Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a three-dimensional (3D) scanning element, an electronic data storage configured to store a database including fields for 3D scan data and demographic information, a processor, and a user interface. In an example, the processor obtains 3D scan data of a body part of a subject from the 3D scanning element, analyzes the 3D scan data for incomplete regions, generate a composite 3D image of 3D scan data from the database based on similarities of demographic information, and overlays composite 3D image regions corresponding to incomplete regions on the 3D scan data.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for a self-service drug locator interface. In one embodiment, a method of providing a self-service drug locator includes, receiving, from a customer, one or more identifiers associated with one or more drugs through a customer self-service drug locator interface. The system then selects a plurality of pharmacies meeting one or more search parameters, wherein the one or more search parameters comprise a maximum distance from a location or a geographical region. Inventories of the plurality of pharmacies are queried to determine whether the one or more drugs are in stock in each of the plurality of pharmacies. A list of recommended pharmacies is generated based on the querying of the inventories of the plurality of pharmacies and provided to the customer.

Abstract: A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages software products and portfolios of software products on behalf of service provider customer organizations. A graph processing service of the enterprise catalog service may create a graph representation of the enterprise catalog service data, including principals, product listings, portfolios, and constraints (and the relationships between them) that may be used to manage access control, launch contexts, and searches within the enterprise catalog service. A primary (key-value) store may maintain an adjacency list and a secondary index of de-normalized edges. A secondary (document) store may maintain the de-normalized edges. In response to various queries directed to the graph processing service, the service may query the adjacency list or the secondary index. For example, one query may return a list of products that an end user can access, and another may return a count of products within a portfolio.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for a procurement system. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, the procurement system may include at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory containing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the procurement system to perform operations. The operations may include creating, in a blockchain, a contract corresponding to a procurement request including a first procurement parameter, the contract including contract code enforcing procurement obligations. The operations may include receiving, from at least one user system, at least one additional procurement request including at least one second procurement parameter and indicating the contract. The operations may also include generating a contract execution result by executing the contract code using the first procurement parameter and the at least one second procurement parameter; and updating the blockchain based on the contract execution result.

Abstract: An embodiment includes a system comprising an initialization module and a platform module. The initialization module provides an initialization interface to a merchant that receives an indication from the merchant to initialize creation of a storefront application. The platform module receives a selection of mobile phone device operating systems; accesses stored templates from a template database, and maps elements in the stored templates to portions of source code to generate sets of operating system-specific source code. The stored templates correspond to the selected mobile phone device operating systems. The stored templates include source code used to implement portions of the storefront application on a mobile phone device operating system. When compiled, the sets of operating system-specific source code become versions of the storefront application executable by a respective one of mobile phone device operating systems.

Abstract: Systems and methods of Rewards Object Spawning And Augmented Reality Commerce Platform Supporting Multiple Seller Entities are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, to associating a virtual object with a physical location in a real world environment. The method can further include one or more of, rendering a model of the product offering, in the virtual object, enabling user interaction with the model of the product offering via the virtual object and/or updating the rendering of the model of the product offering, in the augmented reality environment, in response to the user interaction. The model of the product offering depicted in the virtual object can be rendered in 3D or substantially in 360 degree.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying product configurations that are alternatives to a requested product configuration, ranking the alternative product configurations based on one or more pricing metrics, and presenting the alternative product configurations to a prospective customer, thereby providing the customer with the option of selecting an alternative product configuration in lieu of the initially requested product configuration.

Abstract: Systems, Methods and Apparatuses to facilitate trade or exchange of virtual real-estate associated with a physical space are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, to administer a marketplace for a virtual world component of an augmented reality environment. The method can further include identifying a unit of virtual real-estate to be traded and/or identify a unit of physical space in the real world which corresponds to the unit of virtual real-estate. An exchange mechanism can be established for trading the unit of virtual real-estate.

Abstract: Provided are an auction method and server that enable a seller and bidders to determine the price of a product at their own discretion by enabling the bidders to participate in a bid between the lowest price offered by the seller and the highest price of the product, and give benefit to both the seller and successful bidders by applying the successful bid price of a lowest successful bidder to all the successful bidders as a sale price.

Abstract: A digital account reference is associated with a user's account. A refund message is received. The refund message includes the digital account reference. A monetary amount is credited to the user's account based on the refund message. A notification is transmitted to the user. The notification is about the credit to the account. The transmission of the notification occurs immediately after the refund message is received.

