Patents Issued in February 21, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190057217
    Abstract: A computer device, having at least two long-range wireless profiles and coupled with a communication bus of a vehicle, receives a notice that a vehicle-centric download for the computer device, or for a vehicle device coupled to the communication bus, is pending from a remote server. The vehicle computer device determines the size and security requirement associated with the pending download, and a current operational state of the vehicle. If the size or security requirement is low, a consumer-centric profile may be used for the download even if the vehicle is currently being used. If the download file size is large or requires very high security, or if a user is currently using the computer device according to the consumer-centric profile, the computer device may schedule the download to occur after receiving a trigger event occurrence message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20190057218
    Abstract: A retention service registers a target system as a consumer service. A cloud platform provides services to each of multiple consumer service. Retention rule information about the target system is received and reflects a data retention requirement. A rule is created that corresponds to the data retention requirement. A configuration is defined that specifies recurring future invocations of the rule. The rule is invoked per the configuration and a query is sent to the target system, the query configured to extract data. Extracted data is received and the rule is applied thereto. An action specified by the rule is taken with regard to the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Srinivas Bhaskara, Vinay C, Vijay G, Zainul Abidin Mulla, Pranjal Chugh, Miguel Rolando Heineken
  • Publication number: 20190057219
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to providing policy-protected file access. Some examples involve a configuration profile that includes a credential. The credential permits access to a policy-protected file. Once installed, the configuration profile causes the second credential to be accessible by a file management application of the client device, but inaccessible by a user of the client device. A file management application provides access to the policy-protected file based on the second credential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ramani Panchapakesan, Saurabh Agrawal, Suja Ramachandran, Sushilvas Vasavan
  • Publication number: 20190057220
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a medium connection unit that reads first key information from a detachable first recording medium; and a second recording medium storing firmware. The firmware is a program to be executed at a time of start-up of the information processing device and contains second key information. The information processing device includes: a third recording medium storing encrypted data; and a control unit that reads the encrypted data from the third recording medium and decrypts the encrypted data. At the time of start-up of the information processing device, the control unit operates in accordance with the firmware to generate a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted data, from the first key information and the second key information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Masamitsu MURASE
  • Publication number: 20190057221
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for discovering availability of digital media titles from multiple digital media service providers. A user account can have a relationship with one or more of the digital media service providers. For each digital media service provider, availability of the digital media title for viewing by the user account can be determined. Relationship information for the user account can be used to determine if digital media title is available for viewing from a digital media service provider. When a relationship does not exist for a digital media service provider, the availability of a digital media title for viewing from the digital media service provider can be determined without any relationship information. The user information describing access to the digital media title can be presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Brett C. Barrilleaux, Ann M. Groeninger
  • Publication number: 20190057222
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to protecting data of a particular data type. For example, a system for protecting data of a particular type may include a configuration engine to receive a stream of data, where a portion of the stream of data includes data of a particular data type. The configuration engine may determine the particular data type to be protected based, at least in part, on a format associated with the stream of data. Further, the system for protecting data of a particular type may include a cryptography engine to protect the data of the particular data type, and a generation engine to output the stream of data such that at least the data of the particular data type is protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Matthew BRADLEY
  • Publication number: 20190057223
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods and systems for a biometric identity management system capable of being deployed incrementally one organization at a time, and also reversibly, such that any organization can unsubscribe at any time. A biometric processing engine can perform biometric matching between records from a first database and a second database, whereby the databases have been established independently of each other. Each record comprises a biometric record and a corresponding identifier unique across databases. If a biometric record of a first record and a biometric record of a second record are from a same individual, the first record comprising a first unique identifier and the second record comprising a second unique identifier are linked. Using the first or second unique identifiers, access to information about the individual linked to both the first record in the first database and the second record in the second database is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Keith J. Hanna
  • Publication number: 20190057224
    Abstract: The privacy of linear queries on histograms is protected. A database containing private data is queried. Base decomposition is performed to recursively compute an orthonormal basis for the database space. Using correlated (or Gaussian) noise and/or least squares estimation, an answer having differential privacy is generated and provided in response to the query. In some implementations, the differential privacy is ?-differential privacy (pure differential privacy) or is (?,?)-differential privacy (i.e., approximate differential privacy). In some implementations, the data in the database may be dense. Such implementations may use correlated noise without using least squares estimation. In other implementations, the data in the database may be sparse. Such implementations may use least squares estimation with or without using correlated noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kunal Talwar, Aleksandar Nikolov
