering a remaining word images which are not clustered during the first stage by evaluating the remaining images against the clusters formed during the first stage and assigning them to clusters based on the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Mandar Shrikant Kulkarni, Anand Sriraman, Rahul Kumar, Kanika Kalra, Shirish Subhash Karande, Sachin Premsukh Lodha
  • Patent number: 10095958
    Abstract: In order to properly detect an outbreak of smoke using a photographic image, this detection device is equipped with an extraction unit, a calculation unit, and a detection unit. By using an image analysis result of an input image, that is, a photographic image captured of a scene under surveillance, the extraction unit generates an image for which a noise component is removed from the input image. By using brightness information contained in the generated image, the calculation unit calculates an attenuation factor of reflected light from a captured object in the input image. The detection unit determines whether an outbreak of smoke is present in the scene under surveillance based on the attenuation factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tsukada, Masato Toda, Kenta Senzaki
  • Patent number: 10095959
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a label production process program for executing steps on a computing portion of a terminal is provided. The terminal is connected to a label producing apparatus that produces a label. The label includes an information print part having information printed thereon, and a winding part connected to the information print part and to be wound on an adherend. The steps include a position determination step, a mark data generation step, and a mark data output step. In the position determination step, a position of a mark to be a guidepost for a position to wind the winding part on the adherend, is determined. In the mark data generation step, mark data to form the mark at the position determined, is generated. In the mark data output step, the generated mark data is output to the label producing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryo Yasui, Aiko Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10095960
    Abstract: A printing managing apparatus includes: a job attribute correlating information acquiring unit that acquires job attribute correlating information that correlates pieces of individual job attribute information used in plural respective printing control apparatus with common job attribute information for each job attribute that can be set in print job information so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus as transmission destination candidates of the print job information; an attribute specification information converting unit as defined herein; and a manipulation control processing unit as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dai Fukami, Taku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10095961
    Abstract: A print control apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a setup execution unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from a portable terminal, setting of an apparatus condition of an image forming apparatus that performs printing on continuous paper and of a print start time at which the image forming apparatus starts the printing. The setup execution unit starts a setup process for the image forming apparatus such that the setup process is completed by the print start time on the basis of the setting of the apparatus condition acquired by the acquisition unit. The setup process is performed for the image forming apparatus to perform the printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiko Isobe, Kenichiro Hotokeishi
  • Patent number: 10095962
    Abstract: A method for managing memory use in a graphics processing system receives a plurality of objects to be reproduced on an output medium, the output medium being divided into a plurality of bands. Objects falling within a band are stored in a corresponding local band memory and shared objects intersecting the band and at least one other band in at least one shared memory arena. Each shared memory arena is associated with a band counter defining the number of bands referencing said shared memory arena. The local band memory is associated with a data structure storing a shared memory arena identifier of the at least one shared memory arena where the shared objects intersecting the band are stored. The method facilitates release of the at least one shared memory arena in response to rasterizing the band selected for rasterizing based on the plurality of shared memory arena identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Krzysztof Adam Koziarz, Stuart James Warren
  • Patent number: 10095963
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical filling system for a high volume pharmacy is described. The system can include a paper feed device and method. The system may include a paper collator with at one selectively openable shelf. A control device may monitor the capacity of the selectively openable shelf, and instruct a printer to hold printing additional print jobs. The selectively openable shelf may then be opened to allow the printed literature resting thereon to fall to a lower shelf, and the printer can then be restarted. Sheets of printed literature may be drawn from the paper collator, collected with any other sheets of printed literature associated with a prescription order, and mated with the prescription order for shipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10095964