Abstract: For a financial consolidation process, a graphical user interface is presented, providing task icons representing financial consolidation tasks for business entities, including a view with business entities along a business entity axis and tasks along a task axis in a grid. Tasks for business entities are presented as task icons at an intersection of axes. A visual feature of each task icon indicates status, including indication of receipt status, so that the status of submissions is presented efficiently to the user. Responsive to receiving a user selection of one of the task icons, the same view shows an identification for a person assigned to the task of the selected task icon, wherein the status and person identification in the view enables the user to efficiently identify and contact assigned persons for expediting completion of missing submissions.

Abstract: Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed involving technological advancements in the processing of electronic transaction processing. A system may comprise a networked environment including heterogeneous or homogenous payment processing systems. A centrally accessible server machine storing an automatic savings program module and rules controls the generation and dissemination of new transactions derived from incoming transactions. Moreover, the networked system may be used to control authorization of electronic transactions in a near real-time manner. The networked system may be used to distribute a financial health of a user in a user-friendly, mobile form factor.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for aggregation based credit decisions. An apparatus includes a data module configured to receive transaction data for a user that is aggregated from a plurality of different third-party data sources where the user has accounts. An apparatus includes an analysis module configured to analyze aggregated transaction data using machine learning to determine a credit metric describing a credit worthiness of a user. An apparatus includes a credit module configured to provide a determined credit metric to one or more interested third parties.

Abstract: Example data ingestion systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a financial management system identifies multiple financial orders, where each financial order is executed with one or more trades. The financial management system receives real time data associated with the trades and aggregates the real time data. The financial management system also identifies settlement data related to the settlements in real time, associates the settlements with the related trades in real time, and reports the aggregated data and the settlement data in real time.

Abstract: The technology described herein relates to an automated marketplace system for exchanging tradeable instrument(s). In particular, the technology described herein relates to an automated exchange system that simultaneously places order objects in multiple order book memories and updates orders that are stored in the multiple order book memories for consistency.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for specifically programming a computer machine to perform at lease: receiving, from a trader, a passive indication of interest (IOI) for a financial instrument, where the passive IOI is a bid or an offer and a resting liquidity; classifying the trader as at least: a trading type that is subject to a decline ratio calculation for crossing the passive IOIs, where the decline ratio calculation identifies how many eligible aggressive IOIs have been previously declined by the trader out of a total number of all eligible aggressive IOIs that were offered to such trader; receiving, from another trader, another IOI that is an aggressive IOI, where the aggressive IOI is available to be immediately crossed at the price; and determining, in real-time, an allocation of the aggressive IOI to the trader submitted the passive IOI based on the decline ratio of the trader.

Abstract: A system and method are provided that, among other things, can reduce the burden on receiving computers, increase data throughput, reduce system failure, and provide components of a scalable and flexible network architecture. Specifically, the system and method provide a multichannel-multicast network environment for use in dynamically assigning data to channels. This configuration is particularly useful in a trading network environment, as it effectively performs channel reassignments in a way not to disturb the receipt of the underlying data. While the example embodiments described herein pertain to electronic trading, the principles of the present invention may be equally applied in other environments where the advantages presented herein are beneficial.

Abstract: System and method for aggressively trading a spread trading strategy in an electronic environment are provided herein. According to the example embodiments, a trader may configure the automated trading tool to trade as aggressively as possible by leaning on a price without an associated quantity. This allows a trader to possibly obtain a more profitable price as well as get filled faster. Traders submit an order for a spread and the automated trading tool calculates the quote order price based on a defined level of aggressiveness, the leaned on price, and the desired spread price. Based on the level of defined aggressiveness and the gap in the market, the automated trading tool may lean on a mildly, moderately, or extremely aggressive price.

Abstract: Disclosed is a securities trading program for trading individual lots of a security which can be run at a security trader's computer station. The program generates a trading screen comprising a listing of multiple bids for the security, each bid having a price, as well as a listing of multiple priced offers for the security. The bid and offer listings are active, enabling the trader to hit any one of the displayed bids or take any one of the displayed offers, for example by selecting and clicking on a displayed bid or offer. In one embodiment, the bids and offers are arranged in side-by-side columns on the trader's screen, helping the trader to rapidly overview the market for a particular security, and compare different, possibly competitive, securities by paging through level-of-interest windows for each security.