  • Publication number: 20190057225
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computing data privacy-utility tradeoff is disclosed. Large data hubs like data marketplace are a source of data that may be of utility to data buyers. However, output data provided to data sellers is required to meet the privacy requirements of data sellers and at the same time maintain a level of utility to data buyers. Conventionally known methods of achieving data privacy tend to suppress components of data that may result in reduced utility of the data. Systems and methods of the present disclosure compute this tradeoff to establish need for data transformation, if any, before data is shared with data sellers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Dilys THOMAS, Sachin Premsukh LODHA, Kalyani MASHIWAL, Vijayanand Mahadeo BANAHATTI, Kishore PADMANABHAN
  • Publication number: 20190057226
    Abstract: A method includes providing user data associated with a user to a remote provider system without identifying the user to the remote provider system, wherein the user data includes a certification of the user data recognized by the remote provider system, and wherein the certification of the user data is not provided by the remote provider system. Quote data associated with a service and/or product is received from the remote provider system. The quote data is provided via a user interface to the user, wherein the quote data is associated with an authorization for initiating a process at the remote provider system associated with the service and/or product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Tod R. Arbutina
  • Publication number: 20190057227
    Abstract: Systems and methods are discussed herein for reusing hardware for encryption and authentication, where the hardware has a fixed input bandwidth, and where the hardware has the same bandwidth for a different input bandwidth. In order to accomplish this mechanism, systems and methods are provided herein for processing invalid data that appears within streams of valid data. Systems and methods are also provided herein for authentication mechanisms that require more than one data cycle to complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Groza
  • Publication number: 20190057228
    Abstract: In a general aspect, a test method can include: acquiring a plurality of value sets, each comprising values of a physical quantity or of logic signals, linked to the activity of a circuit to be tested when executing distinct cryptographic operations applied to a same secret data, for each value set, counting occurrence numbers of the values of the set, for each operation and each of the possible values of a part of the secret data, computing a partial result of operation, computing sums of occurrence numbers, each sum being obtained by adding the occurrence numbers corresponding to the operations which when applied to a same possible value of the part of the secret data, provide a partial operation result having a same value, and analyzing the sums of occurrence numbers to determine the part of the secret data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Benoît Feix, Hugues Thiebeauld de la Crouee
  • Publication number: 20190057229
    Abstract: A combination of a RFID antenna and an illumination device contains: a casing, a lighting unit, and a RFID antenna. The casing includes a metal plate and a fixing frame which has an opening and being mounted on a front end of the metal plate. The lighting unit includes a light guide plate and multiple light emitting elements, wherein the lighting unit is defined between the metal plate and the fixing frame, the light guide plate is fixed between the metal plate and the fixing frame, and the light guide plate has a transporting face facing the opening of the fixing frame so that the lights illuminate to the transporting face of the light guide plate from the multiple light emitting element. The RFID antenna is accommodated in the front end of the metal plate and is defined between the light guide plate and the metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Chung-Ping LAI
  • Publication number: 20190057230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting objects, comprising a plurality of RFID data carriers (DT1-DT9) designed as tags, one data carrier being assigned to each object and the data carriers forming an RFID data carrier population with a random distribution of the RFID data carriers in a data carrier vicinity and at least one mobile read device (R1-R5). The read device, in an active operating mode, moves between at least two different positions in the data carrier vicinity and receives object data or position data of the RFID data carriers that are within range of the read device, such that a data carrier association is made in the read device, in accordance with the position of the latter, between an RFID data carrier and the read device and an object data record or position data record is created and then said object data record or position data record is transmitted to a network interface (NS) within transmission range of the read device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Manfred Rietzler
  • Publication number: 20190057231
    Abstract: According to some embodiments of the invention, data may be collected from multiple tagged pallets by a mobile reader pallet. The tagged pallets may include components capable of short range communication with the mobile reader pallet. The reader pallet may include components capable of long range communication that allow the reader pallet to transmit the data to another device or server. This may result in reduced costs and battery preservation, as each pallet does not need to include costly and power intensive long range communication components. Further, because the reader pallet is mobile, movement of the tagged pallets within range of a stationary reader is not needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: BXB Digital Pty Limited
    Inventors: Sandeep K. Bandil, Jun Shi
  • Publication number: 20190057232