    Abstract: A transaction card includes a card body, where the card body includes a surface with a first surface area. The surface of the card body includes private information that encompasses a second surface area of the surface, and the second surface area is less than the first surface area. The transaction card includes a reflective element that is applied to the surface of the card body, and includes a third surface area. The third surface area is based on the first surface area or the second surface area, and the third surface area enables the reflective element to reflect light away from the private information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Abdelkadar M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba
  • Patent number: 10095965
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to select a code. An image on which the code is superimposed is selected. A block of the code is associated with a corresponding part of the image. A desired value of opacity of the block of the code is determined based on the corresponding part of the image. A personalized code is generated based on the desired value of opacity of the block of the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent Charles Cheung
  • Patent number: 10095967
    Abstract: A magnetic stripe transmission (MST) apparatus that improves a recognition rate and operates at a low current is provided. The apparatus includes a first coil disposed between a first power supply source and a second power supply source, and wound in a first direction, a second coil connected in parallel to the first coil, disposed between the first power supply source and the second power supply source, and wound in a second direction, a first driver disposed between the first coil and the second power supply source, and configured to control a first current of the first coil according to a first voltage pulse supplied by a first pulse supply source, and a second driver disposed between the second coil and the second power supply source, and configured to control a second current of the second coil according to a second voltage pulse supplied by a second pulse supply source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nikolay Olyunin, Junsig Kum, Youngju Lee, Jung Yub Lee, Dohyuk Ha
  • Patent number: 10095968
    Abstract: A credit card shaped element with a dynamic stripe which may be activated or deactivated, where the stripe is formed by a plurality of coils provided along the curve thereof, where the plurality of coils are activated in a sequential manner, where a plurality of proximity sensing coils are provided in series along the curve thereof, where the plurality of coils are formed by one coil contacted at multiple positions along its length by contact pads and where the signals fed to the coils cause an output of a reader coil to output a signals with a minimum slope or where one signal fed to one track has no peaks when the other signal is close to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Cardlabs APS
    Inventor: Finn Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10095969
    Abstract: A transaction card construction and a method for making a transaction card are described. The transaction card construction comprises an inlay component and a housing component. The inlay component may comprise a light-penetrable layer and a backer layer. A light source may be disposed on or in the housing component, and the housing component and the inlay component may be joined such that light emitted by the light source passes through the inlay component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Om J. Suthar
  • Patent number: 10095970
    Abstract: A card, such as a payment card, or other device may include an electronics package. The electronics package may include an RFID antenna. The RFID may not be utilized to access data on the card, or other device, until the appropriate manual input is received into the card or other device. Such manual input may take the form of a manual press of a physical button or the manual activation of a virtual button on a touch-screen device (e.g., a touch-screen mobile phone or card).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DYNAMICS INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Mullen
  • Patent number: 10095971
    Abstract: An onboard system for detecting a temperature of an element includes a radio-tag, the radio-tag being fixed onto the element and having an antenna, the antenna having a load, and a radio-tag reader. The radio-tag reader is designed to emit an interrogation signal and to receive in return a response signal coming from the radio-tag. The load includes a thermistor and the radio-tag reader is adapted for determining a gain and/or a phase-shift between the interrogation signal and the response signal and for deducing a temperature of the element therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventor: Pierre Charon
  • Patent number: 10095972
    Abstract: Systems for switchable RFID tags responsive to an environmental sensor are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a primary RFID tag and a secondary RFID tag, and a switch being associated with the primary RFID tag and the secondary RFID tag in a manner that the primary RFID tag and the secondary RFID tag are not activated at the same time. Each RFID tag may include an integrated circuit and an antenna. The system may also include at least two first electrical terminals electrically connecting the primary RFID tag to the switch, and at least two second electrical terminals electrically connecting the secondary RFID tag to the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TEMPTIME CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ravi Bhatia, Mohannad Abdo
  • Patent number: 10095973