Abstract: Analyzing a performance of an asset in a portfolio includes retrieving, from a number of financial sources, information for a list of trades, the list of trades representing assets associated with a portfolio that have been traded during a time interval, determining, based on the information, a number of returns associated with the list of trades over the time interval, creating, for each trade of the assets in the list of trades, a remainder fraction, the remainder fraction being equal to an initial fraction for that trade, determining, for each sale of the assets in the list of trades, a rebalancing trading profit contribution to a portfolio return over the time interval via trade attribution matching, computing an incidental exposure residual to the portfolio return over the time interval, and presenting, based on the rebalancing trading profit contribution and the incidental exposure residual, a performance of the assets in the portfolio.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products implementing hierarchical classification techniques are disclosed. A hierarchical classification system receives training data including labeled transaction records. The system determines tag sequences from the training data. The system clusters the tag sequences into clusters. The system determines a cluster-level classifier that is trained to predict a cluster for an input transaction record. The system determines a respective cluster-specific classifier for each cluster. The system trains the cluster-specific classifier to predict a label of entity of interest for an input transaction record, given a particular cluster. Upon receiving a test transaction record, the system first applies the cluster-level classifier to determine a particular cluster for the test transaction record, and then determines a label of entity of interest of the test transaction record by applying a cluster-specific classifier of that particular cluster.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically generating reports. The method includes: creating at least one template of structured data based on at least a partially unstructured data, wherein the partially unstructured data is obtained based on at least one reporting requirement; identifying, based on the at least partially unstructured data, at least one key field and at least one value; creating, based on the at least partially unstructured data, a dataset including the at least one key field and the at least one value; and generating a report based on the at least one created template and the at least one reporting requirement.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the optimization of asset allocation and an asset allocation register using sub-value indicators and designations to optimize the utilization and availability of assets without the transfer of actual assets. The present invention may be used as shown in the following examples to allocate personal and business enterprise finances or to allocate and designate the utilization of valuables such as heirlooms, jewelry and other items. The allocation register of the present invention also provides to a user or business optimization of assets for savings, retirement, special events or purchases of desired tangible items. Importantly, the asset allocation register supports the user in a way that allows them to pay themselves first by embracing the way they may already think about the assets in their account.

Abstract: Among other things, participants who belong to a group/crowd or group of participants can provide indications of relative values of ideas that belong to a body of ideas. A rank ordering according to the relative values of at least some of the ideas of the body is derived based on the indications provided by the participants. The participants can provide the indications in two or more rounds. Each of at least some of the participants provide the indications with respect to fewer than all of the ideas in the body in each of the rounds. Between each of at least one pair of successive rounds, the set of ideas is updated to reduce the role of some of the ideas in the next round. Voting can by synchronous, i.e. more or less simultaneously, or asynchronous, i.e. where voting occurs as groups of voters are reaching a critical mass (min number) to allow distribution of ideas groups.

Abstract: A method of generating a consciousness affect is described. The method includes: (i) receiving, from a client device, a first and a second consciousness inputs, wherein the client device is associated with one or more users and the two consciousness inputs are different from each other; (ii) calculating a consciousness affect for one or more of the users; (iii) storing, in memory of the server and/or the client device, the consciousness affect; and (iv) wherein the first consciousness input includes at least one input chosen from a group comprising emotional state input, reasoned input, location information input, physical awareness input and spiritual insight input, and the second consciousness input is at least one input chosen from a group comprising reasoned input, location information input, physical awareness input and spiritual insight input.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for creating and reusing communities within a cloud based computing environment. An exemplary system having at least a processor and a memory therein includes means for creating a first customized online community space within one of a number instances of a cloud computing environment, exporting the first customized online community space to multiple instances of the cloud computing environment, and creating a second customized online community space, separate and distinct from the first customized online community space, within one of the instances of the cloud computing environment, using the exported first customized online community space as a base for creating the second customized online community space.

Abstract: Some embodiments can provide a user matching system configured to match a list of one or more users to a given user. The user matching system can be configured to employ a stage learning process including a user compatibility learning stage, an affinity learning stage, and a match optimization stage. In various exemplary implementations, various user data regarding user preferences, user traits, user behaviors, and/or any other user aspects can be collected. In those implementations, the user matching system is configured to divide the users into different user groups based on the learned user attributes, and determine similarities among users within a given group based on the user attributes. In this way, one or more users can be identified and can be suggested to the given user based on their similarities to the given user.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optimized operation method in micro-grid with multi-agent structure, which comprises the following steps: the main grid obtains the electricity market purchase price Pbuy which is to be sold to the user and DER selling price Psell at next stage after connected to the main grid; the DERs perform calculation of the optimized operation in the micro-grid based on bidding; the DERs of the micro-grid adopt bidding unit for quotation; and the bidding management Agent assists in completing the coordination and optimization of the units in the micro-grid; the bidding management multi-agent transmits the bidding results of each unit to the control system of the micro-grid, and the micro-grid performs optimized operation in micro-grid based on the coordinated bidding results.

