Abstract: The disclosure provides a place recommendation device and method, so that even if the device is used by a new user or multiple users, a place that can cause a change in the emotion of the user currently using the device can be recommended. The place recommendation device includes a place information storage part, storing place information that associates with an attribute of an object vehicle, one or more places, and an emotion of an object user; a place identification part, identifying a place based on the place information, wherein the place corresponds to the attribute of the object vehicle and an estimated emotion of the object user; and an output control part, outputting information representing the identified place to the output part.

Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring and providing humidity control for an asset within a closed environment such as a storage container, with transmission of sensed humidity levels to at least one server that stores current and historical humidity levels and comprises a processor and stored executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, may recommend an optimal humidity controller to use for the asset, determine when the recommended humidity controller requires replacement and predictively recommend an optimal replacement humidity controller based on at least historical humidity data and trending thereof, execution of a sales transaction, that may be pre-scheduled based on asset type, asset size and/or historical data, for the optimal replacement humidity controller, and providing the proper replacement humidity controller to the user.

Abstract: Presented herein is an online marketplace for the selling and delivering of items for sale. The online marketplace includes devices and systems as well as their methods of use for the online purchase of goods as well as for the efficient and expedient delivery of the goods purchased. In particular embodiments, the system may include a cloud based database that stores images of the items for purchase, and may further include an associated computing device that is configured for receiving data corresponding with the one or more physical items represented by the images of the goods for sale that are stored in the database. The computing device is further configured for displaying the data corresponding with the one or more physical items for sale, e.g.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process including receiving an image of a floor and a floor map including a plurality of areas included in the floor, displaying the received image and the received floor map on a screen, specifying, upon a reception of a designation of a position in the image, a first area corresponding to the designated position based on correspondence information, the correspondence information indicating a correspondence between a plurality of positions in the image and the plurality of areas, obtaining information associated with the first area from a second memory storing pieces of information in association with the plurality of areas respectively, displaying the obtained information on the displayed image in association with the first area, and displaying, on the screen, information indicating a position of the first area in the floor map.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including a display control part configured to display a human-figure virtual object image in a pose from which to extract information necessary for motion capture, the human-figure virtual object image being the object to be handled corresponding to a person targeted to be recognized.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling a user to collect, assemble, manipulate, and utilize data regarding cost in one or more specific markets about specialty properties, such as assisted living, long-term care facilities, and the like. One computer-based method include establishing a cost index for specialty properties at a server computer that only includes raw move-in data based on actual transpired transaction for specialty properties. This move-in data includes move-in attributes about at least one type of specialty property and can be assimilated into the cost index while other non-move-in data attributes unassociated with move-in data is excluded from assimilation into the cost index. As a cost estimate is generated from transaction-only data, it may be stored separately and/or communicated to a remote computer within a computer network.

Abstract: Identification of a stable quoting quantity is disclosed. An example method includes setting a quoting quantity for a trading strategy based on a distribution associated with a tradeable object of the trading strategy; defining a range having first and second boundaries based on the distribution; updating a first tracked value according to changes in the distribution; and changing the quoting quantity in response to the first tracked value falling outside the range.

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media are described and disclosed. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, market data related to a tradeable object. The example method includes displaying, by the computing device, a flexible price-volume indicator, the flexible price-volume indicators aligned with a specific value level in a value axis. The example method includes updating, by the computing device, a display property associated with the flexible price-volume indicator, the display property reflecting a quantity value determined based on the received market data. The example method includes displaying, by the computing device, the flexible price-volume indicator in a differentiated state based on a change in the market data.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for managing electronic messages of an electronic trading system in which orders are extracted from the electronic messages involve executing actions associated with respect to the orders and matching orders to counter orders. Matching orders may be based on a priority determined using a market quality index of the order and an associated market participant.

Abstract: A facility for scalably decoupled development and merging of equity trading strategies and trading execution plans is disclosed. The facility provides a service by which a user may discover correlations between a sequence of event times and upticks of traded equities, such as stocks. The facility can also confirm a suspected correlation between event times and equity upticks. If the event sequence continues into the future at predictable times, and the correlation between the events and equity upticks continues into the future, then the correlation may be profitably acted upon by buying and selling the equity around the times of the projected equity upticks. The facility provides a utility by which many such correlations may be discovered, confirmed, ranked, and merged into a complex trading sequence across many equities, that were identified from many such discovered correlations.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic security method for investment transaction comprising the step of: receiving personal information data of a customer from a client system; receiving one or more document files containing information of the customer from the client system, wherein the one or more document files comprise one or more images, identification documents, and bank statements; connecting to a secured database to verify the information of the personal information data; providing one or more financial products for the customer to select for investment; receiving an investment order for one or more financial products; preparing and forwarding an investment order ticket to a financial institution; and forwarding a settlement command to a settlement facility.

Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices, via one or more networks, for the proactive, without initiation by an owner of a first retirement account, and automatic portability of the first retirement account, comprising: automatically searching databases or sending search requests to one or more record-keepers for a second retirement account owned by the owner; and sending a negative consent notification having a date to the owner of the first retirement account; wherein the negative consent notification advises the owner that unless the owner provides other instructions within a time period from the date, the first retirement account shall be rolled over, in-whole or in-part, into the second retirement account or vice versa.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising receive a list of one or more companies that one or more firms have invested in, analyze one or more companies based on an algorithm, where the algorithm comprises one or more parameters of percentage ownership, timing and size of a next financing, size of pro rata rights of the next financing, and projected financials, assign the one or more companies a first ranking based on the analysis, compare the first ranking with a second ranking of the one or more companies received from a third party database, and assign a third ranking based on the comparison of the first ranking and the second ranking.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to interactive and adaptive systems and methods for insurance application. Depending on how the application process is tailored and/or adapted to individual applicants' identity, location, status, health condition, medical history, or other information collected during the process, the application process can provide UIs in different form, content, sequence, and/or quantity, to different applicants as part or the entirety of the insurance application process.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for acquiring a transaction record, and a computer readable storage medium, which pertains to the field of internet technology. The method includes: determining a target transaction page to be recognized, the target transaction page originating from an application of a terminal and containing at least one transaction record of at least one transaction event acquiring a Document Object Model (DOM) structure of the target transaction page; and extracting the at least one transaction record from the DOM structure. In the present disclosure, by acquiring the DOM structure of the target transaction page, it may realize automatic extraction of a transaction record in the target transaction page, eliminating the need for the user to manually select a transaction record for extraction one by one. Moreover, the process is simple and will not miss any transaction record.

Abstract: A system for managing an agricultural resource comprising an input module arranged to receive inputs from a plurality of input sources; a central processor arranged in data communication with the input module to generate at least one long term forecast; the central processor further configured to receive inputs from selected input sources at a predetermined time to adjust a parameter of the at least one long term forecast to derive a short term forecast; and an output module arranged in data communication with the central processor to receive the long term forecast and/or the short term forecast for decision control; the output module arranged in data communication with at least one output device, is disclosed.

Abstract: A method for voice activated hotel room monitoring includes transmitting to a mobile number from a voice driven computer assistant disposed within a room of a hotel, a message inviting registration of a guest assigned to the room. In response to a registration of the guest received from the number, a unique identifier is assigned to the guest, a record is stored in a registry that associates the guest with the identifier and the room, and the identifier is transmitted to the mobile number. Thereafter, a voice command is detected in the assistant and, in response, the command is speech recognized into text and parsed to locate the identifier. Then, the registry is queried with the identifier. In the event that the identifier corresponds to the guest assigned to the room, a directive in the text is processed in connection with a service offered to the guest by the hotel.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling a user to collect, assemble, manipulate, and utilize data regarding cost or demand in one or more specific markets about specialty properties, such as assisted living, long-term care facilities, and the like. As data is collected into an index, some data may be not very useful as it deviates too much from other similarly-situated data. Thus, analyzing the assembled data for deviation from one or more confidence levels and culling data that is deemed to be outlier data results in a more robust assembly of data about specialty properties in more useful indexes. The server computer may determine move-in data that deviates from a specified confidence level corresponding to a grouping of received move-in data and exclude its use. Based on the index having non-outlier data therein, one may generate an estimate corresponding to move-in data assimilated into the index with confidence.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically updating an attribute map is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the method for automatically updating the rights and obligations comprises the step of storing in a data base shape files that together define a geographic region. The shape files each comprising homogenous attributes. The data store further comprising attribute data related to the homogenous attributes. The attribute data comprising a unique track code. The method further comprising the steps of linking each of the attribute data to one or more shape files by the tract code of the shape file, displaying on a map of the geographic region, and changing automatically the map by updating one or more of the attributes within the database. Furthermore, visual representations of at least a portion of the attributes. The map viewable on a computer screen.