    Abstract: A method of operating a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag assembly in a timed event including in the radio frequency identification (RFID) tag assembly having a spacer having a thickness of between about 0.125 inches and about 0.5 inches, placing the RFID tag assembly in a position relative to the operating surface of the body a minimum spaced apart distance, receiving at the first side of the two sided planar antenna a first portion of the radio frequency energy as direct energy as transmitted from the antenna of the base station transceiver, receiving at the second side of the two-sided planar antenna a second portion of the radio frequency energy as indirect energy as transmitted from the base station transceiver antenna, the second portion of the radio frequency energy being received at the predetermined operating frequency, and processing the received first and second portions of the radio frequency energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Innovative Timing Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Kurt S. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10095974
    Abstract: A payment card (e.g., credit and/or debit card) or other card or device (e.g., mobile telephone) is provided with a magnetic emulator operable to communicate data to a magnetic stripe read-head. User interfaces are provided in a number of different configurations in order to achieve a number of different functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DYNAMICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen, Bruce Cloutier
  • Patent number: 10095975
    Abstract: A transaction card construction and computer-implemented methods for a transaction card are described. The transaction card has vector-formatted visible information applied by a laser machining system. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for enabling the sourcing of visible information using a scalable vector format. The systems and methods may receive a request to add visible information to a transaction card and capture an image of the visible information. The systems and methods may capture data representing the image. The systems and methods may also determine an ambient color saturation of the image. Further, systems and methods may translate the image based on the ambient color saturation of the image. The systems and methods may also map the translated image to a bounding box and convert the mapped image into vector format. In addition, the systems and methods may provide the converted image to a laser machining system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Jiawei Zhao
  • Patent number: 10095976
    Abstract: Described is a system for searching a continuous data stream for exact matches with a priori stored data sequences. The system includes a neural network with an input and an output layer. The input layer has one neuron for each possible character or number in the data stream, and the output layer has one neuron for each stored pattern. Importantly, the delays of the connections from input to output layer are engineered to match the temporal occurrence of an input character within a stored sequence. Thus, if an input sequence has the proper time gaps between characters, matching a stored pattern, then the delayed neural signals result in a simultaneous activation at the receiving neuron, which indicates a detected pattern. For storing a pattern, only one connection for each pair of input character and output neuron has to be specified resulting in sparse coding and quick storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventor: Heiko Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 10095977
    Abstract: A learning method for improving image segmentation including steps of: (a) acquiring a (1-1)-th to a (1-K)-th feature maps through an encoding layer if a training image is obtained; (b) acquiring a (3-1)-th to a (3-H)-th feature maps by respectively inputting each output of the H encoding filters to a (3-1)-th to a (3-H)-th filters; (c) performing a process of sequentially acquiring a (2-K)-th to a (2-1)-th feature maps either by (i) allowing the respective H decoding filters to respectively use both the (3-1)-th to the (3-H)-th feature maps and feature maps obtained from respective previous decoding filters of the respective H decoding filters or by (ii) allowing respective K-H decoding filters that are not associated with the (3-1)-th to the (3-H)-th filters to use feature maps gained from respective previous decoding filters of the respective K-H decoding filters; and (d) adjusting parameters of CNN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: StradVision, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjoong Kim, Woonhyun Nam, Sukhoon Boo, Myungchul Sung, Donghun Yeo, Wooju Ryu, Taewoong Jang, Kyungjoong Jeong, Hongmo Je, Hojin Cho
  • Patent number: 10095978
    Abstract: A monitor-mine-manage cycle is described, for example, for managing a data center, a manufacturing process, an engineering process or other processes. In various example, the following steps are performed as a continuous automated loop: receiving raw events from an observed system; monitoring the raw events and transforming them into complex events; mining the complex events and reasoning on results; making a set of proposed actions based on the mining; and managing the observed system by applying one or more of the proposed actions to the system. In various examples, the continuous automated loop proceeds while raw events are continuously received from the observed system and monitored. In some examples an application programming interface is described comprising programming statements which allow a user to implement a monitor-mine-manage loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Panos Periorellis, Eldar Akchurin, Joris Claessens, Ivo Jose Garcia dos Santos, Oliver Nano
  • Patent number: 10095979