Abstract: Rapid reordering may be performed by a two-step process. A user interface may present a user with a first user interface control, which can be a button or other user interface control that enables a user interface to initiate an express reorder of a previously-ordered item. Once the user has selected the button, the user interface can present default details about the order along with a second user interface control, which can be a swipe bar or another button (or some other control). User selection of the second user interface control can complete the reorder process. Although described with respect to reordering, this two-step process can also be used for ordering items not previously ordered by a user before.

Abstract: An automated valuation system for an entity, that uses specific input attributes items and a plurality of primary token features that are disposed within a specific geolocation, in addition, a plurality of valued entities input data set items and a plurality of secondary token features that are disposed within the same geolocation. Recently evaluated entities are qualified by being within first and second ranges of first and second matched items to the specific entity, wherein common features are removed, and remaining features are given a tokenized grouping and weight via an algorithm to explain valuations differences between recently evaluated entities. These weights are used determine a calculated value of the specific entity by determining a calculated attribute value based upon the weight of the features associated with the specific entity.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for a property enhancement service are provided.

Abstract: An order fulfillment system stores any number of items in an item population. The item population includes any number of unique items. The order fulfillment system includes an input system, a storage system, and a packing system. The input system receives items for the population, prepares the received items for storage, and translates the items to the storage system. The storage system stores items in unique storage locations until the items are ordered by a customer of the order fulfillment system. The packing system prepares items orders, packages the items of the order, and sends the orders to the customer which ordered the items. The order fulfillment system also includes storage and fulfillment policies for determining storage locations and packing stations, respectively. Operators of the order fulfillment system can perform actions in the order fulfillment system to facilitate storing and fulfilling orders.

Abstract: An information processing system according to the present invention is an information processing system including: a movable moving body; a photographing device provided on the moving body; and an information processing apparatus, in which the photographing device includes: a photographer configured to perform continuous photographing; and a transmitter configured to transmit photographed images photographed by the photographer, and the information processing apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive the photographed images; a specifier configured to specify articles and storage units in which the article is able to be stored from the photographed images; a selector configured to select a combination of the storage unit and the article stored in the storage unit based on the articles and the storage units which are specified by the specifier; and a memory configured to store, in a memory device, information indicating the storage unit and information indicating the article, the storage unit and the

Abstract: An information processing system according to the present invention includes: a photographer configured to photograph an image; a first specifier configured to specify, based on markers of a shelf contained in a photographed image photographed by the photographer, the shelf from the photographed image; a second specifier configured to specify, based on markers of articles contained in the photographed image, the articles stored in the shelf from the photographed image; and a memory configured to store information of the shelf specified by the first specifier and information of the articles specified by the second specifier in association with each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to signal detection adaptable to accommodate various lighting conditions, and to embedding signals according to anticipated lighting conditions likely to be present during image capture. One claim recites a portable apparatus comprising: a camera for capturing data representing imagery or video; a touchscreen display; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured for: obtaining data representing imagery or video, the imagery or video having been captured with said camera; obtaining lighting information associated with image capture of the imagery or video, in which the lighting information is associated with a light level or color temperature; adapting an auxiliary data detector based on the lighting information; and controlling the adapted auxiliary data detector to process the data representing imagery or video to determine whether auxiliary data is encoded therein. Of course, additional disclosure, combinations and claims are also provided.

Abstract: This image processing apparatus accepts a request to execute predetermined image processing, acquires an image processing name indicating a name of the predetermined image processing from the accepted request, selects a plugin application corresponding to the acquired image processing name from one or more installed plugin applications, and instructs the selected plugin application to perform the predetermined image processing.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a locking unit to selectively lock a physical connection with an external apparatus and a control unit to control an operation mode of the electronic apparatus, according to a connection state with the external apparatus, in which the control unit controls the locking unit to lock the connection with the external apparatus, when the electronic apparatus is in an operation mode of using a graphic processing unit of the external apparatus.

Abstract: A tile-based graphics processing system comprises a graphics processing pipeline comprising a plurality of processing stages, including at least a rasteriser that rasterises input primitives to generate graphics fragments to be processed, and a renderer that processes fragments generated by the rasteriser to generate rendered fragment data, and a tile buffer configured to store data locally to the graphics processing pipeline. The graphics processing system is operable to cause data for use when performing graphics processing operations for each tile of a set of plural tiles of a plurality of tiles to be loaded into the tile buffer before causing graphics processing operations to be performed for any of the tiles of the set of plural tiles.