    Abstract: An illuminator is provided, comprising a support frame arranged symmetrically around an optical axis of an optical sensor. The illuminator includes at least one light bar connected to the support frame. At least one light source is connected to the support frame, wherein each of the at least one light source is configured to direct light towards one of the opposing ends of one of the at least one light bar. The illuminator further includes a peripheral cover configured to receive light emitted from the front face of each of the at least one light bar. The peripheral cover is further configured to emit dark field illumination at a low incident angle with respect to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis and to emit bright field illumination at a high incident angle with respect to the plane perpendicular to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jie Ren, Lin Wang, Yuefeng Mo, Chen Feng, Yunxin Ouyang, Hui Li, Jun Yin
  • Publication number: 20190057233
    Abstract: Improved tattoo recognition and improved individual recognition and tracking by directing energy onto an individual's tattoo or onto tissue proximate the individual's tattoo thereby producing a signal with enhanced information about the individual's tattoo. The signal with enhanced information about the individual's tattoo is used to match the individual with stored images in a tattoo database or databases. The signal with enhanced information about the individual's tattoo is combined with biometric systems to improve reliability and dependability of identifying, tracking, and/or monitoring individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Eddie E. Scott, Ronald J. Kane, John T. Chang
  • Publication number: 20190057234
    Abstract: A method and system for determining product information from a logo are disclosed. In one embodiment, an image of a logo may be captured by a portable image capture device. The captured image may be analyzed to recognize the logo. The product may then be identified based on the recognized logo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Leigh M. Rothschild
  • Publication number: 20190057235
    Abstract: A biometric identification apparatus having multiple electrode layers includes a sensing electrode layer having a plurality of sensing electrodes, an enhancing electrode layer having at least one enhancing electrode and a capacitance-blocking electrode layer having at least one capacitance-blocking electrode. During sensing of biometric features of living beings skin, a fingerprint sensing circuit applies a capacitance exciting signal to a selected sensing electrode, applies an enhancing signal to at least one enhancing electrode to focus and enhance sensed electric field lines, and applies a capacitance-blocking signal to at least one capacitance-blocking electrode to eliminate influence of ambient stray capacitance to the selected sensing electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: HSIANG-YU LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Publication number: 20190057236
    Abstract: There is disclosed a display panel and its driving method and a display device in the technical field of display. The display panel according to the disclosure includes a base substrate, a driving structure provided on the base substrate, a receiving structure provided above the driving structure, and a fingerprint detection module provided on the base substrate, wherein the driving structure is configured to create an ultrasonic signal, the receiving structure is configured to receive the ultrasonic signal reflected from a finger and transform the reflected ultrasonic signal into an electric signal which is input to the fingerprint detection module, and the fingerprint detection module is configured to determine fingerprint information from the electric signal output by the receiving structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yingming LIU, Xue DONG, Haisheng WANG, Xiaoliang DING, Rui XU, Lijun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20190057237
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for acquiring a fingerprint image and a terminal device. The method includes determining target light information of a light environment of a to-be-identified fingerprint; determining a target operating parameter corresponding to the target light information according to a correspondence between light information and operating parameters; and acquiring a first fingerprint image of the to-be-identified fingerprint according to the target operating parameter. According to the method and the apparatus for acquiring the fingerprint image and the terminal device of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the operating parameter used for a time when the fingerprint image of the to-be-identified fingerprint is acquired can be dynamically adjusted according to different light environments, so that an intended result of using an optical fingerprint in different environments is achieved without increasing hardware cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yong ZUO, Bing WANG
  • Publication number: 20190057238
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device capable of recognizing a fine fingerprint without a complicated construction such as a bulky optical device. The display device comprises a display panel having a display area and a non-display area outside the display area; a light source disposed below the non-display area of the display panel to irradiate the display panel with light; a directional light unit disposed on an upper portion of the display panel, refracting the light supplied from the light source at a first angle to travel from the non-display area to the display area in total internal reflection, reflecting some of the totally internally reflected light at a second angle, and then supplying a light reflected by an object having biometric information to the display panel; and an optical sensor disposed below the display panel and receiving the light exited from the directional light unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Joobong HYUN, Kyoseop CHOO, Seungman RYU, Ara YOON
  • Publication number: 20190057239
    Abstract: An optical biometric identification module, a display apparatus, and an electronic device, are provided. The optical biometric identification module includes an optical channel array panel configured to filter lights reflected by an organism; an optical chip configured to generate a biometric identification signal according to the filtered lights received by an optical sensing area of the optical chip; and a circuit board configured to transmit out the biometric identification signal. The optical chip is mounted on the circuit board, and the optical channel array panel is secured on the optical chip and covers at least the optical sensing area of the optical chip, to ensure that the lights received by the optical chip are approximately perpendicular to the optical channel array panel, thereby improving accuracy of the acquired biometric identification signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lyu HOU, Xiangying LIU