Abstract: A system and method for prioritizing for display attribute data on an attribute map is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the method for prioritizing for display attribute data on an attribute map can comprise the step storing in a data store a shape within a geographic region. The shape linked with attribute data. The attribute data comprising a first attribute entries for the shape regarding a first attribute. The attribute data further comprising second attribute entries relating to a second attribute. Additionally, the method further comprising the steps determining a priority first attribute entry based a first characteristic of the second attribute entries and displaying on an attribute map on a screen the shape comprising one a first visual representation based on one of the second priority entries having a database relationship to the priority first database entry.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling a user to collect, assemble, manipulate, and utilize data regarding demand in one or more specific markets about specialty properties, such as assisted living, long-term care facilities, and the like. Several factors will affect a specific market and the ebb and flow of regional costs, regional demand, regional demographics, and regional econometrics. Further, intra-regional and extra-regional data may also reflect the behavior of individuals in a market based on additional factors. Collecting this data and assigning relative values to the data based on follow-on activities, such as actual inquiries into property, lead generation for specific properties and move-in data for specific properties leads to a ever-changing demand index that is continuously updated through a machine-learning algorithm by which demand index data may be gleaned at any given moment in time for any specific region.

Abstract: An presentation generator is disclosed for generating presentations for interacting with a user on a personal topic of, e.g., the user's selection, wherein the presentations assist the user in obtaining a greater awareness of his/her motivations and/or behaviors relating to the topic. In one embodiment, the presentation generator generates and presents to the user textual observations, questions, and/or statements for the user's consideration. Such presentations use and/or are consistent with textual descriptions obtained from: (a) the results of one or more personality/motivation test results, and (b) user inputs, e.g., regarding the selected topic together with his/her confidence in the validity of such inputs.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing information to first responders during an emergency response include a processor, a display device, and a memory. The memory stories instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to obtain, from a plurality of data sources over a communication network, data related to a geographical address. The obtained data is normalized based on a normalization rule. The normalized data is processed including to identify, based on at least one of a predetermined criterion or the normalized data, a user interface element to include in a user interface. Based on a result of the processing, the user interface including the user interface element is generated and displayed by way of the display device.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, terminal device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for invoking a virtual public transport card. The method includes obtaining information for a unified card surface; displaying one card surface based on the information for the unified card surface, wherein a plurality of virtual public transport cards are stored locally; obtaining a current location; activating a first virtual public transport card from the plurality of virtual public transport cards based on the current location, wherein the first virtual public transport card is associated with the current location; and requesting public transport service based on the first virtual public transport card.

Abstract: A system and method for partitioning a map into a plurality of disjoint regions each representing a respective continuous bounded geographic region, comprising: receiving a data set representing a geographic region having geographic variations, and a partitioning objective; partitioning the data so that the partitioning objective is met, using a distinct condition, to produce a plurality of partitioned geographic regions, dependent on at least the geographic variations and characteristics of the data and the initial condition. A plurality of initial conditions or distinctness criteria applied to the partitioning as the distinct criterion, to produce a plurality of different maps. The plurality of maps may then be compared according to a fitness criterion.

Abstract: A picking assistant system includes an article shelf in which articles are stocked, a projector displaying an instruction to a worker in a display region defined on the article shelf, and a processor. The processor detects a motion of a movable member which constitutes the article shelf and is configured to move when the article is taken out from the article shelf, and detects an operational error of the worker based on the detected motion of the movable member.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address the above problems and others, while providing for a number of advantages. Some embodiments provide for end to end tracking that is able to provide ubiquitous sensor information and coverage by pairing the sensor data collection (either via BLE, barcodes, or QR codes paired with a mobile app or smart device) with the assets to collect data from farm to fork (i.e., end to end). This is in contrast to traditional solutions that may only he able to track certain data for a single leg or trip in the supply chain. Some embodiments allow more devices to be paired with products within a truckload or warehouse, since the devices are already embedded with the asset.

Abstract: An on-demand transportation management system can perform trip classification operations based at least on risk by establishing a set of risk thresholds for safety-driven autonomous vehicles, fully autonomous vehicles, and/or the software versions executable by such vehicles. Based on the trip classifications, the on-demand transportation management system can perform vehicle matching operation with requesting users.

Abstract: An on-demand transportation management system can receive transport requests in connection with an on-demand transportation service, each transport request indicating a start location and a destination. The system can determine a set of candidate vehicles to service each transport request, and can further determine a non-trip risk value for servicing the transport request. The system may then select an optimal vehicle in the set of candidate vehicles based at least in part on the non-trip risk value.