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for generating flavor profile models are provided. An alpha flavor model is determined. An electrode signal is transmitted to a taste simulator based on the alpha flavor model. User feedback is received. A variance between the alpha flavor model and the user feedback is determined. The variance is compared to a predetermined threshold. In response to determining that the variance is greater than the predetermined threshold, a beta flavor model is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Siddique M. Adoni, Aveek N. Chatterjee, Dhandapani Shanmugam
  • Patent number: 10095980
    Abstract: A system and method for updating and correcting facts that receives proposed values for facts from users and determines a correctness score which is used to automatically accept or reject the proposed values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Luca de Alfaro, Mitchell Slep, Nicu D. Cornea, Sowmya Subramanian, Ethan G. Russell
  • Patent number: 10095981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving optimization tasks. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input data comprising (i) data specifying an optimization task to be solved, and (ii) data specifying task objectives for solving the optimization task, comprising one or more local task objectives and one or more global task objectives; processing the received input data to obtain one or more initial solutions to the optimization task based on the local task objectives, wherein at least one initial solution is obtained from a first quantum computing resource; and processing the generated one or more initial solutions using a second quantum computing resource to generate a global solution to the optimization task based on the global task objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Garrison, Andrew E. Fano, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger
  • Patent number: 10095982
    Abstract: A method of digitizing a well log includes identifying automatically with a computational circuitry a legend and at least one graph of the well log; determining based on a machine learning a parameter of the at least one graph indicated in the legend; and digitizing the at least one graph based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DATAINFOCOM USA, INC.
    Inventors: Frederick Johannes Venter, Atanu Basu
  • Patent number: 10095983
    Abstract: A method of digitizing a well log includes identifying automatically with a computational circuitry a legend and at least one graph of the well log; determining based on a machine learning a parameter of the at least one graph indicated in the legend; and digitizing the at least one graph based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DATAINFOCOM USA, INC.
    Inventors: Frederick Johannes Venter, Atanu Basu
  • Patent number: 10095984
    Abstract: A method of digitizing a well log includes identifying automatically with a computational circuitry a legend and at least one graph of the well log; determining based on a machine learning a parameter of the at least one graph indicated in the legend; and digitizing the at least one graph based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DATAINFOCOM USA, INC.
    Inventors: Frederick Johannes Venter, Atanu Basu
  • Patent number: 10095985
    Abstract: A system and method is presented for knowledge discovery that incorporate both human and computers to index, process, and communicate and share the knowledge and electronic contents. It also provides a platform for launching unlimited number of qualified and content reviewed publishing/broadcasting ventures or artificial beings. The system assists individuals for faster and more efficient discovery/creation of new and useful knowledge, and valuable artistic content. It also provides incentives to the owners of the ventures and a method for rewarding or compensating all contributors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventor: Hamid Hatami-Hanza
  • Patent number: 10095986
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems for classifying documents and freight-truck-transaction documents are described. A method may comprise receiving document data corresponding to a document, at a document classification device, wherein the document data comprises text data. The method may further comprise detecting, at the document classification device, an existence of, or an absence of, one or more predetermined text fields in the document based upon, at least in part, the document data. The method may additionally comprise assigning, at the document classification device, a value to the one or more predetermined text fields based upon, at least in part, the existence of, or the absence of, the one or more predetermined text fields in the document. The method may also comprise determining, at the document classification device, a score for the document based upon, at least in part, values assigned to the one or more predetermined text fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: PEGASUS TRANSTECH LLC
    Inventors: Don Burke, Peter Rhode, Mike Stuhley
  • Patent number: 10095987
    Abstract: A method of managing events is disclosed. It is determined that a user is present at a particular location within an event venue. It is determined that the user has reserved the event venue for a particular time period. A selection is received from the user of a particular merchant that is committed to providing services at the event during the particular time period. The particular location within the event is associated with the particular merchant. A notification of the association of the particular location within the event venue with the particular merchant is generated for communication to the particular merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Kamal Zamer
  • Patent number: 10095988
    Abstract: A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Erick Tseng, David Edward Braginsky