Abstract: There is provided a generation apparatus, a generation method, a reproduction apparatus, and a reproduction method by which a display image generated by use of an omnidirectional image is made approximately uniform in image quality in all visual line directions. A down-conversion part down-converts an omnidirectional image. A perspective projection part generates multiple images by projecting on multiple two-dimensional planes the omnidirectional image mapped onto a 3D model. This disclosure may be applied, for example, to generation apparatuses that generate an omnidirectional image from captured images in six directions so as to generate low- and high-resolution streams of the omnidirectional image.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing method including: acquiring images captured in at least two directions; generating a projection image by projecting the images onto a polyhedron; moving a location of at least one pixel among pixels in the projection image to reshape the projection image into a rectangular image; and processing the rectangular image.

Abstract: Techniques and examples pertaining to objection detection and trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles are described. A processor receives an input stream of image frames and fuses a spatiotemporal input stream of the image frames and an appearance-based stream of the image frames using a deep neural network (DNN) to generate an augmented stream of the image frames. The processor performs object detection and trajectory prediction of one or more objects in the image frames based on the augmented stream.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for adaptation of presentation speed for content presentation (e.g., audio content presentation). For example, methods may include obtaining an indication of motion in a space; adjusting a presentation speed based on the indication of motion; and presenting a content item associated with a location in the space, wherein the content item is presented using the adjusted presentation speed.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an image stitching method. It is further related to an image stitching device and to a computer readable medium carrying instructions for performing such method. The method according to the invention includes determining a pixel value of a pixel at an interpolation position in the region to be stitched using pixel values of corresponding pixels in a plurality of sub-images. According to the invention, the interpolation position corresponds to a weighted sum of positions of the corresponding pixels. The weighting factor for the position of a corresponding pixel in a given sub-image depends on a relative distance of at said interpolation position to a border of the region to be stitched associated with that sub-image.

Abstract: An image generation request is received, where the image generation request includes an image format of an image for generation. A static image corresponding to the received image generation request is obtained. Based on the image format, a plurality of sub-images for generation and corresponding to the image awaiting generation based on the image format is determined. Description information is obtained for each sub-image of the plurality of sub-images. Based on the description information for each sub-image, the plurality of sub-images are sorted as a plurality of sorted sub-images. The image is generated by generating, pre-processing, and adding each particular sub-image of the plurality of sub-images to an image file corresponding to the image format.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of first images that correspond to a plurality of spatial frequencies on a one-to-one basis; and a generation unit that generates a second image by synthesizing the first images acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for processing image data using one or more neural networks. For example, a patch of raw image data can be obtained. The patch can include a subset of pixels of a frame of raw image data, and the frame can be captured using one or more image sensors. The patch of raw image data includes a single color component for each pixel of the subset of pixels. At least one neural network can be applied to the patch of raw image data to determine a plurality of color component values for one or more pixels of the subset of pixels. A patch of output image data can then be generated based on application of the at least one neural network to the patch of raw image data. The patch of output image data includes a subset of pixels of a frame of output image data, and also includes the plurality of color component values for one or more pixels of the subset of pixels of the frame of output image data.

Abstract: A method, device, system, and article of manufacture are provided for generating an enhanced image of a predetermined scene from images. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a computing device, a first indication associated with continuous image capture of a predetermined scene being enabled; in response to the continuous image capture being enabled, receiving, by the computing device, from an image sensor, a reference image and a first image, wherein each of the reference image and the first image is of the predetermined scene and has a first resolution; determining an estimated second resolution of an enhanced image of the predetermined scene using the reference image and the first image; and in response to the continuous image capture being disabled determining the enhanced image using the reference image and the first image, wherein the enhanced image has a second resolution that is at least the first resolution and about the estimated second resolution.

Abstract: An information processing device is disclosed. The information processing device includes an inclination detection unit configured to generate a first signal regarding inclination of the device. The information processing device also includes a display processing unit configured to, based on the first signal, generate a second signal to initiate a change in orientation of a display of content, and generate a third signal to cancel the change in orientation in response to receipt of a CANCEL command after initiation of the change.

Abstract: A method and system of generating an adjustment parameter value for a control parameter to enhance a new image, which includes configuring a neural network, trained to restore image quality for a derivative image, to that of an earlier version of the derivative image, to generate as an output the adjustment parameter value, for the control parameter in response to input of data derived from the new image, and changing a control parameter of the new image, by generating the adjustment parameter value by calculating an inverse of the output value, and applying the adjustment parameter value to the control parameter of the new image so as to generate an enhanced image.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-local means denoising of images. For example, methods may include receiving an image from an image sensor; determining a set of non-local means weights for the image; applying the set of non-local means weights to the image to obtain a first denoised image; applying the set of non-local means weights to the first denoised image to obtain a second denoised image; and storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image based on the second denoised image.