Abstract: An on-demand transport facilitation system can receive transport requests from requesting users throughout a given region, and select autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human driver to service the transport requests. The AV can operating on a mapped and labeled autonomy grid within the given region. For a given transport request, the transport system can determine an optimal pick-up location along the autonomy grid based on the current location of the requesting user and a current location of a selected AV, and transmit data indicating walking directions from the current location of the requesting user to the optimal pick-up location.

Abstract: A method and system using blockchains for distributing event information related to vehicle operation between a plurality of entities. The method includes executing blockchain agreements between the plurality of entities participating in a blockchain exchange for distributing event information related to the vehicle operation, where the blockchain exchange includes a plurality of databases having blockchains of data blocks for storing the event information. Next, generating by a particular entity of the plurality of entities the event information related to vehicle operation and validating the event information by a consensus of the plurality of entities participating in the blockchain exchange. Then, appending, upon validating by the consensus, a blockchain within the blockchain database for enabling each entity to have access to a same replicated block data with the event information to enable enhanced vehicle operations of multiple vehicles based on the same replicated block data.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for screenshot processing. The method includes: receiving a screenshot instruction; capturing a target image according to the screenshot instruction; acquiring interface jump information of a display interface displaying the target image, wherein the interface jump information enables the terminal to jump back to the display interface or an application containing the display interface; and storing the target image and the interface jump information correspondingly.

Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering a secure document with a text selection capability. The methods comprise: performing first operations, by a computing device, to determine which objects of a source document are non-text objects; creating, by the computing device, an image file representing a graphic consisting of the non-text objects of the source document and a watermark merged together as a single image; drawing the graphic represented by the image file to a base document having a first file format different than a second file format of the source document; and drawing text objects to the base document from the source document so as to create the secure document with the text selection capability.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a data storage and processing system is provided. The system includes a host server and a storage unit. The storage unit includes a drive comprising a memory and a drive processor, an external switch configured to couple the host server to the drive to send and receive data between the host server and the memory of the drive and a graphics processing unit. The drive processor is configured to send processing instructions and data from the drive memory to the graphics processing unit and the graphics processing unit is configured to process the data according to the processing instructions to generate result data.

Abstract: An apparatus, a method, a method of manufacturing and apparatus, and a method of constructing an integrated circuit are provided.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and storage medium for processing a particle system are provided. In the method, general attribute information of a target particle system sent by a CPU is received. The general attribute information of the target particle system includes a particle display range, a particle life cycle range, a particle velocity range, and a generation time. Particles of the target particle system are generated according to the general attribute information of the target particle system. Particle attributes of the particles of the target particle system are initialized. The particle attributes of each particle include position information, velocity information, a life cycle and a generation time of the particle. The particles of the target particle system are displayed according to the particle attributes of the particles of the target particle system.

Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a service processor. The service processor allocates a plurality of frame buffers. The service processor also writes image data of a predetermined image to a first frame buffer of the plurality of frame buffers. The service processor further loads a first application. The service processor displays the predetermined image in accordance with the image data stored in the first frame buffer while the first application is being loaded. The service processor then writes image data of the first application to a second frame buffer of the plurality of frame buffers.

Abstract: Embodiments herein select first and second panoramic images from respective first and second video streams, each comprising a series of stitched images captured by multiple cameras of respective first and second non-co-located video camera arrays. These arrays may be capturing live video for virtual reality rendering. A rotation is computed between the first and second panoramic images such that, when applied, the first and/or the second panoramic images are rotated relative to one another such that at least one common object is oriented to a common field of view position in both those panoramic images. The output can be variously manifested for different embodiments, for example the output can include a) the first video stream, the second video stream, and an indication of the computed rotation; and/or b) the first video stream and the second video stream with the computed rotation applied thereto.

Abstract: Resolution enhancement techniques are described. An apparatus may receive first image data at a first resolution, and second image data at a resolution less than the first resolution. The second image data may be scaled to the first resolution and compared to the first image data. Application of a neural network may scale the first image data to a resolution higher than the first resolution. The application of the neural network may incorporate signals based on the scaled second image data. The signals may include information obtained by comparing the scaled second image data to the resolution of the first image data.

Abstract: Resolution enhancement techniques are described. An apparatus may receive first image data at a first resolution, and second image data at a resolution less than the first resolution. The second image data may be scaled to the first resolution and compared to the first image data. Application of a neural network may scale the first image data to a resolution higher than the first resolution. The application of the neural network may incorporate signals based on the scaled second image data. The signals may include information obtained by comparing the scaled second image data to the resolution of the first image data.

Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for assisting a driver of a vehicle to view traffic mirror content. A method according to some embodiments includes retrieving global positioning system (GPS) data that describes a current location of a vehicle. The method includes generating mirror data based on the GPS data, wherein the mirror data identifies a fixed location of a traffic mirror included in a roadway environment. The method includes instructing, based on the mirror data, an external sensor associated with the vehicle to capture captured image data that describes an image of the traffic mirror. The method includes generating processed image data that describes an optically reversed version of the image. The method includes instructing a display device to display the optically reversed version of the image.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a sharpness recovery unit configured to recover sharpness of an input image; a correlation determination unit configured to determine a correlation between a target pixel and peripheral pixels of the input image; a noise removal unit configured to perform smoothing of the target pixel determined as having a correlation with the peripheral pixels in a recovered image output from the sharpness recovery unit; and a switching unit configured to switch between a mode in which the correlation determination unit uses the target pixel and the peripheral pixels of the pre-recovery input image in the correlation determination and a mode in which the correlation determination unit uses the target pixel and the peripheral pixels of the recovered input image in the correlation determination, depending on recovery characteristics used in the determination of the correlation determination unit.

Abstract: Described herein is a method of displaying an object that includes detecting a first location of the object on a first image frame of image data. The method also includes determining a second location of the object on a second image frame of the image data on which the object is not detectable due to an obstruction. The method includes displaying a representation of the object on the second image frame.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (100) for processing a medical image (IM) of a structure of interest (SOI). The apparatus comprises a first unit (101) configured for decomposing the medical image (IM) into at least one band pass image (Bdl) and a low pass image (L); a user interface (102) arranged for enabling a user to specify an enhancement curve (EC) for the radiographic image (IM) based on at least one of (i) a metric structure length (l), (ii) a structure selectivity (s) and (iii) a structure enhancement strength (a); a second unit (103) configured for applying the enhancement curve (EC) to the at least one band pass image (Bdl) for generating at least one enhanced band pass image EBdl; and a third unit (105) configured for composing an enhanced medical image (EIM) based on the at least one enhanced band pass image (EBdl) and the low pass image (L). The invention also relates to a corresponding method of processing a medical image (IM).

Abstract: There is presented a system and method for detecting mobile device fault conditions, including detecting fault conditions by software operating on the mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for systems and methods for using a neural network to detect, from an image of the device, that the mobile device has a defect, for instance a cracked or scratched screen. Systems and methods also provide for, reporting the defect status of the device, working or not, so that appropriate action may be taken by a third party.

Abstract: Systems and methods increase the signal to noise ratio of optical inspection of wafers to obtain higher inspection sensitivity. The computed reference image can minimize a norm of the difference of the test image and the computed reference image. A difference image between the test image and a computed reference image is determined. The computed reference image includes a linear combination of a second set of images.

Abstract: A fingerprint capture system, a fingerprint capture device, an image processing apparatus, a fingerprint capture method, and a storage medium that can acquire a high quality fingerprint image are provided. A disclosed example includes: a capture unit that captures a fingerprint; an image processing unit that processes a transferred fingerprint image captured by the capture unit; a display unit on which the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is displayed; a recording unit where the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is recorded by the image processing unit; and an instruction unit that inputs, in the image processing unit, a record instruction that instructs the image processing unit to record the fingerprint image in the recording unit. The image processing unit records, in the recording unit, the fingerprint image displayed on the display unit at the time the record instruction is input by the instruction unit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mapping one or more inclusions in a mineral crystal. A set of image data associated with the mineral crystal is receiving. The received set of image data is analyzed. One or more inclusions associated with the mineral crystal is identified based on the analyzed image data. The identified one or more inclusions of the mineral crystal are mapped to a tree structure representing the surface of the mineral crystal. The mapped one or more inclusions are encoded as a chain-code associated with the mineral crystal. A radial distance between a center of mass value of the mineral crystal and a center of mass value of the identified one or more inclusions is calculated and a mineral crystal fingerprint is generated.

Abstract: A method including receiving sensor data from a sensor array and applying it to a neural network to recognize anomalies in sensor input which represent objects and issues. The system and method structures an AR/VR interface to display the anomaly location with any associated instructions which should be used to proceed. A system for constructing augmented and virtual reality interfaces from sensor input includes a machine learning model, an interface constructor, a display, sensor data, an anomaly, a sensor array, an anomaly type and location, an instruction memory structure, a selector, a localizer, a components memory structure, an object, an alert, interface components, display locations, and instructions.