  • Patent number: 10095989
    Abstract: A system for determining product pricing for a product category receives a non-linear problem for the product category, in which the non-linear problem includes a demand model. For a plurality of pair of products in the product category, the system determines coefficients for a change in demand of a first product when a price of a second product is changed. The system then generates an approximate Mixed Integer Linear Programming (“MILP”) problem that includes a change of demand based on a sum of the determined coefficients. The system then solves the MILP problem to obtain a MILP solution, which provides the product pricing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Vakhutinsky, Ngai-Hang Zachary Leung
  • Patent number: 10095990
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for developing, implementing, transforming, and governing a business model of an enterprise. In some embodiments, a method of implementing and managing a business model of an enterprise includes defining a business model using a business model tool that is executed by a computer, wherein the business model is based on interrelated business strategy, business goal and business constraint data, and includes a business service, inputting into the computer a first set of data representing a benchmark performance value of the business service, and operating the enterprise in accordance with the business model. The enterprise is monitored to determine an actual performance value of the business service, and the actual performance value and the benchmark performance value are processed in the computer to affect a comparison therebetween. The business model is modified based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Farooq, Raghunath Sapuram, Manish Modh, Robert Erickson
  • Patent number: 10095991
    Abstract: A risk measurement system according to an embodiment includes a measurement unit that obtains a distance between a mechanical device and an operator; a control device that controls the mechanical device, a display device; a risk table database that has a risk table indicating a risk value that depends on a size of damage due to a risk, a frequency of access to the mechanical device according to an operation mode, and a risk avoiding possibility; and a risk measurement device that obtains the risk value based on the avoiding possibility obtained based on the distance, the frequency of access obtained based on the operation mode of the mechanical device acquired from the control device, and the risk table, records temporal changes of the risk value, and displays the temporal changes of the risk value on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Kanamaru, Yoshitomo Asano
  • Patent number: 10095992
    Abstract: Deep learning is used to identify specific, potential risks to an enterprise while such risks are still internal electronic communications. The combination of Deep Learning and blockchain technologies is a system for overcoming the problem of “small training sets” for highly adverse situations. Each enterprise's data is secure; is not revealed to any other enterprise and yet is being aggregated using blockchain technology into a training set that is provably viable for building a Deep Learning model which is specific to a given adverse situation. When deployed, the Deep Learning model may provide an early warning alert to an enterprise's corporate counsel (or leaders) of a potential adverse situation the enterprise would like to know about in time to conduct an internal investigation in order to prevent or avoid the risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Intraspexion, Inc.
    Inventors: Nelson E. Brestoff, Jagannath Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 10095993
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for configuring the granularity of key performance indicators that are available from a monitored component. A granularity of a key performance indicator provided by a monitored component can be configured by creating a plurality of instances of a statistics collector object, wherein each instance of the statistics collector object collects information for a different context of the key performance indicator; updating an indicator value for a corresponding instance of the statistics collector object when an activity occurs for the context of the key performance indicator; and providing the indicator value for a given context of the key performance indicator to a monitoring object. The configurable granularity can be specified by the product, for example, using an application programming interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Ika Bar-Menachem, Oded Peer
  • Patent number: 10095994
    Abstract: The embodiments include a data processing apparatus for conducting a business impact analysis for a service oriented architecture (SOA) that includes a plurality of processes and services. The data processing apparatus may include a process table generator configured to generate a first impact table for a first process and a second impact table for a second process, and a service table generator configured to generate a service impact table for a top-level service, a dependency model generator configured to generate a dependency model arranging the plurality of services with dependency links, an analysis model generator configured to generate a BEAM based on the service impact table, the dependency model and a selected service level agreement, a simulator configured to simulate the BEAM over a period of time, and a service level agreement classifier configured to classify the selected service level agreement based on one or more violations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Winkler, Wasif Gilani