  • Publication number: 20190057240
    Abstract: A method of recognizing a fingerprint, an electronic device and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: touch information on a designated area within a touch screen of an electronic device is obtained when a fingerprint recognition fails, where a distance between the designated area and a fingerprint collection area of the fingerprint recognition is within a designated range; and a fingerprint recognition failure operation is prohibited from being executed when the touch information indicates that the designated area satisfies a preset touch condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guosheng LI, Yinghong LIU
  • Publication number: 20190057241
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a biosensor. The biosensor includes a sensor body and a cover disposed on the sensor body; an inner surface of the cover faces a sensing surface of the sensor body; and an outer surface of the cover is formed with a micro-nanostructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yiping GUO, Shaojia LI
  • Publication number: 20190057242
    Abstract: A biometric module and a mobile terminal, are provided. The biometric module includes: a flexible circuit board, a biological detection component installed on a first surface of the flexible circuit board, a stiffening plate fixed on a second surface of the flexible circuit board and a decorative ring arranged around the biological detection component. The decorative ring has a first supporting surface, and the biological detection component is fixed on the first supporting surface. The decorative ring further has a second supporting surface for being fixed with an edge region of an opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiping GUO
  • Publication number: 20190057243
    Abstract: For biometric technologies, a sensing device and a terminal device are provided. The sensing device includes a circuit board, a biometric sensor, at least one light-emitting element, a cover with a light-transmitting region, a light guide plate, and a light concentrating structure. The biometric sensor is installed on the circuit board. The light guide plate is fixed between the biometric sensor and the cover. The light concentrating structure is disposed on the light guide plate and corresponds to the light-transmitting region. The light-emitting element is installed on the circuit board and positioned on one side of the biometric sensor; and the light-emitting element has a side light-emitting end, and the side light-emitting end corresponds to the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangying LIU
  • Publication number: 20190057244
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for determining a target through intelligent following of an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method includes: obtaining an image returned by an unmanned aerial vehicle; obtaining, according to a click of a user on the image returned by the unmanned aerial vehicle, a region picture in which the user is interested; loading a deep learning network model, inputting the obtained region picture to the deep learning network model, and outputting, by using the deep learning network model, a plurality of candidate circumscribed frames for framing targets in the region picture and probabilities that the targets in the candidate circumscribed frames belong to preset categories; and determining, according to the candidate circumscribed frames and the probabilities that the targets in the candidate circumscribed frames belong to the preset categories, whether a target image exists in the region picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jiangyuan MEI
  • Publication number: 20190057245
    Abstract: A method includes classifying low-resolution pixels of a low-resolution satellite image of a geographic area to form an initial classification map and selecting at least one physically-consistent classification map of the low-resolution pixels based on the initial classification map. A water level associated with at least one of the physically-consistent classification maps is then used to identify a set of high-resolution pixels representing a perimeter of water in the geographic area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ankush Khandelwal, Anuj Karpatne, Vipin Kumar
  • Publication number: 20190057246
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a method and a device for gesture recognition. The method includes: acquiring an image of a user; detecting whether the image includes a human face (2); and performing gesture recognition based on information of the detected human face (2), which comprises: dividing a first region (3) including the human face (2) in the image; dividing a plurality of detection regions (A1-A4) outside the first region (3); determining respective priority levels of the plurality of detection regions (A1-A4); and in an order from a high priority level to a low priority level, performing the gesture recognition in the plurality of detection regions (A1-A4) in sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Yingjie LI
  • Publication number: 20190057247
    Abstract: A method for awakening an intelligent robot, and an intelligent robot, falling within the technical field of intelligent devices. The method comprises: step S1, acquiring image information by using an image acquisition apparatus on an intelligent robot (S1); step S2, determining whether the image information contains human face information (S2), and if not, returning back to step S1; step S3, extracting a plurality of pieces of characteristic point information on the human face information, and determining whether the human face information indicates a front human face directly facing the image acquisition apparatus according to the characteristic point information, and turning to step S4 when it is determined that the human face information indicates a front human face directly facing the image acquisition apparatus (S3); and step S4, awakening the intelligent robot, and subsequently quitting (S4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Mingxiu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190057248
    Abstract: Systems and methods for object recognition and association with an identity are disclosed. Systems and methods for object recognition and association with an identity are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for object recognition and association with an identity may include: (1) receiving, from a first image capture device at a facility, a first image or a video; (2) recognizing, in the first image or video, an individual having a physical characteristic and an object in proximity to the individual; (3) associating the physical characteristic and the object with the individual; and (4) storing the association in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jeffrey Dean Mathwig
  • Publication number: 20190057249
    Abstract: A face recognition system including: a reading unit that reads identification information from a medium carried by an authentication subject; an image capturing unit that acquires an image; a face detection unit that detects, as a detected face image, a face image from the image acquired; a face matching unit that, when a registered face image associated with the identification information read by the reading unit is present, matches the detected face image against the registered face image and matches, against the registered face image, the detected face image captured before the reading unit reads the identification information; and a registration unit that, when the registered face image associated with the identification information read is not present, registers, as the registered face image, the detected face image before the reading unit reads the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki HAYASE, Hiroshi TEZUKA
  • Publication number: 20190057250
    Abstract: A method and system using face tracking and object tracking is disclosed. The method and system use face tracking, location, and/or recognition to enhance object tracking, and use object tracking and/or location to enhance face tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Paul C. Brewer, Dana Eubanks, Himaanshu Gupta, W. Andrew Scanlon, Peter L. Venetianer, Weihong Yin, Li Yu, Zhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190057251
    Abstract: A method and an electronic apparatus for wave detection are provided. The method is adapted to the electronic apparatus having an image capturing device and a processor, and includes following steps: successively capturing a plurality of images; calculating a difference image between each two adjacent images among the images, and determining whether a variation degree of the difference images is over a predetermined degree according to pixel values of a plurality of pixels in the difference images; if the variation degree is over the predetermined degree, detecting a variation range formed by the pixels having the pixels values to which a predetermined variation is occurred in each of the difference images and determining whether a variation frequency of the pixel values within the detected variation range is over a predetermined frequency; and if the variation frequency is over the predetermined frequency, determining that a wave movement appears in the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: QNAP SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Chan-Cheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20190057252
    Abstract: A living body search system includes an unmanned moving body and a server. The body includes: a camera; image data processing for retrieving image data; moving means; and communicating. The server includes: a database configured to record therein search data; and notifies a client. The body and the server are connected to each other through a communication network. The system includes individuals in the image data wherein individual identification information records the database to determine whether the candidate object in the image data is a searched-for object. The system registers, in the server, searched-for data provided in advance from the client. The system compares image data retrieved from the camera with the individual identification information to perform individual recognition. When the image data matches the individual identification information, the system determines that the object has been found. Then, the system notifies the client that the searched-for object has been found.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: PRODRONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo ICHIHARA, Masakazu KONO
  • Publication number: 20190057253
    Abstract: An image identification apparatus includes an extraction unit, an excluding unit, and an identification unit. The extraction unit extracts lines from an image. The exclusion unit excludes from objects to be identified a boundary delimiting an entire area of the image among the extracted lines. The identification unit identifies as an object multiple lines that are among the extracted lines and that are not excluded by the exclusion unit if the multiple lines are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke TATSUMI
  • Publication number: 20190057254
    Abstract: Embodiments include techniques for read confirmation of electronic messages, the techniques include displaying a message to a user, and determining one or more portions of the message has been scanned based on a tracking. The techniques also include comparing a threshold to the one or more portions of the message that has been scanned, and presenting an estimated unscanned portion of the message based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, Adriana A. Morales
  • Publication number: 20190057255
    Abstract: An information-display method for use in a transparent display is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Shin-Hong KUO, Yi-Shou TSAI, Kuan-Ting CHEN, Yu-Hsiang TSAI, Yu-Tang TSAI
  • Publication number: 20190057256
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recognizing a specific object inside an image in an electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying at least one image; detecting at least one gesture; selecting a recognition function related to at least one object existing in the at least one image according to the detected at least one gesture; and recognizing the at least one object using the selected recognition function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Dong-Il SON, Cheol-Ho Cheong
  • Publication number: 20190057257
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system to provide the details about an item and in-store navigation to the item. A user may leverage the present invention to capture an image using camera device to analyze and determine more details about it. The present invention may leverage the deep learning techniques to analyze the given image to determine a plurality of items presented in the image. In one embodiment, the present invention highlights a plurality of items from the image to allow user to select an item. Once user chosen an item from the highlighted objected from the image, the present invention provides more detailed information about the item along with related items to the chosen item and provides a list of stores that may have the item. In another embodiment, the present invention provides the in-store navigation to the chosen item presented in the chosen store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventor: Johnson Manuel-Devadoss
  • Publication number: 20190057258
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of summarization engines, each summarization engine to receive video content, via a processing system, and to provide a summary of the video content, thereby providing a plurality of summaries of the video content. The system includes a plurality of meta-algorithmic patterns, each meta-algorithmic pattern to be applied to at least two of the summaries to provide, via the processing system, a meta-summary of the video content using the at least two summaries, thereby providing a plurality of meta-summaries of the video content. The system includes an evaluator to evaluate the plurality of summaries and the plurality of meta-summaries and to determine similarity measures of the video content over each given class of a plurality of classes of video content, and to select a class of the plurality of classes based on the determined similarity measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Steven J Simske, Tong Zhang, Manav Nath Das
  • Publication number: 20190057259
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for displaying live and recorded video from a remote camera. In one aspect, a method includes: (1) displaying a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera, a live video affordance, and an event history affordance; (2) in response to a selection of the live video affordance: (a) requesting and displaying a live video feed; (b) continuing to display the event history affordance; and (c) ceasing to display the live video affordance; (3) in response to receiving a user selection of the event history affordance: displaying a plurality of detected events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jason N. Laska, Greg R. Nelson, Greg Duffy
  • Publication number: 20190057260
    Abstract: An image-based vehicle classification system includes a camera and an image server connected to the camera. The camera captures images of a road to result in an image stream. The image server includes a processor for receiving the image stream from the camera. For each of the images of the image stream, the processor performs image segmentation, a thinning process, an erosion process and a dilation process, and classifies, by a neural network classifier, a vehicle image part contained in the image into one of a large-size car class, a passenger car class and a motorcycle class when it is determined that the vehicle image is crossing an imaginary line set in advance in the image for counting vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Chung-I HUANG, Chien-Hao TSENG, Fang-Pang LIN
  • Publication number: 20190057261
    Abstract: A method of identifying a condition of a road surface includes capturing at least a first image of the road surface with a first camera, and a second image of the road surface with a second camera. The first image and the second image are tiled together to form a combined tile image. A feature vector is extracted from the combined tile image using a convolutional neural network, and a condition of the road surface is determined from the feature vector using a classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Qingrong Zhao, Shuqing Zeng, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi
  • Publication number: 20190057262
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for object detection and notification by a driver assistance system of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving image data detected and detecting at least one object in the image data. The method may include detecting objects by performing a feature extraction operation on the image data to identify one or more image areas, and performing a second extraction operation on the image data to identify one or more image areas based on modeled thermal feature training. The method may also include identifying objects in the image data based on a comparison of one or more image areas of the feature extraction operation and second extraction operation. The method may also include outputting a display of the image data detected by the image sensor including one or more graphical elements as a notification for detected objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Srinivas SAI
  • Publication number: 20190057263
    Abstract: An automated driving system comprising a first sensor providing first sensor data, a second sensor providing second sensor data, wherein the first and second sensors are different types of sensors and a processor communicatively coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor. The processor is configured to transform the first and second sensor data into a common three-dimensional coordinate system to create a representation of an image for a field of view corresponding to a direction of travel, identify one or more objects in the field of view, and generate one or more drive control signals to control a motion of the vehicle in response to the one or more objects in the field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Xavier Miville, Christian Joseph Eric Montminy
  • Publication number: 20190057264
    Abstract: A computing device in a vehicle, programmed to acquire a first image of a vehicle interior, and, detect an object by comparing the first image of the vehicle interior with a previously acquired second image. The computing device can be further programmed to subtract the second image from the first image to produce a difference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Schmidt, Richard Alan Kreder
  • Publication number: 20190057265
    Abstract: A system for comparing a head position of a passenger of a motor vehicle, determined with the aid of a determination unit, with a reference measurement. The system includes at least one marking element which has at least one marking and is able to be fastened to the head of the passenger, and at least one movement detection element for detecting the position of the at least one marking of the marking element for the reference measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Anke Schwarz, Torsten Maka, Esther-Sabrina Wacker, Philippe Dreuw, Rüdiger-Walter Henn
  • Publication number: 20190057266
    Abstract: An approach for extracting strokes in a free space environment is described. Boundaries are displayed in a free space environment describing at least one two-dimensional surface area. One or more language movements are extracted from the free space environment by a paired ring device and transmitted as images for processing. Haptic feedback is provided to the paired ring device in response to detecting at least one language movement occurring outside of at least one two-dimensional surface area. At least one extracted language movement is input into a character training model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck